al jazeera. attribute. benjamin netanyahu claims victory in israel's 3rd election in the year but exit polls show he may be just short of a majority. or shock hearing this is obvious there live from doha also coming up. in a close sort of paper said sure endorsing joe biden at a rally ahead of super tuesday as establishment democrats seek to unite around the former vice president these are pictures you see joe biden there is addressing a crowd in dallas texas. and times as many new crown of virus infections reported outside china beijing reports the lowest number of fresh cases though and over a month. and restrained forces at sea and land borders to stop migrants crossing

from turkey. benjamin netanyahu is claiming victory in his restaurant or alexion although it appears he's all in one or 2 seats short of a parliamentary majority exit polls suggest netanyahu is look who party and its right wing allies have around half the $120.00 seats in the knesset or fossett reports on television. benjamin netanyahu who spent much of the last year experiencing failure and defeat failure to hold together his right wing look after the 1st election defeat in the 2nd and indictment for corruption in 3 separate cases now it lost the sense of victory and done it then you know it's a victory against all odds a rival said that the netanyahu error is over but we join forces and turn the tables and we turn lemons into lemonade one. after

a campaign that plumbed the depths of negativity and dirty tricks netanyahu is closing message was that he was just short of victory and needed his supporters to finish the job personally ringing voters from a roll of supporters who hadn't yet gone to the polls for now though he appears to be just short of majority coalition within his party he's not going to have any people that are detracting from him or challenging him and now yes to try and see to work together and it could be and i've said the 1st election also that a national unity government between likud and blue and white would be a very real possibility except this time i'm not so sure who is going to be heading lower white a blue and white headquarters there being dark whispers throughout the day that things were looking bleak after a campaign which had seen benny gantz shifts slightly to the right but failed to match the energy of his opponent. i will tell you honestly i understand and share the feeling of disappointment in time because it is not the result we wanted and if

this will be the result it is not the result that will put israel back on the right track gansa distanced himself from the mainly palestinian israeli joint list alliance who might have enabled against minority government but even their record showing with up to 15 seats wasn't enough to win them real influence what you. believe is the result could well be more consequential the palestinians in the occupied west bank that no promise that victory would allow him to stop the annexation setout under the terms of the trump peace plan. israelis might not have wanted this 3rd election but they did turn out in their highest numbers for more than 20 years more than 4000 people voted its special stations set up for those quarantined for the coronavirus keen to cure israel of its repeat election syndrome now for the consequences including a possible supreme court battle over whether an indicted politician can legally try to form a government in 2 weeks the man on this stage goes on trial. bribery fraud and

breach of trust benny gantz is spend a year trying to convince and ultimately failing to convince israelis that they cannot be led by prime minister under indictment throughout benjamin netanyahu has been delaying maneuvering and judging and now he has again prevailed kerry force an al-jazeera television. joint liston alliance of palestinian israeli parties as expected to win 156 seats that is its best ever tally and its head says the coalition will use its number so block that now from forming a government ok sometimes the results of the joint list a historical since the 1st knesset until now the most number of seats we want has been 13 this time we suppose so we broke the record and this is all thanks to the heroes the men and women of our people we give them all our appreciation and our bell as a scholar in residence at american university center for israeli studies he says netanyahu has increased his lead but the race is not won yet. a 58 seat block

will not suffice he needs 60 or 61 and count on others defecting right now all parties in the opposition have not signaled that they're willing to join his. his bloc and it will really remains to be seen how. the final results are shaped and how that impacts the behavior of different parties on the political spectrum israeli arabs voted today it was the highest turnout in a long long time for them about 68 percent of the arab voters turned up and voted and they increased according to these results their number of seats by 2 from 13 to 15 through the 3rd largest party in the knesset and definitely it has an impact on the system and in a way if the results are as remain as they are now there's a good chance that this showing by the airport is will be the cruncher in terms of

preventing that and you know from establishing a coalition so it's it's a great achievement for the arab parties from their point of view now to the democratic presidential race and the u.s. the 2 candidates the trop out earlier haven't dorson joe biden on the eve of super tuesday or any closer in former south and where a bit of tension joined by this campaign rally in texas or norseman as expected to get by the biggest as 14 u.s. states had to the polls to choose the democratic challenger to try. folks you know just a few days ago the press and the pundits declared this campaign dead. back sanker were some december thank you this is a must see was a super tuesday said we were this is because they were. how we are we're going to see them down through the 2nd term with the message

there was a person who's been my down coming down roughly how i this is your campaign they were he can bring our country together and build that coalition and i got fired up democratic base thanks to the was independents and moderate republicans because we do not in our power to eat what i just ate by a victory we want to win big thank you thank you as i mentioned the polls open in just a few hours for super tuesday that's when voters in 14 states and american samoa will decide who will run against donald trump and november more than 1300 delegates are up for grabs in a big win in texas can get the candidate a boost to when the party's nomination alan fischer reports from austin. we are going to win the democratic primary attacked by well you have died the 1st

school nominee contests are over the attract big fields heavy t.v. advertising and media attention but they provide just 5 percent of the delegates super tuesday is super important a 3rd of the delegates and offer a real test of public opinion from north to south coast to coast and beyond california has moved its primary up to join the super tuesday when you take that and the other states and i think to the already rich delegate count available here in texas there are 1357 delegates up for grabs that's almost a 3rd of the entire total so a good super tuesday gives the candidate the 3 m's media money and momentum. in short this will bring clarity to the democratic race for president we have very rich delegate states like california and texas that are going to be hugely important and we kind of need to know what's going to happen in those states as

well as the alabamas and other smaller states to kind of get a sense ability about whether what we're seeing in those early states is reflective of a general sense ability of this super tuesday also through is up something different it's the 1st time michael bloomberg will appear on the ballot little class kid who built a global company from scratch the former new york mayor has bombarded the airwaves with ads spent millions of dollars on this campaign this will be the 1st test of his electability the strategy that mayor bloomberg is putting into place is a very unorthodox one and super tuesday is really going to tell us whether he is going to have the support nationwide even given spending half a $1000000000.00 so far to win the nomination a candidate has to win 1991 delegates no one can seal the deal on super tuesday but a good performance certainly move someone farther along the road on the number of. candidates will drop out pretty common sense of how the ability to produce the

nominating process goes on till june to raise wages but democrats will be hoping they can in the past and will take on donald trump in november long before that. our democracy to the point alan fischer austin texas. china has reported another drop in the number of new coronavirus cases or 125 cases detected in the past 24 hours the lowest number in 6 weeks however over 1000 has continued its spread beyond china's borders saudi arabia tunisia morocco senegal and jordan are the most recent countries to detect cases of the disease tracking the reports. in the chinese city where the corona virus outbreak started health officials say there's been a drop in new cases for the 1st time in 2 months it's closing one of we had 60 new hospitals that were built in january to cope with the increase in patients but kovac 19 continues to spread elsewhere the world health organization says 9 times

as many cases were reported outside china within 24 hours it says the best defense is still containment we're in unchartered territory we have never seen before. respiratory partridge and that's comparable of community transmission but at the same time which can also be contained with the right measures the 3 countries worst affected outside china are south korea iran and italy rome is preparing a stimulus program to help the country's economy in venice the canals which are usually packed with tourists are deserted it's a tourism board reports more than 90 percent of travel bookings have been cancelled in the capital. scientists in the united states are racing towards finding a vaccine president don't try. told pharmaceutical bosses he wants results with a month's today we're meeting with the pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies

the biggest in the world the most prestigious the ones that get down to the bottom line very quickly to discuss how the federal government can accelerate the development of vaccines and therapeutic treatments for the coronavirus u.s. scientists say the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine is at best a year and a half away victoria gate to be al jazeera. an update now from asia a trained brown is live in hong kong so adriana in china and the numbers seem to be going down but obviously as victoria disappointed that's not the case for the rest of the world well what is the latest. well certainly the rate of infection in china is slowing considerably $125.00 new infections reported on monday that's the lowest rate that china has reported in 6 weeks the virus basically peaked in china in mid february and the government will point to this latest figure as proof i think that it's sometimes draconian containment

measures have been working remember we have something like 60000000 people still in lockdown in who a province which is the epicenter of this virus now a lot of viral experts around the world say that yes initially china was probably too slow in shutting down a probe in so lockhart's of loop a province but when it eventually did it probably prevented hundreds of thousands of deaths in other words we could have had a disaster on a much much bigger scale here in hong kong the government has announced on tuesday that it's going to be sending 4 aircraft to hoop a province in the next 48 hours to bring home more than $500.00 of its citizens who've been stranded there there's been a lot of criticism of the government that it's taken so long to get its people out of a province and i think the reason for that is possibly to. to avoid embarrassment for the mainland authorities because of course this looks like you know chinese

citizens being airlifted from china also here in hong kong on tuesday the government has released more figures showing the impact this forest is having on the economy retail spending dropped more than 20 percent in february in fact all around you in this area of hong kong in causeway bay you can see shots that have closed that are shuttered are not going to open a reminder that you know this fire is taking its toll on hong kong hong kong paying a very heavy economic price actually because you know the border with the mainland now remains closed it has been now for around a month that of course schools are going to be closed until april the 20th one flicker of positive news though 880000 civil servants have returned to their desks although some experts warn that having so many people returning to work at the same time does raise the possibility of secondary infections we feel ok a train derailment the latest from hong kong adrian thank you. so ahead on al

jazeera ending his attempt to solve the libyan conflict the u.n. special envoy steps down after the failure of the latest talks. you know where to run muslims in india's capital say they're being targeted the police have done little to help. the. alladin a satellite tells a tale over north america at the moment if you watch this streaming cloud here the fact is streaming is what's relevant repechage else wordlessly is something of a winter storm running through the east side of ontario but it's this rain that will probably cause us most trouble it's snow still still cold enough to snow in some parts of mexico at the height but this rain could well be slowing we can develop a few pulses anywhere from new mexico through texas through the southern states and

briefly on the landtag seaboard though it's down here we need to probably watch it temperature wise to the north it's warmed up considerably 17 in kansas city 7 in minneapolis subzero in winnipeg alone there was more rain that came into b.c. with that as a need for tuesday for wednesday's become dry once more the last frontal system and it's this one here has produced significant rain in jamaica haiti needs to cuba and his tail end used a lot in honduras that's gone down through nicaragua and there are a few showers i think for costa rica in the next day or so nothing more than that but hispaniola there are still plenty more shasta as gov that's probably true in 4 to wreak you there heavy enough to produce maybe the flash flooding something that happened in rio overnight and there's more potential for heavy rain in this part of brazil for tuesday on wednesday. perception is validation we believe want to be seen but in one life time

we cannot see everything that we will lie and experiences of others and the legacies of previous generations. of that testimony we let you know very little. witness documentaries that open your eyes on al-jazeera. this is al jazeera let's recap the top stories right now israel's benjamin netanyahu is claiming victory in the country's general election exit polls show his likud party and its allies will pick up around 59 seats in the knesset that is just

short though of a majority. 2 democratic presidential contender suit dropped out of the race and endorsed joe biden on the eve of super tuesday this is the rally that they're having right now in dallas texas sarabi closer to shore and former south bend mayor the putative have thrown their weight behind biden at this rally. and i'm a proud of our stance in the u.s. has risen to 6 as health officials across the country prepare for more cases in all china has reported 125 new virus cases that's the lowest daily number since january 21st. greece has denied turkey's allegations that its border forces fired on migrants attempting to cross from turkey calling it gross and deliberate misinformation greece has expanded its security presence at both its land and sea borders after turkey said it would no longer try to stop refugees support from the greek island of lesbos which once again finds itself on the frontline of the refugee crisis. asylum seekers stranded on the north shores of lesbos

some have spent the night out in the open police can't process them at the only refugee camp on the island in moria it's been blockaded by angry islanders who wanted shutdown but moreas occupants aren't happy to be here either. this was the latest of many riots this year asylum processing is slow and many have been living in tents under the olive trees for a year really very dark said it didn't sound very good back then and certainly this is very difficult for everyone here said it really not that i'm going for that matter what are the need the dark and this is very important hundreds of moria's asylum seekers recently much down to the port after receiving misleading or mistaken messages that the government was evacuating them to athens police had to turn them back this tense situation is likely to become worse as turkey has opened its border and is advice in refugees on its soil to go to europe that's the reason

why this 15 year old from afghanistan is here he says. i have been in turkey for 2 months the smuggler called me in the night and said the party is ready get ready to cross over he said the border is open i could not cross for 2 months because the border was closed this video released by the turkish government suggests that the greek coast guard is no longer conducting just search and rescue missions but actively repelling boatloads of migrants greek coast guard vessels can be seen driving perilously close to small dinghies at another point it appears shots are fired into the water greece has released video that appears to show turkish coast guard vessels accompanying migrant boats to greek waters rather than holding them back until now greece and turkey were both working to keep undocumented migrants out of europe turkey's suspension of that arrangement has led to the suspension of other international norms. greece has declared emergency measures it says it will

stop receiving asylum applications for one month and in many cases it will turn around on documented migrants and send them home without the usual reception and identification procedures so it will be as though these people were never here gree says these new arrivals individual applicants but part of an organized policy so international asylum law doesn't apply to them as intended with so many islands so close to the turkish mainland greece has a difficult task defending its maritime border but the biggest losers in all this seem to be the asylum seekers jumps on open lesbos turkey's president has been accused by european leaders of using the refugee crisis to pressure them to support his military operation in syria is it live or to typewrite on says turkey will continue to target syrian army positions in the province after $34.00 of its soldiers were killed there on thursday escalating tension has meant that turkey and

russia have come closer than ever to direct confrontation in syria both sides have sought to ease tensions. they have other because our system. allowed to call on russia and iran one more time we do not have any problem with you and syria . but if the syrian government forces do not withdraw turkey has determined as soon as possible they will not have a heat left on their shoulders. the taliban has ended a partial truce just days after signing a deal with the u.s. to bring peace to afghanistan the group is demanding the release of $5000.00 taliban prisoners in the country a conscious afghan police say at least 3 people were killed and 11 injured in a bombing in the southeastern province of khowst no one has claimed responsibility but adela made says even if the taliban is behind it it doesn't break the deal with washington. what we know about the attack is that there was a blast near

a stadium in new host province and according to the interior ministry 3 people were killed and 7 others injured now we don't know who is behind that attack it could be some spoilers there are several armed groups operating in this country who were against the deal between the taliban and the u.s. that you mentioned sundin 2 days ago but even if it were to taliban does that does not breach da greenman because in that agreement the taliban have to hold off from attacking any foreign troops any military bases where you have foreign and afghan troops any. government institutions here in kabul and in the provincial capitals but go in war and i get security forces that is not part of the deal and the taliban had said earlier today even though it's not confirmed

but there were reports that they said that the issues they had over the past week which was leading to that agreement is now over and they would resume their normal operations i guess afghan targets the united nations special envoy for libya on solemn a has resigned from his position he says he's stepping down because of ill health 20 to say he has tried to reunite libyans and prevent foreign intervention turning his time as the u.n. envoy for the past 2 and a half years and he gallagher has more from the united nations where it appears elam is now spent here twitter took everyone by surprise. certainly seems to have got out ahead of officials here at the united nations that tweet going out they were then playing catch up essentially but this is a highly respected peace negotiator working for 2 and a half years to try and broker some kind of deal in libya ben this is a direct quote he said i simply can't take this much stress so now the u.n.

are scrambling to try and find a replacement in these vital peace negotiations let's just listen to what the u.n. spokesperson had to say our focus now is on ensuring a smooth transition so as not to lose you know some of the momentum we've we've gained i mean the situation in libya is critical we're seeing we've seen increased fighting we also saw different libyan parties being able to meet around the table. is to say to me has made some great. great progress we don't want to lose any of that momentum now they talk about momentum and they talk about progress but the real truth here is that mr salami was really floundering in what is an extremely complex situation you've got all sorts of foreign nations involved from france russia the united states u.a.e. and turkey and mr salami himself said an arms embargo that has been put in place

for the last few years is in danger of becoming a cynical job the u.n. secretary general himself said this is a proxy war so it's one of those situations where it seems to be a half step forward and 10 steps backwards of course libya has been in complete chaos since the fall of gadhafi in 2011 with various factions fighting for control of the country and lots of foreign interference so a transition i think to a new negotiator is an important thing but the challenge here to bring peace to libya is almost at this point in time insurmountable. russian president vladimir putin has proposed a series of new amendments to the country's constitution they include an explicit mention of russians faith and god and defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman the parliament's expected to approve the changes ahead of a nationwide vote in april critics say amending the constitution is part of putin's efforts to stay in charge after his current term ends in 2024.

days after n.d. is capital experiences worth of violence and decades the death toll is still rising 47 people lost their lives and more than 350 were entered trying riots over a new citizenship bill seen as discriminatory towards muslims place of an accused of enabling mobs and preventing wounded muslims from getting help tony berkeley reports in delhi. it was the seat of learning that became a target in last week's riots this school in the predominately muslim area of most of the bad northeast delhi was set on fire by a mob repairs a hurriedly being done to allow students to sit their final exams in 5 days time the attacks happened after hindu nationalists incited violence following peaceful protests against india's citizenship law. some damage will be harder to fix in the nearby al hin clinic victims of the violence wait to have their wounds treated both these men say they were shot while attending a muslim gathering i was so bored in the medium of these days that we didn't get

any support from anyone the law failed us they didn't help us in any way possible no we don't need justice from them we only need just as from our guard. during the 3 days of violence this doctor says he treated more than 600 people in this clinic and the injuries were gruesome. some people had bullet injuries while some had stab wounds it is white like parts like the hurt and lungs were injured. more than a week on and accusations are mounting of how police not only assisted hindu nationalists but also prevented ambulances from answering emergency calls to help wounded muslims we know that more than 40 people were killed in the violence and officially 350 people were injured what we don't know is how many were muslim and how many were hindu and so far the authorities have not released results of post-mortem examinations to show how they died. the family of 23 year old fison

want answers he was one of a number of young mum. the man who was seemingly beaten by police in this video posted on social media he died in hospital of his injuries 2 days later will shock or maybe we suspected it could be the police army or paramilitary but we cannot be sure about who it was. the police arrested more than $800.00 people they don't include senior members of the ruling b j p party the human rights activists accuse of inciting the violence one of the arrested a muslim has been charged with murder he says he was framed and was only defending his family to certainly a state sponsored program it is certainly a state sponsored targeted violence against muslims. there are concerns that right wing hindu nationalists who use the recent violence as an excuse to spread anti muslim feeling around the country. more than 150000 muslims live in the overcrowded alleyways of northeast delhi there is fear and apprehension that what happened 10

days ago is only a precursor to what lies ahead tony berkeley al-jazeera must have a bad delhi. and we shall carry these are the headlines right now on al-jazeera israel's benjamin netanyahu is claiming victory in the country's general election exit poll show has the code party and its allies will pick up around 59 states and the knesset that is just short though a majority the democratic presidential contenders who dropped out of the race have endorsed joe biden on the eve of super tuesday or any club a sure and former south bend mer people but as such haven't thrown their weight behind by just a head of a rally and dallas texas. you know just a few days ago the press and the pundits declared this campaign dead. bank sanctioned under sank thanks is women saying

thank changing saying thanks. thanks thanks thanks think thank you 2nd thank. you thank you thank you she's been mouth thank you thank you thank you i'm sure thing. the number of chronic virus deaths in the u.s. has risen to 6 a south officials across the country prepare for more cases in while china has reported 125 new cases that's the lowest daily number since january 21st all the deaths are from washington state where researchers say the virus may have been circulating for weeks before it was noticed grace's denied anchor's allegations that its border forces fired on migrants attempting to cross from turkey greece has reinforced its border security presence after turkey said it would no longer try to stop refugees turkey's president has been accused by european leaders of using the

refugee crisis to pressure them to support his military operation in syria is it live or to tapper one says turkey will continue to target syrian army positions in the province after 34 of its soldiers were killed on thursday escalating tension has meant that turkey and russia have come closer than ever to direct confrontation in syria the united nations special envoy for libya or libya that is a has resigned from his position position he says he'll be stepping down because of ill health tell me tweeted to say he has tried to reunite libyans and prevent foreign intervention during his time as the u.n. envoy for the past 2 and a half years for the headlines keep it on al-jazeera more news to come witness this next. americans live side by side in 2 parallel universes the trouble parts of america are getting trampy are there is a poll out a few weeks ago that you had almost 30 percent americans believing they were on the cusp of civil war both sides accuse each other of doing things that are so

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