egypt small the island on al-jazeera. benjamin netanyahu claims victory in israel start election in the year but the exit polls show he may be just short of a majority. for shock here this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up joe biden gets a boost ahead of super tuesday 2 former rivals and or senate the democratic presidential race. china reports the lowest number of new crown virus cases in 6 weeks but the disease continues to spread around the world. and greece reinforces it sea and land borders to stop migrants crossing from turkey.

and japan that yahoo is claiming victory in israel's general election although it appears he's fallen one or 2 seats short of a parliamentary majority exit polls suggest that now has the party and its right wing allies have around half the $120.00 states and the knesset very fossett of course on television. benjamin netanyahu has spent much of the last year experiencing failure and defeat failure to hold together his right wing block after the 1st election defeat in the 2nd and indictment for corruption in 3 separate cases now it lost a sense of victory he 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 morning. after a campaign that plumbed the depths of negativity and dirty tricks 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 you. 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 blow it why a blue and white headquarters they're being dark whispers throughout the day that things were looking bleak after a campaign which had seen benny gantz shift 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 set out 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 it's 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 for 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

a prime minister under indictment throughout benjamin netanyahu has been delaying maneuvering and dodging and now he has again prevailed kerry force an al-jazeera television. the joint list an alliance of palestinian israeli parties is. expected to win 15 seats its best ever tally and its head says the coalition will use its numbers to block netanyahu from forming a government that the results of the joint list the 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 now to the democratic presidential race in the u.s. with super tuesday voting set to begin shortly 2 candidates who dropped out over the last 24 hours have endorsed joe biden sort of any closer and former south south bend mayor paid great attention joined by a campaign rally in texas indorsements expected to give biden a boost as 14 u.s.

states said to the polls to choose the democratic challenger to trump so what is super tuesday and what's at stake. it's a long race to the white house and in a packed calendar of an election year the one day that stands out is super tuesday this year 14 states across the country plus the u.s. search of american some more are voting for their preferred choice of democratic candidates and 13 states are voting for their republican nominee democrats abroad are also voting on the democratic side it's a crowded field of 5 hopefuls including former vice president joe biden senators bernie sanders and elizabeth warren and former new york mayor mike bloomberg on the republican side it's donald trump who wants a 2nd term in office was his main challenger former governor william weld and it's all about the delegates whoever gets the most ends up becoming the party nominee

for the democrats that magic number it's 1991 and for the republicans it's 1276 and more there is a lot at stake the super tuesday at least for the democrats 2 of america's most populous states california and texas with lot chunks of pledged delegates are voting their $1357.00 total democratic delegates up for grabs so what happens on super tuesday can make or break the race for some democratic hopefuls in the foregoing weeks and months there be more primaries and caucuses all leading to the democratic national convention in milwaukee in july and republican convention in charlotte north carolina late august that's when delegates will gather to formally nominate their official candidates for november's presidential election james warren is the executive editor of news corp he says the race for the democratic nomination is more in predictable than ever. the people around the world watching

are shaking their heads not quite understanding what's going on they should rest assured that most of us the less the experts aren't sure either and we've been wrong for months and months about what would happen the likelihood that bernie sanders 78 years old left of center would be this strong for so long after being defeated by hillary clinton 4 years ago. was not likely in many our minds we thought that one of the other more than 20 candidates of people whose names have now been for driving like center come on harrison california might be stronger the in possibility at this point figuring out what hundreds of hundreds of millions of dollars of not just a billionaire but a multi-billionaire one of the world's probably 10 richest men michael bloomberg what the impact will be tomorrow is as he said the 1st time he will be on any of these ballots and when just doesn't know what the impact will be if you were living

in the u.s. all you're hearing now on radio television on the internet is michael bloomberg commercials a stunning volume of advertising. china has reported another drop in the number of new corona virus cases there were 125 cases detected in the past 24 hours the lowest number in 6 weeks however over 1000 has continued it spread beyond china's borders saudi arabia tunisia iraq and senegal and jordan are the most recent countries to detect cases of the disease tried to be 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 6 weeks it's closing one of we had 60 new hospitals that were built in january to cope with the increase in patients because of it 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 this respiratory partridge and that's comparable of community transmission but are 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 its cities tourism board reports more than 90 percent of travel bookings have been cancelled in the capital as scientists in the united states are racing towards finding a vaccine president don't trump told pharmaceutical bosses he wants results within months today we're meeting with the pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies the biggest in the world 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 a coronavirus vaccine is at best a year and a half away victoria gates and b al-jazeera. adrian brown as far from hong kong he says china's lockdowns appear to be working. if 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 province a large part 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 poor aircraft to who by 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 avoid embarrassment for the mainland authorities because of course this looks like you know chinese citizens being airlifted from china. greece has denied turkey's allegations that its forder forces fired on migrants attempting to cross from turkey calling it gross and to liberate misinformation grace has expanded its security presence at both its land and sea borders after turkey said it with a longer try to stop refugees johnson supports in the break 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 the police can't process them at the only refugee camp on the island in moria it's been blockaded by angry islanders who want to shut down 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 that removed them dark said it didn't sound very productive and i am certain of that this is very difficult to get everyone to set every night that are good for a good example the good ones are going to 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's 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 on to 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 and serious inland at a typewriter one says turkey will continue to target syrian army positions in the

province after 34 of its soldiers were killed there on thursday escalating tension has meant that turkey and russia have come closer than ever to a direct confrontation in syria both sides have sought to ease tensions. here's our sister news i like 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 lift on the shoulders. syrian government forces have been trying to retake adlib the last rebel held area since december a monday they entered parts of the strategic town of turk destroy homes have been hitting their positions russia's military is back in damascus and says its police have also enter the area due to the importance of security. still ahead on al jazeera ending his attempt to solve the libyan conflict the u.n.

special envoy steps down days after the failure of the latest talks. in an abortion battle in colombia supporters and opponents face off in the country's highest court . hello developing over the sudden caspian this massive cloud is a proper circulation that it seems to be gaining a certain amount of energy i was suggesting may well be flooding around the southern shores but terran might be ok then the whole lot moves eastwards to bring snow to basically it's cold enough in the heart of ground this part of eastern iran and beyond afghanistan to leave behind the sunshine the temps coming up sent in iraq about the same in jerusalem and ankara so an entire area in the high teens

cool down a bit was a bit of a northerly breeze downing's running through the gulf was a full cost of course wednesday night 24 hours a max in there are and the same in riyadh so we've dropped something like 10 degrees in the east and south because of the change in wind direction. there's been a lot of rain recently developing off the coast of tanzania it's obvious on the satellite picture and this is the area i think to watch for some potentially heavy downpours running through lake victoria to rwanda burundi but particularly tanzania and also because of malawi possibly siam we had seen a focus for the science and sit in the arc of anger delta doesn't share much in the satellite picture apart from passing showers but i think developmentally it's there for both tuesday and wednesday was dry weather for the south. join the listening posts as we turned the cameras on the media the state's misleads the public the state media reflects the same thing just caught

a child cohen focus on how they would put on the stories that matter the most. as the world battles a potential new pandemic we'll bring you the latest developments from around the world. with updates about travel restrictions and how to protect yourself. coronavirus out bright special coverage on al-jazeera. watching officer in let's recap the top story right now benjamin netanyahu is claiming victory in israel's general election exit polls show his likud party and its allies will pick up around $59.00 seats in the knesset that is to short though of a majority. the 2 democratic presidential contenders who dropped out have indorsed

job biden on the eve of super tuesday some are any closer and 4 more is out and they are people who just have thrown their weight behind by just out of a rally just happened to dallas texas. and a number of proud of our stats in the u.s. has risen to 6 us help officials across the country prepare for more cases in all china has reported 125 new virus cases that's the lowest stealing number since she and her 21st. 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 and the country comes as 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 or to tell me it says even if the taliban is behind it it doesn't breach the deal with washington. what we know about the attack is that there was a blast near

a stadium in 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 signed and doha 2 days ago but even if it were the 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 guess 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 choose 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 gotten solemn a has resigned from his position he says he's stepping down because of ill health 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 and gallagher has more from the united nations where it appears helmets announcement via twitter took everybody 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 sit i mean 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. china as warning the u.s. against interfering with this journalist working there comes after washington says it will cut in half the number of chinese nationals allowed to work for state owned media and the u.s. the move is seen as retaliation to beijing's decision to expel 3 wall street journal reporters over a column critical of the government's yes indeed between china and the united states we have some differences but we do

not sin is appropriate for the united states to to take steps interfere in the work of journalists coming from china russian president vladimir putin has promised a series of bill 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 thousands of albanians have joined an anti-government rally called by the president earlier matter accuses the prime minister of socialist party government of having links to organized crime in violating the constitution he's calling for fresh

elections to resolve the political crisis the balkan nation has been acting reforms in hopes of launching e.u. membership talks. the united kingdom and the european union have begun trade talks for when the u.k. leaves the customs union or in chief negotiator david frost is in brussels for discussions with his a u counterpart michel barnier hey the 2 sides have until the end of the year to strike a deal that is a minister boris johnson has threatened to walk away if significant progress isn't made by the end of june or a challenge outlines the more contentious points of negotiations between the 2 sides. the big battles that we are likely to see well primarily it's going to be about trade both of these sides the u.k. and the e.u. wants what is cool's 00 relationship that 0 tariffs and 0 quotas to keep trade as frictionless as possible but to do that the e.u. says that the u.k. needs to stay as closely as it can to the rules and regulations it certainly does

not want the u.k. to be lowering its standards cutting the e.u. on prices and becoming a direct competitor but the u.k. doesn't want to stick so all those rules and regulations because it says well why did we leave the e.u. in the 1st place what was the point of brecht's it if we have to stay with all these rules that we don't like so that's going to be one big sticking points another one is going to be over fisheries or access to the waters around the u.k. another one is going to be a dispute resolution whether the european court of justice is the main arbitrator of disputes between the u.k. and the but also the u.k. as well as doing all this negotiating with the e.u. it's also talking to the united states trying to do a free trade agreement with that and that is going to be a parallel track one side us on the other and the u.k. trying to negotiate

a relationship with both of these heading into the future. historians are getting a 1st look at the archives of one of the most controversial posts in recent history . showing indifference to the massacre of jews and failing to speak out against hitler his defenders say he worked quietly behind the scenes to protect the jewish people. colombia's constitutional court has rolled to leave their strict of abortion laws in place a landmark case could have either seen abortion legalized or the return of a total ban we had airports in the capitol both that's how i threw out the day supporters and opponents of abortion faced off in front of colombia's highest court . pro-choice activists hope magistrates would give women the right to terminate pregnancies i thought 216 weeks in the end the court chose to leave abortion laws as they are. we think hard lost an opportunity to let women's rights

but at the same time we are happy that the last. attempt to have the take away our rights question actually says that there are 3 grounds for abortion in colombia opponents say they already go too far that. article 11 of the constitution says life should never be this honored but there are people who support the shameful reasons no more no more was late this debate rose from a case seeking a return to a total ban after a court allowed abortion in 3 instances in 2016 if the mother sly fiz at risk if the fetus is malformed or in case of rape but even in these cases many obstacles remain for women to access the procedure especially if they're poor or live in rural areas the spike the restrictions held totally to say that at least $400000.00 women terminate their pregnancies every year hearing that. most of them do so we

legally and in many cases suffer serious health consequences human rights professor loose and this is one of them she sought an abortion when she was 17 at any legal clinic getting a dangerous infection as a result 15 benefit existing. abortions happen and will keep happening and legally even in 3 legal cases women face undue tilly's and obstacles and often resort to unsafe options facing more even death was too late this case has intensified them already for years the baiting the country over to legal and moral implication of abortion which put size promise to keep fighting for either some of them. or website as al-jazeera com of course we'll keep you up to date on all the day's big news including of course where the crown of virus missed turning

out next it or. ever shall carry these are the headlines right now on al-jazeera benjamin netanyahu is claiming victory in israel'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 of a majority. the 2 a democratic presidential contenders who dropped out have endorsed joe biden on the eve of super tuesday some are a bit closer and former south america people have thrown their weight behind biden and they joined him in a rally and dallas texas. folks you know just a few days ago the press and the pundits declared this campaign dead. bank sanctioned are saying. thanks him and saying he thinks she can change things thanks. thanks

thanks thanks think i'm sure when she came to. me i think she's thinking patients been dying kind of like me i'm saying sure thing. the number of crown of my stats in the us has risen to 6000 officials across the country prepare for more cases all the deaths are from washington state where researchers say the virus may have circulated for weeks before being noticed china has reported 125 new cases that's actually the lowest daily number there since january 21st grayson i took his allegations at its border forces fired on migrants attempting to cross from turkey calling it gross and deliberate misinformation race has expanded its security presence at both its land and sea borders after turkey said it would no longer stop a few cheese and turkey's president has been accused by european leaders of using

that refugee crisis to pressure them into supporting his military operation in syria said live or to type or to one says turkey will continue to target syrian army positions in the province after 34 of its soldiers were killed there on thursday united kingdom and the european union have begun trade talks for when the u.k. leaves the customs union britain's chief negotiator timothy frost is in brussels for the discussions with the e.u. counterpart michel barnier the 2 sides have until the end of the year to strike a deal for this prime minister boris johnson has threatened to walk away if significant progress isn't made by the end of june. headlines keep it on al jazeera i have another bulletin for you at the top of the hour in the meantime turned over to the stream. to al-jazeera we talk about 2 of the biggest problems facing and they all the endemic corruption and we listen so if you replace china's enemy with

a not really that we meet with global news makers and tweak about the stories that matter just 0. ok and join the stream today is coverage of respecting indigenous land rights we will look at the protests over a proposed pipeline in the what so what's a nation you can join our conversation life. and. ringback i'm dr charmaine nelson professor of art history at mcgill university in montreal and you are in history. on sunday here at a tree chase of the white sweat a nation and the cajun government came to a tentative agreement that could end nearly a month of protests over a proposed natural gas pipeline just look at all the hotshots of the protests and those protests have generated the talks laid out of.