for in their photos and behavior we're able to how they're adapting to their new environment when they make science don't find sanctuary on al-jazeera. benjamin netanyahu claims victory in his 3rd election in the year but exit polls show he may be just short of a majority. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up establishment democrats unite around former vice president joe biden ahead of super tuesday. china reports the lowest numbers of new coronavirus 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.

mentioned 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 yahoo's the coup party and its allies have around half the 120 seats in the knesset or faucet reports 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 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 morning. after a campaign that plumbed the depths of negativity and dirty tricks that neo 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. for challenging it and now yes to try and see to work together and it could be and i've said the 1st election also that it 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 lord white or blue and white headquarters there 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 hind 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 than yo promised 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 harry vores an al-jazeera television. on the list an ally. palestinian israeli part is a suspect it's when 15 states its best ever tally and its head says the coalition will his its numbers to block that yahoo from forming a government that has a problem with the results of the joint list a historical since the 1st knesset until now the most number of seats be one has been 13 this time we suppose that 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. that our ballots i scholar in residence at american university center for israeli study he says netanyahu has increased his labor the race is not one yet 58 seat bloc will not suffice he needs 60 or 61 and 2 counts when others defecting right now all parties in the opposition have not signaled that they're willing to join his

his bloc and it will 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 that 68 percent of the arab loaders turned up and though they did and the increased according to these results their number of seats by 2 from 13 to 15 through the 3rd largest story in the chest 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 show going 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 of their party it's from their point of view. now to the democratic presidential race in the u.s. a super tuesday voting set to begin shortly 2 candidates who dropped out over the

last 24 hours have now endorsed endorsed that is joe biden senator any club ashore and former south bend their people but since joined by the rally and dallas texas their endorsement is expected to give biden a boost to 14 u.s. states head to the polls to choose the democratic challenger to top the close you know just a few days ago the press in the pundits declared this campaign dead. both sides carry some dissent on the i wanted me to says i'm in the same room and the issues with james he said he was a seminal work for their candidates are also in the race for the democratic nomination including senators bernie sanders and was but for both of them held campaign rallies ahead a super tuesday. i know that there are political differences but i also know that virtually all of the support and pete's support on the stand that we have got

to move toward a government which believes in justice not greek i was so to all the amy and pete's millions of supporters the door is open called order and i will and we need a government that gets more done for the people and gets it done with more urgency than anyone seems to believe it's called the own and that's why i'm running for president the with the it was more than 1300 delegates are up for grabs on tuesday in a big win in texas could give the candidate a big boost to win 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 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 get to the already rich delegate count available here in texas there are $1357.00 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 alabama's 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 throws up something different it's the 1st time michael bloomberg will appear on the ballot middle 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 his 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 common sense of. the nominating process goes on till june to raise wages but democrats will be hoping they can name the person who'll take on donald trump in november long before that. our democracy.

alan fischer al-jazeera austin texas. china has reported another drop in the number of new coronavirus cases there are 125 cases detected in the past 24 hours and that's the lowest number in 6 weeks ago over 900 has continued to spread beyond china's borders saudi arabia tunisia rocco cycle and jordan are the latest countries to detect cases of the disease which are again 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 6 weeks it's closing one of we've 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 are in unchartered territory we have never seen before this 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 nice 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 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 gate to be al-jazeera. adrian brown has more from hong kong now he says china's lockdowns appear to be working 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 $60000000.00 people still in lockdown in who've 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 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 border forces fired on microphone tempting to cross from turkey calling it gross and deliberate misinformation race has expanded its security presence at its land and sea borders after turkey said it would no longer try to stop refugees support some

of the great 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 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 but i remember my doctor didn't sound very good doctor and i am starting already at this rate of difficulty to get everyone to set every night that are good for a good example the good ones are every bit 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 was 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 undocumented 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 at all plus al-jazeera lesbos still ahead on al-jazeera under pressure to resign because governing at once the prime minister to go after he appears in court and the like in the murder of his strange wife.

hello developing over the sudden caspian this massive cloud is a proper circulation and it seems to be gaining a certain amount of energy i was suggesting may well be flooding around the southern shores but tear on lobby ok then the whole lot moves eastward spring 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 southern jerusalem and rancorous of an entire area in the high teens cool down a bit with a bit of a northerly breeze dying's running through the gulf it's a forecast of course wednesday night 24 hours a max in there are and the same in riyadh's we've dropped something like 10 degrees in the east and south because of that 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 siap we had seen a focus further south and sit in the uk of anger delta doesn't share much in the satellite picture apart from passing showers but i think mentally it's there for both tuesday and wednesday was dry weather for the south. for. the 70 years to one tribe and that journey from palestine to the nile delta just 0 well the largest concentration of 19 food chain refugees in egypt. isolated community within your rights fighting to survive and honest in your

heritage and live in a world where there is an increasingly marginalized egypt's motherland on al-jazeera. watching i was there and these are the top stories 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 seats in the knesset that is just short of a majority of. the 2 candidates that dropped out of the democratic presidential race have endorsed joe biden on the eve of super tuesday may be closer and former south than they are people to switch to and biden's campaign rally in texas. and

the number of chronic fires set in the u.s. has risen to 6 as health officials across the country appear for more cases china has reported 125 new virus cases that's the lowest and only number since january 21st. the taliban has endured they ended a partial truce 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 a conscious afghan police say at least 3 people were killed and 11 injured in a bombing in the southeastern province of khost though one has claimed responsibility hota delamater says even if the taliban was behind it it doesn't reach 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 sundin 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 undergoing 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 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 syria qassam

solemn a has resigned it says is stepping down because of ill health cellmate tweeted to say that during the past 2 and a half years he has tried to reunite libyans and prevent foreign intervention and gallagher has more from the united nations where it appears solemn a's announcement twitter take 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. the united kingdom in 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 parnay the 2 sides have until the end of the year to strike a deal or to try mr 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 negotiation 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 always a point of brecht's 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 the one side us on the other and the u.k. trying to negotiate a relationship with both of these heading into the future. china is warning us against interfering with that's working there it comes after washington says it will cut in half the number of chinese nationals allowed to work for state and the us. or 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 soon it's appropriate for the united states to stand to take steps interfere in the work of. journalists coming from china this is his prime minister is under pressure to resign after appearing

in court and the murder of his a strange way the plough and to bonnie both members of his party and the opposition want tons of money to step down ahead of his planned retirement in july the political instability comes as the country is struggling with high unemployment and widespread poverty and in a miller has more from the capital missed a row. most of the suits his 2200000 people live in rural areas like this one in taba bosio in the village of mit along hamas like ali there's electricity but despite there being alongside the mid to long day they don't have running water almost. lives here with her 5 children and 10 grandchildren their existence is hand to mouth surviving only on her monthly government pension of $50.00 no one in a family has a job. it. feeding these kids is a constant battle there are days where i have nothing and we go without eating anything sometimes i have to ask my neighbors for help sometimes they can help with

one meal other times we go to bed with no food. or government statistics show that almost a quarter of working age people most of them young don't have jobs while the government has implemented reforms to tackle unemployment progress is slow experts say political instability is making matters worse i have been here for 2 years and i have seen very interesting developments. in terms of instability and. the prime minister. turns to retire or. have seen for. the administration the su too has had a series of military coups and political battles over the last decade prime minister time to barney's under pressure to resign while he says he'll retire

within 5 months his leadership has created political tensions especially as police want to charge him with the $27000.00 murder of his strange been sickened wife to palermo he's 3rd wife my cea has already been charged with the crime members of the governing all pursuits a convention party want him gone and 9 discussions to name a successor but the party's divided opposition parties are also calling for to bonnie to go to a 2 year old leadership was again criticized as parliament prepared to present the latest national budget the world bank says that while poverty in the city has fallen over the last 15 years it still widespread and a fix nearly half the population many are concerned that the political instability . only worsen the challenges the government's facing many people assumed to just want their lives to improve but with political infighting looking far from over

they may have a long wait for me to. a website as al-jazeera dot com of course the front page is the wrap up that's the coronavirus i'm epidemic seems to continue we'll keep you updated on that. i'm richelle carey these are the headlines right now on al-jazeera benjamin netanyahu is claiming victory in israel's general election exit polls show his party and its allies will pick up around 59 seats in the knesset that is just short of a majority and they joint list an alliance of palestinian israeli parties expected to win 15 seats its best ever tally and its head says the coalition will use its numbers to block that now who from forming a government that the results of the joint list of historical since the 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 so candidates that recently dropped out of the democratic presidential race have endorsed joe biden on the eve of super tuesday her any closer and former south mayor joined by campaign rally in texas a number of chronic virus stress in the u.s. has risen to 6 as helpless fish oils 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 the lowest daily number there 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 with tens of thousands of refugees trying to enter after turkey said it would no longer try to stop refugees

the united nations special envoy for libya and solemn a has resigned he says he's stepping down because of ill help tweeted to say that during the past 2 and a half years he has tried to reunite libyans and prevent for an answer of tension the united kingdom and the european union have begun trade talks for when the u.k. leaves the customs union britain's chief negotiator david frost is in brussels for negotiations with the e.u. counterpart michel barnier the 2 sides have until the end of the year to strike a deal with prime minister boris johnson has threatened to walk away if significant progress isn't made by the end of june so the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera or news to come counting the cost if that text. americans live side by side in 2 parallel universes the trouble parts of america are getting trampy or there is a poll out a few weeks ago that you had almost 30 percent of americans believing they were on the cusp of civil war both sides accuse each other of doing things that are so

blatantly wrong the bottom line on us politics and policies on their effect on the world. this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week coronavirus trade war to the pandemic we examine the impact on china its neighbors and the world including the possibility of it being as bad as the financial crisis a decade ago and our regional focus is on cambodia an economy like many that is connected through trade with the world's 2nd biggest economy now faces the very real prospect of jobs lost.