understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world. isn't a matter of. how much easier to bring you the news and current affairs that matter to the. al-jazeera. the. the. israeli prime minister binyamin it's now cast his vote in the election the 4th one in just 2 years is an election that's seen as a referendum on me. i'm fully back to boyer watching al-jazeera live from doha also ahead russia's of course china in condemning western sanctions on beijing over alleged human rights

abuses of we call muslims. another attempt to discredit and santucci myanmar's military accuses the former leader of corruption saying she received bribes including cash and gold that. at least 7 people were killed in a fire that's devastated bringing a refugee camp in bangladesh. so israelis are voting for a 4th in just 2 years live pictures right now of prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his wife casting their ballots. according to some within this year where they could hardly remain popular and that is despite corruption cases against him and an economy struggling because of the coronavirus fund demick the question now is whether he'll be able to. security running or like previous elections be at

the mercy of a coalition that could lead to more political instability again live pictures there of prime minister binyamin netanyahu and his wife sarah casting their ballots in today's election let's bring in a tosh a good name who is following the election for us from west jerusalem she's at a polling station there so we've seen the israeli prime minister just now cast his ballot natasha how motivated are israelis about this election i mean it's a 4th one in just 2 years so is there any enthusiasm at all or election fatigue perhaps. there is definitely some election fatigue we're enos and some people we've been speaking to today say they actually fear fear and a lack of a hope i'm joined this morning by carole goldberg she has just cast her vote here in west jerusalem however you know by may i ask who you voted for and why i voted for the you mean a party which is not

a taliban at i believe that we need some new blood i believe that he is a businessman and he could really bring a lot of growth to israel's security is important to him and that's important to me to more than half of israelis who were recently polled say they want netanyahu out conventional wisdom is he will amass the most votes of any party and then somehow in a room here very familiar with try to cobble together a coalition why do you think that the support for netanyahu remains so high even after 3 consecutive failed governments and he has 3 corruption trials ahead of him . you know i really believe he's a statesman and i really believe despite some of the things he say saying he really knows his stuff i mean i i'm not i'm not very eloquent about this but he has a statesman he has a world statesman and he knows how to talk to talk to the world and. i believe that

he needs to bring some new blood into into the government as well. what do you think it's going to take to sort of shake israel a loose from this political the i honestly do not know i do not know i do not know i think maybe they have to have less parties voting although i've talked to people about that and you know maybe make the threshold higher where you have less parties that could cross the finish line and therefore maybe more people will agree on certain key issues i think about the fact that this election has been characterized as a referendum on benjamin netanyahu and yet a lot of the candidates are saying there are vision for him but not talking a lot about their forms do you think that makes it difficult for voters such as yourself try to determine a way forward a way that mean i include. well you're right that that everything has either been

shortened time now for or against natanya hole and a lot of the parties haven't given such great platforms so i'm agreed with you that i don't know what the end is what do you what do you predict is going to happen and i predict well give me time now who are. he'll be allowed to try to form a government and i'm not i'm not sure he'll be able to pass the 61 votes that will be needed for that so do you think that maybe you'll be back here in a matter of months voting again well i know it takes 3 months at least. to mount an election so it's very very possible you so much for joining us have a good rest of your day really are very serious as you can see carol is explaining she knows full well that the status quo is likely to remain but again the key here is even if that in yahoo and his likud party amass the most votes he cannot go it alone he will need to form

a coalition and he has already alienated allies and is facing stiff competition from within the right so the question remains who would need to now be able to form a coalition with if he prevails and gets the most votes this election cycle thank you for that natasha go name reporting there live from west jerusalem. palestinian voters will also have their voice heard for the 1st time in 15 years say electing a new parliament in may it abraham spoke to one palestinian family who can vote in 2 different elections for this palestinian family 2 upcoming elections are producing 2 very different reactions i've let him down like her husband to malice palestinian but unlike him she's also a citizen of israel she can take part in the country's polls on tuesday and while she doesn't expect real change she says voting is a duty in the end of the up there's a lot in all the talk if i give up this right then i've given the others the chance

to decide on my future the political decision follows the majority and if i didn't vote how can i complain later demand is allowed to live with his family in israel but he's not an israeli citizen he can only cast ballots in palestinian polls in the occupied west bank and gaza and he did get that chance in may the long overdue parliamentary elections are the 1st in 15 years however you want to be voting which had the vote we're not going to win this by my vote doesn't make a difference the same people will stay in power regardless of the faces of palestinian officials may change but their policies are the same israel has the upper hand here when it comes to the occupied territory. according to pollsters jamal's opinion is not popular among most palestinians we've got the impression by the. way that palestinians are looking positively. at the fact that israel is

having elections and that the palestinian public at large mis. election when it comes to elections in israel palestinians worry that no matter who wins the country's leaders will continue to control the lands and lives of palestinians israeli settlers living in the heart of the west bank can put up election campaign posters and have a say in their future but palestinians living in the same area cannot put up posters like he and their leaders and the palestinian authority can change so little in the reality of the occupation back of the hand that household oblast says the determination of palestinian israelis to have their say is the only way to make a difference both of us as a citizen i know that israel is working for its own benefit it's far fetched to assume that israel cares about us as a palestinian minority so let's start showing that we have a president change doesn't happen in

a day jamal has never voted in his life and had no will cast her poor ballot in 2 years they may disagree politically but both share the hope for a better future for their children. west bank. in other world news russia and china say western sanctions against beijing are unacceptable and have warned against politicizing human rice the united states european union the u.k. and canada have imposed measures against chinese officials for what they say are human rights abuses against muslims in change around the measures prompted immediate retaliation from katrina you has reaction from china's capital. they've just summoned the e.u. embassador to china to complain about these easier sanctions immediately china issued a statement criticizing the european union for interfering in china's domestic affairs saying that the sanctions were based on lies and that china reserves the

right to impose further actions if the u.s. doesn't back down now these sanctions that china has imposed these are supercool sanctions are a little bit expanded compared to what the e.u. did the e.u. targeted for individuals in china in addition to a number of government bodies china impose sanctions on 10 individuals who are members of the e.u. parliament and their families as well as a democracy and human rights organization now this is going to have ramifications for the relationship between the e.u. and china china overtook the u.s. last year as the biggest trading partner of the e.u. and it took a few years it was finalized at the end of last year a comprehensive investment treaty between the 2 parties now this is yet to be ratified by the european union because some member states had reservations about china's human rights record although the years says that this is supposed to start a dialogue with china it's unlikely to do so beijing has already interpreted this

as very much a hostile signal because beijing maintains that human rights are not human rights violations are not taking place in that these are not reeducation camps but book ational training centers designed to improve the economic lives of those ancient junge men marse military has accused the country's leader of accepting bribes while in office an army spokesman made the allegations against san suu kyi in a televised media briefing drawing story has more from for. the military appears to be trying to perhaps change public opinion about how sun suchi is viewed and we've seen this happening throughout the weeks since the coup took place on the 1st of february initially they said that she was guilty of possessing illegal walkie talkies and of contravening export import laws and then they said she had broken the laws on covert 19 and on gatherings and then about 10 days ago they said she

had been guilty of corruption of receiving bribes now at this military press conference what they did was they added video off the yang gone former chief minister saying that he had passed money to her and he had also given other gifts of silk and gold bars to her that's the evidence that they are now in presenting in public hoping to turn the tide of public opinion against all sun suchi now on top of that they also showed a video of the mayor of naperville alleging that her party the national league of democracy had committed electoral fraud by inventing voters including in one township tripling the number of voters that now if you remember one of the reasons or main reason that the military has lied to for conducting the coup is because they believe that the election last year had been carried out in fraud in the carried out piers that they are just trying to shore up their case in carrying out this true. still ahead on. the nickel gauge in eastern australia

which is being his by some of the worst floods in decades and crisis on the border need photos show the crowded conditions of a u.s. government shelter child migrants in texas. the heavy showers continue as per usual across much of southeast asia the wettest weather appears to be around borneo it presents over $130.00 millimeters of rain in one of 2 spots here and that wet weather is set to continue the northeast the winds will drive some showers into vietnam good parts of vietnam seeing some wet weather see go on through wednesday but much of into china funded by thailand essentially said we wanted to show was down towards the mill

a peninsula see some heavy showers too from time to time and see where the philippines a similar pictures we go on through thursday notice for thursday a little clutch of storms just east in the way towards northern parts of borneo system flooding potential coming in here now the flooding continues across the side of australia although the good news is the wetter weather starting to ease away this area of low pressure will just not down towards the bass strait as we go on through the next 24 hours or so so it will turn a little drier across at least the side of new south wales flooding concerns of course will remain in place for a good 3 or 4 days at the very least but the main focus for the heavy rain then is going to be across the southern parts of the country so we'll see some wet weather coming into victoria on wednesday slowly making its way to tasmania. to. make a change. change your life for the path of

a country challenge the accepted truth if you want to create something you 1st break it and then you remove upturn the status quo and fight injustice found out all month it involves death and the found wanting to. witness personal documentaries that alter deception on al-jazeera. welcome back a recap of our top stories on al-jazeera israelis are voting in their 4th election in 2 years it's widely seen as a referendum on prime minister benjamin netanyahu has just cast his ballot in

jerusalem the campaign has been dominated by a cialis corruption cases the economy and the coronavirus pandemic. russia and china say western sanctions against beijing are unacceptable and have warned against politicizing human rights the united states european union u.k. and canada have sanctions chinese officials for rights abuses in change. and myanmar's military leadership has expressed regret at the loss of life in the protests against last month's school systems a day after the european union imposed sanctions on the june. now at least 7 people have been killed in aceh and thousands left homeless after a major fire at a rohingya refugee camp in bangladesh it's right through the camp in cox's bizarre hundreds of tents were burnt down leaving thousands of people without shelter centers and other facilities have also been destroyed destroyed tanveer chantry has disappeared from dhaka. though the 2nd wave of fire actually last night around 11

pm and it took the fire so i was on volunteers to put that fire out. in the morning today absolute devastating situation save the children in a statement yesterday said that nearly 80000 people could be adversely affected a lot of the learning center are rather informal schools clinics and health front doors were destroyed this is probably one of the worst tragedy that took place in one of the the largest refugee camp now a lot of those people took shelter among family members and friends because there is no particular shelter to actually really have to live in. any of this people during any tragic incident like this so right now on voluntary basis people are taken in for those who are left homeless majority of the population among the refugees in those camps are children and they're traumatized by this incident this

is not the 1st time in may last year there was a major fire destroying at least $500.00 january this year at least nearly a 1000 houses were destroyed in a fire nobody still know the exact cause of the fire but it is likely from cooking gas cylinder these are known as l.p.g. gas still in there which are highly combustible. it's families are given one so it's possibly from one of those and when the heart is really catches fire there are more reports coming and people are still missing will have to save the number of that increases as time goes by. authorities in australia are warning they may need to order more people to evacuate as heavy rain sweep the east coast thousands have already been told to leave their homes and hundreds rescued in the state of new south wales it's the worst flooding in decades with natural disasters declared in several areas emergency services here as many as 54000 people could be displaced making a gauges in pit town northwest of sydney where she's been speaking to those affected

. who heavy rain continues to fall across huge areas of eastern australia that are already under water harm skulls and livestock washed away or caught off in some of the worst floods in decades in a stroller and it's still a dangerous situation for many people in this area trucks and cars are under water as well as points and the entire township of people town is cut off by these flood polluters here is one of its residents pull pull thank you for joining us how you feeling where is your house for one year what's happening with pay town it's blocked off everyone. in the game. so some residents are still in p. town but they can't get out. of fuel for friends will step.

in there and. how are the community how is the community feeling is there enough food in there for everyone thinks. if they can't get it in a few days it's all america. absolutely it's an ever changing situation i hope you'll be your cave but many areas have been declared disaster zones now and. thousands more people who are yet to evacuate are on standby as the water keeps on coming down but there is some relief on tuesday into wednesday rains are expected to ease but the government says. that doesn't mean the danger will go away with rivers still expected to rise. people in northwestern colombia are cleaning up after heavy rains cost flooding across the

region this was a scene in the town of. early on monday at least $185.00 homes and more than 50 businesses have been destroyed there's also been serious damage to the roads in the mountainous region but so far there's been no deaths reported. a scottish parliament or a committee says 1st minister nicolas surgeon misled it over her handling of sexual misconduct complaints against her predecessor as comes a day after an independent inquiry cleared her of knowing limits leading the skies hanumant such an faces a vote of no confidence tabled by opposition conservatives she says she is confident on a mental backer as bring in jonah hall who joins us from outside the scottish capital his actually in the capital of medicare so that this report on a change anything for nicholas day. well as you set out there this is the 2nd of 2 reports out this week into the handling by the scottish government and by the 1st minister nicolas sturgeon sexual harassment

charges against him. and examined in 2018 the key finding of this report by a cross party committee of the scottish parliament was leaked last week it is that she did in fact mislead violent in some of the evidence she gave but not necessarily knowingly deliberately because she'd forgotten some details of an early meeting in 2018 nevertheless not a good look for the 1st minister to be accused of misleading parliament nicholas sturgeon last week it sought to dismiss the findings largely dismissed the findings of this committee report saying its work was parties and that opposition members of the committee had made their minds up about her before she'd even opened mouths to give evidence she said she would wait and urged others to wait for the findings of the james hamilton q.c. report that was out on monday as you said an independent inquiry that by a barrister not a politician it cleared her of any wrongdoing. and so she was

able to essentially also take the sting out of a planned no confidence vote for later on this afternoon told by the opposition conservatives the only way that was going to put her in any danger is if her governing partners the greens turned against her they'd also said they were going to wait for the outcome of the james hamilton report so it will be a vote it looks likely that she will not be in any danger if she can look to the future albeit not entirely unblemished of course the future 6 weeks hence is a parliamentary election an election that we see sturgeon hopes will deliver a outright majority for her scottish national party an outright majority that she then intends to be able to point out as an electoral mandate for a 2nd referendum on scottish independence hall thank you.

the agency overseeing vaccine trials in the u.s. has voiced concerns over data provided by astra zeneca the company announced trials showed its job of 79 percent effective but the u.s. data and safety monitoring board says it may have released outdated information yasser seneca shot has not yet been approved for use in the u.s. after docs over its safety the e.u. medicines regulator ruled last week it is safe and effective. cases are surging again in india for the 1st time in 5 months the country has recorded more than 40000 new infections in the last 24 hours in many states rules on social distancing and wearing masks are being ignored the health ministry is warning that notch crowds gathering for a hindu festival could lead to a further rise in cases that is the elizabeth from new delhi. the situation in india right now is the worst it's been in about 4 months for the western state of maharashtra very much leading the rise in cases something like $26000.00 or more

than half of the 40000 new infections reported on monday are from maharashtra and just a handful of states account for 80 percent of the number of cases in the country the worst affected states along with maharashtra. punjab karnataka and for big fish now here in delhi cases have doubled since last week though they are still in the high hundreds around 800 today and not the 10s of thousands like in maharashtra and neighboring hard cases have gone up chimes as much as they were just 3 weeks ago and to put that overall rise in context the number of infections in india had flu and from the peak all nearly 100000 cases a day in september to an average of $10000.00 a day in early february but this monday after a month of cases rising steadily with the highest number of cases and for months. and so with that the restrictions of returning in many parts of the country with

a government with health experts saying that the rise in cases is because people aren't following that 19 protocols so restrictions are coming back and in the same time vaccinations are continuing around 48000000 people have been vaccinated so far but the government is running behind us on sched jewel to inoculate 300000000 people in the 1st 6 months of this year. more than $15000.00 migrant children are in u.s. custody a 3rd of them are being held under jail like conditions at border patrol facilities their children who fled violence and poverty in central america and travelled to the u.s. without parents or guardians to seek asylum this surge at the u.s. southern border is on track to shatter previous records of arrivals. castro has more on the biden administration's response. the u.s. government claims these are not detention centers but photos taken from inside u.s. border patrol facilities have stirred and out right thousands of teenagers and

younger children crowded into pens and sleeping on floors held in these conditions for more than 5 days in violation of a court order requiring they be moved to more child friendly shelters within 72 hours but was at the center sorry they are. guarded by. officers the u.s. homeland security secretary and a contingent of senators toured a border patrol facility holding children friday media were barred from entering officials said due to covert concerns we are safely processing the children who do come to our border we strongly urge in the message is clear not to do so now under the trump administration thousands of migrant children who arrived at the u.s. border had been expelled to mexico without seeing an immigration judge president

joe biden ended the practice calling it inhumane and had no right now immigration officials report more than 9000 unaccompanied children entering the u.s. in february and since then it's been an average of 500 more a day children presenting at our border who are fleeing violence or fleeing prosecution who are fleeing terrible situations is not a crisis. in an effort to expedite moving the miners to better conditions the biden administration has deployed fema the government agency that handles disasters to turn the dallas convention center into an emergency shelter for 2000 children 3 other temporary shelters are in operation or being planned the. their migrant children wait and nother 30 some days but with access to school and recreation until the government places them with a u.s. sponsor

a process waiting for sponsorship should be short and you know more resources are going off along the way they should be put in place in care of nonprofits and faith based organizations and i'm by no means whatever they have come up before district the white house says it's sending messages to central american countries for their youth not to come that includes $17000.00 ads on the radio social media and television it's unclear how many children are listening in their home countries what's obvious is that their numbers at the u.s. border continue to grow hi joe castro al-jazeera washington twitter c.e.o. jack dorsey has sold his 1st tweet for nearly 3000000 dollars to 15 year old posts from when he was just setting up his twitter was put up for digital auction dorsey says the proceeds will be used to support families in africa who have been financially impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. and

a british mission to show how space junk can be removed from earth his orbit has blasted into the cosmos onboard a russian rocket the so is walker's congo includes a satellite that captures debris and another which will act as a dummy piece for space junk junk is experiment if the experiment it is successful then it's hoped it will become a commercial south a trench. no again i'm fully back to bo with the headlines on al-jazeera israelis are voting in their forty's action in just 2 years is widely seen as a referendum on prime minister benyamin netanyahu the campaign has been dominated by news now is corruption cases the economy and the corner virus pandemic that name has more from chose. the general consensus among pollsters and analysts it appears

voters is that the status quo will remain in this election.