striving to reduce or negative impact on the planet has president joe biden kept his campaign promises we'll have special coverage and in-depth analysis of his 1st $100.00 days in the oval office april on al-jazeera. glad. too close to call a tight race for control of israel's parliament after 4 elections in the past 2 years. hello there i'm a how am i here at this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up u.s. president joe biden calls for action on gun control following a mass shooting in the state of colorado. brazil's supreme court rules that

a judge to convict is a former brazilian president so that a silver was biased and more fallout for astra zeneca concerns and u.s. regulators that data showing effectiveness of the vaccine may be outdated. but we begin in israel where prime minister binyamin netanyahu is touting a great victory in the nation's 4th election in 2 years but is far from conclusive just yet as to who will lead the country or how the latest exit polls are suggesting there is no clear winner they show netanyahu slip could party has won between 31 and 33 seats leaving him needing to broker a series of deals with other parties to reach the 61 seat threshold required for

a clear majority we can get more now from harry for search he's at the likud party headquarters in west jerusalem harry the exit polls are in the horse trading begins to say he has had a good night so far. we're still pretty difficult to be conclusive about that but benjamin netanyahu is certainly give. not impression he tweeted about an hour ago that the voters had given the israeli rights a comprehensive victory and on one level that is undeniably true that there is a large majority of right wing even far far right wing parties in the israeli knesset the parliament as a result of this election the question is do enough of them want that and yahoo to be prime minister at the moment it seems that there is a viable coalition in 2 of the exit polls giving him the slimmest of margins 61

seats to 59 in the other main exit poll it's been reversed just in the last few minutes it was tied and now it's that the other way that there is a majority in the anti netanyahu bloc but the problem with that and look is that it is an extremely ideologically diverse group of parties that would find it very difficult to piece together an actual viable coalition whereas even if it was just short of his target there is the potential for him to try and convince some disgruntled or ambitious politicians from other right wing parties to come and join him so he still has more options on the table almost no matter what the eventual results will be what is also clear from this election is that the palestinian israeli the arab vote has diminished considerably potentially as a result of netbios own efforts to try to split the main arab grouping and can can

try to convince one elements of it to potentially support him in the future that element and it up not making it into the knesset a tool and he's got support from a far right grouping the religious scientist movement which also includes a man from a party with a heritage of extremism and racism someone who says that he wants to see disloyal arabs in his words expelled from the country so there are those in the center and on the left who say that if there is a government based and reliant on that grouping within parliament and that will be a dark day. ok harry fawcett they're bringing us up to date from west jerusalem sorry thank you well the 2nd course a look at israel's main political forces benjamin netanyahu could party at the largest share of seats in the knesset who are hearing leading the opposition is former journalist sierra lockheed's centrist yes the tea party is promoting good

governance capitalizing on netanyahu is corruption trials the right wing you mean a party headed by former education and defense minister naftali bennett has criticized the prime minister's handling of the pandemic new hope is made up or formerly could politicians they've made their electoral debut parsonage or gideon so far has positioned himself as even further to the rights of netanyahu but benny gantz lesson whose main challenger in 3 previous elections faces political extinction supporters have abandoned his blue and white party since he joins the netanyahu led coalition last year well let's bring in stephen zinn a season of professor of politics at the university of san francisco and joins us now from santa cruz in california it's great to have you with us on al-jazeera initially this election was being viewed as a referendum on netanyahu this party is projected to win the most seats so would

you say he's been vindicated. and in tears once again despite many premature obituaries that netanyahu will somehow be able to cobble together a working coalition and it's just quite quite amazing that to see israel that you know for its 1st 30 years of existence is overwhelmingly controlled by a center left coalition the mildest self after the social democratic parties in western europe it is so firmly in the hands of such a right wing and corrupt a political figure as netanyahu and he is already the longest serving prime minister in the country's history and looks like it may be still longer and this is somewhat of likely outcomes you think we should expect to see in israel getting

do you expect spin even that's in your head see to become the next prime minister to heads up some kind of governments or do you think a show is going to head back to the polls once again. the due to the fact that once again the nessie has come on top but still a long distance from an absolute $61.00 seat majority that this is going to be another yet another. kind of shaky coalition government and we may once again see people going back to the polls because i mean that their overall right we're dressed in israel is very strong and very concerning the you know the labor party i mentioned which would dominate israel for years and i got to say they're only going to pick 7 seats but within the right there are such divisions both among those who are you know if you can see nothing out who is a very corrupt think you're but also among those of the most extreme elements

and those who might be a tad more moderate and what about the israeli left i mean do you think they're politically staged they can expect that any end of it or some other sunday or are you having a you know 7 votes i mean a positive thing is that marette switches the most you know left wing of the zionists you know parties is a a relatively strong showing also roughly yes sudden seats but the underlying thing is that even when you combine doubt with the the arabs are you so we're talking about a pretty small minority overall and they are the only ones who are seriously interested in some kind of viable 2 state solution so i think the upshot of this is that you know those of us who have advocated floor a 2 state solution for decades where we're going to start thinking seriously about whether it's even possible at this point given you know just just given the

dominance of the the right wing in israeli politics combined with the refusal of the united states to pressure israel you're meant to do differently will be lots to discuss in the hours days and weeks to come and forge said they have right now is the visit as we are out of time but it's great to get your thoughts thank you for joining us on al-jazeera. the former brazilian president luis innes your suv was not treated impartially in a series of corruption investigations that's the new finding of the supreme court's justice carmen the sierra reverse or other position the courts 5 judge panel in lula's favor this means that the courts is likely to throw its evidence and graft probes against him strengthening his potential candidacy for the 2822 elections let's cross live now monica you know if she joins us from rio de janeiro

monica this legal flip flopping backwards and forwards it's all terribly confusing but what do you think this means though. is he free to challenge polson r.-o. in the upcoming elections what kind of impact is that going to have. well was already to to 7 challenge the president or like you know. what happened now is we. have said all along that he will be tried in partial and. then. there's the court basically. the 1st then that finding ever had a little knowledge and therefore. if all the evidence that was gathered again

well not be able to be new in a new trial if there is one and that that does not mean that it's totally illegal i mean there are other charges of corruption against. ok more charges against lula certainly free for other from another run. if in rio de janeiro thank you for that updates. here's president joe biden is calling for a nationwide ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines for a mass shooting in the state of colorado 10 people were killed in the attack inside a grocery store in the city of boulder passy has more. danny strong 20 years old. nevin student ski 23 another police press conference ricky 25 another long list of innocent victims

officer eric tally 5110 dead including police officer eric talley it's heartbreaking to talk to victims their families. you know it's tragic this officer had 7 children. ages 518 officers and citizens pay tribute as his body was taken to the moore investigators say they still don't know what motivated the alleged shooter who was shot in the leg during the gun fight this suspect has been identified as a model alyssa 21 of our vada he has been charged with 10 counts of murder in the 1st degree this happened in the middle of the afternoon in one of the few places people still frequent amid the colbert pandemic we were. out. and caught her going on. the record part of the fire going back to when i

you heard her it would start and i. might get 10 dead here just last week 8 gunned down in georgia likely moving the debate about gun control back into the headlines we can ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines in this country once again i got that done when i was a senator it passed it was law for the longest time. and brought down these mass killings we should do it again but let me simply say this. this cannot be our new normal. we should be able to feel safe in our grocery stores but once again it seems this is the new normal in america petty calling out 0 where mike hanna joins us now from washington d.c. mike the u.s. president was speaking earlier he wants bipartisan action to be taken on this issue

do you think this is likely well we've already seen that there's going to be a strong republican pushback as there has been for many years now now in the house there has already been 2 pieces of legislation passed concerning gun gun control one of them deals with extending the background check period from 3 days to 10 days now democrats in the senate say they are going to rush that into the senate they've announced that in the course of the day but even this exceedingly moderate measure is going to face republican opposition in the senate to be able to pass even this law they will need 60 votes now the senate is tightly tied margins 50 democrats 50 republicans with the vice president having a casting vote but very unlikely to see how even on a bipartisan basis they are going to get 60 votes in the senate to pass something so incredibly moderate very far away from the president's call for

a ban on automatic weapons which would create even more opposition among republicans and. we keep seeing mass shootings in america this is a story we do with increasing regularity and yet there is always this resistance from the republican party to gun control laws why what's the rationale behind this . well it's very much political the republican base all as perceived by republican politicians supports the ownership of guns the 2nd amendment of the country's constitution is set up as an absolute shrine the right to bear arms is something that conservative americans in particular see as an absolutely essential right republican politicians feed off this particular desire they are very aware that any strong opposition to gotten

ownership will reflect on them coming polls so there you have that kind of opposition among republican politicians to entertain any form of gun control whatsoever and one must remember too that one of the most powerful organizations within this country is the national rifle association now it's had its problems in recent years certainly financial problems and yet it remains a potent force certainly giving a lot of money to republican politicians the n.r.a. has a review tweeted on monday reminding americans off of the 2nd amendment straight up to the shooting that happened in boulder colorado ok mike hanna is up to date from washington d.c. thank you mike. well lots more still ahead on al-jazeera if you p.s. prime minister confirms what has long been claimed that ever trained soldiers were in tikrit during the government offensive and why the philippines says it's been

provoked spine chinese boat since forces in the south china sea. however say some rather story whether into central parts of the u.s. this massive cloud has been a rolling away hip or to sing some very heavy rain withdrawing in the wins from the south across the deep south here just pushing up out of the gulf of mexico so this warm moist air meeting up with much cooler on the western flank of that system so we'll see quite a wrap around here somewhat of weather coming in once again into louisiana into mississippi showers slug spells of right and some snow on the northern flank of that system all the way up towards central canada and around the great lakes another wintry mix too just spinning off the rock history the 4 corners states easing of it was more than parts of texas that

a little sweet further race was turning to rain in christy turlington right add heavy rain at that that is likely to cause some localized flooding as we go on through the next couple days flash floods river flooding say a possibility around the mississippi delta further north we have got so that what the weather pushing up towards the lakes trouble the coming in behind but for new florida snow coming in across a good part of the rockies down across the caribbean it is largely 5 and dry we have got some showers just lurking away around hispania a little see some wet weather to towards puerto rico but for most part it's sunny. al-jazeera has investigative unit takes you on for months on the cover of course to prove you had actual victims who had survived torture detention and saying this was the cause of my arrest revealing the illegal dealings of the surveillance industry

here in france they're. all your kids these are all the nuclear weapons of the 21st century al-jazeera investigations. were. born. my. guess is al-jazeera quick provides are all of our top stories this hour israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is touting a great victory in the nation's 4th election in 2 years that's despite the latest exit polls suggesting there is no clear winner sure netanyahu is likud party as one between $31.33 seats brazil's supreme court has found former presidents luis in the

us you would do that a silver was not treated impartially in a series of corruption investigations it means evidence and graft probes against global likely be thrown out it's an us president joe biden has responded to a mass shooting in state of colorado with a call to action for greater gun control police have charged a 21 year old with 10 counts of murder. and astra zeneca has promised to share its most up to date clinical data with the u.s. agency overseeing vaccine trials that's after the dayton safety board expressed concern that clinical trial results published on monday may be based on a night of data information mean while in the u.k. minute silence has been held to mark a years since the 1st locked in this prison place to curb the spread of the corona virus that in barber reports from london. marking one year since the start of the

u.k.'s 1st covered 19 lockdown at workplaces and on the streets people stop to remember. calls for a public inquiry have been getting louder but prime minister boris johnson who found himself in intensive care with coverage last spring says that's not the priority list and there will be a moment to properly to review to learn lessons and to make sure that we you know we learn those lessons for future pandemics of the current i'm sure that there will be in february last year this south london hospital received the capital's 1st covered in 1000 patient within weeks the place was overwhelmed a year on the number of people who have died within 4 weeks of a positive test stands at over 125000 people the true cover death toll is higher still but amid the grief and the anger there is hope more than half the u.k.'s adult population has had a 1st dose of a covered vaccine already the u.k.'s program has involved the pfizer buy on tech

vaccine and the astra zeneca job now u.s. officials have voiced concerns about trial data for the latter a day after interim results in the us suggested it was 79 percent effective against symptomatic covered in the gate even safety monitoring board when they saw their press release they got concerned and wrote a rather harsh note to them and with a copy to me saying that in fact they felt that the data that was in the press release were somewhat outdated and might in fact be misleading astra zeneca says it'll share the most up to date data with the monitoring board by thursday but if there's potential for reputational damage in the u.s. in europe it's already happened. in france they're scrambling to get back on track with the vaccine rollout last week the prime minister made sure he was seen getting asters anika job after his government like others briefly halted the use of the vaccine to overblow. quote for years now paris is calling on astra zeneca to meet

its delivery promise is. that what they do the ticket authentic i.q. is what we're fighting to get doses in particular astra zeneca which is currently a little below its commitments to us so we continue to mobilize and the european union is very engaged on this subject. later this week e.u. leaders are set to discuss a possible ban on vaccines being exported from the e.u. to britain for now brussels is playing down that prospect but keeping up the pressure on astra zeneca it is a shame it is a reputational damage of a huge extent but it is also a question that many people are dying because the boxes are not getting here in germany where infections are on the rise chancellor angela merkel has confirmed a 3 week extension to lock down measures with public life largely shut down over the easter period. a reminder of why speeding up vaccination programs and overcoming public skepticism is so important nadine barber al jazeera.

if he'll be as prime minister has confirmed that before confirmed for the 1st time rather that eritrean troops did answer the ethiopian region or to grow last year despite their denials eritrean forces have been accused of torturing and killing civilians in tikrit during a government offensive charlotte bellus reports so many of them from the ethiopian capital addis ababa prime minister abi ark made address politicians after months of denials he conceded that eritrean troops were integrated last year during a government of intensive witnesses say while their eritrean soldiers killed and tortured civilians but to give the ethiopia's history will never forget the care our soldiers got from iraq trial when they were running from death we think that era trying people in government very much for what they did but we will not accept all the offenses on our people by your try and troops in november be launched is

strikes and seemed federal troops into the region of to great saying he was responding to attacks by the 2 grain people's liberation front he no admits eritrean soldiers also into 2 gray but said it was out of fear they would be attacked he added eritrea had promised to leave when ethiopian forces were able to control the border because the way with others got there with regards to human rights violations war is destructive there is no question that harms a lot of people there is destruction that occurred and to great disregarding propaganda and lies there is information that indicates women were raped and there was looting. these. witnesses told al-jazeera last month they had seen eritrean forces into grey they said that while here they had committed agree just crimes. should stay.

but they tried to rape me and i was thrown to the ground and then one of the soldiers fired bullets to scare me but they hit my hand and then fired another bullet that went through my arm. i was bleeding for hours then i had my arm unprotected. and some girls and i managed to leave the village but on the road we were caught by eritrean soldiers more than 10 soldiers took turns raping us. eritrean soldiers have denied ever being integrated this despite wide ranging witness accounts a new report by amnesty international found hundreds of civilians were massacred by eritrean soldiers in the town of axum in november shelob ellis 0. here's officials say north korea far too short range missiles over the weekend the washington post reports that the launches came after pyongyang declined to engage with president joe biden's administration officials are playing down the launches

saying boys in a still open to dialogue with north korea the u.s. says it stands by the philippines in a maritime disputes with china the philippines is urging paging supercold more than 200 boats that it said response it near the spratly islands in the south china sea their presence is also raising could put concerns about possible conflicts over fishing rights jamila island ogun reports from manila. the philippine defense chief calls their deployment a provocative action and a violation of the country's maritime rights the military released photos of chinese ships mord at wits and reef it says the vessels are well within the exclusive economic zone of the philippines the country has launched a diplomatic protest against china the chinese embassy says these vessels were not part of any maritime militia but fishing boats taking shelter jurong rough seas the philippine military has rejected that explanation whitson refits claimed by the

philippines china and vietnam it is that eastern most part of the spratleys group of islands there are very large. and the number of. these ready by militia. or. employed and that's basically. inability to make it appear nonmilitary but actually. under the control of the military. in china they look like mission rest but the holes are being. buried. in their design. in 2016 the philippines filed a landmark case against china at the hague the ruling declared china's 9 deaths claim as invalid a decision china rejects the spite international condemnation china continues its

reclamation and expansion of many areas in the south china sea setting up maritime patrols and airships on disputed islands and reefs tension has been rising in the area for years. philippine president through the go to to has refused to assert the landmark ruling and taken a softer approach to dealing with beijing but this critics say he's. yielded too often and too much in exchange for promises of grants and projects that remain largely and fulfilled the presence of a chinese armada also means that the philippines stand to lose another critical fishing ground this is similar to what happened in 2012 when china took control of scarborough seoul and in their region where one 3rd of the global trade bass's through each year there is little doubt that the south china sea will be the next security flashpoint jamelle allen dog an al jazeera. the yemeni

military says who see rebels have been launching attacks on its positions in the southwest of the country the army aired this research showing a number of vehicles burning after they were targeted by saudi m.r.c. coalition forces as follows so you arabia's proposal for a nationwide cease far in yemen but who thinks say the proposal doesn't go far enough a massive container ship has blocks the suez canal in both directions it's unclear how evergreens container ship became stuck to a boat spent most of choose day trying to move its tankers carrying russian saudi and american oil and i waiting on both ends of the waterway which connects europe to asia. this is.