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a mass military releases hundreds of anti coup protesters. we gain rare access to a region in iraq used by eisel for its recent attacks. both into the program israel may be facing more political deadlock after its 4th alexion in 2 years so far exit polls suggest no clear winner after tuesday's parliamentary election with the pandemic adding a layer of complication to the vote count the final results may not be known for some time but prime minister benjamin netanyahu is already branding it a great victory for his party how we force the reports now from west jerusalem. at its start benjamin netanyahu election campaign was all about bringing israel back to life through 1000 vaccines by the time it finished the message it boiled

down to one phrase 2 more seats repeatedly telling his supporters he was within touching distance of the 61 needed for a majority coalition. it's the largest gap between 2 leading parties in israel in the last dozen years there is a large majority within the people of israel and with this pejorative the knesset who believe in our principles if possible and needed to set up a stable government in israel a fairer government a reach out to all. members of the cabinet believe in these principles i won't rule out anyone i expect them to do the same. bennett was styling himself as a netanyahu alternative the question now is whether his yamuna parties 7 or 8 seats will be enough to get netanyahu over the finish line there's no reason why we should go to fit election. they must come to nothing we want to be part of the government we accept the results of the. form a right of center a government that could aggressively pursue the opportunities we have ahead of us

earlier election day itself had been hot and hazy a running tally of ballots cast suggesting the lowest turnout in years netanyahu crisscrossed the country to squeeze out every last vote winning his core voters that turnout was particularly bad in his likud strongholds i. think. but it was in palestinian israeli areas where the fall of seemed most severe the mainly arab joint list with 15 seats in the previous parliament is projected now to have as few as 8 of the splitting into. meanwhile the far right religious zionist alliance promoted by netanyahu and featuring an advocate of removing disloyal arabs from the country outperformed expectations opposition leader yeah i love pete says relying on their seats would create a homophobic racist illiberal government and one that would shield netanyahu from his corruption trial i mean. i think we can have a good reason to be proud of the way we handled ourselves and even

a bigger reason for the results were brought at the moment and he doesn't have 61 seat but the change bloc. the exit polls have already changed several times since the 1st release coronavirus voting and counting protocols could delay the official count until friday benjamin netanyahu has claimed victory before only to have it dashed away this time he does have some options perhaps a campaign to try to peel away defectors from other right wing parties israelis and for a. actions now have delivered almost identical verdicts and again it's over to the political dealmakers to try to find a way out of the gridlock ari force of al-jazeera west jerusalem. but actually when i was our correspondent also looking at what's going on in west jerusalem natascha a holding pattern really for the politicians while you might say the backroom horse trading begins but nobody's holding back in terms of the exit polls and the media they've already started to analyze what they think is the reality of this general

election. well to be fair so everything that has transpired so far was predicted widely predicted by veteran pollsters and analysts and that was that netanyahu and isn't a party would emerge the victor at least in terms of getting the largest number of votes i mean he clearly did not get an outright slim though 61 seat out of 120 seat. seats in the knesset to form a government alone he'll have to form a coalition and as you said now there's a lot of back deal maneuvering and discussions about how to get to that magic number of 61 you know we talked earlier about this sort of dichotomy between polling and how the public's the public sentiment and the reality and i think that this just briefly this newspaper it's the get it are not kind of says it all this

is prime minister netanyahu and it says a tough not to untie going into the election more than half of israelis polled said they wanted netanyahu out thousands of people protested outside of his residence in opposition many people are critical of the fact that he has corruption trial looming and they believe that he has placed the interests of himself and doing anything he can to evade prosecution ahead of the interests of israel nonetheless that did not seem to impact him at the polls so right now what's happening is he's trying to figure out how to go forward how to form that government there was definitely a conciliatory tone from netanyahu early this morning he said that he's going to begin reaching out to parties as well as members of the knesset and he's willing to work with them it's interesting that he's noting members of the knesset might be an

attempt to try to get them to defect and bring that tally even by a few seats in 2. his bloc of course there's the opposition bloc and even though the yes the tea party under leadership yeah your love pete did quite well they got the 2nd largest number of votes it does not appear that they have a path to victory now netanyahu is traditionally has not necessarily been bound by ideology he's been willing to build bridges with center parties and even center left parties but in this instance because of the breakdown right now in the knesset and the opposition where the opposition falls to netanyahu it looks like if all indications are that netanyahu is going to be on track to forming a government if he's able to do that it could end up being the most to right wing and hawkish government that israelis have seen in quite some time the tashi fold it depends very much in touch again on the force in west jerusalem. officials in

butler there should investigate what calls to launch fire at the world's largest refugee camp at least 15 people were killed and hundreds more missing in cox's bazar when they find destroyed thousands of shelters the compounds it's more than a 1000000 ringgit refugees from the in the u.n. says nearly 45000 refugees have lost their homes time to chandra's line for us and coaxes designed the south of the country and of course the situation that these refugees were facing was pretty miserable to start with the fire has made it even worse. very much so very much so what you see behind me is in the last stand of the ball of kali cam the fire started a portion of this can blocks away where the main devastation took place but behind me is also where a lot of the huts were got burned what you see also some of the tents been set up some of the have been built over night actually took a day and i have to build there's

a lot of the trees are burned it's an absolute tragedy i don't think i've seen anything like that. since that came from me on my own some of them just feeling like they were home away from home just settling down it was not the best thing for them but yet they were sort of settling down here now it's all gone thousands of them out displays a lot of personal tragedy i spoke to. coming out for over 3 years now and one person told me that one woman she lost 4 children found 3 of them one is still missing you got to realize that this 50 percent of the population in this camp are children so it's a major tragedy for any account and the devastation doesn't show much where we are standing because we are restricted from going in due to a clearance operation the authority is long and allow us in the government started a probe come made it to see what started this fire this is not the 1st time there's been several other into then it's still not pinpoint that but more it looks like it's a gas cylinder that are used for cooking and it's family hot that might be one of

the cause that you and i told us that there's a coordination going on between the government and aid agency in clearing and finding missing people people have put in temporary shelters in schools and community centers that building new tents and huts to provide them shelter it's a major challenge ahead what would be another big challenge would be how do you prevent something like that to happening in future how do you deal with the kind of rescue training should this is going up people have in situation like that because this is obviously not the fussin did and several other incident happened so a lot of challenges and a lot of question in coming days. thanks very much for the updates will be following events with you through the day. miramar state television says that the military has released more than 600 protesters arrested since last month's coup they were released from a prison in yang gong a local human rights group says at least 2000 people have been arrested in the

crackdown since last month flawlessly is monitoring events for us from kuala lumpur the malaysian capital we saw a conciliar treat tone from the military what just over 24 hours ago and now news of hundreds of protesters being released what seems to be going on. that's right more than a dozen buses left insein prison in yangon city on wednesday we saw pictures of detainees smiling flashing the 3 finger salute which is become a symbol of defiance against military authorities but even with the release of more than 600 prisoners hundreds more who've been detained since the coup remain behind bars and n.g.o.s that tracks the arrests and fatalities during the weeks of protests say that as of tuesday just a day before wednesday's release there were 2400 people in detention or who have outstanding warrants against them now in the military did make some conciliatory

remarks at a press conference on tuesday but the spokesman also said that the internet restrictions will remain for the time being and that the myanmar military is focus now will be against those who provoke unrest so there is no indication that the military is going to be taking a softer starts and we also heard reports of a night raid conducted in a neighborhood in mandalay with one report saying at least 3 people were killed overnight in mandalay including a 7 year old child down protesters in myanmar still going ahead with their protests but they're changing their tactic they're conducting what they're calling a silent strike that told people to stay home and we're seeing on social media photos and videos uploaded showing really does the streets shops with their shop front doors shut to protest as organizers say those protests is for a chance for protesters to recharge their batteries it's also to commemorate and to honor those who've been killed during the weeks of protests and more importantly

also to contradict what the junto is saying that things have gone back to normal in myanmar now. the myanmar military also seems to be tightening its grip on power the bad the democratically elected leader aung san suu kyi her trial has once again been postponed a 2nd successive time and of course all this is going to give rise to the argument and the. believe that she is not going to be facing a fair trial. she's already facing several charges including the ludicrous one of possessing illegal unlicensed walkie talkies but the myanmar military is also now leveling charges leveling accusations of corruption against her without having formally charged yet florence for the update that search from a slew their force in kuala lumpur well so i heard here on al jazeera press freedom in hong kong why a journalist is in court after investigating allegations of police misconduct.

serious brazilians going pots and pounds to vent their anger against president. has covert 19 daily deaths $3000.00 for the 1st time those stories after the break. however since the very heavy rain recently in some parts of indonesia but then the majority of showers across southeast asia rolling along the equator as they should do supposing up towards kuala lumpur seeing some heavy showers here but the wet weather has been just around popular new getting more heavy showers coming in across central parts as we go on through thursday and on into friday sunshine and showers there into the philippines wanted to show was that in vietnam for much of india china doesn't fall and dry thailand generally set fair but you can see the

heavy showers there across indonesia just grazing the far north of australia and i'm pleased to say we have got some bright skies read eastern parts of australia the sun has come out at last it's 1st time in about 10 days for parts of that eastern side of new south wales with our area of low pressure now moving into the bass strait bringing some very heavy rain for a time into tasmania i'm afraid the flood waters they have continued to rise said he got a run off that's going to be an issue as we go on through the next couple days into parts of new south wales and one of 2 showers still lurking here as we go through thursday friday they show us becoming fewer and the team that we want to show us making the way into south australia and west to where the grassy pushing into the fall south the south island of new zealand. for. a footballer adult and a pioneer very spoilt he lost the challenge to play for his country but won

a legal battle that paved the way for a generation of brazilian players. footballing legend eric cantona introduces after one scene of penalized by his club for his political beliefs he took power into his own hands and blazed the trail the players rights football rebels on algis eve. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera with me so romney a reminder of our top stories exit polls indicate no clear winner the day after israel held its 4th general election in 2 years but prime minister benjamin netanyahu is already calling it a great victory for here's

a look party. bangladeshi officials are investigating what caused a large fire a cox's bazar refugee camp at least 15 people are dead and hundreds more are missing since monday's fire thousands have lost their homes and b.m.r. state television says the military has released more than 600 protesters arrested since last month's could they were released from a prison in iraq gone rights group says at least 2000 were arrested. in the past few months staged repeated attacks on security forces in iraq al-jazeera gained access to one area that's known for regular eye selective ety and a staging ground for raids on the capital samina 14 reports from timea. these paragraphs are a lifeline for the people of the mia a farming community 50 kilometers north of baghdad they're also useful to providing cover and sustenance for its spiders this man who wanted to remain anonymous for

fear of being targeted says i slick stuart's the community for support and the methadone and how anyone who has farming projects whether it's fish chicken they are targeted they will tell him to provide support they will take the money by any means in return for sparing his life and his family's life. 2 of his cousins were recently killed by eisel while working in secluded parts of the farm now the family burns the undergrowth to prevent fighters from using it to conceal their movements . we don't go out at night we just work during the day at night it's not safe security forces are deployed across the timea to prevent the movement of i saw sleeper cells and they are frequent operations to target isis fighters who use this remote area to hide and stage operations on the nearby capital many years say the iraqi army isn't doing enough to confront eisel they want more empowerment for the

local troops like autonomy a battalion of the popular mobilization forces the pm math is shia led but also includes sunni components like this one drawn from local tribes it only has around $250.00 fighters but it's often at the forefront of fighting eisel that also makes them a target the night after we visited this base it was attacked by a sniper. but we know from the leadership of the popular mobilization forces in the security forces that we need more support vehicles more advanced weapons we need more troops all of this is needed in late february the commander was among several injured when his troops raided and i still hideout. lost 3 of his soldiers during the operation which killed 5 i still find the main target was the local ice leader whom the commander has personally known for years. as the saying goes people off

mic i know america we know how our youth a very cooperative in this martyr and willing to sacrifice themselves for tommy. but there's another often unspoken reason driving this desire for greater empowerment the fear that shia armed groups could use isis activity as an excuse to take control of the area just as they did in other parts of iraq. call from a powerful we're afraid of the 2 sides both the militias and i saw the 2 faces of the same coin one just keeps killing but militias that are protecting us while they are by our houses and farms last year prime minister most of our cover me assured people in tahrir mia no outside force would occupy their land a fragile promise in a country where the state struggles to assert its authority while also battling isolates resurgence seem wonderful to al-jazeera mia. egyptian maritime or

forty's of reopened some sections of the series canal a day after a massive container ship blocked it in both directions tugboat spent much of choose day trying to move it tankers carrying saudi russian and american oil all stuck in the waterway which connects europe to asia. first freedom is in the spotlight in hong kong a veteran journalist from the public broadcaster is on trial after investigating police misconduct choi has pleaded not guilty and she's accused of making false statements to get data she used in the documentary the case relates to allegations police were too slow to respond to an attack on pro-democracy protesters in 2019 well hong kong was once a bastion of press freedom in asia but has sunk to 80th place in the world of press freedom index pro-democracy media tycoon jimmy lai was arrested last year and has since been jailed police raided the news room of his publication apple daily last

summer radio television hong kong suspended the territories old a satirical show headliner after accusations of insulting the police and in january the pro-democracy website chronicles was blocked these moves of unsettled some international news organizations the new york times has moved its asia digital hub and a 3rd of its hong kong staff to south korea keith richburg is the director of the university of hong kong's journalism and media studies center he says working as a journalist in hong kong has become significantly more challenging. this is sending a signal that the police are are going to basically go after going to lose to you deeply in this case case at will. and r g h j what she was looking into was whether there was police collusion with trying to bring this incident during the $29.00 protests that you long there have been suspicions about this there's been allegations about this so she was doing what

journalists do she was doing a records check on the license plate to see what certain car belonged to that might shed some light on the story. they claim that that was a crime because she said she was looking at the record for transportation related purposes whatever that means by maybe buying a car being subtle dark so i mean it really is clearly a shot by the police to try to intimidate and journalist who was looking at possible police improper activity look you can no longer operate in hong kong we used to operate in hong kong and it's getting it's getting more similar to the way i used to operate as a correspondent in some southeast asian countries that had various restrictions on what we could do or what good we could write or what we could report security law makes certain topics off limits so some journalists are trying to stay away from those topics are not brussels redlines are g.h.a. the public broadcaster is is and we have some real steps to rein them in rein in their kind of independent reporting including of putting a civil servant with no journalism experience in charge of r.c.h.

case programming and he's already squashed a few programs that he said were not in his view balanced so we've already seen this going to constrict the remediate case the colombian government has asked for forgiveness for a stroll in the case for journalist who was kidnapped tortured and raped while reporting on the civil war she stay was the final day of hearings and the international trial underway at the entire american court of human rights but the victim says the government's apology is simply not enough on the subject of p.s.u. reports from. i guess you know it took the colombian government 20 years to recognize part of the state's responsibility in the case of janet doria the colombian journalist was abducted tortured and raped while investigating arm trafficking network between paramilitaries and colombian say to officials in 2000 i know but it is. in the name of the colombia state i recognize our international is

possibility for the failings of the judicial system but did not realize or worshipping all of us to get in for the victim and i offer an apology to jeanette for the damage it caused. pain for 2 decades to bring her attackers to justice for her the government's acknowledgment is another slap in the face. this is a case where part of the evidence has been lost where my mother and i have constantly been threatened witnesses have been threatened and killed and were to this day those who threaten me say i will be raped again a full apology requires recognizing that these cases are not investigate it all and the states offers no support to women who suffered the worst possible violence. but the year was kidnapped in front of police officers on may 25th 2000 by a group of right wing paramilitaries outside a prison in bogota and then tortured and raped for 16 hours before being abandoned

on the side of a road she says prison guards and the police were involved and then army general and the police chief were behind the attack among others her captors at the time told her the assault was a direct message to the press and. the case as long as justice system well but has become the symbol of all women and journalists fighting against impunity in the country attack it's going to. protect journalists and women continues just like 20 years ago impunity remains high. 98 percent in these cases so it's very difficult to believe the state when it says it's committed in the fight on crimes against journalists and women when clearly it is not the case these are not failings of particular moment in time they are structural. i must they did 3 former paramilitaries have been convicted for the attack recently but none of the masterminds and now the case reached the interim american court for human rights

the court's decision which is definitive unappealable is expected in november and could set a precedent for thousands of journalists in victims of sexual violence hoping to see justice prevail alison. the yemeni military says hoofy rebels have been launching attacks on its positions in the southwest of the country now the army this footage showing a number of through 3 vehicles burning after they were targeted by the saudi a moroccan coalition forces it follows saudi arabia's proposal for a nationwide ceasefire in yemen but the who these say it doesn't go far enough. that it is i don't believe saudi arabia a serious about realizing peace in yemen it is also not serious about positively interacting with our peace initiatives into our threats to harshly retaliate so we see now we are still offering saudi arabia the chance for peace otherwise the next

stage of retaliation is going to be more plentiful on the kingdom especially once the soldier logical aleutian continues to undermine or underestimate our peace initiatives. israel's army says it solved airstrikes against hamas military targets in gaza explosions could be seen over gaza city early on wednesday night israel says the strikes are in response to an earlier rocket attack which nobody's claimed responsibility for the rocket landed in an open field in southern israel with no reports of injuries. israel's ambassador to the u.n. has condemned a resolution calling for an arms embargo against the country the u.n. human rights council approved the measure 32 votes to 6 with 8 abstentions the text says as a clear risk arms sold to israel might be used to commit serious human rights abuses. brazil has recorded its highs daily number of krona virus deaths since the beginning of the pandemic more than 3200 people died on tuesday brazil has been

reporting the world's highest daily number of deaths for weeks now doctors believe the local variant of the virus is causing a rise in infections and deaths of spittles are pushed to breaking point and supplies of medical oxygen and are running out. of prison in the furious at their government's response to the pandemic nationwide people dying out pots and pans to show their anger against present tribal sonoran he's long opposed to lock downs and mask mandates citing concerns about its impact on the country. should drop the virus has a rival and it is being confronted by ice in it will soon bess our life must go on and jobs should be kept the livelihood of family should be kept and should return to normality and saying in brazil the supreme court has ruled that the former president lula da silva who was not treated fairly in a series of corruption investigations just as car mehmet lucy it reversed her

earlier position to tip the court's 5 judge panel in lula's favor it means a call is likely to throw out evidence in corruption cases against him straightening his plant potential candidacy for next year's election against the president ball sonora or kind of forced authorities in guatemala city to close the city's international airport shifting winds have blanketed the airport and parts of the capital with ash the care volcano has been active since february severely affecting the economy of surrounding communities. you're watching over there with me so rob a reminder of our top stories israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says that he's won a great victory in the nation's 4th election in 2 years but despite exit polls suggesting there's no clear winner they show netanyahu look good party has won between 31 and 33.