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as votes continue to be counted in israel's election prime minister benjamin netanyahu says prospects for retaining a right wing coalition government are looking a little uncertain a small palestinian israeli policy on expect if they cross the trust rolled into parliament that means necessary are easily could may have to rely on it for support but any coalition would be complicated given that any likud government would be dependent on the far right jewish nationalists are a force that has the latest from western recent. at its start benjamin netanyahu as election campaign was all about bringing israel back to life through coded 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 muslims up well the good. 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 but you already in the knesset who believe in our principles it's possible and needed to set up a stable government in israel a fairer government i reach out to all members of the knesset who believe in these principles i won't rule out anyone and i expect them to do the same. natale 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 and they must come to nothing and we want to be part of the government we accept the results of this round and form a right of center 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. do. but it was in palestinian israeli areas where the fall off 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 and. i think we can have a good reason to be proud of the way we handled ourselves and even a bigger reason for the result who brought at the moment that anyone who doesn't have 61 seats but the change bloc does 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 in 4 elections 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. question recently. in the tussock anyone who's in west jerusalem natasha's things stand at the moment where are we but the results. well according to latest figures from the israeli elections committee it appears that the pro netanyahu bloc is on track again these are just projections at this point to get 59 seats bear in mind to form a government in israeli politics you need 61 seats to form a government so now what you're seeing is

a very unique for israel possibility of alliances being formed in what i would call very unusual bedfellows in this election unlike previous elections instead of for meant 100 fear among his rights of far right supporters about the arab vote this time netanyahu made overtures to the palestinian israelis and courted it this community represents 20 percent of the population and now we're in a situation where the palestinian israeli vote could be a factor when it comes to netanyahu forming a government but what happened with the arab parties is that they splintered there's the joint arab list and then what's wintered is a more conservative group was formed called the united arab lists they fractured over disputes regarding religion t.q. rights except for a now that united arab list has it appears is on track to get 5 seats and

of course those 5 seats are desperately wanted by netanyahu and then they could party the leader of the united arab list monsoor abbas was characterized as being quite cozy to netanyahu leading up to the election he had not ruled out the possibility of joining forces with netanyahu but he has said overnight that he's not beholden to any candidate or party but that he does want to influence israeli politics by using quote government tools so again he's not ruling out joining force . with netanyahu but think about what this means again the possibility which would be unprecedented historic in israel of arab parties joining forces a ruling government it just hasn't happened meanwhile another interesting thing and dynamic that has happened during this 4th election cycle is the emergence of the.

religious movement it is a far right conservative movement so at one point it contained well it does have politicians that at one point were so far to the right the anti palestinian that they were actually banned that party is now on track to get 6 seats and could it is likely expected to join any netanyahu government if that's the way forward so you're thinking about the possibility of a conservative arab group and a far right groups that were deemed with members that were deemed anti palestinian at one point it's worth noting that there is no consensus within the loop party that allowing arab parties into the fold is something that they want to do but bear in mind this is a man and now i'm talking about prime minister benjamin netanyahu who is on trial for fraud breach of trust and bribery his travel resumes next month and his critics

say he is desperate not only to evade prosecution but to do anything that will enable him to do it and that may mean making alliances with parties and groups that before would have been unheard of many thanks for that. for us in west jerusalem let's get more on this we can speak to katz who's also in west jerusalem and its chief of the jerusalem post many thanks for speaking to us 90 percent of the votes counted and it looks like nessun yahoo may be back where he started what's your take on the results so far. well i think you know it all time will tell exactly what type of victory he has if he even has won what type of coalition he could build or could be built on the other side so we still don't know until we have the final results but we do know for now and this seems to be certain is that new time yahoo is almost double the size of the next party so he's about 30 yards

up the dish a teammate is somewhere between 17 or 18 so a little less than that double victory in that sense and that's a big that's a big achievement for an attorney and that means that still despite a lot of the people who wanted to eulogize netanyahu want to rate him off pretend that this might have been the end of him he's still here he still strong he's still powerful and that's something that israel will have to grapple with we had our correspondent natasha that talking about the united arab lest this small arab posse which is secured itself seats in parliament unexpectedly could they end up being. when it comes to a coalition and how significant would that be a faster case. well they definitely could become a kingmaker i mean the question is this robin party which is led by a fellow by the name months or a boss he's dealt and done some deals in the past with newtown yahoo in the last government which has led to speculation that if you given some authority maybe some

budgets for his a constituency he would be willing to not necessarily joined a natanya who led coalition i wouldn't go that far but maybe to supported from the outside and give it that push over the yes remember israel being a parliamentary system you require a coalition majority that would require 61 seats out of the 120 in these really parliament known as the knesset so let's see it's on yahoo and yet and with the right wing parties has only $59.00 or 60 but a boss is willing to be voted into power in a vote in the knesset that would be enough for any time you stay in power it would mean abbas being part of that coalition but it would mean a boss supporting him from the outside and likely getting some sort of benefit in return whether it's budgets or some sort of authority or responsibility in some knesset committee that would let him build him all of his self up in opposition to

the joining list who was his adversary an opponent in this election for or votes in the israeli or community opponents of netanyahu who have warned in the need up to this election that if he does return to power he will use his office to avoid prosecution in the upcoming case corruption case against him do you think that's possible do you think that's likely. i don't think it's not only do i think it's likely i'm concerned that it's likely right this time you know who has done everything possible over the last 2 years and this is been part of the reason that we have been thrown into this constant cycle of elections this are our 4th election in 2 years israel today is one of the most unstable political countries in the world right we we have the greatest rap most rapid pace of elections than anywhere else in the western world today that's not something we should be proud of and this is a result of the fact that we have a toxic mix of a prime minister who's on trial has been indicted for bribery fraud and breach of

trust and at the same time is trying to stay in office that doesn't go well together and the reason it doesn't go well together is because every decision that that prime minister makes while in the end he might try to argue no this is for the benefit of the country this is to keep israel safe and secure this is for the good of the nation ultimately in the back of his head is always going to be the underlying motivation of how do i survive politically how do i vade my trial and that's something that's unhealthy for any country especially for a democracy like israel so i would not only write off that option i would consider that that's something that he's definitely going to push for in one way or another there's a couple of options on the table one is to pass a special bill in the knesset others is maybe just to fire the attorney general and state prosecutor replaced him and have to cases reviewed once again but if not i don't get to 61 coalition he can use some of those tools to try to postpone if

not completely cancel the trial that has opened against him. very good to get your thoughts of cats edison chief of recent heist. israel's army says it's a launched as strikes against hamas targets and gaza explosions could be seen over gaza city early on wednesday as the strikes and response to an earlier rocket attack for which nobody has claimed responsibility the rocket landed in an open field insolvent israel with no reports of injuries. plenty more ahead on the news hour including. again where access to a region in iraq used by iso for its recent attacks. here is brazilians buying pots and pounds to vent their anger as cove in the 1900 s. calls for a 1000 a day time. and the new world number 2 is in miami let me to build on his

impressive stop to 2021 the latest tennis coming out and school. officials in bangladesh are investigating what caused a large fire at the world's largest refugee camp at least 15 people were killed and hundreds more are still missing in coaxes bazaar monday's fire destroyed thousands of shelters the camp says more than a 1000000 refugees from. you know it's nation says nearly 45000 refugees have lost their homes let's go to our correspondent tom fairchild raised live from cox's bizarre in bangladesh a dismal situation there for refugees do we know any more about how the fire started and what is happening to those people who've been displaced. unfortunately

we've lost our correspondent but we can get more on the story because we're joined by louise donovan who is also in cox's bug up his ass she's a spokeswoman for the u.n. refugee agency many thanks for joining us on al-jazeera bring us up to date as far as you know on the latest death toll as a result of the fire and the and i believe a significant number of people still missing as well thank you very much yes the situation is dire i mean i was on the ground in the camps yesterday and honestly the the images the pictures don't do justice to the scale of the devastation it's really it's the biggest fire that we've never experienced in the camps and and it's affected huge numbers of people as you mentioned 45000 people have been made homeless overnight you know the numbers of injured has over 400 people and there are still more than 300 people who are unaccounted for so i mean we're working

around the clock all of the humanitarian agencies with the go. to arms to be immediate needs in terms of shelter food and water but also to deal with the trauma that these people have been through most of these people fled violence terrible press accused in myanmar just over 3 years ago and so have to go through such a severe trauma again it's really really devastating what more do we know about the cause of the blaze because from what i've been reading it's actually the blaze in the camp in 4 days what has been causing these fires it's true that there have been several blazes and in the camps in the past number of days am on 14 at the moment we don't have any further information the government has formed a committee to do an in-depth investigation to try to find out what you know what has been the cause of these and and also how we can prevent that this in the future obviously in such densely populated refugee camps when a fire does does stars it's very difficult to control people are living in in

flimsy shelters tarpaulin and bamboo so it's. i'm afraid we might have to leave that live there louise donovan speaking to us there from cox's bazaar i think we can speak to our correspondent tom vet chantry who is in cox's bazaar give us a sense. of the situation that people are facing there. well that's absolutely devastating i mean we've been visiting the team here for last 3 and off years and this camp where this incident took place we know a lot of the families what you see behind me is the last. now many of these huts were actually burned they were built overnight some of them are 10 some of them up bumble toppling so they were built overnight to provide shelter a lot of the debris as has been cleared away now as louise donovan was saying there

is a coordinated effort by all the aid agencies and the government to clear this area and to start building new shelters a lot of the people i know taking shelter in the family and friends houses some of them has been eco mandated in temporary tents others and community centers and school now this camp was one of the largest area that got burned they had cleanings that learning center the informal school that are gone it took years to build them and a lot of question would be to raise why this fire incident keep happening what is the reason i mean one of the culprit is the gas cylinder used for cooking but the refugees are not trained to deal with these issues why frequently this thing happen in future this has to be dealt with i mean a lot of life being less about hundreds of people are still missing many of them are children you've got to realize hof the population in this camp are children down highly traumatized i mean they're just barely settled down in this camp to not

be as on just about feeling a home away from home now they're traumatized again the gunman is also taking many of them to a remote coastal island the plan is to move 100000 people there 14000 have been moved they said it's because of security and deconditioned reason so this people are really frustrated and shows they don't know what their future holds with the political situation in myanmar and their fate is up to others they don't have much say on the decision making process. thank you let's return to louise donovan who is also in cox's bazaar spokeswoman for the u.n. refugee agency let's pick up on that point our correspondent made about the where these displaced people could possibly go the government has been talking about this island in the bay of bengal where believe many of the ringers have already been moved to have realistic is that as an option for these displaced people.

well at the moment. mention by the majority of the refugees who were affected in yesterday's fire are being are being housed by neighbors by relatives and friends in camps nearby and we're also providing temporary accommodation in learning centers and community. i was regards to try are we were able to carry out the u.n. mission 1st mission to the island last week so discussions are ongoing a bypass but at the moment what's the priority is to respond to the needs the immediate needs of of those who've been affected more than 45000 people who are homeless and as time very mentioned children who need to be reunited with their families people who have been you can separations during the blaze so at the moment are perseids to just want to be immediate needs and and you know we need additional support recall and the international community to support us and support the whole humanitarian community to respond to these needs of anyone just a terribly desperate situation well this is exactly what i want to ask you next

what is it that you need now to help these people have you got enough beds food what is it that you need in particular. well at the moment since yesterday there's been a joint needs assessment going on that's all of the humanitarian community with the government looking up where the main needs are as i mentioned to i.o.m. have been distributing you know emergency shelter as all of the partners are providing medical assistance but this is really you know it's an emergency within an emergency not only have we have the fire but you know pandemic over 1000 pandemic is also going on so we've been increasing support in terms of health and some issues and things as well so i mean we have there are vast needs across the sectors and and we're going to be calling on an additional support from our door and some from and from individuals to to really come together and to help and to help this population kind of response have you had from the international community so far so far we've had you know a lot of solidarity i think that everybody can relate to this this tragedy it's

really is a tragedy. and i think we've had very very positive feedback we're we're getting a lot of communication from donors a lot of interest from people to help to help these people which we've had consistently with funding from the international community but with these additional needs with covert 19 with this fire with the needs that come from you know we're calling on additional support and we hope that that will be forthcoming . all the best donovan a spokeswoman for the u.n. refugee agency speaking to us there from cox's to sell me on my state television says the military has released more than 600 protesters arrested since last month's coup they were released from a prison in yang gome a local human rights group says at least 2000 people have been arrested in the military crackdown which began last month and i speak to florence larry who is live for us in kuala lumpur bring us up to date with this prisoner release.

well dozens of buses were seen leaving insein prison in yangon city on wednesday morning but even with the release of more than 600 detainees there are still hundreds more in detention and then joe that keeps track of political prisoners says that as of 23rd march 3rd just a day before the release on wednesday morning there were more than 2400 people in detention or who had outstanding warrants now on the non-monetary possibly want to see this release as a goodwill gesture but it certainly should be taken as a sign that it's going to be taking a softer stunts a man monetary spokesman said that the internet restrictions in myanmar are going to remain in place and that the focus next is going to be on those who provoke unrest now the protesters are not out on the streets on wednesday but this isn't a sign that there's going to that the opposition to the coup is dying down even the people are genuinely afraid that they are going to be arrested they are changing

their tactics now processed is instead of staying home the organizers say these this is called they're calling it a silent strike and the objective one of the objectives is to honor those who died throughout the weeks of protests but another objective really is to counter what the gentle is saying that things are slowly returning back to normal in manama now wednesday was also supposed to be the day that a hearing day for the trial of aung san suu kyi the democratically elected leader but her trial has once again been postponed and those postponement is likely to add on to many people's believe that she's not going to get a fair trial she faces several charges but these charges were made days and even in one case weeks after her arrest on the 1st of february and lately the myanmar military has accused her of corruption and bribery without having yet formally charged her with these offenses instead it's at these allegations on state t.v. as well as at a press conference by a man on the train on tuesday many many thanks for that florence that from kuala

lumpur we can. get a bit more analysis on this let's speak to david matheson who is an independent analyst on myanmar he joins us from china in thailand good to speak to you david so we had this conciliatory tone from the until yesterday and now they've announced the release of these 600 detainees what do you think is going on i think this is a pretense of sincerity i think this is them realized that on way too far that they need to do something to put take. a nationwide uprising against the 2 on it and a good stable tally of possible weights and this is what they've always done they're trying to rewrite reality through press conferences and then they release a certain number of prisoners but that basically justifies all the oppression that they're continuing throughout the country and i don't think we should take this as as a completely positive step it's great for those that some people who were released that as your correspondent was sometimes there's there's still nearly 2000 more

people into sanction and facing serious 'd charges and did i believe 20 children have been killed so far in this military crackdown the latest being a 7 year old girl i wonder if the people stand against the military do you think the willingness to keep doing what they're doing going back on the streets do you think that's going to keep going. i keep hearing from friends and me i'm out that they're quite resolute about moving forward but i think looking at the the matter of the protests today this is silent strike that the same you know all around the country and many people i know or are engaging in it shows a certain innovation on the part of a lot of people to keep this momentum to keep the protest movement up in order to make it should make it clear to the military they have to step down from top so i do think there's a lot of people all throughout the country that want to maintain this right and i

think every time tragic deplorable events like the murder of a 7 year old child have it really that motivates people to maintain this process we've had from the international community in recent days and now on seeing sanctions on the ministry how much pressure do you think that is really pursing on then i think these are very very important measures that the united states and the european union putting on actually naming senior officials naming particularly if you see if units and i think that they will have a psychological impact and a certain practical impact on the military but the real fulcrum the real i think center of change has to be within the country and i think every time the united states and the international community put these kind of pressures off and these kind of sanctions are applied to them it was there i think it gives a lot of the protesters hope that they really want more concrete action from the united nations and from the international community that measures such as this i

think reassure a lot of people in the country that their protests justified and that the sasha community is watching closely and actually trying their best to help them and to sing thank you david matheson and dependent analyst on me amah. still ahead on al jazeera press freedom in hong kong why a journalist is in court after investigating allegations of police misconduct. the search for mass graves in argentina years after some of the worst record it human rights abuses. anna spent a long time coming back asian world cup qualifying is about to resume details coming up in the school. the weather's looking to be settled across central parts of europe at the moment

we've got a big area of high pressure in place here but i would say was the southeast we've got selling pressure in charge asked drawing some cool air down across southeast side of year got some snow flurries over the higher ground there certainly into turkey i was also northwest this is where it's a little more spring like because the weather's coming in from the atlantic that south westerly wind dragging in a fair old rash of showers if the truth be told in one of 2 the showers will be wintry in nature generally over the high ground level sales just in glasgow 13 self's in london for planet with athens 9 degrees in athens glasgow is woman's in greece which you played in the freezing there in ankara so we've got so so when she weather continues across the southeast and colder but not too bad into central areas but some places a plot of ground sliding out of the netherlands pushing across germany as we go on through thursday into friday making room for the next rash of showers which will come i just notice how those winds start to swing around from a northwesterly direction how did something a little cool at least for

a time the waltz continues down towards the southwest 19 celsius in madrid not too bad across northern parts of africa as well but that cooler across the eastern med brushing the fog of the east of egypt. but. the system tends human rights activist the day help out that is locked in a notorious suppose back in desert prison. for fighting for his freedom exiled sylvania and betrayed by those closest to him. that have dissolved his unshaken. who needed to have a nice without. witness an al-jazeera. you are dealing with very powerful people people in influential positions in government where we know there were elements within the police completely. getting screwed that we were getting too close to some people higher up the line even. reaching the

job but for some. it is essentially the perfect you have a diplomatic bag that ended compensation which al-jazeera investigates the poacher's pipeline. you're watching out there are mind top stories this hour about 90 percent of the votes in israel's election have been counted prime minister benjamin netanyahu says prospects for retaining a right wing coalition government are looking and a small palestinian israeli policy has unexpectedly garnered some seats in parliament and it could hold the balance of power. and that she officials

investigating what caused a large fire at cox's bizarre refugee camp at least 15 people are dead and hundreds more are missing since monday thousands have lost their homes. yet most state television says the military has released more than 600 protesters arrested since last month's curfew they were released from a prison in young go on rights groups say at least 2000 were arrested. israel's ambassador to the united nations has condemned a resolution calling for an arms embargo against the country the un human rights council postle resolution 32 votes to 6 with 8 abstentions the text says there is a clear risk oh i'm sold to israel might be used to commit serious human rights abuses. martin authorities in egypt have reopened an old us section of the suez canal to divert traffic a day off to large called

a ship blocked it in both directions tugboat spent much of cheese day trying to move the ship tankers carrying saudi russian an american oil was stuck in the waterway which connects europe to asia. press freedom is once again in the spotlight in hong kong a veteran journalist from the public book is on trial off investigating police misconduct about choice house pleaded not guilty to charges she made false statements to get data she used in documentary sarah clarke reports from hong kong . normally behind the camera on wednesday t.v. producer bad choice was the subject of media attention as she faced her 1st day on trial sorry i cannot speak much we thought her legal proceedings greeting the veteran journalist at court were group of supporters who say this trial is an attack on hong kong's media freedom we feel that we have to stand up for her as well as standing up for freedom of press in hong kong about choice has been charged

for her role in a t.v. documentary that exposed what it said was police misconduct during the anti-government protests central to the investigation into allegations police colluded with a group of gang members violently attacked pro-democracy supporters in a train station in 2019. a government database to identify the owners of vehicles near the location that night police say that information was obtained illegally media groups a choice was just doing her job it does raise questions about government transparency when it comes to data and potential legal terrorism when they are all it is go after reporters you know in quite weird wonderful and never entertained waves i don't think anyone would have expected that this. would have been arrested over something like this this trial has intensified concerns over media censorship in hong kong this territory was once a bastion of press freedom in asia it's now fallen to 88 in the world press freedom

index and the introduction of beijing's national security law in july last year has increased the risks for journalists reporting on potentially sensitive subjects media tycoon jimmy lie has been arrested in recent months and remains in jail the city's public broadcaster r t h k also suspended its oldest satirical show after accusations it insulted the hong kong police some international media organizations including the new york times have moved the asia digital hub and of the. 3rd of the stuff to south korea there has been an ongoing restriction or restricting of the base for free reporting in hong kong each of these incidents is different in its own way but together they paint a pretty clear picture that you know independent reporting is under threat in hong kong this is the 1st time a journalist has been put on trial for coverage of the anti-government protests

about choi has pleaded not guilty but her supporters fear her wrist might not be the last search out 0 hong kong. in the past few months i still has stage repeated attacks on security forces in iraq algis there again access to one area that is known for regular i selected a city on a staging ground for raids on the capital so wonderful to reports from. these palm groves are a lifeline for the people of a farming community 50 kilometers north of baghdad they're also useful to providing cover and foster them support spiders this man who wanted to remain anonymous for fear of being targeted says i saw extorts the community for support and the 3rd and . 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 his 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 isis sleeper cells and their 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 p.m.s. 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 i saw 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 terrorists 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 were afraid of the 2 sides both the militias and i saw the 2 faces of the same corps in 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 awful to an al-jazeera mia. brazil has recorded its highest daily number of corona 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 doctors believe a local variant of the virus is causing a rise in infections and deaths hospitals

a push to breaking point and supplies of medical oxygen are running out. and brazilians are furious at the government's response to the pandemic nationwide people banged pots and pans to show their anger against president john abell sonora during his short address on television he's long been opposed to lock downs and mosque mandate citing concerns about its impact on the economy. should the virus has a right and he's been confronted by a finnish will soon pass our life must go on jobs should be kept the life we who do family should be kicked should return to normal. and staying in brazil and supreme court has ruled that former president lula da silva was not treated fairly in a series of corruption investigations just uncommon to see it reversed her earlier position to tip the courts 5 judge panel in list favor and means of course is

likely to throw out evidence and corruption cases against him strengthening his potential candidacy for next year's election against president joe i. want to get a cue has the latest from rio de janeiro. this isn't represents a big tree for former president. silva and paves the way for his candidacy in the 2022 presidential elections he now can run against a far right president right. now lula was a front runner in the 28 team presidential elections but he was banned from running because he was tried and convicted and imprisoned by a judge. and the supreme court now. says what moore has been saying all along that he the trial was not fair because the judge was. biased he did not act impartially and said rumor has been saying this because morrow after the

trial went on to become president tradeable for justice minister so in a certain way now more is feeling vindicated now this does not mean that he is free of all corruption charges there are still corruption charges against him what this means is that this particular trial was not fair. the colombian government has asked for a given a sphere its role in a case of a journalist who was kidnapped tortured and raped while reporting on the civil war she's day was the final day of hearings in the international trial underway at the into american court of human rights the victim says the government's apology is simply not enough. to reports from bogota. it took the colombian government 20 years to recognize part of the state's responsibility in the case of jeanette the door yeah the colombian journalist was abducted tortured and raped while investigating the arm trafficking network between paramilitaries and colombian say

2 fish bowls in 2000 i know but it is. in the name of the colombia state i recognize our international responsibility for the failings of the judicial system but did not realize or worshipping all of us to geisha for the victim and i owe for an apology to jeanette we're doing for the damage it caused. that be doing us campaign for 2 decades to bring her attackers to justice for her the government's acknowledgement 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 we're to this day those who threaten me yes. 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 oh yeah i 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. the tax on journalists and women continues just like 20 years ago impunity remains higher the 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 say they did

a 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. sri lanka has rejected a u.n. resolution that could lead to prosecutions for rights violations that gives the un human rights chief the powers to investigate crimes related to the country's civil war which ended in 2009 the human rights council postle resolution $22.00 votes to 11 but there were 14 abstentions sri lanka's foreign minister says it has no weight it's clear that the resolution has had many doric the approval of the

comms it. is the reality what do they want to see and you know these resolutions without the consent and that seppo of the country concerned cannot be implemented that is the basic principle. people in argentina commemorating the anniversary of the 976 crew that led to a military government and some of the worst human rights abuses recorded last century fear of people attending demonstrations this year because of the coronavirus pandemic but it has stopped the investigation into what's happened to those who died or went missing stories about reports now from what is. it was argentina's largest detention camp during the years of military dictatorship and now for the 1st time from one of its airstrips this specially equipped plane is about to take off on a mission to search for mass graves in the area the military base in what a site is called company module it covers an area of over $5000.00 hectares.

busty to search for coordinates x. y. and z. it has the virtue of period reaching the vegetation today will be scanning the area of concordia mio. the plane has been equipped with technology that marks thousands of points that can be later analyzed those points could be burial sites of the real lesson activist disappeared during the dirty war in the 1970 s. and eighty's thousands of people were disappeared during the military dictatorship in this country vests are some of what makes the task more difficult in the 3rd to find them is that the abuse or never revealed what they did to them it is known that one of the favorite methods used where what is known as the death flights where people were thrown into the river or the ocean they were never seen again.

human rights trials are ongoing in argentina and members of the security forces are being confronted with what they allegedly did over 40 years ago this year of years whom because of the. the search for flight seek to unearth the secrets of what happened. and the death flights took off from there now for the 1st time conscripts have started to speak about what they saw at the base when people were being disappeared. i saw around 9 people and i'm not sure because they were passing very fast i saw people with long hair and beard. that is the leader of a team of experts who specialize in searching for people killed in conflict he says the new technology will help shed light on one of the darkest periods in argentina's history. once the data is analyzed we were used to physics like geo radars to detect if there's something in the areas marked by the loiter so later on

we can go and investigate what is important this is a military location in almost no country in the world have been allowed to search for bodies in military locations and it's one of the 1st times we're very careful with expectations especially among the relatives and relatives of those who were disappeared continue to search for their loved ones. they still have the hope human rights abuses will reveal what they did to them they say that only the truth will bring them to. still ahead on al-jazeera and sports this brooklyn star says just why the nets are one of the championship favorites the season all the basketball action coming up so much so that you don't buy.

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ok it's time for the sports his summer thank you very much to a money being called vying for the 2022 well cup and cuts off kicks off to a wednesday the 1st batch of matches sees will champions of france begin their title defense the french open their campaign at home to ukraine. and have a long trip to face because a stun away on sunday followed by a stop off and bosnia-herzegovina on march 31st crosses one of the number of teams starting with a triple header 2 to the pen demick european qualifying has been pressed just to illustrate how hectic things are european qualification kicks off with $75.00 games in 8 days the whole group schedule is squeezed into 4 international windows in an 8

month span and on top of all that the delayed european champions that will happen this year as well as the nation's finals. asian call vying for the qatar 2022 has been heavily impacted by the global pandemic around 2 resumes on thursday off to 16 a month that gap stands home game against among. will get things back on the way with 2 more matches happening this month saudia arabia versus palestine and mongolia at home to japan the rest of the matches will happen across 8 groups specific hubba venues in june most countries have played 5 of their scheduled 8 2nd round matches oh i've been speaking to asian football right to john and then he's optimistic that asia can get through its qualification process despite all the problems. covered has affected asians welker quotation badly i mean really by now

we should be almost have a good idea of which 4 teams will be going to qatar 2022 but still we haven't even finished the 2nd round yet is still 40 teams in the running class action was november 2009 team and at the time we have no idea what has to wait 60 minutes to start again the asian football confederation decided to have instead of having home away games for the remaining games in the 2nd round just for each he was for 5 games left to play incentivize up their news so one city in one country horsing older many games. so she win that works then there's just enough time to squeeze in the games remaining before june 15th deadline but really because just normal leeway left in any spiking cases any problems will have a huge effect. but i think the i.o.c. in foot was going to get better at this moment we saw in qatar last year with the end of the asian champions league how about

a secure bubble can post game safely so that's the whole you know i mean it's it of course unprecedented situation they have seized at our house and sympathy for how they have handled this and try and find a way to play these games but i think somehow in the games will be played and it will be as you will have the full amount of teams in qatar but some teams may have problems along the way but will be enough. for a time grass them at 10 pm andy murray has suffered another setback as he was forced to wear drawl from the miami open with a groin injury 2 time winner here in la it had been granted the wild card that to compete at the scot has not played at the a.t.p. must assess 2016 for a while number one who is now right the 119 that has been attempting to return to major tournaments after a long injury lay offs a duty hip surgery which threatened his career. i don't really know i know it's not a muscular problem so my strength testing and everything i have done with my physio

is fine i get no pain on any of those tests so. something else going on there and oh check it out one when i get back home i feel like right now you know if i'm walking right and it's got much better the last few days but just know i'm not in time for the start to turn in a new world number 2 hamad today that will be competing in miami the russian has no place rafael nadal is not the last week off to winning his 10th career a.t.p. tour title he's not the 1st there other than the del roger federer novak djokovic 10 and mari to be bronx in the top 2 since lleyton hewitt 16 years ago but what they have is the top seed in miami. really happy i think it's the 1st time i'm going to be a top seed in a masters 1000 you know is great because of course it comes with good results you know with a lot of hard work but it means a lot for sure i don't want to stop every time you're reach something new you want

to climb higher and higher but there's just enjoy it while until until your next match where you just have to win to enjoy again. time being the l.a. lakers are still searching for a win without injured star le bron james they fell 128-2112 the new audience pelicans in la the brooklyn nets are also missing 2 of the stop plays that and kevin durant's in their game against the portland trailblazers but it was james harden to the rescue people 25 points to lead brooklyn 216212 victory. he cautions urgency in the women in our effort in their intensity on the defensive this has to be the no matter what no questions and part of the garden or that's what you know once again. that has to be it is yours everything you know you the best we can. and that's why it's full famille have no more for you later on

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