this is the interview news live from berlin the u.s. is poised in just a few hours to open its embassy in jerusalem in a move bound to send shock waves across in the early hours before the official opening ceremony israeli troops fire on protesters and it was said to be the largest demonstration against the decision in the gaza strip also on the show. an election upset in iraq a coalition led by the national shia cleric the total sautter holds the lead in early results of victory could mean he'll be deciding who will head the country's

next government. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us israeli troops have shot and wounded a number of palestinians at protests along the gaza border now the protesters gathering there are out rallying over the imminent move of the u.s. embassy to jerusalem is this the end of palestinian hopes for that city or at least part of it to be their capital that's one of the questions they're asking right now matsson the stray sions kicked off ahead of this afternoon's inauguration of the american embassy in jerusalem activists of also called a general strike across the gaza strip last night israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu welcomed president trumps the daughter of her husband jared kushner and other u.s. officials for

a special dinner to mark the occasion but envoys from where than half of the countries that were invited did not show up. well since the border protests began dozens of palestinians have been killed and some one thousand have been wounded in the protests along the israel gaza border the embassy move sent tensions soaring let's go now live to jerusalem where our correspondent tanya kramer's standing by dani what's the latest you're hearing from gaza well as you said you've seen over the past seven weeks these protests always on fridays and today is the big day all of the organizers that are all political faction have called for people to come out to the border area and we seeing more and more people in the thousands going to what steve border area in gaza they getting first reports from the palestinian health officials there the red crescent saying that over twenty people at this time of eighty have been wounded by teargas but also by sniper on the mission sniper

fire now israel has saying they're fearing that masses of people might reach the fence that's why they have strengthened their forces more stocks to just have been brought in more troops have been stationed around this. heavy machinery as far as we understand now what the protesters there one there were talking recently about you know making the words look back what's happening in gaza is mainly these young people going out to protest saying the situation in gaza has become so die and this is becoming a thing today of course that people are also very angry and concerned of course is happening in jerusalem which most people in gaza can never reach i mean most of the people in gaza cond if go to to some without permission from the israelis ok according to these are always prime minister benjamin netanyahu it's all supposed to work very differently he's been saying that this move the u.s.

embassy to jerusalem should be a positive development for the region must take a listen to what he said. i call on all countries to join the u.s. and moving their embassies to jerusalem. move your own pursuits to do so because it's the right thing to do. move your embassies to jerusalem listen to this move your embassies to jerusalem because it advances peace. while will other countries do that will they move their embassies to jerusalem well this is still to see that certainly what israel is hoping for and i'm standing just right in front of the consulate now the this building behind me housed the consulate services of the u.s. and it has now turned this afternoon with the inauguration ceremony into the

american embassy we understand that two countries at least have said they're going to move after this move of the u.s. embassy here their embassies that's what tomorrow and also power but we've also seen there was this reception on sunday night by the israeli foreign ministry and some of the diplomatic the majority of the diplomatic missions have a chose not to send their ambassador to this event because they are saying basically that the status of jerusalem should be part of final status negotiations between palestinians and israelis and by moving the embassy here this goes against this common common international understanding tanya kramer for us in jerusalem where the u.s. is set to open its new amp or say a time you will have much more for us throughout the day thanks for now. now to some of the other stories making the news this hour four suicide attackers are dead

and ten people are wounded after a bombing at police headquarters in indonesia's second largest cities or a buyout now this comes one day after a bomb blasts at three churches in that city killed at least thirteen people a group linked to so-called islamic state sponsored or. in india at least seventy people are dead after winds of up to one hundred ten kilometers per hour buffeted the country's north worst hit the state of our products in the capital delhi. destroyed homes sent trees crashing the power lines disrupted transportation. it's to iraq now and more than half of votes counted in iraq's parliamentary elections are in a show nationalist a shia cleric with. set to make a surprise political comeback supporters cheered the news in baghdad where the cleric and his communist political allies took the highest number of votes a victory would put all solder in

a strong position to choose the next prime minister but he will have to overcome opposition from iran which is bound to prevent his bloc from taking power the current prime minister hider body is lagging behind in third place. i'll talk about the shia cleric mcconnell sautter taking a surprise lead i'm joined now by the. karim he's just returned from iraq covering these elections good morning to thanks for being with us. what's the latest on the vote count where is that at this point to ten or fifteen provinces has been counted to know the lead is from looked at us another deal we're seeing now in the picture and when you talk to these supporters of looked at sutter's coalition they're telling you he's going to be the winner when you talk to the supporters of the because a provinces should be counted then they tell you it's going to be a turning point in concerning mosul because the majority of the people in moves that according to what they saying elect. to say the most is the second largest

city in iraq so it's open but to know what we know that us other is leading ok these are his supporters in the back on his right or yours are on the like in late even yesterday that's i think one of the pictures on the streets saying he's going to be there when. and iran is going to be all because other took a bit kind of distance to iran ok but he's an. didn't start by the prime minister in third place or another individual the vote is still too close to call right now before we get into the analysis you talk to a lot of people exactly you were in mosul yes second biggest city just up and your bill in the north in baghdad what were they telling you there's a big mistrust in the whole political system in iraq when you talk to people they say nothing is going to change it's all going to be the same you have a big corruption in iraq also blaming the for this corruption you have sectarianism in iraq that that's part of every day's life and that's what people say

sectarianism is the reason why there is day to bloodshed in iraq so this kind of mistrust and the whole election is being questioned about credibility this election and i think that also explains that the low turnout in this election which is are all by forty five percent of what we know till now get back to we're told all saud are you know he's the man of the hour because he's in the lead right now. you know he was the head of the former militia the mehdi army militia group killed american soldiers killed iraqi soldiers which is what does draw so i mean this is one side of other but what he did like the last two and three years he he pushed a big. corruption campaign in iraq and. corruption is one of the biggest challenges facing iraqis and his presenting himself as being part of the people speaking in the name of the people poor people in iraq especially in buck that is he goes to poor neighborhoods and talks to the

people and this is giving him a kind of a push a kind of credibility on the side that he's taking distance from iran he's trying to say we are here independent i'm going to be the voice of the iraqis and decide all this his coalition which is called the same room the march the move is. art of communists were part of it and secular. people were part of it is makes thing you know it's across sectarian coalition what he presented and people are simply fed up of sectarianism terrorism and the corruption you examine that that looks like it's been sticking to the car by minister hydraulic body and sliding in third place what's what's going on with him why is he so far behind exactly because the leaders are there the last four years. a body had a lot of challenges and one of them was it was corruption but till now corruption in iraq is a major problem if you look to the transparency international ranking it's one of the last places concerning corruption beside that they see if they see him not

taking a clear decision what's what's concerning the international interference in. iraq concerning iran concerning the u.s. so they say they want to have a change but we have to mention that till now there is no clear winner because a province has to be to be counted ok i did we're waiting on those votes to come in now exactly and to be counted maybe maybe it's going to be a turnout for a body because our bodies and the moves on what we hear till now the most voted for it because abadie defeated i as in mosul so you might have some support from especially from mosul and mosul might still play a turning point in the whole elections concerning iraq ok we know later today maybe tomorrow how long it's going to looks like within hours it's supposed to be like forty eight hours after saturday's so maybe today afternoon late afternoon but i guess to morrow morning might be like the hundred person because they're still counting we'll be talking about it again just short of the whole karim thanks so

much for coming in for that you're welcome. well rand's foreign minister has started a world tour to try and save iran's nuclear pact after u.s. president donald trump's withdrawal left it on the brink of collapse mohan missouri has been in moscow where he's met with his russian counterpart sergey lavrov so it has reassured has received assurances that lavrov will in fact be backing the deal and moscow will stay in it says his aim is to prevent washington further destabilizing the region. on his world tour is a read his already visited beijing after moscow will stop off in brussels to meet the deal's european signatories here's what's at stake for zarif this week for iran's foreign minister mohammed javits a reef this week could become the most important of his career his mission to salvage the twenty fifty nuclear deal and he'll be counting on the support of the

five other countries involved. for me it is very important to enter into dialogue with the nations that still remain in the iran nuclear deal china is the fresh top. iran's president has son rouhani joined him in his effort into iran he vowed that his country would honor to deal. with. the if the five remaining countries in the deal join us and for felder commitment and guarantee the iranian side that benefits of the islamic republic from the deal will be preserved and this agreement will remain in place. the stakes are high for iran particularly for the nation's oil industry which would be crippled by fresh u.s. sanctions with that and nine japanese confident of iran's commitment. in this

interview not only germany has an interest in maintaining this nuclear deal but also iran iran needs an economic perspective and the white house focus has since turn to the upcoming summit with north korea although rebuilding a new deal could still be on the cards to work president trump president have both said we want to get a deal that's right a bigger deal we will be hard at that in the weeks ahead i hope to be a central part of achieving that it would be a wonderful thing if we could get the europeans to do this but that wouldn't be such a wonderful thing for a czar if he wants to stick with the original next stop on his support campaign russia. on to the u.s. now in a whole wise way a volcano has cost two new ruptures in the earth's crust lava has been spewing out of those ruptures one of the fissures is about three hundred meters long after the new cracks opened why an emergency services of course ordering more aback you

ations the volcano is on hawaii's big island it's been erupting for the past ten days and it has destroyed dozens of homes forced thousands of people to evacuate the area and this is the news live from berlin i'm brian thomas for the entire news team thanks so much for being with us. the people the world over information. the pains to express d.w. on facebook and twitter up to date and in touch.