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we decided to walk. the program israel's attorney general says he plans to indict the prime minister benjamin netanyahu on corruption charges first time mr netanyahu will have a chance to speak against the charges at a procedural hearing the decision follows more than two years of investigations into allegations of bribery fraud and breach of trust it would be the first time in history a sitting israeli prime minister has been charged with a crime this move could mr netanyahu political career is almost certain to shake up the countries of forthcoming parliamentary elections benyamin netanyahu denies any

wrongdoing. and straight to that. credit joins us from jerusalem welcome target what sort of reaction has there been to this announcement. well no he real surprises here i mean most of his allies within the right wing talk have have strongly criticized this decision by the attorney general of the likud his party a put out a statement saying calling it a political persecution there all see also strongly criticized the timing off the decision this announcement so six weeks before the election scheduled in april now on the left wing in center. we heard also we heard mostly a calls for him to see netanyahu to resign that he's not fit to run again as prime minister and one said that it's a shame for the nation now i see the person who let's take

a look first at the background to to this case and this report. so moving on benjamin netanyahu has been israel's prime minister for ten years he's hoping to get reelected in april but now his political future is in doubt. last year a special police unit investigated allegations of suspected bribery it recommended netanyahu be indicted in three cases these are known as case one thousand netanyahu and his family are suspected of receiving gifts from business friends. case two thousand covers allegations that netanyahu attempted to influence the publisher of a daily newspaper to gain more positive coverage and case four thousand and further allegations of quid pro quo for regulatory favors for israel's largest telecommunications firm that also in exchange for friendly media coverage netanyahu

has built his political career on the image of being israel's mr security come up before the indictment polls suggested that he was still the favorite for prime minister for many israelis. however in recent days he's facing strong competition from a new candidate former army chief benny gantz and you center right party alliance with yere luck be it the blue and white list now to now argues that a pre-election indictment could influence the outcome of the vote he himself has denied all accusations. let's pick up with tonic in jerusalem type time if this is going to be a this is a controversial move from the attorney general with just six weeks to go. he had definitely because of the timing and it could be a potential game changer here i mean it has a potential. vote this way from the right wing bloc with eddie coots and that's headed by mr netanyahu to and more at the center right now if you saw it in

that report they have been before the intendant indictment there have been over the head to head to head a very strong entry this through and by tonight and and now it's still to see whether we will see because of this indictment whether the voters will move away from the right and not to this more send to pluck so actually being said that mr not need to now could actually fight here for his political life but having said that i talked to some of the decomposes you know those workers have been for many years they say no i mean this is all political move against him we will watch and we will support him and we can be sure that this indictment pending a hearing i have to say will be at the center of this election campaign and across generations in fact here. is take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world i'm lucky

south has been be elected president of senegal for a second term i think it's released by the national vote counting commission show that he won sunday so first round out right but more than fifty eight percent of the party's closest rival former prime minister intersected just over twenty years . as well as opposition leader from guy down the passages in brazil had a talk with her so suppressed in china possible and european countries have recognized quite as france when it's a legitimate leader is trying to drum up international pressure tested this but what to step down. but will transform a boy michael cohen who's testifying before congress for this time behind closed doors. he's giving evidence to a panel investigating bashes interference into his sixteen presidential election or wednesday he made damning allegations against the u.s. president accusing him of breaking the law surgeon's trumps rejects it with the current testimony as lives so that you don't have to take my words i mean well

donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un have ended their highly anticipated some to vietnam early and with no agreement they'll be all positive sentiments from their historic first summit last year this latest encounter was able to bring a path to north korea's denuclearization and bring peace to the korean peninsula mr trump says talks broke down after he refused to lift all sanctions against pyongyang in exchange for only partial denuclearization. there was no lunch and no signing ceremony instead president trump's motorcade headed away from the summit venue after talks broke off prematurely. the hanoi meeting was the second he's had with kim jong un after a summit in singapore last year critics called that won big on style and low on substance so this time donald trump was under pressure to deliver results a clear timetable from pyongyang for dismantling its nuclear program for example

from the outset he made it clear that he wasn't going to be rushed. very very much to getting there we need is not that important to be. found in perhaps the most public commitment to international demands yet a comment from north korea's kim jong un when asked whether he was ready to did new clear ice in the world if your jealousy is i'm not really there that i won't be here right. it will be the best answer you've ever but with p.r. nyang pressing its own demands president trump was left to explain why the talks fell apart so. basically they wanted these sanctions we have to. in their entirety and we couldn't do that. they were willing to do new go lord's portion of the areas that we wanted but we couldn't give up all of the sanctions for that so we continue to work and we'll see but we had to walk away from that particular

suggestion we had to walk away from. it was a dispiriting end to a much more wanted meeting with the sanctions issue still far from resolved it appears the road to disarming north korea will be a long one. so where do we go from here young from the american public policy think tank the german marshall fund welcome to d w what's your take on the last two days events while the singapore meeting in june last year was quite an easy score it was a diplomatic coup of some sort and it did the just to show up it was just good you know it just work really well but this time around it was different because he had to deliver actually something and realize that politics is actually quite complicated and so i think this time around what we have been seeing is. that this this probably this meeting should have happened at this point in time because no preliminary decisions have been made no process has really been agreed on and just

by showing up drunk or just not fixed right so when you when you look at this and listening to our reports and elsewhere just a chance to try to see this as a society that he supports is this just part of a longer process how do you see what when it's not a good time to quote to resign maybe stays but i think you know the whole question of no deal is better than a bad deal was raised many times here and i think in this time around just as with rex that it's the same thing in a small the over the from better than no deal that all because it would have initiated another process a better process at these a small deal would have been a better win for donald trump who had to walk away from this without anything basically with nothing to show for it and we still only know how of the story here because we haven't had the north korean side this will have to wait until the north korean media puts out there. until we find how they actually read this and what's their part and why they think they walked away from the meeting why they are in this and it of us not the end of it is it sure this is not the end of it but i

think this is it's going to be hard to keep up the pressure and it's going to be hard to keep up the momentum also with all the other things that are going on domestically for donald trump so i think this is going to be hard especially with if you look at it that he has another negotiation going on with the chinese government at the moment trying to lock in a major trade deal you know it's one thing to say he's willing to walk away from a deal if it's not a good deal but it can also be interpreted as he cannot cut a deal and doing that twice in one month might not be such a good sign to his own constituency at home. briefly then if we want to get a deal in the future it's going to looks like it's going to take both sides to give some ground do you see that happening both sides have already given a little bit there where the present war remains that were brought back to the united states the military exercises have been halted so there was some give and take already and there will have to be more the question is sequencing do you give

up does north korea give up its nuclear weapons before sanctions are relieved or does that work the other way around and there seems to be some misunderstanding about that at the moment in the current process because north korea has never demanded all sanctions relief immediately so the question is what was it that they demanded that was so out of the picture and i'm sure we'll speak here on this again if another. call from the german marshall fund thank you thank you. pakistan's prime minister's sense of captured indian fighter pilot will be released tomorrow the first of march and run come told the joint session of parliament the move to release them when command of the india their force was a gesture of peace tensions between the nuclear neighbors a sword after each carried out strikes against the other over the disputed region of kashmir. god is great and long live the pakistan army chant these soldiers and local villages behind them lies the wreckage

of an indian fighter jet shot down by pakistan's military on wednesday in the pakistan held area of kashmir and indian pilot survived but was captured. i was with two more the colleagues and we caught the name pilot that you know we snatched his pistol and identity documents a series pakistani army soldiers arrived we hunted him over to them barbed wire. to prove it pakistan released video of the man they claim is the pilot. the decision to arrest and hold him has incensed india. protests demanding the wing commanders release have been held across the country he's become the face of simmering tensions between the rival powers as the disputed kashmir region has again brought the nucleus states to the brink of war. the latest

escalation began two weeks ago when forty indian police were killed by pakistan based militants in a part of india controlled kashmir. on thursday pakistan's prime minister told parliament the indian pilot would be free and was thought the pilot of the indian pilot is in our custody we were released as a peace gesture to return him to india. although welcomed by the indian military the country is still on high alert i wish to assure the nation that we are fully prepared. and in a heightened state of readiness. to any role location by pakistan. which hotline is on both sides of the border calling for a tough response the real challenge will be trying to keep the peace. still to come. here to drive hailing out as expanding in africa account complete

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