this is news coming to you live from berlin we're just one day away israel's national election with a country divided over prime minister binyamin netanyahu. i think at the time figure there maybe the time has come to push parties and have one why i think he has a great team doing fine and if baby is elected i was. a controversial campaign promise to keep his job in the closest of races challenger is a centrist and

a former military general we hear from voters less than twenty four hours or polls are also coming. under siege rebels libyan generals troops advance on the city of tripoli dozens have been killed the government is launching a counter offensive. plus a shakeup in donald trump's cabinet and the homeland security secretary is. was the face of the administration's hard line and he migration policy especially at the border with mexico after months of tension with the white house she says. tackling germany's criminal clans police launched a crackdown to try to catch the families the subject of their own proveable. takes . work.

oh i'm terry martin good to have you with us crucial elections in israel are now just a day away and there's no telling whether promiser benjamin netanyahu will be able to hold on to his job he faces a stiff challenge from the former military general centrist benny. over the weekend who pulled out what many consider a sort of trump card to further his status with those on the far right a promise to next jewish settlements in the occupied west bank election has turned into a neck and neck race. benyamin netanyahu were suspended against blue and white party is resurrection is said to be a tight race with lotus remaining split including here in this close restore in. hopes that bibi netanyahu it's every phone calls to prime minister to form the next government she can see and. i think b.b.

has a great team they're doing fine and have babies elected i will sleep well at night we will move towards a safe future for me for my sons and grandsons it should be. another four years of bibi unthinkable for this young student guggenheim voted for netanyahu is likud party in previous elections but this time his go to the new blue and white party headed by former army chief of staff benny gantz i think the time is coming though there was country well i think at the time for years the really the time has come to switch parties and have one white take the premiership and move on to the hopefully better and more secure places. when israelis go to the polls on tuesday they have a wide range of issues to consider and a record number of parties to choose from economy and security are usually the top priorities for voters but this election is slightly different. in essence these are

vital issues for israelis but they're not necessarily the big determinants of votes because we have a situation where the voters focusing primarily on the issue of netanyahu his ten year long governance over israeli society thirteen years in total and the corruption charges against him. despite facing an indictment on his string of corruption charges netanyahu can still count on a strong voter base. he campaigned on social media and by meeting foreign leaders with a clear message he's the only one who can keep israel safe and represent the country's interests abroad. meanwhile pentagons and his team of former army generals have been touring the country the centrist blue and white party has been ahead of the likud in almost all opinion polls. in a small community in southern israel who served as military chief under netanyahu appears to voters there's only his party can move the country forward. prime

minister netanyahu and his messages of busy dividing people and using incitement in order to survive we have busy reinforcing the security of israel and working towards a better future for our children. post as predicted guns and netanyahu will compete next to me but netanyahu might have the upper hand to form a writing coalition with smaller right wing parties. kramer who filed that report joins us now from jerusalem tanya mr netanyahu has made a last minute election promise to annex settlements in the west bank could that tip the scales in his favor. well i think he's trying to reach out to this nationalist base and basically saying that rather than voting maybe for as some of his potential smaller coalition partners smaller parties that are pro an extension

they should rather vote to the extent that these parties might not then make it over the election especially because every vote that goes to a smaller party would be lost for than he could and he's a bit under pressure because in all of the polls leading up to election day at the blue and white party house let the polls actually it be a trust all those polls that have not always been accurate having said that most posters predict that the next unknown has more possibilities in why it might be off to form a coalition but i think mr netanyahu doesn't want to take an actual census to do is any wrote what can you tell us about some of netanyahu challengers in this election . well the main challenger here turns out to be benny guns and his new blue and white heidi that has they have formed this together with essentialist yes a tea party and both leaders pentagons it's number one and in that heat it's number

two would actually rotate the premiership if they would be successful now the question is you know whether they will be garnering enough support to sway voters to vote for the more centrist approach to have been saying that they. want to unite the country that they want to get away from the polarizing politics of prime minister netanyahu is so for many people yeah it's hopeless actually they always say anything but bibi as mr netanyahu has called it because of his legal troubles because of the certainty but also because he has been a premier for a very long time and the other people who are saying well i continue to vote for the likud and it's a it's a vote for parties after all but that's very personalized. i want to continue to go to that you could and i want to see a prime minister netanyahu in another term. thank you so much for that tanya kramer in jerusalem. now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world

today british prime minister theresa may says there's still a chance her government could reach a compromise with the opposition labor party on a breaks that deal leaders are expecting to hear details of a planned out an emergency summit on wednesday the u.k. is slated to leave the european union on friday. a large explosion at a warehouse in yemen's capital saana has killed at least thirteen people including seven children more than one hundred people wounded who the rebels who sees control of the capital in two thousand and fourteen said the saudi led coalition had targeted the warehouse with an air strike coalition denied carrying out any strikes in the area. in sudan thousands of protesters are demonstrating for a third day outside the army headquarters they want the military to support their calls for the resignation of the country's president omar al bashir security forces are reportedly attempting to break up the protests using tear gas.

the united states has called for an immediate halt to a military offensive by rebel libyan general. to seize the capital tripoli troops loyal to have talks are reported to be advancing on the city after launching the operation on thursday at least thirty people have been killed and dozens injured in the fighting forces aligned to the un backed government in tripoli say they have started a counter offensive to defend the city. for more on this let's bring in chris stephen he is the guardian's libya correspondent chris what are you hearing about the situation on the ground in libya. yeah well the fighting continues you know and i was as have been making some gains that pushing in from the southern suburbs of the meeting a lot of resistance from militias in the city so yes is that the fifth day and

casualties are mounting how likely is it chris that general hostile actually succeed with his offensive and his march on the capital i think it's hard to know i mean he has very little or says excuse me he's already captured the east of libya in the south of the b.s. that in tripoli is the is the finals so to stall but on the other hand is a big city is a lot of voices there opposing him so it's a try isn't trying to strength really. ok a trial the strength of the man who seems determined to seize power what would happen do you think if general hof todd did manage to take power in libya. well he said that he favors the mock received billions of very very strong roots so each wanted to be a very good at democracy and he pitched the libyan people as i can get rid of all these militias and all this chaos and install regular army and police forces

because libyans will think well dean does that make mean that we come back to being a dictatorship now the whole world is watching what's happening in libya seeing it still falling apart is there anything that the international community can do the united nations for example to help solve this conflict. well the options are very limited the foreman is a meeting today in brussels will be looking to them to see what they can come up with military intervention is not on the cards sanctions could be could be absent. organized but there's a big split in international community. countries including france russia egypt are supporting after so the internationals really the first step is to see they can get a consensus of the european union has been working with libya to try to keep refugees from from leaving the country and taking to the water on that perilous

journey to europe where well what happens to the refugees in the middle of this conflict yes the u.n. is very concerned you have thousands of migrants in detention centers already in very green conditions no military really and they sort of lost contact with them so as it is a great deal of concern what happens then chris thank you very much for bringing us up to date there was chris stephen there with the british daily the guardian now moving on to the united states donald trump's secretary of homeland security has resigned and nielson was the chief enforcer of the u.s. president's controversial border policies including the wall extension on the mexico border and the separation of migrant parents from their children but she was also reported to be a frequent target of the president's anger what began with fulsome praise from the president. there would be no on the job training for kiersten. she

is ready on day one would you say yes good. ended with a perfunctory tweet president trump giving no reason for nielsen's departure and a planned expression of thanks for his service nielsen rose to the position of chief of homeland security in december twenty seventh and in just over a year in the job she garnered criticism as the public face of trump's controversial immigration policies such as that of separating migrant children from their parents at the u.s. mexican border a policy she denied exists has been much outcry consternation and frankly misinformation from many in the press in congress and advocacy groups over the last few weeks that we have d.h.s.s. are intentionally doing things that are humanitarian that are cruel immoral and disgraceful we aren't doing none of those things in her letter of resignation which

was published online but she didn't mention her reasons for leaving but observers see it as a sign of conflicts in the white house as the president's rhetoric on immigration becomes increasingly strident a washington correspondent michael says nielsen's resignation comes as no surprise . that nielson was finally forced out is no big surprise trump was unhappy that he couldn't stop the border crossings at the u.s. border with mexico especially from families with children over the past two years trip was also very unhappy that he could not get his money for the big promised wall even though he instituted the longest government shutdown in u.s. history he's also very unhappy that he couldn't continue his policy to separate migrant children from their families because public opposition was just too strong and he's also very unhappy that he could not close the border down over the past week because public opposition again was too strong especially from u.s.

businesses and the face of all this all these failed policies was cursed nielson his department of homeland security secretary she was the face of all those failed policies and needed a scapegoat right now and that's why he decided to finally get rid of her and force her out. now expanding the approach that helped donald trump get elected steve benen the former chief strategist in trump's white house has given his blessing to a new training center for populist european politicians is partially hidden in a remote italian bill age but bannon is working to spread his message across the continent. i am. this form a ministry in trees altie in the hills of central italy has been revived with a new mission here benjamin hardwell has launched a conservative center called the institute for human dignity he wants to draw together christians and jews and fight against islamic fundamentalism young politicians will come to terms o.t.

and trying to become right wing populists resulting in the next generation is going to become the global headquarters of the fight to defend the judeo christian basis of western civilization so that's just not just in europe but right across the world. vision has won the support of steve bannon the former advisor to u.s. president donald trump the two devout catholics have met frequently in rome. i'm just honored these as me to help out and you know what i'm trying to do is add maybe a little organizational ability and and in to bring in donors faculty people i would know throughout the world that can teach that and is now trying to bring together right wing parties from across europe into a unified group called the movement he's hoping for a surge of support in the upcoming european elections this may because the party was national sovereignty movement as a great politician is

a great message in our history and in that's why it's on the impossible maybe it's the men in the news groups say all the nations a stunning victory. some observers are concerned about the alliance between bannon's movement and the conservative training academy. was against the east in the point that brings them together is an obsession with identity politics. yes it increased mission they say we are christians in the west and europe is based on judeo christian values which we have to defend against an invasion. tied together there is also resistance interest ulti many residents don't want baron and his acolytes in the village the monastery is a pilgrimage destination that attracts tourists opponents want the italian government to prevent it being turned into a right wing training camp. but the why is

a cultural location in our village is being used for an ideological project. of the moderates terry interest is being used as the foundation for a movement but what are its ideals with whose money is it being funded to what end han world's plan is clear his center interests altie should become a launching pad for right wing populism across europe he plans to open the doors to his first students this summer. you're watching d.w. news still coming up in this half hour we'll be discussing this weekend's what is legal action and in particular what via munich's thrashing of grocery dortmund does to the title rights. now here in germany police have begun implementing a new zero tolerance policy on criminal clan families mainly of arabic and kurdish origin the clans are believed to have thousands of members they have their

strongholds in the rural area hanover braman and here in berlin for decades with little intervention from the police the clans were able to build their own criminal networks but now politicians are looking at whether integration policy has had a hand in helping these groups prosper many of the kurdish arabic families that came to germany in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's weren't allowed to work they received only modest social welfare payments and topped up their income with criminal activities such as robbery drug dealing and racketeering now though police are cracking down carrying out frequent raids in an attempt to disrupt the scene they call it the strategy of one thousand pricks a reporter mark a route that examines its potential for success. a large scale raid in berlin's my cone district investigators are mainly targeting shisha bars where they suspect

organized crime clans are laundering money customs investigators auditors and federal and state crime authorities accompanied by hundreds of police officers are searching the bars. it's the biggest operation of its kind in berlin. you know a cone district mayor has come along and he wants to know how the mission is going . this time the improprieties are minor offenses tobacco without tax stamps and violations of trading in child protection laws but the district mayor says he won't turn a blind eye. or does instead we can publish everything with these checks from you know to major offenses we are implementing a zero tolerance strategy here. large scale raids like this are part of a new campaign against organized arab crime clans suspected of committing major offenses including the break end of a luxury department store in broad daylight or the theft of

a one hundred kilogram gold coin worth millions. but convicting clan members who number about two hundred thousand in germany is difficult in part because few are willing to testify the government is increasing the pressure by seizing luxury cars and real estate. but organized crime researcher ralph todd bunn says that's not enough to break the clan solidarity. is in a list of police that they're all sworn to secrecy and that's what makes the investigators work so difficult there are unable to break through these structures . there would need to be a support program for people who want to leave the klan's a good program. but there are no such programs yet she scame from syria ten years ago almost every day she sees the klan's at work along the one and only one of the cones main streets but she's afraid their crimes will strengthen prejudices against innocent migrants and muslims. is on the on and on. the mafia

concentrated here on those on the way my friends on the you know well in this and i think sooner or later something is going to happen here of us both you know still. she said she's most afraid of a xenophobic attack nikon's district mayor however has a different concern and that more migrants will fall into a life of crime if the state does not do anything about it. if in school it's just that i think it's a big good if we to make this crane that might exist here so that we could make the pasta on the lawfulness hard to make it uncomfortable so that it's not worth it to come here to commit crimes. so germans should get used to huge police actions like this one authorities say they know these are not enough but that they lack better resources in the fight against organized plan crimes. so i can now

and by munich are in a familiar place heading into the last six games of the season they lead the bundesliga no surprise there by and regain top spot after humiliating their title rivals by neil at the weekend all the other years from the sports is here to talk us through it so public what does this result me for the title race for this is a massive boost for a byron munich because if we don't have to go back so long back in december dortmund in fact we're nine points ahead of byron munich now this result is a massive psychological blow for dortmund but on the flip side we're seeing in. just there bar in munich on the players there after the game of course now what an absolute thrashing of dortmund you know this is not really the result any team wants with so few games remaining in the leak but of course this is great news for nico kovacs his side you know going into the final stretch of the bundesliga it gives them that sort of feeling that perhaps this is going to be their seventh

consecutive title and it was also a big day for robert leventhal ski he became one of just five players in the bundesliga to achieve a pretty impressive feat which is screwing over two hundred goals he's actually now at two hundred one because he scored of course two goals in that match while two hundred one goals ok what about the champions league the battle for places in the champions league it's not going well for glamour is no it's not going well for glad they missed out on taking fourth spot by drawing home to braman who were having a pretty decent season to say the least glad but haven't actually wanted home since january but i think what we need to do is actually take a look at first and foremost. visitors braman created the first real chance of the match your highness. in the sixteenth minute. slot back also threatened in the first half patrick ham on hitting the woodwork here. five minutes after the restart max cruiser lost the ball amity is going to

fed floria no house and the youngster open the scoring for blood bought by the raymond defense unable to recover after cruise's blunder. with the clock back when looking likely davey clawson headed in the equaliser in the seventy ninth minute you yo sako with the pinpoint cross one all the final score and the foles fall further behind frankfurt's and their fading campaign for a champions league spot. so tell us public who is looking good to snag one of those champions league spots next what we've already mentioned two teams of course byron munich and dortmund that's obvious and. they're there really it's teams like leipzig who are definitely in with a good chance of actually take a look at the bundesliga table it's actually easier to kind of break it down there as you can see live seek their fifty five points just eight points off dortmund

frankfurt they're having a very impressive run in fact with that they've won their last five games leipsic have won four of their last five games and just draw one just out of that area there they're four points off now which doesn't seem like a huge margin but considering it is only six games left in the season it's not the best difference that you want with say your fourth place rival volves. could end up with that a european spot but not a champion's spot so it's going to be an exciting few weeks. terry going into the end of the poem this nigga season that's for sure thelma thank you very much to do is pop blow fully from d.w. sports there. you're watching dude on the news still to come on business a new low for carlos ghosn s new song shareholders bow to the embattled executive

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