when you do produce. you. this is here we do use line for berlin looking for a lifeline britain's teresa of maine makes a deadline dash to avoid a crash are just three days away from the river drawled they may meets with presence in my room i call in paris to plead for a nother extension while earlier she made the same cleat to chance on the america in berlin also coming up. israelis vote in

a closely contested election political newcomer when he got say centrist and a former general is mounting a stiff challenge to fourth term prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his right wing likud party were in jerusalem for you and a harrowing experience the journalist who crossed the syrian border and she was seven months pregnant to film a friend who'd become a chore hardest janina fiend i said that was abducted and first in captivity she tells her story about a year and islamist attention. great to have you along everyone so it is crunch time for british prime minister tree some a she is on a whirlwind european tour ahead of a crucial summit tomorrow and just days before the u.k. scheduled departure from the block. she arrived in paris just moments ago to meet

french president in my recall earlier she was here in berlin for talks with german chancellor angela merkel may once an extension to the leaving date as thought that berlin favors a long extension but paris once a short while the prime minister's office simply said she and merkel had agreed that britain should not leave the e.u. without a deal. just as with breaks it to resume his arrival at the chancellery didn't go as planned the british prime minister was obviously a little too early and merkel wasn't there to welcome her it was only after to resume a went inside that both leaders came back out for compulsory handshakes but smiles contact the fact that the german chancellor and other european leaders are urging the british to provide more clarity. this became clear this morning at the meeting of a u. foreign ministers. and we are waiting finally for substantive steps in the right

direction and now it's nothing at all has changed and we are of course thinking about an appropriate extension of the deadline and also about a longer extension i must however come with very strict conditions on guns. and. there's a lot of speculation about what to resume a cut off of the e.u. before the end of june or what the u. is prepared to give the u.k. room is in london that merkel could be willing to put a five year limit on the backstop have been refuted by the german government. and the u.k. would have to take part in european elections in may if it doesn't exit the e.u. before that date after her visit to berlin to resume my travel to paris chancellor angela merkel made it clear breaks it could even be extended to the beginning of twenty twenty and i different president and menu of mcallen said a delay within limits was an option. and paris is where correspondent lisa luis is standing by for us as theresa may meets france's president might call as we speak

lisa to be a fly on the wall at the end is there right now i know what they're saying do you think in one remarkable play hardball with mrs may today. well that would be great freddie can only take a guess unfortunately i think he will play the bat cop as a paste i'm going to market is apparently playing the good cop so i call stance on this has been very tough indeed over the past few years he's been saying you know we need to reform the e.u. the e.u. has other things to do than being held up by the brics it affair for years on end and also it seems to be the traditional role of the french leader kind of feeds his job description actually to be tough on the brits if you know that to the one nine hundred sixty s. the very famous vision i shall undergo and at the time he vetoed britain's bid to join the e.u. twice at the time so some people here are speculating the have been speculating

that in my remark all it will matter or might have his do go in moment however this afternoon i talked to the n.t. they told me that the government was not a pace to an extension however that extension must be within reasonable limits and also certain conditions must be fulfilled right well i mean let's continue on that because previously he made it abundantly clear that he's not in favor of a long extension how determined do you think the president is the president in manama concha stick to his god put his foot down and carry through with his position as a state a position to where not give britain a long extension. well i think he's very determined at least to not make it very easy for the brits he doesn't want to reason made to turn up with nothing he wants her to put something there a concrete on the table actually in the past in the past few weeks there was talk about you maybe a two week extension but not several months now that window need seems to have

opened a bit further and the end is it seems to be you know happy for another few months because they're also aware that other e.u. nations you know apart from britain might need that extension and the leader of france in my mccollum met the irish leader just a few days back and obviously at the violent needs an extension to you know find a solution to the irish border question and i knock on the time of saying you are not to let arlen down no matter what so there seems to be an opening but they still want some guarantee that the u.k. is really making progress now. let's for the sake of this conversation presume that paris will agree eventually to a long extension what will they want in return from there from london. there are several options on the one hand if the u.k. said we have the backing of the parliament for a deal that would be one option or if tourism

a said rebuild organized another referendum as other other conditions seem to be that if the the u.k. wants to stay in the e.u. for longer than the end of may when the next elections will happen that the u.k. will indeed organize your elections and that the new any p's and commissions etc they will not block e.u. affairs so there will be some kind of code of conduct because there has been talk in the british media some people some m.p.'s some british and say you know if we stay on in the e.u. we will actually create havoc and that's of the something that the. france's president through says or wants to voice so he will say you can say on under certain conditions and only if you behave rightly so lois reporting from paris thank you. are the story up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world. algeria lawmakers have named their speaker as other than salo as

interim president the role leave the country during a ninety day transition period for presidents have these books of brazil and last week after pressure from the country's powerful military and weeks of nationwide public protests. a court in hong kong has found nine the leaders of the twenty fourteen umbrella movement guilty on public nuisance charges they could now face jail time for their role in organizing the pro-democracy rallies calling for greater greater autonomy from china. a munich the trial has begun of a german woman who traveled to iraq back in twenty fourteen to join the so-called islamic state prosecutors say the woman known as jennifer w. murdered a five year old girl who she kept as a slave she could face life in prison if convicted.

it's election day in israel voters are deciding whether to extend prime minister benjamin netanyahu says conservative tenure for a fifth term is up against his former military chief by the gods a centrist who's made much of corruption allegations against netanyahu but he's new to politics it's expected to be a very tight race as always israeli elections are being closely watched in the entire region and well let's talk to our correspondents address them in just a moment but first this report. the election campaign is over it know it's up to the voters to decide who will be the country's next prime minister. it's various have a day off to go and vote here at a polling station in jerusalem expectations are mixed. i believe that netanyahu has a much better chance of saving israel as an existing jewish country then benny

gantz clearly it's for it's a referendum on the on our prime minister and you know but of course much more is on the line and where the future of the territories our relations with the palestinians the nature of israeli society the legal system a lot of things that are on the on the table right now it's time for netanyahu to go he's been missed he's been successful certain kinds of things but the corruption and ugliness of the campaign i think is indication that it's time for somebody else so i think it's time for him to go prime minister binyamin netanyahu wants to be reelected with his likud party despite facing a possible indictment for corruption. netanyahu has been in office to ten years if he wins this time and lasts a full term he'll become is rose longest serving prime minister so far his main rival is former army chief any guns whose newly formed blue and white party has led most of the opinion polls in recent weeks that is that what this election's about

are about their personal mostly focused on the leaders on the indictment. on the new guy in the block. benny gantz and nothing more than that posters project that netanyahu may have more opportunities than the center left block to form a coalition with other smaller parties on the right. all right let's get you latest now with the w.'s merienda gone she joins me now from jerusalem very good to see you what's the voter turnout so far. the turnout so far the last numbers that i saw or heard about were around thirty six percent since the voting booths close to ten pm they're expected of course to rise and the general voter turnout in israel is very high around seventy percent one interesting thing arab or palestinian citizens turnout so far has been much lower or much lower than in the

last elections at around twenty percent so far and there are various reasons for that but one thing is for certain the arab vote is very important in israel because it will also make a big difference to which parties enter the knesset the israeli parliament how many mandates they'll have and what coalition building options the winning party will have to marry him and you know who is of course hoping to secure a record fifth term was he up against talk to us about his challenger because this is he's a bit of an unknown on the world stage what flour pharmacy running on and is he risen meeting with israeli voters. yes so benny gantz in israel actually is a well known figure because he was the army chief the last gaza war so everyone knows him but of course he's new to politics but as part of his team he took a very very popular politician into his party so we have a number of interesting figures here who resonate very well with israeli voters

especially because they stand for security and security something that benjamin netanyahu has always been able to. just this was what he was voted for was elected for in the past and that's why it's one of the toughest challenges coming now from any guns otherwise there are these elections haven't been so much about content or about issues i think as we heard in the reports it's very much a referendum on benjamin netanyahu as leadership and of course pentagon has been playing on that has been talking about. corruption and has been calling for unity and accusing rightly or wrongly benjamin netanyahu of sowing division in israeli society so that's more or less been his platform right but arguably netanyahu literally has a trump card is that giving him an edge in this election. you could say so i think what i think one thing that's very important about netanyahu and that people i think the general israeli public even those that would probably

not vote for him appreciate about netanyahu or think is one of his achievements is his foreign policy and his ties with the world leaders i think most people agree that the. relations of israel with the united states no matter who is the leader would be will continue to be good relations and have always been good relations so maybe it's not necessarily just the trump card but netanyahu general achievement and his warm ties with the with foreign leaders including our countries by the way i mean i've got twenty seconds i've got twenty seconds left does it matter who wins when it comes to the palestinian issue and how we future peace settlement might look like neither of the leaders have committed to a two state solution but i think the direction of netanyahu is more to the right and maybe benny gantz is more to the center so it might actually make a difference yes marry him to god reporting from jerusalem thank you. and a reminder of the top story that we're tracking for you this hour. british prime

minister theresa may is holding talks with presidents of my car and paris to try to delay bridges are still for the earlier me to say please chancellor merkel. in washington when he was up next in business africa south africa's first step fully digital bank is empowering the poor addressing an apartheid era injustice that story coming right out where it's a little difficult you know all the newspaper thing to do every dot com i'm going to rock n roll and see you at the top of the. take it personally you win with a little wonderful place to make the team some special. troops. more than some.