this is. from tonight's in israel counting the ballots after the closest election in years an incumbent prime minister in the political fight of his life and the challenger with a real chance of winning voters today were asked to decide for term the prime minister benjamin netanyahu or former general and political newcomer many guns who will be israel's next leader both candidates are claiming victory we'll go live to jerusalem for the latest results also coming up the clock is running against

britain's prime minister theresa may makes a deadline jash to europe to avoid a crash just three days until britain leaves the european union today may met president in paris to plead for another extension earlier in the day she made the same plea to the german chancellor here in berlin. it's good to have you with us tonight it is real it is too close to call vote counting is underway in the country's parliamentary election projections show prime minister benjamin netanyahu party and the challenger bibi guns and his blue and white alliance in a neck and neck rate's both men have claimed victory already these were the scenes that guns his party headquarters as exit polls came. voters have been deciding

whether to extend netanyahu is conservative ten euro or vote for a move to the center left with the former military chief guns as they wait for the official results the parties are now hard at work trying to figure out what kind of coalition could get the necessary sixty one seats to gain the majority in parliament the knesset. you. are listing the story now to jerusalem where our correspondent tanya kramer she is standing by good evening to you tanya so where are we in terms of the vote counting in the tally. well i think we have to be a bit more patient i mean the votes are being counted about the results are not expected until tomorrow morning at the moment we do have the exit polls that were published by old and major t.v. channels here and there are also as you said it's a very close phrase stay a bit contradictory even one of the channels said channel twelve blue and white

thirty seven seats thirty three ten thirteen said those at certain think six blue and white and the likud and con also gave the blue and white that's the public vote. narrow indeed over the likud now of course everybody is now starting to count to know what that would make in terms of possible coalition partners because it is what it's all about who could then. build a coalition to form the next government and we know this evening shortly after the first exit polls were announced both netanyahu and guns they declared victory i mean looking at this from the outside that appears well very premature and very risky why did they do that. yeah it's certainly pretty early banning guns was the first coming out and bidding in

a way to mr netanyahu who then followed i think both want to put their mark and if you look at you know at the moment you know chances who could build a coalition. if you look at the exit polls i mean they're all a bit in favor of mr netanyahu but you have to say i mean they both want to probably take the momentum but also within the likud i mean it's not really the sense of the victory here tonight i think it'll be a very long night for them to see you know what the actual results be yeah because we know that it's not just about which party could win or which candidate can you know garner the most favor from the voters it's about who can put a governing coalition together that's going to be stable and that's going to work at this point which candidate which saw i can we say is more likely to be able to do that. that's right i mean at the moment it

looks like i mean if you're looking we only have those exit polls and these are not the final results so the exit polls say that you know three out of four of them say that it's a slight lead for the right wing blocks meaning that they could with a smaller writing parties but at the same time there's some of those smaller writing parties that might not have made it over the threshold and that could be very damaging for mr netanyahu and his likud party so it's all still in the open because we have to see whether those parties can make it into the knesset and that would also depend on how this condition looks like it of course as well you know some of the leaders might have said before the election that they might want to form a coalition with this need to know them might also you know rethink their commitments so it's all not very clear at this point of the evening yet the real race may begin

once the ballots have been counted and everything is tally our correspondent on ukraine we're almost we force in jerusalem tonight thank you. well it is crunch time for british prime minister to resume a she spent much of today on a whirlwind european tour ahead of an emergency e.u. summit tomorrow all of this just days before the u.k. is scheduled departure from the european union i'm a was in paris this evening meeting president maduro earlier in the day she was here in berlin for talks with german chancellor angela merkel may want an extension to the beginning of bragg's it it is thought that paris favors a short extension but the government here in berlin reportedly favors a longer war. over she received a friendly french welcome in paris it wasn't easy going for it to raise the money president emanuel mike cone is often seen as the european leader with the toughest among us maybe was lucky this time france softened its stance and said at the light

within limits it was an option for the long awaited break that still france and other european countries are getting increasingly impatient. we want to understand what the u.k. need this extension for and what is the political asset roundings our own theories a may to have this extension before his visit to paris may travel to berlin to ask german chancellor angela merkel about the extension but like many breaks that arrangements things didn't quite go as planned to resume a arrived a little too early in merkel wasn't there to welcome her after the meeting merkel said breaks it could be extended to the beginning of twenty twenty but many european leaders are urging the british to provide more clarity. this was the call on tuesday morning at a meeting of a you foreign ministers. and we are waiting finally for substantive steps in the right direction it is to get up to 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 conditionals i. guns cotillion. with official visits to palin and paris completed to resume and now has the braces for the upcoming emergency summit in brussels. but here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the u.s. attorney general william barr has promised to release a redacted copy of special counsel robert muller's report on russian election meddling within a week bar has faced intense pressure to release the full report after initially publishing a short summary of it are portrayed its findings as highly favorable to u.s. president donald trump. staying with draw the u.s. president hosted egyptian president. today for talks at the white house trump praised sisi saying that the egyptian leader is doing

a great job there was no mention of the country's human rights record under sisi c.z. plans to change the constitution so that he can stay in power long. germany has been forced to recall its ambassador to peter. for one didn't officials say vesta made offensive remarks about the country and its president polk germany's develop newspaper says the remarks appeared in an e-mail sent by though it is unclear how rwandan officials obtain access to that e-mail. a german convert to islam has gone on trial charged with murder when she was a member of so-called islamic state in iraq the prosecutor in munich alleges that the woman a twenty seven year old known as jennifer w. allowed a young girl that she and her husband kept as a slave to die of thirst in the hot sun. jennifer w. entering the culture and

a young woman of smallest stature she was dressed in western clothes with out of a little headscarf she's accused of joining the so-called. islamic state and being complicit in the killing of a five year old yazidi girl in iraq. and i'm talking concrete belief they accuse husband chained up the little girl outside in blazing heat the defendant didn't do anything to help the five year old the girl late and died after being subjected to these conditions in the hits a hushed up. after the charges were read to the court the proceedings were interrupted federal prosecutors were recently able to question the mother of the five year old and submitted new evidence. plus he has become what we've just received is a very important detailed evidence that. after interviewing the girl's mother the prosecutors are now considering adding even more serious charges against the defendant to funny moments on london to interviews with on clients have led us to believe there may be evidence of crimes against humanity were committed over and

above the current indictments slavery unlawful detention human trafficking and torture and. anticipation is now growing among the s.c.t. community i hope that others who committed serious crimes in the name of i.a.s. will soon face justice. now to cambodia which has long been part of the southeast asian experience for international backpackers but the country is now firmly on the map for mainstream tourist as well that has led to a building boom to cash in on the trend but it is having one month so pleasant side effects for cambodia's beaches take a look. see you know will come badia a city that wants to be the next global tourist hot spot it's known for its pristine beaches and clear blue water but one thing might spoil a little. roll syringe pumped on to the end or directly into the ocean.

environmental activist who had the water tested and the results were alarming. but the clinic discovered many dangerous diseases in the sample. there are parasites and lots of other bacteria in the water. the water is dangerously polluted and a health risk to buy this. scores of new casinos and hotels are being built along the coast but serious and waste management systems haven't kept up with the change piles of trash or another eyesore keeping tourists away. nuisance if there's a trying to keep the problem in check but development races ahead blighting the very beach that visitors come for. the. first sellers like me it's quiet very quiet me. the young people have guest houses

where they can work but for me it's bad. it's not coming yet. on islands off the coast plastic is washing up right under people's homes like in this fishing village on coast starch much of the waste is discarded by locals themselves because there's no service here to pick up trash scientists are testing the health of coral in nearby waters and they've issued a warning. development in places like giving us a good example of what we want to avoid here in the future so on check development . go out into the ocean. that's a real problem for. sea grasses in particular. but developers say construction would benefit the region if it's done right. we have

a couple of issues that we need to deal with the issues. infrastructure basic sewage sanitation. electricity incineration waste to start this is the way forward in the way that the city will win and then they can become a world wide destination. but activists say right now greed is winning out of the green and they feed beaches like this might just become a paradise lost. our sports news now in the champions league liverpool have taken a big step towards the semifinal over or after a two no win over porto now behind to put liverpool in the lead after just five minutes or so from you know added another ten minutes later and in the minds of their quarterfinal tottenham became out on top in their clash against manchester city song scored the only goal of the game ten minutes from the end the return legs will be played next wednesday you're watching news live from berlin i'm all for all

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