share and discuss on because facebook page and other social media platforms. time fighters now. this is g w news law from berlin tonight polls are closing in israel's 3rd general election in less than a year is the 3rd time's a charm turnout has been the highest in more than 2 decades will that help break the political deadlock between prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his main

challenger benny gantz also coming up a new border crisis for europe with the blessing of the turkish president turkey has allowed thousands to cross its territory headed for greece instead of of those been during their finding out why it police on with tear gas and europe's leaders say it will stay that way plus mind your manners and mind the virus take a look aha germany's interior minister refuses to shake hands with chancellor angela merkel as the corona virus spread. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome polls have just closed in israel and that country's 3rd election in less. the year it's yet another attempt

to end the political stalemate their conservative prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been chasing reelection while facing criminal indictment his center left opponent by the guns says that he hopes israelis will vote for change after 11 years of netanyahu neither side previously won enough seats to form a government but many hope today's high voter turnout will make all the difference . all right with me here in the big table now is w.'s middle east expert shaadi was on this and live from jerusalem is our very own correspondent tanya kramer she will have the 1st exit polls any minute now let me just start with you i mean this is what the 3rd election less than a year and the turnout has been extremely high how do you explain that i would think most people would say ok forget it 3 times is too much well 1st of all wins

remember there was a great effort from likud and that's and how to bring people to understand that when it comes to ideology everything has already been setting down what's going to win the election for them it's going to be the logistics bringing people to the polls so there was a great effort which of course also made everybody else follow suit and try to bring people but also it's that some reverse effect of the fatigue it can be that people just want this to be the saturday they wanted to be over so they're just let's that's just get this done you know that's the attitude let's go tanya tanya so people wanted to be over i guess we're closer to it being over now what about these 1st exit polls do you have any numbers. yeah we just have in the polling stations have closed and we saw a pretty close exit polls this time around so a very very high number for the likud a very very good turnout for them and so how do you read.

well if you look at it i mean what is important is to look at it now what does it means in terms of coalition making what does it mean for the right wing religious right wing block which is led by the likud and all the exit polls here suggests that they would have 60 seats by now. and only $54.00 for blue and white so that's a clear lead for netanyahu you turns out to have gone up from the last election at least about of course they have to stress these exit polls and now we only know the counting start of the vote so this will be updated now in the coming hours i mean it's true tell us as these are just the exit poll numbers are but are are you surprised that we're seeing the party. i think yes many people have expected an attorney out to pay a price for dragging the country for 3rd election again and again but but we've

seen great effort and much better complain on the clearness male side and he was very determined we have to remember he is a very is a veteran politician the best there is in the field in israel and he has been hands on in this campaign making sure the best time is going to work and seem to have succeeded if he has 68 you know you need 61 to have the majority but it's enough to have 60 to have to block any other attempt for any other government and that's especially when we look at the other side of the opponents do and white already committed and on many occasions they will never use the support of the arab votes or the arab party which is seems to be quite big i mean 1415 seats in the casket that's going to be impossible for their his opponents to start any any. time you hear you explain that with him being able to do so well considering he's the 1st sitting prime minister to face criminal charges i mean he's been indicted already yes i mean how can voters then say we're going to vote for him anyway see has an

amazing. as my his appeal to his public is not just because of his personality but also for his convictions as. he manages to mak you noted to have this strong following of people around whom he was very smart in putting down any opposition within his party. and it's amazing that you see that the biggest rivals we're talking about a party good white led by 3 former chief of the army staff these are people that are not to be taken lightly and yet. they seem to be like like really the midgets you know if you compare him to his charisma is there and also we need to not forget there was great logistics effort there was great campaign and with blue and white with remember this is a new party this is a new political entity invited as it were invented in the last year to oppose that to now there's very little bringing people together there's not the same determination there's not the same vision there's not the same drive as we can see

from a very old party like that it's rude with very clear messages and ideology to you let me know you before we run out of time if neither netanyahu nor. succeed in forming. a governing coalition could israel end up seeing for worth a watch later this year. what mean the tense is that this could happen but i mean these results are very very close now i mean if the exit polls are going to be confirmed by the actual counting in the coming hours so the right wing religious spoke with only fall short of one seat for now so at the moment it looks rather that it could really go for the likud and front and yahoo's so there was a lot of talk a lot of israelis i mean there were service last week 30 percent of israelis had believed you know no there would be no coalition after this election as well as

well and there might be a 4th election coming up but at the moment i think this is quite a surprising result a very good result for the likud and i think we could see that you know maybe a change again you know this one seat it's very very very close to w.'s time you're kramer in jerusalem and here is the big table with me w.'s own honest to both of you thank you very much the latest now as the vote counting has begun in israel. well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world amy club has announced that she is ending her democratic presidential bid and she says she will endorse former vice president joe biden as it comes ahead of super tuesday when a total of 14 u.s. states holding their primaries the united nations envoy to libya is stepping down on salami took up the post nearly 3 years ago he says his resignation is due to health reasons and that he cannot continue with the stress of the job japan says it

is working closely with the u.s. and south korea after north korea fired 2 short range missiles into its eastern sea the launches were the 1st since november and traveled a distance of around 250 kilometers south korea says it is on guard for additional missile tests. now into those tensions at the border between europe and turkey and fears that a new chapter of the migration crisis is worsening it started when turkey confirmed over the weekend that it will not stop migrants in its territory from heading towards the country's borders with the european union since then thousands have been on the move towards greece for some the journey has already turned deadly the greek coast guard today announced the drowning of a child after a boat capsized in route to the island of lesbos other migrants are facing strong pushback as they try to reach europe by land and sea. repelled at sea

tekkie released this footage of the coastal city of budget authorities say it shows the greek coast guard pushing back a boat filled with migrants it's one of the tactics we call thirty's are using off to techie opened its border allowing migrants to try an entity even greece says it has stopped almost $10000.00 attempted crossings every 24 hour period. they fired tear gas to disperse the crowds gathering at the border fences. the migrants can head to greek or to authorities across the river telling them to go back the borders are closed. it's not a command that's likely to be obeyed. we'll keep waiting here because we left our homes those of us who had homes whoever things to sell got money for them so they could get out if we have to go back we will have to sleep in the streets. what can

we do we're stuck here we can't go back home. on sunday some groups tried a hazardous route across the river ever us with some success greece accuses ankara of organizing a campaign to push people through the greek turkish border. this migrant from cameroon waded across the river to reach greece she says she'd been told to leave turkey and along with refugees from syria she was taken by pass from istanbul to the turkish border. more syria. really is. nothing. but greek police were waiting on the other side. german chancellor angela merkel

criticised turkish president rejects at the one the u.s. and the migrants as political pawns. in this thing given all the understanding and willingness to provide more support. i think it's totally unacceptable to deal with this at the expense of migrants. it's often wouldn't they've been encouraged to go to the border only to end up at a dead end that's a given. and our policy and the policy of the e.u. turkey deal is not aimed at conducting politics at the migrants expense defeating a political some of them. with migrants stuck in a no man's land the pressure is on for politicians to find a way out of the stalemate hard for more now i'm joined by our correspondent arena strauss she is in brussels tonight good evening to you merida so we know that greece has said this is not a greek problem this is

a european problem so what is the european union doing about this. well frontex their european border agency has said our has confirmed today that it will lound such. a rapid border intervention yes they call that because chris has asked for that also the e.u. interior ministers will meet on wednesday here in brussels and discuss the situation that your foreign ministers will also meet later this week and e.u. commission president was enough on the line will travel to the greek turkish border tomorrow along with your top leaders to discuss with the greek government and also to assess the situation and we know that greece is said that it is temporarily suspending asylum applications now that goes against e.u. law also has there been a response from the european union. rather as an emergency clause in the european

treaties and agrees actually this emergency calls allows them to do so so the commission president is enough on the line has declined to comment on that so far she said she will discuss that tomorrow with the greek government but usually if we look at the e.u. asylum law everyone has rights whenever he or she arrives here and europe to apply for asylum that's also guaranteed by the un refugee convention and the un refugee agency has a stress today that there snow a legal basis for greece to do. marina we know that there is a fear of a repeat of the 2015 migrant crisis here in europe or member states in the european union are they prepared to take in more migrants at this point. it's actually a little very likely that many a member states will will follow a very hardline approach when it comes to taking in migrants we've been seeing that

in the last couple of years and there's no reason to believe that this will change dramatically and also we have to look at what is happening on the greek islands for example europe has promised to speed up asylum application process but hasn't done so far and we're proceeding for example and come mari on last bus so on european soil is what some observers describe the living hell for migrants and we know that the turkish president said that the european union has not done enough has not kept the deal that it has with turkey should take on that is that true the thing is that it's not surprising that turkey once more support when it comes to to sharing the burden when it comes to migration because with the situation in italy of deteriorating maybe there are hundreds of thousands of refugees from syria waiting in front of the turkey's borders in front of its door and maybe they want

to come to turkey to seek refuge but we also have to look at the issue and this issue is you turkey deal this turkey deal was struck 4 years ago by the european union and turkey and the e.u. has always known that it's just bought time with this deal that this wouldn't be a stable deal but it hasn't done much within this for years to solve the problem and now we're maybe seeing another migration crisis like in 2015 and the e.u. hasn't prepared for it all right our correspondent reader strauss with the latest from brussels tonight on what could be the beginnings of another market crisis for europe thank you. well as the number of cases of corona virus around the world continues to increase rapidly the world health organization says that we are quote in unchartered territory although the w.h.o. maintains that the outbreak can still be contained the total number of infections worldwide is nearly 90000 and more than 3000 patients have died in tunisia and

several other countries reporting their 1st cases today officials in italy the worst hit country here in europe say that the number of deaths has jumped from 34 to 52 the number of patients who have recovered from the virus worldwide stands now it more than 45000. with the global race to contain the corona virus outbreak well underway handshaking for sound is out of the question even german chancellor angela merkel had her hand put lately but in that a clean rejected by her interior minister the virus has spread to 18 out of 27 e.u. member states causing the block center for disease prevention and control to take greater action. the c.d.c. has announced today that the risk level has risen from moderate to high for people in the european union in other words the virus continues to spread italy is the epicenter of the european fight against the outbreak with the

continent's most cases and the most deaths and the capital rome lines for tourist hot spots are unusually short. be mispriced as a month i'm wearing a protective mask but we when stop living in recent days ireland and indonesia among several other countries have reported the 1st cases on their soil with more than 50 deaths iran has the world's highest toll outside of china where the epidemic began the virus is impacting businesses and daily life in iran and shaking the country's already struggling economy what's more you know we have no choice but to be open i have commitments and i have begged checks to clear i know many others who are in a similar situation who are supposed to take care of our checks and debts if we stay home. as markets around the globe take a hit some countries are more vulnerable than others. while schools in japan

have been closed in a controversial decision aimed at stopping the spread of the. prime minister. the closings last week 13000000 students and nearly 35000 schools across the country are affected japan so far has reported more than 200 cases of. schools that have for millions of japanese children but while the youngsters get an extended holiday many parents are faced with a logistical nightmare they need to make alternative child care arrangements while the schools are shows. companies need to be flexible in dealing with the situation . more now but i really didn't think that the virus would in fact so many papers. it's going to close the schools . but a lot of parents work today and i get lonely days so they have to take some time

off the not going on for a story for them i sort of feel their prime minister shinzo said the drastic measure was necessary after a meeting with the country's coronavirus task force on thursday. you know if there are many efforts being made to stop the spread of infection among children in various regions in the next one or 2 weeks are crucial. the announcement took local government and health officials by surprise they've been scrambling to come up with guidelines to implement the closures and some politicians have warned that the risks posed by shifting schools also need to be considered the mayor of chiba tashi he took a mag i tweeted it was about parents and occupations that support society how will they manage society could collapse. bush with opinion polls showing public

dissatisfaction with handling of the corona virus outbreak is appears the prime minister is betting on school closures as an effective strategy to bring new infections under control. an agreement signed over the weekend between the united states and the taliban has paved the way for u.s. troops to withdraw from afghanistan the phase drawdown would mark the beginning of the end of nearly 20 years of american military involvement in afghanistan the afghan government was not included in the negotiations afghan president has already objected to a proposed taliban prisoner swap the stability of the deal could soon be put to the test with taliban fighters no more such weapon handovers are nothing new in afghanistan but there's a buzz in the air this week that afghans may finally see the day when the talk is no longer of guns and bombs but of peace. after the peace deal with

the u.s. afghans should make peace too. but that possibility has already hit its 1st snag prisoners the u.s. taliban deal calls on the afghan government to exchange $5000.00 captives for $1000.00 held by the taliban it's seen as a precondition for enter afghan talks meant to begin in oslo next week but the afghan president has a different view. now where there is no commitment to release $5000.00 prisoners he gave it could be included in the agenda of the intra afghan talks but cannot be a prerequisite for talks it's. a sign of the bumpy road ahead despite what many see as a breakthrough in doha gunnies administration was not party to these negotiations

the. u.s. hopes to end its longest war still hinge on the taliban and the afghan government agreeing to sit down for talks. but distrust dies hard cobble harbors deep suspicions of the taliban and regional players like pakistan it sees as backers of the militant group what. is a political settlement we will be. and facilitators who would want to encourage the process to move forward. many afghans welcome the possibility of peace but remain skeptical it will happen any time soon. people still think and even i still think that the taliban are the same people who ruled this country in 1990 s. but i think that might have changed and if that has changed it will be a big relief. the relative quiet during the past week ceasefire could be

a sign of what's to come. or just another brief break from the bombs for a nation still fractured by war. one wonders what would shakespeare have written under gray skies the british wife carrying championship took place over the weekend yes wife carrying championship but dreadful drizzling didn't deter the couples who took the reigns as they do their nuptials extremely serious. roy her own draw. a muddy field in southern england was the venue for the annual race the british wife carrying championship may sound like a bit of fun but these hardy couples were desperate for glory it doesn't have to be a wife it can be a neighbour's wife or it can even just be your girlfriend in the past women have

also been allowed to carry men either way it is a test which prepares you for life's travails whether today's terrible i mean it's hail it is dale's rain is pain and really it's a good introduction to marriage the sports originated in finland. to make it even tougher couples are doused with ice cold water along the route any carrying technique is allowed as long as you don't drop your partner. some may see the small to as politically incorrect in modern times but the wind has disagree. you know like dream of. a barrel of beer was the prize alongside the chance to compete in the world championship in finland later this year. i say that gives new meaning to the term ball and chain are you as

singer songwriter tailors with has been named last year's biggest selling global artist. and leave it at the analysis. d.c.'s what time. this is the 2nd time taylor swift to receive the accolade she was 1st named biggest selling global artist back in 2014 the 30 year old just 30 release her 7th album love her last year swift is also a tim time but she's an overachiever gravy with. good for her is a reminder of the top stories that we're following for you exit polls from israel's general election have indicated a significant lead for prime minister benjamin netanyahu is liquid party and its allies they're on track for 60 seats one short of an outright majority the blue and white party of. it is projected to pick up 32 or 33 seats.

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