leaders have had their share of clashes the moving story of a comic drug. stores march to. business d.w. news live from berlin israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu appears on trucks a victory in the country's general election exit polls signal his likud party and its allies on the brink of a parliamentary majority is the 3rd electoral battle in the year and that's a gamble and his main rival benny gantz also coming up a new border crisis for europe with the backing of 10 of the turkish president

turkey has allowed thousands of migrants to cross its territory headed for greece instead of an open door they're finding riot police on good tear gas europe's leaders say it will stay that way. plus mind your manners and mind the virus germany's interior minister refuses to shake hands with chancellor angela merkel corona virus spreads. i'm told me a lot of well welcome to the program exit polls in israel suggest that prime minister benjamin netanyahu holds a solid edge over his main rival in the country's 3rd election in less than a year israeli media say that netanyahu is likud party and its religious and nationalist allies will be short of a parliamentary. majority official results are expected to come in throughout the

night and the final tally will be announced later on tuesday. joining me now is d.w. middle east specialist shannon resign as and live from jerusalem we have time your grandma let's begin with you time yeah what do the latest exit polls say. yeah the votes are being counted right now and. all the main television stations have actually just updated their exit polls with a slight change now he could still projected to gain 36 to 37 seats out of 120 knesset parliament seats and benny gantz is still trailing behind with 32 to 34 seats these are the exit polls from 3 television stations in israel so it's a very strong showing for prime minister netanyahu is right being bloc but as we

are talking about blocs it means also that. many guns and this blue and white the center left inboard has gained one more seat and it's one down for netanyahu right to block from foremost 60 to 59 ok tanya was still expecting more to come in but so far what can we. do what can we say this means. well of course i have to stress is a really exit polls and as you said you know results are expected to come in slowly this time but the election commission has said it might take more time this time around but i mean it is a very strong showing some kind of a surprise also this comeback benyamin netanyahu he did a very strong come pain. all the most that he's facing the start of the trial

in about 2 weeks now all eyes of course on this coalition building according to the latest exit polls 2 seats to form a majority. but of course you know in the right thing block all night you've seen already people you know politicians coming out and bowing that they want to form a very strong nationalist right wing religious. claiming victory already going to come to your shiny what does this mean for particularly in the end the view of things in the region well 1st of all we need to understand losing this one seat is supposedly just one seat but it has a symbolic meaning that really wanted to have 61 as a goal and he's going further and further away from it he also means he doesn't have a bloc of his own to block the other party so we need to keep that in mind and we understand that might mean we might end up in 4th election a few months again i think most israelis waking up tomorrow morning don't want to

hear that don't want to think about it politicians are very much aware of that and that will add extra pressure to coalition building process which is already quite. a lot of it is very much within it there's pressure building and also when to member once sent to me i would sheaves 61 once he has majority once he builds a coalition he can go on with an excess of the west bank this is something he got as a sort of a gift as part of trump's big peace deal and there's a great guy. agreement between trump and also krishna who is the sort of the master head behind this plan saying once there is a majority government fooling in israel we will go ahead we will be willing to go to see israel make these steps once this happens if this happens we're still not sure that this can happen the numbers don't really add up so easily we're talking about annexation we're talking about major shift in the whole region and the whole game strategic you know positioning of israel u.s.

american relations american elections coming going to be very tight next couple of weeks to look at briefly shot here why haven't we heard anything so far from. benny gantz exactly because of that we've just had seconds before he said down there boys the last update about the polls they're very careful they know they're very you know it everybody it's nerve wrecking what's happening is really can see it from from all condensed and all alice everybody is covering this also the politicians themselves they want to be very careful nobody wants to make a victory speech and being shown as his you know is this the beginning of the end so they're being very careful especially to say oh he's a veteran he knows very well he's being very careful and it seems like maybe for a reason ok thank you time experiment in jerusalem and shiny resign and. now let's take a look at some other stories making news around the world. amy closure has ended the democratic presidential debate she says she will endorse former vice president

joe biden this comes ahead of super tuesday when a total of 14 u.s. states hold their primaries. the united states and void to libya is stepping down. to 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. the vatican has opened its archives on the wartime papacy of pius the 12th they were kept secret for decades i made accusations that he turned a blind eye to the holocaust the vatican says he worked behind the scenes to save jews dozens of scholars are in rome took over the archives documents. now detentions 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 would not stop migrants in its territory from heading toward the country's borders with the e.u. since then thousands have been on the move toward greece for some the journey has

already turned deadly the greek coast guard today announced that a child drowned after a boat capsized on 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 turkey released this footage of the coastal city of bodrum say it shows a greek coast guard pushing back a boat filled with migrants it's one of the tactics greek authorities are using after turkey opened its border allowing migrants to try and enter the e.u. greece says it has stopped almost $10000.00 attempted crossings over a 24 hour period. they fired tear gas to disperse the crowds gathering at the border fences. the migrants can hear to greet or to authorities across the river telling them to go back to 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 bus from istanbul to the turkish border. and one syrian many.

many people believe is. not. but greek police were waiting on the other side. german chancellor angela merkel criticised turkish president reject the use of 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 so. they've been encouraged to go to the border only to end up at a dead end. and our policy and the policy of the e.u. turkey deal is not aimed at conducting politics at the migrants expense deflecting

a political. with migrants stuck in a no man's land the pressure is on for politicians to find a way out of this stalemate. as the number of cases of coronavirus around the world continues to increase rapidly the world health organization says we are in quote uncharted territory over. the outbreak can be contained the total number of infections worldwide is nearly 90000 more than 3000 patients have died indonesia and several other countries are reporting the 1st cases officials in italy the worst hit country in europe say the number of deaths has jumped from 34 to 52 however the number of patients who have recovered from the virus worldwide is over 45000. with the global race to contain the corona virus outbreak well underway handshaking 1st sun is out of the question even german chancellor angela

merkel had her hand put lightly but in phatic li 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 he says the cia 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. scads of them wearing a protective mask but we won't 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. have commitments and i have bag 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. how's this for sport one wonders what would shakespeare have written under gray skies the british wife carrying championship took place over the weekend but dreadful drizzling didn't deter the couples who took the race as they do their nuptials extremely seriously.

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 your 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 in jails 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 sport as politically incorrect in modern times but the winners disagree. you know

like a dream that if you want. to make. a barrel of beer was the prize alongside the chance to compete in the world championship in finland later this year. next up is d.w. news africa with eddie micah ginia to stay up to date with all the latest news around the clock remember you should visit our website it's d.w. dot com told me a lot of thanks for joining us so for. me there i'm david and this is climate change brags that sex. happiness increase. for you. do get smarter for free you know you brooke.