this is news coming to you live from berlin deadlock in israel's 4th election in 2 years long serving prime minister binyamin netanyahu claims victory but exit polls suggest he'll fall short of a majority will have to open tricky coalition talks also coming up beyond march set for more antique ou protests today it comes amid reports that security forces show a 7 year old girl becoming the youngest victim of the military crackdown. mending time as u.s. secretary of state and tony blinken pledges to rebuild and revitalize nato he says

the transatlantic alliance is at a pivotal moment facing threats around the world. plus an all strain the wild weather is easing but evacuations continue. emergency services rescue residents stranded by the worst flooding in decades one hazards dangerous to bree lurking in the flood waters. flow i'm terry martin good to have you with us israel's 4th election in 2 years has again failed to produce a clear winner incumbent prime minister binyamin netanyahu is claiming victory for his right wing likud party but exit polls suggest he will fall short of securing an outright majority and will need to enter coalition talks with raw. goals the final

results may not be known until later this week. celebrations everywhere yet who has won within hours of the polls closing prime minister binyamin netanyahu claimed his right wing likud party and its allies had won a huge victory the result is likely to fall well short of that claim it appears that as in previous elections netanyahu will be forced into tricky coalition negotiations in order to form a government the centrist lesh a tea party led by air lobbied may have done even better clock counting is still going on netanyahu is confident. the state needs a stable government. not a government of bits and pieces based on personal disqualifications on ambitions a stable government for the state of israel that's what the our demands that's what the challenges in front of us demands and we must not under any circumstances drag

the state of israel to a new elections to a 5th election we must form a stable government now. so. netanyahu ran for reelection despite being on trial for corruption israel successful coronavirus vaccination program has seen more than half the country already inoculated that may have boosted netanyahu standing among voters but not by enough to secure an overall victory. the much smaller yemeni a party also right wing a nationalistic 0 led by enough to leave bennett's could now hold the key to power bennett is a former ally of netanyahu who could well work with him again mustn't call. netanyahu has been in power for 12 years making him israel's longest serving prime minister he's also the 1st to be indicted in office but denies corruption the 71 year old campaign not just on his handling of the pan death. but also played up how

he normalized relations with 4 arab states. journalist sammy suckle is covering the elections and joins us now from jerusalem sami results are still coming in and they are shifting the picture of a little bit house looking in terms of coalition options. ready have more than 90 percent of the votes and it seems that in that the neo earlier in the morning thought that he might have $63.00 out of the $120.00 seats together with the bennetts it's now 40 shorten his having been at least you need those party only 6962 is so he's in a tougher position right now and the party that suddenly emerged is the islamic and the moderate islamic party it's unknown here is the arms by

bus and their leader is saying that he's willing to go with either side. if nessun yahoo does manage to cobble together a coalition how dependent will he be on fringe or extremist parties eager to put their stamp on the government policy. yes this and actions we're seeing that the most radical right is entering the knesset we're talking about the extreme racist and homophobic elements that are going to be in the in the parliament and they will of course want to push the agenda. regarding the outposts and the settlements in the west bank and so forth and but we have to remember that when i went to chariot that we have a joe biden's and the president and he will not be backing this so the question is how will they be able to influence on these issues when you have an administration

that is taking a different position and we also know that this the new government might have to lean on. his party so it's been very early to say what kind of a coalition and if and yellen to be able to form. what about netanyahu has trial on corruption and fraud charges sam is that no longer a problem for him. well this is the major issue and this is the reason that we have to face the 4th elections in 2 years and maybe even to be going through yet another round of elections and the problem is that many in israel think that that then he should step aside he is not being charged on 3 i cases so corruption and he has to go through a quart he has the legal battle to wage so many politicians many israelis are

saying he shouldn't be the prime minister he has other issues to deal with but. believes that if he is in office as the prime minister it's this would in the plane his favorites in court and he might try and do all kinds of maneuvering in order to maybe even posts oh this. sami thank you very much for filling us in there that was journalist sami suckle in jerusalem. catch up on some of the other stories making headlines around the world today an ultra large cargo ship has turned sideways and run aground in egypt's suez canal blocking traffic in one of the world's most crucial waterways the evergreen is 400 meters long and weighs in at 200000 tons several tug boats are at the scene trying to dislodge the freighter . an erupting volcano has forced water mauler to close its international airport

schrum the khiam mountain has coated the runway and aircraft aurora airport mall kaina south of guatemala city is one of the world's most active it's been spewing out ashen violent explosions for several weeks now. the chinese cities of hong kong and macau have suspended use of the biotech pfizer coated dying teen vaccine defective packaging was reported in one batch of the drug authorities say they have acted as a pro taking a pro precautionary measure the vaccines manufacturers say there's no reason to believe safety is at risk. it could some other developments in the pandemic brazil's daily coated 19 death toll has soared past 3000 for the 1st time the country is struggling to contain a surge of cases many hospitals are at the breaking point. cuba says it will

administer homegrown experimental coded 19 shots to nearly the entire population of the capital upon it by may as health authorities carry out a late stage trials and india's health ministry says a new coronavirus variant has been detected within the country in addition to many other variants also of concern found abroad. a 7 year old girl has apparently been shot dead in myanmar becoming the youngest victim yet of the military's crackdown on antique demonstrators the family of kin meo shit told local media she was sitting on her father's knee when security forces raided their home in mundelein and opened fire at least 20 children have been reported killed since the military seize power last month this comes as pro-democracy activists gear up for a nationwide silent strike organizers are encouraging businesses to shut and asking people to stay home and i'm joined now by correspondent tin-tin yo she is the

managing director of burma news international based in bangkok thanks for being with us this morning tintin you know there are reports that a 7 year old girl was killed in her home last night by the military what more can you tell us about that. it is the most shocking and i must own painful to see that deny day but at the same times young and many youngsters hours of the that can get so this is so we are in that our country is not understand and the military coup is out of control in the country with fear and also the are now just around their military so generous to kill to just to get anywhere that is seen with impunity and so on. so we supposed that for the family and we really wish that this kind of mass killing with impunity stops

some. how we have that up at the moment we don't know what would be the right time is they have where to stop that and have the people understand how the sentiments against you know the military regime is dead ok are sunni. very hopeful that we can and this kind of mask is. we're hearing that the military junta in myanmar is preparing to release hundreds of prisoners is that the case. actually it is money like no more than $600.00. detainees were released the other was these students so him and be related related to it may not be because like that today just as mr did that happen in every city east in the country i'm. going to meet in silence try to so maybe they try to bring the people into the streets maybe that is part of their understand how it's actually that they were

actually to work ahead of these numbers and that's why they released you know that the people that we're so happy whatever reason behind it or they were happy them winners as 100 and have you know have protest our release 600 protesters released ok that's an important detail does this suggest to you that the military regime is bending to the will of the protestors briefly because i don't yeah i don't really see in that way and because these the military do you know they are dealing with his they are not going to see thinking ask critically and also with my dad humanity so well they release these these protests that is detainees maybe they have some other is there because there is doubt more than 2800 people have behind so when i got it that's really sad and probably didn't mean to the rest more so with the n.r.c. and exactly what had there what would be the action because they had no longer and

that is the of what you know with great humility tintin you know managing director of burma news international talking to us from bangkok thank you very much. and you . being an activist in myanmar is becoming increasingly dangerous d.w. spoke to one of the activists there is risking arrest and her life fighting for freedom from military rule. united in resistance a vast range of demonstrators and helping them organize is activists fins are among her work puts her at risk of arrest we caught up with her at an undisclosed location. she says even if we are afraid we must fight. it's anger against the military she says that is helping people put aside their

differences and protest. being in egypt and now she there is no army in this country at the moment which defends stability and peace of citizens garnisheed there are only terrorists who destroy stability and peace of citizens and commit murders. the demonstrators want an end to military rule but a says a return to the democracy myanmar knew before the february coup is not enough. minority there's a lack of acceptance for the equality of all ethnic people and autonomy. the neglect of the rights of ethnic minorities and the lack of a democratic system are the reasons why the civil war in our country that has lasted so long you can if we want to move forward into the future we must not take with us the things that happened in the past. besides protests millions of

people are refusing to work. their aim to starve the hooter of the resources to run the country. but a says international sanctions on military owned businesses are also vital. and. i do really hope that common people will stop consuming bloody products every single product of the military has blood and life of the people of our country. and many enemy amar are risking their lives for freedom from the who into . that we must fight this battle and tell we succeed this is become our duty now to work. here and despite weeks of a violent crackdown and economic hardship the results of the protest movement in the m.r. remains unbroken. log it watching d.w.

news still to come the sea rescuers working at high speed to give the old ship a new life saving mission. the 1st u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken is set to give a speech in brussels today and meet european commission president or slip on the line it's the 2nd day of blank ins inaugural trip to europe since taking office in the biden administration on tuesday he pledged to quote rebuild and revitalize nato after 4 years of tension under the trump administration. a message of goodwill from the u.s. to its nato partners i've come here to express the united states' steadfast commitment to that alliance which has been the cornerstone of peace prosperity stability for the handle on a community for more than 70 years and i've come to brussels because the united

states wants to rebuild our partnerships 1st and foremost with our nato allies. it was the 1st in paris a meeting of. nato foreign ministers since 2019 complete with a family photo. business on the europeans welcomed the new tone from washington stressing that they too are ready to step up to the plate on defense. in the book on the i have 1st of all a message of our restored alliance balanced alliance. because this is thanks to the efforts of the europeans to strengthen their defense dynamic and to the message passed on by the new american administration but in that in these calls for me again. on afghanistan no final decisions were made us troops were set to withdraw from the country on may the 1st but the taliban have not held up their part of the deal in stopping the bloodshed made. the most important

thing for us now is that move forward we need to be. coordinated to consult closely and to take decisions together and act together and that will so victimises from all of them based on the principle in together just our presence in afghanistan together and when the time is right we will leave together. president joe biden will join the summit by video link on thursday with hopes to rebuild the transatlantic alliance or. in other news germany has summoned the chinese ambassador in berlin as part of an escalating dispute between beijing and the european union brussels has imposed sanctions on china over human rights abuses against the weaker people dating has hit back by blacklisting a number of european lawmakers and scientists who are media reports say microsoft

is in talks to buy the chat dischord for more than $10000000000.00 neither the world's biggest software company nor the platform is commenting. this court is popular with gamers and use has soared during the pandemic. better and hollywood actor george segal has died aged $87.00 he was nominated for an oscar for the movie in which he 1st found fame called who's afraid of virginia woolf siegel went on to become a comedy stalwart he made audiences laugh well into his eighty's in t.v. shows including the gold birds. the ears border agency calls it quote the most dangerous migratory route in the world we're talking here about the sea journey between northern africa and europe in recent months there's been a resurgence of vibrant boats making that trip in the central mediterranean on board are people risking their lives fleeing conflict and crisis often been packed

on to unsafe bustles by human smugglers many have to be rescued some don't make it according to the un's refugee agency more than 20000 migrants have died crossing the mediterranean over the last 7 years. and many more would have drowned had it not been for the work of aid organizations that sail out and pick up stranded migrants one such organization is sea on i a german group that's converted an old freighter into a rescue ship d.w. went to northern germany to take a look through. an old ship on a new mission in the future it will save refugees from drowning in the mediterranean. sea rescue organization c i bought the old traitor in september last year and transported to a shipyard in northern germany today 6 months later around 50 volunteers are working hard to bring the newly christened c.i.

for up to scratch. captain christophe cruz will steer the ship in his eyes the freighter is ideal for sea rescue. it was originally built on the roof supplier the seas are rock solid wood. and make good workhorses for n.g.o.s we want to interview for a lot of forms over it's 2 but we may be approaching one difficulty on the water and should be but still might pose a danger for these people absolutely to be able to do for the ship very precisely because what's not needed on deck is disposed of the 55 metre long ship can accommodate several 100 people and every ounce of space on board is crucial this area will be turned into a hospital ward with an operating table and 2 folding beds so that those on board who need it can receive 1st aid also crucial is this installation that converts salt water into drinking water it's loaded into the ship's belly by crane.

new challenges that rose during this mission last year militias along the libyan coast attempted to force refugees back to libya against their will. responsibility for the area of sea between libya and the e.u. was transferred to the militias by the european union. according to the un over $1000.00 people died in the course of last year without the civil see rescuers many more would have drowned nonetheless the n.-g. o. has been accused of being an incentive for people to flee an allegation they did not. there was no evidence whatsoever that more lives are real and that's why i say outrageous that politicians continue to abuse this. is an excuse to let people drown. but i was 2050 and we just assume that we want to go there for

a little while and. it's been 6 years now and they're preparing for get another mission to save people from drowning at sea one. to get. large parts of eastern australia remain underwater after a week of relentless rain emergency services which lasts year battled unprecedented bushfires are no rescuing residents from flooded homes hauser's include dangerous debris lurking in the flood waters. to arrange the rains have been unstoppable in australia's east bridges roads. cars and buildings all surrounded by water. the flooding has forced tens of thousands of people from their homes the rescue efforts underway to assist those left behind. by low need anybody. days of heavy rain have caused rivers to burst their banks and

water levels to rise the day pre's making recovery efforts all the more difficult. quite dangerous in regards to coming up on the boat one of the mine problems we've been encountering is large logs t.v. screens couches car acts things like that scott the waterways are quite dangerous at this point on and it seems that boats are the only option to save those stranded in the terrain we're going to go to. some residents have decided to stay home and to weather the storm people around us not so lucky as in the extreme of last clause in there and maybe the loss if it's so far or i'm lucky several areas have been declared disaster zones with floods and severe weather warnings issued from south east queensland to the border toria and the cost of the damage is already being felt. lose a fair bit closer if the water started only too much they fertile just. so i

thought to talk quickly that's fine but any other source. in the touch of all toward the tunnel. and. also offering funds for the displaced they're warning residents to be on high and. unfortunately some way the conditions have and. conditions a locket it was during the day many communities will experience increasing heavy rainfall and as we had 5. 1000 people have been evacuated and regrettably we have warnings now for an additional $15000.00 people that may need to be evacuated . while there have been no lives lost rebuilding the harms and businesses destroyed in this disaster will come at the highest cost. beddes is beginning

a year of celebrations to mark its $1600.00 birthday the italian port city known as la. is planning a series of events to mark the anniversary the local council hopes the 1st cities will help make up for tourists for the pandemic devastating flooding revenues as well a pair of dolphins have been spotted swimming in the canals this week a possible tourist attraction in their. you're watching g.w. news from berlin just a reminder the top story we're following for you exit polls are again showing no clear winner in israel's latest election prime minister binyamin netanyahu slick tud party still appears to be the strongest but he may have lost seats in the knesset official results are expected later on wednesday voter turnout was lower than in other priest elections. you are watching news from

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