you the news . this is the w news coming to life from berlin, opponents of israel's prime minister, united against him, nationalist hardliner enough time, the bennett says he's seeking to create a diverse government coalition. they have has one goal, unceasing benjamin, nothing. yahoo! also coming up. fresh revelations about us efforts to spy on germany's leaders. now for the 1st time, denmark's secret service is also implicated in the surveillance and south africa heads back to stricter lockdown measures as covert 19 infections rise sharply.

president rolla poses tells people we cannot let our guard down. ah hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. political opponents of israeli prime minister benjamin nothing now who are joining forces with little in common besides the desire to oust him a full remnant netanyahu aid and right wing hardliner enough tale. bennett says he's looking to form a diverse minority government one that potentially avoids another round of elections in israel and sees the end of the nathan yahoo era. a dramatic blow to netanyahu's hopes of political survival anymore. the i'm announcing today before my intention to work with all my strength stablish in national unity government together, it was my friend jalap piece of is willing to get within the rest of the country

from his tailspin and return it on. it's a tough luck. who has been on the defensive for some time. israel was longest serving prime minister, has been able to brush off public outrage over corruption charges. but after failing to form a majority government off to the fore selection and t net in yahoo, hold on power had become tenuous. this is the man responsible for forging the coalition to end netanyahu's 12 year rule format, tv, host, g i. e la pete is determined to put together parties from the far right to the left, including arab israeli parties. the dog, the commitment of bennett, who leads the right wing process. you mean a party is crucial to the proposed alliance. netanyahu responded by painting the

broad coalition as a threat to national security. she will think about it mother turns. how will we look in the eyes of our enemies? what will they say in iran? what will they saying gaza, my oh, they do in iran and in gaza. what will they say in the hold of government in washington, washington? but netanyahu know is that the biggest threat posed by the new government to the current prime minister himself. the good morning al, from our correspond tony kramer in jerusalem county, how likely is it that this rather loose coalition will succeed in ousting netanyahu? well, i think as we heard in the record, a major hurdle was taken on sunday when natalie bent into leader of the writing, jemina parties said he's going to join this until he netanyahu a coalition at the moment of your la pete, the head of the 2nd largest party,

who is trying to copy this coalition together, but of course the test will be, you know, whether they will actually stick together. because i do logically speaking, they're very, very pause. and you know, they will have to spend the test of time if they create this coalition government. and also, you know, we have to look into coalition agreements that are currently hammered out between the parties. how they will agree on certain policies. well, that is a big question. what is the next step here? how? how is this coalition supposed to work in practice? well right now, yellow p 2 is trying to get this coalition together. he has now 3 days onto the wednesday to basically officially inform the israeli president that he has the support of all the parties. know, he has made

a power sharing deal with natalie bennett to bring him in because natalie bennett wasn't, you know, he wasn't quite sure whether you go with him more writing with and he could young or with his until netanyahu coalition. so they will have a rotational premier ship 1st. that would be enough tale bennett. and then he will be the foreign minister in the meantime, turn to the prime minister. it's also a bit controversial because tony bennett brings only 7 seats. so he's of all the smaller party within. so once he has officially given that notice to the very president by wednesday, you can do that anytime from now. then 7 days to put this government together. so not charlie bennett is the leader of a far right party. and he's pretty close to nathan, yahoo, ideologically, they've worked together before. so how much of a change does he actually represent?

well, that's right enough. tell you, bennett is a hard line. a writing politician has entered politics about over 10 years ago. he comes from high tech and then he is, you know, from the national religious count. he used to be also the head of the settler organization in the occupied west think the year. so i counsel. so he is a hotline and politics. he is, for example, against the palestinian state. he is a proponent of annexation of the west bank and you have to look now, you know, in the distribution of the ministerial post as well in this a government and most of the heavy weight ministry posts, as far as we know from now, we'll go actually to hotline to other hotline lighting politicians. so we don't see much change in this regard. very interesting, tanya. thank you so much, julie. some correspondence tony kramer there let's catch up on some

of the other stories making headlines around the world today. police and jury, a say gunman have kidnapped around 200 children from a school in niger state. it's the latest and a series of such raids with $700.00 students, abducted and held for ransom since december. a man hunt is underway in southwestern france for a former soldier who opened fire on police responding to a domestic violence call. the man is hiding out in a wooded area of the door. donya region. police said several attempts to establish contact with the suspect had been met by gunfire at west african leaders have suspended molly from the eco, was trading block after a 2nd military crew in 9 months, but the meeting and gonna stop short of re imposing thanks. and on molly, instead the block insisted that it should be led by a civilian government as it prepares for elections. new details

have come to light and the scandal over the u. s. national security agency surveillance of top european politicians. revelations that emerged in 2013, showed that the u. s. intelligence agency had tap the phones of several leaders, including germany's angle american. now a new multinational media investigation says a danish military intelligence unit supported the u. s. wiretapping operation. this is done march secret communication station near copenhagen. danish intelligence reportedly worked with the us national security hate and seeing from here to eavesdrop on european politicians. that's according to danish sources. a joint investigation by several european media outlets shows. former german chancellor candidate pastime brook was among the espionage targets destined todd before grotesque that allied intelligence. mrs. spy and leading politicians of

other countries in equal testers. it's evidence that they have a life of their own feel. i think this is a political scandal, a major problem. the danish government didn't inform their german neighbors, though they apparently knew about the eavesdropping as early as 2015. the german government said it only found out about the spying after press inquiries. spying on chancellor uncle mac on former foreign minister, frank walter stein mire, was revealed by anna se leeker, edward snowden, and a parliamentary inquiry. indeed, it did not reveal that a close european ally was involved. most us esteem for now you have to understand the system of intelligence services. it's not about friendships or morals, and it's about asserting interests and gathering information to do them so much your personally, i would take the approach and with them and we can't trust anybody on the mandel, the say the danish intelligence service and the danish government refused to comment on the latest revelations of more or less brandy

w corresponding on your shelf and north and you know, what kind of spying are we talking about here? what exactly are danish intelligence officials alleged to have done while terry and the revelations at the heart of this report of cuz go back to 2013. and when whistleblower edward snowden 1st revealed extensive phone and why it's happening by the n. s a. the u. s. intelligence service. and it showed that the u. s. had taught the phones of leading politicians, including uncle michael. now the us, of course, is a close ally of germany and those revelations cause quite a lot of outrage back here and back then. and in 2013, now this new report has found that the a didn't known that in fact, it had help from denmark and the danish intelligence service. and what the danish intelligence service did it, let us access danish internet cables to listen to those phone conversations by

uncle michael also by frank stein, maya, who is now the german president. and what the report also brought to light is that germany wasn't the only country that denmark help the u. s. spy on. and danish intelligence officials also passed on information about leading politicians in other european countries, such as sweden and norway, in fonts and in the netherlands. ok, so a technical support and collusion as it were, but all governments on keep tabs on one another is this kind of intelligence activity. all that unusual. no, of course, as you said, intelligent services are there to spy on other countries. pass information back to that government and they were very clear on that really and, but what's unusual about this case is that it's such a close ally of germany as i've been involved in this. i mean, it's in a fellow

e u country, germany's direct neva, and that's been involved in spying on such leading political figures. and as i said before, there was already a lot of outrage and when the u. s. but it was revealed, the u. s. wasn't golf, but you think the denmark chose to side with the u. s. over its european allies is really quite low and humiliation really and, but i mean, we heard that in that report. these decisions aren't even political often they're simply about interests. and what this really shows this case i think, is that there is a sort of murky world of espionage and collaboration between intelligence agencies . that's really beyond the realm of politics. and yet thank you very much. that was d. w correspondent, unusual for north south africa is reem posing stricter lockdown measures in the face of

a sharp rise and cupboard. 19 cases. president 0 rama poses, says johannesburg. the capital pretoria are now in the grip of a 3rd wave. surgeon infections is putting a spotlight on south africa. slow vaccine rollout, only around 1.5 percent of the countries. 60000000 people have received a 1st dose. t w's adrian creek in cape town, says tighter restrictions had become inevitable. the new restrictions don't come as a surprise to most south africans, because the numbers of new infections have been increasing in the past days and weeks and almost reached 5000 you cases the day. at the moment. this is still far away from the peak. we have seen during the 2nd wave in january where we had more than 20000 you cases a day, but it is still a reason to worry, especially because the vaccination campaign here has been starting very slow. so that has all the vaccines for 75 percent of its population, but only

a fraction of that arrived in the country. and the president has been complaining about that many times before saying it is not fair that wealthy nations have stronger access to vaccines than countries like south africa and also the neighboring countries on the continent. he has so far, only those above the age of 60 are allowed to get the jap. so this is less than 2 percent of the population at the moment. those who are younger than 60, even if they have co morbidities, don't even know if they'll be able to get a vaccine. by the end of this year. sports news now in the future of this year's copa america has been thrown into dell just 2 weeks before it's due to begin. south . america's football confederation says it cannot be held in argentina as planned because of a corona virus. serge. the tournaments have been due to kick off from gwen is ours . on june, 13 federation earlier stripped columbia of hosting duties because of civil unrest. there it now says it will try to find a new host country. in the meantime,

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