the who's this is the w news alive from berlin, benjamin netanyahu, the time of israel's prime minister, appears to mere it's as does his opponents agreed to form a coalition government. 6 the announcement coming shortly before midnight deadline and preventing what it could have been israel's 5th election in just over 2 years. we will go live to jerusalem, also coming up tree lockers. worst marine environmental disaster gets even worse.

a container ship carrying chemicals and plastics that burned for days and spilled the cargo is now sinking. an oil spill is a possibility. ah me. i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program. we begin in israel where opposition parties have agreed to form a new coalition government. if it's confirmed by israel's parliament that it could end benjamin netanyahu long held premiership under the deal, the hard line religious nationalists, the tale bennett, would become prime minister for 2 years. he would then be replaced by centrist le pete, the man who did the groundwork to put the coalition together. the alliance includes 7 parties from across the political spectrum, including bennett nationalists. so,

who is the man who might become israel's new prime minister? let's take a closer look. this is the man who might lead israel for the next 2 years. natalie bennett has made his political career with provocative statements that established himself to the right of outgoing pm benjamin netanyahu. this is him last year. you have a whole lot of show we will not allow the israeli government to recognize a palestinian state under any circumstances. we will not allow israel to hand over even a centimeter of lanfield to the arabs. this is what we are here for. to guard the land of israel will ship them either. but bennet is also a generation younger than yahoo has broken with allies on the religious right. on the role of religion in public life. he's also comparatively liberal and gay rights and other issues. bennett is the son of american immigrants to israel. he made

a fortune in high tech before jumping into politics in 2013, revamping the right wing, subtler party jewish home model. he served as secretary of defense, and secretary of education under netanyahu. bennett would bring very little public support to the role in 2001, 900 elections. jemina party received no mandates. and in the most recent round one, just 7 out of the $120.00 seats in the connected. i think a bit of a disgrace that someone who was elected with only 7 mandate is the person who decides the fate of the country. i think that it's good for is although i'm from the left side. i believe that the new prime minister will unite israel because he's right. he's now divided into many pieces. and we need to change. bennett has promised to work for all israelis, not just his supporters and then shallow because of the lucky government like this

will succeed only if we work together as a group, not i, we are not. we will bring back the we have to be on the web and that's a day of its foundation call on the floor. got with them or not. the kindness lehman shallow bennett would have his hands full guiding a coalition that spams the entire political spectrum. and israel would have its 1st taste of the post nahu era for as long as it left. and for more, let's bring in the w, tanya kramer who's joining us from jerusalem. so tanya, as we've been hearing the tale, bennett has been described as an old friend nationalist. what could this potentially mean for the future direction of israel and resolving the israeli palestinian conflict? while he definitely further to the right and benjamin netanyahu. we heard that also in the report statements on palestinian affairs on the palestinian state. he is a proponent settlement of annexation of cards of the occupied west bank against

palestinian state. but he also has to lead now very broad, a very diverse what has been discussed as a very diverse coalition of parties that reach from know the hotline religious nation. this parties like history mean a party to the hard line writing secular parties to centrists and also left thing parties. so he has to keep this rather fragile coalition together. and i think with most is very nice at the moment. interested in is whether such a coalition will actually work and whether it will last well for a long time than what you've seen in the past 2 years. indeed, in the past few years, the country has faced for elections. in fact, talk with us a little bit more about, you know, the, the stability now going forward. and what hurdles this coalition is still facing

when it has been described as a very a franchise coalition. if it comes together, you know, there are many audiological differences between the party on the, from the hotline, right to the center to the left. and also for the 1st time, of course, we also have the support of an our big party, the party, which is part of the summit movement in israel, the political branch. so this is for the 1st time that we see them also supporting a government. so they will have to come together and some analysts say that they might talk to, you know, the less controversial issues like the economy. they have to pass the budget maybe focusing less on issues pertaining to the israeli, palestinian conflict. if they have the luxury to do so, because they also have many differences on affairs like as you to be a cue or religious affairs even. so the other question that is, of course,

is still on the line, this clinician needs to go to a confidence food and the connections within the next 2 weeks. and only then this covenant will come together and can be sworn and ok. so the time is not over yet for benjamin netanyahu. it's important to remember that he's of course, israel's longest serving prime minister, tanya. what is the country look like without him? while he won't be completely gone, he will be. then if all this comes together, most likely the leader of the opposition, but he leaves a very divided and polarized country. that's what we always heard in the past 2 years. and of course, his support is say, this is not a said they wanted to see him continue or at least go to new elections because he couldn't form a new coalition government and his support this time is up. he has been too long at the home of the government, 12 years. he also has to stand trial for several corruption charges. so it's,

it's time for someone new to bring this, the society back together, but it would probably take a long time to heal and to, to come together and to bridge. the differences in w corresponded tonya kramer into listen, thank you. there are some other stories making this a russian court has ruled to keep prominent opposition activists. andre people var, off in custody for 2 months, pending trial, the former head of open russia expanded pro democracy group was pulled off of a plane bound for poland on monday. is the latest opposition to figure to be detained ahead of elections and temper. us space agency, nasa has unveiled a plan to send twin approach to venus. the mission will aim to study the atmosphere and geologic features of earth. sister plot it and better understand why the 2

developed so differently. the $500000000.00 program will be launched by 2030. the world's largest neat processing company has begun to restart production after a weekend. cyber attack. us investigators attributed the attack to april zillion own, to meet processor to a russian speaking gang that has made some of the largest ransomware demands on record. in recent months, entry longer a burned out cargo ship carrying tons of chemicals off the coast of colombo has been partly sunk. the m v ex press pearl had been on fire for nearly 2 weeks with much of its dangerous cargo falling overboard. an indian coast guard vessel has been drafted into help as the authorities prepare for the worst case scenario. possible oil slick. it has been called sri long because worst maritime disaster was from bad to worse. desperate attempts to

toward the end, the express po, out to see have failed. it's now stuck in shallow waters near the coast. i'm starting to think the singapore registered cargo ship was anchored off for lank west coast when it caught fire on may 20. the blaze was put out, but the contents of the containers on board had spilled into the safe, a devastating blow to the environment. and for lang as fishermen. i mean, this is a big problem for the all the fishermen. i mean these, this, of course they can go to the fee and they can do the work because of this tragic situation. the government has band fishing along an 80 kilometer stretch, of course, over 5000 and fishing boats have been affected. this ship has dealt the death blow 12 lives we conquer to see which means we can't make

a living. now we have tons of plastic pellets have coated nearby beaches and there are fears that oil and chemicals may leak into the indian ocean. worsening an incident which is already what is for lack of worst environmental disasters. and let's bring in now jamila, who's saying deputy editor of the daily mirror, a newspaper entry, long as capital colombo. thank you so much for joining us. demila. just like to begin by asking you about the environmental aspects. what are the risks that we could still see an oil spill or the discharge of toxic chemicals into the indian ocean? well as up to the morning, the navy said that there had been no party as yet. however, there was some good the water which was now coming out from us. we may have been successful in the container after days of fire. but what the navy saying is that

now the prepared for, i've been and teams on ground teams and the and probably within a few hours, we might actually have a leak the fisheries, me at the station and you stop by level said that if it does happen, david tried their best to prevent it from reaching shows, the because already damaged at the moment to be on the promotion. we can because we watched the showing in the past few days. so right now we don't have in our field, but there is a possibility that it might happen within the course of the day. how could this happen? what to investigators already know? what me know at the moment is that the fire may have stopped that somebody from one of the container as you know, this was carrying some chemicals and some plastic. so what we

do not at the moment, i'm not sure that there was a leak in one of these containers which didn't pop the fire. and the sleep was actually trees when the ship was at the port of her e. zine india. and when they had wanted to turn back and go back to that effect, contested the ship and said not to come back because they did not have the facility to attend to this, which is why to continue coming to the columbia course. but now, investigations ongoing as to whether this ship had, in fact, informed the authority here that there was a possible leak on board. and he still, why was why, why did it anytime you left the ship to come to all that is being investigated as yet? usually there is nothing, nothing out yet. and in the meantime, while that investigation proceeds, we heard that fishermen, for example, have been devastated by this. how widely could this impact sri lankan more broadly?

and this is a huge to be on the fishing community because as you know, we are and i know the country and the income, what we get from our fisherman is quite a while. and along the course right around the country. we have fishing families who live so as, as you said in your report, thousands of families fishing families who have already been affected because right now, days in a banding on fishing, all the based on the sudden for the western course. so when the man is going to be the studies you have to be known because there's a lot of them and there's a lot of devastation on the be the chemicals which has been washed to show the plastic feller which had been washed so that a 1000 people on ground cleaning the meters at the moment, but obviously they're going to see the ration continuing for many more days. yeah. so this is a huge on the fishing community and we don't know right around the country,

almost jemila. hussein. joining us from longest capital, colombo, thank you so much for bringing us up to date. and with that now you are up to date here on the w news. i'm sarah kelly and berlin. thank you so much for watching. take care of the news. the news screwed me to 2 species.