police in attorney's office joined together with the lift wing newspapers i call them the just not bibi bunch they tell the baseless cases and imaginary charges the objective is to depose a strong right wing prime minister and that's to remove the nationalist came from the leadership of the state for many years harry you've explained to us and hinted to us this will in effect be a very long process anyway but if he is innocent at the end of all of this given his accusations that he's been reheating today does that mean that other cases now have to be laid at the door of various members of the judiciary various members you know newspaper editors newspaper reporters because he seems to be saying there is a massive cold war donated web of corruption people who want him gone. yes i mean there's been no indication so far that there will be some kind of counter investigation of the investigators that would lead necessarily to an attempt to prosecute anyone at the end of all this if indeed he is declared innocent but yes there are questions and concerns that have been made by a number of comme

police in attorney's office joined together with the lift wing newspapers i call them the just not bibi bunch they tell of baseless cases and imaginary charges the objective is to depose a strong right wing prime minister and that's to remove the nationalist came from the leadership of the state for many years. in the courtroom itself what could become a defining image of israel's longest serving prime minister in the dock facing criminal trial just a week after he was sworn in for a 5th term after the cameras were rejected his legal team asked for delays in calling witnesses well they argued about access to evidence the strategy to push the start of the main phase of the trial well into next year outside supporters saying in chanted and amplified the prime minister's message of persecution already in its 1st day of this trial is a window into just how polarized israeli politics is and benjamin netanyahu and his allies making no bones about appealing to supporters like these on the basis that the trial is not a criminal one rather a political coup 0 designed to ousted from office but th

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was that the court should be on trial that's not bibi. adding i mean it made me out binyamin netanyahu is a scapegoat they couldn't beat him in a democratic way so they took him to court belittling them all cocky not sure if you feel putting session lasted about an hour but the proceedings are likely to run on for years. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world afghan president has promised to release up to 2000 taliban prisoners as a goodwill gesture is taken came after these and show insurgents offered a 3 day cease fire during the eve holiday he also urged the taliban to free afghan security personnel. for the 1st time in months catholics gathered in st peter's square at the vatican for traditional papal blessing pope francis has been delivering his message from inside the apostolic library during the pandemic. he took the chance to wave to the well spaced crowd in the square after sunday's blessing. german flag carrier lufthansa has announced it will resume flights to 20 destinations for mid june

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who'll still have to face the charges eventually no one is talking about it instead the focus is on bibietanyahu so masterful handling of the pandemic as the prime minister proudly proclaimed on facebook. israel leads the world in testing for the virus predictably the haters chimed in to point out that those statistics were isolated to one week and therefore his post only applies to a specific snapshot in time if one includes previous weeks in the calculation israel lags behind countries like australia norway and iceland in the number of tests in april 14th israeli police made sure none of the tests were being wasted on palestinians by raiding and shutting down a clinic in the still one section of east jerusalem the clinic was set up by neighborhood activists but there may have been some collaboration with the palestinian authority so israel shut it down in order to prevent any governmental activity by the p.a. in occupied east jerusalem preventing people from getting the care they need because of their nationality may seem a bit harsh during a deadly pandemic but the good news is a lot

police an attorney's office joined together with the lift wing newspapers i call them the just not bibi bunch they tell the baseless cases and imaginary charges the objective is to depose a strong right wing prime minister and that's to remove the nationalist came from the leadership of the state for many years. we are going back now to my stance and where he is answering questions at a press conference regarding dominic cummings let's listen its resources such as p.p. personal protective equipment or enzymes for her testing and a real fight took place across the world as we tried to to protect our own populations and you could see that this was something that was a global problem pinnies you rightly say a global pandemic pandemic that produced a national everywhere national response and we in this government want to see a much more international approach we want to see the nations of the other coming together to produce the long term solutions particularly in vaccines and that's why on june the 4th that the u.k. is holding a big summit and we've got huge numbers of countries participat

police an attorney's office joined together with the lift wing newspapers i call them the just not bibi bunch they tell the baseless cases and imaginary charges the objective is to depose a strong right wing prime minister and that's to remove the nationalist came from the leadership of the state for many years. there's been an alarming spike in the number of virus related cases in yemen on friday the united nations announced the health system there how effective a collapsed grave diggers in the port city of aden have been working around the clock to keep cemeteries from overflowing what she's very very worrying is that we have. a right most dead already dead and sewer democracy. very very high. and as we have her read and read in the best days. earlier we were obliged to reach us. because we did. and maybe staff to be able to treat a patient so it's very heartbreaking the united states has announced travel restrictions on brazil as kobe had 900 cases in the latin american nation. new restrictions by most non us citizens from entering the country if they visited the latin american natio

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police and attorneys office joined together with the lift wing newspapers i call them the just not bibi bunch they tell of baseless cases and imaginary charges the objective is to depose a strong right wing prime minister and that's to remove the nationalist came from the leadership of the state for many years. in the courtroom itself what could become a defining image of israel's longest serving prime minister in the dock facing criminal trial just a week after he was sworn in for a 5th term after the cameras were rejected his legal team asked for delays in calling witnesses well they argued about access to evidence the strategy to push the start of the main phase of the trial well into next year outside supporters saying in chanted and amplified the prime minister's message of persecution already in its 1st day of this trial is a window into just how polarized israeli politics is and benjamin netanyahu and his allies making no bones about appealing to supporters like these on the basis that the trial is not a criminal one rather a political coup designed to ousted from office but ther

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police and attorneys office joined together with the lift wing newspapers i call them the just not bibi bunch they tell the baseless cases and imaginary charges the objective is to depose a strong right wing prime minister mr remove the nationalist came from the leadership of the state for many years so after more than 3 years of police investigation benjamin netanyahu has been charged with bribery fraud and breach of trust in 3 separate cases as we just heard he denies the crimes and says he is the victim of what he calls an attempted coup herrings meant to stop a march were delayed because of coronavirus restrictions since then and now who agreed to a coalition agreement with his former rival benny gantz to end more than a year of political deadlock this may give netanyahu legal protection so he won't be forced to resign because of the charges against him under the deal that yahoo serves as prime minister for the next 18 months before handing over to kent's hard force it has been reporting from outside the courthouse in occupied east jerusalem he tells us more about netanyahu is defia