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we havave been speaking to nonon-arab israelis, telling us they hope he e will not get in r another t term because e they he had enough of corruption and his approach to the pretty much dead peace process. not in favor of t the prime minister, but benjaminin netanyu has been out, u urging his supporters to come out, saying voting is a holy act and necessary for dememocracy.. he has been trying to garner support in the l last few days. it has been a nasty election campaign with h person attacks and negative campaigning. very intesting to sesee what t e results of this election wilill be. a t tight race between benjamin netanyahu and benny gagantz. tell us about coalition buildingng. >>>> we expececto see a g greatl of horsesetrading. votesl get an estimatate o of after polling stations close after that, evereryone will be looking at thehe numbers, crunching the numbers to see who can form a coalition. has 120ael, pararliament seats. t to winhas ever managed a majority. it is about who has the biggest party andnd who can form ththe biggest b bloc in parliament and put together a coaoali

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it is arguable in some way that hehe may havave more power than mubarak ever did.rent: journalist ruth michaelson with the latesest frm cairo tonight. thank you very much. in soccer news, the women's world cup kicks off in france in june. one team will be there for only the secondnd time, argentina. it is a far cry from the success of thehe men's team. some blame a lack of investment and a lack of interest in women's football at both club and national levels. reporter: another day on the boca juniors training pitch in buenos aires. despite their rigorous schedule and the fact they play for one of south america's top clubs, these footballers do not receive a proper wage. the argentinian football association announced just last month that the 16 women's teams in the top league will turn professional in june. but even then, not every player in those teams will be paid. >> it i is very difficult for a woman to play football on april level. ---- on a a pro level. when you work or study at the me timimyou cannotot give 100%. it so happens the women's national team does n

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hundreds of protesters in sudan's capital havave taken pat in friday prayers as they continue their sit in outside the defense ministry. demonstrators are pressuring the government counsel to hand over power to civilians. months of protest helped to depose the former president last week. now to northern ireland where the people of londonderry have been removed bring a 29-year-old woman shot dead during an overnight riot. police identified her as journalist lyra mckee. cities -- citizens of the town have held a vigil. her death is being treated as terrorism. the new ira are t the new suspspects. police searched a local house. she was standing near a police car when a gunman opened fire. thursday night violence came 21 years after the signing of the good friday agreement that largely ended the catholic-protestant fight. members -- memories of the troubles are slow to fade. reporter: john donnelly is a former ira fighter. in his home is a collection of treasures from decades of warfare known as the troubles. the british soldier's belt bag contains a list of wanted ira members. >> this guy

wewe havave heard conflicting reports of negotiations fromom e military. they said the prorotesters agred to clear thehe roads and presters said ththat is not thee case. we heard from m the second in commanan, somebodody consideredo be closeo thee oldld regime andd the ex-preresident al bashir. he r ramped up p e rhetoric. he said they would all the sit ins to go on, bubut the transitional council will not tolerate chaos from the protesters and called on them mo unblock key roads andnd bridgesn the capital, as well as to allow trains too comome into the capil again. there is frurustration herere on both sides. >> tell usus about this joint military-civilian counsesel they want to setet up. why arere they having trouble agrereeing on the compmposition? t the sticking poinint is the level of representation on both sisides. the military wants a c council f 10 people with seveven military representatives and three civilian. protesters have been pushing for civilian rule, so thehey are ununlikely to accept that ratio. on theivivilian side, , they wat eight civi

a lot of the older buildings in paris we havave been getting. citity which unfofortunately has a lot of fis often in loloincome houousing ad older structures. i said churches because a lot of those are still built in wood. the roof that collapsed in notre dame was built with thousands of oak trees. the absolutely most flammable product. some people would tell you that if it were not one of france's holy man: i love st. petersburg! thank you. [man singing in russian] [man speaking russian] campbell: he's the man vladimir putin fears most-- a charismatic opposition leader exposing the kremlin''s corruption... and he's gunning for putin's job in the march election. [man speaking russian] [singing continues]

two ministers havave resigned or this. there could be more, up to 15. talks with jeremy corbrbyn took plplace yestererday. we arere still not out of the woods. genie: thank youou. robert, w welcome on the set. you have w written a a book in franance thahat can be translatd intoto "to bee, or not to be, european." >> sincece three centuriries, te are cycleses of stop and go o cg from britatain facacing europe. of europe,e building the history, the stotory of , based d onntegraration balance of p power, britainn was engaged in this system. out,,mes t they get sometimes they c combaback. t thing since same thee storyry of euroropean imimmigration. britain signgns a treaty w withx .ther members a few momont later, the same parliamentter asks forccept an apppplication entetering the eec. know,ever happens, i don't whatever happens, the stotop and go will never finishsh. thihiswhat is behind backck-and-forth? is it because mosost of the u.k. is an island?? quite literarally? within theed is also island. ireland is an island. they are in the eu. english proble

thenjamin netetyahu may havave edge forming a governi coalition and leading for a historic fifth term. the eu looks set to give theresa may a second delay on brexexit. eu leaders couldld demandd a lor extension withth conditions.s. pressure buildsn omar al-bashir. thousands of protesters demand he step down after 30 years in power. business,p in opposition lawmakers are taking extraordinary measures to try to opop the privatization o of a a profitable statate owned air operator. as brexit drags on, we look at one of t the most divisivee iss, ththe backstop, the subject of today. ththe finanal results from the election in israel l are yet toe released. counted, thes party of benjamin netanyahu looks to finish with a similar amount of seats in parliament as bennnny gantz.. netanyahu should be able to form a rulining c coalition in parliament. benjamin netanyahu is heading forr reelection. thehe -- a looks likee he i lookiking at reelection. he will become thehe longest serving prime minister. they show a dead heat between the two biggest parties. have 35 seats apiece. is coalitions t th

one ere e theyant toto te away rights havave they takenen away ncnce yesterday?y?ccording to the world health organization, 1.3 billion people around the world are in some way visually impaired. for those who cannot see well, or are blind, participating in society y can be very y diffic. almost two thirds of the 36 million blind people worldwide are women. sight problems are often age-related in industrialized countries, whereas in developing countries and emerging economies, women and girls have less access to proper healthcare, and little support from the state. but in peru, we met a woman who's nonetheless pursuing her dreams. reporter: lourdes is not one to give up easily. training on sand in 30-degree-celsius heat is extra strenuous. she specializes in the 100 and 200 meter sprint disciplines. lourdes has the athletic talent, but needs someone to guide her, because she's blind. lourdes: it was really tough at first. i would only run a short distance and i was already tired. i just wasn't in shape. but t now my body's used to i. reporter: now she's training wit

despite the monument being damaged, it could havave been mh worse were it not for hundreds of heroic firefighters. they want to notre-dame cathedral whwhere som of their colllleagues a are keeping guard trying to secure unstable sections.. >> we saw your limitless courage, your unfalteringg determination. we s saw the moment when you decided to take all of the risks to saved notre dame. >> earlier, the firefighters were received by president a manuel lecrone -- ememnuel macron where he called their seservice exemplary. >> i think we are deeply touched. it is also linked to the fact that notre dame is very dear to us and this is the type of sinister event we fear it enormously. >> before the repairs and the rebuilding, there is still the danger that parts of the structure could further collapse. two others sections were at risk. he said that figures in the southern bell tower fall apart and if they did, this would damage the organs below. an investigation is going on to figure out how the fire started. cathedral leadaders had reportey asked repeatedly for more fundining to help the ai

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ying over 2000 people havave alreadydy been displaced by clashes around the capital. nick rushwhworth has m more on e rebel militatary man leading the charge. nick: he has the supupport of russia and egyptpt, and controlf the e east and much southernn libya, including the country's mamain oil terminals. 75-year-old khalifa h haftar portrays himself as the only man who cacan bring stabibility and crushed isislamist influence he was one of the soldiers who helped colonelel moammar gadhafi seize power from king address in in 1959.g idris gadhafi gave e him command of rces in chad. his capture their saw him disowned. states, in the united he worked with the cia t to tryo get rid d of gadhafi. haftar return to libya dururing the 202011 uprising, siding with the islamists, , and came center stagthree yeaears later, when he tookok on islamistst groups thad taken controof part of eastern libya. he is ideologically close to egypt's abdul fattah asisi, and has gained support in the west for his antnti-islamist ance,s, including -- st including from france. his opopponents see h

churches and hotels are struck on easter sunday foror the five hundred people havave been inju. the government has imposed a state of emergency social networks have been closed down they say t to avoid dissemiminan ofof fake ne. the situation not very much -- tents set in july because it's been for analysis -- shuttle not to hold a social follow for the aged program at chatham house. thank you for being with us. charlotte a hold of the chatham house thank you very much for being with the situation in trying to incredibly tense. what is your reading of the situation clearly the government blaming a local militant t grou? yes add it seemems to be that there is. a dead backed the government's analysis at the moment and then i was also is that this locally group. as well in order nation with behalf at internanational elemet is an internationalal element w. add this massive crying. and indeed to bet that the way the cat attacks were carried out debate besides meats yeah all the attacks and then. the coordinated by the in we were conducted. the two targets the tweet targets in terms o

govevernment and thehe briti pre minister are rececognizingng thf it comomes to it, then prararations havave already beg for the europeanan elections and that they will be held. which every e.u. member state has to do. >> earlier i asked our brussels correspondenent if e.u. states have an appetite for a brexit extension. >> this has to be approved unananimously y and we're heara lolot of voices against thisis. partrticularly f from the more ard-line e.u. leaders. already liliters such as macron- leaders such as macron and others have e said that thehey not grantt another extension ter ththe 12th of a april unlnl thee u.k. parliament t has apprd some kind of new plan. that hasn't happened. so we're really going to put that at the test at the erergency summimit next wednesd. ththat's w when we'll l see if hardrdliners, p particularly frh president macron, whether he wiwill relent and allow thiss rorolling exteionn idedea, evev though nothingng new has beeeen passssed. but i think nobody really knows whwhat the oututcome here is. bebecause i thinink what's impot to point out is nobody wants the

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and all o our allies havave increased the defense spending congradulations donald trurump also gave himself credit foror e rise in nato contributions whehn hehe m met with stoltetenberg on tuesday. the u. s. presidedents skepticim over the alllliance has worried nato partners who have long relied on the united states as a pillar. in his speech stoltenberg warned thatat russia is becoming incrsingly asserertive and expressed his concecern over rurussian and uss plans to o wiw from the i. n. s. treatyy. a l ldmark nuclearar arms contrl pactct that eaea country accusus the other r of not respecting. we d do not want a new cold war. but you must notot be naive [inaudible] an agreement. that iss only respepected by one side wililnot keep u us safe. so will be high on the agenda when nato foreign ministers meet on thursday. they'll also discuss turkey's plans to buy a russian missile defense system. on grorows decisioion hasas angd the u united statess creating another source of tension in the alliance as it celebrates itsts seventieth b birthday. that's the user for now time to business committe

those people who carried out the attack havave no support. people who carried out thiss attack have attacked all of us. they have attacked the community, the people of derry. violence, criminology, terrorism, it was always wrong. it is still wrong today in 2019. we condemn wholeheartedly. withpe everyone will work the police service to give them all the support they need. emma: many people in northern ireland are concerned about the renewed violence. there are many tributes being paid to lera mckee, all praising her as a seeker of the truth. the ukrainian president and his rival actor comedian have gone head-to-head in a live television debate. several thousand spectators attended the event. >> if you knew the condition in which i received the country in 2014, without money and the central bank account, without any reserves, you would have asked a different question you insulted our country. you tried to betray the ukraine like a prostitute in your jokes. he tried to get money, including money from the russian budget to make a movie. i am not

we havave serious ununfounded reasasons for thininking this cd happenen. amy: jululian assange e was arrd shortltly after the e ecuadorian governrnment withdreww h his popolitical asylylum. formerer ecuadorian n president rafael c correa criticicized ecuador'r's currenent presidentt lenin n moreno for w what happe. correa wrote -- "the greatest traitor in ecuadorian and latin american history, lenin moreno, allowed the british police to enter our embassy in london to arrest assange. moreno is a corrupt man, but what he has done is a crime that humanity will never forget." at the white house president , trump was s asked about with felelix on thursday. >> do you still love wikileaks? pres. trump: i know nothing about wikileaks. it is not my thing. amy: while donald trump claims he knew nothing about wikileaks, he repeatedly praised the whistleblowing site during the 2016 campaign for publishing internal d democratic partyy emails. pres. trumump: this justst came. this just came out. wikileaks. i love wikileaks. amy: we will have more on the arrest of julian

>> good morning and thank you, amy and juan, for havaving me. the president again is trying to emasculate his response toto puerto rico. and again, lie about the money that puerto rico has been receiving. and that is true. puerto rico has only -- i believe it has been close to $40 billion that has been obligated, but only to reach up to maybe a monthh ago puerto rico was not able to get the money. i believe only close to $11 has made its way to puerto rico. so the $90 billion the president made reference to is an estimate that has been put together by insurance companies and the government of puerto rico about the damages that puerto rico suffered through maria and hurricane irma. again, he doesn't have the facts right. and he comes to congress -- it is alarming for the president of the united states to come to the senate and target a system to the most vulnerable american citizens in puerto rico. it is shameful. and he cannot get away with this. i blame the republican leadership. i blame rick scott, the senator from florida, , and marco rubio,

we havave been working veryy ha. i giveve majority leader hoyer credit to make sure they d don't attach some resolution to defeat the yemen war powers resolution from going to the president's desk. i am hopeful the president may sign this. it h has bipartisan support t wh people like senator rand paul and senator lee. what we're talking about here is a humanitarian n catastrophe. 14 million yemenis may face famine. i was justst with artan griffit, the envoy to the e area. he said if we e do not act in te next few months for the saudi's to lift the blockade and get food and medicinee there, ththee coululd be a a real humanitarian catastrophe where the famine becomes a reversible. i am so passionanate aboutut ths bebecause in 1943 when my grandfdfather wasas in jail in india,a, there was a famine of 3 million people and that was because of british indifference, because they did not do anything to help those folks. we should not repeat t that miststake today. we have to a act. the world has to act. it is not a partisan

we now havave electoral commissions judgments that there were electoral process violations by the leaf campaign. we also know that some of the key funders of the campaign are under investigation by the police and by the national crime agency. again, as in the u.s. situation, there are questions about where the money came from, who use the money, whether there has been interference from outside, and does and potential criminal violations. it seems to me the media really ought to be pursuing these questions with much greater vigor than they have been so far. , thank you forl being with us university , lecturer in the faculty of english at the university of cambridge. we will continue to follow what happens with brexit with a vote later today. when we come back, what is happening at the border and president trump's threats to close the border and cut off funding to the northern triangle countries. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. president trump says the united states will cut funding to the so-called n