she is the political correspondent at the jerusalem post.london we have a senior research consultant at chatham house. welcome to you both. i would like to begin with you gail. take that statement posed by our correspondent. are these elections really now just about benjamin netanyahu yucca --? >> unfortunately, yeah. i would've loved if this would be about serious issues like the economy in matters of religion and state and where the final borders shoulde in negotiations with the palestinians that are inevitable to take place under joe biden. but no, they are about the person who is our prime minister, the longest in any -- in israel's history. he is a divisive figure. people either love him or hate him. as long as you have a majority of people in israel who agree with his policies, a majority of people who not want men yahoo! to remain in office, -- netanyahu to remain in office, especially under indictment. >> is that the only factor in play here yucca --? explain how they got to this point. >> we were supposed to have a government that w

reporter: a vaccination center between the west bank town of bethlehem and jerusalem post he, only palesnians holding a permit to live in israel or in settlements are vaccinated by israeli authorities. as a young person and palestinian worker, i can take the vaccine. at t same time, i think of my father and mother who didn't get it yet. i will feel better when all of my family members have been vaccinated." israel aims to vaccinate about 100,000 workers who cross over from the occupied west bank to israel every day. the country has faced criticism abroad and at home for not providing vaccines to more of the palestinian population. "israel's interest is clear in order to open the economy and return to normal, we need everyone who is moving around inside israeli borders to be vaccinated and safe." but in the israeli-occupied west bank, ordinary people still waiting for a broader vaccination role about the there are only a few files to administer to her fellow medical colleagues. the moderna vaccines were part of ane-time delivery by israel. a small amount, but still seen as a relief for those h

our guests and westerners and then we have gayle hoffman chief political correspondent at the jerusalem post in london we have your book senior consulting research fellow at chatham house very well welcome to you both thanks for joining us here on out there is inside story i'd like to begin with you gayle. and take that statement posed by our correspondent turn it into a question are these elections really now just about benjamin netanyahu. unfortunately you know i would have loved it if the election would be about serious issues like the economy and matters of religion and state where israel's final borders should be and the goshi ation of the palestinians that are inevitable take place under joe biden but no there are about the person who is our minister now longer than any president and his role in 3 who is abroad bigger people you there. and as long as you how majority of people in israel who agree with that all but a majority of people in israel who don't want that to get out to remain in office especially under criminal indictment we seem doomed to continue with political. together is

me with all of that we'll put it all to deal hoffman is chief political correspondent at the jerusalem post nice to see me just reading through all of that my goodness the tangled web of who might work with whom and who wouldn't it what is it like actually for you trying to cover this 4th time around. it's intense you know it's never getting any rest you know waiting for the government to be stable sort of the other reporters or the other things like. health and science and security can focus on the what the country is doing to help its people. focus on what the politicians are. and i've been very busy but you years when i were you are that. ok so let's look at maybe the most likely scenarios in your view what would you be expecting to look good policy to bring in and number of states tonight because that will obviously dictate what goes from from there we're doing now to know that the game of exit polls are not entirely accurate but there are a pretty good indicator if he gets the 60 right out of a 120 that he needs to govern with his right wing satellite armies. and see. if the. gets that

let's get more on this we can speak to katz who's also in west jerusalem and its chief of the jerusalem post many thanks for speaking to us 90 percent of the votes counted and it looks like nessun yahoo may be back where he started what's your take on the results so far. well i think you know it all time will tell exactly what type of victory he has if he even has won what type of coalition he could build or could be built on the other side so we still don't know until we have the final results but we do know for now and this seems to be certain is that new time yahoo is almost double the size of the next party so he's about 30 yards up the dish a teammate is somewhere between 17 or 18 so a little less than that double victory in that sense and that's a big that's a big achievement for an attorney and that means that still despite a lot of the people who wanted to eulogize netanyahu want to rate him off pretend that this might have been the end of him he's still here he still strong he's still powerful and that's something that israel will have to grapple with we had our correspondent natash

korean banks since september 19 would be eight released through the biden administration and thesa jerusalem postcalls it another win for iran they also have confessions as the iaea and then using yemen to attack bloomberg news reported they on freezing additional funds and iran has been suspending incredible amounts of weapons setting up missile launch sites enriching your uranium squandering billions of dollars by the trump administration united states should not be lifting sanctions on the number t one state-sponsored terrorism and should not be finding out about it before a media outlet instead of our a own government. why with the biden administration release billions of dollars to iran? >> we are not the report is incorrect. >> we are not releasing any money? >> we are not. >> is no intention in the future? >> we said if they come back and compliance with the agreement we would do the same thing if it came to that if it made good on its obligation pursuant to the agreement unless and until they will not be getting that relief and that report is incorrect. >> that's good to hear i hope you s

nobody wants goes along with it will no more 2448 hours in as you say there paula keep us posted thanks from jerusalem with. a case study of how the world turn years ago the arab spring shook the middle eastern it was hailed at the time by the west as an opportunity to bring democracy there but some countries particularly those with close ties to washington appear to dodge the meaningful change looking good time behind so we look at how the likes of saudi arabia for instance of managed to avoid the transformations sweeping the region. the arab spring is a massive opportunity to spread peace prosperity democracy and fight to the security but only if we really seized the opportunity. this is saudi arabia's worst nightmare isn't it i mean the arrival of the new arab awakening as they're calling it and so on for sort of the about the last month the showing the smoke and so on and son on the balcony you're comfortable. in saudi arabia is drafting sauza security personnel in an attempt to crush a growing revolt in the kingdom in an attempt to avoid and resting up the law unveiled a massive social welfare pa

jerusalem. thank you. keep us posted. stay tuned on the israeli election story. >>> to brussels where the nato summit is happening. nic robertson is monitoring this from london. we talked about future proofing the alliance. what are the goals here for tony blinken, the secretary of state? >> reporter: this is a big day obviously his first visit to nato headquarters as secretary of state. he said that this is a pivotal moment, this is all about rebuilding and reinforcing the transatlantic alliance. this is very clearly a message coming from the biden administration here to work on a clear basis with allies and partners in europe. russia, the biggest sort of security threat they face at the moment, afghanistan will be a big topic this morning. he noted, secretary blinken noted that biden has set this may 1st withdrawal for all u.s. and nato forces from afghanistan will be hard to achieve. blinken said we went in together, we will adjust it together, we will leave together but his mission at nato was to listen and consult wi

posts oh this. is something thank you very much for filling us in there that was journalist sami suckle in jerusalem sketch up on some of the other stories making headlines around the world stay the chinese cities upon kong and macau suspended use of the biotech pies are covered 19 vaccine defective packaging was reported in one batch of the drug authorities say they've acted as a precautionary measure the vaccines manufacturers say there's no reason to believe safety is at risk. 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 ever given is evergreen rather 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 guatemala to close its international airport ash from the mountain has coated the runway and aircraft at la aurora airport the volcano south of guatemala city is one of the world's most active it's been spewing out violent explosions for several weeks now. now to myanmar were empty coup protesters are

jerusalem trading. just fox news. iran has made threats against fort mcnair, which is an army post in the nation's capital.s also threatening the army's vice chief of staff. back in january, the national security agency intercepted communications that indicated iran's revolutionary guard discussed mountain what was called ah uss cole style attack against the base, the uss cole was attacked in 2000 in the yemeni port of aden, killing 17 american soldiers. and referring to the current threats. intelligence officials say the islamic republic wanted to kill general joseph martin and plan to try to infiltrate the base. well for the first time ever. louisiana is sending a republican woman to the house of representatives. 40 year old julia let low, won a special election in northeast louisiana yesterday. now her husband, luke, won that seat back in november, but died before he could be sworn into office due to complicate shins from the coronavirus. let low campaigned on her late husband's platform and was endorsed by former president trump let lowe will be among 31 republican women in the house. financial devasta

posts about opposition protests critics say it's an attempt to silence them. dozens of fragments of 2000 year old scrolls bearing biblical texts have been recovered during an archaeological expedition south of jerusalem the fragments put on to the collection of jewish texts known as the dead sea scrolls found they could run in the occupied west bank in the 1940 s. and $950.00 s. the most recent finds include lines written in greek from the biblical books of zechariah and now home teams repelled down an a.t.v. to cliff finding the fragments at a site called the cave of horror because of its precarious position jewish rebels were believed to have hidden from the romans van. was told something about the cultural world of the of the rebels of the vocal horrible. many times these rebels are thought to be specifically very nationalistic. hebrew speakers the jews but we see here is that they also spoke rick that the reading greek and that they had their scriptures in greek sometimes. and when money has catch up any time on our website they're just that is out there dot com and you can also watch us live by clicking on the orange live icon our desired outcome. top stories are now to 0 european medicines agen

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his residence in jerusalem on saturday night largely about the the corruption issue but he retains a very very solid core of diehard supporters and he is saying that in terms of the post-election makeup of the parliament he needs 61 of the 120 seats for his own party and the group of other parties who might come with him he says he's very close to that and that he just needs a real turn out the vote operation on tuesday to get him over the line and i have there been much focus on palestine in this election. no almost none at all and that is a bit of a contrast to the last election when it was spoken of at least in terms of netanyahu as we'll and project talking about an exciting the occupied west bank that of course has gone away the deal done with other arab countries in the in the region the peace deals and no calls them that were done towards the end of last year that dissipated any momentum towards an accession and so there hasn't really been any talk about the conflict at all and that is not an unusual thing in israeli politics it's something that we've seen netanyahu successfully move the country away from the opposition leader pete was asked about it and indors