we will continue to be on this. ,onna lieberman, elise gould and robert pollin.s is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. nermeen: we ended the show in italy w where 6 60 million peope are in an unprecedented nationwide lockdown and the death toll has increased to o at least 82727. all airport will shut down passenger flights starting friday and rome's main airport will close a terminal. authorities ordered all shops closed except food markets and pharmacies. italy's economy has all but ground to a halt. amy: among the recent dead is the head of the medical association in northern italian province. italian doctors have warned doctors across europe to prepare for covid-19. in a letter, they reveal up to 10% of all people infected with the new coronavirus need intensive care. for more we go to milan to speak with antonella serrecchia, an italian journalist at the vision, an online magazine. welcome to democracy now! i know you are under the total lockdown right now, as is everyone else. describe what yours

avigdor lieberman. in september, he said he would only form a government of national unity, ruling out an alliance. is a party ofnu principals. wewe will not budge one millimer from what we promised, from what we committed to our voters. netanyahu's victory could be a significant come back after he was indicted on corruption charges in january. it could be a much-needed push ahead of his trial monday to begin march 17. genie: the e.u.'s top diplomat will be in turkey today, working on the fate of refugees in turkey. dozens of refugees are still stranded on the border with greece. that comes as fighting between turkey and syria continues. turkish defense ministry says a warplane of syrian forces has been shut down. turkey launched a military offensive last week in northwestern syria, to push back government forces looking to retake the rebel stronghold. our reporter told us more from the turkey-syria border. reporter: after a relative low infighting that lasted about 24 hours, starting sunday night, viol

and lieberman has repeatedly said that he'll never sit in a government with ever but all makers so it remains to be seen how exactly guns is going to overcome these obstacles and at the same time a corruption trial that was due to get underway tomorrow for the country's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been extended and postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic so we're keeping an eye on both those stories. thank you for the update. i'll agree kind of les pauls is sliding deeper into crisis with a number of asylum seekers there swelling and opposition towards them growing the prospect of coronavirus tearing through their overcrowded morea camp is also causing tensions to flare with even aid organizations facing hostility evangelise its us reports. the greek island of less full size a 3 week conflict on its hands as europe's front line to the migrant crisis some locals are taking more of a stance against the swelling numbers of refugees held up on the island and the ngos have been drawn into battle 2 reviews before people but not small couple of 100 they start blocking the str

lady they will troll 2 dogs and all the supporters of the occupation i don't know about lieberman that's the big question mark he's committed to balls i mean and he's committed against both and he will have to make up his mind with whom does he go. very hard to see what will be his decision but maybe there will not need him at all one thing must be very clear netanyahu comes now to the negotiation over creating a new government is a clear winner and this gives him a lot of moment momentum we've only got 10 seconds where we could be clear about the actual outcome of this along going to take just really briefly gideon please. know tomorrow morning we'll have the final results from war after known the late. gideon levy columnist at the israel can conclude it will let we'll let you get on back to watching the outcome there over the coming hours maybe update us later thank you for your time sir good night. ok there's very now a backlash against sexual minorities right in poland is our next story were 3rd of municipal agrees that declare themselves l g b t free zones shola dubinsky look at how

unity government one that is required for at least 6 months with him in charge to tackle the virus lieberman had initially at least supported that idea but now today he's saying that he sees that as something of a political tactic by netanyahu just to try to engineer fresh elections again in a few months time. so these oil giant a ram goes there has its net income has dropped by $22900000000.00 while prices of plummeted because of the global pandemic and a rift between saudi and russia over cutting oil production in response saudi arabia's government demanded aramco increase output to maintain its market presence egypt's stock market plunged at the beginning of its trading week after the government announced new measures to contain the outbreak the benchmark e.g. x. 30 index fell by more than 9 percent one point making it the worst drop since the 2011 uprising russia and turkey are holding joint military patrols in syria to monitor a cease fire in italy province the latest plan to try and violence in the last rebel held area was finalized on friday after 4 days of talks knowing cra patrollin

we've got 2 real kingmakers in play at the moment the key figure is lieberman he leads some of the more right wing parties he's he's a person who hasn't put his support behind the 2 key players which is benjamin netanyahu and. benny gantz of the blue and white party but he is the man that many are seeing as the key kingmaker and then you have the joint arab list which represents palestinian israelis a minnow days the leader of that list he has a significant number of. members of the knesset the parliament and if he decides to go with one party other that actually could help however if he goes with a could then you could get to form a government however if you goes with that bet against his party in this goes for lieberman as well that it's not guaranteed that benny gantz will still have those $61.00 seats needed to be able to form a parliament so even after the results come out in the next 24 hours this still going to be a lot of politicking a lot of deal making and a lot of people being reached out to by those 2 key players like i mentioned benny gantz and benjamin netanyahu to try and

let's bring in oren lieberman. what's the latest there? >> reporter: israel has been at the forefront to put in stringent restrictions. it remains that way. it used to be that you had to limit gatherings to 5,000. over the weekend that number was limited to 10. meanwhile, restaurants, cafes are closed, entertainment venues, leisure venues, those are all closed with some rumors circulating that it's not long before they shut down public transportation. all in an attempt to keep this as limited as possible. there are 250 confirmed case in israel, not that big of a number. a number that is still rising very quickly. on friday that number was 100. you see how quickly it's rising. in the middle of all of this, this challenges the military, economy, health care system, there is an ongoing political system that's lasted for a year. they haven't had a fully functioning government since 2018. perhaps coronavirus can do what the others could not. they need to find some sort of unity government or national government to get israel through this crisis

it's much easier said than done. >> oren lieberman for us. >>> germany is taking drastic action to containavirus and forcing border controls to the north, west, and south. >>> as you can see here, we have massive traffic jams here on the german/polish border. i want to take you with me. you can see how the professionals here, this is the polish army. you have two guys in hazmat suits taking everybody's temperature who's trying to go across the border. essentially this is something by the way you see in a lot of e o european countries as well. between germany and poland and germany. you have trucks like you can see here. they're still allowed to go through and get cargo traffic to keep going. every truck driver has to get his temperature taken. every car driver who wants to go across has to have their temperature taken. polish people can go across and we've seen a bunch of germans turned back. trucks have to wait a long time. even as the european countries are saying they want to minimize the economic impact, it does have a massive impact because goods just move so slowly. you can see right

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unity government one that is required for at least 6 months with him in charge to tackle the virus lieberman had initially at least supported that idea but now today he's saying that he sees that as something of a political tactic by netanyahu just to try to engineer fresh elections again in a few months time. says its profits dropped by almost 23000000000 dollars last year that's a 21 percent fall from 2018 because announcement did not mention the saudi government's new plan to increase output to maintain its market presence or prices have plummeted because of the global pandemic and disagreements amongst the major oil producing countries in recent talks russia refused to cut production russia and turkey are holding joint military patrols in syria to monitor a cease fire and it led province the latest plan to try and end violence in the last rebel held area was finalized on friday have to 4 days of talks in ankara now they're patrolling the strategic m. 4 highway linking syria's east and west the 2 countries back opposing sides in syria's war which started in 2011 cynicus sulu is in istanbu

unity government one that is required for at least 6 months with him in charge to tackle the virus lieberman had initially at least supported that idea but now today he's saying that he sees that as something of a political tactic by netanyahu just to try to engineer fresh elections again in a few months time and win those off the back. of his performance during the coronavirus so it's very unclear just yet as to which of these 2 possible present prime ministerial candidates will get the most recommendations we have to wait and see so there has been some talk to clear over the last couple of weeks that saying that mr netanyahu is only option is to go for a 4th general election say in 5 or 6 months but in the immediate short term what are the chances that mr netanyahu would gratefully accept having to play 2nd fiddle to prime minister benny gantz i think pretty short those sorts of odds netanyahu has made it very clear throughout this crisis especially over the course of the last week he's been on television pretty much every night very publicly taking charge of the coronavirus crisis and ess

our parties and a right wing political party belonging to a former army defense minister avigdor lieberman they are not natural allies so you'll just have one issue that will erupt in the 2 sides will fall apart guns also faces threats from 2 members of his own party who say that because he's formed this coalition they are going to withdraw and if they withdraw he won't have the 61 majority that he needs at this stage however the country's president we've been living in has tossed guns with forming the next government or at least trying to pick the law gives you 28 days beginning tomorrow to form a government this is a short amount of time but given the current circumstances of national and international crisis even this. i will do whatever it takes to form within a few days as possible national petri arctic and broad government so if guns doesn't manage to form a majority coalition one next. well then they're going to be for the elections and the question here for everyone is how do you hold elections when you have the coronavirus epidemic at the same time israelis are really fed up we've

coalition but he has actually only a few options because other parties like the israel bit tainui lieberman who it was always considered to be the king maker and also of course blue and white with any guns they have always said they wouldn't sit in the government with netanyahu as the prime minister they would sit that they could but not with ben you mean that and you know who because of his upcoming trial and his indictments so what will be left for him unless they make a compromise he could form and narrow right to being a coalition government but then still he needs some kind of defectors maybe those one or 2 seats from other factions that would go over to his likud party or to another smaller right wing party tanya this political impasse i mean what impact has this all had on voter turnout. but there was a lot of talk of doing the election campaign but also on election day that there's a vote of the team i think that concern may need the complaining because people have told me no we've heard everything no new political messages it's all about whether you are for or against and netanyahu

now what point that all arrows are pointing at they've got a couple of them going to be and the lieberman party is the possible time raises the big. deal with this problem with the good the only solution in this case would be the situation where one of those things were basically go against their electoral promises and agree to join a coalition with netanyahu was to get another option and this isn't it was stated by anybody else in the last 24 hours a very. fine what we call the best order from other parties maybe even the body that would allow him to reach the desired. goal focus what you're looking at is basically sort of scenario the unity government of the public pressure they mentioned guns and i think now and this one is a classic the right government that probably wouldn't be in the same policies and israel was the other option is what we see is the hardcore right wing for the government is my goal is to challenge some of the policies especially in regard to education in relation to centuries ok we'll have to leave it there till more c.n.n. middle east expert joining us from tel av

of refugees is that they should there has to be a just solution and jordan has bought into it lieberman has bought into it syria has bought into it egypt is bought to do it that is where the bodies tend to produce are and so therefore just simply to say as if you are of solving the territorial problem with a look at but is seen as in the west bank and gaza this does not sort of the but is seen and problem when the plan was unveiled in the white house 2 leaders came from the middle east the problem was they were both israelis now mr jarrott cushion of the president's son in law who did the negotiations says that's your fault because you didn't take part in the negotiations he now says as you mentioned you have for years that you could start negotiations with him and he says and these are his far from diplomatic words if they don't then they're going to screw up another opportunity like they've screwed up every opportunity that they've ever had in their existence what's your reaction while that look this sort of slogan you know that somebody is the means never missed an abortion or to tho

we need the people form if you have the main message and lieberman's right which is really one. i completely agree i think the the thing that everyone can do and again you don't need to be there's nothing special about that other than stay home if you need to go to the grocery store you need to go to the pharmacy send one person you know one person from your family try as much as you can to alter your life because it's going to save health care workers lives and it's going to save the lives of elderly and those who are affected by this virus and if we can slow the number of people that need ventilators and need extra respiratory support then you can allow health care workers to take care of those who are coming in without having to make decisions like italy is having to make right now. i have to say you know i think we just also need to bust the myth that a lot of young people think that they're invincible they say they go to the gym regularly that the you know under the age of 40 i'm not there wolf and i have to that they're not going to get the disease i'm not going to be affe

recommend gantz with the support to have netanyahu as former ally and now bitter rival i would do lieberman has 61 recommendations to netanyahu 58 that doesn't mean the benny gantz will now automatic. to be able to form a government there are some in his own party that don't favor a minority administration relying on the outside support of palestinian israeli members of parliament and there is considerable pressure from many quarters for a national unity government at a time when the country is facing a health and economic crisis in occupied east jerusalem muslim leaders of the al aqsa mosque compound close the mosque and the dome of the rock allowing worshippers to pray early in the courtyard across israel sunday was day one of a sweeping new set of restrictions entertainment venues shut down workers told to stay home if they can new digital tracking authorized to trace and slow contagion low income worried about really worried about both the north american late on sunday president rivlin trying to persuade guns and you know to unite in the face of the coronavirus and prevent israel from g

if it were a minority one which is one option with his own party the blue and white plus a door lieberman's israel bit tenue party a right wing party and the labor meretz alliance that would give him a minority government with support critically from the outside by the 15 largely palestinian israeli members of the knesset from the joint list the problem for him in trying to adopt that strategy what's twofold really one is that there are 2 members at least of his own party who are uncomfortable with that and may not vote for it and there is also this enormous pressure from the president from netanyahu the prime minister also a substantial feeling in the public i think as well that at this time we need a stable and relatively secure government in order to try to tackle the very least very strict and strenuous strains that have been put on this country by the coronavirus netanyahu is arguing for an emergency unity government under his leadership. benny gantz in his speech so that he wanted to make apache out of government as soon as possible serving all israeli citizens and he reached out his

palestinian israeli largely palace in israeli joint list and also 7 recommendations from avigdor lieberman's party israel to say that does give him least the chance is very much the high point of his political career so far there is the pressure still from the president riven rivlin and from elsewhere for an emergency national unity government to be formed because of the current fight against the groan of virus. right so does that mean that we we could see the netanyahu and dance possibly joining forces. well that is what the president wants is what benjamin netanyahu myself has said that he wants although of course under his leadership his proposal is that either he leads a joint unity emergency government for 6 months until the groan a virus is presumably defeated and then they go reset back to 0 and allow the politics to continue or that they deal on a 4 year unity government he goes 1st for 2 years benny gantz would go 2nd but that would really presuppose that he's the man in pole position and after what's happened today benny gantz would feel that he's in bold positions so they would st

orren lieberman, exit polls are already coming in. what are you seeing?rly exit polls show that netanyahu's party has a good showing, and they put netanyahu's lead over his rival, the blue and white party at somewhere between three and five seats and already based on the lead, they are claiming victory. they put out a statement saying netanyahu spoke this evening with all the parties of the national block and they agreed to form a strong national government for israel soon. there's a problem here, netanyahu's goal from the beginning was to win 61 seats in israel's parliament, and the majority of the 120, but all three exit polls suggests that netanyahu has fallen short and he has a 60-seat block of the religious right wing parties, and meaning at least at this point based on the exit polls, which of course can change, netanyahu does not have what appears to be a straightforward path of putting together a 61-seat coalition, what he needs. and we could hear if those polls shifted, and it will be a long night of vote counting but perhaps you can hear it's al

or r orrin lieberman is in tel aviv. are they going to break this election this time? >> reporter: the prediction of that answer would be no, but the stalemate over a year now would continue. election polls are one thing, election day is something very different, and it's important to note on this day that at 6:00 p.m., so just about half an hour ago, voter turnout was up, 6.2 percent rather than 4% two months earlier. israelis have defied expectations for everything this election had going against it. more israelis have come out to vote, the question is for whom? prime minister benjamin netanyahu, the crux of his campaign was based at getting out 300,000 voters to win this election, although that 200 pledge points doesn't count for this election. it would certainly be a strong showing for benjamin netanyahu. enough to get him over the line? we'll see in election polls in a couple hours and actual results. but that's what we're watching as election polls are open for two more hours, john. >> we'll count the votes and check back in tomorrow to see if they'll get a fourt

. >>> just for the record, lieb lieberman came up with joementum six years ago.ight now. and joe biden adding another state to the win as there is a lis of brand-new biden endorsers, but is the bernie sanders promise of a revolution enough to keep the battle of the nomination going to the convention? >>> as the white house is attacking the democrats for politicizing failures in response to the coronavirus, president trump is now trying to blame obama for the delay in testing. another day in which the administration is trying to clear up confusion and mixed signals in responding to the virus. >> and then a state of emergency in tennessee after the deadliest tornado day in seven years. 24 are dead and a dozen more are

i want to get the read on this from joe lieberman. thank you for joining us. >> thank you, charles. >> charles: we never saw were so many candidates dropped out of a race and immediately pivoted and endorsed the person that slings and arrows have been going to. apparently, a lot of premises have already been made. maybe getting ahead of himself here? >> yeah, i think so. when i was in the ascendant, i work in the governmental affairs committee to create a program which was created to give nominees of the major parties for president funding after they get nominated to begin to get ready to take office so they don't have to delay once they get into the oval office, which ever wins. but this is a little early. the story -- i read it in the paper. it seems like rumor to me. in some ways, it may be clever by some people if it's real. it appeals to some of the people whose names i mentioned. frankly, it can scare people away. in other words, elizabeth warren mentioned as secretary of treasury. they could have an impact -- not a good one on

. >>> just for the record, lieb lieberman came up with joementum six years ago. "the lead" starts right now. and joe biden adding another state to the win as there is a lis of brand-new biden endorsers, but is the bernie sanders promise of a revolution enough to keep the battle of the nomination going to the convention? >>> as the white house is attacking the democrats for politicizing failures in response to the coronavirus, president trump is now trying to blame obama for the delay in testing. another day in which the administration is trying to clear up confusion and mixed signals in responding to the virus. >> and then a state of emergency in tennessee after the deadliest tornado day in seven years. 24 are dead and a dozen more are missing and the search for survivors and the stories of heroism. >>> welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper and we begin with breaking news in the 2020 lead. cnn has projected that joe biden has won the state of maine pushing the delegate lead further. this is the vice president taking ten states last night in a dramatic monumental

nancy lieberman has the highest total with more than $1,300 pledged. >>> sal castaneda is back.ou fix everything out there on the roads yet? >> the good news is some of the crashes we had cleared rather quickly. i think it's a little easier for c hp to work under these conditions when there's not a lot of traffic. we had an earlier crash involving a caltrans trailer. now, i do want to ask you to look at this video if you're at home and looking at the sales force transit center. thit in the morning, usually it would be jam packed. again, that's the main escalator there. there are a few people around. but if you have to conduct essential business using transit, you can be sure that social distancing will be possible. so go ahead and get out there and do this if you have to because you won't have to worry about running into a lot of people. >>> all right. let's go back to the live traffic. you can see that traffic is recovering from any earlier problems that we had. i'm happy to say that we don't have a lot going on. about the only thing i do want to warn you about, it has been rai

. >> the last person to refer to that was joe lieberman. you have indications of it.think, why do you believe so many people are coming to joe biden now and is it not, as some sanders feel, a reaction to his surge? >> absolutely not. i've been with vice president biden. i've seen him on the ground in my home state of nevada. he finished a strong second there and went on to south carolina to win decisively. showing up everywhere including in mississippi and alabama, places bernie sanders chose not to show up over this weekend. and vice president biden is building this broad coalition that we're ultimately going to need to win, not just this nomination but to defeat donald trump in november. >> so what do you expect in michigan? >> michigan, all indications are the vice president is going to finish very strong, and the reason is, because when michigan was knocked down after the great recession, it was vice president biden along with president obama that were there to help address the bailout of the auto industry, saving tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of jobs,

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gantz could soon become prime minister after israel's former defense minister avigdor lieberman said his far-right ultra-nationalist party would join gantz's coalition. gantz is a former israeli general whose campaign ads have boasted about palestinian body counts and bombing gaza back to the stone ages. both gantz and netanyahu support israeli settlements on occupied palestinian land, which are illegal under international law. this is palestinian chief negotiator saeb erekat reacting to monday's election. >> from what we have just seen, it is obvious annexation won the election. the whole election campaign was of the valley,n the settlements in jerusalem, subjecting the palestinian people further and deeper into the israeli occupation. amy: meanwhile, prime minister netanyahu is set to face trial march 17 on charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust. in washington, d.c., secretary of state mike pompeo on thursday condemned a decision by the international criminal court to prprobe alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in afghanistan by u.s. troops and the cia.

will recommend gantz with the support to have netanyahu as former ally and now bitter rival avigdor lieberman has 61 recommendations to netanyahu 58 that doesn't mean the benny gantz will now automatically be able to form a government there are some in his own party that don't favor a minority administration relying on the outside support of palestinian. israeli members of parliament and there is considerable pressure from many quarters for a national unity government at a time when the country is facing a health and economic crisis in occupied east jerusalem muslim leaders of the al aqsa mosque compound close the mosque and the dome of the rock allowing worshipers to pray in lima courtyards across israel sunday was day one of a sweeping new set of restrictions and detainment venues shut down workers told to stay home if they can new digital tracking authorized to trace and slow contagion low income worried about a grim warning about an hour late on sunday president rivlin trying to persuade gantz and netanyahu to unite in the face of the coronavirus and prevent israel from going into a 4th e

palestinians looks to secured 15 seats the secular nationalist israel but a new lead by average joe lieberman predicted to gain 6 seats let's cross that a high for cities that went to netanyahu is headquarters in tel aviv so what reaction has there been to this. will this pretty celebrate free mood here as you probably see and hear behind us at this headquarters party event in tel aviv we just heard from the former marriage jerusalem a senior but benjamin netanyahu says scuse me have some people working for this idea. you know his party. i think within our party saying that this was a clear victory for netanyahu and that he would have. the prospects in the coming days and weeks to form a government the polls though the exit polls do show him short of an outright ability to do that he requires an israeli parliament the knesset 61 seats both for his likud party and from the other allied parties to be sure to be able to form a government the 3 main polls show him at 60 at the moment now that isn't conclusive it could change in the coming hours it could even change in a few days time when we hear