italy's right wing likud party has failed in its bid to win a k. regional election losing to the incumbent center left democratic party likud party later vini had hoped a victory in northern humility would help in bringing down the least fragile national coalition government. fans and fellow players a mourning the death of american basketball star kobe bryant and i. died in a helicopter crash the retired because playa was in the private helicopter when it went down near los angeles on sunday leaving no survivors the victims include his teenage daughter and other young athletes and members of the families. well brian stiff has triggered a huge outpouring of grief in the n.b.a. has postponed choose dies like his game as a mock of respect. he was the smiling face of the n.b.a. for 2 decades. bryant was the shooting guard for the l.a. lakers who went straight from high school to the n.b.a. he was an 18 time all-star who won 5 n.b.a. titles and 2 olympic gold medals. picture. he's inspired a whole generation only 41 years old he died alongside his 13 ye

there was a likud party primary only a week ago where netanyahu handily defeated his challenger gideonvernment. of course a primary is not necessarily indicative of the larger vote of the israeli population, only party members can vote and usually brings out the most diehard supporters of the party, but certainly netanyahu has retained his status as the first on the list, meaning that he would be the next prime minister in government, so it will now be up to the public to decide if they will give the likud party the largest number of mandates to form the next government. sara hirschhorn there. in indonesia, floods in the capitaljakarta, have killed at least 16 people and forced thousands to leave their homes. among the dead is a teenager who was electrocuted. sylvia lennan—spence reports. the heavy monsoon rains began lashing the indonesian capital on new year's eve, triggering the worst flooding seen there in almost seven years. houses have been submerged, forcing more than 19,000 people to leave their homes and find shelter elsewhere. more than 700 areas in the greaterjakarta region

the likud held last week by 72 percent of the vote that's given him confidence to be able to go in and try and survive this political fight and as we've seen throughout the last decade prime minister benjamin netanyahu is very much a savvy political player he can weather these crisis however this is the biggest crisis these are all the biggest crisis these ever face in these 3 court cases of corruption are likely to give him a lot more trouble in the coming year all right from western islam and thank you in india the family of a young man shot in the head during a protest say he was intentionally killed by police he is one of at least $25.00 people to die since demonstrations started last month against the government's new citizenship law lisa blaming protesters carrying illegal firearms and her reports now from the northern state of a separate dash. 24 year old was shot in the head he was a bread maker and the sole provider for his family. his 80 year old father is inconsolable his mother less his disabled brother with 3 kids who were raised has no clue how the family will survive the

italy's right wing likud party has failed in its bid to win a key regional election losing to the incumbent center left democratic party league party leader matteo salvini had hoped that a victory in the northern part of italy would help in bringing down the country's fragile national coalition government. u.s. president donald trump says that he has a plan to solve the israeli palestinian conflict and that he plans to unveil the details on tuesday it's expected to be firmly in israel's favor and has already been rejected by palestinian authorities trump welcomed israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu today and his main political rival by the guns at the white house to discuss the peace plan the jordan valley in the occupied west bank the area running along the jordan bordering jordan is to teach equally important for both israelis and palestinians the photo area is home to israeli settlements palestinian villages and many times. at this israeli pepper from sun is waiting to hear more about president trump's way full of it. lots of things that we don't need anyone to lay out a peace plan

is general kasim sala money one of the most powerful men in iran so the money was head of iran's a likud force and had a key role in fighting in syria and iraq also killed was the deputy leader of iraqi militia group xabi a militia backed by iran the incident occurred amid tensions with the u.s. after a rocky protesters and members of hotshot be attacked the u.s. embassy in baghdad. well the news of the monies death has sent shock waves across the world a w reporter i mean to see if is with me to discuss those reaction. price and condemnation what are they saying the u.s. officials at this stage where there are divisions within the u.s. even among the government sent. chris murphy he's a democrat from connecticut he's also on the senate committee for foreign relations he was one of the 1st u.s. officials to respond to this and we can take a look at what he said not nice words for what happened here he said he was an enemy of the united states that's not a question the question is this as reports suggested america just assassinate without any congressional authorization the 2nd most power

lost elections the last 2 elections but he did decisively win the leadership challenge and in the likud party east just this is a political survivors and. he's now absolutely because while he's been ruling his role for nearly a decade now and part of his speech was very netanyahu was very bullish it was very cocky very confident he said that there were no other leaders that it was him that the prosperity to israel he talked about the gas pipeline that was going to open he talked about the his achievements and it was a real showmanship and when you do speak to ordinary israelis here a lot of them will tell you that actually he's doing a good job and they will support him however there are a lot of people on the left 200 center left centrist parties who want netanyahu out because they feel that he's been there for far too long and he actually said this in his speech the only other kind of that's against be the only qualities are is there not me ok thank you for the update imran khan in west jerusalem now the mother of a british woman convicted in cyprus of lying about being raped is calli

next prime minister in government, so it will now be up to the public to decide if they will give the likudment. all right, we will keep an eye on those elections in march. thank you very much for your time. thank you very much for your time. thank you, happy new year. let's get more of the day's other news. the former national basketball association commissioner david stern has died aged 77. mr stern took charge of the sport in 1984 and during his 30 years an office for basketball‘s revenues increase more than 30 fold. and before we go, we'd like to leave you with these pictures. motorists in the us state of washington found their way blocked by vast thickets of tumbleweed, which were blown across a highway in benton county. five cars and a truck were trapped for hours over the new year. the department of transportation had to use snow ploughs to clear the weed, which was up to five metres high in places. impressive! stay with us on bbc news, lots more coming up. hello there. it was a relatively quiet start to the new year weather—wise, wasn't it? but a change is likely through today, we a

as the leader of the likud party salvini helped propel the once fringe political movement into a major political force his nationalist message and hardline tone on immigration resonated with voters making the leak it was popular party quit the government last year and is now seeking a comeback in sunday's elections for the legislative assembly. also from the lead party please salvias chances of winning any case are pretty high. any normal kountry where an illegal bore you are writing your codes to your goal you know your politics. are. hardly your a security system. have to stop a bit in our planet county they are legal. you use it it's all arse again our security guard our security the block and the judgement try to make a try to get me nice now but i was trying to protect the borders in feed the captain of the a legal block that was arriving. and even any normal even in my county is the open young but that really was the right position to us legal philosophy just off the subject the because we want to know arise in our county they where we bout was one they was not the refugees. and

watched closely the signs as the weather for deputy prime minister mattel selvin in his right wing likud party are likely to claim power when next holds parliamentary elections and again go reports on this now from. a few minutes ago italy's former deputy prime minister paid a visit to tully and to his young family home to be let in the premise he said to find out if their families youngest son was a drug dealer but the humiliation of a family targeted over a rumor was live streamed of a tale salvini social media page without any evidence to support the allegation. it is a tactic that has seemed to believe part of this quest to click bait his way to popularity there was ever a time where the leak could dominate italy it would be now even some familiar faces such as from a prime minister silvio berlusconi also lending his support. historically has always been left wing it was a base for the resistance during fascist italy and it's proud of that tradition but right wing parties have been trying to break out of it in the long live. longer live longer live democracy long live the league are

this at his cabinet meeting on sunday well today there are reports emerging and israeli media quoting likud officials and they are saying that that is just too quick it cannot happen on sundays unclear why it can't happen on sunday what exactly the cause of the delay is some people are saying it's a technical issue others are saying he just can't move this quickly and that calls into question how much of a mandate exactly prime minister benjamin netanyahu actually has because we're a little over a month away from the next parliamentary elections of course prime minister netanyahu has used this proposed peace plan as a way to tell his constituents that he is the person to vote for to keep things going to keep things secure in israel the but another thing to watch is going to be in the days to come the palestinian reaction obviously all factions across the political the palestinian political spectrum have said no to this proposal they've said it before they said it again yesterday they're going to be more meetings between palestinian faction leaders and in the coming days in fact palestinian

resigned to win support for rapidly and it could leave the door open for me and to immigration rules and likud party a win for them would likely see fresh elections and a hard shift to the right a shot of deep in ski reports. as a tell you go to the polls in the northern region of the me this weekend there is a lot at stake not just for the current shaky coalition government but also potentially for the future of one of its members the 5 star movement the empty establishment party was founded 11 years ago with a promise to rid italy of a corrupt ruling. elite a champion of digital to look or see it still ascended quickly and brightly taking a 3rd of the folks in 2018 election and joining to form not one but 2 governments but as we all know what goes up at some point must come off to that big election turnout 5 star set about signing up to a brand new italian government with the leak though the leak was supposed to be a junior partner the headline grabbing lead them to you so the need pushed it into the forefront that it state you know the good times for the illegals are over get ready to pack

is to weaken iranian rule in the region because one of the main ideas at that time is you know you likud in the region of iran economically but what about what about politics what about the region or so that men say should i i would argue that they would assess what the what they have done in the context of weakening iranian of the general by targeting the person who is running who is actually designing and who was implementing that original broad and different places like iraq and syria what you believe are there for thank you thank you george well their acts prime minister has been talking hagel of the mahdi is calling the incident a dangerous exco lation that will light a fuse of a destructive war in the region and across the world let's cross over to simona fault and who is in baghdad similarly also said the 2 losses were huge symbols of the victory against the islamic state. indeed so we finally have a statement from caretaker prime minister. the in which he condemned the assassinations of the money and the alamo hundreds in the strongest terms he called both of them quote martyrs w

he has maintained that this is just the beginning of a right to try and turn the region towards the likud party however that is an enormous challenge in a region that is historically leftwing since the 2nd world war and this is a very good reason for that because this was one of the bases for the uprising the partisan movement which helped to overthrow the regime of benito mussolini the fascist leader here initially back then. in libya at least 11 soldiers from the un backed government have been killed near misrata forces loyal to the warlord who leave after we're trying to advance on the town of abu graine misrata is libya's 2nd largest city it is home to groups who oppose have to have to launch his offensive to seize tripoli. last year a spokesman for half the says there is no political solution to this conflict. went to moscow and berlin and before that we went to several other countries we were not searching for a solution we know that the solution is in the gun the solution is in the ammunition and in the hearts of our men still we always try to listen to the international community

with his cabinet on sunday that it is not going to happen on sunday there are officials tied to the likud party that are being quoted in israeli media outlets saying that it's just not possible to get that going that quickly so unclear yet when exactly that would be put to a vote if that's a hiccup going forward when exactly that would happen now i would also like to bring in some of the reactions we're seeing in local newspapers this is the. palestinian newspaper the front page essentially one side of it talking about what trump outlined in his plan saying that it would be an undivided jerusalem as the capital of the israeli state and that a palestinian state would be conditional then on the other side there are remarks from palestinian president mahmoud abbas essentially rejecting the deal an article that goes on to talk about all the reasons why that deal is unacceptable to mahmoud abbas and to the palestinian factions now also let's contrast that's what we're seeing in haaretz which is an israeli daily on this side of the front page trump unveils deal the prime minister and say yes pa

put himself front and center of the regional campaign turning it into a nationwide battle for the likud party in a bid to consolidate the party's victory across the country spreading his presence far and wide on social media platforms and spite of it all it didn't quite happen this time while the league may not have gained a victory here in a 1000000 all manya however the fact that they are the 2nd largest party here really comes down to the fact that they have made enormous gain here in this region which is part of italy's red belt. get your supporters of the incumbent regional president is that what i thought she may be relieved at the outcome he himself acknowledges support led to him by the liberal anti populous flashmob group known as the sardines c of a league party when pushed many of them to pack the squares here and across the country nevertheless it is a shock to the system that so many in this leftwing bastion voted for the far right league. can celebrate the personal success. because in this campaign year hole the. candidate to be. the. very good the result. he may not have

because impose new sanctions on 4 petrol companies accuses of moving or oil exports from iran to the likud's force the move comes 3 weeks after the us killed would force commander and so lamont a washington accuses the firm so transferring hundreds of millions worth of exports from the national ronnie and oil company is treasury secretary says iran's petroleum operations for what it describes as the country's global terrorist activities austin also impose sanctions on 2 people with ties to the companies the court has ordered me and more to prevent acts of genocide against the rohingya all 17 judges from the international court of justice decided to impose emergency pulmonary measures they said it's plausible genocidal violence took place in 2017 but a final verdict on whether me and mark committed genocide that could actually take years reason cox's bizarre in bangladesh where 700000 people fled the violence in me in march 2017. the ruling by the international court of justice is very much welcomed by they're going to represent communities here now we've been discussing with many of the peop

a political fight on his hands because like i said things are now dividing along party lines the likud party will support him in this immunity request but it's by no means guaranteed that the others or will support him other opposition the party people will support him so it's not clear whether he will get that immunity request. now to india the family of a young man shot in the head during a protest say he was intentionally killed by police is one of at least $25.00 people to die since demonstrations started last month against the government's new citizenship more police blaming protesters carrying illegal firearms and shovel her reports from the northern state of a pradesh. 24 year old was shot in the head he was a bread maker and the sole provider for his family. his 80 year old father is inconsolable his mother less his disabled brother with 3 kids who were raised has no clue how the family will survive the loss of river a girl who didn't even litters body home for the last. what happened to the government what's happened to the police who came to this firing bullets. on december 2

to create a unity government there is no chance that it's and you know will remain as the head of likud is this politically risky as a strategy on the part of mr netanyahu no i don't see that as a choice and there's a risk in it to be sure but i don't see that he has a choice other than to do this ok ellie jacobs thank you very much. plenty more ahead here on the news hour including the woman described as africa's richest denies allegations of corruption in an exclusive interview with al jazeera . and accused of unfairly targeting muslims india's most populous state cracks down on protesters opposed to a new citizenship law. and football self-styled special one gets himself into trouble once again paul will have more in the sports news in about 30 minutes. the u.n. envoy to libya is accusing un security council members of violating an arms embargo son selami says there are concerns about foreign fighters being flown into libya turkey's parliament is due to vote on thursday on whether to deploy troops it follows a request for military support by the un backed government in tripoli it's c

put himself front and center of the regional campaign turning it into a nationwide battle for the likud party in a bid to consolidate the party's victory across the country spreading his presence far and wide on social media platforms and spite of it all it didn't quite happen this time while the league may not have gained a victory here in a 1000000 romagna however the fact that they are the 2nd largest party here really comes down to the fact that they have made enormous gain here in this region which is part of italy's red belt. get your supporters of the incumbent regional president is that what i thought she may be relieved at the outcome he himself acknowledges support led to him by the liberal anti populous flashmob group known as the sardines see of a league party when pushed many of them to pack the squares here and across the country nevertheless it is a shock to the system that so many in this leftwing bastion voted for the far right league. can celebrate a personal success. because in this campaign year holder schild. candidate to be. the draw of his coalition to a very good

a bitter head to head struggle head to head between the 2 largest parties maternal mr netanyahu is likud and benny gantz is blue and white party which as you point out you know not only was there not a clear winner over the course of the year but there does not look like there's likely to be a clear winner based on current surveys even in march so you can't separate the political nature of this in the israeli debate i think it would be overstating the case to imagine that in the american context president trump will distract you know congression the discussions in the senate over the impeachment hearings i have a hard time imagining that anybody in that process will be distracted by this particular issue but it is a major development for the middle east we're looking at the 1st potential you know exposé of this plan this deal that's been you know anticipated and discussed for so long much promised many headlines over the course of the last couple of years about what it includes and right now we see a lot of speculation what is clear is that only israeli leaders were invited to this discu

for more on this, let's go to tel aviv and speak to sharren haskel, a member of likud who sits on them the israeli defence first. he has his christmas day message to his to say that they needed to prepare for a limited but intense war against iran. as the killing of general soleimani in that context, do you think? in israel, we are always ready for that threat. iran is committed a ticking bomb. it is not whether it will happen, rather when. —— considered a ticking bomb. israel is the only country that has an open thread for its elimination. the regime of iran has made as a threat numerous times. the question is, how much power and military force that they will have when they will actually do that. there is a quote from a former commander of the revolutionary guard today that israel will be in the firing line as pa rt israel will be in the firing line as part of this retaliation and they are looking at, they say, the northern israeli city of haifa. as the israeli government now only worth it in? 0nly? the israeli government now only worth it in? only? on a warfooting? we prepare for an