it's a conundrum that cannot be solved so therefore you know the electorate said actually we think shinn fein are legit legitimate political party and that's why a quarter of people voted for shin fein and should famously bitterly regretting not fielding more candidates in the south they only feel that 42 because the election surpassed their expectations i think eventually figure for oil off in a gale will have to do business with sinn fein but the moment they're still treating them as toxic i think they're still marooned in 1980 s. 1990 s. mindset in their attitudes to shin fein. 3 weeks after the election still lost sight of a government being formed what's your best guess as a professor studying irish politics what government is likely to have nerves from this very very confused outcome of this 2 possible option should faine will try i think to form a government with various parties on the left i'm not sure the numbers are quite there for that but i think she and fame will definitely try and do that mary lou mcdonald is perfectly capable of forming alliances with a wide range of left

indications are correct there will have to be another coalition of some sort in pre-election debate shinn feigns leader criticize the main parties for not wanting change. you see that see this is scare that scene of silence and again have had us all their own way now for almost a century and the truth is that they don't want to last and i will turn this and. ok let's get some analysis now with the political analyst and director of pangea why. good evening to you please men what do you make of the exit polls so far in the commentary that we've heard many people are saying this is a success story fane i'm thinking if the party is refusing to go into coalition with how much of a victory or cysts excess story is it really. as it was a question i think you have to 1st of all andrew wait and see what the actual results are you know we can speculate all we want before we see the results come in but i think we'll have a clearer idea of where the country goes next once these results come in but let's take the speculative results now take a split 3 ways and historically it's been a 2 party system c

political history it looks as if they could be a shift away from the centrist parties to the left wing shinn fame party during 30 years of violence in northern ireland a period known simply as the troubles in which 3 and a half 1000 people died shin fein were regarded as being the political wing of the paramilitary group the ira the party now says those old distinctions no longer applied have set tackling some of violence biggest problems at the heart of the party's campaign also want to hold a referendum on unifying arland within 5 years something that the centrist parties say it's too soon a referendum that could have a destabilizing factor on the whole of the island of ireland no single party is expected to win this election outright coalition building is inevitable the question is whether these parties can work together to form a stable government if barca for inside story well here's a look at some of the main campaign themes in this election in a recent poll voters said that health care worse that top priority hospitals are facing staffing shortages at a struggling to meet demand waiti

politics and island seems to be on the brink of a momentous shift in its general election shinn saying has seen a surge in support exit polls have the republican party matching the vote share of the 2 main ones or what was a fringe party may have now risen to prominence as paul brennan explains and the results we can now show you pre-election opinion polls suggested that the political order here was about to be turned on its head this exit poll suggests it has been turned on its head and shaken up and down the 2 center right parties phina for oil and phina gale which are jointly dominated irish politics for nearly a century have been matched by shin fein each polling 22 percent of 1st preference votes and what that means essentially is that the party has been making games and it's now consolidated those gains over the last number of years so they're in a strong position going forward not necessarily to form a government this time right there anyone running for 2 candidates but certainly for the next election they're in a very good position. the buzzword of this election campaign was ch

there are 2 days of negotiations going on between fan of foil and the green party shinn fan of alreadyand the green party have also also met for a whole day at how far i mean because the truth is the point of these negotiations is to see whether multiple parties can get together around a programme for government so the details that come around in such a. in such a situation have to be work done to the absolute bottom line so that the minor parties that go into it know that when they come back for election they've been able to deliver certain concrete things because many of these left wing pasties were delivered through the proportional system into the seats effectively by shouldn't fame transfer don't the then those independents will who have to say the mother is to get something for the particular part of ireland oh it's getting very popular to be not part of any political party at all. i mean there's a family in kerry called the race they have to they've elected 2 brothers and they are absolutely consummate negotiators for kerry not the rest of the country just for kerry and the kerr

elsewhere in china people taking any chances want shinn hopes leaders will learn their lesson from the outbreak. at the beginning nobody paid enough attention everyone thought it was under control until it was too late. and looks forward to life under lockdown coming to an end. al-jazeera beijing will dr mohamed money as overall a just at lancaster university and he says efforts to lock down that city of will have been largely successful but there is still pressure on the chinese authorities to do more. in the majority of the cases those being our own the word they are directly or indirectly associated with who one or the who bear prevents and because probably that was the reason that the majority of the efforts were really to contain and to isolate and to lock down the people in that proven and since the application of those approaches the overall number of cases that we stored see here in their own the word start to decline and all those cases that appear ofter words were true in direct routes from singapore or from other countries where infected people have transmitted the virus so

an outright majority because center right female party came in 3rd behind the left wing nationalist shinn sane and old rivals for oil. well still ahead here on out is there is news of the murder case that brought the suit to prime minister a body will face charges for alleged involvement in the killing of his 2nd wife. and find out why lebanon could default on its loan payments for the very 1st time i did sports that all formula one champions reinventing the steering wheel peter that story straight after the break. a long lasting some quiet weather into the southeast of the u.s. in see this area cloud here that's the one that brought the flooding to mississippi into tennessee that's now in the process of easing out into the open waters still want to see coastal shot was early on friday just around the carolinas but that will pull out to the wettest look at the temperatures tumble behind snow higher than around say 3 celsius there for new york for what they say single figures across a good part of the map here will see some wet weather eventually pushing its way back towards the southwest

elsewhere in china people taking any chances want shinn hopes leaders will learn their lesson from the outbreak. at the beginning nobody paid enough attention everyone thought it was under control until it was too late. and looks forward to life under lockdown coming to an end katrina new al-jazeera aging. well say steve zahn is the director of the china institute at so us which is part of university of london he says the handling of the virus in china is also playing an important role in domestic politics. we have to be aware that the. party is much more seizing the retailer and controlling the. spread and the negative news of how the government is managing it and with the actual management of the public health crisis we see it in the compulsion and all the top level special to me by xi jinping all 9 members only one doctor is responsible for public health the others are responsible for propaganda and public security i think we have to make a distinction between the spread of the virus beyond china and how the chinese government is actually working with the international community to

secure an outright majority right because center right party came 3rd behind the left wing nationalist shinn sane and old rivals a sheen of oil. israel's prime minister plans to build thousands of settler homes in occupied east jerusalem benyamin netanyahu made the announcement during a visit to one of the areas where construction will take place a spokesperson for the palestinian president condemned the decision calling it a systematic attempt to destroy the 2 state solution the settlements are built in violation of international law sorry for cities in west jerusalem he says it appears that neo is trying to shore up support ahead of israel's election in 2 weeks' time. for making this announcement benjamin netanyahu hailed an expansion of the city connecting he said all parts of a united jerusalem so very much in accordance with what was announced by the trumpet ministration just a few days ago in the trump peace plan. a united jerusalem under israeli sovereignty and that me i would do all he can to try to enact portions of that on the ground it seems a specifically in this announcement $22