dana lewis joins us from jerusalem. the latest on the vote and the new government the once and future prime minister hopes to form. it's inside story. stay with us. >> the stream, >> your digital community >> you pick the hot topics and express your thoughts the stream it's your chance to join the conversation only on al jazeera america >>> you're watching inside story. the margin of victory for israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in yesterday's israeli elections caught pollsters by surprise and made the early and confident declaration of victory look like an act of bravado but he was right. the early exit polls that showed a tie were wrong. he won a clear victory over isaac herzog. dana lewis joins us now from jerusalem. it wasn't until late in the going that everybody was saying this was a tie. what happened? >>reporter: well, everybody went by the television exit polls and they were wrong. they got it wrong. and for whatever reason whether there were technical difficulties or the voter turnout or where they were

senior global affairs correspondent elise labott joins us from jerusalem.ew" and the colonel is a former member of joint chiefs of staff. it seems as if john kerry was just waiting, waiting to get into that with senator rubio and others. >> yes, carol. certainly it's no secret that the republican seat of the congress definitely does not like this deal with iran. they're looking for a much tougher deal. and made clear after this whole brouhaha with prime minister's netanyahu's speech and now they knew details before but using that momentum after that speech last week to make clear that they are not happy with this deal. open letter to iran. what's coming back and forth from iran. foreign minister putting out something a day later. this administration is not happy with the way congress is treating this deal. the administration is saying let us finish these negotiations. if you don't like the deal then we can talk about it. the administration doesn't really feel like it needs the authority of congress to go ahead with this deal. they're saying that you need to

is back in israel after his unprecedented speech to the joint section of congress, he joins us from jerusalem. prime minister thank you for being here, the president told bill plante we will walk away from any deal if it does not include more stringent inspections than the iranians have already agreed to. is that good enough? >> i respect president obama i expressed in me speech for many things that he's done for israel. we share the same goal of preventing iran from getting a nuclear weapon but disagree how to do it. i do not trust with the regime, it didn't work with north korea, violated it and played good game of hide-and-seek. didn't work with iran they cheated and bamboozled inspectors, under the nose of inspectors they built underground bunkers that they didn't know about the inspectors and we, intelligence agencies, the u.s. israel, britain didn't know about for years i be lot more circumspect. that you contract iran's nuclear programs there's less to inspect. >> schieffer: do you trust the president to make the right decision on this? >> i think this is not an issue, a personal issue

. >> thanks for joining us from jerusalem. these warnings we are hearing from mr. netanyahu about iran come as u.s. secretary of state, john kerry try to reach an agreement. we are going to take you there and get the iran yan perspective from the persians that join us from there. before we get to the substance of the talk how is it being viewed in iran? >> reporter: well in iran the iran yans are closely and anxiously following the negotiations. most of them hope a deal is eventually done so the national sanctions are removed and the economy starts moving. the iranians are under pressure. judging by social media and reports out of the streets of tehran they are very very anxious about it. not just them iranians here in the hotel behind me the negotiators are worried about what mr. netanyahu might be saying this afternoon, what he has up his sleeve and whether he is about to share any details of the negotiations which could lead in derailing the negotiations. i should say, for the past few months i have been covering these talks and the negotiators have been keeping

o rain lieberman joining us from jerusalem. we know that mr. netanyahu was making final changes to his speech during the flight on is not. what can we -- on sunday. what can we expect him to say in front of congress? >> the content of the speech won't be too much of a surprise. we expect him to talk about the threat of a nuclear iran not own only to israel and the security of israel but to peace in the middle east. generally in term of content and topics he'll be talking about, there is agreement. the politicians agree a nuclear iran is a threat to the safe of israel. what people disagree to is whether this speech is a good idea and good way toward america and to negotiation areas in the dole about it. a lot of people are split. some agree, some say generally on the right say, yes, going to washington is a good idea. whereas the left generally sees this as a bad idea with two weeks to go until the elections. >> to that point, you had more than 180 former commanders there in does who held a press conference on sunday essentially urging the prime

>> cnn global awars correspondent elise labott jans us from jerusalem with more on this. >> reporter:essarily like an up or down. we won't know who the next prime minister is that night. we'll know which party has the most seats. clearly prime minister netanyahu's party is down in the latest leading newspaper polls. we have one that came out this morning from a leading newspaper that says netanyahu's party is four seats behind the leading challenger. but the poll actually goes on to show that when you ask about who do you believe more suitable to be prime minister here benjamin netanyahu 48% to 28%. there seems to be this momentum for change carol, but not real radical change. people definitely are going frustrated with prime minister netanyahu but aren't necessarily ready to endear his opponent. >> why are they frustrated with netanyahu? >> reporter: there's been a focus by the prime minister on security issues on iran on threats in the region on the danger of making a peace deal with palestinians that doesn't protect israel's security and there's a lot of other issues here carol. th

let's go to elise, our global affairs correspondent joining us from jerusalem right now.ramatic apology for what he said on the eve of the recollection right elise? >> reporter: that's right. well you know these comments have really reverberate, the comments that the prime minister made about trying to get the right wing voters to come out to prevent arabs that are coming out from drofs from unseating him. those comments really taken poorly. not only about the israeli arabs here in israel but also around the world and in particular the united states. today prime minister netanyahu met with the group of minorities and he just put on his facebook page just moments ago, he said i know what i said a few days ago damaged israel's arabs. i had no intention of it. i'm sorry for that. i see myself as a prime minister of each and every one of you, all citizens of israel without any distinction of religion race and gender. now as you know wolf the prime minister has tried to walk back those comments over the last several days saying he wasn't talking about arabing in particular but

fox's john huddy has the very latest for us from jerusalem. >> reporter: as iraqi commanders wait fornts they say they're planning the next major ground offensive in the battle for tikrit retaking the city center. ground troops and iranian fighters have surrounded isis militants at this point in central tikrit. isis has been using roadside bombs suicide attack and also sniper fire to keep ground forces back but iraqi troops have been clearing out booby trapped homes and ied's and as mentioned, they've been aided by iranian back shiite militia fighters that's a concern for the us and its allies, one because of the growing sectarian violence and two because of iran's overall influence and involvement in iraq. now, there are reports that iraqi commander has been harshly critical of the united states while hailing iran's involvement that said the fight to retake tikrit as we've been talking about is an important one because of the city's location north of baghdad south of mosul. it's been the largest ground offensive against isis so far in iraq. a really test to see how well the iraqi fig

dana lewis joins us from jerusalem. has binyamin netanyahu changed his message, his top at all as the election gets closer? >> i don't think anybody would say he has. i think certainly he's tried to be a bit more visible in the last week, he's trailling in some of the pre-election polls. he conditions to deliver the message in the square he made a speech and again he talked about security and if the zionist block is elected, it would be dangerous and he used the word dangerous. a lot of voters think he's missing the point. the concern, the priority now is israel's economy. people feel that it failed under prime minister binyamin netanyahu. and a lot of them want a change. that includes israel's arab population. they feel they have been marginalized. that they are not treated as equals here. they represent 20% of the voting public out of 8 million people and what they have done this year in this election is they have formed one party list and if they do as well as they think he will they may come out with a bigger voice

. >> andrea joins us from jerusalem tonight with insight into that interview. hi, andrea. >> reporter: hi. good to see you. >> your interview is making a ton of news obviously over here i'm sure around the world. let's get to that palestinian question. right before the election he seemed to go very hard line. is he sticking with that or did he -- he seemed to be backing off of that-. how did it come across to you? >> reporter: yeah. he very much was backing off of it saying it was all a matter of context, that all he was saying is that as long as the palestinians of the west bank are united with hamas in gaza that there can be no peace talks because there's no recognition of israel and that it would be a terrorist state right on their border. so he was definitely backing off of it. he said it was not a change in policy but basically what he said before the election was a reversal of policy and all this after the interview about an hour later josh ernest was briefing at the white house and he sharply rebuked the prime minister saying that what he had said before

. >> dana lewis joining us there from jerusalem. i want to go back to the rabbi for a moment on this particular topic. the opposition to netanyahu is not just focused according to dana on issues with america but day-to-day issues that prime minister netanyahu has gambled away from. >> foremost in people's mind payingpeople's minds ispaying your rent. but they live with genocidal threats from hezbollah and iran, it's just that the opposition is saying nefnlt can't netanyahu can't fix this because he is too bellicose. is iran truly a threat? now of course when you are dealing with day-to-day existential issues of paying the rent the view of the leader is to look beyond. is iran still threatening to wipe israel off the map? yes, daily which makes kind of a mockery to all the negotiations we're having on that. >> what has been write a lot by israel this move may be strategic about the opponents of netanyahu to focus on the economy because they might actually win. >> listen, netanyahu has been prime minister for nine years broken up, the

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joining us from jerusalem, david horovitz editor of "the times of israel."uld be serious changes. what are the biggest changes if herzog were to become the next prime minister of israel? >> i think the biggest beneficiary will be a relatively dramatic change in the u.s./israeli relationship -- >> the relationship with president obama would improve almost overnight. >> and certainly at the top. debbie wasserman schultz is correct. the fundamentals of the relationship are sound but the relationship at the top for the last five years has basically been a soap opera. it's been dysfunctional, very little sense of confidence and trust. and that's going to change because mr. herzog does have a fundamental view that this relationship is basic to israel's security. >> and, david, on the sensitive issue, we'll talk about iran nuclear negotiations in a moment of a palestinian -- two-state solution. the prime minister netanyahu, said yesterday on his watch, there's not going to be a palestine, not going to be a two-state solution. herzog actively support that is, doesn'

tonya kramer joins us live from jerusalem. what has been the reaction where you are? do israelis think this is mainly about the election coming up in two weeks or national security? >> this whole visit to washington has created quite a debate here. commentators here were saying this was a classical netanyahu speech, the politics of fear versus the need for security, very emotional. there was nothing really new in it and the opposition has not picked up on it. they went on live shortly after the speech and said we had to make sure we reestablish the strained relationships with the obama administration. from the likud, there was the response that it is in the vital interest of israel that mr. netanyahu went to washington to speak there. the question now is what will come out of it and what kind of impact it will have on the ongoing negotiations with iran. >> what about in washington? democrats been responding and how will this speech affect bipartisan relations? >> we have more or less the same picture in washington. the political elite in washington is divided. several

from the video. in it isis claimed the victim was an israeli spy. elise labott is joining us live from jerusalem. at the israeli defense minister is saying about this isis claim. >> reporter: the defense minister claimed that even though 19-year-old mohamed musallam had israeli citizenship, he was a palestinian that held israeli citizenship and his family lived in east jerusalem, he was not, i repeat not a member of musad. definitely appeared to be under duress in this period. >> i know you had a chance to speak with his family members, musallam's tell us what you found out. >> reporter: they were devastated. they called mohamed a warm, caring funny person. he was a volunteer firefighter and they say he fell prey to isis recruiters online. take a listen to what his father told me last night. >> translator: mohamed told me and his brother that isis took him. they sent him money through the western union. they said you will have money, girls, cars, paradise. but after he trained, he discovered there is nothing. >> reporter: and, wolf he said that he tried to help his son get home. he wired him money

abc's molly hunter live for us from jerusalem. thank you so much molly. we love having her there in the middle east with these reports. >> thank you so much molly. >>> fallout from the killing of boris nemtsov. a model with him the night he was murdered gave an emotional recounting of their last dinner together. the young woman said she did not see who pulled the trigger. here's abc's hamish mcdonald. >> reporter: the security camera captures the final moments of boris nemtsov's life. he circled in the distance. the crucial seconds are obscured by a street cleaning vehicle. when the deed is done the gunman appears again, jumping in to a getaway car. the obscured image isn't the stroke of luck for the gunman. it must be one of the most watched locations in all of moscow. there are security cameras everywhere. as you look along the krem line wall i can count six, seven, perhaps eight cameras all in this immediate vicinity. remarkably russian authorities have told us that not a single one of the cameras lining the kremlin wall captured the moment that boris

our senior international correspondent fred pleitgen joining us live from tehran and our reporter oren lieberman who joins us live from jerusalem. the secretary of state of the united states john kerry, said today that negotiations have made progress but significant gaps remain. update us on what you know about the state of these fragile talks. >> reporter: it appear as though the outstanding issues are apparently in two areas, two very significant areas. one of them is the area of research and development where apparently the iranians want to develop more sophisticated centrifuges than they have in the past. that of course is something that worries the united states and many other countries as well because that could significantly decrease the breakout time if in fact the iranians were able to make better centrifuges. there's also apparently some disagreement as to how many centrifuges the iranians would be able to maintain. now, the other big area, this is probably an even bigger one, is the question of sanctions relief. the iranians of course want all of the sanctions to be taken away immediately once a deal comes into place

from here in israel. >> all right. that's our orrin lieberman joining us live from jerusalem ahead of prime minister netanyahu's speech. thanks. >>> now the view from iran. i want to go to fred pleitgen who joins us from tehran. fred benjamin netanyahu's planned speech before congress has been highly publicized highly criticized as well. i'm curious what's been the reaction in tehran to netanyahu's planned speech before congress in the u.s.? >> reporter: that's interesting because of course netanyahu's speech yesterday and the one that he's going to get today are not going to be broadcast by any iranian tv channels. yet, people here in tehran -- we went out earlier today, everybody knows what he said yesterday. and everybody has an opinion about what he's going to say today. it's interesting because there were many people who said they believe that netanyahu was going to try and derail these talks, going to try and derail any sort of grammy there are many people who seem to have more hope that an agreement might be reached before but there's a great deal of skepticism. the iranian government came for. the chief of staf

connor powell joining us live from jerusalem. you have more, what can you tell us connor? >> the prime minister was invited by john banor but did not clear with it the white house leaving the obama administration absolutely furious. netanyahu and obama have had a tense relationship. the administration you videos this as an opportunity to undermine these talks with iran. critics here in israeli, and there are a lot as well here in israeli argue that this talk to congress comes just two weeks before this big important election here in israeli and that netanyahu is simply using the opportunity to sort of scare israeli voters there. netanyahu said today before he left he is a messenger for all israelis eve those who disagree with him. >> >> translator: i feel deep concern about the security of israeli citizens and the fate of the country inand all of ourum people. i will do everything in my power to ensure our future. >> now netanyahu believes any deal with iran that doesn't completely dismantle its nuclear program is, quote simply unacceptable. while white house, along with c

from baghdad to mosul. retaking it would reclaim more territory in northern iraq. >> conner powell is following the story for us live from jerusalem. why the offensive defense tikrit and why now? >> as lea just said the talk has been about mosul and taking tikrit is an important step in ultimately launching a military offensive to retake mosul.80 miles or so outside of baghdad but it's the gate das way to the sunni areas of iraq and so this is seen as sort of a test run for whether or not the iraqi security forces are up to the job of taking mosul and also to see what type of progress they've made in terms of reorganizing the military but any operation that would you tell mately be an offensive on mosul would be nearly impossible if tikrit was still held. if iraqi security forces can take that it will take an operation against mosul later this spring or later this summer whenever that happens, much easier. it's a strategic point for a larger operation against mosul, jon. >> so what are the chances of success? any way to assess that? >> that is the real big question. there's a lot of skepticism. what we're hearing right now is the

john huddy joins us live from jerusalem john? using suicide bombs and suicide attacks, roadside bombs, but also snipers and artillery fire to take out the you know the iraqi troops that are moving in on tikrit. we are talking about, by the way, close to 30,000 iraqi ground troops as part of this major ground offensive. this is very critical greta. it's a very strategic advance. this is why. the location of tri -- tikrit. about 100 miles north of baghdad. about 140 miles south of mosul. isis as we know, still controls mosul. if iraqi forces take tikrit, that puts them in range of mosul. that helps them push isis out and continue north. this is a very, very important and also a very bloody fight going on. iraqi troops are reportedly attacking tikrit from different directions. basically all sides to try to put the squeeze on isis and seal them off at this point with help from iraqi military air strikes and are a till -- artillery. using roadside bombs and snipers. that was the case in the battle for sum sumara last week. south of tik

us. wolf starts right now. >>> hello, i'm wolf blitzer zer. it's 1:00 p.m. in walking, 7:00 p.m. in jerusalem. wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. high stakes talks under way right now to curb iran's nuclear ambitions. a deadline looming. the secretary of state john kerry met iran's foreign minister in switzerland earlier today. the u.s. and five other countries are negotiating with iran. they're under intense pressure to get a deal done before march 31st. both united states and iran face obstacles from hard liners in their own countries. let's begin this hour with nic robertson joining us from london many. where do the talks stand right now. >> reporter: right now you are the iranian foreign minister in brussels briefing. he's expected to go back to switzerland today. he had a five-hour meeting in switzerland with secretary of state john kerry. both sides recognize they only have two weeks to get the deal done. if you listen to what they said going into the talks when they arrived in switzerland, slightly different narrative. there are technical issues to accomplish heerp. you

israeli citizens but will answer to all jews, left right, everyone >>> imtiaz tyab joins us from west jerusalem. >> consultations with the israeli president is expected to last into monday. he's holding consultations with the three political leaders whose parties have scored the most votes in the march 17th polls. the leaders include binyamin netanyahu, and the opposition leader isaac herzog and odey heading the joint list. a resume that joined together in a poll and coming in third. mr rivlin will decide who he will appoint to form a government. it looks all but certain that he'll ask binyamin netanyahu, who performed well in the election surpassing anybody's expectations, but mr binyamin netanyahu has a bit of a difficult choice ahead of him. he made controversial statements in the final days of the election and the final hours of the poll. those statements have caused a bit of a rift with the united states, and so mr binyamin netanyahu needs to decide if he wants a more hawkish government and forming the coalition with far right political parties and religious parties, which are his normal a

anything else comes from his office or from him other than this apology. >> indeed. >>> watching that very closely. of course, orrin lieberman joining us live from jerusalem. many thanks to you. >>> yemen on the brink of civil war as factions ton battle for territory there. protesters in yemen's third-largest city surrounded a military camp to block the houthi shiite rebels fromheading south to adan. that's where the president has taken refuge. the houthis fired teargas at the crowd. >> yemen's foreign minister is calling on sunni gulf states to interscreen stop the rebels. saudi arabia says iran is trying to build its power base by backing the houthis. >> translator: we are against iranian military interference because it is ton protect iran from iran or yemen but comes as an aggression. it was not requested by the legitimate yemeni government. how could anyone support this aggression? how is it possible for anyone to be with this aggression? >> u.s. and british forces have now withdrawn from yemen because the security situation there has gotten so bad. >> indeed. barbara starr reports there can concerns troyer groups could exploit the chaos. >> reporter

more on the prime minister's visit and its potential impact we go to orrin lieberman joining us live from jerusalem. on the political sunday talk shows, this was one of the dominant topics. it's certain to be until the speech on tuesday. how is it viewed where you are? is it seen as controversial as it is being seen in the u.s.? >> reporter: absolutely. the speech has president clinton politicians and the public with half supporting half on the right, likud, netanyahu's party, and the jewish home supporting netanyahu's decision to speak before congress. they sigh it as an opportunity to talk about the threat to israel. the left is labor and the zionist camp. they see that as purely a political move a chance for free publicity with two weeks until the israeli elections on march 17th. >> really that's the natural followup. those elections on march 17th are key. the diplomatic controversy isn't the only issue weighing on voters's minds, if it's weighing on voters' minds at all. how could the speech impact the outcome? >> reporter: right now it looks to be a close election. some of the recent polls sho

. >> john huddy joins us live from jerusalem. john? >> greta, both groups boko haram and isis has essentially become partners in terror if you will at this point. let me walk you through what's going through with that. posted a message online saying that the group was pledging allegiance to it isis. isis in response has released an audio recording saying that it accepted that allegiance pledgor pledge of loyalty however you want to call it and also called on sunni muslims to join the quote, unquote, expanding caliphate in west africa. you know, boko haram has an estimated 10000 fighters. it is one of the largest and most dangerous terror groups in the world also remember, and, greta you were talking about, this isis related or isis extremists in both libya and egypt have launched attacks there and of course there is always the concern as mentioned about homegrown terrorists. lone wolf terrorists in the united states europe and other parts of the world. so there is absolutely concern about isis extending its reach beyond the borders of

. >> andrea will be joining us live from jerusalem on news 4 at 5:00 with new details from this interview. >>> and the man accused of going on a deadly shooting rampage in mesa arizona, made his first court appearance today. ryan giroux is accused of shooting six people killing one of his victims. the string of shootings included a motel shooting carjacking and a home invasion. police arrested the gunman after spotting him on an apartment balcony and they hit him with a stun gun. investigators are trying to figure out his motive. >>> and there's a delay in the decision on whether charles severance is competent to stand trial for those three high-profile murders in alexandria. news4's julie carey broke the news this morning on twitter and since then we learned that the competency hearing that was supposed to be happening today has been rescheduled for april 23rd. these photos show severance in court today. severance is charged with killing three people in alexandria over a span of ten years. today his lawyers told the judge they needed more time to review a psychiatric report and that requ

. >> kate is joining us live from jerusalem. the prime minister said that the united states and israel will weather the storm. that seems to have the view of some of the people you've been talking to there in jerusalem. but israelis are deeply worried about the states of the u.s.-israeli relations right now. >> reporter: i think you're absolutely right. i think they would like to say that the bond between israel and the united states is much more than a controversy or personality differences or deep dislike between the leader of their country and the leader of the united states. they're hopeful that the bond is that strong. but there is concern about what this episode, if you will what kind of damage it could do to the relationship. is there a chink in that armor. there is fear that this speech could be counter productive to that relationship. just look at the length that netanyahu went today in his speech before aipac talking about how strong the bond remains, the alliance is strong. that in and of itself suggests there's conce

elise labott joins us live from jerusalem. what's the latest?eporter: after a week-long push but really in the last few days before the election, prime minister netanyahu made a hard turn to the right saying palestinian state would never happen under his watch. as you said, he also urged right wing voters to come out to save him from arabs coming out in droves trying to unseat him. these are very controversial positions and statements. that made the right come out and vote for him. the problem is now that they voted for him, they're going to expect him to make good on those campaign pledges. today prime minister netanyahu is saying he wants to form a government as soon as possible. the question is what kind of government is that going to be. if it's going to be a very right wing government, it could really block him in in terms of policies and maneuvering room and that really could hurt relations with the united states. he needs to start repairing relations with the u.s. after the statements over the last 48 hours, john, these are different from

jerusalem. 8:00 p.m. in moscow. wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. up first, a manhunt for suspects and prayers for two police officers wounded in an ambush. here are the latest developments on the shootings in ferguson, missouri. police say they've identified two people they want to question and one of them may be the shooter. but they haven't released the names of any possible suspects. st. louis county and missouri state police have taken over the security detail for protest marches in ferguson. last night's demonstration was much smaller and no arrests were made. clergy members and others called for calm at the vigil for the wounded officers. they offered prayers for the officers their families and every victim of violence on the streets of ferguson. police say finding the person who shot those two officers is their top priority right now. let's get an update on the manhunt and the investigation. cnn's alina machado is joining us from ferguson. what can you tell us about these two people wanted for questioning by police? >> reporter: we know auth

from baghdad to mosul. retaking it would reclaim more territory in northern iraq. >> conner powell is following the story for us live from jerusaleme tikrit and why now? >> as lea just said the talk

our correspondent joins us now live from jerusalem with more. it is disgusting. it is vile. and it seems like yet another attempt by isis to generate some kind of reaction but what do we know about the teenager executed in this video? >> reporter: it is vile. we're learning more about the young man at the center of the video. his name is muhammad musallam from east jerusalem. unlike most palestinians from the area, he chose to get israeli citizenship. as far as we know, that make him the first israeli citizen killed by isis especially in such a public and horrifying way. we've spoken with his family and learned more about him. they describe him as a funny guy, a good brother good son. they say he was a volunteer firefighter who had plans to go to tel aviv soon to become -- to learn more about fire-fighting and perhaps make it a career. that's when as of 3.5 months ago his family says that's when he went to join isis. one thing his family says he is not, they insist he is not a musaad agent. >> we were planning to throwing to sound, it appears we don't have it at the moment.

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from jerusalem, andrea tells us what he's saying now. >> reporter: it was benjamin netanyahu's last minutepaign promises when he thought he might lose to set off the firestorm, promising to prevent a palestinian state, stung by a furious white house reaction today he tried to walk it back. >> i haven't changed my strategy. i want a sustainable two-state solution, but for that circumstances have to change. >> reporter: but you were reelected on the mandate, certainly israeli voters believe you were reelected on a mandate against a two-state solution. that is the way the white house is interpreting it. >> well, first of all that state would become a terrorist state. so we need the conditions of recognition of a jewish state and real security in order to have a realistic two-state solution. >> reporter: but it was his election day warning. one wrote he ran as a bigot. netanyahu's response? >> first of all, i'm very proud to be the prime minister of all of israel's citizens arabs and jews alike. >> reporter: that's not the way it sounded on election day. >> i was calling on our voters to come

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we get more from cnn's oren lieberman in jerusalem. tell use latest. >> reporter: christine, we're learning more by the minute about what happened at about 10:00 local time a short distance from where we are here and in the all that far north of the old city police say right around 10:00 a driver on route 1 was heading north on route 1 when police say that driver swerved into what would be a bike lane or sidewalk and hit four israeli female soldiers as well as a cyclist. police say that driver turned back on to the road and kept going a short distance later, quarter of a mile later, police say a security guard from nearby light rail came out and opened fire on the car, stopping the car. the suspect hopped out with a knife and at that point they say that security guard shot the suspect twice. he's been taken into custody. he's in the hospital severely wounded. police say as for the other five people the four soldiers and the cyclist, they're leichtightly to moderately wounded. police treating this as a terrorist attack. to give you a better ide

president is forced from his palace escaping to an undisclosed location hours after iran-backed shiite rebels claiming an airbase previously used by u.s. forces. conor powell is live from jerusalem with the latest there. >> reporter: jenna, any hope that yemen could avoid a civil war seemed to disappear today. hours before president hadi went underground, yemen rebels arrested yemen's defense minister. they have really upped ante in terms of what is going on now. they announced a reward for capture of president hadi. declaring all-out war on internationally recognized government in yemen. after taking yemen's third largest city over the weekend iranian backed shiite rebels control half the country. they are on the march. they're looking to expand territory they're controlled. they are now moving towards the port city of aden where president hadi had fled to. the houthis are backed by iran. they have the support of former yemeni strong man abdullah saul lay, was both backed by the saudi arabia and united states before he was overthrown during the arab spring. now the current president has asked the united nations to authorize foreign military intervention in yemen. there are conf

jerusalem. political analyst joins us from doha. marr won, through the years israel countered pretty much bipartisan support from the u.s. do you think the tensions over the speech over the past days and weeks would have left a scar any kind of lasting scar on israel i-u.s. relations and u.s. support for israel? >> as far as the basis of the u.s. relations - economics and cooperation and security coordination i think that will go on for the future. what is assured is president obama's relations with binyamin netanyahu will never recover. the insult if you will to the president and the office of the american presidency. in terms of the strategic relations, that i think, has been affected harmed because what president obama has tried do over the last two years was decouple the strategic mind-set america's mindset from israel's mind-set meaning that president obama did not want to repeat a mistake of the iraq war, the one that binyamin netanyahu supported wholeheartedly and he wants to pursue a diplomatic path with iran. he doesn't acc

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use as chemical weapons. we have breaking developments live from the middle east bureau in jerusalem. conor? reporter: jenna, since the start of the syrian war four years ago there have been lots of allegations of use of chlorine and sort of chemical weapons but really tough to prove who used them, how they were used but the pro-american kurdish peshmerga forces say they have hard proof that isis is using chlorine nated gas in attacks. kurds took soil and clothing samples from the sight of an isis car bomb in january. a test done by an e.u. company confirmed the presence of chlorine. the kurds say there were no casualties in the attack other than the you side bomber. but several soldiers near the bombing experienced nausea and vomiting. there are other reports that isis is beginning to use clotter rin eighted weapons in iraq. white house is aware of the allegations but don't have much information. iraq's kurds suffered from chemical weapons before. one of the largest and most deadly chemical weapons attacks took place in 1988 when saddam hussein killed more than 5,000 iraqi kurds. the big fe

designed, in his words, to prevent jerusalem or any part of jerusalem from ever being part of a palestinian state. so the palestinians tell us that at least that has been made very clear to the world, that with mr. netanyahu as leader of israel in their view there's no hope for any future settlement. >> okay. thank you very much for that insight. live for us in jerusalem. >>> to iraq where government forces volunteer fighters and militias are accused of serious abuses during their battle again the islamic state of iraq and levant. human rights watch said they deliberately destroyed homes and properties in towns and villages last september. they have video evidence of iraqi forces looting the property of sunni civilians that fled from the fighting. human rights watch said 11 men were taken by iraqi forces in september and october. >>> the human rights watch report also includes satellite images it says demonstrate the destruction of towns. this image shows it before iraqi forces took control. let's look at the images from afterwards. human rights watch says the red and yellow spots somehow where arson attacks took place and b

us. wolf starts right now. >>> hello, i'm wolf blitzer zer. it's 1:00 p.m. in walking, 7:00 p.m. in jerusalem. wherever you're watching fromhe world, thanks very much for joining us. high stakes talks under way right now to curb iran's nuclear ambitions. a deadline looming. the secretary of state john kerry met iran's foreign minister in switzerland earlier today. the u.s. and five other countries are negotiating with iran. they're under intense pressure to get a d