Mentioned that yahoo is claiming victory in israels general election although it appears hes fallen one or 2 seats short of a parliamentary majority exit polls suggest that yahoos the coup party and its allies have around half the 120 seats in the knesset or faucet reports on television. Benjamin netanyahu has spent much of the last year experiencing failure and defeat failure to hold together his right wing block after the 1st election defeat in the 2nd and indictment for corruption in 3 separate cases now it lost the sense of victory and done it then you know its a victory against all odds a rival said that the netanyahu error is over but we join forces and turn the tables and we turn lemons into lemonade morning. After a campaign that plumbed the depths of negativity and dirty tricks that neo is closing message was that he was just short of victory and needed his supporters to finish the job personally ringing voters from a roll of supporters who hadnt yet gone to the polls for now though he appears to be just short of Majority Coalition within his party hes not going to have any people that are detracting from. For challenging it and now yes to try and see to Work Together and it could be and ive said the 1st election also that it National Unity government between likud and blue and white would be a very real possibility except this time im not so sure who is going to be heading lord white or blue and white headquarters there being dark whispers throughout the day that things were looking bleak after a campaign which had seen benny gantz shift slightly to the right but failed to match the energy of his opponent. I will tell you honestly i understand and share the feeling of disappointment in hind because it is not the result we wanted and if this will be the result it is not the result that will put israel back on the right track gansa distanced himself from the mainly palestinian israeli joint List Alliance who might have enabled against minority government but even their record showing with up to 15 seats wasnt enough to win them real influence what you. Believe is the result could well be more consequential the palestinians in the occupied west bank than yo promised that victory would allow him to stop the annexation set out under the terms of the trump peace plan. Israelis might not have wanted this 3rd election but they did turn out in their highest numbers for more than 20 years more than 4000 people voted its special stations set up for those quarantined for the coronavirus keen to cure israel of its repeat election syndrome now for the consequences including a possible Supreme Court battle over whether an indicted politician can legally try to form a government in 2 weeks the man on this stage goes on trial for bribery fraud and breach of trust benny gantz is spend a year trying to convince and ultimately failing to convince israelis that they cannot be led by a Prime Minister under indictment throughout Benjamin Netanyahu has been delaying maneuvering and dodging and now he has again prevailed harry vores an aljazeera television. On the list an ally. Palestinian israeli part is a suspect its when 15 states its best ever tally and its head says the coalition will his its numbers to block that yahoo from forming a government that has a problem with the results of the joint list a historical since the 1st knesset until now the most number of seats be one has been 13 this time we suppose that so we broke the record and this is all thanks to the heroes the men and women of our people we give them all our appreciation. That our ballots i scholar in residence at American University center for israeli study he says netanyahu has increased his labor the race is not one yet 58 seat bloc will not suffice he needs 60 or 61 and 2 counts when others defecting right now all parties in the opposition have not signaled that theyre willing to join his his bloc and it will remains to be seen how. The final results are shaped and how that impacts the behavior of different parties on the political spectrum Israeli Arabs voted today it was the highest turnout in a long long time for them that 68 percent of the arab loaders turned up and though they did and the increased according to these results their number of seats by 2 from 13 to 15 through the 3rd largest story in the chest and definitely it has an impact on the system and in a way if the results are as remain as they are now theres a good chance that this show going by the airport is will be the cruncher in terms of preventing that and you know from establishing a coalition so its its a great achievement of their party its from their point of view. Now to the democratic president ial race in the u. S. A super tuesday voting set to begin shortly 2 candidates who dropped out over the last 24 hours have now endorsed endorsed that is joe biden senator any club ashore and former south bend their people but since joined by the rally and dallas texas their endorsement is expected to give biden a boost to 14 u. S. States head to the polls to choose the democratic challenger to top the close you know just a few days ago the press in the pundits declared this campaign dead. Both sides carry some dissent on the i wanted me to says im in the same room and the issues with james he said he was a seminal work for their candidates are also in the race for the democratic nomination including senators Bernie Sanders and was but for both of them held Campaign Rallies ahead a super tuesday. I know that there are political differences but i also know that virtually all of the support and petes support on the stand that we have got to move toward a government which believes in justice not greek i was so to all the amy and petes millions of supporters the door is open called order and i will and we need a government that gets more done for the people and gets it done with more urgency than anyone seems to believe its called the own and thats why im running for president the with the it was more than 1300 delegates are up for grabs on tuesday in a big win in texas could give the candidate a big boost to win the partys nomination alan fischer reports from austin. We are going to win the democratic primary attacked by. Well you have died the 1st School Nominee contests are over the big fields heavy t. V. Advertising and Media Attention but they provide just 5 percent of the delegates super tuesday is super important a 3rd of the delegates and offer a real test of Public Opinion from north to south coast to coast and beyond california has moved its primary up to join the super tuesday when you take that and the other states and i get to the already rich delegate count available here in texas there are 1357. 00 delegates up for grabs thats almost a 3rd of the entire total so a good super tuesday gives the candidate the 3 ms media money and momentum. In short this will bring clarity to the democratic race for president we have very rich delegate states like california and texas that are going to be hugely important and we kind of need to know whats going to happen in those states as well as the alabamas and other smaller states to kind of get a sense ability about whether what were seeing in those early states is reflective of a general sense ability of this super tuesday also throws up Something Different its the 1st time Michael Bloomberg will appear on the ballot middle class kid who built a Global Company from scratch the former new york mayor has bombarded the airwaves with ads spent millions of dollars on his campaign this will be the 1st test of his electability the strategy that mayor bloomberg is putting into place is a very unorthodox one and super tuesday is really going to tell us whether he is going to have the support nationwide even given spending half a 1000000000. 00 so far to win the nomination a candidate has to win 1991 delegates no one can seal the deal on super tuesday but a good performance certainly move someone farther along the road on the number of. Candidates will drop out common sense of. The nominating process goes on till june to raise wages but democrats will be hoping they can name the person wholl take on donald trump in november long before that. Our democracy. Alan fischer aljazeera austin texas. China has reported another drop in the number of new coronavirus cases there are 125 cases detected in the past 24 hours and thats the lowest number in 6 weeks ago over 900 has continued to spread beyond chinas borders saudi arabia tunisia rocco cycle and jordan are the latest countries to detect cases of the disease which are again the reports. In the chinese city where the corona Virus Outbreak started Health Officials say theres been a drop in new cases for the 1st time in 6 weeks its closing one of weve had 60 new hospitals that were built in january to cope with the increase in patients because of it 19 continues to spread elsewhere the World Health Organization says 9 times as many cases were reported outside china within 24 hours it says the best defense is still containment we are in unchartered territory we have never seen before this respiratory partridge and thats comparable of Community Transmission but at the same time which can also be contained with the right measures the 3 countries worst affected outside china are south korea iran and italy rome is preparing a Stimulus Program to help the countrys economy in venice the canals which are usually packed with tourists are deserted its a nice tourism board reports more than 90 percent of travel bookings have been cancelled in the capital. Scientists in the United States are racing towards finding a vaccine president dont trump told pharmaceutical bosses he wants results within months today were meeting with the pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Companies the biggest in the world most prestigious the ones that get down to the bottom line very quickly to discuss how the federal government can accelerate the development of vaccines and therapeutic treatments for the coronavirus u. S. Scientists say the rollout of a Coronavirus Vaccine is at best a year and a half away Victoria Gate to be aljazeera. Adrian brown has more from hong kong now he says chinas lockdowns appear to be working the rate of infection in china is slowing considerably 125. 00 new infections reported on monday thats the lowest rate that china has reported in 6 weeks the virus basically peaked in china in mid february and the government will point to this latest figure as proof i think that its sometimes draconian containment measures have been working remember we have Something Like 60000000. 00 people still in lockdown in whove a province which is the epicenter of this virus now a lot of viral experts around the world say that yes initially china was probably too slow in shutting down a province a large part of loop a province but when it eventually did it probably prevented hundreds of thousands of deaths in other words we could have had a disaster on a much much bigger scale here in hong kong the government has announced on tuesday that its going to be sending poor aircraft who by province in the next 48 hours to bring home more than 500. 00 of its citizens whove been stranded there theres been a lot of criticism of the government that its taken so long to get its people out of a province and i think the reason for that is possibly to avoid embarrassment for the mainland authorities because of course this looks like you know chinese citizens being airlifted from china. Greece has denied turkeys allegations that its Border Forces fired on microphone tempting to cross from turkey calling it gross and deliberate misinformation race has expanded its security presence at its land and sea borders after turkey said it would no longer try to stop refugees support some of the great island of lesbos which once again finds itself on the frontline of the refugee crisis. Asylum seekers stranded on the north shores of lesbos some have spent the night out in the open the police cant process them at the only refugee camp on the island in moria its been blockaded by angry islanders who wanted shutdown but moreas occupants arent happy to be here either. This was the latest of many riots this year asylum processing is slow and many have been living in tents under the olive trees for a year but i remember my doctor didnt sound very good doctor and i am starting already at this rate of difficulty to get everyone to set every night that are good for a good example the good ones are every bit dark and this is very important hundreds of morias Asylum Seekers recently much down to the port after receiving misleading or mistaken messages that the government was evacuating them to Athens Police had to turn them back this tense situation is likely to become worse as turkey has opened its border and is advice in refugees on its soil to go to europe thats the reason why this 15 year old from afghanistan is here he says. I have been in turkey for 2 months the smuggler called me in the night and said the partys ready get ready to cross over he said the border was open i could not cross for 2 months because the border was closed this video released by the turkish government suggests that the greek coast guard is no longer conducting just search and rescue missions but actively repelling boatloads of migrants greek coast guard vessels can be seen driving perilously close to small dinghies at another point it appears shots are fired into the water. Greece has released video that appears to show Turkish Coast guard vessels accompanying migrant boats to greek waters rather than holding them back until now greece and turkey were both working to keep undocumented migrants out of europe turkeys suspension of that arrangement has led to the suspension of other International Norms greece has declared emergency measures it says it will stop receiving asylum applications for one month and in many cases it will turn around undocumented migrants and send them home without the usual reception and identification procedures so it will be as though these people were never here gree says these new arrivals on to individual applicants but part of an organized policy so International Asylum law doesnt apply to them as intended with so many islands so close to the turkish mainland greece has a difficult task defending its maritime border but the biggest losers in all this seem to be the Asylum Seekers jumps at all plus aljazeera lesbos still ahead on aljazeera under pressure to resign because governing at once the Prime Minister to go after he appears in court and the like in the murder of his strange wife. Hello developing over the sudden caspian this massive cloud is a proper circulation and it seems to be gaining a certain amount of energy i was suggesting may well be flooding around the Southern Shores but tear on lobby ok then the whole lot moves eastward spring snow to basically its cold enough in the heart of ground this part of eastern iran and beyond afghanistan to leave behind the sunshine the temps coming up sent in iraq about the southern jerusalem and rancorous of an entire area in the high teens cool down a bit with a bit of a northerly breeze dyings running through the gulf its a forecast of course wednesday night 24 hours a max in there are and the same in riyadhs weve dropped Something Like 10 degrees in the east and south because of that change in wind direction. Theres been a lot of rain recently developing off the coast of tanzania its obvious on the satellite picture and this is the area i think to watch for some potentially heavy downpours running through Lake Victoria to rwanda burundi but particularly tanzania and also because of malawi possibly siap we had seen a focus further south and sit in the uk of anger delta doesnt share much in the satellite picture apart from passing showers but i think mentally its there for both tuesday and wednesday was dry weather for the south. For. The 70 years to one tribe and that journey from palestine to the nile delta just 0 well the largest concentration of 19 food chain refugees in egypt. Isolated Community Within your rights fighting to survive and honest in your heritage and live in a world where there is an increasingly marginalized egypts motherland on aljazeera. Watching i was there and these are the top stories right now Benjamin Netanyahu is claiming victory in israels general election exit polls show his likud party and its allies will pick up around 59 seats in the knesset that is just short of a majority of. The 2 candidates that dropped out of the democratic president ial race have endorsed joe biden on the eve of super tuesday may be closer and former south than they are people to switch to and bidens Campaign Rally in texas. And the number of chronic fires set in the u. S. Has risen to 6 as Health Officials across the country appear for more cases china has reported 125 new virus cases thats the lowest and only number since january 21st. The taliban has endured they ended a partial truce days after signing a deal with the u. S. To bring peace to afghanistan the group is demanding the release of 5000. 00 taliban prisoners a conscious Afghan Police say at least 3 people were killed and 11 injured in a bombing in the southeastern province of khost though one has claimed responsibility hota delamater says even if the taliban was behind it it doesnt reach the deal with washington. What we know about the attack is that there was a blast near a stadium in host province and according to the interior ministry 3 people were killed and 7 others injured now we dont know who is behind that attack it could be some spoilers there are several armed groups operating in this country who were against the deal between the taliban and the u. S. That you mentioned sundin 2 days ago but even if it were the taliban does that does not breach da greenman because in that agreement the taliban have to hold off from attacking any foreign troops any military bases where you have foreign and afghan troops any. Government institutions here in kabul and in the provincial capitals but undergoing war and i guess Security Forces that is not part of the deal and the taliban had said earlier today even though its not confirmed but there were reports that they said that the issues they had over the past week which was leading to that agreement is now over and they would resume their normal operations i guess afghan targets the United Nations special envoy for syria qassam solemn a has resigned it says is stepping down because of ill health cellmate tweeted to say that during the past 2 and a half years he has tried to reunite libyans and prevent foreign intervention and gallagher has more from the United Nations where it appears solemn as announcement twitter take everybody by surprise. Certainly seems to have got out ahead of officials here at the United Nations that tweet going out they were then playing catch up essentially but this is a highly respected peace negotiator working for 2 and a half years to try and broker some kind of deal in libya ben this is a direct quote he said i simply cant take this much stress so now the u. N. Are scrambling to try and find a replacement in these vital peace negotiations lets just listen to what the u. N. Spokesperson had to say our focus now is on ensuring a smooth transition so as not to lose you know some of the momentum weve weve gained i mean the situation in libya is critical were seeing weve seen increased fighting we also saw different libyan parties being able to meet around the table. Is to sit i mean has made some great. Great progress we dont want to lose any of that momentum now they talk about momentum and they talk about progress but the real truth here is that mr salami was really floundering in what is an extremely complex situation youve got all sorts of foreign nations involved from france russia the United States u. A. E. And turkey and mr salami himself said an arms embargo that has been put in place for the last few years is in danger of becoming a cynical job the u. N. Secretary general himself said this is a proxy war so its one of those situations where it seems to be a half step forward and 10 steps backwards of course libya has been in complete chaos since the fall of gadhafi in 2011 with various factions fighting for control of the country and lots of foreign interference so a transition i think to a new negotiator is an important thing but the challenge here to bring peace to libya is almost at this point in time insurmountable. The United Kingdom in the European Union have begun trade talks for when the u. K. Leaves the Customs Union or in chief negotiator david frost is in brussels for discussions with his a u counterpart michel parnay the 2 sides have until the end of the year to strike a deal or to try mr Boris Johnson has threatened to walk away if significant progress isnt made by the end of june or a challenge outlines the more contentious points of negotiation between the 2 sides. The big battles that we are likely to see well primarily its going to be about trade both of these sides the u. K. And the e. U. Wants what is cools 00 relationship that 0 tariffs and 0 quotas to keep trade as frictionless as possible but to do that the e. U. Says that the u. K. Needs to stay as closely as it can to the rules and regulations it certainly does not want the u. K. To be lowering its standards cutting the e. U. On prices and becoming a direct competitor but the u. K. Doesnt want to stick so all those rules and regulations because it says well why did we leave the e. U. In the 1st place always a point of brechts if we have to stay with all these rules that we dont like so thats going to be one big sticking points another one is going to be over fisheries or access to the waters around the u. K. Another one is going to be a dispute resolution whether the European Court of justice is the main arbitrator of disputes between the u. K. And the but also the u. K. As well as doing all this negotiating with the e. U. Its also talking to the United States trying to do a Free Trade Agreement with that and that is going to be a parallel track the one side us on the other and the u. K. Trying to negotiate a relationship with both of these heading into the future. China is warning us against interfering with thats working there it comes after washington says it will cut in half the number of chinese nationals allowed to work for state and the us. Or decision to expel 3 wall street journal reporters over a column critical of the governments yes indeed between china and the United States we have some differences. But we do not soon its appropriate for the United States to stand to take steps interfere in the work of. Journalists coming from china this is his Prime Minister is under pressure to resign after appearing in court and the murder of his a strange way the plough and to bonnie both members of his party and the opposition want tons of money to step down ahead of his planned retirement in july the political instability comes as the country is struggling with high unemployment and widespread poverty and in a miller has more from the capital missed a row. Most of the suits his 2200000 people live in rural areas like this one in taba bosio in the village of mit along hamas like ali theres electricity but despite there being alongside the mid to long day they dont have Running Water almost. Lives here with her 5 children and 10 grandchildren their existence is hand to mouth surviving only on her monthly government pension of 50. 00 no one in a family has a job. It. Feeding these kids is a constant battle there are days where i have nothing and we go without eating anything sometimes i have to ask my neighbors for help sometimes they can help with one meal other times we go to bed with no food. Or government statistics show that almost a quarter of working age people most of them young dont have jobs while the government has implemented reforms to tackle unemployment progress is slow experts say political instability is making matters worse i have been here for 2 years and i have seen very interesting developments. In terms of instability and. The Prime Minister. Turns to retire or. Have seen for. The administration the su too has had a series of military coups and political battles over the last decade Prime Minister time to barneys under pressure to resign while he says hell retire within 5 months his leadership has created political tensions especially as police want to charge him with the 27000. 00 murder of his strange been sickened wife to palermo hes 3rd wife my cea has already been charged with the crime members of the governing all pursuits a Convention Party want him gone and 9 discussions to name a successor but the partys divided opposition parties are also calling for to bonnie to go to a 2 year old leadership was again criticized as parliament prepared to present the latest National Budget the World Bank Says that while poverty in the city has fallen over the last 15 years it still widespread and a fix nearly half the population many are concerned that the political instability. Only worsen the challenges the governments facing many people assumed to just want their lives to improve but with political infighting looking far from over they may have a long wait for me to. A website as aljazeera dot com of course the front page is the wrap up thats the coronavirus im epidemic seems to continue well keep you updated on that. Im Richelle Carey these are the headlines right now on aljazeera Benjamin Netanyahu is claiming victory in israels general election exit polls show his party and its allies will pick up around 59 seats in the knesset that is just short of a majority and they joint list an alliance of palestinian israeli parties expected to win 15 seats its best ever tally and its head says the coalition will use its numbers to block that now who from forming a government that the results of the joint list of historical since the knesset until now the most number of seats we want has been 13 this time we suppose so we broke the record and this is all thanks to the heroes the men and women of our people we give them all our appreciation so candidates that recently dropped out of the democratic president ial race have endorsed joe biden on the eve of super tuesday her any closer and former south mayor joined by Campaign Rally in texas a number of chronic virus stress in the u. S. Has risen to 6 as helpless fish oils across the country prepare for more cases all the deaths are from Washington State where researchers say the virus may have circulated for weeks before being noticed china has reported 125 new cases thats the lowest daily number there since january 21st. Greece has denied turkeys allegations that its Border Forces fired on migrants attempting to cross from turkey calling it gross and deliberate misinformation greece has expanded its security presence at both its land and sea borders with tens of thousands of refugees trying to enter after turkey said it would no longer try to stop refugees the United Nations special envoy for libya and solemn a has resigned he says hes stepping down because of ill help tweeted to say that during the past 2 and a half years he has tried to reunite libyans and prevent for an answer of tension the United Kingdom and the European Union have begun trade talks for when the u. K. Leaves the Customs Union britains chief negotiator david frost is in brussels for negotiations with the e. U. Counterpart Michel Barnier the 2 sides have until the end of the year to strike a deal with Prime MinisterBoris Johnson has threatened to walk away if significant progress isnt made by the end of june so the headlines keep it here on aljazeera or news to come counting the cost if that text. Americans live side by side in 2 parallel universes the trouble parts of america are getting trampy or there is a poll out a few weeks ago that you had almost 30 percent of americans believing they were on the cusp of civil war both sides accuse each other of doing things that are so blatantly wrong the bottom line on us politics and policies on their effect on the world. This is counting the cost on aljazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week coronavirus trade war to the pandemic we examine the impact on china its neighbors and the world including the possibility of it being as bad as the financial crisis a decade ago and our Regional Focus is on cambodia an economy like many that is connected through trade with the worlds 2nd biggest economy now faces the very real prospect of jobs lost