A narrow majority of 61. 00 or 62. 00 seats in the connected, netanyahus potential return comes despite the former leader facing corruption charges. The official results arent expected until later this week. Tuesdays vote was israels 5th election in 4 years. Bernard smith has more from the could Party Headquarters in west teresa. Them. Looks like phoebe is back after 16 years in opposition. A 60 months. I beg your pardon and opposition. Plotting his return. Benjamin netanyahu seems to pulled off his political resurrection. Its early days. These numbers are not confirmed yet, but 61 or maybe 62 seats will give him just that narrow victory and allow him to go back into governments. As Prime Minister tie a bull scenario, brazils outgoing right wing leader had spoken publicly for the 1st time since his election defeat on sunday and a short speech, he didnt appear to concede, but said he would follow the constitution. His left wing opponent lula da silva, claimed victory in a closely fort r
With a slim majority. Certainly decker has more from west jerusalem this, this election has been significant. If you look at the last 5, theres always been flight changes like the last one, significantly for the 1st time Benjamin Netanyahu was ousted out from his role as Prime Minister. Yep. Hed managed to clobber together a coalition, ranging from left to right, to the 1st time a palestinian Israeli Party in government. They couldnt keep it together and took a year, and netanyahu always vowed from the moment he was out, that he would do everything to work for the fall of the government and to come back into power. It seems that potentially maybe hes managed to do that. Kenyon is deploying its troops to the democratic republic of congo to help fight and 23 rebels. It comes after the un mission withdrew its troops from a Major Military base in the east, where the rebels are trying to advance protests to set fire to you and vehicles in the city of gober. And 23 rebels launched a new offe
Locked and size home secretary swell abraham and has been criticized over the conditions at minced and migrant processing. Center migrants are meant to be held there for short periods during security and identity checks. But some have been stark for weeks. Ah, but this is al jazeera and these are the top stories. North korea has fired 3 missiles, the latest, and the string of weapons tests. On wednesday, pyongyang fired at least 23. 00 missiles. Ra mcbride has more from sol. 2 of the missiles we know are were short range. Ballistic missiles are which they have fired consistently since the start of this year being testing them out, they flew eastwards landing 330 kilometers into the seas that separate the Korean Peninsula from japan. The 1st though to be fired was i believe, to be an intercontinental ballistic missile. Now this would be, i further escalation in the rising tension levels here on the peninsula. That this is the kind of long range missile of that north korea was testing wh
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Recent developments in north korea most notably the february 12, 2013 nuclear test and the december 12, 2012 missile test highlight the growing threat that north korea poses to the United States, our allies and friends in the region, and the increasing dangers of severe instability on the Korean Peninsula. Given this growing threat i believe that this committee needs to take a close look at current u. S. Policy towards north korea; evaluate its effectiveness; and identify any midcourse corrections or new measures that are required to get our north korea policy right. I understand that as we convene this hearing this morning that up in new york the United Nations Security Council is sitting down, right now, to consider a resolution that imposes additional sanctions on north korea. This new Security Council resolution, based on a u. S. China draft, includes tough new sanctions intended to impede north koreas ability to develop further its Illicit Nuclear and Ballistic Missile programs. T