Israels election. And on the road in south sudan the struggle to deliver thousands of tons of food before the rainy season starts. But first the president says more than 90 of buildings in the island nation has been destroyed and calling on the world to tell. Aid agency say flights over the 900 kilometers confirmed the fears of widespread destruction and correspondent Andrew Thomas reached the South Pacific islands and reports now from the capitol port villa. Reporter the president described the cyclone that hit his country as a monster that will take many years to recover from and believes half the population has been effected and no information from the southern islands, believed to be most badly fit and here 90 of buildings have been damaged whether its a tree through the roof like this one or totally destroyed. And its a pretty awful sight, what was it like during the storm. Beyond description and very very strong. There was a lot of flooding and a lot of rain and the winds were so
an islam coalition. this will be a fragile government. possible it doesn t reach the end of the man date and israel has to turn to another election some point but the headline is that netanyahu s tenure is over. clearly he united a degree of the israeli political spectrum against him and he faces corruption charges and one of the forces behind this coalition government was the belief that netanyahu is using the prime ministership to shield himself from prosecution under corruption charges but i think netanyahu exiting the stage is going to open up israeli politics in new and interesting ways and at the same time he s going to continue to be a figure there but contend like the very close friend and ally drmpb is in the united states with the criminal indictment he is under. talk about how this changes
commission. how can we work on voting rights? perhaps that satisfies the moderate democrats that say he tried. we will have to go it alone. charlie, do you still think that the old rules about a big tent apply to politics? it certainly is part of how president biden became president is part of how he won in november. but there s so much focus, including on programs like this one of the extremes of both parties. do you think he sees something that we miss in the daily political conversations? i think he does see that and the possibility of a coalition of the decent being able to align people who are politically homeless. maybe he is naive dealing with the united states senate. we ll find out but i think that jonathan is absolutely right. he wants to get caught trying to do that. what is certain is that the republicans have given up on the
joining us now is ben rhodes. an author of after the fall. jonathan lemire is still with us. ben rhodes, your reaction first to the breaking news out of israel? it s a fascinating moment to just put this in context. israel had four elections after which people were not able to form a coalition. finally this group succeeded. it is a very ek electric group in the sense that you are lapid who s the leader of the separatist who s a centrist, more secular israeli. he agreed to sacrifice the prime ministership to bennett who s a more hard line right wing figure who s not favored a two-state solution, used to be an ally with netanyahu and broke when gym lapid to be prime minister after bennett and only got over the hurdle with the support of