with the expiration of the west bank regulations, israel will experience serious security damages and legal chaos. i couldn t allow that. will, it kills last that know we sped, no effects to galvanize whomever was needed to pass the regulations. but unfortunately at if its board note fruit can therefore my friend and i decided to act together to dissolve parliament and suit and agreed upon date for elections. the up hill burnett smith has more from west to reseal him, as israel had to its 5th election and 3 and a half years. it s a surprise to many israelis that this coalition has lasted as long as it has when it was pulled together just over a year ago. it was a strange combination of cars from the far right. the right, the left for the 1st time palestinian israeli were included in the government, but its sole purpose really was to get rid of benjamin netanyahu as prime minister . he s been israel prime minister previously for total of 15 years. and netanyahu once the job ba
so as you said, it was an early morning quake and you know, people as far as cobble, had felt the aftershocks, they had felt the impact of it and practical and course because it took place in the district. you know, places that are harder to reach places that haven t seen a lot of development. the devastation has been a man, as you said, hundreds injured, 100, possibly killed. we re seeing reports of hundreds of houses destroyed. the government is trying to sell helicopters to aid people. but you know, the, the issue is that the economy here has been devastated. you know, i want to son has always suffered from blood from landslide, from, from earthquakes. but getting aid to people in need has always been extremely difficult even at a time when billions of dollars within the country. and so many foreign agencies were here. now they re trying to rely as much on local agencies. but those are the ones that have felt the greatest impact from the sanctions from the cutbacks from th
hello i marianna mazin london, our main story now the parliamentary elections in france. any projections all suggesting that to present a manual micros fallen short of an outright majority in the parliament after a strong before performance by his competitors. now the initial results follow 2nd round legislative elections which took place on sunday. microns coalition is expected to win $224.00 seats. that is short of the $289.00 needed for a majority. emanuel mark on it did when a 2nd presidential time in april. he is seeking to push through his reforms, raising the retirement age in the country, also strengthening european union integration. but now he could struggle to get his policies through parliament microns, health and environment. minutes is also projected to lose their seats out. there is, is asher butler is following the story for us from paris. what we re saying is i, these projected results are anything to go by is a lot more, a fragmented parliament to hedge. pre
i m rob matheson and do all the top stories on al jazeera, at least one person s reportedly been killed in a blast at a seek place of worship, and the afghan capital seek official save evacuated, 3 people from the tomblin, cowboy, as many as 30 people. i thought have been inside fi salanda is a professor of political science at cobble university. he says the taliban is struggling to deal with internal security threats. but unfortunately, we are living close by the, with synergy, the explosions and also that textbook actually within taliban in power. taliban liking capacity to capacity of counter terrorism counter insurgency. the also like my regional international intell sharing support. it s not the 1st time minorities, specifically my sheer minority and sick, and i need to talk to in many years with how she talks we have in mind collateral damage was happening groups who benefits from such a tug deal? targeting civilian talks for the benefit of getting it and, and stability
hello norm taylor in under the top stories around his era, the u. s. federal reserve has raised interest rates by point 75 percent. the biggest increase in almost 3 decades is hope the move will cub soaring inflation and bring down consumer prices, which are $240.00 a highs. a chair of the central bank, jerome pow, described the current economic climate as extraordinarily challenging and uncertain, and indicated further hikes are likely we anticipate that ongoing rate increases will be appropriate. the pace of those changes will continue to depend on the incoming data and the evolving outlook for the economy. clearly, today s $75.00 basis point increase is an unusually large one. and i do not expect moves of this size to be common. from the perspective of to day, either of 50 basis point or a 75 basis point increase seems most likely at our next meeting. we will, however, make our decisions, meeting by meeting and will continue to communicate our thinking as clearly as we can