Say theyre running out of food. Well polls closed just a few hours ago but the israeli election is still too close to call with the two main blocs neck and neck. Benjamin netanyahu may have the narrowest of lead over the Left Alliance while others give them the same result. Netanyahu is claiming the victory, and hes considered more likely to build a coalition in the coming days. His main rival is isaac herzog, the leader of the center Left Zionist Union and lets look at the results as they stand now. 28 seats for likud party. 27 seats for the Zionist Union. 13 seats to the joint list, and 12 seats for the yesh atid party, and nine seats for the k kulenu party and 5 seats for the matter. Mike, can you hear me . I think were having problems. Yes, i can hear you. At the moment were still waiting for them to come and address the party. Netanyahu has claimed victory based on the exit polls. Very clearly the exit polls indicate it will be easeier for netanyahu to form an extreme rightwing co
Coming up i will be taking a look at why indians premier bike brand has become a thumping global successful so, Benjamin Netanyahu will remain the Prime Minister of is restless. Israel. In just the last few minutes he here is how it breaks down at the moment. 99 of the votes counted. They show the likud party has 29 seats giving it a narrow lead over the main rival. The center Left Zionist Union party. That isize i go herzog and lippy together. It looks like they will have 24 seats compared to the 29. Remember some of the key points here though, Benjamin Netanyahu has promised not to allow the creation of a palestinian state if he wins full time and that seems to be the case. Zionist union itself back aid twostate solution and wanted to restore talks with the palestinians. We have to talk about this group as we feel the joint or i object union, newly formed union of arab parties, which is on course to take 14 seats, that is the smaller arab parties, they have come together in a larger
People in South African township. Hello and welcome to the program. Israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus right Wing Likud Party has won a surprise victory in the countrys elections. With almost all of the votes counted, results give likud a clear lead over its rival the center Left Zionist Union. Whose leader Yitzhak Herzog has conceded victory. Mr. Netanyahu now has to build a Coalition Government. While there are 120 seats in parliament which is known as the knesset, the majority of 61 is needed to form a government. The center Left Zionist Union which initially appeared to be a strong contender gained only 24 seats. And while Prime Minister netanyahus lickkud party won 30 seats. The alliance of israeli arab dominated parties came third with 14 seats. Lets cross over to jerusalem, the bbcs mark lowen has been following the election and mark hes denied not only the opinion polls but also the exit polls. Reporter yes against all the odds there. Remarkable victory for Benjamin Net
Destruction there and that the humanitarian needs will be enormous. The storm is beginning to subside after tearing through the Pacific Island nation with sustained winds of up to 165 Miles Per Hour or 270 kilometers per hour. Unicef tells us at least six people are dead from the storm. An estimated 260,000 are in the disaster zone. It may take time to fully assess the impact since Communication Systems in many of the areas remain down. We are not yet clear on the impact and scope of the disaster. We fear the destruction and damage could be widespread. Reporter lets hear from Alice Clements in the capital city of port villa. Shes with unistef unicef and joins with us more details. Thank you for taking time with us. What is the condition now . Are you on the back side of the storm . I know youve seen the worst of it. Reporter yes. It feels like we really are finally the storm is starting to leave. The winds are elevated but the galeforce winds that we were seeing through this morning an
This was as the protest was coming to an end. We know that one of those officers was shot in the face the other shot in the shoulder. Both of those men recovering at home but they have been working to find out who did the shooting. So theres about to be a press conference from st. Louis county police where theyre going to give us more information. Is well have more information coming up. Just being notified via twitter from the st. Louis county Police Department that an arrest has been made and very few details even of that arrest . Reporter right now were waiting to find out more in this press conference anything about who this person might be and how they were able to track him down and get a hold of him. It looks like this arrest happened overnight and theyre going to the give us some details today. I went to bring in legal analyst testimony fuentes tom fuentes. How was this arrest made . We knew from the beginning that they held their information very close as far as what they knew