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World Service,30 May 2019,53 mins

Fresh election in Israel after PM fails to agree coalition

Newsday

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Israeli lawmakers have voted to dissolve parliament triggering a second election. This after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form a coalition government a first in Israel's history. After two years of public silence special counsel Robert Mueller says charging a sitting President with a crime was not an option and that his report did not exonerate the Donald Trump. And the BBC correspondent in Japan has visited reactor number 3 in the Fukushima nuclear power plant which was badly damaged during the 2011 disaster.

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