as one bloc but i think it also reflected the sense that they were not satisfied with what they had done in april in not participating fully and having the port turnout of or poor showing i should say poor results of only about 10 seats you know i think that the community and the political leaders came together with a much more unified message as a model said that they are that the leadership understands how much the arab palestinian citizens of israel want their political parties to participate in the electoral system in the government in the governing system and maybe even in the government itself and support greater integration into israel's political institutions and they are they really ran making that a part of the debate making statements during the campaign that they would consider being part of a government that was much more in tune with the public opinion among the arab palestinian citizens we know this from fairly consistent and extensive polling showing very high support as i'm all pointed out and those things together i think combined with again

a very aggressive negative campaign by the likud and its own yahoo himself against the participation of arab citizens almost blaming them before the elections for preparing to steal the elections in many ways the legitimizing their participation in the political system led to an additional layer of defiance that said not only do we want to be integrated into the political system we reject the fact that you're trying to keep us out until i saw you nodding there and that of course led to a strong result with 13 seats ok though i saw you nodding through some of what dahlia was saying did you want to add something to that. dalia's analysis is brilliant but in the end the politicians make the decisions and benny gantz can't make himself look too close to the arab population or he loses potential of getting a right wing party to jump out of the $55.00 and enable him to form a government and also make it harder for him to eventually with the likud if netanyahu indeed gets harmed by the charges that are going to be. officially

indicting him during dances 1028 days that he has to form a government there needs to be enough heard right then when council has the exclusive ability to form a government to get the likud to oust that's now which is not going to be easy to do so even though there was a report this morning against going to be negotiating with a joint list of arab knesset members it's not going to happen it is going to meet with them cordially but those will not be negotiations and what amal said about them becoming opposition leader that's not going to happen either even if they end up being the largest faction that isn't part of the government it doesn't automatically go to the largest faction all the parties that would remain outside would unite together behind the jewish candidate so little by little the arab population has moved forward during this election because of the citizens and i'm a note of the leader of the joint this has made but you can't bite off more than

you can sure right now so they said there are many scenarios big deal you've been clear that there is not going to be a 3rd election as she see it amaldi do you agree with that to that that this will get sorted out. well at some point yes i think nobody wants to go for elections now most of the parties actually want what they want liberman want that action to enlarge it to. go to a largest party in the parliament he forced the last elections and he has no interest to go for another the actions that don't this the see the ultraorthodox want is the same and therefore i think. we're going to see that. why have now is a start up with you trying to maneuver as i said before between the at a party the journalist and that i mean parties in order to inforce. a new reality and you cut the ship and i think we have taken the position that at

some point at some point there has to happen something in the likud in order to take the sure that is the other way out without that i think because she can and cannot happen and there is for going for the election i think will. have its own impact on the end hammocks there will be parties have in the coming few days dahlia how much more of these charges this met on the minds of voters have how is that affected all of this. well there's 2 layers here and i just want to you know with i deeply respect my colleague's analysis but i think we need to leave open a slightly bigger option for the possibility of a 3rd election i'm not happy to be saying it but you know this one i would have expected the political leaders to be showing some cracks in the armor of these very

0 sum promises and so far they are not and if they keep sticking to their guns. so to speak you know lieberman is even digging in and saying i won't even go into a coalition practically with democratic union another small left wing party so something has to give if we are to avoid these 3rd elections i'll just put that out there and you know in terms of. the question. about. corruption. corruption and russians are it is yes i was trying to stifle it i was trying to stifle the question because there's no good answer i can tell you that from the perspective of the political elites i think it's weighing very heavily i think that the leaders of blue and white are saying let's play out the time that we have because the more time we the more time we leave to to get this coalition formation done the closer we get to the possibility of a decision from the attorney general about an indictment or more than one indictment which is supposed to happen sometime in mid december or late december and i think the more you know they are probably banking on that happening around

the time when there's really significant pressure because the mandate is about to run out and that putting again psychological pressure for the no to compromise however in the voters' minds i have to add that this is still a very divisive issue you know a large portion of the right wing voters believe these charges are essentially trumped up so to speak not very serious probably could apply to any politician and or some sort of you know collusion slash conspiracy on the part of shadowy unelected legal media and other left wing operatives to get it on yahoo out because i sort of personal vendetta against him and for that reason doesn't necessarily. pack their vote that much that will be the right word of think that will be the last word there and thank you to you and to all of you for joining us i'm to discuss this i'm sure we'll be discussing it again within the next 28 days for sure adele you shiela a multiple and gil hoffman thank you all very much and thank you for watching you

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they don't pull back from the border also says the kurds had been betrayed by the u.s. which was encouraging them to stay and fight kurdish fighters have until next tuesday to withdraw that's under a new deal between moscow and ankara and 6 days russian syrian forces will move into a 30 kilometers own along the turkish border we'll go live to charles stratford shortly announce a collie but 1st step in and send us this report from sochi where presidents are to juan and putin finalize this new agreement. with only i was left of the u.s. brokered cease fire in syria russia stopped did president putin offer to help to remove and this omfg goodish fighters at the turkish syrian border to go with syrian border troops but it's delayed this book was due today we share turkey's concern about the growing threats of terrorism and the growth of ethnic tensions in the region east tensions and the separatist mood in recent times where in our opinion artificially created by outsiders. goodish fighters have until next tuesday

evening local time to clear turkey's 30 kilometer so-called safe zone russian military police will then start joint patrols with turkish forces along almost the entire north eastern syrian border. is on the barren moving threats posed by either terrorist organization this operation in syria guarantees syria's territorial integrity and political unity we never had eyes on the country's territory and sovereignty as turkey all steps we are taking in the field we have taken with sensitivity. both leaders agreed that the syrian constitutional committee should start its work on october 30 despite the current actions on the ground put in insists the courts should be part of the political solution for syria after a long discussion with president putin not only manage to become the main power broker in syria he also gain territory for his allies syrian president assad who

now gets back control over crucial border areas but we can only call this a russian success if they manage to remove and this arm goodish fighters from this 30 kilometers zone. only down will the turkish military operation and according to the russian foreign minister who spoke after the meeting put and also made it clear that for any future solution in syria the turkish and syrian government have to reach their own deal russia wants to revive the 998 agreement between syria and turkey in which syria committed to stop supporting could issue fighters russia was quick to fill the vacuum left by the u.s. withdrawal from north eastern syria but by moscow's own admission achieving any kind of lasting solution will be a long and complicated process steps last an al-jazeera sochi. so let's take a closer look at the safe zone that anchor wants to create so as we mentioned it

will run along an area around 30 kilometers inside syria along the turkish border and russian and turkish joint patrols are one up to 10 kilometers deep on both sides of an area that runs between. let's go to the border now with the latest development there charles stratford holly so what is the situation on the ground what are we hearing if anything at charles from the s.d.r. . will certainly no reports of any fighting overnight but interesting really no reaction from the kurdish s.d.f. across the border with respect to this deal bait made by russia and turkey the fact of the matter is is that the s.d.f. we believe according to our school sees still control or still present in vost areas across this border. we estimate that they're in an area that is around

$300.00 coleman says in total that's not including the estimated 120 kilometers that the turkish forces are in control over of course the big question is is whether the syrian kurds are going to fight back or refuse to withdrawal and we've heard the turkish ministry of defense saying that they are not going to resume military operations at this stage but the russians have come out and said that if those kurdish fighters do not move back to 30 kilometers from the entire border within the next 6 days then turkey has every right to resume its military campaign against the kurds this is a huge loss obviously for the s.d.f. charl so what are the implications for the kurds of northern syria. well there's so many unanswered questions here it's important to recognize the president says that this is not a campaign or has not been

a campaign against the kurdish people he's very. very keen to continuously stress that this is a campaign against what he describes as terrorists but there's been no rate indication as to what will happen to those could he fight is once they withdrawal russia interesting lee has never been specific in defining the white p.g. that's predominant kurdish fighting force that turkey calls terrorist russia has never really has never called them terrorists but it has said that he has legitimate security concerns on its border so there's questions about the fighters themselves then there's questions about the long term political settlement in syria and what the kurds will get out of it let's not forget that in recent years the the kurds have set up what is often described as a as a defacto state in northern syria a place they called regime they had. what was described as an efficient running administration. and so on lists will say that any hope of any kind of

push for a separate state any kind of push for all ptolemy now for the is completely over russia says that it's important that syria and turkey talk to each other and it's very important that it says as well that turkey's syria's speak to the kurds but in terms of a long term political future for the kurds at this stage it's a very uncertain future all right strap from what the latest from cali thank you. as transfer to mark as for has arrived in baghdad to discuss the deployment of u.s. troops in iraq as for says all of us troops leaving syria will go to western iraq and will continue to fight i saw that the iraqi military says the u.s. does not have permission to stay there soldiers will true from northern syria just before the turkish operation against kurdish fighters began and run khan has more from baghdad. there seems to be a lot of to ing and fro ing between iraq and the u.s.

as the secretary of defense mark arrives in baghdad he was in saudi arabia on wednesday he's here today he's taking meetings with the foreign minister and with the prime minister and everybody is hoping for clarity on the status of the u.s. troops what we were hearing just a couple of days ago is that the u.s. troops retreating coming back from syria would go to a base in western iraq and that's where they would be based however a statement from the iraqi military said no that's not the case they're only allowed to transit through the country and we were hearing that they were going to go to q. waits now the problem seems to be the language that the u.s. is using it seems to have angered a lot of people in power in iraq because the u.s. has said they were treat back to base but they'll continue to mount their operations in northeastern syria against isis or gets from there that doesn't seem to be acceptable to the iraqis remember there are already about 5000 troops here now we are expecting

a press conference in the coming hours with promised i'd love the mahdi and the secretary of defense mark s. but we're hoping for clarity on the status of these u.s. troops will they stay here in iraq and be able to mount their operations as the u.s. would like against us and targets in northeastern syria or will they have to go back to kuwait and regroup. that's obvious diplomat in ukraine as testified for 10 hours in the impeachment investigation into president donald trump democrats say william taylor has provided the clearest account yet the pressure to crane to investigate political rival joe biden and exchange for military a class is a professor of global politics and university college london is taylor's testimony is devastating for president. in the watergate hearings in the 1970 s. there was the moment of the smoking gun which changed everything and i think that this testimony will be seen in history as the smoking gun for trump it is absolutely clear what happened now and it's the most blatant abuse of power in

modern presidential history where you have a clear quid pro quo where president trump effectively extorted a foreign government and said you can only have military assistance in the form of anti-tank missiles if you investigate my political opponent and make a public announcement of doing that it's extremely easy to understand which has a devastating political effect because voters are going to see exactly what happened and the person conveying the message is extraordinarily credible you know a former soldier a decorated diplomat somebody who has served under republican and democratic administrations and it's probably the worst day political.