this is g w news live from berlin tonight a united front from two men mired in scandal israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu meets the u.s. president there are reports that trump could open the controversial u.s. embassy in jerusalem we'll get more from our washington correspondent also coming up italy's former prime minister much he steps down as democratic party leader that's after a record numbers of voters deserted the political center in sunday's election instead they flock to immigrant and euro skeptic populists who will have to battle

it out to form a new go. off it's good to have you with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has met with u.s. president donald trump at the white house the visit comes amid corruption investigations that could threaten political survival talks are expected to focus on curbing the regional influence archrival iran as well as the stalled israeli palestinian peace process tensions have been high in the region since trump recognized jerusalem as the capital of israel in december and announced that the u.s. embassy would move to the city despite those tensions trump told reporters in the oval office that he thought there was a good chance for peace in the conflict here's what he had to say just

a short while ago. what better if we could make peace between israel and the palestinians and i can tell you we're working very hard on doing that and i think we have a very good chance and the biggest difficulty that anybody said you look over twenty five years nobody could get past number one jerusalem they couldn't get past it we've taken it off the table so this gives us a real opportunity to peace and we'll see how it works out that the palestinians i think you are wanting to come back to the table very bad. if they don't you don't have peace if you don't have peace if they don't you don't have peace and that's a possibility also i'm not saying it's going to happen everybody are there is the u.s. president there donald trump let's go to washington now we're joined by our correspondent carsten phenomena good evening to you carson analysts are describing this moment as the dawn of a new era for u.s. israeli relations and where does this leave peace negotiations considering that

trumps mideast envoy his son in law jared kirshner has lost his security clearance . well the fact that the security clearance of jarrett cushion has been downgraded from top secret to only secret is of course a major blow to cushion. when he wants to be seen as a serious power broker on the international stage and in this whole process of course he still has the president's ear and the president can give him any sensitive and from ation that he wants and i think the bigger problem really is donald trump's decision to officially move the u.s. embassy to israel to jerusalem because with this move in contrast to what the president just said in that clip clearly it has destroyed the notion of the united states as an honest broker as

a neutral broker in this whole discussion the palestinian leaders do not even want to be seen with the talking with the americans and clearly they think that america is now openly siding with israel and so in my view there is no peace process and jerry question also hasn't even presented any peace plan or even a roadmap to revive the peace process on the quite sure about the optimism of president trump comes from carson both of these leaders they're in hot water domestically we've got the israeli leader facing corruption allegations the white house is in turmoil the president possibly starting a trade war so how is this face to face meeting how is it going to help both of these leaders. well it helps both leaders indeed in the way that benjamin netanyahu can demonstrate he is an important player on the

international stage he will he is seen next to the most powerful man in the world and for donald trump also it's good for him on the domestic stage to be seen as someone who sides with frale who is a good friend of the israeli prime minister because that pleases an important part of his domestic base the pro is where lobby and the christian if angelica is who are supporting israel and so for those two leaders definitely this was a feel good event. and it has do we know has prime minister netanyahu has he extended an invitation to president truong to attend the opening of the u.s. embassy in jerusalem at least the two have been talking about this when i asked about this possibility by the white house press pool in the oval office president trump i may go to jerusalem for the official opening of the u.s.

embassy there of course because the date has been moved forwards to him it's made the official date for the relocation of the embassy to coincide with the seventieth anniversary of the declaration of the state of israel on may fourteenth of course the americans will not be able to build a new embassy by that time so what they're doing is upgrading the existing consulate the american consulate and best use of them changed all signs and move the ambassador there and yes donald trump might be going there as well. all right correspondent in washington carson phenomenon the story forced my question thank you very much. for we have news just coming in the b.b.c. is reporting that a former russian spy living in england is critically ill after being exposed to and un known substance sergey script was granted refuge in britain after a spy swap back in twenty ten now we are waiting for

a press conference and you're looking at live pictures there where that press conference is supposed to take place we're going to try to bring that to you if we can during this program and again we've got a former spy critically ill this evening let's go over to london now to our correspondent bearded maass bigots we want to start with you but i am being told that the the press conference is starting now so let's go in and listen to them. and good evening ladies and gentlemen on ten persistent chief constable craig holden. gets the afternoon approximately a full fifteen pm will shipley's received a call from a member of the public who is concerned for the welfare of two people. the two people among a sixty six and

a thirty three year old woman were found unconscious in a bench in the multi-user of souls which city center. police officers as well as colleagues from the ambulance and fire services attended the scene and coatings were put in place. the pair who we believe are known to each other did not have any visible injuries and were taken to salzburg just ticks hospital. they are currently being treated for suspected exposure to an unknown substance. both are currently in a critical condition in intensive care. because we are still in the very early stages of the investigation we are unable to ascertain whether or not a crime has taken place. a major instance however has been declared today and a multi-agency response has been coordinated alongside our partner agencies we are conducting some extensive inquiries to determine exactly what led to these two people for the gun conscious and to clarify whether or not any criminal activity has taken place this has not been declared as

a counter terrorism incident and we would urge people not to speculate however i must emphasize the retain an open mind and we continue to review this position we have access to a wide range of specialist resources and services that are helping us to understand what we are or aren't dealing with at this time the focus at this moment and trying to stop wish what has caused these people to become critically ill and we are working with partners to prioritize this diagnosis and ensure that they receive the most appropriate and timely treatment. we will continue to appeal to any members of the public who may have information in relation to this incident and to contact us by the one zero one system or if it's urgent for nine nine nine we would like to reassure members of the public that instance of this nature are taken extremely seriously. and we currently do not believe there is any risk to the wider public.

we would like to take this opportunity to thank members of the public who assisted to so far are respected the cordons which remain in place and souls thank you. hello my name charles box and i'm the chief executive here at three district hospital in conjunction with our partners as we said we have to create a major incident today in response to the incident for two gifts took place yesterday on the two individuals confirmed i can confirm that they are currently being treated here through speeches street hospital and condition does remain critical in terms of the impact on the hospice whom we have been advising people today to continue to attend for they retain operations and retain appointments and we will continue to revive them to do a thorough we will contact any session i took a while i want to come out of the press conference we were just listening there to a representative from the cells very police in western england briefing the public on what happened today a man and

a woman found unconscious both in critical condition this evening saying that they were both exposed to an unknown substance but not the same this is not a counterterrorism incident yet police calling it a major incident let's go now to london to our correspondent there good must there gets can we glean any more information from what we just heard here obviously. the police wouldn't be talking to us this way if they didn't suspect that this could be something much more serious. well of course it is speculation at this point at this point in time because we don't know what the substance is that might have harmed the gentleman these two people but of course the way the police and also the lady in hospital is framing this makes people think of of the live in younger case because it was in two thousand

and six that alexander litvinenko was poisoned in london he was somebody who had worked for the office before the russian intelligence service and then became a critic of the kremlin and he fell ill here in london and it was polonium in fact it was a trace of polonium that he carried almost across london and that subsequently also killed him here in london and it was a case that really strained the u.k. russian relations it was a long standing inquest which was pursued by the widow of alexander litvinenko so of course it's something that comes to mind when you hear a case like this but the police saying it's not a counterterrorism operation at this moment but of course. you know people will be thinking about what what happened here before ok ok our correspondent there you must there in london with this breaking news story a sixty six year old man

a thirty three year old woman the man we understand is a former russian spy who both of them living in the u.k. in critical condition this evening having been exposed to an unknown substance thank you very much. the ramifications of italy's national action are starting to unfold with its once promising leader former prime minister matteo renzi has resigned as head of the center left democratic party after a bruising defeat in the polls frenzy made the announcement just moments ago his party won less than nineteen percent of the vote that is an historic low hundreds put that result down to frustration with a lagging economy and rising anti immigrant sentiment more than fifty percent of voters cast their ballots for far right are populist parties a right wing alliance made up of the anti immigrant league party and former prime minister silvio berlusconi's tahlia got the lion's share.

has been covering the story for us from rome we asked him a short while ago what's the next step for italy and the center left democratic party well at least the democratic leader said that he will not withdraw immediately so we can expect him to remain in the position as the leader of the. left party until the congress would vote somebody new and and so it's interesting when he says that he now ruled out any coalition with a populist party in italy and basically thereby rules out a coalition which experts told me is the most likely would have been the most likely scenario with the five star movement for instance so it just adds to the complicated situation of a hung parliament and though we'll have to wait and see what kind of horse trading the next couple of days will bring. and there was there reporting from rome here is

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