this is deja vu news live from berlin the stakes are high in israel today is that country holds its 2nd election this year benjamin netanyahu is hoping to hold onto power that despite the threat of corruption charges but he's facing a strong challenge from former military chief. also coming up. u.s. president donald trump says he is almost certain the drone attacks on toilet facilities in saudi arabia works carried out by iran but he says the u.s. will not be rushing to riyadh last and just one last thing you see on the street.

honestly international honoring environmental activist creative terms are calls for more protests in the fight against punching. and he changed the world by blowing the whistle on mass surveillance by governments and corporations now edward snowden has laid out all the details in a new book. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for joining us polls have opened in israel's 2nd general election this year it's expected to be a tight race prime minister benjamin netanyahu voted earlier as hope to raise the action and the political crisis that began when netanyahu was unable to form a government after the last election that was just 5 months ago in april but he's facing a close challenge from the former army chief many dances running as

a centrist. for the very latest let's bring in kramer who's following the voting for us there in jerusalem good morning tonya tonya what are the chances this election will produce the very same results we saw 5 months ago and the same political stalemate. well that's absolutely possible difference an hour is that could help no pulses predict a very tight race again between benyamin netanyahu is likud and. blue and white party the party that was really fun for the last elections and then it's actually what is happening the day off to the elections because whoever wins the most seats multi-party system has sen you know needs to be able to form that could to build the next government and that is where the new netanyahu failed last time and instead of giving back the mandate he actually pushed for new elections

and that's why we're here again today why israelis have to come to the polling station today and what one of the civil also look at today is the voter turnout how many people are coming has been a very slow election campaign after a long summer because that will also of course. be seen then in the results so a 2200 local time tonight we expect the 1st exit polls and we see where the trend is going and by tomorrow morning we should see some more official results and ok thanks very much for that we have much more from jerusalem as the day progresses so what was important for voters is talk about that now here in the studio with me resigning as a journalist and a middle east analyst from israel joining us here today good morning to you surely you know when we look at the voters and what is important to them they are definitely considering the instability in the region from syria to iran but also in

their own backyard in gaza how much is security playing a role in this election well in a way a lot and you know is mr security in israel's view in public for many years driving the being the driving force against iran talking about iran and the main is the main the head of the snake of the middle east bringing also president trump on board with that but then this is why we see the only people who manage to sort of come close and topple. and after all these years is benny gantz his party blue and white which is also he is the head of it but he has 3 other generals the other former chief of staff with him because this is the core issue ok that gives him a lot of credibility bennigan's doesn't the fact that he was an army chief and he has his people on board the blue white party doesn't it does it does but in a way this is not about ideological ideology it's not about ideas the campaign is very much a personal one and the about an attendee out yes or no it is a vote of confidence in ateneo or not ok now to get that vote of confidence from the people are going to the ballot boxes today he's made a short term the right to galvanize his base. and he's vowed to annex parts of the

west bank the palestinians view as part of their future state but it's not just to settlers who live there let's take a look at this evangelical christians from the u.s. are also there in significant numbers. the high of elvin you know it was set up by an evangelical christian group the friends of zion on its in an israeli settlement deep in the west bank which the settlers describe using the biblical terms today and some of these christian zionists believe the bible promises the holy land to the jews but the settlement is in the middle of what the palestinians see as a future state evangelicals believe to be an area that is the bible because it is 6000 years of peace treaty. do you really think giving up. there is going to bring peace no way local palestinians and most of the international community see the settlements as illegal. this land belongs to us

inherited from our fathers and grandfathers without this land for thousands of years. the same way they found extremism they want to annex the west bank. we'll hear of trump acknowledging the annexation of the west bank. christian zionists have found a strong ally in the u.s. president pictured here with mike evans they loudly supported his controversial recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel. christian evangelical support of trump and trump support in the state of israel has gotten stronger in past years to add to light and that brings in more groups here. most people would blame the problems here on competing land claims and a violent history but the founder of the vineyard has a different explanation. and i think there's a reason why it is there's a lot of conflict here. for the obviously there's people that oppose god mr wallace says that the purpose of the vineyard is to provide american believers with an

opportunity to get hands on in the holy land these evangelicals a strong supporters of prime minister benjamin netanyahu who announced plans to an exotic need to can parts of the west bank if he triumphs in today's elections depending on the results the could be plenty more land for settlers on the high of elvin yont soon enough. as promised to to annex places like the one we just looked at there as israeli society as the electorate moves so far to the right that that now is feasible well i will see but i doubt that this is mostly about trying to you know he's trying to he wants to be the big has the he wants to have the biggest party he needs to fight his the immuno there's a party right to his right there supporting them if they're the settlers party and he needs to votes from them that was partially why he went for this move and it doesn't matter for most of the voters it doesn't matter what he says it's not in the oh no matter what so he can now basically knowing he has an american the

american support he can do whatever you want he's finally in his or certainly if he could annex parts of the west bank which were not which there's a large part of society would completely support that. again i think people will support him to know what he does no matter what i think it mostly depends on american response to it you you see that the americans were not endorsing it as warmly as netanyahu expected but they also didn't object that which what now with obama it would have happened they would had a very clear state department or even obama's statement opposition to the exactly exactly so he is trying to sort of walk slowly between the lines trying to see what he can you know sort of gauge the water and see how far can he go where there's been some key signals from the u.s. the viewing jerusalem as the israeli capital i mean there we already have a test case if you will for india and he's easy is that's also part of what he was companion campaigning on you could see billboards with him and trump will build with him and putting presenting him the to me i was trying the air of the world one

amongst the top ones you can you know in the in the international league and it's working for him ok critics of have described benjamin netanyahu scored the prince of darkness and called this a battle for the soul of israel you see it on one hand the 10 yo is very much of apologizing figure people either are for him completely or totally against him and we've seen in this campaign that he stop close to nothing he was willing to jeopardize the integrity of the election talking about the need for surveillance cameras in each ballot box for example this is something he's tried last week talking about boycotting one of israel's leading news channels claiming it's all fake news and sort of a lot of trump trump plays that we know a lot of the same things that we see from ad one we see from. victoria but it's it's the same it's the same set of tricks let's say of populism rhetorically that netanyahu is now adopting sort of breaking the rules so far in his career who was

quite always the consensus guy but it seems like now fighting for his personal future he's going all the way and that's a lot of what it's about today is the shine results from say thanks very much for coming up thank you brian. well to the u.s. now u.s. president donald trump says he believes iran was probably behind attacks on saudi oil installations over the weekend he also underscored that he's waiting for definitive proof though of who is responsible and would also consult america's allies before taking any possible action trump said all options are still on the table but that he's in no rush to go to war. like the crown prince of bahrain the fischel visit to the white house was planned long ago but it couldn't be more timely the biggest question was would president trump take military action against iran without preconditions the united states is we're prepared that any country in the history. of in any history where what or i don't want war with anybody i am somebody that would like got to have. these satellite images released

by the u.s. military purportedly show the damage inflicted on the saudi oil plants and demonstrate how precise the attacks were carried out with drones or possibly cruise missiles. washington says the attacks were simply too complicated to be the work of who he rebels in neighboring yemen saudi arabia claims iran was behind the strike. beans weapons are iranian weapons our initial investigations show the terrorist attack did not come from yemen as the who it is claimed. white house representatives have also publicly blamed iran for the bombings but have yet to provide any definitive evidence on twitter u.s. president trump hinted at the possibility of military action he said there's reason to believe that we know the culprit and a locked and loaded depending on verification so is this simply saber rattling from president trump or is he heading down the road to military strikes. the

president's going to have to make some very hard calls. with the whose political base will be divided over whether there needs to be a direct u.s. military response were whether the u.s. should be sure ports should be supporting. countries in the region responding to attacks against them. the iranian president has done rouhani met with his allies in ankara and defended the he's campaign against saudi arabia. or to get him out of the e.u. many people are simply defending themselves these attacks a reciprocal and have to end the only solution for yemen has to be political. white house officials announced said to be debasing the best course of action communication or confrontation. those brief you know and some of the other stories making the news at this hour in a letter to congress president trump has announced that the united states will

enter a limited trade pact with japan in the coming weeks nissel for a deal expected to cover tariff barriers and digital trade it is unclear whether the deal include agricultural products. kong's leader kerry lamb says shown gauge in direct talks with community leaders in an effort to and 3 months of protests she said further discussions would then be opened up with the broader public being able to join in. lawyers for the jailed cardinal george pell have filed an appeal to australia's high court in a final bid to overturn his conviction for sexually abusing 2 choir boys your fences were committed at st patrick's cathedral number in the late 1009. 100 of their criticised the british prime minister boris johnson after talks on the u.k.'s departure from the bloc commission president john clarke youngers saying it

was britain's responsibility to come up with proposals to break the deadlock but that has failed to do so. johnson for his part decided to skip a final news conference. for boris johnson it was anything but a warm welcome as he made his way to a meeting with luxembourg's prime minister. earlier johnson met with each new commission president john cole to discuss press it over lunch the british prime minister expressed optimism that a so-called hard breaks it could be avoided yes there is a good chance of a deal yes i can see the shape of it. everybody can see buffy what could be done but it will require. movement and the us system by which the e.u. can control the u.k. after we leave. the so-called backstop. to go from that treaty but e.u. officials caution that johnson has so far failed to come up with an alternative to

the backstop the prime minister says he does not seek to delay breaks it beyond the current october 31st deadline. he seemed to be in a rush to depart from the meeting with his luxembourg counterpart and cheviot patel was left to hold a joint press conference alone and he did not hold back his frustration. you called hold the future hostage for politics political case. so now it's its own. mr johnson. he holds the future of all u.k. citizens and every us citizen sleeving the u.k. he sense if he stressed once ability you know people people called on you but the clock is ticking use your time wisely. luxembourg's prime minister also accused johnson of playing the blame game i repeat the sprigs it's not my choice

it's been a decision from the party it was a decision from david come in to do it they decide they decide and i deeply regret it but don't blame us because now they don't know how to get out of this. situation i do put themselves. it's not my choice. talks will continue but the e.u. has confidence in johnson's ability or willingness to achieve a deal appears to be fading fast. the swedish climate activists created has been handed amnesty international's highest honor for her unique leadership and courage in standing up for human rights and is the secretary general who presented the ambassador for a conference in washington. timberg was given a standing ovation she used her speech to say that governments have much more work to do and call on people to keep up the pressure. our washington

correspondent kelly has talked with the secretary general of amnesty at that you were you know an activist yourself as a young man and here you are now what advice. have you given to create the tumor go or the other fridays for future activists and what do you want to pass on to them that maybe they can learn from firstly i see 2 young people who are standing up to secure their future and to defend their rights is don't put any faith in the bunch of the this lot of fresh ideas. we talk talk talk without action and that young people need to bring to the public debate the freshness of their perspective. new solutions on old problems many of the. politicians and business leaders all recognize that climate change is

a serious problem but don't have the political will and the energy and the passion that young people have and that's what they need to bring to it so actually. very hesitant about giving young people advice is look how good how well my generation of activists have done in the sense that we still have all of these problems so i think right now with humility i must say that really looking to young people to bring their numbers their passion but also young people need to push back when adults say young people are the leaders of tomorrow if young people wait for tomorrow the won't be here to morrow for them to be able to take leadership given the realities of what climate change represents which is essentially a mass death penalty facing the entire population of our planet why do you think it is that it's taking place now because we've known about climate change or the climate crisis for for many many many years but it seems like now it's really beginning to finally hit home that's sort of my impression but

a couple of things are changing one is that in the last decade we've seen almost 100 percent increase in extreme weather events so today you don't have to be a climate scientists or something you just have to watch the weather bulletins or whichever country you're in you can see something is changing drastically in the u.k. for example where they've had the highest temperature days recently now 85 percent of the people in britain recognize that climate change is one of the biggest threats they face the 2nd is the new social media environment allows for a different kind of organization that crosses boundaries. that it's light it's flexible it's less bureaucratic it's decentralized and there's a real power in that kind of organization. could what. is more leader a full organizations or leader food movement so who's the figurehead in the initiator as really keen pains even when we were speaking to about the what she

said provided it's for the movement and for everybody who participated and that kind of leadership where people don't want to be leaders you know but see that they've been put into a situation where they have to lead is the kind of leaders that we want unfortunately the world we live in too many people are too desperate to be leaders when in fact they should actually ideally stay at home and they would help society much better then by capturing the white house for example. that was did abuse a public fully ileus with the secretary general of amnesty international there this is the to be news live from blunt still to come on the show scientists are calling it a very serious threat to large parts of europe a deadly virus is spreading it's already killed more than a 1000000 all of treason in italy has now crossed the border into france.

but 1st a former u.s. intelligence operative edward snowden his new book goes on sale today snowden shocked the world 6 years ago of course when he leaked details of a massive american internet surveillance program spanning the globe he's living in exile now in russia and faces espionage charges and the likelihood of life in prison back home. some see him as a hero others condemn him as america's most wanted traitor as with snowden his written permanent record to set the record straight himself told german television that he's concerned about the fates of feature whistleblowers and i think that's one of the saddest lessons from this story what does it say to the next whistleblower and what does a suitable world what does it say about ourselves when the only place that american this again can be heard is from places that we wouldn't expect. in 2013 snowden was working as a contractor for the national security agency or n.s.a. in interviews he'd said he'd become disillusioned and had ethical concerns about

the massive government surveillance programs that were part of his assignment later that year snowden was accused of leaking classified information to the media that documents reveal the way governments are using online data from the devices of ordinary citizens to monitor their lives snowden also sees more immediate dangers on our virtual doorstep an internet giant you can look around the world today and go governments are not threat they're increasing more through with each passing year and you can say the same of these internet giants made an enemy of public privacy they make their money by selling our lives as a product snowden's a serious a he sharing of classified files that disclosed military secrets to america's enemies and in danger to u.s. agents was a reckless act snowden has been living in exile in russia ever since the us wants

him extradited on espionage charges he could face decades in prison in his memoir snowden complains that countries around the world had refused to grant him asylum it became evidence that even the most advanced democracies were afraid of incurring the wrath of the us government snowden regards germany as among those countries but the german foreign minister stands firm on his commitments to legal procedure. should. i consider it to be fundamentally wrong for ministers to comment on how they think asylum procedures should turn out. these are processed according to the law by to snowden denies any collaboration with the russian government his russian residence permit turns out next year he's living at an undisclosed address in moscow. so with his residence permit running out as we heard there edward snowden would like to be granted asylum here in germany earlier

we spoke to his lawyer robert about when i asked him what would be required for snowden to come to germany what's been expressed ousts and snowden's lawyer answer that if he does what. he asked. the ganges that he would not be arrested and would not face extradition proceedings the united states section. and that he be able to remain in germany as president. so there are ways. to come into germany. and simply quote. or smuggle in our stage doesn't. own a will to do that. well france has issued a state of high alert for farming regions after officials detected signs of a disease that destroys all of trees the bacteria which causes was called all of leffers he has devastated groves and neighboring italy news that has crossed the

border has growers in southern france rushing to take precautions. to 2 trees infected with the feared plant as he's in southern france were discovered in private gardens not far from the mediterranean coast they had to be called but wouldn't have survived much longer anyway i seen a back to. back syrian that enters the sap that is carried by the sap of the plants and it causes the plant to dry out like it's running out of water. because the lower 1st video affects many different plants it's native to costa rica but has spread to other places through trade and agricultural products in california in the late 1990 s. it almost wiped out an entire wine producing region it's found equally attractive conditions in italy where it 1st appeared in 2013 transmitted by insects like this one particular strain of the bacteria has ravaged olive groves across the country

killing many trees that were centuries old especially in the southern region of a poor. experts say the disease can spread by up to 2 kilometers a month if an infected plant is detected the only response authorities currently have is to kill every other potential carrier plant within 100 meter radius in france the authorities still hope they can keep celera at bay. you don't cut down century old trees like this with pleasure it hurts but you have to do it is to preserve all the rest of our heritage but we want. all of farmers and southern friends can only hope the authorities were quick enough to stop the further transmission of the letter fastidiously. this time and they know it probably won't be the last. get your minder now of our top stories this hour voting is underway in israel 2nd general election this year. by mr benjamin netanyahu facing

a strong challenge from former army chief benny gantz he's running as a centrist. the state of the news live from berlin coming up as our bonus lagerfeld kickoff that's straight ahead for now though for me brian thomas and the entire team thanks so much for.

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