this is the news live from berlin the stakes are high in israel as that country holds its 2nd election this year and human netanyahu is hoping to hold on to power that despite the threat of corruption charges but he's facing a strong challenge from former military chief. also coming out and just one last thing you see on the streets. i think honor's environmental activists created room bar the calls for more protests in the fight against climate change.

and he changed the world by revealing mass surveillance by governments and corporations now edward snowden has laid out the details in a new book. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for joining us all voting is now underway in israel's 2nd general election this year it's expected to be a very tight race prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his wife are voting earlier there's hope today's election will end the political crisis that began when netanyahu was unable to form a government after the last election in a full 5 months ago former army chief benny gantz is netanyahu main challenge. for more let's get the latest now with did obvious tony kramer joining us from jerusalem good morning tanya tanya how's a voter turnout been so far where you are. one

mean people here coming since the early morning to the polling stations they opened at 7 am people have a day off to go and vote and there's a lot of expectation here because it's going to be a long day exit polls are not expected before 22100 tonight and here local time we will know a bit more what the trend is going to be these elections so if i was talking to this morning said you know maybe it's more of the same they don't know really what to make of this 2nd round of elections in a year others might hope for maybe a change it's a neck to neck race a again according to pollsters and we have to take always those polls with a grain of salt because they're not always highly accurate between and you mean that on yahoo's likud and. blue and white alliance so we'll have to wait and see for tonight what kind of results are coming in talking when we look at the

instability in the region especially in iran and syria but also closer to home in gaza how much is that factoring in for voters in this election. well that's certainly always on people's mind over here but all the candidates have made it also a topic in their election campaign which has been very fierce between the likud and kahala vann. mr netanyahu of course is always you know pushing his image of mr security when it comes to you know also know what's happening in lebanon syria and iran and also in gaza but also many guns he's a former army general he served under netanyahu as well as other generals in the leadership of couple of and they're also very much you know put on this image of security which is very important to them so this has been also topic but it's mainly these elections you have to say about the candidates the personalities and

very much about benyamin netanyahu himself he wants to have a fist term so people are waiting to see whether this will happen and people are also waiting to see how this is all going to turn out to being such a close election what are the chances that it will produce the very same results we saw 5 months ago and the same political stalemate. well that's entirely possible and i know this and commentators you know already talking about different scenarios 1 what could happen for prime minister netanyahu he wants to go for right wing religious. if it would be up to him but he failed last time to build such a coalition. and that's why we having again those elections his a real have to see also like the other smaller parties will be doing for example. israel between a party of men he was the one actually to crush the party for mr netanyahu because

he didn't want to go into coalition with him so how he will be doing whether he will be the king maker at this time as well donna thanks very much for that tara kramer for us we'll have much more of course throughout the day from tanya from jerusalem. or u.s. president donald trump says he believes iran was probably behind the attacks on saudi oil installations over the weekend he also underscored he's waiting for definitive proof of who is responsible and that he consult america's allies batted all options remain on the table but that there will be no rush to annoy terry response. the crown prince of bahrain the official 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 way the united states is we're prepared that any country in the history. of in any history

where want war i don't want war with anybody somebody they 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 theory rebels in neighboring yemen saudi arabia claims iran was behind the strike that. these weapons are iranian weapons our initial investigations show the terrorist attack did not come from yemen as the hooters 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 his political base will be divided over whether there needs to be a direct u.s. military response or whether the u.s. be sure ports should be supporting. countries in the region responding to attacks against their. the iranian president hassan rouhani met with his allies in ankara and defended the he's campaign against saudi arabia. jim out of the way you 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 debating the best course of action communication or confrontation for those frigid out some of the other stories

making the news at this hour in britain the battle over bracks has moved to the supreme court there which is hearing the case claiming that prime minister boris johnson acted illegally when he prorogue or suspended parliament johnson says the shutdown was prepared for a new legislative agenda opponents say the real reason was to prevent parliamentary scrutiny. hong kong's leader kerry lab says she will engage in direct talks with community leaders that in an effort to end 3 months of protests she had a further discussion was would then be opened up with the broader public being able to join in yes. lawyers for the jailed cardinal george pell have filed an appeal to all australia's highest court in a final bid to overturn his conviction for sexually abusing 2 choir boys the offenses were committed at st patrick's cathedral in melbourne in the late ninety's . that. the 16 year old environmentalist great attune bird has received an

award from amnesty international for her work urging action to deal with climate change at a ceremony in washington annecy said she'd shown unique leadership. it was the moment the crime had been waiting for god and hearing to tune in for her message. activism works. thank you. so what i'm telling you to do now is to act because no one is too small to make a difference this award is for all of those millions of people young people around the world who together make up

a movement called fridays for a future i was a movement to merge founded after missing school on fridays to protest against political action on climate change and to support the attention of people both young and old including the secretary general of amnesty international community do he spoke to d.w. the award ceremony. i think this something powerful about young people speaking out in this way because the c.e.o.'s of the fossil fuel companies place and trump and all the other people that are holding us back from progress our parents and grandparents and so on and hopefully the penny will drop soon. the fridays for future activists have urged everybody to take part in local climate strikes on september 20th and 27th coincide with the u.n. climate summit in new york record time bird said he hopes to see you on the streets

. the former u.s. intelligence operative edward snowden's new book goes on sale today he shocked the world of course 6 years ago when he leaked details of a massive american internet surveillance program that spanned the globe so now living in exile in russia and faces espionage charges in the likelihood of life in prison back oh. 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 a future 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 the documents revealed the way governments were 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 there increasing more through with each passing year and you can say the same of these internet yards they have made an enemy of public privacy they make their money by selling our lives as a product snowden's adverse or is say he's sharing of classified files that disclosed military secrets to america's enemies and endangered the u.s. agents was a reckless act snowden has been living in exile in russia ever since the u.s.

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 u.s. 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. if these are processed according to the law. that 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 edward snowden would like to be granted asylum here in

germany but would that mean earlier we spoke with his lawyer roberts about ask him what would be required for edward snowden to come to germany what's been expressed ousts and snowden's lawyer that if he does what. he has to have. the ganges that he would not be arrested and would not face extradition proceedings the united states asked recession. and that he be able to remain in germany as president. so there are ways. to come to germany. and simply quote. on this merkel that our stage doesn't. own a will to do that. let's get your miner of our top stories this hour voting is underway in israel 2nd general election this year prime minister benjamin netanyahu faces a strong challenge from the former army chief any gods who's running as

a centrist. well straight ahead we have our documentary that's taking up the question today our farming policies. and they'll forget you can always get the latest news our website e.w. dot com i'm brian thomas for all of us here thanks for being with us. for 1st coming much of. the doors grand moment arrives. joining me ring a chain on her journey back to freedom. in our interactive documentary durham.