if you remember the. this is d. w. news live from berlin and the stakes are high in israel as the country holds its 2nd election this year benjamin netanyahu is hoping to hold on to power despite the threat of corruption charges but he's facing a strong challenge from former military chief pentagon. also coming up just one last thing you see on the street. i mean it's the international honor's environmental activist spreta to newburgh who calls for more protests in the fight against climate change and he changed the world by exposing how the u.s.

government was conducting mass surveillance and lying about it now edward snowden has written a book about the dangers to our privacy. i'm sorry kelli walk into the program voting is underway in israel 2nd general election this year it's expected to be a tight race prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his wife voted early it's hope that today's election will and the political crisis that began with netanyahu was unable to form a government after the last election back in april former army chief benny gantz is netanyahu whose main challenger. and for more on this i am joined now by correspondent merriam daven who is live in jerusalem so how has

the voter turnout been so far miriam. hi sara so the voter turnout this morning is actually been higher than in the previous elections which was a little bit unexpected i mean we have to see how it pans out during the day but people were actually expecting kind of voter apathy in the 2nd round in such a short time and but of course this is an unprecedented thing to have 2 elections within such a short time period so we don't really know what's going to happen it's also going to be interesting to see the arab voter turnout this time the israeli citizens the arab israelis arab citizens who have israeli citizenship and see how they vote because there's actually a new hour party now that's come back together and that might bring up the turnout in that sector and the incumbent the prime minister benjamin netanyahu as we mentioned he's not just fighting for his political survival many expect him to actually seek immunity over a potential corruption indictment if reelected how much of a role did this play in the election. it actually didn't

play that much of a role but there are the ultra-orthodox parties which are the kind of traditional supporters of a right wing coalition his right wing coalition have already pledged their support for such a bill and just recently also another right wing party a national religious party called headed by some famous politicians in israel also pledged their support for this bill i mean 1st he has to become prime minister and put together a coalition and then before you even does that some hearings are already scheduled for the beginning beginning of october if he does get charged that he will be expected to resign and of course if he has the immunity bill passed then he won't have to do that and people have been accusing him of you know just trying to stay in political just trying to keep his power and not really serving the well being of the country it has been a charge campaign netanyahu $11.00 of the big promises that he has made in this campaign is to annex part of the west bank if we elected as the israeli electorate

moves so far to the right that that's now a possibility. oh well domestically actually that announcement was kind of seen as you know pre-election theatricals like a last minute panic panicked attempt to appeal to hardliners to have a good hard line right wingers to vote for his party rather than the other extreme right wing parties rather than other right wing parties. of course it would be a dramatic thing to do if he does get elected and he does pull through with it there are many complicated questions involved you know what's going to happen to the palestinians who live in that area many security questions the security establishment is actually not necessarily in favor of it but in terms of the position itself maintaining settlements in the west bank and also maintaining military hold on the strategically important jordan valley that's a position that blue and white the. other the parties that contending against him holds miriam doggin in jerusalem thank you. thanks

u.s. president donald trump says that he believes iran was probably behind attacks on saudi oil installations over the weekend he also underscored that he's waiting for definitive proof of who was responsible and that he would consult america's allies trump added all options remain on the table but that there will be no rush to a military 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 united states is we're prepared than any country in the history. of in any history where want war 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 3 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. we should ports should be supporting. countries in the region responding to attacks against them. the iranian president hassan rouhani met with his allies in ankara and defended the campaign against saudi arabia. or to get him out of the way you many people are simply defending themselves these attacks are 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. let's get a quick check of some other stories making news around the world in afghanistan at least 24 people have been killed in a bomb blasts and parvati province close to an election rally where president gandhi was speaking he was unhurt another bomb in the capital kabul killed 3 people

. in britain the battle over brags that has moved to the supreme court which is hearing a case claiming the prime minister boris johnson actively believed when he suspended parliament johnson says that the shutdown was to prepare for a new legislative agenda opponents say the real reason was to prevent parliamentary scrutiny. hong kong's leader kerry lamb says that she will engage in direct talks with community leaders in an effort to and 3 months of protests she added further discussions would then be opened up with the broader public being able to join him . and 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 the offenses were committed at the st patrick's cathedral in melbourne in the late 1990 s. . 16 year old environmental activist gratitude has received an award from amnesty

international for her work urging climate. climate action in order to deal with climate change now at a ceremony in washington amnesty said that she had shown unique leadership. it was the moment the crowd had been waiting for. and hearing brighter to merge to for her message. was actually risen 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 will be 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 there's something powerful about young people speaking out in this way because the c.e.o.'s of the fossil fuel companies president trump and all the other people that are holding us back from coke this appearance and grandparents and so on and hopefully the penny will drop soon. the fridays for future activists have urged everybody to take part in global climate strikes on september 20th and 27th to coincide with the u.n.

climate summit in new york record 2 bird said she hopes to see you on the streets. former u.s. intelligence operative edward snowden's new book goes on sale today snowden shocked the world 6 years ago when he leaves details of a massive american internet surveillance program spanning the globe he's living in exile 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 recent 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 simple 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 creasing more through with each passing year and you can say the same of these internet john or you 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 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. i know it is frequent it's this i consider it to be fundamentally wrong for ministers to comment on how they think asylum procedures should turn out that these are processed according to the law by to snowden denies any collaboration with the russian government his russian residence permit runs out next year he's living of an undisclosed address in moscow. so edward snowden would like to be granted asylum in germany

earlier we spoke with his lawyer and asked him what would be required for snowden to come to the country know what's been expressed oust him. and if he does what. he has to have all. the ganges that he would not be arrested and would not face extradition proceedings the united states. and that he'd be able to remain in germany as president. so there are ways that was just to come into germany. and simply quote oh. this merkel in our stage doesn't. own a will to do that. well political results in tunisia's presidential election are due to be released today and an upset looks likely with 2 anti establishment

candidates ahead law professor and political outsider. was leaving on monday with 2 thirds of the vote counted while imprisoned media magnate. naive carroll we knew was in 2nd place now the 2 men are likely to head off against each other in a runoff next month. this in the parliamentary elections slated for october the 6th a widely seen as a test for one of the world's youngest democracies so let's get more on that we are joined now here in the studio by my colleague who knows the region very well he has actually just returned from tunisia far of dual karim jafar welcome to the set so tell us i mean the arab spring we all know the revolution started in tunisia and that was 8 years ago. how is the situation now regarding you know human rights civil liberties in the country you mentioned it's a young democracy when you talk in the arab countries of tunisia they always say

it's the contrary within the arab countries that is in the best way to a democracy when you talk about freedom of expression freedom of speech was also as an example compared to the other are countries according to reports or without borders when you talk about women rights it's also very progressive compared to other countries they are discussing today the inheritance flow that men and women in heard the same and that's according what's written in court on the way it is explained in the also have like when you talk very concrete example about polygamy which is almost in every arab country allowed in into news international women and men are only allowed to marry 11 partner and that's you know all these give tunisia a very different state as compared to civil rights to compared to. right and when you talk to didn't even last week when i talked to them you could feel they are aware that we're having elections they are aware that we having according to what

they say free elections because you really had a good competition and the results show that's not the typical are coming from the typical parties are going my to win according no and this gives the diversity and different opinions and all this is creating a very different atmosphere now in tunisia compared to the arab countries so what is on the voters' minds then just because i mean you were out there you spoke with them they have concerns stay have they have consists when you talk to the younger generation they want jobs. they say liberty freedom having civil rights that's the 1st step and now it's about having jumps you have a gap between being studying in the university and the requirements you need to work you have a gap between what you learn and then what you then have to use so they say unemployment is almost 34 percent percent. within the younger generation so they say give us jobs because you have

a big challenge when you talk to the young generation they all want to leave and the biggest thrasher tunisia has today is a generation that's motivated the ones to work the ones to change and so they have to invest in them and debts what you feel and see and hear like i was in different con and in different cities i was in tunisia wasn't fox i wasn't djerba you know i talk and they say unemployment is they should change you have a start up scene this is also changing and the 2nd thing is corruption they want a very clear statement from the government from the elected president to fight corruption and seriously because after 8 years today according to transparency international corruption in tunisia is still there so people say fight corruption give us jobs we are in a good way to democracy and let's go for it together and they weighed in on all of those issues the results expected to be released today in this presidential election jafar abdul karim who has just returned from the country thank you so much

for your pointer. news still to come on the program it is the most spine tingling experience in football we will tell you which superstar is afraid of missing out on tonight's champions league. you might have guessed it there in fact friends we're going to go to now which has issued a state of high or lurked for farming regions after officials detected signs of a disease at the stories all of trees the bacteria which causes what is called all of tree leprosy has devastated groves in neighboring italy news that it's cross the border has growers in southern france rushing to take precautions. trees are 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 see no back to. back here ian that

enters the sap that is carried by the stuff of the plans and it causes the plant to dry out like it's running out of water. 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 one 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 poorly. 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 that we want. all of farmers and southern friends can only hope the authorities were quick enough to stop the further transmission until a fastidious this time and i know it probably won't be the last. football now and the champions league is back with the 1st group games kicking off tonight's 2 german teams will be an action here to tell us more as a leader who talking from v.w. sports we have to talk about dortmund barcelona tonight it's a big lineup and it is and here we have 2 clubs with 2 of the greatest atmosphere has to have the best stadiums when it comes to world football but these heights have never ever met before in the champions league i know it's crazy so there's

a lot of buzz around this match and even has one of the best players you know messi excited he said that it's always been on his bucket list to play a daughter and but of course that might not happen because he is injured and we have more details on that let's take a look. very iconic yellow warlick dortmund's acknowledged in a park is a firm favorite across the continent but players are also keen to drink in the atmosphere even superstar messi who after the group stage draw all said he looked forward to finally playing there but a niggling cough injury may keep him out of the match but if it was my nana they will decide tomorrow it's true a few days ago we weren't so sure he'd play. but in our last training sessions he trained with the team he competed well and maybe was able to get some of the pain he was feeling out of his head. the team on fire having bounced back

from defeat in the bundesliga by pushing for passed by a live accusing on saturday was. kept in the m score of this goal marco voice is confident they can beat barcelona. because i think it's important we concentrate on ourselves and don't talk too much about the opponent and about messi everyone knows he is the best but that's that we're playing at home and we also have a good team so we want to get a home win. don't win face an uphill toss whether messi plays or not their group also contains a rejuvenated into real arm sides so 3 points would certainly go along the way. solely with begs the question what happens if messi doesn't play good and was good good news for dortmund of course they're going to take back but bad news for basuto not because they have struggled in the past without him another question is no

messi no problem maybe because of this kid right here he's only 16 years old remember the name on sue for the t. he has while out audiences this season he did mention that he's only 16 years old he scored 2 goals for boston already and i think he along with the individual quality of entente greaseman louis flores i think will be at the reports had a very uphill battle for daunte men tonight the other match that really catches the eye we have to talk about napoli hosting you're going clubs liverpool can they defend their title defending the champions league title is always really difficult but if there's one man motivated enough to do it it is you can call up you know he in his words in the works of him well in the words of in his words you know he's come out saying that you know he wants to continue writing stories but that said in all earnest liverpool of course they have a very poor way record when it comes to the group stages in the champions league and last season for example they lost all the away matches in the group stages in

fact they barely even made it through let's remember that but they did you know end up winning the title at the end and now of course they're playing against again in italy against napoli where they did lose last season so this is a big test and they need to improve on their way record a lemo talk you can do that for us thank you. this is either news and these are our top stories israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his wife have cast their votes in the 2nd israeli election this year it is hoped that today's poll will and the political crisis that began when netanyahu was unable to form a government after the election in april centrist and former army chief benny gantz is the main challenger in a close race. u.s. president donald trump says that he believes iran was probably behind the attacks on the saudi oil installation over the weekend and he also said that he was waiting

for quote definitive proof of who was responsible and that he would consult allies trump added that all options remained on the table but that there would be no rush to a military response. climate activists threaten to merck has been presented with amnesty international's highest honor the ambassador of conscious of award amnesty said that she had shown great leadership accepting the prize in washington the 16 year old urged everyone to join the global climate strike on friday saying see you on the streets this is the news from berlin you can always find the latest headlines at e.w. dot com or you can follow us on twitter. don't forget you can always get to news on the go just download our app from google play or from the apple store which will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for breaking news you can use the app to send us photos and videos.

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