this is d. w. new survivor from berlin tonight a possible setback for benjamin netanyahu after voting ends in israel with a race that is too close to call exit polls to show that the prime minister and his hardline allies are short of a parliamentary majority probably a strong challenge by centrist big guns what is next for israel to 3rd election also on the show tonight with his ranch russian exile running out edward snowden's planning his next move. is one of the saddest lessons from the story what does it

say to the next whistleblower and what does the signal will when the only place that americans are going to be heard his from places that we wouldn't expect tonight we ask him what are the chances of edwards learning and getting asylum here in germany and with 2 weeks until afghanistan holds elections 50 people are killed in to tell them on his tax president gunnies campaign rally was targeted though he was not hawk. i'm burned off to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome it is too close to call tonight in israel it's now just an hour since voting ended in the country's 2nd general election in less than half a year most exit polls. a very tight result between incumbent prime minister

benjamin netanyahu and his biggest rival the centrist former army chief benny gantz netanyahu trying to form a coalition government after elections back in april but he failed amid disagreements with ultra orthodox parties he then plunged israel into months of uncertainty by dissolving parliament calling for fresh elections rather than allowing another candidate to try to form a government. are those good our correspondent. she is following the results for us from jerusalem good evening to you. this is a close race and we knew that it would probably be this way between likud and the centrist blue white party what does this mean for the possibility of anyone being able to form a governing coalition. well you know right now i mean the exit polls came out about an hour ago when the polling stations closed and

usually they come out in 3 main t.v. challenges here and none of them sees a clear than a tonight these exit polls that could change why now the votes are being counted and the results are coming in overnight obviously that. what we can say is that the whole of un peu and white benny gantz is party is leading actually in all those exit polls except for one from the public broadcast so there's a tie between likud and. blue and white and the right wing bloc because this is what analysts here in israel looking at tonight is to see you know how then could listen could be fun because in israel it's all about being able to build a coalition and this is what they're looking at but having said that the right wing bloc would have between $54.00 to $57.00 seats now mr netanyahu would need $61.00 seats out of the 120 knesset seats to be able to build that coalition

and he's very far from that at the moment and if it remains that way tanya i mean dare i ask are we looking at the possibility of a 3rd alexion in israel. well there could be that possibility in people i talked to today also said well maybe we go to a 3rd election but i think there is also you know the sense here that most people would like to avoid because that would mean another statement for a couple of months and we heard the. president with leading being quoted tonight that he wants to see. the party leaders soon because usually what happens and once the results of the preliminary results are being. published then the parties would be. commend their country who should form the next government and

then there will be consultations with the president and he would then toss the person who would have most chances to firm such a question and i think that point you could say both parties likud and blue and white. or any guns could actually claim you know to get this mandate and. you've covered all of the elections in israel and if you compare what happened in april to what's happening right now is the situation different now is there any reason to think regardless of the election results tonight is there any reason to think that it will be easier for netanyahu or for mr guns to form a coalition government easier now than it was 5 months ago. definitely not definitely not for benyamin netanyahu because at the moment he's really falling

short of the 61 seats he needs and what you're looking at is that now we're looking at the other smaller parties i mean you have those parties who already pledged a loyalty to the likud and would traditionally form the question like the ultra orthodox parties and also the right wing party meena most possibly but then he needs another christian partner and we all know the last time you tried to form that coalition it was. lieberman with israel be tane know who didn't want to go into coalition with him and he could be the king maker again now the question is would he go with netanyahu this time this is a really big question mark i think most analysts would believe that he would not do so so it's not easy than before and i mean you have to remember missing that prime minister netanyahu has actually given the mandate last time to form

a coalition he failed and he didn't give back the mandate he pushed for new elections and now we're in the same situation here almost again. and what do we know. we're talking about the exit polls what about voter turnout compared to april do we have any numbers. well the voter turnout was slightly higher than in the last elections so that's quite a bit surprising because there was a lot of talk here that maybe. you know people feel like a 2nd time this year is unprecedented that you have 2 elections in one year also the complaining was only picking up in the last 2 weeks and then the last days actually because it was a long some of occasion. was said but i think that also has to do you know to say that people really felt this is really important to go out and vote it's a bit of a you know some kind of referendum about you know the political future of benyamin

netanyahu as well but also of course of other topics that are very important to israelis. and our correspondent on ukraine were on the story for us tonight in jerusalem as those results come in in this 2nd israeli election thank you thank you . well here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world officials in the u.s. say they have evidence that saturday's attack on saudi arabia's oil facilities originated in iran the unnamed sources are telling reuters news agency that the strike involved drones as previously reported and cruise missiles iran has rejected all claims of responsibility for the attack spanish voters are heading to the polls again the country's caretaker prime minister has announcing fresh elections after it emerged that no party in parliament could win enough support to form a government and has his socialist won the most seats in april's elections but

still short of an absolute majority elections are now scheduled to be held nov 10th . britain's brags that battle has moved into the u.k.'s supreme court it has begun hearing a case claiming that prime minister boris johnson acted illegally when he suspended parliament last week johnson says the shutdown was necessary to present a new legislative agenda opponents say the real reason was to prevent parliamentary scrutiny. an american woman who has become the 1st person to swim the english channel 4 times without stopping sarah thomas from the u.s. state of colorado performed the feat less than a year after completing get this treatment for breast cancer she spent 54 hours in the sea after all that time in the waves she admitted that she felt quote a little she said i think she has a right too. well a surge of anti foreigner violence is taking

a toll on the south african city of johannesburg abets in addition to an economic downturn already hurting the country businesses are keeping their doors closed and visitors are canceling trips to one of the city's most popular areas because of the unrest it is a toxic mix and it's threatening a decade long effort to turn slums into neighborhoods. the johannesburg in the city has been rocked by choosing surviving. angry mobs looting and destroying anything in the past this far and in physically she's feeling the brunt of it and there is nothing that just about. any form of this conflict between south africans and the foreign nation has shut or that it what did it with criminality rather than see a flip at the present moment when whatever it is the effect has been devastating on my full name and in

a city hub for tourism culture cuisine and entrepreneurship. this is what the diamond in looks like and there's a big crowd of. people just throwing stones breaks businesses have seen a significant drop in visit is since the unrest began putting serious pressure on the hospitality and tourism sector is which rely on the city's estimated 5000000 annual visit is. how are we going to sustain this to investors with the sort of the chaos that always worries me that's always stresses me out police have increased their numbers on the ground conducting raids and patrols across johannesburg we want to make sure that paint and last time people read which in a shops it doesn't. or it doesn't spray to add to any ice will it be remaining in

their hearts parts are or are the areas that we afaik tip until we are sure that everything is they have to not know my. analysts argue the damage is already done this city is the most unequal in the world and it took a long time to begin to get people in the middle class to go and say it on sidewalks restaurants and go up in the town and this definitely is a psychological barrier to continuing the reintegration of class and race in our awfully divided cities it's a tragedy and it's not only restaurants hostels bars and hotels feeling the pinch in a city commerce is taking a serious hit i just have this feeling they might come back my customers as they've been calling me they cannot come and collect the stuff some of the our stuff has been damaged so what we're doing is never going to be the same again

although authorities claim the situation is slowly normalizing the unrest has already cost $12.00 lives in the city of gold remains on age. with ortiz in indonesia are battling to contain forest fires that have said thick clouds of choking smog across the country now the fires happen every year but this year's extremely dry weather has made the situation worse than usual worst affected are the islands of borneo and sumatra. breathing here has become a struggle eyes sting and headaches abound heavy seamark has forced people on the international island of borneo to leave their homes. large scale forest fires have burned more than 1000 square kilometers of indonesian land since the beginning of august the islands of barney and sumatra will hit especially hard schools and cannot gardens has been closed people are exposed to the thick haze day and night.

tiny particles in the smog post several health risks including strokes and respiratory infections the youngest are especially affected. he has asthma everything was fine before but since he was playing outside he started having shortness of breath and difficulty breathing that's never happened before. the fires are allegedly caused by an unusual farmers they want to convert the burned down rain forest into profitable farmland police have arrested 185 people over forest fires so far but the blaze is hard to get under control. the smog has now spread to neighboring malaysia and the capital kuala lumpur the air quality has been officially declared unhealthy and local residents are angry. i say with that but we're facing the same haze problems year after year there's no

difference it's as if there is no action taken by anyone to handle this we need to get that we're going to get beat. the forest fires have sparked a blame game between indonesia and malaysia this mark from indonesia has close hundreds of malaysian schools with the fires out of control there is no sign of tensions easing and in terms. of the afghan taliban is very more suicide bombings a week after u.s. president cobalt peace talks with the insurgent group $26.00 people in charge car just north of the capital were killed in the 1st of today's attacks when a bomb exploded near an election rally that was being attended by president. he was not hurt a 2nd blast in the capital kabul killed at least 22 people and wounded many more my looks like a panic and chaos a survivor scattered from the scene of the attack as the 2000 people had come to listen to president fanny in the town of sharikov when

a suicide. on the detonated his explosives about. a year to suddenly a motorbike arrives and a huge explosion went off for a lot of people. that was a visit. in the desperate scramble the wounded were piled on to pickup trucks and raced to hospital. there was a terrific blast and all my friends got injured i don't know what happened next. the 2nd blast went off near the u.s. embassy in kabul it was also claimed by the taliban i need to call a scania inch. joshing i heard an explosion of dust rose from the side of the attack. there was gunfire. that i skate from here body parts are spread all around this area. the inset oppose the actions campaigning all but ceased as the u.s.

and the taliban negotiated a peace deal but president trump last week an ounce deal was quite debt. the candidates are now back on the campaign trail while the taliban are seeking revenge for trump's snap. oh for more on this now i'm joined by journalist in kabul only i want to ask you these peace talks between the united states and the taliban they were called off earlier this month and then the warning came that there would be more violence as a result is that what we're seeing now. yes i was i mean the thing is we have to remember that and during the 9 we're on between the taleban and the united states which i'm on government no are no the columbine did not stop there if they continue to act. after the so-called or and. greater impact and that these are the work now. and the afghan

government it is a target of the taliban talk to me a little bit about why that reality persis. book better but i want government to which government that's aiming and i'm betting and profiting off the creation so they're going to make them the target the truth is that it's always civilians that are paying the price for these things you know i have money was fine campaign running me are fine but it was the people who came to his election campaign people locking on the streets and possible not a u.s. embassy that came under attack that that that you know were killed and then they didn't. have to keep going to every one. is there any outcome due to these elections that will see the government or the taliban for that matter more willing to negotiate and to find

a way maybe to to to co-exist do you see that being possible after this election. does call upon refuses to speak to the government at all costs they they keep saying that they run directly late with the government at least not until there are issues that the united states are worked out at the end of the day you know the 1st in the taleban the vision the 1st any and if they need to come to an agreement with the united states. so at this point it really i mean although this current government is saying that because the election if they are successful that they will try and work harder on the field but yes all right journalist let's even with the latest on the situation in afghanistan from kabul tonight only thank you thank you. well u.s. whistleblower edward snowden's memoirs went on sale today and immediately the u.s. justice department announced that it's suing snowden for the book's contents and

says no to ins book permanent record violates the secrecy agreement that snowden promised to respect when he worked for the n.s.a. snowden could face life in prison if convicted of stealing classified information and leaking it to reporters back in 2013 but that would require snowden to 1st be in the u.s. which is not for 6 years he has lived in exile in russia but his visa runs out at the end of this year some see him as a hero and others condemn him as america's most wanted as with snowden his recent permanent freckle to set the record straight himself told german television that he's concerned about the face a future whistleblower 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 sit in the world what does it say about ourselves when the only place that american disick and 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 threat they're increasing more through with each passing year and you can say the same of these internet giants they have made an enemy 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 evident 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. because it is 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 byte it snowed in denies any collaboration with the russian government his russian residence permit runs out next year he's living at an undisclosed address in moscow

. i'm joined now here in the big table by martin could know but every border with germany's magazine der spiegel martin was in moscow last week and he interviewed edward snowden martin it's good to have you on the show did edward snowden didn't tell you why he's releasing this book now why well yeah he did and he told us that it's important to him and. and for the people who know him to know how the procedure oh was going on that he came to the point that he wanted to be a whistleblower and that he wanted to discover the most secrets or the biggest secrets of the. intelligence services in the u.s. and so and and i think everybody every journalist was asking about his private life and now he opened up a little bit about his school friends and how it went all of the time. the

relationship that is where he's been living in russia what for 6 years and he claims that he has never been used by the criminal did he talk to you about that of course we are asking we did an interview 2 years ago we are asking the same question now we think and and of course he's saying well he doesn't say he didn't say no i'm not working for the company carmen but he he said it wouldn't make any sense and he does drive also in the book how the. intelligence services from russia. tried to get in contact with him and then use that no i won't cooperate and then they let him go so we said in the interview we don't believe you but then he had an explanation which sounded. how can quinn when thing but of course if he would work for a friendly one in russia he won both yeah exactly i mean there's no way to verify

what he's telling you his residency permit in russia expires this year and he's looking for a new home last night i spoke with his attorney and this is what he told me about snowden's a maybe european hopes to go with at this time mr snowden's made one particular us all about 2 fronts. and in terms of germany. mr snowden. has made it very clear over the years that no i think if he's given the opportunity he would he would like to even germany to live in germany now understanding of. mr snowden hostile and home on german soil. and how to do so asta. so that's what he said series asking for asylum in france but not in germany his attorney also told me that going back to the united states remains out of reach right now for snowden but that's not exactly what snowden told

you is that you know he really has some hope that he will you know will be able to go back in some years so i know what he means and 10 or 20 years or whatever because he was saying that people look differently on him and i don't believe that at least until we have that administration what we have at the moment so i don't see any any way and i think they the lawyers tried to make a deal and it didn't hurt so why should it work now it's a very good point we've got about 30 seconds i want to ask you it's not been told you that he never told his girlfriend when he was at the in this 8 what was happening not even the you know the day that he left he believe in what yeah i believe him because he had a good explanation he's that if if he would have told her she would have the duty to inform the police and he wanted to avoid that situation that he got that she got criminalized through him so i mean it's really hard if you if you believe that you

know you can tell your god from what's going on with you yeah you can end it with something that's going to change your life forever it's an incredible story and it is so right there all right martin it's good to have you on the show we appreciate you sharing your insights about edward snowden with the thank you thank you for having. if you're watching the w. news live from berlin after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day stick around for that.

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