this is g.w. news live from berlin tonight saudi arabia joins the united states accusing iran of sponsoring airstrikes on solving the oil fields last weekend. to set stock. was allowed again this the kingdom of soda so the out of school also did a it was an al salt for the international community and saudi arabia is calling for an international response as a key question remains unanswered where did those drones and missiles come from also coming up tonight political deadlock in israel after another inconclusive

election as prime minister benjamin netanyahu is determined to stay in power. in the coming days we will convene and go shish insta assemble a strong zionist government and to prevent a dangerous anti-science government. will he succeed or will he be forced to give way to. his prime goal but he got sick of the blue and wants a life. and the us federal reserve lowers its been to market interest rates for a 2nd time this year it's hoped that the quarter percentage point cut will help cushion the blow of the u.s. china trade war and the backlash against debating is growing india introduces a total ban on the sale look to you cigarettes while new york becomes the 1st u.s. state to outlaw all flavored bait just.

i'm off it's good to have you with us in an act of show intel meant for the world saudi arabia today displayed evidence that it says proves the weakens attacks on its oil facilities were undeniably sponsored by iran and presenting satellite images and the remains and debris of weapons a defense ministry spokesman told a press conference the attacks had been carried out by iranian cruise missiles in. the secretary of state's mike on peo it's just arrived in saudi arabia following an earlier announcement that washington will be imposing new and substantial sanctions on iran all right let's take this story now to the u.s. capitol war correspondent public fully public standing by good evening to you pablo you know we heard the u.s. president say not too long ago today that he had learned anything new today by what

we saw in saudi arabia so what exactly are we expecting then from this visit by pump aoe with the saudi leadership. hi brenda well if we focus really on what mike said his words were very direct and he clearly said that it was as he said an iranian attack he said it was an act of war and later he went on to say this is an attack of a scale we've just not seen before it's very difficult to know what is going to come out of this meeting right now it's perhaps a little bit too early to tell but we've already seen that perhaps the way the united states is going to react to this is already by those sanctions which have been announced it suggests perhaps that they're hesitant to go into a war with iran and further sanctions against iran let's not forget that there are already significant sanctions on the part of the united states against iran or iran

already in place at the moment but like i said brant it was really president donald trump who sort of outlined really what direction that the administration was going to go when he just spoke a few moments ago published to you listen to part of what he had to say. well there are many options as you know bill there are many options and this is the ultimate option and their options are a lot less than that and we'll see where the very powerful position are and right now we're in a very very powerful position and so i say give it up you're meeting go ahead war no i'm not talking about i'm not talking about that you know. just say pablo we're not talking anymore about the military option i mean what did he mean there. exactly brant it appears so as we know president donald trump is not really an

interventionist he wants to avoid a war let's not forget as well that you know we've been speaking in recent days and weeks about the fact that he wants to pull the troops from of gonna stand so starting another war he said was essentially like almost he said it was almost like an easy option and actually it's a sign of strength not to start a war with iran they've already announced sanctions further sanctions against iran it appears the president trump in a tweet earlier today and then stows we've also heard from mike pompei all saying that sanctions appear to be the best option at the moment but he also and it was quite telling actually in. that we just heard there you know he was also showing that america the united states is powerful and they do have older options as possible he doesn't want to start a war but he's also sending a clear message to iran saying that basically if they wanted to they could start a war. it was a week ago when the national security advisor john bolton was fired today we

believe we got a look at the new national security adviser robert. what do we know about. that's right we could see i'm 'd there standing next to don trip on the tarmac in los angeles and what we do know about him is that he was the chief negotiator within the state department he's an l.a. lawyer with a pretty impressive career to date in that in actually freeing up americans who are being held overseas he impressed on will trump but what we have learned dissension here and what a lot of commentators are saying is that mike pompei o is essentially going to be in charge that's what's being said here and that robert o'brian who also worked at the previous. you know under john bolton also said you know the idea is perhaps that my pompei was going to take charge and robert o'brien is going to be the number 2 and so his power perhaps won't be as

much as many people believe it could be you know will be interesting to see what role a former hostage negotiator plays in the white house that's for sure are other correspondent published earlier on the story for us tonight in washington public thank you. to israel and benjamin that you know whose future as israel's longest serving prime minister it is he in the balance tonight with almost all the votes counted after tuesday's election his right wing likud party is neck and neck with the blue white alliance of centrist but he guns that yahoo has been unable to form a coalition since the country's last inconclusive election back in april. if he was disappointed on election night binyamin netanyahu certainly wasn't showing it's far from conceding defeat he failed to remain at the helm. in the coming days we will convene negotiations to assemble a strong zionist government and to prevent

a dangerous anti zionist government. his plans may well be full said by opposition leader benny gantz he stopped short of declaring victory but his tone was one of victory for his blue and white party. if he had got so tell mr cording to the initial results netanyahu did not succeed in his mission. thank god we on the other hand prove that our idea called blue and white a project we established just over 6 months ago is a huge success and here to stay. and this man cost themself as kingmaker avigdor lieberman his secular right wing party use rail baits a new we fight so in any governing coalition. we have just one option. a broad liberal unity government. formed of years israel beit hanoun.

could. blue and white. thanks but netanyahu isn't king. took steps to you there are only 2 options either a government that iran or a dangerous government that's based on arab parties. and joining these times more than ever especially in front of the major political and security challenges that we face there must not be a government based on arab. parties. to newt voters to fight predictions of fatigue and turned out in larger numbers than the last poll in april many say it's time for netanyahu to go. sure netanyahu has probably run his course. this time has passed about as well though. so all of netanyahu is like

a phoenix when we think he's finished he rises up again but i really hope the government will change. i think he was a good leader but i think it's about time to end a chapter or period netanyahu is political survival is on a knife edge long deemed a political wizard this election may turn out to be the one that broke the spell. is that the case where does this result leave benjamin netanyahu correspondent tanya kramer in jerusalem it was this is a. well i mean it's a major setback and he seems to be have be really in a in a weak position now after this rerun of the elections he said last time to put a coalition together and he failed to put a coalition to his liking reese would have been a right wing coalition with the ultra orthodox at parties and this in light of course over his legal troubles he faces possible indictment over corruption charges

and the pre-induction hearings in october so it's not quite sure you know what scenario you're going to be looking at but if you ask if he could support us and not just quite. prepared to give up on this and netanyahu yet but this also the sense in israel that nobody wants to see a 3rd election also the president has made clear he wants to proceed. quickly with a consultations now and then to toss that lead to do things has the most chances of putting a coalition together there was one ukraine with their reporting from jerusalem here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world a fire at a school in liberia has claimed the lives of at least $26.00 children in 2 teachers the blaze at the boarding school near the capital monrovia broke out at night while the children were sleep a police spokesperson said only 4 people including the schools in mom escaped at least 9 people have been wounded in an attack on a government building in eastern afghanistan militants detonated explosives before

gunman entered the building in the provincial capital jalalabad afghanistan is on high alert as the presidential election approaches there has been so far no claim of responsibility south korean politicians have shaved their heads in public to protest against the country's new justice minister who is facing. actions that his daughter received unfair favorable treatment at a university the speaker of the korean parliament joint opposition deputies today in that hair cutting shaving protest. are now to spain voters there will head to the polls again in november a prime minister says announcing new elections after no party was able to form a working government the socialists led by sanchez won the most seats back enables elections but they fall in short of an absolute majority. the

final act of a doomed attempt to form a government the socialist party leader sanchez said that new elections are the only way forward after meeting with king philippe there has been impossible to complete the mandate given to us by the spanish people on april 28th there is no majority in congress that guarantees the formation of a government we must repeat the election on november 10th. the prospect of a 2nd action this year the 3rd in 4 years has left many spaniards deeply unimpressed. i think now but that it's a complete waste of time i think the current spanish political class is thinking about the people they're thinking about what they want for themselves and as banish citizen i'm not sure i'm going to vote in the next elections. somehow it seems you know you feel a lot of anger a lot of irritation because i feel the politicians should work to reach an agreement on this when they don't understand it and i think they should sit down talk it out and come to an agreement on not proposing new elections is

a mistake and it should never and it will sort of us have a sound i don't like what's happening i don't like it because what's going to be spent on another election should be used for hospitals for schools instead of wasting a lot of money for nothing. sanchez looked for backing from 2 smaller parties on the left and center right those talks failed the accusations are flying in the country's fractured political landscape. of evil although you missed a historic opportunity yesterday mr sanchez you said that you tried to form a government or by any means literally if you are telling the truth you are incompetent if you are lying you are negligent and irresponsible. we need a sponsor. says it's hoping that november's elections will give him the mandate he needs to form a stable government. you're watching the news live from berlin still to come and an

utterly brilliant story we're going to meet the german farmer with the answer for stressed out city slickers and a solution for burn l. we're not talking about cash cows fear. the worldwide backlash against of aping is gaining momentum today india announced a ban on the sale of electronic cigarettes across the entire country all because of health concerns and in the united states new york state has outlawed flavored cigarettes it's a democratic governor calling for emergency action in response to concerns about a nationwide outbreak of deadly lung conditions but his decision has entered some business owners take a look at the promise to help tobacco logic's quit and stayed millions of american high schoolers are now on the cigarettes and no one is quite sure how harmful they are doctors called a craze a ticking time bomb no new york states has moved to defuse it banning flavored

fashions names like bubble gum cotton candy captain crunch. which was my favorite. these are obviously targeted to young people. the people selling the e. cigarettes are fuming the have 2 weeks to offload vast quantities of their food stocks before the ban comes in. but when i heard about it it was like waiting. it's going to affect a lot of business that's for sure and seconding all of my regular customers who are coming every day may have any disappointed when the news. across the states the reeses on to crack down on v. ping triggered by a spate of related deaths and illnesses especially affecting young people. around one in 4 high school students uses each cigarettes and that number is rising

donald trump has said a nationwide pool had bishan is forthcoming. we have a problem in our country it's a new problem it's a problem nobody really thought about too much. a few years ago as quote vaporing especially vaporing as it pertains to innocent children. and there coming all mint is saying mom i want a vase one leading health professional says action is badly needed. so right now we have an open field where anything goes people are playing russian roulette with their bodies every time they purchased those profiteering from the park just says see these latest moves will only push people back towards more harmful tobacco cigarettes. so it's quite a statement russian roulette with your help w. reporter anthony howard is your with me how did we get to where we are right now we

got to where we are right now because someone invented a new a cool way to deliver nicotine the old public enemy of health we got here because the delivery device becomes so wildly popular in a really short amount of time we also got here because 20 years of legislation and litigation against big tobacco couldn't be applied to a problem we didn't know that we head i'm going to show you some ad campaigns attached to one of the most popular companies called jewel and they've got a 60 percent market share and what you're seeing here is some pretty familiar old trucks attaching nicotine delivery a cool looking device on the left young beautiful people and a great last of that campaign was back in 2006 thing free it was regular and targeting young people exactly right the demographic regulators tried really hard to make off limits to big tobacco previously these top of ads have been removed since then but arguably the damage was done that the conversation if you like between the food and drug administration and the viking companies is growing it's

getting more regular last 2 weeks ago just sent a letter saying let's not say that this is more safe than smoking that's not because ok what calls in what we've seen what 2 american states to suddenly legislate in the u.s. president he's also got involved now right so there's been a trickle of deicer if you like that's becoming a flow the centers for disease control and prevention the c.d.c. in the united states stop. they're reporting a spike in lung related or pulmonary problems last year but just as the regular ads of struggle to control the actual device they will so 2 of health scientists struggle to actually string together any meaningful data about the side effects so there are no studies a decade long into a problem that 75 years old so this all of which can be summarized as what we don't known and then what has really moved the needle i think in the in the last year is that they've started to take notice of the sheer numbers of people who are fighting and one particular group print that being seen i just i'm going to show you a graph that

a feed in the in the new england medical journal usa 2 lines on the top left to bottom right is 20 years of legislation against big tobacco in the hands of teen neiges grade 12 students in the usa from 37 percent down to 7.6 but when you say when you want to cite the battles one with both that all the way down to one to 10 percent look at viking that come in from 2015 and that enormous spike 2 decades of hard work is almost obliterated in 3 to 4 years of vikings yet it's amazing and you know i've heard from elementary school teachers in the u.s. say it is a true epidemic there that sometimes half the class is already. vaporing as the president was saying of the how we're going to have a record up of a year thank you thank you. i think in the u.s. the federal reserve has lowered its benchmark interest rate for a 2nd time this year the central bank saying it hopes the quarter percentage point cut will help cushion the u.s. economy against a global slowdown that is being worsened by that u.s.

china trade war the move could help strengthen business is fixed investment and exports which the fed says have weakened the u.s. central bank has also faced intense pressure from this president donald trump to cut rates amid washington's ongoing trade war with beijing as we said. are for more of this now we want to go to was that he was standing by for us on wall street good afternoon to you i was am what is this move tell us about the state of the u.s. economy if we need a 2nd rate cut this year. so. for now it seems that the economy the u.s. economy is still pretty resilient if we take a look to the new projections from the federal reserve actually day upgraded the g.d.p. numbers have for deeds year the u.s. economy is going to grow around 2.2 percent unemployment rate it's going to still

around 3.7 percent and it seems that that there are not a pretty big inflationary pressures since core inflation core p.c. inflation it's going to be around 1.8 percent so it seems said that the fed and still doing some kind of cycle are just minutes and they are not looking forward for a recession or a bigger slowdown in the near future chairman powell said dog ready to be aggressive if necessary but it seems that right now there is no fear of a slowdown coming anytime soon yeah and when you can you know compare contrast that to what the european central bank is doing the u.s. fed is not doing a lot and we know that president truong he's not happy with with their policy years . no absolutely not he already tweeted about the decision but we have to. have in mind that fairly it's independent and that monetary policy

decisions are not made just by only one person there in a total of 17 members that participate in that meeting i'm from those 17 member stand how voting powers so there is a lot of division inside the federal reserve which tells you all so those decisions are still independent. rights has a clue as to how to 0 in new york forests for the latest on this 2nd rate cut by the us fed this year has a thank you. all right so i'm sure fall straight to be interested in this people are always looking for ways to distress and relax now farmers in a town in western germany say that they've got the solution they're offering stressed out city folks quality time with kells and it seems to be working just fine apparently cuddling a cal really can make you bovine only half the. lying around in a meadow no appointments. just. doesn't

like the sound of that. we could learn a lot from cows according to melanie ashman she's convinced our going friends could be the own set when it comes to lowering stress levels for overworked city dwellers lena a care worker and merrick a schoolteacher have come to check it out they might be young but they're both pretty stressed. cows and i favor animals and say remarks that come on let's check out. slowly and carefully thank you each with the animals sensing them and taking in the fresh country. cows it turns out love to be stroked and they're quite happy for people to lean on them and listen to them cheering the cut. melanie ashman says cows are far more than just a source of steaks and milk we can really benefit from their easygoing natures.

has a muzzle told through it's always wonderful to hear just how much calm is transferred from the animals what sometimes amazes us is how people soak it up and that they really take it with them many say the feeling of tranquillity stays with them for a few days or even longer after they have gone home. then compared to many other relaxation methods on the market account cuddling is pretty affordable just 20 years for 2 hours american lean i think that's well worth it. and it's lovely and really relaxing to be so close to a cow and you can tell that they really like people and that they really enjoy it. 700 kilos of. the perfect way. this is news and these are our top stories saudi arabia has presented satellite

images and other evidence it says proves the weekend's attacks on the country's oil facilities were quote unquestionably sponsored by iran this after president trump tweeted that he wants to increase sanctions on iran in response to the attack and the. general election has produced an inconclusive results neither the incumbent benjamin netanyahu nor his leading opponent centrist binny guns is in a position to form a government there is now the possibility of a unity government or the end of netanyahu is premiership. i or at a school in liberia has claimed the lives of at least 26 children in 2 teachers the blaze at the boarding school near the capital monrovia broke out at night while the children were simply a police spokesperson said only 4 people including the schools in mom. has become the 1st u.s. state to outlaw the sale of flavored east cigarettes authorities voted to impose an immediate ban a big health concerns and these surging popularity of they being among young people

the ban does not apply to tobacco flavored cigarettes this is news from berlin you can always find the latest headlines at the dot com. you're watching t w news i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news followed by the data to see that.

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