i've. wrote. this is decoupling news live from for live in the u.s. labels the saudi oil attack on top of war by iran it comes as saudi arabia displayed wreckage of drawings and research it says proves tehran sponsored last weekend's attack but a key question remains unanswered where were the weapons fired from also on the program liberia is in mourning after a deadly school fire more than 2 dozen people including many school children were killed in the plains in the country's capital.

i'm tired read welcome to the sharia the u.s. secretary of state has called last weekend's strike on saudi oil infrastructure an act of war by iran my compiler is in saudi arabia for talks as officials there unveiled debris and satellite images they say prove iran sponsored the attack it calls the disruption of about 5 percent of the world's supply of crude oil though iran continues to deny blame that washington has announced it's imposing new substantial sanctions on tehran. remnants of drones and a cruise missile. the saudi defense ministry claims they were among the weapons used in last weekend's strikes on 2 of its oil facilities maps drawn up to show

that the attack most likely came from a northerly direction a saudi military spokesman colonel turki al maliki said the a so was sponsored by iran and did not originate in yemen in the south the home of the rebels who earlier claimed responsibility. but the colonel didn't explicitly accuse tehran of launching the attack and admitted they didn't know where the weapons were fired from. but we are working to know exactly the launch point so through my work over lunch they you eat or the cruise missile will take that talent ability for attacking the saudi infrastructure and the so it's really you know iran has renewed its denial of involvement in the attack. is he was completely clear and these claims and accusations are firstly completely seriously and decisively rejected. saudi arabia's ally washington is saying off

the record it's convinced of iran's involvement but president trump is avoiding direct accusations and being cautious when it comes to questions of u.s. military involvement we haven't learned much that we didn't know but but there is there is a certain. guarantee factor we're really at a point now where we know very much what happened you know there's plenty of time to do some dastardly things it's very easy to start. and we'll see what happens. u.s. secretary of state might pump a 0 has arrived in saudi arabia he's called the strikes on saudi arabia's oil infrastructure an act of war meeting with the crown prince he said washington wants to build a coalition of european and arab partners to deter and confront threats. or d.w. correspondent public foley l.e.o.'s is in washington good to see you pablo these claims from saudi arabia appeared to back up the white house's suspicions that iran

was involved in these attacks and now donald trump has announced new sanctions what else happens now from washington's point of view. hi jared well as you mentioned there and as we've heard in the report as well i mean sanctions appears to be the path the president donald trump wants to go down that's not forget that the united states already has significant sanctions against iran so this is just ramping up already what we already have in place against tehran of course president trump earlier when he was speaking was a little bit vague over what was going to happen next it appeared that he wanted to wait and see what came out of the meeting between the secretary of state. in saudi arabia and he said that there would be further news in the coming days and he also basically said that war wasn't an option but at the same time said that the

united states. would act if if they needed to sort of showing that american power sort of making and sending a clear message to iran that that was a possibility but he did stress once again that he didn't want to go down the path of entering into a war with iran let's not forget the president trump is not as a fan of entering into another war like that happened in iraq or afghanistan it was one of his election promises to bring back the troops in afghanistan and he really wants to avoid that at all costs but like i said it'll take this meeting between like pompei 0 and saudi arabia for him to make a decision now as you mentioned the u.s. . has been meeting with the saudi leaders what's expected to come out of these talks. well. of course it is

meeting there it's he made a very clear message before he actually landed in jeddah he said that it was an act of war he called a strike on saudi arabian oil facilities on a rainy an attack and he said it was an attack of a scale we've just not seen before now at the same time you know he also will stick by president trump in the sense the president does not want to want to enter into a war but we will be seeing further sanctions and we will be hearing more from the administration here in the coming hours and days that's what president trumps that . public president has also named security advisor today's new security adviser tell us more about robots o'brien how will he fix the conflict with iran. while here was is being said. you know essentially his role will be 2nd below mike pompei oh that is what is understood is going to take place now let's

not forget that this is the 4th national security adviser to serve in the trump administration and he did serve under the last a national security advisor john bolton but it seemed to me and earlier when he was speaking on 2 other commentators and analysts watching that he was going to be taking a more cautious role he would we didn't really want to come out and say anything yet and it's perhaps a little bit too early to comment on exactly what type of national security adviser he will be what we do know is that he was very successful according to president trump in his previous role the chief hostage negotiator and and it appears that he really did impress president early days for the moment. in washington thank you. now to some of the other stories making news around the

world today and canadian prime minister justin trudeau has apologized ofter a picture of him wearing brown face makeup to a costume party was published by time magazine the photo was taken in 2001 when it was a teacher at a private school told reporters he should have known better and was deeply sorry. at least 12 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 of jalalabad afghanistan is on high alert has the presidential election approaches there has been no claim of responsibility. at least 11 people have died in severe flooding in cambodia as coastal regions flood waters submerged entire villages and forced the evacuation of nearly 10000 families officials expect water levels to rise.

india has banned the sale of east cigarettes saying they pose a risk to health authorities hope the ban will curb what they describe as an epidemic of fighting among young people the ban covers the production import and advertising of cigarette spots not a. senate has approved a new food emergency law that will increase funding for fighting hunger by 50 percent the country is grappling with a food crisis propelled by ranting function which of spot mass demonstrations. the western african nation of liberia is grieving after a fire in a school near the capital monrovia left at least 27 people dead including many school children fire officials said faulty electrics may have been to blame and that a full investigation would be carried out. and find out who morning and liberia.

am. dozens of children in 2 of the teachers killed by a fire. fire service official suspect the accident was caused by a faulty electric cable. the children were sleeping inside the koranic boarding school eyewitnesses tried to help. when we went to the back door we heard the children crying hanging on the bars the windows saying we're dying here we're dying here rescue us. why don't we got the call around 1 am we tried to go there but the fire taken everything we tried pulling them out but we couldn't the children had already gone. within hours liberia's president george where arrive to pay his respects we really want to just let the families know that we are with

them our government sympathizes with them so that. the liberian authorities are all too familiar with deadly fire as they're often caused by malfunctioning generators but rarely are they this tragic. benjamin netanyahu is future as israel's longest serving prime minister is hanging in the balance with almost all the votes counted off to choose days election he is right wing likud party is neck and neck with the blue white alliance of centrist benny gantz netanyahu has been unable to form a coalition since the country's last inconclusive election 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 you had thought so tell me the courting to the initial results netanyahu did not succeed in his mission. for nothing 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 i think don't leave him and his secular right wing party israel bates' 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. step show you there are only 2 options either a government that iran or a dangerous government that's based on arab parties. it was built and jury in 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. his party's. 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 down you know you can be sure netanyahu has probably run his course. this time has passed about as one of. us 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 the chapter or period to netanyahu is political survival is on a knife edge a political wisit this election may turn out to be the one that broke the spell in football 2 of germany's champions league sides got they european campaigns underway on wednesday night with mixed results by and started the group stage with a win as they beat serbian side red star bill grade 3 nil elsewhere it was a tough not to leave because then they failed so a 21 defeat at home to lokomotiv moscow that leaves the german side with a mountain to climb already let's take a look at some of the other results from wednesday night's french champions p.s.g. secured a huge train ill win over ryall madrid great side a limp jaco's came back from to kneel down to draw with last season's run as up top

manchester city prevailed produced a clinical just like a big shutout the next 3 nil and athletic and a dream madrid fought back to draw 22 with you ventus. and watching d.w. news from berlin up next you don't believe business. coming. from the adventures of the famous naturalist and explorer. to celebrate clicks on the front $250.00. marking on the for the discovery. expedition in boyd on the limits.