this is artsy too close to call israeli election exit polls put a long time premier benyamin netanyahu and challenger benny gantz in a dead heat as both declare victory these are scenes from the supporters' camp for benny gantz where they already think they've got the election in the bag we'll have live analysis in less than a minute. president putin dismisses the investigation into the alleged collusion between donald trump and russia and twenty sixteen calling it total nonsense. from the ministration fires a fresh sell voted to european allies pledging to hit e.u. goods with tariffs worth as much as eleven billion dollars the u.s. says the moves are retaliation for subsidies given to boeing rival us.

world news live from russia this is r.t. international ancona bray in moscow with the news this hour first of all we're tracking what's been happening in israel where voting is over in the general election but exit polls indicate a neck and neck race between incumbent prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his closest political rival benny gantz with both now claiming victory by looking over the exit polls for a city tell of evolve middle east correspondent paula paula pretty model picture from the polls so far isn't it. certainly it is modeled but this is still early hours we expect to get a clearer picture in the next hour also or there will only get final confirmation of the election results around midday wednesday as well claiming victory but if you look at the party headquarters it's a very different picture could which is netanyahu the israeli current prime

minister's party headquarters there was a somber rather quiet and rather empty by contrast the headquarters of the blue and white party which has been hated hated. by the former israeli army chief benny gantz is seen pictures of celebration and people they serve me out in a celebrate three mood now the initial exit polls that are being presented by the main television channels yet do suggest that many guns as a blue and white party has attained a large number of parliamentary seats than that of the incumbent prime minister's party could but it varies from channel to channel as to what's the difference some suggesting it's a difference of one seat some suggesting it's a difference of three seats some suggesting it's a difference of six seats there's only one broadcaster who suggests that the two have attained the same numbers but those figures will continue to fluctuate for at least netanyahu and both guns whose main contenders are claiming victory at this point although it's a general election and it's something that's been seen as something of

a referendum on the no is leadership so what's been driving voters this time around . it certainly is being seen as a referendum i spent a large part of today various polling stations and when i spoke to voters they would give me an array of issues that they were concerned about and what was their motivation for coming out to vote and amongst these issues off social concerns security concerns issues even like park mall parking and gay rights but the number one concern for most people that i spoke to was still the issue over netanyahu was the issue over the fact that you have potentially israel's longest serving prime minister if benjamin netanyahu comes in again this will be his fourth consecutive term in office and he's for the over war service as the israeli prime minister making him the longest serving israeli premier in this country's history and most people saying that this is just simply enough and that has been the main slogan of benny gantz is blue and white party they have said vote for us and vote for change

so essentially this has become a referendum over netanyahu and whether or not he'll win another term in office we'll know in the coming hours. you know if these polls are accurate that there are already a couple of seats in this neither netanyahu nor guns can secure a majority so what happens next. when it was never expected that either party would secure a majority you have a system in israel where you have one hundred and twenty parliamentary seats so to form a majority you need sixty one we're looking at these two parties getting in the region of around fifty fifty five somewhere around there so the way it works is that the party with the highest number is then tossed by the israeli president to see if they can form a coalition government and that's why for the last few weeks we've seen both guns and netanyahu hard at work behind the scenes and sometimes not so much behind the scenes forming potential coalition partners here is where it becomes very very

interesting because even though the expectation was and so far it seems as if it's true that netanyahu will not be the party to win the most number of seats he is expected to be the party that is the most likely to form a coalition and we're hearing this from the first initial exit polls that the potential white twin coalition will be bigger then the same test same to lift coalition that will be the coalition that guns forms so what this means is that even if netanyahu comes in second ultimately and this could perhaps be only in a few weeks time he might be the leader that is tossed by the israeli president to actually form a coalition because potentially the main rival guns cannot do that. mr netanyahu has been in power for a long time of the balls few months he's out those huge gestures from the united states which have been seen as geo political support at home he's got a cloud about justice ministry diamant are going over him what's the most it from israeli voters that they just want to spring clean in the knesset. it does seem as

if israelis really want change and so if we see the prime minister now being voted out of office it will be clear that this was a referendum over netanyahu and a referendum in which voters said enough is. it is significant that netanyahu has a close relationship with the american president donald trump but that's also going to face some kind of tension moving forward because trump still has to unveil his peace plan and that peace plan will call for concessions from israelis and it's going to be much harder for netanyahu who heads a right wing coalition to convince his voters to go with whatever concessions trump ones as opposed to guns who will be hitting if he has to come through a center coalition netanyahu is very wary of this throughout the day television and radio but we've seen a huge number of videos that he's been putting out there warning people that he might not actually come in these elections encouraging his voters to come forward so he said he is a person who is very cognizant of the fact that maybe his time in the israeli hot

seat as the leader of this country might be over and we will go to sleep on those polls and wait for the results proper ok thanks for clarifying that for. but even those brushed off the entire investigation into russian meddling in the u.s. presidential election as total nonsense and aimed at a domestic audience the russian president told the international arctic forum in some petersburg it was clear from the beginning there had been no collusion between the kremlin and donald trump who were trying to report. international arctic forum where first of all the journalists in the audience on the other head at that discussion event wanted to hear answers to questions that had nothing to do with the arctic the journalist that was leading the way of the discussion actually made it clear at one point that he wants to stay away from climate change melting ice is

c o two emissions talked of lot of more important for some time about international relations specifically how moscow is getting along. with washington and indeed ever since the robert miller investigation was done and dusted and any kind of collusion between russia and donald was ruled out we never heard a word from vladimir putin on that specifically well that's up until today we let you go as we were saying from the beginning to this minute commission would not find anything russia did not interfere in the u.s. elections and there was none of the collusion that money was looking for between trump and russia we did not know when he came to moscow he came as a businessman this is complete nonsense designed exclusively for a domestic audience so he started with a mountain which in the end of a mouse there's nothing really to add here it was very clear what the russian

president wanted to say here and the next turn in that conversation was rather predictable as well if the robert moeller probe is over and if no signs of collusion between washington and mr trump were filed what's next for the top between the u.s. and moscow what's next and terms of how specifically the two presidents get along will lattimer putin accept donald trump's invitation that dated back to the helsinki summit to washington and could at least these ties between these two countries could they start getting back to normal the russian president said that he wasn't really expecting that to happen and then he went on to say that he believes there is some deep trouble in america internal politics he actually called it a real crisis that never happened in the history of the country. is part of

a wider crisis in the u.s. political system the groups that attack villages to million elected president they don't accept that you. to the american people they want to do this and the result is a political crisis unlike anything we've seen in u.s. history so we'll leave it there with all the stuff that has to do with america there was something else very special about the specific international arctic forum the participants in fact the leaders from two countries sweden and norway the prime ministers who back in two thousand and fourteen decided to join the chorus of western nations who wanted to isolate russia as a result of the crisis in ukraine now i can remind you that ever since then pretty much all contacts on the highest level work cut well now they are in st petersburg and they are talking directly to president vladimir putin but they

decided at least in that particular room to avoid the sharp angles everything they said sounded rather diplomatic and they chose to stick to things like carbon emissions climate change and those melting ice is in the arctic which are very important issues and deed as well this is actually the reason why everyone is gathered here but i can tell you that and minds of journalists they want to hear about that molar probe again and again. the u.s. president has pledged to place tariffs with eleven billion dollars told me you goods in response to the book subsidies for the european aerospace giant bus here and discuss the move and the reaction from europe with our correspondents shot to do bensky and peter all of. eleven billion dollars so it's not peanuts at all that is billion with a big that donald trump has said he wants to place entire earth on goods coming

from the european union into the united states of course when it comes to this presidential administration how was it announced through twitter. the world trade organization fines of the european union subsidies to air bus has adversely impacted the united states which will now put terrorists on eleven billion dollars of new products the u.s. taking advantage of the u.s. on trade for many years it will soon stop so what type of things are going to be affected by these tariffs if it gets approved by the world trade organization and eventually goes through we're looking at different types of cheeses we're looking at lemons all of oil kashmir's sweaters not electrical wall clocks but the thing is this has nothing to do with cheese and almost certainly has absolutely nothing to do with not electrical war clocks this is all down to an ongoing dispute between the european airspace giant airbus and of course boeing the major u.s.

air space giant boeing is the largest producer or and exporter of aerospace technology united states it's a huge colazal to him what it was not only to commercial aerospace technology but also to military technology as well and of course the plane donald trump flies around in air force one that's also a boeing jet as well there are big problems for boeing right now they've been involved in two fatal air crashes in the last five months resulting in three hundred and forty six deaths that's the crashes involving lion air and ethiopian airways both of those planes that went down were the boeing seven three seven max and that well apart from the obvious tragedy that comes with it. tanked their share price donald trump says despite the problems that boeing is being going through he

stands behind the company grounding was a big thing and it's a great company it's a truly great company and hopefully they'll figure it out very quickly because it was a big and it's a big decision it's also one of our largest extra orders. one of our you know truly one of the truly great companies of the world they have to figure it out first they know that they're under great pressure but this just seems like it's donald trump doing business as donald trump those business we have seen it throughout his career but in his presidential korea we saw just last year how he will launched into china to the european not promising tariffs on. steel imports into the united states he has said he wouldn't shy away from a trade war that certainly doesn't seem like he's willing to right now peter thank you for those details peter all of us speaking to his life from berlin let's cross over to paris now and our correspondent shiela do penske and charlotte what has been the reaction from europe e.u.

and china were actually meeting in brussels today to talk about the future of their own trade agreements they talked about reform all of that in the future which china has said for the first time that it will cooperate in many were expecting them to touch on those trade wars which of both blocs have with the u.s. but nothing was said at perhaps saying nothing about trump and trade rules with them that speaks more volumes indeed but we did hear from the european commission in regards to this new element this eleven billion dollars of tariffs that trump is talking about slapping on european products it said it remains open to discussions with the u.s. but says it will hold those discussions as long as there are no preconditions to the. you know the european commission has also said it will be speaking to the w t o of a traitor to get them involved in this the commission is starting preparations so

that the you can promptly take action based on the arbitrator's decision on retaliation rights in this case the european union remains open for discussions with the united states providing these without preconditions and a mf'er outcome we've also heard from the e.u. in regards to that figure that eleven billion dollar figure same for them that that is a grossly exaggerated figure and that's echoing what we've also heard from us which is course at the by this storm in regards to this. also sees no legal basis for these u.s. proposals these tariffs on european products adding that it's also had taken all the measures that it was asked to comply with according to a w t o report that came out in two thousand and eighteen this is what tells us

that to say we don't seen a legal basis for this all this is leading to a necessary treat tensions and shows that the only reasonable solution in this long tree dispute is a settlement which is something we have said since the beginning meanwhile here in france we've been hearing from france's finance economy misapplying their lemaire he's been talking about the fact that they need to be a friendly solution to these trade wars between the e.u. and the u.s. it doesn't look like that is something that's going to go down well. we asked economist and author stephen keen how he expects the e.u. to react and which u.s. industries are my target. doing with trump is a totally different experience of dealing with any president previously those would bluster but then that had been negotiated by the diplomats this would have been almost decided by trump tweets so they know the only way to fraud is to fight back directly and i'm pretty certain i will slap tariffs on american products and i might well go for the for the areas where america has

a obvious advantage which is in computing design of computing maybe even intellectual property i mean i'm not trying to claim to live in billion worth of subsidy i'm sure that's vastly exaggerated but if you take a look at the level of contracts that boeing got over the last couple of years it's getting about twenty billion in contracts for you from the pentagon now we know anybody who produces the pentagon massively of a process so fundamentally there's a subsidy for going coming in through the military wing of america which is like as a larger than anything european union is strong it is about. britain's lining up the toughest internet laws in the world so says a government plan called online homes which suggests penalizing or even blocking websites that fail to take down potentially harmful content covering everything from child abuse to disinform ation but as party boy explains there a fear is that where there's regulation there's also censorship. too much freedom can be dangerous that's the message from the u.k. government which has unveiled ambitious new plans to avis the this safest corner of

the internet the country that's famous for bringing you mary poppins is aiming to be the well best online nanny with pushing a legal duty of care on these companies to keep uses safe and if they fail to do so toss punishments will be imposed. the era of social media firms regulating themselves is over it's time to do things differently it's time to keep our children safe so how is the british government going to make the u.k. the safest place to enjoy the net well for starters there are going to be some strict new rules any company that allows online interaction will be responsible for their users safety as well as the content that appears on their services in the most obvious examples that will mean purging illegal material related to terrorist and child sexual exploitation and abuse and if companies fail to clean up their act

the likes of facebook and twitter will be put on the naughty step by a new independent regulator for the internet companies will face substantial fines for failing to pull down dangerous or extremist materials if the fines don't work bosses of the offending firms could be liable to criminal prosecution and if that fails to web sites could be blocked entirely for u.k. internet users and that regulator should have teeth so we're going to consult not just on remedial notices on fines and that can be up to four percent of global turnover at the moment none of this is law yet they'll be twelve weeks of public consultation only after that draft legislation will be drawn op but there are already concerns over the prospect of tough new regulations there's so much come to know that the can just influence. well really anybody but especially the younger

generation kids i would disagree i think the internet is something which is open and it was a good thing that it was always open and not rigorous but in any form of government or whatever i think it's probably a good idea i think this is enough regulate that i think it's. pretty good i. i think it's a good idea to have some protection in that but it depends how stringent and how close they are to every day stuff internet needs better regulation most definitely why. two three four. and then the government says it wants to remove what it calls harmful content but who will be the arbiter of what stays out up and what goes down so those social media companies will have to do two things first is to set out filters process to see just to show that they are doing whatever they can you know to to prevent material that could potentially cause

serious harm to young children a lot of people in the second they will have to act in a speedy manner to any request to remove such material at the moment the government is still deciding whether the job of regulating should fall on the shoulders of a new independent body or an existing one like broadcast regulator off kong and when it comes to the big social media fams well like students craving more stringent discipline facebook has tentatively welcomed the plan for greater and government oversight with a caveat or to. these are complex issues to get right and we look forward to working with the government and parliament to ensure the new regulations are effective the u.k. government says it wants to be a trailblazer but the question is how to implement strictest safety measures without restricting freedom of the internet. the u.k.

could be set for a lengthy break sit delay if you diplomats have been locked in talks ahead of wednesday's emergency summit in brussels and a signal that they don't believe that a short extension to the withdrawal period will help break the current deadlock earlier on tuesday the british prime minister met with german chancellor angela merkel in berlin to try and secure support for a short delay until the thirtieth of june reason a jetted off to paris where she met the french president the diplomatic dash comes after m.p.'s in westminster passed a bill requiring the pm to seek yet another extension to the deadline to leave the european union. it's almost three years since the bronx referendum and many in the u.k. have changed their minds on whether they should leave the union at all the town of boston which is about one hundred kilometers north of london is home to thousands of migrants from eastern european countries back that overwhelmingly voted to leave the so we went to see where the pendulum is now. the people already voted.

so they should we have a vote we do so much to leave stick to it. and let's get out now it's price thank the only thing on the land menu today the wife has these make it the job is now we have no tradition at least we're not even set up right still for christ papal. respect this town you know to drink i'm sure a. time if you integrate in the community it's where you pay your taxes so you try to you know get along with the others i think there shouldn't be any problems because we have people of the world that we all put on we belong to each other we should help each other instead of like my commute there's that. european court in strasburg's ruled that russia violated the human rights of prominent opposition figure when he was put under house arrest in twenty fourteen with the details is all teens don't go to

a lawyer and political activist alex scene involving is the leader of the progressive party one of russia's major unregistered opposition parties now the russian government did put him under house arrest in two thousand and fourteen after he and his brother were accused suspected of theft and laundering money from a russian company called eve now the european court of human rights is saying that the government was actually trying to curtail political activities by confining him to his house and according to his lawyer the strausberg court is demanding that the russian government pain of only over twenty thousand euros in reparations and he's already gone on social media to say that this was a victory for him. victory the european court of human rights has just acknowledged my house arrest in twenty fourteen was a legal violation of articles five ten and eighteen of the human rights convention now moscow also fired back against the court's decision against the russian government kremlin spokes person dmitri peskov gave an official statement saying that the decision was certainly an anticipated. the decision is quite surprising i

can see we expected it it's hard to grieve with its narrative this isn't the first time the vuln these had a run in with russian authorities now he was barred from running for president back in two thousand and eighteen because of a previous conviction of fraud and back in two thousand and sixteen the e.c. h r r ordered the russian government to pay him of only fifty six thousand euros in damages because of another prison sentence for embezzlement so the russian government actually stuck to its guns on that one but all the continues to state that all the charges and sentences made against him were politically motivated so with the e.c. h.r. again making a ruling against the russian government moscow's course of action has yet to be seen. the un backed governments in libya has condemned monday's strike on an airport in tripoli as a war crime forces led by general khalifa haftar launched an offensive last week in

an attempt to seize control of the country's capital seventy five year old general is an american citizen who defected from the libyan army in one thousand nine hundred seventy four in opposition going to overthrow the leader moammar gadhafi three years later he fled to the united states then shortly after the national uprising against gadhafi in twenty eleven returned to libya dot com today's watching the hawks delve further into the general's background. he actually defects from the libyan military and pledges loyalty to the national front for the salvation of libya which is this u.s. cia saudi backed operation that's dedicated and planning to overthrow gadhafi he and his men are literally trained by the cia special activities division which is the cia's paramilitary arm in sabotage and these other guerrilla scales continues to train with the national front for the liberation for the salvation excuse me of libya in rural virginia here very close to here in anticipation for another libyan

coup attempt and are smarter audience members might notice this is quite. close to cia headquarters so still having those ties there suddenly in twenty fourteen he's back challenging this u.n. backed libyan government in february he releases this video calling for a coup against gadhafi against excuse me against the u.n. backed government he rails against them for not doing enough to get rid of these islamist groups so his goal is now to get rid of these islamist militias that he accuses of terrorizing libya and what's funny here is the u.s. response according to one former state department official quote everyone was like is this a joke and quote because he used to be a cia asset and now in a sudden he's against the u.n. backed government so now at this point new america which is one of washington's think tanks says huffed are is threatening western interests and western media is kind of dismissing this as like oh this russian puppet this brutal dictators trying to make gains of course it's going to you know help them if they try to like launch another offensive but at this point like they've taking key pieces of land when it

comes to oil from the u.n. backed government on the washington post as you know now saying oh the cia asset has become a u.s. headache in libya. ok that's the world up for that franks for watering next we're going to meet some u.s. military vets risking everything to wean that country of waging wars. breaks it down.