too close to call israeli election exit polls put a long time. challenge of benny gantz in a dead heat as both declare victory we'll have analysis of reaction in just a minute. president clinton dismisses the investigation into the alleged collusion between russia and twenty sixteen calling it total nonsense. the ministration finds a fresh salvo with its european allies pledging to haiti you goods with tariffs worth as much as eleven billion dollars u.s. says the moves in retaliation for subsidies given to boeing rival us.

news live from russia this is. with the world news this hour first off for you then counting is underway in israel's general election but the exit polls indicate a neck and neck race between incumbent prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his political rival benny gantz with both now claiming an early victory looking over the exit polls in tel aviv here's our middle east correspondent. what we're hearing from the initial exit polls really confirms what we've heard from surveys and polls conducted in the run up to the elections and that is that the two leaders the incumbent israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his main contender a political newcomer before my army chief baby guns are running neck and make having said that depending which board cost to you look at most of them are pushing guns in first position with some fifty seven seats and then in second position again depending who you look at is. trading august sixteenth.

having said that both dissipate the heat of the market which was. at the time yahoo said he could party headquarters is a somewhat some of the mood they want is more aimed and people seem a little bit. by comparison you had the blue and white party because he is that he's got a six point two there's a lot of celebration happening there and people they really need to see if they have won these elections but it's still too soon the final confirmation only be given on wayne state at around the day a reaction live now from political analyst michel barricade. we're going to the implications of the exit polls such as we can read them at the moment in just a moment but i want to ask you first what your thoughts saw on how the palestinians are going to react to this if benny gantz ends up becoming prime minister a political novice forces chief how do expect people in the west bank and gaza to react to that if it happens. i don't know i think i'm more concerned with how the

israelis going to react i mean you know how is the americans going to react to their i think there's an election in israel two people have claimed victory both did very well in the election unfortunately not one of the real vote has been counted this is all based on. projections and exit polls but it does seem like has got more seats than the last time came from really out of nowhere. we get maybe thirty five thirty seven seats and we right now have in israel two major parties will have an effect on any government and it could be whether it's a right of center left of center national unity it will change the way israel looks at this point the palestinians as well but i don't think a lot of israelis right now are really concerned with palestinian reaction they're concerned about what is israel going to look like tomorrow morning what do you think one is ready as minds that what's that about delivering an election bruising to mr netanyahu or is it a genuine show support for mr guns because that's the stand if the exit polls are

to be believed neither has really come out of the mandate. well it's really a vote of confidence for both of them with probably a slight lead now for mr gaunt's benny gantz his party because he seems to have more but nisson yeah wonder clouds of indictment and corruption and a divisive election and ole sorts of other things that he's been accused of having been in office now for ten years still seems to have gotten more seats than the last time the question is does he have four more seats or five more seats or six more seats so it's a very very strong showing a lot of people seem to have voted for the larger parties blue and white and likud which together have enough seats to actually form a government and less have voted for some of the smaller parties it's also you know a big vote of confidence for for mr guns it does seem to be now that there is a momentum going in favor of benny gantz and his party what's interesting is that

you know one hour after the exit polls are out both people are claiming victory and it's in you know is already started negotiating for coalition partners and actually says he even has a coalition ready which is almost impossible because we don't know the results well this time tomorrow if mr counts does get to form the next government and the knesset that most is going to have a foreign policy as far as people beyond israel's borders are concerned he's a new name. what i want to expect what do you expect. well there's not a lot of policy difference on a lot of issues between him and miss and it's and you know you know he is right or center candidate he was the military chief of staff so he's tough on military issues he served in washington as the military attache for israel so you understand american politics i think it will be somewhat of a of the same but he's certainly going to have to have if he's going to be prime minister he's going to have to have a period of six months or more where he's going to actually have to kind of not

only learn the job of being prime minister but establishing relations with world leaders and making you know setting his policy and it's you know he is it will be fresh some things in the region and possibly with the palestinians as you asked in the beginning of the program that they'll be a new person for them to speak to and whenever there's a new a change in the regime change or a change in leadership that could be an opportunity and that could be chest to restart things and to start negotiations and to really get help and then we have to see what happens with the trump peace plan which is rumored to be coming out after the election that they were after the election this could be something that trump sees as an opportunity to bring in someone who's maybe knew it politics would know it being prime minister and really push it forward so either way either we're going to have another government with its and you know possibly with some of the right of center parties or with mr gonzalez party or mr god's will be able to form

a government and we'll have a whole new set of policies and new faces and israel will be have to chart a course. taking place for results based on some more often our political analyst mr barak in jerusalem thank you. but he has brushed off the entire miller investigation into russian meddling into the us presidential election as total nonsense and aimed at a domestic audience the russian president told the international arctic forum and some that it was clear from the beginning that there had been no collusion between the kremlin and donald trump trying to report. international arctic forum where first of all the journalists and the audience on the other hand at the main 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 and talked to vladimir putin for some time about international relations and 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 trump was ruled out we never heard a word from vladimir putin on that specifically well that's up until today. we were saying from the beginning this month a 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 with

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 miller probe is over and if no signs of collusion between washington and mr trump were filed what's next for the 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's 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 groups attack villages a million elected president they don't accept the choice of the american people they want to overturn 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 for 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 shift 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's gathered here but i can tell you that and minds of journalists they want to hear about that molar probe again and again. this is the u.k. is preparing to put in place what's being described as the world's toughest internet it's among all stories still ahead after the break.

when trying to american foreign policy at its core is it really about furthering national interest is there an ideological foundation that is the driver we're told it's all about democracy or is it really all about power and the purposeful denial of agency and others on the international stage. you know world of big movies and conspiracies it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks.

welcome back the u.s. president has pledged to place tariffs with eleven billion dollars on e.u. goods in response to the block subsidies for the european aerospace giant the karen discuss the move and the reaction from europe with our correspondents. eleven billion dollars so it's not peanuts at all that is billion with a biggie that donald trump has said he wants to place entire of 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 export of aerospace technology united states it's a huge colazal to him when it comes 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 has tanked their share price donald trump says despite the problems that boeing has been 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 as it regards a big decision or one of our own. are just extra orders. one of are you know truly one of the truly great companies of the world they have to figure it out for so

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 as paid to all of us speaking to his life from berlin let's cross over to paris now and our correspondent shiela do penske as solid 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 of the in the future which china has said for the first time that it will cooperate in the many were expecting them to touch on those trade wars which of both blocs have with the u.s.

but nothing was said 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 e.u. the european commission has also said it will be speaking to the arbitrator 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 the 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 eye of the storm in regards to see this is 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 what to say we don't see no legal basis for this all this is leading to a necessary trait 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 for france's finance economy minutes simply no 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 us it doesn't look like that is something that's going to go down well. we asked economist and author stephen kane how he expects the e.u. to react and which u.s. industries it might target. doing with trump is a totally different experience dealing with any president previously others would bluster but then that would be negotiated by the diplomats this would have been almost decided by trump tweets so they know the only way to prod is to fight back directly and i'm pretty certain i will slap tariffs on american products and i might well go for the so 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 he'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 this is subsidies are going coming in through the military wing of america which is like a saw a larger than anything in your opinion in a strong it evolves. britain's lining up the toughest internet laws in the world so it has a government plan called the online homes which suggests penalizing or even blocking websites that fail to take down potentially harmful content that covers everything from child abuse to disinter nation but as party boy explains the riff is that when this 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 in 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 websites 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 i 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 regulars but in the 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. yeah

i think it's a good idea to have some protection in that but it depends how stringent and how close they are. 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'll 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. u.k. could be set for a lengthy breaks it delay due 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 on tuesday the british prime minister met with the german chancellor angela merkel and

to try and secure support for a short delay until the thirtieth of june to resume a then jet off to paris where she met the french president the diplomatic dash comes after m.p.'s and westminster passed a bill requiring the pm to seek yet another extension to the deadline to leave the european union. and so much three years since the brics a referendum and many in the u.k. have changed their minds on whether they should leave the union after 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 then voted overwhelmingly to leave the so we went to see where the pendulum is today. the people already voted for. we have a vote we do so much stick to it. let's get out. price. on the land menu today the wife used to. take it the job is now we have no tradition we're not even set up right still for the case to pay paul

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