too close to call is really election exit polls put a long time premiere benyamin netanyahu and challenger benny gantz and a dead heat as both declared victory. president putin dismisses the moeller investigation into the alleged collusion between trump and russia in two thousand and sixteen it calling it total nonsense. and the trump administration fires a fresh solve oh at its european allies pledging to hit e.u. goods with tariffs worth as much as eleven billion dollars the u.s. says the move is in retaliation for subsidies given to boeing that rival arab.

and broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our team international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us all right now counting is under way in israel's general election with each of the two leading candidates currently proclaiming victory incumbent prime minister benyamin netanyahu claims he has already started a coalition talks while his political rival benny gantz is promising his supporters that he will be the country's new leader looking over the exit polls in tel aviv here's our middle east correspondent polls there. while the polls are really times with the incumbent israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu claiming victory one of the same time his main contained form a israeli defense forces chief baby guns also claiming victory guns is a relative newcomer to politics and has set up a party called blue and white now the exit polls change almost by the minute. they were suggesting that guns were. in the lead then they suggested that netanyahu was

in the lead and essentially will have to wait until around midday when state for the final results to be put in the oval since one gets from these elections is certain that they are every for random if you like on natanya who i spent a lot of election day visiting various polling stations and talking to people about why they were there and of course issues like security and social issues came up but the overriding issue that saw people turn out in huge numbers and voter turnout to reach more than eighty percent was the question of whether or not to vote netanyahu back into power he is seeking a fourth consecutive term in office and an overall foot term in office and if indeed he comes in again he will be israel's longest serving prime minister ever it's not just a question of who is the leader with the most number of votes come monday wednesday but it is the question of who can form the majority coalition now the leader with

the most votes will be tossed by the israeli president to seek out coalition partners if he can't it's been forced on the leader who is the leader of the second largest party to do so and he needs to get a coalition that will see sixty one out of one hundred and twenty parliamentary seats minimum to be the next israeli prime minister that coalition process could indeed takes weeks so we still in the gray area as to who will be israel's next prime minister but certainly one of the closest contested elections in recent israeli history this elections will not cause any major changes is a little boy who says because guns the party of blue and white barked you cannot believe that report you should read. these parts of the poem. in the list that you. part is the make of it what we should.

do. so i don't see any good so we may do change. governments who will use the shake is part of the league two months ago. is no. no nobody knows will do once he has bought the his people from the right side will be willing to go. so nobody will just accept. that then you know out from the government but it does seem like has got more seats than the last time gonski came from really out of nowhere to get maybe thirty five thirty seven seats we right now have in israel two major parties who will have an effect on any government and it could be whether it's a right of center left of center of national unity it will change the way israel

looks at this point wolf at the palestinians as well but i don't think a lot of israelis right now are really concerned with the palestinian reaction they're concerned about what is israel going to look like tomorrow morning but listen yeah wonder clouds of indictment and corruption and a divisive election and all 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 what's interesting is that you know one hour after the exit polls are out both people are claiming victory and it's and you know has already started negotiating for a coalition partners and actually says he even has a coalition ready which is almost impossible because we don't know the results. are invited near putin has brushed off the entire muller 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 form in st . petersburg that it was clear from the beginning there had been no collusion

between the kremlin and to donald trump to try to go comments. an 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 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 why. 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. simply because 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 stake his 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 minds of journalists they want to hear

about that more probe again and again. well while many serious issues were discussed at the forum there were also some lighter moments as well. so. i was swedish friends of invested five billion in the russian economy. because of the war to do so. i said friends no bandits i know you're expecting an invitation to the white house this year is not your most used we have a good book is called twelve chairs is a phrase in there come a visit to the old mother will be happy but she's not left the address you are many russian tourists come to finland and you said before that you hope they behave well i hope the finnish tourists behave. as they behave well they eat snacks while the drinking. u.s. president has pledged to place eleven billion dollars on e u goods in response to

the blocks subsidies for the european aerospace that giant. discussed the move and the reaction from europe with our correspondents. they're older. eleven billion dollars so it's not peanuts at all that is billion with a big 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 cherished 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 when it comes not only to commercial aerospace technology but also to military technology as well and of course playing 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 lyon 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 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 peter all of us speaking to his life from berlin well it's cost over to paris now in 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 e. you know the european commission has also said it will be speaking to the w t o of a treat 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 the storm in regards to this. also he 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 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 needs 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. where we ask the economist and author stephen keim how he expects that you to react

to and which u.s. industries might target. dealing with trump is a totally different experience of dealing with any any president previously those would bluster but then that had been negotiated by the diplomats this would have been almost decided by choice so they know the only way to pot 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 claim to live in billion worth of subsidy i'm sure that's from 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 to you from the pentagon now we know anybody who produces the pentagon massively of a process so fundamentally this is a subsidy for boeing coming in through the military wing of america which is like a cylon than anything your opinion is strong it is about more news after a short break you're watching our two internationals he was.

superior that you don't. interest rates above zero you don't need capital you don't need savings you don't. you don't need inflation breaks so people like united states are saying like well why can't we just be like if. you know world's big partisan group. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart 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 troops the time is now. we're watching closely watching the hawks. and welcome back this is our team international now the foreign ministry of venezuela has announced that the country will leave the organization of american states. the government of the blue varian republic of venezuela reaffirms its revokable decision to leave the organization of american states on april twenty seventh twenty nineteen given that venezuela cannot remain in an organization that means before the imperial interests of the us administration that came in response to the oas in deciding to award venezuela's seat to a representative of opposition leader why dole according to the organization

twitter the vote was eighteen to nine in favor of seating. at a meeting in washington on tuesday tare had been named by venezuela's opposition dominated national assembly which said he would represent venezuela until democratic elections are held. this week and cross live to andre walczak who is the author and investigative journalist thanks for being with us here on r.t. international. so with president maduro as representative being replaced at the oas how much of a blow is this actually to venezuela's diplomatic clout. no it's actually no blow at all because it was expected the organization of american states. actually. everybody knows that. the meeting held. on what is

also so. so nine count there is. majority of them of course. for the american who. created the position on one way bill and. so the outcome was the reaction of. the bill and its launch it will actually happen as. the organization of american states trying to do it since all of these were two years of all of this is. you know we do know it's more money and it should not be on the. so why go and the opposition controlled parliament have been calling for new elections why do you think president maduro so posed to that idea. first of all the parliament does not recognize what any of the old body of. our own administration

well it was all of the current illegal for quite some time and. president one who is of course opposing so all of the institutions. because demographically elections are already held. but is it a warm election so the question is how many times is enough to win i mean he's winning over and over again. here is the. standing. of this side although of course in the last elections. most part of the opposition was boycotting selections with its very well is that all. elections for the. president mother of all. of you know what it's all been saying this is something that is being omitted don't forgot that mr. weston. i know so how would you evaluate the role played by the oas in the venezuela crisis

and thus far i mean. if they are an arm of the american propaganda idea then it is it a surprise that they voted the way that they did and do they have any influence. on salute not. surprising. that informs the world they would like to believe that they have a moral man they really don't look at the gulf that is the. true sloops go along. a place in the gulf that is planning to bring nato for the first time to so america a little bit of. the extreme right wing president who warned elections will weed out the crew of constitutional cool of the house will do model. the symbol of the. symbol of the. horrible disparities. in the world this is the sort of clearly that is being controlled by.

capitalism there are allies of the list particularly since so it's all that is launching what is taking place of course the left wing companies like when it's a little cuba but also on fortunately. wow. all right interesting to hear thoughts it'll be also interesting to see how that israel responds under of all checked thanks for being with us here on our international. are you so much. all right the u.k. could be set for a lengthy brags that diplomats have been locked in talks ahead of wednesday's emergency summit in brussels and have signaled that they do not believe a short extension to the withdrawal period will help break the current deadlock now 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 theresa may then 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. is almost three years since the break that referendum and many in the u.k. have changed their mind 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 it voted overwhelmingly to leave the e.u. we went to see where the pendulum is now. the pick of already. we have a vote we do so much only stick to it. and let's get out. of this price they thought they'd jump on the land today the wife has this take it the job is now we have no tradition that we're not even set up right still for case to pay

paul. respect this town you know to drink in the story. 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 are people of the world we all thought we belong to each other we should help each other instead of like my to each others' backs where that doesn't from l.b. back in thirty three and half minutes with another look at your news watch and international.

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hello and welcome the cross-talk were all things considered i'm peter a little bell which drives 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 of others on the international stage. cross talking american foreign policy i'm joined by my guest max blumenthal in washington he's the editor of gray zone dot com as well as author of the new book the management of savagery how america's national security state fueled the rise of

al qaeda isis and donald trump also in washington we have james chatteris he's a former u.s. diplomat and former advisor to the u.s. senate republican leadership all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate where we're getting set up here i noticed you have your book can you just lift it up and show our audience here it's fresh off the press and it must i must admit it's savagery i must say it must be a good book because i've already heard that you've been deep platform during talk about your book so it must be good ok so that's already. indication to me that my viewers should go out and buy the book here all right let's get serious here max i haven't read your book but i've read a lot of commentary about it and watch some interviews on you tube including interview you did with another media person it seems to me looking at your title and following a lot of the.