actually do something about. a dead heat in israel with most of the votes counted this one who still no clear winner in the poll for prime minister the two front runners have both declared victory though got a lot of comment on that coming up. donald trump fires a fresh salvo european allies pledging to hit goods with eleven billion dollars in trade look at the backlash. and should african-americans in the u.s. these days be paid reparations for the suffering of their ancestors who were slaves you put that question to our guests. because somebody has granted doesn't mean i'm responsible for it do you know who did it you should have been able to keep why they were alive if the government had literally buried it paid out everybody else

and turned it back on the black people and we are called. this is us international broadcasting live from russia around the world this wednesday morning money was kevin thanks being with us it's not i am here now let me update you on those headlines in a bit more detail not focus on israel first it's been a real heated night there still not totally clear where it's going ninety seven percent of the vote counted still no clear winner for the prime minister's see none the less both main contenders parties of incumbent leader. and former general benny gantz have won an equal number of seats in parliament this then results in some confusion with both politicians a said declaring victory so of. oh. this is a night of tremendous victory i was very moved to that the nation of israel once again and trusted me for the fifth time already tonight i have started talks with

the heads of the right wing parties our natural partners i intend to be the prime minister of all israeli citizens right or left jews and non jews alike all israeli citizens. look so. i will be the prime minister of all and not just those who voted for us the faster we can form a government the faster we will be able to lead the state of israel ensure security on all fronts and return to a policy of deterrence to get the latest now from middle east correspondent paula paula as we are saying the majority vast majority this is already been counted no just two three percent to come in is that going to make any difference end of the day because this is so tell us isn't it. it certainly is tight and as you say we have ninety seven percent of votes already counted the outstanding votes belong to soldiers and also diplomats based overseas they count won't affect the two main parties but it could have an impact on smaller parties

who are still trying to cut the threshold and enter the israeli politics we're talking here of needing some one hundred eighty eight thousand votes to actually enter the threshold so we might have these smaller parties and that would impact the coalitions that are potentially been built if we're talking about numbers of votes the difference in netanyahu favor is something like thirteen thousand votes over his rival benny gantz the former i.d.f. chief who heads the same to lift party that has been formed just for these elections known as the good in their minds so they really are now can make having said that though netanyahu has a much greater chance of forming a coalition and hence it's all but expected that the world makes prime minister the next few weeks will be followed. on coalition building so that's where he's going to put his attention now and he's certainly going to interpret these elections as a when as

a sign from the israeli left they want him to serve another time in office that ultimately will make him israel's longest serving prime minister and that is interesting because for many these elections were a referendum if you like on the timing on who the campaigns against him were campaigns for change campaigns for something different but so what we've seen is that a large number of the israeli electorate are actually satisfied with netanyahu which way any six the scene for a not a white coalition government to move israel forward into the future. by paul if they were going to stay in israel to for more comment on this paul gosar is a political commentator and analyst on the line from jerusalem how the paul thank you thomas morning as our correspondent was saying that looks very much like. who will get through. do you believe that's the case as well or do you think there could still with these small percentage of votes to be votes to be counted still that there is still a chance that no one will make it past the post. it seems unlikely at this point

even if even if benny gantz party were to nudge ahead in the running the way these ready system works is that there is that the biggest party won't necessarily be able to form a government and if god has parted with a win say one more seats they might be the biggest party the biggest single party in the knesset but netanyahu has to have the best chance before me government because the rest of the knesset the majority of the rest of the knesset belongs to parties that favor him more white one party as it stands a smaller you know who does get through then it's never a clear cut majority as you say there are those coalitions there has he got a strong mandate as he did last. it's an interesting question on the one hand you could say yes because it's you know a fourth consecutive victory in a fifth one in total finance and you know on the other hand he significantly

weakened by his own legal troubles there are indictments pending. and. it will be a question as to whether he'll be able to form a coalition with parties that. are willing to sit with a prime minister who might be indicted and b. in this is where there could be controversy around the corner where the netanyahu is able to pass a law which has been mooted which would grant him immunity from prosecution similar to what they have in france where the president cannot pass cannot be. indicted whilst in office is it likely this will get through you know. i'm sorry is it likely that law might get through to protect him or not so well so he's going to have to build a coalition and one of those and one of the things he might well ask of potential coalition partners is exactly that you know are you willing to back me on this kind of law and that that's an open question certainly if that is the case if parties

are willing to sit in coalition with him on that. with that in mind they're going to ask a lot in return so in that sense he'll be weakened because other parties will be able to extort from him what they want in order to see his coalition is it fair to say says some big backers in the form of donald trump of america what. trump did with the embassies in this room because we said what the golan heights as well that's gone in his favor towards us election year. no question the trumps decision to recognize the annexation of the land was popular throughout israel and was welcomed across the political spectrum but the timing of it certainly has led some to suspect that it was that it was deliberately to assist to assist. netanyahu selection. but that's one of those things where we may we may not find out yeah i mean certainly netanyahu is relationship with trump and the success

that he's had in building that relationship are major plus points for him we could talk a lot more of this very choppy on the seas maybe get some more from you on your thoughts was going to go but from a poor course in jerusalem lovely to have you on the program folks who time so thank. you more hopeful to join the crowd who feel the democratic contenders to unseat president donald trump and twenty twenty and even with a two year long special counsel investigation into alleged russian meddling in the twenty sixth elections failing to find any evidence of collusion some of the candidates are again bringing it to their campaign agenda kellam open reports next is not resonating well with american voters. as if the democratic presidential primary of twenty twenty wasn't already crowded enough we now have two more candidates throwing their hats into the ring both chairman ryan and eric small will say that their campaigns will give special attention to one particular issue russia you know who comes on to our social media the russians. ok i want you to hear this

the russians they come into our social media and they spin things to get us into these divided camps and most importantly the russians are going to do this again and the twenty twenty you know action even suggest he's a russian agent saying he's betrayed our country any concern he took it too far you know he acts on russia's behalf to all russia has been the obsession of many democrats sense trumps victory in two thousand and sixteen however there have been many voices calling on the russia haters to cool it down a little bit and the democratic party leadership seems to agree somewhat and i'm sure to the republicans no i think the focus here for investigations on health care . remember if you're just a little i hope this is the press on these issues so is nancy pelosi also a russian spy is she in on the vast conspiracy involving trump steve bannan putin

boris and natasha take over the whole the zero to the us of a just in the only people in town like new york bought a big would leave one ways custard pies cut you did bedding based both those of u.n. building well no most likely she's just seen the poll results american voters were polled on what they cared about the most russia or health care eighty percent said health care only eight percent said russia and c.n.n. polled its audience and it turns out that only thirteen percent say that they will be impacted in their decision in two thousand and twenty by bob mahler's report so we decided to go ask new yorkers how they feel we decided to give them five issues health care economy climate change gun control and the russia investigation now we're going to have them go rank them in order of importance most important is health care. climate change and. gun control.

and bullets another wonderful russian investigation economy economy and then russians also ration health care the second most gun control. will be other things on the climate change commie climate change is third colonies fourth in russia investigation investigation climate change. gun control economy. than it was due to list is there a sure groove assignation zero zero bone health care health care bill scarier than literature investigations so perhaps talking about moscow gold and kremlin intrigue is just a force of habit after all the cold war started way back in one thousand nine hundred forty six however if the democratic party wants to win elections perhaps they should search for a more effective message moppet r.t. new york. well we talked about the long run up to those u.s. elections a number of hot button issues a father public opinion to talk about one of the most controversial should

african-americans in the u.s. be paid reparations for the suffering of their descendants and slaves very good question democratic presidential contender cory booker announced a new bill on the issue but a recent polls that jessamy twenty one percent of voters would support the move now if adopted it would intel an official acknowledgment of the legacy of american slavery and the compensation payments crucially to to those still affected by discrimination as a result. we have to recognize that everybody did not start out on an equal footing in this country and in particular black people have not. and so we have got to recognize that and do something about that and give folks a lift up i believe it's time to start the national full blown conversation about reparations so that we can as a nation do what's right and begin to heal there are massive disparities that

must be addressed so we're going to do everything we can to put resources into distressed communities and improve lives for those people who have been hurt from the legacy of slavery conservative commentator and the brian logan attorney and also the resurface of for their respective corners on it. you could have identified the former slave master and a former slave moment but we're now weiner every two years past a particular point in time who's going to pay people who did not have slaves nobody i lapped it day in twenty name was a slave back then so what do we gain pay for who's going to pay we're again it's no more than a campaign promise from democratic hopefuls trying to get some kind of attention now you're. a.b.l. wealth and that's the most ridiculous thing i've ever heard they provide economic restitute. to those people now if i came into your house mr a.b.l. and i stole a thousand dollars from you and then i died or if i sold

a million dollars from you and then i'd die would you say oh will reason die so that money doesn't matter anymore no he would go talk to my children and children are still living off the benefits of that million dollars just because somebody has grand days dose of it doesn't mean i'm responsible for it if somebody is granddad was so you know a killer and then they found out one hundred years later you go after the kids and say ok you get to go to jail now or you get to pay back some money because of what your grandfather d. and makes no since you know who did it you should have been able to catch him why they were alive punished him why they were alive we want to focus on is the economic harm that was done to black people if we really break down with slavery was people were brought from across the water to work and that was free labor that what we have is here to ration years hundreds of years of systematic distant discrimination and shutting out of x. economic access the black people and that has to be repaid and if we're going to blame the government i did you a say you got everybody has

a laugh right but and even no nobody's allowed right now it's only nineteen that was a laugh bathing and been a thing about it is who's going to pay you're talking about big government big government is funded by the people that means me that means you will pay for it so how does it make any sense like i say it would have been more let me raise you know how many hands you are mostly slave women parisians would have been do which is at the end to slavery now right now it makes no sense to so argue me no logic here america's never even study the effects of slavery on black people they never think down they said we know that as a government we thank him with this thanks this experience but we don't even know how far that experience reaches because no one's ever study it how much do we owe black people no one's ever studied and why because the government has literally buried it had it paid out everybody else and. turned it back on the black people in america who he will do to the lord to just try be

a gardener very handy and i'm going to write in tears. they pay that money when the hundred years. that's irrelevant the point is the i'll are going to. be used to going to your spot i was a year so i'm going to tell you what point do we say repair slavery where we're now because the buck stops here hopefully my generation will stand up and say that the buck stops here so we don't have to go on with this any longer. diplomatic sparks brewing over a memorial at a former nazi death camp in poland russia's me russia is appealing to the european council of his bid to take part was rejected out of hand by warsaw but in a culture that has got more this morning. some a bore was a nazi run killing center and an intense secret very few survived to average talent and scream course.

another unit arrived once they were already undressed they apparently understood where they were being taken naked and all in fear they ran away but where could they run everyone rushed to the bulk of our fences and there they were met with the fire of machine guns and rifles many people died from the bullets the rest were driven into the gas chambers the fires were burning into late at night that's all flames illuminated the evening black sky with its terrifying lights the whole camp and the surrounding territory.

like thunder the screams of people rode over the death camp six hundred people exhausted yearning for freedom rushed forward shouting here a in this single impulse the jews of russia and poland the netherlands and fronts checketts a vacuum in germany united it was only then that the tower guards realized that something was wrong in the camp and opened fire. unlike auschwitz there is nothing left of sabi bore the extermination camp was destroyed by the nazis after the uprising and trees planted to conceal evidence it ever existed but there is concern that key part. if as history are now being overlook the this is a matter for the whole of europe after all in the so people come. russians dutch french there were lots of people from other countries and that's what you know this

pain the loss of people who were tortured there and died so that we never repeat the polish government started construction plans back in two thousand and fourteen for a new visitor center at the site of the former death camp russia says that it was unfairly sidelines and the design of the museum especially as a soffit soldier was behind the here royd group fold and this caper sabi war the committee behind the project includes representatives from slovakia the netherlands poland and israel as the construction of the museum moved forward to paul and open the betting for those who wanted to take part in setting up the museum interior but again all three applications sounded by russian museums all private entities were not approved by war sell polish russian relations are complicated and certainly when it comes to world war two they were complicated so i think the poles rather take control themselves of the narrative there for street as

a weapon and the poles have been weaponized in history as a as many people have been doing some may call it historical amnesia some like paul ince ministry of culture national steering committee made enormous decision about continuing to cooperate is merely complete advance works on a new morial site the cultural standoff aside as high time average one as remembered for their suffering and bravery. had much more we come back here not international small including donald trump turning up the trade war he told europe . with billions in import tariffs on the dollar see what the rest of the case when we come back. i didn't say the numbers mean something dave matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars of debt more than ten white collar crime families.

eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to be ultra rich with six percent world market thirty percent some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and when he rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars ai industrial park but don't let the numbers over. the only number you need to remember one one business show you know bored to miss the one and only bloom but. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see that.

again good morning the u.s. president's pledge to place tariffs with eleven billion dollars on the e.u. goods in response to the block subsidies for european aerospace giant abas correspondents discuss the move and get reaction from the e.u. . 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 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 e.u. 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 olive 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 there are big problems for boeing right now they've been involved in two fatal crashes in the last five months donald trump hope says despite the problems that boeing has been going through he stands behind the company a great company it's a truly great company and hopefully they'll figure it out very quickly we have seen it throughout his career but in his presidential korea we saw just last year how he

launched into china turkey and 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 we did hear from the european commission it said it remains open to discussions with the u.s. but says it will hold its discussion. as long as there are no preconditions to the e.u. the european commission has also said it will be speaking. of a treaty to get them involved in this the commission is starting preparations so the e.u. can probably 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 more fair outcome we've also heard from the e.u. in regards to that figure that they let in the 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 this 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 for france's finance economy minister. he's been talking about the fact that there 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. three high profile human rights groups have joined a fresh legal challenge to the u.k.'s ongoing arms exports to saudi arabia proceedings were first brought by the u.k. based campaign against arms trade but that was dismissed in twenty seventeen this new appeal once again and seeks to define if the british government broke arms

export licensing criteria the rights groups say there is a clear risk that weapons could be used to violate international humanitarian law in yemen backdrop here britain's sold almost five billion pounds worth of arms to saudi arabia since twenty fifteen that's according to figures from the campaign against arms trade despite all the accusations britain's international trade a part of the remains confident it claims the u.k. export control is one of the most robust in operates along with the country's legislation but that still the face of the devastating picture in yemen. united nations condemned the saudi led coalition air strike in yemen last weekend

that killed more than a dozen schoolchildren and he's going underground program spoke to a local journalist. after sunday's u.k. backed mass killing of elementary school girls evidence will be heard today and tomorrow the court of appeal in london against resumes continued to factor military threat against twenty million people joining me now from the yemeni capital is journalist hussain albuquerque hussain thanks for joining me is or what happened at the elementary school on sunday i know the high court is in judgment now about whether britain is indeed involved in serious crimes against humanity. how the coalition as a has conducted the two strike which you call the strike on that is the area close to the elementary schools are called schools because of that cost so close to the schools many children have died either from. some of them what would it would it were injured as well because of the broken window broken glass and of the world

because it was a school that have about two thousand five hundred children. well that's wraps on the big world used so far this morning r.t. dot com well of course keep you up to date on all of them when we're not here every half an hour talking of which one of the big stories that's going to live pictures from jerusalem the really nice we just part of them's we thought will show that morning scene there the big deal the big news in israel is that the bigger lection of course it looks like but you may not know it's going to get through. through with a coalition it's head and head of the moment just a few. percentage points of votes still to come will be across that throughout the day as it becomes a little bit more clear but for now for me kevin i would hear a moscow thanks for watching our channel international wherever you are around the world enjoy these pages have a great wednesday. breaks

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