this is a lot of this morning a dead heat in israel with most of the votes counted there's still no clear winner in the polls the prime minister. putting their money on income but. also should african-americans be paid reparations for the suffering of their ancestors who were slaves the latest hot button issue on the campaign trail the presidential hopefuls in the u.s. we put it to our guests. because somebody. doesn't mean i'm responsible for you know who should have been able to why they were laughing government had literally

buried it paid out everybody else turned it back on the black people in america. plus warsaw. in history after it kicked russia memorial project former nazi death camp in poland we've got the details coming out. good morning live from russia to moscow to be exact is kevin i'm with you thank you for tuning in revue around the world stay with me for this news update and starting with the news from israel this one up big vote has been an intense night there ninety seven percent of the vote counted now maybe a little bit more still no clear winner for the prime minister's seat both main contenders parties of incumbent leader benjamin netanyahu and former general benny gets one an equal number of seats in parliament this result in some confusion with both politicians at one point a clearing victory. oh this is

a night of tremendous victory i was very moved 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. ruffin this per this heated election as he today in israel is to talk to our correspondent on the ground closely either on television paul or i mean the majority very much majority of votes counted and it is looking like will form some sort of coalition will scrape through is that the reason you're getting there. it certainly is it would be very very unexpected turn of

events if he is unable to form a coalition we expect him to form a majority of sixty five seats out of a parliament of one hundred and twenty now this is higher than what he had during the previous parliament when he only had sixty one so it does put him in a stronger position with his back not so much against the war in terms of coalition partners being able to demand what they want to happen this was largely seen as a kind of referendum on netanyahu and certainly the fact that he and his main rival before my idea of guns is a new political player that despite that managed to garner the same number of seats as netanyahu both of them sitting at around fifty five seats the fact that both of them also close really means that it boils down to who is able to form a coalition to take the election process forward didn't capture the imagination of the arab population this vote did it turn out for the. so needed

and we had on. something like twenty sixty one percent of arabs voting a traditional low turnout primarily because of two reasons there's division within the arab israeli population that constitutes around twenty percent of the israeli public and also a disillusionment towards the election process i spent some time at polling stations in jaffa traditional arab neighborhoods and they people told me that they really don't believe these elections actually achieve anything what is interesting to point out is that we're still waiting for three percent of the votes to be counted those three percent are traditionally soldiers who are traditionally right wing we could see one of the smaller likely parties into the parliament pushing out one of the arab parties which means we'll have the lowest showing of the arab israeli parliamentarians this time around than we saw before i was so want to make one more point we are hearing from lieberman who is a former defense minister and the leader of a white twin homeland party he is not as of yet saying that he's going to join

netanyahu if he doesn't join netanyahu netanyahu is only sitting with sixty parliamentary seats which means it might be tougher for him to form their coalition is there anyone else wanting to give the wings the come form a coalition with anyone obvious or no at the moment. no i mean he really has to rely on his right wing partners the fact that gunns had such a strong showing and that showing came from the same to the same to next shows that moving forward presumably if netanyahu forms the next government he will face some stiff opposition from a united find the opposition in parliament will be more united than it was before so that will certainly keep netanyahu in check the other things that we are watching for is that donald trump the american president is due to announce his his big and that big plan in terms of middle east peace peace between israelis and palestinians presumably will call for some concessions from netanyahu side and that

on yahoo will put. some kind of problems with his right wing base in trying to make those constantia and also netanyahu don't think it is apt for corruption charges so even if he is the next prime minister he will need to spend a lot of time with his annoyance and potentially if he is found guilty well this is new territory for israel and it's not clear how a sitting prime minister who is found guilty what happens then well the new elections or will they simply have to be another leader found to number one be the prime minister of the country and number two the place in the time yahoo as the leader of the could party. we'll let you get but to keep it across we won't know for a while yet what the actual final result is i gather but the very majority of the votes are in there let's look at increasingly like you know getting through doesn't it thanks for the. view from jerusalem because from the program to counter political warfare in jerusalem a thanks for your time today you live on the air with us is looking increasingly likely as are saying that it will get through form some form of coalition although

it's looking a bit tricky at the moment if it does is there going to be. a nod to the fact that he said pretty strong opposition this time. but he. left is he going to give a nod to that or is he going to carry on its own sweet way. well you know kevin prime minister has actually made if he does form the coalition and it's extremely likely that he will form the coalition mr ganns simply does not have the numbers to get past sixty one and you are right now has a coalition of opposition parties called blue and white which are the colors of the israeli flag who will be sitting in the opposition keeping him in check but let's be very clear about one thing there is virtually no difference in foreign policy between or in security policy between mr dances coalition of parties blue and white

and. mr. likud both of them are center a center right on security in this region that is awash in terrorism israel surrounded by iranian proxies on all borders and the blue and white party is comprised of three former chiefs of staff let's remember so there are there is security party netanyahu himself the decorated special operations officer is a security expert so they're going to see eye to eye on the most important issue that drives their drives israeli polling in the israeli electorate despite the you say the center right center left i get that but the the such a strong opposition but if you were to call it show is that going to temper in any way at all or not. well if you're right in saying that this election has been a referendum on mr in a time the aus personal profile as paula slyer reported mr in

a time you know is under has been indicted conditioned upon a hearing where he can state his own defense and therefore you know that's very much what this election has been about and analysts here are saying and i join them that that is not enough to win an election having said that it is going to take a substantial amount of mr netanyahu is time however even if the hearing. his ability to defend himself in a hearing even if he fails in that effort legally he is entitle to continue as prime minister this is in contrast to what paula slyer just said until. a trial and some potential conviction which would take a good couple of years so there are there it is it is fully within the confines and the sanction of israeli law that

a sitting prime minister can continue to rule to leave the country even if he's been indicted i mean no politician of resin easy time but this is a cloud over his head how's it going down with the voters a really really briefly what's he going to bring to the party so to speak over the next couple of years with his new tim if he does monies to hold this coalition and he think new any surprises. no real surprises i do think he's become much more aware of the acute health system crisis in israel he has spent the vast majority of his time trying to keep the economy strong he is a free market capitalist he is also as i said a security expert and we have got the iranian regime breathing down israel's neck on the northern and southern borders that is the number one strategic. some say existential crisis security crisis that israel faces that's where he spends the majority of our time and of his time and we've also got thousands of rockets by

hizbullah and hamas hamas in the south his ball in the north facing our israel's major cities so that's that's where he spends the majority of his professional time is in trying to keep this small state of israel safe as and i think that the electorate also by the way is very proud and happy with mr natanya i was excellent relations with president putin and as well as american president donald trump at the same time i think he may be one of the only major international leaders that maintains excellent relations with the two major superpowers in the world as well as china i don't know opposed there's no nice way to leave it done tycho from the program to counter political warfare in jerusalem france make the time to give assurance to get his thoughts on it appreciated jerusalem jerusalem center for public affairs by mistake thank you for correcting. all right now while we're talking about elections there's so couldn't other one want one coming up in fact two more hopefuls have joined the crowded field of democratic contenders to unseat

president donald trump and twenty twenty and even with a two year long investigation into alleged russian meddling in the twenty sixth election failing to find any evidence of collusion some of the candidates are again bringing it to their campaign agenda as colored mopin reports it's not resonating well with some american voters. as if the democratic presidential primary of two thousand and twenty wasn't already crowded enough we now have two more candidates throwing their hats into the ring both cham 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 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 with 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 with custard pies cut you out of bed both of 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 twenty. twenty five 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. the other one before russia investigation economy the economy and then russia and the solution health care most gun control. will be other things women are climate change on the economy climate change is third cutting means fourth in

russia just gross investigation c climate change. gun control economy. than it was due to which there is there a sharing of assignation zero zero on 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. r.t. new york well we're told with a long run up to the next to us elections and the things the voters are most worried about a number of other issues have come up as well and public opinion as they do one of those called the version is should african-americans in the u.s. be paid reparation for the suffering of the descendants who were slaves good question democratic presidential contender cory booker announced a new bill only issue doesn't seem to be terribly popular although it's

a hot thing to debate a recent poll suggests only twenty one percent of voters would support that particular move however if adopted would intelligence official acknowledgment of the legacy of american slavery and compensation payments crucially 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 he brought logan an attorney and

author resurfacing for their respective corners on it. you could have identified the former slave master and a former slave right at the moment but we're now winds are at fifty years past a particular point in time who's going to pay people who did not have slaves nobody i left a day in twenty nineteen was a slave back then so what do we gain pay for who is going to pay we're right again pay it's no more than a campaign promise from democratic hopefuls trying to get some kind of attention now you're ok with the al less and that's the most ridiculous thing i've ever heard they provide economic restitution to those people now if i came into your house mr a.b.l. and i sell a thousand dollars from you and then i die or if i sell a million dollars from you and then i die would you say oh well reasoned guy 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 punish 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 so what we have is here a racial years hundreds of years of systematic does that 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 over her body is a laugh right right and even no nobody's allowed right now it's only nineteen that was a lot of bathing and to and then a thing about it is who's going to pay it you're talking about a government the government is funded by the people that means to 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 present. and there you are mostly slave women peroration is what it didn't do which is at the end to slavery not right now it makes no sense to so argue me it displays no logic here americans never even study the effects of slavery on black people they never sat down and said we know that as a government we thank him with this 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 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 hate anyone i do too long to just striving to be a dad and their hand and i'm going to write in tears. they paid money when it will enter into the hundred in his later years. that's irrelevant the point is the how much you are going to get you didn't hear it too many years to go to your spouse of

thousand years i'm going to. i won't point do we say we're past lavery where women are without a doubt 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. just ahead much more and come back include to this most cold war so say read over memorial out and not see death camp in poland will tell you know. what crimes american foreign policy at its core isn't 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 others on the international stage.

what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to press. the to the right to the press this is what the forecast three in the morning can't be good get back i'm interested always in the wilds of our. question. from. again a diplomatic spat sproing over memorial at a former nazi death camp in poland russia is appealing to the european council now

after its bid to take part of the project is rejected out of hand by warsaw but in a coach never brings as. some a bore it was a nazi run killing center and any town secrets very few survive to average talent and scream chorus. 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 barbed wire 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 are in poland the netherlands and france czech is 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 that 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 parts of his history are now being overlook the this is a matter for the whole of europe through in the so people come. russians french they would also people of the countries and that's what you know this pain the loss of people who were tortured or 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 escape for 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 poland opened

the betting for those who wanted to take part in setting up the museum interior but again all three applications by russian museums all private entities were not approved by war so the 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 they're afraid of the russian narrative and they also don't want to give russia too much credit for liberating poland you can use history 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 and national heritage say it's a logical decision the international steering committee maybe not in mississippi continuing cooperation between its current members who have a. we were together for ten years in order to smilie complete advance works on the new memorial site the cultural stand off aside as high time avril one as remembered

for their suffering and bravery. 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 i was dismissed in twenty seventeen now this new appeal once again 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 britain sold almost five billion pounds worth of arms to saudi arabia since twenty fifteen according to figures from the campaign against arms trade but despite all the accusations thus far britain's international trade department though remains confident it claims u.k. export control is one of the most robust and operates along with the country's legislation but that said 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 marty's going underground show spoke to local journalists for a bit more on it. 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 al because he is saying 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 yes the coalition i was has conducted the. strike on that is then. close

to the elementary schools are called schools because of that that was so close to the schools many children have died either from. some of them or would it would it would enjoy that as well because of the broken window broken glass on of the world because it was a school that have about two thousand five hundred children. and eleven twenty eight the morning timers ruffle some of pink world news stories from us i'm kevin owen here in moscow thank you for watching out international. have a great wednesday. we. breaks it count down. u.s.

veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. were going after the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either they're already several generations of them so i just got this memo from the search. and destroy the government in seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with their money others with their lives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war surely we can risk some discomfort or an easy.

time after time so we're going underground as judges rule on u.k. involvement in massacres in yemen and the u.k. backed israeli army prepares for elections after the detention of the younger brother of palestinian icon ahead to mimi days after she appeared on this show coming up will british judges tomorrow think this was a serious violation of international humanitarian law and stop to raise them a allowing the export of british bombs we've given they just in the aftermath of sunday's south africa and the girls elementary school in yemen is more than just another tool in the colonialists arsenal we dig up the evidence of an advanced civilization last time with bestselling journalist and author graham hancock all of them all coming up in today's going underground but first today is the anniversary of the signing of the good friday agreement and the thirty eighth anniversary of the election to the palace of westminster of the irish hunger strike up bobby sands . and.