[000:00:00;00] could feel. like. a dead heat in israel with most of the votes counted by far now there's still no clear winner in the poll for prime minister but. putting their money on incumbent netanyahu for a fifth term. could americans be paid reparations for the suffering of the rand sisters who were slayed that's the latest button issue on the campaign trail for presidential hopefuls in the u.s. and we put it to our guests. because somebody is green days or so doesn't mean i'm

responsible for it you know. you should have been able to cater to them while they were alive and the other men had literally buried it paid out everybody else turned it back on black people and we are called. plus war weaponize in history africa take russia or whatever memorial project of former nazi death camp in poland. by very good afternoon just turn midday here in moscow broadcasting run the world from russia or it's up to international with me kevin zero in this israel very much in the headlines it's been an intense night there with most of the vote counted no very much still no absolutely clear official winner for the prime minister's seat both main contenders supporters of the incumbent leader. and former general benny

gantz won an equal number of seats in parliament it didn't stop him from declare himself the victor though. oh. this is a night of tremendous victory i was very moved with 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. to one point. declared him so the victors will said he'd be the prime minister but it looks increasingly less and less the case our cars were on the ground their policy is until of the high again paula yeah i mean nothing official yet it's still going to be a couple of days before the every vote is in but it seems more and more likely that bloomin. netanyahu is going to go into his fifth term as israeli pm doesn't it. it certainly does and that would make him the longest serving israel israeli prime

minister in this country's history it really would need something outrageous to happen for him not to be able to form this coalition he's likely to get sixty five seats out of the parliament comprising of one hundred and twenty so that gives him a better majority than he had in the previous parliament where he stood with sixty one this will mean that his back will be less against the war he'll be able to perhaps move a little bit more freely and not be choked by those in his coalition who are putting demands on him that he perhaps doesn't want to add here to the election is largely seen as a kind of referendum on netanyahu and he certainly is perceiving the result which is the strongest showing that his likud party has ever achieved as a nod that he's in the right direction that israel's appreciate his efforts israelis want him to continue in the premiership here reaction coming into this is there are those not official liberation organization saying israelis have chosen racism and permanent conflict by voting for candidates that unequivocally committed to his status quo of oppression has not gone down well with the arab population if

it does get through and indeed the arab population was pretty low you. it certainly was no lower than it has traditionally been at around sixty one percent and this is primarily because of two reasons the arab community here in israel which numbers around twenty percent of the population is internally divided and also at the same time there's a sense of despondency that is highlighted by the comment you make in terms of how arab israelis view the potential for elections to really change the date when i travel the election polls yesterday particularly in arab neighborhoods there you having people who are actually turning out and they saying that they feel that they lose to be some kind of change but there was a call by many arab leaders for arab citizens to boycott the elections that were also reports of irregularities of some one hundred twenty thousand body cameras that were apparently organized by netanyahu said it could party for activists to

wear in predominantly arab areas now and this was interpreted by arab citizens as a form of intimidation at the same time could deny the allegations and say that they had really used those cameras to try to make sure that the elections were free and fair and that there were no violent acts so was it looks like you know going to go through forms some form of coalition as was done in the past but you mentioned last october there could be an obstacle to that because not everyone is on board with going to a coalition is he going to find that difficult. he won't find the coalition building necessarily difficult because he's already been putting a coalition together for the last few weeks some of it behind the scenes some of it in front of the scenes he courted a lot of controversy for reaching out to a very far right racist group at the same time however it could take at least a month if not longer for him to solidify his coalition we do expect that he'll be able to make his coalition it is important though to mention that there was a very strong showing from his main rival the former israeli defense forces chief

benny gantz who for the first time has come forward with a. political party the blue and white party now they are neck and neck with him in the polls but they are unlikely to form as major of a coalition as netanyahu but what this does mean for the prime minister is that you have a more united opposition he won't perhaps be able to act so freely he also needs to face the american president donald trump's deal of the same tree there trump is likely to ask him for concessions and of course don't forget the corruption charges that netanyahu faces this is new territory for israel what will happen when in fact he is indicted if he is indicted when those charges come forward that could take a long time but at the same time it will be a headache over the head of the prime minister paula just five seconds where we could know the actual and see what are the final votes in just remind us. what initially we were told would be at midday today which has come and passed now we're hearing that it could be missed sometime next week so it's very fluid at this stage

we do expect though that the polls that the exit polls that we're looking at now really are not going to change regardless of when those final results come in or about to be up to oh yes spoke earlier as well to. he's from the jerusalem center for public affairs he told me even though. ongoing corruption cases against it won't stop him becoming prime minister. this election has been a referendum on mr in a time the aus personal profile 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 time however even if the hearing his ability to defend himself in

a hearing even if he fails in that effort legally he is entitled to continue as prime minister 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. should the one that's going to happen two more hopefuls a jew in the crowded field of democratic contenders to unseat president donald trump and twenty twenty and even with a two year long investigation into the alleged meddling of the twenty sixteen election failing to find any evidence of collusion some of the candidates are again bringing it to their campaign agendas caleb maupin reports next that it's not resonating with 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 chairman ryan and eric's wall 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 now he acts on russia's behalf too often 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 hold their press the focus here for this sunday hold here. 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 good marriage in that only people in town like new york bought a big would be one way to custard pies or cut you that particular bedding base both those of u.n. building well know 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. all the other wonderful russia investigation economy the economy and then russians as the ocean health care most gun control. will be other things women are climate change commie climate change is cutting me is fourth and russian first investigation climate change. gun control economy. than it was due to which there is there are sure of a situation where as you have on health care health care health care than literature and recession 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. archie new york. but we'll talk about the long run up to the next us elections and the things the voters are most worried about a number of other hot button issues and find a public opinion to for instance one of most controversial is should african americans in the us be paid reparations for the suffering of their ancestors who was slaves good question democrat presidential contender cory booker announced a new bill on the issue popular well it seems recent poll says only twenty one percent of voters would support the move however if adopted it wouldn't tell an official acknowledgment of the legacy of american slavery and compensation payments 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. consider the commentator and to brian logan also attorney and author of 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 epic to 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's going to pay where to gain 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 l. o. s. 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 died or if i saw a million dollars from you and then i'd 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 though 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. makes no since you know who did it if 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 to ration years hundreds of years of systematic distant discrimination and shutting out of act economic access the black people and that has to be repaid if we're going to blame the government i did you a say you got over the body is a laugh right even know nobody is allowed right now it's only nineteen that was a laugh bathing and to been 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 me then. you will pay for it so how does it make any sense like i see it would have been more let me 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 it is no logic here america's never even study the effects of slavery on black people they never said down and said we know that as the 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's ever studied it 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 it anyway i well i do too long to just striving to be a dad and a handy and one example either out in tears. they paid money when it will enter into hundred years. that's irrelevant the point is the i'll are going to guess you didn't marry too many years to go to your spouse of thousand years i'm going to tell you to narrative it won't point do we say we're past lavery where we're now because the buck stops here hopefully my generation will stand up and say the buck stops here so we don't have to go on with this any longer. quick break just ahead when we come back or not international much more this lunchtime. read over morial

of the nazi death camp in poland among one of the stories to come. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or something wanted. to go right to be close this is like the tree in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of our. city. you know world a big part of new things a lot 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 smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bath 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. diplomatic spat sproing over a memorial at a former nazi death camp in poland russia is appealing to the european council after its bid to take part in the project was rejected other hand by warsaw but in a coach of a briggs a small. sabi bore was a nazi run killing center and an intense secret very few survived to average

taliban 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 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 until 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 from this check it's 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 concerned that key part. if as history are now being over look at the group this is a matter for the whole of europe through 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 repeated 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 was unfairly sidelines and the design of the museum especially as a soffit soldier was behind the here roy group fault 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 paul and opened 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 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 haven't weaponize in history as a as many people have been doing some may call it historical amnesia some like paul and ministry of culture and national heritage say it's a logical decision the international steering committee made enormous decision about continuing cooperation between its current members who have already worked together for ten years in order to smoothly complete advance works on the new morial site the cultural standoff aside as high time avril one as remembered for their suffering and bravery. general elections in india start thursday but ahead of a new play a single event of the political arena facebook the social media giants but accused of interfering the election process of blocking pages it considers disinformation the lower court has got the story. facebook has been on fire lately removing thousands of pages it considered to be an authentic and the target of their latest

campaign meddling in india's upcoming elections as indians prepare to brooch in the general election for the seventeenth look so facebook and family of apps continue. to help make sure the elections of and free from interference both from and domestic with almost two hundred fifty million users in the country facebook's regulation of political content has a wide reach earlier this month they removed over seven hundred pages marked fake and although only fifteen were promoting the ruling party prime minister modi took a big hit and that's because those dozen or so pages had almost two and a half million more followers than the rest and who's helped facebook in the list to fight that election meddling domestic and foreign an american think tank called the atlantic council even its own employees were surprised some within our

community may view this partnership with skepticism we would expect nothing less and encourage more in fact a healthy skepticism is a vital part of digital resilience but how healthy is that skepticism really for what he does this is true this is not. fair. and. he should have us you a little. know what. i mean the. question is. indeed a journalist a bit i or me tra la a criminal complaint against facebook accusing the social network of waging a war against india he claims the tech giant is trying to interfere in the internal process of the election at the behest of for. powers really.

are your emotions are not the barrier. and in your. lease you have the sense. and you are one of the little known. and. this is. the atlantic council receives millions of dollars from the u.s. state department nato and washington's allies abroad could it be that some of that foreign funding is finding its way into a social media campaign against meddling both domestic and foreign why. in other. reasons. are. are are are that. this is. you know. this is

a this. first. three high profile human rights groups have joined a fresh legal challenge to the u.k.'s ongoing arms exports to saudi arabia proceedings of first ball by the u.k. based campaign against arms trade those dismissed in twenty seventeen so 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 the weapons could be used to violate international humanitarian law in yemen while the backdrop britain sold almost five billion pounds worth of arms to saudi arabia since twenty fifty that's according to figures from the campaign against arms trade despite all the accusations though britain's international trade department remains confident it claims you can export control is one of the most robust and operates along with the country's legislation but all that in the face

of the devastating picture in yemen. the united nations condemned a saudi led coalition air strike in yemen just last weekend that killed more than a dozen schoolchildren arties going underground show spoke to a local journalist and find out bit more about what happened. 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 a military threat against twenty million people joining me now from the yemeni capital is journalist who say now because he is saying thanks for joining me for 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 as a has conducted the. strike on that is then. close to the elementary schools are called out of schools because of that i think was so close to the schools many children have died either from. nic i thought on some of them what it would it would it would enjoy that as well because of the broken window broken glass on of the world because it was. about a two thousand five hundred children. through a moscow that's a rough and some of the big world news stories for most international money is kevin owen for me and the rest the team on today here today have a great wednesday. when

else should seem wrong. why don't we just don't call. me. yet to ship out this day comes after. and in detroit because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line to get accepted. rejected. so when you want to be president. wanted. to go on to be pros this is what the three of the people of. interest that

was in the water. below in welcome the crosstalk were all things considered i'm peter what 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 agencies of others on the international stage.