to to thank you think of her. most of the votes the rain and benjamin netanyahu seems likely to enter a record fifth time as israel's prime minister palestinians have already expressed concern saying it is a boost for right wing extremists in the region. should the african-americans be paid reparations for this fund for any of that ancestors who were slaves well that's the latest hot button issue on the campaign trail for presidential hopefuls in the west and we put it to our guests. because somebody is green does that mean i'm responsible for you know. you should have been able to while they were alerted

government has literally buried it it paid out everybody else and turned it back on the black people of america all. just war stories for weaponized in history after it kicked rusher out of a memorial project at a former nazi death camp in poland. a very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with me mickey airing our top story this hour with most of the votes counted incumbent benjamin netanyahu seems likely to end so a record fifth term as the prime minister of israel palestinian found already expressed concern that it boosts right wing extremists in the region also fearing his win will dash their hopes for statehood however the final results are not yet instance both of the main parties those of netanyahu and former general benny gantz

have won an equal number of seats in parliament though hasn't stopped netanyahu from declaring himself the mixer. 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. 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 a parliament comprising of one hundred 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 more clearly and not be choked by those in his coalition who are putting demands on him that he perhaps doesn't want to go to the election is largely seen

as a kind of referendum on netanyahu and he sort of me 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 israelis appreciate his efforts israelis wanting to continue in the premiership he's already been put in 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 it is important 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 a mechanic with him in the polls but they are likely to form as major 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 century there trump is

likely to oss control consolations 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 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 in terms of how arab israelis view the potential for elections to change they say when i travel election polls yesterday particularly in arab neighborhoods having people who are actually turning out and they say that they feel that there needs to be some kind of change that there was a call by many arab leaders for arab citizens to boycott the elections it's very fluid at this stage we do expect though that the polls that the exit polls are we looking at now really are not going to change regardless of when those final results come in. two more hopefuls have joined the crowded field of democrat field

of democratic contenders to unseat president donald trump in twenty twenty and even with a two year long investigation into alleged russian meddling in the twenty six thousand election failing to find any evidence of collusion some of the candidates are again bringing it to their campaign agenda because caleb maupin reports it's not resonating 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's all will say that their campaigns will give special attention to one particular issue rush you know who comes on your show show 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 these are russian agents things betrayed our country any concern he took it too far now 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 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 that it focuses the press on these issues so is nancy pelosi also a russian spy 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 be one ways custard pies i can't use it but it 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. all the other wonderful russian the economy the economy and then russia and the solution health care the second most gun control. will the other things with

our climate change our economy climate change is cutting me is fourth and russia just gross investigation c climate change. gun control economy. than it was due to list is there are sure to see a shows the other 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. archie new york. and while we're talking about the long run up to the next us elections and the things that the voters are most worried about a number of other hot button issues have find that public opinion and one of the most controversial is should african-americans in the us be paid reparations for the suffering of their ancestors who were slaves democratic presidential contender

cory booker and nonce to new bill on the issue however a recent poll suggests only twenty one percent of voters would support the move if adopted it would be and 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 conservative commentator anthony bryan logan unintended and author race that us and forge their respective corners on it. you could have identified the former slave master and a former slave right act in a moment but we're now winds are at fifty years past a particular point in time who is 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 dose of that 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 he 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 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 you way say you got over the body is a laugh right right and even know nobody is allowed right now it's only nineteen that was a laugh bathing and to and then

a thing about it is who's going to pay you're talking about a government big government is funded by the people that i mean 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 you are certainly a slave when we're parisians would have been which is at the end to slavery now right now it makes no sense to so argue me it displays no logic here america's never even study the effects of slavery on black people they've never sat down and said we know that as a government we sanction this this thinks 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 will i do too long to just drive if you need any day and every night and one example i do out in tears. they pay that money when a hundred years. that's irrelevant the point is the how much you are going to get

you didn't marry too many years to go to your spouse of thousand years i'm going to tell you what point do we say we're past lavery 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. it's a few months expertise brewing over a memorial at a former nazi death camp in poland russia is appealing to the european council after his bid to take part in the project was rejected out of hand by walsall but did a coalition of friends as well. sammy bore was a nazi run killing center and any town secrets very few survive to average talent that 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 every one 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. the netherlands and from the czech 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. and like auschwitz there is nothing left of sabi bor 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 over look at the group this is a matter for the whole of europe through in the so people come. russians 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 it was unfairly sidelines and the design of the museum especially as a soffit soldier was behind the here roy 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 paul and open the betting for those who wanted to take part in setting up the museum interior but again all three obligations sound 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 a logical decision the international steering committee logical decision the international steering committee maybe now to mississippi continuing the 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 average one as remembered for their suffering and bravery could break just ahead but much more when we come by. concluding the world's biggest democracy goes to the polls on thursday but as a player in the mix that has endured a few may i'll tell you after the break. 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 you then. i think the number. they matter to us is over one trillion dollars debt more than ten white collar crime families. eighty five percent of global wealth you long to be ultra rich with six percent of the world market thirty percent somewhat one hundred five hundred three first second per second and fifth when we rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's will be two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers over. the only number you need remember one one show you know for the mid one and only boom but.

welcome back and let's return to our top story now with most of the votes counted incumbent benjamin netanyahu seems likely to enter a record fifth term as the israeli prime minister however the final results are not yes in a sense both of the main parties those of netanyahu unfoldment general benny gantz have won an equal number of seats in parliament let's bring in ed. yes now more from israeli is here any better than i can middle east expert thank you for joining us on the program now it does seem like netanyahu is likely to stay on as prime minister one can we expect from him now tough for right wing policies or unknown to the left and that ground swell of voters and attorney oh i made it

clear very clear last night in the speech is victory speech there intends to form. a government. coalition and he's not going to make a unity government with a benny gantz that means that the policy of the new coalition will be the same policy is now. you know his plans for a. peace plan over president trump and the as he promised in his election campaign he wants to annex. some parts of the west bank to israel he like you just said that netanyahu has announced the future an extension of the waste west bank and plus we have donald trump recognizing the golan heights as israeli territory and we know that a majority in jerusalem supported netanyahu how much do you think that was last minute efforts influence versus. i think it. made

a very planned then successfully come pain and he succeeded in taking the votes from the small parties of the right there we had this is what the reason that this new party of the right we called the new is the new iraq i did not the manage to be elected in and get enough votes to go into the knesset into these early parliament and i think it basically now is working on two main issues one is to annex the some parts of the west bank two is one with the support of president trump in what is called the deal of the century and the other is trying to use his majority in the knesset in order to get immunity by legislation from the criminal charges that he's facing but the final results are

not here for an informant general benny gantz do you think he could surprise us all and still the show what you think his next move would be. and benny gantz made the mistake come pain or is not therefore caused the focus enough on the issues that he was too sure of himself in the. years should the join the. should have joined hands with the other parties in order to get the nuff support so that he could form a new coalition i think now we will be the opposition and they will try to give it a strong fight. as the leader of the opposition in the parliament and if they reported that arabs out his hand out was quite low why do you think that was. the arab parties are a problem i think that they lost the support of the arab population it israel

is bigger disappointment from them they did not form a. one the one party that will include all the other parties together a big one like the elections in two thousand and fifteen in a split and. personal dispute with each other the members of knesset in the. arab public doesn't like that and the it wanted to punish these members of knesset for me they are a bit communities and this is why they boycotted the elections and many can man middle east expert thank you for sharing your thoughts with us on this. thank you. now general elections in india started thursday but ahead of that a new player seems to have entered the political arena facebook the social media giant has been accused of interfering in election process by blocking pages it

considers as disinclination don't quarter explain. 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 fruit in the general election for the seventeenth looks of 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 wider reach earlier this month they were moved 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. dig and this isn't. and is russia. and. india journalist a bit i or me try lodged 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 foreign powers really.

you know we're going to. hear. yes. and you know one of the number of. pieces. 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. the students in this. enough. reasons. are that. this is. you know not. me to see and. like this and i

can. thank you chasing off the international this hour we're back at the top of the hour with all the latest headlines we'll see that. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the multiple different clubs on one hand it is logical to set off on fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and the fresh perspective i'm used to surprising us all. i'm going to talk about football not the or else i just think i was going to the.

by the way what is that that's like here. 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 circular defenses office says we're going to attack and destroy the government and in seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with them money others with their lives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war then surely we can risk some discomfort for an easy for us. when trying to 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 of others on the international stage. gratings and sally you take us to day my friends the word of the day is extremists yes extremist is our word of the day according the oxford dictionary of the definition of extremist is quote a person who holds extreme political or religious views especially one who advocates illegal violent or other extreme action looking around the world today one could say that both here in the united states and in many other countries around the world we are surrounded and even led by extremists just take

a gander at our headlines for example an extremist as someone who believes poor people trying to cross a border for a better life are animals that my friend would be an extremist who holds that view extremists are polk's who would push us into world war three just to prove themselves right about a political bury tale as those are extremists they even have their own television shows on them as any way an extremist is someone who would set fire to a sacred place of worship because they don't like the parishioners skin color and culture that is an extremist yes buried behind the latest headlines of mueller reports and birkin bag saving the resale market the new york times is reporting that three historically black churches have burned in less than two weeks in one south louisiana parish where officials said they have found suspicious elements in each case while there is still no official motives or suspects there is a very long and ugly white supremacy history of burning predominately black

churches here in the united states especially in the southern states these latest fire.