going to work we as a society realized that this is not working and we actually do something about. it. most of the votes are in and benjamin netanyahu seems likely to enter a red cold fifth term as israel's prime minister palestinians have already expressed concern seeing it as a boost for right wing extremists in the region. britain's prime minister gets ready to plead for more time for briggs it from the e.u. nations in brussels as the clock ticks towards friday's crash out deadline. plus more stories for weaponize in history offered cake to russia to the memorial project at a former nazi death camp in poland. a

very warm welcome you are watching r.t. international with minichiello and our top story this hour with most of the votes counted incumbent benjamin netanyahu seems likely to enter a record fifth term as the prime minister of israel palestinians have 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 to yet in since both of the main parties those of netanyahu and former general benny gantz have won an equal number of seats in parliament well that bo havel staunch netanyahu from declaring himself the victor. 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 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 freely 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 the israelis wanting to continue in the premiership is a lady being 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 though to mention that there was a very strong showing from his main rival the former israeli defense forces chief benny guns 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 that 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 you also needs to face the american president donald trump's deal of the century there trump is likely to oss control concessions and of course don't forget the corruption charges that met on. who 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 the fate 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 arab citizens to boycott the elections 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. from israel now with our guest steve linda editor of the jerusalem report magazine welcome to the program so it's great to have you with us now it does seem that netanyahu has things likely to stay on as prime minister what can we expect from him now tougher right wing policies or not to the left and not groundswell of voters. well i think that's

a good question just before the election the prime minister came out with quite a controversial statement that he planned to annex settlements in the west bank and that clearly put him on the right side of the political spectrum as opposed to his main content benny gantz who's come out clearly for a two state solution but as your reporter said it will be interesting to see what happens when the trump peace plan is unveiled and how netanyahu responds to that. for an explanation of the west bank and then of course donald trump recognizing the golan heights israeli territory during netanya his tenure what do you think at how much do you think these last minute efforts really influence voters in israel. i don't think it is influence vote is that significantly it was clearly a good thing for netanyahu that president trump recognized sovereignty on the go on hikes although that was received well by benny gantz his contender as well and we

also had a gift if you like from russia in the sense that. president putin did help return the remains of an israeli soldier that who went missing thirty seven years ago. and that happened also just a few days before the election so netanyahu was able to present himself as being a close ally not just with the american president but also with the russian president and with leaders around the world but netanyahu has five corruption charges hanging over him at the moment do you think that had an impact on the election in any way. again it must have had some kind of an impact but obviously not significant enough for israeli voters to vote for the blue and white opposition party i think that ultimately this was a vote of confidence in the tourney and that there is still a presumption of innocence he still has to have a hearing and the whole process. yes of indicting him could take if he is in fact

indicted could take a long time and i think that the presumption of innocence for most israelis is that he is innocent until proven otherwise so it remains to be seen what happens he will of course if he is indicted be the first sitting israeli prime minister to be indicted and that too will be an interesting development. not was reportedly low why do you think that was. well again the turnout in general by the way was was quite low it was in the last election in two thousand and fifteen it was seventy two percent and now it dropped to under seventy percent the arab turnout wasn't as bad as expected it was very low in the beginning about fifty percent but then there were all kinds of calls on social media for israeli arabs to go to the polls and in the end it wasn't that bad in fact ten out of the hundred twenty seats

in the class and are currently projected to go to two arabs and that means that it's not quite the twenty percent of the population that they compromise but it wasn't as bad as that i think there was apathy not just among jews but also among arabs to some degree in this election that we we hadn't expected either indifference or undecided voters or perhaps voters who just decided that they did not know which party to vote for perhaps they were either fed up with netanyahu or they didn't have confidence in guns or one of the smaller parties but in the end the two hour parties didn't do too badly although the final results are still out one god at least six seats and the other four so together they have ten out of one hundred twenty seats they've learned at this hour that you're a slim report magazine thank you for your time we appreciate it. thank you.

after a final quizzing in parliament britain's prime minister is off to meet what could be an even tougher crowd in brussels so he's a maze going there for an emergency summit to plead for a break that extension until june thirtieth the u.k.'s divorce from the european union is at this point for friday let's go live to our european correspondent peter oliver in berlin now he think good to see you could you take us through the possible scenarios here well there are quite a few and many unknown unknowns as the as they said once famously mrs may will be arriving in brussels for this emergency summit she's got to try and convince twenty seven leaders that she should be allowed a further extension of the break that deadline as it stands at the moment well break that deadline in britain would be leaving the european union this coming friday it's understood the theresa may want to put forward an extension until june thirtieth however that really isn't washing with

a lot of those in europe. experience so far as well as the deep divisions within the house of commons give us little reason to believe that the ratification process can be completed by the end of june in reality granting such an extension would increase the risk of a rolling series of short extensions and emergency summit creating new clifford's dates. well it was put to me by a diplomat last night that what teresa mayes asking for is more and more short term loans at high interest if you will that she's trying to get more of the short term deals that increase pressure and ultimately result in only having to ask for more of those loans or short term deals what europe would like to see happen is britain ask for a longer term more manageable loan to allow them to get their house in order and that's pretty much what donald the european council president has been saying he's

put forward what's being called a flex tension it sounds like a new bit of fitness equipment i can assure you it is not what it would be would be a warrior extension of article fifty put it any point during that one year extension if britain was able to come to a compromise about how it would leave the european union or whether it could agree to the deal it's already on the table then they would leave at that particular time . it's highly likely that an extension will be granted by the european council on wednesday but isn't nailed on it's not guaranteed particularly if you look at france as a manual macron in the lead up to this he really is saying he's going to need something in order to agree to an extension now a lot of those speeches from the french president weren't designed to be heard on a wider european or even a british audience they were designed for an internal audience of french audience

so he can try and look a little bit tougher because he's struggling home in the polls however he is really insisting that there has to be some conditions if there's going to be an extension of the e.u. nations we're hearing from many now that there are they're sick and tired of talking about breaks that there are many other major things they want to be talking about and the fact that this breaks it rigamarole is rolling on and britain's coming back to them again to ask for a further extension it doesn't sit well. the poor part of your we can't perpetually live with an everlasting briggs it at some point there has to be an exit so i think that the british authorities the british parliament really need to realise that the european union is not going to be able to constantly exhaust itself on the vagaries of british domestic policy. so far absolutely nothing has changed but there isn't an endless readiness to keep talking about delays to long as there is

no substantial progress on the british side. well the united kingdom was initially set to leave the e.u. on the twenty ninth of march the withdrawal agreement the theresa may had agreed with europe and had a big being agreed with the twenty seven other members of the european union well that was rejected three times by the house of commons and westminster there's no other solution that's been put on the table that has the full support of everybody in the house of commons certainly that doesn't have the full support of every member every citizen of the united kingdom it leaves us in a position right now where we have three options really this extension can be granted we can try and hammer out another deal can call the whole thing off of course that is still a possibility the counseling of article fifty that that would lead to its own problems or there is what's being called the no deal the cliff edge breaks it which still despite legislation going through the house of commons just this week trying

to prevent that could be a possibility and that is the worst case scenario really for both the united kingdom and the european union and one that everybody's trying to avoid so once again it's watch this space thank you for those details that piece all of that. well a quick break just ahead but much more when we come back including moscow and wall source the red memorial at a nazi death camp in poland when a bet. 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. when trying to american foreign policy at its core is it really about furthering national interest is there an ideological foundation that is the driver we're told it's all about democracy or is it really all about power and the purposeful denial of agency others on the international stage. welcome back now a diplomatic spat is brewing over a memorial as

a former nazi death camp in poland russia is a paling to the european council after his bid to take part in the project was rejected by warsaw medina cancian of brings us more. subway bore was a nazi run killing center and any town secrets very few survive 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 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 her a in this single impulse the jews of russia are in poland the netherlands and from the czech it's a vacuum in germany united it was only then that the tower gods 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 he. parts of his history are now being over look at the group this is a matter for the whole of europe to rule in the so people come. rushing in storage french and lots of people 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 fort 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 ince ministry of culture and national heritage say it's a logical decision the international steering committee made enormous decision about 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 avril one as remembered

for their suffering and bravery. and we can now this straight to jerusalem and dr frames are all of a holocaust historian welcome to the program what do you make of poland's decision to reject russian head do you think it has a historical edge to it. i think there's no question that this is because of the policies of the current law and justice government but let me remind you of something when the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the auschwitz death camp after his broken house death camp was observed in poland vladimir putin was not invited and given the fact that our france was liberated by the red army i mean this is quite quite outrageous i would say so what we're seeing now is a continuation of this policy which is trying to. keep the russians out of participating in any. efforts to present the history of sobibor

and the suffering of the of the inmates there in the horrible mass murders that took place there it's quite peculiar there wasn't a considering the iconic thought that led to the result was russian dead even russia should have been invited to participate earlier. there's no question that they should have been invited alexander pichai ski who is a red army officer and he was the one who actually masterminded the revolt of the sobibor death camp and the fact the jews were able actually to escape some of the people survived other words three hundred inmates try to get out and they were the ones who conducted the revolt about fifty actually survived the. uprising and. they were alive to tell the tale and thanks to them and their bravery and the you know the role played by picture ascii we were able to find out exactly

what happened so before that it's not just poland that's which acting russia has all of the countries involved in the project they have chosen to exclude russia and do you think that they will look to include russia down the line or if it's going to be an ongoing thing. this is the question is what if what point will they change their minds at that point is there any is there any value in inviting russia or will all of the critical decisions already been made in terms of presenting the history of the site russia has applied as we said to the european council to try to change the situation do you think it's going to do any good. hard to say it's very hard to say there's no question that russia should be part of the other should be able to participate in all the projects that relate to sobibor but again you this is politics more than anything else. they're all for

holocaust historian west thank you for joining us and i see international we appreciate your thoughts thank you. what a more hopeful sound joins the crowded field of democratic contenders to unseat president trump and 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 but it's kind of more pain reports that slow 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 chamois in 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 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 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 hold. the focus here for decisions on health care or. even their you know just a little. bit of 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 good marriage in

that only people in town like new york bought a big would leave one ways custard pies or. bedding baseballs those of un 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 of the other wonderful russian investigation economy economy and then russia and the solution health care the second most gun control. while the other things on the climate change commie climate change is third colonies fourth and russia investigation investigation climate change. gun control economy. when it was due to list is there a sharing of a situation where as you have on health care health care bills care 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 it's not the international thanks for watching we're back in thirty minutes with the latest.

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