the votes are being counted in israel's 2nd election this year with exit polls suggesting prime minister netanyahu could again failed to secure a majority. lead to hong kong activist appeals to congress in washington to paulson act on monitoring the territories autonomy from china in return on the continued economic privileges from the u.s. . because of so-called liberal racism plans u.s. democratic presidential candidate joe biden was after he lectures african americans on the apparent skills.

you're watching international bringing you a live news update from last year here in moscow welcome program. exit polls from israel suggest prime minister benjamin netanyahu could now really failed to secure a majority in parliament his main rival benny gantz has a narrow lead according to several pollsters after the country's 2nd parliamentary election just this year the 2 leading candidates have given post election speeches stressing the need for national unity they were both careful there not to cloud victory with the race at this stage being too close to. the latest updates from maltese middle east correspondent paula. newton yahoo is to parliamentary seats behind his main rival for my idea of chief any gun says santa lift blue and white party whether that in the end transpires to be correct or not so if you know when ya. who does not have enough seats to form

a comfortable coalition majority he needs 61 out of 120 seats so he's going to have to form a coalition potentially not only with his right wing support base and the big question mark as well who can he actually approach to form a coalition government with if he current and if they began its content that seems to be the prognosis certainly at this stage the country could see itself heading for a 3rd election don't forget the previous election was back in april and that was an election that because netanyahu was unable to win he forced in another election this time around and that's why we've seen critics say that the era of netanyahu is over he hasn't yet addressed his supporters he hasn't yet addressed reporters we hear that he's on the phone already trying to put together some kind of coalition there is a 3rd some areas that are we don't leave a man who is the leader of the israel our homeland party put forward in his speech he said that the only option now was for

a government with netanyahu with the blue and white party whose leader is benny gantz and with lieberman because lieberman did not join netanyahu 6 months ago we having the elections this time around and it's questionable whether lieberman will again join an attorney or who need them and certainly has presented himself in a very powerful position he's doubled the amount of support he came in with at the exit polls are correct some tame knesset seats now earlier we managed to speak to one of his members of parliament earlier we're going to her early shit will go to her. for the hour according to which we just saw work the soup that looks a little to earth her work for the for the us. now that is one scenario that could see a 3rd round of elections being prevented but the likelihood of that happening has a huge question. over it because you have these political leaders that really are

at odds with each other for weeks now they've been throwing mud at each other and so more questions and answers in terms of how a coalition in terms of what this m.p. suggests could really function and work we can't ignore donald trump can we paula who threw his backing behind the current prime minister what effect do you think that's a so be think it help to netanyahu he used images of him solve to the american president in his election campaign but it wasn't enough essentially to see netanyahu when the selection and perhaps part of the reason is that donald trump is more in boiled in his own political issues this time around back in april just before the polls were held he made that dramatic announcement that he recognized the israeli sovereignty of the golan heights this time around he hasn't said anything to that effect so perhaps that saw potential support for netanyahu to climb we heard from dmitri deonte of the palestinian fatah revolutionary council he believes there is no longer

a sun to ground in israeli politics. well mr netanyahu in my eyes my assessment according to the exit polls he is most definitely defeated he's out because while he is counting on according to these polls 56 seats in his coalition and awaiting israel became. party of 10 seaters to join him or not and in fact depending on him to form the government the natural thing for israel betaine to lieberman's party to join against and pull it further to the right as a matter of fact actually there are no centrist party running there's lots of now with his extreme far ideological right parties coalition and there is the right israeli right joined by very weak. unimpressionable left wing parties but at the end of it there it would be.

a good change for the region because nothing has proved to be an idealogue that is really ruling israel today based on 4000 year old text which is something totally taking the taking the. political process into full frozen mode. and leading name in the hong kong protest movement has appealed to u.s. filmmakers at a congressional hearing on flute to ties between washington and the chinese autonomous territory joshua wang has been pushing them to pass the hong kong human rights and democracy act which would want to set the region status with beijing in return for ongoing special economic favors. hong kong special status under american law depends on the city being treated as a separate customs area or beijing should not have it both ways reading all the

economy benefits of hong kong standing in the world while erosion of our freedom there is the most important reason why the hong kong human rights and democracy act and just the rows of hong kong civil society just for one is a prominent student activist who organizes protests against the chinese government in support of hong kong's independence the 22 year old is also a leader of the pro democratic party mrs stowe he is ready to several jail terms for his activities mr woman's visit to new york over the weekend to huge attention from the media the void his news agency the new york times and bloomberg are among those who asked for an interview or invited him to their offices he also gave a speech to students at the prestigious columbia university one has long supported the hong kong human rights and democracy act and recently said he expected to be

passed easily the bill proposes support for hong kong from the u.s. so long as it remains government at arm's length from beijing if not could trigger washington to revoke the city's special status as reports. they are many they've won the fight with the authorities by early submission but they are anything but done the american flag waving taskforce among the hong kong protesters are sending their poster boy to convince us legislators to do something big on autonomy. well for those of you having difficulty making out the essence of this boilerplate script it's that human rights and democracy act and it's meant to show beijing that

the u.s. is serious about fighting for hong kong's rights the united states must make clear to china that its interference in hong kong's affairs will have consequences this month we must possibly cameron bipartisan on consumer rights and democracy act the bill was devised in response to what the u.s. has been calling a chinese infringement on the region's autonomy and requires for america to review own homes special status annually and if that status is ever revoked the region's autonomy would not so much been friendly to but rather new to dust since the early ninety's hong kong has been enjoying huge advantages for wearing washington's special status badge. and some believe that

a small yet vocal group of protesters is laying an explosive tripwire for the whole region which will not enjoy the konami chain reaction if it's ever triggered in a way that is live there just. to get all of the biggest economy in the world. and see that it will always just ordered. oh it was. a great deal but it's not just the whole poly there are thousands of you notice this ready. and it would likewise be affected of course it's a political war because. it's only or percent of policy. say the end of the deal years ago in the apollo to all moral as far as equality is also. but isn't on the other hand of course we would wish the one to see so as to help with the

internationalization that really the. whole american legislators say the bill is designed to punish mainland china specifically as protesters would not but while the end goal may very well be punishing beijing in pursuit of a geo political supremacy washington my just overlooked the collateral damage. staying with politics stateside fighting racism is a touchstone topic for us democrat joe biden's push for the white house on sunday he gave an impassioned speech at a black church but a few days earlier during a presidential debate when pressed on segregation and the legacy of slavery he switched to lecture african americans on how they should bring up that children caleb moore and explains how biden's been caught out before and crossing the line from empathy to condescension. joe biden formally the vice president is now running in the democratic primary enjoys

a huge amount of support from the african-american voters and he wants them to know he really cares about them what responsibility do you think that americans need to take to repair the legacy of slavery in our country make sure that we bring in to the helpless to the teachers deal with the problems that come from home we bring social workers into homes and parents to help them deal with how to raise their children it's not that they don't want to help they don't want they don't know quite what to do play the radio make sure the television the scrutiny make sure you have the record player on the phone make sure the kids hear words a kid coming from a very poor school or a very poor background who hear 4000000 words fewer spoken by the time they get there the record player now he seems a couple decades behind on modern technology but it's also a tad bit condescending don't you think now some are calling it parent shaming biden is the liberal racist why dems better start calling this out because black

women are watching if joe biden isn't forced out of the running now i give up 1st he looks into the camera and laughs at the mention of racial inequality in us schools and we could racists that he describes black homelite and parenting in a way that is stunningly ignorant and insulting drew biden's son on how to address the literacy of slavery was appalling and to score. now this isn't the 1st time that joe is flubbed an answer when it comes to a racial issue he made some remarks when barack obama was selected as the democratic party candidate in 2008 that he probably meant to sound like a compliment i mean you get the 1st mainstream african-american who's are to cool it and bright and clean and a nice looking guy joe biden's comments point to an increasing phenomenon in us society being referred to as a liberal racism. joe biden is not burning a cross or arguing that non-whites are inferior but he does seem to have

a touch of a white savior complex he comes across as condescending to those he thinks he's helping a study refers to it as a competence downshift and joe biden is not the only one what liberals may unwittingly draw negative stereotypes demean themselves down in a likely well meaning folksy but ultimately patronizing attempt to connect with the outgroup democratic party is pretty put on a list economy you can look you see order policies from the welfare state it is put into place to live thinks that blacks generally aren't as smart. and it really would point to is the democrats projecting a lot of their own insecurity is a point everyone knows day say everyone is races everyone is it seems everyone is all those days and if they're when it's really them they feel that way and in china to say that is the other side they actually feels that way for decades the democratic party has been promising to help minorities in the united states but do party leaders actually see them as it will members of society well joe biden's

recent comments have got plenty of people asking that question. r.t. new york. britain's opposition labor party is in the cross has after washington think tank suggested that if he becomes prime minister he might pasta classified u.s. intelligence to russia correspondent rod looks at the sinister suspicions swelling around charmer. it could not have escaped your notice the world seems to have been tipped upside down and recent years what made sense a few years ago is now considered crazy what was thought of as downright insane a few years ago now considered sensible like a potential british prime minister being called a russian agent by britain's best friend report urges mr trump to consider withholding since different from ation and even pushing for the country's nato membership to be downgraded if the labor leader and his downing street analysts are

states that if labor takes office there would be a serious risk that information passed to corbin or his allies could be compromised especially if it was russia or iran yup somehow everyone with security clearance in the u.k. one of the most heavily surveilled nations on earth everyone missed that journey corben might be compromised but america somehow figured it out that is if you trust u.s. intelligence agencies whose report was apparently seen by a think tank analyst the british opposition leaders you know sympathetic to putin are you really me we have a duty to speak out against the abuse of human rights by the putin government and its supporters both at home and abroad and i join many others in this house in paying tribute to the many campaigners in russia for human rights and justice and

democracy in that country is critical of russia he supported stringent sanctions against russia all very anti russian stuff but he made a mistake you see when the souls we spied trail of staging the world's most botched and barassi in poisoning with putin himself firing the starting pistol corbin dead ask. the evidence proof that it was the russian government who did it. who does that either this was a crime or fluted by the russian state or that state has allowed these deadly toxins to slip out of the control it has an obligation to exercise if the latter connection to russian mafia like groups that have been allowed to gain a tool hold in britain cannot be excluded. that's what he said nothing about

false flags or conspiracies so the question is really the kremlin or whether russian criminals got their hands on it in the past when sense meant being sensible that may have been a legitimate question but in this new reality you don't do sensible things you do like borish johnson was then foreign secretary who lied and said that the poison could only have come from russia he claimed categorically and i think he used the word 109 percent come from russia porton down have not said the eyes of the foreign secretary has information that he's not sharing with porton down or it was a bit of exaggeration if you're an adult for the police the school level education you have heard illegitimate query being floated if you're a paid pundit with an agenda and flexible said the morals you have heard blah blah blah my name is jeremy corbyn and i love the u.s.s.r. now if that got their mouths frothing maginot catatonia those hacks went into well

who'd been spokes person compared the soles report isn't ings the whole works about iraq's weapons of mass destruction. i think obviously the government has access to information and intelligence in this matter which others don't however also there is a history in relation to w m d and intelligence which is problematic to put it mildly now some of the reactions are a bit too full on to show you here but come on you know what happens to anyone who gets in the way of the russia bashing express their mood down and maybe got over a few times for good measure who wins problem is he just doesn't learn from pain less it is if russia is blamed for anything you have to believe it time magazine pretty much says so although the washington post took a more scientific approach listing corbin's faults one by one the

opposition labor party leader and his spokesman a refused to accept that the kremlin was responsible be konstanz from british intelligence she complained that moscow had not been accorded due process and d. so the right response was robust dialogue he doubted the faceless intelligence agencies with horrific track records wanted jew process and justice foundation of human rights dialogue rather than health you know i've done is no more to say here i'll leave you with this the day american intelligence agencies learn to keep classified reports classified rather than leak them weekly is the day we can perhaps trust them to tie their own shoelaces. a lifestyle website for british muslim teens has become an unlikely flashpoint it's been revealed that the home office has been covertly funding it as part of

a counter extremism strategy a move that infuriated employees readers and the wider muslim community. if you're a young muslim woman living in the u.k. then this is the website for you at least that's what the creators want you to believe. this is a global media platform for young muslim ours in the east london and beyond to share and create inspiring and empowering content with positivity at its core inspiring but now it's been exposed after it was revealed that the site is being funded covertly by the u.k. home office in an attempt to tackle radicalization and now 2 employees have resigned over the controversial funding one of them says working the betrayed her believes. in my naivety here so that through this opportunity. i really could help to make real change pushing forward a different narrative from muslim women themselves sure when though we are empowered and multi-faceted are realized now there with the home office funding the

project the route there was no way i could do this regardless of the content our was pushing out while the project was set up in 2015 in direct response to 3 approaches schoolgirls including baker running away to syria and whether they flee from london the very same place super sisters is targeting now it's made up of 9 staff members from jayco media and they secured their funding from something called build a stronger britain together which is an arm of the controversial terrorism. which has been accused of targeting and spying on lists and communities in the u.k. now while many see that as a fundamental infringement of rights the home office has always defended its efficiency while super systems has like knowledge and apologize for their wrongdoing they insist that they have full control over their content. we want to emphasize that even the b s b c may funders they do not have any creative control over super systems content where we acknowledge we were wrong and we apologize for it we have always been clear and transparent at the interview stage on how we are funded including at sub

hours interview at least that's what they say but so biased male a former employee says that there were no female muslims on the creative or editorial team plus she was only recently made aware of the controversial funding well it's left some people very angry and hurt by the revelations these revelations are shocking former contributors have claimed that in one point there were no muslim women employed by g.e. go where you know they did tauriel for super sisters if i was a teenage muslim in today's environment i would be utterly confused and feel like i was constantly being spied upon by my own government. not setup by muslims not run by muslims you're trying to define young muslim women's identity thank you but muslim women can speak for themselves well super says this is just the latest platform to be embroiled in a transparency route just a few weeks ago a social media network team called this is woke

a page claiming to engage in critical thinking m.s.m. traditions was found to be receiving funding from you guessed it the home office or the problem is to 1st of all the home office seems to the only thing is seized in the muslim community is extremism millie ways this is really. engine hearing of trying to say that there is something fundamentally wrong with muslims in the mainstream and we need to social engineer to sort of changed so they will not be problematic living in our society it really is sort of extension of seeing the whole muslims as possible terrorist and so therefore we should have these projects to change them into something more acceptable so perhaps young muslim women in the u.k. right now be slightly more hopeful the new home secretary pretty patel who herself is from minority background might now be slightly more sisterly shot at woodstock's

to r.t. u.k. london. round of this hour's bullets and the british are renowned as a nation of dog lovers the very fond of their cats too so the thought of eating dog or cat meat is enough to pretty much turn anyone stomach in the u.k. yet to proposed ban on doing so has reportedly been blocked by the government apparently out of fear of being culturally insensitive toward southeast asian nations. we currently have some of the strongest animal welfare laws in the world the government is currently considering whether any changes are needed in this area in the u.k. and will set out any plans in due course dogs are our companion animals we do not eat them and that's a very important message to send to the rest of the world it's not culturally insensitive because we're not telling them what to do which is telling them what we do we shouldn't be worrying about that so i was surprised at the justice ministries objection. talking it is viewed in many cultures as a delicacy and

a health tonic it's mainly consumed in southeast asia with china and south korea being the biggest markets some $13000000.00 dogs are thought to be killed for their meat every year as for cat meet again china is by far the biggest consumer although it's also reportedly occasionally eaten in a handful of other countries around the world as for britain although dealing in such meat is banned it now looks like eating at won't be outlawed we put that up for discussion. i think it's you know the does a sort of danger of hypocrisy creeping in i think all animals should be treated in respect to their welfare and their care and their comfort but you know the frontis is that we're meeting a species. that the morality that we're trying to impose on a bt ministry imo sympathy you know for cutting down the meat industry for its

carbon dioxide emissions. machines and so on it's called species as and that's the idea that some animals are usually those that are closest to like dogs and cats are superior whereas other animals like pigs and chickens are inferior well that's not based on anything other than arbitrary characteristics and it species has on that allows us to take some animals and her homes to treat them as companions as pets and then to treat other animals as commodities and to kill them for nothing more than their flasher for their fur you know there is no morally superior plane all the complexion of empathy. you know in relation to these matters if you are starving in the middle of sub-saharan africa a dog may be your best source of protein. and absolutely absolutely but like we're talking about people yeah i'm in london and i can go to

the supermarket i live in a city of abundant choices it is so easy for me to choose a bean burger rather than a beef burger and i think not a britain where you do have a multicultural country who's to decide. as the sanctity of life and which money on a mole is free for the slaughterhouse is inconsistent it's not morally consistent it's not. legally consistent and i think ultimately it's not ethically consistent and there isn't any moral any ethical any logical difference and between a dog and a pagan if we decry the dog meat trade then naturally we also need to decry the pork industry and and all of the meat industry is because they're all cruel they all cost suffering and ultimately they all kill animals needlessly for a fleeting moment of taste that's all from me this hour as always for more stories

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