but only one of the cells will ever make it to the top. they're ready to give their lives for the chance to die on stage if only once. not even broken wings could deter them. for generations at the theater but they sweat and tears on r.t. . midday right now here in moscow in the headlines from neck and neck exit polls suggest israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his main rival benny gantz of both failed to secure a majority government in their own right with per 10 shilling think coalition talks looming. in the coming days will convene negotiations to assemble a strong zionist government finances everyone starting tonight new worker from abroad you see here. while saudi arabia continues to probe who was behind the devastating drone attacks on its oil facilities last saturday the us sticks to

hasty accusation still putting the blame firmly on iran. time faces a backlash for publishing an excerpt from a forthcoming book about the alleged sexual misconduct of u.s. supreme court justice brett kavanaugh but leaving out important details passionately. my very good afternoon my name is kevin owen here with this 30 minute world news roundup for this wednesday from r t 1st and with 60 percent of the votes counted the fate of israel's prime minister hangs in the balance this morning and the polls suggest he's neck and neck with his nearest rival after a paid parliamentary elections but he may not you know even with his religious and right wing allies doesn't have enough seats to secure a majority government and that also goes for his main rival benny gantz to earlier i discussed it with he goes down off. this vote was largely viewed not as

a general election but as a vote of confidence for netanyahu and mind that not for his party but for him personally and that is important because the whole reason why these elections happened is because netanyahu couldn't form a government after the elections in april so he called for another elections and during the containing some of his policies the policies that he personally proposed they managed to a alienates some of his former allies and b. gave a boost to his rivals also at the same time this. up to the corruption charges he is not out of the woods when it comes to the corruption scandal so when it comes to that he could still be indicted on 3 in 3 cases for so what if the campaign what did he promise the public that didn't seem to go down so well he drove a very hard bargain when it comes to the right wing agenda being very pro jewish kind of anti arab i should say because he talked about an exciting settlements in

the west bank and in the jordan valley he times and times again raised questions about the loyalty of the arab community and effectively he ruled out any possibility of forming a coalition with a force that will puts forward the interests of an arab minority. in the coming days will convene negotiations to assemble a strong zionist government and to prevent a dangerous and to zionist government that will not and cannot be a government that leans on arab and to sign this passes parties that negate the very existence of israel as a jewish and democratic state so as to the early days was still an exit polls but how is it looking that the arab minority voters voted it's very indicative case of how benjamin netanyahu is rhetoric blew in his face more arabs showed up at the polls and cause and effect here and more seats for the pro arab party they are in fact are coming. 3rd in the race right now early reports quote from

a good part it was a bit of a miserable start this morning not exactly varia happy atmosphere and officially the line is too soon yet still to talk about coalition building but i bet it's always going on behind the scenes benny gantz is the key rival of benjamin netanyahu and he has a sort of a personal problem with the incumbent prime minister but he has already said that he's ready to form a coalition with any political force the likud party included according to the projected results netanyahu did not succeed in his mission. and. we on the other one prove that the idea of the blue and white projects which we establish just over 6 months ago is a huge success and he's here to stay i intend to speak with everyone starting tonight we will work to form a broad unity government that will express the will of our people. i would like to focus on a man who is coming in 4th in the race because he could be the king maker and that

is a liberal man and i already talked about some people who were alienated by netanyahu and his policies were liberal man is exactly that he's an ally turned rival and all of that because of benjamin netanyahu who's very favorable views and very favorable policies towards the ultra orthodox parties to have authored the jews exempt from military service and now as for what is going to happen next the president of israel and admittedly a man a person we don't talk much we don't hear much about he is going to choose he's going to choose a man most worthy of forming a coalition and in his opinion and we'll see where it goes from there it is everywhere as opposed to political mitchell barak he thinks for now and doesn't have any viable options for a coalition. the ironic thing is as a last election which was a few months ago. and then you know how to really all the options in the world he

could have formed the right of center government a narrow one with about 61 seats or he could have sat down with benny gantz and had a unity government with 70 and added more parties he chose to do neither he wasn't successful in either call for new elections now what it appears is i would say it's the final countdown to the end of the career and that's and you know he's talking about a narrow right of center zionist government you know a narrow government and many gods is sounding like a leader unifying the people the will of the people he's going to talk to all the parties most of the parties that have run from the left blue and white to the labor party to the democratic camp party all of them has said will join a national unity government with the likud even we just won't do it with that and you know that and you know for most israeli politicians and many and many of the israeli people as damaged goods. folks in saudi arabia was happy then other countries invited u.n. experts to join an investigation into who attacked the country's major role

facilities at the weekend when the government to key waits to attribute blame then nonetheless the u.s. president was already quick to accuse iran all refining the upshot of all this in saudi arabia's been harmed as a result of the attack on 2 major state room facilities the u.s. claims it was a result of drone strikes loans from iraqi territory but yemen's who say rebels call said very early on they did it all the way home along to ramming thomas strongly denied any involvement of maupin looks at america's quick fire allegations . now the trumpet ministration says that it knows for sure who was responsible for the recent attack on saudi arabian oil facilities well kind of try and decode these recent statements from the president you see. looking that way will have some pretty good. having some very strong studies done but it's certainly looking that way at this moment and. we'll let you know soon as we find out definitively we'll let you know but it does look that way and then just half

a minute later you think that iran is responsible because i think i did. say that we think we know who it was but i didn't see anybody just crystal clear no ambiguity there well on saturday u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o said that he was absolutely sure of who did it within hours of the attack we call on all nations to publicly unequivocally condemn iran's a tux the united states will work with our partners and allies to ensure that energy markets remain most supplied on iran is held accountable for its aggression so on saturday iran absolutely did it a few days later well i'm will get back to you on that now is it a little bit disturbing that the white house knows the less about the attack as time goes on not more but we've been here before on april 4th 2718 there was a chemical incident in syria the next day the white house was pointing fingers today's chemical attack in syria against innocent people including women and

children is reprehensible and cannot be ignored by the civilized world these heinous actions by the bizarre al assad regime are a consequence of the past administrations weakness and a resolution the syrian skyline was lit up with the fireworks of 59 cruise missiles however a year later james madison was then the u.s. secretary of defense says they really weren't sure who did it. we have other reports from the battlefield from people who claim it's been used we do not have evidence of it so they had a smoking gun evidence at 1st but then they left it in the elevator or they dropped it in the bus over these things happened right remember back in february when a humanitarian aid truck was burned on the border with venezuela mike pence the us vice president spoke up immediately saying who was to blame the tyrants in caracas daunce this is henchmen motets civilians and burn food medicine heading to

venezuelans saturday was tragic for the families of those killed and suffering venezuelans but it was just one more day in venice when his journey from tyranny to freedom madeira must go then a video emerged telling a completely different story and it wasn't so cut and dry. as responsible for creating the conditions of violence his thugs denied the entry of tons of food and medicine while thousands of courageous violence is sought to save code and deliver aid to venezuelan families were members saddam hussein and his weapons of mass destruction or should i say or lack thereof well they want to head in bombed iraq anyway but they put on a show at the un in the hopes of convincing the audience 1st iraq declared 8500 liters of anthrax unscom estimates of saddam hussein for producing 25000 liters whatever happened to the good old days of evidence investigation and solid proof now the rule seems to be act 1st think later and then justify your

actions afterwards with 144 characters of tough talk on twitter. r.t. new york executive director of the ron paul institute done mcadams thinks the u.s. is using any means to fire up a conflict that's nothing new. this pattern of lying of using lies to start wars is nothing it's nothing new these people have wanted war with iran for years no matter what happens they find a way to blame iran for it they were very sure on saturday and then all of a sudden president seems to be walking about the america's allies in europe and even in the middle east are saying we're not so sure we'd like to see some some better evidence and the satellite photos they eventually came out with seem to undermine the case today made that the trajectory was from iraq or iran so i think this is just another example of the neo cons pushing for war and that's what happening what's happening with these things you're stovepiping intelligence so you

know it's been fully vetted by the different intelligence agencies in the u.s. so essentially it seems like an act of desperation but the more desperate they get the less credible they are and the less they are believed by the rest of the world . he says pakistan controlled kashmir should be considered as part of india india's foreign minister also expressed hope that one day they would have physical jurisdiction over the region new delhi and islamabad have been at loggerheads for more than 7 decades of the cashman since they failed to agree on the borders drawn up to the british petition of india. it used to be one country under british rule where communities of differing religions live side by side for generations but 70 years ago independence or the region splits into india and pakistan in a process that went down in history books as the partition and so did the man who hurriedly through the border the year 1947 the dying days of the british empire

weakened by the 2nd world war india became a burden london was also unable to counter the growing independence movement led by matt macand to fix it britain appointed lord louis mountbatten as the last viceroy of india he made it clear it was not his dream job. i am prepared to accept the job only on one condition india must be granted independence by july 948 and i will not stay there a day longer. once he arrived though he decided he couldn't wait that long it needed to be sorted more quickly in just 5 weeks to be precise enter lord cyril radcliffe a british lawyer who had never set foot in india he was tasked with drawing a line between the most cohesive muslim and hindu populated areas just like mountbatten radcliff 2 found india not to his liking. it was impossible to undertake the field survey in june because of the heat so how does anyone who's not

familiar with the situation on the ground decide where the border is going to be well studied the maps obviously it's all in there the demographics the religious majority it's also simple isn't it but the areas with the majority of muslims in pakistan and the hindus in india problem solved right if aspirations of some people had not been fulfilled the fold must be found in political arrangements with which i'm not concerned the ratcliffe line was only revealed to the people the day before independence and. scenes of celebration were replaced with fear and confusion as millions woke up on the wrong side of the border the partition on the radcliffe line led to unprecedented violence resulting in up to a 1000000 deaths so how did it all go wrong many areas had equal numbers of muslims and hindus radcliffe also didn't take the sikhs into account and he never even heard of kashmir. i was not even aware of kashmir i heard about it long after i

returned to london both lord mountbatten and lord radclyffe made a swift exit from the heat leaving millions of people to deal with their quick and toxic solution for generations to come. meanwhile in india controlled kashmir a communications blackout is being of force making it impossible for people on either side of the disputed region to speak to each other new delhi said it is needed to curb potential violence and prevent any possibility of separatist rallies paula slater went to the pakistan controlled kashmir side to find out more. when pakistani kashmir not far from the defective border that divides pakistan from india but don't be taken in by the beauty of this himalayan valley for more than a month people living in villages here have really been living in fear dread and terror on the 5th of august india imposed a blackout it closed the border and since then thousands of families here have no

idea what's happening to their families on the other side we're going to visit the family. thank you what is the situation like here. the situation is worse than before and everyone is worried about the well being of family members in the indian occupied kashmir signals are blocked and no means of communications to like what happens if you tell me you try to phone your cousin. don't sit up since last month we have been unable to get a hold of our relatives in india held kashmir but we keep trying the air is totally disconnected i've seen for myself this kind of atrocity back in 2010 when i went to india and how kashmir the situation was intense. we were dying to know their condition were concerned something isn't right we have no idea of they have food to eat if young children are going hungry you they're kinda. i'm. and doesn't do that the whole

time. and yes it is like this when i would try to reach down we pray for them constantly our hearts are bleeding we just want to see them again this is you and she is yes and it's before 5 years. well if you look very happy here you love him very matador was the other day whenever we meet with them we feel so happy and delighted with forget every sorrow and hardship we're facing in life and they see the same things even meeting them itself is a big occasion for us customs has been split into 3 parts of ministered by india pakistan and china which also claims part of the territory tension escalated recently after need delhi stripped india administered kashmir of its autonomy in august and then claimed it as it so quick to respond to that pakistan rejected the move saying it contradicts international law then i'll choose day india's lead in

their entry modi announce that the kashmir region would get a development boost including foreign investment he says the regions to be made more prosperous a negotiation is already underway to do that meantime india's top court to ordered the federal government to restore normal life as they put it in kashmir as soon as possible our guests explain the current situation in what is a volatile region. they've already allowed some senior congress leaders to allow them to start visiting kashmir region already and i think in the coming days we're going to see more of a strategic plan to normalize the situation in kashmir. you know obviously there's been. an international pressure to put on india to make this happen and they would absolutely i think that the indian government with its latest actions of committed to. resolving this issue of 30 year old dispute. that the government is definitely going to put in forward measures to make sure that imprison people are processed

properly and also. people in the territory or humanitarian aid gets to them reliably indeed in certain parts of kashmir certain kinds of blocking for instance on landline telephones has been lifted while of course in other parts specially on wild elephant me. continues to war and i think it's early days for us to really understand what kind of situation mind unfolded here once this blockade is moved remember well we are now going into the weekend to season in kashmir by doing what really the indian government is trying to do is actually going to window very quickly because we day is coming you just meet their age will be too cold and about to be you know fully just so and they are trying for the real deal so that the child holds in a sense it all begins in 2020 salo. head of the program this

wednesday afternoon a tell all book preview on u.s. supreme court justice press kavanah that's the new york times and it was just one of the stories ahead. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see that.

again thanks for watching out international life for most go next story a new tell all book about allegations of alleged sexual harassment by the u.s. supreme court justice brett kavanaugh it's been previewed in the new york times but the paper is facing a backlash for apparently taking things out of context but will that ultimately put trying to reporting if you're kind of sick of hearing the same story all over again

like the president called this or that media nothing but junk or you're glad you haven't heard the name brand cavanaugh and something related to his generals for a while i'm really sorry i don't think they'll do it but they should for the good of the nation i call for the resignation of everybody at the new york times involved. yeah which is once again one of the biggest stories in the land of trump and co versus the liberals here we go so 2 times journalists wrote a book and had a preview published in the sunday paper what's being teased are 2 previously reported alleged cases of sexual harassment by brad cavanaugh now a supreme court justice from his years at yale. a freshman named brett kavanaugh pulled down his pants and thrust his penis at. swatted away and inadvertently touch it. a classmate manx t.

assume mr cavanaugh with these pants down at a different drunken dorm party with friends pushed his penis into the hand of a female student now that is gross if it fell on mr cavanaugh was really up to all that surely he must face severe consequences although for now these are just lines from a book not something put forward by let's say the folks from the justice department but if you pick almost any one of the democratic presidential candidate lineup they've made up their minds on what should be next for kavanaugh confirmation is not exoneration and these news revelations that disturb him like the man who appointed him kevin are should be impeached he was put on due course through a sham process and his plays into court is an insult to the pursuit of truth and justice he must be impeached it is more clear than ever that brett kavanaugh lied

under oath he should be impeached i stand with survivors and countless other americans in calling for impeachment proceedings to begin but dig a bit deeper and perhaps trump's latest rant at the n.y.t. isn't so wide off the mark there could have been a bit of a problem with their journalistic ethics you see some conservative folks got an advanced copy of the book and realized something rather important was dropped in the times teaser. the book notes quietly that the woman max steering named as having been supposedly victimized by cavanagh in france denies any memory of enraged event seems i don't know significant it was then the papers turned to do something about it after a while here's what they came up with an earlier version did not include one element of the book's account regarding an assertion by a young classmate that friends of brett kavanaugh pushed his penis into the hand of a female student at

a drunken dorm party the book report of the female student declined to be interviewed and friends say that she doesn't recall the incident that information has been added to the article the authors were bound to be asked why the central piece of the puzzle was missing in your draft of the article did it include those words that have since been added to the article and to it so somewhere in the editing process those words were no i mean i think what happened actually was that you know we had her name and you know the times doesn't usually include the name of rectum and so i think in this case the editors felt like maybe it was probably better to remove it and in removing her name they removed the other reference to the fact that she didn't remember that they could have done a good job at protecting the victim or they could have messed up a whole thing up wildly because no matter what's not in the article they say her name is in the book or maybe mr trump was right and they didn't want to read the story of that extra spice and left out the crucial bit on purpose what if the woman

doesn't even consider herself a victim she reportedly says she doesn't remember anything like this oh god. his genitals liberal media frob watch this space my friends. but i will do stories in no hold dear is gripped with protests against the construction of a luxury residential project demonstrators fear construction will endanger them to run out of the country's waters in touch with police at one point when officers deployed to. sort of attempts to break up. a happy mood look at the head of mascots for the 2022 winter olympics and paralympics that's been on an animated panda with a full body suit of ice in the face and also the 2nd kind of seeing the chinese and shall be seeing a lot more of that with the tradition but for now that's it for me kevin owen follow if you don't come for the top stories michel what's going on in israel the

2nd general election in just 5 months turn out reported to be but said the percent 60 percent just votes counted it's still too close to coal is the news from the here i can tell you that. my name's kevin i want to come up after the break stop by for people about cross-talk and his latest guests. the tense situation in venezuela is still all over the news the problem in venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented but that socialism has been great only implement from the inside venezuela things look different we're going to announce sanctions against the true venezuela associate. in the school that have a son of the moment. that amberson that football that it is so on the path to the

magic of the moment that the whole story isn't new nixon called in henry kissinger to tell him that he would not be tolerated in latin america an alternative economic and social system could take hold and therefore the policy would be to make the chilean economy scream so wants to make a call in the of venezuela screed. what hopes and. i put them so. they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to. have to try to be closer that's what before 3 of them or 10 people get. interested in the waters of.

their ship. thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military the decision. every song came to a complete. the day that i was raped and. you know told to shut up what they'd kill me and i see how it destroyed my life any screamed at me and he made me come in and he grabbed my arm and he write me with his birthing area if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation and it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military rape is a very very traumatizing tat happen but i've never seen trauma like i've seen women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished don't be offended and almost 10 year career or chose very invested in and i gave that up to report

a sex offender who was not even put to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue of our in violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether that's a man or woman. hello and welcome to cross talk for all things are considered peter lavelle again we stand on the brink of war we should not be surprised the fictional washington was quick to blame iran for the attack on saudi energy acids iran has denied involvement while the who have claimed responsibility will try to take the neo-con bait.