for. deadlock $2.00 israel is on course for yet another election stalemates with prime minister netanyahu currently liking one seat behind rival any lengthy coalition talks and. enough for a majority in the coming days will convene negotiations to assemble a strong government i intend to speak with everyone starting tonight we will work to form a broad unity government. saudi arabia claim. it's all in facilities where quote on question of belief from. all 'd in by firmly placing the blame squarely.

on the new york times faces a backlash for publishing excerpts from a forthcoming book about the alleged sexual misconduct of u.s. supreme court judge brett kavanaugh all important details. 247 news live from moscow this is our international thanks for taking the time to chuen in my name's o'neill our top story with more than 90 percent of the vote counted the fates of israel's prime minister hangs in the balance this. binyamin netanyahu his party currently trails at benny gantz faction by one seat in the 2nd parliamentary election of the year in any case neither men have enough allies to form a government which means yet more protracted coalition talks lie ahead earlier kevin

owen got some background from. 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 that containing some of his policies the policies that he personally proposed they managed to a alienate some of his former allies and be gave a boost to his rivals also at the same time this adds up to the corruption charges he could still be indicted on 3 in 3 cases for so what is 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 to prevent a dangerous and to zionist government. will not and cannot be a government that leans on iraq to sign this passes so as to the early days was still an exit polls but how does it looking that the arab minority voters vote 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 in 3rd in the race right now too soon yet still to talk about coalition building but i bet so is going on behind the scenes

benny gantz is the key rival of benjamin netanyahu and he. 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 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 could be the kingmaker liberman 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 ultra orthodox jews exempt from military service and 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 that most worthy of forming

a coalition and in his opinion and we'll see where it goes from there if we're getting some reaction on this including from political analysts michel believes that for know mr netanyahu doesn't have any viable options for a coalition. the ironic thing is the last election which was a few months ago and to now had really all the options in the world he could have formed a 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 and either called 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 when 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 it and you know and you know for most israeli politicians and many and many of the israeli people is damaged goods. within the past hour so do you claim to run was involved in this weekend's attack on the kingdoms oil refineries i'm not the attack was not conducted from yemen but came from the north now oil refining in saudi arabia had been how does a result of the attack on 2 major state run facilities the u.s. claims it was a result of drone strikes launched from southern iran this despite yemen's hooty rebels stating they did it strongly denying any involvement. looks at washington'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. 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 i think. i said 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 the 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 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 your resolution the syrian skyline was lit up with the fireworks of 59 cruise missiles however a year later james mattis 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 so 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 that saddam hussein could have produced 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. well i'm happy to say for further reaction on this week and welcome to the program must you gordon banks matthew his former british member of parliament and senior research fellow at the u.k. the fence calum it's a pleasure to have you here sir just on the development in the past 30 minutes or so we know that he. white house figures are in saudi arabia know the saudis say i will quote the attacks were on questionably sponsored by iran after spending

several days holding off from direct accusations your take on the well i think that's diplomatic speak what they really mean is that the weaponry may well have been supplied and probably was by iran exactly the same way that my country and others have supplied arms to the kingdom of saudi arabia. been used in this for you know war against yemen. if we look from the american point of view donald trump doesn't seem. to totally convinced perhaps that iran was behind the attack but if you look at his top diplomat mike pump a.o. he immediately after the incident why do you think the apartment miscommunication within the white house over something were potentially huge ramifications when i think it's a very polite question because. the problems are really in within the white house. a number of people have already left john bolton has just been fired and let's not

forget secretary pompei o. director of the cia he's a whole president trump out of a came to office promising no more walls and i think he's being much more cautious i think behind the scenes he knows that no matter what his advisors may say a strike against iran could have devastating consequences throughout the gulf and internationally just some of the reaction on this ship notable u.s. ally of course says it has no intelligence indicating that to run was involved in the attacks on the oil facilities hooty rebels indeed came out saying that they were behind it why do you think washington is so was staunchly sure that iran is 100 percent behind this well i think i think it's secretary bomb paon his colleagues within the white house and the very large american security machine

both private sector and public. i think that's the real reason the defense secretary of japan who has i think made this particular remark to achieve refer is in many ways in my view giving. a little bit of public international diplomatic advice. to the united states to well unless you're absolutely certain and even then be very careful about taking military action be interesting get your thought on another aspect to this real riyadh we know spends billions of dollars on us or. hundreds of billions over the next 10 years they will as well they also use the american made patriot defense system how is this breach even possible. but it hasn't worked as it. was we don't know i don't know as you interview me whether it

was definitely drones it probably was but i haven't yet seen footage of the press conference to which you refer. i think that. i think that. most of the weaponry in the cyber equipment is actually aimed at iran and not yemen and therefore all sorts of things could have come floating through the from yemen which may very well have been missed and i think that's probably what's happened in this case vladimir putin offered saudi arabia the opportunity to buy russian earth defense systems turkey and iran both is it something riyadh would be considering with this in mind you think well i think president putin showed the typical dry russian sense of humor. i don't anticipate the saudis will be buying s. 400 equipment but certainly his humor went down very well at the ankara

press conference and he made it is his and sometimes humor is a good way of making a point the president also called for an unbiased investigation into the attacks on the oil facilities your thoughts on whether that will occur well. this is only my view but i can't help but think that president putin. might be thinking about what happened after the malaysian airlines downing. the investigation which took place. there are. there's clear evidence that the inquiry actually was tampered with some evidence was not produced and a rather western narrative was eventually agreed and i think that probably is something that president putin is aware of and that's why he stressed if we're

going to have a proper inquiry it should be a professional one if the inquiry does say about iran was blamed do you 1st see. a situation where perhaps the u.s. so the other allies come together and attack iran. in my experience saudi arabia tends to expect the you know the united states to do its dirty work. i don't think so actually i think president trump who is thinning out some of the hawks in the white house knows that it would be a very bad idea to take any kind of strike against iran. i think i think it's very unlikely i think the only way that this issue can be resolved is by dialogue and diplomacy it's the only way and

certainly behind the scenes the british government are saying that to the united states. america is not going to get countries like germany and france on board no matter what the rhetoric is the only way forward here absolutely thank you very much for your time we've been speaking to must you gordon banks former british member of parliament senior research fellow at the u.k. defense academy thank you. ok moving on to another big story of the week can you tell all book about allegations of alleged sexual harassment by u.s. supreme court justice brett kavanaugh has been previewed in the new york times but the paper is facing a buck plus for a partly taking things are just context anybody who's been reading between the lines. 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 journals 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 here to do york times involved. yeah which is once again one of the biggest stories in the land of trump and co vs 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 interest his penis at her prompting her to swatted away and inadvertently touch it. a classmate masti

or saw mr cameron with his pants down and a different drunken dream party where friends pushed his penis into to hand over female student now that is gross if it's found 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 calve no confirmation is not exoneration and these news revelations that disturb him like the man who appointed him kevin all should be impeached he was put on the court through a sham process and he is placed on the court as 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 realize 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 an alleged 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 want aliment of the book's account regarding an assertion my classmate to friends of brett kavanaugh bushies penis into him of a female student and a drunken party the book reports that if female student declined to be interviewed

and friends see the she does not recall the incident that information has been added to. the authors were bound to be asked why the essential 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 gross like this oh god calvin his genitals liberal media rob watch this space my friends. living on india say pakistan controlled kashmir should be considered part of its own territory the indian foreign minister also expressed hope that one day they would have physical jurisdiction over the region pakistan and india have been at loggerheads over kashmir for more than 70 years since they feel to agree on the borders drawn up during the british partition 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 split 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 maganda 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 and to 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 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 so. celebration were replaced with fear and confusion as millions woke up on the wrong side of the border the partition on the radcliffe line lets on presidents of 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. while today in india controlled kashmir a communications blackout is being in force making it very difficult if not impossible for people in either side of the disputed region to speak to each other india says' it was put in place to curb potential violence and prevent the possibility of separate israelis paullus leader is just across the frontier from there for us. 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 at 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 either 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 like what happens if you tell me you try to phone your cousin. don't sit up since last month we've 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

your pantry or are going hungry you there kinda. and doesn't do that the whole time. and yes it is like this when they were trying to reach down with pray for them constantly our hearts are bleeding we just want to see them again this is you. yes and it's before 5 years. you look very happy. you left him very bossy on the deck when ave we meet with them we feel so happy and delighted with her again every summer on hard she we are facing in life and they see the same things to me meeting them itself is a big occasion as well kushner is split into 3 parts administered by india pakistan china which also has territory claims there are tension escalated recently after a new delhi stripped india administered kashmir its only muslim majority states all

of its autonomy back in august pakistan rejected the move saying it contradicts international law one choose the india's leader modi the kashmir region would get a development boosting to bring foreign investment he said the region is to be made prosperous nation is are already underway meanwhile india's top court ordered the federal government to restore normal life in kashmir soon as possible well we some regional alist whether it's the other severe measures 2 were necessary in kashmir. exceptional situation requires exceptional measures and. implementers and sure the government will vote. you know he started it off by name is on. a lot of things here we relaxed what example. was britain's of all been most of the day i think is open. and the marilyn connections are. of course some restrictions

there where you are in due course of pain those are destructions would also be removed so those who are gay will be released in good to do very little except those who house this or charges against them and the case is going against them in the us or it's clearly the some of the confusion and the restrictions on the communications restrictions especially on. the phone and on the internet are working because a lot of the cross border terrorist attacks have happened to coordination or were these means and also through. and other such things which are not you know which are encrypted and not easy to crowd funding diligence agencies so i think some of that instructions will remain but 90 more than 90 percent of our countrymen rally because a muslim majority part of june 1 kashmiri already did time. dictions have been

lifted and landline telephones are actually working and i know of my own friends there who have been able to communicate with me to landlines so it's not that they're completely i saluted or there's a daughter rakhal but gradually i think as the security situation improves i think most of these really believed it it's been spoken about for decades but now rape in their ranks of the u.s. military is a topic where personal harling stories are being taught are documentary invisible war sheds further light in moments. 'd 'd god.