the ah, israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu is a 12 year rain could be coming to an end as right wing opposition leader natalie bennett, throws his weight behind a unity government. a new twist to the face by scandal. immediate investigation reveals that denmark's intelligence service helped us to spy on top. european leaders, including german chancellor, anglo merkel, also trying to dismisses as a political high president biden's probe into the origins of cobra. the labyrinth theory is now gaining traction in the media, which had rejected it when the truck administration made the same claim. in cities in the u. s. backtrack on their decision to cut police funding after the crime rates and search. the white house declares epidemic of gun violence.

ah, the broadcasting lab direct from the city of moscow, this is art international and sean thomas. certainly glad to have you with us as we recap the weeks top stories. after 12 consecutive years at the helm of the israeli politics, benjamin netanyahu could be on the way out right wing opposition, leader in this tale bennett has just announced that he is ready to form a new government or 2 policy reports. natalie bennett, who was the leader of the human a party which means the right party in israel had now announced that he's joining forces with the leader of the opposition. get yelled up, kid to get it. they have a 61 majority, which is what they need to be able to form the next majority coalition in his role . now, bennett has said that although he comes from the right of the political spectrum and he's essentially joining forces with parties in the center and believe he's

doing this because the country has been in a quite the politically. there have been some for election in the space of 2 years, all over the last 4 rounds of elections. we have seen a country weakening itself, damaging itself and losing its ability to function. we see ministers who are fighting with each other, who do not manage anything. we have seen riots and the burning of synagogues and load an acura instead of managing and leading their methodist to spread hatred and polarization between the people of our country to conceal their own failure. but the coalition that bennett is joining is a very wide, reaching so much so that it going to be fragile and not be able to form consensus on controversial issues like the piece. rather, it will have to limited to making decisions about the economy, how to deal with prob 19. and this is something that these really prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been appealing to the electorate. and to those who have

joined the coalition about, he is not ready to give up without a fight. and he is warning israelis versus new coalition could spell disaster. i've been in, i heard natalie bennett's. unfortunately, he is again misleading the public, the same lives and them to slogan some have written division from the person himself. so hatred and division he is leading the scam of the century. and it has also been the longest serving prime minister of israel. he's been in office for some 12 years. and what we see happening here is mr. fairly political parties coming together because they have constraints upon issues that ra, that because that we have a joint desire to get baton yahoo out of office. this comes at a particularly sensitive time for israel, they was the recent israel, god, the war that lasted 11 days. the same time we've seen some of the with violence between the way the jews and his way, the average that the country has witnessed in years.

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me, the now cross live into middle east and specialist and commentator alice under, bruno, thanks for being with us here in our international on an interesting night to say the least. so after 12 years is this really the end for benjamin netanyahu. hello, sean. thank you for having me. i'm. i don't think it's, it's the end of benjamin netanyahu quite yet. because the alternative coalition that appears to be forming, it's not formed yet. between the mean, the liar and la pete and bennett is rather unlikely, even though bennett has described loppy. does his friend the,

the idea of a far right and a party that is to the right of been netanyahu and a left wing coalition doesn't seem to bode well for unit for endurance. so isis and also it, the, a successful coalition needs the votes of the arabs in israeli arabs. i don't think that it has enough guarantees for them to, to gain these votes. so at best, we're going to end up with another week coalition and elections in a matter of months once again. and from which nathan, yahoo could emerge stronger than he has been in the past 2 years, where we've had the, i believe 4 or 5 elections in the,

in. i've lost count. and because israel has a strictly proportional political system, so every single party that runs games a seat or if they have votes. so and this is a problem that as an italian, i know quite well because italian politics was exactly like this. especially in the seventy's and eighty's where we have prime ministers every single year was a new one. so but this before i forget to mention it, i think one of the weak points nathan yahoo, the which the coalition may be taking advantage of now is the fact that his relationship, that is nathan. yeah, i was relationship with president biden in washington is not quite as good and warm as it was with president trump. and so there is

a sense perhaps on the on position parties that they can take advantage of this with the idea of promising a better working relationship with washington, which is going to be necessary. given the evident shift in position among many americans over the indies. really palestinian, let's call it the peace process. it was quite evident in the last war that there is a tide shifting. and also we have rumors of the iran iran nuclear deal being revived. the iran has an election coming up. so we'll see there are developments happening around israel hurting netanyahu, and i think there is a desire on various international parties to, to remove him. but he is someone, he's a survivor of all among 1st and foremost you so i don't want him out. we do, we do,

there is a survivor even also has some legal troubles if he is indeed not longer the pm. but what about policies, domestic and foreign. do you see them changing significantly? if a coalition government is formed comprising parties from across the political spectrum including many central i don't see how policies can change, particularly given that the fact that security remains of the number one policy. and the netanyahu is already has already started to target bennett on warning israelis that aligning it. so this coalition with the left will be overly generous with, with conceding security rights and perhaps not being as aggressive in fighting back . and i think one of the reasons for the recent war was an a

way for nathan yahoo to show his his determination to, to uphold the 1st well, the policies of control over the territories. so he's going to definitely that that was definitely going to play on the fact that the left weakens, the, the government's ability to, to ensure what passes for security in israel. so, and that's why i think whatever government emerges from this. so we call it internal. it's not a clue, but really when you remove someone who's been in power for 12 years, so suddenly we can call it that. so i, and i don't think the, the combination if they even has a hope of lasting. the government cannot shift from current policies. the only

thing will be perhaps a cleaner personal record for bennett than, than yahoo, who has really fought his way through in the past 3 years. fighting legal charges more than political ones. and he always uses gaza as a punching bag for what whenever he has a personal political problem, usually due to legal trouble, right, middle eastern specialist and commented or else under bruno. always interesting to hear thoughts when it comes to things like us. and so being with us here on our international. thank you. the danish secret service helped america's national security agency to spy on top of politicians and high ranking officials in germany, sweden, norway, in france. that is, according to a media investigation published on sunday. or she's bitter oliver has detail we

know in since 2013, that the united states hud carried out extensive spying on its allies. but here in germany and elsewhere in europe, what we didn't know until these latest revelations is that not only would denmark a part of helping the n s a spy on us allies, but the, the danish defense intelligence service, the danish spy agency, were crucial part in allowing the us to snoop on their allies, including here in germany. of course, chancellor, anglo merkel, as well as german president frank volta, shine my and former come to this to be chancellor from the social democrats. pish, 9 brick. he has commented already and describe this as a political scandal, no word as of yet from the chancellor's office on the latest revelations. the fact the denmark is geographically located where it is and how the internet connectivity works. busy across europe puts denmark in a location, it makes it

a hub that when you tap into those, those why is those cables, those into that cables that come through the country. it allows you to get your hands on some pretty sensitive information to get a glimpse into what that is according to the information is passed along to the press. the whole system, the network in denmark was pretty much the crown jewels of the s a spying operation . when it comes to listening in to you leaders, they had access to things like old telephone calls that were being made. anything that was posted on any messaging service and all text messages, as you can imagine, being able to listen into every phone call or read every text message the german chancellor sends. that means you're privy to some very sensitive information. lot of questions posed to the danish government as to when they knew about all of they from the information that's being leaked. it seems they knew as perhaps as late as 2015. that's the could service had been helping the n s a in this way. what the

information that was provided also shows is that the secret service were helping the americans listening to all of the danish finance ministry and the danish foreign ministry, as well as an arms manufacturer based in denmark. there's also going to be questions of course, flying over to the other side of the atlantic, where now president joe biden was vice president joe biden. and part of the administration that would have functioned all of the spying activity. certainly a lot of questions that come yet over just how involved and how much information was spied on by the us on some of its closest allies. china has once again refuted claims. the current virus originated from one of the countries labs. it comes after the u. s. said it is doubling down on efforts to track down the source of the pen to our d soft to tailor reports. remember donald trump and his administration's take on

the corona virus. the chinese virus comes lou, the china virus calling flu, chinese flu, china flu. there's enormous evidence that that's where this began. remember, 10 has a history of infecting the world. and they have a history of running sub standard laboratories. these are not the 1st times that we've had a world exposed to viruses, a result of failures in a chinese lab. remember how his theory about the virus escaping from a lab was labeled racist and mad a wall won't stop a virus, racism won't stop a virus. do your job. what turns out now it's not racist, but a totally rational ferry. why? because it's not trump peddling it earlier this year, fresh in the oval office bite and actually shut down a trump para top secret operation to look into the origins of the pandemic. and specifically, whether the virus leaked from the woo hon institute of fi reality,

who his own altering off a report into the origins of the pandemic. with the lovely one of the top 2 theories, which is much more valid because fight and not trump wanted it. i've no off the intelligence community to redouble their efforts to collect and analyze information that could bring us closer to a definitive conclusion and report back to me in 90 days. and just as quickly as biden decided that it's not racist wilma, but not just some of the interests of public safety. so, coincidentally, did others a new york times drawn a thought i decided pro incidentally to delete a previous tweet about the problematic nature of the lab. meek theory and big tech, which for months has been finding any coven conspiracy theories has coincidentally, decided to give the to meet button, a bit of a break in light of ongoing investigations into the origin of covered 19,

and in consultation with public health experts. we will no longer remove the claim that covered 19 is men made or manufactured from our apps. in fact, the only one who's actually stuck to its guns is china. lately, some people have played the old trick of political high on the origin ration of covered 19 in the world smear campaign and blame shifting. i'm making a come back. and the conspiracy theory of love league is resurfacing as cool that more transparency from basic counsel momentum, as the woo hon meek theory begins to enter the mainstream. and people pick aside the w h. o has decided to sit on the fence. only recently determining that the hypothesis was highly unlikely, but at the same time can't be entirely ruled out where the virus originated remains to be determined. but one thing is, for sure, a theory can time from conspiracy to credible as quickly as the establishment

decides, which on trump would probably tweak about if you know you thought twitter. but then again, we're talking about trump. he always finds a way. now everybody's agreeing that i was right when i very early on code one as the source of covey 19, sometimes referred to as the china virus. to me was obvious from the beginning, but i was badly criticized as usual. now they are all saying he was right, thank you absolutely vindicated. now remember facebook and others still won't allow people in my country to even contest suggest there may be an election might not be on the up and up. so they're very slow to issue a reprieve. so there must be a lot of evidence for them to go this far. this is a trump victory, and as was stated to bad, he can't speak as to social media as reprieve because they have not allowed him

a reprieve from his prohibition on the platform. in the 1st place, a former president, i sure that this is another example of the in seen world that we're living in. and instead of people going to joe biden and say, wait a minute, or whoever is running to show today. why are you changing your mind? oh no, no. we're going to have an investigation into this. you just realize this. now, this is just come to you just, you're just made aware of this. dear god, what else have you just become aware of? i mean it's, it's really frightening. rapidly rising crime rates in the u. s. are forcing some officials to rethink plans to defend the police on wednesday and white house spokesperson said, gun violence was spiraling out of control. the comments came after 8 people were killed in a mass shooting in san jose. in california. we are suffering from an epidemic of

gun violence in this country, both in mass shootings and in the lives that are being taken in daily gun violence that doesn't make national headlines while the calls to cut funding and even abolish whole police department started last year, falling the death of george floyd an officer has since been convicted of his murder more than 20 major us cities have now reduce their police budgets. i've the i am for massive structural and transformational reform. we will not be increasing our police budget . we will be moving funding from the n y p b to youth initiatives and social services. many democratic party politicians around the country heard the cry of the protesters, but now as crime surges,

many of them are backtracking fatal shootings in minneapolis in 2021 of nearly doubled from last year. there have been 3 times as many carjackings. this is the very same city where george floyd killing last year sparked protests, crying defun, the police all over the country. but now in minneapolis, that's refund to police. big, overarching statements that we're going to defend or abolish and dismantle the police department to get rid of all the officers with an impact to that needs to stop. it's unacceptable. we should be holding those perpetrators accountable to include safety beyond policing, and it includes police. now the city council is increasing the police department budget by $6400000.00 after cutting it by 8000000 last year. in april of this year there had been 166 percent more shootings in new york city. there were in april of 2020 new york city mayor bill de blasio who wants pledge to cut the police

budget by $1000000000.00 has now promised to build an entirely new police precinct in queens. this is something that for decades the community asked for, it was one or the other, which was the choice in 2020, we leaned into the investments in the young people. now thankfully, we have resources to address both these issues. and the 1st month of this year, the city of los angeles has seen an increase in shooting compared to the same timeframe last year. now that democrat mayor, the same one who jumped on the d fund, the police bandwagon is calling for an increase in the police budget. the city council wants $250.00 more officers to be hired. if you want to abolish the police . you're talking to the wrong there. now the mayor of st. louis is sticking to her gun despite having one of the highest murder rates in the country. not only does she want to defend the police, she also wants to shut down the jail. no human being should be caged for weeks and months on end with little certainty of when and if they'll ever see their family

again. we share a commitment to reducing harm in our communities and ending the cycles of trauma that have cause far too many of our neighbors to be locked up in our city's jails. the number one reason why crime keeps going up is because the politicians, politicians keep doing everything they can to weaken the system to make the public more happy. and you're not asking the right questions which are, what does the poor, what is the public doing in criminal aspects, which is calling the police lawfully act the way they do. and then the public is in there. they're on educated, ignorant, misguided eyes. seeing this as police brutality, so the public really needs to step up to the plate. they need to come to the table . they need to be educated on why the police do what they do, need to understand laws. they need to understand a department policies a year after the killing of george floyd and joe biden's police reform bill is not exactly a hit in congress. americans do not see eye to eye while crime is rising. outrage about police brutality and killings is also sky. hi, caleb martin

r t new york. following a huge diplomatic storm over the force diversion of a passenger plane to bellows, the country's president alex, look at shanker, has been defending the move, claiming no laws were broken. the ryan airplane was intercepted by a fighter jet and ordered to make an emergency landing over a hoax. bomb threat, however, opposition activists on board and his girlfriend were then arrested of events sparked protest in some european cities. dollar russians living in amsterdam and warsaw rallied alongside locals in support of political prisoners. miller's though interest, there is no political persecution in the country and the u. s. and the you are drawing up coordinated sanctions against members of lucretia because government and both advise against flying through elevation aerospace. however, critics question whether the west is in a position to lecture beller roofs. as our tv has done of comments this week,

it seems there was no bigger scoundrel in the world than this man. alexander lucas shinkel, the president of bella, ros. that's after a ryan f flight had to make an emergency landing in minsk because of a bomb threat according to the bill of russian authorities. but there was no bomb. instead quite conveniently for book a shank. 0, one of the most outspoken opposition activists roman pro, to savage, just so happened to be on board. and when he got arrested, the collective west didn't like it. not one bit. we strongly condemn the lucca shanker regimes. brazen and shocking acts to divert a commercial flight in the rest, the journalist. look at st. what look sancho has done as a disgrace. that's hard to suppose. here the lights of more than $170.00 passengers were endangered in order to arrest a journalist. the height of the plane on the attention know the passage is

it's something that is completely said to me and we really start discussing the implementation of the i said sex reassignment, but i'm exemptions now along with proto, savage, his girlfriend was arrested as well accused of dog saying bell russian security officers essentially calling on lynch mobs to go get them. and one by one e, you, nations began to close the air space to barrows, national airline. while europe based carriers in turn refuse to fly over the country to continually, she'd have to understand that this will have to be a consequence. and we are looking into sanctions against the ation sector in but i was want to see this cd. we have decided to prohibit the bell russian airline from accessing european airports to invite europe and airlines not to fly over bell russian territory. force landing a jet simply so you can extract

a political thorne, unheard of. except it really isn't. because back in 2013 several countries closed of the space to the jet of bolivian president evil morality. which was grounded in vienna, simply because the us suspected edward snowden was on board, which he wasn't by the way. but america wanted him arrested so badly. it was willing to ground a president's personal plane. the bolivian president's plane was once forced to land. the president was taken out of the plain, but nothing was said about that silence. in 2016 ukraine, grounded a been a russian commercial jet, also arresting an opposition activist who was on board. but of course, this time it's all different. so the e u has frozen its investment into bellows, the whole 3000000000 euros of it. there is a tendency in the west, unfortunately not to regard sanctions as inactive war when in fact it is inactive

war. it's just a lower level of warfare before shooting war. this is particularly dangerous in the sense that if, if you're europe in its allies of the us, britain and get together in the rapid reaction, g 7 mechanism and put sanctions on beller ruse for instance. then you have a problem because this is really standing between russia and the european union and who's gonna, who's going to be the victim of this? it's going to be the people of bell roost. one, been a russian opposition figure in exile. took the idea of financial incentive if you like to a whole new level, offering 11000000 euros to anyone who arrests location go. just get clint eastwood on the case already. oh and yes. perhaps the grounding of the rhine jet wasn't exactly the sort of thing you'd

expect to see in a democracy. remember though, we are still talking about the man, the media branded europe's last, dictate him, and who can blame him if he can play the game as well as his big and very democratic brother the us? that's an obvious point of hypocrisy in how this story is being framed. that's not to say that there is a debate regarding international law, whether a government scrambling its air force to ground commercial airliner over its aerospace and also your apprehension. somebody from a commercial flight that's, that's the legitimate point of debate. however, to say that this is unprecedented, or to say that of this never happens in the west is a ridiculous proposition. and so we, this is time and time again. we see this every time, the western media governments, they don't look at the wider context of what's going on. and if you look at the

internal affairs of bella ruse, and how much pressure is also being put to bear on the country from the outside, from these very powers that are condemning this act, it's a very different story and it's a much wider discussion that needs to be had this is weekly, on our international ah . so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy plantation, let it be an arms race is often very dramatic. development only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very political time. time to sit down.