i think if the likud central committee passes this vote i think the biggest thing that will happen is will take up a lot of newspaper space will be a lot of printing done of this because it really is not binding it's not even relevant it's just you know the prime minister's right of center party just trying to make a statement a policy statement which really is meaningless and even if you read the statement it's doesn't even go into depth and it's just kind of getting ready the drumbeat of election is happening in israel we don't know when it's kind of you know this government is not the most stable and people are wondering how long is it that you know that to be around given all that's going on with the investigations so they're just trying to shore up their their popularity on the right to other key points to that we need to mention at this hour number one it's unclear if prime minister netanyahu is actually going to show up at this meeting it has been stated by members of the likud central committee that they hoped that prime minister to prime minister netanyahu would actually be t

settlements of the west bank so there is a lot of stuff that still needs to be answered by this likud central committee also is this a binding resolution many of those inside this committee say that this is binding that if this passes this would compel the prime minister and the rest of the likud party to take it to the knesset to try to pass it into law but that's coming at a time when there is already so much international condemnation of israel and when so many people are saying that the last thing israel needs right now is another international fight countries that would see this action is going against international law now a lot of the analysts that we've been speaking with today have said that really there's something simply behind this that really this is a cynical political ploy for the likud party to try to muster more support to really rally their faithful i spoke earlier with israeli pollster michel barack here's more of what he had to tell me about this issue. i think if the likud central committee passes vote i think the biggest thing that will happen is will take up a lot of newspaper sp

the live cooed central committee has voted in favor of imposing israeli sovereignty over illegal settlements in the occupied west bank the question is what comes next many members of the likud central committee in the run up to this vote had thought that this was a binding resolution they had said so which in effect would mean that it would force that would compel a prime minister benjamin netanyahu and the rest of the likud party to try to take this to the knesset to try to get it passed into law we've spoken to many analysts the however who say that this in fact is not a binding resolution and that there is no way that such an inflammatory resolution would actually get to the knesset in its current form we've also spoken to arab members of parliament and they've said that if this resolution were to go to the knesset in its current form that that would really signal an end to the peace process that it would really mean that there was no more attempt to try to find a two state solution to the crisis here now what is important also is what exactly is prime minister benjamin netanyahu going to do next is he going to endorse this what is he going to say many more questions at

questions today than answers when it comes to this vote that's going to happen essentially the likud central committee is trying to pass a resolution that they believe would be binding that would then compel prime minister netanyahu in the rest of the likud party to try to bring forth a bill in the israel now obviously this is a very controversial bill it's a contentious issue especially at a time when there has been so much international condemnation of israel in light of u.s. president donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel now i've been speaking with analysts throughout the day and they say that this is really a headache that israel doesn't need others have said that really this just adds up to a cynical political calculation on behalf of the central committee i spoke earlier with israeli pollster mitchell barak here's more of what he told me about his analysis of this issue. i think if the likud central committee passes vote i think the biggest thing that will happen is will take up a lot of newspaper space will be a lot of printing done of this because it really is not b

i think if the likud central committee passes vote i think the biggest thing that will happen it will take a lot of newspaper space will be a lot of printing done of this because it really is not binding it's not even relevant it's just you know the prime minister's right of center party just trying to make a statement a policy statement which really is meaningless even if you read the statement it's theirs they will go into depth and it's just kind of getting ready the drumbeat of election is happening in israel we don't know when it's kind of you know this government is not the most stable and people are wondering how long is it that you know that to be around given all that's going on with the investigations so they're just trying to shore up their their popularity on the right arab members of the knesset of the parliament here have started reacting to this meeting some of them saying that if this resolution is passed if the prime minister then decides to try to take it to pass it is a law in the knesset that that would really signal into trying to find a two state solution to the

the live cooed central committee has voted in favor of imposing israeli sovereignty over illegal settlements in the occupied west bank the question is what comes next many members of the likud central committee in the run up to this vote had thought that this was a binding resolution they had said so which in effect would mean that it would force that would compel a prime minister benjamin netanyahu and the rest of the likud party to try to take this to the knesset to try to get it passed into law we've spoken to many analysts the however who say that this in fact is not a binding resolution and that there is no way that such an inflammatory resolution would actually get to the knesset in its current form we've also spoken to arab members of parliament and they have said that if this resolution were to go to the knesset in its current form that that would really signal an end to the peace process that it would really mean that there was no more attempt to try to find a two state solution to the crisis here now what is important also is what exactly is prime minister benjamin netanyahu going to do next is he going to endorse this what is he going to say many more questions a

passed in the knesset that is just far too controversial but the fact that it did pass it this likud central committee meeting tonight certainly adds another note of uncertainty and a very tense time here barbara it does dede mohammed jim jim with the latest from western thank you. and still to come up on this half hour of news on al-jazeera at least four soldiers are killed there's gunmen storm a training camp in indian administered kashmir and the man in the u.s. has been arrested after a deadly end to a prank telephone. hello we've got a good westerly flow in our weather across europe at the moment say cloud and right moller ah coming in from the atlantic some of the stormy conditions having said that we'll see some very wet some very windy weather coming into western parts of france just pushing in across the western coast of europe is it go on through the next couple of days then temperatures at about eight o nine celsius there for london and pass a very heavy rain the possibility of some localized flooding that western parts of france some wet weather too into italy turning to snow over the high