american tilton welcome to the show in unprecedented trial has started in israel with prime minister benjamin netanyahu facing charges of fraud breach of trust and bribery he is the 1st sitting israeli prime minister to face trial in a case that pits netanyahu and his supporters against the country's digital system and it comes just a week after he started his 5th term in office. not happy to be here netanyahu says lawyers had requested that he be spared this hearing but the court disagreed was it before the trial even began he lashed out at the justice system saying he's the victim of a conspiracy. most of them what stands for a trial today is the attempt to thwart the people's will the attempt to topple me and the right wing. for over a decade the left hasn't managed to do it in the polling stations so in recent years they've found a new way. to include members of the police force and the state attorney's office have joined forces with the left wing newspapers i call them the just not b.b. bunch in order to set me up with ludicrous and hallucinatory cases. the prosecution presented