can lieberman to oust benjamin neta nyahu. can they lieberman to oust benjamin netanyahu. benjamin netanyahu. can theyjoin with benjamin netanyahu netanyahu. can theyjoin with benjamin neta nyahu may netanyahu. can theyjoin with benjamin netanyahu may with some rotation in the prime minister's office or depose benjamin netanyahu and have another leader to capitalise under significant strength but without the baggage that benjamin neta nyahu strength but without the baggage that benjamin netanyahu brings. we are talking about exit polls at the moment. we're going hearfrom benjamin netanyahu imminently. you can see he's being greeted there by supporters and we are expecting him to mount that stage and some kind of speeds. so far, those exit polls following israel's second general election in five monthsjust following israel's second general election in five months just the results are simply too close to call. at the moment benjamin netanyahu's call. at the moment benjamin neta nyahu's party is call. at the moment benjamin netanyahu's party is predicted to get about 32—33 se

basically said that it because lieberman basically said thatitis because lieberman basically said thatmeaning everyone should serve in the army, they should all serve some national service because that is fair, everyone should be treated equally and serve equally. let me ask you about the arabs, they have played an important part in this election. the palestinian citizens, how are they playing into the coalition? it is probably one of the only place in the middle east where they can vote in a real democracy, let's get onto politics, showing. we pulled them and what was most fascinating was 50 or 60% would come out to vote but was fastening was a 50% voted them going into the government direct the joining the government. it is significant, is about 20 to 30% more than we had pulled previously two years ago and that may be part of the nation state law when the israeli said that this is more of a jewish state in the state for everyone even though it is democratic, they may be pushing back and sang, maybe now is our time to come out and vote and be a part of a government and really showed

avigdor lieberman and we'll have to see what his position is going to be and we'll also have to see if he could does join and national unity government if the likud leadership will say ok enough of benjamin into now you've become too much of a problem at this stage and we need you to leave this space for a new leadership here because we don't want to miss the opportunity to join a national unity government does a lot of ifs or does a lot of questions and all that probably will sort of unpin in the coming weeks as these negotiations go on or right to hold a bill i mean back in western thank you. now the u.k. has given the european union technical papers that outline the changes it's seeking with the brig's deal a spokesman says they'll submit formal rules when ready meanwhile the u.k. supreme court is holding its final day of hearings to determine whether prime minister barak's johnson suspension of parliament was legal government more you say it's a political issue not so the courts to decide opponents told judges the suspension is meant to impede parliament's ability to scrutinise joh

this man, avigdor lieberman, may become the kingmaker after the election.ty might control the balance of power, when it comes to forming the next governing coalition. one important factor though, he used to be a major ally of the prime minister benjamin netanyahu, and now they are opponents, even enemies. after the exit polls, mr lieberman's supporters were the only ones that were celebrating. if the results back that up — polls are not always accurate — then the netanyahu's era in israeli politics is ending. jeremy bowen, bbc news, tel aviv. we'll get more more analysis on the israeli election a little later on newsday. but now lets turn our attention to the uk. britain's supreme court is being asked to decide whether prime minister borisjohnson behaved lawfully when he suspended parliament, for longer than is usual. in court that decision was described as an "abuse of power", to stop parliament interfering in brexit. but those arguing for the prime minister believe he was acting in a political capacity which has nothing to do with the law. dominic cascian

predicted to be in 4th place is the man who could play kingmaker or indeed king breaker of adore lieberman heads up the far right israel brittania party it's predicted to win 8 to 10 seats while netanyahu is allied 10 dr lieberman is calling for a unity government. so you have only one option a national liberal government made up of israel by tom dick and blue and white we are in a state of crisis both financially and in terms of security for the country requires a broad government we have correspondents following the 2 big players in this election how the forces of supporters of prime minister netanyahu is a crude party will be speaking to him in just a moment but 1st let's go to her up to her maid who is at the headquarters of the blue and white policy of benny gantz holder we've just heard from benny gantz and back in april we were hearing victory speeches around this time but this time dance is being a little more circumspect. well certainly back in late april there were victory speeches that proved to be premature so this time what we saw really is maybe a more politically mature benn

i'd like to ask you avigdor lieberman's nationalist party is being labeled the king as you have pointed out but i want to ask you about the joints least the lines of our of pot he's performed very strongly what influence if any could die have in this well i mean the 1st major influence they had is that the they they their vote rose i mean that's the most important thing right now they seem to be getting 12 seats you know the exit polls are still. the exit polls look like they were pretty close and the votes are still being counted we've seen 92 percent published then we have votes sharing but in any case we know that they're there they're showing went up relative 3 to the april actions when the separate parties only got 10 seats altogether there were reports they might get up to 15 seats i don't think that's going to happen now but still that percentage breakdown helped keep the balance of all the other percentages such that the right didn't come close to it $61.00 seat majority that they would have needed without lieberman that's the 1st point the 2nd point is that by most polls by all

lieberman a lot failed so does he have on the allies that will get him out of this predicament. he has his traditional allies the right wing parties had a far right wing party and this was also a topic for discussion here in israel in the last few months it is headed by what many regard as a racist a former lead america had that party managed to pass the threshold it would have received for. knesset seats for parliamentary seats and that might have given it on yahoo the 61 majority he needed but that party did not pass the threshold and so netanyahu is left with his traditional support by support base for in below the majority as a result we have lieberman who you mentioned one of the country's former defense force ministers proven yet again that he is a kingpin this time around it was because of lieberman not wanting to join netanyahu coalition back in april over the whole issue of whether or not orthodox jews should serve in the army because lieberman did not join netanyahu 6 months ago we having the elections this time around and it's questionable whether lieberman will again

to form some sort of coalition government and maybe one of the most important players is avigdor lieberman who leads an ultra nationalist secular party he quit as a defense minister back in april which ultimately led netanyahu to call the snap elections and he is one of the players who wants that unity government or at the heart of the homemade is covering events for us from west jerusalem today it's close but at this stage a slight advantage to benny gantz. slight advantage at this stage one seat advantage if you just look at the results of the blue and white party versus delete party. but if you put together a possible coalition. many dance gets a few more seats as an advance but all of that is yet not set in stone we do know that he has on board the leftist parties we do think and there are indications that the list might very well recommend to the president to actually task benny gantz with the 1st chance of trying to form a government they would not join the coalition but they would at least recommend benny gantz for their role so that adds another at least 13 seats should that count

but it's i believe too much for lieberman also to date just the arabs part of the coalition you see even the israeli zionist left parties like the labor and merits were not able to form. in his israeli zionist pouty. there is no such an alliance and i don't see it in the cards of any party jewish party so what happened is that they they should send a bunch of flowers to hell. i'm an order and his colleagues because the incitement against them made them go out of their ballots and vote against it and you know it was not just voting for iman order and unity united our party but to send a message to netanya oh that. we we can punish you you cannot only threaten us we can do it also so. the next challenge for guns will be to find the formula there in the long run will not hurt him because netanyahu in the last 10 years illegitimacy any cooperation with the arabs any photo op with an arab leader and this is something that guys will have to make to work very hard in order to defuse this and to educate israeli people that the arabs are partners for coalition and can be members of the israe

but it's i believe too much for lieberman also to date just the arabs part of the coalition you see even the israeli zionist left parties like the labor and merits were not able to form. in his israeli zionist prouty. there is no such an alliance and i don't see it in the cards of any party jewish party so what happened is that they should send a bunch of flowers to hell. i'm an order and his colleagues because the incitement against them made them go out of their ballots and vote against it and you know it was not just voting for iman order and the union united our party but to send a message to netanya oh that. we we can punish you you cannot only threaten us we can do it also so. the next challenge for guns will be to find the formula there in the long run will not hurt him because netanyahu in the last 10 years illegitimacy any cooperation with the arabs any photo op with a arab leader and this is something that guys will have to make to work very hard in order to defuse this and to educate the israeli people that the arabs are partners for coalition and can be members of the is

place he's not only it's not only lieberman it's also about ruby rivlin the president who by law has to consult all the parties but he doesn't have to do anything and actually he can go to whichever member of knesset or head of party that he thinks is most likely to form a government and there could be some surprises there as well you know see let me ask you about lieberman i mean using mitchell's terms or do you think he will be the king breaker or do you think you'll be the kingmaker and also you know lieberman he's insisted that he will keep this campaign promise that he made that his his party will not join a right wing government or an alliance that included ultra-orthodox parties do you believe that will remain the case. i think this is the real test if everyone sticks to the script as they put it before the elections i think it's a bit clear but this hasn't happened in israel politics too often and talking about magicians there might be a magician but they don't have any any magical anything because at the end of the day we concentrate so much on the early symmetrical fall of

because lieberman did not join netanyahu 6 months ago we having the elections this time around and it's questionable whether lieberman will again join an attorney or who need them and certainly has presented himself in a very powerful position he's doubled the amount of support he came in with at the exit polls of kuwait some tame knesset seats now earlier we managed to speak to one of his members of parliament. to a big. week for the oath to go to her. for the hour according to which we just saw work the suv that looks a little to earth so her. yes the words of the father of the. now that is one scenario there could see a 3rd round of elections been prevented but the likelihood of that happening has a huge question mark over it because you have these political leaders that really are at odds with each other for weeks now they've been throwing mud at each other and so more questions than answers in terms of how a coalition in terms of what this m.p. suggests could really function and work we can't ignore donald trump can we paula who threw his backing behind the current prime minister w

and maybe lieberman possibly and that would then allow netanyahu to stay in government something. thanks so much bernard smith from west jerusalem let's cross over now today brahimi she's live for us from ramallah so. palestinians looking at these elections and seeing any hope toll that the occupation might be a step closer because of anything that's happened. well when the prime minister. spoke about this issue yesterday in bethlehem he said that he doesn't really see any difference between the 2 main contenders as number of them have ending the occupation on their agenda is this morning we've also heard from the p.l.o. that he general saw a bit of hard to say that you have to clinton there is one who wants to see expansion and extending of what he called the upper tide meaning benjamin netanyahu and another benny gantz who wants to maintain and keep this that the score as in keeping the israeli occupation over the palestinian territory now if you talk to palestinians in this 3 that you would see that they have not read the following their results of these elections they will tel

lieberman being in a position again that he's a kingpin and being able potentially to demond portfolios that are far out of his clout and give him a lot more strength than he should traditionally have with only 10 seats a big question mark over whether or not that kind of government can be put together if it can then that would answer your previous question and would seem a way to avoid a nother set of elections but at this stage it's all speculation in the next few days and certainly the next few weeks are going to be all about politicking and coalition building and seeing which leader if any is able to provide. and a 3rd round of elections and form a majority coalition government there's a really interesting time isn't it for the country now if we look at donald trump and what he's been supporting or who he's been supporting if there is backing behind the current prime minister do you think that's had any effect at all. well i certainly think it's hoped in a tiny hour who you just need to look at his election campaign where he's used pictures of himself alongside trump and when i talk

course as well as we were mentioning earlier israel's former defense chief i think joe lieberman is a possible kingmaker in this election well in the last half hour he's called for a national unity government but he shouldn't. last. results official results but also in an official manner he could already. on this coming friday invite. and what better than a friday afternoon also the prime minister binyamin netanyahu and the leader of. 2. and joining me now is there a senior political analyst maran bashara at won't so i think joe lieberman is a part of the reason this election ended up being called and he claims to have the solution for this and it is very israeli specific i mean this lieberman issue from april and didn't today and the paralysis within the israeli political system have very little to do with the bigger picture is the security concerns the the national priorities and let alone of course the whole issue of the occupation is the palestinians next door and peace with the arab world this has to do with a very limited issue of secular versus religious and what i think the li

led by avigdor lieberman this party was in his coalition up until earlier this year when it decided to leave the coalition and that's what precipitated this whole thing really in the 1st place and they have said that they are looking for a unity government now this is not unprecedented in israel's history would mean that all the top 3 parties would govern together however at the top 2 parties are really need to lieberman to do that because they would get to see more than 60 seats themselves they both have right now more than 30 seats in the room those numbers will probably change there's just preliminary the 2nd big interesting plot twist of the night is the joint arab list which are usually down at the bottom of the polls they joined together into a correlation these 4 parties and they have risen now up further in the list in sort of a surprise interesting twist as i said they have never been in an israeli government for obvious reasons they represent the israeli arabs but israeli arabs are getting rather frustrated with their parties not really being able to accomplish anything so it

is the way forward if this is what is decided if in fact our bigger lieberman's party becomes the king maker there is a non-zero chance that likud could decide to go as the head of the party in this because the blue and white party has said under no circumstances do we want to be in a unity government with likud we will absolutely not do that and all of this he knows rivals have been very clear about wanting to unseat so his throne book and a little shake here has been in the past but i wouldn't count him out necessarily mediately mine is rather thank you for your analysis course time now to tell you about some of the other stories making news around the world and spanish version is heading to the polls again the country's prime minister has announced fresh elections ofter it emerged that no woman could win enough support to form a government sanchez a socialist won the most seats in. phil will short of an absolute majority in the elections will now be held on november 10th. officials in the u.s. say di have evidence that saturday's attack on saudi arabia's oil facilities originated in

, lieberman once worked for netanyahu before launching his own party.e minister is the secular right wing thorn in netanyahu's side, having request it the israeli government saying he was too soft on terror and caved to the religious. >> i hope we will establish a real national white liberal government, with our orthodox and with our radical members of our -- >> reporter: polls show lieberman with enough seats to prevents netanyahu getting the right wing government he wants. while lieberman begins with his russian base, his appeal is growing across the political spectrum. >> translator: the joints interest is secularism. they feel the country is changing and they feel the religious population is becoming a majority and more and more dominant and it scares them and lieberman tells them i am holding your flag. >> reporter: the former mayor of tel aviv, he once belonged to netanyahu's likud party, now he says he's voting lieberman. >> he is a right wing but not extreme right wing but more the right wing and on the other end, he is not connected to all kind

well he says that the only option is a unity government is i think joe lieberman making these remarks in the past hour and he is calling for a national unity government between his own and the 2 biggest parties. he shouldn't wait until the official results in an unofficial manner on this coming friday what better than on a friday afternoon prime minister benjamin netanyahu should invite the leader of the blue and white bunny guns to tool. we have correspondents at the headquarters of both netanyahu could party and that with the blue and white party of benny gantz and holder is there for us now and so hard to these comments by avigdor lieberman he seems to be saying that a grand grand coalition government between these 3 parties is the solution to any any sense of as there been any response to this there benny gantz has had forces. we haven't heard from benny gantz so far tonight we think he might be coming soon simply because we. just witnessed some microphone test on the stage behind me where after tell you that the atmosphere has brightened up here there's many more supporters not l

and it's and you are going back well over a decade i think lieberman himself is probably hoping for some kind of unity government that does not include nixon you know and places lieberman in either the position as defense minister or foreign minister and what do you think about the joint bless the palestinian israeli parties that they initially threw their support behind bill and white but they've also said they don't want an s. and yahoo nor dance that government so wet if for then. yeah the arab list is really interesting. minister had a very interesting op ed in the new york times earlier in the week there are 13 seats apparently they threw their weight behind gantz not necessarily recommending him to be prime minister but at least giving him priority to rivlin in terms of being able to form the government 3 of those ministers dropped out and said they they don't actually back that principle so it's the sort there you know there's a little bit of idea that they were doing that in terms of to force an exam or to have the 1st chance of creating a government. the question is really

this man, avigdor lieberman, may become the kingmaker after the election.ht control the balance of power, when it comes to forming the next governing coalition. one important factor though, he used to be a major ally of the prime minister benjamin netanyahu, and now they are opponents, even enemies. after the exit polls, mr lieberman's supporters were the only ones that were celebrating. if the results back that up — polls are not always accurate — then the netanyahu's era in israeli politics is ending. jeremy bowen, bbc news, tel aviv. asjeremy was as jeremy was distressing, the asjeremy was distressing, the exit polls not always accurate so we are awaiting the actual results and we are also awaiting benjamin netanyahu to speak. let's take a break and go to speak. let's take a break and go to sport today. hello, this is a sport today, live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on the programme: the european champions league beaten. liveable lose their opening game of the season because my champions league. —— liveable. messy returns to barcelona as they dra

kingmaker and saying i can work with this coalition it could be a unity government which is what lieberman has called for the arab burn and as you say it will take weeks of horse trading to form this new coalition government so then just talk us through a few of the scenarios. well practically what happens is that when the results are officially announced in about 8 days' time the president then calls the party leaders together and they recommend to the president who they think should be prime minister what the one that gets the most recommendations is then invited by the president to try and form a co to try and form a coalition government he's got 4 weeks to do that we can do that then number 2 choice because chance to form a government now galaxies party they suggest they can either form some sort of unity government by finding cracks in netanyahu is part in bringing people over all they can just form some sort of left's left ish party with the old ultra orthodox those 2 options there netanyahu could survive potentially by persuading some people from gans's blue and white coalition to c

and on the other hand, he is not connected to all kinds of corruption. >> reporter: lieberman refusedin with netanyahu in april's elections, forcing new elections. with a renewed popularity, he's one more obstacle standing between netanyahu and an election night victory. rehead he heads home to try to take control of the spin. after he said there was a secret nuclear base in iran, president trump said he would meet the iranian president. when he said he would annex the west bank, and then, he fired john bolton, one of the closest allies in iran, another blow to netanyahu. >> oren, thank you. >>> a saudi princess is facing legal trouble in france. french court ruled she was complicit in the beating up of a workman in paris. she was found guilty of ordering her bodyguard to humiliate the man who was renovating her apartment at the time. the court fined her $11,000. the princess did not appear in court. her lawyer says they will appeal the ruling. >>> fighting racism in football. the 2,000 black and asian referees in england, you won't see one on the pitch during an english premier leagu

and the joint list the palestinian israeli largely arab joint list 11 that would give netanyahu if lieberman i believe him and his party remain out of his coalition that's what brought down the coalition talks last time one of his natural allies deciding not to play ball his party israel bit and was on 8 according to this poll and that would leave netanyahu with 57 seats. in the knesset for his entire coalition or putative coalition beating him for short of being able to form a majority so we would find ourselves in a similar situation as last time we have to put a huge health warning on all of these initial exit polls that they have been very wrong in the past they have been pretty close in the past 2 but in the last election at this time in april benny gantz was pretty convinced he had won he came out before netanyahu declared victory netanyahu waited and waited and waited until the numbers started to move his way and then he came out about 2 o'clock in the morning 4 hours from now to declare victory so these are initial exit polls they have been wrong in the past they have and we're going

nurit kadar spent 5 years following lieberman for a documentary released this week finding him a highly guarded interviewee but she says it was clear that whatever the ideological differences between him and netanyahu their divorce was deeply personal the only thing the only sentence. he said was that friendship is something it's for life you know it is some foundation that it really go through all life and it was broken. and it will shut down you know what lieberman has an explicitly ruled out joining the netanyahu led government this time around but his policy demands make it unlikely at best and with his secular stance boosting his position in the polls his status as kingmaker has been strengthened netanyahu spent the last week talking in terms familiar from previous campaigns of threats and promises the threat of iran's nuclear program the threat requiring police of polling stations of palestinian israeli voter fraud the promise to annex the jordan valley and parts of the occupied city of hebron all of it designed to motivate his right wing base. but netanyahu reelection offers a be

named the main members of it the blue and white party the likud party and the party of a bigger lieberman between those parties there is a majority that's what he will recommend and in maybe with mr nixon now but it will probably be without him 10 years a what went wrong for but even for as the voting public. i mean everything has a shelf life in this world and maybe just 10 years maybe 10 years was just enough for 9 years and a few months was enough but when he called that other election that may have been his unwinding and he may have even purchased the rope that electorally will hang himself to come to put together a government and he. failed i was going to say for all of us join us from a broken is complicated way the politics is set up that is there any shape any way shape or form the benjamin netanyahu has come complete this is a positive vote this morning or no. what he can say it's a positive vote you know we'll know in a few weeks it is possible that he could be prime minister meaning if he could pull together enough parties the problem is that all most of the parties that have r

and he holds the balance of power in the lieberman has been saying that he wasn't going to recommend anyone to the president to be the preferred to form the coalition what we do know he has a personal dislike for netanyahu and actually was responsible for bringing down the government and cause and 2nd elections or the momentum that led to it at least so we really are in a stalemate i think we should be looking less at how these arab vote is but which way lieberman is going to actually be voting. identity crisis facebook now trying to say publisher not just for the legal case that could have a major impact on what is posted on the site to bring you that story and others this break. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want to. have to go right to the press this is what the 4 korean people are. interested in the why. tensions between the masses and classes have existed ever since modern states came into being but often serve as a driver of political change with russian civil society growing larg

and lieberman has made clear he won't sit with netanyahu and his far right and religious allies. >> lieberman is the head of an israeli political party whose support is needed to form a coalition. netanyahu campaigned as a strong ally of the u.s. and a close friend of president trump. he's also facing possible uinches orain in eatening t parts of southeast texas and southwestern louisiana over the next few days. the national hurricane center says the houston area and other significant rainfall through thursday as the storm moves north. imelda formed yesterday and made landfall near freeport, texas, with winds of 40 miles per hour. officials in the houston area are preparing high-water vehicles and rescue boats in case they're needed. meanwhile, hurricane humberto continues to strengthen in the atlantic. the storm with winds of up to 115 miles per hour is forecast to pass dangerously close to bermuda tonight. >>> and now to the political storm brewing on capitol hill. the house judiciary committee held its first hearing in its impeachment investigation. it questioned former trump campaign mana

secular nationalist party had his done very well is lieberman the new kingmaker in israel what potentially is the new kingmaker he already was the cause that last time the condition building failed for mr netanyahu both have been very very close allies over the past years but they fell out started all with will even one stepping down as defense minister and then after the elections in every didn't join the coalition and he did very well and these elections he already said last night that he wants to see a unity government with israel between his party could and blue and white and you put down also his demands so we have to wait and see how those talks will continue talking as i say very much for that from jerusalem where we're still waiting for the final results in israeli elections. let's preview down some of the other stories making the news at this hour officials in the u.s. say they have evidence that saturday's attacks on saudi arabian oil facilities did originate in iran unnamed sources told the reuters news agency that the strikes involve drones and cruise missiles secretary of stat

and he holds the balance of power now lieberman has been saying that he wasn't going to recommend anyone to the president to be the preferred to form the coalition what we do know he has a personal dislike for netanyahu and actually was responsible for bringing down the government and cause and 2nd elections or the momentum that led to it at least so we really are in a stalemate i think we should be looking less at how these arab vote is but which way lieberman is going to actually be voting. facebook is making a key change to the way it operates will have that story and more after this break . join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking together for the world of politics. for business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back the weekly facebook has changed the way it describes itself from a platform to a publisher that could have a major impact on the way the social media giant works in a recent legal case facebook claimed it was a publisher insisting it has the right to ban who it wants but that would also make it level for what goes out on its platfor

lieberman has said he would not netanyahu government with these religious allies.hat brings questions about whether lieberman will work with adversaries, the blue-and-white alliance, but left-wing parties, as well, propping them up in the minority government, propped up by votes from our parties, which did well. it is going to be about complicated horse trading. some people say the man known as maybe his spell has been broken. the coalition of arab parties looks set to become alert -- the third largest andiament with between 12 14 seats. it could put them in the position to block netanyahu if they endorse gantz for the job. strong showing with exit polls giving the coalition the third-highest share of votes, a score they hope puts an end to his role as prime minister. >> they are trying to kill the hope of the palestinian people to establish their own state and to finish the war situation that israel was leading. this time, it ran as a unified block and while voter participation covered below 50% in april, it turns out the turnout was higher than usual tuesday. the

and he holds the balance of power in a lieberman has been saying that he wasn't going to recommend anyone to the president to be the form the coalition what we do know he has a personal dislike for netanyahu and actually was responsible for bringing down the government and cause and 2nd elections or the momentum that led to it at least so we really are in a stalemate i think we should be looking less at how these arab vote is but which way lieberman is going to actually be voting will in the end move from that right secular right and move to bring down that and yahoo that's a question which is facing these road today there were claims that netanyahu has moved to set up cameras and point stations and mostly arab districts actually brought out more arabs to go out something we touched on earlier how it was such an insult to them what's your take on that. absolutely i think the whole campaign by benjamin netanyahu of incitement against the israeli arab vote and the left and the media backfired on him and certainly got more people out to vote against him let's remember that netanyahu is major

well lieberman who is a former defense minister has really become the king in these elections remember of course that was back in april that because he refused to join forces with them with netanyahu so he could party that the prime minister was unable to form a majority government now what indications are that lieberman will not join forces with netanyahu have been hearing from these 1st exit polls that time yahoo and right wing parties without me the men will only get 57 seats they need a majority of 61 out of 120 seats in a state parliament to actually form the next government the initial results also suggest that if indeed gunsmiths party in the form ideas chief forms. with the arab parties which i must have come in at this stage and 3rd position they will then get. majority of $63.00 seats but the question there is whether or not lieberman who really falls on the right of the political spectrum will be part of that coalition and that seems highly unlikely so there's a lot of questions being asked in terms of how this new coalition will go but let me repeat that at this stage the i

and he holds the balance of power now lieberman is been saying that he wasn't going to recommend anyone to the president to be the preferred to form the coalition what we do know he has a personal dislike for netanyahu and actually was responsible for bringing down the government and cause and 2nd elections or the momentum that led to it at least so we really are in a stalemate i think we should be looking less at how these really arab vote is but which way lieberman is going to actually be voting i stay with r.t. more news coming your way after this short break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this hearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. tensions between the masses and classes have existed ever since modern states came into being but often ser

the kingmaker as both gantz and lieberman attempt to form a coalition government. as both steven greenhouse and formyahu --gantz netanyahu a coalition government. we go now to jerusalem where we are joined by the palestinian attorney diana buttu. she is a former adviser to palestinian president mahmoud abbas and serves as policy adviser of al-shabaka: the palestinian policy network. her latest piece for the nation is headlined, "the israeli elections are a referendum on who can treat palestinians most harshly." diana buttu, welcome to democracy now! your take on the elections so far? >> so far it is not clear who will be the ultimate victor. i can tell you who will be the ultimate loser and that is the palestinian people. this is because both netanyahu and gantz have come out very strongly against palestinians. this was not, for example, a referendum on the more than 50 your military occupation, but instead it was a campaign that was filled with racist statements on the part of nenenyahu, urging people t to ve becacause the arabs were out vovoting and arch numbers.

benjamin netanyahu by one or 2 cs and then you have the question of dora lieberman what he is going to do he has repeated 3 times so far since last night that he favors a broad based liberal unity government which would include likud blue and white and his own party baked into israel his positions certainly would be very important and would tilt any political power in one direction. but at the end of the day there's a lot of anger against benjamin netanyahu and you do get a feeling that you could get a sort of broad based government or a coalition government that is basically united at this stage in bringing down benjamin netanyahu. thank you hoda and in london is known bashar our senior political analysts as their mo and there are so many different possibilities here in your view what is the most likely and i know that's asking you to get the crystal ball out but still tell us what you think. it's actually what i said only a few moments after the exit door last night and i think realistically speaking there's only one options left short of a 3rd election within a year and that option

lieberman sat in governments that didn't do and the bill he supported wouldn't have done it but thised him to capture the niche of secular right wing that he saw political opportunity in and if the poll results are true, a big if, he was right. >> fascinating stuff. thanks. appreciate it. >> pleasure. >>> next, the trail of evidence raising new questions about who really attacks saudi arabia's oil facilities as president trump points the finger at iran. stay with us. at t-mobile, we can't give you unlimited summer, but we can give you unlimited talk, text and data for just $30 a line for 4 lines. and that comes on our newest signal. no signal reaches farther or is more reliable. so you can... share more sunsets. stream more videos. and stay connected with friends while you slide into fall. all for just $30/line. and for a limited time, you can get free smartphones too! come to t-mobile now and get new 4 lines of unlimited and 4 free phones for just 30 bucks a line! ♪ so, every day, we put our latest technology and unrivaled network to work. the united states postal service makes more

and he holds the balance of power and lieberman has been saying that he wasn't going to recommend anyone to the president to be the preferred to form the coalition what we do know he has a personal dislike for netanyahu and actually was responsible for bringing down the government and cause and 2nd elections or the momentum that led to it at least so we really are in a stalemate i think we should be looking less at how these really arab vote is but which way lieberman is going to actually be voting. facebook has changed the way it describes itself from a platform to a publisher and that could have a major impact on the way the social media giant works in a recent legal case of facebook claimed it was a publisher insisting it has the right to ban who wants but that would also make it liable for what goes out on its platform responsibility has previously tried to dodge or has not. so what have we got here. that's better plaintive ultra right web activist laura luma who was taken off pretty much all major online platforms defendant facebook one of the giants which kicked her out we carefull

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in favor of lieberman he could double he doubled his results so this is really a success though on the other hand i mean the alternative to right wing government is unfortunately not the center left government because. there's a kind of to do that that will that there won't be a government with the arab israeli parties in the like they just worry well they did very well and i'm very glad that you know that the arab israelis went to the ballots but. there's this to do and i think in the in the future in the coming future the left has to rethink the strategy has to rethink this to boo because the left will never built to never be able to build a government with the arab israelis so the alternative will be a unity government. under way right now about a national unity government you see that is a possibility obviously it seems to be at the moment as we see the results it seems to be the only option and step off a right wing coalition there's only one well actually a big problem because. the opposition party which was so successful in this election sat they won't build a government with bi

process and let me let me put it clearly what is the difference between gantz in the 20 al gore and lieberman on the issue of yours and him none what is the difference between that and your guns and liberman on the issue of removing settlements none what is the difference between the 3 of them and the issue of palestinian statehood also none they are all against separation of you lose a limb that are all against removing settlements that are all against palestinian state and in that sense i don't see a peace camp and that's why i think what we witnessed today and the israeli announcement liquids in a an ounce mr kids' announcement is about declaring the deaths of the so-called 2 state solution what could change the situation only 2 things palestinian resistance to this plan and international sanctions and as i don't see sanctions coming in i see a growing boycott divestment sanctions at the public level at the grassroots level but the governments of the world only issue a condemnation and statements which mean nothing unless there are acts of punishment unless as israel knows that there will

now, he says he is voting lieberman. >> he is right-wing but not extreme right-wing.g on one hand. on the other hand, he is not connected to all kinds of corruption. >> reporter: lieberman refused to join with netanyahu in april's elections, forcing new elections. with renewed popularity, he's one more obstacle standing between netanyahu and an election night victory. netanyahu heads home after this trip to take control of the headlines again. his big announcements this week did not go as he had planned. after he said israel had discovered a secret nuclear base in iran, president trump said he would be willing to meet the iranian president. when he said he would annex the west bank, that was condemned by the russians. and then, trump fired john bolton in another blow to netanyahu. oren leibermann, cnn, sochi. >> he has done great work. >>> popeyes has a quick fix to the chicken sandwich shortage that has rocked america. bring your own bun. byob. cnn business has details next. super emma just about sleeps in her cape. but when we realized she was battling sensitive ski