pressure looks set to intensify ari force at al-jazeera television where we'll get reaction from ramallah in the occupied west bank with abraham shortly but 1st let's cross to bernard smith in west jerusalem ben of the races still too close to call so what's changed compared to april's vote. well daryn this time the crown is slipping off benjamin netanyahu has had his not for not yet though but compared to april he won this time but he was unable to form a coalition this time he hasn't won so it's a very different scenario facing benjamin netanyahu it's not all over for him yet but he's called as you heard in his report their. attempt to scare his boat voters to get out to vote and say the arabs will turn out and i numbers well in fact that backfired in the arab vote did turn out in high numbers and although they don't take part in the israeli coalition governments they could down the line and up recommending maybe benny gantz to help form some sort of unity government although they would never take part and he might help might recommend not to the president so this time around there's mu

confront israel with serious meaningful consequences for its conduct most of about who would say in ramallah i mean what are the palestinians options right now what can you dave. well let me 1st say that tomorrow will be the 26th anniversary of illusion i don't call it an agreement i call it an illusion it was a trap. palestinians in. israel used the time very well to consolidate settlement expansion of the patient and the system for apartheid i do not see a difference i don't see any perspective for the peace process as long as the balance of power between us and israeli source skewed in the interest of this israeli trend which is the right to enter in i don't see a peace camp and there is no peace camp in it which can in gauge in a real feel for the 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 th

be serious about this i think we do have to take him seriously let's bring in midst of a booty in ramallah do you take the israeli leader seriously when he says he my onyx the west bank or the jordan valley i do not agree with what i didn't agree with what was the you think it's very serious it's a bit dangerous bottle for purposes which is led by an opinion but there's actually. reflecting the actual behavior and policy of those aniston movement in israel. let's talk about realities and facts unprecedented level of expansion of israeli illegal settlements in the occupied territories an agreement between ateneo and his government and trump steam which seems to be working for netanyahu more than working for trump to implement his ideas that a coalition of if you lose a limb as a couple of israel the condition of the annexation of the golan heights. an attack on a new rule and cut of lot of funding from palestinian authority and united nations relief and works agency an actual plan to liquidate the palestinian refugee rights and an actual change in the american policy which stopped supportin

of kiva on global research and a former adviser to israeli president shimon peres and from ramallah who is he secretary general of the palestinian national initiative and former palestinian information minister and from washington d.c. on skype abani coeditor of jeddah libya an online magazine focusing on middle east politics and culture welcome you all to the program let me start with mitchell brock in west roussillon 1st the annexation is this electioneering chutzpah or i dead lee serious plan well that's a great word hutzpah i mean i really can't believe that you've taken his declaration so seriously that you're dedicating a whole show to it his campaign strategy so far has been to scare everyone scare the israeli public scare the palestinians scare the world and get people to vote and whatever it is he finds something and if it's not the thunder then the lightning will get you and if it's not the lightning it's the hail storms and it's the earthquakes and it's some catastrophe that's going to take place and that's what he's doing you cannot take anything that he says seriously durin

down smith in west jerusalem bernard thank you let's cross over now to need to abraham who is in ramallah for us leave us so what's the feeling there on the ground amongst palestinians about the selection. palestinian officials are saying the sheriff has reiterated the position that we've been hearing from the palestinians is that israeli elections is an intern and is really a fear that they don't want to intervene in however he said he had to hold that the next israeli prime minister will extend his hand to peace to palestinians and concede that ending the israeli occupation over the palestinian territory we've also heard from the p.l.o. those 3 general about a party says that the main difference between the 2 contenders is that one benjamin netanyahu he wants to deepen and strengthen apartheid while the other benny gantz wants to deepen the status quo as in maintaining the israeli control and occupation of the occupied territory now if you talk about palestinians in the street it doesn't really seem that this is a method that they're concerned about if you talk to them they would tell y

well we'll get reaction from ramallah in the occupied west bank with abraham shortly but 1st let's cross to bernard smith in west jerusalem and said the race is still too close to call but what's changed compared to april's vote. well back in april darin benjamin netanyahu wasn't able to form a coalition and ordinarily what would have happened then is that the president would have offered benny gantz the chance to form a coalition but before the president was able to do that netanyahu dissolved parliament he took a gamble it's a gamble that has not paid off because now we have less seats in the knesset than we have before down to $32.00 fully could from 35 so netanyahu is crown is slipping but it's not fallen off it's not all over yet there will be weeks now of political horse trading and negotiations as somebody tries to form some sort of an agreement for a coalition that could either as harry suggest in his package result in the arab list for the 1st time ever recommending to the president who they think should be prime minister it could end up with a door lieberman annoying seeing som

be serious about this i think we do have to take him seriously let's bring in midst of a booty in ramallah do you take the israeli leader seriously when he says he my onyx the west bank or the jordan valley i do not agree with what i didn't agree with what was the you think it's very serious it's a bit dangerous bottle for purposes which is led by an opinion but there's actually. reflecting the actual behavior and policy of those aniston movement in israel. let's talk about realities and facts unprecedented level of expansion of israeli illegal settlements in the occupied territories an agreement between netanyahu and his government and trump steam which seems to be working for netanyahu more than working for trump to implement his ideas the coalition of jerusalem as a couple of israel as a condition of the annexation of the golan heights. an attack on a new rule and cut of lot of funding from palestinian authority and united nations relief and works agency an actual plan to liquidate the palestinian refugee rights and an actual change in the american policy which stopped supporting the 2

into our bernard thank you for that let's cross over now to need to abraham who is live for us in ramallah media so what's the feeling there on the ground amongst palestinians does the election mean anything to them. it's safe to say that many of them have met it with a feeling of indifference yesterday the palestinian prime minister and some of the she spoke about the elections and said that there isn't much difference between between the 2 main characters in these elections saying that none of them had ending the occupation on their agenda we've also heard from the p.l.o. those 3 general saw it apart who says that these elections are between 2 people one who wants to deepen what he calls up or tied meaning benjamin netanyahu and another meaning bennigan's who wants to continue and preserve this that the school as in keeping the israeli occupation of the palestinian territory now if we move from the official level to the palestinians on the street it doesn't seem that this is an issue as they follow they believe that whatever comes next the situation is not going to get any better even if

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 tell you that the main 2 characters in these elections are 2 faces for this same coins in the same coin in the way they

hospital in jerusalem and the suffered franken ribs and kidney failure protesters turned out in ramallah on sunday to support and other prisoners accusing israel of barbarism and 2 others have been arrested from bomb attack in occupied and the occupied west bank that killed an israeli teenager last month while tensions remain high in haiti on sunday opposition leaders renewed calls for more protests to pressure the president to resign the ongoing unrest is having a major impact on the lives of regular citizens when your pal reports from the capital port au prince. for weeks protest against haitian president should no noise have paralyzed much of the capital port au prince. over the weekend in an easy call returned to the city with debris from roadblocks still littering the streets having a motorbike was the most efficient way to get around we visited the shanty town of the poorest slum in the city. there we met 65 year old so lend-lease the living conditions in her neighborhood are far from sanitary and many of her family members are sick. she tells us she remembers a time when she had s

now mostafa barghouti who is the secretary general of the palestinian national initiative he is in ramallah nice to see you. not to downplay at all the seriousness of what prime minister netanyahu is proposing here but isn't the west bank in many ways already an extent occupied there are israeli settlements everywhere how would this change would it change the reality this is a major change because you are talking about annexing one 3rd of the west bank to israel making it an israeli area and the other colleague of his the netanyahu his ally is talking about annexing 2 thirds of those bank which is called idiocy in my opinion this is death to agreement this is a death toll to the idea of 2 state solution and unless something dramatic happens in the form of immediate sanctions on israel to stop these actions we are talking about the zionist israeli movement implementing its original old plans of annexing the whole west bank and of killing the possibility of palestinian statehood and consolidating our system of. apartheid which is much worse than what developed in south africa that is the real

thanks so much bernard smith fair now brahim has the palestinian reaction from ramallah in the occupied west bank. palestinians are receiving the news of the israeli elections and their results with a lot of indifference yesterday the palestinian prime minister mohammed if they talk about that in his speech in bethlehem he said the 2 mean contenders do not have an ending the israeli occupation over the palestinian territory on their agendas but the p.l.o. secretary general. has said the main difference between the 2 main contenders is that one meaning benjamin netanyahu wants to deepen what he called the apartheid and the other meaning benny gantz who wants to continue and preserve the status quo which is reso occupation of the palestinian territory now moving to the palestinian street that hasn't been really following the news of the elections and the results they don't really see that their lives is going to get any better at recent poll by a palestinian research center has found that their main concern among palestinians is their financial situation being able to pay the bills really

palestinian conflict should end very force an al-jazeera west jerusalem and that abraham has more from ramallah in the occupied west bank now. the palestinian president mahmoud abbas said that if israel moves forward with its plans to annex parts of the occupied west bank then he will end all agreements signed with israel and that him if occasions this is not the 1st time for him to wage such threats however the feeling here among palestinian officials is that this is not an elections campaign and they believe that this has been a coordinated step with the u.s. administration p.l.o. executive committee member at hand i should always said that this is a game changer this is a serious threat to peace and security and she said it shows the intention the long term intention by the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu for ethnic cleansing other palestinian officials have called in the international community to intervene saying it's up to the world to defend its rules meanwhile israel is launched a series of airstrikes on gaza the israeli army says 15 targets were hit officials say the strikes

cherry semi bourbon smith from west jerusalem now on the day brahim has the palestinian reaction from ramallah in the occupied west bank. palestinians are receiving the news of the israeli elections and their results with a lot of indifference yesterday the palestinian prime minister mohammed if they talk about that in his speech in bethlehem he said that to mean contenders do not have an ending the israeli occupation over the palestinian territory on their agendas but the p.l.o. secretary general. has said the main difference between the 2 main contenders is that one meaning benjamin netanyahu wants to deepen what he called the apartheid and the other meaning benny gantz who wants to continue and preserve the status quo which is reso occupation of the palestinian territory now moving to the palestinian street that hasn't been really following the news of the elections and the results they don't really see that their lives is going to get any better at recent poll by a palestinian research center has found that their main concern among palestinians is their financial situation being able to pa

brahim has more from ramallah in the occupied west bank the palestinian president mahmoud abbas said that if israel moves forward with its plans to annex parts of the occupied west bank then he will end all agreements signed with israel and if occasions this is not the 1st time for him to wage such threats however the feeling here among palestinian officials is that this is not an elections campaign and they believe that this has been a coordinated step with the u.s. administration p.l.o. executive committee member at hand i should always said that this is a game changer this is a serious threat to peace and security and she said it shows their intention the long term intention by the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu for ethnic cleansing other palestinian officials have called in the international community to intervene saying it's up to the world to defend its rules meanwhile israel has launched a series of air strikes on gaza the israeli army says 15 targets were hit officials say the strikes were in response to rockets launched from gaza or on tuesday there were no report

very and this and what that have to put into practice for how to act to mad dash to the land in ramallah fia can you not get at. him the richest man half. brother not the civil but young and those in the other doesn't foresee you know less about this but the death did well. i think all they have booked year frank sinatra then elvis pristiq did i manage with best he can on who have booked year. william i can hold you can know my bad stuff a baccalaureate i can shoot a money illegally shushi it beyond a mini yamuna of so. vigorous a brouhaha a cinema or binge half a minute. annually in new. york and. in this trouble. this it's rather. obvious where it. came from what you. haven't. from jordan the p.l.o. had moved to lebanon where yasser arafat was now based but when they gradually took control of the south of the country and of west beirut this upset lebanon's fragile political balance. arafat had the support of the lebanese national movement led by kemal jumblatt. but arafat wanted relationships across the political spectrum and made a show of reaching out to figures like pierre gemayel o

that is trying to destroy us from the inside and for me that place is in the best case scenario in ramallah as parliament's not in the israeli knesset that's why we won't be able to recommend a blue and white leader benny gantz either both parties both in that in now who and . gantz don't have enough to make a majority even even when as the backing of the list the person who is the king banker is lieberman 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 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 the elections or the momentum that led to it at least so we really are in a stalemate having said that we know that the president of israel is very keen to form a national joint national government of likud and blue and white the fact that the israeli arab vote came out much more it was about 10 percent higher than it did last time and the voices we've heard today is actually showing that isra

bethlehem and also today there was a demonstration and front of the government's headquarters in ramallah so it's a huge debate now into the scene and also on arab media. this debate now is about honor killing they want to people want to draw attention to this phenomenon in the arab countries and a. lot of echoes in and media. thank you very much for being us information on that story which is causing such a debate in the palace and trees in the region thanks for. to the industry and around there have been when it was desperate for a home victory against house there after losing their 1st 2 matches this season a man from japan ended up making all the difference to the outcome. there the braman coach florian co felt received the backing of the fans after a bad start to the season they were looking for their 1st points against out there with europe their aim this term. and the home crowd soon had something to shout out yet asako making it one nil after just 6 minutes out those defensive line was far too high. but the visitors hit back stefan like china finding fellow serious reuben vagas fo

hospital in jerusalem and have suffered broken ribs and kidney failure protesters turned out in ramallah on sunday in support of our beat and other prisoners accusing israel of barbarism and 2 others have been arrested for a bomb attack in the west bank that killed in a sweaty teenager last month. violence technical failures and disillusionment had a dramatic impact on afghanistan's presidential election the estimated voter turnout on saturday was less than 25 percent there were nearly 70 attacks across the whole country at least 5 people were killed and hundreds injured but it has been the u.s. response to those attacks that has angered many afghans as tony berkeley reports. show the u.s. retaliation for the taliban's election day attacks was swift but according to locals in the province a bomb from an american drone attack killed 6 men and injured 2 others because she didn't have anything to do all civilians 5 of them were killed on the spot and the 6th one was told the hospital where he died one is my son and the other one is my brother amongst them and i am sunday angry locals protes

in jerusalem and has suffered a broken ribs and a kid and kidney failure protesters turned out in ramallah on sunday in support of our beat and other prisoners accusing israel of barbarism beat and 2 others have been arrested for a bomb attack in the west bank that killed an israeli teenager last month to he says it shot down a drone on the border with syria after it repeatedly violated its airspace to fighter jets trying the aircraft that ankara says entered the turkish turkish province of killis 6 times it crashed near the it should make air base in the country south the air force says it doesn't know who the aircraft belongs to. violence technical failures and disillusionment have all had a dramatic impact on afghanistan's presidential election the estimated voter turnout on saturday was less than 25 percent there were nearly 70 attacks across the whole country at least 5 people were killed and hundreds injured but it's been the u.s.'s response to those attacks that has angered many afghans as tony berkley now reports. the u.s. retaliation for the taliban's election day attacks was swif

brahim has more from ramallah in the occupied west bank the palestinian president mahmoud abbas said that if israel moves forward with its plans to annex parts of the occupied west bank then he will end all agreements signed with israel and if occasions this is not the 1st time for him to wage such threats however the feeling here among palestinian officials is that this is not an elections campaign and they believe that this has been a coordinated step with the u.s. administration p.l.o. executive committee member at hand i should always said that this is a game changer this is a serious threat to peace and security and she said it shows their intention the long term intention by the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu for ethnic cleansing other palestinian officials have called in the international community to intervene saying it's up to the world to defend its rules meanwhile is rose launched a series of airstrikes on gaza the israeli army says 15 targets were hit officials say the strives for a response to rockets launched from gaza on tuesday no reports of casualties dona

abraham has the palestinian reaction from ramallah. it's safe to say that many of them have met it with a feeling of indifference yesterday the palestinian prime minister ahmed a stay you spoke about the elections and said that there isn't much difference between between the 2 main characters in these elections saying that none of them had ending the occupation on their agenda meanwhile a palestinian woman shot by israeli security forces in the occupied west bank has died of her injuries in hospital israeli media say she was seen waving a knife at the hollandia checkpoint witnesses say the woman lay on the ground for a loose 15 minutes without receiving medical help. iran's president says who thief ises launched an attack on the oil refineries in saudi arabia as a warning that it should withdraw from yemen some rouhani made the comments on wednesday alongside another denial iran was involved. as well the yemeni people reacted they hit a location they didn't hit hospitals so why are you up to it they didn't hit schools they didn't hit t

. >> anthony: elsewhere in the west bank, just outside of ramallah. >> anthony: meet betty sadeh andpeed sisters. the first all-female palestinian racing team. >> betty: hi. >> anthony: hi, i'm tony. >> betty: hi, betty. >> anthony: good to meet you. >> betty: when i'm riding a car, i'm the happiest girl ever. racing. it's in my blood. here in palestine it's very small. there's no roads, so when i drive i speed. i feel free. >> anthony: did you find that people underestimated you at first? >> betty: at the beginning, they could maybe make fun of us, but when we got good scores, we win our respect. >> anthony: now they know. >> betty: yeah. well, a car doesn't know if you're a woman or a man. >> anthony: yeah. >> betty: a lot of girls want to join us, the speed sisters. but some of the families are very reserved, they don't like their daughters to be between men racing, you know? palestine is a very reserved society. >> anthony: so are things getting better, staying the >> betty: you never know what's going to happen in palestine. one day it's good and the other day it's just, you nev

manager said it doesn't look good without power, nobody can buy any things and nobody can pump gas his ramallahre on your way to work and you're running low. what's your situation right now. we just found out the power was out we didn't realize we were low on gas and so we hope we have enough gas to make it to the station. could you work today with out howard you have your equipment that's surely powered by electricity. we're hopeful that they have a generator on site know again we weren't expecting any of this. >>let's take a look at just really want to show you parts of the north bay without power, it's a very fluid situation. so we do expect to update this as we move along throughout the morning. but these are the very latest locations in napa county we're talking calistoga lake berryessa in napa and sonoma county portions of santa rosa. there are locations or email that could possibly help you out as far as gas and electricity, if you need it community resource centers, including the calistoga napa fairgrounds and that's located at 1435 north oak street and the other is santa rosa veterans

arafat one time it's nicely i should say suggested to you and you buy a floor of rooms to stay in ramallah, even though you want to stay back at the king david or somewhere. you buy the room because that's the suggested way to get the meeting to last and you do it. that's third world stuff. >> one of the things that is alarming about what we discovered about the military spending money at trump turnberry is that it wasn't necessarily, it was alarming but it wasn't all that surprising that people around trump and in his cabinet and you know officials from different agencies were spending money at his resorts, perhaps to curry favor. it's not surprising foreign governments are doing it. be to you learn that the military and federal money is actually being spent at his property not only that but at this airport that's propping up this airport, which is necessary for trump turnberry survival that i think really took this to a new level. because we expect the military to be apolitical. >> what do they get out of it? some field general or colonel? a promotion out of this? >> we're still trying t

after an ass strike by the saudi led coalition which says it targeted to see rebels in the city of ramallah but the rebels say the facility was a prison housing inmates loyal to the un recognized government the u.n. special envoy for yemen martin griffiths has condemned the bombing and called for an inquiry or blood and money has more now. residents in damascus takes pleasure ship the city aid workers being pulling the dead and injured out of the rubble the how this plane was saudi a mirage a coalition fighting in yemen saying they targeted to previous university was being used as a detention center for prisoners of war the who they say people under lock and key were trapped at the palms. of the saudi coalition says the site was storing drones and missiles. i swear to god i don't know what happened we were sleeping at midnight and then there was about 3 or 4 airstrikes maybe 6 it was targeting the jail i really don't know how many times it got hit but it was targeting a detention center in the city of dymov we were $100.00 people on the ground level and around $150.00 at the upper level and

the lebanese armed group hezbollah says it's downed an israeli drone outside the border town of ramallah its fighters say they now have that drone israel and hezbollah exchange fire along the lebanese border just over a week ago and the u.s. says it's delivered enough our margins these supplies for 44000 people and the bahamas since hurricane dorian hit the u.s. warning conditions on the worst affected islands are rapidly getting worse. british prime minister boris johnson is expected to again oust parliament to approve a snap election on monday as he seeks to break the brics a deadlock johnson seeking a new mandate to get out of the e.u. by the end of october with or without dealing british airways pilots have a precedent strike action that will ground most of the carriers planes for 2 days that's likely to disrupt the travel plans of as many as 300000 people a company and its $4300.00 pilots have been locked in an increasingly bitter pay dispute thousands of schools students are forming human chains around hong kong this is in solidarity with the anti-government protesters authorities

a hospital in jerusalem and a suffered for can read and kidney failure protesters turned out in ramallahon sunday to support a beard and other prisoners accusing israel of barbarism to others had been arrested for a vama tack in the west bank that killed an israeli teenager last month. now violence technical failures and disillusionment have had a dramatic impact on afghanistan's presidential election the estimated voter turnout on saturday with less than 25 percent there were nearly 70 attacks across the country and at least 5 people were killed and hundreds injured but it's been the u.s. response to those attacks that has angered many afghans as tony betty reports. show us retaliation for the taliban's election day attacks was swift but according to locals in ghastly province a bomb from an american drone attack killed 6 men and injured 2 others because i don't have i don't think they were all civilians father they were killed on the spot and the 6th one was told the hospital where he died one is my son and the other one is my brother amongst them and i and sunday angry locals proteste

thunderstorms to flash flooding particularly on the high ground the marsh the stuff in this part of ramallah but beyond that it's a quite picture throughout the arabian peninsula we haven't got any more active weather in southern africa to be ours this is a frontal system a sport a lot of cloud up to the eastern cape there's been some rain generated the might be a little bit more as well the picture is still a rather cold breeze coming up from the size but you still got 21 in cape town. i asked quickly prepares to exit the e.u. people in power investigates disturbing allegations about the tactics used by the winning campaign we know that the law was broken and we know that campaigns over spent we know that russia tried to build a relationship with one of the key campaigns who paid could breaks it people in power on al-jazeera. growing up in harsh and unforgiving circumstances children learned to play dangerous games they said if i throw stones they'll destroy the house and take me worn down by frustration and broken promises young men living under the constant threat of imprisonment big took

simeon says he's now on a respirator as a whole as a hospital in jerusalem protesters turned out in ramallah on sunday in support of argued and other prisoners accusing israel of barbarism and at least one person has died after a fire broke out in an overcrowded migrant camp on the greek island of less boss protesting refugees and migrants at moria camp are demanding to be transferred to mainland greece well those are the headlines now it's back to head to head. welcome back you're watching we head to head on al-jazeera english my guest today is erik prince the founder former c.e.o. of blackwater also a big supporter of and donor to president donald trump erik i want to talk to you about your relationship with present moment but before i do just very briefly your currently executive deputy chairman of frontier services group f s g a hong kong based security logistics firm that you found it why is f s g opening a training center for security guards in of all places province in china where up to a 1000000 muslim we are being held in basically concentration camps right now there is a lot of mis

netanyahu for issuing what he calls illegal and unlawful message more from nader abraham now she is in ramallah in the occupied west bank.

and the rights of the jewish people compel me to think about a palestinian child in ramallah who feels trapped without opportunity. what jewish values teach me. that is what the judeo-christian tradition is about. judeo-christian tradition is about. these things are connected. [applause] >> thank you. now, we are going to look at president trump's words in the aftermath of the horrific shooting at the tree of life synagogue in 2018. here we go. evildent trump: this anti-semitic assault is an assault on all of us. it is an assault on humanity. it will require all of us working together to extract the hateful poison of anti-semitism from our world. anti-semitic attack at its worst. the scorch of anti-semitism cannot be ignored, cannot be tolerated, and it cannot be allowed to continue. we cannot allow it to continue. >> finally, we have president thep as he speaks about strength of the amber a between the united states and israel on march 20 5, 2019. president trump: under my administration, the unbreakable alliance between the united states and israel has never been stronger. you breath