and that's now the move breaks a 27 year long policy of not backing any candidate president groovin rivlin continues talks with parties today before inviting one of the 2 rivals to form a government also it has more from jerusalem. well the head of the joint list the mainly palestinian israeli grouping of parties says that they have made history here at the israeli president's residence here in west jerusalem this sunday just days after his reelection by recommending a candidate for the prime minister of israel they say they're recommending benny gantz to be that prime minister it's the 1st time since 1992 that such a grouping has made such a recommendation and i'm annoyed i said it was after years of being diligent to my eyes by the administration of benjamin netanyahu that they had to take part they had to act to end that era but let's assume long enough with the we usually do not endorse israeli prime minister is so without doubt there is an historical side to what we are doing now we want to put an end to the era of benjamin netanyahu therefore will endorse spinny gantz to form the nex

go to a 2nd attempt perhaps even a 3rd and then the thing looming behind all of it that president rivlin says he wants to avoid at all costs a 3rd election dozens of people have rallied in the egyptian city of suez calling for president abdul fattah el-sisi to resign let's show you the latest pictures of demonstrations in the coastal city on sunday some parts of the country have seen protests against government corruption over the last 2 nights activists say 365 people were arrested during the demonstrations egypt's media of thora he has warned journalists it's monitoring coverage of the protests to ensure they abide by quote professional codes. well meanwhile an egyptian rights lawyer says prosecutors have ordered the brother of a u.s. based egyptian activist to remain in custody for 15 days in cairo hasn't gone him was arrested on thursday and detained on allegations that he joined in outlawed group and spread false news his brother while going to lead a facebook page that helped ignite the 2011 uprising he says his brother's arrest was retaliation for his recent criticisms of presiden

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

hold the move breaks a 27 year long policy of not backing any candidate president groovin rivlin continues talks with parties today before making the final pick for prime minister let's bring in our harry fawcett in jerusalem for us so harry the negotiations continue how long until there's a new government. that's a pick question and it's one that a lot of people here trying to speculate on and try and work out but we just don't know what we do know is that that yes these negotiations continue that the joint list has broken with it's as you say near 3 decades worth of policy by making this recommendation some interesting detail though emerging this morning that the joint is made up of 4 separate parties and one of them which has 3 of the 13 seats in the can you in the new knesset they have said that they are withdrawing their specific nominations or just beats and if the president a louse that splits in numbers to take place it will be 10 recommendations rather than 13 there is the most nationalist of those 4 may be palestinian israeli parties so that if that were allowed that would bring

so it will be for israel's president reuven rivlin to find a way through the political past correspondent in jerusalem talk me through his efforts to bring the 2 sides together he called again today to all the party does but particularly to the leaders of the 2 a bigger parties you know to try to come out of this stalemate we also understand from statement coming out of the president's office today that he will start consultations with the party leaders already on sunday so all the party leaders will come to him and they recommend they want to see being tasked to form the next a coalition this could take 23 days maybe more because it is a complicated situation then has to wait for the moment the official results being released on wednesday and then you could start actually to task the person you think is most suited to form this coalition government interesting. thank you. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world tunisia's ousted president as they have a dream ben ali has died in exile in saudi arabia who are going to his lawyers he ruled the country

the attetention is now shiftingo prpresident rivlin, who today hs appear to get to all the partyy leaders but mainly to benjamin netanyahu and benenny gantz to o their best to get out of the stalalemate. what is happening on sunday, the president will start consultations with all the party leaders. they will come one after the next, and they will make recommendations as to who they want to see form the next coalition government. this process might usually take two to three days, but becausese it is suchch a complicated situation, it might take a bit longer. stay the official election results are expected to be published, and then president rivlin could announce who he will test with forming this coalition. there was a lot of pressure on him with this because everybody also wants to avoid going foror otother elecection sometime e s. brent: understandably so. we know that netanyahu has suggested that he and gantz could do a so-called premiership swap after two years. is that out of the queuestion? tania:a: well, mr. netanyahu was referrrring to a unity governmet in the 1980's, where there w

going to say who day recommend to the president to try to form a government at that stage president rivlin will say who he's going to task with that job and that person has about 40 days to have all these sort of meetings and horse trading and to try to come up with this government if it is not allowed can't make it after 40 days then that person either gives it back. to the president and says i couldn't make it you need to toss someone else or does what benjamin did that and yet it did. back in april when he couldn't form a government is actually dissolved the parliament and called for another round of elections now president rivlin has been very clear that the last thing he wants to see israelis going back to the ballot box is in a few months because this situation wasn't solve this all right to hold a bill he then western the motor will come but you of course when we hear from ben against but for the time being thank you. dozens of people have died in 2 separate attacks in afghanistan the mess try carried out by government forces with u.s. air support has killed at least 20 people in th

it may well go to a 2nd attempt but even a further thing looming behind all of it that president rivlin says he wants to avoid at all costs a furred election trading on egypt's stock exchange was suspended for 30 minutes on sunday after the e g x $100.00 dropped by 5 percent say the fall is linked to the protests which broke out in cairo and other cities on friday and saturday thousands of people rallied to demand the resignation of president abdel fattah el-sisi over corruption allegations against him dozens were arrested during the demonstrations and egypt's media authority has warned journalists it's monitoring coverage of the protests to ensure they abide by quote professional codes well meanwhile an egyptian rights lawyer says prosecutors have ordered the brother of a u.s. based to gyptian activist to remain in custody for 15 days in cairo hasn't gone in was arrested on thursday and detained on allegations he joined an outlawed group and spread false news his brother while going to lead a facebook page that helped ignite the 2011 uprising he says his brother's arrest was retaliatio

reuven rivlin excuse me with a lot she take revenge on benjamin netanyahu. at they often this article imagine you are eighty years old and devoted your life to a cool with the father and grandfather believed in. and then a rival tentacles upside down in a way you find a warrant. now they say that he missed his chance before when he could have taken that away from benjamin netanyahu that wondering what he will do the same thing. again and this time around perhaps at it could be different. one word of caution there and this is an important one. from this at jerusalem based journalist. hey guys just remind a drinknk be like blue ad white in april doesn't believe the exit polls our actual results because of course. back in april. doesn't seem all that long ago when we lost out israeli election. people making the wrong predictions say we will have to wait and see exactly how thiss one. turns out indeed in our analysis and reaction. continues we move on to of real change tone now. a fury and stick to. the american version of the program dancing with the stars. yes

go to a 2nd attempt perhaps even a 3rd and then the thing looming behind all of it that president rivlin says he wants to avoid at all costs a 3rd election trading on egypt's stock exchange was suspended for 30 minutes on sunday after the e g x $100.00 dropped by 5 percent or less said the fall is linked to the protests which broke out in cairo and other cities on friday and saturday thousands of people rallied to demand the resignation of president of the fattah el-sisi over corruption allegations against him activists say 365 were arrested during the demonstrations egypt's media authority has also warned journalists it's monitoring coverage of the protests to ensure they abide by quote professional codes well meanwhile an egyptian rights lawyer says prosecutors aboard the brother of a u.s. based egyptian activist remain in custody for 15 days in cairo hasn't gone and was arrested on thursday and detained on allegations that he joined an outlawed group and spread false news his brother while going to him led a facebook page that helped ignite the 2011 uprising he says his brother's arre

go to a 2nd attempt perhaps even a 3rd and then the thing looming behind all of it that president rivlin says he wants to avoid at all costs a 3rd election yemen's hutu rebels say a saudi led coalition air strike has killed 5 civilians from a single family he owned misery a t.v. says the airstrikes hit a mosque in the province of armor and u.s. house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff says congress baby forced to pursue impeachment if it's confirmed president trump pressured ukraine to investigate democratic presidential hopeful joe biden those are the headlines the news continues here on out of there after sand wars. we bought the house about c. years ago hoping that we would be able to retire here but from here you could see how much sand we've lost underneath the house. the world is running out of sand consumed by industry and construction stolen and transported by criminal mafias around the world that dot com would have been employed to. put a greater video i like that i was simply. washed away by rising sea levels. being in the middle of the indian ocean for the last 5000 u

israel's president let out the caretaker prime minister to announce a result he'd been trying to avoid rivlin wanted benjamin netanyahu to form a national unity government with his main rival benny gantz those talks failed and instead he chose the man with a bigger potential coalition bloc to have the 1st chance at forming a government. decision on who should be handed the task of forming the government depends on who has more chance to succeed currently 55 supported knesset member latanya he and if the 4 supported knesset member benny gantz. said they wouldn't sit with him in their government before the announcement a 2nd meeting between netanyahu and dance at the president's home serve merely to confirm what was already clear the talks between the parties had gone nowhere my the man reportedly willing to go 2nd in a rotational prime minister agreement netanyahu said he would continue to push for such a deal within days the pressure is on his 1st and hearings on corruption charges a jew next week. the call you mormon doctrine of totally out of the utmost with the mandate you gave me if i don

rivlin does get the chance to be very political in this particular moment.ng to invite one of these two men to try to form a government, probably in the next two days. whomever rivlin picks will have six weeks to unusual with the other parties and if that person fails rivlin can give the other candidate a turn and israelis could have to return to the polls and that would make for an unprecedented three elections in less than a year. but here is the real drama behind all of this, phillip, not only is netanyahu fighting for his political life but he's kind of fighting for his freedom because netanyahu faces three different corruption investigations with court hearings and the possibility of an indictment on at least one of them due as soon as next month. staying in the prime minister's office is actually one of the best, one of the only real ways for netanyahu to stay immune from prosecution, to avoid that indictment that everybody in israel thinks is inevitable. so gantz has already said he won't join a government, as you mentioned, with netanyahu, as long as

ok but what about president rivlin i mean we mentioned him already in this program obviously he's going to be giving a mandate to whichever candidate he believes will be able to form the government but is there any indication on what he will do at this point. i think that what he has been already doing is trying to get one of the leaders of the really couldn't talk. of the early could traction to come up with an idea how really could and blue and white can join together and. try to get a solution to an attorney i was probably an internet go became actually now a nuisance for italy could personally so for instance what he can offer is that netanyahu will take some time out from politics to deal with his own problems with the corruption cases that are following him and if he is cleared if. after the he is indicted they were of course have to stand trial but if he is acquitted he can go back and then they can even sign a coalition agreement that well allow guns to be the prime minister for a year or 2 and netanyahu will have a vacancy there if he's acquitted this is one possibility what i

ok but what about president rivlin i mean we mentioned him already in this program obviously he's going to be giving a mandate to whichever candidate he believes will be able to form the government but is there any indication on what he will do at this point. i think that what he has been already doing is trying to get one of the leaders of the really couldn't talk. of the early could traction to come up with an idea how really could and blue and white can join together and. try to get a solution to netanyahu problem to know became actually now a nuisance for italy could personally so for instance what he can offer is that netanyahu will take some time out from politics to deal with his own problems with the corruption cases that are following him and if he is cleared if. after the he is indicted they were of course have to stand trial but if he is acquitted he can go back and then they can even sign a coalition agreement that well allow guns to be the prime minister for a year or 2 and netanyahu will have a vacancy there if he's acquitted this is one possibility what i don't believe th

president let out the caretaker prime minister to announce a result he'd been trying to avoid riven rivlin wanted benjamin netanyahu to form a national unity government with his main rival benny gantz those talks failed and instead he chose the man with a bigger potential coalition bloc to have the 1st chance at forming a government give it melissa block of education who should be handed the task of forming the government depends on who has more chance to succeed currently 55 supported knesset member latanya he and if the 4 supported knesset member benny gantz 10 of them said they wouldn't sit with him in their government before the announcement a 2nd meeting between netanyahu and dance at the president's home serve merely to confirm what was already clear the talks between the parties had gone nowhere neither man reportedly willing to go 2nd in a rotational prime minister agreement netanyahu said he would continue to push for such a deal within days the pressure is on his 1st document hearings on corruption charges a jew next week. called the moment doctrine of totally out of the utmost w

wants a coalition without mr netanyahu and with himself as prime minister israel's presence or reuven rivlin is due to start consultations on sunday. straight to jerusalem that will be joined contravention to tanya cram a welcome time it so could you outline for us bet against his vision for a unity government but basically he said in this statement today is an answer to. benyamin netanyahu and the taishan to start talks about a unity government he said we won the election blue and white won the elections and there were new figures released today by the election commission giving blue and white 33 seats. against $31.00 for the likud and he said so it is us who was said to terms for such. talks and he also said and that is most important of course that if such a unity government would be funded it would be under his leadership and that puts of course an end possibly to the thought that mr. netanyahu had of having maybe over tasting a premiership mr netanyahu already said he was disappointed by this response. so mr netanyahu is disappointed but could he still get on board with this idea here h

well short of the 61 seats needed for a majority in israel's 120 seat parliament president ruben rivlin now has to decide who has the best chance of forming a coalition he says he'll do all he can to avoid an unprecedented 3rd vote but the current split of seats and loyalties means there's no obvious alliance that can get those $61.00 seats or a force that reports. a symbolic handshake between rival would be prime ministers benjamin netanyahu and benny gantz choreographed by israel's president reuben rivlin at a memorial for shimon peres a man who held both positions really doesn't have direct political power but he does have influence and in the current deadlock a lot of freedom of action in who to give the 1st chance of forming a government and i hear loud and clear the voices calling for broad and stable national unity government and i cannot gradually to you mr prime minister and joining that call this morning now don't you know who recalled the deal done between peres and his political rival yet section near to share the premiership on a rotating basis in the mid 1980 s. a clear hi

well go to a 2nd attempt babs even a ferdinand the thing looming behind all of it that president rivlin says he wants to avoid at all costs a 3rd election still ahead on al-jazeera we do want a peaceful resolution of this that's our objective america's top diplomat says the u.s. wants to avoid a war with iran and sending additional troops to the gulf is for defense and deterrence r.t. vibrant. warm span from the u.s. indian prime minister narendra modi receives a warm welcome from president donald trump. the reins if any have you in the caucasus or a particularly around georgia from the system that brought it to support east was so is almost gone unfortunately in the forecast he strongly once again occasional showers just about possible in his back i would put your hat on it to be honest there's not much of a strong breeze ah there's the temp she's a little bit varying with the sunshine with comfort interrogative 34 runner up the 40 mark in baghdad at its heart if you're down towards kuwait in fact still miss part or if she were asked as part of iran temps are in the high forty's that's

that means the arithmetic means president rivlin will have to look at something else stho thanks a lot for that, sam kiley, for us in jerusalem this morning. >>> defense officials were ordered to plan potential responses but the white house is waiting for the saudi kingdom's rulers to decide on a next step, sources saying they want no knee-jerk reaction to it. what happens with patience is it prevents stupid moves. nic robertson is joining us. good morning. what are the saudis say? >> reporter: good morning. it appears the saudis are agreeing. almost certainly these attacks were backed by iran, but they, too, say they're not rushing into any action. they want to proceed through diplomacy, that they want to proceed and follow a thorough investigation. indeed he, what we've heard from saudi officials down the line so far, they want international support. they're appealing to the u.n., to the uk, to the international allies to join in the investigation. they're not rushing to a war footing here. we are expected to hear the evidence behind the assurance that iran made these weapons. later

or political developments in israel where the president riven rivlin has tossed a long time prime minister benjamin netanyahu with assembling a new government following last week's deadlocked election netanyahu still has no clear path to a 5th term after emerging from the september 17th ballot without a parliamentary majority harry false reports from west jerusalem. israel's president let out the caretaker prime minister to announce a result he'd been trying to avoid riven rivlin wanted benjamin netanyahu to form a national unity government with his main rival benny gantz those talks failed and instead he chose the man with a bigger potential coalition bloc to have the 1st chance at forming a government edict military decision on who should be handed a tartar form of the government depends on who has more chance to succeed currently 55 supported knesset member netanyahu in 54 supported knesset member benny gantz however 10 of them said they wouldn't sit with him in a government before the announcement a 2nd meeting between netanyahu and dance at the president's home serve merely to confirm

well yes that's something that the president riven rivlin has said he wants to avoid but he wants to see a government formed quickly and one that that harnesses that the will of the people as expressed in this vote so there is given those comments given lieberman's comments given the expected sort of propensity as far as doing what is concerned for for some kind of. potentials of centrist secular administration there is a lot of weight behind that idea but the sticking point is very likely to be next in yahoo's own position i mean one potential option that's been talked about is some kind of a rotating premiership between benny gantz and netanyahu but with his corruption cases in the offing. his 1st. korean dykeman hearing just next week that complicates matters still further thank you very much harry for sit there look at party headquarters. crude oil prices have dropped by 5 percent up to saudi arabia announced it's restored 50 percent of the production was caught following saturday's drone attacks a saudi energy minister says output will be fully restored by the end of the month y

1st step will be to wait for the final result and there will be a meeting with israeli president rivlin who should be tasking benny gantz. government he could also decide to actually go for the national unity government rooted in that case he will be probably also benjamin netanyahu and that's where the problem could arise simply because benny gantz made it very clear throughout this campaign and the previous campaign that he would never be in the same government as benjamin netanyahu. despite failing to come close to the majority mark netanyahu remained defiant. it's better to lose one's voice. than to lose the country. we have stood together in unity through our relations and we will stand together in all the. tasks which are in front of us for the sake of the state of israel. are a force that has more from the prime minister's liquid party headquarters in tel aviv. well benjamin netanyahu is leaving the stage now having made a speech of defiance a speech way talks about negotiating towards a strong zionist government one which would not be made up he said of arabs he continues his ve

elite and certainly the country's president is trying to avoid the country's president hoover and rivlin he is the one who will actually approach the leader who has the most number of votes and toss them 1st with seeing whether or not they can put together a majority coalition government not only rivlin did say that he was going to do everything possible to try and avoid a 3rd round actually suggesting that he would extend the deadline given to the party leaders to try and come together and form this majority coalition but we might have a scenario that simply there i'm able to do this there is a sense of voter apathy here simply talking to israelis a lot off the straighted that we even head to elections in 6 months and there's not going to be a lot of support in the country for another round of. a further 5 or 6 months from here it's costing the country a lot of money and at the same time it's yielding no new results yeah i mean if we look at the the attempt to forge a coalition one of them was with a big dog and that failed so although any other allies that netanyahu can turn to to rede

case the kingmaker could be israel but a news leader avigdor lieberman israel's president reuben rivlinwill then decide who will get the job if engine that's in yahoo loses it is at risk of being jailed for alleged corruption harry fawcett has been following the elections from tel aviv . the music blared benjamin netanyahu smiles but more than 5 hours after voting finished it was clear this was no victory even if he was far from ready to admit defeat with. a government committed to the jewish state where neither will nor can there be a government that relies on. arab parties but the exit polls suggest he doesn't have the numbers to dictate he may not be given 1st chance to form a government 5 months ago benjamin netanyahu waited several hours before making his speech waiting for the numbers to swing in his favor this time he's waited longer for the numbers appeared to this one in the other direction for 5 months ago he made a victory speech this time it was a speech of defiance it seems clear that his grip on power has weakened it's a beating time at the opposition blue and white headqu

go to a 2nd attempt perhaps even a 3rd and then the thing looming behind all of it that president rivlin says he wants to avoid at all costs a 3rd election. still ahead on al-jazeera we do want a peaceful resolution of this that's our objective. america's top diplomat says the u.s. wants to avoid war with iran and sending additional troops to the gulf is for defense and the turns already have. one span from the u.s. indian prime minister narendra modi receives a warm welcome from president donald trump. hello the winter weather warning has been lifted from montana without an indication of how cold the air was at least a tide but the cold and warm junction a frontal system if you like is still there and that's a line of potentially heavy rains but asunder mixed in trusting slowly east was such that by the time dawn breaks on monday the stay be a lot of showers back through tuck texas and across the border into mexico and then fading off into the distance but his principle point is to reduce the temp is ahead of it as it goes through the ahead of it it's 33 in washington if you don't get f

go to a 2nd attempt perhaps even a 3rd and then the thing looming behind all of it that president rivlin says he wants to avoid at all costs a 3rd election. donald trump is expected to make the u.s. his case against iran and his address to the u.n. general assembly next week he said he's not planning to hold talks with iran is leaders who will also be in new york but secretary of state mike brown payors says the u.s. government's policy on iran is to avoid war 100 has more details from washington. president donald trump is sounding newly optimistic about iran tremendous progress with was made with iran so we'll see we'll see but it's all going to work out always does we get it to work out if it doesn't sometimes takes a little longer but i get things to work out the u.s. rhetoric in general on iran has taken a turn toward diplomacy the u.s. secretary of state who initially accused iran of an act of war for last week's attack that have saudi arabia's oil production now says the u.s. seeks a diplomatic solution above all we do want a peaceful resolution of this that's our objective preside

both are well short of the 61 seats needed for a majority in israel's parliament president driven rivlin now asked to decide who has the best chance of forming a coalition he says he'll do all he can to avoid a 3rd vote are you force that has the details from. a symbolic handshake between rival would be prime ministers benjamin netanyahu and benny gantz choreographed by israel's president reuben rivlin at a memorial for shimon peres a man who held both positions really doesn't have direct political power but he does have influence and in the current deadlock a lot of freedom of action in who to give the 1st chance of forming a government and the show me i hear loud and clear the voices calling for broad and stable national unity government and i cannot gradually to you mr prime minister a drawing that call this morning now you know who recalled the deal done between peres and his political rival yet section near to share the premiership on a rotating basis in the mid 1980 s. a clear hint that he was seeking something similar after conceding earlier on thursday that he didn't have a way t

on israel's president has asked benjamin netanyahu to form a new government after president rubin rivlin met with it and yahoo as you see on screen and benny gantz scans finished just ahead of netanyahu and last streets general election but both of them short of winning a majority let's get some clarity hopefully with harry forsett now in west jerusalem harry how is it that the man who got fewer votes or whose party got fewer votes now gets to form the government or at least the 1st chance to form a government. clarity is a pretty scarce resources in israeli politics right now but i'll do my best netanyahu got 32 seats his party did in the elections gantz his blue and white party got 33 but the very quickly after the result and worked to form up what he said was an unbreakable sort of 'd alliance of right wing and religious parties which gave him $55.00 recommendations of members of the knesset the israeli parliament to form a government now hypothetically gantz had $54.00 because he had his own $33.00 plus another 11 from left of center parties plus another 10 from members of the joint

that they would recommend to president rivlin to to back door to ask benny gantz to form a government and as we heard and we have been saying over and over again in. the position of. or leave him and will be very important we do know that he has the backing of the leftist party we heard from. one of the party leaders saying that he would recommend. to the president to ask 1st benny gantz to give it a go to try to form that government but i'm sure there's a lot of negotiations that will be going on because this is the peculiarity of israeli elections you have these big parties they get a lot of seize big blocks in the knesset but then they have to rely on to smaller parties to be able to go past the threshold of 61 seats and actually become the ruling power in the countries or certainly a lot of negotiations going on but maybe there is a feeling behind closed doors that this time they might get a better chance of that. right now what is the president's role in all of this because he has spoken out and he said that he hopes that any coalition government will reflect the will of the peop

right wing natural allies down to some $53.00 and so that would give the president of israel riven rivlin the option and potentially the likelihood of getting benny gantz the 1st attempt at making a coalition government so a very serious situation for benjamin netanyahu well indeed harry and i want to ask you because president rivlin has made it very clear that he doesn't want a fat election and so is that likely to propel him to want to push for a coalition government regardless of what her sentence. certainly that's the that but that's certainly a pretty fair reading of the tweet that he put out fairly soon after polls closed he said that he wanted a government formed quickly one that reflected the will of the people as expressed in this vote and a situ. which would avert what he really doesn't want to see which is a 3rd election and he's not the only one who doesn't want to see now that the president has been broken and that the thing that everyone thought couldn't happen an election rerun has happened there is i think going to be a lot more room for creative thinking and compromise to

happening much now depends on the actions of president rivlin himself there'll be a 2nd round of meetings like this on monday after which at some stage over the course of the next week or so he will have to decide to whom he will give the 1st opportunity to form a coalition government if that fails then it may well go to a 2nd attempt perhaps even a 3rd and then the thing looming behind all of it that president rivlin says he wants to avoid at all costs a 3rd election there's more to come on this al-jazeera news hour including the desperate journeys that are dividing europe nations solution to the mediterranean migrant crisis and why some democrats are arguing that donald trump's alleged actions against joe biden could make a strong case for in each minute. that champion feeling the indy car season ends in california run home will have the. world's oldest travel company thomas cook has gone out of business leaving huge numbers of people stranded 600000 people are currently on holiday with the company and they're mainly from germany the u.k. france and scandinavian countries all telescoped

political and security consultancy the truman national security project and he explains why president rivlin appointed netanyahu. at this point and essentially every one of the likud all the likud ministers are fully. sworn allegiance to it's now with sensually so the idea that they're going to toss him overboard is a little farfetched but at the same time it's not outside the realm of possibilities the reality is that president rivlin has very limited power as the president of israel which is mostly a figurehead role but what he does have a role in is the specific issue and there's one thing that we can be assured of in that's that he is doing everything in his power to prevent a 3rd election in 2019 so and he's a former member of the likud obviously so if it turns that he needs to pressure likud ministers to throw nets now over the edge that may happen but i think the fact that he gave nothing out of the 1st crack at creating a government is. both good and bad it's sort of there is nothing i would be able to put something together that everybody kind of suspects is impossible but at the sa

go to a 2nd attempt perhaps even a 3rd and then the thing looming behind all of it that president rivlin says he wants to avoid at all costs a 3rd election. the world's oldest travel company is on the verge of collapse with the leaders threatening to pull out of a $1000000000.00 rescue deal. from britain's thomas cook had been holding talks with creditors in london and a last ditch effort to keep the company alive without an agreement hundreds of thousands of people could be left stranded on holiday and 20000 jobs could be lost catherine stansell has this report. it's britain's oldest travel company operating in more than a dozen countries with $19000000.00 customers a year but thomas cook struggled to be profitable. despite a $1000000000.00 injection of cash earlier this year the company said on friday it needed an additional $250000000.00 to stave off collapse for barclays well they contain a very bad news for the 600000 people around the world on thomas cook holidays when word spread about the dire financial situation this hotel in tunis briefly refused to let holiday makers leave dem

lead over daily could party then is the big question can it form a coalition if indeed president rivlin asked benny gantz to form a coalition can it form a new government that's where many people were a bit suspicious and where a bit wondering if that could really happen they thought that benjamin netanyahu is a much shrewder politician that he already had the unwavering support of the far right and so that he had maybe more chances even though just a few months ago it was proven that he didn't have that capability and the current political framework here in israel still. many of the blue and white supporters were wondering if he actually benny gantz could actually do that form that new government but as harry said these are exit polls everything can change or you can have numbers going up and down and then you still also have the variable of president rivlin has said he can actually choose to whom he will asked to form the government it doesn't necessarily need to be the party would a person who got most of both he can choose whoever he wants to and to ask him was trying to form that g

well because according to riven rivlin he has affirmed and bess a number of potential coalition partners in these ready knesset than the numbers recommending. benjamin netanyahu for the prime minister's job offered 5 compared to 54 for benny gantz and 10 of those 54 for benny gantz from the many palestinian israeli joint list who said they wouldn't actually sit in a government karaoke sorry i'm going to interrupt. because we've got more developments to do with donald trump and the impeachment situation here he is with the ukrainian president obama's event ski. after earlier. and it's an honor to be with you and we spoke a couple of times as you probably remember. they'd like to hear every single word we hear them every single word and then assemble one of us today and i think the press would like to stay in the media that we have left which is like. that but the country. our country is doing an hourly well we are we have the best economy we've ever had if you let's do it well and we are we have the best economy we've ever had we have the best employment numbers that we've ever had we hav

the cherry by which stage all sorts of compromises could be made to try to avert what rep president rivlin and many others don't want which is a 3rd election within the course of less than a year right so among the multiple permutations that are possible what about the position of the palestinian israelis who is who turned out to vote in higher numbers than they have in the past. they did well certainly much higher than they did in the previous election 60 percent versus just under 50 percent and much of that much focus is on today on the workings of the joint list they are the the majority arab the majority palestinian israeli parties and there are there are 4 parties that make up this alliance they are sitting at the moment to decide whether or not to recommend benny gantz as prime minister that would be something that hadn't happened from a majority palestinian party since 1992 when they recommended. bein so this time around we understand there is a vote that is going to take place so there's obviously some disagreement or dissension within those parties as to whether to make this very

devastating now to some of the other stories making news around the world israeli president robin rivlin has asked benyamin netanyahu to form a new government the move comes after death lots of elections last week that's in yahoo's likud party came in. behind the blue and white party led by benny gantz neither leader has been able to put together a coalition with a majority in the israeli parliament. human rights groups in egypt say that more than a 1000 people have been arrested in a crackdown after last friday's protests against the rule of president sisi he seized power in 2013 when the military took over from the democratically elected muslim brotherhood president mohamed morsi. rocket has docked at the international space station after blasting off from the back door space center in kazakhstan one of the 3 member crew is. the story from the united arab emirates he's making history by becoming the 1st arab astronaut on the i.s.a.'s. the un has issued even more drastic warnings due to catastrophic impact of climate change on the world's oceans a panel of scientists says unprecedented

well it's underway right now here at the presidential residence in west jerusalem president rivlin has already met with representatives of benny gantz as blue and white party because they came 1st in the election with 33 seats he's currently either is still or just has met with the new could delegation in the party of benjamin netanyahu and the news from both of those meetings is that rivlin is very clear that he wants to see a unity government between those 2 parties says that that is what the votes suggest and that the only way of having a stable national unity government is to have one composed mainly at least of likud and blue and white of course the big stumbling block in that is that blue and white campaigned very much on removing netanyahu replacing and you know saying that the corruption allegations against him the hate rhetoric which was referred to by law and one of the senior members of blue and white who is here that that was what voters had voted out so the question then looms for likud as to whether it is going to stick behind netanyahu it's representatives came in here s

has met with his political rival benny gantz after calling for a unity government president reuven rivlin brokered talks after last week's elections failed to prove a clear winner both sides have been looking for coalition partners. 2 people including a press photographer have been wounded in a confrontation outside haiti's senate building when a senator opened fire on opposition demonstrators this after hundreds of people marched on the building protesting food and fuel shortages. 5 european union countries have struck a deal on resettling migrants rescued from the mediterranean they grant reached in malta aims to help southern member states which take in the most refugees the full e.u. will discuss taking up the steam next month. on land at last in malta migrants rescued off the coast of libya a finally able to this embark on european soil in many cases asylum seekers have been stranded at sea for weeks while e.u. countries argue about who will take them. europe has wrangled for years over what should happen to migrants rescued at sea the e.u. has dublin agreement states that migrants m

now to some of the other stories making news around the world israeli president reuven rivlin has asked benyamin netanyahu to form a new government the move comes after a deadlocked elections last week netanyahu is likud party came in one seat behind the blue and white party led by benny gantz neither leader has been able to put together a coalition with a majority in the knesset. the families of $43.00 mexican students who vanished 5 years ago march through the country's capital it remains unclear what happened to the students who went missing after a confrontation with police officers investigators investigators are still looking for them international report found the initial mexican inquiry was flawed. approach to just so use rothera has docked with the international space station after blasting off from the space center in kazakhstan after the new crew among the new crew is on the story from the united arab emirates he's made history by becoming the 1st arab astronaut on the ideas. to be later. the most restrictive ban in the united states abortion ban united states is weakening is

israel president ruben rivlin has held consultations to form the next government after there was no clear winner in tuesday's elections and alliance of israeli arab political parties backing for military chief benny gantz as the next prime minister saying it's priority is to oust benjamin netanyahu from power. tens of thousands of people have joined a rally calling for a ban on abortions in slovakia abortions are currently allowed up to 24 weeks of pregnancy polman is set to debate to begin debating proposals to restrict the procedure later this month. in the us president donald trump has joined indian prime minister narendra modi for a rally in houston texas tens of thousands of indian americans were at hand for the event which was organized by muddies the waters it comes with modi facing international criticism over a recent crackdown in disputed kashmir. plans to build an enormous landfill in northern russia have enraged local residents the sites located in a remote forest near the arctic circle and opponents fear the waste could threaten the surrounding environment that spawned a gras

israeli president roof and rivlin is asking prime minister benjamin netanyahu to form a new government on the move comes after deadlocked elections last week that knows likud party came in is single seat behind the blue and white party led by ben he got so neither leader has been able to put together a coalition with a majority in the 120 seat knesset. human rights groups in egypt say that more than a 1000 people have been arrested in a crackdown after last friday's protests against the will of president added to his says that he sees power back in 2030 in the military took over from the democratically elected muslim brotherhood president mohamed morsi. a un report has issued the starkest warning yet of a climate change catastrophe for the planet sees predicting more super storms rising sea levels and ocean dead zones scientists from the intergovernmental panel on climate change say unprecedented overheating in the world's oceans could raise sea levels by about one meter by the end of the century rendering some coastal regions uninhabitable. one senegal's coast the village of popping g

israel's president reuven rivlin has tasked a long time prime minister benjamin netanyahu yahoo with assembling a new government following last week's deadlocks election many a who still has no clear path to a 5th term emerging from the september 17th ballots without a parliamentary majority he has 28 days to form a coalition but can also within for 2 week extension as needed i force it has more from west jerusalem. who is really president riven rivlin had made it clear earlier this week and indeed since the election result came in that he wanted to see a unity government between the 2 biggest parties benjamin netanyahu xli could and benny gantz is blue and white but the talks that he had sponsored and tried to broker failed after just 2 days worth of trying and so he decided that the other option available to him was to give the mandate to try to form a coalition government to one of those too many chose benjamin netanyahu because he had a coalition bloc in waiting of some 55 seats in the israeli parliament the knesset you need 61 for a majority coalition government benjamin netanya

man in the middle israeli president reagan rivlin threw his support behind the idea. and if you're married i hear well the voices calling for the establishment of a unity government a wide unstable government. i congratulate you prime minister for joining this call this morning it's an important call as zaki africa. the party leaders were attending a statement moral for the late leftwing statesmanship on parish in jerusalem during a speech in his honor netanyahu reiterated his appeal to guns. in this election there is no clear when it's worth and i call on you have any as the president ordered let us work together to begin bring the state of israel to safe shores. at a later press conference against announcing he's open to a unity government but only one led by him. i mean i'm interested in and intend to form a wide and liberal unity government headed by me. a government that will express the people's will and our basic promises for the public. the work of forming a government has started. we will not surrender to any dictation we will listen carefully to everyone but

government and the ultimate decision as i understand it this will come down to to the president to reuven rivlin. yes he has a very important role in all of that and he called again today to all the party does but particularly to the leaders of the to a bigger parties you know to try to come out of this stalemate we also understand from the statement coming out of the president's office today that he will start consultations with the party leaders already on sunday so all the party leaders will come to him and they recommend they want to see the entire ask him to form the next a coalition this could take 23 days maybe more because it is a complicated situation he then has to wait for the form of the official results being released on wednesday and then you could start actually to task the person you think is most suited to form disquisition government interesting days lie ahead from time to cram in jerusalem thank you. dozens of civilians have been killed in 2 separate incidents in afghanistan a u.s. drone strike targeted a hideout used by islamic state in the eastern province of non-god but hit