else party and benny gantz the main opposition party one second i understand that my colleague tanya kramer is standing by in jerusalem tanya we want to go to you we have seen you've got some initial projections talk to me a little bit about what they look like. yeah that's right that's what everybody was waiting for the punning stations have closed now the 1st exit polls. published by 3 t.v. channels here in israel so i will start with the exit polls from channel 11 so we do have and everything here is in seats so we're talking about knesset seats out of 120 so channel 11 projects $32.00 seats for blue and whites mr bennett guns $32.00 for benjamin netanyahu is likud channel 13 it's $31.00 for qute $33.00 for blue and white and channel $1234.00 for blue and white and $33.00 for netanyahu give you all 3 because you know it's only exit polls at the moment and we will have to wait and see of course over the course of the next hours when the results are actually coming in but that means now. now analysts yes starting to do the math and seeing you know because it is or it's all about coalition

for the very latest bring indeed have used tanya kramer joining us from jerusalem good morning to you tanya polls opening behind you there but broadly in the region and not only in syria and around tanya but also very close to home in gaza we're looking at a very in stable region how much is security playing an issue for the voters right there where you are. certainly security in everything what you just had happening in syria iran lebanon but also in the south in israel and gaza is always on people's minds here and of course also for the coming days and prime minister netanyahu has always made his career on this image of mr security so he has pushed that forward also very very prominently in his campaign but also the main contenders spending guns and the blue and white party i mean he is has been the army chief under netanyahu and in the leadership of blue and white you have 3. generals so to speak and a former defense minister they also push this agenda of being very strong on issues of security but having said that i'm standing in front of the polling station and people i talked to

let's get the very latest now live from tanya kramer standing by for us in jerusalem tanya is this and that yahoo's only way forward considering now he doesn't have the numbers to form the right wing government he wanted. well benyamin netanyahu said on wednesday with his traditional potential coalition partners the smaller right thing parties and the ultra orthodox parties and they made the math and they come only to $55.00 seats that is sort of the 61 they would need to build their coalition for a very narrow right wing and religious government so he probably realized then that he needs to to to be in the game and to stay in the game to make this offer to benny gantz and to blue and whites to form this unity government but the question is now of course what is peru and white saying to that invitation and that is the question we haven't heard yet from benny gantz is there any indication as he said anything in the past that would indicate he could be open to the possibility of a national government. when netanyahu actually put any guns and the whole blue and white leadership in a very

bloc failing to reach a 61 seat majority let's go straight to jerusalem now and bring in the w's tanya kramer following this for us good morning to you tanya a very close result a tense result we're still waiting i can benjamin netanyahu survives this battle for his political future. well this is sense him an israeli under this and also in the media that this revision of the elections has really we continued substantially he fails again you know to get 61 seats he needed to build. a coalition with other smaller parties out of 320 knesset it was his goal you know to be able to form a coalition of right wing national religious coalition clearly he failed at that but again there is also at the moment a sense a wait and see it because also of course blue and white cannot form easily a coalition there are only unofficial results at the moment we're still waiting for the preliminary results coming in and then we will probably see more. talks in the next hours talking as we wait for those final results and then you know who's rival bank balance has said that he will not be entering any coalition wit

soon it will be to israel's president to find a way through this political impasse correspondent tanya kramer is in jerusalem and she talked me through the efforts of the president to bring the 2 sides together in texas now to shifting to president richland who today has appealed again to all the parties but mainly to benjamin netanyahu and the guns to do that best to get out of the stand that now what is happening on sunday the president will start consultations with all the party leaders that will come one after the next and they will make their commendations as to who they want to see to form the next coalition government now this process might usually take $2.00 to $3.00 days but because it's such a complicated situation it might take a bit longer than. next wednesday the official election results are expected to be published and then president clinton could then announce who he will toss with forming this coalition does not have pressure. on him with this because everybody also wants to blow it of course has to go in for another election sometime soon yeah and understandably so we know t

this coalition whether it will be with or without benyamin netanyahu all right a correspondence tanya kramer in jerusalem as the election results begin to come in in israel don't you think you. our here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world spanish voters are heading to the polls again the country's caretaker prime minister pedro sanchez announcing fresh elections after it emerged that no party in parliament can win enough support to form a government sanchez's socialist won the most seats in april's election but fell short of an absolute majority and elections are now scheduled to be held in november 10th and officials in the united states say they have evidence that saturday's attack on saudi arabia's oil fields originated in iran unnamed sources are telling reuters news agency that the strike involved drones and cruise missiles iran has rejected all claims of responsibility for the attack. the afghan taliban has carried out more suicide bombings a week after u.s. president donald trump called off peace talks with the insurgent group 26 people in shower

joining us now is our correspondent tonya kramer reporting from jerusalem so tanya what did gantz say at this press conference that we saw earlier does he have a vision for how unity government would work. well but he's basically saying it is. blue and white won the elections they have the 2 seat lead over the likud 323-3231 that's if there is a unity government and he strongly committed to a unity government said they floated this idea during the election campaign all along that it would be and that the terms of a blue and white not what mr netanyahu wants and i think the most important thing he said is that if such a unity government would be for him then it would be under his leadership so this would be the end you know for mr netanyahu probably thinking maybe about. your taste in the premiership or something like that and mr netanyahu had already said he's disappointed by this response. so blue and white and many guns more or less claiming victory even though the election result was so close is this a vision that netanyahu and his likud party could possibly buy into. i think reall

yeah is that going to be the case where does this result leave benjamin netanyahu correspondent tanya kramer in jerusalem she gave us this is. what i mean it's a major setback and he seems to be have be really in a in a weak position though after this revision of the elections he said last time to put a coalition together and he failed to put a coalition to his liking reese would have been a right wing coalition with the also talks of parties and this in light of course over his legal troubles he faces possible indictment over corruption charges and the pre-induction hearings in october so it's not quite sure you know what scenario you going to be looking at but if you ask if he could support us and not just quite . prepared to give up on this and netanyahu yet but this also the sense in israel that nobody wants to see a 3rd election also the president has made clear he wants to proceed. quickly with a consultation snow and then to talk to the leader who things has the most chances of putting a coalition together. on ukraine reporting from jerusalem where here in europe spanish voters were h

we've got complete health ridge of israel's repeat election tonight tanya kramer she is on the ground force in jerusalem and here at the big table with me is my colleague my ass waiter who has also reported from israel and most recently from washington d.c. to both of you it's good to have you here tanya let me start with you talk us through the picture that is emerging tonight from this repeat election. well i can tell you this no clear picture at the moment because the exit polls that were published and polling stations were closing and as we speak obviously votes are being counted so that none of the bigger parties see that all of these channels t.v. channels are published as excess policy no clear winner actually we have a hollow one blue and white and the guns party leading those exit polls except for one con public broadcaster says there's a tie between the likud party spend a minute and yells party and blue and white so what we're looking at here in israel is who can then build a coalition it's all about. $61.00 seats out of the $120.00 knesset seats and that's what. prime mini

election back in april his main opponent benny gantz has also been mobilizing supports the w's tanya kramer picks up the story from there. for the 2nd time in a year cafe owner. will be casting his ballot he's hoping benjamin netanyahu will manage to form the next coalition government. as everyone calls the prime minister some time stops by for a coffee in pastry here like many other likud party supporters zaki feces no alternative to the long serving leader live in a demolition the man has experienced and this is extremely important it's very important for people here to have someone to run the state as he does it a state like israel was so many challenges and having good relations with world leaders all around the world that. following the last elections in april netanyahu failed to form a governing coalition some analysts describe the elections as a fight for his political life these elections are not about any policy issue at all these elections are shakespear are there to be be or not to be and that it will continue to happen even though there are 3 a criminal investigations hanging ov

s tanya kramer reports. for the 2nd time in a year newly it runs this family owned cafe will be casting his ballot he hopes that benyamin netanyahu will from the next coalition government be be as everyone calls to prime minister some time stops by for coffee and pastry at this neighborhood cafe like many other likud supporters says if he sees no i'll turn a tip to the long serving leader. live in a demolition the man has experienced and this is extremely important it's very important for people here to have someone to run the state as he does it a state like israel with so many challenges and having good relations with world leaders all around the world. following the last election in april in the tanya who failed to put a coalition together some analysts describe the elections as a fight for his political life not least because of corruption allegations these elections are not about any policy issue at all these elections are shakespear are there to be be or not to be that it will continue to happen even t

to see a bit a clearer picture when the 1st results are coming in all right our correspondents tanya kramer in jerusalem tony thank you and my sweater here at the big table with me thank you both thank you what about the palestinians and the 2 state solution that did not get much attention in this campaign it gets even less attention from the group in our next report christian zionists believe that the bible promises the holy land to the jews and that belief has put them on a collision course with palestinians who have their own take about who owns the. the high of elven yard was set up by an evangelical christian group the friends of zion israeli settlement deep in the west bank which they described in the biblical times today and some are these christian zionists believe the bible promised the holy land to the jews but the settlement is in the middle of what palestinians see as a future state. evangelicals believe judea and samaria that is the bible and because it is 6000 years of history. do we think giving up. the and severe is going to bring peace no way local palestinians and most of

for more let's get the latest now with did obvious tony kramer joining us from jerusalem good morning tanya tanya how's a voter turnout been so far where you are. one mean people here coming since the early morning to the polling stations they opened at 7 am people have a day off to go and vote and there's a lot of expectation here because it's going to be a long day exit polls are not expected before 22100 tonight and here local time we will know a bit more what the trend is going to be these elections so if i was talking to this morning said you know maybe it's more of the same they don't know really what to make of this 2nd round of elections in a year others might hope for maybe a change it's a neck to neck race a again according to pollsters and we have to take always those polls with a grain of salt because they're not always highly accurate between and you mean that on yahoo's likud and. blue and white alliance so we'll have to wait and see for tonight what kind of results are coming in talking when we look at the instability in the region especially in iran and syria but also closer

s time you're kramer standing by for us tanya a very close result a tense result as well is been human netanyahu literally fighting for his political life this morning. well there is a sense here that he has been weakened by this we've run the elections again because what he wanted actually he wanted to obtain the 61 seeds out of the 120 knesset seats to have a majority to build a coalition now he failed over 80 in april to build this coalition and now he's running shy of having those 61 seats so there is a sense here that you know this election could weaken him further that he has given a very competent combative speech last night saying you know israel is at the crossroads so he's not given up yet on this coalition while his rival is adding to that pressure you mentioned as well benny gantz says he will not enter a coalition with netanyahu party if netanyahu is still its leader would look who dropped netanyahu to remain in power in israel. well certainly and running up to the election there have been reports in the hebrew media that there have been discussions of course i mean about

and for the very latest let me draw indeed on a kramer she's standing by in jerusalem for us tanya calling this election was quite a political gamble and it doesn't seem to have paid off for netanyahu. well the reading his. weakened netanyahu more than he probably thought he is still shy of you know those 61 seats he needed together with the potential coalition partners to get a majority. and he seems to be no new reka position but still also have to say it is a bit too early to say because all the missive waiting for the president preliminary results it takes a bit longer than usual the election commission says they're expecting this this afternoon i mean have also to say that both the good part is also blue and white. are not in the position to attain this 61 seats so it's still to see as we speak you know there are a lot of talks ongoing who could be a potential coalition partners who we have to wait and see how this will play out why we went to see how it's going to play out the political gamble seems to have paid off for obvious joe lieberman he's now in the role of king maker what's