In 2 taliban attacks president ashraf ghani is compound rallies targeted so he was on top. Of the city and when you look at u. S. Whistleblower Edward Snowdens chances of being granted asylum here in germany with the clock ticking on his exotic in russia. And ready thanks for joining us votes are being counted off the israel 2nd general election this year with Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu whose political survival hanging in the balance one rival is already calling for the formation of a cross Posse National unity government with exit polls pointing to another deadlock between the countrys main political blocs well have analysis here in the studio in just a. Moment but 1st this look at the state of the race. Israels election result is neck and neck exit polls are suggesting the race between Benyamin Netanyahu head of the right Wing Likud Party and the incumbent Prime Minister and his rival benny gantz leader of the centrist blue and white party is too close to call. 6 months ago netanyahu failed to form a Coalition Government faced with losing power he called fresh elections against predictions of voter fatigue voter turnout has been the highest in decades. Palestinians who are not in the gaza strip are eligible to vote and they were also out in higher numbers opposing netanyahu open hostility. Calling fresh elections was a gamble and netanyahu knows that. The election is close i can confirm to you this morning it is very close i call on all citizens of israel to come and vote just like me and my wife came to 1st i wont tell you who. With results this close israel faces the same situation it did in april selection netanyahu and his right wing block failing to get the 61. 00 seat majority. Extensive political negotiations are expected to begin even before the final results are announced later this month. In the studio now is d w reporter whos reported for us from hi my it looks like this result is too close to call walk us through some of the possible outcomes scenarios here well theres a lot to digest the sense that neither of the big parties managed to get to 61 votes 61 seats in the parliament on their own what they have to now do is Coalition Building which means of course your eye turns to what the biggest parties are sort of 2nd and 3rd on the list one of those is a secular right wing party called israel led by Avigdor Lieberman this party was in coalition up until earlier this year when it decided to leave the coalition and thats what precipitated this whole thing really in the 1st place and they have said that they are looking for a unity government now this is not unprecedented in israels history would mean that all the top 3 parties would govern together however at the top 2 parties are really need lieberman to do that because they would get to see more than 60 seats themselves they are both have right now more than 30 seats although those numbers will probably change theres just preliminary the 2nd big interesting plot twist of the night is the joint arab lists which are usually down at the bottom of the polls they join together into a correlation these 4 parties and they have risen now up further in the list in sort of us. Pries interesting twist as i said now they have never been in an Israeli Government for obvious reasons they represent the Israeli Arabs but Israeli Arabs are getting rather frustrated with their parties not really being able to accomplish anything so its itll be interesting to see who they decide to throw their weight behind either behind the right Wing Likud Party nationalist party or behind the more centrist blue and white party with many guns ahead so some Interesting Times ahead how did we end up here to elections in 5 months so for those who didnt turn in for israeli elections episode one who happened was back in 2015 the last election you know won reelection and formed this very right wing religious coalition with a bunch of right wing religious Orthodox Party is and as we said israel by to new party ended up leaving the coalition of the beginning of 21000 and that had to do with a ceasefire that was brokered with gaza militants and with the question of Orthodox Jews serving in the Israeli Military this has been a big question hanging over israeli politics for at least the last 510 years or so and establish a new took their ball went home and the Coalition Fall apart so they had an election back in april and they were deadlocked likud was deadlocked with this new blue and white party which is a much more centrist party netanyahu claimed victory they pulled ahead by about 15000 votes but in electoral map thats really easier oh and he was unable to form another coalition and so here we are again today talking about the same thing happening basically again but still could be more about netanyahu longest serving Prime Minister and hed hope that these elections would break the deadlock but could he be in an even weaker position than he was beforehand theres been a lot of speculation over whether this is netanya is on doing this is a question ive been asked before the answer generally has been no however there is a possibility at this point if unity government. Is the way forward if this is what is decided if in fact our bigger liebermans party becomes the king maker there is a nonzero chance that likud could decide to go as the head of the party in this because the blue and white party has said under no circumstances do we want to be in a unity government with likud we will absolutely not do that and all of this he knows rivals have been very clear about wanting to unseat so his throne book and a little shake here has been in the past but i wouldnt count him out necessarily mediately mine is rather thank you for your analysis course time now to tell you about some of the other stories making news around the world and spanish version is heading to the polls again the countrys Prime Minister has announced fresh elections ofter it emerged that no woman could win enough support to form a government sanchez a socialist won the most seats in. Phil will short of an absolute majority in the elections will now be held on november 10th. Officials in the u. S. Say di have evidence that saturdays attack on saudi arabias Oil Facilities originated in iran the unnamed sources told reuters that the strong involved dragoons as previously reported and cruise missiles iran has rejected all claims of responsibility for the attack. And new york has become the 1st out of the silo flavored east cigarettes authorities voted to impose an immediate ban amid growing Health Concerns and the surge in popularity among young people the ban does not apply to tobacco flighted the secrets. The Afghan Taliban has carried out more suicide bombings a week after the u. S. President called off peace talks with the Insurgent Group 26 people in sharikov just north of the capital were killed in the 1st of tuesdays attacks when a bomb exploded near an election rally being addressed 5 president he was on a 2nd blast in the capital kabul killed at least 22 people and wounded many more. Panic and chaos a survivor scattered from the scene of the attack as the 2000 people had come to listen to president fanny in the town of when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive belt. Here to suddenly on a motorbike arrived at a huge explosion went off a lot of people were martyred and wounded. In the desperate scramble the wounded were piled on to pickup trucks and raced to hospital. But there was a terrific blast 1 that all my friends got injured i dont know what happened next. The 2nd blast went off hours later near the u. S. Embassy in kabul it was also claimed by the taliban on a 2 coast carnage. That i heard an explosion dust rose from the side of the attack. There was gunfire. I escaped from here body parts are spread all around this area. The insurgents opposed the actions campaigning all but ceased as the u. S. And the taliban negotiated a peace deal but President Trump last week an ounce deal was quite debt. The candidates are now back on the campaign trail. 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