involving likud and benny gan gantz s party based on fairly unreliable exit polls, then the arab parties would be the official opposition. now, the problem for building a coalition for either mr. netanyahu or all of benny gantz s party, if they want to get together, the gantz side, the blue side, have ruled out a coalition involving benjamin netanyahu because of these three corruption cases hanging over him. so that makes it fraught. 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
israel faces critical decision at home and abroad. let s turn to sam kiley live in jerusalem. sam, good morning. good morning, dave. based on the exit polls and you were quite right when you say they re often quite bit wide of the mark when it comes to reality. but based on the exit polls there is no clear winner. this will be a major problem for rivlin, the president of israel who constitutionally over the next week will interview members of tit once the results are published. there will be 120 members of the knesset. he ll interview hundreds of them to find out who has the best chance of forming a government and then invite that person to step forward and have a go at it. it was that process that ran into sand after six weeks that led to this second round of elections this year when benjamin netanyahu was unable to knit together a coalition. he would find himself in a
party prevails to try to form a government we won t know the final results of the israeli election until thursday afternoon then president rivlin will take time meeting with party leaders to decide how he s going to proceed forward. although usually a ceremonial task, he gets to decide who to ask to try to form a government and whether anyone can is questionable and indeed we may see even a third election in israel ambassador wendy sherman, thank you for helping us make sense of all this breaking and developing news on a wednesday thank you. thank you. president trump just escalating his fight with california, going after a state that has been one of the most resistant to his presidency. just a few moments ago, he announced a move that would take on krafrmt s environmental regulations. he s also threatening another that would affect one of the most vol neshl populations most vol neshl populations there. repairs shattered bones,
because that would have been the other option basically that mr netanyahu would give back the monday it that he had been given by the president mr rivlin to form the coalition government and usually it would then go to the next candidate but that was not in the cards so mr netanyahu would not give out you know the possibility to form the next government that s why he was pushing the knesset you know to push for the bill for the dissolution and so paving the way for the elections but i think the opposition all of the opposition would go for mr netanyahu pretty hard them already saying you know he was unable to form a coalition dragging the country into unnecessary elections so they would have a chance now to regroup themselves maybe there will be a new alliances and then they will go from there to see whether this time they could mr netanyahu secret party so donna as the country goes back into campaign
hour u.s. attorney general william barr has canceled plans to testify before a house committee on robert most russia reports are jacked into the intention to have lawyers question him democrats who control the house of representatives are demanding release a copy of the full report which investigated president from stars two rocks near. the scandal plagued former korean airline executive heather cho has again faced court she became notorious after ordering a plane to return to its gate because she felt she wasn t served an in-flight snack with enough quorum now she s facing accusations she illegally employed filipino nannies by disguising them as airline trainees. israel s president we ve been rivlin has warned the government against getting too close to far right parties in europe and also voiced concern about rising anti semitism this is the country begins commemorative services words annual holocaust remembrance day