Honestly international honoring environmental activist creative terms are calls for more protests in the fight against punching. And he changed the world by blowing the whistle on mass surveillance by governments and corporations now Edward Snowden has laid out all the details in a new book. Im brian thomas thanks so much for joining us polls have opened in israels 2nd general election this year its expected to be a tight race Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voted earlier as hope to raise the action and the political crisis that began when netanyahu was unable to form a government after the last election that was just 5 months ago in april but hes facing a close challenge from the former army chief many dances running as a centrist. For the very latest lets bring in kramer whos following the voting for us there in jerusalem good morning tonya tonya what are the chances this election will produce the very same results we saw 5 months ago and the same political stalemate. Well thats ab
And he changed the world by revealing mass surveillance by governments and corporations now Edward Snowden has laid out the details in a new book. Im brian thomas thanks so much for joining us all voting is now underway in israels 2nd general election this year its expected to be a very tight race Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife are voting earlier theres hope todays election will end the political crisis that began when netanyahu was unable to form a government after the last election in a full 5 months ago former army chief benny gantz is netanyahu main challenge. For more lets get the latest now with did obvious tony kramer joining us from jerusalem good morning tanya tanya hows 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 theres a lot of expectation here because its going to be a long day exit polls are not expected before 22100 tonigh
See on the streets. Amnesty International Honors environmental activist gratitude berg who is calling for more protests and the struggle to beat the climate crisis. And scientists here in europe are calling it a serious threat a deadly virus has a really killed more than a 1000000 olive trees in italy and has now spread to neighboring france as more trees are felled to try and stop the brought we look at the fallout from all of growing countries. Im sara kelly welcome to the program more suicide bombings by the taliban in afghanistan just a week after President Trump called off peace talks with the Jihadist Group there were 2 as have. X. Today in the 1st 124 people were killed in part on province when a bomb exploded near an election rally where president was speaking he was unhurt a later blast in the capital kabul left many injured and 6 dead. Lets bring in journalist t. V. Who is in kabul and joins us now weve seen an uptick in attacks like this why now. The fact that you know we ha
Lessons from this storory. Whatat does it s say t to thehet whistleblolower and whwhat doest say to the world when the only place americacan can be heard is places we would not expect . Brent we ask what are the chances of edward snonowden getting asylum here in germany . And with two weeks until afghanistan holds elections, 50 people are killed in two taliban attacks. The Campaign Rally was targeted though he was not harmed. Brent im brent goff. To our viewers on pbs in the United States and around the world, welcome. It is too close to call in israel. It is now in our sense of owning ended in the countrys second general election in less than half a year. Most exit polls predict a very tight a result between Benjamin Netanyahu and his biggest rival, the centrist, former army chief, benny gantz. Netanyahu tried to form a Coalition Government after elections in april, but he failed amid disagreement with ultraorthodox parties. He then plunged israel into months of uncertainty by dissolv
Per piece election Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu future at stake. U. S. Whistleblower Edward Snowden says that government surveillance and internet giants are a greater threat to privacy is that ever before this is an auto biography goes on sale. Hello im nick spicer welcome to the program u. S. President donald trump has said that he does not want war with iran over the attacks on key Oil Installations in saudi arabia President Trump said he believed that iran was responsible for the drone attacks but added he would wait for definitive proof before looking into retaliate torrie options that we can strike saw the worlds crude oil output drop by 5 percent iran has denied involvement in the attacks you look at effect. Correspondent all over salad is in washington to tell us more all over what is u. S. President trump going to do now he seems to be blowing hot and cold. Well that was a typical donald trump play that weve witnessed here today lots of back and forth threats of retaliati