U. S. President donald trump says it looks like iran was behind saturdays drone attacks that crippled more than half of saudi arabias Oil Production but he says he doesnt want to war and will wait to see definitive proof of to irans involvement before deciding how to respond trump said secretary of state mark pompei will be traveling to riyadh soon to coordinate a response americas close ally the u. K. Says it will work with International Partners to present quote the widest and most Effective Response saudi arabia says the attacks were carried out using iranian weapons but to her and maintains its not responsible yemens hooty rebels say they were behind the attacks and have warned that more strikes are coming on the begins our coverage from washington. President donald trump says the u. S. Is still collecting and analyzing intelligence related to saturdays attack on. Saudi Oil Facilities but says all evidence gathered dust far points to one country when asked if that country was iran this was the president s response which looking that way will have some pretty good to. Have a some very strong studies done but its certainly looking that way at this moment and. Will let you know the spectrum said he does not want war with iran but said his administration would coordinate closely with riyadh and in response the saudis want very much for us to protect them but i say well we have to work there was an attack on saudi arabia and there was an attack on us but we would certainly help them but despite the alliance between washington and riyadh there are doubts about how much clout saudi arabia has to force the u. S. Into military action this has been very interested in the past few months. On many issues so the troubled history and the u. S. In general is looked willing to basically fight a war and we have the sultans the who the rebels in yemen backed by iran claimed responsibility for the attacks on monday irans president Hassan Rouhani flatly rejected the u. S. Ascertain tehran was involved saying the who these were behind it and for legitimate reasons. The many people are exercising their legitimate right of self defense the attacks are reciprocal and the main solution is to halt these attacks the solution for the yemeni crisis is also political we believe that. President trump said it was a large attack against saudi arabia but could be met with an attack many times larger this is threatening language trump has used in the past against syria north korea and even iran without following through with significant military action but clearly tensions are escalating trump said secretary of state mike pompei o. And other Administration Officials would be traveling to riyadh soon to coordinate a response. Aljazeera washington. He has the view from tehran. Latest reaction to this event sort of unfolded is that the Iranian ForeignMinistry Spokesperson on post mousavi has reiterated the countrys position and that is that these accusations are baseless and its not the 1st time that iran has received such accusations from the u. S. Government the Foreign Ministry spokesperson up us mousavi said that the yemeni people have the right to the found themselves in the iranians are not supplying weapons to the who see fighters there but that it is saudi arabia who is the aggressor and iran will continue to push for some kind of a peaceful resolution in yemen theyve offered in the past to negotiate dialogue between all the parties involved theyve stressed that the situation is yemen is critical to the stability of this region but when it comes to the blame that they are being accused of launching these attacks the iranians say that they have had nothing to do with it and that the accusations are baseless they have yet to the American Government has yet to provide any kind of solid evidence or proof that iran was behind such an attack the analysts that weve spoken to here say that these latest accusations from the u. S. Come at a time when the u. S. President donald trump is eager to have a meeting with irans president Hassan Rouhani at the United Nations later this month when the 2 will be there but the rainy and some said that that will never happen until the United States lifts the sanctions that its imposed on iran since they withdrew from the nuclear deal. Our polls will open in the next hour in israels 2nd general election in just 5 months Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu is trying to rally right wing voters after failing to win a majority in april it says he will annex all settlements in the occupied west bank but as harry foresee reports now those pledges why not be enough to get an outright majority. Benjamin netanyahu had rarely if ever looked publicly angrier than he did on the 30th of may this year defeated in his effort to form a Coalition Government he rented anyone else from being given that chance by forcing through an unprecedented election rewrote its unbelievable other door lieberman is now part of the left the sense of betrayal was at his former political fixer former foreign and defense minister ally and enemy for more than 20 years Avigdor Lieberman professed reason for keeping his secular right wing party out of government with his opposition to ultraorthodox jews being exempted from military service something that in yahoos ultra orthodox Political Partners would not concede. Nurit kadar spent 5 years following lieberman for a documentary released this week finding him a highly guarded interviewee but he says it was clear that whatever the ideological differences between him and netanyahu that divorce was deeply personal the only thing the only sentence. He said was that friendship is something its for life you know it is some foundation that it really go through all life. And it was broken and it was shattered and you know what the woman hasnt explicitly ruled out joining a netanyahu led government this time around but his policy demands make it unlikely at best and with his secular stance boosting his position in the polls his status as kingmaker has been strengthened netanyahu spent the last week talking in terms familiar from previous campaigns of threats and promises the threat of Irans Nuclear program the threat requiring police of polling stations of palestinian israeli voter fraud the promise to annex the Jordan Valley and parts of the occupied city of hebron all of it designed to motivate his right wing base. But netanyahu reelection offers a better chance to fight off 3 looming Corruption Cases the parliament all knesset could even vote to grant him immunity but the polls suggest there could be a similar outcome to last time with netanyahu is likud Party Running almost even with the opposition blue and white led by former army chief benny gantz as a good chance neither will have enough support from smaller parties to piece together a Majority Coalition some predict months more uncertainty while each side tries and fails to form a government increasing the pressure on netanyahu is an indictment is expected to happen in the 1st half of the summer that would be during the 2nd period of 6 weeks in which a candidate would be given a chance to form a government and if that indictment happens then the league could well then realize ok we dont like overthrowing leaders but now we have no choice israel 2nd election in 5 months is unlikely to be the finish line in the contest to govern the country rather the starting gun for the next round in a fight hurry for said aljazeera west jerusalem hong kong leader kerry lamb says the government will start talks next week in a bid to end the protests the prodemocracy demonstrations began in june and on several occasions turned violent lamb says the public will be able to sign up to attend the dialogue sessions. Chinas government has called protesters in hong kong despicable for appealing to the territories former colonial rule of britain for help. I just want to say that those people who went to the british consulate general in hong kong and requested for the rights of citizenship in qualification i wonder if they can still be called the real chinese for chinese person to big Foreign Government to interfere really despicable its definitely not something you can be proud of an american soldier was killed in afghanistan on sunday at least 17 have lost their lives in action there this year meanwhile the 1st televised debate before the president ial election later this month did not go quite as planned but mcbride has more from kabul. This event has just come to an end what was billed as a bit of history in the making the 1st time the 2 president ial candidates out of a field of 17 were due to meet on a stage in a live face to face televised debate to be beamed across afghanistan the 2 men in question of course the front runners in this race the incumbent president ashraf ghani and his chief executive from his government dr Abdullah Abdullah a man with whom he had shared power uncomfortably in the last 5 years of their socalled unity government of course this election comes against a worsening security background here in afghanistan along negotiated peace deal with the taliban was called off at the last minute the Afghanistan Government committed itself to going ahead with this election on the 28th come what may there have been threats by the taliban to disrupt these elections when dr abdullah arrived here and talked to the stage it soon became apparent that his opponent ashraf ghani was going to be a no show no reason was given for him not attending this event but certainly dr abdullah was quick to capitalize on the nonappearance of his opponents. Today he should have come here to answer the nation i came here on time and he cancelled at the very last minute. There then followed some angry scenes of supporters of ashraf ghani then accuse dr of dull of insulting them and dr abdullah and his opponents were known repentant and leaving dr abdullah basically to debate with himself and with an empty lectern this doesnt seem to bode well for this election process as afghanistan lurches towards its election day all right still ahead on aljazeera. A rowdy reception forces Boris Johnson to flee a News Conference leaving luxembourg slated to deliver a few home truths. The innocent victims of a growing reliance on dams families left homeless in the drive to provide power to india. Hello again its good have you back well here crossing it states of course we had been watching hurricane humberto but now that system is making its way towards the northeast towards bermuda so the danger there is going to be increasing over the next couple days well be watching the path very carefully but expect to see more storm surge and clouds as we go towards mid week well for the rest of night states things not looking too bad here across the southeast though temperatures are on the rise dallas 35. 00 degrees on tuesday atlanta 35. 00 degrees as well but out here towards the west it is going to be the fire danger were going to watch over the next few days all of nevada parts of colorado as well as california are in the risk as we go towards midweek and see how dry it is by the time we do get towards wednesday for San Francisco a nice day 21. 00 in los angeles at 26. 00 degrees there well for the southern part of Central America a lot of rain in the forecast over the next few days anywhere from parts of panama up here towards managua as well over here to assent and may go as well as parts of kingston expect to see those afternoon showers but for the bahamas things are looking better a few mostly cloudy conditions where temperatures into the low thirtys then a big temperature change here in the cincy and were going to see a temp has come down you were into the low thirtys but by the time we get to tuesday it is going to be 25 degrees there and rio a nice day for you at about 32 degrees for you. They say to really know someone you must walk a mile in their shoes. Follow in their footsteps as they fall into their way in the world. Aljazeera shares these personal journey. Inspiring stories of people perseverance on their chosen path. With news documentaries on our. Blog and youre watching as a reminder of our top stories this us President Donald Trump says its looking like iran was behind saturdays attacks that crippled more than half of saudi arabias Oil Production but tehran maintains it is not responsible yemens hooty rebels say they were behind the attacks. Polls will open in the next hour in israel 2nd general election in just over 5 months but mr Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to rally right wing voters after failing to win a majority and he says hell annex all settlements in the occupied west bank. Hong kongs leader says the government will Start Community talks next week in a bid to end the protests that have hit the territory chief executive kerry lamb says the public will be able to sign up to attend the sessions. I want on our top story the fallout from the attack on saudi arabias Oil Installations the Reuters News Agency is reporting it could take months for saudi Oil Production to return. To norman already its been forced to shut down one pipeline to behind the uncertainty triggered a spike in oil prices up 19 percent the biggest single day increase on record its still trading at more than 12 percent higher than its price before the attacks happen and this could all hurt Investor Confidence in saudi aramco upcoming public listing which the kingdom hoped would generate up to 100000000000. 00 before say the saudi government are considering going to laying the i. P. O. Obama cavanagh is an oil and gas Industry Expert he says saudi production could be affected for months the interesting thing that i saw today in the satellite photographs that were that were disclosed was the perception of the attacks the vessels that were hit were hit precisely in the same place in a line these are in the quad truck quad copter drones that someone bought from amazon these are precision military weapons that were used to hit these facilities and they were hit in the in the precise area that would knock off about 50 percent of their production so its surprising that the attack by drones that were undetected could do this kind of damage but im very concerned about how long its going to take to get the production back on aramco announced today that it could be they went for weeks the talking about possibly months before the production was brought back on saudi has a Strategic Reserve the u. S. Has a Strategic Reserve but if this goes on for more than 3 or 4 weeks i could see a sustained level of Higher Oil Prices for quite some time until norm the production in saudi arabia is normalized. The turkish president richard tired of war and says theres been progress towards a political solution to the war in syria has been hosting russian and iranian leaders in ankara for talks focusing on adlib thats the last rebel held province home to many people whove been displaced from other opposition areas its under attack from Syrian Government forces and russian warplanes jim attache our reports from that summit in ankara. A re emphasis on the policies pursued by turkey iran and russia underlined by the Opening Statements of the respective president s in this 5th round of trilateral summit thats trying to find some sort of a solution through the almost 9 years now war long war in syria the turkish president focusing on his countrys menu truth namely that of the Syrian Refugees almost 3000000 that have been living in turkey now for several years and the need to establish a buffer zone or a safe zone on the syrian side of the border up until the east of the Euphrates River inside syria if we could maybe divide the issues that are being discussed here in this summit into 3 categories short term medium term and long term short term the most immediate issue that the 3 leaders are talking about is the issue of it live the last remaining stand for armed opposition groups opposition groups through the regime of Bashar Al Assad turkey wants to ensure that there is a total halt to russian and syrian air strikes on attacks on this issue not only to ensure the safety of the people there now and that they dont leave and to try to keep but also to establish that saves on that i mentioned so that syrians in turkey can actually start moving back and that brings us to the last point which is the longer term issues and that is what will happen post conflict how will syria be governed and here in the summits we understand that there will be a discussion about the formation of a Constitutional Committee to draft the documents that would help post war syria be governed but it is difficult to see how an agreement would be reached considering how much blood has been spilt in this war. 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