Fires under control. And. All the days sport news including 2 time Asian Champions League winners but theyre placed in the semifinals of the series competition i. We begin in afghanistan where dozens of people have been killed in 2 separate bombings just 11 days before the president ial election the taliban says it was behind the attacks and Afghan Security forces were the targets the 1st bombing at an election rally for president bush of granny in part one province killed 24 people than him self was unharmed the 2nd blast near the u. S. Embassy in kabul killed at least 22 people bride is live for us in kabul what does the aftermath look like now rob. Thats right sami well this hour the empowered when the hospitals are still dealing with the casualties and we know that the death toll is now going to 26. 00 People Killed there with at least 30 injured and now the interior Ministry Tells us that 4 of those were soldiers so once again it means that the vast majority of the victims were indeed civilians just caught up in this attack but it does seem to be a part of the talibans threats to disrupt this Election Campaign ashraf ghani was due to speak at this event and its threatened to disrupt other election events throughout the country so it is certainly a concern also of course was the 2nd attack in kabul itself right in the center of the city in an area that is very tightly controlled where the should be very tight security its where it is home to all of the embassies of the government buildings the. Heads of the military and police and so on and this explosion did take place in the ministry of defense close to the u. S. Embassy now were getting reports from the interior ministry that the death toll is over 20 with possibly 30 plus more people injured the taliban again claiming responsibility saying that it was targeting military personnel and soldiers but again its not clear just how many of these People Killed and injured will indeed have been serving with the military or will have been civilians well let me at this point to bring in tammy amass a who is a former Deputy Defense minister this is a building that you know very well its should be one of the most secure buildings in the most secure part of kabul and yet this is happened to be how can Something Like this take place. To do with the intelligence failure success and intelligence failures within the Afghan Intelligence community and strong critic of the intelligence sector in afghanistan ive been calling for intelligence reform but lets. We should also be mindful that the taliban have tended on many occasions to attack the ministry of defense and other you know Security Installations especially they declared and various twitter accounts that are sympathetic to them that they would attack military installations inside kabul city and inside other major cities and they are to civilians to say out of so post a breakdown of peace and military installations has been one of the prime targets of course this comes as afghanistan prepares for elections people watching this would say how can you organize an election that means anything in such an environment well the security environment is very tight as you know and the president s spokesperson declared a few days ago that they would within 10 days they would secure many of the areas but security is a major concern just so falling and ways are insecure and then decide to cities you see a lot of mass casualty attacks by the taliban and they probably take. Responsibility for that but with the taliban it mean control of what may be up to half the country which is it and the election result thats going to mean a. Well it depends how you look at it its a disputed figure whether they control half of it or half the country or not its they got the government claims that they secured that they control majority of the Population Centers where the taliban talk about territory whether the election will happen in a secure environment i highly doubt that you will see that the taliban stepping up their attacks there you have the military caught in the middle of this tasked with making sure that this election happens. Tell us about the morale within the military i mean how would you describe their morale is high post President Trump street and also John Mckenzie to centcom commander was here. Previously it was a little down because of india so i thought that theyre being compromised down but since a prison trumps and also the secretary general of nato secretary general stoltenberg. The statements in mckinseys statement presently ernies the statements the morale has gone awry and the attacks have sabine stepped up and increased i mean i see your point the soldiers would say we dont want to do that these are the taliban weve been fighting for all these years how can we sign a peace deal but there must be other soldiers saying thinking just when will this end and seemingly if no deal is signed then there is no end in sight to the fighting its not only the soldiers just the fast majority of the Afghan People who are tired of this war and they want an end but what kind of an end and dignified one a sustainable thats what the desire of all afghans are time and thank you very much indeed for joining us well as we continue in preparing for these elections the military across the country are still setting up guarding polling stations but we know that the said the numbers of polling stations 5 years ago sammy it was 7000. 00 already the government has accepted that the number will be far less than that can be secured possibly around 5000 so many thanks so much from mcbride there live from kabul. Now israelis are voting in their 2nd general election in less than 6 months Prime MinisterBinyamin Netanyahu is hoping for a 5th term he failed to achieve a majority or form a coalition in april called for an unprecedented rerun now hes trying to gain more supporters by promising to annex all settlements in the occupied west bank Benyamin Netanyahu his main opponent benny gantz is voted in these hometown. Dances blue and white parties seeking to improve on aprils votes when it picked up 35 seats the same as Netanyahu Likud party Bernard Smith has more from occupied east jerusalem. One of the biggest fears of all parties is voter apathy and that might lead to a low turnout it was just under 70 percent in april and parties fear less than that may mean more votes going to more extreme parties there was also a lot of security in april some people working in the voting stations complained of intimidation even violence from some people so there are an unprecedented 14000 Police Officers on duty and 3000 observers wearing body cameras this election is about change change. Change i think it will be divided again yeah because its really close its time to chose the country is split in so many different ways that its very sad the polls will close at 10 pm local time and soon after therell be an early exit poll which will give a good indication of the way the vote has gone and then there could be weeks or months of political horse trading to decide who will be israels next Prime Minister. I mean it is outside the polling station for us in tel aviv for this voter turnout look like now. Well at this particular moment theres a trickle of voters coming into this polling station but we did speak to the workers inside and some of them said that they actually saw in the morning a bit more people coming to cast their ballots now the Electoral Commission says that as a day local time do turnout was slightly higher but just by a 2 percent probably a bit early to figure out nationwide how is the turnout and i think its going to be very important after that to really look at these numbers and figure out geographically really where was the turnout higher or lower indeed because you know this is a divided country. For example here in tel aviv no one really expects likud to fare any better than it did last time it only got 19 percent and devote the lions share going to do blue and white party and many of the people will tell you that that is exactly what will happen this time so really turnout will be important but the geography of des turnout will be as important. And what is the mood like now as the 2nd election is in the since april. You know the very Shaky Coalition projections ahead even after this one people have a lot of faith. Well i think you know theres a lot of cynicism going into this election was just speaking to a couple who were cast it were about to cast their vote ballots i asked them how was the lead up to this election how was the campaigning and they said it was worse than the one back in april that there was a lot more hysteria another person told me that this election is really the only thing that was discussed is whether Binyamin Netanyahu will stay or go and nothing no substance in there so certainly people a lot worried many people will tell you that if theyre worried about the future of democracy in this country theyre also worried about how the country is hearing and no one is expecting a result to be much different than the one back in april so many will tell you were going sort of a neck catch 22 situation tomorrow will be exactly like the day after of the april election the negotiations to form a Coalition Government might be exactly the same but there are some differences and those differences will be made by the smaller parties because this is the one Voting System really here in israel where you have parties who get the lions share of the votes but its the ones that get to the small of those that are actually the Decision Makers kingmakers in the end so certainly you have this mixture of worry of this illusion that anything will really change and also people say well we need to have a change we need to move forward we need to paddle out of this place where we have been sort of stagnating for a while now we need to put pulled the country forward because there are a lot of challenges not only domestically but an International Levels of people so you have all these mixed feelings going but not much expectation that any real change will come about. I mean in tel aviv. The aftereffects of an attack on saudi arabias all supply are becoming clearer as the u. S. Continues to blame iran officials in china have been told its Oil Deliveries will be delayed and there are reports saudi arabia is trying to buy diesel for urgent delivery saudi arabia says the attacks were carried out using your rainy and weapons but theyre on denies that who if you rebels say they were behind the attacks they say its their way of protecting the oil market would be for the Saudi Led Coalition to stop its offensive in yemen the u. S. President says it looks like iran was behind saturdays drone attacks which crippled more than half of saudi arabias Oil Production but he says he will wait to see definitive proof before deciding how to respond trump says secretary of state might on paper will be traveling to riyadh at some point to coordinate a response carol hours on the reports 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. Well let you know the spectrum said he does not want war with iran but said his administration would coordinate closely with riyadh on 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 alliance has been very interested in the past few months. On many issues so the trouble mistress and the u. S. In general has 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 oh and other Administration Officials would be traveling to riyadh soon to coordinate a response gabriel sandow aljazeera washington plenty more still ahead of the news hour including losing their homes by Police Closing a camp for migrants in northern france and in sports spains World ChampionBasketball Team arrived home to a big celebration of that story this. Runoff vote is expected in tunisia 2nd president ial election since the arab Spring Revolution 2 outsiders are in the lead. And imprisoned media magnate nobel most of the votes have been counted and the press conference is expected soon Stephanie Becker is live for us in tunis so we understand most of those have been counted i guess that means no one is expected to emerge as an outright winner. Yes i think this is what theyve said even before the elections because of the vast array of candidates you had sammy 26 that no one was going to get over 50 percent of the vote so its safe to say there will be a runoff the latest date for that will be the 13th of october and i think also at this stage safe to say that the 2 main men who will be going through our political outsiders if you will need a constitutional law professor a man who ran without a Political Party ran with a very Small Campaign or even a Campaign People will tell you with no money he went from areas in tunisia knocking on peoples doors in cafes but people weve been speaking to this morning certainly political analysts saying it was surprising how hes had such reach even though the polls did put him as a front runner and then the other one you mentioned there and we immediate mogul who is in prison facing charges of Money Laundering and tax evasion hes going to Television Channel hes better known here used to be part of the main Political Party but running again as a sort of anti establishment character weve been on the streets here this morning sam am always interesting lets say 9 out of 10 people we spoke to all said they either voted for criseyde or they were going to vote for him in the runoff why because they said they wanted something completely different they wanted someone who seemed to be honest and thats not what the politicians here had delivered so far or and so then if this does go to a 2nd round houses post to show. Well you also have parliamentary elections on the 6th of october so youre looking at a new Prime Minister new president a new parliament all within the next couple of weeks its back and forth in the sense of whether the date of these runoffs are going to be on the 6th of october together with those legislative ones or whether its going to be a bit later because of the appeal process whether any of the candidates are going to launch an appeal as to the final results which we are expecting any time now sammy were expecting that press conference within the hour thats been delayed for 2 hours and then moving forward again people will tell you they want change and the question now is whether whoever is going to be elected as the president as the Prime Minister is going to actually deliver that right thanks so much to feed back of that. 74 session of the United NationsGeneral Assembly is due to begin in the coming hours in the week in the next week World Leaders will arrive to push their global agenda its a critical time politically the u. S. Is that the center of rising tensions with iran china and north korea leaders are also trying to negotiate an end to the wars in syria and yemen the u. S. Has long been the United Nations largest financial backer they contributed 10000000000. 00 in 2017 a President Trump has been pushing for other countries to raise their contributions or for more on this were joined by Christopher Hunt in Tampa