A forthcoming book about the alleged Sexual Misconduct of u. S. Supreme court judge Brett Kavanaugh leaving in 14 details out. Its 11 oclock here in moscow and youre watching International Live from our studio with mina due to welcome to the program. Saudi arabia now claims that iran was involved in this weekends attack on the kingdoms old refineries and that the attack was not conducted from yemen in the south but came from the north iran swiftly with the defense ministries claim as lacking real proof is in with the details. Well we heard the press conference from the Saudi Ministry of defense earlier and we also understand that at this point mike pompei o has arrived in saudi arabia for his working visit and he is referring to the attack as an act of war in blaming iran but at the press conference that we heard they announced that they had carried out a thorough investigation and come to some pretty specific conclusions as. The attorney did not originate from yemen was movement from the movement and was on question be sponsored by a wrong its not in the range of yemens capabilities if it was them who can talk to the attack this is one of the missiles we have recovered and we have information that leads us to the source of these kind of components were made in iran as the saudi officials were speaking they had scattered parts of the missiles to route the room and they pointed to these scattered parts of the missile to make their point that iran was responsible if that Iranian Regime and the i. R. G. C. Are trying to hide any evidence of the components and the Technology Im sure we will. Were working on who have is responsible about to take accountability basically as the saudi officials were speaking they argued that the components of these missiles were iranian made they said that iran is attempting to hide evidence interestingly when they were pressed for details about the location from which the attack was launched they gave some rather vague answers this is saudi officials responding to questions from reporters when when is the breaking point what is the red line where you feel youll be compelled to respond militarily militarily if. Were working right now to move launch point and when we have it we will have evidence that the decision is not on my level now the Islamic Republic of iran has responded and said that this is simply not accurate and they said that saudi arabia does not have real proof that iran is responsible. The News Conference from the Saudi Arabian defense ministries press secretary is a catastrophe for saudi arabia theyve shown they cannot prove or know exactly where the cruise missiles and drawings were made from exactly where that attack was launched or why ead Defense Systems could not prevent that attack. With 95 percent of the vote counted the fate of israels Prime Minister hangs in the balance right now in any case that neither has enough allies to form a government which means yet more protracted Coalition Talks lie ahead our middle east correspondent paula slayer has the details. Well it certainly seems as if youve read the situation wrong this is the 2nd election in 6 months and its the 2nd time in 6 months that netanyahu has lost he is being placed 2nd to the full the army chief benny gantz who heads up a center left party now the race has been tight its only 160000 seats that is the equivalent of that one parliamentary mandate so its only 160000 seats that separate the 2 leaders but who is running out of Coalition Partners he hasnt got any new partners to approach to put sides his traditional ones and hes also making a desperate attempt to try and present this in a positive light hes made an appeal which he says we will fight on to form a strong zionist government without the arab parties many people here interpret that as the disparate words of a desperate man they need guns is not going to be tossed presumably with forming the next government he says he is prepared to potentially work with netanyahu so he could party but only if netanyahu is not there and netanyahu of course is not going to accept this but there are questions whether or not in the future the party might actually osc him to step down so that they can form that unity government and still remain within the Ruling Coalition believe him and he really is the king the king maker here and he is expected to have between 8 and 10 seats now and he and netanyahu have a lot of bad blood between them so on the one hand theyll need to put their personal differences aside and then on the other hand the time yahoo is committed to the orthodox parties and lieberman is campaigning on the ticket of secularism he wants nothing to do with the orthodox parties so it seems almost impossible hunters are not whos going to be able to form a coalition with lieberman on the one side and the orthodox parties on the other so so this is the problem in israel theres just too Many Political parties with too many different agendas the sense one gets here is that the country really is in a position of stalemate almost in the same position that it was 6 months ago and thats why increasingly more questions are being. Asked as to whether or not the 3rd election is going to be held which is just essentially going to cost the country more money its going to create more fatigue and more frustration amongst israelis. Political analyst Mitchell Barak believes that for now mr netanyahu doesnt have any Viable Options for a coalition. The ironic thing is the last election which was a few months ago and to now had really all the options in the world he could have formed a right of Center Government a narrow one with about 61 seats or he could have sat down with benny gantz and had a unity government with 70 and added more parties he chose to do neither he wasnt successful and either called for new elections now what it appears is i would say its the final countdown to the end of the career of that and you know hes talking about a narrow right of center zionist government you know a narrow government and benny gantz is sounding like a leader unifying the people the will of the people hes going to talk to all the parties most of the parties that have run from the left blue and white to the labor party to the Democratic Camp Party all of them has said will join a National Unity government with the likud even we just wont do it with it and you know that and you know for most israeli politicians and many and many of the israeli people is damaged goods. And the talent pool on occasions of a Sexual Harassment by a Supreme CourtJustice Pratt company as being previewed in the New York Times and the papers facing a backlash from apparently taking things out of context and has been reading between the lines if youre kind of sick of hearing the same story all over again like the president called this or that media nothing but junk or youre glad you havent heard the name brand cavanaugh and something related to his genitals for a while im really sorry i dont think theyll do it but they should for the good of the nation i call for the resignation of everybody had to do york times involved. Yep which is once again one of the biggest stories in the land of trump and cold versus the liberals here we go so 2 top journalists wrote a book and had a preview published in the sunday paper whats being teased are 2 previously reported alleged cases of Sexual Harassment by Brad Cavanaugh now a Supreme Court justice from his years at yale. A freshman named Brett Kavanaugh pulled down his pants interest his penis at her prompting her to swatted away and inadvertently touch it. A classmate masti or saw mr cameron with his pants down at a different drunken durham party where friends pushed his penis into to hand over a female student now that is gross if it fell on mr cavanaugh was really up to all that surely he must face severe consequences although for now these are just lines from a book not something put forward by lets say the folks from the Justice Department but if you pick almost any one of the democratic president ial candidate lined up theyve made up their minds on what should be next for kavanaugh confirmation is not exoneration and these news revelations that disturb him like the man who appointed him kevin all should be impeached he was put on the court through a sham process and he is placed on the court as an insult to the pursuit of truth and justice he must be impeached it is more clear than ever that Brett Kavanaugh lied under oath he should be impeached i stand with survivors and countless other americans in calling for impeachment proceedings to begin but dig a bit deeper and perhaps trumps latest rant at the n. Y. T. Isnt so wide off the mark there could have been a bit of a problem with their journalistic ethics you see some conservative folks got an advanced copy of the book and realized something rather important was dropped in the times teaser the book notes quietly that the woman max steer named as having been supposedly victimized by kavanagh in france denies any memory of an alleged event seems odd or no significant it was then the papers turn to do something about it after a while heres what they came up with. An earlier version did not include want aliment of the books account regarding an assertion by classmate to friends of Brett Cavanagh pushed his penis into him of the female student and a Drunken Party the book reports that if the male student declined to be interviewed and friends see the she does not recall the incident that information has been added to. The authors were bound to be asked why the central piece of the puzzle was missing your draft of the article didnt include those words that have since been added to the article and to it so somewhere in the editing process those words were no i mean i think what happened actually was that you know we had her name and you know the times doesnt usually include the name of rectum and so i think in this case the editors felt like maybe it was probably better to remove it and in removing her name they removed the other reference to the fact that she didnt remember that they could have done a good job at protecting the victim or they could have missed the whole thing up wildly because no matter whats not in the article they say her name is in the book or maybe mr trump was right and they didnt want to read the story of that extra spice and left out the crucial bit on purpose what if the woman doesnt even consider herself a victim she reportedly says she doesnt remember anything like this oh god. His genitals liberal media frob watch this space my friends. I thought top story in saudi arabias direct accusation that iran played a role in the attacks on riyadh all refined weeks of the weekend the allegation was presented during a Defense Ministry press conference with branded a catastrophe for the kingdom saying that the saudis presented no clear evidence but we can get some insight now from Michael Maloof whos a former Pentagon Security analyst thanks for coming on to the program michael. Version yeah i mean you know we heard a lot about this key white outfit. White house figures are in saudi arabia and there and now riyadh as we mentioned before say the attacks were unquestionably sponsored by iran after several days holding off from making direct accusations what do you think are the next news for the u. S. And saudi arabia. I dont think anything is going to happen really i think the theyre going to have to let this one slide because to to do otherwise would result in concerted military responses. I. Think the who are right they are the ones who did it but the problem is no one believes them and it doesnt fit into the u. S. Narrative that its iran the only thing that might be iranian related is that maybe some of the equipment some of the technology that the who these have might have been incorporated into the attack but why why or why is anyone complaining especially the saudis since the u. S. Has been providing the bombs and the aircraft to the saudis to bomb yemen for 4 years so the who with these are just responding back and now a military spokesman namely yeah sorry basically said look it was us we basically made these drones with materials that could not be detected and there they are and we are also working with people from within its very interesting he says its people within the the regime itself which might suggest that there is a current of maybe a possible overthrow of mohamed bin salman yeah i mean they were it i think its prudent michael they were a bit shady that the u. S. Stay out of this well its all you are saying and the fact is. There is theres no evidence no evidence directly of overhead of of where the missiles might have a originated i have not seen any intelligence on that and to believe intelligence these days i just remind viewers of the iraqi w n d the slam dunk intelligence they had back in 2003 to launch of the us invasion of iraq how did that go i mean they did discuss over that didnt they where the where the missile yes. And concentrated more on what they were so that there is no definitive evidence at this point. If we look at it its nothing to go to war over well if we look at defense you know riyadh has spent billions of dollars on us on this and uses the American Made page a Defense System how was a breach even possible. Well because the materials and the and the missiles themselves apparently were stealth and they dont and they have not purchased from the United States the type of Radar Systems that can detect stealth the u. S. Wont sell it till now there are some countries particularly the Czech Republic not a tesla that has a type of radar that can detect stealth in fact thats what was used. In bosnia to shoot down the f. 117. Years ago during the Clinton Administration they had a radar system that allowed them to track and it was a radar system that when i was that the Defense Department we were denying to iraq and other countries because it could detect stealth and apparently the saudis dont have a no its my understanding theyve turned around and there theyve put out bids for technologies to detect it detect such. Missiles and incoming drones and you know theyve got the money they can buy it but. Too little too late right now this minute up to now if we look at the reaction to this latest incident he doesnt appear to be totally convinced that iran was in fact behind the iraq having said that his top diplomat might compare he plame to iran immediately after the incident why is what it looks like theres a miscommunication doesnt there within the white house have a something that you know its there its there audio its. Its the ideological approach that theyre taking these are neo cons they want to blame iran anything that will point in the direction of iran because theyre looking to instigate something against iran and their plan is becoming for oil because we see whats going on in in the israeli elections right now netanyahu is having a problem getting reelected and secondly Bolton John Bolton the National Security adviser former is now out and he was a big proponent of war with iran and so you know most of the countries in the world dont want it weve seen it from russia to china theyre all and europe theyre all saying go cautiously on this because the next step is going to be but i might add one other thing the iranians have to undertake an approach which i find intriguing theyre basically saying theyre going to do proportionate responses militarily or kinetically whenever that happens to them so we saw it 1st when the drone came in from the u. S. Drone enter their territory and it was shot down while the head of the Aerospace Forces as announced look theyre just going to go and do this quid pro quo type of thing from here on and they can target not only us bases in the region but theyre also looking in that facility such as the oil and gas facilities in saudi arabia as well as u. A. E. In response so nobodys going to go unscathed if things break out and thats the last thing in the world people want right now yeah i mean even you know you can start it but how do you end it. Yeah i mean even if we look at what allies or how allies of reactively look at japan which is a notably with ali. They said that theres no intelligent what were discussing before theres no winter intelligence to indicate that to ron was involved in these recent attacks and that the who the rebels you know are claiming behind it why. I mean you youve talked about they will buy you the water option but. Nevertheless you know we do have this stance did and only from washington you know their determination. Montra. Theyre trying to keep that pressure on iran they want they ultimately want regime change there even though a pompei 0 does i should say the president says hes willing to talk or he was he probably still is deep in his heart and you have other folks like. Vladimir putin saying the you know weve got to calm down this is not a time to to raise the temperature in that region anything can set it off as we saw a few weeks ago when the israelis attacked. In the in south beirut that could have sparked something much much larger and it would have been unrelated to this but you also h