in a matter of a couple of hours the polling stations will open. there will be patrolled by armed officers in some areas. the vast majority of constituencies will declare in the early hours of friday morning. on election day 2017, just two years after the last one and three years earlier than we were expecting. 68 different parties are vying for your votes this time around with a total field of more than 3300 candidates. we will elect mps from 650 constituencies across the uk, 533 in england, a0 in wales, 59 in scotland and 18 in northern ireland. around a7 million people are eligible to vote and will be casting our ballots at a1,000 polling stations on the length and breadth of the land as well is by post. the party leader with the most mps will be invited by the queen to form a government. mps are due back in next tuesday. so after seven weeks of campaigning, the time has come to choose their will and by those green benches across the road. 11 days from now, the queen will
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Side of saudi arabia over the side of the united states. whether it s with sharing sensitive nuclear technology information with saudi arabia or taking saudi arabia s side in the blockade of cut qatar, all the way to the response to the murder of u.s. resident jamal khashoggi, or yemen, he s been taking saudi arabia s side over the united states. you have to ask the question here, why, why would the united states president be doing that? and actually and especially be doing that in the face of what rarely happens in d.c. these days, which is in the face of opposition from some in his own party. the only two potential answers i ve got here really are, one, financial interests. his own? his own potential financial interests, the saudi arabian prince s and other senior officials frequently go and stay at president trump s hotels in new york and washington. many but also there are reports
shepard: i m shepard smith. this is the fox report. it s the bottom of the hour, time for the top of the news. and after 12 years of war in afghanistan, the u.s. is set to start direct talks with the taliban. the hard line group is opening an office in cut qatar. the taliban gave usama bin laden protection, security, and a place to live and allowed al qaeda to use its bases in afghanistan to launch the attacks of 9/11. now we are starting peace talks. administration officials say they will try push the taliban to break ties with al qaeda and end the violence in afghanistan. the announcement came just hours after the afghan government forces formally too many over responsibility for national security from nato. the fox report s correspondent jonathan hunt is in our new york city newsroom with more on this. u.s. officials admit this