the crypto queen stats descend associates on dw, the dw news line from portland tonight is real, facing increasing international pressure over its attacks on guns at the us defense secretary meeting with prime minister benjamin netanyahu and tell a beat he says, us to fort for is really is unshakable, but he's also pushing is really leaders to outlined a teacher for guns that after a boss. also coming up tonight, the international observers say that serbia snap election was stolen. a monitoring mission says that they noted several irregularities in the wind by the serbian

progressive party of president alexander, which will get more of our correspondence in delray. the library got this good to have you with this on this monday. international calls for is realty skill back. it's a salt on gaza or increasing and that includes from its closest ally, the united states, defense secretary and lloyd austin, isn't telling me where he has held separate talks with prime minister benjamin at yahoo. as well as the country's defense minister go on at a press conference, austin said that they had discussed ways to transition from major combat operations to lower intensity warfare in the battle against them off a group considered a terrorist organization by numerous countries. often reiterated that israel does have the right to defend itself. he also stress that it has an obligation to try to protect civilian lives, protecting palestinian civilians and gaza is both

a moral duty and a strategic imperative. so we will continue to stand up for israel's bedrock right to defend itself. and we will also continue to urge the protection of civilians during conflict and to increase the flow of humanitarian aid and to gosh, that's important. this is real fights to dismantle the homeless tara tara is infrastructure. industrial journalist st. e circle in jerusalem followed the press conference. i spoke with him earlier. so the secretary austin was talking not only about the humanitarian aid that has to go in to the gaza strip and not only about the palestinian lives, but he was also talking the specifically about the subject. those strikes that isn't as to adopt the surgical strikes. that has been closed,

the talks between the parties and they went into the teams from a how the next stages it should be. at the same time austin was saying this doesn't give is around any deadlines. and this was also reiterated by you off balance himself, is that he was saying that there is no a ticking clock, and that the is really operation a will continue it, but they have agreed to a further have a closer coordination with the continuing of the campaign and he said that america is giving advice to this early is and a go around to a saying that they're listening to the advice. so they're listening to their advice, argue saying, then sammy, any signs that is real, might be looking at changing it, strategy and goss to well, i must say that on the ground, you really don't see it. and you know,

today there was a human rights watch report as talking about hunger as a strategy. and they're talking about the severe situation in the gaza strip. the strikes are continuing inside the gaza strip. and a, it's not clear yet when there's a actually, when the materialize into a change in the way is run is waging its time, pays in a jobs it. this might be something that it wouldn't take time, the prime minister. we know that he is under a lot of pressure from outside of the country. what about domestic pressure on benjamin netanyahu? a yeah. was with see the following. the coming of the 3. yeah, hostages. there is a surge of anger among the families of the hostages. among those who were released uh, they were saying that the what happened there is actually

a reflection that the military operating in the gaza strip is not focused at looking for hostages, but rather focusing on the different mission, which is a revenge you mission. busy targeting a how boss and, and we've seen this kind of demonstrations at the same time, i must tell you that many people in is, are, i believe that neo is committed to continuing this war. and he's touching his political future with the extension of the war as this is something that can play for him. since the failure of the 7 sub october is very much identified with him victory over how much it could be saving him politically in the is there any internal or reno journalist?

it's amy circle with the ladies tonight from jerusalem. sammy, as always, thank you. yeah. means who the rebels have claimed responsibility for an attack on 2 ships by enabled drones in the southern red sea. the group which is backed by iran, said the vessels were linked to israel and identified them as the swan atlantic. and the m. s. c. clara, us officials said multiple projectiles were fired at this one, atlantic off yemen and the worship us s. carney responded. it's the latest in a series of incidents involving ships in this region. several major companies have said that they are re routing their vessels away from the red sea. as a team of international observers is says that serbia is snap elections were marred by several irregularities. the organization for security and cooperation in europe alleged there was media bias, vote buying and ballot. box stuffing,

preliminary results show the populace. serbian progressive party led by president alexander, who judge, 146.7 percent of the boat, that's almost twice as much as the 2nd placed opposition alliance. i got the survey against violent one from the opposition is called for protest this evening in the capitol bill. great news, here's what one of the election absorbers had to say about those irregularities was no fair election should not speak about fair election. it was, i'm for you, i can repeat that the building of the always the do. it was on say how and, and i think if you ask me as a politician then they said, i think the victory in belgrade was stolen from the bushes. approach is already underway in bel grade, the w's brussels bureau chief alexander from nom, and she gave me this update from bill gray. yeah,

we are in the center of the election committee and the people, it may be all a time or i'm not going to show you a bit around the people that you see around us. so. so there are supporters and members of the pro western opposition. united under the name servers against violence and there are here because there are saying there are not accepting those resolves. they think then b, l b to victory at the see and bell rice was stolen from them. and that is why there are here and they demand from the election a commission to cancel the resolve. there are no. okay, would what happened? they think they should have one here in delray. and um, is there any you have spoken to members of the o. s. c e a. what, what did they tell you what exactly did they observe that leads them to say that this election was stolen? slow. one of them told me that he personally observed bella,

book stuffing. he saw fake ballads and being stuff in the bela dogs and he so that he said that he could tell that they were fake because they are, they were printed on a different kind of paper and they still have the official them. and we heard a lot of those such reports with people being intimidated, being threatened with losing their job. if they don't vote for the ruling party, there are also reports about people who were brought in boxes and then to the city of the raid from outside the country. 40000 new id were issued according to the opposition. so the european election of service, they were sort of diplomatic saying that they can only observe it's not up to them to make any assessments,

assessments or to polls for the cancellation of the votes. but the independence or the service of the legs, are more outspoken, at least saying that what's happened to you in belgrade? the official results in belgrade do not represent the will of the people. alexander, you could be standing and what is the middle of europe's latest political powder keg? what can we expect to happen next, realistically? well of course i ask people here whether they believe that anything can change by them taking students read some uh our whole to other are saying we need more radical means to bring about that change in serbia. some are saying the european union needs to put more pressure on president bush's and he's government. but of course, the you are peons are afraid that in that case it could turn more it

towards a russia and the restaurant could get even more influence here. then they already have definitely a valuable situation. we know that you will keep us up to date on what's happening, dw, both of your chief alexander phenomena with the latest from bill rate, serbia. tonight's alexandra, thank you. germany says in his find it historic agreement to deploy troops in lithuania, that will be the 1st time the german bonus. fer soldiers are permanently stationed outside the countries on boarders defense minister orest. the story said that germany was ready to defend native territory historic signature, germany, unless wayne yet signed a roadmap for the deployment of a german bonus february gate to the baltic country. for the 1st time since world war 2, the german army will station soldiers permanently abroad. the reason rush, i poses a threat to europe as a whole, not just ukraine. some 4800 german military personnel and 200 civilians will make

up the list way in the upper gate. the idea is to detach the rest of it from attacking the small baltic countries. a potential threat of the west, the military lines, nato, is taking very seriously. with this way near brigade, germany aims to help strengthen nato's eastern slang. since specialists invasion of ukraine and february 2022. the bonus van has redefined its goals. the focus is now on national defense and strengthening natal of today's a milestone. is that very new project and the very impressive project? i think we signed the roadmap as is absolutely new for germany. absolutely new for the buddhist with the 1st time we do that. it's a huge challenge, but we are really willing to do it. and we are keen on being successful together without at least being in france. germany already leads may to us multinational bethel group in this way. and yeah, of some $1000.00 troops which will be integrated into the new brigade. the german

defense minister also used the occasion to sign the german soldiers stationed already in this way. now, as part of the traditional christmas trips visit, it is hopes that the new german brigade will help secure nato's eastern border. it will likely be fully operational by 2027. journeys for administer on the bare block has dismissed the idea that her government would ever consider a migration plan with the east african country or a one to know recently for one that has become the center of policy plants by the u . k. in other countries to send asylum seekers there while their applications are processed. their book is in rwanda to attend the opening of an m r in a vaccine factory in the capital kigali. she called it's a sign that successful african european cooperation. german pharmaceutical company biotech plans to produce cobit 19 vaccines. they are for the african caught w as political correspondent, thomas barrow is travelling with germany's foreign minister and the bear block. he

has more on her dismissing the idea of a migration plan with, for what it was not part of the official agenda of the visits by gemini support administer, and then a babel to keep garley the capital of rwanda. but it was never that as a question that many wanted to ask, what germany consider a plan similar to that you case plan to send refugees to such countries, such as rwanda in order for their asylum applications to be processed. that is, that the page that has been growing in germany in recent days, especially since members of the opposition, conservative party, the cd. you stressed that they supported the idea on that. in that view, it would help to reduce dramatically the number of asylum applications in germany. but asked about this during the press conference she held with her counterpart here

in the galley another. not babel stressed that those were your reco discussions. adding that there was still many legal questions that needed to be onset in hub. you the solution to some of your ups migration problems is a common european approach based both on humanity and don't order that was done was fair, they are reporting close up is up. next, i'll be back in the top of the hour with more world news. see that the vibrant under glistening place of long in the mediterranean sea, unless i am just following up to coming to us touring modem, lodge styles, to amy and admitted to amy and jenny this week on the dw.