the the you watching the of the news coming to live from berlin is rarely forces pushing deeper into a central and southern gaza. the military has announced a short pause and fighting and one camp in the south. the goals are stripped for humanitarian reasons. this comes out for an intense air and ground defensive left hundreds of thousands of palestinians. this place is also coming up on the show condemnation of russia's latest attacks on ukraine. rockets has cities across the country killing at least 30 people, and injuring more than a 100 others,

the cause of the fiercest assault by moscow. the early days of the war nearly 2 years ago. and relentless rain causes severe flooding in northern germany. many communities are under water as rivers and streams burst their banks with more heavy rain forecast. the clear richardson welcome and it's offensive against tomas as well as military is shifting its focus further south. in the last 24 hours, airstrikes and artillery fire have hit targets in central and southern gaza, killing at least $165.00 pablo city. and that is according to local officials. united nations estimates that the 100000 gall husbands are newly displaced. many of them not for the 1st time, is rarely forces, say there making progress in their search for weapons. depos and secret hideout

used by homos. it is designated a terrorist organization by the us, germany and several other countries is really treat attacking a southern gas a beast from. we're high mass militants presumably say to and be israel on october 7th. this protects from israel's military, shows an ongoing operation to gain control of the sites, the goal, dismantling. how much infrastructure and tracking don't is leaders highlights israel's military says it has destroyed several homage tunnels all over the guys. a strip this latest one in the north. as much i know we found a very significant, a mass tunnel network network used by senior officials. it's very deep, deeper than the previous ones. this tunnel is different from isn't that a vase of that goes down a very long tunnel shop?

the slicing has led to one of the worst humanitarian crises in the gaza strip. nice . israel is expanding itself variations in the area right in the southern cities upon eunice. the little co master hospital says it's running, active supplies. space is limited, but the patients keep coming in the hospital is receiving a lot more than its capacity. in fact, we have functioning a 300 percent capacity. the beds are full and most of the time one bed is holding 2 patients at the same time. and we have basically showed and all sorts of medical supplies. and even though many of those brought to hospitals are collected by members of the red crescent who transport the dead winded, through streets filled with debris, and with no signs of an escalation, there appears to be no respite for

a population cost in the crossfire. according to the master on guys, a health ministry, israel's offensive has killed more than 21500 pounds. standing in the united nations estimates that about 85 percent of guys this population is now you displaced from or we can talk to a bush or holiday. she is the policy lead for the palestinian territories for ox, pam, and drawings us today from the occupied west bank. welcome, a bush or what can you tell us about the situation in gaza after these latest is rarely strikes as well. i'm in fact, personally affected by what's happened this weekend as i, especially in the mail as a massacre on christmas eve. i have my family in my eyes, the refugee time, but the moment a distant relative of ours, lost his time, lost 2 legs and that attack. uh and now is the question

for my family including is where do we go next and where is safe for us to go and thats, they've already been displaced 3 times. this is the story of probably have a lot most people in bozza where there is no way to go. they're trapped in a small strip of land with no food, no water, no copper health care, no electricity. um no fuel, uh no telecom and very, very little aid coming in. and even whatever aid comes in could never be enough to really meet the needs of an entire and the entire set city step of state. and i'm sorry to hear about the only member there this, this is clearly an issue affecting you personally as well. i'm sorry to jump in. i . we are just hearing though, that is, rails military has announced a 4 hour tactical pause in fighting in the south of the gaza strip. and i'm

wondering from your professional experience how much you thinks these temporary breaks like this could help 8 workers to do their jobs. of absolutely nothing for hours to meet the needs of 2 point. 2000000 people were talking about half of which are children. many are sick. many of wounded people are i it's it's, it's absolute chaos. people are fighting for their lives every single day for 4 hours. is that is it's meeting are really, it's just like the truths you know, a few, a few weeks ago. and as you maintain organizations were raising the alarm bell on this and how you all 5, the pause is nothing in comparison to the needs that were seen receive. we're talking about almost 60 to 70000 people injured, many of which was extremely traumatic injuries. we're talking about people already

and hospitals. we also talked about those are the, my parents in law are elderly people. they need a medication from their hearts and, and different kinds of things that they can't even get. so it's not just about how much 8 comes in in 4 hours. it's about a complete and permanent ceasefire. an end to the bombing, an end to the war, crimes that we're seeing submitted and a restoration of services. and i'm a proper environments that humanitarian workers to work in, not, and i am an environment where we would be ok as you maintain workers to center teams, to deliver aid and it's, it's, it would reach, i do the care to our own teams. well, thank you very much for joining us to share your personal experience and, and the work of 8 workers. as israel says it is continuing, it's offensive against a monster that is a bushel. lady austin's policy lead for the palestinian territories to be very much appreciate your time. thank you us. and we can look now at some other stories making headlines at this hour. us president joe biden's administration has bypass

congress to approve an emergency arms sale to israel for the 2nd time this month. components for artillery shells are included in the nearly $150000000.00 transfer. the state department said the decision was unjustified by the urgency of israel's needs flooded railway tunnels under the river thames of forest. the cancellation of more than a dozen eurostar trains between london and your engineers are working to fix the problem by euro star as warning of severe delays. thousands of passengers have been less stranded just before new year's eve. thousands of people are protesting and the serbian capital belgrade, over alleged fraud investments selections for demonstrations comm. as re run both were held in a handful following stations across the country. present alexander purchased party, won the vote decisively by the international observers of the forwarded erect irregularities. the opposition is calling for the results to be thrown out new and

secretary general, antonio guitars has condemned russia's latest attacks on ukraine. president will let him or the lensky says at least 39 people were killed and fridays. nationwide era solvece key infrastructure was hit, including a maternity hospital. ukrainian official site is the biggest russian era attack since the war began almost 2 years ago. and russia says it has shot down ukrainian rockets and rooms following its mass of aerial assault on ukraine and russia's defense ministry said, 13 rockets had been destroyed over the southern belgrade region. and according to the local governor, several people were killed including at least 2 children. russian officials said more than 30 drones, were shot down by air defenses. so let's be tomorrow, and i'm a ron postdoctoral researcher in the worst of these department of kings college london. welcome back. ran a good to see you again. according to the russian ministry of defense,

32 drones shot down over russian regions overnight. do you think this was revenge for the heavy air strikes? we saw a day earlier today? well, i, i think it is very plausible to believe that ukraine have to formulate some sort of response and this short window of opportunity. but generally speaking, we have seen attacks from ukrainian territory on balderas. we have seen some attacks on moscow, most notably in may during the may celebrations. so i think it's a mixture of bose would have to remember that this is a war. it's not a quick pro cool one site is not bleeding until a nozzle on attacks in order to conduct some operations. however, i think for ukraine, this is important to do it right now to demonstrate this resilience. and to demonstrate that it still has the capability to respond for perhaps not in kind. however, it has to do something to demonstrate the will of ukrainian people to resist the

russian aggression in the international era. now where they support for ukraine is waning, looking at rushes, strikes on you cramming russia head practically every corner of ukraine and fridays air attacks. but officials are describing as the biggest since the start of this war did the scale of the attacks. there comes a surprise at this point in the war as well, perhaps because we haven't seen many strikes of sat scale being conducted in the 1st one was when the war has started. and so, over the years we have heard that russia is running out of missiles, but as a matter of fact, russia is not running out of missiles and russia has been preparing for this attack . end of november, it has tested cubes. air defenses was for headphones, for instance, and here we're seeing that, especially after the ukrainian attack on,

on russian worship. in philadelphia, it was sort of a logical response by russia to target few cranes, military facilities, drayton factories and munition factories. everything that they could locate in warranted to destroy ukraine's capability to conduct such strikes in the future. and we heard of ukrainian air force spokesperson saying that russia has launched everything. it has including x $22.00 missiles which are extremely hard to intercept. what does that tell you about russia's strategy at this point? well, i think, for, i'm sure has stepped up its game in terms of the bristles it is using in order to evade the western supply. the air defenses, such as a patry of batteries, and i think we also have to understand that the russia has run its capacity to produce missiles. um, there have been many reports from western sources indicating such and indicating the fact that russia has managed to circumvent the sanctions in order to get some

necessary parts. so we shouldn't be underestimating russian thinking that it and if mindful and not open as well. so quite the opposite, i think that we're likely to see more of so sophisticated missiles to be used in ukraine or a number on thank you. as always for analysis that is on marina martin from kings college london. thank you for having me. and more rain is expected in several areas of germany that are already dealing with flooding. after heavy downpours and summer rivers have burst their banks, while water levels and others have risen rapidly. the north western state of lower saxony has been particularly hard hits. and while the german weather service is forecasting more rainfall, it says it won't be as heavy as in recent days. to do that, these are porter, karen burkett joined us from the taylor district of germany state of lower saxony and gave us an update on the situation. they're in

a little hamlets just to situated on the banks of the other river and the normally green fields behind me completely swamped. and they have been since, since a police christmas the, it's a small farming community and the people that have come out to speak to me and said they've never seen the highest high watermark quite as high as this. they were coming out to the bridge, which is just of camera. and they were looking to see if the water levels had dropped, which thankfully they had a good $0.50. but it's still very concerning full communities that are situated the long low line areas of tribute to tributaries like the other river. and they are watching the skies very closely. they also, you know, just keeping an eye on the, the,

what all the deflect defenses. but, but ultimately that's a some good news is that the, the water levels have dropped. that's where we're at. so i will keep you posted with any updates there to, for now though that's all your news. don't forget this more on our website. i d, w dot com. thank you very much for watching the can you see what old car tires have to do with you production? here's a hands on the real media watch now on youtube.