[000:00:00;00] the distance dw news life from berlin. israel's leader publicly defies the us over gaza prime minister benjamin netanyahu was this calls from the white house to scale back the war against boss and projects. any future palestinian state also coming up the us and its allies? consider upfold move to fund ukraine's war effort. they are exploring the idea of seizing some $300000000000.00 of russian assets frozen since the invasion began.

the . i'm sorry kelly, welcome to the program. we'd begin with the war in gaza. where is real is pressing on with operations in the south, and defiance of calls from the united states to scale back it's defensive. prime minister benjamin netanyahu has again insisted that israel will not stop the fighting and gaza until it has destroyed him off, which several countries classify as a terrorist organization. that's in yahoo also rejected caused by the us to plan for a future palestinian state. once the war is over, as the fighting and gaza reduced on israel's increasingly at odds with its closest ally. the war and gaza is still backed by the united states. but the intensity of operations has come under us. scrutiny of israel says it won't cave to

american pressure prime minister benjamin netanyahu stresses israel won't scale back and appear to reject the idea of creating a palestinian state the whole in any arrangement. whether there isn't a code or not. these ready states must have security control of old which have a tree west of the jordan river is a necessary condition. but that cautious with the principal of palestinian sovereignty. it doesn't matter what can i say? i've told our american friends this truth. i've also stopped the states having to impose a reality on those that would hom is where it was security and it's ready probably minister should be able to say no, even to our best friends. no. when necessary. yes we, when possible. and we, what the us has reiterated palestinian statehood is the only past to lasting piece . it will be we do believe that this conflict is all conflicts. the will end at some point and that there needs to be

a political path forward for the establishment of a palestinian state. that is the only way, not just to answer the legitimate hopes, rings, aspirations of palestinian people. but it is also, and this is critical. the only way to provide lasting security for the is really people. and it's not just the us trying to push the israeli government in a different direction. until of the protesters accused the government of pursuing aggressive policies. while we as green people who are living the jewish people in the city and people these many fear and out right? rejection of palestinian statehood now we're only worse and regional tensions and trap israel and less conflict. and we got some analysis of the move um dw senior business reporter news fund. i spoke with in bremmer, the director of the think tank. you raise your group at the world economic forum

and davos and found out what he thinks of the is really prime minister is rejection of a palestinian state. or i think that other, almost any other plausible leader of israel would be more in favor of a 2 state solution. but that doesn't mean that they would be more in favor of ending the war. and so getting to a 2 state solution is a different story. remember, since october 7th, the entire is rarely population has wrongly wanted to remove a moss from the map and they the image. this is traumatized, the man, and a lot of the people that were killed and tortured and raped. i mean, these are some of the, they were at a dance festival. the raven is the most progressive part of his really, society is the people that most one of the 2 state solution in peace. now they're the ones that are going out and saying, we've got to destroy him, us. so, i mean, the war cabinet has enormous support in terms of the fighting, even though the prime minister is incredibly unpopular among these really people in they want amount. oh,

how much influence does the us have always ran right now and how much pressure are they actually putting on it and yahoo changed course. there's certainly putting pressure on israel to change course. they want israel to accept the 2 state solution. they want israel and they haven't called for a permanent ceasefire, but they certainly have called for much more humanitarian aid to come in. it's certainly called for far fewer civilians to get caught up in the mass that the israelis are, you know, in, in the bombing campaign. and it's having no impact. and, you know, fighting doesn't like not. yeah. who doesn't trust them. you may remember that when uh, obama and buttonwood, pushing the iranian nuclear deal to the jcp away, not in yahoo flew to washington, and gave a speech to congress publicly undermining bite in an obama. so, i mean, the relationship has very, very little trust to it. and even though by then went to israel right after october,

7th and publicly physically embraced the is really leadership. the fact is that his ability to really move whatnot. yeah. who is doing this very, very small. so what i really biden's options now as far as the conflict is concerned. well, i mean, in principle, the americans could say that they're going to cut or condition military support on the basis of what these rallies do and don't do. i don't see that happening. i think especially in election year, he would get punished very heavily from the right from doing so who some of them are already saying he's too soft on israel and, and, and that's not true. but that's none. the less a dangerous thing for him. having said that, one thing that he can do is work more strongly with the gulf states to try to help ensure that there is support for security on the ground and gaza. that isn't the permanent is really occupation. and there's also funding to reconstruct a place for the palestinians to live because i mean nobody wants them to leave gaza,

but they can't stay with the wait. gaza presently is. so what are you going to do? i mean, you can add, you can talk all you want about the 2 state solution, but unless you have the ability to live and defend yourself and govern yourselves, there's no state. you mentioned that they are pretty much on board with the 2 state solution. washington. now would be really invest in how much can the invest, especially in an election year in this solution. there's no 2 state solution that's going to be happening this year. that's very clear. what they can invest in doing is getting the other countries in the region and especially golf leadership, some of whom are part of the abraham accords and already have breakthrough relations with israel. and saudi arabia. who would still like to normalize relations with israel, but not unless there's concrete movement towards a 2 state solution. so that's the leverage. the americans have the us, the most powerful country in the world, the saudis, the moratti's, they have the best defense relationship security relationship with the united

states. so if anyone is going to get anything done here, that's a breakthrough. the americans are gonna have to show some leadership. quick look at some other headlines from around the world. the young man's whose the rebels have launched a fresh misled attack on an american knowledge shifting the red sea. no damage or injuries were reported. the wrong back to militia has been targeted shipping in the waterways since november, saying it's acting in solidarity with the palestinians. germany's parliament has voted to ease citizenship for lawmakers back the government's plans to make my friends eligible to become german faster as keep their previous citizenship as well . the reforms are attended to boost integration and attract more skilled workers to germany as rapidly aging workforce. square footage from north korea shows 2 teenagers being sentenced to 12 years of hard labor for watching television dramas from south korea. the 16 year old boys were sentenced in front of hundreds of

students entertainment from south korea, including popular tv shows, known as cage ramos is banned in north. a police report says that for sales former far right president, triad, post denado, had fords. hoover 19 vaccinations. certificates officers sounds evidence that full sonata knew about the fraudulent entries and health ministry vaccination records. they say he and his inner circle for able to dodge pandemic restrictions in russia. more than a 1000 people have joined protests over the arrest of inactive us and a prominent kremlin critic. demonstrations have taken place in the semi autonomous republic of mash. cortez sandwich has seen a high number of casualties in ukraine. police detained file of us enough who had publicly criticized moscow's mobilization drive for the war dw, as you are,

your shadow has more from the less the and capital rica where our moscow bureau moved after it was shut down by the russian authorities, as well, according to media reports are at least 2000 people gathered in the seller wants, who lives clear in fozzy capital of pass code plus don as the republic of russia, as all about your life was a basket of poet and national hero and a fight for the rights of the countries indigenous people, the protesters today tribes with all their looks at puritans, not to provoke the police in any way. for example, not even to show that they came to the protest because it's dangerous and russia instead of a came up with, let's say, creative drink such as taking each of those hands and dancing around, trying not to guns that you one place into bolting from side to side at the beginning of the action, police of the extra police officer selectively check people's documents and to form to them of responsibility for legal action. what do i say?

i have to when they all ask the people why that was the process. that sounds that, that, that they just came to look at to be monuments just all a bunch of life bucks that didn't work for a long soon after they actually began special police called on long a p at a basically i began point by point extensions at least 10 people, what the paint and they're all the sofa. so these are regional processes, as we've highlighted. there you are, it doesn't mean anything for, you know, more broad politics and russia and for pollutants grip on power to yes, of course. i mean, a presidential elections to build the housing process in 2 months time and flooding improved and wants to be re elected to, with an overwhelming majority. so he's, popularity is very important to him right now. of course, these are not protests in most coal, whereas a could be particularly adventurous for the kremlin not ozzy protests to directly against photon bought the fact of it so many people are still taking to the streets and put in structure despite the risk of being arrested and imprisoned for many

years. this fact is remarkable. also, there is another aspect that makes it more complicated, which is a nationality issue. because it's not the of the ethnic russians who are taking to the streets have bought the best use, who obviously feel dominated by the russians as a bus called left on national minorities. an audited publics also feels that a russian domination that sometimes disputation, so they remain silent and tolerate this. they are asleep so to speak, but only as long as moscow is a strong t w's riga bureau chief uri with shadow. thank you. the united states and it's western allies are looking at possible new sources of funding for the war and ukraine that could involve seizing some $300000000000.00. and russian assets are frozen by the west. after the invasion, the by the administration is exploring the idea. as future us funding is caught up in a bunch of dispute in congress. russia has warranted would retaliate by confiscating

western assets several weeks up to these images announced russia's invasion of ukraine to the world. the us and the you retaliated by freezing around $300000000000.00 worth of russian state assets. but nearly 2 years on and with no end in sight to the war, washington and its allies. and i am talking about taking the more radical steps or of not just freezing the russian assets, but confiscating them kids is keen for this to happen. to move in to 2024, one of the key tasks is redirecting the frozen assets of the russian federation in the west towards ukrainian recovery and see the united states the european union and other countries have come closer to resolving this issue. doing with the ukrainian president brought him is the landscape has been pushing for this for

a while as a way of punishing russia and also financing the will as it is a time when result seems to be fracturing in some places. i will begin. ok. but most go say it's a us and its allies go ahead. it will respond by seizing weston assets and has already drawn out a list. a spokesman for the kremlin also said such a move would not just violate international law, but on the mind of the nations, by casting doubts on the inviolable etsy of property, the name of the general. no such a theory can be legal. it can only be pseudo legal, and most importantly, it will be a significant blow to the foundations of the international economy. but as the walgreens on support of the scheme, they seizing such a large sum of russian money could change the course of the conflict by

strengthening keeps position. not just any torques, but also on the battlefield. so for now up next, the dw documentary diet for your body type looks at personalized nutrition. stay with us. if you can for that, i'm sarah kelly and berlin. thank you so much for watching. take care the do these do for fun via do gravitational waves squeeze out body. how do i the drums for the test page? and what's the perfect kid for approx side? find beyond says get with dw signs on the picked up channels.