the the, this is dw news line from berlin, israel storms, the last big hospital still functioning in gaza. the army says it has credible evidence that hamas held hostages inside the complex. also coming up a reversal incentive gulf. the country's top election authority has overturn the president's decision to put off elections, which sparked deputy protests and concerns about what was considered west africa's boston of democracy. and nato. chase assess threats to the west. europe's defense strategy. i'm the wars in 1900 cranes, dominate 2 days of toilets and brussels. the lines, the secretary general, strikes the positive note. plus the greek parliament makes the country the

1st orthodox christian nation to legalize same sex marriage to the life l. g, b, c, q plus advocates the on pablo felony as welcome to the program is writing troops of storm, the largest functioning hospital in gaza. the army describes the operation of the nicer hospital in the southern city of con eunice as precise unlimited. it says there is credible intelligence of hamas which carried out the october 7th terror attacks held hostages in the complex unless dismissed the claims. the mobile site and footage it appears to show is riley forces entering nesa hospital in hong eunice. the main medical facility in southern gaza is really military says

it was a limited operation. aimed at finding hostages remains with credible intelligence from a number of sources, including from release hostages, indicating the tomas held hostages and the nozzler hospitality. i notice that there may be bodies of hostages into another host facility for the south. some 1500000 displays palestinians, and now living in crumb conditions in the board, a city of rafa where israel is still believed to be planting and assaults. but international warnings are growing louder. large scale military opposite operations in densely populated areas, risks extensive civilian casualties. australia believes this would be on justifiable. a message to as well is listen to the road. do not go down this path. the united nations says there is no safe place for gardens to evacuate to so many people,

a mass along the boulder you and so you might have to heavy and cheese as wanted to spill over into egypt. given the scale of the devastation, the went straight agency says gaza will need international investments on the scale if you it's post school marshal plan to cover after the fight thing. but for most cousins, the futures fall from their minds. they're struggling just to survive. every day are correspondent to injury. some i'm in is if told us more about the situation in the hospital. well, the hospital has been stormed by id f. troops who said they carried out a precise unlimited operation in order to recover the bodies of hostages at the claim were killed by a moss. now these, as you can hear, they're not live hostages, that they were looking to find, but rather the bodies to recover them. there are reports that one person died, the staff of the hospital, which is run by the goals and health ministry,

which is under the control of a moss. i have reported that one prison died when is real hit the hospital with a tank shell. so this would contradict to the statement that it was a precise and limited operation. israel does claim that they are intending to keep the hospital still in operation. they did take several people out that they're calling suspects and potentially suspects of a suspected of being associated with a mouse, which is real and many other countries consider a terrorist organization. now keep in mind that according to international law, a hospital can become a little driven at military target. if attacks are being staged from within the hospital, which doesn't seem to be the claim of by israel at this point. sent a goal is top election authority has cancelled the president's decision to postpone the election. sent a goal is constitutional counsel rule that a decrease signed by president mackie so was unconstitutional. the decree had pushed the vote from february 25th to december,

and that to protests from opposition candidates and the interest across the country . the election authorities at the ballot should be held as soon as possible, but not on its original date. her correspondence and marie girth in equal ask, who is in the capital car and sent us this update to a historic decision here and set a goal. as the constitutional court decided to go against the president's decision to postpone the presidential election. while the exact date remains unclear, constitutional judges said the vote should be held as soon as possible civil society organizations as well as opposition parties with them mentally opposed. the election postponements are celebrating victory, but they demand for the election to be held before april. second, when microsoft turns ma'am they will expire this postponements had a least a major, some se, unprecedented political crisis and kind of go and had been qualified by many senegalese as an attempt to constitutional cool. protests had broken out and

several cities and then mother protest is planned for this saturday. there were stroll worries that the election postponements would be a blow to send the goals democracy. the country has been long hailed for its stable democracy. one of few in west africa region where a military cruise and you had hist, insurgencies are already a creating instability. now it seems that the so called constitutional who was not successful faced with strong criticism, the president was also increasing isolated on the political scene on thursday, just hours before the constitutional court decision he visited. he tries to appease the situation by freeing political prisoners, including members of the main opposition party. mackey sell headset in july that he will not run for a 3rd term. but menu saw his decision to postpone elections as a way to cling to power. for some, this decision by the senegalese constitutional judges shows the importance and

strength of synagogues, institutions, and sick, and secures the country is a rule of law. now there's clearly a feeling of victory of relief, of happiness among those incentive goals, who are actively engaged in maintaining the initial date. now we'll have to wait and see when the new date will be announced and under which conditions the election will be held. i talked to take a look now at some other stories making headlines. the 1st criminal trial of a former us president to set to go ahead. next month after a new york judge rejected a bid from donald trump to have the case dismissed. the charge of stem from hush money paid to to women ahead of the 2016 presidential election police in kansas city, say the shooting out a super bowl sat abrasion appears to have resulted from a personal dispute between several people. a mother of 2 was killed in the shooting

and 22. others were injured. please say half the victims are miners. 3 people have been detained, including 2 juveniles. officials in russia say a ukrainian missile strikes on the city of belgrade has killed 6 people, including one child. let's try kid, a shopping mall belgrade is near the ukrainian border. it's the latest exchange of long range fire in the war. earlier russia shot 2 dozen proves and ballistic missiles into ukraine. nato defense trips event, the 2 days of toilets and brussels and the tackling the biggest challenges. facing the western lines. secretary general, yes. stilton burg urged the us congress to push through a $60000000000.00 aid package for ukraine. he also said european member states are on track to meet their defense spending targets. this ammo, running short on the battlefield, nato defense ministers of stress more needs to be done to ensure that ukraine has

the supplies it needs. we also discuss ramping up production over munition to refill our stocks. i continue to support ukraine and we need to shift from the slow pace of peace time to the high temple production. the mon, the, by conflict, a ne, to said it was set up a training center review train in poland to share intelligence on finding the russian. a group of member states also want to send 1000000 drones to ukraine and other allies want to help clear mines in the water on country defense. she's also discussed the war with ukraine defense minister who's to move my wife in the ne to ukraine consul, another topic. money star book announced historic progress and aligns defense spending in 202418 of the 31 nato allies. i estimated to achieve the subset goal of spending 2 percent of the g. d,

p for defense spending among them. awesome, you come us this, this the bottom. it is important to emphasize once again the job and the like 17 other countries. when they change the agreed quote, drill team percent for the 1st time in the biggest defense spend of the us has a tense bound by congress and releasing another 60000000000 for ukraine. this is having an impact on the ground. the fact that the us has not been able to make a decision so far, how old to have consequences. it is impact thing. the floors of support of the allies are doing their best to step in but know how important the us decision is also sonya will take from all their own stokes, at the moment to send the media to, to ukraine, the apple. but we all understand that it's not enough when us will not be part of that. so we all need this decision as soon as possible at nature headquarters. the hope for the us does not give up on support for ukraine. slow

makers in greece has passed a bill legalizing same sex marriage making it the 1st orthodox christian country to do so proud. celebrated outside greece is parliament as the bill passed, which also gives parental rights to same sex couples. it has been a long process to get to this point with greece's orthodox church, staunch me opposed to the change. the landmark law was drafted by greet prime minister ya goes to attack is to urge parliament to say yes to equality ahead of developed or offer more on this. i'm joined in the studio by dw correspondence. sophia, cliff talking is usually in athens, but we have the pleasure of having you here in berlin. good to see a sophia. so it's a historic day for greece to say, the least, i would say. and, but there's been plenty of controversy, right? so how contentious has this bill be, as indeed this has been

a significant step for grace problem. as i said, we could say really historic, 1st of all, greece was very slow in adopting and doing that a change. and this is mainly due to one the financial crisis of course and listened demick. but still, although mitchell thought he's in the beginning, he was in favor. all the initial um, he, he didn't really do it quickly and let's not forget, here he was re elected recently. so displayed is control here. right now it's not your same sex marriage. so that's been legalized, right, because it also there are also changes around parental rights. so can you tell us more about these changes? that's correct. it's not just about the parental rights. so the aim is to, to provide equal rights to the same sex couples, but also there was a change in having a children. so here they have the right to adopt. however,

they don't have access to medical assistance regarding surrogate pregnancies. so this is still under debate, right? and so the base of the many countries are still having, it's not just greece, and that was there a lot of support for the bill in parliament. so tell us had the vote play that. mm hm. well, the majority voted and as we know in favor now the interesting part is that the refinements that give you that gives me till the kids had to fight with them the new democracy party. he had a lot of disagreements there within his parties. so there were a lot of m p 's who also announced during the debate that they wouldn't vote or they, they would change the vote. so we had a lot of debates there. and of course, from the opposition he needed deposition to support. now here it's why it's important that it has got re elected because the opposition and in greece for me.

so that just is weak. so she can risk without losing his political standing to address issues like that, that are traditionally associated to the list. tell us one thing briefly. so if you, if you could, and we've talked back to support for the billing the part of the border bathing degree population. is there a huge divide between say younger generations, older generations? or is it just that it depends on where your political allegiances lie? absolutely, the greek societies is absolutely divided. we could say really 5050, almost recendes. a poll showed that 55 percent supported. so the rest is against and here we should not forget to mention of course the greek orthodox church, who played a huge role here and didn't support, but the bill was passed and that's a huge step, not just increase, but in general, for the european union. that's great, thanks so much to fee a sophia cliff talk you joining us here in studio as usually are due to view correspondence increases. all right,

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