the the, this is dw, in use live 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 golf, the country's top election on party has overturned the president's decision to put off elections, which sparked deadly protests and concerns about what it was considered. africa's foss june of democracy and debris, parliament makes the country the 1st orthodox christian nation to legalize same sex marriage to the delight of l. g. b. c. 2 plus advocates. both berlin's

international film festival gets on their way with famous faces on the red carpet. hundreds of movies are competing for the top prizes. and as ever, at the banks, it's glamour mixed with political controversy. the unpopular fall. yes, welcome to the program is right in the troops of storm, the largest functioning hospital in gaza. the army describes the operation up in the nicer hospital in the southern city of con eunice as precise unlimited. it says there is credible intelligence at home us. which card of the october 7th terror attacks held hostages in the complex. i'm us dismissed. the claims the may balls tight and footage appears to show is rarely forces entering nesa hospital in hon. 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 released hostages, indicating that must handle hostages, and the nozzler hospitality on eunice. and that there may be bodies of hostages into another host facility. the, the south, some 1500000 displays palestinians. and now living in crumb conditions in the border city of rafa where israel is still believed to be planning 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 future is far from their minds. they're struggling just to survive. everyday are correspondent to injury. some i'm in is if told us more about the situation in the hospital as well. the hospital has been stormed by id s 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 from us. 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, hospital can become a little driven at military target. if attacks are being stage from within the hospital, which doesn't seem to be the claim of by israel at this point. set a goal is top election already has canceled the president's decision to postpone the election center goals. constitutional council rules that a decrease signed by president mikey so was unconstitutional. the decree had pushed

the vote from february 25th to december. i'm glad to protest from opposition candidates and during the rest, across the country, the election authority said the balance should be held as soon as possible, but not on its original date. but our correspondence marie girth glasgow 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 states remains unclear, constitutional judges said the vote should be held as soon as possible civil society organizations as well as opposition parties who had been 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 postponement had at least a major, some se, unprecedented political crisis and kind of go and had been qualified by many

senegalese as an attempt to the constitutional who protests had broken out. and several cities and another purchases planned for this saturday. there were strong 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 crew 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. nike saw headset in july that he will not run for a 3rd term, but many 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 is clearly a feeling of victory of relief, of happiness among those incentive goals, who are actively engaged in maintaining the initial dates. now we'll have to wait and see when the new date will be announced and under which conditions the election will be held. so let's take a look and add some other stories, making headlines. a 2 day nato meeting in brussels has ended with big challenges still facing the lines, including the warren ukraine, secretary general against oldenburg, urge the us congress to pass a ministry age package for keith. he also said to european members and just as a blocker on track to meet defense spending target skill, there is actually the 1st criminal trial of a former us president the set to go ahead. next month, after in new york,

george rejected appeared from donald trump to have the case dismissed. the charge of stem from hush, money paid to, to women had of the 2016 presidential election. venezuela, as foreign minister says he has decided to suspend the activities of the united nations human rights office in the country and asked its staff to leave within 3 days. the government accused the office of supporting the government conspiracies un says it's reviewing the decision. officials in russia say a ukrainian miss. all striking on the city of belgrade has killed 6 people, including one child. the strike, his shopping mall fell. garage is near the ukrainian border. it's the latest exchange of long range fire in the war. earlier, russia shocked to doesn't mean proves unrealistic massage into ukraine. lawmakers and greens have passed a bill legalizing same sex marriage making it the 1st orthodox christian country to

do so. crowd celebrated outside greece's 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. as greece is orthodox church, staunchly opposed to the change. the landmark of all was drafted by great prime minister to the customer to pack is to urge to parliament to say yes to a quantity ahead of the vote to suffer 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, in berlin. good to see a, sophia. so it's a historic day for greece to say, the least, i would say am, 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 change. and this is mainly due to

one, the financial crisis of course, and the pandemic, but is still a low mix with the keys in the beginning. he was in favor all the initial 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 being 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, know, the interesting part is that the we've prime minister, can you asked me to that i just 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 debates as 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, alexis, because the opposite to increase 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 about the support for the billing the part of the board about in degree population. is there a huge divide between say, younger generations, older generations? or is it just that? it depends on where your political agent says life. 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 played a huge role here and didn't support, but the bill was passed and that's a huge step, not just the grease, but in general for the european union. that's great, thanks so much the fia sophia cliff talk you joining us here in studio as usually or the job you correspond to increase the 74th berlin film festival known as the bedding la has opened with

a traditional red carpet ceremony over the next 10 days. hundreds of films will be competing for the gold and silver ban rewards. the baby now is one of the world's major film festival festivals. it's known for mixing plates, environment with political statements. this here is no exception. the don't use kind of homo went to the red carpet for us and sent us this update from the opening ceremony to the opening ceremony of the garland on a search. and they got off to a very exciting start, lots of red carpet prestige. i've actually never seen it so busy and crowded here. there were so many signs here to try and catch a glimpse of their favorite actor director or producer. i guess the mild weather probably help things, but also there are so many big names this year. i saw the piece in youngel looking amazing. she's this year's during president, which means that she's in charge of selecting the winners. and then kelly and murphy. he's really the man of the moment right now. he's just being nominated for

an oscar for his performance and oppenheimer, and he's playing the lead in this year's opening film. small things like matt damon was also here since producing that film. small things like these and then martin scorsese is going to be here on tuesday. he's going to be receiving the honorary goals in there, which is a lifetime achievement award. so yet a crazy amount of star power this year is really shaping out to be a very exciting festival with lots of stars and films, of course to be keeping an eye out for home. oh, they're enjoying yourself. the value of that for something a little bit cheaper, but not exactly cuddly. japan has officially recognized the skeleton pond. the c squared as a new species finds name the same creature years ago after discovering its picture on lines. but as scientists have studied the species, a new research paper says the white parts that looked like bones are blood vessels . the black parts that looked like pine, those eyes are a pattern,

the purpose of which remains a mystery. are acute indeed, that's all for now. the film is up next with gun nation examining american subculture typical obsession with going on or should take the label onto the system. the is, it is simple, is currently more peaceful than ever on the move world wide and such are based on life, critic, high successive in cardboard. that's the, that's sort of what i find out about bailey story, info migrant. the each year, firearms kill tens of thousands of people in the unit.