the, the, this is dw news live from berlin. us moves one step closer to a re match of the 2020 presidential election. joe biden. and donald trump both scoring big wins and super tuesday voting. biggest day on the election calendar thus far. we'll bring the latest from our correspondence in colorado, also coming up. jordan in the united states air drop more aid into gaza, with the situation on the ground growing even more desperate critics. it is supplies or just a fraction of what is needed and teslas european assembly plant near berlin grinds to a halt due to

a suspected arson attack on nearby power lines. left wing militant group has claimed responsibility, the hello and welcome to our show, obviously busy in berlin. we begin in the us where the stage is set for an almost certain re match of president joe biden versus donald trump in november's election . that's after both men secured a string of resolving wins and the so called super tuesday primary elections of orders and 16 states from alabama to alaska and one overseas territory. american samoa, i've been choosing the parties candidates for the white house. only 2 serious contenders remain standing with bite and effectively unopposed. among democrats. trump has 111 states as of this broadcast, losing only in vermont in his last remaining rivals. former south carolina governor nikki haley. haley will now face even greater pressure to drop out of the race.

all right, before we dive deeper, let's have a listen to some of the voters cast ballots on tuesday. actually, i don't, i can't sand trump. and so it wasn't a big problem for me to come over here and vote i voted for buying as i did the last time because i supported him. well, i bought it for donald trump and i did last time also because we really need a business man to get this world straight. travelers is a very horse individual, but he's the least he knows how to run the country. republican donald trump. eh, because i think he's the best hope we have for getting our country back on track. anybody. but i don't really. why is that? he's he doesn't need the bigger president. again, it's too cold. he forgets things i wrote in from our current president fighting and mostly voting for him because i'm concerned about the state of our democracy.

if trump is re elected, i think he would be less likely to start with donald trump held what he called an amazing night of victories in the super tuesday primers. while present, joe biden accuses rival of wanting to destroy democracy or correspondence. benjamin alvarez goober is covering super tuesday for us in denver, colorado, and he sent us this update to joe biden, and donald trump to name, so it will hurt over and over during the super tuesday day. without many surprises . both candidates from the democratic and from the republican side, a big step closer to the white house. and donald trump also winning t or in the state of colorado where there was indeed this dispute between the us supreme court and the supreme court to you in court, a lot of the one to, to bear him from being on the ballot. the big question now is what will happen with nikki haley when will she drop out of the race and something that might be unlikely,

but might still happen that she might induce it for my you as a president on trump that will likely be the republican candidate it to run against joe by november. alright, benjamin alvarez group are there in colorado, one of the states electing or voting today will staying with us politics? arizona is kristen cinema will not seek reelection to the senate in november. sentiments of the increasingly bitter divisions in american politics were behind your decision. she was elected as a democrat 2018, but left the party last year after repeatedly blocking progressive policies. the race replacer is expected to be highly competitive of the president biden, one arizona and the 2020 presidential election by just 3 tenths of a percent of the vote. the president biden says he's hoping for a cease fire in gaza before ramadan. the muslim holy month starts march 10th binds as it's up to him mosse, which carried out the october 7th terror attacks. whether there will be

a 6 week truce exchange for the release of israeli hostages. the deal is in the hands of i'm off right now. offer rational offers and moscow. well, there's got to be a c spar ramadan, get into circumstance for this continues to ramadan. israel the united states and jordan have meanwhile air dropped more 8 packages into the gaza strip. u. s. military saying almost 37000 meals were flown into the territory and a joint operation. but with you, mandatory in crisis becoming increasingly desperate. agencies say that only a fraction of what is needed is getting through the attic and k o as men

and gaza city run around in a frenzy to find food countries such as egypt, jordan fronts. and now the us have been dropping aid from above. but there are too many people in need and there's not enough aid and the we have the willing, this inability to bear it. but is there a father in the world who can see his children riding in hunger in front of him to remain silent? even if the price is risking his life, just like all these people who risk their lives in order to obtain what is not even enough for a crumb of flour or aid or canned food. and the yesterday some expired, can goods arrived containing mold and fungus. we're not animals, as they described us over the we can work us from the un. i'm the w which will russian to provide supplies to hospitals, medicines, and fuel

a running critically low. and this is costing children headlines unfortunately, yes, we have lost 2 babies here. they had pneumonia, but they died because of the power cut. the power went off at 4 am, and at 8 am we were out of oxygen, the one that many others have died from hunger, according to the visiting team from the w. a true the there is no milk or anything . well, the situation is bad. indescribable. we're not able to get them anything. these deaths come as the bone being outside continues and bodies, philip floors, some with so young. they barely have the chance to live. here's the look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world

. independent russian media say all stories have arrested several people for attending memorials for the late opposition leader alexis of all the thousands of on the supporters attended his funeral last week with a 100 which attains at the time to reject the international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for to russian commanders over a legend, war crimes and ukraine. the hague base court says it has reasonable grounds to believe the russian forces carried out strikes of civilian infrastructure. the greenland denies the obligations saying it's a tax aim to reduce ukraine's ability to fight its ukraine's as it has blown up a russian naval patrol boat on the black sea near the occupied premiere in peninsula. these pictures showed the circuit court of which ukraine says maritime drones have not destroyed. russia has not confirmed the claim to germany now, where defense minister bore us to story is, says human error was to blame for

a conversation between german military commanders being intercepted by russia. the story as, as a senior officer who was visiting single board dialed in to join the discussion about the use of taurus cruise missiles and ukraine without taking the necessary security precautions. the story is said that the kremlin is attempting to create divisions within germany. with land type, russia is constantly trying to drive a wedge between us, between the domestic political forces in germany, between the policies, between those 12, for or against, for more or less support for ukraine. it's all up officially is getting the tennis king. he and we must not fall before it the mission, often line game. nato is staging its biggest military exercise since the cold war. steadfast defender encompasses a variety of maneuvers and mach engagements, and will continue until may some 90000 soldiers from all 31 nato countries. and

soon to be members, sweden are participating. one of them is poland. troops are testing their ability to move military equipment and difficult conditions on the vista little river. our brussels bureau chief, alexandra phenomena such as this report are moving nato forces towards an imaginary funds line 300 meters across the vista level river . this exercise commanders here tell us it's meant to test nato, a strategic planning and logistics. river crossings. operations like the one we are witnessing here are only undertaking this absolutely necessary. and that is because there are so difficult to plan and execute. you have to consider many different sectors, like the characteristics of the terrain and river conference, and of course in case of a real war, all of these challenges would be negative 5 by enemy fire. so the ones to be ready

in case bridges are destroyed and they needs to get across the river. and important exercise, especially for countries such as poland and the baltic states which are crossed by numerous rivers, british and german come. but engineers are among those in charge of transporting federal tanks and other equipment across the dish to the river. they said it took them just a few minutes to put together a fairly like this one. but every day has its own challenges. the river is quite high, the mom is quite hungry a few weeks ago, the areas where we don't show where be phoned up with the troops across. how does that sound and equal to? so i see the part of shipping outstanding. the bank preparation to ground works as simple as an ending date to further what to maintain that with some 20000 soldiers from 9 nato countries. participating. this exercise led by poland is also a demonstration that the alliance is ready to deployed spearhead forces. wherever there are needed, i would argue it's the right exercise at the right time,

because it sends a unified message, unified message to potential enemies like russia. as far as potential enemies lie dresser, you know, nato is preparing it. so if it gets tooth rates, it's russia and its terrorist threats. but i would argue that this essex is also going to own audiences. we need to prepare ourselves. we need to be better and to spend more on drills like this one and on defense in general. need to officers say, but apart from these more general concerns, they were happy which day one of the training test was european car plant near berlin has halted production after a suspected arson attack cut off its electricity supply. local media published a letter from a far left group claiming it was behind. the incident tells us the alarm us has called a suspected attack. quote, extremely dumb police vans near the tesla plant just outside the german gap between

berlin. a fire broke out at a high voltage electricity by loan, which led to a power failure. authorities believe it was an act of sabotage from the today criminal police. our investigation on suspicion of ours are investigating all needs and then at least a far left 1000000 group has claimed responsibility in the message posted online. the power outage force test allowed to hold its production and evacuate workers who owns this specifically for us. this really is an attack on this industrial side here and find the book. and we have other 12000 employees who can't work at the moment. this incident comes of the electric car maker is facing protests against its expansion plans at the blonde environmental activists are occupying a nearby forest, putting up dense and building tree houses as part of the stop dessler movement. the viper that's we've occupied this forest because tesla,

which is building electric cars here and it's big a factory for us to also wants to buy unclear this area of forest on obvious and vice. it wouldn't awesome. we've occupied the forest, this stop this of the environment. the last of us have issued the statement distancing themselves from the suspected arson at deck. tesla says production board resume before next week, and it expects the losses to run to several 100000000 euros. and here's a reminder of our top story. super tuesday is in full swing in the united states. it's the biggest day so far and the 2024 election schedule for 16 states across america are choosing their parties candidates for president and november's election . and that's it. for now, for me and the dw news team, we've actually with plenty more,

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