the, the, this is the, the unit is live from berlin, opening a new path for aid to reach casa, the chief ursula folder line says that the 1st shift with international aid is set to leap cypress via a new c port door for gaza. for months of war, half left to some 2000000 facing the threat famine. also coming up us president joe biden delivers his state of the union address to being out at the republicans and hoping to reassure doubters that he is ready for an election re match with donald trump. the silver plus for philippine sellers were injured. and this encounter with a chinese coast guard ship in the south china sea. it's just the latest episode of

intimidation by china in the hotly contested waters, the sarah kelly. welcome to the program, a ship belonging to spanish and g o. open arms is getting ready to set out for gaza via a new c core door with humanitarian aid for the people of gaza. the ship will depart from the port of la nocka in cyprus, where it has been loaded with food. european commission president, are still the funder lines, said that the you together with the united states, you a e and other countries will sponsor this route. it comes after president joe biden so that the us military would build a port on the golf in coast to deliver a deliveries. here's more from the you, commission president, us. and today we are facing

a humanitarian catastrophe in gaza. and we stand by the innocent civilians in palestine. and this is why europe is financing a major issue. many terry and 8 effort 1200 students in gaza and in the region. we're not very close to the opening of the car doing hopefully this saturday this sunday. and i'm very glad to see that an initial pilot operation will be launched today. and i asked our corresponded tanya kramer and jerusalem about the reaction from the is rarely government. while we go to a short statement now from the is rarely foreign ministry saying that there were coming the decision to establish a maritime corey door that they will work with all those uh, organizing it. and it said that this initiative for the law more humanitarian aid

coming into garza. but this one, keep boy adult keep pointed, also stresses that this will be, of course done of to a security checks that are carried out according to is where the standards this has been in the past a key point of contention between the humanitarian access here and israel because the screenings and security checks of all the 8 going into golf adviser len crossings has been uh, that has been really lengthy progress. and it seems it will not be much different also for this maritime route. tanya, how about cease fire talks um, since the mazda allegation left cairo yesterday, where, where do those stand still? that has been this kind of sort of a timeline given by the media to the, the united states, caught on egypt trying to say they wanted to see a see as far as the, the a d, a router and a temporary cease fire to release uh,

the remaining is really hostages. uh, by the beginning of ramadan ramadan starts in about, uh, 2 days. so it depends on the doing the calendar and uh, with a delegation of how much and leaving tiro. now it seems unlikely that this will happen before ramadan starts. but there are also reports saying, uh that, uh, the delegation might be coming back. the techs will continue. as we understand, there are still several sticking points. a mazda said they want to see a full withdrawal of israeli forces from gauze, or they want to see a residents that are in the sol. so being able to go back north to actually want to see a full and a to the war. and this where i wanted to see a list of hostages that are still being alive and how much apparently does not provide that. so there's

a lot of obstacles. and at the moment is unclear how this will move forward. tanya kramer with the views from jerusalem, thank you. let's head to the united states. now our president joe biden has delivered his state of the union address. he detailed his plan to facilitate a deliveries to gaza. he also pledged to keep on supporting ukraine and its war against russia. the speech laid out his vision for america's future. in contrast with that of the likely republican presidential candidate, donald trump. a high stakes speech for us president joe biden. his last state of the union address before elections with the us middle east policy under scrutiny binding announced american troops will build a temporary port on gas as coast to boost 8 there. he also called on israel to protect civilian lives. leadership,

this is real. i say this humanitarian assistance cannot be a secondary consideration or guardianship protecting and saving into some lives has to be preferred. as we looked at the future, the only real solution to the situation is a 2 state solution over time. turning to the ukraine war by an appeal to congress to support the nation in defending itself against russia. he lashed out at ex president donald trump for encouraging russia to invade nato allies to didn't spend more on defense for the soul of our nation. hallmark for assessing a former republican president tells to quote, to whatever that how you want to quote for the present actually said that boeing down to russian later, i think it's outrages is dangerous and it's not acceptable.

america's oldest sitting president, use the speech to address concerns about his age and whether or not he is fit for another term. the weather younger old i've always been known. i've always known what endures. i've known our north star, the very idea of america has ever all crated he deserves to be treated equally throughout our lives. we've never fully lived up to that idea, but we've never walked away from that either. i won't walk away from it. now. republicans have criticize the address for being too political. the bind supporter say it's proved that he can handle another 4 years in office and let's get more now from our correspondent to now do milan in washington. so it's know, walk us through the main takeaways from the speech as well.

we had been saying it even before the state of the union, there were a lot of just objectives to be met with a speech. it was a very high stakes speech, but the chief of those objectives, of course, was to dispel concerns over his age and his fitness. and to show that he could potentially leave the country again for another 4 years with energy and with vigor, even at the age of 81. and by most measures, he was able to do that. this was a forceful speech, saw. there were apparently around 80 explanation points in the text, although at times it certainly felt like more. he was able to add live and back and forth with republicans who were cat calling and boeing a in the house. he made jokes. he called blogs. so this wasn't a stumble, free speech shot by sort of any count. there was also marked at various points with him leading to count, but in the meeting, the cough, sorry, but in,

in most ways that counted, he showed himself to be in command. he showed that there was fight in him and that really was the most important message to be able to deliver to voters watching at home. who did he want to reach to now? well, just because of the timing of the state of the union speech. so unusually, the speech will now sort of kick off the speech has now kicked off of the general election season. the fight between him and donald trump. so he didn't refer to donald trump by name, but he did call him my pride assessor, and he referred to his predecessor repeatedly, at least the 13 times. because this is also the most prominent platform that he will have a head of the election. and for us noting this is not a platform that donald trump has. so what he really wanted to do was reach the voters that were perhaps saw on decided between him and donald trump. and what he

wanted to do was distinguish himself from donald trump and he did that for example, by reminding the voters of january 6, saying that i taught true, donald trump sought to bury the truth about january 6th. i remember that was the time when the supporters sought to overturn the results of the election by writing on the capital. he said that so you can not only love your country when you, when in direct reference to that event. so essentially this was a pitch to voters to essentially tell them not to vote for the other guy. how have americans reacted to all those messages? well, as we heard of there earlier in the report, the republicans slammed that speech for being overly divisive and political. but of course, they were not going to like his speech anyway,

if he were moderate and conciliatory, they would have called in week trump and true trump fashion called it the worst state of the union ever made. but in terms of ordinary americans, that seems to have been received largely, positively. there was this pole uh, conducted by cnn and ssr us that showed 6 and 10 americans reacted positively to the speech with a smaller margin, 35 percent reacting very positively. so of course, it's a long way to the november election and it's hard to know how much of an impact the state of the union will have on an event so far away. but i think it is fair to say at this point that this speech will be considered a pivotal moment in the campaign at a moment where biden did shine dw correspondence, and they'll do milan and washington. thank you. here's some other stories making headlines. the indiana authorities say that they have

uncovered a major human trafficking network, which lord at least 35 young men to russia with the promise of jobs. but they were forced to fight for the russian army and ukraine. at least one was killed. but you did not, india says that it is and talks with russia about bringing them at home. and we did our lead in these 10 years after malaysian flight. m h 371. missing families of chinese passengers have met with the officials in a desperate bid for answers. i made 370 took off in kuala lumpur with 239 people, but never landed in beijing. people in malaysia and china, i have been holding remembrance events. they said their lives are stuck in limbo, france has enshrines the guaranteed right to abortion in its constitution, making it the 1st country to do so. president and manual my call attended the ceremony, which coincided with international women's day lawmakers voted in favor of the measure. earlier this week. general strike is taking place in all major italian

cities to push for women's rights. the protest was organized by both left and right leading trade unions. people are demanding a quality at work between men and women as well as calling for better policies to fight gender related violence. security forces are searching large for us to northwest or nigeria after government kidnapped more than $280.00 students. the mask had nothing happens at a school in the village of korea, in kaduna state. kidnappings for ransom are not uncommon in the region where hundreds have been abducted over the past few years. the aftermath of one of nigeria is the largest mass abductions, security forces say that government attacked the school in creek village in the morning hours. they took with them hundreds of students and one teacher residents are cleaning for help. this is how can these gunmen come and take her

children? this is the reason i'm so sad. this is our kareka. please your excellency, help us officials to send it on. can we get to address families of the victims and they made promises that's a good one that my everyday that you try as much as possible to ensure that it would have time to talk nor time would be left behind on the bill would come back. but it goes to the patient. this is not the 1st time that a town in this region hasn't dirty kidnapping. in many situations of doctors, hold victims for months and require ran some payments before release. the residents of this village want their children back now. they're shouting, bring back her pupils, a demand, not a request on international women's day, ireland,

as holding to referenda on updating wording in their constitution. one of them is on whether to switch out language deemed as sex this by replacing references to women's duty as primary caregiver with the firm. the term family members, proponents say this is progressive. know campaigners include some disability active as to say that's the new language, describes them as a burden of care. the other vote is on whether to broaden the meaning of family from being based on marriage. the votes are proven controversial and women's duties in the home. this is one issue irish participating us to consider as a vote on 2 proposals to modernize the language and then 1937 constitution. the so called cat amendment would change wedding and the current article saying a woman may be protecting her duties in the home. if she goes out to work and the

to women's role within the home is in support of the state, women have been challenged the whole life and we're seeing her place in society and home and looking after our children and our husbands and continually moves from us 1st, the constitution has to move from this, and the woman faces any where she wants it to be. yes, campaign is want to replace what they call sexes, outdated language with phrases that reflect the fact that care can be provided by any family members. not just women you know, campaign is are against the removal of the words mother and woman from this part of the constitution that's being portrayed because this a days this is the meaning. i don't consider that the work when the doing the home is the meaning of the realities. women are still the ones that is also worried to members. if the disabled community and the elderly to question the governments

promise to support family care is much bigger than just family care. and it also is not strong enough in saying that they're just going to support cares in the home. it is stuff 2 weeks. it's very clear that the government is on the, gave them its responsibility to it cares in general. the other vote is on whether or not to extend the meaning of family from its current constitutional definition as being based on marriage to include what the government is cooling. durable relationships, such as unmarried couples with children. prime minister la veronica says that the changes are necessary to reflect in modern irish society, but those pushing for a no vote say the proposed new wedding could lead to legal complications.

all major parties support to yes, yes, vote in the referendum. and just hoping that confusion around the proposed changes doesn't put voters off. now out of $400000.00 soldiers currently serving in the ukranian armed forces about 20 percent of them are women. the majority serve and supporting roles. some have gone on to fight on the front lines and ukraine's ongoing war against the russian invasion. getting that chance was a fight in and of itself. i see that we use macs and our reports, the one shots, one kil, meet alexandra. she used to work in a bakery now she's a sniper. today she shows us what she does on a 100 meter range. somewhere in central you cream. at the front line for targets

can be more than a kilometer away. or job take skills and a certain mindset by 2. so, well i see my enemy, i see the occupier who came to our land when to destroy our state and our people. i'm not sure there's nothing more. so this one to show illegal, but she says many still question her ability to do this because she's a woman. women have long served in the ukrainian armed forces. but few take part in combat. or who might you put it? the woman who shot this video is another one. it's last fall in the are of the ukrainian soldiers are holding one against a russian onslaught. after hours of battle,

they bring their wounded to safety. the will meet alana and done best region. we're not fighting, she stays in the village. she says, joining the war, changed her life, or to the job here i feel life on my tongue on my lips. you know, why feel much more than i did in civilian life for 2 hours to remove it too. before the war, she was a common occasion trainer and keith, a few months into the full scale invasion. she signed up. she felt she'd ignore the war for too long smell. elena clears trenches with the infantry. she had to push for a front plane job put down and she asked me, do you really want to come that position? it's difficult and not all commanders except girls and combat positions. i said, i don't care what's going on with the commanders. i don't care how hard it is. i know for sure that i can get this most nice for you. i'm wonderful. women have been

allowed to serve in combat roles since 2018, but not everyone sees their worth on the battlefield. a linna says her experiences are overall good, but she too had to prove to her comrades, she was a good fighter. if it keeps me, i have never heard such words of admiration towards me. everyone told me the same thing. the summer, orlando, elena, you have bigger balls than some of our guys. you're one of the best because what you did there does, there is a lot of respect. and after that, everything change. it just, it's all says me melissa. she has been decorated for her courage by president to lansky. yet, it's not all bravado. she's use social media posts to show her reality of the war. this video was recorded after a battle with heavy losses. to be curse to everyone who's behind this back in central ukraine, sniper, alexandra, texas,

to the temporary flat. she shares with her husband who also joined up. her theory is that gender stereotypes can become self fulfilling the tubing. unfortunately, men probably without realizing it themselves, with their exaggerated care and attitude towards women, make women calmer, prevent them from becoming stronger and being equal with them. but there's nothing that any as a sniper where you need to be invisible. she says being as small as she is can be an advantage. and women in general can be less emotionally driven than men. she suggests. and that's just too much of a sudden they are non bueley, less aggressive, but also think more about each task. that is, but they do not do it suddenly, but try to think it over and analyze it and carry it out with a full head thinking more about safety and all those around fortune here.

that's not a view shared by many in the military course national. every woman in the army for the past to show that she is worthy to be in the same combat position and fight on an equal footing with a master. wonderful. that's something infantry soldier atlanta has also had to do. she says she has been accepted by her peers, but 2 years into the war. as the queen struggles to fill the ranks, many women who want to follow her example have a fight on their hands to do so. as well. now tensions between the philippines and china spiked once again. this week, over the south china sea. manila released footage of china is coast guard firing water cannons at its best souls and some in beijing deputy ambassador to the country. and as our correspondent james tater reports,

the spot raised questions about the philippines and how to deal with chinese aggression in disputed waters. costing directly in front of this, philippine supply bugs, a white close called ship of china. then the full filipino crew members were injured. this week when the chinese volta cannon shots of the vessels, window actions, manila described as a legal and the responsible it's the latest escalation of maritime tensions between china in the philippines which have competing sovereignty claims in the south china sea. the encounter occurred near the 2nd tomba show one of at least 2 bottles claimed by both countries that they fall within the philippines. exclusive economic zone in yellow here, but also within china. so cool, 9 dash line. the area badging claims it's on. that's to spice. and international court ruling in 2016 that it's claims have no legal basis. china as close cod fleets is now the largest in the wells. and analysts say altercations like they

show it's taking on a more aggressive role in pursuing badges, maritime interests. it recently runs, how patrols around the taiwanese islands of june, the territory within i shots of the chinese mainland, which badging uses. it's our whole that's taking phase maritime spots could spiral. it's a great power conflict involving the united states. the us as taiwan is most important satellite and almost provide an camilla as a mutual defense tracy. we've also aging has repeatedly choose the us of using both taiwan and the philippines to push back against china is maritime claims. but to some be thing of regional leaders in australia this week. the philippine president fed 9 mall coast junior said great power politics want behind these countries response. he says he was protecting philippine and trust salon such and you emphasis tends to subsume the legitimate rights and interests of countries like the

philippines, australia, and other asset and member states into the interests of the so called major countries as if we are mere ponds with no such egypt agency, manila has stopped short for calling for the mutual defense treaty to be activated, but with maritime confrontations now more frequent. it's also becoming more challenging for each side to strike a balance in these halting, contesting waters. reminder now of our top stories. a huge chief or so a funder line says that the 1st shift with humanitarian aid is getting ready to depart cyprus, for thousands of by a new c core door. and then his state of the union address, president biden announces the us military will build a temporary floor on the causes coast, facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid. next, the top shows to the point focuses on the us presidential race fighting versus

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