the, the, you're watching, the double you use live from building the you condemns roches presidential election as letting me present extends. he's quarter century of rule the price knowing meaningful opposition and being a youth among those describing device as night of free no fair, and hills in a climate of intimidation. also on the program, israel series heat has killed. how must combined in a ride on one of the causes largest hospitals. the military stays in operation against the militant great, but the ice chief of hospital is ongoing. how must run health authorities side,

they have been multiple casualties. the jared raid, welcome to the program. neither a free no fee that's devoted to waste and capitals have to leave it on roches presidential election. the country selection commission said vladimir putin has been re elected with 87 percent of the size. the poll was held following a crack down on political opponents. meaning mister pollution faced no meaningful opposition. it was a try. i'm send applauding the pretend who took to the stage a day of to being re elected russian presidents in the land slide. when of the victory coincided with celebration, smoking the 10 year anniversary of the annexation of crimea will you know, flying off by the other election candidates who'd been allowed to stand against him

. he sang his supporters for when most had predicted earlier, he claimed his victory was rooted in democratic principles and you most, it's for them when the, the source of authority and a nation is the which is the russian people that i knew you lead. so i see, you know, while most most divides willing to tools express the support for peace and there was some public discontent. there is my hope that the other candidates would have better results. or i don't expect any particular changes in your bulletin about there. are there are no candidates, my life, and so i voted against them all. i would like you crane to be free and the troops have you been drawn from their gym and he called the vote a pseudo election with voting, taking place and occupied. you cried, violating international law. the violent the election in russia was an election

with our choice. the election process not only shows hooton's nefarious behavior towards his own people, but also violates the charter of the united nations. i try to find not sealing. washington also pointed out the lack of democratic choice state to it would not congratulate food to this was an incredibly on democratic process. and certainly him being president of russia. it does not excuse him, of is of his talk or see the outlines including china, north korea and venice zabeda did congratulate the russian presidents with the victory grunting putin and not the 6 year tub his net quarter century in deva, towards the tougher c seems. and stuff, little earlier d w 's by to professor said go ahead, shane code from the johns hopkins school of advanced international studies. here's his analysis on the times by russian opposition parties to challenge flooding me.

person. well, you know, the russian opposition is always trying to come up with various methods of supposing the regime through different means for example. and one of the previous selections, nevada, a. so organization promotes something called smartvault chain where people would uh, both or candidates selected by nevada named his team in order to prove that would be supported. united russia was not popular and that did not really succeed all that much on this particular protest, both to entail people coming out on sunday to register their support for nevada name, more for freedom and russia and against me. and it's great, it's greatest impact was perhaps to what people see each other. so those people who came out into this into the russian point stations are sort of mainly in europe actually. so that they're not alone. and that's important as it is a kind of a moral support exercise more than anything else that might have practical

consequences for russia itself, such as a red tank or then in other news, israel has named the how most combined to it, says he killed during a ride and causes a gaza cds, l. c for hospital. fake al my who was head of the militant islam is groups internal security department is ralph intelligent services. he was responsible for coordination. terror attacks and had been in hiding in the building in the hospital . complex is rile, release these images of the right, the claims how must militants fire that finally got them from the hospital. gauze is how most around the health ministry is reporting multiple casualties. people have been seeking shelter at el schafer, since the start of the will not begun in response to the how most terror attacks of october, the 7th journalist on the so called interest loan told us more about the is riley hospital right. a bit earlier. so yeah, 1st of all, this is the, she saw hospitality that these really military rated already 4 months ago. took

over those hosp the way she can pay the games to how most of the fighters and then we drove from this place. so now it seems that even though is really losing control, so it says overall, the safety of the northern part of the guns of st. how miles has managed to come back to this a complex and then be able to even see 2 30 in the morning. he's really forces in the dream, big the house, but the complex i there, there was the exchange of fire, and the is really, is up talking about more than a click the mazda in a fight or killed one is really soldier killed. and i, i can tell you that also a journalist from a jo, 0 who was covering these events was arrested and taken by these really forces together with many others who were in this a complex and then didn't take it to the question a by these were in the military,

a semi circle. well, us present, joy biden has asked israel to send a delegation to washington to discuss. he is rouse plans for a ground defensive on rafa in southern guns, a blind in his war when the prime minister benjamin netanyahu died. an assault on or off on would be a mistake. roughly 1500000 people are sheltering. that is us national security advisor jack sullivan. our position is that how i should not be allowed a safe haven in rockville or anywhere else, but a major ground operation, there would be a mistake. it would lead to more innocent civilian deaths, worse in the already dire humanitarian crisis. deep in the, in our key in gaza and further isolate israel internationally. more importantly, the key goals israel wants to achieve in rasa, can be done by other meats. on the call today, president biden asked the prime minister to send the senior interagency team composed of military intelligence and humanitarian officials to washington in the

coming days to hear us concerns about israel's current wrap up planning and the layout and alternative approach that would target tea from us elements in rafa and secure the egypt guides of border without a major ground. and i'd like to welcome gerald fire stein. he's a former us ambassador and once that is deputy console general in jerusalem, he is senior vice president of the middle east institute. and bassett of welcome to d. w. joe biden has asked benjamin netanyahu to send officials to washington noise that his plans for a ground defensive and rough uh, at the same time that netanyahu really appears to be dumpling, down on these plans. how much pressure do you expect the us to put on nathan, yahoo here a hi, it's a pleasure to be with you this evening. and i, i think that the clearly, the administration is extremely concerned about the potential you might have to her

and catastrophe. if the as rallies follow through on those rights to go in to rafa they've been sick knowing consistently for weeks now that they don't believe that the as roy's have put in place the means to protect the civilian population there. uh and to uh, to target hum us operative so that are still in the rough area until they do that until there is some clear understanding between washington and jerusalem about how to go forward. i think that we're going to see the administration continuing to emphasize the risks. and there is an increasing view of, particularly among the democratic members of congress that to you review i semester ations needs to be more explicit and telling israel to stand back. let's

talk about that as the us is pushing for what's being described as an alternative approach. and you're saying it will probably be more explicit. what do you think this alternative approach could main as well? i think that as, as we heard from from j sullivan, the alternative approach would be not a major ground, defensive and to rasa. but something more targeted, more, more precise and try to identify where home us leadership may be hiding. i add to add to use other kinds of military means to achieve those targets without the threatening the security uh, the civilian population invested there as someone with many years of diplomatic experience, particularly in the middle east. i'd like to ask you, what do you make of where things stand right now in this conflict?

well, i think that increasingly there is a great deal of frustration over the failure of diplomacy to achieve even eliminated ceasefire. we have seen that there is going to be another, is really delegation going to continue the negotiations. but the, but the administration i think is very frustrated that they haven't been able to impress on either the as rallies or home us or the need to take steps. now that would address the amount of terry crisis and bring this fighting to a hall. and i think that again as the, uh, the days of the weeks go by, the pressure on the, by the administration to do something more. uh, to bring this conflict to an end is only going to increase that was for my us on boss of the gerald. finest on best buy. thank you very much for your time and your insights today. it's a pleasure. this is

a quick look now at some of the other stories making headlines to die in spain. hundreds of people have taken part in a protest against the killing of civilians in gaza. the event in the city of san sebastian culminated in protest, is lying on the ground to symbolize the dead around a band inspired by picasso's famous anti war painting. going to call police in nigeria, say a gunman have kidnapped at least 87 people from the village in the northwest. residents of the village, near ca, judo and come to an estate, said the bandits. how arrived undetected? because they talked in most a box, faraway, hundreds of people have been kidnapped recently by games. demanding ran some payments. finally, to new zealand, where a group of elderly people has been taking a live hosted approach to what is to what is the many, the most serious subjects they've joined, what they call in a coffin club,

a social club of sorts with members can meet and build their own custom coffins and bury to base here at hastings coffin club, the caskets on exactly what you'd expect. this one's being fitted out by vintage car and tease yes. complete with lights and even a steering wheel. why is quite a bit, i'm quite a big man and most of the most experience on the side, a better stuff like training because i will be carried up on the tapes that like halted approach to what is for many the most serious subject of all that is a whole month of the club and is often elderly members, or they've been coming together since 2014 to drink tea. the biscuits and of course, build their own custom coffins, is one of several clubs that have sprung up across new zealand in recent years, offering people the chance to go out in style,

as well as to save money on funeral costs. it's also a place to socialize and discuss death and dying out in the open. so very therapy, lots and jobs. and i think it most well not. i think everybody that's here is except that thanks, i'm going to die with that my team a coffin. so with that they volunteer and it doesn't matter if the club says it's open to everyone who wants to have a go a decorating what it calls that final bedroom. hundreds of people in greece have been pelting each other with flour is part of an old kind of old tradition. rebel is got through tons of flour tinted weed food coloring. the event takes place every year in the town of galaxy, the about 200 kilometers waste of athens. it mocks the end of the carnival season and the stock of the 40 day period of a lend until the orthodox east of are you up to date here on dw map.

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