the, the, this is the, the, we use mind from the, the, in the united states, ones as well against expanding the war on hom, us come, i should not be allowed a safe haven and rock over anywhere else. but a major ground operation. there would be a mistake. this way, the guys strikes target, the area around guns as big as hospital live, the center of the strip. the west president expresses deep concern about plans for a new ground defensive in the south. washington and the you went on godson's face foundation facing the shortage of ammunition, ukraine's forces prepared for new bras insults. along its front lines. we visited the town of copy on which could be retained, can add on combs, legislature,

response debates on a national security though that would eliminate many of the territories remaining freedoms. previous attempts deposit were met with mass protests. the i've been visible and welcome half of thousands of experiencing catastrophic hunger according to what you went back for board. unless there was urgent intervention. if once a famine is a minute. it's a message to us has repeated warning that the entire population of gaza is experiencing severe levels of acute food in security. as well. is under increasing pressure from washington and other allies to allow in more, right? a huge crowds of guys and gathered to receive aid at the shelter run by the united

nations agency for palestinian refugees amid an increasing hunger crisis. and the gaza strip, where aide has only been trickling in since the beginning of the war. the people are dying. we are asking the era people to press for a ceasefire in god, so we are exhausted in dying the united nations as published and slaves report warning that guides us on the brink of famine. the un humanitarian coordinator and gaza says that he's working with israel to open up more land routes for 8 shipments . as soon as the goods come in the 200 trucks a day or whatever the case may be, is not enough to satisfy the, the, the numbers that we have to address. and so as soon as goods come in, they don't get stored anywhere very for very long unless we can put significant supply increases into those areas. those people who can shop catastrophic levels of a amount, nutrition or food insecurity, will at face. we will see these problems. the use top diplomat, joseph bro,

believes israel is using famine as a weapon of war and gaza. we on no long gone on to being of, i mean, we are in a state or funding affecting was enough people. we can not stand by and watch others doing and stuff. what that will be going to do because this is this, i mean there's not a natural disaster. it's not the flaw. there's not that hes quake is entirely mine made my home a mess. they have to say it, my home. well, in each shipment arrived in garza from cypress and some countries have sponsored air drops. agencies say that this is nowhere near enough and cannot replace the aid delivered via land crossings. for dozens of humanitarian aid trucks,

a wait permission to reach people in gaza. and let's go over to dw correspondents on your claim. as we've heard in that report, the un believes famine is a minute. is there any report of more, right? actually getting for. i mean, does this latrice been told now or 4 weeks by all the age organizations in the united nations about this, the to deteriorating situation, especially in a north and garza. and that's why we also see our, you know, these different ways of delivering aid through, at drops through the c corey door. we understand the, in the united states also, they have denounced a some time ago. they're going to build a floating, appear to duck, then a noise and a gone, so to distribute 8, but this will also take some weeks and of course,

ease of calls to open more a lend a crossings to get more age in. know is a new officials always say there is enough 8 going in from this side. it's the distribution. on the other side, i've been talking to people in garza that i know for a long time. they've told me, you know, we lost a lot of a weight. we are totally exhausted. it's not just the lack of food. it's also of course, the exhaustion overboard. that is going on there, mainly eating homepage, which is like a sort of a su, made out of green leaves. now that's my telling her teresa is. that of course is that's the main thing. somebody's eating it is, it is not enough. and we also, of course now hearing from us secretary of state and he blinked and he was a dispatched again to the region. he also wanted to of a severe acute of levels of food and security. even also push of course for a potential seas for a new hostage in the seized by it is needed to get the

h to, uh, to the people tell you something else i'll pick up on with you in a moment. but uh, is this other aspect you as president, you're biding, repeating his deep concerns over his rounds plans for the ground defensive and ralph that he made the comments on the phone to as well as 5 minutes to benjamin netanyahu in post. and that 1st such cold in a month or of one and a half 1000000 people at sheltering the it's the main entry point, of course for aid that yahoo has refused to roll back plans for a ground operation that it goes to the city as well. has again attacked the chief of hospital complex saying they killed the top command row, palm us, which carried out the 37 terror attacks. and these were bite and his us that in yahoo just send a delegation to washington to discuss the rough or offensive his us national security advisor, jake sullivan. our position is that how i should not be allowed to safe haven in rough or anywhere else, but a major ground operation, there would be

a mistake. it would lead to more innocent civilian deaths. worse than the already dire humanitarian crisis. deep in the anarchy and gaza and further isolate israel internationally. more importantly, the key goals israel wants to achieve in rasa can be done by other meetings. on the call today, president biden asked the prime minister to send the senior interagency team composed of military intelligence and to mandatory and officials to washington in the coming days to hear us concerns about israel's current raffle planning and the layout and alternative approach that would target t, how much elements in rafa and secure the egypt because of border without a major ground impatient tanya is as well expected to budge under you waste pressure as well that it's still just see um we've heard a prime minister benjamin netanyahu talking time and time again. that's a r, a military operation of the expansion of the ground operation to russell is

absolutely necessary to achieve the goal, to remove a moss from power to eliminate those of remaining homeless battalions as he put it . and it's seen and, and these relatives and mixed reaction to that. i mean the, those commentators to say that if i shouldn't take it for granted to have all this us support also when it comes to minutes or military support, that this close relationship is very important. and the other hand that also those saying that the us shouldn't into fit in domestic politics. so it will all depend how much pressure us is actually ex, searching on is what have you seen so most to have taken in the last weeks. for example, sanctions on is really settlers and the occupied of westbank. but of course, there's always the concern is right of what it means. so when it comes to military aid from the united states, but of course we haven't seen such moves they yet from the us like ministration. 10

your favorite bringing us the latest from jerusalem. from other world news headlines now, you find ministers of agreed on sanctioning violent is going to be said, lives in the occupied westbank, something out correspondence the to earlier. the settlements are considered a legal under international law. it's been a massive increase in set the violence against palestinian since how most is october 7th terrorist attacks. japan central bank has scrapped its negative interest rates and other long standing policies intended to stimulate the economy. it's depends 1st, price hike in 17 years bump will stay around 0 for now. the artificial intelligence giants. and if a day of the video, rob that has unveiled and you, flagship, a chip that it says is up to 30 tons fonts. but they said we could not, the company is the, the most valuable company in the world, thanks to the boom, an artificial intelligence. donald trump's lawyers say he can't post the bond

covering his $454000000.00 fine for forge of a lease. inflating his wealth, the former president is trying to challenge his conviction in a new york civil court, but 1st needs to put up the money or an appeal bond if he doesn't, and the court could begin seizing his assets. by next week. ukraine is preparing for renewed russian insults along its front line. that's according to a report from the you case, defense industry. fortifications likely include at the tank, obstacles, trenches and mine fields. the report says ukraine sold counter offensive last year as full states military onto a more defensive for he could be honest in the hockey of region was occupied in the 1st days of the full scale invasion. but it was recaptured by ukrainian forces after almost 6 months. the double you visited the town to see how residents are preparing for the front of the reviewed invasion.

read sirens are part of everyday life. for the 3 and a half 1000 people remaining inconvenienced before rushes invasion were 10 times as many people here. this hospital is the only intact medical facility in the town, but much of it has been destroyed. on the 5th of the doctors remain and are forced to work and provide the conditions. a miss the we have for the, for the occupations we have flipped through the delta patient for people with lifting basement inquiry doors on the floor when there were showing with most we didn't leave, we could use sweet lit well. and as long as there were rockets a more diverse, but when the bumping started, we weren't a friend to the to the government believes that the ukrainian armed forces will hold could be on which he is ready to leave, finding intensifies and she's afraid to live through another occupation them

so i think members of a search and rescue group bruises on the hand to evacuate people from the front. there are more than 60 volunteers and the roses on the hand team. they do not receive a salary for their work and most hold down full time jobs. they say they are motivated by the desire to help despite the risk to their lives. so before we came up with the we had a big influx in summer and early autumn to d, my music scores and monitor, put benjamin each team would take $150.00 to $200.00 people per month for him to get these. but then there was some kind of decline, which he always sort c o now is showing his started again the day and a lot of people know every day someone nice or even several people were discontinued, that the rumors of an attack has started to spread the april, so that's why people are leaving more often from one to be just yourself put you in the other 3 is out there on the outskirts of could be on alexander sees of nadia in

autumn. she moved to the city from the village of pet deposit, which was almost completely destroyed. now she was afraid to stay and could be on hold on those who was. but this supposed to be the reason for my son said mom li feet is going to be held here. oh my god. he said there will be a 2nd enough discuss if you ever took i didn't think so. i was thinking ok, maybe god will take us away. you bring everything for nadia and others like her life from the front line has become too dangerous. the travelling further from the russian border in a desperate search for safety as the war drags on. i asked mike martin from king's college london board. it would mean if cool, pianist gives retaken as a keep young is a town or city on quite a wide body of water. the axes, as a natural defensive bull was to that whole region around hockey that the ukrainians

took back in september 22. so if it was a phone and it is quite difficult because it is well defended as his natural water features to defend it, then that would open up the area behind it. so hockey, which is the 2nd biggest city in ukraine. how has ukraine's army being preparing to fend off this russian event? so your listeners will be aware that the ukrainians, schultz, all the munition and supplies from the west. and so they have been focusing on actually doing what the russians have been doing over the last year, which is digging deeper trenches and fortifications. i'm trying to create obstacles in that. so you have several layers of trenches going backwards that will slow the russian and bones. and i would imagine that around could be, and particularly with that water feature is going to be very,

very hard for the russians. take it off to his election, victory buses. vladimir putin talked about creating a buffer zone on ukrainian territory. can you tell us more about that? it's absolutely. so, over the last couple of months, as those supplies droid out, ukraine has looked to wherever it couldn't keep the men some up in the war. one of those areas is attacking oil refineries and population russian troops within russia. and because of that, the piece in his arguing the whole area of russian, you train the entire tree along the russian border needs to be held as a buffers i. but at the moment, if you look at why russian troops all with a new train, they probably hold about all that territory. they need to, you know, the ukrainian or russian border, such as like, almost 2 keys again. and so if the russians want to create that office and they have to retake lots of territory almost all the way to keep. so trying to recreate

the area that they had in the initial invasion that they lost very, very quickly off the initial invasion. so what are your queens chances in uh, in preventing such a buffers aren't being set up. so you clayton's fortunes over the near to rest on 2 things. one is the number of troops that they can raise from their own population. and as a bell at the moment being discussed in the kidney in parliament about how they managed that conscription efforts. and the other, of course, is western supplies, particular things like tennessee shells. and as we know that so being held up at the moment because the americans are tied up in, in american domestic politics. so if you claim does some of those things raises its own troops and as weston supplies, it will have no problem holding off these russian tax. and if it doesn't have those things, i think it's going to be very,

very difficult for them eventually to help. but russian forces, because they are so much more numerous, they can so little about that right and casualties, and they have much grades of supply loans. so mike, is that any more to ukraine strategy? moving forward, apart from those 2 points you mentioned it's so you client is, is playing the waiting game on the waiting effectively. so the outcome of the us presidential election, which is come, gets in then i think the kinds is john's is a great diminished and they fight and gets re elected. then i think we'll see a resumption of western supplies. so in these interim period, this 6 months, 8 months that we have now, ukraine is on the defensive, within its own territory. but it is trying to make gains and demonstrate movements of outside of the surgery. and it's doing that in, in 2 ways. really 3 ways. one is in the black, see in the maritime areas taking the flight to the russian fleets quite

successfully. i think they sunk 2 ships in february washing ships, so, so attacking russian oil infrastructure because it damages the russian economy, not damages the russian war. effort and is doing these cross border attacks that we've seen in the last few days and belted bribes. so really you claims in a holding pass and it's going to try and demonstrate that i mentioned outside the country last. it's on the defensive, within the country. by bought them from king's college london, thank you very much for the insights you a little look. add some more world news headlines now. nearly all of the world cities worst effected by air pollution last year we're in asia, that's according to a report by swiss monitors i q ad. but it also highlighted that the problem is global, saying almost 10 percent of the thousands of cities. it assessed were over w h o limits for the most dangerous pollutants at least an idea. we as a gunman have kidnapped at least 87 people from

a village in the northwest rested in say the bandits arrived undetected after they passed. they motorbike so far away. hundreds of people have been killed naturally simply by gangs demanding ransom payments. as legislators in hong kong, they appear on the verge of passing a controversial security law, long criticized for contributing human rights. it's the demand of china and central government did badging, which has ordered itself already on the territory massive street protests in earlier use stumps. the government from implementing the legislation, but with many opposition activists in jail or in exile. it's expected to pass through parliament with these. let's take a look at board article 23 and types. it requires hong kong to suppress defense and threats the government. the bill contains broad provisions against prison interaction espionage, destructive activities, endangering national security,

and external interference. human rights advocates say it's a magically undermines due process and the right to a fair trial. the moment that changed everything, july 1st, 1997 when britain handed over hong kong to china, which promised to respect the principle of one country to systems. that meant that hong kong ers could enjoy many of the democratic freedoms they had under british rule, under hong kong. so many constitution but in 2003, beijing tried to introduce security laws under article $23.00 of that many constitution. hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in protest, and the proposal was withdrawn in 2014 if civil disobedience movement arose, pushing for more democratic government organizers feared that the police might crack down and everyone has to stay. highly alert,

riley has been peaceful, but now to your guys and plus the bullets i've been transferred to the government headquarters, i soon after the police forcefully cleared protest caps and the government did not relent. setting the stage for future classes with democracy activists. 5 years later, another series of widespread protests sparked by a proposal to extradite criminal suspects. the mainland china was met with a harsh police response. no one is the upgrade. we have more and more angry. you never know what the government will put on there. and i'm just worried about the home rather than answering the protesters, demands the following year, beijing impose the new national security law, the defined many anti government efforts as the session and subversion and assigned life sentences for many of those so called crimes. that was it for many of hong kong is pro democracy activists. dozens of opposition leaders were arrested,

along with journalists and ordinary citizens. others went into exile. independent media was silenced, phasing signal that it had fully taken over in 2022 when jeez and ping arrived in hong kong to swear. and john lee, as the territory is chief executive or the ceremony happened on july 1st 25 years to the day after the british hand over to service, lee has said that the new security legislation is a priority and with the opposition vanquished, he's likely to get his wish i also have correspond and phoebe call why hong kong is fast tracking that new security legislation as well. yes, definitely the speed of se, uh, strengthening. and also the potential passage is even much faster than anyone could expect in hong kong on that. it has took only 12 days um to have to that's just

patient table. it's for the final round up screen to me, the last just aisha seen it was last. it was fast released in earlier of this month . that was the time when the general public 1st have to chose to learn about the actual birth things and the detailed penalties of the over 200 patients of legal crosses. and now the government said it was to others that did the legislation be passed as soon as possible the earlier, the better, as they say, as they stressed over and over again. and paging also explicitly expresses fluid to ask the government to get it done. as soon as possible because uh it is uh. 7 1 of the last, uh, pictures of the national security mechanics of that home code has to pull up the loop hose. 7 left off to the 2019 protest and that case long political, the face that the government says it will allow phone call to move forward to focus on economic development. but on the other hand, put it to the end of the se. it is seem to be like another tech takes for the government to uh to,

to use this strategy to catch the critics. especially the overseas pressure groups off the guard because it's simply make it even harder for them to react in this for a short period of time. phoebe, there were plenty of new clauses in the little walk us through the most contentious of the, of the well, there are many definitions of national security concepts in this slow that are new to hong kong is. and they were so fast defined in hong kong, a legal metabolism, uh, for example, our external forces. it's not only including the foreign governments and political organizations, but also on normal international organizations on that. 7 7 anyone who anyone from an external forces who glue with a external force as to uh uh, to disseminate misleading and force information turn thing to national security.

that could be a crime that to put people in show for us that k a. and also apart from that, that definition upstate, see chris uh, also appear to be uh, pretty broad and tough. uh that includes uh. 5 classified social, economic, and technological information involving the chinese at home from government. so that's something really concerning for many of the parties here in home, home, in new zealand, the group of elderly people has been taking a live 100 approach to bodies for many feet, most serious of subjects. they've joined a coffin club, a social gathering when members can bury to booze and custom build their own confidence. here at hastings coffin club, the cost gets on the exactly what you'd expect. this one is being fitted out by vintage car and tease yes. complete with lights and even steering wheel. why is quite a good handle, i'm caught up at mann and most at the most expense on site. i'd better stop my

training because i will be carried up on the tapes that like halted approach to what is for many the most serious subject to bowl that is a whole mark of the club and is often the elderly members 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, still very heavy, lots in charts. and i think it most well not, i think everybody that's here is except that they're going to die with that they might give me confidence the way that they volunteer. and it doesn't matter if the club says it's open to everyone who wants to have a go

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