the, the dw news line from berlin tonight, or israel and come us closer to a west spring ceasefire in gosh, of after talked in egypt, us secretary of state anthony blinking says he's confident that a deal between israel as a mazda, as possible, is adding that the gaps between the 2 are narrower, also coming up the board in gaza. the more in ukraine. european union, leaders are meeting this week to decide what europe can do about both. plus a doctors in the u. s. perform the world's 1st pick between human kidney transplant . it's the latest experiment in a quest to use animal organs inside human b and emmanuel macro, and showing off his guns, images of the french president working out with the punching bag. well,

they have said much of france into a frenzy, the bridge ops our viewers watching on cbs in the united states. as of all of you around the world, welcome the gaps are narrowing. that is how us secretary of state entity blinking is describing is real data loss. and the possibility of a ceasefire in gaza. league in who has been in egypt for talks, says it is real, needs to do more, to help increase the flow of 8 in regards of a signal. some hope today saying that he still believes a ceasefire agreement as possible. thinking says that the gaps and mirroring between israel into mos over the deal, here's more of what lincoln had to say earlier on thursday. there's a clear consensus around a number of shared priorities. first, the need for,

for an immediate sustained cease fire with a release of hostages. that would create space to search more humanitarian assistance to relieve the suffering of many people and to build something more enduring. now the cease fire that we're working on would be the best most immediate way to enable us to search monitoring systems. but it's not the only way we agreed today. all of the ministers that we would get our experts together in the coming days to identify the urgent practical and concrete steps that can, it should be taken to increase the flow of assistance is real nice to do more. so how much closer are we to an immediate sustain ceasefire is blinking? put it, i put the question to journalist, can we make a heart entire? well, he said basically this is the main way forward. so he said also that that they are getting closer and, but also if we think that the,

they asked in other difficulties, i had it, i think one of the best indications that there is something on the paper this worst negotiating is the fact that tomorrow. and that will be a big meeting in do on costa, and also with the head of it is really most of the intelligence service. so there seems to be enough to continue to negotiations and siblings and seems to be quite optimistic that if we move forward. i think it also said that israel needs to do more with, with a deliveries to gaza. it seems that the u. s. has now i don't want to say on a full computation course with nothing yahoo but it, it could be described that way. um and that pressure is building up. what would you say is behind this strategy as well as the kid? he said that there is more a coming into the last days, but he says it's by far, not enough. and of course, that is

a clear call towards the is ready decides to finally open the board is to really get in must, if amounts of age i think what to say behind it is really that the we just try to spread that some of these and go from their workforce program that is wanting of and the minute the famine in because of strep throat and immune and famine is like this. it indicates us that they have great the model, attrition of children, folks, something how many children for security for tennessee creative because of strep, which should blink also say that the press conference is 400 percent of the people because so i think the u. s. doesn't want to be complicit any longer into the situation and why that's why they pressuring for more. and so coming in and the, it's an indication also that the negotiations been blinking. ready so is where it tomorrow would be quite tough if he wants to move forward. and yeah, how much leverage do you think the us has right now in trying to, you know,

push is really in a certain direction. we know the legend, yahoo has said that there is no alternative to a ground assault in rough a. well, that's a question eh, i mean tough, tough, poke tomorrow is really probably, we'd be not enough. it's a question. i mean, this clear words know and for more keywords by the u. s. site that it needs to be more 8 coming in that the, that we need to have and a ceasefire. and the question is, what's about, how is us acting on this talks and say, i mean we have at the same time, we have all this talk. but at the same time, of course, the biggest military assistance for the you all and discuss that will come soon as the so there's a lot of leverage to you as has which you didn't use yet. and we are hearing from the office of benjamin at yahoo that on friday israels spite chief david or new york will travel to guitar to secure a gauze a ceasefire that would include

a hostage release. when do you hear that cream? would you say that this indicates that things are moving that, that we are looking at possible progress? yes, absolutely. but the, because we don't know the details, but the know so what the sticking points, i think the main sticking point is facing the this an agreement that's for 6 weeks ceasefire. and for the release of 40 is a host interest in exchange for the 20 to 34 number of funded students from be to be released from is randy presents, but there's a lot of sticking points. the other thing, the main sticking point is that i must say we're going to continue to release hostages in a 2nd phase. and that means also the soldiers supposed to be wants to have guarantees for a permanent ceasefire. and for the end of this war, and that is some think of course it's a very difficult to stomach for, and it's on you all because his announced objective in this war is the destruction

of hamas, which you would have not a chief to this case. a journalist can remember all right, from the cairo to night with the latest dream. thank you. leaders from across the european union, a meeting in brussels. it'd be humanitarian crisis in gaza. is high on the agenda once i do cranium plants to develop europe's defense capabilities. and your leaders are also considering a proposal to buy arguments for ukraine using the proceeds from frozen russian assets and whether or not to open membership talks with bosnia herzegovina, human secretary general. antonio gutierrez was at the summit today to encourage more relief for gauze into the us as a quarter of gauze. this population is starved. these ford policy chief, joseph burrell, has described the situation of gauze as being not a humanitarian crisis, but rather a failure of humanity. he says the leaders meeting in brussels who collectively

formed the european council will be calling for the release of this really hostages, as well as for a ceasefire that holds the content of course much further supporting without asking for a sustainable ceasefire. so delete a scale. so for the freedom of hostages, needless to say, condemned even have mass at that. but showing in a strong concern for the situation of the people in gosh, which is all next, had certainly equal the size of life to defend. not to revenge, not to revenge defense corresponding dec parakeets covering the summit for us. we asked him whether joseph beretta is speaking for all you heads of government. when he calls for a sustainable ceasefire as well. that is exactly what we're looking to see throughout the process. of this summit,

whether the leaders will agree for the progress and the last time we have any of the european union leaders agreeing on some sort of cool for a change in the situation of his rose military campaign in the gaza strip again. so how much the tire organization? they quoted fishing monetary impose is to allow a did auth dw team here. and brussels has been covering and listening to a lot of the briefings from a lot of the difference. the u. member states over the last few days and going into the summit, we understand that the language coming. i will say that the you will call for immediate humanitarian pauses, leading to a sustainable ceasefire. that's 5 or 6 months ago. the idea of cooling for a cease fire was an absolute no go for the you need is especially germany, which didn't feel they could cool for that. but we do understand the, as the summit progresses, be, your leaders will be able to cool full that sustainable sci fi that, that language will get into the document that comes off of this summit. your grades

capital has been hit overnight by a massive russian missile attack. this follows reset air attacks by ukraine across the border in rushes belgrade region. the strike on keep was the largest in recent weeks, causing casualties and damage to residential buildings. in the early hours of thursday, g of rucked by explosions seeking said people in the ukranian capital haven't seen in weeks passively before. oh no. the 1st explosion had done. i woke up and a 2nd later i was covering my daughter with my arms. there was a 2nd explosion, and at that moment a piece of shop now had my window. the children were sent to the bomb shelter and i wondered what to do next. so those different yeah, sort of resulted in the daylight, the aftermath of the attacks becomes visible blast damage to residential buildings with several people losing their homes. if my son hadn't renee,

he would have been killed. our entire apartment was destroyed. the blast waves destroyed furniture, windows, doors, every thing. it's a hard time. this for the fusion, ukraine's air force as it shut down, all 31 russian me sales targets in the capital on thursday. but nearly 22 people were injured by the following parts. ukrainian president, full of demons, the landscape has condemned the attacks as an act of terror. he has been relentless in his appeals to western allies for air defense systems. sees a piece nice as they are partners have these defense system data. they need to understand that we need them to protect the lives of the as a job of who's the strikes and key of follow as the rates of retaliation from

russia's presidents lie, deem it puts in. ukraine has been pounding its belgrade both the region for several days, forcing evacuations of thousands of children. the exchange of a tax is given the other escalation in russia's war against its neighbors. part. let's take a look now. some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world, the french citizens voted overwhelmingly against a free trade deal between the new and canada. and it comes after president backgrounds left in white. we components joint forces to reject the agreement. the defeat comes after farmers across france railed against the use free trade policies during weeks of protests. the u. s. department of justice assumed tech joy an apple alleging that the company is maintaining and the legal monopoly on the smartphone market. the sweeping of lawsuit accuse is apple of using anti competitive behavior to squeeze more money out of consumers into hurt rifles. apple has denied the

charges and says it will defend itself. human to the rebels have told the china and russia that their ships can pass through the gulf of aidan and the red sea safely the who. these have been attacking vessels off the coast. and since november, the west, germany and other countries have deployed their naval forces to protect shipping. and this important trade late april photos to come back from nuclear power around the world is being discussed here in europe that talks in brussels. the nuclear energy summit is expected to call for europe's nuclear industry to be rebuilt. following years of decline, nuclear power filled out of favor following japans to receive a nuclear accident back in 2011, but commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions and the need to find alternatives to cheap russian oil. they've all leaded to a re thinking how europe should produce its energy. so you commission president or so the from the lion address the summit today. and she laid out her reasons for

backing an increase in european nuclear power. first of all, of course, to reach our klein which goes let us not forget that nuclear power worldwide is the 2nd largest source of low emission electricity after hydropower segment. of course, to safeguard our energy security countries look to reduce that dependence. unimportant fossil fuels and the 3rd reason is to ensure our competitiveness, nuclear power can provide a reliable anchor for electricity prices. brussels corresponding christine woodward told us more about the european leaders who now feel that they need more not less nuclear power. i personally a significant group this uh these countries include fronts,

belgium suite and the netherland, slovakia, romania and a few others. these countries say that there is a compelling case for new to energy because there's been significant progress, scientific progress making due to much safer, much more reliable as, as, as they put it so much so that the sweetest prime minister who is speaking at that same summit today and said that sweden had reversed its decision to the commission, its nuclear power plants, belgium, as prime minister announced that the country we've known this but that the country was extending the lifespan of some of its younger nuclear power products. these countries are saying that net 0 is not possible without nuclear energy, and it is in the spirit of this that comp sweeney age. these countries in the united states and as, as around the world, signed a declaration to 2 triple the amount of a nuclear energy generation by the get 2050. so that's quite a huge undertaking. the challenge they are having in the space is mobilizing fine

that since the big part of this conference was about convincing your international finance institutions, you'll multilateral development banks, private 6, a stakeholders to, to lend, to find that nuclear power generation programs so. so that was part of that, a big part of was at this summit is, is about, i have to point out also here. so that there's this renewed momentum in the discussion around nuclear energy off to the energy crisis that the world was plunged into off to russia invaded ukraine. suddenly the idea of energy sovereignty, which you heard the commission of the commission chief. it was an underlined sort of hinting at really became much more at the forefront of the conversation about securing energy supply. it is always pressing one where they are reporting from brussels in a medical 1st. the surgeons in the united states have successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a living human. a man with in the stage kidney disease was given the oregon at the

hospital in boston last week. the oregon was especially modified with the crisper gene editing technique to remove harmful pig genes and to add human ones to boost its compatibility. until now, pig kidneys had only been temporarily transplanted into brain dead patients. to man have also received pay cards. but both died within months. it's what i'm doing now by dr. mike curtis. he's the president and chief executive officer at the genesis. he's responsible for managing the development of egypt. this is 0 transplantation programs in cambridge, massachusetts. that's transplants between 2 species. doctors, it's good to have you with this um walk us through this. how do you make pig kid these suitable for human transplantation? yes, thank you. and thanks for the interest in this and the story. so our approach is

really to improve the compatibility of course on oregon's with human recipients by making 3 different classes of changes to the course. and you know, the 1st group is to remove by what we call androgens are. the molecule is responsible for a per give injection be we knock out the genes responsible for those engines and basically eliminate, i appreciate rejection. the next class of edits are reintroduce human genes into the parts. and you know, in this case we introduce 7 to regularly coagulation compatibility and the mechanisms of rejection. and then the 3rd group of edits are inactive, a indulgence retroviruses present and of course on geno. and this is to improve oregon safety and avoid the potential for disease transmission from the part time donor to the patient. so in total we created a total of $69.00 edits into the port sign genome to produce the donor that was used, welcomes, kidney transplant, and end of the person who received the kidney transplant. how was this patient

chosen? because this is a 1st and do we know how the patients doing? oh yeah, so good, good question. and so this patient was a gentleman who had previously had a human kidney transplant that had fail. so he had this transfer for about 5 years in the united states if you've had a previous transplant. and then you need a 2nd transplant and you're over say 50 years old. it's unlikely, but you're going to get a 2nd transplant. so then you're going to dialysis this particular patient was losing access to dialysis. so he would once he lose his access to dialysis, he can't get a transplant. he would have to go into hospice and he would likely pass away. so this patient had run out of treatment options and so he was chosen as a candidate for this person for assigned to the transplant. and as of today is doing an incredibly well the poor assign sydney's being very well tolerated. he's producing your and his mark is affinity function of improved and he's on track of to be discharged from the hospital. wow. and so we're very pleased with his outcome

and we're so grateful for is, is willingness to participate in the study. and while and so far, so good and, and it will this patient and thinking about other types of transplants with, with organs it, will this patient have to take medication the rest of his life to prevent any type of rejection of the pick kidney. yeah, so he is, he's on immunosuppression very similar to what any recipient of this you mentioned you would be on. plus we've added an additional give me the suppression drug that we refer to as a t. so co stimulation blocker from our partner l, it on pharmaceuticals is developing that for to improve long term outcomes and to reduce rejection. so because the standard of care suppression plus this additional drugs, i mean this sounds very promising, especially for people who are waiting for an an organ transplant to be i understand there are millions of people in waiting lists around around the world. or is this

a game changer in your opinion? so we believe it's the 1st step to a major change and how we treat kidney failure. in united states alone, we're looking at about 600000 patients on the houses about 90000 patients out of the transfer waiting list. the reality is all of those patients could use a kidney in the us. we do about 25000 transplants a year as a way under the number that we need to do. so i do believe that this is the 1st step of changing that math completely. yeah. well we certainly wish the patient, well, and we appreciate you, dr. mike curtis for talking with this tonight and exciting story. thank you. thank you. appreciate interest. thanks. well now here is the french president like you've probably never seen him before. these photos of the manual micro and have been met with a mixture of praise and ridicule. the moody, black and white shots were posted on instagram by the president's official photographer. some comments on social media suggests that they showed the fridge

president getting ready to take on the russian president vladimir putin. well, philip maddox is a professor emeritus in political communication at the front on the institute of political studies and peers. he says the photos have all the hallmarks of a french president trying to compete with a russian press. it seems that that's an, that's a amendment about coal wanting to address directly with teen and wanting to show that he wants to be the lead off, i would say for you or if we would want to use these terms. and as you can see, he also wants to compete with him and to show that he has most of a, by the way, are they some criticism about the 1st feature? because some people say it's not has been we touched. so he's not anymore online. what, what, what on the, what, what's been re touched progressed? what do we know of the most of it seems, i mean they pretend the to the see easiest way to most of us. but it seems huh. is

being re touched. not anymore on line on the if he shows websites of the same but the rifle. well, how is macro on addressing with these possibly, you know, touched up muscles. well, you know, uh there is, uh your been election in a few months and the image and my call has quite too low down in popularity. so he's trying to achieve something somewhere. and it seems the only place where he can issue so is as we do for you, well at least the for your because a, at the moment to the security isn't up to going very well and false reform is not very strongly accepted. and so the, the economics is going down, so it's a way to improve capability. after you see things, professor, what would you say? distinguishes the images we've seen of macro and from the images, apply them and put those images that the world has seen the russian president. he

has a history of presenting himself as a nature loving, bare chested athletes sitting on a horse inside period. indeed. but at the same time, you have to remember that the was a besser is ation or could you could communication to days something you've seen in falls. so we have seen the new stock was in a few, a few years ago, the bicycling and the running with switching. and so in fact, uh let's, i would say you've gotten the leaders who want to go on the computer decided i would say. and obviously when you want to go against teen, when you try these things in a world where we talk about the metro section. well, we talked about feminist foreign policy, the male macho biceps bulging leader. is that anachronistic? is that political communication from the last century? swears i would say goes well from the patent of but i'm pretty good communication,

but i would say at the same time that the troops and you do odds when you have the meet to move and being so strong especially in falls. no. uh, i would say a good part of the team business. he's no accused of the doing of being you need to buy the meet 2 people. so we send it to us. and then you think there's a pattern here or can we predict what politician will try to show their motto side? i mean, here in germany for example, many people could not imagine seeing similar photos from transfer all off. schultz, for example. i know, but you, you read the, i mean it depends of the circumstances you. you can remember that's functions trego was shown when they with floods in dress and he was shown with these boots and so on into what i would tell you to see me. this is to me, the button. it depends on the circumstances. yeah, yeah. well, it makes you wonder how these politicians have time to, to work out to get those muscles really from arctic for pressure. there it is of

political communication because we appreciate your time today. thank you. thank you very much. and finally, i bet they don't offer a packet during pedagogy here in your local nail salon, but they do at a zoo here in germany. that's where elephants at the cologne zoo, they've been getting their annual. that's right. pedicures. the treatment is parts of the animal's, regular medical checkups. the procedure differs only a little from the typical salon experience that you and i would know, this is innkeepers using an angle grinder to buff up a slightly larger tonia. so those are some big terminals. this is reminded now of our top story. after talks in egypt, us secretary of state anthony blinking and said that he believes the gaps are narrow between is realism. also. brittany ceasefire in the gaza strip leaking says that washington is working. so you've identified concrete steps that can be taken to increase the flow of a into gauze if you want your dw use after

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