the the, this is, these are the news line from the land you lead is cool for an immediate pause of the fighting in gaza at a summit in brussels. lita is from 27 members face to mont, saint unconditional release of old hostages and ad israel. not to launch around defensive in the southern city of frost. also us secretary states as need think and says to go shapes is all making good progress towards a ceasefire. on talks in egypt, lincoln says he's gonna confidence that a deal between israel until off is possible. adding that gap between the 2 on our way, the

american mohammed is good to have you with us. european union lead is meeting and brussels have for the 1st time issued a joint statement calling for an immediate instrument of terry and pause in gossum . european commission president are sort of on the line, well stressing israel's right to defend itself. often the october 7th terror attacks by him us so that israel also had a duty to protect civilian life. previously, some e u countries including germany, had resisted language calling on israel to hold this operations. they called it a strong and unified statement on the crises in the middle east, but the call for humanitarian paused by you leaders is likely to change late. so despite the hard and approach as the head of the council,

charles michelle also pleaded with these rail not to go into rough or in southern gaza. we paying on the government of these was nuts to launch their drug operations. you know how far? because we can't imagine what could be the drug suppresses you search for the version would be lost. the balding ukraine was also high on the agenda. president low to me is a landscape address to stomach bug video to make his case a further help. unfortunately, of the use of our tillery at the front line by our soldiers is accumulating for europe in the sense that europe can provide more, and it is crucial to prove it. now, leaders backed in principal, a proposal by the block to use frozen version assets to bind the weapons. nazis,

despite the attendance of hunger, his prime minister, big to all bon, to congratulate to vladimir putin on his recent election. some e u. leaders make time for us stop at the nuclear energy summit, pledging to put energy production of the hots of future plans. however, one notable absence was chancellor luff sholtes. after gemini phased out is less than nuclear plants. and there was welcome news of bosnia and herzegovina. as the block announced it would officially open, accession talks with the bulk and control the deputies. jack power has full on the decisions from brussels, usually does have in brussels. have my mind is to sign off on a cool for immediate humanitarian pools is leading to a sustain ceasefire. that would cease fire was very, very complicated, even only a few months ago. the latest couldn't agree to cool for such a thing,

but not with the plans to get humanitarian agents a gaza that increased concerns about a potential grind defensive by the israelis into the city of rough or, and gaza. they, on the putting more pressure and raising just slightly the needle on these varies to, to try and find a way to bring about a sci fi off of these immediate humanitarian pause. is a big call from the european union, actually on the ukraine side of things here with the some that we have as you've seen, some interesting progression on the suggestion that the european union could use some money, potentially up to 3000000000. your rose in winning for profit is the come off of 210000000000 your a russian financial asset, the 16 you financial institutions and has been accruing in pressed the european commission president sort of on the line and said she reckoned 1000000000 yours of

that could be released these frozen assets profits before the 1st of july, the some complexities around this. how that money is going to be used, whether it would be used for military asset purchases, which is complicated for some of the non aligned military countries like island for instance. they have difficulties around not, but the language in the text is that the european union will start working towards accessing. i'm freezing and releasing some of those. when for full profits from the russian phrase and access the gaps on neri, that's how you are a secretary of state. as the blinking is describing a deal between israel and thomas lincoln who has been in egypt for talks. that is where all these to do more to help increase the soul of aid a signal, some hope saying he still believe the ceasefire agreement was possible just blank. and speaking out of that, there's a clear consensus around a number of shared priorities. first,

the need for an immediate sustained cease fire with the release of hostages. that would create space to search more humanitarian assistance to relieve the suffering of many people and to build something more. and right now the ceasefire that we're working on would be the best most immediate way to enable us to search mandatory assistance. but it's not the only way we agreed today, all of the ministers that we would get are experts together in the coming days to identify the urgent practical and concrete steps, the can, it should be taken to increase the flow of assistance is real nice to do more, simmons, who the rebels have told china and russia at the ships can pass through the gulf of aidan and the red sea safely. the who these have been attacking vessels off the germany coast since november. the last time the u. k. has lost as strikes on who's the target in retaliation. several countries have deployed the naval forces to

protect shipping in the trade route. earlier this month, 3 crew members were killed when they ship was hit in the who the strike hands. jacob schindler is the senior director of the counter extremism project here in berlin. and i asked him how time and rush i managed to negotiate, to deal with the who these who continue to target weston countries vessels. very clearly and obviously iran as plays a major role in yeah, iran is a major sponsor rupees. it is also very close to china and russia increasingly so over the last couple of years because of breast and pressure. and so my best guess, without being involved in these negotiations, is that they went through the reigning route, both countries. of course, having an interest to keep the shipping routes open, rush have to get an edge out and trying to get it's um, merchandise into europe. and how does the hosting's benefit from this arrangement?

well, the problem is, according to media reports is of course, that the china and russia, i agree to politically support the working movement. whatever that means potentially means that the attempts to run up the pressure of via united nations security council of sanctions will be slowed down by both these countries while permanent members of the security council and therefore can reach will any resolution. where does this need for us and other western powers? we have seen a tax, but they claim to have degraded the who these ability to carry out such incidents for example, and such strikes, but always seeing any indication of that degradation as well. suddenly there were a successful attacks i, but even the us admit that they were surprised at the extent of to who would be our civil and of course you're on, continues to describe. so this new agreement, if it is an agreement that with these are going to keep they accidentally, although they have their mounts, they wouldn't in the past,

targeted your russian and try and ship. so maybe the maintenance helping them more now to not to do that anymore. but it puts a bit more pressure on the us and the europeans really on to do i that increase the pressure on the wrong to make the, with the stop or to continue its military operations. because the one hope of course, was also that china. whereas any current interest that this shipping route is open because most of its merchandise and materials that exports to europe, goals via that shipping route is now apparently no longer having a problem. so in terms of the big picture, we've seen multiple strikes in the last few months. how much of an impact have these attacks being on trade in supply route so far? very significantly. so there is a drop over 40 percent of traffic through the source canals. so far we have more than a toppling of container prices. um, since the attack started in earnest

a couple of months ago, and of course we have a massive increase in shipping insurance for any investments that goes through the right seat. that means a lot of the majority of global shipping companies are renting now. ships that go from in europe around the african road, which is at least 10 days longer travel time, which means longer transport routes and more uh, transport costs as hands direction to thank you very much indeed for your time and analysis. thank you so much. let's take a look at some of the stories making headlines around the world of the cranes capital has been hit by the largest russian as striking recent weeks. the crating apple says it shot down over themselves, but 17 people were in just several buildings were also damaged. for full, it's coming in from hazy, say, a natured gang leader has been killed in the capital. puerto prince sources say the gang so known as t. greg was who escaped from prison early this month was killed in

a police operation political group. so working the set top a transitional council to restore order until elections can be held for like half land separate to sleep, call us push them on, says he will stand in catalonia as regional elections in may, which the launch has been living in exile since leaving spain also failed to break away attempt in 2017. he is hoping to return to the country once an amnesty deal put forward by spain send to left. government becomes low. to us from the us department of justice has sued tech giants. apple. imagine that the company is maintaining an illegal monopoly on the smartphone market, and also to accuse as apple of using anti competitive behavior to squeeze more money out of consumers and also heard it's rivals. apple denies the charges and says it will defend itself. surgeons in the united states have successfully tons

of pol today genetically modified pig kidney into a living human. a man with and stage kidney disease was given the organ at a hospital in boston last week as well. now pick kidneys had only been temporarily transplanted into brain. dead patients to men have also received pay costs, but have died within months. and dozens of the hands of refugees has been rescued off the coast of indonesia, local fishermen pulled the people to safety off. they both capsize a day earlier. the group was sailing from bung. the dash weigh more than half a 1000000 were hinge, are seeking safety and have been resettled through a hinge. our minority ma, some ethnic group heavily persecuted in me and law civil hinge or refugees had been stuck at sea for more than a day. until a search and rescue team found them under the beating sun. they had been travelling

in a wooden boat capsized after weeks, etc. there was 69 survivors, and i know number of people were unaccounted for. just the car was one of the people found on the boat last night someone was passing by. and i asked if we could get into his boat. he said he would call the police. i thought help were consumed. but he never came back. some of the ro hinge on board, see their boat held around a 150 people before it think. the group was sailing from bangladesh in bangladesh. we lived where there was a camp for hinges. it's way with lots of a hinge live. my whole family is that. but we didn't have enough money. we didn't

have enough food. and i couldn't work that more than half a 1000000 ro hinge a half led targeted violence in myanmar for bangladesh. they lived there and some of the world's largest refugee camps, some board boats, and sailed to indonesia for better conditions. indonesia has welcomed some ro hinge and the past, but some of these tests really be there because of the spike of arrivals, of people trapped and one of history's largest refugee crises. has a reminder of our top story. the seller you need is in brussels or calling for a humanitarian pause. in garza said, there are poles, 5 and lots of sicily as mice council leader shelves. michelle has urged israel not to enter the southern institute of watching. the domain is live from

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