the, the, this is the, the be the, is coming to live from berlin. us back to the diplomatic push for a cease fire in gaza. secretary of state anthony blinking arrives and telling me for talks with prime minister benjamin netanyahu, as washington wraps up pressure on israel over the humanitarian toll in guns. also coming up, russia strikes you crane with another massive wave of missiles and drums. the attacks target energy infrastructure and residential buildings. key says intercepted many of the incoming mississauga and german football decides to just do it after a 70 year partnership with germany's iconic data as brand. the countries football association swaps the payments stripes for the swish of us ports where companies 19

the little m. terry market. thanks for joining us. us secretary of state anthony blinking has landed in israel for gaza, talks with prime minister benyamin and nothing yahoo! blinking is expected to speak to these really government about humanitarian aid distribution in the territory. and to urge is real not to launch a ground operation in the over crowded city of rough uh, in southern guns. israel is still pursuing hom, us militants. the carried out the october. some terrorist attacks arrives as the un lincoln arrives as the un security council is set to vote later on in the, on the us sponsored resolution for an immediate cease fire in the un security council. i started tourism correspond atanya kramer. what blinking

head on his agenda in israel a lot so much around the sun, it's going to be a very short visit to use meeting with prime minister benjamin netanyahu. and then also meeting with members of the board cabinet. and of course, that has been a lot of focus in recent weeks in the media about the tensions in this of usually very close relationship between the us and israel, with the united states being the closest island. also, the main support of is right. again, this was was military 8 of course, but these relations have been strained in particular between the 2. a need is now in particular on these topics that you just mentioned. now we are expecting also that to talk, so it'd be focusing on getting more age into the goal is to strip and talking about more protection for the civilian population, but also about the planned

a minute. terry operation in the software over 1500000 people are so during right now, so this is a certainly here on the agenda, but what's very much in focus in is where right now is our, of course, these hostage towards the end direct talks between is well, and how much happening in doha, and the news that uh, the head of the massage is also heading there today. so this expect it to be somehow some movement. tell us more about this, you aspect ceased by a resolution that the united nations security council, the council set the boat on that today. how is this move being seen where you are? but it certainly or also very closely watched and is rather because i'm to now do you guys has veto to abstain? usually in these resolutions and now, you know, we could see one of the us trusted resolutions being adopted now. and with us,

usually shifting as it seeing here is ro, from resolutions. indeed it's a security council. now this resolution that's being circulating as emphasize as an immediate and sustained a ceasefire to protect the civilian population getting in more age. but it also aims as it says, to secure a sci fi in connection with the release of hostages. so of course that's being discussed here. how will is where i respond to that. for some critics, it's not a still not a strong enough because it wouldn't necessarily change anything on the ground yet also give them the track record of as well. that doesn't a t, a large c a to those who end security council resolution, so it still to see how is relevant then respond to that f as in ocean? tanya, thank you very much. that was our course by tony kramer in jerusalem. now in

a related development to humans who the rebels have told 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 altogether. the coast since november the us and the u. k. of launched airstrikes on who the targets of retaliation. the militant group has vowed to continue a tax in the shipping lane until israel and since offensive in gaza. earlier this about 3 crew members were killed when their ship was hit in the strike. as well. joining me now here in the studio is hands, you all have sinned, but he is the senior director at the counter extremism project. thanks for being with us. how have china and russia managed to make this arrangement with the who to you rebels? so what are they getting an exchange? well, physically they negotiated, they know mine, but really behind all of this is the, who's the contact to the right new machine. read, new shame is the main spawn. so that would be movement. russia and china. now very

tricky. developing into allies of your on exemplified by last week's joint naval trails. in the re ribbon see between china, russia and iran and the maintenance have done a favor, i guess for, for the allies. the cookies claims they are attacking out of solidarity with the palestinians. that they are attacking only those ships that are somehow related to is real connected. israel. what do you make of that? that has been nonsense for several months. i may even targeted inadvertently. i assume a russian tanka in january. so they shooting at all of the civilian shipping that goes through, i guess the reading is, are going to help them to distinguish now between russian and chinese and everyone else. but i mean, there's been a long, long, long i no longer true that they just, i look at is really ships or ships going to is really harmless. any civilian ship was most talkative in the last couple of the us says that western air strikes in

the i'm in have degraded the hoots. he's ability to strike ships, but those attacks are still continuing with it. absolutely. so there are several ways of quite successful targeting of with the infrastructure, but even the american administration is not meeting that they were surprised at the extent of the who the austin. and then of course, iran continues to resupply that is ramping up efforts. both the us navy to disrupt those, re supplies to examine, but it will take considerably longer than the rest of station apparently helpful. so now international shipping is being diverted right away from the red sea because of those attacks. that means that if there's a significant drop in revenue for countries like egypt that operate the suez canal, what are those countries not doing more to rein in? who these? what i mean, 1st of all, is not just a drop in revenue for, for egypt, most of the things that europe exports anyway and to asia actually supposed to go

through the red sea, which is the shortest route to asia, which means the european was actually paying the price already containers are twice as, as expensive. shipping insurance has increased by 200 percent. the transported around the african continent take means 10 more days of transport routes. so it is in our european central interest in, in a year where inflation is still the problem. increasing price is still a problem to make sure that this viper shipping would stays open the gulf countries in a bit of a bind. because as you may remember, since 2015, both saudi arabia as well as the you, a e and a range of properties including nature, drive, draining the fees on the ground in yemen. more or less unsuccessful. the until now and not in negotiations with because he's about withdrawing from him. and so they apparently do not want to get directly involved, although it would be in the interest to make sure that these negotiations with,

with these progress, from the perspective of the who these and a rand, how successful have these attacks been? what impacted they have? i unfortunately spectacularly because these were indeed stream the dangerous, extremely radical extreme is movement in government and they treat them a nice ask. you would expect eyes loc i'd have to do, but they were, you have any problem. now they are really, i need to national problem. let me put them on the map and russia and china promised in return for the protection of their ships to protect, to who's east politically. this can only mean that russia in china is going to prevent the net united nations security council as permanent members from ramping up the pressure on the booth these by of functions as the us and the are being signed. attempting to do right now that you've drawn a direct line between the rent and the who the rebels. there are other rainy and proxies in the region, of course, operating to uh, from the beginning of the gaza war. there were concerns that this, this conflict could spin out of control and draw in the wider region. where do you

see the danger of that threat level now? where it's still not over, right? so there is still a daily exchange of fight between his ball on israel, and there's always the danger that this is going to be the next board is own and they are parts of the israeli government to argue the midst of defense. for example, argues that this has to be the next was on the writing allies in iraq and syria. really learned the lesson men to buy and have to mr. ation targeted them off the tower $22.00 and then padded base and jordan was attacked by them. so they have rumps down the pressure, but the who sees that continuing is polite, is continuing. so the not yet. and it is a situation where i would say regional conflict is absolutely guaranteed to be both hands. you have shinla from the counter extremism project. thank you. very much thank now to ukraine, where 2 people have reportedly been killed in several wounded in overnight attacks

. present blogger me, is landscape, hosted these pictures of the attacks on social media. he says, ukraine down over 9, the russian missiles and drones, and named it the largest strike on the country's energy infrastructure of the entire war. in brussels, you leaders have agreed to work out a plan to use interest from frozen russian assets to keep, to help, to buy more arms, to repel the russian invasion. you chief or slip on the line, welcome to move. here's what she had to say. as we must continue to support ukraine's efforts to fight back on the battlefield. so i'm glad that lead us endorsed our proposal to use the extraordinary revenues from immobilized washing assets. this will provide funding for military equipment to ukraine. we can expect to collect around 3000000000 euros for 2024, and similar amounts in the future years. i asked our brussels bureau chief

alexander for knob and whether the use of frozen assets interest had the support of all the use members states. well, in the and o u leaders here in brussels have agreed in principle that the one to a large majority of those profits from frozen rushing assets to go to ukraine. and according to what was the fund a lie and the rope and commission president, the 1st flower shop that money around, 1000000000 euros could be transferred to ukraine by this summer. but the leaders are also saying the wants to the work on this proposal to continue the wants to have a robust legal basis for that. or as to belgium, prime and new style extend to the club, put it. they don't want this move to have any, it cannot make impacts that they could not digest. because of course, they don't want other nations to believe that, you know,

their assets could be also use or confiscated. they don't want other nations to use that decision. as a blueprints to also freeze assets and so on, because a, as a b k economic lock, they need to be global markets to be properly functioning. and still they are determined to move on with that decision. yeah, there are some legal questions surrounding it. how much money are we talking about here and what exactly will it be used for? we are talking about around $3000000000.00 euros every year. and the european union wants to use it to a very high extend about 90 percent to for ukraine to be to buy a munition and weapons because as leaders, stress t and russell staff is what ukraine needs. urgency needs right now. a part of that

money is also going to be retained for a potential reconstruction of the country. that's the problem is that some members of the european union neutral countries such as small town or austria or islands to have some concerns about that. and that is actually being addressed and the conclusions that we saw yesterday with the leaders saying they wants to take to account and consider the concerns expressed by those countries. but we have to see how that is going to happen. well, russia obviously isn't going to be happy about this. move by the e. you could last go end up reclaiming this money. alexandra. well, tell me that it's actually an excellent question because there is a possibility that that's money which needs to be paid back to russia off to the war effect. they launch legal action. so this move is laden with the

legal risk and as to the with p and union is ready to move forward with that also because the pressure from the united states to decide on that has been increasing over the last months. so despite the legal risk there are ready to, to do it. alexandra, thank you very much. that was our brussels bureau chief alexander from the thank you to take a look at a few other stories making headlines today. tardies in india have arrested a key oppositional leader earbuds of our v and the kids. you will see over the ledge corruption case. his arrest triggered anger among his supporters. any as opposition alliance is called as a politically motivated move, just weeks before the countries election reports from hating, say, a major gang leader has been killed in the capital port to print sources,

say the gangster, known as t. greg, who escaped from prison earlier this month, was killed in a police operation. political groups are working to set up a transitional council to restore order until elections can be how the u. s. department of justice has launched a major law suit against apple accusing the tech company of harmon consumers by limiting competition. the civil suit joined by 16 states and district attorneys aims apple claims. apple is restricted, a smart phone operating system in a way that drives up costs for consumers. apple was also with use of making it easier for users to connect apple products like smart watches and laptops to the iphone then to those made by other manufacturers. so let's talk more about this with rob watts from dw business, rob the us department of justice in 16 states in the us have filed the suit. what

are their complaints when it all relates to what gets referred to as the apple e car system, most some people call it the bulbs god. and it's the system that apples manage the set of web i. if you buy one apple product, you're probably going to end up having to buy other ones because what it does is it limits the policy competitors from guessing the most out support the iphone can do, because you very much. the majority is mount pleasant. united states iphones and what apple does is it doesn't allow certain hardware to access specific aspects of the item. for example, if you buy a gps truck that's not from apple, it wouldn't work as well with a knife end as it would with an android. and it wouldn't work as well as the attack the apple product and you get the same safety situation with small watches as well . so that's one of the allegations and the lawsuit as a way in which i was abusing its dominance to suppress competition. but also, which also to the child is a comparatively high commission for sending apps through it's app store 30 percent,

which means that 3rd party apps are forced to either raise the prices. we some great can see him as boss. take a hit, meaning it's suppressive for 5th, 2nd pest. so it all boils down to the idea that apple is abusing its position to gain an edge in dealing with companies, the us government has multiple options. why is it going after apple in this way? yeah, it's interesting that they've chosen the legal rates, and the lawsuit says is that apple has gained its dominant position not through just its own merits, but by breaching anti trust laws, exams, trust laws that have been around for a very long time, but all of a sudden the us government is using to target it's big tech companies and they've been it before. now. we've already had met to google, amazon, and they've all been targeted with low seats claiming that that engaging an antique competitive behavior. and in the suit of the attorney general claims that the,

you know, unless apple was anti competitive and exclusionary conflict is stopped. it lightly extend an entrenched sy, fi monopoly to other markets and possibly economy. so the argument that the government is making here is that this dominance can spread to other parts of the us economy way already has an interest in, for example, financial services or 2nd, automotive, as well as in the entertainment sector. he says that's bad for can seem is every way because saver raises prices for the well, it's clearly bad news for apple. how are they responding? yeah, well they say they're good to, you know, take that fights to take a month on this and they are gonna fight against the lawsuit. they say that the, the law. so, you know, if it succeeds, would basically give them the rights to take a heavy hand in designing people's technology as they put it. they say that this low c, which again, it is wrong on both the facts on the lower and that it's going to vigorously defend against it. but apple is fighting a battle on multiple fronts. now it's come under

a lot of pressure here in the e. u, for example, it was recently finds $2000000000.00 for suppressing competition from other music streaming apps. it's basically spots if i hear and e, which is one of the and i the, the very few major global tech companies the your opinion and has. and it's also been forced here in the you to is don't allowing use as all the i phones to install apps on from the app store. so it's being challenged on the way of working that has made it a trillion dollar company and we'll see if it gets changed as a result of it from thank you so much. that was rob watts from dw business. dozens of bro hinge you refugee had been rescued off the coast of indonesia. local fishermen pulled the people to safety after their boat capsized a day. earlier, their group was sailing from bangladesh. were more than half a 1000000 revenge that had been re settled. the range or minority moves on ethnic group. heavily persecuted in myanmar. 0 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 traveling in a wooden boat capsized after weeks at sea. there were 69 survivors, and no number of people were unaccounted for the dose. 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 will come soon. 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 a 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 sale 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. the german football and the data is, are breaking up. the german national team will no longer wear a di this year instead of it's going to just do it in sport. the u. s. nike brand, the move comes as a shock to football fans in germany,

who's seen their players and the date is for the past 70 years. the german football association says the switch to nike was driven by financial and other concerns. the change over such take place in 2027. us off to work this out. we've got mark meadows with us here in the studio from dw sports mark. i'm just trying to wrap my head around this. the german football association dumping a data is in favor of nike up. this seems to be coming out of nowhere. what's going on? it was a massive surprise. yeah. i mean, you could tell that it was a surprise for everyone, apart from the jumping football federation, because at the desk 9th, you didn't have any statements ready. i mean, added us, we contacted and they've kind of said, well, yeah, we're only hearing about this today. what's also interesting is the timing. the german men are playing and important friendly against friends on, on, sat today preparing for the whole european championship, saving germany in june and july. and that's the only last week just announced a new way kit, which was a pink tip cut,

quite controversial to me. i didn't have that color before, but actually it's been something quite well apparently. and yet suddenly, then the german, if they come out with a, so it is a huge surprise. me, a d, this is an iconic german brand. right? uh, sports brand. what, what is the main reason for the german football federation? taking this step is basically money. i'm in the gym and i say i've had problems financially. partly due to cobit, obviously they were no firms in stadiums, but for 2 years would you have any matches. but it's also the fact that jimmy men's team and women's team haven't been very successful of late. obviously the men's team went out and woke up twice in the group stage. and that affects income. you know, so there's many shirts. you don't get as much prize money as if you win it. so they looked at it and they felt, well, nike are offering a $100000000.00 euros a year. and apparently at the last rony offering 50. and then it's a big difference. but what he's also strange, the seed was reading between the lines that the dsp didn't actually go back to add

at s and say, look, this is what nike is offered. so that's caused a bit of confusion as well. and we'll see whether they, whether the, the sports things play better in nike and wonder about the, what about reactions to is move it. you say it's come of this as a surprise even for a for i did as a so indeed, i mean media this morning is full of this because they just could not believe it. because as you say, i the best and do me teams is it's a mary's maiden haven't for 70 years. i mean, as we add, the deisel who settled added us. he sort of invented the scribble stubs that you put into ro, soccer boots. and that is a part of the reason why the gym the team was in the 1954 will cook only 9 years after the end of the 2nd will well so that the vac, closely linked. so it really is a huge surprise. i mean it's, it's a bit, it's a bit like, oh, laugh sholtes the gym, incense list suddenly driving a fold instead of driving a mercedes. it's just so, so fucking, i mean, fact the vice chancellor robot topic of the economy minister. he said this is

basically not very packed. we all take the job and football association. so yeah, people are really stoned and the german that they have basically have to go on twitter and defend themselves constantly over the last few i was saying, look, we have to make this decision financially. it's a rather counter intuitive move though, or you would think but, but the money, so i guess it, it talks. do you think? well, i received germany playing and does again. i think we will because this nike deal is from 2027 until 2030 full. so you compare the added us, we'll do everything they can. so when this contract back in 2034, i've got friends who worked at the edit site to down by noon of the and then absolutely still you can just imagine the factory this morning really subdued. they will do everything they can. so in this contract back end of a humiliation mark medicine dw sports. thank you very much. i. so you're watching dw news. just reminder of our top story, us secretary state se blinking has arrived in israel for talked with the is really

prime minister. been, you mean does in the office is expected to urge an immediate cease fire in god's complex own is next to talking with life is foreign minister. i'm terry washington . thanks, spring with the

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find out about robina story in so migraines, reliable news for migraines, wherever they may be. as the war and ukraine grimes on the neighboring voltage states which anxiously from the ring side seat, pressing the west to increase a key and make sure russia cousins with my guest this week is the last to be as far minnesota fishy on these kinds. and he's clear nato as to up to gain the difficulty in the frustration that i feel is that as we are going step by step, russia is going full. ronald suppose so, how ready is nato to take on an expansion? is russia? why are some rich european states still i'm willing to meet the alliances defense spending targets and was present the macro really calling his allies come.