the, the, this is dw news live and from berlin. tonight, the death toll from that bridge collapse in the us mail spans at 6 diapers, have recovered the data recorder from the cargo ship, which crashed into baltimore francis scott key bridge. now a major us port is out of action. also it coming up tonight is really prime minister benjamin at yahoo, canceled talks in washington with the us decided not to be to a human call for a ceasefire and gods or are those talks now back on? and thailand moved a step closer to allowing same sex marriage, the lower house of parliament, backing in equality bill, if approved by the senate foreign land would become the 1st south eastern asian

nation to recognize st. 6 you. the regards our view is watching on cbs in the united states, into all of you around the world. welcome. we begin to live in the united states where federal safety officers have recovered the black box recorder from the cargo ship that knocked down the bridge in the us city of baltimore. the francis scott key bridge collapse when it was rammed by a cargo vessel that lost control of it. steering authorities will now examine the ship's data recorder. drivers are searching for the bodies of 6 people missing and presumed dead. of course, funding. janelle to malone is in baltimore. she explained the latest on what is now a recovery mission. yes,

brian thought recovery operation is ongoing. divers are searching the length of the bridge, an area a little bit beyond that as well. but to be honest, it has been several hours since the recovery operation resumes this morning and the status, coal has pretty much remain the same. we heard a little bit already from governor westmore. there what the challenges are like what the conditions are like for the divers, but apart from the fragility and below visibility, also important to note that these diverse thoughts are facing strong current, so they're facing having to navigate around debris. and as you can tell behind me, the weather conditions aren't exactly right for this sort of thing. it is very rainy. it is very wet. it is very foggy. now they are aided, of course by equipment like remote operated vehicles, fitted with sooner. they're also using sooner. it's hard, i'll talk to, along by votes. however, of course, so this remains

a very challenging operation. even as the officials say, they will do everything they can to recover the vehicles that recover the human remains and bring closure to the families who are affected by this terrible tragedy . we just don't know how long they will keep searching for and we understand the investigation is tragedy. how is that, how it happened? what went on that picked up speed today? what do we know exactly, you know, since this happens, of course, there have been a lot of wild rumors are flying around from terrorism to cyber attacks. none of them grounded in evidence, a very important to stick to the facts here. as you mentioned earlier, the national transport and safety boards said that they had recovered the data recorder from the dalai, and that they're hoping to be able to use the contents of that reporter to piece together a timeline of events. what exactly happened when and of course other they've also started interviewing the crew members of the dolly and i witnessed the event. we're

also hearing that the single port in counter parts of the n t a c will also be traveling here to conduct an independent investigation. but i also want to highlight something that so transport secretary pete food, a judge adult said just now and a briefing at the white house. he said that so a bridge of this age was of course, built in the 1970s would never have would start the impact of such a large of us. so. so really, what we're looking at here is a tail, perhaps of our older infrastructure colliding against modern commerce. and this is going to perhaps provide a moment of reckoning, especially given the role of this particular artery in logistics and commerce. here, of course, by the janelle milan in baltimore with the latest tonight's, janelle, thank you. and you, as president biden has pledged federal funding to pay for the reconstruction of the

bridge. insurers are also facing losses of up to $4000000000.00 to cover the damage, the us transportation secretary pete booty. jake says that 8000 jobs are now directly at risk. baltimore is one of america's major ports. it's not yet clear how long it will remain closed. the effect on maritime commerce is likely to be far reaching fully loaded. the davi is still stuck. nobody knows how long it will take to free the best off from the tons of steel that collapsed on it. when the ship veered into one of the harbor bridges main pillars. for now, the accident is causing major problems in and around the port. us. with a key bridge gone, a major audra rate along the u. s. eastern seaboard has been cut. traffic will have to be rerouted for years to come, leading to clocked up streets and the greater washington dc area. but

even worse, ship traffic in and out of port has also been stopped. the port of baltimore is one of the busiest into united states handling more than $52000000.00 tons of ford cargo last year, contributing some $80000000000.00 to the countries for trade with access to the port blocked incoming vessel. so we'll have to rewrite with to nearby ports, including those in new york and new jersey, further north and virginia little further south. among the goods handled in baltimore steel and cars. the board has major role on role of facilities. and it's the entry point for hundreds of thousands of cars per year. german automakers even have their own facilities inside the sprawling area. well, bmw volkswagen, located at speros point, just outside the main port. mercedes operates out of fairfield and won't be able to accept incoming vessels until further notice. you as president biden fletch to oversee a quick and strong response to the incident and to ask the federal government for

the funds needed to rebuild the bridge and port about the terrible on to for, to baltimore's, one of the nation's largest shipping house. it handles a record amount of cargo and last year it's also top port in america, both imports and exports of automobiles and light trucks. around 850000 vehicles. go through the port every single year. and we're going to get it up and running again as soon as possible. and local jobs are a concern in baltimore to we're looking at not having ships coming in for. no one knows how long at this point, you know, that's gonna affect the lives of, of longshoremen and stevedores. and the tug boat cruise um that you know, potentially they are lose. they're going to lose income because there's no, there's no vessel traffic coming in or out of the port. bringing baltimore back. we'll take time for now. the focus is on investigating what exactly happened on the

valley in the 1st place, and how to make bridges more safe. to avoid similar accidents in the future. was allowing us to visual say the talks are under way to bring is really representatives to the united states to discuss the military operations in gauze that is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu, reportedly requested that the talk to be rescheduled. israel was supposed to send a delegation to washington this week to discuss its planned defensive in rafa. however, it is in yahoo, canceled those thoughts on monday, after the us declined to veto a you in call for a ceasefire in. gotcha. let's get another journalist amy circle. he is in jerusalem. say me, what are the reasons, do we know behind it and yahoo changing his mind to yeah, well 1st of all, this is leticia know to send the gay should go to washington. d. c. were suppose to

create and leverage on the americans and maybe to pressure the american administration and to try and it caused them to veto the decision. and the security council quoting for a ceasefire with this, it clearly has faith that tactic has failed. and it's in the i was criticized so only by the media who has been a mocking him for the same decision, but also from, with inside the government. and administers, have been saying that this is, was the wrong decision as the delegation should have gone to washington, as it is always in no position to put these kinds of conditions to the united states. certainly, why don't you think nothing else who did this? i mean, why would he risk losing the support of the us is most important ally a well recent the bose. and is there

a how to indicate that the majority of these really public do believe that is really leaders should follow the interest of the state of israel a lot the a or do so to speak from the american allies. and this is a specially clear when it comes to anthony a who's a voting group, the people that would be voting for him or for the right wing parties in the upcoming elections. so this kind of confrontation with the united states with nothing you always say that he wants to go ahead and launch a major operation in the far end it confronting america. so this is actually popular in a wide circuits in these, around the public and especially amongst the fortress. yeah. so where does this

leave relations between the us and israel? yeah, well the americans are constantly trying to reassure these riley public. uh the uh, the uh, relations uh, iron clad that america with continuing support is ram and uh, and so forth. uh, but if we here uh, let's say the vice president, camelot harris in the summer or her comments and others, we hear the implied the thread that if is read, we a continue at the challenge of the, the americans, if it will not comply with these kinds of requests such as avoiding a ground operation and mass of operation in rough or not lifting in food into the gaza strip and so forth that there will be consequences. so we have to see

when at the both point the americans will actually decide to go ahead with that general assembly spoken with the leaders to mike from jerusalem. see me as always. thank you to the united nations special reference here on the occupied palestinian territories. says there are reasonable grounds to believe it is real, is committing genocide in garza jessica of these, he says these really military has intentionally subverted its protections. functions in the operation against the boss, she added that israel's position is no longer acceptable since the un security council on monday called for a ceasefire in gauze. but easy, cited international wall to make your case take the list. after 5 months of monitoring and analyzing, as well as a low tone garza, my report finds that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold

indicating that is what i was committing. the crime of genocide against the palestinians as a group in gaza has to be met. specifically, these role has couldn't meet the city acts of genocide we there represented intent killing members of the group causing sears both of the or mental harm to members of the group. and deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about each physical destruction in hollowing part. let's get more now on this from michael link. he's a former you in special records here on occupied palestinian territories. he's an associate professor of lord western university in london, ontario in canada. for us, it's good to have you on the program. you know, we just heard the courage, you in special reference where the person who has the job that you used to have. they are saying that a threshold for x a genocide has been met. what do you make of this?

are looking in the international law. there is a, there are 2 treaties and conventions. we deal with the issue of genocide. the 1948 genocide convention and the 1998 wrong statute on the international criminal court . and the coincide with respect to what the definition of genocide is. it's very specific among international lawyers. and i've gone through a solving easiest report several times. she's very careful to be able to use the legal definition with respect to you, showing genocidal acts as well as showing genocidal intent and her reports. i think it has a has a number of facts with respect to genocidal actions, including the high death rate of the trauma that that's been experienced by the palestinian population. the destruction of civilian homes, university schools, hospitals, and the amity destruction of all the infrastructure with respect to the distribution

of food and water. she's also talked about the genocidal intent and here she can go to a number of of is really a political and military leaders indicating an attempt either to declare all of the population of a gas or to be guilty with respect to the crimes of october 7th, and before us, they do not let me just spending faith or stating that they're gonna cut off food and water to, to gaza. you know, her name is on this report to help us understand how this port held in this report is put together, given the fact that she is banned from entering israel. and she does not have access to gaza or sure her report was put together in the same way my reports to put together was i didn't have access to israel or the occupied palestinian territory either. one of the good things with respect to this particular human rights conflict in the, in the occupied,

posted in territory is one of the best documented human rights conflicts in the entire world. there are a number of high quality international as railey and palestinian organizations that collect information and published them in highly reputable reports as well. there is a fair amount of reporting, particularly over the last 5 and a half months with respect to actions that are going on and guys, so in this age, if you like, instant information, it's a lot easier to be able to gather and assemble are responsible for facts and evidence and put them together to see if they match a legal test for war crimes or, or genocide. i'm sure you're aware that ms of an easy has been accused by is real. i'm from being biased and even anti is real. as someone who, who have this job earlier, what can you tell us about neutrality of this independent human body and its role within the you with a short neutrality is an important feature. it's a, it's

a requirement for special wrap it towards an independent human rights expert, as well as for you and stuff. but let's, let's unpack that a little bit. i think what we look at in the modern age is what we called informed neutrality or informed in personality, where our starting basis isn't pro israel or protocol assign. it's pro human rights law in this case and pro you my international humanitarian law. what you're using is the well developed structure that the world has developed over the last 75 years in an international law, particularly on human rights and humanitarian law. and you apply that to israel and palestine, and particularly israel's occupation of gas, of the west bank and east jerusalem. and basically the, the path i trod on the path. i think that the solvent easy is drawing is a, is full of reports and facts that preceded us. that wind up matching violations of work lines, violations in fact now,

but of genocide. and the special reputation has also called for in arms embargo and sanctions against israel. what sort of status do these reports have under international law to? well, they're what we're probably called soft law. you know, heard law would be an order coming from a court that you're bound to after will be because there's an army and a police to back up that course. we don't have the enforced alas and international law. when, when rules are made or judgments come down, say from the international court of justice really then goes to the united nations and particularly the not a nation security council referred to want to enforce these provisions that we've already seen. the resolution that was adopted by the security council on monday, calling for an immediate cease fire over the month of ramadan, not being obeyed. we haven't seen the release of a hostage just by him, us as was called for and the resolution. and we haven't seen the stopping of of environment by his real professor,

michael lincoln for were you in special rapids here on the occupied palestinian territories? we appreciate your time, your analysis tonight. thank you to thank you for having me. let's take a look at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the globe. this our ukranian officials, a russian attack on the city of her fif, is killed at least one person and wounded several others. the interior ministry before the russian to here strikes it at least 3 residential buildings and a school. the city's major sights at a medical facility was also damaged. in thailand, the parliament has passed a marriage, equality bill bringing same sex unions closer to reality. the bill needs to be approved by the senates and the king to become law. it so far land will become the 3rd country in asia to legalize same sex marriage. europe's because the economy is feeling not too cheerful. these days. economists believe that germany is close to stagnation,

they expect the economy to grow by just 0 point one percent this year down from an earlier forecast and more than one percent high interest rate. so weak global demand and political uncertainty have dashed hopes for a stronger recovery. carson rescue joys me now from franklin. he is the chief economist at i n g. germany is good, they have you with this. i'll ask you what we've been asking other economists today and what is wrong with the german economy. that's what you measured. all righty, sir jeremy is facing the same 6 go ahead. once is all european economies in, in the sense off on a certain d, g, a political uncertainty, but also higher interest rates, higher installation. but then there's, there's the homemade problems that drove is also phasing. and that is, if you summarize them a loss in international competitiveness over the last 1015 years on the bank,

off to little investments in infrastructure, digitalization, education. and all of these things come together now and keep the german economy instinct nation. and take us from, from the board room to the living room here. how will a stagnant a flat economy? how is it going to affect the average every day german? well, um, currently it's not because we still have extremely strong labor markets. we do have record low unemployment numbers, we have record high employment numbers and we don't have any experience in germany over the last decade with a stick made in economy over a longer period. how it could affect people in the living room is clearly that they will come more on certainly on the labor market. the job security will become more important again that some people will lose their jobs on the bank. structural transitions that we could see more industry moving away out of treasury that would

also cost jobs as well. paid jobs. so this how it could reach the livings. and if we're going to have to basically write off of 2024, is there a reason for hope for improvement in 2025. do you see signs as quiet as far too early? to be honest. um, there, there is always hope um we should see a little bit more structural reforms. it'd be more policy initiative out of put in that would help. i wonder whether we're going to get them. what could help in 2025 is lower interest rates on the bank of rate cuts by the european central bank. hopefully more favorable, global, and become a good environment that should also help boosting exports out of germany to, to the rest of the world. and we should also see a civilization of the real estate market, which should also kind of push up the german economy again. but when you look at

the structural weakness, i don't think that we're going to have solve the structural weak. this is by 2025. we will see growth returning, but it will only be mega growth, even in 2025. are you looking to berlin to political berlin, for any help to turn things around in the near term? it's the of course the natural reflects so many economists always calling for the government to help when we look at the we see good initiatives, but the magnitude has been far, far too, so to small and, and it gave them one compared to happening in for it in that this coalition, you know, is in, in, in lot of controversies, i don't expect too much breakthroughs coming out of for it in a bit of freight that we will have to see, like also in the early, 2, thousands when germany was already this take, ma'am of europe. yeah, that's restore changes we'll have to come from the corporate world as well. yeah, we've heard we proved to that label many times. recently for short crossing is ask

you chief economist at i n g germany. we appreciate your time tonight in your analysis. thank you. what's highlands lower health and part of it has approved a marriage. equality bill, if ratified in the senate thailand will become the 1st nation in southeast asia to recognize same sex marriages to the land might fail, has been more than a decade in the making. full 100 members of the house of representatives gave their approval with just 10 voting against the committee that drafted it said little may cause we're making history in thailand and transforming the lives of l. g. b t q people and call upon. but yeah, for those who have been waiting for same sex marriage, we only have one step block, which has to be approved by the senate dot data. then you will have the right to register to be married, like the rights you have been denied in the past. and today we,

the majority of members of parliament have voted to approve it. i mean, i think in tough you can the words, men and women and husband and wife to be replaced by woods equivalent to persons and spouses in the countries. legal code thailand has long been seen as a haven for l. g, b, g to people from all over the world. the amendments will give same sex couples access to the legal, financial and medical rights that heterosexual counterparts have high data title and is finally going to be accepted and recognized as a true paradise for l g. b t q i people because very soon we will recognize equal marriage. male may end up with the ha. but how do you hear me out loud in the capital bank, cook many residents, welcome the development. this is design police that marriage equality legislation

has passed in the lower house. i hope it will be implemented because it will likely benefit many people me how many people around the r l g b to q. everyone wants this bill to pass because they want to be able to marry. just like everyone else. on. the bill now goes to the senate, which rarely rejects legislation, passed by the low a house. then its own to thailand's king, for royal endorsement is approved thailand, will become the 3rd country in asia of to taiwan and the pool and the 1st in south east asia to allow marriage. so oh oh, here's a reminder now of our top stories. us investigators have boarded and ship it crashed into a bridge and the us city of baltimore authorities will now examine the vessels data recorder. diapers are searching for the bodies of 6 people missing and presumed

dead and talk to our underway to bring is really representatives to the us to discuss military operations in gaza. that's in the all who cancel the plan, meeting with the by did ministration on monday. did not veto a human call for a ceasefire in guns. you're watching the w news lie from berlin after a short break. i'll be back to take you through the day. stick around with will be worth best. the, the

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the subscribe. now to dw talking entry, the what was yesterday. a rescue mention is mail solely about recovery. those 6 construction workers who were filling potholes on what was the francis scott key bridge and baltimore. in the blink of an eye they and the bridge plummeted into the water's beloved. divers are now searching for bodies, carefully maneuvering their way in the twisted labyrinth of iron and concrete. tonight what we know about the investigation, a ship out of control, the bridge that stands no more. i broke off in berlin. this is the day. the .