the, the business dw name who's coming to live or from berlin as well goes on the offensive against, has blocked. israel's defense minister says his forces are shifting from defending against attacks. 511 east militants to actively pursuing them in lab and on, and syria. also coming up on the show, massive cranes arrive in baltimore to begin squealing the wreckage of the cities. a deadly bridge collapse. this as immigrant groups on are the workers who lost their lives in the disaster. the

empire, richardson, thank you very much for joining us. the lebanese militant group has the law has confirmed that one of its commanders has been killed in his railey air strike and syria. this comes as israel has stepped off a tax against the militant group in both syria and 11 on saying it has gone from defending against cross border attacks to actively pursuing and run it back to has blah. a footage from these rarely military showing the fatal drones strike in the area of missouri, a 11 on it said alley of it. her son name was a deputy commander of hezbollah as rocket and miss south unit and responsible for conducting attacks against israeli civilians. israel's defense minister, us glance at the army was changing its approach and warranted would not hesitate to act further afield. i'm not familiar must say we're actually turning from defending to pursuing has beloved. this is by law. we will reach any place that has below, as operating in the home,

the big hole that goes for the root ball back in the tire. see, don't know, but to you across the area. and it's true also for far more places listed such as the mass good or bad, and what's going on in homes. and how about the court in any place we need to operate? we will act and the father earlier strikes the northwestern syria, targeted rock at the post belonging to the rainy and back to militant group near the northwestern city of a level. according to the u. k. based monitoring group, syria, and observatory for human rights, a large number of syrian soldiers were also among those killed. dozens of civilians were also injured across the border. residents in the northern is really town of slow me, cleaned up debris around their houses after the area was hit by multiple rockets on thursday. since i'm us, as tara town conduct over 7 israel and has been out, have been trading fire across live in on southern border. it has glass shows its support for him us. both groups are considered terrorist organizations by multiple

countries. let's get across the jerusalem and are corresponding to rebecca rivers. rebecca, we heard there are these really defense ministers saying this is a turn from israel defending against has blocked you to pursuing the how serious of a shift in strategy is this as well and clear. and my suddenly is a shift in strategy. uh, and it could have very serious ramifications up until now from the 8th of october, when his blood started to shoot rocket into israel and get involved in this conflict. israel has played a more or less passive retaliatory role. they obviously, since a lot of a personnel and hardware to show up that northern border and they have a retaliating to any crossfire from his blog into is ready territory. they have targets, then they retaliate on those targets. we have seen them also target. some us

operatives inside lebanese territory, even a one e. b route. now, uh there it has been a shift as you just heard you up along the defense minister saying that they are going to go from this passive role to a more active role on the offensive. and target has been a, a lead is a n command is inside the lebanese territory, further up in the north, in to be rude to maybe bomb back and also into syria potentially. now that is a shift and it will see if they start doing that, it will say a response from his lot and then we could see it will probably likely if that is to happen, see an escalation on that northern border. this is a strategy that you'll have gallano discussed with his us counts upon in america when he was in washington last week. it's something that he has now publicly been up into the knolls and told his northern commanders that this is the change in strategy. we've been hearing from analyst for some days and weeks now that you know,

we should potentially prepare to expect some complication, some, some further conflict in that, in the north of potentially in the summer or when, if and when a rafa incursion, that southern city of gauze of israel, the main threatening to go into on the ground where even when that is successful, we could expect perhaps for things to shift into the north with this change in policy that could potentially be. so now you're speaking of israel's plans for rough. uh, this is something that washington has expressed its discontent about and yet i want to ask you about some reports from the washington post on friday, citing unnamed officials in the biden administration to say that the u. s. has now authorized a further package of weapons deliveries to israel in recent days. that's right, claire and it is sort of perhaps in contrast to what many people would have been seeing and recent days and weeks of a change of rhetoric from the us base of the israel,

we can start to see this sort of me that's on a brief that i think that's probably too strong a word to use, but suddenly a change in the special relationship between the 2 allies. but we all sing of this trudge of weapons now having pain. uh, okay. by the, by the administration though it, it should be said that this weapons package was part of a bigger package that was already agreed to by congress voted on by congress back in 2008. and this is now, you know, okay, and the delivery for these weapons. and that's something that we're told that you'll have good luck was, was on a mission to achieve. when he went to washington last week was to ensure a seamless weapons delivery. whether or not this is the fruits of his labor, you know, isn't, isn't, it isn't certain i can't, i can't say that positively. but we are certainly going to see a transfer of weapons, a being delivered from the u. s. including 502000 pound bombs as well as some 5 digit. that's part of this deal. showing that even though they might be

a slight shift in the relationship you at the us is willing to stand by israel. and they have said that they would continue to do so at this stage. rebecca later as far as in jerusalem, thank you so much as always to let's turn to the west city of baltimore now where work is getting underway to clear the wreckage of the francis scott key bridge, which collapse after being rammed by a freight earlier this week. heavy lift, floating cranes have now arrived in the harbor to begin what local officials say will be a daunting clean up operation. this massive clean the biggest on the us east coast capable of lifting a 1000 tons. it's part of the heavy duty equipment being brought in to clear the wreckage of the baltimore cambridge the process is expected to take several months. and one of the challenges is that the key bridge,

which sits on top of the vessel right now, that that weight is somewhere between $3.40 tons. so our team meets a cut that trust in the sections in a safe and responsible and in an efficient way before can lift those pieces out of the water. this crane that we're looking at is massive. then we also know is this. so it was a challenge ahead of us. more than a 1000 engineers have been deployed to assess the wreckage piece by piece and to figure out how to remove it. so far, the bodies of 2 construction workers have been recovered. so jeff, let's continue to retrieve 4. are those still missing and presumed dead? all 6 men, what else? relaxing the american heritage and immigrant advocacy groups have phone of the

victims. instead, the critical role of immigrant workers in the us. a new country where amy friends are often demo rides from the floor of the general assembly to the house of congress. here we are, we mind once again about the nerve, most contribution that they may run to make to this country how together we us more workforce. we build this country on top of the human tragedy is the financial impact of this disaster experts. it a new bridge would take years to complete and cost hundreds of millions of dollars . okay, let's take a look at some other worldliness and iranian journalist is in hospital after being stabbed outside his home in london. barrios, erotic works for iran. international,

a broadcast are marked as a terrorist organization by the iranian government. he's a regular critic of the regime and to run around international reports that xerox, he was attacked by a group of men. security forces in tajikistan have detained 9 people. suspected of having links to last week's moscow concert hall attack. more than 140 people were killed when gunmen stormed to the venue. the so called atlantic states as a carried off the attack. hope frances of skips the traditional way of the cross eastern ceremony at rome. colosseum. the vatican saying the last minute decision was due to concerns for his health. earlier in the day, frances presided over good friday mass at saint peter's basilica. the 87 year old pontiff is reportedly bottling a case of the flu. and us actor lewis casa junior, has died at the age of $87.00 golf that rose to fame in the 1970s. in the tv, many series roots, which depicted the brutality of slavery. he became the 1st black man to win an

oscar for best supporting actor for his betrayal of sergeant. i'm fully in the 1982 film, an officer and a gentleman of the world bank estimates that every year humans produce more than 2000000000 tons of garbage worldwide. at least a 3rd of that isn't managed and then environmentally safe manner. in western india, a grassroots initiative is now helping to educate residents about what they get rid of with the aim of waste free communities. every morning, what goods from women's group children dalinta set off for the small gods to collect garbage. it's more than just the job. they want to change the way people handled evie's. i'm the next nearly 300 and decided to say if you're like i'm in. 1 need and all in less than $500.00. and so i think it was the friday. this like paper electrical says it is now know how to segregate, think of it,

and keep it ready for pick up blue for dry and green, full but based the waste is then brought to this collection point read this further sought by other group members. monday's group was set up in 2015. it scheme is to generate income for women to work that has improved living conditions in that communities. today, the municipal cooperation phase, the salaries. that's because it sees their work as a valuable service to the city. they are doing something which is good and something which is colton ford on river and not something that has to be looked on upon it as well as soon as i get in to a clean as well. it does it as i get into a more segregated way it's coming out of the slums and also helping the guidance from the re is that gets into the women's work selves of why they're going to don't compete ends, but it was 0 based city. it strategy has brought grassroots activists on board,

normally devised fun ways for kids to keep this thing like something. and so of course, one still button for connect plastic 0 team teachers to continue to work with pupils in the classroom. for many southern tracks has become 2nd nature, vanilla i eat chips, biscuits, so instead of doing them in the investments, i remember that i do need to be doing for the we don't have to to it in the dustbin, they have the tool. it's and this was who bought the experts, but it comes such initiatives foot long that it would take more than grassroots efforts for the city to make the transition to 0. based by considering a risk management as a fully moon supply category. as a property of the municipality, from which there is a smooth transition, which is happening to pink wrist as also a suicide is responsibility. read all the generators of these are also responsible

for risk management. i think that is the floor plans ition, which one sees happening in indian cities, which is positive residents, young and old, are changing database disposal habits a small step in the big picture. yes. but it's making a difference nevertheless. and let's get you a quick reminder of our top story at this hour. israel's defense minister says he's going on the offensive against has the life in syria envelope and on the lebanese no attentive group has confirmed the death of a senior commander and a miss riley air strike in syria. while he is rarely military size, it kills a handful of rocket commander and lab. and on the quick reminder, before we go that you can always get the w news on the go. you just need to download our app, either from google play or from the apple app store. that will give you access to

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