the, the, this is dw news live from berlin, washington's top diplomat threatens to cut and military support to israel, secretary of state and to me blinking says the us will change its policy toward its allied unless as well does more to protect human life can cause this as the world waits for the release of and is really report into the killing of 78 workers and cause out earlier this week. also coming up the kremlin rams up the rhetoric warning that russia and nato are now in direct confrontation over ukraine. that comes as nato marks it's 75th anniversary, and pledge as more assistance for q and rescue crew search for those still missing

and tie one official save. people are trapped and remote regions after the islands biggest earthquakes and a quarter of a century. the and david levitz welcome us president joe biden is told as well as prime minister benjamin netanyahu. that future support for the war in gaza depends on israel taking new steps to protect civilians and aid workers. the white house says bite and made clear and a phone call that israel needs to implement specific and measurable steps to address civilian harm. it follows the killing of 78 workers and is really air striking, gaza earlier this week. israel says a preliminary report from its probe into the incident has been completed and will soon be made public up. and speaking at a nato meeting in brussels,

us secretary of state anthony, blinking, called on israel to do more to protect civilians and to allow access to humanitarian aid. we need to see an immediate cease fire to enable the release of hostages, but also to enable a dramatic search and humanitarian assistance as well as obviously better protecting civilians. now, as i said, the president and the prime minister just spoke, but it's uh, our expectation that is real will and certainly should announce concrete specific measurable steps that it will take and take as soon as possible to make sure that there can be an effective search and assistance that it can be sustained and that you may have trained workers and civilians are better protect the w. washington correspondent benjamin alvarez gruber told us more about the call

between biden and that and the yahoo! that's right. what's the 1st time between both leaders? since this is really as try killed is 7, a to work is in gaza, according to the white house read out a prison by and called these strikes on humanitarian workers and the overall who many terry and is situation and goes unacceptable. and probably the most important sentence of the read out is the president bide made clear that i quote us policy with respect to go. that will be determined by our assessment of israel's immediate action on the steps. and that is by far the crew is hints of conditionality for military to israel. something that many have been asking for months now, and that's something that the us does with every other allies. so the killing of the 7 will to central kitchenaid work, i think as a piece to mocking inflection point if providing support of israel. a studio is benjamin alvarez group or there in washington. and to find out how this call between byte internet and yahoo went down in israel. we spoke to journalist sammy

sokol, 1st of all, i must say, that hasn't been any re dog. that hasn't been any press called friends. that hasn't been any statement coming out from the prime minister is the office. so what we hear is a kind of like a very is vague leaks from the prime minister's office. but we just hearing things like that conversation was almost an hour long. uh, 45 minutes, 50 minutes, and this is the contrary to what we hear from where washington the conversation was 30 minutes long. in terms of the content we, we don't to hear this kind of over rhetoric a here. i mean, it is disclose that the conversation was a task, but it's more like a business as usual. i can, i can tell you that one and i list the are

a who is quite close to and benjamin at the, out of the prime minister a, he was say that a, it was by then as called for a is actually the surrender of israel to how miles and it looks like a by then as a kind of like taking the pressure from the 1st lady and the pressure of the 1st lady is in now it was pushing a by the president by then. so this is the only thing that we've heard so far. so that was sammy socco, reporting for us from jerusalem. and those comments we heard earlier from us, secretary of state anthony blinking were made at a, made a meeting. and as that meeting was getting under way, a spokesman for the kremlin said relations between russia and nato, had reached the level of quote, direct confrontation. moscow says,

this is due to the alliance has large meant in recent years, and it's military support for ukraine. and as the north atlantic treaty organization celebrated its 75th anniversary and brussels nato allies vowed to keep supporting ukraine's fight against russia's invasion. the alliance is weighing a plan to provide long term support for ukraine. a task that's currently being sorted by individual member states. nato at 75, but things aren't getting any easier with age. the alliance is facing huge challenges from the threat posed by russia and ukraine and beyond to potential 2nd, donald trump presidency in the united states. trump is a needle critic but the blocks chief has told the w about the need for united stand . i expect that regardless of the outcome of the united states,

the not the states will remain a strong sion, a lot. your cost that is in the use of security interest, the us stronger with naples on with alternate to still to head off the trunk threat . starting, burke has made a proposal for needle members to set up a 100000000000 euro fund to provide military a to ukraine over the next 5 years. and he says, nato should have a more direct role in delivering that aid. we have to remember that the criticism of, from a former president, donald trump, and also from others, united states, has not been mainly against ne, to, because being against nato allies. nope. paying, you know, franco. and the good news is that the nato allies, including germany and many others on all, really stepping up and investing more in defense. but it's still unclear whether the 100000000000 euro proposal will be accepted by needle members who take decisions by consensus hungry has already voiced it's all position

it comes as russia has intensified its missile attacks on ukraine in recent weeks. and ukraine's foreign minister has reportedly cast out on nato's ability to collect the funds with the war now and it's 3rd year. he also said that what the country really needs is more air defense systems from the west. i don't want to spoil the party, but of course my message is a birthday party, but my main, my main message today will be better because saving you currently live savings for an economy saving pregnancy just depends on the availability of categories and other air defense system. seems ukraine and we're talking about categories because it's built in the system that can intercept ballistic missiles. western allies have been hesitant on this point. but for ukraine,

that would be cause for the biggest celebration of all let's take a look now at some other stories making news around the world. denmark has closed the aerospace and shipping traffic and one of the world's busiest ceilings due to a faulty missile launcher. the incident happens during a naval exercise in the great belt straits, the main maritime access to the baltic sea authorities saved the faulty launcher, couldn't be deactivated, and warned a risk of falling missile fragments. finland has extended its border closure with russia indefinitely due to what, how soon could cause a higher risk of organize migration orchestrated by moscow. relations between the neighbors have soured over the war and ukraine and finland joining nato last year. i suzanne to the south african police have a rest of the country's former parliament speaker as part of a corruption investigation. no c v v. my piece and i kula step down as speaker on

wednesday. she's accused of taking several large bribes from a former military contractor while she was defense minister charges she has denied who knew well, taiwan is rescuers are working to reach scores of people trapped after wednesday's earthquake. as a massive clean up operation begins, at least 10 people were killed and over a 1000 injured in the magnitude 7.4 quick. it was the islands, worst, earthquake and a quarter of a century dw correspondent and james shade, or traveled to the worst hit city equality, an entire one's east. in taiwan mountain, mister rocha, national tongues, a dramatic bank draw up for a dramatic rescue. this is the moment 6 corey workers were edited safety from the area just north of quantity and the city coast is to the center of the most powerful us quite to strike taiwan in 25 years. the rugged landscape is where

hundreds of people remain trapped, mostly by land slides, which are blocked, roads and tunnels. many remain missing nearly 48 hours since the quick strong, involved in office drugs continued to whipple through the city. as clear up operations got underway. the inside of this 15 story residential tab block because among the was tense when we arrived, officials were squeezing residence in fluid by fluid to assess the damage to the risky rucker luncheon being took us inside to the foundations of this building remain largely intact. but the details really have come crashing down over here. we have running water from a bus more to pipe. and that's why in this building and many buildings across the hall in till thursday is the saying, it's still too dangerous to residence, to retire out of this, or that. in the immediate aftermath, our aim is to save as many people as possible. but after that,

we're also trying to do as much as we can to help people recover whether that's rebuilding or over coming. the emotional or physical impact on one of the outside residents describe their response of to seeing their homes for the 1st time. since the trend of those who don't see it as though when we went into our house, almost everything was on the floor. and so going up, there was a motion to the top of getting down, as most people are dealing with it quite well. we can't control as quick software. oh, okay, cool. so many taiwan has at least controlled the extensive destruction of quake proofing regulations mean seems like this in quality and of the exception not the root or or correspond to james chapter filed that report. he told us more about how people are coping and the quakes aftermath in the city of wiley and which was close to the epicenter. the what's happening behind us here is these people residents of this building and the fiber gate is taking them up to the homes floor

by floor so that they can collect personal belongings, but they're only allowed to collect important belongings. increasingly they're not allowed to stay in the building for too long because they're all concerns about the structural integrity of it. and as i mentioned, those, those conditions inside the building remain, it pretty treacherous and that's also our authorities of saying that people call and return it to this building so far as so many of the people that you see behind to say will be staying in the back to ation shelters or friends homes. and so that's really the story that's emerging from the south quake in taiwan because coming into the city this morning, you really notice the, the impacts of this creek is definitely evidence. you can see the destruction is clear here, but what, what's crucial is that the destruction isn't close. so i'm not really a testament i thing to the stringent measures that taiwan is pushing, in terms of us quite proofing buildings over the past couple of decades. and that's why we've seen this big difference this for you. so number of people that have been

killed by the south quake versus the number of people that have been injured and which is now. suppose that was dw correspondent, james tater reporting from hawaii and taiwan. and finally, venice is gearing up to roll out a 5 year old entry fee to the city under a new scheme, amd at combating over tourism. the city announced the new day tripper fee last year after the un nearly added it to a list of endangered world heritage sites. menissi is more than $30000000.00 visitors per year, putting pressure on its infrastructure. while from april 25th tourists will have to present to our codes as proof of payments during spot checks. those who don't have a code and aren't staying, and ben is over night will be subject to a fine of up to 300 a year. us and you're up to date, but stay with us up next. how to bounce back from a difficult year. we have an interview with the head of germany's the 2nd largest

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