the, the, this is dw news live from berlin. israel says it will open a key crossing into the gaza strip temporarily to allow in humanitarian aid. the decision comes after us, president biden issued israel and ultimatum. take more steps to protect civilian lives for risk. losing us support. also coming up the kremlin ramps up the rhetoric warning, but russia and nato are now in direct conflict over q crane. that as nato marks it's 75th anniversary and pledge is more assistance for kia and the rescue workers search for those still missing and tie one official save. people are

trapped in a remote regions after the islands biggest earthquakes and a quarter of a century. the m david levitz welcome is rarely prime minister benjamin netanyahu, whose office has announced the temporary opening of a key land crossing to allow aid into gaza. the opening of the arrows crossing into the palestinian territories north was among steps approved by israel's cabinet to increase the flow of humanitarian assistance. the news was welcome to in washington where president joe biden earlier told netanyahu in a phone call that further us support for israel's war and gaza depended on such steps. by then also said, israel must take more action to prevent harm to civilians. relations between the 2

allies have been more strained since and is really air strike on monday. killed 78 workers and gaza. 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, 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 protected. dw washington correspondent benjamin alvarez gruber told us more about the call between biden and yeah, that's right. was 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 it president bide made clear that i quote us policy with respect to go is 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 as russia as,

as it's now in, quote, direct confrontation with nato. that comment from the kremlin came as nato considers, giving long term military aid to ukraine. so far ukraine has been getting weapons from individual nato member nations, but not from the alliance itself. well, on thursday, member states again vowed to keep up their support. the key of a celebration of nato's 75th anniversary in brussels, 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. second, donald trump presidency in the united states. trump is a nato critic, but the blogs chief has told dw, 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 shanae twilight because that is in the use of security interest. the us is stronger with naples done with alternate though. still to head off the trunk threat . start and 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. what 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 nate to because being against nato allies. nope. paying, you know, financial and the good news is that the nato allies, including germany, a many others on all really stepping up and investing more in defense. but it's still unclear whether the 100000000 euro proposal will be accepted by nato members who take decisions by consensus hungry has already voiced its off 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 main main message today will be better because saving ukrainian 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. this can intercept, ballistic myself. western allies have been hesitant on this point for ukraine. that would be cause for the biggest celebration of all

the, with numerous conflicts raging around the world and the perceived threat from russia growing here in europe. germany isn't barking on an overall of its armed forces. defense minister boris pa story is looking to streamline the country's military command. the story is as a shakeup, is aimed at making the bone display a more agile, more efficient and more compact ready. but it's the 1st important step to make germany's military more combat ready? defense minister bowl has bestowed hills, announced a long way to plan, to restructure the german armed forces party gets um, i think today is the signal of change. our common goal is to reorganize the bundles best structures so that it is ultimately prepared in the event of an emergency if it needs to defend this in the event of one of my officers stared after rushes full

scale invasion of ukraine. the german government vowed to increase funding for its long neglected armed forces. well, also making them structurally more efficient. the bone display of the future will have a new central command and the dedicated fiber department. the restructuring is meant to make germany, in the words of the defense minister, more capable it would be out of this and we will know that the security threats in europe have intensified. it must be clear to everyone that we're defending a country under alone and spot those. and with this step, we're also making it clear that no one should even think of attacking us as nato territory. not to get beat. i forgot what the reform doesn't do is address the boom display as problems with understaffing or the need for more funding. well, let's take a look now. some other stories making news around the world. former us president donald trump has suffered to legal setbacks. a judge in georgia rejected his

request to dismiss the case on election interference by a judge in florida rejected trans calls to dismissal case, alleging he kept classified records after leaving office. the spanish coast guard has rescued 73 migrants from a wooden boat in the seas. off the canary islands, the migrants were brought to the islands of grand canaria, about a 160 kilometers from west africa. as los angeles police and the f. b, i are investigating the theft of $30000000.00 from a money storage facility thieves broke into the building on easter sunday without setting off any alarms. that's one of the biggest cash highest in us history. and denmark has closed, aerospace and shipping traffic in one of the world's busiest sealants, 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 say the fault of board enable frigate made an accidental launch possible, along with a risk of falling missile fragments. taiwanese rescuers are working to reach scores of people trapped after wednesday's earthquake. as a massive clean up operation begins and at least 10 people were killed and over a 1000 injured in the magnitude 7.4 quake, it was the islands worst earthquake and a quarter of a century dw, correspond to james cheddar travel to the worst hit city while lean in taiwan is east in taiwan to mount from the stroke of national tongues, a dramatic bank draw up for a dramatic rescue. this is a moment 6 corey workers were listed safety from the area just north of quantity and the city coast is to the center of the most conflict, quite to strength, taiwan in 25. yet the rugged landscape is where hundreds of people remain trapped,

mostly by line slides, which have blocked roads and tunnels. many remain missing nearly 48 hours since the quick strong involved in office drugs continued to whipple through the cities as k . reparations got underway. the inside of this 15 story residential tab block because among the was tense when we arrived, officials were squeezing residents in fluid by fluid to assess the damage to the rescue worker lounging, being took us inside to the foundations of this building, remain largely intact. but the details where you have come crashing down over here, we have running water from a best water pipe. and that's why in this bill like an many buildings across holly angle sources, the saying is still too dangerous the residence to retire. 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 overcoming the emotional 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 home is most people are dealing with it quite well. we can't control as quick soft rule. ok, you consider so many taiwan has at least control the extensive destruction of quake proofing regulations mean seems like this in quality and of the exception notes. the rules are corresponding. james chaytor filed that report. he told us more about how people are coping and the quakes aftermath and the city of quality inn, which was close to the epicenter. then 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. increase the they're not allowed to stay in the building for to them because that all concerns about the structural integrity of it. and as i mentioned, those best conditions inside the building remain, it pretty treacherous. and that's also why authorities are 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 at friends homes. and so that's really the story that's emerging from the size 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, the stringent measures that taiwan is present in terms of us quite proofing building over the past couple of decades. and that's why we seen this big difference for you to a number of people that have been killed by the south quake versus the number of

people that have been injured and which has now passed because that was dw correspondent james tater reporting from wiley and ty, one, well, one of the world's most popular tourist destinations is about to get more expensive bonuses preparing to roll out a 5 year old entry fee to the city. it's part of a new strategy to combat over tourism. the city announced the new day tripper fee last year after the u. n. 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 from april 25th tourists will have to present q r codes as proof of payments during spot checks. those who don't have a code and aren't staying, and venice over night will be subject to sign up to 300 years. and you're up to date, but stay with us next on dw, how to balance back from

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