the, the, this is dw news lie from berlin, 6 months into the war in gaza. prime minister benjamin netanyahu says israel is on the verge of victory. and his rarely delegation has to peace talks in egypt. but nothing. yeah. who if keats his vow, that there can be no truth until from last free? the remaining hostages, also coming up for one to march 30 years since it's genocide, more than 800000 people were killed in one of the most for risk episodes of the 20th century. we look at the causes and the responsibility of the international community. the

i melissa chan, welcome 6 months to the day since the october, 7th and last terror attacks, israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu says it's forces are one step away from victory. the army says it has pulled all its troops out of southern gaza, including the city of con eunice. but the military says a significant force will continue to operate within the last run, gaza strip. and other developments, the government says and is rarely delegation, will take part in the latest round. a peace talks in cairo. now who has again said there can be no truth without the release of the remaining hostages being held by him. us addressing his cabinet, he said and summed up what he sees as israel's accomplishments in the war. i don't say my own, their thoughts are some of them were marking 6 months of war today. the achievements of the war are great. we've eliminated 19 out of 24. how must battalions,

including senior commanders, we've killed wounded or captured a significant number of how much terrorists we've cared. she felt as well as many other terrorist headquarters. we've destroyed rocket manufacturing plants, war rooms, weapons, and ammunition caches. and we continue to systematically destroyed the underground tunnels where a step away from victory, man, it's a home that's crossover to our correspondent, i mean, assess in jerusalem. i'm in referring to what the prime minister just said. and i said this earlier, including 19 out of 24, how much battalions eliminated, and everyone can count. that's 5 remaining battalions. israel really close to victory as netanyahu says, as well as netanyahu means total victory, which he often has said, which by that he means the total elimination of a mouse in the gaza strip. then that's unlikely. um,

former prime minister able to all merge as well as the idea of itself. it's intelligence unit has said that it's impossible to eliminate all him off fighters down to the last man in the gaza strip. and don't forget that a lot of from also senior leaders are living outside of the gaza strip. they're alive and well. and i'm also has never been more popular among palestinians more popular than it was before this latest war started. so that goal is unlikely to be achieved any time soon, but if he means that uh they have basically incapacitated him off so that it can not carry out. and a terrorist attack like it did on october 7th, last year. the not is most likely true, but it has been true for several months now. so a lot of is really the, israel's critics, including more recently some of its closest allies like us and germany are questioning. if the high civilian death toll has been worth it since that goal of incapacitating

a moss had already been achieved just weeks or months into the war. so how can we understand this troop withdrawal from southern gaza then, as well, is realized, been clear that this does not mean the end of the war. the white house has said that this is most likely a rest and re fit. in other words, the troops, they're exhausted, they've been fighting for months, and they're able to just go back to israel to slow down operations, perhaps in preparation for something else coming up. and that's, and y'all has been cleared that a ground a sold on rafa, which is in southern gaza. and that's where a lot of the civilians living in the, in the gaza strip are located that she is going to go ahead with plans to carry out a ground, the salts thing that the last bastion of a most fighters in the gaza strip. so it does suggest that these troops are just basically going on rest leave, so that they can get up with something else. right?

so it's, it doesn't mean the end of the war or a total draw that on just the temporary rest for its troops. netanyahu also talked about the conditions for a c spar. let's have a listen to that. if i'm, if you look it up, if i made it clear to the international community, there will be no ceasefire without the return of hostages. it just won't happen. and this is the policy of these randy government and i welcome the fact that the bite and administration made it clear to you today that this is still it's position as well go in. but i mean, what more do we know about the ceasefire tests between israel and moss and cairo as well as he's fired talks, we'll go ahead and israel has already approved the delegation to attend those talks which cannot be taken for granted. and previous rounds of talks is real, didn't even send anybody to represent them, but it's going to go ahead. the prime minister of katara is going to be there as well as the director of the u. s. c. i a, but some officials in his real have said that this is going to give false hopes.

that's because nothing yahoo is also said that if the demands of from us remain the same, which is a complete troop withdraw from gaza before they released hostages, then that's not going to happen. so some officials worried that it's going to give the families of hostages false hopes that this deal could, that could come out of the latest round of talks. thank you. dw correspondent, i mean is this in jerusalem. bewanda is marking the 30 year anniversary of the genocide that claimed more than $800000.00 lives. political leaders gather to remember the moment that started 100 days of ethnic violence that resonates to this day. we'll have more from an academic specialist in a moment of 1st to look back at what unfolded 3 decades ago. april 1994 and a plane carrying one this presidents. just burundi and counterpart to shut down. ok,

calling juvenile. happy you. ramona and slippery and a hatch shamira, killed along with everyone on board the basement of essex hutus. the next day the genocide begins. i will 100 days games of many who 2 extremes, slow to hundreds of thousands, mostly ethnic touch, sees, orchestrated by the rewan, tanami and militia neighbors. turning on neighbors. the clubs submission these thousands heads of churches, many up to being offered assurances that they would be safe. but nowhere is safe. the judge is a light to recognize the science of numerous mass killings. the extreme threat to life pushes masses of people through wanda's borders. sexual violence is also used as a weapon with as many as 250000 women raped during the genocide

behind the buns. the violence, is it possible for power between one, this ruling, hutus and the tootsie dominated will one the patch. you take from triple great. the mass mode to eventually coming to an end. we now p f flight is reached the capital pic, ali, july 1994, may have to do that by pull coming. the wind is coming presidents in today's the fall i p f takes control of the country arresting that was accused of being involved in the genocide. over the years since, tens of thousands of, of london's have been convicted. but 100 small suspects are still at large. ringback phil clark is professor of international politics at the school of oriental and african studies in london. he says the world looked away while the genocide was taking place. but i think it shows just how little

one to match it to the international community at the time. it was this tiny, landlocked country in the center of africa with no natural resources out the world simply didn't care. but of course, it had been a very important international component to how the genocide was possible. uh, decades of german and belgium colonialism had fostered these ethnic divisions in the country. internationally imposed structural adjustment policies accredited economic crisis. that was a big part of the conflict in the early ninety's ninety's and still this anti tootsie propaganda. and all of that was absolutely crucial to the way that the genocide thing began after the 6th of april 1994. now we're one of them president paul cook, i'm a said today during a remembered ceremony that the international community quote, failed all of us. i touched on that in that 1st question about how responsible is the international community for what happened?

it fundamentally the, the genocide is a good one to an event to the majority of domestic is, were carried out by every guy who to perpetrators who knew that victims incredibly well. so this is fundamentally rwandan story. but there are these international style is not least the fact that there was a united nations peacekeeping mission in, on the ground in the one to at the time that the genocide was beginning. and within the 1st 2 weeks of the genocide, that peacekeeping mission packed up and left the u. n. was simply not willing to risk its own peace keepers in order to protect up to the civilians and searching for one to to die. that's a source of much resentment that the, the big you and really did file to stop the genocide been at to protect the tootsie from those mastic is what do you make of the comments by french president emmanuel, my calling about the genocide he had said you know, he had made comments about francis roll, for example, and what france could have done a microns apology. it is

a very peculiar one because in many ways he apologizes for the least defrances violated. as he apologizes for france and the international community not doing more to intervene to stop the genocide, but what he's not apologizing for is the fact that france was directly complicit in the carrying out of the violets for at least i, 2 months before the genocide, the french army, which was stationed to give her wonder, had been training. and i'm going to enter a hom way, who to militias, which were responsible for some of the biggest mastic is during the genocide. it's very peculiar that my crohn makes this big deal about an apology. on the peace keeping side, but it says nothing at all out of about francis direct involvement in the violence . and that's what most of the wondering think of when i think of a francis involvement at that time. and then you've, you've talked about uh, the domestic angle, 30 years on what kind of country is lawanda today. and what role does the history of that genocide play there?

the history of the genocides still very fresh and a wonder i've been working there for more than 20 years now. and the genocide is very real to people. the memories of very fresh, but the country has recovered, being wise, but i don't think anybody would've expected in 1994. it's a peaceful country. it's a stable country. remarkably hundreds of thousands of genocide perpetrators. back leaping off on the hills side by side with genocide survivors getting on with a large, cooperating together on the farms. if you would set that to any body in 1994, they would have scoffed it to you. and i guess that's is the kind of advance that we're one that has made over the last 30 years. and i understand, of course, also that the women seem to politicians play a very prominent, inordinate role unusual role in the legislature. so a lot of developments in that country that would surprise many people, professor phil clark and london, thank you so much for joining us to governments that costs latin america are

condemning a raid by ecuador on the mexican embassy and tito. mexico severed diplomatic ties with ecuador over the detention of the former ecuadorian vice president jorge glass . he was facing corruption charges, but had been given political asylum in side. the embassy included was right of mixed. the coast embassy has caused outrage. a growing list of countries had issued scaling. refute protest as in mexico took the fury to the street with a mixture of helplessness, anger, frustration, and above whole. seeing that the spot there, if it's to keep people inside safe, i don't want, i did not succeed. equal to a false is broke into the mix. the can, the embassy on friday night or wasting a quarter was form of vice president jorge glass who had been granted assign them the last spaces, corruption charges and has been taken to

a maximum security prison. a c embassy has been closed after the ride, which makes the car sees, violates international norm. 40 so soon as the president, again, that is one as per instructions of president under this money away, lopez open that door. we are coordinating the return of one of our diplomatic stuff in act we do, along with that families of to divide into time carry down. but ecuadorian police do not embassy unlisted. in buffalo, they make equal equal door is defending the risk, which it says was due to the risk of immune an escape. by the fact we don't know, criminal can be considered a political refugee because the you in is cooling for come over the escalating spat aging both it would war and mexico to show motor ration and solve the differences

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