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the, the, this is dw news wind from berlin, israel and says it's military operation and gaza does comply with international law after this order from the international port of dress, which is the most immediate to behold. it's me to offense and any other action instead of a governor of the union's top court describe the situation in gaza as disastrous and a ruling that leads israel facing further. global isolation also coming up all eyes on the political flight for the capital daily. as india reaches the final stages of elections to pick it's new leaders and the rates to find survivors after
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a massive landslide. it's a remote part of piper new guinea. hundreds or if you're dead and injured with the rescue. effort being hindered by conditions on the ground, the warm welcome to abuse around the world. i'm michael. ok. israel has rejected an order from the international court of justice in the hague to immediately stop. it's military offensive in the southern gauze and city of rasa. the court describe the humanitarian situation there as disastrous, but stopped short of ordering a full ceasefire. israel insist its operations inside gaza is in line with international law. from the front lines of the war in gaza, israel's military campaign suffered a major legal blow. it is that it must immediately hold,
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it submitted to events and any other action instead of a government which may inflict on the but assuming a group and gaza conditions of life that would bring about its physical destruction in hold or info at the latest icy j rolling unequivocal about the need is round to protect the palestinians and do more to provide vital age. the decision welcomed by south africa, which brought the case and his accused israel of committing genocide. this order is groundbreaking. edit is the 1st time that explicit mention is made for is to help its military action in any area because this guy was specifically aimed or elsewhere. israel rejects accusations of genocide and the latest i. c. j ruling wall cabinet, administer beany guns, seed the fight to return its hostages would continue, including in rough or v i. c. j also ordered the i'm conditional release of
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hostages being held by hum us while the court has no way of enforcing the ruling, it poses a major challenge is rams allies. we have to choose between now i suppose, the international institution under oh, how much support and both seems it's fun to be quite difficult to make. the ruling is the speaking judicial blow to israel this week. the international criminal court has applied for a wrist warrants the israel's prime minister in defense minister over alleged war crimes, both decisions adding to global criticism of israel's war. earlier i spoke to dw jerusalem correspondent, rebecca rivers. i wanted to know what people in his role are saying about the i c j is really as well. that all depends on who you're talking to. a large
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portion of the as rarely public agree with much of the sentiment that we've been hearing across the board. from the government, they think it is unjust. they think the world is against israel and they feel, you know, the war is still relatively or move and relatively it is still largely population of people do believe that it is the only way that they can get back the hostages, a large portion of society. i should say, believe that they also believe that the, at the most threatened needs to be eliminated. so certainly, you know, large portions of his riley society standing with that sort of is really government and is ready all position. position that the i c j willing is on just though of course there are members we have in his riley society saying that yeah, this is absolutely outrages and things should stop. so you really have an opinion across the board, but the majority still standing on the side of the wall. i also spoke to you needing a deal,
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who is professor of global security at the university box virtually specializes in the role of law and morality in international relations. specifically in war, i asked her if there is any indication that israel with a he adhere to the i c j's ruling. so we have come to expect the reactions, something to, to know government, right. there's always a mixture of bluster in terms of like the court would come tell us what to do, but also there's always an attempt to spin these for this. and this time the attempt was to say, well, the court actually didn't tell us to hold our military defense if it just said that any military or offensive that in principle poses the risk of group destruction to palestinians would have to be halted. now this is multiply as a beating or interpretation of this court order, but i do take some heart from this attempt to spin the order because it does suggest that israel understands that this order has weight. compliance doesn't really depend on anything happening in israel right now. it really only depends primarily or only on how most of the allies of israel react to it,
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particularly the united states. i only see a chance that the sort of order will make a difference for how is real conducts the work if the biden administration gets behind it and conditions any further support on. compliance goals have opened in daily as india reaches the final stretchers of its marathon election today. all 7 seats of the national capital region in the lower house of parliament are being contested. but little guntee, senior leader of the main oppositional congress party, turned out amid the blistering heat to cast his vote with prime minister to render modi's main opponent. in deli chief minister, arvin casual walls was expected to vote later in the day. casually wall who was arrested on corruption charges and released on bail after the supreme court intervene accused modi of using criminal probes to hurt his transits. earlier i asked the w corresponding sheller got off in deli, to tell us more about today's elections. of the 58
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constituencies that up forgot should a myco and over a 100000000 people are eligible. voters are due to vote in different parts of india . so this heat is pretty much on not just politically in india, but climate wise as well. it's coming up to mid day here now, and we see that the number of people who are coming out to vote has been dwindling . the turnout was pretty much high in the early hours of morning. it's it opened at 7 am. that's going to be so most people are trying to cost a boat, but now as it's coming up to mid day and the heat is rising, the numbers seem to be coming down. but we'll see we, we still have until 6 pm today to see what the board are doing now. turns out to be 12 and mid that heat. i think one of the big questions is how much is chief administered, casual was arrest going to influence the voting should be arrested for this admin. cage of all has dominated the put it to goes back to the
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feel in delhi who was arrested on a corruption charges. like you said, the charges that you denies and he's been up to using the reading, be potty a fragment of some movie else trying to stifle the opposition party 0. he's being the chief minister of this, of the national capital of daily since 2015 and a very popular one did that. and so as soon as he came out on barely, he started the addressing election valleys with which solar to, in order for huge amount of number of people. and he asked people to, he requested people to come out and numbers and thought it'd be, it'd be government, i'll just follow because he sees them as an alternative, as, as an a didn't redeem. he even went to the length of accusing the fragment and still trying to turn the country into something like a rest of the uh, with lead us like of loudness within. so don't allow the opposition to side. so the heat is pretty much on uh, the accusations have been flying. oh not just from the b to b, sorry the ruling b party side, but also from the opposition side. like i've been case resolved in neighboring
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pakistan. thousands of people have been admitted to hospitals, the heat stroke. the country is in the grip of a heat wave with temperatures climbing to 50 degrees celsius. in some places, this follows pakistan's where is april for more than 60 years. with more than double the average monthly rainfall schools out for summer, early this year for the around $26000000.00 children of pakistan's punjab club and a sort of cheese in the region size. surging temperatures put the children at risk . so they close to school early. a week before summer holidays was set to start temperatures, including job some $6.00 to $8.00 degrees celsius, above the average for the time of year. the government's climate coordinate to said the global warming was causing a sudden change and weather patterns, and there was more to come on the subject. it's because the way he has started in
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stock is down to this is the 1st week of the heat. people have been seen, they are going to be, please spend the 1st has already started to make the 2nd spend will be in the beginning of june and the tart and the last of to offer the extreme heat is often coupled with power cups as the amount of funds in the air conditioning source, some areas experience as much as 15 hours a day without electricity. a pack of stone emits less than one percent of the wilds, greenhouse gas emissions. however, due to a number of factors including geography and poverty. it's especially valuable to climate change. this heat why is the latest climate related disaster to hit the country in recent years as melting glasses and monsoons because devastating floods
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. in 2022 flood cement, just so it is a country calling more than 1700 people and displacing thousands. no one senior un official visits and pack us down and have this to say the government of pocket style is also in the emergency center and it's not about where they are trying their best to ensure that predictability is key, where they can prevent massive loss of life from the, the, the, the early warning systems and they asked us to support them. but again, if you see the impact of the time of crisis on communities, it's very clear that something ought to be done is what i'm about must adapt and make drastic changes going forward that it will need help from the international community. here's a look at some more headlines. china has ended 2 days or military drills around tie one. the self governing islands defense ministry says more than a 100 chinese aircraft,
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and dozens of naval vessels were involved in the exercise. beijing which sees taiwan is part of its territory, said it was a punishment for so called separatist facts. more than a 190 nations have agreed to a new treaty to combat so called bio piracy. at un talks in switzerland. the term refers to big companies using patents to lock up natural resources and traditional knowledge of poor nations. without adequate compensation, the french police have used to guess to clear road blocks on the white kid island of new caledonia as flights evacuating french tor escape underway. the french government has declared a state of emergency in the south pacific territory. after violence erupted over the proposed constitutional change, its 7 people have died in the young wretched rescue. teams have started to arrive at the side of a massive landslide and the remote highlands. if proper new guinea scores are for
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your dead after the landslide flattened 6 villages in the area of the land slide struck in the early hours of friday, burying hundreds of people on their homes in the highlands of anger to the north of this island nation. and besides, the west pacific victims were most likely to sleep, but the time cars and houses were demolished by the loud flies. rescuers were digging frantically through the earth and debris, overlooked by a nearby mountain. were large rocks and boulders were still folding. only a few bodies had been recovered so far. the red cross estimates that as many as 500 people could be injured or dead. a rapid response team of medics ministry on police took hours to reach the scene. is a place that's covered by the deputies and therefore people in the village, the locals. yeah. they're asking the government, the aids anyone and everyone who wish to help people. i find that dockage people.
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uh they, they cannot cry or they gonna do anything because it's difficult for them to go substitute joyce. and this never happened in history. the sheer scale of the land slide was also making it difficult to find survivors. according to eye witnesses. the area hitches about 600 kilometers north west of the capital of port morris, be with 10000000 people popular and again, he is the most popular sub pacific nation after australia, a diverse developing nation, mostly subsistence farmers with a 100 languages public. and he has few roads outside the larger cities, tearing access to rescue vehicles will take a long time, and this is expected to hinder assessments and relief efforts. as you're watching, dw news is a reminder of our top story. israel has rejected an order from the international court of justice in the hague to immediately stop its military offensive in the southern gas and city of ruffled israel insist its operations inside. gotcha. are
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