the the, this is dw news live from berlin. israel pushes on with a defensive and rough up the spice, international condemnation, heavy artillery pounds. the area as the exodus of thousands of thousands continues from the city, one side to be a safe zone. plus an oppositional lawmaker in the georgian parliament, splashed with water while speaking out against the so called for an agents bill. the governing party has now pushed the bill through over writing a presidential veto. and to find weeks of protests, we'll hear from typically the

david levitz, thanks for joining us. we start and gaza, where witnesses reports seeing is really tanks entering the center of rough for the 1st time in defiance of international condemnation and an order from the international court of justice. israel has denied reports and struck the on my wasi camp in the south of gaza on tuesday. the master on guys of health ministry says at least $21.00 people were killed in the area designated by israel as ation man materials though it comes after $45.00 post indians were reported killed in a separate strike that started a fire and a refugee campbell on sunday, as it was prime minister, called the killing of civilians. a tragic mistake. earlier the is really military gave an update on its own invest jason into sunday's attack that it

says targeted senior. how mosque commanders? g w is rebecca rivers, inter russo, i'm explained. it's preliminary findings. yeah, well, a little while ago we heard from the senior military spokesman, daniel, hey, gary. he came out with information from i've heard, preliminary investigation. he said that that in fact this strike was carried out 1.7 kilometers from the so called safe sewing. there was conjecture in questions as to whether or not this strikes that happened on sundays banking. this huge fire and killing, as you say, some 40, more than 40 people with in that designated safe area. now he says that this preliminary investigation proves that it was, and he said that small munitions, we use the smallest that they're able to fire from these jets we used and that those munitions were not able or wouldn't have been able to stock the kind of fire that we saw in the aftermath, so the, suggesting that the strike potentially led to,

to something else exploding and then sparking that 5 that we so he suggested or he said as one of the possible uh, options might be that there was a hamas weapons deco nearby and perhaps that quote 5 though they offered no evidence to that. and they said the investigation of course is ongoing. well, during a state visit between france and germany, german chancellor, all i've shorts waited on israel is offensive. and rough is, was most as i'm for, you will need to abide by international law the who may need to allow humanitarian support for the people suffering and gaza to speak to the it's the responsibility of israel to ensure that necessary aid is delivered on, i'm guessing yes or do you, have we heard of a terrible tragic attack and rough? uh, i put a refugee counselor's head many people's eyes and thought i could put or does that part of the text i'm just getting shows once again, why germany and so many other states have been against the major gone defensive and

rough on opens events because there isn't sufficient protection of civilians and it's not possible so i can focus on the list and some of this. but yesterday's incident clearly shows as just on site this of the start, some the up on 5 french president, a monument. my call also reacted to the recent attacks by israel and rafa listen to a situation in rafa is extremely worrying. and is i already said yesterday is really operations in ross. i must and stuff we must stand by a palestinian civilians. is your policy, if anybody's to know, like what the international court of justice has already and called on israel to stop this operation and rough immediately. these are the to protect civilians waiting to come back because our position has been clear right from the start that we have condemned in the strongest possible terms. most of mos attacks are most of us to sub we support israel's right to defend itself is the we need to ensure its response and gaza is in line with international law. the documented the spain

norway in ireland have become the latest countries to officially recognize a palestinian state. they joined 143 other un member nations to do so. the move has been welcomed in gaza and the west bank, but criticized by is around the region in spanish and irish flags i'm filed in flying alongside back to south africa outside municipal buildings in the west bank. it's a tribute to the 3 western european nations that gave side of official recognition to a palestinian state. first came to form an announcement from madrid at the meeting of the council of ministers that we will be held to date. the government of spain without proof, the official recognition of palestine state. then in the items parliament in front of the palestinian ambassador and the notes on dublin. we hear in art and we see we recognizes, we respect you. and today,

ireland formerly recognizes the state of palestine per month, like a piece of outside the palestinian flag was raised beside bats of ukraine and you appear in union. and shortly thereafter, the announcement came from us today to the audience. hard at the moment has decided that norway will recognize the state of palestine with the no, no worries, recognition will come into force on may 28th. not my does email 2 days ago. it's a decision that has had repercussions across here and beyond. in paris, an m p brandished palace, the new flag in parliament during questions to the phone administrator. he was accused of provoking the assembly and received a 15 day suspension. it's the highest penalty possible under the national assemblies, rules of procedure. that was similar to susan's in road as left wing and pays waves the palestinian flag during a speech by one of the colleagues collect the news has been widely welcomed in

gaza and know that we are happy with the nations that stood with us and recognized the state of palestine, we hope that all nations will stand with us and put pressure on israel to end the war. and how many in the west bank concurred? it's an excellent development. it gives us complete freedom recognize country, and as our own currency unites us. so that we can escape the occupations and the data recognition brings hope to some palestinians, but many obstacles still remained. none the less of a. you have a pay, a nation's expected to follow. here's a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. former netherlands intelligence chief dix cost is to be put forward as the countries next to prime minister. he was chosen as a unity candidates ahead of the new 4 party coalition government. after the

election, when in p v party, under a leader here, and builders ruled himself out of the job to reach an agreement. russia has recognized the taliban as a legitimate, legitimate authority in afghanistan and removed the group from its list of terrorist organizations. president vladimir putin said rush, i should take afghanistan's opinion into accounts and build ties with the country. there was no other country has formerly recognized the taliban government was ukrainian president of a lot of years. a lensky signed a security cooperation agreement with portugal during the tour of western europe to rally support. he was welcomed by portuguese president. marcello had bellowed g sosa, and elizabeth, earlier in the landscape, received a promise of a $1000000000.00 worth of military aid from belgium, including 30 f, 16 fighter jets, 2 weeks of debate in the george and parliament over a divisive build targeting and g o's. and the media has ended with the bill

becoming lost, a lawmaker opposing the so called for an agents law was slashed with water before the final vote. it was tracked closely by protesters who say the law will take george a closer to russian style, authoritarian governance. and stifled georgia's efforts to join the european union . the law requires media and non profit groups to register if they receive more than 20 percent of their funding from abroad. and dw was out on the streets of publicity and spoke to some of the protesters. well, this is very fab. i like i tried to do for the duration and will probably come for john. and i believe this should be noted in the history as to one of the biggest tre tracks of our generation history. i don't know, i, i believe there should be a brighter future for the future on georgia for the on source of georgia. not on

the youngsters. for example, when i'm standing here, i'm not only protesting for my own. i'm like, has been hard to people even thought and was just calling on knowing the country were always really, really angry about them. and of course, this is a really nice thing to do for your people. physically. i have so much anger owners to me. i don't know how to how do you know express all of this we just felt so betrayed by the government? no, we're saying that we used to say no to us and well, but now we're saying no to us and government and of us the you want to be in europe is to be in the european family and all that is important to us because we are born in a re kon here when this country was free. no one can take this freedom from us

and our correspondent into the leasing maria kind of months so it has more on how the bill could influence george's relations with the you. going to be very interesting to see how the dynamic is going to be uh, between a georgia and its western partners. uh you, us and you. now it's interesting also to see what's going to happen to georgia. so you kind of to see that it's released to receive losses. assembled was a long way to kind of this is ca, tooth and georgia for many, many years for that. and what's kinda going to happen with it's a visa, free regime for, for many georgia's who can travel to europe without visa. that's also the question now the uses that nothing is resolved that the, all the options are on the table. so we should expect in the coming weeks uh, the response from the what it's going to be now we uh understand that you also writing should use the travel balance against the georgia and officials and also

promise to, to follow up with sanctions. a closing arguments and donald trump's harsh money trail have wrapped up in a manhattan court room. the jury will start deliberations on wednesday to decide the former us presidents fate. prosecutors alleged trump knowingly falsified business records ahead of the 2016 presidential elections to conceal a sexual encounter with an adult film actress stormy daniels base. a trump gave her $130000.00 in exchange for not going public. and if he falsely logged to the payment as legal expenses, trump has denied any wrong doing. it's the 1st time a former us president has ever faced criminal prosecution. the new york case centers on whether donald trump violated campaign finance laws had of the 2016 election. trump who's expected to be the republicans candidate this year is november presidential election,

was required to be in court every day. the trial wasn't the session from beginning to end. he repeated his claim that he was the victim of a political, which a lot of different places right now. and i'm sitting here additional going for a long time. the judge has been selected, as you know, it's very next year what's going on during the heated trial pump was repeated, we find from violating the judge's orders not to publicly attack witnesses. at other times, trump was reportedly observed falling asleep in the court room. one key witness was adult film actress stormy daniel, one who testified that she had a sexual encounter with trump and accepted a $130000.00 payment to keep the story quiet as another star witness was trumps. former lawyer, michael cohen, he testified that trump was directly involved in arranging a complex scheme, intended to cover up that hush money payment. during the 2016 presidential campaign,

12 jurors will now decide whether prosecutors have proved that trump was falsifying business records to get around campaign finance disclosure laws. their decision must be unanimous. a conviction would not prevent from from running for office. the republican front runner is also facing other criminal charges, but the new york harsh money case is likely to be the only trial decided before the november election. well, a long last painting by the italian mastercard adviser has finally gone on display in madrid. it's one of around just 16 own works by the 16th century artist, the painting of jesus wearing. the crown of thorns had been mistakenly attributed to a different artist. and was set to go on auction for just 1500 years. when experts realized it was in fact a car of by jo, spain's culture ministry stepped in with an export ban. according to media reports,

the work was then sold for 36000000 years. it's now been restored and is on display . at madrid's cried out you're up to date, i'm david levitz, thank you for watching dw, for more you can go to our website, that's a d, w dot com, the innovation green, the green revolution global. so listen to whole lot of crime. it's probably up to speed if the carriers subscribe to those channels every friday subscribe to plan. it's a.