the, the state of leaders long from berlin, israel's military says it has taken complete control of the strip of land that links garza to egypt as, as the move aims to prevent smuggling weapons and took awesome. meanwhile, israel continues bombarding. rough far as international condemnation rises over civilian casualties, they're also coming up south africans q up to vote. and once being called the most important election in 30 years, is the ruling amc about to lose subscript on power and desperately seeking shelter of pockets on for

a fair the front of an unprecedented heat wave made worse by climate change. the nicole really, it's good to have you with us. israel's military's, as it has taken a full control of the strip of land that serves as a buffer zone between garza and egypt, the 14 kilometer long philadelphia core door is part of a larger demilitarized zone along both sides of the israel egypt border. meanwhile, israel has stepped up its operations in the southern gaza city of rockland, a spine international criticism over civilian casualties. israel's national security adviser says the offensive and gaza is expected to go on at least until the end of the year. a michael clark is the defense analyst and a visiting professor at kings college london. i asked him what israel taking

control of this key each of cause a cord or means for the situation on the ground. well, it means that we choose one of the technical objectives mean the car doors about 11 kilometers long from each way, the border up up to the mediterranean coast. and they always knew that they would have to take control of his card or because lots of smuggling and goes on the road it's, it's full of tunnels. egypt. his claim that they've, they've prevented all the tunnels from looking at. they blocked them. old. i've intercepted them, but nobody believes that a lot of the tunnels still exist. so it was always the case of these riley's from a technical point of view, how to drive their own forces all the way along the southern cause a boat in order to see lead the boat or themselves. and that will create a certain amount of tension with egypt and just on the other side of the border. but it means from the ministry point of view, they can now try to work through their policy in rough uh, in the days now reach the central rep for him. we'll push on towards i think, um,

oh, i see um on the coast which is designated as a safe area. israel and the us are still calling the rough or offensive limited. what would an all out offensive look like that the whole thing is the defense would look pretty much like what they're doing. to be honest, it's hard to see what way this offensive is limited because they moved 5 brigades. i think they created 2 divisions onto a 100 and 62nd and the 98 table and division for this phase of the operation. and they put a 9 case division to the knowles, and they mobilized that a 13 brigades there, but they were 2 big divisions at a 13 per gauge. they mobilized 10 of them, 5 brigades, going to the know 5 brigades working in the south, and they're pushing as fast as they can. and so they moved into the eastern outskirts then to the central rep for neville moved to the west. i mean this on the buildings they go whenever they see target, so i mean,

they were bombing yesterday that the tut out as a couple of days ago, the tunnel assault on an area to attend to the area because they felt that they had to particular and a terrorist to me to how much people using rubbing and how it now goes. i'd say they sold, they have them. so they went after them, regardless of the civilian casualties that, that caused. so to be honest, i can't see any difference between what they do now. i don't know a lot of defensive. yeah, i want to talk about that attack a little later. but 1st i want to bring up something that is really officials announced today is that the war and gaza will go on at least until the end of the year. why so long and what shape could that take? i am, i can't tell you what shape it will tell you because the whole thing is becoming coherent from a military point of view. and i'm a military analyst. i cannot tell you what the, what the strategy is like kind of see a coherent strategy and what the idea of doing all that they know is that they have to say it will take some more time because they don't know what to do next. the

strategy in effect is going round in circles. they were told to destroy my mouse, which they cannot do. they can dismantle how much these physical presence, and they can kill color the most people. but i probably creating more how much people them they have killing just by their actions. and they, the, the policy seems to like any co hearings. so, for instance, that at christmas in december, they had 20 engage across gauze or 20 brigades. they rapidly reduce that down to 5 brigades, then one brigade. now they're going back to 10 brigades within a month. i'd like to give you a sense of a rush, you know, as to why they did that, because they've cleared the area, say from the con units they created, they withdrew. now they've gone back into con units because come us keep popping up the the same as your bottle. yeah. they've twice. they've cleared. would you bother you? record g, come another going back in for the time because i must keep popping up. so there is no miller trico humans to this strategy and the id f m,

you'll go out of the defense minutes to basically said that last week he said, unless we have given a proper political construct from the government meeting next and you know, and they should tell us what the day after was supposed to look like. we cannot put to shoot a sensible strategy which delivers that. that's the problem that they've got. with the defense analyst of michael clark, speaking to me earlier, moving on to south african, our voting is under way in what's being called the most important parliamentary election since the end of apartheid at stake is the african national congress parties. 30 years absolute majority polls indicate that support for the amc has dipped below 15 percent, which means the party could lose its 3 decades long hold on office. are the leader and south african presidents are over. i'm a poster. went to his home township of so wait till where he cast his votes and remains optimistic about him and see victory. so this is the day really, so the pick up is not decide on the future or on country or should be the

government of south africa. and i have no doubt whatsoever in my heart to thoughts that the people will once again, invest in the applicant. miss now coming back to point to you to lead to this country. that was south africa's presidents, are from a poster speaking after voting today. well, our correspondent dian hawk or it has been following the election from a polling station in johannesburg since the early morning. and send us this update . so we've been visiting voting stations across to had this book and at this voting station in oakland park, they are hundreds of people who are standing in line, still waiting to vote. i want to give you an impression and show you just how many people are actually waiting to vote. yeah. they are young people, mainly standing in this queue. many of them was students from a nearby university,

the university of johannesburg. and they have said that they've been waiting for 3 hours some for more than 3 hours. in fact, to vote at this voting station. it's quite interesting because one of the things that is quite significant about this election is that they are 11000000 youngs, have africans who have registered to vote. and it's expected that they will have a significant role to play in this election. that's 11000000 south africans under the age of 40. another interesting number for this election is that they are over 50000000 women registered to vote in the selection. and looking at the people that are standing in these queues, they are quite a number of women who are also standing waiting to vote. now, of course, the voting stations across south africa will be open until 9 p. m. so anyone who is still standing, the queue at that time of night will be allowed to vote, but they are concerns that things are moving too slowly here. and that they should

have been more resources given to this voting station when you compared to other areas that we've been to, things do seem to be live moving quite slowly and they aren't, there isn't that much activity in terms of people going in and out of the voting station, but there is still a feeling of excitement amongst those standing in the queue. they saying that they will wait until this evening to cost a vote because this is a significant election for, for that, for kids. why significant, you might us, well, there are a number of reasons south africa is going through a bit of a change when it comes to all circumstances. yes, they are number of issues that boat is one to see, tackles going forward, such as the ongoing energy crisis and the longstanding economic crisis. and many of the voters who we've been speaking through to throughout the state, one to see and change when it comes to jobs in the country to the economic

perspective. and some of saying that it's time for us to see new leadership in government. those dw correspond to dian hawker speaking to us from johannesburg earlier today. here's a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. belgium police have searched the residents and the offices over europe in parliament. the employee of belgium prosecutor says, the employee played a significant role and a russian influence operation and the suspect it's to have paid sitting members of the european parliament to spread pro kremlin propaganda. south korea, as accused north korea, sending dozens of balloons full of trash of excrement across the border. authorities are investigating the incident and have warned residents to stay in doors, balloons, carrying leaflets with messages. critical of young young are regularly sent to the other way by south korea and activists. india as capital daily, as reported in all time high temperature of 52.3 degrees celsius. as a national record for india and neighboring pac hassan temperatures of also

exceeded $52.00 degrees and re some days. authorities of urged people to stay in doors hydrate and avoid unnecessary travelling bit increasing cases of heat stroke . a team of international scientists says the dangerous heat and south asia has become more likely because of human driven climate change. the air in hot it's hot stifling. she lives in what is one of the hawk this place this on the planet right now? temperatures here in the southern since brogans have sort of 52 degrees spits, no follow, and no proper shelter. she's exposed to dangerous levels of heat. that to me that i have to sit in he's there is no fan and i have to sit in my hot in the heat. the sun is scorching up because the heat is eating away at us. but where can i go get into that? they have to physically run to the cuts. in fact, it's done around 40 percent of the population lives below the poverty line. so

despite the punishing heat, many people have gone just be at home, the color we have to work in the way that we don't have a choice. i'm. we have to work and feed out children and everything, or whether it's hot or cold or what about the focus on suiting temperatures come after the country for breakfast april, since 1961 exports, it could be the 16, but that it brings the human meet climate change the 2022 flats and focused on so one part of the country felt most under water and because millions and economic losses investment in the deposition mechanisms, cortez focused on deal with a fix of time. it change much better. the governmental pocket stocks. they're trying their best to ensure that predictability is key, where they can prevent massive loss of life from the, the, the, the,

or the warning systems. and they ask 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 find the fee. exact ition has its limits, but back this time is responsible for less than one percent of greenhouse gas emissions. and unless the global greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced, people in countries like focused on, we've continued to peer the treat despite and and some sports news now by munich have appointed vince and company as their new coach. after a month long search, several top candidates had rejected the german club. 38 year old company has signed a 3 year contract that despite his team brimley having just been relegated out of the english premier league barnes the potential and the former belgium international currently is based german because he played for hubbard. company replaces thomas tool after byron's 1st season since 2012 ended without

a trophy. meanwhile, spanish football giants barcelona have named the former jeremy coach on the flick as their new manager. the 59 year old has been out of work since being fired by germany and september, previously led byron munich to a famous trouble of trophies in 2020. as his 1st job outside germany. slick succeeds. tell you, ma'am. this school was dismissed to find barcelona on friday. and finally an iceland, a new volcanic fisher has opened up in the south west of the country. the region has seen 8 russians in the last 3 years. the kilometer long crack and the earth began stealing lava just hours ago. the effected area is mostly on populated, but close to the famous blue lagoon spot and a major geothermal power plant. latest directions come as a blow to the residence of the fishing town of grand vague, who have not been allowed to return to their home since december and love. i began to encroach on the town, severing water and electricity supply lights. i satcher allen today with the cell

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