the, the, this is the news live from berlin. israel's military says it has taken complete control of a strip of land linking gaza to egypt. says the move aims to prevent home us smuggling weapons into gaza. israel has expanded its ground operation in southern gaza despite international condemnation, over civilian casualties. also coming up valid counting has begun in south africa in what's being called the most important election since the end of apartheid. the amc fighting to hold onto power and desperately seeking shelter. pakistan's for bear the brunt of an unprecedented heat wave made worse by climate change.

the welcome to our show. so you can do the invalid. israel's military says it has taken full control of the strip of land that serves as a buffer zone between gaza and egypt is really military cleaning the philadelphia cord or provides a weapon smuggling root into the gaza for her most militants. but it's also a key part of a delicate piece arrangement between egypt and israel is really helicopters firing towards rafa near the southern most city and gaza, where israel's military says it is seized control of a key stretch of land. the 14 kilometer philadelphia cord or that as long served as a buffer zone between gaza and egypt. every muscle in him. in recent

days aside, the forces have taken operational control over the philadelphia, colorado, along the border between egypt and the best phone. she met the philadelphia in colorado, so as an oxygen pipe for a mazda 3, which is regularly trans, sits width into the costs of stripe, the shoot, the cover to bills and cover the capture of the court, or where israel says its troops found these rocket launchers could complicate israel's relations with egypt. cairo is accused israel using the allegations of smuggling to justify legally occupying the stretch of land. this latest development is also a signal, israel's deepening offensive and southern gaza. despite growing international calls for to stop israel's military chief of staff, visit a troops and rough uh, assuring them they will push on the why not newport. because we're here for a couple of reasons. this is the last time i asked for guides that remains with all

the testing abilities molly and we want to dismantle, is about the 5th. israel insists it needs to carry out the rough operation to rescue the hostages. how moss took emil tobar 7 terre attacks. despite condemnation from allies in a groups a like a civilian casualties mount, it is rarely bombardment and broth on wednesday, head of building and this so um neighborhood. meanwhile, the homeless run health ministry, and now the death toll and the cause of war had risen above $36000.00. the problem is that definitely the federal oppression has been conducted in such a way that the number of civilian casualties and the destruction of c, even e for destruction and browsing and presidents and there's no end in sight. israel's national security advisor says the offensive and gauze is expected to go

on for at least 7 more months to israel and the us are still calling the russell offensive limited. we ask defense analysts, michael clark, what an all out offensive would look like. what i'm thinking, the defense would look pretty much like what they're doing. to be honest, it's hard to see what way this friend who is limited because they moved 5 brigades . i think they created 2 divisions onto a 100 and 62nd. in the 90 example in division for this phase of the operation, then they put a 9 case division into the knolls, and they mobilized our to 13 brigades there. but they were 2 big divisions out of 13 brigades. they mobilized 10 of them, 5 brigades, going to the know 5 brigades working in the south, and they're pushing us 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 and the buildings they go whenever they see target. so i mean the bombing yesterday

that the cut out as a couple of days ago with the a tunnel assault on an area that changed area because they felt that they had to particular and a terrorist to me to how much people using ro, buick, and call it now guys, i'd say they sold, they had 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. those defensive was michael clark to south africa now where votes are being counted and what's being called the most important part of the military election. since the end of a part time at stake is the african national congress parties. 30 year absolute majority. polls indicate that support for the amc has dipped below 50 percent, which means the party might be forced to share power. results are expected within the next several days. of our correspondent diane hawker has been following the election in johannesburg today. she sent us this update as pulling stations closed

earlier voting stations closed at 9 p. m here in south africa. and those who are still in the line all waiting to cost a vote from across the country. we've heard that they are still a number of voting stations with they are hundreds of people waiting to cost the votes. it'll be a difficult time for many of them in some parts of the country, the temperatures have already started to drop, such as, yeah, and, and the spread we've, i've, i've had to put on this one jacket. others in the line. don't have that kind of with the protection. some people have also been complaining about all hungry and how tired they are off to spending hours waiting in the queue. the easy stuff also have a long night ahead of them. they will have to start counting votes. this evening and start sending those numbers to the national results into the national results. and to will then start correlating those numbers from old $23000.00 voting stations

around the country. and that means that the i c is in a race against time because they have 7 days within which to announce the final election results in the past. they've announced them within $3.00 to $4.00 days. of course, they seems to be quite a high vote to, to not this time around, and they full will have to wait and see how long it will take for them to announce the results. indications off that by this weekend, we could begin to see who has won the selection or correspond to, to add hawker in johannesburg. here's the look now. some of the other stories making headlines around the world to the jury. and donald trump hush money trial has completed its 1st day of deliberations without reaching a decision. the former us president is accused of concealing payments, made to an adult film actress. shortly before the 2016 presidential elections found guilty, trump could face up to 4 years in prison. disgrace movie mogul harvey weinstein may

face new charges of sexual misconduct. prosecutors in new york told a judge that more people have come forward with assault claims. weinstein is waiting for a re trial in new york. after convictions on rape and sexual assault charges were overturned in april is 16 year prison sentence for rape in california was not effected. strong winds have blown in american airlines plane from its position parked on a tar back at a texas airport. the plane was unoccupied at the time. severe storms in the region of killed and injured dozens. we as well as causing widespread power outages. the powerful side clone has killed at least 65 people in bangladesh and india cycle. and ramada which made land fall on sundays, moved inland, causing floods, and triggering landslide. almost a 1000000 people have been evacuated in thousands of homes, have been destroyed. well, the indian capital delhi has reported an all time high temperature of 52.3 degrees

celsius. that's more than $126.00 degrees fahrenheit. neighboring pakistan. temperatures have also exceeded 52 degrees in recent days. authorities there have urged people to stay indoors. hydrate and avoid unnecessary travel. as the number of heat, heat stroke cases climbs a team of international scientists as dangerous heat waves like the one in south asia, are becoming more likely due to human driven climate change. the air in ha ha ha, stifling. she lives in what is one of the hottest places on the planet right now? the temperatures here in the southern sense brogans have sort above 52 degrees with no fall and no proper shelter. she's exposed to dangerous 11 feet high. going to me that i have to sit in the she'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 gone just be at home or 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 food, things, temperatures come after the country for breakfast, april, since 1961. exports attribute, the 16, but the difference to 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 a deposition mechanisms, hotel focused on deal with a fix of time. it change much better the government to park us back. they're

trying their best to ensure that predictability is key, where that can prevent massive loss of life from there. the, the, the early 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. it doc dition has its limits. but buck is kind of responsible for less than one percent of greenhouse gas emissions. and unless local greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced, people in countries like focused on, we've continued to pear, tree dispersion, a japanese and south korean officials say north korea has fired a barrage of ballistic missiles toward it's eastern waters. south korea said it detected around 10 suspected short range, ballistic missiles fired from an area near the capital shown yang. the new

publication comes one day after south korea accuse the north of sending hundreds of balloons filled with trash and suspected extra minute over the border. the south calling it a low class starts. hundreds of these balloons arrived in south korea overnight and are scattered across the country, the gary trash and what the army said, look like fish. he's sent across the border by north korea. it has left locals and so worried he does okay. in terms what is she doing with this home? it was so creepy and scary that the balloon must have full. and then because north korea designate a specific target to really, i mean everyone was scared at that moment. i wonder what would have happened if there wasn't just rubbish sheet. and so even though viruses or chemicals, because the pedal continued and i thought war could break out right away,

down the deposit is a little strongly, that's how i felt. if this situation worsens, that would be war. since security don't know how far north korea will go, i was very anxious. they think they put on. of course, north korea has said that the balloons were in retaliation to these inflatables, which were sent by south korean activists. that contained what north korean authority is called propaganda. leaflets alongside us be 6 with gape up content. south korea has called this latest act, dangerous. it has deployed its military to inspect and collect these bags of field from across the country, or some sports news. now, buyer munich, having appointed vincent company as their new coach. following a months long search several top candidates had rejected the german club. the 38 year old company has signed

a 3 year contract. that's despite his current team burnley. having just been relegated out of the english premier lee by and see potential and the former belgian international. he also speaks german because he played for humber. company replaces thomas too who after buyer ended the season without a trophy for the 1st time since 2012 and finally in iceland, a new volcanic fisher has opened up in the country southwest. the kilometer long cracking the earth against viewing level on wednesday, the 8th russian in the region. in the last 3 years, the area is mostly on populated, but the lava has forced the evacuation of the famous blue lagoon spa as well as the nearby fishing town of green dominic. so you're watching dw news. here's a reminder of our top story. israel's military says it has taken complete control of the strip of land separating garza from egypt. the move comes after israel launch deadly strikes in the neighboring city of rafa. despite the global outcry

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