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 her moss from smuggling weapons into gone. so it is real, has expanded its ground operation in southern gaza despite international condemnation, over civilian casualties. also on our show, hong kong port funds, democratic activists, guilty of subversion. under a china impose national security law, will ask for corresponded what the verdict means for the opposition movement there . and valid counseling has begun in south africa in what's being called the most

important election since the end of apartheid. the amc fights to hold on the power the welcome to our show seem good the in berlin. israel's military says it has taken full control of the strip of land. it serves as a buffer zone between gaza and egypt. that is really military claiming the philadelphia chords or provides a weapons smuggling root into the gaza for home aust militants. but this trip is 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, a 14 kilometer philadelphia cord, or that as long served as

a buffer zone between garza and egypt. mahoney. in recent days, find the sources, have taken operational control over the philadelphia, colorado, along the border between egypt and restaurant, she meant to send a delta card or 7 as an oxygen pipe for a mazda 3, which it regularly translates width into the costs of stripe. to shoot this over to bills and cover the captor of the cord 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 bravo, assuring them they will push on one afternoon before we come. we're here for

a couple of reasons. this is the last time i asked for guide that remains with all the test abilities molly and we want to dismantle it as a call they can talk about the fia is rolling system. it needs to carry out the rough operation to rescue the hostages. how moss took the old tober 7 terre attacks, despite condemnation from allies in 8 groups, a like a civilian casualties mount. it is rarely bombardment and broth on wednesday, head of building in this so, um neighborhood. meanwhile, the homeless fraud health ministry and now the death toll and the cause of war had risen above 36000. the problem is that that means that the 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. it's and there's no end in sight.

israel's national security advisor says the offensive and gaza is expected to go on for at least 7 more months to israel and the us continue to call the rasa, offensive limited. we asked defense analysts, michael clark, what an all out offensive would look like. well, i think 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, and they put a 9 case division into the knowles, and they mobilized our to 13 brigades there, but they were too 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 on the

bombing as they go whenever they see target. so, i mean, they would call me yesterday that the cut out as a couple of days ago with the towel salt on an area that changed area because they felt that they had to particular and a terrorist to me to how much people using rubia and how it now goes, 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 and a lot of defensive. those defense analysts, michael clark, and a landmark case, hong kong is high court, has found 14 pro democracy act was guilty of subversion. the occupants are part of the homecoming. 47 group. it's a part in an unofficial primary election in 2020. they were charged under the national security law that being imposed on the measure has wiped out public to send in what was once ranked ages, freest city. the activist could face

a lifetime in prison. a fee kong has been following the case in hong kong of phoebe. how is this verdict likely to be greeted there on the outside to the on the now the result of the amount of the 16 defends are not feeding to the quick here. the fact today um only to send the equipment off or does that mean uh, 14 of them are taken care of to see what the under basement? no. no. um like you have my sons in the report um that there are hopefully 47 defendants in the pay. thousands including many of the communists in the office like the home phone. so, um, like, according to the results today that was popular draws in either uh like they have,

i don't see that pc elia or they asked me, so i only 240 and this is the view said that there were some prominent access leaders in this group is that why there's been so much attention on this case? is the largest file, what is the phone call been facing imposed on the suite to secure it's a long phone call. in this case, it's one of the most mostly monitored pace i among on the international community this morning. we saw adoptions all the width and depth. we met through including those from the new on the us in many of the what's the countries they also came to the cost of the, the 3rd a. so this means a lot because they are not perfect to some. if the biggest round up of all those

like all of the meet the opposition party, hampton. oh, so the communist accidents and one in one case, accusing them on the 13th to say like 5 csc to, to an official primary housing. put a notice on the opposite thing, kind of a full that that's potent next to the now the court that they said caught up a lot to sunset the government and find the paralyzed the government because on the court, a separate document cited modification, saying that they the penalties and trying to vehicle the government, but they want to say, so these are the arguments accepted by the doctors and they pop up, reset the menu, all the defense on the inside on the lawyer. so i'll do this. i'm going to be calling in hong kong. thank you very much.

we go to south africa now where votes are being counted in what's being called the most important parliament, 3 election since the end of apartheid at stake is the african national congress parties of the 30 year. absolute majority polls indicate that support for the agency has dipped below 50 percent, which means the party might be forced to share power. results are expected within the next several days. as a correspondent diane hawker has been following the election in johannesburg today. she sent us this update as pulling stations closed . boating stations closed at 9 p. m here in south africa. and those who are still in the line all waiting to cost a boat 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 a votes. it will 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 way, 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, we'll 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 toyota talk,

or they're in johannesburg. let's have a look now. some of the other stories making headlines around the world for the jury, and donald trump's 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. if found guilty, trump could face up to 4 years in prison. a gunman has shot dead, an opposition candidate for mayor and southern mexico. alfredo cabrera was gone down at a political rally. within 20 people running for local office have been killed ahead of nationwide elections. it will take place this sunday. 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 and new york after convictions on rape and sexual assault charges for over

turned in april and 16 year prison sentence for raping california was not effected in his capital deli has reported an all time high temperature of 52.3 degrees celsius, neighboring pakistan, temperatures of also exceeded 52 degrees and recent days. authorities have urged people to stay indoors, hydrate, and avoid unnecessary travel as the number of heat stroke cases lives. a team of international scientists, a 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? 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. have got

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, if done, i don't 40 percent of the population lives below the poverty line. for despite the punishing heat, many people have gone just stay at home, the color we have to work and 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 folding temperatures. come after the country for breakfast april, since 1961. experts attribute the 16 but that it brings the human meet to try me change the 2022 flats and focused on so one part of the country stopped motion under water. and because millions and economic losses investment in the deposition

mechanisms hotel focused on these with a fix of time of change, much better of the, the government of 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 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 find the fee. it duct ition has its limits, but box is not as 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 appear to treat this button you're watching due to the news. here's a reminder of our top story. israel's military says it has taken complete control of the strip of land that separates concept from egypt. move comes after israel

launch deadly strikes in the neighboring city of rafa, despite a global outcry over increasing numbers of civilian deaths. well, that's it for now. we'll be back soon with more headlines in the meantime. you can buy this online dot com brussel on youtube under the dw news channels i've seen, there's invalid. thanks for watching the type of data. so much for the 1st is just as i've been in a coma close by persecution and flights. meanwhile for con dreams of another world wake up on scott's june 1st on dw, the.