the the, this is the, the news coming to live from berlin. russian president vladimir putin is on his way to pyongyang, for a state visit, hooting hills, nor 3, ever supporting his war and ukraine. a head of talks with leader kim jong, also coming up protests, flare and israel over benjamin us. and you know who was handling of the conflict in gaza. this is israels military, so it is control of rafa is within reach and is really hostage negotiator cautions against halting the war until all captives are released the

law. i'm terry martin. good to have you with us russians, president is heading to north korea on his way. vladimir pertain has stopped all in russia's far eastern city of the 2 yacht quits. after visiting the regions technology in defense sector, he is planning to fly to north korea's capital gone young for talks with ruler, control on the 2 are expected to sign an official, a strategic partnership earlier putting praise, know 3 or 4 it support of his war and ukraine is to day visit as the 1st trip is his 1st trip to north korea in 24 years. north korean leader, kim jong, and in russia last you shaking hands with his russian counts upon latham at present demand, he now cause an invincible comrey. no substance abuse in his trips in north korea and his fed meeting with came,

is this demonstration of deepening ties between moscow and fuel. yeah. but see what the series of the united states have drawn close to since russia lost its full scale invasion of ukraine's finding friendship. i mean growing global life selection, but it's a relationship that spoken concerns in the west. south korean and us officials say the north has been feeding the russians who machine sending millions of munitions to must go. they say russia in return has provided most career with military technology. and the can only kate, in defiance of un resolutions sold in washington, have held an emergency cool to discuss the visit. but despite the western criticism, the kremlin said it has every right to develop ties with killing yet shouldn't be challenged for doing so. this comes this tensions on the korean peninsula. steadly built the us and south career recently conducted joints era exercises teaching a b one strategic moment to allow split of shooting for you did the 1st precision

guided building drill even 7 years south korea this month, scrapped and military packed with the north, allowing it to resume combat drills on that shared folder. so for ritz pod said, it was responding to a barrels of north korean blooms, filled with the seas and trash that was sent towards the south to layer i spoke about this with james changer and said, gosh, someone else gave dw correspondence for east asia and russia begin by asking j gosh, in riga, what present preteen hopes to achieve with his visit to north korea? well, terry, for vladimir putting the main thing on his agenda these days is of course the war in ukraine. and this is also the reason why he's coming back to the north korea and he's coming back, but it's his 1st visit in 24 years. he's been the only was as russian leader of back in the year 2000. and as you've mentioned before,

he has praised this support that's russia receives from north korea. and the he said that russia highly appreciate north korea support for the russian special military operation in ukraine. of course, his words for, for the war and ukraine. so a way of phone tends to read it, killed this relationship. north korea really has was letting me put in and russia i need at this point, which is a munition particularly to liberty munition, for the war effort in ukraine. did us and south korea have warranted that north korea, north korean war, arms exports to russia have are one to rise ever since that control and visited russia back in september last year. and so put in is coming to north korea wouldn't big delegation. the range of officials, including deputy prime ministers, including the defense minister, heads of russian space agency of russian railway. so the support for the russian

war effort will be at the main point on letting me put these agenda. james in taipei. what is north korea's ruler kim? jones calling hoping to get out of this meeting. well, of course, one of the really critical things that kim jo meeting is going to be looking for is simply legitimacy. remember, it's a fairly rare car for a foreign leader to visit north career. and so tim jones to be able to receive an international leader on the scale of ultimate truth and even showing me young sort of symbolic significance advances is something to be notices. of course, the minute tree and psychological hardware is going to be front and center of the concern. so for came joanne, as we understand us and south korean officials have been talking about this over recent months. that won't king joining is going to be really looking for, as we believe in exchange for those weapons that we believe he is sending to russia is support. whether it's for example, spice satellite program,

i'm for its weapons program in contravention of, of un resolutions. but of course, the even broad context will have a says that the russia in north korea have the shed geo political belief that the us will be in different contexts as trying to him in that countries to, for us and that countries. and that's what we really see with this backdrop of, of west wing ties between the 2 careers, between north and south korea, which is again, the north korea believing that the us is trying to rain, bring its allies together in the, in the pacific to threaten new increased security and we see even in, in the hours meeting up. so this arrival of prison that has been exchange of fire across the team of the tries are now between the 2 chris saying that was the w z say is a correspond to james trader, and ty, pay and are correspond for russia, j gosh schuman dorski. he's in riga, i was talking to them just a little while ago. now, thailand has become the 1st country in south east asia to legalize same sex

marriage. senators passed a landmark marriage equality bill. overwhelmingly 1324. to allow same sex couples to tie the knot with 18 cent substantiates. the boat has been hailed as a victory by campaigners and members of the l. g. b t. q. community who gathered thailand's parliament to welcome them. but the law is expected to come into force later this year. sketch up on a few other stories making headlines around the world today. european union leaders have failed to reach agreement on who will be taking the top jobs and the blog. european commission, president or slip on the line is expected to eventually secure backing to stay in her position for a 2nd term. but talks in brussels broke up in the early hours of tuesday without a deal. is they do the secretary general, you installed bag says a record 23 of the 32 members of the alliance are on track to hit spending targets

of 2 percent of g d p. so back told us present, joe biden. the alliance members are spending more money than ever on us defense equipment. the surgeon alliance spending comes as a result of the rushes invasion of ukraine. we will be. israel's army has said it's on its way to meeting him us in the city of rafa and expects to gain full control of the area within a few weeks. meanwhile, thousands of antique government protesters clashed with police near the prime minister's residence in jerusalem on monday. officers the rest of the number of people, the demonstrators were protesting that's ano, who was handling of the war and demanding new elections to replace him. there also calling for a deal with homeless militants to secure the release of hostages. held in garza, with thousands of israelis demanding the prime ministers resignation, i asked the w, correspond to rebecca rivers. if nothing, yahoo still has enough support to stay in office. terry and prime minister benjamin

netanyahu, his popularity and so hasn't been a very high at all since the beginning of the school since october 7, but support for his policies have been generally high across the board. and we all starting to see, of course, these protests gains meant him and gain for us the team, but they are still very much a minority of the israeli public. even in the beginning of the what we was saying, people considered to be suddenly on the left and even fall lifted, who were turning their support towards what israel was trying to achieve and gauze . those simply so shocked and horrified by the events of october 7 that they too were on the side of completing israel's military aims of ousting, mouse and timing. from the going to a strip. we are starting to see the tide turn not entirely against the will, but certainly there is no more support for being hosted as hon. it's certainly recent polling suggests that a more his ratings are in favor of,

of reaching some kind of hostage deals, some kind of political deal to be able to bring the remaining hostages back alive. and as well, the bodies of the remains of those who are not no longer alive. and that is uh, more popular than completing the items in, in gall. so in terms of a mil military efforts were even starting to see that from these ready military, as you mentioned in the late in the these are the military saying that they're coming to completing the tasks in rough or, and their so the angling for more targeted approach will sort of special ops operations going in as, as the war increasingly moves towards a more realer insurgency. they are looking now of course, towards the northern border with 11 on the site with high school of it's happening and he can teasing out the. so, you know, support for the policies do remain though he is starting to lose the small of total support for the war. and yet there's massive pressure on nothing yahoo,

both domestically and internationally. is there any indication, rebecca, that that pressure will cause this in yahoo to rethink his approach to the war. a well known if history is anything to go by. and certainly all the pressure that has been placed, as you say, from both sides from within his coalition. the found right, members of his coalition and the from the united states, particularly, but other western allies that hasn't really changed the course of the will so far. and now we're starting to see slight divisions of fishes appear, even between the military and the pilot politic and benjamin netanyahu apparently are seemingly very keen to keep this will going. he does not want to see the post gospel period. he has not given any plan for what will, what that will look like or what is around its fix. it has to see in regards to a strip. and that's one of the reasons why the most interest, so called centers benny got stood down from the wood cabinet with

a that was he was in we 5 minutes to benjamin netanyahu because he said that there was no plan and he could no longer stay on that in that cabinet. so you know, definitely we're seeing some changes potentially, but i don't think the pressure is really getting through to change benjamin that now his costs are making. thank you very much. that was our correspondent in jerusalem. rebecca rivers the united nation says welcome to these really military's announcement of tactical pauses in southern gaza, designed to accommodate deliveries and aid. but the lenses more needs to be done to get relief to people in need, especially children. world health organization says more than 8000 children under the age of 5 had been diagnosed and treated for acute mel nutrition in gaza. agencies also say children like access to sufficient health care there and are living in a constant state of fear. james elder is

a spokesperson for unicef. he joined us from rafa in southern gaza and told us how the humanitarian situation there has evolved over the past months. a look. it's gotten so much worse. no one should be surprised by that since march. those same children have had to 3 more months of relentless, bombardments every not as before as we were getting these sorted out a bit there at the bottom and see now last night the night before. if it's not bombardments, it's drones, either attack drones or drones that are like a low mile or in your head. this continues to go on. i the right fear is that it's a normalized. there is nothing normal about children being deprived. so there's nothing normal about thousands of children being bone. there's certainly nothing normal about the constant fee of the people living. so people now physically and psychologically shifted, they were in much, somehow they've held on, but they are literally now just holding on with a dye, lack of water with nutrition, consistent denials of eyes and ongoing indiscriminate,

indiscriminate attacks. i've just come back from the hospital games. think children with liam is missing with our, with, with, without that being made blind in the last few days while sleeping in their homes. it's $250.00 days. that's how things are compared to match. james elder, they're vanessa now to the united states for basketball fans in the city of boston are celebrating after their team. the celtics won the 18th and the a championship sale 6 claims when after beating the dallas fabrics $106.00 points, $288.00 in game 5 of the final series, celtics shooting guard, jaylen brown was the most valuable player. the wins sent a new n b a record. the celtics now have the most titles in championship history. the thing a previous time with the los angeles lakers,

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