on the business detail, the news live from berlin, french motors, turn out in force, and the 2nd round of snap parliamentary elections president emanuel con centrist alliance is expected to be as many seats to maureen. the pens far right. national rally. she's hoping to win a majority to govern alone. also coming up the war and gaza enters its 10th month as diplomatic efforts and just to cease far may be possible. but the death toll in the palestinian territory continues to climb, falling the strike on a you and run school. israel claims with sheltering him off terrorist the

melissa chan. welcome francis voting and the 2nd and final round of snap parliamentary elections. voters are casting ballots that could produce the country's 1st bar, right government, since world war 2, president emanuel mclaren who took a huge gamble on calling for snap elections. cast his ballot in paris. he could lose control of parliament to the far right national rally party, which has emerged as the dominant force in several opinion polls. earlier i spoke to dw correspondence. sonya found the car in paris. i asked her about the likelihood of the national rally winning an absolute majority. it was the natural reality is certainly going into the 2nd and final drawing, defaulting in, and really unprecedented position of strength. but in recent days, we have seen frantic efforts by the mystery alliance. the new popular front and

preston, montreal sentenced alliance. really making efforts to block the far right. this strategy has been to kind of withdrawal candidates from 3 way to run off and unite . we're behind the remaining content. those who have the restaurants to beat the national body, we've seen more than 200 candidates pull out. and that could be working opinion polls show the actual value and automation portfolio short of an absolute majority in parliament. but there are still a lot of unknowns today. one major concern is that not all of my call centers lives . have united behind the strategy to, to block the far right that alone. because, well, you know, we did the left with the, with the pod right. and it's tons of extremes, policies and the concerns of this kind of mixed messaging might put off centers with those and stop them from voting for the left and drawn off against the far right today. so i think a lot depends today on where the voters, really, he'd be schools where mainstream policies on the far right. pretty whole that moses and both to candidates what really far from being the 1st choice in the 1st round

would also shouting now from the twenty's, the to a note has been high by, by noon, slightly higher. in fact, then, during the 1st run, the highest, the thing since 1981. but we don't know is that the false, whether this, who the, the high to them out, which was the doctor would benefit from. and we're also hearing the campaigns been marked by threats and even some uh, physical violence. can you tell us more? that's correct. i mean, this campaign has really been a very rushed and intensive very for the rising. we've heard from the interior minister jet, i've done my now who's saying that 51 candidates, the deputies or party activists have been physically attacked by people all for reading backgrounds. the french media have also reported about a spike in kind of hits speech and racist incidents around the country to give you just a few examples that are reports of pamphlets targeting, but black people appearing in mailboxes in the powers sub recently that are reports of to be create in the southern city of, of you know, which report to be hired an apprentice from the ivory coast that victory was

started with recent slogans and set on fire. and the excellent seal of explore express real concerns that the surgeon volta support for the anti immigration natural riley has really seems to have made some people comfortable using racist and 054, with language openly. now in public life, the candidates many kind of naturally, riley themselves, wind gusts in control the seas. they've been posting. it will races, tapes for each on social media. and to add to all this that are also security fields, your fields of alignments tonight, the virus and other cities regardless of the outcome of the vote, security has wouldn't be felt that more than $30000.00 police officers deployed across bronze today to make sure the vitamins you know, doesn't break out. so the 2nd round is slightly taking place with a very fraud at the speed and very quickly what does this mean for pet president because he stays president regardless of the outcome of the elections. correct? that is correct. i mean person macro has said he will stay in paula to this

residential mandates. ends in 2027. but you know, regardless of the outcomes of votes, i think micro on images from the certainly we can. his dentist alliance us on the isabel very likely to shed support lose seats and following and battlefields that this might, you know, we can macro ones for the we can my goals ability to shape policy. and it would probably also affect to spec to on the international stages with sonya salazar, thank you so much for joining us. us now to some of the other stories making news around the world rescue workers are rushing to repair a damn breach at china is donating lake that's force thousands of people from their homes. the breach comes after torrential rains in the central, who 9 province. chinese state media said it could take days to complete the repair work. at least 7 people had been killed after a multi story building collapse in western india. it happened in the city of serrato in the stay of good yachts trapping. residents, under the rubble authorities say it's unclear what caused the collapse. europe's

tallest active volcano, mount aetna is still spewing streams of red hot lava. volcanic activity from one of its craters has intensified to this week, causing explosions that had been covering the sky in black smoke and ash. residence on the texas coast are preparing for a leaning hit by a tropical storm barrel, which is expected to regain hurricane strength. as it turns over the warm waters of the gulf of mexico forecasters expect barrow to make landfall as a hurricane on monday. with heavy rain wind and a dangerous storm surge, but how much one health ministry says more than 38100 people had been killed during the war. and god, though this, as the conflicts sparked by him off, fled terror attacks in october, enters its 10th month. new diplomatic efforts are once again raising hopes of a truce. as the violence continues. though the ministry said saturday that at least

16 people were killed by and is really to strike on a you and run school in a central refuge account of new startup. screens and smoke filled the air moments of to israel's attack. survive is scrambled to search through the wreckage at the school and know serat around $7000.00 people estimated to be sheltering in the area. and as you know, the, we run to the target to the area. we saw bodies of children in pieces. this is a playground. there was a trampoline, he a swing set, some vendors civilians are killed. this is the united nation school. it's supposed to be safe and should not be targeted. every strike we find bodies blown to pieces . look upon,

i swear to god. i took out children with my own hands. the wounded rushed to hospital with the health services on the brink of collapse. children were treated and busy. colorado was it's rouse, military student had been targeting terrorist and the attack from us denied sizes. with their meanwhile in tel aviv thousands of protesters once again demanded as rouse government except a deal to bring back hostages and reach a ceasefire. amongst has reportedly sauce and its position on a draft agreement, potentially opening negotiations of to weeks of the law. for the 1st time,

we'll be able to get back to me how may i situate the government is very simple. there is a deal on the table page. it hasn't been a pause in slicing and java since a one week truce and no theme. the officials involved in sci fi negotiation say real progress has been made in recent days that will miss to lots of work ahead and reaching a binding agreement. just a short while ago i asked dw senior international correspondent, find any, such are in jerusalem, what israel has been saying about the deadly gaza, straight on that you and run school. well, these are our claims that the area around that school was allegedly used by homeless militants to carry out their attacks while i'm a submitted since again, claim that allegedly, the soldiers were not even nearby place and called the claims very similar ones via food during the past 9 months as the war and guys and so it's 10 months today. and

the question really is for the people on the ground for the hundreds of thousands of palestinians who have been displaced again and again. what's next, either way out from this, just for this particular test drive the on that school, the hearing from the palestinian health ministry that at least 16 people have been killed. many others have been a pull to the injured. but what do these people go with been injured? they're new operating only very rather mentally, very partially operating hospitals. at this point in gaza, is that people the thousands who have been seeking shelter in that particular school. these people have been displaced over and over again, and some of them probably of consider themselves even lucky to be inside the building as so many of the policy means right now. try to somehow survive intends if they even have a tend or look for a place where they can sleep outside. so that situation on the ground is growing disastrous by the day. why once again people are asking,

is there an end to these facilities at all? and when, and speaking of a way out of this about those ongoing ceasefire negotiations, any reason to be optimistic or there's definitely some cautious optimism. i would say the very fact that the diplomatic efforts have been revived during the past week. and the very fact that obviously nobody expects how much put it into that is where the official has to be sitting at one table. but the fact is katasha that's playing with the key role here in trying to mediate between the spot to use to make sure that the u. s. proposed ceasefire plan is being put in action, is leading to some cautious optimism. i would like to revive, i would like to remind of you our, since we got to that ceased by a proposal by the us that's been put forward with the may that into it entails not only until 3 p. so the release of hostages allegedly about 120 also just i still believe to be in gaza,

but also the withdrawal of israeli troops and ultimately the rebuilding of casa, that's a long road ahead and at this point, the space that currently both either out and, and and guides are in and the parties that are trying to negotiate with each other is the question. just how to move forward with regard to any framework to 8 shoes and what we are hearing right now that's kind of submitted and apparently have dropped one of the key demands. and that was so far that they wanted to have a commitment by as well, to a permanent fees file before any agreement is being signed. the document has been dropped. and now the boy is really the court of user out how they're going to respond to that hard. they going to respond to i'm not saying that they're really ready to negotiate with the got to the release of is really hostages. that was dw senior international correspondent, funny char in jerusalem, talking to us earlier. now time to talk football and england have beaten switzerland and the 1st of 2 quarter finals at the european championships. the

match proved to be another nail biter ending one all in regular time with no goals and extra time the match went down to a penalty shoot out. trend alexander arnold converted the final spot kicks to win the shoot out for england $5.00 to $3.00. and then the 2nd match of the evening, the netherlands beat turkey to advance to the semi finals. the turkish team took the lead early on in the 1st half and fiercely defended it into the 2nd. but in the 76 minutes, the dutch turned to the game around scoring once to draw even then again, 5 minutes later, with an own goal by a turkish player at the final score. 21, ready, steady, slow. those are the words that kicked off the world snell racing championships in norfolk england this weekend, organizers said conditions were perfect just a little bit, damp, and not too warm. after weeks of training and prep,

erasers and their coaches were ready to compete. the winning trainer receives an engraved tutor tankard, and the price for the victorious smell, very juicy arrangement of romaine lettuce this years, where the winner was a sales calls. jeff, and there he is. a. and a reminder of the top story we're following for you. french voters are casting ballots in a problem entry election that could produce the country's 1st far right government . since world war 2 were reading the pens, anti immigration national rally stands, a chance of winning a majority for the 1st time. but president emanuel, my con, has teamed up with left this candidates in an effort to block a far right majority. and with that, you're up to date. but stay with us coming up. or ron is causing instability and disrupting trade through its proxy militias in the middle east. we examine just how powerful iran is. stay tuned for mapped out. don't forget,

you can always find more on our website at dw dot com and follow us at dw news. i'm alyssa chance, thanks for joining us. the . the around looks pretty powerful. it's somehow involved in a lot of conflicts. the rainy regime is funding militia groups across the region and even launched a direct attack on these ro, something that used to be off limits. but how much of it is just for show projects a give me a show how externally whereas internally is extremely fragile.