the headlines palestinian resistance movement hamas says it is presented a gaza seasfire proposal to mediators with the aim of putting an end to the ongoing war. yemen's ansar law leader says that operations against israel of inc vessels will extend to include ships crossing the indian ocean. russians are heading to the poles across the country in a three-day presidential election.

hello and welcome everybody, it's 3:30 p.m. here in the iranian capital of tehrani, watching press tv's world news, our top story for this half hour, palestinian resistance moven hamos says it has put forth new proposal for a gaza cease fire with the aim of ending the israeli war on the besieg territory. hamas says it is presented the proposal to egyptian and khatari mediators, the movement says under its proposal, the occupying israeli forces should leave gaza. hamas says its proposal also includes the return of displaced palestinians to their homes and providing them with aid. the exchange of palestinian prisoners with israeli captives held in gaza is included as well. reports say the initial exchange would see the release of israeli women, children, elderly, and the sick, they would be freed in return for the release of 700 to 100 palestinians. the israeli regime has... said

the new hamas position is based on what it called unrealistic demands. senior hamas official asama hamdan has already said any israeli opposition means that the regime wants to continue the war. the israeli military has conducted new attacks on different locations across gaza, our correspondent in the central city of darald balala earlier joined us to give us more details and that means... the israeli accubition artillery maintained its shelling towards the eastern part of several areas of gaz strip particularly here in balah city and almograga neighborhood and even fugi camp heavy artillery shilling reach those areas uh and that shilling actually was maintained over the night and even in jabal refugee camp and in kanyunis city the israeli artillery also maintained and continued their attacks

and air strikes, in the meantime, the central, the central areas of khanuni city and jabalier fiji camp also were hit uh relentlessly by those israeli continuous air strikes, several horizontal buildings destroyed over those cruel attacks, condemnation um pouring in over israel's massacre of over 100 palestinians waiting for humanitarian aid in gaza's. city on thursday, the palestinian mujahidin movement says israel's shelling of aid seekers at the kuwaiti roundabout is a stain of shame for anyone complicit in the crime. the resistance moving held to the us and other western states in some arab countries responsible for israel's genocide in gaza, another resistance movement. hamas reacted as well, it criticized the failure of the international community and the un to take action against israel, hamas said the inaction. has given

the regime the green light to commit horrific crimes against palestinians. israel has time and again targeted aid seekers in gaza in uh the past several weeks, the regime unleashed its war on gaza early october, killing over 31,300 people. the repeated israeli attacks on aid seekers in gaza was the topic of our news review program. let's take a listen to a comments by our guests on that issue. and now welcome everyone to press tv's news review program where we get in depth in one of the day's top stories. joining us now for the program is habiba jaguuri, a journalists and activist joining us from adelade and john stepling, author and commentator. joining us

out of inderoy, norway, hello and i like to welcome you both to the program, i guess habiba, we'll do the gentlemenly thing here and start with you uh uh first, your initial thoughts, who in what conflict provides? or denies, pardon me, denies a civilian population of food, water and medicine, and the little that does get in, it targets them when they are desperately seeking to go after it. thank you so much for having me. well, a regime that has started off being anti-human in politics from the very beginning of its foundation, that from the very beginning of his foundation started off as a lie, started off as excuse to come and plunder and still. resources, of course that something like this, some atrocious, atrocious, absolutely horrific war crime of using salvation as a weapon of war and then killing people seeking aid, seeking food, of course such a result will come from israel, a terrorist state,

israel has been a rogue state from the very beginning of its foundation, it has never ever given importance to human life. john, welcome to the program, now john, you know very well, there's a lory, a big rig and... wheeler somewhere in ukraine carrying humanitarian aid and it gets targeted, it'll be all over western corporate media news. this is eight trucks getting in, one out of every 500 are getting in, and then when they do, you're not just hitting the truck, sometimes you are actually, there's really sometimes are hitting them in route on highways, but the worst part is hitting when people are scattered around them resulting, and you very well know it's been done systematically, and it's not just on one incident now. yeah, what your other guess? said uh, it is worth underscoring again, and yes of course there's a double standard that's a naked double standard in reporting on on israel and gaza from western media, it's it's shocking actually, but your other guess is right, israel has been a settler

colonial, imperial project from even before 1948, they were killing arabs even before that, um, ergun and the stern gang, and so forth, we're we're terrorizing the region, uh, you can go back and and look up the bombing of the king david hotel, and on and on. the list of war crimes from, uh, committed by israel is is nearly endless. habiba jaguri, joining us from australia, and mr. john steping there, joining us out of norway, and viewers, that brings us to the conclusion of this segment of your press tv's news review program. thank you for tuning in, and goodbye for now. well holy month of ramadan is observed as a special and holy month for muslims across the globe, but the situation is different for palestinians in

gaza where they are living under catastrophic conditions due to the israeli world stick listen to comments by some of the residents in gaza. i thought they end. moving from one place to the next, there is no shelter or anything, there's no food, there's water, nothing, not even the most basic living essentials like bread, we're forced to eat white plants when it rain and cook them, that is our situation, we hope from god to relieve this crisis and end this war soon, i don't know, look at my stomach how shrunk it has become, i was 80 kilograms and now i'm around 65 kilos, i've lost kilos: when you look at people, you see they talk to themselves, they can barely walk because of lack of food, there is no food or anything here at all. of course, despite the fact that we are under seage starving and despite the malnutrition that our dear children, patients and elders

are suffering from, we are still performing the taravih prayers during the holy months of ramadan, we ask almighty god for a relief soon to our people in northern gaza. who are under siege from all sides. the general configuration of iran's upcoming parliament has become clear to a great extent. will the new parliament change the course of the country in the international arena? there are already burning issues such as sanctions, the iran nuclear deals and in iran that the new candidates need to deal with as matters of great urgency. these and more on this edition of iran today. welcome back, the leader of

yemen zarla movement says the country will expand its military operations against israel linked ships and will prevent their crossing. our main battle is to prevent ships associated with the israeli army, not only from passing through the arabian sea, the red sea, and golf of aden, but also with the grace and assistance of allah almighty, we aim to prevent their crossing through the indian ocean and from south africa towards the cape of good hope. this is an important, advanced and significant step, and we have already begun to carry out operations related to it. the ana leaders said, so far three operations have been conducted in the indian ocean. the amony armed forces have been attacking israeli link ships in the red sea since mid november to force the regime. to stop its genocide in gaza, in response, the us and the uk have launched air strikes on

yemen for what they call protecting international shipping. yemen rejects their claim and has re retaliated by targeting american and british ships in the red sea. the latest usa air strikes hit yemen's hacha governor early on friday. yemen says israel, the us and britain are responsible for the mounting tensions. earlier we spoke to hossin albuiti, activist in politic. commentator who joined us from san uh, he told us that um yemen is expanding its operations after israel linked ships changed their roots in high seas, he mentioned that yemani will expand their attack because uh we have noticed that because after the yemani blocked the red sea and the arabian golf in the face of israeli affiliated ship uh they actually are now us to go around the cape of good hope in south south africa, that's why in the

speech of yesterday has insisted that yemani will expand their operation and i just want to mention that in the last 12 hour yemani army according to united kingdom maritime trade operation uh two vessels has come under attack in the red sea just in the last 12 hours and as well according to uh united states central command the two ballistic missiles were fired into the golf of aden, they didn't say what was the dark the target, but we have seen two days ago that us central command has announced that one anti-hip ballistic missiles was fired against towards us destroyer called labon and they said that uh it did not hit that chip and this is actually a change of the of the tune of the united states because they always say that we have shut down either the drones or the ballistic missiles but this actually latest statement, it shows that yemani antip ballistic missiles actually was not or they

couldn't shoot it down by the anti-uh air missiles on those us destroyer. people across russia are heading to the polls to choose new president for the next six years. the vote is taking place across the country's 11 time zones, more than 112 million people are eligible to cast ballots from. until sunday and coming president vladimir is running for fifth term, he has three rivals, they're from the new people's party, the liberal democratic party and the communist party. prior to the election called on russians to vote saying that people are the only source of power in its country. he said russia is going through a difficult period and needs to stay united and confident to overcome it. the vote is also taking place in the four regions, russia annexed from ukraine. 22, namely donietsk, luhansk, zaporija and herson. our correspondent johnny miller

earlier joined us from moscow with more details on the ongoing presidential elections in russia. well, as you say, russians, millions of russians going to the polls over the next three days, friday to sunday. frankly, nobody expects anybody else to win except for vladimir putin, he's being effectively emp. the last 20 years and almost certainly he will win another six-year term. the major reason for that is that he's very popular uh, that's the reality. uh, the economy is stable and growing, politically it's stable, despite of course the major conflict, the war, the special military operation, as it's called here, that's going on in ukraine, the main opposition is from the left and the right of him, the communist party, usually come second in these elections and there's certainly opposition um, not necessarily, but opposition to how the country is generally going, but certainly disagreements with vladimir putin from the from more on the right, more

ultra-nationalist. the conflict in ukraine has led to major restructuring of the global weapons market. according to new report from top ngo dedicated to peace, europe has doubled their arms imports in recent years with russia dropping from its long-time number two spot behind the united states. ramy mazer reports from paris. the top annual analysis of global arms sales found that france has risen to the number two weapons exporter in the world. the gains have often been made thanks to debt from ukraine. which which claims to be has become europe's largest arms importer. french arms sales have soored 50% in recent years and now comprise 11% of the global market. the world's leading arms dealer is still the united states, which controls a record 42% of the global weapons trade. for

us, it's a little paradoxical that nation a country which greatly respects human rights, is also nation which is so very proud of. weapon sales, it's clear that the values the french people and human rights are subservient to geostrategic interest, and we shouldn't celebrate france's arming of often dictatorial regimes. armed sales to ukraine has proven to be big business, and it may explain president emmanuel macron's about face on the conflict. two years ago, macron warned that russia must not be humiliated, but he's recently become one of europe's leading anti-russia. war hawks france's top three arms clients are india, which is the world's largest arms importer, followed by saudi arabia and tiny but rich kater. africa is still reeling from 40 tons of illegal free arms drops france made in 2011 to support anti-kaddafi rebels in libya. as predicted,

the weapons soon found their way to syria, the central african republic, ukraine and elsewhere. matériel de guerre, french arms in africa allows france to show off their latest weapons and present them as combat proven, so africa is not just a show window for french arms, but also a testing laboratory, and with all ways destabilizing results for the continent. this week, french parliament approved a 10-year military pact with kiev, which guarantees billions and more weapons deliveries. russia continues to gain ground against nato-backed. ukraine, which is an important reminder that some weapons are made to work under actual wartime conditions, and some are made mainly for sales and profit. press tv and the drone force also has a targeted a us warship with number of drones and the operation has been successful and

succeeded in its mission and based on the... orders of the leader sayid althi in order to give support to the palestinian people who are a daily basis under an aggression and under a siege, and order also to heat to the calls of the people of yemen and the free people of the nation, the yemani armed forces have also with god's support and grace have conducted operations against the israeli vessels or those associated with the israel enemy or those going towards the occupied palestinian territory that to reach the indian ocean towards the cape of good hope, and the yemeni armed forces are also warning all the israeli vessels and those heading towards occupied palestine ports and other vessels associated with them not to take that

passage, the passage of the cape of good hope. or they will be legitimate target for the yemani armed forces, the yemeni armed forces and the light of conducting these demands, we to give support to the palestinian people in gaza, we have conducted three military operations against three israeli and american vessels in the indian ocean with savoy of lantu sea missiles and drones, the three operations have hit their struck their targets very precisely, the yemeny armed forces stress that they will prohibit all these ships or vessels, the israeli vessels to or those going towards the the palestinian occupied territories until the aggression is stopped and the siege is

lifted from our people in the gaza strip, god is our supporter, god is our leader and he is is our guide, may yeman live independent and sovereign and victory is to yemen and all the free people of the islamic nation. this is the fifth of ramadan, 1445, the 15th of march, 2024. a statement, this is a statement issued by the yemani armed forces, god is great. ladies and gentlemen, that was. from the yemini capital sana, where a massive demonstration, pro-palestinian demonstration was being held uh in the yemini capital, we've been seeing recurring pro-palestinian

demonstrations taking place as yemenes in their hundreds of thousands, as you could see as far as you can see uh demonstrators uh are participating in these pro-palestinian and anti-israeli demonstrations uh we were listening to the comments by the yemini armed forces spokesman yahya saray speaking. at that massive rally being held in the emini capital sana uh in summation, what was just said by mr. seti, he did specify that three attacks on three israel vessels had been uh carried out in the indian ocean and uh he stressed as in the past that these attacks will continue uh until uh the uh the genocidal assault on gaza is stopped and the seige on uh the bessieg palestinians in gaza is lifted of course we want to keep people. post it on more details of that story and much more as we get it for you right here on press tv now continuing uh with the news, nigerian muslims like millions of others worldwider fasting in the holy month of ramadan. however, the rising cost of living

in the country has caused significant challenges for many nigerian muslims during this fasting period. press tv correspondent danjam abdullahi reports. ramadan, sacred month in islam is a month to cultivate self- discipline, self-control, sacrifice and empathy for those in need. breaking of the fast in the evening known as iftar also fasters a sense of community and sharing as people come together to share a meal. here in nigeria, many muslims are observing the month of ramadan with fasting while grappling with the economic hardships plaging the country. the naira nigeria's currency. experience a historic decline against the dollar in february this year, leading to rampant inflation that has rendered life exceedingly difficult for many nigerians, in ramadan

where people need so much food, where people need to have um access to to basic supplies and then you begin to find that prices are exorbitant, um the food is not even there in the first place, you know, so we have double-edged inflation. the inflation is such that the money is not there and the food is not there. many people experience hunger before bedtime, making fasting during ramadan a formidable challenge. experts assert that there exists a fundamental issue that requires urgent attention. for a country where that is that has uh sorry uh 40% of the world's available land, you find that there is no food security, it begs for question, mean it begs for answer, you calls to question. what exactly our agricultural policies are, what are we doing? mean, how did we get here? it's really uh quite pathetic. religious organizations like the

al-habibiyah islamic society have established the food bank where muslims donate both money and food to support the less fortunate during ramadan. dedicated volunteers cook and package meals ensuring that hundreds of impoverished fasting muslims receive a warm meal. our purpose here is to improve lives through the support of allah, with utmost humility and sincere gratitude to the almighty allah, things are now getting better for us. yesterday we provided meals for 2,200 people. on the first day of ramadan it was 1,600 and on the second day it reached 2002. only god knows a the count for today. the nigerian government has recognized the food challenge. and has moved to address it. this is in addition to other critical measures. beyond palliatives, experts say the nigerian government must have the right mix of fiscal

and monetary policies in order to get out of the economic situation. they say more than 60,000 hectares of farmland have been abundant in northern nigeria because of the bandatory and kidnapping. the government needs to address the general insecurity in nigeria. press tv that's a rap for now but stick around there's plenty more to come here on press tv see you soon. now entering its fourth day, we're looking at some uh

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