first tv headlines this hour hamas officials say that the bodies of scores of palestinians have been found in gaza's austra hospital after israely forces withdrew from the barricaded medical complex. regime forces kill a palestinin man over a stabbing attack that left three settlers seriously injured in the southern part of the occupied territories and turkey's president conceeds local elections setback calls poll results a turning point for his ruling justice and development party.

11:30 am in europe's capital tehron, this is press tv news, thanks for joining us. it is almost six months since israel launched this genocidal war in gaza, the regime's warplanes on artillery keep pounding the beseed strap, causing more deaths and destruction in the last 24 hours. four civilians including journalists were killed and 16 other people injured. after israeli war planes struck the vicinity of the alaxsa mards. hospital in the central gaza city of daryl valla. several areas of gaza city were also shelled and bombed, leaving two people dead and 10 injured. meanwile four palestinians including two children died due to starvation and kamaluan hospital in the northern strip. the number of deaths related to famon and malnutrition has gone up to 34, including 31 children. nearly 32,800 palestinians have lost their lives and some 75 thousand injured in the israeli war in gaza. that began early

october. gaza's health ministry says israelly forces have been retreated from the shifa hospital after weeks of siege on the medical complex. the ministry says dozens of bodies were found at the medical complex after the israely pull out. according to the ministry, the facility is completely out of service after the regime burnt it down. the gaza governor it says more than 400 people have been killed in the area since israel began. attacks on the health facility on march 18. this will imposed the siege on the medical facility under the pretext that hamas operated there, but the resistance movement has dismissed the allegation. israely forces of still attack hospitals in gaza under the pretext of finding members of the hamas resistance movements. mother grieves the death of his 9-year-old son in kamal at one hospital. as she recounts the moment iof

troops attack the patients and their families there. suddenly they closed the doors and there was shooting. we said maybe there is a truth that we didn't know anything about yet. the doctors and nurses were screaming and saying that israeli besieged us outside. they started shooting at the doors to get hamas out, but where is hamas? they are all sick children and there is no hamas, only the medical staff and these children is my dead son hamas. "what did my son do to them? all the hospital sections were called to the reception, they took the displaced people out in groups of 40, the first day 40, the second, the third and the fourth as well, on the fifth day they said that they want to evacuate the families of patients and leave the patients, they told me to leave my son alone, i said i will not go and leave him, some operations were delayed, there are no medical equipment or medicine in the al-shif hospital, there is nothing, the seventh day the doctor." came to me and told me that i

should go out and that the israeli forces want to enter the hospital and that i was putting my life and the life of my son in danger, they told me to go out and take him with me. i went out and i put him in his chair and then they started shooting so i carried him on my shoulders and there was people and patience behind me. once we got out, they started shooting at us again telling us that this is not a safe area and we should go right. then they started shooting again saying that this is not safe area as well. "we were in the middle of the thing and we didn't know what to do. we then came to kel one hospital and they did what's necessary directly. he had a blockage in his intestines and today he died. his father knows nothing about him, he only knows that he's sick. he's not around, he didn't get the chance to say goodbye. not to occupied was bank where is really forces of shot and killed a palestinian man over an alleged stabbing attack a settlement near the town of ashtad. israel sources say that at least

three settlers have been seriously injured in this attack, which occurred in a shopping mall. according to reports, regime forces failly shot the attacker who was later identified as a man from al khalil. the incident came hours after the al-qasam brigades, the military wing of the hamas resistance movement, republished the message from its commander calling on palestinians to use all of their resources to fight against the regime. hamas later hailed the attack as a natural response to the occupations massacres in gaza and the west bank. the group added that the operation also shows palestinians conviction toward resistance as the path to liberate palestine. lebanon'sballah resistance movement and israeli forces continue to exchange fire as tensions remain high over the war in gaza. in the latest of such attentions, the lebanese resistance has carried out several retaliatory operations against israely positions in southern lebanon. this after an assassination drown, assault targeted vehicle

in lebanon's southern town of kinine. our correspondent mariam salah has the details. the most dangerous aggression. today from the israeli side was that an israeli drone targeted vehicle in the southern town of kinine and we're talking about an assassination it seems uh they we know from reports that there was one person in that vehicle and that has become part of the israeli policy of targeting individuals which could be members of either the hamas uh as you know hamas is active in lebanon it does have a branch here in lebanon and they are active in south lebanon we also see that they israelies are targeting, when they do have intelligence, they're targeting some vehicles that include members of hazbullah, but in times there's also targeting of civilians in their vehicles as well, hazbullah has made it of course clear that they will continue to retaliate for the continuous israeli aggressions, and there were several operations today, the israelis targ excuse

me, hazbillah targeted uh the the post of jordah, they targeted specifically, they said the espionage devices uh in that post, they also targeted these imposed and which has become a routine operation for hazballah targeting the occupied lebanese shabba farms. we also saw today targeting of a recent post which is called the barata launching site where the israelis keep their tanks and their artillery and they launch their aggressions from that area and hazballah mentioned in their statement that this is a recent post and this show shows that hazball that uh the israelis uh are attempting to move away from their original post perhaps trying to... to stave off any hezbulah operations, but hezlah seems to have the intelligence to be able to know about these recent posts and target them as well, israely forces have carried out fresh strikes on syria targeting the vicinity the capital damascus. the syrian military

says the rockets were launched from the direction of the occupied golden heights added that the aggression resulted in the injury of two civilians causing some material losses. the attack comes two days after the regime's fatal air strikes on series. aleppo killed a number of civilians and military personnel. the syrian government has on numerous occasions called on the united nations to force the israeli bashim to stop its acts of aggression. damascus says the assaults are in violation of international law and aimed at propping up terrorists. the islamic resistance in iraq says it is carried out fresh attacks on israeli positions in response to the regime's ongoing genocide in gaza. the resistance group said it struck vital. target and occupied palestine using appropriate weapons. it said the attack was in response to the massacers committed by israel against palestinian civilians, including women, children, and the elderly. the group said it will continue its operations against israely strongholds. in recent months, the islamic resistance in iraq has carried out series of attacks against

israely positions. it has also hit us military bases in iraq and neighboring syria, retaliation for washington's support for the israeli genocide in gaza. this week on expose, benjamin netanyahu vows to reject any calls to hulk the rafah invasion as he and joe biden intensified their staged public spat over zionist israel's genocide in gaza. now, following the statement made by former president donald trump that there would be a blood bath if he is not elected in november, leftist politicians. and media personalities completely lose it on social media, and lastly, a recent political survey reveals that 50% of americans think trump is guilty and ought to be tried before the 2024 presidential election. stay tuned for expos a. the truth is just the revelation away.

welcome back to the news on press tv. turkey's president has acknowledged his party's poor performance in sunday's local elections, calling the outcome, a turning point for the justice and development party. we will open-heartedly analyze the results of the march 31st elections within our party and make our self criticism boltly. although not finalized yet the election results show us that we are experiencing a loss of ground in local administrations across the country. of course we will discuss the reasons for this decline we see on the local basis. erdowan issued the statement after early results squashed his party's hopes of winning

municipality and mayoral seats in istanbul and ankara and some other traditional strongholds. the opposition republican people's party has already declared victory for ekrem imouglu, the incumbent mayor of istanbul, after 96% of the ballot boxes were counted. partial official tallies also showed the chb was leading in other big cities. sunday's local elections appeared to represent a fresh blow to the... president was set his sites on retaking control of urban areas. turkish people in 81 provinces took to the polls to choose mayors and provincial council members in local elections. the vote is seen by many as a test of popularity of president erdogan. erdogan who started his political life as the mayor of istanbul campaigned for the past few weeks to promote his party's candidates. the ruling justice and development. party is seeking to win back both the economic hub of the country istanbul and capital ankara after receiving a

blow from republican people's party chp in 2019. for his turn, the chp is a scrambling to maintain both cities and win more. all eyes are now on istanbul as the competition between the two main candidates in the city is crucial. the participation wasn't expected to be same as previous election, however it's not less important than the 2023 one. erdon wants to... for my city aside from political ideologies. mayor of istanbul aklu and the akp's

candidate murad kurum were campaigning for improving services for the city's 60 million residents at the time of wide spread economic hardship and double digit inflation. imamo has been criticized during his term for heavily focusing on presidential election and his party's leadership rather than solving issues in the city such as transportation and traffic problems and of other issues when heavy snowfall crippled life in istanbul, for the past 10 years i have been living in istanbul uh and i found that uh the previous mayor he didn't give the promise uh he planned to do inside istanbul uh according to the service uh the management of the city we didn't find we didn't find any change uh in this in this situation for that. i preferred to give the party again because i think they

lost the election last time uh it was like kind of punishment from the people uh and i think they learned a good uh from this from this lesson. opposition party supporters consider this election as another chance to topple the justice and development party and win back power in the country. i have always supported. and will vote for them every time, for this could be our last exit from this nightmare. erdogan, was the mayor of istanbul in 1994, said during rally that istanbul is the jewel, the treasure and the apple of our country's eye. analys say the person that rules istanbul is able to establish himself a political base, which then translates into power at the national scale. who wins istanbul wins turkey? that's what erdogan, mayor of the city in the... 1990s was quoted by a polster as saying against that backdrop, istanbul today could be choosing turkey's

future president. rusan sagam, press tv, istanbul. over the easter weekend, irish republicans marked the anniversary of the easter rising against british colonialism and the proclamation of the independent irish republic in 1916. this year's speeches focused on solidarity with palestinians in warturn gaza and the continued struggle against. imperialism in ireland. easter weekend is the most important date in the irish republican calendar as people mark the armed. rising against british colonial rule at easterweek 1916. the main commemorations are held in belfast. in the northern irish city, the people assembled at the republican graves and monuments at milton cemetry, where volunteers of the ira, as their resistance fighters are called, are buried. among the republican dead is the grave of 1981 hunger striker bobby suns. we got here today to

commemorate the 18th anniversary of the 1916 east horizon. we're in milltown cemetry we're our own national plot here. republican network for unity, but not only remember the fallen dead and patrs of 1916, but also remember our own fallen dead her commemorated on this monument behind me here. at the republican party shin fain's commemoration, the party aimed to convince its supporters that the referendum on irish reunification would be held within the next few years, however the decision to call for a unity referendum still lies in the hands of the former colonial power britain and its government. more and more people are seriously engaged in the debate about constitutional change. have been one over to the social and economic case for irirish unity, the referendum to achieve that should be held before the end. different messages were heard at commemorations of revolutionary republicans critical of shinfine. when we said is time for change, we are not simply asking you to think about the united ireland. instead, we are asking you to envisage a different future. republican network for

unity is the political wing of the armed republican organization ogly neiron, at their commemoration, message from the dflp, the national resistance brigades, marcha, oma al-qassim forces and the resistance in gaza was read. palestinian people are suffering from a policy of starvation, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and the imposition of a project of forced displacement of the from their land. all of this is linked to the thought presented by bobby sans and his comrades as there is a deep connection in the revolution against colonialism and the policy of starvation. support for the palestinian people was wide spread in all commemorations. speakers at the commemorations of r new and the irish republican socialist party stressed the need to continue the anti-imperialist fight in ireland reas relate the former political prisons and the families of the dead marches to remember all those who died in the fight for freedom. since february northern ireland has a republican first minister with michelle o'neal of shin fein for the first time in his 100 years history. however, it has been visible at this year's

easter commemorations in belfast, the revolutionary republicans are not satisfied with the ongoing imperialist. partition of ireland, revolutionary republicans such as arinu and fow to continue to struggle against imperialism in ireland. dita reinish, reporting for breastv from belfast. the us has in recent days quietly authorized the transfer of billions of dollars worth of bombs and fighter jets to israel. last week, the state department also authorized the transfer of 25 f-35 fighter jets and engines to israel. in our explain segment, we have taken a close. look at the issue. the us government has approved new batch of military equipment to the israeli regime. the most recent aid will include bombs and fighter jets. the immediate question: what happened

to the rhetoric of concern for civilian casualties? for example, the us secretary of defense lloyd austin is said that the civilian death tool in the gaza strip is far too high, the too many palestinian civilians continue to die, adding that the gaza strip continues to suffer humanitarian catastrophe, one and which can be avoided, and that the situation is getting even worse, echoing the same view as other us officials, including us president joe biden. now it was within one week that the white house authorized transfer of war planes and bombs, the sale amount 2.5 billion. here's a shot list, more than 1800 mk84 200 pound bombs and 500 mk 82 500 pound bombs. this sale also included 25 f35 fighter jets. now what can these 200 pound bombs do? for starters, the immense fire power can

inflict damage to people over a long distance up to a thous feet or 300 away. this can create. civilian casualties a massive scale, something israel has done on more than one occasion, well here's a map which shows craters created by these heavy us bombs, more than 500 craters, which are consistent with 200 pound bombs. note that the average destruction is 39.3 ft or 12 meters in diameter. two flashbacks are in order here, first from october the 7th to november the 1st, euro monitor reported that israel struck at least 12,000 targets, that it had dropped more than 25,000 tons of explosives on the gaza strip, and it said this was equivalent to two nuclear bombs like the ones the us dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki, the second flashback, massive us arms deliveries, 244

transport planes from october the 7th to december the 25th, more than 10,00 tons of bombs and munitions delivered to occupied palestine, and that's over a three-month period only. we're now in the sixth month of the genocide. let's not forget, uh, the us is virtually. moved all the meaningful restrictions on the stock pile and the transfer of its arms to israel. this includes surplus weapons limitations, annual spending cap on replenishing the stock pile and curtailing congressional oversight. and to add insult to injury, the us says that israel is using weapons in line with international and humanitarian law and that israel is not blocking gaza 8, saying israel's use of american weapons meets with requirements of new national security memorandum despite overwhelming evidence that proves otherwise. the us provides israel with nearly $4 billion

dollars a year in military assistance. if it wanted to stop the israeli genocide, it could do so by using that as leverage to condition us aid for israel, but it continues to provide israel with bombs, which may be why joe biden has new nickname, genocide joe. the national botanical garden of iran holds a group of local plants and trees of iran as well as exotic ones, which makes this collection quite valuable. this year, nature lovers are attending the festivals there on the day of nature. fatam masami has the details. the national botanical garden of iran holds a group of local plants and trees of iran as well as exotic ones which makes its collection quite valuable, one of the objectives of this scientific and entertaining complex, which has very profound role in different research fields including

botany and gardening, is educating people and introducing them the science of botany, the importance of the plants and the necessity of protecting them, the botanical garden of iran is 150 hectares in area and it has 25 plan sections which hold the... distinctive climate features of iran and the world, this garden is also an educational complex for students of herbal medicine and science. many students visit here to learn about the rare species and their applications in modern science. also, places such as the forests of northern iran or the albors region, china and japan, the mediterranean region, the rock garden or american habitats based on vegetation. in the national botanical garden of iran have been simulated. many plant species in the north of the country, such as oak, beach, and you trees have grown and

adapted in the national botanical garden of iran and have enriched the charm and beauty of this collection. hello, i came to the flower garden with my mom and there's a one waterfall here actually, and the waterfall has lots of water, and there's one pond here. the fact that families are not allowed to picnic here is actually advantageous because it helps keep the environment clean. it is

also a great place for photography. among the design spaces and the national botanical garden of iran are seven habitats of iran and six global habitats. iranian habitats are herekani, zagrose, southern albours, irani and turani, south iran. on greenhouse, persian onion gardens and local fruit gardens. there are over 4,000 plant species in the national botanical garden of iran. the garden is also used as a genetic storage facility for the plants that are in danger of going extinct. if you are in tehran during spring, you shouldn't miss visiting it. fatima massumi, reporting for press tv, tehran. and that does the for world news. just bye-bye for now.

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on expose, joe biden and benjamin netanyaho turn up the heat in their staged public feud over zionist israel's genicidal war in gaza, as netanyahu vows to defy any call for cancelling the rafah invasion. now leftest politicians and media figures go into a complete social media meld down after former president donald trump said there would be a blood bath if he is not elected in november. and finally, a politico ipsos new poll shows that half of the country in the united. states of america believes trump is a guilty man and should go to trial before the 2024 presidential election. welcome to expose, the show that leaves no stone unturned.