this is the w. news line from berlin a flicker of hope in the middle east times palestinian groups say they will halt cross border attacks if israel does the say the announcement follows an upsurge in violence over the last two days seven people are dead after is round those airstrikes in response to missiles from militants in the gaza strip. and also on the program german chancellor angela merkel presents a vision of europe's future and calls for a european army it would not be an army against nature i mean really rather it

could serve as a useful complementary force tonight no one intends to question the traffic alliances. here from our correspondent in strasbourg about why this issue is so contentious. and forty two data both and two hundred twenty missing california real trauma deadliest wildfires in its history as authorities prepare to hunt for victims. i'm still getting a welcome to the program. militant palestinian factions in the gaza strip say they will halt cross border attacks they face around us the site the statement comes after the most serious obsession violence between israel and the palestinians since twenty fourteen the israeli military has stepped up its deployment along gaza's border but hasn't mobilized its reserve force we'll have a correspondent in

a moment first this report. people in gaza worked to a scene of destruction. this was all that was left of the t.v. station run by hamas. the israeli military said it was a strategic target. it gave a warning that the strike was about to happen. but the attack still caused panic among local residents. as soon as we saw the rockets we ran away from the house we are civilians we don't have weapons and rockets so soon as we heard the shelling we escaped. here also on the israeli side of the border. most of hamas rockets were intercepted by israel's defense system but some missiles have hit residential buildings including this one in the southern israeli town of ashkelon one man a palestinian laborer was killed here people in the city are afraid. and

we have been living here in adversity in a southern neighborhood for many years through at least four rounds of warfare the buildings are very old the building where i live has no protection no protected area no shelter no protect it's day case match up you know last night's flare up of violence between the two sides is the worst in more than four years. and threatens to derail recent peace moves. the united nations and other countries in the region are urging both israel and hamas to refrain from repeated exchanges of fire. and israeli tanks and troops gathered close to the gaza border there are signs the two sides are willing to pull back from the brink of all out war but for now there's a tense standoff. they don't need correspondent tony kraemer house just to return to israel from gaza welcome tanya what's happening in gaza now.

well first we're getting his report states these are still unconfirmed reports set apparently a cease fire survive they say calm has been reached within the d.h. and off each of the u.n. and other countries between palestinian factions and israel this is still one concern because policy inspections have basically said we would hold of fire also israel would stop its tie and is very usually in these cases says they would reserve the right to respond to any impression we have seen. over the afternoon rocket attacks on southern israel as well as strikes in gaza the situation is still very fluid and we have to wait and see whether this translate into an extra calm over the next hours but we're talking about what is effectively the biggest flare up in violence for four years is this really all about sunday's botched israeli

special forces raid. i think it's a combination of factors i mean you have to see that there has been a lot of pressure on gaza on all levels on the economic level and did general situation and the humanitarian situation but also it seems that hamas and other militant and political factions in gaza have been under the impression that they are. finding some understandings medhi ated by egypt again and by the un with israel for a longer term if not a truce but then a longer term period of calm and this incident on sunday evening actually broke all of that it went against all these red lines and so they felt compelled to respond and that probably led also to this very hour to this escalation of violence you're back in jerusalem now much later than you do a visually intended what happened. well i mean in garcia i always have to expect

the unexpected and as i said i mean people in thinking they're going into periods of more calm but then this incident happened on sunday and it's always very difficult and restricted to go in and out of gaza as a foreigner at least but of course sometimes the border then in those. times is closed in this case hamas prevented foreign journalists for a certain time to leave the gaza strip because of the incident on sunday having said that i have to stress that it's much much more difficult also for gazans to actually ever leave gaza they're very restricted in their movements even in times of first such as collations and also times of war. they don't have time to come or speaking to us from a church. service chancellor has addressed the european parliament in strasburg outlining her vision for a future europe i'm going to follow the e.u. leaders to reject what she called national ngo ism and repeated her calls for

a common european approach to migration policy she went on to tell lawmakers that europe must take its fate into its own hands on foreign and security policy you thought you were on our boat we should be working on the idea of one day creating a real european army john mchugh. i saw it for ben's uncle your guy has shown claude he said four years ago a united european army would show the world that there will never be another war between european countries. it would not be an army against nature i mean really. rather it could serve as a useful complementary force tonight's has been no one intends to question the

classic alliances want hundred myself one day in strasbourg was listening to the chance of this speech was welcomed max i'm with lots of applause that but there are lots of heckling as well for this idea of a european army the idea is not new but it is contentious both within and without the european parliament. and it's the first time that the german chancellor puts her weight behind the idea before her was a minor about call and he felt the wrath of the u.s. president because of it he doesn't think that's a great idea and he by the way retreated something today criticizing the european army but you don't have to look as far as the united states to find countries that criticize this idea basically those countries who think that brussels is overreaching is doing too much and want to take away powers from the e.u. institutions are against the idea they want to have more sovereignty for the

different member states of the european union but that's not the only argument for more or less integration it's also a question of efficiency and the german chancellor quoted one of the numbers there are currently one hundred seventy eight different weapon systems in the european union to compare that there's six times less in the united states and you know which military is well more efficient generally speaking that is the u.s. and what's happening in the e.u. . migration was also inevitably on the chancellor's mind. yes and that's no surprise because because it's the prime example to make her point of course she had a couple of things to say set the record state she also said not all things that happened back then were perfect on the contrary he said that she should have recognized earlier that this would become a problem that the migration waves if you want to call it that way would be coming

but of course she tried to make it make a different point that this was one of the topics among others where unity and solidarity were extremely important to keep the european union together and to keep the european union relevant on a global level and that was the main point she made across different topics and one wants chancellor merkel a national leader addressing the european parliament anyway and was that anything of the lame duck about given the weakening position at home. well she's part of a series where each month at the plenary session that takes part here in strasbourg you have a different leader come here and speak to the aim is to use the arena that is the european parliament here to discuss the future of the european union maybe even have more relevance get people listening to it in the different countries when they see their leader speaking there get the discussion going so that's why she was here this time and we asked that same question you just asked me to some members of the

european parliament did you have a feeling she's a lame duck not one of them said they had that feeling that they thought she was still relevant albeit the trouble she's facing at home but you know it was a very lively discussion and just by the fact that you had doing cleaning all that tells you that she still is relevant on the european level i'm not confident in strasbourg thank you. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world say at any suing the trumpet ministration over the revoked press credentials of one of its reporters the white house has barred jim acosta from press briefings after a heated exchange with president trump last week c.n.n. says the move violates the freedom of the pressure in strident in the u.s. constitution. russian opposition leader aleksei their family says he's been banned from leaving the country in a message recorded at a moscow airport the kremlin critic claimed he's pretty big he's being prevented from traveling to the european court of human rights which is due to issue

a ruling over his detention just in the valley served twenty eight days in prison last month for organizing anti kremlin protests. libyan leaders are discussing united nations plans to stabilize the country after seven years of turmoil it's the first time representatives of the country's rival governments and factions have met since may the talks are being hosted by italy of come a week after the u.n. abandon plans to hold elections there in december. forty two people have been confirmed dead in northern california in the deadliest wildfires in the state's history and the death toll is expected to climb as the difficult task of recovering victims begins in the almost totally devastated town of paradise. the eerie off the mark of california's deadliest fires. coroners have been searching for bodies in the destroyed town of paradise the death toll is expected to rise. wildlife tentatively returns

but the fires are far from over. fresh blazes continue to appear as firefighters attempt to bring the blazes under control. wildfires in california are getting worse year on year i've been doing this job for thirty one years and probably in the last. maybe seven years every year seems to get worse a lot of the house to do with the recent drought and the drought that we're still going through and with that drought killed a lot of vegetation and so that dead to taste and is prone to burning obviously climate change has made california extremely dry there are high winds every year and shorter bursts of heavy a ranger in the winter mean vegetation grows quickly but then dries out becoming perfect in different temperatures soar and the winds return but weather isn't the

only factor over eighty percent of forest fires start due to human activity as opposed to say lightning strikes and faulty power lines are a big culprit california's main electricity company p.g. and e. is under scrutiny. the community of malibu where over four hundred structures were destroyed is barely visible from the air and additional factor is population pressure that leads to construction of homes in high fire risk areas what california needs most right now is rain but there's none for cost. i know a lot of people are interested in when the next rain event will be. we are not seeing any indication of precipitation in the next week and possibly through thanksgiving fine print conditions are here to stay californians for now can only try to adapt to what that governor is calling the new abnormal. this is to w.'s life from bob and still to come it's late rejects

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