the, the, this is the, the, the news life from the death toll times in israel. as the full expands of saturday's terrorist attack comes to lights, the military stays, the number of people killed has reached 1200, and that most of them were civilians gunned down in their homes or on the street. and then guys, a whole neighborhoods are being flashing. does israel step something, say, a strikes on the territory? we more than $900.00 people, pets, and reports of data and ukraine's president for the landscape is paying

a visit to brussels. some of the topics on his agenda houses sustained ukraine's counter offensive through the window. the hello i'm proceeding to welcome to the program. israel is calling the best toll off to assess today's terrorist attack. staggering, it is no now that i must medicines killed at least 1200 people and that most was civilians. the new number has come to life. as ministry discovers more bodies, israel has intensified, is it strikes on god's let invitation. palestinian officials say at least 900 people there has been killed and 1000 small wounded, specialized images show the destruction caused by the bombardment of israel says it has now lodge and the re gain control of his board a whip,

gaza at these up. you corresponded rebecca versus travel to the is really a town of steroids. the police station that was destroyed in a day long, facile with homeless gunman. she sent us this report. this is just a rock police station or what's left of it. and it's the scene of one of the biggest vassals during this audio. how mouse militants will hold up inside. i'm use riley military will caught up in a 20 hour gun battle local residents lift, terrified and angry, glorifying because we saw them running around here, everywhere. we were pretty much innocent and we didn't have anything to do in this entire situation. no. so weapons to, you know, protect ourselves. nothing to actually do in this situation. i've been this for both, but not, and nothing like this, nothing like any most. and those slaughters and,

and which of our kids and systems and photos and the children to the babies. i never seen such a quoted israel is responding to the attacks with massive air strikes on the gaza strip. these riley government has told gardens to evacuate. the territory is trapped between israel, egypt and the mediterranean sea. most residents have no way to go to escape the bones. one woman said her brother died while trying to follow his rounds instructions to relocate. we'd fled to escape death. there were continuous airstrikes. the israelis told us to come down to con eunice, but we only found duster if we stay home. we die. if we go in the streets, we die. my beloved brother fled from one place to another. my beloved brother, may your soul rest in peace. this kinds of guns are filled with rockets and ms

solves flying in both directions. incoming and outgoing fire. in these riley town of ash cologne, most of the gaza strip. moss rockets continue to cause destruction. israel has cooled up hundreds of thousands of reserves as it prepares, the next stage of its retaliation. by at least one government minister has joined the troops to avenge what he calls these rails 911. this is not going to be another circuit. you're going to chase and hundreds each and every milly to pull from us. you're going to change chase and hon. the meters. and we would fights and to be in against him and will be victorious, not just for us, but for the sake of the civilized world. a ground offensive binds riley forces, looks likely. prime minister benjamin netanyahu told his country to prepare for a long and difficult role that he says will reshape the middle east. and i'm now

drawing 5 to 8 dw mcneese, and this shiny resign is to have you in the studio is funny. we know that this whole is prison. what more do we know about the situation on the ground today? others? so how must medicines and israel just are? and the problem is, is really, don't know how many and where exactly the assumption is that the several, as the several groups of them hiding somewhere along israel, i points to puerto was across and they made it to israel and it keeps everybody on the edge. that's what we're seeing is we have a lot of engineers, an invitation, a lot of alertness. also in the northern border where we see little inclusions coming from the the shy group is by law into north. so everything is very, very tense. and if you look at the cause and then of course there is a lot of suffering this apartments concepts, apartments from the air by is really a force. so this is where we stand today. shawnee, it's all about certain that israel is preparing the ground. defensive is there any indication as to when this offensive will be launched and, and,

and what it might look like? well, we hear a lot of talks about this is going to be unprecedented. this is going to be something that we've never has the, the palestinians, the region have never seen before. this is where it is very much aware of the fact that how much is anticipating this ground operation. and it's trying to reinvent the playbook and gone sized. we know what we used to seen gaza is quite hard to predict what we've done to see. there's one thing clear that we're seeing from all the decision makers in israel. they will stop at nothing. they have the, the shock is such that they, there's sound based on very militant with very didn't care for him in a tarion or any other. yeah, i know considerations. and so that points it's, it's pretty clear that the states of goal here is to eradicate homeless shawnee in the event that that were to happen. and it really looks likely that that will, there's going to be this vacuum in god correct. what does israel intend to do then? will we see israel take full control this part of what?

we're still not sure of. we don't know. there are no clear aims to this war to this operation. we don't know if it's very low when you're trying to dismantle her. mazda is military capabilities or take over her mazda is control over, over the territory in total. and that would mean we, we capturing gaza and re occupying it, which i think very few people in is, are, are interested in. and what's not, it's obviously not spoken out loud. at least are any political deploy medical solutions that will bring in other allies from the region. and that i think will have to evidently be on the table, but it's still not there yet. the us present to abide and he's spoken out on the issue. we also know that he is in punched in engagement with these where departments have been him and didn't know what do you know about those discussions and, and what did you make of what he had to say for the start, it was important for 5 and to clear into clearly indicate that he's standing behind israel and he is also sent a lot of military support to the me at least the biggest sphere looming is yvonne

and he runs his role. but you know, we, we know that yvonne is in the back channels. the one behind, to some extent, what are we seeing and dogs are definitely what we will might be seeing in the north, the post fall off. and that's the biggest sphere that it's on, you know, and, and bite in our, our sharing. and they want to keep you want to be and we also know that in from a reports, the biden has seen the photos of the victims of the wreckage, of the horror left behind of the, of the victims were really a lifting. i mean, unbelievably turbo state and he was very touched by it, and this is also partially fueling his personal anger as someone who's seen himself as a friend of isabel for many years, showing a bully that they found q 50 dw, but at least at least shine he was on his day and we want to get some more analysis on this. and so that i want to bring in military analyst, frankly, but he is in oxford in the united kingdom. get to see you,

frank. i want to talk about the ground offensive that we're anticipating in a short moment. but let's begin with this. we understand that if it is likely that there are still some homeless medicines in israel, what do you make of that? to assign the sides that are all, most certainly considerable numbers, i would suggest the x rays have killed, they say about 1500. how much terrace? and they don't know the numbers of anything to update caution itself. i've no doubt the tools. there are dozens, at least, and of course it may well be sleep of sales as well, which would be part of the overall homeless plan. so there's no one to assign. he says he is really is around pins about this. yeah, frank, we see israel stepping up, it's a strikes bomb being buildings in does a would be strikes be part of the preparation for this ground offensive this and dissipated ground. defensive yes. christine the,

what's gonna happening now is preparation of the battlefield as the electric time goes and they is right, it is a warning set to buy 2nd. so you guys have to leave and the counting through the, the strikes systematically. so this is all positive, probably up, but certainly pos of a target list. so that go through a target list prepared over a period of years because they've been planning for something they say never wants to execute it, but they've been planning for it. they know the ground and now that plan is being executed. and, and what will that execution actually look like? what will we see when the is really ami launches that ground defensive? this is difficult to say top to create the only limited number of a grass enough out the english routes in which will be heavily defended by, by hamas. they know which way these right is going to come in. when they come in and false, we'd like you to see some surprises, what form they take. i don't know. the full that will take will be in it,

but for yourself. types uh useful in certain areas of causal, but overall these really i'm in the core, i suspect will be staying back because thomas has very effective on the tank capabilities and the sake of russian supplied or rather brushing, make me sides. there's going to be an infantry bottle and it's going to be a risk. it's a 3 dimensional battle. anyway, it's heavily organized. the area is going to be worried about the forces from underneath, from the tunnels to behind from in front. of course, i'm from above. unique christine from these really perspective a relative for the 1st time it's really solid. is it gonna have to be looking up? because how much is quite a well developed now drove holes, which it's been putting together over the last decade. oh so, and that will remove these really unique advantage of surveillance. interesting, when you make the, i want to look at the, the capabilities on, on the how much side given the resources that they deployed, of instead of days

a tax does, how much have the numbers to resist and is really made a trade crowd incursion? i'm talking boots on the ground, you the locust aid the the foresight deployed all over the weekend and recently amounts to between probably 152500 most assessments of hamas is manpower. put it between 15 and 20000. that's just how much. so yes, they have some numbers whether that be able to resist these, right? this is another thing, but the important thing to remember here is both sides helping planning this for years and years. and how boss may have the edge on this. because for now, anyway, because they have proved themselves over the last few months to be highly dynamic. so they're going to be waiting for the, it's where it is and that somebody calls me to say, these writers are going to be fully aware of. we've got an irresistible force between a movable object that one side will have to give. i suspect it will be harmless, but once you're point, yes,

they've got the votes and numbers to to cause these really serious damage. okay, frank, believe it's a thank you. and if the end of this frankie at which thank you. thank you. now home us a test that said thousands of people including children and the elderly. some hostages were also taken as an outdoor music festival. close to guys. a gunman shot dead at least 260 people that all the families of some of those at the festival still have no news about their loved ones. they don't know whether they are dead or alive. of correspond antonio cream that sent us this report. the uncertainty is unbearable since saturday doesn't tomo shut them, have had no news of that or to a new one. she was at the race next to the boots. the you the gossip order when i'm us militants, launch the attack? no i'm uh i was uh, calling the 830 about 8 30 in the morning this saturday

and she was frightened and crying. and it was like saying this is gone so that we can hear like there is a gunshots around and now we find some show took place and with a group of people together. and then this things happen here sometimes, you know, like i was telling her no problem. you're in a safe place work. so the 10 soon and see you in a while. and then she said ok, i don't have much a battery. so i, i love you all and then i'm, i'm afraid, but i love you all and i don't know what's going to happen. but anyway, i love you all. remember that she said up to several of thousands, mainly young party goers were at the side. saturday morning when rockets felt looms

and gunman started to shoot. at least 250 people died here. dozens missing. so to be taken to casa and had hostage by them in attends 3 days later, toma shalom and his family are still searching. hospitalized hoping that daughter wasn't a doctor. that was the last time that anyone heard the something from nom and from the time we are kind of thing to to lock in. this is a sense of sadness and go in uncertainty of what is set to come. as more details emerge from what unfolded on such a day, many is radius has a hard time to come to terms with the unprecedented attack on is really communities . me as it goes this trip in till a beef young adult. he has also been looking for a friend from he was working at the festival. they have known each other since they were teenagers. and then the last contact with him was at 9 21 am.

on saturday morning he sent a text message to his mother. and in the text message, he says that he, he loves them his family and, but he's in the container. there are a lot of terrorist outside, lots of gunshots outside. and it does not seem like they are going to make it out of their live friends and family is going social media for a sign of life that didn't know what had happened to him. but then a text message arrives. and i was just asking a rums wife leila if um, if she can send me one of his pictures. so i can uh so i can send it to you from the wedding day. and um and uh, she says that they, they told them no officially, but he's dead. i mean he's,

feminine knows already he's one of the many killed in this attack. and i'm now joined by marie romano. he's the state yada and has been missing since that today's terrorist attack, by how much you all do was visiting relatives in cuba. it's very in southern israel when it was attacked. your audience has been down to a 3 year old daughter were up. that's it. but they managed to escape, larry joins me now from give a time in israel. there we, i really appreciate you coming on to the program today. i can't imagine how difficult this must be for you. but can you just start by telling us a little more about your sister's disappearance? yes, of course. thank you, christine for having us. um. as you said, my sister and her family alone, her husband and guess and her daughter, a 3 year old daughter. and waiting to their families,

dinner for holiday, for holiday feast and friday evening. they stayed the night there. um and woke up on saturdays for this madness um people coming to their home um to the shelter that they have built for their family. um and just pull them out of their am in the house um or loans family my my sister's husband um 2 of his parents, his sister as well. um they were taking a different stages. he was the 1st one um she was got into a car. um he thought that you have them and guess and um, were hiding in the adobe. okay. yeah and, but after a few minutes,

they also were pulled into the same car. and there were all taken together and towards the border. this is where our story have a little of magic in it, where they found this opportunity to just get out of the car, the car with street terrace armed and they started running. they started running the beginning, they had a chance to run without anyone behind them. but then they, they heard the terrace after that i'm starting to should work by and this is the, this is where, where they, they lost track of each of the way they went in different directions. larry, as i understand, i'm sparing you on because i do when it gets other aspects of, of this is of the story. and have you heard any news?

it's been 4 days now since your sister disappeared any indication of her whereabouts? no. so because there is the spot of where you have him, the in, in a long got a parts, a search and tree where he last saw her. there are teams that are looking in the field of trying to find any track, any sign of, of direction. we hope that maybe she's still hiding somewhere, but we've heard nothing. no, nothing. um. it's an innocent woman, a mother for a 3 year old child that is now here with me that we need to take care of her until her mother will be back. is specifically here and there is also a german citizen. um, so we did want to hear also from,

from germany as much as much pressure to, to know about a citizen of germany. that is, that's missing the unknown. yeah. saturday. larry, of course is a lot of uncertainty. yeah, we saw in my colleague tanya cram is report that we had at shortly before talking to for some families. the reality is their relatives have been found and then uses no great because the renaissance had been found that i wanted area as this is probably be a very unfair question to you. but if your sister is being held somewhere in gaza, does that give you a little bit more hope that that, that she is alive and bearing in mind, we don't know what's happening to so the hostages that have been taken into gaza. i think this is why it's so important for us to talk about it and to bring it to

the attention of the world. and so everyone will, will care about those people. so the attackers or keep them safe, they will have them and hold them, but they will keep them safe because they'll know that they're missing just with israel and they're not just messing with these early government. it's not of more of an army, i guess. army innocent people, it could be if it's, if it's going to be a system of terror as it's going to be everywhere. and we hope that the voice of the world will help us keep, give them safe, even though she held hostage somewhere. larry, we're reporting a lot about this ground defensive that we anticipate the israel will launch into, into the guys, and we've heard from us that they will kill some of the hostages will. they will kill the hostages that they've taken in retaliation. so that does that,

does that worry you knowing that this is the threat on your sister's life is indeed she is in, in gaza. i must be honest and say that we are, we're interviewing here today because we feel it's very important to to tell the story and to make the whole world aware. but i'm not much aware of what's going on in the, in the press and what's, what's, what we hear from some us because i have a 3 year old to take care. yeah. um and i appreciate that. i don't want to not i, i totally understand that. um of course you've got a lot to deal with at the moment. um, larry, have you, um, there are other families that all in, in, in the situation that you're in now have you been in contact with them?

is there some kind of a support system that you would have established to help each other at this moment? so there are a few and we're trying to the beginning, everything was chaos as expected, i guess, and nobody knew anything and we're still trying to figure out so a lot of different channels of communication, different groups, not everything is very organized, not everything is official. we haven't got a, i'll even not one official phone call from the store the same. we're looking for assistance or, or we don't have any new information, but we're on it. and this is one of the main things that we need the support of one another to try and push to try and get some sense into

this crazy ration marie, i really appreciate your coming on to the program today to talk to us about this and thank you so much for sharing that story with us, but is larry romano, whose sister is still missing since saturdays attacks? thanks so much again, larry. all the best to you being a 6 and we want to take a quick moment. now. let's just tell you about the stories that are making headlines around the world. and as a powerful, as quick has been reported enough kind of started comes just days after a devastating quake killed more than 2000 people, thousands more homeless, bracing for a winter without shelter risk. the operations continue, but hopes of finding survivors all fading and hurricane lydia. has slammed into makes the coast west coast make it made land for near the popular beach resorts of push a ballasa full cost as are describing the category false form as extremely dangerous

. the region is bracing, full flash floods, and winds of $210.00 offices, an hour and poland. the president has appointed to a new military need. his officer there predisposes designs just days before a decisive general election. the 2 generals didn't provide reasons for quitting the polish medius said they had left due to disagreements with the defense, minnesota and government attempts to involve military in its re election campaign event says, now ukraine's president. for let him use an sky is in brussels, the head of a meeting of nature, the defense ministers. it's his 1st visit to nato headquarters since rushes infection ministers to meet the ukrainian counterpart in a session of the nature of ukraine council. they're also set to discuss issues beyond the war in ukraine, including tuesdays reported damage to a substitute gas pipeline. and the telecommunications cable linking 2 of its members that would be sending and,

and is still here for the moment. welcome to to your file. and we can actually go to nato headquarters now and speak to our brussels bureau chief alexander phenomena who's on the ground for us, the alexandra. so what is on that? the ukranian president's agenda as he hits into this meeting at the age of head courses. while the training president has arrived in brussels coming directly from romano, where he held stokes with the government there. we also saw him last week in grenada, in spain. and there, as well as here at nato headquarters in brussels. he told us that this is a crucial time for ukraine. they, they need to really older elyse and partners to want them to get more support, more or defense, more artillery, more munition, to get ready for the upcoming winter. because all here is you as a nato secretary general put is that to put in is going to use a winter as

a weapon of war that they need to be ready for upcoming freshman attacks on ukrainian infrastructure and specially on and in energy infrastructure. so that is why so lensky is here to get more pledges from partners to get more or defense and munition and up to the read. alex, the world's eyes are on the middle east right now. is there a feeling there in brussels that the war between israel and how much is potentially now overshadowing the war and ukraine of the well that that is certainly the case, christine and some diplomats are expressing their concerns that the u. s. might shift a foreclose from ukraine to the conflicts 1st and foremost, of course, is royal. and of course, some are also concerns looking at the problems that the u. s. congress is heading to it, we to continue the support for ukraine. so fears are growing. however,

we have to say that the u. s. and best of the to need to julian smith yesterday. and a briefing pushes strongly against that, saying that to you as to is going of course, to support as well, but not at ukraine's expense. but of course this to pick the situation in israel, all of that is moving large over this meeting estimate to headquarters here in brussels and administer will be brief by the israeli minister of defense tomorrow on the situation and as well. all right, that is the view from brussels with alexander phenomena is reporting for us this morning. our brussels bare sheets. thank you alex. thank you. before we go, here's a reminder of our top story. israel stays the debt. so from said, today's terrorist attack has gone up to 1200 people. most of the dave were civilians gone down in their homes and on the street, israel has stepped up

a strikes on gaza and the supposed to be preparing for a ground offensive on the territory. keep it here in dfw because were staying on that coverage showing at the top of the next hour. if you can buy the of the the attack on the north stream pipelines was an attack on germany. it's an attack of historic dimensions. the one def, this inconspicuous ceiling, not really have something to do with it. the deep sea divers blow.