in mediating cultures around the world, people learn to classify small handful of animals with edible and all the rest they classify as disgusting. the w series about our complex relationship with them and also need to be watching. now on youtube dw documentary, the hundreds of civilians were seeking shelter in a hospital and gaza city, hoping to find safety despite is really orders to evacuate towards the south. but the safety is elusive in the enclave. these days scores are dead. after a rocket hit the complex with her mas blaming israel for the devastating strike, and israel flaming the palestinian islamic jihad, a group designated as a terrorist organization by the us, you and others. the world health organization warns the gaza is barreling towards

catastrophe. now it's against that backdrop and the fear that the conflict might spread that international allies of both sides are frantically working to de escalate. today german chancellor all shots travel to the middle east to show germany solidarity with israel in the wake of homos attack. and discuss ways to ease the burden on gauze and civilians. on nicole fairly, in berlin, and this is the day i the be appreciated. the fact that you came here to stand with us in this battle for the future of civilization. the secuity of israel is jim and his reason of states come us are the new not to my government, just doing all that kind of thing. event is conflicts from escalate to the world as do stand united behind israel to defeats from us, kind

a to know up to the sure think it's a good idea to intervene in this conflict. but this is not only our battle, it is our common, but also on the day an impassioned playing by 8 groups do not forget about afghanistan after a series of devastating earthquakes, create a crisis within a crisis. a total of $93600000.00 is required to rapidly deliver life. saving, craig res falls to maintaining actors in the race against time to meet the needs of the affected communities before the onset off. when to welcome to the day. it is the biggest crisis the middle east has seen in years, and the prospect of getting out of hand is creating concern around the globe. so

diplomatic efforts are running high with world leaders and their representatives during the region and then attempt to avoid the still available today. german chancellor or life shots travel to tell a beef after his talks with is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu. he was forced to take cover when air rates are and sounded while he was boarding his plane to travel onwards to egypt. beyond a show of support for israel schultz hope's his visit, we'll help find a solution for the catastrophic humanitarian situation in besiege casa, or lending into love. eve germantown slow, olaf shows cold it a visit to friends in difficult times during talks with is rarely prime minister benyamin, antonia who he express condolences to israel, but also concern over a broadening of the conflict. is this me a vision, which is it is important for me to say this today should be in this difficult time . in all clarity, tortuga sheets. germany's history or historical responsibility originating from the

holocaust. what makes it all duty to protect the existence and security of israel? so just a minute, we give them to my government, assuming everything in its power to ensure that this conflict does not escalate. it is essential to prevent a conflagration in the region. the german towns love pledge that his government will keep them in so many tearing commitments in regard to the civilian population . behind closed doors, olaf shoals also met the relatives of german hostages health by come us in gaza. they staged at protest in front of the german embassy. they are demanding answers. the phone with whom give you the information that we have. and i don't even want to say it out loud. but some of them are probably already dead. when we don't know that officially, and that's certainly a problem and does is for students in properly all we want right now is the power below, back in before before everything to know the situation because we know nothing

we are in the air. so we want to know their situation that they're being taken care of to his visit to israel shoals will continue to was egypt tough talks with president up the fight, the hot c c a had over the expected p summit in cairo this weekend of the now can tar has positioned itself as a possible mediator between homos and israel. the law has had times with him, austin's, it's early days, a relationship that could allow it to exert influence over what the u. the u. s. and some are of states label a terrorist group, but it also brings into question how appropriate guitar is as a mediator for piece, talk a friend to the west and to this one enemy taught how works a tightrope on foreign policy. doug has communication channels with homos have made

it a major international player and an important us and a u. l. i a small states with a long history of mediation as in past flareups, doha. this time immediately took on the role of negotiate uh, holding talks for the release of hostages held in gaza. cause i caught diplomatic ties with israel in 2009. but it is experienced a balancing relations with opposing players. for example, counting growth tear on and washington has friends. dark ha, has hosted the political headquarters of homos for more than a decade. over the weekends, the political leader of the militant islam is group is male hon. the a met with the ron's foreign minister in doha casa, is also widely regarded as a major financial back of a mouse through its funding of civil services in gaza. it says the financial support is full, humanitarian and political efforts to maintain stability and support cause and

families. doha has tried to use monetary incentives to find diplomatic solutions in past conflicts. guitar latest, say their priority now is to de escalate, protect civilians, and to prevent any spillover that could trigger a regional wall. as relatives and friends, as people could not find the laws of urge the german government to help secure their release at a press conference held at the german embassy and to leave. israel says that at least 199 people are being held hostage by homos and gaza. some of them are 4 and citizens or whole dual nationality, least 8 of them are german citizens. among them 22 year old sony luke monday, how last released his 1st hostage video showing 21 year old mia sherman is really french citizen. w spoke to friends of shiny. look in front of the german embassy. we know nothing. we are in the air. we want to know the situation that they're

being taken care um having made because help because all that i know right now is my friend tenant is injured, very must have injured and she needs to be take care of firstly and our kidnapped our beloved into to be take care of and medically to get to be to be um, to be day care and to gets back here to our tools to their families. now, while efforts to free the hostages are ongoing, israel is widely expected to launch a ground defensive into gaza. john spencer is the chair of urban warfare studies with the madison policy for him, and i asked him to give us his assessment of the situation regarding a possible is really encouraged and then took awesome. are sure. i mean, i think they're starting to conditions destitute. the job version that the idea says they've been given, which is to destroy

a mazda known as you capabilities the. currently, it is continuing with the air campaign to strike come off military tigers, to reduce their capabilities before a ground force would go in to actually physically clear it. you can't do that through strictly bombing so you would need ground forces to clear the urban areas of a massive military capabilities where they put them in to what extent has that weakened homeless so far? i mean, it's hard to your to say from afar, but definitely considerably. it's taken out of my ability to see a mazda is ability to strike. we're using rocket to reduce that capability. but a mazda does have a city underneath their cities where they can protect much of their capability, but how effective it is being they have taken out leadership. so that will all be significant. if a ground new campaign is executed. yeah,

let's talk about that city beneath the city that system of tunnels that her mom has built up over the years that added to guys being one of the most pop, densely populated areas on the planet. what does that mean for a possible ground offensive to me the, the challenges for the i definitely would be great, almost historical. although you guys are the guys as it is not one of the dentist places on there it is definitely a high density and uniquely probably to use. a lot of other bells i've, i've studied from us has been years not longer building tunnels, underneath the civilian population. on purpose for military military design, i mean there are tunnels and so training spaces and a lot of bottles bores. but from us as doug, there is deeper and deeper some up to 200 plus feet under the ground that makes it considerably harder and much more destructive if

a game ground campaign is to get those military capabilities, which most of them are underground. and affairs are, of course, of this conflict spilling over what are the chances of other actors being dragged into the war? i mean, there's always high chance, although i as a new professor strategy, i'm more is politics by other means the idea of how to have a very narrow but also larger than they've ever tried the political and military objective, but the actions of other state actors, other non state actors like the program we're talking about before a really unknown. but i'm, this is why you keep open communications up with, especially state actors, to not do it to send signs of the parents to uphold all the rules of international law on following the rules of law in the execution of any, any, were not the targets of lee, and i'm all of that will come into play on what happens next in this war,

which is to me, defined clearly as from the tear stack of october 7th to now the mission of the idea to destroy. i'm unable to get building is israel prepared for a scenario? they have probably been been gearing out for for longer. but can you ever prepare for the facts on the ground that are as you just laid out, are very, very complex or right now i think idea of the or the is realize very prepared for a multi from or a we all hope it doesn't go go that way it will be severely catastrophic or regional aspects for civilian casualties. it would be terrible. it's not the 1st time idea of has fault a multiple front war to create a forefront war. and, and there have been plenty of allies to say that they would stand with israel in the protection of its citizens in the end of this nation. but nobody wants that to

happen. i think every political common i've heard is said don't go that way. exactly. and diplomatic efforts are running high right now to avoid precisely that that was john spencer has been in madison policy for him. thank you so much. thank you. to wester enough? got us down now we're a series of earthquakes, and after shocks have left thousands of people homeless. the quakes have been centered around hair problems so you can see it there on the map. the lenses, the quakes have killed nearly 1400 people and says over 60000, others have been directly affected. whole villages have been completely flattened and families bird. beneath the rubble, any survivors have fled, bay area, or, or having to sleep out in the open. the un says some $93000000.00 is needed to immediately help those impacted. it's humanitarian coordinator for

a found this time gave this recent update. the most certain needs at this stage is really shelter because it's already cold at night. people stay in the boat and as i mentioned, they are for, even if they have all of this that i'm completely destroyed, they will not go into these. how does this but do because they have the form of the shots. we want to take a closer look now at the situation in the hair of province and bringing our shouldn't believe he's the of got a son director and save the children and joins us tonight. from kabul, mr. malik, welcome to the w for earthquakes in a single week. at least 1300 people are dead. many more left homeless. how are people in her own coping? thank you very much. so as, as you'd like to, you mentioned data like at least the quick since 7th of october. it's about 6 subject of scale which has shaken the organs of you don't have to do less than part of a one is done um like more than $1500.00 people have died. more than

7000 of homes have been completely destroyed or damaged. even people on the list, they are full. so sleep open though, for me when those the don't to go back and that if i took over the dining back to their homes because of the field of the father shops that wants to make the store eating concert reports of shocks as well. the latest assessments identified approximately a 140 thoughtful being 1000 people will deduct in support to put their life together almost half of the images ultimately for the person that you're doing. this also includes around 17000 people with disability and 1300 families to and then when we speak of the children's dilemma, v that if i because a doctor shots continuing to be funded across the region, many have lost any everything. then in their, in desperate need of emergency shelter forward what the other,

the central services including medical care, they also need a mental health support. the one of a come to psychological impact of this if it's perfect. um yeah, that's the creation they're dealing with. are you able to provide any of that at this point, given the circumstances? yes. do we have the you just started going in doing that, but those are responding to disguises on ground. we are trying to provide essential services. but most of the doing buttons and other agencies and really going to use these, looking on the ground to provide essentially might be good k, i show to support. and as a at least be able to tell them is it, can you buy from living with other vehicle navigations we have supporting families and things like that. families on big guy support. white. essential uh, services that need to be stabilized together, like for children with deals and building and medicine. another essentially and

also focusing on, pardon me, good. whitening was coordinating with other partners to look at further assistance to the most effective date. he goes in and hit up the it also looking at providing psycho social support was affected by setting up spaces and thought that they have locations based off of those. hopefully they're, they're not services introducing, but actually it also looking at the possibility of operating time for these bases and, and other services. and that is all the discussion going on about the existing response to the setting and quite fast. but the better is, is going down with extreme things and i was looking at the better for the past because before i started talking to you and in the next couple of days the, the template can go down and around 8 at night. if you can living with the family, just let me know, is it just a piece you talked about coordinating with other organizations?

i do want to know how the tyler bond are cooperating with 8 organizations such as yours to so soft a lot of um, on the ground. uh we have the pools which we need to deliver to our services. and um, do you have not faced any significant challenges on the ground? um and it's, it's like from that perspective it is okay for now. that's what i can see. it is a crisis on top of an ongoing humanitarian crisis. what is the overall situation of children in afghanistan at the moment, especially of course, the situation of girls. and so, uh, as you'd like to be mentioned, this is a crisis, and bubble sizes of the sun was already facing us. a gentleman who didn't make situation with around 13 with enough the fund population to play as, as independent and assistance. out of that,

approximately 15500000 required of us. they may have getting assistance on food and half of the population level d's, approximately half of close to half of this is june and girls who have because, and a lot of times we also do appreciate the fact that the one is done is coming up before b as of conflict. and on top of that we have the drought in various parts of the country we have now this week we have other natural disasters. we have the economy, which is not by the governing because of the because of the political situation, but also looking at the fact that the, the funding coming to one is on, is also reduced. and they've been cut down by various doing those. and this is quite willing comes on fast, only to be approximately 34 percent of the community and as fast as possible. and we'll go together by you and, and buttons was actually, is meant to be funded at the moment as we speak to you in the last of funding to be

able to cater to the people in the do you get the sense that with everything going on in the world of kind of son is being forgotten. so definitely we, we are quite concerned about the fact that not only because of the crisis, but otherwise of when it's done, it has been ignored. and this is absolutely the only time to isolate the one is done and leave a one people in this situation. um yes, uh what's happening in middle east euclid and glasses. so don, cynthia has an impact on the world of funding coming to a lot of fun, but m like in addition to that for you, otherwise seen lack of invest. uh or what kind of like in the direction of invest in one is done when it comes to funding from bonus as are suddenly you've got to stand director and say the children. thank you so much for your time tonight. thank

you. the russia and china are united, but what they themselves have branded a limitless friendship. now the country's leaders, lot of improvement and staging pain are meeting for talks in beijing seeking to deep and friendship even further. the 2 will be meeting on the sidelines of the belgian road for him. she's global infrastructure initiative, but really it's a visit designed to showcase to the world. they are shared vision for a new international order. comes as to a political fault lines hardened after russia's invasion of ukraine. and now the last her attack on israel. beijing rejects western criticism of its partnership with moscow, saying if can cooperate with any country, it was about the french of we can now speak to attend sola. he's a research analyst at the alliance for securing democracy. his research focuses on

china is growing political and economic assertiveness. good. you have you on the day now, where does the russian chinese friendship currently stand? what does each side one from the other and what are they getting to? thank you very much for having me on your show. so both countries have a very clear shared interest in pushing back against the democratic block led by the united states. russia is struggling militarily in ukraine. china is going through an economic downturn of its own. so in a way, it kind of makes sense that they would look to regroup, ensure up there, makes sense alliance. now, i think what russia, once from china is quite clear. it once continued that, that was, i e mail it 3 support that has received with china, sending it to, you know, uh spare parts for vehicles and those sort of things and its, uh, oregon. c crane. they once continued economic supports with china buying a russian commodities and it was continued diplomatic and media supports to break

the isolation of western sanctions. that sounds really good. any less, i know a lot more then then china needs rush. i doesn't. and so i, that would be the initial impression, but in fact, i think china also wants things from russia and china needs to go next and part of it. so in, as i mentioned, that there was a bit of an economic downturn going on there and rushes keep commodities will definitely help. but china also lacks this kind of euro quality of prestige that russia has, for instance. and a lot of the crews that have happened in africa in recent years, expression flags that the demonstrators are flying, despite the fact that china that has been boring, billions into the confidence. so when china tries to develop these big infrastructure projects and to redraw a global institutions, it needs brush up by its side to shore up support for this new rules based order. it's frame to establish a recent report from your organization found that russia and china begun parenting

each other's talking points when it comes to the war and ukraine, specifically, even though beijing is officially neutral and the conflict, what is behind the strategy? so what we have described is that china has what we call of progress and neutrality, which is officially the diplomats will say that they respect both sides, a legitimate security interest that they're not taking sides. but in practice, they will interview russian officials much more often than ukrainian ones. they will always try to minimize the violence of the war that is happening by coordinate, by cooling into an intervention or a special operation. and again, this is part of this general strategy of countering western messaging in western narratives globally. and in particular, in africa, again, we're trying to state media are very presence. i think it's very useful for russia

to have chinese take media relay in russian token points. yeah, and we don't have much time, but this of course, always happens with, with, with china and taiwan tensions brewing in the background. could this narrative also possibly be the paving away when, when it comes to that possible conflict. so for now, um there is evidence that pressure would probably support any movement of china towards the time one. it's just that given how hard russia is struggling in your brain, it's hard to see china starting something over time. one right now, no matter how deep the friendship between both countries and as a chancellor research analyst at the alliance for securing democracy, thank you so much for those insights and for your time. of course, that is our time, but make sure to stay informed. stay engaged and stay in touch so you can follow our team on the x to find. is there actually the we use that myself,

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this is the, the we news line from berlin, health officials in gaza say hundreds of people have been killed and when they're calling an air strike on a hospital, images from the scene show rescue is scrambling to help the wounded. oh sydney and later in the boss has declared 3 days of morning. israel's prime minister blamed the attack on islam is militant also on the program. german chancellor will laugh shots tells that prime minister benjamin netanyahu, that israel has the right to defend itself against him. ok, sholtes also warns countries in the middle.