on the this is the, the, the news live from berlin. hum aust, militant group releases to more hostages comes and then reports that washington is urging is real to delay a ground offensive and gaza so that more hostages can be freed. also coming up is real launches, air strikes across the gaza strip. heavy as barrage and days come off says that more than $5000.00 people in gauze have now been killed in the bombardment. the

i'm in east. it's good to have you with us to elderly is really hostages, have been released by the palestinian milton group from us. the women have been handed over to these really military and taken into medical facility. their husbands are still being held captive and gaza. media reports say the us is urging is real to delay its ground defensive in the gaza, to allow time to negotiate the release of more hostages. israel says at least 220 people are still being held by how much i'm going to do. but i see the w correspondent, tanya kramer, is following the events for us in jerusalem. she has more on the release of the 2 hostages. well i have this evening d uh cassandra gates, thats the military ring of minutes. and group home us released a video showing those 2 elderly women, one age 7 to 9, the other 8 to 5, being handed over to the international invite. austin,

as he said there were and then handed over to uh the is really military. we know, however, that the husbands uh, also believes to be in the eighty's. there are still kept if they were not handed over. so this is what you know so far from them. and what do we know about to broker this deal and how that was done? while we understand that, i must say this was done for you. many turn reasons and that as the previous uh, hostages, the 2 hostages to american hostages that were handed over some days ago cutoff and egypt were involved. we also have a statement by the prime minister's office in israel saying that they is thinking of egypt and the red cross for the efforts to help you in this release and said that also the is really military, the i d. s. and the security forces do much work and the last days to make this

possible. this was a highly complex situation again to release those 2 hostages at this time. this is of course great news for the families of those hostages. so for 4 people have been released from captivity by a mazda, is this giving israel hope that more civilian hostages could be released in the coming days? while there were some room is in the, is rarely media that uh 50 more hostages could be released about that has not materialized so far. but this, but collation that they might be coming more by the most folks 1st and based. and bruce, i didn't interview that, you know, the conditions need to be variety. also made clear that they make a distinction between the civilians and the military personnel they're holding and that the soldiers and military person would be exchanged only and in prison the exchange as they put it against prisoners as that are in power,

steering and prisoners that are in is rarely prisons. so, but what we know is that the is really military to confirm to families that 222 hostages are confirmed the 20 and 20 in uh, in gaza. some families still don't know what happened to the last ones because the identification process also is still ongoing of those people killed. it's a very volatile situation also in the light that there might be a ground invasion looming soon. tonya kramer before the, for us, from jerusalem, thinking well with this war, entering it's 3rd week is real, has stepped up. it's bombardment of gaza saying it's hitting him off. militant targets. isolated garza health ministry. he says over 5000 people have now been killed in the air strikes because his hospitals have been overwhelmed by the number of casualties. clinics are short of staff medicines and beds among the most vulnerable patients. our newborn babies the tiny child

struggling to brave life support. it wouldn't stand a chance of god as large as hospital the head of the intensive care unit for pretty much your best. where is that time is running out for his patients? well, when i see them here, we call on every one to send the necessary medical supplies for this critical department for the total or else we will face a huge catastrophe with less unaccompanied, you know, to think of, you know, and that's especially if the electricity is out in this department's auto body, whether off $55.00 babies. um, let me go when i'm in a come self, i'm seeing a boyfriend will lose any of those who need electricity, but within 5 minutes of that highest home. how much the car since how much is deadly attacks on october 7? he's realism force. can you totally locate if the gaza strip electricity has been cut many,

some fuel for generators of cost running out all the while these rated air force pounds gods are relentlessly. the bombings have flooded causes hospitals with casualties. some of the women were pregnant. webcasting bath in a day not perfect, and how many we have a baby who was delivered at 26 weeks of the meal, and the weight, 892 crowns. some of the wheel and on behalf of a similar mother was referred from the north and a number then after the house next to her was hit by an as striking or domestic. dia promote that was priesthood to the delivery room. and she was panicking unable, but we still still see it on the face. now once you realize that she was in the delivery findings, they'll do live with this baby. and he was admitted to the intensive care unit for him. and the zip code where you left us with, i know, yeah. the chief, the hospital isn't guys. as knowles, israel is expected to launch a ground and vision soon added peril for the hospitals patients. the all access to

further south is also struggling to cope model. so despairing as a new bones, and that's enough, instead there is a shortage of capabilities and hospitals, and we're afraid that things will get worse and that we won't find treatment for our children on the sob by the end of the world. health organization says that at least 50000 pregnant women in gaza and not receiving necessary health care over 5000 due to gifts best soon in a life threatening environment. more than 50 trucks and 3 convoys i've passed through the roof of border crossing from egypt since saturday, bringing aid for civilians and gaza. the deliveries included food, water, and medical supplies. agencies said the aid is only a tiny fraction of what is needed. the deliveries did not include fuel. un says fuel is urgently needed for water and sanitation systems,

hospitals and bakeries. are we asked journalist house in boucher if the limited aid region gaza is improving the situation for civilians there yet. we're talking about $54.00 trucks, came in 3 days, mean total in comparison with the, with the regular time for the war, $500.00 used to come daily with different items. and mainly these trucks. they are typically about pre main things to and medical supplies and water. 1000 need more. other things are, these are a come true underwear and at the very questions i still like these, these, these 8 go to some of the hospital, old and, and to the underwater for g. and what, what schools like, whatever, if he's taking it as a show to that, but um the people in their houses they are not receiving be

a lot the most important is that the fuel which is not coming. yeah. it says you ready to move the functional hospitals that car exploitation did something on the water as to the houses and here that in the nation station, the treatment of police or to all of these things like need fuel and still these things are not comic yet. so we, we haven't seen actually a huge difference on the, on this we don't. journalist has on bullshit and gaza meeting in luxembourg. you foreign ministers agreed at 8, the gaza needs to be increased. but they were at odds over whether to call for humanitarian ceasefire. german foreign minister and a bad bach said there will only be peace and security for israel and the palestinians. if terrorism is combated, the dw use brussels bureau chief alexander found knob and spoke to ben hodges, the former commanding general of the us army. she asked them about the risk of

a ground offensive by the israeli military, whether there were any alternatives. hodges, all eyes are on israel and guys, lot with the is really army know saying that they are preparing for the next stage of war is the much anticipated ground offensive begins. what are the biggest risk? but i think there are 3 significant risk for this really defense force. number one, the most obvious is when ground forces do go into gaza. it is gonna be very difficult. i mean, the fighting inside of a city, especially when home us knows. in fact, how much it wants them to come in there. so i think the soldiers know that this is going to be very difficult. plus they are under enormous pressure to minimize civilian damage civilian casualties because the whole world is watching. and you've got how much trying to, to kill you. the 2nd big danger i think is if you're on

opens up another front has block and coming from 11 on or something to create more distraction in the west bank. the 3rd i think main danger is at what point do they stop? do you know um, do they? what's the mission? yeah, i understand the mission is to destroy from us and make garza uninhabitable for home us. okay, does that mean is really cylinders are going to be there for months, then they're gonna have to secure occupied mean that, that will be very, very difficult. are there any alternatives to a ground operation? but there's, of course, there's always an alternative, but it may not be a satisfactory alternative. i think the fact that they haven't started the ground operation yet is either because they're not satisfied with the conditions they have not destroyed enough of the how much leadership and infrastructure with air power yet, or they're still

a doing what we call intelligence preparation of the battlefield where you're building up your or improving your understanding of where the enemy is, where the civilians are, where the tunnels are. that's a part of it. us is increasing. it's a fire power in the region. could us be tracked into at a wider regional war? i don't think that's likely. i think iran really does not want to see, you know, us navy or other capabilities destroying what they have. i think it was prudent for the secretary defense to deployed to aircraft carrier, straight groups into the eastern mediterranean. there. therefore, deterrence to come to convey to tear on that this is, this is not a bluff that we are prepared and more capabilities are being put into the region for aaron missile defense for example. but of course,

part of this is there to for contingency in case they had to evacuate civilians as that worth attention. trends to the middle east award and ukraine continues. it could do as especially now with the presidential elections looming, large and pull the titian its minds, cooked us do bows, provide military aids to israel, and continue with its military assistance for ukraine. absolutely, this present by and said that the other day when he was asked that very question is that such as the united states, of course, we can and will continue to support ukraine, which needs to defeat russia. because the chinese are watching. are we serious about everything that's at stake there, the, all the international rules based order. so that's going to continue. and of course, the united states has made it very clear. we're going to help his real defend itself, particularly against a terrace organization that we also would like to see destroyed. but i think these

are not separate incidents. the biggest beneficiary of all this is russia, the kremlin. it wants to see all of us turner eyes and resources away from ukraine . i believe that the kremlin is working with their closest ella iran to orchestrate this. i don't think there's a piece of paper that says, hey, on this day we want you to attack. but clearly they've been working together for years, and especially in the last few months, they are enabling each other with resources. weapons. i think the way the president has said, describe this is we have to address this as a whole defeat hum us by helping ukraine defeat russia, which is no longer able to help you run this. this is how we do this. and then that defend that detours. china as well. you're up to date coming up next doc film takes

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