[000:00:00;00] the, you're watching the, the news coming to live from berlin, bracing for a new phase in israel for on israel's military size. it has completely surrounded gaza city. the militants, main base amongst us. it is preparing to fight back. also coming up on the show, us secretary of state anthony blinking arrives in israel. he's expected to call on the government to minimize arm to civilians and gaza.

the inquiry. richardson, welcome to the show. israel says it's ground forces have completely surrounded garza city. they say their troops are advancing despite quote painful losses. the militants are reported to of late mines and booby traps in the area and threatened to mount strong resistance is really military size because of city is the center of masses. terror organization. israel launched it's a tax on goal, is that in response to the mask, or by how mazda of more than $1400.00 people in israel? as an idea, spokes person gave more details of the new phase of the ground operation. the lights are as well defenceless as site is incomplete to the in sacramento because the city on the center of the organization on the last i was to be in the infantry along with the air force being executive bases, headquarters, concentration points, and of a tenant infrastructure chatham is used by a mass on either of the terrorists. how many company, i'm sure, as israel says it's forces have in circles,

gaza city. i earlier spoke to military analyst moreno moran, and i asked her about this as a strategy. good morning, clear. well, israel had announced yesterday is that it's target, it's phase 3, and it looks like this. phase 3 will be in circle, mentor, the siege of kansas city because it's around it from all sides. we don't know if israel is going to leave a band open for the civilians to escape. this is a concern amongst hazardous from the united states and in terms of the human, hairy and costs good. it would look like israel is trying to, we can how maces' ability to assist, probably before entering the city itself and starting the much dreaded urban on that. now the idea has also said its soldiers are in close quarters. come back with almost fighters there. can you describe for us what challenges and risks there are in an operation like this, including to civilian life,

to all that's probably the highest risk which has political ramifications because israel would lose support or the risk to support if too many civilians died during this operation. however, as this is a nature of urban combat and unfortunately there is no one good way around it. and the urban come back is very slow, is very bloody. it means they're fighting house by house, having to clear everything from the basement to the roof top. and we'll have the other issue here of a multi layer tunnel system, meaning that from off fighters know with very well can just pop out in one place. whereas the east really forces are not expecting them, making it even more difficult. an army has also now said it's encountering mines and booby traps, and that's the militants have prepared themselves getting the idea of will be surprised by their capabilities. well,

i think the idea is understanding now the capabilities at home us has and there wasn't encountering 2014. so i don't think it's a huge surprise. besides those tactics are being used by different insurgent groups . when it comes to such scenarios, they are trying to make it as difficult as it is for the opposing force to move for it. and they might be using humans as a shield to make the operation even more challenging. and right, i wanna look at the broader regional implications is of course a lot of concern about is war spilling over. we're already seeing attempts by the, as well as who's the rebels and yemen of firing missiles and drones at israel. at this point, how concerned would you be about wider spillover in the region? or i think it is very possible, especially since the israel is already in gaza. so to see and we've heard the lights of iran's reckoning that these roll would cross a red line. so there is a possibility that iran would get further in walton,

activating its proxies on the one hand and as a trunk could be open in the north of his route. but it also has broad the regional implications and applications for the entire world because of some fruit, sympathetic to hum us or perhaps not so sympathetic, but they are against israel, a calling for killing jews. and americans and brits because americans and brits are supporting is for island, have deployed reinforcements to the region. so we should be worried that this war is not just going to be limited to the middle east and tell us more about that northern front. i'm curious if you could spell up a specifics for us about what the concerns are at the lebanese border. major concerns are, is that helpful. i might try to intensify its attacks and it might essentially spill over or even try to conduct incursions. however, we don't know how far iran is willing to risk losing its proxy by having

it entering the board completely arises and being a distraction in process and, and find to keep the israel of forces tight in that region. well thank you so much for that analysis, but it's not random alone for us. we really appreciate your time. thank you very much. and us secretary of state antony, blinking is an israel to price officials on measures that would reduce harm to civilians and gaza. lincoln has arrived in tel aviv he will meet with is rarely prime minister benjamin netanyahu to discuss, allowing more aiden to cause a loss run cause a health industry says more than $9000.00 people have died and is rarely bombardments, mostly women and children. earlier i spoke to the, to these correspondent rebecca rivers and tele v. and i asked her, what is real might be expecting to hear from the americans salon to the bank and is making his 3rd visit to israel today, showing just how serious the situation is, how important message is for the us. he'll be bringing with him. of course,

the message of solidarity with the israel that he's brought with him and his last visits. and he's also going to be working towards getting the u. s. hostages. the us to national, found, standing here at a monument for the hostages protest, if you will, from is riley's who are demanding that the hostages be able to be released. and that this round invasion of israel is preventing that from happening. uh, the other things, ongoing tens agenda today will of course be the next stages in the school. he's going to be calling for the limited si size. he's limited to humanitarian c 5 so that they can get humanitarian aid in to gather and some more of the at least the 7000 to national that are listed to give them passage outside of the gaza strip. but he's also going to be here to look forward to what happens in a post a gaza, who will be beginning the types of who will be running the strip and looking at the

next move though it's very early days you've been hearing earlier in the program. this now entering into the 3rd phase, if will. so i think that the post will face is still some way of looking ahead to some of those major political questions that remain open. um, tell us about the military operations currently as well as military has announced the complete encirclement of gauze as largest city. yeah, well we're hearing it early in the program. they have now completely in circle the city. we do believe that they've completely cut off the main ontario roads from the north to the south, as we thought was going to be part of the plan. we know they've been cooling for, for weeks now, for citizens at golfing. in the, the northern gauze, the strip to move to the south. now, any of the ones who remained, any of the ones who stayed are going to find it almost impossible to evacuate that area now. and it looks so they're going to begin this ground as close combat ground to inside. sorry to have

a hand to hand combat basically coming out of the tanks and moving into gauze the city itself. now that's going to cause lots of problems and we may see the, this whole of these writing military rise quite significantly when we get into this urban warfare. it's very complicated, close and you know, how much know the territory very well they find does have a network of tunnels that they're able to use. and surprise is, is riley military. we did say already the debt to all of you, right? the is really military rise over night that standing a 23 at the moment. the civilian debt told in gaza still around the 9000 not but we'll have some new take his license today. the next phase of bloody thing, as long as he does numbers. uh, from most run garza health authority. now as all this is happening, israel has announced that it is going to be sending guardians who are currently working in israel back into besieged, cause a can you tell us

a little bit more about this announcements? yeah, we heard that last night, we're actually seeing that many have already been returned this morning where i'm not able to give you exact figures of how many people were from guys that were inside israel at the time. but we know that around about $20000.00 more workers have permits to work inside israel and many was separated from their families. when this conflict began, they weren't able to return into kansas. and now they being forced to go back, forced to go back and now will now be in the besieged strip. uh the the, the security announce middle the announcement that came along with this, that that would be no relationship between garza and israel. off to this, well, as i said, we'll have to see it early days to know exactly what's going to happen in a post conflict. well, but it does say seem to have not completely returned that will be happening in the next hour. and what can you tell us about the current situation in the west bank

where attentions have been running high occasions have been running high in the west bank. i mean, they're always relatively high, particularly in the last year and 18 months quite a bit. since this conflict began, if there's been a massive spike intentions overnight, we sold another quite large and long raid. on the janine tab, we believe that 5 people have been killed and indians were killed in fighting there . and we've seen a spike in hitler violence as well yesterday with a particularly bad day we saw around the nablus area. many settlers coming down and bonnie prophecy that something else that's going to be on the agenda of, of, of, and to me blinking when he's here today. i'm calling to pay for the, you know, the, the leaders here to be getting everybody to try and cool the jets. nobody wants to see a 3rd front, open up in the west bank. but at the moment we're seeing those tensions rise. and of course, that is the fee that the people are going to be so exasperated they have of this

violence is going to continue and we could well see a front opening off on the west side. rebecca, many thanks. pharaoh ford? that's rebecca rivers for us. and tell of these ukraine says it's air defense systems have down more than 20 russian attack drones and a missile overnight. moscow is also stepping up showing of some areas in ukraine. concern is growing about strikes against infrastructure which lead the population, especially vulnerable as cold weather sets in what is needed these. i mean, these are for ports ukrainians are coming up with ways to contains the damage as the days grow, shorter and ukraine. memories of last winter return. the nighttime attacks and days without electricity or heat. many expect another hard winter. but ukraine has learned a lot about russia strategy and has been preparing all year for one ukrainian military will now prioritize large electrical substations for air defense. the stations deliver electricity to up to half

a 1000000 households in big cities like kia, of, and prove vulnerable to russian attacks. engineers are also rebuilding smaller substations damaged and russian strikes and housing them and blast resistant concrete. last year the russians destroyed around 3000 local substations just in the key of reaching. the new sheds can't withstand a direct hit from a missile, but they can absorb shrapnel from a nearby blast. mostly with, i mean, well maybe that will be some damage some, what does it get? it? there are many impacts. they would be a significant and we can quickly react to repair their subjects via make it work again. despite the lessons learned ukraine's energy infrastructure is going into this winter at a disadvantage, russia has destroyed a vast amount of expensive equipment. and replacements are only arriving in ukraine piece by piece this. and this means that they gave you some general, or for some lower than before, falls as seen spot of the uh,

they have to be even be 3 and from one site rebuilt. prepared to be fair understanding. what's happened to be have a lot of training into pro ration down from either side to from one side via on the, to the position. the hard tinkle believes russian no longer harbor is the illusion that it can bring ukraine cities to their needs through attacks on infrastructure. i believe was that if you think it will be hard, but to be real sort of why the air raid sirens and new cranes, capital kias have been fairly quiet and recent weeks. but few expect that to last very long. you have been watching your news live from berlin. before we go, we can leave you with reminder of our top story. as well as military sizes. it has surrounded garza city as it presses a head with his campaign against tomas, the army says that the conquering mines and booby traps and that the militants have prepared themselves for battle. the last 8 of this,

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