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the the, this is the w news coming to life from berlin. israel steps of its military campaign in the gaza strip. the defense minister says is rarely troops are now operating in the heart of kansas city, with full coordination between land fair and sea forest. and as israel's variable in parliament of guys that continues g 7 leaders meeting in japan are set to call for a humanitarian ceasefire. the
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hello i'm terry mo. let me go ahead, look out the name of goose they will be so entry of fuels that no entry of workers and there will be no serious fire without the release of our hostages. for the latest, let's cross over to dw special correspondent abraham in jerusalem. what are you hearing from the israel depends forces about the difficulty of their operation in and around gaza city. we know that so far, 30 is really soldiers have been killed since the beginning of the ground operation about a week ago. and as the ground operation entries into its next phase, we can expect this death tool to rise as well. so far close combat urban warfare has been limited limited to urban areas. but as you just mentioned, is really trips are now a bit inside garza city. this is previously one of the most populated,
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a parts of the entire strip and also where these really military believes the largest concentration of how masses tunnel system is located right underneath garza city. so as this phase moves forward, we can expect more close combat with from us militants. we can expect more urban warfare, as is really troops try to read the strip of a us from us and also to release attempt to release the hoss of just the majority of whom are still believed to be within the strip. we can also expect that with urban warfare, civilian casualties will also arise. these really military has repeatedly as dozens, to evacuate to the south through many reasons. why about 300000 still remain there either. they're worried that there is no safe place for as they say they are not able to evacuate. and this is something that really touches almost everyone in his
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really society. this is a country where military service is mandatory, with very, very few exceptions. and over 300 reservists have been called up. so it's, you know, it's, it's the effect of this ground operation. and this was something that you see everywhere here in israel. so the war has been going on now for, for over a month. are, is really satisfied a, with the way the government is prosecuting this one i would say there's pretty much over whelming support for the war. even though, as i just mentioned, it will come at a huge cost people here are acutely aware of that. but at the same time, what they tell me is that they feel like there is no choice. this is the only way this words, the only way to 1st of all, begin their security to get rid of from us as the government wants to do. and they feel this could also bring back the hostages. there is however,
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mounting anger at the government and prime minister benjamin netanyahu. specifically, we just crossed the one month mark since the terror attacks of october 7th here in jerusalem and elsewhere in the country. there were vigils memorials that also turned into protests against the prime minister west so far, it's not taking responsibility for the major security labs that was october 7th. so i would say support for the war support for the war effort. but at the same time, mountain anger at the government and a prime minister netanyahu, even though it is a unity government that also has a opposition figures. a thank you very much, shar special correspond to abraham injuries. now israel says it is entering the next stage of its war against thomas, who's fighters are reportedly operating from a large network of tunnels is real, says militants are launching mortar attacks against israeli soldiers and then
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retreating back under ground. it's a challenging situation for is rarely forces. let's have a closer look now at the options that is really forces may be considering and the next phase with our military experts, frank language, frank, the tunnel system used by him us militants, has been described as a spider. web by a former hostage, can you help us better? imagine frank, what that looks like and how long this might have taken to build good morning terry. yes. in, in guys. actually it's called the guys a metro as well. and that describes, to some extent, the complexity of it being built for about 20 years from us started to construct amazing nearly to thousands of us. i'm say, based on the extent is, is truly vast. most estimates put it that arrived throughout the the clay with around 300 miles or 500 kilometers long,
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located some of those systems of all for me to go deeper. the bigger than others, connected. caustic bunkers. but you have to have combined centers and what have you, an account to measures to be used to guides the many. but is it very difficult challenge you be attacking them from the land? i'm indeed from the sea. so yeah. so israel has tasked a special unit, one of its special units with finding out more about the location and layout of these tunnels. frank, how would they go about doing that? they have no to one particular method. needless to say. so the units cause the whole mix positive, the engineering call, but it's considered a special forces unit, extremely selective. and as you can imagine, very, very highly skilled. so they've been going say again, sites for quite some time and the options available to them. uh,
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probably certainly not primarily they're going to tunnels and shooting people. that would be the very last option and probably an option saturday rather sucky very rarely used us used such troops and in their cold tunnel, right. some of these guys would be similar in concept that know some execution might be saving very often undergrad, so the width is that they have a clue, but i'm limited to all means they literally smoking out town, so you put in a smoke and, and you can see by the entrance and next it sounds very difficult to come to that. and then of course, once you've found those, you need to see more and there are a number of ways of doing that. first is too high explosives. simply seely entrances of collapse the tunnels of the 2nd month while another one of the several in motion. this is the motion system. it's called a sponge ball. the way you of that with which can work along the set. lots of lots of tunnels, except the seals it up. you have 2 compounds that come together and they expand c
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lo total. but the other means being looked at, i mentioned the see before, one by another to means that this be considered a is a should be bit nightmare. so how much is once you've cleared that function? otherwise you noticed particular a particular time was clear. so to have hostages of hostages, that considered things like horizontal to like from the sea and considering things like flooding. so the options are many, but do not generally clear these guys going underground. excusing. people are much too easy to define, to be full of booby traps. and of course most importantly, the tunnels are where the hosted and bug cuz of where the hostages are. and then of course, there's attack from the we've seen that's already speaking of a tank from the air is real. obviously wants to destroy both the tunnels and eliminate homeless fighters from the air. so called bunker buster bombs can be dropped. we've. we've seen that was used in, in other words, in the past. are we likely to see them used in this case? probably, i will tell you,
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i think we have say to use the same some evidence that they have been used already . they are, there are several different kinds with the project underscore d. b, you guide you bottom unit. it's a precision bombing. very said a d b, you 23. i think now that's about 2 and a half tons of, of explosives and, and, and above that competitor. right. some say up to about 50 meters and it's what it's saying that how much is tunnels are generally to god his biggest that, that deep. and it will be used to collapse the total so that can penetrate us at least 50 minutes. but also concrete. and i pay the bug cuz in, in, in iraq and i love it on, on data. so as a tourist in vietnam, but a lot of these bucks a line is concrete. so what these bonds will allow you to do is not already get deep, but it also penetrates the concrete to a certain debt. and then there are even bigger box have been designed for around i very much that will see those. you saw one big use enough got to start
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a few years which was populated. it's about the whole bumps mostly that, that the average outcome and oh, got bulk of bombs use since the early ninety's. so roughly the same version we will, we will be saying those we have seen. well, of course we know that some us is holding more than $200.00 hostages, probably somewhere in that tunnel system, given that how problematic is it for is really forces to be using those kinds of weapons that you describe, right. or yeah, that's the top. that's the top consideration on that list. when you, you hear it will read it so to speak about a bit. this is the fight in points of clearing any particular system, which is to say, understanding i big saw that hostages on there is actually power labs. now these ladies have already collapse many of these tunnels. and by the way, those bones i took talked about this supplemented what kinds of opportunities systems. and of course, the alarm unit was a comprised by the way, dogs that especially tried thought that i were coming back to the the hostages. the
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problem is that where you can use those things, but they have a lot real spread out of about about half a mile. so you put one of the bottoms and go go deep. it will collapse your tunnel site. so for about a kilometer. as of now in these ladies have discovered many total systems, and they do that through means for all kinds of main deadlines here now. but what means is by this through human intelligence, that's probably the most of you anyway. the most important and these right is the discovered tunnel maps and what have you, and those are the systems i think they've been collapse so far, but i'll just wait is troops gets further into gaza city. the tunnel systems are going to be a real problem. and they big seem, you probably want to at least until they showed no hostages of that this is the number one, privacy, but for the safety, these are the troops perspective. you ready see, in videos of this, where your, well, how much flight has some videos elected to try to destroy the times that half of those the, the, the tax of systems will prevented that. but the problem is that what you do see is
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you see these quite is emerging from behind to the side from the front. uh so uh, and this one close at the tunnel systems is how much is made. come but what, but apart from civilians, of course, what the final thing was mentioning it's been described to me is common knowledge. now that doesn't necessarily mean much, but you mentioned in the report that the many of the headquarters are located on the hospitals upset and that's the case. and the entries and exits in place, like mosques or schools, or you read that some say you and facilities and that's the problem. and that's why we see. and i think so many now covers the cost of these so far because he's really tough to hit the systems, many of which have come out incentives. and that although kicked in such cases, not just the hosted zip codes, yet another consideration is the civilian casualties. and i've made, yeah, the tunnels are, of course, unplug because a place underneath these these,
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these installations of these, of placed frank, thank you very much. that was military or analyst prank language. they're speaking to us from fox for it in the u. k. the next time meanwhile, the loss of life in garza continues to arise as israel intensifies its operations. the master on health ministry now says the death toll has surpassed. 10300 people, mostly civilians. many of them children seems like this have become all too common in gaza over the past month. children, a band, the brunt of this conflict is red. it says it is targeting her mazda militants hiding among civilians, thousands of palestinians. i'm trying to get away from the combat in northern gaza
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using whatever means of transport. they can find the fling to what they hold is safety. but that is fall from guaranteed day after day we are hearing from our colleagues that even though to have fled, that the south is not safe. we've had colleagues lose family members in the south, including one of our colleagues and now who 7 year old son had lived, was killed in an air strike on rock a couple of weeks ago. and what we're hearing in addition is not just is it not safe in the south, but similar to the north people now we're struggling to find the basic necessities of food, clean water. so uh, even waiting in line 56 hours a day, just to give half a portion of bread of these 2 brothers. so by the last, either if you camp in central garza in an area where the is really all me and
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advise people to go for the safety of the for the south pauses of displeased being sheltering this you in school. the whole of the news, if we're still headed towards the unknown, the no one knows we things are going well. how long will we continue? we've left out homes that houses are being destroyed and we have struggling in the streets. according to the un, almost 1500000 people have been displaced across the gaza strip. since october, 7th, european union is trying to boost deliveries of emergency aid to gaza as supplies of food, fuel and medicine run dangerously low. their dw is rosie birch. i visited
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a belgian airport and met aid workers preparing to send supplies to god's or the start of the journey to save civilian lives near the belgian turn of offend. this plain charges by the european union is being loaded up with books is bearing food and health supplies, like syringes and medicine, all boned for the people of gauze are you says it wants to send them a message. we are not forgetting you. we will be there to help you. we will be there to help you. you can come to the preowned union opinion and has been assisting, provide me with any assistance to policing and people since the year 2000 and books . it shall continue to do so as long as i said this, you back delivery is the 8th of it's kind of the last few weeks sent to local humanitarian stuff on the ground from here in belgium, that plane will then fly several hours toward egypt, egypt and red crescent will then come to collect all those key supplies that are on
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boards. but how soon will this age make it to ordinary gardens? humanitarian access the siege territory, a still severely limited, and aid workers say that has to change. nothing is good if it sits in a warehouse in an emergency response, it needs to go immediately to be effective population. this is why our collective call is unhindered and continuous access to the population within gather to ensure they can get what they need at the time that they need at holly so they are on the ground floor to be telling you about their experience. it's terrifying. reality is we've got volunteers in the palestinian red crescent society each morning who are working in the ambulance shifts and telling each other good bye because they don't know if they're going to be able to come back to you has more than tripled. it's humanitarian age funding for post indians and says there is no evidence the support is being used by tyra group come off more humanitarian air bridge flights are planned, but with the situation for civilians and gaza. described as dire. it's
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a race against time to reach people waiting on the other site of the sketch up on a few other stories making headlines related to the conflict in gaza. g 7 for a ministers meeting in japan are set to issue a statement on the war there. they're expected to call for temporary pauses in the funding to allow humanitarian aid through. they also confirmed their support for ukraine and its effort to repel russia's invasion. germany's anti semitism commissioner says the israel hom, us conflict is feeling a hatred towards jews not seen in decades. european commission warned on monday, the anti semitic incidents across europe have reached extraordinary levels for tools. prime minister, antonio acosta has resigned. after being caught up in a major corruption probe, the sudden announcement came after police rated his official residents that
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arrested his chief of staff. prosecutors are investigating the government's handling of lithium mining and hydrogen production deals. the raids across lives been set to off of political quake just i was off to police, searched his office, as well as several government ministries. prime minister antonio costs to announce his resignation while maintaining his innocence. it'd beat me that the 5 believe that the dignity of the office of the prime minister is not compatible with any suspicion about your integrity. so, but you'll good conduct, give up an even less with the real suspicion of any criminal act which by 3rd, but i have to get the talk it up. can you me now with costa insistence, he wouldn't seek office again. the southern and the left wing lead is 8 years in power, took many portuguese by surprise. unfortunately, a lot of people are already struggling in this country and now suddenly the government falls. i'm. i think this will aggravate the whole situation as well as
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things, but in reality, no one was expecting what happened? but in truth, i think antonio acosta reacted well, by resigning now, we will see who will take his place and how it goes to god. for my call now, the costa is on his way out snap elections. a likely port schools president has some of the party leaders for talks on wednesday, with the opposition calling for the whole government to follow the cost as lead and quit. authorities in the indian capital daily have shut primary schools and band construction as smog levels in the city turn hazardous. and the supreme court has ordered authorities in the surrounding states to stop farmers burning crop residue . and a bid to tackle the problem they're calling it india's air. apocalypse, toxic air pollution is blazing. the lives of residents and daily international
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cricket matches are forced to take place beneath the pole of smog. well, one of the world's most iconic sights katasha my house is less than that usual dazzling self behind the filthy grey cloud. the government is planning to introduce an odd even license plate rule to curb the use of vehicles and deadly as air quality becomes dangerously on safe schools remain closed on this hard use are anxious, the gearing up for the hindu festival of to wiley next week. when fire crackers are often says, despite the bomb study regularly features high in the ranks of the world's top polluted cities every year, the head of the onset of winter when a lack of wind, i'm low temperatures, trop pollutants from sources, including vehicles, industries until us from building projects, non essential construction projects are being put on hold because of smog. a big factors farmers burning cropper as of june. the feels of nearby agrarian states,
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finality if you're trying to go to the farmers, don't want to burn the stubble, but they're compelled to do so. it's double burning. damages are, feels by some percentage, but the farmers don't want to furnish the 5th. okay, to be those of you. many of the capitals, 20000000 residents, complaint of hire rotation, none itchy throats as the air turns grey. but some did their best to carry on with their daily lives, including daily outdoor exercise, exposure. it needs to be a why that because pollution is directly responsible for many diseases. like this could be cod disease stroke. whether it is laura specific infections you up with, the excess admissions of asthma, or maybe many other diseases like diver deason exam or with the surgeon with spear tree illnesses among the city's inhabitants. there are fears for the health of children. in particular,
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the situation is very bad here. all there's lots of coughing and colds, and burning sensation in the eyes. the kids are also sick mazda. we cannot take the kids out and we go walking far less than we used to because of this pollution levels of the most dangerous particles. so tiny that can enter the bloodstream have reached 12 times the day, the maximum recommended by the world health organization. and beyond temporary fix is the government appears stumped about what to do a basis or in other news in the us state of ohio, voters a back to protecting abortion rights and a referendum. the poll was just one of several closely watched local and state contests taking place in america. in kentucky, voters re elected the democratic governor despite the state backing donald trump by more than 25 points in 2020 in spain. protesters have clashed with police
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outside the socialist party's headquarters in madrid. thousands of demonstrators riley there over a possible m, the state for cadillac and separate just after july's inconclusive elections explains caretaker's socialist government is seeking the support of cumberland separate as parties to remain in town on the newly launched european space telescope. euclid has deemed its 1st images back to earth in their being called a revolution. for astronomy, they show galaxies which were previously not visible, and they include an image of the famous horse head. nephew, this initial image may be just a snapshot, but for scientists, sensation, a 1000 galaxies belonging to the perseus cluster, and more than 100000 galaxies in the background. so do you could mission is the only mission in existence that will help us to understand the nature top, martha undock imaging in the universe which makes up 95 percent of the universe. so
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we understand only 5 percent of the universe that produces light, that we can detect which additional telescopes. so it's, it's an iconic mission. the telescope, a board of falcon 9 rock. it was launched into space on july 1st. and after about 4 weeks, it reached at school about 1500000 kilometers away from earth. from there, the space telescope will explore billions of galaxies, there forms distances, and movements be due to and again, due to my discharge energy in dark matters. what scientists have taken as a model in order to explain how the cosmos or our universe came about and to help us make sense of what we've gathered so far from serving sion over the next 6 years . the euclid mission will help create the biggest cosmic 3 d map ever enabling scientists to see how the universe has changed over billions of years. or you're watching dw news line from berlin. here's reminder of our top story.
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