the the, this is due to the news coming to live from berlin. israel steps of this campaign in the gaza strip. the defense minister says is really, troops are now operating in the heart of guys, a city with full coordination between land, air, and sea forces. also coming up as for israel's aerial bombardment of goes, it continues g 7 liter is meeting in japan are set to call for a humanitarian ceasefire plus. but he, you discusses ukraine's bid to become a member of the latest report from the european union commission president,

for stuff on the line is expected to recommend. the start stomach session talks with key and europe's euclid space telescope beams. its 1st image is back to earth with detailed snapshots of the distant tutor, the little and terry martin, good heavy with as we start with the 1st with the further escalation and israel's military campaign against him. us in the gaza strip is rarely defense minister you of god on says is really, troops are now operating in the heart of gaza city. he's called gaza the largest terrorist base ever built. meanwhile, prime minister benjamin netanyahu has warrant there will be no fuel deliveries until i'm us release is the more than $200.00 hostages. it captured on october 7th

is what? nothing yahoo had to say. but the home, i'm gonna come out of sliding on the style. i'm it is advancing with the forest. that's a mazda hasn't no really cute, because the city isn't circle with with that we are operating in it. and i hope on the evening we're pressure on from us. and every hour and every day, sort of from us you so far we have killed thousands of terrace above the ground. that coffee sand under the ground would probably look on the go. and we don't have like a goose they will be so entry of fuels that no entry of workers and there will be noticed is fire without the release of our hostages or for the latest. so let's cross over to dw special, corresponded at abraham. she's in jerusalem. what are you hearing from the israel defense forces about the difficulty of their operation entered around? does a city of the we know the 30 is really troops have been killed since the ground offensive started about

a week ago. and as the ground defenses offensive proceeds into this next phase where the troops are entering cause a city, we can expect that death tool to increase urban warfare inevitably yields more casualties. so far as really troops have been engaged in close contact in close combat with how much the militants sort of in the rural areas. but guys, the city is one of the most, or at least previously most populated parts of this trip. it's also where these really military believes it's located in the northern part of a gaza, where there's really the military believes, how much has a higher concentration of its network of tunnels. so that is sort of the difficulty expected moving forward with this ground operation. close combat that will inevitably deal more at a casualty among the military, but also monks civilians. they're still about 300000

gallons that remain in the north. as these really military has asked civilians to evacuate to the south, we know that about 8 hundreds of them have 800000 of them have evacuated 530-0000 still remain for a number of of reasons. experts tell us that these really military is prepared for this kind of a ground offensive at here on the streets. there's a sense of at least people that i've spoken to, there's an acceptance of that there will be a high price for this war. but people also here telling me that this is the only way, is the only option they feel they have to restore security to uproot from us and to have at least a chance to bring back the hostages that are still in gaza. the more has been going on for a month now, or is really is satisfied a with the way the government is prosecuting this war. i would say

there's still over whelming support here among is release for the war effort. as i said, there's a sense that this, that there are no other options for them. and even though the cost is going to be a very, very high $300000.00 reservices have been called up and remember, terry, this is a society where this touches everybody in almost everyone with a very few exceptions is expected to serve in the military at some point or another in their lifetime. but the support for the worst should not be conflicted with support for the prime minister. we have, you know, reached a month since the october 7th terror attacks and there were vigils and memorials here in jerusalem and elsewhere in the country. asking for the hostages to come back for these events are also protests against the prime minister. netanyahu was

so far not seeking responsibility for the security labs that was october. the 7th and the hostages for hospice families, you know, more especially affected having loved ones still held say say that, you know, there should be no ceasefire until the hostages are released. but i've also spoken to families who said the government should do more. and for example, try to exchange palestinian prisoners for their loved ones so that you know, there's, there's a lot of dissatisfaction with nothing yahoo and the government. but i think among the hostile trim roosters mounting frustration and fear for their loved ones a, a thank you very much for now. that was the w, special correspondent, a abraham interesting the israel says it has entered the next stage of its war against some us whose finders are reportedly operating from a large network of tunnels. is real, says militants or launching march or attacks against israeli soldiers. and then

retreating back underground. it's a challenging situation for israeli forces. let's have a closer look now at the options that they may be considering in this next phase. here's military expert. oh, frank led, which describing the tunnel system used by hum us militants. yes, in, in guys actually it's called the guys of 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, a best value on the extent is, is truly vast. most estimates put it at around throughout the, the claim. it's around 300 miles or 500 kilometers long, located some of those systems. and more for me to go deeper. the bigger than others, connected closer bunkers. but you have to have combined centers and what have you, an account to measures to be used to guides them a many. but this is a very difficult challenge. you'll be attacking them from the,

from the land and data 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 the 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 called the whole mix, positive the engineering call, but it's considered a special forces units, eclipse, treatments selective. and as you can imagine, very, very highly skilled. so they've been going to again side for quite some time. uh, the options available to them. uh, probably certainly not primarily they're going to totals and shooting people. that would be the very last option and probably an option. so i run a search. the very rarely used us used such troops and, and then co tunnel. right. some of these guys would be similar in concept,

but not the next case. you might be seeing that 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 kid 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 collapse the titles of the 2nd month while another one of the several in motion. this is the motion system. it's called a sponge, bob. that's why you, us that with which can work along the set lead. so let's have tons of simply seals it up. you have 2 compounds that come together and they expanding c lo total. but the other means being looked at, i mentioned the c before, one by another to means that this be considered a is a should be but nightmare. so how much is once you've cleared that function, otherwise you notice particular a particular tunnel is clear. so to have hostage is sort of hostages that considered things like horizontal to it,

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 have much to easy to find to be full of booby traps. and of course most importantly, the tunnels are where the hosted and bug cuz of what the hostages are. and then of course there's a talk for 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 harmless potters 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? right. i will tell you, i think we have said to use the same some evidence that they have been used already . they are through several different kinds of with the project times go to g, b, u, god, you bob unit, it's a precision bombs. i reset a d b 23. i think now that's about 2 and a half tons of, of explosives and, and,

and above that can penetrate some say up to about 50 meters. and this was saying that how much is tunnels are generally to god his biggest that, that deep. and they'd be used to collapse a 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've left it on on data as a tourist in vietnam. but a lot of these bucks a life is concrete. so what these bombs 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 doubt we'll see those. you still won't be using us kind of thought a few years, which was populated on this another whole bump and see that that the average outcome and o gotten bulk of bombs use since the early ninety's. so roughly the same version we will, we will be saying those we have seen of course, we know the mouse 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 pray as yeah, that's the top. that's the top consideration on that list. when you, you here will read it so to speak about a bit. this is fighting points of clearing any particular system, which is to say, understanding and being saw that hostages on there is actually power box. now, these ladies have already collapsed many of these tunnels. and by the way, those bombs, i took, talked about this september promotions about tennessee systems. and of course, the alarm unit also comprised by the way dogs especially tried thought that they were coming back to the the hostages. the 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 for, for about a kilometer. as of now in these ladies have discovered many total systems and they

do that to means for all kinds of means, like i love seeing that, but what means a spike is so human intelligence, that's probably the most of you anyway, the most important and these ready to discover tunnel maps and what have you, and those are the systems i think they've been collapsed 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 that'd be extreme. you probably want to at least until they showed no hostages of that this is the number one, piracy, 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 have prevented that. but the problem is that what you do see is you see these classes emerging from behind, from the side, from in front of so under swan close it, 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 at the hospitals upset and that's the case. and the entries and exits in place, like mosques of schools that you read after some say un facilities and that's the problem. and that's why we see. and i think so many, no conversely casualties so far because he's really tough to hit the systems, many of which have come out incentives and they all are kicked in such cases, not just the hosted zip codes yet. another consideration is the civilian casualties . and i've made yeah, but the tunnels are, of course, unplug because a place underneath these these, 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. to study

meanwhile, the loss of life and gas, it continues to rise, as is real intensive, pause, it's operational, the i'm us, run health ministry analysis. the death toll has surpassed 10300 people, mostly civilians. and 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 that 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 using whatever means of transport. they can find the fleeting to what they hold is safety. but that is fall from god. indeed. day after day we are hearing from our colleagues that even those who have fled that the south is not safe. we've had colleagues lose family members in the south,

including one of our colleagues 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, and even waiting in line 56 hours a day, just to get half a portion of bread of these 2 brothers. so by the last, i'd refuse you, come in central gaza in an area where the is really all me and advise people to go for the safety of the for the sold 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 the 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. take a look at some other stories related to the conflict in gaza. g 7 for a ministers meeting in japan are set to issue a statement of the war in gaza. they're expected to call for temporary pauses in the fighting to allow humanitarian aid through. they also confirmed their support for ukraine in its effort to repel russians invasion. germany's anti semitism commissioner says the israel, how much conflict is feeling a hatred towards jews not seen in decades?

european commission warned on monday that anti semitic incidents across europe have reached extraordinary levels. in your opinion, is due to present this latest enlargement report today with a special focus on the progress ukraine has made. and it's bid to join the blog ukraine applied for you membership shortly after rushes invasion in february of last year. in order to become an e. u member or ukraine has had to undertake a series of reforms which include measures to tackle correction on a recent visit to keep the head of the commended the work ukraine has done in its efforts to become a member of the european here i want to tell you how impressed we are by the reforms you've made in the midst of the war. you have reached many milestones, reforming your justice system, curbing the on the docs good. as tackling money laundering as much more brussels

has false strength. the process will ukraine, removing some requirements, but key the still expected to undertake extensive performs before it can join the, you know, small task, but they will be big rewards. being an e. u. member state would entitle ukraine to substantial sums of money, large subsidies for agriculture and infrastructure spending. ukraine is one of the world's top agriculture produces in the use. it would take the top spot from front and get the largest shape of the use generous farm subsidies. a lead internal study by the end you counsel simulated what ukraine's joining the european union would mean for the bronx. budgets it showed keys alone would be entitled to nearly $30000000000.00 jurors every year under the car and framework. and that money will

have to come from some way the net computers to the you are the countries such as germany from initially all the users are be the ones you great. joyce, you these companies i might take, you have pay even more into the u back chair and that receivers off the phone such as a storm. yeah, probably 3. yeah. 3. yeah, i know some of these countries will have this fun to distribute to your disadvantage. we use using you fall and farm is, would have to take a 20 percent cut in their subsidies. so gro was in ukraine can also be subsidized. that's likely to be unpopular. so some member states, according for reform in the before it can open its stores to new members. we need

to have the possibility saw, owns funding for example. so that's the money the us spending. we have, for example, getting all of texting big companies or rich people are financial speculations. instead of just asking member states like them and the, or oscar or the netherlands to give money to the you. aside from the thorny issue of money, ukraine joining the hughes would also alter the balance of power in the block. it will be the fit, the biggest member states by population size. and that will give it considerable clouts in the decision making. a coalition of ukraine, poland as, as the east and members could see the focus and power. the center of the block shift from west to east alexander phenomena is our brussels bureau. chief. she's covering the story, joins us now from russell's alexandra. what kind of news can ukraine expect to hear

from the european commission today? well, good news, i would say terry, because we expect the european commission today to recommend to member states the beginning. the e u members, ships talks with ukraine, with some cabinets though, on. for instance, the exact dates of a such talks that is something that the commission is probably not going to endorse . and they will also say that there is still work that needs to be done, that ukraine still needs to work harder on report forms to fight against corruption, to get rid of all the guards and to guaranteed national minorities rights. but they wants to send a positive signal to ukraine. will that be now? so key of, of course, not because they would like to be a member of the u. a. p in union tomorrow. they're saying we are implementing the

forms of lightning speed, even though we are actively at war with russia and even some member states within the european union. and would like to see some gradual steps off enlargements beginning tomorrow. but we expect to the commission to send this a positive signal without endorsing a day, and it's are still it's up still up for the member states to decide by the end of the year. whether there are really committed to opening accession talks with ukraine. you create, of course, is not the only one knocking at the door. what about the other countries hoping to become members of the e. u. alexander, how are there prospect smoking as well? i think that small dover will be happy as it seems they were granted to candidate status together with you claim, and we expect the european commission also to propose this todd or succession talks

with them as well. then georgia is also on the agenda here with some reports state stating that georgia will be granted to canada. i'd stay to stay at a i would see as a surprise because they're all officials saying, though i'm not making enough progress. and even though the georgia population is mostly pro european and their government is trying to forge close to us again with russia. and the most contentious question is whether both yeah, had to go when i should also get the green lights to start accessing talks with the european union. a, with many officials saying that they're half a scene back sliding on the rule of law there. and of the democratic principles a so we will see what type kind of decision at the you are feel recommendation. the european commission will announce today on bus now has

a governor you enlargement has always been a contentious topic of what concerns alexandra, do. current member states have about enlarging the block as well. it has been a contentious topic, but it is on the agenda again. and it is because of russia's war on ukraine because the european union now understands that it needs to become a more important deal politic player. and that it is in their own interest to forge closer ties with their partners and neighbors in the region. but you are right. there are still many member states for saying we are not fit enough to welcome you members. first of all, we needs to change or decision of process because on many issues, especially on foreign policy issues, the p. n. union needs even limits and that is difficult to achieve with $27.00 members, and it will be much more difficult to achieve with the $32.00 net members. for

instance. so many in the you are p and union are saying we need to reform our union and because before we are able to welcome new members alexandra, thank you. that was dw use bureau chief in brussels, alexander phenomena. thank you, terry. or in other news, in the us state of ohio voters of back to protecting abortion rights in a referendum. the pole was just one of several closely watch 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 of class with police outside the socialist party's headquarters in madrid. thousands of demonstrators riley there over a possible amnesty for catalan separatists after july inconclusive elections.

spain's caretaker, socialist government is seeking the support of cumberland separate as parties to remain in portugal. his prime minister has resigned over his government's involvement and the corruption pro. antonio costa made the announcement after police arrested is chief of staff and rated several public buildings. schedule is centered on irregularities involving lithium mining and hydrogen contracts. the newly launched european space telescope. euclid has deemed its 1st images back to earth and their being called a revolution for astronomy, they showed galaxies which were not previously visible, and they included an image of the famous horse had nephew. as this initial image may be just a snapshot. but for scientists, it's a sensation, a 1000 galaxies belonging to the purse, he is 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 adult, martha undock imaging in the universe which makes up 95 percent of the universe. so 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 the to and again, typically my discharge energy in dark matter is 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 and still to come in this bulletin of foreign ministers of the g 7 or meeting in japan with israel's war against some us at the top of the agenda. us secretary of state entity blinking it is expected to hold a news conference shortly. this or looking at the podium there. the summit is expected call for humanitarian pause in the fighting in ga, so still among the many people left vulnerable by the is really military offensive. in gals are cancer patients, the turkeys published in in friendship hospital was one of the most modern health facilities in gaza. and the only clinic specialize in treating cancer, but it was forced to close due to fuel shortages and air strikes. is patients are now in other hospitals that lack specialized equipment. dw, is mohammed out color,

met some of the patients. sorry to be all has been suffering from a cancerous tumor in his office for a year. his condition deteriorated after the turkish posting in friendship hospital closed he was moved here to dyess alarm hospital income eunice but they are unable to provide the medical treatments that he needs that are totally leaving the tucker's palestinian friendship hospital. he was like a death sentence to me and um, because there's no other place where i can receive the medical treatment that i need to. it's the only hospital to treat cancer and gaza. my life is in danger. dr . now there is no treatment, there's nothing, and then i can only wait for god's decision. airstrikes like this one on october 10th damage. the hospital systems suspect the fates director said is really warbling to talk to.