the, the, this is dw news line from balance is around intensifies its come pain in the gaza strip. the defense minister says is rarely troops on operating in the hearts of kansas city, with full coordination between land and sea forces. also coming off ukraine takes a step forward on the path towards joining the latest reports from you, commission president over the fund. the line recommends the stock of succession told whiskey the

god office. welcome to the program. these really military claims of killed one of the top rocket developers for the is the most terrible group i'm us doing. and a strike on gauze is really troops are continuing to baffle him off in gaza, targeting underground tunnel networks around gauze, a city where a mazda also thoughts will be holding hostages, seized during the october 7 turbo tax is really strikes. pound garza as israel says, the next stage of it on how mouse is underway. the israel defense forces release this for to give it soldiers on the ground in gaza. they don't name specific locations the ground troops to believe to be targeting the complex webb's of underground tunnels. situated strips gets further into god seats. that tunnel

systems are going to be a real problem and, and that'd be save. you probably want to, at least until the showed know hostages are that this is the number one, privacy, the is really minute tree could and to drive home us militants out of the tunnels will blow the tunnels up. we'll even shut them would see will to now see a lot. the thing is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu says there's troops and making progress above and below the ground and gaza going into the home. but the home, i mean come on the lighting in the style i'm it is advancing with a force that's a mock has no going to cause a city i didn't circle with looked at it. we are operating in it and i hope people getting more pressure on from us. and every hour and every day to come us, you so far we have killed thousands of terrace above the ground. that coffee sand under the ground will probably look. i'll go, let me to have look out as is really troops advance some goal is the city and the knowles, and the idea vehicles also gathering on israel southern buddha with garza and

he is really navy released for to to of operations of the coast of garza as well as targeting him us by uh, online and potentially soon bye. see that's look a bit deeper into this. i'm the joint by a mike, montana senior fellow at wolf studies football. so we've all atkins college in london like the tunnel system used by hamas. a militant has been described as a spider web by a full, i'm a hostage that was held the can you help us better imagine what it really looks like and how long it might take might have taken to build to what i think uh, how much has been building its uh for the last 15 years since these riley's last 18 years. in fact, since these ratings pulled out from the gaza strip in 2005. um was it looks like imagine the above ground landscape,

myriads on the ground. so you have tunnels at different levels. so you have communications tunnels at a high level in stores, supplies and rockets, the down on the whole thing exists in 3 dimensions with some of the tunnels up to 50 or even 18 inches deep. you just mentioned that some of them uh 18 inches deep and that would be like 500 kilometers long. either say that is exaggerated. so your take is that it is uh the size of the this web is correct. in reality, we don't know. i think it's also important to stress that there's probably no one within how most he knows the entire network of tunnels, the nature of how much is the centralized organization. so different people will understand different sectors of the network. but it is extensive, it's sufficiently extensive that it can suspend which stands the bombardment that

we've seen in the last few days. how much was still able to continue firing rockets back israel using this tunnel system, even though it was on the very, very heavy aerial bombardment. so it is quite a successful operation from how most now israel seems to have cost a special unit as a special come but engineering unit to find out more about the location and structure of these tunnels. how exactly will they do that as well? is there a number of ways the, the chief way is by using a ground penetrating radar? and that's not perfect because obviously different types of grounds have different effects of signatures on the other things like sewers and other layers within the grounds. but that is a chief way of understanding the tunnel network, or at least why the tunnel stalled closer to the ground and the can trace then using low bolts and all the uh, you know, drones that are able to move through those tunnels to see where they go to there

are suspicions that uh the us hostages, that hamas is holding, are being held in that a tunnel network. now, when an army unit gets into these tunnels to how, but how can they rescue these hostages and how can they avoid the to kill them accidentally? so i, i think the key, well, 1st the, i think not all of the hostages are held in trouble, is that i think a large proportion of them are, but the key here is recognizance. so if you discover the location of a tunnel, perhaps with ground penetrating right on, like we just said, the next thing you need to do is get some sol says on and i drive, you know, something on wheels or perhaps a fiber. imagine that telescopic surgery that we do every day and hospitals get one of them down the tunnels to see what's going on. and then once you can see what's happening in the tunnel, you can look at different ways of assaulting them. 12 is

a key way, is just a pump them full of, i'm a static gas, so it knocks everyone out and they, they, they, everyone's unconscious and then you can move in and separate the hostages from the hostage takers. now some also speculating, that is where i may use a so called sponge bomb. what is not exactly, this is expanding side. so if you have a tunnel that perhaps you've done, your country is united snobs dump or you know, that is only for the slices. then you can either see it off the engine, so see it off a critical junction with this particular type of munition, which basically is a trace expanding side. and it like you do on a building site or, or somewhere else, it will explode and split up all the tracks in the tunnels with a 5. and then how that means. so it's a soft at 1st, but then hardens into a very hard substance. and it seals all the tunnels black mountain, the from king's college. not that and thank you very much,

mike. thank you. germany's president front by this time by a has expressed deep concern over the security of jewish life in germany. he brought together representatives of jewish us and published indian organizations published in and he's writing the entrepreneurs as well as a holocaust survivor. my god strickland stein might have condemned onto a sentiment that's been on the rise since october 7th and set the protection of jewish life was not for this reason of state but their obligation of everyone living in germany monthly labor the most is eager. and anyone who lives in this country wants to live, he must respect the rules of peaceful coexistence. and they must be with a history consist, caps, kostnik i'm. i recently set it at the brendan book gate and they will repeat it today to bill slipping and gemini, must know of i'll switch concentration camp and extermination camps and fall into

the responsibility of the rises from it. it isn't predicting she was laughing, gemini, is states, and to civic obligation of us as this applies to everyone living in our country knows, i'm not, i'm convinced that we need to make the euro then before has indeed an honest well me, a lip service will not be nothing this time of tara, the intake creation, missed ice and mission. and he's upsides. does tell us that this has this or of physical correspond to julia. so the, so that a told me more about the message the president was aiming to convey. yes, he started with addressing the terrorist attack that homeless conducted against israel, saying that this was a turning point for israel itself, but also for the region and the world in that there is no going back from this event. and then he moved on to address. so of the tensions that have been building up in germany since the conflict between israel and come us in the middle east.

and he addressed the fact that on the one side there has been a strong increase in anti semitic cases. in jeremy, there have been attacks against synagogues, there have been expressions of hate against jews. and this is something that who said, germany will never condone. in any case, whether the anti semitism is coming from the far right or whether it is coming from islam is a corners and other parts of a society to this identity reporting that the european commission, those recommending opening you membership membership talks with ukraine, optimal dover commission president elizabeth from the line made the announcement in brussels on what she called an historic day chief applied for membership. shortly after russia's invasion in february 2022 was told, need to make for re folds, including tackling corruption before the 1st round of talks could begin the process

to become a member will likely take years of itself, a known as the chief in the brussels joins me now from that like sound that up there. what exactly does this mean now for ukraine enrolled over as well? this announcements today is certainly bringing both countries closer to their strategic goal of joining the european union. and that is why both countries have well come. this announcement today with will do it on president sunday, saying that this is an important milestone and presidency lensky of ukraine. stressing that this is the right step in history and also saying that this is what ukrainians have deserved, because they're all fighting for the european values. and especially for ukraine, it is important to know that there is this recommendation that could boost moreover,

in the country. however, there is one or 2 cabinets a there because of the member states of the european union needs to sign off on this recommendation. and some of them so half is keeping saying that the european union, the 1st needs to reform itself to be able to, well come new members. and even if they say yes to accession talks, this is, as you mentioned, a very long process and it's not giving a guarantee form. although by and you create that in the and say, will indeed become members of the you will be in union. but know that that's a big step from old over and ukraine. it's kind of which other countries are not going to be your door and go to use today as well. it was supposed to be a hudson building. uh, and it was quite a surprise that the european commission has said that its recommending the opening of accession talks with voice now had to go. we know once the necessary criteria

are mad. so there is a condition there but still to, to hear the name of this western ball can country being mentioned today is a big surprise because there are many officials, many you officials and members days criticizing bush near her. it's a building up for big sliding on the rule of law and other, the democratic principles. and it was also good news for georgia. the your p and commission is recommending to grant georgia a candidate status of for the pro european mostly pro european georgia in population. it is a good news and huge news today. w's of external phenomena. they're reporting. thank you very much for that summer. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines today. us state of ohio has voted to protect the states abortion rights referendum was one of several closely watch state and local contests taking place in america. both as of the

state of kentucky re elected the democratic government, even though the states has backs donald trump by more than 25 percentage points in 2020 this yeah. is guaranteed to be the hottest deals in record. experts say that's september, october temperatures around the world with so unusually high that's 2023 and has already passed full records, rising temperatures. the atmosphere caused by human activity. this yes, often amplified by increases in ocean temperatures associated with a so called el nino car protest as in spain of class with police outside the socialist parties. headquarters in the trades. thousands of demonstrators have gathered to protest against the possible honesty for cancelling the separatists off. the july's inconclusive collections spans can take a socialist. government is seeking the support of translating separatist policies to remain in power. and that's it. from me at the new steam fund, all that will be

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