the, along to the right the, this is dw news live from berlin. a hostage release deal could be closer than ever before. a white house adviser confirms comp tires announcement that israel and how miles are edging towards an agreement for the release of dozens of hostages held in gaza for more than a month. also coming up cyprus, gears up to become a humanitarian 8 hub for gauze of israel agrees to be a core door ships carrying 500 times with

a truck and deliver could soon be departing from the island and a possible hit to the political ride. and argentina, folders are choosing and the president of the south american country polls are closed, but they've put the far right populace. miller, a slightly ahead. the marion evans dean. welcome. tom representatives from the west, israel and katara say they're close to reaching a deal for the release of some of the hostages being held by homos and the gaza strip. the guitar, a prime minister mohammed autonomy says only minor details remained to be agreed for him off to free a number of the more than $240.00 people had kidnapped in the october 7th of tax on israel. a top white house adviser, 7 negotiations were of service and they have been at any point,

this is speaking in doha guitars, prime ministers, truck and optimistic tone. the deal is going through a ups and down from time to time. it's along with the last few weeks, but uh, i think that to, you know, i'm not more confident that we ought to close enough to do each to a data that can bring the people safely back to their homes with that are they all of the hostages on how side or what the exchange uh that's what happened would take guess from those base i was bringing the l a run off. she's a professor of international relations at the james madison college in lansing, michigan. welcome to the example you. so what it has official says that a deal that would get him off to release these really hostages is close. how soon is it likely to happen?

slightly hoping that we hope it will happen within hours of scores from us. it goes without saying, should have never taken any hostages, much less $240.00 hostages, of which 30 or children babies. and many children were 3 years old, 8 years old, 12 years old, and so forth, as well as an elderly, including a house, customer 5 are in a wheelchair. so of course they should have taken them in the 1st place and they should have released them unconditionally, which would also have avoided the war and suing after october, 7th, or at least some of it. uh that that being said, of course, uh uh, were, were thrilled if any hostages are released and from the little that i've been seeing it may entail uh 5 days of a ceasefire in which some of the hostages would be released every day in exchange

for passing and prisoners that the israel holes that there would be much more humanitarian assistance coming in and so forth. so i'm hopeful that it will work and that will be implemented. and it seems as if over 50 children and women will be released hopefully. but then we'd have a $190.00 more cost, which has to be released. and a lot of the men as well or elderly or our civilians who weren't even soldiers less, less much less exchanging prisoners for soldiers. and it's wonderful that guitar and the united states and israel are able to negotiate this, perhaps with some instruction health as well. guitar has done some good in providing a hundreds of millions of dollars of aid since 2014, at some points $30000000.00 a $1000000.00 a month to gaza. and some of that was necessary for the civilian is less than

suffering is in gaza. but some of it is also gone to from austin, from our salaries and public servant. so in some ways is also contributed to profiting, optimized, but is now is going to play a constructive role and getting hostages release. these really military has released a new video of what they claim to be a tunnel done by palestinian militants under gauze as largest hospital vale ship a hospital. do you think this evidence will be enough for the us and other uh, western allies of israel, a low, i mean, the public perception internationally is, is very much skeptical of is really claims throughout the war, right. where the near times initially published israel that struck him to another hospital until 500 people and then retracted a few days later

a week later saying in all probability, it was a stomach to heart and it was a 100. they've been killed as opposed to 500. so certainly then to national press is usually a often skeptical in this regard. it's really, really tragic, of course to have um a hospital um targeted in which you know, the sick people have to be removed and evacuated. so it's hard for eating and tragic to see. i think we also have to remember that from us has responsibility in this and not only having a, you know, mass occurred, a 1200 people, the vast majority of civilians on october 7th saying that it wants to destroy as ro, repeating since october 7th, that it wants to know initially it israel and have many more october 7th of the kind. so indeed, one can understand this really goal as opposed to previous words in 2008,

20122014 and 2021 in which a goal was not to topple the how much military control of the guys a strip one can understand the goal now, because otherwise, i'm honest with increasingly strength, and i'm so how much there's responsibility for often having weapons and signing weapons and command control centers and hospitals. but never the less is role is gonna is gonna continually try to bring more evidence. and then with each of these incidents, one will have to see, you know, at the end of the day and probably after the war, which is which and everything is that incident. weather was actually before 2 and not all right, because it, it is causing a suffering. all right, there was professor. yeah. out around of from michigan state university. many thanks. thank you. well, so i for is preparing to become a hub for a humanitarian 8 operation for gone. so the government of cyprus told dw,

that preparations have now taken a big step forward. cyber says it's now working on technical and not political issues. currently, the only way to get 8 into gaza is from egypt via the roof of crossing that is often closed. so i 1st plan to use his porch of let a knock on to gather international aid and send it on to gaza as it's one of the closest places in the e. u to this trip to double use. jack paragraph sentenced this report. this is the heart of a plan by the cypriot government to send international aids to gaza. lama could pull to you is just under 400 kilometers away. this it pre its government says israel will most oppose the plan as long as its official was. can check what's loaded onto ship spend for garza now with proceeded from the police because to the technical part of it. so we've seen that these are politically the implementation, the allies, vision of the color. and now, well,

the part that with technical issues that are being result guessing the aide ship side to see should be simple enough. the biggest issue would be how to one load them in garza, the pool that has not been fully functional since israel is blockade from 2007, and israel has booms the area since the october 7 terror attack. the sit prius plan could build a temporary floating port just off the coast. they say this could dramatically speed up the delivery of aide one ship, it can carry 500 times what the trucks come. in nicosia, the cypriot red cross says it's in communication with the government and can move aid like this quickly. we are ready at any time and we have a such a warehouses smaller in all the districts. so we're ready at any time within the hour. please come on, send to the next along the port coordinates between 21 countries. when it comes to evacuations, from crisis zones, it's been operational since 2016. it's set to play a major role in the humanitarian aid cardo plans set. then pick one diesel needs to

have a different security environment and to be able to proceed with the implementation of these ideas. but of course we are in the context paddling to did those preparations with all the stakeholders involved from greece and the netherlands are really keen to get a moving here quickly. the argentines had to the poles today in a run of election pinning economy ministers. sergio martha against the far right candidate heavier and the way the vote comes in. mid argentina is worst economic crisis in 2 decades with triple digits. inflation and rise in poverty belay has a slight edge in early pulling. he's promised a shake of the economy to fix the countries was including replacing the pay so with the us dollar as the countries currency and slashing government spending. fear of painful reforms is driving many to support legacy candidates are juma on the w as

a latin america correspondence nicole reese is now in berlin. and she's here with me in the studio to tell us more about the argentine in election. so good to see you. nicole, a rare visit to berlin. can you tell us a bit more about these 2 candidates? one, and we can start perhaps with martha? so what exactly is he promising voters to try and win them over? well, of course, winning him over means to tackle this economic crisis, argentina suffering and inflation above 140 percent. so that's the day to day struggle for us citizens right now, and also set up. so my thought is proposing measures to reduce that one of them being bringing in fresh dollars into the economy by boosting lithium projects, for example, or boosting the agricultural sector also for an energy sales to neighboring countries. he has also cut down the income tax and his function as economy administer, but it isn't clear that if he wins that he can keep up with 5 exec point, for example,

because our new tina is in very high that we're looking at. and he's $44000000000.00 with the international monetary fund. so they're on top of the list of the fund to just pay back their depths. they need to find a solution to pay the 2nd net income instead of so my site is the current economy minister. he has been in that position for over a year, and he has not avoided this high inflation. so that's overseeing very, it's a difficult thing to then present himself as a president to show cause candidate. and obviously he's still part of the political establishment that has been ruling the country for decades and decades. and it has not made the difference for people. so for many they have failed them and this gives leeway and wiggle room for candidates, such as coffee to me, they were quite different from the current political establishment, of course. yeah. so you say he's quite different. we know that have you emulate is a far right candidate, and he's been rather divisive. we can saying very controversial. why is that?

well, he's very polarizing with his opinions see um, as a political newcomer with a little experience, but he's making a lot of noise. one example of wasteful just a few weeks ago when he ran around with a change or in public, on one of his appearances, saying that he will take down the system. this is a way of communicating. so he's very popular on social media as well because he has a very good campaign. but at the same time, he has a very radical language. i will just quote him the pope. well, he called the pope and imbecile. this was the quote that's not me. that's him. he also isn't denial about the atrocities of argentina's dictatorship that didn't go down with part of the population, of course. and on the other end, he has very bold ideas. he wants the dollar wise the economy and get rid of official so he can tackle the economy prices. it's very doubtful if this was actually going to work. he wants to cut down a ministry as he wants to privatize education and tells it's a public sector. so that the country has been very proud of, and these are obviously very controversial opinions. but at the same time,

at the moment, he can have a chance to win this presidency because some people are very tired of his political establishment that i mentioned before. i'm just looking for options and for a continuous way to, to see if a country gets out of this. but above all, like he is sort of trumped in or both an arrow like kind of that we've seen these types of candidates before. they can have success. this is just a moment that we know don't know exactly how it's going to turn out because the race is very tight. it's actually may apply to right now. and nicole in the lives of all of these economic problems. are voters hopeful that one of those candidates could solve these problems? i've just been to argentina a few weeks ago and it's ronda, like, the sensation is like people just don't want it to get worse. that's the most important point for them. whether it's going to be a radical change or same same, but different, we will see soon. the ws nicole res. thank you so much for all of your insight. you're up to date on the w news up next. our documentary from our doc film series

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