the the business needs to be and who's coming to line from berlin. israel's government votes in favor of a hostage deal with some us deal includes a ford, a troops during which from us will release 50 women and children being held in the gaza strip would be the 1st significant pulse of the fighting in more than 6 weeks . also in the program, north korea claims that has put its 1st spice satellites into orbit state tv celebrates the launch and regional tensions store with south korea. suspending part of the military agreement with the north and ukrainian city of castle and remains

a dangerous place for civilians a year after being liberated from russian occupation. we here how residents are coping with the ongoing more the hello i'm terry march. and thanks for joining us. israel's government has approved a deal with some us to release some of the hostages held by them in the gaza strip . katara, which broker the agreement has confirmed the 4 day humanitarian pause in the fighting. during that time, some hostages are to be freed, while this real release is palestinian prisoners cover also said the starting time of the truce would be announced within the next 24 hours. it's under the agreement to some us is to set $350.00 of the hostages. it took in the october 7th terrorist

attack on israel and exchange around $150.00 pounds. standing prisoners held in israel will be set free. also as part of the deal, there will be a pause in fighting between israel and from us for 4 days and access to humanitarian aid. israel has also said it would extend the truce if additional hostages are released in a statement before the meeting of his cabinet ministers prime minister benjamin netanyahu. stress that the pause and the fighting does not mean the end of the war with him. us. i know who we are at war and we will continue the war. we will continue the war until we achieve all our objectives to eliminate him. us raton, although abduct t's and missing persons, and ensure that there will be no element in gaza that threatens israel know you assume go then shall you have any sleep. and let's cross over to our correspond to

rebecca rivers in jerusalem. rebecca, what more can you tell us about this hostage still and see spar as well as a very welcome deal? it is riley's awaking out to this morning, most a israel very, very pleased to be hopefully still gonna stop saying some of the hostages released shortly. mentioned a lot of the details, they were talking about 50 hostages, that will be released, we believe the breakdown or something along the lines of 30 children, 12 mothers and 8 other women with the priority on the elderly. and in some i'm, as you mentioned, it's going to be in a, in exchange for about $150.00 palestinian prisoners also women and children. and also a full day say fire at least that is what is being talked about at the moment. we believe that around $12.00 to $13.00 people will be released per day of the seas file and that say fi it will allow for a delivery is a significant number of

a trucks containing few containing food and medical supplies, much needed for the civilians in ga, the have been suffering badly on the the dia, humanitarian conditions there, which are getting worse by the day. now we believe the hands of a will happen through the red cross and we think the red cross we're seeing that they might even get access before the hostages. do actually officially get released, which we do believe is happening in around 24 hours to so in order to be able to give them some medical supplies. so this is a quite a breakthrough or is really reacting to the news of the deal. rebecca, as i mentioned to them, you know, obviously uh over whelming a release, i believe, i mean, you know, there's, there's also a sense of is rarely saying, well, we will believe it when we see it. we still have some ways to go before we start seeing those hostages actually make it be transferred into his riley territory. and

we're of course, it's going to be staggered over the days as i mentioned. so anything in those days could lead to, you know, a big visit with somebody breaks the cx 5 for example, that could lead to a halt in these health just being allowed outside people. so it's still very trepidatious, but of course waking up to some very welcome news, spelled benjamin netanyahu. the is really prime minister. his cabinet has approve the deal to some members of is uh, coalition government did not support the hostage release deal. can you tell us why? so that's fine. m e n 3 members as that cabinet voted against this deal. that's members of the house. may you who did potty? that's the jewish power party, led by the minister of security. it's my been v. now. they was thoughtfully against this deal. they said, have played into from us as hands that it was, you know, giving them a, basically an ongoing, a free goal because they wouldn't be allowed to use this time to, to regroup and to, to continue baffling israel when the cessation of hostilities is over. uh,

you know, that they've said that they, they think it's not a good deal. they will put them in the against it. but all the people that were also perhaps on shore games to deal, including the finance minister bits of l smoked. rich, you today was sort of suede over when, when the organizations all the sectors like the most ad, for example, and the internal security mission. but when they said that they were on board with this deal, they thought it was a good idea. like a vast majority of people were won over. and in fact we did say a majority of people voting in favor for this. israel's been under tremendous international pressure to implement a humanitarian pause. and the fighting private isn't, doesn't know who has previously resisted into entering into any type of ceasefire deal. why has he agreed to this one as well? i think terry, i mean, largely because of the events pressure he's under on, on the, from the, particularly the families. but also, you know, many old citizens of israel to,

to see some movement on the hostages to see some release of the hostage that obviously people have wanted to say all the hostages release, but something they say is better than nothing. and the families in particular has a lobbying very hard, they're saying holding, you know, matches and men protests and actually going and loving ministers and going to connected the sessions to, to sort of play the case. they think that the government hasn't been doing enough that hasn't been making the hostages of priority. and while the overwhelming support for the israel goal of eradicating him as is present the of the dot, the thing that people want move and almost move in reading how mouse is to say the hostages come home. so this pressure was mounting and obviously benjamin that now who has been able to now come to an arrangement that he's been able to feel comfortable to sign off on. rebecca, thank you very much. that was our correspond to rebecca betters, interpersonal and stand. we're hearing 1st reactions from those

directly affected by the steel relatives of the kidnapped 63 year old kayla kwan gold has 7 missing family members were believed to be among the hostages held by her mazda con gold son and daughter in law and their 2 children aged $8.00 and $3.00 are among those missing. his daughter in law's mother, her aunt and a 12 year old niece are also said to be among the captives on wednesday morning. the loud describe, his feelings after news broke of the truce and the hostage deal tween is real and how much one side i'm on the 2nd award k because uh, nobody told me that my, uh, familiar with this in this uh, this uh, feel. okay. there it was 40 g, right? and then does that and then go to the start date. well the others and i hope

that everybody was released from 7 weeks. i thing it's never happened in, in my life for sure, but in, in the history of the human beings, like too many instances, so many junior and domain babies to many who mean i don't know how i feel right now. i want to be sure that my certainly will release at least the size of my different low and then we continue palestinian present. but more to boss is welcome the deal between israel and hamas and called for wider solutions to the conflict, as well as humanitarian assistance for the people of the gaza strip. or for more, let's speak with martin wrench. he's a spokes person for the world food program and is currently here in berlin. or what

are your thoughts on the humanitarian ceasefire? agree between is really him. us a good morning. how are you? um, the release of hostages is certainly very good use. you remember that that's what that was the key call of the secretary general. and why don't you monitoring pauses on? definitely allow the civilian population to catch her breath after weeks of the environment . i'm the human. is there any communities we can w, b will do everything. we can to use these pauses to get food and all the assistance to the people i need. but what i don't want to do here is to free up the assessment of our colleagues on the ground in the operations. you can imagine many questions that will remain as to how much and how much i can actually get in safely. so far, the 10 percent of the need of assistance has gotten into godaddy through your off

of auto crossing, which is actually a drop in the ocean, given humanitarian situation that we see on the ground. okay, so i hear you're saying you don't know how much a you can get into gaza, talk to us about the need for food there. what are the current needs of the population in gaza right now? i mean, supply the food as was practically non existent and got only a fraction of what is and he is actually arriving through the borders and you know, the weather. the weather has got some bad winters fast approaching and they're on safe, over crowded salad and is lack of clean water up. and so basically there's a real possibility at the moment and got and in addition to that, the entire food infrastructure is basically on the verge of collapse. the shops run out of the essentials. there are no batteries, any more grain moves have stopped working. and so have markets so um and people are

basically, i'm surviving on one the other day if they're lucky and that's just the food and nutrition part. they're also all the problems such as water and medical supplies, shelter. and there was a lack of everything in god with a permanent seas hard still nowhere in sight. how does the organization expect to continue meeting the needs of the people in gossip? i mean, we are ready to go. we have pulled together hundreds of metric tons across the board in egypt, but you know, it is difficult to actually distribute a and a roadside asteroid communication with stuff is difficult, distribution networks that we used to that used to funds and although not no longer existing. and we need to build up up again. so what is key is now to get safe access for our, for our aid, we need to have saved back to this point. you may,

terry is rotate in and rotate out. and we have to re establish a good communication networks and fuel because you can imagine fuel so crucial for anything that needs to run and got. and that is true for our trucks to get in, but also for the distribution inside got simple things such as operating forklift to, you know, move forward stuff from wrong to truck, to the other. that is what is needed at the moment martin, thank you very much. for talking with us today, that was martin ranch with the world food program. thank you, sir. now to north korea, which claims to a successfully launched its 1st spice satellite. the country space agency has about to send up more in the near future state media release. these images of leader kim jong over seeing the launch south korea has responded by suspending. part of the

military packed with john young of us and south re an official say they cannot verify whether the launch was actually the success. earlier i spoke to do this, james tater and ty pay about this. he told me more about north korea's satellite launch, as well. as he mentioned is really important to points out in the 1st instance that countries around the world. a still trying to verify some young's claims, that is where you've been able to put this ministry satellites into all that we 1st got wind of this one slates on. she's at any stage of the north for anything that the satellite answered or with a few minutes later if it has, it comes following to filed launches all of this here which killing young, blamed on technical issues. so believe this time, the satellite business were okay. it was kind and we're calling us in satellites and pots and there. okay. but what i launched and had fallen into the east trying to see where is another pod slash down in the pacific, off the traveling in japan, southwest prefecture of ok now which lead to

a long spring sense of across the japanese item. so you really get a sense of how the region gets pulled into some of the, the, the come kind of complexity of these no true and fast by launches, assuming this satellite launch was successful. what full north korea presumably do with it's i in this gone of the absolutely well, this is something that north korea has been working on for you is this attempted 7 south launches since 1998. the last successful one was in 2016, but this is really focusing on the military dimension of these, of these, um kind of technologies and equipment. chunks of these needs legitimate actions for self defense and says that the necessary to was when equal was ended. many enemy military activity made north korea on the day that this satellite launch took place . we had to us across carrier arriving in south korea and the us nuclear power, the summer reading arriving to today. you know, one of the biggest points of contention here is extensive russian influence and

involvement. there has been a growing relationship between these 2 countries, including us allegations in north cray has been supplying most go with weapons for its warn you cry and something that both the countries to night. but with this satellite, south korea says the most in may of health chung young, i've become some of the technical difficulties associated with a satellite launch. some experts judging course and then saying it might still be too early for me showing young's integrate any of that recent re send russian assistance into this loans. james, thank you very much. that was the w. james trade here in taipei. it's catch up on a few other stories making headlines around the world today. motors in the netherlands are going to the polls today to elect a new parliament. the election was triggered last summer when outgoing prime minister mark root cause government of routes is government claps to midst and disagreement over asylum policies. 3 major party groupings are battling to propose a government and their net connect in the posts firefighters in

bolivia are battling to control wildfires in the countries north bolivia as defense . but as they're said on monday, that the fires have consumed more than 3000000 hectares of forest and grassland cruise from venezuela arrive to help out in france is also promised a it's open. i says it has reached an agreement for sam open to return a c, e o. hundreds of staff and threatened to quit. the leading artificial intelligence started up behind chat, c p t. after the surprise, 2nd of open on friday, the street opened says he has the support of microsoft which offered to hire him. a year after ukrainian troops liberated the southern city of castle from russian occupation. shelling and missile attacks remained a constant of daily life that ukraine has been able to advance further into russian hill territory and recent days. but castle is barely

a kilometer from the front line. dw special corresponded max town to visited the city to talk to residents about how they are dealing with the unrelenting threat is year after liberation. capstone is still a dangerous place to be. so 3 people were traveling in this car when it was her earlier today by rushing, shelling from what we know, the driver was instantly killed. a 2 month old baby received an injury to the head, and the mother was seriously wounded. she had to be brought to a hospital and is currently fighting for her life. this is the baby girl in the arms of the ukrainian police officer being rushed to hospital the year after russian forces retreated. much of the city is still a war zone. and medical facilities like this maternity hospital remained in harms way medical director of sound of tongues jenko shows us

what the russians have done since leaving and they didn't go very far of the, from the roof. we can see the left bank of the river from where russian troops continued to attack the city. to jessica by 2 glibly, whoops, dealer during the occupation. what else did you as showed which it was points shedding, aimed at where the russian ministry was stationed, received to the school districts with directions since the deal to patient, the russian history, wherever they want to play dates. in the year before the war, 1200 children were born here. now it looks on a thumb jenko says they have about a 10th of that silly be which when it breaks my heart that we have so few bad. yeah. i understand that safe as a women to be elsewhere,

but that's our job. and that sort of book your email plans to have her baby here, despite the risk. no, there's no charge of what the dock lock stands, shooting shells constantly flying and it makes you at every no there's no there's you fall asleep and you don't know whether you will wake up. i'm not to be honest. jessica. she already has 2 daughters, one born before the war, the other during occupation. she doesn't want to give up on the future of her family here. yep. show ways. so we want terence to show our children by our example that we need to believe and the best we need to strive for something in our lives. the tell us, but i didn't do it so much at sea, but it's been a hard in getting that tells us her husband was taken prisoner during the occupation. she says their neighbor is supposed friend be trade them to the

russians. that this kind of betrayal has cost social traumas that will need healing in this city will not be chosen by to which during the occupation some of our employees will show. i will quite now that russia is here for as a they were sure of it for c and even spit coping the about the, to the occupation has left a complicated legacy for those who remain founder of it create their click open collaborate. this is those who open nice and close it, then no one will forgive them putting up if they change tradition at so i'll let those who had to adapt. we do not cool them collaborators just before office that is different or critical about on one of the which one year later trauma runs deep and have some states and with the russians on its doorstep.

the dangers far from over leave. the shelling begins with the w corresponding to conley is in key for him whether ukrainians are still confident that their situation is going to improve. well, certainly, if you look at the last 6 months, the accounts are offensive. hasn't been able to make the progress of it was expected at least internationally. think the hopes have been very high off to what your credit was able to do last autumn. and we've seen that the russians have dug in along most of the 1000, close long front line with mine fields and trenches that are basically impossible to cross without serious losses to the advancing side, especially except song that was liberated by ukraine forces last november. and actually seen a reduction in population. now in the about 30 to 40000 people, i believe, to still live, to compare to about 300 thousands before the war. and those attacks all related to

this. i was just looking at the local news from capstone and the local governor was saying that there had been around a 120 attacks of various kinds either platforms or to the way over the last 24 hours in the sandstone region. a lot of that in the city, you see people dying at bus stops, people just at home. people going to shops where this is not a safe place to be, because it is so close to the russian author, physicians on the other side of the, the for river. having said that, i think that songs that region is basically the only kind of bright spot for the grand. you know, me right now is the only section of the front line where the russians haven't had a chance to dig in and build those fortifications. and we haven't recent days been getting reports that so especially in ukrainian, special forces have been established in few bridge heads on the other side of the river on the east bank. and this real kind of worry. and in some parts kind of hysteria, even among the russian that you built, is that this could be the place where ukraine pushes fluids. obviously it's very, very difficult. sending small groups of troops on the motorized boats across the

river without a bridge without kind of heavy at tech on their side. but certainly there is a sense that if someone could soon maybe be less under attacked, few author attacks because the russians would be just that much further. it kind of course is heavily dependent on uh, on supplies of weaponry from its allies, the cranes leaders saying about the level of support that they're currently getting from those allies in this morning. i think the picture all through this war has been at least seen from key to little to lights, promises were the solidarity, but then failure to actually realize on those promises. and there is certainly a lot of worry here about the political uncertainty in the us of funding for ukraine. no longer being we kind of bypass the issue that it was. now news from germany about the german budgets and worries that show me might be saving on any of expenditure does not seem as totally necessary. having said that, there is always

a huge like between the kind of political decision making and the deliveries the front line. so for now, ukraine is actually still getting a lot of supplies that were promised some time ago. it's recently drawn basically, even in terms of ought to the results with russia. it has fewer of them, but they're more precise. and then we have the japanese defense, mr. stores in town yesterday, promising more at different systems, if not the kind of long range missiles that you can just be all seem to me all along. so certainly a real kind of reverse. so if you think back to the beginning of the war with germany was seen as one of the most reluctant countries to supply weapons. germany now off the us, the the 2nd biggest supplier weapons to ukraine. you mentioned the german defense ministers visit there yesterday. nick, we just saw some pictures of him there a moment ago. we also had your pink castle present, show michelle in cuba yesterday as well. meeting with you, crane's present for me is on as the top floor about those visits for. so this was

partly just to show solidarity to prove to ukrainians that they haven't for and off the agenda since world attention shifted to gaza was also connected to the 10th anniversary of those might on purchased the will about ukrainians, demanding close to ties to europe, back then e membership seemed pretty much unreal. kind of long distance kind of hope that now is drawing closer. he did those say so many shows that it wasn't up to him to stop those negotiations. the ukrainians would basically have to convince all 27 member states in victo bonds. we know it's threatening a veto. so difficult times, but certainly that is a timeline. and there's a real hope that ukraine could and used to come to california. you remember it? thank you very much for your reporting. that was our correspondent, nick connelly there in key still watching the news. just reminder of the top story we're following for you this hour is risk government has proved a hostage deal with a must. the militant group has agreed to release 50 women and children is holding and gaza during

a 4 day truce. while israel releases scores of palestinian women and children from its prison up next year it's to go. india, looking at major challenges facing cities as the climate pizza on terry martin. thanks for watching the

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