the the, this is dw news line from bell in israel faces increasing international pressure to stop its attacks on gauze assets to provide aid for civilians in gauze becoming increasingly desperate. bothers redlands, this then only military pressure will bring the other hostages home. also coming up, vote counting is on the way in service problem industry and local election president that i found, the voltage policy is expected to stay in power. many serves drive long queues to cross the border from comfortable to cost that the,

the, i'm going to have as well come to the program. israel is facing increasing pressure up this go back the financing and cause of civilian casualties amounting but presidents benjamin netanyahu is vowing to keep up military pressure on her boss, which is classified as a terrorist group by the union at the us and on others. international allies are urging israel to do more to protect civilians tracked inside the territory. botanists and yahoo says is countries grounds and error offensive is the best way to ensure the safe return of the hostages and the destruction of a box on collecting and burying the dead. now with daily ritual in the gaza strip. for those able to retrieve the bodies of their loved ones . many remain trapped under the rubble of bummed out building. these latest

victims were killed in rough in the south, a supposedly safe stone for those clean the fighting in other areas of gaza. at the clinic and they hit every place they targeted everywhere they got a big target to of the night. children are all was scared and they wake up screaming because of the sound of the bombing when they're a big targets everywhere and rough. uh, but unfortunately there is no safety. another recent assault and rasa killed a french foreign ministry worker who had been sheltering inside a residential home. news of the death came just as francis for administered arrived in israel. paris was condemned the bombing and is demanding an investigation on the door. is, i've also come here to reiterate the importance of a new humanitarian truce. we need to return to a durable truce into a truce that will enable us to work towards

a humanitarian sci fi now. but israel says a ceasefire would be nothing more than a gift from us, giving it time to regroup and strike again. as soon as we will eliminate a mass of release or hostages, and we permit scars of when become a center of tara once again, good tool that includes disabling a mazda is vast network of underground tunnels, like this one. according to these really military, it goes down some 50 meters underground and is wide enough for vehicles in germany's foreign minister. and the case for and secretary had also expressed support for a cease fire, but only if it can be sustained in a joint opinion article. they right, we do not believe that calling right now for general an immediate cease fire, hoping it somehow becomes permanent, is the way forward. for now,

the pair are pushing for further humanitarian pauses to get more aid into gaza and hostages out the rising desktop and the accidental killing of 3 hostages. by the is really military has raised concern over israel's strategy in gaza. the us is pushing for transition to smaller, more tactical missions into the territory in tel aviv thousands of protesters have been taking part in weekly riley's calling on the government to end the fighting and pursuit a peaceful solution that would allow the remaining hostages to return home all special correspondence to abraham high in jerusalem has more on the mountain impression on these ready to government a well, this really government isn't a very tricky position right now. they want to appear steadfast. they want to appear strong and they want to also show and the world which as was

just mentioned is becoming increasingly impatient with this were especially because of the mounting civilian death tool. on the other hand, the government cannot ignore the anger on the streets here in israel, the families of the remaining hostages. and it's here in israel, it's not, you know, this is not really something that only affects the families of the hostages defects the entire society. because of the intensity of the october 7, terre haute attacks, it's something that touches everyone in society. so there's a real sort of public anger at what happened 2 days ago with the 3 hostages, but also anger from before. and so, to try and walk that delicate tight with, if you will. the problem is mr. has on the one hand, reiterated what he said before this war is an exists dental war for israel, and that it has to continue at any cost. and no matter what the pressure is, he's obviously, you know, sort of indirectly responding to the mounting,

international pressure. and the fear that is real might really become even more isolated on the international stage. on the other hand, he has sort of hinted, the door to negotiation has not closed yet. so it really is a delicate balance. gerhard and one that the government is now trying to sort of navigate, but it's really, really difficult. the angle here really after 70 days is, is, is unlike anything we've seen before. abraham, they're reporting from jerusalem. the world health organization has been able to visit gauze as badly damaged. i'll she for hospital this stuff, say the hospital is overwhelmed with hundreds of injured patients, as new cases arrived, literally every minutes. sean casey is an emergency medical teams coordinator with a w h o and he shared with us once he sold that bill yesterday when she bought hospital for the 1st time in about 3 weeks after since the ceasefire ended and we found a hospital that's completely overwhelmed we saw patients coming in every 30 to 60

seconds on the cards on charlie's with sperry serious injuries. the hospital uh was previously the largest referral hospital in gaza, was 750 beds and a very busy emergency board at the moment. the hospital leadership has indicated that they have only 5 or 6 doctors, 5 or 6 nurses that about 70 volunteers. so what can be done for them at the moment? very little, but we hope to change that so we deliberate is critical emergency supplies dropped . my kids yesterday will be delivering fuel for the hospital to run its generator in the coming days. and we'll be going back again with additional supplies and hopefully some additional human resources to help care for these many, many patients that are overwhelming. the very little capacity that remains at steeple w. i chose phone k, see that that's have a look now at some of the other news making headlines around the world today. polls

of closed in child's referendum on a new constitution. they both could lead to the return of civilian rule, but possibly the opposition of boycotting the referendum saying it's designed to cement the country submitted to always point out. the earliest results on unexpected before december 24th of island stallman scales at least 13 people in argentina. and 2 more and you're, you're required, strong wins knocked over trees and tore off roofs. over $300.00 people were evacuated in the southern region of witness iris province, which was one of the hardest hit barriers the election evening is on the way in service, parliamentary and local elections, the populace, serbian progressive party of president, arctic sound of which is set to stave off a challenge from a pro western opposition coalition subs living and causal also eligible to vote. but tensions between serbia and causal made it more difficult for them to cost them,

pallets boarding the boston cost of the to go in the vote and in election across the board and sub you thousands of others and making the journey by con, subs make up about 5 percent of cost of those population. they used to be able to vote where they lived with the european security organization handling the logistics of transferring the pilots to serbia. but since the 2022, they were told they would have to travel to serbia in order to vote the decision they say is on fire or police. this is a political issue. it's not our issue. this is not right. elections should be held here. we are also citizens. why should somebody treat us a 2nd class citizens? all of us have the right to vote on, you know, this is not right. we do the have to vote where we live. since the situation is,

if it is, what can we do? relations between costs of o inside the attendance of to or be some violent outbreak between cost of a police and so being fighters. the government in the capital pristine has refused to set up polling booths in kosovo to allow subs that to vote to home and build grades as nursing fulls to request leaving costs of a subs with no choice but to travel to one of the full southern sub be in town, so they are allowed to vote and, and join the long queues to cost the ballots. the way now joined by the w. russel's beer chief, i saw phenomena, susan bell, great. and at the election, positive of the chips progressive a part of the country is underway. do we already have any exit polls? well, we know that the serbian progressive body president bush's party is in the lead in

this election, which 46.6 percent. that is, according to our projection, published by 2 posters here in serbia and according to this to projects in the united, a position under the name of serbia against violence is said to come 2nd and 3rd, we expect the socialist party of serbia to be positioned that is of course those are only preliminary data, but it's seems that to then which of spots you has a good chance of having the majority of the in the serbian paula man. and over the course of this evening, he himself seemed to be very confident before even this projection was published, he popped up in the press room,

speaking about an absolute majority and show showing that he is in a very good mood. so it looks like bush is, is managing to consolidate his popped up. why, how does the, how does he do this? well, it seems that she has been quite successful in imposing the narrative that there is no alternative on the serbian political stage that he is the only need are capable of making sure that there is some positive we cannot make rose and prosperity. the tea is the only one who is capable of maintaining a difficult diplomatic, filling, balancing and active between having a good relationship with russia, which is so popular, hadn't started yet, and still progressing and advancing the country's way into towards the european union. and he has been able to do so also by

marginalizing positions. he goes by bringing the media under his control and he has been on the you level of having a car was confronted with a lot of criticism because of the effects lading in serbia. which regards to the rule of law and democracy briefly to kind of the positions that the these elections might not have been fab. what's your impression on the ground? well, we know that they have been reports about many, many regularities and incidents attacks against the election of service reports about people being transported to paulding stations from outside officer, the reports of the votes. people who go to cash in with to and forecasting the vote for the ruling party. so the independent election of service are really worried and concerned about the atmosphere in which the election was taking place.

responded to the sound of a not in that in the serbian capital bell. right. thank you very much and i know it's a week before christmas and people across the globe all getting into the holidays spirit. stressing office centers on spreading holidays share each in their own specific way. in berlin, hundreds of sans as rolled through the city of the on the motorcycles dropping off a gift. and the nations on the way in from thousands, jumped into the christmas costumes for a charity round on the outskirts of iris and beautiful venice sent as dips. this slice full gone, the legs traveled down the main canal to spread joy. and the holidays bare it to the city. and that's it from me. anthony instincts and i'll answer the holiday will have, i will do is update for you at the top of the hour,

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