into the cold of us defense secretary lloyd austin, joined in maritime protection, forced to keep the red sea clear of who's the rebels base. and yeah, but the who face have been attacking commercial vessels in the red sea, causing at least a 5 big shipping companies to stop operating that. so will that task force look, i'm going to the who fish really want. i'm feel go invalid and this is the day the and these reckless hoody attacks are a serious international problem. actions will be taken in coordination with our allies. you know, these attacks will not be toner, is operation. which i'd say israel security is rest and he's not only from gaza also by the who t you're not out.

so this is not a gauge be something that is easily or said also on the day after rumbling away for weeks, rocketing community is enforcing the evacuation of residence. a volcano in iceland has finally left loose starting on spectacular fountains of molten lava. i'm. i'm very excited to be here and in this, in this place in this, in this time. and just being able to see this natural phenomenon happened just seeing lava emerged from the ground. even if it's it, in a particular confidence such as this is just fascinating and see, just nature inaction. i just, it's just like something fun movie of the welcome to the day, the u. s. s. and as the creation of a multinational task force to help protect ships traveling through one of the world's most important was the waste the red sea. for weeks since the rebels have

been using that stronghold in yemen to target israel and anyone they consider to be linked to it over to war in gaza. the around back to militant is list of attacks and see several vessels along the betsy route, which covers more than 10 percent of global trade. shipping jobs. cma c, g n, a mask, and how about blowing into holes suspended sailing through the area. disrupting a vital audrey for consumer goods, oil and liquefied natural gas between asia and new york, instead of 17 days to transport cargo ships have been rerouted around africa's cape of good hope taking more than twice as long. and of course inflating costs the task force operation prosperity, guardian, aims to protect ships on the red sea using one of the wells most important maritime trade routes. the series come out. several companies have halted shipping after

that search and attacks by militants from german business group back by iran says the vessels that targeted with linked to reach me a short helicopter flight. and a quick hijack the crew of the galaxy leader didn't stand a chance as to who to rebels landed on deck and went straight for the bridge that these pictures were released by who the leadership they are here to show the 1st of many attacks against chips and the red see humans here on back military group assess the galaxy leader was carrying good, spelled for a port in israel, recent they, so numerous attacks against the tank of some freighters in the area. among them hits against 2 ships transporting cargo fortelli and swiss shipping giant m a. c h 2 was set to be heading to israel. the which he claim that the actions are directly tied to the country's war and gaza alone. yeah. well,

some shipping companies have already begun to rewrote their ships. should that be more of us or expecting yet another hit to economies around the world, including germany's, the german economy and many other economies have been affected by supply bottlenecks in the past. so these supply bottlenecks have been using in recent mom's about has hope, the economy and if the they are now coming back, if we get new bottlenecks here, this will fall the hold back of the economy. so it's a real threat. this may reduce production and drive up prices. meanwhile, the international community is taking action on the visit to bind us defense. secretary lloyd austin, and the own simpleton nation forced to patrol the waters of given and secure shipping roads. well, let's pick this up with middle established asha l copy, who's our research associates and instructor at harvard university. welcome to dw. so when, who sees a top vessels in the red sea?

this looks like this is not necessarily about piracy because they're not interested in seizing a ship for its monetary value. they're not interested in seizing a ship for its political value. they're merely looking for propaganda victories on the red sea in order to shore up their own position within human. right. so they, they saves a ship to just talk us through about how does a benefit them so after 2014, the, was he seized the capital city of santa they, for a long war, a civil war against the saudi back, internationally recognized government as late as october, 6th of 2023, it seemed as if the saudis and the who with these were on the verge of signing a piece of court. because these were negotiating from the position of weakness.

october 7th, presented it with these with an opportunity to both focus on an external enemy rather than on their own humanitarian crisis, but then human, and also has an opportunity to shore up their own local support amongst young minis . bye for train themselves as fighters against israel against an external enemy. and so is that affordable come actual link between these who would fees and thomas or are they just facing the same enemy? the link is really seen between iran come us as well that all $3.00 of these organizations are being funded or being armed. and you're also being led by a general feeling or, or general come rhetoric as being part of the larger or rainy and vision for the middle east. one that has been towards creating instability within the middle east and also creating a degree of chaos that really plays into the reigning national and regional

strategy of creating instability within the middle east. ok, so now we have the assembly of this new s lead a task force. what difference do you think that is likely to make so this is not the 1st time that the red sea has been. the southern red say specifically has been the target of both piracy and instability, especially related to the conflict with israel since the 1950s. the southern red sea has been a location of instability. it's been also sources that challenges to the navigation as a freedom of navigation. so this is not an old story. neither is this uh, you know, story within the policies themselves. when things are taken numerous opportunities, the militants to a tech savvy shipping in 2015 and 16 and to continuously threaten that shipping through the southern red sea. this is merely another case,

or another example of an opportunity that, that with these have taken to hold that by the minds of hostage in some ways to global commerce and to global shipping. okay, so the, this new coalition is come together, can fight a defensive work and sit with these limits, the ability to actually target the ships going through the ramsey and ultimately actually plays into what the, what these want from this entire episode is international attention. local legitimacy and for train themselves is exactly, is there slogan, says mostly i'm going to come out of this. i am just to america just to as well, the ones that are trained themselves in warriors against the west. and that's precisely what this international coalition is, giving them on a silver platter. thank you so much for uh, guidance through that. so clearly at least i'm just actually a copy from harvard university.

and i'm a strong health ministry gauze that says more than 19000 people have been killed in the ball with his ro, independent, being verified, that figure is difficult for the us, the us, and has described civilian casualties as unprecedented. you may find some of the images in the next report. distressing. a counting the dead. and already gruesome job made almost impossible, but on the ground fighting the relentless bombardment just as rarely forces and the ship tales of war. the defensive all day. i talk and think children, as you can see, that's what happened to miss south from f sixteens overheating, little childrens, all part of the the human total of the fighting is often conveyed by witnesses and by over what conduct

is repeated. blackouts mean social media is sometimes the only way to give updates . no longer able to provide surgeries at all the hospital. the hospital does know effectively a 1st aid station. hundreds of wounded now in the hospital with no access to surgery. they will die from the woods and official total of casualties is being kept by the palestinian health ministry and gaza. it's the latest update, said israel, defensive headcount mold in $19000.00 palestinians. the have mass run, ministry doesn't differentiate between civilians and competence. but has said that most of those killed women and children. thank you, secretary general for this. i think united nations has backed this claim question. despite the united verification challenges, what he's cleared is that we have ads in a few weeks, thousands of children killed. so these is what's met us. we are

witnessing a killing of civilians. that is and that allows and, and president, it's any conflict since i am sick that is yellow. the no chance included in the official desk told of the thousands of people who are missing leveled off and fits dead under the rubble when, if they are recovered, officials and gone. so we'll have to figure out where to bury them. symmetry is either full or inaccessible because of fighting. and the number of bodies has been buried and mass graves. as ukraine, where i present along them, is that landscape says he's only wants to mobilize as many as 500000 troops. or he hasn't yet taken the decision on the matter and end of year news conference in key

if even tell him to say that no one knows when the war with russia will end. during a reason to trip to washington as to the landscape file to secure congressional approval for $60000000000.00 in military funding. despite this, he said he remained confident us would not a bond with its support for his country. unprecedented method that the middle east conflict is undermining international support for his country. test the no, no, some say, well ukraine has been receiving our support for 2 years. and now israel is facing a significant challenge, some with the so these were the voices that we heard at the beginning of this tragedy. see that, and that is why this is definitely not having a positive impact on ukraine. number whiskey, seeds. let's get more from that correspondent, mature, said putting it in keith and watch the events are welcome mathias. what stood out for you. we saw a visit, the tire president here,

a president that looked very so, but lots of the problems that have been there. you could not to feel the energy and the power, the jokes that he used to crack at press conferences before it looks like he's really under pressure this year. it's not been a very good year. could you, craig? and that was of course. so throughout the press conference, so we have fights and kind of a style night allies wavering on a, did the president say anything about a way out of this situation. he was very careful to not to give any prospect's blaming. partly the discussion around the counter offensive for its failure because people had openly discussed ukraine strategy that might have given the russians time to prepare. so he was really careful not to say anything specific about his prospect for the next year. he was to defy and he was

still saying that to you, credit will continue its fight and that is a is good. the goal is have not changed that they're still working on, winning back the terry tree, a few crane to the borders of 1991 and to defeat dresser 5. so despite being a republican abroad buffing the, the us congress and victor, old man, in the a, you. and the same sudden the viper, military, and financial aid from those 2 areas would continue. of the he said that he expects us to deliver on what they have from is that the package of $60000000000.00 us dollars that they had agreed upon meant that the us will eventually overcome their internal political disputes in order to make this possible. and he said the same is true for the european union that they were trying to find

a way to deliver the 8 that they had already promised. he said however, that depending on that that there is worries that the elections in the us might change the picture. and that's a new us government, presumably, possibly under a trump uh that would to reject to aid ukraine, would change the pick. so that would also influence europe. so there are certainly worries in the longer to him, but he said he was confident that what had or is being agreed upon. these $50000000000.00 euros and $60000000000.00 us dollars that to the, to the, that the us and the you, they would come around to deliver these. so i'm, we have a recent folding number showing that the number of the trainings who trust presence, the landscape has dropped. i'm was that evident today if you had been asked whether the, whether the cookies, he would still be able to unite the country behind him. whether you would feel that

this unity um, also with regard to him uh, was slowly backsliding. and uh, he kind of very defensively said that, um if in the future that ukrainians decide to vote for another president, that would be the normal course of things the let's put this sliding numbers all a little bit into context them. of course, in the 1st year of the war and trust and the president has the exception of the high with of 80 percent of around 90 percent at times and to use into the war with things to wave a off the war in the stalemate. it's not a big surprise that he does not reach the same numbers anymore, but that's also not over exaggerate to this difference. there is only 12 percent or so of ukrainians who say that they do not trust the president and more than 60 percent to supporting him. um that's more of

a global number. i would say for a president as the country settled into a more let's say a maybe um, less exceptional way of dealing with things in the as it settling into the long game. it's not that he has lost completely trust. thank you much this with this, but in case the full kind of has erupt it in iceland trying fountains of lava, more than a 100 meters into the app. it'd be got on monday, they have a ton of glen to vegas south west of the capitol, reykjavik authorities, had been expecting the interruption and had been evacuating the area. despite this, they was surprised by the russians size and intensity plumes of smoke and lava. on the rate can as peninsula in iceland following a weeks of intense quakes. to arrest in the nearby town of green the vic

looked on to happen just seeing lava emerge from the grounds even if it's it in a particular content and such as this is just fascinating and see just nature inaction. i just, it's just like some of the movie a spectacle for some below enforcement in the area is making sure people in this town stay safe. now there's a rupture near near grant that we and we have cleared the town and the area. and now we're just securing the area and closing every road to the area. and that's just in process. no. but then we're just trying to manage the situation here. my sons coast guard as i'm highlights that release this for to adjust it. so phase dependency led to determine the exact size of the russian.

iceland is no stranger to volcanoes. it currently has $33.00 active abrupt sions. that's the highest number in europe. though some of these, this seems to be 1500 cubic meters per 2nd. this is quite a bit more than the interruption seen on the bench to live until now, which are quite small in the beginning. but the scientist say, it's a still unclear how long this one will go on for journalist and go down a 6 percent, joins us from the i find a capital in reykjavik. welcome to dw, and we just have you guys have the most of all comic activity any you are. is there anything particularly special about this latest interruption? it will be solved. so when it started last night, it started like a sort of a small orange block, pumping out of the earth and quickly became that 4 kilometer long, fisher. and we saw in that report, certainly some dramatic paintings, colors of some, some dramatic strokes. or, i mean, even guys,

there's of lava going some 18 meters up in the air. so this is close to the tunnel . kinds of it gets close to what geothermal power plant. it's also close to a popular tourist destinations. the blue of all of those were possibly impacted. now, some almost 24 hours later, the power of the russian has waned. it's about a 4th of the strength that it was before. kilometer fisher is now down to a couple of 100 meters. the level flow as much less, it's no longer a causing a threat to infrastructure in the beloved flow is flowing away from the critical infrastructure. so it seems that we have thoughts, the bullets on this one, right? i'm behind it and that will keep my fingers crossed and we had in our report, is it searching on eruptions that, that you have going at the moment? what's it like trying to live with always going on. a lovely,

certainly active volcanoes. although the area where this is roxanne happened until a couple of years ago was to be, if not in active and extinct it was dormant. there we hadn't seen in that direction in this area for 800 years. so not many others. remember the last one was the lead up 200 bucks. some of this sort of it is a series of uh, earthquakes. so if it happens in the middle of the night, it feels like somebody is standing at the end of your bed and gives it a decent kit. and he's not gonna jump out of bed and your fight and flight or flight. the instate the gentleman kicks and go for your heads, tells you it's just another air. the earthquake go back to bed. it's a bit of a nuisance, but it's not much more than that for most of us. this is a spectacle tonight we have uh what the score called the glacier clouds in the sky . we have active with auto body elders and then the faint glow of what's left of this direction in the background. it's quite spectacular to see quite honestly. okay, so you're just get on with life. it just becomes another instagram level moment. if

it does a little bit on that sort of the danger it becomes in iceland, which is such an active place, you have to have a healthy amount of respect, but also a healthy amount of disrespect because otherwise you'd be constantly worried about like what might happen but uh, you have to be careful the doors, me so and that report shouldn't have been there because there are gas is coming out of that. not only lava you can easily hurt yourself, you can also have injures others that might need to rescue. you don't go there, but having said that, this is the force, the direction and just over 3 years in that particular area, we've seen each one, basically bring us a boat load. so our plane loads of instagram influencers of what to take of something there were, try to fly, they're drawn into the, into the lava. i'd be surprised to see if this was any different indeed the stock price of both iceland think airlines went up quite a bit today,

which probably tells you what the market aspect stopping. wow. so people on the 1st off they go, they go flying in next. they've got the photos indeed a new, it's even for, for air travelers. it's quite interesting on what's, what's, what's like the flight rate or just the before we went down and you see the planes taking off from the international airport to the loop over the peninsula, to fly over the volcano to give their passengers a bit of a bit of a view outside of the window. so that's how freaked out people are about all of this. so i know you're doing this rather the aside from ologist. but what, what is it about iceland, that means that this is happening so frequently 6 licenses. uh, on 2 continental plays which are sort of going both in this direction and a testing of park. and in the middle you have the north atlantic, which, which is many people think we see it on the top of a hospital. which means that a lot of comes almost directly from the magma corner of the earth and sort of those

in the gulf when one becomes available. that is basically what happened, spice length was created this way. this is why we have geothermal, keep. this is why we give chico thermal power that said what comes with that quality of life. you have to take the good was a bad or the back of the good. good, good, talking to them. i made book a flight next step 12 next year. um it did list the inc. offer be on the sink for sent in reykjavik. thank you so much my pleasure to and that was that i can follow out to him on social media at the www is if it's the way to specialize, you're looking for this always that dw, don't come over at the temple, you have a good the

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