the, the, this is the w news library from berlin, the un security council repairing to vote on a resolution to boost badly needed aid to gauze up after days of delays. the us will reportedly vote for this resolution, which we understand does not call for a ceasefire. in the war between israel and i'm off also coming up humanitarian groups and say, a quarter of gods. this population is male starving. that is more than half a 1000000 people plus the czech republic in morning after the deadliest mass shooting in the country's history. police say a student went on a rampage at

a university in the capital prod, leaving 14 people dead before killing himself. the i break off is good to have you with us on this friday in new york city. the un security council is meeting at this hour to vote on a resolution bursting a deliveries to gauze at the vote, which is expected. minutes from now was delayed for several days as us diplomats haggled over the wording of the text. the text drafted this time by the united arab emirates, the only arab member on the council. the major sticking points had to do with the monitoring mechanism for the deliveries as israel would have been excluded from the inspection process. this has now changed, or what's more,

i want to go to our washington correspondent, janelle develop, janelle, you're following this forest. the security council is called up. and i guess you can say a battle over semantics. it is voting for the resolution as we speak. tell us, what does the discussion revolve around vista? well, you set it quite well, very yourself. this is about a battle of semantics. and in the days where this was be negotiated, negotiators work really hard to find wording acceptable to the us so that you was had taken issue with a reference to the cessation of hostilities. we know that they have always resisted language referring to a cease fire. the position being that a cease fire only helps him off, but they had also taken issue with provisions in the tax that put the un in charge of inspecting the deliveries coming in to gaza. now,

the position of the negotiators being that putting the for you when in charge would mean that that aid would get to the gods and faster and that scale. but israel was against giving up control of the inspections of aid. it did not necessarily want to give up up, being able to look for weapons smuggled along the cargo themselves. how they got stopped, perhaps, that it did not necessarily entrust its security with the united nations or with the egypt, which controls, of course, the main entry point to afford these a deliveries. but last night we heard from the us ambassador to the you and linda thomas green field. she said this time around the u. s. was now prepared to support this resolution. however, all these hours of post circuit negotiations with the u. s. then with the negotiators from the u. a. lots, we've caused some irritation along other security council members,

notably russia that has, and it's taking issue with the, the water down nature of the tax. now, not forgetting, of course, that russia is a security council number also with avita power light for us and thus an important player in these proceedings. okay, do you ever used to now do you belong in washington dc, following this resolution boats at the un in the un security council taking place this hour. janelle, thank you. of the risk of famine in gaza is increasing by the day this grim assessment part of a new human back report that says almost the entire population in gaza is facing a hungry crisis. the morning comes with the un security council expected to vote on a draft resolution that focuses on the urgency of allow me much needed a to enter god's at the resolution that the united states says that it is ready to support after days of delay. and with starvation now at catastrophic levels,

supplies of food, water, and medicine can not come soon enough for the people to gauze. signs of starvation and not hard to find in gaza. here in ross the crowds, jo sophie, what little food is available. the dispute is evident that a little less the visible brought on preferable level of humiliation. we struggle so much just to provide lunch. life has become so expensive. we do not eat, drink or sleep properly and nothing is available. one of the agent who is your much mold, who was a united nations bank reports these mold and 90 percent of people in gaza facing crisis levels of hunger critical situation. and israel's relentless bombardment. in response to the october stevens from us,

tara attacks you in agencies say gas and is like using just team percent of the food delivery. se would usually receive people struggle to find water medicine and fuel. what is happening in gaza is unprecedented. both in terms of its scale, but also how quickly it is happening. you know, in the world right now there are about 130000 people who are in catastrophic the levels of hunger, meaning they have stars in gaza. more than half a 1000000. that is 4 times more. that is what makes this totally unprecedented. israel did briefly allow aid through its kareem shalom crossing into a gauze of this week. but it is really it strikes that hit the palestinian side, forced you in stuff to stop it's pick ups the you can still award this,

but we need to make sure that people have food. people have water, they have shelter, they have sanitation. and for all of those things to happen, we need water crossings open. so these commodities can commit to growing desperation for food also means that the limited supplies that do make it into guys that are often seized upon before being handed out in the u. n. c's, it's not just access to a that is vital, but also it's safe distribution across the strip. without it, they won the risk of semen and gaza is increasing every day of a more now joined by martin wren. she is the spokes person for the world food program. he is here in berlin. martin is good to have you with us. again. just tell me how is your staff coping with the situation on the ground in?

gosh, a good evening. um our staff. uh, like everyone else and got affected by this catastrophic situation. i mean this report that where this child basically confirmed, so worst fee is $1.00 and $4.00 households are confronted with catastrophic hunger . that's almost 600000 people. and this highest cause a ray of hunger, and that's 4 times more than in the rest of the world combined. and that's a staggering number. and behind those numbers, and basically households that skipped entire meals for out of 5 households in the northern part of gaza. and go without food for entire days and nights and many children. i do not have. i do not have enough to eat and parents, i tried to say food for them. and is that totally desperate in dire situation? and that's now backed up by numbers in martin the united nations security council.

this very moment is, is voting on the resolution for god's or that would call for getting more aid into the territory. at the same time, it will not call for any type of humanitarian pause in the fighting. how does that work for your people on the ground? of course such it increased uh no, but basically um the resolution what the well come because people in gaza desperately need more aid to come in, people surviving on the bare minimum. and that's why every counts but, but make no mistake. you unitary in system inside cause as on the brink of combat collapse or needs to be re established to reach people inside cause or wherever they are suffering. and that's, that requires not only trucks to go in, but also it needs to be decided,

needs to flow within garza and we have to move where you have to be able to move safely to reach people where they are. and at the moment, no one is safe inside the house. i'm not civilians, not humanitarians. and only a humanitarian sees fire can actually, um, you know, deliver on having safe access and re establishing that system over it that is desperately needed in this resolution. it also calls for the karema shalom border opening up to be utilized for, for speedy access of more aid. and what kind of impact is that going to have for your team? that is definitely a glimmer of how, you know, a few days of w. p convoy use that crossing to get a 700 metric tons of food into gov. about that axis needs to be sustained because needs are mass stuff. and as we've just heard beyond any scale or comparison,

and i know that people are wondering, we've seen, you know, pictures just in the last week of people running basically jumping on top of age structures. they've been coming into the territory with so many displays, people crammed into the space around the rafa border crossing. how difficult is the logistical challenge of distributing food. i mean, w p still provides food truly was a number of people every day, but there's not enough food for everyone, nor do we reach everyone across the strip. um and that's, that's a huge issue. it's not safe for civilians in god, and it's not safe to deliver all right to the people in gaza for the unitarians on the ground for our staff on the ground who are basically living within this, within this crisis. and we simply at the moment, as it stands now, as we speak,

we cannot do our job properly. and that is why we need more crossings to be open. we need a h coming in, including commercial aid, and we need a last thing. finally, we need a last thing ceasefire so that we can, you know, get the 8 in the people sol desperately need at the moment. and to actually prevent that simon, that is looming. yeah, that's fine. time is definitely of the essence here. martin ranch with the world food program here in berlin. martin, we appreciate your time tonight. thank you. thank you. to of bethlehem in the occupied westbank is famous as the birthplace of jesus. but this year because of the more and gaza most trusted with these have been cancelled, it has also become much harder to reach the popular pilgrimage site. as israel has partially closed most roads leading into the city, following the october 7th terror attacks. the chance of the greek

orthodox clergy, so the total of the integrity invest, let him do the afternoon service at this time of the year, the church should be packed with no good and foreign visitors, but today dislodged the empty parish priest. the esau was born in bethlehem, says he has never seen anything like it. people are grieving and said ford. what's happening does uh, this is the 1st time that they see bethlehem and especially then the ticket. you chose the place where jesus was born empty like this. it's a actually joining care cove and 90 and to us not like this because the locals can come and visit and stay here for days and celebrate with us the christmas. usually people from own over the world stand to 9 to visit the secret spot and the crowd to read this belief that jesus was born. and just

outside the church on main describe the usually decorations lights and music also absent to just do a snap. there's no festive atmosphere, there are no people. no one feels like celebrating because of the war and what's happening to people in gaza, for they always pray for peace me from jesus as perfectly many in the city had high hopes for the christmas season. the impact has been hard as folk by the businesses that depend on tourism. like here in this shop, sending religious ornaments distorted. we have almost 25 families working with us, all the carving of wood carvings. they are living there depending on the billing, and it was not just me. my brother, my father, back at the church compound deposit army, the roman catholic parish priest prepares for christmas despite the m t. i of, we need the christmas,

we need celebrating christmas inside the churches. we need the christmas. we need this continue to us, got to give us peace and to give us his, uh, his, uh, his happiness in the house. so we can resist this situation and message, which is more important than ever. authorities in the czech republic are searching for a motive after that country's worst ever mass shooting on thursday of 24 year old gunman shot dead 14 people at charles university in the capital prong. police. believe me then turned the gun on himself for 3. say there is no link to terrorism here. the country has declared saturday, a day of national morning police in prague. sure. body cam footage. piecing together scenes from the countries, dudley shooting and decades. a just 5 minutes in police say,

these officers arrive at the university. searching for the gunman on the loose, they climbed up. the disadvantage at that point was that there was no sound of gunfire, so the officers had to actively search for the perpetrator. during the information we got about the paper tray, these movements was that he was supposed to be somewhere on the opposite floors. as more officers deployed and got closer, they said the shooter committed suicide. bringing the situation under control after some 30 minutes of frantic corps. the next day of the site, the site of the massacre in progress. historic center. it's day of morning. the check prime minister is among hundreds who visited the make shift memorial to pay tribute. many are still in shock

to jim, so i feel strange bad, horrible because i am electrician fee as a faculty and we were experiencing very strongly what was going on and the faculty of it is hara, i cannot even think let's see. i mean, any of it is not a pleasant feeling to walk on the street and think about what happened to someone who came to school. absolutely carefree. thinking about christmas coming in 2 days . i'd like to do that if i be so a lot of the incident has left many, overwhelmed with a somber mood just before the holidays. i want to go now to journalist in willoughby. he is in prague. he's been following the story closely for us. yeah, this has been the deadliest shooting in the history of the czech republic. with that in mind, how is the country beginning to come to terms with this strategy as well?

there's a very somber mood here in the czech republic. this evening. flags are a house mast, as we saw on some of those images i kind of in the form of those fun. taney is memorial to the victims of yesterday's mouse using us for an up in prague. people had been stopping by their lighting candles, laying flowers at this bus, just a short distance from the bottom of was a square. it's been a real abhorrent of grease here in the czech republic, including on social media. where during the day, more and more names of the victims of yesterday's masters, things has happened coming as yet. what more do we know about the government in and i will ask you, i mean, do we know anything more today than we did yesterday about a possible motive? not more about emergent, but what was confirmed a couple of hours ago is that a government that was found at this young man's phone had been used a week previously. and another tribal crime, a double murder in which

a man watching his child in the woodland area near pride was shot dead. and so was the child of a 2 month old baby girl, shot dead in her from that crime. horrified people here in the trip. it had been dominating news for the whole week until yesterday's trouble events. and now it transfers that evidently these 2 crimes were connected by the same tutor. and in we know that here in europe can in comparison, the czech republic is very liberal gun laws. do you think that there will be any moves to restrict access to fire arms after what has happened? a while? there are a lot of guns on the truck, but big something like 300000 legally have guns exist in this country, in a population with a population of less than 11000000 people. so far though, i haven't seen so much debate about whether access to weapons that should be

restricted. um, what happened yesterday was very much a one off event. the check leaders have been betraying the savings as a kind of a deranged individual. the debate on the access to guns may hold up, but for now there's more more discussion about security and security i checked schools and universities. that's something that people are focusing on right now. ok. journalist in willoughby reporting from prague tonight. and as always, we appreciate your reporting. thank you. and we want to return now to our top story. the un security council in new york has just passed a resolution that calls for boosting a deliveries to gauze that the boat was delayed for several days as us diplomats are handled over the wording of the text. the resolution this one drafted by the united arab emirates, the only heir with the member on the security council. the main sticky point had

been to do with the monitoring mechanism for these a deliveries as israel would have been excluded from the inspection process that has now you understand changed so this is breaking news. we want to go now to our washington correspondent janelle dom allowed, she is following this for us. and so, you know, i mean, talk a story this, we've got this resolution passed now and the united states decided this time not to vote against indeed it was a really, really long process to get here. it was delayed by several days, but so in the words of you, you saw basset or to the u. n. window thomas green field. it was tough, but we got there this time around. it was quite clear that the u. s. was trying to balance, it's support for israel with its reluctance to veto yet another resolution. and so you, a negotiating on behalf of the arab countries really,

really worked hard to find a compromise. so you mentioned those sticking points earlier, sticking points on relating to language around the cessation of hostilities. a sticking point also related to the creation of a monitoring make a mechanism to be overseen by the u. n. now this language now has been watered down significantly in this resolution that has now been adopted. so instead of association of all studies, this text now calls for the for on hindered humanitarian access and the creation of conditions towards a cessation of hostilities. and in terms of the u. n. monitoring mechanism, it now calls for the secretary general to create the position of a special co ordinator to facilitate and monitor aid coming in to gaza in consultation with

a relevant party. so one would imagine that. so what is meant by that is israel and egypt, so israel does not lose control, complete control over the inspections and the end. however, we saw that the united states still abstained because of the lack of language, clearly condemning her moss for its actions on october 7. but because all you need for a resolution to pass as 9 votes in favor and know vito's, we saw this resolution passed today. and is that what we're looking at live pictures from the un security council and chamber right now. so this is, these are the moments right after the vote taking talk to me about the semantics. the battle over semantics here. i mean, for the united states, the wording had been crucial, had in the now the battle of semantics really, really played a crucial role here. and it is the, it is the reason for all these domains that we have seen until now. so the language

around the cessation of hostilities that i mention, so the u. s. was never going to go for any kind of language that sounded like it was going to support a ceasefire. its position has always been that a ceasefire only helps homos grow stronger. so there were days of wrangling between words like so sation versus suspension, and the final version that we got. now, i outlined it called for the creation of bob conditions towards association of hostile v. so nice not quite the same. at the same time, we were talking about the mechanism for putting the u. n. in charge of inspecting aid deliveries to gauze. now this was something that the u. s. did not support because israel did not supported israel basically did not want to give a complete control of inspecting the deliveries coming into gaza. it wanted to maintain control of looking for perhaps weapons that were smuggled in there,

or perhaps concrete thought would enable him, was to build more tunnels. now this was, this was something that also told us that perhaps israel was unwilling to entrust that security to the u. n and egypt and that goes to the heart of these negotiations. there has to be a lot of trust that is built along the negotiating parties now. but we did eventually get to a place where the language was adapted just so that the u. s. off would be able to support enough or, you know, in this case, thoughts not stand in the stand in the way, although it did look last night. like there were going to be some, some further complications, especially because of all these close circuit negotiations between the goal shaders between the u. s. and the way that perhaps alienated some of the other members like russia. right dw is janelle, to me alone in washington with the latest the un security council passing

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