to the you're watching the news coming to live from berlin. the goal is a health ministry says thousands have been killed and then is really air strikes in central gaza. the attack hit homes and a refugee camp and comes as israel expands its ground defensive. think it is intensifying fighting against thomas also on the show today for the 1st time ukraine, celebrating christmas on december 25th instead of as traditional dates in january. the sheriff is part of ukraine's efforts to further distance itself from the culture of its russian

invaders. and germany's president delivers his traditional christmas address. frank, balder shoremeyer appeals to germans not to turn their backs on democracy and not to give off on piece the hello. i'm clear, richardson, thank you very much for joining us today. them us run health ministry in gaza. it says at least 70 people have been killed in an air strike on a refugee camp. the israeli army size, it is reviewing the incidents. the health ministry said thousands more people were killed and strikes across the gaza strip. a warning that our next report contains distressing images. christmas has no response to the suffering of gas and this the paramedics rushed to refuse the injured after

yet another is really a strong this time on the oh my god, the receipt g camp, central gaza. they also recovered dozens of bodies. many palestinians had been seeking shelter from israel's attacks elsewhere listed up with any of their targets. the all civilians were real targets. there is no safe place to displace from gaza. they told us, go to a safe place and guys, a center we came with it, we were monitored is rail denies that it is targeting civilians even as hum us run health officials report more than 20000 people killed as rails millet traces it is focused on eliminating the group which is considered a terrorist organization by the us and the

e u. the may release this voltage of what it sees is hema, says underground headquarters and gases north. it also stated, recovered the bodies of 5 hostages from the tunnels. scroll down the disorders which is located thousands of meters underground and se, let's see what we found. weapons here to infrastructure for the production of what the ship by laboratories were. weapons were produced. cuddly and emergency rooms where the commander of the headquarters here, that'd be good. i said, ron doran, who like the fighting on october 7th against the state of israel and maybe not the fun parts for an end to the blood sheed with the focus of christmas eve mass and bethlehem in the occupied with bank just 50 kilometers away . we need the sort of solution to, to the so you need to so the base to stadium and desire

across the mass was one of the few living, smacking the holiday in the biblical this place of jesus, the usual crowds and christmas tree i absent with little to celebrate this year po francis has called for an end to the war and gaza during his annual christmas day mass at the vatican. the pontiff condemned the october 7th attack by holmes on israel and called for the release of hostages house and gaza. he also pleaded for an end to israel's military operations in gaza. his mind, frances, called for dialogue between the parties supported by the international community or russian authorities have moved in jails kremlin critic alexei nev only to a remote, a penal colony in northern russia. that is, according to his spokes person, and of all these team tracked him down after he had not been seen for more than 2 weeks. his lawyer visited him in the new prison and a volley is seen as the most prominent opponent of prisoners. let him you're

approaching and is serving a 19 year sentence for alleged extremism and other charges. he was imprisoned nearly 3 years ago. he doesn't use russian analysts. constantine aggregate has more on the conditions of all he is facing after he was transferred to a penal colony in northern russia as well. we do know that she is in the bottom of the most remote penal calling is in a rush. right? so the demo peninsula or the, the banks of the arctic sea, it's permafrost there, and it is very, very badly connected. essentially, there was only one channel of communication. prison lets us. and that means that visiting the volume, maintaining called a token, will be extremely difficult. and that was probably the whole idea behind these trusts for. and of course there was an additional insult on suffering as a to the family, into the followers of the valley. because of the tweaks. there was no news about

him, but in the sense it's a standard procedure for high profile prisoners when they are being transported from one penal colony to another. it's sometimes done under this cover of secrecy actually to increase suffering because to remind you, the russian bill system remain well give or take model is the same as it was on the stalling, and it was designed as a john system of torch. the message is very simple, nobody is going to rot in jail for as long as putting is in power. and that's going to take quite a bit of time. but he's also, they also demonstrated by these to last week. so hopefully he incommunicado that they can do anything to him, that of nobody's life is completely of the mercy of the kremlin, that was trust again and distressed during the beginning of put in so called

eviction campaign preparation for the so called election. i think that the message is very simple. there is only one politician rusher. his name is wasn't able to put him in any one who stands if his way is going to give an extremely harsh treatment . that was d, a v is russia analyst constantine address. there now a today marks the very 1st time that ukraine is observing christmas as a public holiday on december 25th and traditionally ukrainian, celebrated christmas on january 7th in line with the russian orthodox church. following the julian calendar, he has made the change to distance itself from russia. and the line itself more closely with europe. believers turned out in force to celebrate the new christmas day in keith seems to see a cathedral. amongst those attending there was widespread support for the new date of the problem. this is the right thing to do, in my opinion. look through the civilized world that you all of your of does. the

same is august. i don't want to be associated with the aggressor country and celebrate the way they do. we're together with europe when these out of the civilized world. and god is with us officers. both. i think changing the official date of christmas is very important. the country should distance itself from russia and its holidays. the o. c is the rest as president held his 2nd christmas eve address. since rest is full scale invasion. luckily offered words of hope and his vision to move away from russia and closer to your lead paper on the slide you are, as i've seen today, or will ukrainians altogether. we o celebrates christmas together on the same day as one big family as one nation as one united country. and today i will come and pray. i will be stronger than ever show the people's pray. today. will you not millions of voices more than ever

before? and it will resonates, we bounce a time. difference of 2 weeks resonates together with you up. envelope 0 way street christmas day in ukraine saw another tradition for as many church services were held in ukrainian instead of russian. thousands of protesters have been arrested after classes with riot police, and sir b as capital belgrade officers fired tear gas up the crowd as they attempted to storm city hall. and they accused the ruling party of rigging the countries elections earlier this month. raleigh's, like this one have become a daily occurrence in belgrade since the countries parliamentary and local elections. on december, the 17th the demonstrators accused president alexander boutique and his ruling

right wing serbian progressive party of rigging the vote i yeah, the not the only thing that the state had to provide you with citizens was do freely elect the ones who will leave the country level or are they stalled the elections warranty warranty but you guys still not one but thousands and thousands of both as a see the glass. so the peaches among a handful of opposition leaders on a hunger strike. who said they won't stop until the results are no. riot police moved in after demonstrators tried to storm downgrade city halls. barricading themselves inside the building, while some continued pelting it with stones and eggs. police fired tear gas to disperse the crowd and arrested dozens of demonstrators in a televised address. during the protest, the president accused the opposition of trying to destabilize the country. when he

please, this is our thing. the people who vowed to fight violence confirmed once again that they are the real focus to they want to destroy our cities, villages, houses above all our country with you. we will not allow them to destroy our country naturally that the this will send us with the show. he also suggested the unrest was instigated from abroad. although router which was not personally on the ballot for the parliamentary and local elections. the vote was largely seen as a referendum on his government, according to official results. his party won a majority of the seats in parliament with just over 46 percent of the vote. international observers noted several irregularities and the snap elections, including instances of vote buying ballot box stuffing, and the busing and the voters to support the ruling party in local elections and german president frank felt a sidebar has given his annual,

televised christmas address to the nation with a view to the wars and gaza and ukraine, he appealed to germans not to give up hope for a peaceful world. and with consistently high pulling for the far right here and germany. time are called on people not to turn their backs on democracy. 2023 was a year when many people wanted to switch off the news. the president stein my asset in his address, the crises around the world with many, just too depressing, opened only briefly to the gym and president mentioned russia's war and ukraine. now dragging on through it 2nd winter, as he pointed out, for the war in the middle east, between israel and thomas jesus, the other ones of this year has left many unresolved issues here in our country too much. i know some people are looking skeptically at government and politicians and

some are worried about the future, the other we all long for a more peaceful world. i feel the same longing, and it is my belief that we must never abandon it. people wanted clear on so as to the world's problem stein might have said, and it was right to expect politicians to provide them between the lines. the president's concern and threats to democracy was unmistakable. perhaps he was thinking of the continuing roys of far right populace and the pulse munch event is a yup. some turned away from the others, complain about everything and everyone about venice on spring and yet, but in a democracy when the going gets tough, there are better counselors than anger and contempt, better counsellors than those who would pretend that there is always one simple answer to the questions of the future if i can get so starting my, i think those who help that communities and stress the importance of working

together. and he said, germans have every reason to be confident about the future to him next. the next year we will be celebrating our democracy, 75th birthday. our basic law is turning $75.00 and for no less than 34 years now. it has applied to the whole of our united country. and this gives us all cause for celebration of the. i'm going to fire there's no need to hide away from the world. that was the core of the president's christmas message. his listeners may well need that resilience attitude in the months to come. us and the northeastern china people are being treated to a spectacular winter show. 500 snow man. the same size has been set off in a mountain resort of 8 here that this has been done. you might be wondering how they do it. well, initially they were all hands made for more recently,

staff have been getting the help of some special equipment and with that you are up to date coming up next was to come by us that are, looks at 2 popular singers in mexico. thank you so much for joining us. i am claire richardson and for letting me really appreciate your time. the people in trucks in judge was trying to see the city center, the straight pieces, the around the world, more than 130000000 people us we of mine

because no one should have to make up your own mind. dw may 4 mines of the my name and the mexican conductor, the great musicians, friends from all over the world. the yeah. so i arrived in bremond about 3 days ago and started refreshed with orchestra cameras. 1111. it's wonderful group that's traveling now with

the malware traveling we're gonna have our 1st concert tonight at the l one. even you call that i personal much about. i have never been there. but it's, i've seen pictures and they say it's great and have a concert tonight. so will arrive, there will have a sound check or sort of general probate, but it's not really because we have not so much time. so it has to be very efficient and just touch on whatever we can to make sure everybody feels comfortable and then the

height. yeah. and what's on there? what's the the, the know not everybody is going to think that that's what my life is like and it's not the most beautiful and view the most of the future is like you're in another very much

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. 6 it was a really nice concert because i had heard so much about this and fill out money. so to be able to, to for fun, there was already special on its own. but i think the most special things, you mean is the orchestra, the chick i'm really kind of the,

there are really special people and really gift as musicians, but also really kind of open and playful. they're like, like children and all of them in the best possible way the, the architecture and music have always been related. so, and that, that, that the sign isn't itself very musical. it's like wave waveforms. and it's kind of if, if, if the hall was made out of a soft material, you could imagine that the sound waves could create those, those textures and forms and shapes. so it's really inspiring when you're in a beautiful place that says so much and has been done with so much care and

thoughts, the and the audience felt it. also, the repertoire was ideals for, for them and music i have always loved. so it was definitely a high point for me the

i'm here with rotener after a concert with the funny value we invest kissing in this part of the kissing and the music. it was fun. we played, he played, i actually just conducted but he did the variations on the theme. i got rid of him, but i searched gershwin and then the rest of the let me get you that you paid, aggravated from the beginning. some of the 8 or 9 was captivated by this style.

music from the agents to be something i've always done wrong. how did you transition from being of when they're kenton, someone who is super tightening? there's 220 is the one this competition. in addition, the counter final was that when i was 11 and that was it on television and everything. so i got some attention from the concerts came in because i was on the

11th. so i want to come from full time counseling 2nd. so my pensions is patients going to manage. ready the, [000:00:00;00] the, you know, the piano is such yeah, it's such a i remember feeling like a slave with the piano. when i was a pianist i'm of course i have a tendency to see where it so it was even higher,

i guess. but you just can stop playing and because if you play is still playing one day 2 days, you can feel it. you can hear it. yeah. right. how do you feel about that? you really let go? or you always like and see about, you know, i, i think i'm quite good at letting go and i need to have in the next week, i want to keep trying to think about that as well. and when you're not doing that, what do you like to do online for reading? i enjoy like anyone else catching up with netflix and things. right? no, i'm sorry. wow. that's from the i see

a friend me into look into multi is i call to having to i works quite kind of it must be so difficult. so i'm thankful that i'm doing this in an age where i can just push a button and speak to people and like just try not to be away from home too long or you know,

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2 2 should we. 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 in meeting cultures around the world, people learn to classify small handful of adults with edible and all the rest of the classify as discuss a w series about our complex relationship with animals. the great debate, what's, you know, on youtube, dw documentary, the . 2 i sent as a specialty, so what i sent us for me is that it has a solitary quality the i tried to play every concert like it was my kind of get hold. thank you or political along with if you, i'd really try to play those concepts like my life depended on