of the, the, you're watching the, the news is coming to live from berlin. the goal is the health industry says is rarely strikes, have killed and thousands of people across the strip today, once tried, has killed at least 20 in the town of their l by law. as israel widens it's air and ground offensive against him are also coming up on the show. the west approves what could be its last military aid package to ukraine. the deal include some $215000000.00 and military assistance decades, but additional funding will dry off unless us lawmakers can break a partisan deadlock. 2023 has been a year of major change for nato. we take

a look at how the alliance is re positioning itself and delegating responsibility right along the blocks border with russia. last tech join to apple's course, a big legal victory. and us appeals court pauses on import van on apple watches, allowing the company to resume most us sales the . i'm quite richardson, thank you very much for joining us. is really military is again intensifying it's air and ground defensive and gaza strikes on thursday. killed at least 50 palestinians as well. prizes. it's military campaign against mos which is considered a terror group of by many countries. over 21000 people have been killed in gaza, according to the master on health ministry. most of the population has been displaced of the aftermath of another strike on the

man as the refugee camp in central gaza. much of the site is in ruins. some residents still buried under rubble. others have flood, trying to escape the bonding. they told us to go to russell, but we don't want to. why should we to going to live in the streets there? the entire neighborhood here was evacuated. as more people leave their homes in search of shelter, many end up in make shift camps is overcrowded. and without running water. daily life is a constant struggle page at all, and the will enough of the pain enough of the hung up of the hosting home with hired of everything in his life. and that does nothing for basic needs. it's difficult to make,

don't to wash clothes. we have to bring water to drink and to wash. we're all suffering mad. that's when we need to buy sign or treat house with girls and women, but we can't find any. we have to wait and loan. cute. so what supplies for running low food prices are also storing the un refugee agency has warned that 40 percent of guys's population is at risk of famine. some people can't even buy a canned food because at the prices that are not 10 times higher than before. no matter where they go, guys, and say their lives are always at risk. if the bombing doesn't kill them, they fear a slow death from hunger or disease. stephen ryan, from the international committee of the red cross, is in rasa where nearly half of all gardens have fled. he told me about the

conditions there as well. they the same thing you see across the rough uh each and every day become more and more uh, concerning uh, over the last couple of weeks we have seen tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people arriving rough, had to set up 10 pretence in places that aren't designed to hold large numbers of people you would have seen in the reports. us know that they the conditions in these places are not suitable. there isn't enough water and there isn't enough. uh, shelter material i, there isn't enough sanitation. and certainly people also don't have enough access to foods, even if there is food in the market. you would have heard that most people can't afford us. so the conditions here in rafa are extremely dire. and they might of turn, organizations that are here, are struggling to be able to respond because we do not have enough relief supplies to be able to meet these needs. these situations, these places are not set up to receive large numbers of people. and each and every day, more lies including essentially medication. but with the scale of displacements,

with the number of people that are being squeezed into a very small area. here in rafa, the likelihood of a more more people having graceful medical needs beyond the injuries caused by the ongoing arms conflict. it's something that we're extremely concerned about. and indeed, we're seeing at 85 percent of gardens displaced in the last 3 months from the people you, you've been speaking to vera, how do they view their future and what it might hold for each and every day when i made a palestinians across guys that they tell me of their fear from the ongoing fighting their uncertainty about what's going to come next because nobody knows what's going to come next. each day i needs people in the hospitals where we work, who are trying to look after a sick family members injured children. trying to see if there's opportunities for them to get specialists, medical treatments abroad. and right now most people here in gaza are trying their

best to manage on a day to day basis. they have bigger concern in the long term future about, you know, basic items like foods and water and where they're going to be able to feed lice. but certainly what is needed here without those is the political response that leads to a rough fight for the people, the civilians who continued to be severely affected by this ongoing fighting. thank you again so much for making the time to speak with us about a steven ryan from the international committee of the red cross and gaza. now most is riley's still support war, but there are some who wants to end the bloodshed. deed of you corresponded and fluff. schultz reports from raleigh in tel aviv, where air of and jewish is, or at least have a come together to call for peace. the hundreds of people demanding peace and one of the few occasions read. zeus and these right aly arabs coming together. it's a very courageous thing. in these paula rose paula rice times. the reason with me now is ivy and the nothing in the evenings are the can you tell me,

is it really are the right time to speak about these? yeah, i believe that this is the best time. this is the time that we need to show appropriate for my children and people. it's new room for the children of the old and also for the children of gaza. this is the, the blood, this time in the story of the conflicts. and we must change, you try to know him, of course, and what i'm trying to say as an arab, it's hard to, to be helpful nowadays as opinion based. mean m is almost no other words, no other words. thank you so much things on the people here. they refuse to give in to anger and take a big achievement in those dark days here in the region. that was

a division her shots are fired for a peace rally and tell if he's now israel's, as its forces have also carried out raids in the occupied west bank. 21 palestinians allegedly involved in financing him off were arrested fire bonds were thrown. it is really, vehicles are united nations before warms that human rights in the west bank are being rapidly eroded. it urges as well to end, would it cost unlawful killings. the opinion polls that show that support for homos is growing in the west bank. the palestinian authority which governs the area is losing support. a pro how most riley in the occupied westbank for years. few people in the palestinian territory supported the group which is recognized as a terrorist organization by the you and the us. 3 months of war have changed that in september, support from us was just 12 percent in the west bank and 38 percent in gaza. but in

december that support rose to 44 percent in the west bank and 42 percent engaged. the pulling and gaza was conducted by palestinian political scientist. colleagues, she khaki mainly in person during the ceasefire. earlier this month. reaching people by telephone in the besieged territory is almost impossible. the poll also shows that not from the boss, the leader of the palestinian authority, which officially governs to westbank, is extremely unpopular, only 11 percent approve of him. meanwhile, the war has also brought an increase intentions and violence between is rarely security forces. settlers and palestinians in the west bank, further radicalize in the population there, many of whom sea gardens as heroes and say how mosque was right to attack israel. the us, i said it envisions a post or future for the palestinian authority governance kaiser. but i'm asking is popularity. the idea of

a gaza run by the pa seems less and less viable. let's turn our attention now to some other world news headlines at this hour. thousands of warners have gathered in a runs capital tyrone for the funeral of a top general ron so so yet receiving so he was kills and, and as really ever strike on the syrian capital of damascus. israel has not commented on the strife, but iran has vowed revenge. of a russian court has sentenced a writer to 7 years in prison for reciting a poem against the war and ukraine. archer, i'm come. martin was arrested during an anti mobilization protest in september of last year. he's accused police officers of torturing him in detention. and you're finding officials, a civilian cargo ship struck a russian line while sailing through the black sea, 2 crew were injured. the vessel was collecting grain from the southern ukrainian port of a smile. the us government has approved what could be its final package of

military a to ukraine. the deal is worth up to $250000000.00. president joe biden has made supporting ukraine against russia. a key priority or republicans in congress have insisted they won't authorize any more funding unless democrats agreed to stricter measures to limit migration. with the german government for its part has made clear that at hope's the united states will not abandon it's backend for ukraine. because in the, by the way, you welcome to the front of going us support for your crane. and looking ahead to we trust that the u. s. will continue to support your cranes or as president biden has announced, you know, off of i taught with districts and i spoke earlier to our correspondence on your phone the car into you have and she told me more about what could be the last us a package for ukraine, when it is pretty significant, this has been welcome to a residence uminski. uh to this uh, you know, welcome to us and said it would be uh,

ukraine's most pressing military needs. now we've already heard of a shortage of minute munition affecting ukraine's upfront line operations with, you know, ultimately cruise a saying they don't need to vacuum shows. there's also another component in this package, which is all about a defense of munitions, which is also very significant. just this week we saw rochelle launch renewed by roger of drone attacks on cities like what they saw and headphone and uh, and, and causing, you know, kind of a, that's an damage to infrastructure. and so ukraine, of course, you know, kind of intercepting the, i'm sure things on these drones before they hit the targets means that goes to these, a defense munitions quite false. but of course, there is concern you about the wavering western age ukrainian officials of said they planned to ramp up domestic production of weapons. next deal that would into long range splice tones, which the queen has been using to strike fall behind enemy lines. for example, your targets russian worships in the black sea, give us a sense of what exactly is at stake here. if the u. s. and does stop sending aid,

how much of a blow would that be for ukraine's ability to defend itself? well, i think many, unless you're agreed that if you know it was a got my ukraine's because, but if you buy code, that is the us could potentially have a debilitating impact on your queen's ability to defend itself. and i think the most immediate concerned, of course, is the impact on frontline operations in the east and the salt where you know, both ukraine in russia have struggled to achieve any significant break too much. we will equipped russian troops on the attack in, in many places in terms of width. and i think unless, think that if there is no additional age you, queen could start running out of long range from besides, a defense. besides an admission and back remains a huge concern. to have these correspondence, sonya found a car for us and keith, thank you so much for recording. there. of the war has led nato to reevaluate security, especially on its eastern flank with russia. germany's recent announcement of

a permanent troop deployment, there is just one such change to the used terry schultz reports of the russians war on ukraine, made nato take another look at moscow and in the mirror resulting in the biggest reconfiguration of the alliance. since the soviet union crumbled more than 30 years ago, the new plans were approved at nato is building a summit in july we took the major decisions said to adopt our alliance for the future. we agreed the naples, most of the details on the bus, the fence band since the cold war, defense plans that look like those from the cold war, dividing alliance territory and to regional commands. outlining extraordinary operational detail in thousands of highly classified pages. it's kind of how many ships do you need here? how many soldiers do you need there? then of course, you take it down below that and then you get into the real nitty gritty of how you

would move the ships around how you would move the soldiers around. how you would we supply in great detail. all the sorts of things that you would expect to have in place where they have a need where they ever need it. just the plans and vision, 300000 troops, couldn't move to nato's border with russia. within 30 days. one big change may seem painfully obvious, but wasn't automatic. identifying russia by name, as the alliance is main adversary, any opportunity to not consider russia as an enemy is being lost. but what we've seen in ukraine in the very fact that we've written it quite clean, you know, clearly, and it's being, it's being used in our documentation. this political shift is huge for the alliance . finally, allowing open strategizing about how to beat it's most likely. opponent says military analyst alexander muscle are there is a much higher degree of detail that is available for military planners up to, to work with in terms of exercising, in terms of planning and,

and thinking through the campaign design. despite the political different says among allied governments that come out in other places here at nato's military headquarters in moans, belgium. admiral blount says everyone's on the same page. so will that change now that they've got $4000.00 new pages of plans to implement each l? i will be required to provide specific capabilities, equipments troops, and to keep them in a high degree of readiness. this will be expensive and some governments aren't yet even close to spending the 2 percent of g d, p, and defense. it's now a minimum expectation. still admiral blount and says, do you none of us approval of the plans, demonstrates unwavering unity within nato. and we haven't seen anything, but that seems a few claim has been illegally invited by russia. professor model are says, it's important that the agreement has been formalized and writing on paper. you, you have, that's that consensus there, that, that nato machinery can,

can build upon. even if in practice he notes, there's still a handful of allies, less than fully committed to their new responsibilities. not who are says rushes, actions are a constant reminder of the risk of not doing so. w correspondent, terry schultz filed that report and told me, nato is actually looking to the past as it re shapes its defenses. i. in fact may nato's for we're looking plans actually look more like the way the alliance positioned itself during the cold war? in the sense that you needed more equipment and more troops, pre positioned along the front line, closer to the russian border. and that's what they're going to do. now. they're really going to put a spotlight on what research sources they have and where and how quickly they could move if needed. if russia actually posed more of a physical threat to nato territory, that means every country is going to have to literally say, how many ships it has,

how many tanks it has, how many troops it has, how quickly can they move? and that's going to make nato a lot more practically able to move, should it, should it have to. and now, for course, in hopes that this is a deterrent effect. and then it doesn't actually have to go to where with russia. but as i mentioned in my report for the 1st time, they are naming russia as the most likely threat to nato territory. and they're also getting ready for just how russia wages war and how prepared is nato today compared to just a few years ago. well, if you look at just a couple years ago before russia invaded ukraine, there were still, you know, people who thought this would never happen, that the crumbling would never take such a risk. now we know that it will, and that, of course, makes nato allies along the front line, more concerned that russia would also cross their borders. and that's why nato is had to get more ready has had to actually look at how it would wage war. instead of just how it would keep russia from, from attacking nato allies. and i think that with examples every day and ukraine

about how moscow wages a war. now, they have, of course, much more practical examples. now they're able to tailor their war fighting capabilities to exactly what, what capabilities they know that russia has, as the war and ukraine grinds on. there are also concerns about so called ukraine fatigue in europe and in the united states. how does that enter into the equation? here it is, of course, a huge concern of nato, doesn't itself assist ukraine. it doesn't have military resources, it all comes from allied governments, and those governments have to make their own decisions. but that's what you claim is very worried about now with the united states, in particular, saying that it has just yesterday sent it's less front of 8 and less. congress approves a new 61000000000 dollar package, which doesn't look very unlikely at the moment. this has everyone very concerned, europe is going to have to dig deeper, because of course is going to be europe, which is on the front line. if russia is in bold and with a war with a win

a new crane and believes that it can move further. so i think everyone is very worried right now about the united states and about europe's backbone, really to keep helping ukraine under the circumstances. because everyone knows or frushell wins in ukraine, it's not going to stop there. terry, thank you very much for that. that's data of these. terry schultz and brussels and we talked to some other news now. parts of northern and central europe are on alert for more flooding. falling heavy rains, rivers are burst their banks and many areas. flooding homes and prompting evacuations. and forecasters warren, the worst, could be got to come. water levels in the elk river are nearly 6 meters above normal and still arising. europe got stuck with a rainy christmas, and the unwanted gifts are piling up. the low lying netherlands have planned for events like this and prepared accordingly. lots young, this is really to see. lots has been invested in recent years to make reading for

the river and up. yes, it is that high go uh, but it can still be okay. kind of stays good. and what's the way the flooding lives village is cut off by water. students returning home for christmas reached their homes by boat flooding and central germany caused christmas evacuations. some residents were forced to leave their homes. the worst is still expected. near the eastern city of dresden authorities have declared the 2nd highest alert level on the river. elbow waters are set to peak 6 meters above normal. upstream in the czech republic, high waters on the elbows stuck his boat under a bridge. hello, this is the law, so we secure the boats with the steel cables so that if there was a release, it would cause havoc somewhere further down the bad. further south in hungary, the danube river has overflowed its banks and the capital, budapest,

reaching its highest level in 10 years. docks and roadways have been flooded as conditions normally associated with springtime. hit early log out of these. i remember big floods but not in december. and december, the dining of use to freeze. i remember when i was very young, the ice around the chain bridge come to be broken off with explosive sol bumped on the account. i figured the danube is expected to return to normal levels by the weekend of more rain is forecasts for parts of northern europe, including germany and the coming days. well, americans kind of once again, it by the latest apple watches after the tech company files and emergency appeal sales of the series, 9 and ultra to smart watches were halted in the us over a patent ro, medical devices firm massimo accused apples, poaching its staff and technology, the white house refused to overturn a ban on sales and imports, and apple made an emergency request to the us court of appeals,

which succeeded in getting the band lifted. so, just talk us through all that and help us understand. we have daniel window from our business desk here with me in the studio. hi, daniel. tell us more. what does this successful emergency appeal mean for apple? of course, is good news for apple isn't. it can now. import watches into the us is apple watch, which of course has made abroad and they can sell them. now again to now it has pre emptive lead, taking them off the shelves and stop selling it and its own online store a few days ago. so that was a period where absolutely was not selling watches in the us. and jp morgan, the investment banking in the us, estimated the if this continued, then they could have lost up to $5000000000.00. now that sounds a lot, it is a lot, but that's only one percent of apples annual revenue that it makes them selling it's devices. so i'm, yeah, it would have been this thing that's for sure. the, the worst bit that comes out of this though, is that it's a kind of an own goal that usually you expect apple to be able to get ahead of

these kinds of things and stop them before they happen. so would have been an unnecessary loss either way. yeah, take us back a step. this isn't quite unusual. how did the dispute get to the point where the apple watch was being taken off of shelves? quote, massimo says that it's paid to to blood ok, submit to technology measures, the oxygen levels in your blood is included in these watches. now of course, apple disputes that it says that it hasn't been infringed. any kind of payton writes from massimo. but the us itc, which is the international trade commission, disagreed it says, okay, you, that's a oppose this pilot centrally. and, you know, you'd expect apple would have seen all of its potential options on the table. it could pay licensing fees to my so it could have settled over this particular dispute. it could even just buy my same oh, entirely. it has enough money. it has well over a $160000000000.00 in cash, just lying around behind the sofa. so there's plenty of options on the table,

but it didn't do any of those in that attached to this import stop. so why it couldn't come to any of those particular conclusions? we're not so sure. no, i understand this isn't perhaps the last we've heard of best as a big test is still ahead. what can you tell us? yeah, so apple is slow waiting for a ruling in the middle of january from u. s. customs and border protection. it's made some changes to the wants of proposals of changes to the watches, which would avoid this alleged patent infringement. and this ruling will come, like i said, of middle of january. and then we'll find out if we can simply give a cell these watches. again, in this renewed form without infringing the page. and so the big question is as to whether apples watches will keep ticking, will only time will tell then help from the data to your business. thank you so much for that. the annual cynita hobart yacht race has ended and one of the closest but it finishes in the history of a notoriously difficult failing challenge loc and act cross the finish line in

tasmania after one day, 19 hours, 3 minutes, 58 seconds defending champions. come on, she finished just 51 seconds behind as the race came down to the final 15 meters. and the winner of the overall handicap titled probably won't be known for several days. a and a half of that is your news update at this hour. i'm clear, richardson in berlin for me and the whole team here working behind the scenes. thank you so much for watching the

into the conflict. so with sarah kelly with slow progress and the counter offensive and wins are sitting in, there's a growing number of voices calling for a re think of what the priorities crane and how to achieve them from the berlin foreign policy. for i'm, i'm joined by ukraine's investors licksey my brain getting closer to being forced to consider health compromises complex. next on dw,

this is not made of plastic. this doug is made some to pull. some is in bangladesh, it promises an economic boost. and so the load potential future without plastic but processing to, to is expensive, complex and time consuming. so what's to lay down on the golden natural size? in 45 minutes on d w, the, how many platforms can you handle single tenuously without having the feeling that it's just too much you might see me. how much can we do simultaneously?

multitasking these, the modern because if we do too much, we paid it all wrong. we messed things up, risking brain damage. so let's stop this self sabotage, humans and multitasking watch. now on youtube, v. w documentary, the slow progress and the counter offensive and winter setting in there is a growing number of voices calling for a re think of what the priorities should be in ukraine and how to achieve them. on the special edition of conflicts, soon from the berlin. foreign policy for i'm, i'm joined by ukraine's ambassador to germany alexi. my task is ukraine getting closer to being forced to consider tough compromises invested or make a book into complex own? thank you for me. there's been slow progress in the counter offensive and you're facing a lot of challenges including.