the, the, this is dw news line from balance is way the forces pushed deeper into the central and southern guns that the military announces the shock. humanitarian paused at the flanking in one camp in the south of the gaza strip. latest attacks claimed the lines of at least a $165.00, palestinian civilians and combat and russia valves. 2 battalions for you planning an attack on the southern city of bedrock kills at least 14 people. and it just pulled in a vic people public process because their results on ukraine since last is full

scale invasion. the benefits will and welcome is way as military is shifting its offensive against thomas and gallons of for the south. in the last 24 hours as drawing send out until the re fi i have had targets in central and southern ponds, killing thousands of civilians, according to hum us health officials. the united nation says some 100000 gallons have been. you'll be displaced. militant groups continue to launch rockets into israel from 11 on and gaza, including home us, which is why the classifieds interest organization is really treat attacking a southern gas a beast from. we're high mass militants presumably say to in be israel on october 7th. this protects from israel's military, shows an ongoing operation to gain control of the sites, the goal, dismantling,

hama infrastructure and tracking down as teachers, highlights of israel's military says it has destroyed several hamas tunnels all over the guys. a strip. this latest one in the north tunnel, we found a very significant, a mass tunnel network. a network used by senior officials. it's very deep, deeper than the previous ones. this tunnel is different. it's not a vase as it goes down a very long tunnel shop. the fighting has led to one of the worst humanitarian crises in the gaza strip. nice, israel is expanding it so for reasons in the area are right in the southern cities upon eunice. the little co master hospital says it's running out of supplies. space is limited, but the patients keep coming in the hospital is

receiving a lot more than its capacity. in fact, we have functioning at 300 percent capacity. the beds are full and most of the time one bed is holding 2 patients at the same time. and we a basically showed an all sorts of medical supplies and them, and many of that was brought to hospitals are collected by members of the red crescent who transport the dead, wounded through streets filled with debris. and with no signs of escalation. there appears to be no respite for a population cost in the crossfire. according to the mouth run, guys, a health ministry. israel's offensive has killed more than $21500.00 pallets, denny and or the united nations estimates that about 85 percent of guys this population is now you displace. let's go over to l correspondent down phillip sholtes. he's in tel aviv. i get another demonstration cooling for the release of

hostages, held in gaza. what a protest is telling you they say that they want the governments to find ways to, to release the hostages. and they are getting more and more impatient. and they say that they don't think that the word effort alone will bring them home. that have been a lot of reports and it's really immediate in the past days that there might be new talks between these right. and how much a regarding a possible you hostage deal. and of course, most of the protests here which supports such as talks they might lead eventually into they might lead to another hostage d a similar to what you saw a few weeks ago where the read the hostages were released. and there was a temporary cease fire, but it's too early to say, if this is really something substantial. so how much support would you say there is

for the war the might in general, a majority of is right alias is supporting the war. and they don't necessarily is the parts of plumbing to spend the time. you know that the time, you know, has lost a lot of supports in recent weeks. but the dramatic unitary and situation in gaza is less of a topic here. and it's really media then in uh, in many of our countries. but there is also a growing peace movement year in east. right. yeah. a lot of people say that the were whether not bringing security, it will only bring a more ready colonization. but it is in minority, a lot of people still. so parts of the war and the military go to destroy how much . now israel is under growing a pressure of a broad south africa's taking it to the international court of justice. the west one civilians, protected. how's the government reactive i think the south

african move will not have a very strong impact. spokes person here already rejected the move uh and sets of ads in he is i quote, disgusted by it. and south africa itself is supporting terrorism. and so uh, this probably doesn't have a lot of impact. and as you know, the united states have also tried to increase pressure on eastern about the results has been a very limited south africa, says that they want the courts to take action immediately to issue measures in the coming days. but a lot of really good experts say this is more of a symbolic exit any way. the only thing that might change is to increase public pressure and international pressure on these read it obviously on to the shelves

with the ladies they have from television. moscow has bound to retaliate, you kindly and miss solid drone attacks of killed at least 14 people in the southern russian city of belgrade. russia's defense ministry says a dozen rockets for destroyed over the region. the strikes came a day after a huge russian band, raj, across the ukraine, killed at least $139.00 civilians. the shock and disbelief. the daytime is sold set of air raid sirens, sending people into the streets. russia assessed the attack, hits a residential area. the kremlin reported shooting down doesn't so few crazy and drones and rockets as far away as the moscow region in the city of belgrade is just 30 kilometers from the ukrainian border and has been

shown before. cube, usually dozens claimed responsibility for a tax on russian territory. but previous heavy russian assaults on ukrainian cities have been followed by strikes against russia. on friday, russian forces launched more than a 100 miss on and drug and attacks on cities across ukraine. like here in odessa, ukraine has described it as the biggest ariel bar osh since the start of the war. almost 2 years ago. russia drove shop criticism as a united nations security council meeting. mister president, surgically 2023 is ending as it began with investigating violence against the people off a crane. once again, the credit is are forced to spend the holidays seeking sense of cleaning, the rabble and dirty, and the dead m it's freezing temperatures. russia has now requested

a security council meeting about the strikes on belgrade quoting it, a terrorist attack and saying it will not go unpunished. keith has reported additional russian drone attacks on ukrainian soil. so it to the side of most, oh is the security analysts that king's college london. let's talk about this huge area or a sold on ukraine. what does it say about ross has capacity to be off, or where what it actually showed was that russia was ready to use a lot of the me sides and of the sort of crews on and probably stick me size as well as drones that did have produced over the last year year in particular on that it was ready really to make a show or falls. what is also indicates is that, um, you know, it shows that the russians are actually have 3 bombed very industrial capacity, very much over the last 2 years. they speak on very soon after the start of the

russian invasion of the brain when russia or the russian leadership to get that we are 1000000 on the dogs, decided to sort of start setting up that russian economy on i was working on already last. yeah, we saw rush started using me size that were produced in 2022. so they should not come as a surprise. i think back to the russians seems ready to invest very much on defense spending, which is expected to increase about 70 percent and 2024. so they, they would we present to over 6. so 6.5 percent off rushes until i g d p output and, and, and the defense spending is intended to be around. 1 between 3540 percent of the overall defense spending. so i think that the russians, you know, clearly are ready to continue with is a goal. i'm to be ready to achieve some of their objectives. so that,

that is really what is showing what is what frustrates attempting to achieve, i think, is to sort of, uh, send a message to the ways that, uh, you know, there is no point in, we all mean ukraine or helping ukraine because russia has the capability to hate to very effectively on hardly uh we on a massive scale if necessary. okay, that's interesting because obviously you claim once more support from its allies, especially yeah. defenses at has this attack re ignited a sense of urgency to definitely also because what roster tried to do was to sort of start to rate the ad defend system by sending so many makes sense that uh you know, it's, it's hard for the system to sort of recharge the ad defense may sizes that are necessary to counter the incoming may size. so i mean, and also what rushes from you're trying to do is to sort of exhaust the ability of ukraine. i needs our lives to provide, you know,

on time me size for the air defense system. so these as for to sort of saturate the system, i think was really what was behind these, these are attached, besides dry and maybe to heat at a particular facilities. we, i'm, it's not here whether they get a military facilities, we know that they hit and your 1st name, which is on many civilian targets. we're also damaged. it's not clear whether that was that was on to of old. so when he missed size incoming, me size are counted on the air that creates a sort of explosions on the ground that that couldn't get in many civilians. and that's the argument that many new grand on knowledge using regarding their talking bank or douglas mentioned in your program a few minutes ago. so sometimes when me sizes that are coming in or hit, they create sort of an explosion which can also affect to see billions. so it's very hard to know at this moment what the exact target square. but what was important about the a type of yesterday subject was quite

e and it was substantial. it used different kinds of, besides on web one reason, drones also 18 aircraft said shooting me stars. and it also covered a vast amount of territory. it included a tax and fees in the waste. oh so i can can be pro uh, in that case and from there and you know, those are so, you know, it was quite vast in terms of its geographic can reach. okay, thank you very much made. we didn't argue that before. sorry, what we're going to say is only to that. i think that part of this tag was a response to uh, sort of the, the, the, the heating of the, of the neighbors best. so it's, i don't see it by the ukrainians, which case, many sailors, it was a, a casualty, not figure out around $77.00. so there is a lot of soda of a sense of, of, of engine their tax that the ukraine ends up having now defective the, when there are many casualties, especially in the black sea sleeve, which has such as symbolic brand new. okay,

well i have to leave it there. don't tell us, acro mostly from king's college funded. thank you. thank a quick look at some other stories making use of the us president, jo bivens administration, has bypass congress to approve that emergency um sale to israel for the 2nd time this month. components for artillery shelves are included in that nearly $150000000.00 transfer. the state department said the decision was justified by the urgency of these mails. things thousands of people are protesting in the serbian capital bill grade over alleged fraud in this month. selections, that demonstration comes as a refund vote was held in a handful of holding stations across the country. president alexander who teaches pod, he won the vote decisively, but international observers reported irregularities. your position is cooling, the results to be for now. brings you up to date on all the international news here

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