the, the, this is dw news live from berlin. mazda is deputy leader, is buried in loven on the funeral of saw. the hurry is held in bay roots coming as israel's war against him. boss mears, the 3 month mark. meanwhile, a ron warrens at least $84.00 people who were killed in to bomb blasts, set a memorial event for a top general. no one has claimed responsibility and the block known as bricks is growing. the 5 nation club is doubling in size. we looked at how the newest members could strengthen the groups, political and economic clout, the

sarah kelly. welcome to the program. mourners in bay route are holding a funeral for her mazda as deputy leader who was killed in an explosion on tuesday . salo very was considered a key figure in the group, considered a terrorist organization by several countries. he wasn't deputy political leader and a co founder of its military wayne. he's now being laid to rest and 11 east capital . lebanon's militant has beloved group planes, israel for tuesdays assassination, although there has been no claim of responsibility is rarely officials have previously said that they would target, tomas leaders wherever they are. waiving the most flag protest is in ramallah voice. the supports in tango this evening and the occupied westbank was a certain town of cell, a ruling high ranking, a mazda official,

was killed in a striking by roots on choose day. oh, natalie got into the car is, is crazy, hysterical event new need. the preventative is israel field and that he and is experiencing a kind of defeat. oh no, i'm in the mail. it knows full well. yeah, there's no victory for it. yeah, no they so 90 got mean and decided la sala, rory was deputy to him off is lita is smell honey a and the grapes caly, eyes on weed has the law in lebanon since arrives assassination in the suburbs of a root israel and has the law has continued to fire at each other across the border, an almost daily occurrence since israel's war we, tomas began the 11 east political party and military group is backed by ron and considered a terrorist organization by the us, germany and some sunni arab countries. israel has no officially claimed

responsibility for the strike on a route, but levon a security sol so said it was caused by an israeli drawing, has blah, has vowed to retaliate, calling it a serious assault on lab. and on the fact that while i get the enemy, he thinks of waging a war and 11 and, and they then say, well, we will fight without restoring tools without leaves, without lay my eyes. then without restrictions, yes. well knows what i mean. he's rouse main ally, the us who said it was nursing homes before the blasting beverage said washington is now urging restraint to tape the wall contained just wanted to before. we don't want to see it. why beyond israel? and i'm awesome. again, we're going to keep working with partners in the region to prevent that from that has the law has so far refrained from escalating beyond board. a skirmish is with these ro, but this attack in the hoss of lebanon has raised fees of an all out war. and these

railey army says it's on high alert and ready for any scenario. and from wireless spring in the w's middle east. analysts shiny rosanna, so i mean, when we talk about this strike against the deputy homeless liter, um this funeral us today, as we've mentioned in the root, you know, they're, the striking particular was and it has the dominated neighborhood. there has been promises of retaliation, but so far we have seen nothing really from has willow that has been major and significant. correct. what does that mean to you for his plan is that it's going to take time in order to reserve itself the right to respond when and how it sees fit and, and this relo said it's very get put, you know, clearly in his speech yesterday, it doesn't mean anything, you know, especially in this region, every tiny misfiring can turn into a very big event. but, but we do see that the, the is really the forces that probably are behind us, took a sort of

a bet. so sort of a gamble. they were thinking that is the spicy alliance between his bala and him off his ball that is limited with his ability to actually go, ballistics go berserk, you know, in this response when it comes to things connected to hum us and not to lebanon because of the political situation 11th, because where, you know, lebanon is of the break of collapse as a lot of resistance for any idea of israel attacking lebanon again, which is something, as well as starting to do, cuz it keeps saying we will turn the root into gaza if you're a text fiercely by his bottle. so his ball is very limited in its ability to actually go all that and in fighting against israel. and israel was betting on it. and so far it seems like this was a successful, but talk with his little bit more about the is really strategy because we saw this week as we will withdrawing some of its troops from gaza. and as you know, there have been very loud calls for a ceasefire. when we talk about this operation and gaza, are you seeing potentially

a larger stepped in strategy here when it comes to targeting a mazda? or are we likely to see, you know, more targeted attacks going forward, especially with some of the leaders and most commanders abroad like for example. so another well definitely is really looking for that moment for that they can capture it as a victory to, to define as victoria as moment you know, to counter all those worship pictures from october 7th, something to sort of turn things around for the morale for is really, you know, pride in going forward that has a, from us is one of these very, you know, easy targets to, to sign in to, to set and to sort of achieve, especially when comes to lebanon, which is an easy territory for israel to reach. unlike katara with other heads of homeless or, or turkey, where i don't think is real, will jeopardize this relationship with everyone that are already very stressed. you know, tens um there is a need to find how mosley this because it seems to be the only tend to vote and gold is really army can actually deliver on right now. because what we're seeing and gaza is a lot of you know,

and it's getting lost in the months of gaza. is this really say at the no, they cannot really at the feet how much so easily as they may have thought at the beginning. they find themselves, you know, how much is very well trent inside the tunnels and you know, on eunice, the hard, the heart of, of the home us operation. where is really a military is operating. this are tough fights and israel is actually getting maybe some tactical gains, but strategically not much has changed and they're getting a lot of push back. also, we have to say from restaurants, ally, the united states, of course, and today blinking us secretary of state planning a trip to the middle east that they have called for the strikes. these really strikes to be more targeted. the americans is, or what are they about to do that search and where that relationship was stand when it comes to the, the assassination americans are behind it. they, they of course, did not confirmed that is related, but they said it was a, you know, i really was a brutal a terrorist and his staff there for was very much, you know, he was the, he was legitimate cause the way they see it. but it is true that if we look at the overall strategy of where, where israel is heading,

the americans are not happy. they don't see enough clear planning for the day after for home us, or, and garza and what's happening for the palestinians. and they would very much like to see this moment of crisis and terrible war as, as an opportunity for re shaping the whole me least along with so many forces like the saudis and other countries like egypt, jordan and so on that are their allies is really because of the why, right? the government, because when it's and you know is, is not so happy to even discuss that opportunity this, this option. and for now these rift are still manageable. but i think as we progress further and further into the year, the americans as you know, foot by them, it's an election year. it's going to get harder and harder for these risk to not be shown very publicly. the shiny was on us. thanks for the analysis. awesome sir. ron is holding a day of morning for the victims of 2 twin blasts of the city of clermont on wednesday. the death toll has now been revised to at least 80,

for the bless happens near the grave of top general kasan. so the money mourners had gathered for a ceremony marketing for years since his assassination by the united states. in a drone strike, the us has denied carrying out this attack and says that it has seen no evidence of his really involvement. the aftermath of a blast that shook the city of care mont and ever on south for leasing, shrapnel into the screaming crowd. local media captured the moment people started running as they heard the 1st explosion go off. another glass nearby followed some minutes later. the thousands were attending the ceremony honoring the prominent iranian general custom solely money killed in the us. drake in 2020 the us says it has no role in this attack. and that israel didn't either. it's too early, at least for us to be able to say what might have caused it. but i do want to address

some of the irresponsible claims that i have seen circulate and say that number one, the united states was not involved in any way. and any suggestion to the contrary is ridiculous. and number 2, we have no reason to believe that israel was involved in this explosion. it's believed to be the deadliest attack in iran in over 40 years. there were reports of a stamp deed that injured several people. as the tried to run away. the un responded with calls for accountability the secretary general strongly comes via talk today on a memorial ceremony and carmen city and the stomach republic over on which reportedly killed more than $100.00 people and injured many more. the secretary general costs for those responsible to be held accountable. 3 human to run has labeled the explosions as a terrorist attack. while iran, supreme leader,

i told the human a valid to retaliate promising a harsh response. that's bringing customer robbie b. ron program lead at the tony blair institute. he joins us from london. so when we're looking at the overall situation of the speculation at this point, what is your assessment of who might be behind this attack in iran? so i think it's important to take a step back and assess the keys to cope for its now be pro, raising base in iran, as well as those who have an irrational hatred towards these route outside of iran, hoping quick to blame east route and i've done so without any evidence, and of course, israel has conducted co operations in iran, the whole next 45 years. but no one has it targeted ordinary uranium people it strikes inside of iran has been surgical and have target to the regimes at least

all gc lead. so i think, but with confidence we can rule out is rose row in this. the next coat prep the next a cues. cobra is the regime itself. there are largest waves, the radium population, and the opposition to think is outside of iran who upset that this is an inside job for the raising to achieve its strategic objectives. now, there is some close ability to this based on the fact that previously the regime has conducted inside jobs. and the thing this note spoke in this regard in relation to yesterday's. a talk is that according to she is logic at tradition and cost of a memorial service must be attended by close family members and friends on the writing and people are claiming and highlighting the fact that not one member of the cost him so they money's family wasn't attendants and yesterday's memorial service, neither why any senior audiology si come onto it. so i think that the inside jump

scenario is certainly closed book, but there is a 3rd co part here as well. and i think this is much more likely in the sense that they are claiming isis could have conducted this attack. the attack itself certainly has all the hallmarks of ices operations in iran. and of course, since the us we drove from afghanistan, it's being very easy for individuals, our members across the board, the interests kind of into the wrong talk with us about what might come next or runs president abraham. all right, you see has threatened retaliation. what form could that take as well, regardless as to whether this is that, say, quote inside job or whether it was i say it's the outcome, the consequences actually see the strategic objectives of these learnt republicans are wrong in the sense that it's likely that the right usually will blame isis that will enable the archie to respond and to do so. boy, the display of force age of the rock to is, namely, is rounded,

the us to do so without, during any retaliation. it also domestic green has given the regime a pretext to further clamp down on the uranium people and already senior members of the regime in the box. the son of i it's, i'll hook you up to an excellent idea as a panel you and a senior member of the office and see pre need has already said that the regime must go off to the domestic individuals bus. they would like me to see a domestic front down again, seats, the raisins objectives, and it also ideologically, keeps the flame of monitor to a live. now, the flame of motion, the concept of mazda, is essential to the regimes audiology and the essential to mobilizing the coal base of the islamic public. so on all 3 accounts, the consequences and the repercussions of the code from yes, today's, the top are in line with mr. changing objectives of the from republic, robbie from the tony blair institute. thank you so much for joining us with that

view. thank you. and other news for more than a decade, the bricks group has been comprised of 5 countries, dominated by china, especially since member russia launched its full scale invasion of ukraine. the group has positioned itself as a counter wait to western democracies that dominate the world economy. now its membership has doubled welcoming 5 new members, including oil rich countries. in the middle east. there's no shortage of heavy rates in the bricks. club. china, the world's 2nd largest economy, holds the top position within the group. the asian supervisor opened the demands to be seen as a leader within this alliance. during a break summit in johannesburg, last august, chinese president choosing being welcome the decision to expand the group, stating that we must use the bricks plus cooperation and accelerate expansion. more

countries for joining the brakes family. pull their knowledge a new night, the efforts to make global governance more fair and reasonable. however, critics argue that the current expansion plans further transforms the group into a club of non democratic nations. in addition to china, existing bricks members include brazil, russia, india, and south africa. bricks was established in 2009 on january 1st, 5 new members of joint or rich countries like saudi arabia, the united arab emirates, an e run along with egypt. and ethiopia, 2 key players in africa. argentina was initially part of the expansion plans. but would you after recent elections, the bricks alliance is described as a highly diverse its primary goal is to establish account of balance to the west, especially the united states and the european union. and potentially introduce its

own currency as an automated to the us dollar. the new bricks group represents about a 3rd of global economic power and just under half of the world's population. let's discuss the expansion of grapes further with rob watts, from dw business. so just walk us through the backstory why the new commerce? yeah, well it really does come down to that stage today of breaks, which is to be account to wait to the west. it feels like the european union in the united states for far too long have had far too much sway when it comes. things like the world bank in an international ministry funds that wants to set itself up as the representative of the global south is it sometimes called but also the global majority. and so by adding these 5 extra countries, it's bolstering that's arguments, and you're gonna have to look at the countries that it's invited to join, to see how that tactic is supposed to where it gets out of these 3 countries in the

middle east is 1st countries in the release of go around saudi arabia and the u, a k. and then we've also got it strengthening its foothold in africa as well with if you, if you had an egypt being added on argentina was supposed to, why didn't we can perhaps talk about that in a 2nd. but you can see the intention that was to also strengthen his position in south america. so that's one of the key tactics here. and does that mean that's a big blow that argentina is now? not joining? it's a pretty curious case, isn't it? it's a really strange one and they only pulled out of the plan to join 10 days before they were supposed to on december. the 22nd, which and jerry for let's go to adams. his is last minute relevant insights. i wouldn't necessarily have come as a surprise to the existing members of breaks because if you've been following the campaign of how the emulate the new president, argentina, you'd know that his eyes and not looking towards badging demo, or looking towards brussels and securely towards washington. he has a very different foreign policy to that of his previous assa. and so this is less

of a surprise that the interesting thing is though, if have a, a delay and origin tina all looking towards washington, are they going to get the response from that that they want? because he is quite the current to as people have already noticed. and his ideology doesn't necessarily align with us of a lot of governments in your hand, in the united states. so they might not be rubbing their hands about that positive decision knots doing breaks in the way they might think. what does the overall extension mean for the west? well, it's difficult to spin it as a positive news for the west, obviously because bricks exists almost entirely to, to viable them. but at the same time, i do think you can overstate the impacts of this bricks is not a particularly cohesive group of the mind. when you have to thing that china's object is a very different to those of russia, they're very different to those of india and south africa. so they're not necessarily all pulling in the same direction in a way that could be a real threat to the west. and order of things, but at the same time,

europe and the us does have to keep an eye on this because 40 countries expressed an interest in joining breaks ahead of these and 6 being invited. 25 formally applies to joint bricks. and that does ra, this suggests that the west is losing its way in parts of the world, particularly in the south and that, so we've just out of 5 members to breaks that could be more added in the, not too distant future map watts. thank you to band has reinforced cruise working to find survivors of the devastating new york state earthquakes. the confirmed death toll has risen to 84 with at least 79 on accounted for. rescuers are still struggling to reach some of the worst hit areas missing out, survivors to rescue dogs and military personnel are racing against the clock to find anyone a life under the rubber. these desperate attempts are made even more difficult by

continuing after shocks destroyed roads and the remote location of the worst hit areas. in a final push depends prime minister has doubled the number of rescue workers in the area say again, but the situation in the affected area is very challenging. as we go from the perspective of saving lives, we're making all efforts to rescue and then to provide live, saving a to, to as many people as possible a fall, the crucial 72 hour period following the disaster elapses this evening. and as i said, my volunteers handed that free suited to the people whose homes were destroyed and the quick sizes were left without electricity or water isn't. i didn't i know that there's no running water for the toilet and we can't wash our hands. there are babies in the back you ration center, and my biggest worry is that they'll get infected with covert or influenza. and

that illness will spread using some have returned home in the hopes of receiving use of but missing relatives. only to find their entire neighborhoods raised to the ground even when they after shock stopped and the dust settles. the reality here is that tens of thousands of people will be less homeless and will type vital services as the region starts the long and painful rebuilding. hair, some of the other stories making news around the world for just 5 minutes or wishes to not says that a general election is likely to take place in the 2nd half of this year because the conservative party has fallen behind in the polls with the opposition labor party well ahead. high inflation and the cost of living crisis are likely to dominate election campaign. or us court has unsealed court records containing the names of

people linked to convicted sex traffic, or jeffrey epstein. the identities of more than 150 people mentioned in the lawsuit, brought by one of epstein most prominent accusers haven't kept sealed for years. ruling last month found no legal justification to keep them private. in the us, a man has attacked a judge in a nevada court as she was about to sentence him to jail for attempted battery. the 30 year old lunged across the judges bench before port staff russell 10 to the floor. he now faces new felony charges. days of heavy rain have left several towns advance, flooded and left $10000.00 homes without power. local authorities have also evacuated around 200 people. the region was already flooded in november and the water has not yet drained it. some areas it's germany's chancellor is

contending with his own country is flooding, visiting communities, struggling to keep rising waters back in the state of saxon me on hold off. schultz is serving the damage and meeting with emergency services. he toward the town of saint a housing where the dykes are in danger of collapsing. this is the chancellor previously visited the neighboring state of lower saxony, which has been hit hardest by flooding. more heavy rain is forecast and residents are bracing for evacuation the porter yoshika web or sent us this update from the roll district of cecilia. one of the areas in northern germany hit by the floods. the situation is still tends here. low effects in the northern germany, it states roles of the flooding in germany, and often new reign folds overnight. there's still a lot of water here. we have the highest alert level in this region of the seller. and what we can see right behind me here is the stream, although,

which is normally not here obviously, but has flooded streets, fields, farms and even the villages and causing a lot of damage in this region. the harvest for the farmers might already be lost and obviously a lot of belongings as well in the basement of a lot of buildings. now it's a big question. how long kept the dykes resist? because they are all wet and the crowd can't absorb any more water right now. and they are trying every thing they afford to use to protect the dikes against the water. but experts say that this situation will last, at least for another week. and that's causing a lot of trouble for, for teeth and for the people here in low sex, any germany, a denmark screen. my grass has made her final public appearance before stepping down on january 14th. the 3 year old road through copenhagen in a carriage from the royal residence to parliament, she will hold

a traditional new year's gathering with officers from the armed forces and other high ranking officials. she made the surprise announcement of her application during her new year's eve speech sighting, health issues are 52 years on the throne. make her europe's longest. serving monarch. she will be succeeded by her eldest son, conference, frederick. reminder of our tough stories, motors in bay road have held a funeral for her mazda as deputy leader who was killed in an explosion on tuesday, salo moving was the group's deputy political leader and a co founder of its military way around supreme leader has promised a harsh response following to explosions in the country south on one say, state media say that thousands of people were killed annually, 300 injured into glass during a memorial event for assassinated, general hassan. so the money you're up to date on the. the news on sarah kelly and berlin, thank you for watching. take care. the

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