the the, this is dw news life from berlin. donald trump, cruises to victory in the iowa republican complexes. the former president is on track to take over 50 percent of their vote, and the 1st nominating contest of the u. s. presidential campaign. there's a tight race tracing out for 2nd place. also coming out, israel says it's intensive, military operation and the size of gaza is nearing and at pressure for a cease. fire is mounting with conditions for civilians growing more desperate by the hour. the

i'm out of here. well, welcome to the program. projections from i was republican presidential cox's indicate to former us president donald trump will win the state. the contest got underway a short time ago to pick a republican nominator run for the office of president of the united states. replicants have been gathering at coker sites across iowa to make their preferences known. former aside, caroline and governor nikki haley and ron desantis, whose governor of florida are vying to come 2nd. the results at the moment indicate that it's too close to say through that will be a 3rd place spot for either of those candidates could spell the end of their presidential hopes or for more or less spring and dw correspondent janelle de milo and joins us from iowa city in the snow again. janelle trump on track for a big victory there in iowa. what, what does this mean for, for his campaign going forward into the next contest as

well, how does it really depends? we're still waiting to hear once the votes have all been counted. by what margin he leads by about by how much he has won the state. but it was very clear early on that iowa was trumps for the taking. his team has been credited with running a very good ground game here in iowa. they really did go out and get that vote even if the trunk did not run a traditional iowa campaign at all in terms of pressing the flesh in terms of personally interacting with the voters. but even he had to time for expectations ahead of this caucus. this saw, this is a, this is a contest that threw up many surprises, the record temperatures just being one of them. but what we do know is that this definitely does to bring in one step closer to going head to head with joe biden in november. so we can just take a moment to appreciate the unusual and us of the situation. we are of course, talking about donald trump. deny, or of the 2020 election results. somebody who is facing multiple civil and criminal

proceedings. he is on track to win the republican nomination at this stage in an entirely democratically blood process. and so this marks the start of and elections. our problem is, has to be a very unique one in this country's history. incredible. yeah. and what about the other candidates, nikki haley? wanda sanchez, any bets on which one of them is going to come in 2nd. so now that is a fairly open, we've been talking about it all day. the res. so for a 2nd place is the one to watch. here in the iowa caucus, both nikki haley and wrong desantis depending heavily on strong 2nd place showings, especially ron desantis. he stakes a lot on all your while he visited all 9999 counties in the states for him. if he doesn't get on

a decisive 2nd place showing well that both very badly for his campaign indeed. and nikki haley, of course. so she wanted the same if only also to show voters that her campaign is something to be taken seriously. but at the moment, those 2 are still locked in a dead heat. and those are results that we are simply going to have to wait for at the moment. never have 2nd place been so important. i know people in iowa yourself very much included, janelle have faced extreme cold temperatures up to minus 20 degrees celsius. how does that affected fulcher turn? i of the well we don't know the exact voter turnout yet, so i've seen estimates of that. it's 130000. that is, of course, at the low end ahead of all this, whether the most generous predictions i saw for turn out was around 200000. that would be the 187000 record that the party had for 2016.

but as you pointed out, it is very, very cold. it's hard to imagine that not having had an impact, this is cold even for iowans. the roads are very, very, i see it is simply hard to get to the precincts. and it's not difficult to imagine that it is only the most passionate to supporters of their candidates that went out to caucus today. i know if i were a vote or i would really, really have to be convinced to go out with all of this. well, i hope you can find somewhere warm before you before we drive you back on to talk again in the snow, dw correspondent janelle is in my loan. thank you so much. i are now causes how most one house ministry says the bodies of at least a 172 people killed and is really missile attacks have been brought to the territories. hospitals in the past 24 hours, according to the ministry, more than 24000 people and also have been killed in the fighting so far. israel says it's military operation and gaza is absolutely necessary to destroy

a months which is considered a terrorist organization by numerous countries. barely any buildings that's still standing in the central golf and neighborhoods. piles of rubble or shells out remains can be seen in every direction. so those who retain, there's nothing to come back to the we were displaced doors to be able to reflect 1st to schools, then to the we would tend to our home to just simply belongings. it's not do it. there's no life at old. there's no house at all, and there's nothing less high you said more than one point. 8000000 gallons have been forced from the home, submit the financing, but nowhere is spades. here, civil defense teams, pope injured families and bodies from an s strikes next to a mosque. the union is again calling from us to free. it says riley hostages,

and for an end to the violence. nothing can justify the collective punishment of the policy of young people. stephen said in a situation, guys that he's beyond words, nowhere and no one is safe. amid the constant threat of israel's attacks, gas and oil, some deadline to find food, hundreds flocks to this a truck in the hopes of finding supplies. prod, you know, we need the most important goods. the 1st, which is flour, consecutive on for almost a month. now we've been living without flour. we own eating rice. rice is not enough for a human being and it's causing health problems. we just want you to bring us flowers, water, european, up to you know, are you the risk of famine and disease and the enclave continues to rise with

israel severely. restricting access to vice will supplies to gov. the age groups have repeatedly cool for a long spring ceasefire to lead more a in and ease the suffering of gases. civilians. for more than a 130 people are still being held hostage in god after being abducted by him off on other groups. after the october 7 terror attack dw has been speaking to a former hostage who was freed in november, ross. but i mean, he was in berlin on monday, where she and other relatives of hostages met with the german president press for their release. mrs. benjamin's husband or heart is still being held in gaza. miss has been, i mean, you yourself or how old, by how much your husband is still being held as a hostage. here in germany. what is your hope? what the german government can do for you? because well, german citizens, now we help the gemini government will help us bring them back and make

a little bit more pressure. are they doing very, very good job to helping us? and i hope they will continue. and maybe we can get all the german seizures out of guides. everyone, everyone, everyone out, we need them. everyone we need in their home with their families. we don't have time every day that is all for she's speaking and she said that she didn't get meals. she didn't get what they can't stay there. she didn't get their medications, you're a sick person. everyone needs to come back now and we need german to help us. we want the help of damain. what is your biggest hope and your biggest fear at this moment? maybe that my biggest fear is 5th is time for them. the people who are sick, the people am on the ground. that was no,

it was no but we can breeze the no food, no medicines and all electric. there's no water to drink. i can tell i was there when i was that almost finish, so we don't have time. no time, we have to bring them back. thank you very much mrs. been? i mean, thank you. that was former is really driving hostage was spending me and her daughter speaking with dw mikaela. all right, let's take a look at some other headlines from around the world. one person has been killed and 17 others injured. and what officials are describing as a stabbing and car running it's at near tell of even as well police are calling the incident in the city of or on an a terrorist attack and have arrested to post and into aspects the runs revolutionary guard say they've launched missile strikes against what they say is and is released by headquarters in the city of arrow in northern iraq. kurdish authorities say several civilians were killed. the running and military says it also struck targets in syria. going after what it described as

gatherings of anti iranian terrorist groups. parts of rio de janeiro and brazil remain under water following through rancho rainfall of the weekend. at least 12 people died when walter inundated the northern outskirts of the city of tardies to play the size of military personnel and emergency workers to help residents deal with effects of the flooding and switzerland has offered to organize a piece summit aimed at ending rushes ongoing war with ukraine. president deal. i'm already made the announcement during a visit by the london is zalinski to burn ukrainian. president said all countries respecting his country's territorial integrity, it would be invited, especially to also when i send you a package for key. and here in germany, a week of nationwide protests by farmers has ended with size ends of agriculture workers and their tractors, descending on the capital berlin. the demonstrators are the demonstrations, sorry, started off as a reaction to the government's decision to cot. farmers feel subsidies, but they have been increasingly drawing on other issues and they may not be over

yet. trucks and truck to zillow already been blocking the streets of the land for more than a week. on monday, around $10000.00 farm is turned down, talking the vehicles in the center of the capital to draw our attention to the demands. they want more financial help from the government. otherwise they say farming is under the rent. but for many protesters, this is about more of an agriculture and are you plaza energy prices? don't immigration, industry is being destroyed. we have to do something. it's no longer just about foam is and diesel. it's about everything the government has to go. so you don't need to do both, don't just bomb is who are joining in. it's almost a popular uprising the they keep them here. the government is not listening. and above all, it's not listening to the people in rural areas. if you want you to be mean, you could say this politics favors urban areas. well, rural areas are being left behind and we're protesting against based on the docket

. and what is the india in the gym in finance managed to face the crowd. he said foam is had to make your contribution in difficult times, but he outlined his position that the government cannot help with more cash the subsidies, but agricultural diesel will not expire immediately. they will be reduced step by step over the coming years. a hi code from a few more states aid from the federal budget today. so we can fully together for you to enjoying more freedom and respect. feel work on the the is woods, did not go down. well, he was shouted down from his leaders code for the crowd to give the minister a hearing, but also restated the plan to keep protesting. if the government withdraws the

plan to raise taxes, we will remove the tractors from the street so long. as long as they won't do that, we will continue to make use of that constitutional right to demonstrate these noisy protests, to becoming a problem for ourselves is government. if they're not willing to roll back that costs the farm is likely to stay camped in berlin for some time to come. under a reminder of our top story, former us president donald trump has won the iowa republican presidential congress's. he's projected to take more than 50 percent of the vote right now, governor is nikki haley and we're on desantis. are in a close race for 2nd place. and that's all from us for now or a special series her is up next. looking at improving access to education for women in asia. don't forget there's always more on our website, dw, dot com and our social media channels where our honda is at dw

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