the, the, the dw dues line from berlin tonight in pakistan and iran watching tit for tat air strikes against each other. pakistan says it attacked militant hyde out in iran, in retaliation for iranian strikes within its borders just a day earlier. also coming up tonight, medicine and aid, arriving for the people of gossip. the shipment of supplies is desperately needed, but there is no lit up in the fighting. at least 16 people from one family were killed in an air strike that destroyed their home. in rough on the

brink off is good to have you with as we begin with the tit for tat here strikes between iran and pakistan. earlier today, pakistan his elegibility at high belt inside the iran in a series of retaliatory attacks is lama bod says, with a targeted bases of beloved chee separatist inside iran. and all of this followed and a rainy and here's drawing, targeting, so called terrorist inside pakistan. both countries are choosing the other of harboring separatist finders. villagers assessing the damage. this footage appears to show the aftermath of the pakistani strike on the rounds border region. your ran in state media say at least 9 people were killed there on thursday . is lama, but has confirmed, carried out the attacks i this morning focused on and it took a series of highly coordinated and specifically targeted precision,

military strikes against terrorist, how high adults and sis donald. but it was just on probing or feet on a number of terrorist or killed during the intelligence space to oppression the strikes in the ran in border region offices done in baluchistan. our a response to a runs attacks inside pac is down early this week. take run, said he to separate his group, which threatens it, security, a history, it has a spot, none of the nationals of the friendly and brotherly country of pockets done with targeted by themselves and drones of iran. there is this group id on the so called gish out o here, which is an iranian terrorist group ticket and they have taken shelter in some provinces. but the inside pack is done as mental a tip i purchased on. how did you did the exchange of strikes has sparked a diplomatic crisis, islam about we called it some bass, so there are 2 iran and stuff to use. a rainy encounter part from returning to

pakistan. pakistan scared, ticket prime minister, and the bar will have cut car cut shorts. his visit to the world economic forum and davos is advanced on fold. regional powers have ers to come from both sides. boon gave me that off as a sort of all region does not need more problems and conflicts. now we see that the war in gaza unfortunately escalates regional tensions. we saw this tension reflected in 11 on yeah, syria, iraq, yemen, the persian gulf and of the red sea. in addition to all this, unfortunately, we have been closely following developments between pakistan and iran over the last 2 days with consent approval. i get it submitted today and it said that you're not talking videos. well, officials trade accusations protesters have taken to the streets of islam about to denounce the strikes on pakistan's territory. they are saying attack can nuclear arm to pakistan would be dangerous for the whole world. what do the restaurants

between pakistan and iran mean for the region and for the rest of the world? the joining me now is getting steinberg from the german institute for international and security affairs. we've spoken numerous times about the geo politics of the greater middle east region need. it was good to see you again, pakistan and the wrong are these 2 countries that are headed for more or no, i don't think so. both sides have made clear that they don't see the attacks as a tax on the neighboring country, but rather as upsides on terrorists or by little cheese separatists in the, in the other, in the other country. so i don't think there is any danger for an escalation between these 2 countries. now, a former pakistani foreign minister told us earlier today that pakistan had few if any options other than to respond with force. do you agree?

yes, yes, i think so. i think you know, the focused on the government and especially the army, was. busy was surprised by this attack. in fact, this is the wrong that attacking a nuclear on the neighbor. nobody could have suspected that this was about to about to happen. so in the, in the logic off the nation states in the world, i think it's, it's possible that the section the wrong in the attack on park is tiny territory warranted. parts are strongly built, it for you to you, you bring up a very important point here. pakistan is a nuclear power. what does that tell us about a role and considering that a ron was willing to provoke pakistan with a military strike as well. uh, i think uh that that the wrong is like so it has become extremely sense confident

in recent weeks and months uh its prophecies uh in the gaza strip and a lot of homes in the iraq and syria and in yemen have now attacked a wide range of different targets and also iran is partially responsible because it provides all these proxies with drones, with cruise misfired. so what, but is thickness cards that has not been any really treatment response. and i think that's part of the reason why you wrong things sent it. come get away with an attack even on how to stop it. what do we know about these mill lives instead of running pakistan targeted with these air strikes when we no longer have quite a bit about the volume cheese separatists in the, in eastern e wrong. they have been a problem in the country for more than 20 years now, and they have the change of several tags and in recent months is especially on the revolutionary guides and other things. the main reason for what we see here does

not have an awful lot to do with events in the middle east, but more with domestic politics in iraq. iran, especially after the attacks in paramount, although they have been framed by hispanic state and not by but which is separate and just wanted to show it citizens all over the country that is willing and able to fight these jobs as groups on its file trip rom, is extremely worried about separatism, or cetera, just tendencies that have become a bit more obvious in the last, you know, the village style, but also in south west the wrong, where many arabs lived and begin iranian focused on, i think that's the deeper reason for, for the wrong unit, it's okay, get a steinberg with the jury institute for international and security affairs ito is

always we appreciate your time and your analysis. thank you. thank you. a shipment of medicine has arrived in gaza, intended for is really hostages held by a mos. it arrived along with fresh aid for the people of gossip guitar and france helped arrange the deal between israel and the military from us, which is, you may remember deemed a terrorist group by multiple countries. meanwhile, the most run hills ministry and god just as it fresh is really air strikes, have killed dozens more people over the past 24 hours, including at least 16 people in one store, like on a house in rough up. the un says garza's remaining hospitals are over whelmed by the number of casualties. i'm going to go down to jerusalem to jermel assembly circles. time we get to see you. do we know if the medicine for the hostages and the for the palestinians? do we know it hasn't been distributed yet? us?

yeah, well we know that these uh trucks with medicines, they have entered the gaza strip and it has been handed over to the home us run and ministry of hands. and they have said that they will it distributed 1st to the hospitals in the gaza strip. i'm from these all us, but there's, there's supposed to go a also among other to the is there any hostages that are kept inside? now according to how i'm us, it each box of medicine that was located for the hostages. the 1000 boxes for the, for the guy. busy and as we know, more than 50000 gallons have been wounded, and the medication is a highly necessity in these hospitals. and i've been doing anesthesia. so doing a operations without the anesthesia and so forth. now is runs. the concern has been,

is whether this, how mazda led a ministry will actually bring the medication to those hostages, and how would they know? so according to a is around the media today, the cup of has promised is around the day with the supply, with the visual evidence of these hostages, that we're talking about $4.00 to $5.00. is there any hostages? who are i need for medication? and they would provide this visual evidence to show that they actually go through the medication is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu spoke a while ago and take a listen to part of what he said are yes, now, yes, there are 2 stages to the fighting. the 1st is destroying the how most regiments, those are the organized combat frameworks open till now. 16 or 17 out of 24 has been destroyed. after that, the 2nd stage is clearing the territory of militants. the 1st action is usually

short to ship. the 2nd usually takes longer. so now when you're dealing with both of the same time, go govern the whole scheme. personnel going to be okay, sammy, and when we hear that update is here. what is the status of the war against a mazda in gauze? so if we're looking at the noise in the part of the gaza strip, we talked about the city of gaza and that area. so is one over there. they say that they have already, the finished a phase one is that means that the, sorry, phase 2. and that is why they were to do some of their forces from these areas. and the in the other areas of the gaza strip. that means in the central area of the gaza strip, the area of building by law and the refugee camps. so the z and then they'll say the age and so forth. and then honeymoon is they are spend in the earlier phase,

which is a more intensive phase of the military campaign. journalist. sammy struggle with alliance tonight from jerusalem. semi as always. thank you. is a quick look now and some of the other headlines making news. this our, the european parliament has adopted the resolution calling for a permanent ze fire in garza, but only on the condition that the palestinian militant group, tomas is dismantled, while makers say all hostages must be released. the resolution all should have calls for renewed efforts to find a lasting political solution to these rarely tell us to be in conflict. the post election unrest in the east african island nation of come or else has left at least one person dead and $25.00 wounded demonstrations began after incumbent president. as ali assume money was declared, the winner, the opposition is a legend, fraud and calling for even larger protests. the lower house of the british

parliament has passed a controversial bill to send asylum seekers to per wanda. ministers say that vermont is a safe country which can take in and over spill of refugees. the conservative government defended a rebellion by right wingers, who were calling for even tougher action. a prosecutor in ecuador has been shot dead in the city of y a keel after driving while driving his car. he'd been investigating an attack on a tv station by drug gangs that happened last week. ecuador has been rocked by a series of attacks in the wake of a notorious gang leaders, a parent to escape from prison. finally, winter weather here in germany has created chaos for travelers hoping to use planes, trains, or automobiles, heavy snow and the ice have cause traffic jam stretching for many, many kilometers rescue workers handed out hot drinks and blankets to thousands of

drivers who were stuck in the wintry congestion, emergency services responded to dozens of accidents at schools and kindergartens for clubs. hundreds of flights and long distance trains have also been canceled. this is a reminder of the top stories for you. pakistan has carried out the air strikes against the ledge. militant fight out to the wrong is lombard says it attacks below 2 fighters invitation for earlier and rainy and strikes inside pakistan. both countries accusing each other of harbouring separatist militants and a shipment of desperately needed aid and medicine has arrived in gaza. but there is no let up in the fighting. at least 60 people from one family have been killed in an air strike on their home in rough. you're watching the w news. i'll be back at the top of the hour with more whole news followed by the day. i hope to see you then the

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