the the this is dw news line from bell and israel's ami enters not the hospital in calling . the military says it has forces inside the building and saw them gauze on the subject for the remains of hostages. taken by the militant islam is also on the program. they told ministers, meeting brussels to assess the threats to the along the war. and ukraine in europe is why the defense strategy here off the top of the agenda. this off to donald trump says he would not speak french night to allies who had not spend enough money on the end of the

. i'm good how the office, thanks for joining us. and we stopped with some breaking news is really troops have entered gauze, was not the hospital in the city of con eunice to search for the remains of hostages, who were seized by homos reports indicate one patient has been killed and 6 other injured sofa mobile phone footage appears to show the raid underway. israel's military says they have quotes, credible intelligence that how mos which is recognized as a tyra group by several countries, has been holding hostages in the complex at some point. the rate comes a day after the army falls, thousands of displays, palestinians who shouts, waiting in the hospital to evacuate. is going more about to go in and let's go straight to our correspondence. i mean, i see for joins us from jerusalem. i mean, what do we, what, what, what do we know about the situation in the hospital that of the, well,

the israel defense forces claim that they're conducting a precise rate using special forces on this hospital. they claim that they've given a warning to the people in a hospital to evacuate, although they have not evacuated, the people themselves is a big difference there in terms of security. a many of the patients have stayed for fear of being shot while leaving the hospital. at least one patient has died in the rates so far, according to reports come off as well as the hospital staff. also say that the israel defense forces shots into areas where thousands of civilians are sheltering . now this hospital is not being used only as a hospital, but also a shelter for many civilians who have come from other areas in gaza. so at least at least one person killed in the rate. now what's interesting here is that the id s and press statement said that they were looking to retrieve the bodies of hostages, where they're talking about here is those hostages that have already been killed by him. off so they're not talking about retrieving living hostages, but the bodies of hostages. so that's

a situation at the hospital at this moment. so civilians, of course, very much in focus as you said, is, well, this is not focusing on the very selves of gaza. what are the goals that as well it stated goals are to sweep the area for her ma spiders. this has been the goal since the october 7th terrace attack carried out by her mos uh, to basically destroy the organization itself. now they've been doing this in the north of gaza for months. now. the concentration now is on the south of gaza from eunice where this hospital is, has largely been evacuated by civilians. and they have been pushed up against the egyptian border in the town of rasa where israel is threatening to conduct a ground invasion despite the warnings of its closest allies, including germany and the us, they say that their ground evasion is imminent. that they are going to give us the villians a chance to leave that area before it begins, but that they're going forward with that plan. now, palestinians, on the other hand, claim that their aims of israel defense forces are more sinister that they're not

just looking for her ma spiders. but they're looking to exact revenge on the population of gaza for the hamas terrace attacks and some even claim. and this has been echoed by the far right in israel, that they are intending to push palestinians up against the border and even into the sign i desert in egypt, largely pushing them out of the area claimed by israel itself. so both sides having different opinions about what the uh, the aims of the israel defense forces are here in this fight for a southern gaza. but it's certainly the case that there is a few minutes area and disaster unfolding in that area there be done. so, i mean, it seems thank you very much on you. we have some mold breaking news coming out of ukraine. now with the military says it is repositioning some of its troops in the front line telling of of difficult. it says, it is moving them to quote more often changes positions,

the embattled sound in east, the new crane. se months of heavy fighting keeps edit, decided to re deploy some forces to more secure positions after it became difficult to get supplies into. and people out of, of the, of con, russia has been trying to seize the fortress down, seen as the key to holding the eastern dunbar region. while that news from ukraine will no doubt also be reaching nato's defense ministers while holding tulsa and brussels right now on the biggest challenges facing the alliance. the board in ukraine and the conflict in gauze up on top of the agenda and multiple absence from the meeting will be the us secretary of defense, lloyd austin, due to health with the gathering, has been overshadowed by comments from republican presidential presidential helpful donald trump, who recently seemed to call into question washington's commitment to its night to allies nature champions,

stalls impacts that supporting ukraine was to everyone's benefit a welcome that they dollars are providing more support, more air defense, more i'm a nation, a welcome to decision by due to being union and to allocate 50000000000 euros to ukraine and expect the us congress to agree uh, a package of a continued support to ukraine because supporting ukraine is not charter to supporting ukraine. is an investment in our own security and hgtv and stuff. and that's speaking about, let's go straight to brussels, where ability, if i sound a phenomenon, is standing by says, observing the meeting that for us. and it sounds like, despite the reissue, i'm an alternate to secretary general and even in the light of the recent developments, enough to discuss further support for ukraine in the member countries company taken for granted. well, what is likely to be today's outcome as well? i think you have that's the main challenge here for the nato defense ministers is

to come up with a plan on how to sustain support for ukraine. and we heard from you insulting back the nato secretary general, who said this morning that washington's delay in approving a new mess. this age package for ukraine is already having an impact at visible impact on the battlefield. there are reports saying that ukraine and troops, a russian, inc, or even running out of ammunition on the front line. so you can see how urgent matter is. and we have seen some announcements here already. the u. k. and lots here, for instance, have announced that there are establishing can you call listen to provide to quinn with thousands of mod done drones. but of course, the other question is for, for the europeans to ramp up their weapons production and to install some back, told us today that over the course of the last months,

allies increase and sign contracts worse. 10000000000 euros to rims up their production. and the other question is, of course, for the european allies also to increase their spending on defense and we heard from the installs in back then. now 18 out of there to one natal members are meeting the target of spending 2 percent of the ttp on defense. i found a briefly what else is on the agenda of that meeting today? sweden's future in that'd be alliance. it's on the agenda as you know, the country applied for a membership in may 2022 and there are still waiting the the only the last holdout is hungry. they were supposed to rectify sweden, so they told me membership, but we don't even know why they're not doing that. they have not done it yet. so we

had some, some defense ministers that there are very annoyed and the german foreign minister said that he expects hungry to rectify swear, didn't sweden's membership as, as quickly as only possible. he even said that that needs to happen. now i found a phenomena that reporting from brussels. thank you so much. thank you. remarks by us presidential hopeful donald trump last week have been widely interpreted and that's putting the future of the nato alliance in doubts. and that's leaving america's european partners modeling a world without guaranteed backup from the world's biggest nuclear path. it also re ignited the debates in germany and beyond, to about rethinking europe's nuclear set top. so this is a test of nato's nuclear deterrent fighter jet, seen here, trading to defend europe against the threats from russia or other foreign powers. but there may soon be

a new test from within. as one presidential hopeful questions, us commitment to the western military alliance. no, i would not protect you. in fact, which countries worldwide agreeing to nuclear non proliferation decades ago, much of europe has long comforted on an american nuclear shield. the u. s. is over $5000.00 nuclear bombs in total. all the numbers are classified. experts widely agree around 100 of them are deployed on european nature territory in belgium, benevolence, germany, western turkey and a to a fellow nato members. fronts and the u. k. also have their own national nuclear arsenals. fronts has in the past suggested more continental corporation. don't know what she would need to, will always be their autonomy. it means having your own destiny and your own homage . we can't depend on the us elections every 4 years. so many can to the couple bought to there's no solid offer of alternative security guarantees. any you're quite new, clear to tyrants would require a whole rosters, negotiations, new treaties as an infrastructure revolution. despite the calls from some germany

you, parliamentarians, full of the government says it's a non starter 5 yet essence. and i'm like, honestly for jim i, we have the american protective shield and we shouldn't questionnaire callously on all own initiatives. the new to the debate is really the last thing we need at the moment. it's an escalation in the discussion. we don't need to do any eastern flag, nato nations nearest russia are calling on other european countries to be felt. no nuclear capabilities, like their armies and munitions supplies. i think what the presidential candidate in america says is also something to maybe wake up. but some of the allies who haven't done that much for non nuclear jewels across your will continue . and so with the debates and as that debates rumbles on, us media are reporting that washington as warranted through a p and allies about russian efforts to develop nuclear weapons based in space to

target centralize, the republic and chair of the house intelligence committee, mike turner, as go to the serious national security threats and the last president biden, to declassify any related information. moscow says that if we both are a bruised by the white house to get congressional backing from ukraine a while for a more on those reports, i'm joined from unit for you on test. how easy are p and security and defense analysts working for you? razor group, that's a global, political risk research and consulting from you on. first of all, what do you make of those us? reports of russian ethics develops based based nuclear weapons. do you think you will pass to worry about that? well, i mean, that's no clear and present dangerous at this point, as you said, a just now these are weapons not designed to hit targets on the ground on us. the mental destroyed a country is communications and reconnaissance assets and space. and so these are,

you know, what do you have present angel down here? plus they haven't really been deployed yet. this is what the american report also makes clear that they have been developed and they'll have a fairly advanced stage, but they're not active yet. so no immediate clear and present danger on the other hand of cause it's usually worrisome if a nation develops a very potent kind of the most satellite to the system. all kinds of infrastructure elements on the ground tier down here from telephone at a to a data flows depend on satellites, including the defense assets. so if somebody really develops that kind of asset also against international treaties, that is a great, the worse some development. now the threats from space, so north europe is nervous about what the next us the election means for security on the continental b. yeah, i think the recipients, we um should be more than that. or you can see that the bank in the long folding in

europe here in the capitalism in brussels and in the defense community. really, you know, donald trump's remarks over the last we can have increased that the better to but it's been going on for much longer. we've seen over the last 10 years or so since the next session of try me a pretty significant uptick in defense spending in europe. and the europeans mounted the to face and situation where potentially the us security guarantee might not hold for much longer. the trump risk scenario that we've been talking about, and all of this has image size people here. the problem is that, you know, your opinions are also short on cash. and there's only so much political consensus . you can get on defense spending, you know, skyrocketing, so we have political and fiscal limits to this. and this is the dilemma that the repeats find themselves. and they urgently need to do to do to need to do more regardless of who's the president and at the same time to produce serious limitations on the ground here a talking about these meditation. so let's look at the worst case scenario that the,

the us dropping off out of night. so how long would the europe need to actually make up for that? it depends on where you look when you look at conventional sources only. so all of the non nuclear stuff that already you know, would have to, would probably take years and many years dictates perhaps, you know, many of the strategic enabled strategic and if we, connor sons come under control capacities, all of the sophisticated stuff that the us has to offer cannot easily be replaced by the europeans. and then when you look at the nuclear side, it's even more a some, because that is usually expensive, would require a very different kind of force than what the u. k and fonts currently have the only 2 european nuclear forces and would be immensely expensive. so, you know, for the europeans to use the us, a new create a ton is really the worst case scenario. because then they become exposed and black available if you will. and then the secuity done scraping europe changes pretty dramatically. and there are voices who have coal,

so you have to build it. so nuclear shield is zip this realistic. i mean, the timeframe is key here and it's not realistic. when you look at, you know, the us elections in the fall and then a possible trump presidency. it is not really realistic when you look at the fiscal, that heavy lifting that would be required. unbelievable amounts of money would have to flow into this. and then the question also is, do you build national determines, you know, for each country the wrong or do you be able to collect of the time, which is what is part of the discussion at the moment? very, very difficult to pull off. what kind of chain of command, what kind of political authorization for a collective guitar, and you know, what in the end, have to press the button, who would authorized as all of these are completely unresolved questions. apart from the credibility question. you know, if you put a nuclear force in phase, you have to have the full escalation that are in place to make it credible. which also means much more. a troops on the ground, a conventional forces on the ground

a to make your protection credible. none of that is in place now, so no, it's not realistic and the short medium term and then the long term. it's at least doubtful on the defense unless you on the allstate you raise that group. thank you very much for sharing your expertise with us today. thank you tom. now to have a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. at least one person was killed and more than 20 wounded in a shooting during the us super bowl victory parade. thousands of kansas city chiefs football fans out celebrating when gun fight broke out. police have taken 3 people into custody. the investigating any possible motive, germany over the top of japan last year as the wealth, 3rd largest economy they took released by tokyo, suggested the re shuffle is due primarily to a shop full in the in. japan is now technically in the recession as well off to its

economy contracted for the 2nd straightforward. so north korea says it tested a new type of surface to see cruise missile on wednesday, state media release, pictures showing leader kim jong on the test. he reportedly said north korea will take a more aggressive military stance on disputed sees it was the 6 ms long spots. young young this year authorities in band cox and thailand are urging people to work from home as dangerous appellation troubles. the capital smoke from burning crops on site the city combined with vehicle emissions have cost smoke levels to spike sun rise over the ty, capital bank card on thursday. air pollution reach to levels 15 times higher than recommended by the world health organization. making the air quality in bangkok, among the worst in the world. authorities responded by ordering government

employees to work from home in a bid to reduce traffic pollution. private companies were urged to do the same. the people working out doors said the haze was making the miserable. i got me off. i can't read. it feels like i'm suffocating and that's not good at all. it's terrible . yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, right, i gamma whatever combine eyes are itchy because there's so much dust or the high by it isn't easy to breathe. officials say agricultural burning outside the city is responsible for most of the smug, but that emissions from vehicles accounts for about a quarter of the air pollution, thailand's prime minister has hinted that the government may have to consider limit on cars, powered by fossil fuels. air pollution is becoming a major public health issue in thailand of some 2000000 people across the country

sought medical treatment last year because of breathing related problems to germany. now with the 74th bell in film festival, the belly knowledge is getting underway. over the next 10 days, hundreds of films will be competing for the golden and silver bez, alongside con and venice. the belly and other is one of the most major film festivals bought in the german capital. the glitz and glamour, often rub shoulders with political controversy, and this year is no exception. combating the february drizzle with the promise of glitz and glamour. the red carpet was soon greet stars and filmmakers from all around the world. the annual festival is kicking off with the world premiere of small things like fees, an irish belgian production star, and kelly and murphy, who is just a moment aged for an oscar for his performance and open hymer. oscar winner loops

eaten young go is another face to be looking act for. she's this year's jewelry president in charge of selecting the winners and renee range, director and producer martin scorsese will be receiving the honorary golden bear on tuesday for his lifetime achievements. subaru and ali prides itself on being more than just red carpet. prestige is always room for political debate. following weeks of protests against the far right across germany, the directors decided to and invite 5 politicians from the right when a at the party this year. the directors also emphasized at the festival ames to enable open dialogue surrounding the war in gauze. actual retrospective for sympathy goes out to the victims of the many different places in the middle east and elsewhere. we are also concerned to see that on to some it isn't on the muslim

or resentment and hate speech of spreading in germany and are on the word ticket. one film director has withdrawn his work from the festival in protest of germany, support for israel and is calling for a boycott of german cultural institutions my the phone months with him. but organizers hope the festival can provide a venue for both sides to better understand each other like, selection, anticipation and control oversee go hand in hand at the berlin alley. as the festival on falls, it will become clear if the politics overshadow the performances. now let's bring it our residence field boss w as good a rock spruce called that the now the workers have. busy out festival organizers for the stance on the board and gauze. i'm assuming my goal is going to be watching black screens tonight. no, i don't think it's going to go that far. but i think we probably will see protests today and maybe throughout the week around the issue of gaza and the,

the bill of dollars stands. so similar to what we saw in sundance last month, where you have protests are shutting down the streets in park city a at the festival they are. the $1000000000.00 has tried as we just saw, to be open and disabled. they want to debate over the issue of but a lot of people for a lot of people, it doesn't go that hasn't gone far enough. and number of workers at the building, i'll send an open letter where they called for an immediate cease fire. and in, in gaza, unreturnable hostages and are calling on the $1000000000.00 to do the same, to take a much stronger political stance on this issue. to stick with politics, members of the far right outside of different germany party were invited to the opening got and then on invited the has a been a bit of virus thing for the organizers here. thing a yes. this political issue uh this political scandal in some ways is actually a much bigger uh much bigger deal for the value, not up then. uh,

the issue around or the debate around uh, gaza is with the uh, off of day the far right party. they've actually because they're elected officials, they've been invited to the bailey and all just as a matter of protocol since they've been in the berlin parliament. so since 2017, but this year because of the protests that are in the streets of germany, or have been in the streets of generally the last a weeks against the updates. because of what people see, is there a move to the extreme right and uh, advocating extreme anti migrant policies. um maybe both thought it was not possible. it should not be possible to invite them to the valet dollar. and so the, the festal has just invited them, but a lot of people are also calling them out for that saying that's not democratic because these people, these guests were, are actually elected officials and they should be in the room like everyone else.

let's talk about the fields themselves. what are you looking for to most so yeah, berlin's interesting because you also have a lot of big stars coming here, but they're usually here with smaller or more are has film. so i'm really looking forward to tonight's opening night film, small things like these for with a oppenheimer star kelly and murphy of but this is a very small, intimate, the irish drama set in the 1980s. the look very, very compelling about sort of a quieter film than, than oppenheimer. i'm next week we're going to, as the 1st steward who is the jury president last year, she's going to be back with a new film. love lies, bleeding us of crime. thriller centered around a lesbian loves, love story about what's really interesting. and then berlin always has very bizarre films as well. but i really look forward to and the strangest one that i have on my list is called pep a. and it's a film narrated by a hippo who was brought to south america to be a pet for pablo escobar. so that looks just like

a movie that i don't think you'll see anywhere else. that's going to be a lot of fun. it sounds like the w scott rocks for that. thank you very much god. as you're watching dw news, here's a reminder of our top stories. israel special forces have entity, not the hospital in san eunice in southern casa, the military said the cause, credible intelligence. the building, the remains of hostages, taken buys. the militant is the most common. and tonight to us, defense ministers have mentioned brussels to discuss your defense strategies and support for your brain. the meeting comes in the wake of us, former president and republican fonts on donald trump's comments that he would not defend nato allies. we had not paid enough money and that's it from me

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crime is addressed and the public trying to take responsibility for his actions. guardians of trees stop march 2nd on d, w. the. the hello and a will welcome to focus on you up. it's great to have you with us. this february, march the 2nd anniversary of russia's invasion of ukraine. on the 24th of february 2022, russian president, putin ordered his army to cross the crane in border. but what russia thought to be a quick victory has become the deadliest.