the, the, this is dw news live from ballad, israel stoves the last big hospital still functioning in gaza. the army says it has credible evidence that homos elder hostages inside this complex. meanwhile, australia adds to international goals for israel's, the delay. it's planned to sold for the summer last night. so chief assess threats to the west city alliance is biggest military exercise since the cold war gets under way. ukraine in europe is why the defense strategy dominate, as summits in boston. the

i'm guy that offers thanks for joining us. is there any troops have still on the biggest functioning hospital less than gaza? the army describes the operation that the now so hospital in the southern city of con eunice as precise unlimited. it says there is credible intelligence that how mosse, which carried out the october 7th started a tax held hostages. in that complex, the mobile phone footage appears to show, is rarely forces entering nicer hospital and con eunice, the main medical facility in southern gaza. the is really military said, it was a limited operation. aimed at finding hostages remains with credible intelligence from a number of sources including from released hostages, indicating the tomas handle hostages and the nozzler hospitality on eunice. and that there may be bodies of hostages into another host facility further south. so 1500000 displaced palestinians are now living and cramped conditions in the border

. city of rafa with israel still believed to be planning an assault on vasa, international warnings are growing louder. large scale military, opposite operations in densely populated areas, risks extensive civilian casualties. australia believes this would be on justifiable a message to as well is listen to the road. do not go down this path. the united nations says there is no safe place regardless to evacuate too. with so many people a mast along the border, the ones who met a terri and she has a warrant of a spill over into egypt. given the scale of the devastation, the winds, trade agencies, those guys that will need international investment on the scale of europe's post war marshal, plan to recover after the fighting. but for most cousins, the future as far from their mind,

they're struggling just to survive every day through the special correspondence i'm gonna see if it's interested in uh with more details of that hospital right. as well, the israel defense forces claim that the conducting a precise rates 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 out of hospitals. not being used only as a hospital, but also 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 i d. 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 of the hospital at this moment. i mean, i see that reporting from jerusalem and we're going to ukraine now with the country's military is repositioning some troops and the frontline telling of difficult to what it calls more advantageous positions. the eastern town, as the months of heavy find to keep says it is we deploying some forces because it is difficult to supply of difficult and good people out. russia is trying to seize the town, which is seen as the key to the dung boss region. and for more on that i'm no joined by military on was frank lead, which, who is in oxford in the u. k. frank, good to have it back on the show. well, what do you make of this phrasing more advantageous positions? is that just a fancy way to describe and retreat, so good. good afternoon. yeah. building so yes, its

a euphemism for. ready with the boss appears to be withdrawal over the last few days, the ukrainians say that they have on and seem to have re deployed one rather late to unit. so called the 3rd baton at the gate. i should say, she, we will know by sort of the, as of the gate to, to open up. they want to try and hold open the, the, the, the roots and what, what's become the culture of the castle in german, where country where um does that, that essentially the goal was a, a setting. and it seems that the process of trying to withdraw our troops from, of the, of co which, which has been in the pipeline now for, for the last week or 2 very clearly is beginning on the go see if it makes it easy to point out without his re deployment. now remind, as we've heard that a difficult is the key to the don't does region explain to us why it is so important for both russia and ukraine. the so called the key key to the dog,

the bus i think when it, if it falls so that we'll, we'll move on to another k the originally pulled. and so that was that it was the last place, effectively in ukrainian homes for which shelly could be conducted against the city of don't boss which is about 20 miles or so to the, to the south east. but essentially the south, the exception of, of, of don't ask on the bus. it's wanted that back, it was a, it would wanted it, it was a been falsified for a long time, been forced out of the for a long time. and it was an embarrassment set to go next was big show for the so that ca, originally operational reason. but of course us with all these major bottles such as boss, moot, and various others. we see it over the last 2 years. it's now seems to teach a good points and it's a, it's because it's a political importance because it's a, it's become a, a symbol for standing and holding and so forth. like but it's very similar

situation actually now and since you mentioned about what are the political situations of cranes president most criticize last year by many experts holding onto bach moods. another town in the east for too long was that to heavy losses and still resulted in ukraine's retreat. is ukraine trying to avoid the same mistake and after you have gone now to yes, it seems so, and it's a one in one hour. but until one respect, this is quite, quite surprising because as he said, we've had a change of command from general is dollars me to general see, to scan. we would have expected general c a c to put all the results as quote, to try and hold it. but it seems that they, but they've given up that particular approach very wisely. although we made it remains to be saved by the they all going to be able to get the truth out of up to you if the weather is awful, god is absolutely tablets. monday is extremely cold. the roads are smashed up, the russians on both sides. let's hope that the house of big data and others can

come in show that when the time comes they could conduct the withdrawal as a cooler to the retreat because of this michael and get his money uh, sold his office that com at. now what all that is going on uh, both sides still exchange strikes and what's your assessment? who's better equipped to a stand the frequent attacks? we don't hear about the strikes against russia against ukrainian key targets. that's the way the credit is. perhaps understandably play it. but the russian strikes of diarrhea, kaylee doing damage the same for the same for the same for the russians. and most recently, of course we still the last have another one of the lawn, big ships. this is a war of attrition. neither side has the advantage and resilience the russians. of course, we'll just press all the ukrainians will continue to, to resist the advantage of with respect to accessing bootable 5 without further

help community allies, though with the larger power, with the most soldiers. more exhausted right now that's, that's russia. ukraine is not reinforced with further results as on the deed. so just mandatory, almost frank language there. thank you very much, frank. thank you, sir. i mean, while a 2 day nato summit in brussels has ended with big challenges still facing the alliance among them, that was in ukraine. and the guys i'm and the requirement for many states to invest at least 2 percent of the economic outputs on defense. and also will absence has been the us secretary of defense, lloyd austin, for health reasons. nato secretary general against installed back says despite the challenges the outlook remains positive. i'm a confidential dot to. nathan will remain the strongest and most successful lines in history. and i expected united states to continue to be as the one shot ally

for at least 3 reasons. first, it isn't the national security just over the united states. they have a strong panic. the or the 2nd there is actually ruled by parts and support from a store in united states. and certainly the criticism in united states is not primarily against natal. it's a, it's against nato allies, not spending enough money all night to major c installed mass. speaking that let's go straight to data headquarters in brussels. where did obvious terry shows the standing bites? how are you listening to stilton back earlier? what are your main take away staff? well, i was struck by just how much time the secretary general spent reaching out to american voters. i'm trying to convince them that nato is important for them, that nato protects americans as well. and that therefore, basically they shouldn't buy into this criticism from trump, that nato is,

you know, should be measured by the amount that these countries to spend on their own military. however, he also spends a lot of time talking about how much they have invested in their defense capacity. because of course, that was the prime uh, target of donald trump in his presidency, was that these countries are not spending up to 2 percent of their g d, p on defense. so secretary general sort of were wanted to highlight that now 18 of the $31.00 are however, this has been a 10 year pledge and they were supposed to all get there by this year. so i don't know how much weight that will carry in washington. the other thing that was of course high on the agenda is what more allies can do to help you frame and how fast we're getting reports that ammunition is being rationed on the battlefield. the european union has not come through on a pledge to get a 1000000 rounds of 155 millimeter nations to ukraine by next month. so that was something that was, was really discussed here. today. we heard that allies have now signed contracts

for $10000000000.00 euros more in munition, just within the last few months, but it takes years for that munition to be produce. so um, it remains to be seen how much reassurance ukraine can take away from that. no, no, most of the problems they have you follow this whole meeting over 2 days? would you call it a success? i'm not sure what standards uh, nato had for a for this meeting. it's a regular planning meeting, but i think that it did give secretary general sol simberg and allies a chance to gather uh, coincidentally, just after donald trump made these remarks. and again, i can't emphasize enough how heavily they hung over this meeting. indeed, him being only a candidate and the election being, you know, more than 8 months away. so it did give nato a chance to address these remarks directly at 31, including of course, the u. s. representative investor, julie smith, who was standing in for defense secretary austin. so it was, it was good timing for the nato meeting to put out their own messages to counter

what uh, what we've heard from donald trump. all correspondence that terry shows, i have nasal headquarters in brussels. thank you very much, terry. as of now, some of the other stories making headlines today. the 1st criminal trial of a full us president is set to go ahead. next months off to a new york judge rejected a bid from donald trump to have the case dismissed. the challenges stem from hush, money paid to 2 women ahead of the 2016 presidential elections authorities in thailand have issued a 2 day work from home, owed at full bangkok, city employees due to the highest mobile apps. and that quality index shows the amount of dangerous product goes us 15 times higher than w o h o recommendations. the city is small. this caused by crop burning, industrial pollution, and heavy traffic. in india, the government is to hold talks with pharmacy following most protests coating,

full guaranteed crop prices. security forces have set up roadblocks to stop thousands of farms reaching the capital daily. similar protest 2 years ago. force the government to scrap pricing reform. you're watching dw news is a reminder of our top stories. israel special forces have entered and also hospital, and con eunice and southern gauze of the military says it has credible intelligence that the building have to the remains of hostages. taken by the militant islam is proved, how much nato chiefs have wrapped up a 2 day summit in brussels. adults with dominated by the was it gaza and to cry and honest, donald trump saying that if it re elected, he was not defending nato allies. soule failed to spend enough on defense

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