the, the, this is the w news live from berlin. israel says it will temporarily open a key crossing to allows humanitarian aid into the cause. a strip with decision comes after us, president biden issued israel and ultimate take more steps to protect civilian lives or risk losing us support. also coming up the kremlin rams up the rhetoric warning that russia and nato are now in the direct confrontation over ukraine. that comes as nato marks at 75th anniversary and pledges more assistance for keith and rescue cruise search for those still missing and taiwan.

officials say people are trapped in remote regions after the islands. biggest earthquake in a quarter of a century. the david levitz welcome is rarely prime minister benjamin netanyahu. his office has announced the temporary opening of a key land crossing to allow aid into gaza. the opening of the arrows crossing into the palestinian territories north was among steps approved by israel's cabinets to increase the flow of humanitarian assistance. the news was welcome to in washington where president joe biden earlier told netanyahu in a phone call that further us support for israel's war and gaza depended on such steps. but, and also said, israel must take more action to prevent harm to civilians. relations between the 2 allies have been further strained since it is really airstrike on monday till the 7

aid workers in casa and speaking at anita a meeting in brussels, us secretary of state anthony, blinking called on israel to do more to protect civilians and allow access to humanitarian aid, we need to see an immediate cease fire to enable the release of hostages, but also to enable a dramatic search and humanitarian assistance as well as obviously better protecting civilians. now, as i said, the president, the prime minister just spoke, but it's uh, our expectation that is real will and certainly should announce concrete specific measurable steps that it will take and take as soon as possible to make sure that they're kennedy. an effective search and assistance that it can be sustained and that you might have trained workers and civilians are better

protected. w washington correspondent benjamin alvarez gruber told us more about that call between bite and that and yeah, that's right. what's the 1st time between both leaders? since this is really as try killed is 7, a to work is in gaza, according to the white house read out a prison by and called the strikes on humanitarian workers and the overall who many terry and is situation and goes unacceptable. and probably the most important sentence of the readout is the president biden made clear that i quote us policy with respect to go. that will be determined by our assessment of israel's immediate action on the steps. and that is by far the crew is hints of conditionality. for military to israel, something that many have been asking for months now, and that's something that the us does with every other allies. so the killing of the 7 will to central kitchenaid work, i think as a piece to mocking inflection point. if providing support of israel as russia, as,

as it's now in, quote, direct confrontation with nato, that comment from the kremlin came as nato considers, giving long term military aid to ukraine. so far, ukraine has been getting weapons from individual nato member nations, but not from the alliance itself. on thursday, member states again vowed to keep up their support to key of at a celebration of nato's 75th anniversary and brussels nato at 75. but things aren't getting any easier with age. the alliance is facing huge challenges from the threat posed by russia and ukraine and beyond to potential 2nd, donald trump presidency in the united states. trump is a nato critic. but the blocks chief has told the w about the need for united stand . i expect that regardless of the outcome of the united states, the not, the states will remain

a storm shaped lot. because that is in the use of security interest. the u. s. stronger with naples, done with alternate though. still to head off the trunk threat. start and burke has made a proposal for needle members to set up a 100000000000 euro fund to provide military a to ukraine over the next 5 years. he says, nato should have a more direct role in delivering that aid. we have to remember that the criticism of, from a former president, donald trump, and also from others, united states, has not been mainly against ne, to, because being against nato allies. nope. paying, you know, financial and the good news is that the nato allies, including germany, a many others on all really stepping up and investing more in defense. but it's still unclear whether the 100000000000 euro proposal will be accepted by nato members who take decisions by consensus hungry has already voice. it's all position

when it comes, as russia has intensified. it's michelle attacks on ukraine in recent weeks. and ukraine's foreign minister has reportedly cast out on nato's ability to collect the funds with the war. now, when it's 3rd year, he also said that what the country really needs is more air defense systems from the west. i don't want to spoil the party, but of course my message is a birthday party, but my main main main message today will be better because saving you create your live savings for an economy saving pregnancy just depends on the availability of categories and other air defense systems seem ukraine and we're talking about petra's, because it's still in the system that can intercept ballistic missiles. western allies have been hesitant on this point, but for ukraine, that would be cause for the biggest celebration of all

the, with numerous conflicts now raging around the world and the perceived threat from russia growing here in europe. germany is embarking on an overhaul of its armed forces, defense minister, boars. the story is looking to streamline the country's military commands. the story as, as the shake up is aimed at making the bundle. they are more agile and more efficient and more combat ready. it's a 1st important step to make germany's military more combat ready, defense minister bull has bestowed hills, announced a long way to plan, to restructure the german armed forces party gets um, i'd say today is the signal of change. our common goal is to reorganize the bundles best structures so that it is ultimately prepared in the event of an emergency if it needs to defend this. in the event of one of my officers day after rushes full scale invasion of ukraine,

the german government vowed to increase funding for its long neglected armed forces . well also, making them structurally more efficient. the boom display of the future will have a new central command and the dedicated cyber department, the restructuring is meant to make germany in the words of the defense minister more capable of the other. this indeed, we will know that the security threats in europe have intensified. it must be clear to everyone that we're defending a country under alliance spot those. and with this step, we're also making it clear that no one should even think of attacking us as nato territory. not to give beat, i forgot what the reform doesn't do is address the boom display as problems with under staffing or the need for more funding. let's take a look now at some other stories making news around the world. former us president donald trump to suffer to legal setbacks. a judge in georgia rejected his request

to dismiss the case on election interference. while a judge in florida rejected trumps cause to dismiss a case, alleging he kept classified records. after leaving office. the spanish coast guard has rescued 73 migrants from a wooden boat in the seas of the canary islands. the migrants were brought to the island of grand canaria, about 160 kilometers from west africa, the los angeles police and the f. b. i are investigating the soft of $30000000.00 from the money storage facility thieves broke into the building on easter sunday with out setting off any alarms. that's one of the biggest cash heist in us history. and denmark has closed the air space and shipping traffic, and one of the world busiest ceilings due to a faulty missile launcher. the incident happens during

a naval exercise in the great belt straits, the main maritime access to the baltic. sea authorities say the fault of board and naval frigate made an accidental launch possible, along with a risk of falling missile fragments. the taiwanese rescuers are working to reach scores of people trapped after wednesday's earth. quick as a massive clean up operation begins, at least 10 people were killed and over a 1000 injured in the magnitude 7.4 quake. it was the islands, worst earthquake and a quarter of a century dw, correspond to james tater travel to the worst hed city while yeah. and ty, ones, east, beam. taiwan is a mountain mister rocha national park dramatic bank draw up for a dramatic rescue. this is the moment 6 corey workers. what alex, its safety from the area just north of quantity and the city coast is to the center of the most popular as quite to strike taiwan in 25 years. the rugged landscape is

where hundreds of people remain trapped, mostly by land slides which are blocked, roads and tunnels. many remain missing nearly 48 hours since the quick strong involved in off the shops continue to whipple through the city as clear up operations go from the way the inside of this 15 story residential tab block because among the was tense, when we arrived, officials were squeezing residence in fluid by fluid to assess the damage to the total risky, rucker luncheon being took us inside to the foundations of this building, remain large name tags, but the details really have come crashing down over here we have running water from a bus more to pipe, and that's why in this building and many buildings across the hall in till thursday is the saying, it's still too dangerous to residence, to retire. in the immediate aftermath, our aim is to save as many people as possible. but after that,

we're also trying to do as much as we can to help people recover whether that's rebuilding or coming the emotional physical impact on one of the outside residents describe their response of to seeing their homes for the 1st time. since the trend of those who don't see it as was when we went into our house, almost everything was on the slow. and so going up there was a motion lights, half down, as most people are dealing with it quite well. we can't control as quick software. oh, okay, cool. so many taiwan has at least controlled the extensive destruction of quick proofing regulations. mean seems like this in quality and of the exception notes. the rules are correspond to james taylor filed that report. he told us more about how people are quote, coping in the quakes aftermath and the city of qual, yeah, which was close to the epicenter. the what's happening behind us here is these people residents of this building and the fiber gate is taking them up to the homes

floor by full um, so that they can collect personal belongings, but they're only allowed to collect important belongings. increase the they're not allowed to stay in the building for too long because they're all concerns about the structural integrity of it. and as i mentioned, those, those conditions inside the building remain, it pretty treacherous and that's also our authorities of saying that people call and return it to this building so far as so many of the people that you see behind to say will be staying in the back to ation shelters or friends homes. and so that's really the story that's emerging from the south quake in taiwan because coming into the city this morning, you really notice the, the impacts of this creek is definitely evidence. you can see the destruction is clear here, but what's, what's crucial is that the destruction isn't close. so i'm not really a testament i thing to the stringent measures. it's high. one is pushing in terms of us quite proofing, building over the past couple of decades. and that's why we've seen this big difference this for you. so number of people that have been killed by the south

quake versus the number of people that have been injured and which is now suppose to it was dw correspondent james cheddar reporting from quality anti one. and now a major tourist destination is set to get more expensive. venice is preparing to roll out a 5 year old entry fee to the city is part of a new strategy to combat over tourism. the city announced the new day tripper fee last year after the un nearly added it to west of endangered world heritage sites. menissi is more than $30000000.00 visitors per year, putting pressure on its infrastructure from april 25th on though tourists will have to present q r codes as proof of payments during spot checks. those who don't have a code and aren't staying, and ben is over night will be subject to fines of up to 300 years. and you're up to date, but stay with us up next on dw, a documentary on the lives of the,

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