the, the, this is dw news y from berlin. the us president puts forward a proposal for a ceasefire in gosh, time to begin this new hostages to come home for 0 to be secure to the shop for you to stop time for this, for 2 joe biden. burgess, both sides to accept the deal, which would see the release of hostages and the withdrawal of israeli forces from guns. also coming indians go to the polls in the final round of their national elections. after weeks of voting, they looked set to hand a 3rd term, the prime minister never engine loading the

i michael local, welcome. us president. joe biden has presented a proposal for a permanent ceasefire in gaza bite and says the plan was put forward by israel. it would unfold in 3 phases and assure the return of his really hostages and the reconstruction of garza. a mouse has released a statement saying it views the proposal positively by didn't, has urge both sides to accept the ceasefire. this is truly a decisive moment. is made their proposal moss as it wants to cease fire. this do is an opportunity to improve whether they really need a mouse needs to take a deal. as i know there are those it is real who will not agree with this plan and will call for an award to continue indefinitely saw summer. even in the government

coalition. i ask you to take a step back and think what will happen if this moment is lost. you can't lose this moment. it's time to begin this new stage. the hostage is to come home for israel to be secure and the suffering to stop is time for this war 2. and we'd like to give you a look at the proposal in more detail. president biden said that in a 1st phase, last thing 6 weeks is real and him us would enter a full and complete cease fire is really forces would withdraw from populated areas of gaza. moss would release a number of hostages, including the elderly women and the wounded. in exchange, israel would release hundreds of palestinian detaining humanitarian aid for guys, it would search at this point with at least $600.00 trucks being allowed into gaza each day. in the proposals,

the 2nd phase of moss would release all remaining living costs. abuse, including mail is really soldiers. all hostilities would end and is really forces would fully withdraw from all of gaza. once the steps have been accomplished, a moss would hand over the remains of all dead hostages. it still holding rubble in kansas city's would then be cleared and reconstruction of the territory backed by the us. europe and international institutions would begin. news of the proposal comes as un official say, children or now starving and gaza, for lack of a the un has renewed it's appeals to israel to follow international law regarding safe passage of food and humanitarian supplies. the far too little aid is reaching people and gaza. the w h o has issued an alert after survey found more than 4 in 5 children under the age of 5 had gone

a full day without any meals. these are children on to 5 who are not getting food all day and that was in the last 3 days before the so think so you ask on the supplies, getting through know you an agency say not enough food is getting to people in order to prevent a famine? well israel says it is allowing more aid and to gaza. agencies say they cannot pick up or distribute food inactive war zones. you continue to insist that these radio for cheese obligation under the little or to facilitate delivery of 8 does not stop at the border. it does not stop when you drop off just a few meters across the board and then drive away and then leave it to humanitarian to drive through, back to combat souls, which they cannot do with military operations. hampering

a deliveries their calling on israel to respect to international law, facilitating the safe passage of life saving relief and a renewed appeal. dw correspond to rebecca raters, is following the story from jerusalem. i asked her if the ceasefire deal presented by biting is really and is really proposal. it's certainly being sold as an, as riley deal. but of course the us has been key. negotiate is along with egypt and guitar right through out this a side process. they have been hammering out various integrations of deals some more favorable to i'm also has them on some more favorable to the as riley, the moms. but as with tacit approval from these really sign, it certainly being sold as something that has come from israel. the though it has tested approval, doesn't mean it has final approval and there are still hurdles to overcome. even if i'm asked to agree to this, do it still has to go to the security cabinet and get government approval. and

you've heard in that speech there from president joe biden, urging the members who may, who may a more light and most likely to strike down such a deal urging them to, in fact, go ahead with that. so i think that the, the fact that president biden is announcing this deal does carry some weight and suddenly he's putting pressure on both sides to agree to it that they use really prime ministers under a lot of pressure from all sides. we've been close to a cease fire deal in recent months, but it wasn't re, does this seem different? well, it does in many ways full. the raisins i've outlined already, and the fact that this is already a deal that is very similar to one that has has already agreed to. it must have been signaling, you know, that they looking at it in a positive manner. so, you know, we very well could say a mazda, great to such a deal, and then it will just take the government to, to, to get it over. the line is really government that is so it does have a different flavor to it. this, this deal that we're seeing here. i mean the deal itself is similar to ones we've

seen in the past with it may say a different feeling from both sides. that so dw corresponded rebecca rivers as always. many thanks. rebecca of voting for the final phase in india's general electron has started today after pools open 6 weeks ago. more than 100000000 people are registered to vote across several regions including the key punjab state in the north votes are also being cast in prime minister new random modi's constituency. and they can do wholly city of the nazi election is being seen as a referendum on the hindu nationalist leader who is predicted to win a 3rd term. in total, nearly a 1000000000 people have been eligible to cancel their balance. i asked the w correspondent, shoulder yadda off in deli, how crucial the city of o no c for moody's, hold on power is with michael. it's the holy city in india and prime ministers, brando handle majority and politics is huge. the popular hill, i remember in 2014,

who decided to contest from this very could constituency. and he went on to become the prime minister of the country. um, so it's really a foregone conclusion on the ground that he is going to win this time as well, but what the exports and really watching for is the margin of the victory. because, you know, we've had some disillusionment with the prime minister and he's government due to issues of unemployment and in place and in mind to 20 percent of the population of bottom to see is the minority of muslims. and they haven't been very happy to hear prime ministers. porter rising statements are doing collection account bidding in the last few months. but that said, there are other constituencies also and with the dish, the state of it's a for there should be a bottom to see also is which are going to force today. i didn't, even though we said that the road to the indian parliament goes through the state of with different days because it sense the maximum, the maximum number of for, and peace to the indian parliament. and so which remains to be seen,

whether that ruled or to the indian parliament is going to be smooth of a rough flood for the prime minister. well, voting will also take place. important job. what more can you tell us? a wonderful job. the story is slightly different, my code, it's an agrarian state of and it scores the breadbasket of the country of fall, most mostly from a majority of the voting bloc here. and they have been at loggerheads with driving us to move these government for the last few years. in 2020, the foremost had blocked the national highway that connected the city of delhi, of a, with the neighboring states for months and, and, uh, and it was uh, a 100 with heavy forced by the more the government. and so the, the families that have really not forgotten that in fact, over 5 minutes to move the web to meant for election competing in know, fox have been job in the last few weeks. he was met with the heavy resistance of farm, was glad to welcome him with black flags,

but they were kept away from his valleys by uh, security forces. so that pretty much gives you a sense of the disconnect that the farm was fees with the government of prime minister movie. experts believe that a 3rd consecutive term for moody and his ruling b, j. p is a foregone conclusion. after traveling all across the country and speaking to voters, what's your impression what it's really a mix reaction that we've got from people on the ground. as i said, you know, the burning issues really of this election have been unemployment, especially amongst the youth on information that the country has been really gone to us with. people have expressed the disillusionment and the disappointment of with, with the a government of a prime minister movie, which has ruined the country for over 10 years for, for 10 years now. but really the exit polls will start coming in after 6 pm today. oh, but the bullying and so you know, in the last,

in the mom was elections that we've had the over almost 2 months. so we'll be able to start to see of, you know, examples what people have been telling us uh what, what their opinions are. um, uh, so wait and watch for uh, june 4th, when the results come out, dw correspondence shelter yadda off in deli, thank you. a brief look now it's some other stories making news at this hour. south africans governing party is headed for significant losses and it's parliamentary elections. the and she has received 40 percent of votes. with nearly all ballots counted, it will need coalition partners for the 1st time since free elections were held at the end of apartheid 30 years ago. the united nations is warning of an imminent risk of salmon ensued. as the agency says, the civil war has left some 18000000 people acutely hungry and 3600000 children acutely melner fighting between so don's army and paramilitary groups broke out in

april of last year. several people, including a police officer, had been injured and a knife attack in the german city of mannheim. the suspect targeted a gathering of an antique is when good police shot and seriously wounded the suspect. german media say he's a 25 year old f can. germany has authorized ukraine to use weapons supplied by berlin to strike unlimited military targets. inside russia. it marks a policy shift and follows a similar us decision to allow ukraine to use american weapons on targets on russian soil. the loser restrictions only applied to the eastern hockey region where ukraine is struggling to hold off rushes of latest advantage. this is what remains of the town or for john skin, ukraine's harkey for region. ukrainian troops have been fighting here for weeks trying to hold back. relentless russian attacks many know believe they have

a better chance to do so. germany, it has become the latest need to concrete, to allow kids to use weapons supplied by berlin for limited strikes inside russia. the, let's go from the sound in recent weeks. fresh has prepared, coordinated and carried out attacks from positions in the heart because area in particular, from the directly adjacent brushing border region to merge them together were convinced that ukraine has the right under international law to defend itself against these attacks. young gentleman, his decision follows a similar one from the us. american supply weapons can now be used to come to russian attacks near the heart region and ask the authorization to the various rational i guess pression forces that are asking and then

he's going to do what we've been doing as necessary adjust the key if has well comes in use, but it's unclear how it will impact the situation on the ground. so from my understanding of ukraine still has a limit placed upon the ability to use those weapons. so those weapons are supposed to be used only in harkey region in or it is a strike russian positions across the board are. but it doesn't necessarily mean that the ukrainian forces can use as it comes to strike any military targets any further than that. so it is very limited in scope, it seems, and we don't know what kind of a fact it will have, especially as these things are being announced publicly. so russia has enough time to prepare for that. russia has denounced the decision accuse and need to of

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