the, the business need to be near as long from berlin and joe biden, bows out with an address from the overall so i've decided the best way for the past the tours for new generation. and us presidents makes way for his b p, after weeks of pressure and questions about his health. also coming up the difficult task of counting the bodies in god. how keeping accurate figures is becoming increasingly challenging, and why the numbers are being disputed and climate protesters close down germany, airport in frankfort, active is flu themselves to the,

to our american temporarily. hot flights. we bring you an update from tyson k me hips, taiwan, extreme winds, and heavy rings, batter the islands as residents hunker down for the worst storm in almost a decade. the welcome to the show. i'm the co fairly us presidential volume is given a rare oval office address last nights to explain to the american people why he has stepped aside making room for come on harris and the presidential race. his speech came after weeks of pressure and doubts over his capacity to run again for the presidency, drew back in front of the cameras for the 1st time since biling out of the race to be re elected for joe biden, laid out the reasons for his decision democracy as no racial wakes,

has become clear to me. i need you 9 my party in this critical and better. i believe i recognize presence, my leadership in the world. my vision for america's future. all marriage and the 2nd term. nothing. nothing can come in the way of saving our democracy. that includes personal ambition. so i've decided the best way for it is a past the tours from new generation. as the best way to unite our nation pressure on biden, to step aside, had been growing since water. many democrats felt was a disastrous based performance against the republican nominee. donald trump, in june, in the days and weeks that followed very public gaffes by bite and put in tooting coating president savanski of ukraine. president putin led to more calls for him to

buy lived of the race attempts by biden and his staff to allay fears about his age and cognitive ability. the little to quell the cold for a new democratic candidate. and to know that he's out of the race by made it clear who he wants to see, winning the white house in november. just a few months. the american people choose the course of america's future. i made my choice. i made my views now. i'd like to thank our great vice president campbell harris experienced she's tough, she's capable, she's been an incredible partner me, leader for our country. one of several important endorsements for coming to harris . the vice president is already busy campaigning to win the presidency, despite having not yet officially being named the democratic nominee. the parties convention is expected to decide that next month. my kelburn is

a postdoctoral research are focusing on us the politics of the european university via trina. welcome to the w that, what do you make of binds explanation? that he is stepping aside to save democracy. i thank you very much for having me on the 1st thing to say is, is very clear and bite and wants to this to know in this stage that he's been pushed into this site. despite that, he says no, this to speak this line about merits. seeing a 2nd to makes it really clear the fight didn't really choose this. this has been kind of pushed off upon him. having got to this position however, and he's in a place where he can't really talk about his kind of age or his purpose. ok. penalties, and the reason for that is that he talks about those things that he's kind of giving the republican party a ready made attached to the line against it. because then the republican policy and just to the straight away turn around the side. what, okay, if you're not fit or you're too old, so to do this job that you need to resign immediately. so what he ends up having to

do is to kind of lead on implicitly these kind of cool hit the head polity performances that we will see against from i'm like doing so he then also kind of gives himself the spice to, to use this platform that he still has, as the president to, to kind of say the trump is a threat. and so to use this as a kind of attack line against, from an even kind of gone us. i'm assuming that the, his position by saying these lines about putting the country 1st and putting you know, the interest of the country before his art interest. i think that given the opponent, i think very many american voters which struggled to imagine the trunk kind of taking this type of decision inside that for kind of ends on the i'm kind of the most positive ways that the democratic party can see. what's been a pretty chaotic last couple? it's a couple of months. yeah, it is interesting though, what a job. i didn't say that it was becoming increasingly clear that he was not going

to be able to win against donald trump in november. isn't it? again, i think here what we've got is, is kind of a difference between maybe what the democratic party of races have pushed him into . and what his own personal belief might be. um, it is true that the pony had moved and wasn't looking good off to that. i'm pretty disastrous debate performance. but again, we all still many months away from the november election. it's, it's, it's a possibility to say that, you know, there's no chance that what else being equal, he would have, would have been out to, to, to necessarily be drunk. but i think what we still stick to the, in the last few weeks, is pressure from the donors pressure from at least within the policy, particularly nancy pelosi, really applying that pressure to him. which is why he doesn't comes out and use it this long about uniting the policy. it's clear that there are parts of the policy that at this point are willing to continue just for him without the simple advice,

thoughts of the party. good, yes, of course. then then wouldn't be election in november. i kept became a very difficult to impulse. yeah. in his speech fine again endorsed his vice president, come on harris, and i want to know from you. is it going to help or heard harris that she's going to be seen as the candidate associated with biden's tenure? and so i think this, this does nothing but help. i think what's happened in the, in the days since the announcement on sunday really is nothing short of miraculous . we, i think most political scientists to focus on us policy politics, which has to do that, you know, the democratic party historically has not always been kind of the most come with natives the most able to act quickly and decisively. and what we've received in terms of the support of kind of so i think the watkins around the capital hers has guaranteed that she'll be the normandy. she already has enough delegates. and it's

really been monumental coordination. and the pop deposit display appears almost entirely unified behind her and the launch the because of the threat trump. and so i think for what we see started sir, is i just wanted to bring in some american voters that we've been speaking to and see how they react with and then get back to you. i don't know. so i just think that it's best for him to just the more about himself right now. his policy is helping his family and his hope his vice president comes through for us. i think it's the greatest thing that could happen for america. we need to be able to get back to somebody that's really thinking properly and that has the sense to run our country. again. i think it's probably for the best i think is cognitive decline is probably made this the right decision for our nation and for himself and his family

. so i would support it. i think he did the right thing. like the broad support there for vitamins decision to withdraw from the race. to what extent do you think the last 9 address and his decision after all will shape his legacy? and uh, so i think unfortunately his legacy will but whatever happens be the site by what happens in november. i think those sites as the, um we'll, we'll kind of reading through indicates that harris when's the election and he will ultimately be hailed as a hero who was able to, you know, his was put country before. so i worry that if trump is ultimately successfully november, then there will be this, this kind of a long set of recriminations about he who knew was about um, biden's house. questions about whether this decision could have been may say in december of last year, which would have enabled the parties to have, you know,

a full prime review process, or maybe even questions about whether he should step down to this stage. and then obviously giving harris the, you know, the full a incumbency advantage. he would come from hub the president. and so i think was to this point advices, might see that what he's done is, is, is, is a no, but himself was asked, i think ultimately this, this decisions will be judged through the prism of november's election as mike hillburn from the european university van trina, thank you so much for those insights. thank you. and we're going to stay in the us for a moment because he's really prime minister benjamin netanyahu has addressed a joint session of congress. they are. he promised to continue the war against thomas and gaza and call them the united states to stand united with israel in his speech. he also defended his country's conduct of the war, which has drawn strong criticism,

even from israel sanchez allies. and he has made that speech and congress as he made a thousands of protesters gathered outside to demand an end to the fight. a standing ovation by us lawmakers for his riley prime minister benjamin netanyahu in his address to a joint session of congress. nothing. yeah. who defended his country's conduct in the fight against a mazda in gauze. uh and uh, for more us support. today is israel flights on the front line of civilization? i to appeal to america. give us the tools faster and we'll finish the job faster. not everyone has welcome nathan yahoo visit to washington. dozens of us lawmakers and blake ought to end up with a standing american congress. woman, especially the lead sign in lee, expressed anger over the number of the scene in skill in gauze

outside the capital building. large number of put testers gathered coupon, flooded and to the war. and the who meditating causes in cause a separate but as to upper classes between police and professors free palestine. we're going to keep fighting once more to stop. and we would like us of any more crimes to stop. it's a disgraceful that they invited him this 5 minutes. so those are not representatives around any mole 70 percent of the population. things you should resign is responsible for a lot of the issues is rarely is facing now, and his government is completely incompetent and they're not able to handle the situation inside the house and,

but nothing yahoo bloss to the demonstrated well, i have a message for these both testers, when the tire and softer on who hang gainesville, cranes, and murder women for not covered their hair, appraising, promoting, and funding you, you have officially become your wants useful idiots. this is nothing yellows 1st visit to the us since the october 7 attacked by a mos on his right and. and he's due to meet the president joe biden on thursday, giving a desk counting gaza is a contentious issue. last run, health ministry in the territory has been offering figure since the beginning of the war and international organizations, including the united nations as well as media organizations often rely on them as they are seen as the best available. but as the figures rise, the task of documenting the depth is becoming more difficult and more disputed. our report assesses the changing process of counting the debt and this conflict. in the

war in gaza, only one institution has been providing detail of death toll the territories health ministry which is overseen by him. us. the ministry collects data from hospitals and regularly updates a central list, including not only the name, sex, and age of the victim, but also their personal identification number. whenever possible. multiple independent studies have shown this list to be trustworthy. in january of this year, even as really intelligence confirmed that the goals and health ministries count roughly match their own estimates, although they remain skeptical of how many casualties are combatants and how many civilians. but now is the word directs on counting, the debt has become more difficult and has led to renewed accusations from israel that the figures are unreliable. with more than 3 out of 4 hospitals damaged or destroyed. the traditional system for establishing a casualty list has all but collapsed more and more how mazda authorities are using

on the ground media reports, and i witness testimony to count bodies. over 30 percent of the health ministries desktop now consists of an identified individuals. and yet, even as it's really authorities draw attention to the increasingly poor quality of data, some independent analysts say the cause of death total could be vastly underestimated . study published earlier in july in the medical journal, the lancet claim that at least 186000 palestinians had most likely died. as a result of these rarely bombing and ground offensive and gaza. a clear picture of the death and destruction will likely emerge after the fighting is over and a non partisan investigation is allowed to take place. i goes back, it is a professor of the royal holloway university of london, and share of every casualty counts and n g o. that is committed to ensure that victims in armed conflicts are recorded, recognized and remembered. welcome to d, w. it's great to have you on the show. now my goal, according to the latest figures published last night by the hum author and ministry

of health and garza over 39000 people have been killed since the war began 9 months ago. how reliable is this number? so i would say that that's a plausible number, but it consists as a report side of 2 components and one component is actually much more credible than the other component. i should say that just yesterday, the ministry of health released another detailed list of victims that has 28185 on it. and that comes from their mort based monitoring system plus a form that people can fill out reporting tests that they know about. so i, i view that $28185.00 as a highly credible rock bottom minimum. the other bid of it, the essentially $10000.00 additional tasks that bring you up to the figure that you just mentioned. there's really a black box and they've never explained where that comes from. they said that it's

based on the liable media reports, but they've, they've never actually publish those notes reports or even a methodology for how they go about compiling them. yeah, i want to talk about methodology because other studies estimate that the number of tests and goals are, could be multiple times higher than those 39 thousands that we were just talking about. how to explain this, this enormous difference as well. really, that letter. i won't even call it a study because it's, it's, it's really more of a joke than a study. i mean that, that, that letter is just not a serious piece of piece, a piece of work, but they're, they're tapping into something that is real. which is that there are some dots that are not directly caused by the conflict in a, in a violent way. so, um, so that's, that's true. there are going to be some tests like that. but the what, where that number comes from is, is,

is really just not serious and in any way that they, they just took 13 other conflicts, none of which really resembles very closely the cause a conflict. and then they use some very poor measurements for indirect depths caused and those, those complex. and then they said, well, it's cause that kind of looks like what happened. and those 13 very to similar conflicts. then there, there, there, click this huge number of taps and it's just, it's not serious and people should just ignore and i got a whole article about this by the way. yeah, a lot of some very, very important context are giving us there. i really appreciate that, and i'd like to focus for a minute on the is really government's perspective and a play, a clip from prime minister netanyahu speaking yesterday at the us congress and then returned to you. that's why, despite all the laws you heard, the warrant garza has one of the lowest ratios of combatants to non combatants casualties in the history of urban warfare. and you want to know where its lowest

and guys it's lowest in roswell. and michael, is there any evidence whatsoever for the claims being made there? 5 prime minister? no, no, no, that's just ridiculous. but what, what is he saying? i but he also said apparently that um there, there are virtually no civilian deaths in rafa. i can tell you, based on the, the latest detailed list of tests that was released by the administrative helped us yesterday. that since the rock blocking invasion began there, there were recorded by the ministry of health, which as you pointed out, has an imperfect monitoring system, right. now, but they still managed to record about 3500 new task. and of those

$1656.00 children under the age of 15. so so it's, it's not anywhere near as, as clean us as soon as he is trying to make it out to be. yeah. and back in, in may benjamin netanyahu himself put the number of deaths in the gaza strip at 30000, saying back then that 14000 of them were said to be combatants, which would leave 16000 civilians. but let's look beyond the fighting. that is happening right now because once the guns fall silent, what will have to be done to establish the real picture? and for us to know the truth, hold this war. this is going to be a major project that is gonna take probably a decade or more to, to complete. we have an excellent starting point. fortunately here, which are those details lists that the ministry of health has been released and

those lists are imperfect. they have many flaws in them. i've written a series of articles that puts a lot of effort into exposing flaws in, in, in those lists. but we must not lose sight of the big picture that those lists are really a gold mine of information. and all subsequent work is going to build on that, but it's going to take a long time. it's going to be a major project, but i'm confident that this is something that is going to happen. and i'm, i'm confident that eventually we're going to have a very clear picture of the desktop, both civilian and non civilian and cause a we talk a lot about numbers here, but your organization precisely strikes to recognize every death from arm conflict as an individual human tragedy how is that possible under the current circumstances in god's well, you know, the scale of it is, it's so fast that,

uh, you know, you can't really give every individual his or her to let me not, not, not even close but, but really i think the place to start is by listing each person killed by name and then trying to say something about each one of those individuals. and when i refer to a project that will happen when the fighting finally stops that will take at least a decade. this is going to be a central part of it, the we, we want to produce as complete a list as possible of the people who had been killed. and then we want to know something about each one, the circumstances of their that's what they were. but, but of course, no human can keep all of that information back in their, their mind as it set so large. but the number of projects that, that attempt to do this and it's, it's an important undertaking and we absolutely must do it because that was michael stagen,

chair of every casualty accounts. thank you so much for your time. you're welcome. please be here. and a quick look now and some other stories making news around the world today is really military says the bodies of 5 hostages have been recovered from gauze on israel. defense forces say 3 of the hostages are civilians and that they died. and how mosque of devotee to others for soldiers killed them? the october 7 terror attacks their bodies were taken into the causes strep. that was rarely a says it was sanctioning 7 is really settlers and the occupied west bank because of their involvement in violent attacks against palestinians. it's really a prime minister anthony albany. c says settlements in the west bank are an impediment to a 2 state solution. you and the us of already sanction sometimes rarely settlers of a discount. wildfires of hip canada's british columbia and albert of provinces authorities. i've ordered evacuations. the flames are also threatening the popular

jasper national park. and on berta with around 600 fires already recorded in the region, there worries that canada could see another brutal wildfire season like last year. germany's bradford airport has resumed operations after a temporarily suspended flights due to a climate protest. several activists reportedly broke through a fence overnight include themselves to the tarmac, police have now detained 8 people. the group, last generation posted photos of a protest. her own acts assigned reading, oil kills and d, w. i sound kind of sex. dana is out frankfurt airport, following the story for us. and what's the latest has normal surface resumed already? yes, so patients have reviewed on all the for a run, we've at the airport now. now this is the busiest airport in germany to do their what about 140 flies that were canceled?

this didn't cancellations to can see on the board behind me. the people still here struggling with the kiosk that ensued people, or whoever made plans because these, that a, you know, school holidays. they were trying to get to, uh, the, you know, their families, families. so their plans were disrupted. i spoke to some of them here and they said that some of them said why, and they agreed with the other professors on the demand. they're not happy with the way the academy out the school tests. so this was the old building of feeling here of anger and frustrations people are still trying to rebuild this. been stranded here with their families. and tell us more about those active is what exactly are there demands of the the activists are uh, from an organization called the last generation. and now each of them have been detained by the drum and police. uh, they basically got uh wires. uh uh,

the bed in middle of the airport and entered the dial max to major to 2 of the major tom maxwell occupied a 2 day morning. and that demand is that they're asking the german government to formulate and lead with the agreement on effecting oil, gas and cold by 20 towed be. so they want a global agreement and they have vile to continue with these route. this unless these demands are made. now these disruptions are not isolated, they will other similar disruptions that have taken place in other european cities, including of the heat, through airport and the also airport. so they are a part of the global lines of at least 10 organizations in europe and north america . that was dw reporter, a concept succeeding i thank you so much. typhoon k. me is tracking across the street of taiwan to mainland china, which is freezing for strong winds and heavy rainfall. the tropical storm is left

a trail of devastation across taiwan, killing at least 2 people on the island. 9 sailors missing after their cargo ship sank and stormy weather type, food came. he has left a trail of destruction in taiwan and the philippines is the strongest tropical storm to hit taiwan and 8 years. now the type food is set to batter, mainland china is food you and province with strong winds in torrential rainfall. john is national marine forecast or issue to red alert, the highest warning level for a storm surge and the province soon as you handle with local media showed preparations and food you in for the impending deluge, all trains out of food, you end up being suspended. china has been experiencing a summer of extreme weather, with heavy rains across the eastern side, coming as much of the north as swelter to under success of heat waves.

when use authorities were forced to shop schools and offices council military maneuvers and evacuate peasants from landslide prone areas. more than 200 people were injured and 2 killed. before came, he made land full at around midnight, a motorist and the southern culture long since he was crushed by a tree. while a woman in eastern body and died after part of the building fell on her car. tawanda still experiencing persistent downpours and floating in the sides floating everywhere. it's all flooded. there's water in the washing machine water and the refrigerator came. he parked wind speeds of a 190 kilometers per hour, or is it slammed into the island? a cargo ship sank off the southern coast. a 9 crew members are missing. tammy also exacerbated seasonal rains in the philippines, triggering flooding and land slides,

streets and there were devastated a tanker car in 1400000 liters of oil sank off the coast. of the filipino capitol is a tar, he's racing to contain a spill the region as well used to tropical storm, some july to october. but experts say climate change has increased the intensity of type food season leading to worst flooding and heavier rainfall. and then the united states fishermen off the coast of new hampshire countered a dangerous moment as a breach in well crashed into a both cap sizing for 7 meter of vessel. the 2 fishermen on board were rescued after being thrown into the sea. neither the man nor the well were injured. marine experts say the will probably didn't know the boat was there. and with that, you're all up to date up next. how international drug smugglers are using ireland as a way into europe. that's and focus on your and after the break. more news,

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