to the business, dw, news live from berlin, israel and hezbollah escalate the conflict in the middle east. but pull back from the brink of all out of work as real says it's war plans destroyed thousands of rocket launchers and what it caused preemptive strikes in southern lebanon for has the last sized it's sense hundreds of missiles and drones, against, as we're also in the program the billionaire boss of the messaging app telegram is held in france. authorities accused pablo to do rob of turning a blind item criminals using hasn't encrypted apps or telegram interests. he has

nothing to hide and crossing continents from asia to europe, through his temples, fast flowing waters, thousands of swimmers take part in the annual race across the bus for the david love. it's welcome to the program israel and has the law have stepped up the conflict in the middle east trading heavy fire, but have so far stopped short of all out war as real size. it struck hezbollah militants in lebanon to prevent a major attack on his rarely territory. has belie, says it's at assessing the impact of hundreds of rockets and drones. it launched against israel. the early morning in northern israel. vendome, it springs into action as has a bill of begins,

what the militant group calls phase. one of an attack on is real. hundreds of rockets and drones are fired towards 11 military sites, retaliation it says for the killing of one of its commanders in b route last month. as well as, as it struck a military base near tell a v. a claim is real denies, as well as g. besides the gases ceasefire talks as the reason for their delayed response to their commander's death in a televised address. well su 4 and they started saying that there will be a stop to the aggression. and that there was going to be a ceasefire. i understand to hold off. and that's why we took our time and i said that we didn't tell anyone we would take our time. but honestly, we did to get room for these negotiations and so suddenly heavy in the fall of the he warned that it hasn't been less response may not yet be over. the israel says it began pre emptive air strikes on sunday against hezbollah targets and loving on

after they detected plans of an attack against his territory. the idea of claimed a 100 fighter jets have struck and destroyed a thousands of hezbollah rocket launcher barrels aimed at israel. it also released these images. it says are the hezbollah drone being intercepted? israel's prime minister issued a warning after an emergency national security cabinet meeting. i don't want to push him out, so we're determined to do everything to protect our country, returned the residence of the north to that homes and continued to follow a simple rule. whoever holds us, we hunt them sundays escalation to further heightens tensions as talks to reach a cease fire and a hostage release deal and gaza continue. i laura blumenfeld is a former advisor to the us state department as really palestinian negotiating team

. i asked her whether the attacks between israel and has the law represent a brief escalation or if we should expect to see more, you is a significant escalation, but it is the middle east. there were a bombs in the morning and by the afternoon in israel at 11 on the beaches were open and in egypt to cease fire. tough attempting to continued. you know, it's middle east math. there are many open accounts. so i do think to answer your question, there will be more unfortunately, and his prime minister, netanyahu himself said this is not the end of the story. that was his quote. i mean, there's still, you know, open account with a who sees there's more potentially with his bar this really civilians can return to their homes, which are those villages right now in the north of school starting, it will be the 2nd year. there's really children aren't able to attend school in their home towns along that northern border. and of course there's the ron hanging out there. so i'm, i'm sorry to say at the start over a week that you, this is not the end, middle east analyst laura blumenfeld. they're, well,

israel was able to shoot down most of hezbollah as projectiles using its multi 1000000000 euro missile defense systems. they've already been put to the test more than once this year. a faithful 2020 full israel sustains a massive mit solve by rush from iran. more than 300 drones rockets and miss solves form a coordinated attack the israel's ad defend systems. it's the greatest challenge yet. israel claims it intercepted, 99 percent of those hostile missiles and drains. so how just as a chief, that kind of success, it's down to a multi layered defense approach comprising a number of moving parts. in some cases, quite literally. truck towed missile units form the intimate display of the and a bit tackles short range stress such as rockets and voltage and was developed with

help from the us. it's. it's intercepted thousands of broke it since it was instituted in 2011. and israel claims it has a 90 percent success rate. next comes david sling to mid range threats that is designed to shoot down ballistic missiles followed from between 40 kilometers to 300 kilometers away. again, it was developed in collaboration with the us. and the alchemist last is the arrow for the long range ballistic missiles. it's operates outside the site miss fit in space, which allows for the safe disposal of any non conventional will heads. regardless of the methods, intercepting rockets is a costly business. the cost of $1.00 arrow intercept to me, so it's between $2.00 and $3500000.00. according to media reports, a 110 of them we used to defend against the radiant attack. suggesting a cost of $385000000.00. the mid range rootkits from the david sling system are

about $1000000.00 each. estimates put the cost at $550000000.00 to $1100000000.00. just the april operation. there is another important le 2 is rails. apple as a key part of its defense picture. and in addition to all this, that renew tools coming online, such as the ladies a pallet and beam set to be integrated into israel. multi layered and seemingly successful at defense system. supporters of the founder of the telegram messaging app or demanding his release. after his arrest at a paris airport, french authorities accuse russian born billionaire powell door of failing to stamp out criminal activity on the platform. the white paper played the logo of the

telegram messaging at support to supply them to leave them outside the french embassy. you must call in protest of the f fondest arrest. me a pet i suppose to because i feel sorry for him. the russian paula man's deputy speaker is among those calling for 2 or 3 weeks. the people i have 2 of should be appreciated in respect to that is that they should not be in prison. the value of telegram is already bigger than the gas problem. once again, the west has trampled on freedom of speech. freedom instead of having to do or of course, in fact, it was restrictions on freedom. the drove door of a russian phone bill in there to leave the country. he says he refused to share use of data with the russian authorities. durham who now holds multiple citizen ships, including french, found a telegram in 2013. the platform has been praised for keeping use as dates

confidential. but do ralph has also been criticized for failing to stop criminal into groups using telegraph. a few in moscow also refuses to moderate content of x. defend a door of insert the hatch deck $35.00 bill the telegram platform into and said that it's subset to claim that the platform or its own are responsible for the use of that blood. german prosecutor say a 26 year old syrian man has confessed to killing 3 people in a knife attack at a festival. investigators are looking for links between the suspect and the so called as lama state. the tear group claims it was behind the rampage, but has provided no evidence. i suspected kayla little wayne ankle

chains and handcuffs. police have transferred the man they believe, responsible for the zoning and not for attack to appear in court and calls with the 26 year old syrian was detained on saturday night after giving himself up and confessing to the crime. media report say he was wearing blood stain clothing. he's a risk, came after a day, long man hunt, which included this police right of a hospital for asylum seekers. not far from the c know friday's rampage. thousands have gathered in central zoning and for a concert. and street festival. when a man begins driving people at random, killing 3 and wounding 8 others, the so called islamic state has claimed responsibility. the groups links to the attack a still being investigated. jimmy's president from florida stopped my called for

better security for the public. goodness knows, we have to better protect ourselves from a tax lock that sits in as high as that. but with regard to terrorism this month also made an expansion of houses and deb before this a central zoning and remains, quote, adults. as police continue this search for evidence, locals remaining shock over the brutal attacks at a festival. suppose to mock the cities 650 s anniversary on a day when celebration should have been taking place. instead, the people of zoning and a commemorating the victims of a night of bloodshed, the how long does it take to swim from one continent to another? maybe not as long as you think. if you're in 13 thousands of swimmers from around

the world of take into the waters, off is symbol for the annual race across the bus for us and dw correspondent and julia han watched them go or east stumbles, iconic balls far straight. is normally a very busy shipping name put once a year. it belongs to swim is more than 2800 people jumped at the challenge and swim from one continent to another on sundays, in which is one of the wells most popular open water races. the balls for us was close to shipping traffic for a few hours and knowing participants to make some legendary $6.00. hello me to swim from east to move asian side to the finish line and your it's pretty exciting even if you're only here as a spectator. raise this challenge is by the way, not only assistance but swim is also need to navigate the powerful current.

otherwise they risk being swept away and not making it across the finish line. some contestants of professional swim is all those braves on my task and they have trained extensively for the state. the tradition began in 1989 with just a few dozen swimmers. this year participants came from move in 70 different countries. it was something that i wanted to do for 6 years. and now i finally made my dream come true. you can get from one confidence to the other confidence just by swimming. i think that's really fantastic. and that was the aim. like for me to find a guidance, i thought in unit 2, i but i science pointed out, absolutely from them and then. and then the adjuster splitting that the and that, so, you know, there's been this use cross continental champion, comes from tacky to come allergens when the 6.5 kilometers and 45 minutes and 27 seconds. the foss,

this woman was totally out of the one finished in just under 47 minutes. such so many here. it's not so much about winning that about coming together and sharing a unique experience in the same is voltage between 2 continents. now how old is too old to jump out of an airplane? one british woman obviously thinks this guy is the limit man at bailey celebrated her 102nd birthday by going sky diving, becoming the case oldest parachute. but she shared her glory to use the jump to raise 10 and a half 1000 bureaus for charity and ad bailey has had her share of adrenalin rushes to celebrated for 100, the birthday racing a ferrari. what i've seen it while you're up to date,

but keep it here on dw of next the challenge of providing a better education for hundreds of millions of the world's most disadvantaged children. i'm david levitz. thanks for watching the .