the, the business, the, the news live from berlin, news riley, striking b roots kills the top pest will come under lebanese officials. so you got these ports and people were killed in one of the deadliest tax on lebanon's conference, all in the decades. also coming up, 17000000 voters had to the fullest possible lancaster presidential election. the people will decide who will stay of the country also, if it's west of icon on the crisis and ease the results in social on the

i. d michael junior and you are welcome to the program. lebanon's hezbollah has confirmed that one of its top commanders was killed in these right. the strike on the route authorities, the at least 14 people were killed with 1000 small one that the ron box has. but i'm alicia, the size mates at a terrace group by many countries. these are all strike comes just these up to thousands and 11. and what engineered by booby trap communication devices, something to you and says code constitutes a wall crime to apartment building through and in this densely populated neighborhood in the root. the strike happened during rush hour as people were leaving work and children heading home from school. oh, it's late to rescue teams. we're still on the scene looking for a new one,

still trapped onto the rubble. he thought he's real, says civilians being used as a human shield, but has bullied us and the quote into israel come on to a brushing my to one of the most amounts of man on the planet head guy that's here on the ground with all the has bullet approaches on the residential building. if he's the bottom, you've got to push back from the little bottle to north of the lead time either will the blow matic efforts as well. would it be left with no choice but to use any means within our rights to defend? we'll see. do then and enable the back will use of the knows the withdrawn to the home in a coil, the policies to act. now, black now before we late because we don't want to see escalation in the region. we have no intention to enter or will we pre bala and live on on?

but we cannot continue with the way these people 11 on the lines between what is bull and what isn't becoming increasingly blood war. i don't know if it started or not, but nothing. it's reassuring it. it's clear that the 2 sides on that stuff let them know. i'm not afraid for myself. i just want the country to get better. but it's not. the boy just keeps going to the, i don't know we're, we're hitting for bucks, watson. and the fierce of not knowing, with this flurry of tit for tat tax heading, arising by the date was before israel's, the root strike has bull upon to know them. israel with thousands of records, and this came up to the deadly explosions of hezbollah pages. and all the communication devices earlier this week is really has neither confirmed nor denied its involvement in the bloss of the devices. the united nations high commission to

for human rights, has condemned to devise explosions in lebanon as violation of international law. the un spokesperson intern ditched old politics to de escalate immediately, saying that the region is on the brink of like a tester fee. and that's bringing, how does that yak option left? the senior director of the context them as a product. hello and welcome sat now in a few days, there's been pages and walkie talkie explosions. and now last night's asked, right, how we can this has, but right now at the moment is but i is the really big situation on the one hand, it cannot trust it's communication devices which have tried to switch to different means of communications via to make its communication system more secure and mouth, not that has proved extremely unreliable, even deadly. and on the other hand, it just lost again within the space of

a couple of weeks. the 2nd didn't come on optimal product, so i kid was promoted after his previous as i was killed by israel. so is, but i is in a very, very weak state right now, but this is of course only temporarily. communications. uh, it systems can be replaced also they will be of course, a replacement rocky. right. right. and the, it's been a 10 foot tots, you know, between these 2 sites for a while. now how could has full, i responded to the latest attack to what do you spell that has very few options. uh, it is very clear. um, even from the words of those around, i will admit that this was a heavy hit when the pages and the bulk of talk explode it that is black or neither . one on nor you, ron, really want to see this slide into a major regional and military confrontation that leaves us with very few options. i'm clearly these reading the strikes prior to getting a key which targeted rocket launches indicated that these ramp is assuming

a large rocket and drone garage towards northern israel and maybe even central israel, for which is spot to absolute gas to capability by now. but that's pretty much the only option that is, but i could do any intrusion into his way to territory any larger scale chairs the attacks inside stroke or race past the risk that those within this way the government and brad defense, witness background has been the most outspoken among those who really think that this is now the time to deal with this, paula would then finally get to go ahead for a larger scale, possibly even not invasion and deliver. wow, all that is going on on the front. it's for it to ask where this lease the latest, where the length is escalation. nice the war in guys can these are all a forward it to front wall. a well, i mean is right, has already transferred the 98. the reason out of cars right into the northern part of israel, that was a decision by the war cabinet in israel

a couple of days ago that now the northern front is becoming more important. does that really, really charity is done? even these really side had to announce that it had to strike more or less the military control structure of almost in gaza. and now the question is, what is going to be sustainable situation and got the who's going to ask minutes to pick out the slip and how can the idea of while moving troops out of the causes and strip actually prevent? i'm us from coming back. amy vacuum that there's really many trans security forces these behind and gaza. will of course mean i must re imagined there is simply no other policy union faction in guys that, that can administer this territory unless vpn is left to allow to go in or the un or some international troops. why all sides claim that the one to prevent a wide regional war. but what's the risk of user all gets it into a why the escalation involved in the run and its proxy is based on all of that's

going on. this is a very tense situation right now. so this newest attempt now to really degrade his block, possibly force it to accept un resolution from 2006 and remove it, stoops behind for the time. the river is of course, extremely high risk and debit. clearly 60280000 is right, is up not being able to go back to their home since october last year and then older as well. this is a, if you're not making political problem, police for any government, but this new escalation, any kind of move in this direction, is uncontrollable at a certain point. so every side has to be very careful. not gonna charge you to actually move to what's happening. right, and yeah, caution lot from the context or was and projects. thank you. thank you so much. i. so a lot of times i head into the polls in a presidential election that will determine how it recovers from its west and by

you cannot make a crisis and the on suing political upheaval, betsy h. candidates out on the ballots, but it is allowed to be a 3 way rates. karen's liberal precedence. right neil with from a single seeking a 2nd time. he's facing strong challenges from the leader of the position as well as the max of la vega. so your last from outside, a pulling station is long as competent. colombo is dw correspondent charlotte got out. hello, charlotte, what's the most important to swear? lumpkins asked the head to the post today to look at the memories of 2022 are still fresh in people's minds. hill duct was the time that they really saw they was, they will to in go for fuel a 4 hours for cooking gas. there was 4 digits of medicines and electricity. and the entire nation came together with the collective suffering and which let to the over turing of their budget bucks the government,

whom they blame for driving the country up to bankruptcy. and also to, to do that you, that you end up costing. they vote as a desperate for the change. we're just outside upholding both you and people have been trickling in since 7 in the morning. now, even though some of the things look good on people after the, i'm, if the like, inflation has come down. the currency seems to be doing well up with it or, you know, long standing issues over the last 2 years. cost of living there means very high on employment is very high. so people are really still a reading from uh, you know, the economy prices. so it really comes down to whether they can afford to have 3 meals a day and what they can put on the plates. now this is a nation, you know, in the positive voted along the lines of religion of race and ethnicity. but all that is the boss, no economy is the single biggest issue on their minds and because they've been french so hard in the past 2 years. because of the electric economy, blunders of the previous government, the confidence in politics and politicians. is that in all the time? no. so it'd be interesting to see how they vote in this election. yeah,

looking forward to see how that goes. it's not just the internal deal when it comes to politics, is that so long kind of has close ties to india also china, these are 2 countries that buy for regional dominance in the, in the past. so fig. what impact will the selection have on the region geopolitically speaking one or whatever happens inter long call during this election? we level huge implication because it fits the geo strategic location in the indian ocean. and, you know, the, like you mentioned india and china, they're watching closely because both countries have been trying to, they've been vine for a, you know, more influence in the country. so here it's not really about the ground up between the, you know, presidential candidates. so for the influence, it's also china and india, the big joins neighbors that are looking very closely. and don't forget us as well . us and india would like to see a government to was able to keep chinese influence at be in the, in the pacific. whether or not that happens is something that we see of,

it's really down to 2 candidates. so just come with us off, we'll seen as more pro into and pro us as an idea of what we've seen to be more to china. and he's a. * a detail and so he has made the, made it very clear that he's not very happy with the attorneys investment in the country. the only is the engine know business cycle and who has very close ties with the indian government. if he comes to power of india and us may not be very happy. right, that'd be a correspondence sally at up. thank you. not thousands of activists here in germany. have staged protests drawing attention to the academy of crisis. the crowds noticeably small of su activists. the, the eyes of the world are fixed on our crisis. by the insists, the message is as pageants as ever. crowds matched through central

berlin with a familiar cooling to action. it's a key message from climate activists. but at a p is few a training out. so here is in 2019 climate protest, crowd sizes with estimated to be more than 200000 these days, those numbers are in the low thousands any people are worried because they because everything keeps getting more expensive and people don't know how to parents pay their bill, so of course, they might feel overwhelmed and not be able to attend every protest. however, the most important thing is that we have the awareness in society while the economy and inflation consumes. the effects of climate change are impossible to ignore. the role of gym and these neighboring countries of this week mopping up of to

devastating floods by the given that there is hit the there are of costs of the political problems that we didn't have a few years ago. i think on the war and ukraine provides inflation, etc. but then again by, i can only say itself, we just have massive floods eyes. so the topic of climate change is actually very presence of his consequences. a here already dies on the some off is they say that that's, that's the fucking i'll get some bags and sometimes you know, clement kind of falls on the wayside is obviously a lot going on the world. but of course, it's important to keep climate really at the forefront of the conversation so so, so as i am very happy that we have these kind of demonstrations and that's fridays for future exist on all. and i lost the app to this, the do themselves to the road to the well proud sizes may be shrinking, protest, and save the agency needed to manage the climate price. this is only growing and they have no plans to stop pushing for change. a and you are up to date coming up

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