the, the, this is due to be news live from berlin, is real signals, a possible ground assault and 11 on there is no lit up in air strikes. as the top commander says, the military is preparing for a ground defensive. across the border. strikes have killed hundreds of civilians and displaced tens of thousands. also in our program flooding, med zaleski tells world leaders that only a battlefield victory for ukraine can in the war with russia. grants present also warrants to the criminal plan to attack his country's nuclear power plants and florida piles of defenses against the eminent onslaught of hurricane elaine. state of emergency is in force. the storm has already bound to have it to mexico. the

. obviously there's an invalid. welcome to our program. israel's top army commander has put troops on alert for a possible ground assault, and 11 on hundreds of people have been killed and is really bombardments and the united nations. as 90000 people in southern lebanon, have been displaced since monday. hospitalized. meanwhile launched its deepest strike into is really yet the militant group target at the headquarters of the is really intelligence agency most sought intel aviv dawn's peace was shunted by sirens. this is randy and defenses intercepted it has bottom is uh little bit. tel aviv is the 1st time since the dodge of the war and gaza, that the group has tried to attack deeper into israel, like we used to with that comes from the south or the know it doesn't make a rock and i still because they just the strivings,

dressel and unpleasant. i don't think anyone and this will, would like to live like this. and we'll take this here today and see to access these really on forces. said that intercepted several other projects. i was fired from lab and on below. so made it through the, like, here in the northern city. so fed with buildings were damaged in lebanon. it was a different story. after these really military launch, fresh air strikes against what it described as hezbollah target's. these really armies us as well as hiding weapons within the civilian infrastructure. attacks, also hit villages like this 125, killing me just north of may rouge vol, from the around backs malicious traditional, strong holes. lebanese authorities say there are casualties. the un says more than 90000 people have been displaced since monday. thousands of ended up here in bay roads with many finding shelter in schools like this one. so i'm here old enough to

have them pleasant memories of the last conflict between 11 and an israel in 2006, get them had a know i witnessed could to live on. we would definitely scan life, but not live these day or not, but i, we suffered and we would just placed onto the streets. and we also faced that in 2006. but now the situation is my taught did a lot. yeah. had did. despite the tags, back in southern lebanon, and others are determined to stay puts and to continue their day to day lives. like here in the city of tire to people who flatter from rural areas. there is nothing here. we won't leave. as you see, i'm selling vegetables and fruits and people are buying unhappy. we won't leave this island. we are the rightful owners. even have some heads of 3 to protect our children and family members. some have to stay in the town. so the enemy does not

think that the tendency with these really military giving no indication of when it's ariel bump, bump, and might end and hezbollah showing no sign of stopping its own attacks calls for the escalation by the international community seems to be going on, answered to us, meanwhile, has added to those calls for destination with a white house statement, urging an immediate cease fire between 11 on an israel to allow for a diplomatic into the conflict. the joint statement also endorsed by the european union, germany, france, the u. k. and others calls for a 21 day cease fire us and its allies. the pause and fighting would give a real chance for a diplomatic settlement, allowing civilians to safely return to their homes on both sides of the border. and we'll see you at the old one and to use janelle to allow it is in new york, where american officials are working on that possible. seized by a proposal, i asked her whether a diplomatic breakthrough is a realistic possibility. well yeah, steven, uh,

this is the sort of thing that we're familiar with, especially when it comes to talk about cessation of hostilities and dogs. all we know where those efforts have led those talks have been, those talks have been sold and nobody believes about. so joe biden will be able to get a deal together before he leaves office in january and all this violence, of course, and live in on is threatening to mutate into a wider regional war. but as he said, us officials are reportedly working on a deal here on the sidelines of so you and general assembly with other countries, a deal about 6. so in 5th, phlegmatic efforts re surrounding garza and elaborate on so mean a deal that were to restart the fire hostage and release off in garza as well as put a. 5 pause to the fighting on israel's northern border for you're asking about the chances of success, and that is a very difficult calculation to make. at the moment, these diplomatic efforts are coming out of time, as you said,

where israel is considering a ground incursion into lebanon, where israel is being criticized for its apparent strategy to de escalate, to buy escalate by escalating and all these constellations complicates of those diplomatic efforts or even not even here for you and general assembly where ostensibly nobody wants this war because that's what everybody he se dw, is janelle, to belong to new york, their president vladimir putin has won the west. the russia could use nuclear weapons. it was struck with conventional missiles. the russian leader presented changes to russia's nuclear doctrine at a meeting of the country security council, which instead of the nuclear power supporting an attack on russia would now be considered a joint aggressor. change in doctrine comes out to approve this warning to the us and other nato allies that allowing ukraine's use western long rage weapons to hit russian territory would mean that russia and nato are more very audible. jeron is

a senior research associate at the harvard kennedy school. i asked her what we should make of lot of improvements, latest comments on russian using nuclear weapons as well. steven, this is the latest instance of the long string of nuclear rhetoric and signaling that has been coming out of moscow since the beginning of this full scale invasion . this is significant. we knew that the russian leadership has been reviewing their military nuclear doctrine. and the general expectation has been that the russian threshold for the use of nuclear weapons will be lowered. there's been a lot of talk about this by russian liter, inspired by russian commentators. and so here we have a preview right there. there are a few significant things to note. one is the previous version of the russian doctrine adopted in 2020, allowed, also a re,

a nuclear response to large scale conventional attack. but only in extreme circumstances where this, the very survival of the state was at stake. now we, we understand from mr. perkins speech today. this formulation has changed to, to say, well, extreme circumstances that jeopardize sovereignty rochell. yeah. what does that really mean? and who defines what, what serious threats to sovereignty might constitute another part, is this very specific mass of air attack? um, uh, description of the, of the potential conventional, my tab that was on russia. again, who determines what mass a really constitutes. and also the 3rd important thing is that the issue

specifically didn't say allies of and nuclear arm of a nuclear power, right? he said those supported by end of the clear power would be treated as, as acting and, and concert right. within nuclear power. this clearly points to ukraine, right? who's a non allied parts for you? and if, if putting did use nuclear weapons, what kind of weapons are we talking about? there's obviously a range and a difference in size of that nation. things like this. is it realistic to imagine a kind of tactical use of nuclear weapons, or what are we talking about here? as well as russia has been using a number of the delivery systems of missiles, but also come with a nuclear warhead. right? so these are dual capable systems, such as, for instance, is, comes around a short range ballistic missiles. those have been used extensively in, in this world by russia. so when we have an incoming, you know,

from russia to ukraine, and we see that it's in his calendar, missile, we don't know if it's nuclear tipped, a conventionally type that could potentially carry, you know, qualify still as a, as a battlefield or a tactical nuclear weapon you know, the size of hiroshima or the size of 5, her shame is anywhere in, in that range. there are also kendral air launch, ballistic missiles that have been used again and conventional version and ukraine extensively. those are particularly definitely because they're hypersonic they, they fly really fast and they're very difficult to intercept those and also come within a more head. and finally, anything, any well of a number of what your launch cruise missiles that are carried by strategic bombers to you 95? i'm asked them to you 16 these that have again been used extensively and ukraine. we know the pollutants comments also come after you creating present flooding. mid

zalinski address, the un he issued a warning that russia is planning to attack ukraine's nuclear power plants. let's listen together to what he said. real quick. recently i received yet and not an alarming report from our intelligence now, which it does seem to be planning it techs on our nuclear power plants and the infrastructure aiming to disconnect the plans from the power greet. and it's important for us that all these people can understand us understand that you've green ones to end this war more than anyone in the world. all right, so wednesday they're speaking of to you in general assembly, back to mariana, put jerry from the harvard kennedy school. we heard what he said there, how serious is this threat to nuclear power plants and ukraine? well, it is very serious. i mean ukrainian power bread in general has been severely degraded in the 2 and a half years. and especially over the past 6 months,

starting in march this year, where generation capacity has been targeted. so you can, you know, all of the premium thermal power plants, the majority of the hydro, electric power plants are entirely destroyed. so ukraine's reliance of the nuclear went from about 50 percent before the war war to about 70 right now. so the grid basically hangs on these nuclear power plants. and you know, to say that russian doesn't have to actually target into the reactors themselves. they can target open in a transformer stations substations that supply electricity to, to the power plant, or actually useful offloading the electricity that's generated. and we've already seen a preview of that on august. 20 says we're some of these critical substations have been targeted and had, and several, we afters,

where's crammed in response to that before they could be restarted again. all right, well to leave it, there are more out of the chair and senior research associate at the harvard kennedy school. thank you very much. i, a florida is brace for the onslaught of hurricane helene as the storm gain strength and the gulf of mexico governor randa sanchez's declared a state of emergency. lena is already battered mexico's. you can ton peninsula including the beach resort of kind of cool time is running out for these people to prepare for hurricane helene florida's coastal areas of being evacuated. hope are when we come back, our house is still the same as the as it was. as he left it, i got back to him about this. i remember taking that direct hit. i was supposed to be moving fast, so i'm worried about the winds were in the water. the lead rapidly strengthened in

the caribbean. growing from a tropical storm to a hurricane. satellite images showed that the storm would intensify as it crosses the gulf of mexico on a path to florida. heavy rains and strong winds caused significant damage in the coastal region of mexico. for a single source is to declare a state of emergency and asking residents to stay indoors. it's already packing wins of 100 kilometers per hour and gusts up to 120 kilometers per hour. that's why we raise the alert level to read more than 40000000 people in the southeast and us are under hurricane and tropical storm warnings. and that's all for now, we'll be back soon with more headlines in the meantime. you can find out more online at dw dot com. you can also find us on netflix dw news channels. i'm seeing

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