the, the, this is the w news live from the land. israel begins the ground defensive and 11 on it says it's condensing what it calls a limited operation. seeking to disable has beloved israel's military who owns lebanese residents near the border to leave the homes. forcing intense slicing between is ready forces and the iran back military. also coming up on the program, which he makes found, the julian assignments makes his 1st public address since his release from prison appearing and from he says he is feeling full fit from his he is in jail, the

i many kids as mccain and thank you for joining us, israel says its troops are conducting what it calls, limited raids in southern lebanon, in an effort to stop hezbollah attacks, the army war and residents of lebanese communities near the border to evacuate. the rollinback group has denied that is randy troops, wherever and 11 on these ready military said it's ground forces would not enter any cities and would conclude operations as soon as possible. i as israel continues to fund it, and missiles into lebanon on the ground is sending trucks carrying tanks across the board, into southern lebanon to undertake what he is really minute tree is cooling. a targeted operation against militant group has blah idea footage shows the

troops preparing an address by the unit to come on to get yourself as good. we have a great privilege to write history, you know, as we didn't garzo and i still to the same here. in the know con, we started, it was a more low key operation. and today we're going to start a more significant maneuver, almost to return the residence of and all that safely to the homeless. they unload the the lebanese capital b. root has been targeted by an increasing number of strikes in recent days. but it citizens still doubts the israel will get to write this history as it wishes that i am, in my opinion, is only a small possibility that is where it will be successfully, liquids. the resistance remains from me until the bit you are. we for the side of the narrative presented by nation. yeah. who is a distraction from the major failure that occurred in gaza as a result of his inability to achieve the so called total victory and gaza plus the

hundreds of thousands of people in net and then have already been displaced by the conflict sling to other parts of the country or a broad has the law says it's flight is ready to retaliate against the ground defensive bias row. and we can get the very latest from bollix the dean who's in tel aviv, i'm valley. we know that the idea of the israel defense forces held the oppressed, a press conference just a moment ago. can you tell us what they said about israel slammed incursion? a just that was the very significant. it's bruce compress the garden, the audio spokesperson. he said. now it's now the am a wisely the, the heidi f. a has conducted silverado, reeves into the south of luna without the best one. and now we're getting the

publication version. and after the censorship allows us to talk about this. now the uh, i know, spokesperson has even met without the videos as we can see right now on the screen that shows the soldier. the offerings inside living on the inside of the celtic level are going into the law, has bills and also breaks that blowing up those. so in order to prevent a lot of the protection to use them as the source. instead able to provide the generally to conducting version on more of a patient of the is really know this has been going on since the beginning of the war since the beginning of the confrontation between as long as all of each on. um and it seems that seems to work a bless you and i can recall the last year, 2023. i was covering the event as the know i, while i book information that the is already tools are getting insight limit on

later on i was told that it was out. there was false information, but now i can understand that that was because of the censorship and now we are a lot to talk about. now. israel has also come under attack cousin that close to tel aviv way. you all, can you tell us about the situation? the a yes. to these warning sirens that in english, done the center will still be the the heart of israel after uh, super rockets were fired from it. let them know on apparently using medium range rocket school. the fatty for that was the 1st time that the boy uses these rockets . why don't they walk? it's phil and one of the main roads in the israel. and the far so that the explosion that work caught it and actually hurt or injured to passengers on a bus. most of the bus driver, none of the, the injuries are right feel or life threatening. but that was the result of that.

and now the, i'm from the command that has a lot of the is really popular also in the center of the israel, not together. um the in large amounts of the people. this is happening in the evening book. the so not the jewish holiday that started tomorrow evening. so apparently these really wouldn't be able to celebrate christmas and not normally this year, especially nothing's really good, especially not the, the thought skills a gray or that happened. and we start roland drizzling. but again, the, i have to say that we are in the midst of work at the conference, come out and changing their instructions right now in order to keep everyone as easy as possible. while expanding and telling people have to leave it that i like. but thank so much thank you. so we're going to take a look now, some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. and the phone

with that 5 minutes to mon versa, has taken over the role of nato secretary general from the full month, nathan keith consulting bank. and his 1st address, russo said his priorities are safe, increase defense spending into strength and partnerships outside the alliance. for so, so said ukraine's rights to self defense did not end with russia and thailand, the school bus with $44.00 passengers court flat on a field trip near the capital bank level official says $23.00 bodies have now been recovered. please believe the explosion distorted by ty as box. it then ignites it against cylinder. the tie, prime minister visited the hospital with survivors who are being treated with nations, melted as an above average, right? this here, some scientists say scientists will hopeful that abundance snow full in the region last winter and spring would slow or reverse glacial melting,

but instead they have measured record losses. monitoring agency says the trend could spelt exhaust, so switzerland's violations, to the way to make found the julian assault, which has made his 1st public address since he was released from prison. as long as she was attending the hearing of the human rights committee of the council of europe and from for each day as our city was still exhausted and recovering from here, one jail. he spent most of the last 14 years, either in the ecuadorian embassy in london was void, arrest or locked off at the pace at belmont, a prison, where he forced expedition to the us and the 2010 legal action, spouses, a sorry legal action against us are started off to hundreds of thousands of lead documents about the afghanistan and iraq was, were published as long as she was released under a plea bargain in june. let's take a listen to what he said a little earlier. i am not free today because the system worked fine

for you today of 2 years of incarceration. because i put a guilty to journalism i put a guilty to seeking information from a source. i pled guilty to obtaining information from a source. and i put guilty to informing the public what that information was. i did not plead guilty to anything else. i hope my testimony today conserves to highlight the weakness, the weaknesses of the existing safeguards and to help those whose cases are less visible. but we're equally vulnerable, and we can get more from the w correspondent, jack power because following the story for us and stress bug jack, why did astonish, chose to speak of the council of europe in strasburg and n y now?

so yeah, it's an interesting one that he came here all the way across the world from australia where he's been since his release. what's interesting is that he chose this committee, which is a stand simply to hold the rights of john. it is to uphold the rights of freedom of speech and the u. k is also a member of that. so obviously most of his or deal was in the united kingdom. so that's why he chose it. but there's also a case going on at the moment in this human rights body, which is specifically about his case and his designation as a political prisoner, which is ongoing and it's on going this week. so that's kind of why not why here he could or potentially chosen a media, right, like to do an interview. but instead he wanted to speak to all of the media. and all of the parliamentarians from the 46 european countries that assigned up to this human rights party. and jack, i mean, he says, but he's still exhausted. he's still recovering from his he is spent in jail. can

you give us your impressions of how he looked, you know, the way he was speaking, what sense did he convey? yeah, there was a lot of questions about what types of juliet songs we would have here. he's obviously pre on his arrest and or he went through. he was a very bombastic. i've spoken carrick to today. he was in a relatively plain blue suit, to have was sort of neatly combed over his thoughts. he spoke quite so softly a mildly, but quite forcefully. as well made some very clear points. his wife statler was sort of fussing over the button to turn the microphone on and off when he was speaking and honest and questions. and i think you could see from the team around him that they are very concerned still advise his wellbeing. indeed, this public speech, this visit to stroudsburg is actually being called a sort of a pause in his recovery in his rehabilitation back into society. and he expressed

and did show some emotion when he was talking about the situation that he went through, both in the equitorial embassy and in belmont prison, which you can tell has affected him quite deeply. and what about the audience's reaction? got yes. so as i say, he's a relatively divisive figure. actually here he received a standing ovation from the parliamentarians at the end of his speech. a lot of them have been very, very keen for him to being released and campaigned for his religious. but there are a lot of people that are slightly concerned with some of the practices that he didn't, you know, pursued when he was the finder of wiki leads and the way in which he did it. so he does, although he's being released and there's a lot of sympathy to the situation that he went through. he is still a relatively controversial figure. and the big question is, what will he do? not will he try and work as a human rights defend, or will he perhaps pull himself by kinds of this the public. i dw correspondent,

that part in strasburg. jack, thank you so much for bringing us up to date the are now as far as he's in the united states, say that up to 600 people still missing off the hurricane. highlighting bassett, the countries se, at least a 130 has been confirmed that sofa emergency teams all still trying to reach those has been stranded by flooding and worked out roads. it was one of the most devastating storms in american history. hurricane hill lane inflicted immense destruction across 6 states in the southeast. north carolina was hit hardest, with record high water levels, causing most of the debts. houses have been stranded and millions without power. and we lost power. thursday night between thursday night and friday morning. we haven't had power water, very low on food. florida has also been severely affected. families are doing their

best to support each other to the crisis term, our retail see food market into a donation center, and we will take it all, whatever you got, whether it is generators or pepsi cola a piece of wood or a bottle water. you know what i mean? like we're, we're here to take it all the, cuz there's just, there's, i've never seen so many people homeless as all what i have right now, not, not in my community. more than 50 search teams across the region are trying to find those do stranded. president jewel bite in the split into inspect the damage for himself. later in the week, a director of my team to provide every, every available resource as fast as possible into your communities to rescue recover and to begin rebuilt. but given the scale of destruction, it will take many months for life to return to normal. and even longer to rebuild.

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