the the dw news live it from berlin. israel has launched a new air strikes in lebanon's capital. the tags come after and apartment building and central bay route was reportedly struck without warning, was really ground forces in southern lebanon are pressing on with their offensive against his will. also coming up, we will take a look at it runs many points. the forces in the middle east and the threats as they pose for is real plus market router is in keep on his 1st trip as nato secretary general. and he says he wants to make it crystal clear where the alliance expands on supporting ukraine. the

i bring golf is good to have you with this on a, this thursday new is really here strong to have hit the lebanese capital. southern bay root has come under an increasing bombardment in the last 24 hours as israel steps up its campaign against hezbollah. militants, lebanon's health ministers says that in the past year such attacks have killed nearly 2000 people. more than a $120.00 of them. children. plumes of smoke below across bay route sky line. after a night of heavy is really bombardment of the on the ground, huge mounds of rubble is still smoldering. this building was targeted by missiles residents of the area via the situation will only get was either good,

lucky to have you know, like killed is waiting soldiers on the border of what they come and kill people here. as i get busy with that, why that is, if there was a building, they will damage it. well, this is what they're able to do. and that way after you typed it away, i was sitting at home and suddenly we heard a loud sound. we had targeted this army killed organization which is a rescue. so is an all that as dental the building of civilians and they have the dog. those with the end of the wounded and help others because a lot of strikes took place in the early hours of the morning. i just shortly off through the idea of had issued and a love to be reached residents to evacuate several neighborhoods in the south of the city.

israel has stepped up its attack, so loving them in recent days in what it says, a targeted strikes to eliminate hezbollah militants, and bring safety back to its own northern buddha. israel on me for 2 chairs, what they say a night ariel attacks on specific areas in southern lebanon near the is really buddha. and now the idea of clip shows soldiers on the ground, in an unspecified location in lebanon. a following the attacks lebanese prime minister, now g, me, kaji, denounced what he called the criminal aggression by israel, against the lebanese people, and called for a ceasefire and everybody but israel says it has now sent a 2nd military division into lebanon, assigned that its opperation, the not slipping down part, i'm joined now by journalist or

e mail. go hardy. he is in they route coming. that's good to see you. what is the situation there in the lebanese and capital right now? what no break here here in baby to we had the an attack against the believe his full, a medically facility that was the 2nd a tech outside the southern suburbs and southern southern people can see that the business pulled a strong hold. this was in a complete different area, the extra, the area of the center of the not far from the government wants to. we had to confront 6 people at that in this area. in addition to that, we had a big strike up in the southern suburbs against the hist, bullet media passivity. and that was basically libby to the ground. and that might be the onset to something is one of these yesterday, when they invited like several of the tools to come to the southern suburbs to

basically make a guided tour as to the southern service by the media unit. and that simply might have been this rain the answer to this that they flip this thinking that exclusive it to be part of this is the media. yeah, obviously there's no media to are happening today. what more can you tell us about clashes that have been taking place at the southern border of love and on with his real? it was unlike uh, what we see this completes is really it is security over the last weeks that then offensive as a quite different story. it seems to anything but easy. now the latest seems again, of course there were cadets just to be in the really immediate for the area, not deep inside the inside, inside the southern level. and so there was like somebody hit his body saying that

they targeted this is really cool. 90 do this, one of the units of these raise the army in the small this is like that in the central area, not far from the board that we see explosives and they're saying that they hit the targets and we have to also reports that the war is raised, casualties has rated casualties. we don't know if it, that searches or egypt. so just, but it seems that was also like and have a question and took away from is 80. so just in general that out of this area back into is right. it to be cheated. and can we, you know, we're always talking about the is really military. we're talking about of hezbollah militants. but what about the lebanese army? is it, does it play a role here? this was the lebanese army is not really a part of this single, but these are the bodies armies. this present also in the cells, but the fight is between this bullet and this really, i mean so,

but despite us that today we have to that liberty soldiers that one of them was killed in that kind of rescue operation together was the and never these rest cousins in the cells of the 2nd soldier, a few hours later it was cute. it is posted. yeah, been you've been off the he apparently also responded to is really fire. so we have to date is for the 1st time since it is a, is there any offensive started also to it that it, that nice search journalist from e mail gallery bringing us up to date with the situation there in a route and southern level. non kareem is always thank you. it was a finding 11 on is the latest front in an escalating conflict in the middle east. israel says that it's fighting when he calls it runs excess of evil. i'll sense the start of the word, gaza, almost all. it ran back groups had stepped up their attacks on israel. our next

report looked at the variety of threats that are facing the country. more strikes and 11 known as these real continues itself. durations against the militant group has ball a. this is just one of several fronts in the region where the country is facing threats. prime minister benjamin netanyahu says israel is fighting for survival. this is the citizens is violated in a campaign against the round axis of evil news. that's what he's calling. the axis of evil is known on the opposing side as the axis of resistance. it's an informal block of it runs allies and proxy is often acting in its interest around ruled by clerics since the revolution in 1979 has the m. b, since of a regional superpower. take run, consider is israel and the us it's main and i'm is trying to cripple its economy and diminish its influence. i see a muslim majority country. it also looks to expand this branch of islam in the

region. that's why it has to rely on partners. sharon gets religious affiliation like his ball and 11 on the militant group has received hundreds of millions of dollars every year from a round for weapons and training. it's believed to have more than a $100000.00 rockets. his ball also has tons of thousands of fighters and of wide network of tunnels. just like come us and the guys history. although this group considered terrorist by the us and to you, has been depleted by a you are fighting. iran has denied did helped him us to prepare the tax on these real on october the 7th, but its supreme laser price, the knowledge of fitness in development, calling requests the full ahead phone before the end of the times of the intelligent engraved palestinians who planned these attacks, again, i don't know, scientists today seen elsewhere in the region to run has also been relying on

support of its traditional ally, the syrian government as well as on simulations in iraq and the who is the rebels. examine the group has been receiving a run support and it's fight against the military coalition. lead by, ty, runs major rival saudi arabia after the sides of the war and gaza, who with these began targets in israel, as well as international shipping routes in the red sea. they say their attacks will continue in the armed forces, the less the 2nd devaney in operation the true promise against is while the under confirm the readiness to participate in any joint military operations against the as late in the enemy with the law the, there's a lot a to as of the, it's not clear how much power iran has over it's broke, sees in the region the around claiming they act independently. but the rising

number of their attacks on these rail suggests they are becoming increasingly important for around struggle for power in the region. we're doing now by john lyndon. he's the executive director of the alliance for middle needs piece, which brings together is really a palestinian piece building organizations. he joins me now from paris. john is going to have you with this. let's look for a moment at ron's proxies at the grass roots level hezbollah, for example. we know that it sponsored by t ron, but how much of it strength is home grow as well? i mean, all of these proxies are obviously different to each other in important ways, but they do draw upon the well spring of, of local supports for, for hezbollah and lab, and on. it's really the legacy of the, the civil war. the devastated the concrete state collapse really, that's taking place in the last 10 years. and the legacy which has black tries to claim an awful lot of st. credit around of ending as well as 20 or occupation of

southern lebanon. um, obviously does she, i sort of base within like the non, it's a very fractured society, but it's, it's the largest single share within the secretary. and so the mix of lebanese society does high degrees of support, amongst street lebanese, but also high degrees of opposition amongst the rest of the lebanese society at over half of lebanese people in a poll taken before this war. so they had little or no trust and as blog, i mean, but what you see is a common denominator. and this is true. it's with home us in, in, in, in, in palestine as well. it's feeding off, you know, the collapse of society and conflict and support base is coming from people who are, you know, suffering from decades of trauma of ongoing conflict between the palestinians and israel. and you know, i happen to believe that the best way to be able to counter the, the reservoir of support for these militant groups is to really push towards genuine conflict resolution to end of the cycle of trauma which recruits new people to these movements. instead of diplomatic horizon that can actually inspire young

people to embrace non violent tools towards transformation which everybody does deserve. this situation does need to change their hundreds and thousands of pallets any refugees living in lubbock. know, and i assume that that is fertile ground. it's like cherry picking for has full i am really more so for the palestinian organizations operating inside 11 on so run 10 percent of the of the lebanese population or policy, many refugees and palestinian islamic jihad or from us both operate and 11 on the do cooperate with has belie the leader of that or from us in the lab. and i was actually assassinated in the last week or so. and, and there's a strange relationship with has blah, i mean it's important to know if there is a bit of a my enemies enemy is my friend aspect of it. but also hezbollah were responsible for killing many palestinians in refugee comes in serious during the serial a civil war. most particularly in the, our move to come where people are starved to death via seeds that was laid on by

both bus driver's side and has blogs. so it is complex and i don't think there's a natural affinity what there is, and this is something around really plays off is a shared grievance that alive is around to project its power from 2000 kilometers, right? and again, if we chip away at the grievance, i think we chip away at a ryan's ability to do. just ask, what about inside the living? no, i know. i mean, would we find any living on based in g o's that are working for, for piece, but she said, well, for conflict mediation or yeah, i mean there's so many ways in which 11 on reminds me a lot of of is random impala style. i mean, one is that there's a very strong loudest work event. jose inside lebanon because of the weakness of the stays. and joe's have been providing many of the services and the emergency relief mean from that they route at port blast to the financial collapse and know that this does this war. and, and they've also been trying to tie together some of the secretary and differences that really exploded in not civil war. what's difficult is them having a direct relationship with his writing and palestinian peacebuilding and joe's

because contact between lebanese citizens and his riley citizens as prescribed. and it's actually something quite practical. i think we could try to work on to fix if you imagine a group of people in 11 on israel apollo started the wider region to share the same values and agendas piece, a quality regional security being facilitated, encourage to work together to really end this decades long and sort of separation of 19 normalization and norm that has presented these coalitions of, of actors that want to piece justice and equality to see each other as allies, western countries, arab states. there could be a concerted effort to try and take away the prohibition and begin to allow these people to form those sort of networks. we have one at all that's almost as ready to use and palestinians over 160 and yellows. but imagine if we had lebanese egyptian syrians, jordanians joining at the same scale, i'm not saying that they would make up the majority of the overall population of the region, but collectively they would be a very, very strong network against the sort of violence and injustice. we're seeing spiral

right now. john lennon with the alliance for middle east peace, talking about the the search for the strong thank you. thank a buried sirens. sounded twice to day as new data and secretary general mark rude, a visited t boned, his 1st official trip since taking office. he met with ukrainian president building as the landscape discussing the battlefield as well as what ukraine calls it's victory. plant loser has pledge the alliance has continued support for ukraine and its war against russia. but it is the member states, not neither would sell the members days which called the shots on military supplies to keep this listing. and now to their press conference from earlier today to bring is closer to mitchell than ever before. and will continue on this pass until you become a member of our alliance. i very much look for us to that. and

this is why we are still committed to supporting your pay because your security matters for hours and your fight for freedom reflects our court is supposed to develop a corresponded mark since under he was at that for us or in keep marks get to see use of this quote to ukraine is closer to nater than ever before. um, what's new about that? is there something new about that? what's the point there? i think the main point brent of this visit of the security general not to to, to key of today is to bring the message across the fair as a new leader at the helm of the alliance. but the course of the overall course stays the same. and they told stanza with ukraine i'm not to to today. also during this press conference added that he said, quote unquote increase, pass to nato membership is reversible. st. pretty much the vault is in motion and

cannot stand. it won't be stopped. the large part of this to these trips is visit some to cave, oftentimes are also about them, you know, sending a message or sell it already. and i think this message was heard here today. i present the landscape and by the ukrainians as to what exactly was discussed today . the agenda for large part of the secret about a month with a took the opportunity to talk about the past achievements about the work that has been done on its own ukraine's past nato membership. he touched on the natal to mind the body that was implemented for the coordination of aide to ukraine. we spoke about the money that's being placed in the annual 14000000000 bureaus and assured that nature member states would make sure that the funds would be there in the future and spoke about a lateral security agreement. so many of the nato member countries already have struck you printing all of this together, as she said, as a,

contributes to building a bridge between ukraine and nato. this trip, the also was a dangerous one. keep was attacked during route is visit to talk to me about that was dangerous. it is for a nato top official to travel to ukraine. i mean, we have this war and now for a roughly 2 and a half years now. and there have been many trips of a high profile leaders here, including the head of european commission, including of the german transfer, the president of the united states. so it has come pretty much a routine. of course, it is, as journalists know ahead of these trips that they are taking place, you can assume that the russian security services will also know about this. but my personal opinion is it's quite unlikely that they are trying to impact the nature of delegation here. that would be a direct attack on nature. but these attacks have happened in the past with international visitors here. and um, i would say it's also part about sending

a message for an attempt to a cert dominance of this case. yeah, it's sending a message has it's talking about it, that's for sure. you'd have these next on the reporting from keith today months as always. thank you. all right, let's take a look now. some of the other stories in making headlines around the world. britain is giving up sovereignty of the chunk of islands to maurice, its settling a decades long dispute. the archipelago was britain's last african colony. res use has claimed the charges islands that he gave independence from britain back in 1968 . britain will retain the use of extra changing joint american military base on the island. diego garcia, soldiers and mexico have opened fire on migrants, killing 6 and wounding 12. it happened on the popular smuggling route and the southern state of chiapas. the defense ministry says the vehicle carrying the migrants trying to evade the military patrol, and that the soldiers mistook them for gang members. after hearing gunshots,

flies have resumed at a japanese airport after an american board, where to bomb exploded just moments after. as you see right there, a passenger plane taxied pass. there were no injuries, dozens of flights were cancelled at the v as lucky airport in the south, which by the way, was a navy base during the 2nd world war. the germans are marketing unity de 34 years ago. communist east germany officially joined the west and the divided country became one again from a transfer all of shelves in german. president frank walter signed by a return to the ceremony today instead of being that so city and the former communist east germany, reunification came less than a year after the fall of the berlin wall in november 1989 but decades after reunification and germany remains politically divided the right wing populous anti

immigration party, the alternative for germany or the a if the that party is on the rise, especially in the former east. here's the german chancellor addressing the country's divisions today about which men are structured, but it is not only in east germany where we see state elections in which sometimes up to one 3rd of voters for us are and terry and, and radical nations policies and for populus who fight against our liberal democracy to can that is disastrous despite it harms back to me the rings you, i'm vandenberg, it harms has a and bavaria that has on file the left side of this is damaging our entire country, our economy, and our reputation in the world is that it will take a lot of hard work to reverse this development. it's sort of on, but i want to remind you one thing today. the vast majority of citizens across

germany stand firmly on the growing of our liberal order. often both i have permission of withdrawing me here at the studio now is my colleague, our political correspondent hunts brawn and the german chancellor. they're saying it's going to take a lot of work to reverse this development. talking about the rise of the far right, a f d in the east, the former east. why does it resonate so much more? there? this is a very widespread feeling, an eastern germany amongst people that in some sense, they are 2nd class citizens that they have been left behind by developments that their needs are being ignored by the current government. and this feeling of dissatisfaction is something that the f t builds on, it's a feeling that it's a kind of a kind of a strengthens. and just trying to tell people that only with the f, the will, the interest in fact be met with the, with a they will respond in

a different way than the central government at the moment. and the other thing is the whole discussion about migration, that is the major issue on which the eye of the bases it's policy. and that's something with which it can find a loss of bias in the east. because the central avenue for decades under communism had no migration whatsoever. so, so for people in the east of dealing with people coming in from far away foreign countries into germany is something foreign, something new. and, and so the, if the finds a lot of support in the east, on the issue of migration z, the legacy of the piece for us revolution that led to the fall of the berlin wall. how were populous politicians are part of how are they plugging into that legacy and using it to gain political capital or the the peaceful river revolution has been quoted in germany as if something has happened on the streets with thousands and thousands of people demonstrating against the government of the day

and day of the saying of what's happening today in the east and elsewhere and drove . and it gives that kind of revolution of the streets that people revolt against will protest against the government that they feel cannot be trusted, cannot be believed as the communist party was not trusted and believed in full by east germany. and the after you saying that the current government of one of charles is also a government, that one cannot trust and believe. and so using this kind of rhetoric is something again, that feeds into east german dissatisfaction. at the same time, there is the whole relationship to russia that plays a very important role here. informally, east germany. russia was on the one hand, a fraternal country. on the other hand, it was a country that completely controlled east germany, in some sense there's a feeling of both respect and fear towards russia and that still exists in east germany. so he still has not particularly eager to appease russia. and that's again, something that the f, the end of the populace putting on their,

on their programs. we're going out of time. you know, if someone from outside the country comes to germany, they will tell you they don't see a difference between east and west. is there, are there differences that still lingered between east and west? they are indeed still differences the it is a fact that to any central need, the people do not have as much wealth as in west and jeremy that don't have it don't have as many results as they don't have as much of property um the jobs in east germany uh, less well paid in jo. then in west giovanni store for the same kind of work to do better that you do. so there are still big differences. on the other hand, that has been enormous amounts of money prompted to use drugs in the last 30 years . and to what time they said, if you come from outside and look at east german towns, they look better repair. the more that they look better, the basic has been mended. townsend, west, germany, and front. as always, hans, having you here. good. having to put this into context for us to thank you to you.

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