vision works for him. he wants to increase polarization. have to wait for trump's rise to power. usa to rights starts january 18th on dw, the . this is dw news coming to you live from berlin. israel security cabinet gathers to vote on a truce for guys. up top security officials are set to be meeting in this building with prime minister benjamin netanyahu to the side with of cease fire for halston. just deal with some us goes ahead as palestinians wait for the fighting and children and gaza expressed a longing for home children, i speak to tell me that they longed to sleep in their beds. they want their bed rooms. they want to see what's left of it. the w news speaks with us unicef worker on the ground in the gaza spring and hollywood loses and all the icons american

filmmaker in writer and david lynch dies at the age of 70 at the hello. i'm terry martin. thanks for joining us. after day of delay and accusations, israel security cabinet is meeting to approve a cease fire deal for gallons of prime minister benjamin netanyahu says the final details have now been ironed out after earlier, claiming how boss had back tracked on parts of the agreement, but is really a national security minister, it's a mob been beer, has threatened to resign from the coalition government if the deal is approved for was really government must agree before a truce can take effect as planned on sundays. it took them a short while ago, i spoke with the dover used to ridgeland corresponding tanya kramer. i asked her

about the security cabinet meeting now underway a while. we don't know how long they're going to sit together. there will be certainly a briefing by the many ages that are when they're way back from doha and, you know, then there will be a debate about this and then we are expecting a vote. so sometimes these security coming to meetings, they sometimes takes a take hours, sometimes they are much short to depending on how much they have to discuss. and so of course, right now here, there is a sense of urgency of to all these delays. so to get this done as soon as possible and to actually, you know, go forward and in this process of the seas, 5 deal under hostage really steal. okay. would talk to us a bit about that process. what happens next is as expected, a majority of ministers in that security cabinet vote in favor of a truce, or what also the secure dekalb and a meeting this

a ton or the agreement will be presented to the why to a cabinet that also they have to vote on this. now we had this political crisis, there will be opposition. there will be votes against us, but it's still being, you know, the expectation is that this do deal with go a through. and then what you will be seeing again, is actually a whole sort of legal process, but we don't know exactly whether this government meeting the by the coming that will be actually meeting today. the worst, some reports that might be meeting only after the end of the show about that is on saturday night. that has been a lot of criticism here. why this should happen? you know, some of the religious ministers have said they should be maybe a vote before so about isn't uh, on the phone to get this going. you know, as i said, the is the sense that this needs to be done pretty, you know, fast right now, because they don't want, as, uh, you know, the people here really want to see now that the hostages will be released in

exchange for posting in prison. this is domestic pressure. there's also international pressure that this is all going to happen though. it started happening on sunday. also of course on the incoming president elect. donald trump was that he wants to see this process being set in motion before the integration on monday. and once a this vote is through. if all goes well, then there's still a leak or a process off the list of names of palestinian prisoners that will be released in this process. they will not all be released at once, but they will be on the list. will be published here. and that's usually a time period given of 24 to 48 hours, but also that could be shortened a to petition this list. and only then, you know, this whole process can go forward, at least this is the process here on this very side. given everything you just said,

tanya, just to just quickly, is it realistic for the cease fire to come into effect on sunday as plan or whether it's fixed, the expectation that this will happen on sunday, but they can always be surprised as obviously, you know, this is a very fragile process, but you know, it's just an indication that this motion is in process know already and preparations had begun despite all this, you know, of the political, back and forth here. internally that the is there any military has informed the families that the names of their relatives on the list and there's a list circulating here. now the is really media or 33 names, or we don't know is the condition. so all of this indicates that, you know, the preparations are well under way. this is really a huge look. just stick undertaking, where, you know, different talking, you know, parts are involved. that is how much they need to know that see where all the hostages are. and also then we have the i c, r c that will receive to hostages. and then of course,

we also have in power of the release of posting and prisoners. we don't know yet whether it be released to either to the occupied westbank to gaza, or even deported to a 3rd country. meanwhile, tonia, the is really military continues to pound targets in gaza. what's behind those attacks at this point just before what we expect to be assessed bar as well. we have unfortunately, always seen this, you know, even of the ceasefire. uh will most likely come into effect on sunday that uh, shortly before this um you know, previous conflicts. uh, we seen that of fighting and the bombardment has intensified and that seems all to be the case. i mean, a lot of people in gaza. we have been talking to in recent days have said that and be seen, you know, the numbers of people being killed and injured has reason. also, in the past 48 hours also, you know,

we have to say this is not just the danger to the lives of posting instead, but also of course, uh to the hostages. so unfortunately, you might see, you know, that this continues on to really the very, very last moment tanya, thank you very much. that was a jerusalem corresponded tanya cream. well, if the deal does go ahead, how much would initially hand over $33.00 hostages in the coming weeks and exchange for israel freeing hundreds of palestinian prisoners. but the head of the announcement as we just heard, israel stepped up arrow strikes in gaza. the monster on health ministry says those strikes killed, more than 80 palestinians, mixed feelings among thousands celebrations at the news of a cease fire mix to doubt that it will happen and tinge with sadness. it everything that has been lost. the trepidation is backed up by

events since the announcement that is where the air strikes pump to celebrate to be moved. taking the lives with them, the deal is supposed to come into force on sunday the on certain days ahead and making some here novice. now we must remain cautious. we were afraid that could be an even worse blood boston before i saw him. anything of it the next few days could be even more difficult than the whole of the last year. i am in the middle of summer. we just hope the blood should stops by sort of others and noticing the positive impacts. the news has already had on the everyday lives. the price of the sponsored vegetables used to be $30.00 cycles. now it's 5. the ceasefire. news has reduced the price of the spot of oil cost $10.00 cycles. now, it was 30 before that. we weren't, cigarette price has to be cheaper to the others. as thinking about the future,

we need to start thinking of solutions and enough destruction and was we're exhausted. 15 months of humiliation and living and trying to tense. and during this time i hate on the winter cold. and there's the children who died of cold. why nobody is riley's also appear to be apprehensive. receive feel like is there is a threat from the from come us like if we just like going to let them gas a in that might be doing a summer 7th. again, like knowing that it guarantees differently. i think we, we gonna fall back to a well again, with a was because a citizen was because we've come with some us. i think the agreement is a good agreement. the once we get all the hostages back into the bodies that are being held there captive. but i think that how much that will re online regroup again, as we see in the correlation that they have been some dis, court against disagreement with home us a deceased by

a deal is fall from certain. and it seems that few on either side are willing to believe it until they see it. earlier i spoke about the situation in gaza with rosario bold and cheese with unicef. she's working in gaza in the southern coastal area of alamo was the i asked her what people there are expecting. and hoping for you know, here in southern guys and all my while i see it, it doesn't really feel or sound like a ceasefire yet. this morning i woke up to the very strong bodies of drones flying over, so that continues unabated. at 2 nights ago, the news of a deal to secure a seized bar or was received from mendez joy just an outpouring of, of joy and tribulation. you know, people are longing for an end to this war. they want to go back to their homes to see what's left of it. children,

i speak to tell me that they long to sleep in their beds. they want their bed rooms . they want to see what's left of it, and so everyone is, is very desperate and hopeful. but at the same time, the techs continue to be reported. doesn't continue to be to be killed or have been reported killed, including at least 20 children over over to boston. $24.00 or 48 hours or so. even national community has promised an aid search integrated. so once the ceasefire is established, there are trucks on their way. what are you expecting in terms of 8 deliveries, assuming the deal is approved? and so that's a very important point because people here in garza family suffer not just because of the relentless, a text because of the booms and the bullets, but also because of the other deprivation that they've been living through over the past 50 months. you know, children under their cold stay, they walk around in summer clothes, they don't have proper clothes,

their shelters are and protecting them from the cold and the rain there. they live in make shift tents. they haven't had a proper meal for well over a year. families live of canned food and flour. a health care has been decimated. children has been out of school for one year and a half, so the needs are immense. and that's why it's important that age can enter the gaza strip, but not just age. we also need the commercial sector to be able to bring in supplies. organizations like my own, like unicef, when it comes to things like nutrition, we actually have been bringing in high energy bisque with therapeutics food. so nutritional supplements for children who are most vulnerable children suffering from malnutrition, but ultimately if the private sector could actually bring in supplies at scale, if they could bring in food, dairy products, food vegetables,

and large volumes empower low that would actually help address one of these very pressing issues of as well nutrition. so it's important that both happens, singleton, usually a search in 8 and a search in commercial supplies. but the ceasefire by itself isn't the guarantee that that will happen automatically. there's a large range of, of excess constraints that need to be addressed to the operational environment has to be improved for us to be able to bring aiden, but also want to reach is gone. so for us to distribute it to, to families and meet what is most needed for the children of god. so right now, right now i would say an immediate holt in, in the fighting that sound of, of the drones flying over that has to stop. and children have been exposed to violence for over 15 months. many children have been killed um,

at least 14500 children are reported, killed. tens of thousands more, have been injured some with life changing injuries. i've met quite a few children whose legs and other limbs have been amputated as met. children who now are blind as a result of air strikes on their homes. so that has to stop and equally dis, this would help children or would give children opportunity to recover psychologically because the suffering is not just physical. it's also psychological . children have been exposed to this violence permanently, but they've also been stuck in this cycle, a very toxic stress. children are acutely aware that nowhere is safe in gaza. children speak about this. for instance, this child that i met who lost his eyesight, he had his skull fracture in an air strike on his home. i asked what happened to him, and he said there was an air strike. many people were killed and the air strike also

killed his eyes. he set my eyes, went to heaven. before i did, this was a 5 year old boy who was supposed to stay very severe, burns all over his body. so every single child in gaza today is in need of psycho social supports. they need to be able to get services, mental health services to process the very traumatic experiences. they've lived in the feelings associated with that. and for that we need to cease fire to materialize and for both sides to adhere to it. i know you've been in gaza for since october of last year. understand resolve the i can't imagine what that must have been like what that's been like for you. can you tell us a little bit about how it's affected you personally to be there during that time a i'm. it's been a few very tough months in these,

especially because since my arrival, despite the interventions that humanitarian actors like unicef make a times, i couldn't help but, but think that situation was only deteriorating. something that i felt that was really, really difficult, was to speak with children who are visibly in lots of pain. for instance, i met an 11 year old boy with the leukemia in nasir hospital and con eunice back um, back in october. and he was actually 2 weeks to, to speak to me. he could barely look me into, i was just laying on on a childrens quotes in the children's ward of that hospital and he was whimpering in pain. the hospital wasn't able to give him any treatment. he was suffering from leukemia, but was also unable largely to alleviate his, his pain. and the really seeing those children in, in such great suffering is something that is honestly unbearable. these children,

they did not start this war and they also don't have the power to, to ended and to, to change anything about their, their situation. so it's been a couple of very, very difficult months. what we see here is, honestly undescribable. i, i came to gaza before the war in a different capacity with the you when and when i entered after the war started, i couldn't believe my eyes because you enter through this out through kid, i'm sure low and then you drive through crime, eunice. and there's just nothing left of the city that used to be fine. eunice, it's just send and, and rubble. it looks like a moon landscape. i've no, no better word to describe it. the scale of the destruction is just unimaginable and families here have lost everything resolved. yet we want to thank you for speaking with us today. that was rosario bolden spokeswoman for unicef speaking to

us from goza to thank you for having me. you are watching dw news. just a reminder of some of the other story is making headlines today. china says it's economy grew 5 percent in 2024, helped by strong exports. the figures in line with the government's official growth target, but slightly better than forecasters have predicted. according to the report, growth picked up speed between october and december. exports of surge that had a potential us terrified, threatening threatened by the incoming trump administration. south korea's in peach britain impeached president human secure has again refused efforts by antique corruption investigators to question him over his attempt to impose martial law. human was detained as his presidential residents, and so on wednesday, after weeks long stand off with authorities. these facing insurrection charges

and mark carney, a former governor of both the canadian and british central banks, has announced his campaign to succeed just intruder, as kind of just prime minister and has a lot of the liberal party. other candidates have a week to declare if they wish to challenge currently as part usually we have some fuel the united states has imposed sanctions on students, army, chief of they'll pop out around accusing his forces of attacking civilians and using hunger as a weapon of war. comments a week after the us sanctioned the head of the parent military forces who have been fighting the souvenir, his army for almost 2 years. with donald trump now only days away from taking his 2nd note of office, the arctic region has swung into focus. the incoming us president has said he wants to buy the guard again to an island of greenland for national security reasons. but greenland belongs to denmark and as the w corresponded,

jack parrot found out in the capital, not many green lenders want nothing to do with trumps. initiative, others have signaled interest, majestic, natural beauty, ferociously cold, frequently changing whether the world's attention has landed here in greenland. often donald trump repeated his idea that the us, what could buy you the country. he even sent his son here for a photo opportunity with locals. but the foreign policy goals of the new us administration can feel distance to the people we spoke to henry new. it's not a contract to people like united states and lots of people to either. so i'm not interested to people, i'm not a house or a purchase. your concur, i don't know. i'm not sure. uh, i almost don't care. i don't really like this idea as like being part of

a like it seems to be part of united states america. so but like what i do like it's like i like to work with them. i seats in greenland, i'm melting. and the exploration for lithium uranium and other critical materials is ramping out. drums as buying greenland is strategic. so the us national security against the stride in china and the metal, some russia, both countries are also exploring for resources in the high i'll take right now facing makes up over 90 percent of green lands expos. but green ones biggest employ a currently is the government, 43 percent of the population worked for it and doesn't know tell them as territory of the kingdom of denmark. greenland effectively receives just under $1000000000.00 yours per year from the danish government. so trying to say is that when you speak to people here in greenland, i buy it from this idea to buy that country. the conversation inevitably,

i'm frankly, swiftly moves on to being about whether green line should be independent from denmark. that's a decades long back to here. it's estimated around 2 thirds of green them does would vote to be fully independent from denmark like m. p to know frank, who's campaigning for an independence referendum by 2030 deed. infuse yes. typically welcome a visit by the returning president in the white tice. i really hope he will come here and that he will speak directly to our government and not the government in denmark. we are tired of having a middle man and everything. we want our own sovereignty, we want our right to have our saying in foreign politics ourselves. denmark has refused to entertain the idea of the us taking over agreement. people are asking themselves here whether it's from interest will fade away, as of the global issues land on the desk of his presidency. as well in the united states airlines have been forced to divert flights over the gulf of mexico to avoid

debris from a test of space. texas starship rocket, the upper stage of the rock. it broke up minutes after launching from texas. a family on vacation, mesmerized by a scene straight from science fiction movies with the filming is the day brief from the space ex real kit. flying over the caribbean. the record slipping behind a tree much smaller than not. right? something happened. this exploded 3219 starship roof could have lifted up from a launch pad in texas. i was earlier but minutes into the flight. this happened but we do believe that we have lost the ship during its ascent phase.

its uh, successfully separated from the super heavy booster, but at, during that 2nd phase, a couple of the engines dropped out and then shortly thereafter we lost communication with the vehicle. first are now offering as it aligns with the tower . but there was also a moment of consolation when this space 60 managed to catch a returning booster a feat. it's only 2 once before. with company founder, ellen must already look into words. the next test saying that improved versions of the shape and booster? well, ready waiting for launch by the lot. american feel like or david lynch has died at the age of 78 noon for his dark and surreal, artistic vision. he earned best director oscar nominations for blue velvet, the elephant man and holland drive, who was also behind the groundbreaking tv series twin peaks. from his debut 1977 starkly serial eraser head,

david lynch's unique and edgy cinematic vision was unmistakable. his 1986 phil blue velvet secured, his status is a highly viewed artist, director burning. and this 3rd for oscar nominations. but it's arguably most influential where it came away from the big screen when he turned his hand to television. equally thrilling and shocking audiences with his series twin peaks don't lynch's uncompromising cinematic style as him has earned some respect from peers, ranging from quentin tarantino cohen brothers to steven spielberg, and called him a singular and visionary dreamer. lynch died just days before his 79th birthday k g. matthews is an entertainment journalist and l. a. she told us more about why lynch was so influential. i'd like to think of david lynch this way. a lot of his

films and even television shows were maybe made you feel uncomfortable or hard to watch certain scenes. but they were also hard to forget. he was a surrealistic artist, really. i consider him kind of like the salvador dali, a film here in hollywood pieces. remarkable. he's one of those kind of filmmakers, filmmakers, as an artist. and so you just know that when david lynch's behind a project, it's going to be interesting. it's going to be artistic. and you knew it was going to be great, a type of journalist k j matthews. they're just reminder of the top story we're following for you here on dw, today. israel's top security officials are meeting with prime minister benjamin us and now who to vote on a cease fire for hostages for hostage deal to cease fire for hostages deal with some us nothing you know his office is hostages, could be freed as early as sunday. of next berlin briefing breaks down the issues that could decide who governance germany after next months

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