live from berlin. tonight, israel telling more than one million people in northern gaza to evacuate. hamas, telling them to stand their ground. it comes as the israeli military carries out localized raids inside gaza. is this the beginning of an israeli ground invasion of the gaza strip? also coming up, dw returns to the site of a music festival where last saturday hamas gunned

down hundreds of people. and antony blinken visits qatar as part of a series of talks across the middle east, saying the u.s. and qatar are working together to prevent the conflict spreading from gaza and to secure the release of hostages. ♪ i'm brent goff. to our viewers watching on pbs, in the united states, and to all of you around the world, welcome. almost one week after that unprecedented hamas terror attack in israel, tonight localized raids are being carried out by israeli troops inside gaza. israel's chief military spokesperson said infantry and tank units entered gaza to look at rocket cruise, destroy weapons and search for evidence of hostages. the announcement did not appear to be the beginning of an expected ground defensive in retaliation for the terror attacks from last saturday.

israel has been amassing troops along the gaza border in preparation for a possible offensive. our correspondent rebecca is in tel aviv and told us more about what are being called localized raids. reporter: that is what we have been hearing. the israeli military saying they have been carrying out these very small and targeted, very elite teams have been going out and carrying out these raids, to try particularly i think to look for some of the more than 100 hostages we know are being held in gaza. this is a first shift towards her ground invasion but not indicative of the beginning of such a ground invasion, though that is something that is largely expected to happen in the coming days if not week. we have been saying -- i was down there this week myself, seeing very heavy

armament and a huge troop movement around the gaza border. we have had no confirmation from the israeli military but it is thought that a ground invasion would be the next step. it is not surprising that this interim step is a way that they can enter, try and look for these hostages and do other targeted acts in there without triggering the full ground invasion at this stage. brent: the israeli military has given more than a one million people in gaza 24 hours to evacuate their homes. the terror organization hamas controls the gaza strip. it is telling residents to ignore the warning. but many have decided that it is time to go. reporter: dawn breaks in gaza to a wave of aerial bombardments. an explosion is destroying buildings in the region. and today the attacks came, along with an official warning.

as the israeli military continue to amass tanks and troops near the gazan border ahead of an expected ground invasion, it called for the 1.1 one million people located in gaza city to relocate to the south within 24 hours. this involves attorney across the gaza wetlands, the river dividing territories north and south. and so, the exodus begins. gazan civilians and u.n. staff alike started moving out of harm's way. >> today we do not know where to go. there is no safe place. we do not know where our children are. we do not know what to do. we have no food or water. i am appealing to the u.n. in front of the u.n. building. where do we go? reporter:. -- reporter: the u.n. said moving such a large amount of people

in such a short time would be impossible, "without devastating humanitarian consequences," but the clock ticks on. they are calling for humanitarian access to gaza to be resumed amid the blockade and continued bombardment. they are lacking essential supplies and electricity. >> we need a corridor to provide medical services. i would ask -- that's what i would ask for if you would want to protect civilians and second to provide them with the support that they need, be it food, medical services, supplies. reporter: israel continues to insist that it is doing everything it can to minimize civilian suffering, but for the people of gaza, time is running out, as well as safe places to go. brent: marina maron is

a professor at king's college london. i asked her if these raids are the first up of what could be a ground invasion. reporter: good evening, brent. first of all, yes, these localized raids can be considered a so-called shaping operation. in other words, these raids should be preparing the ground offensive and should increase the success of the ground offensive. and of course we have the hostage situation which makes a military operation in gaza much more difficult. the idea is to locate and try to release the hostages as well as destroy hamas' equipment and we can the hold in the region we are talking about. especially the amassing of troops on the northern part of gaza. we assume the military operation if it is to start will be

starting from the north. brent: there is no question that israel's military is far superior but the equipment compared to anything hamas is working with, is that a factor when we are talking about being in one of the most densely populated places on the planet? and we are talking about urban warfare. >> it is a good question. as we have seen recently in afghanistan, military superiority in terms of numbers and superiority in terms of technology, military technology, doesn't necessarily guarantee success. and this is what we have seen throughout military history. where militias came to be more successful than organized state forces. this will be difficult for the idf. specifically because such operations which used to be called, and insurgency operations required not only military skill, you are operating in densely populated

urban areas, so you have to be very discriminate when it comes to using your force in order to shoot civilians. so the operation itself will be very slow, very painful, costing a lot of lives, and it may look like going block by block, street by street. in those terms, what israel needs to ensure is they don't alienate the palestinian population during this operation. brent: they have been reports of rockets being fired from lebanon or syria towards israel and vice versa, what does this tell you about the possibility of this conflict turning into a two- front or multi-front war? >> there is definitely a risk this might indeed turn into a multi-front war which would not look good for israel, because hezbollah has declared that it

is ready to join the fight. and the problem with such organizations is that they do not have a unity of command. this means even if the official statement would've been not to join, the official intent would've been to stay away, there still might be an incursion into israel escalating, so there's also the potential for a miscalculation which could create a bigger war and open another front in the north. brent: marina, we appreciate your analysis on this friday evening. thank you. in addition to fighting against hamas in the south, israel has faced an outbreak of violence and its northern border with lebanon. since sunday, the iran backed hezbollah group has fired precision missiles as well as rockets at israeli towns and military positions. israel has responded with a

barrage of artillery fire on southern lebanese towns. hezbollah says that three of its fighters have been killed. hezbollah is a shiite political party and militant group and a sworn enemy of israel. but where did they come from? what do they want? and just how powerful is the group now? reporter: it was in the chaos of lebanon's civil war in the 1980's that hezbollah emerged as a shadow faction. funded by iran, the group vowed to drive israeli forces out of lebanon and carried out bombings on western powers, like the u.s. and france. after the civil war, lebanon's militias were disbanded except for one, hezbollah. hezbollah is basically a political party with a military wink. it is by far the most influential party in lebanon with significant support among the public. the party says it originated to

fight the israeli occupation of southern lebanon in the 1980's, but has since said its aim is to counter what it calls western pretermination and expansionism. the party remains committed to the destruction of israel. western intelligence say the group carried out bombings on israeli targets in argentina and britain in the early 1990's, killing and injuring scores. in 2006, the group sparked the second lebanon war, after they abducted two israeli soldiers in a raid and killed three others. 1200 lebanese, mostly civilians, and 158 israelis, mostly soldiers, were killed. at home, hezbollah only grew in stature. hezbollah has dominated the lebanese political scene for the past two decades. its leader says it has a fighting force of some 100,000 men and tens of thousands of rockets at its disposal.

the group's biggest backer is iran who according to the u.s. gives it $700 million a year to fund its operations. money it used to send several 1000 fighters to syria in 2013 to support bashar al-assad's regime, underlining the group's increasingly powerful and divisive role in the middle east. as well as support from iran, the group is a member of the so-called resistance access, along with houthis in yemen, the mobilization in iraq, the palestinian territory on the syrian regime, but germany, the u.s., and others have designated hezbollah as a terrorist organization. now, again, israeli forces in the north are on edge, as hezbollah appears poised to step up its attacks. brent: will hezbollah join the conflict against israel? i put the question to a

senior fellow at the washington institute, she focuses on politics throughout the middle east. reporter: that is the question on everybody's mind today, that this so far has been a very calculated engagement between hezbollah and israel, both sides actually, hezbollah wants to keep playing with the rules of the conflict that have been set after 2006's war, there haven't really been any serious breaks in the role of the conflict. the engagement of hezbollah clashes, it has not been beyond attacking the north, military posts, etc. but they are trying to say that we are a part of this war. they want to reap the benefits of this war, like iran,

obviously, they want to take gains from this war with plausible deniability where they can say that we are not really your target. what they want is basically to say this is an iranian strategy of plausible deniability. hezbollah is playing a very risky game. this might change at any moment. to make sure that iran and proxies maintain the edge that they have gained in this war so far -- which is freezing the saudi-iran deal, exposing israel's witnesses, and obviously shifting the arab trade away from normalization and away from openness, back on edge and back to the resistance narrative. this is a big win for iran.

. it is also very risky game. with hezbollah today, if they maintained is calculated engagement with israel, they will be able to maintain these gains, shift and add to their advantage, and at the same time iran, as hezbollah, will still be able to hold is very strong pressure card, which is hezbollah's precision missiles in lebanon as a strong card without actually using it. brent: let me just ask you, if i understand what you are saying, hezbollah is cognizant of the fact that they have to do something, they have to be some type of distraction for the israeli military, if not, their benefactor, iran, is going to look at them and ask, "well, what good are you? what use are you really for our plans?" is that what you are saying? >> i am saying there is a

very close coordination here between hezbollah and iran. hezbollah will not be involved in this war unless iran asks them to. this is the decision that is made in several -- in tehran, not in the stronghold in beirut. this is about iran's interests in the region. hezbollah today internally do not want to use their lebanese position -- they don't want to expose their own infrastructure in lebanon because it would be costly to reconstruct that. they do not have the budget for war or for reconstruction. it is going to be very devastating for them. but at the end of the day, if this becomes the war, with a capital "w," the war

that is going to just everything to its own advantage, hezbollah cannot say no to these big decisions, they can decide within the lebanese domestic politics, but not on these regional war -- not on this regional war. it's going to be the palestinian front, the lebanese front, gazan front, and i would not be surprised if the houthis and yemen were asked to launch missiles into israel as well. brent: what about the lebanese people? they are dealing with suffering, one of the most severe economic downturns the world has seen in the last 200 years -- is there any type of broad support in lebanon for hezbollah attracting the wrath of israel? >> no, i think the lebanese -- most of the lebanese say,

because some support hezbollah and hamas no matter what, but the majority of the lebanese can make the distinction here between, there is support or sympathy to the palestinian peoples that are falling victim to this war, the hamas-israel war. there is a lot of sympathy for the people in gaza. there is very little sympathy for hamas but there is some support for hamas, some groups within the camps and the hezbollah community, but not all of them. i would say there is no appetite for far from anyone. everyone wants to support the palestinians were even hamas at one point from a distance -- or even hamas at one point from a distance but they do not want to be part of this war because lebanon has been through so many words and we have always realized that at the end of the day, it is the lebanese and the palestinians will pay the price for a war that only the iranians

and the proxies in the region when. everybody understands this now. there is zero appetite for war. no one wants it and hezbollah knows it. brent: we appreciate your time and your analysis tonight. thank you. >> thank you for having me. brent: it was one of the first targets when hamas launched its terror attacks on israel last saturday and became the scene of mass murder. hundreds were killed at the tribe of nova music festival. others were taken hostage. our dw correspondent has this report on how events there unfolded. reporter: inches from the gaza border, he was working as a bartender at the music festival. >> it was great. peaceful people. everyone was dancing and smiling. then the rockets started firing on us. at the moment, we didn't know

anything. reporter: under the cover of the missiles, he recorded on a camera, they broke through a security fence and started shooting. >> we don't know where the shooting started. some of them are here, some of them are there. we didn't know what to do. luckily here there is a small dry river so we just left the car and went to the river into some bushes. reporter: he survived. many others didn't. this is what is left. they killed about 260 people and dragged others to gaza as hostages. the fate of some is still unclear. volunteers from this rescue organization search for victim'' mobile phones to help identify their location. >> when we arrived here around 1 a.m. or 2 a.m., after shabbat, we saw bodies everywhere.

some of them burned. some of them killed from gunshots or explosions. i have worked in this for a long time. but i've never seen anything like this before. to see this here, it is like a holocaust. reporter: the israeli military are still searching for militants. there have been more infiltrations sense and the area has not been entirely secured. >> we know there are still terrorists in this area. that is what we are still clearing -- why we are still clearing the entire field. it is going to take much more time but we are doing it and we are still finding terrorists running around in this area. reporter: the unprecedented attacks have raised many questions about how this happened. >> the responsible ones -- >> we are responsible ones for the intelligence and defense. we will question ourselves. we will reach all and everything

that we understand why it happened to us but right now it doesn't matter, now we need to fight, we need to stay focused. reporter: for now, israel is united in what the government calls its war against hamas. but anger is already replacing grief over this failure of intelligence. brent: the u.s. secretary of state antony blinken has wrapped up talks in qatar,'s latest stop in a series of talks, in a bid to prevent the conflict between israel and hamas from widening. his tour began with a stop in israel this week to show support and discuss hostage negotiations, then it was off to jordan where he met the president. the tour includes stops in gulf arab nations as well as egypt. here is part of what antony blinken said today during a press conference with the qatari prime minister. >> we share the goal of preventing this conflict from spreading.

we discussed in detail our efforts to prevent any act, state or nonstate, from creating a new front in this conflict. we are also working intensively together to secure the release of hostages. including american citizens being held by hamas in gaza. i am grateful for the urgency in this effort. brent: our correspondent has been following this diplomacy by blinken. top of his agenda, securing the release of the hostages and making sure this conflict is not get bigger. >> that's right. if we look at qatar, where he was in the tour he's doing around the region, it has a track record as being somewhat of an intermediary in these diplomatic outreaches that u.s. has done for instance with the taliban and in afghanistan, they had offices in qatar, that was

the center of negotiation between the u.s. and the taliban. in this case also hamas has offices in doha in the qatari capital and they been doing what they can to try to get some of those hostages out of their. although the -- out of there. although the qatari prime minister was dampening expectations, in terms of it happening imminently. this is a serious risk the u.s. is concerned about, escalation. if you look at these golf -- gulf states like qatar, they are worried about it, too, the worst case scenario, you have a really big regional war involving iran, gulf states really risk being caught in the middle of a conflict like thatm so there is major interests there and trying to do whatever they can to try to keep temperatures down. brent: and the humanitarian situation in gaza, he also faced questions about that.

>> you could see countries are trying to walk a line here. that they are really strongly expressing, as he predicted, that israel has the right to defend its people after this extraordinarily brutal attack by hamas. even that it has the duty to do that. and at the same time, evidently wanting to try to dissuade the israels from going too far in their response. there are clear alarm bells being rung around the region but also the u.n. after this warning from the israeli military to the people of northern gaza, "get out in 24 hours, because we are going to be coming in," the u.n., saying that is dangerous and describing gaza now as a hellhole, the u.n. agency using that language.

it carries a risk that if it is perceived as ignoring the rights of civilians in gaza, israel, it risks losing international sympathy that understandably has gone to it after the last of -- after the events of last weekend. how you act in the aftermath. most americans would say some of those are mistakes in retrospect. you get from the tone of blinken saying he is urging the is released to take every precaution to protect civilians. you can sell the discussions going on behind the scenes or probably even more emphatic. the americans want to prevent the israelis from doing anything that cost them some of the moral high ground that they have. brent: thanks for the analysis. thank you. good to see you in the studio. you are watching dw news.

here's a recap of the top story we are following this our -- the israeli minister has carried out what it called localized raids inside gaza. hamas killed some 1300 israelis in last saturday's attack. some 1800 people in gaza have died in reprisals. since. . -- in reprisals since. our coverage continues. after a short break, i will be back to take you through "the day." stick around. we'll be right back. ♪

>> it is 10:00 p.m. in paris. if you are just joining us, the big welcome to france 24. thousands of palestinians travel south in gaza after israel gives residents just 24 hours to evacuate, this ahead of an expected ground assault against hamas. and it is a tragic day for the professional -- profession of journalism as a reuters photographer is killed. france raises its alert level two highest after a teacher is

stabbed to death by a 20-year-old suspect at a school. the investigation has been handed to the antiterrorism prosecutor's office. thanks for joining us "live from paris." more than 1003 people have been killed in israel since hamas launched its onslaught saturday. israel's response has been swift and deadly with airstrikes killing over 1900 gazans in response, including over 600 children. at least 40 palestinians have also been killed in the west bank. for those still in gaza, the situation could cascade within israeli ground assault now approaching. tanks have amassed at the border

, and the israeli military have worn -- warned gazan residents in the north to flee immediately to the south. we look at how israel is positioning its troops. >> tanks amassed at israel's border with gaza, firing across it as soldiers patrolled between checkpoints, searching for hamas militants who may still be infiltrating. as the israeli military continues to pound gaza with aerial bombardments, it is also preparing for a likely ground offensive, warning civilians of gaza city, more than one million people, to relocate south in 24 hours. >> the game here is to minimize the damage to civilians. there are significant combat operations ongoing and we are

preparing for future continuance of our combat operations. >> israel has called up 360,000 reservists in the wake of saturday's infiltration assault. many are training in this restricted military zone close to the border. it is the largest compulsory mobilization since the 1973 war. >> this is just the beginning. israeli people have a lot of power and a lot of confidence in what they can do and they can do almost anything. >> emma reservists, but i have not been called up yet. i want to join my friends, joined my unit. >> israel says it is aiming to target hamas' military structure, much of which is buried deep underground. the offensive would involve navigating enemy terrain likely rigged with explosives by hamas

or israel's own hostages could be hidden. >> to talk more about those implications, and joined by a former military intelligence office and now senior lecturer in strategy at portsmouth university. thanks so much for joining us. israel's tactics, they have put tanks at the border, but these are tanks which will most likely be used in incredibly dense residential areas. how do they plan on using them and not risk civilian lives? >> good evening. the tanks are intended for what is called direct support. it is unlikely we will see the tanks themselves in the streets very often for the simple reason they are very vulnerable there. they can be struck and destroyed. they are used for fairly specific tax. all i will say is on infantry

fighting vehicles, which are specifically designed for the gaza operation, so we don't know what form this assault will take for when it will happen in the next few days -- this is quite likely, i would think -- but this would not be an armored struggle. is your reporter said, this would be an infantry struggle. >> can you take me through what the steps most likely will be in terms of sending the infantry into each block by block? how exactly does it work? >> the idea is to take minimal risk. soldiers are being briefed, supplied, equipped, but more important are the logistics are being put together. the israelis, like everyone else, depend on logistics, which is what wins or loses wars.

as they approach the start point, having been briefed, they will have a powerful panoply of weapons. the artillery, airpower, and over the last couple of years, israel has switched its doctrine to rely more on highly aggressive, highly kinetic action to take minimal risks, but ultimately, those infantry soldiers will have to go into the streets. they will face improvised explosive devices, booby-traps, traps triggered by simple things like tripwires or by their own steps, by infrared perhaps, and of course, there are those tunnels. gaza, like the israelis, have a for this operation for many years. both sides are ready for the other. it will be really challenging for both. one other thing for the israelis

which is unique is the problem they will have being watched from above but hamas drones, but israel is ready for that, too. we are going to see a step change with israel practicing what it has been training for. >> really futuristic technological type of warfare, but surely, the people most at risk are these millions of civilians aiming to flee this area in time for this assault to begin. how will israel manage that? >> israel faces this complication, has faced it in the past. we heard from the officer there, they do their best to avoid casualties, there is no avoiding it in this type of conflict.

that is the major challenge for them. of course, there is the additional, deeply complicated technical and moral problem of israel's hostages and what hamas will be doing with those. we've no idea yet, so it is a multilevel problem for the israelis, this, and the civilian issue, noncombatant issue is absolutely tragic. if hamas doesn't want to go, they are staying where they are and that will inevitably vastly increase the casualties in this operation. >> very worrying situation indeed. that's all we have time for. thank you for joining us.

the situation on the ground in gaza is reaching catastrophic proportions. in order to understand the gravity of what is unfolding for residents and humanitarian aid workers, we earlier spoke to the director of communications for the united nations relief and works agency for palestine refugees. >> there has been a tightening of the blockade which has been going on for 16 years. humanitarian organizations have not been able to deliver any supplies into the gaza strip for nearly one week now. this is exactly why it is absolutely fundamental that we are given humanitarian access, so that we are able to get in supplies, much-needed supplies to those that need us most. we hope that someone hears our calls and that humanitarian

organizations are ready and that we are given the access we need very quickly because time is running and time is running very fast. >> it has been a sad day for this profession. a reuters journalist was killed on friday while working in southern lebanon near the border with israel. six other journalists from afp cumber voyagers, and al jazeera were also wounded when they were caught up in cross-border shelling by israel. the bombing allegedly occurred after a palestinian infiltration attempt from the lebanese side of the border. an israeli spokesperson also announced that an army aircraft had been striking at hezbollah targets. it is in incredibly distressing situation as a journalist, obviously, when you see your fellow colleagues involved in something like this. what more information can you provide us about what happened?

>> this is a very hard story for me to cover. i only saw him a few days ago when we were together very close to the border and he is a good friend of mine. i think this is all part of rising tensions and escalating tensions on the border. the border was clearly stable today and yesterday, but later this afternoon, we saw the exchange of fire followed by attacks which hezbollah claimed responsibility for upon israeli outputs in the north. the situation is escalating really fast on the borders in southern lebanon at a time when a lot of people don't want to be dragged into another war, especially after the devastating 2006 war, which had devastating

effects on the entire country. >> what do we know about any kind of involvement of hezbollah in the situation? israel said it was firing up positions, but as you said, it has reached some sort of stability in the last day. what do we know? >> it has reached some sort of stability until later this afternoon. we had an official statement by hezbollah which claimed responsibility for the attack earlier this afternoon. this was officially claimed by hezbollah in a very recent statement, so has in all statements is still saying it is retaliating to the israeli attacks, israeli attacks are retaliation to attacks, so this is currently the rules of engagement.

this has been the scene for the past few days, but we are not sure how long that would be the case before this could possibly spill into a much larger scale conflict at some point. >> i'm sorry. that's all we have time for right now. once again, my condolences for the loss of your friend after he was killed close to the south lebanon border on friday. hundreds of thousands of people have gathered around the world to denounce the israeli bombardment from turkey to rome and baghdad to indonesia as well as bangladesh. people have rallied across friday, throwing their support behind not just the palestinian

cause but also at times hamas. u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin has now reassured israel that they have the united states' full support. the statements came in a joint meeting in tel aviv friday with israeli and arab leaders, despite questions about the likelihood of civilian casualties in gaza. austin said israel had the right to defend itself, adding his respect for israeli forces. take a listen. >> i am here in person to make something crystal clear -- america's support for israel is ironclad. this is no time for neutrality or for false equivalence or for excuses for the inexcusable. there is never any justification for terrorism.

>> in france, authorities are urging people to avoid the town center. police operations are ongoing after an assailant fatally stabbed a teacher and wounded three others in a school. authorities say the investigation is being handled by the antiterrorism prosecutor's office while president emmanuel macron has already visited the school. >> speaking in the tribunal behind me, the head of terrorism investigations, a public prosecutor, confirmed that this investigation is still very much active. it is ongoing. several people have been arrested and are being questioned by police, including, of course, the attacker himself and his younger brother. i spoke earlier on to a 14-year-old boy who was in the school at the time that the attacker came in. he saw his sports teacher covered in blood, and he ran upstairs to his friends to hide

in one of the classrooms. he told me about how stressful it was. >> at the start, we were stressed. we ran. we thought everyone was dead. after that, some people started crying. others reacted differently. they said everything would be ok. the reactions really varied. >> there is clearly sadness, grief, shock in this town in the north of france. what we have noticed speaking to everyone here, there is not anger. there really is a desire for community relations to continue to be strong here. the mayor told us he is really keen to make sure this incident does not fracture community relations here. he says that clearly sometimes, and right now, a stern, firm response is needed to this drama that has happened here in this

town, but he also says that does not mean people cannot keep kindness in their hearts and continue holding out their hands to different communities and cultures. >> it is time for business now. with the situation unfolding in gaza as it is, there are obviously those who live in gaza but worked in israel still. now they are unable to return home. what is the situation? >> these hundreds of gazans who found themselves unable to go back into the gaza strip, and there's some about 18,000 people who have a work permit to work in israel -- since the fighting broke out saturday, they have had to find shelter in the west bank, there future uncertain. it is not only their homes under threat but also their jobs if israel uses these work permits

as a form of leverage. >> these gaza-based palestinians work working jobs in israel when hamas launched its deadly operation. unable to return home after israeli authorities completely locked down the enclave, they, along with many others, sought refuge in the west bank. they feared possible reprisals if they remained in israel. >> we spent three days in the apartment and did not dare to make a sound. we locked ourselves up, did not even dare to look out the window because the situation was dangerous. >> the workers were provided accommodation in hotels and centers by local authorities. some told foreign media they were forced by the israeli army to head to the west bank after being detained for hours. >> the workers were attacked. they had their teeth broken. there were injuries we tried to treat. some workers did not have identification papers. they confiscated their identity

cards and phones. >> approximately 18,000 palestinians have permits to work inside israel where they bring in some $2 million a day. these work permits are in extremely high demand as they allow gazans to earn up to 10 times more than what they would make in the enclave. in the past, israeli officials have pledged to increase the number of permits should the situation remain calm, thus holding the precious work documents as leverage. >> now for the final word on wall street for the week, stocks mostly fell friday, pressured by a spike in oil prices and rising inflation expectations. dow jones closing about .1% higher. the s&p 500 .5% lower and the nasdaq losing 1.2%. the union of striking autoworkers says it is not expanding its strike against the detroit three for the moment but will decide on extra walkouts at the last minute.

since beginning industrial action nearly a month ago, the united auto workers union has been announcing changes to its strike action on fridays, targeting companies that have made the least amount of efforts in negotiations. two days ago, he declared an immediate walk at fort's kentucky truck plant in louisville where some of the company's most popular models are built. the uaw president said a change in game plan was needed to keep companies on their toes. >> we are not waiting until fridays anymore. we are not sticking to one pattern or one system of giving these companies an extra hour or an extra day. they thought they figured out the so-called rules of the game, so we changed the rules. now there's only one rule -- pony up. >> several u.s. banks have reported a jump in profits for the third quarter, reflecting a continued boost from higher interest rates and healthy u.s. employment. jpmorgan chase posted 13.2

billion dollars in net income for the third quarter, a jump of 35% compared to last year. wells fargo profits jumped 60%, and black rock reported an adjusted net income of 1.6 billion, beating analyst expectations, despite the higher earnings, banks have warned of uncertainty amid inflation and the wars in ukraine and middle east. microsoft has finally closed its $69 billion deal to buy game maker activision-blizzard after approval from the u.k. regulator. the takeover swells microsoft heft in the video game market with best-selling titles including call of duty to better compete with industry leaders sony. british regulators with a final obstacle to the deal which was originally unveiled in january of last year. the cma, having blocked it over competition concerns, finally

gave the ok after microsoft agreed it would not take control of the cloud business. that was a long time coming, but they got there in the end. >> activision creators have candy crush as well. it is time now for truth or fake . there's false claims circulating online claiming that ukraine delivered arms to hamas before the group's offensive in israel last week. tell us more. >> that's right. a video being shared online claims to show weapons delivered to the hamas group sent by ukraine. what is interesting is that the first time these can be found on the internet dates back to the same day that the attacks began last saturday. the video itself is only 11 seconds long, but in it, we can see a multitude of weapons splayed out on the ground, and there is a voice in the background speaking arabic, for

which the translation says, i think the ukrainian authorities for sending us these weapons. we will use them against the enemy, against israel. when i searched for this video online using reverse image search software and reverse video search, i was not able to find any results of this to see where the origins of this video might stem from, but what is interesting is that the only places that i could find this video circulating was on stage progression accounts on x but also on russian-speaking telegram accounts, and that is really what triggered big questions for me about the veracity behind the expressed claims. >> you were able to kinda work out the source, but then were you able to verify that the claims were actually disinformation? >> in order to verify this further, i spoke with two expert analysts for a little more context about what we are

seeing. my first expert is in fact a weapons expert who has followed hamas' weapons arsenal pretty closely, and he told me that he believes that many of the weapons shown here actually have never been used by hamas. he said the first opening shot of the video shows this weapon here, which is a javelin antitank missile launcher. this is not a weapon hamas has ever been seen to use in their weapons arsenal. there's also a moment where we can see this here, which is an m-240 machine gun. interestingly, these are american-made arms that have been seen recently on the battlefield in ukraine. my second expert analyst who is an open source intelligence analyst, pointed out to me that there is no evidence really to show why any of these american-made hour western-made arms sent to ukraine actually could end up in hamas' hands.

he said there's no evidence of any israeli military accounts, of the weapons they have seized since the conflict, nor from any videos published by hamas themselves on their own personal telegram. in those videos they published, we tend to see mainly weapons from the origins of israeli hour iranian or lebanese origin weapons. hamas has also not claimed any links to having obtained weapons from ukraine. speaking of their own personal media, all official videos posted from the official hamas account is generally watermarked with the logo, which this video did not follow. both my analyst hypothesize the weapons we saw in that video could be western sent arms to ukraine. sometimes the forces do have to leave behind, sometimes being seized by russian forces. in their expert opinion, that video was likely filmed either

in pressure or ukraine. >> this is interesting because there's another element that these images were used in a false bbc report if i'm not mistaken, which allegedly pushes the narrative that hamas is backed by ukraine. >> yes, that's right. the video we saw earlier was actually seen in a fake social media report claiming to be a joint collaboration between the bbc and investigative outlets. we can see our images here, the same ones we saw before, and interestingly, we can also see this fake video uses the same bbc logo and of course their infamous graphic style they are known for with their social media videos. in this fabricated report, the main claim is that the ukrainian government supplied hamas with the majority of weapons used for the attack on israel. however, this video does not

exist on bbc news. interestingly, this report also refers to hamas as a terrorist group, which the bbc has defended their position they will not be referring to the group as that in their content whatsoever. overall, from failure expert arms analysis, all signs point to this video being created by progression accounts in further attempts to discredit the state of ukraine. furthermore, the usage of it in a fake social media report that points to a fake investigation that also does not exist, that really shows us the extent and the lengths that propaganda creators are willing to go to in order to further spread this information. >> it is really scary, i have to say, when you see videos going

to that extent to provide that, what we could be in for the future, you really have to be careful with what you do consume. thanks so much for joining us here on france 24. we will see you in just a bit. ♪ >> with record temperatures worldwide, how can singapore, the most urbanized city in the world, deal with global warming? abundant vegetation, solar panels, watering places, and innovative solutions -- all ideas are on the table. >> the elephant has evolved a textured skin to release all the heat. we were raised in singapore to create textured towels you see in front of you. >> this is important to us to learn how we can extend the

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10/13/23 10/13/23 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new york, this is democracy now! >> israel's decision to evacuate one million gazans is basically forcible transfer. that is war crime under international law. it is not implementable. the united nations is calling it horrendous. america last night the israeli army ordered 1.1 million residents of gaza to evacuate