>> this is dw news. israel engine closer to invading gaza. prime minister netanyahu says preparations for a ground invasion are underway and he has issued a warning to gazans to move south. u.n. secretary general antonio guterres trying to calm a double medic storm after israel accused him of justifying acts of terror. >> i am shocked by the

misrepresentations by some of my statement yesterday in the security council as if i was justifying acts of terror by hamas. this is false, it was the opposite. >> plus you'll supplies in gaza are running dangerously low, the u.n. agency helping refugees warning it will have to shut down aid operations. after three weeks of political paralysis, finally a leader. u.s. lawmakers select republican mike johnson to be the new speaker of the house of representatives. ♪ to our viewers watching on pbs and the u.s. and to all of you around the world welcome. we begin from -- with a message

from netanyahu, he told the country and the world that israel is preparing a ground invasion of gaza. netanyahu did not give details but he repeated a warning to palestinians to move to the south of gaza or else. >> we are getting ready for a ground operation. i will not say when, how or using how many soldiers. i will also not specify the conditions that are being taken into account. the majority of which are not known to the public. and this is how it should be. it is for the benefit of our soldiers. i want to be clear, the timing of the defense forces operation will be determined unanimously by the war cabinet along with the defense forces teeth of staff -- chief of staff. we are operating to ensure the best condition for our fighters for future actions. >> i am going to pull in our

journalist in jerusalem. let's go through this, the prime minister saying the idf is preparing for a ground incursion. we have heard from french president macron, he has called that an error. we have media reports that israel agreed to delay its offensive. can you give us clarity on what the message is? >> netanyahu is preparing the israeli public for a long campaign in the gaza strip. he is preparing the public, this is a very important speech them a this is how it is received in israel. as to the timing, it is not going to happen tonight, we have read in the wall street journal that americans have been asking israel to postpone this kind of a ground incursion, especially because they want to deploy air defenses throughout the middle

east to protect american sites in places such as iraq, jordan, kuwait, syria and so forth. the americans are preparing for what they think will be a strike against them by different factions in the middle east. therefore we are seeing this kind of postponing. >> the prime minister spoke about security lapses that were exposed in the october 7 attacks. did he take responsibility for this? and if you could remind us of what those lapses are. >> we did not hear from him the taking of responsibility, the kind of statements that we heard from people, from the military echelon, this was much awaited. many of the israeli public regard netanyahu as being

responsible for at least some of the failure. we did not hear that. nevertheless he said that after the war, he will answer questions as to what has happened. and of course we are talking about a failure on the behalf of the intelligence, that they did not realize that hamas has been preparing for many months, maybe a whole year. such a large-scale operation and the israel who has been boasting of having such a sophisticated intelligence, knowing where everything is, it totally failed on this. on top of that we have operational failures of the troops, especially talking about the towers that were taken down by a hamas drone. there was no proper surveillance. in the war that israel -- along

the gaza strip that failed to stop the hundreds of hamas people. >> and the airstrikes that are hitting the gaza strip, they intensified today. >> indeed, we are talking about a pounding of the gaza strip, this is what israel said it will do and it will continue. some are saying this is why they still want to bombard the gaza strip. we are seeing casualties, civilian casualties. there is a very known journalist from al jazeera, his wife, their daughter and son all killed in one of these bombardments. this is going to continue. >> the latest tonight from jerusalem, thank you. the prime minister of qatar says there has been some progress in negotiations to free israeli

hostages being held by hamas. qatar and egypt are involved in attempt to secure the release of more than 200 hostages who were taken by hamas during its terror attacks. four captives have been freed so far. israel accuses qatar of helping to fund hamas. the head of the united nations says he is shocked at reaction to remarks that he made at the un security council meeting yesterday. antonio guterres says that he clearly condemned the october 7 hamas terror attacks against israel. but in that speech he also described israel's bombing of gaza as " collective punishment of palestinians". >> i am shocked by the misrepresentations by some of my statement yesterday in the security council as if i was justifying acts of terror by hamas. this is false, it was the

opposite. in the beginning of my intervention yesterday i clearly stated, i have condemned unequivocally the seven october hamas acts of terror in israel. i spoke of the grievances of the palestinian people. and in doing so i also clearly stated, that the grievances of the palestinian people cannot justify the appalling attacks by hamas. and then i went on with my intervention, referring all of my positions on all aspects of the middle east crisis. i believe it was necessary to set the record straight.

especially out of respect to the victims and their families. thank you. >> you may remember israel's ambassador to the u.n. has called on the secretary-general to resign. my colleague asked -- how the state meant have been received inside israel. >> we have not had any reaction yet of the statement that you just heard from antonio guterres saying he was shocked by israel's reaction. there was a flurry of reactions after he made those initial statements. israel's ambassador to the human calling on antonio guterres to step down, saying he had no place to be making such or marks. they said they want to block you when worker visas -- you and worker visas, and aid

coordinators have their visa refused. we do not know exactly how far down the hierarchy such a visa ban would be. whether that will affect people who work here, the humanitarian aid workers who are here for the u.n.. we are not sure exactly how far that will go but they are standing by their words. and furious, the israeli ambassador was not the only one to be furious, there were other people, the chairman also expressing outrage by those comes. feeling he has been misinterpreted. >> earlier i spoke with alexander muller, the defense

policy point man for the free democratic party in germany. i asked him what he makes of israel holding off on lynch -- on launching its invasion. >> they want to protect the hostages and they do not want hamas to be prepared. it is a military tactic do not tell your opponent when you start your attack. and perhaps it take some time, the plans are not ready yet, we don't know. there are several reasons they might have. >> yesterday the french president became the first western leader to meet with palestinian leader abbas. if we talk about a postwar period, a return to peace as talks between israel and the palestinians, who do you see as being the most credible partner among the palestinians? who is the palestinian leader you would able -- be able to do

business with? >> that is hard, really hard. i wondered why mahmoud abbas would be such a candidate, why he did not say anything after the terrorist attacks. he might have said this is not acceptable. but he did not, so he is out of the game. it is hard to find modest palestinian leaders who might be able to organize a peaceful living side-by-side of jews and arabs, i have no idea. >> let me ask you about things right here in germany, since this war broke out, germany has seen a rise in antisemitic incidents. how concerned are you about the war we are talking about tonight, it causing deep rifts and more violence in germany? >> i am very concerned as we see

a lot of demonstrations from pro-palestinian people. we see jews, david stars in germany that are painted there to tell everybody they are jews living there. this is absolutely ugly, we had this 80 years ago and we do not want to have this here anymore. it makes me scared because we imported this problem, a lot of the demonstrators have migration routes and germany is very open. we take a lot of migrants here currently. and we import the problem. >> alexander muller, we appreciate your time. the u.n. agency helping refugees in gaza says its fuel supplies are running out and it will stop operations unless more fuel is allowed in the territory

tonight. a fourth aid convoy of 20 trucks arrived in gaza from egypt today but israel's military is using to allow fuel into the territory, accusing the militant group hamas of hoarding fuel supplies. the shortage is hindering emergency services that are already stretched to the limit. >> relentless israeli airstrikes on gaza mean evermore people are trapped under the rubble. health care staff are working tirelessly, brushing injured palestinians to hospital. what critical supplies, including shrouds for the dead, are running low. >> water pressure is so low, they are unable to operate the central sterilization machine that we use to sterilize our surgical equipment. the electricity keeps cutting

out and we are dependent on the fuel which i understand is no longer coming in. >> doctors are under pressure to conserve fuel for the generators that hospitals are now relying on. aid is trickling into gaza but israel is still blocking fuel supplies. >> we are aware that hamas needs fuel, they need it badly for their military infrastructure. after they stole all of the fuel. we will discuss the issue of the fuel with the world and if the hospitals are in peril, hamas are the first to ask that hamas refueled the hospitals, the world must demand this from hamas. >> the u.n. is warning that without more fuel it will have to halt its aid work. >> fuel is extreme the urgent because without it the trucks cannot move. without fuel the generators

cannot produce electricity for hospitals, for bakeries and for the water desalinization plants. >> the white house says it is working to get fuel into gaza. but time is running out. >> let's take a look at the other stories making headlines around the world. russia's parliament has approved its withdrawal from an international treaty banning nuclear tests. president putin warned that russia would cancel its backing of the comprehensive nuclear test ban because the united states has never ratified it. there are fears that moscow could resume nuclear testing. third-place argentinian presidential candidate patricia -- has back to the far right libertarian candidate in next month's runoff election. he has promised to take a chainsaw to public spending and came in second in sunday's first round of elections.

economic issues have dominated voters concerns, inflation in argentina is running at a -- at 140%. slovakia has a new government, the populist leader has been sworn in as prime minister for the fourth time. he heads a three party coalition that includes the ultranationalist pro-russian slow back national party. -- slovak national party. >> donald trump has been fined $10,000 for breaching a gag order during his fraud trial in new york. the second time the former u.s. president has been penalized for his comments attacking court staff. trump is on trial for allegedly inflating the value of his assets in order to secure bait loans. staying in the u.s., republicans have elected mike johnson of louisiana to be the next speaker of the house of representatives. johnson's win caps three weeks

of chaotic party infighting which left the chamber without a leader and effectively unable to function. the little-known conservative was the republicans fourth now many for the speaker's chair. he won by a vote of 220-209. a small right-wing faction helped in the ouster of the previous speaker kevin mccarthy. more about the vote today. >> it was not a surprise, i hate to be the party pooper, that he will make it, that mike johnson will -- there were so many speaker candidates. mike johnson a 51-year-old lawyer and republican congressman from louisiana i'm a he will make it in the first round. we had three other candidates, steve scalise, jim jordan,

emmer, two of those did not even make it to the houseboat. -- house vote. here we go, there it is, the republican conference in congress has a new speaker. and now we wonder what he will do for us, the first action, because no democratic government based on three branches of government can work if one branch is a no go or does not do anything. this is what we have had for the last three and a half weeks. >> what do we know about the new speaker? >> he is 51 years old, a former lawyer. he is one of the republican congressman who has the least enemies in the conference, meaning in the current republican conference in the

house. and that is why he was elected. they could agree on him and on nobody else because he does not really have any enemies. but here is what we also know, he is a self-declared evangelical christian, he is a vocal trump supporter. but he was also a key congress figure in the attempt to overturn 2020 presidential elections. he is an abortion opponent and he has made no secret about his opposition to same-sex marriage. this is who we have now, let's see what he can do in terms of swinging the legislative gavel. >> the u.s. and the world will be watching. thank you. on this side of the atlantic, the german cabinet has approved a draft law to make it easier to deport rejected asylum-seekers.

the bill includes expanding police powers and extending detention terms. the government has been under pressure to tighten asylum rules as the number of refugees entering the country has grown. but human rights groups and even some within the current government say the changes go too far. i am joined by rafael bossong, a political scientist. why do you think the german government felt it had to do what it did? >> this has been in the making for some time, it is the result of consultations between the federal level and the lender level and the regional states that have to deal with the accommodations. they have been pressuring the government to bring the numbers down and have more restrictive implementation. this has been discussed for some time, and now it is out in the open. and politically the top level

leadership have been under increasing pressure to signal that things are changing. >> some critics of this new law say it is unconstitutional. >> i don't think you can say that in those bling get terms, there are provisions that can be discussed and remain borderline. for example, for what reasons can you be held in detention, proportion is the last measure, furlong, or be given the decision to leave because you are a member of a potential criminal organization. there are questions that have to be resolved. but it is not overall, as a law, you say it is going too far. >> is this being talked about because what we have been seeing with political parties mother rise of the far right afd, and a new party, an anti-immigration

platform. >> this is the pressure i was talking about. but we have to say, there are some pragmatic useful things in there, but it is mosley a political signal. even with this law, it is probably going to increase only a few hundred people to deport. it is this atmosphere that they are trying to serve. you have on the right but also on conservative left actors who say we have to protect the welfare state. >> are the argument valid? you hear people saying the current system is not working, you have people that have been rejected as asylum seekers and they are not being deported. >> the answer is rather complex. this is an issue that any country faces in the west. look at the u.s. and other countries, very right-wing governments in italy, they all have troubles.

having said that, there are administrative things that can be tightened and made more efficient, but it is only a relative improvement. we always have to live with the fact that there is a gap between the formal legal claim and individual circumstances. why you can't be deported, why it is not proportionate. >> rafael bossong, we appreciate you coming in. thank you. part of germany's migration challenge, what to do with the people already here. many communities are struggling to provide accommodation for refugees, including hundreds of thousands from ukraine. some are being housed in a former international airport in berlin. >> how are you? >> fine. >> how nice that you found your way to us. >> she left of the war in

ukraine and now lives in berlin. >> as refugees we do not know your laws, it is difficult for us to understand and communicate. that is white and organization like this is so important, it is a great help for people like us. >> he is a german with turkish roots, he can put them to good use. he hears about broken doors, slow internet, but one complete keeps coming up. >> there is a lack of space which creates problems between refugees. if you are stuck in a room with five people, there are clashes. >> here at the airport in berlin, refugees have been accommodated for 1.5 years. space is scarce as it is in many communities in germany. in order to accommodate the new arrivals, an extension is being

built, 3000 new places. an emergency solution. >> we need other accommodation that allows people to be alone in a closed room, to be between closed walls and doors. >> the refugees have to move together instead of six square meetings, they only have four. >> there are a lot of people. >> i am very pleased, they are giving us a roof over our heads in a bed to sleep in. and they give us food. the complaints -- in a 60% of cases, they find a solution. >> even if i did not manage to help, at least i said hello to the person, listened to them and made them feel i am here. >> around 200 cases are handled here.

she is satisfied, her problem with the authorities has been solved. >> you are watching dw news, a reminder of our top stories. israeli prime ministers says his country is preparing for a ground invasion of gaza. he has warned civilians there to move to the south of the territory. and u.s. republicans have elected mike johnson of louisiana to be the next speaker of the house of representatives. his when caps three weeks of chaotic pretty inviting. -- party infighting. after a short break i will be back to take you through the day, stick around. ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪

mark: welcome to "live from paris," world news and analysis from france 24. i'm mark owen. israel says it has launched a series of intensive attacks across the gaza strip this wednesday. over the past 24 hours, over 750 palestinians have been killed, including more than 300 children. the united nations has confirmed a strike on one of its camps sheltering homeless people. israel is to refuse united nations official basis in a row over remarks made by antonio guterres.