u. s. has been its biggest donor of military ages, provided funding and arms and conflicts that have killed thousands of palestinians and made refugees of millions visiting 10 of us present joe biden. personally reassure prime minister benjamin that's now of continued support israel, as they responded this attacks seems to me that have to continue to ensure that you have what you need to defend yourself. and we're going to make sure that occurs abiding arrived in tel aviv just a day after the worst thing that attack carried out on guys i since october the 7th . here's what he had to say about the hospital strike. this is deeply sad and outraged by the explosion of the hospital and cause of yesterday and based on what i've seen, it appears as though it was done by the other team. not, not you. but there's a lot of people out there not sure. so a lot of them had overcome a lot of things before we go to our panel, let's speak to alan fisher in tennessee, and tell us more about what came out of thi

u. s. has dispatched it's the navy's newest and most advanced carrier, the u. s. s. barrels are ford to help ward off and escalation of the conflict. advanced weaponry has landed in israel as well. but beyond the necessity of supporting a strong response analyst barbara's leaving says she hopes that behind the scenes calls for restraint. and the importance of preserving civilian lives are being made by the administration has done a good job so far of conducting the atrocities that were committed calling them pure evil in this hour of israel's extreme need. i am hopeful that there are also private messages that are being sent to the israelis not to let their desire for vengeance overcome both their morality and their strategic thinking. because there is going to be a need to pick up the pieces when this is all over. and there has to be interlock orders for the as rallies, the united states and others to try to restore some kind of calm and to project some kind of positive future for the palestinians going forward. otherwise, we're going to see this, this are a movie

u. s. has been in compared to how it was in the ninety's or in the beginning of the 2 thousands before 911. i'm pretty much upset. absent with an active, middle east policy or diplomacy, this scheme in the middle east of the us was occupied with $911.00 and the response of this war in iraq war and if can to stand and so on that isis remember, ices us, uh, put a lot of money and personnel on hunting down and finding our supporting groups who forced part were for were fighting isis far. um, now the us has even if they never disband that the idea of a 2 state solution for as well as the palestinians, they have to kind of get back to this. now also pointing out the u. s. has sent to strike navy's aircraft. carriers try grooves to the region, and that is for the sole purpose to warn iran slash this ball on lab and on to do anything, anything to escalate this conflict because it is not in the us and us things in anybody's interest to make this even bigger this conflict, this bad enough, make it a reg

u. s. has to pay attention to all $3.00 crises in the world, hopefully together with allies, because without doing it together with partners, the us will probably at some point and is already feeling overstretched. i think there was an expectation that europe will do more for ukraine eventually, especially as the u. s. enters and election here. the middle east is focusing a lot of energy of, for the us administration right now. and that's, we've seen this, you know, playbook in the past. many us presence get embroiled in middle east policy. but i think at one point present, bide, will have to pivot towards his re election. may go to us, has been of shooting away from the middle east for some time and focusing more on china and bus. if it would now be was feel the need to focus more on the middle east. what do you say that they are back in the role of global shed of as well as we can clearly see is when the us started to retreat from certain areas of the world situation got worse. one of the rea

u. s. has to pay attention to all $3.00 crises in the world, hopefully together with allies, because without doing it together with partners, the us will probably at some point and is already feeling overstretched. i think there was an expectation that europe will do more for ukraine eventually, especially as the us anders and election here. the middle east is focusing a lot of energy of for the us administration right now. and that's, we've seen this, you know, playbook in the past. many us presence get embroiled in middle east policy. but i think at one point present, bide, will have to pivot towards his re election. me go to us, has been of shooting away from them at least for some time and focusing more on china and plastic. but now be was feel the need to focus more on the middle east. what do you say about the back in the role of global shed of or so what we can clearly see is when the us started to retreat from certain areas of the world, the situation got worse. one of the reasons is th

u. s. has dispatched it to me, these newest and most advanced carrier, the u. s. s. barrels are ford. so help ford often escalation of the conflict. advanced weaponry has landed in israel as well. but beyond the necessity of supporting a strong response, analysts barbara's leaving says she hopes that behind the scenes calls for restraint. and the importance of preserving civilian lives are being made by the administration has done a good job so far of conducting the atrocities that were committed calling them pure evil in this hour of israel's extreme need. i am hopeful that they are also private messages that are being sent to the israelis not to let their desire for vengeance overcome both their morality and their strategic thinking. because there is going to be a need to pick up the pieces when this is all over. and there has to be interlocutors for the as rallies, the united states and others to try to restore some kind of calm and to project some kind of positive future for the palestinians going forward. otherwise, we're going to see this, this har, a movie, over and over again.

u. s. has launched strikes and eastern syria. the pentagon says it targeted weapons and ammunition storage facilities used by a ron's revolutionary guide. for more on this slip spring and john henry and who joins me from washington, they say hello there, john. what for the days, how's do you have about these us strikes and syria to well and a phone call just a few minutes ago, a senior defense official said that the u. s. has been struck 19 times by what they described as a ronnie and proxies in a rock and syria since october 17th. and these are the us return fire with an f. 16 strength just within the last couple of hours asked if those strikes ended up with casualties the, the us officials said, we don't do. we're not saying for certain, but we know there were people at those spots earlier in the past couple of days. so this is a us striking retaliation and that senior defense official was clear to say that a ron is trying to hide its hand and as these attacks through proxies. uh and that tho

u. s. has to pay attention to all $3.00 crises in the world, hopefully together with allies, because without doing it together with partners, the us will probably at some point and is already feeling overstretched. i think there was an expectation that europe will do more for ukraine eventually, especially as the us anders and election here. the middle east is focusing a lot of energy of for the us administration right now. and that's, we've seen this, you know, playbook in the past. many us presents get embroiled in middle east policy. but i think at one point present, bide, will have to pivot towards his re election. me go to use has been of shooting away from the middle east for some time and focusing more on china and bus effect. but now be was feel the need to focus more on the middle east. what do you say about that? back in the role of global should have as well as we can clearly see is when the us started to retreat from certain areas of the world situation got worse. one of the reasons

u. s. has made no secret, but it sees china's growing economy as a threat. it will display such as the number one economic powerhouse. so is it, um, well, i've gotten using what surprising, but is it a surprising that johnny showed such a independence here? well i'm, i'm not sure it's actually time to call that independence yet. but again, the us might want to show in that we also, we have also seen in us independence from its china bad rhetoric. so secretary janet the other end for example, has just announced a set of working groups on, on finance and the economy with china. so us trying to work in groups are starting up and also with the same official, hopefully from who has just met with the german officials. 2 of them, germany's membership of this multi natural institution. remember this bank is it's, it's not just some state bank. it's a full blooded multilateral institution of $57.00. germany is one of 57 founding members as it is the u. k. a front italy, south korea and so on. so they're all still pay. and germany remains there and today that apparent

u. s. has a history of rejecting cease fires when there are international calls for a ceasefire when israel is involved. and this goes back to 2006 and 11 armoire in test led against gaza in 2008 and 9 in 2014. again, in 2021. in each of these instances when israel was at moore, as they defined it, meaning they were attaching palestinians. there was a call for a ceasefire, and the us to answer again. and again, we don't need a ceasefire yet. meaning not enough people have been killed yet. we're facing that same problem now. and the challenge of facing people who are protesting today in washington who are out in the streets on monday will be again on friday, is to demand an immediate cease fire to break that refusal to call for a cease fire on all sides. an immediate cease fire right now. how did your thoughts and what's happened highlighted to the voices of progressive democrats in congress, who want the us to take a hard line with israel over its military assault on casa, what's happened to th

u. s. has already deployed the carrier, the u. s. s. general, our ford in the eastern mediterranean, near is around the us as dwight d eisenhower has been pulled up to join the forward as well. in addition, the range of all the us warships about 8, so on their way into the region. so what do these us ministry deployments mean and what are the risks of a why the spillover of the conflict into the region? to answer those questions, i'm joined by christine our colleagues from the think tank, the john marshall fund of the united states because you know, lots to unpack here. i'd like to look at the us ministry role in particular, fast, very simply. what exactly is it as well, 1st of all, the deployment of, of aircraft carriers and of, of military capabilities, the middle east and reaction to the i have a mazda tax on it. so on october 7th, by the united states is a measure off re establishing the terms the attacks by whom us, as you know, were very much of a surprise to the is there any utilities and mail terry adds to the region and to the w

u. s. has sent a secondary across carrier to the eastern mediterranean, to support israel. let's take a look now. some of the other stories making news around the world. an earthquake in western afghanistan has left 2 people dead and dozens injured. the $6.00 begging to quake comes days after 2 large tremors and the region flattened, the entire villages and killed more than a 1000 people. casualties might increase as emergency services are yet to reach all of the effect of the affected areas. as or by chance, the president has raised his country's flag in the main city of new garner cairo by it's his 1st visit since back who we took control forcing out most ethnic armenians . the territory is recognized globally as part of the as or by jan. but large areas were controlled by ethnic armenians for 3 decades to civilians have been killed in russian attacks on the eastern ukrainian town of f. d is the 5th straight day of assaults on the front line town located in the heart of the don't boss region. steve car has been a symbol of ukraine and resistance since 2014 after it briefly

u. s. has for israel spect. okay, so that's uh pick, so some of that then you know, so let's, let's start with this idea of him and consulting closely with congress, which of course is in recess and has no speaker. i'm so how does that work? yeah, so um there is actually probably no foreign policy issue uh in which both of us part is the democrats and the republicans are continue to stay unified. lawmakers from both sides will undoubtedly stand behind israel uh, currently uh, throughout the capital members of congress has been clear that they intend to support for the aides. that they, that 5 and calls for. and it is actually interesting that most criticism of the president comes from republicans a on the presidential campaigns, real blaming bite and for playing a pod and the conflict to, to his iran policies talking about congress. indeed, congress, the house doesn't type of speaker right now. the republican policy dominates, the house is little bit of a context for those who are not so familiar with the nitty

u. s. has sort of been absent from, from as a media i there in the is riley palestinian conflict based on what you've just said . is there a tensile likelihood that the by does ministration can indeed restart towards. so i think uh with the at the risk of being perhaps overly one. i think you're, you're correct and assessing that the us has been somewhat apps from israeli palestinian issues as in recent years the by the ministration. the to the words of brett missouri. cuz taking a, a focus on keeping the middle east some wider. so there's basically format she can get and statements and that is quite apparently not particularly come to permission settings. so i think that the, by the ministration has a direct interest in debris and starting himself into this process of deliver is still an open question. given extreme severity of the attacks from this week or last weekend to meet whether or not also the ministration will be successful in restarting some of the responses between families, israel

u. s. has a lot of power. a lot of money is flowing into the posting of the state, so to speak. so it was supposed this money were supposed to build a palestinian state, but instead it was do you use to build a tear organization? and i think the world should know that on the road should again, in this, through the efforts of releasing my children and young children, there are both to one children or i'm involved in any met in any way. i want the world to in this, to the, to the truth of releasing them. now. i'm home now there's no, i understand there's no reason to them. and i'm the 1st thing you to say to them when you get them home. i don't want to say anything, i just want a 100 of them. have them in my homes. i want to make them feel safe again and feel home again. even they don't have a home to come back to, but they have me to come back to frontier for telling your story, sharing your story with us. and we wish you the best of all possible outcomes. rena gomez and mother of 2 boys health, which is by how much. thank you so much. thank you for having me. last senior interna

u. s. has sent many military assets to the region to the eastern mediterranean in the past couple of weeks. tony, thank you very much. that was our correspond to tony kramer in jerusalem. while the united nation says 45 percent of all homes and guys have been damaged or destroyed, with more than 2000000 people, largely dependent on for an a. the un says only $74.00 supply trucks have been allowed, indigo, also, since the fighting began. that's down from 500 the day before the mazda attacks on israel, because the health industry says more than 7000 palestinians have been killed by is really airstrikes. many of them children. and uncle picks up his nephews, body shrouded in white, and takes him to the grave. another young victim of gauze, as was name humanitarian crisis of a little. this is one of my nephews and goes to my brother's wife and children room outage on how the by to my nephew was injured 2 weeks ago. and because all the crossings are close to medical evacuations, he passed away the g

u. s. has dispatched it to me these newest and most advanced carrier, the us estero the are ford to help ford off. an escalation of the conflict. advanced weaponry has landed in israel as well. but beyond the necessity of supporting a strong response, analysts barbara slaven says she hopes that behind the scenes calls for restraint and the importance of preserving civilian lives are being made by the administration has done a good job so far, of conducting the atrocities that were committed calling them pure evil in this hour of israel's extreme need. i am hopeful that they are also private messages that are being sent to the israelis not to let their desire for vengeance overcome both their morality and their strategic thinking. because there is going to be a need to pick up the piece is when this is all over. and there has to be interlocutors for the as rallies, the united states and others to try to restore some kind of calm and to project some kind of positive future for the palestinians go

u. s. has already deployed the katia, the us as general our for in the eastern mediterranean near is around the us as dwight d eisenhower has been hold up to join the forward as well. in addition, the range of all the us warships also on their way into the region. so what do these us military deployments mean and what are the risks of what, why the spillover of the conflict into the region? to answer those questions, i'm joined by christina, cower from the think tank, the john marshall fund of the united states. christina, lots to unpack here. i'd like to look at the us community. your role in particular fast, very simply. what exactly is it as well, 1st of all, the deployment of, of aircraft carriers and of, of military capabilities to the middle east and reaction to the i have a mazda tax on it. so on october, 7th, by the united states is a measure off re establishing the terms. the attacks by whom us, as you know, were very much of a surprise to the east for any utilities and military ads to

u. s. is because the u. s. has laid waste of their economy, has through the sanctions through all kinds of military interventions and crews made desperate conditions in the countries of the global south. so people come here not willingly, but literally for their survival of their families. it's us policies around the world that are the cause of migrants trying to come anywhere where they can find work to europe, to the us, to more developed economies. but it's because their own countries have already been so thoroughly looted, colonized that really is what's going on and you see the response today throughout the so how in, in west africa, where people are telling the french and the us a needle to get out. so i think we got to connect the dots in terms of the migrants who come here for a better life and what's been done to their lives at home and what the us war policies create and, and what us sanctions, policies create in terms of real hunger in countries around the world. yeah. so i interesting the point you made

u. s. has sent a 2nd aircraft carrier to the eastern mediterranean to support israel and prevent any regional conflict. israel as communications minister once alger 0 is a local bureau, shot down, having accused the guitar based news channel of incitement. and there's growing anger in his role over the plight of hostages, taken by him off any attacks this last weekend. some families say the only option is a full scale invasion of gaza. others believe these really governments should focus on freeing the captives before stepping up military action against a month assign for every hostage. more than a week after from us struck israel with terror, killing and kidnapping civilians. people have come together here until the summer, blaming the government's others came in. so were there already with the victims found myself belongs to one of them. the 24 year old is missing 6 of our own family members who may have blamed the rosa it's. it's around 10 30 am i tell her was entered their home was dozens o

u. s. has sent a 2nd aircraft carrier to the eastern mediterranean to support israel. and israel's communications minister once alger zeros, local bureau shot down, having accused a guitar based news channel of incitement. in phone calls with the leaders of israel and the palestinian authority. president joe biden has again stressed continued us report for israel, as well as the need for humanitarian aid for palestinian civilians. week ago we saw hey manifested another way in the worst massacre. jewish people, so holler costs more than 1300. and this is live last in israel included at least 27 americans, children, grandparents, so like kidnapped houses by mos humanitarian crisis and gauze. innocent palo city and families in the vast majority and nothing to do with them on to the us president. i spoke to a former is really ambassador to germany, jeremy i, zach ross and asked him what he believes is the right way to respond to him off his her risk attacks and what role diplomacy can play. well i, i'm not sure anyone has a textbook response to such a terrible terrific pop

u. s. has major television networks. i don't like what they do. i think news should be honest, direct, and impactful, and this, this is direct impact the and we're starting with the obvious right. these come off attacks on his really citizens and most of all the massacre that we all saw at the music festival and didn't seem to shock the world. it was unexpected. and israel seemed caught by surprise. however, since the attack, a lot of questions had been raised as to well of how is it that the most sophisticated intelligence apparatus in the entire world could have been cop flatfooted. egyptian officials say for their part, they privately warn prime minister netanyahu and his government that there was an attack coming. did prime minister netanyahu ignore the warning? and if he did so, why would he ignore the warning? being asked that at yahoo is being criticized within his own country, most pointedly by the newspaper for let's i want you to hear that susan. this is how her rach describes their prime minister's predicament. prime minister benjamin n

u. s. has poured a lot of money into the gaza strip, but that is not enough. i think for the future that needs to be discussed and it's a national approach that would guarantee the security off is what it is. and obviously the well being of the people in gaza and to prevent the situation that's before led to these turbo techs by hamas. that was journalist and middle east analysts, kristen halbert. thank you so much for your insights. my pleasure. slow him off, has freed to american hostages for what it calls humanitarian reasons. the mother and daughter were among some 200 people, abducted by her mazda during his terror attacks on israel. on october 7th, u. s. presidential biden spoke on the phone with the to american citizens, and he said he was overjoyed by the release of mother and daughter walk to freedom nearly 2 weeks after being taken hostage by the is for mr. militant group. him, us to american citizens held by him us since october 7th were released at least 2 americans are now safely in the hands of his really, authorities in his room. we expect the t

u. s. has approved a new contract with major hollywood studios, the agreement, the ends of 5 months strikes the plunge, the industry into turmoil. it includes pay raises and protections against the use of a i and to poland, which is gearing up for general elections for the l. g. b t q community much is at stake. the government has faced international condemnation for it stands on the rights, same sex relations are not legally recognized in the country even so some businesses are trying to show support. the pink economy is thriving, dw, as jack parents went to meet an outspoken polish flip flop brand, in the warehouse of could be to in the western part of the city of large compared to it has been selling flip flops in poland since the mid ninety's. it's something of an iconic product here, but it's steadily lost its popularity off to say it was a trickle to a few 100 pads a yeah, that's why i was because of ski and 2 of the new cohen is, came in to completely revamp the brand in 2018. that's whe

u. s has sent a 2nd aircraft carrier to the eastern mediterranean to support israel, us. and in israel, there is growing anger over the plight of hostages taken by him. austin the attacks last weekend. some families, they the only option is a full scale invasion of gaza while others believe the as rarely government should focus on free in the captives before stepping up military action against mos assigned for every hostage more than a week after from us struck israel with terror killing and kidnapping civilians. people have come together here until every summer. blaming the government's others came in, so they are already with victims. pounds of shot myself belongs to one of them. the 24 year old is missing 6 of our own family members who may have blamed versa. it's, it's around 10 30 am i tell her was entered their home on dozens of them. my husband armed with knives waving denija them and shouting. i spoke with you around the last minute and she sent me a recording, but the com. i know the term is here. we have a loan. yes, there was shouting, and the who, the vibe and

u. s. has been avoided. bonded means no more new funding for ukraine, at least for now. we asked our reporter willy and blue cross if that meant that washington was turning its back on keys. well, you just said no more funding at the moment. there is still considerable bipartisan support for support of ukraine in terms of economic and security assistance. it just isn't involved in this particular continuing resolution. that's going to go on extended for 45 days to keep the, as you said at the top, the lights on in washington. the hard line right way republicans in the house are more skeptical of supporting ukraine. and that's why didn't make it in into this bill. but a congressional official say, they think there's enough funding for ukraine already in the pot to get them through that 45 days. and ukraine is not gonna write a money, at least from the american side until then until there's an opportunity to bring up a separate spending bill that would continue that funding. and as we've heard from mitch mcconnell, it is likely that some amount of funding will receive bipa

u. s. has even issued a travel warning quote reconsider travel to mainland china due to the arbitrary enforcement of local laws, including in relation to exit bands and the risk of wrongful detentions, or joining us in the studio as dw as agent analyst clifford at kuhn and clifford can you tell us more about these exit bands, have chinese authorities provided any explanation, or are they truly arbitrary? well, i think as us china relations have worse and they become more arbitrary and they become scary or harder to work out exactly what's going on. it's quite a broad issue here. we have sort of a profile global issues like the detention of 2 canadian nationals in a, in a parent retaliation for the detention of, of a senior chinese executive. then you have more sort of plastic espionage cases where people are tried in secret and they just go to jail and we don't know what happens. and then you have the exit bonds where you have executives who are involved in various business dealings or whatever

u. s. has deployed warships to the region to support israel. president biden said he's confident israel will act under the rules of war with the as rarely, military haven't confirmed that 199 hostages have been abducted by him last. i actually have these correspondent rebecca river is about israel's efforts to bring those hostages back home. are well players. you mentioned the 1st official figure today of $199.00 has be released. of course. that number could well still rise, but that is always the 1st official figure that we've been given so far. we were given move a numbers earlier, 199. people have now been confirmed to be being held and goes. we don't know how many of those people are alive and how many of those uh, clips is. we know that some quotes is we're also taking over in terms of if it's to rescue those people, there has been no concrete information. obviously the families pushing very hard, pressing both israel and foreign governments who are many foreign nationals among that 199 an

u. s. has a very important diplomatic standing when it comes to maybe this conflict. what at the same time, of course, we do not know. know how iran, for example, is going to react to this a physical presents as well to, of the united states, a represented by mister blinking in israel and how the war as such, is going to continue against guys all fully functional that reporting from jerusalem. thank you. funny are now 6 days off of the hamas turbo tax gauze. health industry says that mold in the $1400.00 lives have been lost in a tax on how most targets in gauze, on his riley. so more than 1200, his way the lives have been lost in full, many grieving families 1st day and also the belated st. john's to say good bye to the loved ones. and israel, the fast to victims of i'm us, tell her, attackers can afford and soldier shows to both 20 down here and the festival guy. she was gone down to no, not talk to age. 24, grieving family and friends, parents weeping for children, suddenly callously taken from the patch. the shock of how much unprecedented attacks is rapidly morph

u. s . has major television networks. i don't like what they do. i think news should be honest, direct, and impactful, and this, this is direct impact the . and we're starting with the obvious right. these come off attacks on his riley citizens. and most of all the massacre that we all saw at the music festival and didn't seem to shock the world. it was unexpected. and israel seemed caught by surprise. however, since the attack, a lot of questions had been res, that's too well. how is it that the most sophisticated intelligence apparatus in the entire world could have been comp, flatfooted, egyptian officials say for their part, they privately warn prime minister netanyahu and his government, that there was an attack coming. did prime minister netanyahu ignore the warning? and if he did so, why would he ignore the warning spring asked nothing. yeah. who is being criticized within his own country, most pointedly by the newspaper for. right. so i want you to hear this is, this is how her raj describes their prime ministers predicament. the prime mini