the, the, the city, the news live and from berlin. tonight, the top democrat of the us senate calls for a political change in israel. this critical juncture, i believe a new election is the only way to allow for a healthy and open decision making process about the future of this real chuck schumer and taking game it is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu, calling him an obstacle to face. also it coming up and getting through to the people in gauze of workers are building a floating peer to allow aid ships the dock. israel is accused of allegedly blocking their deliveries, buying land, plus we impose so red lines to our south reset itself and both red lines,

but does not have a new. the red lines. a warning from lithuania, as prime minister to germany do not take any options off the table when it comes to helping ukraine fight against russia and 3 times and not the charm for space. x is starship, the most powerful rock it ever built. did not survive. it's test flight today, making it over 3 in the race to return to the moon. the hybrid, gone to our view is watching on p b as in the united states and to all of you around the world. welcome. we begin tonight in the united states with tough talk on israel from the top democrat in the us senate. you've also happens to be the highest ranking jewish lawmaker in the country said the majority leader, chuck schumer today called for new elections in israel. and he criticizes really

prime minister benjamin now who calling him an obstacle to pete's take a list 5 months into this conflict. it is clear that is railings that need to take stock of the situation and ask, must we change course at this critical juncture, i believe a new election is the only way to allow for a healthy and open decision making process about the future of israel. at a time when so many israelis have lost their confidence in the vision and direction of their government. let's go to washington, our correspondent benjamin alvarez group or he's been following this story force benjamin the comments from schumer shocking to some people. very controversial for others. talk to me about the importance of what he said today. it is important, indeed, it is the highest ranking official in the us jewish ranking official

a year in the united states and for him to have such clear words on the 10 gal government. and also that is released taking the wrong pass, of course puts a lot of pressure also on the by not ministration with many a choosing a job. i'm the president of the us of not being top on is role on not having read lines. and that's also is something that we see now with a renewed criticism over the humiliation. how many call it that the us need to air drop 8 in 2000 without putting enough pressure in israel to let the trucks with a actually enter into gaza. now, the united states we learned today has section 3 is really settlers in the west bank and they are outposts. what more do we know about their that's right, it's not the 1st time that the sanctioning a set list. it's something that also happened in february. what they announced today by the us treasury, it was sanctions on to our legal is really outposts and also it that has been accused of undermining stability in the west bank and also in some setlist. that's

something that also happened in february. so we have this junior's coming up a from a, the us today on one side. the new sanctions happened, announcement others. this comments also and asked about that if there was, was actually formed above the commons of, of chuck schumer and national a security spokes person. don't kirby said that he gave advance notice to the white house but did not ask for approval or disappointment in the state department once again saying that those as schumer's comments and not the ones that divide the ministration. but we can expect that these comments will put more pressure on divided by enough industries in the news today. what does it mean for the us is really relationship which we know is not a perfect one at the moment. that's right. the relation to a very is drained right now, not just from the comments that we hear from washington, but also from the comments that we hear from, from israel. the criticized the, this is the, the took schumer said earlier today there are renewed cold for the us to put real

red lines on and is running to not keep exporting more weapons. and that's also what many said in regarding this comments. 8 by checks, and we will also set that the weapons explore need to be conditioned to as well as the us does with any of the ally around the wall. so we can expect that the discussion, it will continue as some priest that was from chuck schumer and other criticized the thing that it's not up to the us or a member of sending to actually tell these really people when they should have annual elections ready to be watching the correspond to benjamin alvarez. agree, we're benjamin. we will be talking with you later in the day is our coverage of the reaction to humans. comments continues a little bit later. thanks. i the mustang and the middle east of the hamas, it run health ministry in gauze and says at least 6 palestinians were killed and dozens more wounded after is really troops opened fire on crowds waiting for humanitarian aid trucks and gods of city. israel's military has not commented yet on the alleged incident. israel is coming under increasing international pressure

to allow more 8 into god. so the construction of a small offloading peer is now under way, and they ship carrying $200.00 tons of food is slowly making its way from cyprus towards the besieged territory. 8 agencies or warning, however, that air drops in the maritime core door are no alternatives to deliveries by land . ways, really, army spokesman, a loud gore in today said that he man is hearing aid agencies are responsible for the problems with a deliveries to guns. often there is hundreds of trucks worth of aid waiting on the guards inside to be picked up. that is the biggest obstacle to a reaching guys, a need. the international organization do not have the capacity and have yet to take real steps to improve that capacity to distribute the money there in a through the goes us rape,

including the not the issue is not with our inspection. but we, the distribution capabilities of the international organizations were not everyone sees it that way. earlier i asked the u. n. 8 coordinator for the occupied palestinian territory. jamie the old rig to discuss these claims by israel. and i asked him, are they true? you know, essentially, i mean, we have at 200 trucks commended the be, get them from israel side and it's not enough before the crisis and the war started in the 7th of october, it was 500 or 600 trucks coming in a day. and since that time, people has a mazda of catastrophic humanitarian disaster, the upon them. and we just don't have the, the numbers of trucks that come in, regardless of what israel in terms of process is the maximum, which is 250, or at any given the. so we go all of that and every, the so, so much of

a gap in terms of what we really need to for the population. so we need more entry points one in the north, and many other places. preferred to come into bravo than just the one crossing point of the moment. and until we change that, we're always going to be unable to address the full complement of needs of people, their foods, medical health, as well as it was on a patient in shelter. these are the legs saving issues out on the real estate enrollment because of lack of supplies. and what has to happen for humanitarian a to be safely transported into the gaza strip and to get to the people. i mean, even today we saw is really troops taking aim and killing people in the territory. i mean, there's no indication that that's going to subside any time soon. i and i think that there's a lot of desperation now that people haven't received regular food for a long time. and the convoys, the foods that come through are often challenged by these crimes and the run psyched because of desperate and the families of desperate and until we get

a massive supply of food into the north and into the south. and the floods, the place was to the desperation will not disappear. so it's so important for us to get as many trucks and every day possible the and the and if we don't get that, then there's always going to be that in security is going to the instability. and therefore, you know, when trips are not sort of situation and anything can happen, we've seen many times in the cases where people are being short and when did the different situations as they wait for food. and we have to find a way of getting them to be less desperate. and that means opening up as many places as possible in order for enough to get in both from the ad and from the amount of time caught of those which are the lamp. but these are not the answers the, these are no tentative civil transport. these are just in addition to and for example, the boat is coming in late. so this week and coming on the, the amount of time call it the from, there's only 20 trucks off on, on board there. and we can to m f t faulty trucks and the, the regular, the,

using the roads. turning the corner, you went to a coordinator from the occupied palestinian territory. germany. we appreciate your time tonight. thank you. thank you a, here's a look now some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world that spanish lawmakers have a free to build brands and amnesty to those involved in catalonia, as 2017 independence fit. the amnesty was a condition made by separate as parties and exchange for supporting foreign minister pedro sanchez. after last year of inconclusive election results, the european parliament has decided to take the european commission to poured over a decision to get billions of euros to hungary. now the commission, which is effectively the government unblocked funds for hungry back in december despite opposition from parliament. the dispute between 2 of the highest institutions will be heard before the european court of justice. in germany, only $600.00 flights were cancelled today after security staff and several airports

went on striking to demand better pay. 90000 passengers were effect staff. at a further 5 german airports are set to stripe on friday. well, there will be no german cruise missiles headed to ukraine. today in german lawmakers stood with their chancellor and voted against sending taurus cruise missiles to keep by the debate here in berlin, over the long range missiles. it's intensifying divisions within germany's government. some in the government and the opposition are demanding that germany delivers the tourist missiles documented as chancellor schultz and his social democrats are against that idea. citing the risk of germany being dragged into the war which day in parliament, a senior opposition lawmaker accused the chancellor of playing into blather mere putin's hands. either from mind. you're suppose it proved and has only few missed approaching the aggression against you crate by knock. this is the result stuff. this is a sneak ended site, isn't it time?

we not only talked about how to wage war, but also about how to freeze this conflict. and stop it when sped talk all the end he come earlier i asked for a political correspondence. so i mean young who has been following this debate for is why is the german governments have hesitated about sending these tours missiles to ukraine or yeah, brent, i think when we talk about the german government in this context, we really should focus on the john slot oh, laugh shelves because he's the one who's really driving this position, this located against the sending the taurus cruise missiles. and he doesn't want to do anything. is you already said that the could seem to drag gemini into the war as a direct pause participant. and there's a fear that that could happen. for instance, if the ukrainians pointed the tourist that russian territory ankle was damaged,

the russians might interpret that as an active aggression, as sort of a directly by germany. it could also be a problem, may, the sending tourists in some way meant that they're also needed to be gem and soldiers on the ground to, to assist with the targeting. so that, that's one side of it. the other thing is political. i think a lot schultz is looking at polling realizing the majority of germans, doug wants to send torres, but they move. more importantly, i want to bring an end to the fighting as soon as possible. so all our fields, positioning himself is a sort of a guarantor piece or a piece john flores some of said, and i think, you know, all of that is reading. it is thinking, i mean, it was telling me that there isn't any real unanimity within the government. when it comes to, to not sending these cruise missiles to ukraine, and we've seen the opposition to conservatives, they've been trying to make political capital out of this. um,

are they still going to be able to do that? or is this debate now over as well as the, the these debates about tourist independence talk might be over for now. but i don't think the wide uh, debate will be, i mean, the opposition here as sort of sense to an opportunity because they can see that there is division within the government. some of the small of the parties are the 2 small apologies a little bit more in favor. generally speaking of sending taurus then allow schoultz and his social democrats, but in fact there's division on the cd you side as well. so it may be, yeah, they'll hold off from these debates, but i think you've got ideas like a uh, i yeah, as so i'm sort of swamped with the british so that i would send them as all as the replacement doors and all the things the ukrainians are cooling for more assistance of sold says he wants to deliver that. the only question is how do the use political correspondence? i mean young. so i mean,

think the lithuanian prime minister in greta she monita was here in berlin today for talks with the german chancellor, the 2 leaders discussed security and defense. the way he has been one of the strongest supporters of ukraine since rushes full scale invasion began 2 years ago . the baltic state says it supports the debate that's taking place right now about whether or not to send western troops to you. great. germany has agreed to station 5000 troops permanently in lithuania, as part of nato defense measures. well, earlier today the prime minister of the, when he spoke with us here at dw news and we asked or did she urge german chancellor shoulds defend those taurus missiles to ukraine as well? um i think uh, this is a very focused debate on one particular sort of weapons and we've seen as it was mentioned quite similar debates about of the sorts of,

of weapons in the past. so uh, i do not think i was really very much to commend them, but i do hear what translators think. but my point is that i think i'll problem is that we are very predictable to the progression put in because we constantly station what we are not going to do. and the end we impose the red lines to ourselves. these are self imposed red lines, but putting those most have a new red lines. and when we speak about the not doing something because a fear of escalation. so let's look at the other side because so you have a side constantly, blah, blah, buying about, for example, nuclear weapons and, and, and similar things is absolutely reckless and absolutely not in a position to sort of the value of this uh, southwest raymond, of a few premiums supporters to your office country supporting ukraine. so of course

this is for the german government to decide. but um, but, but i think this is the biggest problem of, of uh, also western allies. so few brain that we constantly sort of uh, put tao sauce and um, in a situation where we deny that we will do something just to support your brand. rather than saying that we must do whatever it takes for you praying to win this war with what needs prime minister in greta. she money to speaking with this earlier today, but there are almost 240000 russian citizens living here in germany. and that number john's, when russia invaded ukraine back in 2022. many russian expanse will be able to vote in russia's presidential election, which starts on friday. but we spoke to some members of the russian diaspora here in berlin to find out their hopes and fears for the future of their home country. or notionally, this gilded fortress is where

a barrel ends russians would come to catch their boat since on these elections. these days they mostly come to mourn, alexi, nevada, and the flooding me approaching fish. this critic was fine day and a penal colony last month, another brutal nail in the coffin of democracy try as we might. some are still hoping to keep the flame of life to arrive in the back of the embassy thirteen's opponents are tunneling their right to pieces. the freedom for political prisoners showed the campaign to rename the st. alexi navarro, and the stress of his deed, almost 50000 signatures the most. uh, so when they come i was in of only supports. uh and i think that the fight is not over this basically stuff. sure. what am i going to do this today is

a part of the fight against pollutants propaganda. we just depend on this a space for artists nearby. thousands of russians packed into a cosy theatre in search of inspiration, hope a therapy on stage discussion about the upcoming vote, about war, about what to do next research. i don't expect any good from the selection you by. yeah. are you going to vote no, no. why not? you? i don't know what nobody would say. why he would probably call to do something. because i don't know if i should go to the russian embassy. i will will. who will you vote for? i guess i will destroy the ballots. probably i will just vote for more than one candidates and maybe i will, right. our president is not on the right in the united states. and i think most of

the people who came to the germany through europe do not have much expectations from these elections because it's very clear what the outcome is going to be. e, mid that feeling of helplessness got a sense of guilt prevails over vladimir per teams. war on ukraine. but then no matter where you live in the west or in russia, you feel responsibility for this. the demonstration nerves are on edge. everyone here knows all too well approaching has deployed the boss a type of process to keep control and crush the same just a minutes ago, actually called somebody's a person that has spoken to me is a set time um, meaning that she's been the server knows she's been present to this action. uh and so there has been registering ever since that is happening here. so i'm really bad. how about i just muscles?

i'm afraid to go back to russia. my homeland, who could think that that contest, thinking, perhaps this month, a political exile who tells me he was imprisoned in russia for fighting corruption? fearful, and you want me to chose for so, but can easily sodomy a secret anatomy. and when the you create the you, you create your daughter's vote you, he said us from that us and people don't you put you in the, what the stick and you're going to see is, would be with the bottle field out of the question and to let go change a diminishing prospect. all that is left for those here are small lights of coverage and expressions of defiance and hope for a better future. for joining me here in this video now was my colleague roman going to the info. he's a dw political editor, he's an expert on eastern europe from it. it's good to see you. we just all right there, there, there's quite a large russian diaspora here in germany. but when we talk about them,

we can't talk about them as being a monolith of russian opposition can't. of course not. so we see a lot of russian deposition here because many came off to the full scale invasion of ukraine up to 22. but not so many, so we're talking about maybe tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands like you creating and refugees here in germany. but they will already hundreds of thousands of people leaving in germany. he'll speak right some, not all of them have russian possible. but we can assume that the rod putting supports us among them where they are, they've shown russian flags and support for this war the war rallies. and so just like berlin or clown, but we don't know if those were only russian citizens, some of them were german citizens as well. so it is a complicated picture, but i think what's interesting to to watch will be on sunday the russian deposition has called and citizens to show up at mid day and to show solidarity. it's called

me day against 14 me and some opposition lead us thing that is a good idea to show up and just to see how many people are against this war and against 14. and so i guess it will be easier for people here in germany to show up . this is probably the only legal way where you can show that your against bullying and against this election against the war in russia just turning up to the election . i mean, the optics are not good, provided me approved, and that's for sure. but the number of votes outside of russia, they really can't make a difference in the outcome of the election. can they even if the election were a fair and free election? well, not really. so there is absolutely no ground to believe that the election outside of russia will be farrah and then inside russia, so in germany last time they were just about $30000.00. i think people a warranted here in germany. this time it could be higher,

but we don't know if know the rest, the opposition is still divided on the issue. if you should vote on not some say, don't go there, don't do this just show up, show solidarity and go away. i'll just say come and vote. maybe you can vote for anyone but pushing just like the video of alex and yvonne, the deposition lita, who was presumably killed or cuz we don't know exactly at the moment, but this is what some people said think that he was killed if you is before the election day. okay, and this is what makes dyslexia election special. this is the 1st presidential election without i'll explain of only. yeah. and it is also the 1st presidential election with a war in ukraine that you're not allowed to call them more in russia. and also from the concern of roman we appreciate your reporting and your analysis. thank you. thank you. well, the world's most powerful rock it ever built space. x and star ship blasted off thursday, but it did not make it back to earth intact. the,

the one hour test flight began in texas and headed out over the gulf of mexico. no previous satellites for on board space ex owner even must calm today's flight and success saying thousands of improvements have been made since the test flights began last year. so far, all 3 of those test flights have had a flyer in so what happened earlier we spoke to keep counting a space expert and the editor of nasa watch in washington dc. well, they usually get back from the spacecraft as it comes back to earth that it has. it does a lot of heat, the atmosphere turns off and you usually lose video content. but we were seeing, you know, some really amazing video, but then they lost the signal is to 2 different types of space. satellites, the same time heard nothing soon. so it's probably usual to expect that something would be lost in re entry, but again, they've already accomplished everything they wanted to do just by getting it up to

space. so you know, you get you within a few, you lose a few. but 3rd time's the charm. when you were just the parameters of a test, you say we want to watch the rocket. we want the 1st stage to work separate from the 2nd stage that goes into orbit a door opens, do some tests. it does all the stuff in space and then it begins to re enter everything i said worked up until that point. that was really what they are attempting to do. they didn't expect to recover the 1st stage or the 2nd stage. they just went back, they were just the crashing. that wasn't part of the test. so if you look at it from that perspective, it's a complete success. i ideally, you'll, they'll tell you, we'd like to get our rockets back because we want to reuse that. that was space expert, keith cowan, speaking with this earlier from washington, dc. it finally a home coming up towards on hudson river in new york city. today, the iconic british airways concord yet returned to the intrepid museum at pier 86 in manhattan. the supersonic jet was removed by crane from its place in august to

under good months of restoration at the brooklyn navy yard. the concord was once the fastest commercial aircraft in the world. here's a reminder of our top story. us senate majority leader check. see where has called for is real to hold the new elections. and he's condemned is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu with a speech to the senate chamber called these really prime minister, a major obstacle to beats. you're watching the news. the day is next. the

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