We need to eliminate the threats. We need to eliminate thomas isis. This is what it is to my son, and they will come out to the point because like the follower confident in what it can do and what they can do. And we can do almost everything they wants to suck his round fruitful, twice enough in the area to. It draws a lot of attention to the post post. I hope its it will be very short. They focused, very effective and they will be surprised or described welcome to the show. First, some goodness, almost 2 weeks after israel stuff or the worst terror attack and its history. And over 200 people were abducted to gaza. A month has released to american women on humanitarian grounds, they see a much need a glimmer of hope for a country reeling from trauma. Meanwhile, no good news at ga, the us border with egypt, despite an agreement to open the roof or crossing to allow a limited amount of humanitarian aid and to the enclave. Supplies remained caught up today. The head of the un visited rafa, calling its opening a matter of life and they are ready and waiting. The percentage of these a trucks is supposed to be allowed through the roof or crossing the only crossing into gaza. Not controlled by his wheel. 20. You know, a trucks for guys, a 2 and a half 1000000 people need assistance. 20 trucks is dropped in the ocean of need right now and doesnt come up on the other side of the roof, a crossing there is may him and despair. Even if Southern Gaza is where it goes, well told the northern guidance to go for safety sake. Heavy air strikes and con eunice in the south meant the overflowing nicer hospital. Took in even more wounded for critical care. Theres no safety. Theres no way of saving guns, so how do you have to be ready to dine and to just stay in your house will be when there was a threats originating or uh, being conducted against israel from the south. And we will strike absolutely is wheels. Army will soon move into the gaza strip. Israels defense minister told the troops massing on its border oh my god, i promise you that whoever sees guys a now from a far will see it from the inside. Good luck. Oh. And is really ground operation will likely focus at 1st on the north with some us expected to put up fierce resistance. All of that, pushing even more dozen southward in need of food, water, medical supplies, and back on the other side of the rough, a crossing age supplied stream into a nearby airport. Destined to join the backup, waiting to get into Southern Gaza. For more we can now speak to frank language. Hes a senior elector in strategic studies at Portsmouth University and a former u. K. Military intelligence officer. He joins us from oxford tonight. Frank, good to see you again. Now since october 7, the is really army has killed several members of homos top commanding brass. How much of a blow is that for the tower group . Its nicole. Good evening. They killed about 6 or 7 major lead us and operationally, i suspect it wont have decisive effect because need is always replaceable. And we found that ourselves while dealing with the telephone on a did this tonic state, no 10 irreplaceable. However, i think gone at the top 2 level to come about level, what will be happening is people be asking, who can i trust . Is really seem to be getting so pretty senior people, how they finding them. Is it to try to is, is it through tech, so to intercept, so thats expensive. Be so difficult, and cutting away more all, i think. But how mazda isnt quite open about their commanders getting killed . Why is that . Because as you said, they presumably risk looking week at the its posit come, but they will announce that losses uh with some pride i suspect these become bosses and heroes to that cause i dont think that. So i think im starting over the circumstances that were billing, obviously with pride. Mm hm. How much has released to hostages today, reportedly onto military and grounds after guitar and mediation . Do you think this is a one off or could we be seeing a major breakthrough here . Or i dont think its a, one of this would be a strategic negotiating task on the one hand and a propaganda. As a propaganda efforts on the other. Its worth mentioning by the way that uh, under stomach, lois got a settled but women and children should never be home and preferably should not be held as hostages. So this where these can be used are supposed to establish some kind of legitimacy but, but of course thats, thats just propaganda. Whats happening here is a negotiating tactic. And well see, i think several more of these releases to remind the world of who they have. And what can happen if uh, if that if their demands on this yeah, negotiated and talking to what and because the timing here is interesting, isnt it, could this be an attempt of staving off israels and now its grown offensive . I dont think so. And if theres such a time, its going to fail the i know, i dont think many of us expect the defensive to cost before before. Now, of course, are all the political visits and stuff. I put in one sense. Israel has the upper hand, its got the width times the longer it holds off, the longer it has time to build up. Its a picture, the battlefield is setup. Its intelligence framework and its targeting and theres nothing out they come us can do to to delay that. Mm hm. Lets talk about the ground offense. If that does seem imminent, how mosse is hiding in civilian infrastructure in a sophisticated tunnel system, while holding. All of these is really and International Hostages over 200 at this point. How does the idea of plan on going about this incursion . A, theres a huge amount of assistance, like i think they, they, they have probably, well, the leading capabilities in hostage identification, location, and rescue. The idea will be to get what, what a co trick us on, on, and each, each hostage of a certain groups they will know a certain groups of Us Intelligence, a huge Us Intelligence infrastructure is now directed towards this as well. And its, i think its in the ultimate certainly isnt the open source is that Us Special Forces are on the spot too. So the 1st problem, of course, is to locate the hostages. And the 2nd problem, the most serious one i think, or even more serious, is to get people in and get them out. And those efforts will stop if they havent started already, but very soon. And we will see results, but softly its, its, i think in fairness its, its a long stretch to hope that they will get out. But the bully efforts of these really commendable is really Intelligence System plus the us and i suspect the u. K. Job. Any funds on others . Ill focus on this problem now. Im not so pretty formidable, right . Yeah. At both how im us and israel have not been oblivious to whats been happening in ukraine in the past year and a half. How could that influence the current conflict between them are considerably both sides been watching, particularly the developments and by the 2 into 2 elements. First in the, at the tone will, will be very intense in, in, in, in, in, cause i suspect is what it is. So just as i said before, well have to look up, theyll be looking up and watching for strike drones, suicide, drones and the costs. But for surveillance, usually these to be using drugs in the data i and a like directed drugs as you see or beginning to see actually in your grade as well. So theres that aspect to precision artillery. Very important. We havent seen too much of that yet. But we will so far we see an arrow at, at take the take the lead in precision strike. But ill tell her will be a major factor. But it goes to elements in gaza. Totally different. Not least the, the nature of the bottle is totally open. And of course, the tunnel systems and the fact that how mosse knows the grounds so much better then the idea of how big of a complicating factor could that be, is a pretty, pretty considerable the idea of course, the house has not every square centimeter of costs over the last 20 years and well, its in theory know it well, but youre quite right that, that intimate, local knowledge is very important. Is it decisive . Now . Theres another aspect i think, which is it is good its, its rather impossible, but its nothing less significant. Its right or so just want to survive from us. Uh, terrace. Im not interested one mind the other. And thats what it is that Human Element which will undoubtedly what the detriment of many people will increase casualties. And finally, of course im us. Stop that weapon. All 5 of the many thousands of human sales. They are holding not just the hostages, but their own people on the political effect injected by that, that, that, that killing. Yeah, i mean the world has been watching in horror really, to the, the deteriorating situation of innocent civilians in gaza. And that is even before this ground defensive has even started. And how can, how my, i guess, as well as the idea of go about accomplishing their goals while respecting International Humanitarian law, which both warring parties are obligated to abide by. It may be a obligated to abide by us, as indeed the only one size making the slightest effort to do so. We have to draw that bright white line between deliberate feeling on inadvertence, inadvertent killing, uh, the, on the idea of come on this understand fully the effect of, of, of the destruction of human life in a situation like this. And when people do die, you can be sure that whether this compassion or not is why they come on this. Obviously it didnt because i understand the political effect more widely of this and effective my telephone into us, particularly locally. I want to say, look, i mean in the region, of course from homicide. The more throughout people are killed from that perspective. The better. And 0. 01 is was walking into a truck that has no choice. Theres no, no, no alternative, i think forward as well to do this. But it is, this is, this is the situation home us wanted as the situation to which is really tough to kind of to, to assault. That was frank led, which thank you so much. Always great speaking to you. Thank you to call the israel is planning to evacuate. The city of curious, shown on following days of classes with has bullfighters along the border with lebanon. And the city is home to 20000 people and is just 2 kilometers from the border is really, authorities have been steadily evacuating communities along the northern frontier. Deal Anita Goldstein have driven up to k yet simona to pick up the father level to take him to south and out of range of rockets 5 across the border by his beloved. So my father is revealing that thats one of which i can take on the big picture to my home and try since ive this is why the leaving sirens wail is a raj of rocket streets towards israel from 11 on. Busy to yet shimoda has already been hit by those munitions. You hear me say its time to go. Because this kind of about q ration that allows b i d f to expand this operation of freedom to act against the hezbollah tire business of all people. Many residents have in fact already left before the enforced evacuation for the confident theyll return. Actually the situation here right now, is there a difficult like my body to say . But you know what were going to in . No one is can be tough. Thats it. No one is can be done. This is what all over the world. They dont understand. Were going to fight and fight on residents splitting the law. So now joining tens of thousands of israelis who have left their homes in the south and the gaza to another front and a fast evolving conflict between israel and tomas is the one found online. This information is running rampant across social media. Were millions turn to get real time updates. Im at the very real image are floods of fabricated videos and photos spread by both fake and real accounts. The companies behind giants like facebook acts and tick tock say theyve taken additional steps to tackle this information around the violence. But the eu has reprimanded social Media Companies for not doing enough and about all that. We can now speak to caitlin 10 rosman. Shes with a center for strategic and International Studies or see research as the impact of technology and geo politics and society caitlin, good to see here. Lots of people these days, getting their information on social media with tensions running so high. Are these platforms equipped to bear the responsibility that entails . Thanks nicole. First of all, no, i dont think that platforms are equipped to bear the responsibility of content moderation. And theres a reason why the e u has already reach out to ext meta and tech talked about all of this information and harmful content that float on line over the past 2 weeks. And were seeing that platforms dont have the resources to detach very large amounts of content, especially in non language english languages. I will say that platforms are in a very difficult position currently due to the very, very large volume of information thats flowing. But also due to the fact that platforms are making real time decisions in very short periods of time, they dont always operate with all the information. So its not always possible for them to verify the claims that are flowing. So theyre both technical, but also normative challenges that social shop social media platforms are facing right now. Mm hm. And how are both sides in this conflict using social media to shave use of the war . Think weve seen the boats from us and the is really government use post on social media. Quite often, tomas has been posting on a platform called telegram, which is less popular in the United States in the u, but more popular in other parts of the world like russia and ukraine. Im telegraph has very induced content migration policies, which has allowed mazda post very graphic or violent images from its initial attack on october 7th. And israel as well, has been quite active on social media. Its been posting on x, formerly known as twitter, instagram, and other platforms. Its posted photos of is rarely families and individuals who were impacted by the get tap. Israel has also posted it pretty high profile audio class of what it seems to be mas operatives discussing the bombing of the hospital. So both sides have been very active and using social media and trying to shape a narrative, spend a message. And i would also just add that both sides are trying to reach that the international community. So their audience isnt just israel, its not just palestine, its the entire world. I want to look a little closer at telegram that you just as its used by him on not only to spread propaganda, but also to recruit new members. Now this is an internationally recognized care organization. By much of the west at least, can the platform be held accountable for that . So its very difficult in, in the United States at least we have very boost content moderation laws. So platforms and generally not held accountable for 3rd Party Content that users upload. Now that is different in other countries, especially the u, which recently passed the Digital Services act and the Online ServiceOnline Safety bill, United Kingdom is about to come in to us that i know telephone has not seen as much regulatory attention from the you or the u k, i think partly because its just not as popular in in either jurisdiction, but i think Going Forward i would accept the governments to become more interested in how telegram operates, especially if we continue to see byron extreme is content emerge on these platforms in real time or situations. Net katelyn you study, the impact of technology and geo politics. How cool and social media and the content posted on it potentially shape the course of this war. I think it affects everything. I mean, users, people all around the world, millions of people are going to social media to find out information about wars, to respond and react, and real time, which seems that the content moderation, decisions that these platforms make are very powerful. They affect how so many people view complex. So i definitely think that um, social media also affects how actors act. For example, extreme is actors are finding that they can gain a lot of attention, get a lot of engagement for posting very violent or graphic content. And when they get those reactions, its like instant gratification rate. It reinforces polarizing cues. So i think 1st thing, social media change both how people view and access information, but were also seeing social media change, how the extremist actors themselves are playing out the conflict as tremendously interesting stuff. Kaitlins and rockman with the center for strategic and International Studies. Thanks for that. Thanks for having me. Classes have broken out between police and protesters, add an unauthorized demonstration in berlin. At least 174 people were arrested and dozens of Police Officers were injured. Some demonstrators use fireworks set fire to barricades and pelting police with stones and bottles. Profile, assuming protesters were protest, sorry, were also held in other german cities on wednesday, including frankford where police use water cannon. And then youre in burg. Authorities had bands such protests sparked by the ongoing conflict between israel and the last to prevent possible anti semitic incident. Now, a short while ago we asked the w correspondent has drawn from our parliamentary studio about the demonstrations here in germany. And heres indeed weve just seen the pictures of those demonstrations which were banned for fear of incitement. And in other words, for fear of anti semitism turning into a cold, full violence, for instance, against jews are against israel. And these bad things relates to this classes. Now this is obviously an assessment that the police, the, the authorities have to make that have been assumed that demonstrations elsewhere in germany it would have been entirely peaceful. So its also possibly a situation that is particular to bolen where the situation is particularly heat at the moment. Tempers arent particularly heated at the moment. They will also be another dentist and they take incidents such as the styles of davids being sprayed on certain buildings. Um, and that has even been an attempted attack on the Jewish Cultural Center with modest, tough cocktails. So yeah, so these kinds of things have been increasing. Maybe one should say that anti semitism itself is not illegal in germany, but obviously whats ill