In hello everyone, its uh midnight in the besieg gauza strip and youre watching press tv world news. Our top story will start with palestinians in gaza, seeing no ease to their suffering is israely bombardment and siege continues even during the holy month of ramadan, heres a moment when a new air strike targets the Southern City of rafa. Of the regime strug central city of d abalah twice, killing nine palestinians and injuring many others. 11 others were also uh killed after israeli troops once again open fire on eight seekers in gaza city. According to the gaza media office, over 400 palestinians have now been killed while in line for life saving aid since march 1st. Deathsol from israels Genocidal Campaign on gaza since october the 7th stands at nearly 31,200, mostly women and children. Un secretary general antonio of gutieres in the message on the occasion of the holy month of ramadan is called for immediate cease far in gaza to honor the spirit of this month. Today marks the start in of the holy months of ramadan, a period when muslims around the world celebrate and spread the values of peace, reconciliation and solidarity. Yet even through ramadan, even though ramadan has begun, the killing, bombing and bloodshed continue in gaza. My strongest appeal today is to honor the spirit of ramadan by silencing the guns and removing all obstacles to ensure the delivery of lifesaving aid at the speed and massive scale required. Leader of irans Islamic Revolution says resistance in palestine will eventually bring the israely regime to its knees. Ayatollah ali khamenei made the remark during a meeting with the distinguished iranian quran reciters and activists. He said resistance is Still Standing strong after months of heavy fighting. Ayatollah khamenei also called for an antiny assistance to israel by some muslim countries saying those governments are helping israel committing crimes and will be punished. For that treason. Qatar, which mediates between israel and hamas says two sides are nowhere close to sease fire deal in gaza. The situation is very complicated on on the ground, the we are not near a deal, meaning that we are not seeing uh both sides converging on a language that can resolve the you know the current disagreements over the implementation of. Um of the deal, but we remain hopeful and we continue pushing for for deal to happen in in the near future. The qatari official said potential deal requires an end to israels bloodshed in gaza as wells continuous flow of humanitarian aid. Announcement comes as months of talks involving the us, qatar and egypt have failed to bring Israel Genocide to an end. Hamas has blamed the regime for failure to reach an accord saying. That israel is not serious about deal and is merely buying time. Hamas has also said that this shows great, that it has shown part and great responsibility and flexibility in negotiations, but will not. Settle for anything less than a full sessation of the Israeli Aggression and with draw of all Occupation Forces from gaza. And palestinian fighters continue putting up stiff resistance to Israeli Forces in gaza. The military wing of hamas says its fighters targeted two groups of Israeli Soldiers in north of han units with antipersonnel weapons resulting in deaths and injuries. The alkassam brigades also said it targeted an israeli mirka. Meanwhile the military wing of Islamic Jihad says its fighters blew up building in Southern Gaza where six Israeli Soldiers were staying. Regime says nearly 250 of its troops have been killed since launching its Ground Invasion into gaza in late october. Palestinian groups though say the regime is intentionally hiding the real number of its casualties to avoid public anger. The asserb regimes. Out series of new air strikes on lebanon triggering retaliatory rocket attacks from the hezbulah Resistance Movement against occupied territories. According to lebanese officials, israel strikes to the eastern city of balbec and its vicinity. And some of the air strikes also target area near the city of taraya about 20 kilometers west. Balbek, this is the first time israels pounded eastern lebanon since eruption of exchanges of fire between the regime and hezbulah, and in response, hezballah fired more than hundred rockets toward israeli positions in the occupied golen heights and northern occupied territories. Hamas, pardon, hezbollah, said it will continue attacking israeli targets until the regime stops its genocidal war on gaza, but the israely military has recently carried out aerial raids even on residential areas in lebanon. And joining us earlier for an update with our beirot correspondent madiam saleh they do target uh balbak and eastern lebanon in the vicinity of the cities of tariyaya and balbak itself, we know that there was total destruction of the buildings that were targeted and one person has been killed uh previous time also it was more of an open. Area that was targeted the previous time like agricultural lands, there was some sort of a residence there, but that also led to the killing of two hizballah members and now with this in place it seems that hazbullah has basically become impatient with the israelis presumptuousness when it comes to how they are targeting at lebanon, the fact that theyre trying to put lot of pressure on the resist. And on lebanon itself with the fact that you do have some opposition from hezballahs political foes when it comes to hizballah supportive front for the resistance inside gaza and for the people of gaza and so it seemed that this is why hizbullah had in retaliation launched some were talking about more more than 50 rockets that were witnessed or that were reported in some areas the israelis are talking about more than 100 rockets from on two different rounds, a group of rockets uh was against the galula region, another salvoy was against in the Golan Heights and it seemed that they many of them landed and struck their targets and how that will play out also is another surprise, the number of rockets that hazbullah is showing day by day seemingly increasing and targeting areas that are further off, yesterday for example uh they targeted areas in the goal on heights. Uh more and more and so it seemed that for hazballah they are basically unifying the land when it comes to how they target and what they target. Syrians have held rally in damascus refugee camp on the first day of the holy month of ramadan in support of palestinians in gaza. Press tvs abraham reports from damascus. On the first day of the holy month of ramadan syrians and palestinian. Took to the streets in response to the call of Palestinian Resistance factions in jaramana camp in damascus. They condemned the us israeli genocidal war in gaza and demanded immediate cease fire and the release of palestinian prisoners. On the first day of ramadan we took a palestinian factions called to support gaza and the resistance and to stand against this violent zinus aggression that destroys buildings, trees and kills humans. We say to our people in palestine, be patient, victory is upon us. Today is the first day of the blessed month of ramadan and it is day 157 for gaza without water or food. We appeal to all international. Human rights organizations and to all free people of the world to work for immediate cease fire and to stop the genocidal war against the palestinian people. Participants expressed their confidence in the resistance ability to achieve victory and restored the rights of the palestinian people. They emphasized that there is no room for compromise or retreat after the regimes onslot that resulted in more than 100 thousand civilian casualties so far, most of them women and children. We congratulate our people in gaza on the arrival of ramadan and we express our confidence in all the battalions of the Palestinian Resistance. Brigades, ala marters brigades, martter Abu Ali Mustafa brigades and als brigades. We demand the leadership of the palestinian factions, uphold the sacrifices of our palestinian people, and preserve all their rights, including the return of refugees and the liberation of all palestinian prisoners. We are sure our people in gaza that we stand with them in the blessed month of ramadan, the month of allah and the quran, the month of victory and liberation. The resilience of gaza is a symbol of the dignity of the arab and islamic nations, the patience of its people, the victory of allah is near. Protesters expressed their anger at the stands of the International Community which supports the Israeli Regime as well as the arab regimes that normalize relations with this arnest entity. Syrians stand along side their. Brother to prove that there are free peoples who cannot be threatened or humiliated, they affirm that operation alaqsaflod will continue until the people of gaza defeat the Israeli Regime. Ibrahim wahdi press tv, damascus. Iran has come a long way to. Gain independence in the Defense Industry since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Its warships, speed boats, missiles and drones among many items in its arsenal have caught many countries in the world by surprise. But as military experts. And top brass say, this is only a tiny fraction of irans capabilities that have been unveiled thus far. Watch for the details in this documentary. Welcome back everyone, youre watching press tv, world news. The Islamic Movement. Nigerias held the protest against the massacre of innocent palestinians in gaza. The protesters marched on the us embassy in the capital of buja and staged a sid in. Press tvs Danjuma Abdullahi texaser. On the first day of the holy month of ramadan in nigeria, the Islamic Movement held a rally through the streets of the capital abuja in a peaceful protest against the massacre of innocent civilians. In gaza, the protest match took the demonstrators to the gate of the United States embassy where they sat down and submitted letter of protest condemning the israeli genocide in gaza and us involvement in the killing of innocent palestinians. America is one of the the major party in this uh killing of innocent female and children in gaza. Since october 7th, today they have killed 31 more. Innocent people, majorly female and children in gaza. The demonstrators blame the United States and british governments for using their influence to block a Un Resolution calling for sease fire. They said every decent government has condemned the Israeli Terror attacks on the palestinians, but the Us Government has continued to support the mass murder of innocent palestinians. Killing female and children, they are, they are imposing starvation on innocent female and children, babies have been seen under robus crying inside blood, you we see lot of fathers carrying lifeless body of their children killed by israelits, anybody that has concerned for humanity should come out today on the street and show his solidarity with palestinians. The demonstrators burn the us and israeli flags as the islam tel avivs regime impunity. And the silence of the International Community, many muslims in nigeria believe that israels continuous killing of palestinians in gaza on the eve of the holy month of ramadan. Is a clear proof the regimes disrespect for islamic sanctities. The protests here are urging wall leaders to pressure israel to end the massaca in gaza. Press tv, abuja. Chinese and russian vessels have come to irans territorial waters for joint Maritime Exercise in the northern indian ocean. Drills will eventually or will continue that is until friday with representatives of several other countries also participating as observer states. Heres report russia navy warship, russia navy warship and china navy warship. This is iranian navy warship. The Maritime Security belt 2024 has officially kicked off with russian and chinese vessels entering irans territorial waters south of the country. On tuesday, the naval and airborne units of irans army and the irgc, along with their chinese and russian counterparts will participate in various operations during this exercise. Naval delegations from azerbaijan, pakistan, kazakhstan, oman and south africa have also taken part as observer states. At the first stage of the drill, the naval officers of the three countries as well as the observer states reviewed different. Phases of the exercise on maps and held tactical briefings. Later the naval commanders of iran, russia and china held a joint pressure. The iranian navys Deputy Commander said the main aim of the joint exercise is to help safeguard security in the northern part of the indian ocean. Upholding peace and security in the north of indian ocean and having a specialized cooperation in combating pirate. And terrorism in our region are among the main goals of this exercise. We are constantly working to improve this cooperation. Meanwhile, chinese and Russian Navy Commanders said the joint exercise further demonstrates the preparedness of the participating countries to maintain security while also deepening their practical cooperation. 2024 is the fifth Consecutive Year that the Islamic Republic of irans navy is hosting countries participating. The Maritime Security belt drills in the northern indian ocean region. This years naval drills have kicked off under the motodo together for peace and security with participating countries highlighting the importance of jointly safeguarding regional security. Mahdi abbasan press tv konarak. And to discuss a trilateral naval drills in depth. We are joined by two guests in our news review program. Time now to invite a couple of guests for some insight, so allow me to invite glenn desan, professor of International Relations with the university of southeastern norway, hes joining me from oslo, and john bost, journalist, activist and politic analyst is joining me from belgrade, good to see you gentlemen, now lets go to glenn first, lets begin, you just heard in the introduction what this is all. About some targets and objectives of the joint drills and this is the third time of course that iran, china and russia are taking part in such drills, so lets talk about to begin with about the message that such joint maneuvers can convey, well the i guess the main message coming forth is that the key or the lot of the largest states on the eurasian continent, so russia, china and iran are increasingly. To corporate on Security Matters and this harmonizes with their efforts of pursuing economic integration. We see among these states they have more cooperation technical establishing new transportation core doors, new Financial Cooperation so across the board, so its quite natural as well to supplement this with more Security Cooperation as well, and this has been the stated objective of course, which is to fight piracy. In terrorism to provide support to humanitarian activities, but also have rescue missions, so uh, and doing this in iranian waters is also quite makes a lot of sense, as about the fifth of all oil trail, oil trade sorry passes through this uh straight of mousse go through the persian gulf, so its a its its a lot of Security Issues involved and the idea that the would all be out. Of course to the United States, which largely defines itself as an enemy of all of these three participants, it it simply doesnt make much sense, but the main argument coming forth is, this is referred to often as a maritime economic activity, that is security initiatives which are aligned with this new economic connectivity between these larger states. All right, now john, how do you look at this . Is this not maybe one of the results and of the actually us, keeping pressure on different countries, imposing sanctions on countries, including iran, then regional countries trying to come up with their own mechanisms that gets closer together, like. Is doing and now militarily we speaking, iran, china, russia, they are conducting these joint drills, so in terms of regional security, iran has always said that its us, regional estates, so we are capable of providing our own security, and this is in line with actually one of the objectives of the drills, lets have your opinion on this, well i have to agree, i would say that the United States has attempted to pass itself. Off as some sort of a global policeman, but in fact the United States has been functioning like a global bully, bombing countries around the world, ever since 1945, weve been basically a continuous state of war as america flexes its muscles around the world, and it does so in complete disregard of international law, the International Criminal court, which it doesnt recognize, and it is high time for countries around the world, especially the ones that the United States have. As designated as enemy states to b together to protect themselves, and i think that this is logical consequence of a reaction to aggression by the United States and its partners in war. I appreciate your inside. Gl