Hello everybody, youre watching press tv news, this is a live broadcast from our tehran atquarters, im behruz najafy, welcome. Now more than five months in todays really genocidal war on gaza, the regime continues pounding the blockaded territory with indiscriminate air rates and artillery fire. The Health Ministry says at least 92 people of been killed and 130 wounded over the past day, at least 12 people were killed in a strike a residential building in der alvella in central gaza. According to the ministry, israel prevents medical teams from reaching the victims were still under the rubble, meanwile fire jets continue bombing residential buildings across the coastal strip, including gaza city. The suffering is not limited to just being targeted by bombs. According to anna, malnutrition and famon also striken northern gaza and are now moving to southern areas. Since the onset of the israeli war early october, 31,645 palestines have been killed, most of them women and children. Our correspondent tells us about the latest Israeli Massacre of palestinians in the gaza strip. The israeli accuvation forces committed at least nine oponing massacre. Against the Palestinian Civilians over the last 24 hours, claiming the lives of 93 Palestinian Civilians, muslim women and children in addition to injuring at least 130 others uh, so these numbers are still high and they are sing with the continuous israeli air strikes and attacks that are still hitting more residental areas and buildings across several areas of gaza strip over the last night the israeli acivation forces committed alarming massacre here uh in. City after destroying a residental building in albisashara neighborhood located in the center of their balah city claiming the lives of at least 12 Palestinian Civilians mostly women and children while dozens were reportedly injured and many of them are still trapped in the rubble of that destroyed houses that destroyed house sorry in the meantime the israeli wall blanes continued they strikes and attacks against the western parts of anosarati fuji camp relentle this israel hit that area uh amid the con the constant and the continuous artillery shilling that reached the eastern part of alb fuji camp and now as we speak here in the central area of gaza strip the israeli helicopters open they can fire towards the residental areas in the eastern part of their balah city the head of the world health of organization calling in israel not to launch a ground offensive on the Southern Gaza city of rafa where 1. 5 million displaced people have sought shelter. Teadras gabries has said that the escalation of violence in rafa would lead to many more deaths and suffering. He called on israel to refrain from the attack in the name of humanity. Tedris added that the people in raffa are too fragile, hungry and sick to be moved around. On friday the israely Prime Minister approved plans to assault rafa despite increasing International Calls not to go on with the military operation. As senior. The palestinan resistant Movement Hamas says the group is waiting for a response to its seasf proposal from israel in the us, the regimes main accomplice in the gaza genocide. Osama hamdan said that the initiative put forward by hamas is a realistic one with clear details. He said it provides for a swap of captives in gaza and palestine abductees and the withdrawaly forces. Hamdan said that the of palestinan movement in the negotiations called for an end to the war, the return of refugees, the dispatch of made and the beginning of the reconstruction of the strip, hamdan als upon the divisions within the regime on the war, adding that the regime has achieved none of its declared objectives. Despite the atrocities committed in gaza. He said that hamas has told intermediaries that acts of aggression against gaza should come to an end. Well as the us is really genocidal war grinds on, there has been a new proposal put forward by hamas raising prospects for sease fire. Now hamas has proposed new 40day truce in gaza and an exchange for several dozen. Hostages for palestinian prisoners. For the first stage, this is what is proposed for the exchange, as you can see the total number of israeli captives would be 42. This includes five female Regime Forces and 37 others, women, children, the elderly and the l. It would not include male Regime Forces. Now here is where the ratio is different than the previous proposal. For the five female Regime Forces, the ratio would be one to 30 to 50 palestinian prisoners. 37 others, the ratio would be one ordinary israeli captive to 20 to 30 palestinian prisoners. Theres a possible snack here, and it comes from the Israeli Regime. Its opposing the release of palestinian prisoners who have killed israelis, especially israeli Regime Forces, something that was part of the hamas demand, and that is something that may be a snag. Another hamas condition is the return of all palestinians to northern gaza, including 19yearold males, restricted from returning in the previous proposal from the Israeli Regime. Now hamas has required for the israeli Regime Forces to withdraw from cities and populated areas, that includes alrashed and saladdeen streets, in order to allow for the return of the displaced palestinians. Aid is as important for hamas officials and they have required the 500 trucks to be allowed into the gaza strap, daily, in the first stage also. Now comes. The second stage, the release of the remaining israeli captives, there are 130 captives, including 32 presumed dead, subtracting the 42 released before leaves 88, which includes male Regime Forces, ratio is 1 to 30 to 50. Hamas requires at this point for the full withdrawal of the remaining israeli Regime Forces from the gaza strip, one of the major sticking points. Hamass other key demands include things like recon. Destruction, the crossings being reopened and ending the siege all together. Us, qatar and egypt are the guarantees of the agreements. Hopes are, if this is executed and there are no violations, it will ultimately end in a permanent ceasefire. Now moving on, people across the world are continuing to display their support for the people in gaza, as the Israeli Regime presses ahead with a genocide there. The german capital. Berlin was a scene at one of the latest such demonstrations, we are here to the ministrate for palestine and i think its not only about palestine here, its also about showing our anger towards uh the german media and the german politicians because they have lot of power and they decided to take a side and even they use sometimes some wars for human crisis or Something Like this, i cant believe it, i dont, i have the feeling that its just empty worse. The protesters demand immediate cease fire in gaza and the liberation of palestine and establishment of all goods as its capital. They cared blood stain, small mock body bags in reference to a large number of children killed in the gaza strip. They also held a piece of bread to draw attention to the starvation in the baseige strip. Pro palestine rallies have been in intensifying across europe, despite attempts by the governments to crack down on the public demonstrations of support. During their rally in the australian capital, vienna, thousands to the streets to slam the israeli genocide in gaza. Now waving palestinan flags of the emiminates gathered at viena city center that was part these really apartide week called by the bds movement which promotes boycots against israely products and Multinational Companies linked to the regime protesters that taking part in the rally was their contribution to solidarity with gaza. They said that the European Countries are complicit in these reality crimes, they also call for immediate cease fire and the delivery of humantian aid to the gazas. Strip our correspondent attended that rally and interviewed some of the demonstrators, we are demonstrating here because today is the 160th day of the genocide, they now propose the new idea of bringing relief supplies to gaza by ship, but i think the real plot is to drive out the people in gaza by ship again like 1948. The second thing is that we are here to say that the genocide and the starvation must stop, aid supplies. Must be brought in through the land crossings and not by air or ship. The us has the power to demand that from israel. We are also here to demand immediate end to the occupation. Im here to uh support a justice cause, which is palestine, especially during those time, were justice is being hijacked by those who control the power and they mis representing what we, what humans should do, how they should support. Each other whether the east, west, north, south doesnt matter, and this particular time is not about west and east, its about to be with just, be with human, and palestine is not for palestinian, us, for every human being, is for everyone who suffers in this world who feels whats human to be. I am here because i am an antifascist, and as an antifascist i have to be an antidionist, and to stand, i have to stand with the Palestinian Resistance for the colonization of palestine. And we have we are unconditionally solid solidar with the palestine and palestinian solidarity, and if you take seriously the claim to decolonize the world and the global south, you have to stand with palestine. I come to these protests, because when i was 14 or 15 um, i had to introduce the topic of you, the the gaza conflict to. Class in school, so before we got any of the kind of propaganda that they do teach in schools here, i got to do my own research and i did, and i think like anyone who does even a half hour of research on the subject, i very quickly kind of recognized the horrors and ever since then its been very dear to my heart, and now with everything thats happening, im just glad that there are people that are coming every week. New pro palestan rally has been organized in italy, this as the italian defense minister has confirmed his countrys arms export to tel aviv have continued despite a block announced last year. Max chively reports from rome. On saturday thousands of people joined a new rally in the italian capital organized among the others by the. Movement of the palestinian students and the association of the palestinians in italy, the initiative dubbed stop the genocide, also saw the participation of High School Students and families, people at the rally strongly condemned italys unwavering support to the Israeli Regime. Italy that claims to be democratic nation is a country where the government goes against the peoples will, profits always come first even when a genocide is taking place. Im teaching my kids to never give up the fight and to never accept being submitted. The italian defense minister guido croseto has recently said that rome has continued to export arms to israel despite assurances last year that the government was blocking such sales following tel avivs invasion of the gazas trip. Some italian media reports recently revealed that despite the italian governments denials, the value of. Arms sales to israel more than tripled in december 2023 compared with the same month in 2022, and december last year was the pick of israeli bombardments on the gaza strip. Western governments have been systematically supporting zionism and israels criminal regime, not withstanding the protest against israels crimes that have been taking place across the globe. Part toiv must stop once and for all solution to the onslot in gaza could be found if the International Community stopped militarily supporting israel. Italy its side has been actively arming israel through companies such leonard and others. If we dont make sure that the palestinians right to selfdetermination is protected and nothing will ever change. Earlier this week. Protests and initiatives in solidarity with the besieged were held in several italian cities, including milan and naples. Max chivili, press tv, rome. Das ist eine wohnung finden und da gab es durchaus konflikte. Welcome back, the Nigerian Government says its stopped its similar cooperation with the United States with immidded effect. In our news review program, weve delved into the story and asked for some expert opinion. The just government says it has broken its military cooperation agreements with the us, calling the accord illegal. The us presence on the territory of the republic of niger is illegal and violates all the constitutional and democratic rules which would require the sovereign people, in particular through its elected representatives to be consulted on the installation of a for. Said the government revoked with immediate effect the military accord that allows military personnel and civilian staff from the Us Department of defense its soil. The declaration came just day after a senior us delegation left niger following a threeday visit to renew contact between the two countries. Us relations with niger faces challenges after a military coup alted the western backed president s in the african country last year. However, the us still stations some 10 troops in niger a desert drone base. Has previously severed military ties with his former colonizer france, it forced french troops in the country to withdraw after nearly decade. Widal ozusu International Relations and security analyst joins us from akra. We also have uh with us jonathansa whos a publisher at africa briefing who joins us from london. Welcome to you both. Fidol let me first start with you and im just going to quote the um nigers military spokesman uh, because he pretty much explained why this relationship is going to end, and id like to find out from you what your reaction is to, for example, how he said that the agreement that was signed between niger and the us back in 2012 was imposed on niger and had been in violation of the constitutional and democratic rules of the country and its sovereignty. Tell us why this was imposed, what he means and how it violated. Is your sovereignty . Thank you very much sir for this opportunity. Um, firstly, the year um under review which is 2012 was year when um extremists uh were awarded in the sahil, so in mali and niger we found um alqaid in the islamic maghrib and saradin uh. Toirec back group uh that was sweeping across the region, taking cities in central mali and in the in northwest niger, so that was the time operation bakin by france was started and so it was the same time the us uh decided to establish uh a drone base in niger in order to fight extremists, now the processes that led to that uh could may have been not. Attor or may not have followed laid down rules as the military genter claims, however at the time it was more of emergency situation that brought the United States to the place. Um currently weve seen a koudita in niger and the janta is having to uh cut ties with uh the west and so france has been removed from niger and so this current. That the janta is ending its relations with the us, its not so surprising, despite the fact that us Foreign Policy with niger has been different from that of france. Okay, well lets. Get into that Foreign Policy and again im going to quote the nichers military spokesperson who has said jonathan of say, the government of niger regrets the desire of the american delegation to deny the nigerian people the right to choose their partners and the types of partnerships capable of helping them to truly fight against terrorists, and uh he said niger forcefully denounces the condescending attitude of the us, it to me its. Sounds like niger is saying that the us is not a partner when it comes to fighting terrorists, yes, look, see, they are for the wording of the government spokes man, one word stands out, condescending, okay, look, niger, is a small country, so callalled in impovers country, the us, its a super, the worlds only super. Power if you like right, and according to the j statement, um, the us did not follow the normal diplomatic protocols, you visit a country, mean you form the host governments and even state the number of the delegation, okay, but in this case america did not do that, according to the uh the the the spokesman again his statement and they just came even not on on the date that was agreed upon okay so that was condeciding and i believe that during the meetings they had mean the us as usual might have tried to impose certain conditions and might have given some threats and buse the us is is not happy with the with the with money. Um burkina faso and um the js increasing alliance with russia, so that is what the us was trying to to counteract, but the us is failing you to to to to see that the the geopolitical situation in francoful west africa is changing, they could have taken a quell from um niger, mali, burkina fasso, expelling. French troops from their territories, okay . They should have taken a c from that and at least try to uh deal with niger maybe as equal, but not in that condescending manner. So the reaction by niger was natural. Niger wanted to or wants to accept its sovereignty, it independent, right . The the dynamics in that region are changing, so this is what the us has to take. So what to in my opinion what n was the right one, it may come a cost, but then um sovereignty always accepting your sovereignty always comes at your cost. Thank you very much for that. Fidel, ausu, International Relation and security analyst and jonathansa publisher at africa briefing. Thank you to you both. With that we come to an end for this news review. Russians are casting their ballots on the third and final day of president ial election, in which president Vladimir Putin is favor to win another chairman office. According to official, 60 the eligible voters have cast their ballots in the first two days of the voting across russia