benjamin netanyahu plowing ahead with the war on hamas saying know to calls for a cease-fire. tanks drive deeper into gaza. a widening ground incursion that stops short of a full-scale ground war. the prime minister also announcing that one more hostage has been freed from hamas. a 19-year-old female soldier rescued in an overnight ground operation. meantime attacks on u.s. troops in the middle east continue to rise now totaling 24. that despite attempts at the biden administration to send a message by striking iran lymph facilities in syria last week. u.s. college campuses also a battleground of sorts, a war of words in most cases. violence did break out during some competing demonstrations and police are investigating online threats made to jewish students at cornell university. let s get to our chief international correspondent steve harrigan live in northern israel with more on this. steve? reporter: over the past 24 hours we have seen multiple rocket attacks across nor
Plane plane. This is d w news live from burlesque south africa swears and its president sarah runs up close up pledges to battle corruption as he takes office in a lavish inauguration ceremony well hear from our correspondent about the challenges we face and also coming up. U. S. President donald trump arrives in japan for a special statement that as the new and current 1st foreign guest. And celebrities gather on the Red Carpet One Last Time as the Cannes Film Festival draws to its climax are still in critic Scott Roxboro defines
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Basically since the troubles of acted to keep telling him he s a great leader he s important that japan needs him and this is the way that the obvious ministration seeks to achieve its own policy objectives. has been courting for quite some time has he gotten anything out of it for his country. well it s mainly an issue of damage control you know trump and this trade issue is a is a primary example of this trump basically wants to make demands of japan that the japanese don t want to give and so he s trying as hard as you can to stay on trumps the good side so that trumps demands don t become too onerous and to try to blunt therefore so in a sense it s japan feeding trumps ego in order to not feel the force trumps demands on the japanese nation michael mann in tokyo thank you very much thank you. the cannes film festival is where the world s
U.s. president donald trump has arrived in japan for a state visit trump is set to spend 4 days in the country to cement bilateral ties with japan s prime minister and business leaders and attend a dinner at the imperial palace where it will be the 1st state guest of japan s new emperor is visit comes against the back of increasing tensions china and north korea. and more let s talk to correspondent michael penn in tokyo michael don t you just gave his 1st speech in japan addressing business leaders what was his main message to them. well of course he s emphasizing the toughness on trade issues which is been something that before him really going back to the 1980 s. he 1st got this idea in his mind that japan was using unfair trade practices against the united states and and this is something that through the decades has