hamas says there are still big gaps that need to be bridged for a ceasefire in gaza, this as israel presses ahead with its deadly strikes on the position strip. the un says it is really forces are targeting aid convoys as gaza as they're trying to systematically block aid access to people in need and iran is preparing for legislative and assembly of experts selections that will be held this friday simultaneously.

it's a 9:31 p.m. here in tehran. this is press tv news. i'm your host berruz. good to have you with us. the cycle of blutched keeps repeating in gaza. the israel regime taken no pause in the artillery and air rates on the palestine territory. an attack on the southern side of raffa has killed one person and injured several more. israel's relentless attacks have killed 90 people and injured scores of others in the past day and gaza city regime's warplanes created a belt of fire around the school currently. being used as a shelter, the detal

from the israeli genocide in the palestinian territory is not close to 30,000, most of them women and children, the humanitarian situation is deteriorating with hospitals being under immense strain, the palestine red croissan society has suspended its work in gaza for two days because the israel military has failed to ensure the safety of its team members. in the meantime, the un saying that... forces are systematically blocking access to people in needing gaza, complicating the task of delivering eight to the baseage territory. spokesman for the un humanitan agency says that carrying out medical evacuations and aid deliveries in northern gaza has become impossible. yen satlark said that humanitarian operations are becoming increasingly difficult in the south. the humanitarian agencies delivering aid to gaza say that even convoys cleared in advance with israeli authorities have repeated.

blocked or come under fire. according to the world health organization, all planned aid convoys into northern gaza strip have been denied by israel authorities in recent weeks. activists with palestine action, a uk- based pro- palestinian protest network, once again barricated the entrance to one of israel's largest weapon providers, elbit systems, by locking themselves together. are covered in palestinian blood, your prophets are covered in palestinian blood, now palesan action says activists prevented all entry and operations for several hours, they chanted slogans and solidarity with palestinians, slumming military support for israel, the group has been targeting elbit systems locations across britain for more than three years. elbit systems provides the israel military with drones, munitions, combat vehicles, missiles

and other types of weaponry. recently, pro-palestine advocacy groups across the world have intensified their campaign against corporations and industries that aid tel aviv in a genocidal war in gaza. palestinians have demonstrated in several areas of the west bank, following the call by factions to declare tuesday, as a day of rage they protested the israeli aggression against the besiest gaza strip in the acpar west bank. and supported palestine prisoners behind uh kept in israeli jails and palestinians have taken to the streets across the occupied west bank to protest against the israeli genocide on the gaza strip as it nears 150 days. despite the bad weather and heavy rain protesters roamed the streets of ramala chanting for gaza and demanding an end to israel's war on the beside this trip. people here say that israel is using the war on gaza to... "wherever the palestinians are, they

are facing the israeli illegal plans and violence and the killing that is everywhere, settlement expansion, judaization attempts and now the israely plans of eviction and attempts to break the resistance in gaza, the all palestinians are embracing. also, amongst the demands of the palestinian protesters is to shoot the light to the suffering of the thousands of prisoners incarcerated in israeli jails under inhumane condition. in addition to the fact that the israeli regime. is using the illegal administrative detention that allows it to keep palestinians behind bars without charge or trial. prisoners are being held under a disastrous situation in israeli jails. 7,300 were detained from the west bank and over 20 from the gaza strip

since the 7th of october. and we should not forget that over 400 have already been in prison before. so we're talking today about over 11,500 pris. hundreds are in serious health condition and they're facing slow death. with all ours are focused on the gaza strip, israeli regime continues tipping up its violence here in the occupied west bank. the israeli forces shot dead four palestinians in separate incidents in alfar refugee camp and to bos town northeast nablis and at masmuria checkpoint near betlahem bringing. number of palestinians killed in the west bank since the start of the war on gaza to 411. protesters today are stressing that no one is getting used to the israeli genocide in the besieged gaza strip at the time when the regime's atrocities against palestinians and the occupied west bank are on the rise. they say this is the least they

can do to express their anger, to express their support to their fellow palestinians in gaza and to show them that they are not alone. mona khandiel for press tv. occupied dramallah, the lebanese resistant movement, hezbollah has fired dozens of rickets set in israely military base in the northern occupied palestinian lines, hezbollah said that it targeted aerial surveillance space in the upper galileo region using 40 rockets, the attack was in response and monday's isready strike on the lebany city of balbec that left two civilians dead, on monday the resistance groups also shot down in his roody drone over southern lebanon. hasbollah and israel have been engaged in clashes since the regime launched its genocidal war on gaza early october. lebanese resistance fighters have mainly targeted israely military positions, but the televive regime has even targeted residential areas in lebanon causing the death of civilians. from beirout, i'm now

joined by ali resk, political analyst. ali, good to see you. so, let us know your assessment of this. seems like escalation between hezbollah and israeli forces and the latest uh operations by hezbolah seem to be kind of different and uh more significant than the others of before. do you agree? uh, indeed, i think that the uh downing of the israeli drone yesterday, it was an advanced drone, by the way, was very significant... development, particularly if you want to put it within the framework of uh unveiling surprises or revealing surprises to to the israeli enemy. i still think however that the escalation will remain contained. it's true that it's the first time that israel targeted

abalbak, the eastern lebanese city, first time since july 2006, but that strike, the strike on abalbak was also of limited nature. hasb's retaliation today continues to focus on military targets, so all indicators, they do point escalation yes, but they also point to the likelihood that things will likely remain beneath a certain ceiling or in other words remain contained, and ali we have israeli officials uh saying that even if there is an end to this genocidal war in gaza uh... the thing with labanan will go on, so what do you expect to happen in future? you're referring to the statements of the israeli defense minister, you of gallant. now

this is not the first time gallant makes these statements. gallant is also known to be more of the or one of the more hawkish voices in netanyahu's cabinet. i wouldn't necessarily. take gallen statements to reflect reality or to, you know, to be a prediction of what will take place, the israelis might choose to do that to continue with his operations even after. a ceastfire with hamas, although i think that such a scenario remains unlikely, i think that once a cease fire if a cys fire is reached with hamas and gazza, i think uh, more likely than not you're going to see that ce fire also which lebanon and the broader in the region, and i think an important point to make here is that the biden administration since day one has been very, very adamant or insisting on the necessity of the conflict. expanding to include lebanon, american officials have conveyed these concerns or these warnings to

their israely counterparts on numerous occasions over the past few months, and do this really is care about this, and so this means that a full fledge war will never happen between heizballah and the israel regime, the israelis i think will have to take... into consideration uh the american stance because the israeli war machine is basically fed by the americans, the americans continue to provide weapons and all different other forms of aid, you have to remember, you have to compare between biden statements regarding lebanon and biden statements regarding gaza, from the beginning biden stated or declared all out support for the war on gaza, for the elimination of the hamus movement, although yesterday... he did speak about the cease fire by the way in gaza, expecting one on monday, on lebanon or in

lebanon, on the other hand, he has spoken about the necessity of the conflict not expanding there, so the americans appeared to be lot more rejection or rejecting much more the situation or a war in lebanon compared to the situation in gaza, now there is always a chance that netanyahu might go a very dangerous gamble or adventure, but i still believe that that's... the farfetched uh chance or a farfetched assumption? hopefully. okay, appreciate that. ali risk, political analyst in beirot. iran's preparing to hold two major elections on friday. the nation will go to the poles to choose members of the parliament and the assemble of experts. nearly 15 thousand candidates are competing this year. that's a record number since the victory of the islamic revolution in iran 45 years ago. our correspondent has a report. iranian people are preparing for the friday's elections in which they will vote for their

representatives in parliament and assembly of experts. thousands of candidates including women and the young generation are vying for the seats. nearly 15,00 candidates are running for the election of these candidates 12% are women and 63% belong to the young generation which includes young. activists aged between 30 and 50 years old. islami also mentioned different political groups and parties that are participating in the upcoming elections. all of the country's political spectrums including principalists, reformists and independents are among the candidates. a close contest is underway among them in the country's different zones and cities. according to the law, the parties can support a list of candidates as well as introducing their intended candidates. in the meantime, 200 local channels have been

launched for the candidates election campaign. the irib has launched 200 local channels and the candidates can use them for their campaigns as well as the radio and social media. nearly 40 elections have been held in iran since the 1979 islamic revolution, which is a symbol of people's power and pr. pris in the country's sensitive occasions. iranians across the country will participate in the elections as they see choosing their representatives both in the parliament and assembly of experts as a duty to maintain the basis of religious democracy in their country. farzanashurion press tv tehran. now in other news, russia warning the west against sending troops to ukraine saying that such move. would not be in the interests of western states. krem spokesman dimitro paskov says the fact that the possibility of

sending some nato contingents is being discussed is pretty important new element. he warned that conflict between russia and us-lot nato would be inevitable if european members of nato sent ground trips to ukraine. on the comments came after french president emmanuel macron said that the option of european nations sending trips to ukraine is on the table. now those remarks have been dismissed by german chancellor olaf schultz. from brussels, let's bring in gilbert, independent international affairs analyst, good to have you with us, gilbert, so is... president macron serious, of course germany thinks otherwise, so uh, are they european zaman to send in troops to ukraine really to fight on the ground, and in that case, what do you expect to happen next? i think president macron is serious about being an important person on the european level. unfortunately, others don't share that

opinion. he's a shallow personality, and what he has just said was instantly rejected. by most of his colleagues and that begins with the poles and with the brits, both of which have been among the most aggressive countries in pushing european assistance to ukraine, they they found mr. proposal step too far, and why a step too far, i hope we can discuss, yeah, and gilbert macron was also talking about few months ago, he was talking about he had idea of forming a european kind of nato military alliance, so in all given the circumstances and what's been going on in the russia ukraine war, how do you see future unfold? well, macron has been busy brainstorming and putting out various proposals to europe, first few months ago he

was proposing an olive branch to the russians against the wishes of all of his colleagues. and now he's proposing that we go to that they go to war with russia against the wishes of all of his colleagues, the only commonality here in this flip flop is mr. macron's interest in bringing attention to himself and getting the newspaper reporters to give him the microphone, the um the reality is what mr. schulz said last week that he would that he was against the delivery of long-range uh tauros. to to ukraine and he reiterated that and and today's statement by schultz that that the idea sending ground troops would not fly, would not be accepted by germany or others, that is that comes down to one fact that the european leaders, many of them key leaders

have understood that russia's threats to to deliver attacks. government continues to support israel's ongoing genocidal campaign in gaza, it's to people in britain that are bearing the cost of it, said that explains. filling up the tank, emptying out the pockets. britains are again having to pay more for fuel. petrol prices are up more than three p per liter at

the time of this report, while diesel has risen by 4p. that means the cost of filling... up a typical family car in the uk has now increased, prices had supposedly bottomed out from the record highs in 22, in large part caused by the uk and other nato countries self-imposed sanctions on russian energy imports at the start of the ukraine war in the same year. so here's what happened this time around: the value of what comes out of this little nozzle here is impacted by the price of oil on international markets and by the value of the pound against the dollar because... is oil is traded in dollars. the new pump price increases have been brought about by a recent jump in the price of oil, and one reason for that can be sought in the foreign policy decisions by the uk and its allies in the energy rich middle east. decisions such as supporting israel's ongoing genocidal war on gaza, which has led yemen's

armed forces to launch attacks on israel-bound ships including uk vessels. "there is a rise obviously to do with these fact that the tankers are not able to go through the sewis canal because the insurance rates have gone through the roof if you try to do that so they're diverting the tankers around the you know cape horn of africa and that is of course means that the shipping costs are getting higher because there's less ships available than normal and also transportation costs labor and the tankers um for longer. the british chambers of commerce says more than half of the uk retailers and exporters have been affected by the disruption to the red sea trade with a 300%. increase in the price of shipping a single container from asia to europe. all this as the uk, us bombing of yemen continues,

essentially adding fuel to the fire. yemen is embracing, implementing international law by trying to prevent a genocide, and it's absolutely absurd for the uk government to go along with the us empire and actually bombing these yemeny positions, and actually as a result of that causing. situation where the cost of living is increasing in britain because of the ridiculous foreign policy that our politicians are embracing, so what we have here is the british government tying the welfare of its own citizens to that of rogue regime intent on committing genocide. said, press tv, london. the venezuelan top diplomat is told the press tv that his government is working with teran to defeat the illegal western sanctions that have. both countries. says the karakis and teran are seeking to create a bilateral trade system to circumvent the sanctions. he said that the only way to

defeat the illegal and criminal sanctions is through unity of the two nations. he also touch on the rise of the non-western powers across the globe, saying that bricks group of developing countries is hope to promote a multipolar world. he said that nowadays a new world order is being born based on solidarity just as sent respect for the un charter and uh that's all for this news guys from tehran in almost 10 minutes time i'll be back with the spotlight. crisis, devastating wars, terrorism, the israeli lobby, crackdown, diplomacy,

israellah tensions. i really would like to meet him later, he seems like such an important figure in the history of iran. what would i do if i wanted to meet the leader. my name is caleb map. i live in new york city. من در مورد. دامه رهبر معظم انقلاب هیچ چیزی نمیگم فقط میگم حرف ایشون رو گوش کنیم برین یک بار قرآن همینطوری بخونیم. it was interesting to see how passionate

people were about politics and how willing they were to talk to me about it, because people were more than happy to give me their view. everyone in iran has an opinion. i believe that uh working together we can make a street.

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