e regime they would engage in a war nobody talks about the iranian revolution so that tells me that they're going to continue with this war one way or another one pressure or another to gain as much time as possible and his ballah what about their point of view his ballah is totally linked to the iranian regime that totally coordinate with them there's no room as some in the west believe that his ballah has his own analysis they are and hassan israel has said so many times on tv but strategy of his ballah is not to launch an emotional military attack like this no it is controlled they they have this line of contact with israelis and that's for the media and for the fact that there is solidarity among the the battlefields as they call them but his ballah also though they have a military power to hurt israel or the civilians in israel inside lebanon it's not as united as it seems there are plenty of areas that opposes his ballah and nobody knows if there is a full engagement between israelis and his ballah that these areas may stay or not stay under the control of his ballah and his ballah knows that uh it's geo politics inside lebanon do not exceed three islands one is the dahi that's the southern suburb of of beirut the other one is the south nabatiyah and the rounding and then one in the northern beqa the rest of the country is not actually with his ballah despite what we see in the media look so well as far as i thank you very much thank you for having me so um after these uh months the middleist will be quite different i think hamas the the brutality and scope of the attack crossed a threshold that the moderates can no longer ignore um and there is going to be if not publicly at least behind the scenes i i think we're already starting to see it a much more united front and a determination um of the threat the looming threat that is posed uh by these as well they'd call them these jihadi organizations the the axis of resistance will call it that's all linked to iran by the way what he said about his ballah is actually right they have lost a lot of their legitimacy inside lebanon after their role in the syrian civil war and it's it's not at all clear that they that they think from an internal legitimacy point they can enter this war and come out of it will we see a clearer line between the moderates the moderate and extremists in the region that's the possibility that's the hope the question is is how will israel approach this um will we will israeli decision makers look more at um dealing with the sense of israeli vulnerability or as you called it reclaiming israeli honor which is a very serious thing that needs to be dealt with or in a more strategic long-term manner working with regional partners working with the international community the international community the gulf countries the saudis i think behind the scenes the egyptians and and the other moderates recognize that hamas cannot stay in power cannot be a player in this anymore the question is is how do we deal with it do we take a deep breath do we take a slightly more long-term view of course this doesn't have to all and immediately we have other capabilities um to deal with hamas beyond the borders of god or duran the problem may have a different name it's called iran exactly i think there are two scenarios like always we look after the future one scenario the conflict with hamas is contained we hunt hamas hamas we eliminate hamas it ends there original rearrangement we are becoming more progressive together with our allies i mean us europe and our allies in the area we go to a better future but the conflict can escalate in different direction that we can't expect the as we say west bank his balance still up maybe the most powerful enemy we have right now and right now we have a problem we can't even return our citizen to the north as long as his bala threatens them in this way so the two scenarios coexist i wouldn't predict which one we take whether we are still going through a long conflict then we can imagine right now it's also a possibility or that is contained with it gaza uh what if this thing ends just before uh any uh a certain outcome you know any any clear cut yeah this is this would be hard this would be hard to have hamas still in gaza and clashes and skirmishers this is something this is an outcome that i don't see the israeli public can take though we have to admit it the task of eliminating ha hamas is a big task it's not a simple one so i think the next main junction is of course the hostage dilemma we'll see then we'll see where we are i thank you very much both of you thank you and my colleague laura laura selie spoke today with israel's president isaac erzog here's part of the interview that will be aired later this evening take a look now i gave a 28 minutes interview to the bbc to a very distinguished interviewer who came especially to meet me and she actually knows me for many years and they they left only six minutes chopping it by the way and editing it in a very negligent way it's not my job to go and start quarreling with them but i'm i must say i'm quite dismayed and i would have hoped differently and and and but it's not only the bbc there's a kind of this school of thought in certain quarry quarters of the western world that does not understand that this is a war on their life on their ability to enjoy decent liberal modern progressive democratic life or any other ability to live well even if it's not a democratic country nonetheless at the end in the most of the rank and file of the international leadership understands this and they are taking a firm position supporting israel and i am seeing expressions of support day in day out by leaders predominantly of course president biden vice president harris and the entire us administration and both sides of the island congress but also in definitely as you know united kingdom france germany and many many other important nations so the world understands the world we live in with digital impacts of you know of brainwashing like tiktok and other things does not explain to the average person the complexity of this situation and the clear need for moral clarity i would like to reiterate what prime minister netanyahu said just yes two days ago there will not be any ceasefire without release of hostages and the whole the whole discussion about humanitarian poses i must tell you i haven't seen or i'm i'm unaware of any response from the khamas side to any of these ideas i see a lot of news a lot of spins a lot of background noises that come from third parties nothing is is put on the table we are progressing dramatically within the gaza territory to uproot khamas infrastructure and our military is doing an incredible job it's very complicated challenging dangerous but they're doing an outstanding job to uproot the ability of khamas to have military capabilities and to uproot their infrastructure so that they won't be able to rule gaza laura selia's interview full interview with person Herzog will be aired later 8 p.m israel time at the caliph ben david's program we'll take a break now we'll be right back with more live coverage here tonight by the fundants made for me a unique concept in israel custom made men's fashion to your measurements made for me designer of all your events schedule your appointment at www.madeforme.co.il made for me official dresser of i24 news good evening ladies and gentlemen israel is at war make an investment in israel bonds it is the most powerful and direct way to stand with israel visit israel bonds dot com and invest now 1300 people murdered and more than 3000 injured and the war with khamas continues we bring you firsthand testimonies from the front lines from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by khamas follow us as israel fights terror from the south and north get the inside scoop on what's going on only on i24 news oh my god we went into the burnt houses and applied our excavation methodologies by collecting the burnt remains sifting through them and searching for even the most minute evidence that could help us identify individuals that were missing i24 news special coverage our correspondent robert swift in the gaza front with the latest from there robert we are we do live so the the latest information is the the release of what you can essentially consider a propaganda video from the palestinian islamic jihad showing two of the hostages that are held inside gaza this is a reminder that it's not just khamas that are holding hostages it is also palestinian islamic jihad a smaller arm group operating within the the gaza strip the hostages that have been shown are hannah katsir who is 77 years old and yagil yakov who's just 12 years old now um this the the families of of these two individuals have asked that this video not be shown um but as you can understand there is a lot of pressure here uh both within within israeli society uh regarding the release of this pressure and it appears that the the armed groups within gaza are trying to leverage this to a certain extent and are showing these videos as part of it now the the spokesperson for palestinian islamic jihad uh said that the group was willing to release two individuals um and you can understand that that is part of this uh this essentially this attempt to leverage these hostages now where i'm standing now is an event that's taking place on the israel gaza border where um organizers of this event that i'm standing at are using laser displays to show the names of those who are being held and they're showing the name of every single individual who's understood to be in captivity inside gaza and the event itself is running for several hours that obviously gives you an idea of how many people are held there well over 200 people right uh robert swift thank you very much uh at the gaza front uh with me here in the studio ambassador daniel alone former israeli ambassador to the united states thank you very much for coming then uh what do you make of this should we call it gesture by islamic jihad i don't even know how to call it i think they're under a lot of pressure i think that their ploy of trying to gain time by um letting you know dripping the uh release of the um the the hostages like ten at a time did not work i think the americans understood that this is not feasible not sustainable and meanwhile the operation on the ground goes full full force so at the end of the day it seems like the dilemma will be theirs whether to release all of them because this is the israeli demand if you want a real ceasefire release all of the hostages um regardless of their nationality age gender what have you and so far it seems like the hamas is not uh willing to do that islamic jihad which i'm not sure in how much in cooperation it is with hamas but if they have these humanitarian cases all ladies who are in dire need for special medicine or uh young boys who are asthmatic or or it seems like it's they they believe that maybe they will gain a little bit of goodwill by letting them off without anything in return so it seems like we are now in a kind of a touch and go situation where it's a it's a real um uh psychological warfare i mean who will really break first and it seems like israel is not going to uh to relent because for us if we prematurely stop the operation then everything was uh for not and this is not also the end goal of the americans want to read gaza from hamas right this is just an announcement nothing happened yet we should emphasize this they said they are going to be uh released and in the background uh there's a lot of noise about a deal but nothing seems to be happening really because the parameters are so far away right and it seems like the uh so far what we have seen was the the leaks that came out of katar and egypt so these leaks were trying to actually um be on the side of the hamas and maybe really working with uh and and and putting the psychological pressure trying to on the israeli government but mostly mostly on the uh real poor families of the uh of the hostages and by uh saying that there is some kind of progress and that for it was just something that was not real to begin with they started with five days this was the leak you know from katar five days uh ceasefire four 15 hostages so um this just fell flat on the ground was not believable uh the fact that um bill burns the head of the cia was in katar and here and in egypt and is you know that means the americans are really putting a lot of pressure to find and and and and get some kind of a deal but so far it seems like as you mentioned jacob there the difference is so far you know the gap is at this point is unbridgeable um let me uh then he um listened now together with you uh to the next voice um this is a sound bite from renan agome mother of yagil uh who was kidnapped uh from nero's the 12 year old let's take a listen i would just want the world to enlist to the effort of releasing them um as soon as possible mainly children uh 32 children from the age of nine months to the age of 17 that were taken from their homes just imagine it was your child taken from your home from their own bedroom in your house taken dragged into a tunnel somewhere uh thrown into the darkness children should not be imprisoned and certainly should not be kidnapped and held hostages for almost a month now and they are not bargain chips in a war game they're not part of this and this is not a war it was a terror attack a horrific terror attack the mother of a 12 year old who's in the hands of islamic jihad in gaza and according to their announcement he might be released soon together with the 77 year old grandmother they are not related uh the grandmother is there uh with the kid um back to you danie here uh in the studio this is getting to be uh really uh emotionally straining an israeli public and i think the stand sentiment is not getting you know very positive uh as to the uh ceasefire or end of fighting in gaza right and the challenge actually of the government and all those officials who are in charge of um bringing the hostages back is how to direct the angst and the frustration of the families towards the international community and not towards the government because this is what hamas wants hamas has had a phenomenal success with gilat shalit where the entire country was mobilized against the government in order to call for the release of gilat shalit and actually uh 11 more than 1100 uh you know murders were released one of them of course is yihye sinwar which is the mastermind of the massacre of the october 7th so this is a real cruel situation but when you talk about national security where you really talk about the um let's say the interest of the country of course it is to have all the hostages released but not at any price you know the leaders uh they don't have the guts to say it but at the end of the day it is a trade off unfortunately and so far what hamas has as we mentioned what hamas has offered just to release 15 or 12 or even 20 hostages for uh you know two three four days of ceasefire is just not acceptable right at least not at this point with us also is uh dr fadi ismail from the international institute for counterterrorism thank you very much for joining us how do you see these developments of the past couple minutes um if you talk about the the the hostages look we knew at that some point they will become unfortunately like a chip to be you know they become almost unfortunately like commodity that people trade in this is horrible but that is the way it is this is the way of the world this is the way of of negotiations we have a very difficult legacy to overcome like uh uh dania as i said uh he mentioned gildschild but let's go back to the 80s we already had the jibri the famous infamous jibri deal until that point everybody knew that israel does not do that we just have we used to send say that what car and either release or not release whoever is there so there is a very heavy hell legacy that needs to be overcome hamas would not have done what it did without this legacy because anticipated ashalee the thousand times over something like that and from what i'm seeing now there is this horrible realization within the israeli public that there will be no no end to this this is one of those sophie's choice moments where all choices are horrible and it is just this is how we define dilemma a moment when audio choices are bad but this is not just bad this is horrible um i don't know what this is right thing to do i don't know what it is my gut tells me something but it doesn't it's not knowing and we have to know that this is going to be a moment of a national crisis into the future because no matter what the outcome let's say tonight say nahal say i'll go on i don't know who manages to find all of the all of them and bring them back home let's suppose let's take this scenario i wish but that's we will still have the memory of this debate it will come out somewhere sometime and uh this is something that we will talk about the next few years right now we are inside this tactical mayhem that we're in uh we have the troops and guys are doing what they have to do also on the northern border and it's not forget it things are heating up there and um if anybody knows what is the the correct solution here i would like to know it because i don't have it definitely nothing in the books no no but it seems like it's you know you're right if that is right there's only a bad choices to choose from but it seems like the only i would say logical way to continue is put the pressure on hamas and without this pressure on hamas then they can take their time and the moment they will realize i'm not sure if they still have their command and control chain you know if it's still intact but at some point you'll have to put the dilemma on them that it's their lives or the life of the of the hostages there was some talk about maybe a sort of a mega deal everybody for everybody and hamas leadership gets a free pass out of gaza do you see this in the cards okay let's separate two things what i would like to happen what my emotions are telling me and then let the the brain the game the game theorist and me get into it there will probably be something like that sometime and it will be a moment of great crisis inside inside israel because many people will disagree to it and on the street and and i can't blame them but i guess that because there's so many international interests involved when hamas attacked israel he did not attack israel it attacked an international order that the whole world wants to bring back online so when i'm thinking back to the 1973 war something similar happened there was this big crisis at the beginning the big surprise the big whatever and then the idea of collected itself waited for a mistake from the egyptian side they made a mistake and then the whole world changed and so on and it ended up very badly for the aggressor that said although the idea was in huge momentum forward and there was a moment i mean israel could have that moment like truly humiliated both egypt and syria truly that's when the international committee kicked in read the united states government mostly and said stop you need to sign these agreements and gold and diane and those guys had absolutely no other choice but to sign those and if we recall there was enormous public anger same dynamic and i think the same dynamic will happen here because the feelings will still be there the heart the anger the fear the the drive to revenge which is understandable it's not a nice word to say but we are people in the end and i think there will be something like that if it will be just exchanging prisoners then hamas won all the way that has to be clear cannot be that if it will be exchange of prisoners in a way that as you said let's say the upper middle level of hamas leaves the country and and they cannot go to syna they have to leave the camp because also egypt will not let them to be inside maybe katar or baby turkey i was as far as concerned i can tell you where i would like to sit and gone but i can't we're on air i believe right okay here we are so maybe not and the point is but we have tried that one like sending them out to the country and then we got the jubilee deal the outcome of the jubilee deal so maybe something like that but it cannot be a situation where there's an equal exchange it just can't be it has to be something that will enable the people of the hotel to go back to their homes it has to be that we cannot leave them under the threat there has to be a change in the end that removes the threat now what how to remove the threat can be interpreted and you are the senior diplomat among us can have many meetings meaning many many meanings to it so what does it actually mean what does it actually entail uh i don't know to tell you but that is a good beginning this is basically the yes or a fat model um it actually worked in a sense i mean it did if by the way if after him leaving berut it would have withdrawn all the way to the international line the 1982 war would have been considered a giant success so maybe this is the key just throw them out and get the boys and girls back home safe and repopulate the uh so the people seem and so on maybe that's the key i don't know but it has it cannot be equal just can't be that yeah i think that's uh perception in israel one all the way meanwhile in the aftermath of the nova rave party where at least 260 young people were murdered by hamas investigators are still trying to piece together the full story here's more in the next report this huge open air site bears the scars of hamas massacres here hundreds of scorched bullet riddled and ransacked cars belonging to the victims and survivors of the nova festival on the ground investigators are screening the whole area their objective to identify the owners of the vehicles uh the first job is any cars that we found human remains in we want to make sure that no human remains are pretty much being sent to the trash so so they go through and they sift through everything to try to find all the remaining um all the remains left um and the second thing is if if we have anybody who we don't know what happened to them we don't know if they if they were murdered or if they were kidnapped an effort that has already paid off laura recounts how taking refuge with her husband and five friends in the caravan saved their lives we were in the trailer from 8 a.m to 2 p.m the terrorists tried to open the trailer they shot at the trailer they tried to burn it they wanted to kidnap us i think i came because i'm trying to find answers to why all my friends are dead and i am alive how did this plastic thing save our lives it just doesn't make any sense safe in sound but still in shock laura hopes one day to find the strength to go to musical events again i've been wondering for a month if i'll ever be able to go dancing at a festival i know that my friends who are no longer here would like us to continue for the moment i haven't got on with my life i don't sleep i don't eat sadly it's still a long way from dancing but i think it's our duty to a certain extent noam alone who has also come in search of answers is hoping for the release of his girlfriend we know that she tried to escape from the terrorists but at one point she was caught because she couldn't keep running later hamas released a video showing four terrorists around her we see her wounded we hope she's alive this is the last piece of evidence of her being alive i came here today to ask our government to do everything in its power to bring back the hostages even if we have to release palestinian prisoners supply them with fuel or sign a ceasefire a short distance from the site investigations are continuing in reham where the nova festival took place 270 people were slaughtered by hamas on october 7 and with me now in the studio is ron azulai hi ron thank you for coming thank you for giving me the opportunity you knew six people at this party that did not come back yeah tell me about them well one of my best friends antonio massias went to the rave party near kibbutz reham and came back in a coffin he was one of my best friends i don't know i don't know i can't imagine that he's not with us today um he loved to go to rave parties um we woke up like the rest of the country at 6 30 am to sirens luckily for me uh my room is a safe room so i went back to sleep after i saw that nothing has happened just another rocket or something yeah exactly like everybody else yes and um i woke up later uh in the morning and i opened the whatsapp and i saw that antonio told us that he was in a rave party near kibbutz reham and um i started getting stressed because i knew that uh they started kidnapping people it was later that day they were start kidnapping people and uh shooting people just sheer evil and uh he told us that's like something's crazy going on and he doesn't know what's going on they went inside a safe room a portable safe room uh on two three two uh road near kibbutz reham um it's a very famous like a lot of videos show the exact safe room and um they started throwing grenades and um start shooting everyone uh a mutual friend of me and antonio um his uh brother who was with antonio he got saved uh you can see on the picture antonio is laying on the ground with the beige uh sweatshirt on his back the guy that stands in the in the entrance he threw seven grenades out on the eighth grenade he couldn't catch it and it was he got exploded and uh uh he died the guy um my friend he was with his girlfriend yvonne um she got killed as well um she had a son uh four-year-old son of iel and uh he had a small daughter six years old uh it's not the same it's not uh everyone brought his their own kids kid yeah and uh they just said okay it was it was a first site connection between them they are columbians and seeing what the columbian minister prime minister said about that it was an accident it just balls my blood really but what about yourself did you consider going to the party or it's not you know it's not something i do um antonio he liked to go to those parties uh it's not uh my cup of tea um as well as antonio and yvonne uh he had a different group for rave parties um as well as them uh two of other friends of his i knew them but uh they were friends but not as close as antonio um tomas segev and dan ben chemo also died while partying they just went to party and uh found their death in the party did you get any communication from columbia except for the famous statement well antonio's family did an interview for the columbian television and uh they told the story of antonio and yvonne um but nothing nothing than that are you in touch with other families in other families of your friends yes are you in touch with them yeah i'm in touch with them they all they all shocked about what happened uh he was a very very uh friendly guy they let everyone around him feel like they were his best friends always optimistic thinking about him dead it's it's unimaginable it's it's i can't describe it because he was so alive and we are talking about 260 people at least only in this party exactly unbelievable unimaginable ronnie thank you very much for coming and telling this story thank you for antonio thank you very much we should do best thank you many many terrible stories 34 days after the attack families of israeli hostages demand answers and they are not getting any neither from the international red cross here's more in the next report dozens of people are setting up a presence next to the kineset in jerusalem they're gathering to protest against the government and to call for the immediate release of the israelis abducted to gaza during the hamas onslaught of october 7th both of mao's yinon's parents were burned alive in moshav nativ haasara my father was a farmer and each year would seed wheat in the land and one year there will be a drought the second year there will be floods the third year insects the fourth year the prices would collapse worldwide it would have no one to sell the product to he would always say next season i'm going to see it again the future will be a better future and i'm continuing his legacy and i'll keep sitting the seeds of hope the seeds of love and of peace bruchia reyman the sister of yahuda cats a missing idf soldier from the first lebanon war 41 years ago also came to support the protesters there is a big difference regarding the social media and the exposure to the world at that time we didn't even have cellulars so in that aspect it's completely different but basically when a country sends soldiers or citizens to live next to the front we'll take a short break we'll be right back is officially in a state of war this is a very active scene and we need to get in the car as we're talking within a hundred soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped entire families including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds awaken the giant and we are ready and we are strong everyone is showing up this is the unity our special coverage mary mcgallow phytophonious correspondent is in the north live with the latest from their merry hi okov yes it remains to be a bit of a quiet evening here today we know there's ongoing shelling going on in some parts of southern lebanon that's coming from lebanese reports from inside but we haven't had any reports of activity from the idf in a few hours but that's not to say there wasn't a number of different activities launched throughout the day the idf said that it struck forcibly a number of different hezbollah targets inside southern lebanon who launched a number of different attacks across the border targeting the idf including an infantry unit right along the israel lebanon border and targeting a number of other different areas this area saw a number of mortar attacks across the border today those mortar attacks also setting off sirens and some communities that were evacuated in recent weeks most of the communities within the israel lebanon border at least five kilometers have been told to evacuate because they do remain within this anti-tank range and we do continue to see that there is no shortage of the anti-tank missiles that hezbollah has and it continues to routinely use them to target both the idf but also civilian areas mary thank you very much for the update uh back to the studio here with daniel alone former israeli ambassador to washington and dr fadi ismail from the international institute for counterterrorism um let's talk about what's happening right now in the southern city of alat sirens again there was uh some sort of explosion earlier today there apparently the address is yemen ambassador alon what's going on with yemen well we have the hoodies which are chiites and they have actually started a uh military campaign a few years ago against the legitimate government of yemen and of course immediately they were supported by iran and iran again shows the uh the real i would say the full um threat from iran to the entire region and when they said that uh they are aiding the hamas they're doing it but not with their own blood you know they would fight till the last yemen they would fight the iranians till the last palestinian or lebanese but the fact is that iran is the uh is the head of the snake if you will this is what we understand this is what the south is and all the other sunni countries understand in the region this is what the united states understand and there should be some reckoning after this war what to do with iran which is backed up by russia and china why wait we have american forces here we have israeli forces what about deterrence deterrence of course that will come after we do the job look i think we're already beginning to see some sort of a rebuild of that perception of israeli might no one expected this response from israel no one did and uh when you listen very closely into into the tone in arabic speaking media in different countries yeah a lot of anger a lot of uh you know calling israel names all that that's okay but when what is underlying all this is a sense of shock like what are we going to do now especially listen to the egyptians uh they are the the the uh the media personnel is like they're trying to wrap their heads around the idea of hey the israelis are striking back and they're going crazy that so when you talk about deterrence i think it is beginning to build up beginning back so i don't know if that's good news i don't like war in general but that's what it is sometimes we need to do that as far as the other issue with iran uh i've said it also before the war is not israel hamas yes it is tactically on the field but they are here international axes that are reorganizing along new international order uh there is the american sunni american european sunni arab to india axis and then you have the other one china iran russia and so on and and what hamas did on on october 7th is messing up with the most probably the most critical brick in this axis which is a connection i couldn't contact in israel and saudi arabia that would have changed world's economy and they just threw a wrench into that wheel and so the interests here are very big they weigh more than what we talk about here locally you know it's all normal maybe it is all combined let me ask you ambassador and i along the oldest question what would have happened if some southern american country would have fired a missile towards the united states arizona i don't know what would have happened i can tell you a short story when we visited the white house in 2001 after 9 11 it was ariel sharon was the prime minister and george bush door w was the president and mr sharon was trying to explain to him you know what it is for the for a sovereign country to receive missiles how you have to act and so he told us the the president uh mr president i'm sure if texas would receive some rockets uh from mexico in one hour there wouldn't be mexico and and bush looks at cv says why one hour in 10 minutes so this is how countries react right but still they're firing uh nobody around likes them neither the southeast nor the americans who are in the in the Gulf with their ships and everything no reaction so far well the the united states what biden has expressed so many times and also the blink and the secretary of state is that they do not want the war to spill over and actually they brought in all the aramans and the strike groups for deterrence in order not to enlarge the war because they want to limit it to uh gaza to hamas they say let's just uh take them one by one if the victory over hamas will be very decisive then maybe we'll not have to worry about another front now they also have a very specific goal in mind and that is to eliminate hamas as an entity uh certainly is a governing entity in in gaza they're already thinking about the day after nobody knows who will govern gaza after the military operation is done but one thing is certain hamas will not be the one meanwhile art of itwin fernios correspondent pierre clochandler was at the nitzana border crossing with egypt between israel and egypt and filed the following report we're at the nitzana border crossing between israel and egypt and these are trucks that are going to cross to egyptian territory reach the rafa border terminal and transfer food water and medicines to the gaza strip to the non-involved palestinian population there this is like a life supply for that population it carries um all kind of food supplies energy bars water as i said medicine 100 trucks a day more or less are reaching the rafa terminal from egypt and crossing into gaza the colonel that is in charge of the whole operation said that it's in coordination with the egyptian authorities these are egyptian trucks from the red crescent society and with coordination with the un let's hear what he had to tell us this operation is with coordination with the egyptians the un the idf it's it's complex with the operation but it's very efficient the colonel said that he hopes to increase the number of trucks that will cross to gaza right now 100 trucks in batches of 20 trucks each time after they've been inspected by these Israeli authorities but there is one hour drive between nitzana on the egyptian side and rafa the terminal to gaza he ensures that also this is taken care of the convoys that are going out from nitzana to rafa is being monitored every second every matter by the idf and these convoys are also coordinated with the egyptian's army it would have been simpler to have israeli trucks do a back to back at the kerem shalom crossing between israel and the gaza strip or at the eras crossing between israel and the gaza strip yet both terminals were destroyed during the war when hamas waged its massacres on october 7 on israeli territory and thus nitzana is the only solution this is pierre clochandler i-24 news nitzana border crossing israel thank you pierre the war in the middle east was very much present in the glp debate last night aired on nbc news if you are here on a student visa as a foreign national you're making common cause with hamas i'm canceling your visa and i'm sending you home no questions asked i would be telling bb finish the job once and for all with these butchers hamas they're terrorists they're massacring innocent people they would wipe every jew off the globe if they could we need to be very clear eyed to know there would be no hamas without iran there would be no hezbollah without iran there would not be the houthis without iran and there wouldn't be the iranian militias in syria and iraq that are trying to hear hit our military men and women if it hadn't been for iran and who is funding iran right now china is buying oil from iran russia is getting drones and missiles from iran and there is an unholy alliance we need to be clear eyed the last thing we need to do is to tell israel what to do the only thing we should be doing is supporting them and eliminating hamas the founding vision of israel was based on the idea that they don't want to depend on anybody else's sympathy or direction in defending themselves so what i would tell bb is that israel has the right and the responsibility to defend itself i would tell him to smoke those terrorists on his southern border and then i'll tell him as president of the united states i'll be smoking the terrorists on our southern border let's go to mike wagon i'm i24 news senior u.s. correspondent mike looks like a competition or one i don't know if there's any true winner because if you look at the polls the guy that's still winning wasn't at the debate last night and that's donald trump but amongst those that were actually there i nicky hailey has been gaining ground not just on foreign policy but within republican circles now for what the last three debate cycles here so she continues to remain a strong contender essentially for runner-up i don't think ron desantis lost any ground there but it was certainly interesting to hear republican candidates going all out for israel last night when nicky hailey former um uh u.n. ambassador was asked what what should israel do with hamas she said finish them finish them almost like something out of a movie and tim scott who i don't think we had a clip of him playing there the south carolina senator very very strong in denouncing iran essentially saying listen it's time to stop playing around with the proxies there you can attack the proxies all you want it's not going to do much good in the end if you don't go for the head of the snake of course referring to iran and of course ron desantis pro-israel bonafide really can't be um question ron and he was very adamant last night yeah mike i have to second hearing about it essentially thank you very much we'll have to listen to idf spokesman now maybe commenting about the release of two more hostages one of them is the security quarter a very central area in the northern part of the gaza strip that contains sites of hamas including the headquarters of intelligence aerial and ammunition areas we have cleared that area we've taken down terrorists we're taking down over 50 terrorists we found many um weapons intelligence uh tools that we will learn from and this is how we will continue to clear the area we also took down a number of commanders among them senior commanders of the anti-tank missile system we took down and that is a severe blow to the hamas movement i wish to update that a few hours ago i accompanied the head of the idf and the head of the shin bet we entered deep into gaza strip in armored vehicles the same vehicles our fighters go on we went deep into the gaza strip there is a risk in it but by the fact that the senior commanders of the idf go there meet the forces understand the battle understand the challenges this is a significant statement they go to the soldiers on the field they understand the challenge one of the greatest challenges in the middle east and maybe in the entire world to fight in a densely populated area like gaza and also with an underground activity we sat together with the head of the brigade and the other commanders the fighters on the field we understood the challenges we understood what they're missing what they need and we understood that they're getting fantastic intelligence and we understood what we need to give them we understood that the air force strikes are very significant that assist the forces we will deepen those strikes in order to aid our forces and maintain their security because we want to maintain the security of our forces and kill terrorists we made sure that they have enough rest that they fight and their rest we check their defense how will they fight while defending themselves one of the main things that they mentioned is the technology and logistic part of the idf that has been operating to fix the tools being used being fixed very quickly on the ground we are at 90 percent capability with our forces with our armed vehicles the rival of the head of the idf and the head of the shin bet on the field understanding how to take down the senior leadership this is a significant statement we received a strong backwind from the forces who told the chief of staff we're determined to kill the terrorists we get everything we need and we're ready for a long battle for a long war we're ready to take down hamas we'll start in the north part of the strip and continue to finish the goal that this is the message from the commanders at the front fighting is ongoing there is no ceasefire we repeat this there is no ceasefire we continue to fight and when we went back we passed through the humanitarian corridor we saw that it works we saw today over 50 000 gaza civilians from the northern part of the gaza strip going down southwards they understand that we fight significantly in the city of gaza and its surrounding and that hamas has lost control and it's safer for them in the south that's where the humanitarian aid goes to that's where food water and medicine led by egypt and the us this is where it all goes to we continue the ground operation even deeper into gaza we will reach more and more strongholds of hamas while we were touring the field others were sitting in bunkers disconnected connected from reality and from their people disconnected from the fighting allowing terrorists to fight while they're sitting and eating in the bunkers and the people of gaza understand this very well and they express this as well in the north we struck two terror squads that were planning to fire towards israel and a squad that's fired in towards an israeli vehicle in the afternoon a drone has struck the city of eilat we're still investigating this where did the drone come from why was there no alert we'll learn all the details and we'll update the public our deterrence a few minutes ago we had an alert because uh an arrow missile has intercepted a target our ground to ground missile was intercepted our defense from the air and from the ground is a good defense we will investigate why whatever happened in eilat has happened and we will update the public in the west bank over the night a shooting attack took place our forces are scanning the area searching for the terrorists we continue the operational activity day and night arresting hundreds of hamas terrorists and thwarting attacks this is how we also operated in the jinnin refugee camp 900 brigade is still operating there thwarting terror inside the jinnin refugee camp in the home front we continue to update the guidelines the aerial defense system is already took down thousands of threats over the skies of israel even if there is a decrease in the number of rockets do still stay vigilant listen to the guidelines take those 10 minutes in the safe room before you go back to your normal routine this saves life this evening a documentation has been showing a sign of life from khanan yagil dear khanan yagil from the gaza strip we embrace them and their families and we tell them and to all the families of the hostages if they hear us we have not missed the chance and we will not miss any chance to return hostages the IDF operates together with the other security groups around the clock with a superior effort to everything that we can do we will do in order to bring back the hostages so far we have notified 239 families of hostages we do everything we can to update the families with every information that we have right now and in the future we'll update the families and then the public we've given notices to families of 354 fallen soldiers together with fallen policemen and emergency teams including the fire and rescue systems will continue to embrace them and their families questions that was the spokesman of IDF he mentioned the older lady and the young kid that were according to islamic jihad in gaza will be released no more than that no word on any deal of any kind but uh danny and um we just spoke about the the hutis and and and yemen and he just said that this another missile was actually intercepted by israel so they're keep shooting there yes you know it's when they talked about this multi-front attack they really meant it and basically israel is now dealing with five different fronts you know we have the gaza of course we have the north with the hezbollah we have the golan heights with the militias the iranian militias in syria and we have of course still the west bank in janin today i guess like nine terrorists were killed of us and the fifth one is the hoodies that we mentioned now and that's for later fadi right yeah i i see some reports from arab sources and say that it was more than one inside and apparently the aero system was activated um yeah but as the ambassador said uh it's supposed it was supposed to be a much bigger party than what is so far i mean originally i think they have miscalculated they really wanted to have everyone joining at one time and the synchronization just did not work for them uh i have a feeling that hamas jumped the gun the same way that uh salah jumped a gun in 2006 um lucky us i guess in a way and because if it really if that concert would have happened the way they planned it it would have been a different picture let me know going out to uh televiv i24 news uh nicole uh tzadek is joining us live from there with the families nicole yes jacob we're hearing from healthcare professionals as they're standing here in televiv right across from the offices of the international red cross listen to what they're chanting act now act now this has been their call for the past month now they're saying how can the red cross stand by and do nothing they want the red cross to not only get a list of names of the 240 hostages that are still captive in gaza get a list of the names and demand that they go in and can provide medical attention to many of the children babies elderly all of them that desperately need medical attention and so that the rod cross can even see as to what physical state they are in and so you're seeing all of these different healthcare professionals come out though they're wearing their scrubs they're wearing their white coats they're coming together saying as medical professionals ourselves how can an organization like the red cross stand by and in their words do nothing for these hostages that remain that remain captive in gaza so they're coming out together they're writing letters to the international red cross urging them to do everything that they're doing that they can to gain access to these hostages but more than a month in the main feeling right now is anger and disappointment in the international red cross for for all of the little that they've been able to do so far jacob right nicole said it uh in tel Aviv uh right now how many people do you see there nicole if you're still with me i just want to get a sense of what's the dimension of uh the happening there i'll step out just so you can take a look at just the crowd in general we're talking hundreds of different healthcare professionals and medical professionals we're seeing nurses we're seeing doctors uh medics from again to be the dome the lifesavers forum all of these different israeli organizations israeli medics healthcare professionals all coming out here along with family members of the hostages many of them you could hear a speaker up on stage right now as well they're they're they're talking from their medical perspective about calling to action from the international red cross to act now that's what you can hear once again these statements of act now and i want to note that many of the speakers who have been on stage they're doctors themselves of course but also many of them are of course impacted by the horrible tragedy of october 7th one of the doctors who are up there who operates daily here in tel aviv she lost 10 family members either murdered or kidnapped by hamas terrorists on october 7th so the people that are here they're not only healthcare professionals themselves but they also have many hostages and have lost many family members themselves so there is a deep personal connection as well here right nicole thank you very much live at tel aviv so far no word whatsoever from the red cross or anywhere else uh about the hostages in gaza


Today, we have the privilege of speaking with Under Secretary Fernandez. How are you today? Great to be here. Thank you for having me. You're here at PDAC 2024, a follow-up for your MSP initiative last year. I don't really know where to start other than thank you for getting involved in critical minerals. It's a fabulous place to come. This is now my third straight year that I've been here. And we're making progress in some of the work that we're trying to do. So it was a good opportunity to publicize our successes and hopefully to learn about what we can do better going forward. I spoke to many experts in the industry today from around the world, and they all want to ask you the same thing, you know, about the supply chain and government's involvement. You're really involved in helping create the strategies, correct? Well, you know, we and the number of other countries and companies and organizations have basically seen that there's a need, and there's a vulnerability, and there's a challenge. And just to put it simply, the need is we are going to need exponentially greater numbers of critical minerals than we use today. Just to give you a couple of examples, 42 times the amount of lithium that we use today, we will need by 2050, 25 times the amount of manganese. The numbers are staggering. That's the need. The vulnerability is that right now, two-thirds or even more of these minerals are own controlled mined or processed by one country, the PRC. That's the vulnerability. And the challenge is that for our companies to become more involved in this industry, which we need in order for us to diversify our supply chains, we are going to need to promote our values. And what are our values? We will respect the environment. We will work with communities. We will do all that we can to improve transparency. And that's our selling point. That's the challenge. And you know what? We're making progress. It's not as fast as we would like, but I think we're making progress. Well, you've been traveling the world.  You're putting a lot of air miles in, and you just got back from Indaba. And you had a very successful, well, you chaired actually the C5 plus one critical minerals dialogue. And I mean, it was impressive what your agenda was. Can you tell me in kind of, all right, we have a business audience. Can you tell us a little bit more about what you think you achieved at the CMD? Well, the C5 plus one is basically Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, a number of other countries in Central Asia that are interested in working with the United States in order for these countries to take advantage of their mineral resources. That's the challenge. They're looking for alternatives. And we talked about opportunities. We are going to follow up with our companies as well in order to promote some of the projects that we're seeing. And at the same time, I think they are seeing the benefit of working with the US and also with a number of our partner countries. So we're pushing an open door. These are countries that want to work with us, and we are prepared to work with them. So now it's our challenge to make it happen. Of course, the US has two critical mineral lists that we follow, the DOE and the USGS. Can you tell me which of the critical minerals you're prioritizing right now? You mentioned lithium at the beginning of this conversation, but we follow all the lists from Japan to Korea. So we of course have a critical mineral list ourselves. The ones that we've been focusing on are the ones that are needed for the clean energy transition. And those are four or five minerals. They include nickel. They include manganese, cobalt, lithium. And we're working to find ways to expand the supply of that. And we think that there are opportunities in the number of countries that have reached out to us. And now what we're trying to do is to really not focus so much on the philosophy of things, but actually on concrete projects. How do we go to a country in Africa that's looking for investment and provide them an alternative? And in order for us to do that, we're going to have to find the right companies. Our banks are going to have to get involved in the financing. And these companies, and we are going to have to convince the countries that we will do things the right way. Everyone's excited about these initiatives. But what milestones should we be looking forward to? So I'm glad you asked that question. We actually have made good progress in London in October of last year when we had one of the MSP, first MSP meetings. We announced four projects. Now mind you, we've only been in place for a year and a half. So that is lightning speed in the mining world. Some of these projects, as you know, take 15, 20 years to see the light of day. In the year and a half, in less than a year and a half, we've had four projects that we have been able to push through the starting gate and now have financing, have concessions and are starting to put a spade in the ground. Just at Indaba, a month ago, two projects. One of them a graphite project in Mozambique, another one a project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo involving JAKMAC, a Japanese entity. And we have a couple more that we're holding in our back pocket that we think we ought to be able to announce pretty quickly. If we can do that, I think we will have made enough progress, I think, in the year and a half to think that we are on the right track. Right now, we're looking at 23 projects within the Mineral Security Partnership at all stages of the production, be it extraction, processing, smelting, recycling. We're looking at 23 projects, about two-thirds of them are either in Africa or in Latin America, but we're also looking at Asia, we're looking at Europe. So we are scouring the world, looking for projects, and we're getting every week we get a country that has projects that is looking for the type of investment that we are proposing. Well, of course, you come from a financial background too. So you've got financial, legal, and government background. Can you comment about how the government is going forward with basically creating partnerships with banks to invest in these types of projects? I mean, we're looking at trillions of dollars, arguably, in the future, to help create these sustainable supply chains we need to compete. That's right, and we just announced yesterday the creation of what we're calling the Mineral Security Partnership Forum, and a partnership called Minvest. And what we're doing there is establishing a line of communication with companies and with financial institutions on one side of the ledger. On the other side of the ledger, we're talking to countries. And countries are coming to us and basically saying we have a project involving Lithium in this province. MSP, do you have any member companies that are interested in investing? Do you have any member private equity shops, banks that are interested in investing? And so we're playing marriage broker. We're playing a midwife, whatever metaphor you want to use, to basically bring these financiers and developers together. That's our competitive advantage. Our competitive advantage is our private sector. And we haven't done as good of a job as we should in making sure that we're galvanizing them. And once we galvanize their efforts, they were then supporting them. And so that is something that I think, if we are successful, we'll have a multiplier effect in our efforts. And we'll be able to cover more projects, benefit more companies, and work with countries in the MSP forum that we've created to show them the benefits of the types of investments that we are promoting. One of the things that we're hearing a lot about in the Canadian resource sector, for instance in the critical mineral sector, is that in looking for capital, they're going to the Middle East. Can you comment on that? I think you've got a situation where capital has always been hard to find. Remember, minimal projects are tough projects. They take five to ten years to get started. In the meantime, your money's sunk, so it's only a certain type of investor that is prepared to make that kind of a commitment. We have engaged countries in the Middle East. We've engaged countries in Asia. There are, in many parts of the world, countries need these type of minerals in order for them to do what they need to do in order to take advantage of a clean energy revolution. And so we welcome Middle Eastern investors. We welcome investors as long as they're prepared to adhere to the principles that we are promoting. And again, we will promote high ESG principles, we will work with communities, and we will make sure that countries do not need to choose between environmental degradation and economic growth. So, Africa, what is our interest?  Do you not think through the leadership of the American government we couldn't raise the level in Africa, for instance, in the Congo and have compliant extraction of critical minerals? Tracy, I think we cannot control everything that happens. We have to be, humility is important here in terms of the challenge. But the one thing that we can do is to do everything that we can to make sure that our companies reflect our values. And I have been in meetings with African leaders, where we'll talk about the types of investments that we're prepared to make, where they tell us the kinds of projects that they have. And where I talk about technical assistance, where I talk about transfer of technology. And I've had leaders literally hug me because this is what they want. And they need choices. And again, from a sales point of view, you put on your salesperson hat. And you sell your advantages. You sell the things that you're good at. We are good at doing things right from an ESG perspective. Consumers demand that. Our stockholders demand that. And our laws punish us for engaging in bribery and for doing those kinds of malign activities. We can do this. We just have to find ways to bring all of our talents together. And I'm happy to say that we're making progress. Having, being able to say that in a year and a half, you've completed six projects that you've got 23 other projects in the pipeline. Many of them will make it. Some of them won't. That's progress. And that's what we need to do in order to get out of the spot that we have put ourselves in. And that is a very vulnerable, very vulnerable place that threatens our clean energy goals and are addressing the existential crisis of our time. Well, you have a formidable task. And we support you in this endeavor. Thank you so much for your time.


I grew up in Athens, Alabama, and I really enjoy studying mathematics, and so when I wanted to go to college, I looked around at a bunch of different colleges, and I really fell in love with the University of Alabama, and I came here to study applied math, and it was just the best decision I could have made. I come from a family of blue collar workers. My father was an electrical maintenance worker for TVA, and so when I, through a long career, go study computer science and wind up at Google, it was very rewarding this last spring to be able to go to Bridgeport, Alabama, to help the groundbreaking for Google's newest data center in Alabama, and it was really meaningful for my family because my father actually worked at that plant before I was born, and so it was really a very full circle thing from his blue collar, coal plant background, all the way to a green data center on this part of Google's global fleet.


Patriot Prime Reviews is a channel for adult collectors and may not be suitable for children under 13 years of age. Viewer discretion is advised. Hey, what's going on guys? Patriot Prime here once again with another ToyHacks.com sponsored review. But before I get started, I need you guys to do me a favor. If you're watching this video right here and are not a subscriber of Patriot Prime Reviews, please consider hitting that subscribe button right now. It won't cost you a thing, but will help me and my channel out tremendously. And help me reach my goal of 10,000 subscribers by TFCon in October. Now, on to the decals. And the set we're looking at in this video is for War for Cybertron Earthrise Snap Dragon. And this decal set includes two decal sheets, one on foil backing and one on vinyl. So now, without further ado, let's take a look at Snap Dragon both before and after ToyHacks decals. And welcome to Patriot Prime Reviews. In robot mode, straight out of the packaging, Snap Dragon looks great. He's got tons of molded details, but really not a lot of paint applications. The only real paint applications he has is he's got these red eyes or a red visor, purple mouth plate, Decepticon insignias there on his chest, and that's about it. He's got translucent windows there on his legs that carry over from vehicle mode. But as I said, that's pretty much it for paint applications. The figure does look great as far as the sculpted detail is concerned. And he was one of my favorite figures of 2020. So there you go, guys. One final look at Snap Dragon in robot mode before and after. Snap Dragon looks a lot more menacing now thanks to ToyHacks and his brand new yellow eye decals. These are very reminiscent of Generation 1. And I really like how that looks. He also gets a brand new mouth plate, new sticker decals right there, silver and red, new red circuitry details right there, a decal that kind of looks like the tech specs from the headmaster gimmick. Moving on down, he gets new red decals there on the wrists, a new decal right there on the crotch, silver decals right there on the upper thighs, down on the lower legs. We get turquoise decals here in the knees and the shins, vent decals right here on the ankle, and little red triangle decals there on the feet. Also up on the shoulders, he has new chrome decals that go over his cones. Also, there's some decals right there and those carry over for jet mode. Now, this Decepticon logo right here is an extra decal I had because unfortunately these two decals cover up the Decepticon logos. And I'm a big fan of the insignias on my figure, so I just used an extra and stuck up there on the shoulder. So there you go, guys. There is Snap Dragon in robot mode after. In jet mode, straight out of the packaging, Snap Dragon once again is covered in great molded detail. I love the looks of this jet. No real paint applications whatsoever except here on the back. You've got some purple details, a Decepticon insignia right there, some turquoise, and that's about it. You do have the translucent cockpits right here. And when you open the cockpit up, there is paint applications there on the inside for the consoles. I think that's really cool. I like it when Hasbro actually gives you some details for the cockpits. You don't see that often. Now, taking a quick look at his Titan Master Krunk. Krunk, lots of details on him as well. As far as sculpting is concerned, paint applications. He's got a red visor and a purple face. Back of the figure is, of course, Snap Dragon's head. So there you go, guys. One final look at Snap Dragon in jet mode and Krunk before and after. Snap Dragon gets a few decals to help enhance his jet mode. First off, you've got these turquoise stripes that go here along the side and on the wings. He also gets new Decepticon logos on each wing. Right here, he gets new purple decals and a silver decal right there. And let's see, inside the cockpit. Open this up. On either side, you get new gauge decals right there.  So those are there inside the cockpit. And that's pretty much it for jet mode. Not a lot, but these stripes really add to the figure. Oh, almost forgot. There are new yellow decals right here on the tail fins. So now let's take a look at Krunk. Krunk gets a new Decepticon logo right there in the center of his chest. And he gets brand new purple pecs. So there you go, guys. There is Snap Dragon in jet mode and Krunk after. In Dragon mode, straight out of the packaging, Snap Dragon still has lots of molded detail, but there's really no paint applications. He does have red right there for the, I guess, the lips. Got the Decepticon logos there on his back. A Decepticon logo right there on the chest. And really, that's about it. Like I said, lots and lots of molded details.  He's got these little hollow eyes that's supposed to line up with the headmaster that forms his lower jaw, but I can't get that to line in half the time. The worst thing about this figure is the jaw mechanism there. So there is one final look at Snap Dragon in Dragon mode before and after. And once again, the eyes have it. Snap Dragon gets these new eye decals that really add to the look of the Dragon mode and makes him look a lot more mean. So you've got the new eye decals right here. There's also little decals right there that line up with the eye decals. There's just a little edge right there that you need to fit those around. There's also a new decal right here on the neck that is not shown at all on Toy Hacks' website. So I've got to give a big shout out to David Kwan from the Toy Hacks Facebook page for pointing that out. So those decals go right there on the Dragon neck. Moving on down, you see the chrome right there on the tip of the engine intakes. More details right there from the wings. On the back of the Dragon, he gets new decals right there along the tail that go all the way down and a couple of little decals right there. Moving on down to the feet, he gets new purple decals right there on the ankles, top of the foot, and he now gets silver claws. And I really like that. I love the looks of Snap Dragon's Dragon mode now. He's looked so much better than what he was before. So there you go, guys. Snap Dragon in Dragon mode after. Toy Hacks once again knocks it out of the park with this decal set for War for Cybertron Earthrise Snap Dragon. They took an already great figure and added so much more personality to him. I absolutely love the eye decals in Robot and Dragon mode. And the subtle decals in all three modes really add so much more. So there you go, guys. Toy Hacks decal set for Earthrise Snap Dragon. Now, guys, if you enjoyed the video, don't forget to like, don't forget to subscribe, and don't forget to click that bell icon to get notified when I upload new reviews. Also, let me know in the comments down below what you think of my new way of showing and afters here at the end of this video. Once again, guys, this is Patriot Prime signing out. Hoorah!


Hi everyone, my name is Malika. I am the editor of the SOAS Spirit, which is SOAS, the student led newspaper.  So today I'm joined by Sarah, who is the mature students officer. Would you like to introduce yourself and tell me a bit more about your role at SOAS? Sure. So as Malia said, I am the mature students officer, which means that I am a part-time volunteer student representative on the Executive Committee. And my course is I'm studying a full-time MA in social anthropology. As you can probably guess, as a mature student, I did have a kind of life before SOAS. And most recently, before I was a student, I've just been teaching English and culture studies for a few years in China, both at a K-12 level. And then I was working in the university before I came back to the UK. Great. So Sarah, what do you think is the biggest struggle that women are facing today? Maybe you could draw on your experience as a mature student at university, but what, yeah, what do you think is the biggest struggle that women are facing? So of course it really varies from community to community and woman to woman. But to me, especially, I've been aware in the last year that it's the persistent disparity in the way the workload of domestic and childcare duties are split. So even though contrary to some misguided and old-fashioned stereotypes, women in many communities all around the world are more and more having fewer children than they did before. They still perform a really disproportionate share of the care of those children, which really impacts on everything else. Because even if equitable access to education and professional opportunities are achieved and reproductive rights are safeguarded, if women are doing more than their fair share of childcare, then that's kind of to me the final stumbling block that can hold everything else back. As most people probably know, in a household where a man and a woman both earn roughly the same salary and work roughly the same hours, statistically, she's still doing many more hours a week of these tasks. And I really feel like in the last year during the pandemic, both in the UK and elsewhere, the situation has really been exacerbated. So here it's so as we both staff and students, not always, but often women have been doing disproportionately more of the lockdown homeschooling that needs to happen and things like that. Women have started to drop out of workplaces and drop out of classrooms here in the UK and abroad. And we really need to do something about this before everything we've achieved starts to go backwards, I feel. Absolutely. I think it's difficult because the modern woman is told, you can be independent, you can do everything, but that also means that you have to do everything. You know, it's always, there's a huge disparity between the roles that men value and the roles that women often do. I think that's such a good point. So obviously for International Women's Day, it's about celebrating other women and lifting other women up. So can you tell me about a time that you've worked together with other women? So I feel really lucky to say that I feel like I'm always working with other women in the best possible way. So right now a lot of the women I'm working with, of course, are other student officers, the fantastic student reps that don't always get a big enough shout out. And of course, so our staff, both academic and non-academic. Right now at the Student Union, we're celebrating all of March as Women's History Month. And we've got so many different events happening and they're all being coordinated by different groups of women within the community. So we've got had social events, but there's going to be networking events. And also welfare related events, I think you just really need to check out the program. So that's that's been happening. And I also, what we're talking about inspirational women kind of relates to what I just said actually before. I really want to do another shout out for the student parents in particular. Because I think sometimes people may not even know, especially while we're doing remote learning that someone in your class is a parent as well as a student. And the fact that we have people here in the community that are managing to to play both those roles during the current situation is incredible to me. Also in my previous, previous job before I came to SOAS, I was teaching in a university place in a foreign studies college and the foreign foreign studies, particularly language studies, is disproportionately once again, a field that has more women in it. And I found it really inspirational every day to see both kind of women professors doing fantastic things. But also in particular seeing young women undergrads who had often come from all kinds of different intersecting challenges, really grasping opportunities through education and seeing language, you know, in foreign language as a way to learn more about the world and engage more with the outside world and other communities, which I think is quite a SOAS thing as well. So I really like that. And it's really admirable that you use this platform to highlight other women is absolutely what we're trying to get at here with this project. So I guess the final question is, what is your best advice for women coming to university, particularly for maybe mature students, given that that's your area of expertise here. Yeah, so I think that for me it's kind of two things really and both of them are about not being afraid of something and the first one is don't be afraid to take up space. I think often as women we are can be socialized from a very early age to put other people's first to be to be kind to be maybe a bit more reserved to be as well to please other people basically. And if someone is, and this may be worse. In fact, I guess someone is a mature student and when they've been outside education, they've been in situations where they have been, you know, supporting colleagues, supporting teammates, supporting family, and to get the most out of higher education. I think you need to, as I say, be not afraid to take up space. You know, say what you need to say, like people often there's like some research that suggests that people consistently overestimate the amount of time that a woman has been spoken and underestimate the amount of time a man's been speaking so don't do that to yourself if you've got something to say and you've got something to contribute to this discussion do so and probably mature students often have so much right from the outside experiences to bring to the classroom. So I'm related to something you shouldn't be afraid to do and I think this one is challenging I struggle with it myself. But also, don't be afraid to say no practice, say and no to things when you're reaching capacity practice, knowing how to set boundaries to to protect yourself basically in your own well being because if you don't look after yourself then you know you can't contribute your best for other people so those two things take up space and but also be ready to say no and set boundaries. Absolutely, I think that's great advice. Thank you so much for speaking with me today. It's been a pleasure and I can quickly see why you've been nominated. I think that's great advice that you've given to everyone. So, yeah, thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you very much my pleasure.


Right now, time for the big reveal. Delta dentals, can you guess this Titan? I don't know that John Robinson has ever missed in one of these when he's filled in. John, let's see if you can keep the streak intact. I think I think I've got it, Mike. It looks like that is the bulldog from Mississippi State, Mr. Jeffrey Simmons. Hail State, indeed. There he is, eight and a half quarterback sacks. What a year for Jeffrey Simmons. He ended up with something crazy like nearly 60 quarterback pressures. Is that right? I don't know. It's it's a lot. You know, he's really improved as a pain. He's always been a big, strong, powerful player in there, but he's refined his patch rush technique really well. And he's fine. He's found ways to get off those guys. A lot of times it's double teams and he's fine. He's found ways to crease in there and get pressure and he plays the game the way that we want to play. That's for sure. You made it clear when you drafted him, you thought his upside was incredible. And one of the reasons is he loves football so much. And I think you've just touched on one area where that's proven. And that is the way he works to get better and has gotten better every single year. He has. And I think one of the most important things is his leadership. Mike, you know, when you come in as a rookie, it's really hard to establish yourself as, you know, a kind of a voice for the football team. But it seems like every year, Jeffrey has gotten a bigger voice on the football team. The guys have always respected him, but he's become more vocal. He's been a vocal leader for our football team. He's just a great person off the field. An outstanding teammate and a leader for us on the team, certainly on game days. And he's a great guy to have coming off the bus first, too, isn't he? Oh, my goodness. Yes, his suits fit a little bit better than mine do, Mike.


Welcome back to my channel. If you are not subscribed, consider subscribing.  When I upload a new video. Thank you for the support that is given me. And thank you for the comments. I am sure I will always be getting back to the comments. FDA authorizes the Pfizer vaccine for adults 12 up to 15 years. Children aged 12 up to 15 years are eligible to the vaccine. As per the Food and Drug Administration announcement. It announced and approved the Pfizer biotech COVID-19 vaccine for use in 12 to 15 years old. Actually they actually saying that this is one of the crucial step in expanding the vaccine eligibility and ending of the pandemic. Because you remember before, it was only ages of 16 and above that we would get the vaccine. And the ages between 12 up to 15, these are school going ages. So what does it mean? This is a very big step ahead in controlling the spread of the pandemic. Children aged from 12 up to 15 years will be offered the Pfizer biotech COVID-19 vaccine. That was the latest information, the latest announcement by the Minister of Public Health in Qatar. They are actually saying that offering the vaccine to 12 up to 15 years old in Qatar will help to ensure the return to greater normalcy. When school year starts in the coming September. Remember this is also a population alone. Imagine a situation if this population is left out without a vaccine. These are children, these are family members. However, this announcement is aimed at administering the vaccine to the age group of 12 up to 15 years. And for the latest information that is delivered, the latest announcement, the registration for these kids will start right away. And this will be done by their parents through the government portal. That is at www.mofa.gov.qa and all appointments will be made by the public healthy. And all the appointments will be made by the primary health care corporation that will be in charge. So for anyone who has a kid that is between 12 up to 15 years. Please let them get the vaccine. Let them be safe. Let us be safe. That is very important. Let us be safe. They move to extend the opportunity to children aged 12 up to 15 years to take the Pfizer biotech vaccines. The vaccine comes shortly after the Pfizer vaccine has been approved by the CDC. That is the center for disease control and prevention. We are looking at countries like the United States. The vaccine has been approved for the same age group 12 up to 15 years. And there has been a clinical trials for the vaccine to see that it is safe for the kids. Safe and effective in preventing the COVID-19 cases. What do you have to say about the vaccine? Remember, for example, remember in Qatar a lot of restrictions have been put in stages. And that has been one way to control the spread of the virus. The pandemic has to take care of its citizens. Has to take care of each population. So virus measures have been put in place. And they will continue to be put in place. But if we have this young generation, if we have this young population vaccinated, then it is a step a mile ahead. It is a step a mile ahead. Thank you very much.


Why has the management of South African air base gone back on an offer it made to striking workers? Why are the social movements of Chile unhappy with an agreement for a new constitution? Why are journalists in Palestine and across the world rising up in solidarity with their comrades? In this episode of Around the World in 8 Minutes by People's Dispatch, we will look at these protests and movements which represent the struggle of people against oppression and for building a better world. In South Africa, the management continues to refuse to listen to the workers of South African airways who are on a strike. The unions representing the workers and the management held talks beginning Tuesday evening and while the management initially presented an offer, they later withdrew it. The workers are now likely to escalate the strike that began on November 15th. Workers of the catering subsidiary of the airways, air chefs, are also set to join the strike. Over 3000 employees are already taking part in the action, led by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, NUMSA, and the South African Cabin Crew Association, SACCA. The workers are demanding a salary hike and the insourcing of all staff including those involved in security, cleaning, IT, ground handling, logistics etc. The workers had initially sought a salary hike of 8% but they were willing to accept a management offer of 6.5%. They were even willing to accept an offer of a team to study insourcing although according to them it is a far simpler process. However, the management suddenly backtracked saying that they did not have the mandate to establish this team or the money for the hike. They went back to an earlier 5.9% hike offer. This has left the workers furious as they demanded measures that could actually save the airline. Let us look at some of the key demands. The government first of all said that it did not have the money to accept the 8% salary hike. The hike demanded by workers would have cost the company 100 million rand annually. But each day of the strike cost over 52 million rand. So the government would rather bleed the airline than accept the much more economical and reasonable demands of the workers. The other key aspect has to do with insourcing. The unions have pointed out that this will substantially reduce the cost of operations. This is because the private companies to which the contracts have been given to have massively inflated the bills. If this money were to be saved, the company would benefit immensely. But the management response has been to retrench over 900 employees. The unions even have an example to show. Recently, SAA technical, one of the airline subsidiaries, cancelled KWE's contract of rand 22 million per annum for warehousing. After insourcing the workers, the company has been saving around 11 million rand a year. Similarly, Ernst & Young has already prepared forensic reports which outline in detail the major contracts that must be revised because of their impact on the airline's balance sheet. Despite this, the company has refused to take concrete steps. The outsourcing services cover areas such as aircraft cleaning, ground handling, security, maintenance, baggage handling, passenger aid services, and ramp, busing, and document verification. SAA's problem is not labour. Noomsa spokesman, Fakamele Hulubi Majola, told People's Dispatch, even if every worker in SAA is fired, the airline will still collapse. Its biggest cost driver is the 25 billion per year rand spent on procurements, which has been exposed in various forensic reports to be corrupt, she added. For the workers and the unions, the airline and the government are in the process of bankrupting what could be a profitable operation. Their struggle to save both their airline and their jobs will continue in the coming days. It's been over a month since the people of Chile began a historic struggle against the austerity measures and the anti-people policies of President Sebastian Piniera. What began as a protest over increased train fares has now transformed into a larger call for systemic change, a new constitution, as well as the immediate resignation of Piniera and an end to anti-people policies. This has been an epic struggle as far as the people of Chile are concerned. It's important to remember that they are fighting a model that has been entrenched for nearly 30 years since the fall of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. On November 18th, on the occasion of the first month of the protests, hundreds of thousands of citizens, students, workers, and members of several social movements took to the streets. The epicenter of the protests was the capital city of Santiago, where protests were called for by the social unity board. This board brings together over 200 social movements, student organizations, and trade unions. Tens of thousands gathered at the iconic dignity plaza, formerly known as the Plaza Italia, to condemn the government and support the demands. For the past month, the police or the carabineros have used extreme force and this time was no different as they fired on protesters with tear gas, water cannons, and rubber pennants. Over the past one month, there has been unprecedented levels of repression and harassment. Over 25 people have been killed, 6,362 people have been arrested, and more than 2,391 people have been injured and around 365 have been threatened, tortured, or sexually harassed. Thousands of cases of illegal detentions, torture, abuse, rapes, sexual attacks, violation of the right to information and dissemination, political persecution, criminalization of social protests, among others, have been reported in the country and have been condemned nationally and internationally. So, what is the focus of the current round of protests? A key demand of the protesters from the very beginning was a new constitution. On November 14th, the ruling party and the opposition reached an agreement on this, whereby they said that a plebiscite for a new constitution would be held in April 2020. Now, this referendum will pose two questions, whether a new constitution is needed and whether it should be drafted by a mixed constituent convention or just a constituent convention. What do these terms mean? In the mixed constituent convention, 50 percent of the members will be parliamentarians, while the remaining will be those specifically elected for this purpose. In the case of a regular constituent convention, all the members will be specifically elected for this purpose. If one of these conventions is approved in the referendum, it will draft a constitution which will be placed before the people again. Now, the catch here is that two-thirds of the members of this convention have to approve any draft constitution. Key organizations which have been in the forefront of the protests in Chile have rejected this agreement. They have pointed out a number of flaws. First of all, this agreement does not even guarantee the creation of a new constitution. Secondly, a number of important parties and social movements were kept out of the discussions that led to this agreement. This include the Communist Party of Chile, PCC, which condemned the fact that the negotiations were held in secret by a small set of people. Both the Communist Party and the Social Unity Board criticized the two-thirds majority clause. The president of the PCC noted that if the right-wing got over a third of the constituents, it would affect the possibility of bringing about far-reaching change in Chile. The Social Unity Board rejected a discrimination against those under the age of 18, the absence of mechanisms for plurinational participation and gender parity. They also condemned the mechanisms which enabled the election of officials from those parties which caused the crisis in the first place. Palestine is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a journalist. According to the Palestinian journalist syndicate, over 606 members of their profession have been attacked as of October with 60 being targeted with live ammunition this year alone. During the Great March of Return protests, Israeli snipers have targeted journalists despite their wearing press tags and jackets. On November 15th, a Palestinian photojournalist, Muath Amarnay, was shot in the eye with a metallic bullet while he was covering a protest in the West Bank. He lost his vision in his left eye as a result. The attack happened despite the fact that he was wearing a jacket which had press written in big bold letters in the front. But then, respect for such norms has never been the way of the Israeli security forces. In the aftermath of the attack, a global campaign was launched in solidarity with Muath both in Palestine and across the world. Activists held protests, their left eyes covered to expose the brutality of the Israeli forces. An international campaign online focused on the same issue. In the occupied Palestinian territories, protests were held in solidarity with Armanay and they were brutally attacked by Israeli forces. Three students were arrested at a sit-in organized outside the Hebrew University in occupied Jerusalem. At another sit-in organized by the students of the Palestinian Technical University in Tulkarem, a student was seriously injured when she was struck by a tear gas canister. Two others were injured by live ammunition. According to local sources, the student who was hit with a canister suffered serious burn injuries in addition to a fractured jaw and several broken teeth. Dozens of others experienced suffocation as a result of inhaling tear gas and were treated by paramedics on the spot. In Bethlehem, journalists at the protest were also attacked by Israeli security forces with tear gas canisters resulting in many of them experiencing suffocation. Two of them were detained. Despite the unending repression unleashed by Israeli forces, the journalists, students and people of Palestine continue to resist. Their struggle against occupation and apartheid will continue until the walls built by the force of oppression crumble and freedom is achieved. That's all we have for this episode of Around the World in 8 Minutes. To know more about these stories, visit our website peoplesdispatch.org and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Thanks for watching.