Netanyahu Rejects “Delusional” Hamas Terms for Ceasefire Deal | Vantage with Palki Sharma

Netanyahu Rejects “Delusional” Hamas Terms for Ceasefire Deal | Vantage with Palki Sharma

Hello namaskar this is first post and you’re watching vantage with me py Sharma today Pakistan voted and the rest of the world wondered why it was an election out of the raval pindy Playbook no mobile services low turnout and in infinite delays most opposition parties have complained of rigging in some places voters were turned back after ballot paper ran out so looks like the

Army got what it wanted a grand selection dressed up as an election the counting has already be gun by late tonight or tomorrow we should have the results no prizes for guessing another Naas Sharif comeback we’ll be bringing you all the details on how the voting unfolded also how the Army used

Technology to rig this election in the males the government has been warned the international monetary fund IMF says its debt levels are unsustainable could the males be going the Sri Lanka way we’ll tell you meanwhile India and four European nations are on the verge of striking a new deal it could bring Investments

Worth $100 billion to Indian shs in the world of tech Nvidia is Making Waves the chip maker is on the verge of overtaking Amazon we’ll tell you how in the US Nikki Haley has dragged India into the presidential campaign in Russia the economy appears to be beating Western

Sanctions and in Israel Benin Netanyahu has ruled out a ceasefire finally are you fed up of work calls at home that this story is for you all this and more lined up on this show first the headlines Russia bars Boris nadeson from the presidential election the anti-putin

Campaigner has been critical of the war in Ukraine the elections will be held from 15 to 17th March President Putin is almost certain to win reelection he has been in power in Russia either as prime minister or president for more than two decades New Delhi scraps the India

Myanmar free movement regime it allowed citizens from either Nation to cross the border and travel up to 16 km without a passport or VISA home minister Amit sha sit security concerns for the move India’s also decided to fence the entire border with Myanmar and staying with India farmer

Protest in Noida in utar Pradesh massive traffic jams on the Delhi NOA Border Police Stopped the farmers from marching to Parliament they’re demanding better compensation for the land they’ve sold Zimbabwe abolishes the death penalty its last execution was almost two decades ago the death penalty was introduced in the country by its British

Colonizers the president himself is a former death row inmate he was imprison during the struggle for Independence after meta now Tik Tok is suing the European Union they’re challenging an EU fee to enforce a Content moderation law last year Tik Tok said it had around 125 million monthly

Active users in the European Union the EU is also facing legal challenges from online retailers like Amazon and amid the flight tracking drama pop star Taylor Swift sells one of her two private jets just days ago she had sent a legal notice to a college student for

Tracking her planes in 2022 Swift topped the list of celebrities with the highest carbon Emissions hold This today we saw a Master Class A lesson on how not to hold an election a dismal turnout long delays and a mobile service shut down you name it Pakistan’s election had it the day began with some expected News Mobile Services were shut down across the country why do I say expected because

How else can you rig an election polls opened at 8 8:00 a.m. local time some 128 million pakistanis were eligible to vote slowly they started trickling in look at the scenes in Karachi it’s the biggest city in Pakistan also the country’s commercial Capital turnout was slow to pick up there in these pictures

You can see more soldiers than voters and the scenes were similar in other cities as well like Islamabad and queta many voters also complained of difficulties like NeverEnding delays and insufficient poll officers inefficient poll officers processes are very slow and I I think this the the untr unprofessional people are just sitting

There we facing internet issues it is hard to call our voters a few people are coming to vote we did not expect a suspension of mobile and internet services we have been standing in this line for almost two hours now there are no lists like previous elections they’re

Sending voters here and there sometimes to number eight sometimes to number three it is a total chaos the biggest worry was security we saw multiple attacks on Election offices yesterday two of them were quite serious this happened in baluchistan both explosions targeted candidate officers they killed around 28 people later the

Islamic State claimed responsibility for it so the fear was today would be worse that more attacks would follow today it was not that bad we did not see violence on a national level in Pakistan today only a handful of attacks were reported one of them was in kber Pak a Bomb Blast

Targeted a police Convoy in der is Khan four cops were killed in balistan grenade attacks were reported they killed two security Personnel in the rest of the country things were largely stable you can write that down to security presence some 650,000 Personnel had been deployed 650,000 security

Officials so the whole country was in lockdown even the borders with Iran and Afghanistan were shut same with mobile services last week there was speculation about a shutdown but Pakistan’s Telecom regulator denied it they said no shutdown was being planned yet this morning they switched it off all mobile

Services across the country were stopped today basically Pakistan went dark candidates could not speak to their supporters parties could not coordinate with voters it was a list iCal nightmare the question is why why shut down mobile services on Election Day apparently to keep the security situation under check

But let’s face it the shutdown was a rigging tactic no mobile service equals no scrutiny it also exposed who stands where belaval B of the Pakistan People’s Party opposed it he said lift the mobile shutdown so the mobile phone services should be immediately restored for the sake of security democracy and normal

Functionality this is the basic right of the Pakistani people they must cast their votes today and this block can cause impediments to that well he’s asked for this so did workers of Imran Khan’s PTI they said their whole network had been crippled but guess who did not complain Naas

Sharie the man touted to be the next prime minister of Pakistan he cast his vote at a polling station in Lor he was accompanied by his daughter Mariam Nawaz Sharif says the election was truly Fair now today his Rivals to cast their vote belaval B at a polling station in larana

And Imran Khan via postal ballot chances are that postal vote did not leave jail premises now all of these developments would discourage any voter it would make them lose faith in democracy but thousands of Pakistani voters still turned up today they knew the polls were rigged they knew their vote may not

Matter yet they turned up at the polling station we came here today by foot and then on a tractor trolley it was a very difficult and hard journey we have no school in our village the young girls have to travel far away for studies I feel very excited to cast my

First vote um and because you know every one votes waits for their first vote uh and um I think it’s like a good experience voting does matter everyone should come out everyone no one should stay at home today is not the day to stay at home those who choose to sit at

Home today will do Injustice to themselves I came to vote for good government a good economy and for a good image of Pakistan abroad and for the good future of our children what do you call that misplaced optimism net or something else whatever it is Pakistan’s Army throttled it they

Used a number of tactics to rig the voting today delays were one of them voters said pole officers were moving at a snail space so the lines barely moved in some places voting started very late or never started at all like at a polling station in Karachi polling station number

81 even at 2: p.m. voting was yet to start there how about that 6 hours into voting polling stations were shut elsewhere ballot paper ran out so voters were turned back they were told you cannot cast your vote PTI supporters were protesting throughout the day they have complained of widespread rigging

Yet Pakistan expects the world to take this election seriously we knew the process would be rigged we knew the Army would try everything but but today’s election went one step ahead it wasn’t just subversion of democracy it was an allout murder and all of this was in unexpected lines candidates have held rallies

Voters have cast their ballots behind the scenes the Pakistani army is pulling the strings you’ve probably heard this a million times the result will be announced later tonight or tomorrow but we already know the name of the winner and that is nawas Sharif but how did the military make sure that Sharif

Wins how did they rig the vote a few days ago a letter began doing the rounds in Pakistan it was written by a local election officer this was a letter of complaint and who was it addressed to Pakistan’s Election Commission this officer had a concern the election commission uses a software

An election management system and it was behaving the system was behaving living in an odd way the officer had specific complaints data on the software was being deleted some staffers were assigned duties on it but soon after the records were updated this data vanished and when this problem came to

Light the officer did what anyone would do call for it support a technical team looked into the problem and like most it support teams they could not solve it they said it was probably a technical glitch and the election officer was asked to continue using the software but

The officer was not convinced the team using the software faced trouble too so together they reported their problems they expressed their reservations again no solution was offered the tech team asked the election officers to keep going to keep using the same faulty software finally this officer decided to

Write a complaint letter and we have a copy of the letter in fact let me read out a section of of the letter to you and listen to this very carefully this is what it says this weakness of the system has created many issues and also raises a question mark on the

Reliability and validity of the tool or software this shows that either the election management system is an utter failure or and listen to this there is someone else that controls and manages a system behind the veil so someone else is in control he says or that’s what he’s suggesting who

Could be pulling the string strings from behind this system belongs to a government Department Pakistan’s National Data based registration Authority or nadra they’re supposed to be an independent and autonomous agency and what is their job to maintain the database of all citizens like population data demographic files and most

Importantly voter roles they maintain all of this now nadra has an important role to play in this election it controls all the systems used to administer the election and transmit the results this agency is like a referee in a football match their task is to call

Out who has hit the goal in the election match now usually this referee is a civilian but last year there was a sudden change in their leadership instead of a civilian official a serving general of the Pakistan Army was giving given charge of nadra which begs the question why is a

Serving general in charge of Pak Pakistan’s voter roles and it’s not really rocket science to figure out the answer the Army put their own man in the driver’s seat to ensure a favorable outcome last month there was another complaint it came from a member of the PPP the Pakistan People’s Party led by

The BH zardari now they had raised objections to nadra systems one of their lawmakers had written a letter it said the party has quote unquote serious objections to the systems Pakistan’s election commission responded it played down the risk of manipulation but at this point it’s really hard to take any Assurance

At face value it’s like the Army is not even bothering to hide how it is rigging the election so from military coups to silent coups to Brazen selection of prime ministers this is how Pakistan’s sham democracy has progressed under the Army there’s trouble for the Mal the international monetary fund has warned

Its government and what is the warning be careful of your debt it’s a timely warning for president Muhammad muu he’s been revamping maldivian foreign policy India out China in that is his Mantra that’s mizu’s new policy India out China in and China as we know is the biggest lone shark in

Town so how will this equation work out we’ll get to that in a bit but first let’s look at the IMF warning here’s what the international monetary fund has said and I’m quoting without significant policy changes the overall fiscal deficits and public debt are projected to stay elevated and the Maldives remains at

High risk of external and overall debt distress let me underline those words high risk of debt distress you know what that means it means your loans and liabilities are way too much you could soon be unable to make payments in other words a default is a possibility the Maldives is at high

Risk of that situation and how much debt are we talking about in 2021 their external debt was around $3 billion the Malian GDP is all of 5.4 billion external debt is 3 billion so the foreign debt is 55% of the national GDP total debt is even higher almost 110% of the GDP

And where is China figure in this Beijing is the biggest lender to the Maldives they owe 42% of their foreign debt to China which is around $1.2 billion and that’s a lot of money for the males higher debt also means higher servicing costs this year Mali will have to spend

$300 million on debt servicing basically interest and repayment $300 million by 20 26 that number could reach $1.07 billion in other words distress this data raises two important questions number one how did Mali rack up this debt and number two what is mizu’s plan to pay it

Back to be fair these loans predate him the Chinese debt was mostly taken during Abdullah yamin’s presidency he was in power from 2013 to 2018 Yamin 2 was pro-china so he took a lot of loans from Beijing then came the Wuhan virus pandemic Mal’s top source of

Income was shut down that’s tourism it makes up 25% of the national GDP also 32% of all jobs in the males but there was no tourism in during the lockdown so when tourism disappeared so did income at the same time expenses kept increasing more medical spending more vaccine purchases more money for

Doctors and nurses all of this required additional loans which is why Malian debt is so high today now we come to the second question what is mizu’s repayment plan to kzy up to China believe it or not last month he traveled to Beijing he held talks with President Xi Jinping

Some 20 deals were signed by the two leaders they cover a lot of different sectors like infrastructure tourism climate resilience and a whole lot of others but that’s all we know we don’t know how much money is coming in when it’s coming in or whether it’s loans or

Grants in what form is this money coming the deals are shrouded in secrecy but after the trip to Beijing muu did make an announcement he said a Chinese technical team would visit the Maldives what for to consider restructuring loans we haven’t heard any update on that but we’ve seen how the Chinese

Negotiate they play hard ball in Sri Lanka people did not have fuel to run ambulances the country had virtually collapsed but even then China played hard ball President muu should be mindful of all of that China’s debt and help always always comes with strings attached we we are already seeing

Evidence of that a Chinese spy ship reached the Maldives today Mal says it’s a routine Voyage no researcher studying just replenishments but China hinted it could be more over the years China and Maldives have maintained close cooperation in the field of marine scientific research China appreciate males’s decision according to relevant regulations in

International law and based on sovereignity and China Maldives friendship to provide convenience and assistance for Chinese research vessels to enter its Port so the ball is now in muu court he knows the numbers I’m sure he’s heard the IMF warning does he still want to

Get closer to China or does he want to keep his options open at the end of the day it is his call he is the president but at stake is the livelihood of half a million maldivians now here is what the Maldives gets wrong you cannot grow your economy

By betting on a few big players growth requires opening up case in point India it is on the verge of sealing a major trade deal India could get $100 billion in investment from Europe and the deal could be signed by April discussions are in the final stage and this proposed agreement with Europe

Stands out for multiple reasons typically in a classic trade deal countries remove trade barriers by reducing taxes this tends to boost Import and Export but what India is negotiating with Europe is different under this deal New Delhi is willing to open up its markets but at a price tag

Of $100 billion this money will flow in the form of Investments and this will happen over a period of 15 years the PCT guarantees this investment and that’s a rare feature trade deals rarely come with a binding clause on investments and where is this money coming from a special block of European

Nations four countries are part of it Norway Iceland lyen Stein and Switzerland together they called the efta the European free trade Association currently it’s this block that is negotiating with India not the entire European Union just this block but this block could set a template for the

Future something that the rest of the region could choose to replicate next question what kind of Investments are they eyeing and where will this will this1 billion go for now one area has been identified new and existing manufacturing projects they could be state entities or private players this investment has the

Potential to generate over 1 million jobs but for India the benefits of this deal go beyond the money and the jobs for instance more visas are on offer if the deal goes through Indian professionals could get easy access to these four countries Norway Iceland lyen Stein and Switzerland and what do these countries

Get in return what what’s in it for them like I said they’re looking for Market access say they want to sell a range of products in India look at this list processed food and beverages electrical Machinery engineering products also pharmaceutical and medical devices with this trade deal they’ll be

Able to sell all these products and more most likely at reduced tariffs obviously we’ll have to wait for the fine print but on First Impressions this deal has big benefits for both sides and the agreement has been in the making for a long time in fact the

Conversation started way back in 2008 so it has taken some 16 years for India and the efta this European block to finalize a deal and it hasn’t been signed yet the European side wants to sign the pact before the general election in India but is New Delhi on the same page Reports

Say the outline of the deal was locked last month there is an agreement on pressing and controversial issues like patent protection they’ve all been sorted they just have to tie some lose ends because New Delhi too would like to lock this up soon in fact this is not the only trade

Pact in the pipeline Reports say India is holding discussions with as many as 50 countries 5-0 these talks are happening both at the bilateral level and the Block Level it remains to be seen how many of these conversations lead to actual agreements but one thing is quite clear India is sending a signal

To the world India is open for business Nvidia versus Amazon it’s a race that makes little sense on paper because these two companies are not Rivals they do not even sell the same things nor are they in the same industry but Market experts are making this comparison do you know why because

It’s a sign of our times Nvidia is a semiconductor maker based in the United States Amazon is an e-commerce giant both companies were founded in the 1990s but in the last two decades one was a clear leader and that’s Amazon maybe not for long though Nvidia is on the brink

Of overtaking it Amazon has a market valuation of $ 1.77 trillion Nvidia is at 1.73 trillion its Shares are up 40% this year 40 40% imagine that 40% up in just under 40 days at this rate it will overtake Amazon one of the biggest companies of our times what does this

Signify what many experts have been saying for a while chips are the new oil especially artificial intelligence chips every major tech company is on the AI train and AI needs very Advanced chips and who’s making those chips mostly Nvidia the company is set to make up 85% of this

Market just look at their list of customers Microsoft meta Google Amazon Oracle tensent Buu Alibaba Tesla B Dan most big Tech firms buy chips from Nvidia so sales are through the roof I have numbers from the last quarter nvidia’s Revenue was $18 billion it tripled from the year before

And profits around $9.2 billion that’s 14 times higher than the year before so Nvidia is on a roll which is why we are taking a closer look at this company tonight it was founded by three American Computer scientists in 1993 all three came from Chip companies one from AMD

One from Sun Microsystems and one from IBM Jensen Huang was one of the co-founders today he serves as Nvidia CEO the company first focused on computer video games these games needed 3D Graphics so Nvidia made cutting a chips it became their USP other chip firms were selling computer shooting chips

Nvidia was selling graphic cards that set them apart that was their USB like I said in 1999 the company went public the same year they launched a new product the ge4 256 it was a major leap in 3D gaming all these Milestones caught the attention of Microsoft they asked Nvidia

To develop the hardware for Xbox that’s Microsoft’s gaming console it was a big deal for NVIDIA the company was paid $200 million upfront then came the 2000s Nvidia started to diversify in 2003 they collaborated with NASA they began making chips from for Audi cars in 2007 Forbes declared IT company

Of the year so Nvidia had truly arrived and around this time they started focusing on AI it was a bit accidental Nvidia had put a lot of focus on Parallel Computing technology think of it as a multitask asking feature for chips the same technology is key in artificial intelligence so Nvidia had a

Head start now we don’t know why the company focused on this technology maybe it was foresight maybe it was a business strategy but whatever it was it worked today Nvidia is in Pole Position they have a partnership with carmaker Toyota the plan is to use Nvidia chips in self-driving

Vehicles but the crowning moment was in late 2022 that’s when Chad GPT hit the market everyone wanted to know how it was built turns out Chad GPT was built on 10,000 Nvidia chips soon every Tech firm rushed for it they did not want to be left behind in

The AI race and that meant buying Nvidia chips of course some of this attention has backfired too because last year the US government asked Nvidia to stop selling high-end chips to China Washington said it was a national security concern but for NVIDIA it was a blow because they had orders worth $5 billion

From China orders that they could not fulfill now but looking at these numbers their revenue and their profits Nvidia is doing just fine they have a borderline Monopoly on these AI chips and that is hard to beat you see chips keep evolving they keep getting better with time so by the

Time Rivals match Nvidia Nvidia will be two steps ahead hopefully it’s all about who has the Head Start also who doesn’t become complacent so remember this company’s name it’s not just a graphics maker anymore it could be the foundation of the AI age now we are just months away from the

US presidential election campaigning is picking Pace but it’s hard to make sense of what’s going on on the Republican end we have Donald Trump and Nikki Haley Trump is busy dealing with his multiple court cases Haley on the other hand is struggling and she’s talking about India

Niki Haley says India sees the us as weak and that is why it’s stuck with Russia which doesn’t make sense at all but that seems to be the trend here a lot of things are not making sense in this presidential election look at the Democrat camp we

Have US President Joe Biden fighting for another term in the white house but does he even remember that I ask because he’s been having a lot of trouble on that front he’s forgetting and mixing up names in a recent press conference he forgot the name of Hamas a few days back

He confused macron with a previous French president our next report tells you more I mean I think the cause of the Civil War was it’s not a good time for Nikki Haley she’s one of the Republican presidential candidates but it’s like she’s hard on the ballot that’s because

She’s running against Donald Trump in Nevada she had a stinging loss she lost against no one Trump wasn’t even on the ballot she had no competition and even then she didn’t win so it’s difficult for Nikki Haley but the former un Ambassador is pushing on she’s continuing with her White House campaign

And now she’s talking about India she claims New Delhi wants to partner with the us but it doesn’t trust Americans to lead she says India played smart and that’s why it chose to stay with Russia she said and I quote I have dealt with

India too I have got to say I have dealt with India too I have talked with Modi India wants to be a partner with us they don’t want to be a partner with Russia now Haley said all of this in a campaign interview but the important

Issue here is the mention of India it’s featuring in the US presidential campaign Haley herself is of Indian origin her parents moved to the US from India she’s hardly talked about her Indian Heritage but looks like she’s not shying away from mentioning the country now so Nikki Haley is talking about

India but on the Democrat side no one knows what Joe Biden is talking about it’s been just one week but he’s already made three gaps the first involved the French President he confused Emmanuel macron with Fran miton France’s long dead former leader today he mixed up two other European leaders

He confused former German Chancellor Angela Mel with another former Chancellor helmet Cole who’s also dead you would wish that’s all but it doesn’t end there in a recent press conference he forgot the name of Hamas he was asked about the hostage negotiations and Biden just couldn’t remember the name of the

Group he stuttered multiple times before a reporter jumped in to name Hamas words there’s some movement there’s been a response from the opposition but um yes I’m sorry from Hamas but it seems to be uh a little over the top we’re not sure where it is there’s a continuing

Negotiation right now this isn’t the first time this has happened it’s been a worry for the Democrats Biden is already 81 years old the oldest serving US president if he wins he will take office at 82 years and when he finish finishes the term he will be 886 years old on the

Other side there’s Donald Trump he’s no spring chicken at 77 and he is facing a series of Criminal trials 2024 is likely to be a 2020 rematch and that’s the poor choice that America is left with and if one issue will dominate the discourse in this American election it’s

Going to be Russia Biden will campaign on his response to the war in Ukraine and his efforts to isolate Russia on the world stage but the numbers tell a different story despite the war and sanctions the Russian economy is still growing in fact Russia’s economy has performed better than some of its

Western Rivals especially the major players like the United Kingdom and Germany Russia is doing better than them so what’s driving Russia’s economic resilience and why is the West lagging behind a sanctions hit Russia our next report explores in December a confident Putin faced the press this was his first press

Conference since his forces invaded Ukraine the Russian president was asked about the economy and he shared a prediction the most important indicator of economic growth is a growth of gross domestic product by the end of the year it is expected to be 3.5% that’s a good indicator it means we

Have bounced back from last year decline the latest economic numbers are out last year Russia’s economy expanded by 3.6% Putin was off by a mere 0.1% but broadly his prediction was on the mark since the invasion of Ukraine the West has launched a campaign to isolate Russia mostly through a slew of

Sanctions but Russia’s economy has shown remarkable resilience the war gave Russia a boost in the last 2 years Russia’s industrial output has shot up by over 60% this has bumped up the growth numbers the IMF is taking note the agency has issued a new assessment it raises Russia’s growth Outlook the IMF

Thinks if Russia can maintain the momentum its GDP Will Rise by 2.6% that number surpasses Russia’s own predictions in November Russia’s Central Bank had put out a more conservative estimate it pegged Russia’s growth to hover around 1% 0.5% in a worst case scenario and 1.5% under better circumstances IMF numbers suggest that

Russia could do better for the Russian president his country has prevailed over its Western Rivals the West predicted as you know recession failure collapse that under the pressure of sanctions we would Retreat surrender fall apart I would like to show a well-known gesture but I

Don’t know but I won’t do that are a lot of women here they won’t succeed for the moment Russia has indeed edged ahead compare Russia’s growth numbers with the G7 a group that Russia was kicked out of following the annexation of Crimea surprisingly Russia outperforms every single G7 member

Russia’s arch rival the United States is growing at less than 3% Japan and Canada’s economies are expanding at less than 2% France Italy and the UK less than 1% Germany is right at the bottom and in negative territory can Russia sustain similar levels of growth in the absence of a war the jury

Is still out on that one but for the moment Moscow has managed to survive the onslaught of Western sanctions it’s day 125 of the Israel Hamas War 27,000 people killed over 65,000 injured half of Gaza is a mound of rubble but Israeli Prime Minister Benin

Netanyahu is not done yet he has he was offered a ceasefire deal Hamas proposed a pause in fighting along with exchange of hostages Israel was expected to come up with its own counter offer but prime minister Netanyahu has rejected the deal he described the terms as quot un quote

Bizarre and he has vowed to fight until complete Victory but but what is complete Victory and what will it cost the region and the world also will netanyahu’s allies support this dismissal here’s a report Israel’s war with Hamas has dragged into its fifth month the Deb toll is rising 139 hostages remain in

Hamas captivity diplomacy continues behind doors but Benyamin Netanyahu has won jective destroying Hamas no matter what the cost the Israeli Prime Minister has rejected a new ceasefire proposal it came from Hamas it reportedly had three phases phase one included a 45-day pause in fighting Israeli hostages would be exchanged for Palestinian prisoners

Mainly women and children Israeli forces would withdraw from Gaza and reconstruction of hospitals would begin then there’s phase two remaining Israeli male hostages would be exchanged Israeli forces would leave Gaza and in phase three both sides would exchange remains and bodies the deal would see a 135 day

Pause in fighting Aid would enter Gaza injured would get medical treatment and the strip would get some respite especially after 125 days of conflict we have now given our responses to our brothers in Qatar and Egypt on their part they have handed it over to the Americans and handed it over to the

Other party now we’re waiting for the response of the other side we hope that God willing this matter will go on I mean now people are waiting for what will be the response of the other party so Hamas came up with a proposal Israel was expected to come up with its

Own proposal something to counter hamas’s initial terms but Netanyahu has now outrightly rejected their terms he has called them bizarre there is no solution other than total Victory if Hamas survives in Gaza it is only a matter of time until the next Massacre and the axess of evil of

Iran and its proxies will continue its campaign of killing and aggression without interruption only a total Victory will allow us to restore Security in Israel both in the north and in the South so Netanyahu says Victory will come but the question is at what cost meanwhile the Israeli Prime Minister

Ordered troops to move into Rafa it is the biggest city in gaza’s far south one million Palestinians are seeking Refuge there a military operation could spell disaster but Netanyahu is pressing on but his actions aren’t going down too well both with his allies and with the people of Israel let’s look at the

Allies first support for Israel’s war is waning ceasefire is the need of the R Us Secretary of State is already in West Asia he even met the Israeli Prime Minister discussions are underway they are being mediated by Egypt andq blinkin hoped for a breakthrough here but all he

Got was netanyahu’s rejection and it could be seen as a snub but the US Secretary of State says there is still hope what I can tell you about these discussions is that while there are some clear non-starters in hamas’s response uh we do think it creates space for agreement to be reached

And we will work at that relentlessly until we get there as for the people of Israel they want the hostages back home Netanyahu says ending Hamas is the best way to get them back but the citizens don’t agree which explains why the Israeli Prime Minister is losing popularity when the war

Started Israelis backed the military action but 5 months in all they care about is the fate of the hostages they believe the only feasible option to free the hostages is to strike another to deal with Hamas something Netanyahu refuses to do right now so what happens next Hamas has proposed a ceasefire

Naanyu says no he believes a win will come even if it takes months but what does a complete Victory even mean does it mean saving the hostages or just ending Hamas naanyu may have rejected it now but as calls for a ceas fire grow louder how long can the Israeli Prime Minister ignore

It a phone call after you have left work an email you need to check on a Sunday a new project that haunts you during a vacation work is increasingly seeping into home life and the world over people are braving it but in Australia this could soon be

Outlawed Australia is set to pass a new law it is called the right to disconnect it will give workers the right to their after hours they will be able to ignore calls and emails from their bosses outside of work hours without any penalty and if the employees breach this

Rule they will have to pay Hefty fines you see Australians work an average of 6 weeks unpaid overtime each year in terms of unpaid wages that is more than $60 billion so the message here is quite simple if someone is not being paid for all 24 hours a day they

Should not be penalized for not being available all day most Australians are happy to hear this well I think it’s a wonderful idea I think we need to have our switch off time we all need to relax we all need to be able to switch off and

Not be disturbed by emails and phone calls in the middle of the night and I both my kids are lawyers as well so they they sort of work horrendous hours as it is and you get things coming in at night time you we need we all need to be able

To switch off and relax and we’re not machines we’re people in general I think the idea that you should be able to switch off when you get to the end of your work day and when you’re um at home doing your own thing over the weekend or

On leave that seems like a generally pretty reasonable thing to me the government is on the same page hoping that the bill would restore a healthy work life balance the land down under is not alone here several countries are staunch advocates for the right to disconnect European countries

Are acing this game France is famous for its 35-hour work week on top of this it pioneered the right to disconnect way back in 27 17 Italy Belgium Spain and Ireland followed suit Portugal became a recent Edition in 2021 all these countries have laws protecting employees after after their work employee after

Hours but the specifics differ in France all employees can ignore calls after working hours in Belgium the right is afforded to government workers in Portugal the rule applies to companies with over 10 employees meanwhile outside your Europe the situation is tricky in Canada only the province of Ontario has such a

Policy in the African nation of Kenya a maximum of 52 hours of work per week is mandated but during the pandemic work ballooned past this so lawmakers proposed a bill for the right to disconnect it has become a heated issue in the country but so far no progress

Has been made and that’s something that India and the US can relate to in 2018 the right to disconnect bill was introduced in India’s loksabha the lower House of the Indian Parliament this bill proposed that no disciplinary action can be taken if an employee does not respond after working

Hours the bill was not passed during the same year New York City proposed a similar bill it did not pass either since then the debate has not found widespread Traction in either country and it’s not hard to understand why with the Advent of Smartphones work culture

Has switched to an always on on mode there is Perpetual fear of missing an urgent work text or an important update to many it feels like a compulsion experts call it the availability creep where workers feel the need to be available all the time to keep up with their

Workloads and like most things the pandemic made this worse boundaries between work and Leisure were were not strong to begin with pandemic induced remote work first further eroded them according to the world average workers are putting in longer extra hours and this is the worst among those aged between 18 and

34 they put in over eight extra hours of free work per week this includes staying in late or answering emails from home outside work hours yet for many workers Detachment from work is the toxic trait it can mean that you’re lazy or disinterested it may hinder professional

Growth and this is the result a third of workers say they find it difficult to unplug from work the world over research shows that it makes employees unhappier less motivated and even sick according to the World Health Organization working more than 55 hours a week even raises the risk of death

Which is alarming and the right to disconnect makes us think about all of this it doesn’t just revolutionize our schedules it changes how we look at work and if there is a Promised Land of work life balance this could be another Stone on the road that leads to it so one day

We might see our time as ours and now let’s turn our attention to Italy it is wrestling with a bear problem this week a forest bear was killed in Northern Italy by members of the forestry core he was deemed dangerous to humans and showed apparently excessive confidence that’s

The term they use the bear showed excessive confidence authorities killed him now many Italians are not taking this well animal rights activists are protesting the environment Minister has questioned the culling but Italy is hardly the only one with this problem Romania cannot bear its Rising bare attacks either in Japan be attacks are

At a record high research says attacks have increased significantly over the past two decades the world over but the reasons differ from country to Country our next report brings you more bears are crucial for the environment they are ecosystem Engineers they help spread seeds strip bark from trees clean up

Carcasses they also control populations of prey species like deer this allows more plants to thrive thanks to Bears species across the food chain benefit so when bare populations decline it makes sense that people would Panic this happened in the Alps around the mid 1990s when brown bears became

Functionally extinct only a handful were remaining all of them in trentino a mountainous City in Northern Italy so the European Union stepped in between 1996 and 2004 it funded two projects the aim was to reverse the Decline and to save the species so 10 bears were brought in from

Slovenia their population was monitored and now there are over 100 bears in the region twice the number the scientists had hoped for So the plan was successful and hugely popular when it started 75% of Italians showed support but now sentiments have changed this is a classic case of too much of a

Good thing Bears have become a problem for for Italy in 2005 a bear wandered into Germany in 2008 another entered Switzerland both were killed last year two bears were found dead in Italy in the same year another bear mauled a 26-year-old to death the same bear

Attacked two hikers in 2020 as well the matter has now reached the courts authorities wanted killed activists want to transfer to Romania among many such legal battles this week authorities killed a bear in Northern Italy they claim it was becoming dangerous to humans it allegedly followed people on three occasions and exhibited quote

Unquote excessive confidence but its sculling has sparked outrage among protesters who say the action was too Swift now the Italian environment Minister has questioned the decision but Italy is hardly the only one battling the bear problem between 201 and 2015 there were over 600 bear attacks the

World over with the highest numbers in Europe and America but over time the attacks have only increased in fact bear attacks rank the highest in a list of attacks on humans by different species and 9% of bear attacks proved fatal an experiment may have contributed

To this in Italy but there are two big reasons for bear attacks worldwide one is climate change with a warming Planet animals are fast losing their natural habitats and encroaching on urban areas this can be seen in Romania the bear capital of Europe it has over 6,000

Bears between 2016 and 2021 there were 154 bear attacks on humans the second reason behind attacks is a decrease in the density of humans we see this in Japan it has an aging population now some prefectures in mountainous regions are sparsely populated and last year bear attacks in

Japan reached a record high numbers exceeded 200 attacks for the first time but despite the varying reasons one thing is common across Nations the situation is dramatic and dangerous and governments need to act fast before the situation becomes too difficult to bear and now it’s time for Vantage shots

Images that tell the story in Iceland a volcano in the country’s Southwest erupts again SP lava in Germany it’s a party behind the bars as female prisoners celebrate the the carnival and move aside Super Bowl it’s time for Puppy Bowl the US is celebrating 20 years of furry fun finally we’re taking

You back in history on this day 1971 NASDAQ began trading in the US it was the world’s first electronic stock exchange on any given day over two billion Shares are traded on the NASDAQ we’re leaving you on that note thanks for watching we’ll see you tomorrow Oh No From impeachments to inaugurations if it’s a political story we are on the scene the race for the White House is heating up we’re beating Biden how dare he say that if it’s breaking news we’re live with the latest coverage from the White House the state department and

Capitol Hill we know the issue but above all we know the players to bring you the latest in-depth analysis on all the key stor stories that we’re covering I’m Eric ham join me from Washington here on first post America

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