the, the, this is dw, dues live from berlin. the you, in general, assembly passes a resolution calling for the recognition of the state of palestine. vote it symbolic, and controversial. israel's ambassador to the un reacted by shredding a copy of the un charter in protest. also coming up and you creating an army says it is now battling a new russian offensive in the north printing and presidents zalinski says there's been heavy fighting and ukraine's north eastern harkey fridge. as the russian forces tried to break defensive wind along the border and a genetic mutation meant she was born deaf. now she can hear thanks to

a groundbreaking medical procedure, we will talk to one of the researchers behind this treat the library golf. it's good to have you with this. it is a boat reflecting, growing international solidarity with the palestinians. today the un general assembly voted overwhelmingly in favor of a palestinian bid to become a full member. it has recommended this now to be considered by the un security council. a $143.00 nations supported the motion which grants the palestinians significantly more rights to participate in general assembly sessions. it does not, however, grant the palestinians regular voting rights. us vetoed a security council resolution last month. it would have paved the way for that head of today's vote. israel's ambassador to the un shredded united nations charter

saying that was what countries who support couple of times bid to join the you when we're doing or yes. yes. that's what we're going to cross over now to our corresponded benjamin alvarez group in washington. he's been following events for is benjamin what does this vote by the you in general is gonna be, what does it really mean? it's important to clarify that this vote does not give the palestinians full un membership, but recognizes them as qualified to join. is you said 143 members voted in favor 9 against it, including israel and the united states and 25 countries, abstained in this policy and membership. it will now be forwarded it to the un security council asking it to reconsider the matter. and the result of this vote does not come as a surprise that it was widely believed that the resolution would easily achieve the necessary 2 thirds majority in the general assembly. also because there is no

b to ride in the 193 member body in the us has been opposing this. and also in april v towed a proposal recommending the admission of the state of policy to full membership in the united nations. and it isn't resolution, it would grant new rights and privileges. what exactly are the this is that's right, this passed a resolution gives the police thing. and so right to participate in the united nations international conference is convinced by the us. and that means that they have the right to make statements and submit proposals. amendments also to co sponsor a proposal to raise a procedural motions, but the state of policy and does not have a right to vote. what is also interesting here is the diplomats told us media before this vote that they original draft of the assembly resolution was changed significantly to address concerns not only by the us that india and also voted against it along with other countries, but also by russia and china because, well both countries have strong supporters of paula assigned to you and membership

. they are concerned according to the sources that granting a certain type of rights and privileges could set. a precedent for other would be un members with russia being concerned about the costs of the in china about taiwan . so this em passed a resolution widely supported resolution to move on to the security. it calls the where a bit police send a membership pay less than a month ago, up to the us used it's vito and veto the resolution. yeah, that's right. it, it looks like the us has planning to do that yet again with this resolution, the w as benjamin alvarez group are with the latest from washington to benjamin. thank you. i as well the board in gaza is casting a shadow over the eurovision song contest in sweden, israel's entering. you see, you're behind me here. even golden secured a place in the finale at the 2nd semi final on thursday evening. earlier in the day, thousands of demonstrators marched through the whole city of melville to protest

against israel's inclusion in this year's contest. united by music that flowed into your vision, your lips easiest, and most extravagant song contests. for the self described, non political event is divided with ease, rails inclusion, despise its war and gaza taking center stage. there's a lot of pressure on here for the maybe 20 minutes to put a smile on and just give my love out and do what i love most. i'm singing and this is what i love most these really team is staying in an undisclosed location. and security is ties across the swedish city of melma. your vision organizes have faced coals to block israel from participating more than

10000 pro palestinian protest as rallied against israel's inclusion. many a calling for view, as to boy called the show. those protests have made the way to the stage to earlier in the wake form, a swedish contestant eric side, or a palestinian coffee around his wrist, organizes cold, his actions regressive will. and they also forced islands bound b, sog to change their outfit. it had featured messages including the word seas file band. the thug is one of 2 non binary contestants. dcea fan favorites nemo from switzerland is performing this own code about the journey of self discovery. if i the, when it will be assessed for non binary auto sit univision, just singing the song in front of a live audience and knowing that so many people are listening. it just it,

it made me really emotional it made. is it so much with me? the 26 nations that through saturdays grand final, some like on maney are in grace, have much the culture in language with the contest. usually flamboyant, era pump flat which countries like the netherlands of fully embraced the contest and to face a backlash at home. so i'm in spain of criticize their navy losa for warranty lyrics and dense moves. as contestants prepared for the final performance, the political celebration of unity and music is as politically charged as it's ever been. all right, here's a quick look. now some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world, chad's military ruler, hockman, debbie,

if no has been declared the winner of this week's presidential election. the results had been contested by the opposition in the country. the election in the north central african nation was delayed due to 3 years of military rule. a top political opposition leader in india has received a rapturous welcome from supporters have to be granted temporary bill by the supreme court deli chief minister arbin kids. we want to now campaigning, the ongoing election allies cried his arrest on corruption charges, calling it a political move by prime minister and arrange remote. the ukraine says adviser has launched a new ground defensive on the countries northeastern border. advancing about one kilometer inside ukraine. officials say that there was massive showing in the town a volt johnson, near the city of heart chief ukraine has rushed reinforcements to the region to shore up local defenses. ukrainian forces are evacuating residents. at least one

civilian we understand has been killed in the showing. the grades presidents zalinski says that the military had anticipated the attack when he says, quote, a fierce battle and it is under way green. the city where you tom, all right, from where i went across now to our corresponding economy, he is in keith. nick, what did you make of this latest news coming from the park? he's region. what's going on of the front? it's really difficult to get a handle on the situation. the geography is pretty complex. you've got some fighting going on near of of chance, which is about 70 kilometers northeast of kind of give just on that russian frontier but use a half of pulse, fighting directly north of kind of give in the kind of village along the board of this which which are about themselves, 50 comes away as the crow flies from of chance. and then reports of some of the, some of the villages also affected slightly further away. so this is a big area. this is a reminder that ukraine has a very, very long border about a 1000 kilometers with russia. so even away from the front lines,

there is no surgeon needs to be controlled. and they have been expectation that something might happen because especially was building up troops in that part of the country. and you just a couple hours ago, it really seemed like maybe they'd be rolling and then trying to take kind of give you credit 2nd city. that doesn't seem to be the case. now we've actually had a report recently from the regional government saying that russia has to be able to get in touch and they've been pushed back, you know, opposite choice. that is the conclusive also there's lots reports of basically worst and secretary groups crossing the border and operating kind of classically behind the brand new lines. lots of questions and new friends. not how that was possible. why this board was not better closed off. why they wouldn't mind fields what it was across and it just really kind of reminds us of the chaos last summer when you had, you bring it back to russian x l groups doing the same thing on the russian side of the board. it really seems like it's kind of catholic kind of border rates, duration we can't really tell what is going for now. yeah, we know that you creating forces are already struggling to hold the line in the eastern part of the country. this could look like it's hit by russia to start a 2 front board. but as you said, we don't know. i mean, could this then be the major question of salt that ukraine has been bracing for?

of the i just came back from the front lines in the east a couple of weeks ago. and when you're off people where they are, the soldiers that are with the locals. are you expecting some big russian adults some push they say to you? it's already started. it's been way more intensive in the last couple months since ukraine started getting less than the way of west to weapons and the russian so that child, so they didn't really see much shots from all. but certainly there is. and his reputation that this could be about diversionary tactics, rush to try to force your brain to send troops to the fact give region to weaken those offensive. these especially want to wait for those $60000000000.00 of usa to reach the front lines. and we have seen lots of tool in versus state media about basically so i think kind of give trying to kind of create product and look through the population trying to pull people to leave that city to give up. and to basically move further away from the rest of the board, as the definitely says, the russians won't be able to these get, they have busy amounts. there's no way that they wouldn't really have if this was

just about the military side. and for now, it is a very different situation. they've had basically be an air raid alarm for the best part of 10 hours. the so it is very different the locals and most people who are closer to the border, not missing, hug city itself because the border are definitely attacking the case. and even if it'd be z kindly be the least denied from keith ukraine. nick, as always, thank you. for earlier, nick filed a report for us on a new threat to merging for troops on the front line. russian glide bobs, you looked at how you created and troops are learning to live the deal with this growing threat. russian blood booms tearing to a ukrainian hanger early in 2024. at least that's according to russian ministry blog is. russian and ukrainian social media has been full of these kinds of images in recent months. but seeing it on the screen, but it doesn't quite prepare you for seeing the impact these weapons can have your

own noise. this is the damage done by the smallest kind of like pump currently used by russia to almost $50.00. just a small pot of big lot going through it just this was a 250 kilogram. glad pump it up to give you a sense of scale. i'm to make this tool. these are great new, so just know to well what it feels like to be the receiving end of russian glad bowman text tell us. they 1st came up against them about a year ago. recent months they've been getting bigger and more frequent. i'm so glad problems, mike is using sound. did you hear that sound? and soon enough there's an explosion. you've got debris flying around and then the shock way for you to send you a song. right now it's the russians go to weapon to force out infantry out of they've got screw, supposedly giving you. it says i'm glad to flatten everything out. it doesn't matter how did you did your trenches at one hope. this will is the 1st to seek live

booms, use a widely into such effect, but the technology behind them isn't completely new. this is a hybrid. what then? some live bombs that just conventional dumb bones. they have turned into precise smart bombs with the addition of special wing kits and satellite navigation systems . crucially, they can fly up to 70 kilometers. these are thank you. that means russian pilots can launch these guy comes out of range of most ukranian air defenses. and by re purposing soviet era booms from its foss, don't bios russia can produce these weapons that speed a follow it costs than any equivalent. so see when the water is, do you have reached the beach? these russian bombs are cheaper than anything the us has endorsed. they use the same police to mechanics and a very primitive wing cases. i won't take, you won't wait. the whole thing cost less than $20000.00 likes it. this is the lady

was not fully complex comparison. even the cheapest christmas owls russian as far didn't ukraine, are estimated to cost around a $1000000.00 each to produce? or something like drums often fail to detonate. the ukranian troops, the challenge to better understand the weapon that they face showed they've put together crudely, but they're effective. i do know damage the knots. hillary clinton, gradients of us, where the country doesn't try to build its own guide. palms producing these weapons isn't the problem. the notion of safely is more rushes. s 400 defense systems down ukraine, your planes up to 200 kilometers away. ukrainian experts and soldiers agree, there's a new one realistic onset to rush, just like problems. and that's matching rushes capacity to shoot down the planes that can carry these booms. ukraine is already proven that it's possible. you can, you're forced to say they shut down more than a dozen russian planes to february alone. most experts believe that was down to

west and supplied patriot defense systems. that is until the much the russian forces were able to destroy to ukrainian patriot launches, sustain ukraine has kept his handful of patriot systems away from the front lines preferring instead to protect the countries big cities. until you can get some more of these defense systems, can again afford to take risks. russian planes kinda like bombs, will have little to for you to now from the air to underwater. scientists say that they now know more about health sperm wells communicate. they say sperm wells, use a language, and that is much more sophisticated and previously taught with the help of artificial intelligence. a global team of marine biologist, linguists and other researchers say that they have found similarities to the human language. they hope that the data can be used to better protect the widths. cracking the code of the scam. well,

language scientists working in the caribbean waters have decoded the building blocks of their communication patterns. after years of analysis, they believe the mammals use a phonetic alphabet. the discovery is taking us from a hypothesis that animal communication follows fairly simple patterns to a hypothesis that there is much more complexity than previously thought. and the ability of wells to vocalize to code us carries signals that have much more information content than previously thought. these coders are clicking sounds similar to morse code. scientists

recorded the wells in the eastern caribbean. the study focused on the structure of the codes, but not their meaning. the next step is to pair this data with a behavioral analysis. only then could this language be fully decoded. so could humans one day communicate with sperm wells? it is a great, we're just at the very beginning of this process. and i think there's a lot more research that we have to do before we know whether it's a good idea to try to communicate with them or really even they have a sense of whether that will be possible. millions of well code is still need to be collected. scientists hope that a deeper understanding of their language could help protect the endangered species . a british toddler who was born deaf can now here,

thanks to groundbreaking gene therapy. researchers say that it marks a new era in the treatment of deafness. she might not be a musician yet, but also having a hearing restored. opal cannot hear the music she plays unaided. she was born completely desk because of the genetic mutation, the effect of surgery that took just 16 minutes amazed, have hired when the trying to copy all of this was opal has a mutation in a gene which should allow cells in the, in the air to communicate with the hearing of during the surgery, she received an infusion, which contained a working copy of the gene. a homeless virus is used to carry the gene to its

destination. what viruses are designed to do? what that purpose is is for them to put the genetic material into cells. and so i'm the, with this attenuated that in of ours we can drop a tiny little packet of genetic information into the cells. and that will provoke a change that is not flowing. we think the treatment can only kill deafness that is caused by this defective gene researches think it can also be effective against other genetically based to seizes. for other people and her family, the, the treatment has had a big impact, allowing them to enjoy the little things like a bedtime story. this is exciting news and i'm joined now by one of the people behind this new therapy saying you chin is a senior author of the study which was published in the lancet. he's a professor at harvard medical school. he joins me now from boston, massachusetts professor. it's good to have you with this of this little girl. she

went from being deaf, being born jeff, to be able to hear. so tell us exactly how was this possible? so these are the possible you be calling this girl to begin with. she didn't have the functional copy of this gene and we've lost his copy of his gene. basically some you can detect it from the year, but it cannot be transfer me to the brain as resolved. she can, i hear a lot the word the it was it to really to use a is a virus to deliver this amazing coffee been towards the party in the year as a result to supply or missing copy of the gene. and does that cause read? how do we still have the function? so she can she recover the computer? you know, she can always have her here. i know her speech can be recovered as well. so it's amazing. so you use the virus it into delivered into the year of genetic information that basically allows this girl's own genetics to repair itself. what,

what limitations did you have to overcome to, to get this gene where you needed it? all right, so as if there's a clarify this where it goes buying new. ok, cambridge, i'm not in boston. yeah. how emetics would you have found something 7 or you know, different group of children. so i'll, so this, he's about to our study by the we have achieved the human recovery for children who have the same. and jag, a deficit. that's a, an old referring static by this one is that you really have to use a surgical procedure to deliver the gene into the, in the year and of the surgical procedure. you so actually, well walked out, can be practiced by lots we n t surgeons. so itself is not too complicated then to say, and by that to give her the gene and the gene can go into your repair itself and use that to reproduce the mature, that's amazing. and as a result, c o recovery is

a function here and i'm sure that there are people who are hearing about this and wondering if i'm can it be used for other parts of the body, not just the year. and i'm wondering particularly about the eye if someone is born blind due to a genetic mutation. could we be on the way to being able to give them sight you are actually right. so this is called the gene therapy. and by a v as an notices your virus and a similar serve you can be used to treat, binds and heavy use as low as spinal muscular atrophy. so as the type of disease or just a reason this week, there's another started by my house, but don't mess i year. they probably just saw the to use a gene serve feed to treat blind. that's and does it kind of restore some of the reason in buying this patient? so absolutely, this is the new emerging to treat them in technology,

tennessee you broader use for many a type of genetic disease. yeah. and you are so long was that well this is that definitely good news professor. we appreciate you helping bring this to the world professor. thank you. chad. joining us from boston, massachusetts in the us. thank you. thank you. a dw film released last year has been a one of the prize for best documentary ad, the human rights of boards in taipei. taiwan, the awards ceremony is organizing collaboration with the energy of human rights watch. the winning film exposes extra judicial killings by the r, a, b, a bangladesh, the elite police force 2 of the dw journalists who worked on the film gear to shaka and they will be conrad. we know them very well here. they were in taipei to accept the, the allegations of x, traditional killings,

shudder. we connections to bangladesh as governments and torture. of course there is definitely they did what this dw film uncovers, the inner workings of bangladesh as it leads police folks. the rapid action battalion wrap the film was produced in collaboration with the sweden based metra news end of the human rights press awards and asia held on friday inside pay the film to comb. the top price for documentary video, 2 of dw user investigates of team were in taipei to receive the award. we are extremely honored to having chosen for this award. but it's important since stress bed, without all the sources on the ground who, who has been able to to tell the story. so in a way, in the documentary we couldn't name that because of security reasons, but you, we are today sending to them here. and anyway, it's their price. we're actually really happy that we got this awards because it

means that we can push this issue again. i mean, the human rights violations, the disappearances, the torture is still ongoing and bangladesh. and we really hope that with this room, this we're award, we can push the topic and we can make people be aware of it once again. because after, when we publish this a year ago and it's still ongoing and it's important that we can still raise this issue. revealed in the film, allegations of key figures in bangladesh as government use, wrapped for political gain, bangladesh here thought receives, have said allegations made in the film with baseless and on true the human rights press awards have been presented since 1996 under given for outstanding reporting on human rights issues across asia. and dr. graduations to be here to n, naomi. the full documentary is available to watch on youtube using the search terms, dw, and inside the death squad. here's a reminder. now the top stories that we're following for are you the united nations general assembly is learned overwhelmingly, in favor of

a palestinian bid to become a full member of a 143 nation supported the motion which grants the palestinian significantly more whites to participate in general assembly sessions, it does not grant the palestinians regular voting rights. i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news. i hope you can join us that the

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