The humanitarian ceasefire for Gaza can't come soon enough. If more food aid doesn't get there soon, "starvation is a real possibility". I got an update this morning from Martin Rentsch, spokesperson for the United Nations World Food Program World Food Programme.

What does Ukraine make of the current level of support it's getting from its allies? I asked DW News correspondent Nick Connolly in Kyiv.

Screenshots from my lives this a.m. w interlocutors in Tel Aviv, Kyiv, Taipei, Jerusalem, and Berlin. Topics: Hamas-Israel war, their ceasefire deal, humanitarian conditions in Gaza, Russia-Ukraine war, and North Korea's satellite launch. Another intense day on the DW anchor desk

Today I spoke with Sharone Lifschitz whose parents were abducted by Hamas. Her mother was released last month. But not her father. Sharone tells me she’s convinced peace between Israelis & Palestinians is still possible. I begin by asking about her mother: youtu.be/qmmmfYZ7diI?fe…

What distinguishes European & US perspectives on China? The US sees China as a challenge to 🇺🇸 supremacy. Europe, meanwhile, has not achieved supremacy on a global scale. So the US and Europe experience China’s challenge very differently, notes Norbert Röttgen at Chatham House event.

Hamas is using the hostage negotiations to "make political points" in the Palestinian community because it's actions have "cost the Palestinian community pretty much all of Gaza and thousands of Palestinian lives". My DW News talk today w Hans-Jakob Schindler of CEP

The last 24 hrs have given us much to digest in the Israel-Hamas story. Here’s an 18-minute summary from my morning newscasts. Includes interviews w DW’s Tania Kraemer in 🇮🇱, Palestinian journalist Hazem Balousha in 🇯🇴, and CEP expert H.J Schindler in🇩🇪 youtu.be/DqjYVpFDT7A?si…

"Every day is the worst day of their lives." I asked Shaina Low of the humanitarian org Norwegian Refugee Council what it's like for her colleagues on the ground in Gaza trying to help people trapped in an active war zone.

This should never have happened reuters.com/world/israeli-…

Headlines from my 11 a.m. show ... - COP 28 in overtime as countries clash over fossil fuel phase out - Israel ramps up inspections of aid deliveries to Gaza - Poland prepares for EU-friendlier government under PM Donald Tusk

Israel says inspections to start at the Kerem Shalom crossing to allow more humanitarian supplies to enter #Gaza. My colleague Terry Martin asks about the possible impact this may have. And: the UN General Assembly is to vote on an immediate ceasefire - again. The latest DW News

Anti-microbial resistant pathogens on the march, a budgetary trainwreck in 🇩🇪, violence & displacement in Sudan, death & destruction in Gaza, and election chaos in Congo - not exactly merry topics for my last day on the anchor desk before Xmas. May there be brighter days ahead 🙏

Will the UN’s new humanitarian coordinator for Gaza be able to improve things in the territory? Samah Hadid سماح of Norwegian Refugee Council tells me true help can only come with a ceasefire. She alleges that Israel is now using starvation as a weapon of war. 👉 youtu.be/PzNGmYirftU?si…

+++ BREAKING+++ A massive Russian air attack on Ukraine has killed at least a dozen people and injured many more. Multiple cities were targetted including Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Odesa. I got this update just moments ago from Deutsche Welle correspondent Sonia Phalnikar in Kyiv.

Great talking this week DW News w Matthew Moore, Felix Maringa Maina, Rebecca Ritters, Mariel Müller, Aya Ibrahim, Phoebe Kong, Lars Halter, Juri Rescheto, Beenish Javed; Olga Stefanishyna, Marina Miron, @CVLalmalsawmi, Sultan Barakat | سلطان بركات, Christopher Akiki Gunness & many others. Thanks! 🙏

With his political rivals either in prison, in exile, or dead, Vladimir Putin faces no serious opposition in Russia's presidential election. I asked DW Deutsche Welle's Roman Goncharenko if democracy is dead in Russia.

Important and timely discussion - thanks, Stormy Mildner / Aspen Germany for organizing such an excellent panel and inviting me to moderate! #GATTC24

Looking forward to speaking again today with the remarkable Sviatlana Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya at the #delphiforum

“Pegasus is not a naturally occurring vulnerability; it is a business,” warned Meredith Whittaker (Meredith Whittaker) while discussing the power dynamics of surveillance, focusing on the exploitative nature of spyware like Pegasus. In the same panel, Thomas Tscherich from