Hello everyone, its 11 pm in the besige gaza trip, youre watching press tv, world news, cycle of bloodshed continues repeating itself in gaza as israel takes no pause and his air and artillery strikes on the palestinian territory. A fresh attack on the Southern City of rafa kills one person and injures several others. Of israels relentless attacks to killed 90 palestinians and injured scores of over the past 24 hours in gaza, and gaza city regime warplanes created a belt of fire around a school currently being used as a shelter. Death total from israels genocide in the palestinian territory stands at close to of 29,900. Most of them women and children. The humanitarian situation is deteriorating with hospitals under immense strain. The palestinan red crecent has suspended its work in gaza for 48 hours because israely military has failed to ensure the safety of. Teams, yes President Joe Biden has expressed hope that the seas far will be established in the gazas trip by next monday amid reports of progress and talks between negotiators in the qatari capital. At least my my my National Security advisors tells me that were close, were close, its not done yet, and my hope is by next monday well have a cease fire. Bydens comments came after the white house National Security advisor confirmed that negotiators are close to reaching a seas fire deal. Doha is hosting a new round of talks with president s of representatives from israel, qatar, egypt and the us. Amas official has reacted to bidens remark saying there are still big gaps that need to be bridged. The official says comments by the us president or premature and do not match a situation on the ground, according to. To immediate reports, hamos has received a draft of proposal which allows for 40day initial halt in all military operations in gaza. Pause will potentially allow the release of 40 israeli captives in exchange for 400 palestinians held in israeli jails. It also includes return of displaced palestinians to northern gaza as well as entry of aid trucks to the besieg territory. Un says is really forces. Systematically blocking access to people in need in gaza, complicating the task of del delivering aid there, spokesman for the Un Humanitarian Agency to carrying out medical evacuations and aid deliveries in northern gaza has become impossible, yetlarks that humanitarian operations are becoming increasingly difficult in the south, humanitarian agencies delivering aid to gaza, so even convoys cleared in advance with israeli authorities have repeatedly either been blocked or come under fire. According to the world health organization, all planned aid convoys into northern gazas trip have been denied by israeli authorities in recent weeks. Activists with Palestine Action of uk based pro palestinian protest network have once again barricaded the entrance to one of israels largest weapons profiders, Elbit Systems by locking themselves together. Palestine action said activists prevented all entry and operations for several hours chanted slogans in solidarity with palestinians and sl military support for israel, groups been targeting elbet systems location throughout britain for more than three years now. Albert systems provides Israeli Military with drones, munitions, combat vehicles, missiles and other types of weaponry. In recent weeks a pro palestine advogacy groups across the world have intensified their campaign against corporations and industries that aid israel in its campaign of genocide. Palestinians have demonstrated in several areas of the occupied west Bank Following call by palestinian factions to declare tuesday a day of rage, they protested the israely aggression against the besieg gaza strip and the occupied west bank and support palestinan prisoners in israeli jails. Palestinians have taken to the streets across the occupied west bank to protest against the israeli genocide. On the gaza strip as it nears 150 days, despite the bad weather and heavy rain, protesters roamed the streets of ramallah chanting for gaza and demanding an end to israels war on the beside this trip. People here say that israel is using the war on gaza escalate its military measures in the west bank. Despite the israeli nonstop crimes against our people and attempts to break their will, the palestinians there in gaza are steadfast and the resistance is still fighting. Wherever the palestinian. Are they are facing the israeli illegal plans and violence and the killing that is everywhere, settlement expansion, judaization attempts and now the israely plans of eviction and attempts to break the resistance in gaza that all palestinians are embracing. Also, amongst the demands of the Palestinian Protesters is to shed the light to the suffering of the thousands of prisoners incarcerated in israeli jails under inhumane condition. In addition to the fact that the Israeli Regime is using the illegal administrator. Prisoners are being held under a disastrous situation in israeli jails, 7,300 were detained from the west bank and over 20 from the gaza strip since the 7th of october, and we should not forget that over 4,000 have already been in prison before, so were talking today about over 11,500 prisoners who are being tort. Humiliated and maltreated, hundreds are in Serious Health condition and theyre facing slow death. With all ours are focused on the gaza strip, Israeli Regime continues tipping up its violence here in the occupied west bank. The Israeli Forces shot dead four palestinians in separate incidents in alfar refugee camp and to bos town northeast and at mazmuria checkpoint nearbit, bringing the number of palestinians killed in the west bank since the start of the war on gaza to 411. Protesters today are stressing that no one is getting used to the israeli genocide in the beseged gaza strip at the time when the regimes atrocities against palestinians in the occupied west bank are on the rise. They say this is the least they can do to express their anger, to express their support to their fellow palestinians in gaza and to show them that they are not alone. Mona khandiel for press tv, occupied jumala. Iran once again condemns israels frequent attacks on syrian civilians and infrastructure as a blating violation of international law. The ongoing israeli missile attack on civilians and civilian infrastructure further complicate the situation in syria, interrupt humanitarian activities and disrupt humanitarian accesses. We strongly condemn the Israeli Regime. For such blatant violations. E was addressing a Un Security Council meeting on the situation in west asia. He condemned presence of Foreign Forces in syria saying they are exploiting syrian soil as safe haven to carry out their heinous acts of terrorism. He further centured wests unilateral sanctions on the arab state, which she said hinder access to its most needed humanitarian aid. Your alls foreign minister was called for creation of a Un Fact Finding Mission to brobe israely war crimes in gaza saying the world body is at risk of being discredited for its inaction. The iranian minister made the remarks in a meeting with un rights chief bulker turk in geneva. He said the Un Rights Council can move to probe israely war crimes and prosecute criminals. The iranian minister said the systematic violations of human rights in gaza have caused a catastrophe of the century. Un rights chief out hell keep up efforts to help ease the humanitarian crisis in gaza and promote peace in the region. He stressed the need for a political solution to end the war. And earlier press Tv Correspondent gisu mishan ahmedi joined us to brief us on hossain abdullah hiyans meetings in geneva. It has actually been a trip jam packed with meetings um since we arrived in geneva. The foreign minister has held lots of bilateral meetings accounting up until now 12. Bilateral meetings were held uh in the room that im standing right now, the farm minister uh did address three different sessions, as you mentioned, one of them was the highlevel meeting of the human Rights Council yesterday, there was a disarmament meeting and also a sideline event where representatives that was from almost all the countries around the world were present there, rallying support for palestine, the people in gaza. And of course demanding immediate cease fire and the Iranian Foreign minister was one of the uh the first speakers to address that session and also there was the Saudi Arabian farm minister the farm minister of egypt and it was interesting to see these countries also coming together in order to form a united front demanding for immediate cease fire and of course to alleviate the situation. The palestinians, so considering the fact is that the foreign minister has also held meetings with the head the icrc with antonio guteris himself, the un secretary general, and of course today with the high commissioner of human rights, well this definitely means something, and that last meeting in particular uh media was not allowed to attend, but by the looks of things and the way these meetings. Are going on uh, we are very hopeful that some kind of concrete action in support of palestinians will come out of it. Iran is preparing to hold two major elections on friday, nation will go to the polls to. Choose members of parliament and the assembly of experts into separate polls. Nearly 15,00 candidates are competing this year, a record numbers since victory of the Islamic Revolution some 45 years ago. First ash reports from tehran. Iranian people are preparing for the fridays elections in which they will vote for their representatives in parliament and assembly of experts. Thousands of. These candidates 12 are women and 63 belong to the young generation which includes young activists aged between 30 and 50 years old. Islami also mentioned different political groups and parties that are participating in the upcoming elections. All the countrys political spectrums including principalists, reformists and independents are among the candidates, a close contest is underway among them in the countrys different zones and cities. According to the law, the parties can support a list of candidates as well as introducing their intended candidates. In the meantime, 200 local channels have been launched for the candidates election campaign. Ib has launched 200 local channels and the candidates can use them for their campaigns as well as the radio and social media. Nearly 40 elections have been held in iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which is a symbol of peoples power and presence in the countrys sensitive occasions. Iranians across the country will participate in the elections as they see choosing their representatives both in the parliament and assembly. Of experts as a duty to maintain the basis of religious democracy in their country. Uri on press tv, tehran. And earlier in our news review program, we discussed significance elections have had an iran since victory of the Islamic Revolution. Uh, youre watching press tv news, time now for the news review. All right, now time now to invite a couple of guests to ask for their insight on this issue, so let me invite my political. Commentator and also ham commentator both in tehran. Welcome to the show, gentlemen. Masu, lets begin with this uh special status and significance that elections have had in iran after the victory the Islamic Revolution. The leader 40 elections have been held after the victory of the Islamic Revolution. This is the 13th, i believe, the election for the parliament, if im not mistaken, and uh, first of all, what is this large number . Uh signify and do you believe that this time around, the elections that we have around the corner on friday uh, are they kind of more important than the previous ones at this juncture . Well, i think every every election is important, but overall is the whole process, the fact that this has been going on for so long, and the fact that this has been established, the democracy, the religious democracy has been established in iran and it become part and parcel of expectation of the people as a means of bringing change and moving forward. Now excuse me, now the the important aspect is that all the opponents of iran which are initiated by the western powers, by the israelis, by the americans and and you now the the pro so called shah and so forth, they dont want democracy, they dont want democracy in iran, they dont want democracy in the whole region, and the fact of the matter is that the only democracy in the region ie in iran has come despite all the opposition by the american, by the israelis and so forth, i mean it its very clear the the nature of the opposition. To the to the Islamic Republic and you just have to look at the gatherings of the zionists supporting the genocide and you see the elements of the show supporters elements of opposition and saying that they are in partnership with the genocidal establishment of thesign state so really these people have got morality, no legitimacy and indeed they want to destroy not just Islamic Republic, but the empowerment of the people in iran, and you know, i think not just iranians should celebrate this sort of opportunity and the position of the establishment of the democracy, religious democracy in iran, but i think the whole region needs to celebrate it, right . Because it shows that despite the the will of the United States and the west who want to keep dictatorships in place in the region and everywhere else, people do have the ability to rise up and empower themselves, and so every time i think people are not just voting for their future, but theyre actually voting for alternative to the dictatorship that surrounds this. Okay, okay, with not much time, let me uh, ask hamiraz another question, uh, ham, we have one minute, if you could tell us about the turnout, its been so large in iran uh, all around, compared to some countries like uh, the western lets say states, claiments of human rights and democracy, maybe 30 turn out is a big one, when you uh look at the statistics in some European Countries and else around the world, but in iran its always been uh much greater than that, why . Because uh, the Islamic Teachings actually and the basics of the Islamic Republic is is based on educating people, empowering people and letting people to know more and be more political, so the islamic establishment wants people more political and more active in their own destiny and their own country and their own politics and everything, so it tries to let people speak, let the people vote and let people no one discuss, but on the other side of the story, the liberal democracy or lets say the capitalist capitalist liberal democracy is something that wants people inactive and they want just a group of aits to rule the countries and the rest of the people and the public be only serving those aliats, so they dont want them to be aware of the politics, they dont want be very well informed about anything, any political issues and such things, so that. Is the main difference and thats why the Islamic Republic insis on on people to turn out to participate in the voting, even if they dont accept the islamic, even if they are angry, for example, government over some policies and some things, again the the their destiny should be decided at the ballet box and by the voting, which is democrating and correct way of using the vote of people. Okay, appreciate the inside, masod shajar and hamid commentators both in tehran. Thank you. I should also thank our viewers for watching this episode of the news review on pr. Welcome back everyone, youre watching press tv, world news, antimuslim hate speech, more than double throughout india last year a mid accusations of islamophobic tendencies against Prime Minister namodis party, the bjp. A Research Group says the incidents mostly took place in states governed by the ruling hindu nationalist party. Manuar zaman reports from new delhi. As india prepares for the Worlds Largest elections in few months, a Research Group has recorded alarming spike in antimuslim hate speech across the country. The usbased india lab said hate speech rose by 62 in the second half of 2023. Compared to the First Six Months of the year, the states where most antimuslim hate speeches were recorded are maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and madhya pradesh, consider the biggest water basis of Prime MinisterNarendra Modis hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata party, other states governed by bjp were not immune either, its actually all about the elections, as the ruling party want to retain the power, they dont want to lose this election, they are. Stating the largest Muslim Community and the minority has become easy tool, they are distracting people from actual crisis, the country is facing and for them provoking the religious sentiments the people, through hate speeches and targeting of muslims have become election winning issue, especially for large Political Parties like bjp. India lab says it compiled data of incidents reported by indian media and tracked Online Activity of hindu nationalist group. In recent months, a similar Research Group