One welcome to our studios in the capital tehran. This is press tv news. Thanks for joining us. The scenes of horrific killing of palestinians have become common ever since the israel regime launched its genocidal war on the gaza strip. The Regime Forces have massacred scores more gazans who were waiting for humanitarian aid in gaza city. According to the Palestinian Health ministry, 112 people were killed after israeli snipers, shot directly at a crowd waiting for aid in the early morning, hundreds more sustained injuries. The dead and the wounded have been taken to alshifa and kamal adwan hospitals. The Palestinian Foreign ministry has condemned the attack saying that it was a cold blooded massacre. Palestini Resistance Movements hamas and the Islamic Jihad have also centured the massacre of gazans. Palestinians are already struggling with. Shortages of food as israel regime is using starvation as a weapon against them. Shortages have caused the surge and malnutrition among children with the un, warning of a looming famon. The israely genocide has so far killed over 30, 100 gazons. Palestinian fighters meanwile keep putting stiff resistance to israely forces in gaza as fighting on the ground rages on. The military wing of the Hamas Resistance Movement says that has targeted a group of Israeli Soldiers in gaza city with morters. The kasan brigade says that it has also shelled Israeli Armored vehicles there. Meanwile fighting continued in the Southern City of hanjunis where the palestinian islam. Jihad movement says that his fighters hit an israeli merkava tank as well as a military bulldozer. Israel has so far confirm the killing of 243 of its troopers since the regime launched a Ground Invasion of gaza in late october. Palestinian groups say the regime is intentionally hiding the real number of casualties among its forces to avoid the israeli public anger. Palestinians of have launched a shooting operation. By west bank near in israelments, the operation is left two israelis dead. A correspondent of ramalandil joined us earlier with more details. The Israeli Military said that, first of all three palestinians arrived at gas station near the legal settlement of viili close to uh ramallah and opened fire at Israeli Soldiers, there they killed two. The Israeli Forces opened. Fire and they killed one of those palestinian fighters who was identified later as Muhammad Manasra from colondia refugee camp and he is a palestinian officer working with the Palestinian Security forces. However, its not clear up till the moment if two palestinians were with him or no, because uptil the moment we are speaking about only one palestinian was shot and killed, all the areas leading to the illegal settlement of. And the roads between the the areas from the illegal settlement of ali to northern the occupied west bank as well as returning back to ramalazol refugee camp and the settlement of b have been completely closed with israeli sitlers in the streets throwing stones at palestinian vehicles and attacking palestinian vehicles at the time being. Israel up demolishing palestinian homes in the occupied west bank as the whole world watches the regimes genocide in gaza. According to the un office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs. Nearly 200 palestinian structures in the west bank have been. Demolished in 2024, says 150 of them are homes, most of them were demolished under the pres that they have been built without permits, however Rights Groups say obtaining permits are nearly impossible. According to the un, more than 10,000 palestinian structures have been demolished in the west bank since the year 2009, resulting in displacement of thousands of palestinians. The lebanese Resistance Movement has conducted yet another operation on israel, response to the. Regimes attacks along level on southern border. Lesbolla says it is targeted an Israeli Military position in the occupied lebanese shaeba farms. The group has also launched another operation targeting gathering of Israeli Soldiers with missiles weapons. The operation inflicted direct losses on the Israeli Forces. The lebanese Resistance Movement also targeted the cities of ilan and haifah in the occupied territories. Meanwhile, israels artilleries targeted the town of nakura in southern lebanon. The regimes drone also fell. The leader of Yemen Movement says the Germany Armed forces have managed to successfully stop the movement of all israeli linked vessels in the red sea and also b straight. With gods help our operation. In confronting the enemy have reached the level of targeting 54 ships. This is very important number, it is also a very large number. As we said in all the previous speeches, with gods help and with gods support, we achieved the goal of preventing the israeli enemy. From moving in bbel mandib and the red sea whereby its commercial maritime movement, lot of this movement relied on this passage way, but this has been obstructed to a large degree, it might also have been obstructed completely, abdulthy said the us and the uk have failed to limit yamany operations and are surprised of soundscaping. Abilities, he reiterated that yemen will continue his military operations in the red sea until israel stops this onslot on gaza and ends the seage on the palestinian territory. The yemini leader also slammed the us large scale support for israels genocidal war. He noted that a us soldier selfimilating reflects the depth of resentments and public anger against washington. Hothi stated that israel and his allies want to eliminate palestine all together. Devastating wars, terrorism, the israeli lobby, crackdown, diplomacy. Iran elections, 2024. Welcome back to the news here on press tv. Iran has launched yet another home grown satellite as the country aims to bridge the gap with other nations in the race for space dominance. President reports. The new satellite pars won the board sayus launch vehicle was blasted off from a Russian Space base and success. Successfully put into orbit 500 km above earth. The imaging and Research Satellite will provide set of Remote Sensing data that can be used in various fields including land, forest, Water Monitoring and mining and Energy Transmission lines. The domestically made satellite weighs nearly 150 kilograms and is capable to capture images of 95 of iranian territory. The pars one satellite is twoway researching satellite built by the Iran Space Research Institute and has three types of applications for collecting data from the earths surface. The first payload of the color spectrum with accuracy of 15 meters. The second payload with accuracy of 1150 meters for thermal imaging and a paleo of the 300 me accuracy for imaging with short wave infrared spectra. Which is used to identify plant and forestry pests, some iranians gathered in the countrys Space Research institute to watch the event and express their thoughts about with the cooperation of knowledgebased companies, this is the second foreign launch of iranian satellite. Last year, iran launched khayam satellite from a space launching pad in kazakhstan. Iran is among the worlds top 10 countries capable of developing and launching satellites. The latest launch is an important step forward in the countrys Space Program despite sanctions imposed by western countries in recent. With respect to home grown satellites in iran and its more applicable compareds and applied compared to other satellites will cast their ballots for new parliament and deliberative body called the assembly of experts on friday, more than 61 Million People are eligible to elect the representatives from over 15,00 candidates competing in the election. We earlier discussed the significance of this years elections in our news review program. Lets take a listen to what our guests had to say. Were watching press tvs news review where we look deeper into some of the top stories the day on this segment of the program in iran. Candidates vying for seats in parliament and the assembly of experts have wrapped up their election campaigns. Millions of iranians will be heading to the polls on friday to cast their ballots for the 290 Member Parliament and the 88 Seat Assembly of experts. Irans interior Ministry Says over 15,000 candidates are competing in the parliamentary elections this year, record since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. The iranian legislative body called the madlis is elected for fouryear term. Hundreds of candidates are also in the frey for the assembly of experts a. Deliberative body elected for eight years. In his recent speech, the leader of the Islamic Revolution adi khamenei called for massive voter turnout for elections, which he described as the main pillar of the Islamic Republic. Joining us on this edition of the news review, we have uh press tvs very own gisumi sham, he was joining us from the iranian capital tehran, also we have journalist author and producer sakina datu joining us from. The british capital london uh welcome to the program to the both of you, lets start off with uh gisu in tehran, gisu, youve been following the elections very closely, talked us about the mood and the atmosphere uh leading into fridays elections and if you can also uh explain the election process for our center viewers as well uh, well basically i have to tell you that today uh 8 oclock local time uh campaigning stopped all campaigning activities actually, according to law was supposed to stop uh, the candidates did have until this morning enough time to uh present their political views or their programs and elected into the Iranian Parliament. Now uh, it is quite interesting to see so many candidates uh taking part in the elections, this time around, more than 15,000 candidates and 12 of them are women, which is again another very uh significant uh number uh of the women taking part in uh these elections also makes the elections this time around very interesting to watch. So uh at the same time simultaneously we do know that the assembly of experts is also um holding its uh elections at the same time and the assembly of experts itself is very important uh institution in the Islamic Republic of iran, you know that they are task with uh choosing the leader of the Islamic Republic of iran and also uh they oversee the actions. The leader as well, so thats a very important uh Democratic Institution as well, aside from the parliament with all the power that the Iranian Parliament has as Democratic Institution again as well. Thanks, so lets bring in our guest in london sakina du talked give us your views uh about the Upcoming Elections and uh whats it stake at the ballot box on friday . So i one of the things i think that find very interesting is the amount of candidates that are vying, 15, looking on from here, this is a sign of a space, a public space that is open to everybody, and unlike what you know the western media here or the western politicians will make us believe that iran is a theocracy, it does not have democracy, but watching these elections it is very obvious that there is an open space for everyone, and this is really a sign of a thriving, a progressive. Country, theres also lot of talk around here about trying to instigate, for example iranians not to turn out in large numbers, to reduce the voter turnout, because this would signif that people are not happy with whats going on, and i just think that this is message, for for iranians to be very cautious internally to understand that there are different forces working towards destabilizing a lot. Of things, but i just want to say that there are problems in every nations, Economic Issues are not limited to iran, they are a global problem at the moment, and i think internally iranian should remember that there is huge leadership that iran shows around the world in in issues of palestine, on morality, on moral Politics Around the world, in science with the launch of for example the satellite, okay lets leave it there, thanks to gisumi sham, how do your correspondent joining us from the iranian capital . Tehran and thanks to journalist author and producer sakina datu joining us from the british capital london, with that it brings us to an end here on this edition of the news review, but sticker on theres plenty more to come, youre on press tv. Iraq is moving forward to end the us Led InternationalCoalition Mission in the country. The growing antius sentiment in the nation has led the government to push the coalition for a time table. For the withdrawal of his troops from iraq. Muslim salim has this report from baghdad. As a result of a broad consensus in iraq to end the presence of us Led InternationalCoalition Forces from the country, both the iraqi nation and government made it Crystal Clear that these military forces are no longer needed. Iraqi National Security advisor qasim stated that all political factions in the country have agreed on the need to end the presence of us Led Military Coalition reportedly formed to fight daesh terrorist group. Today were witnessing the negotiation with the International Coalition forces, and honestly, what makes us the iraqi people exasperated is the insistance by the us to keep its troops on our land to have an intervention in the military scene of iraq and neighboring syria. Iraqi Prime MinisterMuhammad Sudani stated that the western Alliance Mission will end at the baghdad governments official request. He. Also said that the government is setting a date for the start of Bilateral Committee talks, which includes representatives of the military coalition to put arrangements to end the presence of International Coalition forces in iraq permanently. We have collected more than 100 signatures and prepared the legal draft to end the International Coalition mission in iraq, and we pledge before god to our people that we will enact the law to expel the Foreign Forces from our land. The demands to and us. Military presence in iraq are not new after washingtons assassination of top iraqi and iranian antiterror commanders, general Qasim Sulaymani and Abu Mahdi Muhandis four years ago, Iraqi Parliament voted to expall. Foreign forces who can endanger security and stability in iraq and jeopardize civil peace. Following the recent attacks on antiterror forces and the continued violations on the countrys sovereignty, the iraqi nation and government are now determined to end the presence of four military forces to prevent any further escalations that can endanger the stability and security of iraq. Muslim salim press tv, baghdad. South koreans. Civil groups this week demand an end to massive us south korea war games called freedom shield, which are scheduled to begin march 4 and to run through march 14th. They argue that the intensification of this years us south korea drills will further heighten tensions and increase the risk of conflict with the dprk. President frank smith has more from the south korean capital soul. The us and south korea wednesday announced they will conduct largescale joint military. Drills beginning next week to run for 11 days. The us said the drills are routine. These exercises, theyre nothing do, these are the same exercises that weve been doing for decades. The drills have previously been suspended to improve relations with the dprk, but current south green president has resumed the drills as part of a hardline policy against pyongyang, which is opposed by many south koreans. Administration and us, south korea, Japan AllianceMust Immediately cease all hostile military actions on and around the Korean Peninsula and resume the Korean Peninsula of Peace Process by withdrawing its hostile policy toward north korea. Activists warn military exercises can also generate miscalculations and accidents. Isnt military training itself preparing for war, because w