Gaza Tunnels, GM Contract With UAW Members, Guatemala and Democracy
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Israel says IT is uncovering an intricate al system used by hamas in gaza.

You have the underworld of goa filled with fighters, hostages, causin, civilians, arms, electricity.

So what does israel el do? now? I mishel marton.

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As israeli expressed their military campaign in gaza, big part of that effort is destroying the tunnel network built by homos.

Israel says IT is uncovering many tunnels, including one just outside the SHE for hospital in gaza city. Israeli military spokesman jor at our one spelman put in this way.

you have two gossips today, have the gossip trip above ground, and you have the underworld of gaza filled with fighters, hostages, gozen, civilians, arms, electricity.

For more, we're joined by M P. R, greg mirry in television. Gg, you just got back from southern israel. Near gas are what you find out.

Well, I visited a large israeli military base where several journalists were brief ed by military officers about the israeli say they are uncovering large numbers of these tunnels as expected. But the sheer size of the network and the level of sophistication is is really beyond what they expected. Many are uncovered at or near sensitive sites, hospitals, mosques, schools, h when they go into the homes, abandoned homes, they should save a mass. Commanders, there are often tunnel entrances either inside or in the home, or just outside ded.

So how are the israeli dealing with these tunnels once they find them?

So they're often booby trapped in. In one instance, for israeli soldiers were killed as they opened a tunnel entrance. Here's major drones spill. And again, on the homos tunnels.

you've got fake doors, you've fake walls. They've got living y've underground hatches. The entire total l network is essentially built to give .

them a techno advantage. So because of this, israel is not sending soldiers into the tunnels of using robots to go down and search. And once you've looked inside, the israelis bring in what is essentially a tanker truck filled with explosive jail. Now, a hose pumps this jail into the tunnel chef, which can go down sixty, seventy, eighty five and the jail, and uses its way deeper into the tunnel. The israelis then set off the explosive, and if IT works, IT collapses the tunnel entrance since up this huge black smoke OK.

So how much leaders have said that this network stretches for some three hundred miles? Does israel think you can destroy the whole thing?

So the israeli say, this is a very methodical job. Israel often just blows up the tunnel entrance shaft, as I just described. That makes IT unusable, at least for now.

But it's simply too time consuming, the israeli say, to destroy the entire tunnels that go on for miles. Chris crossing gaza, uh, one military special said that even with this current israeli approach is limited approach. You could take months and months OK. now. great.

What can you tell us about negotiations or with the hostages held by hamage? Za.

so they're ongoing, but there's no deal yet. Uh, the negotiations seem focus on exchanging women and children, baby, fifty two, one hundred from each side. This would be hostages held by humans who are believed to be in those tunnels.

And palestinian women and children jail, dan israel. This could also include a pause in the fighting for PS a couple days. And I just a couple final notes here.

Um israel says that has recovered the bodies of two israeli women who were taken hostage in in gaza. One is a nineteen year old female soldier, the other is sixty four year old woman. Israel says both were found in chief of hospital and also the humAnitarian.

An crisis in gaza continues to worsen. Food, water are increasingly difficult. Define the world. Fu program says virtually all of gazes, two million people now need assistance.

That's mp. great. Mary in television. great. Thanks for reporting.

Sure thing A.

This week, there was another big win for the leaders, the united otto workers. IT wasn't .

another presidential visit or a concession from an author maker. IT was a yes vote from their own members of general motors approving the contract the union had negotiated.

That's no small thing. P, R, comma. Dominici joined us not to explain comma. So what's the .

significance of this vote? right? So the U. A, W. Had embarked on this ambitious and historic strike this fall, and then tentative deals with all of the big three automakers brought those strikes to an end.

The union had emphasized that those were historic contracts, which is true by any measure. But what we didn't know until this vote happened was whether that was actually going to be enough for workers, for members. And that was an an open question, because workers can and sometimes do reject to the deals that there are leaders of their union negotiate.

And in fact, in this vote, some very big G M plants voted no by wide margins. And for a minute, IT looked like the G M contract might not pass. But overall, about fifty five percent of G M U A W members were in favor foreign atlantis, still counting votes. But IT looks likely that they're going to approve IT by even wider margins. S.

for a minute, like I might not pass. Why was there so much opposition in a nuta?

L many workers thought the union could get even more donya ferdinand and build transmissions for G, M. And television. SHE was a novo, SHE says. This contract does have really big wins, but that's, after years of even bigger losses.

is just calling back what we've lost. It's not really technically, again, even at the end of this contract, we're still not going to be where we would have been had we never lost everything we last years ago. So is a hard thing to swallow.

And those things that the union lost that includes benefits like retirement health care. You know, this kind of work is really hard on the body. Workers used to be able to keep their spectacular health insurance after retirement. Not any more. The union did not get that back, nor did they bring back pensions for all workers.

But at end of the day, I mean, the majority of workers seem to like this contract. So what do they like about IT?

Well, IT includes significant wage gains, at least twenty five percent over four years. And some workers who are paid less today, we will see their wages more than double. There are cost of living increases on top of the raises tide, inflation of big boost in retirement contributions.

A couple things that are really focused on the future too, once the right to strike over plant closures, that's meant to be a tool to help fight future job losses. And the union made some progress toward unionizing battery plants. That's important as the autumn industry makes the switch towards electric vehicles. The U A, W wants to make sure that the jobs of the future building batteries are also unionized.

right? So that sounds like on the verge year. So what's next?

So there are still a few votes left account, but ford atlantis look poised to ratify as well. Once these are all ratified, uh, the union members get their raises. The first chunk of them, the companies will have some certainty about their labor costs.

We'll be moving ahead on making their production plans. That's what's ultimately going to determine how this affects consumers and the wider economy. The union is setting its sites on expanding unionizing at foreign automakers, ers.

And at tesla. They want the U A, W. To be bigger for the next contract talks and maybe powerful enough to get back some of the more ambitious demands that the workers didn't get this time. And those nine union companies, toyota handle, most recently sub u, have all announced to significant raises. Companies have an incentive to pay their workers enough that they are not tempted by those union pushes to join the U A, W.

I, mp communal dominus. I thanks alone.

Thank you.

Earlier this week you heard the guta mon president tell M P. R. He was facing a cool by lafin. Now that prediction has come to pass.

Prosecutors and quite say they intend to bring charges against president elect orado oval. And yesterday police arrested some of his allies. We called the charge of us.

We can no longer tolerate this political persecution because if they win.

what the ma loses. M, P, R, later put out that has been following this story. He joins now from mexico city later what happened yesterday.

So look at beginning in the early morning, police surrounded the homes of some of that about those allies. And you know, value was brought to power by Young people. And we're talking literally just graduated from college Young.

And some of them were arrested yesterday. They were charged in relation to a protest that take over what the are is public university. In one case, we saw one Young activist in tears and in handcuffs.

And as he was taken to a military prison, her mom hugged her. SHE gave her blessing, and he told her, quote to your good and god knows IT and the good people always triumph but later in the afternoon, prosecutors turned their gays to the big guy. They announced that they were going to seek charges against the president to lect over that same protest. They showed some tweet from that of, uh, in which he congratulated the students for standing up to what they say is a corrupt university leader. Prosecutors now say they will ask a court to strip the president and his vice president elect of the immunity, uh, so they can proceed with charges.

The charges you just described, how how real are they? Are they real? Well, look.

when I spoke to the president elect earlier this week, he warned ah that this is what would happen, that the government would make up a case against them. One legal scholar I spoke to said that all of these actions were, quote, outside every reasonable margin of legality. And the united states is taking a similar stance the state department called the moves against.

But now that I look, quote, brazing efforts to undermine what am I was, peaceful transition of power in some context day. Ever since I have, I love on the elections, the bottom all and government has tried a lot of legal trickery. They've alleged electoral fraud.

They've suspended at any of those party. They've raided his offices. And even after the election results were certified, they raided the electoral commissions office.

Nothing has really stuck. Instead, thousands of people across the country have come out to protest, and the government is now trying something new. They're looking at the president elect tweet.

Saw what happens. Now.

look, last night I spoke to hot band roz. He's one of the present, the lex allies, and he would have been thrown in jia yesterday but he was outside of the country um he says that the government right now is acting like a wounded beast. They're afraid that if I value takes power, they will be prosecuted for corruption so they will do anything to stay in power, he says.

I asked him if there's anything that could be done to stop the government. And he said, the us. And the european union have to coordinate their sanctions against the people leading this effort. He says the current sanctions aren't working because, for example, some of the people sanctioned by the us can still fly to europe. So he's calling for more severe, coordinated sanctions.

that mp r, either that out to join us from mexico city.

Thank you. 哎。

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