the people who've made it, here's the most of those left behind are the vulnerable, the young, the elderly, and those injured in the are set attacks. and no way to know if they manage to get to safety elsewhere or even if they're still alive. the south korea's problem and rejects the president's declaration of i'm not sure who troop saw on the streets. what happens next is on clear the washington. this is live from to ha. also coming up no less up to israel's attack on garza thousands are killed in it. strikes since june on tuesday, the opposition finds is at phones. as the syrian government suggests joined by

russian volkswagen intensify. eric and protest is out on the street again in georgia. angry over a decision to stop talks on joining the, the south korea has been plunged into a political crisis after president june so killed the clan martial law. and last night, t z e address. he accused the countries main opposition policy of sympathizing with north korea and just anti state activities. just a few hours later, paul, them into voted unanimously to block the president's declaration access. i'm a begins of coverage the, the, the streets outside south korea's parliament for testers. the nose in unprecedented, moved by their president,

president to use secures the corporation of martial law since shocked waste through the nation. now i don't mean your open a hit bindix at an emergency motion loop in order to defend the free republic of korea from the subject of north korean communist forces. and to eradicate the shameless from kronos and the state forces, the depriving our people, the freedom and happiness. this measure is necessary to safeguard constitutional, sold a freedom upon the dramatic canals. smith came, is eunice caught up in several scandals with his wife, accused of corruption and his suffering glow approval ratings. his administration is also locked in a struggle with the parliament. it's controlled by the opposition and has been unable to pass laws. he want it to appear within hours martial commander general park on su, announced the sweeping restrictions bank, political activities, control and media and strengthening arrests without warrants doctors on strike were

ordered to return to work within 48 hours. but coefficients pulled back in the late night to emergency session of harmony to go to the to citizen please rest assured that the national assembly will stand with the people, the defense democracy with the 190 all 300 members present. the national assembly passed the motions to lift the martial law a constitutional power. the president must the bay for many south koreans, the declaration steered memories of the countries authors harry. in the past. this political crisis marks. most of the most severe tests of south korea's institutions since a transition to democracy from military people. the question now is whether president to you and will comply with parliament's demand with martial law, or whether this constitutional standoff will escalate access. i'm or which will do 0, the show you some live pictures. now this is the scene in so or it's just paused for

am protest as, as you can see, all still gathering in large numbers against the presidents declaration. there is shock and anger on the streets with some of those protest as cooling for the president's arrest. let's cross now to eunice came, who is monitoring those developments from so even if it's for am is i just said, but people are still on the street suddenly a sense of anger in some that's right. jessica south korea is no stranger to protest rallies and gatherings, but certainly these don't usually happen or continue into late into the night at 4 am, but that is when president you, so you're at a 1020 p. m tuesday night. surprises the nation really put it into a state of shock when he addressed on a national television that he was declaring

a state of martial law in large part because of what he feels is, has an inability to get his, his legislative agenda through. and also he felt he felt like his appointees, 4 key cabinet posts had been a threatened or charged with with impeachment notions. so for him, this was a, a very, you know, last card, if you will, a, to try to normalize what he is, what he said in liberal democracy. but very few people saw this coming. even some of his closest aids are now coming out to tell the media that they only heard about this. a martial law declaration through the news. so it's, it would appear that this was a decision made in

a pretty type silo. and that i think is what is angry? a lot of people now that they are shifting maybe from a state of shock because south korea is known as a healthy and thriving democracy where one person is not, you know, should not be able to freeze the, the, the rule of law. and i honestly, president and you and during his candidacy he, this is his 1st political post. he used to be a lifetime, a prosecutor, but he came to the post on the platform of the rule of law, bringing that back into south korea and politics. so many people scratching their heads as to why this is unraveling right now. and tune is under the constitution martial law must be lifted when upon entering majority demands that that has already happened. so why is this still

a sense of uncertainty about what comes next to? that's right. so in about 2 and a half hours, the lawmakers were able to push their way through past the police barricade to enter into the chambers of the national assembly, 190 of them. i believe out of $300.00 law makers qualified for core am and, and they all agreed that they would agreed on this motion to ask the president to lift the state of martial law. but even though the constitution does a call require the president to then accept this motion, we have only heard deafening silence from the presidential office. so we are waiting for, i suppose, his reaction whether he will answer and honor the calls not only from

the opposition democratic party, but also his own people. power party to go ahead and honor and, and, and abide by the rule of the constitutional law to accept the national assemblies motion to cancel martial law in south korea. all right, thank you. this eunice came reporting from so south korea reaction has been coming in from the united states. the state department says it hopes the south korean paul limits vote against martial will be a binded by and president joe biden who's visiting and gola had face to say the as well, let's cross now to kimberly how good, who's lived at the white house. the us says that it hopes the problem entry vote to

bloss marshall low is respected. kimberly, we've seen some reaction coming in. we've heard from the president that he has been brief on this date as eunice was saying, catch everyone by surprise focused are some of the reaction from washington. well, as you mentioned, that did catch the, the vitamin ministration by surprise. and so that was certainly revealed in the initial statements that came out of the binding, if ministration of very terse one coming from the national security council initially that it was closely monitoring the situation and had been in contact with the government in full. but that was closely followed by a more detailed statement coming from the deputy secretary state of kurt campbell, who said that the united states was gravely concerned with the events that it was

monitoring. and that it was every hope and expectation that south korea could resolve its political disputes peacefully in accordance with the rule of law. and that the united states also stood by its ally at this time of a certainty. there's an iron clad, and that's where the president biden has used repeatedly to describe the ally of diplomatic ad security between south korea and the united states. one that's been a firm here in washington as recently as a back in april of 2023. and again, just a couple of weeks ago when the, a 2 leaders met on the sidelines of the apex. so right now, i should mention that this is sort of upheaval, this occurred in the south pre it has as certainly taught. not only the administration by surprise, but it's a little bit of a problem for the outgoing us pro today and given this is the waiting days of his administration for a number of reasons. not only because this is yet another form policy prices as

he's trying to wrap up his term, but also because there is a nearly 3000 us troops that are stationed there. and also this is really the standing up for democracy in the face of a top prosy is kind of a platform that the us president has made a foundation of his foreign policy. and so to have one of his allies that he's been very close to president you declaring martial law is really a bit of a smack in the face for the was president that has always kind of held so for you and this leaders being kind of a beacon of democracy in that region, and kimberly, as you mentioned, the president biden has characterized the relationship between the us and south korea as iron clad. what are some of the dimensions of that relationship? because of course, that operates in many different views. yeah, well in addition to the fact that there is the 30000 or nearly 30000 us soldiers

that are stationed in that region, there's the relationship and the promise that the united states would come to the aid of south korea in the face of north korean aggression, which of course is the reasoning that was given by president you and for martial law that there was this concern of the north korean infiltration if you will, and call me this concerns in the, the, the government. now, what we can tell you is that the, well there vin number for to invest here. what there certainly is is the alliance that, if there is that aggression that the united states would back south korea. so we know that there is that relationship, that is not bilateral, but try lateral with japan as well. and that is something again, that was firm back in, in april of 2023. and also again, more recently to weeks ago. and just very, very quickly, i can tell you as recently as the november 5th selection,

we saw the north korea sort of flexing its muscle, if you will, with various tests the united states, north or south korea. and japan responded by um to sort of the answer to those task by flying a b one bomb or to essentially say, look at if you take any more action, we will respond militarily. so think twice about that. so there is a very strong relationship, whether it be diplomatic or military. thank you. kimberly, that's kimberly how good reporting from the white house. let's take a closer look at self. 3 is president who's popularity has plummeted in recent months? born on december 18, 1960 and so south korea and secure, grew up in an academic family. he served as a prosecutor for nearly 30 years and became famous for pursuing high profile cases, including investigations of former presidents. in march 2022 june was elected as

south korea's 13th president in a tightly contested election since taking office. he has prioritized strengthening alliances with the us addressing what he called threats from north korea and enhancing south korea's global leadership. particularly in technology and trade. as well, i am joined now live from austin, texas by roger baker, who is the executive director of the stratford center for applied do politics as rain. thank you so much for joining us. let's begin. firstly, with how this, this situation might affect south korea's global standing. you might have heard of corresponded earlier, eunice kim describing how south korea is perceived as a vibrant and healthy democracy. so moving forward, how might this current situation affect that reputation? well, it's certainly in the short term raises a lot of questions about that, that democracy. and we'll see how this ultimately plays out. you know, south korea,

sometimes it's been compared to pakistan where both had a long history of military intervention, military coup. south korea has made it past that and seems to have kept past that. this was instigated by the president about the military, where as pakistan still has very heavy involvement of the military. i think the big challenge for south korea is the question of just how reliable is that as an economic partner, as a place for high tech investment, as a place for tourism south korea's position has been built around a lot of these soft power elements, not just hard to power and actually probably more soft power than hard power. and it starts to raise a lot of questions or concerns around that, those dynamics about south korea. and roger, as, as i mentioned, this comes at a time when south korea is a trying to strength and it's alliances with the us. what exactly might be implications, be in terms of south trans relationship with the u. s. given this, this raw, the drastic moved by president to you, which took not only the us by surprise, but according to local media reports,

even his closest aids. right. i mean that the, you know, as was mentioned before, for the bite administration, this is a, this is a, a major challenge because you have what appears to be if he doesn't to see to the parliament, an extra constitutional crisis in south korea. it's a south korean government that is no longer acting democratically and yet here is and it's a get a key place for the united states, not only in the military and circle mentor containment of china. but in, for example, of cooperation and technology and cooperation, information intelligence sharing in, in, uh, constraining or controlling the types of, uh, of technology, semi conductors and equipment that gets into china. so this becomes very, very important for the united states that they try to deal with this crisis. and if it lingers, if we see the president basically cited that he is not going to accept the parliament uh,

demands and declares that because martial law declared the parliament, defunct, he doesn't have to listen to them. then we go into a potential constitutional crisis. the judiciary is under martial law and the giant question becomes, what happens to the military and how does the u. s. f. k. manage its relations with the south korean military at a time where the military may not be fully unified and what they're doing internally. and roger, of course, another possibility that's with raising that we've heard from, unless already, isn't this situation could lead to the impeachment of president june, who was already suffering from plummeting rates of popularity? how would you characterize the relationship between the u. s. and south korea under his leadership. and so it's been, it's been a little mixed to june, has attempted to position himself actually more as someone who would be able to manage and work with the incoming trump administration. he's been much more

aggressive or a sort of on north korea, on the issue of north korea's missiles, north korea as human rights. things of that sort of. she has facilitated the ability of the trilateral defense cooperation with japan, which is something his predecessors were unwilling or unable to do. and in that sense, overall, the united states has perceived him as a, as a fairly positive actor. if we do so use impeachment, for example, his replacement is likely going to come from the, the more liberal opposition and some of those try lateral dynamics with japan may be put at risk once again. thank you so much, roger. that's rhonda bank from the stratford center for applied to your politics at rain. a seal ahead on 0 to 0. and now the knights of demonstrations in georgia protest is around happy with the decisions to suspend tools to join the european union and live into place.

the patio there remains a cold and i'm settled for cost of through the mid week. for europe, you can see some cloud moving across central areas that's going to bring us some width and even wintery weather, to parts of the outs and down below in the south, where you can see those unsettled conditions. continuing to plague much of the mediterranean, with some heavy rain moving into the north of africa across easily and on woods to greece, where we still have those amble warnings remains wintery as well as pots of turkey, a wedge across the black sea grey and gloomy across the northeast with a wintry feature coming in across the baltic states steals the sun, shone been very cold across a scant anavia. it is looking much, we'll settle to spain, portugal, and france, but not for long ones, the se,

but more heavy rain starting to work its way in bringing some heavy showers to western pots from, says, wendy and wet conditions will dominate for island and britain, bringing some snow to scotland, some snow as well for norway, temperatures happens to st. pretty low. it is while the cold will see them pick up across from west and areas, but out east. it is going to be basically cold. if you look at the 3 day for moscow, we bought snow on wednesday, march cold on friday of the a full year of war in gaza. and now it is really troops invading lebanon. are the us in israel working to reshape the entire region. now with trump back in the white house. ready what can america expect, and what can the world expand? the quizzical look at us politics, the bottom line,

investigating the use and abuse of power across the globe. on alex's here, the the hello again, this is a reminder of our top story, is this. our south korea's national assembly has passed a resolution, smoking the marshal or declared by the president calling it's invalid. president june secure decline of martial law in an unannounced late 19th. the address, he accused the countries main opposition policy sympathizing with north korea and of the anti states activities. the president's own country has called on him to

switch to the least martial move following the parliamentary goes the baton. no, it's a gun. so with thousands of palestinians have been killed, this really strikes on tuesday and gone to the city. are you in school and a sports club. sheltering hundreds of displaced palestinians have been targeted in separate is rarely as strikes. multiple deaths and injuries are reported most in the area was also hits earlier on tuesday. and now there is mainly a type of target in giovanni, a refugee camp, setting several residential buildings on fire hunting, fluids reports from data. throughout the day, we're witnessing a storage in the tox, particularly on golf, a city where there's really monetary, within a span of the pos, a few hours here at more deadly attacks are getting rid of dental buildings,

public facility valuation centers middle school, and as they through neighborhood housing, hundreds of displays, families, truck, was this truck with the wrong miss. all of these were looking at 6 people reported because right of the spot and many other with various injuries were all transfers out at the hospital on a supper. the tags is really a military target, it is for to swap in what's been part of java city killing for people. and more than 8 with various injuries chris, some of them was reported with the critical injuries, also transferred to an over well hospitalized right now the hospital has been accommodating large numbers of injuries for the past few months to the point now it's being pushed to the brink of the lab with insufficient medical staff available right now to provide the proper medical care and the acute shortage your medical supply altogether, making it very difficult for the health facilities to operate in a sustainable proper way. also another attack in

a shudder refuge account. this particular refuge account has been released that the bond vida is really military since the initial weeks of this genocide of war. the vast majority of holes in life supporting a system across directors you can own means of life has been destroyed or severely damaged. and the majority of people have been pushed into further internal displacement as the worst continues the northern part of the stripper witnessing and increase of the genocide those are couple would be it's ms. lindsey activities going on right now. the systematic destruction of demolition of homes as well as the absolutely destruction of all means of life, including agriculture. land that involves those largely in the northern part of the trip. the hospitals have increased out of service. the entire northern part of the state is running down and one operation of health facilities that is running at the

lowest capacity possible. let's not forget for the past 60 days, the northern part of the state has been without any proper access to water, medical supplies, or any of the life savings and necessarily, and that's, that's certainly needed live saving items or resources as the work continues across the javascript honey, my, how much does your data from the center on any of the gods, how the site syrian opposition side to say they are advancing and governments held territory and have seized control of several towns in the north, west and home, a province, the syrian on a house by russian forces is responding with strikes late last month on position forces launched an offensive from 8 live and as a level serious 2nd largest city in rapidly drove out. the government forces, taking full control in just 4 days. now to come wash reports from a level city almost every day, life is like that for local people. just days after it was taken by opposition

functions. a. we're here now in the city of a level in a safe neighborhood. you just choose to do one of the most popular and busiest neighborhoods in the area and famous with its markets and restaurants in the city of other people. as you can see behind me. now the local markets are. busy are slowly and gradually reopening in the city to meet the needs of the people. uh and uh are the pro cities, as you can see also over there. uh, one of the most famous restaurants in ali post city. we just talked to the owner and he told us that uh, they are just trying to cope with the rapid changes that will be posted. he has witness. and the last a few days as the opposition forces are now control of the city and its

entirety, due to the stuff we're trying to meet the needs of the people on trying to be of service to the residents of a live post city. uh over there, as you can see now the, uh, markets are, you know, gradually pre opening and people are now, um, uh, coming back to open their markets to open. uh, they're, uh, they're trading and now some civilian expenses of the previous days. some sort of a frustration has this sense, but now we felt that this has reduced a little bit of miles. you're hoping with the changes that the area uh have uh with this. and they basically told us that we have no choice and we have to adopt these changes because we have to open our re

doing. we have to open our a mark if we can shut them forever. however, the opposition for forces have been reassuring said speak to goes to gillian, and reassuring to the civilian, telling them that you can go on the street. you can open your establishment, you can, you can go on to work. and if there isn't any more plays, i see or read you more plays, you can live your lives normally and all of that was expressed and issued by the cedar and salvation. a government of the syrian opposition forces, however civilians, uh, going to hell. but the show slide the dictations of fear. but now things are changing as people are returning to their lives and their today uh, activities,

even in a slow rate. in georgia, the demonstrations are protesting for a 6 nights, many all gathered outside the parliament into police. the critics accused the ruling george and dream policy of adopting repressive policies and steering the country away from its pro european pon. dimitri method and co is live in the trojan capital to police of jo, dimitri, this is the 6 consecutive night of protests took us through what the scene is like behind you. what we have just been pushed away from parliament square the the area of roost of any avenue which is right in front of the problem and building because this several trucks with would expand the 1st thing i had from various directions. you see those flashing lights about them. they are the warning sap of the by the police right now that people don't clear out . they will face put the support space, good people at that. these warnings,

quite serious certificate in the past couple of nights. it's been a violence, this is night. number 6, filled out, thousands of people here moving around with me moving away from, of the parliament building. and there was 2 jobs that were water cannon, despite the temperatures being close to sub 0 right now. so uh, people know that these warnings not to be taken lightly. and basically this is the same scenario that happens every night. people gather upon them in square police want them, and they stop pushing them away every night as i have been told by locals, this a threshold has been earlier and earlier you need to be doing problem dimitria the who has been showing you as you've been speaking with them, the people people are very passionate about about what's, what's happening right now. to me, to what has locals been telling you as you've been speaking with them on the ground . the people have been telling me and

you know, each other screaming out loud that they do not want the calls that the gulf.