to his hosting its 10 towards certain date on the 10th of december 2024 in doha, tom shay come on the award for translation and international understanding from the arabic language to mankind. the serial position fights to say they've taken full control of a city of homes. there is a capital of the revolution free prisoners along the way, the okay johnston, this is i'll just hear a lot from the whole set coming. the positions sciences. say that on the outskirts of the capital, damascus, tearing down the images of the press as they get hundreds,

the syrian government troops of cross the border into iraq, supposition, finances, and thoughts. and israel target's more residential buildings and as strikes across garza, at least 23 people have been killed since don't on saturday. the who are getting in syria well positioned fights to say that have total control countries. 3rd largest city homes, response of a lightning offensive. that's a scene to take over several cities, including a lapse of how much data. so people have been the gathering in the central homes and slashed hosts as of present by shot on a side and climbed on the statue of his father f as a side. the area was the sites of 2 new taurus massacres. as of the beginning of

the syrian civil war. the opposition service had freed 3500 inmates in the cities central prison by the student. government said it had withdrawn its forces from the city. a few kilometers away, outside the capital of the mass, this crowd was seen something a stop to fight to reach the country side around the capital of the nice coast that's off to advancing from the south for them to capture the government has dismissed claims that present so either side was left for the capital, cannot definitely more than what the united was the now military units continue to reinforce the line across damascus and the suburban areas. to avoid any incidents that could happen, given the chaos that has going on out forces continue to urge you to not listen to room is you should trust you ami, your ami dish is committed to protect you and protect your future or lead to other

higher. yeah, i'll some group has spoken in a video statement. boom, ahamed algebra honey. so the total capture of the city of homes is imminent. quantity w. brothers. we are living in the final moments of the liberation of homes by the will of god. this is a historic event that will distinguish between truth and false that we are following which are heading, as we have advised them in the past to show compassion to the people. whoever lays down the weapon is to be granted safety and whoever fleas is not to be pursued, which are less nor coma said, joins us live, not from a live in syria. so know what's the latest you can tell us, as well as the also the rabbits advancement of the opposition groups and in the last 24 hours seizing the for one of the 4 major cities in a syrian there. and there are military operation. the cities are that off and

they told us we the and now how most of these 4 major cities are, you know, located across strategic locations surrounding the city of damascus. the made strong called on the a saw redeem a. so basically now the opposition forces are currently surrounding the city of damascus, forcing a siege on the, on the cities as the opposition forces of the uh, coming from the southern country side of the homeless and from the country side of damascus deals. and part of the country side of the muskets and also they are coming from the eastern part of the countryside. so basically what, what, what, what are they doing is that they are forcing some, some sort of a, a semi law seat on the city of, uh, damascus and pushing the assault reinforces $245.00 and the city of, uh, damascus. and according to a custom built on the which is huge,

is the spokesman of the military operation can commandment of this of the ongoing operation. he says that our forces are currently advancing into the north, north, west, through the countryside, of, of hama, of, sorry, of how much seizing the strategic city of a. how would that also pushing forward the, to the eastern country side of the house? and actually we can see in the fall of $24.00 or maybe 48 hours, a mass of advancements of the opposition forces into the entire country side of, of the items. as we saw on the previous a message or from a and a little and capturing homes and the, the advancements of the operation of the uh, opposition to parts and the construct of damascus is really putting a sort of in a very, very best situation here. now he's a basic me trap in the city of damascus. not knowing that how hard the opposition

can be owing hours. you mentioned the homes that i mean house to typically important is that city with the health is actually the not of the, of the syrian map on the ground. because it's all, it's actually on the highway to damascus. linking damascus to the uh, to the top can lift bowl and how much so. and also a house has a very historically started importers and also strategic on board, which is as it is in the center of, of the syria and very close to the city of damascus. near, near to nearly a 100 kilometers away only from the city of damascus. so the sides with dream really put a lot of effort to defend the city. however, the opposition forces launching nights on military operations. really putting the

sole source, the soldiers in a very bad situation, forcing them to 45 and the surrounding areas in the countryside or amazon, most of them actually retreated all the way to damascus. and as these advances take place that and then how all the civilian population in areas taken over by the opposition reacting tool this as well. um, i'm going to be honest here. i went to the city of olive poll. i'm a and how so what i saw in the city of other people. i saw a little bit of of, of fear because they are coming to, to a new sort of a management and government as, as the the, the city has not been a seas in its entirety by the opposition forces and also from the propaganda. lars, to by the office by the syrian radiant the basically if you will control by the opposition forces,

they are going to starve you. they're going to kill it. they're going to do this and that. so after a few days, and this is the city of other people after the uh, the strict instructions by the man, by the, by the commandments of, of the operations that do not harm anybody did not cut a tree, did not harm and animals do not bother any suitability in the city of a live was that reassure to the people that the southern region was actually lying about those guys, but the things were different and how much and house because these 2 cities actually had totally participated in the 2011 uprising and so under a massive part of them was actually controlled by the, by the opposition forces must have part of the countryside, of course. so the situation and how much specifically was special because how much actually suffered from the 1980 to massacre committed by the, by the charlotte, that spa, that of houses of the houses of the best other giving over 52000 people. the

actually civilians there totally opposition forces. we have been waiting for you for over 50 years, but now we have for you from the, from a saw that and his father and his entire family. and from what you can tell that and has this represented an underlying strength of opposition, forces o, i know for a weakness and the government mitch, i'm sorry. can you repeat the question? yes. do you think this is all about the strength of the opposition forces or has the government know that you've just been incredibly weak? well, actually there are several factors to this uh you know, to this the topic and specifically the operations, the, the, the, the opposition forces were actually preparing for the last 4 and 5 years. and as we saw the use very fast, and so to get what the, such as drones, drones coal shaheen retrieve that, which actually reached all the way to monsieur. crossing over 35 to 40 kilometers

and, and accurately, uh, hitting their targets. and also we saw non time military operations led by the opposition force and also the, the absence of a, a rating and little uh the, some of the options will be raining, the militias on the ground. and also uh, as soon as the massive brushing russian air coverage actually gave the opposition to the massive strategic investment that goes to the sea and regime. and actually we saw the same scenario previously as the opposition forces to control over 80 percent of the syrian math before the russian and reading an intervention. so basically, uh, what the fathers who just say that we can over throw us out and we can cut that over through us up if it wasn't for the russian and the rain intervention not to

come across. thank you very much indeed for that update as well. let's take a look at the changing situation in syria now, while the areas in red hair are controlled by government forces backed by iran and russia. and so recently they've held much of the central region. the green areas show territory control volume position. i'm group i had talked yeah, i'll show them on the turkish back through a national ami a week ago, they watched a surprise offensive from it live. capturing it, syria is 2nd largest city, a laptop. your position is now pushing southwards. it's taking control of the city of hama after several days of intense fighting. how about laws alone, a major highway that links the city of homes and the capital of damascus. moscow has responded by increasing strikes. and in the northern syria, the yellow area is controlled by the sewer and the democratic forces. the kurdish

that fights is supported by us troops. they've been fighting against government force, and i so fights is in the area. how the o bar is the person to assume and national condition, the opposition movement. he says, although events have taken many people by surprise, there's been a lot of planning about the groups involved. the things develops very rob liberty 1st unexpectedly by many people. but this is already the result of the pro, ration framing 4 to 5 years. and these 5, those are c, m p for the majority of them, more used to live income's showing. i'm mix shift gums and another than syria. so that's why you see a high motivation because everyone wants to go back to their home, their houses that they need paid off. the eclipse outside of copeland paid off their movement. it was through

a fast and or meals for the minimum minimum. uh, you know, uh, loved it said on the ground from uh, even they prevented the to look into the other side and many times trying to raise the cycle know, you kind of want to fail on them where they got the nation on, you know, part of their personality. so that's why we see in uh from of, for example, many of the officers and sort of the affected many of them and they stopped fighting but did not fight. and i 0 report the jobs for today. i don't 200, it's a m. uh, and they started going on inside the city of thomas. they gave some warning for the army. the dream army joined little or to let go of their weapon and whoever left their weapon wouldn't be safe on his live. they've got enjoying that girl,

or he can stay at home. and so now the doors going through inside the most we expect by the morning it would be thought that a screw would that make sure it's clear as an atom casalene joins us live now from touch. he is bored. a, with serious. so us and then bring us up to speed with what appears to be happening on the ground as well. this operation called the turns of aggression, had some geopolitical dynamics within itself. when to so we know position launch this, this offensive, nearly 10 days ago they targeted strategic phones, likely, and 4 and 5 highway holloway's, the mother to a poor expect the, i live for international airport equator submitted to a, a based midnight minutes for air base as the whole name of the base and city

strategic cities like holmes and how much it at 1st it was expected to be a limited operation level. was totally a surprise for even the position and for many of them at least uh, and then as the defense slide is of the syrian government forces collapse. gradually. they are position advanced very quickly, very rapids. they on the ground. and right now we're talking about a possibility that the opposition may take over or may to take control of damascus . the stronghold of the syrian government led by the charlotte stuff within days, or maybe within hours because everything is changing so rapidly on the ground. everything changes in, in ours. uh, that's why the situation on the ground is very bullet tiles, but the superiority in the battlefield belongs to the serial position. groups led by a head staffing at shellman and parents. they, within the last couple of years,

they had a very good opportunity in terms of training and accusing themselves within the last couple of years. back by the syrian mentioned alarm is that the formerly known as the free syrian army. currently the policy, the is the strategy of the syrian o position seems to be isolating damascus by taking over how much, how much at homes, and moving towards the mass coast and this call next to the school next to the city from the mediterranean. on the other hand, of course, it is not all of the all position and the syrian government that have been on the ground the fighting against each other so far. it, the proxies were very important, then russia and a wrong were the main supporters of the bashar assad government. then, so far, we have seen the limits at texaco a strikes as supports by the russian air forces as

a support to the syrian military. and they seem to be limited, and on the other side of the iraq, iranian, as she, i'm melisha from inside the raul. and then from is that they were the main supporters main uh, backup for the syrian ministry, but they are not on the ground. the z round has been given, give each fight through who's it has the line southern level known against israel a but currently the old position it has the, as i said, has the, a, both psychological and military superiority on the ground. this is the situation right now and, and they, and they control the cities, they literally control the cities that they have captured, giving as municipal services, collecting garbage, the trying to bring water and sort out the alexis, the problem. but of course, there are so many things to be done in those cities,

especially thinking that syria is all of the a war torn country. and because of the civil war that has been waged for more than a decade. yeah, so now you mentioned that the politics them in your, on the touch, he is bored with syria. how, what was the original play as like to, to be the viewing this well, actually, original players try to find some solutions to the civil war that has been ongoing for more than a decade at geneva. is, is a platform where the syrian government and their position that it had been represented in. but since the geneva, the process too much longer than desires, in terms of bringing and the political solution on the ground. we had a sauna, pulse it led by russia to get an e, ron in 2017, some of the serial position members,

actually it came up against that saying that this will own the, bring it bring to the war back for use. we have to the escalation zones on the ground, but at the end of the day, we have cnn. we have witness that both russia, the syrian government, have violated what a sound of toll roads on the table or the social agreements it brought on the table . the shar, so it's a government, it continues to strikes the building area of the cam. so never every other place that belonged to the position. and today in the hall, in the cause of the capital, on the sidelines of the doha, for him. the foreign ministers of, uh so the radio cuts are a rock egypt, jordan, along with the foreign ministers of russia to canada and were present, then they discussed the situation regarding syria. what can be done? what does the urgent need then? all sides issue the joint declaration saying that the escalation will cause more

problems. that's why a political solution to the problems it shall be found. but apparently, these regional players, the aim to this helps the fighting. they are not talking about the ceasefire and the opposition. on the other hand, to say that iran shouldn't be on the table, a rug should totally be excluded from any, any political discussion and regional debate about the face. the feature of the syrian people, which is understandable from their perspective. on the other hand, there are reports on international media like new york times, wall street, that's iranians have a porch to and they are a rob. the neighbors during these talk saying that they need a safe for size for the soldiers, for the, for the malicious to be extracted the from inside syria. and we heard the

rocky government spokesperson saying that more than 2000 the syrian soldiers and who were enrolled in the syrian military, the fax it to iraq. we are seeing a steering government, bashar assad government that is still to the isolated parents. they russia, e rom, gave a powerful hopes on them also because of their recon situations in their own international lawyers like in ukraine and garza, and in the southern level known about everybody's curious about what is going to happen is they're going to be a political solution because we have no idea whether the syrian government will be able to show the resilience or repel this rapid offensive, rapid advance or the silver, you know, position. no one has any idea. maybe bashar assad government will not be there in

damascus within a couple of days. looking at the speed of the fence, so these options are always on the ground, then who's going to be on the negotiation table? will there be any negotiation between the left, the, between the bashar assad government to the left off there, these are faster. what they all position, or will there be no bashar assad government who's going to negotiate about the feature of a syrian people and who's going to govern where so there are so many questions, i think it has, but since everything is speed, everything is pacing so rapidly we will find the answers very soon. probably fact, you indeed send them joining us the from tech he is bored with syria. thanks very much indeed for that. so let's take a closer look now the city of homes, it's syria, is the largest city home to more than a 1000000 people. and it's just 180 kilometers away from the capital, damascus, with no major obstacles along the way. for ron holmes, offers land car door to it's

a lie has been up 11 and it's kept triple luxury disrupt this supply line for us, the phone of homes could squeeze its forces to northern coastal areas like protest and attack him, making it difficult to supply its forces and conduct miniature operations elsewhere in syria. the area of my colleagues thought of how do i spell it create according to clock, the director of a search at the see fun, good, a good intelligence and security consultancy. he says the paste, so the opposition factors advance is striking. an amazing lightning strikes quick offensive by the rebels that have overwhelmed a size defenses. his military is melted away in a matter that few could have predicted. it just shows that while many have focused on the last week as the unit of analysis, the corrosion of a solid military has been actually years in the making. this is

a hollow force. the a c. s and other rebel groups have been able to bar and storm and do so quite effectively. can we talk about talk 6? hey i h t s a in homes you have the freezer armies, home area, palmera. what are we looking at in terms of trying to move into damascus? what you think the plant is here? it appears to be an in circle, met strategy. and we also have rentals from the southern part of the country and the south west that are encroaching, advancing due north. so clearly, i think if, if anything stands out about the rebel offensive, it's just how meticulously organized it is. how well equipped and well trained, and frankly, how well disciplined the fighters are far more disciplined than the syrian army and it's counterparts. so really just an over welding lea, impressive military feet that is caught most analysts, admittedly myself included by surprise. given the efficiency given the speed and

given the fact that so far, uh h. c. s. and its uh, you know, other groups under its broader umbrella have been quite well disciplined. mister calling cause, well disciplined. how have they managed to do this in the last few years? um, you know, the shuttle assets has had a strong hold on the country we would just hearing from has you ever heard presence of the syria national coalition that he also said, according to his information that some of those are all in the serious in ami all giving up and they're giving them that option. yeah, i mean that's, that's clear, their morale is that in a deer, it couldn't be lower. and, you know, if you look at the corruption within the syrian army, go low pay for the foot soldiers, the rank and file. the fact that the sob regime is been basically running in norco state, manufacturing capital gone as its main source of income over the past several years

. you know, this has proven to be just a monumental catastrophe for the saturday. and not only just for a saw, keep in mind for his backers and t, ron and his beckers and moscow, i think you see the radians and the russians kind of cutting ties right now, because the syrians army itself won't stand up and fight. but there's real major geo occasions here, geo political implications for the russians for the radians. i feel like we live 2 years just in the last 2 weeks in the middle east, which is a lot to say at least 2007 soldiers of enter the rock along with all their equipment. that's according to a new rocky government spokesman. the troops so now being hosted by the rocky army during the past few days, that being the ports of syria and soldiers withdrawing from multiple positions as soon position fights as advance. luckily, the other one had reports from the capital about that one. according to the made of

alpha and district visit the crossing, told him another between city and a like what are the 2000 and they go out. so there's crossed into iraq today. he did go. he reported the stated today that some of them are receiving the medical treatment inside your working immediate care facilities, which indicates that they have been they have been at least some of them have been engaging in some presentation with the opposition. quite that was insight studio. we did not know what a search and whether or not this is the fiction or was it all but it, it, it indicates that these of these, some of the soldiers were engaged in the confrontation in site city according to the as folks i'm unavailable to see the government hotels, i just see that these 2000 and a good, a lot of soldiers from the city, an army that are now being hosted by the lucky automatic forces that also explains why the high ranking get you lucky officers from the army. well, the to

a did it upon impressing terminal on top of them. that cheap of, of was top. we understand that this crossing tell them and it has been all is controlled by a i'm a groups along with you're lucky a lot, a lot to in fact i'm a groups, i don't with the lucky army. but remember, this comes less than 24 hours since that 40 minutes of city. yet mets here in about that with his iraq accounts are part of i don't good the you money and uh for the minnesota. and the discussed ways to stop the escalation on to stop the war against the city and redeem a foreign minister some tasks out to your radio. jordan egypt. rock around to kill . and russia have issued a joint statement on the situation in syria of the meeting though, how, what statement says the continuation of the city and across this constitutes of

dangerous development for the safety of the country and regional security, which requires all parties to speak of political solution to the syrian process that leads to an end of miniature operations to preserve the sovereignty and territorial integrity of syria. according to the statement, the foreign ministers agreed on the importance of strengthening joints. international efforts to increase humanitarian a. to assume people administer stress the need to stop miniature operations and preparation for launch and comprehensive political process. while the fighting is here is one of the main topics that's being discussed. doha form in cut, all the number of leaders or attending the 2 day conference. foreign ministers of vermont, ikea and russia have met to discuss the developments in syria on the side lines of the meeting. russian, the farm and a sort of a lift off refused to onset with us. if he thought, assuming the army was successfully resist advances with certain fights,

us militarily the russia phelps, the syrian, i mean, we use the air force which is base. it's made me him and we failed this year, and i need to go into the depths of stairs. what's the use? the forecast. i cannot use them, nothing. the business of guessing we agreed today was you around and talk to you to issue a strong calls which i described. and we would be doing some specific steps to make sure that this call is key. that to the problem is also to use for an excess of supporting what he calls terrorists to destabilize them. at least he says, recent advances of serial position fights is aimed to destroy a joint russian to focus on the ring and process to unify syria of to yet. so for the free quote field since 2015 good failed to keep the syrian state

of it. but if we could organize the process with uranium in their kid colleagues, which.