the colleges here with the . ready ready ready a story and fights as button to to him of the former presidents as a new administration such as peace, often more than a decade to the carrier at johnston, the ssl just here a lot from to also coming up the list. it's drugs got bankrolled sod, regime, millions of pills of pounds in warehouses and economy in taxes, sorry and say they're struggling to afford the basics like bread, vegetables, and on the un general assembly overwhelmingly votes to demand that immediate

unconditional and permanency spot. in garza, the serious new administration is searching to secure potential chemical weapons sites with the help of international partners. the interim prime minister has also promised to get state institutions back up and running. a position fights as are already dismantling symbols of the past, destroying the 2 and half as i said, the father of the house to the present restaurant for the account reports an end of an era of oppression in syria. and the opposition creepy. now in charge of much of the country says it wants to signal a new beginning. an usher in change for syrians and emotionally human card, the,

the, to move as the president, bashar of a search father, half as with symbolically destroyed. let's just not for the limit we so it's burnt and destroyed by the people of his village because he started for them because they hated him because he destroyed us to displace them and placed the new administration in syria says its main priority is restoring security and stability across the country of the searching for those who took part in the torture and kidding of the change of prisons and morgan, damascus, syrians wait an agony, hoping for information about loved ones who have been missing for years. nothing as the what did by charlottesville, due to these people, if he had imprisoned them, try them. we wouldn't have said no, but to cut them like thought it some just serious new administration says it plans to rebuild for the asset family destroyed over more than 50 years. an exclusive

interview without a 0 serious interim prime minister said government institutions are already going back to work for that purpose of warrant. many former employees will have to face justice and walk about what i can about and that's to be to meet. and so why the, the door remains open for all employees, except for those whose hands stained with blood from military institutions, who although there were, once employees took up arms enforced against the syrian peoples. displacing them, these individuals will be referred to quotes the trial before being allowed to return to the roles. the means that you sions, the new administration says it hopes the millions of records for the flight the country during the civil war will return. syrians in the middle east and abroad, anxiously wait to see what happens next. friday, a car which is 0. defensive going this course, just about the new suit administrations commitment to secure chemical weapons sites,

saying to be judged by its actions is what this leader is saying on the ground about chemical weapons. i mean, these are good things, we want it we, we welcome this type of rhetoric, but we have, you know, actions have to meet words as well. so we're going to continue to work with the groups that we have relationships with. again, our focus is that these chemical weapons do not fall into the wrong hands. the us has broken the truce between the suing national home and the suing democratic forces. in the northern states, you on page of the turkish, backed on the claims control of the city, it's fights is show delta 0, the hospital and what they say they found underneath it. or some of been topic reports from vantage. hours of the kurdish via forces agreed to leave the fusion city of palm beach in the syria to expect as an a fight is were being treated in the local hospital there. here it's fights has told us that the hospital was also being used as a detention center. our training of blood can be seen going through this quarter

door towards a network of tunnels, according to f in a fight, as there are multiple networks of tunnels that they have found under the city of men. beach through here is the tunnel and they say these toes have continued throughout this city. this prices have gone through, they have cared it. and they say that this actually continues for a few kilometers in multiple directions of us. back to the slide ended beats of intense fighting between the 2 groups that dirty back as an a fight. those who are now in control took out the data on a tour of some of the hidden subterranean chambers which daisy was used as a prison. so as this fight is explaining to us, when they found this place, there were no prisoners in fine, but they found places been visited would have been taken. we found multiple cells here. but as you can see, these are quite small cells. and any,

every single one of them that we've been either inscriptions on the wall, there's some messages that they've written off for their relatives. for the mothers . some of them you have enough to do to my beach. millions of cap took on the pills . how been found? in warehouses and an air base in syria days. also the ousting of present mashhad a side, syria was transformed into a non co state on the side regime. and i was producing the exporting the drugs last year. the us section, the number of serial individuals, including 2 of us, has relatives for their alleged involvement in the trade. let's take a look now at kept to the why it was so important for the us side raising is the brand name of psychoactive medicine produced and in 19 sixty's. it contains potentially a synthetic drug by the 1980s. it was banned in most countries because of its highly addictive nature and side effects. this estimated to 80 percent of the drug

worldwide was produced in syria under the command of the assad richie was, i'll show them this as a director of the center for me at least studies the university of oklahoma. he says the trade of cops again was an essential liquid business for us that sherry was a failed state. the regime had become completely corrupt and it didn't have any money . after all, the united states held the gas and oil and the words very severe sanctions and he was trying to rebuild. of course he couldn't rebuild, and the whole country was running on fumes with almost no electricity and, and kept the gone became an alternative for the awesome bridge came and it went right up to my head last night. the, the brother of the shuttle outside who um, who was in charge of collecting the money from this very lucrative trades that, that, but doubled all the surrounding countries, shutting down the source of income is going to leave the state without anything.

and you know, 50 percent of government receipts before the civil war came from oil and gas. and today, syria is got no oil and gas industry. and what small amount is being produced is under the control the americans. and the 1st thing that, that this new governments gonna have to do is ask for that back, ask for the sanctions to be lifted. and i'm sure the cuts out in turkey and other countries are, are stepping forward with important amounts of money to replace. this kept the gone trade, but serious needs to rebuild desperately. and that's what the new government is going to be looking to do is to get outside investment to replace these terrible sources of income that the old regime had built up. while millions of syrians a set of writing the full of sides wishing economic instability means many of finding it difficult to make ends meet. for some items such as vegetables and bread have become a luxury. the corner wash has been speaking with people in damascus about the

struggle to buy basic necessities. as we are here in one of the local and traditionally markets in the city of damascus. and as you can see now, shops, the vegetable shots of the grocery stops, jobs are now open in the markets of the city of damascus. however, we talked to the shop owners, as they told us, that even though the price is i've gone down a bit. but the ability for the people to buy their basic necessities to buy the groceries and vegetables are somehow absence after the fall of the. busy a sod redeem and old uh, the country uh, as they say, is going through a sort of a paralysis of phase. now that they don't have jobs and the. busy dropped off your opportunities are now. busy absolutely, absence and people are a basically don't have any source of income amount at them and how that people can no longer afford to move. but we must have access to bread, diesel rice,

sugar and t. prices have become very expensive. you don't have enough money if we had some new government will provide enough support and work hard to reduce this crazy rise in prices. the other basically is if you see what people don't have extra cash in the hands and salaries of very long, for example, it can cost your entire salary just to pay the electricity bill and nothing else will be left for the family. people my age can't even afford to get married. well, they told us that the people are trying to sustain themselves. the most basic necessities on the thing of importance and, and importance uh items from their uh, shop list. and they told us also that uh the uh, provided the pro but providing a brad and electricity as the also reaching to health care services. it is also very challenging. i mean these times and they told us that the really hope so that the situation will get better in the upcoming

a future look or much from damascus city project 0. the you and the general assembly has passed a resolution demising, an immediate c spot and goes to an emergency session member states. so services and support of you, an agency for palestinian refugees, condemning a new is there any know the bands, the organizations operations gabriel is on the it has more from the un in new york at an emergency special session of the un general assembly. and over whelming show of support by the majority of the nations of the world, 158 member states of the un voting in favor of a ceasefire and gaza, notably italy and germany 2 countries that have previously abstained phones in

favor of draft research and 159 voting to support and defend the un relief and works agency for palestinian refugees known as unreal israel is trying to destroy. while both resolutions are non binding, they send a powerful message. justice must be subbed and improving the t must and israel is continuing with the genocide. nevertheless, it is continuing to use this top ition of i'm assuming and civilians is refundable . all god doesn't exist anymore. it is destroyed, palestinians that are facing hunger, despair and death. we have studied before, histories, the harshest critic of elections and histories being written as receive here today . the votes here in the general assembly become a little over 2 weeks since the united states blocked

a gaza cease fire resolution in the security council. it was the 4th time the united states blocked a guys a ceasefire resolution. that's something that was not lost on many member states. history. phil, remember who failed to act on who's to do on the side of peace. the us again voted against both a ceasefire and the resolution supporting unrra. both of these resolutions have significant problems. one rewards from us and down place the need to release the hostages. and the other integrates israel without providing a path forward to increasing humanitarian assistance to palestinian civilians. but the u. s. stands almost alone after the vote, ambassadors, upper hand shakes and hugs to the palestinian envoys. a clear victory for palestine in the halls of diplomacy. gabriel's on do outreach here at the united nations in

new york. today's 49 people have been killed across gauze since don't on wednesday, says gauze a ceasefire to always get on the way in egypt. in the north 22 members of the same family died and the home was target right now. here. many is still missing is ready for us is also though it strikes much of all the a refugee camp. northern gauze that has been under a 2 month minute tree siege. that's blocked the lives of food and medicine. attack sosa, continued in central gaza is where the asteroids killed at least 7 palestinians in on this refugee camp since october last year is really a tax of kills more than $44800.00 people, most of the women and children, or what has been a shooting a talking but john, in the occupied westbank, a bus caring is very subtle, is, was hit kidding, a 12 year old boy and enjoying the 3 of us. the best continued on to a check point off to it's these many only has close to check point while i search

for the shoot. so i had allowed to 0, was those present to will need another brain? surgery of the adults is operated for brain lead, leaving the 79 year old in intensive care plus mysteries. drone sightings in new york and new jersey are prompting local concerns on christmas leave. me in new york, i'll tell you what the pedagogy say coming up the to hello you. the weather looks pretty quiet now across not shelf china up at some places the cloud just sliding through pretty, quite to, into the cream financial. that is where the system here, this co found less just slipping away from japan, cold it can you behind is bringing in that c effects moving to a good part of western and northern japan. as a result of fact, we push on into

a fraud. i say it's a similar set top box and what's the weather? so when she was coming get across the korean peninsula, deposit japan by this type, seeing some unsettled weather, rain sleep for snow, but for much of china, it does stay quite cold enough basing around 4 degrees celsius. so that will be a touch of rust around here. no such issues across the southeast asia because they've got to came most recently when driving shows into them light peninsula more big down pulls coming in just around the light financially as we go on through with the sky. so southern positive thailand, southern areas of, in the trying to us and looking a little to step over the next couple of days now that whatsoever, as also making his way across the other side of the bad been goals, some heavy down pulls in place, then 4 pots of shoreline cost, southern areas of in the southern north, right down to the fault, and small all the way the buckets tom of the

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welcome back remind to of the top stories. now. the new in ministration is serious, says it's willing to work with international organizations to secure potential chemical weapons sites across the country. so says that it's a whole bows and bolting, torturing and splitting a needs and state prison council fights is from the new administration, have destroyed the 2 profess us on the father from hosted, showing us the set fire to the most of them in sides of excess from western severe and united nations general assembly has passed a resolution to mounting an immediate cease fire and gauze during an emergency session. member states source of support to view an agency for palestinian refugees . many young the syrians have been helping, was still older and cleaning the streets of the capital, damascus, with 21 year old medical students on jeanine. an adult is one of them and it's been documenting that efforts on social media. she says she's on

a mission to get more people on board and return the country to pre war times, or something that's happened today. we were all sitting in the garden and we were talking that this is the 1st time we were able to discuss about stuff we want to do . and that's only in the medical. so we can save that. we want our voices to be heard. we can say that we want to be involved in the government. we can say that we want to be involved and helping our syria to grow, to be worldwide, to lift the worldwide events. see how do we live? there's something i always like feel so sad about that. people can see how your people is here are. and this is not because i'm serious, but i can tell you, sir, and people are the most ambitious people you can ever see the work they started. they don't ever think they can do just to be better just to do something for this

country. even if there is no reward. you have no idea how much people are embarrassed to to prove themselves and to prove to people that syria is a really beautiful country. and right now, after what happened and we were thinking like, finally we have the opportunity to do that. we have the opportunity to fill our so we have the opportunity to talk about that. we have the opportunity to show the word who are distributed people. so yeah, we have this vision and a for the use of a news now and present in the presence. and the reason us to let the silver set to on the go additional surgery on thursday. it's been described as the risk by his doctor, 79 year old has been recovering from an operation this week for brain, the resulting for a full time, but he remains an intensive cap for any adult. so said he was making a good recovery. so i'm going to see a switch or he goes, the era is a professor of international relations of interest to you of august foundation. he

joins us now from south pato in brazil. welcome to the program. so how big are the concerns about present luna's health? do you think i thank you very much for an invitation. as a matter of fact, everyone is concerned here in review about present list. how, because doctors 1st said that you would have no problems uh after the 1st surgery of so the 2nd, the surgery raises a little bit of suspicion, particularly considering the history of the calvin creek and wage several brass. then i had the what was that? our presence were, had been about, uh, the uh, the, the real house condition for all history. so some people uh believes that perhaps no, the entire truth has been sad, but it presents little of himself has a strong headquarters of be totally open about his house. and of course everyone, uh we had

a speed recovery after the 2nd surgery that is very low risk. what i see was not table, but it's a sustain a possible 2nd term. for example, is there any of this replacement for of the replacement and the workers party which is the main center left party to come for is not so obvious. wherever considering that when he was in j o. in 2018, a replacement was found of the same name may be likely to read for brass. then i'm talking about the finance minister for now do a dad mr. her dad is a former maggie or else in pablo city and is regarded by market act versus a sudden priest who may be able to attain but the most last weeks factions off the workers party. so it's very unlikely that lou,

let me choose him as his power as the presidential candidate should be the ruler. should lula be enabled to run for president, for a 4th term after 2006. and what are the why the implications then? do you think would be that the challenge of right wing governments and movements across the region? i think the main problem for lula is that he faces the dilemma is the steps down and decides not to run for re election. this time. berries are high risk that the workers parties loses the election because mr. had that spring as and this is not as popular and this 3rd, lula east. and the same time i'll go in the right wing side or is it been politics department president, to show you both scenarios is unable to run for president because of a court decision that probably bits introduce. so there are quite competitive candidates and particularly big business market,

the actors are much more likely to support our center, right. or even right, we candidate to replace mr. little of so it's so true that glam uh a lot of even sad. oh, if there is no alternative to block the return off the right to power, i must run again for president, but perhaps his house will not allow him to do so. you mentioned popularity there. i mean, overall, how big a figurehead is literally the silver for his supporters? well, lula is quite representative of the receipt in the room or the prison in law or a cry plus. and the fact that he managed to reach power coming out of poverty, certainly generates a kind of natural support, particularly among the poor particular. and he's popular to rates at this stage are

not as high as the war during his 1st, 2nd terms between 2000 for you in 2011. however, consumer and that's a bridge it in politics and students lives. very highly paula rice. it's quite impressive. that he still has 52 per cent of support among the voters. it's quite a highly remarkable achievement, particularly considering as to the rumors about the fact that brazil may be entering a financial surprises that may lead to come for to have higher inflation rates in the near future. given that there are concerns about role in the public that so a little remains incredibly popular enough if you stand in the fact that he was arrested, of the nature of the call. the beauty of corruption, after all positions were cleared here remains perhaps the strongest of bullets co letter in brazil's contemporary history versus rodriguez. ver,

thank you for joining us here on out just here. thank you very much. so south korea's presidents has vowed to fight any between patient and public address you and so if you will defend that his muscles, the decree is an act of governance and did not as treason. he blamed the opposition for pushing the country into across his a high end to town, mingle, guess all who is in the midst of creating national paralysis and disorderly constitution in south korea. over the past 2 and a half years, large opposition parties had been trying to not acknowledge and bring down a nationally elected president. they did not stop calling for my resignation and impeachment. they did not accept the results of the presidential election tonics of more than this. now let's cross over to rob mcbride in. so let wrote what more can you tell us and about what the present you had to say? so yeah, this was a very lengthy,

very comparative speech by the baffled president. you're really going into the details of the explanations of why he tried to introduce martial law last week until now he's only given very vague references in his defense. talking about the fractions that were sympathetic, he said to north korea that he had to defend the south, korea's liberal democratic institutions. but now he's going to fall more detail. he's repeated a lot of his claims against the opposition and try to paralyze governments, stopping him. possibly from governing, but he also went to just specifics that he said he couldn't talk about before now. but possibly for security reasons. and that was a, a potential hack of the, of the, the computer watch dog. yeah. the likes to watch dog here. the national election committee by north korea or time see said to undermine the integrity of the voting system in south korea that he had to protect against that he wasn't getting the cooperation from the officials,

the national election committee he needed. and that's why he said you have to introduce with the form of defense minister this a controversial martial law. i've also stating that it was he wanted, he said, i'm also seeming to downplay what he carried out was a national emergency rather than the states of martial law. he said that if he really wanted to create to martial law, he could have done so, but held back from cutting off the power to the national assembly and so on. so really defined up the times by the opposition to asked him to impeach him, devouring to fight until the end he says, and rob, what has the present you own policy been saying about to so now this does seem to be a shift and this does not bode well suppose been viewed until now his policy seems to us do by him, although they have that differences with him in the impeachment vote. you'll recall from last saturday,

they fully call to that boat. they marched out of the assembly chain by all mass supporting attempts by the opposition to impeach him. the leader of his own party hung down who has now stated that impeachment does seem to be the only way forwards to suspend the powers of this controversial president, saying that this impeachment is now the policy. he says of the ruling policy. if there is another impeachment vote coming up on a saturday afternoon, but judging by this statement of this does not look good for the chances of president june fighting off that latest impeachment attempt. and so for us there, well mcbride, thank you to the front of things now a vice president sar detach a has skipped to a government inquiry is the allegation she thought to, to, to present for the non marcus junior. instead, she hosted the gathering for janice and dismissed the pro, as politically motivated to data is who are once otherwise have for an out ahead of

next is mid term elections tied to nice making threats, claiming her comments, what misinterpreted i intensified drones in the sky of new york and new jersey, the closing increasing the cool no. u. s. department of defense has dismissed concerns of for an involvement the forensic and says there's no threat to public safety. christmas certainly has more on this now from new or more drones in the sky . it's become almost a nightly occurrence in the skies over new jersey. there are literally dozens of draw and fire spotted by residents and share it on social media. mysterious drones as large as a car would at 1st seemed a local anomaly. now capturing the attention of top military officials at this time we have no evidence that these activities are coming from