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of any of these days the world i couldn't do this job without the best camera man best produces the best pictures and those other people to ira long. and in order to be able to get that message out to the well, the is really continues as bombing campaign in syria. observers say the strikes have been the heaviest and more than a decade the i'm sort of any age good to have you with us. this is elsa 0, live from the also coming up, the total number of palestinians killed and 14 months of israel's war and gaza. now surpasses $45000.00 palestinians more than the victims. it is really strikes on schools sheltering,
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displaced people in god's also a head, an island in ruins, people in by your pick up the pieces after a powerful psych loan tore through the french territory in the and you know, the israel is keeping up its attacks across syria, launching more than 500 air strikes inside. the countries in special or less sod was toppled last week. and in the past several hours, more sites have been hits. this is a strike here struck near the northwestern coastal city of tar tuesday is really army says it is targeting syrian military sites. and the united nation says it intends to offer all kinds of help to the story and people are you an invoice to siri and made the comments during a meeting with the head of the new story and administration gear petterson is in damascus to push efforts for for a political transition,
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also western powers have stepped up their engagement with syria. you will be sending it's top diplomat to damascus and the developments in syria or expect at the top the agenda at the use foreign ministers meeting that is underway in brussels. first we have to discuss someone's level, we are engaging with the with the syrian new leadership, brendan, what kind of steps are we willing to take in, in order to have relations with them? so for us, it's not only the words, but we want to see the beads going to the right direction. as cross 2 alpha 0 julia shuffle all about who's in moscow. so you, yeah, i've just been given very basic information about something that sounds important specialists, the ousted syrian dictator, has put out a statement. what can you tell us the? well, that's right now. oh uh oh gosh,
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is states agencies publishing will be cool asides fast statements as the he was? it was word uh the statements were published on the ton of ground messaging up on that to show channel. oh, the syrian president. uh, according to assigned all those people who rode on behalf of about charlotte sides . he remained in damascus till the very end. by the time he loved the country beyond the, gave up its loss, positions and all state institutions were paralyzed. i also quoting to assign the russian miniature base in k mean, indiana, taco was allegedly subjected to a massive u, a b. i talk while he was that. and also he claims that during the brands that took place in syria, he didn't consider the possibility of resigning and fleeing the country. so basically he wanted to stay that till the very end. and he also, he learned about the actual full of damascus. while he was at the russian military
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base in may me me a talk here and he prom is to provide a detailed report on the brands in syria. when it's when it's possible when such an opportunity and see a rises and to express hope that the country would again become free and independent. and so basically it remains to it. well, if we should verify who actually rode on behalf of bush on the side, old eyes was a probably hated it himself, but it's a, it's still a well, i mean, despite all the state agencies that publishing it, we need to, to have a concrete and a verification of those words. absolutely, you'll hear. thank you very much for that context. it's a statement attributed to the charlotte side. it was post did on the syrian presidencies telegram platform that we as really was explaining at this point have no way to authenticated. and reminder of yours, the serious,
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serious new administration has taken control of all the governments, other social media platforms. so bear all of that in mind. we'll get more on that as and when we can now say the holder is in the riah, a suburb of damascus, which was totally destroyed in the wake of the 2011 uprising. we are going to show you the scale of the destruction in the suburb of damascus, wherever you look, wherever you go, you see this destruction buildings destroyed homes, livelihoods, and in this neighborhood, there is still structures in other neighbors neighborhoods like l felice neighborhood, which is very close to the meza military airports, the whole neighborhood has been leveled to the ground. the syrian regime level the to the ground because they wanted to create a security zone, this neighborhood, or the sorry, the suburb used to be home to half a 1000000 people before the uprising begun, which descend into into war. now today,
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a mere 50000 people live here because there's nowhere to live. just look around to all this destruction we've been speaking to people here and this is the word a we've heard time and time again who is going to rebuild our homes. we need money, we have been, we have been struggling for, for, for years. there's also no infrastructure, no electricity, no hospitals. so there's so much to do in order for refugees to be able to return the syrian resume, recap to this area from the opposition in 2018. but since then it's never rebuilt anything because it didn't want its opponents a to return. so this is just an example of the challenges that, that the new administration in syria is going to face. this was a center for agriculture. many people here were farmers. we met a few of them and really this, the suburb was known as these city of greats. but there are no grades left and the regime also destroyed farmland. they wanted to make these areas really
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uninhabitable areas where, you know, the post, the threats where the rebellion was, was, was very strong. these people agriculture is, is, is vital for the syria economy. 20 percent of the population work in agriculture and they are going to need money. they're going to need money to buy fertilizer to buy steve, to buy, to buy, to, to buy machinery a. so really the task ahead is very difficult. a lot of we met a former fighter who was in that our yep. who lived who stayed here during during the season. he just came back and he said, we came back to nothing. of course, we are happy that we have returned, but who is going to help us rebuild our lives. the houses there was a sum of inch of 8 is in the syrian capital damascus. so a summit, there are intense diplomatic efforts by the new syrian administration. what are you learning? the absolutely, so this, this administration is looking to manage all of it. all of that is broken in this
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country as quickly as possible. you've seen the multiple statements coming out of the new administration, saying, assuring people that they are going to be safe under this government. then assuring their friends and allies as well that they will have a stake in a stable syria, a syria, which is going to work for the improvement of its people and does not be a threat to its neighbors and allies in, in the last few days, you see the flooding of diplomatic activity. do you inspection ongoing is in damascus and making me think these has a multiple meetings with the administration here. and he's been talking about some of those sanctions that it'd be leveled against the group that they were charmaine, vs which is out in charge of this country. he's also looking at ways to try and get the united nations involved in various aspects of the society because syria is been to need help, not just help in the short term, but in the long term. i'm just going to begin, as you've been speaking do professions, as we've been speaking to diplomats,
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that the needs of the people are immense. and as this deed restriction, discharge, people have been telling us that they are essentially having to start from below 0 . they have to rebuild the entire institutions, people who they have put in charge of to come in and clean the offices 1st before they can actually sit in them. so it gets, gives you a picture of a concrete in transition and a lot of diplomatic effort to try and help the people who are now in charge from tennessee or from. but the other is reopened. it's the embassy. there is a diplomatic delegation in country is when we had a meeting with the authors about them they've, they've brought the charge different beds in this country and who told us that it is a high time for the international community to come together to try and rebuild this gonna be to rebuild it. i've already for the operations of the 2nd people. and so far the words coming out of this administration adhere to what people and it's outlined some of inch of aid reporting from the syrian capital damascus. thank you
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very much. i the the israel's devastating war on gaza has now killed more than $45000.00 palestinians since october 7th, last year. that's according to the palestinian health industry of those killed in the past 14 months more than 17000 have been children. and that overall figure doesn't include the $11000.00 palestinians, considered missing or buried under the rubble. and despite month's long efforts to secure a ceasefire, israel's airstrikes continue across casa, the military bombed to schools in the north and south. the strip on sunday 20 palestinians were killed in hon. units that are clearly marked and while shelter were hundreds of forcibly displaced people had been stay, honey, my mood is live in darrow, above in central gaza. honey we, we've known for the last few days we were about to hit this new milestone to 40.
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5000 people killed. you've been in the gaza strip since the beginning of this war. you have been spared. none of it, but killing the grief, the despair. all of that, is it even? i wonder if it's just possible for you to share with our of yours what the gaza strip is like at this point, and what remains of it. after 14 years of the 14 months, so that your part and 14 months of war. the certainly already are on the ground and you see the destruction 1st hand this year level of destruction, of almost every means of life possible across the gods, or with them at more than now a year of ongoing on daily basis that did not stop the only period of pause that the entire dollar for the experience was in the late december of 2023. that one week of pauses of a true of, of a temporary to is that was the only week of no,
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at vomiting or no killing. but other than this, 13 months now, the close to the 14 months of ongoing daily bombardment, wholesale killing of civilians. again, any one on the ground, seeing this destruction firsthand, would realize right only reasonably that israel stated goal of this for across the gaza strip. not, not, not short of, of an epic fly right now, because i see that every single day, the many homes that have been destroyed, the schools, the hospitals, the public facility is the privately owned business area. entire areas that used to be across for us with buildings, with businesses, with community centers. and now that's all that the graveyards. people do not have access to graveyards in many parts of the gods. through particular in the northern part, in gauze and city, they end up burying their loved ones, their relative industries on the live in the little islands in the middle of the road on the sidewalks. then everywhere turns into
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a wave yard. hospitals in the northern part turns into a depth of the graveyard for children, the entire gotten the strip according to eunice, this is the most dangerous a place for it. so there, because of the ongoing for people died throughout the year because of the direct fire and bombing because of the, for the hydration and star vision. because they are gone missing at the tribe under the rebels are presumably good now that a traffic by these rates, military or because of the lack of medication, all of these are the by products of the ongoing genocide, people are dying inside this hospital because there is no pain medication did die in silence here quietly. we see, you know, every single day. and that's also caused by the ongoing genocide. honeymoon reporting from darrow bala inside the gaza strip. thank you very much, honey. the
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ukraine, you navy is reporting that russia has withdrawn. it's black safely, then deployed it back to the see of as of, since the war and ukraine began. ukraine's navy has sunk or destroyed, at least a quarter of the fleet. targeted attacks by ukraine have killed a large number of the fleets commanders in november, a russian commander in charge of mistletoe batteries for the fleet was assassinated in east to ukraine. russian forces were advancing on several fronts. they are within one and a half kilometers of the town across a vital road and rail junction for months. the strategic town has been the focus of russia's attempts to take the region, the russian ministry of defense that its forces also took control of 2 villages. indeed on yet screeching, alex good populace has more from keith on the withdrawal of russia's, lexi fleets, the versus a pull back, the black sea fleet, and the ukranian navy is reporting that now as of now, there are no russian vessels, nate naples, vessels,
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and petroleum petrol. in the black sea fleet, a tool. now this is something that is being, is, is, are ukranian success story. the ukrainians have managed to distinct or destroy a courses. the fleets itself is killed. the combined is a commander in charge of sold by for useful. but like c fleet was assassinated in semester pole in late november. so this, this entire fleet has been so degraded this now so timid that it's in frayed to even patrol. because if it does, patrol invites is vessels of full potential destruction. very, very different story in the east. their advances all along the front and the russian advances. so we're seeing russian forces pushing into port cross canal just on the outskirts. they took the hamlet of shift jenco late yesterday. so they're in a matter of like a 1000, a 1000 meters delta meets has now rolled in columbus has a full the south. we are seeing the collapsing of a ukrainian defensive pocket. and also in the self russian forces
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a push north of surround. did you credit defend, is it one area on a threat? and is it cut off the highway, the main supply route to ukrainian defenders in caracas? so it's a very, very tense situation for ukraine here in the east. still ahead on alpha 0, the latest full out from the impeachment of south korean presidents. the governing party leaders steps down a 50 year old tradition on wheels is reading a message to conserve the environment. and the colombian capital the the, as you would expect, some flash flooding in this time of year anyway, malaysia and indonesia. but it should have moved away from southern thailand and i think it's a full cost. we will bring that south again, but seasonally, it's been a bit when just recently. it's also improve the little bit in vietnam,
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but nothing. the philippines, this secularization, which don't think will develop into, i think, will give a very wet time in the fall over the next couple of days, maybe 3 days. and there's more code i flowed for ne and chart is really cold and it'll generate significant snowfall. carter and the slopes northwest and slips and mountains in township and dropped temperatures are trampled into and throughout japan for a couple of days, at least kind of shame, it gets down to about 10 degrees, probably the coldest day. then it starts to revert to normal, which is about 15 boxes, just a brief floating of cold navigate, another circulation trying to developing the bad thing. go, which means, i mean, it seems to me, correct. it's going to rain again. heavily insur lanka, that's who burst under protection down to tumble nowadays. so including chin i whether be yet more flooding. this already floating on the ground is just this part of india, but it does print northward edition across the northern plane. anywhere, any of the ganges is morning fall time. unfortunately,
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they call to is still pretty pool. manipulated by those in power. and selection is unique and we've seen anything like that before. no pressure, they were instrumental in helping the president when the election, driven by self interested play, is fast put their after non profits for people susceptible to government control. if propaganda is designed to inflame and defense, the way that the story is being told, not right. and it's not accurate from social networks to legacy media. the listening post exposes the forces behind the headlight on which is era the the the,
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the one thing else 0 reminder of our headlines this, our israel's devastating war in the gaza strip is now killed more than 40 $5000.00 palestinians since october 7th, last year. the palestinian health industry confirmed the number and its daily update on monday is really a tax continue to target schools across the street. the latest strikes hits to educational facilities in con eunice and bait law here, where forcibly displace palestinians were sheltering. one of the attacks killed 20 people. israel is also keeping up its attacks across syria. it struck near the northwestern coastal city of tar two's is really army says it is targeting what it calls military sites announces 0 camera operator has been killed in and is really or a strike on central gaza. i'm at a low died while he was reporting on the rescue. workers trying to save a family injured in a previous is really attack. the military also killed several other people in that attack on the, on the say around the refugee camp. israel has killed nearly 200 pallets the
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injured list since the start of the war statement down to 0 says, the network calls on all human rights and media organizations to condemn these really occupations. systematic killing of drawing lists in cold blood. the evasion of responsibilities under international humanitarian law and to bring the perpetrators of this heinous crimes of justice. and i shall 0, unequivocally condemns the ongoing crimes committed by as really occupation forces against journalists and media professionals in gaza. this fires prime minister assignment harris says he will keep islands embassy until it be open. that is, despite is real decision to close his diplomatic post in dublin over what it called extreme anti israel policies. power said he stands by his country stance against the war and gaza and added that nobody will silas ireland. i regret the decision taken by the israeli government. and yesterday, i have been very clear in relation to diplomatic relations are important to continuing to talk and engage with those. even those whom you vehemently disagree
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with is very important as well. and of course people can have different views. but we should never, ever, ever need decision including yesterday's distract from the reality. i'm very proud of the position of this country. i'm very proud of the position of people are right across ireland and that we are pro human rights. we have pro international rescue workers from mainland friends have arrived on the french overseas territory of my us after it was hit by the strongest psych loan and almost a century. the french interior minister is on the island to manage relief efforts. several 100 people are feared dead. the islands airport and its only hospital were badly damaged by psych loan she to felix no. our reports devastation as follows, but i can see in the french indian ocean territory of my york cycling show made land full here over the weekend with winds. exceeding speeds of up to 200 kilometers per hour,
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striking people's homes and sending it strapped residents into fear and panic. there's a big i will screaming because i live on my own. after one hour of when my neighbors came to check on me because i had to call for help. i was lucky, the phone even worked good after the store. they broke down my door and i managed to get out. the officials say trio is the strongest storm to hit the island in nearly a century. keys to the people in my york, leaving make shift holmes many perched on the sides of hills. and when heavy rain falls soaked the loo soils, they then caved in and created a disaster. measures a bulk you'll have set them up as yourself, then i think they will certainly be civil 100, perhaps approaching a 1000 or even a few 1000 given the violence of this event. we will experience that now flesh and now family with our loved ones. our colleagues was at the command seemed to with
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all my colleagues, the ceiling of the operation will seem to flow away. the man of my aunt's capitals says the storm broad down power lines destroyed water plants and roads. and more than 200 people have been seriously injured. a number that's likely to rise site to do is no wreaking havoc beyond my yacht, into neighboring mozambique and malawi. the un says many homes, schools, and held facilities, there have been partially or completely destroyed. the licks new are all just 0 south korea's top court will hold its 1st hearing to review the former president's impeachment case. at the end of this month. the constitutional court has up to a $180.00 days. that's 6 months to decide whether to uphold the insect he owes impeachment or overturn it. parliament voted to remove him from his duties as to he declared a short lived martial law earlier this month. meanwhile,
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a leader of the governing party hand don't. who has resigned? houses there is rob mcbride has more on this from so south korea is constitutional codes beginning work on the attempts to impeach president june. so cal, following the votes to impeach, passed by the countries national assembly over the weekend. it's a process that's likely to take at least several months, possibly up to 6 months or on this the 1st full day of work. the court has been setting out tasks for just this is also looking at schedules with december. the 27th now says as the 1st day, full preliminary hearings, this is on the impeachment side of this ongoing sog or of course you and is also being investigated. full pop possible, a criminal wrongdoing, 4 legs, the insurrection, and also abusive power. now the prosecute is, has sent out to know the summons for him to appear for questioning. it's been
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revealed that they had someone's due to appear over the weekend for questioning, which he missed. well, a, now the summons has not been sent. a similar line is also being followed for you to come for questioning from the joints investigation team. now this is a nother team that is conducting its own investigation by the police and offices from all the agencies. meanwhile, the leader of the ruling people power policy. this is use out in policy and on who has a finally quit his position on monday, his position was increasingly for kat reyes with his policy split over this whole impeachment issue on which way to vote, whether to stay with you or not. but finally, following the passing of this impeachment vote, the party leadership has effectively crumbled with many seeing the posse members handing in the resignation,
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making hands position untenable. as he said in his resignation, speech, he simply had no choice that it was impossible for him to carry on. and then his resignation apologizing to the people of south korea for what he called the sufferings brought about by the marshal crisis. rob mcbride, i'll do the rest. so the answer and leader of bangladesh as announced, general elections could be held late next year, or early in 2026 nobel laureates. mom and eunice says, a series of complex electoral reforms were needed before vote could be held as follows. a student led uprising, which deposed a prime minister, shake hacienda in august or government was accused of widespread corruption in human rights abuses. german chancellor, olaf schultz is due to face a confidence vote in parliament after the collapse of his governing coalition. it is a procedural move design to pay the way for snap elections in february next year, which is 0. so today i go as more or a government made up of 2 left wing policies,
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the cd and the greens and the center. right. s t p was always going to be fragile upon the ship that many in germany felt was going know with derailed by differences on how the world's largest economy should fix its financial troubles until the german child sla announced that he was going to buy a b s t p finance minister for refusing to suspend the country's debts break to guarantee more money for ukraine on the economy called for reset his image to do some trip good. so i feel forced to take this step in order to have a damage if we need a government that is able to act, that has to have the strength team to make the necessary decisions for our country . but it was decisions overall, but a lot of them together with an economy in decline, that likely set back his leadership and economies that had been dependent on cheap russian gas now struggling to do without that triggered an energy crisis made was
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by phasing out nuclear energy contributing to a cost of living crisis, little hoops of quick recovery. germany's all important car industry also on a downward spiral, unable to compete with electric vehicles from china, provided to the industrial action against plans to close down factories. the pledges of support and mobile latree, a to ukraine schultz is phone call to vladimir putin. the 1st direct exchange in 2 years provoked criticism from key. if i move that ukraine's president of a lot of them is that lensky said on the mind, efforts to isolate the russian leda. yep, the war and ukraine remains a dominant issue here with manufacturing the impact on germany security effect to that played into this, the state elections. and the rising discontent with shultz is coalition. and as well as bring support to the far right. this has been a government riddle with challenges and an inability to fix them and you start to
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may be on the horizon, but it comes with difficult decisions and then even tougher economy. soon as i go out, is there a, this is a care husein, one of india's most accomplished, classical musicians has died at the age of 73. the same turn be traditional drums known as tablo, which are usually used as an accompanying instrument into the store of his shows. he won for grammy awards, 3 of them just this year. his career spend more than 60 years. the same died at a hospital in san francisco, had been suffering from a chronic lung disease. the colombian capital bullet is marking the 50th anniversary of c gloria, also known as the open streets initiative. every sunday, roads are closed off to make space for cyclists and pedestrians. the initiative has been adopted by 400 cities worldwide houses or is always central rent be at the
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reports from both on. every sunday, a miracle happens in the otherwise permanently gridlock streets of bullets. when a 1000000 cyclists roller skate theirs and breton, or stick over more than a 100 kilometers of rhodes. this 50 year old initiative has become one of the most loved and recognizable traditions in the columbia in capital one that unites people from all walks of life in imagining a more livable city, by the photos as it can. as far back as i can remember, we've been participating in the sylvia when our son was born and we'd come with him in a stroller. and now he's one of the volunteers helping to run it on what's going on in courtroom. when it 1st started, it covered just 5 kilometers, but today it runs throughout most of the sprawling city of $9000000.00, requiring the work of an army of volunteers and city employees, a free and public effort to sustain over decades. that is put to good time. the world.

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