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the, the a cool for an end to sanctions on syria, the country's duty to taos out a 0, his administration is most of the read to the world, the hello. i mean that it was sitting image. this is al jazeera life from day ha. also coming up, a mass grave isn't covered in a town in southern syria, the latest of several, a found since the full of flesh are all assets digging through bravo. searching for survivors and gaza city,
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at least 10 palestinians are killed. and is there any ask like one an apartment block? a 7.3. matthew did a quick shakes the pacific islands of sun watching, causing what's being described as significant damage. the, the head of serious new administration has cooled on the international community to draw his groups, tara designation saying it is not a threat. speaking to algebra, accurate algebra, also quote, for outside health to rebuild syria, the aust for sanctions of the country to be removed saying they punish innocent civilians al serra is serious. new to me. it says use restriction with a few people who committed war crimes during the reign of bashful acid. russell said that is in damascus and he has moved his interview with sarah. as seriously as
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the fact to lead that i'm going to shut out about his varies ongoing attacks. he said, that's the reason this cruise that israel was conducting a straight against cecilia for the becky's was because of the run in minutes of the presence in syria. and he said no, as the position is in control of syria, as there is a new administration in syria. and as there is no iranian military forces within syria that next tuesday is not in place. and that's why, as well, she will stop at tech in syria. and you also said that the new administration in syria accept and you called nice deceased by an agreement that was signed between israel and syria in 1974 and said these very forces needs to, with the bees on the board. is that what clearly defined in that agreement? and he said the domestic community must in to see it and stop is very aggression against syria, but they ask him if israel doesn't stop,
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then what is the plan to say, well, the new institution is not planning to get into any conflict with israel because syria is a war to in the country is tired, is exhausted, and definitely the is not in a place to afford any war. another miles brave has been discovered in syria was found $22.00 bodies including women in the southern town of his wrong. they say they appear to have been shot, and the best evidence of tool to the search for more bodies is ongoing. since the full of the asset regime mass graves have been found across the country, the you and estimates about 100000 people. i'm missing in syria, but the real number is likely to be high. a ceiling custom is the media director for the syrian emergency task force. as she described, meeting witnesses who showed a mass graves where there was evidence that people were tortured before they were killed. the way visited the mass graves bites of cold places and the suburbs of
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damascus as to about 40 minutes away from us there. and we were there as the serial number agency task force who's worked on retrieving information about these mass graves all over syria through key eye. witnesses like caesar, like the grave digger, like the bulldozer driver who came out with evidence 1st off caesar and then were able to show the entire world how this regina tortures and gold as human beings. i as in kills them with acid. and then when caesar came up with these photos, there were other witnesses that came and told us about these mass graves. and we followed the actual coordinates of, of what they were telling us. and we were able to get to these mass graves, for example, to pay for the one that we were out today through these coordinates. and through these i witnesses that told us the exact specific ways that they were forced to, to, to,
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to dig these grieves. and they would get shipments of french is filled with hundreds of bodies and they were forced to put these bodies inside these, these holes. and today we were there and we saw the tools and we saw bones of human beings. and it's just, it's insane. the fact that these, these sites that we've worked on for so long to now see them in person and to be here. but, but, but, but now is the time where just this has to be served and, and, and, and it has to start today. sara is likely to be top of the agenda when the president of the european commission meets tech is president. and until later on, tuesday, during the hall has moved to kear. and the european union agreed in celebrating the end of the sab regime in syria. 13 years of war have affected both powers, not least in the pouring of refugees in their millions, staring tensions and re shaping politics from anchorage to berlin,
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brussels and beyond. now the glimmer of a chance that they might return home in both societies. they see this as a kind of trouble from the point of view. certainly, we have seen that refugees have been, has been on many political agendas, and that's created a strong fire, right? so the more of the, of the land and everyone can agree on some kind of way of getting these references back. the best meeting in the took these capitals for the 1st time since 2021. you commission president stuff on the line. and president red chip type, 31 will focus on the conditions necessary for allowing refugees to return. that means encouraging stable and inclusive government in damascus. with took the, a major benefactor of the former rebel group known as hyatt copy from the you will be looking for reassurance that h t s is pasta. alignment with al qaeda is indeed behind it. they are unlikely to
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agree on everything with the code is region the northern syria, a potential point of contention. turkeys worried about is soon to find useful. so the current useful is this because they are linked to the p k, k b, which so become signals of a terrorist organization here in defense pulses actually be created as supported by europe and united states in order to at tech and to feed this, let me stays so i think this will be totally at this point, a difficult conversation. it'll be a chance though to put old embassies aside. when the 2 leaders last met into a key, there was suggestions of sex as a window and sat opposite. you counsel need a showing me show? well, the 1st female president of the commission was i said to a sofa this time they'll be keen a to see i to, i don't know how l g 0 london. the
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full 137 days of genocide and gaza has now killed more than 45000 palestinians. is there any forces, have committed mass killings with impunity on a daily basis? in the latest attack, these randy military has targeted an apartment block in garza city. at least 10 palestinians were killed. rescue was trying to extinguish a fire cools by the strike as a search the site for survivors. well, we can talk now to tarik, as well as the who joins us live from darrow, by the in central guys. it's hard, very good to have you with us. now we're having more apartment blocks targeted phases where ordinary people live. can you tell us what the situation is now with that and they to strike of the world has been
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a very tens and pets morning here in the central areas and that as well in this type of the strike in gaza. city. why the is when the 5 digits have pummeled one of the main residential blocks and in this, in the city of garza, well, as we manage to get information from going to civil defense, a suggesting that 10 civilians were killed in the attack dog, including family members who were getting ready to sleep in that, at a slot that had been talking to without any, probably a warning as a right now see in the videos at right in front of you in the left corner of the, of the screen, the, the tale of flats had been completely, i seen on fire of to the strike as a civil defense of what gets confirmed that the bus, the majority of buddies west shred it to pieces and they have got that boost the bodies of from different coordinates of a lot to, to be assigned to house on how for rec, big is the strike that took place in that very densely bell top neighborhoods. and there is also significant damage being obsessed and,
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and in the nearby buildings that had been widely inflected from the attack box. this is not the 1st time that these residential buildings have been targeted or so we've got more updates coming from the another positive causes, specifically in the vicinity of college. one, hospice, a web. the images really military deployed explosive reports that continue to be blo, be not causing quite spread destruction in the facility and destroying multi residential homes that back to you. tara covers the am. thank you so much for all of that reporting from darrell about that in central guys. i think that a bomb hidden in an electric scooter has killed at least 2 people in eastern moscow. the russian state media is reporting that a military general is among the victims. the explosion happened outside the residential building and shouted windows up to the 4th floor. authorities have opened an investigation and at least one person has died and several others injured . after a $7.00 magnitude of quake struck the south. pacific island nation of ottawa to the
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lake cause a communications outage across the country. footage on the state bul costs are shows, clouds buildings and videos posted on social media also shows significant damage. roads connecting the capital port villa to the main forward has been blocked by land slides, and the desktop is expected to rise as the impact of the quake becomes clearer. now we can speak to that, the gary, he's a local john list and resident in pool villa. he joins us live from that. now very good to have you done in festival. can you please tell me what the situation is like where you are at the moment a well, this was a violent insurance quake, the worst that i've seen in 21 years of living here in front of out to my wife who was born here in the country, so that was the worst she'd seen in her life. the damage that we've seen is widespread. um,
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it is not as great as it might be in other countries because we have frequent earthquakes here. and most of our residential and and professional buildings are, are built to a decent standard. however, uh that said there have been, there has been severe damage to a number of older buildings in town. i've seen evidence of one for example, that where the top floors pancake down onto the lower floors. that's of course that caused by real concern in terms of casualties and recovery. there has been damage it. damage is visible among across the numerous buildings. a great many people are going to be questioning whether it's slave safe to sleep in their houses tonight and go to work in the, in the coming days. yeah, and you mentioned the the, obviously the horrible damage, the videos that we've seen so far, and is there any fear that land slides may have caught all sudden communities of people who may be in need of rescuing right now and it's,
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it certainly has done so we will be able to reach them by boat happen anywhere in the islands and it's not a large island so we can circumvent uh, most of the out the outages that we've seen. i've just recently heard reports of damage to our international airport runway. if the runaway itself is damaged, that's going to be a real impediment to the recovery effort and lack of access to our shipping terminal. as we mentioned at the top of this is going to slow down recovery efforts as well. so i think we've got a lot of work ahead of us. and can you also just describe just a moment of the as quick as you experienced it? it was really significant, as i say, we're quite in your to a growth rate for you as to the way to get them all the time. and so normally what happens is you sort of pick up a little bit and weight. this one within about 15 seconds had me yelling to the
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children to get out of the building. and happily we made it out on skate. we lost a few material possessions, but none of us were heard properly. don mcgarry, thank you so much for talking to us out of a find a while to thank you very much and hope you stay safe as well. thanks. i still ahead on al jazeera president elect. donald trump says takia is behind the toppling of serious human lead uh, in what he calls an unfriendly take co. 5. how many degrees in northern gun i'll be telling you about a 60 comes with such as pulls families apart in particular lives and like the the
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cold wind is blowing dial from the violence for the right being potentially bringing a dust storm with it. this is it here, and this introduced a different feeling to the weather. temperatures are very much lower than they were just a couple of days ago. and the wind is still blowing for samsung max of 17 and back that trends to into ha, still nice and warm and west inside of the particular around nectar at about $33.00 degrees us and drop a little bit, but not much. the wind still blow down the gulf and c u a and into eastern or minus . well, do how then these a little bit calling you might like compared with the average by 3 or 4 degrees the would last until the end associated we can then looks fine and sunny. once again, that's the picture for the service has been rather finally one. this is the remains of cheat, which was the stone wrench called somebody else, and then into us mozambique organs. first space of 24 hours. now it's just a mass of rain being some useful right, tuesday and by way in south africa across the tile and increasing the botswana, we'll see the temperatures being brought down to average will be low. but sunshine being replaced by a big shows. and whereas be nice and warm and still quite health,
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i have to say in the northern k for offering to that says he, a he had to, she has a starting to break hard. i suspect this is a welcome change to the weather. at least for most of the 5 because is the world leader and co producer, but it's weak infrastructure and makes traveling a challenge. we follow to drive the zoo i see grapples would would pass, but his many bucks and yeah, cuz one of the few went into drive to remote villages. risk in it all. i because i'll just now the
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the hello again. you're watching out, is there a reminder of our top story? is this our, the head of serious new administration has the international community to lift the functions. thing they punish innocent people asked maybe else around so cool for assistance to rebuild his country. 22 bodies have been filed in a mass grave and is ra, southern syria could say the bodies show signs of torture, says the full of the assets regime mass graves, moving on, covered across the country. and these randy ministry has targeted an apartment block in gauze of 50 shooting, at least 10 palestinians. rescue was a trying to extinguish a fire, who was by the strike as they continued to search for survivors. there i saw the of
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of damascus was once a well known opposition, strong cold during the war, it was boomed, have any, and then besieged for 4 years. the aside regime finally took control in 2016 and since then few have been allowed to return home. nothing has been rebuilt, st. ahold, a report from dia, for years, the syrian regime laid siege to the suburbs around the capital, damascus, among them that are you long known for its opposition. but short i said, and his regime are gone. a new reality is now in place. this is an area that tells the story of the brutal crack down that peaceful protestors faced when they took to the streets. at the start of the uprising. neighborhoods were flattened. oh, felicia, which board admits the military airport. was one's home to thousands still empty, even though the regime recaptured the year in 2016. but no one was allowed to go
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back or rebuild of got out of my house used to be an out of college area when i returned and i am paying rent that what, what should i do? who will rebuild it? we don't have the money. the resume was the cause of serious displacement crisis. and even when it declared victory in 2018, it did little to encourage returns. us mine fucked with the free syrian army and lived under siege for 4 years until there was nothing left to eat. he spent 2 years in the opposition controlled north before returning home. in the past few days, part of it was the, the guy we ask the new administration to focus on reconstruction because after 13 years of war we are not able to do this on our own. there's nothing left of people's lives, not even a painting. on the wall, this is a suburb that was home to half a 1000000 syrians before the uprising began. just look around,
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the scale of the destruction tells the story of why refugees could not, and we're not able to return home. 50000 now live among the ruins, a fraction of the us population. it's a similar story in other areas that were once known as opposition strongholds. the infrastructure too is destroyed. there's no surfaces, there are no hospitals. there is a cry for help. a little upset, our ha, with them was that we need outside help to recover the international community should not be afraid of the new administration and that they are promising that syria will be full. unlike the past that is also known as the city of grapes, there are none. today, this used to be an agricultural center, but like many areas across syria, farm lands were destroyed and farmers were displaced by war. i'm about the stuff i most the worst starting from below 0. they destroyed our water tanks and machinery
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. we don't have money to start again and the date on there are new beginnings. the new administration has changed the security reality, for example. but it's a long road ahead. there's a need for a new political order and governance structures. it will require billions of dollars. syria doesn't have. this is about to be building a state, a country, and a nation center for their eligibility to the u. syria. us president elect donald trump, has school the full of bashful asset, an unfriendly take. have a ok straight to biotech. yeah. well nobody knows what the final outcomes going to be in the region. you know, nobody knows who really the final. i believe it's turkey and i think turkey is a very smart, he's a very smart guy. the very tough turkey did an unfriendly take over without a lot of lives being lost. i can't say that a side was a butcher who what he did to children. mike has moved on donald trump's comments.
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well, that's a contentious statement from the president elect. he's basically saying that to care was behind the uprising that led to the don full up, a shot aside saying specifically that was updated when the president of took care was behind the events that led to the collapse of the regime. the employees so even says directly that higher tati ocean, which is the movements that lead the revolution within syria, was backed a palpably materially by the turkish presidents and by the turkish authorities as well. so contentious statement, the from the president elect about the events that led to the down full up a shot. i'll a side now on gaza as well. the president elect had some words saying that if the captives in gaza on not released by the time he takes office on january the 20th, then all hell is going to break out at once again. strong words that include on
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funding that he has been in contact with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. this is what the president elect had to say on gossip. on baby, we had a very good talk. we discussed what is going to happen and i'll be the 3 available on january 20th. and we'll say i, as you know, i gave warning that if these hostages aren't back home by that date, all hell is going to break out, then very strong. well, some of those nominated by the price of intellect have already been operating in the region. stephen woodcock, who is his middle east envoy, he has paid a visit to a saudi arabia, as well as to israel. and this also understood that his middle east advise the muscle was, has also been in the region. mike hannah, out of sierra washington to demons on to the left,
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shoulds has the last to confidence that in parliament sholtes quoted for the very last week and a move that now key is a way for small collections. in february, dominique, a reports from been for weeks off, shots has led a minority government, unable to get his policies through parliament without health from the off position . on monday he needed them once more. this time to express no confidence in him and his ministers for bringing food with the bundle. so i collections is my goal is to say that the citizens convince it to him in the political cost of the country as best as a point. 2 shots defended his time in office. that survey suggest this is a high risk strategy. many germans are unhappy with the government, the opposition lead to attack the child so that the 3 wasted years view the stand here and continued to explain every thoughts running out the depths of the expense of the younger generation, spending the money and us for the competitiveness of the german economy,
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it didn't even appear once in your speech. panelists agree that the economy will be central to the coming campaign. one. this says, germany's current structural problems are similar to those facing the called giant v w folks logging is in the sense a little bit of a, of, in, of an, a, an embodiment actually of the problem of all of germany that i think see if we need do over when it comes to our economics thinking and in order to produce gross, an audit to produce tax revenues to other issues stand at the war and ukraine and migration. september's state elections and eastern germany showed the votes as the support policies who fav ending the war and drastically cutting migration. in recent months, the laws have been changed to make it harder for refugees to prospect in germany.
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while the full of the sad regime has added a new elements to the debate, and the far right alternative for germany is clear what it would do in office. we must prevent new refugee flows from exceeding the asylum rush of 2015. we therefore need to immediately stop the admission of serious there naturalization and their family reunification and create return options on mondays votes here means the election campaign can are stopped to unfold in earnest. the policy leaders have had this a soon votes, and so we'll have this done when it came out. was there a pool in canada is governing policy is in time. will alter the deputy prime minister southern and he resigned in an act of descent against adjusted to do 1st of free lunches. also the finance minister said that she was stepping down off to finding himself at all with the prime minister. the pad disagreed on some domestic
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policy issues and how to handle terrace on during coming to you as president, donald trump's administration to go has appointed his long time allied. dominique lead long as a new finance minister. the french government has used ships on military across to rush rescue as and supplies to the devastated overseas territory of new york. it said that hundreds were killed off to the strongest psych loan in almost a century to hit the archipelago. natasha butler reports from this guy, the scale of the devastation is clear, flattens homes and the upper to trees the off to mouth is flight 10 feet the ripped through the french indian ocean the island of milestone sunday. in the capital of my moods, the day's prison cells, which will they can they, it really is a war landscape around me. i don't recognize anything. there's not even a tree left the hills. there's not
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a blade of grass for all this flowing and emergency workers and supplies from the french island. does your arriving in mild frances, i'm giving it to you, or even just to say it could be days before the true size of the desk told is known as he helped to coordinate the rescue efforts. if we want things to go smoothly, we're going to pull out the stops. we're going to mobilize everything we can in terms of civil and military resources, empowers for offices, preston to new prime minister, held a series of crisis meetings. some people say those products as long treated people in the surface. these territories are 2nd class citizens in mild 3 quarters of the population, lived in poverty in full housing. they had little charles with founding a slight claim. i read the act of man is miles representative in paris. he admits it's a complex situation that says the cycling could not have been predicted up by the desk. so there's no one person to blame for the scale of this phenomenon. we had
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a slight color with winds of over 230 kilometers per hour. this is extremely rad. on the of the race to find survivors is difficult with pulse of the island, inaccessible and communications costs. like the many people in the poor st. paul, to the european union, was already challenging. now it's likely to get worse. natasha butler, i'll do 0 paris. well off to sweeping through my yard cycling. tito continued west to malawi and mozambique, or at least 5 people died and 34 were injured. the un says thousands have be left without shelter, volta and food, off the homes, schools and health facilities will possibly or completely destroyed, tied to his weekend to a tropical storm. decades old tensions in northern gone, us threatening the country's long standing piece. tribal violence is raising concerns at the groups from across the border in becky,
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not us. so could be using the area as a base that the government insists there is no threat. i'm going to address reports from bulk in got them both are known as gunner's most dangerous town is under siege, not by external forces, but by its born people. it's been ravaged by dickens long leadership struggle that has continued to claim lives, including investigators, husband. it was shocked in killed recently. and i'm have the most painful thing is i haven't seen his body. his daughter keeps asking me mother where his father the christmas dates back to 1967 when i'm present king was the throne. an exiled by government officials or the difficult it was replaced by a member of the course, isaac drive. why the majority of this is hopeful, came into existence and mom policies. i mean they have a list of this.

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