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green energy revolution, fixing on new elements of fries on it, which is 0. the the remains of thousands of people are suspected to be buried in a mass grave. know with a serious capital the low, this is out to 0 life from the i'm 40 back to the also coming up. serious new leader tells vouchers 0 he's administration is not a threat to the world and calls for an end to sanction. at least 10 palestinians are killed in these really s whitestone residential homes in casa city. a search for survivors designed to wait and ukrainian security officials claimed responsibility for an explosion in moscow that killed a senior general in charge of russia's nuclear defense.
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the . the search continues for tens of thousands of the syrians killed during the role of the side regime mass. grace of being on a to cross the country are us base syrian and g. o says this site alone contains the remains of thousands of people. it says outside forces use the area and i could pay 540 kilometers north of damascus to dump bodies of those they killed in the southern syria. meanwhile, 12 mass graves were discovered on monday and a ton of is right. 22 bodies were found to most appear to have been shot and show evidence of torture. the head of syria's new administration says that they will pursue all those who have committed atrocities against the serious people. speaking to out sierra, um it all shower
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a g international community to help the also call for sanctions to be lifted. well, i'll just here as correspondents are following the latest developments and in kosovo was standing by into keys capital with the latest diplomatic line. so at 1st we go to zayna. honda who's at that mass graves side, you know, because pay for zayna you arrived there a short while ago. tell us about what you've seen so far. yes, we are in good taste. it's approximately 40 kilometers from damascus. there have been reports from human rights groups as well as locals in this town, about the presence of a number of mass graves. none of the mass graves have yet been uncovered. we are arriving at one of those sites where the people of this, this town really are telling us that the regime bear reads, well, they don't know the numbers,
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but they believe thousands of bodies because some of these people here, this wasn't regime stronghold. some of these people here saw over the years, a trucks, refrigerator, trucks arriving here with security forces. and in fact, the regimes use some of the government's employees in this town to dig to the graves. so right now we are relying on the testimonies of the people of this town. they are saying that there are thousands of bodies buried here. so we also met a chaise. he was in charge of one of the graveyards of the town and he told us back in 2012, he prayed over at least $100.00 bodies. and he said that they were not identified. they were people not from the area brought by the security forces. so what we are relying on our testimonies from the people of this area. but in recent days,
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mass graves have been on covered in other areas in damascus, in southern city. are you in that off when human rights groups really have been campaigning about the face of tens of thousands of syrians over the years? in fact, they have talked about more than 100000 people. i'm missing, i just spoke to a, a, an official in the syria network of human rights. because when we each tier i wanted to try to gather more information because like you said, like i said, none of these a parent or reported mass graves have yet been uncovered. and he told me that their data base records approximately 136000 individuals who have been detained or forcibly disappeared over the years. today. t can confirm that around 31000 of these individuals have been released leaving 105001 accounted for. so
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since the fall of the regime, these mass graves are being uncovered in other areas and human rights groups believe and the people of this area believe that there are more mass graves in, in this town. right. and as you say, not the 1st mass brave to be uncovered recently, and this must be extremely painful to force and difficult for all those families who are continuing to search for their loved one. how long is it going to take? what, what is the process going to be now once to identify these sites? how long until they provide answers to the families as well? yes, this is going to take some time when the opposition controlled um, you know, damascus and took over the regimes territory weather in homes where they are and how they opened the gates of presidents and prisoners were released but not but, but families didn't find anyone. we've been to some of those presidents and we saw how desperate people or people were to, to find out the truth of the faith,
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of their loved ones. they were arbitrarily detained to unlawfully detained. and there had been a numerous, you know, documents, photographs that have been released over the years by the factors showing torture and execution in these present. and so now that mass graves are being open, they're going to have to identify the human remains. and human rights groups are calling on, on the syrian people and the authorities, the new authorities and syria, to make sure that all this evidence is preserved and safe guard did, because there should be justice and accountability. so they're making this, this call, and you're going to need experts to arrive here to start digging into, to, to find out exactly what's happened. but like i said, you know, people, this was originally him stronghold and some people here told us that we couldn't even approach this area. we would be shot that by a sniper, if we approach this area and we saw those, those trucks arrive. we saw all this,
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but we couldn't speak because if we did, we would be, we would be killed and, and, you know, buried in, in an unknown grave. it's ok say no, we'll leave it there for now. thank you very much for bringing us to lisa from architecture in syria is in a honda and syria will likely top the agenda when the president of the european commission. me said to a case president, a non courier they've started meeting, in fact, during a whole has one that took it and the european union agreed in celebrating the end of the sub regime in syria. 13 years of war have affected both powers, not least in the outpouring of refugees in their millions, staring tensions and re shaping politics from anchorage to berlin, 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,
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we have seen the records have been, it's been on many political agendas and have created a stronger fire. right? so the more of the, of the under lane 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 us from the line and president rec tip top 31 will focus on the conditions necessary for allowing refugees to return. that means encouraging stable and inclusive government in damascus with took here a major benefactor of the former rebel group, noticed hyatt copy from the you will be looking for reassurance that h t s is past alignment with all kind of ease. indeed behind it, they are unlikely to agree on everything with the code is region the northern syria, a potential point of contention. turkeys worried about is soon to face sports or
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the county schools is because they are linked to the p k. k. and it's her be which subject i'm singles of a terrorist organization here in defense pulses that actually be created and supported by europe and united states in order to at tech and defeats the atlantic states. so i think this will be totally at this point, a difficult conversation. it will be a chance though to put old and monkeys aside. when the 2 leaders last met into a key, there was suggestions of sex as a window and set 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 and live now to significant st. louis non correct for assessed in, in the meeting between present data on and as some of on demand underweighed on crap. what are we expecting to come out of this? of the police as we know most one hours at the meeting has started.
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this is an important meeting for both took care and it for the european countries that are trying to establish at toys with the new administration and syria. first of all, we know that the european side uh cellphone delay and would like to learn more about the situation on the ground about the uh good. so is controlling which territory and design that makes of the h t s. along with the bullets are situation because of the size. there is a new government administration in syria. there are so many factions within the opposition, and that's why everything can change in a minute. everything has been so rapid, so far, until the toppling of which are assad government and that's why the european side would like to know more about the local dynamics. the 2nd issue on the table is the continuation of monetary assistance to be provided for the syrian people. now,
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the whole country will need monetary assistance as far as the government. and while they were leaving out, they bankrupted the central bank according to their reports. and many places on their, the reduced controls need to be rebuilt as they are destroyed and, and medical aid and everything. and this is very important for a also of underlay and that's it. as a, as a, as the european countries increase the mountain amount of the mediterranean and in terms of a, a finance as well. it is important to continue. there's so many syrian assistance on the other side for turkey, it is important to find the common ground with the european countries to kill has been the 1st country the to reopen. it's diplomatic mission embassy in the capital, damascus. it's open to last week and, and now we're hearing other wisdom countries trying to reopen. they are
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a embassies in damascus and, and other diplomatic missions. that's why it's important to have a tie between is it between turn turkey and the rest and we heard you repeat the official scrolling through it as a key original player. on the other side, the, there's a critical line for 2 here, which is the presence of the syrian curtis rebel group. the few why didn't why pj which to kick once, if there's a terrorist organization and doesn't want any corps or along it's southern border and with syria and any possible semi or a fully autonomous region loved by the p y d. so these are the common points that they are going through. they are discussing right now. and of course, the continuation of assistance to the people of syria is the most important topic. but to kill also expects to benefit from this new meeting in a positive up most fear as to to expect that upgrades in the customs union it with
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the european countries and of is a free travel back to thank you, sam, for that's the name of the library now the the 437 days of genocide in gaza has now kills more than 45000 palestinians. is really forces have committed mass killings with impunity on a daily basis. and the latest attack, these really military has targeted an apartment block and gaza city. at least 10 palestinians were killed. rescue workers were at the scene trying to extinguish the fire caused by the strike. another is really strike targeted, a housing guy, the city, reducing the building to revel. a number of people were killed and others have been injured. carry, god bless them, has the latest from their blah in central time. and that was fee is it still very tensile the ground in different geographical locations in the scripts. but the main
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significant development that took place during the past couple of hours is the relative of the phones. and that's what they use when crump forces close to out of my last the area in the south of district this area has been designated to be safe to give any terry and so far civilians to earlier today. morning the weight copeland, the crackle of the gunfire and the sound of its rose, attracting low. i see where a number of civilians reported aged as a wet, transported to and also hospital to get medical treatment. has been just a review to be a source of a relative advancement and some sort of also to ration of activity by the is really mail it to a, in an area that had been designated to be humanitarians. on those when the strip there has been a notable sides of attacks in big law here at home. and the, the opiate tracing operations by the good spread across courses continue from within 2 months. um its more reports coming from the vicinity of commodity. so suggesting that the army has deployed exclusive reports and the facilities which later could be prepared for that for
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a completely to be blowing up by the use very crump forces. this has been the snapshot of what has been going on on the ground. and to now there has been a very visible movement of things by the trends in the sky of the central areas of the district. terry companies. and i was just the very by in the us says is conducted and as striking to command and control facility operated by humans who fees in the capital snob, us central command says the facility was being used to coordinate operations against american naval warships investigating the red sea and gulf of aiden, the whole face of repeatedly attacked ships in the red sea in protest against his are as well on casa, on monday, the whole, if he's fired, a ballistic mist solved towards the military target. in israel, the attack set off sirens across centralized riley, including the cities of a ton of even java. the military says it shot down the messiah before it entered is really a space. the
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pain out of world use ukraine says it's killed a high ranking russian military general. in moscow, a criminal investigation into the incident is currently underway. a goal carrie law was in charge of the country's nuclear protection forces was killed when a bomb hidden in an electric scooter designated he previously was sanctioned by western nations way's role in the war. and ukraine has go live to julia shop of all of our who's at the scene of 5 that expulsion in, in moscow. usually a, we now have a claim of responsibility. it seems from the ukrainian. so what's the reaction in moscow, and what more do we know about the circumstances of the 6th ocean? as right, as you can see, we are currently standing at the scene of this stuff. that's
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a nation. the investigates is a working on the same behind me allegedly, the abilities of the dead us still that. so the incident happened early in the morning and south east of mosca, an improvised explosive device, allegedly mounted, and electricity to unless near an entrance to the residential building designated to them as a result of that destination. lieutenant general eagle carrillo, the head of the radiation chemical and biological defense troops. this code as well as his driver. so according to royces and b, b, c, the ukranian intelligence services behind this mother they say carry love was a legitimate target. so can really avoid so 54 years old and had been subbing in disposition since 2017 who was non food taken pods in decrease and all the tools too heavy. so in the bark system, one of the most very sol weapons using you crate and in march 2022 career of how the presentation of the ministry of defense. why he claims that
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a depends begins by your labs and ukraine. work developing projects to spread that logical weapons to russia using bots and bugs, and that we've heard from ex president to be treatment defective. he called carrie loved a patriot, and he's us as a nation and acts of terrorism on promised revenge to the ukrainian side. while a foreign ministry spokeswoman maria is a harbor headset, lieutenant general carrillo was exposing the crimes of the quote anglo saxons with fox and documents in his hands, including quotes names who publications, with chemical weapons in syria versus usage of prohibitive, chemicals and souls free as well. as the next series of american fire labs in ukraine. so the investigation is underway. and of course way of monitoring the situation here in south east of mosca. and of course we'll bring you more as we get it. of course we will come to you with those latest developments, so thank you. you'll have for that, usually a shop. a lot of i live there in moscow still ahead on allergy. 0 popular. it's
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quite a case the pacific island does on what to several people are injured, the the other still some flooding on the ground of yet 9, but the season range east off a little bit. these bright class here, the cost the most recent heavy rate, but basically the full cost takes it down to, was printing the laser still with something turned on, but seasonally the range before the safe. and he's going further south again to join all these thunderstorms in sumatra and born here, it's a little bit driving java. not as much as it could have been in the file, the center for that means the rather wait time. now whether a warning is out of high temperature, northern australia is hard to see how most places will feel because thunderstorms are generated. now tend to not attempt just back all the way down through queens
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and it looks fairly well. just go, you can use that as well as with all these terms have come down recently by about 10 degrees because that from the cold from has gone through. but the sun strong so puts is a nice, enjoyable, 30, maybe get that will move back in land. that sudden spreads eastwards. but sydney is not faxed 24 brisbin dried up to 28. it's queens and wherever you witnessed. and he's in disappointment for you with the wind coming to basically from the south, the southeast. these tensions about 4 degrees below average the sun sites across judge. not so much because but or indeed for wellington, i didn't i think i'm here to assist the evening. christ church, this window bring more disappointment was significant, right? is elated by those in power rolling. this selection is unique and we've seen anything like that before and no pressure. they were instrumental in helping the president when the election, driven by still interested play as fast with their cost or non profits for people
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susceptible to government control. this propaganda is designed to inflame and defense the way that the story is being told. it's 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 plug in a reminder about top stories on how to sierra a search for people missing in syria continues as more mask, raise the coverage, and also pay for north of damascus. one site is reported to contain the bodies of tens of thousands of people. israel has been bombing residential neighborhoods in
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kansas city in the north for the strip. at least 10 palestinians were killed. one out of commons office had overnight. one stride destroyed another building, some people, se it, i think, and ukraine security services. it carried out the beginning of a high ranking russian military general in se small school. the goal catalog was killed when a bomb hadn't even electric scooter decimated. it was in charge of brushes, nuclear and chemical forces. in other news, in german, each asset olaf shows has lost the confidence out in parliament show us call for the vote last week and a move that now please the way for snap elections in february, stomach henry for somebody for weeks off, shots has led a minority government, unable to get his policies through parliament without health from the opposition. on monday, he needed once more. this time to express no confidence in him and his benefits for bringing food with the bundle start collections is my goal. to stay with the
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citizens convent to them in the political course 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 challenge so that the 3 wasted years, very new to stand here and continue to explain every folks running adepts at the expense of the younger generation, spending the money. and that's for the competitiveness of the german economy. it didn't even appear once and 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 pokes logging is in the sense a little bit of a, of an, of an, a, an embodiment actually of the problem of all of germany that i think see if we need to over when it comes to our economic thinking and in order to
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produce growth. and in order to produce tax revenues to of the issues stand at the war and ukraine and migration. september's state elections and eastern germany showed the votes as the support parties who fav ending the war and drastically cutting migration. in recent months, the laws have been changed to make it hard to for refugees to prospect in germany. a 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 with 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 vote here means the election campaign can are
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stopped to unfold in earnest. the posse leaders have had this a soon votes is, will have this done when it came out to 0. probably at least one person has died and several others have been injured. after $7.00 earth, craig struck the south pacific island of bun. why to communications were knocked out across the country. video footage on satan social media show significant damage including collapse, buildings, roads connecting the capital ford villa to the main port has been brought by lance . lise, the death toll is expected to rise. we spoke to don mcgarry, who was a local journalists and a resident of fort villa. he told us about the situation and on why 2 of probably the next week of this was a violent or is quick. the worst that i've seen in 21 years of living here and run a lot to my wife who was born here in the country said it was the worst she'd seen in her life. at the damage that we've seen is widespread. but it
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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, it costs a real concern in terms of casualties and recovery. there has been damage it. damage is visible among across. so 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. i've just recently heard reports of damage to our international airport runway. if the runway itself is damaged, that's going to be a real impediment to the recovery effort and lack of access to our shipping
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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 to the french government has imposed a night's curfew on the indian ocean island of my jo, to ahead of a visit by president and money. and my crew ships and military aircraft have been transport, have transported rescue teams and supplies to the french overseas territory. actually, it was hit by cycling on sunday. hundreds of people this year to have been killed in one of the strongest storms. they hit my oats in nearly half a century to natasha about their reports. from this guy, the scale of the devastation is clear, flattens homes and the upper to trees the off to mall to so i can cheat the ripped through the french indian ocean. the island of milestone sunday, in the capital of my moods, the days freezes and salvage will they can they, it really is a war landscape around me. i don't recognize anything that there's not even
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a tree left the hills. there's not a blade of grass for all this is flowing and emergency workers and supplies from the french island of hiring your arriving in mild, francis outgoing interior minister said it could be days before the true size of the desk told is known as he helped to coordinate the risk us 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 and powers for all. this is preston, new prime minister held a series of crisis meetings. some people say this process long treated people in the service east territories. a 2nd class citizens in mild 3 quarters of the population, lived in poverty in full housing that had little charles with founding a slight claim that rudy active 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
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depth. so there's no one person to blame for the scale of this phenomenon. we had a slight cut over the winds of over 230 kilometers per hour. this is x really rabbits on talk to them. it's that 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. latasha butler, i'll do 0 paris. to gun an hour, decades old. tensions in the know a fast threatening the country's long standing piece. growing violence among tribes is raising concerns that armed gloves from across the bordering booking of fi. so are using the area as a base. the government didn't says there is no threat. i'm addressed for, for some vocal in guns. vocal known as gunner's most dangerous town is under siege, not by external forces,
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but by its going people. it's been ravaged by dick. it's a long leadership struggle that has continued to claim lives, including investigators, husband. it was shocked and killed recently. and i'm have the most painful thing is i haven't seen his body. his daughter keeps asking me mother, where is father? the crisis dates back to 1967 when i'm present king was the throne. an exiled by government officials. it was replaced by a member of the course isaac drive. while the majority, mrs. wilson came into existence and mom policies, i'm on the list of the top, dated up to 17, say 3, up to 19 century.
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