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elgin's era with the syrians challenges 0 about the mass graves. doug with both of those is on the outskirts of damascus. the hello, i'm jessica washington. this is all just even live it from don't also come in. i am seriously concerned about the reports of mandatory escalation. the u. n. envoy to syria wants to secure to counsel the countries conflicts is phone from over. in
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northern garza jumped as income or antoine hospital put bags of soil in the windows to protect patients from is really is and ukraine says 8 assassination of a russian generals in retaliation for chemical weapons attacks on its own. the 10 days after the full of pressure on a side, the search has begun for tens of thousands. the syrians disappeared under his regime mass graves believed to contain the remains of thousands of bodies of being uncovered across the country. the un says it's made contact with the new administration and is hoping to send teams to investigate sites suspected as being mass graves. santa hood went to one of them, north of the capital, damascus. i,
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i some alice sad says the truth about some of the 10s of thousands of missing syrians lives here, underneath what used to be a regime base and could take the north of damascus. i saw owned a construction company. he says, the chart, i said the security agencies use his machinery to bury tortured prisoners here and houses. we show the name of suited exactly and have a bad feeling every time i come here and it brings back memories of what i saw for years, refrigerated truck sees to dump bodies in cables on a regular basis. if it was very ugly. i some witnessed a parent for crimes. he wasn't the only one in this town. the writing on the wall documents the date of the burial, of an an identified man. there are others. and in this corner of the town cemetery, others were buried. but there are no tombstones, no names of their stories, only to be told by the graveyards keeper,
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who can only say for sure that they were not from the town and were likely involved in opposition protests at the start of the uprising them on a new of them the regime buried around 100 people here. they buried them in batches . i prayed over their bodies, they were innocent civilians and so they were our syrian brothers. typo was originally him stronghold. it's outskirts, we're a close military's own that residents were not allowed to access. for years, families waited for news about their loved ones who disappeared in regime prisons, arbitrary and unlawful arrests were part of the regime strategy to silence the sent . now syrians need to find those who are still missing, writes group, say, there are at least 100000 accounted, 400 the can enable the refrigerated trucks used to come at least twice a week. they used to use employees of government institutions and think as to the graves. no one of us could say with at the time,
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answers mainly beneath the ground. people here are calling for experts to start digging. mass graves have already been on earth and other regime controlled areas. evidence of a long suspected pattern of organized states violence center for their which was the, the good type of damascus countryside. serious prime minister mohammed embassy. it has told us a 0. the country is running very low on foreign currency reserves. those he is a civil war crippled the country's economy. but obviously it also blamed systemic corruption within the assad regime. the prime minister has called on the international community to retrieve some of the money. for lisa, aside of thoughtless charlotte said it wasn't just bush auto said. there was a whole system of plundering the results of the wealth of the syrian people. but that money should have been used to fund the reconstruction of syria and we should seek help. so this from the international community, because that money is the money of the syrian people,
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that m to assign the vengeance aid has more from the syrian capital, damascus for the prime minister was talking 2 hours a day or 2 on the various number of issues. but with most important being the economic condition of this country that this administration has inherited. this is a fighting force which had the chance to run the provincial government, the salvation government and the northern parts. and so yeah, and this is the prime minister who let that government. and there is a lot of expectation from the people of syria that these people who come to power are from them and are going to solve their problems. and that is why it is important for them to continue this line of communication to the people and to the outside world has been. remember as soon as we did the pool for the last 13 years, the assad government used up most of its money on food and fuel and continuing this war against the opposition, which is now in charge. so the problem is they're talking about how dire this situation is, how there is no money left. and it is going to for the few questions from the
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people of syria on whether they adopted their engineers or cleaners, or if they're coming into the jobs. are they going to be paid at the end of the month? how is that money going to come there? is that big money going to come from? and this is also an appeal to the friends of syria. those uh, within a around its board is and beyond is when do not just arrange for those funds that are exist in the, the outside world to be the best way to, to syria. but also, and if you for help, because if the international community, once a stable syria, the city and administration will need some money to make sure that it remains to you and envoy to syria says there's growing support to recognize the new need is addressing the security council from damascus. hip edison presented a roadmap for the countries transition. but he also warned that the conflict has not ended pointing to tension between 2 expect kurdish to expect sciences and code is lead forces. gabriel elizondo has moved from you and headquarters in new york as
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the 1st security council meeting on serious since the fall of a side where council members got updates on the political and humanitarian situation. on the political front gear petterson, the un special envoy for syria spoke to the counsel via video conference from damascus. he's been meeting top officials of the new administration and says there's growing support to recognize and assist the new leaders for a steering transition. concrete movement on them inclusive political translation, really big t and ensuring so you're going to receive states along support and needs. so it is clear and the master willingness to engage the needs already mens and for the only be addressed with broad support including us, loise and to sanctions prompted action on designations to i'm further reconstruction, the why petterson told the counsel a roadmap to a syrian lead political transition should have 4 key elements and orderly
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transition and preservation of state institutions. it should be inclusive of the broadest spectrum of syrian society and political parties. there must be a new constitution and free and fair elections. petterson also told is real and to stop. it's a tax on syria is right, and let's see is oil supplement activity and they don't provide ceiling going all rich are any your attacks on serial silver entity, uncoated, tony, and then tell you are the most stop on a humanitarian front. tom fletcher, the newly appointed emergency relief coordinator, also brief. the council from damascus. he said before the fall of the assad regime, 17000000 syrians needed humanitarian support. 1000000 new people have been displaced in less than 2 weeks, but he also came to the council with a rare good news. the situation has begun to stabilize. as i've
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seen this week, markets rose health facilities are reopening. children have gone back to school age operations advisory resuming across most of our hops in the security council. gone are the days of division and disagreements over syria, at least right now within the counsel and the wider international community. there is consensus that there's a real opportunity to help syria through this transition gabriel's onto, i'll just either at the united nations in new york. the israel is quote, close to the an answer to closing is these 5 deal with him? us that will free the captive towns in gauze bounce according to its defense
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minister is around guns. there's only been one deal that led to the release of captives. that was in november of 2023. more than a 100 gallons. the captives were exchanged, were released in exchange for a 150 palestinian prisoners. no day has moved from the georgia indian capital a month. and a reminder that node is reporting from this because these really government has banned ultra 0 from operating in israel. and the occupied with bank as there is a lot of optimism in is really media reports about possibly reaching a cease fire deal that would see the release of at least some is really captives from gaza. now this optimism has cautious because we've been here before, and the efforts were startled at the last minute because of new conditions because of different considerations. but what is at stake here? the situation, the humanitarian situation in the gaza strip is beyond catastrophic and him, us wants to see the entry of humanitarian assistance as soon as possible. that is
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being tied to phase one of the cease fire agreement. and right now, as we understand, the discussions are down to the details to the names of who would be released, what, who, who among the palestinian detaining is would also be released. so the details are being ironed out. egypt and i thought playing, of course, an important role and the united states has its eyes on this. the outgoing and incoming un administrations have a vested interest in a ceasefire deal being announced, even if it doesn't lead to an end to the war. some managed expectations and in the meantime, how must issued a statement saying that a cease fire deal is within reach. it's nothing. yeah. who doesn't introduce new conditions? no, to all the data. i'm meanwhile, in garza, the bloodshed continues in bank not here in northern guns are these rarely ami
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bummed homes, housing displaced people at least age people have been killed in an attack on one home. in another incident, at least 15 people were killed in a single and strike. several others died in an early morning strike. me come, i'll add one hospital. come, i'll add one hospital has come under repeated attack since system of israel siege of northern garza. some of the latest attacks by the is really ministry. were carried out to using remote control vehicles carrying explosives. the explosions have devastated nearby buildings and frames and patients. oh, to 0 is most hallowed, has been to the hospital and has more about the ongoing attacks federal products to some of the medical stuff. patients and one of the people asked because way the army keep this toning trouble. it's photo, except most is near to come out of the hospital. we are talking here about streets away from the medical stuff. that's why fragments keep hitting
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directly the hospital itself. and so that's why just as here are as told in this and that says on the window of the i see you to box me to keep themselves saved from the is a tax and allow me to show you one more thing, which is the neighborhood near to come out of the hospital, which is completely destroyed, which is completely live in the ground as you can clearly see in the picture. so this is the limit of destruction inflicting the hospital as you can see and allow me to show you one more thing, which is the ceiling department and the color chart here. and also the tax directly shows the i c u department
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from this bought from this side. so we also can key about lucky scenes every night, every morning and every day as the army keeps tracking and shooting the hospital. it's those doctors and the patients here all to everybody, to stop this genocide, also to say this only operational health facility in the besieged nothing cause trip tomorrow. because you adjust the paper that you found. assign the you in office for the community coordination of humanitarian affairs in central garza is wanting. that is request to get a to too many ponds of the gaza strip of being ignored by israel with dire humanitarian consequences which is here is hunting. the hood was indeed a law and spoke with the head of the ultra sub office, george joseph patropolis on the challenges the agency faces. and the reason that we
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find it so difficult to work here is because most of the gaza strip is close to us . because of evacuation noticed by these really forces and because they refuse our notifications when we want to go and rich people, much all the gods are that is on the eastern side of hon. eunice for the middle. the area a rough or is very complicated for us to reach, simply because we ask and we have denials of our requests. and you say that there's a way the in the north of the middle, the area these areas i've had and jose requested to provide water or food to people distributions. and they're consistently denied. and the local who level we've not only been discussing it when it collapse with what i think is the most frustrating reality is that we warrant it would collapse if certain things did not happen after the operation and roughly begun inmate. we said that if we do not have access to
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the ref across thing, if we don't have warehouses in the right places, we won't really be able to have a supply system almost more than 2000000 people in graduate. it's a lot of people and, and so the way that we are expected to work here is really a recipe for failure. i think is there is a ceasefire agreement rates. what are the, the priorities for or should to provide at this point 8, like what would be needed to take advantage of a ceasefire agreement? the food and shelters have to comes in large supply. the number one thing that the ceasefire would bring is a pause for people to breathe, to take a breath, to call their loved ones, to find their loved ones to reach them where if they are across a dividing line, whether it's in a vacation order for us we would simply put even more effort as much as we could. we wouldn't sleep if it meant coordinating more supplies to come into the guys or strip to ensure that they are the right supplies,
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that they're going to the right place and reaching the people that, that need them. so we have uh, thousands of people that require medical aid, whether it's chronic illness or severe traumatic injury for which the health system and guys that can, can not cope anymore. they don't have even the machinery or the right and doctors or medical personnel to treat this injury. so we would need a ceasefire to come also with the ability to bring in this uh, this capacity and to take out to people that will not find it in cause it must be magically evacuated. still ahead on notice here, the moment the magnitude 7.3 us quite kid savannah watching at least 14 people have been killed and hundreds engines the
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had a lot of they will start down under and it seemed very hard to cause eastern parts of australia. but the heat has, he's been wasting more in a way of west weather, lingering around the edge of some places, like in new south wales, queensland and touching up the towards the top and. but across most central and southern areas, you've got high pressure in charge. so lots of heat and dry settled, whether to be found that those conditions extend it towards southern parts of w a. just a few showers here and that the temperature is well in places like puffs sitting at starting degrees celsius. and we will see that warming trend push its way a further east. if we have a look at the 3 day for adelaide, we've got a few days in the thirty's before is a little bit of a cool down on saturday, the temperatures have been sitting below the average across new zealand. that's settled whether to be fond to the south island on wednesday, or the way of showering conditions in the north. but there comes the rain touching in to christ church on size day. and speaking of rain, it remains very wescal,
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south, east asian was seen flooding and southern thailand, but the heaviest of the rain has shifted its way for the south into malaysia, single pool. and indonesia. we've got something of a circulation bringing some heavy rain and wind to southern philippines. the around one pacific tricity globally is consumed by data centers, many of which provide remote storage facilities or what is also known as the cloud . i'm in no way to see how one center is harnessing the energy of these fuel. what's to store our digital information without the heavy comp and footprint. and i'm the north coast of the u. k. where the global green energy revolution, taking on new elements of fries on which is 0. it's the,
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[000:00:00;00] the hello again, this is on to 0. remind telephone top stories. this our a searches underway in serious to tens of thousands of people went missing under the sun. for shame, it's reported that thousands were buried in a mass grave knows that the capital damascus from us is a see science you in gaza is possible. israel stop setting new conditions. these rarely defense minister says a deal is closer than ever. but he's also made comments pushing for the defeat from us and continued control in gaza. the united nations refugee
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agency says about $1000000.00 syrian refugees are expected to return to the country in the 1st 6 months of next year. it's middle east and north africa director raymish, unless in size is urging states to avoid forest returns. she says it's just far too soon to make this determination on the safety and stability of syria. and there are many questions that need to be answered. we have massive humanitarian needs on a scale that hasn't diminished in any way. stephanie deka is in, does he end up in east into q i city with a lot of syrian refugee population near the border with syria. she sent us this update. as this is a country that's been crippled by war for 13 years. it is not in a state to receive such a mass influx so quickly. certainly everyone we've been speaking through here and goes beyond step of the on top of the 2nd biggest city in terms of hosting syrian refugees. most of the syrians here are from
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a level and everybody we've been speaking to wants to return. what does that, you know, it is going to be a slow process in the sense that a lot of them have built their lives here over 13 years. they have children there in school, and so it is something that needs to take some planning. now turkey at the moment is not giving permits, in the sense of the people could go to a level and come back to turkey just to figure out what the situation is like on the ground, which is also why you're not seeing hundreds of thousands of people because you would, people want to go and see what the state of their homes is like. they want to go see relatives. they want to do that immediately. what they call it, move everything, and me just see of course, because you're operating 13 years of life, many with children, elderly, etc. so, i think it, of course not mis tossed the head, but certainly most people we've been speaking to here ones which are interestingly, a lot of the young people under 18, for example, that have grown up here. lot of those feel turkish, in fact they say some of them saying i'm scared about going back to syria because i don't think i can even go to school in our bank. so there's so many layers to this,
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13 years that people have been out of the country as ukraine security services. it was behind the killing of a high ranking russian general in moscow. your capital of who was in charge of russia's nuclear, chemical and biological defense, was killed by a bomb heat in the immune electric scooter. he's the most senior russian officer killed in the war with ukraine. surely, i should probably let reports from moscow. in the morning a powerful bloss shikes, a quiet, small school neighborhood, shot 3 windows in nearby buildings filled with the before books. but the, there was some kind of a bang we warehouse to sleep, didn't understand anything. there was no fire. 15 minutes later special surfaces begin to gather ballast as fire departments, emergency services for the gardening, blue cross, there was a strong shudder, like a tower crane had fallen. for some reason the blast wave broke the inner bloss in
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my window. the firefighters arrived 1st because the fire alarm went off. that's hawk code 54 year old lift 10, a general eagle, q, reload the head of rushes, and you click chemical and biological defense. and he's such a 3 year old assistant rational source whose side the bone was hayden on the handle of an electric screws up pucks near the entrance to the building. it was designated using a radio signal or recall from a mobile phone. it sold those behind that talk, the monitoring the general remotely bought a camera left in aconia by which is being evacuated now. the lens was pointing at the entrance to the building rocks in the rod to keep it hayton. the ukrainian sake you relapse killing was a special operation by the security services. they accused him of organizing chemical attacks on ukrainian solo calling him a legitimate target. the russian authorities have described the boma todd as terrorism, while souls as close to korea live say that shortly before his death,
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the general has said he was a target for the ukrainians. also, he uncovered data on biological laboratories in ukraine, compliance with toxic chemicals, publications against russia, u dash above oliver ultra 0. most k. aging has criticized claims. a chinese business non use links with bridges. prince andrew, just by for china. the u. k. high court has named young campbell as the alleged by of to details image last week about his relations with the royal prince, who was banned from britain 2 years ago. but his identity had been kept secret under a court order. a suspect in the high profile killing of a u. s. health insurance executive has been charged with murder as an act of terrorism. luigi manzona, a is accused of shooting dead unitedhealthcare chief executive brian thompson in new york. 2 weeks ago. he's been indicted on charges,
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including 1st degree murder and a new terrorism charged. on june, he was arrested in pennsylvania. after 5 day man hunts. the manhattan district attorney alvin bragg explained to the indictment. the one town of murder in the 1st degree is a killing and further risk of terrorism. 2 counts of murder. in the 2nd degree, one charge of the killing was done as an act of terrorism. and the 2nd pertaining the fact that the killing was intentional. the maximum can only possible for murder in the 1st degree and murder in the 2nd degree is an act of terrorism is life without parole. the maximum penalty for murder in the 2nd degree is 25 years to life. there are additional counts as well. a new number of criminal possession, a weapon charges 2 counts, and the 2nd degree for accounts in the 3rd degree, one count in the 4th degree and i count of crow possession before his instrument in
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the 2nd street. gemini is 3 main political parties have laid out the policies ahead of parliamentary elections in february. tons little of schultz will be seeking a 2nd time after the collapse of his coalition government, his training center rides. the challenge of friedrich moves, who is union block is leading in the polls to many cane reports from bully and friedrich mounts was once frozen. i have 2 of the christian democrats on the angle american. but now at the head, he may be weeks from winning the general election. with a clear break from may i ask, who's consensual politics and a profoundly conservative message to the vices feeling 9 to come for, for the end of us, we are presenting you with the program for domestic security one to make germany safe for again, we no longer want to accept no go areas in our country. it's becoming the norm that they exist in that are police can properly investigate those areas. we will
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reinforce law and order in germany. so now it's what matters is the economy and how to resist the stagnation. he says the social democrats have caused wildwood sean center is now leading a can take a government. this message to vote is, is it only his policy can take care of them? well, i've chosen the subject to hit the ground running with the slogan. nestor this associated watch on smith you best of the drum unit. the problem is most opinion pulse of the most of these products lives. but one analyst believes a large part of the electricity is still to make up its mind. and so we will see that the floating constituents are most instrumental and important in this election . so because we, we've seen that the transition, the big 10 parties are losing their, their, their power and disregard. so people are all more flexible who they vote for. and so therefore, within the next 10 weeks, anything can happen,
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which explains why the green party is stressing the need for change. they want to reform the debt to break a law, which prevents governments from borrowing large sums to invest in future products. electro program drills is jim in power for me. it's a bit of time because of a major problems about time. and here it must be said kitty. germany must once again reinvent itself split as waltz. i'm to the voters agree, poll suggests the greens are less popular now when they for the last election. whereas the far right alternative to germany, i have to is almost twice as popular with the priority of cutting mess, migration, and the free democrats who both about the end of the coalition. they are fighting just to win enough votes to be returned to parliament. don again, l g 0, building at least 22 people are known to have died following one of the strongest storms in nearly
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a century to hit the french overseas territory of miles. the government has imposed a nightclub, a few on the indian ocean islands ahead of a visited by president emanuel. my crone is feared the final death toll could be in the hundreds. lots of sweeping through mild cycling. chito continued west to malawi and mozambique with 34 people have died and several others has been injured . the un says thousands have been left without shelter. the water and food of the homes of schools and health facilities were partially or completely destroyed. at least 14 people have been killed and hundreds injured. after a 7.3 magnitude of quake struck the south pacific island nation of federal law to alexandra by his reports. disaster strikes value all to. this is the moment, the 7.3 magnitude 1st quick,

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