the, the, [000:00:00;00] the, the us says it's no longer offering a reward for the rest of siri as new leader after diplomats visit the masks the hello. i'm how much in room the sound, 0 life i'm doing. also coming up, the israel shoots and injures a man,

protesting against the presence of their troops in southern syrian aid. palestinians are killed in a gauze and refugee camp as winter weather compounds and misery across the street. plus it is, i think really they're responsible for us to risk a show. now, these issues on the things that are ready for us government just hours away from a shut down. as republican scrambled to put together a new funding the the u. s. has withdrawn as offer of a reward for the rest of syria's new leader of the shutter. who is the head of hey, it's a hey to show a designated terrorist organization. top middle east diplomat barb relief met with a shudder in damascus on friday. the 1st meeting between the us government and new syrian administration, washington is representative said they're also looking at the sanctions imposed on syria. however,

the new leadership would have to be responsive and demonstrate progress before any restrictions are list. is the 1st time in more than a decade that us diplomats have paid a visit to damascus. so let's speak now with rosalind jordan, who's in washington, dc for us. raj, good to see you. you've been listening to a press briefing given by barbara leif. what's been said, and what have you learned so far as well? the bracing just ended and what we heard barb relief, who is the assistant secretary for near east affairs at the state department say is that the us wanted to was see for itself. just how the transitions some 12 days after the fall about charles thought as syria's ruler was going on, we've said that it was important to make contact one on one contact with the leadership of h t s,

including the serial shut off to convey the us is concerned and aspirations for the syrian people to was show support for the efforts to move beyond more than 45 years of dictatorship and to try to establish a new representative government that would include all factors of syrian society. we also heard leave talk about the fact that this is a critical moment to ensure that the other groups cannot take advantage of this political transition to see it as a vacuum and to try to use it for their own nefarious. and she was asked specifically whether or not a rod had any uh, feature roll inside syria, given the support it had in directly provided to was testable law and to what a side. and we've told reporters on that coal on friday that they did not see that rod had any sort of constructive role. by contrast,

turkey or turkey i is considered not just a neighbor, but a critical partner. as the syrians tried to rebuild their country. and ross, one of the things that we've learned from the briefing and that you mentioned is that barb relief stated that the us is removing the reward for them to shut off the top easily. a very significant move. what are the americans either getting in return or expecting and return as well? the question did come up during the briefing. why remove the 10000000 dollar biology on the federal size code? because he is designated under the foreign terrorist organization act as is h t s. and we've said no only half jokingly. well, it's really difficult to have a conversation with someone in the position that this rel, shut off, is in, with his bounty hanging over his head. and you're going back to the old truism that you make peace with your enemies,

not with your friends. and so in order to try to help promote what the us and other regional partners want to see, which is a productive, safe and secure ra syria. and since this had to be done, no, it's not a quid pro quo per se. but the us is, of course, very interested in finding out what has happened to a number of americans who were in syria who were disappeared at the hands of the sod regime. notably the journalist austin tice, who has been missing for nearly a decade. and so they wanted to reaffirm those discussions and h t, as has said that it would do all that it could to try to find out where austin tice is, so that he can be returned to his family here in the united states. again, a not a quick pro, quote, but a chance for the americans and the syrians to really talk about how they can work together in the weeks and months ahead. all right, that's, i'm just here is rosalyn. jordan live for us in washington dc. thanks so much,

ross. israeli forces have shot and injured a syrian protest or in the southern province of that on the shooting happened near the village of maria that borders the goal on heights and the buffer zone occupied by israel. protesters bandage the man's leg before he was taken to a hospital on a motor. they were demonstrating against the presence of israeli forces in syria after the fall of a shot at us. it. the darkest president, regina type, or the one has reiterated for kids, determination to eliminate us back kurdish lead fighters in northern syria. this is the latest picture of the military situation in the country. the green area shows territory controlled by the new government. the northeast is controlled by the syrian democratic forces. a coalition led by kurdish fighters. us supports this group and has troops there in the north, took a and it's allied fighters controlled the red areas. so kia says it wants to keep

kurdish fighters away from its border. in the south is really ground forces are expanding their occupation of the goal on heights. they've seized what was a demilitarized buffer zone and gone beyond it. you and says this violates a longstanding agreement with syria. so because she also has more from is stumbled, i took care of stones towards the syrian cord. this rebel group y, p g has been cleared since the beginning of the us supports a to the group. and the fight against iso because and because of the very ranks and the uh in, within the y p g a who are former members of the p k. k offload for the sound workers party and doing all those minutes through rates in northern syria and finding documents of the p k k. and the p k. k leaders, p k, k flags and those why pj yourselves on kemp's took us says it's is definitely an extension of the of the peak. a k y p g is not

a regular or normal syrian curtis rebel group. that's why any samuel turned on those or ultima almost any independent region or comp. tony led by the y p g. a long trick is border with syria is impossible for the turkish government. that's why they are fighting the group inside to get outside to get, including northern iraq and northern syria. they'll preparations, targeting the y p g n, as in serial is conducted by the syrian national army turkish bacteria in a position fighters that when formerly known as the free syrian army, but apparently to kid who believes that currently the stability and safety in syria is very important for the millions of syrian refugees who, who are destined to go back to their country. there's, there is no room for terrorist organizations. them to care says it p k, k y, p g r, service organizations, as i so is. and that's why it, before donald trump takes a seat, seats to kid,

believes that this problem should be addressed and definite the result without target. some other 3 intervention at least for now the in northern gaza at least 10 palestinians have been killed. internet is really strike onto about the 7 of those killed in this latest attack. our children to bother you along with the rest of northern garza, has been under military siege for more than 70 days. earlier on thursday 8 palestinians were killed in and is really attacked on a residential building and under say it out for a few g camp. a father and his children are among the dead. several others have been injured. israeli forces have killed at least 20 people across the strip since dawn. the when we receive the rescue called, we drove towards chaff a street and then you say your account apartments was targeted in the jeff,

a building of the center of the se, right market. there were more than 25 injured taken to hospital. most of the dead were children and body remains highly, much more. it has more from there. but in central gossen, this 5, the leagues about the ceasefire talks in cairo, the situations across the gods to remain very difficult and continues to evolve in a much more challenging and difficult scenario as these really military continues to ride in the northern part of the script continue at military seas of the entire northern part of the golf game, including areas like jabante, a refuge account of valley, a town with la and beats, and where more people have been killed. and throughout the day as a result of the ongoing here strikes for people were killed inside a residential home in the city of a tunnel that the parents and 2 of their daughters of 3 were 3. but from on the rebels from the vicinity of canada, one possibly just showed you how difficult the situation in terms of safety and

security of the vicinity of the house is that as the tax continued to happen, we're talking about a distance that is very short. but nobody was able, in the past week to rescue any of the people who were killed in the bomb home of the vicinity of 10100 was not until early our our this morning at volunteer the from the surrounding community were able to remove or 3 of the bodies of 4 brothers were under the rebels for a whole week. from the time the house was gone, just the past hour. this really military carried out a deadly attack on a rather than sort of flood you're in the account. this is the market street of the heart of the republican where people were killed, including 2 children who were transferred to the hospital. the 5 of the casualties were transferred right away to a lot of the hospitals here and the 3 we're allowed. the hospital, the given the over crowded the space at this small host facility and then the rest of the cabinets allowed the joy at the volt health facility. everyone was evacuated

here to i left the hospital and they are now at the more of a lot of hospitals. these situations continue to repeat itself across the guster with known that up and size, and a no respite in the tops. despite all what we hear about up to 10, so a ceasefire that might happen any time soon. honey. my more do buff from gaza strip palestine. israel has fortunately displaced thousands of palestinian families repeatedly, many of in sheltering and make shift tents. but rain and cold weather are worsening . their suffering as the chevy was one of the displacement camps and gaza city and sent this report in a hug metric is it? well, let the order be we can see the shelter, housing, thousands of palestinian families forced from the homeless and giovanni a refugee camp bed lot. yeah. and they tell me, i'm not, you can also see family members who took shelter under rubble and debris because there are lots of tempt fate for such

a large numbers of people. some families have gone to destroyed buildings and houses, hoping to find protection from the range of the cold weather. thousands of families are now living in the streets. all of the situation is catastrophic. the lives of these people are full of misery as they faced the winter reigns on cold war and they don't have basic facilities. there are no toilets here, no food and no volta hold on. there's literally nothing here for these families. people say pests and rodents all over the place and diseases a spreading. i'm children are the ones who suffer the most and the mobile phone. most of the children had told me they desperately need shoes because of the cold weather. and these randy occupation forces of preventive shoes being brought into an open cause. and the best that children can be seen everywhere in this place. if shoes can be found, they are very expensive. the siege, the will of the winter increased the misery of tens of thousands of palestinians have come here from different parts of northern cause. why?

the russians military has attacked cities across ukraine, including the capital. keith, missile and drone strikes on residential areas have resulted in multiple fatalities and damaged neighborhoods. alix could topple us reports from odessa. the off the month of the latest attack when you create the capital c. barrage of rush themselves penetrating a defensive pitching several targets in the city. sure. because another aggressors attack on a peaceful city, the capital's downtown policy of district will do. it will happen very fast and there wasn't much time off to the 1st explosion. we started to go to the shelter that we saw was also struck the industrial city of creevy, re killing at least one person, including several of us and russian artillery shells. the southern city, of course,

on the sort of shell hitting my house and went to the do everything starting to go . and another school hospital and residential buildings rule hits, domestic heating pipes, abruptness, the missile and drone, a tex across the country, have been getting steadily worse over the last few months. but the energy infrastructure being the chief target now the ukrainians to be getting better and tearing up with the extent of the damage as be getting progressively worse. alex could topless out to 0. odessa, the united nations security council is set to hold a meeting at the request of russia. moscow is expected to raise the assassination of top general ego. carrie law. russian authorities have a rest of the suspect in the killing, who they say worked in collaboration with ukrainian special forces you'll use up of all of a has more from moscow as the russians have in addition to the un is raising the issue of that time against general carrie left. the security council meeting on

december the 28th right now we are at the sides of the explosion. had to be nuclear, chemical and biological defense. lieutenant general, equal to relive and his assistants were killed. the explosion shook this wise neighborhood is se most very early in the morning of december, the 17th 6 plus of device was mounted on a screw to which was standing near the entrance. it went 121 to 2 men were leaving the building. the last wave shot to the windows, a neighbouring buildings, and destroyed the front door. now the cold and have been partially lifted, we can see bouquets of flowers in front of the entrance. a 29 year old citizen of his beckett's tone was detained as a murder suspect during interrogation. he said that he had been recruited by the ukrainian special services people. they promised to pay $100000.00 and tape him, escaped to europe. he used a surveillance camera to monitor the general presence legend,

a piece of coal destination of ego carrillo and his assistant, a big failure of the russian special services. adding that ukraine is responsible for the task of the channel on the left of the i'll just be wrapped most of the still ahead on alger 0. 19 year old kills a child and injures 5 others and a stabbing attack at a primary school in croatia. and we will pro, actively engage on a positive agenda with the president elect. the european union tries to get into donald trump's good books, even as he threatens to enforce terrace, the fellows, i certainly noticed shortage of what to wendy. and at times when few, with a sweeping across europe at the moment, long line of clouds and rain,

sleet and snow caught them nasty. i re applied pressure that boat bottom weeds damaging wins into a f. lee, the system here drifting its way across, safely pushing across into the balkans terrace cause coming back in behind within the next system. pushing across the northwest of the reset. stay where when the weather piling in, the gales of it, it goes into island. no, not at the good part of scotland. so much of a west and the northern positive english, a good positive but wild as well. that will continue to drift further. east was, as we go through the week and not just why the 2 across much of frogs pushing across the low countries into a, jeremy and denmark. i noticed some fire. it was a moving across grease into the key that will continue to slip its way further. east was through the eastern side of the med, on sunday slots of try whether the for ukraine down towards the bulk is at this stage. lot of windshield weather into the alps. some wet weather. risk,

queens pushing it across the north. see the up towards the northwest and even northern parts of spain. good season, by the way, the weather elsewhere is fine and dry. the a democratic nations justified this kind of behaviors, co arrow, the average has collateral damage. that's why we all team is leading to what we're seeing that will allow me to push back for a moment. corporate is real effective. it's a little bit branding from the impact to the us selections, the escalating conflict in the middle east, and the urgency of climate action upfront sets the stage for serious debate on out jersey or the, the,

the, you're watching out, the 0 a reminder of our top stories this, our senior us officials are visiting damascus for talks top middle east diplomatic barbara leaf has met the new administration's leader to shut off for what she calls a good thorough discussion. she says, washington is no longer offering a reward for his arrest. both are shut off and the group he leads have been on a us terror list for years. is really forces have shot an injury to siri and protests or in the southern province of their off, during demonstrations, against their presence in the country. shooting happen near the village of maria borders that borders to go on heights and buffer zone occupied vines and central gaza. at least 8 palestinians have been killed in an is really strike on a residential building and, and you'll see it on the front of g. can a father and his children were killed in the attack?

several others have also been in series. new administration has promised to focus on rebuilding the country's economy, which has been battered by years of civil war. many essential goods are in short supply. how many of all reports from the capital damascus to this email push on a set may have gone? what this economy legacy is system here? good quality, but it is hard to come by. so tonight to block democracy matches just a short discussion despite the fact. so using this week, a fuel and goss, i'm sure it's flight smart jumps from 11 on because locally produced bottoms us to have some pop, often temperature. yes, these people who be queuing here since don't say they're willing to give the new leaders the benefit of the doubt. we're happy the previous situation is gone, but we haven't seen much change yet. no, no, that's yes. we've got to be liberated,

but we need support. we need food and jobs so that we can live the way you might. we're willing to be patients up until the conditions get better. just the beginning that we saw has given us lots of joy, state subsidies for basic commodities, disappeared when passion a set of them them. bread and other commodities used to be provided and stick to the limited quantities through adoption called system. the manager of about whom a vacant, he says, all the prices on subsidies, eyes and remove. there's plenty of breath to buy. flowers suppliers say they are selling less for the reason. that was the, the haven't the sport just this week. the bakeries daily need and flour has decreased by 25 percent. so our production is down from 17021300 tons. that's because people are feeling more confident and no longer buying huge amounts of bread to stock. what to be able to see the system stuff. putting the crisis in syrians, the company use not only to be self sufficient in wheat,

but even ex bolted it of what the civil war. the 1st situation during the war shortages pushed the costs to stop the city of to take any additional steps such as swapping domestically produced suite for imported wheat photo. since it was the export, the 1000 tons of 1st degrade. wait till i shall or easily in exchange for 2 or 3000 tons of a low quality product i dictate ago, there was no single claim of imported with these silas. no, it's the opposite. we for the poles, prussia, you suspending each suite exports to celia and the long delay the season this year the companies and you need this may be faced with a zip challenge to feed the people. how much fun of the deal, the most the us politicians are in broiled in a chaotic battle over government funding, which is hurdling towards a friday midnight deadline,

but could see parts of the government run out of money. a deal was on the table wednesday, which democrats and republicans were willing to vote through the president elect donald trump killed it at the last moment. instead, he backed a hastily written replacement that was put to the vote on thursday night. it didn't pass with even some republicans voting it down. if politicians missed the friday deadline parts, the government, the non essential, like student loans and early schooling will largely stopped functioning. that's happened at least 10 times in american history. the dispute this time is the trump in his powerful ally, you on mosque want the bill to include less government spending. he also wants to abolish the country's deb ceiling. some analysts say he fears it being used against him by democrats. after he takes office. even some republicans came out against the trump version of the bill. yeah, so i think this bill is better than it was yesterday on certain respects. but to

take this bill to take this bill yesterday and congratulate yourself because it's shorter and pages, but increases the debt by 5 trillion dollars is asinine. and not say precisely what republicans are doing. are absolutely 2nd by a party that campaigns on fiscal responsibility. and it has the temerity to go board of american people. it's that you think this is basically responsible. it is absolutely ridiculous. todd belt is a professor and director of the political management master's program at george washington university. he says, republicans need the democratic vote in order to finalize this bill. what we're hearing now is there is a bill in congress, and both sides are looking at joe biden, has been working the phones with his own party because they're going to need democratic votes in the house. they need to get to 2 thirds to fast track this on the way through, so they can't just depend only on republican votes. and remember, the senate is controlled by democrats and oh, yeah,

joe biden is still president. so you've got to chambers that have democratic control and one where you're going to have to have a lot of democrats to help you. republicans are in a spot where they think they have more power than they do. and it and the fact that they're also getting problems from the right flank, the trunk flag of the, of the party is making things extremely difficult. if i had to guess, i think maybe we get something through. but i really don't know because i know minority leader jeffries is meeting as we speak right now with speaker johnson to find out what the details are. so he can report back to his democratic party representatives. a canadian prime minister justin pseudo has shuffled his cabinet, changing one 3rd of his top team. on the same day, the leader of the party that popped up for those liberal minority said he plans to trigger and no confidence vote to bring down the government. it's the latest and a series of blow, as for to do, is deputy prime minister christie,

a free land resigned on monday, she publicly slammed his economic policies at a time when us president elect trump is threatening to levy massive terrace for those approval ratings have plunged in recent years, largely due to the rising cost of living and can you as president elect donald trump, is threatening to impose terrace on the european union. he says the block needs to cut its trade deficit with the united states by buying more of its oil and gas. the u, as sharply increased energy procurement from the us since 2022, as it phases out in ports from russia. us government data shows, europe is already buying most of americans, oil and gas, but without additional sales, the us would need to increase output or re route supplies from asian. john a whole has more from brussels of the major european markets of remains in the read through friday, ending one of the worst weeks in month success evaded the coast by those comments by president elect donald trump on history. social media platforms, threatening trade tire. if some european goods,

if the you doesn't degree to buy more us oil and gas to close what trump described as a tremendous trade deficit. in other words, the us buys more, you produce and goods the need you does from the us, which was the case in 2023. what this is done is crystallized fee is of a potential trade war. if is donald trump 2nd before the election, he went to applied trade tires to all inputs to the us of between 10 and 20 percent . it's have you repeat, lead is running scared of the impact of a trade war on there already, a need make economies and with their own political prospect. the reaction, i think 2 european markets is a reflection of the fact that the 27 members of the you do not have a united plan to deal with this threat. save suggestions made just yesterday on thursday, at their summit here in brussels by somebody does that they should appeal to the transactional nature of the form of business. man. donald trump, by saying that european companies provide lots of jobs in the us and that

a trade war would hurt both sides. but i think it's pretty clear that the europeans would come off far west. don't know how else you 0. russell's one child has been killed and several injured in a knife attack at a primary school in croatia. police say a 19 year old male suspect attacked a teacher, and several students in the capital side. red emergency services rushed to the scene and help the wounded. the suspect injured himself during the incident is being held in police custody. go and lack of which has more from zagreb, an adult, the law, 5 people are injured and one child has passed away 3 children and still all adults were injured and put on support as to civil hospital is inside get up among them. and these are the teacher who is in critical condition. the soccer is 19 years old and they used car in play in police custody. then all these for the attack are still unknown. shot parents arrived at the school to pick up their children,

but were initially unable to get any information. the minister, so education and a 3rd year to visit the school, while the minister of health is resisting the hospitals and the injured and out of some breaking news out of germany. a car has been driven into a crowd of people at a christmas market in the city. mike divert police say the driver has been arrested and an extensive police operation is currently taking place. this happened on friday night. there are reports of fatalities as well as injuries. we'll get you. more details as we have belief is government has agreed to resume searching for missing malaysia airlines flight mh 370 more than 10 years after it disappeared. the transport minister says the government has agreed in principle to continue the search with the help of us based marine robotics company, ocean infinity. the boeing 777 was carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members