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the, the the us takes the 1st steps towards recognizing the new syrian administration as it removes a $10000000.00 bounty for the new leaders arrest the i'm sort of any age group to have you with us. this is alice has 0 lives from the also coming up with some of the jobs in the neighborhood of damascus. and i'll tell you how the sights of a possible musgrave is a children's playground. the suspect was arrested after a car plows into a christmas market in germany, killing at least 2 people in injuring dozens of the 60 boat threshold having been achieved. the bill is passed and the us avoids. and other governments shut down
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after the senate approves the funding bill for the next 3 months. the . the us has taken a step towards legitimizing the new syrian administration by meeting its leader of middle sho. senior middle east diplomat barb relief led the delegation to damascus for the 1st engagement between washington and the new leadership. after the meeting, she confirmed that the us is lifting a $10000000.00 bounty on sharah, who is the head of the group hire definitely around shawn h t. s, which the us still considered as a terrorist organization. me says that washington will also consider lifting sanctions on syria. if the new leadership demonstrated progress in her words. both parties agreed to work together. it's a fine journalist, austin, tyson, the other american citizens went missing during the charlotte sides rule. the
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houses here is how can i help r, as in damascus, reporting on the 1st steps of this new administration and serious issue the serial. interesting times happening here in damascus. where behind those, those, the defacto authority is trying to put together a new transition roadmap. and on this, the all sorts of debates about how to move forward and what could be the risk the country could encounter. there were 2 options. people close to the seller who is the fact to root out of syria, told him, listen, you are the one who has been quite a good guest since the 1012, the one who put together an administration in the pot and said, well, well, for many syrians are, you are the one who loved this push to sweep into it all the po, how about homes and then damascus. and you took all the ones who control most of these areas that for you are serious. do you a president who said,
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give me some time, we need to do it in a different way. we have to have this a patient because there's so western old boys coming to the baskets, then thing that's one of the prerequisites for them to recognize the new apologies for bits of quality to hand over power to a civilian government. and to give my knowledge is a biggest, say, and this explains why the conic now for this national companies. but i have to say some of the sort of meeting with the americans yesterday was why it's a significant push for him, for i as to how to get a sense and for the prospect of a smooth transition into democracy when it was meant if via the put sense of 4 by then turns this like it happens in libya, but they say we should give it a try. this, those of this report from damascus. this is the oh my god, most one of the oldest in these logic well of a since the full of us a people have on the here for the fly day play is late to just set up by
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the end of the case of photography doesn't. that's it, that's not mine, and my message is for people of drawer to come back, the country has become good and the freedom with the waiting for is finally arrived . there is continued to set a ray the down port of us and here's a repressive regime. what are the same time the worried about the future and what lies ahead for that country? that's because the new administration is facing mounting challenges, dividing causes into buffers, the us flattening admitted to confrontation. but opening a new minutes to phones isn't the top priority here. the defect to lead as of syria quoting for the national conference to agree with a way forward for the country. we have constitutional gap right now. and in order to cover this constitutional gap, we need an in an urgent process. uh,
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2 digits inmate this transitional period and we will decide which time is suitable for all the factions and later with use uh, just to step forward and do the political process. western own voice arriving almost daily to test the waters. they want to insure it credible and inclusive transition us definitely not met with her mother. so hey, at the see the show the, the, he's calling of the international community to lift the sanctions imposed on syria to help the country off to the meeting. the us we move the 10000000 bounty for of the sellers arrest. we also discuss the critical need to ensure a terrorist groups cannot pose a threat inside of syria or externally including to the us and our partners in the region and a shot are committed to this. and so, based on our discussion, i told him we would not be pursuing the rewards for justice reward offer that has
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been in effect a significant boost for the man who is likely to have a biggest se on silvia and politics for years. but for now, the u. s. e u, as many other countries insist the lifting the sanctions will depend on whether he keeps his promises to full an inclusive government which respects the rights of women and minorities actually about about outages, 0, damascus. the fate of tens of thousands of prisoners and missing people remains one of the most harrowing aspects of the story and conflict between 20112020. for 13 years, more than half a 1000000 people were killed in the war. the syrian network for human rights believes another 150000 are missing. in comparison, roughly 40000 people disappeared during the war in bosnia herzegovina. international commission on missing persons in the hague says there may be as many as 66 mass graves in syria and more of being discovered houses. there was
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a sound of inch of a reports from to them in the neighborhood and damascus, and a warning. his report contains disturbing details and images even in broad daylight. this is a dark potters, of the former regime, laid bed in the streets and shows of what used to be homes. this is the domino a neighborhood which people here see, wasn't execution site. a square kilometer kills a little see from mazda of 5 shot. i have, they tell us about domestic. on this street. in 2013, the dozens were executed. people know for sure, because the perpetrators felt themselves doing it the, the footage was the years they took milk and say, the execution is very from sides. military intelligence is about a minute to the national defense forces i in on monday. so just pick up the street and through blank and golf men into a trench and shop them one after the other. young and hold their brought to the
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trench, been killed when regime soldiers smoked loft. we've gone through the full video because it's too gruesome. beyond that, french people keep finding bones. the entire neighborhood feels like an open graveyard that looks like somebody's pelvis. a job on these appear to be human domains collected by children and local residents here. when they find them, they collect them in one spot, and then they go and bury them with this is have been coming forward describing to us the orders of things which happened into them. and they say it was just one massacre. it'd be massacres in every street at every block, every, every minute that i was born by the sides, but in power. he says the shot of the soft skills has some bad. yeah,
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they have too many attempts. we received him and buried him. i saw it. you can imagine how many people were killed like my son, if they detained anyone here he or she will not come out to light. this block was surrounded by concrete in our in barriers. his other son was also arrested, but after his release he fits syria and now lives in jim had i've moved on just to do much of to the heart hasn't seen him more than a decade high. that it wasn't on the one muscle that would doesn't the bodies in every block. they killed many people of those coming, those torches displaced and killed us and tell them on how much this 14 years old. and he's memorize the names of the former machines, executioners. why are you not in school? this is no such because most of our school is closed. so i stop learning. i'll stay here and they can make money. i also throw away the bones. so the docks on come
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in a post a sod, syria, potentially most graves are playgrounds, as well as the torture and executions. there are numerous higher stories from the dumber and this is just one neighborhood. the mass graves are open and the evidence hasn't been present. it will take years if not decades for savings through here and for justice to be served. some of the driver does is 0. the dumb, damascus. the northern gaza has been under and is really military siege for more than 70 days. now in one of the latest airstrikes the home was attacked in jamalia 12 palestinians from the same family were killed including 7 children, civil defense workers have to dig through the rubble with their bare ends as they searched for survivors. and in the center of the strip,
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at least 8 palestinians were killed in an attack on a residential building on the surround refugee camp. a father and his children are among the dead. is really forces have killed at least 25 people across guns us and still on, on friday the, when we received the rescue called, we drove towards jeff a street and then you say your account apartments was targeted in the jeff, a building and the center of the say right market, there were more than 25 injured taken to hospital. most of the dead were children and body remains as and there was another attack on the shot. the refugee camp norfolk 0 is honey. my mood has more from there about this is in the northern western part of gauze and city where global people gather at a bonus, charging and internet distribution points. and according to an eye witness will describe the only points in the shot. to refute have were people, many of the people are trapped in the north them. what's in part of golf has to be use it to charge their phone and to connect to the internet. so they are in touch
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with their family members who are in, displaced in here, in the central and southern part of the for the 3 people were killed in a drone missile that tag, this is not the 1st time we're seeing deliberate attacks from these point. the connectivity points, one of charging points by these really military, this is in a saw the rest of you can, the long distance it might be or this has to be the 3rd one. the 3rd attack of this kind of other attack of this type happen in other parts of the city here and center on area. and the southern part of the trim at the initial waste of this unified field war. and this aisle fired from the admin has landed near a public park in tel aviv the these really new latrice is a try but failed to intercept dismissal. medical sources say at least 14 people sustained minor injuries. analyses have repeatedly launched missiles towards israel since the war and gods have began in what they say,
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solidarity with palestinians and gaza. before there was even time to get out the door was exploded and ballistic. miss allen, the lady behind our building and all the windows blew in on the 1st 2nd floor. and the whole area was very frightening. the hoof these and yemen claimed responsibility for the attack. it is the missile force of the many armed forces with the help of god targeted and is really minute to target, to multiply jeff or with the ballistic missile. the missile tickets targets with precision and the defensive, and it's up to systems to fail to count through it. with this significant operation, the many armed forces salutes. i would great see how many people it took to the squares and field assignment, confrontation, and defiance against the criminal is really enemies of data. the
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germany's chancellor schultz is due to visit the city of magda burg. later on saturday, a day after a car plowed into crowds of christmas markets killing, at least 2 people at least 60 people were injured. many of them, critically. the suspect was arrested at the scene and an extensive police operation is underway. magda berg is about a 160 kilometers west of the capital of berlin. the cities christmas market, the tracts, thousands of holiday shoppers every year. a security cameras that the scene captured this, the moment that the car rammed into the crowd of police will close to the market shortly after 7 p. m. local time. and this is the moment after the attack police surrounding the suspect authorities identified him as a 50 year old doctor, originally from saudi arabia. he 1st came to germany in 2006 and was previously
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unknown to security services. l 0 is dominant, can reports from the scene. this is where the car into the christmas market area, this particular area, the sort of time trips cause and on so loud in here. so the theory police working towards is that the car drove deliberately into this area, which only trims can use and then made its way through this gap here, where the christmas market stops drove in to the markets and then went round the square, which is behind me an open sack behind me that the man 50 earls saturday arabian dumped uh he'd been in this country since 2006, working as a psycho therapist or psychiatrist practicing doctor in this country. the saudi, or far as seems, have condemned what he does, what he is suspected to have done and say no,
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or at least there is reporting that they won't juvenile forties and pirates him prior to the attack. we don't know when we don't know exactly what they said. interesting. they, the police rated the man's property where he had been living in down block, which is a town about 50 kilometers away from here. in the course of the last 3 or 4 hours, they were suspecting perhaps that might be something that some other evidence of criminality. there explosives, something like that. they used to drone, they used a robot. they didn't find anything particularly dangerous and then declared the areas safe as it was. he is clearly now in custody. and the fact that they have him in custody means that they will be able to work out his profile to analyze the things that he had been doing, say that he's being reported by many different german use media that he had been posting on social media all sorts of things, but things which didn't points in a particular direction, that he was in any way known to the far as he's full tendencies,
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which here in germany are referred to as this one is, there is no evidence of that. or at least not so far a still a head on alpha 0. it's at least deputy 5 minutes to mateo solvina is found not guilty of illegally detaining migrants on the risk of ship. i am. i'm at the present coffee date. i've been telling you about gunners. give my gold mine exact times, blowing more than a 1000000 people, but we do the economy much different states, the hello. we have the potential for developing a tropical storm in the south china sea. big, massive cloud here. just around borneo and here we've had around a $150.00 millimeters afraid in the space of about 24 hours. it's about
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a 3rd of the december average ryan forward in that short period of time. the system will make his way further northwards. as it does so, it allows it to form into a tropical system. then tropical storm study, a possibility by the time it moves very close to central and southern vietnam on monday, garages showers, meanwhile, across much of the philippines. quads of the northern borneo. something bony over towards the west. impossible existing. some live. you shall as long spells of rain with a potential flow for flooding. we have seen some evolved in storm, some evaluate whether some flooding to in to queensland, australia, townsville, $300.00 millimeters afraid of just 24 hours. see that's more than twice the december, average rain full system responsible for that. this area of low pressure that is pulling away out into the car will see quantum with a trying to come in behind. meanwhile, down towards the southeast corner bit of everything here. we've had the wall fast just around the ground peels bush 5 here. this west to well actually cool things
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you're watching else 0 reminder of our headlines. this our, the us us taking a step towards legitimizing the new syrian administration by meeting its liter. um it will show up. it has scrapped of $10000000.00 bounty to his arrest and says it will consider listing sanctions. but it also says that new leadership will have to be responsive and demonstrate progress. first, 25 palestinians have been killed and is really attacks. and guys i, since friday 7 children were among the dead in an attack on jamalia in northern gaza, which has been under is really military siege for over 2 months. germany's chancellor schultz is due to visit the city of maga, berry. later on, saturday, a day after a car plowed into crowds at a christmas market, killing at least 4 people at least 60 others are injured. many of them critically. the
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several fires have been reported on, so ukrainian drone attack and deep inside russia, 3 districts were hitting the city of cuz on the capital of the semi, it's on a mis pets or stand region. the residents were evacuated. russian defense officials say that they intercepted and shot down several drones and russian forces. it launched a drone strength on a residential area and ukraine's 2nd largest city far keith, the strike has a 9 story apartment block enjoying 6 people. a 2nd, the strikes targeted another district of har keys, and what the officials say is an escalating aerial campaign against the northeastern city. the un security council has met the russians requested to discuss the war in ukraine. moscow is intensifying its criticism of western military support to keep on thursday. russian authorities arrested a foreign suspect and the killing of the top general, who reportedly admitted to working with ukraine in special for us. so this is the plane you fully made of computers. the generic and the lady,
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some of this crime supports fully the in humane and terrorist nature of the car into crazy and leadership who just visited and other crimes aimed against the russian military, creative and political a needs behind them all the west and mentors of kids who are trying not to pay attention to what's going on to you, and that's betraying the principles that they constantly proclaim on the international arena. me then us as narrowly avoided a government shut down with congress, passing a funding bill at the 11th hour. the bill is past and the bill extends us government funding until march and includes disaster relief, failure to pass. it would have seen millions of government workers sent home without pay and the most recent government shut down was in 2018. and last and more than a month, had eco hain explains what shutdowns mean for the american economy and millions of workers. it's a recurring uniquely american issue. in theory, the legislature should pass budgets, but the us congress rarely does. instead,
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they mostly fund the government for months or years at a time, effectively lurching from crisis to crisis. this time the money runs out the minute saturday starts. it's not uncommon since 1977. there have been 20 governments shut down ranging from one day to 34. analysts say it's a sign of the polarization in congress and the country we're publicans are really interested in things like tax cuts. donald trump has started talking about doing things like entitlement reform, and democrats are much more interested in different kinds of social welfare spending and doing things like fixing a college and it loans for students and helping people out with housing and so forth. so the parties are really far apart. policy wise, it's happening this time because incoming president, donald trump stepped into killed the bi partisan deal that had been reached. if a deal is not reached, it will severely impact the more than $2000000.00 federal workers around 40 percent
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are considered essential. that means they still have to show up to work, but no one gets paid until the deal is reached. millions of federal contractors will simply not be paid at all. less time the government shut down during the holiday. air travel was severely impacted because although they are considered a central many security workers at airports called in sick, that's a growing concern. approaching a busy holiday travel season, and travelers are reacting depending on who they voted for. paid worked out a deal as the president comes in, present to be that's the problem. and he wants to change they need a consistent leader. the one thing that trump is that is this the great job by taking care of business and they're getting everything set up. we're getting ready to go in previous shut down to the national park to meet dm's, closed food inspection stopped, and people dependent on government vouchers to buy food can not apply or renew
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their benefits. and as people begin to file their yearly taxes, the internal revenue service will not be able to help money for the elderly and disabled will still be sent and the mail will still be delivered. but for millions of workers and travelers, the impact will be immediate. and a true hardship pedagogy, elda 0 washington canadian prime minister, just intruder, has re shuffled his candidate, changing a 3rd of his team. on the same day, the leader of the party that has propped up to those minority said he plans to know trigger a no confidence vote. it's the latest and a series of blow. as for true though, is deputy prime minister christopher freeland, resigned on monday, after publicly criticizing his economic policies of court in france has convicted 8 people for their involvement in the beheading of a french teacher in 2020 samuel patty was killed outside of school in paris. after debate on freedom of expression in which he showed students, cartoons of the prophet mohammed police shot dead,
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the man who killed him. some of the defendants were charged with providing assistance to the attacker, while others were accused of organizing a hate campaign before the killing. italy's deputy prime minister, the tales of any, has been found not guilty of legally holding migrants on a rescue ship in 2019 when he was interior minister. so if any, his strongly denied the charges saying he is proud to defend it, to these borders. andrew simmons has more a visit as deputy prime minister had arrived for the verdicts in the most. okay. mateo salvi seemed calm in the media crush, but he had to wait all day before hearing he'd been clear. i don't know charges. now he's elated and feels vindicate. it's only has one. and so his, the concepts that defending board is defending the homeland opposing human smugglers. traffic is all foreign in g o's. protecting our children is not a crime,
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but a right. it took us some time, but we got there. solving e had stopped to spanish charity rescue boat from docking unit tally. in 2019 was a 147 microns and asylum seekers on board. they was stucco show for 90. 3 weeks before a court ordered and evacuated, sion and criminal charges followed what stage the american actor richard king had visited the boat and spoke of the conditions on board. so vini was interior ministry at the time, the band charities for bringing migrants to the country, accusing them of making overcrowded conditions, was particularly on the island of land produce. it is just the system has long been adults with the right wing government to have rich immigration laws. the galaxy of prime minister, georgia malone is plans to send asylum seekers to pena has only recently being questioned by court in room. maloney has given her full support to solving
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with so vainly found in as soon it's possible that this government may well look again at sheltering its pulse. so the few charity ships that still help us on them . so it goes, trying to cross the mediterranean. andrew simmons alger 0 to sort these in guatemala, has rescued a 160 children and teenagers from a controversial jewish sect. left to hor, prosecutors say that they found evidence of human trafficking in child abuse and of farming area southeast of guatemala city. the ultra orthodox group has faced similar accusations in several countries since it was found in israel in 1988 the rescued miners and now under government protection as an investigation is carried out. the human rights court of the organization of american states has ruled against el salvador for denying an abortion to a woman whose life was at risk. the 22 year old woman known as beatrice, suffered from several health conditions when she became pregnant in 2013 doctors
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established that her feet this would not survive outside the womb and recommended termination. but the law, however, in el salvador, prevented them from ending the pregnancy. so she underwent an emergency success c section after folding seriously ill and the baby died shortly after birth. the inter american commission on human rights has ordered el salvador as government to pay compensation and change it to boston laws, which are some of the strictest in the world. a gun is struggling with an unemployment crisis, particularly among young people. it's forcing many to turn to illegal gold mining known as gal m. c. this is causing serious environmental damage. 60 percent of the country's water sources have been contaminated with mercury and other toxic metals address travel to the village of kofi did a in the southeastern, gonna to see how miners are earning. they are living in the middle of a plantation, a few 100 meters from the religion, se,
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and gone to coffee. and his 6 workers are looking for gold. 4 hours, they dig into the ground, sifting through soil and stones and much, and finally, coffee at mercury to extract the precious metal. and this is the reward for hours of labor to maybe 2 and half grams of gold. he says the only challenge is occasional harassment by officials. i am, i'm pregnant. yeah, the room. so when you get in your return coffee move.
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