[000:00:00;00] the the, [000:00:00;00] the 0 venue, it's good to have you with us. this is the news. our lives from bill coming up in the program today is really forces attack, a school sheltering displaced now listings in gaza. and the hospital becomes a battle zone in the besieged north. syria's new leadership take steps to unify

opposition factions and makes government appointments. the us by the judge launch depends on who the towards in humans kind of goes. so now while attentions escalate with israel and the suspect to me christmas market attack in germany appears in sports, he's under investigation to the killing of 5. the palestinians and gaza are facing another day of environment, is really attacks of now killed more than $45000.00 people since the war began in october last year. in darrow ballad central garza yet another school sheltering displace palestinians with his killing 6 people. rescue as are searching the revel for survivors. it's the barely functioning kamala, at one hospital in the besieged north, though that has faced the brunt of these latest attacks. patients suffering from

chronic conditions in the hospitals, always in fear of more is really strikes and with very few doctors to treat. so while the army surrounds the facility with drones and tanks is director has made an urgent appeal for some of the we have being directly attacked. the i c u unit, along with the tennessee inducing departments is coming out of the font. the bombing is being conducted with the tank font and quite comfortable, directly targeting as why we have present inside the hospital departments. as we had asked the will to intervene immediately and protect the health care system from this brutal attack to the hospital and surrounding area has been under attack for months. the small team of medical workers treating patients says many essential medical supplies have run out, and others are in critically short supply. honeywell, who is in darrow, by law in central guys, honey, northern guns. it has been under military siege for more than 70 days. now israel

stated goal was to take total control of the north that has not happened in more than 2 months. that's why we're still seeing fighting. is israel close to taking full control of northern garza, the world, the star 0. what? no, i just as of this moment it's still not clear whether it is reading military. is it close to the coal control of the northern part of this trip or not? but what we are sorry to know that the ongoing got tox, the ongoing destruction have turned the northern part of distributed a quite uninhabitable uh, area right now with your level of destruction. do almost every means of life, including the public facilities, the infrastructure, the residential, not very close to 96 percent of the residential building in jabante, a refuge account. giovanni, a ton art have been destroyed or not dropped through. at 4 people do live in or do,

would you go back to when the work is over? if that happens, but we're looking at entire areas that have become, not only a deserted lands, uh more of a waste land, but quite uninhabitable. people once have the ability to go back. but the, despite all of this, this really military continues, whether it's a or a tox land, and also see a tax. i cross the northern part of this trip, particularly concentrating a tax on essential facilities. these are like deep codes facilities allow the income at our hospital. there's a can what i've done hosted has been targeted several times. in fact, this is the 4th time with the in this particular health facility be and relentless . be bombed in attack by this really monitor. what's really concerning every attack when we compare with the previous, once it's much drawers, it's much more devastating. and right now, what we're seeing is the pinnacle of all the past,

the top of the hospital. they are 60 people inside the hospital, the medical us out, the patients, the injury is a full are sharpening or did bite is really military to evacuated immediately yet the is really monitor, created much of the intimidation and the dangerous surrounding the use of the quest . got there is that the plan think many of the explosive devices that the vicinity of the hospital making it very difficult, very unsafe for people do exact with the ongoing shooting and he'd be our dealers targeting the facility itself. there was one footage circulating of the of the hospital before and after, for the past year this particular hospitality stood there and providing much needed medical care for patients and injuries right now, extending more of a skeleton that nothing that dealt that this is a hospital anymore. because of the repeated attacks on it. yeah, we're seeing the footage as you speak,

we're seeing the footage of come up with one hospital and what it's like inside talk to us about the humanitarian situation across the street. putting the information that we're getting is as alarming as it's ever been. where do palestinians get their food and water from on a daily basis? well as long as the top continue is across the gaza strip, the human at terry is to do isn't continued to get worse. there is a direct link between how is the how the terrible day of that situation involve across the gaza strip. the fact that we're seeing daily attacks targeting the essential areas in essential elements across the goals, including the hospitals, they backwards and centers. the public facility is not money of the, of the distribution points for the board and the human to 3 and end up being targeted deliberately by the really monitor by day or a talk since exacerbated under really dire situation. since the beginning of this, the genocide, those were a lot of people wake up every morning and not only in during the intense bombing

campaign, but also the dean is struggle of finding food and water and nothing. is there a medical supplies to keep them alive and to survive these difficult conditions here in the center of the area? we see it happening every day while people, uh, q and a for long hours this to get a gallon of water. also in front of bakeries where there is that already ongoing. if flour a crisis, the bridge crisis, because of the ongoing closure on the boulders on the last name is really military, has impose the suffocating a closure on the crossing, allowing only tricking amounts of foods coming in, including the flower, including much needed food supplies. let's not forget the central area became the place for 1500000 even more than this of this place. people after it already, it was really accommodating the look arisen and who are accounted by by the 1000.

now becoming a laser for more than 1.5 displays, people are really in the situation. this is paula. this, this is part of the funeral going on here. of the people who were killed last night in the tax were 11. people already killed an attack on a residential home. it is part of the funeral procession and part of an expression of a frustration on under that happen. many of the casualties have been the houses are made of the, the children, the from the side in, in peace is the hospital there 5 more body to make sure you're already on of the as as the, the funeral leaves the hospital, much of the,

the crowd is outside the gate of the hospital right now, and what we learned of the people who were killed from the overnight attack is the p. it's the holder in nursing. and it's been shall elements here at the hospital, the lives his wife will have to do also to be a medical of stock do, or among the casualties were built in the house. the were filtering in, along with other 2 families who were also killed in the attack. the rescue is still going on at the bump side here at the city. but here's one thing we heard of from people who became much aware of what's going on in the attack on the residential home. reminded them of the initial weeks of the, of this war or the kind of bombs that were dropped in fox. what was the and some of the footage we looked at this morning of the bomb side. it's turned into more of a pile of dust, the density of the explosion during the whole building, the surrounding area. more of it worse down of the, the fact that it's turned into

a pile of rebels, but it made it very difficult for people who volunteer to rescue and remove people from on the boat. on top of that, many of the children who were pulled up from under the rubble last night, it brought to the hospital here, literally pieces or half of their bodies only arrived here and the other houses are still buried under these pile of rubble. yeah, honey, i'm afraid it's not the 1st time you've had to describe these. absolutely horrific . seems to us. listen, thank you very much to you and your team for your reporting as ever. this is coming from live from inside the gaza strip. um, and thanks for your camera crew for showing us what you were describing, the funeral procession, and the shots being fired in the air. and we'll come back to you. we'll speak later . thank you very much. i so. okay, let's bring in rachel coming. she's the manager and director for save the children international. you're joining us from darrell dollars. well inside the gaza strip. it's been a few weeks since you were able to come on to offices here. i believe i,

if my, if, if i'm right about this, you left guys and came back and i was wondering just if you've seen any changes since you were last there. good morning. so put you in to see the situation the continues to explore and have a nice we know how the winds the corners which brings it to the cold weather. i'm only the city of the for joe, one of the founders is the really quick. so that's why the face of the cold, it's very, very difficult for children and families to remain with any dignity you get this complex. we, how we can sewage. you still remaining in the streets mixed with the bugs, difficult to maintain that a degree of hard to substitution. and of course,

take the food just have access to things and people to domains extremely challenging for children and their families. so if anything of the situation got excellent and i want to continue, she continues to deteriorate. what about northern gossip? because we know that is even by does this standards which are horrific. northern gaza is worse yet. and i believe there are still children in northern garza, which has been under siege as we were saying with honey there for 70 days. the situation, the no is the same as your operational in northern golf. however, we all the way to develop some simple children, but the report is coming out the same report for the see from the callers. but very,

very concerning for children and their families into the open gases that stand by for a 2nd. because i want to share a few numbers with our viewers, guys as the most dangerous place in the world to be a child that's according to you and assess that you ins agency for children that you an agency has described the situation in the strip as quote how long are one child is killed or injured every 10 minutes? thousands have had one or both men's amputated. unicef says nearly all 1100000 children in gaza or an urgent need of protection and mental health support. and it estimates, at least 19000 children have been orphaned since the war began. rachel, what does it mean? are we able to estimate for assess what the impact, the lifelong impact of this is going to be on children who are going through this war right now? i mean, excellent question because of course we know the 1000000 children on the home

caused by the school. i'm the immediate media of the type of people choose mental health, but we know we're seeing children often makes children a no show for the spaces, for the child protection in case management and in designing spaces. but we will see show that deeply, deeply affected to currently bava's responsible for the to the medium. and the past is to actually go population the same to children. problem dollars is to provide the years the nation for substituting the storage or use regulatory commission, wisconsin to be able to meet the needs of the nations of children. and joshua, it's really desperate for children here. so there are children,

as we know in the hospital. i mean there are men, women, elderly and children in the hospital for those who need the kind of care they can no longer get in the barely functioning hospitals of the gaza strip. is there a window for them to be taken out of the strip and get medical care that they need or not? so the children isn't in the population of children or adults from gaza to the countries us to try to ration in collaboration with the ministry. but we know there's thousands of children with calling conditions as well as acute these that definitely need a higher level of medical care. just okay, just before i let you go, if we don't speak to you again while you're in gus at what would you want people watching to know about what you're seeing there? the situation is, every day seems to get worse and worse for children. we don't know how to say she monitor, they see

a bunch of scales. are they able to meet the needs of children and it's very complex. do we need a definitive ceasefire? we need to stop the children and how many safe process just access to populations. investor needs assistance. rachel cummings and medicare and director for same children international. thank you very much. and israel has accused the head of the roman catholic church of double standards after he condemned the bombing of children and gaza is cruelty pope francis made the remarks during his annual christmas address to the clergy saying that his really forces had denied a senior treasure official permission to enter gaus. he yesterday the pi track was not allowed to integrate as, as they promised. yesterday children were bombed. this is cruelty. this is not for myself. i want to say this because it touches my heart. so israel's foreign

ministry responded to this. they issued a statement saying, quote, the pope's remarks are particularly disappointing, as we are disconnected from the true and factual context of israel's fight against jihad is terrorism. a multi front war that was forced upon its starting on october 7th enough for the double standards and the singling outs of the jewish state and its people as the us, as a carried out there strikes on who's the control areas of humans, capital. so not overnight the attacks are the latest and a series of assaults against the targets. and it follows months of who fuel tanks on commercial shipping in the red sea, which the group says is in response to israel's war on garza. and a lot of it has more details from the many capital. the exclusions have been has all around the copies of sun. uh, later on we, we have heard the news from the how these outlets of the, the us, british uh,

were please bombed the model involved the mountain of, of gone to the soldiers that carries us on a uh, the later on we, we have heard also of the immediate houses of the, of the mountains have been bombed to the east of the capital that we couldn't confirm or seriously verify the, the, the local, the news. but so far we what, what we have so far, officially confirmed is the, the, the, the uptime i'll, if you know, as being bombed that also other news of the social media that the, a brit at bridge, which has been bumped to in previous times, which is in the road between the 2 mountains of, of tom, we couldn't also confirm or verify the, the, the, what do we have here to was the, i've read from the social media so far the, the, the host, the say that the, the of the us british can manage a company and i guess that's,

that's aimed at undermining their ability to as to with the stand on suppose it goes uh, goes up people fighters wouldn't, wouldn't, uh, wouldn't achieve its goals that according to the award to the, the, the, the say that the most important thing that the, the us and british to britain should of falls or put pressure on more pressure on israel in order to, to put an end to it. so what do we describe? it's like russian against the people and guys and also to lift it's the blockade and, and the people goes. so we, we are talking about the, the, the, how does the save the lives themselves of the doing be doing this bar that they have made them so strong the then and, and then they, they were in previous times, the u. s. navy says 2 of his pilots have survive. dr. and american worship accidentally shot down their fighter jet in the red sea. this happened during operations against vacancies in yemen. do you have your time? so you have more from washington dc. it satisfies us as strikes,

follow us as strikes all the who, the positions at the beginning of last week, and is really strikes on the us as for these latest attacks by the us, us central command released the following statement. us and for come on forces conducted precision air strikes against a missile storage facility and they come out of control because of the operated weather, who's fees within who's the control territory and some uh it was as the during the operation. centcom forces also shut down multiple who's the one way of tack on crude aerial vehicles and then at the ship, cruise the so over the red sea that have been well over a 100 attacks by the who would fees on the shipping and the red sea in the gulf of a base, they operated by israel and its allies. the us says the strike reflect send combs, ongoing commitment to protect us and coalition personnel, regional partners and international shipping. how the,

who these have been consistent since they've begun that solidarity actions with the palestinians in november of 2023. they say that they will stop attacking ships by run, by as rarely, allies in the red sea. as soon as israel stops its war on because she advertise the elders here at washington. the there is new liter um it'll show has led a meeting of opposition forces in damascus. is, administration wants to merge the different factions into one army under the command of the defense ministry representatives from all the opposition forces attend the talks on saturday. sharah has also named many of the new ministers now in his administration, including the ministers of foreign affairs, women's affairs, and the defense minister houses. there was a hush in ohio bar is in damascus for us following all of this. so the news syrian administration meeting with the other office, there are some groups that could be absolutely major depending on whether they

choose to work together or whether bringing together this idea actually works. what did we learn from yesterday? so basically, several of the at the how do they sound, which is a fax to authority in syria says that took over the capital, the respond to the security forces and the army. now this saying that all the ministry factions have to disband notes in a new force, and the ministry of defense, which is run by a c and the member of hey, i do this. so this explains why i have a southern mets yesterday with talk with the 3 lead is representing both of these miniature datsuns. why is it extremely important? because those factions, since 2012, they were united in suffering assets, but they disagreed over how to run the country. some of them are divided along the regional lines,

and they believe that they are more legitimate in running the country. are they going to hunt over that? what those do have to, how do this? gen ed remains to be seen, particularly a powerful section based in, but all of this is what people are very much concerned about. what could happen next before the fox has decided to join the security forces that could be a significant step forward. if they decide no, we need to keep our weapons for the future. it could be an educational have extremely difficult. the transition to democracy would be in syria. do we have a timeline on this? i mean, when will we have an answer? because like i can't stress, i think you'll agree with me on this on how important the outcome of this meeting is. so when will we find out if the whole idea of bringing all the factions together under one big umbrella, whether this idea works well, i know from people who have been in touch with the top leaders of high at the head of the show that some of the stuff or in particular, once this to happen anytime soon,

the particularly before the end of the tab of it can take a government and when the national come out of the spots, i think he's trying to pull simply test the waters of some of the media to factions because that book is concerned now just so you know, sit in this thought thinks it's something here in syria about the foot sensor for regional meddling into the f. as in silvia rim, in a sense of what happens in to the z and libya, and the biggest concern, concern is that some of the weapons are being without tunnel to different 5 minutes of foxes in syria. that's a really bad news for the congress. the new administration i assume is all h t s at the moment, which makes sense because they're essentially the ones that tumble. the thought that the, the, the top of the administration, of course, developmental sharon come and relates to us under him. the prime minister, the new minister of defense, foreign minister there all h t s. is there

a present any discontent, any grumbling about that the currently h t s. holes, all those positions and all that now there is, there isn't inside sales is concerned about what happens next. if the it's the decisive but expanded. good phone paula: we saw a protest hit in the cap. it's at about 2 days ago about the rights of minorities. i've given women a biggest se yesterday there was a video circulating in laptops. you have the power base of the full my review with people's things. that's how you have to have the the chance should not match the intel own a fast and have to have you. this responded by sending beds admitted to reinforcements to the city as since, since yesterday. it is why it's interesting what is happening and what is fascinating here. civic is that's within the conversation, which is taking place among the supports as high as to how do they have been looking into the past experiences and examples of this. i looked in tennessee of the unique positive that came off of the revolution decided to hand over more power

to although i have the sections to say that they are willing to move forward it back 5 of them. and not the last intent is the same thing happened for people in libya and this thing we have 2 options. that's t, as goes forward is considered a, says goof on paula ones that come to the full 5 years after 5 years. you hold new indexes and the city is the 5 of those settings and we have to be extremely careful . this is not a decision you have to take on your own because you rely on the international community. for 8, you rely on the region of play is for finance of support of this extremely delicate moment. and you have to open up to the minorities women. but at the same time, you have to accept because you come from an extremely, from a conservative background. but there are people who spend full 2nd backgrounds and therefore they have to be representative is something they going to offer any consensus, 80 concessions to those people. everybody has to be c, s, c, h,

i them. and they want to run the country for the next 5 years. gosh, and it's always great to talk to you. and thanks for all that reporting. i have more questions for you, but i have to run, we have a guest waiting, we're going to prolong this conversation. and i will talk to you next hour. thank you very much. my sham. so let's bring an arm and not talk much on. he's a non resident scholar at the malcolm age, correct. carnegie middle east center and they root. he joins us from you to past. so jumping off the back of that conversation we had with hush and then you had ministration has met with the other opposition groups. how much trust is there between the parties at present and how much willing this is there to work together and ultimately share power and responsibility for the countries future? thanks for having me. i think this will be one of the many meetings precisely because i don't think there is much trust to play if we take dogs. example in the south. we've seen that is, has

a trying to multiplies and legs the weapons that they were used to a fight outside then that they stayed after 2018 reconciliation. but there was some resistance from the factions in a, in that i, this shows you that the mistrust is still there, but they don't know what it, what has a status in mind for the, for the coming period. and therefore, aside dialogues are very important. they're also, it's important, the issue is not only talks about and he chooses a governing structure for the future of syria when he comes to not only do a military institution, but also, you know, overall the entire government. but also implemented in terms of the actions, not just the problem problem. so, so i, i think this will be one of the many things that will come in the future. they're also not a lot of others who have what things are not part of that. so 1st is the kurds in the northeast. they represent one of the major on the books and they are not a part of this discussion. so a lot to unfold in the,

in the coming months. so hush, i mentioned a couple of times in his reporting hope from h t s. that may be other factions would agree to disarm and i don't think correctly if i'm wrong, but i don't think that's realistic based on just that. all the other transitions in a peebles, we've seen in the, our world, arrow spring and other situations. it, arm groups don't just this arm because all their power comes from their ability to exercise, force your rights. but even if they are willing to disarm but not, not as of yet, not yet. now, because one of the arguments that armed through this use in the, in south and many other places, is that the principle we, we might be ready to disarm the however, you know, this is to where we need to see, where is the country going. and this is simply because they don't want sds to model

lice power. if you've noticed, uh h c. s has been trying to collect weapons in the areas that he, that he controls. don't want to have. this is good because what is in the hands of many uh, you know, is a recipe for security for you and security and the security disaster. but on the, i don't have it. it shows that h t s is trying to have a all the weapons more of the lives under the administrator of defense, which is essentially under his control. i see. so this creates some nice trusts between i see us in our groups who tell that this might. this is early, you know, we still need to decide the face of this country before we give up our weapons. because the moment we do the balance of power with significant shift does that yes . uh, how does that just handle the cards? because the cards handle, i beg your pardon they, they run,

they pretty much govern northeastern syria. the sds curtis group is backed by the united states, but for k a which of course has a border with syria, including with that part of syria is against those codes. and a country down to turkish, more administer has said that we expect h d s to, you know, respect our security needs relative to the cards. that means essentially flight the cards, right, or dispense. and this is specifically the y p g. so to, to make it a little simpler, you've got the turks on the one hand that are against the courage. you've got the americans on the other that support the cause. they actually fight alongside them and arm them. how does h t s deal with these competing interest? or are you serious fords to do? ne, or as the for the kurdish forces has been quite interesting. so just to remind our viewers, uh, s t s and equation to joins. uh, you know, peroration room which is led by as t as essentially inherited the area and i was controlled by,

by the serial pharmaceutical regime. and this includes verizon and boot come on next to the iraqi border. essentially, you know, so a west of the i, you freight this river and recently they've been taking more areas that were attacked or by, by the turkish forces during this very short period. where when the original collapse, they haven't gone into a major confrontation which we are with as the which suggests that they are, they are watching. and they have ready to get to the issue to tricky. and the tricky back sections which are at the moment bull fighting the courage, but also engaging negotiation to american manufacture, insured for now h t us is on stand by. however, i expect it to the situation to you or he talk, or, you know, some change will occur in the, in the, in the future because no, that's not forget, the wealth of the country is in the northeast. the boy lives in the northeast.

moultrie, the northeast, the facts i lands that kept syria's fed for the past several decades is in the northeast. so h t as wolf and he wants to have its hands or e, or any government which was govern, sir. yeah, well, want to have his hands on those resources in their office. okay, that is very important. and very interesting, i'm making a note of that going forward that the resources, oil, water for thailand's are all in the northeastern part of the country. armina pleasure, and thank you very much for joining us on the obviously, or a news now. as a serious civil war force, nearly 14000000 people from their homes, while many fled the neighboring countries or europe. some ended up in west africa instead of gold members of a small syrian community and now torn between hope for their homeland and the difficulty of leaving behind the lives that they built. nicholas hack reports from

the capital of the car. in a barber shop in downtown to car celebrations, they come from homes, come in, damascus young syrians dodging busher, alyssa, it's a military service. others like to tell you up how soon escaping prison at 17 tab in your tortures so severe. his captors believed him dead and dumped with the salt with his lifeless body wrapped in plastic. but he cheated death escaping to send a go away from syria in the depths of his pain. he found the unexpected love in rough, a fellow, syria. our plans was to get married here and continue our life here in the long term. but so the only everything changed and other customer in other story. i come at how moody, getting a trim from his 16 year old son himself. still trying to make sense of this unexpected phone call on the,

on the line upload. jeff, are a member of serious, powerful military intelligence. the man his family believes arrested. his father and brothers 14 years ago, sending them to the in famous said, now a prison note as the human slaughterhouse near damascus, as he listens. bewildered to the once fear, jeff are pleading for mercer that'd be a need to be cleaned. somebody do not see any connection with my father's disappearance or herpes on us. i wish no harm to any purpose. now he's called to seek my help for you has switch sides. preparing to return to syria, to confront the truth and find answers to questions. he can finally dare to ask for tired. it is the end of a forced exile. fear has gone. freedom has arrived with it the beginning of a new life. hold on because it's nicholas hawk elgin's the right, the car for the for little. how do i father?

still ahead on this house is 0 and use our no country on us as a sanctioned loan given to you by this conviction has followed sessions lead a march outside the us embassy and havana urging president elect donald trump. the substances stands on sanctions and we look at the road ahead. so mozambique is the strength of more political interest looms over, the ones thriving towards the 2nd, the god promised abraham. this is the land that is going to belong to you and to your children forever. more right here in my back yard sales are going to be sent to you . if there is some realtors here, just make sure you know whether you're accident from michigan or people here from united states, from russia, from india, from germany, to junior findings for the idea of israel's foreign army on it. just.

yeah, that's all i could say. the or the you're watching out for 0 reminder of our headlines this hour in darrow, about central gaza. yet another school sheltering displays, palestinians with kids killing 6 people. rescuers are searching the rubble for somebody, the barely functioning college, one hospital in the siege north in gaza. is once again under attack by the israeli army, the hospital director says the intensive care and maternity units have come under 5 . serious new liter um at al serra has led a meeting of opposition forces in damascus. his administration wants to merge the

different factions into one army under the command of the defense a serious new administration says 10000 soldiers from the sad regime have come forward to register at a reconciliation center in the western city of attack. yeah, they will receive temporary protection cards, allowing them free movement without the fear of arrest, accept assignment, which has more on the store. at the gates of le talk us reconciliation center mence then in long queues, waiting for a new beginning their former soldiers and police officers of the ousted assad regime since the regime fell. they've lived in fear of retribution. now they wait patiently to receive temporary protection cards. that will help them rebuild their lives. lynette sent them to you to hold on. let us talk to them. applicants receive a protection card as a temporary measure. it serves as an id, as well as helping to move freely. however, this card does not absolve anyone who has committed crimes. that is the

responsibility and jurisdiction of the judiciary. more than the process carried out by employees of the former defense ministry is swift and straightforward. doesn't allow me to sort of, uh, we have been treated well here. none of us were harassed once you feel secure and dignified. you yourself will rush to act according to your own conscience. i kind of because i felt reassured, and the procedures here a very simple at the weapons collection sites. each rifle is a symbol at the end of the a sod regime. the surrendered, the weapons are not being destroyed. you're being transferred to a new military units under serious transitional authorities. it's part of a broader reconciliation strategy. that includes amnesty for conscripted personnel and i can talk, it was a, i used to be a colonel serving and engineering course. now i have to come to surrender my weapon . i'm hoping that the coming days will be better for me, my children, and the entire population. i hope we all live a dignified,

prosperous life as high as 40 and with that syrian stake, another step towards which many hope will be a more peaceful future. expos i'm reach out to 0. the where abouts, the former syrian president, bashar assad, remain unknown days after he sought refuge and in russia. moscow spent years pumping up his government through military intervention and through diplomatic support. but as you're some of our reports, his hosting is raising questions about the future relationship between moscow in damascus, the west is clearly keen to see russian implants to the syria decline after the full dest sondra shame. europe said the restoration of relations with syria depended on the removal of russian bases in the country. it's really, europeans indeed imposed a series of sanctions against syria. they, among other things targeted to whom many terry and sphere like the supply of medicines. with such a statement, the europeans seem to be telling the syrians,

if you want to receive medicine and food that stop developing relations with russia . this is called black males themselves. but in recent years, the influence of the european powers in syria has been limited. the u co which is not very se inferential. i mean, over the last 10 years, the u. c. were policy, it was almost absent and it doesn't have much influence on things on the ground to say to the russian faces and see we have remains unclear in 2017 most care and damascus signed an agreement on the use for a period of 49 years but since then things have changed aside has gone. the syrian transitional government says a decision on the russian military presence of the country will be made soon. but there is no tool of the media to evacuate sion at the same time, the russian ministry personnel and moving from less significant basis concepts

throughout the country. heading to the naval base of tal two's and the ad base of main nivia. let's talk about full 100 russian soldiers have already withdrawn from the damascus area and being transferred to the as a sub screen name. but as the russian ministry contingent in syria exceed several thousands, they simply went fits into the 2 bases. so that will have to be, i know, role reduction in numbers that let's say russia went willing to leave c re completely as it has long standing times with the country. it's kind of a thing. you also receive things ranging from food, aid to the supply of oil products. at present, the supply of student grey from russia. he suspended ukraine quickly offered to fill the gap, offering we'd shipments to see we're down this year. so the good. what is green supply? we give you goods, you give us money. if the ceiling authorities are ready to continue a corporation in this area, there will be no problem. the certainly and settings have present in terms of

relations between the 2 countries, but that decades of military, diplomatic and they can only ties wound and outright would be down sort of assigned both sides, a king to keep the dialogue open, you lash above all of the ultra 0 most scary. the police in germany have charged the 50 year old man with murder and attempted murder in connection with a car ramming attack on friday. this happened to the christmas market in the central city of magna burn. 9 year old child was among the 5 people killed, another 200 were injured. the doctors say some are in critical condition. prosecutors say the suspect is a doctor from saudi arabia who has lived in germany since 2006. dominic kane has more from active birth as this is the moment police arrested the suspect. a saturday doctor has been in this country for 18 years,

helping to treat criminal drug addicts in prison. but it also use an online profile to criticize islam and praise right twin extreme confidence. this is the route the call he was driving, took through the market, ploughing through crowds of people for hundreds of masons ministers of cold and is lemme phobic, prosecutors are still trying to establish his motive. that's not going vatike him. as of now, it appears the background to the crime may have been out. the purpose of dissatisfaction with a treatment of saudi arabian refugees in germany. what lies deep behind this is what we're investigating. we still have to shed light on the perpetrators environment just as evidence of the operation to treat the hundreds of casualties is still clear on this saturday, this marketplace should have been from being with people come to enjoy themselves, the stalls, drinking them old wine eating the gingerbread. instead it's empty of them replaced

by politicians and media. politicians coming to express the solidarity with those who lost their lives. i'm terribly injured in this attack. us some, but we'll have shots, we show on the scene of the crime of disappear dealing. we won't meet those who won't just so hateful to get away with it. and we won't meet the perpetrators go on punished eva. and we will, ex, was older. i get out of the lot for the sake of that community and outcome and future. and for the people who live in this city, what stands out is the sense of shock with loose. now also when i came out, i saw everything that happened. i saw they were all laying on the floor. i was so lucky i'd left just in time. it would have been me putting out of slim what's especially bad is an emotional place if one knows each other, they must have people here who noted people in the hospital. yes, i come here to see the place and it's always really said i, i bought the teddy bear so i just put it down there. immigration and security were already big issues for this country with

a general election just 2 months away. this attack is likely to magnify them even further. but right now in mac to book the market is closed. the mold wine on used the sweet scent of the treats on a day will be given access to local hospitals and food banks. and the people of the city are left with the greeks. dominic cane al jazeera mac to bog. russian forces say they have destroyed a ukrainian ammunition depot and re taken control of one settlement in the course of the border region. that ukrainian military says its forces were engaged in more than a 100 battles with russian troops and repelled several russian offensives on the front line. meanwhile, fighting their ukraine's eastern city of across is intensifying forcing people to fleet the nearby towns. only 25 percent of the population remains across. it is important because it's located on the roads serving as major supply lines. if captured,

it could bring russian forces closer to their stated goal of seizing the entire done, yet screeching. a thousands of people have joined the cuban president and a protest outside the us embassy and have and they're calling on the incoming trump administration to ease or end decades long sanctions on the small island nation at augustine has more from the cuban capital cubans national assembly acknowledged another challenging year for the most of the, of a sort of a little makers discussed how the economy contract. again, how for long blackouts will continue and how the government will charge for more internet services in dollars based. you know, this week president may of this kind of puts a positive spin on the countries powerless economic situation. so you need to be on peace. and miss will say this year couldn't have been worse, but we revolutionaries, optimists believe it's important to have go through another year and learned it's lisa and see what we will say. the cuban communist party has been consent of the

election of donald trump and his choice of cuban american hotline unlock rubio, the secretary of state. and there's already 2 of more sanctions. that's why they organized this much bustin from around the capital. the cuban government says more than half a 1000000 people attended, you know, say it so therefore, does a 1000 new wire. are they locating us? do we do anything to them today? they are hurting us. a lot of them on a few more 1st off administration, slapped to cuba with most sanctions. and to put the islands back on the us state, sponsors of terrorism list. all this is costing the economy billions of dollars a year. so they're not going to say, sorry, most people here because they have to be, they worked at the same time, no country on us has been sanctioned loan given to you about. and that's the conviction, have some process to say the sanctions make it hard for them to do their jobs or we assess them we're facing today. it's very difficult to get access to the rule

materials that we need for the production of vaccines. it's hard to access technology that we need to the demonstration was led by robert castro, one of the leaders of the revolution and the president miguel desk in the crowds. johnson down with the blockade in washington. triumphalism isn't. yeah. that's the message. yeah. it's not heavy at that. at augusta in algebra about results president says his thoughts and prayers are with the families of the 38 people killed in an accident on a major highway. north of realtors narrow the bus carrying 45 people from south polo crashed into a truck and burst into flames. the bus driver and at least one child are among the dead. authorities in the democratic republic of congo are still searching for survivors after an overloaded ferry capsized late on friday night, at least 38 people. of the roughly 160 on board had been confirmed. it both left

the town of engender on the river, but risa and was traveling to go in day in the northeast. at least 20 people have been rescued so far more than a 100 rain missing or at least 30 people have been killed in 2 stampedes in nigeria . as large crowds gathered at food and clothing distribution centers at least 20 or believe to have been trampled in the town of kesha. another 10 in the capital of boucher mozambique constitutional council is due to rule on monday on the validity of october as presidential election. the all physician is wanting the validation of the disputed results, which so the governing for legal party re elected could trigger more violence. but the interest is already causing significant damage to the economy. as hollywood tests or reports from pointed to our punted total is a town in the extreme south of mozambie, right, by the border with south africa. it's known for its beaches of show diving, deep sea fishing and surfing. but the reason post election violence has affected

business, tourism is one of the effective was hit by the interest. we know that when a country is going through an unstable political situation, something really bad can happen, but also something really good can happen. so we hope that's everything that is happening. i'll come for the better in october, daniel chapel, the candidates for more than the governing party for an e mail was declared the winner of the presidential election opposition parties say the vote was a great a as the dispute of the election results spot divided and purchased from opposition, supporting the product and stuff like that. uh as uh, very much uh we have that we have have many cancellations. right now we uh the occupation is

a little bit less than 40 percent but uh with no confirmations. yes, because people are still waiting to see if the process continue or not. the security situation is not, it's not very good of mozambique is constitutional council is a 52 rules on the validity of the election count on december 23 civil society organizations and analysts, 5th, that announcement could to the more violence if some people don't accepted the name, content doorways for 2 days. it means the tip of goals people love coming to this area because the water is just the right temperature of the places peaceful and beautiful. usually this time with the, the places full of tour. now look at a post election purchase, have a stick to travel to and from the country, particularly at the level board post with neighboring south africa. the economic disruption has affected all sectors of society. all people can do is wait and see

how things play out politically in the coming days. how them a task out of their quantity total mozambie still a head on alpha 0. we look at the project taking flight in new zealand to bring native birds back from near extinction. stay with the the rip hotel is the hotels that i've ever stated and the biggest box you have ever seen. how does this pro taken out? this was really loved each way. it was built even when it was been a major toners. if the conflict in northern ireland, in the late 20th century belfast, your open war hotels, analogies here. the latest news,

there are 400 housings missing people. some time it is here saying that they have not received any single need with detailed coverage. this is the sunset of them off this sort of braces, hobbies taking place every single day since the fall of the form that i see from around the world. it is a high time for the international community to come together to try and rebuild this, going to be. i've already view the aspirations of the 2nd people. the, [000:00:00;00] the albanians government is shutting down. the populace social media platform take talk . the measure will be in place for at least a year. this comes out to the killing of a teenager last month, which fueled concerned about the negative influence of take talk on young people in

new zealand. birds once on the brink of extinction, or making a remarkable come back, governance diggers show that the native bird population is increased by more than 40 percent in the past 2 decades. conservationists say it is partly due to an intensifying plan to rid the country of predators such as rats and possums. adrian ground reports from wellington just 2 decades ago. you'd be lucky to see the cock of paris or even the to him. another once read they to endangered species. but that decline is that what we're seeing here is proof that we can reverse that train and we're not doing it in the world in this environment. we doing it right in the middle of a city in this eco century. the birds and metrics are safe from introduced purposes . it's surrounded by an almost 2 meter high fence stretching for nearly 9

kilometers. in 25 years, there will be just full ink cushions. birds act hurley sites in the same tree that fits this incredibly affective. it's a place for them to thrive in the halls of the city, but some is no longer completely drowned out by the drone of traffic that's possibly down to people like n e h. one of hundreds of volunteers supporting and ambitious campaign to make new zealand primitive, free by 2050 the hills about the capital. one of the target areas. she's seeing results a server as we used to catch fire. that's a week. now we'll lucky enough to catch you in the maybe one a month and say those numbers of really, really dipped. and from that, we're seeing this that the populations increase for the con, paid to succeed,

will require the eradication of thousands more rugs stokes possums and weasels creatures plus brought to new zealand by european and pulling asian settlers. it's a controversial strategy, but one, many conservationists defend. we have seen goods ripped apart by ritz and by starts and fig, smashed by pulse them. humans are doing enough damage to pray. that says is, is just, you know, same thing out that the family says something has changed. yeah, tight, it has changed for these evenings national, but the flight less key where you closer off to being re introduced 2 years ago. the key we is now breeding in these hills for the 1st time in living memory. new zealand was once a book paradise, because they would know land fighters is one of those islands that have evolved separately from the rest of the world. and we have absolutely unique animals here. and most famously of all the key we, that's what we're known is overseas. it's

a really and critical part of our identity is people he hopes these hills could again become what they once was a natural but century adrian brown. al jazeera weddington and that wraps up this news hour and obviously we're, we're going to take a very short break. we're back of the top of the hour with the afternoon democratic nations justified this kind of behaviors. collateral, the average has collateral damage. that's was reality is leading to what we're seeing that will allow me to push back for a moment is the newer systems for, for israel affecting. it's a little bit branding from the impact of 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

a diverse range of stories from across the globe. from the perspective of networks, journalist on outages 0 on counting. the cost of global trade is transforming wide power to move for the goods across the board as b, we shaped in the future to terrace hikes on to the 2nd, the trump administration spock and international trade will include technology play, a role in restructuring supply chains, counting the cost on that will just be around as the colder weather sits in families to start their day of repairing their damage. 10, most people here have lost everything over the last year. for now, this is home. it's very cold. children of sick women was screaming, everything became torments, destruction, sickness and disease every week. we are sick and tired, stopped us. those who have managed to survive. these really attacks are now hoping to survive the winter. we left the most and survived the bombings. we left off the

siege and now the rain and cold killing us. without proper shelter, people are vulnerable to infection and disease. we were affected by the rain. our children were soaked our clothes gone when we have nothing to protect ourselves. just the tent and shoulders made of a plastic blankets and cardboard are the old protection of from the wind and rain. the is really forces at tech, a school sheltering displaced philistines in garza and the hospital becomes a battle zone indeed received the funds to reuben. yeah,