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the, the limits to have a dream contains key stuff in your own adventure now counter and wayne the . 1 i'm sammy say them, this is the news our lives from dell coming up in the next 60 minutes on factions across syria agreed to united under the ministry of defense, possibly new administration's restructuring plan when live in damascus. plus, i'm how much bought in the historic city of putting me on central city, coming up with tell you who's in control here. and what's up states in this part of
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the country is riley false is attacked 3 hospitals in northern galls or including to my loved one, why patients and stuff and feed in just american ad line suspends all slides because of a technical glitch. stranding passengers during the busy christmas time. we'll see the coal to shut down. those in big protests is a back home. the streets off for a top port confirmed the results of the dispute in presidential election. the we start with some breaking news coming out of syria. the head of the new administration of the shot are says he's reached an agreement with um, functions across the country that they will come together as one falls under the ministry of defense. but the kurdish lead and us back s b a us the grooves in
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easton, syria is not part of the deal from all of this developing story that speak to the so side of the joins us from damascus. right. so what does this announce? a mean will these groups actually this span dissolve to fall semi sees the full of this sad, redeem perhaps this is the most important development that happened in syria. that is on the way in syria because just the hours of the full of the sab regina have seen that they will position fighters from north east, south west or coming to damascus. and that some of them could have me some different territories, different districts, different neighborhoods of the capital. and simply the main fear here was how these groups that had been fighting, i guess, redeem, throughout the course of 15 years of the civil war. this group that, that heavy arm because it does have you on how they're going to merge,
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how they are going to unite, whether any skirmishes and confidence could lead to another civil war that now the regime is gone, will be as fractions, dividend on fractions will fight will city a now see a new job with the period or not? that was the main concern. and the off there's pools and pools. several sessions and several meetings almost started in 48 hours after the full of the shadow said. so now i'm of the shot. i did the fact the leader of syria who's also the leader of the h. d, as the most dominant military and the public of poverty. syria saying that old on groups have a need to merge the ministry of defense. that is quite a remarkable development. so it is simply now this new at the station is in control . accept the north east of the country, which is under the control of f. yeah. see the democratic forces, which is mainly made off of could despite this,
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that is backed by the united states. and now in these agreements, we see f d f is not at the table. we know that the us has been launching strikes on i. so what does that say about the group's ability to re group itself? so now sammy, there are 2 companies that are still effective to conduct in the air strikes and minister operations. one is israel, that is most active and create the region. and from time to time, they're still grabbing some of the villages and the seeds in this opportunity of expanding, they admit it to the presence in syria. on the other hand, the usa is still saying that they are actively fighting the iso and in despite gas . yeah, the main, the current made of the codes fight this is, has been, do not to states in doing so. so this is, i certainly still a major threat here and this involved last night. do you have to ask them back to
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the air strikes? targeting to iso operatives and injures one of them? the said, well, these are so often it is. we're carrying a truck that was loaded by the weapons in an area that is now left by the seat of the gym and rush out of it. many people here include in the need, the officers of the new administration, fedex, family, skeptical of this kind of statements. some people believe that the usa is using i, so as it protects the state of maine in syria. and of course some how to give a protection umbrella for s. yeah, it's main ally. yes, it is a simple now. some is simply the main issue for them. the main 2 challenges for the new mentation for us is the, is that admitted it, but as expanded is very me describe it. it's a presence. and 2nd is whether the f d f, because this fight there's the back by do not stays, will also join this one single army. will they hand over their arms weapons or not?
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if they not, they don't done whether the company is going to do a new conflict or not. well, i will leave it there. thanks so much for so started off or in palmera and central syria is known for its ancient city, which is a unesco world heritage site was seized by iso fights as in 2015, partially destroyed before it was recaptured. the cities ami homage vall isn't palmera with this update. all the city and governments have been facing a high value on the specialist. they wanted this place to be safe. actually, this is a place that has 5000 years of history. this was the site of the uptake them to the kingdom of queens and new before it was invaded by the romans. so i mean, it has the same value and probably even you caught them equally speaking as oil or any other treasure that to the country has one of the source. that's why there is
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a huge importance placed on this based on the government. then you will go from that is a very much aware of that. the visibility of the pep center of the army unit is much more than anything we saw along the road from damascus to displace. so basically, uh, probably, mira is also, you know, strategically located in the center york is only about a 100 kilometers from where i stand here. uh, the places of control of the, uh, see the democratic forces also they need a space is only 200 kilometers from here. and they know that almost everyone, everyone of those boxes, once or countries want to have access to the space, if they can, particularly the, the city and functions. the city democratic forces side to push to was this based on they were, they were prevented just they all tool before the form of the shape of the shot. and i said, well this is the lysis picture of the ministry situation in syria. now the green area,
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well that shows tired freak controlled by the new government. the no face that's still on the, the syrian democratic forces control. and that's a coalition lead by code is fine, says the us supports this curtis group and has troops that now in the north total. yeah. and it's i live fights is control. the air is in right anchor. it says it wants to keep cut, each find is away from its southern border. and the south is where the ground forces are expanding their occupation of the golden heights. they've seized. what was it? the mother tries officer and gone beyond its view and says, this violates a long standing agreement with syria. rob guy spin, follow the is a lecture in peace and security. a dime university joins us live from down in the united kingdom. good to have you with us. so 1st of all, the fact that we're hearing and announcement the o factions have decided to join together on the ministry of defense.
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but it seems the s b f is not positive that does this mean as a show down remains looming between authorities and damascus and the staff forces in the east. oh, yes, definitely. so. ready obviously, this is tentative, good news in the sense that serial will see relatively, at least on paper, how less on diminishes roaming around. and these will be integrated into defense ministry. but as you say, it really puts pressure on the staff. they kind of have best choice before them. now of all we go together along with this decision, all we also going to join there is significant affility of suspicion between the staff and ad between the central government, particularly because the central government is very close to tokyo. toki a is the, the i'd say most significant for them bhaskar of aged. yes. at the moment. so that's a problem here. it doesn't make the codes feel safer. invite to make them feel more
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ins, the q 5, because i think the real source of tension is not between the damascus. on the s d . f is actually between till key of the asked the now to care is still occupying a large part of node and syria around a 100 miles deep about a security zone day. it has its own proxy village at the siri national hominy. now, the rest of the that is going to be integrated into the city of defense ministry, but the question is, will, is made syria more cohesive, more united? what it means that we have the s n a basically stays the same, but theoretically being one of the oldest from device goes low and seeking offensive games. the code is regions in the east. what actually it's turkey f that's still in charge, but we all sing and you had ministration, of course, arising in damascus, it does seem to have a good relationship with the very least with authorities in ankara. are we not likely to see that become a confrontation between all the, all the factions which
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a gathering pace it seems on the one ministry of defense and kurdish forces as well. i, i would say that, you know, we have to see the, the definitely starting mission, the detail with this unification agreements because it's been tried elsewhere, has been tried. interact, for example, has been tried at 11 and i'm safe to say i haven't gone very well. look at 11 and for example, this is a couldn't for you, civil war ended around 2 and a half decades ago. but it still has various militias operating within the country . and then i have these, all me isn't seem is very strong looking at many militias in iraq. they were hundreds of them all supposedly integrated into the defense ministry into iraq, central government. but the question is, but how into the way, did they actually off when the chips are down, do they actually followed by dogs orders, or is it someone else's like to run, for example, about still very much an open question and look at syria itself. so in 2019, when the property was in jobs,
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they launched the defensive against these rebel how there is many of these organizations boulder they technically surrendered and they became part of the city and state. now what we know happened is that they would this own, they would integrate it into the server, you know me, they were just basically transferred onto rushes payroll. and then the old butterfly is very recently for the regime when these groups decided to become rentals again. and also in the basket. so there's a question here for haste. yes, kind of, they exist there will far as the names over these groups. but at the same time as how it, the 2 hands off the man, the actually i know alienating the i just having the on the government payroll. but actually it's these local groups on the ground quoting the show. and i don't think, for example, groups in the south on the board of the go on how i so going to be potentially folded about starting to fight with the c, f and east and see we have that probably be more content to do that. i'm thing, oh, be on the devices payroll. we're also saying the us stuffing up the tax on the iso, how they react thing to the changing political and military dynamic on the ground
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there in syria as well. i think the key thing here is the big shock we had the other day and we'd be talking for a long time now that there are 900 us troops in syria. and actually the americans surprised us all of the said. and in fact, we have 2000 us troops in syria. so i think that was a signal saying we're not getting any way. we're actually have more of a significant footprint on the ground. would you think? i'm yesterday's. i so is the justification for that. remember that all 50000 eyes, the prisoners in s, the captivity of 10000. those are full, the combatants, the rest of that family. so this is a significant amount of people that can cause a lot of trouble. and the codes often use this. they say, look, if we end up fighting ad, for example, to key and its proxy goods, we will have to take people away from those kinds which we end up with isolate research. as we have seen, the us increase this attacks on iso since the establishing valve. so there is this
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kind of question in the, at how powerful is i? so still, i'd say it is basically defeated out, it's degraded, sorry, but it's not defeated. it has the ability to bounce back, it's waiting for any kind of disorder or power back to you on govern spaces. and then i think we're going to say, how defeated and destroyed hi so actually is. all right, thanks so much for your analysis. and give the the, those being a powerful bloss stuff and explosives factory into a k, a. it happened in the northwest and city of bulk shall have at least 12 people have been killed. 5 of us were injured. a section of the factory collapsed according to
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local officials, emergency services on the scene system costs, although has this update from a stumble. this is one of the probably most fatal, a last, the intricate in defense industry. a complex is within the last couple of years. this is a huge industrial complex word. the there are more than $650.00 workers actually are employed. and according to the initial reports and initial information given by the office shows this explosion occurred in just one building inside that facility, which it was actually a place where they produced bill it's cap sales. the officials are being to asked about whether there are people trapped inside some part of this building where they produce the bullets capsules have collapse, apparently due to the electricity in the powers. it cuts after the explosion and they are not able to identify the
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a id card readings at the entrance about the initial information given by the people in charge is that there is no one left under the collapse part of the building. there was no one trapped, there's a huge rescue team out there. the turkish disaster management agency, the firefighters, the rescue groups are there and the prosecutor launched an investigation that the governor said they currently ruled out the risk of sabotage. and uh, that's why if it now current laid, they are working on the possible reasons that's good. i've left to such a big explosion. the, the only partially functioning hospital left in northern garzo is andre renewed assault from his right. the forces,
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at least 20 patients and medical staff have been injured by explosions around come out allows one hospital and they come out here. the director of the hospital room, the building sustained damage and the attacks and 21 palestinians have been killed by as rainy as strikes the past 24 hours. and that a lot of funerals have being held for full security guards who died in a driving this has all securing an a convoy in garza city. the civil defense headquarters was targeted in his riley strike, a member of the civil defense and his son with kills out a cup of zoom, joins us now from dallas by in central garza so it seems hospitals in particular taking a hit today. tonic of the yeah, that's right. of the situation remains very precarious. in fact, sammy, for even there was a medical team, some facilities that are still barely functional in the north of a strip. we need to remind her of use that in the know the conference calls of the
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3 bally function of hospitals. one is the admin easy and hospital which has been completely evacuated yesterday and patients alongside with medical teams. as far as we know, we're forced to leave the area for the minute, treat chicken chicken points, chick points and even to a golf and city. and right now the seats has been really getting much more restrictive and tight in terms of the value function of hospitals. improving i would, the on the engine region hospital, we've got reports from the medical teams and out of the hospital, confirming the, the targeting of this, the floor of the hospital causing significant disruption. the, the medical teams are still inside and they are still operating with their capacity to provide medical treatment. but why the, all the reports that are emerging from come on at one hospital are changing a very grim picture of the medical and the human a terrier. reality that they are still inside the hospital. 65 patients waiting for evacuation and at the same time they are completely pcs with abutment unfolding
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them. so this very moment to help us, i'm sorry. all right, we'll leave with that. thanks so much todd a couple. i zoom the now dan perry is the former chapman of the farm price association of israel. he joins me now from tennessee is good to have you back then 7 all the crack of this. so we're seeing an intensified series of attacks on hospitals. why is this rel attacking hospitals, particularly northern gods? i'm sure they were looking or hospitals and claim that there are homeless targets. so using of using them, send it to the hospital. i really don't have the details of this latest attack and can't adjust or condemn. but it is obviously a terrible misfortune when, when civilians and people, hospitals and doctors, i'm both caught off in this lightner and you have another reason for all science i think, to work towards i'm doing the war and pressuring and applying whatever pressure
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needs to be applied on both sides to the to find a way then the number of organizations like met, sense all frontier has doctors without borders in that report of december, the 2024th offered a different uh, perhaps explanation for the attacks on hospitals rather than fights is being located that it talks about israel attacking health care facilities to unravel the fabric of society in gaza. and that quote, the signs of ethnic cleansing a undeniable where to similar statements by ox fam, november 27th, saying israel is in the late stages of ethnic cleansing in north garza, when we hear from 8 organizations that are, that isn't a palestinian or is right, they they do have a, at least some respects. it's not a lot of respect and the international community, is it justified to be worried about ethnic cleansing?
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going on a look center describing intention. uh, is this or any other sorts of the government is it's just not something like and i, we both know why israel says it does what it does. and it's never gonna commit to an effort to make life on movable in northern cause. and frankly, it's speculation in my own assessments for speculation would be that no, that is not the purpose of least everyone. i speak soon of both of these really public can and then the government, or at least the official circles, are pretty, pretty consistent in what their goals are and their goals are really quite clear, almost to be eradicated as a governing force and gospel for the hostages. to be returned and everything else, everything else is um, probably a case of conspiracy theory rising. and then over thinking now in pursuit of these 2 goals, which i think are both legitimate. are they? are they committing actions that some of it shouldn't be quite possible,
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quite possible. the argument for ethnic cleansing would involve the idea the israel's subliminal gl, uh would be to render northern goes uninhabitable. so that will help students kind of return. i don't have it is that those are go, but i do know that some part right people, my girlfriend would certainly like uh for um, for a cause it to pay territorial price in and as a consequence of having basically wage war on israel and in those barbaric fashion possible. october suns, there is a not, not a ridiculous idea that is really is a buffer zone inside gospel to protect from any further of a button. but of course got the so small the, it seems impractical. i think i think i hope the cooler has will prevail and what will emerge from what is i'm going to be
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a nightmare is for it because it to be lead to by force that israel does appear. and therefore such, such thoughts disappear because because as long as i say that it's not a good way forward, models guarantees more home. is it? i mean really a case that organizations like doctors outboard is august time could be engaging in conspiracy theory. when you have even pharma is ready, defense minister most shall alone saying on december. the 2nd israel was engaging and quote, conquering annex and ethnic cleansing, look at northern gauze. and you have the finance minister on the 21st of october, saying about garza as being part of the lines of his round that without sacraments . there is no security that those are not conspiracy theories, right? oh, absolutely. so one by one, michelle and really to say this. and that was based on the idea that he believes that governments will ultimately trying to seize for the mid or long term,
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or maybe permanently the bits of the buffers on. i've mentioned before. and she, i don't know if he's right, but he is a former defense minister of it formerly crude underneath. and he's currently is very much a political opponents of the time, you know, having flipped. and he's been criticized for statements as having gone too far. and basically this packet with speculative in his own right. as for the finance minister or you dignified him by calling the finance minister, i regret to say he really does hold that position. but he really is the far right extreme by the is the official title. i didn't like this off, right? so i agree or right, right. i know he sits in that these ready to go mind representing i think we have later follow with the cabinet full for the cars, unable mind when the time you know who, who cynically and it is incredibly important minister to fanatic right about a 3rd of the of the governing coalition really does want these okay, want to restore causes, which is they want permanent occupation to time. yahoo,
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i don't think does, but they could bring down the government him because he is well the main right insist on clicking for power. he may be throwing the ball and then at the very least, prolonging a warrant archive issue. i'm afraid we ran the war down his government. all right, i'm ready. sorry, but we, i mean, i'm getting told them i a several times we're out of time. so then very appreciate your patience. thanks so much for coming back. of the opposition in mozambique is calling on protests as to shot down the country that's off to the top court confirmed the governing policies waiting and october is contested presidential election. the opposition has disputed the result saying the vote was rig i'll have him with us is life for us from the capital makoto and how to that stop. first of all, how the streets look at this, how we can see some people running behind. i think that might even be black smoke still blowing from behind you when it's really hard to
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move around to my pluto and part of the reason uh, things like that, that fire and all that black smoke, that is a road block, pro chases, had been burning, ties and blocking roads is a, this is a way of shutting down mozambique. this is the road to the airport. and if you've managed to get past that drop block the several as is until you reach the airport the way you plan to go. and it's several of these will balance you get young man who are now starting to ask most of us to give them some money or they're willing to let them pass. if you refuse to give them money, they sometimes stone you. busy vehicle so while these protest we have started off initially about the election is out, it seems some elements have come in and tried to infill trade. them. that said, people though are saying that those who are genuine here to protest are saying that they are here because they are tired of uh, yes, of corruption and unemployment here in mos on beach. and we've heard from the
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presidency lead daniel chapel and he's a units. he's called police people to a. com. and he says, once he's sworn in as president in january, he will work very hard to unite the entire country. the main opposition leave them with line to is still calling on his protests as the take to the streets, so who, who knows how the day is, will pan now as but as far as we know, we will see protests here and they throughout various parts of put so in other parts of the country as well. all right, thanks so much how them with us so that now american airlines is resume services officer. a technical glitch suspend it all slides at the start of a busy christmas eve for travelers around the country. is go live to my kinda in washington dc and like the 1st i'll be as close to the how could something like this happen as well. there's no real information about that at present. told that the american airlines said was that it was a technical glitch, da,
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the federal and it weighs administration suspended flights. but that lost it for a little over an hour with flights. were delayed on the ground. concerns were rising that this was going to happen for a longer period of time, but no. the federal aviation authority has just announced that the band has been lifted. i've checked the american airlines schedules. everything is back on trying everything is leaving as scheduled. so this is of some kind of mess of delay during this holiday season have gone away. the if i expect set some 40000 americans will travel between now and january the 2nd. it's the peak time of traveling the year. but now at least it appears for the time being uh that the problem has been averted by american airlines. all right, we'll have to leave with that. thanks so much mike hannah, it's time for the web that he is rob with a live view of upcoming conditions from took care to south africa. that for most of arabia and the around the live and things across and down time,
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she has come down admittedly. but the winds have dropped the active weather once again is in the central eastern madge, and that will be active. the rain is kind of a hit, hitting something interpretive of the strong winds in libya and each it will probably co sandstorms running across maybe across alexandria and maybe beyond that . but for most it's a fairly quiet picture. this is where it is not. and this video risk here because there's already been funding around on top of you and with the next 3 days persistent rate in some talk to you. maybe some in cyprus flooding is like you to be exacerbated over to. so there are few sounds like to soften to lebanon, or syria even knows in the rock, but nothing much to speak of. i don't think i'd be on that. it's fine, the winds, and not that strongly in any longer temperatures in the middle. twenty's, if you're lucky, still around $530.00 in america, and as a hint of showers hate it to the west and saturday. in southern africa, the focus of rain has returned to virtually every country. so if you'd be month to get well for something most, i'm big physic barbara impulse, one of those channels are protesting with abundance. and then not just staying that
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fundamental say, are eventually going to produce themselves during the afternoon to mislead for the service throughout south africa. i've listened to that i had an i'll just say era a basis we christmas for christians and not been in this. they remember friends and loved ones killed and it's really bombings. plus automatic scripts helpless, don't know, new to me. so launching sites and you create, find out just how deadly and how powerful these yourselves were. the hotel is the hotels that i've ever stated and the biggest box you have ever seen. how does sprout taken out? this was really loved it when it was built. even when it was been
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a major toners, if the conflict in northern ireland, in the late 20th century, belfast, your open more hotels analogies here to examine the impact of today's headlines. no foreign power liberated the syrians and it's in syrians hands to determine how the future looks like setting agend for tomorrow's discussions. if you all people from across the world can collaborate, why can't our world leaders international filmmakers and world class journalists bring programs to inform? inspire too many to justin pratt and much is it. this should be on the agenda. barnowski sierra. the
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welcome back here watching. i'll just do a time to recap on headlines. the head of city is new administration now for the shut off as these rates in agreement with all of the factions across the country. they will unite as one falls under the ministry of defense of the kurdish labs and us back s p f on group release and syria is not positive with the they only partially functioning hospital left in northern gaza is under. i renewed assault from israeli forces. hospitals, director says design, the shedding is smashed windows and damaged for building. at least 12 people are being killed in a loss of an explosive factory. and so it can't happened in the northwest in the city of products. you know, cuts out as foreign ministry held a press briefing on. yeah, it spokesman discussed a range of issues including mondays, high level visit to damascus by senior con 3 officials. also jabbar it was that the
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briefing and del how with this update, according to the foreign ministry spokesperson specialist, i'm sorry, the high level delegation visit at devices on monday. at was, it was a full school visit to because they were able to discuss a very important issue is that maybe the humanitarian aid that cuts are, has been sending to syria. now, according to the country foreign ministry spokesperson, the at school at the moment is to lift the international sanctions that has been in place on the new administration, damascus. he highlighted the fact that customer has sent 5 airplanes carrying 144 tons of age to syria, but they haven't been able to send them directly to the last. cuz as a result of this section, they've sent them since i've been on. and henry,
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as the amount of aid and of progress that needs to be made, will be forwarded to the categories really now very much and cautiously optimistic when he was asked about the possibility of a grievance when it comes to as the new administration in damascus. as the farm industry spokesperson said, it is too soon to talk about those kinds of deals the made between the 2 countries or at the moment he said the priority is to assist the syrian people in rebuilding their country. and he also so far as offered it to assist in the reopening of damascus international airport in terms of logistics. any, any other kinds of support that the new administration might need in order to move forward. so really, the message here from atari governments is very clear. they are willing, able and ready to assist the new administration in damascus to move forward and rebuilding syria post special atlas side. but there are limitations that are in place that need to be lifted by the trash. so community dorset jabari also sarah
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don't, is now demonstration as being held in the syrian capital to protest against the binding of a christmas tree near. i'm a demonstration of march through damascus, demanding the rights of christians. the protective layer who was responsible for the new leadership condemned the acts and promised perpetrators will be punished to thousands of displaced christians and loved it. and now preparing for the 1st christmas since the seas 5 between israel and has the law. many longing to go home off to fighting force them to leave thoughts of southern an east and 11 in barbara and go for reports. the villages got that for a recital. to church and an outlet outside to sit in the congregations remembering lost friends, officer and his really strikes to 6th story building down a hillside can at least 70 people in the homes
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a few months. okay. they say the 1st christmas since the cx 5 between is one and has that pro 2 years of flushing to an end is bitter. sweet. have had it been in the heart of conditional. we hope that this bloody will that happened in the south does not happen again. and we hope for the return of all displaced people. it's true we all celebrating christmas, but we have heartache for being on an estimated one point. 2000000 people have been displaced by fighting in southern and eastern lebanon. all at frances would be decorating a christmas tree at the house where she's sheltering, fall from home, and i'll show up close to the border with his around. uh saying that messiah i want to decorate my house and own the shop with a big tree. so we can enjoy christmas with our family and loved ones. i didn't want to decorate anything here. i will leave it as it is because we are not in the mood for anything. she and her husband thought the move would be temporary,
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but months later that desperate to go home with us. so we feel heartsick and pain. but one still hopes to go back to their turn of their homes to rebuild again . israel has threatened display slipping. these people not to return to best southern boards of images, including um, i'll show up so it saves the rebuild and what stopped any time soon? barbara and grandpa, i'll just era basically him the town christians believe to be the best place of jesus christ is preparing for the 2nd christmas and the shadow of israel's war on golf. so once again, they'll be no christmas tree or public lights, and very few decorations, and they occupied westbank town. and the religious ceremonies will be held in solidarity with palestinians in garza. and i speak to me that abraham, she's a journalist, invested a hand so a very different christmas this year compared to the is before the war. and garza
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of the yes indeed. so i mean, as you said there, it's the 2nd year in a row. the people in bethlehem, in the place where it's old started, are not celebrating christmas because they're looking at what's happening to their follow palestinians and the besieged gauze, this trip in pain. that's why they did not put any decorations here in the city. and even the entrance of the lots and patry are off jerusalem to the major's square, which you do any is meant to announce the beginning of the celebrations of christmas to prepare for the midnight mass. huge with you all, i saw an arm bethlehem in this time of the year, but this year he entered silently where lots of scouts members decided to mark that day. but they did not play any music. the traditional christmas ceremony that they usually do when he enters instead some of those scouts
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members, we're carrying a picture and a carrying a lot of pictures talking about what's happening in gaza. one that really strikes our attention was done and made by our to sabrina, i'm kind of good and the scouts have been carrying it to an image that talks about what's happening in gaza. and now we're joined by sabrina with us here. in bethlehem, you are a photographer, you are an artist, and this is the artwork that you decide that to be, you know, mark christmas with this year. what was your inspiration? and if you can tell us a bit more about the artwork, merry christmas sony, that to you and to all those celebrating today, when i created this work because i felt like the need to express myself, this is our 2nd christmas. so i know that we don't celebrate christmas in bethlehem, and the genocide is not coming to an end. and we feel like really at that is really
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bounded and we don't know how to express ourselves. so this is just a small screen from bethlehem to the heart of gaza to tell them that you're not alone, that you always feel your pain, that we stand by your side. and there will be no christmas celebrations, as long as the sinews are suffering, as long as the children of guys are being bombed and killed. and unless the genocide stops, we own will not celebrate christmas or anything else in our life. really start to my attention the picture of the girl here. can you tell us why is there a merch pictures? what are these pictures when i blended more than 20 images of the idea of it was the figure of the mother of protecting her child was hit kaffir, and she's waiting the syllables gaz. uh, as a result of the indian traditional dress, of course, and i added so many pictures from of the what's happening now in gas. i like
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the smoke and here, like even on the face, i added some booms, houses, rules. so i tried to include it all in one picture, and somehow when i was working on the fixture, i remembered a virgin mary and jesus christ because of her son. she also needed to protect him from oh, that was happening in bethlehem 2000 years ago. and you are a mother or yourself. yeah. how are your children coping with? well, it's not easy for me as a palestinian and as a mother, i always feel the need of protecting my children. and i always feel like this sense of guilt that i am raising my children under the like this occupation and surrounded by genocides night to kilometers away from us. so i feel obliged i feel like that's my 3 arctic. like reason that i have to do that for my people, i have to do that for palestine and in the name of artist as well, like i'm an artist and i have this royce,
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this is how i express and this is might have been use and thank you so much sabrina, i'm kind of good medical needs to use in, in the not so mary, the situation and atmosphere. let's see here in about 9, but posted in specially questions here in palestine. say that their presence is really important and they're trying to do what they can to mean seeing the christian presence here in palestine, which many postilion bucklin lights are proud to say that this city here, this little town is called the capital. of course, i think so much knew that abraham, the rescue is in spain now searching for 2 crew members of a russian cargo ship. that sign called the southern coast. they also, my order was traveling through the strength of japan also when an explosion occurred and the engine ship goes, heading to vladivostok from st. petersburg carrying construction material 14 crew
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members were rescued and taken to hospital now to ukraine. once part of the soviet union, the country still has radix of its nuclear pos, leftover remnants of a system that was able to destroy countries. in the matter of minutes, alex gets helpless, visited to the commission, new play along side, just being turned into a museum. during the cold war, this new to miss all side of the southern ukraine was part of a network, was built to deter anyone from attacking the soviet union. it's come on, post is designed to shield the launch crew from everything, but the direct nuclear hit. a long corridor on the ground leads to a shop 14 meters deep through a steel door, all the ways and media tunnels. this is how you gain access to the come on post policy, the crumbs living quarters for to extend. so if it's a former commander and the soviet union strategic missile forces now tend to a guy to very near. he talks us through what would happen in the event of a good care for, for as much as they're getting sick. and once the bustle plan is activated,
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the codes received unlocked the targeting sequence, the long shoulder, it's transferred to the missile silos and with then to launch themselves using a jewel key, a button system, single team to see pressed by 2 people. this is the epi sent to the missile control center. now this controlled a network of 10 missile silos each silo containing for me. so one missile containing 10 warheads each warhead had the destructive power about the t times, plus the phones that exploded and killed everybody in hiroshima, in 1945. so incredible homeless apocalyptic power. and this is where it was controlled from bill to knows whether you'd ever consider just how many people would be killed by his actions. and i've got a number of were strictly on the orders which happened. american once visited, who was in charge of a similar asylum. he told me that he was also
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a place to follow his. all this will came close to destruction several times during the cold war. and now with the spread of nuclear weapons, a possibility of nuclear conflict is again on the rise. this is the actual missile silo. now when to come out of doors will be given. this a $120.00 ton hatch would spring open and the me so be launched within seconds. live in 15 minutes of to that millions of people would be dead on the other side of the planet. now this is the commissions, but there are hundreds of these active missile silos across russia, across the united states, and increasingly across china. alex could help us out to 0, southern ukraine, stella, head on al jazeera will explain how to lie. i am so tackled as walter shortage off to being inspired. finding my lion mounted, the
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the, [000:00:00;00] the scientists in south america drawing inspiration from asian practices to help solve the drought crisis in the end. these mountains say all the visual glaciers in the human lives have helped us to store and to flo will to communities while off to the snow is melted. now researches and should i want to take advantage of the abundant i send the water and in the winter to keep water available when the summer settles in the sand. newman reports from the empties mountains in today.
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this is the my book canyon and chillies. and these mountains known as horse country but for breed or him on medina feeding, his animals has become untenable to him. closely buckling the. this is the 1st harvest of height, it becomes most curious and some of the price goes up until it disappears altogether. we have to search for thought of far away at any price i've had to sell off half of my hood. yeah. it's spring here. let's come. some of this mountain valley will become a desert. right now. this looks very lush and green, but in about a month it's going to be yellow and totally dr. because of the drought. it's an ongoing drug that's less than more than 15 years here. but what if the boys to released by snow and glaciers in spring could be prolonged to the critical summer months? that's the goal of the needles project to build artificial glaciers. cold ice to
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pass from these middle structures via not in today or sweetwater reserves or the glaciers. and in the last 50 years, half of the world's ice mass has melted. the magic begins in winter when temperature is dropped. well below 0. the water from the stream of the melting glacier is harnessed, moves up a hose and releases a light spray that eventually turns into a rock hard structure, up to 14 meters high. the inspiration came from far away from the village in a barren desert plateau in the himalayas. using branches, sticks, and logs. villages had been building i stupidly named after a cone shaped buddhist monument to access precious water in summer. hey, there julian, count parts are using artificial intelligence, solar energy and satellite internet to improve their technique. but ultimately, it's the force of gravity that supplies water to the stoop, as if someone get a,
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these hoses, a price quote of 500 meters, a pill up stream with just the difference in altitude that pushes the water to the top of the super. where it comes out as a spray of droplets. park granger to newman, you'll says he's noticed a positive impact. you're going to see that if you have its advertising of the disappearing for years. so to pull most focuses on condos. also the dining to the natural and i'd be that 22 years. it's hope they'll be at least 50 i supers in this area to prolong water supplies to help restore some of the andes declining it goes system countering advancing climate change. one drop at a time to see a newman al jazeera got cleaned on my board to tom matthews is a senior electra in environmental geography at kings college london joins us from stratford upon even in the u. k. so good guy says be is to try and solve the
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challenge of also scarcity a. well, that's a really good question. i mean, i think one important place to start is to recognize is that all the natural gas is, have played for long as humans of live, need that and providing a reliable source of all to the communities down stream. while they do this really, especially as a cap to water for the snow in the winter with water is abundant and they stored and then release it during the months when perhaps it doesn't rain. and otherwise, what levels we drop these we visited supplied by gases can remain probably why this plane community is down stream. now when we think about the loss of glass, is that it's a caring, we're cool, is concerned about the lack of that storage and release of water. and this, this concept that we just had described, the artificial grass is we really should call them all to visualize reservoirs instead of glass. here we see a huge thing that plays downhill under a certain weight. and these things we talk about a much, much smaller and in that, in that, in that description of,
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of it mentioned at this moment i think we come to an important issue points. and that is the, the current scott saw use of the structures the little enough to compensate the retreat to the glass is but when deployed in the right place. and that means the right out to toot often lower than the glass is lowering innovation. they started out with the in the spring. that's a important thing is important. this is sunday, truthful add up. the steeper originate in the us in the, in this valley they can provide a really useful and important source of voice. if that community is that the deal with these structures, releasing voltage just at the right time, and to, to how we taunting or to help with, with fosters we had that. so they are an important tool to use as we, as we recognize and adapt to the retreat of glossy as well by me. but ultimately, if one is kind of playing, shall we say with the time table of the melting of these ice reservoirs or classes, what it, when
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a cool them will that be perhaps all the know calling to fax. it might be good for a, you know, if i go to culture, the button might say, how has it been started to make sure there won't be other negative knock on effects and ultimately disturbing that cycle and balance that that's a very good question. and i think the beginning we read, we controlled analogy with, with the reservoir building a noise and much larger scale. and deb much more intrusive, but ultimately fulfills the same role plays the same purpose. and that is capturing water that is running off to the communities and 3 k systems down stream storing it for the, for the goods of the bigger people nearby that will benefit from that storage and release. so yes, there are other ways impacts to um, interrupting the water cycle and storing water in this case as ice ohio to cheat. um the same general challenges are though considerations of that when we deal with
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things like resit was the name. but the scale that we talking about is, is much, much smaller. these, these artificial or expensive was much more in scale, north side of the fall, less intrusive in the fall as damaging to the environment. the, the that built with it is you've heard from that that story. in chile, the water arrives at the state, they just found the force of gravity is hydrostatic pressure. the water is down into gravitating sprays up under gravity. there's no electricity required to do this. the power required to do this, no building huge was to hold back water is just the the that the, the buttons of the ice that's holding the water in, in place. so yes, we need to consider the down the street impacts that would always be impact. and that's a familiar chat enjoy for the excessive considerations because we have, are used to doing things like this. we build reservoirs at the moment, the scale that is much, much more and the impacts that full well the may even be much more, but i would encourage you to myself and other research work in this field to
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continue working out and identifying what days there's impacts downstream could be a lot and as we heard in the report that you know, the strengthening of wall to resources in these areas is also going to have a knock on effect. so some of the wildlife communities, right, rabbits, condos, foxes returning to the habitat. so because it's a little bit about what that will mean full that environment the dead quite possibly. you mean, just as you know, think it's always important to recognize that we are just like the other creatures they're happy at this uh, thing that, you know, we've been adapted to the, the conditions. so, and that, that are in these mountains on how potations of have set up and been configured around the supply of water. that's why people live in these places all kinds of in these places. because water is abundant of the time to the end when it's needed. to it's available during the time to do that as needed, and it's the same for all the other creatures and in these eco systems. and the
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rates of change that we've seen in the last several decades has been really, really extraordinary. and i'm talking about the retreat of losses, and because events, botanic woman came in close molding of the climate system. and with that you have fundamental changes to the availability of water downstream. and it depends whereabouts who are in the world as to how far along in this and in the suited prices of change. we are in some regions. water flight is going up still during hot times of the year because the glass is just melting foster they are shrinking, but the melting foster, so the water level can actually be higher. and in the short time, already when the glass has a retreat. so not the water level is actually really start to drop and, and some pulse of all go ready on the be pulse that peak and water supplies a radio ready quite low. and of course ecosystems in these places will be failing. not, no, i said these, these artificial express was at the moment all quite small scale. so the impact. so the guy system,
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they going to be quite localized in the building then and having more abundant water when the mounting. but no doubt they're off though i would suggest positive. so in the system. all right, thank you so much for your thoughts on that. thank you very much. in hawaii, mount callaway uh as launched jets of molten lava during a spectacular eruption. so one of the most active volcanoes on us, glowing red hot lava, began pouring from calloway in the middle of the night. the french military is delivering desperately need today to side cloud with hit my alt drinking water and all those supplies being brought in by sea and add to the french code for you in the indian ocean. so the 5 people were killed and 2 and a half 1000 injured. and cycling too though, hit the island earlier this month. local authorities say the true number of fatalities could be in the thousands you can find much
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