the after 2 years of deadlocks, the lebanese parliament's has elected a new president. army commander joseph over the i'm sort of a, it's good to have you with us. this is elsa 0, live from don't also coming up. the number of palestinians killed by israel's war on gaza passes, 46000 while hospital struggle with fuel shortages after european foreign ministers returned from damascus. the us secretary of state travels to europe to discuss relations with serious new administration. a desperate fight to put out with fire as in the los angeles area of 5 people are dead and thousands of homes have been destroyed. the

after 2 years a deadlock, lebanon's parliaments, has elected a new president. army commanders has its own one. the votes required in parliament 11 on has been without the president since michel owen's term ended in october 2022, saying ahold or begins, are coverage from the roots. a lebanon has a new president ending a power vacuum that lasted for more than 2 years. it's army commander, joseph, fall and received the majority of the votes. he says, this is a new beginning in his 1st speech, the parliament and said he would fight corruption. poverty, promote economic engineers over for a while invested in the army. he promised to build a functional state. i have a little modest. my pledge is to exercise my role. let's come under in chief of the armed forces and chairman of the supreme defense council. through which i will work to offend the states. right. to monopolize the bearing of homes

this was seen as a message to his beloved, whose armed wing has long been stronger than the army own, was not the groups candidates, but this is an 11 on isabel's devastating war and the fall of the regime. and again, as the beloved remains the main dividing line in lebanon and beyond its borders. this election didn't fix the political divides. instead, there was significant political maneuvering as invoice from the united states. france and saudi arabia visited bay boot in recent days, 11 on needs, international assistance to help rebuild what was the story during the war. it also needs us support to ensure as well, respects the ceasefire. but absent was iran, which had considerable influence to hezbollah own, who receive $99.00 as a $128.00 votes, is considered to be the preferred choice of the us and the international community

. well unfortunately i, i believe that there has been a role by international community and the agent of players to push for the conclusion of this milestone and faces the difficult tasks of overseeing a ceasefire on the is really border and naming a prime minister to lead reforms dom ended by international creditors to save the country from a severe economic crisis. this was not merely a vote. it's a sign that after much delay 11 on the has entered a new phase. and its history center for their elders either bailed the israel's war on gaza has killed more than 46000 palestinians. that is more than 2 percent of the gaza strips population. it doesn't include thousands of people still unaccounted for,

believe buried under the rubble at least for palestinians have been killed in separate attacks. targeting goes to city the injured of being rushed to barely functioning hospitals on the verge of closure because of a lack of fuel. a week old baby and 4 year old child had been killed in the last 24 hours. remains of the 4 year old were buried in a cardboard box because that's all that was left for. it were killed by and is really our strength on a home. and there are options here, a startup with whom is in darrow bella. that's in the central gaza tarik. tell us about the the latest attacks and the latest strikes that you're monitoring at the moment. well, serialize the sun set attack, so no sign of 12 things. we have basically had a sporadic shooting. coming in the past few hours from the eastern areas of derek black, just a few kilometers from our broadcasting position here. and we have got reports

coming from the city upon us, guessing that this valid trends struck a multiply with one civilian has the consent killed in the strike. but what we understand is that there has been a very significant frozen angle that tax in northern gauze, such as has been the basic theater for the is by the current a tax, especially on the system to save all of the engine easy and hospitals. doctors in the hospital suggested that the is valley army is this tell go dozing landscapes on the vicinity of that hospital. the building send a burial, a battery is and at the same time they continue to bend down residential houses as civilians from dogs and cities. confirmed that the skyline of northern garza has been incredibly covered with thick black smoke coming from bees. destroyed and but built the buildings. so basically the momentum of the car into abrasion is it still escalating? um a move uh

a confirmation coming from the valley as well. as town regarding a latest fluoride tax targeted a school, she'll bring those of the palestinian families who are still trapped in that town that had witnessed separate attacks in the course of the past 24 hours. what we know so far is that 5 civilians were killed in the strike as isabel has killed approximately more than 490 palestinians, only in the 1st 9 days of 2025. the tires. let's talk about the hospitals yesterday . they were about to run out of fuel and then i understand that they got a little bit more that was yesterday, but that was never going to last very long. so where are we now on hospitals and fuel shortages and their ability to keep functioning well, what garza's, health ministry has received yesterday was early 2000 lead specific. you that can be barely enough for one day of work in the european hospital. and we understand

that a each hospital in a sense what area or are they in the south of the strict needs or related injuries, will critically watson within the coming days as they are defending basically on fuels in order to break down the rates as i'm providing a critical departments with electricity, including the ice and the surgical departments to pump the bleak realities that do some medical teams working under the combination of the repeated looting attacks by a criminal guns. the restrictive midges that continue to be imposed by the is by the army regarding the us secretary of state, anthony blinking will meet the foreign ministers of the u. k. france, germany and italy in rome on thursday. that's today to discuss serious future or diplomatic and as a james space has more on this from damascus. a new flag and a new hope for the future. but while the international community is outdated,

the election should be held for 3 to 5 years. the most secure way in the sealant situation is to have the patient and have the sufficient time to get into the democratic era. so if we do with no improperly, we will get the lead pennies approach of the situation or the to mississippi. ready asian, they have failed in to apply a democratic that you have followed the diplomacy 6, but that has been a month of relative stability income. the terms formation of this country in such a short period of time has been amazing. but there is still great challenges ahead and there are only going to be solved with patient detailed, and very difficult negotiations. yes, with the international community. but most importantly, among the syrians themselves, j space out as era, damascus obtains as live with us now from damascus. james,

so it was really interesting listening to your report just now tell us about the diplomacy that's happening right now. right. we said that uh nc, blinking the us secretary of state is in europe right now, meeting european foreign ministers. what are they talking about? what are they trying to achieve, of the that meeting, starting actually at about 40 minutes so, so from now in the residence of the italian, a foreign minister in rome, having a dinner that this evening. it's the so called quint, which is the 4 major european powers. so the u. k. fronts, germany and italy, the you will so that the high rep sends to the you for foreign policy and the united states. and they are going to try to line the serial strategy and try and make sure that the major western countries are role in the same place. because one of the problems is that anthony, blinking represents that administration is when you go to a very short period. and power left,

but they're going to trying to log into that positions to make it easier then for them to have some leverage over the new administration here in damascus. and as i say, the time for him is that he's hosting this meeting. he's actually going to then the company now is going to be flying from rome to here in damascus, where he's gonna be having a meeting with the leadership here. so i think whatever they decide in rome, they will then be able to use that joint position to negotiate. here with the new administration is as you heard in my report, there are differences on, on sanctions and lifting on sanctions. and on the time line towards a democratic feature, because certainly the western countries want that to happen pretty fast. yeah, they want election sooner within what the new administration has so far said they do. they'd say the elections would happen in 4 years time after they've drafted a new constitution. so we've said with western countries,

we've said that wisdom countries are currently right now getting on the same page, then they're sending what you could characterize is there and void back to damascus to continue that conversation with syria. how does the new so unit ministration feel towards these foreign countries as well? i mean, that's the, i think so i'm speaking to someone who knows the thinking of the new administration . i think that's somewhat frustrated that they keep hearing these words about a syria and process, and then the international community wants to come in and supervise the syrian and process that setting these, how something here feel about it at all. so that frustrated. uh that's the economy is very bad and they still have these punishing sanctions in place. yes, we've had some sanctions east by the us. be about a tearing reasons. there are other sanctions from european countries, from western countries in place. there were never any actual un sanctions on syria, and that's because russia would have vetoed them. but because the other thing is

that to have high attorney and i'll show them the main grouping in the account administration here. they are still designated as a terrorist organization by the united nations, and that provides restrictions folder as well. so i think they'd like to see some of those things lifted. i think there's, there's a difficult balancing act between, of these issues of sanctions. the issues of the timeline, whether the 2 sides of the western countries, i'm a need ministration here, can perhaps come to some sort of way forward. i think we're going to see in the coming as when the attorney and for a minister comes here. i think his meeting will be pretty important. james, thank you very much. that sounds with us diplomatic, and it's a james based reporting from the syrian capital damascus of a sized people has been killed and more than a 100. thousands forced to flee their homes as wildfires in los angeles continued to burn out of control to enormous fire as one to the west and another to the

northeast of central le have destroyed thousands of homes and are still growing smaller fire and the hollywood hills is also threatening buildings, extremely strong winds are fueling the flames. president joe biden has cancelled a visit to italy to focus on the response to the fires. he offered federal assistance and the national guard has also been deployed. rob rentals reports in the community of pacific palisades street after street full of houses have been reduced to smouldering ash, at least a 1000 buildings in the area have been destroyed. armageddon, i'm driving to wars and right now, and i don't even know what to say. i'm speech of having to walk dozens of people head to a band and their cars and traffic jams and lee on foot as the flames bore down. the thank you, i'm going to get through walker down the cause of all this is the intense wind storm. a wind storm that maybe urologist say this area is not seen in

a century. winds up to a 120 kilometers per hour in pasadena. residents have been the fornia hoping to avert an even bigger disaster. rob reynolds, l g 0, pacific palisades, california. still a head on alpha 0 in man or the john to is increasingly using drones to carry out attacks against spiders in the east. the vietnam is not dry, but to give them the strength of the wind is just catching a few shares out through denying a bit further north with the concentration in the next day of so big shows in single pole. let's call them plus frontier not going up towards bundle, said the bigger one, but probably everyone else pretty well. skeptic. even central philippines,

the potential for heavy rain here, but it's not a huge amount. the snow have a different story. it's a lot of that folding and i'll try to run one shoot, catching the edge of alleviating, suffering, promoting community wellbeing, contributing to the recovery, join. okay, foundation in its mission to support 11 and during this critical time. full now or visit. okay. adult tool. the, [000:00:00;00] the reminder of our headlines this, our joseph own, is living on the new president's often more than 2 years without the head of states

. parliament elected the army chief and the 2nd round of voting is the 14th time and peace of boats in the following up the long political deadlock. israel's war on guns that has killed more than 46000 palestinians. that is more than 2 percent of the population. if it costs a strict among those killed in the past 24 hours a week old, maybe in a 4 year old child and darren, the dozens of fighters have unfortunately, been killed in northern syria. turkish back groups are battling kurdish lead fighters and mondays, the conflicts has been intensified the opposition supporters in venezuela, a gathering for nationwide protests the day before president nicholas madura is sworn in for a 3rd term. the opposition and the governing party both claimed that they won july's presidential election. the government has detained prominent critics, the head of the an organization, and announced the reward for the capture of opposition candidates. edmondo gonzalez

as bringing nelson 0 is always send a ramp at the outset or you're following this from bullet dot right in columbia venezuela's neighbor. so the opposition is organized regular protests against madura since that election. the presidential election in july. and now in less than 24 hours, he will be sworn in for a 3rd term to look at the very closely today. first of all, if the leader of the opposition, the political leader of the opposition by the equity, not much of the will indeed stick to the streets and the capital, cadillac, s or in any other place in venezuela. she's been in hiding since august following got a crack down on opposition. officials and protesters by the government of venice. when i do it or not, she promised that you will take to the streets the however, in past days we have the, i mean grief and mail it very press. and so on this 3 of the copy the cut back as

we spoke to people there who say that their whites are full of web goods happen today. given the fact that besides they read the soldiers and police, they've also a theme as civilians on civilians that who are out on the streets in the fan of the socialist revolution. so a lot of sanction there and we're gonna have to see what happens there were also monitoring what's happening with the de, i'll position i can be a day to people here. believe is the president the elected when the gonzales was been won a tour of different american countries borne noah north and south america and g, as in the dominican republic right now, accompanied by a at least 9 former president of their friend last in american countries were promising, willing to submit myself to justice, to defend myself and to prove who the real culprits are. indeed, the governments of twos, madonna,

of inciting violence with months approaches following these accusations, boot rigging and october's presidential election. and on his leg was a, b. c says reason safety assigned to april montgomery supposes were met with police to, i guess, unlike gunfire, they continued to bring throwing stones, a conroy, carrying finance and one gun. it has now left and it's traveling down this road leading to where his supporters have gathered to welcome him. the police to