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foreign minister, prince vice will be in the fall from those. so i would welcome to our side ocean bonnie: since the toppling of bush out on the side last month, the facility is view administration. a seen a flurry of visits as it's 6 diplomatic support and more importantly, the lifting of sanctions, german foreign minister and a bed boxes into the yard. she's calling for an inclusive political process and syria, gemini, and europe sent by the people of syria on deposits to a free and more peaceful future. for every one piece of syria also requires an inch to the fighting in the north and the integration of malicious into and national security architecture. also including secure, to guarantee for the crew is people a true political transition at true political dialogue means inclusions of all syrians, no matter of their religion, ethnic backgrounds,

no matter if they are men or women could across from a homage. andrew, whose live for us in damascus mohammed, this seems to be the latest, is a series of crucial meetings, particularly for the citizens. what can we expect out of this meeting and react today the tell us right. well, there's been such a flurry of diplomatic, high level diplomatic activities here in damascus. the last several weeks of practice yesterday, due at the caretaker prime minister of 11, on receiving the coffee visiting with the shut off who is the administration here in syria. but this is a meeting that's taking place in the all the saudi arabia. this is the expanded ministerial meeting on syria. and you have a substantial amount of a regional and international diplomats there. let me just read off a few young foreign ministers from adult club and on jordan egypt. the united kingdom, germany are key. you also have representatives from the us from france, from italy, other countries as well. you have the high representative of the foreign affairs

and you have the secretary general of the their lead, the secretary general of the gcc, as well as the you in special envoy on serious all of these people meeting there today with the participation of the syrian for administer as how to shape bonnie to try and ensure that syria can get more both financial and to manage here in a going for to try to do more and give them more help to syria to secure that kind for going forward. now one of the things we've heard over and over from different siri and officials over the course of the past 2 weeks is this urging of the international community to try and ensure that those crippling sanctions on syria will eventually be lifted. of course, the syrians also want to see more international recognition, more diplomatic recognition. these are all things that are very much in the pipeline right now. the meeting that's taking place today, which is still going on rob. this is seen as a continuation of a meeting that took place in jordan in mid december. that was more of a regional meeting for ministers that have participation of other international

actors. but what's going to be crucial today to see what is agreed upon. and one of the key differences between both of these meetings, not just the expanded presence of more international diplomats, but also the fact that you have for the very 1st time, a syrian, the presence that one of these meetings, the last meeting. it wasn't even a syrian for administered yet, so you didn't have a type of shaped body there. the one that took place in jordan today about how to shape any there that's going to put more pressure on all of these international diplomats and regional diplomats to try to come up with more solutions to help syria at such a crucial time. rob mamma, thank you. very much more how much i'm doing there for us in damascus. real guys, pen folders. electra and international security at kings college london. he's joining us from london. good to have you with us. and the situation in this area is still too many people. many of those watching the situation very fluid. is there anything that people can actually agree on at this stage, given the fact that there does seem to be a significant amount of shift, it's still happening, particularly amongst the leadership in this area. yes, rob,

you right. the situation is fluid, but the same time there is ground for up to me is my thing we haven't seen so far. the levels of instability and looting that we saw, for example, in iraq, up to the full of saddam hussein. we're seeing that the aged government is managed to so far consolidate its legitimacy as we had just now the it selected government officials, for example, it seems to be moving in the direction of statehood and most importantly, it is of so fall minus to not alienate there. is minority groups, for example, as christy and it will say what are the whites and those who, many of whom were closer to the siding machine that they were to the rebel? so that's very important step and then there's this issue of external relations as well. so as siri as new government has to play a very careful balancing act of keeping people inside syria, happy, also keeping people outside of syria happy. and that's what we're seeing. we're

seeing the doctor at the know with this diplomatic defensive bias out she bought and he says, don't forget, he's not just in saudi arabia. he's also announced that he's got a european tool coming soon with the country that he's visiting to be confirmed. he's recently hosted the, it's highly and foreign minister. he's soon to has the spanish foreign minister as well. so this is all going very well and you could be very much forgiven for the guessing the h d. s are actually still considered this, however, is the invention by it's not just the west of also turkey. i'm the un security council at that probably the most, i guess popular to are still a nice agent and the quote unquote and world wide at the moment with the number of meetings, advice to hold and the success, the advice to get and legit demising that presence worldwide and one would imagine that they would have to try to give some sort of guarantees or assurances to foreign governments, particularly of course, when they're trying so hard to get those sanctions lifted. but given the history

that you just referred to, how confident can people be in the guarantees that they're going to get to you? thank as well. i think there is a lot of urging from within and without syria, by minneapolis full of the e u. i'm the us and other nations do immediately waive that functions and remove the functions of games, syria and the syrian government. i remember the us is considered syria, a state sponsor of terrorism since the late seventy's services, decades old policy. but i think it is understandable why they all a reading on the side of caution. given a c s is pass given the 5, the metal shot series, the fact to lead a was in fact, how did that bother you? i submitted to you detention for 5 years in iraq, wade crossover to be at a for a job is for i so. so there is about package that our shower is trying desperately to shake off. but it's going to take a look to what it's gonna take more than the ad these on the declarations we've seen from him lately. but i think the by the administration and also european

countries on moving in the direction h. d. s. wants them to go in terms of removing subsections or at least raising sanctions. now the us is that they will free sanctions on things like paying public set to work is on providing energy supplies for example. and that's critical because many of those sanctions with secondary functions, meaning that it wasn't just the way it wasn't just us citizens of businesses that would be functions of doing business with syria, but also the other countries all set policies as well. so this page, the way the us is regional partners not lives like for example, goals, countries to take the lead in rebuilding syria. it doesn't have to be in the us, the folks the better, which is something that low a, the worry, the trump administration in american 1st isolation this. so this is about letting the goals arab states and at the us is region the allies like jordan take the lead rather than the us necessarily doing that. really interesting to get your thoughts

on the strong guys, guys penfold, we appreciate it. thank you very much indeed. to thank you, the bipartisan los angeles and baffling to protect densely populated neighborhoods. as the policies wild far advances, the death toll has risen to 16. the place is not expecting. the area of brentwood, stronger winds are full cost and authorities of order more mandatory evacuations, emergency crews of dropping water and fire retardant from the air bots that being criticized after some hydrants run dr. i'll just get this fil a valid. got a 1st time to look at the danger and the devastation from the air. he is what the possible to say if los angeles looks like this one is being split from the app, but only while weather conditions allow a best. the problem with these when set to pick up a lot over the coming guy you spoke last is avoiding that this could be about to

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a place that has made so many disaster movies. this disaster is happening right here in real time. but nobody knows when this one will be over fill of out. i'll just say era, los angeles, several major funds are burning across americas most populous estate. these are the locations, policies on the coast 18 to the east, kenneth and central region, and the host fires and spreading in land. the pacific palisades blazes causing the biggest worries of the tone for more than 9000 heck chairs and instructing some of the most expensive real estate along the malibu coast line to the east. the eastern 5 has been the most legal 11 people have died as famous, consume nearly 6000 heck. tears of land kind of far spawns $425.00 chairs police earlier detained, a suspect, an austin charges, but he's since been released on the host fire. the gun on tuesday has now engulfed $320.00 hacked tears firefighters struggling to contain it. spread

a team of specialists from mexico has arrived in los angeles to help tackle the policies blaze around 70 disaster relief workers on firefighters. i've done a support local efforts for nearly 14000 american firefighters are already trying to contain the growing and final crews from other us states. and canada also involved california is governor gavin use and welcome to firefighters arriving from mexico. this is what friends do. this is what relationships are all about. friends if need be there for one another. we want to be there for the people of mexico in times of need and disasters and were incredibly humbled and grateful that the president was willing to send. you see behind me, they'll be out on the lines with the next 2436 hours. christabel holmberg is the finding partner with consulting firm beacon, the economics he says, authorities should have been better prepared for this. the cause of both our home

owners in town here are insured in the united states. if you have a mortgage, you have to have proper sure insurance. now the insurance has gotten very pricey in the last few years large and because of the risk is a wildfire such as this. but homeowners have been basically feeling that through a variety of state programs. so i'm fairly confident the most folks are going to be able to get the insurance. they need to go ahead and rebuild. um, as far as the consequences, not really me look california, it has mediterranean climate. and what that means is fires are an ongoing risk. none of like they are in, in greece, in portugal. and we know those places have had some tragic fires in the last decade or so. and indeed in california 2017 and 2018 were 2 of the worst fire years ever. significantly worse, of course. and then what we saw last year, so i'm not worried about line where to fax. the real issue here of course is why we're authorities caught off guard. after all, as noted,

this is an ongoing risk in california. and really, we should have been ready for this. the surprise was, was, was overcome, right. once we caught up, this is the city is prepared for this because buyers are part of our landscape. we have systems built. we brought in phenomenal resources. the story about the helicopters, i watched those go over had today. you've never seen anything like it. we can fight this when we're ready. the question is when, when we're ready? and the answer is, is really, since the pandemic began, you've seen this turn in local politics towards social justice and environmental justice really very much at the expense of public safety. hopefully this will wake people up uh to get them local government officials back to their or who job, which is public safety and making sure with the infrastructure to keep this is the, the, the, the, the, the residence of this community. healthy and happy and safe. the

and is what he's talking to school sheltering forcibly, despised palestinians and gaza has killed at least 8 people. children are among the dead. you talk happened in jamalia in the north of the strip. dozens of others have been injured and taken to allow the hospital in gaza city or con reports. this young girl has seen too much blood shed in her shorts life. and she surrounded by chaos. and it's ready me so drunk. how do a school which is providing shelter to thousands of palestinians displaced into a body of children were among those killed in the building once he was sentenced to education and who for the future? good god, no god. i was sitting with my children and we were eating when suddenly we were targeted, but the rocket, me and my children were blown away. my son was thrown and i found my daughter is

lying here in the since the outside of the war and goes to the same pattern has been consistent. you repeat, it's a place for nodding has become a place for shelter. and the one of destruction is harrowing. loss for somebody in the u. n. says the situation for posting and know the garza continues to deteriorate after heightened his way the siege and systematic attacks. these ready all be says that her mazda is operating school. lloyd often repeated when building shelters be in just have a rushed 6 kilometers. sounds too often to and going to the attacking and targeting the schools are ongoing crimes committed by the is really forces the entire world is watching side in p as of shelters and schools which host displays people are being targeted in gaza back in the school. people search the destroyed rooms to the

few belongings. they have a problem with children and women were hit by dismissal. what have these children done? they killed children and women hitting them to pieces to the question. the so by the here is a deal with a grease is where will they find shelter that nora come out to 0. can i bring in honeywell hood and del, about, and central guys? honey, once again, schools where people are shelters are being targeted from that, that is correct. then people are still dealing with the aftermath of abuse, or if it gets the box and it just, it keeps involving that much more and, or if it's reality right now, the grim reality that these evacuation centers, the schools, the ones where learning tim, those turned into evacuation centers and childers for the display of population and now becoming more depth,

a trap for already traumatized and displayed more than one time population. a people reported skills, but according to an eye witness that we spoke to. it may even night. the 3rd day of last night yesterday, this practice that 15 people actually we are in gathering. we're gather of what to do with the top top. and then the people were removed it from the bomb side, including the children and 3 year old, the child was among those who work in the attack. and the other remaining bodies were, had had to be picked up from the grounds of the school from where the work is stand in v as if they were put in plastic bags and cardboard boxes into the hospital. the number is actually more than a debit. as of this moment, the identification of who are these people that's majority of evacuation centers, not only include families, but they're also individuals who have already have lost family members, ended up being forced into this place. been in multiple areas in the northern part

thing. java city this thinks keep repeating itself over and over and just within the past few minutes, if you hours the back, which in order the refuge account. but this time people are not going anywhere because they don't trust steve actuation. oldest bite is really military. people end up being killed in the area in which space really monetary is telling them to go to, to avoid being bon repeated incident where people got killed in these areas. finally, thank you very much. those kind of welcome to talking to us there from dental about in central garza where you as president elect donald trump special envoy to the middle east. as in israel, as diplomatic efforts to secure a cease fire and gas at ron pop, see what the golf has met. prime is benjamin netanyahu. trumpet alley. i promised all hell would break loose of the captives held in garza and released in time for his inauguration. next week on a goal bags and is really political commentator. he's joining us now from tel aviv . let's talk about the possibility of 570 talks of, of a cease fire and so on. there seems to be some sort of suggesting that there is

room for optimism within this. are people simply trying to create a spirit of optimism or do you think that there are actually real hopes of something being achieved? i think there are real hopes of something being achieved and i think the real hopes have to do with israel stance in these negotiations and much more so than with a mouse. i think the pressure is on intro to deliver for donald trump. not far from last, the last has been very steady and it's a man's and then it's uh, a position towards the negotiation. pretty much, ever since the work started. but i think use that as well as we can. uh and that's not surprising is always in a week position has found me so that they nothing to show for it's 15 months of genocide or is all the soldiers are dying and really unprecedented numbers for a minister and it's in the out i think has finally become aware that his real

chance of winning potential election in the near future is the prime minister who ended the war and brought a deal, not the prime minister, who continued to fight a pointless forever working well. that that message actually translates to the people of israel when it comes to elections. given the fact that there has been so much opposition to benjamin netanyahu, whose coalition and the way that it is being dealing. particularly, of course, with the attempts or lack of attempts to try to bring the captives back as well. you need to remember that, well, there's a lot of opposition to and it's in those governments and nothing else. personally, there is what i can only think of a strong support for nothing else. policies and garza the great majority of these early public, these are the jewish public supports, within the honest and a side or policies. it's very easy to demonstrate that because no, as early politician has offered an alternative to the way israel has been acting in

the past 16 months. so i don't know if it's anywhere in the lunch, but i do know that nothing now is a much stronger candidates and he's usually given credit for. because the underlying silence consensus of his early policies is that the war and guys of the genocide are the most justified military actions is all has overtaken to anybody who suggests otherwise than anybody. you is motivated by the plight of the palestinians to anybody who considers israel's future one set aside. all campaign is over. anybody who does that is beyond the tail. this is just the sideboard. we are writing doing what we're doing and whatever bad happens is not our fault of our responsibility. that is the policy that isn't, you know, has been promoting steadfastly and he has gotten nothing but support from the drum . and another element of the, this of course is the, the deadline. the donald trump is paid on it. he's threatening all hell will break loose quote unquote, if there isn't a deal before his integration,

why do you think it's so important for donald trump to have that deadline? as i said, donald trump lives in the world. ready the achievements that are mostly symbolic, donald trump is not known for following through when any of his grandiose statements or declarations in this sense. i think he wants to be seen as the one, the present, who all was in a new age. the president is capable of taking control of them, at least i wouldn't put too much space in donald trump's promises. i wouldn't expect too much. donald trump makes a lot of noise. so it doesn't, then you know, by the way, together, the arguments, the noise grading afily synergistic effects. i don't know the january 20th is a day. i do, however, think that this whole hosted negotiation is not based on facts that need to be resolved or on specific situations that needs to be reached. this is a political decision political decision from that to now to political decision for

home us. if it is a political decision, then something like the operation of donald trump is of political importance. so i wouldn't necessarily say the deal will not be reached by the 20th. it's just that i don't think all hell will break loose. if i, if you'll permit me, how has broken loosely on google already go back? we appreciate you being with us and i'll just, you know, so thank you very much indeed to thank you for having me the, your kind. it says it's air force is down to 60 of 94 drones launched by russia overnight. on the saturday instead of 34, jones were lost. that means some were re directed through electronic interception and in the done, yet squeaking moscow says as far as of getting some sort of the sacrament of tangled, the defense ministers also enhanced the launch of several offensive in eastern good thing, including to was coffee. so felicia,

so you create and such as military is partially holding the city of costco. in doing yes, it brings has it's captured to one to north screen. soldiers in rushes trust region is believed to be the 1st time the military has been able to question north korean captives after several seas last month died from their wounds. investigators say they provided, quote, undisputable evidence that the troops sent by some young are fighting for moscow. you claim the us on south korea say more than 10 fighters and have been deployed. i got a go to dosage a body, know whose life for us from cost i talk to us, 1st of all about the latest on the fighting in the russian regions. first the rob. uh, we are in the city of course, uh, in the western region where about a 100 kilometers or so from the ukrainian border and about 80 kilometers from the front lines of where the fighting is currently taking place. now, according to russian defense ministry statements that we've had over the past few

days. so you craniums who launch the surprising person into the purse region in august 5 months ago. now they are continuing to try to push through the front lines here towards the settlement of the d, and that is about suites of all monitors further in them where we know your trading forces are a currently position. so the defense industry saying that they've managed to push back the ukrainian forces from the village of redeem. so they are continuing to hold the russian positions in the person. you know, from officials and analysts is that initially when you frame launch this in person into this region, they managed to capture an area of about 1000 kilometers. since august the russian forces have managed to regain control of about half that area. so according to the statements we're getting, the russian forces region are able to withheld further attacks and advancements and

also the we gain some of the territory. so there's an issue last, but what is we are here is that the fighting is continuing with no and insights joe . so given the moves that we've seen by the russian military, and of course, the numbers of dead, the russian military has been encouraging since the war began. is there any indication in russia that there is a political desire to end the war? well, there's a lot of how from the timeline since the us president elect donald trump won the elections there in november. there's invitations and signals were getting from the kremlin and saw that there is a discussion needs us president elect donald trump once he is. and i'll be rated, so there is expectations from the russian side is that the 2 leaders will meet in the coming weeks and months ahead. we've also heard this

a similar tone from us slash president elect. donald trump, that there is a desire to meet with vitamin fulton the for 16 men have a long time so far, when they've been power. and there is an indication that russian president sit down with on the top the time, fine. and then just to the conflict, but of course the russian physician has not changed. they maintain that in order to bring an end to this complex, there has to be a win for rush. so that is very important for clearly he has to present this conflict. and as for russia, what that will look like may. so the scene, but there is invitations that there is an interest, at least for the 2 leaders meets down the line. and whether or not that will result in any kind of ed because she should to and this is yet to be clear is that was.