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doesn't die and fighting off the beam. you had a spruce targets a prison in the northeast, in an attempt to free thousands of it's also coming up. the new leader of germany is christian democrat, his friedrich mass. he said to you as hoping to bounce back after its worst ever election result and anglo medical's departure from the political stage. and when a blue check just isn't enough twitter office, it's used as a new state of symbol, letting them show up, they non fungible tokens, will find out how to books ah, i'm anthony how broken of the program, the so called islamic state has launched its largest scale attack in syria since it was defeated there in 2019 a prison holding johanna in the northeast of syria was the target,

the kurdish lead sirian democratic forces say they were captured, most of the inmates that escaped, but clashes continued in the area. a 2nd attack by ice took place in iraq at an army barracks north of baghdad. 11 soldiers were killed in the janice deadliest operation in the country. this year the sound of intense gunfire, fills the air in the syrian city of has soccer. as kurdish lead forces fight with militants from the so called islamic state. the bottles have been centered around the choir on prison, where thousands of suspected i as fighters are held to fighting broke out lays on thursday. when i asked sleeper cells launched an attack on the prison. 2 days later, the kurdish lad forces, backed by us coalition aircraft,

are struggling to regain control. the violence has sent peasants of civilians, fleet, the area wrangler, iran. they describe how i s entered their neighborhoods, killing local residence. well, everything is dark. what's going on? because shelling, filtering and death, hundreds of kilometers away in iraq. mourners have been burying the victims of another audacious i as strike it harder. robert o'neill, still were. they called me in the morning about half past days. such that they tell me what sort of your son died is marsha i had good. i went to the airport. i saw out of what is happening. the father got out of thought they said something happened to them. islamic. okay, kill them. 11 iraqi soldiers were killed in a 2 30 am rate on their military base. i asked managing to breach the armies

defenses and then escape into the nice that you will a talk show i as still looms large in iraq and syria. almost 3 years after the collapse of it's kind of us. all right, let's bring it daniel kayla. he's a middle east analyst and the editor in chief of zenith magazine. daniel, thanks for joining us. i want to start with your assessment of these iris attacks and syria and iraq. i wonder, did i amount, do you think to come back for the group in this region? well, these attacks are doubtlessly spectacular. they're not without precedent operative smaller insurgent groups and more decentralized fashion have been operating in iraq and also syria over the last couple of months. we see targeted assassinations, some acts that resemble more like conventional reagan tree, a criminal activities blackmailing. but yes,

and i think these groups just insurgents, groups are benefiting the generally unstable situation and syria and the political term on iraq. and frankly, yeah, this is a reminder that i never did very much alive and kicking though it's not centrally organized. and of course, far away from the military capabilities that alive and kicking your site. but i think the question still learns, has the thread of i explained dismissed too easily by the syrian democratic forces and coalition forces in the region. as far as the coalition forces are concerned, yes, you can say so. you know, there is a general lack of attention on the syrian bio from european and western perspective . and what we see is very much the results of that. we're talking about detention centers in prisons, i guess the inmates and the families in syria. but i think we have very little understanding what that actually means. not just like prison camps. these are

entire cities, you can say with like dozens of thousands of inmates. i asked people in the family and what is happening inside these so called detention centers is like out of the hands of control of the soon democratic forces in the and then controlling the area around that you talk to journalists paisley have access to these, these extension facilities or humanitarian, 8 workers, they will tell you that i guess operatives are controlling our, if you want to call it that way, administrating the detention center. so we have an i infrastructure there. and so no wonder that it's very difficult to, to control it. and if western forces coalition forces and vs gap don't have the resources to deal with that. and then other forces in the region like turkey that are keeping course the busy. then you can see what the outcome of that is quickly on resources before we go, daniel, just the i s have the necessary support and the numbers to take this further now

and re establish a larger presence in syria and iraq. ok looks like it isn't local local population, so yes, they can keep themselves alive. danny. ok like many thanks. thanks i okay, let's take a look now. some of the other stories making headlines around the world now. in security forces have fatigue acid protesters in between a facet capital, several 100 people defied a ban on gatherings to march through like a dooku as anger grows at the government inability to stop to had us to tax the violence of killed thousands and displaced one and a half 1000000 people in an estate to send new military aid to ukraine to bolster the countries defenses. the delivery comes from it concerns over tens of thousands

of russian troops gathered near in cranes borders. it's the 1st shipment of a $200000000.00 security support package for key if russia denies planning new attack on the friend of germany center. right, kristen. democrats have just elected a new leader. friedrich merits will take over from i'm in lasha, who led the party to its ill fated 2021 election campaign by support for mouth was solidified when he won the 1st chairmanship. paul last month. now it's called for unity head of today's vote and an online party conference. it will be the parties, 3rd leader, since 2018. and his look at the man who hopes to revive germany's conservatives. fortunes at $66.00 flish mouths may only be a year younger than angular miracle. but he is a man of her generation with a difference. every step of the way mouth tried to fight merkel shift of her

conservatives to the center left heathen once quit politics altogether. after failing to stop her political rise. now he is back with a sobering message after the conservatives historic eviction from government last year. your new smithies invalid with this election result. the conservatives have become a serious political restructuring case at risk of bankruptcy. i neglected duncan with the c d. you lou support across whole age groups. last election, murtz is vowing to redefine conservatism in germany. as i'm to under customer caught other christian democratic parties in europe have suffered a much more dramatic things than we have. first of all, we, after answered this very question, can we manage to be a party of the middle liberal, conservative social, thereby winning over voters in the long term? that'll be a difficult task with god. it's taken sleeveless merits 3 attempts and more than 2

decades to get elected cd you leader. but he's only going to get one shot at renewing the party as he tries to achieve his ultimate aim of one day becoming chancellor himself. or earlier we spoke to our chief political editor miguel cooper and asked her what this election means for frederick mass. that has been his ultimately aim for a long time. he even once offered to anger michael to join her cabinet without her actually having a free post for him. so he's been knocking at that door. both of the party did of sip of protect the potential sharing government for a very long time. this is now the height of his political career and now he will really have to build some renewed trust within his own party, which is seeing a lot of in fighting says that crossing election defeat. but particularly with a public where the c d. u is down, it cannot even claim to be ahead with any age group. and this grand old and big tent conservative party that it once was here in germany,

says clearly cut his work out for him. and he doesn't have that terribly much time . he's 66 years, i guess he'll have one shot if that that was state of least political. it may have a customer there. so we'll know that having the little blue check next to your twitter profile is kind of a status symbol. it means twitter considers you a notable person or not. this way, twitter is rolled out a new way to flex a little online if you will. here's the promotion twitter put out subscribers to the premium twitter blue service. now get to display the non fungible tokens that they own as part of their profile picture. a hex a hexagon is the visual signal that it's an in if t you can see some popular ones popping up just now. why can, if taste from the board? i yacht club some have recently sold for the crypto currency equivalent of $1400000.00.

and i'm very pleased to see initial stockman here to explain more michelle, i want you to pretend that either nothing about and if he's just pretend, let's start nothing. it's reasonable, what is an empty chair? and a t stands for non fungible token. so non fungible means something that is unique and irreplaceable and token means digital. so in an a, t is a digital item that you can sell and you can own. and the record of that ownership is stored on a block chain and simply put a block chain is a public database where these transactions are stored and verified by the centralized system of computers around the world. and to in, if t fans or people who want them to, they welcome. this is a good thing for them. a lot of them do because it's an easy user friendly way to show that they own and, and f t at a glance. it's supposed to put these so called right click users in their place. you know, our viewers know that you can go online to a digital image, right click on it with your mouse and save it to your computer and then use it in

any way you want. this is supposed to show that no, this is a way that i own as an, an easy way to see that record. so if i'm just a regular old circle profile picture, twitter usa, what is the new in if to feature going to look like for me? okay. well, i thought we could take a little tour. i took someone that you know very well, you're a sports guy, anthony. so i thought we take a look at mr. serena williams. oh, yeah. the husband of a tennis pro, serena williams alex the honeymoon was. so if you click on his hexagon shape, you're brought to a picture of a board ape yacht club and f t he owns. and so then there's the record of his ownership. it shows the block chain contract id, and then you can click on to open, see where it's an f t training platform and, and you can view all of the entities that he on. so again, it's a, it makes it more user friendly to show, hey, this entity is mine. yeah. it's not like having cars in the garage there in the

driveway for people to see a what to and of to believe is c, as like a future case for, for uses of believers and out of to think this is just the beginning. their use cases for gamers, where they can earn digital items in one game or purchase them and then be able to transfer them into another game artist. again, this is a way to track what they create and then track ownership and be able to sell and make money off of it. there's even ideas of using it in finance, so maybe an and if you could be collateral for a loan. so the idea is that the met versus coming and this is something that people want to do is, is to show off and trade digital items seems like it's a tangible reason to actually have one. finally. well, that's the fan's a big thumbs up for one of the critics. the critics say come on, okay, really? this is a digital art is something that you can view on any computer around the world. you can't touch it. why am i supposed to spend my 100 money on something like that? and also there's a lot of scammers out there, and there's not the same kind of systems that banks use or other companies might

have to protect users. users have to be buyer beware. she'll stuff when thank you so much for booking us through that. appreciate you sound good to say so good zito and that is all for now you're watching day doubly news up next way. stick with the digital and we take you the shift, our digital magazine shock looking at how take is keeping memories of the holocaust, the la, i'm anthony howard in berlin. good to say say again and 45 minutes time with people in trucks injured when trying to flee the city center.