to use become close in a cruise to your political conflict. when, oh, you lost on the run. starts december 18th, on d. w. the business data, but the news alive from fairly protest. the wrapped in georgia is capital and across the country. and that's after the government said it was suspending talks to join the a you purchased is accused. the government of seeking closest ties with russia will say, coming up columbia spear heads, an international operation that seizes 1400 tons of illegal drugs and on covers a previously unknown track record the i'm anthony. how welcome to the program. police in the georgia and capital tbilisi

clashed with protest is off to the government, announced it was suspending negotiations to join the european union. the government announce meant followed a resolution adopted by the european parliament rejecting the results of georgia's election last month, alleging significant irregularities. georgia's prime minister, excuse the a, you a black. now. demonstrators assembled outside george's parliament building in tbilisi as well as the governing parties. headquarters protests were also reported to north or georgia in cities, georgia, seeing several anti government protests this year, but they grew following an election and october. the opposition claims the criminal intent to fusion the campaign in favor of the governing georgia dream party. critics say it is being moving georgia in the north are tearing direction for months, but the thursday marked a watershed moment. i'm very devastated

just because we were not expecting this thing also soon. and so for us, the government to make the statements that they said today, and i think that this makes us feel very hopeless. but at the same time, i think that we're becoming stronger because of that sort of seems you is what sparked the protests, was an announcement by george's prime minister. so he said he was suspending the bid to join to you on the grounds. the brussels had disrespected george and values will look move up in. yeah, it is categorically unacceptable for us to view you integration as an active charity that the european union must ground to us. so if i pull it over, they are asking from georgia not reforms. so this is not the steps that would mean rejection of our dignity. what is most is most outside parliament, thorough barricades to prevent protesters from gaining entry. opinion polls indicate the vast majority of georgia and still want to join the b. u and georgia. dream says it intends to do that one day. but for the moment,

the divide between the government and the george and people's aspirations looks set to grow wider. the of the deputy correspondent maria, cut them not to is covering the protests into police. see, she told my colleague nicole for like, if this was the end of the line for georgias, you ambitions as well. so it's important to mention that the elections more popularly recognized by uh, states like hungry china and neighboring states. armenia as or by john. but it doesn't receive any, what's the recognition as for now, the us something in the fox finding mission and the definitely georgians and government still wants to have this sort of less than a recognition. otherwise, that will be very isolated, which doesn't seem to be a popular idea with the, you know, among many, george's so it depends whether the opposition on the president,

on pseudo society groups and the protest. this will be able to pressure the government small to challenge those election results and to uh, you know, to call for new elections, which at this point seems a bit unrealistic. if we look at the stance of the government, besides that, they will a fair and square that the victory is on contestable state w. as maria cut them out to the in typically see the now shaky truths between israel and has by is entering. it's the day police in the thousands are still returning to the homes in southern lebanon, new images revealing the extent of the destruction from its ready, bombardments, lack here in the city of time. as well as military says, any violation of the say 5 will be met with force. paper levels have been morning, a mass graves in the until i went dozens killed him is rarely strikes, were buried. 665 was a grade to last 60 days,

but i need to dies in both sides or accusing each other of violations. and i, christina wren. i live in unless step by london school of economics told us how optimistic she is about the truce. well, let's say i'm still cautiously optimistic, but it has to be set. so even though the parties have agreed to cease for, they don't necessarily agree about the details of implementation that they especially don't agree about what's happening on the ground right now. and this is something that will very likely cause friction so, so in the coming weeks, and the question is, how people those frictions be, will it be so big that they threaten a piece by itself now to cease by and 11 on proving fragile this, they know that up in the conflict in gaza, palestinian health official site is where the strikes on a refugee camp is killed. at least 16 people. the one house has promised i renewed push to and the more that i work aside, the humanitarian situation remains desperate. is rarely

as strikes have once again targeted central garza, he doing several buildings including the residential blog forcing palestinians to see yeah, families rush, the wounded to hospital after a strike had been the service refugee camp as the bombing continues gauze, those residents who have in deal with relentless strikes over a year are now facing their 2nd winter since the war began. of homelessness and hunger have reached catastrophic levels, tearing the so people are scrambling to find food with looking to go around. i don't know if i'm going to show you at this place from the newest. i have 3 kids. the oldest is 11 and the youngest has a year and 3 months. i feed the bread and tea. if i get home without this bundle of bread, so most of my kids would starve to death as conditions remain dire,

palestinians and gaza watch the cease fire and 11 on take effect, holding onto a faint hope for relief. yes, i hope a ceasefire will happen, like it did, 11 on we will leave. i just want to take my children to see my land in my house to see what they did to us. i. i want to live in safety to layer god willing. we have a true so that we can live in stability like we did before that. but for now, the prospect of stability remains distant for palestinians as is read, has given no indication that it's warren garza withdrawal down anytime soon. all right, let's take a look now, some of the other stories making headlines around with the current in officials say russia has launched a massive attack on its energy infrastructure this way of reports of explosions in the capital. and incoming missiles prompted a nationwide a right of this emergency. nationwide pound cuts lift hundreds of thousands without

electricity from any. its constitutional court has ordered a re count of the ballots in the 1st round of presidential elections last week. the fact resulted in a surprising lead for the 5 right candidate kelly and joe jessica, he's now set to face centrist. are they not less going in a run off next week? the syrian rebels including to how this fighters and the allies of cut off a cable highway between damascus and lip. this happened during an offensive against syrian army positions that sold thousands killed. the rebels launched a surprise attack on government hill. there is on the northern the left province on wednesday. scientist in the united kingdom has come up with a new asthma, treatment by side will revolutionize patient, patient lives, injection refreshes parts of the main system that go into other dr. during an asthma attack. it's the 1st major advance in asthma therapy, and 50 years of columbia is navy has seized more than 1400 tons of

narcotics in the multinational operation of to uncovering new cross pacific trafficking. bruce the whole includes cocaine, marijuana, and methamphetamines. among the seas to vessels used by the drug traffic is with 6 semi submersible seem to sifted in the pacific ocean. the vessels for carrying 5 tons of cocaine destined for the striding black market. international operation to catch traffic is included the united states, fine and 60 other countries to speaking to the press, a columbia naval officer described the scale of the drug, seizure goodness, i think, goes to the seas. this has impacted the finance of transnational crime organizations, preventing them from receiving $8.00 trillion dollars. the germans. we also manage to prevent the potential production of 29 tons of cocaine by destroying 475 laboratories. what was your thought that the single or the 30th 10

a less richard nicole in bogota told me more about the operation. but thank you very much. 2 like you said, 62 nations involved in this naval operation. it has to be an offer. it's called operation. a ryan. it has been in existence since 2017 and has been continually growing these operations of 6 weeks and left the captions have right lead to full 100 arrest. 6 uh something marines or seventies of muscles capture that huge hold of cocaine and other drugs. and of course it's, it's really so relevant in the end that it and such any passive intelligence sharing network coming together from a lease on the armed forces from all over the world. would you do me know how far he's well able to pull off such a mess of operation?

well, it's been over time and they have obviously brought in non state doctors as well. the royal institute has been in that they've been masters where they kept just naco sobs or send me some muscles before they'd be mastering where they're going. and what is being very well, very good because obviously these, these vehicles, these, somebody said last book, don't travel on the routine, the, please areas they go through areas of the ocean that are not in mainstream shipping routes. so i have 6 foss areas to cover the overtime, having maps the roots of these, uh these uh where they quote these uh, so bicycles. and so i like being able to put together a greater plan of action and of course, infiltrate groups across the region to find out how this is happening, where it's going on. and obviously how to capture it looks like the drug gigs involved. and richard were using drugs and small sufferings, to,

to smuggle the drugs. it makes the question, how sophisticated they smugglers getting it. was that somebody? yes, and i know honestly this one, the house become more sophisticated in the engineering and then the building of the 70s of muscles. previously, the some use of muscles would only be able to sail website just below the surface and it would just be a tube pointing out of the oxygen. and of course, the, a gasoline, all diesel would blow out the backend and they would hook the coastline, going north up to central america where the drugs would then be offloaded and to sort of unmarked to areas or onto the boats and phosphates. but what we see now, of course, is the boats of bigger se, uh, have a crew of around 3 is usually an engineer, a captain and verify from the cops out to make sure that the drugs actually make their destination. and of course they, they do have g p s,

they still stay only just for. busy the surface, but they are able to travel up to 10000 miles without refueling. but at the same time, there are other elements that have come in to allow this level of co operation between different criminal groups. let's say it's a reorganized crime if you like. since tuesday. busy and then 16 has been a fragmentation of the drug stripe. i'm groups based in different countries, ecuador, peru, only the columbia and mexico have worked together on different segments of the transportation and facilitation of the movement of drugs. generalist richard mccall in bogota. thanks so much. i now, before we go, have you ever dreamed of visiting green lands pristine fields? well, now it's easier than ever. a sea island has opened this 1st to run wild runway robins suitable for lodge passenger planes.

that group of excited locals into is welcome. the 1st such plane from copenhagen landing on a brand new runway in new the islands capital. the over on the why was to short the logic passenger jets to get the greenland capital tourist had to previously fly fly rather by iceland or the for me us military base in the know that before we go, he's a reminder about top story this how a process type of rusted in george's capital, tbilisi, and other cities. the crowds were demonstrating against a government decision to suspend tools to join the ages and thousands of displaced living a civilians have returning home as a truce between these file. and here's the antecedents, the day to date side is accusing the of the breaching the 65 by entering the board of reach. right,

that's all for now out. emotive show rate is up next with dave devil drive is in sri lanka, taking on the role of data. no less. i'm anthony. how'd? thanks for watching and stay with us. if again the, this is he is hungry for the future. so seeing in southwest china 32000000 people live here. many of them are young readings coming through, making money, having fun with nice schools and shows things stuff. december 13th on d, w. the .