and when all the solutions mapped out, navigating a changing world. now on youtube, the, this is the w news and these are our top stores rebel fighters site. they have entered and taken over a number of districts in syria, 2nd biggest city, a letter u. k based syrian observatory for human rights reports heavy funding between these list fighters and government forces and the violence has killed hundreds already. i'd groups like thousands of families have been displaced thousands of demonstrators of or 10 to to the straits of the georgian capital policing for the 2nd not of protest. police 5 voted cannon and to guess, purchased as hilde. fine. crack has then directed barricades and obtains,

stand off the demonstrate as opposed to government suspension of talks on joining the european union until 2020 i know for a dumb cathedral entire. so show no fits in the face to the world. 5 years after devastating 5, the beloved gothic landmark is almost ready to reopen. rebuilding has cost around 700000000 euros. hundreds of skilled craft workers of painstaking restore to the cathedral spy and roof along with much of the interior. so this is definitely news from there. then you'll find that small news on that website to be found at the www dot com. it is the biggest rebel offensive against the outside regime. engineers. thousands of and surgeons have reported the entered serious 2nd biggest city a level the lightning offensive took government forces by surprise. but experts say

the rebels are predictably so using international momentum with thousands killed and thousands displaced in a matter of days. the finding and serious northwest is a sharp escalation and a war that had all but slipped off the international radar is another major conflict about to flare back up in the middle east. nicole fairly in berlin, and this is the day the, the method of bodies to the efforts of the heretic motor hit. even these areas have been liberated from his thoughts malicious with the situation to mount the left post. of course, this isn't encroachments of serious suffering. take in this region

the, as i was preparing breakfast for my children applying to overhead. as soon as we saw it, we ran into the business also coming up a 1st hand account of the tyler bond take over after the u. s. k. audit withdrawal from afghanistan, we speak to a man who spent a year with the tal yvonne and found a striking fly on the wall documentary camera. i came to see this come and welcome to the so we started the day in syria and a conflict that has largely been overshadowed by israel's war in gaza and neighboring lebanon may have disappeared from the headlines, but not from reality right now. so you're in government forces are battling rebel

fighters and the countries northwest and some of the worst violence seen in syria. in years. the u. n says it's deeply alarmed by recent events as insurgents today claimed they had entered a level of serious 2nd largest city. the syrian observatory for human rights, a u. k, base war monitor says the jihad has to have taken control of more than 50 northern towns and villages. as part of a surprise offensive. it would be the government's biggest loss of territory in years. major fighting erupt again and serious civil war. a day after staging the surprise attack on government held positions in the north. the rebels moved on to a level showing the city of the syrian state media said the army, backed by its headline. russia responded with strikes unintelligence positions and a lot of it, lip country sides. the syrian army says the assault is being led by the high yachts

across the ocean, or h t. s. a militant group which controls much of northwest and syria. the i t. s is led by, i'll tell you this form of syria branch. it consists of multiple different insertion groups, some with cell the 1st and jihad just audiology. many reject the influence of foreign forces, such as turkey, russia, all the united states, but others approve. it's a complicated coalition, but what does unify them is their opposition to syrian liter busha, assad government them and this has been displaced for 5 years. but thank god, i'm now fighting to reclaim on land from the grid to the criminal regime. we will persevere on this policy and called on young people to join us in the struggle to take back our country. i don't show a lot of agenda that since 2020 the h t and signed up a rebel groups have been mostly biased and the blood province. the area was subject

to a turkey and rush, it broke a truce, but outside of it live, there are large pots of syria still controlled by rebels, opposed to assets, government, including along the border with the rock. you aspect. curtis forces maintain large parts of the north and turkey, along with the syrian national army control a so called buffers zone, along the turkish border with the offensive. the rebels may be trying to capitalize on the of the complex currency writing elsewhere with assets highlight run reeling from israel's defensive on hezbollah and 11 on and with rushes resources stretched with a drawer and ukraine, the but the offensive. and the syrian government's response has left many civilians in the following line. groups of refugees happening, fling the fighting, heading to shelters and the blood province. and the thing is i have the all of the people started leaving, but we stayed until the morning. but as i was preparing breakfast for my children,

a plane flew overhead. as soon as we saw it, we ran into the visit to the front of here. the united nations is calling for an immediate, the escalation and then came to the most intense fighting northwest and syria has seen indeed aaron's ellen as a fellow at the washington institute for near east policy. one of his areas of expertise is the history of syrian jihad is and welcome to the day. now the government seems to have been taken by surprise by this rebel offensive. did you see it coming? i think everybody that's falling serious, surprised in terms of how swiftly they've been able to take over territory. not that they're necessarily would have been enough fence that because they've been rumors going back to early october, that the solvers you would actually try and take territory from h t s. but instead of looks like each yes preempted this. now, why do you think they launch their attack precisely now?

well, i think part of it is that they've been building up a lot of military strength over the last few years as there's been this so called ceasefire or frozen conflict in serious since 2020. and i also think that they probably were waiting for some of the issues related to israel 11 on gaza to slow down so that it didn't seem as if they were on the same side as israel. and therefore, this is seemingly independent of what's going on in that theater. mm hm. how related would you say it is to what's happening in ukraine now, zooming out of it? well, i mean, the fact that russia is obviously very preoccupied. there. there had been questions about the fact that, you know, russia has done airstrikes over the last couple of days, but it hasn't been at the same pace for intensity that we've seen in the past. which is interesting considering the fact that just weeks ago, if not a few months ago, there was large scale um, you know, russian air force attacks against civilian populations in the province where h t us is bates. so there are a lot of questions related to the response. now let's,

let's answer some of those. how big a role do you expect russia to be willing and able to play here in support of the aside regime? i think they continue to have the assets and key advisors um and military, you know, individuals within siri, even as they've expanded their campaign within the ukraine. but it's also important to remember that beyond the print versus actually expanded its operations within sub saharan africa as well. so the key, i think in terms of beyond just the air force aspect of it is whether or ron and it's sheila militia, network in iraq are able to help out on the ground because there are a lot of the key actors that helped to push a the opposition and in the insurgency back previously in this region, and because his bowl is quite weak and now as a consequence of israel's actions and loving on. one of the key questions now going

forward is whether ronald try and rely on maybe the who sees now to do something, because they seemingly seem to be the strongest of those within the resistance access today. mm hm. if the rebels have indeed entered a level, we haven't been able to independently verify that, what would that mean? and what would that mean for what? what happens going forward? you would be a huge victory for each to us and build up its own legitimacy within the opposition . there are a lot of questions related to a she has because of its past linkages, not only to the as long as the state, but also all kind of of course the disability. it with them, both groups over the last 8 to 10 years. um, uh, but it would be quite monumental considering the fact that the regimes victory in a level in 2016 was sort of the beginning of the end of what many saw is the reason victory over the original uprising in 2011. so as h t. s, as well as its allies in the ground, are able to do this. this could reanimate the broader insurgency against the regime,

not just in the left, for region, for to potentially in the south, in the region, as well as other areas of the country as well. with the historians perspective, how do you expect it to go over the coming days and weeks? i suspect that the regime the russians around as well as all the various she and militias will continue to try and push back. one of the key question marks one ford is how much activity turkey will get into this. of course, they backed the different grouping of revel groups in northern steering national army, or the s n a. and whether they get involved in this operation as well. and how much that could then it says that he has. and if that's the case, we can be back at some of the same dynamics we saw, maybe from 2012th of 2014, we're a lot of the opposition are able to control territory again in larger parts of syria . that's a trouble in prospect errands. ellen with a washington institute for near east policy. thank you so much. thanks. have

a as the german government says it's halting a program to take and ask and threatened with persecution by the taliban regime. germany launched the program a year after the tal yvonne take over in august of 2021. the idea was to help adkins who had spoken out for democracy or human rights including judges, politicians, and journalists. germany now says the repressed of reality in afghanistan makes it all but impossible to get people out. the way probably all. remember these images from 2021 panic seems at cobble airports and it's a rush. departure of us forces the top on. we're a balance and take over the ask and capital and seize control once again over the entire country. more than 3 years later, the tyler bond has gone from and surgeons through the institutional power and i've

got assign them. they've imposed one of the most restrictive social and political systems in the world. millions of afghans have fled the country and with the most international media, seeing that so many people were leaving filmmaker e, right him. the shots decided to go in and he managed to gain stunning access to have gotten a sense new rulers. the result was, is revealing and brave documentary hollywood gave. we'll get to speak to abraham in a 2nd. but 1st, here's a clip or the the they find them on my way i can about and that's on the camera. i came to see

this come to me, i shall take. so the director, even a shot is now in the studio with me is also forward you w colleagues. so good to have you back here. now you gained access to a place where no outside or have been able to go since the tal yvonne took over. how were you able to get permission to film with them for a year? so, um, the thing is really early in the beginning. the were calling them self funded a bunch of things are a lot of media platforms fetish for that. the thought that they are for the month of things here, they've got a settlement to be a free. all of the early propaganda they made made some positive reports. and i came in at that time when some media was stuck and positive, they want them. so the expect and that order in their lives and when we bringing

them something positive concerning my, my background work in journalism leaders, espend here, data that i spent and under 0 has given and then, and somehow as a provider of someone that sends that a, with another ford leaders which these thoughts that they can get something out of him. and rather than making the propaganda they were helping for from our funding, we made the movie about preventing us. what exposure do you want? yeah, very revealing. movie highly recommended to everybody who's watching right now. you are there on and off for a year. if i understand that correctly, who did you learn more about the top on or the forces who had left, who'd been fighting them for 20 years? i think you'll learn more about the machinery of, for you learn more about the prof. i got an, a missionary that is behind word that convinces us that we should take the sides. one side is the winner and gather size, and those are one sizes always right. and the other side is always wrong, but the reality, both sides make mistakes and worse, specifically,

the word and i've kind of nice proven that the 20 or 20 years are for mentality of the u. s. has proven failure. the have gone into the country, making all of these problems as were coming here and definitely would the nato countries, especially germany, saying that we're going to make a lot, a lot of changes. we're going to change the country, we're going to make it that much better place. and the reality is, this doesn't happen. we're ended in failure, in the, by counting the television given them the, to the country, not just the leadership of the country, but they have also left a lot of what the name behind the salad runway ever to fix. so it has proven that then it has proven also the tyler button i learning and use all of the prof again that those that are in front of them and are becoming much stronger today in power, applying way worse situation that they had before attentive on today as you know, doesn't have that level money even to walk into park, let alone speak or speak loudly with her voice, or seeing or going to have education. yeah, i want, i want to talk about that

a little later. i do want to take a quick look at the entire military equipment that was left behind, millions and millions worth of military equipment that the tal yvonne were very much able to fix. i did the united states under estimate them because they didn't think they were able to pull it off. i think there is, and some of this, one of the things that i learned through my movie is that there's a huge differential difference between sophistication and simplicity. i think that if someone is something that means he's don't not being able to do anything. and that's what happened. i guess is that these weapons were left behind expecting the taliban have no idea about any technology. the knowledge that you would never be able to do it, especially that there's like for example, i seen in the movie that shows that the 5 on our un, unable to calculate 67 times 100 a day reality is they could be something and they have their own way of intelligence which allowed them to fix these weapons. and if we wanna reach award,

wonder is piece. we have to understand where we are. we are dealing with on our side on, on the other side. yeah. i have another clip from your movie that i want to share with our viewers. it shows the head of the tal yvonne air force turing, basically the c i a base that most of your, your footage came from, or most of your filming took place. let's take a look back. allow me to go to joseph filling this a little bit off on the should have joined music coming up. if it was really going to be, i did, i mean the, the system it will not, which is not going to come on. your customer was also the 10800. so most of the day

when we saw it there, some people were obviously very suspicious of the work you were doing. and hindsight, how dangerous was this project for you? as i think when you make such a decision to go to an interest base except from the beginning, the fears that comes with that need to deal with a and with things years. but when i think about the days that i spend there on the privilege that i had being able to come back here to, to bear now and i live and have a therapy and have people that take care of me. and i compared to the suffering of the guns that were left behind the people that nobody cares about today. and i think of, as you were mentioning earlier, that the german government magic has completely stopped the program which has not even delivered what it was meant to deliver at, or, or even near or even close to even being called activating the program. did not really function properly from the beginning, and these are people that worked with the german government as well. and they were left behind even though work. but the bridge government were left behind. people that worked with the american government were left behind. and all of these people

that were left behind, some of them are now forced to work with decided by and some of them are, are hiring. and the people i was, i was gonna send when you're think about their generation, their trauma that has been going. and this the for years and years and years and compared that to whatever i faced, what i faced is nothing compared to the disappearing of that fence. now, one of the red lines in your movie is the generational trauma. what role do you think that plays in the perpetuation of violence? i think the idea of living in war, not knowing anything other than what for 42 years. and having 3 years after that, under the ruling of the pilot, but not knowing what pieces makes the generation on trauma need to some, some violence. and you can see it even in the german society or the people are still recovering from one or 2 people or not for the comfort. you could see that it's the present. and so many families nowadays. so when you think about the country that has not have a day without peace for more than 45 years,

but the expect that people are suffering from during your time there. how did you experience the tal wants treatments of women. as i understand the culture that doesn't allow me to even come close to him and look at 12 months, but i respected that part of the culture. but you could see directly that the whole system is based on of men controlling woman in every aspect of her life. and not in a way that is seen any other way anywhere, anywhere else in the world. it just especially it's probably been kind of treatment to the woman and it's definitely on an upward side and my point of view. now, let's talk about the, the impact that your film has already had. you've been at the european commission. what, what is the, the, the mission you have in away with this, with this film? and what are you hoping to achieve going for? what we hope to achieve is that the word become active a lot of guns and i'm not reactive. and not to wait until something happens,

then the other, the, the only solution we have is conducting another war. it happened in the past and it didn't work. and the moment what's being uh, what's happening with the stores, you know, that's kind of stunned. that's where the whole reward is dealing with it in a way to just apply sanctions and not do any other things on this. what happened in the past and the kids and 911. i hope there would be something that happened at this time. and also we hope that the west understand specifically the us and the need to countries will have participated in making the work that they're, they're dealing with of kind of son is not based on a charge. and it's an obligation, more obligations for the years. you've been there and the promises you have made for the people and for the people that you have left behind. but also it's an obligation for your own security, for your allies and that mission the people who are suffering in all the sites. i guess one of those people who are very much touched personally by what's happening and that's kind of son was a person you work very closely with on this documentary,

your interpreter. can you tell us a bit about what his role was in, in getting this movie onto the big street and, and keeping you safe? i think. and his name is alice sophia, and then it was a, he now lives in berlin here. and we were, they were to put him out of the of, of i've gotten this done after the sure thing was done and worked a, a very similar situation that there is a lot of bad talking about mean and defend an injury in real life. and we were, when we were funding one time, he trust agency and instead of the never just send us things to me yet. and for the rest of the year, are they never dressed as anything to me that they spoke by? they bought me. so i started to discover all of that and they did. so when he came to me, but it has like this book really badly about me in so many situations. he said to me, i showed him, he said, no, no, that's the only way to record it. the n p is way more than that. but think about, he had all of that in his heart. he was responsible for that on his own, taking all of the responsibility of our danger, keeping me in,

in the dark. so i can continue doing my work and that's what i've kind of so when the address someone, it completely gives them everything they did not to be sure many they did that throughout the rest of the nato countries. they did that to the u. s. and they were completely left behind another program, so then in allowing them to come so much more to talk about your room in the shop. thank you so much for taking the time. thanks a lot. and finally, after a 5 and a half year, wait for the ends have their lady back today. the world was given a 1st look inside the newly restored not for them could pedro the live broadcast from the science of french president and mind whom i called praise. the many people who helped rebuild the gothic cathedral, describing it as a project of the century. after 5 years, the efforts of thousands of workers, millions of years, and a little bit of good faced, one of paris is most famous buildings. the notes are dom cathedral is ready for its

grand reopening. one week ahead of the big day, french president emanuel mcclung took a to or the renovated landmark since a meeting with some of the opposite ends, who has worked on the project, he describes the effort to rebuild the cathedral as overwhelming. he sang to everyone who donated money, but saves the highest prize for the work cuz autism ends in class, people, he made it happen. so the who have to, so how's the shock of the reopening will be, i believe, and i want to believe as a strong as that of the fire of school. but it will be a shock of who knows, because all of you who are here today is have contributionship on the field of her . and it is indeed to you that we owe this metamorphosis. that is a you where the outcome mission. so if the construction site and you transformed code into odd on the if i may put it that way. in april 2019 fire

ravaged, the 850 valid medieval caustic procedure investigate to set the blaze was started either by an electrical short circuit or a cigarette money began pulling in some across the world or some of the site more than $840000000.00 euros in total. around a 140000000 you guys have which remains on spent. and that's because even though the in tavia is pristine, the ex area is still unfinished. 20 parts of the building still kind of drew scaffolding and make shift work. a facility still feature that's historians edge patients. the original construction of not true dom began in the mid 12th century and took almost 200 years executed. the archbishop of paris is expecting some $15000000.00 visitors a year, apparently confident that most of them will overlook the unfinished ext area. and

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