on your journey been get inside the this is the w news live from building is list 5 is advanced in a surprise offensive in northern syria. rebel units said to have entered the 2nd biggest city i left the hundreds of reported data and battles with government forces. also coming up, purchase this class with police for a 2nd, not in georgia as anger grows over the suspension of tools on joining the european union. and 5 years off to the devastating 5, not for it. um, cathedral shows of its need fi still the blue french president. i'm on chrome too. is the paris landmarks dice before the official for you the

i'm anthony. how it welcome to the program rebel fighters site that have entered and taken out a number of districts in the, in the serious 2nd biggest city of epa. heavy fighting between is list rebels and government forces has been reported across the city. series military says it's inflicted heavy losses on the is list, so have been advancing on a level for dies. i've also taken control of strategic towns along the way. it was hundreds reported killed. the escalation in fighting is some of the deadliest in years and comes after weeks of simmering violence. let's take a look now at the groups involved in the offensive and why it's happening now. major fighting erupt again in serious civil war. day after staging this 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 power. russia responded with strikes unintelligence positions and the leper eclip countrysides. the syrian army says the assault is being led by the high yacht to tennessee and i've shown for 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 in searching groups. some with solid 1st and jihad is spelled yellow, geez. 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 has been displaced for 5 years. but thank god, i'm now fighting to re claim on land from the grip of the criminal regime. we will

persevere on this part and call on young people to join us in the struggle to take back our country as long as i don't on charlotte, on since 2020 the h t and sign of a ripple groups have been mostly paced and the blood province area was subject to a turkey and rush, it broke a truce, but outside of it lived, there were 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 on 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 iran, reeling from israel's offensive own hezbollah in lebanon, and with rushes, resources stretched with its war and ukraine. but the offensive and the syrian

government's response has left many civilians in the following line. groups of refugees helping fling the fighting, heading to shelters. and the province i'm saying is what happens. 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 stood, we ran into the visits on the front of the united nations is calling for an immediate, the escalation, and an end to the most intense fighting northwest and syria has seen in view abraham a cell is a senior fellow at the middle east institute in bossing washington. he was a founding member of the serial number on smith in in 2011 and was consequently detained by the syrian secret police. a brand welcome to the program. i wonder if i can stop asking you how you think it is that damascus was apparently taken by surprise by this rebel offensive to thank you for having me. uh, send me

a. i think i'm surprised. uh, the damascus uh, forces on leadership was surprised because we're seeing indicators over the months that s t s was built in uh for such an offense, which i think was really surprising if the rapids collapse over the region forces around like many expected that h t as how you have to see a shot would be able to control different parts outside a little in the country side or the city. but nobody expected them to be able to go inside the city and to control neighborhoods that they could didn't. and they couldn't easily control over the last 10 years at the peak of their strengths when they were able to control half of the city before the regime claimed at the close up to 2020. in the someone who suffered at the hands of this right, jane is attempting to read into this that assad's forces might be losing the grip

on the security situation. as many people among those who are fighting today, they are fighters. we just want to go back home. many of them are fighters who just don't want to be detained and torture. however, that's not the 4 picture. there are also people, or there are also fighters who are radi goes into a militant a mortgage d. s. and who are also pressing other people. so i don't see this as a step towards the ration. i think it's a change in the balance of power. many people have hope, many people are really afraid of what will happen next. but many people and i think most syrians have the mix of both feelings and they are contradicting feelings. but many syrians are worried about what's going to happen tomorrow, and they are just afraid that this will and testify the fighting. and sooner or later they will be air strikes by the regime. and they will be another cycle of

violence that takes place inside syria. and that speaks to my next question, it's so hard to generalize through the rebel forces some apparently with just had this started you audiology had the support of the people intellect. so that's a very complicated question because was so many people do want to get rid of that re gm and i've seen some videos that pictures of people being afraid from the political, the presence under the secret police in different parts of the lift boat. they are also many people who are very worried about the geology of that to you at the fia sean carries, and how they're gonna treat people, whether they are minorities or not minorities. of course, we're worried about the questions that armenians, the syrians inside. i look for it's, it's very diverse city that's has many defense communities. we're also afraid about this. one is themselves because just because he had to who sean is is, has sidney groups. that doesn't mean it's for you this in the community. it's

fairly as well. they usually 3, it's a in a better way, those who are or who support the geology, but anyone who is disciplined on them and with the same dots in it, live as well. people are being present and torture under the control of it, the fashion. so i don't think that the situation tomorrow wouldn't necessarily be better than the c energy. and of course has an oppression on an industrial scale because they have the status situation under they control. but also have to have john prove to also be as oppressive in many different ways. and it's a machine that also has the ability to call on a lodge of fighting machines like russia playing support here. so i have in the past, um, how likely a russia to be called upon again to assist this operation. i think that's very likely i'm sending. i do expect you to read gmp and to need the support of fresh out until year. i do want to high to thousands of demons,

dry december 10th of the straits, the joys in capital to blue sea for a 2nd. not a protest. at least 5 bought a cannon and tear gas in an attempt to disperse, demonstrate, assume had gather that so common purchased as hilde's, fine practice and direct and barricades. in the 10th stand of the demonstrated supplies, the government, suspension of tools on joining the european union until 2020 i pro russian prime minister says georgia will still say membership on its own tips. now, early a day deputy is maddy a couple of months. it was on the streets of tbilisi. we asked to about tonight's atmosphere there. while the situation is quite tons, as you might see on the background, there is a riots police mobilized right next to the problem. and we can hear that some of the protesters are. the protesters are sorry, the todds,

the police has been using the uh, watch a ton on when, what people so think that they were leasing and square for few minutes and they come back again, which makes it quite the police to discuss the crowd. now the, as you can see, probably in the background, the police is using warning, asking their protests is to leave the parliament square, otherwise they will use the force. so it's definitely quite, quite uh, sort of tense a department square. um, at this moment the people refused to go away. at this point. was that maria cut them out to the, in the middle of the action into play. see? now not for the cathedral in paris has shown off. it's a new face to the world. 5 years after a devastating pod, the beloved gothic landmark is almost ready to reopen. rebuilding his costs around 700000000 euros. hundreds of skilled craft workers painstakingly restored the

cathedral spot and ruth, along with much of the interior. after 5 years, the efforts of thousands of workers, millions of years, and a little bit of good faith. 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 macklin took a tool or the renovated line to my meeting with some of the opposite ends, who have worked on the project. or he describes the effort to rebuild the procedural as a overwhelming, as he sang to everyone who donated money, but saves the highest praise for the work. cuz autism ends and cloths 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 is a strong this, that of the fire passcode. but it will be

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manage them and has never been sent to the this is the epicenter of oil, west texas. oh wow. the united states is currently producing more oil than anywhere in history and doing so, despite its pledge to reduce emissions, being pumped right here from deep underground and sent across the country and around the world as well. even though their statements may differ, and we will drill, maybe drill, we're going to move more rapidly to renewable energy, the wind and solar. all recent us government have pursued policies of drilling more oil. proponents say it's good business that it creates a lot of jobs and keeps living costs low for tax parents. and that it's important for securing us energy independence. i'm sir, to see what's going on at the center of it all and to find out whether those claims

are true. and when i found a whole lot of pickup trucks, a situation more complicated than i'd ever imagined. oh look. yeah. i'm kind of scared of these things and a quiet problems that some claim could bankrupt the industry. it was unseasonably hot on the drive to west texas, close to the new mexico border, random oil wells and using a band and data to landscape. i look, there's some right there in august of 2024 texas producer and 5000000 barrels of oil per day about the production capacity of canada. the nearly half the oil produced by the entire country comes from this state. so oil ripples throughout the entire economy here where we're headed, the university of texas over millions of acres of land and the more boilers pond to

the board as to what's the dominant museums or from the state also live from oil money that's including the petroleum museum in the city of midland, part of oil country, everything here sits on top of the permian basin, an oil field that stretches from west texas to new mexico. the. there's a bunch of old oil equipment here because the texas has been at the center of the us oil booms for decades. and all of these behind me are old drilling rigs. they did back to the 1920s through the 1st step. and while extraction drilling a well then come, the pumps are there. sometimes we can go look at over there actually. so when they 1st oil, it basically explodes out of the ground due to changes and pressure. but after a while it doesn't really explode so much anymore. and you have to actually pump in these are the ponds to do exactly that. but it's not a simple process to hear more about it. we spoke to brian grant, the executive director, the oil is actually trapped with in layers of rocks that are in these different

layers strata. so we have to not only drill but then we have to crack the rock. people have been cracking the rock to get that oil for more than a century, mostly with explosives. and after that, they're going to inject the sand that will hold the fractures, open. this sand along with water and chemicals is a key component of modern fracking. another as horizontally drilled wells which are more productive than vertical once since the tracking took off, the us has increased production by nearly 3 folds. it's been a part of every well junior field engineer hollis eubanks, has worked on how this has worked in oil and gas for nearly a decade and directly and oil extraction for the last 5 years. we will send in a, we call it a gun and it's just an explosive to barrow. and we'll perforate polls. so you do the, you do the explosion. yes, most based on the explosion, the museums. how us took us around to some work sites near the city. why did you

start working in on gas the big bold towards. it was, it's money. it's a lot of money. i know guys are going to have the high school diploma. they make 6 figures a year. i was tar to go back to our normal life just because it's it's one of those things that well, once it gets in your blood, it's kind of an addictive. it's a lot of money for the industry to this major oil and gas find is that it's 2nd highest points and this creation chevron c o. mike were salary rose 12 percent and one year to $26500000.20. some of this money does stay in texas in terms of well, the university of texas is 2nd only to harvard, and the industry paid the state over $26000000000.00 in taxes and 2023 of the money has went up. but as far as it feels like it's a little bit harder now, since everything else is there's are so there's more to the story than the oil boom,

creating many good jobs. this route here is going to be a backup job site. active job site. okay. maintenance sort of thing, these guys work in rain snow, he go everything, there's a lot of sacrifice with it. i think a lot of people are hesitant to do that. recently, there have been massive layoffs in the industry, some of which have been triggered by fracking induced over supply. on top of that, new technology means fewer workers and wells are necessary to keep up production. we reached out to companies around midland to ask what this means for future job creation, but never heard back how it says more people are leaving than he's ever seen. that means less strict load or we just go back home and work at whatever they can find. are a lot of guys, i know i've left him upright grains now for wind turbines and solar. he's considering switching as well because those jobs offer more time at home. nationwide renewable energy jobs are growing twice as fast as the rest of the

energy sector. and the us economy, the, another more complicated claims that more drilling will mean us energy independence for rock crude oil to be used. it's often turned into petroleum products like gasoline. this is done and refineries around the country, many of which are in texas. but most us refiners are built before the fracking boom, which turns out a different type of oil. the last full capacity refinery in the us was built in 1977. this means a lot of facts, crude oil as export it mostly to europe in china. the us been in parts different oil mostly from canada. so the oil boom has decreased imports slightly, but the system isn't set up for the us to when it's off off in ports entirely. in more drilling doesn't directly equal lower prices as proponents clean. even though it does play a role, it's just one piece of

a complicated global puzzle. more over companies want the price of oil to be high. that way they can offer competitive salaries, investing new infrastructure, and theoretically plug old wells that's just as important as drilling because you have to, when you're done with something, you've got to make sure that it's not going to come back and puts you in the future, which has happened to a lot of places around here. those unplugged wells are rightly causing massive damage and could seriously threaten oil companies. bottom line. they can leech chemicals into the ground water and methane, and to the air, methane emissions from only around a 1000. you as well as have been studied, but some individual wells have been found to him. it is much methane is $4000.00 cars. and when the year and companies are leaving tax payers to deal with the problem we're headed outside midland to some branches that have abandoned wells on their properties and they're causing big problems for the people who lived there. hi. hi, amanda. this is me. yeah, i'm

a nice to meet you. like many in the state. lor briggs has deep ties to the oil industry. my grandpa work for in co unbolt. uh. so x on my dad worked for x on but partially due to the fracking boom. she's living with taking time bombs this. well, here was one of the old orphan wells, the blue august, 1st blue, like it, blew up blue blue produce water everywhere and produce water is the waste water that's left over after they trill an oil and gas? well, so we don't even know what's in it. it's in the on the 3rd trade secret, what they frack with is what they're injecting under ground that's causing these old wells to make trouble. the produced water got on laura's animals and when she touch them, it felt like drain cleaner on her skin. other than causing these old wells to blow those waste water injections can also cause earthquakes. another well and her property hasn't blown yet. sometimes the pressure is really bad and sometimes it's

really low. my neighbors across the river have some plugged wells and hits and they say they weep. like sometimes they're wet around it and sometimes they're not. now mr. guys many wells or enroll areas which makes them easier to ignore. laura has to wait for this well to blow before the railroad commission, which oversees oil and gas and texas will plug it hoc. dunlap is one person drawing attention to this issue. to fix this problem, matic wells for a living and noticed how big the problem with a band and wells really was. so this is a chevron. well, that was plugged in 2010. that chevron we've. we've escalated it right at about a month ago. so what you see, here's the remnants of, of the, well, it's supposed to be plug is you can see there's crude oil leak and outside of it is a critical lab. crude. it's got, it's got gas it, we tend to do the oil. it's also going to produce water in it 2 years ago we

started digging it well. in the 1st 7 we dug up, we're looking, they were like this. all of them. the 1st 7 that we did while assessing, we dug up on this ranch a 100 and i would say 95 of them are leaking and the other 5, i'm not for certain that they're not there. 8375. unplugged wells on the official texas list and an estimated 783000 inactive wells in the state. that doesn't include in properly plugged wells like this one. properly closing them is going to be expensive. so you're looking at several and having to pay half a $1000000.00 to a $1000000.00 for every well like this for every well sure. there are state and federal cleanup programs, but they don't have nearly enough money. the

goal, the suspect that the majority of the wells that has already been plug are going to have to be revisited at some point, as like trillions of dollars that you can, you can bankrupt and oil company flow. sarah gardner is also publicizing the issue . she and hawker planning to take so i run to court over these abandoned wells. i tells you it's kinda like a 12 step program that are like the 1st step is admitting that there's a problem. if you were to ask anyone behind closed doors off the record, everyone would admit that this is a problem. but what will they say on the record? we've logged more wells under the or for wells program, and we beat our legislative goals and we're great raw go team. but we've dug up what 4 of those and they're all the kids between badly pointe wells like bees and the damage done. sarah thinks that companies have too many liabilities for future revenue to cover. still, she and hawk aren't against the industry. cut my wrist,

i'm a blade girl. i've got a daughter that wants to come up this. i'm want, we're not auntie over just at the had this you feel the same way? yeah, absolutely. 100 percent. i was like you took the words out of my mouth. there's obviously like a lot of wells that are already in operation and they're producing oil. yeah. and like, is there anything that people can do with those wells to not have this situation in the future? yeah, you properly a band and then when you stop using them and when they start to exhibit signs of mechanical integrity failures, you quickly address them. and if you can't fix them, you abandon the well and you bury it and you pay for the funeral. i do think that's happening now. sharon hawk even found a spot on the property with oil and the groundwater. we're subsidizing the clean up the money that the industry pays and taxes then gets turned around and used to clean up their mass. and hawks expression is like wiping your but with

a hula hoops can just keep coming around. a major stated reason behind me more drilling is that it keeps costs low for tax payers. but the hidden costs of plugging old wells and cleaning up toxic chemicals are not being calculated in and with continued reliance on oil in parts the industry claim that energy independence doesn't match with reality. a study by the oil rich university of texas done that the state could get to net 0 emissions by 2050 and the economy would actually grow. that's partially because of the strong growth and jobs and renewables. texas is known for its energy, and oil and gas are deeply connected to people in the state. but despite the promises made, the industry isn't living up to its claims. the if you like this fail, let us know if you didn't let us know why. either way, don't forget to subscribe. we have new videos every friday, the,

the level, the same rights. well, most exactly. in terms of dna, there is tiny differences. genetic information differs slightly from the person to person. that's why we will have different physical characteristics. in the social 10 differences can be a lot more pronounced like between how women and men are treated. in germany, for instance, mailboxes are paid on average mold, and the female counts of pumps. researches are looking at why that's and much more on this episode of dw science show. welcome to tomorrow. today.