global service as a whole lot of climate problems. to fix your thoughts on the topics, subscribe to those channels. we've got new videos every friday. subscribe to plan. it's a the, this is definitely news live from both. it is list 5 is advanced in a surprise offensive in the northern syria rebel units, uh said to have painted the 2nd biggest city a letter, hundreds of report, a date in bad health with government forces also coming up, purchase those classes with police for seconds, not in georgia, i think it grows up in the suspension of tools on joining the european union, the math and the how it works. the program revel for the site they have entered and

taken out. a number of districts in syria is 2nd biggest city eletta. heavy fighting between is lester, rebels and government forces has been reported across the city. series military says it's inflicted heavy losses on these limit, so i've been advancing on the left for days. they have also taken control of a strategic towns along the way with hundreds reported, killed the escalation and fighting and some of the daily as 10 years and comes after weeks of simmering violence. let's take a look 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 color. russia responded with strikes unintelligence positions and the leper eclip

countrysides. the syrian army says the assault is being led by the high, you ought to test the out shown for h t. s a militant group which controls much of northwest and syria. the h d. s. is led by, i'll tell you this form of syria branch. it consists of multiple different and searching groups, some with the seller 1st and jihad is spelled yellow, geez, maybe 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 crypt with the criminal regime. we will persevere on this policy and call on young people to join us in the struggle to take back our country as long as i don't own shallow. since 2020 the

h t and signed up. a ripple groups have been mostly based in the blood province. the area was subject to a turkey and rush. it broke a truce. but outside of it lived, there were large parts of syria, still controlled by rebels, opposed to assets, government, including along the border with the rock. us spect curtis forces maintain large parts of the north and turkey, along with the syrian national army control, a so called buffalo zone, along the turkish border with the offensive. the rebels may be trying to capitalize on the of the complex, currently writing elsewhere with assets. highlight your run reeling from israel's defensive on hezbollah and 11 on 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 blood 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 or early aspect to abraham. our seal, i said, you fellow at the middle east institute in washington, it was founding member of the siri non violent movement in 2011 and was consequently detained and tortured by the syrian secret police. i asked him how it was that damascus was apparently taken by surprise by this rebel offence. so thank you for having me. uh, send me a. i think i'm surprised the damascus 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 ridge and 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 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 . if 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 who 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 for picture. there are also people, or there are also fighters who are rad. it goes into a male, it sense a mortgage, the 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 students have a 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 space to my next question is so hard to generalize through the rebel forces some apparently with just had this started, you audiology had the support of the people in a letter. 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 a lift boat. they are also many people who are very worried about the geology of that to you at the fish and calories 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, look for it. so it's very diverse city that's has many defense community is we're also afraid about this. one is themselves because just because he had to have shown is assume the groups that doesn't mean it's for the sydney 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 poodles to also be as oppressive in many different ways . and it's a machine that also has the ability to call on the lodge of fighting machines like russia playing support here, as i have in the past. um, how likely a russia to be called upon again to assist this side regime as i think that's very likely, cindy, i do state the region to need the support of fresh out until year. i do want to highlight that the region in the civil region was about to full in many different points over the last decade when we're talking about 2011 on wards when the war broke out. is celia in the 2015, the iranians intervened sources, butler to pop up a subs regime. and in 2015,

the russian intervene directly in september of 2015 to support us. uh that over the years that followed it to us to uh, to, to, to moscow that aside owes uh everything that he is staying in power. and today i've seen the rapids collapse happened because of the weakness the iranian militias has in the, in see that today. and also because the russia is mainly busy over whelmed with the war in ukraine. prim. thanks so much. it brand new. assume a senior fellow at the middle east institute in washington. great to have you have time. thank you so much. thank you. to a part testers have clashed with police in the georgia and capital policing for a 2nd nice tens of thousands took the states to protest against the ruling trojan drain parties, announcement that it suspending as accession talks with the european union, it accuses the use of disrespecting georgia in valleys. critics that georgia dream

has become authoritarian and is drawing georgia toward russia. this was the scene in typically sees main boulevard. angry crowds face stuff against police for a 2nd and i after george's government said it was freezing talks to join the european union that the protesters say the ruling georgia dream party is dismantling democratic rights and pulling georgia into must goes or bit we're not fighting only again, for doing very important something we're finding is wasa, we're finding it is watching the voice in these countries norm as amount of resources, money and everything, which is no inactive. so that is why i do us a lot of makers of that democratic world support to jim people. the protesters

already have the support of george's pro western president may send me this today. i can say with confidence that the resistance movement has the guns that it is your movement initiated by you. without any once instructions, ultima fried, less than 10 years of peaceful, constitutional resistance movement modes. and that's 10 until a day or 2 with it. that's a lot of so he thought really clear on that show the vast majority of george and support e u membership. george and dream also says it wants to join the blog to venture, but people here have taken to the streets because they sense their european aspirations are slipping away. to over us has invasion of the crime has raised questions of the civil defense here in germany.

the government is working to increase the number of bunk is available to protect the population. if the country comes under attack, the existing net quote is far from adequate in the event of war, this is where the german public can seek shelter. the countries few operational bunkers of a room for up to 480000 people. less than one percent of the population in just a moment. the subject of that expect at the moment we are actually in a poor position. he is, there is a lack of both a structural infrastructure and awareness among the population the of what can actually happen in an emergency station bounce for like is twin con. the reason for the cure and debate, the latest threat from russia following the firing of a new medium range missiles at the ukranian city of the new po president letting you putting certain supporters of ukraine was possible missile attacks. ever since the start of the war and ukraine, german authorities have been working on a national bank. a plan is tennis. copeland vices got kind of roughly outlined.

the points are included in the most systematic possible recording of buildings and private properties can be used as public safe havens in the us. of these could be underground car parks and subway stations and basements. we've covered design one with a cut off volume of all of this data will be transferred to an app that enables citizens to determine their nearest place of refuge. a digital approach that everyone agrees with this call for lucas. i need ways of continuing to communicate with people and to look for him because we know how quickly the internet can fail if the power goes out. for example. since the end of the cold war, a general sense of security has growing in germany, happened to 2007. there were still 2000 public shelters. the german government at the time even decided to dismantle, instead of some of them. bunker is became museums and she could taps an increasing

number of private individuals. and now thinking about building their own bunkers, there's a certain venetian vocab. it's nice to have a bunker in my garden at home when the air raid happens on sundays. but what do i do when i'm at work at 10 am on the monday. so you know, we're a 1st come you to for an hour and a half for us not, not have some intended without the t, a timeframe. the national shelter concept remains a project waiting to be addressed at some point, probably under a new federal government. before we go, here's a reminder of our top story. the cell one says it's on the spot has of taken over a number of districts in series. second city and the syrians. you have a truthful human rights reports heavy fighting between rebels and government forces with hundreds killed but that's all the news for now coming up next japanese magna comics. and the fascination with nothing imagery that's on us,

on filed after a short frank, don't forget, you can always tie up to date on the website. that's a w dot com. and for us social media channels, i think that and fix the handle you need is that the deputies. so for now the, you'll see about the video that goes in the media and legal law. google, i've got that done by get, i will stop into that and i'll give you the order was, are you able to order that up? joe made any of the current key people in the eval on worldwide in search of a did you have you ever used them in, at the accounting method of doing it like godaddy? how do you guys find out about all the story in for my friends? is that a kind of tied to it? and for some manga and anime, a series that trivialize and drawer for the military and weapons of the 2nd world war. so so i'd characters and assess uniforms. swastikas,

so many germans. it's shocking to find out that manga and i'm a series seems to be making on critical use of not c aesthetics courses. of course, a huge problem because the state does not even put a stop to it. and how to 40 the why of comics that trivialize the horrors of the nazi so successful historical references are completely ignored or the tire is simply no awareness behind it. what is the holocaust, what audiology? what does it this great catastrophe based on many to military uniforms on tanks, robots and military bases. and it's a huge topic in the manga anatomy world. how widespread is minute tourism in manga . and does this content pose a danger? the, this is wanting to come up. a world of manga usually looks like populated by cute

sosa i. characters in funny questions. the illustrated stories followed adventure, fantasy and friendship. the magnifying community meets the new lights, the put in germany, where a peaceful and colorful costs play. festival also takes place a weapons, fish, and not see where a ship. they don't exist here, but some people have stumbled across the occasional swastika while reading manga one of the 3 of them associated with an optimism. it's especially when you come across a symbol that has such a negative connotation. naturally. what else is the why it's in your rank up in my mind, god. so if you look into it, if it, you know what it actually means, especially in asia. if you look around here, there are a lot of people cost paying the tokyo mind. you can, you want to have deliberately covered it up, which is a good habit i have are not on my own, but on my back a symbol that's covered up. if it's the swastika going in the opposite direction.

it's known in buddhism as a symbol of goodman, and in germany, of course, it's better known for its meaning and national socialism, where it goes my other direction. of course, the similarity is frightening and disturbing for many. in the colored manga series published in germany, the symbol is deliberately not redacted, but left as it is in the japanese. the original, in the manga tokyo revenge is it is the asian symbol, the tombs, the jacket of the young gang members. as, as a mark of identification, the publisher emphasizes the origin of the symbol notice benji and its original meaning as a symbol of good luck. on its website, the publisher attempts to raise awareness was a positive symbol that was really perverted by the gnostics. we want to publish an uncensored of, of what we also want to be sure that there are no references denazi's glorification

of the 3rd, right. and the like to had to show you. and that is absolutely not the case at all . in principle, this is a symbol of this game. in this context, however, it was important to us that there should be no conclusion or misunderstandings. so we put an explanation at the front of every volume on the phone i can find put simply will, glorifying, among all emotional infringe, phenomenon, german publishers scrutinize critically and do not introduce any examples of it on to the european market. the form of the heart and then some bizarre productions never a little less make the leap from the japanese market into the wide world. that's also the case for the successful production goes and print, so it's been a long running hit on streaming services in europe. the intimate and manga series has been around since 2012 goes at

a boarding school compete against each other in tank driving. it's been a major success in japan for years, with a mixture that fits into the co japanese social discourse and is easily marketed. and that's difficult with an emission, samantha, but they've tried to create what i would describe as a mixture of 3 things that i think sell well in japan. i know one is the military aspect i the playing war. let me say this in general terms out for them also against the background of the fact that the military in general is currently being promoted by the state in japan. besides are filled with the japan is a pest of this country, according to its constitution. it also invests billions in weapon systems for the defense real moment. that has been the content. so it's a political issue for years since i don't work unless it's good for call, what? well, what is successful is then okay in japan, so to speak. and that is of course, a very big problem. this is not true of this and guns, guns cause to claim. but what does this mean?

critical affinity for the ministry in depend come from the japan reading, manga is positive every day. life man gives the medium with equal states us along side books and film. manga read by people or ages, the mind games it goes, boys, adults, and seniors. but what does the infatuation even a dangerous not see, co nice manga come from. to understand it, you have to dig deep into the collective memory and look at history. the japanese fascination with germany and everything german goes back a long way more than 150 years. in 1968, the mind, the restoration named for then and per my g began to fall reaching a peebles scholars was sent abroad in western teachers were brought in, especially from frushell. i'm,

i'm was this while i'm feeling best. i'm job hard to remember that when japan was modernized during the menu restoration, it was looking for the best of everything worldwide. so for the best and the medicine and see where the best and law spectrum death or the best in the military would. that's the best and the best military at that time was the prussian military and enough job hunter who was so pressure and experts were brought to japan to advise on modernizing the military by any chance the author and by way of the military was organized out a solution of all sorts of things. it's very german oriented. this new, even the military music is very german, already insights and will it take many time? was it because of the on the hutch spent in pen orient, you? pressure became a role model in terms of wolf. the idea of the perfect ministry was shaped by germany from the very beginning. i'm with him said a say i feel it. you may have to realize that there were

a lot of young people who played with more toys the time during the war, and i don't many tardies yet and who were simply militarized and systematically because it was in the interests of state to that on cops. it's something you missed so it doesn't work like a light switch off for you just like press it and have annual switched from a militaristic society said to a pass if this one keeps cuz that's up to 90 feet just because that's a post war and the 1950s, japan like germany experienced an economic food in just a few decades. japan became a high tech nation, although it was constitutionally past the 1st weapons and weapons technology was still very popular in society, including german weapons technology, the most popular children's toy of the time. what model kits of german tanks and weapons also appeared in manga kind of defects. and that's one of the slides. like you see the fascination on 2 sides of the reader side, on the one hand or tool and the authors side on the other. my god could size and

there are people who have written manga who were themselves in that nice vac 6 law soldiers. and the 2nd world war kind of put the ottoman for one of the best known is needs. okie, she get a little bit kind of this new also drew and produced a manga called hibler law among a good sized that's put a to make the author's mid suki should go through emerald. hit those biography in the 19 seventy's as a manga for adults. he had experienced the horrors of war. cuss tend as a soldier, and throughout his career, the mind, the authors deposed all those who glorified rule. one of the full fathers of bank uh offices to zuka. oh samo. oh, so sharply criticized. not see audiology a do the one on manga crime series at all. a good test. the saturated fictional fella, based on the premise, the titles hitler had see. quick jewish ancestry. the help the young japanese people do this. openly flaunting, the nazi ascetic,

ignorant of the unimaginable atrocities committed by those who wore these uniforms . what is the sort of thing, these uniforms are kind of sexy. and i'm not really interested in the, in human ideology behind them. m. detroit and it's been around for a long time as little as an ongoing discussion in japan. would this fascination with militarism. that's what it's and you have to say of course that the japanese have a completely different relationship to the history of the holocaust and the germans to ship to the total cost i've yeah, let's get in. yeah, there are no concentration camps. japan that you can visit us month is when you come. in other words, unlike us, there is no obligation to see it with your own eyes. this miss ivan, i'm so the apparently the nazi ascetic has more fascinating countries that did not suffer under the nazis according to research. as another aspect is that japan was an aggressor in world war 2, but likes to point to the even was bad guys to nazis,

possibly to divert attention from its own, killed the way in which understandings of history in japan and germany defy and does not critically scrutinize can be seen beyond nice products a night approach to the difficult historical facts even appears in a successful world wide series of mine. and then a best seller, a tech on site, and has been going strong for over 10 years for seasons and 99 episodes is a fictional post apocalyptic kara story. humanity is front and by god can take many things humanoids. cold titans. this service also draws inspiration from german typhon songs, huff, german huff, japanese. the protagonist is named aaron giga, jacob, being the general word for hunter. and the template for the medieval town is the bavarian town of nursing at and what is explosive is that the story is also being

criticized. is why the critics in particular accusing the estimate of providing space for next and isn't and, and to submit it. conspiracy theories just like scroll to the end as an adult, i spelled b as in a group that is imprisoned in this village. and these are, they used to be the rulers of this world. and faith and my uncle give us later in the main, but it's revealed that this ethnic group was originally the rulers on the house up . and then they were oppressed, marginalized and exploited as bought. or for these type us what's up with you, the t tom and the old 2 boys, they're depicted with a bracelet with a star on it did with i'm box with onyx down. oh, so it's not too far fetched to argue that this ethnic group is a reference to the jews. and the 3rd rice dusty, the flex cooper. i know i've seen and if you consider that this ethnic group was originally the ruler of the world, the, the flex global work, but then it's not a far leap to say that it's okay. that reminds me of anti semitic conspiracy

theories according to which the jews would rule us all the house and brutal. the marketing for the show, it showed little sensitivity for the controversial aspects on bands was set to be launched as much noise in 2021 off. and that was quite including from the fan base . the items were quickly withdrawn, but science defend the series. they say the allegation that it has nationalistic, under tons, misses the complexity all keeping that attack on tight and criticized as fast you structures racism and propaganda. they say the series opposes historical revisionism and violence that different positions are expressed. and that's, it is a repeat because he emphasized the most trust is inherent in every human being. not just certain ethnic groups just by the control of i see the end of a series has broken, streaming records, influence, pop culture and sparked discussion for 10 years. this may also be due to the fact

that it leaves room for interpretation, rather than providing simple explanations a characteristic of almost or banga a global and yeah, i think it is more of an opportunity to discover new stories, more new ways of looking at the world it's when you have to really critical by all means that you shouldn't demonize at all now on the plane guys destroying our society. now we that's nonsense across the same is in manga o w, some brake taboos with renovation, but also ignorance. even if a critical look at some series is necessary, one of the main characteristics of manga remains the complexity, manga polarized images of women and the depiction of buttons. oh, so it's a big step of folk discussion. what do you think mangos and

important free space for deserving of more critical observation? let us know in the comments the latter pro tennis town. dig a new miracle weapon against ukraine. moscow's hypersonic miss aisle, is quote unquote, invincible in its use. as a response to far reaching attacks from crate. how dangerous are these latest developments? are we reaching the level of escalation? many had feared. they would miss all attack on the ukrainian city of to meet pro is a message to the west weapon has arranged several 1000 kilometers, also be equipped with nuclear warheads. nato is on high alert of us, france and great britain. first allowed ukraine to shoot deep into russian territory. germany's own f sides as so far not followed suit on ukrainian soil. russian troops are event.