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a level over the weekend after launching a lightning offensive around. and russia support the regime of president for us are a saw, the ro, advanced marks the most serious development. the searing wars is 2020 authorities and 11 on say at least 9 people were killed in is rarely strikes on 2 southern villages. there was the heaviest attack since a ceasefire between israel and the milton group has belonged, came into force last week. israel says it targeted rocket launchers and terrors, infrastructure in response to cease fire violations by husband law. this is dw is berlin. remember, you can get much more news on our website, but steve, w dot com. the are also one time as president. no, i running again. don't hang on button, come on a run. no, i absolutely will not pause my son to face tax and drug drives that again. us

president joe biden's facing criticism and mockery for his latest bout a flip flopper, a grunting his son hunter, a full and unconditional pod. just weeks before leaving the wise house. so who'll get less out when the new guy arrives in january? i'm feel galen building. this is the day, the extremely proud of my son hunter. he is overcome and addiction. he is. he's one of the greatest most decent man. i know. i said i'd probably by the jury decision, how to do that? pardon the present by instead of looking at the facts of the case g a concluded the hunter bio was singled out in court

a miscarriage of justice and was prosecuted because he was the president saw also on the day more classes in georgia as fireworks and tear gas fly, protesters accuser routing, georgia, dream path. you have to get back on the e u and pursuing the know for a terry and pro russia pass or george's want to leave into european democracies. and the only god who was wealth is compatible to a quarter or even more of the george, indeed jude. if he wants to build a, an only god stream, it's not a georgia dream like a cold or a party. it's the only got stream. welcome to the day. i'm going us present, joe biden, aspects he's son hunter, a possible, a prison to my grunting him a full and unconditional part and faced federal convictions with tax and firearms offences. despite and heavy criticism,

the president said his son's case was so polarized, so excuse me, so politicized. he had no choice us president joe biden leaves for an overseas trip just hours after announcing his pardon. his son hunter biden had previously said he would not interfere with the judicial process. but on sunday he went back on his word in a statement biden's that his son was being on fairly prosecuted. calling his conviction a miscarriage of justice. the president accused his opponents in congress of politicizing the case. hunter's legal trouble started in 2018 when authorities began a federal tax probe on his overseas business deals. then in $22300.00 was charged with lying about his drug use on a fire arms application. still he accused the republicans of unfairly targeting him and his father had nothing. for 6 years,

i've been the target of the own relenting trump attack machine shouting. where's hunter? well, here's my answer. i am here. there is no fairness or decency in what these republicans are doing as they have lied over and over about every aspect of my personal and professional life, so much so that their lives have become the false backs believed by too many people hunter, phase decades in prison. after pleading guilty to tax charges and being convicted in the fire arms case, sentencing was scheduled for mid december, but the presidential part and gives him a clean slate. by the view, turn is being met with criticism. on social media, president elect donald trump asked if the pardon applies to those convicted into january 6, riots, and said it was a miscarriage of justice,

even though trump himself had pardoned several of his allies well in office. while it is common for outgoing presidents to issue pardons at the end of their term critics. one this one sets a bad precedent make documented as a former assistant us attorney in new york on to form a what's a gate prosecute to welcome to d, w. and would it be wrong to characterize jo biden's action and pod being hunted by as powerful old man does his way woodside, a massive fav as well? no question. he did his on a massive saver. but keep in mind, i think were the things that joe biden did not say in, in, in providing this, pardon, was that he was concerned about what would happen to his son. our once donald trump came into office. part of the problem here is a donald trump and not been elected this time. i don't think joe biden would ever

pardon his son. what he's concerned about is that a 100 button has to spend some time in jail that the people in the trump and ministration, either donald trump or others around him. i could basically take retribution against him by putting him in solitary confinement. i'm making life miserable for him in prison, and i think that is what motivated joe biden to do. what he did here. so is face unconditional presidential upon does that mean, but hon to bite and will now be immune from uh, president trump. when he gets into power, does that sort of cover all bases for now and forever? that's absolutely right. it covers everything. it goes way back. it covers anything that would be in the statute, limitations. and so he is free and clear at this point free and clear of the 2 charges for which he was convicted, the gun charge and the tax charge. so yes,

it wipes all of those claim or not. but the base is 5. know which we can see, it is splitting the democratic party and many, many americans suffer injustice on a, on a daily basis. many, many americans see what might happen in the future. many, many americans don't have a presidents. is that that as well. i think that's right. it's not a great look, it's not something i'm sure joe biden wanted to do. that under the circumstances, i think he felt the fate of it came on. he was putting his son in harm's way that was above and beyond what one would expect in the criminal justice system. kind of just the introduction of adult ed just just, just, just on that point, god forgive me for interrupting but pushing keep sending homes away. didn't his son put himself in harm's way when he broke below?

of course, and you should have gone to jail. so what he did? no question about it. certainly on the gunshots, you probably wouldn't have gotten jail time. but i think on the tax charge, he would have gotten jail towing when i say, by harm's way, i'm talking about additional harm that would have been inflicted upon him. if donald trump or any of his menus, decided to take retribution against hunter binding or to do other things with hunter by them that were not justified. donald trump has made it very clear that he's going to be using his justice department to basically bring retribution on anybody who he thinks has gotten in his way. in the past. he's appointed an attorney general, who is politically motivated once dropped a case when she was ag, in florida, into trump university. in return for a $25000.00 campaign contribution. he's got his 2 criminal defense lawyers as guns to be a scratched and the justice department. and now he's appointed. is mister patel to

be the director of the f b i. so i think that the situation is completely different now that he is not going to be in a regular criminal justice system. keep in mind donald trump wound up using this, pardon power to basically protect himself what language and offers he pardons. his campaign manager. um no fall man or ford. i got him. i basically told him if he hung tightening didn't cooperate. he'd be, pardon, pardon roger stone, who is also his political advisor, who was convicted of covering up for donald trump. hands on top of it all. donald trump, pardon his son in law's father, who's now appointed to be in bassett, or to france. okay. so what you're saying is that phase 2 presidents present and a form and soon to be a good, they're as bad as each other. when trump problems and frees the january 6th

interaction is no one will have anything to say, looking at what the president is now doing as well. i don't think that's right. i mean, it's a matter of degree. you can't put them in an equal category. i certainly the january 6th defendant should not be pardoned. they did terrible things. they've been convicted of serious crimes. and as well as on terabyte, i think what the concern here is. and again, i emphasized and, and unfortunately the president didn't emphasize this in his statement. was that by leaving 100 buying in the criminal justice system after he leaves office with donald trump, who has said that he's going to use the criminal justice system, the department of justice ought to basically take retribution against all of his enemies. you said one of those is joe by another is hunter by and i, and i think the concern is that 100 buying is going to be singled out and be put in

a worse position if he has to continue in the criminal justice system through donald trump. do you see this decision by president biden as having consequences beyond his to as well consequences to the extent that you hit on before clearly um this is not great in the sense that is gonna give donald trump presumably some cover when he tries to pardon. when he does pardon ive been january 6 defendants and other people that he's pardoned on, even though there is not really that's a false equivalency between the 2. and the 1st of all, if you take the criminal charge on the gun charge. uh no one has ever charged a loan for, for that gun charged for 11 days. and it's very rare that anybody is charged with the tax violations when they've been on drugs. and on top of that, all they paid everything back. so,

mean hasn't really been handled the same way that any other citizen were handled in the criminal justice system. be that as it may, i think if everything had been equal and donald trump had not won re election, a president biden would never pardon this one. tell us about the, the nature of these presidential problems in general them. so non american is it seems like a, like a we, it's tradition. that's right. as i'm going out there though, i can just turn around and say to you, you knew what the slightly doesn't matter what you did of the ago. that, that just seems like a we a rule. well, it's a rule. it's a rule in our constitution. us constitution from way back when 1777. it's been in the constitution as a power that the president has a lot of state governors in this country have it. i think it somewhere it comes back from the english system with the king having the ability to pardon people and

it's a pretty hard compass in power. there is really no way to get around it. the only way it could ever be reformed is if you amended the us constitution, a good talking to nick, thank you so much for talking to us throughout so clearly. make ackerman for my assistant us attorney for the washington pro forma was a gate prosecutor. thank you. thank you sir. i'm it sound like rush i have conducted joint as strikes on and stuff and northern syria under rebel control. over the weekend and sessions led by to heidi group, took over the 2nd biggest city a laptop there also advancing in neighboring, hama, province of some syrians, welcome, but fights us thousands. a fleet the syrian army is rushing soldiers and weapons to hum my province in north western syria. it's trying to break the momentum of the insurgents who are moving southward after capturing

large parts of it, lived on a level provinces to the north, including a level city which had been under government control for the last 10 years. a serious army chief travel to the new defensive line and how not to rally the troops . this is our land and our pride. anyone who breaks the law, anyone who has been hired to stand against us. we will make an example as a favor in the local city army militants roam the streets freely. taking celsius outside left, both iconic citadel and its airport syrian and russian war plains bombed a level after it was overrun. it only took a few days for the rebels to jump the front lines of serious civil war which have remained largely frozen since 2020. the revel coalition consists of multiple groups

with differing audiology is what unites them is their opposition to syrian president bashar assad. waiving the city center, stone, ping on your head, god willing, we will find you, you pig in either the city, a rather controlled stronghold in the north people for being subjected to daily air strikes. volunteers with the syrian civil defense known as the white helmets are helping to find the injured under the rubble and taking them to hospital. thank you . to find me is massive destruction caused by the bottom and surface area. this neighborhood is residential division forces, deliberately talking to some with direct strikes. several people i enjoyed working with our teams are still working to search for these trumps and transport them to the nearest hospital. aside is meeting with regional partners, including iran, to try to shore up support for years. he was able to beat back opposition fighters

with the help of russia, iran and his beloved. it's believe the rebels decided to strike now, knowing those allies were either weekend or distracted by their own conflicts, the, the security forces and protests of clash to gain and the georgia and capital to police see with thousands, arriving against the suspension of tools. on joining the european union, police of use was a candidate to a gas to disperse the crowds. pro even demonstrates as a gathering in front of the parliament buildings the 5th consecutive nights, place a detainer board and 200 people since their values began. my correspondence, maria kinds of mansa into police. he has been following the protest since they've begun in late october. the protests us to and going to the capital city space as well as in other major toms. we understand that the protest is such to grow even

larger, just by the police wireless that we have seen on the streets more than 200 people have been already detained and more than 40 people were injured. not the process. also under heavy attacks, several journalists were injured and several, during this will already have been already arrested. and the government is sending you back tracking on the statements. now suggesting that the you integration is not actually frozen. despite the fact that the prime minister states a few days ago that the u integration is frozen until 2028 and the government is rejecting the budget. now these sort of contradiction is swimmingly, ain't as using the tensions and, you know, call me the public rage. but the prototypes, those to determine they demand new elections and they say that they have to return

to the european cost. so the pro us impressed with us so long as the robust really solves that, she's not ready to step down to still remains the president's the monday expires in the sun box. she claims that the government is illegitimate, suggesting that she will leave the office only after the elections one the. * them and to be able to relax. and you mentioned some of the presidents you'll be by threats. uh, as a senior fellow at the georgian foundation for strategic and international studies is also a form, a diploma was held various positions in georgia. is ministry of foreign affairs and those ones that countries i'm boss of that to the okay, welcome to data. and let's start with the issue that seems to me, but with that, thank you. let's solve the issue but seems to be the hoss of these disturbances. best accessions of a you, when the prime minister says he is not spending anything to do with the integration,

should we believe him? well, it's about which of his words we should believe because he's worst contradict. from day to day. we should believe he's actions and uh, sadly, george's really integration with the european union has been, um, basically, uh, stopped a long ago. it was just a final confession that this regime has stopped pretending that they are taking georgia into the again junior. and they do not want to be so, so to be fab ain't here with ted phrase georgia's application at just a month after granting a tons of it states us. yes. and for a good reason, because this regime has been building a russian style power vertical instead of implementing the reforms that are

necessary to comply with the european criteria. so in words, uh for more than a decade, like i said, eventually the goldman has been signing the association agreement, the deepen for your comprehensive free trade deal with their jr. a reality they've been building in russian style regime. a getting very close with russia, including economics me just to give you an example after signing the dcf, ga, instead of re orienting george's foreign trade towards the union. russia became the number one trade partner. so help us understand what's going on inside the country . if, as you believe a georgia dream is heading towards russia, why don't they say so? why say we love your while your actions and betray otherwise? the reason is very simple, because absolute majority of georgia is want to be to live in the european

democracy. more than 80 percent of georgia is consistently tell to the pollsters that they want the membership condition union and more than 70 percent. say that they want to be part of nato. and the you want to shoot, a government came to power. he won't, they won't power based on there's problems that they would continue. the pro is the pause, but instead they turned out to be a russian trojan horse that's very short in i'm not sure what the situation is. george's want to leave in the european democracy. and the only god who was wealth is compatible to a quarter or even more of the george, indeed jude, if he wants to build a, an oligarchs stream, it's not a georgia dream like a cold or party. it's the only got stream. and so now we have a stand off between the president, 2 ways to, to step down with me says she will not be and she's standing up to the, the prime minister who has been really impacted. how do you think that stand off

will? and the 1st, not only deep this president doesn't recognize the legitimacy of the newly formed the government, but not a single democratic partner of georgia has recognized that these elections where free and fair and therefore the government that was formed at the back of it is a legitimate, one of the opposition believes and o reputable observers believe that the combined or physician has one and that the votes were stolen, the election was reeked. various members relations where use the pressure was applied to the voters of who would bind, but also the ballot. staffing, which is registered, which is a recorded on videos, and there is other technologies borrowed from russia. we're used, i mean the,

at this election in november. if i misread the regime, use older methods by which russia has been appointed and has been establishing the bar vertical 1st by stealing the votes. and then basically, by consolidating what seems so close to barbara to go. this election was basically an attempt to solidify to, to consolidate very gene which is much more like the represents, it looks and resembles the russian system and not that of the european union. okay, so why do we all event is? georgia has apparently a stolen election violence, clashes on the streets, and you talks and now frozen. why does it go from there as well? the ideal scenario would be if the machine breaks down and basically

agrees with the demands of the president or the opposition and many o r parkers and a host, a new fair and 3 election which would be monitored and maybe even administered by our international partners bugs new election would be the only way out to these prices, except that the government says no to a new election. so that would be your ideal. which way do you do? do think it will go? well, at the moment um, every day of solvers intensive, sales are sometimes hundreds of thousands. georgians are taken to the streets and they are demonstrating their will. this is almost unprecedented that no just in police, but in old george in towns and cities, you have a huge number of people coming out and making their voices heard. the government so

far is responding with violence. and um, and unfortunately, like i said, it would be ideal if the goldman simply listened to the georgian people listened to the international partners of georgia. well, the alternative is, is not very nice. but haven't we seen this movie before as you were speaking, we were looking at that film of a fireworks and people in the streets, which reminded me of the themes that we saw in ukraine in 2014. and we can see where that ended is georgia having in the same direction. well, i hope you don't proposing for us to simply comply with the rest of the regime. georgians are freedom loving people. we fought for our independence in the late eighty's. in early nineties, we fold against much more for me to bowl and then meet russia when,

when it invaded georgia, we would not surrender that easily. and guess if it takes a real fight, we'll probably have to fight. i'm not sure we can count on anyone else to, to, to do our business. if georgia wants to remain an independent democratic country, then people must make their voices heard. so, so bring analysis and we thought of going for it. georgie beds, right. so from the georgian foundation for strategic and international studies, thank you so much. thank you. not was the day a more dw, don't com, a good day, the

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