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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 rel, advanced marks the most serious development, the searing war since 2020 authorities and 11, and say at least 9 people were killed in is rarely strikes on to southern villages . there was the heavy is attack since a ceasefire between israel. milton group has the law, i came into force last week. israel says it targeted rocket launchers and terrors, infrastructure in response to cease fire violations by has the law. this is dw is berlin. and remember, you can get much more news on our website. that's d, w dot com. the are also one time as president. no, i'm running again. now. hang on button, come on a run. no, i absolutely will not pause my son to face tax and drug crimes. that again,

us president joe biden's face and criticism and mockery for his latest bout to flip flop ray, a grunting his son hunter, a full and unconditional pod. just weeks before leaving the wise house. so who get less out when the new guy arrives in january? i'm feel galen bedding. this is the day. the extremely proud of my son hunter is overcome in addiction. he is. he's one of the greatest most decent man i know. i said i'd probably by the jury decisions. i will do that and i will not part of the present binding sit. so looking at the facts of the case, you concluded that 100 by 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 reading georgia dream poverty of turning its back on b e u, and pursuing the north for a terry and pro russia pass of george's want to leave into european democracies. and the only god whose 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 aspect. he's son hunter, a possible, a prison to my grunting him a full unconditional part and faced federal convictions for the tax on firearms

offences. despite and heavy criticism, the president said his sons case was so polarized, so excuse me, so politicized. he had no choice you as president joe biden leaves for an overseas trip just hours after announcing his pardon his son hunter bite and had previously said he would not interfere with the judicial process. but on sunday, he went back on his word in a statement buttons that his son was being unfairly 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 firearms 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. 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. and 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 would send a mass, a favor 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 is concerned about is that a 100 button has to spend some time in jail that the people in the trump administration, either donald trump or others around him, are, could basically take retribution against him by putting him in solitary confinement . 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 claims. but this is by no which we can see. it is splitting the democratic party. i'm 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 president. is that dad 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 good afraid of it. come 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 i don't that just just just just on that point, god forgive me for interrupting but putting his son in harm's way. didn't he? son put himself in harm's way when he broke the little of course,

and you should have gone to jail. so what he did no question about it. certainly on the gun charge, 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 bind, or to do other things with hunter by them that were not justified. donald trump is 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 the case when she was ag, in florida, into trump university, and return for a $25000.00 campaign contribution. he's got his 2 criminal defense lawyers as

guns to be discussed 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 call man or ford or got him. i basically told him if he hung tightening didn't cooperate, he'd be pardoned the pardon roger stone, who is also his political advisor, who was convicted of covering up for donald trump. and on top of that, all donald trump, pardon his son in laws, father who's now appointed to be in bassett, or the french. okay. so what you're saying is that phase 2 presidents present and a form and soon to be a good, there is 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, i mean, as well as on turbine. 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? it consequences to the extent that you hit on before clearly. um, this is not great in the sense that it's gonna give donald trump presumably some cover when he tries to pardon when he does, pardon. i've been january 6 defendants and other people that he's pardoned. and even though there is not really, that's a false equivalency between the 2 main. first of all, if you take the criminal charge on the 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's 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 one real 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 the door, i can just turn around and say to you, you knew what the slightly doesn't matter what you did of you go that. that just seems like a we had role. 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 i 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 accurate and former assistant us attorney over washington pro forma was a gate prosecute to thank you. thank you sir, i'm it sound like rush i have conducted joint as strikes on average stuff in northern syria under rebel control over the weekend. and so i was just, i by to heidi group, took over the 2nd biggest city a laptop that also advancing in neighboring home, a 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 were 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. serious army chief traveled 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 of left, both iconic citadel and its airport syrian and russian war plains bomb to level. after it was overrun, it only took a few days for the rebels to jo at 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 al assad, the wave into the city center, stone, ping on your head. god willing, we will find you. you pig in a little city, a rather controlled stronghold in the north. people are 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. i'm the vision forces, deliberately talking to date, 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 believed the rebels decided to strike. now, knowing those allies were either weekend or distracted by their own conflicts, security forces and protests as of clash to gain and the george and capitol to police see with thousands arriving against the suspension of tools. on joining the european union, police of used was a cannon into a gas to disperse the crowds, pro even demonstrations, a gathering in front of the parliament building to the 5th consecutive night. place a detainer board and 200 people, since survivors began my correspondence, maria kinds of mansa into police. he has been following the protest since they 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 assessed to grow

even larger this 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. um, not the process also under heavy attacks. several during this, what is it and several done. this will already have been already arrested. the, the government is sending you back the tracking on the statements. now suggesting that the you integration is not actually frozen. um the spies uh the fact that the prime, minnesota states a few days ago that the used to gratian is frozen until 2028 and the government is rejecting the budget. now these sort of contradiction is seemingly aimed at using the tensions and, you know, combing the public rage with the pro testers feel determined they

the most 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 says that she's not ready to step down to still remain the president either go on mondays expires in december. she claims that the government is illegitimate, suggesting that she will leave the office only after the elections when the parliament will be able to relax in you. visiting with the president you will be by threats that is a senior fellow at the georgian foundation for strategic and international studies . is also a form, a diplomat, without various positions and georgias ministry of foreign affairs. and those ones that come to some boxes that to the okay, welcome to data. let's start with the issue that seems to me about 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 that in your integration, should we believe him as well? it's about which of his words we should believe because he's where it's 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 the long ago. it was just a final confession that this regime has stopped pretending that they are taking georgia into the dns union and they don't understand. so teresa being 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 company has a free trade deal with their between union 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 t a, instead of a 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 and the pin union and more of the 70 percent. say that they want to be part of later, and the you want to shoot, the government came to power. he won't, they won't power based on this 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 intended, 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 only god stream, it's not a georgia dream like a cold or a party. it's the only gods to 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 about stand off will and the 1st, not only deep this president does not recognize the legitimacy of the newly formed government, but not a single democratic partner of georgia has recognized that these are elections were 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 read. the 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 were

used. i mean, the, at this election in november, if i misread the regime, use all the 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 self close to bar vertical, this election was basically an attempt to solidify to, to consolidate very gene which is much more like go represents, it looks and resembles the russian system and not that of the european union. okay, so where do we all event is? georgia has apparently a stolen election violence, clashes on the streets, and you told me 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 the menu of all our parkers. and polls in new fair and free election, which would be monitored and maybe even administered by our international partners . but new election would be the only way out to this price, 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 in terms of 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 the least, but in the 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, and unfortunately, like i said, it would be ideal if the goldman simply listened to the georgian people listens 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 a savings that we saw in ukraine in 2014. and we can see where that ended is georgia having in the same direction as 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

filed against much more for me to bowl, and then me, 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 or 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 for analysis and we fighting for it. uh georgie beds. right. so from the georgian foundation for strategic and international studies. thank you so much. thank you or not was the day a more dw, don't come of a good day. the

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