the zones, i'm afraid i'll never see him again. no way. oh you lost under the dogs december 18th on dw, the this is dw news live from berlin and 91. i called slammed the opposition for toppling the government. the french president, the keys, is the political extremes of working together to cause chaos after they brought down his prime minister and a no confidence vote. also coming up here in insurgents, inter hama, after pushing out government forces pressure mounts on president assault. as rebels rapidly sees territory, the i'm any so welcome to the program. french president, a manual not call has given

a defined television address a day after his prime minister. last historic no confidence vote. nicole said he would appoint a new premier within days following the resignation of me, shut about me, but gave no hints as to who it might be like home blamed his opponents in the far right and the far left for the defeat, doing them of choosing disorder over cooperation to pass a budget. nicole also rejecting calls the step down before his term ends in 2027 inches on public, corresponded lisa louie is following developments in paris. we asked her about claims from some unhappy french that the country is becoming ungovernable. what it is, it's, it, it is income level right now, but the question is it change that france does not have a culture history of correlation, a governments, but my call it tonight that we need to change that basically it's a different need to get a grip the different possibilities on the table,

for example, it could be a socialist president, it could be a for a social is prime minister, a prime minister from the green party, or from a centrist policy, that would either corporate with other moderate policies directly, or that that would that would be some kind of note aggression passed between the prime minister party and other policies that would actually, you know, support the government. if so, if you read lines were not crossed, this is what font is aiming for. what the president in monro at fault is aiming for once for this country. kennedy chief, but we will see over the coming months, correspondent leisurely in paris. rebel forces have in syria, have captured the city of hama. it's a major victory for the coalition of anti government forces, as they advance rapidly across the country. the loss of hama as a mass of blow to president bashar assad, who with russia occupied with ukraine and has blood. and now diminished is looking

increasingly isolated as a position site is into the city and city of hama. after 3 days of intense fighting. the groups lead a size that here to clean up a 40 year old roomed. the city, an army says it's redeployed, its forces from the city to the outskirts in order to protect civilian lives. it's another blow to president special assad, hama is one of the few major cities outside the capital to the main on the full government to control. so out the nearly 14 years of serious civil war it's capture comes just days of to is the mr. rebels rested to control overlapping the country. second city from government forces. many previous, the display civilians are overjoyed at being able to attend to the city of to more

than a decade away. as part of the deal is indescribable words cannot describe how unhappy we are. it's such an incredible feeling. after all this time we returned to a level smelt the sentinel level and walk through it, streets the streets. we could never forget into that had we have a semblance of normality as we tend to the left side streets since the rebels take over. but there have been reports of shortages of essential goods and services and traffic piling up in the streets and meets the i'm searching for the south. honda is strategically located in central sylvia. it's seen as crucial for assets forces to hold, to retain control of the capital, damascus. it's captcha has some people in the capital concerned. definitely. everybody is scared of the huffman of apples. there's tons and people

are worried. everyone is concerned. we did not expect this to happen, but we have hope this is the situation stabilizers and shuttle and returns to the way it was and better off to capture a la carte. and how much the rebel offensive looks set to continue the insurgents say they're ready to head south, the homes, the countries 3rd largest city, and the next may just stop on the march to damascus, into the country of georgia. and after a week of anti government protest, prime minister is threatening to eliminate the political opposition to directly come by kinsey accused protesters of what he called liberal fascism which echoes language often use by russia. demonstrators have begun the 2nd straight week of protest, some of the government's decision to suspend talks, and joining the european union in the capital to believe see, the government's response has been increasingly violent. the w, as maria cut the mazda reports violence on the streets of

police, the police trying to suppress and type government protests which have been going on for a week. now right, scripts have counted more than 250 people injured sofa. the colors really is a literary translator. he was at the protest, bozeman, they grabbed me, they searched to face me, and then they directed me to the police, ben and they continued to between their, besides the police for using a well go online about demonstrators being radicals, vaguely, a repeating the football game though the georgian dreams like that we want large like against russia. how testers collapse and display the faces of those. they say, have also been beaten by the police in the last few days. all sorts of people have been hard, including local gentlemen. and here you can see the rest of me because bar on you, one of the opposition leaders,

members of his potties say he was beaten unconscious and detained on wednesday, georgia in prime minister iraq vehicle. but he's a thank the police for their work, inviting opposition, party offices, as well as what they've been doing on the streets. does the government feel shame? what are they doing? the closer to the hotels most common? there's no reason for the civil sondra. this is try me. so is that it's total them is the, is it, the government is against the use. you guys have the 36 with capital by the government is not reacting to people's voices shemika john and using violence to silence the use and reason, the georgians followed up more as it on the car. totally small, many lectures and students are on stride, but not everyone byzantine below, as you progress to live on gig, initially suppose they've link potty to suggest some demonstrates as i agitating for revolution, like ukraine in 2014, i think they do a trial to create kind of

a thing they say sort of my gun. there are very sincere students. they went by this idea that the georgia is europe and policies canceled. and we should, we should set as joey opium feature. there are also low those. so students, so a professional ocean was young people take time out from the cold in a church, close to the parliament where the main demonstrations are how every 4 months and the prayer before returning to the coast outside that report from dw as maria cut the monte earlier we asked her whether the protesters have a long term plan. well, i think that the probably nobody knows how this protests might end up as people here. so though, no, they say that we don't have any, any other options, any other change, we can only take to the streets. we can only sort of demand what and what they're demanding that demanding a new elapses. because many people here say that the capacity selections one week

to buy their own policies on the 2nd demand is to return to the european top. many to tell me that they don't want the pollution 90 say that we want peaceful sort of a peaceful demonstrations to continue on to pressure on the government. but it's the government is ready to focus on. we don't see any signs uh, as of now and now to some of the stories making headlines around the world. to iceland, outgoing government has granted permits to to wayland companies until 2029 animal rights activists condemned the decision that will allow the killing of around $400.00 wales each year from 2 species. iceland, norway, in japan, are the only countries that allow commercial wailing after many species were hunted to the brink of extinction. in the 19 sixty's, the top diplomats of ukraine, poland, and estonia walked out of a speech by russian foreign ministers. 30 lab rough at the o. s. c e summit,

and malta. this was after labor of accuse the west of provoking a direct conflict with russia. it's his 1st visit to an e. u country since russian's full scale invasion of the print authorities in the us of withdrawn ice. nami warning after an earthquake struck off the pacific coast. the relatively shallow magnitude. 7 quake struck about 70 kilometers off the coast of northern california in a sparsely populated area. roads in the states, california in oregon, became conte, with the traffic as people attempted to flee further inland. the national weather service initially issued a phenomena warning that covered almost $5000000.00 people, including the san francisco area. as before announcing that the coast was clear. and let's cross over to matthew pg me, you're all just an atmosphere, a scientist who joins me now from washington. d. c. thanks for being on the show. so that the phenomena warning was issued because the epicenter of the earthquake

was just off the coast of california. but then the wave never came. so do we know why not? yes, it has to do with how the actual slip on the real quick to place this real quick was about 70 kilometers on shore in northern california, a magnitude 7. so it's a pretty happy earthquake, but we know there was something called a striking slip. earthquake basically lateral motion on something called the mendocino fracture zones of basically like little strip where to place are moving past each other. so that's where it happened. that's why, you know, there are signs that most not really much up and down and you need me up and down to generate a so now, i mean, but the interesting part of this particular real quick was that it was near a series of different false. we call it the mendocino triple junction and so this earthquake wasn't really a bad one, wasn't really impact the one. but it's near the category of seduction zone, where a bigger place goes underneath north america, the quantity of the play, it goes underneath north america. that's what we were do for a mega thrust quake,

which could cause us and i mean, well down the road and it's also near the san andreas fault. so even though today's situation wasn't very impactful, the question is, it's stress that was released from this earthquake added stress elsewhere that could impact either of those falls. but there was an earthquake that was felt by people, even if there wasn't a big wave that came. so did that cause any damage there for the most part and no, not too much to really foresee that this is in northern california. i'm sure he rica and it's kind of sparsely populated there. the other thing too, you know, the rock out there has so many active thoughts and all these thoughts kind of crushed together and the crunchiness of the falls does a better job of dispersing real quick energy. so, you know, on the east coast again look way it go very far and talking about people on the west coast. the scene earthquake didn't impact as many people as far away because you have more of the energy sort of dispersed by the crashing of the falls. so northern california, they had some shaken, you're still having earthquakes and after shots right now, but it was not as severe an event as it could have been. case of crunchy faults are

a good thing in this case. you referred to this earlier, the, the big one as science assembly sometimes call it, and they expect a major earthquake in california, and they've been expecting that for awhile now. how can you predict something like this, and is it overdue? now, as it is over do what the issue is. we can predict it on the order of hundreds of years, which isn't necessarily helpful for people who are, are living there. we know that at some point, probably in my lifetime, i'm 27 right now. probably in my lifetime, or at least my kids lifetime. there will be a significant mega thrust earthquake offshore in the pacific northwest when northern california and make it for us is when a dense oceanic plate, the point if you could play some ducks or goes underneath the north american plate . and in doing so that will cost us equal to up and down the ladder or down vertically like this. and that would lead, you're a pretty significant. so, you know, i mean, in addition to serious shaping at the coastline. however, we can't offer any more specifics. these plates might only move, say,

a couple of centimeters per year, but that's adding a lot of stress and a lot of stress winter rusher takes place when that stress is released. we can't exactly be sure. so it's a game of a centimeters, but over the course of years and years and years. and everybody's kind of waiting and watching, holding their breath. and some people look at the smaller quakes like this is a kind of dress rehearsal. did they pass the test? this time does that look like california is prepared for something bigger. california is very advanced, earthquake early warning system to the point where trains will stop ahead of time. people get something called shaking their on their phone, which notifies them with an emergency wireless alert. basically saying, hey, or quick shaking like 10 seconds. so the system works. people got the message, the emergency alert system went off. the issue that we're seeing and this is a, a sort of social science issue, is that even if people get a warning, they go elsewhere to confirm before taking nations. they go on social media, they turn on the tv and they sort of waste these extra minutes. try to get a 2nd opinion before they take action. so it's impaired people just keep the

morning, do it right then without getting a 2nd opinion. okay, you know, i'll just matthew pushy. thank you very much. thank you to and you're up to date. i'm on the needs of stay with us. the

of the decades of car century planning. brisbin, australia is upgrading. it's public transport. it's putting a new kind of trackless tram on the road and tunneling, a new train line under the river. will it convince people to finally get out of their cars and categories been fixed, its transit in time for the olympic games? the i am obsessed with public transport. it is essential to cleaning and greeting cities. everywhere i go, i take trains, buses, tramps, and fairies to get to know a city. and it's people. i'm looking for ideas that other locations can coffee and

mistakes that they should avoid. welcome to brisbin, also increasingly known by its indigenous name engines. it's a sub tropical city with close to 3000000 residents across its extended region. if you haven't heard much about the city yet, you will see because in 2032, it will host the olympic and power olympic games and it's public transport system will be vital to getting people to it stadiums. but today, the city is dominated by cars. governments have invested usually in a network of underground highways, but comparatively little in other forms of transit. the results experts now right brisbin as one of the worst cities in australia for public transport. while it's roads keep getting busy, the place is becoming pretty low. they get the right to jason is getting worse, and worse drivers can waist around 60 hours these here and take our traffic

according to the royal goals and we'll deal club of queens learned pay tower on some right so, so a lot of ways we do have congestion and some of that is changing. we have strong population growth and all we have total enterprise construction activity. grades improvement is the fastest growing region to distribute. the population is expected to double by 2050. and all those new residents are bringing more vehicles. even car drive is a colleague of better boston training systems. if you're a buddy taurus, the best way of giving a suggestion is to have the person who would have been in the context. you might have choice to use public transport. paul, to ride the bus is brisbin, gets around 79 percent of journeys are made in private vehicles and only 10 percent by public transport. the vast majority of public transport journeys, 68 percent

a made by bus about one stood by a train and a small number by fairy brisbin once had a substantial tram network which carried little passengers. the old loads of public transport due today. but during the 19 sixty's car craze, and after a big fire at the depot, the tribes were scrapped. these remaining trucks are simply historical. today, brisbin, public transport system runs mostly on buses. as a fleet of like a 1200 bosses both standard and bio take you late is also known as vending your phenomena. but the vast majority run on the diesel and get on the a handful of electric, some scenic birds run across the iconic story bridge with the panoramic views of the city skyline. now my favorite thing about the buses is the politeness of most passengers listen to how they strike the driver when they're disembarking

the bus system received a major upgrade about 2 decades ago when the city built a rapid bus, transitory adult with separated high speed bostwick transport experts say the bus waste one thing brisbin got right. brisbin bust system works just fine. you can leave on one of these high speed bus white station. but for river ultimate city need a lot of patience. some routes run early every half hour or every hour. that makes it really hard to find a journey. the heavy train system is a radio network with several lines bringing passengers from across the region into brisbin city center trains carry about a 3rd of all public transport uses. but that's only around 3 percent of the things total. john, there are 10 lines including one to the airport. some lines offer fantastic to use, like a regional trains running north, which cost right below the volt tenant cord,

of the magazine gloss house, mountains. but most people don't live near a train station. there's no circle one connecting the outer district, and many services run infrequently, according to public transport advocates robust dow. that leads some passengers feeling. first, the round network is characterized by low frequency, particularly as you move out of the in a cool. now that makes it very difficult to use it. typically when it's connected to by low frequency pass surfaces and connections become a not man. and it's not unusual, but they left the white house in there. now you've got a guy. the lego club has a day of while you're waiting for the tri as the train network is constrained, 5 bottleneck added score. this rail bridge is the only trained connection over the brisbin river, but the same natural barrier is put to use for fairies. there are

several waterborne rooms traversing the river, connecting to parks, museums, and universities. the big chasm miranda called for the cat to little boats. i called to take care fairies only carry around 3 percent of public transport passengers, but they're very popular, especially with visits. this is my favorite form of public transport in prison to ferry. you get to see all the important sites on the river. and many of the services are free for the paid city cat services. security works just like on buses and trying to tag on and off with a tough top of transit costs for any credit cards. then just enjoy the ride bus upgrades are coming north least because brisbin has been named post the city of

the 2032 olympic and power. olympic gaines. the main ceremonies will be held at an expanded stadium at will and gab, just across the river from the city center to reach the stadium and resolve that problem. medic, single bridge bottleneck work is underway on the new cross river rail lines to massive boring machines have dug twin 5.9 kilometers tunnels. now for new stations of being fitted out and are expected to open up to 2025. but i couldn't wait that long to have a look across the river rail team, letting me take a tour of the under construction will and get a station the main the engineers here took lessons from other major tunneling projects around the world. one of the things we've had here in prison is we find entirely in wrong some

of the other projects around the world, whether we're in hong kong or maybe in london, they've had to deal with fly and fans. and in terms of ground support, yes, it's hotter to hold up soft fly than it is to talk about how that rock which has a natural tendency to hold other learnings from cross raleigh london is probably one of the more advanced mode and technological under umbrellas and so we have learning the lessons around platforms trained on integration signaling system and building those lessons across the river. out a new european trained control system will allow trains to run at higher frequencies. some say this rail tunnel should have been built decades ago, but blanket train, it's better late than never where it's been has another fascinating transport development in the what they're calling it. the metro, the most contentious thing about the metro is its name. it isn't an underground

train line or subway these electric vehicles. still quite a switch company has looked like a tramp bus. they run on rubber wheels. some called is a type of trackless trend. other say, it's a glorified bus. whatever they're called, the vehicles will run down prisons existing bus way at peak frequencies of 5 minutes. so why didn't brisbin just build the tram? now system itself has the benefit that the you for structure. so i, we have, i, extensive boss must y system which is dedicated purely for the use of the public transport bus operations. if the infrastructure is there and can be repaired at best, it's a far more cost effective. so ition to reintroduce a rubber tile. it did go with its charging system that it is to introduce some light rouse system. the next step up in the, in the public transport capacity high rock to the metro's battery electric vehicles

can carry around 170 pass engines. that's about as many as an articulated or bendy butts. light rail can handle around 300 passengers. power train and light rail was considered here, but the bus was still needs to accommodate regular buses. so full conversion to steel trucks wasn't possible. the trend fans may be disappointed more cities around the world, a likely to select this kind of system due to its low cost and flexibility transport advocate. robin dow sees it as a hospitalization d things. brisbin needs a real metro. now this visual metro appliances i said on the temporary thing and market, so it's not going to work for that long. the market is up to the olympics, maybe not. but it really start thinking about some serious trial capacity in the, in the core prison. and my to waco in south weiss, he thinks brisbin could triple its current public transport journey share of 10

percent with a single integrated transit authority, more rapid services, and better costs connections to the train stations. i think we can get to 3040 percent if we do what we need to do, right, i'm gonna have to do it. we can keep using cost in the why that would be using to allow that size to happen. we've got to get the public transport network brought right, which gets back to having a proper authority, doing the things that are assigned to mental, frequent connected. it says a goal, it's as simple as that. with as low frequency buses and distant train stations, you can really understand why people infringement prefer to get around by car. the upgrade is coming in terms of the olympics like the track was tram and the underground train line will help visit is get around without a problem. but residents will be hoping that those kind of expansion re projects

work and which again, transport in brisbin magine is accelerating. often decades in the slow lane. other cities trying to transition away from cars can learn from its experiments and with the olympics and paralympics on the way the world will be watching to see if chris but can get into the public transport back on track to name some more about home the abilities changing the world next time on risk. the exciting part costs know on tv. my fee is and with i'm going to be a good long there always you can defend yourself that you can stand up for your front brake, understand what is it like to come out when you're married? how does on mental health impact a lot of life between east to west or the cross? is right in the middle of the world around germany. it's getting more dangerous. we

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