things 13 minutes on the w, sometimes the best sound, right? how that you out to the highlight for every week. not the not the . this is dw news and these are top stories. french president, a manual and i call has given a defiant television address. the day after is prime minister a step down after losing a historic no confidence vote. not home blamed his opponents on the far right and the far left for the defeat. accusing them of damaging the nation. he said he'd choose a new prime minister in the coming days. syrian rebel forces have taken control of the strategically important north western city of hama, marking the latest advance in a week long, offensive against the syrian government troops. it's a new set back for the syrian regime of president bashar,

all assad government ended ally. russia have responded to the rebel gains with airstrikes in earthquake off the us. west coast triggered east nami warning, and the state of california and oregon roads were clogged with traffic as people attempting to flee in land. magnitude 7 quakes struck in the pacific ocean about 70 kilometers off the coast of northern california. the sonoma warning was withdrawn after about an hour. this is dw news from berlin. there's a lot more on our website, that's the w dot com. as the france is, without a government and many blame the president showed by muse tenure as french prime minister was shorter than any other in modern french history. and his departure leaves the monument my call with no one to help him steer much needed reforms

through the grid locked parliament. today, my call address the nation to explain his side of things, and surprisingly, he doesn't see the land line with him and a defined specie. urge the left and right in the country to find new ways to compromise and he vowed to stay on until the end of his term. but can he undergo really in berlin? and this is the day the france has no prime minister, no government, a no budget. this, this is the logical conclusion of what brands and its law makers are at the moment a mess. all this political turmoil was prompted by 5. the over frances, such as it's complicated, i don't think anybody's happy i don't have any illusion that

a new government will help. meanwhile, the person really calling the shots and friends politics as far right leader marine was also on the day syrian rebels drive government forces from the key city of homo pressure is mounting on president bush, charlotte stubbs. could this be the beginning of the end for as regime? it is in situations like the one we face today. when you saw everything feels most at risk. and this is important that the regime previously on lease chemical weapons on its own people welcome to the day we started to 9th in france, where a political crisis is deepening after the resignation of prime minister michelle, by me, frances shore, to serving from your last vote of no confidence in parliament yesterday and to move supported by the left and the far right. it was the 1st time a french government had been voted down by parliament in more than 60 years. that

rams up the pressure on president, the money of my call, was struggling to pass and lunch needed reforms and addressing mounting economic concerns. now, addressing the nation today, my call said he would have pointed successor to barney soon, and that he himself would stay in office until the end of his mandates in 2027. about you'll do it will be such a new book nobility to come from today. a new era must be good for to where every while the most on for from a new compromises must be built. and it does all best go to this because we must be on the vicious with fronts be cut also full to remain and not to put needed. this is your in the coming days, i will a point of prime minister. i will charge him with finding a government of representing old political forces with assault me on the, on the prime minister will have to conduct his consultations and form a tight government at your service. and the person who put me in useful harmony

sequencing this to his priority will be the subject of a special law. will be tabled before mid december in parliament in west seattle. so how they pose a, i've only list temper or the little said will allow the continuity of public services and public life continued to this obvious beat in the independent. oh, okay, talking about this one journalist daniel brown, who joins us from paris. daniel, further in my call says he wants to find a prime minister who represents all political forces. is there anyone in france or on the planet right now who fits that bill? well, it's going to be a hard fits niko, for that hot seed. so given the uncompromising attitude displayed by president by chloe in the speech, so the next are which you to shoot, so that there was no hints of a co habitation in the style of se springs. and given the relentless series of defeats, my call is now since the decision to call elections in july,

it would take a break price. and so think that they could easily govern minority governments in a pilot means to be 3 hostile blocks and only see or believe it could be those extra incentives to also available or the conservative a suggestion of calling you who is currently the minister of a defense of the lease analyst, i also think that it could be due state test state. now she's part of the left wing of the socialist party as well as the compromised proposition of the attentive the coalition in september. that's of back home, more or less rejected on the side of hands, but now we're starting to warm or deep. hence that maybe someone in the blog can be detached of gusty is a former financial director to paris municipalities. and today she said, she's ready to assume that role and this would respect the results of the july

legislative. so where her coalition king 1st with a relative majority, those legislators were a gamble. my co talk today, he spoke to the people rejecting any kind of blame for the state frances in, is he correct? you know, clearly, you know, it was his decision. it took everyone by surprise to dissolve the national assembly into to call legislative elections in, in june that took place a few weeks later, it was a total of misunderstanding of the realities and dynamics of the country. and so it's population. he continues to feel of, you know, that he's somehow above the malay and he doesn't seem to be listening to the anger in the streets. and so there's a lassitude of incense in p is space southern and is desired to

go all the way through. with his mandates to 2027. he repeated that service, evenings, 13 months to routing the population together to you folks to know today and the, you know, the, the, the huge, a reconstruction of this cathedral incentive paris and the paris olympic spirits, isaac, this was the way that the country must be co governs in a kind of national rallying of the troops of but so i think the are the given this rather smoke ends of the arrogance, the attitude which seems to dog and be consistent throughout is not that it's a to mandates. it's going to be difficult for able to to continue that position, i think. and it's a long time until 2027 isn't good. do you think he's going to survive that long as well? he is protected by the constitution. any change outside thing about this co in any

idea of a resignation, political fantasy. as i say to you, he refused to take a responsibility for the no confidence motion. that was folks it through the 1st time ever in the face, the republic here i think that was created in 1958 seats. the re runs history a um in terms of how it's his responsibility for that. um, so i think that's a put me and he will be to text it as i say, by the constitution of the streets of par. uh, do have a role. and today, there was a national striking, the public sector touching education, health the transports of and you know, there's genuine finder industries. and we've seen that the streets in the past and parents have managed to, to push through, you know, the best move. and so a certain changes, but so my calling caesar of to reading these types of anger and it doesn't seem

like he's going to fall in, in the 13 months ahead. one way or another the far right. and we're reading the pen especially, must be watching all of those and rubbing her hands. oh yeah. i mean the, all the attention is censored on how to use make curved things. and how it was, thanks to her parties ability to, to uh well go through with another uh, no confident solution that i don't want to at all besides the, because it's not accurate. so of the 2 parties. so the coalition and f t party, which is a broad coalition including the ecology piracy, and the social is $56.00 as well as the genuine list when socialist slipped by me on some of that they are not on the same level. they are republican and contrary

to the national a, the, those are the national friends, the parking parts the live by marine the time, which is january extreme right wing parties and quite nc republican in many ways. but she's, yeah, the sensor, the limelight. she was the 1st to be put on national television. and so it's quite clear that she's happy with how things are going. as journalist daniel brown in paris, thanks so much. thank you. of the serial now were rebel forces have taken control of the city of hollow marking the latest advance and a week long offensive against the syrian government. troops on a is a strategically important city in the north western part of syria. it's about a 140 kilometers from the country. second largest city, a level which rebel forces took control of last week. and these are the 1st images

to emerge from hama, and have been supplied by the rebels media organization. just to be clear, the double you cannot verify when or where these images were taken. the fall of hama is another important set back for the syrian regime of president. bush are all a side, and hama is only 200 kilometers away from the capital of damascus. and one of the flash points of the country civil war is a reminder of how the conflict got to this point. a new wave of violence is exploding in syria. the front lines of the war had been frozen since 2020 leading president assad as a defect to evict to but now the conflict is threatening to re nights in a well that has changed some of the questioning the strength of his position. and whether he's capable of defeating the rebels, aside has maintained an am grip on power since taking over from his father after

his death in $22011.00. during the out of spring, he crushed pro democracy protests starting single position for years to come. throughout the close of the civil war that followed, he showed himself willing to use brutal force on his own population. he allegedly carried out a chemical weapons attack and 2013, but killed more than 200 people, including children on a pulse of damascus, held by rebels. something he's consistently denied, but by any measure aside has presided over a catastrophe in syria. under his watch, an estimated 500000 people who have been killed in the war, a 1000000 small, the false to flee or displaced. and despite the propaganda more than houses 3 and people are facing food shortages. and the economy is in free full. yet

he retains the support of parts of the population, especially minority groups such as all the whites and christians who see his secularism as it passed in against the extremist vying to take over the country. he has also derives trends from his international allies, iran. it's proxies. the militant group has paula russia. all have played a pivotal role in keeping him in power and securing military victories. but all of these acts as i now distracted all weekend in some way, making its own clear aside will be able to count on the same level of assistance and future data. some also points out that the ease with which the rebels were able to advance could mean the syrian all mean is not as strong as a side would like. and could also add to his vulnerability and determine the future of his regime. i always, you know, speak to hide, hide, he's

a consulting fellow with the middle east and north africa program at chatham house . hi, good to see you. at the city of hama is seen as of a buffer to protect the capital, damascus. how big a blow is this for a sized group on power? thank you for having me. um, i think it's a, it's massive for different reasons. one of them is related to the strategic location. as you pointed out, there's also a precedent to supply lines to cost in areas. it tools uh, control over many communities, the used to provide a manpower to the scene and regime, but also comes off the rapids to feed a uh, face uh, resume forces in the other parts of syria, the only in the country sides of the lupo. and it led by, as you mentioned, the phone of the city of april for the 1st time,

it's now under that sleep control of that, that, that position. so a lot of those a coming together as a, uh, closer to the big go to the region. yeah. and, and this, this advance has just taken place at a startling pace, hasn't it? what are the thoughts biggest vulnerabilities and how have the revels been able to seize done to um, yeah, as you mentioned, i think they the 2 main uh, part number. these are one as a limited and week and military as well as financial resources. and then more importantly, the reduce, the support, a subs has been that the, the us, so that's the receiving from, it's a allies, whether that's a russia or iran. and that's mainly due to the engagement of those

actors. and they're on a respective complex whether that's russia and ukraine or an erotic. it's a allies that cause the law against 08 and made it a. so because of those 2 factors, what happened is that when the stress defense line was uh, sort of for the street to collapse, then it was super easy for the position groups to advance to other area. so it was a house of cards that i quickly a crumbled. let me turn that questionnaire around them because aside has been embattled, as a serious leader for a really long time. was it only iranian, and russian support that has maintained him in power all these years? and they definitely play the big part in allowing us to survive. if you look at the history of the conflict as sense turned

into a military one in 2012, you would see that you run a, it's a allies into syria to support the region and allow the regime to stay in power. but it was not enough because the region continues to need no surgeries, and then the restaurant in 2015 entered the contract in syria and then gradually managed to increase a search ability to regain the territories or most of the surgery. at the start. last 2, it's a opponent or his opponents. now, at off to the, there are different factors that contributed to allowing us to empower. one of them is related to the dig of different agreements that were brokers between russia and turkey, which prevented at opposition groups from launching similar attacks over the past

4 years. and this is why i think we, we see this trend at changes to all of those factors that allows us to maintain the has that power uh, over a at least most of the areas. he controls the recent training through your set in the past that a new push for lasting piece is needed. how could that happen? and under whose leadership well, uh, now a clear way forward is uh, already, uh, sort of, uh, a designed or at least a drawing ad based on the u. n. as in ocean 2254, which created a road map for a district and parties to the conflict to reach a political agreement. now what happens after that is that many actors

viewed the conflict and syria as a frozen conflict because they have other priorities. um, because the political process was complicated and was not progressing. most of them at last interest moved that session elsewhere. now, we are in a situation where the conflict is acted again. and this is creating a momentum where international actors could again push a for a, put a ticket process. and for this to be successful, they have to put the pressure on the parties on the ground to come to the table and to reach a mutually accepted agreement. you have called the rebels resend advance, one of the most significant campaigns of serious conflict which has been going on, you know, since 2012, at least, what do you think it might mean for the region and beyond?

so what i think with the 1st will have to wait and see how will that change the conflict and syria. but if it will, that, for example, at push for a political process that will reach a peaceful and political solution to the conflict. and if that's where we're heading, then that for sure with the impact as the iran, as sort of reach an ability to and not only at projects power across the region, but also keeps applying for the law in uh, and never known. uh, so it could uh, have significant impact on the right to its networks and the reason. but if we look at the scenario in which the conflict continues to at every now and then at

witness clashes, then maybe we will continue to see syria to playing uh, sort of a disturbing and this to realizing the rules in the region and keep pushing refugees to try to make their way out of the country, those height, height of chatham house. thank you so much for all those insights. thank you. probably the surface president richard type arrow on his long promise to end violence against women and girls, but cases of sexual assault and domestic abuse remain widespread rights groups have recorded more than 400 some sites so far this year. critics accuser to on and his government of fostering a sense of impunity and an already patriarchal society. the more and more women are now taking their safety into their own hands is our corresponding julia on reports

. these women are learning to fight back twice a week. they newton and december, 4th, full, full motion, not less than many here want to know how they can defend themselves against the thoughts and harassment on the street, on public transport, or maybe even at home. some have already had threatening experiences. you know college the question about 5 years ago i was harassed in my own neighborhood. what of them? i felt anxious for a long time and even had trouble walking home alone every day is all i think it's very important to learn how to protect ourselves and to share what we've learned and we've other women know the additional instructors i should. we shouldn't have been teaching self defense to women for more than 4 years now. his courses are funded by local authorities and philip, very quickly, he tells me. so

a lot of this of the demands for self defense courses has increased deluxe in recent years. we have received inquiries from all over the country until fully booked until the end of february. unfortunately, we are living in a society where women and skills do not feel safe and the end is growing. right schools, the documents and aside say on average in turkey, at least one woman gets killed every day, often by a family member, a husband, a friend, or a lot of time. and again, particularly brutal cases make you had $99.00 to your site was in the ice and we're heading for example, those murdered in october by a former boyfriend to be headed, one of them before taking his own life. many women at twos, they took his government thing to protect them and to fostering a sense of them seem that to you in an already very patriarchal society,

the government is not implementing protection laws. it has to put criminals in jail and not let them out on the streets again. it has to give to turn punishments. we want to live to the minus of what and to give women are ignored. lemon ended right from the click that as if they don't exist, it's just not the president ridge of tie a bad one will often described himself as a champion of women's rights. his promise tougher penalties for the path of treatise comes in. the unity should violence against women is a betrayal of humanity cause i had any one who raises a hand against a woman who inflict physical or psychological violence must be punished as they deserve to mean that the primary duty of this day you go to, to women's rights activists like shit and yellen chuckle, are skeptical about such promises. in point of fact, in 2021,

allen withdrew from the stumble convention. you are being treated obliges countries to investigate and punish violence against women. but the conservative islamic groups that argued that the treaty violated traditional family values and encourage divorce. if students they may issue justified, the withdrawing from me was deemed it would encourage homosexuality. so it should start. that's the base just argument talk me that the convention is about promoting gender quantity that it should min hell grew up knowing about the quality. don't believe they have the right to can of them and oh, the husband they can then they go to manage it here in the sales defense analysis. many have assuming of you, as long as the government does not do a better job of protecting women, they have to protect themselves. and

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