are clear, if you choose become pools in a cru, see a political conflict when oh you lost the run starts december 18th on dw, the, the state of the news line from berlin impeachment loons, for south korea's president news. so ppo is attempt to impose martial law has caused a wide spread outrage and even members of his own ruling party say he's dangerous. must go. also coming up is when mister rebels head for the strategically important city, a palms taking other cities along the route are declared goal to topple president for charlotte on the

on the call for at least welcome to the program. we started in south korea. we're a military prosecutors have filed a request to band 10 top ranking officers from leaving the country. the defense ministry says the request is connected to president. he also kills hours long in possession of martial law. on tuesday, the move by june has plunged the country into political turmoil with even the leader of his own party, calling for his suspension. thousands have taken to the streets to call for his resignation, and even bigger protests are expected. over the weekend. journalists, i'm catch martin joins me now from so fabi on the impeachment vote is announced for tomorrow. how's the situation on the eve of that crucial moment in south korean politics? so i would say the it must be a hit and the software and capital is not particularly 10 spots. today was the 1st

day where really the masses soaked through the streets in big numbers. we saw a big demonstrations in downtown sol, enough fall away from where i'm standing. we had demonstrations in front of the parliamentary building and also not very far away. and then we had smaller protests at university campuses all over the country so that we can see that the momentum is building up at the most important thing is that it has to remain peaceful and calm so fast. so that's really important to note that both effects and have been mobilized to support us. there is also a heavy police presence, but everything seemed quite peaceful and stable. so fun. so for us, protest today, unit is being investigated for treason and even his own party is turning against him. what options does he have to politically survive this? so many experts are arguing that his options, uh, almost 0 that there are no good options anymore. i mean,

it is very likely that tomorrow the motion of impeachment movie passed. i mean, the opposition already has a huge majority within the parliament, and it only needs a couple of politicians from the humans own party to support this bill and then it will pass. but let's just hypothetically assume this bill will not be passed even in that case the public pressure is so high. i mean, the pressure also by the media, by the civil society, by the average people, i mean 7 out of 10 korean statistic, the support and impeachment of human and i'm sure that number, but on the right. so i think this basically no option for him to swipe this politically. at least it doesn't seem very likely. the opposition does fair though that the president might try to declare martial law again before the impeachment. how realistic to think that is i think those are rooms that are not very realistic. i mean it's uh how to look into the minds of

president june. so if you all with a he would really be so irrational and try a 2nd attempt of a martial law. i mean this, i cannot answer whether he would try to do so. but what i can tell you is that the chances of success are also literally 0 because he doesn't have control of over the mid a tree. the defense minister has already stated that he will not obey any orders of imposing another time of martial law. and the public as against this uh the media is against this, so i don't see any reason or any way how this could possibly work. so i would say um, it remains relatively calm here. i think a fee of a 2nd muscle attempt is really not justified the events of, of these past days, we have startled markets and korea's allies around the world. what is the impact of the, all of this on the wider region? so i would not overstate the impact yet. i think the worst case scenario that could

happen is if we have really a crisis of power that will be ongoing. that will last for several of me, weeks and months. in that case, they put that dangerous because we have north korea not far away. and of course, the regime and appealing, young might assume that it could be an historic chance to abuse this vacuum of power if that's really a crisis of government. but again, this is really unlikely, i mean, right now the military is on high alert and, and it, it least that's my interpretation that the democracy here in south korea was really tested, also tested quite seriously, but so far, the civil society, the institutions, etc. i have all proven to be quite stable and i think we're really on the, on a good track that everything will remain a peaceful comment that there might be some form of power transition. but really in a, in a very legal and order the way. thank you, those fabia and test manager analyst. and so to take

a look now and some other stories making headlines around the world. french president, the money on my call says he will appoint a new premier with him days after his prime minister lost the story. can no confidence phone. my home blamed his opponents on the far right and the far left, accusing them of choosing disorder over cooperation to pass a budget. my call also rejected calls that the step down before his term ends in 2027. very few protesters in the brazilian city of so polo have rallied against police brutality after videos of alleged misconduct and merge. an officer was arrested after the release of footage, showing him throwing a man off a bridge into a river. demonstrators, a black and impoverished people are being targeted by officers. australia as prime minister has blamed anti semitism for an arson attack at a melvin synagogue. anthony albany, see said it was aimed at causing fear. the fire caused extensive damage. police are

searching for 2 suspects. there's been a rise in targeted attacks in australia since the war in gaza broke out is what mr . rebels in syria are heading towards the central city of homes as they sees more territory from government forces. but it's circulating on social media, appears to show them advancing towards homeless, which is serious, 3rd largest city. they've already taken the cities of a level and homeless and launching their surprise offensive. earlier this week, capturing homes would bring them one step closer to seizing the capitol, damascus. let's take a look now at how the syrian conflict got to this point. and how longer will the situation inside and outside of the country leaves its leader for sharrell is that a new wave of violence is exploding and syria to the front lines of the war had been frozen since 2020 leading president assad as

a defacto victor. 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 iron grip on power since taking over from his father after his death in $22011.00. during the out of the spring, he crushed pro democracy protests starting single position. so used to come throughout the course of the civil war followed, he showed himself willing to use brutal force on his own population. he allegedly carried out a chemical weapons attacked in 2013, but killed more than 200 people, including children on the posts of damascus held by rebels. something he is consistently denied, but by any measure aside has presided over

a catastrophe in syria. under his watch, an estimated 500000 people have been killed in the war. a 1000000 small, the false to flee or displaced and disliked the propaganda more than houses 3 and people are facing food shortages. and the economy is in free full amount of yes. yes, 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 around its proxy. the militant group has paula and russia all have played a pivotal role in keeping him in power and securing military victories. but to all of these act 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 to day. some also points out that the ease with which the rebels were able to advance could mean the syrian all me is not as strong as a side would like, could also add to his vulnerability and determine the future of his regime are stuck in the house. there's a middle east expert with the highways bell foundation, and with turkey. now, having confirmed talks with russia and iran on saturday over the situation in syria, i asked her what she expected from them. thank you for having me. we're seeing that the rebuttal rebels have been advancing quickly in the past 24 hours. as it was mentioned, iran and russia are much weaker than in the past when they came to the age of the assets and his resume. so there's limited capacity from this. i personally, i would not count on these talks coming in time and leading to meaningful

results. in any case, we will hope for the textbook talks, negotiations for civilian transition and for return to the un resolution. $2254.00 level and hama. and now the rebels are unfortunately heading towards homes. how big are these defeats? not only for a size but also his allies, russia, and are on they're pretty big. um, the culture of hum was quite important yesterday of trauma is the 4 biggest city in syria. now homes is seen as a turning point homes as a traffic house in syria that connects damascus to its coast to coast is important for detroit. and that's where the russian naval base is. or um, interestingly enough of the people from homes are running towards the coast rather than towards damascus. which gives us an indication of the outlook that the people

have on the ground um towards the stability of damascus. absolutely, you've been observing the situation cera for quite some time. of course, what does past experience tell us about how aside and his allies might respond as well? that's where another saffir um of assyrians is coming from because the response has happened very far in the past. 90 percent of the tests and the serial war are caused by our side and it's a nice russia and, and this has been a half a 1000000 people. more than half a 1000000 people were killed in syria and noticed that every saw the minister of defense of, of syria say that they withdrew south of how to protect civilians and to prevent potential inside the city. so considering that i've never done much to protect civilians, that's quite an ironic statement. um, also after seeing how they left a level on friday without any um, situation,

orders that i'm aware of. so do think they're just themselves trying to get out of harm's way. the syrian arm is the desolate state um they will do um they saw from my level so they would regroup onto defense, not able to. again, i think the next days will be quite important to watch the human secretary general . so as the escalation, syria is the result of a chronic collective failure of diplomacy. now, in your opinion, what would be the next move for those who really want to see a political solution in syria and 4 civilians to live in peace. finally, it is time to bring all actors backs to the negotiation table. the political process has been quite sidelined and the past 2 years was no meaningful progress. and starting by the regime, it is time to get back to this younger solution. $2254.00 to push for political

transition and also to put pressure through the phone with an informal channels that exist to h t as to push for civilian transition into areas under control and for the protection of minorities. sara stucco house. thank you. so much thank you. and finally twisted the nightmare before christmas for children in southern germany . demons and ghouls came out to give them a scare, adams. they nichols de a christian festival. according to fall for crumbs as night is when the beasts come to visit, badly behaved children, leads on december 5th. compas travels with saint nicholas and children who were well behaved. receive gifts on those who misbehaved must answer to cramping the

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so i think it's a fascination read and the novels it has many interpretations. it has many layers in many things. it's also a 1000 pages long. it's a literal literary, heavy weight. so what makes it worth the reading or even a 2nd reading the magic mountains, 100 year anniversary is being marked with an exhibition in 2 months, months hometown and flew back with stage production. even a sequel, not written by someone's mind himself, obviously. but 1st, what's it about okay, what's that the same? it's the swiss alps at a sanatorium. that's a kind of health resort or clinic where people think the fresh air will cure them of a long disease. and there was plenty of long disease at the time, 2 months, months such as novel and 19. 07. went to berkshire. los is still

a leading cause of death in here. and the best treatment people can get if they can afford it, is breathing good air and just waiting around to get better. and they can wait a long time, answer if the story is young here, some us months, main character who goes to visit his sick cousins. how does the people we meet this character, hans cast or 9 who travels into this world and ends up staying for 7 years and is confronted with all the id of electrical, political and philosophical debates of the time that size. what's funny about the book is, even though his car stop is actually healthy, he really gets into the santa torrie, the people, their philosophical debates, and just the culture of being a patient there. strict health routines, luxurious meals, obsessive temperature, and taking he ends up living like one of them, the ones on the end thoughts, and then in an isolated hermetically sealed place, the questions of humanity are played out on all possible levels. even the con, the building was progress, science love plays a major role,

deaf is very present. and so all the big topics and so much fun creates to character patients of the clinic who really are polar opposites and their philosophies, sets and brittany, on the one hand, p stands for progress and individual freedom from light feathers, nafta. she wants to see society dominated by it, so tell a terry and rosie to talk with her and resumes were starting to take power in europe at that time with the rise of communism as fast as, as concerns cast off as caught between these 2 that the whole novel revolt around the decision which site to take, but at least both these characters become the highest concepts. mentors and he's really torn between the 2 philosophies. eventually, explosive debates turn by the to rival space, often a do. and that's just the beginning of the violins. the book ends in 1914 with the start of world 1100 costs are disappearing. and so the chaos of battle. when the

magic mountain came out, it quickly became an international best seller, translated into many different languages. and over the decades influential people have claimed it as their favorite book, like american critics, susan sontag, who said she'd read it 7 or 8 times in spam, big fan clubs cropped up at schools, and universities are listening. you don't have to have 3 talk trips in nature to understand to them this month because there's a lot of iron in to learn his words, no more. it's about very serious things. but the book itself is an enjoyable experience. and there was some really hilarious things from you in the so in the i meant that you send us a copy of cc, much one group of people who didn't think the magic mountain was funny. it was the tourism board and thought both switzerland, they thought the book may have the town looked back. they actually asked another big german writer of the time, goes to tests not to write a novel, but pains of the town in a better way to almost month live quite

a life born in 1875 at the beginning of the german empire. his diaries reveal that he was bisexual at a time when that was not accepted of the 1929, he won the nobel prize for his novel vote in volks. later the fled nazi germany with his wife, katya. a jewish convert to christianity and there are 6 kids. so let's take a step back. in 1912, katia of mine had been diagnosed with tuberculosis, and thomas mind went to visit her at a sanitarium and of a switzerland. that became, has an inspiration defense who fed up with mon, it's all coincidence. and so we imagined he must have sat there for years, thinking about how to do it. but it's all quite incidents. so 5 keywords really wanted to write the magic mountain as a short story on and it turned into a 1000 page novel insight. and it took him 12 years to write it. he was interrupted by world war one, but also he was going through a shift in his own mindset. when he started writing the book, he was very pro,

more unsuccessful. in 1914 thomas mazda allowed himself to be carried away by the and suzy as him for war. that was driving many intellectuals officers, writers and artists of the time. so he was in the front line of advocating for it. and in 1918 when germany was defeated, it was a lost cause and he went to a very isolated last month, almost 9 switch sides. and in the 1920s he became one of the most eloquent defenders of the republic and by the 19 facilities during his exile in the united states, a true believer in democracy. they will come when the nazis came to power in 1933, thomas my left germany with his family move to switzerland. tense of the united states. and later, back to switch to most mon advocated for tolerance and human dignity. and somebody died and 1955, which almost month wrote the magic mountain. she was thinking about his own process

of political transformation. he puts a lot of the old, him, the pro war him, that he distance himself from, into the character of nafta. left me hand to muslim watson price is me most about thomas man is honest and sincere willingness. i'm courage to change his mind to put his views, the task again and again, and to arrive and you've use one to stand up for those new views until until you revises them. again. i think of this, some of the magic mountain reflects exactly that in this up when the magic mountain came out in 1924 european society was really on edge versus feeling like today. actually, the restlessness of heightened tensions, existential dread, and the feeling that society could go off the rails, lift what was in the air, he writes in the novel, you can sense of tremendous on ease of fear of the future. and suddenly there's the situation at the end of the novel, where things are unraveling,

uncertain as to where they start shooting each other, where they're cursing at the steps where the craziest ideas am or 12 and people are literally losing their minds, boston and as walters. someone's mind writes about total polarization division. people who stopped listening cuz now we're at that exact keeping points today and this time of grades irritability all you have to do is turn on any evening talk show and you'll see that people are interrupting each other. not listening, just yelling as opinion and sign when it goes to holland minus these politics falling into populace. and what we now call hate speak to this information. this is the tensions and the dangers that are later going to lead to the fall of the weimar republic. germany's 1st attempt, real parliamentary democracy ended with the nazi here coming in, if you can follow it in vivid detail. he describes it with a tremendous aesthetic sense and tremendous psychological insight. to me creates an

atmosphere where the end, you just wonder who will shoot 1st, 1st in the jewel, and then at the very end, the war in which the whole thing culminates. the pursuits 1st, even today we see people turning to violence and they can't get their way with work . they look at them, i think it's sadly current. we should keep that in mind and not in a good way. it's been a century a 100 years and we still at the same place people will stuff and then yes he yes them or is couple. see what, at the end of the magic mountain to him, us mon asks, out of this universal feast of depths. out of this extremity of fever, tingling, the rain washed evening sky to a fiery glow. may it be that love one day, so mountain to manage, you should be ashamed that we still have an answer. the books, great final question after this universal feast of death may be that loved one day shall mount this question about the horrible 20th century 21st century is starting

the exact same way with the next universal feast of death in ukraine and the middle east of mine was also ahead of his time when it came to sexuality earlier. novella is 20, a career guy and death in venice at strong homo. erotic under the magic mountain contains motif split are obviously clear, beneficial. i think it's one of the books greatest strengths that it breaks every cliche, especially when it comes to questions of how to talk about and body sexuality under ross. this isn't the whole thing. comes custom falls in love with a woman, but i'm so shy. but she reminds him of a male classmates that he wants. fans defies the. the question of what the amount is, what a woman is, what's masculine, what's feminine, and what is perceived as attractive, erotically attractive? all of that is fluid here. and gender fluidity was not mainstream. thomas monster and homosexuality was totally tab boot for most of society. just it was

a criminal offense. in the 19 twenty's thomas mind campaigned against paragraph 175, which criminalize homosexual relationships, and so as month own desire for a man was something she lived out in secret to the outside world. she was an upstanding, heterosexual citizen, with a wife and 6 kids. love, hates politics and passion. they're all here in the magic. mount someone's mind leaves it up to you though, how you want to interpret that. how much can sometimes we have to find out on why you would just fight the characters in the story? you can, i think that in times of the fake news and everything happening quickly. this idea of having to read with critical lies and do that for ourselves and stay awake. that is the most current seeing the numbers and that's what i liked the best. ok, so i sort of myself, do i a social okay. much middle style and in case the idea of reading a 1000 pages seems overwhelming my document, you can always skip a hand. these lots of readers have told me which parts they skipped, but it does happen then. oh,

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