as dreams coming through, making money, having a son with not fools, and so i'm seeing stuff. december 13th on d. w. the. the state of the news line from berlin and page ran blues for south korea's president. news. so kill is a time to impose marshall laws because widespread outrage, even members of his own ruling party, say he is dangerous in house to go. also coming up the ran rebels head for the strategically important city of homage, taking other cities along the route are declared goal to topple president for shar alyssa the

on the conflicts. welcome to the program. we're sorry, it's in south korea. we're military, prosecutors have filed a request to ban 10 top ranking officers from leaving the country. the defense ministry says the request is connected to president june, so kills briefing, possession of martial law on tuesday. the move by you and has plunged the country into political term long with even the leader of his own party calling for his suspension. thousands have taken to the streets to come for his resignation. and even bigger protests are expected over the weekend. young faces impeachment tomorrow. this is not the 1st time military rule has been imposed in south korea. the last dictatorship ended in 1988 and remains fresh. in memory of many south koreans, politician in south korea grew up the soldiers rightful after the imposition of marshal. the images have already gone viral. will no doubt play a role when it comes to writing the history of what's and on december, the 6th,

2024. the events that day closed in security around the closed menu will lead as we're taking it back, that such turmoil could erupt in a country where they just seem to democracy this family and could thousands of south koreans also move to pretest many still remember the most recent dictatorship, some said they fit the nation could be on the verge of returning to the past. for many, a painful period it was only after this man was forced to step aside after mass demonstrations in 1987. that democracy became established in south korea. military dictator chung, do one seized power after sending soldiers tanks onto the streets of sold in 1979 to this late to accused him

a violent list of pressing and uprising in the city of 12 and a time that the haunted survivors. yes, that sounds curious. first successful code took place decades earlier at the start of the 1961 of the dictates of talk to him. he rode the country for nearly 20 years before being assassinated by his spying teeth in 1979 to several years after a previous attempt in his life mistaken. he killed his wife. the port name became associated with control to see once again in 2017. when the dictates his daughter and south korea's 1st female president fox skin, hey, was impeached and imprisoned. the corruption and other offences. yeah. many. so her removal and the application of the rules of law as a testament to the maturity of south korea's young democracy. and in another twist, it was the current president use to your who was

a prosecute to at the time i played a key role in pox imprisonment and who now faces an uncertain future value there. i mean board for whole as long as the rebels in syria are pressing forward towards the central city of homes as a seas more territory from government forces, but it's circulating on social media appears to show them advancing on home serious 3rd largest city. they've already taken the cities of a level and how much since launching their surprise offensive earlier this week, capturing homes would bring them one step closer to seizing the capital, damascus. that has to have house in the middle east, expert with the highways, both on vacation. now with turkey, having confirmed talks with russia and a ran on saturday over the situation in syria, i asked her what she expected from them. thank you for having me. were seeing that the 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 regime. so there's limited capacity from this. i personally, i would not count on these talks coming in time and the leading to meaningful results. in any case, we will hope for the tax, but the tax negotiations for civilian transition and for return to the you under solution. $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. and they're pretty big. um, the culture of hannah was quite important yesterday of trauma is the for the biggest city in syria. now homes is seen as a turning point homes, as

a traffic cop in syria that connects damascus to its coast to coast is important for detroit. and that's where the russian naval bases are. 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 um, 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? well, that's where i noticed the fear of, of syrians is coming from because the response has happened very far in the past. 90 percent of the test in the syrian of war are caused by us out and it's an ice, 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 was through south of how to protect civilians and to prevent the potential inside the city. so considering that they'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 of the syrian armies and the desolate states. so they will do this. so from my left will said they would regroup and to defend, not able to again, i think the next days will be quite important to watch. the un secretary general says 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 for civilians to live in peace? finally, it is time to bring all actors back to the negotiation table. the political process has been quite sidelined in the past 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 is due to a formal and informal channels that exist to h t as um, to push for civilian transition into areas under control and for the protection of minorities. sarasota house. thank you so much. thank you. and it's double turkish international mediators. targets and international and mediators have a report at lee resumed talks aimed at achieving as these far and also between israel and the militant group from us as spokesperson from us said, there has been

a reactivation of efforts to end the fighting, adding another group was pushing for a deal which would be the release of is really hostages from gaza and palestinian prisoners and israel negotiations halted last month after mediator guitar pulled out of the process. citing a lack of progress between israel and thomas guitar mediators have reported at least since returned to the table. meanwhile, and israel pressure is mounting on prime minister benjamin netanyahu to find a way to end the 14 month conflict, and bring the remaining hostages home in captivity. and gaza in return for over a 1000 palestinians held in prison including hamas leader jeffrey yes, in war 2, went on to planning the october 7 turbo tax pointing back to deals like these. some of the governments, the prize this time is too high. including fall, right, national security minister come up in the future and made us don't clear and an

interview with the on the radio. i mean, i mean, she's come, i believe that a reckless deal. this will really is a 1000 seems more like terrorist and, and the war is a serious blow to the state of israel. even the survey suggests a majority of his readings one to hostage till now and he is on him and resonates with me in the right. the most of the respondents will tell you that the d that is being pulled on the table. but by from us is the, the risky from the point of view of the says, the strategic positioning, and the price that the is demanded is much too high to, to pay, to can get the consideration that it's secure is not going to. we will pay with more lives in the future. but for those whose loved ones are still held hostage and garza, whichever it takes to reach

a deal is worth it. the village we will have to pay a price. there is no choice and deliver in no price is too high for all the innocent souls that are being garza, simply no price is too high. but until the deal has reached the pain of not knowing when or if they'll ever see the hostages released drugs on french president, the money of on call has given a defined television to address a day after has prime minister last a storage? no confidence about my call said he would appoint a new premier within days and bound to serve out the rest of his term. he blamed the far right and the far left for toppling the minority government. the president of the manual met, crowns of france, has no prime minister. it has no government, no budget for 2025, which starts in less than a month to the crown and told the french people who don't blame him. even ask whom i will never assume the responsibility of others. and in particular of the

parliamentarians who consciously chose to bring down the budget and the government . the frogs. a few days before christmas had been like many on the streets of paris and 200 other french cities and towns. they get 2 different civil servants laid into the former governments. 2025 budget plan meant to rein in a growing deficit with spending cuts and tax increases. everyone needs to take responsibility to the release of the main person responsible for what's happening to us. so i'm very happy about what's happening to him. yes, to realize that he's not the only boss in front. of course we're all managing for us together, all of that data sets and inflation that the government itself provokes. now we are asking civil 7 send to people generally to soak up to death. and that's just not possible. demonstrators expect present it to the crone to nominate another right, meaning government, or keeping up their push for more investment in the public sector. they know that this one much commercially marine lapel and the far right national rally party

probably has more say than anyone in the next budget to kind. she was unimpressed with centers because of the crumbs last choice, delete his government, the right leaning michel, barn, ya sums up pretty cheap. if we have to look at what people do and not just look at the label by saying who's right waiting for the other thing he does is good. so know everything he does has not been good. yeah, officially the crone says le pens, national riley law makers voted against even their own platform and a bunch of debates on something by doing so, they chose chaos. and that's the only project they shared with the radical left along this with the support of the rest of the left on the lines for me not to do, but to undo to re cavity maple, this is for clay to dissolve. french media have reported mat crowns, next. prime minister will likely come from a short list of centrist candidates who might appeal to both sides of the political spectrum. he'll reveal his choice in coming days earlier our corresponding

christine moon. while i gave my colleague, i mean a group, us mckennon an a you perspective on the crisis in france and asked her who the you would like to see lead frances new government as well. any other interest in brussels would be not necessarily who is the next payment as to what the next prime minister does as it pertains to the all standing budgets. francis congress spending more than it brings and it is courtesy and breach off the use rules. it's budget deficit is at about 6 percent and the rules would like to see that at about 3 percent and no more. so it's really crucial from, from an e perspective to see that france is back on that sort of corrective fiscal policy and be so in michelle. bonnie is budget and attempts to do that. brussels was quite happy with the fact that in the budget that he had proposed, he was going to reduce that deficit by a percentage points taking it to 5 percent. so going in the right direction closer

to the desired 3 percent level and below. so that is really way the interest is on the part of the commission here to see europe's 2nd biggest economy. get back into line in terms of budgetary expectations. but now of course, as on us and see, we don't know who the next appointment is to is going to be how unsettling is all of this, this crisis in fronts full the, the european union and the timing of it. so there's no direct implication on the part of the european union in the sense that there are no decisions to be made. that perhaps will now be put on hold at a new level because of the political instability in front says so to say. but i'm sickening is, is the right way that you use a new because this does coincide, you know, the crisis in front. it does coincide with, with germany's a deafening coalition coming to

a premature end. and now you have this scenario. we europe's to be peace. both have significant political woods at home, both have weak economies. there's lots of this common denominator off this fall, right influence in how it is creeping into policy issues as high with europe is generally at in the tide. with that leadership is needed and this franco, jim intend them, has been the bronx main stay of providing that leadership and going into 2025 we, there will be a new administration in the white house where the war is raging in ukraine. that influence that france and germany has been providing for the brock might be a little bit absence a while it would bring things to a whole k. so certainly there is a sense that things will slow down a little bit because these 2 countries are having these significant political problems back at home. christine, thank you so much for that. update that c w as christine mcguire, reporting from brussels and a political crisis as well here in germany and chancellor. all of charles is facing

a confidence vote on december 16th. if he loses as expected, germany, you will have an election in february to choose a new parliament. that means that political parties are focused on the polls and preparing themselves for that contest in early 2025. to look at how poll suggests that election would turn out, they're saying transfer schultz, the social democrats would win only around 16 percent of the vote. the conservative block of the c d u and the bavarian csu parties would be twice as strong with 32 percent. let's see, we can pull that up. seems like we're having technical difficulties here. let's proceed with the greens them. there are members of the governing coalition there at 14 percent, the business friendly, liberal f, d p would get enough, wouldn't get enough votes to be represented in the bonus on the part of the party would likely see 18 percent and the left party would fail to reach the 5 percent hurdle to score a place in parliament, but could still be represented by winning 3 local candidates. and this remains

unclear for now a new party. the b s. w codes make it into parliament. it's pulling at 5 percent with a blend of left leaning economic policies with anti migration and russia friendly stances. we would have loved to, to show you that in the picture as well. i hope you could follow. now, given the week polling numbers for chancellor or shelves of social democrats, my colleagues on a group, us asked our chief political correspondent whether his party had already lost those election. the moment hand is positive all polling way behind the conservatives. that's true. so 16 compacts essentially 2 percent, there is quite a big gap, but this is a very volatile situation still. and if you look at 3 things, one, if i can throw you back to 3 years ago, just a few weeks before the last elections will have shorts, was pulling at 14 percent only. and you still manage to become translating in y mainly because the others make mistakes and the tail end of the contain 2 in

germany, it's all about coalition building in the end, right. so a lot will depend on how potential coalition partners will perform, especially the greens and 3, roughly one side of demons are still undecided and there is less loyalty to policies than you would have had in the past. and also you must have forget, if you look at polls, they also have to look at trends and all upsides is government coalition was extremely unpopular, but he seems taking the decision to end it and vote as do seem to acknowledge that his party has actually gone up to percentage points since that decision, while the others have lost points. or yes, it's a big capital leading conservatives right now, and he doesn't have much time to catch up. that's right. so leading conservatives pulling at about 32 percent. and it is definitely looking likely that flourish maps from the conservative cd policy could potentially become the new drum and trump solicitor. tell us a bit more about him or?

well, i think so here is a broad, it's important to know that this man is not fundamentally different or life starts when it comes to the big foreign policy issues. and they strongly believe in gemini, being suddenly rooted in what we call the west. there's a strong focus on good ties with the us. they want the strong european union, but when it comes to the child's match is still somewhat of a mystery. it's not clear, for example, whether he would deliver the taurus miss all to ukraine or not. he said in the past that that needs to happen and now we're not so sure. but he is presenting himself as wanting to drive change in this country. and in theory, a lot of demons are hardly saying that something does need to change it. but then demons are also reluctant to change, so you do need to convince them. and so there's mess has yet to deliberate details and important areas when it comes to the pension system, for instance. now we're going to take a look at some of the facts and figures, and we'll come right back to you off to was post is asked people what they see is

the biggest challenges facing gemini right now and 45, send. see the economy as the biggest problem stops the ca, percentage points more than just a month ago. migration is next with 23 percent. and the fear of rule is it 18 percent. now the big loses in this environmental protection and climate change, once named as people's main said, now only 12 percent of them and vote is still c environmental protection and climate change as the most pressing problem. so clearly a change the in the priority about what is most important. so nina, the, the economy clearly the most important issue for many germans and these elections us. absolutely, and that is because the economy is in a bad state. the obviously they just this week said the japanese economy is expected to see the slowest growth of the old developed economies next year. the

fees and the expected to grow 0.7 percent. and there is a huge backlog and the investment of that is also routes in some of the decisions that were not made a couple of decades ago. but perhaps just as importantly for the last 3 is german companies have not known just which way germany and the government wants to go pull public investment and subsidies into the system like one of sorts. and the greens wanted or reduce tax and stick to a know 5 public debt policy. and that's what the business friend via ftp wanted. and that was also the issue that broke the coalition in the end, that they couldn't agree on the philosophy on how to fix the economy. and that struggle, of course, meant uncertainty for diamond funds, but it also meant a lot of uncertainty for gem and house owners, etc. so and such and t going into the election which will likely be held in

february. the w as chief political correspondent, nina has indeed no thank you felicia, i'm yes really. and city of melbourne are searching for the perpetrators of a pre dawn. arson attack on a synagogue which left several people injured by mr. anthony albany. he has blamed anti semitism. melbourne is home to australia's largest jewish community the adults, israel synagogue remains quote and of following in austin attacks that took place and the early hours of the morning. a hate crime that confirms this is members of the local orthodox jewish community. this is a tragic di, full, the australian, jewish community in melvin jewish community. and the adults community as well. we have vain warning about the risk of these for the last year. and 7 october, you know, we fits all to dr. why with this and everything. so that's why we,

i'm all they can see exactly. so william over to the beach. and so if you want to talk to one specific senior members of the congregation, we're inside the synagogue of the morning, pres, when the attack took place. witnesses say they so to most individuals pouring the liquid on the floor, which was then such a light, australian prime minister anthony albany, the condemned the attack. there's no place in australia for an outrage, such as cease to attack apply. so worship is an attack on a strain values to attack. i seen a goal is an active and he said, which is, is attacking the rock. that oldest strain should have to practice a fight in peace and security. australia has seen a rise in um 2 semitic incidents since,

as well as retaliation against the attack by him. us on october 7th, 2023 albany z is promising most support and security for jewish organizations. it was the nightmare before christmas for children in southern germany. demons and ghouls came out, so give them a scare, a head of saint nicholas de a christian festival. according to fall floor cramp as nights is when the beast comes and visit badly behaved children late on december. 5th, cramp us travels with thing. nicholas children who are well behaved, receive gifts, all those who misbehaved must answer. the crown wouldn't want to be in their shoes. let's get you a quick reminder of our top story in south korea. the defense ministry says it will not obey any new orders to impose martial law as the leader of president unison skills own party is calling for the immediate suspension of his power and you're

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