the zones, i'm afraid, i'll never see him again. no. when all you lost under the stops to send the 18 palm dw the. this is the, the news line from berlin area in rebels for south towards the key city of homes. government forces scrambled to slowly advance as the insurgents quickly capture more townsend territory, there declared goal to toppled president for shar all assad. also on the program. and page man blues for south korea's president, doing so kill after his attempt to impose martial law, at least widespread outrage plus the use field, a historic tree deal with 4 south american countries. emissions. oh, is it a fund a line calls that a win win but not everyone in europe is happy about it. the

welcome to the show on the call fairly is what mr. rebels and syria are pressing forward towards the central city of homes. as they sees more territory from government forces, but as circulating on social media appears to show them advancing on hong serious 3rd largest city. they've already taken the cities of a level and hallmark since launching their surprise offensive earlier this week and capturing homes would bring them a step closer to seizing the capital damascus. we can speak now to bend to show that she is the head of the middle east and north african division of the highlands both sundays and here in berlin. it's good to see you again bent and this is an offensive that is really moving at lightning speed. how far from homes are the rubble forces right now as it is moving at lightning speed and the rebels are

already outside the gates of homes. so to say here we also have to take into consider, instead it's not only about the city of homes, but this is the point where the main highways of serial across. so basic, a major point would already be cutting off these roads. so damascus would be sealed off from the rest of the territory, and particularly from the coast. what do we know about what the syrian government forces are up to? because they are seemingly completely overrun by this offensive? they are and we're hearing reports that they are recruiting, basically every mail in a certain age and the must cause a try and sent them with weapons. i doubt that this will succeed and we hear a lot of abundant positions that there is no fighting or not much hiking. actually, many locations is due to the fact that normally government posts already done when the rebels come the leader of h t. yes, that's a revel reading that's offensive. as said in an interview on cnn that their goal

was to over throw bashar al assad, the leader who's been in charge since the year 20000 after what you've seen during recent days. do you think they're likely to succeed? it was a major loss as the regime has already suffered. i think they are closer to it than they ever were. he's in a really bad position. if he is in the must goes to, he sees how they are approaching and that he's risking being towed to the left alone from the last i think and not much support will come to the muskets. and then also we see the country self and then people as well. this is not so much military force that we're seeing here, that the provinces in the cells happened the protesting against the regime for months now. and they declared that they will stand with the current movement and they will come from this house. what about assad's allies will be ramp up their support or wait until the rebels are literally the gates of damascus.

latham to hesitant to do so. this morning i heard that 300, his bullfighters were about to cross from lebanon into syria, to come and help us out. as soon as they reached the other side of the boat, or when they reached sir in territory, that is really defense. schools has been bought at them, so i think that was not a success. and then also for russia lady kit, 1st of all that they will not come to help us out is ronda isn't jump in. and also i saw the rest of us citizens to lead to syria and they, for, i think he's pretty much alone as ben to show out from the himes bow foundation. thank you so much. thank you. i and assembled, turkish and international mediator have reportedly resumed talks aimed at achieving cease fire and gaza between israel and the milton group. from us, a spokesperson from her mouth, said there had been a reactivation of efforts to end the fighting. adding that the group was pushing

for a deal, which would see the release of is really hostages from gaza and palestinian prisoners in israel negotiations halt at last month after me. data guitar pulled out of the process, citing a lack of progress between israel and the month. satari mediators, a report at least since returned. meanwhile, in 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 silence, they protest for the hostages without voice. 101 still held captive in gauze. it's not clear how many of them often alive and time is running out ever since the terror attack on october 7th. and i'll see if these protesters have the same demand . i'm going to assume a smaller demand has been the same as since day one. and that has to work toward a deal to make a deal that will bring all the hostages home. but the hosted to deal comes with

a price for as row. and the last negotiations that sold most amount at the release of a large number of palestinians health and is rarely prisons. history shows. israel has been prepared to pay a high price to get hostages back in 2011. 1 is randy salyers are called you not. chevy was released of to 5 years in captivity and gaza in return for over a 1000 palestinians held in prison including some of florida. yes. yes. in war 2 went on to upon the october 7 turbo tax pointing back to deals like these. some of the government stay the prize. this time is too high. cleaning far, right. national security minister to come up in the future and they just don't clear and intervene 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 want to have this deal now. and he is on demand, resonates with many of the most of the respondents who knew the deals that he's being pulled on the table. but by from us is the, the risky from the point of view of this was a strategic positioning. and the price that the is demanded is much too high to, to pay, taking into consideration the it's, the security 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, whatever 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 have been garza simply no price is too high. but until

a deal has reached the pain of not knowing when or if they'll ever see the hostages released drugs on and south korea presidents june. so your faces an impeachment vote on saturday after has failed attempt to impose martial law on the country opposition. lawmakers have called for the vote, but even the leader of hughes own party says the president is dangerous and should be stripped of his office. it will be used east asia correspondent james che, to reports from sole he may be, don't think that the success and the new policy for president and so killed the south side. south korea's developments on fridays most few rain. as the crisis engulfing deep men visited the president's in policy and now cooling for him to be suspended. i mean, room is he could impose motional for a 2nd time,

the president's office to no idea on vacations. as the next thing defense minister trying to reassure citizens owner or don't you guys are claim is regarding the possibility of a 2nd period of marshal raised earlier this morning. are completely false. even if at all, demands for declaration of marshal the ministry of defense and the joint chiefs of staff will absolutely reject them. despite the big ones, the 4 large family debacle is spreading to those waiting periods to find you have now been suspended as a result of it. so it'd be applied to national assembly involving in size and in time. then making today the cable installed until june. so he went to and came to the national assembly. the nights motioning was imposed and every day since she cooled on using policy to remove him inside today's impeachment

vote. they need to think, watch whites, and i think they know what, what they have to do the cause, the huge scale and that affected all, all the korean citizens. so he needs to need to all can use to pay for what he did . mesa, major south korea's meno position policy addressed, protest is counseling we hope that you will join us in protecting democracy and preventing the global crisis of democracy, of inquiry of his belly been seen in public since imposing motion for doug. one stop these processes for making sure that the voices earlier i spoke to journalist savvy,

i'm catch martin sole and ask him what the situation is like on the eve of parliament's vote to impeach president to you the, the so i would say the, it must be a here and the software and capital is not particularly tense, but today was the 1st day where really the masses. so to the streets in big numbers, we saw a big demonstrations in downtown. so not far 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 for us, 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 far. so the fresh protest today, unit 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 with in the parliament, and it only needs a couple of politicians from the units on potty 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 statistically support and impeachment of you and, and i'm sure that number was 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 fear, though, that the president might try to declare martial law again before the impeachment. how realistic to think that is of the i think those are rooms that are not very realistic. i mean it's how to look into the mind 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 military. the defense minister has already stated that he will not obey any orders of imposing and of a 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. probably i 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 bit case. it could get dangerous because we have north korea not far away. and of course, the regime in 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, and in at 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

a good track that everything will remain a peaceful comment. that there might be some formal power transition. but really in a, in a very legal and order the way. thank you though is fabia and pets, man journalist. and so this is not the 1st time military rule has been imposed in south korea. the last dictatorship ended in 1988 and remains fresh in the memory of many south korean apologies moved south korea grew up the soldiers rightfully after the imposition of marshal the images of already gone viral. a little no doubt, play a role when it comes to writing the history of what's happened on december. the 3rd 2024. the events of that day caused insecurity around the globe. many will lead is what taken aback that such turmoil could erupt in a country where they just seemed to democracy this family and could thousands of

south koreans also move to pretest. many still remember the most recent dictate to ship. some said, they said the nation could be on the verge of returning to the path for many, a painful period. it was only after this man was supposed to step aside after mass demonstrations in 1987. that democracy became established in south korea. military dictator chung, do one seized power of defending soldiers. tanks onto the streets of sold in 1979 to this late to accused him a violent least the pricing of uprising in the city of going to an attack. that's a haunted survivors to yes, that sounds curious. first successful who took place decades earlier at the start

of the 1961 of the dictates of talk to him. he kind of ruled the country for nearly 20 years before being assassinated by his 5 chief in 1979 through several years after a previous attempt on his life mistaken. he killed his wife. the port name became associated with control to see once again in 2017, when to dictate his daughter and south korea's 1st female president's fox skin, hey, was impeached and imprisoned. the corruption and other offences yet many saw her removal on 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 used to p o who was a prosecute at the time. i played a key role in pox imprisonment and who now faces an uncertain future. tell you that i'm good for hobble. let's take a look at some of the stories making headlines around the world. romania, as constitutional court has a note,

the results of the 1st round of the presidential elections, citing russian interference. the classified documents released by romanian authorities, suggests a pro russian social media campaign promote at the far right candidate college or just school. a new date will now be set to repeat the 1st election round for french president. the money of my calls says he will appoint a new premier within days after his prime minister lost a historic no confidence about call 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 to step down before his term ends in 2027. but it's like a complete for years of negotiations the you and south america, some america sore block have concluded a large scale free trade agreements. but the deal is not without its detractors, france, and colon particularly fear the deal could wreak, have us on their agricultural sectors. and our lobbying against ratification deal

still needs to be green, led by at least 15 of the use 27 countries. of the trade agreements has always been controversial in europe, and especially in france. french farmers have been protesting for weeks, fearing they could be overrun and under cut, by agriculture imports from south america. if the america sewer deal were to be enacted, france, of course, cannot single handedly hold the deal. but now poland has also said it won't sign the current draft next to it comprises argentina, olivia, brazil, park. why? and oral quite been as well as membership is currently suspended. the blocks joins economic product since it's 3 trillion us dollars. the 27 countries into european union at up to 18 trillion, altogether, the macro sewage to you would impact 770000000 people. the you and the

south american block have been talking for a quarter century. meanwhile, china has massively increased its own trait with miracle sewer. now the pressure is on the youtube finally, at the situation. the successor baited as donald trump will become you as president and the units of strength and its own partnerships in the face of blooming u. s. terrace the current draft of the you merk a sewer deal costs for 90 percent of terrace between the 2 sides to be dropped. that would include terrorists and agriculture products like meat and soil, but also car parts that are being sent to the you from south america. as well as cars machines and chemicals being sold from the you into a mattress sewer is still among the voices protesting the deal, or environmental as they warn themselves, america's industry, which is not generally seen sustainable and puts prophets over the protection of the rain forest. could be fired up. oh,

we can now speak to van. so the guy who has been following all this from our brussel studio band, this has been 25 years in the making. now that it's been agreed finally, does that mean that discussion over it or is over? but the 1st of all, there's a strong approval by the most of the business community in europe. especially companies. that's the export, and to make machines and cars in germany, these kinds of these companies say this is a good deal. on the other hand, they are farmers and not the environmental groups. i'd say the deal is bad because they feel that cheap beef or soybeans from the americans of floods you're being marked as an low the stand up. so this dispute is not dissolved and fronts of poland. it's in the country, it's a strong of your cultural sector, opposing the deal. and the french president, him, i know him, i call it just said yesterday, the view as it is on the table is unacceptable. all right, what exactly are france?

poland in italy specifically worried about but the fact that the french farmers argue that the meat from the neck are so kind as to cheap and produced unless then doesn't afford tom, the whole business in france and also the vine. and the 3 is up in arms about the commission that you commission that has the soul mandate to negotiate this to you says this assessment is not correct because there's also a chance for a friend for french of wine make us to actually export their wine to less than america now and the meat sector, for example, it only incorporates 1.2 percent of the whole meat consumption and in europe. so this dispute is not result but front is very much on the, on the bird cage now. and is trying to organize a blocking majority and minority or before the council of the you is going to vote

. and so what happens next? well, there is the, the deed is not there with the finish line, yet there are lots of legal heard will still, in the way the next step would be a vote in the counselor of the you, which represents the member states. they have 15 countries that represent 65 percent of the population that needed to get the majority of friends. poland, italy say they want to form and a blocking minorities. so they would need 4 countries and 35 percent to do that. and also the group in parliament has to vote. and then also, and a few of other steps which is rather complicated. but it can take at least a couple of months until this the goes into fruition and it's actually observed at least preliminary that was bad. couldn't get in brussels. thanks. i, the police and the australian city of melbourne, r reese,

are searching for the perpetrators of a pre dawn arts, an attack on a synagogue which left several people injured by mr. anthony albany. c has blamed anti semitism. melbourne is home to australia as largest jewish community and i clicked the task. israel synagogue remains quote and of following in austin attacks that took place in the 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 in 7 october. you know, we fits also talk to why with this and everything. so that's why we, i'm all they can see exactly that we,

i'm over to i want to talk to one specific senior members of the congregation were inside the synagogue of the morning, pres, when the attack took place. witnesses say they sold to mosque individuals pouring the liquid on the floor, which was then set to 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 anti semitism, is attacking the rock. that oldest drain 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 just to give them a scare. a head of saint nicholas state of christian festival, according to fall for cramps as night is when the bees come to visit, badly behaved children, lead on december 5th, crown plus travel wells with saint nicholas children or well behaved. receive gifts on those misbehaved must answer to crown the let's get you a quick reminder. over top story today, rebels in syria are heading towards the central city of homes. as they sees more territory from government forces. they've already taken the cities of a level and thomas since launching their surprise offensive earlier this week.

and that's all for me for today. so again, we'll have more at the top the next hour, and he'll be glad if you join him by the,

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