the way rescue cheese become pools in a cruise theater. musical conflict, missouri, i'm afraid i'll never see him again when. oh you lost under the stops december 18th on dw, the this is dw news live from berlin. south korea's parliament move to impeach the president . lawmakers vote on whether to remove president june, so po, from office over his attempt to impose martial law. but he looks almost certain to survive. also coming up, syrian rebels advance on the capital of damascus from the south and from the north, with lashara allison's government forces, apparently struggling to hold their progress. the

mariana evans, dean. it's good to have you with us. south korea's president, you and so po, looks sent to survive and impeachment vote after a boy caused by lawmakers from his own party. the members of the ruling party walked out of the parliamentary chamber, leaving the motion short of the votes needed to pass the opposition coalition file, the impeachment order in response to the president's attempt to impose martial law on tuesday. president june has since apologize for the public anxiety caused by his announcement as we can now speak to the devil hughes east asia correspondence james cheddar who joins us via phone phone, seoul, korea james, just hours ago. it looked like president hughes term in office was essentially over

with members of his own party calling for his ouster. so why this southern the you turn yeah, i mean, the last couple of hours have been that have been extraordinary in the political situation. a board. what's happening down with this impeachment? both these proceedings are essentially and then both only 3 of the ruling policies will make a separate times to participate in the dogs. meaning that it's highly unlikely dots . it will pause and you will be in peach. the reason for that is because we needed to see at least 8 of use only in police or his own policy to vote for his impeachment something that's it for it to cost with. that's true to us. majority required in the south korean paul events that i've, i've been going on really, there's been more information about the why does it look into all of the i've been

looking to do this summer. been say that if that was a concern, that's if you was out of state, even though that was some people quoting for the suspension, that phone seduce me, dot net, not necessarily make it that he should be released losses. but can you be that it was your abuse, that it would mean that they're building policy? that $35.00 the at the election would have to be close. so i'm, well, what company right now is that there's a steak, if the boat outside the national assembly where i am right now, the clouds are still there, the warranties get spicy. it's turned in. so essentially that cape up concepts. and we're hearing that some of the gates to the national assembly all now being blocked by pride sense is to stop some of those moving policy makers from exits, international assembly and efforts even seems to make the process started as well. as you've been speaking, we've been showing some images of the thousands of people demonstrating this, of course has sparked enormous public outrage in south korea. so james,

what can we expect to happen next? so the next few hours will be crucial. um the uh, the boats can take place up until just before 1 am local floods. that's just on the floor. i was fine. that's because the 72 hour window when the impeachment bill is going to put forward, the photos has to take place within. if that does not take place, well, that essentially means that that being peach from motion is to eat. i'm back in the sense with ends before won't proceed around this impeachment. of course, you look at those, those images that you'll see on the screen that ones the thousands of people outside the national assembly and people gather outside the national assembly. the days now saying, well it into the night's head. i'm applying pressure to the government's i'm use of the go. the even see survives of some patients that it's,

it's going to be very difficult to immune to stay in stay in office. and i'm sure the protest is, as well as the opposition will make us, will be applying pressure to try and see secret resignation from you and so killed . and the point i would add to that is that, you know, that was frustration among processed is ready about sound when you still feel wins about issuing this motional declaration. if he's able to stay in office, you know, even off to that, that's one thing that if he's able to stay in power because on his own lawmakers will make this from his own policy, essentially abandoning the band. and that at times to make the democratic process can imagine pre existence, they will be even more frustrated and angry at the policy then they will be on that was d. w as east asia correspondent, james trader on the line from sole south korea. james, thanks for your reporting. let's turn our attention to

syria now where a rebel forces are widening their lightning assault with reports and fighters are just 20 kilometers from the capital of damascus and closing in on other key cities . rebel commander hassan of dell. connie's of the is for miss little lions was less than 20 kilometers from the southern gauge of the capital. rebels have already smashed the entire southern province of dar, off in the north. the government forces have dug in to defend the city of homes as they find to save president by sharla size, 24 year old journalist, a very bon russell, and joins us from the city of commission. we in north eastern syria, which is a kurdish majority area. hello to you. uh, what can you tell us about the situation where you are right now? hello marianne, i think. thank you. there were some ramos yesterday, the redeem withdrawal and evacuated military headquarters,

but the still nothing happened. the situation is under the, the control. i mean, is the of the kurdish backed, the forces except the neighborhood where the region where we're located before. actually, there were some attempts from to expect forces in men boot, but the frustrated beast attempt to members a, the city where grow the, the border between f um, the trucks backed forces. i also want to ask you about the city of homes, which has strategic importance, both for the assad regime and also for the anti government rebels. what would it mean for the syrian government and the army? if this city falls to the insurgents? i want to expand something before uh that this is true, that rebuild has taken over the, in the south there few kilometers away from capital. but actually they didn't reach

very built in nor tough because there is damascus in between homes and dora, and the syrian army, reposition, and we are positioning in outside of that. ok. so the rebuild makes it makes more progress for that offer on the line. and as for from the line we, we witness and we see from yesterday that we saw a lot of, uh, we saw intensive errors in russian air strikes on the homes. actually it's a, it's, it's, is the city is of the city for has the law because um they have their military bases in home city. uh and i mean in countryside and has been lost since its minutes into 2 homes. uh, because they want to protect their interest in uh, in homes, ensure. yeah. or you mention the russian air force, launching air strikes and support of the assad regime. but can the syrian

government rely on russia to really help it find back effectively? actually i don't think of the homes, but so is the crucial but to for reading it for him and also for the rebel. if we can say that the, the worried homes is different and it was due to remain the course of the war. that was a journalist, very yvonne really oh thank you so much. that was journalist, very fun result in commercially in northeastern syria. we appreciate your reporting police in new york now believe the gun who killed the ceo of a major us health ensure has left the city. the f. b. i are offering a $50000.00 reward for information leading to his arrest. public reaction to the

killing though, has exposed the frustration with america's health care system, denied the pose and defend 3 words written on the bullets that killed bryan thompson, the ceo of one of the largest health insurance companies in the us. these words have been used by critics to describe how to health insurance industry avoids pain claims. many real quick to connect to ceo's murder with the accesses office industry, although the investigation is still ongoing. the but beyond the internet, the murder has sparked a greater debate about the failures of the us health care system. the actual incident in new york, i served as a, as a trigger for a lot of people to express their frustrations and real grievances about how the system works, or really how it doesn't work. i think this is just an adverb, a more the market on trying to people. so issues with their own hands for not only for health care, but for race,

for sexism and everything else. so obviously sad when anyone passes away, but i think the reaction of the american public and how callous and that response has been should tell people something about the health care crisis in the united states. pretty shocking. but and i'll kind of a sign of the times, i suppose, a tragic for him in his family, but uh maybe don't do terrible things like this. i'm not saying you deserve it. yeah. but what is it about the health care system? exactly, that makes people so angry you can face paying thousands and thousands of dollars out of your own pocket to use medical care, even if you have health insurance. and then another type of limit is that health insurance and united states often use what is called pre authorization. the doctors and hospitals cannot simply provide the medical care that they want to. they have to get permission from the insurers. and sometimes the insurers deny that from

mission, while the hand for thompson's killer goes on, the public reaction has highlighted that for many americans, the world's most complex and expensive health care system simply isn't working. just over 5 years ago, the world watched in shock as a fire swift through the cathedral of notre dumb in paris. well, today, after a painstaking restoration of work, the cathedral will reopen for the 1st time, the w spoke with specialist about what it took to restore when a friend says most the beloved icons. a master piece of caustic architecture and the landmark of paris has been restored to its former glory. we have noted on today because the victor hugo is passion for it would be the building, wouldn't it still be standing safe? it wasn't for his passion for us and for architecture. and so he wrote no to down the period to get through that. i'll meet you. this church is legendary. also

because of all of those disney movies, fema, it symbolizes the history of their friends and religion. your it has cold. that's all a kid. on april 15th 2019 disaster struck a devastating fire broke out inside the cathedral. large sections of the roof and interior were destroyed, including the spire. because has still not been determined with absolute certainty . marie and n g g is a conservator of no to done. and among the 1000 specialists who took part in the restoration. the shuttles plus is that the biggest challenge for all of us was to finish on time on. we had to follow a time table. everyone did their best to get on the swap. so to parallel to the repairs restoration of the paintings was also undertaken, even though they hadn't been touched by the fire. for the time we do, i suddenly they've been removed for the construction work and it would have been on

thinkable to put them back in the condition they were in. so it came, it would have been criminal to do nothing at all. they urgently needed to be restored. be nice to us, you know. i see your hotel. now the world renowned cathedral shines in its former glory inside and the cold french presidency menu out of my call was one of the 1st to have a look before the official reopening ceremony. a number of objects like this baptismal phones were not restored, but we made use of the same goes for the altar for the route. but without the fire, we never would have been able to accomplish everything we've done. so now we have a restored cathedral with new interior furnishings. it's fabulous. it's unlikely that the restoration of no time will ever be truly completed. but once again, it can receive both visitors and the faithful and for live coverage of the ceremony, reopening no trip down to the public had to double use youtube channel starting

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