the story this is dw news lie from berlin. south korea's parliament fails to impeach the president. lawmakers are not able to remove, present you, and so you own from office over his attempt to impose martial law. that's after members of his party, walk out of parliament. also in the show, syrian rebels advanced on the capital of damascus from the south and from the north, with lashara al assad government forces apparently struggling to help their progress. the

american evans dean. it's good to have you with this south korea's president, you and so fuel has survived and impeachment vote that's after a boy caught 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 apologized for the public anxiety caused by his announcement. and we can now speak to journal as june hobb park, who joins us from south korea's capital sol. welcome to the w. so explained to us why the members of president's humans own party decided to boycott the impeachment

vote. thanks for holding me back. uh, its uh, quite the confusion on the ground. i was just up the protest in front of the national assembly on the vote. and we were watching at live stream um, at the protest with all the other journalists, all the other purchases. it does seem that the pvp has, in fact, invoked a walk ups only 3 p p members of one state and his seats after the 1st vote against special programs. the 1st lady as the answers to 2 others, miss community and mr. kings on came back as to calls from the d p for the pvp to stop the boycott and protect democracy. the reasoning behind the p p actually point crossing the impeachment, it was due to the days the reasons of going against the d. p. the the piece principles i'm saying that it was too fast and impeachment um it was

rushed and they wanted to do it on their own terms of whether that resonates with the people on the ground. it's still something that remains to be seen and the people that i've spoken to have disagreed immensely against the p. p. p. sections tonight. well, it is quite interesting to observe that initially, members of the presence own party had supported impeaching him. so what made them change their minds and what's really behind this new turn as well. um, mr. joel young to a senior lawmaker within the people top part of the president's ruling party initially stated that he would be very much in support of an impeachment bill that was going ahead with the people top. go ahead with the democratic party. sorry, i missed a handle on the leader of the a p. he has also voice to support not for him. not exactly for impeachment, but the removal of the president june from office,

and also the stopping of his precedence of halting of his presidential duties of the u. turn that we have seen from us that you're going to and the rest of the p p, p r. and the 3 members who was still present in the national assembly hall at the time of their vote. that's something that still has to be explained. the cvt lawmaker, i had the chance to talk to one of the last remaining north korean defect tons, lawmakers. so that is currently a representative within the p p. p. as the punch one who told me that she would not have voted in support of notifying martial law even because he believes that it was in support of the d. p. 's agenda of pulling down the president at the time. he unfortunately did not have the chance to decide whether

to vote or not. within the plenary session at the time as he was still in the p headquarters building, which was 10 meters, 10 kilometers away from 10 meters away from the here. 10 minutes, sorry, 10 minutes away from the national assembly. and what we can see here is uh, something that comes as a barrel um to our voters. um our people, um our people cannot understand the the objectives of the p p at this point. the p . p. have sense announced that they would come up with a better solution than the d. p. as in peter meant bill against the presence of insurrection, of marshall on the national assembly building and its own citizens. uh so um it's still something that's very much a source of confusion and a source of anger for the citizens that are currently on the ground. and also the citizens that are watching from home. that was journalist june hobb park of

reporting from sol, south korea. many thanks. indeed. thank you very much to syria now where a rebel forces are widening their rapid assault with reports that fighters are just 20 kilometers from the capital of damascus and closing in on other key cities. rebel commander has son abdel connie said the islamist let alliance was advancing on the southern gate of the capital. rebels have already snatched the entire southern province of dar off in the north. meanwhile, government forces have dug into defend the city of homes as they find to save presence by charlotte size 24 year old. well, let's get more from journalist osama mohammed who joins us from come, usually in northern syria, which is a kurdish majority area. welcome to delta you. we are seeing some reports that syrian forces are in fact retreating from areas outside damascus. what can you tell

us about the situation around the syrian capital right now? thanks for having me. actually, the situation is becoming like changes very quickly and possibly the, the variables are taking from some of the salesman countryside, or also the most close are taking the, the country side of the city, starting with the audio. there is some kind of collections happening in the yeah, in the 1000 of, of the schools in the, in the same time that is the advance of the east lubbock, militias and other peoples from the north in syria up to, to the west coast. it loop, there is no, any terms for the gym to fight or to resist or take over or take bag any kind of off areas or any cds i don't know in damascus. so are you saying that it appears

that the regime is going to collapse or is there still some chance that assad's allies, russia, and the ron will ramp up their military support and somehow help the regime cling onto power to that's really a good question to us but i don't think there is any chance for the jim to fight it back through his original support tubes. let's say, starting with the russians or even with the army and militias, or even was hezbollah. you know, that the team doesn't have any chance to adverse or to resist or to fight back against variables and the guns that just let me read the congress. is a jim having a lift alone without any support from his alliance without any kind of support, even from the out of countries like the government of cdl regina try to to get the support from the governments. he sent these for him and the stuff to the dog to see

if there is any kind of support from them. the same time, the president of cd up to charlotte said himself, how they called with, with the president on try to get some support from them. was, was supplies was munition. but it look like nobody is going to have any kind of support sort of that a game mostly after that very gym to didn't have the live key to keep cheese boards. and he's promises about the political deal and process which should give it to the other again, countries. so no, the game is actually fights and go on in the box without any supports. but i'm, he's alex. and what do you think will be the impact on the people of syria? if in fact, the regime of bush carlos side collapses. and maybe you can tell us specifically what would it mean for your region, the ne, under curtis control, to you know, that's the main question for everybody in the region. there is no,

any kind of statements or i did to it by the coalition, by the international committee coming to you what's what, what's gonna happen next. nobody's know. what's going to be next is going to be this. let me get are the gold groups who will take over the, the most cost homes and know that is be kind of of a new constitution or government that's going to be established by this, this forces. or if they're going to be a kind of deal and negotiations us the general office, the muslim combine invention. and he's media conference yesterday that that is kind of negotiations until between is the and the s d c. who is doing the mainly and leading the main um, rebuild operations again i said, so until no, nothing is cleared from the side as the in the court. each majority areas in has it

got taken over the institutions and the areas which was under the control of your team. so it look even for the code, these people are you jimmy's love going to come back. that wasn't journalist osama mohammad speaking to us from commission, the north eastern syria. we really appreciate it. thank you so much. i or just over 5 years ago, the world watched in shock as a fire swept through the cathedral of notre dumb in paris. well, today after a painstaking restoration work, the cathedral will reopen for the 1st time, dw spoke with a specialist about what it took to restore one of france's most beloved icon. a master piece of caustic architecture and a landmark of paris has been restored to its former glory we have noted on today because of victor,

hugo's passion for it would be the building. wouldn't it still be standing safe? it wasn't for his passion for it. and for architecture, and so he wrote no to down the period to get through the meet you. this church is legendary. also because of all 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. the cause has still not been determined with absolute certainty. mozy and n g g is a conservator of no to done. and among the 1000 specialists who took part and the restoration were shuttles plus is that the biggest challenge for all of us was to finish on time on how to follow a time table. everyone did their best to get them to use while such and parallel to the repairs. restoration of the paintings was also undertaken,

even though they hadn't been touched by the fire. the police have read, i fairly, 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. so i shall, i see your hotel. now the world renowned cathedral shines in its former glory inside and out 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 20, that's the same goes for the alter, for the root, does pull that, 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 to the down to the public, you can had to do the use youtube channel starting today at 7 pm central european time. so that's at youtube dot com slash at dw news us. and before we go, let's get you a quick reminder of our top story. the . 7 videos in june. you belong to the 77 percent comfortable. i just got on 65 full was while all those top 5 years, 3 reasons why 1115. we are here to help you make up your mind. we are here

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