the double pay the not the financing one back to the next. find out about robina story in some language. reliable news for migraines. wherever they may be, the, this is data being used live from her, then reports that the syrian president bush, alice, out his late the country is rebel forces begin entering the capital to mass protest as in homes, celebrated collapse of a sides of regime of to regulate is playing pool control of the strategic city government soldiers. i said to because they're doing their posts as the insurgents advanced into domestic pool. so coming up, the ceremonial reopening pool enough for down because the body is often paris per the an icon was ravaged by 5 pardon dignitaries,

joined french leaders to celebrate the success of its restoration. the, i'm anthony, help welcome to the program. royce is, is reporting that syrian president special, alyssa has boarded a plane and flayed to an unknown destination according to senior officials. these images on social media show celebrations in the caption, city of homes. as a protest is paid down post as a sub and other symbols of the regime, they arrive in ports of gunfire and explosions in damascus with rebel forces saying they've entered the capital with only limits of resistance from the government flips gomez's report, the insurgent groups have captured the notorious sudden, a military prison and released an unknown number of prisoners now

as domestic as teachers on the brink. residents in other cities recently captured by the rebels out already celebrating the in the, besides decades long group as a let's just celebrate to be moved here and how much is only 2 days ago that is the misled rebels, kept to the city from syrian government forces residents a keen to reclaim the city from the cost of president by shotwell, a saw the lightning pace, of which levels of matching across the country has taken many by surprise in less than 2 weeks. opposition forces have taken control of fast spiders of the country, including major cities that collect and how much they have been reports of mass defections in the city and how many across the country, including in damascus, the shifting front lines of this civil war also bringing wide a g r political divides into focus. russia, one of syria's closest allies,

denounced the rabbit advances. we are very much sorry for the syrian people. who came. we became a subject of another jo, political experiment. we absolutely convinced all scheme of disability to use various like the up, the who, the shop to achieve jo, political purposes. the president of neighboring taxi said change was in the truck because everyone must see and accept this truth. hopefully there is now a new reality in syria here, the politically and diplomatically, you know, most people that up united nations reiterated the president of and point to view the need for i'm ordering the political tom safe for me has never been more urgent . and it was with co star thing, we didn't work information all inclusive and credible transitional arrangements

in syria with the rebels having down structures in damascus is southern suburbs. the city an army says it's created an impenetrable military code in around the capital. the events of moving fast, but momentum is on the insurgent side. so by cell a side, it looks increasingly likely that his days as president numbered and selling researches sunni arab g heading groups in north africa and siri at the washington institute for near east policy. earlier i asked him how much of syria is still on the president assad's control? we only see now that the 3 provinces of the country are under the control thursday and it's heart land and the coastal areas around talk to summer, talk the a and then the city center in damascus. everything else has fall neither to the h,

just let a fence of the affiliated southern ops room in the south. and then the target specs theory, national army controls north central syria and then the us back syrian democratic forces control the entire east. now, how do you explain that and that this rebel advance is progressing so incredibly quickly, especially now they are down into the areas that we will lead to believe we're assad, strong thoughts? yeah, i mean i'm just as surprised as anybody else. and i literally been following this every single day since the 2011 uprising. but it's clear that it's an illustration that the dire straits of the regime back in 2015 when the russians 1st went in, was that that's been confirmed in many ways. and that if the russians and the writings had gone in, then at that time, it's likely the regime would have fallen 9 years ago. but now, because the russians have been distracted in your brain,

the writings been having to deal with the aftermath of israel's war and her mos in his bola. there just isn't anybody there to do it and because it's been so lightning quick and she hasn't been able to consolidate control and move on to the next cities each time relatively swiftly. it hasn't provided space for counter offensive. and instead it's created a momentum of its own work. now you're hearing that h t s is facilitating the defection of senior regime officials and officers inside of damascus city right now. and so what our sounds, the allies that you, you bring up russia and, or ron, what are they doing at the president of a i'm, i'm willing to help all of a, a just, i'm able to help at this point. and i think that in the beginning they thought maybe they would have more time to create some form of counter offensive. but

because everything has been going so swiftly, you see kind of a fait accompli happening where in the last day or 2, you saw a russian calling for civilians from russian civilians to leave damascus. you see that their navy ships have left the ports in the coast so that they wouldn't get hit potentially by the rebel forces. and then, or ron and its proxy networks of flood across the border in iraq as well as loving on. and so now it's just the show of the regime itself. and the question is, um, you know, how long will this taken whether it will be peaceful take over damascus, or will there be some level of fighting between now and then? and so just one more in this area without iran and russia, as you say, are assad's forces and who are left alone of a number of i being out maneuvered or are they have some willing to stand and lose their lives, trying to hold on to hold on to ground in the name of a sides raising it's definitely all of the above. you see that?

you know, it's important to remember that a sense regime ball on t himself is al away they still need sunni is, but most sunni still disliked the regime. so now that it appears that it's all over, they don't want to have anything to do with it anymore. and so the allies within the region have fled mainly to the coastal areas in the heartland and talk to some of talk to you. so it's, it's likely that a lot of the remnants of, of the region fighting force or the sunni is that the base in damascus and they have no interest in probably fighting against h t s. at this point, especially since she has no controls. the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th largest cities in the country. that hasn't been much of a pop up so far. are we expecting anything different that happened in damascus as well? when we did talked a week ago, i thought maybe once we got to hop on homes, that would be a little bit more of a fight. and, you know, there's been skirmishes here and there, but it hasn't been anything large scale or nearly what we saw maybe a decade ago in the fighting. so at this point,

it seems that there probably will be fighting to take the capital, but it's likely won't be as, as big as maybe many would've imagined just a week ago, when i have a few dies to observe the rebel group around, boom, how much al giovanni from a distance. what do they want? they want to be the new rulers of syria. of course, it will be in a different manner than what the saturn seem has been doing. obviously the establishing follows is baptists era of nationalistic ideology, where as a h t us, the acronym are conservative is list um, so they'll try and rule based off of their interpretations of islam, especially as it relates to minorities within the society. but generally speaking, we have an 8 and a half year track record of them governing it live in northwest syria now. and they've primarily just been focused on, you know, getting services and delivering goods as needed to the local population. and it

hasn't been anything along the lines of what say we've seen with, you know, these long state are all kite or even, you know, governments like in the top, on the scanner stand. it's still a concern is the most regime, it's still has a sort of cheering elements, but it's uh, you know, not quite as, you know, it's not as extreme is the tall one is lomax theater. all titles. will assad still be present in syria? do you think at the end of the no, not at this point, i'd be surprised if he was the president by the end of next week and dealing with the washington institute. thanks so much for your time. appreciate it. thanks for having me. is moving on now, and well, plate is and dignitaries have gathered in paris to mock the reopening of north or down cathedral conic building has undergone a painstaking restoration. after being damaged in the lodge. 5 in 2019 french

president a memo mccaul attended the ceremony. along with you as president elect donald trump, you friends, president belinda, mr. lensky and prince william. the balance of note down a ringing once again. 3 tents on the cathedral stores symbolized its grand reopening. hundreds of gifts still the immaculately renovated building pain spatial thanks to the fire of finances, who saved it from being completely destroyed in a mess of 55 years ago. thousands of experience have worked tirelessly to restore every detail of the cathedral with leaders and dignitaries from around the world gathering to mock it's read the

french president, a menu on the phone use the occasion to draw parallels between culture and politics . the said, we have rediscovered what great nations can do me to achieve the impossible this. this cathedral is the happy metaphor of what a nation is in what the world should be. a fraternity of people determined to make great choices fail to the whole us president elect donald trump was front and seem to for the ceremony and his sister to into the world stage since moving this election, his political l i. e. l must also attended along with ukraine's below them easily escape a pleasure. savannah, while they were in paris, mccomb will appear to give the tooks at the presidential palace. european leaders are trying to persuade trumpet to maintain support for ukraine's war against russia

. president zalinski described to the talks as constructive away from the political discussions. the notes are don's return much a moment to celebrate full for regions to get outside to watch its reopening the 1st mass and the restored cathedral will be held on sunday. so managing its revival after 5 long or pulse of closed inviting is under one vote counting by the sound way in gun as presidential and parliamentary elections. but as long as the contest between the current president mohammed will do it for one year or 2 fully new patriotic party officers later on vermont, eat my stomach as many gun millions feel the leading candidates of a little hard to change as the country struggles with loose economic crisis in a generation the deputy corresponding in kamani is in gallus capital at

crockett. we asked to when the results are expected. as i can tell you, for sure that it's not going to be tonight to invest just because the voting, the vote counting process here is very low and tedious and that's what's happening behind me. so the police offices will take out the balance one at the time and show them to the members of the public while working diligently in the on the other side . and to get the, the count, the votes. i don't if you can hear them from the background, that's what's happening. and once they've done that for the presidential results, we move on to the fundamental results. now give me this voting sense of the 3 pulling stations, and this has to happen in 14000 voting, pulling stations across a gun. so it's a process that we don't expect to end tonight, but certainly between sunday and monday morning, we should be seeing some clear results of who's going to take the election from a just commodity in acro. let's get you a quick reminder of our top story before we go. international, more monitors are reporting that the syrian president, bashar al assad,

is for the plan in place to the country. and on the destination, there are reports of gunfire and explosions in damascus with rebel forces saying they've been since the capital with only limited resistance from the government. but that's all for now. we'll be back in 45 minutes with a more you said the now understand can have a think like the vice president. do you have any news on instagram and follow up this shadows? these pop costs and videos shed light on the donkey street. the devastating colonial horrors infected by germany across and he employed scores to post tactics,

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