is clear if you choose become pools in a cru see openness, a cool conflict with oh you lost on the run starts december 18th on dw, the business dw news live from ballad. it's game of up for us, not simply as president, reportedly fleas, the capital, as rebel forces store meant to damascus. the rebels declared the city free from all sorts of 20 full year rules. announcing the style of a new era, fully silly and peopled, 0 as prime minister says he is ready to assist with a peaceful transfer of government. the

gulf is welcome to the program. and we begin with breaking news from syria web president bush, all assets regime has collapsed aside, reportedly fled the capital, demoss goes to an unknown destination. off the rebel forces ended the city meeting, little resistance. the insurgents have declared the city free from all sorts of rules, which lots of 24 years rebels launch their offensive against the regime less than 2 weeks ago. crowds have been celebrating the capsule and across syria. serious probably minutes of mom at least said he is ready to co operate in a peaceful transfer of power with any new leadership chosen by the people is also called for free elections. let's listen to the statements here released. it will be on the yes, the video and you don't have to this country can be a normal one in the country to build good relations with its neighbors and with the

world without entering into any regional alliances or blocks has been fighting with what we lead this matter to any new leadership that will be chosen by the syrian people, get to the use the sharpest. i'm are ready to cooperate with the new leadership and facilitate what they need level. so the various government files can be transferred smoothly and systematically in a way that preserves the states facilities should then said this would be shifted in manhattan. g b my from my off at the, the the journalist a settlement. how about is income? usually a city and all that has been serious, courteous region and what's happening in your region right now. what's the atmosphere like a sense? um, well the, the city is you celebrating everybody in the city. i say, as it conversely is known by you the various ethics where that is codes out of scriptures. everybody celebrating moving inside the cd in to see how

the set you reset the central office with us at likely. so little i said to visualize that have been thrown inside the city and damage. everybody's tried to have a part of this historical day and take some memories for them, for the kids, for the coming generations. everybody think that the future will start to come from today and tomorrow. um the, the, the, to us for you to here is that uh, there is a pall drugs that are going to be no more fighting cuz there is no more any dramatic days. that is going to be negotiated, sions, and transformation, politic concerns, formation for a future, for all the city on the areas on regents. now how does that take over by the rebel group page to seen in the northeast where you always curtis forces control most

areas uh actually is it is, is it as kind of as coax, already started between the edge tiers and the, the, the li engine at all a coma and office here and it looked like is it going to be eating oceans and discussions between the both sides? us, you know, people in the email people, there is 2 neighborhoods which is under control over the code. these forces shipment sold and i should offer you on steel. there is quote, these forces are inside this loose neighborhoods and controlled by it's the see there is no any data collages or fighting between the both sides. this means that there is internal deal between both sides to discuss and negotiate about a future view and pull it to go towards progress starting soon. i such as the sum of how much income each day. thank you very much. thanks

for more analysis i'm o join to the studio bio reporter goes to a honda is was born in all that opposed to him following this story quite closely. have you expected of this long and bloody civil war? this take over the rebels will go so quickly, fright, 13 years of war and destruction, and it all comes to close very fast within less than 2 weeks. know frankly, like most syrians, i did not see those coming before the offensive. but in the last days, the writing was already on the wall and it was only a matter of days. so now we're seeing the mass celebrations. we're seeing people go out in the streets, not just in syria, by the way, also in neighboring lab and unders been celebrations. this just tells you how many enemies this regime had made along. it's like 50 decades,

both outside bus shot and his father of their rules. so there's celebrations all around at the moment the all region is also full of a syrian refugees, right? correct. so now all these refugees, there's more than 12000000 syrian refugees in total, and a lot of them are in this region, and the lavon and all of them are trying to see how they can get back to their families. for the 1st time, lebanon just opened its border as well. there's been images coming in from their, from the must. now border, near the mask is so there's people rushing and others planning, waiting cautiously to see what it's going to be like if they can fly back at some point to view nights with their loved ones. this really is a watershed moment. uh for, for syria. took us to what we can expect in, in the next couple of days. so there's a lot of different emotions right now. there's celebrations on one hand. on the

other hand, there's this painful reality that sort of me been revealed. i've seen lists of hundreds of names of people who have just been released from prisons, mostly political prisoners who bear brutal marks of torture, especially from the sudden i a prison. so in the coming days and said, naya was named like the human slaughter house, there were reports that there was a cremation of the dead prisoners there. so all these stories will come out in the coming days as more people speak with the prisoners. and there's going to be a lot of pain to reconcile with. but once that is done, and there's people that are held accountable for their actions, then syria can move on towards healing and hopefully towards forming a functional government and talking about defense to government and moving on the different a opposition groups involved in, in this, in such as if you will,

in syria, can you give us a brief overview about who they are and what they want? gearhart, as he said, there's many actors involved in syria. i will focus on the 3 main ones because it will come down to these groups in the end. so be offensive, was led by have a at the data sham there at rebels that are known to be more extra missed the u. s . has designated them a terrorist organization even though they've kind of in recent days of tried to shift their stance and islam is solving they are yes. so they have tried to shift their stance and present themselves as accepting of minorities. but of course, they will want some kind of religious rule, i assume. and then there's the turkey backed syrian free army. there the usual face of the syrian revolution, the green, white uh, black flag with the red stars that you've seen, that is them. and then there's the kurdish forces, the syrian democratic forces,

which are backed by the us. so these are the main actors involved and it will come down to how they negotiate. and, and these groups also made up of several small groups, which we can't go into right now. the short space of time that we have thoughts. uh, it's a sign that these groups are incredibly diverse. will they be able to govern together? now it all comes down to how they negotiate together and right as the assad government was starting to fall, all these groups started capturing as much territory as they could, the kurdish faction. the cf already control around 25 percent of syria. now, curves are around 10 percent of serious population and they controlled the oil fields in east at north eastern syria, so radio and then balance. yes, so they will have to give concessions. now there's already reports now coming in

just now that there are skirmishes between the rebel factions and the curtis groups . and this means, even though there's have signaled their readiness to hold talks. it's still unclear how the turkey back rebels, the extra mist, more extra mist rebels. and the kurdish factions are going to get along together to form a government and what they're willing to give up. is there any uh oh, can you, i mean, is this little crystal ball now, but what can the west do right now? is there any other factions that then that is being supported by the west? now the u. s. has said at trump in recent days of has said that the us is going to has signaled at least that the us is going to be on the sidelines watching. he's called syria. and that's uh, so even though they do back the kurds and they do have a coalition area, it means there's, we're probably not going to see direct involvement. it will look,

it looks like it will come down to what the syrian people want. and hopefully, if they can find a way to govern and move away from military rule, which is what we saw under assets. and there's all these arms. there's a lot of weapons in the hands of extra miss. it remains to be seen how these weapons will be taken from the wrong hands. and yeah, it's a very explosive situation. a talking about us as he was supported by midnight minorities in syria, like the christians, the muslims, and the drew's. what can these minorities expect now, do they need to be worried about any repercussions? see, as minorities and recent days as well? have a proven themselves reliable, some of them. in, in the last moments of assets, the rebels were contacting people and they were asking generals, now is your time, it's your last moment call us. they were circulating numbers. so some people did

cooperate and collaborate with these forces and i assume they will be forgiven. now the rebels have said they don't want revenge, but i've also heard that there's mass exit as of the other white community who have a as a loyalist space who have left the country because they don't know what the future for them is going to look like and the drugs you mentioned as well, they were involved in the capturing of damascus. they had been protesting in so ways, for example, for years. so even though they are minority, they have proven themselves to be allies against asset at least know, you know, the country a deal you're speaking to family and people you know, in, in, in syria how up to mister guy you, that syria gets over this initial term all and can be a functioning democracy to some degree. oh god, the hope is palpable. when i speak to people,

they're happy that it's the end of this brutal surveillance that people have fear all the time. this barrier of fear is broken. people feel that they can speak freely, but of course there's cautious optimism. they don't know what the future is going to look like. they don't know what's going to happen. we've seen isis also resurfaced the so called this law mc state, extreme terrorism in syria re surface in recent days with a power vacuum. so very cautious they're waiting to see what's going to happen. they're waiting to see have security is going to be provided as well, because there has been reports of loading within a remote area as and some cities as well. so they're worried. most people are staying home and just waiting to see what happens next. after such a long time under the rule of us as a family, not just by charlotte, but also his father. can syrians shake off that and

become a transfer to the democracy? i sure hope so, and every syrian is asking that very question right now. this is the moment for them to prove if they are capable of switching to a democratic state. now there is a chance that it can feel and it can become a sort of field state like we've seen in the middle east. but the hope is that we can try and find some way to even if it is under a religious rule, even if it's not a secular, as syria is known to be, then people are still hoping to find some kind of democracy there in the future. because you know, how does the thank you very much for that analysis. you're watching dw news. here's a quick reminder of our top story. serious president basra south has led the capital damascus to an unknown destination of the rebel forces. entered the city to

the limits of resistance. the insurgents have declared the city free from all sides . decades on roll. less than 2 weeks off the launching a lightning offensive in the middle of the company. and that's it from the guy the media and the team of principals. the .