to contents about sexuality and sexual matters. i'm liza modeled as an i'm going to be exploring all listen more in a new season of life. content matches available on all platforms, the business they don't use life invalid. israel launches as drugs across syria targets including military bases and as well says it's setting up a weapons freeze out in serious south. also on the program. israel's prime minister gives evidence for the 1st time in his corruption trial. anyway, next in yahoo is josh with bribery fraud and breach of trust, all of which he denies the . i'm feel welcome to the program. israel has launched a string of ass strikes against syrian military bases. it says the attacks are

necessary to prevent weapons pulling into hostile hands after the collapse of the sun regime is right. it also says if he's setting up a weapons free zone in, in southern syria, and this denying reports that its troops that move beyond and establish buffer, so a closer to the capital of damascus. the g 7 group of leading nations we'll meet to discuss the syria crises on friday. smoke rising over the syrian capital up to the latest is really air strikes. dozens of them, huge military targets across the country. according to syria and media reports, they included and fields, munitions, depos and the facility linked to the production of chemical weapons. e's real says it's acting to stop arms from getting into the hands of extreme his forces. i know who was deemed we were taking all the actions necessary to try to ensure our security and then with regard to the new situation created in syria for most of the

so we all on tuesday, writers, news agents and he's really media published reports suggesting is really for us as a role, so deepening their incursion into syrian territory. security sources say they were supported just 25 kilometers from the syrian capital. a claim denied by these really army that's up to israel, took over a demo to raise buffer zone in the golan heights. the area south west of damascus was a next by israel for decades ago. but it's still regarded by most countries as part of syria. israel says this step was necessary. we took some in some points and ruling territories and near the boulder. you know, they're not to be surprised from october 7 in the syrian border. as i emphasized

it is a very limited and temporary step. speaking at the golan heights on sundays, prime minister benjamin netanyahu said the collapse of the asset resume is offering great opportunity for peace, but is also fraught with dangers that we can establish a neighborly relations and a peaceful relations with the new forces emerging in syria. that's our desire, but if we do not, we'll do whatever it takes to defend the state of israel and the border of israel. for now, these really extracts continue. the u. k. base serena observatory for human rights says the most important military sites in syria have already been destroyed. in more than 300 is really strikes, says default of the asset regime or the rebel coalition that are in control of syria has named the prime minister to lead

a transitional government mohammed out by sheer has already left the opposition administration in italy. province, a takes over from the prime minister over throwing us on regime, who has been working with rebels to coordinate the transfer of power and one. jesse, i asked janice to some muhammad to, to tell us what to tell me whether the transitional government is going to be a continuation of what was happening in it. well, if you go through the details of this government, we could see that it was a lot of compliance, the search duplications of the people of all of the action. and uh like say use the services which is government was providing uh for the public services. it was a lot of compliance from the people who are leaving united live. however, this is not, not the most important thing. the most important thing is it only takes an policy and laws which is this government was imposing, getting heads up related to the um,

restrictions of the freedom of the personal uh, expression of the um, the better. so not really just or how people can attack and in the community, lets say um there was a low which is called a public mode on the table, which was making a lot of, of restrictions on, on the women on the people on the mix between the male and found female so that mostly the political, automatic policies were coming from uh, the code. uh, chevy, uh, orders a service uh, a salma mohammed and commission and ne, syria. uh, benjamin that yahoo has take the witness stand in his corruption trial for the 1st time. he's ready 5 minutes to enter the package. courtrooms and face longstanding charges and 3 separate cases. describing the charges against

a fraud branch of trust bonds, accepting bribes as upset outside the courthouse opponents and supports us up to 5 minutes to health separate demonstrations. and the case that has basically divided the country. it's the 1st time i say thing is really a prime minister, has given testimony as a criminal defendant. benjamin netanyahu takes great cab to portray himself as the full time leader israel needs. but the criminal accusations against him on mounting a group threatened his grip on power as well as prime minister. no officially vaunted by the international criminal quote. for electrical crimes. also phases trial, a ton of full use. he's been accused of committing fraud. 5 re breach of trust. in 3 separate cases, the keys 1000 claims, nothing young and his family accepted. lobby's gifts from rich business men in exchange for political favors. case 2000. the ledges that he discuss clubbing. the

distribution of arrival newspaper in return for favorable news coverage and one of israel's biggest papers. case 4000 accuses netanyahu of intervening and government regulations. but benefits to them is really communications giants and exchange for positive media coverage. if convicted, you could face present time that was on clear for how long over the use the trial was post, turn several times, sometimes at the request of newton young himself, but also due to the current of ours pandemic. in all 3 cases, netanyahu denies any wrong doing. when he admits he did receive gift, he says no favors were given in exchange. he answers the charges optimistic he made today to seize, assess as a supervisor of the one who fights their the best than any other leader in these

run and perhaps than any other leader in the world. uh, being charged or being convicted will, i think, is legacy and his critics of accused of prolonging the war and causal on purpose, to delay judgment and remaining power. the appointment is only concern is his own survival. he wants to stay in power the at the same time then yahoo has been able to use the trial to school points with the support of its service. his the political constituency said you see, i'm being hunted a by all kinds of, of negative enemies. even the judy sure system that they find all kinds of false accusations. netanyahu's legal team applied to delight this hearing to. they say the prime minister didn't have enough time to prepare his defense because he is too

busy with the whole. autonomy ashton's lynn is a political analyst and fellow of the us think tank the century foundation. she joins us from tel aviv, where she attended today's court session, a welcome to dw, and this was the prime minister's 1st day in court in his own trial, which began years ago. what did you make of his 1st appearance? i would say there wasn't a terrible surprise in the sense that in 10 yeah. who used the, a large portion of the nearly 6 hours of court proceedings in his testimony. to make big sweeping narrative statements about his life. his biography. even going back to his ancestors, his father, his grandfather, and to put himself into a long line of israel's own history to try to portray you know, to both the judges. but i think primarily to view is really public. what a great statesman he is. what a key figure he's been in his really history and what

a great statesman he is at the level of global affairs. that was, i'm gonna say the writing scene, but then of course he has many subs, themes that he has consistently used pretty much throughout the investigations. and primarily since he was indicted in 2019, which is that key. these charges are will amount to nothing. they are essentially either text me of fiction or even fabricated and that he is being uniquely persecuted because he represents the true voice of the people and that some sort of a deep state and lead a term that he doesn't use himself but which kind of is implied by everything he says is trying to take him down and these were the themes that came out and much of his testimony to that. and the, as you alluded that he claims these cases are politically motivated. so how did they come about while it came about because the there, there were investigations into what might have been criminal offenses. the attorney

general who pursued those investigations was in. and y'all, who appointed himself, he's a for a previous attorney general of you. 5 men lift, they went through a long police investigation and the police team found up 4 different cases in which he might have been a suspect. and one of them, he was not actually names as a suspect. so that one cell that, that case fell apart and he's not being charged in that case. but there were 3 remaining cases in which there was apparently sufficient evidence to go to trial. that's the normal way the judiciary works. that's how the legal system works. and this is essentially a normal proceeding. it's also certainly not the 1st time it is really history, that political leaders at the top levels, whether it's prime, a prime minister, senior ministers, or if or president of the country had been investigated. prosecutor, them sometimes convicted, but usually not, not only usually, of course, it's completely unprecedented that they would be going through these proceedings while they are in office for the simple reason that at least twice before that i can remember when there was an, a, a, even

a possibility of being indicted to different prime ministers, resigned and advanced. that's a popular being in his 1st term in the 19 seventy's and uh and a who had on there. and in 2009 when he was facing up, what later became indictment prosecution and even the conviction, this is not anything unusual actually. and so if found guilty, i'm does that mean jail or does face a position as prime minister? i give him some wiggle room that briefly if you wouldn't mind. oh yeah, it doesn't just, he's not shielded from conviction and jail time from being from being prime minister. but we don't know anything about the kind of sentence this might bring that we'll have to. we'll have to leave that to find out if there's even a conviction at all. and so the claim by some of the critics of it's on yahoo is that he wants to stay in office in order to avoid conviction. that's not a very strong plane. he can still be convicted um, but i think the, the stronger claim is that the longer he drags out the proceedings, the, the more their delay, the more there's a possibility of

a different attorney general who might decide to slower even dropped the cases. and so those criticisms are all part of use really discourse right now. okay, thank you for guiding us through that. so clearly political analyst at valuation from the century foundation. thank you for having a couple of most doors, making headlines today will stop in nigeria where the police side gunman have kidnapped about 50 people. women and children were abducted during a ride on the village of cocking dow and the northwest, which has been plagued by kidnapping so ransom in recent years. police in the academy and capital nairobi have 5 t, a gas to dispatch a demonstration that guys, gender based violence under the protest is adaptive in the state incentive following. a nationwide outcry of the growing incidence of family side official figures indicates at least 97 women have been killed in kansas in august most by then male thomas the group representing the survivors of america's nuclear bomb

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