as the dreams coming through, making money, having a sun when not falls in challenging thoughts, december 13th on d, w. the. this is dw news live from berlin. israel says that it is staying in the go one heights, despite rowing international criticism, is really a prime minister benjamin engine. yahoo insisting is really troops will remain in the buffer zone on the board of, of syria. he says to guarantee as real security, also coming up ukraine contaminated with land mines like no other place on earth. spike will show you the dangerous task of clearing the ground of explosives and time magazine names us president elect donald trump. it's person of the year for the 2nd time, starting a political come back of this stuart proportion. the

bridge off is good to have you with this will begin with is really forces in places they have not been in half a century. this week is rarely troops pushed deeper into the goal. one hines areas, the west entered 50 years ago. today israel's, the prime minister, benjamin netanyahu pointed to the toppling of the sod regime in syria and said, is really military officials will remain in a go one heights buffer zone until border security with syria is guarantee. this is the israeli military, in the u. n. monitor demilitarized buffer zone between syria and is ready occupied, stolen heights, israel as advanced, it would keep a limited number of troops there, because the syrian military had abandoned, its posts, is riley prime minister benjamin netanyahu said it was a temporary defensive position until a suitable arrangement is find the buffer zone is known as the area of separation.

it was set up as part of israel ceasefire agreement with syria in 1974 to keep his riley and syrian forces a part after israel occupation of the golan heights. to the move is part of a far reaching is riley response to the full of the aside regime in syria. their military has launched, strikes on syrian army facilities, weapons warehouses, airports and unable bases. but there's been condemnation of these rails actions by many countries, and by the united nations. there is absolutely no basis on the international law to preventively or preemptively disarm a country. you don't like, i mean if that were the case, it would be a recipe for global chaos because lots of countries have adverse raise. they would like to see without, without weapons. back in the golden heights buffer zone. it's unknown. how long is

riley troops will remain as developments in syria move at a rapid pace dw, corresponding, still a minute has more now on those is really your tax. the early on i was in the city center of damascus and recruit loudly hear the explosion off the air. sorry. that wasn't the suburbs of the masters until now. we don't have any further information about the target. anyone was injured. i spoke to people hear what they think about the situation and how they feel about it at the many people here and the most given the answer was that people feel like they are used to israel story king syria and also the masters and the this has happened already before the full of assessed. they also told me that they're

a little bit more worried about what's happening at the moment at the very non heights that they're worried that israel is now going to use the moments at to occupy more land actually, to move further in through the country. it was still a matter of the reporting from damascus. dw correspondence, emily or dean is in jerusalem, and she told us more about israel's actions in syria and the buffer zone in the go one heights as well. the is ready to slide, hasn't really commented on these recent strikes that have appeared to have been carried out around damascus again. but essentially this very much falls in line with what figures are constructed to have been since they are solved vermin fell. israel essentially is pursuing 2 goals here. one is to protect its citizens and his territory from possible spillover effects, possible attacks that could arise from the terminal that's currently still sweeping syria and be number 2. and it's goal is also to make sure that as we just tell them

the report to make sure that the a subs wesson's also know lots allegedly, that reports at least silverman and 0 situation. we con, confirm from here. but ultimately you've got these lessons don't fall into the, into the wrong hands. i'm sorry, i wanted to continue that. and of course, of course, you know, like we just have that reports to facilitate stuff that they ever see. we've seen, we've seen israel carry out aerial strikes, strikes on there is naval base of that, but also this push into the buses and that's not really been into the bosses. and but also beyond that and nothing y'all has a condition essentially is mission is to have a situation that's on the other side, but will guarantee the safety of israel. but nobody knows how long that will take. so ultimately, a, this, this is this as low as, as much as these really side the saying that this is temporary, and it is also in

a way, indefinite. and of course, this is not spin without criticism. we also in the reports heard from the un envoy to syria get pedals sun. but we've also been hearing criticism from turkey. um, where the form minister came out saying that the courts as role is again displaying is occupied mentality. so harsh criticism, but so far it seems that spin, floating on death is it was a 1000000 word need every 40 from jerusalem. let's take a look now at some of the, of the stories that are making headlines around the world. you are a secretary of state and to the blinking in jordan's king abdullah, have called for a secure syria during their talks in the red sea resort of arkansas lincoln. this is your use transition should be inclusive, non sectarian, and protect the rights of all serious and made the comment for the party for turkey on the next leg of his mid east tour of hello sidney and health officials say more than 2000 people have been killed in the latest round, it is really airstrikes in gaza. medic said one of the buildings hit the sheltering

a large number of displaced people in hon. eunice, a funeral was held for 7, couple of cities reported. we killed well guarding a trucks. who was president joe biden has a nails cheese pardoning 39 people in commuting the sentences of some 1500 others. it's the largest single day active clemency in modern us. history becomes a week after biden's controversial decision to pardon his son hunter. despite saying earlier that he would not do this when nearly 3 years into russia's full scale invasion, ukraine is now believe to be the most mind country in the world. there are an estimated 2000000 landlines contaminating 40 percent of ukrainian territory. unexploded ordnance is another problem even near the capital key. w rebecca readers reports its painstaking and dangerous move in 2 years after russian soldiers were forced out of keep the mind is

a still working to clear unexploded ordnance from areas on the cities outskirts number 50, their husband ticket, that it's not only civilians who are at risk, but also the economy. how to familiar in many areas as far as the dangerous, because of mines or the off them off the fighting those, these are the boy e. so those, that's the end of the, sits the economy hard if it's because whole heck to as of land cannot believe fund, which in, you know, over open expense from the halo trust. the world's biggest mind clearance organization is to make. there are many millions of explosive items and you can soil, including molding to many and land mines light by russia since the full scale invasion . the scale of this problem is immense. it's not just here in kids, but right across the country, there are hundreds of sites like these. removing all the landlines and unexploded

ordnance will take years. even don't decades to bolster capabilities. the halo trust has been taking on war veterans with extensive battlefield experience. veterans like it was the called. so if there's a stop, a key remind. so the military until he stepped on one himself with a couple of what those are because we've, we've captured anatomy position and were ordered to clear rate of explosives and hazardous items. while we were securing the area, we came under artillery fire and had to cover the my. unfortunately, i stepped on a mine and was injured and you know, you almost have to put on and it's jack of hopes that when he recovered, he could go back to his battalion. but the challenges posed by his prosthesis made the rigs of the military to difficult, and he was the mobilized co, approximately the halo trust and gives me the chance to keep on working for my country that's really important and contribute they do using that knowledge of wolf

the vets analyze these high resolution drone images, they identify with a skilled eye and determine where the other side might have placed explosives. we have a lot of expertise in flying drones and analyzing inventory and, and bringing data together. but we also have missing some domain knowledge about the, the local context in the battle field. i'm hoping that the veterans will help us understand a little bit better. it's a win win. they tell me, given the industrial scale of landline and explosive ordinance laying in ukraine, the role of the role that is invaluable. that was rebecca readers reporting time magazine has named us president elect donald trump. it's person of the year. the recognition guns on the same day the trump ring, the opening bell at the new york stock exchange times editor in chief said trump

was the person who quote, for better or for worse, had the most influence on the news. this year, sam jacobs added to trust me, stuart, come back, re shape the presidency and is reordering american politics. trump was also times person of the year. you may remember back in 2016. earlier i spoke to the w, corresponded benjamin alvarez gruber in washington, and he said that this decision was not unexpected. on this right. it wasn't a big surprise. we had some room is already over yesterday. this is usually a difficult decision. that's what the magazine said. but it was not the case this year, the magazines editor and c, same jacobs, referred to donald trump. when is a he story come back. and he also says that it's hard to argue with the fact that the person who's moving into the oval office is the most influential person in use . and with this president to like beat a short list of this finalist for this type of led, also included in vice president campbell. a have is russian economy,

julia and nevada. yeah. the widow of russian, a position to lead to alex a novel and the being now named is a time at testing of the year for the 2nd time of to 2016. if you just set it basically tell us a little bit more about the interview that trump gave to time magazine. there was a wide ranging interview reading time, 59 minutes. so an hour that touched on several topics from this election victory, the economy that was in ukraine also in the middle east and his plans for the 2nd administration. so if we look at the 1st one of these and topics that i just named, one of them is a ukraine where you criticize the use of us apply for yourselves for attacks deep into russian territory. and he also rates are rated and will look at the us that he's going to pause and most of those convicted in volumes at the us capital in january 6, 2021. and is that the thing that also sit out for me during this interview?

you said he said that you would consider altering childhood vaccination programs in the us. is that he was have discussions with robert f. kennedy junior. this vaccine skeptic that he nominated to run the us department of health and human services. he did not explicitly say the vaccines cause autism a false claim that has been debunked several times, but when he was pressed, he said that very serious testing indeed is in needing and time magazine wrote that . and he said that merely suggesting it is also it creating a, this alignment of funding and alignment with the misinformation that has been fueled by anti vaccine movement for us. and i remember it back in 2016 when the time to put him on the cover. it was, it was a big deal. it generated a lot of headlines is doing that this year as well. what's been the reaction there in the united states or so the reaction has been different to 2016 is that there was some room is already saying that he would be

a the person of the year. but also what's quite similar when we looked at those interviews that they made. but now the time magazine also provided a fact pseg and context of several of trump statements that it ranging from numbers on migration falls claim on gender as a nation. surgeries, crowd sizes just to name a few of them, and trump himself called this a tremendous on and saying that he liked it this time, even better referring and just said to the 20161 time time magazine named tim tests and of the for the 1st time after winning the presidency. it's been over as goober, with the least in washington. benjamin, thank. a teenage prodigy from india has become the youngest, ever chest robed champion, 18 year old to cash to mirage. you won the final game and a 14 met, series, and single 4 thanks to a blunder by his chinese opponent. the youngster takes over the title of the youngest champion from russia's garry kasparov. he was 22 when he was nearly 4

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