old, we can be the generation, the ends at so good. malaria must die. so millions can live the this is dw, do is live and from berlin. israel says that it is a stain in the golan heights, spine growing international criticism. administering isn't yahoo insisting that is really true to remain in the buffer zone on the border with syria. he says to guarantee is real security. also coming up. curtis and the syrian celebrating after the assault regimes down fall, well also hearing serious new leaders could help crush their dream of an independent curtis day. and time magazine named you as president elect donald trump is person of the year for the 2nd time, starting a political come back of this stuart proportion.

the ivr gone to our viewers watching on cbs in the united states. and to all of you around the world, welcome we begin with is really forces in places that they have not been in half a century. this week is rarely troops pushed deeper into the go one heights areas the last entered 15 years ago. today, israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu pointed to the toppling of the assad regime this week and said, israel's military will remain and a go one hides buffer zone until border security with israel is guaranteed a. this is the is right, the military in the u. n. monitor demilitarized buffer zone between syria and is radio occupied going on heights. israel has advanced, it would keep a limited number of troops there because the syrian military had abandoned,

its posts is raining prime minister benjamin netanyahu said it was a temporary defensive position until a suitable arrangement is found. 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 to occupation of the golan heights. the move is part of a far reaching is riley response to the full of the assad 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 under international law to preventively or preemptively disarm a country. you don't like, i mean if that were the case, it would be

a rest of the 5 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. earlier i spoke with harlow charlotte, he is a middle east and was that the mostly dian center intel a v even? i asked him, what does he think the reason is behind israel's breach of the previously de militarized buffer zone? with siri as well, it's mainly the northern part of the golan heights. indeed, formerly a long day, the golden lights as you show, but in fact the forces are, you know, you know, certain park in the northern part of it. it's a part, it's a, an area with the 5 villages. some of them are jews which are protected by israel and not for the 1st time. it was

a few years ago when these really was required to protect them and to prevent a measures against them. but that's not the re, the main reason. it's one of the 2 main reasons. the other reason is that is really wants to see how the current, the regime, which is still crystallizing as we know a lot because at the end of the day we have nobody can blame us. you know, for me being afraid of a people on the white trucks, a g, a, d, 's, and that, you know, we would like to take some precautions. we need to, to make it clear, we're talking about a strip of something in between the 3 to 5 kilometers. it's not the 10 percent that the turkey, for example, occupied out of the serious the territory. and as he's run said, and i really hope this is the plan, it will redraw once it will know that everything is under control. well,

there are 2 messages coming out of this. let me ask you, if you agree, one is, is real, wants to be proactive to protect itself. and the 2nd is that it does not want to, you know, leave its national security in the hands of a you enforce. am i reading that correctly? and i think you're reading it correctly, in fact, a few that well during the, the balance before us of the it was toppled down is road was required to predict the you and base it and how the village. so it was, is worth protecting the u. n. and not, and not the vice versa. the old situation is very volatile, very combustible. and this is exactly why the, the idea of has changed the positions and within those limited the areas. and hopefully, personally, i can tell you, and you know,

we have nothing to do there. if the machine will be stable and will not threaten these real obviously, split, syria is sets up for the post assigned era. the country's disparate or infections are looking to submit their own interest. the victoria's islamist lead h t. s. are now in control of most of the syrian now that they've set up a government in damascus, they've set their sights on the rest of the country. much of the northeast, however, is held by the kurdish lead syrian democratic forces, while the turkish back group calling itself the syrian national army controls much of the territory along the northern border. serious kurds had been hoping for autonomy or self rule, but the h t. s. as advanced as well as advances have people now fearing the worst syrian kids wasted no time and destroying remnants of a subs room. they are among the many syrian minorities to have some of it under his

link, the regime we've been waiting for 13 years. and today is our day, it's the codes and curtis stands day, and god willing it will be full of joy and happiness. it's nick could make up about 10 percent of serious population along with sizable minorities in iran, iraq, and took a cit. protest have long baffled for an independent state, making them a target for various governments. during 30 is civil war. the curtis lead democratic forces fought to create a c, me, or toner mas area in the countries north east. the us troops faxed them, and slicing the rise of use in the region. and in controlling the oil rich areas. but neighboring turkey has long fault against the syrian kids. it has back renewed

attacks and recent days, fearing kurdish sit partizan within its own board is key, has also supported the h t. s. rebels who toppled the aside regime and will now help shape serious future . many kids fluid low just hours of to the rebels took control of the city while they've tried to assure minorities and knows at risk. not everyone is convinced given the tone the lotion of the minorities are worried about how they will be treated to uh, you know, how that those who have taken over now have come out with positive slogans and statements. did you need to go to see that because i didn't practice. everyone is hopeful and expecting the call of the new people are waiting to see if these positive statements will materialize in practice so that they have the full of the

aside. regime could present many risks to syrian kids. but as the country begins to rebuild, they may also be opportunities for the long held goal of self governance or more, i'm joined now by your children. mine is director of the middle east and north africa program at the international crisis group. and he joins me from new haven, connecticut. tonight, it's good to seeing you again. let me ask you, are the kurds, are they being left behind as syria's political landscape shifts so rapidly as well as your courtesy to you, what if you would say that you will be left behind and by any central government or regime in damascus for decades? um, so uh, the kurtz, only gaines control over majority curtis areas and beyond in 2012, 2013 glenda regime in damascus was on the back foot and needed someone to be the

custodian of the kurdish areas while it's was preoccupied fighting rebels that had set their sights on domestic is the telephone, central power courage, of course, no interest in central power and damascus. so um, but now with the new dispensation in damascus, it is uh, remains to be seen whether uh, a new central government regime order. but if you want to call it in damascus is going to take the same line as the aside for she did towards kurtz, or in fact is going to come to some kind of accommodation. i think it's way too early to say. and what about turkey? it is turkey, perhaps successfully sidelining furnished forces in syria with its military campaigns. it was certainly like to do so, but it hasn't died. and it is a currently supporting. it has support for quite some time. serial levels under this syrian national army,

which is another shot. and the areas that tricky occupies in northern syria and, and there are no fighting against the this is here in democratic forces, which is the curtis dominated force in northeastern c, r u. s. the f as had to abandon already a totally thoughts and monday and some other areas. um, but um, uh, but again, its way too early to say a completed united states is telling turkey not to proceed in this matter. and uh, we'll see what our tricky heats that advice without tomato router is estimated by itself is in no position to carry out that 5 by itself. it goes to much stronger as the f. so we'll have to see, you mentioned the united states have the kurdish forces, have they lost their leverage with washington, or is us support? is it still reliable? is all i ain't getting possible to say because we're in the midst of

a transition in washington. i'm going to buy new administration, i would say no. the gods have it left, lost and rich. there is still in a rush, you know, fighting isis where the courage, of course, we're a partner to the us military. that threats is much diminished in syria, but it's still there even today in eastern syria. um, but under the trump administration of things could change the cost of the trump administration. the care scares more about the routing influenced and our asses. and frankly, as to what has happened, notice the change and resumed damascus. the running influence has become a minor concern for the united states in syria. i'm wondering, mr. hilton, and what happens to the us backed kurdish fight against isis if the current, if they lose their influence in syria, i mean, did do we have any idea of predicting what will happen?

so i never predict anything, but i would say that's a, it's just going to fall on the, on the h d s. and the new governments that they set up in the mask is to fight a isis an issue. yes, an ice is or no friends with each other a isis. uh, uh, i mean, it's yes, in its previous inclination was, was fired into fighting isis and, and i'm sure it would continue to do so. and it may say that it doesn't need the united states, i don't know for to do that. but it certainly would was for an powers out of the steering territory to the syria for the syrians. and if for some reason it proves to be 2 weeks to do so that it may defacto allow the united states to stay you'll still to me in the international crisis group, mr. esmond, as always, we appreciate your time and your insights tonight. thank you. thank you,

us. all right, let's take a look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world . us secretary of state, anthony blink and and jordan's king of doland, have called for a secure syria during talks in the red sea resort of ok of lincoln said serious transitions should be inclusive, non sectarian, and it should protect the rights of all syrians. he made the comments before departing for turkey on the next leg of his mid east to else to need. health officials is a more than 2 dozen people have been killed and the latest round of really your strikes have gone to medics said one of the buildings hit was sheltering. a large number of displaced people. it's 100 units. a funeral was held for 7 palestinians record we killed well guarding 8 trucks. a teenage prodigy from india you see behind me here. he has become the youngest ever chess world champions. 18 year old cash to mirage you. when the final game

and a 14 match series and single port thanks to a blunder by his chinese opponent, the youngster takes over the title of the youngest champion from russia's gary testbed. all you may remember him. he was 22. when he was nearly 4 decades ago, go cash and says his victory was the best moment of his life. all right, we went to pulling out some royalty and the chess world. i'm happy to welcome to the show unit poll gar. she is a, a gary and she has grand master. the only woman ever to be ranked to the top 10 just plays of the world. she's considered the greatest female chess player of all time. it's an honor to have you on the show. welcome. thank you. hi, um, what did you take when you heard about this new winner and being only 18 years old as well? i was closely following the whole will of championship match and,

and i was also commentating some of the few rounds and later on feeling very closely it's amazing. good at go, cash was able to win and the concur and the take the will championship title from his arrival against the chinese dang. it was a very exciting game and the lot of mistakes, but there are a lot of nurse to be to who is not doing the sport or any score. they cannot even imagine how much time than you can have. they've been 2 players just across the board. and he's only 18 in the the book just he's be still a baby. right. so there's lots of progress to be made. i assumed if you look at his ma and, and project into the future, are you expecting green things from him to? absolutely, i was actually following him pretty closely just 5 years ago or 4 years ago i was

having a training with some of the other talents and i saw him that he was very bright. he was very dedicated. he was so passionate he was, he had such a work ethic that it was very clear that he will go very high and nobody knew and expected that he's going to go so fast. but i think it's, it's a complement of many things that he was able to do this. first of all, there is another world champion 5 danville attempt in india and to be sure not a non well, i was competing good but a lot. and he's a great real champion who we had and he was mentoring him and he has a great and incredible support by his parents as well. and somehow he does everything the right way. well, like help us understand what it's like when you are sitting there. obviously, this is a very cerebral sport, but it also has to be incredibly, physically demanding i, i would assume to be, what does it, what does it do? what does it demand of your body when you're playing chess and concentrate source?

is all you have to understand that of course it's a big dream already to play a world championship match, right. what's already for the last $34.00 or 5 months, whatever he was doing go to players, they were playing the chess olympiad. in the meantime, they were playing and other events, but of course all the preparation generally speaking, was all about making good, good timing for the for, for the world championship match the for because she's very young. so he has lots of energy. he won and lead the indian team to a gold medal in the test and they just 2 months ago in september. so he was ready to find that was very clear, but it was amazing that this is a very special way when 2 players are playing a game, each other only to playing 14 matches one after another. and there is a very big thing shouldn't, because every game you win for sure, your opponent is losing, right. so you come up to catch up and every move can cost the full game. so to keep

this tension up, there is a big team behind the players. mentally preparing them physically preparing them and also of course testifies per from professional chest most preparation. and of course, the match itself, the whole match like a after every last or victory. there is a big, big change in strategy. how to do it to bump, how to do the punch back in the next run, right. let me, let me ask you, before we run out of time, you're the only woman ever ranked in the top 10 chess players of the world. where are all the women to well, i do hope that the more of the men will come up and blame the between the 2 faces the less and they will actually, there are some in the google, so we're pretty good. so i wouldn't be surprised if in the next 5 to 10 years we're going to see some other ladies up there. all right, well take you at your word and we'll invite you to come back on the show as well.

gary, just grand master. you did. oh god, you know, we appreciate you talking with us tonight. thank you. thank you. we're nearly 3 years into russia's full scale invasion. ukraine is now believed to be the most mind country in the world. there are an estimated 2000000 landlines contaminating 40 percent of ukraine's territory. unexploded ordnance is another problem and even near the capital t w's rebecca rivers reports its painstaking and dangerous move. in 2 years after russian soldiers were forced out of keep, the mind is 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. well, how to familiar and in many areas of far as the dangerous, because of mine's all the optim up the fighting. now if, if these are the boy,

he said both that sir, no, this hits the economy hard to fit because ho, hector, as of land cannot believe fund the ocean, you know, over open the experts from the halo trust, the world's biggest mind clearance organization estimate there are many millions of explosive items in ukraine's soil, including more than 2000000 land mines light by russia since the full scale invasion. the scale of this problem is immense. eats 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 though decades to bolster capabilities, the high, low trust has been taking on war veterans with extensive battlefield experience. veterans like it was fun. yeah. so it is a south k reminds for the military until he stepped on one himself with

a couple of levels of we've, we've captured an enemy 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 seat cover the we. unfortunately, i stepped on a mine and was injured and you know, you almost have to put on and that'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 gives me a good chance to keep on working for my country that's really important and contribute they do using the knowledge of wolf the vets analyze these high resolution drone images, they identify with the skilled eye and determine where the other side might have placed explosives. we have a lot of expertise in flying drones and analyzing human trans and bringing data together. but we also have missing some domain knowledge about the,

the local context and the battle field. i'm hoping that the veterans will help us understand a little bit better. this is 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. drawing magazine has named us president elect donald trump. it's a person of the year. the recognition comes on the same day, the trump rang the opening bell is the new york stock exchange. times editor in chief said that trump was the person who quote, for better or for worse, had the most influence on the news this year. yeah. did that trump made a story come back, the 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 dw corresponded benjamin of a risk. we bring washington. he said that this decision was not unexpected. that's

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 title, it also included a vice president, campbell harris, russian economy, julia and nevada. yeah, the widow of russian position lead alex a novel and the being now named is the 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. so it was a wide ranging interview reading time, 59 minutes. so an hour that touched on several topics from this election victory of

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 topics that i just named, one of them is a ukraine where you criticize the use of us apply missiles 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 is that 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 defined several times, but when he was pressed,

he said that very serious testing indeed is a meeting and time magazine wrote that. and he said that merely suggesting it is also it creating a, this alignment of funding and alignment with admission formation that has been fueled by anti vaccine movement for use. and i remember it back in 2016 when the time to put them on the cover. it was, it was a big deal to generate 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 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 in context of several of trump statements that it ranging from numbers on migration falls claim on gender as a nation. surgeries, crowd size is just to name a few of them. and trump himself called this

a tremendous on his saying that he liked it this time, even better referring and just said to the 20161, some time magazine named some tests and of the for the 1st time after winning the presidency. it's been over as we with the least in washington. benjamin. thank. are you watching the w news after a short break? i'll be back to take you through the day. do you remember me right back? the

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oh you lost the run starts december 18th on d, w. the today, israel's prime minister said the power vacuum in syria presents a new threat to israel's national security, which is why his forces moved into the go on heights this week all the way into syria. and it doesn't look like they will be leaving any time soon. what will a post a side serial looked like? what kind of government will there be? questions that will be answered over a longer time horizon in the short term. so you're in say they have many reasons to celebrate. they say a nightmare is over and break off in berlin. this is the day the .