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. i'm feel good. hello, welcome to the program muslims in syria, celebrating the 1st friday press and the collapse of the acid vein sheets. drugs have gathered at the mosque in the capital of damascus. and the press fall of video posted by the leader of forces that spear had to be offensive. it finally talking about our shot previously known as i will mohammed out long. they congratulated the city and people. and i'm just celebrating already called the victory of the revolution some about another minute. but i'll sharah and his group h t. s. have been seeking to moderate the rhetoric and distance themselves from that jihad has passed. h. c. s is designated by many western governments as a terrorist group, though it's not surprising to respect serious religious and cultural diversity. but

some of the serious minority groups, skeptical syria emerges from the 13 years of a brutal civil rule. the incoming government headed by is mr. rebel group. hi out to you on some o h t s. promises to build a unified and inclusive country. but some minority groups do not believe them. these families have decided to flee before the new government takes power. they started to control us. you have to frame the way we do, the praxis you are to use that isn't as we want. they wouldn't accept one of us as husbands before before, during a certain time, minorities were safe. and if there was a finding in one region, we went to another among the syrians trying to leave and members of the white

community, an offshoot of she is land, which comprises about 10 percent of serious population. special also does not of white and many here were worried that the association with the top of the leader could translate into persecution by the incoming. so name is lamita's. of the serious transitional prime minister mohammed ali russia has promised to guarantee the rights of old people in syria. c but here in the christian cool to of damascus, this form a bomb on says the rebel groups are already exhausting. the influence had them in the room in 2 days ago. they arrived on motorcycles, they were armed. they asked people where are the places to buy alcohol? so i said, why do you want to buy alcohol? who he replied, i don't want anything this, if i just want to destroy this place and show them how to deal with, i'm concerned about the new lead is the shed by the college community in

northeastern syria, h t. s and other victorious revel groups receive support from the enemy tacky. it stays like of the ethnic groups in syria. worried that the new lead is promises of toner in some acceptance. do not include them straight to the syrian capital. i'll correspondence that joins us from damascus. well comes, send us a, tell us more about the skepticism surrounding the new latest promises of security and freedom for all the skepticism is high. and this is also what i hear. if i switch to people, there are a lot of christians, uh that telling me that there it seems to wars. uh and that they think that the problem is, is by the us government. it's just propaganda and that's they would not stick to what they say. we have to understand where these worries come from. first of all,

historically speaking, those quotes valid because it wouldn't be the 1st time in syria that minorities would be attacked. but it also has to keep in mind that a slab was using the narrative that use protecting the minorities as part of who's put back under. and he was especially telling the christian communities and by my school. but he's the only one who could detect the christian, and that as soon as the muslims would be in power, that they would be attacked. and so how people responding to an hour, it should arise cold to celebrate today. well, they are. i'm standing here at a street that leads to in this direction, directly to the oh my god. most. i was there earlier of thousands and thousands of people walking into them off for the 1st present. the 1st friday off to the pool of upsets. people were carrying the new slacks some have them painted on the face.

everyone was very happy. they were people giving outs, um, cookies and biscuits. and now the prayers servers and people are using the street behind the scenes to go into the city center where they want to protest and rose. they want to celebrate the victory. i'm the new freedom and the b. h to sleep is an interesting car to my eyes. sharah is dropped to all of name of i boom, a 100. our galani just explained to his why. yes. uh so 1st of all, uh, his name's actually his actual name. so i was, your money was mer more, his price range, which is not completely uncommon. um, i don't know, the prices were in the off position. they didn't use their real name because they were afraid for their families or just to their identity. so that's, you know, change back to his real name has the 2 reasons. the 1st is that he wants to say no

on some symbols, to the people of syria that the time of oppression is now over. and that nobody should phrase be afraid anymore. um and should be able to use their real name. uh, the 2nd reason is maybe most strategic reason because um his old name uh july he is very much connected to his previous activities years ago. uh, in uh, call you the, uh, and this is where also a lot of mistrust against him as the person is coming from. uh, so changing his name now is also that, um yeah, putting a better image of himself out there and really trying to supervise people that there has been a change that is also in his uh, i do all of the and the product eco ideas that he's spending, okay, thank your boss, spell out dw correspondence as the phillip matter in damascus. meanwhile, rebel forces in the north of syria backed by turkey,

a continuing operations against the code is troops. so he says that objective is to clear the area of what they call tendered. as in the secretary of state, anthony lincoln has met with jack is present budget type of on an incorrect to discuss the financing, despite being and nato allies back to countries are actually of are actually backing opposing sides us these, the syrian codes as allies vote against a potential power vacuum left by the full of bush out a sat anchor of season as terrorist. one of washington's principal concerns in post outside syria is preventing the re imagines of the islamic states terrace group. the hotline is limits movement respond a decade ago in the chaos of serious civil serbian could supported by the us a played a role in that defeat almost immediately as rebel forces reached damascus on sunday,

to topple president flush all assets regime. us forces conducted precision air strikes in syria. as part of the operation american war plain struck more than 75 targets. officials, the strikes were part of their ongoing mission to prevent the so called islamic state, also known as i, s, or isis from reconstituting in central syria. you can expect that that kind of activity will continue. we don't want to give ice as an opportunity to exploit what's going on. they love nothing more than the ungoverned space. i s is a terrorist group spent on establishing a global calif that it goes to prominence in 2014, when its forces took advantage of the ongoing syrian more to seize vast swats of territory at its height. in 2014, it held about a 3rd of syria and 40 percent of a rock. it conducted terrorist attacks world wide killing and injuring thousands and destroyed cultural heritage. on an unprecedented scale,

the kurdish forces have played an essential role in helping the united states and other countries. battle i asked for more than a decade the groups, territory, and military capabilities were largely contained and disabled by 2019. but they were never completely eradicated with many fighters going underground. in the years since as syria civil war stagnated, the curves with us backing have operated prisons filled with fighters, accused of being as terrorist but neighboring turkey views, armed curds so close to its border as a threat and his back to renewed attacks against them. in recent days, the u. s. has repeatedly said that it is committed to the enduring defeat of i s, but with a change of administration looming in washington. many question whether that commitment will hold whatever the vitamin ministration might set as policy now

could certainly change. after january 27th, once once trump takes office, trump himself has said that he wants to see how the situation plays out on the ground. he doesn't necessarily see a large role for the united states. but will that mean that he takes those troops out? around $900.00 american troops are currently stationed in eastern syria. the question now is for how much longer? well, that's to explore some of those issues with professor natasha lynch. that who teaches international relations and comparative politics at the university of essex in the u. k. as a special interest in middle east politics. welcome to dw professor. i'm is islamic state that's really able to exploit what's going on in syria at the moment as the us phase. so that is definitely a concern,

particularly because trump has already signaled that the us of won't likely have anything to do with syria that the us may need to get out of syria. and as a report mentioned there, 900 troops there in 2019 trump removed many us troops that were there. so this number is smaller than it was before because trump sees it was part of his america 1st agenda that the us gets troops out of different parts of the world where he thinks this is too costly for the us. and there are 2 camps in the trump administration, the future trump immunization, one would be the camp that sees use on like state is incredibly dangerous. and therefore us troops need to remain here to prevent it from emerging again. and then the other camp, which of truck leaves is that, that feels that the us is overburdened by these military expenditures. and these all make state at once you have 30 percent of the serious territory 40 percent of

our racks. territory were basically the size of a belgium, and so it was an enormous force and it was with the support of the west and the syrian democratic. the syrian democratic forces which courage that enabled the as lubbock state uh, or the procedures on like state basically underground. so i out that us stocking that there's real questions about what's gonna happen. i always seem to be less than to okay. are backing opposing sides to a still fights and in the nose of syria. so what sort of assurances will the 2 sides on correct and washington be seeking from each other? so that was part of the purpose of the secretary of state. anthony lincoln's visit to the middle east and meeting with ern alarm in person. about these concerns an order on had basically said that turkey is committed to fighting all terrors

forces. but the problem is that turkey use the syrian democratic forces under curtis, as i mentioned, as a terrorist group, or as online with the p k, k. and in the past or the one has been willing to, at the very least, look the other way at whatever the lubbock states activities with some reports, claiming that or no one has supported do so i'll make state directly or at least refuse to engage in any kind of counter tour activities. so there are opposing issues here for the us. that you guys will make stay as the biggest threats and would want to continue just for advice on the nutrition team support or i, it's because i really want is the time you should have really wanted to cut to the heart of what each side wants from the other, what does washington one from anchor was anchor one from washington. so the us once the once turkey to prevent the emergence of these monic state,

that is the biggest threat there for the wes and turkey wants the kurdish forces to be essentially a mini faction. i'm. so now we have this, this traditional government led by mohammed out by sheer being built into mass goes to replace the ass on regime we have fighting in the north. continuing, as it did on the sides, is it writes to talk of a power vacuum in syria. i think you have to assume that there will be at the very least instability and in security because in energy that is ongoing, the transition dot dot, it's very difficult when there's a lot of different rebel groups. and this revel group is really more and an umbrella of different groups. even though at the, at the home, you have hired to euro from these types of transitions are particularly difficult when you have so many different groups talking for power and syria itself is so

complex, demographically. and so do we preview the van that the 5 shows that we talked about 5 and in the north? do you recognize this new or authority in damascus? so, so far what we've seen from the courage and, and this has been one of the groups that has suffered the most recently with turkey, turkey been a big winner here. and so politically speaking, the courage are really struggling because they have made a lot of different deals and now their future is uncertain. and so they have claim that they are willing to engage in a ceasefire, and they're open to some sort of negotiations. and meanwhile, we have thousands of virus fights is still in cody's run presence. what is likely to happen to them as it is really hard to predict? what is going to happen to all these ices fighters that are in, i mean,

really crammed into these presence. there were a tens of about 2 and a half years ago. there was an attempt by these all mix states to try to, to free these fibers found these present. and the curtis forces were able to, to step down stuff down on this attempt. but the courage themselves are, are probably going to be facing other challenges, either from missouri and national or me, which is back by turkey. even though there is at, for the moment, some sort of a ceasefire. a. and without that attention to, to guarding these prisons, which is incredibly arduous, there's, there's questions about what will happen to these these fighters that are in, in the present at the moment. ok, professor instead of from the university of essex. thank you so much for leading us through what is clearly a very complicated situation. thank you for having me authorizes

in your crime, say russia has launched a massive arian attack on the countries energy infrastructure, husbands, the landscape side, the total of 93 may 108200 drones was launched in one of russia's largest attacks of this war, explosions have been reported in several regions overnight the russian asked ike also had a residential area in the eastern city of hockey. it's not correspond. the next company gave us this updates on these latest attacks. this was huge. this was one of the biggest, this thing, this is a tax on the energy system, the 12th so far. and it's no coincidence that they have chosen this weekend right now. the temperature is dropping for the 1st time, really kind of severely this winter. it seems like most of the damage was in the west, the country no major damage reported from k of which still stay as the capital best protected. and the strategy of the agreement with ortiz is not to inform, at least close to the events, to not give the russians too much of an indication of how successful they have been

. but certainly we're seeing the impact we're seeing people across the western central ukraine, dealing with power cuts on top of the kind of scheduled power cuts that they all used to. so it is a very difficult situation and is one that is intended to basic grinds. people down to get people so tired and so exhausted that they lose the will to either stay living here. they think about doing a broad goal pressure that government into coming some kind of deal with items which and becoming chief, a teenage press, a chest prodigy from india has become the youngest of a world champion, a go cash down the road, use 18, takes the title of youngest jumping from brushes, gallery casper off was 22. when he wasn't nearly 14 years ago. i'm roger's big moment, came as a signal at a tournament in single pool with the help of a mistake by his companion. as the 2 grand masters squared off the will chase title a rookie blunder from reigning champion,

china is doing the reading. gave india is good cashed on the roger. the opening. he needed a smile creeping across his face as he realized as wants happened. during the rain took a moment to look in his move before handing the when to go cashed on the roger since erupt. it and celebration in rush to congratulate the 18 year old champion. i mean every, just glad. uh once they experienced this this moment and very few getting the chance and to be one of them. this is. yeah. i mean it can only yeah, i mean it. i think the only way to explain is that just living my living my dream. his dream is also inspiring, budding chase play is is just

a team so that so you would you just achievement? i would say, i mean though you factor do you jo, installation for a young kid who would have taught any year to a to be something like this. his play invisible championship really inspired us also to maybe pick up test and to a lot of people who take up test. so it's excellent for this book and that's in indiana. it's one of the proudest moments in my life to change them around you hopes this would be the fist of meaning championship when he says he wants to stay at the top for the longest time possible to become the highest rated chase player in history. journalist, i'm a nation. well he to is a chest expert times is written about the sports on about championships for decades . she joins us down from bank a little in india, a welcome to d w. and tell us a little more about the very 1st 18 year old prodigy as a player and a person a yes, the dish has to be from to night,

the land over here. and then i need just really his school the lemme just for that use a lot of engagement such as the actual deeper they just feelings run back to school and we'll get started about 10 years by and at that time he said as he wants to become the youngest civil war champion, uh this year has been phenomenal for him. years. literally was everything and see you on the candidates 7 to 45 for the joint venture. given a board by the just a little here. and do you want any, do you do a one bedroom? that's one of the few board for idea. so this has been opened best. yes. what with dish, i'm you say hey, we started 10 years ago. yes. 10 to 12 years ago. he wasn't, it's the left side of you can see these is both good factors shut off for the 5 years. right page. and how big of a business do you think for india as a, as

a country? it's phenomenon. we are the only the she on a few years back when the good bye bye deb and susan. he's a 2nd which ended indefinitely. this time of the watch on did you uh, what's work between the 2 issues? they live in of china and we'll go strongly. yeah. the 1st time was the duration comes up on visiting for the work they did. okay, so tell us about the move that sound during a live runs game and had to go cash the championship me. you mean in the game your city, the mistake that was made? yes, yes. the draw and the total gave. you will have to see that i been the next day with the chart oceans of the shorter time pendulums. but certainly the middle frame, the digital,

and after that just ended up digging the joy you is going to be the digital key that you've been reporting on check since the ninety's. how have you seen the sport evolve in that time? oh, when i was reporting in the ninety's he had only one percent off and on it and then you said was will be we don't really about was yada yada their relation in india. and since then oh yes. has become a very populous we're going to yeah. to be with you on is to be at us to get to raise the nation. so think it is the biggest for that india. but in the last 10 years, this bunch of youngsters like a double gauge for getting the genetic s e s. certainly they can india, the board by strong and a box from the corporate sponsorship and government support purchase has to be doing a lot and to be hosted the test and i'm glad it and then you

a couple of years back that what that has to be the big boom and then just boom and india. tell us about go caches, game is, hey, you're because okay, now we know he's really good. he's, he's based prodigy. but is that practice? is that a gift? is that, does he have a particular technique? what is it about him that makes him so good as oh, you use a strong test that was about to say, but whatever is best for him to do this ready? maybe for a little boy. he never gets has it defeats don't say, isn't it? does he get very excited with because he's a he, he doesn't get in do with it, but big names? yeah, he always believes that there's board and not the just split other repeatedly of that as the not all my stuff is the is jeremy. and of course, he's strong, he's the very strong position of it, and he will fight for the by knew this to do i be if he things here,

even the slightest a possibility to explore on that as well. you want a table and that as be history and they really do going forward with these work. maybe. all right, good. so here's your fact here for x by you that so clearly to us, chester and list nation. well, he said in a bundle. thank you. thank you for having me. as a reminder, that top story of this, our a series of gathers avalon mock whom i ad mosque in damascus for friday, for athens and not the end of half a century of dictatorship will come and ask my voucher wrath congratulated facility of the people of those and to celebrate what he called the victory of the revolution. i set you up today. i'll have the world using the top of the, our next on the w to the point has more on the assets down. thoughts with a serious category. 3. have

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to apply it in the end came pretty fast of the 14 years of civil war. the syrian rebel of h t. s and their allies, the powers they hated to say to outsides after lightning company for 5 decades. the pos of family role, syria with an iron fist stuff, the addition torture runs, and executions of brutal secret service. millions fled in the hall from the syrians, have to find refuge elsewhere, and she is the face. awesome victory off met a shot, a foam. i'll tell you the terrorist turn celebrate to deliberate can a unit fly, a country that has been a portion of the region.