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to become closed in a cru see a political conflict went, oh, you lost the run. starts december 18th, on d. w. the veneers live up from berlin. serious rebel commander calls on people to celebrate what he calls a blessing revolution. but even as crowns across the country, he'd that call many members of religious minorities are worried, so i'm choosing to flee. rather than trust rebels, you say that they are no longer ze hot. this also coming out a grim search for the victims of a dictator, thousands of syrians to send on mortgage across the country, hoping to locate mr. loved ones killed by the assad regime and for its present emanuel nicole and picks another ally to be prime minister. francois pirates is a centrist, known for compromising, but left is in parliament. i've already said he's unacceptable.
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the break off is good to have you with this, we'd be getting syria this friday, the 1st friday since the collapse of the assad regime. syrians have spent the day celebrating in the streets, huge crowds gathered in central, damascus, following friday prayers. the rallies included the video posted by the leader of the rebel forces who spearheaded the offensive that finally toppled partially ela saw the insurgent leader congratulated the syrian people and urge them to celebrate what he called the victory of the revolution. so i want to get it straightened up to the syrian capital d. w. correspondence element of joint is from damascus. stella you award there at this, the main square in damascus, where people were celebrating, talk to me about what you saw, what you heard the atmosphere there. yes,
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people were very unhappy with thousands and thousands of people at the out square. and we actually didn't make a toll because we got stuck in traffic off the wrist. we just standing next to the big road right now. and people are still celebrating. they're still on the way to join the other people that have been on, oh my god, square the whole off. it's really, i cannot describe how many people are standing on the square. the thing is that them thing the waving menu, sir, in fact there. so to gather together, syria, we need to hear every your night they say by side by side pull down. so it's really an incredible mood and everyone is very happy and i think it's going to continue throughout the whole nice. yeah, it looks like a huge party. what are people hoping for, for now, as far as the future is concerned,
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the most people i spoke to are hoping that the problem is, is the new government and produce a transitional government is making at the moment. but they would stick to these promises and actually brought people more rights for the better. and people are just enjoying the momentum as well. because many of them i enjoy the freedom of speech for the 1st. sorry, thank you for the 1st time they can say what they think that they could use words that were also been like the world thought. i don't know if you would say that speak about the uh that would have the problem. so people already saw the pricing that we mentioned, right? i'll just turn that thing off as long as they're on right now at the same thing. so not getting any worse. yeah, and lots of world leaders have been calling on the, the new syria to respect the rule of law to protect the rights of minorities. what
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kinds of relationships are serious new rulers have being then to establish with other countries? i that i need the need to offer it's the speeding of the rebels has promised the neighboring countries another for another countries to establish peaceful relationships. the already some relationships experience, the consequences, or just to hide the identity. so he's now sending to 6 of the 1st 6. now he's sending it to the syrian say, look, i'm going back to my name. so i want to send the signal that everything is safe. we to be free and truly be we are. and so that's like the message behind it that you're sending. the other hand, he's also rebranding himself a little bit because so many people to him and he's known as alter bonnie, know him under this name when he was still part of i'll call you to and many people
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here in syria, all very concerned about his past engagement and guidance, and therefore you supposed to re branding himself and in but to prove that his political ideas have shifted since that. yeah, the former is the hardest with a new name and perhaps a new identity. w corresponded seligman in damascus. stella, thank even as many syrians dolefully celebrate the fall of a side is a different story for the families of those who went missing under his roof. it's estimated that some 150000 people disappeared during serious 13 years civil war. most of them were arrested buying a sod, security services. many families are now searching for their mist, loved ones in morgues. the w's mohammed trades that reports tonight from damascus to my her standing in front of the coffin that contains her son. she tells
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us he was killed 2 weeks ago when i started pushing forces rated at home. she wants to save her this moment. lost. she can bury him and say good bye. they said they wouldn't give me his body and that he's a terrorist and should be buried anonymously. and given a number, i thank god i can finally come to his grave. myers party is just one of many phone and syrian detention centers and presents since assad government collapsed. just as the more off the we don't wish to help us put them in central, damascus is supposed to be a close. looks like a lots of house, a bunch of bodies of detainees and people visiting all the time, looking for their relatives,
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brothers or loved ones. it's an extra identity seen as people inspect dozens of bodies looking for twos or bus marks to identify the relatives. so far, only if you have found love tags on the, on the team you suffer from an easy ition and mistreatment as they were exposed to cold weather and overcrowding. the let to the death of most of the bruises that may have caused to death because they suffered from internal injuries . you mean science of torture? yes, indeed, especially the ones who died recently. outside the hospital, hundreds of syrians are looking for the loved ones. this is all they have to go off . pictures with just numbers, new needs a vis desperate. he's looking for his son. so i missing the thoughts and the tore
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your network of presents for more than a decade. lufkin thought, if i'm there she, you know, i still knew nothing about doing that. we're doing mobile and i asked every security agency and didn't get an answer and i know i'm still looking for him everywhere. so much advertising is up to jump out. so if you end with visual already term boost is yesterday, but she can't move now. so what did you find here? the mother to my phone, nothing. nothing at all. and i said no, no one has answered. okay. i use yeah. i thought if i don't feel, i'm still searching that you know, i'm and we're on the phone. what, what do you do? said the i'm leaving it to god's will know me. you dealt with it. if he's dead, i want his body. i want to know where he is buried. i want to see it with my own eyes. but not everyone here will be lucky enough to find to find the resting place
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of their loved ones. after doing so much on the serious, brutal dictatorship. and here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world. type one says it's chased away chinese coast guard vessels, conducting operations near the island. china has been holding large scale military drills around time. one for the past few days. tie with ease officials is a busy is trying to set new red lines before the trumpet. administration takes power in the us opposition. lawmakers and south korea had filed a 2nd impeachment motion against president union suki. old. he survived the previous impeachment bid, when his ruling party boycotted the boats and the boats were called for after president ewing briefly imposed marshal war and plunged the country into turmoil. this latest of this felipe to be more likely to succeed. prince president, emanuel mac roland has appointed his political ally, francois byron to be prime minister by route as a centrist,
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and he will try to leave the governments at a time of instability in france. the previous prime minister in the ship on the 8th was ousted in a boat, have no confidence over his proposed budget. it's unclear how the opposition will react to lose the appointment. but the leader of the socialist party has already said that 5 route would not be accept it would that in mind? let's close up another journalist, daniel brown, who is in paris. daniel, tell us more about the man known as francois by re well, he's one of francis most experienced colored patients with a strong character and a pretty high opinion of himself. but he who is another 73 year old like me, said about a year that he's replacing and he's been ever present in politics since 1979. he was the minister of education 3 times in the 19977 years ago. my co nominate to
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them as just this minister despite a certain skepticism the bible 1st had for my cool. however, they who's had to step down from that post only one month after being nominated after he was accusing a party funding scam. don't. he was in fred cleared the wrong doing, but prosecutors have appealed against these acquittal. so it means that he could still be brought back to court. well being a prime minister. well, other than that, but what is the biggest job but facing the new prime minister as well? first of all, there's into another. so concern over frances, that so that are other that's higher than greece in terms of g, d, p, and demands from international bodies. and banks to apply severe austerity measures are still there. if you remember, the trends is living with a debt. that's the equivalent of 6 percent of the country cdp. that's the highest among western economies. and the drop budget says it'd be shut down. you suggested
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that i was thinking 60000000000 euros in savings to address these. so that to say is what brought same down. anybody who could well, put this on the table again. and there's these internal tensions in this unprecedented national assembly with these 3 major blocks. the biggest of which i'd like to remind your live your, your view is the new popular front, the n s t. as coalition, which from the beginning has been hostile to by a who's nomination. now already the biggest party in this coalition, friends about l. if i in french announced it will vote so no confidence motion. the greetings are saying that the decision to nominate babies, simply ridiculous, i'm quoting things, denouncing my code for playing with francis the democracy and the extreme right wing. the national front set of our in party is the same that so they are going to
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really be keeping a very careful eye on what she's going to bring on. so they'd say, daniel, i've, i've got about 30 seconds. let me, let me ask you, and based on everything you're telling us, is he going to last longer than his predecessor did? so i think that's the 64000000 euro question. i'd say yes, i know there's so actually saying these even more from child than the previous prime minister of the stream right wing and our party, which is the single largest party in the national assembly. you saying those boats against him, unless he agrees in their weights to listen to the opposition and to build a reasonable and well sewed outputs as if it keeps that you can calculate space. and from these parts of journalist daniel brown in paris with the latest there on the new prime minister of france. daniel, thank you. thank you. you're watching the news. i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news. i hope to see you then the
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