so much trouble fixing meals. culture identity, men, let's say together parts of our community life on the research is now on the this is the building even use live from for the south. korea's president is suspended after a vote to impeach him. use silky old says he'll step aside, but won't give up as a court and i have considered for the future impeachment decision is celebrated in so less than 2 weeks after you've watched marshal attempts. also coming up a former foot board are turned right. we can, politician is named is george's new president in an election boycotted by the opposition. as the ruling georgia dream party tightens its grip on the

on pablo, solely as welcome to the program less than 2 weeks after his short lived martial. lo decree at south korea, as president has been suspended after parliament devoted to impeach him. you until kills, says he'll step aside as the country's constitutional court now considers his future celebrations on the streets of so uh, south korean lawmakers vote to impeach that president. use the keels, 204 m. p. 's voted in favor of the impeachment process with 85 bucking the now suspended president. shock repulse through the national assembly. as a speaker made the declaration of the

an estimate to 200000 people gathered on the streets outside parliament, demanding the removal of the increasing the unpopular president whose approval ratings have plenty to to just 11 percent. i'm so moved and i think the people want legal but wasn't it was less than 2 weeks ago. that used to keel announced a martial law. plunging the country into a state of anger and his career into a political crisis. it was retracted just 6 hours later after law make his unanimously voted it down speaking, following the impeachment vote you said he would fight for the country to the very end. oh don't you go to tom she but i may pause for a moment now,

but the journey toward the future, which i have bought with the people over the past 2 and a half years must never come to a hold won't show. i will never give up it's now up to the country is constitutional called to decide on human future. 8 to 6 months to consider whether to remove him from office or reject the impeachment restore his powers. well then, so thousands of protesters were out on the streets including supporters of the now impeached you. i asked during this to june. i park what the reaction has been like a yeah, i was just up the protest and the demonstration right in front of the national assembly, which is not for you and it's definitely for a use of patient. and as soon as you, as impeachment vote was announced to have passed was 204 votes. the elation and the father for democracy and also happiness on the ground was quite evident. people

were crying again, very much happy for the gods of release. and they started calling into people's victory as we seen throughout. and as you can see in the video, you know, cable light sticks, you know, they lit up in different colors near the national assembly purchased as they broke into song, into the new world by goals generation straight after the vote was announced. however, of course, there has been support for you considerably another mass rally that was staged in upon them and square the i saw city center support of you and it turned tense and some very disappointed participants report. police started moving away after news of the emotions passage and right on the still quite a political divide, assuming a little bit and we don't have a huge amount of time left to what does all of this mean for it's have korea's

democracy or yeah, i'm, you know, suffering democracy, it's showing that it can persevere. you know, we've, we've seen that the president, he's declared martial law on uh, and he's defended it by saying, but he was trying to root out pro north reinforces and he gave the evidence of an election fraud that is still less to be on the still less to be having proof of evidence. so the marshal law and the grounds from national as indicted by article 77 of all countries constitution. it's not yet satisfied. so i think that's what goes forward and the democracy, as many people on the ground have said, has prevailed. right. and we'll be keeping a close eye on development stare in south korea june park reporting from so great to have you on the show today to political controversy in georgia now where a former foot border has been named as the country's new president and made

a constitutional crisis, retail capital actually is seen as pro russian and is a hard line critic of the west election was boycotted by the opposition who have described the process as illegitimate. this is george's new president. mckayla covet, last really a form of football player to and right wing politician elected by a problem in largely controlled by the pro russian georgian dream potty to the off position boy cost with the process describing it as quote, a legitimate meaning. georgians protested outside the country's parliament. they believed the ruling pass. he wants to consolidate power and damage the countries aspirations of joining the european union. oh, the 2nd they were elected. so they, they attached to one being that there is a huge consistency georgia society about and this also damages the threat of

legitimacy that they might have. so we do not recognize this parliament as though it, you 2 minutes a problem. and we called a little more and you all people was on this and how important be nice to raise their voice now, because the morally, why do you mind the boat as you do that? george's car and probably waste and president has refused to step down and is demanding a new pilot mean tree election. she had this to say on friday, doc, go to dog. i'm not going anywhere on the island. leave anyone behind. i'm here and i will be here because at this moment this country absolutely needs a legitimate institution, a part of legitimate government that is truly elected and which reflect the voice of this country of this society. i'm currently this the, i'm sorry we got to have this. the rolling georgian dream potty announced in late november that it was postponing its effect enjoying the european union since they

and thousands of outraged pro your georgians have demonstrated and asked for the removal of the government. and now with the election of the new president, demonstrations have bound to produce until the voices of good well, if they don't do correspondence, uh gosh i gosh, she, my nazi is into play. see, i need tells me what happens next. now that the count capital actually has been elected as georgia as your president, a probably the short term tonights we are expecting from you. protesters to gather again to sort of centering, solve the problem and building and, and this time around, the government has also called on it's supporters to show up in front of the parliament for de unveiling of the christmas tree there. so we are possibly going to have troll and the safe spot that's for now the situation is called in the city. as you can see,

the name of the street is still not as to opens across it, but in the longer term, the next 2 weeks to observe this, let's go crisis the stand up between the incumbent president and the governments develop. she's supposed to step down and leave the presidential policy by december 29th when her term is ending. but she has said that this election today was legitimate because of the cause of default because of alleged in the last person to call them into re elections in october. so i'm just kind of sure if this is going to come to the shadow. she tell us a little bit more about mikhail coverage. less than it is. she is a former football player and he only answers politics

a few years ago with the georgia dream policy. and choose particularly known for his aunty western rhetoric. he's considered a teacher with using strong language, a radical from moulton chronicled positions in the government. and he was also one of the initiators of the so called for an agent small truck down on a non governmental organizations. receiving funding from abroad. so the critics are saying that she will be supporting the government and basically facilitating what they see is the contrast turned away from the w correspondent to shake off cache gosh, at human ski in tbilisi. and i to some of the stories making headlines around the world. civil defense officials in the home us run gaza strip, say at least 7 people have been killed in an as rainy air strike. several others

were wounded in the attack on a former school turn shelter and gas. the city is ready, ministry is looking into the incident. the u. s. department of justice as a consulting firm mckenzie and company has agreed to pay $650000000.00 to settle charges related to its role in the countries opioid crisis. prosecutors alleged the company helped manufacturer purge you pharma boost the sales of the highly addictive drug oxy content experts link oxycontin to the addiction and overdose academic that cost at that cost, tens of thousands of lives each year. at least, government has granted argentina's far right. president javier millay. italian citizenship mulay has close family ties to italy. but the news has angered some politicians and activists who point out it takes years for the children of migrants born in the country to obtain citizenship in germany on identify drones have been

cited flying over the ramstein, us air force base and other sensitive industrial science intelligence sources say government support for ukraine has made germany a target for it, possible sabotage attempts to, to syria. and i, where my celebrations have taken place across the country to mark the 1st friday prayers since the full of the sad dictatorship wouldn't 13 years of war along with the brutality of the decades long regime has given way to songs of hope. and the 3 starred flag of a new syria. this is city is 3rd city homes here and all across the country. thousands turned out to mock the friday of victory. that jubilant that more than half a century activity under the asset classes ended homeless became known as the

capital of the city and revolution. as one of the 1st cities devise up against the regime in the civil war began in 2011. but there was a price i misplaced the clock tower square held special significance in april 2011 security forces, open fire, and demonstrate just killing at least $21.00. a lot of people died in this class. this is the protests to the account. believe that the dictator has full and i never believe this. they would call them well, i tell you, i wish i had a great thing. the liberation of homes. it's been a great day. i met people, i haven't seen a 13 years. you know, well the baby and all that when we were away from homes, it was really difficult. we would displace and it was hard to dream of returning. but we had faith in god and they did not disappoint us. comes a lot of, but i mean, must say you have not the celebrations of tinge with sadness for those who were

killed. those whose whereabouts are known with celebration victory, but so much is missing. my father is still missing, despite this fixture, it was to the know with manage a time. these are not on a thought city a has in viewed so much in recent years on this friday of victory, many will have been praying that this next chapter in its history is one of peace and unity. time for a quick reminder of our top story, protesters celebrate a decision by size korean lawmakers to impeach president, use of kill the vote, follows his box to attempt to impose marshall or earlier this month. you and i said he will step aside, but won't give up. the constitutional court will not decide whether to remove him from office. so for an average stay with us for a reporter where we go on jungle patrol with the french foreign legion. that's

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