these become poles in a cruise here to the school counseling, missouri, i'm afraid i'll never see him again. when, oh, you lost under the stops december 18th on dw, the. this is dw and hughes live from berlin. south korea's president is suspended after a vote to impeach him. you so kill, says he will step aside, but won't give up as a court now considers his future impeachment decision is celebrated in so less than 2 weeks after you've watched marshal attempt also coming up form or football or it turned right wing politician. his name is george's new president in an election point content by the opposition, the ruling georgia dream party type thing, sits group on power and

a grim search for the missing victims. families gather more ins across syria, hoping to locate the missing loved ones killed by the ratio the unpopular police. welcome to the program. less than 2 weeks after his short lived marshall. lower decree sized korea's president has been suspended after parliament voted to impeach him. you so kill, says he will step aside as the country is constitutional court now considers his future of the celebrations on the streets of so uh, south korean lawmakers vote to impeach that president human. so kill 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 an estimate to 200000 people gathered on the streets outside parliament, demanding the removal of the increase in the unpopular president, whose approval ratings have plummeted to just 11 percent. i'm so moved in, i think the people want legal aid was less than 2 weeks ago. that used to keel announced a martial law. plunging the country into a states of anger and his korea into a political crisis. it was retracted just 6 hours later after law made because unanimously voted it down speaking,

following the impeachment vote, you said he would fight for the couldn't trade to the very end. don't you go to thomas you? well, i may pause for a moment now, but the journey toward the future, which i have bored 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. and so thousands of protesters were out on the streets, including supporters of the now impeached you earlier i asked the journalist, june hobb park, what the reaction has been there on the streets. 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 the 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 um, 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 really started moving away after news of the emotions passage

and right on the still kind of 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. yeah. um you know, south brain democracy. it's showing that it can persevere. um, you know, we've, we've seen that the president, he's declared martial law on uh, and he's defended it by saying that 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 those 2 of us to be um having proof of evidence. um, so the marshall law and the grounds for marshall as indicted by article 77 of all countries constitution. it's not yet satisfied. um, so i think that's what goes forward and the democracy as many people on the ground as that has prevailed. right. and we'll be keeping a close eye on development stare in south korea,

june park reporting from so great. have you on the show today to political controversy in georgia, not where a former football or has been named as the countries knew presidents and made a constitutional crisis without coffee. liability is seen as pro russian and is a hard line critic of the west. his election was boycotted by the opposition who have described the process as illegitimate. this is george's new president mchale covey lashley, a former football player to and right wing politician elected by a problem and largely controlled by the pro russian georgian drain patchy in the off position boy cost with the process describing it as quote, a legitimate meaning. georgians protested outside the countries 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 thing that there is a huge consistency georgia society about. and this also damages this red oak legitimacy that they might have. so we did 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 then how'd important be nice to raise their voice now because the morally like minds the bullets we'll do that george's car in pro waste and president has refused to step down and is demanding a new policy entry election, she had this to say on friday, doc wrote a 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 and legitimate institution, a part of legitimate government that is truly elected and which reflect the voice of this country of this society i'm credit is the size of god to release the

ruling georgian dream potty announced in late november that it was postponing its effect enjoying the european union since then 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 protest until the voices of good dw correspondent cache gosh, as she might not ski is into play. see, he told me what happens next to now let me tell cover last really has been elected as george's new president. well, 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 trolls and governors across the same spot just for now the situation is called in the city. as you can see, the name of the street is still not as too open to traffic, but in the longer term, the next 2 weeks to observe this, let's go try cis, that'll open 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 ended. 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 chicago should tell us a little bit more about mikhail coverage. less skinny is

he is a former football player. and he only answers politics a few years ago with the georgia dream party. and twos, particularly known for his aunty western rhetoric. he's considered a teacher with using strong language, a radical promoting vertical positions in the government. and he was also one of the initiators of the so called for an agent small, that's a 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 conscious turn away from that was dw correspondence cache. gosh, she mccallski in tbilisi. well,

diplomats from the european union, united states and the arab world are meeting in jordan as the international community attempts to help steer syria's lightning revolution. us secretary of state and from lincoln met with the turkish foreign minister hopkins. we've done during the adults lincoln is on a made a tour of them at least hoping to establish a common front cereal works on setting up a new government after the regime of last year on the side. curious, arians are still searching for the estimated a 150000 people who disappeared during syria's civil war. many are turning to the countries more. it's to find any trace of their loved ones. dw mohammed tried to report from damascus. her is standing in front of the coffin that contains her son the she tells us he was killed 2 weeks ago when i started wishing forces where he did his home. she wants to save at 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. my study is just one of many phone and syrian detention centers and presents. since i sides, government collapsed just as the more off to me i wish to help us put them in central, damascus is supposed to be a whole, it looks like a lot of house, a bunch of bodies of detainees and people visiting all the time, looking for their relatives, brothers, or loved ones. it's an extra identity seen as people inspect dozens of buddies looking for twos or bus marks to identify the relative so

far only if you have found loved the. busy 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 her death because they suffered from internal injuries. you mean signs of torture? father. 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. no needs to be the obvious desperate. he's looking for his son, so i missing a saw from the toy use network of presents for more than a decade on the left hand side of under. sure. you've no, i still knew nothing about near you any mobile highest every security agency and

didn't get an answer. and i know i'm the one who i'm, i'm still looking for him everywhere. how much advertising is of the jump out. so feeling a bit bit more any term boost is yesterday, but you can't move now. what did you find here? the monday to i found nothing. nothing at all. and i said no, no one has answered me. yeah. i thought of, i don't feel. i'm still searching that you know, i'm and what, what do you do? said the i'm leaving it to guns will know me. you wonder if he's dead? no, i want his body. i want to know where he's 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 of their loved ones, after doing so much and the serious, brutal dictatorship. that's all for now. let's stay with us for the planet to show that puts the spotlights on climate change. this week,

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