is clear, if you choose, become close in a cru. see a political conflict when oh you lost the run starts december 18th on dw, the this is the w news fly from berlin. south korea's opposition demands a swift decision on the future of the countries impeached. president, you'll suck your was suspended from office off to lawmakers, voted to impeach him on the saturday south korea's constitutional code now has to decide if you should be permanently removed from pilot. also coming up america's top diplomats, s u. s. officials has been in direct contact with the rebel group now in charge of syria. antony blinking his comments on the 1st top, the consummation of american dialogue with h t, as designated as the total risk by the us. since the ousting off of the bus

and pro you protesters in georgia port authority to postpone the switch on our christmas lights on the tree outside parliament is and the growth of the election of the new president the i'm going to jones, welcome to the program and with staffing in south korea, where the countries opposition has edge the constitutional court to quickly give its ruling on the future of president june suck your on saturday, south korean lawmakers, those are to impeach the president. overhead. boxed marshal, no attempt has been suspended while the country's top court decides whether to remove him from office opposition. lead a lead. jamie only said in a press conference that a switch position by the court will help alleviate as a national, a mile radius of a more on that story, i'm joined by joel,

he john, in sole she's professor of low at hong kong university. there. it's good to have you with us, and we just hear that a soft career constitutional court has to decide on use future. and it seems to be facing unprecedented challenges in doing so. please explain why is indeed that they still heading may have the constitutional quotes and actually consists of 9 justices. however, currently that down to 6 on the because the preston tenant has actually refused school, i should say, impeached for the former president has refused to make appointments. of the vacant 3 seats, and the constitution says that for a in an impeachment decision, you need 6 justices to make the routing that you,

you have to have at least 6 judges agreeing either to denies motion or to, to pass the motion. the resolution tween page and so you, you actually have to ensure that the sitting 6 justices make a unanimous decision. but that's still going to have some clout of it in terms of legitimacy because it doesn't actually have the full bench. however, in the past, in 2016 when the president talked, been hey, was engaged, we only had 8 justices, and it was a unanimous ruling. but 6 as opposed to 8, is still a small number, although there are legal grounds to make the decisions. so that's one big challenge in stems of legal issues. however, this is a very clear cut case and i think any lawyer work that's sold if they have any real basis in greece in reason and in reality, right will have

a very difficult time to reject this resolution to engage so into so substantively just just just because you said something, you said that the you refused to a point 3 most judges, and we also know that the impeachment vote came about because of the, the martial law that he introduced. so are there any criminal charges waiting for him as well? what's his decision to introduce martial against the law or what's going on? or? oh, absolutely. so you did not introduce marshall. he tried to declare an emergency marshal which was unconstitutional. and it's really, you should describe it more as a self who rather than a punched muscle attend because that's what it was. so he refused to the point justices who are nominated by the national assembly because they didn't really uh, suit his taste. he wanted to he, according to these people and basically,

but he wasn't able to do so. so he left the receipts vacant, but that is being corrected as and plus the fact that the justices will have the opportunity to consider the constitutional case. and alongside that they will be criminal charges pressed against or against you. and for the interaction, which is what the sales crew amounted to. basically, he was up ending the constitutional order of the nation. and that amounts to insurrection, or treason, for which he has no email, etc, and he can be arrested immediately. all right, i'm afraid we'll have to leave it there. but thank you very much, joe. he john from the souls. thank you so much for your insights. thank you. it's us secretary of state antony blinking, says american officials have been in quotes, direct contact with syria and rebel group. hi,

it's toby. i assume that despite aged us being on the us terrorism list, thinking has been in jordan for talks with officials from several arab countries tacky as well as you and us. they've agreed to support a peaceful transition process in syria. and as the countries we revel need us to protect citizens rights, as long as we have h t s, as from us to govern inclusive layoff the toppling for shotwell a subs dictatorship a week ago. and do you know how to use a you? priam is in the syrian capital demoss coast. she told me what the mood is, mike the one week after revel forces toppled to the factory. she a very much for it as was the case about a week ago. but we are at. ringback beginning of the week, and as you can see behind me the damascus traffic is now coming back in full force . and we can see everywhere as we walk through the streets of devices, the normal like some kind of normal seats coming back, schools are reopening today. universities are reopening,

a subsidies have been lifted off to the price of transportation has gone off, but at the same time, inflation has gone down at the same time with the sort of one certain situation that this new government might bring. there are, of course, the arch hearing concerns from the minorities, for example, what the new syria to me for them. because even though the h t s has an h t us leadership, the making who say general statements about what the new government would look like specifics we've yet to hear a specifics, but so far things are to move back to the one thing that you would normally see here is people like me able to do their job on the street. really, there are a lot of journalists here as well. and so that, that is something monica that would have just simply been unbelievable. a week ago, the, this amount of journalists would be on the streets, getting a sense of what life is like. this was simply on, sort of under the side reaching, you know, that israel continues to occupy

a office own and the golden hide. and that it carries out as strikes against military facilities near the mass coast. do we know how the h t. s. will deal with that? i always read h yes. liter al gilani say that he does not see that syria under his leadership and his leadership does not see conflict with is real. and this is really expected to think about the momentous trust. but this one who now has to maintain basically city in this country. and the last thing would be a full out military constitution with a military power. like this really has said that international diplomatic effort, international diplomacy has to really come together in this moment to make sure that this is an all of the content, syria and israel us here you are really entries a phase where everything used to be, i mean i would like to see the use i abraham reporting from damascus. i a thank you so much and to georgia now where the political crisis has deepened with the

appointment of a new fall ride president with close ties to russia on saturday night, opponents once again, mast outside parliament to protest forcing authorities to postpone the switch on off christmas lights. the 2 a model has been rumbling long since the routing georgia dream policies suspended talks on joining the european union. the incumbent president says she won't step down until you elections. i held there a few signs of the holiday season in tbilisi. popular anger has replaced seasonal ch here on the streets around george's parliament. demonstrators continue to think solve with police after recent election. so the moscow friendly georgia dream party claimed the vote was president on saturday, the georgia dream control problem and elected this man. miss, you have a, she'd be a former football player turned right wing politicians. the opposition fears will

steer georgia away from joining the european union to outside the apartment building. protesters cast out on how they treat these qualifications. our north, our government uh great uh to our election and our president can do that. you said brother and we have got to hold on for the georgia public. josie, available to present the he doesn't have an invitation to the president. so we're progressing this way. we are showing our diplomas that we are more capable of being present because this is no to legitimate problem and they cannot say elected president, this is not because they are breaking the law despite how they see these election today, outgoing president. so let me sort of it, cd said she won't recognize the vote and called for fresh elections in order to have peace and justice in the country. new elections and need to do is

go down. that is why we are here. demonstrators have once again gathered for their nightly visual outside of parliament, a clear sign. they went back down as a tug of war between the government and the people continues. all corresponding goal is to assume and i'll ski and t please. e told me more about this issue of a hospital this crisis monica, this policy is in essence, about the legitimacy of the georgian parliament that incumbent president settlements would obviously be under your position. parties. have claimed that the last general election before starting october was stolen or due to allege to cases of the irregularities, the voters intimidation cases of double voltage. and this is why they have been loyal to the new parliament ever since. this is why the position didn't show up to

the parliament yesterday to participate in the election of the president. and this is why they called me to do that. and the legitimate choice and days to look forward to the december 29th. when the term of the incumbent president officially ends, she was supposed to be the presidential policy, which is only the analysis she has no incentive to do so until the general election . and that seems to be a very tricky situation so far as the current government doesn't seem to once make way when you election. so what happens next will the situation is still developing that as a speculation at this point. but at this point, the government seems unlikely to take any step back. the 3rd group on powers this firm. they've just been able to look in their candidates for the presidents yesterday. and the filters seemed to be losing the momentum at this point. on the one hand to due to the violence cracked on from the government wisdom 500. our

estimates on the other hand was fuzzy can give people have before the 60 day before over 2 weeks. some products are sold if they are starting to hold. then the situation, the president costume being told the president has to mount the challenge with po for a protest around the for additional policy on december 29th by spoken to some folders they're supposed to figure out, actually peter and register go. the defense for us as the search is the only legitimate official of the country. however, i think she's in such scenario, she would also run risk risk of getting arrested by the government for the day, what's called an obstruction or of the democratic process. and just, just briefly, if you would, for a lot of countries in particular, neighboring russia, but also the european union reacting to the situation in georgia.

yes, wisdom countries have been criticizing the conduct of the government and calling for an investigation to the outcome of the general election election in october for us as an for some piece of restrictions on georgia into the officials. this is you for the ministers are due to meet in brussels tomorrow to discuss the situation. the country. a particularly interesting role is being played by the french president, the call. she is mediating now between the government and the incumbent president at the local, but the local powers. here are the regional powers. iran, cherokee, and russia seems to be content with georgia power. we will now be of service who is going to congratulate the new, the elected president of so far on the army in y'all's origin and believers have done so he w corresponding check, our seminar ski reporting from to please see. thank you so very much. i a little

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