you check out your journey and get inspired the business. the news live from berlin a week after the fall of the side of the gene and life in syria begins to return to something like normality. you take a look at how life is changing in post outside syria, ested in spots, heading back to school. also i had through you with assessing georgia, his house, other countries, new presidential papers. they say for my football i me, killed, capitalized, really isn't qualified for the job. asked the woman, he's been elected to replace this to one to step down the

hello that i. i'm eddie mike of junior and you are welcome to the program, the united nations and special and boy to syria gap. the lesson arrived in the capital of damascus. one week i've taught rebel groups with and then to, with a 5 decades of grew on that the flat family peterson is in the city and the capital to meet the officials from the new interim government. he called for your rapid and it to west and functions so that the country code be rebuilt. but he also stressed the need for humanitarian assistance to be all know the serial or spend food. and then on this also you military causes. so we need to make sure that the pseudo receives increased immediate humanitarian assistance to the people and 0 and to older if you do use to enter it, doing it this is this expand like the or all students are returned into classrooms in syria?

much of the country eastern in ruins. after years of civil war and international function spot, many in the country are facing the future with new optimism. the gates of this damascus school are opened once again. a students in syria make their way to just a week after the fall, a former president bush on all sides. the countries the flag is raised over the schools grounds stuff, the feeling confident about teeth. reopening oil changes, everything is good when we wait for the equipment and i don't know what 2 or 3 days, nor to get everything ready for the students to return safely. it's a sudden some, and shed by students who are grateful to be back in class. i'm not mistaken. very happy. i used to work in the street scared zillow get drafted by the army. i used to be afraid when i reached a check point on the outskirts of serious capital,

things a less certain, but palestinian refugees hope they can soon return to the come. they once called home fido looking quite a bit through my big camp is my sewage. you really feel good palestine is here now . even though you are fond from me as to how to do, there's so many things here that you mind the stuff by this time i really hope and pray to god the could be deeper and become better than before. what do we do? something or what? one of the less damaged areas of fruits and vegetables stole his reopen and his doing brisk business. to assign perhaps of things to come. as 3 images from the decades of dictatorship, with tentative optimism. let's get more from the use abraham in damascus. hello, a nice to see you. it's been one week since the fall of the savaging. tell us more

about how life has changed in damascus. that was, that was for just mentioned very audi. life is slowly but surely going back to some sort of normal. see, i guess you can't see it right now, but i'm standing in one of the main squares here in damascus and earlier today traffic the famous or infamous, damascus traffic was back in full force. it was also the 1st day were schools of returned university students also returned today, marking their 1st return after the fall of a sudden i said with some a celebratory protest where they took down some statues of uh, the now ousted uh the dictator were seeing some positive economic signs as well. the solution has fallen, but also the subsidies on to has been listed in. so there is been also a spike in a, in the price of transportation and so on. but certainly what is sort of not normal

. and what many people here are not used to is the sense of freedom that you feel here on the streets. it's almost unbelievable to some. i mean, i've been covering the events, you know, around the so called eric spring for about a decade now and to see how the story has evolved from 2011 to the brutal civil war . and then where we stand now with but short of that. so it's no longer empower in syria and journalists like myself, being able to work freely here and talk to people here freely and ask them their political opinions on the street in the open. it's just an unbelievable moment that we're going through right now. right. it sounds a quite refreshing how that's the interim government and the slumbers group is planned to run syria. well, so far they've sort of been giving a lot of general, very comforting messages to the outside world that they do plan on running an

inclusive government. remember, this is a country that has a world history and not just sort of said, but also with a said the father who ruled before him a world history of oppressing minorities and oppressing sir your syrians in general . and as such, people are concerned, if you know this current government will repeat history in a way and if they will respect the rights of minorities and the rights of women and human rights in general. so far they've been very general. they've been sending very comforting messages, which seemed western leaders welcome. that seemed that they would welcome a syrian interim government that respect those rates. but there have not yet been concrete plans about who will be in this government and the timeline. and so there are still a lot of open questions, but again, this is very, very early days. we're looking at a week since the fall of the best sort of a said and this new in term government, which a lot of people here are celebrating a has a lot on its place. right, right. it only time will tell how much supports they actually enjoy from the people

of syria. we've also had the u. n. invite to syria, calling for immediate humanitarian assistance. right. um, could you please repeat the question your to, i'm breaking a bit. can you hear more just briefing? i'm sorry. could you please repeat the question? no, sorry about that. so the question is, what's the situation like across syria? after being ravaged by years of civil war? i'm asking because we've had the un envoy to say we are calling for immediate as you want to tell you in our system. certainly we're looking at of intermittent pre, you know, intense phases of conflict. and so there are large lots to pick a country in this country that, you know, don't look like the city that i'm sending. and right now that are basically in rubble. and there's going to take billions to rebuild this country. that's why, but you want envoy to syria in his visit to the, to damascus, called on a european western powers and global powers to lift the sanctions off of syria as

soon as possible to allow fold up for that process of, of rebuilding to start as soon as possible, but certainly there's a lot of before you, right? no worries we've, we've seen phases like this before when dictatorship a fall and i myself of coverage sedan and we saw, you know, a similar situation by it back then you for you at the beginning. but then reality sits, is sets in as time goes by. so it's going to be a huge undertaking to rebuild this country, and that's why you want a envoy to serious calling for sanctions to be lifted right away. right. use a right hearing reports and from damascus. thank you. now a bits i stand off about georgia's next president's has led to mall protests, deepening the country's political crisis on saturday. pro e u demonstrates as rallied outside parliament to protest the appointments of form . i saw a couple of the detail of calculus to be false enough to ortiz,

to postpone the switch on off festive lights. the incumbent president says she one step down until new elections are held. the very 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 things off with the police after recent election. so the moscow friendly georgia dream party claimed the vote . looks crazy day 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, our garden gate to our election and our president's

candidates. you said rather, and they've got to pull it out for georgia and pub, josie, i'll be able to see the camera. he doesn't have an invitation to be a president, so we're progressing this way. we are showing over diploma that we are more capable of being a present moment. use no to legitimate problem and they cannot say look to president, this is not because they have received a long despite obviously these election today, outgoing president solomon's daughter. but she 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 go down. that is why we are here . demonstrators have once again gathered for the night, the digital outside of parliament, a clear sign. they won't back down as a tug of war between the government and the people continues. not on the 7 of these,

a senior research fellow for the rest of the on the racial program and international law for asked think tank shop in the house. and she was also a judges on boss of that. to the we asked the, what do you, if you on union could do to stop georgia for moving further away from the block, a slow festival. we have to say that to the full majority of the georgian public supports here. again, integration of polls consistently demonstrate that it is about 80 percent of support. so the government's move is very much income for addiction to the choice of the people you are of him. and the protest is a, is obviously the sign of a to, we still will uh, with this uh, appointment of the president as sort of a picture of the crumbling of european institutional democracy in georgia. because presidency was the last institution that was not controlled by the party in control,

georgia in dream. and now that is also being reclaimed. so your opinion has to act both as a normative and your political power, which it seems to be. this means acting in pursuit of its interest in pursuit of its jo, political interest, but without jeopardizing the values. and i think here the interest of the you and interest of the georgia public, those people who are protesting who are fighting to return a democratic georgia actually coincide to. so the, you has to send a very clear signal to the governments that these actions of turning georgia on to, into a storage area and state are unacceptable that they will not help georgia with the part. but they also have to increase costs on the georgia dream. there are various options that the table you can have diplomatic coach or the or, but also sanctions. it is also very important that you send

a signal or you need to you so far. we have not seen a statement of the 27th member states, and that's the problem. as the west side alone, a nearly a century has the state of the french overseas region of my up in the indian ocean . at least 11 people have been killed as high winds and heavy rain pounded the remote islands, rescue as are now being rushed in by and see to help with recovery efforts. cycling sheeter bottled into the island of my office in the early morning. heavy rains and strong winds created devastation, causing floods flipping of loose and destroying combs. so to say it's the west still 90 years. see close to the cycling of unexpected violence. the winds of over 200 kilometers an hour. public facility is badly damaged or destroyed. basically to see what kind of design and the medium term is

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