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the most of the events, stuff. okay. that's been on the financing on back so they can find out about robina story in some language. reliable news for migraines? wherever they may be. this is the, the news live from breland a week after the fall of the slide with gene and life in syria begins to return to something like normal. so we take a look at how life is changing in post a slab, syria, a student's stats, heading back to school. also, i had several 100 killed, maybe even thousands. that's the grand prediction of authorities in my, on the tiny french country in the indian ocean was devastated by what's being called the west stalled 90. the
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i am at the michael junior and you are welcome to the program. students are returned into classrooms and syria. much of the country is still in ruins. after years of civil war and international functions, but many in the country are facing the future with new optimism. the gates of this damascus school are opened once again. the students in syria make their way to just a week after the fall, a former president bush on all sides. the countries me flag is raised over the schools grounds stuff, the feeling confident about teeth. reopening can order 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,
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and shed by students who are grateful to be back in class. i'm not mistaken. very happy. i used to walk in the street scared zillow get drafted by the army. i used to be afraid when i reached the check point on the outskirts of serious capital things the less certain but palestinian refugees hope they consume to return to the come. they once called home fido in quite a bit to make the campus my sewage. you really feel good, find a sign of here know even though you are far from it, it had to be there. so many things here that your mind, the stuff by the time i really hope and pray to god the could be deeper and become better than before. what do we do? something in our work and 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.
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as 3 images from the decades of dictatorship, with tentative optimism. michael leed abraham is in damascus. she told me how life and the syrian capital has changed since the fall of a side. as that report just mentioned very heavy. life is slowly but surely going back to some sort of normal seat. i guess you can't see it right now, but i am 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 the now ousted a dictator. we're seeing some positive economic signs as well. and solution has fallen, but also the subsidies on to has been listed in. so there is been also
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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 airbus springs 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 a short of a said no longer in power 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 streets in the open. it's just an unbelievable moment that we're going through right now. under the sink, there is a senior advice i have a center for global security and stuff allies. nation for the texas group in washington asked them what direction he things the news the ship will take the country. the new syrian caretaker government under the direction of author,
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the shut off formerly known by his known to god. i don't know how many l gilani has really exhibit incredible pragmatism incompetence, despite fears that h t s would seek to impose a hard line as long as through so far, they focused on avoiding a power struggle with former opposition factions. they've been preserving state institutions to ensure a basic service provision, which means working with warmer, searing machine officials. and they're listening to the demands of the syrian people to protect minorities, women and ensure and inclusive employ a list stick approach to governance. now, their legitimacy rest with the support they're building and syrian society. so any deviation from this could lead to conflict in their removal. but they've been given the space to demonstrate a commitment to the principles of the syrian revolution. and as long as they do this, we'll see a positive political transition the small stories making headlines around the world . let's look at some of them. israel has announced that we'll close that's
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investigating islands due to what it calls the irish governments extreme onto these route policies that includes dublin's recognition of the palestinian states and that's the portal. so advocacy case at the international fonts of justice accusing israel of genocide. dublin rejected the claims seen it was pro peace and proved human rights. the premium dro now struck a russian national guard complex in that chechen carpet's old cross need some 800 kilometers, se off the phone line in between. video and social media showed that loan sweeping know about a city church on lita ramos on category of confirm that enrollment have its a sites belonging to the police battalion are now several 100 killed, maybe even thousands. that's the grand production of authorities in my else that tiny island in the indian ocean between what a gas got in the africa mainland was already francis forest of us east territory.
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even before it was devastated by cycling chito the my gosh. stone has been described as the west in nearly a century. authorities, bessie. the also worried about access to food, water and sanitation for survivors. first came to wins and rings from sacrament chito. and then came the next thread, the widespread destruction left behind and my going to win a francis poorest overseas territories. risk of teams have already started to clear the debris left behind by the storm. and help is on the way from friends in the form of american c workers and mandatory and aid a badly needed lifeline for those who have lost everything. come to get something to eat for the kids. and for us adults as well. we've got nothing left. the winds taking it all the way we had stocked up the wind took it to be
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pretty close on. i probably would have had no water for 3 days now. so it's starting to be a lot to, we're trying to get the bare minimum to live on to part because we don't know when the water will come back to do. the full scale of the destruction is visible from the air. more than 3 quarters of the islands, 300000 people live below the poverty line. most were living in a mixture of homes and slums in shanty towns which have now all but been wiped out throughout the measure how the house was built. every thing here has been in different stages. i think you can see it all around me. i'm actually walking through debris is or people one day off to the site or not, or really busy rebuilding the homes, but the work is going to be extremely long and the model last them start to rebuild . others are left only to see their final farewells. as my younger starts to
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recover after the worst. and i clone in almost a century montez that spring in general, is danielle brown in paris, whose reports that extensively on french and i for kind of france a little. daniel, thanks for joining us. you spend some time on my up and still know people that have you been able to contact anyone so far? well, not directly for the last few days at the main telecommunication, operates or in my your reports. at 99 percent of its fixed internet customers are disconnected and 51 out of the 54 immobile network. can centers are out of service primarily due to power outages, but we did receive a message from someone living just outside the capital and i went to through what's up and it's worried. the person living in one of the more solid houses there was interior saying the roof, they've been ripped off by cycling, and she does the extensive damage to infrastructure means that re establishing connectivity will take time. and remember this cycle, and she, the,
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it was glowing at around 440 kilometers an hour when it began. right, right. local authorities, a sea of the west, they say several 100. that's maybe even thousands. the friends here. i mean, she says it's too early to give any numbers. how difficult is it to gauge the extent of that devastation? well, it's very high given that lack of communications to be accurate. what we do know is that is way beyond the initial 11 tests that were reported. the huffington post a in spain indicated several hundreds fatalities. and as you said, some reports even estimated to be in the thousands. and what we do notice that the entire neighborhoods, especially in the islands numerous shots, the towns happen lessons and public infrastructure, including hospitals and the airports are severely damaged. sounds and looks like quite that dire situation on the ground. my yacht,
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this console that up for island. it's also a french overseas territory. can you describe what it's like that? yes. well the devastation caused by recycling is certainly exacerbating factors that are related to board infrastructure on port governments. i mean, you need to know that a large portion of my us population resides any formal supplements with substandard construction. there often people buy populations from neighboring come morris, desperate to return to what was their ancestor o, homes and heritage. and despite my, your status is a french overseas department says since 2011, there's been chronic under investments, essentially for structures. and these include housing, lots of supplies, and public facilities. and this neglect is less, less the islands built for parents which stand these natural disasters. so
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france has already sense rescue as and firefighters. police forces will also be deployed that. what else is needed now? so well, what i mean, we're talking about less than 1000 military personnel and firefighters for these rescue and relief operations, which is simply not enough to even answer these emergency needs. i mean, the priorities are restoring electricity and access to drinking water as well as repairing these critical infrastructures like the hospitals and the airports, which is to stay in the significance damage and several, my friends are remain stranded here in france. unable to take any slice to my of the governors collaborating with humanitarian organizations like the french read called across. but while these measures tried to address immediate needs, the government has not yet specified the total amount of paid or due to long term reconstruction plans and were system facing further announcements,
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but they'll have to wait for accurate assessments of the site plans impact. right, right. we'll wait to see what comes out of batch generalist danielle brown in paris . thank you. thank you. 80 to the us now where a large number of mr. has a drone sites, ends up being reported of, of pots of new jersey and the east coast and recent weeks. spock in speculation and concerned about who sent them and why preston biden has even been asked for answers as law enforcement officials. stress that the objects don't appear to be a threat to public safety. for the june findings have been reported across the state of new jersey and even new york. you've got several over here now kind of flying around to their flying ones. hovering. this new jersey does it in teams do have sent multiple tunes in the in
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and with a naked eye. the video doesn't really do justice when, when you look at what i'm seeing with the naked eye, you can see it, it's not a normal aircraft this and we don't have this much. uh, you know, traffic, you know, usually on, at any given night in this area, some are stockett by what they are seeing and wondering what's going on. i don't know, it doesn't look anything like a play. it's way too big and it's way too low in the sky and it's the middle of the night. then i think maybe it's a helicopter. no, it's not a helicopter. then suddenly, it gets closer and it's hovering right over the trees. and it looks like, i guess it enormously drove. i'm not even sure water. i've never seen anything like it. it's just a drone on steroids. the f b i is among several agencies investigating these joint site things for it to
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investigate the state. most of them have involved mand is draft. i don't believe there's a tech, but that has not stopped the demand for get on says well, sport, life is up next generation marshall lives in that fathers of real vision. no more use that a top of the out the we are all set. we are watching close in to bring you the story behind the new will on about come by as information for free might say, do tenants, can you see what we have to do with the production? here's a hands on business.

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