old, we can be the generation, the ends at so good. malaria must die. so millions can live the this is dw news life from berlin. serious airport, the resume domestic flights. for the 1st time since the fall of a saw, a test flight lands and elect though as calls grow to lift the sanctions on the ation sector. also coming up the last remaining intensive care unit in northern garza burns down. dr. say the blaze was triggered by is really showing the fate of tech talk in the us will be decided by the supreme court. justices say they'll hear the companies challenge to a law that could band the. yeah. and rescuers pull and explore a line from the cave in italy in a difficult operation. but the mission also alicia's criticism,

the i'm michael ok welcome to the program. syria's damascus airport has reopened for the 1st time since the fall of president assad. for now, the airport is only open to domestic flights. officials are calling for sanctions to be lifted to allow serious aviation sector to function properly. again, a bit slow on the way in to damascus international departures and arrivals. and not only since the fall of the regime, 13 years of civil war proceeded, bashar, our sides over throw us and european sanctions limited, where people could even go to or arrive from the sanctions also meant there's been no chance to buy new western airplanes or even spare parts for broken plains, syria's main carrier, syrian airlines, according to reports really has only 3 aircraft fit for flying. but change is

coming. all pictures of president, the us side has been removed from the airport and airplanes and the own. how did that have a little today in life is returning to damascus international airport with a domestic flight to a level airport. we ask all countries and friends to return to damascus international airport allows the so that life may return to the airport. and our beloved free syria, i mean somebody out of the and well beyond the level of damascus internationals carriers are i ins, flights again to air countries and should sanctions be lifted sunday, european and asian destinations. and beyond should sanctions be lifted? the sky could be the limit i asked the w as

a abraham in damascus if the reopening of the airport is assign h t s. revel rule is in fact working it's really difficult to make any kind of. ready statement about whether or not, you know, there's an effective control of this country and it is the structure since the fall of a short. but that's certainly the impression that a serious you to factor rulers are trying to project it to the road to well, and part of that is, of course, the resumption of operation which they, they are on the if you want to quote each farm our offensive try to projects a sense of control and stability at normal seats in into the country trying to show that they are capable of. 5 running the whole country as they did in the province of 4 years when it was not under a sudden such control. so that certainly the message that a serious need to factor rulers are trying to project to the reopening of the

airport today is perhaps a small, a part of that effort. but running a whole country, it's certainly a different, a different undertaking at a much different scale, i would say indeed, what is the state of serious transport, infrastructure and what, what's needed to rebuild it. the airport has reopened and there are, you know, lots of industries and public services that, that he has his print to bring back into operations these days, you know, the, the direct aftermath of the fall of the receipt. but when you, you know, in our 1st really days here at damascus, for example, let me then ask is, is known for having a notorious uh, you know, traffic situation. but certainly it was a little bit more out of control for the 1st couple of days after the fall of the receipt there were, you know, there are some places no traffic lights, uh no officers on the street to regularly uh, traffic. so, you know,

a bit of chaos on the streets here. uh, but slowly but however slowly but truly each us is trying to bring back the order and let me see back to the capital city. well, transitions like this often mean opportunity who is buying for the contracts to rebuild syria. and certainly arab countries would have an interest in trying to invest, but also to stabilize the country. remember, syria is in a very strategic part of the world. it borders multiple multiple countries and you know, another field state it here would not be good for anybody, certainly not aero a country. so certainly i can imagine gulf countries would want to be involved in the rebuilding of syria there. of course, a lot of european countries of how to speak and syria being stable as well, including germany because of the large syrian refugee migrant population in germany

. so there are a lot of countries that around the world that want to see a serious succeed. and what serious defect rulers have been seeing again and again, is that this rebuilding operation cannot restart without the lifting of sanctions, which had of course been placed on the a side regime for many, many years by european powers. so even though there's probably a lot of interest in rebuilding, sir. yeah, it's, uh it's, it's not to the states anybody, but sanctions needs to be listed. first before any of that to come to portion. that's a abraham in damascus. many thanks to the dramatic fall of the assad regime and syria is still sending shock waves throughout the region. multiple countries have back different factions inside the country. here's a look at the international winners and losers. as the dust settles the rebels from the high at 10 rear i've shot or h t. s group taking over serious capital, damascus spring celebration in some parts of the world and silence and others. one

big winner so far as turkey and it's president richard type air to one long i major supporter of h t s and other. so the muslim opposition groups. turkey is also eager to reset a little more than 3000000 syrian refugees that it has taken in since the civil war began. turkish companies might gain lucrative contracts and rebuilding the country . 5 turkey also has many military positions inside syrian territory, and it may move to over throw a long time. nemesis, the kurdish autonomous administration in northeastern syria, which is repeatedly coming to attack from turkish forces. iran is a big loser in the fall of the assad regime. syrian storms, the iranian embassy and damascus, soon after the regime fell, a sign of long term grievances at the country that helped to prop up the assad regime. she around loose is one of its most important military allies in the region,

billions of dollars and trade, and the land bridge linking it has the law, which was already weakened after months of war with israel. that the judge died of his duty while we got a judge is real, sees a strategic gain. prime minister benjamin netanyahu had described syria as part of the iranian access of evil, but remains cautious about what the future might bring. israel stepped up, it's military operations bombing syrian military assets. it's for administer has said that the unified syria is unlikely to hold together. of russia has effectively lost an important ally, which could pay the way for the loss of strategic military bases. russia has a vital naval base and tattoos, one of its most important military assets outside its borders. this base provides logistical support for russian warships in the mediterranean. it was the big prize put and received in exchange for military intervention in support of the assad

regime in 2015 and for continuing to protect the regime in the years after all the sony muslim countries, especially saudi arabia, the u, a. e, and could tar have much to celebrate in the fall of an or rainy and ally. but they're also suspicious of h t. s. and it's close ties to turkey as well as the history of its liter. asking about al serra, who was previously associated with al qaeda. most of the statements from aram capitals that welcomed decides to parcher emphasize the importance of preserving the unity of syrian territory. the risk of serious splitting up is indeed a major on no one that could dramatically reshape the region again to gaza. now where the director of the come, i'll add one hospital says and is really attack has destroyed the last operational intensive care unit in the north of the strip. who some of bu, sophia says is really vehicles deliberately targeted the i c u. israel says it's

investigating the incident. the u. n. has accused israel of war crimes for repeated attacks on guns as hospitals. the come out loud one hospital and bait la, here is a lifeline for northern cause a mid war instrumented terry and catastrophe. just outside the window where patients are being treated a structure, fire rages, the hospitals director or some other stuff here. so it is really forces shell, the house, killing several people publicly and some mistake the a little while ago, one of the hospitals neighbors was targeted in a house next to come out one hospital. it's a few meters away from us. i'm thought about it unfortunately. so far we have retrieved more than 8 motors, all of them burned in the day, arrived in pieces, and the most of them are children, women, and elders. so uh, what about since i'm from the family 7, the, one of her kids,

the husband was mazda 2 months ago without any means to fight the fire oscar. the staff will later have to move dozens of wounded and critically ill patients before the police spreads to the i see you. bye morning of the saw fee of reports the unit has been destroyed. in october, the united nations inquiry found that this rio was committing more crimes by a quote concerted policy to destroy causes health care system. during its war with a terrorist group from us, israel did not denied a specific report, but as long accused the un of by a few days before the attack, the world health organization had brought supplies to come all odd one. they also brought doctors with surgical specialties who abo, sophia said, were there to help patients in immediate need. but israel board them from entering the hospital after the truck with a load of shots rang out and everyone's scattered. then it was back to work

for abo sophia, and his staff, treating the wounded despite dwindling resources. it was all the bowling is a communication specialist for the united nations children's fun. unicef. she is in rafa. milwaukee, which is in the south of gaza. i asked her earlier to tell me more about the situation, that'd come all odd one hospital. in for starters, the situation of hospitals across the gaza strip is, is extremely precarious. but this specific hospital come all at one in the north of gaza. is even more at risk because it's in a zone that has been under siege for over 70 days. we visited the use of visited the hospital end of november with a team of health and nutrition experts. and the seems that they encountered there were extremely difficult um when, when that team visited it,

at the end of november to neo natal unit was already no longer working inside the hospital. they were bullet holes, impacts of shrapnel. so the hospital really has been turned into a war zone, but perhaps even more critically, this hospital has been facing dire, dire shortages of medicines, of medical supplies, equipment of doctors, even when our team was there, there were still 13 child patients. the majority of which had war wounds, that there was a 13 year old boy who had survived an explosion earlier that morning and were required urgent surgery. but there were no surgeons left in that hospital then. so units of actually ended up having to evacuate that boy from kamala, want to a hospital in in garza city. but yeah, as a student's hospital and other hospitals, i'm not sure we can, we can still call them hospitals really given, given the shortages some the very dire situation they are in might not be able to

call them hospitals, but what is the significance of that hospital for people in northern garza, i'm sure a pretty significant a s, a tex continue on on a daily basis. um there, there are, um, people that continue to be killed and also people that continue to be injured. and obviously if, if medical care is available, um those lives can be saved. it's true for the whole of gaza. um i've been to many different hospitals in the north and in the south. and i met recently children who were severely in, you know, typically a child that was suffering from leukemia. i met him enough for hospital and the director of the children's work was just beyond despair because he set this child with we could actually treat him under normal circumstances. but right now we lack

the medicines. we left the care that this boy need and i only 4 days after i met the boy, he actually dies. and so there are definitely consequences. i also come across lots of children who have amputated limbs last week and gaza city. i met an 8 year old and she told me that after her family home was booms and she was the sole survivor of her family. and she got to the hospital because of the shrapnel ones in her fortes. but then she said there were megabits coming out of her foot. her foot got infected and the doctor said to empty tate at the 1st time, but it didn't. and there, the infection continued on a couple of weeks later, they had to institute a 2nd part of the leg just above the end and cool. and then over the summer it got infected again. the maggots came back and they had to remove the entire leg up to the up to the need. so if, if on hospital is fully functional,

if it has stokes of, of medicines. and if you have patients coming in with, with such wound shrapnel wounds with fractures, normally a hospital is able to package to one to stabilize to the fracture, to fixate the bones. patients are given antibiotics, but in gaza these type of supplies are in dire, dire shortage and that results in very dramatic consequences. like what happened to this 8 year old girl run? i'm sure it is one of the dozens, if not hundreds of stories. they're in the street. yeah. some international aid made it through this weekend to come all odd one hospital. but many you and agencies are reporting that there is still significant restrictions to 8 deliveries . um, overall it's a struggle to get 8 into gaza and especially to get aiden at scale. well,

families and guess what i need is volume. there's a need of everything as food as a shelter, hygiene products, but in the north the situation is even more critical because it's been effectively cut off from the rest of gauze up for, for almost 70 days now. and hardly anything has entered that most northern part of, of the gaza strip. we are extremely worried about the families will remain there. that is a result of the bowling from unicef. many, many thanks. thank you for having me. look now at some of the other stores making headlines as we speak. russian authorities say they have detained an inspect suspect in tuesday's killing of top general ego, a career loss and, and 8. they say he confessed to planting and detonating a bomb for ukraine security service. the explosion occurred outside of moscow

apartment, blah. ukraine has claimed responsibility for the attack. actually it display a stampede in nigeria has resulted in multiple deaths and injuries. the incident happened at a holiday fair organized by a high school in about in the capital level. your state emergency services and security forces were dispatched to the see the united states federal reserve. and now it's a quarter point cut to its key interest rate for the end of 2024. and he did, it may deliver just 2 cuts in 2025 fewer than expected economy. se fears over increasing inflation or behind the change the u. s. supreme court has agreed to hear tech talks appeal of a law that could band the video sharing platform in the us. if it's chinese parent company, bite, dance doesn't sell it. the justices will hear arguments on january 10th, about whether the ban on lawfully restricts free speech. us lawmakers say it's

a security risk because the chinese authorities could access users data loss at a january 19th deadline for tech talk to be sold or face a band in the us. the popular social media app has more than a 170000000 users in the u. s. for more on this, i'm drawing now by dw reporter stuff in simon's in washington dc. stuff in the us supreme court has announced it is taking up the tick tock case, what kind of signal this is sent for a while. it was actually expected that it ends up in there in front of the supreme court. just earlier in december, a federal appeals court has upheld heads up help the band or the law banning threatening to ban. take talk if they don't divest and sell it to a non chinese entity. now take talk, refuse that. but the appeals court said in early december that the government has

the rights to the band tick tock for national security concerns. and they trump a constitutional issues or, or thoughts. on this, however, the supreme court decided to f as to the doctor, and that is unusual late in the game to add something like this. however, there was a social media related decision in june already by the supreme court. so this signal that at least the supreme court is taking this serious the question, if a band of take talk is constitutional or not. well, tick tock is trying to prevent the human and shut down in the us by appealing to the supreme court. as you've mentioned, how likely is it that took talk? we'll succeed there. no, that's a question i can't really answer. i don't know if anybody can answer this now. that's up to the judges. they really hear arguments. and they have really for gone a phase where those who argument in front of the supreme court have to actually

write up their argument, dig scrap all of this, they say the 10th of january, that's it. we hear the arguments and then guess what? it doesn't have to take that long for them to decide if it's also constitutional or not. first amendment. again, that's the freedom of religion, speech for us and petition. that is one of the key one of the most most important amendments to the constitution. so that's not lightweight, and they will expect to uh, not take this very lightly and take, hopefully this we time to decide if it's constitutional or not too bad. take talk, assess on fair enough, could tick tock, also hope for help from trump. as soon as he's sworn in as you as president in january, that's also tricky one. why? because donald trump changed his mind on picked up several times. it was remember him in his last spend as president of the united states when he was president. nice . i'd like to talk is no good chinese on company. it's

a security risk we want to get rid of it. now the republicans, his own party took this very serious and a bi partisan. that's not forget a bi partisan decision. let's to this law to this ben off to talk or the alternative as you mentioned, to sell it to a us or somebody else who can run picked up. anybody can be chinese for security, national security reasons. now, late lee, and that includes a meeting just monday, between donald trump and the ceo of tape talk at mar lago. the old trump came out just a few hours later in a press conference and said he has a cold, warm spot in his heart for to talk and quote. so let's see what a trump administration a trump presidency will do. just coming in to power one day after the band is actually supposed to take effect. january 19th, january 20th, then all the ration of the drum as president of the united states. interesting.

this is a dynamic situation to say the least watch this space dw reporter stephan simons in washington dc. many, many things is always stuff on an italian explorer has been pulled a line from a cave in italy, after painstaking rescue mission. it involved more than a 150 volunteers, led by the italian alpine and cape rescue. cor. it's the 2nd time that a tapia piano has been rescued from the same cave system at the end of over 3 days, stuck deep underground injured. but at live speed, the ologist latavia piano has dozens of volunteers to thank for getting her out of the be so blown up from 10. okay. oh yeah, the same, but we're not squadron good off that we always had a team in the cave working there were technicians who were in charge of moving the

stretcher and meant to turn that about a lot of these were teams of 10 to 12 people on it, but then we always had a doctor and nurse with the patient with the injured person. okay. this one for the i did this case a we had to white in a narrow passage near the spot where the accident happened. and then uh, 5 bb chino, uh, food delivery is which is where did you day via visa, blown off one channel cape system is located near the northern natalia and city of better comma its some 500 meters below ground with rescue words having to navigate their way through small tunnels and use explosives to reach her. a caregiver on top of the piano was exploring an unchartered area of the cave when she felt several meters enjoying herself. it's the 2nd time in less than 18 months. she's had to be rescued in the same cave system which has sparked some criticism in italy

the boy, it's unfair to criticize people who have the the end of the day in our 1st and foremost know, conducting scientific research. i'm glad you got off that it shouldn't difficult, pretty my to light at the end of what had been a very dark tunnel for all times the piano. time now i have to recover from her ordeal. and in other news, at least 13 people died when a ferry with more than a 100 passengers capsized off the coast of them. by after colliding with an indian navy boat, the navy said nearly a 100 people were rescued from the ferry, which was heading towards the elephant a claims of popular tourist destination. frances top court is upheld, the former president nicholas uncles eas, conviction for corruption and influence. peddling the court ordered him to share of a one year sentence at home. wearing an electronic ankle monitor sako seized lawyer said he would appeal the ruling to the european court of for human rights. within

20 miners have been rescued from a mine in afghanistan, which collapse on saturday, trapping the workers underground. a coal mine collapse in the same area kills at least 15 workers in 2014 for, for bar. or 2 chinese astronauts have completed a 9 hour mission outside the triangle on space station, breaking the previous record for a space walks at 23 years ago. the friend jo 19 crew members installed the space stations, debris protection device, and inspected the outside of the vehicle with the help of its robotic car. trying to launch the spaceship with its 3 crew members at the end of october for a 6 month mission. it includes the country's 1st female space virginia. let's get you a quick reminder now of our top story at this hour. serious airports have reopened for domestic flights. for the 1st time since the fall of a song,

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