clearly have the solutions, the future the 77 percent every weekend on dw the jubilation in the streets of damascus after the fall of the acid regime, a new start and a chance for some to return home. the u. n. chief has called the possibilities, a flame of hope. but what about for women? will serious new rulers protect their rights or push the country in the direction of afghanistan under the taliban? i'm quite richardson in berlin. you are watching the day. the, at the when my home, i worry the most about our freedom of freedoms as women. so i want to speed up with

the quality for all citizens. it's absolutely essential to have a process this dialogue that is inclusive, that the all communities of cds c parts of it. we have now started to build the future and syria is allied. so the worst scenario would be extremism and experience. similar to the t, ron experience, also coming up a president for a lot of years. the landscapes as he's putting holds for his conference future in incoming us president donald trump dw, asked one of his former advisors. if that is a wise idea. if he wants to, he wants it over, which implies that he doesn't particularly care on what terms it ends. and i think that's bad news for you current to welcome. we begin the day with a glimmer of hope and our region engulfed by war. that is what the un secretary

general antonio gutierrez, is saying about serious future after the ouster of long time will work for shar, alas, said, and his brutal regime. the un shaffer's calling on the international community to provide humanitarian aid for the syrian people. and to help them rebuild after years of civil war protectors also expressed hope that syria's new leaders will begin a process of dialogue and include all syrians in the countries future, including minority communities. the people of serious stand at the moment of history and the moments of opportunity. and that's the opportunity cannot be missed . the end of more than 5, that gets a little bit of dictates authority, a room as given rise to much hope. and we share that whole with the city and people, and we stand with them. it's absolutely essential to have a process of dialogue that is inclusive. that's the all communities of seed you

feel lots of. it's women in serial who make up half the population are particularly concerned about their future under the new as low misled government. today, the country's designated education minister said girls would continue to enjoy a right to education. but he added that secondary schooling would remain largely segregated by gender, with separate classes for boys and girls. rights organizations have been calling on the new rulers to protect the rights of women and minorities w's, abraham and rama. drama. connie report from damascus in the syrian capital, damascus, we invited women's rights activists from many different backgrounds to tell us what they want for the new syria. despite their differences, they're united in their aspirations for the future state building. so i want to speed up the quality for all citizens, regardless of race, ethnicity, sect,

or denomination. still, i want the constitution to treat everyone equally. i want a civilian personal status laws. i want the same custody rights over my children, that my husband had fun when we started adding even to associate with number one in guy, one to him in laws. electra laws citizenship laws and here since laws north around children with unknown lineage, these children should be registered under their mother's name, please. and my interest, i have no reason to be having to get this process because i want to gender sensitive constitution. when i'm the in laws to give women freedom, both in private and public life, happens also. given these hopes, these women are also worried about what a possible is. limits take over, might mean shocked by them. a healthy larry the most about out freedom of freedoms as women citizens to my policy. i worry that we have just changed the name of the

machine and that we would get a new dictator and a different form. we had a military authoritarian dictator. i worry, we will just get an islamist one. i worry about political is from i am not against islam itself. i am a muslim. so how to compute the should know the worst scenario would be extremism. physical got an experience similar to the, to iran experience such as, after the fall of the shot or wrong on that the simple, the shot to get them out on the streets. optimizon is what reams. i'm on serious. i didn't feel afraid. the fear is gone. we have now started to build a future, and the syria is alice. and so i'm, i think the situation is better. my children were far away from me. now my daughter is back in syria after 9 years. the is, are consistent with, i mean a lot and it was making sure i'll have somebody in your, on how we as a young people help to rebuild syria,

how this all the and kindly allow him to measure and situation is great. and then right, compared to what we expect it to be high, i can this audience everywhere you go into math. seems like the one behind men and women celebrating the calls were started as a women activists regardless of background. also tell me there's still a lot that needs to be done for them to get the syria of their dream packet are gathering with the activists. some are already making plans to make their dreams are reality just the for now we have been training now. i mean, we have attended workshops and so on, but many other women, if not, have the opportunities we have had, we have had to work in a horizontal way on concepts that we can present to all women for awareness. and i'm community set going. nancy, some we need to work on psychological supports,

especially for families of detainees. the people who have seen their children return as an skeleton, southern of them. but in the back of their minds, they're also thinking about what to do. things do not go their way beyond the we now have the freedom to pro chase. so we will go to the streets and do that. if there are laws against prizes, then we will just please will immigrate. so this will be going to have a non he and most of his but right now these women activists from around the country are building up their network. they know there's work to do for more. i'd like to welcome louis not to day and from the syrian women's political movements. welcome to d, delta u, the u. n. secretary general today said that of the many fires burning across the middle east, that in syria there is a flame of hope to use the hope for women in this moment.

just for sure. uh, the political situation is there. yeah. it was a frozen for years and years and we've been stuck in and out of a very difficult situation where there's no need to go upland to where it's like the freedom of 5 syrians and specifically certain women. so now we have another new opportunity for all of us and specifically women to build a new story based on that to protect human rights and women's rights as other countries. what issues specific to women do you think could improve in a new syria? a yeah, in 0 we need to work on the constitution to ensure that our constitution protect products, women's rights in terms of like the rights of, of the religions, the right, the right political grades and all it is related to the line,

the last our aids and the properties and also we need to work on the form of the, of the national law, which is related to citizenship. i think citizens sent them to ship to the women's children as well. also all which is related to inheritance of from their families and their husbands. so a lot should be done to the form the, the laws and, and the, and the on what's related to women's rights, israel for, for now and for the switch as well. now many have warned that there could be trouble from high ups. tasha assume it has recently tried to tone down. it's frederick, it's promise things like protection for minority groups and your view, what do they have to offer women in syria? the 1st we need to be uh, visually ends. it's just like the central account guarantee just where its,

uh and uh, we need to how to see like options. um, this is like, uh by providing like a space for women to be included in the all of all of the, um, like a future. uh uh, government and having also co tougher women to insure like, uh, their participation of the table. so until now we haven't seen any of these. so just like we have now the, what it's called the care government or the transitional council where there is like a 0 participation or form. and we have seen gender up are tired and you run and then got enough gums done. and we need to be visually and to protect like a what, what we have done over the, the, the previous like a 14 years. and specifically like seeing what was supposed to move with have been working over years since the beginning of the 3 and the solution on defining the

all of the politics. and so you got from a woman's perspective, and from, from this perspective, this is like to be used during this time, the time of transition where a lot should be done and a lot of uncertainty we are seeing now. um, so yeah, we need to see like women are leaving the country being part of the, the new government also being part of the candidates for the elections of presidential elections. and once it's coming on, also to reform the constitution. and you mentioned that comparison to afghanistan style situation. i'm the leader of high to we are all from just today's spoke to the bbc denying that he wants to turn syria into and i've got his done style scenario. um, are you optimistic given what you've said about, they're not being women involved at the table in many of these decisions, but that will be possible. and they're just like in general like federal dock on

like women's rights globally. it's not, it's like it's everywhere. and this is why so you can imagine now in a country where it's like, we experienced like 54 years of a dictatorship. so i think there is the concerns are valid. and we, as, as i mentioned, we need to see like actions not towards the end the until now there is no um, i'm not not that optimistic. and when it comes to uh, to the like having woman in leadership. but they who knows it just like, as i said, like we need to be gillian to protect like, uh, a word rights and to claim also our space and in a see you as a future. and just before you go, are there groups in syria that are pushing for that? who could be helpful in making that a reality? yeah, for sure. there's a lot of like, uh, um, organizations, uh and like the initiatives on the ground. they are supporting women's

participation and women leadership and serialized lights. not only the c panel is both good movement, but to have like us are in lobby. we have also seeing women's a network. we have them at any uh and disliked. today we have a process in damascus and the center of the muskets, where women ask for the to to where women rejected also the current situation where there is no a seat for women in the turn like how government that we have. so women are just on the ground brought this thing and also the civil society is pushing for, for more and also to protect the women's rights. so it's going to be like the question for the future. and also for all of those who are working in politics and shaping a serious, serious the future. but yeah,

we need to keep working on and keeping our rights in the center of a serious politics and also the vision and for everything and to and to push for matching words with actions. well, thank you so much for joining us on d. w. that is, was meant to write a syria and women's political movement. us. thank you. we're glad to use it. but you know, if it was possible to look at the situation of knowing what is happening now or what the situation was in 2021 in 2022. i would think that such a decision which was taken at the beginning of 2022 and you cut through, but it should have been taken earlier that over to you wouldn't move in available. you might that range. that was russian president vladimir putin speaking at his annual end of your press conference, tacitly acknowledging that things didn't go entirely to plan with his full scale

invasion of ukraine almost 3 years ago now. but put in went on to say that the war had made russia stronger, and the kremlin forces are making slow but steady gains along the front line in eastern ukraine. your brains present in flooding years landscape, meanwhile, was speaking today at the european union's end of year summit in brussels. he told european leaders, ukraine could not live with a frozen conflict. responding to a reporter's question. so let's get reiterated that he was hopeful that the new us president could help ends. the war for us is very important that i, i think that's uh, president trump is strong. man, i once pretty much to have him on our side for me is very important. i want to discuss with you more details about this. what i think is very important because he was not in this for because he was not the president. and i one's already much come to help us. but ours the landscape hopes in the incoming trump

administration. well placed the, they'll be as washington bureau chief in as paul sat down with someone who knows from thinking well, his former national security advisor, john fulton, it's hard to prioritize in these times with so many new and old crisis is. but i would like to start with ukraine. mr. bolton presidential landscape has stated that he doesn't want to freeze the conflicts to end the war and is not willing to give up territory, which is something dollar chunk of course seems to be willing to do. so how do you see the next few months unfolding? well, i'm very worried about the future and ukraine from what the trump is said during the campaign and after the election. but just what i know about his general attitude toward ukraine is general attitude toward russia. he trump has, has now admitted that it's, it's not going to work for him to get zalinski and putting in a room and solve it in 24 hours, which is amazing how these things happen. after campaigns that the,

that he acknowledges the reality that he probably knew beforehand, but i think what, what motivates trunk primarily at the moment is he wants this conflict behind. he believes it's biden's war. he said during the campaign, it wouldn't have happened if he had been president, which is a statement inside their approval or disapproval, but he wants to. he wants it over, which implies that he doesn't particularly care on what terms to that. and i think that's bad news for you current to you. what do you expect him to do in his 1st couple of weeks regarding of ukraine? well, i think i've had a lot of priority is that the best news for ukraine may be, it's got to concentrate more and expelling it was legal immigrants into the united states and doing a lot of other things that are more domestically oriented. but he's already named a special on voice for the, for the negotiations he expects to uh, to see started fairly quickly and i don't believe trying to,

she had spoken to vladimir, put at some point there will be a conversation. and i think if trump says bottom area, you've got to come to the i was getting table a tote and will all jacked and complain. but then they'll say that donald for you, i'll do it. now of course, it's the ponies interest to get to the negotiating, take able, if, if that then freezes the front lines and that becomes the new ukrainian or russian border. so i think putting knows how to play with trump. i think he knows how to flattering a and, and if they have a conversation before and argue ration de, uh, that could start negotiations fairly quickly. and i'm just, i'm worried if the us, the parts from the strategy that's a, it's been pursued which hasn't been effective by the way, for a lot of reasons. but as it indicates, we can support for ukraine that europe won't be far behind. and that's just bad news for you guys, is, of course all about security guarantees as well for ukraine,

new presidents who lensky, what's your expect them from to commit to? i'm very worried you won't commit to very much and, and honestly, uh, its uh, the ukraine head security guarantees from the united states, united king defend and, uh, and russia, uh, in, in the uh, the budapest records which didn't do any good. so i'm not sure the security guarantees and the future are going to be any more effective for ukraine than in the past. the only real answer is nato membership, and i don't see that as a prospect. the real question of nato membership is whether trump keeps the us in or pulls us out and really to try to pull you out. he doesn't understand why the alliance benefits the united states effects. basically, he sees nato, is this, we defend you or we don't get anything out of it and europe doesn't pack. so why are we in the slides? that's what he thinks, and it's not a great leap of face to say, well, if that's what you think, why don't you get out? and that's, that's why i'm so worried. a student who is in his pull would that interview there

. this week of the commander of ukraine's groaned forces reveals that they possess a laser weapon that can shoot down airborne targets more than 2 kilometers away. according to experts and such a weapon could be effective against low flying drones, like the iranian she had $136.00 that russia uses. and it's 4 against you. frankly, the 2 of these drones known as get on yet to in russia are made of relatively fragile components that are vulnerable to the heat created by lasers. with you. the ukraine's claim has not been verified, but experts say it's a feasible. a handful of countries are developing so called directed energy weapons, or the technology is still at an experimental stage around 10 times for sure. so let's break this all down with larry for easy an aerospace engineer with aerial information systems that specializes in drone engineering services. and consulting, he joins, we stay from pensacola florida. welcome. just to start things off. could you talk

us through a little bit more about how the laser weapons actually work. so the equivalent, it's the laser, just like you would say in all a typical office laser playing laser radar and ring laser. so it's just the concentration of photons. but if you concentrate them very likely they end up being quite destructive. um the difference between say a counter drum laser and a typical office laser is these, the counter drum lasers will operate either in the infrared or ultra violet parts of the light spectrum. so as humans, we don't, we won't be able to see them. and why might laser weapons work then, particularly well against drones? this current generation of drums do not maneuver. they simply, they fly in straight lines. they orbit. um they're, they're not like spider aircraft. so it's generally if you can see the drones,

you can lock onto him and put the laser beam. i know it with lasers you actually have to. it's not like star wars we're, you know, we're used to seeing lasers, pulse and blow up something with these types of lasers there continue was beam where you have to focus the heat on the critical part of the aircraft for a given period of time until it fails either, right? don't you normally do this? so in that sense drawing might be a somewhat easier target. what do you make of your cranes claims that it has a working directed energy weapon? um i, i'm of the opinion that they have definitely gotten some help from somebody either the british or the united states, even possibly those riley's, the number of western countries who successfully filled with a tactical laser system for, for air defense. it's a very small club and united states has been added for years now. so i'm really

doubtful that the ukrainians were able to and in their condition being in a state of war able to leapfrog everyone else with a functional laser system. so without having to much into the strategy and politics of it all from, from a technical perspective. why is it so challenging for countries to develop these weapons as well the, there's the optics of the lasers of literally just forming the laser beam a minute. and you were talking about distances of, you know, 2 to 10 kilometers away from wherever the laser is actually located. so you have to be able to actually focus that laser beam into the size of possibly even a point at 10 kilometers away in order for it to be effective. so that becomes a menu. there is a power generation aspect um, you know, nice thing about lasers is they have what we call almost a very deep magazine. so they will continue to fire until you run out of electrical energy. so become producing electrical energy in the field becomes

a could be quite an obstacle for, for some operators. and so with all those challenges, do you think that we will one day have laser weapons that could, could even take down missiles and higher altitude airborne weapons? absolutely, the u. s. has already invested quite a bit of money into shooting them ballistic missiles, with lasers. and those programs were a terribly expensive um, but i believe that on a technical level that we will definitely be seeing lasers in the field in the next few years. all right, well thank you very much for taking the time to share your expertise with us. that is larry freely with ariel information systems. thank you. i or the and finally, before we go, it is the festive season in many parts of the world with extravagant light displays . and this week, mexico city went up. it's historic city center. ahead of christmas. a unique

feature of the mexican holidays celebrations are of course pianos. you might know them, their traditional decorations usually made on paper shay, they're filled up with candy. they're sprung up overhead and then later children. and if you want to take a swing adults as well, they try to break open those kenyatta and let the sugary sweets rain down the church and that is our show for today. don't forget, you can follow our team on social media at dw news. if it's the latest headlines you're looking for, there's always our website dw, dot com, i'm sorry, richard send in for when from me and the entire team working behind the scenes to make this possible. thank you so much for watching the

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