for some to return home, the wind 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 i've got a strong under the tele button. i'm quite richardson in berlin. you are watching the day the at the, when my home, i worry the most about of freedom of freedoms as women. so i want to speed up a quality for all citizens. it's absolutely central to as a process as dialogue that is inclusive that, that all communities of cd's 2 parts of it. we have now started to build a future and syria is allied. so the worst scenario would be extremism. an experience similar to the t, ron experience also coming up,

a president followed him. here's the landscapes as he's putting hopes for his country's 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. but 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 cds stand at the moment of history and the moments of opportunity. and that's all put 2 needs. he can not be missed. the end of more than 5, that gets a little dictates authority, a room as given rise to much hope. and we share that hope with the city and people, and we stand with them. it's absolutely central to have a process of dialogue that these inclusive, that's the all communities of cda a few bottles of it. women in syria who make up half the population are particularly concerned about their future under the new as low misled government. today, the country is 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 a quality for all citizens, regardless of race, ethnicity, sect, or denomination. do 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 one that came in to associate with number one in can i one to him in laws? electra laws citizenship laws and here since laws most around children with unknown lineage, these children should be registered under their mother's melodies. annoying to said

no more and leave him 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, have also given these hopes, these women are also worried about what a possible is. let us take over mike mean shop. think about him, 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 as some i am not against islam itself. i am a muslim sweat, hardly any coffee to shut the door. the worst scenario would be extremism. physical got an experience similar to the t, ron 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. among serious i don't feel afraid the fear is gone. we have now started to build a future and the syria is allied. 16 and 12. i think the situation is better. my children were far away from me. now my daughter is back in syria after 9 years and then the is, are consistent with, i mean a lot and it looks like a sort of so the annual on how we as a young people hope to rebuild syria, ah, how this noble and kindly allow him children, situation is greater than right compared to what we expect it to be high, i can the sodium everywhere you go into mass. seems like the one behind the men and women celebrating the falls were started. i said 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 or

gathering with the activists. some are already making plans to make their dreams are reality stuff. and now we have been training now. i mean we have attended workshops and so on. but many other women have not had 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 community. so the way that mitsy um, we need to work on psychological support, especially for families of detainees. the people who have seen their children return as skeletons 7 of them, but in the back of their minds, they're also thinking about what to do. things do not go their way and 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 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 donated from the syrian women's political movement. welcome to d, delta you, the un secretary general today said that of the many fires burning across the middle east, but 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 been stuck in and out of a very difficult situation where there's no need as upland to words like the freedom of williams 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 religions, the right, the right political grades and all it is related to the launch the launch. right? and the properties and also we need to work on the, the form of the, the, the national law, which is related to citizenship. i think citizens set them to shift to the women's, the 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 this rich as well. now many have warned that there could be trouble from high out to test it. i assume it has recently tried to calm 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 visually and 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 woman 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 or tired if you run and then got enough gums done. and we need to be visually and to protect like a what. what do we have done over the, the, the pretty just like a 14 years is 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 yeah, from a wellness 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. so. so yeah, we need to see like women are leaving the country being quarts of the the new

government also be part of the candidates for the elections of presidential elections and what's coming on also to the, for the constitution. and you mentioned that comparison to and i've gone, has done style situation. i'm the leader of high out to we are all strong just today's spoke to the bbc denying that he wants to turn syria into and i've got his don style scenario. um, are you optimistic given what you've said about their not being women involved at the table in many of these decisions, but that will be possible. or they're just like in general, like carol, back 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 know towards the end the end to now there is no um,

i'm not not that optimistic. and when it comes to, to that, 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 what rights and to claim also are space and in a sea of the future. and just before you go, are there groups in syria that are pushing for that? who could be helpful in making the reality or yeah, for sure. there's a lot of like, uh, um, organizations, uh, and like i 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 just like today we have a process in damascus and the center of the muskets where women ask for it 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 a 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 dw, that is, was meant to write 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 20212022. i would think that such a decision which was taken at the beginning of 2022 and you could sort of believe should have been taken earlier, or what would you want moving available? you might, that range 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 of a lot of years. the 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,

the landscape 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, this strong man. and i one to 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 it's very important because he was not in this for because he was not the president. and i one's already much come to house boss, 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 adviser john paulson. it's hard to prioritize in these times with so many new and old crisis is, but i would like to start with ukraine, and mr. bolton, presidents. lensky 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 done with jungle, 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 trump has said during the campaign and after the election. but just what i know about is the 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 and 24 hours. just 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 trump primarily at the moment is he wants this conflict behind it. he believes it's biden's war. he said during the campaign that wouldn't have happened if he had been president, which is a statement inside their approval or disapproval, but he wants to, he wants to over, which implies that he doesn't particularly care on what terms to that and,

and i think that's bad news for you current to you. what did 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? maybe 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 because you 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 was getting table a tote and we'll all jacked and complain. but then i will say that donald's for you . i'll do it now of course it's the pollutants 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 food knows how to play with trump. i think he knows how to flattering and, and if they have a conversation before an audio 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 you're about be far behind. and that's just bad news for you. credit is so, of course, all about security guarantees as well for ukraine. new presidents who lensky, what's your expect on 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, i'm not sure the security guarantees in 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 both us out. and really to try to pull the out. he doesn't understand why the alliance benefits the united states effects. basically, he sees nato's us. we defend your, we don't get anything out of it, and europe doesn't peck. so why are we in this a lot? it's best for the cx, and it's not a great leap of faith 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 using as pull would that interview there. this week of the commander of ukraine's droned, 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. frame 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 of the technology is still at an experimental stage around 10 pounds 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 a laser, just like you would say in all a typical office laser playing laser radar and ring laser. so it's just a concentration of photons, but if you concentrate them, very likely they end up being quite destructive. um the difference between say,

i counter drone laser and have typical office laser is these the calendar on 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 drones 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. and to fails either, right?

don't in or mail. so in that sense, drones 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 of those re lease 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, in, in their condition, being in a state of or 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? 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 in the shooting young 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 aerial information systems. thank you. and finally, before we go, it is the festive season in many parts of the world with extravagant light displays . and this we, mexico city went off. it's historic city center. ahead of christmas. a unique feature of the mexican holidays celebrations are of course pianos might know them. their traditional decorations usually made on paper shay, they're filled up with candy. there. sprung up overhead and then later children. and if you want to take a swing adults as well, they try to break open those videos and let the sugary sweets rain down on

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