5 years often, we remember window road still stops march 8th on dw, the state of the news coming to live from berlin. wiling class has reported in syria between government troops and supporters of the asked and former president reports of ambush consent, executions and merge. and one of the biggest challenges to the new government since the fall of boston on the loss of us are coming up. rochelle launch is a garage of rocket and drone strikes across ukraine keepers calling it a massive attack targeting critical energy and gas infrastructure. plus another setback for heat on less space x. as in starship rocket explodes shortly after launch. scattering fiery debris crossed the night skies of the homes, the

hello i'm terry martin. good to have you. with the syrian observatory for human rights, as classes between syrian troops and forces loyal to else did. liter busha allows, so i'd have killed more than 70 people. the fighting broke out on thursday and it's concentrated in coastal cities in the west, syria's government has launched the large scale security operation and ambushed by pro outside fighters near the port city of la talked here, killed 13 syrian troops. the region is a strong hold of assets of porters and a curfew is now and effect clash is, are the dead loose? and so i sub was toppled by insurgents in this. well, joining me here in the studio for more on this is dw reporter garcia o hahn is. gotcha. what more do we know about these developments? these clashes in west and syria alteri, these are the worst clashes on the syrian coast since the fall of the assad regime

. and right now, as it says, the security forces of the current leadership says that they've captured $200.00 loyalist forces after several classes with them. they said there was an ambush on the low top the highway and they responded with drones. overhead. they send a ground troops from different major syrian cities and all of that has resulted in a lot of bloodshed. there's different numbers coming in. so i'm saying more than 70 people now killed, including many being held captive house. understand the background to this. we know about the, our white community being associated with the former regime, but why are they clashing with security forces now that are running the country in this way, at this point? yeah. when the security forces 1st entered this region, you know, when the assad government fell,

a lot of the olive white community just abandoned their troops. they didn't fire bullets, they didn't put up a slide. and it is happening in and much worse way now. and there could be different reasons for that. one was that there was this settlement plan that the security forces offered. they said former officers and high ranking officers and the former army could present themselves hand over their weapons and then they would be cleared away. but that deadline expired. even the extended deadline expired last month. so now anyone who didn't do that can face a harsh punishment, and this could be fueling, you know, armed fights and clashes because there's no other option for these people at the moment. another thing has been a lot of protests within the otherwise community. they've been demanding the release of prisoners all wide prisoners being held because of their role and a former government, as well as demanding that you know the current at of temporary governments stop

making legislations in the country and just focus on providing security and services. these demands were not met either. all of that has led to the rise intentions and now their option of clashes. so do serious new leaders have this under control now or does to these classes have potential to escalate into something bigger? administrative defense spokesperson has said that they're very close now to you know, as b, stablish, stability in this exact region and on serious coast. however, we also have trouble doing reports emerging that show these aren't just clashes, but there's a executions as well reported that are seen some of these videos surfacing on telegram channels as people being shotwell, attempting to flee, or attempting to surrender. all of this is going to lead to an increase intentions already existing between this community of all why it's which is an offshoot of us

. yeah. as long and the so need leaders in the current government. it's going to lead to more secure intentions. and through the government doesn't just space this one challenge. it also has challenges with occurs in the north. it has challenges with the jews in the south. and now, you know, they've promised a new government in march and this will be one of the key things they have to tackle in order to bring things under control. garcia, thank you very much for fillings in there. that was dw reporter gusio or honda. now to ukraine and russia has carried out another wave of aerial attacks across the country. over nights, ukrainian officials say the attack targeted critical in energy infrastructure with dozens of missiles and nearly 200 grand launched by moscow. at least 8 people were injured in the city of hockey. present a lot of me as well as be repeated this call for a truce on air and sea attempts are corresponded much on the

joins just now from ukraine's capital. keep max present. soleski has well then called up for an aerial n. c truce with the us holding military aid and intelligent sharing for ukraine. how much pressure is the country under now as yeah, terry quite quite a lot. i would say um, the crane is in a very difficult situation right now. we don't know all the details of what is happening right now, but it's probably safe to assume that no american military equipment and no spare parts, no american munition is crossing the border into ukraine. now the training on forces are, might not notice the change right away because for certain types of weapons, they have sufficient stop power suppressing a few weeks a few months time. if they don't find any replacements elsewhere or the us starts delivering, again, they're going to be in a very difficult situation. and with the american military equipment,

it's important to point out that it's not just about the quantities, but a lot of the high tech stuff. a lot of the very effective stuff comes from the united states thinking of f. 16 fighter jets, for example, if you're thinking a fighter jet ammunition in general, the multiple walking launch systems and the short and median term rockets for example, but also air defense systems like the patriot system where there is no adequate european alternative for example. so some of the stuff can be replaced, some of the stuff can, can be replaced, it's going to be making very logistics very hard for somebody of the military's a from city with at the moment there doesn't really seem to be adequate alternative . looking at intelligence sharing this as an effect. um that can be probably felt a lot faster. again we, we don't really know exactly what the americans happened, sharing versus what they're not sharing any any longer. but it's safe to assume that the ukrainians, receiving satellite imagery to do reconnaissance behind enemy lines,

as well as they were providing intelligence, intelligence on signal. so in order to detect incoming aerial attacks, for example, large scale attacks as we seen last night. so that puts you create in a very difficult position. so fresh talks between the us and ukraine are set to take place next week. the last meeting between the country's leaders ended in disaster. what does ukraine expecting? what is it hoping for this time? right, a lot has happened since that the oval office meeting that you know when we're out of hand last friday and the training and the american teams have been talking to each other from what we understood trying to find a way forward present. trump has exerted a lot of pressure on presence of lansky on the entire country to kind of throw the training leadership into submission. during his speech to congress,

president trump said that president zelinski reached out to mc clean bachelor. apologize to him. he seemed quite happy about the change of tone there, so we'll have to see if this is a good side for both parties, for the ukrainians. looking forward from what we've been told is that pres, presence, and let's go tramp the sony arabian next week and he will meet us special and on voice steve with cost already talked to the russians in moscow recently. i'm so they will likely talk about further steps forward and finding some kind of ceasefire deal. perhaps also the minimal deal is still on the table. so yeah, it's, it's not exactly clear if this is going to be a positive development for ukraine, but certainly it looks better than the last couple of days. and finally, back, so ukraine's energy infrastructure was attract overnight by russia. how are these latest attacks impacting the country? all right, so um, there was a large scale attack last night as you said,

um, happen into waves with roughly close to 70 cruise missile. so i'm close to $200.00 drones and d car drones all across the country. and from what we've been told most from what has been reported, these attacks were targeting energy infrastructure in particular gas infrastructure all across the country. for example, parts of pipeline and pull tava were in there have been numerous. this has been the latest ministering of attacks, for example, and no decimal region where energy infrastructure was hit over the last 2 and a half weeks about 6 times. so this has an impact on the countries ability to produce gas to produce energy. this has an impact on the civilian population on the industry, and of course, puts people at great risk. now this isn't really new because this has been happening since the, for the, the winter of the 1st year of the war. pretty much large scale attacks of that sort of like with, with more than a 100 missiles or,

or drones have also been happening for quite some time now. but just imagine, just to think about the, the time we're talking about right now where the, the, the americans are withdrawing some of their military needs. some of the middle of the air defense that puts things into perspective and puts you creating a very dangerous position. as we've seen less, but thank you very much. that was our correspondent match son to n t. well, european leaders have agreed to dramatically boost their military spending. after the us pros, all military and intelligence support for ukraine in russia kremlin propaganda has celebrated the dramatic shift in the white house policy. but the idea of russia's european neighbors now boosting their own military forces has been met with anger in moscow. is this you leader summit in brussels is clearly irritating the kremlin . moscow has picked up on the fact that the

e u is ready to boost defense spending. and it's considering sending peacekeepers to ukraine. that's on the door to create the confrontational rhetoric and the confrontational developments that we are now seeing in brussels. and she works capital was us seriously at all. we finding ways to peacefully resolve the situation in ukraine's through him. the police can't push him even though you go to the crate, but you will cry. the host don't share pest cards, diplomatic etiquette, and they were watching both the speeches and the looks of the participants that um some up for the gathering itself resembles a meeting of cripples. poland. prime minister tools hobbled past the cameras and declared that russia would lose just like the u. s. r. so this poll has injured not just his limbs, but also his brain. i mean, the president of france has completely lost his mind as well as my president prompts them. according to state propaganda. it wasn't just the president of france

who lost his mind. they also called denmark's pm met to frederickson crazy for being open to nuclear weapons and her country from recent reactions. it seems that state propagandist, are most worried about europe's unity and defending ukraine. good to put it inside this provincial europe. cj is being torn apart, right? now, reviewing my chest, can you imagine how incompetent these people are and how little they have to do if he can afford the luxury of suddenly going to london by euclid. putting zelinski on the head, i was doing, some is still on sharing, so i'm glad that they are against him. who because at the same privilege of new, europe's unity and the sharp rise in defense spending can't help but worry russia. some experts believe this is a for the challenge, the general, the waste,

the west in a way connect to the relatives of the war will in the long run, present there really serious challenge to rush you want to live. china is assistance and having like basically invested and it's a realtor, industrial complex. russia is that combust if the mod. meanwhile, lab, rob said that russia has no intention of attacking nato despite the fears. he believes there's one person in the west who knows that russia's real goal is to stop nato's expansion. basically, the president trump and his team understands very well that this was a root cause of the globe. would they be able to reach you this week? officials and state propaganda warmly welcomed trumps decision to hold a do ukraine, backed by the us. they hope to strike a piece deal with ukraine. one that would favor the kremlin. more of this, i'm joined now by the w sir gauge such an off ski from our regular studio circuit. as we saw on your report. there moscow is nervous about the ramping up its defenses

. how is russel likely to respond as well? europe is the uniting and the making bbq. it was gonna say the defense decision was quite quickly, probably because of the kremlin hasn't yet had had time to decide on what, what are they going to do and let alone creating a strategy that's called the determinist. most folks, person that's called with a mr. mr. pasco said the moscow is closely watching what he called the youth militarization. for now on the potentially he said this would become a cause for a deep concern for russia and in the future it needs to specific the students to ensure rushes security. but no concrete steps have been announced. so far. we've seen the trump administration aligning the us more with russia now and

halting support for ukraine, a complete reversal there. so does that mean that russia is expecting, keep to now except piece on president putin's terms, or is russia likely to make any concessions and 6 fire tops? right. as well as putting inside. yes. that a quote, we don't need anything from any one, but we also won't give up. what's our son? strangely enough, with by hours he means the occupied territories, all the ukraine and he's view. ukraine must withdraw its troops from the so called dnr and illinois. they are in the donates. can lou haskell regions of ukraine as well as care? some ends up patricia and what's more, it's the food in the also insist that to create mazda brandon. it's natal membership plants. not to mention that. now, of course, along with tromp, put in this portion for

a change of your transpose then. so there is no talk of any concessions in his words. how much concern is there in places like the baltics where you are or in georgia and will deliver that. presently, protein could now feel emboldened to launch further military campaigns. so well, it's through that now with the donald trump in the white house, russian politicians, a propagandist, booting himself, seemed to the feeling a way more confident that this the, in their statements. they seem to think that the trap is on their side. for example, of mitre pass clubs, said the early of the u. s. foreign policy now largely alliance with russia's vision of something that the would have been on the think about just a couple of months ago. at the same time, many experts say that they,

they know the slow progress of russia on the battlefield, which it won't be able to increase any time soon. so of course, the trump decision, so the decision to stop me a to ukraine was welcome. tears was the largely celebrated on a state cd, but in the kremlin, they also understand that the effects of this decision won't be immediate. then the next couple of months, the situation might change a significantly so, okay, thank you very much. that was the w surrogate such an escape in rico sketch up on some other stories making headlines today. i think us present, trump says he has sent a letter to iran's, the sprint supreme leader asking to negotiate a nuclear deal my until that comment. and he's office has yet to comment. trump pulled out a multinational agreement pulled out of the multinational agreement,

intended to prevent, rand, develope, nuclear weapons back in 2018. during his 1st term, a court in south korea has canceled the arrest warrant of impeach presence, and so fuel after his lawyers argued. the indictment was taking too long and was arrested in january for his short lived declaration of martial law. on december 2024. investigators say it amounted to rebellious or dozens of indonesians are still in tyler waiting to be re patry at it after being freed from forced labor in myanmar. others who have already returned home say they were lowered by false promises and working for online scamming operations. hundreds of thousands of people from various countries are believed to. they have been forced to engage in these criminal enterprises, which generate billions of dollars each year. for some, they were scammers, through their bosses, there were no more than slaves. these people and the nations are finally back into

the home country after being forced to work for months as online skimmers in march . one of them is to see not her real name. to spend 6 months emil id in the so called skin part component, which multiple fraud companies operate cardio begin when she came across a job listing on facebook, advertising, customer surface position at the logistic company supposedly in thailand, recruit their problem is to see that if the job was to and that's advertised, she will be brought back home at the time. so she felt reassured, but everything changed once you arrive at the company, not in thailand, but then you can mark the volume when we got out of the car. there was a river below it with a small boat waiting for us. we were a school should buy sold to. that's when i started thinking like what is that? am i being sold like, am i going to be killed? are they going to sell my organ? there's thoughts chipped running through my mind. the people inside the skin park

recruits were forced to run fraudulent investments keeps, they pretended to be attractive and successful individuals on social media. i gave them wording people into infesting in a freak online business through a chevy commerce website. like this disclaimers failed to generate $10000.00 us dollars per month. they were punished, beaten with methyl objects, or how like so cute it with guards everywhere and their passports confiscated by the company escaped seemed impossible. what is that a good fellow in an issue? i was assigned to skim indonesians why the platform, but i kept thinking, if i actually manage a trick, someone would i even be safe when i returned home, you get us. but the truth always comes out to be way. i decided i'd rather and during the punishments while looking for a way to escape me a lot even tell me about the game. i love the south bay west anyhow. i just the skin part in neil id is primarily done by chinese kings using electricity and

utilities from thailand. since february, 5th, ty, out the reduced half cut off power internet and fuel to the area, forcing some skim companies to cease corporations and released their 2. it's like the group of indonesians who recently are dental. however many of the hundreds of online scum abrasions meal id continue to try according to me and more with 3rd, these approximately $525.00 indonesian citizens. the main trapped into skin part in the nation. officials believe the actual number is much higher. as many think them streaming and documented our efforts must go beyond just rescuing and repay treating our citizens. the real challenge is enforcing the law and taking the effective measures to prevent these crimes, including restricting the operations of these online scam syndicate.

with me and my log in and i'm going to see if the war law enforcement is sporadic and effective. the discomfort indicates continue to find ways to keep their operations funding. i'm district the lows are in place. and remember all 3 this got enforced them. it is likely that more people will fall into the same time for a 2nd consecutive time space x is picking up the pieces after a launch ended in explosive fashion. the new starship spacecraft is designed to carry it on must starling satellites, and orbit in far greater quantities than as existing fleet. success for the new rock, it could be worth billions and space cargo contracts. but before business can start booming, the starship itself has to stop going boom. the debris from the space x. the ship streaked across the night sky above the bahamas. rock is enthusiast who had gathered to watch the space croft lift off

so it explodes just minutes later the star shifted here. right where it's supposed to be kind of rising up. initially it had this beautiful big jelly. they call it a jelly fish umbrella, where the sun reflects off the exhaust fumes and that really look normal. and then it may be got about 20 degrees above the horizon and, you know, turn into a huge ball of fire. video footage shows the a $123.00. me too long rocket to make an initial clean a cent from texas. the full of things started to go wrong. and we just saw some engines go out. it looks like we are losing attitude control of the ship. getting video down from the ship. he

gets a we've lost several engines and we've lost attitude control of the vehicle. this is the 2nd consecutive failure for the company spaceship program. so for this yeah . in january, a spacecraft exploded over tax and k costs 8 minutes of to lift off in the social media post space x. as engineers say they plan to learn from the latest failed mission, but this is a blow to own. the e mail must vicious real k program. the starship spacecraft is designed to travel to the main malls and beyond. most cars become a closed adviser to us president donald trump, who recently reminded congress of his own space ambitions. we're going to conquer the vast frontiers of science and we're going to lead humanity into space and play

of the american flag on the planet mars and even far beyond expos. so divide to don't if and when emission to miles will be viable. but as the space race heats up, conquering the red planet remains a key go. you're watching dw news, just reminder the top stories were following for you this hour. more monitors say doesn't have been killed in clashes between syrian troops and forces loyal to house to leader. bunch of i lost the fighting is concentrated in coastal cities in the west, serious governments as opposed to curfew and launched a large scale security bumper issue. and russia has carried out another wave of aerial attacks across you pray. steve says the attack targeted critical energy infrastructure with moscow launching dozens of missiles and nearly $200.00 drugs. for example, a lot of misled, steve has repeatedly called for

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and why are they willing to risk avon faces of anger? does march 19th on d, w? the day you've probably seen those clips of ukrainian president followed him here. zalinski is trip to the oval office. it ended in disaster and the fall out came quickly. but the trump administration's decision to suspend all military a true meaning of the white house definitely going to be in history books as the moments of monumental change in the united states wrote on the world stage without the americans. how bad do things now looking for you crate the europeans step in to make up for the last support this week on to the point where i'm looking at the consequences of donald trump putting u. s. military a to ukraine on hold. how could.