in the russian military academy thought a series of attacks on ukraine's energy system responding to key it strikes on russian territory using western long range missiles. earlier this week, also it had the hail scripts, northern syria, with at least 6 people reportedly killed by the us box. syrian democratic force is using live i munition, to this 1st prize, demonstrating in support of the ruling h t s, and the militants. u. s. roll top the red carpet for the terrorist, not in control of syria. we look at our washington sponsor groups, help bring it by their secession. and it's because they seek to conquer other

nations. to impose fundamental security on the middle east on the entire world. human ness and yahoo addresses the uranian people attempting to shame tyrone over its foreign policies. not to us, the un condemns israel's actions, are forced through absolutely no basis on the international law to preventively preemptively disarm a country, you know, with like, i mean, if that were the case, it would be around 55 for the, the life for most who they say is our children are still i'm, you know, neil and you're welcome to the news. dropping our top story, the russian, the tree has created a sweeping attack against ukraine's energy system. the move is being described as retaliation. the key of strikes on russia with western supplied long range weapons

on wednesday night must go reports hitting all of its set targets, causing electricity. i did use across ukraine key. it was not requesting additional power from its neighboring european countries. with more than this ortiz acres, fidelmo, it was a combined attack on which russia both used at smith's house, cruise, marseilles, and uh, unmanned drones to head critical energy infrastructure. and ukraine as zalinski has already complained that it was one of the most large scale attacks 2 days. now, it's not a record breaking one, but still it is very significant. and it is, it was crippling for once again for the ukrainian energy infrastructure upon so ukrainian sources suggest that right now the country has only enough power to supply energy to only about half of the country. but previous report suggested that basically ukraine has to balance between then to choose whether or not to supply households or the facilities of the military industrial complex,

which need plenty of power to operate. and very often this balance, well it kind of tips in favor of the laptop. so really it, so the ordinary citizens who are bearing the brunt of these attacks that are meant to cripple ukraine's while the cranes and military capabilities and military production capabilities to it is meant to deny the supply of power to those industrial facilities who repair military vehicles. and so on and so forth. again, according to or ukrainian source is at least a, at least a types of different weapons were used in this attack. as air raid sirens sounded all across ukraine and explosions of rocks about age regions of the country, including a key of a region including the very capital of ukraine, which is not which is, it's not a common occurrence. now when it comes to the reasons behind this attack on

wednesday, indeed you can use the u. s. made long range attack themselves to try and attack a military. yeah, feel in russia 7 town of took and rug. uh, 2 of those marseilles were shut down and the rest were sent astray by uh, by electronic wolf. uh, was they did steve think that it's still cool? is it some casualties and destruction on the ground? no rush. it has been adamant from the very outset, from the very moment when the united states lifted the band on the use of the long range missiles is and their use against targets deep within russian territory or rather, on the russian, on the internationally recognized against but internationally recognized the russian territory, the russian command was adamant that those attacks would not go an onset, that russia would proportionately respond even sometimes. well, something that you can would view as even disproportionately. this was the 1st wave of these attacks. it prompted ukraine, or rather it prompted to it prompted russia to use for the 1st time it's brand new

hypersonic ballistic. my saw a rushing and off to this use of to this attack. this strike attempt on wednesday by attack comes most of the united states and uh, ukraine. they won't, then they will very wary. the russia might use the rush, the ballistic meant. so again, it seems that sofa, most school has abstained from going this far. but still, the scale of this attack is not very common. and for russia, basically, it says for now, this is, uh, this is it. we're going to stick to just these to just cruise missiles on the drones. all of that is happening you days to back drop over it seems intensified efforts to, to, to bring russian to clean clothes so that i've been coming from the united states and hungry. and russia has been responding very positively to these uh, to the suggestions. now hungry, for instance, suggested that there may be,

should be a christmas fruits between russia and ukraine ever so brief, but according to hungry is vision, a large prisoner's what would have come in until 2. but according to both russia and hungry ukraine rejected that idea. and even something well, even came close to accusing hungry over lying, saying that those discussions did not happen, even though officially both hungry and russia confirmed that though that those tools did happen. that they indeed, uh they, they discussed that. so, so maybe the use uh if to speculate the rushes uh abstinence from and basically russian not using of the rest of my solve this time it could be really viewed as something of a gesture of goodwill. and i was basically assigning that they, they prepared the russian commodities prepared to well show at least some restraint . and at the same time,

showing that even without the ration crush is still very capable of dealing very some very painful and crippling strike against ukraine. and other story we're following today, most rallies are getting underway in syria as local seller, but at the end of the 50 year, long aside from the brutal images from a central square in damascus show thousands of people gathering for friday. prayers, crowds waving the flag of the serial opposition could be heard chanting, revolutionary slogans. among them are men in black combat gear with body armor and guns, members of the highest to we are alshaun or h t s t r risk group. while a protest was met by leaf full violence in the northern syrian city of rock hill on thursday, at least 6 people were reportedly killed as a us back. syrian democratic forces, which control at the region opened fire to disperse demonstrators. the total number

of casualties at this stage has not yet been confirmed. as the well footage has emerged on social media with gunfire heard guns showing people fleeing and panic. the protesters are reported to help in raleigh and support of h t. s. islamists which have taken control of damascus. it hits this helps fields, control all the capital, and most of the nation started treat following the power prob us, secretary of state on to me, blinking publicly declared washington support for the power and electric ripped. various functions are not racing to stick. it came on the body bo audible on energy, richlands, adding to the chaos and on certainty. in buffalo, syria. let's take a closer look at just to controls was currently in syria in the north. the yellow marks area is held by the us,

sparked s d f. which is allegedly linked to the p k. k, a kurdish insurgency group in the east. that's as turkish bach militants have taken over the city of non beach. all of the brain is controlled by high up totally or alshaun terrace, as it's down below. another organization still reportedly fine for control over parts of siri, is the syrian are of the army remnants of which are determined to keep fighting against the tar risk group. each, the former officers and soldiers from the lead tigris, special forces unit are reportedly regrouped in the mountain. this region is near the lebanese border pledging to continue their struggle. i don't know how much we have been fighting terrorism for 15 years in syria. we didn't withdraw, we didn't surrender. what happened recently? we don't consider it a surrender. we're going back to the back line and we are going to fight as well. it's not just the syrians injuring the hardships of

a new regime on the reserves and some terrorists with a recent article refilled about millions of indians could also face significant repercussions from the escalating crisis in the mid east raising concerns about its broader regional and global impact. the ongoing, 14 month long warning garza along with escalating conflicts in lebanon and syria, as well as the rise of non state actors have raised the spectre of instability, volatility and escalation. this will directly impact energy security for security, economic engagement, maritime connectivity, and the welfare of 10000000 indian expect trips. the involvement of major powers appears to be at this lowest point with their capacity to prevent wars or effectively intervene to reduce intensity or expansion scarce. well for more on this less cross live now to retired, major general in the indian army jacket bure saying general,

you're most welcome. thank you for your time today. can you perhaps just fill us in on that? what is the biggest issue affecting india because of chaos? in the middle east as well. to be very honest. nobody expected the, the fall of the assad government, big place sol, foster and insides of mind. and like, be seen in the bunch of island following the adams being named b e. deb goodness, the lead b. uh, and is off, you know, what has come about as a follow from the but what the lease is that may not be entirely what was expected by the rest of the was. and it's not exactly what people wanted. so there's a 2nd degree, i'd say a more than a certain degree of concern as to what the next. so that is the plus. uh well, you know that things id is what is a wedding and we would need and why these id is i didn't do that. what this

government it's place uh like uh you brought out the whole lot of complex, di loves that are these other groups with different ideologies which are coming up to 6. this phase of the government which existed in syria and some of them are very fundamentally in their approach. and that is the problem. let them know city as a secular tennessee for government into particular matter, which is not always to say the best man. no. but what is, what will happen next is a, is the biggest problems, will countries like india because again, of the city i like of the mouth because it will this, again become another reading ground for that or this across the word. and that is the concern of india right now. and you've seen this house that it isn't as

spread to the, you'll see what's happening. and i've gotten this done to be useful what's happening in other parts of the close to india. and so will this be another area and if you have it up and city and, you know, being funded, the lot of these groups are being, you know, supported like the key. so what is going to be the bill of to save you guys? what does that mean? india? yeah, there's a lot of points you raised there, but if you look at some of the headlines, i would suggest in the west, a lot of celebration, a lot of calls for, for unity among these disparate groups. as you've been pointing out, the factions with so many different ideologies, all fighting for power in syria, oscar asides fold. what comes next? will there be a unifying government, or is there any alternative to what we're seeing?

no different groups fighting each other to well right now everybody wants a unified government. that is what the word one. but given all right, now their problems both internally and externally. so city assessment thing, better challenges would just be, you know, what i mean, i'll put society with just now let me go just to be open to add the some need to add the, she adds you of the, in the form of the way to out the rules you have the good each release yet, so i mean, all of them are going to fight for some space within, etc. and then like you brought out the as a, with the, the, the city and me. so both of us are why you don't want something. we've not given up like this is one thing. then you have the extended play i do, i did on we did a major role in the city. yeah. it's definitely we can today. i didn't say to each one of the biggest load of them to the mattress, but do have 2 more computers which have come up with a, i'd say amongst the because again, those have this going to be so one is not connected with any of these groups. so to

say, but one of the, in the place that it's taking advantage of the instability inside the guy that this isn't and it's, you know, in the way they got to get easy, the boss plus all that, all these of a, well, that's one and the 2nd kind of for you i have is that the and the thing is, the way i see it is again that in this fun 6 or 5 to one, drawing with the plan, the few filters to the end of month and the see the end of the with the wall how, how does daily react to that? what's, there are no, you know what, one of the relationship be between what is in damascus and at with the mode of government. but what was it the sofa was better than the sod and as you're well aware of very good relations with president a saw i. the next thing is that as far as you can, yes, good. so he says,

very deep civilization, but i and religion with the people of the city. yeah. plus 5 is we yeah, sense on as long as there's fees for us. but at the end, the ability in video even in that to be be there. but if the find the month to month, you know, if they're supporting fundamental exams and the fundamental as then instead of this, which i wouldn't do then gabrielle, the actions we do and board in the office, even in south asia, then there's a cause of concern. and that's what i think the water needs to talk about, but we haven't been headed thing out to the annual meditation made in other ways. and so we've had that deep 13 to print as a with them can i just get your thoughts on, on the overall situation facing survey as somebody who's, who's versed in the military? is there any reason to think that the survey is not going to become another afghanistan, another libya, and do you think that those who caused instability in the country,

this latest chaos do they care? i to be very honest, it's too premature to say which direction to city eyes ending at the moment when they do me another gun. this done what they do me in the libya, whether it could be not that on whether it would be another egypt. i mean, no one can predict, but naturally every one of. busy that there is some sort of stability with this bombed in the regions and the focus because the write down what have you been reading about large number of people get what they have missing and, and they didn't, these conflicts lost somebody else, but i mean, the bedrooms are being opened and you are getting a lot of 19 being that large amount of civilians attempt being dispensed. all those to be looked at. sometimes they will. all position groups exist being when they find a place again, all will be so called fundamentalist groups. they go well with the i s s i s i as

lives, they'll do something back. i mean, these are major questions that need to be answered and it's very difficult to do that. let's talk about the trajectory of savings. uh right now, because we're still in the plus bip something, but hopefully when these groups come there they will need to know multiple sites apart to support themselves, you know, for fun development. but for monetary in both for food to manage the medic, the tools, what are they going to look at? and we've done that confused with the best, some emphasis that you will just can i can i just add it to that point. sorry to interrupt because new delhi is also played a key role in series development, major investment in its oil sector, gas exploration. that's all impacted. not will you deli, sick to keep a footprint there? i am shaw a. i cannot get onto this as well as the government discount done, but as a independent analyst,

i'm shot that the government in which i looked at the creative, the new daily basis must go with it and saw that the interests of the city and people as far as you'll meditate in medical and development make to the best possible magnet. and the only address of the country are also present. so i'll put it like that. oh, you big. well, what jobs will we'll talk to? it's too early to see at the moment. yeah, it is a chaotic picture that is for sure. thank you so much for making us to keep sense of it as it is, as it stands, retired, major, general, jargon, piercing and the indian army. many thanks. thank you very much for having me on. i appreciate it. i as well back in damascus. let's show you what's happening there. the higher to we are all sham terrorist group has taken over that opposed president bashar assad. private residents are to obtain this footage showing armed men posing

for a photo and the buildings roof as the unfurled their flag sides residence was likely rated on some day after the former leader fled survey a day after mister sub was almost at the controversial us base theory and emergency task force organization celebrated with washington's national security advisor, trying to make sense of it. here's ortiz, let's get to. sometimes the lady who really dos protests, too much mission accomplished. the syrian emergency task force is proud to announce that the aside regime, russia and iran had been officially defeated in syria by the syrian people on their own. and without any outside support from the international community. the story goes up from damascus to debt, as or syrians of rows up to shut the shackles of assets through an c t f. what does that jenny? does? they have no skin at the gate,

except we have the receipts on one of those receipts. so it's a $153000.00 grant from usaid. and another receipts is straight from the mouth of one of s e t. s. format execs the state department contracting firms like access resources, knowledge, monex, creative associates, international, a number of the big contractors set up the contracts and pay the syrian emergency task force. oh biggie told the daily caller then are all be credentials, all these proud bystanders. starting with new us mustafah, who over the years regularly visited the terrace stronghold of it's a real beat for suffocating sanctions on assets, government. and is one of the obama foundations circle leaders of the future. not really make sense, given them a stoffer was knee deep with both chips and i lived in

a position during the 2011 arab spring, which we know like syria was also ross routes. there are times in the course of history when the actions of ordinary citizens spark movements for change because they speak to a longing for freedom that has been building up for years. myself was also spoken at chatham house. his body is, i think these headlines so pretty clearly. he also has the air of the d. c. a link that says website once boasted about plus he had a side gig of settling lawmakers, the real syria even getting themselves with the isis need is sorry, rebels. and these terrorists were ton stateside iga to fill the pockets all the defense contractors. we need to take out his hair of capabilities. we need to take out his command and control. we need to be of the leading fighters, the equipment that they need in order to succeed. that should be the policy so far

that has not been the policy with delta himself is no stranger to all mean the flight has, has him in action and a 2014 documentary, for example. the good news is, is so excited to send weapons to syria. but he doesn't have when, where and how it would be sent in one box, one batch. this is the 1st batch, 2nd batch would be tanks this way, as you kind doing this money and who paid the money? then what does this american company do? they went to ukraine and found the weapons. oh yes. ukraine said she has policies happened to just so neatly align with the pen to goods. the button to russian lies documenting russian rule crimes. rooting out common sides. syrian emergency task force director malls mustafah added that

a desire to aid ukraine was another factor prompting the offensive with the aim of striking a blow against russia a mutual enemy. so it could be coincidence of policies, so didn't trust. so maybe they have some classified information on pennsylvania avenue. c t s. offices are off through just a block away from the white house. so convenient then again, if it looks like a duck, swim is like a duck uncork. so like a duck, then it's probably a government asset. we are really acting as an extension of the united states government. we've become a resource then that's one of his policy advise us, tony, be dash events. he's been a full team. his as a parks, head of communications, and now was in a storm chain saw in a think tank, which runs pools of as well for american academics. who knows, maybe the next one will include the now occupied golan heights. and that's just a highlight reel of se, ts stuff. so yes,

the and you might be opposing the syrians hard walk, but make no mistake. the same thing. hands worked well and didn't glove to bring about assets. demise. and i'll show in a new democratic chapter, what are your hopes and fears for what the next phase will be for your country? my fear is outside intervention intervention by authoritarian states, whether they may be our allies, our enemies in the region that wants to see, you know, they are afraid of democracy. you know, they want to see like another military dictator or something that's a huge deal. um, so making sure that countries that didn't help us in our fight against a dictator do not intervene now and in any way hinder our road to a country for its people by its people. yes, p is no painting during the road now being taken, slipped fruits public hangings,

point blank executions, and assess fax, a new door for damascus, just as the s c t at so tirelessly. know before of southgate taylor. well, israel is another force, play the idea of late to strike as hit the time of must be off on the homes, country side and central syria. its own video shows attacks and military equipment, vehicles that infrastructure in the in buffer country. these really army has reportedly destroyed off to 80 percent of the survey and strategic military assets . since bush are all a side was hosted by h t. s. islamists. while as is really ambitions expanded in the mid east, with the turmoil in syria, the prime minister has turned his attention to the reading and people in a televised address. your pressure spent over $30000000000.00 supporting us an answer. today, after only 11 days of fighting is usually collapse into the dust. your pressure

spent billions supporting come off and god, today very she lives in rooms your pressure to spend over $20000000000.00 supporting his body level. in a matter of weeks, most of his bottles, leaders, it's rockets, and thousands of and stores went up in smoke the money your present store from you literally went up in smoke or you must be furious. imagining the new roads, schools, hospitals, that could have been built with a tens of millions of dollars. your dictators wasted backing. tears was over and over. it's because they ceased to conquer other nations. to impose fundamentalist germany on the movies on the entire world. nothing. yeah, this message seems like a direct call out to audience picking himself as they are knights in shining armor . here to save them from the clutches of evil. but hold on beating. you can't even

get your own people on board, let alone win, and go over beat their want and people. so, and his persian sup titled message he went on and on about the weakening of what he called. it was excess of terror. that's the term he likes to use for the access of resistance. so he called out to give on for focusing more on steering up trouble in that region that on improving things at home. of course, on nothing. yeah. who also said to we want to is that their leaders are most afraid of them. so this message feels like he's trying to steer that part in a while. and rather than extend an olive branch force, uh, this is not the 1st time b, b has reached out to one ends this way around 2 months ago he had a similar chat with the one he is basically trying to get support for israel from inside. they wanna maybe put the people against their government, but his message also has a,

another dimension. now his latest message comes on the heels of the shower, less sides downfall in syria. and it was withdrawal a forces from its neighboring strategic neighboring country. of course, according to reports, citing is really military brass, v i, d, f, seize this new opportunity as the perfect chance to strike it was nuclear sides following a sad solve and the destruction of serious air defense systems and by the idea of so now you have a claim, it was all, it was big planned to conquer all other nations and play the tyrant, of course i. but when you look at the, as well as the own military operations in gaza, syria, i live in on his talk about everyone feels well pretty ironic. they want itself has consistently criticized as well as military actions and syria. of course, the idea of claims to act solely in defense of its interests in syria when targeting the syrian military assets. this as defense minister is really the cause

has even ordered the creation of a sterile defense zone in southern syria. now it's not just iran and regional countries that i've condemned these measures and actions by as well. the united nations has also censured this as a breach of international law justin in recent days in syria and destruction of the syrian air force when there are no toilets, because syria has no functioning government or military that can fly those planes at the moment. there is absolutely no basis on the international law or to preventively or preemptively disarm a country. you don't like. i mean, if that were the case, it would be a recipe for global chaos because lots of countries have groceries they would like to see that without without weapons. and this is, this is completely lost that there is absolutely no basis in an international law or to do. and so what we're really here trying to con.