the sonya is that of course go mama conduct an answer. there's a date or the the ruling parties. nobody secures the presidency in georgia. that sounds the outgoing pro western president rejects the results of the election and refuses to step down even before the election had happened. the de, you dismiss the results of the legitimate calling for sanctions on georgia, dream party officials to join the letter also ad on the program. this use our, the idea reportedly farms to syria and for some the damascus region. 12, the is really defense ministry instruction troops to brace for a winter in the buffer zone. in the country side. on side, korea is parliament votes to impeach president you now for

a short lived martial law attempt. the opposition calls for a further consequences on the not suspended leader of the nation. the across the world around the clock. this is our teacher now. so let's get into our top story this mid december weekend. and we begin in the caucuses nation of georgia, where the ruling party is normally has been elected president, former model city for, for me calling you couple actually received over 2 thirds of votes from deputies in the countries parliament. georgia's prime minister praised his appointment and said, the incumbent head of state though, has no other option, but the step by i understand her feelings, but suitability will have to leave her post. i can only express my compassion for her. i am confident that the election of me kyle campbell,

should be lead to the most important position will make a very important contribution to strengthening georgian statehood and our sovereignty. as well as reducing radicalism and polarization in our country. the election of a new president in georgia, his term is due to stalls on december 29th us already being contested, not just by the protest is to be not in the streets now for 17 days straight, but also by opposition. members, he in georgia and the pro e president to has said she does not recognize the vote today. she does not recognize the parliament indeed, since it was convened office to the elections in october of this year. she took to the constitutional court of georgia complaint saying that those elections weren't where you've had that they were reg. but the constitution court would check that there, despite the fact that 2 claims have been rejected by george's highest quoted. and that cannot be appealed. she continues to say she will not recognize these elections and she will not leave office when you get to it expires in the next 2

weeks. in fact, she describes the events that took place in the parliament behind me on saturday as being a power d. it's nothing nobody chose a new one. nothing happened. well, she has a touch of the dramatics about her does salumi sort of research, bailey and i say that because you might be able to see the very beautiful christmas news tree behind me. and she described us as being jails earlier because the fence is being directed around it. so a lady perhaps prone to a little bit of the dramatics. indeed on the scenes behind you there are lossy pro tests. we know have been ongoing in georgia for quite some time. it appeared bustling at rather than anything else at the moment. or what is the situation, what, what are you feeling there after the election to nice been what's being talked about . yeah, that's why i mean, we've seen this huge chunk of the last 17 days. we saw when georgia dream announced that it was putting on the ice the tulips would be your opinion about joining the

blog until 202800000 people coming out to the street, smoke just increasing but across the country. and we sold nights of violent protests, but really since these 1st few days, we have seen this movement though, i don massively inside some night. so you could say they would be lucky to be a 1000 people out in the streets. and right now what we see is a cool me for people who might be able to have them during minus the, during the police a block out once again. but this is a very small move compared to what we had seen at the beginning. you may see that some of the protests is the thing for the full behind this uh, that's the base of where you play for leasing. they're unhappy with the new president who is a former professional for full law. as the results came out, we saw black smoke lifting into the yeah, the protested, mimicking the idea of a comb clave in room with it, but it's for a new pump in black smoke. so yes, newton post has been chosen stuff and then they're indicating that this new

president hasn't been chosen because he caught me chosen because he's somebody that they don't recognize. now interestingly enough, georgia dream, the ruling policy has said that the protests we've been seeing over the last 17 days have been focused, straightened from the west. and in fact, since 30 percent of those have been out on the streets. no, i don't like to actually be from foreign countries and they have accused the west of trying to ink. the straits is something similar to the might in to in ukraine 10 years ago. but they say georgia will not go down the same rate. as for the protests, we were able to completely neutralize the violent element. today, the radical opposition no longer has this tool. the only thing left is that about 2000 people usually gather on rest of haley avenue. on the other hand, there are more than $1120000.00 people who supported georgia dream for parties plus the richest and g goes together cannot gather even 2000 people. this is the real

situation, which is very good for our country in georgia. the my don failed and will never happen. well, has it failed as the routing parties as well? i think you can look behind me to say that this movement sydney doesn't have the emphasis on the push that he did 2 weeks ago. yeah. before the parliamentary elections, it wasn't the results that the e you wanted at lucky and brussel as well as quick the point thought i'd how does that mean any reaction that regard to today's vote with that rate? that reaction? yeah, as you said, the use already said that he believes the election supplementary elections in october, we're illegitimate and it's been cooling, consistency for new elections in the country, supporting those close by the current incumbent president of georgia. now in regards to 2 days election, we understand that the e u is looking to list some members of the written policy in

a sanctions list. on monday, we don't have the names yet, but we understand that they will be members from the reading policy that will be announced. and that was something that was recommended by european m e p's rehab in the last day's, almost a fact finding mission. an interesting fact finding mission because they spoke only to opposition politicians. the protest is i'm the pro e president and moved from georgia in free. now he has also been hearing from foxes, a manual background who is quite close to. so that means we would appreciate the who's born in fronts raised in phones and was with the french president in the last week. a talking to him about the situation in georgia, he has said that the accusations of georgia dream is made about the west interfering is not true. and she says, george's perm remains towards the renewal up in the you does not oblige. europe offers paving the way for equal partnership prosperity and common values.

europe does not intimidate, does not use threats. the whole europe does not seek to so chaos. europe does not seek to destabilize or subjugate its neighbors. through war or hybrid means that you does not dictate what national interests are in particular respects the territorial integrity of georgia. well, the e u is wielding power if it lists members of georgia dream on its sanctions on monday. that is exactly what it is. do we know the baltic states have already made the non social sanctions to some members of the ruling policy full reading? so it wouldn't be a surprise if we do see those names on monday as we understand the realities. now, we are about 2 weeks away from when the presidential office should be doing with the incumbent, giving to the newly elected president. that could be a pinched point. because the question then is, will that be a constitutional standoff pay in the country in a series? how will you react to that and we'll do is back on says,

and respect the solver and interests of georgia. it seems from what we've been hearing. it was party shot of to been city into police. and now charlotte said there it's on likely brussels will recognize the election as they had called the results of illegitimate, even before the process started. and we will take back to the european parliament and our member states a dramatic message requiring immediate action. it is our firm belief that the recent parliamentary elections can not be recognized. the new parliament was inaugurated in breach of a stablish george and rules and procedures. in such a context, the election of a new president would lack legitimacy more over the level of repressions against citizens and independent journalists is unprecedented. and unacceptable. the you should immediately introduce sanctions against all those leading political figures who played a role in orchestrating the democratic backsliding, severe election violations, and a brutal violence against hundreds of peaceful protesters. well,

we heard from leading figure at the global policy institute, the think tank, george zamarelli who sees the western approach to georgia is mired with double standards. the west has made it a habit to recognize only those elections that result in the pro western candidates winning even though those elections are clearly uh, fraudulent. the case in point was that a re election in mold over a few weeks ago of my assigned to an hour. you know, the west has thrown me its way behind a, a, a, a french woman posing is a georgia. some of them is, are a bit really, was openly advocating violence, openly calling for protest in the street, overturning a democratic election. and essentially that one of the western powers are supporting a woman. her super say, i'm not going anywhere. i'm just going to stay in the presidential palace this off to over to that we'd heard about how we supposed to recognize the democratic

process in a peaceful transfer about when it came to what happened in the united states. okay. and another country with that fast escalating situation, syria and another statute of former president fees. a side has been poor and done by the hate to us is the most group which no rooms large suites of the nation. the bus to all of the father of recently hosted by charlotte, sad could be seen being destroyed by militants on civilians in the vicinity of the muskets university. multiple similar monuments of being removed by cries all over the country in recent days. meanwhile, is really war planes have reportedly attacked targets in the vicinity, all the serious capital striking military installations near the city and surrounding country side. i had all that idea of shelling, target a 2 ports in the countries northwest come. so there's really growing forces already

operating in the so called buffer. so this idea flooded shows it's the latest actions against reported government military positions of what is real is seeking to control are roughly 400 square kilometers, demilitarized zone in serene territory. it's a un designated area created after the 1973 are a visual in the war. and this being patrol by united nations troops since following the cool president assad last weekend. the idea postcard rates across the buffer zone is preparing to dig in for some time due to what is happening in syria and there is enormous security. important to are holding onto the peak of mountain herman. everything must be done to ensure the idea of readiness on site in order to allow the fighters to stay there in severe weather conditions. well, it's really actions have sparked international condemnation with accusations flying about see spar violations, unexplored thing, the chaos in this area to grump tara trick. this is one reaction heard from

a senior un official about the breach of international justin in recent days in syria, a destruction of the syrian air force when they're on node pilots. 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 to preventively or preemptively disarm a country. you don't like, i mean, if that were the case, it would be a recipe. 5 global chaos because lots of countries have groceries they would like to see that without without weapons. and this is, this is completely flawless, that there is absolutely no basis in an international law or to do a germany in the united states supply. 99 percent of the weapons exported to israel, they could stop this conflict of a nice us research or, and politician. chris allow a who served with the syrian people as defense units on forth against islamic state

. there gave us says take on why israel seems to be operating with impunity in the region. the and i do believe that there is some evidence to point to the fact that i have to grow something. right? yes. have had some maybe back door agreements with the is really are seem that allowed it to carry out the operations that it did, whether it be intelligence or other i'm i'm not sure exactly the full extent. regrettably, i think that the city and state as we know it, as we have known it, at least for the past 50 or so years, is no more. i think that what we are actually going to see is a possible partition of syria with a part of the south that's going to be under the control of israel, part of the north, which is going to be controlled by to get. and then we might see little statements that emerge within syria given the security intentions and differences between out

of the white space in drew's cards. and of course the sydney. so i think that the, there's a great concern here that we're going to see a process like we did in yugoslavia or libya today of bulk innovation. and i think that's the great concern with the states as just as historic and as powerful as syria once was. we might see that overall dismembered at this point. and that's one of the tragedies of this uh, ongoing situation. well, my colleagues alice to see if a loved enough and make sure we both talk through the latest developments in syria in the studio or every day way harring updates about the israel's campaign against syria and military infrastructure ideas. even claiming that it has destroyed 80 percent of a solid submit a tree, might in order to prevent it from getting into the wrong hands. a will say, saying adf, moving in the buffers, an asset preparing to stay that over winter. and interestingly, the ruling

h t s. policy that is now in control of damascus has kept quite until now as state reported, please send a left to to the u. n. condemning israel, the legal occupation of south and syrian territory assessments that at a time when the syrian arab republic is witnessing a new phase in its history, in which its people are looking forward to establishing a state of freedom. the israeli occupation army has penetrated additional areas of syrian territory, coinciding with violent shelley, which is still ongoing, targeting a number of civilian and military sites in damascus and various parts of syria. the syrian arab republic condemns in the strongest terms. this is riley aggression, which represents a serious violation of the 1974 this engagement agreement. it also constitutes a violation of the suffering teeth of the syrian arab republic and the unity and integrity of its territories, and is inconsistent with the principles and purposes of the united nations charter

to well, this last is clearly patched with some strong language against israel. and this is a shift because h t as previously maintained a pretty restrained stance as last week. the h t s folks pass and a claim that restoring security and services in the country is that top priority. and he does not mention anything about israel as a tax split system. so that can i get your reaction to these is really air strikes . we've had over 300. no, no, no. the low top priority is to restore security and services to revive civilian life and institutions of caffeine, newly liberated cities. there are many urgent parts of the day to day life to restore the bakeries, electricity votes, communications. so all priority is to provide those services to the b that's and that's the only, yeah, i understand it's not your priority. what are you honestly telling me that you have nothing to say about israel striking 300 sites in this country?

hello. let's check on the whole unit, so i have no doubts. we want everyone to respect the sovereignty of the new syria. this point is very important to us. all of this clarity doesn't much the last to, to the un, the claims that they've ongoing child they've undergoing the transformation costing themselves as freedom fighters and defenders of syria. a h t s. chief delani previously claimed himself that she has is not looking to start a with israel, as people tied out seeking for peace let's this means as well. yes, syria will not enter into a new war with israel. the country is not ready for another war. our biggest threat was hezbollah, steer ronnie, and back to militias in syria and the regime and of on this. so such um, cools for pays from him. a clearly not convincing as we know about his paws. so this led to his client is just to show off it and since taking control, what's the reality on the grounds, while the h t s position themselves as freed the slightest,

as that trying to whitewash that cost. but we have to keep in mind the h t s a mesh from the all new storefront, and there are 3 interesting sites to mention hand the 1st be why get them to pause the serious newest ortiz? i will put on tom military. john leslie works for the form of government, and um siri and state information service will say notes that such move is done to restore justice. and secondly, that is an on very slide to video circulating online at the moment of the h t. s. terrorists actually brutally arresting the she is in love, talk to you why she didn't see that on the screens right now. inside the h t s. chief delani who was also seen, he was also seen asking a woman to call that her head during a life tv. and he's during his interview with cnn, he actually claimed that his, his views have become more moderate from, from what we're seeing. his views stay the same over the years. yeah. can you

remind our viewers about oh, jolanda is passed while gilani despite being the leader of the higher w, i'll show him a minutes and group that emerge from the i'm mr. fond, he's also a full month by says, and i'll call you to see any lead to on a key sega in syria and civil war. and the us state department back in 2013. actually titled him as specially designate as the label terrorist due to his ties with outside of us. he plays a role in setting up a tax that resulted in my civilian casualties. under delani is combined. all new storefront also became and famous was using extreme violence, encouraging suicide bombings. kids now things um executions. well, and so engaging in bottles against all the syrian groups. chris slowly again say he's there are conflicting text within the h t s t r risk group itself and how to handle wester's as well. i think it's,

it's very interesting that the, this, this, the new see it again into a government has used this type of language where we have not heard the same kinds of nations from damascus itself. i think that it basically reveals the to many of us that there's still ongoing contradictions. we've been this new interest from governments that there is no unified message for unified understanding of what's going on. and that there's still reports coming out. that there are mixed alliances and, uh, you know, persuasions within the interim government from different affections that have not yet fully co, a less, around a unified understanding of the only the is really actions. now in terms of the bombardments but of their overall relationship with israel. and other regional states, as someone who has spot in syria and i thought there in 2017, a long side current fish, a city and out of army and the russian forces. i'm deeply concerned about this attempt to whitewash height depth without some distance. it's about a distance,

it's from it's, it's not make state and outside of root. and ultimately to be a, to play into a type of historical revisionism where they tried to portray of july and in other h t s. leaders as somehow freedom fire enters secular and democratic when they are its limits and that they want to study a lot. they are part of the strain of why be and self ism which is deeply of concerning to me and to many others who fought to preserve the secular and democratic nature of the city and state. so i think that it's, uh, it's something that's quite shocking, but the rapid way in which the western media and western countries have gone about this only reveals the fact that they were actually supporting these forces from the beginning. and we know that to be the case, instead of saying that this is the 1st time in history, that okay, that has taken over a country and is now in the leadership of a government. they are simply trying to and these are freedom fighters,

moderate rebel as a reformed rebels. they change their opinions. i don't think you can go from jumping heads up to being the all peace and love. we did a span of a few years. yeah, it's extraordinary how that fact is being put to the side. is that okay? big news from sol this saturday as well. the side korean president has been impeached on this now suspended from office. the national assembly voted almost $2.00 to $1.00 against the union suki over meaning and power. his life, the leader of the ruling party, has pledged and mixed ability to focus on except the result with a heavy heart to him. i will write the wrong with the south korean people and protect the countries constitution and democracy. my judgment was that the suspension of the president's duty was urgent. i only thought of the country and people during that process. i don't regret it. the constitutional court must not confirm the decision which is likely to end you in this presidential term. officials have a 180 days to decide whether to dismiss the leader or restore him as head of state

or the, or this non president, june, and posed martial law under pretext of protecting democracy. and move last it only a few hours. a side prince took to the streets and protests. both parliament voted to block the order, the opposition as called for union to be held accountable. despite his apologies a to our family or to join the town, i earnestly plead with you to come together on the path to defend south korea, which has been defended by blood and sweat and our democracy. i will fight with you until the end. i want to apologize once again to the south korean people who were shocked and concerned with martial law declaration mean please trust in my sincerity to use it on the suspension of the rebellion leader use suki all is just the 1st step and resolving the crisis. we will ensure that the impeachment of human suki all gets approved to cut them. we will not use our vigilance plates until a thorough investigation is conducted to uncover the full scope of the incident. and those involved and those responsible are punished due to the political

earthquake combs that made the president's following approval rating, which was 41 percent at the beginning of his term node. felt the less than half the figure head of a short lived martial. lo attempt before collapsing to its current level of 11 percent, and shortly after the part of the votes demonstrators down the right side, the building to celebrate the presidents impeachment. although the decision to ice, the conservative figure has garnered, which mixed reaction on the street. we do not think this is the end. we believe this is just the beginning for us to fight in any way possible. we, the freedom loving citizens believes that the president has this confidence because there is clear evidence of election food or some other reason behind it. i am happy, the impeachment was passed. i hope that the constitutional court will impeach the president, so people's lives can be normalized up to the mazda citizen. i am happy in touch.

they followed people's will and in peach duty, and i want to see use to kill being removed from office as soon as possible. what already are we spoke with a leading figure of the korean study center of russia's academy of science. he sees the country finds itself in a political crisis as both the incumbent leader and head of the opposition find themselves facing difficult legal baffled this thoughts. each task you are real grounds for accusations against the president, since you allegedly tried to arrest members of parliament while it is parliament, it should have approved martial law. in many ways, even suki all would prefer impeachment instead of resignation. he wants to explain his motives to the constitutional court and prove that there was nothing illegal in his actions, however, is more likely to be suspended after his resignation. early presidential elections will be scheduled and held, and here we must immediately pay attention to the fact that it is beneficial for conservatives to delay this whole process. while the democrats, on the contrary,

will do their best to carry out the new elections as soon as possible. the thing is that use suki always main rival opposition leader lead jame young is involved in a number of criminal cases related to corruption and abuse of power. if the supreme court proves him guilty, he will lose both his deputy status and the opportunity to engage in political activity for 5 years. as soon as the opposition leader received his 1st suspended sentence with 4 more sentences ahead, it became clear that the differences between him and the president or not political but personal either the criminal justice system will imprison the leader of the opposition on real charges for the opposition will impeach the president. the president decided to cut the gordian knot, but did it extremely unsuccessfully and is now seeing the full range of consequences, but he intends to fight to the end. the fears of another resource war are lingering in the air prices of a little known mineral on too many types sword, 3 fold in just the year. the semi metals rise has overtaken gold, silver,

and even bit cut in that period. it's used in the production of bullets and other weaponry as well as critical semi conductors that poses a problem for the us as washington does not produce significant amounts of on to many relying mainly on in ports with most of its source from china. but earlier this month, paging bottom, the exports solve that meth lloyd to the us in response to an american product on, on china's computer chip industry. selected for tub restriction comes as trade tensions between the super powers estimate, financial and political ties of being particularly screen since 2018. when vin president trump began setting carlos and other trade barriers on paging the by the administration, follow the practice, i think even more levies. chinese goods were trying to best canadian blogger under list alex reporter for inc, told r t, that nature was involvement in ukraine, means the block has defeated their supply of the mineral, which boats trouble for its leading member. is one of the largest uh,

we'll call it a borders for countries that need it is america, which there is a scarcity around america. so it's uh, this is why we're starting to see a mass of rise and price. this is going to play a major role and i am almost certain, the new coming administration in the united states. the trump administration, are probably well aware that this situation is going to be a hot topic coming up in january. and as we see america probably trying to have this conflict completely shut down shortly after the trump ministration takes control of the white house. we are going to see the mother of all tre. morris coming up here. you 2025. this is a supply chain issue. for the united states, they need to keep producing to actually help out their nato countries who have depleted their ammunition here. uh, over the last couple of years against the,

you know, the ukraine or it will call it using need to is a proxy against russia. this is backed by or america thought that there was an endless supply of antimony, an endless supply of other materials that make this uh, you know, these materials, these weapons as well. they're running into a big problem. all right, the big question right now, what the allies next friend bustled syria? will it survive as an independent states? or will the ancient civilization be broken off by opposing forces? both local and foreign admin political science scholar john mearsheimer offers his take on that next and going under the

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