of the c westbank city, old bachelor, hadn't repaired $5000000.00. the pass space of jesus proposed to solemnly mock christmas again to box up with the old gutting. is radius told, on the promised ran syria a christmas tree and the logs we will sit all the city is set on fire, reportedly by h t. s. like is the most about fox mass outrage among chris to get reaction from the syrian monday, especially. it says the nation as soon as the never received the paper from the west, we have always faith, especially during those years. it was even for the be the

for us to curve out to persecution of cushions targeting teen ukrainian. parliament is for both of these set to approve countries also planned to dropped 18 year old. as poll says, continue to self analysis on the boston, the color for most myself, the whole team head, all teens. h q. well, come into the program next to keep me company. well, christmas says we know is a very special day for billions of belief is, and especially so invested to have well, the story of jesus began. but this is some tune celebrations in the west bank city, overshadowed by the own gutting wall in garza, as well as his way he wades across the palestinian territories while one across the live. now to a middle east or chief marissa nelson who's actually in best lab itself. uh,

laurie, it's the 2nd christmas of cool stuff since the gods award dropped it over a year ago. i just took us through. what's it like for locals at the moment? what step step i a good evening to you. well we are now in bethlehem. a palace, students sitting in the occupied west bank believe to be the birthplace of jesus christ. and traditionally, of course, the heart of christmas celebrations for millions of questions around the world. but to night it's hard to find any sign of passivity. the major square behind me usually dominated by a towering, brightly leaf christmas tree stands empty. no tree, no lies, knew the corporations. typically the square is alive with vendors selling food or gifts. children running around now it's all gone. no pilgrims thinking carols or

taurus, so pinning the period of the holidays for the 2nd year in a row. bethlehem has 10 sold as christmas celebrations. the reason of this, they the ongoing war. and guys, i'm has cost a dark and have a shadow of, of palestinians who say dozens, i'll expand believe for them, brothers and sisters who was suffering as deeply shared church leaders. and local officials decided to counsel festivities as an act of totally dev, retain. with those in guys, in during unimaginable hard shape with more than 45000 lives lost in the probably seen in clave and thousands more wounded or missing. the grief here is in tens earlier on the catholic church as late in patriarch who will attend the midnight mass of the church of the tv. here that is in front of me visited guys i'm and here's what he sat upon his return. let's take a listen. i guess somebody from guys a 5, so it

will so so so your so we on so man to size the sign is the sun please don't be afraid to console our life. and next the biggest trees must 3 as well. a message of hope in a time of over whelming of a station. this is bethlehem story. this christmas. the story of sorrow and resilience not celebrations. earlier is really prime minister or benjamin ethan. yeah. home address. questions, world wide. thanking them for supporting israel spy to gaze would heat cold the forces of evil yet for palestinians? here in bethlehem, as well as in gaza and old from the west bank christians all muslims. nathan,

yahoo! and his policies are seen has the source of their suffering. the hardships they do are, and even the cancellation of christmas celebrations were the way i was here. invest that him in this very and the square 2 years ago during the 1st christmas after called they'd love downs and the square looked very different. back then, i want to take a look now we're finally invest, let him. if mother mary would make it here today, she would find the city of rich be decorated for christmas and full of celebrating crowds for the 1st time in 3 years. the town believe to be the birthplace of jesus accepts christians from all over the globe. now it's really the only lights and the square of flushing from police cars security is tight with more officers visible than civilians who can see a group of them right behind me. the atmosphere is tends for reflecting the bro,

the security situation. well, just things the guys on the street, but overall the west bank marked by escalating violence and defending divisions. the northern city of janine a long time center of resistance to is really occupation isn't golf and conflict right now is this very moment and clashes there at this time range between forces loyal to the palestinian authority and notes into groups including her mazda and islamic jihad, who accuse the ph all killable rating with israel gone, fire and explosions have become routine. they're leaving residue is trapped in a cycle of fear and violence and is growing tears. hyundai scores, the palestinian administration struggle to maintain control. and of course, this is yet another reason for college students here not to be in the mood all celebrating the young security. the westbank economic crisis is worsening. unemployment has climbed above 25 percent, and many families as trundling to make ends meet. some parents told us they didn't

bring the children to the square this year as they just can't afford a balloon. so the cancellation of christmas celebrations has dealt another blow to the local economy, which have only depends on tories hotels, r m t. we just texting and one in here in bethlehem and we were the only guests in that hotel. schultz shot to the mood is one of despair. and here's what some locals told us earlier about the move to night. so it's gonna be hard, especially here because every, every year i came to here as a citizen of the, with the him. on the, i see, i look the separation of people from different the countries it today. i think in nearly multiple years, we are not so very thing to hear from because that's the wish. and so i yeah, i just wished to finish this was because the still isn't the is misery and i,

i hope people came here again next year, maybe. uh on saturdays uh with the people here. definitely not in the mood to celebrate this year. not last year. it was one of my favorite periods. it's throughout the whole year. i would look forward to this period because it would be so full. you would see. so many people, again, it's itself so spiritual and so celebratory. and today it's empty. i know, at least for me, i can't imagine myself celebrating. no, no, not any time soon. so i can imagine that most people are feeling very similarly inside these walls. the christmas isn't completely for golf, not move the little bit to let to suit better. this is way christmas survives in quiet moments of prayer within the walls of the nativity church. the midnight mass didn't start yet, but hundreds of people have already gathered inside palestinians and his name group

all foreigners, including some workers from the philippines who came here tonight from israel, where they worked inside the res. this frank draw sense of peace, a star contrast to the turmoil outside and even here are the weight of gaza and this trundles across. the west bank are inescapable. yet people gather lights and candles, whispering prayers, and holding on to face. and the hope that next christmas may be my pre the brightest story for us to everyone is celebrating to nice merry christmas from bethlehem in palestine on maria, we appreciate you giving us a real sense of course of the grief from the pain, the on what all this he should be a day of celebration for so many believe us or around the world. those all team that needs be, are chief, were phenomenal speaking to us from better and i want to ton to syria. now what

a christmas tree has been set on fire, and the greek orthodox majority town sparking outrage video online showed man taught sing the holidays. simple. local media have pointed. the thing that fight is affiliated with the highest a fit of some terrace for the recent meet sees how was comes just a week off the government opened, find a refill the federal touch of nearby city of how long holding significant damage to the building. christians have responded by staging mess protests in dom us hundreds of demonstrates as march through the streets of the capital, taunting slogans and carrying crosses. as on top of the government had previous case thoughts to protect the various religious on ethnic minorities in the country . but since the h t s medicine is to clarify that has been an uptick in religiously motivated

attacks. like one of you know, neil spoke with mother superior of the one us 3 of some change the mutilated that's in syria. i can this maria until across says it's a dog time for the nations christian community. lucille is that there is a security, at least the last that we can say is it varies in security. and this guy and the of the attempt to of aggression you know, is not the only 2 but the material and the 3 it is burning. i would appreciate it. i suppose it's a burning. i'm afraid it's burning with joy. it's broadening, you know, the fees of the christmas me is the key of a lot of these guys. is it less for me for the us? it's in the sun. so i would have the, you know,

how is it someone that is in control of the situation? really the give a statement and as always, the, my, my experience in celia is this celia and the entity is always forgot in the media. they speak when they want to ship to show is that would be, you know, interesting i am talking about domestically media. what these interesting for them . but what the people of the league city i'm leaving mean doesn't matter. it's not on the for the commission that have been a lot of delays against other minorities you see what, how does the christian community currently receive from the west might be uh, we have never received the paper from the west to the

contrary. we have always faith, especially during those years. is that the it was the run for the be done for us to, to talk about the secure sion of cushions. are you wonder how your oh is it was not helping to secure the life of christian in the past is how now are they going to secure it when they are treating we use a, you know, h t s which is to cost you good as a total risk organization, you know it's, it's a situation like this piece of the new situation and we, we, we don't rely on the pro dixon from the west

and early today to say it over into laska sand from government has trying to get things into h t s, the, to the nations, to fax, over the album, how the del gilani, who now pulls himself estimate of shut off, has met with representatives of militant functions. the right time groups have agreed to despond and reform. now, taking orders directly from the syrian military, the acting prime minister has also said that a new army will reintegrate some former members of assets troops. lots waves of syria, however, remain under the control of other factions, including tuck is in fact, militants and the knolls and us supported cards for the east. also, it is right. the military has all supplied a buffer zone and southern syria citing security concerns. john,

lift down mcgrath the dot org as of march and j says syria hangs on the very fudge of yet. and that is a multi ethnic conflict of the americans. and these riley's follower is that if we don't bills, if they don't build a state of functioning states very, very quickly, then the worry is that some of these minority groups might form resistance and services and within a very, very short space of time. most of them was like a bush for you will have them and divided country with them. there is good fighting . one of the, i mean, let's get if, if it costs a month by a 2000 to $3.00, i'm one of the biggest would be the biggest mistake the bush administration made with american british soldiers entity rock is they refuse to pay the, but pay also them assumptions because they didn't set those soldiers who weren't been paid for right on time. literally just had an a k 47 on a couple of shackles in that pockets. and basically flipped to us, the rock and creates what was nice, a quote from outside or isis. and the wreck i seem to worry now is that if somebody

isn't done very quickly to pass together a functioning state, you know that there was a real risk that them history repeats itself. and the problem is, we've gotten out with syria is that when the countries so desperately pull as that, you know, the risk of uncertainty is very, very real. so he has to move quite quickly. one of the, you know, the easiest and simplest ways that you do that in a minute. country i'm off to ration is folding is you create a huge ami, a civil service, and police forces and you know, so you give them lots and lots of people, thousands of people job this almost every night uniforms. and that does take off the edge that creates a certain amount of security. meanwhile, the situation has unfortunately escalate to the northern syria where arrival for impacts millicent. groups of fighting for territorial control, passes abrupt it across that area, and that the collapse of the outside government tucker's box rebels have been trying to dislodge colleges. forces who are supported by the us and resolves

recently kept the case a t of mom, but that's how this government fully supports the fight against when it pulls codfish. terrorists. well, it's like, yeah, i'm part of the state this cause people have been locked in a bit. so conflict that stretch the decades cod despite is operating in series. knowles, have long de monte great or talking to me from both sign cross device. that's the talk, this military has launched multiple prost food operations against the cubs in recent years. washington, which i lied with the cubs a decade ago to flight i says has been trying to persuade and cra to hold back across the now. so how does on try bruno a risk of consulting those states on the list 6, i would not listen to this is an interesting one, because obviously we've basically got valuable proxy groups. yeah. out of pools proxy for both sides native nations. so once you make up

a slate to stop flare up, well, syrian has been the battle ground floor puts the floor, the, perhaps the water since at least 2011. and i think the seeds were safe, even earlier because the word terrorist attacks the mysterious origin in damascus. uh but uh right now. i mean, i think um, it should be noted that not is not only turnkey that does not want a courtesy state. and so they will like to go all kinds of resources and deciding the courage in syria. but neither do you rock or you run, because if a ticket state is found in the air, then the other to send me separate uh send me a tournaments, took its regions in iran and iraq. he wants to join that states to form an entire hoo. good, it's done. and so i think the good ministration

which has fomented and encouraged the wars in syria and elsewhere as we know, new grain. i think we'll continue to advise misguided policies and at the moment thing war, i think when the trump administration finally settles down and they will be at least this is the hope they will be some kind of re ordering of the entire situation for cleaning up a securing some kind of a piece in ukraine to stabilizing the situation, seen syria, which will mean the ending, the call finding a solution. however, that might look to it to the fighting in, in syria. i think that's illusion. we'll definitely, we'll have to be, i can't see any other way that turkey will probably take the territory the north

and is the will, will probably take the territory and of the south, leaving something in the middle for h t. s a. and it will probably have to shed a lot of it's as long as the skin and adapt. and i think uh, it looks like i'll gilani or sarah, as he calls himself, now, is already moving that direction. and that will involve him having to get rid of a lot of the foreign fighters that helps him to get to that place. so yeah, i mean, you told the about the tensions, the situation being stabilized on the trump. now course trump has now the hit and the fact that he's very proud of the fact that we us troops and still continue to beat boots on the ground. that why very, okay, don't spot it. we won't be oil. we secure the oil. that was what he said is

washington going to give up how over those resources as well the oil and more importantly, perhaps some of the week um, the food production was, um, uh is let's say uh, controlled by the us. i think the use was made more by the turks a to fund the, the very groups that managed to take over damascus. i mean, syria was stabilized for awhile, but it wasn't necessarily a peaceful place as the results are clear because the syria remains under the assad government was drowning in, in sanctions, and in all kinds of impediments to growth. so the situation was to retire and i, i, i'm not surprised that aside was totally advised to quit from both russia and the rock. but as far as us,

i think the pres trump is proud and he could slowly suggest that the treatment of over throwing the government is in part due to his and the, to his establishment of that. the base in syria that the control the flow of oil because that base was located along one of the main highways linking and syria to iran and it to, to rock and you run. so it, it not only control the oil. it also time for the delivery of the reunion weapons to syria, which could have gone to lebanon as well. so yeah, i think trump will, and he's spoken quite to with some respect is not at the ration, the president or the one. and i think i and maybe one is someone that the truck

will be looking to make a deal with it. so uh, i think once again the curves will be compromised just as they were at the treaty of 7. 1923. i think uh, and also coming to charges or the one will mean that the united states will have to come to terms with air, the ones, uh, uh, in the world view, which is he really wants to recreate some form of ottoman empire again. and if i were uh is where i live with the freight because they are the one has spoken in the past of reaching jerusalem, which of course was part of the ottoman empire until 1919. so everyone is intent on nothing less than re rising the uh, were sorry, a treaty that broke the, the ottoman empire. i think all i mean is interesting that you talk about how most

likely the cards are going to be thrown onto the boss. i think that is a sentiment that they've gotten held, especially another of trumps announcements. you know we've, we've got finished. all 5 says that was back in in 2019. and then some codes said, well, we've seen a band by washington. yes. again, this is a decades long story. what do you think this tells us generally about washington's reliability as a partner? oh, i think the world has realized that washington is not reliable in the least you can't . uh i'm, i'm, uh i, i'm trying to make a joke in my mind that's how to i might have for, but i can't find it. it's just not reliable. and i'm, i'm only surprised that people small for it. i mean, consider the water. we are in of guns that we had brought up. islam is who were used to draw in the soviet union a fight. the soviet union is supposedly weak. and as i was part of brzezinski,

great chessboard, and he wrote it in famous book and then uh we have nothing 11 and then just the consequences of the 911, which is the made enough guy, his son. and now once again, we have the tale button, which i have to direct to the sentence of those which i had these, that the united states propped up in 1979 back in power. so we have the us interests are always going to dominate and, and the people who take us a, a to do so only on a short term talk to us and then realize that that strategy is not going to work for the long term. i think of even just ices are so called ices, which have been defeated. so many times i've lost count is back in the news, but is the, the current leader of lead of syria was an isis or member at one point as well. so he, i think if he wants to hold onto power and, and secure some kind of syria,

i think he will be participating in any effort to get rid of so called ices or other rogue elements because there are many because so many of these biters are not syrian, they have no stake in a stable syria. they are just there for the. so i'm for ideology, many i think for money. and so, um, the situation is truly uh, explosive. right now we have, i think the com before the storm. but um, if its trump wants to avoid the uh, another, syria, a mess. he will definitely have to speak to everyone and agree to many of his terms which will include which will the terms which will revolve around securing the the now the, the north northern syria to prevent a 2 or a courtesy state from emergent. while you listen to alexandria and you want the son

of course, how complex the region is, one of the most definitely and religious going to have us nations in the region. i think this is a mess, said will take a very long time to untangle most of us andre bruno, our risk consultant at golf state on the 6th. thank you very much. thank you. amanda mounting last is on the battlefield of ukraine is looking for ways to feed it's sending a military reich's announce from pull to that no magazine cube or in the final stages of making a decision on whether to send 18 year olds to the front line. no, i stepped on to the news that the draft law on lowering the mobilization age to 18 has already been developed and is being kept within the walls of the very cove. nevada is true that this initiative has been in the presidential office for a long time. it has been in the work of neurotic for a long time. it's just waiting to be implemented. you and i have already seen how

the mobilization is going. it's breaking into a person's house, workplace, or killing people in a conscription center. so it is already the norm. so mobilization from the age of 18 will simply be another of zelinski is tools aimed at destroying the ukrainian people to really well. that's the quite a bit of mixed messages coming out of ukraine. first, most media in the country. first, they have once again sounded the alarm that this mobilization age could be and is about to be low would to 18 years of age. and that the bill that don't introduce it is already valid, it has already been drafted, it is within the walls of the ukrainian parliament. and it is only up to a political decision as to people to put it up for the vote and to introduce it publicly at 1st ukrainian media. they cited a representative with the 17th pole top a brigade on them. it could be just wishful thinking of a competent who has found itself on the front lines amid a massive shortage of manpower in the trenches, but then

a ukrainian m p a has confirmed these fee is uh, basically cooperating is that claim and his uh, voice message you've already, you've already listen to a boss of it, the voice message that he has posted on his official telegram channel. at the same time that have been voice is coming from an other ukrainian m. p a like segan gillian, who has been quick to jump to basically refused to claim that any such bill of this kind to exist so that this is a fake news. essentially, his goal during ukrainians to to verify source is that they are using interface like say get in guy has a code and basically reiterated the message that has been repeatedly sent to the ukrainians by use. and then there's a lot of discussion in the media about lowering the draft age for ukrainians to go to the front lines, we must focus on equipping existing brigades and training personnel to use this equipment. we must not compensate the lack of equipment and training with the youth

of soldiers, but all these denials they didn't come out of nowhere because the ukraine ends the landscape. personally, his retinue has been pushed quite vigorously towards lowering that age of obligation to 18 years of age. first and foremost by the united states defense secretary has been pushing ukraine to do that. or america secretary of state has been also very well pursue a very pursuit until this idea that ukraine should send well high school graduates to the front lines under the u. k. while it did not explicitly suggest that ukraine should lower its drop date, it has uh, hopefully said that it pulled the support ukraine. and of course, the decision to lower the age of mobilizations that would be met by london. well, quite favorably. getting younger people into the fight, we think many of us think is necessary. right now. 18 to 25 year olds. i'm not in the.