[000:00:00;00] the, the, the west bank, this hill, fast ahead repair to 5000000000 besides the prostate jesus solemnly small present today is the backdrop of young cutting as rainy assaults on the palestinian people . very, a christmas tree and a large table fit. all this news that's fine, proposed to me by h t. s. next is limits hot spots to mass out wage among christians. the reaction from the syrian want us to officials from says the nation has been that the never received the from the west, or we have always faith,

especially if you would endorse years. it is if it was event for the be done for us to curve out to persecution of cushions and targeting tea. a crane in parliament is reported. reset to approve controversial plans to trump 18 year old. as kids, horses continue to suffer losses on the passing field, the palo from most go to will welcome to myself, the whole team hit our h q as always, thanks for choosing. well, christmas is a very special day for billions of believe us, and especially so in best to have why the story of jesus began. but this is subdued celebrations in westbank city, overshadowed by the ongoing war in garza as what is,

is raise the rates across the palestinian territories. but i'll mentally stuff your shift with the notion that is in bethlehem itself. i mean, maria, we know it's all and it's the 2nd christmas the since the gospel who erupt. busy for a year ago. so really if you could just give us a sense of the mood on the street. well, hello to you. first of all, it's midnight here. ahead and i can officially now congratulate you merry christmas . and yes, we are in best. let him, polly students fits in the occupied westbank believed to be the birthplace of jesus christ. and traditionally, of course, the heart of christmas celebrations for millions and millions of questions around the world. but tonight it's hard to find any sign of passivity. here the manger square behind me usually dominated by a towering bright elite. beautiful christmas trees fence. there are no tree, no lies,

no decorations. typically the square is full of vendors selling straight food, a gift children running around pilgrim singing carols, taurus, so clean in this period of the holidays. now it's all gone for the 2nd here in the road. bethlehem has cancelled as christmas celebrations. and the reason of this thing they wore in garza and has cost a dark shadow, opens palestinians in the west bank. and here in bethlehem, who say guys is all like family to them. brothers and sisters who's suffering is deeply shared. church leaders and local officials council system, which is as an act of solidarity with those and guys, endearing, unimaginable hardship with more than $45000.00 lives lost in the palestine, and in slave, and thousands and thousands more wounded or missing. the grief is in tens earlier, and the catholic church is less than patriot. who is attending the midnight mess at

the church of the tv to to night, which is right in front of me. he visits a gaza, here's what he said for his return. i just saw, i guess somebody from guys, a 5, so 5 . 0 so so so you also we also mentioned the size of a sudden please don't be afraid to concert our life. and next, the biggest piece must free a message of hope in a time of overwhelming devastation. this is bethlehem story, this 1st semester, story of sorrow and grief and resilience smoke celebrations. i was hearing

bethlehem 2 years ago during the 1st christmas off to colvin globe downs. and the square i have to tell you, and the c t looks very different back then. i want you to take a look now. we're finally invest. let him. if mother mary would make it here today, she would find the state to reach 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 earlier his really prime minister benjamin netanyahu addressed restrictions worldwide banking band for support in israel's fight against what he called the forces of april. yet for palestinians. here in bethlehem as well as all across the west bank and beyond and guys of christians and muslims netanyahu. and he's aggressive. paula says all seeing as the source of they are suffering earlier, we spoke with some people here about beaver's speech. palestinians refused to talk on camera for security reasons, adding,

it's not hard for ideas to come here and arrest sense, but they told us they believed. nathan, yahoo is the evil one. some foreigners who share their vision allowed us to record them. let's take a listen. please trying to get the christian votes from like the western world, from your phone, from the us, but also like the christians here and they don't feel safe. they don't feel like they can celebrate christmas. and the way that they should be able to, as a christian, i believe in fees, and i believe you know, $1000.00 goals. i b as in love because i just clicked, it tells us that love you, your neighbors love yourself. and i just realized that the only lights and the square of flashing from police cars security is very tight with more officers visible here than civilians. the atmosphere is very tens reflecting. they broke the

security situation all across the west bank that is marked by escalating violence and deepening divisions. takes the northern city of janine, for example, a long time center of resistance to is really occupation that is an golf in conflict with questions. this time ranging between forces loyal to the palestinian authority and milton grove saying who the mass and his loving jihad, who accused the p, a of collaborating with the israel, palestinian authorities, responds with deadly raids. gunfire and explosions have become daily routine. their living residents for up to the cycle of fear and violence and beyond security. the west bank economic crisis is defending unemployment, has claimed, unbelievably, above 25 percent. and many families are struggling to make ends meet. and some parents here earlier told us they didn't bring the children to the square these here as they can not even afford a balloon. the cancellation of christmas celebrations has put another burden on the

local economy, which is obviously evelyn, depending on torres, some hotels are empty in the water. we are staying tonight. we are the only guess shops shot at and the mood is one of despair. here's what some people we manage to speak earlier, a told us about the mood. it's going to be hot. it especially here because every, every year i came to here as a citizen of the, with the him. on the i see i know 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 the still wish. and so i yeah, i just wish to finish this was because the still isn't the is mazetti 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 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. i moved a little bit so that you could see the entrance to the church inside these walls. christmas isn't completely from boston. this is weird. christmas survives in quiet moments of prayer within the walls of the nativity church. the midnight mess has just started. hundreds of people have gathered inside already. you can see they're lining the outside of trying to get in right now. how is teen is some foreigners inside there? is this frank draw sense of peas,

a stark contrast to the turmoil outside of which is see people's faces, all this smiling and they're happy. so in this moment they're reading as a sub moment of gaza, full pallets tie, but what they try to find force encourage to to be happy. and even here are the ways of gaza and this trundles across the west bank. all it is capable gets people gather lights and candles, whispering prayers, hoping that next christmas maybe my bring and brightest story and of course to everyone. so raising tonight, merry, merry christmas from bethlehem in palestine policy, middle east peer or chief marissa north. so many thanks much i will just on to syria. now, what a christmas tree has been set on fire and agree cool. saltzman georgetown, sulky outrage, video online showed men twitching at the front of

a simple local media have pointed. the thing that fights is affiliated with the highest of some tara squared, the recent macy's power. well, this comes just a week off. the government opened fire on a greek orthodox judge in the nearby city of hama, causing significant damage to the building. christians have responded by staging mass protests in damascus. hundreds of demonstrate as much through the streets of the capital, taunting slogans in carrying crosses. assets toppling government had previously sold to protect their is religious and ethnic minorities in the country. but since the age ts medicine is to codify that has been an optics in religious me know 20 to the top. my quoted, you know, neil's spoke with mother superior of the ministry of sin, james and mutilated in syria. agnes mariam to the cost says it's a dog time for the nations christian community. lucille is that there is

a security, at least the us that we can say is it varies in security. and this guy and the of the is attempt to of aggression. you know, isn't that the, on the 2 bedroom, the material and the 3 it is burning. i would agree that i suppose it's a burning. i'm afraid it's burning with joy. it's burdening, 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 uh, i would have, uh, you know, how is it someone that is in control of the situation with the give a statement and as always, the, my,

my experience in celia is this. see, the reality is always forgot to in the media. they speak when they want to shit to show it would be, you know, the testing. i am talking about domestically media with these interesting for them . but what the people of the, in syria i'm leaving mean doesn't matter. it's not on the for the commission that has been a lot of good news against other minorities. you see what, how does the christian community currently receive from the west might be uh, we have the 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 euro 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 still the cost of good. is it the least organization? you know it's, it's a situation like this piece of the nick situation and we, we, we don't rely on the pro dixon from the west. and i'd be glad to say it. i met mounting law says on the battlefield. ukraine is looking for ways to feed it spinning and then that tree

rights analysis report to the way, cuz in cube, or in the final stages of making a decision on whether to send 18 year olds to the frontline noise to store the news that the draft law on lowering the mobilization h 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. it is already the norm, so mobilization from the age of 18 will simply be another of the lensky is tools aimed at destroying the ukrainian people to really well. there's quite a bit of mixed messages coming out of ukraine. first, most media in the country 1st, they have once again sounded the alarm that this mobilization age could be and is about to be lowered to 18 years of age. and that the bill that don't introduce it

is already that it has already been drafted. it is within the rules of the ukrainian parliament and it is only up to a political decision as to be to put it up for the vote and to introduce it publicly. at 1st, the grading and media of a site as a representative would be 17 to pull top a brigade on them. it could be just wishful thinking of a competent who has founded him self on the front lines. amid a massive shortage of manpower in the trenches, but then a ukrainian m p a has confirmed these free is basically cooperating. does that claim and his voice message, you've already, you've already listened to a boss of it, the voice message that he has posted on his official telegram channel. at the same time that had been voice is coming from another 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 old on ukrainians to to verify sources that they are using. in this alex, a good chit in guy has a code and basically reiterated the message that has been repeatedly sent to the ukrainians by incidents. 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 the 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 dropped age, it has uh, hopefully said that they put the support ukraine. and of course, the decision to lower the age of mobilizations that would be met by london will quite favorably getting younger people into the fight. we think many of us think is necessary. right now. 18 to 25 year olds a lot in the fight. our view has been that there's not one weapon system that makes a difference in this battle. it's about manpower and ukraine needs to do for and are due to firm up its lines in terms of the number of forces it has on the front lines. we need to make it easier for the ukrainians to access, and we need to work with the ukrainians to help them motivate and mobilize more recruits. now key of a has being repeatedly trying to sweep under the rug, the uncomfortable truth about the forceful mobilization. because people are quite

outraged at the draft officials at the dropped offices who roam the streets in their vans. they pursue people. these 2 people, even in one of the videos that has the most lately a young male arrived in a taxi to his house. and it was on one of the cc tv cameras. it showed a van, well, creeping up behind about the taxi, and as soon as the young male exited the cart and tried to wells with please, uh, he was, uh, well, he had a quite foss pays towards the door towards uh, into his apartment building. well, you could see dropped, office is chasing him and well mobilizing it was clear that that man was not to sadly a volunteer. and that have been ever such a videos emerge every day and sometimes, and quite often they all violent drop the offices the use for the beat people up.

they have even lately gotten the approval to shoot people on site in case the life is in danger. the on the, the, the, that video does not suggest in any way that the life over that particular dropped office. it was in danger and still a one life was through all that man in the video he was killed now. so it does suggest that the excessive force that sadly some of these dropped off is that they are happy to use excessive force and basically do everything. is our power to welcome script as many males now as possible because according to some reports, many of them are threatened that if they do not meet a certain criteria, if they do not meet a certain number of cost groups, uh they are threatened that they themselves would be sent to the front line ukraine

right now, basically, script of any sort of advantage and any sort of leverage when it comes to. when it comes to negotiations. ukraine could potentially try and dropped in cost scripts as well as tens of thousands, if not hundreds, of thousands of new people, of a new view, conscripts to basically try and do something akin to what they did in russians could, is region because definitely they did hope that that's foothold that they had initially gained and brushes cool course grades and that that was the upper hand that they had during these negotiations. but since then they have already lost move and a half of the territory that they had that they initially took a to control of and they keep losing more and more every day. so that this could be the lowering of this age of the dropped age. could be ukraine's way to the basically final attempt to,

to do something big and to try and get at least some leverage on russia. well, rush of better be ready for russia has been welcomed by a series of sabotage. incidents carried out by civilians has been shipped by stainless, reportedly from ukraine and what appears to be a highly coordinated campaign, a number of citizens. the theme dissuaded to set fire to police causes while the some government on bank offices or to correspondent. i'm just to say that alternate has more details. well, it seems like you crane continues to operate inside russia through recruitment. and just as of today, we had over a new case always 66 year old pension, s setting fi at to a police call. i mean, particularly through the 2, most of cocktails under it and a well, it happened in central moscow near about and to be precise. it was near auto bought russian internal affairs ministries, department,

and the fire was quickly extinguished, no casualties worth while reported. and i'm a part of the or the, according to the available information the mind of got to the. 7 right, a he drove that in his call and at the last moment he changed his mind because of us. he was supposed to throw the molotov cocktail of the actual building. but then obviously he changed his mind on through the, the cocktail onto the police call. according to the available information, the mind was 65 years old and he was recruited by phone scam us. the mine was later on detained and i'm going to repeat myself, but the fight was extinguished, no casualties were reported. and this is just not one case that we've had also saw that was not the case in russia setup a hub, where a present set of fi to fi works in a shopping center as a result of which the vistas, how to be evacuated and no casualties. were reported, but apparently, according to the preliminary data,

the woman was 77 years old and she acted on the ukraine's guidance. that was another case in a rush as tool. why, a 66 year old woman was detained and she used pyrotechnic products inside a fine coal fish. and she later on confessed, or she was in fact recruited by scammers. and us. com was actually persuaded her that it's a special operation to against those who made her lose her money. the, the natural gas prices also checking on your a pen markets, a head open, expected shut down, open ports via ukraine at the end of the year. almost besides, it's ready to keep pumping cube refuses to lot more russian fuel flow to west and consumers. lots of european gas results are reportedly being drained of the false just rate since 2022 or the contributor rachel often breaks down the and

for the last couple of years, the us been relying on filling up its gas reserves, heading into the winter time bragging about it, how they have so much and then applying the brilliant strategy and just pray that the weather won't be too cold and resulting too much withdraw. so e u countries have been battling the block on this, trying to get it through their wash rains that purchased signaling for zalinski won't actually keep their countries economically afloat. and zalinski is neither. by the way, he has a very sweet gig where all the ready has to do is sit there and watch russian gas flow through the pipes across you crate and get paid by moscow to do it gets he doesn't want to stick it to put in by taking his money for transferring gas to europe. so now he's going to just stick it to the you by making them pay more of his business. she'll. she'll just, we'll watch one more thing about slovakia. there's been many questions from journalists about fits those trip to moscow. in fact, after our conversation in brussels, in the presence of all european leaders, nothing surprises me anymore. and we are fighting for our lives,

or if it's so is fighting for money and hardly for slovak is money. so these are shadow agreements with pollutants use, either trade of state interests or working for personal gain fits so mean did not want compensation for the slovaks, and he does not want to cooperate with the european commission. for some reason, he finds moscow more profitable, everyone in europe understands why there is no one who doesn't understand the world bank estimates this month of this, that russian pipeline gas is cut off, which is expected to be early in the new year. then the entire block will have to figure out a way to compensate for the loss of about 5 percent more of its total supply. and they'll have to get it from liquefied natural gas suppliers like the u. s. which of proven comparatively much more expensive. and that's the kind of thing that fits so says he blind zelinski to try to grasp instead of his magic mass of 0 gas plus 0 gas equals one. who really cares because the tax payers will pay for whatever mass has to be cleaned up. anyway, in my meeting today was

a response to ukrainian president zalinski who answering my personal question on thursday, said that he was against any transitive gas through ukraine to our territory. the ukrainian president is also in favor of sanctions against russia's nuclear program . such attitudes, financially harm slovakia and threatened the electricity production in nuclear power plants in slovakia, which is unacceptable. so hungry is one country that is not in the same kind of a bind because it gets it's russian gas transit through turkey and has resisted committing on that front. an act of self harm and cutting itself off as proof of love for zalinski. and on top of having refused to renounce on russian gas for hungry through turkey, through turks, stream, or bonds. also trying to make a deal with moscow, m t f to keep the gas flowing through ukraine to and as fruits and said last week, he's not the one setting these you countries off and economic class. ok, and it be

a crew of ukraine has cut off our guest supplies to european consumers. on the one hand, it picks from their hands because only with the support of the west, including from europe, can it exist not only to fight, but to exist. and at the same time, it creates problems for them by cutting off the supply of our relatively cheap gas to europe. there will be no such contract at all. everything is already clear. well then all right, we will survive. and guess problem was advised this. well hey, maybe the you edwards can just turn even more to places like tucked our to make up the shortfall and gas supply. oh, but only if they're willing to pay carbon emissions fines on that gas to the you as a sort, as you virtu, signaling tax, which cut are, will probably be totally cool about right. if the cases that i lose 5 percent of my generated revenue by going to europe, i will not go to europe. i'm not bluffing. 5 percent of generated revenue of guitar

. energy means 5 percent of generated revenue of the guitar state. this is the people's money. so i cannot lose that kind of money and nobody would accept losing that kind of money. excuse you also excuse you for the fact that the you wants to know whether your gas is climate friendly and how big exactly it's carbon footprint is. and whether that carbon footprint is maybe big enough to beat your behind and shake loose some spare change from your pockets. right now the you is desperate and hitting everyone out for gas have those. but with the attitude of someone who's browsing a high end boutique on the shelves, that he's a right here and there's speaking to us from doe hawk atari media consultant miscommunications professor ali ohio said brussels radio and he has itself to blame for the adults energy crisis. a b o is the countries that have been relying on the category guys,

the categories has been surprised by the use of countries. busy requests to, to put the kind of a tower over 5 percent on the importing the category guys, also because of the limited the supply of guys over from russia because of the russian, the ukranian that a dispute uh, the europeans uh, to get to a sufficient amount uh, of guys to freight to encounter this severe winter and nothing get to be compared to the ocean. get us. uh, a gas uh very expensive. um the united states is uh, uh, far away from uh, europe city jewel,