on the, the, the west bank this hill past the hadn't repaired to 5 billions the past place. jesus solemnly small. chris to be in the back top of the on cutting is really assault on the palestinian people. very uh, christmas tree and a large table fit all this used. that's fine. proposed to me by h t us next is we must not spots the mass out way too long. chris, tim, the reaction from the syrian want us to officials from says the nation has been passed. the never received the foot from the west and we have always faith, especially the door to use it. there was

a button for the people for us to come to persecution of cushions and targeting tea. a premium parliament is reported they set to approve controversial plans to trump 18 year old. as kids, horses continue to suffer losses all natasha. feel the kind of from most go to will welcome to myself, the whole team hit our h q as always, thank you 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 the west bank city, overshadowed by the ongoing war in garza, as well as is where the raids across the palestinian territories from at least us

bureau chief 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 it over 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 make nights here ahead and i can officially now congratulate you merry christmas. and yes, we are in bethlehem. poly student sits 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 christians 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 bare no tree, no lights, no decorations. typically the square is full of vendors selling street food,

a gift children running around pilgrim singing carols, taurus, so clean in this period on the holidays. now it's all gone for the 2nd here and there rose, bethlehem has cancelled is christmas celebrations. and the reason of this in the war in guys on has cost a dark shadow, opens colleagues to use in the west bank and here invest, let him who say gallons 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 in guys in during unimaginable hardship with more than $45000.00 lives lost in the palestinian and clave, and thousands and thousands more wounded or missing. the grief isn't tens earlier. the catholic church is less than patriarch who is attending the midnight mess at the church of the tv to night, which is right in front of me. she visits

a garza and here's what he said upon his return. from god i saw it also so so you also we also man to it's nice to be afraid to concert our life. and that's the biggest reason. us 3 a message of hope in a time of overwhelming devastation. this is bethlehem story. this christmas the story of sorrow and 3 for the resilience smoke celebrations. i was hearing best left him 2 years ago during the 1st christmas off to cove and loved downs and the square i

have to tell you and the say to you look 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 say to reach the 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 wish turns worldwide banking band for support in israel's fight against what he called the forces of evil, yet for palestinians. here in bethlehem as well as all across the west bank and beyond. and guys are christians and muslims. nathan, yahoo! 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. so i d as to come here in

a ras sense, but they told us they believed nathan, yahoo is the evil one. some foreigners who shared their vision allowed us to record them. let's take a listen news 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 goals. i b as in love because i discussed it tells us that love you, your neighbors love yourself. and i just realized that the only lights in the square of flashing from police cars security is very tight with more officers visible here than civilians. the atmosphere is very tense reflecting, they broke the security situation all across the west bank that is marked by

escalating violence and deepening divisions. take the northern city of jeanine, 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 mazda and his lumnick jihad, who accused the po, collaborating with a israel, palestinian authorities respond with deadly raids. gunfire and explosions have become daily routine. they're leaving residents for us to the cycle of fear and violence and beyond security. the west bank economic crisis is deepening. unemployment has claimed i'm relatively 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 of these here as they can not even afford a balloon. the cancellation of christmas celebrations has put another burden on the local economy. she's obviously happily, depending on torres, some hotels,

the m team in the water. we are staying to night. we are the only guest shops, shoddid, and the mood is one of despair. here's what some people we manage to speak earlier . a told us about the moon. it's going to be hot, it especially here because if it, if we came to here, a citizen of the with the him on the, i see, i look the separation of people from different the country. is it to be the i think nearly multiple years, we are not so very thing to hear from because this do wish and so high. yeah, i just wish to finish this war because the situation is misery and i, i hope people came here and 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 of again it's, it felt so spiritual and so celebratory. and today it's empty. i know, at least for me, i can't imagine myself celebrating 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 football and this is weird. christmas survives and wide 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 there lie need outside of trying to get in right now. how this thing is, some foreigner is inside there. is this frank draw sense of peace, a starting point,

press to the turmoil outside and we do see people's faces all this smiling and they're happy. so in this moment they grieving and they just said moments from gaza, full pallets tie, but what they tried to find for some courage to, to be happy and able to hear the weight of gaza. and this trundles across the westbank. all it is capable gets people gather lighting, candles, whispering prayers, hoping that the next christmas maybe my bring and brightest story. and of course to everyone. so racing to night merry, merry christmas from bethlehem in palestine as well as the middle east parish. have marissa know. so many thanks so much i will just on to syria. now, what a christmas tree has to be assessed on fine and agree closer. oaks majority town. small key outrage, video online showed men twitching at the front of a simple local media. have pointed. the thing that fight is affiliated with the

hyatt, i say, of some terrace group, the recent macy's power. well, this comes just a week off the government, open file on a greek or federal discharge in the nearby city of hama closing significant damage to the building. christians have responded by staging mass protests in damascus. hundreds of demonstrates as march through the streets of the capital, taunting slogans in carrying crosses. a subs telephone 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 need, moved into the tasks like what do you do? know neil's spoke with mothers who pair of the want us to have some james, the mutilated in syria. i'm the scenario i'm to the cos says it's a dog time for the nations christian community. lucille is that there is

a security, at least that we can say is it varies in security. and this guy and the of the is attempt to of aggression. you know, he's not the only 2, but the material in the 3 it is burdening i would appreciate, i suppose it's burning. i'm afraid it's burning with joy. it's burdening, you know, the fees of the christmas to 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, the has the, you know, how is it someone is it is in control of the situation. really the give a statement. and as always, my, my experience in celia is this celia and the entity is

always for good in the media and they speak. what they want to ship to show is it would be, you know, the test team i am talking about domestically media with these interesting for them . but what the people of the lee and celia i'm leaving mean doesn't matter. it's not only for the commission that has been a lot of dilutes against other minorities. you see what, how does the christian community currently receive from the west might be uh, we have never received the people 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 send of cushions. are you wonder how euro is it was not helping to secure the life of christian in the past is how now and they going to secure it when they are treating we use the, you know, h t s, which is still the cost of 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 truck dixon from the west and i'd be glad to say it a minute. mounting law says on the battlefield. ukraine is looking for ways to feed it spinning and then a tree writes analysis report to the way because in cube,

or in the final stages of making a decision on whether send 18 year olds to the front, my lowest at the store. 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 club. nevada is true that this initiative has been in the presidential office for a long time. it has been in the work of nevada 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 zalinski is tools aimed at destroying the ukrainian people to on. well, let's do 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 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. the grading and media of a site is a representative with the 17th pole top a brigade. and 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 free is basically corroborating 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 ukranian m p a like segan gillian, who has been quick to jump to basically refute the claims that any such a bill of this kind to exist so that this is

a fake news essentially has cooled on ukrainians to to verify sources that they are using in face like say good julian guy has echoed 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 lens capacity. 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 dropped age, it has uh, hopefully said that it would uh, support your brain. and of course, the decision to low with the age of mobilizations that would be met by london was 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 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 are pursued people. these 2 people, even. and one of the videos that has the most lately a young male arrived in a taxi to his house. and it was the own one of the cctv cameras. it showed a van, well, creeping up behind about the taxi and as soon as the young male exited the car and tried to wells with please. uh he was uh, well can get a quite fast 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, the that the video does not suggest in any way that the life over that particular draft officer 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 food, so that's 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 sorts 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 will do conscripts to basically try and do something akin to what they did in russia's quote 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 more than 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 have their 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 have been shipped by scandalous, reportedly from ukraine. and what appears to be a highly coordinated campaign, a number of citizens, the theme persuaded to set fire to police causes one to some government. i'm bank offices all to you correspondence. let us just give an 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 pensioner setting fire 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 were reported. and

apparently according to the available information demand, uh go to the. 7 site to add controls that in his call. and uh, at the last moment he changed his mind uh, because of the bus he was supposed to throw the molotov cocktail at 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's setup of what a present set of fi to fi works in a shopping center. as a result of which the visitors, 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 to ukraine's guidance. and that was

another case in a rush. this tool, where a 66 year old woman was detained and she used pyrotechnic products inside a fine coal fish. and she later on confessed to she was in fact, recruited by scam us. 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 price is also checking on your a pin 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 2 contributor rachel walton, breaks on that on. for the last couple of years,

the us been relying on filling up its gas reserves, heading into the weather time, brightening 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 purchase, signaling for zalinski won't actually keep their countries economically afloat ends with ease. neither by the way, um, he has a really sweet gig where all the really has to do is sit there and watch rushing 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 bills. sure, sure. this will 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 slovakia is money. so these are shadow agreements with put in the news. 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 likes the winds key 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 go 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 its russian gas transit through turkey. and it 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 church 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 shopping these you countries off and economic cliff. oh, great. and it be a crew of ukraine has cut off our gas supplies to europe and consumers. on the one

hand, it picks from their hands because only with the support of the west, including from europe, can it exists 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. everything is already clear. well then all right, we will survive. and guess problem was advised this. well hey, maybe the you at worse can just turn even more to places like talk to or to make up the shortfall and gas supply. oh, but only if they're willing to pay carbon emissions finds on that gas to the you as a sort. as you virtue signaling tax, which cut are will probably be totally cool about right. if the case is 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 can not 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 its carbon footprint is. and whether that carbon footprint is maybe big enough to boot your behind and shake loose some spare change from your pockets. right now the you is desperate and hitting everyone out for gas handouts. but with the attitude of someone who's browsing a high end boutique on the shelves, are these a right here and there's speaking to us from doe hawk atari media consultant, mass communications, professor ali, ohio, said brussels really only has itself to blame for the adults energy prices. that they use the countries that have been relying on the target guys and the

categories the has been surprised by the use of countries. busy requests to, to put the kind of a tariff of 5 percent on importing the technology guys also because of the limited the supply of guys over from russia because of the russian that ukrainian, uh, the dispute uh, the europeans uh, to get to a sufficient amount of guys to freight to encounter this severe winter and nothing get to be compared to to the ocean. get you as a gas. uh, very expensive. um the united states is uh, uh, far away from uh, europe. so you don't have to be so easy. we input our article,

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