is, is turning into an international civil war. is there a place for the syrian people the, the west bank this hill fast to hadn't repaired to 5000000000 because the past place, jesus solemnly marks pressed against the backs top of the on cutting is really assault on the palestinian people. very a christmas tree and a large table at all the fuse that's fine for both to me by h t. s leg is with us, not spots mass out way too long. christian reaction from the syrian want us transitional from says the nation has been the never received the foot from the west. we have always faith, especially during doors years. it is if it was event for the be done

for us to close out the persecution of cushions and targeting take a premium on a month is reported. they set to approve controversial plans to drop the 18 year old positive tools to continue to suffer. loss is all natasha field. the tyler 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 westbank city, overshadowed by the ongoing war in garza, as well as is where the waves across the palestinian territories, well mentally step us your own shape with an ocean that is in bethlehem itself. i

mean, maria, we know it's solemn, it's the 2nd christmas the since the gauze of 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 bethlehem metalli's feet in c t and 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 spends bare no tree, no lights, no decorations. typically the square is full of vendors selling street photo gates,

children running around the pilgrim singing carols, taurus, so can in the period of the holidays. now it's all gone for the 2nd here. and there rose, bethlehem has cancelled as christmas celebrations. and the reason of this thing they wore in guys on has cost a dark shadow of how this can use in the west bank. and here invest, let him 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 intense. 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. he to jazz us,

here's what he said for his return. i guess from the, from guys the 5 i also so so you also we also mentioned in the home is nice. don't be afraid to console our life. and next the biggest piece must free a message of hope in a time of overwhelming devastation. business bethlehem story, this christmas the story of sorrow and grief and 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. same thing then for supporting israel's fight against what he called, the forces of evil. yes. for kelly stevens 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 the the speech palestinians refused to talk on camera for security reasons. adding, it's not hard for idea of took come here in

a ras sense, but they told us they believed nathan, yahoo is the evil one. some foreigners who share their vision allowed us to report them. let's take a lesson is 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. 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, seeing who the mass and his lama jihad, who accused the po, calibrating with a 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 westbank economic crisis is deepening 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 this. we have only depending on torres and hotels,

the m team in the water we are staying to night. we are the only gas shop. so shorter 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 it v a if we came to here as a citizen of the with the him. on the i see i don't the separation. the people from different the country is it to be? yeah. i think nearly multiple years. we are not similar thing to here because that's the wish. and so i yeah, i just wish to finish this war because the still isn't the is misery. and i, i hope people to came here and again, next year maybe and sort of place 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 itself so spiritual and so celebratory. and today it's empty. i know, at least for me, i can't imagine myself celebrating now, not any time soon. so i can imagine that most people are feeling very similarly i moved to a little bit so that you could see the entrance to the church inside these walls. christmas isn't completely for 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 outside. they're 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 term, or all outside. and we do see people's faces all this smiling and they're happy. so

and this moment they're reading and they just said moment for gaza, full pallets tie, but what they tried to find force encouraged to to be happy. and even here, the weight of gaza and the struggles across the westbank, all it is capable gets people gather lighting, candles, whispering prayers, hoping the next christmas maybe my brings and brightest story. and of course to everyone. so racing tonight, merry, merry christmas from bethlehem in palestine policy mid lease parish chief marissa norseman. many thanks much while just on to syria. now why a christmas tree has been special? i'm fine and agree cool. saltzman georgetown spoke he outraged video online showed mental watching the phone as a simple local media have pointed. the thing that fight is affiliated with the

highest of some terrace group, 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, closing significant damage to the building. christians have responded by staging mass protests in damascus. hundreds of demonstrators march through the streets of the capital, taunting slogans and carrying crosses. a subs thompson's government had previously sold to protect their is religious and ethnic minorities in the country. but since the age ts medicines to codify that has been an optics in religious needs, moved into the tasks like what do you do? know neil's spoke with mother superior of the ministry of sin, james, the 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 last that we can say is that 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 agree that i suppose it's a burning of a faith. 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, it means and so i would have the, you know, how is it someone that does even come through and of the situation really the give a statement and as always, the, my, my experience in celia is this. see,

the reality is always for good in the media and they speak when they want to ship to show is it would be, you know, interesting i am talking about domestically media with these interesting for them. but what the people of de leon celia and leaving me 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 even before 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 as a terrorist 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 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 and outs reported that no way because in cube or in the final stages

of making a decision on whether to send 18 year olds to the frontline. most of them 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 cove. nevada is true that this initiative has been in the presidential office for a long time. it has been in the var, colorado 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 on well, there's 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 lowered to 18 years of age. and that the bill that we're going to do said 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 because of grading and media of a site that a representative would be 17 to pull top a brigade on them, it could be just wishful thinking of a competent who has founded himself 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. does 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 old on ukrainians to to verify sources that they are using interface like say goods you then guy has a code and basically reiterated the message that has been repeatedly sent to the ukrainians by incidents a. 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 mobilization to 18 years of age. first and foremost by the united states defense secretary has been pushing. you're going to do that, or america's secretary of state has been also very well pursue a very pursuit until this idea that ukraine should send uh, 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 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 more in our 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 hasn't most lately, a young male arrived in a taxi to his house, and it was the old one of the cctv cameras. it showed a van, well, creeping up behind a that's a taxi, and as soon as the young male exited the car and tried to wells with please, uh, he was, uh, will, can get a quite fast paced towards the door towards the, into his apartment building well you could see dropped, office is chasing him and well mobilizing it was clear that that man was not exactly a volunteer and that have been ever such a videos emerge every day and sometimes, and quite often they all violent drop. the offices they 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 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 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 over new of new conscripts to basically try and do something akin to what they did and brushes kudos region. because definitely they did hope that that's foothold that they had initially gained in 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 to come to control of and they keep losing more and more every day. so that could, 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,

russia better be ready for russia has been welcomed by a series of sabotage, incidents carried out by civilians have been shipped by stella's, reportedly from ukraine. and what appears to be a highly coordinated campaign, a number of the citizens, the theme persuaded to set flights of police causes while the some government on bank offices. all to correspondent. i'm just to say the alternate has more details as well. it seems like ukraine 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 made out of box russian internal affairs ministry's 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 demand. uh, go to the site to add control that in his call. and uh, at the last moment he changed his mind because at 1st 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's setup of what a present set of fi to fi works in a shopping center. as a result of which, uh, 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 under ukraine's guidance. and 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 co office. and she later on confessed, or she was in fact, recruited by scanners. and cameras actually persuaded her that it's a special operation to against those who made her lose her money. not toll desk price is also checking on your a pin ball kits. a head open, expected shut down, open ports via ukraine at the end of the year. almost because as 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. and so 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 i've 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. guess 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 should should 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 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 for 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 well, 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 its 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 shopping these you countries off and economic class. i'm going to be a crew of ukraine, has cut off our guest 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 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. 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 tucked are 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 virtu, 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 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, may be 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, are these 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 a selves to blame for the adults energy crisis, they use the countries that have been relying on the kentucky guys and the categories

a has been surprised by the use countries. busy requests to, to put the kind of a tower of 5 percent on the importing the technology guys also because of the limited the supply of guys over from russia because of the russian, the canadian, uh, 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, to the ocean. get you as a gas uh, very expensive and the united states is uh, uh, far away from uh, europe said your factory. so really we input our out of course 10 by.