it was because of bashar al—assad and his father, hafez al—assad.d for, that the syrian people advocated for in order to help the syrian people beat this tyrant, short of military intervention. and so what message does it send notjust syria but the whole world that western countries will make positive statements, will support people that are calling for democracy, liberty, freedom, and trying to get rid of their authoritarian regimes and tyrannies? and then when the tyrant goes away, when the authoritarian is gone, then we debate whether we lift these sanctions or not? it should be no questions asked. these sanctions must be lifted. the reason for those sanctions is now gone. and gone, by the way, without the help of the international community, minus some of these sanctions, gone by the people in syria that liberated themselves. and i asked you, finally, if the displaced syrians can safely return, and i guess it's a very personal question. i mean, yourfamily were forced out of syria. you left when you were nine years old. you're clearly a man very

there is no assad dynasty.rder opens, you know, all of us rushed into the country. and that was really a big surprise for me, because, for me, this is the first time i crossed the country without fear of being arrested. hundreds of people are on the way. all syrian plates, the crossing. this is the first moment that syrians are experiencing, you know, going back to the country after 13 years of war, of displacement, of detention. first time i go in, there is no stamp, no officers. i didn't need to... i used to cross the border and take anxiety pills because i was so worried about being arrested. we're just crossing from the lebanese border, heading to damascus... and that was the first time that i was going fearless, with lots of questions in mind — who are the rebels, how they're going to behave? what's going to happen on the way? we are at the syrian border, and this is the first sign we see of the syrian border — syria... welcome in syria. this is the first picture we see of president bashar al—assad. it's s

there is no assad dynasty.border opens, you know, all of us rushed into the country. and that was really a big surprise for me, because, for me, this is the first time i crossed the country without fear of being arrested. hundreds of people are on the way. all syrian plates, the crossing. this is the first moment that syrians are experiencing, you know, going back to the country after 13 years of war, of displacement, of detention. first time i go in, there is no stamp, no officers. i didn't need to... i used to cross the border and take anxiety pills because i was so worried about being arrested. we're just crossing from the lebanese border, heading to damascus... and that was the first time that i was going fearless, with lots of questions in mind — who are the rebels, how they're going to behave? what's going to happen on the way? we are at the syrian border, and this is the first sign we see of the syrian border — syria... welcome in syria. this is the first picture we see of president bashar al—assad. it's

assad is a liability for vladimir putin.warm water port in syria, he no longer buys his weapons or backs his worldview, and somehow russia is not imperialist and it is just trying to protect itself. assad up is something that is very realistic and can be done. apartment in moscow. i want to see him come back to damascus, where, horrific genocidal massacres that he's perpetrated. world as a jihadist terrorist, a man associated with and willingness to move forward with a free syria, committed to equal rights for all? well, first of all, it's not just now, all of a sudden, you know, he's somehow changed hats and overnight he changed. that's not what happened. i've watched ahmed al—sharaa and hts rule the management of only one group that's part of the joint i get that point, but the truth is hts is now in control in damascus. it is ahmed al—sharaa who has chosen... ..i guess we can call it an interim government, and in that government, he has appointed a host of loyalists, whose position and loyalty sits directly with him. ther

and assad has lost all the value that putin and can be done.on't want to see assad poisoned off i want to see him come back to damascus, where, in damascus, a syrian court can try this dictator ahmed al—sharaa, the leader of hay�*at tahrir al—sham, was, islamic state—style militancy. well, first of all, it's not just now, all of a sudden, and i want to reiterate that we cannot reduce the entire whose position and loyalty sits directly with him. or the turkish—backed groups in the northern countryside of aleppo, idlib was governed the best during these past ten years. but the governance of idlib at the time isn't the same... and then other positions like foreign minister and others. so, by everyone's admission, including hts, this isn't up or not, and how? with the leadership of the new damascus government is one i mean, i'm sure you saw, just as i did, this way — islamist worldview, not one that reflected we get to a representative government. it as somehow, you know, shifting the whole education well, that's your view. presidents failed to do.

it began with assad. he was having dinner at mar-a-lago with president xi and during the dinner he was informed that assad had used chemical weapons. he said mr. president xi, i'll be right back and he authorized the attack on the weapons. he didn't mean to do that during the dinner but -- >> i wonder. if there's one thing president trump understands it's the symbolism of power. that's chinese saying, i don't know if it's an actual saying or one we made up. you kill the monkey to scare the chicken. >> whatever it is, we're quite aware that mr. trump is not perfect and all of us can have disagreements but i'm going to go back. it's peace through strength recognizing that the enemy is iran working with fellow dictators putin and xi and then you have backups of assad and un and lukisinka. you can think of bizarre people around the world. sadly maduro right here. you realize how dangerous that is. >> you brought up donald trump and you know that you came to realize pretty early that donald trump represented s

as bashar al-assad's tightly controlled empire unravels, we are visiting the very heart of it, the assad's family village, thrown open the heavy iron gates of the family home. there were signs it was hastily abandoned, but the house is not empty. this is the once palatial garden of the house where bashar al-assad was born, and all people realized he is not coming back. they have taken some of the furniture for firewood. >> in every room, locals have come to strip away whatever can be burned. the window frames, shutters, pitch and cupboards ripped to pieces and piled into a waiting taxi. a young boy watches as his father and uncle pat branches off the leafy trees in the ruins of the garden. this place has the error of martial law about it. neighbors watch on curiously from the streets as the now useless web of security cameras sits idle. down the road, the once illustrious tomb of bashar's father is a symbol of the rebel advance. by the entrance, a message, damning assad to the trash pile of history. the legacy of the decades of misrule marks every aspect of daily life here. as we drive alo

the assad family village. across the country, there are signs it was hastily abandoned. but the house isn't empty. this is the once palatial garden of where he was born. now people realize he is not coming back. reporter: a bitter winter is already underway. in every room, locals have come to strip away whatever can be burned. the window frames, shutters, ripped to pieces and piled into a waiting taxi. a the young boy watches as his father and uncle hack branches in the ruins of the garden. this place has the air of martial law about it. neighbors watch curiously from the street as the now useless web of security cameras sits idle. on the road, the once illustrious tomb of assad's father is the symbol of a rebel advance. cheering rebel fighters set the tomb ablaze. by the entrance, a message. to the trash pile of history. the stronghold of a regime that once seemed undefeatable lies in ruins, but the legacy of the decades of rule marks aspects of daily life here. the hollow boom of airstrikes on the highway, t

this is a line putin used frequently during the syrian assad civil war as assad he supported. they did it repeatedly, did it in public, did it at the united nations. in 2016 you said "the u.s. is providing direct and indirect support to terrorist groups in order to overthrow the syrian government." in 2019 and the democratic presidential debate stage, you said of president trump, "this current president is continuing to betray us. we were supposed to be going after al qaeda. but over years now, not only have we not gone after al qaeda, our president is supporting al qaeda." i am interested to hear, what was your goal in saying these things and did you consider before saying them theiran in russia, with their motives may have been before making these claims? ms. gabbard: as someone who enlisted in the military specifically because of al qaeda's terrorist attack on 9/11 and committing myself and my life to doing what i could to defeat these terrorists, it was shocking and a betrayal to me and every person who was killed on 9/11, their families, my brothers and sisters in uniform

this is the first time we saw after assad, the assad — time we saw after assad, the assad regime fellyrian people who have suffered under such repression. the}r syrian people who have suffered under such repression.— under such repression. they can so much- _ thank you so much. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. let's look at some other stories making news in the uk. the home secretary yvette cooper has announced a three month national review into grooming gangs. the announcement is a shift in the government's position on an issue that has become an international controversy following comments made by the billionaire elon musk. critics want the government to go further and launch a national inquiry. hospitals in england were at their busiest so far this winter last week with 96% of beds occupied. flu continues to be a concern, with just under five thousand people in hospital beds across england on average every day last week. that's lower than a week before but it's still more than three times higher than at the same time last year. the liberal democrat leader sir e

putting an end to the regime of bashar al-assad. assad, famously, just awful.ropping bombs and using chemical weapons on his own people. so it's no surprise that after he fled to moscow, those people took to the streets, joyfully riding a torn-down statue of assad's father like a parade float. pride month is different there. okay? what else did they do? do we have this? they also took a giant bust of assad's father and left it in a dumpster. no, no, syrian rebels. i get that you're happy, end of tyranny, blah, blah. but metal tyrant heads go in a separate bin and are only picked up on the fourth tuesday of the month. plus, did you wash it out first? 'cause if there's any peanut butter still in there, they will not take it! so, the blood-thirsty dictator is gone, and the people of syria have been liberated. that's good news. [applause] i guess, i dunno. because the rebels are a group called hayat tahrir al-sham that was formerly linked to al qaeda, but since 2016, has been working to distance itself from its extremist roots. to make the case that they've changed

in fact putin was so bogged down in ukraine that when vicious assad dictatorshipla in syria collapsed, all he could do was watch. russian troops had to race to haul equipment and personnel out of syria should was once a center piece of kremlin global ambitions. putin's failure on save assad regime is a warning to few remaining country that might align themselves with the kremlin. now i am deeply mindful of the anguish that putin inflicted to ukraine. for ukraine these have been years of tragedy, of unnecessary agony caused by one man's imperial greed. in my final hours at ramstein as secretary of defense, i mourn for every ukrainian man, woman, and child killed in putin's murderous war. and i salute the ukrainian troops who are fighting so bravely for their country and for their freedom. and this coalition has had their backs for nearly three hard years of war. and we must not stop now. so i'm leaving this contact group not with a farewell but with a challenge. the coalition to support ukraine must not flinch. it must not falter. it must not fail. ukraine survival is on the line. but

what was the assad regime doing here? evidence of what appears to be a secret chemical lab emerges in several rooms. they find countless labeled bottles and containers filled with chemicals. our main mission today is to. document, try and find out as much as they can about the chemicals they're finding in this facility. something sets off the detector. they take pictures for experts to review the reading. it says tick. toxic industrial chemical. he checks his patch and carries on. until another alarm goes off. they realize it's one of the oxygen tanks he has to get out fast. it's becoming clear they were experimenting with dangerous substances here, tucked in the middle of a residential damascus neighborhood, the local druze community had long suspected this was more than just a state security building. as regime forces withdrew, people rushed in to see what was really inside. this feared compound. it was a local pharmacist who sounded the alarm, and the white helmets were called in. securing sites like this one is critic

assad is gone. hezbollah key ally in lebanon has been decapitated three times over, desmet in terms of its forest. you have relations with hamas, hamas leadership has been destroyed. the infrastructure been destroyed. the whole idea of the axis of resistance, these militia groups, these substate actors that we're going to push back against israel, against the gulf arabs, american interests, it all seems to be much, much weaker than it was before. i'm sure you're going to disagree so tell me why. >> well, first of all, let me make two points because we don't have much time. first point, in 1982, if you can remember, sharon invaded lebanon, pushed all the way in beirut. because in 78 he pushed all the way to the river and order to prevent the palestinians from getting into israel. and then in 82 he went all the way to beirut in order to basically decimate the palestinian resistance. if you remember, he sent -- to exile. so what happened? from 1981-1987 islamic jihad was born in 81. 81. hezbollah was b

so is this an early sign that the country's economy can be rebuilt post—assad ?niversity of manchester welcome to bbc news. now as we mentioned there the new government, the new leadership which in itself is forming has an enormous task ahead. huge challenges. talk us through what that looks like.- challenges. talk us through what that looks like. thank you for having _ what that looks like. thank you for having me. _ what that looks like. thank you for having me. the _ what that looks like. thank you for having me. the first - what that looks like. thank you for having me. the first point i for having me. the first point to note, maybe is that this is an unlikely political situation in the sense that this is an interim government that is leading to a transitional government that the economic challenge in the social challenge in the social challenge cannot really wait or will have to take priority as these processes go forward. so these processes go forward. so the scale of the challenge is enormous in terms of the economic situation of the country, that is dire

the sanctions had been imposed on ousted president bashar al-assad's regime since assad fled, a number of facilities have been discovered that may have been involved in developing and using chemical weapons. cnn's jomana karadsheh goes inside one of those facilities. >> they're gearing up for one of the most dangerous missions in syria and they have to be prepared. exposure could be lethal. >> while we are searching for these secret prisons, we received information that there could be hazardous materials in this facility. >> the white helmets volunteer rescue group suspects this is a chemical weapons research site. we joined their hazmat team at a former state security building. they wanted us to witness what they find throughout the war. the regime and its russian backers have repeatedly tried to discredit them with respirators, fixed and suits sealed. the final touch. chemical agent detector patches. with oxygen tanks and detection devices. these two men lead the way into the unknown. they have to move carefully and methodically. looters got here first. every surface is scanned for t

who disappeared. >> in the prisons. >> of syrian dictator bashar al-assad. after assad's ouster. deborah is now going back to damascus, joined. >> by the head of. hostage aid worldwide. nizar zakka, who. >> was coordinating the search. >> almost ten years. >> when was the last time.? >> which was the last time i. >> was here. >> was in 2015. >> in may. >> wow. >> at the hotel in damascus, a group of journalists eagerly await. >> her arrival. >> but for now, there are more questions than answers. it's hard for me to think about how how what is my way forward. >> here? >> you know, austin has been ld all this time. who who is holding him now? where is he? how what is the approach? i mean, it's like it's first grade again. and where where. do you think. >> he is? >> what do. >> you know? what can. >> you share? i feel like he is still in syria. and i do think it's most likely he's in a safe house. are you saying that based. >> on. what you. >> feel or what you know? there's some of each. there's some of each. faith has played a vital role in deborah's journey.

six weeks after assad's ouster. deborah is now going back to damascus, joined by the head of hostage aid worldwide, nizar zakka, who is coordinating the search. >> almost ten years. >> since when was the last time, which. >> was the last time i was here was. >> in 2015. in may. >> wow. >> at the hotel in damascus, a group of journalists eagerly await her arrival. but for now, there are more questions than answers. >> it's hard for me to think about how. how what is my way forward here? you know? austin has been held by the syrian government. all this time who who is holding him now? where is he? how? what is the approach? i mean, it's like it's first grade again. >> and where where do you think he is? what do you know? what can you share? >> i feel like he is still in syria, and i do think it's most likely he's in a safe house. >> are you saying that based on what you feel or what you know. >> there's some of each. there's some of each. >> faith has played a vital role in deborah's journey. first thing sunday mornin

one is assad. assad's utter refusal to engage in any kind of political process is one of the things that sealed his downfall. so they should be thinking about that. now, of course, the other things that sealed his downfall is the fact that his patrons became very distracted or problems of their own making that we exacerbated, whether it was the russians in ukraine, whether it was the iranians and their attacks on israel and everything that was done in response, or whether it was hezbollah. the other thing they have to ask themselves is the taliban. there's a lesson there. the taliban projected a more moderate face, or at least tried to, when taking over afghanistan, and then its true colors came out. the result is it remains terribly isolated around the world. and so, if you're the emerging group in syria, again, if you don't want that isolation, then there's certain things that you have to do in moving the country forward and make sure you're moving it forward in an inclusive way, in a non-sectari

it has lost its main state client, assad. it is lost its air defense capability. and its economy is reeling. so, iran is in a weak position. and that creates real opportunities. but it also brings risks, because iran, you hear voices inside their system saying, given how much deterrent capability has been degraded over the past year and a half, maybe we need to think more seriously about changing our policy with respect to -- that is a matter of considerable concern. i think there is an opportunity now with iran in a position it is in to conduct diplomacy to try to get and negotiate an outcome that puts its nuclear program fully in a box and also deals with some of their other excesses, but that will be up to the incoming team to decide whether they want to take that up. hamas in terms of its military formations, its leadership, its capacity to hold israel has been decimated and we will get a hosta still in place. the houthis remain a clear and present danger day in and day out. mike and i have had now a couple of conversations about the steps we are taking and wh

and you and conclusions that assad launched a chemical weapons attack in april 2017. >> that evidenceas never presented and it's clear as time has gone on that there was a cover-up. reporter: today for the first time, she said she pushed assad on chemical weapons. >> i asked him tough questions about his own regime actions, the use of chemical weapons and brutal tactics used against his own people. reporter: but democrats fear gabbard's prior positions could prevent allies from sharing intelligence. >> i just don't believe on your judgment and credibility issues if this is the appropriate role for you to take. gabbard was elected to reporter: hawaii's legislature in 2002 at the age of 21 as a democrat and served in congress for eight years, deployed twice to the middle east and is a serving lt. col. in the army reserve. but she became a republican and endorsed donald trump over their shared questioning of the intelligence community. >> the american people elected donald trump not once but twice and yet the fbi and intelligence agencies were politicized by opponents to undermine his pr

his name is assad fadel khalifa.is parents, sister, aunt and uncle, we're told, were killed in the strike. he's three years old. his mouth was full of gravel and dust. he was trying to pull it out himself. we went to nablus on the west bank, the other side of the occupied palestinian territories, to try to assess the mood. israel won't let us into gaza. nablus is a palestinian city with a long history of resistance to the israeli occupation. it's a toy gun. down the street, the faces of men killed using real guns to fight israelis, some from a militia known as the lion's den. heroic martyrs here, terrorists as far as israel is concerned. amar has a stall selling sweetcorn. translation: peace is difficult, _ because you need to go back to the religion and doctrine. but we would love for the bombing to stop and for them to leave gaza, and for the prisoners to get freed, and for everyone to go back to their homes and family, because they suffered a lot in this war. may god help them. at her stall, amina is desperate for

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are all assad gone at the start of december? many are now daring to dream of a different future on all these forces, and this is the street the 1st couple of days after the fall of the g. a very terrifying for all of us. only a few days, the big pills ended. i've been also hearing the news ball and the next couple of days of oregon is that our house with electricity in damascus and cherokee is going to help other cities in the, in syria, also with us just as i think our water pressure doesn't work. if there is no electricity, once a year and a lot of houses to getting broken into sudden, most of an interruption, the actually really sees. and no one bothers anyone. and brandon, people for sending treating, kills, and problems and telling people what to do with to see how to where one of like, where you could consider a minority. like all we could do is wait and see if things can actually get to where we want it to try. and we'll answer all those questions. noah's nyah ali, a residence of the moscow sharing her daily thoughts with

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to many syrians of naya is a symbol of how brutal assad was. um, i want to ask you about that because you were held there for 5 years. can you share with us what you went through and how that scarred you to yeah, actually uh, i understood it so it might have been from 2006 on 32011 at best buy. and if i say it's a at the present, that is a do my. but when patients that is going shut, but not of the 2011 out of 2011. the save money isn't. it's big game like this. every want to go there. you go to that is not for the systemic, but just to can just look into died a lot of uh, this thing. i mean, a lot of, uh, people, we interview a lot of people. i'm talking about the situation. they have no food, no music. okay. and uh, in a d m s b, a, a research on all of the numbers we see we, let's see that amazing can at least 50000 the time he is upset by that isn't a news of this. a body is also the use of all of this, the pennies, then the, somebody just then the game with this people investigating you around damascus on the master stuff to be solid. and

then according to the people in charge, now that those sanctions against the shuttle assad government, they are now impacting the city and people and they should be safely removed. but as you've seen in the statement and the statements that were coming forward, that hammer the shut out has a huge task ahead of him. not just to assure the city and people say you have neighbors and the wider internationally community that this is a good idea of syria, which is going to be representative of all the city. and it's going to move forward in terms of rights which you did not exist under the assad government, but also the has to show and not just birds, but an actions as well. but he can put everyone into this fold and move the can be forward. and now in the next coming days, you're expecting that image of the counselors, big on the average to figured out how to hold elections are to write the new constitution and how to make sure that the institutions of this country, which should be free of influence from the people in power continue to function and that is what city and people and the outs

we know about her meetings with bashar assad.ut what she said about the invasion of ukraine by russia. and, obviously, we saw today very tough questions about edward snowden and her views on him and whether he's a traitor or a whistle-blower. and she did not, she did not affirmatively say that he was a traitor, even though a number of members of the senate asked her that question. so i think those were open questions going in. i think she punted on some of those. but on the toughest questions, the ones on snowden, she didn't do what i think she needed to do, which is to come out and say affirmatively what the vast majority of the members of that committee believe, if not all of them, that he in fact is a traitor to the united states, having violated laws by disclosing classified information publicly along a variety of programs, many of which, almost all of which have nothing to do with the privacy and civil liberties of americans. amna: and, jamil, just briefly, on those two examples, the meeting with bashar al-assad and the comm

assad's puppet. a guru's puppet. concerns about your judgment and your qualifications to meet the standards set by law. >> that was some of the exchange, which, again, an intelligence which is one of the sort of often less partizan areas, especially when people have had decades in public service. you don't see as as many fireworks at these types of hearings. the other thing you have to keep in mind is, while gabbard is now most recently known as a person who was loudly campaigning for donald trump and prior to that was running for president, which puts her in a different light. the people on the hill, they know her. she was a congresswoman again at the time, a democrat, just like rfk. there are folks who have crossed over into trump land, and he has made that a priority. he likes that kind of thing as long as their very loyal maga. now, but some of these senators and many members of the house really know her. so whatever misgivings they have in normally clubby washington, where marco rubio, being a fellow traveler re

in 2017, while still serving in congress, gabbard secretly met with assad in syria during a trip that she described as, quote, a fact finding mission, end quote. a few months after that trip, she faced another round of criticism for saying that she was skeptical after the american government under the first trump administration determined that assad's regime used chemical weapons in an attack that killed dozens of civilians. gabbard has also been accused of amplifying russian propaganda. perhaps most notably in early 2022, shortly after russia invaded ukraine in march of that year, gabbard published a post on x about, quote, us funded biolabs in ukraine, which many people pointed out echoed kremlin propaganda that russia used to justify its invasion of ukraine. she received pointed criticism for that post from the likes of then senator mitt romney, who wrote on x, quote, tulsi gabbard is parroting false russian propaganda. her treasonous lies may well cost lives, end quote. gabbard clarified that she was warning about the possibility of pathogens escaping from laboratories during the

no assad in power, iran defanged, hezbollah decimated now a cease fire. well, president elect trump really lean in and try to make sure with the credibility he has and he has a lot inside of israel to try to ensure that this process goes forward peacefully. so i think the prime minister, he does have some space. he does need to take advantage of it. >> you wrote something interesting in the lead up to this, joel. you wrote success has many fathers and it's time to share credit. talk a little bit more about that. >> yeah. you know, chris, look, i mentioned a moment ago as well, american foreign policy is at its best when it's bipartisan. and what we're seeing is that obviously president biden and his team, they've been working this for months on end. and they are the primary ones at the table for the united states. but there is also president elect trump's team. steve witkoff, the person he appointed, has been reinforcing president biden's message. and this may be, quite frankly, the best, if not the only, example of cooperation between the trump transitio

and by summer of 2013, bashar al-assad was bombing his own people in syria. and this was sort of the will would be the red lines speech that barack obama gave, which i still remember hearing on the radio that congress may have to vote to authorize military strikes against his forces in syria. and, you know, i was a i was a local government person. i was an observer, a consumer of political news. but there's a big difference between having that role than actually having to cast a vote that would authorize the use of military force. that vote never came. but that was one of those moments where it occurred to me, i know a lot, but i don't know everything. and i really got to talk to somebody i trust about how to process this decision that would lead to lethal force being used against, you know. an army. that was quite a moment for me. how did he tell you to process it? what was his advice? he used the he was a teacher. he used the socratic method. he did not give me advice as to what i should do. he just asked me a lot of questions and helped me process what my