if he continues to resist that it's done made by the national assembly, then the national assembly has not ended the session because the president has not made a form of this soon to accept the resolution passed as a national assembly. so during the same search on the national assembly might uh, you know, put to the floor, the impeachment bill of the preston. okay. uh. see wong co, your thoughts. i mean, uh, uh, political prices in south korea was and done on most people 2024 bengal card. um, how do you see the situation unfolding and evolving now after this decision by the national assembly and this defense ministry official saying that the decision uh to impose marshall now will hold until the president decides to withdrawing sale. in fact, if we are to go by domestic report, so yeah, it is in fact important that the president formerly upsets the resolution, passed by the national assembly. and then we announced that martial law is be rescinded. and that is why we're hearing breaking reports that the speaker of the national assembly has just signed off on the record listening sales a

of national assembly. i don't know if what you're able to hear him, but it'd be interesting to know what he's saying right now. what the message of the speaker of parliament is less. turn it up just a little bit to try and, and here though, i can't trying to say that unfortunately, but hopefully one of you can for us, let's, let's listen, says somewhere in the building someplace. i don't get somebody on your phone for me to you, but i don't need to come. we're both young and you don't. we don't even worry about it. it's only on your side or no, that sounds good. that's it. all. we're only me them. hi. we're just okay, we apologize, we don't have a direct translation for you unfortunately, but hopefully the one cool young sink bunk can tell us what they just of the message was the from the part of and speaker what uh, what is the say the problem with the new, so when she repeated those same words, which is a violation of the constitution and unlawful act, to declare the mazda of low. so uh, being part of th

young has called on the people to call them to the national assembly to protest this move. and as you noted, the, what this means is, is the media really coming under the control of the state. it also bands all political activities as well as assemblies and any forms of a, as a prohibitive across the country. it's also called on the young doctor as that had been on strike for months now to come into work within 48 hours, otherwise face star and consequences in line with the martial up who are all right. it is now late into the night in so you've talked about the units, the parliament being blocked off. can you get, give us a sense of the atlas, see it in the capital right now, even though it's late, is there, uh, some sort of military presence on the streets. what's the security like right now? right, so it seems that at the moment the blockage is mainly at the national assembly. and indeed, based on the things that the president set in his address, all of his grievances were pointed at the national assembly as well as what he called shameless pro north korean and ty, state

we are hearing that the national assembly at the national assembly lawmakers were able to convince, successfully have corum and vote to nullify this declaration by president even some yard to declare martial law. and we are hearing reports that as a result of that motion successful motion, the some of the military or marshal law agents have began going to move away from the national assembly. there were reports of helicopters entering the premises . we are hearing reports that they are also moving back. and interestingly, we are also seeing pictures of the leaders of the 2 opposing political parties, the democratic party, and the people power party, which is the president's party coming together and shaking hands. and this is notable for koreans because really the political landscape here in south korea has been sharply polarized up until this point. but it seems that because the president does not seem to have an ally right now with this shocking motion, the opposing political parties are somehow coming together to bring normal c back to the countries. um, we are also hearing reports since the

but the current president is conservative, but the national assembly is controlled by the liberal party. in the april elections they overwhelmingly controlled the assembly. for his entire term he has had the assembly in control -- liberals in control of the assembly. part of this frustration is that he has been impossible to get his goals done. host: if a goal of liberalism is a more equal partnership with the united states, what do they envision it looks like? guest: it depends a little bit on north korean behavior and actions. so, in 2018 as i mentioned, the then president moon who was a liberal proposed a lot of dialogue. they had a lot of talks and he visited north korea to give talks. he advocated for more consultation and more equal partnership in the alliance management. but both the conservatives and the liberals still value the u.s. alliance and the presence of 28.5 million troops in parts because north korea maintains a belligerent stance and is still at war technically would south korea. this is a little bit of a tricky balance to hold while engaging north korea also and main

the speaker of the national assembly had to climb over a wall to get into the building.y resoundingly announced the declaration of military law with a unanimous vote, including 18 members of the president's own conservative party voting against the motion. and then we waited for the president to respond, which we did in korea time at about 4:00 a.m.. he was out and withdrew the martial law. korea was under martial law for about six hours on tuesday night. host: was this a play for political power or a political stunt? how do you interpret what happened? guest: to be honest a lot of observers are scratching their heads and trying to understand what the objective was because some observers have called it the nuclear option or this was political suicide for him. it is hard to see exactly what political benefits he got out of doing this. over the entirety of his term since may 2022, president yoon suk yeol has faced a national assembly controlled by the opposition party. they are increasingly at loggerheads with each other. building over the last few months are not just legi

the national assembly men and women are still in the building right behind me at the national assemblyon't know if president yoon will truly back off this easily. i think there is still a sense of disbelief that yoon would play such a high-stakes game and then back up so easily. christian: it's been half an hour since the statement, and a sense that you get that the army is retreating to barracks? >> we have seen videos of army leaving the national assembly, we heard from the national assembly members inside, saying they saw the military and police leave the main chamberhere the vote took place. we have the word from president yoon. i think they are staying put because they are seeing a small chance that yoon would do some other type of subterfuge, protesters are here and they are not going away. you can hear the blaring speeches given by angry protesters, and you can also hear the singing, because they want to stay here until truly all the military and police have gone home. christian: where do you think this leaves politics in seoul tonight, particularly the position of the president

this is supposed to be done with the approval of the national assembly, but since the national assembly was essentially the target based on his remarks, that obviously did not happen. but yeah, as you noted, this is a very fast moving a lot of events. but perhaps this will, you know, had a sigh of relief for the many south koreans i really, for i've stayed up all night because they have not heard of the words marshal a lot in recent south for in history. we would have to go back some 45 years when south korea was under a kind of a more all sort terry and rule. when marshal law occurred. but the younger generation here this, this is something that happens elsewhere in the world, certainly not. and one of the most celebrated democracies in the region. you know, suddenly a 9th of dramatic political developments. we all just hearing that president june says that the troops have already been withdrawn. we'll just recap briefly for our audience as we walk through these breaking developments that present in june has confirmed that he will indeed lift martial law off to the poem and vote there

the president must notify the national assembly and the national assembly if it's gas for an end to martial law, the constitution to is the president must comply. however, the martial law declaration in its 1st statement declared the actions of the national assembly nolan void. so the martial law statement says the national assemblies vote doesn't exist, but the military is going to have to determine if they feed to the martial law and the president, or if they see to the constitution of south korea. and we're really going to start seeing that as we get everybody finishing, waking up in south korea to see if elements of the military actively or passively resist this declaration. yeah, it'll be interesting to see what happens, of course, over the next few days, but no doubt that there is a great deal of concern right now in international communities in washington because many of seeing this, especially in the us as a potential perhaps when north korea to exploit the situation, this political crisis in the south and use this moment of, of instability to undertake some sort of action to do als

we bring you live shots once again from the national assembly in seoul.ou see lawmakers standing at this event. the situation is clearly volatile. we are getting reports from local media saying upland address by the speaker of the national assembly has been canceled and reports that president yoon who made the shock announcement around the martial law that the president has canceled the visit to the national assembly, to parliament according to reports. other lines crossing suggesting from some officials within south korea that yoon ordered that lawmakers were arrested when he imposed martial law. military leaders suggesting they would not enact martial law if the president tried to push it through again. we keep across that for you. the national assembly speaker asking you to delay the trip -- asking yoon to delay the trip to parliament. this is bloomberg. ♪ tom: the carbon capture industry is facing a reality track with a pipeline of projects looking far from certain. q2 impact what is happening is anastasia, an analyst. as the industry in trouble? >> t

for the most part by the national assembly members, they took action right away. and some even climbed over the fences and walls surrounding the national assembly building because the police for blockading it, but they want it to get into the building in order to do their job. and it's really the public came out early in the morning and then later today and obviously expressed their deep discontent and uh, worries about what is happening to their democracy. yeah, and as you're saying the public is still under feeding soul. so how do you see the situation plain? i know that martial law has been rescinded. could we see a continued escalation or i don't think there will be a public escalation. i think the president is and will continue to be under fire to resign. and i am sure that the national assembly will be proceeding with impeachment, processing fees or procedures. the public will be clamoring for resignation, impeachment, and accountability uh, through law. so i think he's in a lot of trouble. i don't know how he can possibly hold on to his his position. what's

applause breaking out in the national assembly. we're headed there now, but certainly a feeling of palpable apprehension of demonstrators trying to get to the national assembly. we're seeing members of the military law enforcement in their green camouflage helmets and uniforms and we had reports that these members of law enforcement were trying to stop members of the national assembly from coming into the building to overturn this declaration of martial law. but enough members managed to get in again. 1:06 a.m. here in seoul and members of the national assembly have overturned martial law in south korea. minutes ago so now the question is, what does south korea's president do now that lawmakers have overturned martial law in south korea across the country? he did this as a way to reclaim power. he is a very weak president. his approval ratings hovering in the upper 20% conservative figure known in this country for decades as a strong prosecutor, as somebody who has taken a strong stance against north korea and aggression coming fro

the speaker of the national assembly had to climb over a wall to get into the building. and they resoundingly announced the declaration of military law with a unanimous vote, including 18 members of the president's own conservative party voting against the motion. and then we waited for the president to respond, which we did in korea time at about 4:00 a.m.. he was out and withdrew the martial law. korea was under martial law for about six hours on tuesday night. host: was this a play for political power or a political stunt? how do you interpret what happened? guest: to be honest a lot of observers are scratching their heads and trying to understand what the objective was because some observers have called it the nuclear option or this was political suicide for him. it is hard to see exactly what political benefits he got out of doing this. over the entirety of his term since may 2022, president yoon suk yeol has faced a national assembly controlled by the opposition party.

of the national assembly. it is still something that is ongoing. however, we are in for quite a busy number of this trend list june hot pocket. thank you so much for you for your time today. thank you. rebels in syria closing in on the city of hama, pushing ahead with their results against government forces. the city was the best in of, of position against president bush, asagwa and protests 1st started in 2011 the you and says nearly 50000 people has now been displaced and over a 100 civilians killed. in this latest flare up of the syrian will on highway to hum, as long as troubles are advancing further south. they've now captured new towns in the province. so down is just north of homeless city. the last time rebels were here, 7 years ago. they say they're hoping to walk them back civilians who support the opposition or anxiety by government forces of the sort on the law. they noticed that the one we are in the town to sit around. god has granted us victory. thank god. how about uh, mean uh as well, but i sa

have the votes and the national assembly, the opposition party has the majority votes. and they also have was facing a lot of conflict within his own party, particularly with the party to the party leader. so the number of votes that you mentioned included not only the opposition party as a 190, but it also included, i think, about 18 members of his own party voting to overturn his declaration of martial law looking forward. what this means is that it's basically backfire, like you mentioned. so now the opposition party had called for his resignation yesterday at full time sheet. they have put forward a movement, a motion to impeach him. he has 48 hours to resign, but it seems like there will be a vote by friday to impeach him. and i think right now he's basically garnered the support that this opposition needed to seek the impeachment that they had been trying over the past year. so that's what makes us really a particularly baffling move and maybe suggest his isolation from the general political. okay. uh the political community of south korea. so bustling but no doub

the national assembly passed a motion to lift the martial law. the country's constitutions that the president must obey. hours later, troops withdrew somewhere around the national assembly. this political crisis marks one of the most severe tests of south korea's institutions since it transition to democracy from military rule. for many south koreans, the declaration stirred memories of the countries authoritarian past. the parliament is now discussing the president's impeachment of time, the party leader of the democratic party. looking at the president's speech. i'm going to shit out parties, petition. even if the president lives the marshal, he cannot avoid being held accountable for his attempts to disrupt the government. a window saying loud and clear that the president is not fit to serve as the leader of the country. this is the order for me. all country is the president has to step down. immediate crisis may have been averted by the countries power struggle is far from over, you know, skin all to 0. so that's the case. what mcbride, he jo

okay, we can have a you, of the national assemblies demand to leave marshall marshall. a troops have been withdrawn and i will accept the national assemblies demand and lift muscle through a cabinet meeting. the decision caused both anxiety and confusion among the south korea. and how do you know who i thought this was a joke? then it turned out to be true that you had declared marshall. i got so worried. but in the morning, south korea's largest labor union called a general strike, calling you and stuck your offer a terrier. i'm demanding to step down the window to speak on behalf of all the farm is young. so gills regime is even more dangerous than climate change. we cannot turn a blind eye to present in you any longer to go off the plunging his country into tom. we'll use the future is now hanging in the balance. he won the presidency of 2022 by the closest margin in south korea's democratic history. despite his background as a public prosecutor, he wanted to correct down on corruption. he has suffered very low approval ratings following a series of scandals and with

they were letting the lawmakers into the national assembly. you to have the lawmakers vote against the martial law. all right, so really address to that health the with the real stress of the health of democracy in the country. yeah, clearly i what if we can talk about the international ramifications? clearly, people power piece of one the day on the streets of sol, but we've had comments from the likes of russia, china, japan, the united states, the head of bates. so all of them saying pretty much exactly the same thing that they want seem developments with quote great concern and the toner. what does this test of democracy in korea mean for its international standing? of course, a career is very much part of the fabric of everyday life and millions of people around the world from korean calls to kate pump. what does this mean though? because he is international reputation. most certainly in south korea has definitely, as you said, entrenched itself in the fabric of the global community. and i think people in dc especially were kind of shocke

the opposition parties that that dominate and control the national assembly.ed them legislative dictators for slashing the. budget, um, for um, um, passing, for impeaching, like 23 or so of his senior officials in government. so he claimed that they were paralyzing the government, paralyzing government affairs. and he also said that he needs to root out anti-state forces, which implies them the opposition and also pro-north korea forces in south korea, which he's also implying is the left, the far left of center we see that the 190 lawmakers present at the national assembly voted unanimously in favor of lifting martial law. >> i mean, you could say that that demonstrated a rare display of unity. so what steps might come next to ensure a return to some kind of stability right. >> so i think the national assembly members who are present, who unanimously voted to lift martial law them, including other members of his own ruling party that were not present for that vote. i think there's widespread consensus that what he did was wrong in every sense of the word. um,

and he's lived for us from the national assembly and is quite a seen the robot. and if you can hear what's going on inside from way you all the in the hallway is, but it looks like quite a rabble in front of the pool speak of a so that's why the chain there is actually just behind, as we were in a public area here and as a door opens and closes, we do here. so a lot of those chance coming out the, the, the main protest has been by the p members from the people policy, the ruling party who have been surrounding the speakers jazz, chanting null and void in korea and also calling for the speaker to quit, to resign this has been whole as part of this contentious motion to try to impeach the acting president. now what it's been over is, is because we are in really uncharted territory. the constitution never really conceived of the impeachment, 7 acting president. it just hasn't been done. and so there's been a dispute over exactly how many votes you would need to do that, according to the opposition, they just need a majority of a $151.00 out of the $300.00 men, but c

if he is impeached by the national assembly, his power would be temporarily suspended.hether he would be fully impeached or not would be determined by a court ruling, however, in the constitution, it says that you need seven judges to review the case but right now there is only six of them. so whether these judges cannot rule the final impeachment is not certain, and provided that they could do this, if one of them actually decides that the impeachment was not proper, then the president would not be impeached, he would be restored back into power. so the possibility of the impeachment is there, even if he is impeached in the congress, it is not necessarily mean this is over. ., . ., , is not necessarily mean this is over. ., , over. that certainly does complicate _ over. that certainly does complicate things - over. that certainly does complicate things even l over. that certainly does - complicate things even further depending on how things play out over the next 2a hours. thank you for speaking to me. just to let our viewers know the live page for all these developmen

back to the $300.00 seats. national assembly, they voted $204.00 to $85.00 for the impeachment. the 1st such boat in 8 years. and as you mentioned, you can just announce that he would step aside for want to give up and use of what units essentially talking about. he's talking about the constitutional court ruling that still needs to be deliberate, you know, still has a $180.00 days to decide whether to deliberate speed problems, decision that it will either remove you from office or have them reinstated a or at least not collection is approved and use effectively still leaving hope for a chance. all right. okay. but there are thousands of protesters out on the streets or sell including supporters of you. so tell us a little bit more about the reaction of water. it's been like a yeah, i was just up the protest and the demonstration right in front of the national assembly, which is not for you and it's definitely for a use impeachment. and as soon as the humans impeachment vote was announced to have passed was 204 votes. the elation and the father for democracy and also happiness

to hear some of them in front of the front gates in front of the front gates in front of the national assembly. the polish —— the apollo opposition have formally introduced an impeachment proceeding accusing him of declaring martial law to stop criminal investigations into himself and his family. but the ruling people power party has decided to vote against the prospective impeachment. that means that unless some of the ruling party members break from their ranks, the motion will not pass. the opposition says they plan to have the vote at 7pm on saturday. despite not voting to oust him entirely, the party chief has asked the president to leave the party. president yoon doesn't have the full support of his party. there have been some developments this morning to tell you about. the minister of defence has resigned, claiming full responsibility for the declaration of martial law. south korea's ambassador to saudi arabia has been nominated his replacement. plenty of analysis to come, but we start our coverage with what's happened overnight, from our correspondent laura bicker. cheering. this cand

the south korea national assembly has voted to lift marshall. however, the ministry has said the state of emergency will remain in place and keep you updated on that throughout the evening. that nato secretary general has member states to increase the administrative support for your crane. bob, which is called, came after ukraine pushed for progress on joining the alliance. foreign ministers from the defense alliance and meeting to discuss continue support the keys in its defense against most coast invasion. as the landscape suggested that he could agree to a seems fine with russia. if nato extends its protection to the parts of the country on the king's control, later has so far declined to say when or how it will offer ukraine membership. that's because of concerns that the alliance could be drawn directly into a conflict with russia, while grocer warmed up the next few months of a school will be decisive. your plane is entering a nother crucial. and scriptures regression shows no sign of basic. just the opposite. booting is ramping up his rhe

the cheering and noisy session in south korea's national assembly marked by protests, the efforts to impeach president to use so keel, so declaring martial little fella pots that would to few lawmakers in parliament to approve the measure of the members from humans own ruling people. power paul t staged a walkout president use gamble and apologizing publicly, but refusing to leave office, paid off. that was when was it? okay, so i know i'm very sorry and would like to sincerely apologize to the people who were shocked to regarding the declaration of martial law. even kelloms, i will not avoid any legal or political responsibility check in with jitter. hope ya? gee, i'm guessing me. j. yeah, kill them. well, they will never be a 2nd declaration of marcia low. i leave it up to my policy to take steps to stabilize the political situation in future, including the issue of my time and office. what do you tell me that you'd be my guess? leaving his face and his policies hands suggests he has no plans to bow out, potentially closing days of chaos. the military rule last to just hours until

i was the, when that became clear down at the outside of the national assembly, people began screaming very angrily. and again, you have to, you have to think that even though you socio has managed to a page being in piece and this particular instance of this frustration that software and people fail with the way he managed to the motional declaration. and the way his routing policy had for them behind him and, and helps him to stay this impeachment sides means that those um, the frustration that basically was unlikely to subside. that was dw, is james tater and soul for us. thanks a lot, james. a serious, long time dictator, by charlotte sawdust facing uprisings on multiple friends as the main rebel offensive in the north west, continues to move towards damascus. opposition factions of the south are closing in on the capital. these images on social media shows syria and protesters toppling the statute of the late president into charlotte's father. in durham on a in the southern suburbs of damascus, rebels have already snatched the entire southern province of dar, off and in the north.

of the national assembly. it is still something that is ongoing. however, we are in for quite a busy number of this trend list, june hop park. thank you so much for you for your time today. a thank you. let's take a look now, some of the other stories making headlines around the world and then it'd be as elected, it's a female presidents election officials have declared that on the non they know that for when of the november the 27th selection technical glitch has led to 3 extra days of hosting with opposition policies rejecting the result when expense the ruling policies, especially for ya, griffin power. iran has released the nobel peace prize laureate, now guess more hummadi from prison notes, according to her lawyer who posted on social media that has sentence has been temporarily suspended on medical grounds. rights activists recently urged a release of to she underwent surgery to remove possible bono accounts. this is fis pricing is being reported near the syrian city of hum, which rebel flights is where

see had to wait and see for think of the mood in the national assembly.e scenes there, we saw people protesting within the house, what has been like for as an mp there? protests started at 3pm, we walked outside to see them, so many crowds, i think there were some report that there were a million people. so we have to listen to what the people are saying. i hope the government party will listen.— party will listen. thank you very much- _ president—elect donald trump has arrived in paris for 3 million people in wales have been urged to stay home because of storm darragh. a mobile that was sent to those in affected areas and a red weather warning has come into force. winds could reach 90 mph and heavy rain is also protected south wales. this was the emergency alert round 3 million people got from the government head of storm darragh. the text warned of significant disruption and urged people to stay indoors if you can. the most serious threat is along the west and south coast of wales and the bristol channel, where a rare red warning, the most serious typer

that said, there are a $190.00 members of the national assembly. they have $300.00 members in total who voted in favor of lifting martial law. is it an exercise in democracy shore? is it a self correction of south korean democracy? sure. does this help increase faith and confidence in the south korean democracy? probably not. a south career is a close regional ally of the united states. the white house has responded the decision to lift ma should all say we are relieved to present you has with us cost profit. go ahead and has more reaction from washington dc that we do know that you as president joe biden overseas tried traveling overseas. he was briefed on the situation. we heard from the us temperatures, deputy secretary state kirk campbell. he said that they were watching the situation with great concern. so there was a for a briefing today at the state department, the deputy spokesman took the vast majority of the briefing was spent focused on this issue. and he really would not get moved off of his talking points. just saying that they are the

and now we have that decision officially from the national assembly. and of course, the move then would that motion would be reviewed by the call to to support next unit is as i look at the pictures of what's going on, not just behind you, but you know, further, i know you have to step away for the noise and for your communications to work, but we look at the people right now. we are gathered outside parliament building. and this aerial shot shows us how many people there are an estimated 200000. i'm thinking back to less than 2 weeks ago when south koreans woke up to the news that their president had tried and had briefly imposed martial law and what they were saying. and so many of them it felt like it felt like they, they felt their country had been stolen from them for a few hours. can you, you live there? can you describe the roller coaster of emotions over the last 1213 days? the yeah, it's been, i mean, the uncertainty that south koreans have had to live through the past 2 weeks. and it uncertainty, frankly, that still lives ahead. as the said p

over the past couple of days were outside the national assembly. as i mentioned, this is the place that has been fairly easy to get into. john, listen, the ends of the public have been musing fatty freely into the grounds of the national assembly. some of the major demonstrations in the process taking place on the steps of the main building further away from where we are right now. we're in the area that is now looks down on it. so again, people gathering outside the national assembly making create that even if you chose, devise this impeachment that he is now facing, potentially as early as tomorrow that public pressure on him to, to resign could continue to mount some of the less. james, i did just want to ask you about this impeachment. i mean, how likely is it, is there a chance that you could survive it? i think with this major of us wasting from the leader of his own policy, that like you to a disappointment goes ahead is now hire. so absolutely guarantee. and just to give you a sense of some of the mathematics and the composition of the nati

lightning in front of the french national assembly -- live in front of the french national assembly ine will be checking in through the evening and afternoon with her. for more on the fallout, i want to welcome a nonresident senior fellow at the atlantic council's europe center. thank you for joining us. is this more of a political crisis or financial crisis for france? >> you asked a really good question. it is both from a political, financial crisis that france is going through. political because the situation is a result, as your journalist was explaining a few minutes ago , of the elections that happened last july, meaning we had three blocs within the national assembly. none of them have the absolute majority. it means they have to compromise. and none of them are succeeding in doing so. from this political situation, which really brings a lot of instability, and the inability to really pass legislation, come the issue of the budget flow, which is really critical for france, especially in the crisis we are going through with a lot of deficits right now, way hi gher than it was exp

they need a 2 thirds majority in the national assembly. and this vote is being supported by around a $119.00 members out of the $300.00 members. so it remains to be seen just what will happen on saturday. in the meantime, many legislators lawmakers here have been going over the various steps that took place when you and was trying to impose marshall low sending in troops in the military. i hear the local as citizens turning out to try to vote by the time as also by lawmakers. this is what we heard earlier today from the leader of the main opposition democratic party to discuss how corners funds you can make. fortunately, many troops refused to complain. with this upset commodity to go even those offices and soldiers who followed the orders, try to minimize home to civilians. they made efforts to reduce destruction, to avoid it using firearms and refrain from causing the full injuries, opting instead for the bare minimum actions required of them. moreover, it was thanks to the courageous efforts of party officials aged makers and the citize

but, and when you see those pictures of the protest, this gathering in front of the national assembly, that's really interesting. right now the exit an entrance to this building to the parliament, to the national assembly is blocked. and the speaker of the national assembly has basically requested all um, members of the parliament together inside the plenary hall while actually outside um and the demonstrators together. and i'm not sure they happen small like connections with police but and sofa. i'm not sure how, how the mess of the this will escalate the probably, i mean, i'm about to head also to the national assembly soon, and it is really a quite intense atmosphere. okay, so as i say, looking at live pictures from outside the national assembly, as you speak to it goes through the political reaction to they sent me things a funding. yes, it's really interesting. of course, it was mess this critique by the opposition, the opposition to each em young basically said this is wrong. and that basically, this mazda law bus called for no reason. and he even said that he's afraid that as s

we have seen, protest kindly, protests taking place at the national assembly. that was the scene of much of the action tuesday evening as only people turned up citizens trying to push back against his attempted, imposing marshall, but joined by lawmakers who also denied to the government. the attempts to impose this martial voting against it. we've also seen a candlelight vigil taking place in the very centre of sol in downtown. so now for many people, this will have echoes of previous protests that have taken place here. there is a very vibrant street, protests culture, alive and well in south korea. and previously, when administrations of previous presidents have become in broiled and control vesee and scandal with impeachment processing starting, we have seen large scale demonstrations of people power on the streets. it remains to be seen just what happens to these protests that are starting at now. insults, but suddenly it does represent a n, n g a, a base in this, the resentment by so many people have what they regard as being a possibly be a bit. the larg

i was just up the protest in front of the national assembly on the vote. and we were watching at live stream um, at the protest with all the other journalists, all the other purchases. it does seem that the pvp has, in fact, invoked a walk ups only 3 p p members of one state and his seats after the 1st vote against special programs. the 1st lady as the answers to 2 others, miss community and mr. kings on came back as to calls from the d p for the pvp to stop the boycott and protect democracy. the reasoning behind the p p actually point crossing the impeachment, it was due to the days the reasons of going against the d. p. the the piece principles i'm saying that it was too fast and impeachment um it was rushed and they wanted to do it on their own terms of whether that resonates with the people on the ground. it's still something that remains to be seen and the people that i've spoken to have disagreed immensely against the p. p. p. sections tonight. well, it is quite interesting to observe that initially, members of the presence own party had supported im

and we're hearing that some of the gates to the national assembly all now being blocked by pride sense is to stop some of those moving policy makers from exits, international assembly and efforts even seems to make the process started as well. as you've been speaking, we've been showing some images of the thousands of people demonstrating this, of course has sparked enormous public outrage in south korea. so james, what can we expect to happen next? so the next few hours will be crucial. um the uh, the boats can take place up until just before 1 am local floods. that's just on the floor. i was fine. that's because the 72 hour window when the impeachment bill is going to put forward, the photos has to take place within. if that does not take place, well, that essentially means that that being peach from motion is to eat. i'm back in the sense with ends before won't proceed around this impeachment. of course, you look at those, those images that you'll see on the screen that ones the thousands of people outside the national assembly and people gather outside the national assembly. the da

' the national assembly. we saw the president escalating his rhetoric against the national assembly, and responding in kind, — assembly, and responding in kind, but_ assembly, and responding in kind, but nobody could have predicted that president it is past 1:30am here and most people — it is past 1:30am here and most people would have been in bed when _ people would have been in bed when the — people would have been in bed when the news broke. and then people. — when the news broke. and then people, there were dozens of people — people, there were dozens of people at the gate, but now there — people at the gate, but now there are hundreds of people, so these — there are hundreds of people, so these people were glued to their— so these people were glued to their phone looking at every update _ their phone looking at every update and the videos. they are screaming — update and the videos. they are screaming here for this martial law to — screaming here for this martial law to be — screaming here for this marti

, he needs to find either people inside of the national assembly or outside. today, there is no capacity to see whether he will do it very quickly. probably people need it because there is kind of urgency on the budget part. but at the same time, last time he took his time, you know, he, he left the whole summer and the whole in big games uh to pass and then started to refresh the thing on, on september, already september. now people have that kind of the question and he will he do it very quickly? i'm not sure about that, because the, there we, we are hosting a quite a, a global leave them this weekend, around the room and hang over those for them. and you know, people coming from abroad and especially at the prism of the like from the us and lots of new and international plumbing personality. so i'm probably sure he will try to put a ticket. now this would be a surprise to me. but next week, probably, and then trying to to form a government which will be still difficult because the same assembly is still there . there is no majority capacity inside that asse

you need a 2 thirds majority votes seen at the national assembly, the 300 member national assembly. so $200.00 votes in order for the presidency in peach as it stands right now. position policies are positioned who will make is reward express to stay in school while you still jo. this done ok by 100 much to see. so what we expect for we need to see is a members options own policy to break ranks. and so you look forward to impeach the president from there in punch. we've already seen some and p's from their ruling policy indicate that they would vote in favor of an impeachment. um, so it's looking increasingly likely that, um, that impeachment votes will pause, even if it doesn't though you see the, the amount of public anger and frustration here in south korea. that even if he does divide this impeachment, but it's going to be very difficult for him to resist public pressure for him to resign. the w east asia correspondent james chase and sole james, thank you so much. so that update the rebel forces in syria has captured the city of hama. it's a major victory. so the coalition to t

so national assembly members staying inside the building.reports earlier, jake, and saw pictures indeed, of some clashes between parliamentary aides and other people inside the assembly and members of the military. what can you tell us about that? yeah, that's correct. there were reports of helicopters landing on around here there were reports of military soldiers. we saw videos of the soldiers clashing with the aides, and it appeared that they would wanted to almost prevent these lawmakers from voting on this motion. and we heard from one lawmaker who was trying to get here as soon as he can, and he couldn't get in because the police blocked his way even though he showed his identity. he said, "i'm a lawmaker," so he actually had to get help from the citizens who boosted him up over this 1.5m fence to hop over the fence to get inside. so this is how they gathered 190 lawmakers in there. and the lawmakers, i think there's a big fear still that president yoon won't play by the rules. i mean, this whole martial law came without a warning. we a