for 12.5 years, deborah tice has not stopped looking for u.s. journalist austin tice. taken at a regime checkpoint in syria in 2012. he has been missing ever since. one of many thousands who disappeared in the prisons of syrian dictator bashar al-assad. 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 saf

journalist austin tice, taken at a regime checkpoint in syria in 2012. he has been missing ever since. one of many thousands who disappeared in the prisons of syrian dictator bashar al-assad six weeks after assad's ouster, deborah is now going back to damascus, joined by the head of hostage aid worldwide, nizar zaki, 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

mothers and one american for. 12.5 years. >> deborah tice has not stopped looking. >> for. >> u.s.t austin. >> tice. >> taken at a regime. >> checkpoint in syria in 2012, he has been. >> missing ever since. one of many thousands. who disappeared. >> in the prisons. >> of syrian dictator bashar al-assad. six weeks 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

fascinating story about not only tulsi gabbard and sean penn, but also austin tice.7, a member of representative gabbard's traveling party was led by the syrian regime to meet an american prisoner who that colleague of miss gabbard, later identified as austin tice, the missing american journalist who was abducted near damascus in 2012. >> this report became a thread of intelligence that ultimately reached the trump administration's lead hostage negotiator. a couple of years later, it was explored. but it's just remarkable that miss gabbard didn't know about it at the time. according to our reporting, she was told about it a couple of years later. but a spokeswoman for her denied that she'd received this information, that she'd received actionable intelligence. otherwise she would have acted on it. so it's sort of emblematic of the world of intelligence that she would have to sift through if she were confirmed to be the director of national intelligence. >> well, and what is would be so surprising to many. shocking to so many is the fact that that sighting and that in

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fascinating story about not only tulsi gabbard and sean penn, but also austin tice.er of representative gabbard's traveling party was led by the syrian regime to meet an american prisoner who that colleague of miss gabbard, later identified as austin tice, the missing american journalist who was abducted near damascus in 2012. this report became a thread of intelligence that ultimately reached the trump administration's lead hostage negotiator. >> a couple of years later. >> it was explored, but it's just remarkable that miss gabbard didn't know about it at the time. >> according to our reporting, she was told about it a couple of years later. >> but a spokeswoman for her denied that she'd received this information, that she'd received actionable intelligence. otherwise she would have acted on it. >> so it's sort of emblematic of the world of intelligence that she would have to sift through if she were confirmed to be the director of national intelligence. >> well, and what is would be so surprising to many. shocking to so many is the fact that that sighting and that

. >> do you have an update on austin tice in syria and whether or not he's -- pres. biden: the answer is i'm not going to respond to that because that's an ongoing issue. you know my attitude about getting prisoners released from abroad and i'm not going to comment on that right now. >> one question on pardons and commutations. can you give us a sense of what of their pardons and commutations you are considering in your last 10 days? pres. biden: the answer is no because two things. one is that it depends on some of the language and expectations that trump broadcast in the last couple days here as to what he's going to do. the idea that he would punish people for not adhering to what he thinks should be policy related to his well-being is outrages but there's still consideration of some folks but no decision. >> have you decided what kind of role you will have post-presidency, sir? do you plan to speak out after you leave washington or will you follow more of the bush model where you're kind of out of sight, out of mind? pres. biden: i will not be out of sight or out

look, on austin tice, all i can tell you is this. not a day goes by where we're not out there trying to obviously find him or get information about what has become of him. and i don't have anything to report beyond what we've already said. but we have people throughout syria who know the importance that we attached to this. and are leaving no stone unturned to find austin. so he and his family remain in my thoughts, all of our prayers, but mostly we're working this any way that we can to find him and of course if we have any further information we'll share that or the next administration will share that. look, on panama, on the panama canal, we have a treaty. we have a settled policy of many years and that's not going to change. as i've said before, it doesn't warrant spending a lot of time talking about it. now, when it comes to the resilience of our supply chains, when it comes to making sure that we can get what we need and we don't have risk with it, including from countries with which we have challenged relations, that is import

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typically welcome a visit by the returning president in the white tice. i really hope he will come here and that he will speak directly to our government and not the government in denmark. we are tired of having a middleman and everything. we want our own sovereignty. we want our right to have our saying in foreign politics ourselves. denmark has refused to entertain the idea of the us taking over agreement. and people are asking themselves here whether trump's interest will fade away. as of the global issues, land on the desk of his presidency, a correspond to just park file that reports and he joins us now from nuke in greenland jacket. looks very beautiful way. uh, and very cold as well. so thank you for joining us. i know you've been in greenland for a few days and you've spoken to lots of people the we heard from some of them in your report. tell us more about how the react saying to all of this attention that a trump is generated. so it's a really interesting time to be here and to speak to the people on you. frankly, it feels so distant from global

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from is really jails in the last 2 couple of hours or so. prior to that we saw a very cap. susan's tice cap says, be released, who had been held in garza for 15 months or so. these are some of the things that we can see from the this is the cry. the reaction to the arrival of the prisoners with destiny. who have just arrived in probably about half an hour or so ago in teams. and you can see the level of elation celebration there's some of the, some cutting kind of sydney and fives. who has, i think, saw the scene of how much flag and some process lives out on those. those are the other ones just on you can just like get a sense of the atmosphere of, of the, [000:00:00;00] the hosting we've been discussing how much and just let me just, i've released 8 captives housing guys as part of the cx, 5 deals with israel's, the, those with the chaotic season con unit is southern, gaza and is really captain of the who was released to the red cross. thousands of people surrounded the 29 year old and she was led through the price is rose prime and a said benjamin, that's how i got nephew, yahoo! cal

. >> richard tice still has has a has a has a loud voice and a successful voice.k >> the problem. queen, if you don't mind me saying so. and by the way, gwen and i are really close friends, so this is not going to be a vitriolic head to head. but the problem with nigel going is that reform is nigel. nigel is reform. if you want to form. >> may have been true if you want to be. >> if you want. well, i don't see many new faces, voices evolving. i don't see a shadow cabinet. i don't see the makings and the, the, the structure of it. >> because they've only got five mps. surely, ben, this is only because they only have five mps. >> it's got nothing to do. it's got nothing to do with how many mps you have. >> rupert lowe rupert lowe is not a significant figure in pubuc not a significant figure in public debate. >> it's got nothing to do with one at a time. >> please. one at a time. let's go to gwen. go on. >> richard tice still has has a has a has a loud voice and a successful voice. and i think what you're seeing growing. and you're right, we don't have a shadow cabin

. >> do you have an update on austin tice? whether or not he -- >> i'm not going to respond to that that's ongoing issue. you know my attitude about getting prisoners released from abroad i'm not going to comment on that right now. >> one on pardons and commutations. can you give us a sense of what other pardons and commutations you are considering in last 10 days? >> the answer is no, two things, one is that it depends on some of the language and exceptions that trump broadcasts in the last couple days here as to what he's going to do. the idea that he would punish people for not hearing to what he thinks should be policies related to his well-being is outrageous. but, there is still consideration of some folks that -- but no decision. >> thanks, everybody. >> can you talk about what. [shouting questions] >> what kind of role will have you post presidency, sir? do you plan to speak out after you leave washington or are you going to kind of follow the bush moto out of sight or out of mind. >> i'm not going to be out of sight o

police say a safeway employee was robbed in the store's it happened over the weekend at the store on ticeley boulevard. that's where a woman first stole some alcohol from the store, got into a car and the man inthe car pointed a gun at the worker and then took off the victim was not hurt. and police are looking for the suspects. 2 people were arrested for skis, stealing at least one golf cart. they didn't get very far. this happened over the weekend. and brent, would you can see the drone that was used to track them down. this is a neighborhood at somerset drive. an officer quickly deployed that drone search for the suspects and found 2 men. they got arrested and then the golf carts were recovered. >> well, new this morning, there are reports now the forty-niners have fired special-teams coordinator, brian schneider. the team hasn't yet made this official yet, but we do expect that announcement soon. the stakes on the special teams during critical moments in game winning scenarios. really just dog the team all season. they fell for fake punts. they allowed turnovers and blocked kicks kick

amna: on to syria, i need to ask you about austin tice.elf travel to syria after the assad regime had fallen. in the month plus since the assad regime has fallen, have you learned anything else about where he was held or where he might be? mr. carstens: after damascus fell on the eighth we were able to find more information and were able to take information we had for years and overlap it to get a sense of where he might be held. we came up with a list of about six places we believe t might be or had some relation to, and from december 8 two about the 20th, we were working with people who could go to the prisons, the secret prison sites , and conduct investigations. we had a chance to look at a jail sale that we believed had a high probability of having held him. we looked for dna samples and gathered evidence along with a wonderful team from the fbi and what we are doing is seeing tons of information from people on the ground that will eventually inform our search once we are able to put boots on the ground in the coming days or weeks. >>

. >> do you have an update on austin tice in syria and whether or not he's the answer is i'm not going to respond to that because that's an act ongoing issue. >> you know, my attitude about getting prisoners released from abroad, and i'm not going to comment on that right now. >> just one question again, back on pardons and commutations. can you just give us a sense of what other pardons and commutations you're considering in your last ten days? >> well, the answer is no, because two things. one is that. it depends on some of the. language and expectations that. trump. broadcast in the last couple of days here as to what he's going to do um, the idea that he would punish people for not adhering to what he thinks should be policies related to his well-being is outrageous. but there's still consideration of some folks that nothing but no decision. >> all right. thanks, everybody. have you talked about what kind of post-presidency? >> what kind of have you decided? >> what kind of what kind of a what kind of role will you have? >> post-presidency. sir, do you plan to speak out after you l

. >> do you have an update on austin tice in syria and whether or not he's. >> the answer is i'm not going to respond to that because that's an active, ongoing issue. you know, my attitude about getting prisoners released from abroad, and i'm not going to comment on that right now. >> just one question, again, back on pardons and commutations. can you just give us a sense of what other pardons and commutations you're considering in your last ten days? >> well, the answer is no, because two things. one is that. it depends on some of the language and expectations that trump broadcast in the last couple of days here as to what he's going to do. the idea that he would punish people for not adhering to what he thinks should be policy as related to his well-being, is outrageous. but there's still consideration of some folks that nothing but no decision. >> all right. thanks. have you talked about what kind of post-presidency? >> what kind of have you decided? >> what kind of what kind of a what kind of role will you have? post-presidency. >> sir, do you plan to speak out after you leave wa

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to suggest that this guy austin tice this guy, this is a guy who has his own very macho ideas about what it means to be a warrior. >> i don't think that it's necessarily in keeping with u.s. policy with regard to women or behavior of how we act as soldiers in combat, which is that we act within rules. and he's his time says, you know what, too many rules. this is about a killing machine. i think that's very upsetting to a lot of people. >> okay, so we can agree you have to be someone of service in the military, and you have to serve on tv, too. you need both qualifications. >> well, actually, actually you don't actually, the only qualification for this we learned today is that you have to be a civilian, a civilian. >> and and we have had to waive that in the past. but he has both. he has civilian service. he has military service. he's highly educated. and, you know, there's not too many people in the world who have managed whatever, 3 million people at a time. >> there's a whole team. there's a whole team that manages the pentagon. >> hold on. okay. i'm glad you made that point, because

and we have, uh, our people on the ground looking for austin tice right now, i work with united against nuclear iran as a senior advisor on hostage affairs and i am i've kind of, i would say, dedicated my my, my, my life to thinking about hostages all over the world. it's part of my dna. and, um, those 444 days of misery made a real impact in my life. and i want to make certain that others don't go through the situation that we did. >> eva mckend you were there. bring us, bring us to the scene. as former president carter's casket leaves the carter center for the u.s. capitol. >> pam, sometimes it's easy to forget all that goes involved. >> all that is involved. when a president transitions. but for president carter, it is truly fitting. it matches. i think, the outpouring of love and admiration that we have seen from all corners across this region for over a week now, right now, this is a ceremony in the circle of flags here at the carter center. this is primarily carter center. employees that are saying final goodbyes as this is the final ceremony here in atlanta before the body and th

>> two ways,tice. my clients, the creators, are the ones creating that speech and posting it. >> it doesn't say anything about rs or people who use the site. it's only concerned abo ownership and therns that data will be manipulated or there will be other national security problems with other who are not citizens of this country or a company that is not here. >> you look at the analysis of the first amendment burden. as i said, the text of the hatch chute regular leites our sp let me be very clear. the american rs have a right to wor a publisher of their choice. imag want someone wanted to now known as x.h or twitter, people who post on that platform and who indeed some of them make a living commentating, talking on politics, news -- >> on that argument you could say that about the eap of at&t. you could say that about the limitations of foreign oip of broadcast companies. >> i think you haveg a little deeper than that, justice thomas. it's not mere ownership or the broadcast items. if you boil it down

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. >> austin tice. >> yeah. yeah. >> but you're frustrated. of course. wouldn't you be? and that frustration that you hear in his voice there that's been echoed by so many other people. and we also had the opportunity to see and follow people as they saw their homes for the first time after this fire. this has been an event of an immense magnitude for this community. and yet we keep hearing over and over again that people are choosing to rebuild here. they're not abandoning their community. something we've seen in events like this one. we're now hearing from governor gavin newsom that he will try to make it easier for that rebuilding to take place, saying that he will waive certain necessary permitting for building in this particular area affected by the palisades fire. and telling our colleague kyung lah in an interview that he will make sure that these houses, all of these structures are inspected in the next 14 days. julia vargas jones cnn pacific palisades. >> people in altadena, california. they are getting much needed support from someone who knows exactly what the

and for a former uk, i know you've got richard tice on shortly.ight be worth asking him. will elon musk fund this independent inquiry which nigel farage is putting together? he says he's going to find a retired judge to run it, but it will need resources. and i can imagine will need resources. and i can imaginlast night for kemi defeat last night for kemi badenoch. has she yet met members of the victims groups? she met no victims as of yesterday. keir starmer met them yesterday. keir starmer met them yesterday and she's been criticised for getting on the bandwagon on this issue. on keir starmer. i think language is softening against having a pubuc softening against having a public inquiry, he said in the house yesterday there was no fixed view amongst victims and also number 10 told us they're open or they're open, of course, and we'll listen to what victims want. so if victims keep calling for an inquiry, that will get harder to resist. and for a former uk, i know you've got richard tice on shortly. i think it might be worth asking him. will elon

the deputy leader of reform uk, richard tice, will be live on the programme. does he know exactly what role nigel farage will have in tariff talks between the uk and the us.7 will in tariff talks between the uk and the us? will he be the conduh and the us? will he be the conduit between peter mandelson and donald trump? heaven forbid. and the managing director of the pubuc and the managing director of the public safety foundation, oliver lawrence, will join me in on the show to offer a policing perspective on the child rape gang scandal that has been developing this week. and i'm also going to be hearing from the pollster scarlett mccgwire and former labour minister bill rammell. we're going to discuss what might be coming ahead for all of the parties. and i include reform in that who are rising through the ranks. there's a poll that we're going to be speaking about in the pay per view in just a moment, and just ask them what is really going to be the thing that we need to look out for in 2025. so again, 90 minutes of punchy british politics to come. do not th

and deputy leader of reform, richard tice has told gb news it's appalling. >> it is beyond belief. i mean, first of all, what's he doing out? i mean, you know, that's give or take 15 years ago, that's not enough. if you murder anybody, i mean, let alone a child at 15 years is just not enough. and so that's appalling. and then what the bbc think they do. well, i mean, frankly, you know, it's just once again they've got it wrong. it's awful at every single level you could possibly conceive. >> and former hollyoaks actor paul danan has died at the age of 46, according to his management company. the actor was best known for his role on the channel four soap hollyoaks, before appearing on reality series celebrity love island and celebrity big brother. tributes have poured in as his management confirmed the star's passing this morning. those are the latest gb news headlines. more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com/alerts. >> good afternoon britain. it is nine minutes past midday now. a

the deputy leader of reform uk, richard tice, will be live on the programme. does he know exactly what role nigel farage will have in tariff talks between the uk and the us.7 will between the uk and the us? will he be the conduit between peter mandelson and donald trump? heaven forbid. and i'm also going to be hearing from the pollster scarlett mccgwire and former labour minister bill rammell. we're going to discuss what might be coming ahead for all of the parties. and i include reform in that who are rising through the ranks. there's a poll that we're going to be speaking about in the pay per view in just a moment, and just ask them what is really going to be the thing that we need to look out for in 2025? wes streeting hopefully you can hear me. health secretary, lovely to speak to you this morning. let's very swiftly move on to your announcement about your nhs app. now, this target, you're going to reduce the 18 month wait to an 18 week wait by the end of parliament. is that right? that's quite ambitious. will you stand down from your post if you do not ac