This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Valerie Sanderson, and in the early hours of Wednesday, the 25th of December, these are our main stories.

In Haiti, at least three people have been killed and others injured after armed men opened fire at a news conference at the country's biggest public hospital.

In Syria, an agreement is brokered among rebel factions to dissolve and then merge. fire at a news conference at the country's biggest public hospital.

In Syria, an agreement is brokered among rebel factions to dissolve and then merge under the current defence ministry.

Residentialek, Donald Trump, says he'll order the U.S. Justice Department to vigorously pursue

the death penalty.

And?

Fundamentally, I would say, it's not too slow, obviously, because our ancestors chose to live this way and we're still here.

How our brains might work more slowly than we think.

An attack on medical staff in Haiti has left at least three people dead and many others injured. It happened during a media conference at the reopening of the country's biggest public hospital.

This is the moment suspected gang members shot in the direction of journalists from the hospital's gate.

Haiti has been engulfed by gang violence and much of the capital is under the control of the

gangs. I got more details from our America's regional editor, Leonardo Rocha.

The journalists had been invited to the hospital known as the General Hospital in the

Capital Porto Prince to arrive there from 8 in the morning local time.

They'd been there for a couple of hours, waiting for the arrival of the health minister

when they just heard gunfire.

Fires being shot.

Gangs just approached the gates and was shooting randomly at them.

So people were hiding for their lives.

Many were injured.

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