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Democracy Now! 2024-12-12 Thursday

Democracy Now! Audio

Democracy Now!

News, Daily News

4.75.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for December 12, 2024; After Fall of Assad, “Struggle from Below” Needed to Build a Free & Democratic Syria; Another Winter of War: NRC Head Jan Egeland on Visiting Ukraine & Latest on Sudan, Gaza and Syria; The #MeToo Cabinet: Law Prof. Deborah Tuerkheimer on Sexual Abuse Allegations Against Trump & Nominees

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0:00.0

From New York, this is Democracy Now.

0:19.9

The UN is totally committed to supporting a smooth transition of power with an inclusive political process in which the rights of all minorities will be fully respected.

0:31.0

And paving the way towards a united sovereign Syria with its territory integrity fully reestablished.

0:39.3

The UN Secretary General calls for a united Syria following the toppling of the Assad regime.

0:45.3

As celebrations continue in Syria and around the world, many are fearful of what comes next.

0:51.4

We'll go to Syria for the latest. Then we speak to Janeglen, head of the

0:55.7

Norwegian Refugee Council. He's just left war-torn Ukraine. Every single day, the Russians are

1:02.8

attacking Khashon, attacking civilian targets, attacking even aid workers and ambulances.

1:09.7

The population is really suffering.

1:13.2

And we'll look at what some are calling Donald Trump's Me Too cabinet.

1:17.8

From Pete Hegseth to Linda McMahon to Trump himself, a number of Trump's cabinet picks

1:23.9

have been accused of sexual misconduct or of covering up sexual abuse.

1:29.2

All that and more coming up.

1:35.7

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report.

1:40.7

I'm Amy Goodman.

1:41.9

Israeli forces are continuing a large-scale bombing campaign of

1:45.7

Syrian targets following the ouster of Bashar al-Assad, attacking the port of Latakia and a weapons

1:51.7

storehouse in Tartuz. Israeli troops have pushed deeper into the occupied Golan Heights and a

1:57.3

demilitarized buffer zone established by the United Nations a half a century ago.

2:02.4

In northern Syria, fighters with the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army have seized more

2:07.5

areas, including the city of Der Azur, amid clashes with U.S.-back Kurdish-led militias.

2:14.6

Elsewhere, Turkey's intelligence agency bombed a convoy of trucks driven by

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