Israel strikes chemical weapons stores across Syria
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🗓️ 10 December 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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As many Syrians rejoice at the downfall of the former dictatorship in their country, Israel has been conducting numerous strikes on targets across Syria, reportedly destroying chemical weapons stores belonging to the former Assad regime. Also, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes the stand in his long-running corruption trial, facing charges of fraud, breach of trust and taking bribes. And, the Dominican Republic has deported more than 71,000 Haitians back to Haiti since October, and hoping to continue to deport thousands more each week. Plus, the universe is expanding at a rate faster than previously believed.
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| 0:00.0 | Assad is gone, but some of his regime's chemical weapons are still in Syria. |
| 0:10.6 | Israel says it's been bombing sites where they remain. |
| 0:13.7 | It's very, very risky to actually try to eliminate these stockpiles militarily. |
| 0:20.2 | I'm Carolyn Beeler, more on serious chemical weapons. |
| 0:23.9 | And Argentina's bombastic libertarian president, Javier Malay, is proving some of his critics |
| 0:29.3 | wrong. |
| 0:30.1 | The effects can be seen everywhere in Argentina. |
| 0:33.1 | The economy, after a year of Malay. |
| 0:35.8 | And Cheng Yao, who wrote Chinese romance novels, was so popular, |
| 0:40.0 | people used her name like an adjective. Being to Chong Yao just means you're so excessively |
| 0:45.0 | melodramatic and say things like, you know, the famous meme is always the, you only lost the leg, |
| 0:51.3 | she lost her love. That's all ahead today on the world. |
| 0:58.2 | This is the World. I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
| 1:01.0 | Marco Werman is out this week. Thank you for joining us. |
| 1:04.6 | Syria is going through some dizzying changes right now. |
| 1:08.3 | Only a few days after the collapse of the Assad regime, a new transitional |
| 1:12.2 | government in Damascus was just announced. It will be headed by an interim prime minister from |
| 1:17.8 | Syria's most powerful rebel group. Hayat Tarvir al-Sham or HTS says it will be in control for the next |
| 1:24.7 | three months. Meantime, there are plenty of immediate concerns as well. |
| 1:29.6 | One of them, Israeli airstrikes. Israel says it's targeting military assets, including chemical |
| 1:35.1 | weapons sites, built by the former government. Natasha Hall is Senior Fellow at the Center for |
| 1:40.9 | International and Strategic Studies in Washington. I mean, Israel has been bombarding Syria for several days now. And in addition to that, |
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