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[00:00:09] Hello, this is your Daily Dose of News from Onmanorama. I'm your host Vishnu and these are the major news stories of Sunday, December 8, 2024.
[00:00:19] Syrian rebels declared President Bashar al-Assad's outstar after seizing control of Damascus on Sunday, forcing him to flee and ending his family's decades of rule after more than 13 years of civil war in a seismic movement for the Middle East.
[00:00:33] Protesting farmers on Sunday afternoon suspended their footmarch to Delhi for the day after some of them suffered injuries in tear gas shelling by Haryana's security personnel along the state's border with Punjab.
[00:00:46] The BJP alleged former Congress President Sonia Gandhi has links to an organization financed by the George Soros Foundation and which has backed the idea of Kashmir as an independent nation.
[00:00:58] Australia maintained their unblemished record in Pink Paul test in Adelaide with an emphatic 10-wicked victory over a completely out of sorts India, leveling the fighter series 1-1.
[00:01:09] The BJP accused the Kerala government of failing to utilize the central funds in the STRF and the NDRF for the relief and rehabilitation of Vyanar landslide survivors and carrying out fake propaganda against the Union government.
[00:01:21] Let's get into the details.
[00:01:24] Syrian rebels declared President Bashar al-Assad's outstaffer seizing control of Damascus on Sunday, forcing him to flee and ending his family's decades of rule after more than 13 years of civil war in a seismic movement for the Middle East.
[00:01:37] The Islamist rebels also dealt a major blow to the influence of Russia and Iran in the heart of the region, key allies who propped up Assad during critical periods in the conflict.
[00:01:45] Iran's embassy was stormed by Syrian rebels following their capture of Damascus, Iran's English-language press TV reported on Sunday.
[00:01:53] Syria's army command notified officers on Sunday that Assad's rule had ended, but the military later said it was continuing operations against terrorist groups in the key cities of Hama and Homs and in the Dera countryside.
[00:02:04] Assad, who has not spoken in public since a sudden rebel advance a week ago flew out of Damascus for an unknown destination earlier on Sunday.
[00:02:12] As rebels said, they had entered the capital with no sign of army deployments.
[00:02:16] His whereabouts remain unknown. The collapse followed a shift in the balance of power in the Middle East after many leaders of the Lebanon's Iranian-backed Hezbollah group, a linchpin of Assad's battlefield force, were killed by Israel over the past two months.
[00:02:29] Russia, Assad's other key ally, has been focused on the war in Ukraine.
[00:02:36] Protesting farmers on Sunday afternoon suspended their footmarsh to Delhi for the day after some of them suffered injuries and tear gas shelling by Haryana security personnel along the state's border with Punjab.
[00:02:45] Farmer leader from Punjab, Sarwan Singh Pandir said at least eight farmers were injured and one of them was rushed to the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigodh.
[00:02:54] Pandir said the farmers would decide their next course of action after a meeting of their forums, the Samirthikistan Morcha non-political and the Kisan Mazhtoor Morcha.
[00:03:02] The 101 farmers resumed their footmarsh from the Shampu protest site earlier in the afternoon but were soon halted by multi-layered barricading, erected by Haryana security personnel.
[00:03:11] Tear gas cells were lobbed to the protesting farmers and water jets were used as well to disperse them after they reached the barricades.
[00:03:18] Ambalapolus had earlier said the farmers' outfits may march to Delhi only after gathering permission from the National Capital Administration.
[00:03:24] The group, dubbed as Marjeev Ras or someone willing to die for the cause, was marching for a legal guarantee for minimum support price before being stopped only a few metres away.
[00:03:35] The BJP on Sunday alleged that former Congress President Sonia Gandhi has links to an organisation financed by the George Soros Foundation and which has backed the idea of Kashmir as an independent nation.
[00:03:45] This association shows the influence of foreign entities in India's internal affairs, the ruling party said in a series of posts on X.
[00:03:52] Meanwhile, notwithstanding the US dismissal of BJP's allegations that it is backing attempts to destabilise India,
[00:03:58] party MP Nishikant Dube said he would pose 10 questions to leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi in the Lok Sabah on the issue.
[00:04:04] He said media portal to organize crime and corruption-reporting project and the Hungarian-American businessman have colluded with the opposition to ruin India's economy and defame the Modi government.
[00:04:13] The BJP claimed that Sonia Gandhi, as the co-president of the Forum of the Democratic Leaders in Asia-Pacific Foundation,
[00:04:19] is linked to an organisation financed by the George Soros Foundation.
[00:04:23] The BJP's allegations come after it claimed on Thursday that the US Deep State colluded with organized crime and corruption reporting project and Rahul Gandhi to damage India's image.
[00:04:32] The US on Saturday rejected BJP's allegations that organizations funded by its State Department and elements in the American Deep State,
[00:04:39] their behind attempts to destabilise India through targeted attacks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and business tycoon Gautam Adani.
[00:04:47] Australia maintained their unblemished record in ping-pong tests in Adelaide with an emphatic 10-wicket victory over a completely out-of-sorts India on Sunday,
[00:04:55] levelling the five-test series 1-1 within just two and a half days.
[00:04:58] This was the shortest-ever test between India and Australia in terms of balls bowled.
[00:05:03] Only 1,031 balls were bowled out of a possible 2,700 legal deliveries.
[00:05:08] Starting the day at 1.28 for 5,
[00:05:10] Nitish Kumar Reddy's Cavalier approach prevented a second successive innings defeat under lights at Adelaide as India were bowled out for 175.
[00:05:18] Australia needed to score just 19 runs and they completed the formalities in just 3.2 overs.
[00:05:23] It was a tale of two shoddy batting efforts with the two senior-most players Rohit and Kohli looking well past their best.
[00:05:30] Just Prith Bumra gave it all but lacked a potent bowling partner at the other end.
[00:05:34] For Rohit, things are getting increasingly difficult as he now has lost the last four tests that he has captained.
[00:05:41] The BJP on Sunday accused the left government in Kerala of failing to utilise the central funds in the STRF and the NDRF
[00:05:47] for the relief and rehabilitation of Vyanar landslide survivors and carrying out fake propaganda against the union government.
[00:05:53] The Safran Party said that the Naredra Modi government has provided sufficient funds to Kerala
[00:05:58] through the State Disaster Response Fund and the National Disaster Response Fund.
[00:06:01] The Pinarai government is sitting on available funds and blames the centres,
[00:06:05] CNABJP leader and Union Minister Prakash Javad-Ekar said.
[00:06:10] That brings us to the end of this episode.
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