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00:00:08Good evening, Syrian News viewers, and welcome to a new episode
00:00:12with diverse topics from your program, Astoria.
00:00:15Here are the main
00:00:17behind this headlines for this
00:00:19hack? This episode: In the first story of Astoria, widespread
00:00:22interaction with the opening of the Sulaymaniyah Tekke Mosque after
00:00:27scenes in this 15 years of its closure.
00:00:30Welcome to the launch of the Olive Festival in Idlib for the first
00:00:33time after liberation.
00:00:36Commendation for thwarting a fraud operation in
00:00:39an olive press in Tartous.
00:00:47regime, and to restore this
00:00:53There are places in Damascus
00:00:56were not limited to whose visits were not linked to a single purpose, but
00:01:00were a destination in themselves, a place
00:01:03where you could spend hours moving through
00:01:07its corridors, learning about crafts passed down through
00:01:10generations, and choosing a gift from its
00:01:13market that carries something of the city's soul,
00:01:18faced a group of young men becoming over time, or with the passage of time, a part of
00:01:21its memory. Yesterday, a part of
00:01:25one of these places was reopened, which is
00:01:28the mosque... the Sulaymaniyah. Let's watch together
00:01:32footage of the opening and the call to prayer in the place
00:01:35for the first time in
00:01:37our position, whether at 15 years.
00:01:40to bring profit to Oh.
00:01:44Your light and may
00:01:47God reward you.
00:01:52And what you hid of meaning that dressed hearts before
00:01:56in the operating mechanism names. God.
00:02:02My companion
00:02:03in it.
00:02:09which consists of tampering with Forever.
00:02:12was a source of livelihood for many
00:02:15This is the second largest mosque in Damascus,
00:02:18and it is part of the Sulaymaniyah Tekke, which was named after
00:02:23for more than a decade the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, who
00:02:26ordered its construction in Damascus in
00:02:301554,
00:02:36corruption, then this Let's listen. to bear his name and to become This festival emphasizes with the passage of time one of the most prominent landmarks of the capital
00:02:39and a destination that combined worship,
00:02:43and chivalry do
00:02:43the two stages considered a type knowledge, and hospitality. The Sulaymaniyah Tekke is not confined
00:02:46to the mosque alone, but also includes
00:02:49of a number of a market, guest rooms, and a number of annexes
00:02:53that are still closed. The defunct regime had
00:02:56closed them 15 years ago,
00:02:59coinciding with the closure of the mosque under the pretext
00:03:02of renovation, while the tekke has been completely closed
00:03:05for three years, but it will see
00:03:09year we plan to double the light soon, as the Minister of Endowments said.
00:03:12This mosque is not just a mosque, but it is a mosque and a tekke,
00:03:16and it was a place where all
00:03:21on the ground or in pilgrims who came from Turkey and from the lands
00:03:24of the East would take refuge. So they used to call Damascus the Gate of the East. Pilgrims
00:03:27would come here to stock up on supplies, food, drinks,
00:03:31and other provisions to complete their journey to the
00:03:34Holy House of God. Today, Allah Almighty has honored us to open the mosque
00:03:38of the Sulaymaniyah Tekke. Some matters remain
00:03:41related to the establishment
00:03:43of
00:03:45the existing rooms and halls in the Tekke
00:03:48to return to
00:03:50participating in reflect the previous state it was in during its
00:03:53former era. We will put a lot of things. There will be
00:03:56a museum for all the many possessions
00:03:59that were
00:04:01by the Assad regime against handled by the Tekke regarding pilgrims and also regarding education.
00:04:04ايضا
00:04:06The opening of the Sulaymaniyah
00:04:09people of. This is the farmer's hard work Tekke Mosque was the most prominent event on social
00:04:12media yesterday. So what were
00:04:15the comments like? We start with Rasha's comment, who wrote
00:04:18on Facebook: May God bless their hands,
00:04:22a job to be proud of. Hopefully the whole Tekke will open
00:04:26and our men will return to work in their shops,
00:04:29the owners of manual
00:04:31victory for Barcelona over Alaves. crafts and artisans. Noura commented
00:04:33and said: How much I wished to visit it
00:04:37for years, mashallah, it's beautiful, it makes me want to go to Sham.
00:04:41Praise be to God and all thanks to the efforts made by
00:04:44everyone. May God bless everyone who contributed to this
00:04:48beautiful revival of this
00:04:50Championship for ladies, which was held in mosque. Abu Omran wrote and commented:
00:04:53A thousand praises to God, these places are returning to what they were
00:04:57and better. I wish the Tekke would return to what it was and its endowments
00:05:01would return to it, and goodness and distribution would return there. By God,
00:05:05the ancient mosques are the jewel of Sham, mashallah.
00:05:08The scenes at night were beautiful.
00:05:11And Osama wrote and commented: Here
00:05:15you find the difference between those who came from all over the world
00:05:18to destroy it and those who work to revive it. May God reward
00:05:22you well for this masterful work.
00:05:25We conclude with what Sanaa Seif
00:05:28El-Din Kokash wrote on Facebook:
00:05:32I visited this mosque before my trip in
00:05:352018. And there were shameful
00:05:39place, which is considered one of the most
00:05:43important, finest, and most beautiful things built by the Ottomans in
00:05:46Damascus. It was dirty, black, broken,
00:05:49and in a small market for traditional
00:05:52handicrafts. May God bless everyone who contributed and revived
00:05:56our endowments that were violated
00:05:59and stolen.
00:06:06The Minister of Endowments, Muhammad Abu Al-Khair Shukri, affirmed that reactivating
00:06:10mosques, maintaining
00:06:12their scientific and advocacy message, and preparing those in charge
00:06:16of them is an essential part of the ministry's mission.
00:06:31How many olive trees do you expect, dear viewer, to have been uprooted
00:06:35and destroyed by the defunct regime during the years of the
00:06:38Syrian revolution in Idlib governorate
00:06:41alone, which is already known by the nickname "the Green"?
00:06:45The number was
00:06:48shocking to many, as statistics indicated the destruction
00:06:51of more than 1,300,000
00:06:55olive trees. So why did the
00:06:58regime adopt the policy of cutting olive trees in
00:07:01Idlib? The reasons varied, and the criminal
00:07:04is one. Some trees were uprooted to be used as firewood
00:07:08to heat its elements, and some were cut
00:07:12to expose military lines during battles, and some were
00:07:16cut out of a desire for revenge against the people
00:07:19of Idlib, for whom the olive crop
00:07:24families for many long years,
00:07:28to the extent that Idlib had
00:07:31a special festival for olives. And today,
00:07:34the festival was launched for the first time after liberation,
00:07:37in partnership between the Ministry of Agriculture
00:07:41and farmers. So what is the goal of holding it?
00:07:46the partnership between the Ministry
00:07:49of Agriculture and farmers,
00:07:51especially
00:07:54small farmers and even rural women and rural
00:07:57youth. So we work, through reforming agricultural policies,
00:08:00to compensate affected farmers,
00:08:03as you know, nearly one and a half million
00:08:06olive trees were uprooted before liberation.
00:08:10The Ministry of Agriculture has been working on this. The first of these challenges
00:08:14is to compensate farmers by providing them with seedlings. Last year, nearly
00:08:17250,000 seedlings, and this
00:08:21the number.
00:08:23So
00:08:28actual steps have begun to compensate affected
00:08:31farmers, as it is expected that this year will see the distribution
00:08:35of olive saplings twice the quantities distributed last
00:08:39year. The festival also saw the participation of 52
00:08:42entities. So who are the participants?
00:08:45Let's watch.
00:08:49Currently, we are at the first olive festival in
00:08:51Idlib. The number of participants is 52
00:08:55companies, 17 companies within
00:08:57rural development operations, and there are
00:09:0035 companies
00:09:03olives and their primary and secondary products. The importance
00:09:06of the festival, frankly, is that it is a general festival at the level of
00:09:10Syria. We had companies, official institutions from
00:09:14the directorate from other governorates, from five
00:09:16Syrian governorates, and there are local participants
00:09:20and companies working in the field of olives and
00:09:23olive primary and secondary products.
00:09:27So how did you comment and interact on
00:09:30the scenes of the Idlib Olive Festival activities?
00:09:34We start with Hasna's comment, who wrote on
00:09:36Facebook: Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds, we are back to the days
00:09:40of old. There's nothing better than the bitterness of olives in green
00:09:43Idlib. And we are back to seeing these beautiful atmospheres
00:09:46in Idlib. Alia commented
00:09:49and wrote: Idlib and olives
00:09:52is a story that never ends, for many years, and its people
00:09:55are known to care for their trees
00:09:59and live off their bounty. And God willing, its lands will return
00:10:02more beautiful than before and greenery will return. Maya
00:10:06commented and said:
00:10:08It is necessary for us to help each other to plant olive trees
00:10:13again. What a pity, by God, the sight of the cut trees
00:10:16is saddening. May God have mercy on the efforts of years and compensate every
00:10:20farmer who lost an olive tree. And God willing,
00:10:24we will see all of Idlib green, olives,
00:10:26and prosperity. We conclude with what Amina wrote on
00:10:30Facebook: Oh my, these beautiful
00:10:34festivals. May God protect the country and preserve security
00:10:37and safety. And hopefully the olive lands that were destroyed
00:10:41by the defunct regime and its elements will return anew
00:10:44with the efforts of the state and farmers, and we will see
00:10:47greenery and trees in Idlib anew.
00:10:51وجديد.
00:10:56The Idlib Agriculture Directorate, in cooperation with the Ministry
00:10:59of Agriculture, is working to compensate farmers with olive saplings
00:11:03to replant the lands that lost their productive
00:11:06trees due to fires
00:11:08and cutting by the defunct
00:11:12crop that constitutes a basic source of livelihood
00:11:15and provisions for many
00:11:17families.
00:11:30Does the quantity of olive oil
00:11:33extracted differ between traditional methods and modern
00:11:36presses? Yes, dear viewers, it differs, as
00:11:40the quantity of oil extracted
00:11:43using modern machines increases by a percentage
00:11:46ranging between 60 and
00:11:4870% compared to traditional methods. This
00:11:52is due to modern pressing and separation techniques that have
00:11:55contributed to reducing waste and increasing extraction
00:11:58efficiency. But what if the
00:12:02tool that is supposed
00:12:05the farmer is itself the cause
00:12:08of his loss? Yesterday, the Consumer Protection Directorate
00:12:11in Tartous Governorate stopped operations in one of the
00:12:15presses after a supervisory tour during which
00:12:18violations were found
00:12:21by the workers in it. So what is the nature of these
00:12:24violations? Let's listen. A technical violation
00:12:27was found during the inspection
00:12:30tour in one of the presses,
00:12:34the basic operating and production paths inside one of these
00:12:37presses. Through a detailed technical inspection of the production lines,
00:12:41a deliberate modification and tampering by those in charge of this
00:12:45press was noticed, as they proceeded to disconnect the line connecting
00:12:47the decanter and the separator towards towards
00:12:51the collection tank.
00:12:54So we are facing a case of fraud
00:12:58that involved separating the decanter from
00:13:00the separator. But what do these terms mean,
00:13:04and why is tampering with the workflow between
00:13:08of fraud? The tampering in this case
00:13:12affected the oil separation and extraction process,
00:13:14as the decanter separates the mixture
00:13:18of oil or pressed olives into different
00:13:22components, most notably oil, water, and solid
00:13:25materials. While the separator comes
00:13:28in a later stage to separate
00:13:31the oil from water and remaining impurities
00:13:35and obtain purer oil.
00:13:38Thus, tampering with the separation path affects the quantity
00:13:42of extracted oil that reaches the farmer,
00:13:45who may think that everything that reaches his tank
00:13:49represents his full production, while
00:13:52a part of the quantity does not reach him. So what measures were
00:13:56taken after detecting this violation?
00:13:59Let's listen. The necessary supply control report was prepared
00:14:03against the violator, and samples of the pomace and olive mill wastewater
00:14:06were taken and sent to the laboratory for analysis and to ensure their conformity to
00:14:10technical specifications.
00:14:12This story received widespread and significant interaction
00:14:16on social media platforms. So how did you comment on it?
00:14:19We start with Abu Ali's comment on
00:14:22Facebook: May God grant you strength.
00:14:26Every cheater must be held accountable and his
00:14:28punishment must be proportionate to everything he cheated
00:14:34from year to year, waiting for the season to live
00:14:37and feed his family. Adham wrote
00:14:41and said: This is not a supply violation;
00:14:44this is aggravated theft. The owner of the press, the machine
00:14:47technician, and whoever designed the conversion must be registered.
00:14:51Shame on them for taking people's rights in this way.
00:14:55Ghanem wrote and commented:
00:14:58It's unbelievable that a farmer works hard all season and spends from
00:15:02his pocket, and in the end, someone comes and steals from his produce
00:15:05in this way. The press is a trust, and people's rights must
00:15:09be preserved, and whoever cheats must
00:15:12be held accountable. Jamal commented
00:15:15and said: I just want to understand
00:15:18how you feed yourself and your children from the sweat of the farmer who
00:15:22waits for his full season, a year,
00:15:25and perhaps owns nothing else? And God has blessed
00:15:28you with a press and customers who come to you,
00:15:32and perhaps you work more than him and earn
00:15:35double. We conclude with what Ibrahim wrote on
00:15:39Facebook: By God, it is greed
00:15:42and covetousness. The season was good and people worked hard all
00:15:46year to earn their living. It's unbelievable that someone exploits
00:15:49the farmers' efforts and takes their rights in this way.
00:15:53Where is the conscience? Thank you for your efforts on these
00:15:56necessary tours.
00:16:02The Assistant Director of Internal Trade in Tartous, Ismail
00:16:06Zaim, confirmed the continuation of supervisory
00:16:10tours on the governorate's presses to guarantee
00:16:12farmers' rights and monitor the extent of presses' compliance with the specified regulations.
00:16:29Sometimes chivalry, valor,
00:16:32and courage cost money, time,
00:16:36and comfort, but they cost life. Abu
00:16:40Al-Tayyib Al-Mutanabbi said in that: Generosity impoverishes
00:16:44and daring kills. This
00:16:47is what happened to the young man Nour
00:16:50Lababidi in Aleppo. What is the story? Nour
00:16:55in Aleppo who were harassing a woman, so he intervened
00:16:59to defend her. He could have ignored
00:17:02the situation and moved on, but he chose to defend
00:17:05her, so the criminals stabbed him and killed
00:17:09him. The pursuit of the perpetrators did not last
00:17:13long. Internal security units immediately pursued them,
00:17:16and in less than 20 hours,
00:17:19both were arrested and referred to the competent
00:17:22judiciary to receive their just punishment. So the
00:17:25crime did not go unpunished. Nour returned
00:17:29to Syria only four months ago, a return
00:17:32that was supposed to be a new beginning,
00:17:35according to his brother. He studied in Saudi Arabia, then moved
00:17:39to Turkey for study, and after he finished
00:17:42his studies, he returned to Syria for his
00:17:46life to end there. Nour's story sparked a great
00:17:49and wide interaction on social media platforms.
00:17:53Let's review some of your comments. We start with Mohammed
00:17:56Ashtara's comment, who wrote on Facebook:
00:18:00He did not stand by and did not say "it's
00:18:03none of my business." Instead, the zeal of free men moved him, so he defended his life
00:18:08as the price for his chivalry. If salt can mend
00:18:13hero is the purity of the earth and the cleanliness
00:18:17of society, which proves that goodness
00:18:20not die. Mohab Rashid commented
00:18:23and wrote: How close that death is to
00:18:27all of us. A young man sitting peacefully, complaining of nothing,
00:18:31and perhaps laughing, and in
00:18:34less than a minute, he passed away to the mercy
00:18:37of Allah. May Allah protect us and you from death
00:18:41by heedlessness. Samir wrote or Samar wrote
00:18:45and commented: People's rights and lives
00:18:48are not cheap, and what happened in Aleppo, a heinous
00:18:51crime, bleeds our hearts all. We demand
00:18:55the competent judicial and official authorities to impose the harshest
00:18:58deterrent penalties on the criminals
00:19:01and killer to be a lesson for anyone who dares
00:19:05to tamper with the lives of innocent people. As for
00:19:08Anwar, he commented and wrote: After
00:19:12we saw the video, we must know that our actions are accounted
00:19:15for. The lady who appeared in the video, if she had acted
00:19:18wisely, perhaps she could have prevented
00:19:21the incident. They said bad things to you, complain about them to the
00:19:25police station. We conclude with Hamza Sawas's comment, who
00:19:29wrote on Facebook: How can
00:19:32a person reach this level of criminality
00:19:35and coldness and kill a young man so simply,
00:19:38as if he is ending the life of a worthless
00:19:41creature? Nour is not just a name
00:19:44in the news. Nour is a human being who had a life
00:19:48and a future and a family waiting for him to return.
00:19:51In one moment, everything ended because of a situation that
00:19:54could have happened to any one
00:19:56of us.
00:20:00The Ministry of Interior continues to strengthen the community
00:20:03security system by intensifying follow-up and prosecution
00:20:07operations against perpetrators of crimes, especially murder,
00:20:11kidnapping, and extortion, to ensure the protection of citizens
00:20:14and establish a safe and stable environment.
00:20:29In 2013,
00:20:32a tweet was published on the Associated
00:20:35Press (AP)
00:20:37American agency's Twitter account (formerly X). What
00:20:41did it say? This tweet said that two explosions occurred at the White
00:20:45House and that the then-American president,
00:20:48Barack Obama,
00:20:51was injured. The tweet was false, but the markets
00:20:54treated it as real news, so the
00:20:58Dow Jones Industrial Average fell
00:21:01and its shares lost $136
00:21:05billion. So who was
00:21:09person, dear viewers, is Ahmed Omar Agha,
00:21:13known in cyberspace as
00:21:15"The Pro." He was part of a group known as
00:21:19"The Syrian Electronic Army," which worked
00:21:22for the defunct regime. An American court
00:21:25convicted him of participating in hacking approximately
00:21:2947 entities between
00:21:322011 and 2014,
00:21:35including media organizations, companies,
00:21:38non-governmental organizations, and American
00:21:41and Western government entities as well. His operations
00:21:46markets; he also hacked a company
00:21:50that hosted the recruitment website of the U.S. Marine
00:21:53Corps, and he redirected
00:21:56website visitors to an image calling on soldiers to refuse
00:22:00orders and fight alongside the defunct regime's
00:22:04army. Approximately 3,500 potential
00:22:08visitors saw this image. He also
00:22:11tried twice to take control of the White House's
00:22:15social media pages, and this was done by
00:22:18stealing email data of its
00:22:21employees. He succeeded once in entering one of their
00:22:25emails, but he failed to trick the other
00:22:29employees into accessing the pages. According to
00:22:32the U.S. Department of Justice, Agha was
00:22:35not working alone. These operations were organized
00:22:39and led by those close to the head of the defunct
00:22:42regime, including the former head of the General
00:22:45Intelligence Directorate. Their goal was to spread
00:22:49the defunct regime's propaganda, collect information for its benefit,
00:22:51intimidate its opponents, and punish
00:22:55media outlets that reported its violations.
00:22:58That's why Agha is described as
00:23:01the defunct regime's hacker. A few days ago,
00:23:04a federal court in Virginia sentenced
00:23:08Agha to 42 months in prison after being a fugitive
00:23:13since his indictment in 2014.
00:23:16This incident sparked
00:23:20a great and wide interaction on social
00:23:23media a few days ago. So what were
00:23:25the comments like? We start with Ghaith's comment, who wrote on
00:23:29X: They should also be investigated for their responsibility
00:23:32for widespread hacking attempts, which
00:23:36undoubtedly led to the arrest and killing
00:23:39activists. Hussam Al-Khoja commented
00:23:42and wrote: I think their hacking
00:23:46method was through the CDs in the mission.
00:23:50They spied on most of the people or something. An internet cafe
00:23:53with a flash drive or monitoring communications. God knows
00:23:57how many young people were caught because of them. Mohammed
00:24:01Al-Hasan wrote and commented: The crimes
00:24:03committed in the service of the criminal, overthrown Assad
00:24:07regime, whether
00:24:11cyberspace, will not fade from our memory
00:24:14just because years pass.
00:24:17Ibrahim Abdullah commented and wrote:
00:24:20Strange, a person with this mentality and this
00:24:23intelligence, instead of benefiting from his talents and abilities,
00:24:27decided to spend his life promoting the fugitive
00:24:30who left and abandoned them all behind. This is a true
00:24:34example of a lack of insight. We conclude with
00:24:38Mohammed Alaa Ghanem's comment, who wrote on
00:24:41X: This case should remind
00:24:45researchers and historians of that
00:24:47era that the war waged
00:24:51Syrians was not solely with weapons, but extended
00:24:55to cyberspace, where his regime used hacking,
00:24:59misinformation, and intimidation as other tools in confronting
00:25:02the Syrian revolution.
00:25:03And with this
00:25:11story, dear viewers, we have come to the end of
00:25:14Astoria's stories for today. Our appointment with you is renewed tomorrow,
00:25:18God willing, at 6 PM on
00:25:20the Syrian News channel. Thank you for your time and good follow-up.
00:25:23Stay well. Goodbye.
00:26:32the President and the accompanying delegation. This confirms
00:26:35the strength and solidity of the relationship between Iraq
00:26:39and Syria. We hope this will be a good start
00:26:42for future and strategic projects, God willing.
00:26:45The two countries are bound by
00:26:50very strong historical ties. There are also economic ties.
00:26:54This is a weapon.
00:27:01We are very happy, by God, with this
00:27:04warm reception. We see that your hearts
00:27:08welcomed us before your eyes. Geography says
00:27:12that the neighbor is the one whose house is closer,
00:27:15but wisdom says that the one whose blood is closer.
00:27:19And God willing, the blood of Iraq and the blood of Syria is one blood,
00:27:22and perhaps our blood is both, plus we have shed a lot
00:27:25of blood. We and you are, God
00:27:28willing, one people living in two countries. We want
00:27:32to revive our history, we want to restore economic
00:27:34cooperation, political cooperation, unite
00:27:39the Arab level or the Islamic world.
00:27:43Your security is our security,
00:27:46and vice versa. And God willing,
00:27:48soon we await your arrival. You will honor us in
00:27:52your second country, and you will be the hosts
00:27:55and we will be the guests. May God
00:27:57bless you. Okay.
00:28:00It is very important that
00:28:03we invest your presence today in your second country,
00:28:07Damascus, so that we can begin a roadmap, God
00:28:09willing, that will be long and sustainable.