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00:00:1724 million cubic meters of
00:00:23Peace be upon you. A detailed news bulletin. We start with the headlines.
00:00:26Minister
00:00:29of Energy. Signing
00:00:31the presentation. From the day we started it, from a contract to build four new power plants to generate
00:00:34electricity in a number of
00:00:38Tartous, a number of
00:00:39the opinion of some people governorates. The Israeli occupation targets Bir Ajam forest west of
00:00:43which is its duty, to be Zubaydah in the central Quneitra countryside. about the prices of goods and commodities
00:00:44Protests in Al-Hasakah
00:00:47due to salaries
00:00:50and fuel, and the governor
00:00:52meat, meets Chicken,
00:00:54in Syria?
00:00:55put into operation. 10 new wells were brought into with the protesters.
00:00:57production, drilled and brought into The United States warns its citizens in the Middle East region.
00:01:00And Trump suddenly cuts
00:01:08to the kilo
00:01:1230,000 barrels daily of
00:01:23the Council of Ministers, and so on. But in The Minister of Energy revealed during a hearing session in the People's Assembly that the ministry signed
00:01:28previous statements and a number of contracts to establish four new gas power plants
00:01:32to generate electricity in a number of
00:01:36governorates, including Deir Ezzor and Hama.
00:01:39By signing a contract to establish
00:01:42million cubic meters of four new gas plants, a combined cycle
00:01:44for these four plants, one of them in Muharda, one of them
00:01:47in Aleppo, one of them in Deir Ezzor, God willing, Deir Ezzor, imagine Deir Ezzor province
00:01:51until now there is no power plant. There is one in Al-Suwaidiyah near Al-Hasakah
00:01:55and it is very small. So we will build
00:01:58they perceive in a new power plant in Deir Ezzor and we have started on it, we have prepared
00:02:00the companies, God willing, so these four plants will
00:02:04And we buy one million cubic meters of be one in Aleppo, one in Zayzoun
00:02:06gas from Aqaba, from - the old plant that was destroyed - one in
00:02:09Deir Ezzor at Al-Taim
00:02:12figures he announced and in Hama at Muharda and in Aleppo, the Tarifawi area and Zayzoun
00:02:15with a capacity of 4000 MW, God willing, three of them will be ready
00:02:19in 2029 and one of them will be in
00:02:212030, God willing, these
00:02:246.3 million cubic meters of 4000 MW will be connected to the grid. Al-Bashir said
00:02:27that Syria needs about 800-131
00:02:32million dollars monthly to purchase oil derivatives and crude
00:02:35oil, pointing to the trend towards contracting with friendly
00:02:40So he insisted on the figures in a way that is, countries that produce fuel to secure needs until
00:02:43the country can achieve self-sufficiency.
00:02:46amounts were 3.2, half of this Our vision is to move towards a contract with friendly
00:02:48and sisterly countries that produce fuel until we achieve self-sufficiency, God willing,
00:02:52and then we will get rid of all these crises and these problems that the energy
00:02:56sector is going through. So we practically need
00:03:01providing us with the full cost of this 831 million dollars, nearly a billion dollars, to buy oil
00:03:04and oil derivatives. Al-Bashir added that
00:03:08electricity supply forced oil production in Syria reached about
00:03:11140,000 barrels daily
00:03:14during a previous short period. He explained that oil production
00:03:17fluctuates due to
00:03:20conditions related to the situation of wells, production,
00:03:24and transportation operations.
00:03:26The situation of the wells, we reduced it greatly.
00:03:30We used to produce 14,000 on, I mean,
00:03:33in the occasion of the exposure in the statements, how it was 140 and today
00:03:3710,000 or
00:03:39media reported that a force 144. Of course, we used to produce about 140,000
00:03:42of several tranches of barrels. Of course, people, it doesn't mean that for example, today I say
00:03:44140,000 or today we produce 10,000 or 103,000, it means that tomorrow it must be
00:03:4810,000. It could become 100,000, it could become
00:03:5111,000. I mean, a few days ago, when fuel prices were raised,
00:03:56of neutralizing the infrastructure you saw road closures, crude oil stopped flowing here. The storage tanks that we
00:04:00now were filling stopped. Some wells stopped production, and production dropped to 98. So it's natural
00:04:04when I say my production today is 98, and the day before it was 18, today
00:04:0814.
00:04:09the distributor, from So this is not a contradiction in statements. We reached a stage where it was 140
00:04:13thousand. Al-Bashir also noted that
00:04:17Syria's crude oil reserves amount to about
00:04:202.5 billion barrels,
00:04:23and explained that Syria has
00:04:26level, I benefited a lot in this 78 oil fields
00:04:28out military security operations starting with four gas-fired plants and 28 gas fields. The oil and gas wealth in Syria,
00:04:32we have 78 oil
00:04:35competition in partnerships with fields, 28 gas is reflected on fields. Our reserves are
00:04:37In fact, we have many 2.5 billion barrels of crude oil and 241. Of course, these are based on
00:04:40old surveys,
00:04:42nonsense, perhaps we have not conducted a survey yet. Currently,
00:04:46we have formed a committee from geology to survey
00:04:49in the hands of... This is something that oil and gas and the thermal map for
00:04:53even let enter our concerns, or even geothermal energy, in addition to the issue of generating energy from
00:04:56subsurface heat for geothermal. Regarding gas, Al-Bashir said that
00:05:00Syria's gas demand is 24
00:05:03million cubic meters
00:05:05and cannot afford daily, while local production
00:05:07due to their work, food, reaches about 8 million cubic
00:05:10meters daily. Al-Bashir indicated that the refining capacity
00:05:14of refineries in Syria reaches about
00:05:1615,000 barrels daily.
00:05:20Of course, Syria's gas needs are 24 million cubic
00:05:23meters to operate all our currently available plants.
00:05:26We need
00:05:29gas, which we will get, God willing. Today we are producing 6 million, I mean
00:05:33a quarter, sorry, we were producing 6, we raised it to 8.1 after
00:05:37we introduced part of the Conoco plant. Of course, yesterday it was
00:05:398.4, the day we counted
00:05:43Wednesday and Thursday, it was 8, yesterday it was 8.4 or
00:05:478.5 million cubic meters. Before that, it reached 9 million, according to the same
00:05:51story of oil, closing wells and bringing new wells into service, reactivating
00:05:55drilling operations. We drilled about 4,840
00:05:58meters and brought two rigs into service after they were idle
00:06:02and stopped. 21 wells were
00:06:04repaired and 152 wells were
00:06:09production. This is a balance.
00:06:13And this is a very important point. The balance of Syria's needs.
00:06:16We need about 30,000 barrels
00:06:20daily of crude oil. We need
00:06:25crude oil to cover Syria's needs. I mentioned
00:06:28earlier last year that when the ministry was first established,
00:06:32we had 150,000 barrels, right? I mean, it
00:06:35used to cover our needs. We buy crude oil and refine it in our refineries. Banias
00:06:39was operating and Homs refinery was operating from production. From the refineries,
00:06:42we cover the local market, and this was when Syria's consumption was
00:06:4615,000. Al-Bashir explained that Syria
00:06:50currently buys about 6.3
00:06:55gas daily from Azerbaijan, in addition to
00:06:58quantities supplied through a ship located in
00:07:02the Jordanian port of Aqaba at a cost of about
00:07:05140 million dollars
00:07:08monthly. We are now buying gas five.
00:07:13From the north of Azerbaijan to Turkey.
00:07:18Jordan, from Aqaba. There is a ship there. The important thing is that Jordan, Jordan does not have gas,
00:07:22it is already an importer. So there is a ship that converts
00:07:25LNG to gas and pumps it
00:07:28into the Arab gas pipeline. We receive it in Syria and transfer it to
00:07:31power plants, the Deir Ali plant generates electricity. So I am practically buying
00:07:36gas daily. I am paying, before now, gas prices have risen. We were not
00:07:40paying this amount. We are paying currently about
00:07:43140 million dollars for the gas, which is 6.3
00:07:47million cubic meters monthly for electricity generation. 14 million.
00:07:51Of course, part of it was a grant from Qatar, thank you, but the grant ended
00:07:55in August, and these
00:07:58half was purchased. Now it's all purchased, we're buying
00:08:02it all and paying for it. That's why when the fuel crisis occurred recently
00:08:06and gas prices rose significantly, the Ministry of Finance did not budget
00:08:09for
00:08:13gas. So we will reduce our gas purchases by
00:08:172 to 3 million during the coming period. Of course, this will
00:08:21affect electricity generation and the number of connection hours
00:08:24for electricity.
00:08:26On the sidelines of the hearing session for Minister of Energy Muhammad al-Bashir,
00:08:30members of the People's Assembly confirmed to Syria TV
00:08:34that this session came as a quick response
00:08:37to the demands of the street after raising fuel prices
00:08:40and that the Energy Committee drafted questions
00:08:43that represent the voice of the citizen before the executive authority.
00:08:55This session was a quick response, a quick response
00:08:58to the demands of the people after raising fuel prices.
00:09:01The second thing is that the questions submitted by the Energy Committee were not questions
00:09:05that were formulated in half an hour. For a week now,
00:09:09there have been specialists and engineers
00:09:13who wrote reports and came with statistics and formulated these
00:09:16questions in a way that represents the voice of the citizen
00:09:19before, I mean, the executive authority, and at the same
00:09:23time, propose recommendations and solutions. I mean, in the end, when
00:09:26the question is submitted by specialists, the picture is complete before
00:09:29the Ministry of Energy, and indeed, I mean, the briefing
00:09:32of the Minister of Energy and his answers to
00:09:36the questions today, I mean, on a personal
00:09:39sector, even though I am not a specialist, because he presented
00:09:42it in a way that reaches the citizen's ear
00:09:44directly.
00:09:49questions and suggestions. Now the entire Syrian people
00:09:53are waiting for this session, waiting for its outcomes, waiting for convincing
00:09:57answers for what happened regarding the fuel price increase that affected people's
00:10:01livelihoods and thus reflected negatively within Syrian
00:10:04society. This matter needs to be addressed, it needs future
00:10:07plans to be put in place to prevent this from happening again.
00:10:10To prevent the recurrence
00:10:12of sudden fuel price increases that citizens wake up to
00:10:19and daily income.
00:10:23For more, we have our correspondent
00:10:28Hazem Awad from Damascus. Hazem, if some members of the Syrian People's
00:10:31Assembly said that this
00:10:35session came in response to the demands of the street today,
00:10:38after the hearing session for the Minister of Energy, and you are in the field, what are the reactions?
00:10:42Honestly,
00:10:47the Syrians were waiting throughout this period, which some
00:10:50considered short, but it was long. It included protests
00:10:54and road closures during, I mean,
00:10:57a whole week. The session was postponed from Thursday to Sunday.
00:11:00It was, I mean, in
00:11:04in the Syrian street, and here specifically we are talking about Damascus, that it was late
00:11:08and was a repetition of some information that
00:11:11Syrians already know, in addition to the fact that
00:11:15the Minister of Energy himself had come out on Thursday and also spoke
00:11:18about some details in a press conference related
00:11:21to the reasons for raising fuel prices when he announced
00:11:25the segmentation of diesel into three
00:11:28tranches. Of course, this session
00:11:32was a hearing session for some questions submitted by the People's Assembly
00:11:36to the Minister of Energy. Some of the questions had clear
00:11:40answers regarding why prices were raised,
00:11:43which is probably the most prominent question: why did the ministry
00:11:46raise prices by these percentages? He affirmed that there
00:11:50is a mix between some
00:11:53the current reality. He said, which probably justifies what some
00:11:57referred to as a contradiction in statements, that previously,
00:12:00before the return of northeastern Syria to the control
00:12:04of the Syrian state, 15,000 barrels daily
00:12:07were sufficient. But after the return of those areas
00:12:10to the Syrian government, those areas started taking
00:12:14oil through the state. The unofficial wells
00:12:17stopped, in addition to the increase
00:12:20in the number of cars and the increase in production and changing circumstances.
00:12:25Naturally, from last year to this year,
00:12:28the need increased to 30,000 barrels.
00:12:32And he said that the capacity of the refineries is
00:12:3515,000, and therefore the ministry imports
00:12:38the rest through imports. He also spoke about some
00:12:42contradictions that some talked about regarding gas. He also
00:12:46said that the actual need is 24 million cubic
00:12:49meters. Syria imports today
00:12:516.33
00:12:54about 8 million cubic meters. He also mentioned
00:12:58a point he said was perhaps a turning point during the past
00:13:01week, also discussed by some, regarding oil exports or the news of oil exports.
00:13:05It was previously promoted. He said that some do not know that
00:13:08Syria's production of heavy oil, part of
00:13:12it is stored, and therefore it is not refined,
00:13:16then it is collected and exported
00:13:19because it is heavy oil. He also said that the ministry was
00:13:22faced with two options: either to reduce production
00:13:26or to raise prices. But the demands of the tourism sector and the industrial
00:13:29sector for continuous
00:13:33the ministry to continue importing gas to generate
00:13:37electricity, and therefore prices were raised. There is also an important point during
00:13:40this session, and perhaps it is what
00:13:43people are discussing today, which is the issue of the smart card. The minister
00:13:47explicitly stated that if the members of the People's
00:13:50Assembly wished to return to supporting 50 liters of diesel for some
00:13:54occupied families through the smart card,
00:13:57they should submit this proposal, and he would agree to it.
00:14:00However, this proposal may fuel the black market, and at the same
00:14:04time, he said that the proposal
00:14:07diesel for several segments of
00:14:10society may involve
00:14:14some fraud, and he said that there may be fraud
00:14:17later. Both methods may have
00:14:20some negatives, but perhaps this is the point that the street is discussing
00:14:24today after this session regarding the smart
00:14:27card. There was also talk about the issue of electricity, and he
00:14:31also explained the issue of electricity. As we said a little while ago, there
00:14:35was an option either
00:14:38to stop generation or to continue importing
00:14:42to generate electricity. So he said
00:14:46that there is a problem with the infrastructure, but there are projects
00:14:51that are being worked on. There is a plant and
00:14:55a Turkish company is working on it. He also spoke
00:14:58about transmission lines and towers that are undergoing maintenance, but the rehabilitation
00:15:02process did not exceed 8%.
00:15:05He also spoke about distribution lines within neighborhoods, saying that
00:15:08they are dilapidated. There was also a project, and this is an important point, he said
00:15:12there is an idea to offer this for rehabilitation through a private company, but
00:15:16private companies want profits from this
00:15:19step. Otherwise, the Ministry of Energy
00:15:22decided to postpone this. He also pointed
00:15:25to the smart meter project, which may regulate
00:15:28consumption in the energy sector. He said that there
00:15:32is a contract with a Chinese company to supply
00:15:35meters
00:15:37for water and electricity. Also, regarding water, as the Ministry of Energy
00:15:41has several files under it,
00:15:45including water, gas,
00:15:47and fuel. He spoke about water and about projects related
00:15:51to building new dams, bringing water to Al-Hasakah and Deir
00:15:55Ezzor, in addition to bringing some fresh
00:15:58water that flows into the seas to be
00:16:01utilized. Thank you very much, from Damascus, you were
00:16:05with us.
00:16:09We have with us now Dr. Abdel Moneim Al-Halabi, academic and economic expert
00:16:13directly from Gaziantep. Welcome, Dr. Abdel
00:16:15Moneim. Did you listen at first
00:16:18to the answers of the Minister of Energy in the meeting session in
00:16:22the People's Assembly, and were you convinced by the justifications provided
00:16:25regarding the increase in fuel prices
00:16:31In reality, I did not have the opportunity to follow the session and its events
00:16:35live. But through the presentation method,
00:16:38we understood that it was, as the Minister described it, a "presentation" in every
00:16:42sense of the word. An introduction and a
00:16:46main body containing a large number of
00:16:49known details and figures that could have, or
00:16:53it would have been better if they were presented in another session, a session with
00:16:57investors, a session of
00:17:00reality, we were surprised by the
00:17:03enormous amount of details. It seems that being overwhelmed with details
00:17:07was a suitable entry point for the Minister during the previous
00:17:11preparation period. Also, members of the People's Assembly
00:17:15did not perhaps have the opportunity
00:17:19to raise the issues
00:17:22behind the increase in fuel prices.
00:17:25We are talking about cross-border partnerships. No
00:17:29questions were raised about where we import
00:17:32our
00:17:35oil derivatives from. Also, the partnerships that were
00:17:38signed for billions during the past period in which the People's Assembly
00:17:41was absent. Then regarding the discussion
00:17:44of the figures, the Minister insisted on the large
00:17:49about Syria's needs, which are, as I told you
00:17:52on a previous occasion, the same needs as Syria in 2010
00:17:55when Syria was producing 65 billion
00:17:59dollars of GDP and 10 or 15 billion added
00:18:03to it by the unofficial parallel economy.
00:18:06And we are now unable,
00:18:09and we cannot even be half of what the situation was
00:18:13in 2010.
00:18:17in reality, a rhetorical way. There are no
00:18:20statistics, there is no. But Dr. Abdel Moneim, I mean, when talking
00:18:23about what Syria needs today, it represents what it
00:18:27needed before the fall of the regime. But today,
00:18:30there is also a regional war, there is a war on Iran,
00:18:34there are problems at the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab al-Mandab
00:18:37Strait as well. Therefore, this affects the movement of energy and energy
00:18:41supplies in the region in general. No, he is talking about the quantities.
00:18:45The quantities are production inputs and consumption inputs.
00:18:48I am not talking about price levels. Perhaps, of course,
00:18:51price levels are much higher now. In
00:18:552008, for example, as far as I remember, the government
00:18:58or the state raised a significant
00:19:02portion of its diesel subsidy, so the liter price rose
00:19:05from seven Syrian pounds to 25. This incident is known to all of us, but
00:19:09in return, checks were distributed, what we used to call
00:19:12diesel checks, if you remember,
00:19:161000 liters for each family at seven
00:19:19Syrian pounds. Also, at the subsidized price before
00:19:23the increase, he is talking about the quantities. Quantities are
00:19:26production inputs. Are we producing today as we were producing in 2010?
00:19:30No. Are we consuming today as we were consuming in
00:19:332010? Also, no. Perhaps the issue of cars
00:19:38has come into play on a wide scale and is not studied. Then it was curbed
00:19:41in a shock manner. I don't
00:19:44know many details, but what we
00:19:48want is for the government's logic
00:19:51to be the logic of study, research, survey,
00:19:54and statistics. Studies,
00:19:57figures, a third party verifying these
00:20:00figures, and then building plans based on them with
00:20:03full transparency for all partnerships that take place.
00:20:08Today, for example, the issue of whether there is fair
00:20:12abroad, or whether political relations play the primary role.
00:20:16Today, the street is actually talking
00:20:20not true, that everything is in the hands
00:20:23of America, in the hands of Thomas Brack,
00:20:27we Syrians should not
00:20:31our political or economic subconscious, or the life
00:20:34we live. Why? Because transparency is weak. Statistics
00:20:38are absent, and economic partnerships are built on political relations.
00:20:42Ah, Dr. Abdul Moneim, there was a striking point mentioned by
00:20:45our correspondent, which is the issue of announcing the possibility or
00:20:49the approval
00:20:51of returning to the smart card option and harsh electricity rationing
00:20:55if that is passed through the People's Assembly. What do you think
00:20:58about this option proposed by Minister of Energy Mohammed
00:21:01Al-Bashir? I mean, in reality,
00:21:05it is a strange matter,
00:21:07and I heard it from your
00:21:11correspondent's report, but is it reasonable to talk about
00:21:15a subsidy of 50 liters? How many days
00:21:17will these 50 liters last? Ten days, for example?
00:21:20And why use the People's Assembly
00:21:24to pass such decisions?
00:21:28Let the government take the initiative to do what it can,
00:21:33present in such circumstances with the Syrian citizen in
00:21:36his economic needs, especially in the coming period.
00:21:39Then let this
00:21:43initiative be evaluated by the members of the People's Assembly, who should advocate
00:21:47for raising the ceiling of this support today. And I reiterate
00:21:50the figures that talk about the huge
00:21:53government expenditures, billions of dollars in administrative
00:21:56expenditures, apart from salaries and wages, compared
00:21:59to a few hundred millions
00:22:02for supporting the Syrian society
00:22:05and supporting the Syrian citizen. This approach in itself
00:22:09indicates clearly a structural
00:22:12flaw, a political flaw,
00:22:16and an economic, social, and a flaw in the government's
00:22:19view towards... Thank you very much, Dr. Abdul Moneim Al-Halabi,
00:22:23academic and economic expert from Gaziantep.
00:22:24From
00:22:28the People's Assembly hearing session on rising fuel prices
00:22:31to the markets, where attention is focused on the movement
00:22:35of food prices in conjunction with the new pricing
00:22:38of fuel and the decline in the exchange rate of the Syrian pound
00:22:41against the dollar. Syria TV surveyed residents' opinions
00:22:45on the changes
00:22:48the markets.
00:22:51There has been an increase in prices, almost 20% in ghee, oils,
00:22:55tea, and sugar. All food items
00:22:59have increased by almost 70%. All imported
00:23:02items have increased, and even local transportation costs have increased. Honestly,
00:23:06we were a bit affected by the rise in diesel prices. Things were affected. The dollar goes up by 300
00:23:10pounds, and traders raise prices by 4000-5000 pounds for every
00:23:14commodity, like ghee, sugar, rice, everything. Everything
00:23:18is getting more expensive. Rice, sugar was 8,
00:23:21oil was 24, now it's 27, 28.
00:23:25I mean, everything is getting more expensive, everything is getting more expensive. It's the traders' game, the traders
00:23:28in the markets. First, this oil that we are drinking
00:23:31and eating, for example, sugar, sugar is 10, 10.5,
00:23:3511, 99.
00:23:39Sugar, sugar, is it really fair that this is also expensive?
00:23:43How much is rice today? How is it 10.5 and 11?
00:23:46Walnut rice. It used to be
00:23:4950, now it's 80, it's 90. I bought
00:23:52a medium type, almost, or red.
00:23:5565,000. Prices, my son, prices are really high.
00:23:59By God, anything you want to buy, you can't, it's very
00:24:02expensive. The children will be deprived of fruit. Fruit
00:24:05is so expensive. If you want to cook, you'll spend
00:24:0920,000 and move on, and it will be a normal dish.
00:24:13Honestly, I see all food items are high-priced. Sugar, rice,
00:24:16thyme, oil,
00:24:20everything, everything is high-priced food items.
00:24:23Every two days we hear that the dollar has risen
00:24:27and the dollar is this and that. Now this oil is expensive. Now
00:24:31previously this was 20, 21. Now I bought it for
00:24:3427, and this does not suit the citizen's income.
00:24:38And
00:24:41from Hama to Homs, where residents spoke to Syria TV about
00:24:45the prices of goods and food items and the sales activity
00:24:48in the city's markets.
00:24:56Prices are increasing every day from
00:24:59the farmer. The cost is high, transportation is expensive, everything
00:25:03is, I mean, there is no balance in prices. Banks
00:25:06and something else, for example, you have meat exports. This is all being paid for
00:25:10in dollars. Gulf countries are coming and buying,
00:25:13paying, and the Syrian people are deprived of all of this. Yes,
00:25:16prices have risen with the rise of the dollar and the difficult
00:25:20living conditions we are experiencing now. All of this
00:25:25the entire society. The rise in prices is the cause of instability
00:25:28in the country, because the country is still unstable. If the country's situation were stable, prices would
00:25:32be fixed, for sure. But the country's situation is still unstable, so there will be
00:25:35instability. This is 100% natural, because our country's
00:25:39situation is still unstable, meaning we still need another three
00:25:43or four years for the country's situation to relax a bit. Now, regarding vegetable
00:25:46prices, it's a huge amount, a huge amount.
00:25:49And market activity is completely dead, honestly,
00:25:52the market is completely gone here in Homs. The reason
00:25:56nobody knows. And the consequence of
00:25:59petrol is what affected us and affected all the people.
00:26:02All prices, may God help the people. A worker works but cannot
00:26:06afford to eat. I mean,
00:26:10work is scarce, and he runs here
00:26:13and there, but he can't catch up. And if someone has a sick person, woe to him.
00:26:17I mean, just let there be work in this country for these people to work,
00:26:19and prices won't matter. Just let there be
00:26:22work. What matters is for these young people to be employed
00:26:25and work. And prices, we don't care
00:26:29about prices as much as we care about work for these young people.
00:26:33In
00:26:41residents spoke to Syria TV
00:26:44in the markets.
00:26:45We continue.
00:26:55ordinary goods, their prices have risen.
00:26:58And vegetables are still cheap.
00:27:02And things are going well. They say that diesel prices
00:27:06have gone up, so they are adding, for example, 2000 Syrian pounds
00:27:11of chicken. So hopefully this crisis will pass,
00:27:14and we hope prices will go down and return to how they
00:27:17were before, and we will go back to how we
00:27:20were before. I mean, in the end, we want prices to go down,
00:27:23for sure, not to go up, because we are the ones who are paying in the end. We are buying essential
00:27:27goods. Now, of course, the fuel
00:27:31prices have reflected on the prices of vegetables,
00:27:34chicken, meat, and transportation, it's all connected,
00:27:37you know? And vegetables as well, I mean,
00:27:41food items, I mean, generally, everything
00:27:44is expensive. We want to buy, for example, a kilo of tomatoes, they say it's expensive because of
00:27:48transportation. A kilo of tomatoes, for example, used to be five, now it's 10. Cucumbers
00:27:52are the same, 15.
00:27:55For example, any goods I want to buy. Yesterday, yesterday I bought oil, I used to buy it for
00:27:58105, today, yesterday I bought it for 12,000. This is injustice,
00:28:02I mean, it's unfair to the citizen. Every thing they tell you is because of the dollar or the rise
00:28:05in fuel prices, everything is expensive. the price of gasoline
00:28:09and fuel and everything
00:28:13rises with the dollar, but prices fall when
00:28:16the dollar falls, but prices don't fall.
00:28:19Prices are always rising and not
00:28:23falling with the dollar
00:28:24at all.
00:28:40The Israeli occupation forces shelled the village of
00:28:43Al-Rafid in the southern Quneitra countryside
00:28:46with four artillery shells, as part of a series
00:28:49of shelling and incursions that the southern Syrian
00:28:52region witnessed today. This comes amid continued Israeli
00:28:56attacks on areas in the south of the country,
00:29:00where the occupation carries out repeated incursions,
00:29:04shelling, and kidnappings in Quneitra and Daraa countryside.
00:29:18We remain in the south of the country, where the Israeli
00:29:22occupation army blew up former military sites near Qalaat
00:29:25Jandal in Jabal al-Sheikh in the western
00:29:29Damascus countryside, according to Syria TV correspondent.
00:29:32Our correspondent added that the sites that were blown
00:29:36up belonged to the deposed regime. For its part, Israeli
00:29:41from the third company of Reserve Battalion
00:29:4474/90, affiliated with the Golan
00:29:48Brigade and Sheikh Brigade 474, blew up
00:29:51a Syrian site it described as advanced in the Jabal
00:29:55al-Sheikh area, with the aim
00:29:58in the border area, according to its expression.
00:30:07With us now from Quneitra is our correspondent Muhammad
00:30:10Fahd. Muhammad, let's start with Qalaat
00:30:13Jandal in Jabal al-Sheikh. What do we know about
00:30:17the military sites that the occupation army blew up
00:30:20there? Yes, Alaa, indeed, the Israeli occupation army
00:30:24advanced towards these points, towards Jabal al-Sheikh in general, after the fall of the defunct regime.
00:30:28And today, it is carrying
00:30:31towards this mountain. Today, in the morning, it advanced
00:30:34towards this point, called Tal Antar,
00:30:38and destroyed the military
00:30:41infrastructure in this area. It targeted it, shelled it,
00:30:44and completely destroyed it
00:30:47by the Israeli forces that advanced towards this
00:30:51area this morning. Of course, it is an area