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00:00:07And for the residents of the area, the
00:00:15A statement issued by the residents on
00:00:25in addition to, that is, a part of in the car works, their lands and stop construction work on
00:00:34Some comments on this
00:00:40the Syrian flag here on Look, everything in the car works,
00:00:41and not with the Greetings, dear viewers, and welcome to this new episode of Reboos.
00:00:45In it, as usual, we will discuss issues and topics that have attracted the attention of
00:01:01the issue of gasoline quality in Syria has risen to the top
00:01:04of the news lists after the spread of a video clip that sparked
00:01:08widespread criticism of the fuel quality
00:01:10test. One video clip,
00:01:13dear viewers, sparked a wave of widespread
00:01:16criticism when one of the workers appeared emptying gasoline
00:01:20into a tank in preparation for transporting it to fuel
00:01:23stations. However, a small detail in the scene
00:01:27sparked a wide wave of criticism. In
00:01:30the normal case, an employee waits at the pipe from
00:01:34and do not compromise on which the gasoline flows, with an empty bottle
00:01:36in his hand, which he fills, and then it is examined to ensure
00:01:39the quality of the substance or the gasoline flowing from the pipe,
00:01:43which is what appeared in the video clip that caused a real
00:01:47controversy. But what social media users noticed
00:01:51you say, from the concerned authorities in this is that the empty bottle that the employee was carrying at the station was not actually
00:01:55empty, but rather contained a quantity of gasoline, and its
00:01:58lid was not open. Therefore,
00:02:02the quantity of fuel that the employee displayed was present
00:02:05inside the bottle and was not related to the gasoline
00:02:09that was being transferred at that moment. These
00:02:14of course, we are with reconstruction, with scenes caused a wide controversy, as some considered them an indication that
00:02:17something was being hidden in that fuel shipment, and not
00:02:21just a random act by our employee.
00:02:24The video clip that we talked about, dear viewers, was taken at
00:02:28the Banyas warehouses affiliated with the Tartous fuel branch,
00:02:32according to what activists commented on social
00:02:35media. Let's review those moments together and then
00:02:38return.
00:02:43Bring it.
00:02:43Bring it.
00:02:47Bring it.
00:02:47Guard.
00:02:56The Banyas warehouses of the Tartous fuel branch on Wednesday.
00:03:02way, but we received word from What escalated the criticism of those scenes was that the spread of this
00:03:06video coincided with the renewed crisis
00:03:09things, many more pressing related to the fuel crisis throughout
00:03:12Syria. Social media users criticized the quality of fuel
00:03:15again, and this is the second time this month. Let's watch what
00:03:20Housing to sit at this man, who bought fuel from Al-Raqqa
00:03:21Governorate, observed. Hello guys, this
00:03:26the Homs City Council published a set of is regular gasoline, gasoline from
00:03:28is the foundation of this good stations. I filled up in the morning from Al- and came to
00:03:30Aleppo, and the car wouldn't start. I tried, but it wouldn't
00:03:35did not present the plans to start. I brought a mechanic.
00:03:36the council to obtain the necessary Show them what the gasoline looks like. It's water,
00:03:39not gasoline, but it smells like gas or
00:03:42a bad smell. This is gasoline from good stations that
00:03:46design that is consistent with we used to fill up from. Don't tell me about the station in Tabqa or the station near
00:03:49the offices. I filled up from the station at Hazima
00:03:53roundabout.
00:03:57while from the outside, it seemed In Daraa governorate, specifically in the industrial area, Syrians
00:04:00criticized the quality of fuel, while one of the workers in
00:04:03the car repair field spoke about the poor quality of the used gasoline
00:04:07and the damage it caused to
00:04:10cars, citizens' cars, of course. Let's watch this
00:04:13clip together.
00:04:18Is this gasoline or cola? Cola,
00:04:20due to this Pepsi, this is regular cola. Look,
00:04:24may God help people. What is all this called here? Hajj
00:04:27Mazhar, what kind of gasoline
00:04:31is it? Bad gasoline, really bad. It's all
00:04:33coming to us,
00:04:36attracted the attention of officials in you see. The car doesn't run
00:04:38the neighborhood. Let's watch a part of at all. It breaks the valve, breaks the piston. Also,
00:04:41you know, we filled up from the state one, this one is
00:04:45good, and we filled up from the one they say
00:04:48it was met with a wide wave of is the best, but it's the same. Now what are you doing? We are draining gasoline from the car now. We are draining
00:04:50all the gasoline from the car and changing it, and we are going to Hani Ali Hamad.
00:04:54He has good gasoline that we saw, meaning good, good. We bring it
00:04:58and fill it up. Many people's cars, many, many more than
00:05:01one car. May God help them, my dear. Really, more, more, what a pity.
00:05:05That bus,
00:05:08were telling us when we were going to its valve was hit. This is enough. I disassembled the engine, the front is disassembled, and everything is disassembled because of it.
00:05:16Numerous breakdowns caused by the quality of gasoline for cars and motorcycles.
00:05:19A young man in Idlib governorate documented the activation of all
00:05:23warning lights in the car after filling up with gasoline, so much so that
00:05:26the warning light related to the car's tires also became activated.
00:05:30Also.
00:05:33Mohamed Amin, what do you think about filling up with red gasoline like this? Everything
00:05:38even the tire. Why is it working? I don't know, I'm pouring gasoline
00:05:41into it. Look at this tire above,
00:05:45man. Ahmed Amin, look, you fill up with red gasoline.
00:05:50even the tire. Why is it working? I don't know, I'm pouring gasoline
00:05:54into it.
00:05:59In Aleppo, a young man also spoke about the specifications of poor quality
00:06:02gasoline, saying that its smell is like burnt plastic.
00:06:06About.
00:06:09I wasn't convinced that the gasoline was bad. I thought the batch
00:06:12was bad. Then people brought down their engines, and then
00:06:16they brought down a good batch. So it's a transitional state,
00:06:20so it's normal. A mistake happened, brother, and the mistake was corrected and so on. The
00:06:24new batch, I swear to God, I went to Al-Nasr gas station, which is opposite Al-Baladi Palace.
00:06:27I killed the necks, or killed the livelihoods, but I want to make people aware so they don't
00:06:31fall into the same trap as I did. My car was running and everything
00:06:35was fine. My car is a BMW 2016. I filled it with
00:06:38gasoline. This gasoline is yellow and regular. It smells, I swear
00:06:41to God, like thinner. Regular thinner, it smells like it. And when you put it
00:06:45on your hand, you wait a bit, and it gives you a smell like
00:06:48plastic. May God bless our Prophet Muhammad. Melted
00:06:52plastic. You put it on and you smell melted plastic. That's how it smells.
00:06:56Okay, I don't know what to say, I don't know. I swear to God,
00:07:00the engine light came on. There's no power in the car. The car started turning off by itself.
00:07:03And please, sir, solve it for me, if
00:07:06it can be solved.
00:07:09With renewed criticism, the Ministry of Energy announced the launch of field
00:07:13monitoring of the gasoline crisis, with the participation of technical
00:07:16specialists to identify the causes of the malfunction. The Ministry of Energy, through its official
00:07:20accounts, said that the monitoring includes reviewing all stages of importing the substance,
00:07:23examining it, receiving it, storing
00:07:26it, transporting it, the malfunction and potential
00:07:30shortcomings, leading to determining responsibilities and taking
00:07:34the necessary measures in light of the technical results, including
00:07:37holding accountable anyone proven to be involved in any manipulation,
00:07:41corruption, or negligence, or dereliction of duty, according to
00:07:44legal procedures. Comments on this topic. Abdullah
00:07:48wrote, "Isn't the ministry
00:07:51too hasty? There are no working car engines left
00:07:54in the country because of the gasoline." Anas
00:07:57said, "Committees do not fix corruption, and meetings do not feed the hungry. If
00:08:01the fear of God is absent and conscience dies, committees turn into plays, and recommendations
00:08:04into ink on paper. Injustice will remain as it is."
00:08:07Hamza
00:08:10said, "We don't want you to form teams. We want you to tell us what you will do
00:08:13for the people whose cars broke down. Will you compensate them? As a people,
00:08:17we are completely confident that this issue will die out
00:08:21like many other issues."
00:08:23We are tired. It is known that they cut off gasoline a while ago so
00:08:26that cars would fast, and now for Iftar, they brought them
00:08:30tamarind instead of
00:08:32gasoline.
00:08:40A situation similar to many areas. In neighborhoods and cities of Damascus
00:08:43Governorate, residents of Dummar held a protest
00:08:47demanding the repeal of the expropriation
00:08:49law. The school square in Dummar
00:08:53Al-Balad witnessed at that time a protest demanding the settlement of
00:08:56the expropriated land file, as is
00:08:59the case for other neighborhoods such as Qudsaya, Jobar,
00:09:02and others. This issue occupied a space of interaction
00:09:06for Syrians on social media,
00:09:10that it did not differ significantly from other
00:09:13outstanding property issues in several governorates. However,
00:09:17residents from the neighborhood told the Reboos team that a broader
00:09:21legal context accumulated from this issue led
00:09:24to the rejection of requests to license the protests.
00:09:28Of course, as we mentioned, dear viewers, the last protest
00:09:31organized on the issue was two days ago, and dozens
00:09:34of video clips of it were spread,
00:09:38while activists from Dummar told the Reboos team
00:09:41that they are planning to organize protests in the future,
00:09:45considering that their demands have not
00:09:51the protest and return.
00:10:12Travel
00:10:15don't give
00:10:24God
00:10:32issue is not only related to the expropriation law. There are
00:10:35problems and legal contexts related to the Ministry of Defense as well.
00:10:40September 23rd stated that it is necessary to
00:10:43stop working with the decrees of the overthrown regime and allow residents to access
00:10:49the expropriated lands and lift the expropriation of
00:10:52the expropriated properties.
00:10:59topic from Abdullah's account, who
00:11:01wrote: "The right thing is for the investment contract to be with the landowner
00:11:06broker."
00:11:09Mahmoud: "By God, it is the greatest injustice that after two years of liberation, rights are not
00:11:13returned to their owners. Down with the expropriation
00:11:14law."
00:11:23Osama Jakhdar, spokesman for those affected by the
00:11:26expropriation law in Dummar neighborhood, is now joining us.
00:11:29Welcome, Mr. Osama. First, let me
00:11:33ask you, why did you hold this
00:11:35protest? May God bless you, dear استاذ, and thank you for
00:11:39giving us this opportunity. This protest was a spontaneous protest
00:11:43by the people of Hydoumar, of course,
00:11:45due to the policy
00:11:48of neglect by the institutions responsible for
00:11:51the expropriation law and for the seizure of land in Hydoumar
00:11:55Al-Dimashqi. Of course, allow me to clarify something very
00:11:58important, which is that Hydoumar Al-Dimashqi is the largest real estate area
00:12:02in the city of Damascus. Of course, this neighborhood has been suffering
00:12:05from the effects of expropriation
00:12:09and land seizure laws, like a number of
00:12:12Damascus neighborhoods and its countryside, such as Mezzeh, Kafr Sousa,
00:12:15Maadamiya, Qudsaya, Jimaia, and
00:12:18Wadi Barda, Saboura, and other neighborhoods.
00:12:22We asked many times and held protests. In Umayyad Square
00:12:25and in front of the people, and in the end,
00:12:29we stood inside the Dummar neighborhood to make our voice heard
00:12:32to the concerned authorities that we want our right,
00:12:35we want our land that we inherited from our fathers and grandfathers, and
00:12:39in addition, Dummar neighborhood is
00:12:42about 30,000 dunams, 20,000 dunams
00:12:45expropriated, and 9,000 dunams seized.
00:12:482,000 dunams, which is
00:12:529,000 in West Dummar.
00:12:56In East Dummar, there are more than 1,200 houses threatened overnight with
00:13:00evacuation notices. That is, so far, this has not
00:13:04happened, but as long as the laws are still
00:13:07in use, perhaps this decision will come. Okay, did you submit
00:13:11to the concerned authorities, perhaps, a request
00:13:14to go out in these protests, and how was
00:13:18the response, استاذ? The protest was spontaneous.
00:13:21Hmm. That is, it was not organized in a specific
00:13:27people in neighborhoods of
00:13:30Damascus that they had approached the Damascus Governorate to
00:13:34obtain a permit, and they were told that they had seen them at the People's
00:13:37Assembly protest and believed that their voice had been heard. So if our voice had been heard,
00:13:41then where, where are the results
00:13:44resulting from the voice being heard in previous times? In previous times,
00:13:48Mr. Osama, was there a response to
00:13:52your demands to go out and protest against
00:13:55the expropriation law?
00:13:59The responses were only from some members of the People's Assembly,
00:14:03may they be thanked, respected teachers. We submitted
00:14:06to them a file about expropriation, not only about Dummar,
00:14:09but about a number of affected neighborhoods in Damascus
00:14:13and its countryside. I recently received
00:14:15word that a new draft law
00:14:19is being circulated or studied, which may
00:14:22do justice to the rights holders. Okay, that is,
00:14:25when you approach and talk about the issue of
00:14:29the expropriation law and that there are people affected by this law,
00:14:32and you demand that they be looked into, how is the response to you? Is
00:14:36there neglect by the concerned parties in this
00:14:39matter? Honestly, the Damascus Governorate
00:14:42is not giving any positive responses. The Ministry of Housing
00:14:46is not giving any positive responses. We also submitted papers
00:14:49to the Ministry of Defense to lift the blockade
00:14:53and allow us to enter our lands, which are still in the real estate records in our names
00:14:57and in the names of our fathers and grandfathers, but unfortunately, why did you choose
00:15:00to also go to the Ministry of Defense, Mr. Osama? What
00:15:03is its relation? Dear استاذ,
00:15:05the lands that are seized are still in our names,
00:15:09ours and our fathers' and all the people of Hyde
00:15:12Al-Mur. Hmm.
00:15:15But we cannot enter. We entered after the liberation, praise be to God, we entered these
00:15:19lands, and some of us brought
00:15:22surveyors and surveyed these lands, and every person knew where it was.
00:15:26That is, some families were able to. Hmm. But after
00:15:29a while, the brothers from the General Security
00:15:33our lands, they told us, "Please go
00:15:37to the Damascus Governorate or to the Ministry of Defense so that
00:15:40they can give you permission." Of course, the lands are empty, there is nothing
00:15:44in them. Of course, these lands were used by Maher Al-Assad for making Captagon
00:15:48and making
00:15:50drugs, and he had made them for hunting,
00:15:54and there was a helicopter landing pad,
00:15:57and there was a rest area where drug
00:15:59dealers used to meet,
00:16:03the Fourth Division, or rather, the Fourth Division has become, that is, an extension
00:16:06of Al-Maadamiya, and Al-Saboura
00:16:09and Yafoor. Hmm,
00:16:13but unfortunately, the response was
00:16:16that these requests would be studied after two months, to lift the blockade, but two
00:16:20months became four, and four became
00:16:23six. Yes, Mr. Osama, do you think it is intentional neglect or are they actually
00:16:27studying the situation of these lands?
00:16:29Dear professor, that is, the study takes two, three, four,
00:16:33five months, but not a year or a year and a half.
00:16:36Hmm. That is,
00:16:45the General Security or the army or whatever. That is, I don't know exactly
00:16:49why. But the expropriated
00:16:53lands adjacent to us in Saboura, where the
00:16:56Talal Damascus project is located, which I think was completed a few days ago,
00:16:59and there is also the Sham View project adjacent to West
00:17:03Dummar.
00:17:05There was a fear among the residents that this project would also be included
00:17:09in Sham View for these lands, which we
00:17:13still own in the real estate records.
00:17:16These lands are not expropriated. Okay,
00:17:19today, that is, how, that is,
00:17:23do you see the solution in
00:17:25light of, that is, perhaps neglect, as
00:17:29matter? What are you striving for? That is, will you continue
00:17:32the protests? Do you see that these
00:17:35protests...
00:17:38Yes, dear professor, the people of Hydoumar
00:17:41issued a clear and explicit statement that we will not
00:17:44give up, we will not give up our
00:17:48land no matter what the cost. That is,
00:17:51reconstruction, with investment, but the citizen must be the
00:17:54first party, and the investor the second party.
00:17:58Hmm. That is, what will you do next? We have provided
00:18:02many solutions. We were
00:18:05told to go to court. The court. The court will not
00:18:08do us justice, frankly. The court, the families,
00:18:11dear professor, the families who own these properties,
00:18:15most of them are mothers of martyrs in the Syrian
00:18:17revolution. They died in the battles of the revolution,
00:18:21and some of them died in Sednaya and in
00:18:23215, which killed more than 1,200 martyrs from the people of
00:18:27Hydoumar. So where do these
00:18:30families have the money to go to court? Hmm.
00:18:33We have previously approached and sent
00:18:37messages and letters. If it is necessary for us to go to
00:18:40court, then we ask the government to take on this
00:18:44task.
00:18:46Okay, before I conclude with you, Mr. Osama, what message would you like to convey to the concerned
00:18:50authorities? I would like to address the Damascus Governorate, the
00:18:53Damascus Countryside Governorate, and the Ministry of
00:18:57the table with the citizen and give them significant
00:19:00attention, extra attention, because the citizen
00:19:06homeland. The citizen is the basis for building the homeland.
00:19:09I consider it to be the trust between the citizen
00:19:13and the government. So we must strengthen this
00:19:16trust. Yes. And I hope, we hope
00:19:20that justice will be done to us and to all
00:19:24those affected in Damascus and its countryside and throughout Syria. We hope
00:19:27for that too. Thank you very much, Osama, spokesman for
00:19:31those affected by the expropriation law in Hyde Dummar. You were with us from there. Thank you.
00:19:35لك.
00:19:44In Homs, everything is special. Projects don't need years
00:19:48to be built, and sometimes less than an hour on social
00:19:52media is enough for them to move from
00:19:55the category of achievement to the category of demolition, and this is what happened with Al-Hafyan
00:19:58roundabout, which was hardly announced as completed
00:20:02before it was removed.
00:20:04Activists on social media circulated the removal of Al-Hafyan
00:20:08roundabout in Homs less than an hour after its completion was announced,
00:20:12in an incident that sparked sarcastic comments and criticism regarding
00:20:16its design. According to what social media users recently
00:20:19published, the
00:20:22work on the roundabout took about a month, but
00:20:26criticism and ridicule regarding its shape, while
00:20:29it returned to the list of interaction this morning after the demolition
00:20:33decision. Activists in Homs spotted dozens of photos
00:20:36and videos showing moments of the roundabout's demolition,
00:20:39and some of them said that the governor was angry
00:20:43with us and removed
00:20:45the roundabout. The roundabout, dear viewers, is located in Al-Khalidiya neighborhood
00:20:49in Homs, and it took about a month to build. Activists
00:20:52from Homs used to post videos from time to time to monitor the progress of work,
00:20:56but after its construction was completed, the reactions were unexpected, as
00:20:59activists mocked the shape and design of the roundabout.
00:21:03Let's watch a video clip of an activist who seems
00:21:07not to like the shape of the roundabout.
00:21:10Now, I named this the Unknown Soldier's Roundabout, like the one the old regime put on
00:21:13the Clock Roundabout. But what are these two holes for?
00:21:17I don't know. What is the platform for? I don't know.
00:21:20What are these two columns for? I don't know either. But
00:21:24the degree to which I still don't understand these two columns, I don't know either.
00:21:27But to put
00:21:30the roundabout, I swear to God, the people of Al-Khalidiya are revolutionaries,
00:21:33they are not cowards, you understand? Don't be a coward, engineer.
00:21:37And
00:21:40you, dear viewers, how do you judge this roundabout? Should it
00:21:45the only video and criticism of the roundabout's shape, but rather many
00:21:49activists published videos that documented
00:21:52cases of ridicule of the roundabout's shape. Let's
00:21:55watch. My brothers, when we first
00:21:59started working on it, the engineer
00:22:02said, "I want to build a roundabout that is unique in all of
00:22:05Syria." That's how the young men
00:22:08are.
00:22:11So, he said, "I want to build a roundabout that is unique in all of Syria."
00:22:15And indeed, he built a roundabout that is unique in all of Syria. That is,
00:22:18you go up a staircase, a staircase. I just want to ask
00:22:22you, Mr. Engineer, what is this staircase and platform for? So if someone is
00:22:25upset and wants to shout, they go up there? Meaning they complain about their worries
00:22:29to the world from here, and they would be comfortable?
00:22:32You built the roundabout for us and fixed it and caused this man
00:22:36a loss that only God knows about. You caused him a
00:22:39loss, and this is the final shape of the roundabout. I don't
00:22:43know what's wrong with it. I just want to know what's wrong with it, for
00:22:46God's sake. We told you we wanted a roundabout, but we didn't say a roundabout like this,
00:22:51with no color, no smell, no shape, no
00:22:53design.
00:22:57Dear viewers, not all criticisms stemmed from an angle
00:23:00related to the shape of this roundabout and its aesthetics, but
00:23:04activists criticized other aspects related to public safety
00:23:07as well.
00:23:09I am now at Al-Hafyan roundabout, the most famous roundabout
00:23:12in Homs right now. As we can see, the final products
00:23:16are like stairs and a platform. I don't know what for.
00:23:20That is, stairs that anyone, possibly children, could be playing on
00:23:23and fall directly onto the road. You see, there's no space.
00:23:27That is, I don't know what the idea is behind the
00:23:31presence of stairs here. Besides that, the roundabout has been worked on for months,
00:23:34for a long time. As we can see, its presence
00:23:38is causing more traffic than it is solving
00:23:42the problem of congestion that is happening in the city streets.
00:23:46I hope that the idea of the roundabout epidemic does not spread to
00:23:50the city of Homs. We have seen it in many places
00:23:52in Syria, frankly, that is, the roundabout epidemic of fixing from
00:23:56here and repairing from there. There are many more important
00:23:59issues than this. We are not against having good roundabouts and nice roundabouts,
00:24:03but there are many more important things than building
00:24:06a roundabout that I see has no view or anything,
00:24:09that is.
00:24:12Not much time passed until
00:24:16photos, which it said were from the demolition of the roundabout this morning. The council's
00:24:20announcement stated that the donor and implementer of the roundabout project
00:24:26approval before implementation.
00:24:29It added that the monument is scheduled to be
00:24:32re-implemented according to a new
00:24:36the aesthetic and cultural identity of the city of
00:24:38Homs.
00:24:40We were with the videos and how those who
00:24:44saw this roundabout commented. Now with your comments on social media.
00:24:48Muhammad. The design suggests that
00:24:51perhaps the engineer calculated for a bridge or the engineer calculated
00:24:55for a bridge in the future to connect the west of the river with the northeast
00:24:59of the country. This is your hand and love.
00:25:02Another comment from Abdul Qader says: "Oh people,
00:25:06make a clock in its place, it would look nice. Then we would have three clocks,
00:25:09an old one, a new one, and a fancy new one."
00:25:12Moaz says: "What is the real estate market
00:25:15around the roundabout worth now?" Surely this roundabout
00:25:19raised the value of the properties around it.
00:25:22Muhammad says: "The engineer
00:25:25wanted to make it in the shape of turtles, but he ran out of
00:25:28building materials, so it ended up being
00:25:32half turtles." To
00:25:35God
00:25:41belongs the matter. With this story, we come to the end of
00:25:44today's Reboos. Tomorrow, a new episode and renewed topics. Until
00:25:47then, goodbye.
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00:30:16A batch of bad gasoline led to breakdowns and damages to hundreds
00:30:20of cars and motorcycles
00:30:23gasoline. People are talking today about how I was driving
00:30:26and suddenly my car broke down, stalled, there was nothing wrong with it,
00:30:29and suddenly it broke down just because I filled it with gasoline. It turned out to be bad.
00:30:33It seems that a batch of bad gasoline was distributed to gas
00:30:37stations, leading to breakdowns and damages to hundreds
00:30:40of cars and motorcycles. Wherever you see people here,
00:30:44they tell us that the gasoline is bad. The gasoline
00:30:48is like red gasoline mixed with unhealthy materials.
00:30:52Sadcop Company, the Syrian Company for Oil Derivatives, issued
00:30:55a statement saying that it is following up on the matter.
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