battle ahead could take many more months. plus, just hours from now secretary of state antony blinken and homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas are set to meet with mexican president just as thousands of central american migrants make their way to the united states southern border. we ll break down what this means and the key issues up for discussion. and also ahead the detroit pistons made nba history but for all the wrong reasons. the record they just broke that has everyone talking. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, december 27th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we get right to the news and the israeli military has expanded its ground offensive into urban refugee camps in central gaza. the idf is also focusing on southern gaza s largest city as part of its stated mission to destroy hamas. officials say progress has been made in the north and that troops will continue to, quote, preserve and intensify t
Its. History you know everyone. Seems to have a vision. Ill. Get you to africa starts december twelfth. Welcome to global Three Thousand building a house in just three days in the Republic Of Moldova we meet a family for a new start. Coming home how people are returning to somaliland and fulfilling their dreams that. Danger to democracy in the philippines Political Freedoms of fast disappearing. Participation and constant vote these are essential features of a modern democracy that is majority or consensus rule with respect for minorities as a political opposition freedom of speech freedom of the press all citizens are subject to a constitution which protects such basic rights and a democracy protects itself through separation of powers and all people are equal before the law. In many places in the worlds democracy is under threat last year citizens of as many as seventy one countries saw their Political Rights and freedoms massively compromised to take the philippines here the politic
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dean after lucky hasn t had things quite so easy he too was a former migrant who left his business and family behind in somaliland to cross the mediterranean to europe today he s back working as a day laborer in a warehouse. i was in switzerland but didn t get what i had expected and hoped for well it took me by surprise i had a good life here and then suddenly i was just a migrant. and that didn t allow me to achieve what i was aiming for me. after spending two years in a refugee shelter abdulahi applied voluntarily to return to his family in somaliland the swiss authorities even paid for his flights back but he still has debts it cost him ten thousand dollars to get to europe is now also lonely paying that money back on. who. i wasn t even able to provide for myself in europe i had