S Korea: Thousands of people outside parliament ahead of second impeachment vote
A review of the week with the latest news.
Tens of thousands of people are protesting outside parliament in South Korea, urging MPs to vote to impeach the president over his failed declaration of martial law. Yoon Suk Yeol survived the first attempt to suspend him last week, when lawmakers loyal to him boycotted the vote. This time several governing party MPs have promised to support the motion.
Meanwhile Friday was a day of celebrations in Syria while people are still digesting how in just a few short days ,an astonishing rebel offensive brought to an end five decades of authoritarian rule under the Assad regime.
To Georgia where crowds of anti-government demonstrators are again massing in the capital, Tbilisi, where parliament is meeting to vote for a new president. To discuss this and more, Madeleine Schwartz, a journalist based in Paris and editor-in-chief of The Dial, a magazine of international writing and Danny Sriskandarajah, chief executive of the progressive, UK-based New Economics Foundation think-tank.
CREDIT: Protesters calls for impeachment of SouthKorean President Yoon – Jeon Heon-Kyun/EPA