Ronahî: Today in Kobani, Til Temir, Hasaka, Zirgan, Qamishli and Girkê Legê demonstrations and marches took place. All of them made one demand: the withdrawal of the decision by the Syrian transitional government's Ministry of Education.

Ronahî: This decision limits the teaching of the Kurdish language in schools to only three lessons per week. Participants demanded that this number be increased and that Kurdish be recognised as an official language with equal status alongside Arabic.

Kamîran: So it is not only about the number of classes, but also the status of the language itself that is on the table.

Ronahî: That's right. In Qamishli the People's Initiative organised a march under the slogan "Our Language Is Our Existence", with hundreds of people taking part. In Hasaka the Teachers' Training Institute held an artistic event, where teachers carried banners reading "The Kurdish language is our identity".

Kamîran: The majority of participants were students and teachers, not only organisations — this is becoming clear.

Ronahî: Yes, students, their families and teachers. Participants stated that the right to education in one's mother tongue is an inalienable right and not open to debate.

Kamîran: These protests are taking place amid a severe situation in Syria. Ronahi, a figure released today says a great deal.

Ronahî: A human-rights monitoring organisation announced that from the beginning of twenty twenty-six until the end of August, two thousand two hundred and forty people lost their lives in various parts of Syria.

Ronahî: Of these, one thousand five hundred and three were civilians. Another seven hundred and thirty-seven were non-civilians who died in fighting, armed attacks and violence between the parties.

Kamîran: So more than two-thirds of the victims are civilians — this shows how deeply this violence reaches into the population.

Ronahî: Also today in the village of Erisha near Til Temir the bodies of two young people were found, near the Assyrian mound, after contact with them had been lost for fifteen days. The Internal Security Forces cordoned off the area and began an investigation into the cause of death.

Kamîran: Now let us move on to a topic that is also resonating outside Syria.

Ronahî: On Tuesday the International Atomic Energy Agency released a report stating that undeclared materials and facilities had been found in Syria, which according to the agency directly violates the existing safeguards agreement.

Ronahî: According to the agency, seventy-three tons of natural uranium are stored at a Syrian facility. Of these, fifty-five tons are in concentrate form. The report also mentions traces of a covert programme.

Kamîran: This information is being reported by the agency — we do not know whether Damascus has responded or not.

Ronahî: That's right, there is no official response from Damascus in these reports.

Ronahî: After the United States attack on Iran, the Iranian regime targeted the Gulf states and also the Kurdistan Region. Between one o'clock and thirteen minutes and three thirty-one in the morning, coalition forces shot down ten suicide drones over Erbil province.

Ronahî: According to the statement, all ten drones were shot down and destroyed, and no casualties were reported.

Kamîran: Ten drones within a few hours — this is no small incident.

Ronahî: No. Previously a security source had also mentioned two drones being shot down over Erbil. The Iranian Revolutionary Guards also announced that they had achieved their objective.

Kamîran: Let us leave the region and turn to Asia, where the toll is very heavy.

Ronahî: In Nepal the number of flood deaths reached one thousand one hundred and fourteen, and three thousand nine hundred and sixteen people are also missing, according to the provisional tally from the country's emergency-management authority.

Ronahî: China's state media also reported that sixteen people died and five hundred and forty-six people are missing in the Tibet region. In this way the total number of victims has risen to more than one thousand one hundred and thirty.

Kamîran: And thousands missing — that means this number can still rise.

Kamîran: Our final story comes from the coast of Istanbul.

Ronahî: About eight miles off the coast of Silivri, two merchant ships collided. Contact can no longer be established with ten crew members of the ship named Tuberk Imamoglu.

Kamîran: Ten people are missing, and we still do not know what has happened to them.

Ronahî: Yes, search operations are continuing. The second ship sustained no damage.