Kamîran: The topic of language and education that we discussed yesterday returns today in a different form.

Ronahî: Yes. According to the decision of the Syrian Ministry of Education, schools in Rojava are now giving only three Kurdish language lessons per week. In Kobani, students and teachers reacted. Kurdish language teacher Leyla Qahro says, "For fourteen years we have studied and taught in our language under difficult conditions. This is our mother tongue and it must be recognised."

Ronahî: In Dirbêsiyê, Kurdish language teacher Aldar Faris says the decision has a negative effect on students' education. According to him, students who study with Kurdish materials in grades seven, eight and nine face difficulties when they move to education in Arabic.

Kamîran: So the complaint is not only about the number of lessons, but about children switching from one language to another halfway through.

Ronahî: That's right. In Til Temir, the Centre for Culture and Arts also organised an activity for children. Children, their families and members of the cultural movement took part. There were two demands: that the decision be reversed and that Kurdish become an official language in the constitution. It should be noted that the ministry's own voice is not present in the reports we have, so the reasons for its decision are not known.

Ronahî: In southern Syria it was also a heavy day. In the village of Cemlay west of Dera, according to local sources, Israeli forces entered the eastern neighbourhood of the village and placed snipers on the roofs of houses.

Ronahî: Citizen Muaz Selame El-Beîr, who had special needs, lost his life this morning from Israeli forces' gunfire.

Kamîran: And this was not a single incident in the region.

Ronahî: No. In the village of Terenc north of Quneitra, more than fifty soldiers entered the village with seven military vehicles, blocked roads and detained a young man. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the young man was later released the same day. From the Tel El Ehmer base, agricultural fields around the village of Konday were shelled and one house was blown up. In the village of El Huriyê, a patrol of about twenty-five soldiers with six vehicles searched houses.

Ronahî: It is not known whether anyone was injured in the shelling of Konday. There is also no comment from the Israeli side about these incidents in the reports.

Kamîran: From the south we move to the north-west of Damascus, where an operation against ISIS ended in bloodshed.

Ronahî: Internal Security Forces, in cooperation with the General Directorate of Intelligence, carried out an operation this morning against an ISIS cell in the town of Rankus. Two cell members were arrested and an explosive device was seized.

Ronahî: But during the clash, according to the final statement of the security forces, two of their members lost their lives and five others were injured. One of them is Mihemed Ebdulkerîm El-Tom. Fatalities from the cell have also been reported, but their number has not been specified.

Kamîran: And the same day the name of ISIS came up on the other side of the border.

Ronahî: Yes. In Kirkuk, according to a local source, ISIS members attacked the base of the sixty-third Brigade of the Popular Mobilisation Forces near the villages of Denadî and Borxeliyê. They first targeted cameras, then clashes broke out. The results of this attack have not yet been reported.

Ronahî: Houthi spokesman Yehya Serî announced that they had carried out four attacks against Saudi Arabia in the last forty-eight hours.

Kamîran: What were the targets?

Ronahî: According to Serî, the Ministry of Defence building in Riyadh, King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, the Aramco company in Yanbu and Abha International Airport were targeted with drones and ballistic missiles.

Ronahî: These are all claims from one side. There is neither a Saudi response in the reports nor information about damage or casualties.

Kamîran: From the Gulf we move to Gaza.

Ronahî: According to local sources, five people lost their lives today in Israeli attacks. In Gaza City, one person in an attack on a vehicle and two people in another attack. In Khan Younis, one person in the bombing of a motorcycle, and near Jabaliya camp a woman also lost her life from gunfire.

Ronahî: Israeli forces did not make any statement about these attacks.

Ronahî: And the final news: according to the United States Geological Survey, this evening a magnitude seven earthquake struck the Tibet region of China. Its depth was ten kilometres.

Kamîran: Magnitude seven and shallow depth; this is a strong earthquake.

Ronahî: Its epicentre is about one hundred and ninety kilometres east and north-east of Nagqu and three hundred and ninety kilometres north-east of Lhasa, the regional capital. So far no information has been reported about casualties or damage.