An End to Education
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Despatches from correspondents worldwide. In this edition: Mishal Husain's in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley talking to refugees from the war in Syria and learning how a generation of Syrian children is no longer able to go to school; the waters off Somalia aren't the world's piracy hotspot any more - Mary Harper's been finding out how Nigeria's trying to counter an upsurge in maritime crime off the west African coast; with towns and cities expanding across India, Anu Anand has been seeing how animal habitats are being gobbled up, and it's the animals who're suffering; Victoria Gill is in Malawi where powerful motorbikes are now helping out in the country's battle against HIV/AIDS and ... empty that hot tub, do NOT fill the jacuzzi: David Willis says desperate times call for desperate measures in California, now in its third year of drought.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the latest edition of BBC radios from our own correspondent, |
| 0:05.7 | the best in news and current affairs storytelling. |
| 0:08.8 | It's introduced by Kate Aide. |
| 0:11.0 | Hello, today the Syrian children forced to swap school for back-breaking work in the potato fields. |
| 0:18.7 | Africa's pirates go west. |
| 0:20.3 | There are now chilling stories from the seas of Nigeria, Togo and Benin. |
| 0:25.0 | How's the wildlife fairing as India's towns and cities gobble up more and more of their living room? |
| 0:31.0 | And with California now in its third year of drought were in the suburbs of |
| 0:36.0 | Los Angeles uncovering furtive nocturnal rituals. It's now thought 3.3 million people have left Syria as a result of the civil war there. |
| 0:46.0 | And it's clear this tide of refugees is straining resources and threatening political stability throughout the Middle East. |
| 0:53.7 | More than a million have crossed the border into Lebanon, a country which, before the fighting |
| 0:58.1 | in Syria itself only had a population of four and a half million. It says it's now at breaking point and it's |
| 1:04.8 | begun turning away many of the Syrians still seeking sanctuary. Most of those |
| 1:10.0 | already inside its borders are being put up in refugee camps. Many are children who are now |
| 1:15.2 | receiving no education at all. Michelle Hussein has sent us this dispatch from Lebanon's |
| 1:20.8 | Becker Valley. When we arrived at the Turball camp early in the morning, |
| 1:25.0 | there were lines of refugees heading in the opposite direction, |
| 1:29.0 | out to work in the surrounding potato fields. |
| 1:32.0 | What stopped me in my tracks were the small figures amongst them, |
| 1:36.0 | school-aged children heading off for a six-hour shift |
| 1:39.0 | carrying their lunch in small plastic bags. |
| 1:42.0 | Inside the camp we met the children too young to work and |
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