Blood And Tears
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
From Lebanon, Syrian refugees watch the destruction of their homes in Eastern Ghouta. Kate Adie introduces stories and analysis from correspondents around the world: "Life now is just about blood and tears,” one woman tells Yolande Knell, “all of Ghouta is crying over its lost people.” In India, Krupa Padhy meets the head of a new union for unregister doctors - the quacks may be unqualified but they are also in demand. In Sierra Leone, Ed Butler examines the economics of the sex trade and the role rich Western men play in it. Vicky Baker meets the Nicaraguan women speaking, and singing, out against sexism. And in Sweden, Keith Moore tries to teach his son how to speak with the help of Old MacDonald and Per Olsson - but do their horses say neigh-neigh here or gnägg-gnägg there?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, today to India to meet the head of a new doctors union, |
| 0:09.0 | the union of unregistered doctors, |
| 0:12.0 | the quacks may have no medical qualifications, but there's no |
| 0:15.8 | shortage of people wanting their advice. In Sierra Leone, we assess the economics of the |
| 0:21.7 | sex industry, where well-paying Western men are among the most sought |
| 0:26.3 | after customers. While in Nicaragua we meet the women trying to get people talking about |
| 0:32.0 | oppression, domestic abuse and sexual exploitation. |
| 0:36.0 | And does a pig say oink-oink or nuff-nuff? |
| 0:40.0 | The challenges of bringing up a bilingual child in Sweden. |
| 0:46.0 | Eastern quota, just outside Damascus, has seen some of the worst fighting in the Syrian Civil War. |
| 0:52.0 | It's been besieged by government forces |
| 0:55.0 | and their allies since 2013 and is now one of the last rebel strongholds. |
| 1:00.3 | Satellite images reveal almost total destruction in some parts of the region. |
| 1:06.0 | Before the war it was home to some 2 million people. |
| 1:09.0 | Today almost 400,000 remained trapped in what's left. Some of those who escape did so |
| 1:16.3 | across the border to Lebanon from where your land Nell has just returned. |
| 1:21.0 | The online video shows the chaotic aftermath of a Syrian government |
| 1:25.9 | air strike. Amid the dust, volunteer rescue workers scramble to pull screaming people |
| 1:31.6 | from the rubble. |
| 1:33.0 | This was yesterday in Ruta, says Ibrahim quietly, |
| 1:36.4 | as he shows me the cracked screen of his smartphone. |
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