Episode 54: Syria, the World’s Nightmare

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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Politics, Arts, News, Wnyc, Books, David, Storytelling, Society & Culture, Yorker, New, Remnick

4.2 • 6.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This special hour examines the effects of Syria’s civil war, the worst humanitarian crisis of the twenty-first century, from both inside the White House and on the ground in Aleppo.

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0:00.0	This is the New Yorker Radio Hour.
0:03.0	A red line for us is we start saying a whole bunch of chemical weapons.
0:09.0	Obama draws the line in the sand.
0:11.0	It was left at all over the world.
0:14.0	I didn't set a red line.
0:15.0	The world set a red line.
0:17.0	There is a determined effort by the Russian Air Force to destroy Aleppo.
0:22.6	They call it barrel bombs.
0:23.6	Bomb is a bomb.
0:25.6	All bombs are to kill, but it's about how to use it. Hello,
0:40.2	Ahlain, yeah, Omar.
0:46.0	Hello, this Adam and Yassim from New York?
0:50.5	Tomah.
0:51.1	Tomom.
0:52.4	Okay.
0:53.1	Would you rather we not use your last name?
0:56.2	Omar, Tfaddle,
0:57.2	he's okay using the last name.
1:03.2	Okay, so you're listening to the New Yorker Radio Hour.
1:06.5	I'm David Remnick.
1:08.2	This hour, we're going to dive into the problem,
1:14.7	well, the catastrophe that's now unfolding in Syria.
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