Fighting over oil continues in northern Syria
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Syrian rebels have set fire to the tomb of ex-President Bashar al-Assad's father in his former hometown in the western Syrian Latakia province. Meanwhile, shops are reopening and people are returning to work in Damascus as day-to-day life gradually resumes. We look at the impact of returning refugees on the Syrian economy, examine concerns over a precarious security situation with a possible resurgence of Islamic State and in doing so, we hear from Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan, and from Damascus itself.
Also on the programme: South Korea deals with the fallout from last week's short-lived period of martial law and one humpback whale appears to have made one of the longest and most unusual migrations ever recorded.
(Photo: A man rides in the open trunk of a car in Aleppo, Syria. Credit: Karam al-Masri/Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service. Coming to you live from London, |
| 0:09.1 | I'm Celia Hatton. We begin with the latest from Syria and the fight for oil. The Hayat-Tahrir al-Sham group in Syria, |
| 0:17.3 | which overthrew the Assad regime several days ago, has been consolidating control. |
| 0:23.1 | HTS says it's wrestled the eastern city of Derizur and its oil reserves from Kurdish fighters. |
| 0:29.7 | In about 20 minutes, we'll get the latest from northern Syria and what's happening there. |
| 0:34.2 | But first, in the west of the country, anger unleashed as Syrian rebels set fire to the tomb |
| 0:40.5 | of the ex-president Bashar al-Assad's father. Hefez al-Assad's grave site was located in his |
| 0:47.2 | former hometown in Latakia province. In the capital, Damascus, the new interim prime minister, |
| 0:53.8 | Mohammed al-Bashir, is calling for stability and calm. |
| 0:57.7 | He's asking for Syrians abroad to return home. |
| 1:01.4 | Some hope for the future, as those living there are adjusting to a new normal and businesses are reopening. |
| 1:08.6 | One restaurant owner told the BBC, he is hopeful. |
| 1:14.7 | We opened the shop because we wanted our lives back. |
| 1:19.0 | We are happy that our country is safe again. |
| 1:24.7 | I'm very optimistic. |
| 1:27.0 | The country was full of injustice and oppression. |
| 1:30.8 | That's over now. |
| 1:33.0 | Oh, another resident says she's concerned about what will happen next. |
| 1:39.3 | Life without Assad is beautiful, but we don't feel enough safe yet. |
| 1:43.9 | We need to be more safe. |
| 1:47.6 | I just need the things to quiet down. |
| 1:50.3 | The children are afraid from all those arms, bullets in the air. |
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