Protests have erupted in Syria after a video showed an attack on an Alawite shrine
Newshour
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🗓️ 25 December 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
The new HTS administration said the footage is from earlier this month. Large rallies have been seen in the cities of Tartus and Latakia, strongholds of the deposed president Assad's Alawite minority.
Also on the programme: We hear from locals in Bethlehem, in the Occupied West Bank, who are doubling their efforts to find hope during the Christmas holidays amidst an economic downturn and tensions with Israel; and the Newshour presenters compete in the Christmas quiz.
(Photo: A Syrian opposition flag is seen beside a defaced portrait of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on a wall in Damascus on 14 December 2024. Credit: ANTONIO PEDRO SANTOS/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Stuart McIntosh with the BBC News. Hello. |
| 0:03.4 | Angry protests have been held in several cities across Syria, |
| 0:06.5 | led by the country's previously powerful al-Awhite minority, |
| 0:09.9 | after a video showed an attack on an al-Awite shrine. |
| 0:13.4 | The new Islamist-led administration of Ahmed al-Shara said the footage was from earlier this month. |
| 0:19.4 | In Homs, one person was reportedly killed |
| 0:21.7 | and several others injured in clashes between protesters |
| 0:24.4 | and security forces loyal to the new authorities. |
| 0:28.2 | Lena Sinjab is in Damascus. |
| 0:30.5 | There has been several protests, |
| 0:32.6 | almost in every area or town or city |
| 0:35.2 | where there is a number of the Alawite community, even here in |
| 0:38.8 | Damascus, where we've seen protests taking place there. The timing of these protests is really |
| 0:44.6 | intriguing because they are protesting this vandalizing, the shrine that happened nearly 10 days |
| 0:50.1 | ago when rebels entered the city of Aleppo and also there has been some reconciliation with the local |
| 0:56.3 | community about this vandalising issue but a video released today provoked tension again |
| 1:02.5 | officials in Mozambique say 1500 inmates have escaped from a prison in the capital Maputo after a riot |
| 1:09.0 | which left more than 30 people dead. They said |
| 1:11.5 | 150 had been recaptured. Here's Will Leonardo. Inmates at the maximum security prison on the |
| 1:17.5 | outskirts of the Mozambican capital are reported to have overpowered the guards at the facility |
| 1:22.0 | and escaped with rifles. The police commander Benadino Rafael said that in addition to the 33 killed, 15 had been injured. |
| 1:30.1 | It's unclear whether they were guards or prisoners. |
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