S27 E2: Race Against Time | "Bloodlines"

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4.5 • 10.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Bombs drop as Poonam enters Syria, blocking access to the areas she needs to get to. If things get worse, the troops guarding IS prisons say they will be forced to abandon their positions. The team makes contact with Salmaan’s Canadian family, learning what they believe happened to him and his mother. Poonam and her team see up close the dangers still facing children here.

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0:00.0	This is a CBC podcast.
0:04.0	You're listening to episode two of bloodlines.
0:07.0	This episode contains some strong language. visiting the camps
0:16.3	camps?
0:17.3	Yes, visiting the camps.
0:18.3	Rogen Hall.
0:19.3	writing about women and children?
0:21.3	Yes, the children.
0:23.0	It's November 21st, a day after I left London. I'm at the border office in Iraqi
0:32.3	Kurdistan, waiting to cross into Syria.
0:35.0	I spent last night half convinced we were going to have to call off this trip
0:42.0	because while I was in the air
0:44.3	Turkey began bombing the region of Syria I need to get into.
0:49.7	Neighbouring Turkey is firing missiles unrelentingly.
0:53.6	Payback it claims four deadly attacks,
0:57.3	including a bombing in Istanbul on November 13.
1:01.3	Today things are just stable enough that I can make the journey across the border.
1:05.0	My producer Joanne travelled a couple of days before me.
1:09.0	He's on the other side waiting for me.
1:11.0	So I get on a cramped minibus and make it over the Tigris on a rickety bridge. Hi, Joanne. How are you? How are you?
1:24.0	We're really
1:25.0	How do you want to go on?
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