Syrian Ghosts
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2012
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Many Syrian doctors and medical staff have fled the country as the violence there continues. Portia Walker's been talking to one of them in Turkey. The Arab Spring has failed to take root in Algeria. This week there were elections there and Chloe Arnold's been reflecting on the public reluctance to take part in a vote about the country's future. Hugh Sykes has been listening to opposing views about the state Pakistan's in. Some talk of its political stability; others of how it's ripe for revolution. Everyone, though, has a view about corruption there. A UN envoy, in Cambodia this week, spoke of how firearms were increasingly being used there against human rights activists. Guy Delauney considers this in the light of growing public controversy over land issues and illegal logging. And as the nude bathing season gets underway in Germany Stephen Evans tells a story of how cultural confusion over nakedness caused embarrassment in a Berlin gym.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a download from the BBC. This is from our own correspondent, |
| 0:05.0 | introduced by Kate Aide. |
| 0:08.0 | Today the ghosts who stalk the hospitals of Syria |
| 0:11.3 | as more and more casualties are brought in. |
| 0:14.0 | Winnie the Pooh and Tigger look on as Algerians decide not to vote in this week's election. |
| 0:20.0 | Illegal loggers in Cambodia put down their guns and ask the BBC to lunch |
| 0:25.0 | and how cultural differences over nakedness brought blushes to a changing room in Berlin. |
| 0:31.0 | The two massive explosions in the Syrian capital Damascus on Thursday killed more than 50 people. |
| 0:38.3 | 300 others were injured in the blasts outside a government intelligence building. The attack left hospitals in the |
| 0:44.6 | Syrian capital reeling. They were already finding it hard to cope with the |
| 0:48.8 | fallout from the long conflict between protesters and the state. |
| 0:53.0 | Essential drugs and equipment have been in short supply, |
| 0:56.0 | and many doctors and other medical staff have left the country. |
| 1:00.0 | One has been telling her story to Portia Walker. |
| 1:03.0 | Over cups of coffee in her large empty apartment in southern Turkey, |
| 1:07.5 | Naima, that's not her real name, |
| 1:10.0 | is telling me about life at the hospital in Northern Syria where she used to work. |
| 1:15.0 | She's 29, but looks much younger. |
| 1:18.0 | It's just her and her husband at home tonight, so her arms and head are bare. |
| 1:22.0 | In a bedroom next door, there one-year-old daughter is sleeping. |
| 1:27.0 | The whole hospital is full of pictures of the President, she says. All around the building there are signs saying yes for Basha al-Assad and yes for our nation. |
| 1:36.8 | Visitors cannot enter without being scrutinized by the security forces. |
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