Syrian peace efforts fail and bombings intensify
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2016
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has accused Russia and the Syrian government of war crimes in the siege of Aleppo. With each side blaming the other, it's a crisis likely to face the next President of the United States.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Josh Barrow. |
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| 0:38.9 | Syria, where civilians are facing war without end. |
| 0:46.2 | Hello again, I'm Orinolny, and this is To the Point. |
| 0:48.9 | The subject didn't come up in this week's first encounter between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, |
| 0:52.7 | but the nation of Syria is |
| 0:54.3 | turning to rubble. The U.S., Britain, France, and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon have accused |
| 0:59.8 | the Assad regime and its Russian ally of committing war crimes. Today we'll hear the voices of boys |
| 1:05.7 | in Aleppo playing in water-filled craters created by barrel bombs that have killed their friends and their families. |
| 1:13.0 | We'll talk with the doctor's wife who filmed that scene and a peace activist |
| 1:16.6 | who's met with Bashar al-Assad along with other observers. |
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