Syrian refugees weigh the costs of returning home

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🗓️ 11 December 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Many Syrians who have lived in Turkey for years are eager to return home to Syria. But others say an evolving security situation and financial concerns are giving them pause. Meanwhile, governments across Europe have paused asylum applications submitted by Syrians. Also, a new report by the OECD finds that reading and math scores for adults in most of the world’s high-income countries have declined during the past decade. And, the Arctic tundra is now releasing more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than it stores. Plus, a man from New Zealand who doesn’t speak Spanish has won the Spanish Scrabble championships.

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0:00.0	During years of civil war, millions of Syrians fled their homeland.
0:09.7	Some are already on their way back.
0:15.6	My children deserve a country, says this woman, who's leaving Turkey and returning to Syria with her family.
0:22.0	I'm Carolyn Beeler, how Syrians are wrestling with questions around returning.
0:26.4	Also today, the Arctic tundra once stored lots of carbon, but in the last 20 years, that's changed.
0:32.6	This landscape has transitioned into being a source of greenhouse gases.
0:37.8	Why reading and math skills are getting worse worldwide and in competitive Scrabble,
0:42.9	this guy stands out.
0:44.5	Nigel is more or less the undisputed goat of Scrabble, the greatest of all time, you could
0:48.9	say at this point both in English as well as in every other lexicon.
0:53.0	That's all ahead today on the world.
0:57.9	This is the world. I'm Carolyn Beeler. Thanks for joining us today.
1:02.2	The top commander of the Syrian rebels who toppled the dictator Bashar al-Assad put out a
1:07.1	statement today on telegram. He vowed to bring to justice anyone involved with torture
1:11.9	or killings of detainees under Assad's rule. We will pursue them in Syria and we will ask other
1:17.5	countries to hand over those who fled, said Ahmed al-Shara, also known as Abu Muhammad al-Jalani,
1:23.4	who's the leader of the Islamist group Hyatt Tahir al-Shahm. An independent monitoring group called the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
1:30.8	also said today that rebels set fire to the tomb of Assad's father.
1:35.7	The mausoleum of Hafez al-Assad is located outside the city of Latakia,
1:40.5	the heart of Syria's al-Aloid community.
1:43.4	Meanwhile, in Damascus, the rebels have named a new
1:45.6	interim prime minister. Muhammad al-Bashir is calling for stability and calm. He's also urged
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