The Photo of the Yemeni Girl
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The New York Times
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🗓️ 7 December 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tyler, can you describe the photograph? |
| 0:03.0 | It's a young girl laying on her back on a dark cot in a hospital. |
| 0:09.5 | And she's got brown hair that's pulled back behind one ear. |
| 0:15.7 | And her face looks like any child of her age, a seven-year-old girl looking to one side, |
| 0:24.0 | very pretty, very calm. |
| 0:26.4 | And below the neck, you see this incredibly malnourished body. |
| 0:33.8 | Her ribs are literally popping through her skin. |
| 0:38.4 | The hands and arms are incredibly skinny. |
| 0:43.6 | She's kind of clutching her own body with her hands, almost like she's holding on to |
| 0:49.8 | what's left. |
| 0:54.1 | You can see actually on her right hand, there's a fly on her thumb, and she doesn't have the |
| 0:59.9 | energy to push it away. |
| 1:02.6 | It just sat there. |
| 1:06.1 | And you took this photograph? |
| 1:07.3 | Yes. |
| 1:08.3 | Yes, I took this photograph at a small clinic, not even a hospital, but really a field clinic |
| 1:16.1 | in northern Yemen during a recent assignment there. |
| 1:22.7 | I'm reluctant to display this picture though it was on the front page of a major newspaper |
| 1:28.8 | in the United States. |
| 1:30.2 | Amal Hussein, she's a victim of famine in Yemen. |
| 1:36.3 | This is what the decision is all about on the floor of the United States Senate. |
| 1:40.8 | Will we continue to expend American taxpayer dollars, even American lives in support of |
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