The Struggle For Aid In Syria

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The first aid deliveries has started to arrive in Syria after Monday’s deadly earthquakes. Adam speaks to Syrian director, Waad Al-Kateab, who directed of the award winning documentary ‘For Sama’, and her husband Hamza Al-Kateab, a doctor and human rights activist, who say much more support is needed. The UK has narrowly avoided a recession according to new statistics. Paul Johnson, director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies explains what that actually means for people’s daily lives. Today's episode was presented by Adam Fleming and was made by Chris Flynn with Rufus Gray, Miranda Slade and Cordelia Hemming. The technical producer was Jonathan Greer. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.0	Hello, we're going to start today's episode with a lovely little geographical
0:08.6	ditty.
0:09.6	Back in November, a social media influencer who lives in the Yukon in Canada called Pavolina
0:17.0	Livingston Suddrich was telling her 200,000 followers about this kind of winter warming contraption.
0:24.4	She'd bought from a shop in Wales, but she made a geographical howler as she was discussing
0:29.7	it.
0:30.7	I saw this online and ordered one immediately.
0:33.2	Their hand made by a woman named Bolinda in Wales, England.
0:37.0	And this woman is vibes.
0:38.4	I've tagged her in the video, check her out.
0:40.9	Everyone needs one of these.
0:42.3	Wales, England.
0:43.9	Wow, never letting a good crisis go to waste was the first Minister of Mark Drake for
0:48.8	it who replied like this.
0:50.4	It would be fantastic if you could come here too well so we could show you all those
0:56.4	things that are special about us and make us want to go on having that very special relationship
1:03.9	between Wales, the Yukon and the whole of Canada.
1:07.8	And Pavolina accepted the invitation.
1:09.5	She spent the last couple of days tramping through Wales and she's also accepted an invitation
1:14.4	to pop up on newscast.
1:16.0	Hello, Pavolina.
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