Violence erupts in Syria’s coastal region
The World
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4.6 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Approximately a thousand people are estimated to have been killed in Syria's coastal region after violence that followed an attack on government forces last week. Since then, members of Syria's Alawite community have been attacked and killed. Also, economist and politician Mark Carney is named Canada’s new prime minister. And, many immigrants now fear sharing their stories in the United States. Plus, Bolivia’s administrative capital, La Paz, has the longest — and highest — cable car system in the world.
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| 0:28.9 | In Syria, days of violence have left an estimated thousand people dead. |
| 0:33.3 | Most of the people killed are just, you know, civilians who are sitting in their homes. |
| 0:38.0 | This is the legacy of a long, difficult civil war. |
| 0:43.8 | I'm Marco Wurman. |
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| 0:46.1 | Today, why Syria's al-a-white community is being targeted. |
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| 1:00.9 | Canadians have picked a prime minister to replace Trudeau for a little while at least, and he's got his work cut out for him. |
| 1:07.0 | Canadians want a safe pair of hands, but they also want a nationalist. |
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| 1:24.3 | And I'm Carolyn Beeler. Thank you for being with us this Monday. |
| 1:33.6 | We begin today in Syria, where the country's coastal region has been overtaken by violence. |
| 1:38.9 | Members of the Allerweight religious minority, a group associated with the Assad family, |
| 1:42.7 | have been targeted by rogue militias allied with the new government. |
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