Why risk your life to report a war that's ignored?
Beyond Today
BBC
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2018
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
As peace talks aimed at ending nearly four years of civil war in Yemen take place, we speak to the BBC’s Orla Guerin about the conflict that started in 2015 and the humanitarian crisis that’s crippling the country. We hear why she’s passionate about the country and believes that we all have responsibility not to forget the war or the people who are suffering there. Mixed by Nicolas Raufast Producer: Philly Beaumont Editor: John Shields
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, I'm Matthew Price. |
| 0:07.0 | This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4, |
| 0:10.0 | where we make a little space to ask a big question about a big story every day. |
| 0:17.0 | Today, why risk your life to report a war that's ignored? |
| 0:27.0 | Today we want to tell you the story of a schoolboy called Zakaria. |
| 0:39.0 | Zakaria has a father who loves him and a little brother who is devoted to him. |
| 0:46.9 | But beyond that he doesn't have much except for a new set of clothes which have pride of place in the family's small home. They hang |
| 0:56.2 | from a nail hammered into the living room wall. Now Zachary's story isn't an easy one to hear, but the image of his family at home in Yemen is the |
| 1:08.0 | image that stuck with me since we recorded today's episode. And I'm ashamed to say that until the moment I heard |
| 1:15.7 | his story I hadn't truly engaged with what is going on in Yemen I hadn't truly |
| 1:22.1 | thought about it. Because ultimately the tale of this little |
| 1:28.1 | boy and the stories of the other people we're about to meet, helped to paint a picture of a country that we've all heard of, |
| 1:37.2 | but too many of us choose to ignore. |
| 1:41.7 | Now to hear these stories I first have to introduce you to someone I used to work with in the Middle East. |
| 1:48.0 | She's a lovely woman, she's warm, she's kind, she's fiercely driven, passionate about her job. |
| 1:55.0 | In fact, Stacy Dooley in one of our other episodes described her as a queen. |
| 2:01.0 | She loves her. |
| 2:02.0 | And this woman's name is Orlagerin. And I wanted to speak to her on the |
| 2:07.3 | podcast today because for the first time this week there are talks starting that might just end Yemen's war, a war that |
| 2:17.0 | A Orla first risked her life to report on three years ago. We took to the open seas to reach Yemen. |
| 2:27.0 | This was our only way in. |
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