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lose. hi, i'm sandra gartman. welcome to portal. your gateway to some of our busier as best content online. this week we're focusing on syria. it's been 10 years since president bus or our last. i launched a war against protesters a decade on hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, and half the population has been displaced. the fighting is still going on, while outside remains and power. will take a look at how the conflict started and where things stand. now, will also meet a woman who has dedicated her life to helping syrian women and children overcome their trauma while dealing with her own. and we'll hear from the syrian activists

who haven't given up fighting for change or not. more about who each other is, but who the regime and who the rest of the world is at the end of may, syrian voted in a presidential election. it was dismissed, as shown by the u. s. e. u and others, only people in government held areas could vote, and there was never any doubt over the outcome. but the election helps to cement bizarre loss of control, even though he's presiding over a country shattered by war. on a digital show, start here, my team and i looked at what started the war and why there's no end in sight. but 1st, a warning. this video contains pictures you may find disturbing. the me, let's talk about the war in syria. the

entire city's flattened hospital bond, ancient sites, low enough, 13000000 people forced to leave their home at one point the un said the battlefield k off made it impossible to count the dead. so they stopped. but the fighting hasn't and people are still dying. the little feeling doing suffering in syria. it's just beyond imagination. i think nobody expected that 10 years later, we would still be in the midst of this conflict. so who's fighting? who? where are serious millions of refugees? and why does this seem like a war without end? for years, the syrian war was the biggest news story around today. not so much. maybe it's media fatigue. maybe people think it's over in the president. bashar last lot is

one of the syrian government seems to think so the cities and railway they're being rebuilt. domestic flights of started up again. they're even letting travels longer than why in the area. it's not because you think we, how far and through tame is changed. in reality though, most of syria is still and ruined me in the if you compare the amount of invest to few compared to the money to initiate the impacts of before the syrians, the people left the end of august crisis. it's dated. it all started back in 2011.

the arab spring was happening, and leaders in new jersey and egypt had already been overthrown in syria. some children had been watching all that on tv and decided to send their president. a message for the children were arrested and tortured and people started protesting. the government responded with force. the syrian uprising was on demonstrators killed wild clashing with security forces in what appears to be the most serious threat to his family is 40 year rule. protests have now spread from the southern city of death to damascus, hammer, homes, and other cities prove this movement was started to me. i mean, it shook the regime to nation. the all sod regime had been in power for more than 40 years. starting with our father, many people were tired of things like corruption being repressed. they wanted a lot that out. when the war started, it was very much

a civil war author and forces against the syrian opposition that included people who defected from the military. and opponents who picked up a gun, then other players piled in the us turkey and others cited with the opposition pretty much from the start. the syrian president had allies to russian warplanes bombed from the air and militias backed by iran font on the ground. but there were other enemies common to them all i saw on this or front and other groups. consider terrorist took advantage of the chaos to take control. then syrian kurdish fighters got involved, they joined up with aaron militias to push eiffel out and stake their own territorial claim. turkey though, seized them as terrorists, and didn't want them on a southern border. so they went to war with the syrian kurtz. it's been a messy battlefield, and over the course of those 10 years, the syrian people have suffered the most. the

people who weren't part of that war was bombed by the sod regime, attacked with chemical weapons blockaded, starved and detained. mainly by outside forces. victims of filed allegations of war crimes and courts all over europe. finance. martha colored, i'm at the irony, highly behavior. things were bad during the peak of the war. but right now the economy has never been worse. nearly 90 percent of syrians live below the poverty line, their currency, the pound is that its lowest ever level against the dollar, making everything expensive. costs are on a john hadn't come from the phone. as of last, there are shortages of fuel food. some places only have electricity for

a few hours a day out to not a covered 19 epidemic that no one knows the real scale of, even without the conflict being at high level. there's still aren't services sufficient enough for people to have jobs and send their kids to school and receive adequate health care. okay, so where is the war at right now? these days the government has control of about 2 thirds of the country, but they are still fighting for parts of the north, where all kinds of groups are still hanging on from syrian rebels or in one part where turkeys basically in control. and then there's a lip, the last opposition stronghold. ah, it's a complicated place. syrian rebels are mixed in with lots of groups. consider terrace. millions of refugees are living there in camps. ah,

an every so often syrian and russian forces attack they say they're liberating inlet from terrorists. couple condemned in blue metal canada hygiene and meanwhile, syrian current control this region. hundreds of us soldiers are still there, 2, mainly protecting oil fields. but there are other groups roaming around, including militias, backed by iran, like had beloved. don't notice though there's no sign of vital anywhere. it took a while, but eventually they were pushed out their leader of the bunker all by daddy was killed by the u. s. in 2019, and most of their fighters were either captured or killed. but i feel as id ology of survived, and it's spreading in camps were fighters and their families are being held. i says billed on several things, including cairo's, lack of a grievance in the division,

the people in need for jobs and i think it's been that they're recruiting. so that's where the conflict is that. but you can't talk about a nation without talking about its people. and half of a syrian people are refugees, me more than 6000000 or internally displaced. but another 5 and a half 1000000 are living outside of serial. turkeys taken in the most, followed by lebanon. jordan, iraq and egypt over the years there have been countless peace talks and all of them have failed. right now the un is put together, a committee made up of both opposition and government people. it's to try to turn the page on the war by writing a new constitution, but it's not really working. meanwhile, there are all those external players still using syria to settle their scores. and can we see the externals confront each other directly rather than on the steering

ground? i don't see an actual and to the shooting. there's an argument to be made that this war really is over a b s on regime is one. if that's true, it's come at an enormous cost and 10 years on things in syria have never been worse . so as we just heard, a live is one part of syria where many displaced people of ended up and were many are trying to build new lives. people like a be to far as who helps widows and children deal with the trauma of war. here's her story featured and the online documentary series close up the me .

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and then i back in 2011. that dream of a free, serious, old so close for thousands of young syrians protesting against the government. there was a sense that change was possible. but after all, the horrors of the last 10 years is there any hope left. 80 plus spoke to 3 syrians who took part in demonstrations back in 2011 to find out how they feel about it all . now. the, the the the pretty difficult to

imagine a future very soon. but even if i don't, it's enough for me, but they come one well after the solution started, when i did, i remember nothing. i only remember myself being on one crowd and just looking around and just feeling that it's actually happening. like in this day, i mean i can feel like now it's so time years later. i mean, i don't feel it. it seems like it was in a different world. suddenly, so many pool that were when we lived together, we were actually separate your name, the your neighbor, but felt like, you know, you could say something wrong and you would be imprisoned. there was so much distance, but when the protests began, everyone was so close that would unification. people of all different backgrounds coming together. for many people, they will tell me quite

a 1st time i felt truly artistic. and i think people really weren't aware and necessarily of not having that until they until the the only value is actually what makes me survive every day. so the very the not only with others, also with all the human share, our pain and blue shield. there was ambition to have freedom crackers. let me the officers can hear

it and that is not treat them is very difficult and low. but i feel bad, i can say about after 10 years, it's clear that there are still people who want freedom. when this uprising began 10 years ago, we did have hope. and if we didn't have hope, we wouldn't have participated in protest from the very 1st moment, very dangerous to staring stories. that book is not closed. i think you know, your pastor, you know, maybe act one of the saga. so i don't, i don't know how long act tune actory will be. we kind of had to go through this phase because otherwise it was never going to really show it can without it or people are not going to be just about of, of any of the sort of all, all believe. i remember at the beginning i was with my dad watching joseph on tv, and i saw tears in his eyes and i asked him like, are you found? and he said that this is like tears of happiness. and he said that even if i do not

witness the moment, the solution is enough for me that i witnessed this moment in the venture disappeared now for 7 years and 9 months we haven't heard from him. then we don't even know if a life or not very gina is actually using this detention and enforced the step that i hear and not only to empower those who are in detention centers and in

prison, but also to this empower there. ah, ah, the very 1st stage in damascus that i saw with my own eyes, people that philip here today and they still have that cold. okay. we, we did this. it was just, i will tell you or not about who each other is. the regime breast of the world is when i'm in this with other fury and i still have the same feeling. i'm excited. i am empowered, but at the same time i'm sad and i'm because every time i see the faces off my bad and those many others whom we are close,

i buried for those who killed me if you want to find out more about falling the stuff of campaign to seek the truth about what happened to her father. you can hear more on al jazeera podcast, the take. they've put together a really powerful episode about syrians looking for justice through the german courts. you can find that on our website or wherever you get your podcasts. that's it from portal for now. we'll be back next week, but until then, do you online? ah, on can you see the coast china aged population? the country will become the 1st nation in history to gold before it becomes switched by. the finance industry isn't living up to its own green credentials to

legal traffic jams. so people turning to the waterways, come to the course on, i'll just use use use hello there. let's start in australia and we've got a weather system swirling away in the se that's bringing wet and windy weather to coastal areas of new south wales. some sunshine, it does to break through, but it storms and showers for sidney. victoria seen from frosty starts to the morning. the sunshine will come through as we move into the afternoon. but it ever is a bit of a brisk wind blowing in and that's going to affect tasmania as well as some fog in the mornings. but the wet weather will kick in in the afternoon. we move into sunday that pushes off to watch new zealand. elsewhere in australia,

looking fine and dry, does the change on the ca for perth, as a weather front, moves its way and that's a cold front. bringing with it, sweat and windy weather for pers. plenty of cloud cover and look what that does for the temperature will be nestling into the mid teens. by the time we get to sunday, about 4 degrees below average for this time of year. and the weather will hit new zealand as we get into saturday. edging into the north island, plenty of rain for the bay of plenty as well as wellington, and that moves its way down to the south island as we go into sunday sunshine for southern areas and christ church coming in at 11 degrees celsius the we town the untold story, ah, we speak when others don't. ah,

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