." >> deraa, without its inhabitants. cold, destructive, frightening, dark, armoured. >> reporter: last minute rehearsals in glasgow for heba alwadi, one of the stars of an ancient greek play called the trojan women. the drama has been adapted to include the personal stories of the cast, none of d om have acfore. iheba is recounting a sce her home town of deraa, where the syrian uprising began. heba was 13 years old er school came under attack from foes of president bashar a assad. >> our classroom was surrounded by glass and the mortars arted, so it was not a safe place at all. and we needed to leave the school very quickl was so hard to see my teacher so scared. and i thought, i'm going tdie. >> beautiful. very good. well done. you know, when you do it properly, the hair on my arms, really. >> although the trojan women is a play that is over two and a half thousand years old, it's an eternal play, it speaks about eternal truths of war. >> reporter:roducer charlotte eagar began running therapeutic drama projects in a jor

in the village of greater two hundred kilometers from deraa they found a thousand hungry people if they ate something once a day they were among the more fortunate we are very happy very happy because of the many bears we got for what we got a clean water and we got an extension as well so when we saw this helicopter people were very happy. the world food program brought two tons of high nutritional food much to the relief for the villages who lost everything in the psych loan homes crops possessions and some their loved ones this aid is coming just in the nick of time for these people their food had run out they were cut off for twelve days the water's only receded here four days ago they still need flour they still need oil and they still need medicine but for now they're ok they're going to survive but there are other isolated pockets like these around the country who still need help in this area they're used to flooding but not with such ferocious winds and we're going to win before and we didn't expect the cycling to be so bad it was frightening when we were told that the winds wil

in the village of greater two hundred kilometers from deraa they found a thousand hungry people if they ate something once a day they were among the more fortunate we are very happy very happy because one remembered it without food without a clean water and without any suggestion as well so when we saw this helicopter people were very happy the world food program brought two tons of high nutritional food much to the relief of the villagers who lost everything in the psych loan homes crops possessions and some their loved ones this aid is coming just in the nick of time for these people their food had run out they were cut off for twelve days the water's only receded here four days ago they still need flour they still need oil and they still need medicine but for now they're ok they're going to survive but there are other isolated pockets like these around the country who still need help in this area they're used to flooding but not with such ferocious winds more into one before and we didn't expect the cycling to be so bad it was frightening when we were told that the winds will be more

cycle own one week after it struck they are still desperate and hungry at this center just outside deraa they were expecting food supplies they got a few packets of biscuits seems really bad that i don't know the flooding happened a week ago and this is the first help we have had just biscuits we are struggling to survive because everything was destroyed. water still holds claim to much of so for the province driving from deraa you can see the vast area that has become an inland sea homes destroyed others left isolated. aid and rescue operations are focusing on the hard hit communities with larger populations there are tens of thousands of others living in smaller more isolated pockets they are out of sight out of mind three families live in this small hut new tika seventy kilometers north of beera the cycling destroyed their huts and crops they now survive on bananas and maize maria's home was demolished when the psycho struck she thought she was going to die for all they knew that often anyone in it would when i saw the danger to first thing i did was to protect myself and my son i cou

because everything was destroyed water still holds claim to much of so full of province driving from deraa you can see the vast area that has become an inland sea homes destroyed others left isolated. aid to rescue operations are focusing on the hard hit communities with larger populations there are tens of thousands of others living in smaller more isolated pockets they are out of sight out of mind. three families live in this small hut seventy kilometers north of beera the cyclon destroyed their huts and crops they now survive on bananas and maize maria's home was demolished when the psycho struck she thought she was going to die a little later that a fairly learned it would be when i saw the danger to first thing i did was to protect myself and my son i couldn't stop the water stripping away our clothes blankets and everything is gone we're suffering then the water levels are dropping after two days of relatively good weather but the damage left behind is hampering aid efforts up until three days ago this whole area and this road was completely devastated by the psycho and covered in wa

in the village a grade or two hundred kilometers from deraa they found a thousand hungry people if they ate something once a day they were among the more fortunate we are very happy very happy because of the many birds without food we got a clean water and we got sunny station as well so when we saw the so-called girl people were very happy. the world food program brought two tons of high nutritional food much to the relief of the villages who lost everything in the psych loan homes crops possessions and some their loved ones this aid is coming just in the nick of time for these people their food had run out they were cut off for twelve days the water's only receded here four days ago they still need flour they still need oil and they still need medicine but for now they're ok they're going to survive but there are other isolated pockets like these around the country who still need help in this area they're used to flooding but not with such ferocious winds and warrant and went before and we didn't expect the cycling to be so bad it was frightening when we were told that the winds will

in a village a grade or two hundred kilometers from deraa they found a thousand hungry people if they ate something once a day they were among the more fortunate we are very happy very happy because it's food. a clean water station as well so when we saw the so-called girl people were very happy. the world food programme brought two tons of high nutritional food much to the relief of the villagers who lost everything in the psych loan homes crops possessions and some their loved ones this aid is coming just in the nick of time for these people their food had run out they were cut off for twelve days the water's only receded here four days ago they still need flour they still need oil and they still need medicine but for now they're ok they're going to survive but there are other isolated pockets like these around the country who still need help in this area they're used to flooding but not with such ferocious winds and we're going to win before and we didn't expect the cycling to be so bad it was frightening when we were told that the winds will be more than two hundred kilometers per

this is the primary school on the outskirts of deraa it's now home to about four hundred people forty one families and been made homeless by the cycle own their homes were ripped apart by the cycling with the strong winds and you see around the corrugated iron roof and rips apart on thursday they got their first regular through three square meals for the first time in five days what they want out of water they are relying completely on local n.g.o.s for their food and their water but i suppose in some ways they're the lucky ones in the hinterland is a far different case three hundred sixty thousand people are at risk and the problem is getting food and clean water to those people which is proving extremely difficult now these kids are making the most what they can but people are living on roofs in the hinterland sickly around places like. the problem is that although the water line is going rescuers can't get to them they don't have sufficient means now more helicopters will come on friday and saturday more teams will come in and that will help people but still some massive operation

water still holds claim to much of so for the province driving from deraa you can see the vast area that has become an inland sea homes destroyed others left isolated. aid and rescue operations are focusing on the hard hit communities with larger populations there are tens of thousands of others living in smaller more isolated pockets they are out of sight out of mind three families live in this small hut new tika seventy kilometers north of beera the cyclon destroyed their huts and crops they now survive on bananas and maize maria's home was demolished when the psycho struck she thought she was going to die i. mean that's a fairly low in with when i saw the danger to the first thing i did was to protect myself and my son i couldn't stop the water stripping away our clothes blankets and everything is gone we're suffering. the water levels are dropping after two days of relatively good weather but the damage left behind is hampering aid efforts up until three days ago this whole area and this road was completely devastated by the cyclonic covered in water it made passage impossible come a

water still holds claim to much of so full of province driving from deraa you can see the vast area that has become an inland sea homes destroyed others left isolated. aid and rescue operations are focusing on the hard hit communities with larger populations there are tens of thousands of others living in smaller more isolated pockets.

in the village of greater two hundred kilometers from deraa they found a thousand hungry people if they ate something once a day they were among the more fortunate we are very happy very happy because it's food. clean water and we got station as well so when we saw the so-called girl people were very happy. the world food program brought two tons of high nutritional food much to the relief for the villages who lost everything in the psych loan homes crops possessions and some their loved ones this aid is coming just in the nick of time for these people their food had run out they were cut off for twelve days the water's only receded here four days ago they still need flour they still need oil and they still need medicine but for now they're ok they're going to survive but there are other isolated pockets like these around the country who still need.

in the village a grade or two hundred kilometers from deraa they found a thousand hungry people if theyate something once a day they were among the more fortunate we are very happy very happy because of the many bears without food without clean water and without any suggestion as well so when we saw this helicopter people were very happy the world food program brought two tons of high nutritional food much to the relief of the villages who lost everything in the psych loan homes crops possessions and some their loved ones this aid is coming just in the nick of time for these people their food had run out they were cut off for twelve days the water's only receded here four days ago they still need flour they still need oil and they still need medicine but for now they're ok they're going to survive but there are other isolated pockets like these around the country who still need help in this area they're used to flooding but not with such ferocious winds more into went for when we didn't expect the cycling to be so bad it was frightening when we were told that the winds will be more than