December 14, 2024 • 47 mins
The world's media has brought us spectacular images out of Syria this week, as the brutal dictatorship of the country's President Bashar al-Assad crumbled this week, in a moment being compared to the fall of the Berlin Wall, and one which promises to reshape the landscape of power in the Middle East.
Joining Tina Quinn to discuss this seismic moment:
Lyse Doucet, the BBC's Chief International Correspondent who is currently in the Syrian capital of Damascus, Kareem Shaheen from New Lines Magazine, and Paul Conroy the filmmaker and photographer; who whilst working in the region was brutally injured by the same Syrian shelling which claimed the life of his friend and colleague, Marie Colvin.
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