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Charity Appeal For Sick Children In Syria

23/12/2017 GMT

Charity Appeals For Sick Children In Syria

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Charity says children with cancer among 130 needing urgent medical attention in Ghouta

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British advisers for an international medical charity in Syria say that President Assad is considering their appeal for an urgent evacuation of seven children with cancer trapped in a besieged area. We hear from one of the organisers, Hamish de Bretton-Gordon. 

Also on the programme: BBC radio comedy quiz show 'Just A Minute' marks 50th anniversary; Egyptian singer, Sherine Abdel Wahab, facing trial for 'inciting debauchery' in music video; and Yemen cholera cases reach one million.

(Photo: Syrian baby Karim Abdallah who lost his left eye and his his mother being held by his brother in the rebel-held town of Beit Sawa, in the eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus. Credit: Getty Images)

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