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Newshour: Deir Ezzor: Life After The Siege

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16/02/2018 GMT

Deir Ezzor: Life After The Siege

BBC World Service - Newshour, Deir Ezzor: Life After The Siege

The World Food Programme has had access to the Syrian city for the first time since 2014

The World Food Programme has had access to the Syrian city for the first time since 2014.

The United Nations World Food Programme has had access to Deir Ezzor for the first time since Islamic State militants surrounded the eastern Syrian city in 2014. The siege was lifted last year, but one of the aid workers on a rare visit tells Newshour that most of the city remains uninhabitable.

Also in the programme: An interview with the White House Cybersecurity chief; and is there hope for Borneo's Orangutans despite their numbers plummeting?

(Image: Men ride a bicycle in the eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor. Credit: Stringer/AFP/Getty Images)

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