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Newshour: Fresh Strikes on Syria Enclave Kill Dozens

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20/02/2018 GMT

Fresh Strikes on Syria Enclave Kill Dozens

BBC World Service - Newshour, Fresh Strikes on Syria Enclave Kill Dozens

The government continues to bombard the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta

The government continues to bombard the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta, a day after 120 people are reported to have died.

At least 50 civilians have reportedly been killed in fresh Syrian government attacks on the besieged rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region outside Damascus. A monitoring group said 127 civilians were killed on Monday in the deadliest day for three years in the enclave, where some 393,000 people are trapped. We hear from inside the enclave as well as from a government MP.

Also in the programme; Venezuela launches a crypto-currency today in an effort to find a way out of the dire economic straits it finds itself in and; a Japanese man wins custody rights for 13 of his children who were born to surrogate mothers in Thailand. 

Picture: Syrian men carry an injured victim amid the rubble of buildings following government bombing in the rebel-held town of Hamouria, in the besieged Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, on February 19, 2018. Credit: Abdulmonam Eassa/AFP/Getty Images

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