Original version

BBC World Service East Asia

Migrated podcast image for: Weekend Break

Weekend

News

A review of the week with the latest news.

BBC World Service Australasia

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa Schedule

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa

BBC World Service Online

BBC World Service schedule for American satellite radio and the Caribbean

BBC World Service Americas and the Caribbean

BBC World Service

BBC World Service South Asia

BBC World Service News Internet

BBC World Service Europe and the Middle East

BBC World Service West and Central Africa Schedule

BBC World Service West and Central Africa

Weekend: Cholera cases soar in Syria and Lebanon

Magazines & Reviews

Cholera cases soar in Syria and Lebanon

29/10/2022 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Cholera cases soar in Syria and Lebanon

UN is appealing for more than 30 million dollars to help to curb cholera in Syria.

The United Nations is appealing for more than thirty million dollars to help to curb a rapidly spreading cholera outbreak in Syria. The waterborne disease is now affecting all areas of the country with twenty-four-thousand suspected cases and at least eighty deaths so far.

President Biden has condemned an attack on the husband of the House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, saying there's too much hatred in US politics. 

And the story of a refugee family, from Afghanistan to the stage of the National Theatre here in the United Kingdom.

Joining Paul Henley to discuss these and other issues making the news headlines are Emma Beals an independent consultant focused on Syria and senior advisor at the European Institute of Peace and Tim Judah, a Special correspondent at the Economist newspaper.


(Photo: A woman carries her child, who is suspected of being infected with cholera, at a hospital in the Kurdish-controlled city of Hasaka, northeastern Syria September 24, 2022. Credit: Reuters)

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Weekend

Cholera cases soar in Syria and Lebanon

Genres

Formats

Brand

BBC World Service East Asia

About BBC World Service