Clarissa Ward
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326 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 4 Jun
Clarissa Ward’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We've become so cynical and so divided that the idea of fighting for an ideal, it almost sounds Pollyannish in this day and age.
And
you know, while I would absolutely agree that if there was any way to wave that magic wand and end these wars, and maybe it is the case that pragmatic, ruthless, mercantile dealmaking is the way to do it, right?
The more interconnected the economies, the better chance you have of things backsliding because you have those
friction points that at least slow it down before you get straight back to bombing each other again?
But at the same time, he has dramatically cut USAID like.
And that obviously has.
I think that's the kind of story, you know, everyone wants to rush to be like, oh, they canceled this program and now 50 babies are dead.
That's not the way it works.
This is incremental, but it is no less devastating.
It's just like watching a really bad train crash happen in slow motion.
And I think we will only get a real feel for not just the death and destruction on a sort of human level in terms of disease, but also in terms of the seeds of conflict that will be sown as a result of those cuts eventually.
It's one of many secret prisons across the city.
The guard makes us turn the camera off while he shoots the lock off the cell door. We go in to get a closer look. It's still not clear if there is something under the blanket. Oh, it moved. Is there someone there? I thought it was gonna move. Is someone there? Or is it just a blanket? I don't know, I don't know.
Does anyone have any water?
After three months in a windowless cell, he can finally see the sky. My God, the light, he says. Oh, God, there is light. The fighter hands him something to eat. He can barely lift it to his mouth. But his body can't handle it. Okay, you're okay. His captors fled during the fall of Damascus.
No food or water. That was at least four days ago. The rebel tells him there's no more army, no more prisons, no more checkpoints. Are you serious, he says? Syria is free, he tells him.
As a paramedic arrives, the shock sets in. Jake, I have to say, I have been doing this job for nearly 20 years now. And that really was one of the most extraordinary moments that I have ever witnessed.
We don't know where Abdul Khurban is now. He got into that ambulance. We offered to give him our phones to call his family. But as you can see in that moment, he was in a state of profound shock. He wasn't able to collect himself to the point where he was able to get in touch with his family.
Possible.
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