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Newshour in Syria: The man who collected bodies for the Assad regime

Newshour in Syria: The man who collected bodies for the Assad regime

Update: 2025-05-06
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Newshour reports from Syria again, as the country tries to emerge from the ruin of civil war and dictatorship. Tim Franks has met a man whose job under Bashar al-Assad was to collect bodies from a military hospital: "the hardest part to see was how they were tortured".

Also in the programme: Canadians elected Mark Carney to see off Donald Trump's ambition to annex Canada - today they met at the White House; and Germany has a new Chancellor, after a rocky start.

(Photo: Fighters inspect the site of a mass grave from the rule of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, according to residents, after the ousting of al-Assad, in Najha, Syria, December 17, 2024. Reuters/Ammar Awad)

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Newshour in Syria: The man who collected bodies for the Assad regime

Newshour in Syria: The man who collected bodies for the Assad regime

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