Im philippa thomas. From here in the worlds newsroom, we send our correspondents to bring you the best stories from across the world. In this weeks programme. Football on the front line. Richard conway reports on syrias world cup dreams, and asks whether soccer can help to unite a country at war. Football coming back to syria provides the people with a chance to forget about their worries. At least for 90 minutes. The plight of the people of western mosul. Orla guerin reports from the camps in iraq, struggling to feed up to 500,000 survivors of the so called islamic state. They say they have no running water, no electricity, no access to medical supplies, and people in the queue are really afraid that the food is going to run out before they have been able to get some. Returning to crimea after three years after Vladimir Putin annexed the region. Steve rosenberg finds out how people feel about russian rule and sanctions. Moscow insists that most of the people who live here are happy to
Im philippa thomas. From here in the worlds newsroom, we send our correspondents to bring you the best stories from across the world. In this weeks programme. Football on the front line. Richard conway reports on syrias world cup dreams, and asks whether soccer can help to unite a country at war. Football coming back to syria provides the people with a chance to forget about their worries. At least for 90 minutes. The plight of the people of western mosul. Orla guerin reports from the camps in iraq, struggling to feed up to 500,000 survivors of the so called islamic state. They say they have no running water, no electricity, no access to medical supplies, and people in the queue are really afraid that the food is going to run out before they have been able to get some. Returning to crimea after three years after Vladimir Putin annexed the region. Steve rosenberg finds out how people feel about russian rule and sanctions. Moscow insists that most of the people who live here are happy to
many russian speaking ukrainians live in that area. these are the people vladimir putin vowed to liberate. marina and herfamily had their home in vuhledar. on october 28th, ramaz and his comrades from the 155 prepared for the assault. he sent a last message to his mother, svetlana.
and run to the front line is exactly what ramaz s mother did. following the footsteps of her son, she said, online, her family travelled nearly 7,000 kilometres to the town of volnovakha, where her son was last seen before the assault on vuhledar in october. there, she finally found her answer. her son was dead. he had been killed in the battle, a day before his comrades sent their protest letter to governor kozhemya ko. over the next months, ramaz s mother grieved her son. she also talked to local media.
they found no wrongdoing by the 155th brigade s commanders. by december, ramaz, the young rapper from yagodnoye, was still missing. his mother, svetlana, shared her despair online, and asked for help to find him. back in october, governor kozhemyako had promised to support the families. he wrote this on telegram. but families sent messages on his channel saying they could not get responses.