One day walking along the Straight Street in Damascus' Old City, I stopped at a shop I'd passed a number of times and asked the craftsman if I could film him at work. Upon reading up on the art of inlaid silver, I read that only a handful of craftsmen still use the techniques which have been used for 700 years in Syria. [ http://www.syriangate.com/syria-news-10/2/Syria-traditional-metal-handicraft-industry.htm ] Truly phenomenal art-work! Related: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/syria/my-published-articles-and-other-musings-from-and-on-syria-20142015/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/05/13/in-syria-life-goes-on-despite-everything/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z0Xou5RoYI

In Krutaya Balka, a frontline village N of Donetsk and just outside of Yasinovataya, 15 people (mostly elderly) remain, under near-daily Ukrainian shelling & heavy machine gun fire. I spoke with those I could find at home while I was there. All told me they were constantly being assaulted by Ukrainian forces) by heavy machine gun fire and shelling. The machine gun fire not only punctures the walls but also can set fire to the roof, thus the whole house. All said they had no where to go, so they stay, living in hell in an area otherwise quite lovely. Same as I heard in Zaitsevo, further north in the Donetsk People's Republic. This video is the first of a few I'll upload from Krutaya Balka, letting the civilians speak about what corporate owned media will not. RELATED LINKS: From Frontline Village of Krutaya Balka, Where Residents Under Constant Ukrainian Machine Gun Fire, Sniping, Bombing https://www.patreon.com/posts/from-frontline-30172030 *ZAITSEVO AREA: DPR Defender: "(Ukraine's) biggest mistake here was using weapons against civilians" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhudqk4j2fY DPR Village Resident Says Ukrainian Bombings Destroying Homes Street By Street https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFsLzCxAKwM https://www.patreon.com/posts/dpr-village-says-30028169 Resident of the Mine 6-7 District, DPR, Shows Damage to her Home After Ukrainian Shellings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJabtYB3ay4 https://www.patreon.com/posts/resident-of-mine-29955432 Zaitsevo (DPR) resident: "We are not living, we are surviving" https://www.patreon.com/posts/zaitsevo-dpr-we-29918225 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qLQY06F_IU

Pyongyang's Science & Technology Centre is a modern structure including drip-irrigation grass walls, geothermal heating, and solar energy for lighting and powering the over 3,000 computers. The long distance learning program enables people from around the country to study, earning a degree equivalent to that of in-university studies. According to the guide, the library includes new books on science and technology in 12 foreign languages (including English, Russian, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese...). *Music from kindergarten children who I filmed performing. ** Support my work by following on: My blog: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/EvaKBartlett Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EvaBoBeeva Twitter: https://twitter.com/EvaKBartlett ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_d39JvG7u8

Early last week, Turkey, Syria & surrounding countries experienced a series of earthquakes & aftershocks which tragically struck Syria and Turkey the hardest, killing over 35,000 people now, including over 4,300 in Syria. Syria has already suffered over a decade of the West's devastating war on the Syrian people. Now this tragedy. I spoke with Marwa Osman to discuss the impact of the West's cruel anti-Syrian sanctions on the current rescue & relief efforts in Syria. Marwa is a Lebanese journalist, political commentator, host & producer of the Mideast Stream, and a university lecturer. “It's already devastating in Syria because of the cumulative effect of the sanctions. Before the earthquakes, the sanctions worked on three specialized levels: The first level is on the financial institutions in Syria that are directly linked to the government. If you want to wire money from outside of Syria to any bank in Syria, it has to go through the central bank of Syria, which has been sanctioned since the early days of the war. Which means if you want to transfer & wire money to the people affected by the earthquake to their bank accounts in Syria, you can't, because its still under sanctions... The second level: the health sector in Syria. The sanctions are on everything within the governmental institutions in Syria, one of which is the Ministry of Health, which controls all of the health sector in Syria. Syria does have privatized hospitals, but majorly all of the hospitals in Syria are controlled by the government, because everyone has the right to have medical care in Syria. By doing these sanctions on all institutions related to the Syrian government, you by default sanction the health sector in Syria. Third: sanctioning any country that deals with the Syrian government, whether buying selling products, especially medical products or machinery needed for reconstruction, ambulances...You're not allowed to deal with Syria or you will be sanctioned...If you have the right technology, you can detect whether there are people under the rubble. Syria isn't even allowed to buy this technology, because of the sanctions.” Follow Marwa: https://twitter.com/Marwa__Osman https://t.me/Marwa_OsmanLB LINKS FOR DONATING TO SYRIA: https://www.facebook.com/wataawanoo?mibextid=ZbWKwL https://haysatar.com/campaign/242/help-the-earthquake-victims-in-syria https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02agS6UrYXDJxaMzFsiwekyYUFmCjKzH5txoHz7JsMUmqPeKnAE1QFd4hBW2qLUjzwl&id=100069728167963&mibextid=Nif5oz RELATED TO THE SANCTIONS: Western sanctions will mean that more Syrians die after the earthquakes https://web.archive.org/web/20230212044123/https://www.rt.com/news/571295-western-sanctions-syria-earthquake/ US sanctions are part of a multi-front war on Syria, and its long-suffering civilians are the main target https://web.archive.org/web/20230212045008/https://www.rt.com/op-ed/494613-us-sanctions-war-syria/ Western leaders, screw your ‘Sanctions Target the Regime’ blather: Sanctions KILL PEOPLE https://web.archive.org/web/20230212054459/https://www.rt.com/op-ed/475983-sanctions-kill-people-syria-us/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXvvDoZ2f88