Cholera cases soar in Syria and Lebanon

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)