2024-12-16
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An entire generation of Syrians has never known freedom.
And so when it swept over them last Sunday, there was shock, then joy and a desperate hope that it might last.
Damascus is a city nearly 5,000 years old, but over this decade, the war has seemed like the end of civilization.
I've even seen on social media platforms people showing before and after photos what are clearly like high school girls.
And I've reverse image searched the original photo and they're like a high school girl's like swim meets.
And see these are very clearly these are minors and adult content is being made of them non consensual then also being posted on social media.
I think a lot of parents would be surprised to learn that you post a picture of your child on your Instagram account.
Your child could end up naked photo of your child out there.
Yeah.
On a rainy afternoon, we watched as Pierre Alexis Dumas, the artistic director of Hermes, turned his discerning eye to dozens of potential scarf designs.
Hermes scarves are screened and stitched by hand.
The only part of the process that happens quickly is this.
Dumas chose the colors for next season's scarves.
In less than an hour, I'm a happy man.
Voila.
Look at the disaster.
A mountain of hope reduced to ashes.
I'm Leslie Stahl.