The Observers present a collaborative weekly news show produced exclusively with content provided by amateurs.

Story 1: Syria
We begin today with the civil war in Syria - the war between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the various rebel groups who've been fighting him for four years, and above all the civilians caught in the middle. Since last year though, the world has focused largely on the Islamic State organisation - and its grisly executions - like the burning alive of a Jordanian pilot. Our Observer Boura lives in a city in Syria that is under constant attack by Bashar al-Assad's air force. He wants the world to pay attention, so in desperation, he's taken a page from the Islamic State's playbook.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the regime has intensified its bombing of Douma in the last month, killing 66 people in one day alone. One of the people killed in the airstrikes was our Observer Boura's daughter. She was a year old.
 
Story 2: Ivory Coast
Now to Ivory Coast in West Africa  - to a huge rubbish dump outside the commercial capital Abidjan. As in other poor countries, many people make a living by scavenging at the dump. The best of them claim to earn 5 or 6 euros a day - it doesn't sound like much, but it's more than the country's average wage.

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