Syrian girl receives award for live-tweeting civil war

2018-04-28 1

An eight-year-old Syrian girl has been awarded the Rising Star at the 2018 Asian Awards for raising awareness of the plight of citizens in the country's civil war. Bana al-Abed live-tweeted the Aleppo bombing in 2016. She spoke to ITV News about her experiences of the war Report by Jonesia. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn