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World Service,1 min
'As we won an Oscar, the team were rescuing a child under the rubble'
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‘The White Helmets’, a film about the 3,300-strong volunteer rescue group that operates in rebel-held parts of Syria has won the Oscar for best short documentary. Abed Abdulrahman, a spokesperson for the group explains how the victory was bittersweet. (Photo: An Oscar Statue / White Helmet rescuers in Idlib, Syria Dec 2016. Credit: Andrew Walker / Mohamed Al-Bakour)
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