HARDtalk
HARDtalk
BBC World Service
Ayman Asfari - Chief Executive Petrofac Ltd
23 minutes Posted Sep 30, 2015 at 6:33 am.
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After four years of civil war Syria is all but destroyed. At least 220,000 killed and half of the entire population forced from their homes and still the world's great powers argue over a response. Stephen Sackur talks to one of the world's wealthiest Syrians, Ayman Asfari, an exile based in Britain and founder and boss of the Petrofac oil services corporation. Behind the scenes he has lobbied hard for a more effective international intervention in his homeland, but what would that look like?

(Photo: Ayman Asfari, founder and boss of the Petrofac oil services corporation)