World risks losing Syria generation, says Malala

The world risks losing a generation of Syrian children if it ignores their plight, Malala Yousafzai – the Pakistani girl who made a miraculous recovery after being shot in the head by the Taliban – told CNN.
“It's a risk to all of us if we ignore them,” Malala, as she is known to her legions of followers, said.
“People should focus on their bright future, because their bright future means our bright future, and the future of the whole world.”
Malala visited on Tuesday travelled to the Zaatari Refugee Camp in Jordan to meet with the young victims of Syria's grinding war. She spoke from there with CNN's Hala Gorani, filling in for Christiane Amanpour.
“So many children, they can't go to school, they cannot get education,” Malala said, overlooking the refugee camp.
UNICEF says more than five million Syrian children are at risk as a result of the war, with over a million children refugees and more than 10,000 killed.
Meanwhile, nearly a dozen civilians were evacuated from besieged parts of the Syrian city of Homs yesterday before the operation was halted because of shots fired by "armed men", the governor of Homs told AFP.
He added that the evacuation had not been coordinated with the United Nations but with "elders and clerics".
The United Nations and Syria's Red Crescent began operations to evacuate trapped civilians and deliver aid inside besieged parts of Homs on February 7.
The operation has allowed out some 1,400 of the estimated 3,000 people trapped in Homs for more than 18 months by a government siege that forced residents to survive on little more than olives and wild plants.
The local ceasefire in Homs came about despite the failure of the latest round of Geneva peace talks aimed at ending the nearly three-year conflict, which has claimed an estimated 140,000 lives.