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Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.
Coming to you live from London, I'm Celia Hatton.
Well, coming up in 30 minutes, our chief international correspondent, Lise Doucet reports from a place where few journalists go.
Westar4 in Sudan, which has been a hot spot in 19 months of fighting.
Wow.
There's still an accurate taste in the air smell.
This place was burning.
The shops are charred, the doors blown over.
This is where gunmen went on a.
Rampage that in half an hour's time.
But first, we're going to start with the fast moving situation in Syria.
The conflict there suddenly sprung to life again after the civil war had reached a stalemate.
Bashar al Assad's government retained power, leaving about a third of the country in the hands of opposition forces.