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Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service, coming to you live from our studios in central London.
I'm Julian Marshall.
And later in the program, Romania's top court cancels the presidential election with TikTok implicated in an illegal campaign for one of the candidates.
And Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris reborn after a devastating fire five years ago.
You're kind of getting the cathedral in its brand new state and that's something that, you know, we haven't had in 800 years.
I'm very excited.
That's all to come later in this edition of NewsHour.
Islamis led Syrian rebels have lit a fire which now seems to be spreading throughout the country.
The main rebel offensive continues to be north, south, and their lightning advance begun this week has so far led to the capture of Aleppo, with the rebels now reported to be just kilometres away from the country's third biggest city, Homs.
This is the sound of a convoy of rebel forces driving through Tirmeal, just to the north of the city.
Elsewhere, Kurdish led forces say they've taken the city of Deir EZ Zua, the government's main foothold in the east of the country, while in the southwest in the town of Zwerda, there have been clashes between Dru's militia and the security forces and reports of violence in the town of Durra.
Government forces have so far offered little or no resistance.
Tens of thousands of people have been fleeing Homs.