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Hello and welcome to NewsHour on the BBC World Service.
I'm Celia Hatton, coming to you live from our studio in London.
We'll start this edition with a deeper look at what's going on in Syria.
The sudden collapse of Bashar Al Assad's regime there has been compared to the Middle east equivalent of the fall of the Bur Berlin Wall.
In Damascus, Syria's new government is already starting to take shape.
The rebel leader, Abu Mohammed Al Julani has appointed the man who's been running most of the rebel held Idlib province as the country's interim prime minister.
And the new authorities in Damascus have announced that senior officials of the deposed Assad regime who tortured political prisoners will be brought to justice.
Robert Ford is a former American ambassador to Syria.
He told the BBC the new leadership of Syria was facing challenges.
I'm hopeful that the Syrians will be able to put together some kind of coalition.
They don't have much experience with real.
Politics, making concessions, doing trades, mutual benefit type of calculations.
So it's going to be a steep.
Uphill learning curve for them.
But I would like to be hopeful at this early stage that they can.
Avoid a Libya scenario.
But while the leadership appears to be falling into place, Hayat Harir Al Sham, or hts, has yet to assert control over all Syrian territory.