11/12/2024 21:06 GMT

2024 年 11 月 12 日 21:06(格林威治标准时间)

Newshour

2024-12-12

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  • And our top story today takes us once again to Syria.

  • The collapse of the Assad family regime after more than 50 years and the transition to a new government.

  • Government, whatever form that might take.

  • As well as celebrations, there is also understandably, anger towards the former president and his security apparatus, which meted out so much cruelty to Syrians over the decades and to Bashar al Assad's father, who ruled with just as much ruthlessness and created the secret police and their network of prisons that tortured and killed the regime's opponents.

  • Well, today, rebel fighters broke into Hafez al Assad's tomb in the family's home town in the coastal province of Latakia.

  • Images show a coffin and parts of the grand mausoleum on fire.

  • This man described what he'd seen.

  • We're at the tomb of Hafez al Assad.

  • We came and saw it burnt and.