Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.
Coming to you live from London, I'm Sean Lay and Tim Franks is in Syria.
We'll hear from Tim in a moment.
Also coming up in about 10 minutes time.
This explains the handcuffs.
It's still not clear why he's here.
If we want to bring the world back from the break, we have to deal with him.
Should he choose to accept?
Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning.
But is it Mission Impossible for the Trump administration when the president says films like that one,
shot overseas, could be hit with a tariff of 100%?
Before that, though, let's hear from news house Tim Franks in Syria.
I'm in Damascus because five months after the fall of Bashar al-Assad,
five months after Syrians escaped the clutches of a choking family dynasty-turned-dictatorship,
Many Syrians seem caught between hope and fear.
They have a new president who for many is something of an enigma,
this one-time militant Islamist rebel leader Ahmed al-Shara.
They've also in recent weeks seen some terrible sectarian bloodletting.
Syria is a mosaic of sects and ethnicities.
Syrians often proudly use that term, mosaic.