This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Paul Moss and at 13 hours GMT on Wednesday the 14th of May, these are our main stories.
Donald Trump has met the Syrian leader Ahmed al-Shara after his surprise decision to lift US sanctions on Syria.
Israel has launched more fatal airstrikes in Gaza.
And a BBC investigation has found that Iran is using foreign criminal gangs like drug dealers and even Hell's Angels to carry out assassinations.
We hear why.
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They have transformed themselves from the dark days when they were first sentenced to prison.
And from that, they have blossomed into incredible human beings.
35 years after murdering their parents,
the Menendez brothers have their sentences cut and could go free.
It wasn't expected to be a long meeting.
Donald Trump had merely said he would say hello to the Syrian president,
Ahmed al-Shara, during his visit to Saudi Arabia.
But this was the first time in a quarter of a century that an American leader met their Syrian counterpart.
And more than that,
Mr. al-Shara leads a group still listed as a terrorist organisation by many countries,
an offshoot of al-Qaeda.
But speaking afterwards,
President Trump made clear that brief hello is intended to be just the start of a new diplomatic era between the two countries.