Hello and welcome to News Hour Live from the BBC World Service in London.
I'm Rebecca Kezby.
Coming up, Formula One has a new champion.
The British driver Lando Norris will be hearing from a man who trained him as a teenager.
That's all to come,
but First Syria is preparing to mark the one-year anniversary of the fall of the Assad regime on December the 8th last year.
In the end, it happened very quickly.
The regime that had survived uprisings and civil war crumbled within a few days.
It's almost like a dream.
I need someone to wake me up.
What great joy for the people.
There is love,
as if they were waiting for a long time for us to liberate them from this dirt of a regime."
Bashar al-Assad fled the capital Damascus shortly before rebel forces that had been sweeping across the country arrived in the city.
He's now in Russia.
Bashar al-Assad had ruled the country since the year 2000,
taking over from his father Hafez, who'd been in power since 1971.
The brutal put-down of a pro-democracy uprising in 2011 led to a bloody civil war,
and Syria was plunged into years of violence and chaos.
Millions were displaced and many left the country.