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Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur. Here's what's coming up.

Who's leading the new Syrian government after the Assad dictatorship finally falls?

We are Syrian journalist Rami Jara and about the joy of liberation.

And the sudden collapse that caught almost everyone by surprise, what chance of an orderly transition?

UN Special Envoy for Syria, Gia Peterson joins us.

Then...

It's a moment of historic opportunity for the long-suffering people of Syria.

What of the U.S. role in the region already upended?

I speak to Deputy National Security Advisor John Feiner.

Also ahead.

Austin Tides is a lie.

Austin type is treated well.

A mother's hope for an American hostage in Damascus, his siblings join me to speak

about journalist Austin Tice, who's been held there since 2012. Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Christiana Manpur in London. There is a new reality in Syria and the road ahead is still

unclear after rebels swept into the capital Damascus with lightning speed and ended half a century

of oppressive rule by the Assad family. The Kremlin says Vladimir Putin has personally granted

Bashar Assad's safe haven in Russia. In Damascus, these were the scenes

inside Assad's official residence over the weekend, which rebels and civilians were seen ransacking,

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