so new out from out is a really nice at using, is it the good to showcase of the best documentary films across the network on algebra, the, the full of the boston outside of the raisins team. the serino position says that is working to set off a transitional government. the hello online site. this is out. is there a line from? don't also coming off in the next 16 minutes. say we're in a position fine to say they've freed a prison is who were on justly detained during outside to the opposition forces celebrates and the city of

homes, which fell hours before damascus and refugees eager to return back home to syria off the bottle. alas, as government collapse, the as 9 gmc opposition forces in syria have announced the rule of president bosher, our last son has come to an end of the 13 years of civil war. it came just hours of the fight, says enter the capital damascus and took the cities at port out of the state, tv, building, the opposition forces, se they on now gently working to sets up a transitional governing body. the are

supposed to say outside has now flagged the capital. his whereabouts are not known . the son family has of course, been in power and serious since the early 19 seventy's. i still have to power in 2000 after the death of his father. half is the, the, the city of damascus has been liberated the tyrant for sure all a sudden has been talking all the prisoners to be released from the prison of damascus. we wish that all our fighters and citizens preserve and maintain the property of the state of syria. long live series of correspondents. the court has now reached the center of damascus and visited state television headquarters. she's been updating us on the latest for of the boston fire celebratory. the

try to show you as much as we can of the syrian capital capital. and this is, this is the radio which is now under the control of the opposition. there's a lot of celebratory gunfire. that's why we're wearing the serious space television. there's nobody here. everyone's lives. controls the narrative. there was no free press in this country. we're now inside the studios of serious pay television. so you can see the serial position slugs.

the new flag of syria a short while ago. this is from where the rebels made the announcement that syria is now no longer under the control of a charlotte, said susie, well, 9 minutes before opposition fights us took control of damascus at port flight track is recorded a single plane in serious space. a russian made at crops with slight number theory and 9218 was the last flight to take off from damascus. fast it flew east, then it turned off. a few minutes later its tracking signal was switched. as it circled over, holmes, syria is prime minister, has said his government is ready to hand over power to any leadership that is chosen by the people on a few minutes. you know, why do i am here at home? i am not leaving this and i don't intend to leave. i expect in a peaceful manner to guarantee the continuity of the public authorities and the

institutions and state apparatus and to guarantee the safety and security for all citizens. and we are extending our hands even to the opposition to extend their hands and gave assurances. they will not cause any harm to any citizens who belong to the syria of ours. well, sorry, and stay and television interviewed an opposition find to who led the takeover of damascus is what do you have to say? as i would then have been with just how the side of the shop. so the 1st i send out a message to all the people of syria, of all walks of life and all affiliations 1st to congratulate them on this victory . and then i call on them to preserve the state institutions and government departments. an old government employees are requested to report to their officers, asking them and also a message to over legends and singles. syria is full o syrians without any exception or discrimination. we are not going to deal with

all people in the same amount of the asset regime used to adopt serious for all syrians and we are full. and with over syrians, we have all those who have migrated return home that says, oh, join hands to rebuild this country. let's speak now to newer, although she joins us live from job. there are a border crossing between jordan and syria and nor i've asked you this again and again. but we cannot underestimate how high me significant a moment. this is a stunning and to the 50 yeah. rule but the s on family who's had a brutal grip of a syria as forced many syrians to flee to countries like jordan way you will. how are people that reacting to this historic moment? you are right. it's very difficult to, to overstate just how dramatic these developments are yesterday when we were here at the border crossing,

which the jordanian officials had shot in order to avoid any spill over of the developments. there were syria national here who, you know, were caught off guard who wanted to go home. they were afraid to share their feelings with us. they didn't want to talk about what was happening. they just kept saying, we just want to go home. they were too afraid that the subdivision would not fall. and so they didn't want to express therapy today very to, for its stories, all smiles, people jubilant people's banking. anybody they found in the streets for their hospitality. and when we ask those now being allowed back into sphere. yeah. series cars with syria and plates. what are you going to do now of the answer we get that or in different variations we're going home to celebrate. there are 700000 refugees who are waiting for that moment to happen to for them here in jordan. many

of them are from that are just across the border. it will be, you know, a very important to watch how and when they can be repatriated in the same goes for hundreds of thousands of others in level not entity and around the world money. it's interesting as we watch the many display syrians, a return back or twice and return back to syria, a country they, they sled many years ago. the question now will be what comes next? a. this is of course a country, a hugely economically in disarray with many, many challenges. and it's still very unclear what the new leadership is going to look like. the. yeah, that is the one question that everybody wants answers to because what is happening in syria has far reaching consequences in the region. it affects the geo political balance in the region. countries here wants to be partners for the new syria,

want to see what kind of new syria is being formed. what will the government look like? what will it be? it's policy towards it's era neighbors who will be its allies and who will it distance itself from. of course the us that there is a more is a close ally of your mon. it depended on iran for its survival. and one error on the weekend didn't protect the regime. and when iran allies that protect the regime, that regime fell in just about under 12 days. and so there is a lot to watch for about this new syria that is for make right before our eyes. and it will have a lot of effect on the balance of interest era relations. a newer uh we you've been reporting on v as riley developments. as randy reaction throughout the was we've been monitoring in 1st 11 on an garza how is israel going to be viewing these

developments? well, israel is watching developments like a hawk, a it has a, according to his really media, the prime minister of israel, and the benjamin nothing. y'all has instructed his the code numbers to not comment on what was happening, but we do know this is rarely security. cabinets has been meeting since thursday. there was another meeting yesterday. the is really army, has announced fortifications in the occupied syrian goal on syrian territory that israel has occupied since 1967 in the trench between the occupied syria and go on. and the rest of the syrian territory, it is switching to targets. any opposition forces that approach that border and there is some public debate about whether is their israel should also bombard as a certain strategic weapons that the outside the regime had in order to avoid them

falling into the hands of some of the armed groups in syria. but on the flip side of that, israel also stands to benefit from what happened because by severing relations with iran, the aren't groups that are now in control of syria will deprive iran of that geo political extension. 211 and 2, it's important ally has been low. so again, that really changes and shifts the dynamics of the balance in the region. and israel stands to benefit of that with from that of course, israel has been bombing sides across syria for over a year. now, especially in the past few months, it says it targeted uranian targets such as bullets targets. but really it has use or, or, or used air space in the syria with impunity. and now we're have to wait and see how the policy of as well will develop towards the new develop. okay,

thank you for that note or a that for us in job at, at border crossing between jordan and syria. a well ellia, david's a ross was speaking to us. he's a professor at national defense university and a full pentagon director of the radian peninsula fast. he says that the opposition group have tough a all sean also known as h t. s. is trying to present itself as a conciliatory partner. even before you get to rebuilding syria, you have the challenge of coverage. serious. so the, the side regimes, the russians, the arrangements for years have tried to depict all of the opposition to our side as um, basically dash, or al qaeda. so sony sell of this terrorist and you recall back at the start of the war, putting proposed the counter terrorism alliance with the united states and tried to

revive all the imagery from world war 2. and that was basically directed against ash. but what we saw was most of the syrian and russian effort was not against ash . it was against the groups like, you know, is, is let us groups in the opposition about your law side of it. look, problem is like, are you sure the issue we have now is that this group is very aware of that and they are going to great lengths to try to present themselves as being multiethnic, respectful of other religions. they've appointed. the archbishop of electro is the from civil grover. they're trying to counter that narrative, they're engaging to actively show that that's not the case. but part of us side strength has been that a lot of religious groups in syria, the allah, we use the christians and the sheer believe that. so this is a sunni cell,

it sounds like this group that will, you know, operate like gosh. and so as they move into areas that are not majority sony, it is quite possible that each ts will have problems in maintaining the speed of operations. and cochran lamps, he sees all the latest pictures that are coming in to us from the presidential palace in damascus. which has been vacated by bosh. i'll ask that you can see we're looking at pictures inside opposition. sizes have entered the compound. the men can also be seen walking through the palace gardens as well as various holes and rooms in the palace. this was all once occupied by hafez assad. uh and then of course, by son who succeeded him. the policy is located in western damascus. it overlooks the city, and of course has been taken over now by all physician fighters who say they have

toppled the asset. government and joshua alonda is the director of center for middle east studies out the university of oklahoma. he explained what is behind the collapse of the syrian ami. the syrian army really just melted. there was no money in damascus to pay troops. people were exhausted. there had not been a peace dividend. nobody could rebuild their lives. life looked very grim under this for him going out into the future. there were, we have to remember that there were very heavy sanctions on the machine. america has all of serious, most of the serious oil and gas which it uses to pay the courage in the northeast to police the northeast. and so the regime really had no money. and then, of course, is rails extraordinary attack, which puzzled his butler pen back iran,

and it has really degraded the syrian army over the last year with about 3 strikes every week on the syrian army, taking out military factories and iranian the iranian militias and iranian officers so this is a very weekend regime with no allies and um, and the army melted away. and that's, that is the, that is the real, you know, story is extraordinary story here of very little opposition to a rental group which has rebuilt itself and shown extraordinary ability to adjust and make adjustments and change itself in order to rally the country behind . and i think many of his loyalists are wondering where he's been because he's been a while he was in russia. he came back for a day or 2, but now he seems to have fled the country again and, and made a determination that this is, it's not worth fighting for. and now the question is,

how peaceful can this transition be? because i think everybody is fearful that they'll be something like a baghdad. after the united states destroyed the rocky government, and we saw all the ministries pillaged and then birch people stole even the copper wiring out of the buildings. and all the fixtures. that chairs, you name it, and that could happen in damascus. it's happened in many places before. not only, you know, new york city in the seventy's, when the lights went out. and it could happen in places in syria. and i think that the new government, the new leaders of syria as yolanda in particular, are fearful that this kind of sloppy transition could take place. and it will be very hard to rebuild the country. last opposition sizes took over the capital b, rainy and embassy, and damascus was stormed by crowns. post, as if the late has bullet need to have some those role as well as the late reigning

. come on, the cast them so the money was torn down. so we'll say widespread damage inside iran, of course, is a, was a primary back of the side regime with its revolutionary god heavily involved in supporting the government militarily. for a long time, sir, and refugees have already begun trying to cross back into syria from lots of neighboring countries following the news about the full of the outside regime. let me show you some of the latest images that we all guessing from the lebanese border with syria, to see if we can see those live pictures. there we go. uh, these are life pictures uh, showing many thousands of people. lots of costs that uh, hundreds of calls and waiting at the crossing wasting to be allowed back home in to syria. that's big. now let's hear now from mount is there as a no called

a. she documented hub journey crossing into syria from left and on a little earlier today, we just pass 11 east tech boy and that's the main border crossing. crossing we're heading now to the syrian check point. we understand that it's no longer in the hands of the regime and that the opposition, the cell in control of the border crossing. this is really the main border crossing between the 2 countries. it's a mere, less than an hours drive from here to, to the syrian capital damascus, which is now in the hands of the surgeon, opposition the check point belonging to the syrian government. there are no forces here. these are now, rebels are taking down the posts, or she's at the con

the, there's a lot of gunfire. this is the most likely rebels celebrating. we have to advance slowly because we, we don't know what to expect, but the rebels are everywhere, tearing down the posters of for sorry. i said there are no government forces. here we are entering a new syria. this is a new, a very, very new syria of what lies ahead. it's still on certain but so people are rejoicing people are celebrating. this is something that many, many syrians have been waiting for for 13 years. so this is the syrians check point at the must all border. we have just arrived extraordinary images. there is all just there is, i know how to documented her jenny,

that crossing into syria from lebanon now tech. it also hosting a substantial syrian refugee community who said that during the war, let's get more on that sent him. considered who has moved from has a in tech a. so has a, a provence that has hosted a substantial population of syrian refugees even before the mass of, of craig that hit something took a last year. what sort of reaction has they've been from them? a molar in the us to the head side is, was the 1st destination for the syrian refugees who fled there. the war in those countries has to care when the war starts a circus. government at 1st expected around a 2000 syrian refugees to woods and tries to seek reference in to care by the border cities. and they increase the number 220000 people. and now millions of syrian refugees according to the will for showing records,

nearly it about $500000.00 syrians, return home within the last one year took. yeah. has been trying to encourage the voluntary returns, but of course, uh, who's going to return. and when are they going to return has been a big question and to get given the decline and they cannot make social unrest. i guess the in refuse these topics have been a, have been discussed heavily into care for the last 2 years. as you said, there was a very, a large community in hot size, some of them most other places. but i must say that is the biggest city is across through k like assemble. they have the biggest version of the refugees in the outside after the earthquake. we're not seeing that much residues inside the city because this outside was the worst hit city by the earthquake, but still some of them continued their lives in some neighborhoods,

but so far as lots nice. it is being quiet. yes, they were celebrations and it's stumbled or after, after the early hours in the morning and people took to the space in assembled spot, the neighborhood, which is, which is the help that for the syrian refugees. and they, they, they, they have celebrations a couple of hours ago as we have seen the on media as well. but for now, the border of hot side into syria is quiet and everything else res, as regularly and we've are here by team, was here in hotel i just 3 days ago we stayed here and spend 7 days monitoring the . the bottle that was uh, that was the best kicked off 10 days ago and we the wheels and to the size is celia and the turkish control. the areas as so far minus border. everything is the same and no rush, you don't see any it convoys or cars fuck into the borders it. but this is for now

. it people need to need to take some time to decide when to go and how to go with the probably after everything settled and delivery today, respect to send him a tech he of course has played a critical role in the outcome we've seen here today. they have been suppose to is all feel position forces. how will they be viewing the latest developments and how do you see the government going forward from here of the well monday and for the last one and a half years. so it gets present or does it say via them has been under lining that he's all put into? it needs to be in the presence of charlotte sides and as the back door, the plus the channels had over the been operating for the last couple of years. we've been at the masters in on colorado. at 1st we heard the charlotte stop present this task. it'd be, was it to a boxes and then a he delayed and he,

you put some excuses and he brought some excuse as to the table and just onto him maybe 10 days ago, 15 days ago, a presence at dawn was still saying that he's open to meet at present charlotte south and discuss about the feature of the syrian people, how they are position. it can be involved in the, in the countries feature, etc. and both as betsel events. it led by the off position. the in the picture was clear, i left but watch taken a presence. i don't mind that that he reached out to of a shot or a sauce. but he was so today is unreachable. so oh, to, to the supporting was the people of syria at once. tequila has been supporting the serial position and the serial national council and it's in term government. and this is theory, national army to get trained and equipped those a free,

serene army advisors. what of course, there is a conflict of interest in the coming days because to capt believes the p y, the, the, the f is the syrian of should, oh, the p k. k. out those to the some work as far as the for to care. and what is going to happen in the future, how the h t. s. opposition and the codes are going to shape the country is very important for i'm kind of back to thank you for that. so them consider that for us in halfway in turkey. yes. well sorry, i know position sizes have released prisoners since capturing the capital and announcing the full of the outside regime. these are some of the nicest images from damascus. so position fights of say they have freed. oh, presidents who unjustly detained under the rule of assets. on friday, the un released of report documenting systematic torture and abuse across of a 100 syrian government detention facilities are the i spoke to kenneth wolf. he's

a former executive director of human rights watch. he conducted several investigations of human rights abuses in syria and gave him his reaction to the full of the separation. i have just a few people or shedding any tears or with the demise of the aside regime. and this is really one of the world's most roof best regimes. and if you think about what they've done, you know, they, they've executed or tortured to death, thousands upon thousands of prisoners of they've used chemical weapons against their own people. and they dropped repeatedly these notorious barrow box filled with shrapnel designed to maximize damage and still being areas when those areas were held by the on deposition. so this is a man who has been willing to do absolutely anything to retain power with the effect that, you know, some 12000000 syrians were forced from their homes, roughly half in the exile have displaced within the country. so, you know,

we all hope that this is a, an important new beginning. we don't really know that much about age. yes. you know, they, they say that they have reform from the, our, our kind of past, they've been behaving better during that this fighting. we just hope that this continues, and this really does mark a big positive new step. but the syrian people, tens of thousands of people were in prison. what's remarkable is that we're hearing now with prisoners released, where the families hadn't heard from them for decades. and this is just, you know, is some brooding silver. i think the best inside we had into the prisons was when a performer series and military photographer would use the code lane. cesar escaped with photographs showing roughly 7000 bodies. these are people who have been killed in a thoughts, critics. so that gives you a sense of the magnitude of the utility that took place here. and the people being released now your, their life has been destroyed by yours and yours detention. but at least the lucky

ones they survived. still ahead on al jazeera, we'll look back on the 13 years of civil war as bush our last time clone to power the . that is part of the heavy seasonal rain that brought funding to lemonade peninsula and also southern thailand. it's coming through reporting very digital writing button. the full cost it comes back again, construct a bit for the staff to a single pool. i'm calling for my voice, be involved sumatra and your job roles that looked very wet and they didn't. they asked me shout tend to was born here central and something for the piece. this is old seasonally pretty know, and of course seasonally, it's been fairly wet in australia is a change of season and you can see from the orange clashes about with the

thunderstorms are in the full cost that much the same place. they stretch from west australia across the red, middle across to the east coast. now it has cooled down the sun's combat in victoria, and good part of this as well as it will slow you both again, it'll get, i think, much frustrated parts of western australia as the shares eventually fade away, pass up to about 34 by 2. so we might see 57 and the shares are getting stretched across the red interior to walls, southern queens and a northeast in new south wealth, leaving adelaide and melbourne too slowly. what hop as, as for what happens the day after i sort, you might want to briefly look at what's been spinning off the coast. it looked like it might develop into a tropical cycling, but it's currently staying off shore. in new zealand, it's read on the west coast. the academic democratic nations justified this kind of behaviors. collateral damage has collateral damage. that's why we all team is leading.