is a mess to whoever came to aleppo to visit didn't leave without buying loral so this industry is a national treasure for all the syrian people it introduced foreign currencies as we were exporting soap like saudi arabia exports oil like switzerland exports chocolate and like germany exports cars. the city used to be home to around a hundred so factories like this just twelve are in operation today many manufacturers moved to damascus during the fighting across the border into neighboring turkey according to the bailey aleppo's soap makers used to make around thirty thousand tonnes of it a year at the height of the conflict here he says that figure dropped to under a thousand tons since aleppo was retaken by the al assad government and twenty sixteen production has expanded again but it will take a long time for the traditional industry to return to what it was before the breakout of civil war in syria. the world's leading stock exchanges in new york and london could soon be playing second fiddle on the global financial state that's according to a study by pricewaterhouse coopers it