Watch Business Live With Darren McCaffrey. Thames Water has revealed a 40% spike in sewage spills while warning that a looming decision on what it can charge customers is "fundamental to our future". The...
Syria: Mohammed al-Bashir becomes caretaker prime minister • FRANCE 24 English
The rebels who ousted president Bashar al-Assad and are now in power in Syria appointed a transitional head of government to run the country until March 1. Analysis by FRANCE 24 International Affairs Editor, Philip...
‘Huge’ opportunity to craft ‘new Syria’ anchored in ‘human rights’, says UN Human Rights Chief
FRANCE 24 spoke to United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk. On December 8, the Assad family’s over 50-year rule of Syria came to an end, brought down by a lightning offensive led by the Islamist...
What will it cost to rebuild Syria? | DW News
With Bashar al-Assad ousted from Syria, how much did the economy suffer in the past years? While Syrian government sources said, the country’s economy contracted 54 percent from 2010 to 2021, economists at the...
Syrian Oscar-nominated filmmaker who survived civil war, Waad al-Kateab, speaks to FRANCE 24
Waad al-Kateab came to prominence when she filmed and documented the Assad’s regime’s brutal crackdown in Aleppo right from the street protests in 2011. Through years of bombing, living under the shelling...
The world does not need to fear Syria, rebel leader tells Sky News
The head of the Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS) group has told Sky News that the world does not need to fear a new Syrian government. Abu Mohammed al Jolani, in his first remarks given to Western media since his rebel...