Hello and welcome to NewsHour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service Studios in London.

I'm Tim Frags. It's been another momentous day in Syria. Two big signs of a new order being created,

or at least attempts to create a new order. The first came with the announcement of an interim prime minister.

The rebel leaders clearly tried to show that they're moving fast

to set this upturned and long-ruined country on some sort of stable new footing.

The second has been the destruction of Syria's navy,

as well as other significant strikes and ground incursions into Syrian territory by the Israeli

military. We'll have more on that in about 10 minutes or so. Meanwhile, the United States

has set out conditions for giving full recognition to Syria's next government. At a briefing in

Washington, the State Department spokesman Matthew Miller outlined the sort of things that the US

would want to see before

recognizing any transitional government.

The United States fully supports a Syrian-led and Syrian-owned political transition that leads to

credible, inclusive, and non-sectarian governance.

He has also outlined several principles that we believe should be upheld during the

transition process and formation of a new government. Respect for the rights of minorities,

facilitation of humanitarian assistance, the prevention of Syria from being used as a base for

terrorism or posing as a threat to its neighbors, securing and safely destroying any chemical

weapons stockpiles.

Well, let's begin our reporting from Syria with our international editor, Jeremy Bone,

who's traveled to Damascus after crossing Syria's border with Lebanon.

Syrians desperate to get home are packing the Lebanese side of the border,

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