Good evening, I'm Amna Nawaz.

And I'm Jeff Bennett. On the news hour tonight, the new leaders of Syria begin the difficult task of keeping the rebel factions united now that their common enemy has been overthrown.

The suspect and the New York City killing of the United Healthcare CEO is charged with murder,

what we know about the alleged shooter's history.

And we look at the controversial changes Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could make to vaccine policy

as the head of health and human services.

He is a voice machine that continues to put out dis and misinformation in such a way

that it sounds believable to the public.

Welcome to the news hour. After 14 years of war, Syria is seeking stability, beginning with a transition of power from the ousted Assad regime. Today, the country's caretaker prime minister, appointed by the fighters who overthrew Bashar al-Assad, said the government transition process is expected to take until at least March.

Meantime, the top U.S. General overseeing operations in the Middle East was in Syria today,

visiting American-backed Kurdish forces in Syria's northeast who are under attack by Turkish-supported militia.

Special correspondent Simon Fultean reports from Damascus.

The road to Damascus is littered with remnants of Assad Syria.

When we crossed from Lebanon, the highway was still largely empty, amid uncertainty over what's next.

In the capital, the embassy of Iran once Assad's closest ally, sat abandoned, signaling a possible

new balance of power in the region.

Syrians gathered at one of the main squares once again daring to dream of the future.

There was jubilation among some, cautious optimism, among others.

I want Syria to go back to what it was, that there's no destruction, that we are one,

that there's no sectarianism.

I'm against sectarianism.

I'm Syrian and you're Syrian and that's it.

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