Tonight on PBS News Weekend, one week since the stunning collapse of the Assad regime,

how Syrians are reacting to life with the rebels in charge.

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Good evening. I'm John Yang. Today, a week after life inside Syria was upended, as rebels toppled President Bashar al-Assad's regime, there were flickering signs of normalcy.

Syrian Christians attended regular Sunday services and schools reopened. Now, as the country's new leaders begin to chart a path forward, the UN envoy to Syria says the lightning offensive should be followed by a quick end to the sanctions, the West imposed, after Assad crushed the Arab Spring anti-government protests more than a decade ago.

Leila Milana Allen is in Aleppo tonight.

Layla, you've spent this past week traveling all around Syria.

What have you been seeing? What have you been hearing?

I have, John. In the last few days, I've essentially followed the path backwards that HTS and the

other rebel group swept down through across Syria. So I started in Damascus. And then I moved up to

the cities of Homs and Hammer,

into the second biggest city in the country, Aleppo, and then today up into what were the

rebel-held areas of the country in the northwest. But of course, much of the country is now

rubble-held, so they can't be called that anymore. One of the strangest things, of course,

is that it doesn't feel strange. If you didn't

know that just over a week ago, there would be checkpoints everywhere along these roads. Most

people could not move freely. People would be asked for ID cards, would be harassed, would

often be detained for trying to cross into different areas. People in regime held Syria, and

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