Hello and welcome to Newsar from the BBC World Service.

Coming to you live from London, I'm Julian Marshall.

In a moment, a day of celebration across Syria to mark the overthrow of President Assad.

We speak to one man in the crowd who returned to the country after 12 years in exile.

Also, in the program, we'll hear how one of the world's most popular podcasts

is airing health misinformation.

If you were a cancer patient who took some of this advice

and maybe changed your dietary patterns and became very restrictive

when you were undergoing treatment.

You could potentially, and very realistically, get very, very sick and have a much worse health

outcome than if you followed recommended advice from your oncologists.

All of that to come.

The rebels who seized the Syrian capital Damascus on Sunday

and urge people to come out onto the streets today to celebrate the overthrow of President

Asset, not that they needed much encouragement. The celebrations have continued all day

and into the night as the crowds in central Damascus were treated to a firework display.

This week there's been an outpouring of joy at the end of more than 50 years of brutal rule by Assad and his father.

Joy that nonetheless has been mixed with some

apprehension about what the future holds, as well as grief and anger among the relatives of those

who were tortured and died in Assad's now empty jails. But overall, the mood was one of

jubilation today's, thousands rallied in

cities like Damascus, Homs, Hama, Aleppo and Idlib. The caretaker Prime Minister,

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