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Assad Hails 'Historic Aleppo Liberation'
President Assad declares historic moment in Syria as Aleppo 'liberated'.
President Assad declares a historic moment in Syria as the last civilians and fighters leave the rebel enclave in Aleppo. Charles Lister of the Middle East Institute analyses where this leaves Syria's civil war.
Also on the programme euthanasia in Belgium and the EU's Galileo satellite system goes live.
(Picture: A Syrian man cries during an evacuation operation of rebel fighters and their families from rebel-held neighbourhoods on December 15, 2016 in the embattled city of Aleppo. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)
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