Tomb of Assad's father set on fire in Syria

Shops have been reopening and people returning to work in Damascus. Life is gradually returning to normal and we'll go live to the capital to get the latest.
Meanwhile in the Western Syrian Latakia province rebel fighters have set fire to gravesite of Hafez al-Assad.

Tehran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, has blamed the United States and Israel for the downfall of the Syrian leader. He also mentioned a third, unnamed country, in an apparent reference to Turkey. We'll look at this story with our reporter from BBC Persian.

And the number of cases of dengue fever in Central and South America has nearly tripled to a record high this year. Deforestation and climate change have been singled out as reasons for this increase.

Presenter: Mark Lowen

(Photo: Tomb of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's father which has been was torched in his hometown of Qardaha. Credit: Getty Images)