Syria's de facto leader asks for removal of sanctions

Millions of Syrian refugees are scattered across the region, Europe and beyond as a result of more than a decade of brutal civil war.

The French government says it's mobilising resources to get help to the people of Maynotte in the Indian Ocean after it was devastated by a cyclone. We hear from the French army.

The US president-elect Donald Trump has met the chief executive of Tik Tok, just weeks before a new law bans the app in the US unless its Chinese owner sells it.

(Pic: A person rides a bicycle at al-Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp, after Syria's Bashar al-Assad was ousted; Credit: Reuters)