Syria’s new leader speaks to the BBC

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Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has told the BBC the country he leads is exhausted by war and is not a threat to anyone. Sharaa, who previously went by his nom de guerre Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, says Syria can be reunited after the fall of Assad and called for sanctions against the country to be lifted. The government has outlined how it will spend £1 billion earmarked for homelessness support. The BBC’s Michael Buchanan has a report on one family left to live in appalling conditions. And we speak to the oldest newlywed couple on the whirlwind romance that was formed in a nursing home.