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You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
Also in the Global News podcast... We find out what was the video game of the year. Muslims in Syria have been celebrating their first Friday prayers free of the dictator Bashar al-Assad who was overthrown at the weekend. The authorities called on people to take to the streets to mark the victory of the revolution as they called it and many thousands did so.
All the people who are interested, who are occupied or filled in the public sphere before, come back to Syria, come back to Damascus now. Now, we need everybody to come back. We need all the energy, all the powers to fill the space, to fill the gap, because the future is for us if we manage to build it.
This is a morning of freedom. This is finally Syria. Thank God. We have seen times of injustice. All our youth is gone.
Our correspondent in Damascus, Lena Sinjab, was there.
I'm just standing right at the corner of Umayyad Square, overlooking the crowd, you know, thousands gathered. This is the place where 13 years ago, protesters against President Bashar al-Assad hoped that they would use it like the Egypt's Tahrir Square, but instead they were faced with violence.
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