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Hello and welcome to World Business Report from the BBC World Service.
I'm Rahul Tandem.
Plenty coming up on this edition.
We're going to talk about some of the world's biggest companies, the likes of TikTok and in Video.
And we'll also be looking ahead to President Trump's green policies.
What will they be?
But we're going to spend most of the program talking about Syria and how it may now attempt to rebuild its economy.
Cafes, markets and bakeries are slowly reopening.
But what sort of country will emerge following the overthrow of President Assad's government?
Questions that we will try and answer on the program.
But before we get there, let's find out more about the country and its economy from our very own Stefani Egoza.
Today, the Syrian economy is only a seventh part of what it was in 2011, the year the Syrian revolution started.
It came after a wave of protests and uprisings known as the Arab Spring spread across much of the Arab world, deposing leaders in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Yemen.
But in Syria, protests against President Bashar Al Assad evolved into a long conflict that over a decade saw the emergence of rebel groups like the Free Syrian army and the incursion of new players like the so called Islamic State.
Chaos and fighting have pushed 14 million people out of the country, making Syria the world's largest refugee crisis, according to the United Nations.
In this time, living conditions have deteriorated within the country.