war in syria. soon, russia threw its weight behind the distinctly unmilitary figure of president bashar al assad, and kept him in power. i talked to amira fathalla of bbc monitoring about the way russia s tactics, especially against civilian targets, have been carried over from syria to ukraine. the situation in syria now is a real picture of kind of fragmentation and also real entrenchment of different players in different parts of the country, so for the most part, while there is still violence and there is still conflict, you don t see that play out across the entire country as you might have done several years ago at the height of the conflict. at the moment, the government controls quite significant territory. also interesting that it controls the major cities like damascus and aleppo, even if it doesn t have, for example, a total hold on the wider province of aleppo. and other parts of the country are then ruled by completely other players. so, in the north west,
we also saw reports that russia was trying to hire syrian fighters to go and act as security guards in venezuela. so, it s a tried and tested pattern. we know we know that this has happened before. amira fathalla of bbc monitoring. here in istanbul, people think they ll be among the first to experience the disturbing economic effect of this wholly unnecessary war in ukraine, but they won t be the only ones. the entire world is going to feel the consequences quite $0011. and on that disturbing note, let s say goodbye until the next time.
the distinctly unmilitary figure of president bashar al assad, and kept him in power. i talked to amira fathalla of bbc monitoring about the way russia s tactics, especially against civilian targets, have been carried over from syria to ukraine. the situation in syria now is a real picture of kind of fragmentation and also real entrenchment of different players in different parts of the country, so for the most part, while there is still violence and there is still conflict, you don t see that play out across the entire country as you might have done several years ago at the height of the conflict. at the moment, the government controls quite significant territory. also interesting that it controls the major cities like damascus and aleppo, even if it doesn t have, for example, a total hold on the wider province of aleppo. and other parts of the country are then ruled