Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden describes the situation in Syria as “very uncertain”, saying “let’s see what the character of the new regime turns out to be”. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00This is a group which has previously been affiliated to Al-Qaeda.
00:04It's a proscribed group.
00:06The leader of that group, Mr Jalani, has been saying things in recent days
00:11which distance him, himself, from the past
00:15and says he wants to respect the rights of all Syrians, including religious minorities.
00:20We hope that's the case, but the truth is at the moment the future is very uncertain.
00:25What we know is a brutal regime has fallen.
00:28What we don't yet know is exactly what the future is going to be like
00:31for the people of Syria under the new regime.
00:34Let's see what the character of the regime turns out to be.
00:37It's too early to say at the moment.
00:40We've got examples where tyrants have fallen and there's been a better future.
00:44We've also got examples where tyrants have fallen
00:47and there's been great chaos and repression afterwards.
00:50Right now, no one can say which of those paths Syria will be on.