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01/07/2018 GMT

Thousands Of Syrians Flee Deraa Province As Fighting Continues

BBC World Service - Weekend, Thousands Of Syrians Flee Deraa Province As Fighting Continues

Rebel forces in Syria reject the government's demand for a surrender.

Hopes for a halt to the fighting in Syria's southern Deraa province have proved to be short lived. Thousands have been forced from their homes, fleeing either towards the Israeli occupied Golan Heights or the border with Jordan, but the rebel forces have rejected government demands for a surrender. Also on the programme we look back at yesterdays protests in the US over President Trump's immigration policies and we look ahead, to today's presidential election in Mexico. 

(Picture: Internally displaced people from Deraa province ride on a back of a truck near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Credit: Reuters/Alaa Al-Faqir)

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