Syria’s departing government will transfer power until March, says head of interim cabinet

The departing government met with Mohammed al-Bashir for the first time since Assad fled Damascus over the weekend.

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00:00Syria's new interim leader Mohammed al-Bashir announced he was taking charge of the country

00:07as caretaker prime minister until March the 1st with the beginning of the former rebels

00:12who toppled President Bashar al-Assad only days ago.

00:17The departing government met with al-Bashir for the first time on Tuesday since Assad

00:22fled Damascus over the weekend.

00:25Al-Bashir told reporters after the meeting that the ministers discussed transferring

00:29the portfolios to the interim government during the transitional period until the beginning

00:34of March.

00:37Elsewhere in Syria, people continued to celebrate for a third day and shops and banks reopened

00:43despite Israeli airstrikes across the country.

00:47The Biden administration said it will recognize and support a new Syrian government that renounces

00:52terrorism, destroys chemical weapons stocks and protects the rights of minorities and

00:57women.