he said the eln have agreed to free a former congressman they've been holding since april. the start of formal negotiations has stalled for months because the rebels refused to comply with government demands to hand him over. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: this was, until very recently, a frontline in the syrian civil war but now it's deathly quiet. we have a special report from the city of aleppo. the people of saigon have just heard there is to be a ceasefire. the reaction of american servicemen was predictable. i'm going home! demonstrators waiting for mike gatting and his rebel cricket team were attacked with teargas and set upon by police dogs. anti—apartheid campaigners say they will carry on the protests throughout the tour. they called him the butcher of lyon. klaus altmann is being held on a fraud charge in bolivia but the west germans want to extradite him for crimes committed in wartime france. there he was the gestapo chief klaus barbie. millions came to bathe as close as possible to this spot, a tide of humanity which is believed by officials to hav