内容摘要：Jonathon Jones, from the tea-producing estate, says: "It's a massive concern when people buy boats that they haven't thought about how they're going to get rid of them at the end of their life.

Jonathon Jones, from the tea-producing estate, says: "It's a massive concern when people buy boats that they haven't thought about how they're going to get rid of them at the end of their life.

It is remarkable that these feelings were being shared so freely in a country where opposition was not tolerated; the secret police, known as the Mukhabarat, seemed to be everywhere and spying on everyone, and critics were disappeared or sent to jail, where they were tortured and killed.Across Aleppo, the new authorities installed billboards with the image of chains around two wrists saying, "Freeing detainees is a debt upon our necks".

"We're happy, but there's still fear," Samar said. "Why are we still afraid? Why isn't our happiness full? It's because of the fear they [the regime] planted inside us".Her brother, Ahmed, agreed. "You could be sent to jail for saying simple things. I'm happy, but I'm still concerned. But we'll never live under repression again".His father intervened, to agree with him. "That's impossible."

The family lived in a small flat, where electricity was intermittent and heating, inexistent.Now that they had returned, they did not know what to do, like many others here. More than 90% of Syria's population is estimated to live in poverty, and there are broader concerns about how HTS,

, will run the country.

A woman who lived in a flat nearby said, "No-one could take away my happiness. I still can't believe that we came back. May God protect those who took the country back."This week, Trump ordered the commerce department to come up with ways to boost US production of critical minerals and cut reliance on imports - an attempt by Washington to reclaim this critical industry. But why exactly are rare earths so important and how could they shake up the trade war?

"Rare earths" are a group of 17 chemically similar elements that are crucial to the manufacture of many high-tech products.Most are abundant in nature, but they are known as "rare" because it is very unusual to find them in a pure form, and they are very hazardous to extract.

Although you may not be familiar with the names of these rare earths - like neodymium, yttrium and europium - you will be very familiar with the products that they are used in.For instance, neodymium is used to make the powerful magnets used in loudspeakers, computer hard drives, EV motors and jet engines that enable them to be smaller and more efficient.