Hello this download from the BBC is the latest edition of the Radio 4 program from our own correspondent.

It's introduced by Kate Adi.

Today we're on the Syrian border hearing from refugees longing to go home. We hear of the rise and fall of Italy's

House of Bossie. In Mogadishu, street life is returning to what was once the

most dangerous city in the world, and Olympic dreams, one

athlete in Tripoli hoping to be the first Libyan ever to stand on a winner's podium

at the Games. Later today the United Nations Security Council is expected to vote on whether to send

monitors to Syria to assess the ceasefire there.

In the last 24 hours, activists say that several people have been shot dead during protests.

It's a major test of the UN and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan's Peace Initiative.

Fergalkeen has been in Turkey at the Syrian border, meeting some of the

thousands of refugees who fled the unrest.

From her place at the fence, the old woman could see the stony hills of her homeland. A walk of a few

hundred yards would have taken her to the border post and back into Syria. But in

her mind it might as well have been a thousand miles. On the first day of the Anand ceasefire we were still hearing

stories of shooting on the other side. Just behind her in the camp a small boy was grabbing

fistfuls of sandy soil and then blowing it away. His face

gradually covered by the fine dust. He looked listless and bored. A group of younger

women were gathered around the entrance to one of the tents. They

ignored our call for them to come to the fence, understandably wary of the endless procession

of cameras and notebooks recording the misery of their exile.

In the last ten days nearly 3,000 Syrian refugees have crossed into Turkey.

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