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It's introduced by Kate Adi.

Today the deals correspondence do to report on the deepening crisis in Syria.

Even the state is for sale how corruption has eaten into the very heart of daily life in India.

Somalia's far-flung diaspora is coming home and bringing a huge variety of

accents with it. And what is it that the angels love and the locals detest were finding out on the streets

of Rome?

So who will be invited to the upcoming peace conference on Syria?

Who will turn up? The gatherings being brokered by the United States and

Russia and is expected to take place next month in Geneva.

The ideas to bring together representatives from the regime of Basha al-Assad and the rebels who for two years have been fighting an increasingly bitter battle against it.

Meanwhile, the Alliance known as the Friends of Syria has said that President Assad has no role in the future of the country.

In a statement issued overnight in Jordan, the 11 nations promised to increase their support for the opposition.

The pledge came ahead of a meeting today

of Syria's main opposition group, the National Coalition. For the world's media, finding

out what's actually going on inside Syria is becoming increasingly difficult and dangerous.

Jeremy Bowen recently in Damascus is the BBC's Middle East editor.

When I started learning how to be a reporter and as my boss at the time used to say the learning shouldn't ever stop,

it was always interesting to find out what more experienced colleagues thought about each other.

One of the highest forms of praise was to be talked about as a good operator.

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