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But here's the latest edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and introduced by Kate Aide.

Today we have the pointy heads of American academia who've been looking for answers to the problems of Syria, Iraq and Egypt, but is anyone listening?

We meet a special Australian breed, the Cubs who've been driving the economy, but who are now having to put their toys away.

And we have heroic tales of grandfathers and fathers from South Africa and Italy.

What to do about Syria, the Lea, Africa and Italy.

What to do about Syria?

The leaders of the G20 countries fail to agree in St. Petersburg.

There's no clear consensus among politicians here, while the US Congress vote on whether or not to

support military action may not happen for another fortnight. In the meantime

Syrians are leaving their country, heading to refugee camps, particularly in Lebanon and Jordan.

The UN Refugee Agency says more than 2 million people have now fled Syria. The Zatari refugee camp has become Jordan's fourth largest

city. Lees Douset, who's been into the camps and into Syria itself, wonders what all this upheaval means for Syrian identity.

He wore sunglasses and a flowing tunic to protect himself from the blazing sun,

but Niyev's own defenses were gone.

I'm too embarrassed to speak with you, he confessed.

I used to run my own car company in Dera.

Here I am in this refugee camp on the side of the road, pedaling packets of cigarettes.

But I have wanted his story to be heard.

It's a very Syrian story.

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