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

Today the Damascus bubble breaks. Civil war arrives in the very heart of the Syrian capital.

The Russians worried their patriarchs leading his flock closer to the authorities than to God.

Mrs Obama and Romney, are they wasting their time wooing America's don't knows?

And who's for boiled duck fetus?

Why the food of the Philippines is having an image makeover.

There's been more fierce fighting in Syria's second city Aleppo.

Several thousand rebel fighters are said to have been involved in running battles with the

security forces.

As the conflict continues, there's mounting Western pressure at the UN General Assembly

for Russia and China to ease their opposition to international action against President

Basha al-Assad. In Aleppo, residents report savage fighting in areas which up to now

have been relatively peaceful. And Lees Doussette, just back from Syria, says it's clear

more and more parts of the country have been caught up in the rebellion.

On the wide canvas of a country at war, sometimes the smallest of places can tell the bigger story. For me that place is Barze. You might

struggle to find it on a map, but on my human map of Syria, this suburb of

Damascus looms large.

I've gone to what seems like a very ordinary neighborhood on all my recent visits.

Each time it told an extraordinary story.

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