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Today the primary school in Syria where the store rooms are prison, one classroom's a clinic, another's a morgue. We're on the night train to Minsk, where

the secret police are still the KGB and there's talk of torture just down the road from

McDonald's. There This time for football and

dancing after the melon harvest in Senegal and an urgent plea from summer camp in

the United States. Mom, please send fudge.

Reports from Syria's Second City Aleppo this morning

say the Army is stepping up its bombardment of rebel-held areas. It isn't yet the mother of all battles forecast

yesterday by one newspaper, but the United Nations has voiced alarm at the prospect of a major

confrontation and the threat to civilians.

The struggle for a lepo, a city of two and a half million people, is being seen as a potential

turning point in the 16-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.

Columns of tanks are said to be moving towards the city and some districts have come

under air attack.

Our correspondent there, Ian Panel, says already there have been casualties.

She was the girl with no name. When we returned to the rebel base, she was laying on her

back on the floor where she appeared to be sleeping.

The teenager had a pale complexion and wore a pretty red dress,

her lower body draped in a blanket.

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