Hi there you're about to hear from our own correspondent a download from the BBC.

We make editions of the programme for both the BBC World Service and Radio 4, and this is

the latest Radio 4 broadcast, as ever, it's introduced by Kate Aide.

Are the authorities in Syria trying to manipulate the news

to distract the world from the violence inside their country?

A Central Asia correspondent on why she's no longer allowed to report in Kyrgyzstan.

Also today a walk through the Belgian village killed off by the spread of Antwerp's docklands,

and a falling out in South Korea as our reporter grapples with a greener

lifestyle.

The continuing violence in Syria and particularly the deaths of more than a hundred members of the security forces at the town of Jizar al-Shagua have dominated the news this week.

The headlines diverted attention from an incident which happened on the armistice line separating Syria and Israel

on the Golan Heights. There were deaths and injuries when Israeli troops opened fire on

protesters attempting to cross into Israeli occupied

territory at the town of Marstal-Shams.

Palestinians were angered by Israel's use of lethal force against unarmed

protesters. Many Israelis see the failed

incursion, the second in a matter of weeks, as an attempt by its enemies to create a

new tactic, the threat of Palestinians massing on Israel's borders demanding the right of

return.

Kevin Connolly was in Majdalshams as events unfolded.

When the early sun burns away the last of the misty night in Maishdolshams, it leaves a landscape

that looks a little like model railway scenery, all evenly shaped pale hillsides and symmetrical thickets of darker green trees and patches of grey rock.

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