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Today the Cardinals are plotting.

The Pope's talking of sadness and betrayal as scandal rocks the Vatican.

The Indian couples who are turning their backs on tradition and

calling on the love commandos. We're in the lawless borderlands of eastern Congo

where politics, history and nature have created a deadly brew, and on the beach sunning ourselves

in New York's most interesting ethnic enclave.

The government in Syria is coming under increased international pressure after the UN Human Rights

Council approved an investigation yesterday into the mass killing of civilians at Hula last week.

President Francois Hollande of France said the crisis could now only be solved by the departure

of the Syrian leader Basha al-Assad.

The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon believed the escalating violence showed there was an urgent need for bolder action.

While Foreign Secretary William Haig, who was in Istanbul yesterday, talking to members of the Syrian

opposition, warned the country was on the edge of

catastrophe.

The Turkish port is currently home to hundreds of people who fled the violence in Syria.

Fergelkeen's been to hear their stories.

From the Galata side of the bridge they looked like pieces of shimmering silver, slowly

ascending towards the heavens.

Line by line the fishermen pulled their catch onto the upper deck of the

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