Hello from Bush House in London, home to From Our Own Correspondent.

You can hear the World Service edition of our programme by going to the From Our Own Correspondent

website, but this is a download of the latest broadcast on Radio 4.

It's introduced by Kate Adi.

Today, the private dilemmas and agonizing decisions many Syrians thought they'd never have to face.

There's another anti-Poutine demonstration in Moscow,

but 700 miles to the south, they're still promoting the cult of an earlier leader,

the Empress Catherine the Great.

We hear about the Japanese fishermen who decided to sail his boats directly towards the

incoming tsunami, and as the BBC prepares to move out of Bush House in London

we hear one correspondent tell us why for him the building has special memories.

Two new diplomatic initiatives are getting underway this weekend aimed at stopping the

violence in Syria.

The former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan is trying to broker talks between the

al-Assad government and the rebels who want its downfall.

And a Chinese envoy begins a tour of the region tomorrow. Activists in Syria reported more deaths

yesterday as opponents of the regime clashed with security forces after Friday

prayers and more senior military figures have been defecting to the

opposition. But away from the hard news the revolution is making families

across Syria address all sorts of difficult decisions.

Owen Bennett Jones has been listening to some of their stories.

She was drinking Guinness in a bar in Dubai, a Syrian revolutionary on a weekend break break taking time out in the five-star hotels.

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