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Today the loyal Air Force pilot who run foul of Syrian intelligence officers and the Syrian refugees in Jordan desperate to return to the

war zone back home. Rivers of blood in Moscow, a new map marking the homes of Stalin's

victims.

Also, the rumor mill goes into overdrive in Libya, and we hear about the Californians who cough

up for presidential campaigns and can't wait for the elections to be over.

Fighting in Syria has intensified with government planes bombarding oppositioned strongholds

around Damascus in the Lepo and in the north and east of the country. A ceasefire last week, time to coincide with the

Muslim Feast of Ed was a failure, with more than 500 people killed during the four-day holiday.

China has a new proposal for a political resolution, but few are optimistic about ending this

crisis.

Meanwhile, those who can continue to flee the violence. People from all walks of life are leaving for

all sorts of reasons. Gabriel Gatehouse met one man who escaped to Jordan.

Othman Mohammed stretches his skinny arms out on either side as far as they'll go.

The 50-year-old pilot had shared a cell with 12 other people.

He remembers the space well, two meters long and narrow enough to flatten both palms against opposite walls.

Afman Muhammad is not his real name.

We're sitting at a pavement falafel stall in a town near the Syrian border.

A month earlier, he and his family had risked their lives crossing the frontier into Jordan.

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