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But here's the latest edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and introduced by Kate Adi.

Good morning. Today why President Assad may believe he's winning the argument in Syria.

The Jordanians hoping the Syrian Revolution will

spill over into their country. Officially, they're banned, so why are chains and shackles

still being used on the mentally ill in Indonesia?

We're given a suspicious looking envelope by a Libyan army officer,

and under luminous skies in Norway, tuck into some steaming reindeer stew.

Seven million Syrians now need humanitarian assistance.

That's the latest estimate from the United Nations, which says the Assad regime in Damascus

is hindering the distribution of aid.

The UN Security Council has also been hearing that more than 4 million people there have been displaced and another

million have sought shelter in neighboring countries. The

organization's High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said the figures were terrifying and risked becoming unsustainable.

Jeremy Bowen in the Syrian capital has been talking to people trying to get on with their

lives in the midst of this civil war.

In the news business the word tragic can be overused.

That does not apply in Syria.

In this place it feels more like an understatement. A doctor in one of the military

hospitals in Damascus struggled to find the right words. Everyone does. In the

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