This is from our own correspondent, a download from BBC Radio, and here to introduce the latest edition is Kate Adi.

Hello, today the ruin of Rome, how soaring rents and rising prices have ripped the soul from the historic

centre of the Italian capital. The Angela Merkel-Bugging Rao, it's reminding

Germans of the days when neighbor spied upon neighbor. We meet the Sri Lankan

editor who lives at his newspaper office because it's just too dangerous to go home.

And baby comes to, a correspondent takes a toddler out news gathering. So was it a

delight or a total disaster? The historic centre of Rome like the of Italy, has been hard hit by the political

upheavals and financial crises of the last decade.

This was once a city with strong community life at its core, filled with small family businesses,

grocers, butchers, bakeries, artisans, workshops.

But steeply rising costs and ever increasing numbers of tourists have left their mark.

Now the city authorities are taking action.

They're clamping down on the illegal markets which sell tat and counterfeit goods to

tourists, driving away the illegal food vans that block the historic sites and moving on the people who dress up as Roman centurions and pesta visitors for money.

Joanna Robertson, who lived in Rome ten years ago, has just been back to find a very different city.

Lunchtime at Teninos, the menu rolls off his tongue.

Vachamont body pasta,

the menzane, the pmadoro, Combroke,

the Cabernaro, with sugo Pasto Vajoli.

With his bravado rhythm and speed, he's like Figaro in the barber of Seville,

an opera Rossini composed a couple of hundred years ago,

just a few streets away, most likely on a stomach full of the hearty Roman food

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