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Fighting in Syria's capital intensifies, the most recent high level government defector tells the 大象传媒 that President Assad would use chemical weapons if he gets cornered and Kofi Annan meets Russia's President Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. We speak with Akil Hashem, a former Syrian brigadier-general who defected and now lives in the US, activist Lena in Damascus and Mark Katz, Professor of Government and Politics at George Mason University in Virginia.

Dr Mervyn Silverman, a former Director of Health for the city of San Francisco and President of the American Foundation for AIDS Research tells us about the drug Truvada, which helps reduce the risk of HIV infection and has just been approved by the US Food and Drugs Administration.

Contributing Editor at Rolling Stone David Browne looks back at the music and influence of the band Deep Purple after Jon Lord dies of cancer.

Three Kenyans are taking the British government to court over allegations of colonial atrocities during the Mau Mau uprising.
We discover as much as we can about Kim Jong-Un's military reshuffle in the North Korean government.

Finally Dee Boersma, Professor of Biology at the University of Washington who's run the Wildlife Conservation Society's Magellanic Penguin Project in Argentina since 1982 tells us why 500 of the birds have got washed up dead on the shore of Brazil.