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More than 5,500 people are estimated to have died in the popular uprising against the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. As the international community argues over how to end the violence, Business Daily discusses whether it could be the economy which finally undermines President Assad's regime. We hear from the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen who has just been in Damascus and from Firas Abi Ali of the business consultancy, Exclusive Analysis. And how the new star of Russia's opposition Alexei Novalny is trying to win round business leaders as he challenges Vladimir Putin's status quo. Plus the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Charles Haviland has been investigating measures of wealth and happiness in Sri Lanka.
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