BBC News with Jerry Smit

The Burmese authorities have acknowledged that more than 80 people have been killed in the whole villages and parts of towns burnt down in ethnic violence between Buddhists and Muslims in the western state of Rakhine. Human Rights Watch released satellite pictures of a coastal town which it said showed that an entire neighborhood inhabited largely by Muslim Rohingyas have been destroyed. Our reporter in Rangoon CU says government troops intervene swiftly in Rakhine.

This time, the government is even more decisive than the previous time, because apparently they deploy more forces relatively quickly, and

in a matter of

few days, the situation is in control. So in that sense, probably, you know the government is taking action quicker than the last time.

There has been more violence in Syria on what should have been the second day of a

truce

to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. James Reynolds reports from near the border.

Syria's holiday truce appears to have been buried by continuing violence. On this second day of the promised ceasefire, opposition activists say that the government has carried out an air strike and fired mortar attacks in Damascus. Syrian state TV also reports a car bomb explosion in the eastern city of Deir Ezzor. The international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi had hopes that ceasefire might eventually be followed by talks and

concessions

, but neither side wants to