welcome, everybody. right to breaking news. two western journalists including an american journalist has been killed in syria. the american is marie colvin who reported from syria for us just hours ago as he was talking to anderson cooper on this network. remi ochlik is a french photographer who was also killed. it happened in the city of homs. we have new videotape to show you. this is showing you the rubble from that videotape where the shelling rather, where the journalists were killed. and last night when she was talking to anderson on ac 360, mary colvin talked about the murder, as she put it, that she sees happening in that scity every single day. this is the worse, anderson, for many reasons. i think the last time we talked when i was what mathere s nowhe to run. the syrian army is holding the perimeter. there s far more ordnance being poured into this city and no way of predicting where it s going to land. mary colvin, you see her there with an eye patch over he
cross be allowed t remove their body. marie colvin, the other was prize winning french photographer remiochlik. colvin was a frequent voice here, reporting on anderson cooper 360 just last night. reporter: every civilian house on the street was hit. this is kind of a poor, popular neighborhood. the top building of the floor i m in the top floor of the building i m in was toemt totally destroyed. free syrian army, they have rocket propelled grenades, but they don t have a base. arwa, it s chilling when you hear her voice and you realize that was someone alive yesterday talking about the dangers, experience and saying this is one of the most dangerous assignments she has ever covered. tell us about her, i know you guys worked together and what it is like to be on the ground there. reporter: she was so fiercely passionate about what was happening inside s syria. she was determined to do whatever was going to take to continue shining a spotlight on the atrosities there.
makeshift hospital, shocked to see her grandchild. my dear grandchild, she s saying, where were you? my beloved, dear god. adnan is badly wounded in the side of his chest. you can see him still struggling to breathe. we re not going to show you the actual wounds on his body, they are open holes. his lips are pale from lack of oxygen. the medic you see tries cpr. at some point it becomes clear nothing can be done to save this little boy s life. in a real hospital, it might be different. not here not in the city of homs. all anyone can do is wait for this little boy to die. afterwards, all his father can do is hold his dead child. drowned out by the sound of nearby shelling, the father is saying, my baby, i ll avenge your death. he s asking, what did you do? who did you hurt? what did this little one do? we debated whether or not to show you this video. we admit, it is sickening to watch and there s no denying that. that is just what any assad regime is doing, flat out denyin
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coming from courageous syrians who work very hard to get the story out. remi was one of those people until yesterday. he is shown here with his 18-year-old daughter. rami was killed yesterday in the heavy shelling of homs. his death came as he was trying to help a family flee the bombardment. in afghanistan, a deadly day. after began owe kwigss say five people were killed, four by police who opened fire on the demonstrators. some copies of islam s holy book were burned by mistake this week at the air field. the u.s. commander of nato forces in afghanistan issued a formal apology saying in part the incident was an error and immediately stopped when discovered. the political spotlight is on arizona tonight as the republican contenders for the white house square off in a debate sponsored by cnn. with his surge in the polls, rick santorum could be the main target by his rivals saying that satan is waging war against america. here s what he said about it yesterday. i m a per