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Troops pushing back against the surge in the capital city of damascus, using mortar attacks to drive the opposition from an area that has seen some of the heaviest fighting this week. syrians trying to escape the violence in aleppo. domenica davidominik has more from jerusalem. >> a series of braze. in gains by the rebels this week. the government responding with helicopter gunships and tanks firing mortar rounds. the key positions the rebels have swept through in the capital damascus in the pas...

ivans, an agent who went missing from his home last week. hes being described as suicidal and could be carrying a handgun. police dont think hes a threat to anyone else but himself, but theyre urging the public not to approach him if they see him. days after revealing that the nations largest bank lost $2 billion in risky investments, jpmorgan has its first casualty. the chief investment officer retiring after more than 30 years. over the weekend ceo jamie dimon gave a mea culpa of h...

mitt romney on the defense. we are just three weeks away from the first presidential contest of the 2012 campaign, and the attacks are in full force. >> lets be candid. the only reason you didnt become a career politician is you lost to teddy kennedy in 1994. >> wait a second. now wait a second. thats -- wait a second. >> paul steinhauser is joining us from des moines. gingrich survived. how did he do it? >> exactly, kyra. listen, newt gingrich, the reason he jumped in the polls and su...

will approve another group of f-16 for iraq because our air force was destroyed completely during the wars that iraq entered into and this is not all. we also need technical equipments related to the security field. these are issues that are being discussed by the concerned people in both countries, between the ministries of defense and interior with our counterparts in the united states and we received promises and facilitations and we agreed on how to make this relationship continuou...

important research, the cure for cancer, cure for many diseases, a lot of important things are being studied and researched there -- theyre the highest paid employees in their own states, much more than the governor, any law enforcement official. its really staggering had wh ih you look at the pure amount of money these coaches are making. >> what are the dangers of that kind of power? >> well, i think -- you know, penn state says it all. the fact that, you know, the institution was re...

this in an interview, cbss ""60 minutes"," the president challenges the political partisanship. he says republican strategy cuts him off at the knees. >> i think the republicans made a different calculation, which was, you know what, we really screwed up the economy. obama seems popular. our best bet is to stand on the sidelines because we think the economy will get worse and at some point just blame him. so we havent gotten the kind of engagement from them that i would have liked. a...

Theyre looking at consepï their own base, their own area without us as part of the picture. >> and you look at addition to the fact that the general just recently made a note to mention that there have been attacks on u.s. servicemen, both mortar attacks and also indirect and also direct fire attacks that have taken place from pakistan. so, i think you have a lot of people who are staking their position and trying to estimate what things will look like in 2013-2014 and how exactly are they maki...

four hours or so. morgan stanley come out with a global note cutting its global growth forecast and saying the u.s., the world is dangerously close to recession quite frankly and naming a couple of different reasons why they think that global growth will not be as strong as they thought. among them, europes debt problems and also mentioning what they call policy mistakes in the u.s. and also the drama about the debt ceiling. they say, overall, consumer confidence, business confidence, ...

Terrorism analyst, evan coleman, boin jeus nn to bmeon ot,however, israeli police are pointing fingers at palestinian militants. give us an idea of how unexpected this is currently, especially with the reforms that have taken place over the last seven years between palestinians and israelis. >> look its rare and we havent seen any kind of operations, suicide or non-suicide bombing missions in years, but that being said, right now there is raised level of tension both hamas and the izz rammic jih...

Reform to relieve poverty and unemployment, also a constitutional monarchy. opposition groups demand that king abdullah should become little more than a figurehead. in libya protests and fear spread like wildfire. security forces firing teargas on people marching in tripoli more than a thousand proceed terss spilling out into the street after friday prayers. reuters is reporting that witnesses say at least 30 civilians were killed by proqaddafi forces in a town west of tripoli. rebels in libya t...