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Unrelentless shelling in the city that has become the uprising center. there people are saying the humanitarian situation is worsening by the day. low supplies of food and according to activists hundreds of people have been killed over that six-day assault. according to some of the activists weve been speaking to they say the syrian army is preparing to move into the city of hums and reclaim it. some parts were liberated if you will by the syrian opposition but eyewitnesses are saying thousands ...

Dying in the hospital because of the power outages from the bombings. americans are starting to pay attention and i think we are getting disturbed. >> people should be disturbed. but in syrian terms this is business as usual. bashar al-asaads father when he was dictator killed 5,000 peoplen with chemical weapons. i think if people want to do something here you have to look at where the source of al-assads backing comes from. he has financing from iran, he has revolutionary guards assisting his t...

Families were killed, around 20 people, by a militia group in one particular area. there has been evidence of this sectarian killing for the last few months. the difficult thing is that this is a patch work, this country, of sectarian groups. it is majority sunni muslim, but president assad and the people who are in the leadership of the military are from a shiite sect. there are christians in this country, as well. the real danger here as with lebanon which is syrias neighbor and iraq which is ...

Involving the west and iran. its a big multi-layered problem. >> the proxy war between russia, china, the united states and iran will get a lot of attention in the weeks ahead. bill neely, stay safe there in damascus. still ahead -- church versus state debate on birth control. well hear from both sides of the aisle. the lost generation. how the great recession has hit young americans. its going to be harder to climb back. [ male announcer ] to the 5:00 a.m. scholar.

Have you heard of tim tebowy? jimmy fallon introduces us later in the show. lets get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. here at 30 rock in new york city. a full day of campaigning planned today in south carolina. republican candidates work to win over voters. the superpac supporting them fight it in and out a proxy war of negative ads. mitt romney is the top target. he swept the first two contests in iowa and new hampshire. now hes trying to fend off attacks again over his work at a private equity fi...

Terrorist group. >> shepard: what about the cia answerjes said to have been in iran? >> -- >> thats more sources. they are talking about getting into websites. the iranians are very sophisticated too. these are not backward countries when it comes to intelligence. they are very, very good. the cia trained the iranians under the shah. theyve advanced beyond that and they are coming back at us hard. >> shepard: we have to do something. the united states has to make a statement. is it your assessme...

Happening. >> its happening. i think it is going to change, sean. this movement came from the young people who wanted to change. and if somebodys going to come and rob them of that change, they are going to rebel again and get out the brotherhood and hopefully a democracy will come, not today, but within 5 or 6 years. >> sean: in the meantime, there may be war with israel. i mean this is -- go ahead. >> i dont think, israel is a very powerful country. they know -- iiranian proxy war like hezboll...

Happening. >> its happening. i think it is going to change, sean. this movement came from the young people who wanted to change. and if somebodys going to come and rob them of that change, they are going to rebel again and get out the brotherhood and hopefully a democracy will come, not today, but within 5 or 6 years. >> sean: in the meantime, there may be war with israel. i mean this is -- go ahead. >> i dont think, israel is a very powerful country. they know -- iiranian proxy war like hezboll...

The isi, which you point out, is a branch of the pakistani military. >> jamie: in the meantime, though, the government of pakistan insists they severed all ties with militants after 9/11. are they looking into it, at least? >> well, i think this is such a difficult situation, there probably is a segment of the pakistani government that may be deluded into thinking that this break took place. but, i think, in the main, the isi is very much involved with the haqqani network to the west and northwe...

Negotiations. all the money, upwards of 600 million dollars from us. all the money, all the territory was based on that pledge. >> sean: that means every other penny they have is spent -- look, iran is fighting a proxy war through hezbollah and they are funding other terror organizations to attack israel. why does the u.n. even allow ahmadinejad to take the podium, why? virulent anti-semite, who is calling for the destruction of an innocent country. >> im more concerned with what iran is doing a...