syria's government to make what it calls preventive arrests and bans demonstrations and allows censorship of correspondents, communications and media. the law creates special courts for state security trials and political cases. amnesty international says the emergency law has resulted in thousands of political opponents detained, imprisoned and even tortured without fair trial. we're waiting for bashar al essed s essed -- al-assad to speak. we'll bring you his address live as soon as it happens. saying sorry for the nuclear crisis in japan. the ceo of tepco, which owns the cribl crippled power plant has apologized for damage caused by overheating nuclear reactors. he says staff are doing all they