barrel bombs. they are filled with nails, gasoline, and tnt. one just fell on a kindergartener. also, we begin in europe where a little while ago a girl just woke up after witnessing the unspeakable. it is a murder mystery that stretches from france to britain. a family was found dead in a car in the french alps. the body 6 a cyclist was also discovered meesh. all the victims were shot in the head. twice. but two little girls survived. one was beaten and shot. the other one hid under her dead mother's legs for hours. we are joined from england outside the family's home, and antika, this has a lot of people talking. i mean, it's unbelievable when you think about what took place, what happened with this family. do investigators have any idea of a motive? >> not at this point, and that's the big question. what was the motive? why did this happen? this is why british police are now inside the family home behind me there looking for any clues, anything unusual, anything that might indicate why the family was targeted in this way. now, earlier in the day there was a bomb disposal unit that was brought in. there were some items that police were concerned might be hazardous. that has turned out not to be the case, and they've brought the cord in close to the home. they also have a lot of equipment to really thoroughly comb through the home trying to find anything that might indicate, but so far no clue yet as to what the motive might have been, suzanne. >> we know that one of these sur vooifg girls, she was beaten, she was shot, and she came out of a medically induced coma yesterday. are investigators trying to talk to her? >> reporter: they are trying to. however, even though she's been brought out of that coma, she's still under sedation, so it may still be a few days yet before she's really able to speak with investigators. they did have a chance to speak with her younger sister, the 4-year-old that survived by hiding underneath her mother's legs for hours after the attack, and, unfortunately, they say she was not able to provide any clues as to what happened. that she didn't see anything. she only heard the attack as it happened. they are really hoping that perhaps the 7-year-old daughter will be able to provide some clues, but so far no leads yet. >> how are those two little girls doing? i mean, when you talk about that one who hid under her mother's legs, do they have any sense of how she is mentally? >> reporter: well, i mean, as you can imagine, it is an extremely traumatic event. we do know that the 4-year-old girl has been brought here back to the u.k., that had he is with her closest relatives now, and that is good. the 7-year-old, as you know, has been brought out of her coma, but it will be very difficult to, of course, break the news to the 7-year-old girl about the -- what happened to her parents and then to have to question her afterwards will be very difficult. >> wow. just tragic. difficult, indeed. thank you very much. appreciate it. on to afghanistan now. ♪ you're listening to a saer money. the u.s. military handed over control of a controversial prison to the afghan government. the brief ceremony, of course, making it official today. it is mere kabul, and anna corrine, she's in kabul, and she joins us here. the u.s., of course, explained to us they are not necessarily giving up all of the prisoners. they're closing the detention center, handing it over to the afghans. what about those detaines that are still in u.s. custody? >> yes. suzanne, on the surface everything might seem okay, but underneath it was a completely different story. there is real tension here between afghanistan and the united states, so u.s. holding on to something like 34 highly valued detainees. these being senior members of the taliban, of the network that just a couple of days ago was listed as a terrorist organization and of al qaeda. these are the detainees that the u.s. does not want to hand over to the afghans just yet. the reason being is they're concerned they'll end up in the criminal justice system and possibly be free, whether it's through political interference or corruption. that is the major concern, suzanne. >> and where do those prisoners go? where do they physically take them? where are they being held by the american officials? >> reporter: well, the americans actually have a part of baghram prison. they have their own section. the prisoners are still being held will. now, it's worth noting, suzanne, that an agreement was signed back in march between president karzai and the united states about handing over control, but as of march the u.s. has arrested something, like, 1,600 prisoners. they have been detained, and they are still under the control of the united states as well. so it's actually a few more than just the 34 that we have mentioned, but, yes, they will still be staying at baghram prison. >> tell the significance of this particular prison because i understand it is the same place where you had hundreds of korans that were actually burned earlier in the year by u.s. troops, and that really set off a lot of violent protests against the u.s. military inside of afghanistan. >> reporter: yeah, definitely. this is a prison that has a long history. there were allegations of torture many years ago at the start of the occupation of afghanistan, but certainly it has -- it has cleaned up its act. after abu grab, they've cleaned up their act wrush there haven't been allegations of torture, suzanne. >> and how important is this to the karzai government, to hamid karzai who essentially is trying to get some assurances, some comfort, even some confidence to folks that once u.s. and international forces leave that, he is going to be able to rule his own country. >> yeah. well, that is a huge problem, suzanne, trying to convince the afghan population that he will be able to do just that. you mentioned the exit in 2014. we're already seeing a drawdown of coalition troops by the end of this month. there will only be 68,000 u.s. forces that are left in afghanistan, so, you know, this is a coalition force that is reducing in numbers, and they will be gone by 2014. all foreign combat troops. you know, suzanne, this was, of course, the safe haven for the taliban before 2001, before those september 11th attacks. tomorrow is the 11th anniversary, so i think the united states is really concerned that once those foreign combat troops leave, that this doesn't once again become a safe haven for al qaeda. >> all right. anna corrine, thank you very much. appreciate it. here's what wear working on for "newsroom international." iraq unraveling. a wave of bombings just ripping through the country. now the vice president, he is on the run from his own government. you've been busy for a dead man. after you jumped ship in bangkok, i thought i'd lost you. surfing is my life now. but who's going to .... tell the world that priceline has even faster, easier ways to save you money. . . on hotels, flights & cars? 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[ gunshots ] >> what you're watching here, this video was posted on-line from allepo today. a syrian opposition group says that the day's death toll has already passed 100, including many people killed there in allepo. our nick payton walsh is in that city. he will take to us a hospital on the frontlines of the fighting. we have to warn thaw some of the stuff is pretty disturbing. >> it's where many in aleppo run when they're caught by the constant shelling. even though the hospital and the area around it have also been -- >> the shells hit this part of the hospital, but still this day we see many civilians flooding here for treatment. some of them very young. doctors telling us that the children's hospital has been closed by the government. >> some starving. >> mohammed was hit by shrapnel fired from syrian regime mortars. he is quiet, brave, but this hostile isn't equipped for the surgery he immediate. his thigh bone is shattered. the doctors have no choice but to exacerbate her ordeal and send him across the frontlines to the government hospital. hoping perversely that those who hurt him can also heal him. president al assad is history in the minds of locals, but his regime still has the best hospitals where one doctor works during the day before sneaking here to help this rebel hospital in the evening. he tells me in the regime hospitals 50 soldiers have brought in every day, that sometimes doctors mercy kill by injection those they can't treat effectively and if they found he was working in the rebel hospital, they would kill him. >> are you here many. >> akhmed's head has been hit by shrapnel from shelling. his ear almost blown off. they struggle to clean the wound and to find muff anesthetic. at any point the power could cut. still, the doctors carry on. it hurts, he cries. but he has yet to learn the worst about what the shelling did. it killed his father whose mourned just outside the hospital. the dead here so many that doctors must leave them on the street. his brother arrives. there's no room for privacy or dignity here. they remove the body before akhmed can learn what happened. the blood remains on the street unmode by some. the people of aleppo numb looking to the skies, checking what next may befall them. nick payton walsh, cnn, aleppo. he is talking about people looking to the sky for the next attack. that is because the syrian government has been increasing the number of air strikes it is now launching against the rebels, ask it means that more civilians are also being killed and wounded. i want to bring in mohammed, a neighboring lebanon, and mohammed, talk a little bit about what we have heard, and it sounds absolutely horrific this idea, this creation of barrel bombs that are being used. >> well, suzanne, opposition activists are increasingly worried and telling us about a new form of crude weaponry that they say is being utilized by the syrian regime to bomb different parts of syria. they're calling these barrel bombs. they say that they are crudely constructed improvised explosive devices that the syrian regime effectively are taking barrels and loading them up with everything from nails to tnt, to other types of explosives, to fuel. we've seen more and more amateur videos posted on-line reporting to show the aftermath of these types of attacks. yesterday in the hannamu district of aleppo we saw amateur video reporting to show a residential building that had been completely flattened. you saw men scrambling around that building searching frantically for any survivors or others buried in the rubble, and increasingly, these activists are saying that the syrian regime using these on more neighborhoods and just wreaking so much deconstruction by doing so. >> and mohammed, tell us why is this happening now? why have they decided start using this? >> well, suzanne, it's very hard to verify since the syrian regime is not saying anything about this at this point, but the opposition activists and the rebel free syrian army members we've heard from say. they say, first of all, these very crudely constructed weapons, they are very cheap to make. that they don't cost much. some in the opposition are speculating that perhaps the funding of the syrian military is being depleated. they don't have as much money to buy new weaponry, and maybe that's why they're using hem. but most of all people are saying this is just maximizing the type of devastation that when this type of bomb impacts the ground, that it creates a lot more devastation than other bombs that were used prior. >> mohammed, finally, with the government increasing all he's air strikes and seeing these barrel bombs being used essentially, is the international community any more likely to consider imposing a no fly zone. we haven't even seen that. >> we haven't, suzanne. you know, last month it was indicated by the u.s. and turkey that they were studying various options of what to do, that among those options might be a no fly zone, but it doesn't seem like there's anything close to imminent as far as trying to impose a no fly zone. there are more and more calls from members of the international community to impose a no fly zone, but where is the willingness of the countries to do so. how are they going to do so, especially when the u.n. security council is still deadlocked because syria -- because russia and because china are backing the syrian regime. it's just very difficult, and even though there are more calls, even from the syrians as well to impose this, it's just not looking like it will happen any time soon. suzanne. >> all right. mohammed, appreciate it. about a million people turn out in london for a final salute to the summer olympics. worry going to take you there live. 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