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with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. "shameless brutality." those are the words the united states chose today to describe bashar al-assad's all out military assault on syria's freedom movement. the 40-year dictatorship of the assad family seems bent on crushing the citizens' rebellion that began nearly a year ago. today civilians in homs-- a city of more than 1.5 million-- suffered through their 19th day of artillery bombardment. an intense morning barrage killed 74, including a french photojournalist and american reporter marie colvin. she was a veteran war correspondent. col...

french photojournalist remi open licochlik where they were worki. last night, colvin told cnn by phone that the bombardment of homes was, in her word, sickening. >> every civilian house on the street has been hit. we're talking about a very kind of poor popular neighborhood. the top floor of the building i'm in has been hit, in fact totally destroyed. there are no military targets here. it's a complete and utter lie that they are only going after terrorists. >> pelley: the reporting of marie colvin. the assault intensified sharply this month after russia and china vetoed a u.n. counc...

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. "shameless brutality." those are the words the united states chose today to describe bashar al-assad's allout military assault on syria's freedom movement. the 40-year dictatorship of the assad family seems bent on crushing the citizens' rebellion that began nearly a year ago. today civilians in homs-- a city of more than 1.5 million-- suffered through their 19th day of artillery bombardment. an intense morning barrage killed 74, including a french photojournalist and american repor...