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BEIRUT —  On Nov. 13, 1970, a young air force officer from the coastal hills of Syria launched a bloodless coup. It was the latest in a succession of military takeovers since independence from France in 1946, and there was no reason to think it would be the last. Yet 50 years later, Hafez Assad’s family still rules Syria. The country is in ruins from a decade of civil war that has killed half a million people, displaced half the population and wiped out the economy. Entire regions are lost from government control. But Hafez’s son, Bashar Assad, has an unquestioned grip on what remains...

>> no, no, no. yesterday, four trucks tried to go in to deliver food, flour, medicine, and hygiene kits. and two made it in. two big trucks made it in. and two others were shot at and had to retreat and didn't make it in. so what they're doing now is the same, the same trucks that didn't go in are going to be the same stuff, is going to be put into a bunch of suvs that belong to the united nations. these are armored suvs and will be taken that way in like different batches, basically. throughout the day. >> so, sam, real quickly, one, was this, you know, team deliberately targeted? and two, do...

One day after a humanitarian convoy came under a ferocious attack in syria, aid workers will try again to good food and medicine to help the civilians there. >> yeah, this convoy came under fire as it was rolling into the war-torn city of homs yesterday. take a look at this. oh, my goodness. it was shelled, there was gunfire, the taken had to break away for safety. sam dagher is the middle east correspondent for the "wall street journal". he is there and we talked to him minutes ago about the situation. >> i'm standing here now at the front line between the government health section of homs an...

Take in food that they weren't able to take in yesterday, and it's going to pack in armored suvs and it's going to try to take them in that way. because yesterday they tried to take them in in two big trucks. i'm sorry, in four big trucks. and they were shot at and they were, you know, mortars were fired at them and snipers shot them. so today, they're coming in differently. and they seem to be determined. and they're going to try to evacuate those civilians, an area that's been under siege for almost 18 months. >> and sam, we know this has opinion going on for some time, but i'm reading your ...

Again with the head of the mission in syria, and he said it was a deliberate targeting of this convoy, and it's a breach of international law. >> sam dagher there in honems, syria. syrian peace talks scheduled to resume tomorrow in geneva and we'll be following that. still to come, a change of heart for the man who wanted to put george zimmerman in the ring against rapper dmx. yesterday, right here on "new day," he defended the fight. today, he's calling it off. ok ml have symptoms. [ sneeze ] [ male announcer ] truth is not all flu products treat all your symptoms. what? [ male announcer ] ...