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picked off by snipers. food and supplies running out. medical care, impossible. this is the story of a cnn team that got into syria s most dangerous city. to reach a handful of citizens risks their lives every day. to see firsthand, to bear witness, and to tell the world about the suffering, the grief, and the courage of homs. this is the account of 72 hours under fire. [ explosion ] reporter: for more than a year, the regime and dictator bashar al assad have used brutal force to put down a popular uprising in syria. across the country, protesters demands change, chanting, down with the regime. this is another rocket. reporter: the city of homs became the beating heart of a growing uprising. but the syrian military sealed off one neighborhood as it tried to crush the revolt. the assad regime is shelling relentlessly these neighborhoods. there are snipers positioned in areas that are, you know, killing people as they try to leave their homes. it s a civil ....
this is the story of a cnn team that got into syria s most dangerous city. to reach a handful of citizens risking their lives every day. to see firsthand, to bear witness, and to tell the world about the suffering, the grief, and the courage of homs. this is the account of 72 hours under fire. reporter: for more than a year, the regime of dictator bashar al assad have used brutal force to put down a popular uprising in syria. across the country, protesters demanded change, chanting down with the regime. this is another rocket in a civilian home. reporter: the city of homs became the beating heart of a growing uprising. but the syrian military sealed off one neighborhood as it tried to crush the revolt. the assad regime is shelling relentlessly these neighborhoods. there are snipers positioned in areas that are, you know, killing people as they try to leave their homes. this is a civilian neighborhood where people were living normal civilian lives being bom ....
outrageous types of questions, and then the next question from the reporter is why are you talking so much about social issues? isn t it fair for journalists to ask the senator about his own words. the situation in syria turns deadly for more correspondents trying to cover the violent uprising there. breaking news into cnn just minutes ago. word that the two western journalists, including an american, have been killed in syria. will the dangers there choke off the flow of news from syria? plus, the sniping has already started over the movie game change even before it airs on hbo. you can actually see russia from land here in alaska. my god. what have we done? it wasn t my fault. i wasn t properly prepped. are sarah palin s people justified in going ballistic? i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. the campaign debate over rick santorum and the exit tent to which he should or should not be talking about religion and social issues has quickly mo ....
situation for any late changes. this report coming from our state correspondent. it s one of many new developments tonight on many different fronts. two things remain constant. dozens of people are being murdered, killed every day and the assad regime continues to lie about it. in fact, they re finding new ways to lie about it. especially the two journalists killed in homs yesterday and whose bodies are trapped there. the government blaming them for dying in the conditions they created. also claiming they re not targeting journalists or civilians, only terrorists. the second statement is a flat out lie. one of the journalists, marie colvin did the last reporting on our program. we spoke to her hours before she was killed. a new rort out from u.n. investigators, sfie pages that read like an indictment of the assad regime. forces have committed widespread systematic and gross human rights violations amounting to crimes against humanity. with the apparent knowledge and con ....
two things remain constant. dozens of people are being murdered, killed every day and the assad regime continues to lie about it. in fact, they re finding new ways to lie about it. especially the two journalists killed in homs yesterday and whose bodies are trapped there. the government blaming them for dying in the conditions they created. also claiming they re not targeting journalists or civilians, only terrorists. the second statement is a flat out lie. one of the journalists, marie colvin did the last reporting on our program. we spoke to her hours before she was killed. a new rort out from u.n. investigators, sfie pages that read like an indictment of the assad regime. forces have committed widespread systematic and gross human rights violations amounting to crimes against humanity. with the apparent knowledge and consent of the highest levels of the state. the report notes the opposition of the syrian army committed abuses and not comparable in scale to those car ....