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hezbollah. >> the have won back the city, but at what price? >> in turkey, 3000 anti- government protesters have been detained. now they want the city police to go. and could this tiny animal the hour and sister? it was found in china. this is no bigger than a mouse, and this is 65 years old -- 65 million years old. >> welcome to our viewers on public television and around the globe. the syrian government retook the qusair ic town of with the help of hezbollah. this is a tremendous blow to the

rebels, who failed to unseat assad after two years. we went to qusair. >> this is now a ghost town, and we drive in with an escort only hours after they fell to the government. building escaped the intense fighting. the battle raged from house to house and street to street. most people fled the war are dead. there is little life in the main square. aside from the troops. the clock tower is standing, but only just. a new flag was raised this morning. for a year, qusair was under rebel control. the government troops are marking their victory, loudly. >> this is what victory sounds

like. guns being fired in celebration, cars blurring their horns in the central square. the syrian army is claiming victory, but at what price? qusair is now destroyed. >> the streets are flooded with fighters and tanks, and trucks. we find thisce, column on the move, something different. ribbons tied to the uniforms. ey speak with lebanese accent's. off camera, they confirm this. than 10 miles from the lebanese border, too important for the allies to lose. so many civilians lost everything in this battle and we saw few of them on the streets

today. this man thanks god and the syrian army that his family is now safe. >> but most of the city is destroyed. >> he blames the rebels. they killll the children because we support the government. but they are in a rush to leave. who can say when these thousands will be back? their city became a prize in this war. this battle may not be the last. bbc world news, qusair. as not much left of qusair, the syrian rebels fleeing north of town.

saying the fighters hastened their defeat. the top general ones that hezbollah forces could face repercussions inside lebanon. we have this report -- firepowerarmy overwhelmed qusair, but they had help on the ground from the lebanese militia. those who fled this devastated town are bitter about that. wehezbollah was attacking so fled the shelling. >> lebanon is getting drawn further and further into the conflict. ae syrian civil war to become war for lebanon. the top general had this warning about the consequences of the involvement of hezbollah.

authority, does not take any action to stop them from coming to syria. i think we do not want to fight against them in lebanon territory. >> in the shi'ite areas there were celebrating the fall of qusair. inyear-old -- was killed qusair. his family says he died protecting their beliefs. >> we will not allow our allies to fall because we would be next in line. >> the war may be escalating in other ways. dropped helicopters gas canisters in an attack reported earlier on the bbc. britain and france say that

sarin gas may have been deployed there. >> if these injuries are from chemical weapons is unproven, but a british doctor believes that the government was behind this attack. he says he treated the victims. she was very hot -- and sweating, with swollen eyes and tongue. frothing from the mouth. and the pupils -- >> is this a red line? has beenh government talking about future air strikes to target the chemical weapons. this possibility remains a long way off and in the absence of western intervention, the war seems to be going away for president aside. but neither side is reticulate -- particularly interested in peace talks as the e sk grows,

that a syrian civil war will spread beyond its borders. hat to do about syria is a problem for the west and today, president obama announced the changes for his foreign-policy team. susan rice will be the next security adviser -- and amanda power will be nominated to replace susan rice. here is the chief washington correspondent for the new york times. >> the national security adviser post is the most important national security post in the united states. the adviser who has ranged from henry kissinger, bryzienski,i, in the -- they bring different opinions and they are different inside the united

states government, they are there to organize the president with choices. having susan rice is interesting because she and some of the power were to forces for what they call the liberal interventionists in the u.s.. they were for a much more forceful entry into libya and they convinced the president with hillary clinton, and in syria they have not. >> both of those women said that they are haunted by memories of the american lack of engagement in rwanda and darfur. does this suggest that they will try t t change america's positin on syria. >> the interesting thing about the obama white house is this is the most reluctant member of the national security team -- has been the president himself and he is asking questions.

suppose that we intervene or secure the chemical weapons? if we do not repeat the experience of iraq and afghanistan, there is no constituency for putting out -- putting people on the ground for five or six years. the question is, what good have you accomplished if you have unleashed the forces for the country to break apart? the first rule is to do no harm, and you have to establish such a situation you are creating is not worse than what we have? >> although these women are elevated to that position, what you suggest is there is not much change in national foreign policy? >> there may be a change of events in syria. if they have the opportunity too get a side out, they would have acted on it. they have come to that lake and

as your report suggested, anyone with bashar al-assad may want to think about where they just put their money. >> and the situation with the rebels is more complicated. >> they are demonstrating once again in turkey. environmentalists and gay-rights activists and academics -- what they share is a demand for the turkish government to be less authoritarian. they ask for the top police officers to be fired. from assemble, here is the story. square is held by the protesters, as the police choose peace by staying away. started is auble political carnival. feminists condemn is what they say is the government attack on

women's rights. around the corner, is a pro kurdish man making a speech. >> solving this crisis and getting all these people to go home will take a delicate political footwork. the prime minister is an accomplished politician and has been used to having things his own way. he will not do anything that leaves them looking weak. wait for erdogan's return. "shut up," says this one, this one says "resign." the prime minister is at the center of this crisis. some protests were being exploited by terrorists, say some, and others were legitimate. >> we will have the elections in nine months and we will listen to the voice of the

electorate. if people think that this gogornment should step out, they should say this in the ballot box. >> what about the allegation that the prime minister acts in of autocratic matter? and he does not respond to the population that did not vote? >> maybe they should be reminded that he has said more than 50 times in the last five years, he is the prime minister of all of turkey. >> hee met with protesters for the sacking of the police chief. the country waits for the return of the prime minister. where this crisis goes next depends on his response to the protester's takeover of the center of the largest turkish city. >> how to satisfy so many

desperate voices all protesting together in istanbul. let's look at other news. 13 people were injured after a building collapse in the city of philadelphia. at least one person was killed when the building fell into a salvation army store full of customers. the u.s. army soldier accused of killing 16 afghan civilians -- has had his sentence carried out. the guilty plea means s will avoid the death penalty. prime minister in, but hebeen sworn is no stranger to the job. he has called for an end to american drawn strikes.

>> elected prime minister by a comparable -- a comfortable margin, but he is facing a daunting number of problems. u.s. drawn strikes, which she says must end. he promised he would not rest until the economy improved. this is in such a bad state, it is beyond imagining. he says. people here know the reality of paralyzing power issues >> you can see the economic cost of the power crisis. the electricity is off in this neighborhood for 12 hours per day. that there are fewer firms than there used to be. 150 have been forced to close in recent years. and the are multiplying

staff is idle. >> the situation really hurts. after working for 35 years we have nothing. now we will close down and sell the machinery. nawazthe swearing in of sharif has led to optimism here. this is reassuring for a nation in crisis. one of the leading industririists and the country's biggest man, international investors are already preparing. >> they are lining up to come ofe, so there is a lot potential outside of pakistan, that good times are ahead. >> but for now, as temperatures rise, the prime minister has to

focus on bringing relief from the punishing power costs. for some, the canal is the only escape. this is the beginning of a long summer for the country and its new leader. hope and patients may not last long. bbc news, pakistan. >> i suspect they would much rather have electricity. still to come on this program, cashing in on burma. major corporations rushed to get a piece of the action as the country rolls out the welcome mat. europe tonight, thousands are under threat by surging g loodwaters in eastern germany and the northern czech republic. now mostnger area is of central europe, spanning germy a, -- spanning germany,

and the czech republic. >> more than 1000 people have left their homes as the elba rose above the it -- the usual level. 3000 people were evacuated from villages. voices fearnister as floodwaters rose. he said he wanted to emphasize his sympathy for his fellow citizens, who are suffering from the affliction of the flood. this is a critical time ahead. firefightersoland, are helping with flooded farmyards. in austria, there are urgent efforts on the banks of the danube. he said the worst case is if the bank broke. the surrounding area would be flooded.

deployed and been 30,000 firefighters have been working nonstop, some taking drinking water to the stranded residents. he says his team has not slept for 40 hours and people who did not want to leave their homes realized they did not have water to drink. central europe is a complex of rivers. they turned the region into a sea of difficulty, transports being disrupted. the full cost cannot be measured. the rivers are commercial routes for the barges. all of this has stopped. >> of emerging markets and major corporations, even those words are catnip, used in connection with burma.

coca-cola is back on sale there, one of the major global companies moving into the country. we have this report from rangoon. >> you would not have seen this two years ago. these young people are taking advantage of all of the changes. >> i am i millionaire now. -- he is a millionaire. he is 28 years old and he is a millionaire. >> there is only one country left in southeast asia. >> a berm has the same population as britain. this is rich in resources and potential. this is very attractive to investors. this is the most poor country in southeast asia. there is no running water or electricity. the average child goes to school here for four years.

she has started sending her 13 year-old son. >> i dream of having a better life. right now i am is struggling to make a living. i want to escape poverty. >> burma actually has a huge rooms for growth. grow fast.ll need to for that to happen they need more of this. manufacturing and multinational branding, like coca-cola opening their 16th branch here. to show that infrastructure and training -- for the company, this is a problem with a big reward. theheare doing business in a developing country. upon a have embarked journey to eventually bring

itself back into the world community. excited, for the potential of 64 million markets. >> not everyone is happy to come here because this is a frontier market. there is an opportunity but a lot of risk. was athe 1950's this shining example of economic growth in asia, and it could be again. international businesses will want to see reforms continue with an end to social unrest before they all returned to burma for these demands. goesw, to discovery, which back 65 million years.s. chinese researchers think they have the oldest fossil of a primate ever unearthed. we have exclusive access to the pictures.

achilles, archibes tree-dweller the size of a mouse. this animal eventually evolved into monkeys and apes and humans. we know what it looks like from this fossil, a 65 million year- old skeleton. this is perfectly preserved. and how the feet were able to grasp onto branches. the fossil is helping scienensts piece together how early primates evolved into humans. >> this is a very important discovery. now we have a nearar complete skeleton that azeri close to the assets -- to the ancestor of the human. >> where does this creature began in our evolutionary past? ago, a squirrel

became the first primate, and then some became large tree creatures, tarziers, and the rest became monkeys and apes, including us humans. achilles is just in here, very fork in the- close to the road. >> 65 billion years ago the earth was a tropical jungle and the dinosaurs were extinct, so this was the purpose -- perfect environment to evolves. can this be an ancestor of humanity? >> there is little noticed that says, here is the ancestor of all human. now, this could be the ancestor of all humans but you would never know this. this looks close to what we would expect our ancestors to look like.

study this with computer imaging techniques. scientists believe that this is another crucial piece of the puzzle of how we as a species of all over millions of years. old and veryvery small, but he is rather cute. that brings totoy's show to a close. you can watch the show at the local channel -- thank you so much for watching. i will see you back here tomorrow. >> funding of this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu, newman's own foundation, union bank, and united healthcare. >> at union bank, our relationship managers work hard

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