certainly hamza's image has had real weight. women holding signs saying we are all the mothers of hamza al-khatib. we are joined by razan on the line from damascus. i think everyone can understand the anger. is this going to change anything as far as the opposition movement is concerned? >> the opposition movement is continuing. after the death of hamza everybody was shocked. the whole world was shocked. it broke our hearts, actually. for a child who was loved. a child who his family loved him, and hamza wasn't the first killed under torture in syria. this truth is clear. many others have been killed in the last two months in detension under torture. even today a prisoner was delivered, a dead body to his family, in damascus. he was detained a few days ago. today his dead body was delivered to his family. he was killed under torture. this is happening every day in syria. such violations, and the crimes are committed every day in syria. >> nothing the government says or does seems to satisfy the opposition, this promise of an inq

hamza's family took those images that we showed you, the relative says the night the family got hamza'swas arrested and taken away. and as we reported last night, the father and uncle showed up on syrian state tv, praising syria's president. the first person you see in this video is hamza's father from syrian state television. >> translator: what can i say. best president ever. thank god he gave us everything we ever asked for. the first thing is, the president promised us reforms and god willing, they will come soon, tomorrow or the day after. these reforms are for the citizens and we were very happy with the president. the president is very lose to the people and he's offered them a lot and he has said, god willing, he will give even more. >> translator: the syrian nation doesn't care to listen to outside media. we received hamza from the general hospital in daraa. the official report and his picture was written by the attorney general. there were four reports and investigations. the president addressed the committee today to fully investigate the issue in order to get the truth. it's

certainly hamza's image has had real weight. women holding signs saying we are all the mothers of hamza al-khatib. we are joined by razan on the line from damascus. i think everyone can understand the anger. is this going to change anything as far as the opposition movement is concerned? >> the opposition movement is continuing. after the death of hamza everybody was shocked.

this is how hamza came home.ette burns covering his body, kneecaps shattered and his penis cut off. officially, however, the syrian regime says this did not happen to the 13-year-old boy. a pathologist who did the autopsy said what you see is simply the result of body decomposition. a relative made the video of his body. we showed you this last night. they were met with outrage around the world and inside syria. sources say after the video was posted on youtube, syria's military detained hamza's father and uncle. and now two men who say they are hamza's uncle and father showed up on syrian state television praising syria's dictator and the brutal regime. in this video, the father speaks first. >> translator: what can i say? best president ever. thank god he gave us everything ever asked for. the first thing is, he promised us reforms. god willing, they will come soon, tomorrow or the day after. i mean, these reforms are for the citizens and they have been well received. and we were very happy with the president.

hamza was only 13 years old.and tamir and others taken tortured, murdered, and then weeks later returned to their families, not so parents with mourn and bury them, but as a tool of terror, as a warning to others. tow the line or we'll take your kids. days after hamza was returned, signs that in that respect, terror works. his father and uncle appeared on syrian state tv, full of praise for the dictator bashar al assad. >> what can i say? best president ever. thank god he gave us everything we've ever asked for. the first thing is the president promised us reforms. god willing, they will come soon, tomorrow or the day after. i mean, these reforms are for the citizens. and they have been well received. and we were very happy with the president. the president is very close to the people. and he has offered them a lot. and he has said, god willing, he will give even more. >> later on, a family member who we are not naming told us that the family was threatened to make those statements. that's what terror does. it no

his name, hamza. his death has sparked renewed outrage in syria. we feel we owe it to this little boy to bear witness to what has happened to him. >>> also, the revealing photographs from congressman anthony wiener's cell phone. he had a very heated exchange. here's just a short part. >> we follow some rules here and -- >> i would love to get an answer. >> you do the question, i do the answer and this jackass interrupts me? s is >> isha sesay is following other stories for us tonight. >>> a dramatic day in the casey anthony trial. cindy anthony, casey's mom, practically collapsed. she had to ask the judge for a break. coming up, the 911 recording that made her fall apart. [ bell rings ] distracted driving. it accounts for 25% of car crashes. - ♪ [ dance ] - music, cell phones, food-- the list goes on. this is why safe driving is so important. - correct. - and it's why the best agents... help safe drivers get a lower rate. - oh! - exactly. ♪ another dream but always you ♪ whoa! ♪ it's like a vision-- [ tires squeal ] ♪ [ resumes ] [ man announcing ]

it then showed two men identified as hamza's father and uncle.he man identified as hamza's father praised the syrian president and said he promised that the demands would be met shortly. >> so we don't know for a fact if that was indeed hamza's father. do we know that? is that an authentic video? >> reporter: well, just like everything that we're trying to deal with, because we are not in country ourselves, we've repeated requests for visas have been denied. we are now trying to by our various contacts determine whether or not that man was hamza's father. it raises a lot of questions and highlights how challenging it is to figure out exactly what is happening inside that country since it is not only cnn but other media outlets that are denied entry as well. >> good point. thank you for that. of course, we do apologize for that sound quality there. >>> now in bahrain, the justice ministry announced plans to lift emergency laws that pave the way for a crackdown on opposition leaders. the laws have been in place since anti-government demonstrations

this relative providing even more chilling insight into what young hamza may have suffered.o him another relative saefd a treceived a ti was held in one of the prisons. he went and saw hamza was alive and well and was told by authorities to return in two days which he did. he was told the family should go to the hospital. when they arrived at the hospital they were handed over a corpse. those chilling images with authenticity we cannot verify appeared on youtube showing hamza's mutilated and horribly disfigured young body. according to the relative his mother became hysterical. she had a nervous breakdown alternating between sobbing intensely and then shrieking for joy her child had become a martyr this relative firmly believing hamza was brutally tortured for two days because authorities were enraged that the family had managed to track him down. the relative also providing us with insight as to the type of a child hamza was, saying that he was the youngest of six, just 13 years old, but with a maturity of a 30-year-old. he was always taking part in the demonstrations to br

after it was initially broadcast, hamza's family was threatened.alk, even to close friends. a prominent syrian activist reached via skype says she has no doubt it's real and that the regime had a message in releasing the boy's body. >> they want the people to see this, to get scared. they want the people to know that there is no -- everything, no matter how awful could happen to their family members if they continue to participate in the this revolution. >> reporter: but far from cowing people, the video has only made them bolder. demonstration to protest ha aha death erupted. even children took to the streets risking a similar fate vowing that his blood was not spilled in vein. activists are not surprised that the regime could having committed such cruelty and claim it's not the first time a child has been targeted. this 11-year-old boy was allegedly shot in his home. this many video shows the body of a child lying in the street, amid intense gunfire as others tried to recover his body. and here children lie wounded in hospital after security forc

it seems just a month ago, hamza al-khatib was picked up during a protest in deraa. lau as weak, his body was returned. his family says they were threatened. they found evidence of torture, in his neck broken and mutilation of his genitals. images spread fast, fueling public anger. syrian state tv broadcast of link the denial of anygñ tortur. experts claimed the signs of torture were simply the composition and the blood was fake. whatever the facts, there is no doubt the regime is rattled by this case, risking such an extensive the nile at the risk of spreading the story further. -- extensivedenial -- extensive denial at the risk of spreading the story further. earlier, the death of a 14-year- old boy went around the world, his father unable to protect him from gunfire. in tunisia, a fuit-seller who set fire to himself, helped trigger the entire arab spring. >> what happens to that victim is emblematic in these people's minds of what happens to them every day. >> is this image has real power in syria. women and damascus have been seen holding posters that said of " w

hamza's face bloated, purple. posted to youtube catalogs each of his wounds, much of it too graphic to broadcast. the narrator points out multiple gunshots before moving to his head. and even more shocking, his genitals were mutilated. cnn cannot independently verify what happened to hamza or the authenticity of this video. after it was initially broadcast, hamza's family was threatened. now they are too petrified to talk. even to close friends. a prominent syrian activist who we reached via skype says she has no doubt it's real and that the regime had a message in releasing the boy's body. >> they want the people to see this. they want the people to get scared. they want the people to know there is no -- everything, no matter how awful could happen to their family members if they continue to participate in this revolution. >> reporter: but far from -- people, the video has only made people bolder. demonstrations to protests comes as depth erupted. even children took to the streets, risking a similar fate. vowing

the next time hamza's parents saw him again was when they recovered his corpse.d spoken to the family and video posted to youtube horrifically mutilated. cnn could not independently verify the account of what happened to hamza, nor the authenticity of this video, but it shows the child bloated, face purple. it shows various bruisings to his body. bullet wounds to his torso. most shocking of all, his genitals were mutilated. activists have been saying the syrian regime deliberately released the young boy's family back to his body to send a message. the message being there are absolutely no red lines when it came to the length the regime would go to to silence voices of dissense. in response to this video circulating wildly, the regime on tuesday broadcast a segment where it had a medical examiner refuting the allegations of torture, saying there were no such markings on the child's body. stating that the discoloration and the bloating was due to the body decomposing. syrian state tv then aired a statement by a man it identified as being the boy's father, saying he

he was a friend of 13-year-old hamza al katib. you remember the video of the tortured body brought children into the streets of syria and tonight more protesters are taking to the streets as rage grows against assad and his brutal regime. arwa damon filed a report, but we must warn you some of the video is very disturbing. >> reporter: my son, it's my son, a woman wails. this scar here, i swear it's my son. i stitched the cut on him when he was little. his name was tamir and he was just 15 years old. his body is carried inside to be washed. a voice curses the president. there is a visible gunshot wound below the teenager's knee. a voice says look at the marks of torture as the camera moves to show his discolored and seemingly bruised face. an activist told cnn of marks on the boy's body and said one bullet wound beneath the knee shouldn't have killed him. cnn cannot independently verify the authenticity of this video. children led his funeral procession, carrying a banner reading "the martyr tamid detained alive, martyred after to

but friday, some of the largest protests to honor hamza and other dead children held across syria.forces nonetheless fired into the crowds again and according to the opposition, dozens of civilians were killed. it was in this very city, hamas, that the president's father killed more than 10,000 people, brutally suppressing an uprising 30 years ago. the unrest in syria began in the town of dera in march. which was triggered by teenagers who spray painted on a wall and their fingernails were ripped out. and other torture led to the uprising. foreign journalists have been banned as more than 10,000 protesters were arrested. human rights reports and steady flow of amateur video was posted on youtube by underground network of activists. countries in the region have been reluctant to criticize president bashar assad, but neighboring jordan's king abdullah told me that assad is firmly in charge. >> from my discussions, he is in charge and yes, he is calling the shots. >> as the assad regime cuts out by cutting power and phone lines to other troubled towns and cities, the president himself

now we know that hamza alkhalee is dead. pictures of his body are disturbing. his family received his remains. it appeared the 13-year-old had been tortured. he was mutilated. many of the pictures we've received are too graphic to broadcast. cnn made repeated attempts to reach for comment without success. hamza's murder brought syrians into the streets. even children have joined the protests. we'll have more on dramatic developments in syria and the strongest words yet from washington in just a moment. but first, a look at the other stories we're covering tonight. >>> what do robert e. lee and sarah palin have in common? they both went to gettysburg, one of them lost, the other may have just begun to fight. >>> and housing prices keep falling, in some places they haven't been this low since the 1960s. edie hill asks, does the american dream get dragged down with them? >>> then the sheriff of arizona, he deported 25,000 illegal immigrants, and now he wants to take his wild west show to washington. >>> for more now on the murder and mutilation of 13-year-old hamz

his name, hamza. his death has sparked renewed outrage in syria. i know it's hard to take, but we feel we owe it to this little boy to bear witness to what has happened to him. we'll talk with a human rights activist hiding in syria right now. >>> also, the revealing photographs from congressman anthony wiener's cell phone. he said he was hacked but he's refusing to answer more questions and he had a very heated exchange. we'll show you all of it but here's just a short part. >> we follow some rules here and -- >> i would love to get an answer. >> you do the question, i do the answer and this jackass interrupts me? >> he's talking about our producer. isha sesay is following other stories for us tonight. isha? >>> a dramatic day in the casey anthony trial. cindy anthony, casey's mom, bloke down on the stand and she practically collapsed. she had to ask the judge for a break. coming up, the 911 recording that made her fall apart. >>> tonight, the question k, building up our wireless network all across america. we're adding new cell sites... increasin

young hamza may have suffered. a trip was received that he was being held in one of the prisons. he went there and actually saw that hamz wachlt was athat he was alive and well. at that point he was told that the family should go to the hospital. when they arrived at the hospital, it was there that they were handed over a corps. those chilling images with authenticity we cannot verify that appeared on youtube, showing his bloated, mutilated, and horribly disfigured young body. according to the relative, his mother became hysterical. she had a nervous breakdown, alternating between sobbing intensely and then shrieking for joy that her child became a martyr, believing that hamza was brutally tortured for two days because authorities were enraged that the family was able to track him down. saying that he was the youngest of 6, just 13 but with the maturity of a 30 yearly. he was always taking part of the demonstrations to break the siege of the city. remember, his family was from outside of daraa and on some occasions

this child is from, according to the activist, the same village as 13-year-old hamza. you'll remember his horribly mutilated body returned to his family last week. this young child emerging as being one of the symbols of this uprising. this second case we're hearing about right now, this child also said to have been detained on the same day hamza was detained from the very same village. activists fear that even more mutilated, tortured bodies to include those of children, are going to continue to emerge. we're following this one very ly closely, monita. >> arwa, bring us the latest when you get it. >>> let's talk about syria, and go to ivan watson at the turkish-syrian border on the turkish side. we understand people have been trying to form a human chain to stop these tanks from entering this town. >> reporter: we've been talking to a student protester, he's from a town about an hour from here. demonstrators were burning tires last night and trying to stop a column of tanks from going through their town to this rebellious town of jisr al shugur. he could not confirm r

disfigured and mutilated body was returned to his parents this week. >> the tragedy of the young boy, hamza ali al-khateeb, symbolizes for many people around the world the total collapse of any effort by the assad government to work with their own people. >> brown: secretary of state hillary clinton weighed in yesterday with a new warning to the syrian leader. >> if he cannot end the violence against his own people, take meaningful steps to start a process of reform, then he needs to get out of the way. >> brown: earlier in the week, assad promised amnesty to thousands of prisoners arrested in the three-month uprising. but there's been no let-up in the campaign that's killed more than 1,000 civilians. police in the island kingdom of bahrain also opened fire today on marchers there. they used tear gas and rubber bullets against people trying to get to pearl square, where protests began in february. the sunni-led government crushed the mostly shiite uprising in march, but lifted its state of emergency this week. still, a heavy and visible police presence remains on the streets. we get more on

hamza's death is really top of the mind of most up ins around the world and editorials.in the uk, this is the headline "teenage victim becomes a symbol for syria's resolution." it says, hamza has come to symbolize the innocent victims in a struggle for freedom against tyranny and repression. the international herald tribune, syrians see tortured boy as symbol of brutal state. it says, the youth's battered body has cast into shocking relief the terrors wielded by the syrian state against its people. thailand's nation has this headline, ear rows on the streets will bring end game for syria's bloody junta. it will allow it to ride on the backs of the people, to insult them and torture them in ways they had never previously dreamed of. carol? >> zain vergee, i wonder what leverage the united states has over syria and our possible role of what happens in that country. >> the united states didn't have the a lost effective leverage right now, carol. there are already sanctions in place. they want to push for harder sanctions. they have already frozen the assets of specific indi

>> well, you will remember hamza kat oil. symbol of the uprisings in syria. over the last 24 hours or so, a new video has surfaced of a 15-year-old boy and you are seeing imams that surfaced on youtube and online of a body that looks mutilated, with several bullet holes, even hear a woman say i recognize my son from a scar on his head. we understand from a report that his neck was broken, bullet wounds, leg broken. activists say the body showed signs of torture. what is interesting, brooke this young man came from the same fill vil lamb as hamzi, 193-year-old it is unclear if the two boys were friends but they did disappear, according to activists, the same day, april 29th, date these demonstrations took place in dara. and dara is very interesting. that is the city in which the uprising started after the arrest of 15 young people this strikes a chord in syria, brooke, as it does in many other countries when children are targeted. >> yeah i imagine that this video, it was just so difficult to look at of this 13-year-old mutila

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killed in the city of hama alone and once again, children took to the streets and they came to honor hamza ali al fati, the 13-year-old boy who was tortured and murdered by government thugs, but no amount of brutality has stopped protesters. the numbers on the streets seemed to grow by the day. cnn's arwa damon joins us now from bear out, lebanon. the country will not allow reporters to enter the country. arwa, what's the latest? >> reporter: well,el yort, as you mentioned there most certainly appears to be the deadliest day to date since the uprising began. the bulk of the casualties concentrated in the city of hamma and eyewitnesses and activists tens of thousands of people gathered in different neighborhoods in the city trying to converge on a central square, when they say syrian security forces as we have seen in the past as activists have claimed in the past indiscriminately opened fire. they have been touch by a number of medics in that city and they were simply in tears because of the sheer volume of dead and the sheer volume of casualties that they were having to deal with and we a

a shocking interview was played on state tv in syria of hamza's father and uncle praising syria's dictatorspeak to a brave woman inside syria. gives us an inside look at the brutal regime. >> back with jerry springer now. jerry, you were born in highgate, in a subway, so technically you can't be president, right? >> right, not because i was born in the subway, but because i was born in england. i'm an american citizen. i became an american citizen after i was here for five years. as you probably know, is that during the war the women in their ninth month would often spend the nights in the subway tubes because those were the bomb shelters. >> safest place to be. >> every time i hear a train go by -- no, i was born -- aw. >> there you are. sweet little chap you were, jerry. >> that's my sister evelyn. >> i watched a very moving interview you did in britain actually about the whole situation with your family and the holocaust and the number of relatives that you lost to that. >> at your time on the springer show, you've never lost your cool other than the one time i can remember. i want to p

disappeared from the southern city of daraa in april, on the same day, and in the same place, as 13-year-old hamza al-khatib. video of his brutalized corpse was released last week. the growing terror and bloodshed have prompted new fears that the effects will reach beyond syria's borders. secretary of state hillary clinton spoke today in abu dhabi. >> sadly, under president assad, it is becoming a source of instability in region. i don't think anyone looking at the situation can conclude that this will end well unless there is a change in the behavior of the government. >> woodruff: the syrian uprising and the regime's brutal response also tops the agenda at the united nations. britain and france sought support for a security council resolution condemning the assad government. british prime minister david cameron outlined the stakes yesterday in a speech before the house of commons. >> the violence being meted out to peaceful protesters and demonstrators is completely unacceptable. of course, we must not stand silent in the face of these outrages, and we won't. if anyone votes against that resolut

elsewhere, protesters marched in homs, carrying images of a 13- year-old boy, hamza ali al- khateeb. his death, apparently after being tortured, has become a flashpoint. the government of president bashar al-assad now is promising an investigation into the boy's killing. a state of emergency was lifted today in the persian gulf kingdom of bahrain, home to the u.s. fifth fleet. tanks and soldiers pulled out of the capital, manama, but police stayed at a number of checkpoints. majority shiites began protesting in february, demanding a greater share of power. but in march, bahrain's sunni leaders called in troops from saudi arabia and other sunni states to crush the protests. the death toll from an e. coli outbreak in europe has risen to 17, with hundreds more cases reported. some 1,500 people have been sickened in germany, where most of the cases occurred. the german agriculture minister said today it's still not known where the very virulent food-borne bacteria originated. >> ( translated ): it's clear these bacteria have occurred in humans and we are working non-stop to find out wher

killed in the city of hama alone and once again, children took to the streets and they came to honor hamzathe 13-year-old boy who was tortured and murdered by government thugs, but no amount of brutality has stopped protesters. the numbers on the streets seemed to grow by the day. cnn's arwa damon joins us now from bear out, lebanon. the country will not allow reporters to enter the country. arwa, what's the latest? >> reporter: well,el yort, as you mentioned there most certainly appears to be the deadliest day to date since the uprising began. the bulk of the casualties concentrated in the city of hamma and eyewitnesses and activists tens of thousands of people gathered in different neighborhoods in the city trying to converge on a central square, when they say syrian security forces as we have seen in the past as activists have claimed in the past indiscriminately opened fire. they have been touch by a number of medics in that city and they were simply in tears because of the sheer volume of dead and the sheer volume of casualties that they were having to deal with and we also, according

what we know about this young boy, 15 years old, tamir al sahri, from the same village at hamza al khatibat's the 13-year-old who became such an icon for anti-regime demonstrators. we don't know if the two knew each other, but according to activists in syria and outside of syria monitoring this story as well they went out on the same day, april 29th, in daraa in southern syria. >> let's assume for this part of the conversation that this is the regime, that it's torturing children, killing children. from what you know about assad and the way he operates, what is the message he's trying to send? >> well, it's a message of terror to the civilians. and we are also hearing from activists that many of those who are tortured and detained are released a day or two before friday prayers, and those are -- friday has become the traditional day of protest in the middle east in these arab uprisings. it's a message sent to the population that if you protest, if you send your children out to protest, this may happen to them. and daraa, by the way, is the city where it all started because 15 children wer

state department condemned the tortured killing of a 13-year-old syrian boy, identified as hamza ali "the new york times" reported the boy was arrested at a protest, and his mutilated body was returned later to his family. north and south sudan have agreed to set up a demilitarized border zone patrolled by both sides. the african union announced the arrangement today, after escalating clashes in recent days. i spoke this afternoon with rebecca hamilton of the pulitzer center, reporting from juba in south sudan. rebecca, what is the assessment there of how this talk of an agreement that would stop the dispute in the central region might affect the kind of problems of refugees being displaced in the central region? >> everybody is happy to see that the two sides are talking. but this idea that this agreement is going to fix the immediate humanitarian crisis just doesn't seem realistic. for people here it seems very far removed. >> reporter: we've heard a couple of different reports, one that the ethiopian army would comprise the peace-keeping force, if you will, and the other that ther