. >> what is more horrific is the intelligence bans carrying the red crescent insignia labeled syrianrescent drive through the protests and aftermath bulances and fire at the protesters. >> reporter: he says he oversaw spending at the defense ministry. he tells cnn the regime hired hit men, paying them $100 a day. it spent so much on the security crackdown, the budgets of other ministries had to be cut by a third. he says for a while, he hoped there would be compromise. >> we were hoping the killing would stop and the regime would understand the revolution will win and maybe find a way to apiece the people. there was no hope. >> reporter: as the climate of fear took hold, he decided to get out. >> so i traveled to egypt through the airport normally with the excuse of registering my son in college in egypt. when the rest of my family followed me, i announced my defection in protest of what is happening in syria. >> reporter: much of the carnage he blames on intelligence services and armed gang, not regular troops. >> translator: bass sad assad is no longer able to control these monster

these vehicles that were being marked with the insignia of the syrian red crescent.his is something meant to be medical relief, something meant to signify medical aid and he was saying the syrian government was using this to go in who would be assuming this would be medical aid, just to fire on them. >> what did he have to say about al assad's control of the situation in syria? >> he believes he has lost control of these monsters, as he was calling them and he described the situation in syria as being a genocide and that's quite interesting because a number of analysts have had conflicting opinions as to whether or not al say sad has control over what's taking place. whether or not he's giving direct orders. there's one fact that remains fundamentally true and that is that people are dying by the day and their cries grow more desperate. when you talk to these people as you and i have, their voices, they're filled with disappointment, despair, wi anguish. they're just looking for a solution, a solution that arab league and the community has failed to provide them. thi

not even officials of the syrian arab red crescent. according to u.s. estimates, more than 5,400 civilians have already died and that number is rising fast. the regime also continues to arbitrarily detain syrian citizens, such as the activists. simply for demanding dignity and universal rights. to date, the evidence is clear that assad's forces are initiating nearly all of the attacks that kill civilians. but as more citizens take up arms to resist the regime's brutality, violence is increasingly likely to spiral out of control. already, the challenges ahead for the syrian people are daunting. a crumbling economy, rising sectarian tensions, a cauldron of instability in the heart of the mideast. now, fears about what follows assad, especially among syria's minority communities are understandable. indeed, it appears as though assad and his cronies are working hard to pit syria's ethnic and religious groups against each other, risking greater sectarian violence and even descent into civil war. so in response to this violent crackdown on peaceful descent an

. >> the senior red crescent official has been killed in syria. he was shot dead in a car on his way from the capital of damascus. activists blamed the security forces but the official media blamed armed gangs. the federal police chief was sacked, responding radical islamist group, which killed at least 180 people. he has been sent on leave pending his forthcoming retirement. you are watching the bbc. live from singapore and london. still to come, 30 years after, argentina remembers its war. david cameron says the european court of human rights should interfere less in decisions made by national courts. the president of the council of europe -- >> in the wake of the second world war, europe agree to a new convention on human rights. its aim was to give people back the freedoms they had lost. david cameron came today to say to the european court of human rights that upholds the convention had strayed from its origins and it was time for reform. >> the court should be free to deal with the most serious violation of human rights. it should not be swa

daily death toll in the country continually rising the killing of the head of the syrian arab red crescent was on the road to damascus yet another remind the spiraling situation. of the observers at such a creature of a bid to the country's crisis is seen as controversial the arab league essentially has no credibility on the arab. st what the arab league mission is trying to accomplish is good enough everything is concrete everything about human rights abuses on the part of the are so very easy to then take to the un and the evidence would be so strong that even russia and china would feel compelled to work but as of now one month after this mission started they seem to know the monitors things and i know more about what's going on the ground and they did. at the beginning and so it all looks like you know we're going back to square one as the death toll rises the proposal being floated to increase the number of observers on the ground and provide them with u.n. training could be a life saving would but for now these plans have been pissed on hold in fact much of the substance of the repor

syrian red crescent drive through the protests as ambulances and fire at the protesters. >> reporterhe says the oversaw spending at the defense ministry. he tells cnn that the regime hired hitmen, paying them $100 a day. it spent so much on the security crackdown that the budgets of other ministries had to be cut by one-third. he says for a while he hoped there would be compromise. >> translator: we were hoping the killing would stop and the regime would understand that the revolution will win and maybe find a way to appease the people. there was no hope. >> reporter: as a climate of fear took hold, he decided to get out. >> translator: so i traveled to egypt through the airport. normally. with the excuse of registering my son in college in egypt. when the rest of my family followed me, i announced my defection of protest regarding what is happening in syria. >> reporter: most of the carnage he blames on intelligence services and armed gangs, not regular troops. >> translator: bashar al assad is no longer able to control these human monsters. >> reporter: two weeks after he fled syri

daily death toll in the country continually rising the killing of the head of the syrian arab red crescent was on the road to damascus. the remind the spiraling situation. of the exact visit such a crucial david to the country's crisis is seen as controversial as the death toll rises the earlier proposal being floated to increase the number of observers on the ground and provide them with u.n. training could be a life saving but for now those plans have been pissed on hold in fact much of the substance of the report that they graded pieces on both sides have been lost in the . france and britain have joined forces that nation's. best interests. waving good bye to their gulf state colleagues some observers remain but it's small consolation syria didn't close the doors in front of the arab league i think. it's diplomacy would give anyone to help but the last decision in the hands of the syrian people not in the hands of the screwed council so a national dialogue through these reforms spite of the mission to be extended for another month and the observers officially saying that they can conti

the regime's compliance with an arab league plan to end the violence in time the head of syria's red crescent shot dead and here on wednesday the un now estimating that more than five thousand people have been killed in the country in the past ten months. at least twenty three of died in a tribal region near the pakistani afghan border when soldiers clashed with militants the fischel say six of the dead were pakistani troops who were attacked by taliban fighters during a search operation pakistan's been battling against groups linked either to the taliban or al qaeda in the area for several years now. racial raids pool widespread chaos to southeastern australia several local rivers have broken the banks causing landslips and flash floods over four thousand residents been ordered to leave their homes in the state of new south wales alone with more heavy downpours and strong winds forecast for the area the stray was also hit by devastating floods last year you may recall that time it killed thirty five people. one of russia's richest men wants to be the country's next president we talk to him s

daily death toll in the country continually rising the killing of the head of the syrian arab red crescent was on the road to damascus yet another remind of the spiraling situation toll of the observers at such a crucial mavin to the country's crisis is seen as controversial as the death toll rises the earlier proposal being floated to increase the number of observers on the ground and provide them with un training could be a life saving but for now those plans have been pressed on hold in fact much of the substance of the report graded pieces on both sides seems to have been lost in the flurry of diplomatic activity now france and britain have joined forces at the united nations try to end president assad's rule waving good. like gulf state colleagues some observers remain but it's small consolation syria didn't close the doors in for the oblique i think. diplomacy would give anyone to help the syrian but they lost this issue in the hands of the syrian people not in the hands not arab league screwed council so a national dialogue through these reforms spike to mask the mission to be exten