after the break can shell oil have people tortured and murdered and not answer for court. you just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old and she told the truth. i'm a contestant i am a total. get a friend that i love grabbing hip hop music and. he was kind of a yesterday. i'm very proud of the world without you or his place. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. is we're in news let's assume i run a giant trans national corporation. joint oil company and let's also assume that all my corporation is exploring for oil in africa i am quite mercenary armies to torture people and murder people among the local population who are all that happy about my company being there. given that should my corporation be held liable for damages caused by this is salt and sued in court here in the united states that was the question before the united stat

the shell oil company royal dutch is there or is there overseas operating alias it's the good old shell oil and they have been accused there is a hell of a lot of evidence that they were involved in using the nigerian military to kill people torture people assassinate people that got in the way of their drilling that have proven true they would be liable under george washington's law which went after pirates and international criminals you know obviously the supreme court is trying to square the circle is trying to say well corporations are people when it comes to buying elections but they're not people they're off the hook when it comes to committing murder i mean it's too late for murder inc and i bet osama would have benefited from this law if you'd only spent twenty bucks to incorporate in delaware he'd still be watching the videotapes right literally what you're suggesting is of al qaeda had been a corporation then we could have gone after them i mean or and even if we even if the alien torah law was upheld we could have gone after him criminally we could only have gone after them

just today, shelling started at 6:30 in the morning. i counted 14 shells hitting this area within 30 seconds. i watched a little baby died today, absolutely horrific. found thatped it and the strap all had gone on to the chest and the doctors said that -- they found that shrapnel had gone into the chest and the doctors said they could not do anything.no one here can undersw the international community can let this happen. >> the french photographer remi ochlik was also killed and the syrian video journalist, rami al-sayed. their deaths were a reminder that scores were dying every day. the white house spoke of shameless brutality and syria. such words are welcome in homs but you must move quickly, begs this activist. the british photographer was injured. there are efforts to get him out with a wounded french journalist. the ferocious bombardment is making that difficult. the international committee of the red cross has called for a humanitarian cease-fire for all the victims of this conflict. the international community has often seemed

there are shell trade routes all over the southwest. shell was a primary material for making jewelry, for using in burials, and you had to walk 600 miles to get it, down to the sea of cortez, the water that's in between baja and the main land of mexico. and i tracked routes all the way down to the border over years and then across the mexican border into sonora and then it a place called penacate and then a dune, 5,000 square miles of sand dunes, a beautiful landscape, but no water out there. but pottery, broken pottery all over in certain places and pieces of shell left behind where you could see that the people were crossing these dunes to the sea and picking up shell and then crossing back and then moving it up to phoenix and then from phoenix distributing it throughout the rest of the southwest. the first trip i took out there, we hit this mountain range right at the edge of the dunes. and we were carrying, i don't know, on that trip we were maybe carrying 80 or 90 pounds of water and moving it out to the sand and then we'd drop a c

there was a shell planted in the advancing steamboat. he must have gone straight to the boiler or magazine because there was a terrific explosion in the entire vessel with her swarming human freight disappeared. the most feared confederate vessel was the css manassas which was actually the war's first ironclad to have gone into action on the lower mississippi the previous october. it was a small river steamer that had been cut down and sheathed in one inch of iron so it looked like a turtle shell. in a letter to his wife, furagate described what happened on this morning of april 24th, 1862. they saw the ram coming up. i hailed smith, commander of the big side wheeler "uss mississippi" and told him to run her down. smith turned his ship headed downstream and they ran at each other. we all look on with intense anxiety. when within 50 yards, the enemy's heart failed him and he turned to the right and ran onshore. she floated downstream on fire from her own furnaces and soon sank. as a side bar to this sinking, the lieutenant w

shelling areas of the area.civilians bearing the brunt and damaged çover a wide area. >> crucial talks in greece over the new austerity program have ended with the issue of pension cuts. the prime minister's office said discussions will continue so the deal would be completed. now to the indian ocean. the maldives being rocked by political turmoil. >> that's right. scuffles have broken out between police and supporters of the former president who was forced to step down earlier this week. it was the first democratically elected president. çthe bbc's and her north is in the maldives capital and filed this report. >> of the star of this week he was the president. he was looking pleased with himself as the rest -- arrived for his first news conference insisting he had not got it in a coup. >> do i look like someone who would bring about a could bataan? i think this is unfair -- an unfair statement. >> the man who used to be his boss. supporters of the former president are treating him as a hero. the city had been

for five days now government forces have been shelling the city. opposition activists say the assault was the heaviest bombardment so far. the latest attack came a day after president assad show the russian foreign minister he was ready for dialogue. a homs, they're experiencing different reality. we spent several days inside the besieged city. >> it began at dawn. for a fifth day, the city was under bombardment. some said it was the worst day of shelling. syrians roamed menacing. people are afraid the regime is intending a final push to crush the uprising. the casualties are mounting. but undoubtedly, most are civilians. they have put their hopes in a u.n. resolution but has been vetoed by russia and china. they are bitter about that. >> they got in his house. is that wha tht the un has waited for, until they kill the children and the woman? >> homs is shattered and terrified after punishing days of this. hundreds of shells and mortar bombs have been fired at this place. amid the grief and the panic the one thing you hear over and over again from

rocket shelling stopped about 30 minutes ago. there is a bbc.[unintelligible] they are using tanks and machine guns for the attacks. it is very hard. they are bombing houses. we have so many people wounded and so many martyrs, but we cannot get the correct number because there are machine guns everywhere. >> what have you seen yourself? have you seen people injured? >> this morning there was a rocket bombing. we pulled some injured people from the street. we saved one person, but not the others. most of the buildings are shaking from the rocket bombings and rocket shelling. it is a dangerous situation. we don't know [unintelligible] it is the obligation of every human being on earth and every government. homs is being destroyed completely. what are they waiting for? >> that was one resident in the stricken city. we have been getting pictures from the syrian state tv. [no audio] sergei lavrov, the russian foreign minister has arrived in damascus in the last hour. his convoy has been seen driving through the city. people have been coming out onto

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more than 200 people have been killed in shelling in homs. the other day of street violence in egypt. at least 1200 are killed -- at least four people are killed, 1200 are injured. welcome to bbc news broadcasting to our viewers and america and around the globe. coming up a little later for you, hackers and there is law enforcement agencies in the u.s. and u.k. after intercepting a conversation between two on tackling cyber crime parent of european cold snap has claimed many lives. the victims are homeless people in the street. -- hackers in paris law enforcement agencies in the u.s. and u.k. after intersection a conversation between the two on tackling cyber crime. a european cold snap has claimed many lives. the victims are homeless people in the street. syrian activists say 200 people have been killed in the syrian city of homs. the syrian observatory for human rights said that mortar fire and hit one district. diplomats say that the u.n. security council is expected to vote on saturday on a resolution aimed at hoping to end the crisis. i

sometimes they're not using heavy shells. sometimes they're using air mortars causing the biggest casualties. it's not clear what they are aiming at. >> the free the free army is not very strong. there are civilians bearing the brunt of this. people fear a ground invasion. that does not seem to be happening at the moment, but the ground forces are very close by. there were tanks intraday 800 meters away. and 400 meters away at another point. not moving forward, but using heavy machine guns to pour fire into those areas. we heard that several hours during the day yesterday. >> what the military might be planning to do day-by-day is anyone's guess. so you think that the snipers in the center of the city are having any impact in terms of keeping the military at bay? >> it is pretty futile. we heard a lot of fire when the attack started. there was a gesture of defiance. then the leader of the free army told them to preserve their ammunition. yesterday i spoke with a full colonel who defected a week ago who says their strategy is

shelling started at 6:30 in the morning. i counted 14 shells hitting a civilian area within 30 minutes. i watched a little baby died today, i'm absolutely horrific. a 2-year-old died. the shrapnel had gone into the left chest. the doctor could not do anything. this is happening over and over. no one here can understand how the international community can let this happen. >> the french photographer remi ochlik also died and the syrian cameraman and blogger. president sarkozy of france showed that the syrian regime should go. this is a terrible reminder of the suffering of the syrian people as a whole. the bombardment is relentless. the international committee of the red cross has called for a humanitarian cease-fire. there is growing international support for this demand. there are two fighters in homs, they have only kalashnikov spinto western powers say they will not arm the rebels though that may change. syria's border with lebanon, at a few refugees have made it out. many more can be expected as the violence escalates. th

there are rockets shell, tent shells, and aircraft being fired in a parallel line into this city.rving civilians. >> it's tough to be listening to her voice from just last night. arwa damon is joining us now live from beirut. did you know her? >> yeah, actually our paths had briefly crossed inside homs. we had left syria and she was going to be staying there because that is just how passionately she believed in the need to tell the story. she was someone who was fully aware of the risks involved. this is amongst the most seasoned journalists of our generation. and she had been to just about every single war zone you could imagine. she lost her eye to shrapnel in s sri lanka. that didn't stop her. marie was the kind of person who would tend to go where nowhere else would two. she was someone we all looked up to. we admired her bravery. we admired her ability to report with such compassion and would really shine that critical spotlight on human suffering around the world. in many ways she seemed to be entirely unstoppable. she was always so calm in these types of situations. really

the from the live extremely rare getting from there, it would shell after shell, -- the life stream -- the live stream we were getting from there, it was show after show. the events of the day, to put it in some context, let's look at this report. >> but armond went on relentlessly. hundreds of shells and rockets slammed into baba amr, which has been under siege for more than two weeks. several hundred rebels fighters from the free syrian army are entrenched here. many civilians are also trapped. some of them are paying the price. at the improvised field hospitals, doctors are struggling to save the lives of the wounded, including this baby hit by shrapnel from an exploding rockets. activists said some buildings were reduced to rubble by the intensity of the shelling. tanks and armored vehicles were on the move in the district immediately adjacent to baba amr, but it's not clear if it was the big ground offensive the government has been threatening. human rights groups say such an attack would result in mass care. the have called on the world to intervene. the international red cross

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shelling started at 6:30 in the morning. i counted 14 shells hitting civilian areas within 30 seconds. there is a small clinic. you cannot really call it a clinic -- it is an apartment. a baby died today. absolutely terrific. they stripped him and found shrapnel had gone into his left chest. the doctor said they could not do anything. they left him until he died. that is happening over and over and over. no one here can understand how the international community can let this happen. >> the french cryptographer -- photographer, remi ochlik, was also killed. their death were a reminder of the british foreign secretary that scores were dying yesterday. the white house spoke of shameless brutality in syria. such words are welcome in homs, but you must move quickly begs this activist. the british photographer, paul conroy, was injured. efforts to get him out with the wounded a french journalist. the ferocious bombardment is making that difficult. the international committee of the red cross has called for a humanitarian cease-fir

for five days, security forces and surry have shelled the city of -- security forces have shelled the city of homs. this is a day after president assad assured the russian foreign minister that he was ready for dialogue. the people of homs are facing a different reality. our reporter spent several days of side of the besieged city and he sent us this report. >> it began at dawn and for a fifth day, homs was under bombardment. some say it was the worst day of shelling. syrian armor roamed menacingly. people here are afraid that this is a final push to crush the uprising. the casualties are mounting, undoubtedly most are civilians. they had put their hopes in a u.n. resolution but it was vetoed by russia and china. they are bitter, without a doubt. >> he was only about two years old. is this what the u.n. is waiting for? is this what the u.n. is quitting for, for more children to be dead? -- is this what the u.n. is waiting for. >> homs is terrified after many days of this. hundreds of mortar shells have been fired tear -- fired here. the one thing you hear from people is that they feel

and rockets. >> and the shellings continue? course. shelling never stops since friday. >> we saw -- i saw video yesterday on the bbc of people being buried at night. is that the only time you can bury people? >> well, it's the only time we can bury people if we got lucky and the shelling like got a little bit less for some time. and sometimes we can't bury. we can't bury bodies. we just collect them in apartments and we wait till getting some chance to bury them. sometimes we bury them inside houses. in house gardens. >> there are reports as many as 131 people including children were killed today by the regime. what do you want the assad regime to know? >> we just want the assad regime to know that this criminality will not solve the problem. this criminality that he is doing, it takes the country in to hell. he's killing entire cities. he's trying to banish these cities and to destroy it into the ground. i mean, we don't know why we're civilians here. we're civilians here. he's not also killing the people and shelling with all

they've been bombarding with mortar bombs and tank shells. we can't get medication in there and food in there, and can't get them in. they're shooting at us. i wanted to go in there to help them. they were shooting at me. >> how random is this mortar fire. are you saying they're indiscriminately firing mortars into neighborhoods? >> in the cities, in the cities, in the narrow civilian streets, on rooftops. i went on a rooftop to get civilians. the street is right next to me. like 400 meters, right over there. i picked up four civilians and brought them in a house. a mortar bomb came on the rooftop of a civilian house. >> we hear in the background, is that coming from the mosque. what are they saying in the mosque? they're asking help from god, from people. they're asking for blood, o-negative, a-positive. we have so many casualties. over 500 casualties. they might not live. we don't know if they're going to live or no. we need blood. no one is helping us. the u.n. isn't doing anything about it. there's a discussion, and people are sitting her

the shelling continued, simply too dangerous.the international committee for the red cross representative in damascus earlier, he said negotiations were still ongoing, this is like an hour-and-a-half ago, he still had hope of getting in baba amr today and getting out more people. you can see behind me it's dark. i think the chances of them getting in are fairly slim. they haven't given up hope but they will try again tomorrow. deb? >>> michael holmes for us there, thanks so much. we'll touch base with you later on, thanks a million. >>> rick santorum and mitt romney, running neck and neck in the polls. so what does next week's primaries in michigan and arizona have in store for them? i spoke to cnn contributor maria cardona and lenny mcalester. >> it didn't seem he was prepared to receive the attacks to be the big target, going in this as the front-runner, nationally, he should have understood that he was going to be the one that was receiving all these attacks from all sides and should have been ready with a lot more pivot. seem

i can see the smoke in the sky and i can hear heavy shelling. they are using many rockets into shall the neighborhood -- to shell the neighborhood. a lot of the buildings have become a pile of stones. up until now, we know that they are more than 16 and more than 80 injuries. >> can you give us an idea of how many of the government troops and tanks are there? what weapons are they using? >> bashar al-assad is using every possible gun against his own people. we are surrounded with more than 10,000 soldiers, more than 80 tanks. most of the tanks are heavy, like russian tanks and anti- aircraft tanks. he is using rocket launchers and missiles altered -- artillery. everything. every possible gun he has. >> you have left the city. can you give me an idea as to how many people are in the city, how many people have escaped? >> a small number of the people could escape. they have left the area because there is no trip where i am now. it is possible -- impossible for anyone with a family to leave. i left alone on my own. we are still connected with each

hundreds of shells and mortars have been fired at populated areas. our correspondent, paul woods, and our cameraman have entered homs, from where they filed this report. warning -- it contains some distressing images. >> in daybreak in homs -- >> daybreak in homs, the artillery fire was just beginning. in this part of the city, it is the worst they have endured. god is great, he shouts in defiance. the shelling is constant now. we're hearing impact every few seconds. in reply, you can also your little bit of -- also hear a little bit of fire. it's a pretty futile gesture. eyewitnesses say a field clinic was hit. they filmed the injured being moved. [shouting in foreign language] over several days of this, most of the casualties have been civilians. the houses do not have basements. there is nowhere to hide. "where is the arab league," she shouts. this woman's son is badly wounded. "give us guns," she screams. "we cannot defend ourselves." even in the midst of all this, most hide their faces. they say there is no telling what the regime will do. >> we

his house was hit by a shell. he -- another member of his family -- it's chaos here. another member of his family arrived later but after he had died. and said the,000 had been -- the second floor had been hit. this little boy obviously was one piece of shrapnel that caught him right in the chest. >> there are some who will see those images and say we shouldn't show those images, that it's too much. we discuss this all the time. why is it important, do you think, to see these images? why is it important for you to be there? you may be one of the only western journalists in homs. our team has just left. >> yes. i had a discussion with your people, anderson. i feel very strongly they should be shown. something like that, i think, is actually stronger for an audien audience -- for someone who is not here, for an audience for which the conflict, any conflict is very far away. that's the reality. these are 28,000 civilians, men, women and children, hiding, being shelled defenseless. that little baby was one of two children who died today, one of children being injured ever

shell is weaker. that's dragging oil and gas down. here is the key thing as well. auctions not only from france but spain today so we'll keep our eyes on ten-year government bond auctions. they have three, four, and five year maturities they're selling. we saw another tick-up in spanish unemployment, the economy looking very, very weak. the good thing here, christine, is we're not going to talk about eurozone debt crisis until 20 minutes into the show. wow. >>> yeah, well, i don't know whether we can promise the same thing tomorrow, though. we'll have to see. today here in asia it's a good picture. take a look at the bourses. all green. optimism about the global economy. a couple of things, we had strong erdos pmi coming out of the eurozone as well as from asia so that seems to be fueling markets here. also a better economic across the region. the shanghai composite late surge up 2%. we had the financials leading the rally because of a report that a dividend payout will be cut easing the capital constraints. that pushed shares of chinese financials listed in hong k

president bashar assad's forces continue their shelling. there's word that russia will offer a new proposal for increased humanitarian aid there. >>> in washington state, three skiers died in a roaring avalanche on sunday. the risk is growing. the danger is fierce. clayton sandell takes us inside the maelstrom and tells us how it's possible the survive. >> reporter: this winter, 17 people have been killed by avalanches nationwide they're powerful. a large slide like this one could carry enough snow to cover 20 football fields ten feet high. this shows what it's like to be caught up in one. a snow boarder in new zealand. riding one second. the next, he's overcome. this camera capturing what he saw and heard inside as the light faded. lucki luckily, he survived. >> you okay? >> reporter: experienced ski patrol member chris describes the ride. >> it's like being stuck in a watch mag sheen full of rocks. you get tumbled around. you can't see anything. >> reporter: one of the survivors of yesterday's avalanche credits an emergency air bag with s

these are human beings being bombed by mortar bombs, tank shells. and no one's doing anything about it. we're going to sit here and get killed. there is one message i would like to get out. we are not going to stop. the syrian people won't stop if they kill millions. we'll remember no one did anything. >> why have they launched this bombardment now? >> because the part of a syrian army was on a barricade. part of the barricade defected. i think it was 50 to 60 soldiers. i don't know what they had with them. they defected and ran away to an area in homs. the civilians went down to welcome the free syrian army to thank them for their bravery because the syrian army. when the army found out it started randomly bombarding with tank shells, mortar bombs. it's like they're killing animals. these are human beings. they have been stabbing kids, stabbing women, raping women. no one's doing anything. this isn't a game here. this is a reality. this is going on. all these pictures on youtube of women being raped, people being burned, it's real. this is not a ga

they've been bombarding with mortar bombs and tank shells. we can't get medication in there and food in there, and can't get them in. they're shooting at us. i wanted to go in there to help them. they were shooting at me. >> how random is this mortar fire. are you saying they're indiscriminately firing mortars into neighborhoods? >> in the cities, in the cities, in the narrow civilian streets, on rooftops. i went on a rooftop to get civilians. the street is right next to me. like 400 meters, right over there. i picked up four civilians and brought them in a house. a mortar bomb came on the rooftop of a civilian house. >> we hear in the background, is that coming from the mosque. what are they saying in the mosque? they're asking help from god, from people. they're asking for blood, o-negative, a-positive. we have so many casualties. over 500 casualties. they might not live. we don't know if they're going to live or no. we need blood. no one is helping us. the u.n. isn't doing anything about it. there's a discussion, and people are sitting her