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there are conflicting reports that vice president farouq al sharaa has deflected.a rebel spokesman says al sharaa fled damascus more than a week ago but the syrian regime seems to contradict that. let's get the latest from nic robertson in abu dhabi this morning. the question is, where is the vice president? who is saying what? >> reporter: well, the government is firmly saying these are all rumors, he hasn't defect defected. spokesman of foreign ministry posted on his facebook page denials of this and we heard from the press agency saying al sharaa has been committed to helping the crisis since the beginning. now the most recent thing is he send his support -- or sports the new envoy for syria. that seems to imply he's still at his desk and working. we're not seeing pictures of him. he had the free syrian army telling us that he left damascus a week ago. he's been trying to get across the border into jordan. they lost contact with commanders on the ground so they don't know where he is. they're worried, they say, some of his family members may have been captured b

. >> where in the world is farouq al sharaa and we have no shortage of answers and we just don't knowhich is true. if he looks familiar and we've been showing you his face, he has been the face of the syrian regime since before bashar al assad was in office. when bashar al assad was studying to be an eye doctor. he's been there 40 years. he's 74 years old. would a guy like that pick up and leave and claim i have no idea what i was going on. he was a loyalist before bashar was there. he has not been seen in days and the man who was for so long the public face for the regime, and the man they sent to talk to visiting americans hasn't been seen. so people are wondering and now there are these reports from the opposition saying the reason you can't see him is the reason he isn't around is he's out of there. >> what would be the rp between he and any country, say like a jordan or turkey and places that might take him in. >> you wonder because the key thing for him is that he was viewed as potentially the man who might succeed bashar al assad because he hasn't been tied to the worst of the

a caer en agosto, debido a la inseguridad y la inflacion.y el vice presidente de siria, "farouk al-sharaaez que pondrán atención a los candidatos. >>> las convenciones antes eran el momento final, pero ahora es bastante anticlimática la cosa, porque tenemos a mitt romney y también al presidente barack obama que es el candidato desde que asumió el poder. >>> son muy aburridas las convenciones. >>>s on emocionantes la primera vez que vas y para los delegados son emocionantes, porque se crean una serie de eventos. >>> traen a sus estrellas. >>> organizan tés, para los periodistas después de años de discursos, ya no es tan emocionante. >>> no sé si sea emocionante pero lo interesante es el debate doctrinario de qué se crea y qué es lo que la gente cree que en el caso del partido republicano tenemos una plataforma bastante conservadora de la influencai del tea party. >>> una cosa es el tema del manejo de armas, otra vez el viernes hubo un tiroteo en el empire state, y los republicanos y demócratas no quieren tocar este tema, tienen pavor de tocar este tema. >>> cada vez que psa un tiroteo de e

he had left the capitolment but everybody was really looking to see whether vice president farouk al sharaa would make an appearance. he did not. he is not present in that video. the opposition has said that that vice president has, in fact, defected and is on his way out of the country. but the regime, of course, is denying that. >> jeff: i also want to ask you about the u.n. observers. they have left the country. what does that mean for peace efforts inside syria? >> well, the main role of these u.n. observers was essentially to watch over or look after the cease-fire that was one of the points of kofi annan's six point tea plan. that cease-fire was never really actually implemented. the u.n. has now appointed a new syria envoy lakhdar brahimi, a veteran u.n. diplomat. he has worked as an envoy to iraq and afghanistan. but of course it remains to be seen whether he will have any more success than his predecessor. >> jeff: clarissa ward from beirut, clarissa, thank you. in afghanistan, another nato soldier was killed today by a man in afghan police uniforms. this happened in kandahar provi

is or even if he's actually defected. >> farouk al sharaa for years was the face of the syrian regimece of the regime to the world. he represented them in the madrid palks after the rslf wa he's this ve w, w aed bit of a falling out with the government. heay want to l. let's be very clear here. leaving the syrian government, leaving bashar al assad is not the same thing as joining forces with the opposition. we're going to have to wait and see on this one. >>> meanwhile, syrian opposition groups report 183 people were kied today in civil wr violence. >>> the plane assigned to america's top military officer was hit by shrapnel from a rocket grenade in afghanistan at the bagram air field. the plane was on the tarmac. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff was on base at the time, he was not hurt, but two base personnel were slightly injured. >>> state troope erers say none the five children killed in this crash was wearing a seat belt. the victims age 2 to 13 years old were among a dozen people packed into this suv when it blew a tire and crashed on interstate 20 near canton, texas.