we lost three activists. the group returning lost six activists. >> this began with the death of the veteran war correspondent in homs. her body remains there. another man's girlfriend pleaded for his body to be returned home. >> a loss of your boyfriend is terrible, but the waiting is insufferable. to say goodbye, you need a body, and we are not able to grieve. i have promised everybody i will not leave him there. >> many others died today, as every day. efforts by the red crescent and the red cross to get a temporary cease-fire have so far failed. many opposition activists to risk their lives. some even gave their lives to help the journalists. they say they did it in the hope the outside world would take action to help the many thousands of civilians who remained behind and under bombardment. >> some breaking news coming to us on the republican presidential race. mitt romney has won the arizona republican presidential primary. there are two taking place in the united states today. his rivals spent little t

activists say more intuitive people have been killed. after the biggest week, the u.s., -- army says bradley manning will face a court- martial. many victims have been homeless people living on the streets. welcome to bbc news. coming up a little later, law enforcement agencies to intercept a compensation concerning cyber crime. syrian activist say at least two other people have been killed or in the city of homs. homs has seen some of the worst violence. mortar fire hit a district. diplomats in new york say the united nations security council is expected to vote saturday on a resolution aimed at helping to end the crisis. we spoke to an anti-government activist who told me what he could see. >> security forces are outside this area. they are shooting. >> are they shooting into a residential area? are they shooting into a residential neighborhood? why are they doing that? is there somebody in there they are trying to target? >> no. we do not know the reason why. quite has anything happened on friday that has brought the security forces t

host and now activists. have already asked or the head of a charity fund and blogger at the also known as dr lisa. or other school math cordoning are of the blue buckets movement fighting for equal rights on roads for everyone is our league is an opportunity to gather people who are not indifferent to what's happening the more people with a civil position there are the better the league's main goal is to ensure fair elections is published a list of initiatives on the web divided into groups that everyone can be a part of public discussions and online votes are the key in strong. it's letters have been sent to all presidential candidates asking them to cooperate with the league and even though the project is less than a month old everyone has so far agreed including pledging middleton another candidate businessman mikhail prokhorov has already struck a deal with the leak to go and willing to authorize one hundred fifty thousand league observers would also arrange to put together a unified database to keep tra

, and diane alexian's activists. today, we recognized and honored a woman working for the collaborative that i have been working with a long time. the very first program manager many years ago, i was at a low point and he encouraged by activism. he suggested that some day i'd participate in the reform of what was being called instant run off voting. i was just speaking generally about elections, there is no perfect election system. if you think about it, the thing to focus on, the decision making is the ultimate pain. turnout is one component of that. right now, and the republican party, we have a lot of people complaining that republicans are doing things actively designed to suppress the vote. i don't see how democrats can complain about voter suppression when the democratic party isn't even have aing a primary for the democratic candidate. primaries don't weaken candidates, they make them stronger. >> members of the board of supervisors, member of san francisco open government. i was very tempted not to come here,

human rights activists report more than 150 people were killed across syria in the past two days. government forces have pounded residential areas of homs. one activist told nhk that stocks of medicines and medical supplies have run out, and doctors are unable to treat the seriously wounded. >> the activist said that many of the victims are women and children. >> six gulf arab nations are withdrawing their ambassadors from syria and expelling syrian envoys. they said it is necessary to prevent bloodshed of the syrian people. saudi arabia, united arab i am rats and four others have decided to withdraw. they're also demanding that syrian envoy leave immediately. the gulf countries joined six european nations, including britain, france and italy to recall their ambassadors for consultations. the united states has closed its embassy in damascus. russian foreign minister sergei lavrof is in syria for a meeting with the president. he's believed to have called on assad to hold a dialogue with antigovernment protesters. they arrived in damascus on tuesday. a crowd of people waving russian

some against the regime and all the mind the round up of activists has also noted the son of you asked mr taishi secretary ray la hood for the fueling tension between cairo in washington. isn't simply because. of them in a sort of plans for. i don't think that. i think. so this is america whose military aid to egypt reaches one point three billion dollars annually has been very serious there has been weeks to condemn this car when in the days of mind tanks are over or they condemned mubarak tons of times but at the end of the day be continued on flowing that the provide the support also continue flowing. or in washington's so-called support for democracy getting the middle east washington wants to step in always the situation as much as possible in order to guarantee its interests they don't care about democracy meanwhile even those on the streets protesting against car share the council's concerns about the engineers motives the usa has had a hand in tips policy making for years but the whole n.t. and your campaign has become the first serious disagreement between america and the coun

so it's a huge question what kind of influence saleh is going to have many of the special youth activists in the square i've actually heard this from numerous of the activists and they are saying it's a situation quite like russia actually where you have. putin basically still influence even though he after you know he stepped down from power and he still remained quite influential in prayer and you know he's been minister of russia and he has an enormous amount of power and as much power as the president wants to give him i don't think it's a very good analogy but maybe we can come back and talk about that when he was reelected in a week's time stephen if i could go back to you it's quite interesting here is that you know. he comes back it's very interesting he's really called the shots here hasn't he i mean with the gulf cooperation council he's pretty much negotiated his semi exit ok and he's going to be possibly be negotiating a semi return behind the scenes i don't think vladimir putin analogy is good i think paying is probably a lot closer to the mark yes i think the irony is you ha

in the square you also have a quasi independent youth activists who are who are the ones who actually spearhead the revolution but the ones who are politically aligned are much bigger than the ones and then independent ones and there's a great deal of frustration in the square they do feel let down not only by the international community the u.s. as well as the traditional political opposition but at the same time the demonstrations happened getting smaller the political parties who are who are now share power in the government are not allowing their youth activists to enter the demonstrations and so you have seen a significant decline in the size which which which brings down the pressure a bit for change in yemen you know you steven i mean let's go back to this you know this lack of musical chairs because i mean one person has left the table at least officially i mean even with his relative silence relatives right there i mean how do you get how is the new president going to move them or move them around or unite them is he can he unite them i mean as you pointed out in the very sta

according to that's what according to activists saying that the syrian military has basically. bombed some parts of the city government house completely refuted any type of involvement that they have actually. in the city of course they blame it on the terrorist groups that have been taking active role in the city they are spread all over the place there and causing many casualties the government also has issued many statements today that the security forces were able to kill tens of terrorists that belong to these terrorist groups that they also believe that are being backed by foreign foreign influence on the ground russia's prime minister vladimir putin has cautioned against outside forceful intervention in the syrian conflict and has warned that there is a risk of behaving like a bull in a china shop moscow also calls on world powers to use their political clout to put pressure on both the syrian government and the opposition to lay down their arms and if you engage in talks or. more. in light of the ongoing to put a grand about the situation in syria russian prime minister

we lost three activists. a group returning lost six activists. >> this began with the deaf of a veteran war correspondent in -- teh death of a correspondent in homs, >> the loss of your boy friend is terrible, but the waiting is insufferable. i think all religions recognize that to say goodbye you need a body. we are not able to grieve. i have promised everyone, his friends and family, that i will not leave him there. >> many others died today, as they do every day. evidenced by the red cross to get a temporary ceasefire appealing. many activists are risking their lives, some even giving their lives to help these journalists trapped in homs. those involved say they did it in the hope that the world will take action to help the many thousands of civilians who remain behind and under bombardment. bbc news, beirut. >> the british ambassador to lebanon say paul conroy'experiences is chilling. for more on the continuing assault on the city, i spoke to paul recent.y >> the u.n. says it's looking increasingly like c

also, opposition activists say it's coming under considerable attack. they said something like 20 people were killed in the course of attacks on tuesday. let's speak now to the bbc's jim muir, who joins us from beirut in neighboring lebanon. can you give us any more, jim, as to what is being said about the referendum at this stage? >> well, a lot of the articles coming out about the constitution, which is quite complicated, bit how you can actually hold a referendum in the current circumstances remains to be seen. the country is in a fair degree of turmoil. there are hostilities reports from practically all parts of the country, from the north you can from the middle, from around damascus to the south. i mean, it's really quite hard to see how such a complicated operation as a credible referendum could be organized at such short notice, in such difficult circumstances, symbolized by that huge hall of smoke hanging over homs, or pumping up into the sky over homs, hours and hours after that pipeline was hit by either the government side or rebels, dependi

on the first anniversary of the ousting of former president hosni mubarak egypt activists who call for a general strike to ramp up the pressure against the ruling military council they want the council to step down immediately saying they are blocking reforms the military said it won't accept any ultimatum and will transfer power in june when the presidential elections show july that many people fear they will remain in power beyond this date based journalist bill truces egyptians have every right not to trust the military. people are unsure about whether they'll actually transfer. and so far the military really minute you count so has yet to fulfill any of its promises that said since it came into power also just generally on the streets we're seeing massive human rights violations towards protesters people expressing their freedom of speech and we're seeing excessive use of tear gas and cartouche they call it here which is birdshot and maiming protesters has been absolutely no reform of the police was fired by the. disaster a few weeks ago which saw over seventy four people die so es

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according to that's what according to activists say that the syrian military has basically. some parts of the city the government has completely refuted any type of involvement that they have actually. shelled on its own people in the city of the most they blame it on the terrorist groups that have been taking active role in the city they are spread all over the place there and causing many casualties the government also has issued a statement today that the security forces were able to kill tens of terrorists that belong to these terrorist groups that they also believe that are being backed by foreign foreign influence on the ground well powell should use the clout to put pressure on both the syrian government and the opposition to lay down their being gauge and talks rushers foreign ministers such efforts a needed to help solve the country's crisis so to go after him was commenting on his recent trip to damascus and to use a really good. right on the heels of the recent visit of the russians allegation to syria president bashar last that has said that he is willing to go t

activists say that it was hit by government shellfire. state tv said it was sabotage si by terrorists. security forces have tried to root out armed rebels. it's not only the central cities that are affected. the government admitted five soldiers killed in clashes in this town in aleppo province in the north. many similar incidents reported from all parts of the country almost. president assad has ordered a popular referendum on the new draft constitution that was finished on sunday. it puts an end to the monopoly of the ruling party and will allow any president to be reelected only once. but the syrian opposition and its outside supporters are not likely to be convinced. regards his reform process, strongly backed by russia, as cosmetic and the radical. they are calling on him to go. >> we strongly disagree with china and russia's veto a resolution against the violence being perpetrated by the regime. >> humanitarian conditions worsening all the time, the french are also trying to get agreement past the u.n., but no outside countries are

the occupy oakland activists believe they were unlawful arrests. were throwing things at officers and the activists broke into city hall and vandalized it, including the burning of an american flag. protesters say police have been harsh. they have big plans for today to make a statement against the police. after last saturday's protest, the mayor indicated that the city isn't going to put up with the behavior any more. >> the arrested protesters received support from their fellow activists when they walked out of jail. some of those arrested will be speaking at today's noon rally they will be in the courtrooms for the morning sessions and the afternoon sessions. at lunchtime you will see them rallying and having speakers in front of city hall. then they land to march back from city hall -- then they plan to march from city hall back to the courtroom. >>> san jose police investigating that city's third homicide of the year. police were called 10:15 last night they found a 21-year-old suffering from gunshot wounds taken to a hospital where he died. n

activists how we would claim they are the victims of scarves reluctance to give up power with dreaming the people about with their brights with a scarf looking for enjoy. some agent against the regime and all the mind the round up of activists has also netted a son of u.s. transportation secretary ray la hood further fueling tension between cairo in washington. isn't simply because. of them in a sort of plans for. i don't think that. the thing that so this is america has a military aid to egypt reaches one point three billion dollars annually has been very serious there has been a week to condemns car one in the days of blank checks are over or the condemned. the end of that the continued on flowing that the provide the support also continue flowing we. all know washington's so-called support for democracy get in the middle east washington wants to step in law is the situation as much as possible in order to get in to its interests they don't care about democracy meanwhile even those on the streets protesting against car share the council's concerns about the motives the usa has had a

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of this is specious led to prosecutors raiding seventeen offices of advocacy groups forty three activists including americans germans and egyptians are now facing trial for illegally using foreign funds to promote and run in the post mubarak country activists however claim they are the victim of scarves reluctance to give up power with dreaming the people about with their brights but the scaf looking for enjoy. some agent against the regime and all the mind the round up of activists has also not had a son of u.s. transportation secretary ray la hood further fueling tension between cairo in washington. isn't simply because. of them in a sort of plans for. i don't think that. anything at all so this is a game and there it was military aid to egypt reaches one point three billion dollars annually has been very serious there has been weeks to condemn this car when in the days of blank checks are over or they condemned mubarak tons of times but at the end of the day the continued on flowing that the provide the support also continue flowing we don't order washington's so-called support for dem

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a nearby male activists met the officer's eyes as if to say, i'm sorry.as she'd call me walked him out in the street the two chatted. she about her usual beat in upper manhattan and he about the call from brooklyn. meanwhile as scores of officers pressed the restless crowd to muddled announcement announced if you don't leave the streets you will be arrested. which gave way to the chant all day, all we could occupy wall street perkovich and start out slowly almost have time to quicken as the nypd swept the streets for gall to rations arose pushing everyone out of the streets and onto the sidewalk outside of trinity church or. 's a swarm of officers overpowered them and others held bottles and larger up shrum and far. one young man leapt onto police cruiser and threw himself onto a crowd of police. cries rang out, fascist, who are you protect them? and shane. other protesters called the police to join them. they are stealing your pensions too some shouted but within a matter of minutes police had reclaim broadway. industry was cleared and those who defy the

a nearby male activists that the blonde officers that is to say i'm sorry. i should call my walk tonight at the street the two chatted to achieve better usual deeds in manhattan mini about the eviction call from brooklyn. meanwhile, as scores of officers pressed the reckless cloud, and muddled enough and caution if you don't get this straight, you will be arrested. several protesters hummed the imperial march. which gave way to the chance of holiday, all week, occupy wall street. the chance started out slowly, almost pastime, but weakened as the n.y.p.d. sophistry. altercations arose, pushing everyone out of the street and onto the sidewalk outside trinity churchyard you some protesters pushed back into a sort of officers overpowered them. others hurled bottles and larger objects from afar. one young man onto a police cruiser and threw himself onto the crowded police and cries rang out fascists, here you protect demand chain. other protesters called the police to join them. they are stealing your pensions