right now, they're holding on to damascus, parts of aleppo. in the meantime, countries like qatar and saudi arabia are sending weapons to everybody, there's no accounting for them. there is surface to air missiles going in there as well. we have seen them being used the last couple days. now that six bases have fallen, i think we will see some sort of very, very unpleasant end to this conflict, which in the coming months, will spread in various parts of the middle east from lebanon to iraq to jordan and even turkey. >> that's a pretty gloomy assessment. fran, there are reports the u.s. is doing this with an eye toward gaining or shall we say regaining some credibility with the opposition forces. you say that's just not going to happen. why? >> well, look, they have been fighting on their own and they have been asking for these weapons. they have been asking for more support from the u.s. and the administration, and they haven't gotten it. they have seen civilians killed in massive numbers while the west stood by. yes, we had a presidential ele

aleppo, sia' lge cy,s going up in smoke. for centuries a commercial hub and today a world heritage site, now the aie seets are beg nad. this one is calle sniper's alley. those who are not fast enough are killed. the city's hospitals are overwhelmed. wounded people are brought in every minute. so of the iured are rebel fighters. most, though, are civilians. there's no better place than the hospital to see whos bearing the brunt othe suffering in this war -- civilians and children. even the hospital is not safe. it has been bombed five times. >> much of our population is wounded byomngbyheing. >>n a city where bullets and bombs rain down relentlessly, there's nowhere left to take shelter. this man takes us to his neighborhood and shows us places struck by missiles. he says the missiles were fired just as people were leaving the sq. >> there were no ambulances. just one pickup truck. first of a, p the dead and injured onto the truck. there were 12 dead and 20 injured. >> the cemetery locat on the outskirts of aleppo. the dead a

this is president bashar assad's forces shelled the city of aleppo.past 24 hours, two syrian aircraft shut down by rebels a helicopter and a jet. back with the panel. charles? >> the reason the administration is now going to change the policy, has to because the ground is shifting in the war. up until now the rebels taken lan but couldn't hold it the ground now is turkey and aleppo. every time they go to damascus and seized for example military bases, they are only able to hold it for a day or two because of air power. what just happened is that there is a huge strategic shift. the rebels now have shoulder-held missiles that can bring down a helicopter. and a plane. when that happened in the afghan war against the soviets, the soviets lost. that was a great strategic change. once the russians lost control of the air, the war was essentially over. that is happening right now. because of that, i think the feeling is what has bob a back and forth, tailmate, looks as if the advantage for rebels there is no reason it should not. result is fault of regime.

we have thousands of displaced people who came from aleppo. we don't anything. so i think that our ability to withstand that is very, very very small. >> warner: yet so far it doesn't paid to bet against the resilience of the syrian people. an act i.v.f.s like these two say they'll continue aiding the resistance from outside. >> i want to reach out to the elements that they don't have blood on their hands. we want to make sure that they are on the right side of history. there are some good people in the regime that they want to cooperate. they want to work with us. we're going to reach out to these people. >> warner: together they hope all will be welcome in the new syria they want to build. >> woodruff: in her next >> woodruff: in her next report, margaret looks at the more than one hundred thousand syrian refugees who have fled to turkey. >> brown: next, to the southeast asian country of myanmar, where president obama's visit today made some history. ray suarez has our story. >> suarez: by the tens of thousands cheering people packed the streets of myanmar's c

reportedly showing shelling in aleppo uploaded earlier today. in the past, the syrian government cut off access in an operation. but this is unprecedented. the military jet and two helicopters were shot down by rebels. now, takeovers at military bases given them a new arsenal of heavy weaponry. in this attack, they used rockets and as cnn's arwa damon reports, the rebels claiming this as a major victory. >> reporter: children on the back of a tractor made off with a sizable tangled lump of metal. what was all too often the cause of nightmares now a trophy of war. proudly shown off by this man. we want to take these pieces to show them to the other villages, he says. let them see what happened to these planes. everyone we speak to here describes the fear they felt any time they heard a jet overhead. for them, this is the greatest victory. one man who we spoke to said he was picking olives, saw the plane being hit and the two pilots ejecting. he says at that point everyone fanned out looking for them. he and others are telling us that one pilot wa

most of them there in aleppo.hear the road that is leading to damascus international airport is now shut down because there is fighting in that area as well. we've got another major development this week. rebel fighters who claim they have shot down three syrian military aircraft in a 24 hour period, much more on that, including the close-up footage of the wreckage. in just a minute. first, on the phone from northern syria, cnn's arwa damon. arwa, you have been inside, and we understand a lot of the communications is now down across syria. what do we know? >> reporter: can i tell you right now the area i'm in at the very least there is no cell phone reception or no power. people are telling us that this has been the case for quite some time now, and this particular area, in fact, they say that the internet has been shut down for three to four months. we're hearing reports of various internet blackouts taking place throughout the entire country. op sfwligs active i says saying this is a tactic that the assad regime

that is not including the city of aleppo itself.o the city of aleppo, they're telling us that the regime does not control 65% of it. and that most certainly shows just how many gains they've been able to make given that they are effectively battling this out on their own with no significant international financial or military support. and so they are able to continuously take the fight to the regime's forces. but it continues to be an incredibly difficult and incredibly deadly not just for them but for the residents as well because even in these neighborhoods that the regime no longer controls in the sense that there are no regime forces in them, there are certain lines that people need to learn not to cross because snipers based in other neighborhoods can target them. and then of course there's that constant threat coming from the air as well. >> right. the regime controls the air. >> reporter: most certainly it does. and we've seen the devastation caused by these air strikes by the helicopters over and over again. that being said,

formation of syria's new opposition coalition still fails to unite the rebels as the misfires in aleppo refuse to recognize the bloc while a growing number of western states see it as representing the. all syrian people. yeah the drone dilemma we're in wales where residents are wired by tests of britain's costly man aircraft knowing the machines will assist control killing abroad that's after a short break. if you're passing through rushes to be a region you really can walk on the wild side thousands of kilometers of unspoilt countryside make up an area where it's still possible to live off the land such spectacular scenery makes it a paradise for fisherman and provides a business opportunity for hunters there are defined hunting seasons in russia but lax enforcement means many animals are killed out of the allotted times which can leave young animals orphaned and unable to survive the heart of just us forest provides a sanctuary for the most famous beast in russia it's home to a group who rescue often bear cubs and raise them when they're old enough to fend for themselves the cubs a ta

of sea where is new opposition coalition still fails to get eyes the rebels isn't this point is in aleppo seems to recognize the plot while a growing number of western states see it as representing the syrian people. on the front in that we are in whales where residents of belong to the by tests of britain's closely craft knowing the machines will assist in remote control plane abroad as a show like. texas wants to pull away from the usa in fact at least twenty states have started petitions for independence after obama won the election with well just a few voting irregularities but guess what suspicion will never happen it is a very easy thing to do decide a petition and it is another thing entirely to leave us a little civil war thing that happened back then does anyone the usa honestly think that they are gov has the ball determination to actual rebel i don't think there is a single george washington type among them well maybe just see for tour a kind of but he's out of office how do what makes it seem like revolution or succession is this fun cool easy thing to do with cool slogans a t

this is a key really in aleppo, the commercial hub of syria. i was there about two months ago, and it's really where all the injured are brought from the air strikes, bombardment by the regime of that densely populated city. and it appears that late this afternoon it was hit by an air strike. some of the images show the real devastation that blast brought, bringing down to the ground the four to five story building that stands to the left-hand side, the hospital. now, witnesses describe how the initial rebel commander appears to be adjusted down to somewhere in the region of perhaps 15 or 20. which is that confusion gives you an idea, really, of how much pandemonium on the ground, developing that whole crossroads, where that hospital is based. and people struggling to work out the casualties, because the very building the dead are normally brought to has been destroyed. >> nick, we've been focusing so much on the situation in gaza this week. i'm just curious to know, has there been any real change there inside syria? >> it's hard to say, really

calls the legitimate voice of the syrian people opting instead to build their own state in aleppo. it's been another bad day for the eurozone with france tripped over its treasured aaa credit rating for a second time this year and this time the downgrade came from moody's which condemns the blokes second biggest economy as stubborn and underexposed crisis strategist margaret bogan group says time is running out for euro zone giants to act the european union economically as it stands is an unsustainable organizations an unsustainable financial and economic. so with this downgrade actually i think is pushing france and germany and some of the bigger countries to do is recreate the european union i mean stop supporting some of the other economies such as greece forty goals being italy and you know kind of regroup and recreate european union in order for the european union generally and france this typically to restate it so the economy and the people are going to suffer there will be thinking it became shocks to their comfort to their pocketbooks to their households there will be a co

joy if they so choose but importantly they're all fourteen all is the most groups in the city of aleppo where there's been a lot of fighting who rejects the coalition wholeheartedly they say that it's a conspiratorial project and their reaction to it seems to be that they've got their desire to set up and islamist state in syria so that will worry western countries should give them pause for thought because of course it will increase fears that any arms that are eventually possibly sent to aid the opposition could end up in the wrong hands so one can only hope that that will give western countries just a little bit of course but thought smith first now from all the u.k. recognizing the syrian rebel coalition let's join reach him stop the war coalition good evening thanks for being with us. britain's foreign secretary today than william hague pledging over a million pounds towards what he calls communications support for the coalition do you think a supply of weapons is next. well as your reporter quite rightly pointed out these are meant for military use so they are part of weaponized i

>> warner: one instance-- on august 21, a government helicopter opened fire on a breadline in an aleppo suburb, killing 21. >> they attack bakeries where they know people are going to be and get at the food supply of the population. they burn houses, dwellings for civilians. >> warner: jeffrey white, a defense fellow at the washington institute for near east policy, says the syrian government is waging a deliberate "scorched earth" strategy. >> it's trying to get at f.s.a. units that are embedded inside the population. where people are, the f.s.a. tends to be. so it is trying to strike at the f.s.a., cause some attrition on them. but it's also trying to punish the people, the civilians, for supporting the f.s.a. the relationship between the f.s.a. units and the people is critical to the success of the rebellion >> warner: why don't the regime forces just go into these areas and take them and hold them? >> it basically can't do that any longer. six months ago, they could go anywhere in the country, effectively, they wanted with armor mechanized forces backed up by artillery, and simply p

the ground. >> one horrific example involves the shelling and bombing of bread lines in cities like aleppo. syrian civilians come out to line up for bread at these bakeries. it's the only wayhey have of feeding their families. and when a large group of people gathers, a bomb lands or a shell lands. it's very hard to imagine that that's random. >> warner: one instance-- on august 21, a government helicopter opened fire a breadline in an aleppo suburb, a killing 21. >> they attack bakeries where they know people are going to be and get at the food supply of the population. they burn houses, dwellings for civilians. >> warner: jeffrey white, a defense fellow at the washington institute for near east policy, says the syrian government is waging a deliberat"scorched earth" strategy. >> it's trying to get c f.s.a. units that are embedded inside the population.. where people are, the f.s.a. tends to be. so it is trying to strike at the f.s.a., cause some attrition on them. but it's also trying to punish the people, the civilians, for supporting the f.s.a. the relationship between the f.s.a. units

there wasn't much to celebrate in aleppo, syria's biggest city. surging to rescue victims under the rubble of the building demolished by a government air strike. as the opposition fighters advance slowly and relentlessly, it seems to be lashing out increasingly with air attacks, it does nothing to change the situation on the ground. and >> more than 24 hours after coming into -- the editor and now reports. >> pulling the troops and tanks back from the border, the invasion is off and the cease- fire is on. the reason, long-term, they don't feel any safer. >> we want to believe in the cease-fire, so we are pretty skeptical and scared. dr. bringing home the troops without using them warns many israelis. the government is emphasizing it won't tolerate cease-fire violations. >> i would say that they need to keep the border entirely quiet, and i won't give them a license to do after a certain level, it is nothing. >> streets that were empty are packed. they put on a victory rally, the people celebrating survival. hamas feels bolstered more strongly than

that in syria the besieged city of aleppo specifically.air strike hit a building next to one of the city's last remaining hospitals. the rebels say at least 15 people died, including a doctor and two children. syrian war planes dropped bombs across aleppo flattening buildings and killing a total of 40 people, but outside the city the rebels are gaining ground. their latest conquest is a flash point border town between syria and iraq. it is used as an army base and filled with weapons, we understand. >> happy thanksgiving. daddy loves you. daddy misses you, and he hopes you have a wonderful great turkey day. gobble, gobble from me, and have a great day. daddy loves you and will see you soon. don't speak. i'll just leave you two alone. [ male announcer ] black friday's back. savings start thursday at 8 pm. more electronics start at 10 pm. the first and only place to go this black friday. walmart. throughout our lives. one a day men's 50+ is a complete multi-vitamin designed for men's health concerns as we age. it has more of 7 antioxidants t

. >> well, wolf, on this time inside aleppo i was witnessing the hospital being attacked by a syrian jet fighter. it destroyed the hospital completely. doctors and nurses and assistants scrambling to dig out the wounded, dig out the dead. that was just last week. and prior to that i've seen fathers unconsolable holding their dead children, waiting for taxis. children that had their heads almost cut off from rocket attacks. i've seen hungry, hungry people. now the weather is changing and it's getting colder, and so i've seen -- the last eight months i' been covering this region, i've seen just systematic bombings and indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians. >> is it your sense that the regime, the syrian regime was targeting the hospital, or was it just indiscriminate bombing that accidentally hit the hospital? >> well, i personally believe that it was directly targeted. the hospital had taken three to four direct hits in the last few months, and there had been a consistent pattern of bombings just around the hospital. whether it was one block to the right or one block to the lef

. >> fighting has also been reported in aleppo and damascus. the government used warplanes to bomb our -- held parts of the city. >> history seems to be repeating itself in the congo. >> this time, it is a group of insurgents who call themselves the m23 rebel group. >> it is a conflict that looks a lot like the one we saw back in 2004 through 2009. on thursday, government troops were fighting back. >> these weapons were left behind by the thousands of congolese soldiers who fled. many of their colleagues stayed behind and joined the rebels. the extra guns have increased the group's arsenal. many locals also fled. those who decided to stay are getting on with life as best they can. >> it is very sad that the government let this town fall into the hands of the rebels, but we hope things will be back to normal soon. >> congo's president is holding talks in uganda with his rwandan counterpart and the ugandan president. the three leaders agreed there can be no negotiations with the rebels until they pull out. >> the rebels should get out of the town

the rebels attacked three army checkpoints on the main road from damascus to aleppo. five rebels also died in the clashes. >> human rights groups are reporting government attacks in and around the syrian capital wednesday. it is thought this video shows a syrian army jet bombing a rebel area not far from the city. some positive unemployment numbers coming out of the united states five days ahead of the presidential election. payroll processing company adp says the u.s. economy added 150,000 jobs in october, the biggest gain since february. >> official figures from the government are to be released tomorrow. the unemployment rate in the u.s. remains just below 8%, much higher than before the onset of the financial crisis that in 2008. those job figures pushed stocks up on both sides of the atlantic on thursday. our correspondent sent us this round up. than any better than expected situation at the job market in the u.s. is a very good sign, not only for the americans, but also for the stock markets all over the world, because it shows that the u.s. economy seems to bot

meanwhile, an unconfirmed report says rebels in aleppo in the north shot down a fighter jet and captured its pilot. egypt pose a political crisis is deepening. clashes erupted in cairo between police and protesters who have been occupying central tahrir square. >> they about to stay put until president morsi withdraws from power. >> he insists that his decree is necessary for national security and is only temporary. >> police used tear gas to try to disperse the crowds, but the morning after mass protests, many demonstrators vowed to stay put. critics feel cheated. they say the president's decrees go against the spirit of egypt's revolution. the opposition once he is well on his way to becoming an islamist autocrat, not a precedent for all egyptians as promised. >> what you did to us, mr. president -- you divided the country in half. shame on you. >> tuesday's demonstrations lasted well into the night. some 300,000 people flooded onto tahrir square, numbers not seen since the fall of hosni mubarak. the crisis has mobilized egypt's political opposition, who called on protesters to stay pu

they say the air strikes killed at least ten people near the northern city of aleppo. opposition activists say government pilots have been conducting more frequent air raids and using more powerful bombs over the last few days. the activists say the attacks have caused many civilian casualties. the u.n. and arab league envoy to syria organized the truce and now admits it failed. now he's trying to rally support. he says china can play an active role in resolving the conflict saying cease-fires should be arranged district by district and local truces could then be expanded. he said all sides should appoint representatives to come up with a roadmap to political transition. brahimi made a similar push when he met with russian officials in moscow. chinese and russian delegates have vetoed u.n. council resolutions -- u.n. security counci resolutions to impose sanctions onhe syrian governme. >>> people in afghanistan will soon be heading to the polls. the country's election commission announced it will hold elections for a new president to replace hamid karzai in april 2014.

outside the city of aleppo which rebel fighters have been trying to seize for several months gulf states have been accused of supplying the rebels with weapons throughout the conflict france has openly admitted it wants to sponsor the syrian revolution paris is one of the half a million dollars for the opposition which according to professor paul sheldon foote will lead only to more fighting in syria. riots major interest will be going to. be really cured. just didn't cure and it goes louis all the. it was two hours you're nothing they didn't really care who took over afterwards no. problem or thing the so-called syrian opposition knows that they are not united the only thing that unites they would like to remove the current government come from a group wide range of. religious viewpoints. viewpoints nick origins are. never going to succeed in syria not be able to come together and they will be in no round of fighting to determine who will dominate all the other groups another arab spring country libya is also welcoming aid from the west washington is helping the country improve its mili

also slammed the foreign based walk and you know laterally declared an islamic state in the city of aleppo the spine of these divisions the opposition coalition is getting more recognition from western countries as the sole legitimate voice of all syrians the u.k. is the latest e.u. country to give its full endorsement but peace activists john raise questions how much support the west moves has was in syria. many of the people on the ground low coordinating committees have never liked the business of western intervention they've made it a point in their statements in their press releases and the things that they've said that they don't like that they don't think they're genuine revolution can come by the bar the western assistance and certainly but ministers and so i think there are very very many people in the crowd to want represented here but the danger is as we saw in iraq and in other places only representative groups once they get the support of the west can come to dominate large numbers of people on the ground. now take a look at some other stories from around the world the u.n. se

one city that's been particularly hard hit is aleppo. as nick peyton walsh shows us, no place is safe. >> reporter: even sanctuaries in aleppo can be deadly. this hospital where the wounded flood itself hit by an air strike wednesday. the building next to it collapsed. the hospital's lobby crammed with patients from children hit by shrapnel to injured rebels caught hard. in the debris at least 15 dead, including a doctor and two nurses. jubilation as one man is found alive, but now there's a question where do you take him to? doctors have struggled for months to keep death at its doors. blood-soaked blankets when we visited in september. few medical supplies, endless hours, constant bombing, the power cut. but they persisted even when rounds hit the hospital's maternity ward. among their patients, an uneasy mix of competent and innocent born out of no other choice. there really was nowhere else to run for so many injured in aleppo, and now that is left in tatters. >> knit payton-walsh joining us now live. have they found any more survivo

and we heard the same from a military commander, colonel-- who is head of the aleppo military counsel while said, as we know, that they desperately say they need anti-aircraft weaponry to shoot down the planes that are bringing in bombs and attacking, especially civilian infrastructure to this day. >> woodruff: and so what do they say about how the west is responding to this? >> they say they feel entirely abandoned. the head of the civilian leader said to me again said you know, the west has moved in. the u.s. and the french and the british assisted other countriri when ey werere trying to overthrow dictators, why aren't they helping us. and this colonel without by the way we had to meet at a secret location, not where they said they were taking us but somewhere else because of an assassination attempt by bomb on him just a week okay, he also said he had this theory that the u.s. in particular cares pore about the security of israel, he said, than it does about the syrian people. and in fact, had a whole theory about now the world's attention is being diverted to israel and gaza, tha

missile and bursting into flames it was reportedly filmed to near a key army base outside the city of aleppo which rebel fighters have been trying to seize for several months arab gulf states have been accused of supplying the rebels with weapons sprue out the conflicts while france is openly admitted it wants to sponsor the syrian revolution paris has pledged one and a half million dollars for the opposition which according to professor paul sheldon foote will lead only to more fighting in syria. france major interest will be to continue with. the. burden of the really cured service just as they didn't here in that there's a loophole they were close to gadhafi they didn't really care who took over a few words the. problem with the syrian opposition is that they are not united the only thing you know it's. going to remove the current government coming from a very wide range of. religious viewpoints. viewport. nick origins. arab world to succeed in syria that they were not be able to come together and they would be in no real deciding to determine who will dominate all the other groups. russi