abc's alex marquardt reports. >> reporter: our dependence on oil. the bane of our existence.t it. >> a big-three hybrid. we'll survive. we'll be green. this is fantastic. >> reporter: meet man with a sluice. shai agassi. >> in a sense, if you want to think about it, it's the classic batteries not included. >> reporter: he's been dubbed the electric car prophet. their vision, a world without oil. >> we came up with a solution that has the ability to charge your consider when you're parked at home and at work. so you're always coming into a full tank. and switch your battery when you're on the freeway, a longer distance than the battery. >> reporter: if your battery is dying and you have a long way to go, you come up to a switch station. the battery goes in and out. it's supposed to take as long as it would to normally fill up a gas tank. he's rolling out his electric car network in israel. a place surrounded by oil-rich, less than friendly neighbor. >> when you come in and say, i would like to end the oil era, nobody says why. they say, can you do it faster. >> reporter: bette

alex marquardt has the latest on some of the new victims, some of them children.gain a warning, this is difficult to watch. >> reporter: disturbing images of a family, with several young children, reportedly killed by syrian security forces in the city of homs. "it's a genocide," a man says in this graphic video posted online by opposition activists. abc news cannot verify its authenticity. with the situation on the ground deteriorating, the arab league is pulling out its observers there investigating the crisis for the past month investigating the crisis. president assad denied responsibility for civilian deaths in an exclusive interview with barbara walters. >> nobody kill -- no government in the world kill its people unless it's led by crazy person. >> reporter: last month, just outside damascus, we saw firsthand what protesters are up against. it may look empty on this street outside the mosque, but that's not at all the case. off to my left here are the dozens of very tough-looking security men dressed in riot gear, armed with batons and ak-47s. as the death

alex marquardt, abc news. >>> thanks to alex tonight.f course the internet and social media played a votal role for the uprisings. but today, twitter is on fire for a sweeping new policy. twitter users are boycotting the site, after twitter announced it would start sensoring messages on a country by country basis. >>> another social media giant is in the news, facebook, with a growing frenzy about the company's plans to finally go public, to sell shares. reports said the paperwork for a initial public stock offering could be filed in a couple of days. a deal if worth billions. who knew your one facebook profile could contribute to a financial windfall. here's abc's mow whom med lila tonight. >> reporter: it's the kind of success most only dream of. as a teenager, mark zuckerberg came up with the idea from his dorm room in harvard. >> these guys know people and i need their e-mails. his story now immortalized in the hollywood movie, "the social network." >> when is it going live? >> right now. get your laptop out. >> reporter: from that t

alex marquardt, abc news, cairo. >> what a fascinating year it's been since then.t, saying in reference to libya, to egypt, and also what's going on in syria last night, he said, "we will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings, men and women, christians, muslims, and jews. we will support policies that lead to strong and stable democracies and open markets because tyranny is no match for liberty." >> and in egypt, to mark the anniversary, they said that they're going to release 1,900 people who were tried in military courts after the uprising. >> a stunning year. a transformation in that part of the world for sure. we're all witnessing it. >>> when we come back, let's lighten the mood a little bit with a little hump day skinny. going to be a good one. >> demi moore. garth brooks. some good news. come not so much. stick around. "the skinny's" next. ♪ skinny ♪ so skinny ♪ skinny ♪ so skinny >>> welcome back, everybody. some scary news here a little bit. >> you know who's looking skinny, a little too thin, is demi moore, and they're saying it could be be

abc's alex marquardt frorts tel aviv. >> reporter: our dependence on oil.w we resent it. >> an electric future. electrifying hybrids. we will survive. will be green. i think this is fantastic. >> reporter:-mean meet a man with a solution. shia gossi. >> in a sense if you want to think about it, this is the classic batteries not included. >> reporter: he's been dubbed the electric car prophet. >> it has to be something that scales in mass. not how do you build one car but how do you scale this so that it can become something that is used by 99% of the population? >> reporter: for the past few years he's been on list after list of the most influential, most innovative entrepreneurs in the world. his company is better place. their product? powering electric cars. their vision? a world without oil. >> we basically came out to a solution that has the ability to both charge your car when you're parked at home and at work. so you're always coming in to a full tank. and switch your battery when you're going on the freeway, longer distance on the battery. >> reporte

abc's alex marquardt reports from cairo. >> reporter: there was not a free inch on cairo's iconic tahrirptian in cairo seemed to want to take part in the first anniversary of the revolution that took down president hosni mubarak. they were out by the tens of thousands, all across egypt, to both celebrate mubarak's downfall and angrily demanding that the widely criticized military counsel that will took mubarak's place hand over power to a civilian government. >> why did you come out today? >> i want them to hear us, to know that we're not happy, we're not satisfied with what they're doing. >> nothing much has changed. you only removed the president and his son and so on, but the rest is still the same. the system is still pro mubarak. >> reporter: it has been a historic week in egypt. on monday the new egyptian parliament was seated. the first elected through democratic elections since the '50s. the military council partially lifted a three-decades-old state of emergency that gave security forces wide-ranging repressive powers. many here says that shows egypt is heading in the right dire