as the revolt of her husband raged, asma al-assad defended him. now, she is paying some price for loyalty. >> asma al-assad has become a pariah now. let's look at the state of the global economy. today, president obama nominated jim yong kim to be the next leader of the world bank. it was a surprise choice. he is currently the president start college and a global health expert but he is a topic to win the official selection process. he will have his work cut out for him in trying to cure the world's financial problems. despite times of improvement, " time" magazine has labeled the current recovery a wimpy one. i spoke earlier to the author of the article. do you think that the new pay for the world bank is the right choice? >> well, he is a surprise choice. none of us that think about these things know a lot about him in terms of being a candidate for the bank. he was not one that was discussed. there was a lot of debate about who was going to be the next president. typically, it is an insider, a white house type person. larry summers was named. he

. >> in syria, the pressure is increasing and the wife of bashar al-assad is targeted with sanctions. asma al-assad is now banned from travelling to most of the european union. since she is a u.k. citizens, she cannot be barred from entering into the uk? "she was called the rose of the desert. now, she is a pariah, banned from the eu and her assets frozen. this is the 13th round of sanctions on syria. 8 ministers and four family members will be added to the travel ban. >> i do think it is putting pressure on the regime. i never underestimate that they make a significant difference because they target individuals in ways that i present them from carrying on the business as usual. secondly, they make strong political statements. >> asma al-assad is of syrian descent but she was born and raised here in london. she is the daughter of a cardiologists. it was a far cry from her family's hometown of homs. this is what that looks like today, battered and broken with the syrian government brush. after a brief career in finance, she married bashar al-assad. she is a modern woman in a world of elderl

al-assad has been banned from visited the european union. that is part of a new sanctions which include at the freezing of assets. asma al-assad is a british citizen but she cannot be stopped from returning to the new k -- to the u.k. if she wants to. >> bashar al-assad and his glamorous wife were seen as part of the solution in the middle east. now, she has joined her husband on the sanctions list but she cannot be banned from britain as she is british. >> given that we are proposing an asset freeze on all of these individuals and a travel ban from other members of the same family and the regime, we are not expecting her to try to travel to the uk at the moment. >> the assad have relatively modest lifestyles. her shopping is quite restrained by the standards of middle eastern ruling families. she married a man who promised reform for 10 years before the uprisings began. she seems to believe that the country was changing for the better. >> we started a journey. many things have happened. many changes have happened. many positive changes have happened but we have not reached our final destination. what is important is

al assad it's time for him to go. their target, his attractive wife and her free spending ways. brian todd has been looking into the story. >> before this uprising, asmain syria and highly regarded around the world for her charity work. now one calls her an inabler of her husband and the european union agrees. her name means supreme in arabic. in the past syrians called her their princess diana. the european union calls her under sanction. it's banning asma al assad, the glamorous wife of the president from traveling in countries and freezing her assets in the 27-member block. >> i cannot say to you in strong enough terms how much we are concerned about what's going on in syria. >> reporter: it's to put more pressure bashar al arc sad's regime to put more crackdown on the opposition, but andrew tabler, the analyst who once worked with asma al assad and her charities believe the sanctions stem partly from the recent release of private, hacked e-mails between the assads and their inner circle. cnn and other media organizations have obtained many of those e-mails. >> very clearly it outlines who what many people behind the scenes knew that during one yea

he said from then on they basically cut off contact between him and asma al assad.out. >> i bet there are lots of stories like that. thanks so much, brian todd. >>> coming up president obama and his republican opponents weigh in on the tragic death of florida teen trayvon martin. people with a machine. what ? customers didn't like it. so why do banks do it ? hello ? hello ?! if your bank doesn't let you talk to a real person 24/7, you need an ally. hello ? ally bank. no nonsense. just people sense. powered by a second gen intel® core™ i5 or i7 processor. everything. and more. ♪ but not how we get there. because in this business, there are no straight lines. only the twists and turns of an unpredictable industry. so the eighty-thousand employees at delta... must anticipate the unexpected. and never let the rules overrule common sense. this is how we tame the unwieldiness of air travel, until it's not just lines you see... it's the world. message for trayvon martin's parents this morning telling them if he had a son, he'd look like trayvon. the republican presidential