baba amr today, and it's... it looks like a stalingrad.you know, it's just entire, you know, streets are just flattened. >> until baba amr, there was a belief inside the opposition ranks that the nonviolence movement that worked in tunisia, that worked in egypt, could still work in syria. baba amr was the beginning of the shift. after that, people were starting to call for jihad, jihad. (explosion) (repeated gunfire) >> there's been a shift, not just in terms of what the opposition was willing and able to do, but also in terms of what the regime was willing to do now. and we see, then, an continuing escalation. >> narrator: in may, more than a hundred people, including dozens of children, were brutally massacred in a sunni village in houla, the work of alawite paramilitaries. >> this was the first massacre to come to light as it was happening. and a lot of people were saying, "oh, well, this is the one that's going to bring the international community to support us," you know. "because now they've crossed the red line." and unfortunately f

the engineer who took me for a tour around the city of baba amr. what is happening today?fied as far as possible with refugees from the city now living in london. everything, they say, is in short supply. food, cooking gas, fresh water, all are now rationed. young children who lose their homes and families in the bombardment are most at risk. parents say they cannot allow children to leave the confines of what remains of their homes because of the constant shelling. doctors are being imprisoned for helping the opposition and for the shortage of medical equipment and drugs, hundreds are dying who could be saved. sammy, the local businessman whojoined saved. sammy, the local businessman who joined the revolutionary council of homs, has been imprisoned, tortured and released. he and his colleagues say they will fight to the very end. but he warned so will president assad. we thought in the beginning that we will get effective support from the governments of the west, but we got nothing, actually. when we reach democracy, assad, his relatives, all of them will be sent to the c