it no longer calls explicitly for bashar al-assad to step down. this was an attempt to try to muster as many votes as possible in favor of this resolution. very quickly it also calls for the withdrawal of syrian troops and heavy weapons from populated areas, bill. bill: david lee miller, watch that for us. the general assembly is trying to put pressure on the security council for the work it did not complete. what's next patti ann. patti ann: chic-fil-a around the country packed with people, massive tkpwroudz turn out to support the ceo who spoke out publicly about gay marriage. supporters say this is not about his beliefs. >> this is about an individual who has religious beliefs, based on not his own personal beliefs, but actually the beliefs of his faith and he is only expressing that. >> herman cain, former presidential candidate and successful business owner

looks at a place like syria they see bashar al assad's regime they see it allied with iran iran is our enemy and so we really want that guy to go and but in trying to will that to happen what we wind up doing is helping the opposition with non-lethal aid with intelligence helping other countries that are giving lethal aid and what that does is fuel a big sectarian civil war in syria that's now spilling over into lebanon spilling into turkey spilling into iraq and creating disorder and my initial criticism of u.s. policy at the beginning of the show is that what a great power should do is try and promote stability above all else because instability hurts a country's national interest it hurts civilians noncombatants creates i'm a humanitarian emergencies creates contagious civil war that's that's where i fault the u.s. government right now for not have taken a leadership role to promote stability instead what they're doing is sowing instability it's very shortsighted it's very dangerous i mean ryan this instability is working for the united states they want to get rid of the regime in i

the downfall of bashar assad may precipitate the disintegration of syria as a unitary state and i've always predict that this is that almost a year ago that if the shower said felt that he was about to fall from power i think he will resort to his own community to our community they are a majority in the coastal areas and they're likely to go their own way or the druze in the south also over the kurds are also gearing up for some sort of autonomy or self-government. also got a number of flood of cleavages within syrian society rural versus urban secular versus islamist and away versus sunni arab versus kurd also class divisions i mean serious aside it is rather complicated and there are more divisions than syrians would be happy to admit so i think the solution really is for serious to be honest with themselves to have an honest and open dialogue with the support of the international community and to get away from the language of. accusing the other of being unpatriotic because in the other of being a terrorist we need to get a move away from that and really have a constructive dialo

is the need to remove any kinds of preconditions such as for example other requirement to present bashar al assad stepping down before some sort of a peaceful solution could be negotiated that is not what was reflected in the news coverage of the talks on tuesday between the the syrian delegation and the russian government of course we do have to keep in mind that the press conference that had taken place was in arabic as they were translated to russian and then into english but what this really serves to highlight is the lack of accurate information and balance information coming out about the eighteen month long conflict i also want to bring into the discussion the example of a lot of us the battle continues to rage in serious second city several news outlets have reported for example what the free syrian army spokespeople have said that they have taken the trolls of nearly two thirds of the level of the syrian government of president bashar al assad have claimed disputed those claims and what all of this really serves to highlight is again the lack of balance information coming out ab

he said that the movement or use of chemical or biological weapons by the government of president bashar al assad could trigger would cause the u.s. to reconsider its opposition to military intervention this of course goes to the against what sergey lavrov has been continuously calling for which is a unilateral action by any outside power that this is a conflict that needs to be really resolved from within unilateral action by any country outside of this conflict will only make matters worse the russian foreign minister had said that it looks like there may be a willingness to discuss a potential solution to the conflict in a diplomatic matter of the many factions both within and outside of syria did not wish to see a peaceful resolution succeed and so it really remains to be seen whether there could be a way out of the sponge look that doesn't further make this ongoing war even worse in the past. in most cases not for diplomacy to succeed western countries must of his tribute to the norms of international and the u.n. charter but a war correspondent and columnist eric margolis believes

it didn't take very long at all it didn't take it's over a year ago that they called for bashar assad to step down that's that's that's incorrect so the point and the point is not just that now you know you i say i don't think that there was abuse going on the way that doesn't mean the u.s. isn't at fault no i'm sorry i do think so i do think that's correct because you know if you remember there was. a long article in the new yorker in two thousand and seven two thousand and seven that the bush administration has targeted the syrian regime for the removal and the detailed in how working with saudi arabia and israel they were and with what you know various radical islamic forces they intended to destroy the regime of bashar assad this was in two thousand and seven that seymour hersh wrote this article and what we've seen is the fulfillment of that policy so it's not true to say that somehow they do they know that well there's a lot of resources they want to scream the u.s. was meeting with syrian opposition activists of different kinds yes the muslim brotherhood was involved in the coa

people chanting against bashar al assad, as has become typical on fridays. also waving their shoes in the air to insult the president. but the death toll on this day that's normally a day of celebration generally, lower than it has been over the previous days. nic robertson, cnn, abu dhabi, united ash emirates. >>> now to the extreme fire danger across several western states today. this map you're about to see shows red flag warnings in effect right now and they're in southeastern oregon, idaho, southwestern montana, western utah and northern washington. these are the latest pictures out of utah right now where a new wildfire ignited just as fire cruiews contained two othe fires that were started by lightning. mandatory evacuations remane in effect today in several western communities threatened by wildfire. >>> some ads on san francisco buses have enraged the muslim community. and landed the transportation agency now in hot water. dern wo. would define you as an innovator. to hold more than one patent of this caliber... would define you as a true leader. to

president bashar al assad's forces have been carrying out air strikes in some places. they have warned opposition fighters in the commercial capitol aleppo to surrender or face full-scale attacks. >>> the escalating violence prompted u.n. officials to end their observer mission in syria. monitors pulled out of the country after failing to get both sides in this conflict to stick to a cease-fire. things are just as bad if not worse than when they arrived four months ago. nhk world's yujiro fotori got into damascus and filed this report. >> reporter: we entered damascus for the first time since forces broke out in july between president bashar al assad's troops and opposition forces. historically, syria developed as a trade hub between the east and the west. the old town of damascus is on unesco's list of world heritage sites. the violence that spread to damascus has left its mark on the city's beautiful streets and building. in this residential area the buildings have been scored with bullet holes from the recent fighting. the area looks deserted. fighting between gover

. >>> heading overseas to the crisis in syria tonight, syrian president bashar al assad made a rare public appearance without his vice president. this comes as more than 300u.n. security council monitors are leaving syria tonight as its peace keeping mission there never got off the ground. fox's steve harrigan has that story. >> reporter: it was a rare public appearance by syrian president bashar al assad in damascus. he hasn't been seen publicly in more than a month since an explosion claimed the lives of his four top security aides including his defense minister and brother-in-law. one man not at the mock ceremony to mark the end of ramadan was the syrian vice president. there is speculation he could have defected. syrian rebels claim he defected with his family to jordan, but the syrian government denies any defection. meantime fighting continues in major city of aleppo. rebels are hanging on there for several weeks now despite being outgunned and having no air power and finally in the north along the border near turkey a number of small towns controlled by rebel fighters now being poun

it's not looking good for bashar al assad.abouts of the vice president, it's an open question that's worrying people in the free syrian army now. >> i'm sure it is. i want to ask about the united nations observer mission. ended today. did it accomplish anything? >> reporter: they went into observe a cease-fire which never came into effect. if we remember back in the early april, that cease-fire almost came into play. the death toll went down to single digits for a couple of days. then escalated back up where it is today, over 100 a day, people killed. by the time of the middle of that object irver mission in june, the observers switched from being observers they said to trying to organize periods of a decrease in the fighting, localized in sort of certain areas to help humanitarian supplies get in. that's what they were reduced to. that's why they're pulling out now. they couldn't fulfill their original mission. so they did play a role. they say they're not leaving entirely. there is going to be a new u.n. representative to sy

he was a loyalist before bashar was there.e has not been seen in days and the man who was for so long the public face for the regime, and the man they sent to talk to visiting americans hasn't been seen. so people are wondering and now there are these reports from the opposition saying the reason you can't see him is the reason he isn't around is he's out of there. >> what would be the rp between he and any country, say like a jordan or turkey and places that might take him in. >> you wonder because the key thing for him is that he was viewed as potentially the man who might succeed bashar al assad because he hasn't been tied to the worst of the massacres and he's defending the worst of the carnage and if indeed there was a change in syria he could lead it. and bashar, and the community in syria and they have other allies very close to them and the army is mostly sunni and some of the key figures in the air force are sunni. the pilots are sunni and farouq al sharaa is a sunni so he could rally the majority of the country aroun

president bashar al-assad has ordered his warplanes now to fire on residential neighborhoods. amateur video posted on the internet shows a lot of buildings have been destroyed, and tonight there are reports the rebels may have pulled out of some of their strongholds in aleppo. the assad regime rarely allows journalists inside syria. our holly williams is just over the border in turkey. i guess, first, holly, bring us up to speed on the latest on the battle for aleppo. >> reporter: well, sir yoo's state tv said today that government forces have taken full control of the dal dimasi district in aleppo which had been a rebel stronged hold but the rebels had been staging a tactical withdrawal and hadn't given up at this point. the fiercest fighting at the moment is in aleppo. it's syria's biggest city, and both sides believe controlling it is crucial to winning the civil war, but the violence, the bloodshed, the fighting, the shelling-- that continues in towns and cities across syria. >> schieffer: and, holly, i understand that bashar al-assad has installed another new prime minist

that they have taken patrols of nearly two thirds of aleppo of the syrian government of president bashar al assad has claimed disputed those claims and what all of this really serves to highlight is again the last of the balance information coming out about this conflict there really needs to be a middle ground in this escalating conflict what we're seeing instead is a sort of black and white paper trail the trading of barbs sort of the lack of ability for the different sides to come together to really move this forward in a diplomatic way another thing that's really not helping the potential of a peacefully negotiated solution to the crisis so some of the language that we've seen coming out of the from the the united states as of late on monday because president barack obama had really caused quite an international stir when he said that the movement or use of chemical or biological weapons by the government of president bashar al assad could trigger would cause the u.s. to reconsider its opposition to military intervention but this of course goes to the against what sergey lavrov has b

when we asked them about president bashar al-assad they said they don't want him dead because they would be too easy. "let him taste the suffering that we have" said this woman. "we hope that he and his whole family are humiliated just as he has humiliated us." more than a thousand new refugees arrived in turkey in the last day, joining 44,000 already living in camps. why are you leaving? >> they burned our houses. >> reporter: they bombed your house? this woman told us if president ossad can't be killed she wants to die herself to escape the hardship. she said her son stayed behind to fight with the rebels against the government. some of the families we've seen flee across this border were too frightened to speak with us. they don't know who will eventually win this conflict and they told us they're scared of retribution. they escape with their children and a few possessions, but as they cross the boarder to safety, many also bring their hatred of the man they blame for leaving them homeless. >> pelley: holly williams joins us now from the turkey/syria border. yesterday, holly, the syri

he was nowhere to be seen at this weekend's ramadan celebration with president bashar al assad. if he did leave, it will mark the highest level of the regime to have defected. >>> and yesterday president obama quoted republicans to be dishonest about his plan since they can't sell his own. a gop plan will force the seniors to pay more for medicare, and the gop says president obama has siphoned millions to pay for it. >>> and now the first time a powerful laser has been used on another planet. it helped to eionize gases and helping the curiosity rover to identify chemical elements. next it will start to drill into martian rock about 30 feet. >>> for today's "faces of faith" we are focusing on unlikely place to celebrate a holiday, the guantanamo bay detention center where more than 150 detainees will end the holy month of ramadan today and we are getting a very rare look inside. remember, this is where the u.s. keeps some of the world's most notorious suspected terrorists. u.s. soldiers have had to make several changes around the detention center for the prisoners and say there i

much of our focus, conversation focused on syria where they believe bashar al assad's power is numbered. the prime minister defected to jordan today, the conflict in syria is a serious problem for jordan because of the tens of thousands of refugees i went to the refugee camps on the border that separate syria and jordan and spoke with some of the people who have come across the border and are now living in tents. here is my conversation with king abdullah. >> your majesty, thanks for taking this time. it is quite a moment in the region for jordan. >> absolutely. >> rose: let me begin with syria. how is this going to play itself out? >> well, that is anybody's guess. obviously as part of the international community we are desperately looking for a political solution and i think all of us going back several months were engaged with the russians because we felt that was the best option on the table. having the russians being the guarantor to the regime of finding an exit policy that allows a peaceful transition. that is still the best option on the table. the only problem i think over the

between rebels calling themselves the free syrian army and the repressive government of president bashar al assad. our bbc beings ian panel and darren conway were there, pinned down behind rebel lines. >> we know there are snipers all around here. because it's an urban area. the sounds ring out. we can't tell which direction they're actually coming from. >> reporter: aleppo is one of the oldest cities in the world. john the baptist's father is said to be buried in a tomb there. and it's also on the main road to damascus. if the rebels take aleppo, it could be the turning point. already, women and children have fled aleppo. this, syria's largest city. as we drive into the town of taurus on the outskirts of alep aleppo, it's a sprawling, eerily quiet scene of almost total devastation. out of the rubbish, an unexpected smile amid destruction. a woman took us to her house. now she lives here alone. i have no idea where my family went, she said. i'm brave. this is my house, these are my neighbors. inside, she shows us the sparse room where she lives. no power, no electricity. we have nothing,

it was the baath party. >> rose: but if bashar al assad makes a decision he would engage in the u.n. process it would happen? he has that kind -- or not. >> it would happen, obviously -- >> rose: i mean, he clearly is the man in charge and clearly the man who is calling the shots, but he is not as was once suspect a weak leader who is controlled by former allies of his father? >> no, i think if he took the decision it would happen. you know, you can argue about whether he is weak surrounded by strong men, but there is no real evidence of the act that he is trying to move to some different path. he is the top man and he has to take responsibility for that fact. whatever the inner workings and discussions but the reality is if he said todayly stop the use of heavy weapons and i expect the opposition to respond and i am prepared to step aside, decimate someone to dialogue, then obviously the obligation would come on us to make sure that the opposition responded to that and came to the table. and we would do that. but that is the first step that we have asked him to take a, we said it in