miles demás manifestantes salieron a las calles de la capital para protestar contra el régimen de bashar al asadn recuento de su vida, sus logros y como fue recordado. >> reportera: steve jobs se encojo con su familia en sus últimos días en la presentación del ipad 2 el pasado mes de marzo. muchos no imaginaron que esa era la última presentación pública de steve jobs. pocos meses después el mago de la tecnología anunció en una carta dirigida a la junta directiva de la empresa que dejaba el mando de la compañía, diciendo que siempre había dicho que llegaría el día que sería el primero hacer saber que no podría asumir la compañía. es con presentó el nuevo lanzamiento en octubre del nuevo modelo del iphone, lo que muchos no se imaginaban era que asoló días después fallecería steve jobs. >> me increpó internet porque por todos lados comenzaron a salir los mensajes. >> escuche la noticia en internet en el canal de las noticias y cuando me di cuenta me dio tristeza. >> reportera: murió el 5 octubre los 56 años aquejado de cáncer terminal, la compañía anunció su muerte en el sitio web diciendo que appl

the first of their kind in the syrian capitol since the start of the uprising against president bashar al asad earlier this year. >>> now to cairo where thousands of egyptians have been rallying in tahrir square today they are denouncing military violence against protesters, many of whom were women. at least 17 people have been killed in violent clashes h this week. nbc's ayman mohyeldin is in cairo tonight with the lates good evening. >> reporter: good evening, kate. the street of public opinion could not be any wider. today it was on display just miles away from each other. behind me today in tahrir square, the number reaching close to 25,000. the prodemocracy activists supporting calls for the military to step down from power and to hand over power to an elected government as quickly as possible. they feel the military has exhausted its mandate and is unable or unfit to control more. across the street a short while -- distance from here the egyptian military and their supporters took to the street. there are those who believe the egyptian military retains a great deal of popularity. they sa

bashar al asad of syria has so far managed to hold on to power. the cost, more than 5,000 lives since march with more killed each day, even as many soldiers defect and the uprising lurches toward civil war. nothing has slowed down the carnage. not even the presence of arab league observers. their job, to ensure the asad regime's compliance is an agreement aimed at ending the crackdown. while the syrian government has allowed the arab league observers in, it has all but banned foreign media from reporting firsthand from inside the country. >>> the opposition is using home video to get the message out and hoping the observers present will help them be heard. in this amateur footage not independently verified residents placed the body of a dead child on the hood of the observer's car. but the arab league has been of little help so far. opposition groups say more than 130 syrians have been killed since the observers finally arrived this week. president asad claims he's waging war against terrorist gangs and foreign elements trying to divide the countr