in the hours we have been here, we have had busloads of bashir supporters arrived. they are sitting in the main frontal area of the court room. they have been chanting support for him, loud cries of "alahu akbar," and prayers. over the last few days in djakarta, there have been some anonymous threats and twitter messages. police are taking these threats seriously. they have deployed 3000 police officers around the courthouse. i have seen snipers on the roof next to me and over there. there is a great deal of concern about what kind of verdict will be delivered later today because many of the followers of bashir have said that if it is a severe sentence they about to take revenge. -- they have vowed to take revenge. >> what will this mean for indonesias fight against terror? -- indonesia's's fight against terror? >> it depends what that verdict is. most of the consensus here is that mr. bush year -- bashir will get a guilty sentence but not the life in prison prosecutors are looking for. i have been told that whenever his verdict is, whether he is inside or outside j

president bashir is visiting. a chinese actress found success in both asia and hollywood. the home secretary has expressed her concern about the legal ruling shortening the amount of time that a suspect can be held on bail. >> when it comes to crime, politicians of all sides talked tough. there is the prospect of criminals walking free. following the initial questioning, many suspects are released on what is called police bail. there will be a decision on whether to charge. among the established system in england and wales, that means that the people can be held for a total of 96 hours and thbe bailed in between. they far tighter time frame when it comes to gathering evidence and deciding whether charges should follow. on top of this, suspects can only be re-arrested under the new evidence. this reverses 25 years of police practice. >> it is not desirable to put these people back on the streets. >> while all those involved couple with the ruling, some lawyers claim that the police have complained fast and loose with the bail system. >> that have been extremely concerned ov

and the president of syria bashir al-assad with anti- government protests. >> and the world's largest air show takes off in paris, with billions in orders for airbus and boeing. >> greece has two weeks to prove that it is serious about getting its finances in order. european finance ministers say that greece must approve new austerity measures within the next 14 days. on monday, they delayed giving out more money. the message is clear. europe is not impressed with what greece has done to help itself out of the debt crisis. beyond greece, europe has a new way of dealing with countries in need of a bailout. >> after so much bad news about the euro, a rare positive note. e.u. finance ministers have agreed on a bailout mechanism. more than 500 billion euros will be available for struggling states. >> today's agreement underlines the determination of euro zone countries to do all things necessary to guarantee the stability of the euro zone. >> good morning, minister is. >> this decision has no initial bearing on greece. they are under increasing pressure. ministers are holding off on a fre

is dictator omar bashir carrying out ethnic cleansing? how christian churches are helping refugees cope with their loss and one man's mission to fight disease-carrying mosquitos. how his invention is saving lives worldwide. war ethnic cleansing and looming humanitarian crisis in sudan. hello everyone, i am wendy griffith. george thomas is on assignment. on the north region in sudan, dictator is waging war. >> cathedral was burned and church of christ was burned as well. and my house was firednd chaplin skipped through a window and arrested some times later and tortured. my people have scattered, my staff scattered all over. really very terrible. >> that is bishop of the episcopal church of sudan. church and home destroyed and flock scattered. happening in the town of kadubly, an oil-rich area of sudan. ground troops attacked the city. dozens dead and 60,000 fled homes. the north wants to grab the oil and destroy the religious and ethnic populations there. >> arabs dominanting the power and they don't riot. christians want to share -- beca

hu jintao met omar al bashir wednesday. the official chinese xinhua news agency said hu would keep his friendly policies toward sudan in place despite the change in the african nation's domestic affairs. hu pledged continued cooperation in resource development and agricultural assistance saying he backs investment in sudan by top rated chinese businesses. there has been global concern over china's invitation to bashir who is wanted for genocide in darfur. in january, people in southern sudan voted in a referendum and overwhelmingly chose to separate from the north. the south will declare independence on july 9th. observers say china aims to maintain its rights to oil and other resources in sudan by reaffirming ties to its current government andorging a relationship with the newly independent south. >>> time to check on some of the stories we've gathered from broadcasters around asia. we begin with this item sent by ddi india. the prime ministers of india and new zealand met in new delhi tuesday to discuss ways to boost bila

president bashir said he did that because he was trying to teach the south a lesson.was a policy. >> why did he do that? >> some two weeks ago. he said the attack was one. the close of the border was two. and then he still has some other things to do to punish the south, according to him. >> the site's independence because official on july 9th. the home village remains in disputed territory. they and tens of thousands of others are now suffering the pains of a new nation. jane ferguson for cnn, south sudan. >>> there are reports that north and south sudan could be closing in on a deal over abyu. they are both conditionally agreeing to withdraw forces. amnesty national deputy manager for affect. thanks for being with us. is there a deal or no deal? >> it's been reported that there is an agreement between the north and the south. to have a demilitaryized. >> just explain to people what the big deal is about. why is it so important? >> it is important because it is the major oil producing area in sudan. it is therefore disputeded by both sides with the south wanting to c

incredibly, field marshal bashir, he's not a stupid man. he said to both intelligence communities in the washington and in london, i know usama bin laden really well. he lived here for five years. i can tell you what he has for breakfast. and he's managed to spin khartoum's close association both ideological and in terms of friendship with al-qaeda -- [inaudible] in the war on terror, believe it or not. in the height of the kill anything april 2005, the cia sent a private jet to the head of sudanese intelligence as he then was to bring him to the, to langley, virginia, to be debriefed for a whole week. and goodness knows what he told them because his knowledge of al-qaeda was at least 12 years out of date. but we do know that the sudanese have rather cleverly promised that they will help us spy on al-qaeda in both yemen and somalia. now, the very fact that our people actually believe this is extraordinary given that all these people are ideological bed fellows. but also it goes to our racism because, i'm sorry, but arabic is not a monolithi

prosecute a more vigorous war our it could simply be thrown out as was the case with saddam after our bashir was issued a warrant two years ago and president bashir still remains in power so as you know international law is also an. add the it is like a handmade an all flub the powerful interests and it will remain on the scene very much the refugees are living the libyan government is saying that the i.c.c. is that the political tool for the western world to prosecute leaders in the third world do you think that fair criticism. you know this sort of criticism has been. a resounding to do the african union for a long time even when gadhafi was in favor in the african union and being have consistently held the view blacks. util that the i.c.c. does not go after war criminals of those are committed crimes against humanity. either protected or directly part of establishments of advanced western countries so for instance it's often pointed out why nobody in the israeli defense forces or in the israeli government was ever investigated by the i.c.c. slow crimes against humanity out of the water be

to prosecute a more vigorous war or it could simply peter out as well because we saw the ouster of bashir was issued a warrant two years ago and president bashir still remains in power so as you know international law is also an. ad the these are again made and also love the colors and interests and before and we have seen very arresting you go live in the libyan government is saying that the i.c.c. is a political tool for the western world leaders in the third world do you think that fair criticism. you know this criticism has been. a resounding did in the african union for a long time even vendor who was in favor in that in union and being consistently held to be lax it's little that the i.c.c. does not go after what remains of those or come to crimes against humanity nature either protected or directly part of establishment of advanced listen to treats so for instance it's often pointed out why nobody in the israeli defense forces or in the israeli government was ever investigated by the agency slow crimes against humanity for the wars in gaza and the twenty to thirty war in gaza so it

>> the french foreign minister today said bashir al assad has reached the "point of no return." the press secretary, saying concrete action is needed, not just words. we heard from the state department spokesperson who said, we're just not buying it when it comes to claims of saboteurs in syria. you have to remember this is very unlike egypt. the leadership in syria is controlled by a minority sect. they have placed at the top of the military their own people. the military leadership is going to hold on to power because, if they lose, they have everything to lose. it is the rank and file from within the majority sect, the sunnis. if there is any kind of split among the rank and file, that's where we might see some change in syria but not before we see chaos and more violence. >> and, again, to underscore, you were there. you tried getting in. arwa damon got in and got out. why is it they continue to refuse our requests? >> well, i think for obvious reasons. this violence that is unfolding in certain cities, if you have day to day, hour by hour coverage and you get the side of th

arrest warrant like you said bashir got in two thousand and nine there's no head under after him. it's just doesn't change the calculus isn't it hypocritical though how come nobody looks at what carney today said in the white house press person when they say that this means that gadhafi isn't as legitimate and ask why it is then that the u.s. is not part of the international criminal court. well that's a really good question but if the u.s. were part of the international criminal court they'd have to sort of come to grips with the fact that many of their client states through the enthusiastically lend support to commit the same crimes that qaddafi has been committing we were the i.c.c. in yemen when saleh was enthusiastically supported by us was committing all sorts of atrocities to take care of the who were blown in rebellion in the north where was the i.c.c. in bahrain for example when it was opening fire on innocent nonviolent protesters. so you know the u.s. is inherently contradictory in their stances and thus they can't lend legitimacy to organization that wants to keep peop

when the referendum took place in january 9 and the south voted for independence, president bashir had flown to sqlub a and said i will be the first to recognize you. it looked like everything was going to go smoothly. since then, you here and see and in my conversations there a great deal of unhappiness. why did we do this? what did we get for it? why doesn't the world treat us better? why don't the southerners show more gratitude? and gradually you see a number of people in the government saying we gave away too much too soon too easily. and that has led to a more militarized policy. >> warner: now one of the carrots for the north to go along with the southern secession was, in fact, the prospect of normalized relations with the u.s., the so-called road map to normal relations but the question is if they're doing what they're doing in, say, the south which as you say is not part of south sudan, would the u.s. ever normalize relations with sudan itself, sudan proper? >> addressing the political grievances of the people in the mountains is part of the comprehensive peace agreement. fai

incredibly, field marshal bashir is not a man. he knows how to leverage his position. he said to both intelligence communities in washington and in london, i know osama bin laden really well. he lived here for five years. i can tell you what he had for breakfast. he has managed to spend cartoons close association, both ideological and in terms of friendship with al qaeda to make him a valued friend in the war on terror believe it or not at the height of the killing in april 2005. the cia sent the check to collect the sudanese intelligence says the bandwidth, to bring him to virginia to be debriefed for a whole week. thank goodness his knowledge of al qaeda was at least 12 years out of date. but we do know that the sudanese have rather cleverly promised that they will help us by an al qaeda in both yemen and somalia. now, the fact that people actually believe this is extraordinary, given all these people are ideological bedfellows, but also the coast where racism. i'm sorry, arabic is not a monolithic language. it is different in whatever country you're in. and someone

. >> and there is more on bashir in meeting following the mumbai attack, and go there live and speak to the people's forum. now tell us how big of a setback to the peace process were the mumbai attacks. >> it was a clear setback, but we as a group believe in continuing talks. talks have to be interpreted, not interrupted by these attacks. and in india as well as pakistan, we have a lobby, don't talk to each other. they have their interests. but any neighboring country one has to keep the communication line on. it's an ongoing process. so in these talks, they are not hollow diplomatic gestures. in fact when we have talks and india and pakistan have come together on issues. >> it's not actually impacted the political relationship, but has it affected the average, the feelings of average feelings in pakistan? >> it did, it did. seeing the scene for three days in mumbai it had an impact. and continuing even after that. but we feel that if you want to attempt peace of some sort with two countries, you have to keep things behind and start a new. in fact i would like to know when that happe

. >>> i'm mar tip pa sheer >>> i'm martin bashir.on thread, they all say they didn't do it and they're all fighting in court. >>> plus, the latest battleground in the gop's alleged war on women. the head of planned parenthood joins us live. >>> undefeated mixed martial arts fighter daniel peter durnt look like the kind of man who was bullied as a kid, but he was. now, a move by the tragic news of recent bully related teen suicide, he has started a national campaign called my life, my power. he's creating programs to educate bullies and their victims about the consequences of this kind of harassment. daniel is also the author of a new book called "secrets of a champion." and daniel peder joins me live in the studio. good to meet you. >> thank you very much. >> you have this new book coming out but your organization is also putting together a criminal l -- curriculum for kids in high school. what's the basis, the foundation of the curriculum you're trying to pass along? >> it's high schools, junior highs, and elementaries. it's eight s

in 2009 and 2010 the same court issued an arrest for omar al bashir, sudan's president, but he has not been arrested yet. >>> next we go to our bureau in bangkok. dhra dhirakaosal has the latest on what's going on in the region. >> greetings from the thai capital. in cambodia, a new chapter has begun in efforts to uncover the truth behind the genocide of the regime. four indicted khmer rouge leaders went on trial at a u.n. backed tribunal on monday. the four defendants include pol pot's second in command as well as former deputy prime minister. they're accused of crimes against humanity. the tribunal was set up five years ago by the united nations and the cambodian government. in less than four years in the 1970s, the khmer rouge killed more than 1.5 million people by forced labor and genocide. their tribunal's first day of discussions focus on which witnesses to call. nuan chie left the courtroom after just 50 minutes saying he was dissatisfied with the judicial procedures. another defendant also left claiming poor health. last year the tribunal sentenced the regime's head prison ward

. >>> miami martin bashir.ssman anthony wiener's shorts and focus on president obama's sinking poll numbers. is the stagnant u.s. economy crippling his chances of re-electi re-election. >>> and fighting intensifies throughout the middle east as the arab spring looks to become a summer of violence. >>> a planned sweet 16 party has turned bitter for the young girl that the celebration was meant for. listen to the details here. an open invite to the event on facebook ended up with over 1500 complete strangers showing up to the family's home and crashing the girl's party. the girl stayed indoors but the oversized crowd decided to carry on the party without her. even today she claims that she's reluctant to even go outside. michelle kosinski has more. >> reporter: kids today, they put out an invite on facebook and 15,000 of their closest friends respond. the girl here named tessa today put out an apology in the newspaper for the sort of super sweet 16 that was completely unwanted. here in this quiet neighborhood ful

in 2009 and 2010 the same court issued an arrest warrant for sud sudan's president, omar al bashir, but he has not been arrested yet. >>> china's debt is nearly 30% of the country's gross domestic product at the end of next year. china published its tally from investigations of city, province and autonomous region governments. the report puts the total debt held by local governments at more than 10.7 trill yuan. many local governments set up investment frirmz and procured bank loans to spend on a high speed rail system. observers say the disclosure reinforces the chinese government's warnings about financial institutions holding bad loans as well as excessive investments in real estate. >>> now let's take a look at the latest in business news with ai uchida. >> good morning. a lot of news for you this morning. let's start with news from the kay dkay ren. hiromasa yonekura commented on a recent proposal on reconstruction efforts monday. he said a combination of tax hikes and more government bonds should be used to fund rebuilding in quake-hit areas. he also welcomed ideas about establish

reports are that bashir and his regime have decided to stop at almost nothing to hold on to power andat without it they have no future. the son is following the example of his father, who killed at least 10,000 people in a single town, hama. bright -- britain and france are trying to win support for a resolution which con dements latest repression. it does not promise intervention. >> the repression is getting worse and the massacres are on the rise. it is inconceivable that the united nations remain silent on such a matter. >> and each day now, hundreds more syrians are fleeing their country, many into neighboring turkey as the crisis worsens the james robins, bbc news. >> our correspondent in the united nations looks at the resolution's text and the concerns of other council members. >> negotiations on the text begins today, thursday, and in essence what the resolution says is it condemns the system atic vilition of -- violation of human rights in syria and urges countries to exercise vigilance in preventing the sale of arms to syria. it doesn't impose an embargo or authorize any co

president bashir has arrived in china for today visit. -- a two day visit. his visit comes after the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant accusing him of war crimes during the conflict in darfur. new pictures and video footage of hugo chavez has been shown on cuban television. they show an apparently well mr. chavis speaking with fidel castro. the venezuelan president has kept a low profile since he had an emergency operation during a trip to cuba at the beginning of june. there is a debate on whether he should delegate executive powers to his vice president. >> you have been watching "newsday" from the bbc. >> the reminder of the main news again. all the insurgents who launched a sustained attack on a top hotel in kabul have been killed. 10 civilians were killed during the assault. thank you for watching. >> makes sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> newman's own foundation. and union bank. >> hello and welcome. >> see the news unfold, get the top stories from around the globe and click-to-play video reports. go to bbc.com/news t

was profoundly unpopular with all of his neighbors in a way that the king of bahrain is nuts and bashir al assad isn't quite you could look at salah as well i mean in the end these are some of the there already sanctions in some of these cases so he had what should be done rather what should be done now in bahrain so in what should be done now in libya libyan authorities have accused the coalition of killing over seven hundred people so far as a result of these air raids is the killing of even more people justified for the sake of removing things you think. well i think the credibility of gadhafi and his regime is very very low it's possible that some people have been killed certainly not on that scale it's noticeable that he hasn't taken the foreign press who are available in tripoli to see these massive casualties and there are no independent reports of them and there are actually demonstrations in tripoli itself within the last twenty four hours showing that he is his only hold on power is through his militia the military of defecting the question is when will he go and that's a ques

handing him over has done little to speed up even bashir. nature's extension of the military campaign in libya and deployment of attack helicopters spots concerns or grown operation in the country could be next. also spreading hysteria over a kid like you come close cripples european vegetable markets pushing strain from a charity accused of starting a deadly dog outbreak the brink of a. man suspected of shooting there journalist anna politkovskaya is officially charged to get his claim they have enough evidence to prove the chechen a fugitive pulled the trigger. with a look back at the main developments over the last seven days and the latest news this is the weekly edition from. prosecutors in serbia one permission to question recommend as a potential witness in their own investigation into what happened in the balkans conflict back in the ninety's the former bosnian serb general is in custody at the hague where he's accused of eleven counts of war crimes including genocide this week he made his first court appearance before the tribunal a

membership i mean i wanted to ask you is the do you think playing with serbia is bashir pope's me now with france's foreign minister says serbia can't become a part of the european union said another alleged war crimes fugitives captured this time former so politician got on had it only is he playing with serbia snobbish it hopes they're finding excuses not to look sceptic. well it's a model of me playing with it it has been doing that for the last ten years i mean the us being used as an action it was excuse not in terms of the tribunal to be people who had previously run straight and who is this. he is a very important point but out. on top of the many laws have been passed the privatizing state property so that. it could join me but that is in most cases resulted in simply some buying. state property so be on property up knock down prices internationally we would have to do far more for the. balkans political analyst thanks for being on the program thank you. still ahead the british political marriage that's on the rocks we find out how the split of the coalition is and how big the

bashir in sudan and i think that will give them permanent access to the oil wealth there and then suddenlysudan saddam splits in half and they're finding them very rapidly having to make friends with the enemies of the guy they've been propping up so they're running into the same kinds of problems that the western governments because it's interesting going back to point you made earlier maybe we can all agree with robert because it's the people on the ground that suffer the most. well in indeed what i was saying about the uprisings that have been happening across the continent is a reflection of the discontent that is brewing and great and increasing across the continent but looking at china i mean i think you know this the people are often rather silly exaggerated about about the actions of china if you look at foreign direct investment the united kingdom and usa are the leading foreign direct investment investment in in the in in africa followed behind by by france and by germany and all the asian tigers put together are still much smaller proportion of what germany germany's foreign dir

we think they bashir has lost its legitimacy to rule the country. it is exactly the same position as a levy. the consequence of this condemnation are different. in europe, we of taken our responsibilities and adopted sanctions against the regime. we have adopted a list of people in syria sanctioned. their assets are frozen in europe. france demanded bashir was at the top of the list. and we have done that. when you presented the draft resolution on libya, we did not that they're easily but as we did not get there easily. it was nine votes, and we knew that china or russia would not veto. that is not the case now. [unintelligible] what to do? this is the point of discussion with hillary clinton. we think that now we must go ahead and circulate this draft resolution in the security council. we think it will be possible to get 11 votes in favor of the resolution. and we will see what the russians will do. if they need to, they will take their responsibility maybe they see that there are 11 votes in favor of the resolution and what changed their mind. i

bashir government doesn't need such a lonesome ounce of frequency it has only days to skate you fool privatization of major companies mentation of these plans is necessary because they're very modest the government has lead to the first of this kind of trying to transition in order to resolve this i'm sure we'll be able to get through with it in a movie transparent way in order to attract if it saved his and generate sufficient funds for the russian budget. but you and speaking of transparency openness that and. are two things that he says will be government priorities when it comes to dealing with the economy because he believes those are the things that are going to help spur business and innovation to head to head and head with that russia's accession to the world trade organization some things he says is going to definitely help the economy of russia. who is this minute. business men how to say good markets are just like parachutes leoni works when they're open and the case with russia is that we will foolhardy economy is not open but you know that's why we'll know a barry is wit

continue to escalate with tens of thousands of protesters hitting the streets in defiance of president bashir al assad activists are claiming at least nineteen have been killed in protests earlier today that occurred in three of syria's largest cities according to a june twelfth statement from the syrian army observatory for human rights a total of one thousand two hundred eighty nine civilians and three hundred thirty two security force members have been killed since the protests began. as the military has been used to crack down specific pockets of dissent some smaller cities have even been turned into virtual ghost towns as dissidents and frightened citizens fled to turkey in the face of tanks in proof that the rest of the world's governments don't really care about human welfare when it comes to regime change if there was ever one more call for this the strongest reproach that we've seen to this situation has come from united a united nations secretary general ban ki-moon quote i have discussed and talked to president assad several times i have strongly urged him to listen to the wishes a

the libyan scenario happening in syria or to get there with the international community we can urge bashir percents to put the reforms into practice as soon as possible and to call on the opposition not to ignore suggestions to discuss these reforms but to start negotiating them. when it came to syria's president bashar assad addressed the nation with his third major speech since the unrest began in the country in mid march and it is sad promise liberal reforms but declined to go into detail that was something was picked up on by the opposition and the president stuck to his stance that foreign influence was behind the uprising that no change was possible until the violence died and experts say the speech could become a turning point if the president does follow through on his promises let's get more thoughts on this a speech by president assad and what the future might hold for the embattled regime until two pm again place a political science professor at the west universe at the west paris university very good even to things based on our table so what is your a take on this speech to thi

is ready to push for action against al bashir of the regime at this point. well look this situation in syria is extraordinarily bad we now have eleven thousand of syria's people who have fled into turkey and the forces of of. russia have gone to the north of the country right to the borders and really you've seen the evacuations of of. villages like good beetlejuice. where they virtually just fled in the advance of the syrian forces this is a desperately serious situation the international community must act to bring the syrian regime to its senses we had all hoped that assad would prove to be a moderating force in libya that he would calm tensions that he would not give in to the military in the way that he has clearly he has become the captive of his own military and intelligence agency so you know you want your own calling you are calling for the international community we will get involved with syria are you suggesting a similar campaign to what's going on in libya no not at all no i salute you not but what i am suggesting is that there must be serious s

sitting head of state let's look at the success of the other one it was sudanese president omar al bashir who is not facing trial at the hague rather he is still ruling not facing those charges you see there here's some of the other arrests the court has issued the kenyan prime minister and minister for finance was charged with murder rape persecution among other charges he is at large not handed over to the court a few of the. people that have been charge that have been handed over let's look at those charles taylor is one he's a former leader of the lid liberia now those charges are from the i.c.c. he was handed over to the i.c.c. to face the. will trial also the former congolese leader he also let's bring that up and he did get every handed handed over to the court on those charges of enlisting conscripting children under the age of fifteen years to participate in active hostilities so you see a mixed record as far as what these charges actually needs a leader than if they get handed over to the court and i say arrested but what will they mean for qaddafi and could actually be a hindra

sitting head of state let's say the success of this though the other was sudanese president omar al bashir who is now facing trial or excuse me he's not facing trial at the hague and that is because he is still ruling he's the president of sudan and his charges include war crimes now there are some other arrests that have been made that the court has issued let's look at some of them one is for the kenyan deputy prime minister and minister for finance of the republic of kenya. on charges of murder forcible transfer rate persecution other inhumane acts now if you have and it up the court been handed over by countries let's look at look at a couple of those one is charles taylor let's put that up he is the former leader of liberia now his charges were actually from the i.c.c. but he ended up being extradited there for the actual court hearings for that trial and another included the former kong elisa leader let's go to that he was apprehended he was a rebel leader of the democratic republic of the congress if he was taken to the i.c.c. for charges including enlisting in conscripting children

actual sitting head of state let's take a look at the other that was for sudanese president omar al bashir and he is not facing trial at the hague he is still ruling in sudan despite those charges you see there now here are some of the other arrests the court has asked for the other charges that they have made one is for the former or the kenyan leader his deputy prime minister and minister of finance for the republic of kenya he is still in that role he's at large for those i.c.c. charges of murder forcible transfer rate persecution other inhumane acts now a few have been handed over to the court and they include let's take a look at those charles taylor former leader of. liberia now though his charges aren't from the i.c.c. they're from another court he went to the i.c.c. to face that trial another include former congolese leader the one that you see right here if we could bring that up he was ended up at i.c.c. for his charges of enlisting and conscripting children under the age of fifteen years despite using them to participate actively in hostilities so as you can see there's kind of

an indonesian court delivered a guilty verdict in the bashir case.he radical cleric had been convicted of several terrorism charges. kathy kianna was in the courtroom. tell us about the case and what happened. >>> i said jakarta district court found him guilty of terrorism charges and he was sentenced to 15 years in jail. the specific charge is planning and influencing others to provide money for what would be used for terrorism acts. and the charges were actually part of several others that were first put forward in its case when it started three months ago. ba'asyir was first arrested for a training camp in early 201. police say he and his organization was involved in setting up the camp and police claim that the militants were preparing to launch attacks similar to the one in mumbai in 2008. now, in the past, authorities tried but failed to directly link him to the major terror attacks in indonesia. this was his third trial in a decade. in the first two trials, the officials tried to link the elder to attacks in bali and jakarta. he was charged wi

>> any evidence that arab countries are helping bashir al assad? >> reporter: at this point, i don't think that any has directly emerged. we certainly haven't seen it. we don't have administration officials at least telling us about that. what they are watching is this iranian flow very carefully because, you know, if iran is backing various elements in concern that, when assad falls -- if he falls, i should say -- that they will still have influence inside of syria. that could make this whole situation even more unsettling, wolf. >> thank you very much, barbara starr, with that new information. let's get to the political battle in this country over libya. republican sources say house republican leaders are planning to hold votes this week to use their power of funding to limit the u.s. military mission. that's because president obama has failed to seek congressional approval for military action under the war powers act. he ignored a sunday deadline set by the house speaker john boehner. let's bring in our white house correspondent dan lothian. dan

syria's dictator bashir al assad has been trying to crush the pro-democracy demonstrations by using extreme violence. all he's done is kill 1,400 of his own people, filled up refugee camps in turkey and strengthened opposition demands he reform or resign. demonstrators in every part of syria turned out in a show of defiance and rebellion not seen before. in hama, where assad's father in 19828 killed tens of thousands of protesters, almost 15,000 demonstrators marched on friday shouting "freedom for syria." [ irgunfire ] but in the hostal city of homs, the army fired into the crowds again. human activists reported 19 people died nationwide, a number that cannot be confirmed. in the overflowing refugee camps inside turkey, the anger against assad is intense. "my allah destroy him," this woman says, "the way he has destroyed us." she and several other refugees who have fled to these camps in turkey told us their stories using cell phone videos. they asked not to be identified. "there isn't a single thing that assad hasn't done," she is saying. "he's torched our homes, robbed the shops and rape

massed in a northern province, where there are reports of fighting between those loyal to president bashir assad and defectors. opposition forces have staged weeks of demonstrations throughout the country, calling for an end to the assad family's 40-year rule. jonathon rugman of independent television news prepared this report from london. many of the images come from amateur video posted online. >> reporter: the opposition activists filmed these troops. they're believed to be commanded by the syrian president's younger brother. the government says their mission is to avoid casualties, but there were reports of heavy fighting outside the town tonight. and inside, a ghost town. the only sound is bird songs. in streets where over 40,000 people usually live, they fled when they heard the army was coming, says the cameraman. after what may have been the bloodiest rebellion yet in this 11-week-old uprising. this is how state television reported that uprising. 120 members of the security forces killed by terrorists. >> the picture shows an aspect of the massacres committed by the arm terrorist o

he appeared on my colleague martin bashir's show on msnbc and he ended up running headlong into the it's okay if you're a republican problem. watch this. >> the man is a creep and he's a member of the united states congress and he's admitted to flat out lying not only to the american people multiple times but to multiple reporters and even coming back to hallways after he knew -- >> mr. priebus is john ensign a creep as well? >> well, you know, listen -- >> no, sorry, can you just answer that? >> john ensign resigned. i'm not going to get -- >> was he a creep prior to his resignation? >> i have no idea about whether or not he was a crepe or not. but the man resigned and he did the honorable thing. and the reality is that i think anthony weiner should do the same. >> i have no idea if john ensign was a creep? should be noted that john ensign only he says did the honorable thing and resigned after it was clear that he was going to have to testify in front of the senate ethics committee. after testifies clear that at the timics committee had enough dirt to recommend his expulsion from the s

not sure if bashir is going to be particularly concerned about the icc, is he? >> i think he will be concerned. we're not going to arrest him and bring him to the hague but i think it's important he be identified for the criminal that he is. this ace young man, a young ruler who had illusions about being a member of the community of nations. he is now being banished. what he and his colleagues are doing they're telling us there's a future for syria beyond him. i think for the obama administration again, all illusions pinned on dealing with bashar, the illusions entertained by none other than senator john kerry, the head of the foreign relations committee that he will see the light of day. all this is junk. >> every friday in one sense i sort of hope for what is going to happen in syria, that people will continue to come out in protest. on the other hand, i fear the inevitable crackdown, the inevitable murders that will occur. what happened today? how bad was it? >> indeed, anderson, unfortunately today also the military and the security forces continue pressing