russia is not living up your party of gloss of because they guard fifty percent of the vote in the city duma and this is going to from them by all the opinion sort of sort of their approval rating is. what forty last year in the sense that all the other parties are at the summit much less popular so it's the biggest party the most popular party but i'm not saying it's a perfectly good has many defects like any other part of the power to those but more than that in the media this party has to speak to changes world so the future of united russia will speak to you i think. it is. in the wrong. sense riskless the new concern. because what's going on the power of that which we should have in our country we don't have a social democratic proper social democratic party in russia and it's actually bad it's a shame because that on the usually you have to flank conservative centrist horses and social democrats on the other playing with you you can get on the perhaps. these and we will develop as we implemented our new political reform and develop bartlett system so it's perfectly obvious for mean. we

. >> activists have issued unconfirmed reports that the shelling of the cities of homs, duma, and rastane continued. 24 people were killed on friday alone. it has triggered a flood of refugees. some 23,000 are now living in turkey. the u.n.-brokered ceasefire is due to come into force next tuesday. >> each of former intelligence chief and right hand and to hosni mubarak is apparently decided to run for the presidency after all. silliman issued a statement saying he changed his mind because so many egyptians wanted him to run. he still needs to gather 30,000 signatures to get on the may ballot, and thousands of supporters of one candidate turned out in cairo. one candidacy could be rejected a since it emerged his mother was reportedly a u.s. citizen. >> nomadic tuaregs have blamed the dependence for what they call the state of azawan. the secession bid was rejected by african muslim capitals. tribesmen have seized the northern towns or they say they want to oppose sharia law in northern mali. >> the new military regime has proven too weak to dislodge the experienced fighters, many of whom

. >> just half an hour's drive from the city's center, shelling and shooting in the suburb of duma. just four days from the deadline for it to call off its crackdown, the regime seems to be pulling out all of the stops to fish off resistance wherever it finds it. activists say there's a real war here. closer to the city center on video showed large numbers of government troops to activists that are engaged in a crackdown there too. no sign there of the withdraw the syrians say they've already begun. defiance for the regime continues. also close to damascus, a late siege to the local government building and tried to raise the rebel flag there. far away to the north, government forces were in action attacking several towns including this one. but the third biggest city in central syria continues to take the brunt of the battering. borders have been shelled and rocketed for days as clashes go on. they seem to have dug in in other districts. some of them from the syrian army at the national hospital on tuesday. under kofi annan's peace plan, they are supposed to stop their attack within

. >> and now more from booktv's trip to little rock, the largest city and the capital of arkansas. next we hear from ernie dumas his book, "waiting for the cemetery vote: the fight to stop election fraud in arkansas," chronicles problems from the 19th century up until the 1970s when citizens banded together to fight a system that corrupt officials had perpetuated for years. >> the cemetery vote is a, is a name applied to, i guess, generically to election fraud. in a lot of places, particularly in arkansas and in southern states, one of the things that political bosses did was on, in close elections when you need votes late at night, you voted the dead people, the cemetery vote. that was called the cemetery vote. so you couldn't count the ballots, you couldn't call the election until the cemetery vote was in so, thus, the title of the book, "waiting for the is cemetery vote." election fraud in arkansas, i think, is kind of like election fraud throughout the south. and i think the kind of culture of election fraud probably can be traced back to reconstruction era. shortly after the civil war and the end of recons

mentioned the protests which followed the duma elections to that's meant to be did have said that he respected those who came out in moscow in another russian cities to express their own political view but he did say that he believed that the speakers a lot of people who were speaking from the stage these protests were actually pursuing their own political agendas here is more detail from the russian president . now as regards the protesters first of all the right to do that but it's just a question of whether this protest is. because there is also a well calculated political position i don't blame those people but some of those things reminded me old for hollywood some of them and people who. what else they pursued but he salutes all new specific political goals who would soon move them with gusts just sort of the stigma. and of course the issue of me that costy od on the issue of his pardon rather to that to me to me that have said that it's actually on constant to tional to pardon anyone like other cost because the man has not asked for that specific god for for the part and here is the here is more from the us president. ok we have article fif

duma. this is a suburb that had been undersiege for the last few days. there's also a presence of two monitors stationed in the city homs who had come under violence force and also two monitors stationed in the flashpoint city of homs as well. but despite that, in other parts of the country that the monitors have not been able to reach, there have been various reports of ongoing violence and of the government moving its tanks around, quite simply, according to opposition activists, buying itself more time. and even if and when the number of this u.n. observer mission does reach 300, that quite simply is not going to be enough to enforce any sort of a cease-fire. and even if that hypothetically should take place, getting both sides of this highly polarized conflict to sit down at any sort of negotiating table, that at this point in time is incredibly unrealistic. all of this painting an incredibly bleak picture for the future of that war-torn nation. john? >> cnn's arwa damon there in beirut. let's talk more about this with a senior fellow at the hoover institution at stanford university and the author of "the syria

duma. the ones in the pickup trucks firing as they go. assad promised to pull them out. this is a peaceful protest. erupted. another broken promise. >> the city, it is still under attack. another broken promise. the shelling there stopping just long enough for monitors to come and go then starting up again. the opposition says at least 35 people were killed today. hundreds have been killed now since assad agreed to this so-called ceasefire. mass graves like this one over the weekend are said to be filling up. an opposition member today told us what the mission is really doing. it's buying assad more time to kill. he sees in his words, a deployment of security forces to the north of his city. this is annan's gift. john mccain agrees. he wants america to do more to stop the killing. i spoke to him earlier today. senator, at the holocaust memorial, the president said we need to do everything we can to stop the slaughter of innocent people by blood thirsty regimes. that all sounds good, but is it just rhetoric? are we doing that in syria? >> well, anderson, i think it's really kind of paradoxical that the president said quote, remembrance without

i do cap city comedy in austin all the time bring him down and i'll take a picture, absolutely. >> right back on the "stephanie miller show." ♪ >>> do they hashtag, dumasracters of banana. >> by the way we just got a last-minute big name, lilly tomlin calling this hour. >> oh, my god! >> wa-what? we still have right-wing world and celebrity stack. >> i'm doing an event with lilly tomorrow night. >> there you go. i think we do like it. all right. this is how you know it's real news. it's not a fax weekend anchor's tweet. it's jacki schechner in the current news center. >> good morning. >> good morning. everyone we now know president obama is going to have no trouble going after republicans, and in particular the house budget plan that would cut the deficit by slashing things we need for the middle class. the gop budget cut is students in particular. student loan interest rates is set to double. and the house and democrats want to pass a bill to keep student levels where they are now. but the gop says there is no room for that. but let's put this into some perspective for you. treasury bonds sold at 2%. and if the stafford loan rates double, that would m