marie colvin made a specialism of reporting the middle east. she had covered most of the major conflicts of the last 30 years. she narrowly escaped death in 2001 in sri lanka where she was badly wounded. >> if you are going to cover a war, you always weigh the risks. i had shrapnel in my eye and i lost sight in my left eye. nice to see you. >> last year, she was among a small group to interview colonel gaddafi. her editor recall this in your lowly determined reporter. >> she was there to report what other people would not. -- her editor recalled this singularly determined reporter. >> flowers were left at a church in west london. she lived by the model of the great correspondent, it was essential to make an angry sound against injustice. it was a mission for which marie colvin lived and died. >> for more on today's deaths and the violence which is escalating inside of syria, i am joined from cambridge by the london bureau chief for the "new york times." the one thing they would like is for the story of what is going on in homs to keep going out

marie colvin, a veteran war correspondent and remi ochlik. under a sustained assault by government forces. we get more from our war correspondent emily buchanan. >> the bottom bardment of baba amr. it appears from these latest pictures to be relentless. throwing the spotlight, they are now becoming the victims. this is the makeshift media center apparently hit by a shell. the bodies of two foreign journalists were found inside. one has been confirmed as the "sunday times" war correspondent marie colvin. >> i watched a baby die today, horrific. a 2-year-old hit. they stripped it and found metal went into the left chest. his little tummy kept heaving until he died. that is happening over and other and over. no one here can understand how the international community can let this happen. >> the other foreign journalist killed was the french photographer remi ochlik. the french foreign minister paid tribute to him. >> it's another demonstration of the representation in syria. >> these deaths come after a prominent syrian journalist was also killed

marie colvin. the 56-year-old colvin was covering the rebellion for britain's sunday times. she and a french photojournalist were killed in the rebel stronghold of homs, a city that's been under constant bombardment for close to three weeks. just a day before her death, colvin was on television calling the crackdown relentless and shocking. >> i think the sickening thing is the complete merciless nature. they're hitting civilian buildings. >> colvin was a veteran war correspondent. she lost her left eye covering a conflict in 2001. her final dispatch was sent from the basement of a shelter for women and children in homs. colvin's family in new york said she was preparing to leave syria on the day she was killed. her editor at the paper broke the tragic news to them. >> he wanted her to come out because it had gotten too dangerous and she said she was on a very important story. >> the white house reacted, saying colvin's death highlights the brutality of the assad regime. >> a reminder of the incredible risks that journalists take. marie colvin, anthony shadid and the french

i hope to see you soon. >> marie colvin. in buenos aires, at least 49 people have been killed and 600 more injured after a commuter taint -- commuter train crashed. an investigation is underway to find the cause of the accident. the train arrived at rush hour, packed with commuters. these pictures show it was unable to stop before smashing into the buses. the second carriage crunched through the first. the authorities say it approached at normal speed, but at the last minute, was unable to slow down. >> people started to break the windows and get out however they could. i saw the engine destroyed and the train driver trapped below the steel. there were a lot of people hard. >> officials are trying to work out what caused the crash. they say it may have been brake failure. they are not ruling out driver error. the driver was young and had just boarded his shift. an investigation is under way. the rescue workers getting to those trapped alive was a priority. hundreds were injured. many were examined by medical staff at the sce

hope to see you soon. >> marie colvin. in the buenos aires, 49 people have been killed and at least 600 more injured after a commuter train cashed as it arrived into one of the city's busiest stations. an investigation is now under way to try to establish the exact cause of the incident. >> train arrived at rush hour, packed with commuters. as these pictures show, it was unable to stop before smashing into the buffers. the second carriage crunched through the first. the authorities said -- then approached at normal speed but at the last minute was unable to slow down. >> people start to break the windows and get out however they could. then i saw the engine destroyed and the train driver trapped amongst some steel. there were at love people hurt. a lot of kids, elderly. >> transport officials are trying to work out what caused the crash. they say it may have been break failure. they're not ruling out driver error. the man at the controls was young and had just started his shift. he was seriously injured and an investigatio

marie colvin was something of a legend among war correspondents. described as one of the most talented reporters of her generation. today, a tribute poured in from colleagues who remembered her courage, her humor, and her style. >> marie colvin was a great foreign correspondent. she was devoted to reporting the news and shining a light in the darkest corners. she wanted her readers to know the truth, especially the truth that powerful people wanted to keep hidden. the middle east was a specialty. -- was hurt specialty. >> she believed she was there to report what other people could not do. -- the middle east was her specialty. "sh>> she lost sight in her eye covering the war and sri lanka. >> if you are going to cover a war, you always weigh the risks. i had shrapnel in my eye and i lost sight in my left thigh. -- lkeft eye. she died doing what she loved. >> she was totally committed to what she did and the importance of telling the story and getting it out to the world. that was her life. she told me that she was on a story that was important and

colvin could make your way.cribed as an artist who speaks the truth we desperately need to hear, is a harvard law graduate, prison activist, hip- hop artist, grand slam poetry champion, actor, author, and educator. his new book, "the ugly side of beautiful: rethinking race in prisons in america" will be published later this year. the start of the off-broadway hip-hop theater production, he has lectured and performed at over 100 colleges and correctional facilities in the united states, africa, asia, latin america, and europe. he has released two albums to critical acclaim, taught at brooklyn college, new york university, the new school in columbia university, and is now touring lyrics for lockdown. one of those is sponsored by the naacp. i learned that he is beginning rehearsals for the remakes of "the wiz." let's welcome him. [applause] our moderator for this afternoon, world renowned anti- racist, multicultural educator. [applause] yes. as many of you in the audience know, she is an accomplished front line tea

colvin, without you we would not be where we are. [applause] thank you for sharing your story, and keep telling your story because we need to know, and our children need to know, and our children's children need to know your story. and we want to thank our sponsors today. we have the san francisco unified school district. we have marked as bookstores, who will be selling this -- ms. colvin's book, written about her, by philip house. we have sponsorship from the african diaspora, and the friends of the san francisco public library. i serve as part of the african- american interest committee that helped put this program together, and i want to thank all of you for coming, and i want to thank sfgtv for taking the program today. we want to thank the department here at san francisco public library, and we are having a reception in l58, and we want to thank read your catering for providing some delicious food for us to nibble on today, so will you please join us and say thank you again to mrs. colvin and also to byrin bain for telling his

colvin earlier. she said the media has a certain way to take people and put them up and you do not hear about everyone else. as if these are isolated incidents. so they called and his producers were like, we want to interview. we want to interview you on your campus in cambridge. i said, my brothers would like to, too. we have been putting this case for five months. basically, i said we are not going to do it. this is bogus. my porter rican red-haired cousin, he has funny hair. he was there, too. so we came back and they decided to do it with everybody. when that story came out, i started getting harassed. the police were giving out my social security number, my name. i had 50 cases of identity theft that followed. the next thing you ask to talk about was november 23, 2002. this experience changed my life. we started going to the prisons with a purpose now. we turned into touring artists for the prisons around the country. talking to the folks who were incarcerated, folks in the local community to in

up next, our tribute to journalist marie colvin. killed in syria last night.on the line repeatedly to tell the suffering of other people. we talked about it hours before she was killed. we'll hear some of her last interview. forty years ago, he wasn't looking for financial advice. back then he had something more important to do. he wasn't focused on his future. but fortunately, somebody else was. at usaa we provide retirement planning for our military, veterans and their families. now more than ever, it's important to get financial advice from people who share your military values. for our free usaa retirement guide, call 877-242-usaa. >>> we're ending the program with heavy hearts in a tribute to an incredibly brave journalist who repeatedly risked her own life to tell other people's stories. a woman whose own life has been cut short. we got the sad news that marie colvin was killed in homs where the syrian government has unleashed an all-out assault on its citizens. remi ochlik was also killed. he was just 28 years old. i spoke with marie colvin yesterday on

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did you at all in your days there see marie colvin? do you know her, ivan? >> yeah, i've seen her in war zones and hot spots around the world. she is a very good foreign correspondent. the loss of marie colvin, the gifted french photographer as well, and a pulitzer prize winning "new york times" writer just a few days ago, this is a big blow to that shrinking tribe, foreign kornts, that work in the middle east. more importantly, it highlights how many syrians are getting killed in this conflict. and it's very important to point out that it is the syrian citizen journalists who are bearing the brunt of this conflict. just last night, a prominent activist romney al assad and was calling for medicine to be shipped in and for the evacuation of women and children from that city. he was killed by a similar artillery strike by shrapnel, the kind that killed marie and this young photographer remi from france and countless others in homs, and we've met the young activist. these are young, ideal stick, little cameras without a tv company to back them. they have been b

marie colvin was certainly the best of our generation.ense fighting between moammar gadhafi's army and the libyan rebels. we know a lot of journalists have been detained, some killed. you're one of thed give us a flavor of what it's like to try to cover this war in miss rata. >> well, i think one of my worst moments was last night. i was in an ambulance, and one of the the missiles landed so close, the ambulance leapt into the air. i later found i was seeing casualties brought in, and there was my ambulance drive who dropped me on the 15 minutes earlier. he was lying on the ground injured. i can't describe the injuries. >> would you say this is the most dangerous environment you've covered over the years? i've watched and seen your reporting over the years. how would you rate what's going on in misrata right now? >> i think -- well, i wouldn't say -- chechnya was pretty bad, but it's a dangerous environment, largely because it's so unpredictable. it's changed building by building the entire time -- and when i say front, we're talking abou

colvin would come up as well. >> it is an honor to be asked to make these presentations. elected officials represented here are trailblazers themselves. many of them have been the first in their community to hold office. for example, ed lee, the first chinese-american to be appointed mayor in san francisco, is represented in this group. so is our congresswoman, nancy pelosi, the first woman ever to become speaker of the house in the history of the united states. [applause] tom amiano, who has been a historic figure and trailblazer, coming from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered community. [applause] also, our newest elected official, supervisor cohen, with her election last november at age 32, is the youngest african-american ever to be elected to the board of supervisors. [applause] she is now san francisco's highest-ranking elected official who is african-american, one of three women on the 11-member body, and the only african- american on that 11-member body. let me read -- since we are short on time -- the letter from the united states senator, dianne feinstein

paul conroy was killed in the same attack that killed marie colvin. and marie colvin was killed in that attack and her mother was saying all she wants now was for her daughter's body to be brought home. still not clear the whereabouts of the french journalist who has been injured. much more at our website www.bbc.com/news. you're watching "bbc world news." >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. and union bank. >> at union bank, our relationship managers use their expertise in global finance to guide you through the business strategies and opportunities of international commerce. we put our extended global network to work for a wide range of companies, from small businesses to major corporations. what can we do for you? >> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet los angeles.

marie colvin now becomes the latest.unately, hard to imagine she will be the last. >> joining us now is chief foreign affairs correspondent lara logan who knew marie colvin and knows the dangers that journalists face all too well. good morning, lara. >> good morning. >> tell me about her and how she felt about reporting and who she was. >> reporter: well, you couldn't be part of the foreign media world and travel to these places and not know who marie colvin was. she was a legend in her own right. and a pioneer in many ways. as a woman, she started to do this work a long, long time ago when it was more of a man's world than it still is today in some ways. marie was -- this was her life. she was completely committed to doing what she believed in. you know, you hear that in her words and in her reporting. just hours before she was killed, it was always about that for her. it was about bearing witness and giving a voice to the people that don't have one. as she said, so significantly, you know, if you're not on the ground t

people like marie colvin and others are a challenge to him. it's been said, anderson, this is the first youtube war. we see everything. we see everything. these brave people paid a terrible price to make us see deeper and deeper. i think there is absolutely a great amount of tolerance in our world for this because all the violence we have seen in syria hasn't risen to the level where the world would come to the rescue of the people of homs and to the rescue of the people of the other syrian towns. >> anderson, i strongly believe that's because you need people like marie colvin and arwa damon and all the people who go in there to humanize these endless hours of very brave youtube videos. >> the youtube video is not enough. >> it's not enough. you need the human story, the face to the numbers, the emotions of the people. you need to hear what they are going through. and to see that. that's what marie and everybody gave. >> i remember you in bosnia. i would occasionally go to bosnia. over the course of that war, i found people getting angry towar

colvin was 56 years old from long island, new york. she lost her left eye in an ambush in sri lanka in 2001. >> being a war correspondent to me has never been is that the-52 tank or t-72 tank? it's about people. what people are going through. >> reporter: colvin was killed along with award-winning french photojournalist remi ochlik where they were working. last night, colvin told cnn by phone that the bombardment of homes was, in her words, sickening. >> every civilian house on the street has been hit. we're talking about a very kind of poor popular neighborhood. the top floor of the building i'm in has been hit, in fact totally destroyed. there are no military targets here. it's a complete and utter lie that they are only going after terrorists. >> pelley: the reporting of marie colvin. the assault intensified sharply this month after russia and china vetoed a u.n. council resolution calling on assad to step down. since then, the u.s. has been searching for another way to end the massacre. norah o'donnell is at the white house tonight

colvin provided the bbc with some of the most vivid accounts of the brutality. hearing her now is haunting hours before her death. >> there were shells, rockets coming in hitting any building. i have not seen one military target. they're simply all firing. the wounded and dead i've seen 80% civilians. it is shelling with impunity and a merciless disregard for the civilians who simply cannot escape. >> reporter: colvin was no stranger to the cost of this unforgiving business of war reporting. she lost an eye to shrapnel in sri lanka. widely considered one of the greatest reporters of her generation, she was featured in a documentary about women on the front line. in homs there were no front lines, nowhere safe. >> there is a small clinic. you can't really call it a clinic. it's an apartment that has been turned into a clinic. you have plasma bags hanging from coat hangers. i watched a little baby die today, absolutely horrific. the doctor said i can't do anything and that is happening over and over and over. no one here can understand how the international commun

in homs, colvin provided the bbc with some of the most vivid accounts of the brutality. hearing her now, is haunting just hours before her death. >> there are just shells, rockets coming in, just hitting any building. i have not seen one military target. they're simply [ inaudible ]. and the wounded and dead i have seen, i would say about 80% civilians. it is shelling with impunity and merciless disregard for the civilians who simply cannot escape. >> reporter: colvin was no stranger to the costs of this unforgiving business of war reporting. she lost an eye to shrapnel in sri lanka. widely considered one of the greatest reporters of her generation, she was featured in a documentary about women on the fronts line. but in homs, there were no front lines. nowhere safe. >> a small clinic, can't even really call it a clinic. it's an apartment that has been turned into a clinic. i mean, plastic bags hanging from coat hangers. i watched a baby die today. absolutely horrific the doctor just said, i can't do anything. that is happening all over and over and over. no one here can

witnesses are critical as colvin and ochlik well knew. >> reporter: this was one of marie colvin's lastlpless child dying in homes because the syrian government won't stop firing on its own people. >> reporter: why is it important to see these images? >> reporter: i feel strongly these should be shown. these are 28,000 men, women and children hiding, defenseless. >> reporter: just hours after that -- colvin was killed along with remi ochlik. colvin said this is the worst thing she covered. she lost an eye in sri lanka in 2001. >> they are hitting civilian buildings, absolutely mercilessly and without caring. >> reporter: but as colvin insisted, our mission is to speak the truth to power. we sent home that first rough draft of history. some might call that bravado, some bravery. but colvin appreciated the difference. she was apparently about to leave. the situation had gotten that much worse for journalists. her mother, rosemary. >> she said she was on an important story that she wanted to finish and she would come out today. one day -- one day would have made all the difference. >> repo

one of the journalists, marie colvin did the last reporting on our program. we spoke to her hours before she was killed. 72 pages that read like an indictment. forces have committed widespread systematic and gross human rights violations amounting to crimes against humanity. the report notes the opposition of the african-american that committed abuses and not comparable in scale to those carried out by the state. the assad regime is fighting armed terrorists, not systematically shelling unarmed civilians that we see happening in homs. secretary of state clinton opened the door to closer ties with the political arm, the syrian national council. listen. >> there will be increasingly capable opposition forces. they will, from somewhere, somehow find the means to defend themselves as well as begin offensive measures and the pressure will build on countries like russia and china because world opinion is not going to stand idly by. >> diplomats telling cnn this view may prevail the friends conference that takes place in tunisia that secretary clinton is going to at

wabc's kristin thorne has more from colvin's new york home town. >> reporter: for decades rosemarie colvinhe most dangerous places in the world ravaged by war. in 2001 she lost her eye in an ambush in sri lanka. then the horrific phone call. >> you're never ready for it. all these years. all this time i was never ready for it. i just about -- i was just screaming. >> reporter: colvin and french photojournalist remi ochlik had been killed in a fierce shelling attack in syria. only hours before colvin did an interview with cnn. >> anyone who gets on the street, if they're not hit by a shell they're sniped. there are snipers all around. a lot of them are on the high buildings. i think the sickening thing is the complete merciless nature. >> reporter: the 56-year-old was a veteran war correspondent for the "london sunday times" and had asked to stay in syria one more day to cover the conflict. >> she's incredible. i never knew how she did it, yeah. she didn't -- just kept going. she covered one war after another. >> reporter: her journalistic career, though, had humble beginnings in the tri-st

meanwhile marie colvin was an icon.upert murdoch said, quote, she was driven by a determination that the misdeeds of tyrants and the suffering of the victims did not go unreported. her family had held its breath many times before. she got out oof it always. we always thought there was a chance she would get out. >> officials can't say whether syria targeted colvin and other journalists. one called request all foreign journalists register with the government the height of hypocrisy. wendell goler at the state department for us tonight. there are new and ominous signs of trouble in the nuclear standoff with iran. there is a new report out just today of deception and word that the israelis are apparently prepared to go it alone. a live report from the pentagon is next. [ male announcer ] this is the age of knowing what you're made of. why let erectile dysfunction get in your way? talk to your doctor about viagra. ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take viagra if you take nitrates for chest pain; it may cau

coming up at the bottom of the hour, soledad will talk to marie colvin's mother, rose itmary colvin.ath of a 9-year-old girl. savannah hardin's stepmother and grandmother are accused of forcing her to run for three hours until she collapsed and had a seizure. prosecutors say the, quote, all day marathon was this little girl's punishment for taking a candy bar. an autopsy found the girl died of extreme dehydration. both women are now charged with murder. >>> gas prices rising for the past 16 days. up 3 cents in just the past 24 hours. good morning. your gas prices just rose. the national average for a gallon of gas is now $3.61 a gallon. look at it this way. if you drive an economy size car with a 12 gallon tank, it costs you about $43 to fill up one tank of gas. if you have an suv, i'm terribly sorry. >>> president obama will talk gas prices and policy at the university of miami. he's expected to taut his program. the president has delved into u.s. oil reserves to help ease gas prices. he did that last year. it's a rare move. under pressure from environmentalists he did not approve t