, which is on the other side of that wall -- from the city of daraa. people in that town say there's been a house-to-house search over the last couple days. every man between age of 16 and 40 has been detained and taken away. this is an attempt by the regime to stop the kind of protests that have been taking place these days. in towns like this and other towns like homs and in central syria, people are going to the streets and demanding democratic reform, even though many of them have been killed in recent weeks. the red cross is demanding uninhibited and immediate access to all those people detained and all those people who have been injured. >> what does the syrian government say in response to the criticism by the red cross and in response to the many criticisms it has come around the world? >> the syrian government's narrative is similar to what we heard in other countries like libya. the syrian government blames this opposition movement on insurgency on criminals and islamists. the evidence from the ground might suggest otherwise. these are normal

until now it's three got discovered by people of daraa. and in areas around daraa, the city today.e was the bodies of a whole family, of a father and all his sons. and actually, after that, the mother, when she heard about this news, she had a heart attack and was dead today. it's a tragedy in the whole -- we couldn't imagine that such crimes which was committed in '80s will be committed again these days in the front of the whole world with all this media, with all this international attention, but it happens, actually. >> for weeks now that we've been reporting on what's going on in syria we've heard from people like yourself and protesters who have said that the government is trying to take bodies of people they've killed to deny a proper burial with their family, a burial that might become a protest movement in and of itself. do you think that this is what they've been doing with the bodies that they've taken? >> that could be part of it. i think the dead people could be tortured and killed during the torture, could be killed during the bombing and shelling on the cities, and du

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this morning, syrian state tv reports syrian troops are withdrawing from daraa. >>> now to japan, where this morning,workers at the crippled fukushima nuclear power plant entered the building that houses the seriously damaged reactor number 1. it is their first time in the building since the first days after the march 11th earthquake. the workers are installing ventilation machines to try to reduce radiation levels. >>> back in this country, officials are warning that flooding along the mississippi river and its tributaries, already a major disaster, is going to get even worse. floods have already forced thousands from their homes in illinois and missouri. and farther south, the water is rising fast. kendis gibson reports. >> reporter: the national guard raced to save a 93-year-old woman when floodwaters washed out this missouri road. one of the guardsmen pulled her out of her sinking car and brought her to safety. residents are evacuating all along the mississippi river in missouri and southern illinois as the water rises. hundreds have gone to local shelters. >> it was a moment, nobod

at least 13 others died outside daraa, in the south. up to now, security forces relied on gunfire and snipers to crush the seven-week-old uprising against president bashar al assad. but in the past week, the army has sealed off towns and villages that were centers of the protests. maadamiyeh- -a suburb of the capital damascus is surrounded. as is daraa and the nearby towns of jassem and al-haraa, where much of today's shelling occurred. and, the city of banias on the coast is also cut off. syrian human rights workers now say more than 770 civilians have been killed in the crackdown and in recent days more than 9,000 people have been rounded up around the country. these you-tube pictures appear to show people being detained in damascus. british reporter martin fletcher witnessed the roundups in homs, after he got into syria on a tourist visa. >> quite clearly, the regime had been going around the street of homs arresting any young man of fighting age and putting him into this and presumably other detention centers. i was held for about s

the picture emerging from daraa and other cities is increasing desperate. hundreds of people have been rounded up and detained, taken away by security forces to prisons and detention centers from where there have been horrific accounts of widespread torture. at the weekend, the regime gave its opponents a window of two weeks, an apparent amnesty to surrender themselves and their arms, but more dramatic unverified footage has come out of the secretive country. it shows people with their hands bound face down on the ground. soldiers keeping them there at gunpoint. the red cross is demanding without success immediate and unrestricted access to all detainees and those injured in the fighting. the importance and significance of what is now happening across syria should not be underestimated despite the rather crude and obvious attempts by the asadowski regime dassad regime to stop news from getting out. if they were to fall, it would have tremendous implications for regional security and politics. >> now from westminster abbey to washington, d.c. the past week h

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or must allow human rights monitors to have access to cities like daraa and start a serious dialogue to advance a democratic transition otherwise president assad his regime will continue to be challenged from within and will continue to be isolated abroad and then there's the israel palestine issue where recent clashes are threatening to ignite another war in the region the president laid out this plan for peace in the middle east. now ultimately it is up to the israelis and palestinians to take action no peace can be imposed upon them not by the united states not by anybody else. but endless delay won't make the problem go away. what america and the international community can do is to state frankly what everyone knows. a lasting peace will involve two states for two people the united states believes that negotiations should result in two states with permanent palestinian borders with israel jordan and egypt and permanent israeli borders with palestine we believe the borders of israel and palestine should be based on the nine hundred sixty seven lines with mutually agreed swaps so t

witnesses reported heavy gunfire in at least five villages near daraa. the embattled city has been at the center of the syrian uprising. meanwhile, new amateur video showed protesters in several cities being fired on this week. and activists said the military is methodically sealing off any place where there has been unrest. in pakistan, intelligence officials said a u.s. drone aircraft strike killed at least three alleged militants. it was the second such attack since the u.s. raid that killed osama bin laden. in today's incident, the pakistanis said two missiles hit a vehicle in south waziristan, near the border with afghanistan. japan will scale back reliance on nuclear power in the wake of the march earthquake and tsunami. commercial nuclear plants now supply nearly a third of japan's electricity, and that figure was on track to rise to 50% by 2030. but prime minister naoto kan said today the focus will shift instead to alternative sources and conservation. >> following the major accident, we will scrap the energy policy and start from scratch. we wi

the army said units were withdrawing from daraa, the heart of the uprising against president bashar al-assadt people in the coastal city of banias reported forces were massing there. this cell phone video showed columns of tanks entering the city today. workers in japan have made their first foray into a damaged reactor building at the fukushima dai-ichi nuclear plant. the unit one building was rocked by an explosion just after the march earthquake and tsunami. today, workers connected ventilation equipment to reduce radiation levels inside. the crews were allowed in after robots collected fresh data. their readings showed radiation levels had fallen enough for humans to enter safely. new worries about the u.s. economy roiled the stock market today. the dow jones industrial average lost 139 points to close at 12,584. the nasdaq fell 13 points to close at 2,814. and the price of oil took its steepest dive in two years to drop back under $100 a barrel. the sell-off followed word that first-time claims for jobless benefits have hit an eight-month high. nasa leaders and former astronauts marked

security forces also shot into crowds outside the city of daraa and in the town of mayadeen. the deaths added to estimates of up to 850 protesters killed since the uprising there began. that's already prompted president recep tayyip erdogan in neighboring turkey to denounce the killings. and in istanbul today, protesters marched to the syrian consulate, where they burned photos of assad. >> the regime killed more than 1,000 people in syria, and they blockade a lot of cities. almost all the cities in syria are blockaded. >> suarez: there were also huge new protests today in yemen, and troops there killed at least three more people in ibb, a city south of sanaa. embattled president ali abdullah saleh drew his own crowd of supporters in sanaa. he accused his opponents of sabotage. >> ( translated ): these are acts of destruction and vandalism. what we have built in 23 years has been destroyed in three months. these agents of destruction want to take control of seats of power, slaughter yemeni people, and cut their heads. >> suarez: meanwhile, in libya, moammar qaddafi insisted h

on sunday, one of the key cities in the uprising, daraa, came under heavy shelling by government tanks. they were led by president bashar assad's brother. disaster relief efforts geared up today for tornado victims across the american south. in all, 342 people were killed, and thousands more injured in last week's storms. in alabama today, the federal emergency management agency set up offices to help people apply for aid. and shelters began providing free eye clinics, as volunteers worked to get prescription drugs to those who need them. more rain fell on southeast missouri today, as officials considered blasting a levee to save an illinois town. the federal courts have refused to block an army corps of engineers plan. it calls for blowing open a levee at birds point, missouri. the goal is to relieve possible flooding at cairo, illinois, farther up the ohio river. missouri officials warned it would inundate more than 100,000 acres of farmland. in economic news, chrysler reported it made $116 million in the first quarter of the year, its first profit since 2006. but on wall street, tha

this is video that claims to be from daraa posted online. as such we can't independently confirm the specifics, but it's pretty plain to see. i want to show you an ambulance in the middle of sniper fire. you can clearly see the red crescent painted on the side. you can clearly see a driver in medical garb with a surgical mask sitting up front. now, we can see it. so could the snipers. and they didn't need a scope to verify what they were looking at. it could not be plainer. ambulances by any rule of war and simple human decency are supposed to be off limits. but watch what happens. [ yelling in foreign language ] what you're seeing are snipers opening up on a clearly marked ambulance, targeting it. nothing accidental about it. no stray shots, bullets aimed directly at the front windows, directly at the ambulance drivers inside. the driver, as you can see, is hit. we don't know if he's dead or wounded. we don't know exactly what happened to them. we do know from experience that syrian snipers target people trying to retrieve the dead and the