is born and raised in daraa and the syrian are at the scene now and we need or should send him actually to serve in house there and they give him in a suction stop in the fire on the protesters and the people in hatteras there started chanting going to syria there are three of daraa his hometown this is why he was in china and in chinese and himself how. can i open fire on the people actually they are calling considered that if you my my hometown doc and this is why they did i won't call the soldiers and among the officers in the syrian army it's a clear that they see it out of me it's only the fourth division which is the most loyal one to bush and i said this for division and our sober vision off my head and i said the brother of bashar i said make it making this huge and on and invading that many cities and you could wiring their cities but as are other other divisions and unit this in the army is not supportive of that i said and now there is a lot of defection along the army so we're not talking about into confessional violence in syria no no this is it's it is not that he is makin

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remember, his family was from outside of daraa and on some occasions he was refusing to eat because he told his parents it was unfair to have access to food when so many people were suffering because of the siege. he also had dreams to be a policeman one day. but according to the relative, he changed his mind when he saw police brutality against the demonstrators and didn't know what he wanted to do when he was going to grow up. now we do know that he is, at the very least, emerging as a symbol of the syria uprising. >> more on our headliner story as tension on the streets escalate. the syrian government forbids us from doing our jobs as journalists within our borders. therefore, we lie on voices from the inside to tell us what is actually happen. because if we're to believe what the government disseminates on their news outlet, they are all singing kum-by-ya. this was smuggled out by a few brave souls. a warning, the images you are about to see are unusually disturbing even for footage out of syria. >> what we have been doing over the past few weeks is seeking out people that were the

and daraa, by the way, is the city where it all started because 15 children were arrested, you'll rememberr writing the anti-regime graffiti. and that's when that city said no. you know, you can imprison me. you cannot imprison and torture my children. >> one of the challenges we have as a news organization is that we can't get in there. they won't let us in. the regime won't let us in, won't let our cameras in, won't let our reporters and producers in. a lot of this comes off the internet. the challenge of verifying -- talk a bit about how we can do the best we can through these activists, through human rights operatives, so that when we do show these images we're not blindly throwing video on television. >> no, we're not. and sometimes mistakes are made, and sometimes everyone is duped. for instance, when the syrian ambassador to france resigned on a french news network, it turned out that it wasn't her, that france 24 was a network that called a number they always use to contact the syrian embassy, and it seems as though they were, quote, punked, if you will. however, when we use video

secretary general ban ki moon has urged president to stop killing people in our age in daraa activists say more than fourteen hundred have died since the protests began in march. greece has a new finance minister following a cabinet reshuffle and pushing through deep you know the number of forms the current defense minister will take over the post mr george brett wants a static secure belief to do it in a second move in the bailout occurred before news outlets of violent protests and things and beyond. released court papers show that dominique strauss kahn who police say had diplomatic immunity after he was detained there were york's j.f.k. airport the former head of the international monetary fund was arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a hotel maid last night a frenchman who was the allegation. i. think she's a nice crisp dictate. a huge blast these many cities in time let me out. you think this is the suspect in a terror attack but explosions now thoughts with ghastly. buildings rescue workers say it was a miracle that anyone has to get out of the. coal in the frozen contin

abazeed says the men were unarmed and were responsible for food distributions during the siege of daraaow people came up with their own methods to distribute food across the battle zone, filling water drums with vegetables and other basics and using a pulley system to distribute them. they say the five men who were killed were using the same tech mean when security forces shot them dead. they killed them to starve the people he claims. they hope to break the will of the opposition. activists claim the regime is undertake ag deliberate campaign to smear the opposition, repeatedly using threats to force confessions and cover up their own crimes. they say this video is evidence of another atrocity in dara. and the syrian government has not responded to cnn's request for a response. arwa damon, cnn beirut. >>> quickly updating you on the story out of libya. within the last half hour a series of air strikes have been reported in the center of tripoli. at least ten loud explosions were heard in the libyan capital. large plumes of smoke are billowing over the city. jets can also be heard overh

we received hamza from the general hospital in daraa.rt and his picture was written by the attorney general. there were four reports and investigations. the president addressed the committee today to fully investigate the issue in order to get the truth. it's like he's his own son. there's nothing more to say. >> translator: he considers him his son. he wants to be sure of the words we are hearing. >> hamza's relative, who we're not naming for that person's protection, says that hamza's father and uncle said all of that because they were threatened, the family was threatened. joining me now is fareed zakaria. not only can a regime like this kill a 13-year-old boy and mutilate and torture him, they can force the family of that boy to even deny what happened to their son. it is a -- it's just a double blow. it's particularly insidious. >> it's completely or wellian, anderson. it is something you couldn't write this in the pages of stalin or hitler. it is precisely this kind of implication, get the victims and their families implicated, for

reporter: on april 29th, anti-government protesters tried to break the syrian army siege on the city of daraaibed is how security forces indiscriminately opened fire on them. dozens were killed and wounded. countless others detained. among them says his family was 13-year-old hamza, separated from his father in the chaos. a month later, the family received their son's body. hamza's face bloated, purple. this video posted to youtube catalogs each of his wounds. much of it too graphic to broadcast. the narrator points out multiple gunshots before moving to his head. and even more shocking, his genitals were mutilated. cnn cannot independently verify what happened to hamza or the authenticity of this video. after it was initially broadcast, hamza's family was threatened. now they are too petrified to talk, even to close friends. a prominent syrian activist reached via skype says she has no doubt it's real and that the regime had a message in releasing the boy's body. >> they want the people to see this, to get scared. they want the people to know that there is no -- everything, no matter how awf

they've sent in the army in daraa. and yet the protesters keep coming out on the streets.ink hamza helps crystallize all that rage, and it may help shift the political balance of power. at some point the upper middle class, the merchant class may decide this has gone too far. at this point, you cannot deny the horrific brutality of a man who presents himself as a reformer and has two young sons -- two young children himself, the facts won't lie. >> and fouad, to see -- every night to be talking to someone like razan zaytouni, i am so moved by her courage. you see those pictures of other little children out on the streets carrying pictures of hamza. what razan said i thought was interesting, that the regime for years has sent back the bodies of people they tortured as a warning. in the past, they have wanted people to see and perhaps that's why they released hamza's body and just didn't make him disappear. but they seem to have miscalculated. >> look, anderson, the theme from your own coverage has been about fear, and whether fear has been defeated, whether fear could be re

there were large protests-- in daraa, where the uprising began; in idlib, in latakia, in homs, and, notably, thousands marching in the capital, damascus. witnesses reported syrian helicopter gunships opened fire on crowds in one town. in washington, state department spokesman mark toner said that kind of brutal response is dooming the assad regime. >> it's really assad who's been shedding his legitimacy through his actions. he has refused to reform, refused to even make any gestures toward reform other than empty rhetoric. he's got to, again, either allow for the transition, help the transition take place, or get out of the way. >> brown: meanwhile, a move to denounce syria at the united nations remained in doubt due to russian objections. >> warner: still to come on the newshour: tough talk about nato; victims of the iranian regime; shields and brooks; and leaking classified information. but first, the other news of the day. here's kwame holman. >> holman: wall street had a friday to forget, amid worries about the economic recovery. the dow jones industrial average fell 172 points to close

and murdered by security forces. 15-year-old tamer al-sharei disappeared from the southern city of daraa in april, on the same day, and in the same place, as 13-year-old hamza al-khatib. video of his brutalized corpse was released last week. the growing terror and bloodshed have prompted new fears that the effects will reach beyond syria's borders. secretary of state hillary clinton spoke today in abu dhabi. >> sadly, under president assad, it is becoming a source of instability in region. i don't think anyone looking at the situation can conclude that this will end well unless there is a change in the behavior of the government. >> woodruff: the syrian uprising and the regime's brutal response also tops the agenda at the united nations. britain and france sought support for a security council resolution condemning the assad government. british prime minister david cameron outlined the stakes yesterday in a speech before the house of commons. >> the violence being meted out to peaceful protesters and demonstrators is completely unacceptable. of course, we must not stand silent in the fac

when i talk about daraa salaam, there are two worlds in the ideology of that. there is daraa salaam which is the world of islam and there's another which is the world of the infidel and there is no middle ground. there is no -- >> i understand that. what i'm saying is as we look to be informational, we should include an analysis of how christian militants or others might bring down the country. we have to look broadly, do we not? >> i don't know that christian militants have foreign country backing or foreign country financing. >> i don't think that's the issue. the issue is whether or not their intent is to undermine the laws of this nation. and i think it is clear that that is the case. so your distinction is not answering the question. let me go to mr. useem very quickly because i think he makes some very valid points. you indicate that we're more astute and i do want to ask this question about the nation of islam. do you know what the nation of islam is? >> yes, i do. >> do you view them as promoting in the current 21st century the undermining of this natio