officials say that they above target economic entities that support the government of elah thought -- el assad. demonstrations on the internet coming from various cities. activists in the country say that at leastwoeople were killed. united nations estimate is that 2200 people have been elected dead since march. afghan authorities said they have recovered the bodies of two germans that went missing, one of them by hiking trip two weeks ago. the bodies have been taken to the u.s. air base, where the bill be handed over to german authorities. the prime minister said that the identification process had not yet been completed. they believe that the germans were murdere. in germany the parliament has begun to debate the 2012 budget. it calls for less borrowing and higher tax revenues. this against the backdrop of the roseau debt crisis, confirming the global economic slowdown. >> german leaders are anxiously waiting for wednesday to find out if the country's top court will rule that the euro zone bailouts were unconstitutional. if so, this cou put a stop to german help for countries in trouble. whe

of the areas hit by violence that ascension was and el saffar members of the syrian opposition of this sort of moscow or they accuse president assad of continuing a bloody crackdown on anti-government protesters and they want international help while russia is urging both sides to stop talking and avoid another conflict and speaking on the sidelines of an international policy forum in the russian city of the us labile president of the other service he's concerned about events in syria and the situation is far from simplistic. the resolutions we would approve to send a strong message to the syrian regime should in fact be addressed to both sides things are just black and white and the anti-government protesters in syria are not followers of some refined european models of democracy some of the market penetration extremists and some might even be called terrorists. the situation is not simple and we have to take into account the balance of different forces and interests russia may support certain moves but only if they don't boil down to the one sided condemnation of the government and president we should send a strong message calli

assad. rahida derga works for the london based newspaper, "el hayat" and p.j.rowley is a state department spokesman. this is an ambassador unlike any i have seen. this is outside the box, is it not? >> for the last three months in particular, he's had extraordinary diplomacy on behalf of the united states. it is one thing for the president and the secretary to be here in washington and say that we identify with the aspirations of the syrian people. it is robert ford that brings that policy and those words to life. he's been to hamaa, you know, to visit with syrian people and express the united states' concern about their welfare, he's challenged the assad regime using social media, including twitter. and obviously today, he's engaging in an important discussion with syrian opposition about the syria of the future that does not include bashar al assad. >> do you have any fears about this strategy of having the u.s. ambassador over there, so clearly on the side of the opposition to the government? >> yes, of course there is always fear of -- god willing, it would