as elizabeth palmer reports, the cross-fire is claiming even more lives. >> reporter: even by recent syrian standards, it's been a savage week. in two separate incidents, gas stations were blown up in the damascus suburbs, in one case by an airstrike, incinerating innocent citizens who had been lining up to buy fuel. over the past six moks, the number of civilians killed in this civil war has been climbing steeply. one of the organizations keeping track is the syrian observer for human rights and its spokesman is mataz suheil. how many were you seeing a year ago. >> a year ago, we would see 60 people killed. yesterday was 200. the day before 100. the day bench that 210. >> reporter: driving that escalation in part, rebel fighters who have taken over civilian neighborhoods, turning them into battle zones. another factor it's syrian military is attacking more and more often from the air. when cbs news visited the damascus suburbs in november, sarah, a 21-year-old activist, showed us the damage done by a missile fired from a russian-made mig fighter plane. is that the worst, seeing a fi

elizabeth palmer, cbs news. >>> the u.s. commander in afghanistan has been cleared of allegations of professional wrongdoing. general john allen was accused of sending inappropriate e-mails to a civilian in florida, jill kelley. kellie is linked to the scandal that forced cia director david petraeus to resign. he maintained he did nothing wrong, but his nomination to be u.s. commander of nato forces is put on hold. >>> a surprising outcome to the election. it appears that prime minister benjamin netanyahu will be able to remain in power, but barely. he entered the race as an overwhelming favorite but his right-wing coalition suffered a shocking setback due to a strong showing by more moderate rivals. >>> and coming up on the "morning news," musical mystery. did beyonce get a little help with her inauguration performance of the "national anthem"? th stouffer's is proud to make america's favorite lasagna... with hand-layered pasta, tomatoes and real mozzarella cheese. but what makes us even prouder... is what our real dinners

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elizabeth palmer is in mali and met some of the refugees. >> reporter: against all odds, the beat goes on 600 miles from home. but if moussa mega and his band carried on like this in their native city of g arco they'd have been arrested or worse by the islamic militants who took over ten months ago. so they fled to safety in the south. we have heard that the extremists, rebels who have come to gao will not let you play. "that's right" he told me. "they said it was unislamic." how did they stop you? "they would break our instruments" he said "and whip us bitterly in public." the militants who control large parts of northern mali rule by terror. this cell phone video shows them in gao flog ago man found guilty of guttery and drinking alcohol. tata, the band's star dancer, riding with a man on a motorcycle or going out alone can mean arrest and rape. the local consensus is that as few as 400 extremists ruled gao's population of more than 100,000 with violence. here a thief is about to have his hand amputated after sentencing in an extremist court. but intimidation and cruelty like this is

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elizabeth palmer picks up the story in london. >> reporter: in june, britain celebrated 60 years on the throne for queen elizabeth-- a long reign for her, and for everyone else, a torrential one. the six and a half inches above average of rain in the u.k. is due to warmer air, says climatologist bob ward of the london school of economics. >> the warm atmosphere actually holds more water, and the global temperatures increased about... by about .7 degrees celsius in the last hundred years, and that means it's holding about 4% more moisture. >> reporter: in 2012, 8,000 homes and businesses were flooded and whole farms disappeared underwater. north of london, a seal swam in from the sea across the flooded fields and was last seen 50 miles inland, still swimming. elizabeth palmer, cbs news london. >> pelley: we don't usually cover traffic accidents, but we'll make an exception for this one. 100 cars and trucks crashed today on two parallel highways in sweden. three people were killed and 20 were hurt. it was foggy and the pavement was slippery. the most famous skyline in the world is getting

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here's elizabeth palmer. >> reporter: protests replaced ma year's celebrations in many places in indiatoday as men and women of all ages demanded tonges to the way authorities treat rape and women. st nt jusorter: the anger first upted d last week sparked by the case of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student gang raped and beaten by six men out joy joing on a new dehli bus which is now a crime scene. she died on saturday, still not publicly named because the stigma of rape is so great. victims say they're often ignored and humiliated so it takes an exceptionally brave woman to speak up. shavna is one of them. after she said she was gang hli hein her village near new dehli, her father committed suicide believing the family runor was ruined. now with police protection, shavna has decided to press charges. "i want them all punished," she says," so my father didn't die in vein." protests across india show a new generation is challenging deep- t will sexism, but it will be a long fight. female babies are still routinely aborted by couples who ,refer sons, which is upset india's gender balance.

so we sent elizabeth palmer to this new center of terrorism. >> reporter: malians along the road cheered and waved france's flag as a convoy of hundreds of french soldiers and their weapons drove toward the town of diabaly. to people here, these are the troops who chased al qaeda-linked fighters away. life is now returning to normal. diabaly was the closest the islamic militants got to the capital boubakar. but they only stayed for four days before the french government launched its attack. in diabaly, there was never any ground combat. the french simply hit the islamists from the air and destroyed their equipment and ammunition. that was enough to get them on the run. it was welcome news for the boubakar family. we met them on the road with a cart full of household goods. the extremists had marched instanta away at gunpoint and tried to pump him for local knowledge. are you worried for your family that the islamists will come back? >> oh, yes. >> reporter: cobbla says she's still having nightmares. though in the end the fighters did let him go, the whole family has decided to head up th

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>> elizabeth palmer thank you. >>> boeing 787 dreamliner is having new trouble this morning. one of the groundbreaking airliners had to make yet another emergency landing. it happened less than reagan international airport but it has regulators and passengers watching carefully. it made an emergency landing in tack a mat-su 45 minutes into its flight from western japan into tokyo. cockpit instruments alerted pilots to battery problem that triggered emergency warnings. escape chutes were deployed and all 129 passengers and eight crew members were evacuated. there were at least five minor injuries. runways at the airport were temporarily shut down. >> when the cockpit crew decides to make an emergency landing and divert to an airport and then actually evacuate the that tells me there's something that they're very concerned about. >> in a news conference a spokesman for the airline said dreamliner service will resume once they can identify the cause of the problem and confirm the plane's safety. in the last six weeks there have been eight reported mishaps involving 787s last wee

elizabeth palmer linked up with the americans there. >> reporter: when we arrived at the main military air field in bamako, we found u.s. transport planes had already started to land, five in all, bringing in more than 100 tons of gear, and soldiers from a military base in france. the fighter planes, the armored vehicles, the helicopters, they are all french. and so are the soldiers-- 2,800 french boots on the ground here in mali. but behind the scenes, this is an international effort. and the war very few saw coming. the u.s. air force role is critical. colonel kevin oliver is one of the operations commanders. >> it's a very dynamic situation. we expect the operations to continue for the next several days. >> reporter: here's what triggered the french assault-- well-armed fighters linked to al qaeda, financed by money from smuggling and kidnap ransoms had been taking over town after town in northern mali since last spring, and imposing their own harsh brand of islamic law. last week, with the extremists only 300 miles from the capital, and malian troops powerless to stop them, the fre

elizabeth palmer was one of the few reporters to get inside syria last month. she's in london tonight. good evening, liz. >> reporter: good evening. >> reporter: liz, what do you think accounts for this significantly higher estimate of killings? and has the pace of killing increased? >> reporter: it certainly has, and one of the main reasons is that the rebels have opened up new fronts in civilian areas in many of the cities in syria so they've become part of the battleground. for example, today, a shell landed in a rebel-held area in the damascus suburbs but on civilians lining up to buy gasoline. horrendous casualties. it's a scene that's repeated across the country. and, of course, these incidents are especially lethal. >> mason: meanwhile, syria's president, bashar al-assad, refuses to leave. so what now? >> reporter: well, the opposition have said they won't open negotiations until he goes so we've got a deadlock, and this thing is going to get a lot worse before it gets any better. >> mason: liz palmer in london tonight. thanks, liz. can being a little ov

. >> elizabeth palmer reporting for us tonight from mali, thank you. >> and we have an extraordinarye to show you now from flash floods in australia. it happened in the state of queensland. two women and a 14 month old boy got trapped in rapidly rising waters. a helicopter moved in. one of the rescuers had a camera on his helmet and recorded the infant being zipped it into a waterproof bag and lifted up into the safety of the chopper where the bag was unzipped and they popped the baby out. the two women were also rescued. >> from the gridiron to the classroom, the former pro quarterback whose's winning by teaching when the "cbs evening news" continuesed i who sent it to cindy, who wondered why her soup wasn't quite the same. the recipe's not the recipe... ohhh. [ female announcer ] ...without swanson. the broth cooks trust most when making soup. mmmm! [ female announcer ] the secret is swanson. before copd... i took my son fishing every year. we had a great spot not easy to find, but worth it. but with copd making it hard to breathe i thought those days might be over. so my doctor pr

for "cbs this morning," elizabeth palmer in central mali. >>> it's time to show you some of this morning's headlines. "the new york times" says significant brain opportunistic has been shown in former prime minister sharon. they brought family pictures and a quoting of his son's noise. >>> "the daily news" says two people were rescued from the hudson river after their single-engine plane crashed. it quickly sank. the man and woman spent about 20 minutes in the water before being pulled to safety by police. >>> wall street journal says children are be treated with early aggressive treatment. it's to battle growing obesity among children. >>> and "usa today" say northeasterly half of working americans with college degrees are overqualified for their jobs. the trend is likely to continue for new college graduates over >> announcer: this national weather report sponsored by kay jewelers. every kiss begins with kay. >>> a feud between wall street billionaires boils over on live television. >> the guy is a major loser. this is not a nice guy and this is not a guy who keeps his word. >> this morn

for "cbs this morning," elizabeth palmer. >>> and google reported growing profits yesterday. today apple may post its first drop in profits in a decade. rebecca jarvis is with us this morning. good morning. >> good morning. >> now we're hearing about profits. what's happening? >> well, first of all we should explain why people care about this story because anyone with retirement savings in the country probably owns apple. it's one of northeast widely held stocks out there. what's happening out there? a couple of things. first, the iphone 5, the new iphone, it's expensive to make for apple and fewer people, it looks like, are buying it. so that's what we're going to be looking for in this report. what's going on with the new higher priced iphone and what can they tell us about the future because everything we've learned so far from apple is all the new products in the pipeline are renditions of earlier products. we haven't heard yet about this new blockbuster something along the lines of what it was before they ever were introduced into the market. >> it's also true they're ge

for "cbs this morning saturday," i'm elizabeth palmer in central mali. >>> the head of the u.s.o deceive the public. in an interview with scott pelley for tomorrow's "60 minutes" travis tygard -- tygart says armstrong lied during his interview with oprah. the u.s. anti-doping agency has given armstrong until february 6 to fully cooperate. armstrong's attorney says that is unlikely but he may talk to the international cycling youunion and the world anti-doping agency. you can see scott pelley's entire interview with travis tygart tomorrow night on "60 minutes" here on cbs. >>> an attack on the ha sad regime is an attack on their ally. more than 60,000 people are said to have died in the syrian civil war that's now raged on for nearly two years. >>> it is about four minutes after the hour. time now for a check of our weather with stacy ann gooden of news 12 network in new york. good morning, stacy. >> good morning to you, rebecca. i know a lot of folks in the northeast are expecting a some relief. guess what? you're going to get it. we're still dealing with bone-chilling temperatu

elizabeth palmer is in mali this morning. relinquish french and malian troops have surrounded the legendary city of timbuktu. they're waiting for forces to clear inside so they can roll in. this follows more than a week of air strikes, and it does mean that two of the most important cities in mali's north are now back in french and government hands. the other one, gao, fell over the weekend and as has been the case, whenever the government troops have rolled through towns that have been liberated, the local people have lined the streets and welcomed them. the islamists do appear by and large, to be melting away rather than standing and fighting. the french foreign minister is warning this morning they may be planning to regroup and return. certainly, the challenge of securing this area for the french with the help of the armies of various neighboring african countries is enormous. it's a great big area of desert, almost twice the size of texas. for "cbs this morning," elizabeth palmer in central mali. >>> it is time to show y

>> elizabeth, palmer thanks. >>> an attorney says lance armstrong will.ance-enhancing drug. he's banned for life from competing in organized sports and the report says armstrong is trying to restore his athletic career. >>> former congresswoman gabrielle giffords and mark kelly were in newtown on friday. kelly is a strong advocate of gun control. it with us four days before the second anniversary of the shooting spree that left six people dead and 13 others including giffords. >>> ita passenger was so disruptive other passengers had to restrain him and restrain him in his seat with duct tape. he was screaming, hitting. >>> mystery solved. we now know the identity of the young man seen in the photo with princess diana from 1981. his name is adam russell. the two were friends and injured on a skiing trip just two days after her engagement with prince charles was announced. the photo is now up for auction. >>> it's now time for another check of the weather with lisette gonzales from miami. good morning. >> good morning. and happy saturday to all of you. as w