while the head of the arab league mission finds nothing frightening in the rest of the city of holmes damascus says armed insurgents have killed at least two thousand members of its forces since march. north koreans are beginning the second day of giving their last respects during jim kim jong il's long year old ceremony the first memorial procession was led by his youngest son who has now taken over the reins of power in the country. egypt's new leaders try to build ties with russia talks in moscow a while back home the president's trial resumes after a three month break pozner mubarak is accused of corruption abuse and killing demonstrators during the january uprising and may face the death penalty if convicted. and let you know reports and says he's on for talks with the opposition but there's no one to deal with the prime minister's urging his rivals to get organized so they can hold constructive dialogue with the government. next we visit a world renowned ship breaking site in bangladesh where workers risked their lives as they wrestle with thousands of tons of iron our special report is

while the head of the arab league mission finds nothing frightening in the rest of the city of holmes damascus says armed insurgents have killed at least two thousand members of its forces since march. and says he is up for talks with the opposition but there's no one to deal with the prime minister's urging his rivals to get organized so they can hold constructive dialogue with the government. next our team meets the indian workers fighting danger in their own workplace stay with us. so. why is the pressure so low. go in there and get rid of the oil. my name is mohammed rethink i'm forty seven years old i dismantle old ships i've spent thirty two years of my life here. to. get down from there. and most workers come from the north the poorest part of bangladesh. they all yearn to come here they consider this place to be like somewhere abroad that. you understand chittagong is like a foreign country to these people they. i'm here to work. to make money. the first impression of the workers here is that they are innocent. confirmed that impression. and there was another one twenty one year old. h

nine months now we've been one of the few foreign media channels allowed to cover the unrest in holmes damascus and other parts of the country in fact it's one of the top ten events that shaped nearly a whole year of news on our t.v. our correspondents are sylvia was in syria for much of the crisis and these are her firsthand recollections. well when we went to syria it was sometime in october and the situation was getting very tense there so our flight arrived at the around three in the morning so you can imagine the surprise. when three foreign journalists arrive at a time when there was a media bad international journalist there will. be a syrian you can see behind me traffic is just about started to flow again going into the city damascus was rather. peaceful it was quiet although very tense still because everybody knows what was going on in the country. and what's interesting. for us is that we saw the kind of. diverse opinions on what was going on there was no clear. there were more than two sides it was not i want the regime or i don't want the regime. and there was one time you were int

meanwhile more than twenty people have reportedly been killed as tanks opened fire on the city of holmes damascus denies the accusations saying it's fighting an armed insurgency orchestrated from abroad r.t. has learned that hundreds of fighters from post gadhafi libya have allegedly flocked to help be bringing resolution to president assad's door libyans are now openly voicing their support for the syrian uprising as oksana boy discover it. a butcher our dad made the owner of this kebab shop in tripoli still undecided what's the most fitting term for syria's bashar al assad. jealous of his economics if we give him enough in the way that the syria. love and syria. you can make it a lot of the people in syria. out of solidarity with their arab brothers the owners of the shop have even put on display the syrian rebels tricolor but they're very firm on where the revolutionary support should be and we don't want syria and its soldiers we have. and are people subject syria these are just life long if this soldier we have to have enough but i think yeah we want to leave. in less than three months libya

assad while the head of the arab league mission finds nothing frightening in the rest of city of holmes damascus says armed insurgents have killed at least two thousand members of its forces since march. egypt's new leaders try to build ties with russia at talks in moscow all back home the president's trial resumes after a three month break mubarak is accused of corruption abuse and killing demonstrators during the january uprising and may face the death penalty if convicted. and blood semen put to him says he's out for talks with the opposition but there's no one to deal with the prime minister's urging his rivals to get organized so they can hold constructive dialogue with the government. those are the main stories this hour stay with r t for part two of them on the show coming up next. my. recently new gingrich toward americans that they will be in danger for the rest of their lives and one of the things they have to worry about according to newt is a secular atheist country dominated by radical islamists so we're going to call him out. it's time for tonight's tool time award and tonight's wi

monitoring mission in syria says there is nothing frightening in the flashpoint city of holmes that came on the day damascus set free seven hundred fifty five people detained in the uprising against president assad which began nine months ago just to warn you some of these images are graphic a city was the monitors first stop to investigate the government's response to the anti regime unrest day before their arrival police used tear gas to disperse around seventy thousand demonstrators the opposition claims that nearly forty people have been killed in syria in the two days since the monitors began work fergus hobson from the future of freedom foundation says assad had no chance of the sealing the situation on the ground. bodies that are being vocal about it we can assume that they are closer to the action and more understanding of it so. they are better situated to assess it in other international law is. not perfect but that at least there have been a better position than most of the nations within the arab league they do not want to be have their fears intervened with and so that likely will could be more

open artillery shelling that we saw in the city of holmes when it was under siege for many, many weeks. president bashar al-assad is very strong in damascus in holmes. he's going to try to use as much political power as he can to put the protests down and military power. today four more people were killed, gregg. gregg: can the observers do any good? >> reporter: it's an excellent question. they are unarmed and have no power to stop the violence. another piece of video coming out of syria showing that other than using automatic weapons they are using teargas. that is a minor, minor improvement. we've heard from a number of syrian residents that they are terrified to go outside, because as easily as the tanks left the observers could leave and the tanks could come back. gregg: thanks. uma: the presidential field typically begins to narrow at this time. at least one republican contender may make a third-party run. what could that mean for the jenn general election. gregg: a burglary targets this house. take a look, but it doesn't consider who was inside. how that led to his capture, stay with us. >> when i saw him he was like jabbing. he wa

damascus in the next couple of hours. this is a race against the clock and brutality if you will. the video that is coming to us out of holmesreally, really disturbing stuff. this is the city that was at the very heart of the uprising and resistance there. the president's father, bashar al-assad's father there in syria killed 20,000 people in holmes when they revolted back in the 1980s. tanks are in the street. they are indiscriminately shelling entire neighborhoods. the syrian free army which are a number of army desserters who have banded together to try and save their own country and save some of the prodemocracy demonstrators have been unable to repulls any of these attacks. they don't have the kind of fire power they need. we are getting word the crackdown may be entering a final stage if you will as they are trying to break the back of these protestors. the arab league observers will arrive in damascus later today. there was an advance team that went in over the weekend. there is a report out of syria that one member of that advance team snuck into holmes to get an idea of what is really going on there, and was wounded