joining me now is our correspondent, nick chiles. we've just seen this news conference. what die interpret by russia's statement, trying to block as much as possible? >> i think they're still being very cautious. at the same time, the russian foreign minister was trying to be polite. he said we'll look at the proposal, but we need more details. and frankly, there are a lot more details that need to be flushed out on this new plan. but it's clear the arab league has come out from their meeting with tough, new language and this proposal for a joint arab league-u.n. peacekeeping force for syria, in order to try to keep up the diplomatic pressure, as you say. the russians and the chinese vetoed the last arab league plan at the u.n. security council, but that got a lot of criticism internationally. since then, there's been a lot of focus on the violence that we were reporting on all last week in homs. so i think that there is still an effort to try and maintain the diplomatic pressure, and clearly the russians will need to be a part of any of that process. >> the u.n. tried t

nick chiles has the story. >> once again come of all of smoke hangs over baghdad.a familiar tactic, the morning rush hour was wracked with bombs. the emergency services rushed to deal with the carnage of the chaos. it look like security forces were the main targets of the attacks. as ever, others were caught up in the blast. >> a car bomb went off here targeting an official, or i do not know who. also, other people were hurt. it is destruction. >> an explosion took place 30 minutes ago, followed by another blast. the shattered glass of a window followeinjured me. >> far to the north of baghdad, the rank of wreckage of a car that carried a bomb was aimed at police control. most of the destruction was in the capital. not on the scale reached of the height of the insurgency, but that may be little consolation against the height of the backdrop of the violence. these attacks look like another attempt to solve political and ethnic tensions since u.s. forces pulled out late last year. >> going to take a look now as some of the other top stories making headlines around th