situations, we have seen an outmigration against -- most of it or the majority of folks fleeing northwestern syria into turkey. any report you can give us on that and a related question and maybe the bigger question is, how do you assess the role played by syria and what more do you hope -- i'm sorry, i meant the turkish government, what role can the turkish government play in creating more pressure and more impact on the syrian regime. >> on the economic sanctions you mentioned and the challenge of getting targeting that works and has an impact. we really do spend a lot of time. and let me give you a couple of success stories that may not have made the news here. one of president assad's cousins is very well known in sir yeah and the richest man in syria and he is a an unscrupulous businessman. and we have targeted him specifically as well as his companies because we know he help helps fin ains the regular eesm. he applied for citizenship to cyprus and didn't get it and working with the e.u., he couldn't get citizenship. and that is strike one against him. strike two, one of his biggest companies

happens in the situation we have seen the migration most of it or the majority of folks the northwestern syria into turkey, any reports you can get on that and a related question may be the bigger question of role how do you assess the role played by syria and what more do you hope -- the turkish government, what role can the turkish government play in creating more pressure and more impact on the syrian regime. >> first, senator, may i follow the part of an economic sanction, and the challenge of getting targeting works we do spend a lot of time on this. let me just give you a couple success stories that may not have made the news here. one of the president's cousins is very well-known in syria and is probably the richest man and syria. he is a very unscrupulous businessman and we have targeted him with companies and he helps finance he applied for citizenship to cite this. he didn't get it because working with of the e.u. we made sure he couldn't get the citizenship. that's strike one against him. strike number two, one of the biggest companies is called sham holdings we targeted that specif

amateur video reportedly showing gunfire breaking out in the streets of northwestern syria. can't confirm that because syria won't let our journalists or any others for that matter. in but we're told this is the latest in a series of clashes that have killed more than 300 people in just the past week. there are reports the country's defense minister has now stepped down in protests to the military's actions against its own people. but step state television reports it was because of health problems this uprising in 50 month. try to push their president from power. he so far is refusing. this weekend he lost key support from some of his fellow arab leaders. and another deadly storm battering another country's coast. it tops our news around the world in 80 seconds. south korea. heavy rains hitting the coast. the emergency management agency reports four dead. the storms damaging roads and homes and forcing mass evacuations. india. a group of pilgrims reportedly going on a tear in the northern states. torching vehicles and throwing stones. locals claim it happened after police den

we've seen an outmigration in this case, i guess, most of it -- the majority of folks fleeing northwestern syria into turkey. any -- any report you can give us on that and a related question, obviously, maybe the bigger question is what role -- how do you assess i should say the role played by syria and what more do you hope that the -- i'm sorry. the turkish government, what role can the turkish government play in creating more pressure and more -- more impact on the syrian regime? >> first, senator, may i just follow up one little part on that, economic sanctions you mentioned. >> sure. >> and the challenge of getting targeting that works and has an impact. we really do spend a lot of time on this. and let me just give you a couple of success stories that may not have made the news here. one of president assad's cousins is named ronnie ma-athlete -- maloof. he's shall i say an unscrupulous businessman. and we have targeted him very specifically as well as his companies because we know he helps finance the regime. he applied for citizenship to cyprus. he didn't get it because working with the e

most -- the majority of folks fleeing northwestern syria into turkey. is there any reports you can give us on that? maybe the bigger question is what role -- how do you assess the role played by syria and what more do you hope that -- 'm sorry, i meanht the turkish government -- what role can deploy to create more pressure and more impact on the syrian regime? >> first, senator, may i follow all on the economic sanctions that you mentioned? the challenge of getting it targeted that works. let me give you a couple of success stories that may not have made the news. cousinshe presiden'ts is very well known in syria. he is a very, shall i say, unscrupulous businessman. we have targeted him very specifically as well as his company's because we know he helps to finance the regime. he applied for citizenship to cyprus. he did not get it because we made sure that he could not get to cyprus and get citizenship. that is strike one against him. strike two, we targeted his holdings in one of the biggest companies. their board members term expired at the end of apri

there are reports of even more people being killed in the northwestern part of syria today. and also today, as jill knows, the u.s. slaps sanctions on a mobile phone operator. explain these sanctions to me and how by doing that maybe perhaps, you know, helping prevent more images like this in syria. >> well, in order to do this crackdown, they need money. president assad needs money. and the way they are doing -- the world community, the united states are trying to squeeze him is by sanctions and also just hurting him and the regime as much as they can. so the first one on the commercial bank, that's the commercial bank of syrian and the syrian lebanese commercial bank. they provide to a syrian service that produces missiles and also to north koreans. the charge here is they're helping to spread weapons of mass destruction. so that's the first one. if if they can cut that, that would be huge. and the other is cell phones owned by the regime. >> and now golf fan, watch this. >> you love loaded questions, don't you? >> tiger woods taking interesting questions, perhaps some of

sanctions on syria's largest commercial bank and cellphone operator in move to the ground down on protesters. at least twenty militants have been killed by u.s. drone strike in northwestern pakistan the group is believed to have been behind a number of attacks against american troops in afghanistan is our band has repeatedly called for the u.s. to stop the strikes saying they are a violation of the country's sovereignty actually its claim up to twenty five hundred pakistani civilians have been killed in drone attacks since two thousand and four. at least three hundred people have been detained in the chilean capital santiago after ten hours at some of the students demanding changes to the education system last protesters burned cars and threw rocks and furniture at security forces who fired tear gas and water cannon in response students who have been demonstrating for weeks say the current system is underfunded and i think what president sebastian pinera has promised extra financing but protesters say this is not enough. and overnight firefights between nato troops and i'm going to police have loved all of this is dead and four others injured just outside kandahar city l

anti-government protests following friday prayers and syria's state run news agency is respecting that troops are conducting a crack down in the northwesternn 2,000 have been killed. they called in federal voters to investigate the sabotage with the network. they report more than 90 acts of sabotage since 45,000 workers began striking the union is condemning the sabotage and the wave of recent violence to the flash mobs. a new curfew will take effect in the university neighborhoods. those areas. no one under 18 will be allowed on the streets after 9:00 p.m. it moves a series by large groups and teenagers >> thanks very much for that. an embarrassing invitation a pointed to the super committee on debt. what will rick perry bring to the republican race for the white house? cnn's bill bennett has been traveling with the texas governor and standing by with insight. people who never thought they would get a tattoo are sporting them and guess what. they could help save their lives when i got my medicare card, i realized i needed an aarp... medicare supplement insurance card, too. medicare is one of the great things about turning 65, but it doesn