especially now, during ramadan. we cannot get any vegetables, milk, or dates. >> today, ali is allowed to take his supplies to sell in libya. but the only fuel he can take is what goes into the tank of his pickup truck. >> meanwhile, syria continues its crackdown on pro-democracy protests. the secular government and the military have made no allowances for fasting. activists have also shown their determination to continue agitating against the regime. for them, ramadan is a time of prayer and protest. internationally, it is set at least 16,000 civilians have been killed. others are still missing. we caught up with a woman living in exile in berlin to find out about her hopes for the country. >> with the syrian national colors on her wrist band, she sits at a computer in germany, doing what she can to help the opposition movement back home. the political scientist and her colleagues are hoping that this ramadan will make a big difference. >> the opposition was intending to go out after their prayer's every night and

not the ramadan promoting whole foods yeah i mean i would expect better from whole foods like there's this massive islamophobia campaign going on and i would expect them to hold out for this we went back and forth with a spokesperson from whole foods this afternoon actually and they said ok we're still promoting whole food but not ramadan because we don't support in the holidays you google whole foods christmas the first thing that is a blog post as americans but i think it's yeah people are gotten completely out of control with this holiday thing now when i'm walking into a store and i say merry christmas i feel uncomfortable because you're not supposed to say that and i think that there are you know you have to have a menorah if you don't have a christmas tree you know whatever i think that america is a country of many religions and everyone should be allowed to celebrate whichever religion they choose at any time and i think it's ridiculous i mean if we're going to go here with the whole food we might as well you know make sure they don't sell kosher hotdogs at ballparks it's you k

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during ramadan.ike friday in ramadan. i think they wanted to send a clear message. they've always had slightly mixed feelings about hama. on the one hand there are very large protests there which obviously they didn't like. but on the other hand there was a huge massacre there in 1982 and 10,000 people were killed. the regime is thought to be wary of those memories. so i feel they didn't quite know what to do. but now they've sent a clear signal that this is a message not just a hama to the whole protest movement, don't think about escalating things in ramadan. >> woodruff: how are the demonstrators resisting? what do they have to resist with? >> in hama, one told me all they have really is sticks and stones literally. there's not very much they can do up against armored vehicles and machine guns. there are reports in the east where they have slightly eyes access to weapons and are shooting back but not on a very large scale i've heard of. overwhelmingly this is a protest movement. that's all i hear

the end of ramadan will not change anything. what we have had is the president coming out and say that assad must go. both of these were a bit more all boost to the protesters to have been getting slaughtered. >> does this make a difference, that might seem like symbolic sanctions? does it make any difference to the assad regime? >> in general, this is a message. this is not only the people pulling the triggered but those testifying the massacre. it is important and symbolic but it will not change anyone's actions. >> let's discuss, there are a series of things that people could do to try to change the situation. what is most critical? >> starting from point a, the energy sanctions, which the europeans have just signed up for. europe is the vast majority of the syrian oil exports. this is 30% of the budget. if this is cut off, it will end the money that they were using to buy bullets, fuel tanks. they will have to tap into the $17 billion in reserves. >> if you write that this is not just a financial issue but there has to be fu

also, on monday the holy month of ramadan starts. traditionally in iran, prisoners are pardoned during the month of ramadan. these two factors are working in favor of the two hikers here. but everything is still to play for. the judge says he will deliver his verdict within a week so thethe long wait the hikers have had and their families will all come to some sort of conclusion within the week and with any luck they'll be on their way back home. nbc news, tehran. >> as we mentioned, ramadan starts tomorrow. muslims across the middle east are preparing for the holy month. the lighting of the world's largest clock tower in mecca marked the start of ramadan there. muslims traditionally fasts from sundown to sunset. >>> another effort to raise the debt ceiling fell short in the senate this afternoon, but some leaders say a compromise can be worked out behind the scenes as early as today. lawmakers delay the procedural vote on senate majority leader harry reid's plan by 12 hours today so the deal is not signed at this point. but this ten

security council condemned what is being called "the ramadan massacre." the u.s.-based muslim public affairs council called on international leaders, especially those in the arab world, to do more to help civilians there. the group said the syrian government is violating the sanctity of ramadan by quote "shedding the blood of its people who seek the basic rights of freedom and democracy." >>> muslims in east africa say there is little, if any food, to break their ramadan fast. the situation is especially dire in somalia, where the relief group oxfam said the famine crisis is "spiraling out of control." according to usaid, more than 29,000 children under the age of 5 have died in somalia. humanitarian groups say donations are not keeping pace with the severe food needs across the horn of africa. >>> in this country, protestant and catholic leaders in alabama filed a federal lawsuit to stop enforcement of a tough new immigration law scheduled to go into effect next month. the leaders said the law could hinder their ability to exercise their religious beliefs. many a

back to you. >> thank you. >>> the holy month of ramadan begins today. as for muslims in one contra costa county community, it is a season to celebrate. len ramirez is in san ramon to explain why. >> reporter: san ramon area muslims are happier and more proud than he have because of their new expanded prayer space and it's definitely needed this time of year obviously because of ramadan but also because of the growing population of muslims in this area. the beginning of ramadan is always a sacred special time for muslims in the bay area. >> the muslim like to help other people in ramadan. >> reporter: it's time purification and self sacrifice. >> no eating and no drinking from before sunrise and sunset. >> reporter: but for muslims who attend this islamic center it's more to special because this will be the first ramadan celebrated in their newly expanded and modern mosque. >> it's nice and bright. >> reporter: when it first opened in 1992 everything fit into the center's kitchen. before that prayers and classes were held in a house. what's it like for y

the holiday comes near the end of ramadan. during ramadan, muslims fast from sunrise to sunset and then break their fast with a meal called the iftar. at one mosque in the washington d.c. suburb of falls church, virginia, several hundred people usually attend the nightly iftar, according to one of the imams. and this year they are welcoming even more, not all of whom are muslim. the dar al-hijrah mosque has announced a policy to allow in anyone who wants a meal. there are only two requirements: those who show up must be dressed appropriately and must be sober. imam johari abdul-malik is the outreach director at dar al-hijrah. he says he can't tell who comes to break the ramadan fast and who comes simply because of hunger. for him, it doesn't matter. >> the prophet mohammed said none of you are a believer if you go to bed with your stomach full and your neighbor's hungry. so your belief, all this praying, and all of your devotion is invalid if you can sleep at night knowing your neighbor is hungry. and in ramadan this mosque fe

now, one of the stores, big ramadan promotions is for safron road.pany joins us now. sir, we appreciate you being here. what was your take? did you think whole foods had done anything wrong, necessarily? and what they're saying at least one store wanted to pull back on their ramadan-themed promotion. >> thank you very much for having me on. >> yeah. >> and i think that the way whole foods has reacted to this has been very good, actually. they're a large organization, $9 billion in sales, 300 stores, always going to get some dissension somewhere. this is america, people have a right to different opinions. but our ramadan promotion with whole foods is still strong, very strong in spite of bizarre rumors that any ramadan campaign would slow or stop. >> now what you're saying there, maybe some rumors that are out there. but is it your understanding, and at least the reports are that at least there was an internal e-mail in which someone was directing employees at that one store to maybe pull back and maybe not use the word ramadan in some of the promotio

did you expect there to be a change after ramadan?o you expect more people to come out to protest? will there be a different? >> there is a cycle that when you kill somebody there are protests and marches. but the end of ramadan i do not think will change anything. what we have had in the last few weeks with the president of the united states coming out and saying that assad must go and shortly after, you have rebels in tripoli. it looks like gaddafi is on his way out. it looks like both of these were big morale boosters to the protesters. >> the obama administration has frozen the assets of syria's foreign minister and two other senior officials. does this make a difference? these are symbolic sanctions, but does it make a difference to the regime, and isolating them? >> no, but it is generally a message. it sends a message to those not only pulling the trigger, but those justifying the massacre but i do not think it will change anybody's actions right now. >> there are a series of things that the u.s. administration and european all

>> the month of ramadan actually recognizes the time during which the profit, was remembered.control, and sacrifice. it's like other religions in the sense that they had acts of sacrifice. there is lint, and jews also perform acts of sacrifice as well. and this is similar to other faiths. >> we talked about the gallop report where muslims in america simply don't feel like they are being respected. what is your sense? >> well, many of the muslims that i talked to do feel respected, actually. i was surprised by that statistic, and i thought it might be greater but some of the current events and challenges that came up in muslim communities with the ground zero mosque controversy and the issues in tennessee, very close to atlanta, i think it's -- there is still a deep-seeded cu curiosity that is somewhat of a resistance, and that could be changed by more muslim americans integrating into society, and we wrote a book to showcase the muslim american women so they can showcase their lives in an everyday setting. >> thank you. we appreciate your insights. >> you can read more about r

the chain started a promotion for the holy month of ramadan.kiet do shows us, the controversy spiraled from there. >> reporter: it's ramadan and for muslims, it's a time of fasting and prayer during the day and feasting at night. but for whole foods it's time for damage control. a week ago they made history by launching an online marking campaign the first ramadan promotion by a national change touting a new line of kosher certified foods but it didn't take long for conservative bloggers to accuse whole foods of supporting terrorism. the issue reached a head today with this article from the houston press. they got a copy of an internal email making its way around the texas region that read in part, we should not highlight ramadan in signage in our stores as that could be considered celebrating or promoting ramadan. the company later said whole foods market is not canceling our current halal promotion. we never sent a communication from our headquarters requesting stores take down signs at all. one region reacted by sending out directions to pro

that up to one hundred people were killed and that violence continued into monday the first day of ramadan so clearly this is a very serious situation and one of the international community is paying attention to but at this point they're divided on how to react and they're working to qantas some kind of compromise. they troubles and see where show no sign of letting western powers consider exerting even more economic pressure on damascus and james right on middle east politics because president assad's continuing crackdown on protesters during the holy month of ramadan is no coincidence. in syria the only really effective opposition is externally in terms of organizing internally there is a huge public protesting opposition that don't want sad but we don't know exactly what they do want because there's no real political space for them to operate in now one of the reasons why assad is attacked hama on the start of ramadan is because he's afraid that ramadan provides a bigger political space within the organizational structures of mosques in this particular time of the year for his regime t

. >> and whole foods internal fem memo about celebration of ramadan created a backlash for muslim autos and summer pat yesh here to stay for a while. and i'll have the temperatures spread in a few minutes. news continues in one minute. 8tp >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >>> the best way to handle a disaster is to prepare for it that. is what happened today. more than 100 volunteers and first responders learned how to set up and operate a shelter providing care for people displaced by a dafter. it included for the first time, practice setting up an emergency shelter for pests and they may have just lost everything. this is all they have. and. >> this shelter includes kennels and can handle pets from dogs and cats to snakes and birds. >> and they found a way to stop malaria infections by breeding mosquitoes that can't reproduce, able to modify the male mosquitoes so they don't produce sperm. researchers hope introducing these sterile males might shrink of number of malaria-carrying mosquitoes. most of them are children living in africa. >> a group of bay area s

ramadan in signage in our stores as that could be considered celebrating or promote ramadan so does that mean whole foods won't promote or scola brit christmas when it comes around i doubt it but if so their executives should prepare and now for the backlash when fox news does their annual christmas crusade. and the very very ugly tom delay the former republican house majority leader turned c. list celebrity on dancing with the stars turned convicted felon had some advice for house republicans over the weekend all about hostage taking next month funding for the government runs out any another government shutdown could hang in the balance giving republicans another chance only this time to take eight hundred thousand furloughed federal workers hostage and delay things that's exactly what they should do take a look at anything should proceed general as the c.r. runs out next month i think it could be what's going to go down they're going to face another shutdown. this time leave the literature. kill the. bill that you're right. i guess we can add being an accomplice to hostage taking

still ten days of ramadan remaining so that could still be the case. >> there's still a humanitarian option, and there is hope that in the month of ramadan that possibility will be looked into very seriously. >> reporter: if president ahmadinejad wants to capitalize on that gesture, there will be plenty of eyes on him during his trip to new york during next month's general assembly at the united nationss. >> if there's a moment, an opportunity, that's it. because that's when presidents and other leaders who are feeling a lot of world heat want to show people that were really okay, honest to goodness, so there may be that opportunity as a gesture of kindness to release those fellows at that time. >> iran cited humanitarian grounds for the release of the third hiker arrested with fattal and bauer. oakland's sarah shourd was released last september. islamic mercy is what the spokesman for the iranian court cited for another american convicted of spying in 1979. she was sentenced to eight years in prison but an appeals court cut the sentence for two years and suspended the sentence and l

off their sentence ppt big question now is whether they'll be pardoned by the end of the month of ramadan, in ten days time. traditionally in iran, prisoners are freed as a good will humanitarian islamic gesture at the end of the month of ramadan. if the two men aren't freed, they could be in for the long haul, they have 20 days to appeal their sentence or they can wait for ramadan to see if they're pardoned. if things don't work out for them in the next ten days, could be a long stay for them in iran's notorious prison. >> so far there's been no reaction from the two uc graduates to any of these reports. many say they're surprised by the sentence. >> these reports have not yet been confirmed, for that reason the hikers families have not issued any kind of official reaction. a spokesman for the families of shane bauer and josh fattal said the families are aware of the reports and they're asking for privacy during this difficult time as they await confirmation. a third detainee sarah shourd was released last september. her case remains open. we talked to a professor of international relati

foods is continuing the ramadan campaign.'re supporting the company for celebrating the diversity in this country. >> reporter: for bay area muslim groups that also means opening the doors to their home. those stories such as the whole foods controversy makes them a little apprehensive. >> when there's people with other issues that may find it a target, but you know, we can't let fear hijack us. >>> again ramadan events will be held throughout august. they will open their doors this saturday. robert handa, ktvu news. >>> it appears many students who were at virginia tech during that mass shooting back in 2007 felt stressful effects from the rampage for many months afterwards. 33 people were killed during that rampage. according to a virginia tech study about 15% of the students at the university reported experiencing high levels of post-traumatic stress syndrome for several months. researchers surveyed 4,600 students in the months following that mass shooting. >>> all eyes are on iowa this week where the first dropped poll in

the sentence was handed down during ramadan when court traditionally show compassion. pardons are issued on the last day. ramadan ends this tuesday. >>> the story of steve jobs inventing the apple computer in his garage is well-known. his boyhood home has been a magnet for tourists especially now that he stepped down as apple ceo. george kiriyama reports from los altos >> this home on chris drive in los altos is a meky for techies. for those who are just plain curious. it was here steve jobs grew up and in this garage where apple was born. >> we are from australia. >> jeff brent and his 16-year-old son had to stop by. they are here from australia on a silicon valley tour and no stop is complete without a visit to the famous garage. >> it's amazing. i am blown away. it's really inspiring. >> it's hard to put that into perspective. that whole start is in somebody's garage. >> they are two of many tourist who is took pictures of the home and garage where steve jobs created the apple computer. their visit was more mandatory when they heard jobs stepped down. >> we were pla

when ramadan starts. some observers think it's a good sign. >> today an iranian court decided on the sentence will be revealed next week. a professor at stanford university believes after two years, the remaining hikers will be freed soon. >> my sense is i'm cautiously optimistic they have decided to let the people go. it is tying to find a face saving mechanism. >> reporter: he is director of iranian studies. he thinks the iranian government will release them during ramadan. >> it's a month of fasting, usually a month of peace and forgiveness. >> we have had ramadan over the past years and they have not been released. >> an iranian journalist who followed the hikers referring the families to an iranian attorney. exactly two years ago, three were arrested while on the iranian border with iraq. they were accused of spying. the trio's families were allowed to visit them last year. shouvd was released for humanitarian reasons and refused to go back to iran for the sentencing. last week she said she is being

now just ahead fake outrage after the president offers a proclamation for ramadan continues to marshal time of war and happy hour his company is accused of hacking the u.k. but now we learn that news corp apparently drone plus that my family feels lawrence o'donnell gets his facts wrong and straight and well it's not. you know sometimes you see a story and see so. you think you understand it and then you know here's the part of it you realize that everything you. are this is the. world you know. and yet. let's not forget that we are in the hard part right. i think. one well. we have to go to their safe get ready for freedom. how to stop at night school time award and tonight it goes to the morning crew at fox and friends say ramadan began this past monday if not familiar with the battlefield lama holy month of fasting for the white house issued a statement on the holiday from president obama obama and part of a threat times like this remind us of the lesson of all great faiths including islam that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us and the statement went on to say that

time for tonight's tool time award and tonight it goes to the morning crew at cox and friends say ramadan began this past monday if you're not familiar with about the islamic holy month of fasting for the white house issued a statement on the holiday from president obama obama i'm part of it right times like this remind us of the lesson of all great faiths including islam that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us and the statement went on to say that the president in the first lady we're looking forward to again hosting and it's our dinner at the white house but obama's statement seems to rub the hosts of fox and friends the wrong way think about and some people said that they have might have an issue with the fact that he didn't issue a proclamation for easter so some people are saying is this an outreach to the muslim world and why isn't there an outreach to the christian world has this. so gretchen wonders out loud or excuse me i mean other people are supposedly wondering why obama hasn't reached out to the christian world you're kidding me right you think the president o

ramadan shared their thoughts. >> in general in iran people have more sense of more mercy, forgiveness and kindness and generosity so perhaps those attributes maybe would think during this time there would be a little bit more leniencey. >> bauer and fattal, we appeal to the authorities in iran to show compassion and allow them to return home to our families without delay. oakland congresswoman barbara lee released this statement. >>> senator diane feinstein is officially supporting san francisco mayoral candidate ed lee. tomorrow the senator's expected to join lee on a visit to chinatown. feinstein has long been a supporter of lee before he was a candidate. lee is the latest person to join the race, just 16 candidates in all are running for mayor. many people have criticized lee's decision to run, though. if you remember when ed lee agreed to finish gavin newsom's term he promised that he would not run for mayor, however he said he changed his mind and has pledged not to accept public financi financing. >>> yet another b.a.r.t. protest is scheduled for tomorrow. more than 200 people p

it comes after the national chain launched a new marketing campaign for ramadan touting a new line of frozen foods but didn't take long for bloggers to accuse whole foods of supporting terrorism. an email obtained by houston press suggested whole foods was changing its campaign. but the company says it's not canceling the proposing. >> i appreciate the fact that they stood behind their policy of celebrating diversity and promoting the campaign of ramadan and saying they are not going to give in to this campaign of hate. >> the whole foods campaign marks the country's first ramadan promotion by a national supermarket chain. >>> analysts now believe apple is on pace to become the world's first trillion dollar company. the cupertino-based tech giant surpassed exxonmobil as the most valuable company in the world. apple's stock gained 6% yesterday, 6%! it brings the company's total value just under $347 billion. exxon finished on top. but apple will take the top spot for good. they take someone else's idea to execute it better. steve jobs is battling cancer and some worry what will become

whole foods says it's pleased to promote ramadan foods just like other holidays including passover and the 4th of july. >>> it's a way to cut your household expenses -- eliminating your cable or satellite tv service. plenty of people are doing it, but it doesn't really mean that they're missing out on their favorite tv shows. an increasing number of people are turning to network web sites such as hulu, to watch their favorite shows. >> the perception is that they're going to alternative sources of video entertainment like a net nix or a streaming or -- netflix or a streaming or something like that. >> this past spring the country's top two cable providers, comcast and time-warner, saw that more than 350,000 subscribers dropped their service. research firms predict by the end of the year, as many as 4.5 million people will be forgoing any kind of pay tv service, mostly because they can get their favorite shows, at least many of their favorite shows, on line. as you might know, the station and network is owned in part by comcast. and we encourage you to keep your cable. >> yes. watch a l

told me earlier that president assad's continuing crackdown on protesters during the holy month of ramadan is no coincidence in syria any really effective opposition is external in terms of organizing internally there is a huge public protesting opposition that don't want a sad but we don't know exactly what they do want because there's no real political space for them to operate in now one of the reasons why assad is attacked hamma on the start of ramadan is because he's afraid that ramadan provides a bigger political space within the organizational structures of mosques in this particular time of the year for his regime to be a challenge that he's clearly and is taking steps against what the syrian opposition would hope is that the regime doesn't bring down the state with it that it chooses the path that mubarak and ben ali took to some degree of. moving off into the political wilderness and allows for a technocratic government to essentially implement democratic reforms that have been promised over the last five months in the three speeches that he's made that would of course be a lot m

a london based human rights group claims around five hundred people have been killed in syria ramadan the majority of them civilians another group of activists released a report suggesting dozens of people including children have been tortured to death behind bars for taking part in the regime uprising but our teams are going to lose cover ports now that all news coming from syria can't always be taken at face value . well the report really does not say much you have to you have to make a note of the fact that the report said easy to people ten of them children are believed to have died in detention their porches also slammed to the syrian authorities for not providing enough information. to genius there were no details however outlined of the circumstances in which these eighty eight people supposedly have died this is somewhat of a showcase of what else has been happening and the way things have been portrayed as happening in syria give constantly ports from various media sources western channels or major arab networks which show demonstrations of people sometimes little signs being

in russian stretching republic about the day she was saying marking the end of the holy month of ramadan if you log on to our website you can see how thousands of russian muslims worship was gathered in the capital's mosques by schooling onto the surrounding streets and lanes we pulled out put it in full dot com. with our t. it's good to have you with us today to global energy giants america's exxon mobile and russia's of course and you have to have struck a multi-billion dollar partnership agreement corp it will rain all the way from the gulf of mexico to russia's vast arctic shelf now the sweeping deal signed in the presence of prime minister putin of the black sea resort of sochi gives the russian company unprecedented access to u.s. financial products and in turn america's biggest oil company will participate in developing the vast untapped oil reserves in russia's arctic i'll just put an end to the hopes of another giant britain's b.p. to be part of the project the state secretary to the ministry of foreign affairs of norway which has a big share in the arctic sold us what role this

the other hand it also may be a sign that the government wants to use ramadan as a month to calm the situation before we're supposed to have elections. in eight weeks time now of course more protests we could see as we've seen all across our world expert. in the evening after the end of fast and people were just the hospitals who demonstrate what we could see the government conclude that this will be an opportunity to correct some support from people who feel they've had enough time instruction in cairo but you have a kind of weariness of the demonstrations but of course there are many people who. would also gaar. and later on the program rewriting history. veterans of gathering in stone yet to glorify fascism good fortune in the second world war with the full support of the country's authorities who are poor from the scene from. and israel thousands take industrial action in tel aviv in protest against the government is trying. to demonstrate as a rising house prices and an escalating cost of living and people are demanding social justice and better working conditions. for us follow

not huge and those numbers have dwindled just before the start of ramadan just the start of ramadan but the government is very severe the. a lot of people bloodied face is in serious head injuries that i saw it's not clear exactly of injuries but i would be in dozens of these and. no reports yet of anyone killed but the. number one from the people that you spoke what exactly would you say that people are protesting against this time well what the people who are still left in the square. today being the first day of ramadan were minority of the protesters most of the political groups that called out the ones who remained included some of the families of those killed by police officers through the uprising. of the the. but their demands will probably be the same as a lot of the rest of the protest movement has been into the military trials protesters have been subjected to. and for malaysian officials civilian trials protesters on the streets are being. very speedy and. there would also be those who calls for a rise in the minimum wage. there's a variety of calls from hell to here and the

the sentence was handed down during the muslim holy month of ramadan, a time courts traditionally show compassion and usually issued the last day of the holiday and ramadan ends this week. >>> another b.a.r.t. protest expected tomorrow is expected to cause more traffic problems. it is supposed to be at 5:00 tomorrow. this time they're continuing to demand b.a.r.t. disband its police force due to recent police shootings including that of oscar grant and charles hill and protesting the decision by b.a.r.t. to turn off cell phone service on trains and understands grou underground in san francisco. >>> what if we told threw is a place it is completely legal to launder money. a secret room in a san francisco hotel. mike anderson introduces us to rob, the world's only coin washer. >> hi. i'm rob holson. i'm a coin washer. we're here at the st. francis hotel in san francisco. we've been washing the coins here since 1934. the general manager noticed the coins were dirtying the ladies' white gloves and he decided the coins should be washed. that's what we're doing here today. >> the coin washer

is because he's afraid that ramadan provides a bigger political space within the organizational structures of mosques in this particular time of the year for his regime to be challenged and he's clearly worried by that and he's taking steps against civilians are dying though and the u.n. security council obviously discussing its response to the events there what stand should it be taken in after all should there be foreign intervention to help those civilians which was the message of course in libya. well i think the u.n. is looking fairly impotent to the moment largely because of what happened in libya in the sense that the russians and the chinese feel that they were betrayed by the west and the people who pushed the resolution one hundred seventy three they thought it was about humanitarian protection it turned out to be about regime change they didn't sign up to that so i can feel why the russians and chinese are so grieved by that but the other hand for them not even just sort of come out again in the russian language is changing now but they're coming out against what is now being ca

the other hand it also may be a sign that the government wants to use ramadan as a month to calm the situation before we are supposed to have elections. in eight weeks time now of course more protests we could see as we've seen in other parts of our world experts. in evening after the end of casting people were just the hospitals are demonstrating what we could see the government can this will be an opportunity to correct some support from people who feel they've had enough demonstrations in cairo but you have a kind of weariness of the demonstrations but of course there are many people who stop demonstrating. would also guy. meantime several nato states are threatening action against syria when the u.n. security council said to hold an emergency meeting on the situation it comes as residents of the city of hama report that the army has resumed shelling residential areas there more than one hundred people are said to have been killed on sunday when government tanks forced their way into the opposition stronghold russia's condemned the violence in syria calling on both sides the gover

bush also hosted eight ramadan dinners while he was in office.rd and a right wing cheap shot. courtesy of fox and friends. that's our con job of the day. >>> welcome back. we are just three days away from texas governor's rick perry's public prayer val rally called, the response. he wanted it to be as big a national event to restore faith in america. but it turns out, perry's having trouble filling seats. organizers say only 8,000 people are signed up. that barely fills one section of the 71,000 seat reliant stadium where the event's being held. it is about half the people expected at the hunter's extravaganza expo going on in the reliant center right next door. the low turn out might just be because of all of the extreme and haitful endorsers who signed on to the event. just listen to them preach. >> the homosexual agenda will become to intense that before the lord returns, marriage will be outlawed in various parts of the earth. >> one of the good example says minimum wage. party's been fighting about that for about 60 years. is jesus for or ag

. >> many libyans were preparing for the feast marking the end of ramadan. there were crowds outside as people tried to withdraw cash. for many, it will be yet another reason to celebrate. >> with the rebel forces, increasing the pressure on the loyalists, we asked our correspondent what the chances are that we will see a surrender. >> before that, the deputy prime minister has just said that the transitional government has a very good idea of the whereabouts of colonel gaddafi. they're confident that they will capture. it could preempt any deadline. there is no doubt that the remaining loyalist would surrender. if that does not happen, it is anyone's guess. you would have expected him to collapse a long time ago. they do fight on. there is some suggestion that they think that communications are being cut and they are not aware about the rest of the country. we do not know. we cannot get into this place. we cannot talk to them. all this is speculation. >> briefly, let me ask you about the situation with algeria. algeria giving shelter to part of gaddafi's fa

our first choice but either way nice move the bad whole foods as muslims around the world recognize ramadan last week whole foods promoted a new line of frozen foods that are whole all certified is to muslims like like kosher is to jews offering free samples to people who eat a while for religious reasons or just to try it immediately islamophobia went nuts over the idea of selling food that muslims can actually eat during ramadan and rather than taking a principled stand for food skate company immediately sent an e-mail out to all of its u.s. stores reading it is probably that we don't specifically quote or promote ronald on we should not highlight ramadan in signage in our stores as that could be considered somewhat brady or promote it around with. so does that mean whole foods won't promote or so a brit christmas when it comes around i doubt it but if so their executives should prepare and now for the backlash when fox news does their annual visit the way on christmas crusade. and the very very ugly tom de lay the former republican house majority leader turned c. list celebrity and danci