nhk world's shoko matsumoto has that story. >> reporter: it's 4:30 a.m. and already, there are over 1,000 people in this line. >> i've been here since like 8:30 yesterday. i haven't slept. i feel fantastic. >> reporter: they've come for a dental care fair sponsored by local charities. low income and unemployed people who cannot afford to visit a dentist can get basic treatment here free of charge. sandy preston hasn't seen a dentanist two years. she needs a crown on one tooth. however, only simple treatments are provided at the fair. preston has been unemployed for the last two years, since the company she worked with went bankrupt. she's a single mother raising a daughter on low income and has had to move in with her parents. a crown would cost about $1,500. so instead of going to a dentist, she's just been taking pain killers. >> i'd prefer to get the dentist to fix it correctly so i wouldn't have to take the medication because i don't like to take a lot of medication. >> reporter: in the u.s., government health care programs are available to people ove

shoko matsumoto, nhk world, phoenix, arizona. >> more children will have access to dental care, but many adults will be left uncovered. >>> now moving on to syria, president bashar al-assad, agreed to an interview. he told state television in iran he would rule out any international effort to intervene in syria. assad said foreign pressure would not influence what is going on within his country's borders. he said no one know house to solve syria's problems as well as the syrians do. he also said, his troops would continue to attack opposition forces. he said his government had a duty to annihilate what he called terrorists. government and opposition forces have not let up even after they agreed to a u.n. cease-fire. mep be members of the opposition say troops killed 100 people wednesday alone. diplomats from the u.s., russia and key players will meet in geneva on saturday to try to find a way to stop the fighting. >>> the obama administration has exempted two more countries from financial sanctions that is against iran. china and singapore will not be pe penalized even if their instituti