. >> in syria today, there are reports that people are fleeing the northern town of jisr al- shughour and crossing over the border into nearby turkey. the exodus comes after the syrian government says it will take decisive action for the killing of 120 security personnel over the weekend. we have the latest. >> of funeral apparently taking place in the town of jisr al- shughour last saturday. it is impossible to independently verify this video. opposition activists say dozens of anti-government protesters in the town were killed in the military crackdown which began on the weekend. did anger lead some here to take up arms to fight back against the syrian forces? the town of jisr al-shughour lies in a tribal area in the northwest of the country, close to the border with turkey. it has a history of rebellion. ever since the uprising began in march, the syrian media has portrayed it as an armed insurrection. gangs of extremists launching attacks on the security forces across the country. what happens in jisr al- shughour, officials insist, was the same, unprovoked killing of soldiers and

. >> in syria today, there are reports that people are fleeing the northern town of jisr al- shughour and crossing over the border into nearby turkey. the exodus comes after the syrian government says it will take decisive action for the killing of 120 security personnel over the weekend. we have the latest. >> of funeral apparently taking place in the town of jisr al- shughour last saturday. it is impossible to independently verify this video. opposition activists say dozens of anti-government protesters in the town were killed in the military crackdown which began on the weekend. did anger lead some here to take up arms to fight back against the syrian forces? the town of jisr al-shughour lies in a tribal area in the northwest of the country, close to the border with turkey. it has a history of rebellion. ever since the uprising began in march, the syrian media has portrayed it as an armed insurrection. gangs of extremists launching attacks on the security forces across the country. what happens in jisr al- shughour, officials insist, was the same, unprovoked killing of soldiers and

this is telephone video of syrian soldiers moving up toward jisr al-shughour. it was another bloody friday. internet video showed demonstrators marching across syria. the attempt to crush the protests by force is not working, but they are still trying. this man had to beg for his life. and this, the soldiers said, is for freedom, and this for wanting to change the regime. it is not clear when these pictures were taken, but the men in uniform are syrians loyal to the president. another refugee denied the regina's virgiversion be deniede regime's version of what happened. killed by armed groups, fanatics, radical islam is, and insurgents. is that true? >> no, he said, the dead were security forces who did not obey orders an attack the people. they were shot by the secret police. two camp set up for refugees are full, and the turks are building a third. this man said his arm had a bullet wound. the turkish prime minister switch from soft peddling on syria, calling what happened there savagery. the turks are very nervous about what is happening here and so are all

. >> syrian troops entering the town of jisr al-shughour.hese pictures were filmed by the bbc arabic service, which was taken into the town by the syrian army. the government said this is a mass grave of some of the 120 security personnel killed over a week ago. some have been be headed. others were shot. there are other versions -- there are different versions of how the city was taken. the syrian state says it had to fight its way in, but then found grateful residents, delighted that order had been restored. >> but many refugees who have fled tell a different story. they say the army is killing civilians indiscriminately, burning crops, and killing livestock. the refugees are finding shelter in camps in turkey. as well as worrying about the future, they face one of the biggest problems experienced by refugees the world over, boredom. and they could be away from home for quite some time. the turkish government hopes these camps do not become semi permanent. but everyone knows that is a possibility. >> our houses, crops, and everything we ha

her comments come as people are fleeing the northern town of jisr al-shughour and fleeing into turkey. >> a refugee camp being run by the turkish authorities. hundreds of syrians are living here. others are just mingling with the general population. many staying with relatives. some are thinking about crossing but haven't done so. they're living in makeshift tents right by the border, waiting to see what the syrian army does, and they say if it gets bad, they'll leave. those who have already made the move say they fear a major military assault. >> do you think there will be an attack on jisr al-shughour? >> yes, yes, they said, we think the army may come with tanks and air power to attack us. the syrian army does appear to be getting ready, as these unverified pictures suggest with so many people living syria, towns and villages in the northwest have been almost complete lay -- completely abandoned. the syrian authorities insist people are fleeing from what they call armed gangs and that the security forces are only in the area because the locals have asked them to come in. >> what i

people in jisl al-shughour are bracing for that attack. they are trying stop security forces from getting into the area. there are some trying to go across the border into neighboring turkey. >> must be a terrifying time. the former head of the f.i.a. has added his voice to those opposed of formula 1 racing in bahrain. the grand brix was postponed after a braddy crackdown on protester -- bloody crackdown on protesters. he told why he was still opposed to the race taking place in bahrain. >> i think they obviously want the grand prix and will do what they can. i don't think he is the proper picture of what is going on. >> you think therefore the decision clearly discredited. nonetheless, the fact is we will all be looking at every dot and comma, every movement right up to that grand prix. that in itself has a role to play. >> i think that aspect of it is true. the problem is formula 1 at that point is being used as one of the tools of the government to public press the majority and that is a point to pull out because you can't allow yoursel

people in the syrian town of jisr al-shughour say they fear a slaughteter. protesters posted online messages saying they fear there could be large loss of life. middle east editor has this report. >> syrian state tv has been showing this, women asking for the army to come into jisr al- shughour, demanding protection, saying they have been attacked rooftops.s from root crop they have also been showing a video designed to back the regime's consistent message that it is dealing with an armed insurrection. it cannot be confirmed by the bbc. foreign journalists are not allowed into the country. so many people have been killed by anti-regime forces, it seems that in that area, at least an armed insurrection is what is happening. the interior minister went on tv and promised tough action and what he called a decisive response. there is also plenty of evidence of continuing unarm to protest. this is video sent out of a country in the center of damascus with today's date on a placard. on friday, a big protests were reported from hama. >> president bashar al-assad is

. >> syrian troops entering the town of jisr al-shughour. these pictures were filmed by the bbc arabic service which was taken into the town by the syrian army. the government says this is a mass grave of some of the 120 security personnel killed over a week ago. some had been beheaded, others shocked. there are different versions of how the city was retaken. the syrian state says it had to fight its way in, but then found grateful residents delighted that order had been restored. but many of the thousands of ribbies who fled jisr al- shughour tell a different story. they say the army is killing civilians indiscriminately, burning crops, and killing livestock. the refugees are finding shelter in camps in turkey, as well as worrying about the future as they face one of the biggest problems experienced by reviews the world over, boredom. they could be away from home for quite some time. the turkish government hopes these camps did not become semi- permanent, but everyone knows that is a possibility. >> that have burned our houses, crops, and e

pictures, impossible to verify, seem to show people on the streets of jisr al-shughour last night.ey're waving olive branches, calling on the syrian army to stay outside the town. these people fear imminent attack ar the reported killing of up to 120 security forces in the area on monday. the syrian government has been broadcasting pictures of the alleged massacre, most too graphic for us to show but they do reveal dozens of bodies in uniform lying along this blood-stained road. the victims are being called martyrs by the regime. but opposition groups claim they were shot by their own side as deserters. whatever the truth, it seems clear military reinforcements have been flooding into the area. >> the town is almost empty. the residents have fled. the town is like a ghost town. reinforcement barracks tanks are just about seven kilometers outside town and people are expecting the worst to happen. >> amidst the -- and it's the scale of the killing of civilians which has prompted international anger. with more reports of victims being shot by security forces. reports are that bashir a

just a short while ago, i managed to speak to one resident of the town of jisr al-shughour, and throughan interpreter, i asked him -- he went by the name of ahmed -- what the situation is now. >> the town is almost empty. the residents have fled the country. the town is like a ghost town. military reinforcement barracks, tanks are just about seven kilometers outside of town, and people are expecting the worst to happen. >> when you say the worst, does that mean you expect the troops to come into town and euphemistically restore order? >> they're expected to come in. >> that was just a flavor of my conversation. we'll have more on "bbc world news" to give us a picture of what is happening in the town. a very, very worrying town. adnan is with me, have a look at sport. again, ilts the same neck of the woods, but bahrain, on, off, on, off, on, says bernie ecclestone. >> he told you yesterday, didn't he? he said the problem is that every single team has agree if there's going to be a schedule change, and the umbrella organization that speaks for the team said late yesterday they weren't hap

the village is about 30 kilometers from the turkish border and a short distance from jisr al-shughour, the city that syrian forces invaded on sunday in the might crack down on the opposition. >> we need immediate intervention. this man is massacring the syrian people. he is killing children. he is starting as. there is no bread, no milk, nothing. no food or medicine. nothing at all. >> syrian television shows thousands of people unfurling a huge flag in damascus. it was reportedly paid for with the nation's raised on facebook. -- with donations raised on facebook. the message -- turkey denies that it is meddling. elsewhere in syria, anti- ackermann protests reportedly continue. some images -- anti-government protests reportedly continue. some images show demonstrations. the messages on these boys' chests read, "stop the army" and "there are no gangs." turkey has set up camps for refugees and kept its borders open. >> we share a common destiny with the syrian people. there is no way we will close the border. we will not stop posting them, even if the number reaches 10,000 -- hosting th

not far from there, the syrian military has launched an operation on the border city of jisr al shughoure regime has been promising punishment on the city after 120 security forces were killed there several days ago, it says by armed thugs. refugees refute that. saying some of the troops rebelled after refusing to fire on civilians. in any case, syrian forces have been marching toward the town. reported burning fields and firing on anything and anyone in their path. we have no video of it yet, because the syrian government is keeping the media out. but we do have new video tonight of the swelling refugee camps over the turkish border. that's what you're looking at right now. and these unfortunate syrians may in fact be the lucky ones. a western correspondent near the camp says refugees are telling her that the syrian regime tried to stop them from leaving, holding its own people captive and worse, much worse. this is the body of tamir al sharai, returned to his family after a month in captivity. like all amateur video, we can't independently verify it, in part because syria won't allow u

us just yesterday he was at a protest 20 miles away on the syrian side of the border and jisr al-shughour and almost right away the soldiers and police opened up. most of us shocked and trying to help the wounded. he tried to document the carnage on his cell phone. said they were shooting from the ground and the air. he also told us that when some soldier and police refused to fire on the crowd of protesters, they, in turn, were shot. that's exactly the kind of split inside the security services that residents described in the same town at a protest a week ago. and there's more evidence of splits in the syrian army. deserting soldiers arriving in turkey after witnessing atrocities. mohammed said he and his friends escaped after she watched an officer unprovoked shoot a civilian in the head. these accounts are impossible to verify, but if they are true, they could the first real sign of syrian civility. >> as many as 6,000 opponents of moammar qaddafi marched through rebelv: held benghazi today. there was increased fighting in other cities. we have the latest. >> heavy shelling by forces l

. >>> the syrian government says it will send the army into jisr al shughour, the move comes after three days of violence. syrian state tv says 120 syrian troops were killed by armed gangs. the opposition claims the troops were killed as they tried to defect. "world business today" starts right now. >>> from cnn london, i'm charles hodson. one small step for cloud computing, one giant leap for apple as it touts its new central data hub and one-stop cyncing, but critics warn it could promote music piracy. >>> peru's president promises to spread the wealth. >>> investors, following fears of a slowdown, trading across much of europe and asia has taken a cautiously upward curve, clearly a sense that the market is a tiny bit oversold for now. perhaps not quite the wall of green that you see over there, but plenty of markets are beating the monday blues. let's have a look at what we're looking at in terms of european stocks. surprisingly steady open. nothing too spectacular in terms of gains. london ftse up about 0.25%. xetra dax up doing well, up about 0.4%. zurich smi, off by round about a 0

the streets of jisr al-shughour in northern syria are deserted. its remaining residents are braced for an imminent assault by the syrian military. president bashar al-assad's government alleges 120 of its security forces were killed this week in the rebellious town, and aired amateur video on state television purporting to show its dead troops. now, elite units believed to be commanded by assad's brother appear poised to exact vengeance. this amateur video, surreptitiously shot from a fleeing motorist, appeared to show convoys of military vehicles massed outside the town yesterday. the bbc's owen bennet jones is on the turkish side of the border with syria, and says there are reports that thousands of young men remain in the town. >> reporter: i think the women and children have basically either gone to other locations, either in syria or come here. and the people who remain are probably the ones who want to fight-- you know, that are prepared to fight it out. >> woodruff: only one route out is open, and townsfolk are taking it, fleeing in droves.

arwa damon, cnn, jisr al shughour, syria. >>> a string of cyber attacks on international companies, agenciesitutions. now there was a major embarrassment for the u.s. in the senate over the weekend when hackers broke into the senate's website and there were reports that said that they stole internal data. and then at the international monetary fund it was recently discovered hackers got into its computers. now it's investigating what is called a major breach of systems. and then sony affected as well. the electronics giant where hackers stole personal details of tens of millions of playstation users and google, too, also suffering from the same thing. the internet giant pointed the finger, though, at china when it was targeted by hackers. google says attempts were made to access the g-mail accounts of human rights activists as well as government officials. let's bring in eddie william, an expert in online security who joins us via skype from brussels. thanks for being with us. who is behind all this? >> hello. excuse me, what did you say? >> who is behind this? >> well, i have several record