organization goal has put p this map of violations and cited about 3000 across the country and the communist leader who came in second came out swinging the hardest, saying he did not accept the results, and called russia tonight a mafia state and i think, harris, with all of the allegations of vote fraud and the putin camp saying the election was clean and honest, we ll have to wait a bit longer to understand and put it all into perspective and come to a decision about how free and fair or not these elections really were. harris: well, more immediately will be that protest that s planned and we ll be watching for that. amy kellogg, reporting tonight. thank you very much. bodies of two foreign journalists killed in syria, arrived in paris including marie colvin, a veteran correspondent for britain s sunday times, a this with this network. and the international red
secretary jay carney said the u.s. so far is looking for a diplomatic solution here. we do not believe that adding to the militarization of syria is the right approach. meanwhile, an american reporter and a french photojournalist were the killed today in more intense syrian government shelling in the city of homs. american marie colvin was working for britain s sunday times. her grieving mother just spoke with reporters at her home on new york s long island. and passion and determination and lived her life that way. nbc s news correspondent richard engel joins us live via skype along the border with turkey and syria. thank you so much for joining us here. you know the conversations happening within members of congress in the states about arming the rebels in syria. they are making a comparison to what we saw in libya to what s happening in syria. is that fair and accurate to do that? it is a very different