immediate out of ther of the president assad whose family has ruled in syria for four decades. we have amateur video from one city, the city of damascus. fox cannot independently verify this was shot today. we cannot independently verify where or who it came from. but the united nations human rights council condemns syria s crackdown and approved an investigation and now president obama has signed a new executive order to impose new punishment against individuals in that regime. and now to the pentagon and our national security correspondent. you just got off the phone with the syrian activist in the protests in damascus. she told me she confirmed what human rights groups are saying, at least 48 people have been killed when the government of president assad opened fire on protesters in towns across
probably just make the war worse without changing the outcome. and, also, the arab league has not called for measures against syria and we have to ask more in isolation, sort of recalling all the memories when the western world was imperialistic toward the middle east. shepard: we are led to believe that syrian government has locked the gates of the, well, locked down the borders and trapped the citizens inside and is murdering them according to the watchdog agency but fox cannot get in there so this is in the confirmed. you wonder, will it turn? what conditions could be required for it to turn? guest: well, great point. the other reason we don t push too hard on assad we hope he can paso doble with israel on the golan heights or bring in the terrorism of hezbollah that has he facilitated. will he do that in is he capable? maybe we are better off taking a
back to the runway. everyone is fine. jet off the road. updates ahead. this is studio b the bottom of the hour, time for the top of the news. this is video said to be of syrian troops shooting interest a crowd of innocent people, peaceful unarmed protesters as they march down a street in damascus. as you could imagine, fox cannot independently verify the authenticity because the government there as it kills its citizens will note allow journalists in to report. human rights group and witnesses say this is just one example of the syrian government s bloody crackdown on demonstrators. and that crock down is getting more severe in the face of pressure from the white house and other western governments. but that pressure on the syrian president assad is nowhere near
fox cannot verify this. in israel, palestinian rockets struck near tel aviv and in response israeli aircraft pounded targets in gaza. and violence spiking after a deadly bomb attack in jerusalem. and then, there is jordan, where hundreds of proffers protesters are demanding government reform and prosecution of corrupt, officials. an employee at a nuclear power plant here in the united states lied about inspections he was supposed to be ticketing at supposed to be conducting at the plant. and the underwear bomber or attempted underwear bomb are tried to blow up an airline over detroit on christmas day. why did he choose detroit? that has an interesting answer ahead.
government offices and police stations. this is amateur video. fox cannot verify tie the all then advertisity. no foreign press has been allowed in libya, so it is extremely difficult to confirm anything. there are reports of sniper and military aircraft firing live ammunition on crowds of protesters. in other words, the government murdering its own people. at least two libyan air force fighter pilots who did not want to shoot the protesters have apparently defected to malta. according to the group human rights watch the crackdown killed more than 230 people. but some opposition leaders say the number is much, much higher. jonathan hunt with the news from new york today. there are signs the regime is cracking from inside. jonathan: serious signs. the justice minister, the highest level resignation from qadhafi s government saying that he was resigning in protest of