that s right. 3400 candidates began their campaigns today for the parliamentary vote next friday in iran. the march 2nd election is the first test of president mahmoud ahmadinejad. he was re-elected in questionable elections back in 2009. these elections are largely seen as a contest between ahmadinejad supporters and those of the supreme leader. jennifer griffin at the pentagon tonight. a stunning development in the honeymoon murder trial. a husband accused of murdering his new bride while they were scuba diving so he could cash in her insurance policy. the judge did something one prosecutor says he has never before seen. there s a verdict and it s next. brad ash 87 he s in court today charged with giving thousands of
gas prices overnight jumped 3.3 cents a gallon on fears iranian oil, the world s fourth biggest stash of crude, could be disrupted. if iran made good on its threats to halt oil supplies, which it s promised to do, it would hurt consumers around the world. the strike team says it would send the united states into another recession with gas prices possibly hitting $4.75 a gallon, but it would also devastate iran. 80% of the nation s economy is linked to oil and gas. will it come to this? rudy giuliani was mayor of new york city during 9/11 and he comes outfront tonight. good to see you. nice to be here. let me start with this issue of the rhetoric here. do you think it s going to get to the point where iran feels threatened enough to do something like shut off its crude oil supplies? i do. it does have a devastating impact on them. they re very good at threatening. the threat i think you have to take as a real one and as we ratchet up pressure on them, they may very wel
situation for any late changes. this report coming from our state correspondent. it s one of many new developments tonight on many different fronts. two things remain constant. dozens of people are being murdered, killed every day and the assad regime continues to lie about it. in fact, they re finding new ways to lie about it. especially the two journalists killed in homs yesterday and whose bodies are trapped there. the government blaming them for dying in the conditions they created. also claiming they re not targeting journalists or civilians, only terrorists. the second statement is a flat out lie. one of the journalists, marie colvin did the last reporting on our program. we spoke to her hours before she was killed. a new rort out from u.n. investigators, sfie pages that read like an indictment of the assad regime. forces have committed widespread systematic and gross human rights violations amounting to crimes against humanity. with the apparent knowledge and consent o
two things remain constant. dozens of people are being murdered, killed every day and the assad regime continues to lie about it. in fact, they re finding new ways to lie about it. especially the two journalists killed in homs yesterday and whose bodies are trapped there. the government blaming them for dying in the conditions they created. also claiming they re not targeting journalists or civilians, only terrorists. the second statement is a flat out lie. one of the journalists, marie colvin did the last reporting on our program. we spoke to her hours before she was killed. a new rort out from u.n. investigators, sfie pages that read like an indictment of the assad regime. forces have committed widespread systematic and gross human rights violations amounting to crimes against humanity. with the apparent knowledge and consent of the highest levels of the state. the report notes the opposition of the syrian army committed abuses and not comparable in scale to those carried o
talking a toll. gas prices overnight jumped 3.3 cents a gallon. on fears iranian oil, which is the world s fourth biggest stash of crude, could be disrunted. if they made good on their promise to halt the crude, it would hurt consumers around the world. jim beonco said it would send the united states into another recession with gas prices possibly hitting $4.75 a gallon. the move would also devastate iran. sources tell us 80% of that nation s economy is linked to oil and natural gas. will iran do this, will it come to this? mayor rudy jewgiuliani was mayon new york on 9/11. let me start with the rhetoric. do you think it s going to get to point where iran feels threatened enough to shut off the crude oil? i do. i m not sure they will because it has a devastating impact on them. they re vargood at threatening. the threat you have to take as a real 1, and as we ratchet up the pressure on them, they may very well take the step to see what kind of pressure they can put on us. a