welcome to the newsroom international i m suzanne malveaux and we are taking you around the world in 60 minutes. in london, wikileaks founder julian assange breaks his silence. and the jackie-o of china is just handed a life sentence. i want to start with a dictator coming out in public to pray in the middle of a civil war. that is syria, and syria is trying to celebrate eid which marks the end of ramadan and now officials say that fresh fighting has claimed 72 lives. this is video here posted on youtube, and it is said to show a shelling in a damascus suburb, and there is renewed violence in sanaa. and now bashar al assad has made a rare appearance where he showed nup a mshow showed up in a mosque in damascus, and this is the first time we have seen him since a bomb killed his brother and other members of his regime. i want to bring in hala gorani to talk about this, but what about the fact that assad is in public and on television and what message is he is trying to
welcome to the newsroom international i m suzanne malveaux and we are taking you around the world in 60 minutes. in london, wikileaks founder julian assange breaks his silence. and the jackie-o of china is just handed a life sentence. i want to start with a dictator coming out in public to pray in the middle of a civil war. that is syria, and syria is trying to celebrate eid which marks the end of ramadan and now officials say that fresh fighting has claimed 72 lives. this is video here posted on youtube, and it is said to show a shelling in a damascus suburb, and there is renewed violence in sanaa. and now bashar al assad has made a ra appearance where he showed nup a mshow showed up in a mosque in damascus, and this is the first time we have seen him since a bomb killed his brother and other members of his regim i want to bring in hala gorani to talk about this, but what about the fact that assad is in public and on television and what message is he is trying to sen
they don t do that at all. drew griffin will have that. first, there s one thing that ties together all these cases we found. last time, we told you about another charity called the montreal spca. canadian charity that helps abandoned cats and dogs. the charity needed money, so it entered into a deal with an american private fund-raising company called quadriga art, to solicit donations on its behalf and build up a mailing list of donors. after three years, the montreal spca received about $13 million in donations. but despite all that money, they ve still ended up in the hole more than $4.5 million, owing money to quadriga art. the bills from that fund-raising company were so huge that nearly every penny, every dollar that came in went to pay those bills. now, the montreal spca is so in debt, quadriga art actually holds a lien on the group s animal shelter. and that is just the beginning of the story. the manager who put together that deal and was subsequently fired, he went
so that being said, i think the united states anti-doping agency is bringing charges that include more than just these weird blood levels that came up in 1999 or was it 2010 or something? it has more to do with doping conspiracy on the past teams that he used to ride for. and i guess multiple witnesses on each team, including multiple riders that said armstrong not only doped but encouraged doping and administered doping the times. so it s more than that he didn t test positive, which he didn t. it was more of an analytical way of saying he cheated. and this is a conspiracy that went on from 1996 through his entire career of some 14 or so years. talk a little bit about the u.s. antidoping agency and its powers what it can and cannot do. because it s different before it was the department of justice, which was bringing charges. they dropped all those charges and they re not pursuing it. the bar is lower for this doping agency exactly. it s much lower. the u.s. anti-dopin
however many mgold medals she won. she never tested positive and as it turned out, she was part of a systematic doping scheme. so that being said, i think the united states anti-doping agency is bringing charges that include more than just these weird blood levels that came up in 1999 or was it 2010 or something? it has more to do with doping conspiracy on the past teams that he used to ride for. and i guess multiple witnesses on each team, including multiple riders that said armstrong not only doped but encouraged doping and administered doping the times. so it s more than that he didn t test positive, which he didn t. it was more of an analytical way of saying he cheated. and this is a conspiracy that went on from 1996 through his entire career of some 14 or so years. talk a little bit about the u.s. andy doping agency, and its powers. what it can and cannot do. because it s different before it was the department of justice, which was bringing charges. they dropped all