people. syrian government forces continue to fire heavy shells into the city of homs and other areas today. homs is ground zero of the uprising against president bashar al assad. opposition groups say at least 21 people, including children, have been killed today alone. the russian foreign minister arrived in syria today, holding talks with assad and calling for an end to the violence without foreign interference. another development, gulf arab states in france, spain and italy, recalled their ambassadors today, as well. so coming up in about ten minutes we re going to break down what is going on in syria as best as we can from the city s affected, to emergency care, to the specifics of the humanitarian crisis that is going on. we re also going to talk with arwa damon, who has been in that region. she ll provide some much-needed understanding as to what these we ll can do. stay with us, that is just a few minutes away from now. meantime back here in the united states, the rep