opposition firefighters today reportedly said the syrian government has 48 hours to stop killing innocent men women and kids before they start defending civilians. of course the united nations estimate syrian troops have killed more than 9,000 people since last march. we cannot confirm. conor powell live middle east bureau now. connor? harris, that u.n.-backed cease-fire has never taken hold and syria looks like t will be completely aban conned when those 48 hours are up around noon on friday. now, we saw continued violence in syria today. those bodies were found in eastern syria. we also have heard of heavy shelling in the town of homs where they have been attacking rebel holds in that city. we do not know what damage has been done but we do know it s probably extensive. formal declaration by the rebels an end to that cease-fire the international
is keeping low profile on facebook because i don t like showing my privacy. privacy has been one of the biggest issues dogging facebook from the start. peter barnes with the news live from d.c. seems like facebook can t catch a break. well, harris, the stock was down another 65 cents a share today closing at about $28. that s $10 a share below it s offering price on may 18th as you mentioned. that is a 25% decline that has cut more than $25 billion off the company s market value. but at this price facebook is starting to get a few more friends. i think at 28 or 2 dollars you are getting a nice discount from the $38 ipo price and i think this company does have an extraordinary opportunity to become the place for display ads on the web over the next couple of years there will be an army of software developers that will help them get that right. facebook came at a very high price. it s unsupported by the fund
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community has really been pressing hard on a diplomatic solution and trying to find a way to end the blood shed but those diplomatic efforts really haven t done much to do that to end the blood shed just yet. and russia signaled today that they will block any effort by the u.s. and other countries around the world to take syria to the u.n. security counsel. they have offered to basically continue to protect syria going forward. and ambassador susan rice essentially said that if diplomatic effort doesn t succeed in solving the violence in syria, she is afraid the entire middle east region will see a larger regional conflict fod a top iranian official essentially agreed and said if the united states or another country uses military intervention in syria that israel will be attacked. so you can tell, harris, there are a lot of difficult problems to face in this region right now. harris: that s very complicated. it always is. this just makes it more so.
harris: europe s economy takes a beating. the dow closing down 161 points one of the worst this year. the nasdaq fell 24. the s&p 500 was down 19. the sell-off came as people pulled money out of spanish banks triggers fears that spain will now need a bailout. and in greece the polls showing the far left party gaining support ahead of elections next month. if that party were to win, greece could drop the euro as its currency which analysts say will likely hurt banks worldwide. the money mess in europe means we are actually paying less at the pump. the slow down in europe as well as china has lowered the demand for oil. today the price falling 3.40 to $87.36 a barrel. it s on track for the largest monthly decline since 2008. according to a.a.a. that s brought the price of gasoline down to $3.63 average. 90 cents lower 19 cents lower than we paid a month