coming from courageous syrians who work very hard to get the story out. remi was one of those people until yesterday. he is shown here with his 18-year-old daughter. rami was killed yesterday in the heavy shelling of homs. his death came as he was trying to help a family flee the bombardment. in afghanistan, a deadly day. after began owe kwigss say five people were killed, four by police who opened fire on the demonstrators. some copies of islam s holy book were burned by mistake this week at the air field. the u.s. commander of nato forces in afghanistan issued a formal apology saying in part the incident was an error and immediately stopped when discovered. the political spotlight is on arizona tonight as the republican contenders for the white house square off in a debate sponsored by cnn. with his surge in the polls, rick santorum could be the main target by his rivals saying that satan is waging war against america. here s what he said about it yesterday. i m a per
become victims of the violence they were covering there on the ground in syria. just hours before her death, american-born journalist marie colvin told anderson cooper just last night, quote, the syrian army is shelling the city of cold, stavrving civilians, end quote. colvin and remi ochik were killed in the shelling there. he was just 28 years old. he was a veteran war correspondent with the new york times for more than two decades. i have cnn s ivan watson and jim clancy joining me. ivan, i want to begin with you in istanbul. i ll get to you, jim, i know you definitely knew marie very well. ivan, you met her a few times. you were also just recently in syria, days ago in syria. what did you see? tell me about the shelling. i was in a different part of the country that wasn t being pummelled the way that the city of homs is under such fierce bombardment. we were hearing periodic clashes and hearing heavy arms, and there were periodic bombardments of villages in the area.