homs. syria, a people under siege. this speaks for itself. bombarded for months. kicked off by snipers. food and supplies running out. medical care impossible. this is the story of the cnn team that got into syria s most dangerous city. to reach a handful of citizens risking their lives every day. to see firsthand, to bear witness, and to tell the world about the suffering. the grief. and the courage of homs. this is the account of 72 hours under fire. for more than a year, the regime of dictator bashar al assad had used brutal force to put down a popular uprising in syria. across the country, protesters demanded change, chanting date down with the regime. this is homs, baba amr. you can see over there, another rocket landed on a civilian s house. the city of homs became the beating heart of a growing uprising, but the syrian military sealed off one neighborhood, baba amr, as it tried to crush the revolt. the assad regime is shelling relentlessly these neighborho
homs. syria, a people under siege. this speaks for itself. bombarded for months. kicked off by snipers. food and supplies running out. medical care impossible. this is the story of the cnn team that got into syria s most dangerous city. to reach a handful of citizens risking their lives every day. to see firsthand, to bear witness, and to tell the world about the suffering. the grief. and the courage of homs. this is the account of 72 hours under fire. for more than a year, the regime of dictator bashar al assad had used brutal force to put down a popular uprising in syria. across the country, protesters demanded change, chanting date down with the regime. this is homs, bob aba amr. you can see over there, another rocket landed on a civilian s house. the city of homs became the beating heart of a growing uprising, but the syrian military sealed off one neighborhood, baba amr, as it tried to crush the revolt. the assad regime is shelling relentlessly these neighbo
until his deadly regime cracks and collapses because it will. i m absolutely confident of that. late today, president obama called for greater pressure on assad to go. all of us who have been seeing the terrible pictures coming out of syria and homs recently, recognize it is absolutely imperative for the international community to rally and send a clear message to president assad that it is time for a transition. it s time for that regime to move on. and it is time to stop the killing of syrian citizens by their own government. despite the words, the killing goes on. we said at least 91 lives today. more than 100 yesterday, according to activists. and the shelling, this was the 21st day of the bombardment for people living in the baba amr section of homs. in the middle of this, crews from the red cross managed to evacuate a small number of women and children. the two western journalists remain in homs, so do the bodies of marie colvin and remy offlic, and so do tens of
according to activists. secretary of state clinton had a warning for the assad regime. assad can still made the choice to end the violence, save lives, and spare his country from descending further into ruin. but if he continues to reject that choice, we and the syrian people will chemopressure on him until his deadly regime cracks and collapses because it will. i m absolutely confident of that. late today, president obama called for greater pressure on assad to go. all of us who have been seeing the terrible pictures coming out of syria and homs recently, recognize it is absolutely imperative for the international community to rally and send a clear message to president assad that it is time for a transition. it s time for that regime to move on. and it is time to stop the killing of syrian citizens by their own government. despite the words, the killing goes on. we said at least 91 lives today. more than 100 yesterday, according to activists. and the shelling, this
government is trying to kill them and is succeeding at doing that. first, sharp statements from the obama administration as america and more than 60 other countries, so-called friends of syria, met in tunisia. this is video of the meeting. they called on the assad regime to end the violence which claimed at least 91 lives today, according to activists. secretary of state clinton had a warning for the assad regime. assad can still made the choice to end the violence, save lives, and spare his country from descending further into ruin. but if he continues to reject that choice, we and the syrian people will chemopressure on him until his deadly regime cracks and collapses because it will. i m absolutely confident of that. late today, president obama called for greater pressure on assad to go. all of us who have been seeing the terrible pictures coming out of syria and homs recently, recognize it is absolutely imperative for the international community to rally and send