syria is showing no signs of letting up with reports hundreds have been killed this week alone. right now the united nations is struggling to broker some kind of peace plan but we are getting reports that russia is balking at any attempts to get syria s leader to step aside. greg palkot is live in damascus with the latest on this. hello, greg. folks here still reeling from a brutal attack. amateur video reports to show a funeral procession in the damascus area not far from where we are right now. you see the bomb blast and then you see the crazed aftermath. activists say it could be a car bomber or suicide bomber and claim that syrian security forces were responsible. we are told as many as 40 killed and many more injured. we went into the area and found it to be shut down tight. shop keepers at the mostly antiregime area staging a strike. most people were staying off the streets. plus there were low key quick
forces. we should start considering all options including arming the opposition. the blood letting has got to stop. shepard: arming the opposition. the white house says that is not an s right now. senator mccain s comments came as we got new video from inside syria showing the battles between government forces and protesters. [explosion] shepard: last month the united nations estimated more than 5400 people had died in syria since march when a government crackdown began. the u.n. reports hundreds more have likely died since but the chaos in syria makes it impossible to keep track. we re relying largely on unconfirmed reports and amateur video from inside the country to get a sense what s happening there. also received a report from suture stewart ramsey of our sister network sky news in london. the only way out of the is by check point is check point.
we will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them. a war on terror, a war on terrorism is a footing, a mind-set more than it is a plan. but toppling a government is the work of soldiers on the ground. every nation now has a decision to make. putting soldiers on the ground fomenting war against afghan factions, even taking prisoners. either you re with us or you are with the terrorists. as small and secretive cia and u.s. military special forces unit pay and cajole, arm and coordinate afghanistan s rebel factions allegations surface of atrocities massacres at the hands of afghan war lords. newsweek reports hundreds of surrendering pro-taliban prisoners are killed in 2001 while being transported in
but toppling a government is the work of soldiers on the ground. every nation now has a decision to make. putting soldiers on the ground, fermenting war against afghan factions means taking prisoners. either you re with us, or you re with the terrorists. as small and secretive cia and u.s. military special forces unit pay and cajole, arm and coordinate afghanistan s rebel factions, allegations of atrocities, massacres at the hands of afghan war lords. news week reports hundreds of prisoners are killed in 2001 while being transported in overcrowded shipping containers by order of a u.s.-led war lord. american forces start taking prisoners by the thousands, ultimately by the tens of thousands. it would soon take the u.s. government and its military down
and it went south from there and tens of thousands and by some reports hundreds of thousands of egyptians are ignoring the curfew. the fallout worldwide has been telling. the stock market was sprinting along nicely until word spread that the calm everyone hoped would stay in egypt was anything but. by day s end it turned into a flat line for gains and that affected anything having to do with egyptian and the dollar and the currency, the pound, and the foreign markets conditioned that the middle east was in trouble once again. so, obviously, what was calm yesterday has turned into anything but today. we will devote the show, this next hour, to the implications of it. and now, middle east expert taking this in.