Could be close to solving the mystery of one of the americas biggest art thefts. We begin in syria where violence is spiking ahead of president ial elections. The suffering will be highlighted in a big way tomorrow by pope francis. More on the pontiffs visit in a moment. First an attack at a Syrian Campaign rally where dozens were killed. Nobody claimed responsibility for this attack, but we heard from islamist rebels based in the region that today marks a new campaign, an offensive by them to support the rebels and the fighters who are there, fighting the troops of Bashar Alassad. The government in the past few weeks has been on the go, trying to regain control of many areas from the rebels, to give the president ial electi president ial elections dew on 3 june credibility. They want to tell the worth people are supporting the elections. Many are taking part. The results will be valid. The opposition is saying the opposite, saying the country is at war. Bashar alassads elections are a
Ukraine is about to hold its first president ial election since the protest that toppled Viktor Yanukovych. Russian president Vladimir Putin said that russia will respect the outcome of the election. But as the vote nears, there is growing violence in eastern ukraine. What kind of violence did we see . It is very serious violence. It seems to be escalating according to ukrainian officials that we spoke with. But if you look at it over the last 24 and 48 hours these are concentrated attacks. One of them yesterday in which more than a dozens ukrainian soldiers were killed when they came under concentrated ambush fire. And today some buses carrying ukrainian soldiers into the doneskt area theyre trying to secure as many polling stations as they can out there so people can vote on sunday. Two buses came under fire. There was probably a verythey were unable to return any kind of gunfire, and there was at least 11 of those, possibly 12 injured and one may have been killed in that attack. And
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