just like mika said, she saw people that reminded her of her eastern european mother. a russian soldier, is she going to lift a gun and shoot a grandmother who looks like his grand mother? it is different, david ignatius. this is the dilemma for putin. clint s map shows so clearly this desire that they have to carve out a new empire, the russian lands. the problem is that the people who live in those lands, certainly in ukraine, hate them. they will fight them. they re fighting them every day. every hour, as katty s video shows. the tank rolls through, and they get out in the streets. they get on top of the tank and wave the ukrainian flag on top of the tank. they re just on fire with the sense of nationalism and patriotism. they re not going to stop fighting. these columns that keep trying to approach kyiv, the reason they can t make it there is because in the woods, there are
voices the regime of bashar al assad has for 14 months tried to silence with batons and bullets and mortars and murder. these are men, women and children who 14 months ago began raising their voices, asking semifor change, reform. an end to corruption, discrimination. basic freedoms that most of us in the world take for granted. they spoke out peacefully and were with met with tear gas, tanks and torture. there s no more talk of peace were of reform. now they fight back. they ll not stop, they say, until bashar al assad and his regime of lies has fallen. just over 300 yards from where i m standing is the syrian border. you can see lights in the distance. that s syria, that s how close we are. the syrian regime does not want us here, they refused our request for visas to enter syria, as they have for many months now. we wanted to come so that you could hear the voices that they have tried so long to distance. children who have lost their parents. mothers and fathers who have s
these adults and children asking for change, reform, an end to disruption and discrimination. they spoke out peacefully demonstrating to towns large and small. they were met with tear gas and tanks and were met with torture. there s no more talk of peace were of reform. now they fight back. they ll not stop, they say, until bashar al assad and his regime of lies has fallen. you can see the syrian border in the distance. that is syria. that s how close we are. the syrian regime does not want us here. they refused our request for visas to enter syria as they have more many months now. but we wanted to come so you can hear the voices they have tried to long to silence. children who have lost their parents. mothers and fathers who have seen their children shot to death in front of them. the streets are well run here. but they are miserable places. because all the people here have lost loved ones. their lives are now in limbo. for the past two days we ve been visiting camps speaki
basic freedoms that most of us in the world take for granted. they spoke out peacefully and were with met with tear gas, tanks and torture. there s no more talk of peace were of reform. now they fight back. they ll not stop, they say, until bashar al assad and his regime of lies has fallen. just over 300 yards from where i m standing is the syrian border. you can see lights in the distance. that s syria, that s how close we are. the syrian regime does not want us here, they refused our request for visas to enter syria, as they have for many months now. we wanted to come so that you could hear the voices that they have tried so long to distance. children who have lost their parents. mothers and fathers who have seen their kids shot to death in the streets in front of them. the refugee camps in turkey are well run. they re probably the cleanest refugee camps i have seen, but they re miserable places. nearly everyone here has lost a loved one. we ve been visiting the camps, spea