Christmas shoppers dont ignore their plea re begin with tight security as tennessee of millions travel for the thanks giving holiday. President obama is trying to reassure them that the government is doing all it can to help keep people safe. The paris attackers chose soft targets. Al jazeeras jamey mcintire is in washington with a look at the vulnerabilities of similar sites here in the u. S. Soft target did, they are everywhere. Drive anywhere down the streets of washington such as here on pennsylvania avenue, americas ma main street and see places where people gather and there is no security and not only is there no security, its not practical to have execute. There are many places in washington behind barriers with guards and gates. This is about as close as you can get to the white house, one block over there. But still, people gather outside and around the front gate and sometimes even jump over the fence. On the 14th street bridge, Reagan National airport is there. Its hard to g
foreign relations richard haass. and former foreign policy adviser to the bush administration, and now advising the romney campaign, dan senor. good to have you both with us. good morning. a lot to talk about. the new york times of course, the headline, 10 allies join the united states in a move to expel syrian diplomats. obviously, the pressure is ramping up. anan is just sweeping aside, according to the new york times, and other reports, suggestions by assad that he had nothing to do with the attacks, the door-to-door massacres. unbelievable. wait until we get to news and we ll have a discussion. a lot of moving parts even overnight. the u.n. security council will meet today to discuss the situation, but there is little hope that diplomats in new york can do anything to stop the increasingly brutal conflict. just this morning russia and china insisted they will block any effort by the council to enforce military intervention. russia has been a longtime ally of s
just this morning russia and china insisted they will block any effort by the council to enforce military intervention. russia has been a longtime ally of syria and has economic interests in the country. the fighting, meanwhile, rages on. more than a month after a cease-fire was supposed to go into effect. today, activists reported that syrian troops began shelling suburbs of damascus and also the central city of homs. the violence reached new heights last we re with the massacre of 108 people, mostly women and children, who were gunned down in their homes. the u.s. human rights office blamed the government and militia for the carnage. today, japan announced that syria s ambassador has been told to leave the country. republican presidential nominee mitt romney says he welcomes the obama administration s move to expel syrian diplomats, but he says that doesn t nearly go far enough. in a statement, romney writes in part, quote, president obama s lack of leadership has resulted