reacting to the situation in baltimore. president obama condemning the violence and looting. saying it takes attention away from peaceful demonstrations happening for days. it also raises legitimate concerns. white house correspondent kevin corke reporting from the white house live on this kevin from the white house perspective what is next in the battle to reclaim baltimore? that s a great question. it has been so devastating to watch the charm city to go through all of this, but from the white house perspective it is about the three cs moving forward. the three cs, would be conversation call to action and conversion. what that means essentially from the white house perspective take your message directly to the community. that is the conversation. the call of action is about motivation. you want to get people moving in the right direction. then conversion is about changing not just the dynamic, but also changing conversation away from protests, getting it back what happened led to u
collections more serious economic situation and explosion of prices, which only in my eyes can be due to social unrests at levels we have nen seen since four years ago. sanctions have severely restricted iran s access to foreign currency and iran s government gets the blame. i think they have made their own government decisions having nothing to do with the sanks that have had an impact on the economic conditions inside the country. one iranian woman who did not want to be identified out of fear of repercussions says if economic stability goes, people will truly be angry. you have to do without so many things, without without decent program, and so the only thing that we have, a
and the minds from my colleagues from cnn international who were there when it happened right from the start. january 2011, the first rumblings of an up rising in cairo. crowds begin to gather in the city s central tahrir square. a revolution has begun. what is your message to president mubarak? reporter: whose hosni mubarak has been egypt s dictate for for 30 years. a growing number of protesters want him out. mubarak digs in and the once peaceful protests turn violent. reporter: this is an unmistakable show of military force. this has been a symbol of de defian defiance. reporter: they re speaking in arabic, go, go. reporter: firefighting in the air. the demonstrators say that s the army firing to warn them to stay away. reporter: promubarak forces targeted the unarmed protesters. journalists come under attack. i was shoved out of the way. this is just a completely surreal experience. i m being told, walk, walk. don t stay. okay. been hit now like ten times.
like the blitz during world war ii, and police were completely overwhelmed by all of this. most of it happening in peripheral neighborhoods of london, mostly diverse populations, but with severe economic challenges, however, some of it did leak to central london shopping areas. last night s unrests are being called copycat riots but many say it was opportunistic looting, widespread large items like ties being taken out of stores, with the looters so brazen some actually stopped to try on goods before they stole them. people said they had broken into a mk mk, cooking up their own food inside. this followed a nieft rage on saturday which saw shots and apartments torched, cops hurt. it all started out with a largely peaceful protest against the killing of a suspected gang member and father of four, a man called mark duggan. the circumstances of his death are murky, it s not
benghazi where a sandstorm has rolled in. that s actually the mediterranean sea behind me, but you can barely see it right now, with all of the sand in the air. it is a very serious situation in syria. the state department urging americans to not only leave syria, and while commercial transport is still available, but to defer all future plans to go to syria. the state department is particularly concerned, because the syrian regime is blaming a lot of the unrest on foreigners. it s blaming them on outsiders, on instigators, and that s a pattern we have seen in egypt, it s a pattern we have seen in a lot of these unrests. and when the egyptian authorities started to blame what was going on on foreigners, we saw foreigners being attacked, journalists being chased down. so clearly, similar concerns that the syrian government is taking a similar line. the situation on the ground is unpredictable. it is very difficult to find out exactly what is going on, because the syrian government has s