Due to unprecedented floods in Pakistan, there has been a massive damage to the crops leading to disruption in supply chain and surge in the prices of fruits and vegetables across the neighbouring country.
thousands of civilians continue to flee the city. fatma, a doctor who didn t want to be fully identified, escaped aleppo and says the city is critically short of medical supplies. a few miles away, mustafa suleiman, a vegetable merchant, said the syrian government isn t just attacking aleppo but shelling towns around it to cut off the rebels movement. so you were just eating in your house and then a big explosion? they were having dinner, he says. in towns all around aleppo, rebels are now setting up defensive positions in case they re attacked next. here, they ve set up a barricade on a main road. it wouldn t stop a tank invasion, but at least might slow it down. the rebels are preparing, now armed with weapons that can counter assad s feared air force. the u.n. general assembly meets to discuss syria tomorrow. on the agenda, a draft resolution from middle east neighbor saudi arabia expressing concern over syria s reported
weapons fired in the air. people are lining up, pouring into the modest home of that merchant, vegetable merchant, mohammed, he is the young man whose suicide protest last december triggered the extraordinary wave of protest anding change. each individual congratulating him directly for mubarak s resignation. here in you europe, the foreign policy chief saying now that he has stood down, this means that mubarak listened to the voices of the egyptian people and has opened the way for fast somewhere deeper reforms. you mentioned angela merkel, relieved, saying that mubarak did a service to the people of egypt and i quote her again, we are all witnesses to a historic change. there is real concern in europe, around the world tonight about what happens next. that was specifically expresses