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murder of 16 afghan civilians by a u.s. soldier accused of acting as a one-man death squad. afghan officials say the shooting spree took place in two villages in kandahar province in the district known as the birth place of the taliban. sara sidner joined us with the latest on this story. sara, what do we know right now? reporter: president hamid karzai has released a statement saying 16 people have been dialed including 9 children, 3 women, and 4 afghan men. he s called this a deplorable 5k9 saying it s an act of terrorism that s unforgivable, and he is has been talking about what has to be done going forward. now, there is a full investigation going on, as you might imagine, from nato officials as well as afghan officials looking into this incident. what we re hearing from the international security assistance forces officials, they re saying there s one soldier, an army staff sergeant who acted alone, who went off base around 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning, went out ....
and new images inside the japan desolation zone on the one-year anniversary of one of the most natural and nuclear disasters ever. i m don lemon. you re in the cnn newsroom. thank you for joining us. in the meantime, we start with this a push for peace in syria. looks like it is going nowhere. the former u.n. chief kofi annan moat with bashar al assad. he rue feuses talks until the violence is over insisting his forces are fighting armed terrorists. the two sides are expected to meet again tomorrow and annan pushes the group to give aid to hard-hit town, the bloodshed goes on with at least 63 people killed just today. looking at tanks prowling the streets in the north. activist reports heavy shelling in the city. he tells cnn security forces are searching house-to-house for members ever the opposition. anyone caught faces an ugly fate. like this man. in daraa, clearly wounded. he s loaded into a military truck. can t confirm the authenticity or fate of this man. ....
people have already watched it. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. rk vk captions by vitac www.vitac.com all that coming up, but now we get the latest on the kansas republican caucuses. i m don lemon at the cnn newsroom. kansas takes the spotlight in the republican race today. cnn is projecting that rick santorum has won the kansas caucuses. here s the totals here, check them out with nearly all the caucus votes counted, santorum won easily there. he has 51%. romney has a distant second at 21%. kansas is a conservative state with a strong evangelical vote, both playing to santorum s strengths. we bring in chief political correspondent candy crowley joining us live from washington. big picture here, romney and gingrich pretty much let santorum have kansas so his luck holds here. is this an important win? you know, i hate to sound like everybody else but the fact of the matt ....
message that he s giving the u.n. diplomat there. so underscoring that real contradiction, nic, some are alleging that the assaults being leveled by the government is actually intensifying while these talks were taking place. reporter: this is what the activists fear. they think that while the international community tries to engage president assad in some kind of talks and what kofi annan has gone there to do today is call for a cease-fire and get political talks going. the activists fear bashar al assad will just use this as a smoke screen to continue his military advance on the ground. that what he is looking for here is time to sort of continue the maximum sort of most deadly part of his campaign so he can sort of wrap that up and sort of push down the opposition, if you will, around the country so that from now on in the future, the death toll will be much lower and people will say, oh, the situation is getting better where as he s really using this time to go ....
caught on tape. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. the politics of unemployment swirling today as president obama and the republicans try to spin the latest jobless numbers to their political advantage. while the president is highlighting new signs of economic strength, the republicans are spotlighting the unemployment level that remains unchanged despite solid job growth. cnn white house correspondent dan lothian has more in prince georges county in virginia. dan? reporter: wolf, the president came here today because he says rolls royce jet engines are helping to boost the economy. 140 new jobs expected here, another hundred at a plant in indiana. but it was also a chance for him to cheer the latest job numbers which he says proves the u.s. economy is on the right track. even though not everyone agrees. the u.s. employment picture is far from sunny. but the better than expected february job numbers seems to have pushed a few more dark clouds out of the ....