You're watching...

Syria: Regime Ramps Up Attacks

Details

  • Description

    Fighters flood strategic Syrian city

  • Duration 2:05
  • Date

Clips

Also in this playlist...

Mobile Video

Auto-advance: ON

Auto-advance

Transcript

This transcript is automatically generated

John you write that regime forces -- stepping up their efforts to defeat the rebels in Damascus.

And elect Pope but before that that we've got some images just released on the Internet is also NC -- on the show and attacked by -- government's militia.

On a refugee sense -- shelter for women and children in the city of Homs which.

The -- certainly -- -- runs tend to be oppression by the Christina -- -- -- -- you can just hit the cronies.

-- the women and children see how women Iraqis trying to carry into children away kids covered -- -- that.

The dreadful scene we'll send you put two cents that if he can't independently verify the funerals of children killed in homes in recent days.

Very tragic pitches and just more evidence if accurate -- just have brutal regime being he's being -- to send people to the folks mobile right now.

As you saying -- -- to get it is the city of elect had the biggest city in Syria.

Rebel fighters their sane adults in the recent aerial bombardments we've seen in the past 48 -- they now stand it's.

Eight grant -- campaign is -- -- to take place.

And the way led by raising forces coming in from the northwest apparent rebels attacked Colin coming in from that it was tanks and hundreds of troops and they struck.

It's very hard to see how a smallest number -- rebels in the city and -- could really withstand that campaign of that size they really don't have the strategic support don't.

Nor -- they have enough weapons all the same the rebels still say they control around half the city but.

They could -- like the situation we're seeing now in Damascus where the loss rebel stronghold in the south of the capital.

Has come under heavy fire today against helicopters and heavy machine guns isn't an area called -- I'll Oswald which is very much being there a safe haven.

From when the rebel fighters and managed to launch missiles into the city very worrying for the rebels of the -- until they -- the outlines how the situation teaches.

But all the same analysts believe that eventually the regime -- full and this is really just a desperate effort by the regime to clear the rebels and -- and Damascus jump.

Not all all tragic those civilians being just blown away like that by their own government.