from npr news in washington, i’m lakshmi singh.
the syrian government is under diplomatic fire for reportedly mass killing in a small hama province village. at the united nations today, secretary general ban ki-moon issued what may have been his most scaving comments yet about the syria’s apparent snob of the un backed peace plan damascus had previously endorsed. ban said he was shocked by the reports of stabbings and burnings of 78 men, women and children at the hands of syrian forces.