BBC news with Jerry Smit.
Syrian opposition group said at least 30 people were killed when a petrol station in the north of the country was hit in a government air strike. The petrol station is near the town of Ain Issa about 30km from the border crossing with Turkey which was
seized
by rebel fighters on Wednesday. Jim Muir reports from Beirut.
Activists said there was a big crowd waiting for fuel at the petrol station near Ain Issa. They said it was then hit by a bomb believed to be a barrel of explosives dropped by a military aircraft. It caused a huge explosion and fire. Activists posted video on the internet showing a burning petrol station surrounded by wrecked and
smoldering
vehicles. In recent weeks the regime has increasingly exploited its monopoly over air power and the use of hugely destructive, but crude bombs involving barrels packed with TNT has become increasingly common.
A court in California has dismissed a plea from one of the actors in the anti-Islamic video which has sparked protests across the Muslim world to remove the clips from YouTube. Cindy Lee Garcia said she and fellow actors were
duped
into appearing. From Los Angeles, here is Alastair Leithead.
The film was badly made and low budget with insults and offensive inferences to the Prophet Muhammad in Islam crudely adapted on afterwards. Cindy Lee Garcia's civil lawsuit against the film makers accuses them of fraud and