BBC News with Jonathan Izard
A French television correspondent has become the first Western journalist to be killed in Syria since the uprising against President Assad began. The television channel France 2 said Gilles Jacquier was killed in the city of Homs. Another foreign journalist who was on the Syrian government-
escorted
trip told the BBC what he saw.
"The only thing that I could see was that grenade[s] were hitting the building where we were (in), and so the only thing we tried to do in the chaos was [to] try to get out. And I was running down, and then I saw the body of Gilles laying there. But in the next couple of minutes, you could see some other bodies. We just tried to get in a car and tried to get out of there."
The Arab League says it's delayed sending additional observers to Syria after some members of the first group were attacked on Monday. An Algerian monitor has resigned, calling the mission a
farce
.
The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Yousuf Raza Gilani, has
sacked
a top official of the Ministry of Defence, Naeem Khalid Lodhi, a retired army general, and accused him of gross misconduct. The move was announced just hours after the armed forces criticised Mr Gilani for a recent interview in which he accused the army chief and the head of intelligence of acting
unconstitutionally
. Aleem Maqbool reports from Islamabad.
The Defence Secretary General Lodhi was nothing less than the army's man inside the Pakistani administration. For Prime Minister Gilani to sack him is a clear