News with Jonathan Izard.

A French television correspondent has become the first western journalist to be killed in Syria since the uprising against President 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 the grenades were hitting the building where we were in. And so the only thing we tried to do in the chaos was try to get out. And I was running down, and then I saw the body of Gilles being 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 has to delay 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 Defense, Naeem Khalid Lodi, a retired army general, and accused him of gross misconduct. The move was announced just hours after the armed forces criticized 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 Defense Secretary General Lodi was nothing less than the army's man inside the Pakistani administration, for Prime Minister Gilani to sack him is a clear affront to the military. It is the latest in a series of incidents in this escalating row between the government and army. And it's now got the media here, frantically speculating about an imminent coup. Of course, tensions between the two institutions were ever present in Pakistan, but they really boiled over in October when a memo emerged which appeared to show Pakistani civilian leadership asking for American help to weaken the Pakistani army.