Footage from inside Syria's blast-hit TV building

Name: Footage from inside Syria's blast-hit TV building
Uploaded: 2012-08-06T09:14:11.000Z
Duration: 1 min 50 s
Description: Syrian television shows footage from inside the state TV and radio building after it was hit by a bomb blast. The BBC's Jim Muir reports.

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A bomb has exploded on the third floor of the Syrian state TV and radio building in the capital, Damascus.

Pro-government TV channel al-Ikhbariya showed footage of the damaged building, as the BBC's Jim Muir reports from neighbouring Lebanon.

Middle East

6 August 2012