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(CBS/AP) The U.N.’s new envoy to Syria says his mission to end the country’s civil war is “nearly impossible”. Lakhdar Brahimi’s comments on Monday came as activists said Syrian warplanes bombed the northern town of Al-Bab, killing at least 15 people. “I’m scared of the weight of responsibility. People are already saying: ‘People are dying and what are you doing?’ And we are not doing much,” Brahimi told BBC News. “That in itself is a terrible weight.” “I know how difficult it is – how nearly impossible. I can’t say impossible – [it is] nearly impossible,” added the diplomat. More in After the Arab Spring France: “Massive” response if Syria uses WMDSyria: 2 bombs explode near military officesU.N. envoy to Assad: Change is urgently needed Syria’s violence has escalated in recent weeks. Activists say August saw the highest number of deaths in more than 17 months of fighting, with about 5,000 people killed, as President Bashar Assad’s regime unleashed crushing air power against the revolt for the first time. The U.N. children’s fund UNICEF put the death toll for last week alone at 1,600, the largest weekly figure for the entire uprising. “The past month witnessed large massacres and the regime was conducting wide operations to try to crush the uprising,” said Omar Idilbi, a Cairo-based activist with the Local Coordination Committees group. “Last month’s acts of violence were...

(CBS) Last week we plowed through most of the new shows hitting television. This week there are three, starting with the two-hour “Terra Nova” premiere on Fox. If you haven’t seen the gargantuan trailers floating around the Interwebs, the show stars “Avatar” bad guy Stephen Lang and Jim O’Mara. One of the many executive producers is Steven Spielberg, which makes sense because this is a dinosaur-heavy tale. Short version: In 2149, Earth is less and less inhabitable. Via time travel, humans are being transported back 85 million years to an unspoiled planet. Expect special effects and…dinosaurs. Other shows debuting this week are “Hart of Dixie” on Monday, starring Rachel Bilson as a yankee doctor who takes a job south of the Mason-Dixon; “Suburgatory,” a single-camera comedy starring Jeremy Sisto and airing on Wednesday; and “How to be a Gentleman,” starring David Hornsby and the erstwhile Johnny Drama, Kevin Dillon. Pictures: The CBS seasonPictures: The NBC seasonPictures: The ABC season On the big screen, the heavily-promoted and thus far well received “50/50,” starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a young man with cancer, Seth Rogen as his best friend and 사다리 사이트 검증 Anna Kendrick as an illness counselor, opens Friday. Also opening is “Margaret,” starring Anna Paquin as a high school student who witnesses a fatal traffic accident and feels responsible for causing it. And for the one Josh Hartnett fan...