Explosions ring out and smoke once more fills the sky in this amateur video footage purportedly shot in the Baba Amro district of Homs, Syria.<br/> <br />Reuters is unable to independently verify the content of the video, which was obtained from a social media website.<br/> <br />Activists say President Bashar al-Assad has also continued his crackdown in other opposition strongholds, with dozens of military roadblocks set up in Hama, and a series of arrests and raids in Deraa.<br/> <br />This man says it is the sixteenth day of bombardment in Baba Amro.<br/> <br />As the uprising against Assad's rule nears its first anniversary, tensions are rising on the international stage--China's main newspaper accused Western countries of stirring civil war, and two Iranian warships docked at a Syrian naval base.<br/> <br />Despite the continuing violence, Assad is forging ahead with plans to hold a referendum on Sunday on a new constitution that could lead to multi-party parliamentary elections within 90 days.<br/> <br />Nick Rowlands, Reuters.
