Annan says Syria plan 'alive' despite attacks

Kofi Annan, the UN-Arab League envoy to Syria, has said it is not too late to implement a UN-brokered peace plan, despite reports of continued violence across the embattled country.

Activists on Tuesday reported heavy shelling by government troops in the city of Homs and the northern village of Marea in Aleppo.

Walid Muallem, the Syrian foreign minister, said in Moscow that Damascus had started pulling some troops out of different provinces.

But Annan said he had information that while the Syrian military was withdrawing from some areas, it was also moving to others not previously targeted.

Al Jazeera's Scott Heidler reports.