Polls open in Govt-controlled areas of Syria

Polls have opened in Syria’s government-held areas amid massive security for the country’s presidential election, a vote Bashar Assad is widely expected to win.

The balloting, Syria’s first multi-candidate election in more than 40 years, comes as a devastating, three-year civil war that activists say has killed more than 160,000 people, about a third of them civilians, rages on.