A suicide invader has exploded a bomb in Damascus, Syrian state TV says.

It said many people were killed and injured in the explosion in Midan district.

It comes two weeks after 44 people killed in explosions the authorities accused on terrorists. Opposition activists blamed the government of performing them.

The Midan district has been the scene of current demonstrations against President Bashar al-Assad's governement. Arab League inspectors are in Syria endeavoring to make sure fulfillment with a peace process.

But rebels say a Syrian government raid has gone on, with several of people murdered.

A resident of Midan - the panorama of reported government opposed demonstration in recent weeks - told Reuters news agency that ambulances were in the region.

Following the blast, Syrian TV ran images of bloodied streets, reports the BBC's Jon Donnison in Beirut, neighbouring Lebanon.

State TV said the blast had besieged "civilians and people who had felt protected ".

Most foreign correspondents have been exposed from reporting within Syria itself.

 

China advised to Syria Tuesday to shift forward to act upon transformations, a week after Beijing furious the West by blocking a UN resolution against President Bashar al-Assad's lethal raid on demonstrators.

For the first time that China has bent away from its venerable policy of non-intrusion in the matters of Syria, which has been astound by government’s oppose agitations and violence since previous this year.

"We feel that the Syrian government should go quicker to respect its reform vows and speedily begin to drive forward the wide ranging political process with the larger contribution of all parties in Syria," foreign ministry spokesman Liu Weimin told newsmen.

His remarks come as Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin tours Beijing.

Both China and Russia, veto-exerting enduring members of the UN Security Council, blocked the UN resolution last week, illustrating stable condemnation from the America and Britain.

But on Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow and Beijing were prepared to offer a fresh UN resolution on Syria that would criticize aggression carried out both by Assad's government and the rival forces.

Liu said the newly draft resolution against Syria "endangered to use sanctions".

"We think this is not helpful to constancy in Syria," he added.

Liu said China expected the UN Security Council would "alleviate the stress in Syria and assist encourage political discussions", as Syrian opposition parties step up their attempts to oust the besieged Assad.

"All political forces in Syria should energetically participate in the procedure of political reforms," he said.

Washington has transformed calls for Assad to quit instantly amongst growing violence against anti-government demonstrations that the United Nations says has left almost 3,000 people casualties.

On Monday, the head of the opposition Syrian National Council informed that Assad could undergo the destiny of other "criminals" if his government knockout.

"If Assad quits without admitting his faults, his destiny will be the same as those of any other criminal," Burhan Ghalioun told the private Lebanese television network LBCI from Paris.

Syrian rebels set the national council in Istanbul on August 23 to organize the movement to collapse Assad, and officially established a common front joining all groups that oppose his regime last week.

On Monday the European Union greeted the formation of the grouping and recommends the world to do the same, as it prepared new sanctions against Assad's rule.