Theres new hope. The bombs and the gunfire in syria will stop at sundown on monday. The u. S. And russia have announced a ceasefire deal. Our Nic Robertson has the details now on the peace plan. Reporter so key to the association of hostility is working. Secretary kerry said for the United States to put pressure on the opposition to keep good on their obligations and for russia for their part to keep assad good on his obligations. He said the United Statess assessment was that was what russia would do. This is how he put it. Today the United States and russia are announcing a plan which we hope will reduce violence, ease suffering, and resume Movement Towards a negotiated peace and a political transition in syria. The Obama Administration, the United States is going the extra mile here because we believe that russia and my colleague have the capability to press the assad regime to stop this conflict and to come to the table and make peace. Reporter another key point of this Peace Agree
which is unfortunate. we need to base and look, what is the right way for us to respond to uphold human rights but understand, the greatest human rights violations that have occurred in the middle east right now is not from saudi arabia but barrel bombing in syria and the destruction of 50,000 children and 500,000 syrians supported by the russians, iranians and of course, assad. i m going to talk to a democrat colleague of yours in the next block too, to push him on the idea that we should just throw this relationship away and risk some of the security in the region you just mentioned but a few of your colleagues in the senate or not your colleagues but a few senators sent a letter to secretary of state mike pompeo, this week, raising concerns about the high number of civilian casualties in the yemen saudi arabia skirmish. on the other hand, rand paul is suggesting cutting off military aid to saudi arabia.
so they say look at the actions, not the words. they do not recognize the an section sa annexation. they re saying be fierce in regard to the occupation of eastern ukraine. be fierce. they re barrel bombing and gassing their own people, and be fierce in terms of russia launching a investigation. one of the things that did happen is the administration delayed a second summit with vladimir putin. vladimir putin didn t give an answer which is super power
to that same runway they took off with. we have u.s. intelligence and foreign intelligence services confirming all what i just said from other sources like signals intelligence, etc. we have an overwhelming amount of evidence that pins this on the syrian regime. the terrorists have no airplanes. they don t drop bombs from airplanes. that alone is testimony plus everything else. assad is guilty and that s a fact. bill: president trump called him a butcher yesterday. why six years on into a war turning your way? that s his pattern of behavior. the arrogance and barberism. he has no more all compass. he has been focusing on killing civilians purposely. that s been his primary target from the outseat. barrel bombing, starvation, penetrating and killing hospitals, ambulances and using chemicals. that has been his purpose from the very beginning.
greater u.s. involvement for a president who said i don t want to get involved in nation building? in the near term, this is a positive step. it upholds a norm against the brutal use and horrific use of chemical weapons against assad s own people. and the incredible suffering we saw from those pictures that emerged last week. in the longer term, it is unclear at best what the larger goal is, what the larger strategy is. and i think we need to see that to understand, are there limiting principals on this? as i think mike said earlier, if in fact the statements today are accurate, that in fact this type of military action would be taken in response to barrel bombs, as horrific as the barrel bombing has been, it does occur on a daily basis, and that would signal a dramatic escalation. in terms of affecting change, though on the ground in syria a poll said 57% of people supported the missile strike but 18% support ground troops to