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Welcome back. you are watching "cnn newsroom." im hannah vaughn jones. these are the headlines we are following this hour. reports say the south koreas ousted leader, park geun-hye, will leave the presidential blue house any time now. that is according to the news agency. a court upheld her impeachment over a corruption scandal on friday. the opponents have called for her arrest. she has lost her immunity. the dutch prime minister says the netherlands wants no part of the political campaign ...

Talking a lot about syria and the sarin and waiting for the u.n. inspectors to come back with their report about whether it was sarin and how it was delivered hopefully. britain meanwhile were getting reports from our bureau in london saying that samples taken from the chemical weapons attack site in damascus have tested positive for sarin. what type of sarin, we dont know. delivery, we dont know. the u.k. saying it has evidence that sarin was used in that attack. >> thats welcome news for the o...

we begin this hour with tensions ratcheting up between israel and iran. a bomb went off just as israeli tourists boarded a bus in the bulgarian resort city. six people are confirmed dead. some 30 others are wounded. president obamas strongly condemning the attack calling it in his word barbaric. cnns elise labott is joining us live with the very latest. bulgarians are of course investigating. im sure the israelis are as well. first of all, what are the bulgarians saying? >> reporter: w...

Respect what theyre trying to do. but at the same time, unfortunately repression, if used repeatedly, ruthlessly, brutally, can work. we saw that in iran and im afraid we could see it in syria. >> and yet, were still seeing demonstrators pour into the street. has it not reached a critical mass that could really create cracks in the regime? >> well, as you know all too well, anderson, we dont have foreign press, a free press in there covering the events. so its hard to know. but what i do know is...

>> well, as you know all too well, anderson, we dont have foreign press, a free press in there covering the events. so its hard to know. but what i do know is we have not really seen massive demonstrations in damascus. many of the people demonstrating in damascus have come in from the countryside or the surrounding villages, and there are millions of people in damascus, most of them sunni arabs, another couple million alepo, and we have not seem them yet cast their vote, if you will. >> and the ...

Ambassador, did these people stand a chance against such brutal violence? >> first of all, you have to admire their courage. i cant tell you how much i respect what theyre trying to do. but at the same time, unfortunately repression, if used repeatedly, ruthlessly, brutally, can work. we saw that in iran and im afraid we could see it in syria. >> and yet, were still seeing demonstrators pour into the street. has it not reached a critical mass that could really create cracks in the regime? >> wel...