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Inspectors but they said also quite a productive day. their car came under fire right after they left from the hotel they were staying at. they said all of this happened in the buffer zone between the area controlled by the government and the area controlled by the rebels. its hard to say who exactly could have been behind that sniper attack. the government, of course, blames the rebels saying it was, quote unquote, terrorist who is do this, while the rebels issued a statement saying it was a go...

Because it comes a day and a half after the claim against the syrian government with the rebels saying there has been a big chemical attack in the outskirts of damascus. it is impossible to independently verify any of what were seeing and hearing from both sides. theyre both a tradeoff of these accounts. certainly these sectors kwowoule the only ones who could possibly shed light on whats going on. this time its the government claiming the rebels used some form of chemical inside the jobar distr...

Says hes a christian, ought to be speaking out about it, too. so far remained silent. >> u.n. security council, emergency session, on thursday. to talk about what may be a gas attack against syrian civilians. ambassador was not will. you wrote a column critical of her for not being there. tell us about in a. >> i think it is fine if we have ambassadors who have to go on vacation especially in august. the simple fact is that the entire u.s. policy is about the u.n. thats what we are doing. and wh...

Mattress price wars are on now at sleep train. ♪ your ticket to a better nights sleep ♪ >> bill: tonight two troubling situations. more evidence the national security agency is spying on innocent americans. in syria, allegations that the assad regime is using poison gas to kill civilians including children. this tape, amateur video obtained by the associated press, shows mass chaos following an alleged chemical gas attack. you can see the victims being brought into the hospital on stretchers...

Samantha power, the presidents representative to the united nations, ambassador to the united nations, was not there when the syrian vote took place, the syrian issue was presented to the united nations. this after roughly a thousand people, perhaps more, died in what the syrian rebels are calling a gas attack, a chemical weapons attack. the question is, where is samantha power? she may have been on a trip, whether thats a vacation, we dont exactly know. but, kirsten, what do you think? rick gri...

Interview, do we have it -- was there a coalition there that could help do something with intervening. you dont have coalition until you try to raise the coalition. you cant -- theres no evidence that hes eager to sort of change public opinion and move the country and get in front of this thing at all. hes perfectly happy to let it crumble apart. >> im struck. this is a difficult problem. lets not pretend it isnt. >> were not sugar coating. its tough. >> it could be the case that theres some ele...

Whirlwind of news out of egypt already in a state of tremendous tumult with hosni mubarak set to be released from prison ahead of a retrial, there are worries about further violence in a country that, of course, has seen recent crackdowns against pro-morsi rebels and awful reprisals against egyptian police and christian civilians in places of worship. joining me now is nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel. richard, what do we know? what can be confirmed about the awful, awful, awfu...

Attack in syria. watch this. >> kids are dying and youre to blame. >> kids are dying and youre the oblame. >> dozens of protesters observed a moment of silence for the innocent victims. it is believed that bashar al assads regime launched a poisonous gas attack while many were sleeping. reports vary, with some saying more than 1,300 people are killed. you have to see the pictures -- in fact, dont see the pictures. but just know many of them were children. remember the red line put down by the pr...

Chemical weapons attack in the world since saddam hussein gassed his own people back in 1988. and looks like is the key phrase here. its hard to prove. it is hard to tell conclusively when chemical weapons have been used especially if you are trying to tell from a distance. in that iraq case it took four years for experts to confirm that chemical weapons were, in fact, used then. physicians for human rights is one of the first groups to get into the site. they collected soil samples and tested t...

A retrial, there are worries about further violence in a country that, of course, has seen recent crackdowns against pro-morsi rebels and awful reprisals against egyptian police and christian civilians in places of worship. joining me now is nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel. richard, what do we know? what can be confirmed about the awful, awful, awful images we are seeing out of syria today? >> reporter: weve spoken to medical personnel. weve spoken to syrian activists in these...