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Still countries who are hesitating about helping or not. and i can tell you, this is happening right now and -- i want you to see this because this is happening in my country. this is pure genocide. and we do need help to stop this, we need help to win this war, we need the world to stop hesitating, to stop thinking and start acting. start because this needs to stop. >> when you say start acting, there are people concerned that anything that feels like direct military interest prevention includi...

Hesitating, to stop thinking and start acting. start because this needs to stop. >> when you say start acting, there are people concerned that anything that feels like direct military interest prevention including no fly zones or western nato troops in ukraine will be an escalation that could result in nuclear war. what do you tell those people? >> we are not asking for troops. there are russians on the ground -- we do need weapons and we do need sanctions and -- on russian gas and oil. we do ne...

The following are links to reports from MEMRI's Special Dispatch Series and Inquiry and Analysis Series, as well as to transcripts from the MEMRI TV Project, released during the past week.

At the end of the day, these tribes do need weapons. they have been asking for them for over a year. the government has promised to make good on that. bearing in mind the u.s. has gone through this with the sunni tribes before back in the days when it was fighting al qaeda. the isis predecessor. the sunni tribes turned on al qaeda and allied with the u.s. and they were fighting side by side in some instances. until that promise, that idea becomes a reality, it will be very difficult to convince ...

Conflict. >> reporter: senator john mccain who has long advocated arming the rebels applauded the presidents decision but it concerned it may not go far enough. >> just supplying weapons is know the going to change the equation on the ground and the balance of power. these people of the free syrian army need weapons, and heavy weapons to counter tanks and aircraft, they need a no-fly zone. >> reporter: chairman of the house intelligence committee mike rogers says the administrations decision may...

this is not his critical inner circle. they have closed ranks, they have determined to fight, they have talked themselves into it, one of the officials says that they are fighting an insurgency and they believe right now they will win and sadly, anderson, the opposition remains fractured and unable to really mount an effective counter offensive according to these officials. >> does this surprise you? >> im not really sure about the quality of the american intelligence around syria. wh...

in addition, those same sources outlined the help assad is getting from iran. weapons and computer expertise to root out opposition. their own people. barbara starr is there tonight. and robert bair, and even though we have word of more defections from the syrian army, youre hearing that bashar al assad has a firm grip on power in syria? >> absolutely, anderson. i spoke with three separate senior u.s. intelligence officials. the assessment is all in agreement. assad remains in control,...

outlined the help assad is getting from iran. weapons and computer expertise to root out opposition. their own people. barbara starr is there tonight. and robert bair, and even though we have word of more defections from the syrian army, youre hearing that assad has a firm grip on power in syria? >> absolutely. i spoke with three separate senior u.s. intelligence officials. the assessment is all in agreement. assad remains in control, in charge. commanding his forces. there is no break...

85 lives today alone. in addition those same sources outlined the help assaad is getting from iran. in other words help in targeting its own people. also with us tonight, former cia officer and time.com intelligence columnist robert baer. barbara, even though we have word "today" of more defections from the syrian army, youre seeing that assaad has a firm grip on syria. >> the assessment is all in agreement. assad remains in control, in charge, commanding his forces. there is no break,...