peter, do you feel confident that you will be able to get to the bottom of this? i hope so. i appreciate senator schumer s support and that justice will be done. thom, a when you look at the facts of the case and what is in place, how they re responding to this, what is the legal avenue to be taken here, to best suit what peter claims happened to him in the work environment? the best avenue is what peter has done so far. and i want to make clear peter have a reluctant hit gant herli. he hoped it would go away. he approached his super ivisors. he requested a transfer, did he did everything khe could to kee his job and stay there. 180 days in which to respond. and if they come back with an appropriate response and they accept what happened, that may lead to the result that we want. if not, we will continue litigation or through the eeoc,
message that he s giving the u.n. diplomat there. so underscoring that real contradiction, nic, some are alleging that the assaults being leveled by the government is actually intensifying while these talks were taking place. reporter: this is what the activists fear. they think that while the international community tries to engage president assad in some kind of talks and what kofi annan has gone there to do today is call for a cease-fire and get political talks going. the activists fear bashar al assad will just use this as a smoke screen to continue his military advance on the ground. that what he is looking for here is time to sort of continue the maximum sort of most deadly part of his campaign so he can sort of wrap that up and sort of push down the opposition, if you will, around the country so that from now on in the future, the death toll will be much lower and people will say, oh, the situation is getting better where as he s really using this time to go after