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Did not mince words. saying there is no doubt that the syrian regime used chemical weapons against its own people. >> the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians, the killing of women and children, and innocent bystanders, by chemical weapons is a moral obscenity. >> reporter: kerry accused the syrian regime of destroying evidence of last weeks attack and the u.s. is conferring with world leaders about an appropriate response. >> all people and all nations who believe in the cause of our common hu...

Security council. britain, france, germany said they would support action without u.n. keep an eye out for the meeting of the arab league this week, possibly as early as thursday. one could be based on an appeal for assistance from turkey. coalition could site chemical weapons treaty that went into effect in 1997 that most of the world signed onto except a country known as syria. u.s. unlikely to inspector while inspectors are on the ground. they are scheduled to leave syria sunday. yesterday th...

In response to what most people believe was the use of chemical weapons on a massive scale is coming. will it be a big operation? will it last several days? will the united states try and spend more time to build a coalition? all of that remains unclear. but from where we stand and the people weve been speaking to, it seems likely that some sort of military response is coming. u.n. inspectors today in damascus. one of their vehicles shot by a sniper. but after a brief delay they finally began th...

Striking, even if they want to make it a surgical strike that only hits one part of the assad regime. wolf? >> sending a message, clearly the u.s. officials believe that would be significant. thanks very much, tom foreman, for that report. the obama administration says its clear chemical weapons were, in fact, used on a mass scale in recent days in syria. does that mean the united states now has the smoking gun it needs to take military action? joining us now is charles dulfer, a former chief u....

Capital. after several delays, the u.n. weapons inspectors are finally beginning their mission to the damascus suburbs to try get to the bottom of what happened there last wednesday. its a mission where countries like the u.s. says it might already be too late to find conclusive evidence. but before reaching the areas allegedly hit by chemical weapons, their convoy came under fire from a sniper. the u.s. says the lead vehicle was disabled in the incident. >> despite such very dangerous circumsta...

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...

Took place. as they were traveling travelinr convoy there was sniper fire at that convoy, at least one of the vehicles we understand was hit by at least one bullet. they then turned around, they returned to their hotel, but later were told they did actually make it out to that weapons -- to that alleged chemical weapons attack site. they spoke to some of the victims. we have some amateur video of those inspectors at the hospital, apparently talks to doctors, some witnesses, and some of the victi...

Israel is running their own investigation looking at the very videos weve been showing you since this attack trying to figure out what the symptoms would match up with and trying to get their hands for their own samples from the soil and from the victims to see if they can figure out exactly what happened there. the united states for its part says they are pretty sure there was chemical weapons used by the assad regime. we had an interesting development diplomatically on this side of the pond. r...

>> reporter: they were. it did cause a big delay to them. they have left for where they are staying at and came under fire. its unclear who fired. the lead vehicle of the convoy was targeted. they did manage to get on the ground in the district southwest of damascus and one of the places where chemical weapons were used against civilians. they were able to talk to some people there. they got some samples. they took soil samples as well. they now returned to the hotel where they are staying at ju...

They are behind enemy lines, behind rebel lines. there is probably a lot of evidence that has been destroyed. the syrian government has spent the last six days heavily bombarding the area. chemical weapons in the ground degrade over time. right now the u.n. inspectors are going to try to take samples from not only those who died in the attack but from those who survived to see if the flood work and tissue samples can tell them what kind of gas was used. martha: assuming the inspectors believe ch...