as that strong regional support. the british government says those criteria have now been fulfilled. so we wait to hear more, likely in the coming day with the british prime minister meeting with his cabinet today and expecting a statement today. >> ten yes votes, nobody opposing this, but among them, the usual suspects. >> russia and china, their objections have been long stated to it. they don't like the idea of foreign intervention in internal conflicts generally. the interesting abstention, germany. in the end it chose to split from the other european powers. its reasoning generally is it does not think this is a guaranteed easy fix. you can want can't rule out, they say, high civilian casualties, nor the possibility of this developing into a messier, wider long-running