independently confirm it. cnn's nick paton walsh live for us in northern syria. nick, good morning. >> interesting you made that point. well still have to make out if sarin was involved here. sarin-like symptoms were detected. they believe sarin was in that mix, but predominantly the smell from aid workers and victims was that of chlorine. kind of historical, though, now, because we have to look exactly where this leaves syria and the middle east more broadly there are two things you can take away really. the first is i'm pretty sure in damascus there are some pretty angry russian and iranian telephone calls being made. bashar al assad, the president tried to look like he dusted himself off and didn't really suffer from this. it's probably true to some degree, though very targeted strikes on specific facilities. we'll probably know until the fullness of time exactly what damage that did to the chemical weapons program. but russia and iran, having seen