last friday 50,000 people in the city of hama, so that is getting people out into the streets. now, it's true a lot of times these regimes do not come down without some sort of international involvement. in the case of syria, military force seems top off the table for now. but multilateral pressure via the u.n. as well as sanctions via the u.s. government and also the european union are the primary tools that the united states and its allies can use in pressuring the assad regime and ending its repressive rule as soon as possible. >> yeah, but russia and china until now appear to have been protecting syria, at least in the context of the united nations. and so any possibility of getting the multinational coalition together, as we did with libya, doesn't seem very viable. am i correct in that? >> that's true. but i don't think the russians or the chinese anticipated that every week we would have a video coming out, a horrific video of a child being tortured. and i think really only russian