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So the crisis in ukraine, no question it's the biggest crisis europe has faced since the end of the cold war, but this is the worst war in the world at the moment. 140,000 dead. the world's worst humanitarian crisis. this appears to be a war without end. from damascus, jonathan, back to you. >> that was nbc's bill neely from da mass ka. nina, how important is the russia/ukraine conflict to what ultimately happens in syria? >> i think it is very important, first of all, as the correspondent said. it is the largest war we're now facing or the most famous before ukraine. u crane's story came in, ...

Loved ones, some husbands who have been killed. you've lost everything at home. totally traumatized. yet when you ask him do you want to go back, they say, yes, i still want to go back to my home. syria is still their home. i wouldn't say they are on the prowl. you said they were on the prowl. they are pleading they are not threatening anyone, they are running away from people. what you see is daily human tragedy of an unspeakable kind. remember, these are relatively middle class people leaving syria. they have all gotten mobile phones so it's a different kind of refugee population. these are ...

Have been committed by the assad regime? >> i've had doctors say to me their clegs and cousins are targeted at checkpoints for offering treatment to, quote/unquote the wrong people. the notion of delivering syrian aid is under -- >> this report says international lawyers have been executed? >> it's just been publishedout now. a scales with the fact there is brutality in this world haven't been seen for a very long time. just remember for 150 years the notion of a civilian, someone who is protected in a war has been established international law. that has been completely lost in this syrian con...

It's wrong to talk about turkey as 18 million people and 650,000 refugees. if you're looking for political impact you have to look at lebanon and georgia. lebanon is always a victim of other people's wars. 800,000 refugees and like britain coming to america. that is the scale. i think it's important to say this peace conference, no one believes it's going to bring peace tomorrow. but it can address the conduct of the war. the conduct of the war in terms of the targeting of civilians. the conduct of the war in terms of the starving of people in alepo where they say it's okay to eat cats and dog...

World war i and during world war ii. after the war was over, we then expanded our civil liberties that have been curtailed in wartime. we are now in a similar moment. and it's very important that we follow through on this because the war -- so-called war on terror, which the president fortunately is moving away from. >> yes. >> is a war without end. it's not like those earlier wars. so it is essential for us to, you know, do something about these curtailments of our civil liberties now so that we don't lose our freedoms in the long-term. and so it's extraordinarily important moment. and i'm gl...