he called don bashar al-assad to step down. the arab league has announced -- damascus said welcome such a mission. over the weekend, the arab league suspended serious membership and is also planning to introduce economic sanctions. in addition to that, eu foreign ministers meeting in brussels agreed on tougher measures to impose on syria for its crackdown on opposition protesters. this comes as turkey warns that the syrian leader is committing political suicide by going after his own people. >> german foreign minister insisting military intervention is out of the question, saying syria is a completely different case that libya. >> it means assets worth several hundred million euros will be frozen. their bank accounts will be frozen. >> in a reference to russia's recent veto against sanctions 40, they called -- sanctions, they called on moscow to rethink its stance. >> the dutch foreign minister says his government no longer rule out military action. germany and france disagreed. >> we must use sanctions to increase the pressure