al jazeera's john teret is on the ground. john give us some major findings inside this report. it has everything. >> it really does. on any other day this would be a lead story but not what's happening in washington, d.c. this is the report of the chemical weapons inspectors who went into syria all 20 of them. the report has come out a very comprehensive detailed report surface to surface rockets having been used to launch serin gas, into a neighborhood of damascus. that report has been published around the world, within the past hour or so and also been delivered to the united nations security council which is meeting on the second floor of this building where i am and also with them is the secretary general ban ki-moon. we are told he is going to come to the microphone and address the public and tell what he thinks about the report in his own words for the first time. what happens next, well, that's really anybody's guest. the time line requires the syrians to provide notice of where their chemical weapons stockpile is within two weeks. and there's a resolution on the table t

john teret al jazeera new york. >> well, the domestic international opposition to president obama's plan to attack syria raises the prospect of a diplomatic option but is there any room for diplomacy given the tranctransgentcy. the president attempting to make his case for why military action is the proper course . does that mean that diplomacy is completely off the table? let me ask that a different way. do you think diplomacy was abandoned too quickly? >> i don't think it's abandoned, the u.s. is still committed to finding a diplomatic solution. diplomacy never stops. it's not a kind of full stop and then military action and then restarts. the u.n. security council will be considering this an the possible use of cw in damascus and elsewhere in a week or two. the g-20 will be discussing syria intensively. my hope is that these discussions will lead to intensive energy for the so-called geneva 2 conference, bringing the parties together to resolve the conflict. the syrian commission we point out wish to happen. >> publicly the u.s. is not giving credence to anything that's happening, at