correspondent ana stasia churkin i am for the very latest on the un security council meeting and debate over syria you can follow on a sassy on twitter at nasty. well i want to talk for a moment about what's going on on the ground in egypt and how the next few days could impact and really throw off a very delicate balance in the relationship between the united states and egypt that they've had for decades now and just a couple days egypt will mark the one year anniversary since their longtime leader president hosni mubarak stepped down after initially refusing and after months of protests and demands by the people of egypt it was seen as a victory for democracy the cries of the people being answered since that time the country has been ruled by the egyptian military and lately more and more violence has erupted on the streets there we saw just last week more than seventy people killed following a soccer match many of those really just trampled upon as anger now mounts with questions about where the police were and why they weren't getting involved. and what may be the straw that broke t

any documents circulating showing what the general assembly will ask for our correspondent ana stasia churkin to spend the day monitoring the meeting and we spoke a little while ago she gave me her take on what will and won't be accomplished and also the latest coming out of the meeting. well the latest is that this meeting has definitely last of the entire day we've been hearing speeches from dozens of countries that started early in the morning and of course like you mentioned christine this comes only a week after a double veto from russia and china blocks an arab and western backed resolution on syria at the security council but what we saw today and are still continuing we'll be seeing in the days to come is an attempt from the saudi arabia and qatar to go to another body of the united nations and attempt to find some kind of decision there and even though the general assembly does consist of over one hundred ninety members we have to keep in mind that it's not nearly as powerful as the security council because whatever decision comes out of the general assembly is by no means binding it

correspondent ana stasia churkin i am for the very latest on the un security council meeting and debate over syria you can follow on a southie on twitter at last year. well these two people are dead after a major military offensive on the western syrian city of homes over the weekend while the country's opposition blames bashar al assad for the assault the regime climbs the attacks were provoked hearty sara for of has more from damascus syria. and social networking sites have for the past ten months been one of the activists the means of offering the world glimpses of the violence this tool in three syrian activist groups reports how we got the brick through and we've just seen pictures which the b.b.c. called verify the same many differing numbers and reports getting to the bottom of what's really going on is a major challenge even from inside the country. the people here think. you're right it is a. head of the un security council showdown this weekend and the violence in syria seemed to reach fever pitch with activists reporting a massacre in homs that was all over the headlines and