but the assad administration has endorsed it as have russia and china, a city with traditional allies. at the moment the u.n. mission may be the most viable hope for avoiding a full-scale civil war. the focus now is on whether the u.n. can increase the number of observers in syria from the current 190 to the targeted 300, but the security council resolution on syria are not enforceable. the ongoing violence means member countries may prove reluctant to send personnel and that would make it even harder to find an end to the conflict. >> senior commentator nobuhisa degawa. >> thank you very much. >>> nato leaders are moving to repair strained relations with pakistan. they have invited the country's president to the summit on afghanistan. nato is trying to organize an orderly withdrawal of troops and pakistan's cooperation is seen as critical. the two-day summit opens in chicago on sunday. pakistan is blocking supply routes for u.s. forces in afghanistan. the blockade started in november. >> as a neighbor of pakistan, afghanistan does have a role to play in supporting afghan security. we

security council were among leaders from around the world who have condemned the assad administration for its role. >>> u.s. officials say iranian official are to blame, too. they say an iranian military unit helped carry out the massacre. state department spokesperson victoria neuland says an officer of the islamic military guard admitted the elite force supports the military. >> the qods force saying publicly that they were proud of the role that they had played in training and assist in the syrian forces. >> a seen >> france, britain germany, canada australia and other nations have ordered syrian ambassadors and other diplomats to leave. >>> the french president said western nations took the actions together to put more pressure or not syrian government. >>> defense ministers from china and the pill phoenix have both shown a positive stance toward easing tensions over a disputed show in the south china sea. guanglie met with u.n. counterparts in cambodia. they described the talks as constructive. ahead of the meeting, they met unofficially on monday and agreed to avoid provocative

state department spokesperson victoria nuland said the assad administration is not following through on its promises. >> it is further evidence that the cease-fire is not holding, and we really have to continue to pressure the assad regime and all actors. >> nuland said there should be more monitors in syria so the international community will have the opportunity to protect the syrian people. >>> officials in austria have marked a dark time in their past. they held a memorial ceremony for victims of nazi medical experiments. the nazis killed thousands of people they regarded as inferior, including those with disabilities. president hines fisher led the ceremony in vienna. it was the first memorial in ten years for those who suffered. officials named more than 60 newly identified victims. the nazis consigned about 70,000 people deemed unworthy to execution or for use in medical experiments during world war ii. more than 18,000 of the victims were from austria. about 170 participants in the ceremony heard accounts of how people were sent away and killed. participants placed an urn cont

members of the security council were among leaders from around the whorld have condhemd assad administration for its role. u.s. officials say iranian officials are to blame, too. an iranian military unit helped carry out the massacre. state department spokesperson victoria nuland said the elite forces supported the syrian military. the iranian group is known as qods. the qods force saying publicly that they were proud of the role that they had played in training and assisting the syrian forces. and look what this has wrought. >> reporter: the state department has told a senior syrian diplomat in the u.s. to leave the country within 72 hours. france, britain, germany, canada, australia and other nations have also ordered syrian ambassadors and other diplomats to leave. french president francois hollande said wester nations took the action together to put more pressure on the syrian government. >>> mitt romney has clinched the u.s. republican presidential nomination. he'll face president barack obama in the election in november. the former massachusetts governor is projected to win the primary

assad to leave. the obama administration says there's no disconnection between its calls for assad to leave. the obama administration says there's no disconnect between its call for assad to leave and the u.n.'s plan which could give him an opening to stay. it's argued that it would result in assad's ouster. bob orr, cbs news, washington. >>> questions about building safety and cutter this morning after a fire at an upscale shopping mall killed 19 people including 13 children. thick smoke poured out of the building yesterday. officials say the fire started in the child care center, but witnesses say when the alarm went off, there was no plan to get people out of the mall. >>> an air canada passenger jet was forced to make an emergency landing. yesterday it took off from toronto en route to tokyo with 318 passengers on board. shortly after takeoff the engines failed. the crew got rid of some fuel and safely landed back at toronto about two minutes later. >> midway through the air conditioning popped which normally doesn't happen and the plane continued in acceleration. it continued in that ang

assad to leave. the obama administration says there's no disconnection between its calls for assad to leave. it addresses all of the needs of the syrian people would result in assad's ouster. >>> questions about building safety and cutter this morning after a fire at an upscale shopping mall killed 19 people include 13g children. thick smoke poured out of the building. the fire snartd the child care center but witnesses say when the alarms went off there was no plan to get people out of the mall. >>> afternoon air canada passenger jet was forced to make an emergency lending. yesterday it took off from toronto en route to dwroek with 318 passengers on board. shortly after takeoff the engines failed. the crew got rid of some fuel and safely landed back at toronto about two minutes later. >> midway through we stopped excel ragtd. it continued in that direction but it didn't happen. it claims that cells the size of cell phones came from the engine. >>> coming up, congressman barney frank jokes about the trayvon martintrayvon martin sh addressing graduates at an ivy league school. this is the "cb

do more to stop the slaughter there and to try to affectuate, the toppling of the assad government, the administration is for, haven't done much to make it happen. i would do, like what we did in libya, no fly, no drive zone. for starters. senator mccain, and lieberman have called for. >> i understand that. again the criticism i would make of people that advocate that. there are people who think we are not doing enough militarily in syria. then at some point if you are going to expand the military reach, please raise taxes to pay for it. don't make everything come out of -- there is a serious problem with those who are -- advocates, i don't mean bill here, congressional colleagues who are all for doing more militarily, but, but, forget about them. the other thing i would say is this. as far as getting aid into egypt, development aid, we wanted good old-fashioned walking around money. kind of hard for a government to do that. but the point, i guess, want to say is this. totally nonpartisan. not everything that goes wrong is the fault of the incumbent american administration in the world. we have been g

assad to leave. now the obama administration says there's no disconnect at all between its calls for assad to leave and the u.n. plan which could give them an opening to stay. officials argue any genuine transition that addresses of the needs of the syrian people anthony would result in assad's ouster. >> mason: thank you, bob. an air canada flight bound for tokyo had to make an emergency landing when an engine shut down just after it took off in toronto. there are reports small pieces of metal debris-- possibly from tengen-- fell from the plane and smashed through a car window. nobody was hurt on the ground and the plane landed safely after dumping fuel. scandal at the vatican. does it go higher than the pope's butler? radiation from the crippled japanese nuclear plant shows up in bluefin tuna. and marines and their families drank contaminated water at their base. now they're fighting for benefits when the "cbs evening news" continues. i have a great fit with my dentures. i love kiwis. i've always had that issue with the seeds getting under my denture. super poligrip free -- it creates a seal of the d

the obama administration asked for assad's departure. mitt romney called on the president to arm syrian opposition forces and senator john mccain said this. >> horrible things are happening in syria. this administration has a feckless foreign policy which abandons american leadership. i know because i visit with these people, that they are ready to help these people. and they are helping them some. but it cries out for american leadership. american leadership is not there. >> republican senator richard lugars said quote, i think properly so. you also heard alex thomson. want to talk about it with fran townsend and fouad ajami. fouad, you and i were on the border just a couple weeks ago. i mean, the world cannot say they didn't know that this was happening. everybody is shocked at the death toll over the weekend, this massacre of children. but we have seen children killed now for 14 months. >> you were in the tents and you talked to people. you talked to children, one boy. i'll never forget him who said we can't live like this. we want our

the obama administration has called for assad's departure. promised communication for opposition forces. over the weekend romney called on the president to arm them. >> horrible things are happening in syria. this administration has a foreign policy which abandons american leadership. i know because i visit with these people that they are ready to help these people. it cries out for american leadership. american leadership is not there. >> departing senate colleague, richard luger says president obama has been cautious on syria. in his words, quote, i think properly so. you heard alex thompson talk about it. fuwadi, you and i were on the border a couple of weeks ago. the world cannot say they didn't know this was happening. everybody is shocked at the death toll over the weekend, this massacre of children. we've seen them killed for 14 months. >> you were there and you talk to people, you talked to one boy, i never forget him, who said we can't live like this. we want our freedom. these people want their freedom. i tell you one thing, anderson

assad regime. what was he trying to say? what did he mean? >> i think they are hoping the obama administration is hoping the russians will see the assad regime is doomed, that it makes sense for them to begin repositioning themselves where they oppose the assad regime. there is no question russia will not cooperate in this venture. all russia will do is dragged along kicking and screaming, if it believes this transition will happen anyway. so the hope here is to create a kind of dynamic in which the russians realize all right, since this is going to happen, in a year or so, or maybe sooner, we might as well stop being the principle obstacle to a post-assad syria. >> bob, do you think the transition will happen anyway? when you really -- you've said that if everybody, hypothetically russia were to say, okay, and china were to say, okay, actually the international community would be stuck they won't know what to do. what do you mean by that? >> well, syria is a mess. there is no simple solution, there is no decapitating the regime, getting rid of bashar al-assad and coming to a solution. we are

assad out. >> it could if the administration decided it would follow-up on the doctrine that it proclaimed whenntervention in libya. remember, responsibility to protect which was considered we by the so-called international community and by the united states as a "reason" for intervening to prevent the bombing of benghazi where it thought a massacre of this type was inevitable. now we have seen a series of atrocities atrocities and the administration has been on the sidelined although there was a denunciation by the secretary of state on the attack yesterday but we do not see the president trying to make the case for some sort of military intervention on our part or with other countries. when we hear that we could be able to say, yes, this was a tipping point. >>chris: kirsten is your sense the administration will remain on the side lines? >>guest: they have not given an indication they will do anything but remain on the side lines but that does not mean they will not be moved. you did not know they would get involved with libya but they turned on a dime. this is, those decisions box them in. b

assad regime. but back home, mitt romney condemned the obama administration for leaning on diplomacy. a statement issued yesterday, romney said, "president obama's lack of leadership has resulted in a policy of paralysis that has watched assad slaughter 10,000 individuals. we should increase pressure on russia to cease selling arms to the syrian government and to end its obstruction at the united nations. and we should work with partners to arm the opposition so they can defend themselves." p.j. crowley is a former state department spokesman and major general john paul eaton, rather, served more than three decades in the u.s. army. i want to start with major eaton on this matter. is this president simply -- rather, this president wannabe, mitt romney, is he simply surrounded by the same people who surrounded w., who used their intellectual superiority to talk him into the war in iraq. are they doing the same thing to push this candidate of the republican party to be hawkish at every moment on every front? >> chris, good to be with you. and it certainly seems to be that way. a lot of n

out of control and growing fears of an all-out civil war, the obama administration today moved to tighten the economic screws on the assad government while casting doubt on the prospect of a negotiated peace. how far will and can the u.s. go. arming rebels is off the table. andrea mitchell has been following details from washington. >> as more atrocities akerr each day, the obama administration today imposed new sanctions on syria but said rebels would cause a bigger war. another atrocity today. 13 bodies, hands bound, found in a village. and for the first time, they led reporters into no man' land. we won't show you all of what they saw. women with their faces slashed, children with their eyes gouged. they chant, we'll cut assad's throat, claiming the killers who ravaged this predominant lly sui village were shiite. >> we're writing on their foreheads. >> in the face of this horror, critic's called kofi annan's diplomacy feckilous. there's no sign assad will give up power and the rebels are responsible for hula. >> those who committed the crime, they did it on purpose to ignite civil war. >> syria is still getting money

and russia because you've heard the administration say that assad, who is in charge of syria, that hehis legitimacy. russia doesn't feel that way. they think something needs to be done but there is a big difference on what needs to be done. >> brianna keeler watching it all. thank you. we are standing by for remarks from president obama expected to speak at any moment now. we'll bring it live once that happens. after camp david president obama heads to chicago for another summit. protesters have already taken to the streets. extra police were brought in from as far as philadelphia and charlotte. there is a major anti-war protest planned for sunday. the war in afghanistan is at the top of nato's to do list. the hunt for a man accused of killing his bride on their wedding night has moved to mexico. that's where the fbi believes arnaldo jimenez has fled. his parents live there. it has been a week since police say jimenez stabbed his new bride in his illinois apartment. she was found in the bath tub. jimenez' phone was tracked to the texas/mexico border and he is charged with first-degree

out of control and growing fears of an all-out civil war, the obama administration today moved to tighten the economic screws on the assad government while casting doubt on the prospect of a negotiated peace. how far can and will the u.s. go to end the violence? tonight at least one option, arming the rebels, has been taken off the table. nbc's andrea mitchell is following developments from our washington newsroom this evening. good evenening. >> as more atrocities occur each day, the obama administration today imposed new sanctions on syria but said arming the rebels would only create a wider war. another atrocity uncovered today. 13 bodies, hands bound, found in a village far from hula. and for the first time, the u.n. and the red crescent led reporters into no man's land to witness the horrific remains of friday's hula massacre. we won't show you all of what they saw. women with their faces slashed, children with their eyes gouged. they chant, we'll cut assad's throat, claiming the killers who ravaged this predominantly sunni village were neighboring shiites. some actually wearing the slogan with the assad regime's al

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while facebook's administration has previously blocked pages that openly supported bashar al assad it's so far failed to do anything to stop the calls for the killing of his supporters and many like the social activist believe that's been long overdue you. can see it as a night we can use it to the fruits or to kill and this they caught me is ultimately at the core of the syrian crisis there is nothing wrong in calling for more freedom until some start using it as a cover to rob and kill assad worker artsy aleppo syria. their national relations expert lou rockwell says in spite of all the talk about establishing peace regime change is the real goal being pursued by the west. all this trouble and serious been stirred up by the u.s. by its allies israel and britain france and so forth to overthrow the syrian regime to cause trouble to get rid of the last secular arab regime bring in al-qaeda the us is on the son of al qaeda in syria just as it was in that all those years ago in afghanistan against the russians and that's causing trouble so the un finally has to admit a little bit that the

while facebook's administration has previously blocked pages that openly supported by charlotte assad it's so far failed to do anything to stop the calls for the killing of his supporters and many like the social activists believe that's been long overdue you. can see it as a night we can use it to divert the fruits or to kill and these they cut in me is ultimately at the core of the syrian crisis there is nothing wrong in calling for more freedom till some start using it as a cover to rob and kill a club or car to see aleppo syria. the first round of egypt's historic presidential election is now over with counting expected to continue over the. weekend a dozen candidates to replace barack was forced out in the revolution fifteen months ago front runners are islamists and former regime officials the muslim brotherhood has already announced its contender is leading in the polls if no candidate wins more than fifty percent of the vote another round it's not the actual sounds of the president yet to be defined by countries institution based journalist using. attention to it. when we call

administration officials increases daly. secretary of state clinton last week pronounced the assad regime brutality against its own people must and will end. assad's reign of terror will end only if he is forced to leave or killed. and clinton has nothing but finger wagging to offer. over to the guardian who talks about yaush, syria's top ally and how it must be involved. for russia's civil war and sectarian chaos in syria is as potent a threat to its strategic interests as a nato intervention. it's late to the table but russia's support for annan could yet save the plan. russia and china have been faulted for blocking the u.n. on taking action. we're joined by aman in cairo. what are the expectations for these talks today between kofi annan and president assad? >> well, good morning, willie. if you ask syrian opposition activists inside and outside of syria, they'll tell you there really is no hope to the u.n. peace plan. it has now been in place for six weeks. it's not stopped the violence. although it's important to keep in mind it's meant to be an observer mission. meant to observe the violence or lack of it happening on

assad knows. the problem with the administration they essentially chosen to arm rebels and overthrow regimes fundamentally-american or mubarak in egypt or qaddafi in libya. the anti-american regimes like assad in syria or iranian regime they're allowed to crack down and slaughter their people without any words from the united states, any kind of action, moral support for those people. i find that completely upside down and outrageous. megyn: do we need to worry, one thing we doesn't want to do -- >> escalate. megyn: aggravate the hatred in the muslim world, some radical muslim world of americans. and we do have to worry about our own strategic interests and our safety when it comes to things like that but not getting involved in too many conflicts. >> sure, sure. megyn: that don't hold broader implication to the united states. this is humanitarian crisis. not necessarily that we need syria but there is moral obligation. >> there is strategically that syria is not important to the united states but libya is not. >> that is absolutely a consideration. this administration done tremendous amount of work to re

. >> the administration's policy thus far seems to be twofold calling for assad to resign plus sanctionsthat have done damage to the syrian economy but has not stopped the killing. is this in your judgment not a serious policy but rather than the absence of a policy? >> i think it's clearly not enough. obviously the administration is juggling a lot of priorities in the region. many have called for a more forceful arming the rebels. that should be looked at. clearly the long non-plan is suffering and 300 observers in syria is not going alter the landscape. the intelligence service are very much in control of the country unlike libya where i had a geographic split. >> the white house created the atrocities prevention board which aims to stop genocide. here is what the conservative weekly standard wrote. boards and committees do not stop men with guns determined to slaughter. this should be obama to an administration that there should be some purpose to the monitors giving witness to the bloodshed in syria. ... >> gregg: do you agree with that and what should be done instead to remove assad

administration. >> nice to be with you. >> we know that in the talks with president assad, kofi annan said the tipping point is now, appealedction. how optimistic are you there's a peaceful u.n.-led solution to this? >> i think the annan mission was well-intentioned, to see whether the whole world got behind one envoy and stuck with him to see if he could impress upon the government there to make change. the plan that he put forward if it worked, would be great. there's just no evidence that the government in syria intends to follow the plan, namely to stop shelling neighborhoods, to stop using heavy weapons, and to begin a serious dialogue. the government there is -- said it would abide by the plan, but it will not, we've seen that for weeks and months, maybe kofi annan has reached a point he's going to give them a deadline. it's signaling maybe by this phrase tipping point that he wants to set a deadline and say i can only work if you're going to follow the plan and i'll work for another x number of weeks. i think that would be very important, if annan just continues to do what he's doing now, i think he will discredit th

the assad regime pulled the syrian ambassador mustafa back to damascus last october in response to the obama administration'sassador robert four. they're expelling diplomats, too, in response to the massacre in the village of hula. >> this is a political measure and this is a statement of our extreme disapproval and horror at the massacre. >> reporter: the u.s. is not shutting the embassy as it did with libya. nuland says all that's left is a handful of civil servants who would be needed if the embassy reopens after the assad regime is over, but a senior administration official concedes, ultimately this is just a symbolic gesture with no real practical effect on the killings. meanwhile, at the state department, secretary of state hillary clinton meets with democracy advocates from the middle east. >> can you give us your very honest assessments about what we can do? >> as she leaves the room, a brief chat with a woman from syria. >> yes, you were doing a lot behind the scenes to get everybody on the same page. very important. people are going off in too many directions. >> in damascudamascus, kofi anns with

suggesting that the latest rumblings from the obama administration about maybe working with russia to come up with some sort of a pushing out president bashar al-assad way for russia to negotiate that. some say that is not enough and the administration needs to do more. >> horrible things are happening in syria. this administration has a feckless foreign policy which abandons american leadership. i know because i visit with these people that they are ready to help these people, and they are already helping them some, but it cries out for american leadership, american leadership is not there. >> reporter: vice president joe biden over the weekend was delivering the commencement a dress at west point defending the administration's policies with regard to iran. he says tough sanctions will prevent iran from getting nuclear weapons. as you suggest the movement and the iranians walking away from the table have raised alarm bells around the world about whether or not the sanctions are really working. julie: we'll talk to a four-star general about iran a little bit late. there is discord in relations between the u.s. and pakistan, correct? >> reporter: no