alongside the united states with the cability and the partnership that britain and america has but we have set out very clearly what brita would need to see to happen for us to take part in at. more action at the u.n. report by the u.n. inspectors and furtr vote in this house. actions won't be determined by my good friend and ally the american president. they will be cited by this government and the house of commons. >> i agree with the prime minister the horror of chemical weapons but the vast majority of the 100,000 killed so far in this civil war in syria was the result of conventional weapons. can you convince the house that military action by our country would shorten the civil war, how to herald in the postwar government that could create stability? >> good question. i can't make any of those assurances. we have not made that decision but were we to make a decision to join the americans in military action it would have to bection in my view that was solely about deterring and degrading the future use of chemical weapons by the syrian regime. full stop, an end of story and if we were aware of large-scale use of chem