coming up, cerium refugees fleeing the civil war in their home country arrive in germany. that and more. stay with us. >> welcome back. the civil war in syria has created millions of refugees. as part of a un relocation program, germany is set to receive another 5000 syrian refugees in the coming months. the first group of syrian men, women, and children arrived in hanover on her charter flight from beirut on monday. the interior was on hand to welcome them. after a short stay in hanover, they will relocate to different refugee housing centers across the country. >> thousands of syrian refugees are already here waiting on asylum applications. refugee status often means the difference between life and death. concerned for their loved ones still in syria is never far from their minds. next this doctor visits a refugee housing center in hamburger almost every day. hundreds of syrians are staying here while they wait or political asylum. he organizes support programs and listens to their stories. >> they came on small boats like this one. more than 120 people on a boat made fo

cerium must cooperate with the united nations with a view to dismantling its chemical arms program as quickly as possible. if the syrian authorities fully respect their obligations the resolution will make it possible to eliminate one of the most significant chemical weapons programs in the world. through non-military means. we have all bore witness to the terrible massacre in the suburbs of damascus using chemical weapons. what occurred on the 20 first of august each of us was able to see with their own eyes on dozens of videos, unbearable images of agony of victims, dozens of children's corpses lined up. it is important that these events never be reproduced. this resolution is in the right direction in terms of this level. the security council has determined the use of chemical weapons wherever it occurs is a threat to peace and international security, authorizes the council to be seized automatically of the issue in the future. this is significant progress. the resolution is innovative in another critical area for the first time. the security council was able to agree to endorse th

-led plans to shrike the cerium regime. they are saying them constitute organized terrorism that threatened the region. the interior egypt escaping a car bomb attack targeting his convoy in cairo. parliament in kenya starts the procedure to leave the international criminal court. this is with the trial of the kenyan president and vice president to to start in hague next week. we will also be telling you about the 24-year-old son of the sporting director who is the latest victim of gangland style score settling in the mediterranean killing 15 and marseille. those and much more for you at the top of the hour right here on france vingt-quatre. welcome back or welcome if you are just joining us. this is the france vingt-quatre debate looking at the g 20 in the court of vladimir putin and what is dominating the conversation -- syria. joining me, a reporter from this russian magazine. emma from the opposition syrian national coalition and from washington, bruce stokes of the pew research center's -- i've lost my words. the global

in union square cerium americans of the counter rally. they say the massacres of civilians cannot be allowed to continue. this weekend secretary of state john kerry is trying to rally support overseas for our military strike. >> but he's running into resistance. as margaret brennan tells us, he said it was a mistake to wait. >> reporter: john kerry, the obama administration's most vocal advocate for demonstrations. a us-led strike on syria. they did not. instead, they told secretary carry to slow down. the eu will not respond until the u.n. issues a report on the chemical weapons attack last month in damascus that killed over 1400 people. that report is expected to take at least another week. but the secretary said waiting for the u.n. is a mistake. >> if we don't confront this now, i promise the people of france and europe and americans, we are going to see this issue world and it will be required that we confronted him some other place at some other time where there may be a greater miscalculation. >> even the french, who were the first

the other question, if we were to go in an attempt to destroy the weapons that cerium might have, are not, in fact, going to be spreading the gas at the same time? it is not like we can pick up the bombs and take them away and detonate them someplace. how do you destroy something without spreading the gas right in the area? well, to answer your first part of the question, the relationship between the fbi and the cia, you are right, it was more than a little bit of friction, and it was 30 or 40 years ago. again, i retired several years ago, the relationship could not be better. it was almost impossible again,d several years ago, the relationship could not be better. it was almost impossible to have effective lines of communication between the organizations, and today they work literally, physically, side-by-side. there are people in the fbi that work in the cia counterterrorism center. there are individuals in cia who side in fbi field offices. the coordination, i think, is exceptional, and a lot of it has to do with individuals who are in charge of these organizations. when robert mue

host: we welcome our listeners on c-span radio, cerium -- serious xm channel 119.caller on our republican line joins us. caller: the last few times i time iin to c-span, one was cut off on the drone attack on the 16-year-old kid and things of this nature. you're hitting on an interesting topic with currencies. we got a call earlier about 9/11 that was shut off. on theere saudi arabians plane that did this thing. the issue is support of the american dollar as a world reserve currency. -- it used toom be mcgovern's district and now it is kennedy's district. in massachusetts we have the saudis come in and buy ge plastics. 40,000 jobs. recently we have had very bad by investments in having the chinese command and finance are rising -- come in and finance our housing bubble. north korea, there are some verbs you use about sanctions. sanctions are siege. siege is an act of war. host: is your main concern when you have companies being bought up by the chinese government? isler: no, my main concern our government -- when you have a reserve currency of the world, to have a

eastern, president obama will address the nation on the cerium situation. after then, we will take your calls and comments. now, secretary of state john kerry on the proposal from russia to secure chemical weapons testifying at the house armed services committee with defense secretary chuck hagel and joint chief of staff chairman martin dempsey. we will watch this hour-long portion while we wait for president obama's remarks on syria. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> good morning. we meet to receive testimony on the proposed authorization for the use of military force in syria. our witnesses include secretary of state john kerry, secretary of defense chuck hagel was chairman of the joint chiefs of staff martin dempsey. gentlemen, thank you for being with us today. busyave had a very, very week and we appreciate your time and the efforts you have made to be with us and to inform this committee and the american public of the important work you are engaged in. closelyidity is mo

we cannot afford -- [applause] we cannot afford to shed more cerium blood. personally speaking i have a cousin that is 18-years-old that was just killed ten days ago by the so-called rebels and al qaeda and they are not syrian. they are from all over the world to fight this. we cannot afford to do that. we cannot afford to turn syria into another iraq. and afghanistan. [applause] i beg you. my family is there. there are so many civilians and a majority of the civilians want to save their country. and you need to also listen to the american people who do not want us to go there. [applause] because this is not an issue that we can take so lightly, senator mccain. enough is enough. we do not want another engagement in the middle east. we don't want to take over. whether you like the shaara al-assad or not i am not a fan either. but at least he has a secular government going on over there. it is secular, senator mccain. we are a minority over there. we are the minority christians who are unfortunately by you and so many in the senate are distancing our collatera

cerium must cooperate with the united nations with a view to dismantling its chemical arms program as quickly as possible. if the syrian authorities fully respect their obligations the resolution will make it possible to eliminate one of the most significant chemical weapons programs in the world. through non-military means. we have all bore witness to the terrible massacre in the suburbs of damascus using chemical weapons. what occurred on the 20 first of august each of us was able to see with their own eyes on dozens of videos, unbearable images of agony of victims, dozens of children's corpses lined up.