john kerrett, ban ki-moon mincing no words that this was a war crime. >> secretary general of the united nations, who has spent the best part of the last couple of hours locked away with the 15 members of the security council here at the united nations discussing the report and hearing the opinion of each of them on the way forward. as you were saying there was some pretty powerful language of what he had to say. he said the report made for chilling reading, it said that chemical weapons were used on a relatively large scale. numerous casualties particularly among civilians and he said the evidence was overwhelming and indisputable. it was a war crime, a grave violation of the antichemical weapons protocol. and so he went on. the question is what happens next? we don't quite know. we know that john kerry, the secretary of state after his weekend with mr. being serger lavrov, turning into a security council resolution and there's talk about tha that happening or the course of the next two weeks. al jazeera is being told by the united nations that actually behind the scenes they are workin