u.s. chemical company in the category of pesticides. it was used to treat rubber but also fruits and vegetables. its use is strictly regulated and limited. what is it doing in fish feed. the answer can be found in switzerland in geneva in this anti-fraud laboratory. two years ago patrick edgar and d.d. or telly were surprised to find a toxic teen in the flesh of farmed fish in extremely high levels. well above the fifty micrograms per kilogram permitted in foodstuffs. a reference value is fifty so we're looking at this level. and we'll see that in our fish the measurements are ten to twenty times more than the standard because concentrations are between five hundred and eight hundred or nearly a thousand micrograms per kilogram have been found. so they're extremely higher than the norm so they're a lot higher than the norm we don't see that in wild fish this is logical since they're not fed fish we are on the other hand all the fish coming from the aquaculture industry so are contaminated with the king. before them nobody had ever thoug

u.s. stockpile chemical weapons. that's where most of the lessons were learned and the machines were tested on as stated to me all of the risks have been minimized. >> host: we are talking with the command who has the exclusive popular mechanics july and august edition. the destroying serious chemical weapons talking about the machine, the technology that was built to do so with your questions and comments we will take those in just a minute. democrats fight hiv 880, republicans you (202)585-3880 and (585)285-3882. democratic caller, go ahead. >> caller: hello. this gas that they have out there why can't it be used for the terrorist? we aren't supposed to use it for other countries but couldn't we use it in small canisters? >> host: what are you talking about? ways of the united states taking these weapons and then using them ourselves? without the security of transporting these chemical weapons and then the united states taking them how do we know they are being destroyed? >> guest: it's an issue of trade and the pl

u.s. chemical safety board finds the explosion is the result of a burst pipe that spraz hydrogen gas on tofinery is shut down affect explosion, but reopens several months later. may 7th, 2009. a gas leak has firefighters from prince georges county busy evacuating a strip mall in forestville, maryland. a camera on board a fire truck shows two firefighters walking in front of the building when suddenly it explodes. the powerful blast blows out several store fronts and causes the ceiling to collapse on it firefighters still inside. >> i know i had injured firefighters that would clearly hurt laying in front of me. >> narrator: battalion chief kenneth mcswain isn't sure how bad the injuries are or if any in his company are missing. >>ed commander is one of those caught in the blast. he is blown to the ground when the gas ignites. >> it knocked me to the ground. it's almost like being in a rush of air that went past your ears. >> prince georges county, 911 is it center. what's the location of the emergency? >> the incredible incident begins minutes before the explosion. several 911 calls come i

u.s. chemicals, which benefits, and that worked really well over the last three years, and i think it wast taking profits. apex peaking? >> i think it could be. the consensus view is it will continue expanding. it might be peaking. that is probably going to create a more muted gdp out like, -- outlook. what did you learn? >> we track it pretty carefully. you need to things to be more bullish on capex. backlogs are bigger, meaning customers are ordering more, and you need ratios to the above 1. >> this is the nasdaq 100, heavily influenced by apple. feeling,just this adam, wait a minute, wise guy from morgan stanley, you wanted me to buy right here? that is the heart of the debate. >> sure. corporate earnings are at an all-time high, balance sheets are at the best shape they have ever been, so at some point, you expect the market to reach new levels. if i say tom, you are managing in equity portfolio, the fastest three are biotech, internet, and software. do you want to own none of those in your portfolio? we have to be mindful. >> what you're getting at is peg ratio. you should be willing

u.s. chemical company, i would be calling all of these foreign companies that deal with basf and say, hey,. if they run out, we got it. bsf, a gigantic company. >> absolutely. >> they dominate. >> yes. >> more manufacturing capacity as a result of prices so much lower. >> it is so, so cheap. holy cow. >> opening bell, s&p at the opening screen, big board today, market vectors atf, and china asset management company celebrating the recent launch of the china etf. at the nasdaq, bank corp. doing the honors. you mention ed twitter, jim, th 10 q, looking at ottobox, and believe it's not 14%, but 11% and could be 8 .5%. >> right, you have more people can see the ads than we thought, 9 89% versus 86%. it's now become the growth stock, the hypergrowth stock for the crowd that wants to play internet, and i think that, look, they make you a believer over and over again. and we didn't have it together initially. the cuings i don't know. how much did they say let's issue that in the cue. he does the cue. >> and as we pointed out at the time, very positive on the conference call after earnings. >> oh,

u.s. officials completed the destruction of syria's chemical weapon destroyed on a u.s. cargo vessel in international waters as president obama warned the syrian government to follow-through the promise to destroy the facilities. we heard that these are the chemical weapons that syria president bashar alassad declared. he may have more. >> president obama touting the u.s. of a strikes. the president said it was necessary to protect the iraqis living nearby and u.s. personnel in that country. critics say it doesn't go far enough. but the next guest said it could set up a dangerous precedent. welcome, great to see you today? >> thank you. >> talk to me about why it sets up a dangerous precedent? >> the president said we are not becoming the air force for iraq but supporting the ground operations of the iraqi kurds and iraqi military sources. that is a definition of being an air force and it looks like we are not willing to be the air force when sunni are attacked and in fact iraq sunni are preyed on by maliki shiite government and now by isis and we are the not helping to b

. >>> the united states says most of syria's declared chemical weapons agents have now been destroyed. the u.srgo vessel neutralized 600 metric tons of the chemical weapons agent it had on board in international waters. the ship is expected to head to finland and germany to off-load some of the effluent before it returns to the u.s. >>> al jazerra is continue to go demand the release of its three journalists who have now been impressed in egypt for 234 days, they were accused of helping the outlawed plus him brotherhood n june, mohamed and peter were given 7-year sentences. ba there are mohamed got an extra three years because he had a spent bull net his possession which he had picked up at a protest. >>> now to pakistan where police have arrested 150 anti-government protesters. this comes as supporters of leading pakistani leader imran kahn and the cleric are set to march on a heavily fort fight path to the capital of islambad. 10s of thousands of protesters have already brought parts of the capital to a standstill. kahn has threatened to pull out of members of his party from parliament. he s

u.s. air strikes for use of chemical weapons, syrian president bashar al-assad government could benefit fromential america strikes against islamic state fighters there and president obama is said to be considering whether to expand the current u.s. air war against the islamic state group from iraq into their stronghold in syria. >> the department of defense has personnel who are responsible as they can tell you for ensuring the commander-in-chief has access to the kinds of plans and contingencies that he may need if necessary. >> reporter: president obama reportedly authorized u.s. manned and unmanned surveillance flights. "the wall street journal" reports those flights are underway over syria to gather intelligence on i.s. targets. >> the president will not hesitate to use his authority as he has already demonstrated to keep the american people safe. >> reporter: president obama vowed last woo ecc -- week to go against i.s. and now threatened to kill another american reporter and the move to monitor i.s. in syria comes after martin demean said they could not be defeated without taking the f

u.s. is finished neutralizing chemicals the syrian government handed over to international monitors. it could have been used to create deadly sarin gas. >>> libya's parliament is asking the united nations for hem. there as the crisis in the country continues to escalate. when ithe chief of police was killed by mass gunmen on tuesday. parliament is meeting because of the fighting in tripoli and bengahzii. they will vote to dissolve the various fighting militias to give them the ultimatum to join the regular armed forces. major roads have been blocked. >> reporter: the state was in a state of lockdown. there were thousands they came to islamabad on august 14th. they made a decision that yes, the march would be now allowed. releasing some political pressure and also bringing a sigh of relief to the residents of islamabad. however, the political crisis will likely continue because there will be marching with thousands of their supporters. they will be staging a sit-in in front of parliament, and they will continue with their demands one of which is a midterm re-election, something that t

because with the anticipation of being able to get the chemical weapons out of syria, the u.s. olicy there went in place of a week from assad must go to implicitly assad must stay to fulfill the commitment on the chemical weapons. so in my view, we got distracted by a horrible atrocity involving 1400 people, and it led us to neglect the fact that one hundred 50,000 people have been -- 150,000 people have been killed by conventional weapons. i think putin's initiative was clever tactically. it helped assure assad more time in office. but i think syria, i think he sees that as his marker in the middle east. >> i think if you look at syria in the context of what he was saying, there is a lot about how others should not consider themselves exceptional, so on and so forth, which was a direct attack on american exceptionalism. i think what you really see is the vladimir putin has decided, perhaps for reasons of reestablishing an identity, which russia really do not know what its identity was after the soviet union collapsed, we have to remember that the soviet union was a rough approx

most dang ruz jobs in the u.s., working in a slaughter plant. some workers blame the chemicals for which they bathe the mete for a host of severe problems. the film makers behind "mississippi chicken," the shocking discover they made after talking to low-wage workers inside poultry plants. ♪ >> i stand sglufrnling i was standing there in paging pain. and i was really, really hurt. body had shut down. i was standing there in tears hurting until somebody came to carry me off of that line to take me to the nurse's station. >> welcome back. that was a former poultry plant worker. hers is a low-wage job. i want to point out, we reached out to the largest poultry leaders and their lobbying associations to come on the show. the national chicken association declined saying: the nationaltie federation said we are addressing the modernized inspection. it will be 90 days before the government agency writes the regulations that will guide how the process goes forward. we also reached out to the california poultry federation, tyson, pilgrim's pride but did not receive responses from any of

u.s. would help them. and there are chemical weapons used in syria and they cost my redline and i'm going to do something, but then not provide any military help. so they are stuck with their foot on this. and so it is not a happy situation and they blame the u.s. to a great extent. >> host: how close is the saudi arabian royal family with the bush family and the united states? >> guest: i am not an expert on that end he was constantly in the bush senior family in their house and he implied that they loved him and i've never actually asked george bush senior about this. but there is clearly a close relationship there and bush senior was president to protect them from preventing him from kuwait at a time when they were very worried that saddam hussein might move in. and so that was the high water mark in 1990 and there have always been ups and downs of this relationship and it will be interesting to see when the king dies if there are more moderate policies in effect if they have accelerated in any way or if there is a attempt fo

u.s. code ability on the line by declaring chemical use in syria as a redline and then went on to say the u.s. is obligated to act because of the sentence.'s rhetorical guest: i still think it was one of the catastrophes of the obama administration's foreign policy to have self-declared this redline over chemical weapons used by assad regime. it was only by sheer accident john kerry stumbled into a perhaps permitted or required the assad regime to give up the weapons. the assad regime came up with another weapon that was even worse, the so-called barrel bombs that killed hundreds of thousands inside syria. it is not as if we should pat ourselves on the back and think we stumbled into a solution. i have worked with presidents who understand that when you draw a line in the sand, the credibility of the united states is on the line. no one forced the president to make that declaration. no one compelled him. it was not john mccain. it was not democrats. when the president puts the credibility of the united states on the line and it is not fulfilled, he has now is could ability on the line with

u.s. air striked. and dr. agus looks at the chemical found in toothpaste and soap.news" for this tuesday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. . >>> he made millions of people laugh. comedian robin williams found dead in a apparent suicide. behind the scenes he battled drug, alcohol, depression, this morning the worlds is reacting and the response is overwhelming. after interviewing him a few times, i had the honor every spending some quality time with him, just few months ago on the set of the crazy ones, i couldn't believe it when i heard the news last night. this morning, tracking the reactions on twitter, it is clear he was loved so much. >> alerts on our phones, just had to sit down. >> no question, no question. >> this morning, we ' asking to you connect with us on cbs philly facebook and twitter pages. we want to know what your favorite robin williams was, maybe your favorite line, i

chemical weapons. about 100,000 iranians were either killed or injured. saudi arabia, arabs, the u.s. europe supported the use of chemical weapons. you forget it's part of the history and you are talking about today's influence of iran. definitely the iranian influence is defensive in iraq. because you forget the part of the history when you invaded iraq, if iraq arabs have not invaded iran after the revolution the iranian strategy in the region would have been completely different. you caught a part of the histo history. you should not. no one in iran would forget what iraq and the supports hundreds of billions was paid to saddam by the gcc to support his invasion. what was the target of the invasion? you remember saddam announced a part of iraq and the gcc supported it. you forget the notion of regime change invasion of iran hundreds of thousands read this is exactly, i mean if iran has influence in the region you should know this is really defensive. [inaudible] >> grand bargain first of all is about cooperation on, knowledges. definitely a iran and the u.s. have differences and the

chemical weapons. when all these people were killed, u.s. military action against the assad regime looked certain. in damascus at that time, supporters of president assad were volunteering for militias what the anxiety about americans might do. the war seemed to be at a turning point. in britain, parliament was recalled and voted against joining the americans in bombing syria. it was a big factor in america's cancel the air strikes at the last minute. >> i think the policy that the american government followed on syria even before the chemical attacks was tentative and -- indecisive and i think it sent a signal that we not prepared to re-engage in this region. >> for president assad's supporters, volunteering as as targets in damascus, the deal looked good. recovered its nerve. it believed the americans have blinked first. full of what-ifs. a major reason why there's been military western intervention in the syrian war has been fear of the consequences. into at getting sucked political and military mir -- morass but actively making matters worse, not better. americans hade bombed assad's men. it w

still ahead, it is considered one of the most dangerous jobs in the u.s., working in a slaughter plant. the workers blame the chemicals for severe health. and we hear about the mississippi chicken and the shocking discover they made after talking to the low wage workers inside of the plants. h >> i stand in pain and i was really, really hurting. i was standing there in tears, hurting, until somebody came to carry me off the line and take me to the nurse's station. >> that was a former poultry plant worker and the majority of the workers are minorities or women. we reached out to the industry and lobbying organizations to come on the show. the national chicken council declined and saying it is too early to respond. the national poultry federation is inspecting and at least 90 days before writing the regulations to guide how to process goes forward. joining us now is anita and john on the documentary film mississippi chicken. welcome to both of you. you have talked a number of people and you have to footage from inside of the plant and what were some of the biggest findings? >> so, i actually worked as a worker and advo

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because with the anticipation of being able to get the chemical weapons out of syria, the u.s. policy there went in place of a week from assad must go to implicitly assad must stay to fulfill the commitment on the chemical weapons. so in my view, we got distracted by a horrible atrocity involving 1400 people, and it led us to neglect the fact that 150,000 people have been killed by conventional weapons. i think putin's initiative was clever tactically. it helped assure assad more time in office. but i think syria, i think he sees that as his marker in the middle east. >> i think if you look at syria in the context of what he was saying, there is a lot about how others should not consider themselves exceptional, so on and so forth, which was a direct attack on american exceptionalism. i think what you really see is the vladimir putin has decided, perhaps for reasons of reestablishing an identity, which russia really do not know what its identity was after the soviet union collapsed, we have to remember that the soviet union was a rough approximation of the russian empire. so russ

saddam used chemical weapon about 100,000 iranians were either killed or injured. saudi arabia, arabs, the u.surope, supported the use of chemical weapons. t you forget he's part of the history and you are talking about today's influence of irant definitely iranian influence is defensive in iraq because you forget the part of the history when you invaded iran. if iraq, arabs have not invade iran after revolution, iranian strategy in the region would have been completely different. you caught a part of the history. you shouldet not. no one in iran would forget what iraq and the support hundreds of billions was paid to saddam by gcc to support his invasion.f what was the target of the invasion? this integration of iran, you remember.art saddam announced it a part of iraq and gcc all supported. you forget the terms, the notion of regime change, invasion of iran, hundreds of thousands. this is exactly -- i mean, if iran today has influence in thee region, you should know this isi really defensive. of >> [ inaudible ]. >> grand bargain, first of all, is about cooperation on commonalities. definitel

u.s. air strikes in syria because of chemical weapons. he said he wanted to do that but congress should authorize it. congress never acted on that one way or the other. do you think congress will act now on this new proposal for air strikes in syria? >> rachel, first i hope desperately that the president brings this to congress. i know the team is weighing whether to bring it to congress or not. actually let me walk through what happened last year. what happened last year shows if you do it the way the constitutional framers intended, good things happen. the president had to come to congress, define the mission. we had to use air strikes in syria to deter the use of chemical weapons. we voted 10-8 to use military force for that limited purpose. as soon as we did, russia and syria changed their calculation, came to the table, said hold on a second, don't start military action, we will give up our entire chemical weapons stockpile. so the president by announcing the goal, coming to congress, the foreign relations committee acting on the pre

u.s. commercial flights have been banned over syrian air space. >>> the body overseeing the destruction of syria's chemicalpons says the most crucial part of the operation has been completed. 581 tons of sarin nerve gas has been destroyed aboard a u.s. vessel, the cape raid. >>> still ahead in the news hour, senegal is racing for its first ebola cases, but is already grappling with another killer disease. >>> i'm nick spicer, police are fighting to stop the flow of crystal meth into germany. >>> and the teenager set to become the youngest-ever formula one driver. ♪ >>> police in the u.s. state of missouri say a minority of violent criminals are responsible for the latest round of fighting. ron johnson says police came under heavy gunfire and 31 people were arrested. there has been ongoing fighting since police shot dead an unarmed black teenager over a week ago. >> tonight there were numerous reports of shots fired. we had two fires, one at a business, and one at an unoccupied residence. in the area of west force and canfield our officers came under heavy gunfire. our officers confiscated two guns near the

five people were killed in that attack. >> about 60% of syria's most toxic chemicals have been neutralized. so says a new u.s. report delivered to the u.n. security council. syria agreed to give up chemical weapons last fall following an attack on a suburb. an international team is working on a plan to destroy 12 chemical production centers in syria. >> a senior u.n. official warning the humanitarian situation is worsening in ukraine. the security council holding an emergency session tuesday. more than 1300 people have died in fighting. the head of the humanitarian operations warns that a number, that number will climb if a political solution cannot be reached. >> russian president vladimir putin is looking for payback following new sanctions from the u.s. and the e.u. putin is calling for economic retaliation on western companies who do business with russia that he says the economic sanctions for russia's role in the ukraine crisis "run counter to all norms and rules." putin's goal is to send a signal and not hurt his own people. >> right now, your confidential on line information is at risk after a russian

because with the anticipation of being able to get the chemical weapons out of syria, the u.s. olicy went in the space of a week from assad must go to implicitly assad must stay to fulfill the commitment on the chemical weapons. so in my view, we got distracted by a horrible atrocity involving 1400 people, and it led us to neglect the fact that 150,000 people have been killed by conventional weapons. i think putin's initiative was clever tactically. it helped assure assad more time in office. but i think syria, i think he sees that as his marker in the middle east. >> i think if you look at syria in the context of what he was saying, there is a lot about how others should not consider themselves exceptional, so on and so forth, which was a direct attack on american exceptionalism. i think what you really see is the vladimir putin has decided, perhaps for reasons of reestablishing identity, which russia really do not know what its identity was after the soviet union collapsed, we have to remember that the soviet union was a rough approximation of the russian empire. so russia has

white house argument is they were never able to get a significant amount of chemical weapons because of pressure from the u.s. and its jl ice but obviously they did not go through with the air strikes and you certainly hear a growing number of republicans charging the threat from isis is only grown in the last year since the president backed away from those air strikes. >> you know, there is a touch of irony here that the president does extend air strikes into syria. this time, i would think, with bloodshed of assad because he is concerned about this isis threat, we are told, egypt and united arab emirates doing the same within his own country. >> you're right. that is an important point to make. that is a complication. part of the calculation for this president as he goes behind doors in a few moments with his national security team, it is not just about targeting isis. he has to weigh if he launches u.s. air strikes beyond iraq, now expanding into across the border into syria. as aides have said, he's been weighing. going after isis would be a good thing but that may only strengthen assad's hand. that worr

syria agreed to hand over its chemical weapons to avoid drawing u.s. and it's allies into the fighting. >>> in brazil a plane crash has killed a presidential candidate, eduardo campos. it's president has declared three days of national mourning. we have more from the scene of the crash. >> it's raining. it's reovercast and very cold. 9 rain has not stopped for hours now. and fire crews at the crash scene hanging in the closest it can get from a block away. they're in there trying to recover some of the debris, and the investigations going. but the conditions that we're experiencing now we're told are the same conditions at the time of the crash when apparently the plane was trying to land because of the conditions aborted the landing and that's when the control tower lost all communication with the plane. it crashed here in this residential district. six people on the ground were injured with non-life threatening injuries. seven on the plane are all dead. and the crash was so strong that all of the bodies are almost unrecognizable. >> boy, gabriel ales

u.s. defense officials say they have reached a milestone in their work to destroy syria's chemical weapons. they say specialists have neutralized 100% of the agent used to make sarin gas. pentagon officials say experts aboard a containership have disposed of 581 tons of the agent. they will now turn their attention to the material for mustard gas. they expect to destroy all of that by next month. last sawing, the sarin attack in a suburb in damascus left hundreds of people dead. syrian leaders agreed to join the chemical weapons convention and give up their stockpile. >> forces have been trying for months to put down an uprising by prorussian acceaccept ratist. people are running shoort of food, waterer and medicine. election scheduled in october. recent polls showed him third among the three main candidates. the president called her rival a great political leader and announced three days of national mourning. >>> police in thailand are russian forces have launched exercises electric that have provoked japanese officials. they are being held on russian held islands. more than 1,000 personn

u.s. businesses are particularly happy with the way politicians are trying to solve the ukrainian crisis the c.e.o. of the world's largest chemical company b.s.f. in germany has doubts about the efficiency of sanctions that the executive right vice president of the u.s. chamber of commerce said. concerned that the measures could have a boomerang effect the president of the association of italian businesses in russia meantime told us that sanctions come at a price for those imposing them. the turnover between europe and russia is around five hundred billion dollars the united states and the us military shoes ten times less italy is the second. country in terms of the normal russian federation and the second investor so we have more than fifty years of friendly relation with russia we cannot destroy and let me say i don't think that they think that the first section would be hundreds of billions of dollars on the on the russian leadership i think that that the impact could be mainly on their hunger for me to open doors for billions of dollars for beyond the european union economy that's for sure. the latest punitive measures heaped

u.s. businesses aren't particularly happy with the way politicians are trying to solve the ukrainian crisis the c.e.o. of the world's largest chemical company b.s.f. in germany has doubts about the fish and sea of sanctions and the executive vice president of the u.s. chamber of commerce said entrepreneurs who are concerned of measures could have a boomerang effect let's bring in the president of the association of italian businesses in russia nestor for language. to get things much earnest of for joining us here international to discuss the sanctions while good or bad the sanctions are in and some say this could cost moscow hundreds of billions of dollars so how likely is it. that the visible for and let me say i don't think that they have faith that in fact the section would be a hundredfold be done dollars on that and the russian federation. i think that that the impact could be made on their home you know the last book or would be on the european union economy that's for sure that they can talk of for example the huge amount of energy which flow from russia to europe one third of economy often argy europe comes from or from wher

they put on president assad in syria enabled him to turn over a large stockpile of chemical weapons. there was not a u.stack. the civil war has continued and we see isis' threat level growing by the day. >> a lot of people think it left that opening for isis to grow very strong during that whole period across the course of the last year. now, republicans are charging that for years the president has underestimated this threat from isis and that's part of this as well, ed. >> reporter: you heard the criticism the president a few months ago said this is the jv team. we don't have to worry about them. we have taken out core al qaedas and offshoots of al qaeda. they are a jv team trying to be the varsity team. republicans rejected that. now you see pressure from the left about whether or not it's a smart strategy now to go into syria. there are questions about if you attack isis within syria with air strikes, does that strengthen president assad. makes the calculation difficult for the president. look at this editor al in "the new york times" today declaring there are too many unanswered questions to make t

u.s. commercial flights over syrian air space. >>> the body overseeing the destruction of syria's chemical weapons says the most crucial part hasn completed. 581 tons of sarin nerve gas has been destroyed. another 20 tons of mustard gas have also been rendered non-toxic. >>> ukraine's military is stepping up its campaign against pro-russian separatists in the east. proseparatists media showed fire at the central market on monday. and video shows a courthouse in a found near donetsk also burning. emma hayward is close to where there has been reports of heavy fighting. >> reporter: we are hearing that there has been intense fighting in donetsk today. an area that is reported to have been shelled. with regards to luhansk, the other separatists strong hold, intensive fighting also reported there between ukrainian forces and separatists fighters. we were in a place around 10 to 15 kilometers away from luhansk, and we could hear artillery fire from the other side and occasionally fire coming back. we were told at a check point we went through that the front line is very fluid. the humanitarian situation is also worsening in those are

chemicals have been removed from the country. a large amount of that has already been transferred to commercial insinerators in finland and the united states and the u.k., and the u.s. vessel is currently in the mediterranean, busy with the neutralization. it is my understanding that all the precursor chemicals have been neutralized and only the mustard agent is available. >> what is next in the process. have we met the time lines. >> what we are going to see is that the o.p.c.w. is going to interact with the syrian government concerning a number of outstanding questions. this is more part of what i would call a normal verification process. similar issues occurred with other countries. in the case with syria, we have to deal with a situation, and, two, because syria used chemical weapons until last summer, and perhaps in the spring, the answers will have to be more stringent than what otherwise would have been expected. >> you bring about a good point in talking about oversight. how much accountability have we seen over the cores of the year. >> in general, speaking to the people from o.p.c.w. are positive about the collaboration they get from the syrian officials.

chemical weapons. when these people were killed, u.s. military action against the regime looked certain.damascus at, supporters of president assad were volunteering for militias amid real anxiety about what americans might do. the war seemed to be at a turn thing point. in britain, parliament was recalled and voted against joining the americans in syria. it was a big factor in america's decision to cancel the air strikes at the last minute. >> i think the policy that the american government followed on syria, everyone before the chemical attacks was tentative and indecisive. i think it sent a signal to people in both moderate rebels in syria and particularly extreme rebels in syria we were not prepared to reengage in this region. >> for president assad's supporters, volunteering as human shields had potential targets in damascus. the deal looked good. syria would give up chemical arsenal to lift the threat of an american attack. the assad regime recovered its nerve and believed the americans had blinked first. history is full of "what ifs." a direct reason there's no been no direct inter

u.s. government for violating the law to enforce the chemical weapons treaty which is a little bit odd. this is an agatha christie dispute. the question is whether she could challenge congress law on the amount that it violated a states rights and oddly the obama administration said she has no standing even though she is threatened with imprisonment. she rightly and unanimously said that's wrong. this is a case where she does have standing, and then the court decided in round number two of this year the congress had exceeded its authority or at least we should interpret the law not to apply this way. there was this guy that wanted his place on his passport to be designated in jerusalem. congress had said -- she was born in israel, but he wanted to be designated as a citizen of israel whose capital is jerusalem. that is a political and very volatile issue. he was involved in it and barack obama and his justice department took the position that the court had no business resulting anything about this. it was a matter between congress and the president. if congress told the president and th

u.s. would help them. -- knock off a solid. we were not doing enough in their minds but then after the chemical weapons used in syria and the president saying i'm going to -- they crossed my redline, i'm going to do something, and then not providing any military help, they are stuck now with their foot on assad's neck, and we did help them chop his head off and they can find a way to chop his head off. so it's not a happy situation for them, and they blame the u.s., i think, to a great extent. >> how close is the saudi royal family with the bush family here in the state's? >> i don't know. i'm not an expert on that. i mean for i know prince bandar was like a member of bush senior's family. i mean, he was constantly in their house, you know, they in his, and he told -- he loved them i think. he complied they loved him. i've never actually asked george bush senior is prince bandar like a son to you, but there was clearly a very close relationship there. bush senior was president when the u.s. did send troops in 1992 saudi arabia to protect them from saddam hussein's troops in kuwait and to evict him from kuwait at a time when they were

u.s. was considering air strikes about a year ago because of chemical weapons used against his own people. and many countries have broodly condemned assad in his leadership there in the country. and even talking to assad or coordinating could be a bigger affront to the sunni population, and the u.s. sees that as a crucial group to win over. now launching air strikes brings up a range of other problems including the fact that the assad regime may see that as a direct threat and so makoun tries like iran and syria. air strikes may not seem like that bad of a thing to assad. it's just a real question. and i have to point out that yesterday, syria's foreign minister cracked the door open for some sort of international coordination, but he said any unauthorized actions in syria would be seen as acts of aggression, tony. >> libby thank you. meantimes syria's president bashar al-assad is stepping up his campaign using barrel bombs. sheila macvicar has exclusive footage from inside that battered city. >> reporter: the helicopters circle slowly, beyond the range of any rebel guns. suddenly, a black