in syria. feels like a blow to living in his younger siblings house unlike his brother he had no strong desire to go to the land of their ancestors he and his wife have become accustomed to this secular city life. who see what's happening to. people all just life and just killing each other nobody knows why i left and i left my home go i left my job my friends some family also still there we left our whole life. yet you. see as nine year old daughter can speak. russian she only knows arabic and neither her schoolmates nor her teachers can understand. the adaptation for her was more difficult then for the others she had a hard time kept to herself and said nothing in our language she would simply sit in silence. to study with older children the two came from syria several month ago the language barrier prevents them from learning a standard curriculum and so a special classroom has been set aside for them now they're learning two languages at a time from scratch they'll need the tongue to preser

we pulled this in syria must lead us to be a green facility in syria we like to do to this to lots of fellows who we are trying to find this it's freezing here it's not it's a bridge. in syria none so you had everything she could dream of a villa on two floors with a nice looking gotten in a damascus suburb she looked after her three children and her husband had a lucrative business but when bombs began to explode in front of their house the couple had to throw it all to the wind and seek refuge where there were no gunshots to frighten the children. this fourth or it's my car garage. and this is my lever one door. or some bomb didn't explosion was my kitchen door broke the windows are broken the very sad because this is the only channel where dreams me me me me me and banks came. the syrian woman is a hero. she is trying to. trying to protect their families. their home. her house her. hair her syria and everything and she had to under control about everything and we don't have that possibility to do that much we are fighting to save everything every time we are talking about. we also

states who are creating chaos in syria why would they be interested in creating chaos in syria and to stick to destabilize the region. i think it is against their interests in the long run and unfortunately i don't think that those who are creating chaos and city are right from the beginning have a totally independent will whether in their countries old or in the region unfortunately they are carrying out their designs that. designed for the regime you know under probably poor the word the you know if you if you if you do you think of what is happening in libya and yemen in sudan in egypt you know you and you're out in syria you would know that there is a hugely resigned that has made poor decision that i think they're ignoring the fog that it is the people and they are people who make the future of their countries and personally i feel that what we are witnessing in the middle east is the absolutely the threshold of independence of a lot of countries and the next twenty or thirty years you will find another word that truly speaks up for itself and i hope syria is going to be the firs

. >> the europeans fighting in syria's civil war. confirmation that german jihad tests are involved. >> the bank when -- bangladesh building collapse disaster. the search for survivors continues. is this a game changer for how the world deals with the crisis in syria? on thursday, the united states said that it now believes forces loyal to the syrian president have probably used chemical weapons in syria. >> the finding is a very fresh one. the u.s. defense secretary said the intelligence community reached the conclusion within the past 24 hours. >> that's right. the chemical in question is a lethal nerve agent. hagel did not say where or when it was used, but he made it clear that the blame lies with assad. >> our coverage begins with this report. >> are arriving in abu dhabi, the u.s. defense secretary said washington believes the assad regime has used chemical weapons but admitted there was some uncertainty. >> the white house delivered a letter to several members of congress on the topic of chemical weapons use in syria. the lett

and every day she says mother buddy syria or syria in arabic. my name. is brahim. the war beginning far from. the syrian woman is. trying to take care. of the troubles of the very most of other conflicts. i'm planning to stay in russia . to build a new life. the international airport in the very heart of moscow. car blast ripped through marketplaces into iraq's shia provinces killing eleven people in the latest escalation of the sectarian unrest that's gripping the country . torn from his parents' arms a russian couple wages a legal battle with u.s. social services after their five month old baby was seized following as a to a doctor. and greece writes off fifteen thousand state jobs to meet the terms of a course will bail out while france turns its eye on germany over chancellor merkel's quote selfish drive for block wide a staring.

the war that syria. and every day she says another body in the body in a syria or syria in arabic. the war beginning looks far from. the syrian woman if you are. trying to. discover the very mother father you know my name is sama. i am planning to stay in russia. to build a new life you know sure he. is . coming up on our t.v. despite the fact that the seaquest ration has brought harm to the poor and needy in our nation it looks like the flight delays are what really gets congress moving us there's a do nothing congress just ahead. in iraq the government has ordered nearly a dozen satellite t.v. channels to end their broadcasts they claim these channels are fanning the flames of sectarian violence while predicts consider it a ploy to censor the press will tell you more coming up. plus it's been six months since hurricane sandy devastated the east coast as new york and new jersey residents continue to rebuild what's life like for those who lost nearly everything we'll tell you coming up playing the show.

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the war that syria. and every day she says another body in the body in a syria or saudia in arabic. why named. abraham wins the war beginning look far from a list could of. the syrian woman is. trying to take. care. of the stuff that i know the father will know my name is sama muhammad i'm planning to stay here i'll show. to build a life here here. here's mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that we americans call i don't. i'm sorry i'm just a guy who cares an awful lot like you sir are you know what that is my son doesn't want to listen to feature a sunday on limbaugh the christian. kids usually. you know the corporate media distracts us from what you and i should care about because they're a profit driven industry that sells a sensationalistic garbage he calls it breaking news i'm not me martin and we're going to break that. international and in the very heart of moscow. a long job market in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture. on friday the house approved legislation that will put an end to all the flight delays caused by the

says it suspects quote with varying degrees of confidence that syria's government used chemical weapons and now the u.k. joined allegations citing quote limited but growing evidence. a pussy riot band members denied parole with a judge ruling sure have to serve a full two year sentence for her punk performance at moscow's christ the savior cathedral. and terror alert e.u. when u.k. officials sound the alarm over young europeans being recruited to join islamist rebel groups in syria they may pose a serious threat upon any return. nine pm in moscow i matras a good having you with us here on r t our top story one hundred forty people have been detained in moscow on suspicion of having ties to islamic extremist groups security services saying they swooped in on a prayer house that they believe was visited by people involved in northern caucasus militant organizations artie's marie if an ocean is about on top of the story for us she joins us now with more so what exactly has been going on in this raid that happened just in the south of the russian capital. well we're hearing that one hundred

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>> narrator: the orontes river valley tells the story of syria. it reveals a warring nation that is breaking apart. in this valley, neighbor is fighting neighbor. every day is a struggle to survive. a land where regime and rebels are fighting to the death. this is the story of the people who live and fight on both sides of the front line-- neighbors now divided by religion, ideology, and the river that runs between them. ahmad is 20 years old, and works in his dad's garage. nine months ago he defected from the regime police force to join the rebel free syrian army. >> (translated): i was a policeman. we were sent out to quell the protests, and some of us would open fire on demonstrators. but i used to hide. i'd throw my bullets away. here is my photo. i looked evil when i was serving the regime. i was full of hatred. now i look better. this photo was taken after i joined the free syrian army. this is the real me. the regime used to force me to shave my beard every day. when i defected, i started to grow it. i wanted to change my look while fightin

. >> i want to talk about syria. we will talk about this in the next segment at length with the israeli ambassador. i want to ask you guys about it as well. after stating the use of chemical weapons was a red lien this week president obama seemed to back off that. take a look. >> this is not an on or off switch. this is an ongoing challenge that all of us have is to be concerned about. >> chris: senator manchin, as a member of the senate the armed services committee are you, first of all, persuaded that the assad regime did use chemical weapons and what do you make of the fact that the president seemed to set this marker assad stepped over it and now he is backing away? >> from what i have been told and seen and in the briefings i have had, it shows that they have used it and do have the capabilities. there is some question after as we know iraq and how that had gone so there is questions in senators' minds, i believe. when we watch this whole thing unfold in syria right now, we look at syria from the standpoint do w

it was that syria. and the every day she says mother body in the body in a syria or soviet in arabic. lying named. abraham was it the war beginning looked far from on the skill of. the syrian woman if you are. trying to take. the stuff that was about the cause of. my name is somehow a mug i'm planning to stay in russia. to build a new life in russia here. the international airport in the very heart of moscow. serious problem and survives an attack in damascus as a car bomb explodes near a school in kindergarten killing ten people. speculation emerges that one of the boston bombing suspects could have been trained in georgia as the country's prime minister admits there may have been militant camps on the soil. of. the russian couple desperate for the return of their baby son often seized by u.s. social services they talked to r.t. about their family. a pair monday night here in moscow over a warm welcome to who just joined us it can.

point to the use of chemical weapons in syria and fuels in washington the kind of war rhetoric seen in the run up to previous conflicts. and the e.u. chief says hundreds of european volunteers are now fighting in syria and could pose a serious security threat when they return from the radicalized. worldwide news live from moscow this is r t with me welcome to the program let's get first to breaking news for you this hour here on our t.v. a devastating fire at a psychiatric hospital in the moscow region has killed at least thirty eight leaving only three survivors but the blaze reportedly erupted when providing special treatment to patients have more on this now that's across five to watch and he's at the scene of the tragedy tom good to see you though not in the best of circumstances or can you bring us up to date now what's going on where you are there what are the latest numbers. hi there rory yes investigators are combing through the remains of that psychiatric hospital here in the village of about sixty kilometers away from moscow trying to find what actually happened in the early

the alawites have the right to live in syria. no one should be excluded from society. >> narrator: the next morning, just as the united nations truce begins, ahmad and his comrades prepare for battle. >> (translated): we always try and pray before battle. it makes us stronger. we've realized that only god will help us. so we ask god for the strength to attack more checkpoints. >> narrator: ahmad is going to attack a large government base at wadi daif. it's a major launching point for artillery attacks in the region. it also protects the regime's main supply route from the capital, damascus, to syria's embattled second city, aleppo. >> narrator: for weeks, they've been besieging the base at wadi daif. the fighting has been intense. the brother of rebel leader jamal maarouf was killed here only weeks ago. today they plan to storm the base and overrun it. the fog allows them to move unseen to within striking distance. the base lies less than a mile down this road, and is manned by up to 500 regime soldiers. >> narrator: jamal used t

but where are we with syria. i think a lot of american, uncomfortable trying to take down known baathist in the civilization. >> i wonder what the russians want. they would join us in the fight for terrorism. and certainly they have a deal with islamists, the dangerous part. they have to deal with the fact that they're losing in syria, way back to the wocold war with the baathist regime as you mentioned. and now they may have to deal with the terrorists who may look like they have to take over in damascus. so we may face a lebanon-type situation. the russians have to take sides on that. this is going to be tricky. we have to pick sides, they have to pick sides. we have to face the reality, the president of the united states after two months of not taking questions from the press. the last time he took questions in a formal set was two months ago. i suspect the questions are going to be about this topic of syria. after going to war in afghanistan and iraq. a troubling war there. and it's easy to say we'll deal wit

in syria have repeatedly shelled them. this deals with the resolve of the factions, including hezbollah, to step out of the conflict. fault lines between lebanon and sunni and shia muslims are being dangerously exposed. both sides are being drawn into the syrian more on a new, alarming level. mosques in lebanon, young men are being radicalized, calls from the sunni clerics 4g todd, holy war. a necessary response to the .ezbollah role fatwa. is a legitimate there are oppressed people in syria. women and children are being raped, killed, and expelled, so we should help them and be rewarded by god. >> the own future of the lebanese is threatened by the turmoil in syria. the longer it continues, the more nervous the army and the increasingly divided factions on this side of the border will get. bbc news, northern lebanon. >> president obama also said today that he wants to renew its efforts to close the guantanamo bay detention center near cuba. prisoners there are staging a massive hunger strike. he called on others to help f

what if you had something similar inside syria and have rogue elements inside syria and had rogue elements like senator mccain and others looking for triggers to trigger what they want, all involvement of the u.s. military. i think we need to be very very careful. even the foreign governments that have come out j france, england, israel, others, none of them with the exception of one general in israel, not even the israeli government in full have made the fully robust comment about the chemical weapons. our media has already jumped on and decided this is a done deal but it is not even a done deal for the governments that have said probably there is something going on but they don't know how, choir who is in control. >> neither israel or england or france produced physical evidence this happened and physical evidence the only way to prove it. we have assertions there is some physical evidence but no detail about that at all. i am reserving judgment with a capital r or capital j with exclamation point. steve, editor, thank you so much. >> thanks. >>> i never thought i would mention on this s

>> well preside laid down a red line if syria uses chemical weapon then u.s. will get involved in the conflict, syria -- there severed tha there is ea has done so, if america does not do anything, it is about our credibility. our willingness to enforce our red line, we're not doing so that would impact our standing. lou: our standing is already i guess, suspect, given all developments. we have watched the obama drama, if you will with north korea recede from headlines with boston bombing, we have now watching a president recede from his red line deck l declarationa number of months iran remains a in middle east, where is this leading us? >> message outside to everyone th wireless engaged with the world, we don't want to lead on critical issues globally there is north korea and syria, have you crises that really require american leadership. in order to galvanize international community around longerstitutions, but also, is cases like arab spring since had happened we've been disengaged in an important region of world, as development push it in new directs, mess

the war that syria. and the every day she says mother body in the body in a syria or saudia in arabic. line named. abraham wins the war beginning far from life on the skills of. the syrian woman if you are. trying to protect their families. at the start of the very most of other conflicts built by noon sama muhammad i'm planning to stay in russia. to build a new life in russia here. syria's prime minister survives an attack in damascus as a car bomb explodes near a school in kindergarten killing ten people. like you know. one of the boston bombing suspects could have been trained. as the country's prime minister admits there may have been militant camps on their soil. in the russian couple desperate for the return of their baby son after he seized by us social services they talked about their family battle. live from our studios here in moscow.

this town syria. syria. they are minors. this is the first time the two zhang has brought the children here to let them see their new home. they plan to move the family from town after a month or so when the weather is warmer. this is not our room and this is true. but from my home and around the scene. as you see a lot of windows. we will consider this time becoming two years maybe a like time off from city life from working at the offices who you work with close to nature. this is who tried this experience we will see maybe we just. wanted the toilets going to be here. here. commander style bods and what's going to be here my mother that shut the door and don't touch anything there are no wiser just a whole oh that's how it's going to be. come here. it's an opportunity to live in peace away from noise away from home away from. fighting. pressure is made to come through the biggest country to war but it is similar to syria it's small pieces of four feet. leisure and nearly fifty's and early sixty's and they are. all living

the war that syria. and every day she says mother body in the body in a syria or saudia in arabic. and brought him when the war beginning not far from. the syrian woman is. trying to protect her son of. the service of god i know the father cause of. my name is sama. i'm planning to stay in russia. to build a new life in russia here. little live. live. live. live . live. live. live because the. lives of. luck a little. live . syria's prime minister assassination attempt in the center of damascus as a car bomb goes off near a school in kindergarten killing ten people. prime minister of georgia says they may have been militant camps on his country's territory amid reports that one of the boston terror suspects received training that. explosions ripped through marketplaces in two of iraq's shia provinces killing nineteen people in the latest escalation of sectarian on the rest gripping the country. and the russian couple wage a legal battle with u.s. social services off their five month old baby was seized disregarding police and medical evidence that the child was welcome.

role be in syria? >> boston is becoming to me a case study in system failure. >> schieffer: but what to do about it? and what about the other story, reports the syrian government used chemical weapons on its open people. >> to use potential weapons of mass destruction on civilian populations crosses another line, and that is going to be a cha >> schieffer: does that mean greater u.s. involvement? we'll hear from three key senators on both stories. south republican lindsey graham. missouri democrat claire mccaskill. and georgia republican saxby chambliss. we'll get the latest from boston from cbs investigators john miller and bob orr, and analysis on all that and more from peggy noonan of the "wall street journal." harvard university's david gergen. cbs this morning cohost norah o'donnell. foreign correspondent clarissa ward, just back from sirpia. and political director john dickerson. plus the highlights will of last night's correspondents' dinner. it's all next on "face the nation." captioning sponso

and confirmed intelligence from the us points to the use of chemical weapons in syria and fuels war a trick in washington similar to that seen ahead of the invasion of iraq. to terror chief says hundreds of european volunteers that are fighting in syria could pose a serious security threat when they return from the radicalized front. international news and comments live for this is all see with me you and breaking news story this hour a devastating fire at a psychiatric hospital in the moscow region has killed at least thirty eight people leaving only three survivors the blaze reportedly erupted and a wing provided special treatment to patients and for more let's not cross life to tom barton who's at the scene of the tragedy right now how that tom delay to freeze bring us up to date. hi there yulia yes here in the village of around about two hours drive from moscow smoke is still rising from the burnt out shell of the psychiatric hospital from that fire that started early in the early hours of this morning thirteen bodies have now been recovered according to a police spokesman we just

now pointing to the use of chemical weapons in syria and fueling war rhetoric in washington similar to that scene the head of the invasion of iraq. and the chief says hundreds of european volunteers are now fighting in syria and could pose a serious security threat when they return from the radicalized front. a pleasure to have you with us from today. live in moscow with your global twenty four hour. let's get to our breaking news for you this hour here on the a devastating fire at a psychiatric hospital in the moscow region has killed at least thirty eight people leaving only three survivors and the blaze reportedly erupted in a wing providing special treatment to patients more on this let's cross live now to watch who is actually at the scene of the blaze that joining us now is tom good to see you can you can you tell us exactly what happened and bring us up to date what's going on there right now it looks very quiet behind you. hi there rory yes the choir after the storm i suppose here at the village of roman ski about sixty kilometers outside of moscow smoke is still gently rising

but you know his policies that he's followed with regard to syria are very. very nuanced they're very you know sometimes he's on the side of the rebels and sometimes he's you know helping the iraqi state militias stop the flow of rebels into syria from iraq i mean he's sort of all over the place what's clear is that the obama administration doesn't really want to get involved in syria because it would be such a mass market in which address the issue of chemical weapons. i mean is it real or is it just baiting to expand the war no i certainly don't think that this issue that was raised last week about chemical weapons is a way to bait. anyone into going to war in fact as john stated there's a great reluctance from both united states and its nato partners to get involved despite a real humanitarian imperative this is a mess and the challenge is to manage the chaos in a way that doesn't make the situation work and that's why i think we still see the vast majority of emphasis on coming up with some sort of diplomatic solution that removes assad from power so that

in syria have repeatedly shelled them. this deals with the resolve of the factions, including hezbollah, to step out of the conflict. fault lines between lebanon and sunni and shia muslims are being dangerously exposed. both sides are being drawn into the syrian more on a new, alarming level. mosques in lebanon, young men are being radicalized, calls from the sunni clerics 4g todd, holy war. a necessary response to the .ezbollah role fatwa. is a legitimate there are oppressed people in syria. women and children are being raped, killed, and expelled, so we should help them and be rewarded by god. >> the own future of the lebanese is threatened by the turmoil in syria. the longer it continues, the more nervous the army and the increasingly divided factions on this side of the border will get. bbc news, northern lebanon. >> president obama also said today that he wants to renew its efforts to close the guantanamo bay detention center near cuba. prisoners there are staging a massive hunger strike. he called on others to help f

to join rebel groups in syria. a serious threat on their return. with me thank you for joining us today a massive fire through a psychiatric hospital in the moscow reachin killing all but three people inside thirty eight bodies have been found off the rescue operations wrapped up at the blazing gulf the entire building and reportedly erupted in a wing providing special treatment to patients. reports from the. investigators are combing through the remains of that psychiatric hospital here in the village of lemmon ski about sixty kilometers away from moscow and they're trying to find what on earth actually had put it in the early hours morning when fire broke out in the building and swept through it killing thirty eight people the fire started around two am say locals in the village and it spread quickly lots of people not being able to make it out in time but when the emergency services arrived after an hour it was already too late to save those a side three did escape a nurse who stumbled through the smoke and grab someone on her way out one of the

all of the groups in syria. and also whatever we are doing, we are 100 percent international legitimacy, so we are moving within the boundaries of international law, and that is a very important rule for us. also, whatever we are doing we are doing it with our friends and our allies. i see, for example, organization of islam conference has already suspended the membership of syria, arab bic, now officially recognizes the opposition as the legitimate representative of syria for the arab league meetings, and also we are working with nato and working with our european partners, we are working with the u.s. administration. >> rose: for what objective? >> to make the change process in syria, to lead to a target where we see representative, popular democratic system in syria. >> rose: we would all like that but you have a situation in which 70,000 plus syrians have been killed, you know, and you have rebels who are pulling in some, who worry, people worry about what they are up to and who they are associated with and