can imagine, seen officials have been all over this, one official describing it as a "massacre," against the freedom of press. u.n. office here also had to say about this situation, clearly angry. >> they to want freedom and democracy and they destroy the other opinion. that is democracy? >>reporter: what struck us as we moved around the suburbs, today, the huge presence of security checkpoints, soldiers absolutely a response to what we have been seeing and what we have been hearing the last couple of days, and escalation of attacks, of clashes, very close to this capital of damascus. one more note, shep, released today, a u.n. report looking into the hula massacre where more than 100 men, women, and children were killed in a town here in syria back in may while they could not say definitive,