for syrians, biden's comments are welcomed but seven years too late, considering they have been committing war crimes there in collaboration with bashar al sa assad's regime since 2018. perhaps if the world had held accountable then, he wouldn't be committing war crimes in ukraine now. too late you say, josh? >> reporter: that's right. that's not my opinion. it is the opinion of millions of syrians suffering under russian war crimes that were committed in aleppo, east guta, chemical weapons and starvation as a weapon of war, cluster munitions and other banned weapons to indiscriminately kill kel syrians. he figured out if he kills people for long enough, the international community will move on. syria is the place where