joining me now, senior international correspondent ivan watson. you ve reported extensively right around syria. just as this was happening around the capital city of damascus. we ll get to the video. which is tough to listen to. the cries, in just a moment. you don t need to speak that language to understand the grief. we know there s a u.n. team of inspectors in syria trying to figure out, investigate whether or not that was chemical weapons that were used. do we have any use from them? so far, no, they re not really talking to journalists as far as we know. this is not the first time that there have been allegations of chemical weapons use on the syrian battlefield. in fact, the syrian government, the rebels, the u.s. government and russia, which supports the syrian regime, all agree that some chemical weapons have been used over the course of this horrific two-year war on the syrian battlefield. what they don t agree on is who has used them. the government, of course, accuses th
mustard gas syria has as its disposal as well. it can cause painful blistering of the skin and the lungs. bill: we were told yesterday there were multiple injuries from this attack. it is difficult to ascertain images of those who might be directly tied to this but we re waiting on some more of that evidence to confirm what mike rogers and senator feinstein are talking about now. here is the area. the town of aleppo is near the area where the attack allegedly took place. aleppo is the largest city in syria. population of two million. has a long border problem with turkey. it has a refugee issue for two years since the civil war broke out. a long border with iraq. we mentioned a shared border with israel, that stretches with the golan heights in a little area in the southwest. the president is meeting today with benjamin netanyahu and the capital city of damascus is located here. the entire region has been in focus including the country of jordan.
mustard gas and nerve agents. they have 600 warheads capable of delivering those chemical agents. syria has an estimated 50 sites associated with their chemical weapons program. this is obviously big news. as the president said in the past this could change the calculus of this situation, bill. bill: martha, this is a war that has gone on for two years. this is the region we re looking at. turkey up to the north and west, israel to the south and jordan. you have the long shared border with the country of iraq to syria s east. capital city of damascus. what we believe to be the story of the moment, well north of damascus, fleer the town of a help bow aleppo. that is the largest town in northern syria. more than two million people call aleppo home. it was in this region the incident took place. a couple of interesting details. syria never signed a conventional weapons agreement. only one of eight nation that has not signed that
kind tough to see what is going on but you get the picture. activists say the syrian military triggered the airstrike scene if this video. fox cannot confirm this. the united nations human rights center estimates at least 60,000 people have died in the syrian civil war. much of the fighting if recent months unfolding in and around the capital city of damascus. that is not far from the golan heights region. leland? reporter: some of the israeli outposts we were in today you could hear the fighting raging on in the villages with a couple of hundred yards away. right ne syria are deteriorating. the israelis who have enjoyed quiet on the northern border now need more than barbed wire. al qaeda sympathizers account
advance the cause of peace. listen. we are here to reinstate the two state solution and this we will do tomorrow afternoon. and that vote will take place around 3:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow afternoon on what the u.n. named several years ago international palestinian solidarity day. shep. shepard: jonathan hunt at the united nations death comes all too frequently now in syria. today it was twin bombings in the capital city of damascus. people ran after the first explosion and that s when the killers detonated a second bomb. nearly 50 people died. there is no word on who is behind the attack. it is but the latest in the bloody battle between syria s government and its rebels. rebel fighters claim to have shot down two government aircraft within the past 24 hours.