we support a serious approach we still believe that it is important not to take any steps that may harm the already fragile situation in syria we are also still convinced that the excuse regarding the use of chemical weapons in duma is made up and cannot be used as an argument for military action russia has moved fast to establish itself in duma this amateur video purportedly shows russian police investigating near the site of the alleged chemical attack moscow says it and the regime already to allow a probe but only one which shouldn t assign blame. carthon unto us monitoring the story from beirut and joins me from there until russia fears the town of duma is fully in the hands of the syrian government and the russian military police are ensuring law and order is maintained there what are you hearing from the ground. but what i m hearing from the ground from people who are still in dumas that
white house is now saying that all options remain on the table suggest that trump was on twitter promising military action before anything had actually been decided now it s unclear not only what his long term plan is for syria but even in the short term what he really sees as a solution in the region if you remember it was just earlier this month that he was saying he would like to withdraw all two thousand u.s. troops who are in syria that was against the advice of his military advisers who are wary of another situation like afghanistan or iraq who want to stay there and make sure that the islamic state can knock out another foothold in the region before backing out but this directly contradicts what he was saying earlier this month and so it s unclear from his words alone and from what the white house is saying what kind of action we re going to see. you were mentioning there that moscow s dialing back the rhetoric how might russia though respond to any possible american military ac
site of the alleged chemical attack moscow says it and the regime are ready to allow a probe but only one which shouldn t assign blame. our correspondents claire richardson standing by in washington and in moscow our bureau chief good morning to both of you. if we could start with you russia is saying the alleged chemical attack is a fake and cannot be used as a reason for any kind of attack and it s also on the well russia has been constantly denying any chemical attack took place moscow has invited investigators from the organization for that prohibit of chemical weapons to probe the scene where that attack allegedly took place in syria over the last week and to moscow also had to send its own investigators who found it bolted leonor that ends for any use of chemical weapons since yesterday russian military police military police is acting on the ground in the syrian city of what we just