understand why he would do that if he did. congressman basically said he didn t believe assad would do this. what do you say to that? i was awe struck when i heard somebody say this. literally took the talking points out of putin s most and regime s mous and recited them to an american audience despite the fact the american intelligence said it is not the ra jeem and not russia. that made me sick. it is obvious that the isis did not steel these chemical weapons and steel an aircraft and drop it. neither did the rebels. this is assad. he has a history of doing this. he has no compassion for his people. that s why he drops on schools and hospitals and i hope you recants that statement because it s very obvious he was behind this. congressman, always a pressure. thank you so much. you bet, take care. thank you. let s talk more about the implications though where we
his rhetoric. his actions says he is not that interested in getting going after isis. he twoonts deny any credible to the regime of bashar al assad or isis. it is those two choices. we are watching these tensions between turkey and russia. turkey is already on board. can that region take one more conflict? well, syria has ceased to be very sorry to say, a popular protest movement against a dick ta tore yara jeem i don t know what the main event is any longer. this recent confrontation between turkey and russia is very long in the making. putin and erdogan have a lot in common, both megalow manical. they have suppressed any kind of media to conduct any policy they like with impunity. turkey has been picking a fight with russia for a while. turkish fighter jets a few years
boero died riding along the atlantic coast about 300 miles south of buenos aires. 2012 is off to an ugly start in syria. government activists say ten were killed. the arrive of arab league monitors has done nothing to end the violence and now critics within the arab league say the monitors should leave. mohamed jamjoom is keeping a close eye. reporter: the flash point city, there are reports that people gathered there new year s eve into the new year for an anti-government demonstration chanting slogans saying they wished for a new year free of the bashar assad ra jeem and there were cakes that were baked on display wishing syria a new
government. human rights groups agree. they say more than 400 people have been either jailed or gone missing. they went to bahrain to work on a piece of internet bloggers or activists. most who agreed earlier to talk have disappeared. the cnn team was also detained by security forces. we do have a warning some of the viewers may find images in this next segment distressing. amber, thank you very much for being with us. first of all, let s talk about this. the bahraini government says this national security, this new law they put in effect, this emergency law it s there for the security state, they re saying. but many are saying it s more akin to a police state and i guess human rights groups would agree to that. reporter: yeah, human rights groups say that bahrain is ara jeem and saying that security forces have been busting into the homes of the opposition and