A “big price to pay”. That is the warning from the US president Donald Trump to Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and his backers Iran and Russia.
It was made in response to a suspected chemical weapons attack in eastern Ghouta near Damascus on Saturday. At least 85 people were killed.
UN investigators have documented at least 33 alleged chemical weapons attacks in Syria since 2011. They say 27 of them were carried out by government forces.
The worst was in Eastern Ghouta in August 2013 – a sarin gas attack that killed at least 1,000 people.
But with Trump sending mixed signals on US troops in Syria, what more can he do to stop such attacks?
Presenter: Darren Jordon
Guests:
Robert Ford – Former U.S. Ambassador to Syria.
Haid Haid – Syria Consulting Research Fellow at Chatham House.
Alexey Khlebnikov – Middle East Expert at the Russian International Affairs Council.
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We need to find out for sure who and what. They could be setting us up.
Russia is saying NO chemical attack occurred. The only country to benefit from further assaults would be the US who are looking for WAR and are failing at their attempts. From whom did you get these pictures?, is this just another compilation of old video's that are being shown? We want the truth, if your reporters were not there then your report is useless.
More like Israel Launches chemical weapons USA doesn't get involved so Israel launches a Bigger Chemical Bomb and the US doesn't get involved. The question is; what should Israel do to draw the US in to murder the enemy of the Jew? We need some real DUMB GOYS! Trump is pretty dumb…
Death to Assad
Rebel terrorists are cowards and will poison their own children for international assistance. Those who offer help are complicit also.
if you look at who benefits it is stupid for asad where as is is just what the doctor ordered for the factions in the cia that want war and 20 tons of chlorine gas was just shipped in to us bases and has now disappeared. i am not saying the cia did this i amjust saying look who benefits.
You can't fool us.
Who really cares?!!
I do not know how that is, but my expectations are that there is another series of American dictatorships in the world
Iraq was previously destroyed by alleged weapons of mass destruction
I expect this series will be repeated in Syria and later in Lebanon
The most important is to make false news to protect Israel and make it grow in the region and need to destroy the enemies of Israel in full
The reason for the accusation of Iraq earlier is: Saddam Hussein fired rockets into Israel and then Israel and America carried out a series of mass destruction of Iraq
The criminals in Syria are the regime and the armed opposition, which has not studied the situation before and less losses to overthrow the regime in Syria
But the armed opposition received weapons from abroad without knowing what Bashar has. Therefore, all those who carry arms in Syria are criminals with distinction and all of them must be tried.
Because the targets are innocent civilians
Russia already warned us months ago that USA is preparing for possible fake chemical attack n looks it happens apparently when USA is about to pull off their troops from Syria? Lol if ur smart u will know what they r doing