Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Video: US closes embassy in Syria amid unrest

The United States has closed its embassy in Syria amid violent unrest, and international pressure is mounting on Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad to stop his bloody crackdown on a popular uprising in the country. NBC?s Ayman Mohyeldin reports.

>> mounting on bashar al asad to stop the bloody crack down in syria. ayman mohyeldin has the latest. good morning.

>> reporter: good morning, natalie. in the face of that united nations veto by russia and china human rights organizations are saying that the asad regime carried out a license to kill . that's explaining the sharp increase in violence. mo mortars raining down on homs. in the street, recovering dead bodies has become too dangerous who says government snipers shoot to kill anyone who dares step out. no place is safe. not even this makeshift clinic where people seek refuge and where doctors struggle to treat the injured. it, too, was hit.

>> all we want is help. we don't care if an army comes in. we don't care if -- bombards syria.

>> reporter: military help won't happen now says president obama , in an interview with matt.

>> it's important to resolve this without recourse to outside military intervention.

>> reporter: a u.n. security council resolution calling on a transition to a democratic government was vetoed by china and russia drawing international condemnation. in damascus crowds lined the streets to welcome solutions to ending the crisis. eyewitnesses report that syrian tanks and soldiers are moving to other cities, raising fears that similar attacks in other parts of the country could be imminent. in the wake of the diplomatic failure at the u.n. countries like turkey and other gulf arab states say they will try to solve the conflict in a peaceful

Source: http://video.today.msnbc.msn.com/today/46293056/

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