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Syria attack: Were chemical weapons used?

An emergency UN Security Council meeting will discuss a suspected chemical attack

The UN Security Council will meet in an emergency session today to discuss a suspected chemical attack on a rebel-held town in Syria.

Dr Abdulhai Tennari, from the Syrian American Medical Society in Sarmin, says they need more antidote to help the people from Idlib province.

Colonel Hamish聽De聽Bretton聽Gordon, former commanding officer for the UK's Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Regiment, says that Russia is being "fanciful" and are "trying to protect their allies axiomatically".

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told our chief international correspondent, Lyse Doucet, that all the evidence he has seen "suggests that this was the Assad regime, who did it in the full knowledge that they were using illegal weapons in a barbaric attack on their own people鈥.

Dr Anne-Marie Slaughter, former head of policy at the US State Department under Obama and Clinton, tells John that the international community needs to make it clear there are limits and be prepared to take action against Syria.

(Image: President Bashar al-Assad, credit: Getty Images)

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