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00:00Let's start by talking about those clashes that we saw leading up to the weekend and
00:05during the weekend, clashes between gunmen and security forces.
00:09What's your understanding as to what caused this flare up in violence?
00:13Well, Tom, it looks like there was elements of the former Assad regime's security forces
00:21that attacked the interim government, if you will, forces and caused this to start.
00:27It didn't end with that.
00:29It appears by most reports that it resulted in over 1,300 deaths, many of which, if not
00:37most of which, were civilians.
00:39There's a lot of very graphic, disturbing videos that have been posted to social media.
00:44It's really, of course, gotten not only the country and the region, but the world concerned
00:49about just what direction Syria is going.
00:51It's already started a refugee flow again, leaving Syria, going into Lebanon, for example.
00:58It's something that it's going to be looked at very closely in the UN and potentially
01:03in these regional meetings that are discussing the matter.