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Fighting in Syria as UN monitors go to work

2012-06-06 4 Dailymotion

After months of diplomatic wrangling, the first group of UN-backed peace monitors have arrived in Syria.

They are tasked with assessing a UN mandated ceasefire.

But, five days after it was supposed to be implemented, that truce appears to be unravelling.

Al Jazeera's Steve Chao reports.