UN Envoy: Syria conditions deteriorating

U.N.-Arab League Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said the situation in Syria is extremely bad and getting worse. But he said he hopes to find an opening for progress soon. "I refuse to believe that reasonable people do not see that you cannot go backward. That you cannot go back to the Syria of the past." he said. He spoke after briefing the Security Council about his first trip to Syria since taking the post on 1 September. After taking up his post three weeks ago, following Kofi Annan's resignation, Brahimi went to Damascus, Cairo, and to refugee camps in Turkey and Jordan. Brahimi also acknowledged the paralysis in the U.N. Security Council on Syria, where Russia and China have three times used their veto to block Council action, saying if he is not seen as representing a united Council he is "nothing." The United Nations says more than 260,000 Syrians have fled to neighboring countries during the 18 months of conflict. Listen to this report from regional correspondent Nathan Morley: