The battle for Syria: special report

United Nations monitors enter the village in Syria where a massacre was reported, hours after the organisation’s chief warns that civil war is an “imminent and real” danger.

A new plan for addressing violence in Syria is to be considered by the UN on the day its monitors in Syria were shot at while trying to reach the site of the latest “massacre” near Hama.

At least 80 Syrian soldiers have been killed by rebels over the weekend, according to an activist group. The violence comes as Alex Thomson visits the villages blamed for the Houla massacre.

Syria’s President Assad condemns last Sunday’s massacre in Houla, describing it as an ‘abominable act, but offers no specific response to international envoy Kofi Annan’s call to end the conflict.

Which world capital is most likely to provide a breakthrough in the global response to the violence in Syria? Some would say Moscow, but I am plumping for Ankara.

Syrian forces who stand accused of committing a massacre in Houla could be prosecuted for crimes against humanity, according to the UN high commissioner for human rights.

With the systematic slaughter of dozens of non-combatants, the evidence on the ground in the Syrian town of Houla is of a war crime. But Syria’s government is saying it had no hand in the massacre.

Channel 4 News challenges the Syrian ambassador before the UN Human Rights Council’s special session probing the Houla massacre after 13 more bodies are discovered.

A Channel 4 News film about the horror in Homs and Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields documentary are recognised at the Amnesty International Media Awards.

Britain and several other countries are expelling Syrian diplomats following the killing of 108 people, half of them children, in Houla.

Bashar and Asma al-Assad, Syria’s one-time golden couple, beguiled the West, then betrayed their own people. In the aftermath of the Houla massacre, Channel 4 News’s Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller considers evidence of President Assad’s personal responsibility for crimes against humanity.

Forty people are killed in Syria as international mediator Kofi Annan arrives in Damascus following the deaths of more than 100, many of them children, in Houla.