The battle for Syria: special report

As outrage grows over the Houla massacre, Channel 4 News Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller considers evidence of President Assad’s personal responsibility for crimes against humanity.

The UN Security Council meets to discuss the massacre of more than 100 men, women and children in Houla as international condemnation grows.

More than 100 people including 13 children, die after Syrian forces attack the town of Houla in Homs province on Friday, according to Syrian anti-government activists.

Up to 70 people are feared to have been killed in a deadly shell attack on houses in the central Syrian city of Hama amid a visit by UN observers.

The Kofi Annan-brokered ceasefire in Syria will fail because of irreconcilable ambitions within the country, regionally and internationally, Middle East and security experts tell Channel 4 News.

Amid signs that Syrian attacks on the opposition have intensified in the last 24 hours, the United Nations struggles to implement a peace plan calling for an end to the violence.

There are fears the journalist, who ran the Homs media centre and helped photographer Paul Conroy escape the city, has been subject to torture and mistreatment after being seized by the authorities.

The assault on Homs by Syrian government forces has spawned a wave of video journalism by amateur filmmakers, determined to bear witness to what is happening – even if it means embellishing events.

British officials are investigating whether there is a case for legal action against a Harley Street doctor over his links to his son-in-law, President Assad of Syria.

Amnesty International reveals fresh evidence of widespread human rights abuses of civilians by government forces in Syria. The report comes ahead of talks between David Cameron and Barack Obama.

As thousands of Syrians flee the deadly violence tearing apart their country, a Save the Children’s worker writes for Channel 4 News from the border of Lebanon and Syria.

As deputy oil minister Abdo Hussameldin defects from President Assad’s government, Britain’s ambassador to Syria tells Channel 4 News the minister’s defection won’t be the last.

The United Nations’ High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, tells Channel 4 News that “horrible acts of torture” are taking place in hospitals in the cities of Homs, Deraa and Hama.