BANFIELD: Just into CNN, the United Nations is now pulling nonessential international personnel out of Syria, and it's suspended its mission there until further notice, as well. All of this coming amid heightened concerns over that country's chemical weapons. Our secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, in Prague today, issued this warning.</s>HILLARY CLINTON, SECRETARY OF STATE: We have made our views very clear. This is a red line for the United States. I'm not going to telegraph in any specifics what we would do in the event of credible evidence that the Assad regime has resorted to using chemical weapons against their own people, but sufficed to say, we are certainly planning to take action if that eventuality were to occur.</s>BANFIELD: In response to that warning, Syria's foreign ministry is denying plans to use chemical weapons. But intelligence officials say there are worrying signs that suggest otherwise. Israel's decision to move ahead on 3,000 new Jewish settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem is being roundly slammed in the West. Today, Britain called in the Israeli ambassador to protest. And there are reports that France and Sweden are doing the same thing. The E.U., the U.S., and the U.N. are all warning that expanding Israel's footprint in Palestinian territory will only put a two-state solution that much farther out of reach. It was just last Thursday, you'll recall, that the Palestinian Authority won a U.N. vote to be named a nonmember observer state. That, over furious Israeli and American objections. A tragic story developing in Japan this hour. Police say nine people have been killed after a huge concrete set of slabs began to fall from the roof of a highway tunnel as the vehicles were driving below. The government has ordered the immediate inspection of 49 tunnels similar to the one that collapsed yesterday. This all happened about 50 miles west of Tokyo. And a company that operates the tunnel says aging bolts and concrete slabs could be a potential cause of that accident. More than 450 people have been killed in Chicago, and that's just this year alone. Anti-violence programs are actually working in that city, but are they working or are they paperwork? CNN investigates.
U.S. Warns Syria on Chemical Weapons