Major General Robert Mood - Former Head of UN Supervision Mission in Syria

What could and should the outside world be doing as Syria sinks ever deeper into civil war? Has inertia and division within the international community condemned Syria to a slow and agonising collapse? Hardtalk speaks to Norwegian general Robert Mood, who led the ill-fated UN supervision mission in Syria last year. What went wrong then, and do the Syrian people deserve better from the world's major powers now?

(Image: Major General Robert Mood in a crowd in Syria, Credit: AFP/Getty Images)