'West wants to pour gasoline on Syria flame, not water' (VIDEO)

UN investigators are accusing both the Syrian government and the opposition of committing war crimes, including killings and torture, in the country's civil war.

The panel is also warning against foreign weapons supplies, in what it called an increasingly radicalised conflict.

That, as Britain fights to lift an EU arms embargo, so that weapons can be funneled to the rebels.

RT talks to Neil Clark, a journalist and contributor to Britain's Guardian newspaper, who's been closely following the Syrian standoff.