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BBC News with Jerry Smit. The United Nations has formally requested the Syrian government to allow a UN team of weapons inspectors in Syria to investigate Wednesdays alleged chemical attack in the suburb of Damascus. The UN chief, Ban Ki-moon said that hed expected a positive response without delay. From New York here Nick Bryant. The UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon has called on the Syrian authorities to allow that UN weapons inspections team that arrived on Sunday to go to the site without delay. There is a problem, attack is, that indeed, is a couple of problems first, there is a safety concern that the US acknowledge its not safe to go there at the moment. And under the conditions of the UN weapons inspections team was allowed into the country, they are only allowed to visit three sites and that doesnt include other sites of this alleged atrocity. Theres possibly another complication as well, they are only allowed to stay there for 14 days, so the clock is already ticking. Turkey and France have been leading international condemnation over the attack. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has described it as a crime against humanity, saying all options are on the table in response. His French counterpart Laurent Fabius has said that the international community should react with force if the allegations are verified. The former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak has been released after more than two years in detention although he remains under house arrest. Mr. Mubarak still faces a retrial on charges of complicity in the killing of protesters during the uprising that forced him from power two years ago. Heres Bethany Bell. The state television showed a helicopter rising up carrying Mr. Mubarak to military hospital in the Cairo district of Maadi and then he was taken on a stretcher from the helicopter into the hospital. Now what had happened was, as we understand, that the prosecution had given the green light saying that they had no more reason to be able to