"When we've heard him on the phone or he turns up on the doorstep, then we'll be very happy," he said. Syria's representative to the UN, Faysal Khabbaz Hamoui, stormed out of the session, accusing countries of "inciting sectarianism and providing arms". "The task of the council is to express the disgust of the entire world at the odious crimes that the Syrian state is committing against its people," he said. As day broke on Tuesday, four people were killed across Syria, opposition activists said. The Local Co-ordination Committees (LCC), an activists' group which organises and documents protests, said a total of 125 people had died across Syria, many of them in a single incident at a checkpoint in Homs - although there has been no independent verification of this. As many as 125 people died across Syria on Monday, many of them in a single incident at a checkpoint in Homs, the activists' network the LCC said. The deaths came on a day when Syrian officials announced that the nation's new draft constitution received approval and the European Union imposed new sanctions on the country amid ongoing clashes. Broken leg 
 
 Reports on Monday evening said the Syrian Red Crescent had managed to regain access to Baba Amr but officials later confirmed they had left without the journalists. Fresh attempts to evacuate two wounded Western journalists from Homs in Syria have failed, the Red Cross says. Three Syrians, including a pregnant Syrian woman, her husband, and an elderly female patient, were moved to safety. From several accounts, the four journalists - Paul Conroy, Edith Bouvier, William Daniels and Javier Espinosa - came under shellfire as they were trying to escape, and the group got broken up. Ms Bouvier suffered a broken leg and Mr Conroy was hit by shrapnel in the leg and stomach in an attack last Wednesday that claimed the lives of American Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik. CNN and other media outlets cannot independently verify opposition or government reports because Syria has severely limited access to the country by foreign journalists. They include: 
 
 a freeze on the European-held assets of the Syrian central bank 
 
 travel bans on seven close associates of President Bashar al-Assad 
 
 a ban on cargo flights from Syria into the EU 
 
 restrictions on the trade in gold and precious metals 
 
 UK Foreign Secretary William Hague welcomed the fresh sanctions. Binnish has been under the control of the Free Syrian Army and the Syrian Liberation Army for the past week. The opposition network estimates that 9,000 people have been killed since the government launched its crackdown in March. The Syrian government says that more than 2,000 members of its security forces have been killed by "terrorists" during that same period. Asked Monday whether Syria would be referred to the International Criminal Court, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said, "I hope the international community reflects on the conditions of referral. "Communications with Homs are very difficult."
– At least 144 people were killed yesterday in the latest Syrian violence, including some 64 slaughtered in a "horrifying massacre" at a single checkpoint in Homs province, according to witnesses. But the government has no plans to end its attacks on citizens. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem vowed to "defend" his country. "We are not happy to see brothers killing each other," he said. "This is our country. But we will defend our sovereignty and independence," he told reporters. The scores killed at the checkpoint were attempting to flee shelling in the city of Homs. Security forces and thugs kidnapped the women among them, and killed the men, sources told CNN. They were either shot or stabbed to death. The killings occurred as Syrian officials announced that the nation's new draft constitution was overwhelmingly approved by voters, and the European Union imposed new sanctions. US officials dismiss the constitution vote "as absolutely cynical," said State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland. What Basahr al-Assad has done "is put a piece of paper that he controls to a vote that he controls so that he can try and maintain control." In other Syrian news, the BBC earlier reported that French reporter Edith Bouvier refused to board a Red Cross vehicle that managed to enter besieged Baba Amr, and UK photographer Paul Conroy stayed behind in solidarity. But the BBC now reports that Conroy has indeed been smuggled out of the country; Bouvier's whereabouts are unknown.