[00:40.46]All stockpiles are to be removed or destroyed by mid 2014.
[00:45.19]And there will be a new UN resolution to enforce all these although the two sides differ about what that could mean in practice.
[00:52.99]President Obama has welcomed the deal agreed in Geneva, but has warned that if diplomacy fails, the United States remains prepared to act.
[01:01.32]In a statement, he said the threat of US military force that help create the opportunity to end the Syrian chemical weapons threat through diplomacy.
[01:09.56]The commander, one of the Syria's main rebel armies,
[01:14.80]General Salim Idriss of the Free Syrian Army has said the deal would not resolve the crisis and would allow President Assad to escape being held accountable for the death of hundreds of civilians.
[01:22.94]The BBC's Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen is in the Syrian capital Damascus.
[01:27.89]The Free Syria Army, the loose coalition of armed rebels that has been hoping for Western help to fight the Assad regime, has rejected the agreement.
[01:36.71]Less than a week ago, the FSA believed that the Americans were about to launch a military attack, which it hoped would tip the balance of the war its way.
[01:46.09]Now, the FSA believes that the Americans have been sidetracked.
[01:49.94]Whether or not chemical weapons are destroyed is not the point.
[01:53.29]The FSA wants the Americans to destroy the regime's military power and the US agreement with Russia means the chances of that happening are receding.