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People in eastern syria on sunday. the russian minister of defense did say its bombers were targeting isis militants in the area but among the 53 dead also 21 children. now sandra as i said the talks are set to resume this week but it doesnt look like much will come out of it. essentially the assad regime is unwilling to consider any type of talks that would remove bashar al-assad from power, while the opposition groups fading in terms of their ability to do much negotiation because they are los...

Met with the saudis. but now apparently theres an effort under way to get another country involved in these talks to try to resolve whats going on in syria namely iran. iran has a lot of influence in syria as well. the question is is the u.s. now going to bring iran into these negotiations to deal with the future of syria? iran a major supporter of bashar al assad like the russians are. and will the saudis for example who have their own animosity with the iranians go along with this? this is a v...

Know, handing over these weapons and we have to pursue it to the end. so it basically means, according to the critics, there is no more get rid of assad. assad step down. thats gone according to critics. >> vladimir putin is achieving two main objectives here. his main objectives were he wants to keep assad in power. well this ratifies assads status because we have to deal with him. he has to let inspectors in. the second thing is these chemical weapons would not possibly fall in the hands of mi...

Organization. there are any number of bad actors now involved in what is happening in syria. one of the reasons the u.s. does not want to get militarily involved we dont know who we will be involved with. >> kelly: the rebels that you are talking about. we dont know who those characters are. at the same time we know that the president of the united states and western allies, they want to see assad step down. how do you go about bringing down assad without some military intervention? >> this is t...

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the regime. human rights activists say at least 2,000 people have been killed in the regimes brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters over the past several months. as the crackdown has played out, the administration has gone from urging assad to stop the violence and implement reforms himself to of late saying the dictator has lost legitimacy, but until now the administration has stopped short from demanding he yield power. heres how the u.s. ambassador to the united nations desc...

Government, president erdogan making secrets over many, many years that they would like to see assad step down, they want no-fly zones, safe areas, it is a belief that this strike this change any of that, get them more of what they want? >> reporter: initially the reaction of turkish leaders was quite positive to the strike, but they or they said they are hoping this isnt a one-off thing. this it is the beginning of a broader attempt to change the regime in damascus, but i think the more they se...

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