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Than to -- >> terrorize. >> terrorize, and actually for vladimir putin in the long run, put himself in a position, in a hole he can never climb out of in the international community ever, ever. he thinks this is grozny and aleppo. it actually, you know what, its moving in that direction but the whole worlds eyes are on this in a way they werent on aleppo for whatever reason. >> i dont think he has a strategy for victory. from the beginning hes lacked an end game. hes digging himself deeper into ...

I want to send message to the world that there are a lot of family, a lot of children in syria have this. i want to look for this story as a fact, as a truth, what happened in syria, what happened to these people, to come here, to europe. >> reporter: despite the daily shelling and gun battles, the family refused to leave for years until the father, a rebel commander with the free syrian army, was captured by isis. the film shows the children offering tearful good-byes as they leave the destroye...

It is tie ying with titanic. one short document up for an oscar following the story of a syrian family fleeing their country, fleeing the war. >> the mother purchased tickets for herself and children to travel to los angeles to tell the world about the war. she worried that the confusion could force her to watch the awards ceremony from home. atika shubert has the story for us. >> reporter: it is not the gun battles or violence that draws you into the film, it is the quiet rhythms of life in t...

Atika shubert has the story. >> reporter: it is not the gun battles or violence that draws you into the film. it is the quiet rhythms of life in the midst of war. this woman and her family lived on aleppos front line. before them, the relentless snipers of the syrian regime and behind them, the death squads of isis. her journey from aleppo to turkey to germany was captured in the documentary now up for an oscar. hala had tickets and a u.s. visa. when she heard that syrians would be banned from e...

Rebel commander with the free syrian army, was captured by isis. >> reporter: the film shows the children offering tearful good-byes as they leave the destroyed streets of aleppo and how they keep their resolves in tented camps at the turkish border. the youngest, sarah, still running in fear from planes. the camera follows them to the cobblestone streets of germany where the family lives now. the children have quickly made friends in their new home. hala cried when the oscar nominations were an...

Dalder and at the american enterprise institute, danielle plat. thank you both. mr. ambassador, i start with you. i want to start with the repeated comments that president trump has made about vladimir putin and the concerns our allies may have about the fact that he doesnt seem to be backing down on that. >> well, i think there are growing concerns among our european allies in particular about the direction of mr. trumps policy towards russia. in two ways in particular. one, there doesnt seem t...

Washington -- or in new york. i want to talk about this report that is written suggesting no grand bargain with russia that basically president bush, president obama tried to reset relations with moscow and the suggestion that is simply not possible. >> look. every single president has come into office saying he is going to have a new relationship with russia. barack obama had the reset. george w. bush saw into putins eyes. its really not a huge surprise. as a policy matter to see that donald tr...

>> is vladimir putin a war criminal? >> i would not use that term. >> well, let me describe a situation in aleppo and perhaps that will help you reach that conclusion. >> i understand there is a body of record in the public domain. im sure theres a body of record in the classified domain and i think in order to deal with a serious question like this -- >> mr. tillerson, the attack on aleppo is if the public domain. its never acceptable you would agree for a military to specifically target civili...

Label out there that hurt the chances of doing that. thats why i think its important. but heres the last reason. you gave the need for a lot more information in order to comment on some of these. and believe me, i understand that. its a big world, theres a lot of topics. these were not obscure areas. i can tell you, number one the questions i asked did not require special information we have. all these sources were built on voluminous open source reporting, rights groups, the leaders sometimes t...