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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 doesn't 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 losing ground all over syria are still insisting that assad step down. that is something that russia, ...

Met with the saudis. but now apparently there's an effort under way to get another country involved in these talks to try to resolve what's 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 very, very delicate issue right now. very sensitive issue. will iran be involved. we'll talk about ...

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. that's 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 assad's 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 militants who might use them in chechnya and russia. this gets the chemical weapons either out of sy...

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 don't know who we will be involved with. >> kelly: the rebels that you are talking about. we don't 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 the thing that everybody is trying to avoid, the idea in the final analysis the west must somehow i...

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