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Continue to violate it. the ceasefire is holding. and that has allowed some in aleppo to come out into the streets as you see here today. the u.n. security council expected to vote on a russian-backed resolution backing the ceasefire. we have two expect rts to discu what will happen next. i military analyst and former u.s. attach shi in syria. michael wieft. so lieutenant, you first, you wrote on your blog that you outlined the steps being taken in the ceasefire and you say, i'm quoting now, it appears that once again president putin and foreign minister have outplayed american president obama...

Because they can say there is a jihadist especially rate in the northest and they can go after them like you and in iraq and fallujah. they will do that under the guys of counterterrorism. what is interesting to my mind, if you look at what the russians are saying about who is the opposition now. the very groups they had black listed as terrorists, the leader they took out in air strike. >> all right. michael, lieutenant, thank you so much, appreciate it, gentlemen. happy new year. it's hard to keep saying that after such heavy, heavy serious topics, i wish you the best in 2017. a look back at...

Fear. he will remain the ruler of syria, that will be the bottom line for the russians and iranians, the turks will acquiesce to that because they have other interests that the russians can help satisfy. there is hey change on the ground. the rebels are trying to bargain from a real weak point. this loss in aleppo was not only significant it really hurt them militarily and if you watch what is happening with the russian bombing and they'll pivot out of the south west and go avid lib and we're going to see the russians emerge again, dictating what happens. and bashar al assad will remain in pow...

A position to broker anything that is going on in syria until after january 20th. >> michael based on our previous conversation you are very much in agreement with that with russia being in the driver seat. putin may have orchestrated this to his liking but could that potentially change because of this on display kind of romance between he and trump and perhaps he would invite him to the table, would it be like that? >> i don't think so. not only has trump a additioned to be the prom date and he has agreed with him how to handle the middle east. but putin's great skill as a tack tigs is to mak...