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Descended into this civil war with an outside player intervening on a geopolitical level and nation states and russia and chine and iran. the u.s. and europe and the saudis on the other. on the ground at the same time you have seen increasingly extreme groups joining the opposition forces. extremists said today were behaving in the most blood curdling way and imprisoning children of 8 years old and executing people. the report said that's what's going on on the opposition side and at the same time they reported by the un. they said that president assad's

More wounded from these attacks. nbc's kier simmons joins me by phone from damascus. we know there's been fighting and brutality on both sides of this civil war, but the barrel bombs and the air power of the regime give it exponentially more power. what's happened to aleppo is just an unremitting tragedy. >> it really is, andrea. and it has been at the same time a major shift in this war, frankly. because western nations are reported to have indicated to syrian opposition groups that peace talks next year may not lead to the removal of president assad from power. as i say, that is a major shif...

Up. exactly right today they took a break from the chemical talks to go over and meet with brahimi on long stalled political talks. they were supposed to be in geneva months ago. we keep getting delays partly because of some confusion among opposition forces as to who would represent opposition. partly some mishandling by u.s. and other diplomats. what is your take on who now really could sit down at the table and whether the assad regime is or will ever be prepared to negotiate as long as the u.s. and russia say regime change is not a precondition. >> well, i think the assad regime understand...

Extradition of snowden. putin believes there would be no grounds for it because there was no crime committed in his country that would require him to extradite snowden. it continues to be an extremely tense situation between president putin and president obama as they have failed to see eye to eye on the whole suggestion that putin has put forward. he believes the chemical weapons use came from the opposition side, the rebel side. we spoke to one of the restivesf the representatives of that rebel side. he claims they would never do such a thing to provoke international interest in this case. t...

You an example i thought was really interesting. we went to the government-controlled areas where the military said that they had been pit by gas. every soldier on the ground, the first thing they said, this was sarin gas, we could smell it. i wanted to tell them sarin gas doesn't have a smell. but the first thing that you hear also when you talk to people on the opposition side, we've been hit by sarin gas. so all of a sudden everybody knows everything about the chemical attack that happened. they know exactly which gas was used but it's thing they're getting fed from other people. they obvio...