aiment to moscow with the of persuading the russians to drop their support for asher al-assad and that's not what happened today. there has been no ground given whatsoever on the future of assad and there was no mention until the very end. there's a big divide between the two countries, russia backed assad in syria for a long time now with lots of money and dozens of soldiers have been killed in the country. russia's influence in syria is largely dependent on assad or someone who could replace him and is willing to pursue or allow russia to pursue its interest in syria. there is no figure on the board currently like that that we are aware of. the uss basically either you're with us or against us. either you're with the western states in syria are you will stand beside the syrian regime and ran. very little concrete on the , both of bashar al-assad sides sticking to their guns and sticking to the strong rhetoric they had before the meeting. laura: there was a heated exchange at the you -- un security council today which had been debating a new resolution on syria. a new text was put forwa