iran and russia have secured the assad regime in western syria. if the assad regime elects at some point to fight isis in nd russiarely iran a can be prime candidates to bear that burden. now, look, in world war ii, the united states did, indeed, collaborate with a mass murderer to defeat hitler, but no one questioned the sacrifice of the soviet peoples infighting and defeating the greater threat posed by not see germany -- by nazi germany. if bashar al-assad decides at some point to confront isis, i think we can bet on one thing -- he will seek a free ride. already, the casualties his forces have suffered in this conflict in syria have caused a great deal of resentment in certain parts of the country. if either by commission or we cause the nationalist opposition to lose militarily, in my view, we will still have no dog in the hunt in confrontation. my sense is that both sides, the regime and isis, well for their own reasons try to avoid an all-out showdown. consolidatent to ance ofbaric govern syrian-populated areas under its control, and iran,

some of them say, yes, it benefits assad. first, it validates the narrative that assad had broadcasted ever since 2011. there is an "i told you so" factor. you know, if only you had listened to us, we could have avoided that. assad welcomes the focus on counterterrorism. this is a language that he masters. he's done so during the iraq war. you know, he thinks he and his intelligence services can do a pretty good job at it. there's an expectation that they will be tactical corporation with some rebel groups that are under pressure from isi sirs. you start by active cooperation then you go to famous truces and cease-fires we've seen left and right. i'm not sure if it's a sustainable strategy or it will happen. and the debate in the west over what to do about isis is a source of delight for a number of assad associates. today there was another op-ed "new york times" arguing for western cooperation -- direct cooperation against assad. this is good for regime morale. others argue it's not good news for assad. that actually assad h

the second is, it doesn't it imply that assad is more attractive? you have assad. i would ask you to be precise about that. difficulties these local units present to assad, they do not switch sides. this is not like somalia. there is one plan here and there. -- clan here and there. who is the enemy? they are not jumping sides in a fragmented way. there is a coherence, to the extent that it is sectarian. i would ask you to respond to that. the policytart with implications of your question. as someone who is advocating arming since 2012 of the rebels, today, arming comes at a higher cost and higher risk. thanmes with lower returns it would have had two years ago. i understand the elements that policy makers are facing. at the same time, these are the policymakers who turned down the opportunity because of faulty assessment or because of a total reluctance to take the fight seriously. i have many bad things to say about u.s. policy in the last couple of years. here is the one word, bankrupt. i understand the current dilemma. the current dilemma should not excuse the p

that being said, there are challenges ahead for assad. the first set of challenges is the following -- a necessary condition for the survival of the assad regime was its transformation from state into a collection of militias. assad could not have militarily countered the rebels by just operating as a conventional military, deploying, fighting conventionally against all these rebel forces. loyal,to build a more but also less costly unit to support the fight. he encouraged the development of that areased militias loyal to the regime. but have their own behavior, their own set of interest. they start differentiating themselves from the regime over time. some of them are more radical. some of them are less radical. there is a clash of interest with regime forces. organizationash of between those various elements. over time, i suspect this will erode the coherence and sense of purpose of the groups aligned with assad. but this is not the short-term problem for us odd. that is manageable in the long-term. i am going to give you a couple of exa

she later repeated -- quote -- "it's time for assad to get out of the way." that was from our then-secretary of state. that same month, white house spokesman jay carney echoed clinton's proclamation stating -- quote -- "assad's fall is inevitable. as governments make decisions about where they stand on this issue and what steps need to be taken with regards to brutality of assad's regime, it's important to calculate into your consideration the fact that he will go. he went on to say -- "the regime has lost control of the country and he will eventually fall." in may, 2012, 2012, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff martin dempsey told fox news that -- quote -- "escalating atrocities would likely trigger a military invention following a massacre that left more than 100 dead, 100 dead. that was back when we were talking about serious dead and hundreds rather than tens of thousands. a month later, june 12 -- in june, 2012, then-secretary of defense panetta stated -- quote -- "i think it's important when assad leaves, and he will leave, to try to preserve stabili

we cannot say bashar al-assad isn't winning. of course, he still has the upper hand because of the extensive use of the air force against the civilians, which make up -- [indiscernible]still, the opposition have important areas -- have strongholds in important areas in the country. as is why we cannot say that the shark -- this is why we cannot say that bashar al-assad is the winner at this time. it is the responsibility of the international community to take more action to stop the slaughter of the syrian people. >> thanks very much for joining us from washington. >> the white house says the deportation of a planeload of women and children to honduras this week is a sign that those trying to cross the u.s. border illegally are "not welcome to this country." >> the 17 honduran women and 12 girls and nine boys between the ages of 18 months and 15 years that were put on board the flight to the city with the highest murder rate in the world -- of the u.s. is no stranger to people crossing its southern border illegally. what is most

iran and russia have secured the assad regime in western syria. if the assad regime elects at some point to fight isis in nd russiarely iran a can be prime candidates to bear that burden. now, look, in world war ii, the united states did, indeed, collaborate with a mass murderer to defeat hitler, but no one questioned the sacrifice of the soviet peoples infighting and defeating the greater threat posed by not see germany -- by nazi germany. if bashar al-assad decides at some point to confront isis, i think we can bet on one thing -- he will seek a free ride. already, the casualties his forces have suffered in this conflict in syria have caused a great deal of resentment in certain parts of the country. if either by commission or we cause the nationalist opposition to lose militarily, in my view, we will still have no dog in the hunt in confrontation. my sense is that both sides, the regime and isis, well for their own reasons try to avoid an all-out showdown. consolidatent to ance ofbaric govern syrian-populated areas under its control, and iran,

. >>> and bashar al assad's third term as syria's president began with a defining speech. he's promising to continue fighting anti-government forces. >>> palestinians under siege in gaza should be getting some much needed supplies by now from food, water to medicine. israeli and hamas leaders temporarily suspended their attacks to allow for the delivery of humanitarian aid. now, this video shows scenes from gaza shortly after the five-hour truce window opened. both sides have been carrying out cross border attacks for more than a week. but israel's air raids have been the most punishing. israeli and hamas leaders agreed to the cease-fire in response to a request from the united nations. >>> now the aid is coming just in time for some gazans who left their homes ahead of possible air strikes and have no homes to return to. more from nhk world's craig dale. >> reporter: these palestinians are camping out here because they have nowhere else to go. they have fled to united nations run schools to escape israeli raids on the islamist group hamas. >> translator: we sleep on blank

what isis is doing to assad is the biggest threat to assad. if we destroy isis, we may strengthen assad. it's as complicated as you can have in the middle eastern dispute and, frankly, usually they are all like this. >> that's spal right, chuck. congressman harman is exactly right. this is a regional problem. isis is operating in both iraq and seara. each of those conflicts have local elements but there's this regional issue to contend with. you have to fight both, against radical jihadism and fight against leaders like assad who, in many ways, are the magnets for these foreign fighters and jihadists who are coming in. >> right. >> the fact is, chuck, if we were to support assad somehow and say let's now try to keep him in power, he will still be a magnet for jihadists for some time to come and it will be seen as taking the side of iran, assad's main sponsor, against our allies there in the region. it's not a viable policy. we need to push back on both of those trends, which have both contributed to the instability. >> jane, wouldn't it be eas

president assad seemed confident and eager to address his support base.eople who have fought for him, alongside of him, and those who voted for him. this ceremony, to mark another seven-year term look place after more than three years of war. his message to his supporters, they chose the right side. >> translator: years have past as some chanted for freedom, but you, the syrians were the free men at the time of s subordinizati subordinization, and you were the masterings when it came time to act. >> reporter: assad dismissed his opposition. he addressed the region and international supporters, their masters he called them. >> translator: we shall soon see that all of the arab nations who supported terrorism will pay the price dearly. >> his speech today was very much like the declaration of victory. he was telling everybody that here i am. i am still here. i have survived over what you have done over the past three years, has failed to bring me down, i'm going to serve as president for the next seven years. i have a popular mandate. the election has given

>> this is being done at the time of the sham election, which assad was running in the country.s an attempt to legitimize the regime and the election. what is interesting is if you look at the reporting on syria at the moment, the world is talking about isis and iraq. the assad regime is responsible for the majority of things that have unraveled in syria over the last three years. isis were advertising on facebook, there would be uproar, and rightly so. we're just astonished that there is not more uproar that assad has been able to advertise and facebook take the money, make a profit, and hold on to it. >> the syrian campaign director john jackson with my partner cory johnson. google will have to face a class action lawsuit over its street view data collection come of this after the supreme court refused to consider google' is appeal of a lower court's ruling allowing privacy lawsuits to go forward. the plaintiff accused google of collecting e-mail, passwords, and usernames while shooting images for street use. google has apologized and said it was a mistake but insists the acti

assad said members of his government warned this would happen. he said arab and western leaders would pay a high price for the support of terrorism. assad is said to have won 90% of the votes in the presidential election last month. he faced off against rival candidates for the first time. but his critics say the election was a sham. >> good morning, catherine, cake provider comcast rivalled by time warner cable back in february and in may, directv. media giant 21st century fox was looking for a change, but they've been rebuffed in an $80 billion bid to buy its rival, time warner. time warner owns tv stiegss including c nerks n. officials from both companies say they're not discussing the matter at the moment. investors turned, again, to buying stocks on wall street. strong business results helped lift sentiment. the dow jones industrial average set yet another record and that's for the 15th time this year. let's get a full update from ramin melagard. good morning, ramin. what's happening over there today? >> good morning, yi. weaker yen should r

assad said members of his government warned this would happen. he said arab and western leaders would pay a high price for the support of terrorism. assad is said to have won 90% of the votes in the presidential election last month. he faced off against rival candidates for the first time. but his critics say the election was a sham. >> good morning, catherine, cake provider comcast rivalled by >>> the heads of brazil, russia, india, china and south africa want a greater role on the world stage but don't all agree on how that should play out. nhk world reports. >> reporter: at the summit brazil city chinese president was out to strengthen cooperation between the economies and other developing countries. russia, which is becoming increasingly isolated, gave strong support to xi's push for a global realignment. it left a group of eight major countries after sanctions were levied against it for annexing crimea in southern ukraine. at the meeting, russia sided with china to voice opposition to the existing world order led by the united states. a join

likes what does this tell us about the assad regime if they are behind it?t know for certain what does this say about their in theirchnology condemnation of syrian leadership? >> this was during the time of the sham election. the ads are primarily focused outside of syria. it was an attempt to legitimize the regime and legitimize the election. if you look at the reporting, the world is talking about isis and iraq. the assad regime is responsible for the majority of things that .ave unraveled there should be an uproar, rightly so. we are just astonished that assad who is responsible for most of what's happened in syria, has been able to advertise and facebook make money and hold onto the prophet. >> john jackson with my partner cory johnson. google will have to face a thes-action lawsuit after street view data collection after they refused to consider the appeal of a lower court .uling the plaintiff accused google of collecting e-mail and user names . they said it was a mistake but insists that they did not violate federal wiretapping laws. cory johnson and i

had not protected the assad regime three times at the u.n. from serious resolutions condemning its actions including killing more than one hundred fifty thousand people then you might have had a more positive resolution at the geneva two conference but it you need to to russia chose to side one hundred percent with assad and the geneva two conference felt but dr friedman let's take comparable cases from the region the case of iraq the case of libya you know russia play along with the united states and libya does leave me a look like a positive example of a burgeoning democracy what about iraq you know russia did object to george w. bush invading iraq but it did not stop americans look at the country well let's take each case separately in the case of libya gadhafi then in charge threaten to massacre the people of benghazi at the time that then russian president medvedev went along with the no fly zone which helped protect the people of benghazi the key american mistake was after the fall of gadhafi not being heavily involved politically to en

see you can criticize mr assad. so what. government can be you know the real difference between the. government could be removed. you can take totally different peoples be honest on the assad government he also made political changes arguably to allay that anything can i switch gears and shift to iran because for a number of years for a number of decades in the iranian theocracy was considered to be the main threat to israel it was also considered to be the crude this form of governance and you know in russia we have the saying that the true nature of everything is learned in comparison so when we look at the region now and the kind of forces. al-qaeda and other terror groups that are vying for political power. in a somewhat suggest that they make the iranian government low clive not pacifist probably but maybe a quite moderate. i should say default first of all. i mean this is a major swear for all of us including. not just. disability of moderate to gyms in the mideast. major oh why even the struggle with. extreme islam is

>> i think this was being done at the time of the sham elections, which assad was running.he ads were primarily outside of syria, so it was an attempt to legitimize the regime and the election. what is interesting is, if you look at the reporting on syria, the world is talking about isis and iraq. the assad regime is responsible for the majority of things that have unraveled in serial over the last three years. if isis were advertising on facebook, there would be outrage, and rightly so. we are just astonished that there was not more are for that assad, who is responsible for what happened in syria, has been able to advertise, and facebook was able to advertise, make a profit, and hold onto it. >> i think it shows facebook's power in the world. we appreciate your time. thank you. >> coming up, how one winner of the 2014 apple design award is trying to change how we use the ipad. that is next. ♪ >> welcome back to "bloomberg west." i'm emily chang. is the ipad merely a tool to consume content? if so, one company is trying to change that. storehouse is one of nine apps that w

good reasons that the government of president assad was not in turkey's interest. as a long term institutional partner it's not just a relationship based on president barzani. prime minister barzani it's a long term relationship with. the k r g satisfies turkey's ambitions to be an energy hub for europe it satisfies turkey's ambitions to have a buffer zone between itself and highly. in iraq it satisfies turkey's ambitions to have a buffer between itself and iran so there are all sorts of multiple reinforcing reasons why the government of turkey should have a good term relationship with that's with the secret of the kurdish success that they always try to build again a functional relationship with any actor in the region i remember visiting kurdish have waters kurdish areas in syria two years ago and you know the fighting was already raging in the north of syria by the currents were minding their own business they didn't and her into the five neither to support assad nor to support the rebels and which again leads me to the question i asked you previously because th

well i think a similar argument was made in the case of syria and assad but i don't want to go there instead let me ask you about your book and two thousand and nine you published a book with a killer title i think how to get out of iraq within tagore if you know integrity is not the first thing that comes to mind when they think about the right these days so i guess president obama didn't have a chance to review a book when he was planning that fateful. i was told by somebody. i should simply have written the book. because the americans weren't interested. they were just interested in getting out the argument of the book was that if iraq was to stabilize it was fundamentally. strong so what happened was exactly what the book warned against namely that the united states fundamentally intrenchments. relationships with sunni arabs. and we see the ruins of that project it would have been nice to have been nice if the argument. understood at the time regrettably now the argument is widely accepted but most of the people doing that kind of acknowledgement don't admit that they. part of th

to be at going philanthropist who decides that they want to buy facebook back to promote assad regimecebook. it is going to be an element of the syrian regime to think it is disingenuous for facebook to suggest that the money does not come from an element of the regime. amazing thatirly this got the thumbs up outside , the visualice flight but compared that it is amazing to me this has to hundred thousand likes. this campaign has -- it is amazing to me that it has 200,000 likes. >> propaganda matters when it is a crisis and conflict of this scale. for many ordinary syrians, they believe the world has forgotten about them and about what is happening in syria. the idea that facebook can do business that promotes a regime that has this east coast cities, used starvation of the lesson of war, dropped from on schools and say, well,instantly we took the ads down that we are keeping the prophet, we think this is an opportunity for syrians and say we have not forgotten what is happening in your country, and this is a negative business. there is a very simple way of putting this right. >> what

. >>> bashar al-assad sworn in for a third 7-year term as president of syria. >>> tens of thousands forced to flee as a typhoon hits the philippines. >>> it is 200 days and counting. al jazeera staff imprisoned in egypt reach a grim milestone. >> and i'm robin adams with all the sports. including... >> it's not that we found a reason to bash qatar, we'll find another reason to bash qatar. >>> qatar speaks about the criticism of their hosting the 2022 world cup. >>> tense of thousands of palestinians are fleeing their home, desperate to escape as israel intensified their assault on gaza. they gathered up their belongings as israel dropped leaflets about air strikes. human rights watch has been watching. one israeli has been killed by a rocket fired from gaza. palestinian death toll is rising, 208 have been killed. 39 are children, aged 16 or younger. so for on the ninth day of the assault, 1,530 palestinians have been wounded. we talk about the supposed military targets that israel has chosen, but the political targets, so if you take a look behind you you can show what the damage can be. >

regime, if the assad regime becomes a more or less permanent feature. there are people out there saying quite frankly we should go back to bashar al assad and strike some kind of deal. what kind of inhibition is created by sheer volume of evidence. >> inhibition created by the truth that happened there and the fact that truth is undeniable. but fundamentally we have to recognize what we have with this regime and its key actors is that its legitimacy, its ability to serve the public of syria is gone, if ever it were there. frankly in my discussions at a time when peace negotiations aren't moving forward, we'd like them to move forward, people are stronger on the accountability issue, you see it going to the security council in may, because it is so important to clearly get this information out there and have it understood this kind of conduct capital be the conduct that enables someone to maintain power. the matter of whole global system, protection of rights of victims, the matter of protecting the right of civilians, everything that we work for, everyt

we opposed assad in syria.ght away in making decisions about opposing assad or that group, an american decision maker has a difficult choice. the only sensible way is to oppose them both but that is hard to do the same time. in every case you can look at the government in baghdad. we are allying ourselves with iran. in a sense that is fine. it makes it more difficult for american decision-makers to make crisp, clear decisions about what to do next. as someone who is looking in from the outside that they are having trouble deciding. >> there was a sense that we were on the verge of u.s. airstrikes against isis. >> it does feel like paralysis. it is difficult for the u.s. government at that level to deal with more than two or three or four crises at a time. the problem is there are fires burning everywhere. you have the middle east most obviously. you have serious problems with russia. you look at the far east, i could make the case that what we see going on in the south china sea and the east china sea might be

some people are coming to the conclusion that the assad regime has essentially won. the questions of accountability are really not terribly relevant. i am wondering, in your own discussions with syrian opposition, is this question come up about the relevance of accountability data? and given the sheer quantity of evidence that has been collected, as this, and anyway, way, inhibit the ability of the united states in the future to work with the assad regime, if it becomes a more or less permanent feature? there are people out there who are saying that we should go back, strike some kind of a deal. was kind of inhibition is created by the sheer volume of evidence? the truth is undeniable. we have tontally, recognize that what we have with this regime and its key actors, its legitimacy, its ability to serve the public of syria is gone. if ever it were there. and frankly in my discussions at the time, peace negotiations aren't moving forward. people are even stronger on the accountability issue. is he is going to the security council of the u.n. in may. because it is so i

when president assad was faced with what's been. now nor was it a threat of terrorism what either way if you have at his disposal surely nobody wants to can. i want to i never envied him for the position he found himself in and basically it was kind of. i would say he told me justifiable revolt against the autocratic rule of the family. but it's toward the other hand that many extremely disturbing elements that. some e.g. hardened some. people who worked in afghanistan in chechnya and so mali everywhere de de blas there is a sense of this is the rebellion against him by the tragedies do the middle eastern country member of the united nation used chemical weapons against his own people something i believe the you know the. world cannot mr barak you were defense minister of your country at the time if your were faced with the same problem what would you do. so you can criticize mr assad. so. government can be you know. it. could be removed if you can take. people be honest on the assad government he also made political changes arguabl

forbook is under scrutiny ads it ran promoting the reelection of bashar al-assad. ads ran for a few days before the site to come down. a proteste, there was at the facebook london office demanding they return or donate the proceeds they earned. cory johnson spoke with the campaign director and asked how the protest went. >> it was good. there was strong support from the public. people in the offices at the facebook building who were showing a thumbs-up. people were sympathetic. the question we are asking facebook is if you have done business that promotes such a terrible regime, the thing you should be doing is making it right and by making it right we mean give the money, the prophet you have made to remote and atrocious regime, give it back to the people that it belongs to. in desperateians need of medical assistance. there are many aid agencies that could provide assistance. >> facebook says they took the ads down and they don't know who paid for them. a money did not come from syria. anyone who knows a little bit about this regime knows that its tentacles sprea

is still obsessed with overthrowing assad and then assad is going after isis and you have the iranians coming in to protect the government in baghdad i mean this is it gets complicated doesn't it. it is very much and has always been complicated that our religious. scorn flex and the inevitable and. the old system doesn't alter want to go our way and it takes some planning for the new emerging system. to make. just one point i have to say this i agree with scott about. response aboard for a disordered daughter or instability in the middle east for shorter foreign poetess have their own interests. european union the united states china but also. has its own. problems its own the contradictions and it has people of their have to take charge of their own life and these challenges yeah but if michael fine go to if we go back to the invasion of iraq here and think about israel's supporting kurdish state here we're talking about changing borders now now for a while now it looked like iraq was partitioned no one wanted to talk about in washington because everybody knows it was a total screw up

put it in the context of whatever happens in seriouyria d where assad is today. should we have done more -- we did do more, would've made a difference in terms of an opposition forced to assad that was not so outmanned by radical extremists. >> i think the hard thing to syrianout the insurgency right along was what composed it? what was its internal composition? we didn't know. i don't think we ever understood exactly. this was a shifting group of -- shifting number of different groups with different views, beliefs, and so forth. east not believe -- i at l knew that assad would be ruthless as he proved to be. there were others involved also whose behavior has been not always transparent or protectable. some of the neighbors who have been supporting various actions. there are larger forces involved. now it is become regionalized further with the metastasis into iraq where it marries up into a different set of -- >> if we had done more, might it had not -- isis mine again and the kind of moment of it did to go into iraq? with the connection so strong, you can argue