president assad: exactly.efinitely. and that's by isis, by al qaeda by al nusra. it's not something we discover or we try to promote. it's very -- i mean their book -- they use the same books to indoctrinate the people. charlie: what about turkey? president assad: turkey let's say it's about erdogan. his muslim brotherhood fanatics. it doesn't mean that he is a member. but he's a fanatic. charlie: president erdogan is -- president assad: is a muslim brotherhood fanatic. and he's somebody who's suffering from political megalomania. and he thinks that he is becoming the sultan of the new era of the 21st century. charlie: you think he could stop the border if he wanted to? president assad: yeah, of course. definitely. he doesn't only ignore the terrorists from coming to syria. he supports them, logistically and militarily. directly. on a daily basis. and if you take the example of the city where the kurds were fighting isis and the military campaign started, it took them four months to liberate that small city. n

>> assad: stability.se: stability. >> assad: ...stability and political solution. >> rose: and what does iran want? >> assad: the same. the same. syria and iran and russia see eye-to-eye regarding these conflicts. >> rose: and what is your obligation to both of them? >> assad: what do you mean obligation? >> rose: what is your... what do you owe them? >> assad: yeah, i know. but they didn't ask me for anything. nothing at all. that's why what i said-- they don't do that for syria. they do it for the region, and for the world. because stability is very important for them. >> rose: you and your father have held power in syria for how many years? >> assad: is it a calculation of years? >> rose: yes. >> assad: or public support? >> rose: no, years. how long...? >> assad: there's a big difference. it doesn't matter how many years, the question... >> rose: well, it does matter. >> assad: no, what's matter for us, do the syrians support these two presidents. doesn't matter is they are father and son. we don't sa

they don't want to be ruled by bashar al-assad. what business does rain have to say, do you know what you are the locals, which president should you have. we are the ones to decide. >> you noted an alliance. what is this. does iran have has a combatant. >> we have little time. i want to give a solution to the issue. the breakthrough between u.s. and iranens up iran to come through. there's a political solution. no precondition bashar al-assad international community should be on the table when there's a humanitarian crisis they need to start the discussion now. >> do you agree on that much? >> there's only a political solution, and we need to address the crisis. through humanitarian corridor for that to be achieved we need everyone on board. if we could have solved the crisis the war wouldn't be entering its fifth year. i want to thank you both for joining me. thank you for joining us on this edition of "inside story". get in touch on facebook, follow us on twitter and watch next time, i'm ray suarez. >>> israeli voters go to the p

how is the assad administration governing at this point? most frustrated for many in the syrian opposition who have held these values all along it might be better for your family to be in an i.s.i.s. controlled area because there's convenient relationship between assad and i.s.i.s. he maybe sees them the way we're starting to see assad. the power is on in these areas. the water is on. in the moderate opposition held areas in the north those things haven't worked for years and they are continuing to have barrel bombs and aerial assaults. if you were a civilian you might be sacrificing your child's education for indoctrination but your child wouldn't be killed by a bearlt bomb. >> havebarrel bomb. >> have the syrians given up? >> the west has money and the west is very powerful and they need powerful allies at least the rebels do. many of us are angry at the west because they feel that the west is supporting the opposition. so it is -- the united states does not have many friends neither with the pro-government people nor with the rebels. tha

they see in assad the best of the alternatives that's presented themselves. >> the assad the best of the alternatives given that i.s.i.l. is now part of the opposition? you had the u.n. envoy to syria stefan de masturek describing assad as part of the solution, is there a realistic solution without limb in the picture? >> no, i don't think there is. but that doesn't mean we're predicting he will be the long term leader of syria. he is the leader of the giambi, regime, he has long term supporters, how do you get one over the other? they are quick to say he's responsible for 220,000 now dead, millions displaced refugees in their country refugees in the neighborhood. they just don't see how they can accept him as the future leader. >> is u.s. foreign policy on syria right now clear to you? is it coherent and is it working? >> no, in a word no. it is -- we're muddling through we're reacting and we haven't put the resources into making a position strong enough to change the direction of events. >> meanwhile you have assad who met with the iranian ministry of economy today, there is a pict

not until we defeat isil and assad, and assad is removed from power. the u.s. to provide billions indefinitely. it is imperative that we have confidence that what we are providing is not subject to waste, fraud abuse or diversion to terror groups so that we can continue playing a key role in responding to this crisis and maximize our effectiveness. and with that i'm proud to yield to the ranking member of our subcommittee mr. deutch. >> thank you, madam chairman. i too would like to associate myself with the chairman's remarks about the tragic death of kayla mueller at the hands of the barbaric isis terrorists. our thoughts and prayers go out to kayla's family and friends during this difficult time. please know that we will continue to honor kayla's memory and her life's work by giving this humanitarian crisis the attention that it deserves. i want to thank the chairman for starting this congress with the hearing specifically focused on the humanitarian aspect of the syrian conflict a follow-up to four humanitarian focused hearings that we held last congress. t

there is no way around assad.ou cannot dance around assad en though the americans, along with their allies and other interested parties, russians, sirians. in order for assad to talk to us about a political solution. why should he talk to you about giving you power? you have been saying so for the last four years sir. what kind of instruments of pressuranding has the united states changed its position? many question marks. i don't think there is a major qualitative shift in the american position. >> many would say that the international community has, in fact, failed syria over the past four years. more than 200,000 syrians have died. we know 12 million people inside the country desperately need some sort of help. could the international community have done something sooner because situation in syria is now so much more complicated than it was right at the beginning because you have so many groups fighting for power? >> the have national community has failed syria on multiple grounds. >> what could it have done ea

he sees them the way we see bashar al-assad. power is on, the water is on in the moderate opposition, they have not worked for years, and are continuing to have barrel bombings. if you are a civilian, you would be sacrificing education for incock trinations. >> the question is what to do. have the syrians given up on the west? >> many have, but they can't entirely give up. the west has gun and money. they need powerful allies at least the rebels do. many syrians with bashar al-assad are angry, they feel that the west is supporting the opposition. the united states does not have friends with the pro-government people or rebels. that's what occurred in the united states. we backed the kurd a great deal and are helping them and we are flying missions for them. you flew missions in syria. what is the end goal do they appear stronger. i would conquer with mr landers, who says that it's an islamist led opposition. many are fictions that are more moderate. more muslim brotherhood's. this is not ideal working with the group that is al q

is not only with assad. the foreign powers fighting each other on our land, this is what changed the course of the revolution. >> during the early days of the revolution, the country was split between supporters of the syrian opposition and those of the syrian regime be it was an us or them approach. the conflict today has many players, and that dragged on with no clear winners, only losses on both sides. as the majority of syrians including those who started the uprising are left to watch from the sidelines. al jazeera, amman, jordan. >> good to have you with us on al jazeera. you know, the war is entering its fifth year now and let me put these comments to you that the u.s. secretary of state john kerry has made. he's saying that the united states will in the end have to negotiate with syria's assad. he's made these comments recently to american media. is this a shift in the u.s. strategy when it comes to the war? is there now a new approach that's going to be taken to solve this conflict? >> clearly, it i

between the assad government.either death by assad or join isis for most people that live. >> keep in mind isis and assad have not been fighting directly one another that much. they have been observing more or less defacto, not complete or defacto cease-fire. isis concentrates controlling sunni regions. assad has a stake building up isis. it is either me or isis. that way he gets the west on board with him. >> one thing i disagree with you, matt, i don't think it was power vacuum by the united states to enable to grow. i think it was power vacuum by maliki post. they were taking action against their own sunni minority to be undermined. >> which occurred after we pulled out all the troops out after we lost all ininfluence in iraq and refused to do anything about the burgeoning civil war creating huge power vacuums on both sides of the border which isis expanded into. >> in terms of what policy options we have left do we believe the moderate syrian opposition is still viable? janine, can we salvage this as policy op

to take more direct action against president bashar al-assad. let's go to the white house where mike viqueira is there for us. so far the president has been reluctant to take more direct action. >> well, it's certainly true, and of all the foreign policy problems nat president has faced, syria is the most vexing and gained the most critics towards president obama and his policies. in the most violent year yet in a conflict of four years. >> millions forced from their homes, 220,000 dead. what can the president do to stop it. so far many experts agree what he's trying isn't working. >> mr. obama's approach to stay out of the area with troops on the ground, that far he's succeed something far. >> six months into the civil war the president said assad must go. three and a half years later the carnage conditions continues and assad is still there. >> what are i see are enormous gaps between what the the obama administration claims they're trying to do there. >> in 2013 the president's hands from forced. assad was accused of attacking his own people

policy when he implied that assad could play a role. >> to get the assad regime to negotiate, we're goingit clear to him that there is a determination by everybody to seek that political outcome and change his calculation about negotiating. that's under way right now. and i am convinced that with the efforts of our allies and others there will be increased pressure on assad. >> you'd be willing to negotiate with him? >> well we have to negotiate. >> he says we have to negotiate. let me say this. the state department issued a clarification insisting that assad would not be any part of talks but members of his regime could. bashar assad appears to be taking a wait and see attitude telling state tv on a quote. he said this. whether they say i remain or not, the syrian people have the final say on this. we are still hearing the declarations and we should wait for actions and then decide. andrew tabler the senior fellow at the washington institute for near east policy. andrew welcome to the show. >> my pleasure. you hear what secretary kerry is saying. then a little bit of the clarification fr

everyone else is willing to remove bashar al-assad - see that bashar al-assad leaves but the regime to stay. >> for now. thank you very much indeed for talking to us here at al jazeera. twin bomb blasts targeted churns in the pakistani city. 14 people have been killed. pakistani claimed responsibility, victorian gatenby reports. the pakistani taliban timed its attacks to cause maximum devastation. the two churches in lahore were parked with catholics and protest ants. there was chaos in the moment after the bombs exploded within minutes of each other. the attack was the worst on the community since the double suicide bombing in the north-western city of peshawar in 2013 killed more than 80 people. this time the bombings were in the neighbourhood home to 100,000 christians. lahore is home to pakistan's wealthiest province. it is considered peaceful. attacks have been increasing after the government's attempts to hold peace talks with the taliban last year. christian community leaders say the government is not doing enough to ensure safety and attacks like this show that they are targets

was clear, bashar al-assad must go if there's to be peace. the secretary of state john kerry appears to be changing the president obama's position. >> to get the - bashar al-assad regime to negotiate. we'll have to make it clear to him that there is a determination by everybody to seek that political outcome and change the calculation about negotiating. that is under way. john kerry was not calling for direct talks, a man whoment the u.s. says is no longer a legitimate ruler. he was using bashar al-assad was a short hand. representatives of the regime. that is why people ask questions. we venture to make sleer that there's not a change in policy or a process ongoing. with i.s.i.l. in control of large areas of syria, and rebel groups in disarray some say washington has no choice but to make some accommodation with the regime. experts suggest john kerry got ahead of the administration and may have harmed the chances of negotiating a peace deal. the optics to the opposition were horrible. to thor the words of negotiation. not to make the distinc

if you're seesh yous about a solution unfortunately you're going to have to deal with ie said assad assad00,000 fellow syrians on his hands. >> we dealt with stalin who had the blood of millions of people. i'm not defending this. we've dealt with bloody people in the past when it suited our interest. >> the u.s. is dealing with iran right now, saying that iran is a country that supports terrorism. it's on the state department's list as a terrorist nation. >> we're engage in a long term negotiation about their nuclear weapons. >> negotiations in switzerland right now. we see john kerry shaking hands with the foreign minister of iran almost every day now as they try to meet the end of march deadline. even though the u.s. regards iran as a state sponsor of terrorism, regards syria as a state sponsor of terrorism, it would be okay to negotiate with terrorist raegimesregimes. >> we're normalizing relationships with cuba. we live in a world where things change. >>> take a look at this video. it's what remains of saddam hussein. the moz liam is just outside tikrit tikrit the site of a military o

sounds like assad.ch, syrian president bashar assad is speaking out about his country's relationship with the united states. charlie rose had -- last night was a great "60 minutes" and also talked about how polio is being used to kill cancer cells. i talked a couple weeks ago about how pen is mutateing the hiv virus to kill other forms of cancer and this treatment, it's per forring miracles. >> amazing segment. >> it's remarkable. but here's assad on "60 minutes" responding from recent comments from secretary of state john kerry about a potential willingness to negotiate. >> we always want to have good relation with united states. we never thought, great power. nobody -- not wise person think of having bad relation with the united states. >> can you have good relationship with a country that thinks you shouldn't be in power? >> no that's not going to be part of the dialogue i said earlier. this is not bess. we have syrian citizen who can decide this. no one else. whether they want to talk about it or no

the goal of hollande and russia is to keep assad in power.hat does this mean in terms of the commitment that we're making to have the moderate syrians depose take out assad? that's their goal. are we committing to back them in their effort to depose assad? because that's their stated public goal. so how -- how do we square up this aumf potentially with that longer-term goal which our principle allies inside of syria would have? >> senator, this is isil specific. there are those who wish it would include assad, but it doesn't. we are supporting the moderate opposition, however, very directly in the efforts that are focused on assad. and the congress -- and we're grateful for it has approved of the training and equip program, some $500 million have been appropriated and that program is about to be up and running. in addition to that there are other activities as you know that are focused on the issue of president assad, but specific to the aumf the aumf is isil specific, and it does not authorize activities against assad. >> but in helping to f

has to net with bashar al-assad of -- negotiate with bashar al-assad. >> we are working with others to reignite a diplomatic out come. why? everyone agrees there's no military solution only a political solution. to get the bashar al-assad regime to negotiate we are going to have to make it clear to him that there is a determination by everybody to seek that political outcome and change the calculation about negotiating. that is under way now. and i am convinced that with the efforts of our allies and others, there'll be increased pressure on bashar al-assad. >> hundreds of people demonstrated outside the white house, protesting against i.s.i.l. bashar al-assad and u.s. policy. the united states and 14 other u.n. security council nations are sponsoring a photo exhibit at the u.n. the display featuring photos of those killed by the bashar al-assad regime. we'll warn you, some images in the report are graphic. >> the exhibit begins with a warning. the following images are disturbing. some turn away. others move in closer. >> everyone should see it. carol works at the u.n. in the budget of

assad's tanks rolled into other major cities by the end of 2011. in 2012 as government violence continued, rebel fightsers calling themselves the free syrian army launched counter attacks. hibbs fighters joined the fight along syrian government forces. the u.n. report concluded assad's army use chemical weapons, a charming he denied. but u.n. inspectors began destroying his stock piles. more complicated as al qaeda's many syrian branch, jabad al nusra, began fighting. even more virulent i.s.i.l. group, since last summer u.s. and coalition forces have launched nearly 3,000 3,000 strikes against i.s.i.l. in parts of syria and iraq. israel has launched attacks into syria. and a recent u.n. report says the situation over the last four years has degenerated from letting popular aspirations to a conflagration of unimaginable magnitude, victims voices in danger of being lost amongst the conflict approaching its fifth year. an estimated 9 million syrians have fled, over 3 million have sought refuges in neighboring countries and 6.5 million syrian have fled

had insisted that the assad had to go before any deal could be made.s in switzerland for talks on iran's nuclear program. our diplomatic editor james bay is his there. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: secretary of state john kerry where he called for a fresh start to peace efforts to end four years of blood she had in syria. he spoke in afternoon interviewed with the u.s. tv network cbs. >> we are working to see if we can find a political solution. there is no military solution, only a political association but to get the assad regime to negotiate, we have to make it clear to him that there is a determination by everybody to seek that political outcome and change his calculation about negotiating. that's under way right now. i am convictioned with the efforts of our allies and others, there will be inning ceasedinningkeys increased pressure assad. >> and you would be willing to negotiate with him? >> we have to negotiate in the end. >> reporter: the u.s. had a role in previous peace talks when the former u.n. negotiator brought the syrian government and members of the

secretary of state john kerry indicated that he wants to reignite negotiations with assad saying assad's comments aren't new. >> the syrian president bashar al assad has been suggesting dialogue or seeking dialogue for quite a while and there's frankly nothing new in that. the real question is whether there's anything new in the american position, and i think that there isn't anything new there, either. john kerry's remarks were taken somewhat out of context. although he he's quoted as having said something about negotiation, what wasn't really reported was that his next sentence placed any negotiations in the framework of the geneva one communique of 2012, which specifically has been unthey were resided by the u.s. ever since as implying that assad would have to leave power because he could only remain there by mutual consent and that is something that the syrian opposition and his supporters do not agree to. >> the united nations meanwhile has more than doubled its estimates of syrians 11ing in besieged areas. the new number is close to 44,000 people. the earlier estimate of 212,000 wa

in other words, take assad on. and also i would like to ask you to talk to us about why we have not yet agreed into the air exclusion zone that turkey has asked us to approve that would more fully bring them in on the ground in syria and get something much more positive occurring, at least as it relates to having some ground effort there. chairman dempsey: i take it you are looking straight at me so i assume the question is for me. let me briefly describe the way military we characterize our campaign against isil. i would not say that our goal is to simply contain isil inside syria, but rather we have at this point -- our main ever it is in a wreck because we have a credible ground partner for whom we supply this airpower to distribute and degrade and defeat isil inside of iraq. we don't have that credible partner inside of syria yet. we are taking steps to build a partner. in the meantime, we are attacking them where we can, using isr. it is intended to disrupt their activities so they cannot complement each other

assad saying we don't care about declarations from the outside. is for the syrian people to decide. >> john kerry said assad needed to be a part of the negotiation. i think his big mistake was he said what he actually believes and what he has believed from the get-go. in fact, i don't think that the administration will do much of anything in negotiations that will possibly upset either iran or russia. assad's two biggest outside sponsors, because the president cares more than anything else about this nuclear deal with iran and assad, it's not on his priority list. >> the clarifications from the state department saying we need to negotiate with representatives of the regime, they can be at the table it's not going to be us directly associating with assad, does it make a difference? >> no. we're clarifying what the secretary said. he didn't say what you thought you heard him say. he didn't mention assad and use the pronounce he and him several times. there won't be any effective negotiation without assad being a major part of it. i think it's a demo

he did it with assad, prime minister shamir, the palestinians.e was able to produce something in madrid that few people thought possible when he made the first of those nine trips. i thought it was really admirable. charlie: he also had one of the most important qualities a secretary of state can have. the knowledge that he has the president's ear, the best political friend of the president. bill: and a lot of other qualities. much like hillary clinton in a lot of ways. both hillary clinton and baker no one was better prepared than them when they walked into a room. that is really important in not just a negotiation but any kind of diplomatic interaction. they both think strategically as well. those are the qualities that make for very good secretaries of state. they were trying to solve a problem. charlie: what about the trip to china? the idea? bill: hillary clinton had a lot to do with it as well in the sense that i think you saw it in the first trip and since the secretary of state. i think they both -- charlie: the dinner was to asia. bill:

he said that pressure may be required to persuade president assad to even negotiate. mr. carry arrived in switzerland for talks with iran's foreign minister mohammed zarif on iran's nuclear program. before leaving, kerry raced the prospects 69 direct talks with the assad government saying the sdmrus would have to negotiate to the end with assad. . >> we are working very hard with other interested parties to see if we can reignite a diplomatic outcome. why? because everybody agrees there is no military solution. there is only a political solution. but to get the assad regime to negotiate, we are going to have to make it clear to him that there is a determination by everybody to seek that political outcome and change his calculation about negotiating. >> that's underway right now. and i am convinced that with the efforts of our allies and others, there will be increased pressure on assad. >> those comments four years to the day since the incidents which began syria's civil war. march the 15th 2011. the syrian government began cracking down on demonstrations. in terms of cas

mr john kerry sat and said we must negotiate with bashar al-assad. what is said in the bast is we may have to come to a transitional arrangements before he goes. how does it differ to that. >> it's foreign policy. john kerry did not mention that. the americans have no strategy for syria, the priority is iran and the fight against i.s.i.s. and syria is a secondary thing. he says we have to increase pressure on bashar al-assad, for him to come to the table. what kind of pressure, have the gaps between the rhetoric and the actions. the syrians, iranians russians none will take... >> he inside that interview that back channels are going bashar al-assad. people are talking to him. realistically, what can he do? >> let's say i'm bashar al-assad, and come to me and say i want to talk to you. i want you to deliver power on a silver platter, to a new transitional authority. that's what the americans have been telling us. and what has he done. more bombings. more fighting. and as you said now, a minute ago. 250,000, 250,000 - that has killed. 1.5 million injur

the fighting against assad is very mixed. from day to day, it is hard to know exactly who is winning. at times, the sod seems to be gaining and he certainly seems to be gradually taking back some cities, but he does not seem to be creating any kind of lasting ability to hold the more populated areas of syria. as we have seen inside iraq, tikrit did not produce this quick, sudden victory by the sheet malicious and the shiite portions -- by the sheshiite militias and the shiite portions of the iraqi army. it is far from clear who inside any of this is achieving some kind of unity between arab sunni and shiite or between arab and kurds. this is an area where the islamic state is a problem, the eldest front is a problem, assad regime is a problem, and you have a constant battle between factions in iraq. charlie: we thank you very much for joining us. tony: a pleasure. charlie: anthony cordesman. as a follow-up, a footnote on "60 minutes" on sunday. my conversation in damascus with the shawl all are sought -- bashar al-assad. 90%

year-and-a-half ago it was assad must go. he is no longer the leader of the country. what the state department is saying is what secretary kerry meant in the geneva za talks, which haven't made progress the outcome of a successful outcome of those talks would be talks essentially with the syrian leadership which would then lead to a change in the new government there and he would move away from a position of power. but what the secretary kerry also said over the weekend in the context of this, is you know additional pressure will be brought to bear on the syrian leadership. i was at those talks in january late last 84 the expectation from the u.s.-european side is that the russians will put more pressure to make a schmeiser, that didn't happen then. look the relationship between the united states and the europeans against or with the russians if you will on the other side has only gotten worse. where that though expected pressure is expected to come from on assad to make a compromise that's not clear, alisyn. >> nic robertson, thanks so much for all that. meanwhile, b

the last four years, bashar al assad, he had a propaganda goal. the goal was to create this extreemgism within syria. when you look at the videos of the syrians, what they were doing to sunnis, abasing them, making them commit sacra lij, saying there is no god but bashar. >> the original the protests were protesting the arrest of children. >> when you talk to foreign fighters, they tell you, we were drawn to the conflict because we hated to see our co-religionists treated in this way. >> these movements are at the forefront of brutality in the region, and i think it's that hip cra hypocrisy that we have to go after. >> the point is so important because we have to remember, al qaeda began as a grand jihadi organization and picked some specific goals. we're going to attack meshes, maybe the saudi royal family. isis began with a very narrow sectarian goal, which is the cause of the dispossessed sunnis in syria and iraq. in iraq, they felt like they were ruled by a shia dictatorship. in damascus, it was quasi shiite. graham's article does a wonderful

regime, not about bashar al al assad himself but in a colloqual sense.n the state aid department here t insist assad is not the legitimate leader of syria, that he ought to leave and any political settlement to resolve the four-year-old civil war in syria cannot have him at the table. >> the u.s. has hit it's debt limit and can't borrow more money until the depressed acts. congress has to authorize increased borrowing, a deal that expired on monday. the treasury department says it can continue to fund the government for months just by moving money around. the u.s. senate's republican leader says that his chamber will act and the country will not threaten to default on the debt again. >> the latest twist in brazil's corruption scandal, people arrested six people in connection with kickbacks and political payoffs at the state oil giant petrobras after nearly a million people protested against economic slowdown, rising prices and corruption putting extra pressure on the president who protesters are demanding her impeachment. she chaired the board during muc

says it will have to negotiate with president assad to end the war in syria. hello. live from doha. also coming up in the next 30 minutes: >> we do not know if our families are safe or not. as a leader of the nation my whole heart is for the whole people of the nation. >> vanuatu says years have been -- of progress have been wiped out in the cyclone hit islands. >> in sao paulo t years after military rule, the president who was tortured by the same regime is hearing calls for her impeachment. >>> broad powers to make venzuela's laws. allowing president maduro to rule by decree among rising tensions with the u.s. >>> hello. u.s. secretary of state john kerry says he is willing to negotiate with bashar al assad for a political transition. up until now the u.s. had insisted he had to go. kerry is in lusanne switzerland for talks. james bays is there. ♪. >> secretary of state john kerry in shamal sheik in egypt where he called for a fresh start. he spoke with cbs. >> we are working very hard with other interested parties to see if we can reignite a glom outcome. why? because everybody a

maybe rethinking its approach to bashar al-assad and iran? >> if there is a u.s.y at all on syria then it is one of nonintervention while at the same time maintaining the policy of not recognizing the assad government or dealing with it. some people regard that as a non-policy, in other words, something that allows continuing drift but sit a clear position that has been taken by the obama administration all along. now, the training of the syrian rebel groups or opposition groups which up to a year ago was billed as being something intended to acquire leverage against assad agreement to force it to negotiate seriously, now these training efforts are being framed entirely as targeting the islamic state in the current conflict and specifically excluded from that or at least not mentioned in that is anything about confronting the syrian regime. so i think that the statements by u.s. military commanders basically reveal the sort of ambivalence of u.s. policy and the fact that the training frankly is pretty modest it's going to take place over a long period of time with

at the same time, i know there is a lot of concerns now about how we deal with assad's vero bombs as we train and equip these individuals, how do we protect them from the barrel bonds which cause them to diminish in greater numbers than they can be trained. i'm sure you'll talk about that. there is a lost discussion as you know on the ground there much of the activity we have under way while it is necessary about the exclusion zone. i know you have questions about that. and no fly discussions. it may be taking place to draw turkey more into what is happening in syria itself, which i think most of it -- most of us believe is very important. so as i close, i want to say we owe it to our nation as we consider this to know that the full range of america's elements of national power, diplomatic, economic, and military means are aligned, aligned in such a way to get to the administration's stated goals. because of the nature of this decision, one, again this being made after a fact, all of us need to have confidence that the administration is truly committed to achieving the stated goals t

in other words take assad on? and i would also like for you to talk to us a little bit about why we haven't yet agreed to the air exclusion zone that turkey has asked us to approve that would more fully bring them in on the ground in syria, and actually get something much more positive occurring, at least as it relates to having some ground movement there. >> let me just briefly describe the way -- militarily we characterize our campaign against isil in iraq and syria. i wouldn't say that our goal is simply to contain isil inside of syria, but rather we have a main effort and a supporting effort. our main effort is in iraq because we have an credible ground partner for whom we supply this air power to distribute it and degrade and eventually defeat isil inside of iraq. we don't have that credible partner inside of syria yet. we're taking steps to build that partner. in the meantime we're attacking isil where we can. and it's intended to disrupt their activities so that they can't compliment each other. it was form

and that dilemma is -- >> for a lot of these groups target number one is bashar al assad.hey got involved in it. that's why they want to continue. >> syria's gone. it is not going to be coming back. that is my predik shunction. >> thank you all. >>> up next, isis recruitment. you've heard a lot about it. what is the appeal? can it be stopped? and we're going to talk to a parent who's working to stop it. her own son went over to fight with isis and died doing it. hey, girl. is it crazy that your soccer trophy is talking to you right now? it kinda is. it's as crazy as you not rolling over your old 401k. cue the horns... just harness the confidence it took you to win me and call td ameritrade's rollover consultants. they'll help with the hassle by guiding you through the whole process step by step. and they'll even call your old provider. it's easy. even she could do it. whatever, janet. for all the confidence you need td ameritrade. you got this. >>> welcome back. we're taking a close look this hour of the isis threat. we talked about the scope of fighting isis. fighting isi

. >> you can negotiate with assad? >> we have to. lou: that sounded like a change of the near the for your belief that assad must go. a un with the speedy attempt by walk back. >> referring to the fact that the assad regime will have to be at the negotiating table. to broker an arrangement. >> it never bored be that he would imply that it was assad himself. >> political and then correcting her own record someone in her campus spokesman now says former secretary of state team did in fact read thousands of her personal emails before they deleted them. and republican strategist ed rollins is here to talk about the clinton misrepresentation i the expected winner of the nomination and much more. we begin with the american nonprofit one invoice end up partnership which is working to replace the government of israel. but to travel to israel with other obama campaign operatives. to be barred from directly targeting by the tax-exempt status and the congressman and blasted the of meddling from this administration and the israeli elections. >>

there's no future for assad in syria.hat remains the case so certainly we're taking every step we can to bring an end to his rule there. >> reporter: and before that walk back from john kerry's spokeswoman, key allies in this the region and france were distancing himself from john kerry reiterating their position that assad must go. assad now presides over a brutal civil war now entering its fifth year. >> mike, thank you. >>> the obama administration is adjusting its plans to pull u.s. troops out of afghanistan. almost half of the service men and women were supposed to leaf by the end of this year but it looks like they will stay longer than expected. jamie what is driving this move? >> tony i guess you would have to say it's the concern that the hard gains in afghanistan after more than a decade of fighting bought with thousands of american lives and billions of dollars could be at risk of slipping away if the u.s. pulls away too soon. the original plan was to bring half out this year the rest next year now it looks lik

putin we know has taken the cynical position supporting the assad regime.d nations have not stopped procrastinating. they have been dragging their feet non-stop. i just heard the other day that they will train a few syrian resistant fighters sometime down the road. and yesterday secretary kerry told the senate that we are working are the turks on providing a -- a safety zone in the northern part of syria. now after some 300,000 people have died in syria? so they have been dragging their feet non-stop. >> if there was no veto among the five permanent members, then we wouldn't be in this situation now, would we? >> if. >> if. >> no seriously the gridlock between russia and the united states have been responsible for many of the crises that have gone on in the middle east, and at the end of the day they just lectured us in geneva about human rights and responsibility for affairs, and so on and so forth, but they have been responsible for the deadlock in ukraine, the deadlock in syria, and the eventual destruction of both countries because they won't walk toget

not until we defeat isil and assad, and assad is removed from power. the u.s. cannot afford to continue to provide billions indefinitely. it is imperative that we have confidence that what we are providing is not subject to waist, fraud ah, buis or diversion to terror groups so that we can continue playing a key role in responding to this crisis and maximize our effectiveness. and with that i'm proud to yield to the ranking member of our subcommittee, mr. deutsch. >> i too would like to send my thoughts and prayers out to kayla's family and friends. please no, that we will continue to honor kayla's memory and her life's work by giving this humanitarian crisis this deserves. i want to thank the chairman for starting this congress with the follow-up to four humanitarian focus hearings we held last congress. there is no end in sight. members of the opportunity to discuss the political and security components of this conflict in the full foreign affairs committee this morning. this afternoon we are here to focus on the growing humanitarian crisis there are now 12.6

has shifted the focus of ousting assad's government. dignity and an end to arbitrary detentions. they claimed of a corrupt system that didn't provide equal opportunities for all. el abdalla says the government has won now it's facing a new enemy. >> translator: it is no longer a people's revolt against a criminal regime. now the people are fighting an alliance that include iran and its militias. this doesn't mean our revolution is over. >> this is about the determination of many syrians counters the government's narrative that it's a war against terrorists. zeina khodr acknowledge al jazeera beirut. >> franchises of people apparently killed by the assad regime. courtney kealy reports. the images are graphic. >> reporter: the exhibit begins with a stark warning. the the following images are disturbing. some turn away, others move in closer. carol padilla works at the u.n in the budget office. she avoids it. >> today i actually came across and looked at it and i'm glad i did. >> reporter: these 30 photographs are part of 55,000 images that were smuggled outside syria from a defecto

assad is confident and thinks the war is winnable. the conflict with over 200-2000 people estimated -- over 2000 people -- over 200-22,000 people estimated killed, will continue to threaten the stability of regional neighbors and foster the rise of regional sectarianism and extremism. as well, it will strain of -- the region cost's economic balance as many flee. over 52% of the prewar population has been displaced. iran is exerting its influence in syria. it has provide a robust military support to damascus and baghdad in the form of arms, i divided funding, intelligence collections, and cyber support. more broadly, iran will phase many decision points in 2015 as it did in 2014. he wants sanctions released, by the same time, to preserve his options on nuclear capabilities. in libya, two rival governments emerged. the country has no clear legitimate political authority and is embroiled in a civil war. external support for both sides by countries in the region has further stoked the balance. -- violence. extremists and terrorists groups

at the same time, i know there is a lot of concerns now about how we deal with assad's vero bombs as we train and equip these individuals, how do we protect them from the barrel bonds which cause them to diminish in greater numbers than they can be trained. i'm sure you'll talk about that. there is a lost discussion as you know on the ground there about the exclusion zone. i know you have questions about that. and no fly discussions. it may be taking place to draw turkey more into what is happening in syria itself, which i think most of it -- most of us believe is very important. so as we -- as i close, i want to say we owe it to our nation as we consider this to know that the full range of america's elements of national power, diplomatic, economic, and military means are aligned, aligned in such a way to get to the administration's stated goals. because of the nature of this decision, one, again this being made after a fact, all of us need to have confidence that the administration is truly committed to achieving the stated goals that they laid out and i think your testimony here is

they insist that bashar al-assad is still not the leader of syria. and any settlement to resolve the four-year-old war in syria cannot have him at the table. >> refugees have been pushed into exile again. we have reports from the largest refugee carp on the daily struggle to survive. >> too old to care for her disabled and mentally challenge ed daughters, but she has no other choice. they are palestinian refugees who came to lebanon when their neighborhood in damascus became a battleground. they said they're barely coping with the little help they get. but they were alone when the youngest daughter died from lung infection. >> no one was next to me to help her. she died in my arms. no one came in time to bring her a doctor. >> they live in the largest palestinian camp in lebanon and it's overcrowded and people are poor. now they're sharing this space with thousands of palestinians who escaped the war in syria. >> we have been under pressure since the arrival of syrian palestinians. they are our brothers, but we're already finding it hard to survive.