the assad name we should not mix between -- we should not put everyone in the same basket. not all assad are the same, not all baathists are the same. we have to differentiate between people. >> what role would you have in this? >> i honestly -- what i've always dreamed for my country is to be able to go back there and live peacefully and help the syrian people develop into a genuine democracy, countries i've lived in france, england, spain. >> you were out of syria since you were nine years old. >> yes, nine years old. i was back in 1997, 1999, and as soon as i left they bombed our house. the beautiful mosaic of syrian people that have lived there for thousands and thousands of years. >> call it a thirst for forbidden, from the war of syria to cuba. up next. when you're on hold, your business is on hold. that's why comcast business doesn't leave you there. when you call, a small business expert will answer you in about 30 seconds. no annoying hold music. just a real person, real fast. whenever you need them. so your business can get back to business. sounds like my ride's r

the assad name we should not mix between -- we should not put everyone in the same basket. not all assad are the same, not all baathists are the same. we have to differentiate between people. >> what role would you have in this? >> i honestly -- what i've always dreamed for my country is to be able to go back there and live peacefully and help the syrian people develop into a genuine democracy, countries i've lived in france, england, spain. >> you were out of syria since you were nine years old. >> yes, nine years old. i was back in 1997, 1999, and as soon as i left they bombed our house. the beautiful mosaic of syrian people that have lived there for thousands and thousands of years. >> call it a thirst for forbidden, from the war of syria to . >> a little more than a year ago, president barack obama strode into the cabinet room of the white house to make an historic announcement. after more than a half a century, the united states would normalize its relationship with cuba. >> through these changes we intend to create more opportunities for the american and cuban people.

accused moscow of trying to prop up the government of bashar al-assad namely because of the people thatt has been targeting. the people who are opposed to the government of bashar al-assad, opposition fight verse been targeted and the airstrikes have been largely happening in areas where the civil war inside syria has been most heavily contested, not in the northeast where isil has established itself. >> we know that the u.s. is also conducting airstrikes in the country. what have we heard from human rights watchdogs about that in the past year? >> well, a year ago september, amnesty international sent a letter to secretary of state john kerry, and it is noted with the recent start of the air war inside syria against isil targets amnesty said that it was very concerned about the potential for civilians being caught and being injured or killed by these u.s. coalition airstrikes. and it called on the secretary of state as well as on the pentagon to be very, very careful as very deliberate when it decided to launch these airstrikes. now we should note there have been one airstrike that too

agreed that assad could be there as a transition but russia has can a pitc can ad to assad. >> no, it is in his name hundreds of thousands have died, millions are displaced, millions of refugees. he's not the legitimate ruler, but we've said okay, he's there now, we don't want to destroy the institutions of the syrian government and the russian he have moved towards us or towards the center of the discussions, saying they're not committed to him in the long run. >> so we shall see how this all plays out. we've got to hope for the sake of the syrian people that they come to some positive outcome. >> they deserve an early end to the fighting. probably won't happen in the short time frame. >> ambassador richard murphy, always good to have you with us. thank you. >>> president obama used the year end news conference to defend the small number of arms in syria and iraq. jamie mcintire reports on why the administration believes they can help defeat i.s.i.l. >> antonio, two months ago when president obama authorized up to 50 special operations forces to go into syria, the wide perception was that they woul

assad. that involves the naming of names, and i can't repeat them for you.but most importantly, that the structures of the state of syria that have not been associated with the impression of the people, but that can be part of responsible governance in syria going forward, are preserved under new leadership. that's the key to the political transition. and to your point about the difficulty of that, you bet it's difficult, because that's why civil war has been raging there for several years. but in order to have an end to isil on the territory of syria that sticks -- >> if i could interrupt, i'm sorry. so there is no plan for who would replace assad, but it would be just as complex, would you not agree, as finding leadership in iraq that would be accepting of religious minorities? >> again, i don't want to speak for secretary kerry, but these are exactly the kind of talks that he is having with the resolutio russians, the iranians, and others, so that there can be something that replaces assad that provides decent governance for the state of syria, which lord

you look at it it's assertive sickening name of chess. in the assade regime's placement very strategic in furthering their own arguments. >> i think he's stronger than he has been in years. >> i think perhaps short-term but longer-term your country with a substantial muslim population you already had a passenger in load. russia struggled for years with its own insurgency. the relationship is a little bit strained. the point think he said he wouldn't allow federal officials and the parliament. clearly this is been a recruiting tool prices. >> the most compelling. the think this gets lost we get so focused on the tunnel vision of radical islam is the problem area isis is not just a product of radical islam. obvious the heart of it. ofs is a product of the lack any kind of action on behalf of the international immunity in the vacuum that we've created by assad blessing of his own civilians for years. that it grewcuum and thrive again. it's many things it is complex and nuanced and simplified under the rubric of radical islam it misses the point and misund

al qaeda, hezbollah, boko haram, sinai, assad, hamas, and many more. all the name, places and organizations i just mentioned are united by a common theme. this theme can be summarized in two words -- chaos and confrontation. everywhere we look around the world there is mayhem. and no one -- no one -- is better positioned to address these challenges and to speak with us about them tonight than the israeli minister of defense, moshe yaalon, also known to his friend as boogie. a little background on boogie. he's been israel's minister of defense since march of 2013 after serving as vice premier and minister of strategic affairs. before entering his political life, he was chief of staff of the israel defense forces between 2002 and 2005 at the peak of the second intefadeh. throughout his career he's played an instrumental role in keeping israel secure and in strengthening the ongoing security and military cooperation between israel and the united states. but there's another side to boogie that i'd like to share with you. my wife cheryl and i, we are staunch supporters

assad to slaughter a quarter of a million people. have no doubt who's responsible for these millions of refugees. his name is bashar al-assad, the godfather of isis. he's the one that's barrel bombed thousands and thousands of his people. bashar al-assad's the one that used poison gas and crossed the red line, we might recall. it's bashar assad that continues this brutality, this butchery of his own people. and i'll get to what secretary kerry has had to say in a minute. the continue -- the administration continues its policy of inaction and indifference. it has allowed punitive punitive to intervene militarily -- vladimir putin to intervene militarily and protect his regime. the last time russians had influence in the region was when anwar sadat threw him out in 1973. now they're back. now they are major players in the middle east. this is the headline from the associates press yesterday. "russian airstrikes restore syrian military balance of power." the airstrikes of the russians have taken out significant capabilities of the moderate resistance. not isis, but the moderates that we had trained and equip

assad to slaughter a quarter of a million people. have no doubt who is responsible for these millions of refuges. his name is bashar al-assad. the godfather of isil. he has barrel bombed thousands of people. bashar al-assad is the one who used poison gas and crossed the red line we might recall. it is bashar al-assad that continues this brutality and this butchery of his own. and i will get to what secretary kerry had to say in a minute. to continue the administration continues its policy of inaction and indifference. it allowed putin to intervene and protect his murderous regime. the last time the russians have influence in the region is when he was thrown out in 1973. now they are back. they are major players in the middle east. this is a headline from the associated press. russian airstrikes restored military balance of power. the airstrikes of the russians have taken out significant capabilities of the moderate resi resistance. not isil. but the moderates we trained, equipped and refused to protect. weeks of airstrikes in syria, i quote from the associated press, restoring military balance of power. weeks of russian airs

overthrowing saddam hussein in iraq, you go back to where we are today in syria with a dictator named assad. the truth is it is relatively easy for a powerful nation like america to overthrow a dictator but it is very hard to predict the unintended consequences and the turmoil and the instability that follows after you overthrow that dictator. so i think secretary clinton and i have a fundamental disagreement. i'm not quite the fan of regime change that i believe she is. mr. o'malley: martha -- i would just repeat that -- mrs. clinton: well, i would just repeat that. martha: secretary clinton. mrs. clinton: wait a minute. i think it's only fair to put on the record, senator sanders voted in the senate for a resolution calling for ending the gadhafi regime and asking that the u.n. be brought in, either a congressional vote or a u.n. security council vote. we got a u.n. security council vote. now, i understand that this is very difficult. and i'm not standing here today and saying that libya is as far along as tunisia. we saw what happened in egypt. i cautioned about a quick overthrow of muba

overthrowing saddam hussein in iraq, you go back to where we are today in syria with a dictator named assad, the truth is it is relatively easy for a powerful nation like america to overthrow a dictator but it is very hard to predict the unintended c csequencesnd the turmoil and the instability that follows after you overthrow that dictator. so i think secretary clinton and disagreement. i'm not quite the fan of regime >> martha -- >> i would just repeat that -- >> secretary clinton -- >> i think it's only fair to put on the record senator sanders voted in the senate for a resolution calling for ending the gadhafi regime and asking that the u.n. be brought in, either a congressional vote or a u.n. security council vote. we got a u.n. security council vote. now, i understand that this is and i'm not standing here today and saying tt libya is as far along as tunisia. we saw what happened in egypt. i cautioned about a quick overthrow of mubarak, and we now are back with basically an army dictatorship. this is a part othe world where the united states has tried to play two different approaches.

assad to go. >> yeah. he's killed 200,000 people of his citizens. a woman namedfamily members escaped. these are syrian christians had they stayed they would now be killed. they're in turkey. they have no place to go. should we sit back and accept this slaughter? should we allow for many people to displace? if you're interested in fighting terrorism in the long hall we cannot allow this. >> tell me why your tax plan the better than his. >> mine's better because it focuses on economic growth. it will create jobs and income. his mirror some of the things i propose for which i'm flattered. one of the few times i'll be flattered with donald trump, i guess. the simple fact is the tax foundation scored both of these and measured the static impact of the taxes in the dynamic impact. his static impact is $10 trillion. it will create such problems of deficits that it overwhelms the economic impact. it's not a serious plan in other words, this is typical of mr. trump. >> do you think he's a fundamentally unserious candidate? >> i don't think he's offering serious proposals

assad. that involves many names and i can't repeat them for you.but most importantly the structure of these state of syria has not been associated with the oppression of the syria,but can be part of icky to a transition to a new leadership. you bet it's difficult. that is why the civil war has been raging for several years. isil,er to have an end to there needs to be that political transition. >> so there is no plan for who would replace aside --assad. just as difficult finding leadership in iraq that would be accepting of religious minorities? speakary carter: i don't for secretary kerry, but these are exactly the kinds of talks he is having with the russians, irani is, and others so that there can be something that , so they can be something for the state of syria, which lord knows, deserves it. do you have anything to add to that? to scott: if there is going be an effort to remove assad, that dialogue should be occurring at the highest levels. secretary carter: it is. mr. scott: i want to switch gears and talk about the recapitalization program.

assad. the next steps here, this agreement doesn't mention him by name, which is one of those central tensionsed. >> absolutely, and they had to do it that way because the differences remain and had to finesse it. they talk about a political transition. the united states believes if you have a transition to an inclusive nonsectarian government which they've agreed on, there is no way an autocrat for minority alawites can be head of that government, so they can eventually get to that point and the russians have signaled the united states they're not so much to assad as a united state. so the steps is to set up the cease fire in january and direct talks. it will be very hard. there are other disagreements including who gets to sit in for the opposition. this is just one step of trying to maintain the momentum to get to the political resolution. >> sreenivasan: getting to the cease fire, you have to know who's on the other side of the table. who is the enemy of assad and which countries think they should be at the table. >> the opposition which have never agreed on anything finally had a meeting

name mission impossible? well, mission impossible is becoming potentially possible, thanks to what we saw today. >> but the hardest issue of all, the future of president assad is still in dispute. the russian foreign minister again stressing it was not for international community to decide his fate. >> translator: as to bashar al-assad's fate we talked about that repeatedly just recently, president putin addressed the nation in his annual press conference and he elaborated on this issue, on principle we cannot agree with any on another nation from outside certain vision of what its leadership should look like. >> at one point as he was speaking in russian, secretary kerry wasn't getting his translation in his headset. this day on which the two men in the security council executed the exact language in the resolution but will those carefully created words still make sense to the two men in the coming days. james bays, al jazeera, new york. >> andrew tabler still isn't sure how the resolution would work. >> with the option saying assad must go at the start of the transition and the assad regime refusing to engage in what they call terrorists. that's going to

involved with rebels, the rebels, they call them the freedom rebels, always nice names, it ends up being far the first place. so assad is not a good guy. lot of people think we're actually backing isis. so what are we doing? we have to get rid of isis first, assad we can think about later on. >> let me ask you to respond to your friend jeb bush and what he had to say about you yesterday. take a listen to the full quote and i'll get you on the other side. >> just one other thing. i have to get this off my chest. [ laughter and applause ] i feel better now. i just -- i just -- i gave myself therapy there. thank you for allowing me to do it. >> well, this has escalated between you and mr. bush. >> look, his people gave him that quote, you could see he was just saying okay, i'm ready to say it. jeb is a weak and ineffective person. he's also a low-energy person which i've said before but he's a weak and ineffective person. jeb if he were president it would be more of the same. he's got money from all of the lobbyists and all of the special interests that run him like a puppet. i have 41% in the latest poll. he has 2%. he

name "mission impossible"? well, "mission impossible" is becoming potentially possible thanks to what we saw today. but the hardest issue of all, the position of president bashar al-assad, is still in dispute. >> president putin addressed the nations in his annual press conference. we cannot agree with any approach which pre-supposes another nation who has a different vision of what syrian leadership should look like. >> secretary kerry was not getting the translation on his head set. this on the day the two men finally negotiated the exact language of the resolution, but with those carefully agreed words still make sense to both then when they're put to the test in the coming months. james bays, al jazeera, of the united nations. >> the u.n. resolution brings hope. >> more than 30,000 syrians live in and around the ancient city just across the border in turkey. they are escaping the civil war but staying close enough that if peace comes they can quickly get home. from aleppo, he thinks that there will be no problem forming a transitional government. we need to go back to our country, the schools, our homes. we're tired of living in exile. >> they think that assad shou

namely those moderate opposition forces trying to fight against bashar al assad, and president obamaking assad in that bloody war. the president said he has hope that putin will change his mind, change his calculus in that crisis. here's what he had to say. >> mr. putin recognizes, there is not going to be a military resolution to the situation in syria. the russians now have been there for several weeks, over a month. and i think fair-minded reporters who looked at the situation would say that the situation hasn't changed significantly. in the interim, russia's lost a commercial passenger jet, you've seen another jet shot down, there have been losses in terms of russian personnel. and i think mr. putin understands that with afghanistan fresh in the memory, for him to simply get bogged down in an inconclusive and paralyzing civil conflict is not the outcome he's looking for. now on the climate talks taking place here in paris, the president sounded much more confident than isis about reaching an agreement with other countries of the world for some sort of bond on reducing climate emi

because russian and iran are calling for naming the armed groups in syria, all groups that are holding arms against bashar al-assadthem as terrorist organization, that is going to complicate things very much, the thing that americans and also allies will not accept that. >> you talked about the leverage that russia has over syria, is there any appetite as far as the syrian government is concerned for negotiation at this stage? >> i think if we leave it up to the syrian government, i don't think they are interested in starting the political process, because that means they have to give something in this political process, and during for example, the geneva 2 conference in early 2014, the syrian regime, actually just undermined the whole process by insisting on first fighting terrorism and then we'll talk about everything else. so i think the syrian regime is trying now to embold the solution by using that same means, which has been from the very beginning, security solution, i mean to this whole issue, trying to defeat the opposition, trying to score heavily on the ground, and try to impose that actually on the tab

assad. the turkish president met the foreign minister in riyadh on tuesday. >> it was a friendly meeting to set up a high level strategy council between the two countries. >> the name of this consulate was to bring about a coalition in turkey and saudi arabia. it would serve the interests of the two countries and people. and create prosperity. >> reporter: in turkey there has been more fighting between the country and the kurdish armed troops. there were sounds of explosion and gunfire. the fighters have been demanding self rule in the kurdish south-eastern part of the country. turkish groups killed 200 fighters in the past few weeks, and the 2-year ceasefire fell apart, leading to ley knewed fighting >>> a court in indonesia is expected to deliver a verdict in a company accused of contributing the shroud of smoke that blankets the region. a company linked to a palm oil plantation is accused of burning thousands of hectares of forest to make room. >> crossing to florence mooney. joining us outside the courthouse. when do we expect the verdict. >> we have heard in the last couple of moonts that it was led up. the case was thrown up. it means there's not enough evide

he was afraid to use his last name because his family still lives in damascus in an area that is a stronghold of assade wanted the whole area to militarized. gilbert achcar, what would that look like? >> he is completely right. you said he is coming from damascus. this is very telling because until now, most of the people fleeing syria were fleeing from zones were the opposition is in control for the simple reason that every zoned that come under opposition control gets bombed by the regime, which has the monopoly of air force. whereas the regime controlled areas do not have this treatment and you can live and you can -- almost looks like normal. but that is because they are not afraid of any kind of bombing coming from the sky, unlike the other areas. and yet you now have people fleeing more and more from the regime-controlled areas because the regime-controlled areas are a very stressful kind of situation with the development of sectarian militias which are practicing, you know, like mafia forces, racketeering and all sorts of actions and violence. and people -- that is why people are losing hope li

name mission impossible? well, mission impossible is becoming potentially possible thanks to what we saw today. >> reporter: but the hardest issue of all, the future of president bashar al-assad, is still in dispute. the russian foreign minister again stressing it was not for the international community to decide his fate. >> translation: as to bashar al-assad's fate, we talked about that. repeatedly just recently, president putin addressed the nation in his annual press conference and he elaborated saying that we cannot agree with any issue which gave a nation from outside what its leadership should look like >> reporter: at one point as he spoke in russian secretary kerry wasn't ge getting the translation on his headset. this on the day the two men, as well as the rest of the security council, finally negotiated the exact language of the resolution, but will those carefully agreed words still mean to both men when put in the coming months >>> russia's growing influence in syria appears to of been key in getting agreement on the security council. the former russian diplomat explains why russia supported the asme n resolution. >>-- u.n. resolution >> i don't consider that rus

name of mission impossible? well, mission impossible is becoming potentially possible thanks to what we saw today. >> reporter: but the hardest issue of all, the future of president bashar al-assad is still in dispute. the russian foreign minister again stressing it was not for the international community to decide his fate. >> translation: we talked about bashar al-assad repeatedly just recently. president putin addressed the nation in his annual press conference and he elaborated on principle, that any agreement which said outside nations can not say what its leadership should look like. >> reporter: at one point as he spoke in russian, secretary kerry wasn't getting the translation on his headset. this on the day the two men, as well as the rest of the security council, finally negotiated the exact language of the resolution, but will those carefully agreed words still make sense to both men when they're put to the test in the coming months >>> the african union is proposing to send five thousand peacekeepers to burundi which it says is on the brink of civil war. months of violence have disrupted daily life. what has been the reaction there to this? >> reporter: the governmen

name of mission impossible? well, mission impossible is becoming potentially possible thanks to what we so saw today. >> reporter: the hardest issue of all, the topic of bashar al-assad, it sill not there. it is not for the international community to decide his faith. >> translation: we talk about bashar al-assad's fate. repeatedly just recently president putin addressed the nation in his annual press conference and he elaborated on principle we cannot agree with any which precipitated choosing another nation from outside certain vision of what the leadership should look like >> reporter: at one point as he spoke to russian, secretary remember eau wasn't getting the translation on his headset. this on the day the two men as well as the security council finally negotiated the exact language of the resolution, but will those carefully agreed words make sense to the men when put to the test in the coming months >>> the u. is the obama has outlined his government strategy to fight against i.s.i.l. he was speaking during his year end press conference at the white house. >> we're going to defeat i.s.i.s. worry going to do so by systematically squeezing them, cutting off th

assad's government, a sworn isis enemy. stacey: the university of iowa is renaming its information hub for students. the hub is called "the iowa student information systems." or, "isis." the university has received complaints about the name, since the terrorist group became prominent last year. officials say they are using the opportunity to create a new information system, with a new name. they hope to launch that system next semester. rapist. and tonight, his victims are speaking out. a jury found the former oklahoma officer daniel holtzclaw guilty of 18 counts of sexual assault and rape. his victims he met while on duty in poor, mostly minority neighborhoods. jannie ligons, a grandmother, was the first to file a police complaint, after he assaulted her during a traffic stop. jannie: he did things to me that i didn't think a police officer would do. i didn't know what to do. i was so afraid. i was afraid for my life. i kept begging him. sir, please don't make me do this. don't make me do this, sir. stacey: many of the women did not originally come forward, because they did not believe authorities would believe their story over that of a police officer. steve: fbi search teams continue to scour a lake for evidence, near

named a successor. his death could be a major blow in upcoming peace talks in assad's government and rebel groups. >> therucial peace talks between the assad government and leaders will scheduled to take place in less than a month. he led thousands of fighters and was opposed to isis. friday's air strike targeted a meeting of rebel leaders just outside the capital. syria's military claims he was killed in the blast but it is unclear whether russian or syrian war planes carried out the strike. russia has been supporting the zaud government with air strikes since september >>> iraqi troops are moving clos heto ureihe ate.rcenger iti >> nedex ad idayckand .317ontsed >>ng ace? towouhed nes.ostd led ♪>>g . oneot da s. hotctsre ula" , why let someone else have all ththfun? the sosotimemehaphphard,d, never boring fun. the why can't it smell like this all the time fun. the learning the virtue of sharing this all fun.time fun. why let someone else have all the fun? that's no fun. unleash the power of dough. give it a pop. >>> the gifts are unwrapped. now some are headed back to the stores to make returns. and whe