barbara basil is following the peace talks for us there. what effect do you think from your perspective in geneva will president putin's move have on the talks? guest: it will definitely change the position of the pieces on the chessboard in geneva. it came as a tremendous surprise literally minutes before the news came from moscow. we did an interview with the spokesman of the opposition alliance here and she said directly what will happen here will be decided in moscow and he appealed to president putin to decide for the syrian people to end this war and said the future of bashar al-assad, the president of syria will be decided in moscow. it seems in a way, he may have been heard to a certain point. the representatives of the government were full of self-confidence and drew redlines all over the place, saying we are not going to talk about the future of assad or more unitarian access or the release of prisoners. they seemed like they are staggering into the talks here and i assume this will be going to change. what ever it means, it is a