the opposition has said they want the focus of the talks to be on the removal, the departure of bashir al-assad said it's a precondition and should come to the table without preconceived ideas and the west is to ask for a hold on, are we sure the syrian regime will be signing up to the whole idea if they come to the talks because at the moment there is every indication while representatives of the current regime are willing to come to the talks in switzerland one thing they don't want to discuss is the idea of bashir al-assad leaving power. >> that is jackie live in paris and this is the view from iran and we will go to tehran and how key are they to receiving an invitation from switzerland? >> there are two answers for that and iran is a little nonchalant and says if it gets an invitation it does and if it doesn't it doesn't. why? they feel they have been disrespected throughout this whole process. some sort of official invitation of course, iran said it will attend and if it gets the official invitation and the precondition but if it doesn't get an invitation iran will not be so bothered and

they want to talk about president bashir al-assad handing over power but his team has other ideas andhat is a day after the two sides made some progress, a deal on a safe passage for civilians and it would take place in palms in the early stages of the up rising there and s. in c says it's time to move talks forward and this is what they had to say late last night. >> tomorrow, we will start talking about transition to democracy and clearly the regime is not enthusiastic to talk about that and they are trying to use delay tactics, trying to go into details about information that can't be verified. >> reporter: and from the syrian peace talks, in geneva, now, james, today we are getting to the heart of the matter, we are talking about political transitions, that is what is expected to come out today, no doubt a thorny subject and difficult discussion ahead. >> a very difficult discussion. the opposition delegation arrived just a few moments ago waiting for the government's delegation to arrive in the u.n. compound here and talks will get underway in the next few minutes and both sides

really divided the lebanese people into two camps, one that supports the syrian government and bashir al-assadending fighters to fight alongside the government and the other which supports the opposition and this is causing a lot of tension in most parts of the country, not only in the capitol beirut, not only in or interareas between syria and lebanon but the capitol which witnessed so many explosions recently. we used to hear about the explosions and see them every month or two months and now they are happening on a weekly bases and this is the effect and shows you how divided the people in lebanon are and goes to show it was the concerns and the worries about the conflict in syria really the fighting in lebanon and creating a spill over and turmoil were very valid worries and concerns. >> reporter: all right, thank you very much and we are in the lebanese capitol beirut where there has been yet another explosion, a bomb attack believed to be the work of a suicide bomber in southern beirut, the stronghold of the group hezbollah and 4 killed and 27 people injured in this latest attack. and we

people that really are not our friends like the neighbors in iran, support, verbal support for bashir al-assad this is not indicative of a country that is grateful for the sacrifice that was made. >> turning to america's surveillance program, you are the president's national security advisor, is it time for an overhaul of the way that data is collected in order to restore public trust? >> well, one of the great things about our country is that when we uncover things that need to be fixed, we have a very public arena and we fix them. might extent that there need to be some fine tuning, i have no doubt about the fact that we would do that. on the other hand, i want to say ,uite clearly that this is not this practice is not only the property of the u.s.. the practice of industrial espionage is alive and whirl all of the -- alive and well all over the world. there are quite a few industries that were taken right from the u.s. and developed. so, the people, the politicians who are out there overtly demonstrating how terrible this is and everything else, they should be a little bit more circumspect

syrian president bashir al assad they say stay in power the syrian national council and main opposition bloc even threatened to pull out of the coalition in the general assembly voted in favor of attending the geneva to. it seems though however that on mounting pressure from the us and western countries. cause confessions to be me the conference out will be held under the auspices of the un and its co sponsored by russia and the us is scheduled to begin on tuesday january twenty seconds. it is aimed at finding a way to install a transitional government that will subsequently keep the weight for height to admitting that nearly three year old civil war which has reportedly claimed the lives of some one hundred and thirty thousand people. and with one opposition group now ready to join the talks it's still not clear if any of the others will follow suit. a recent british defence study has found that nearly half of those fighting against the assad government are the his or her line is the max let's take a look at what it says one hundred thousand a rebel fighters in the country or split int

bashir al-assad does not sound like a leader ready to step aside. >> the assad government wants to see a sod continue to be the head of the state. a lot of people question how fruitful these can you. it is clear it is the beginning of the process, not the end of a conflict. with head back to davos francine next. >> i am concerned that basically after five, six years after the crisis, that it is done. the mood is getting better. but people forget that on the price side it's a very muted recovery. it's a very slow recovery. and it would be really hard to expect this recovery to look like any previous recovery. it will be much more dragged out and slow. >> that was axle labor on the state of the global recovery. i spoke to him earlier on "countdown ". welcome back to "on the move." these are the bloomberg top head lines. speak talks with opposition groups and assad begin today. at least 40 countries including the united nations will attend 350 kilometers there. no change in policy from the bank of japan. the governor's board will continue to expand the monetarily base for $70 trillion yen

let's move on to news out of syria and the main opposition to bashir al-assad's group and al-qaeda executedpeople and include fighters from another al-qaeda-connected group and activists and dozens of national coalition members threatened to resign and won't be attending international peace talks in geneva later this month and missing from the talks is iran, the country has not been invited to attend the conference and the u.n. said it never got approval from u.s. and russia to do so. [gunfire] this video meanwhile is said to show fighters of the islamic state of iraq exchanging fire with other opposition fighters in idlib. rebel groups are clashing with isil fighters throughout opposition controlled areas. and we are live in istanbul and why have they threatened to resign? >> well, in the statement they produced last night and in the long discussions we had with them in the darkening hours of the late evening, they told us that they didn't feel they could be seen to be going to geneva when so many of the commitments made to the international community and the gestures by moon and asked for

because of the conflict next door in syria between opponents and supporters of the government of bashir al-assades are happening in a sunni area and adjacent to an alwhy neighborhood and separated by a street called syria street and that is where most of the deadly fighting has happened and everywhere in tripoli witnessed the fighting and where we are the street and back in late august there was a double car bombing here that targeted two mosques and killed 50 people and a lot of lives have been lost here and to make matters even worse because of the large influx of refugees the syrian refugees who have come here mainly sunnis living and staying in a cabanna and what i mentioned have also been participating in the fighting. >> and now the lebanese army struggles to keep peace in tripoli what do people think about the talks going on in geneva, do they think there can be any hopes of a political solution? >> well, the lebanese residents of tripoli are of course skeptical of talks in geneva because they know this has always been a tender box and witnessed sectarian violence for many years and i kno

john kerry saying bashir al assad shouldn't be a part of any transitional government. >>> mexico, theot to execute convicted cop killer tonight. he was convicted of killing a houston police officer. mexico is arguing the execution would violate international law. >>> at number five, toronto's embattled mayor rob ford admitted he fell off the wagon. he said he was drinking a little when he was caught on this video babbling in a fake jamaican accent. >>> next richard sherman sitting down exclusively with our rachel nichols to sit the record straight about that unforgettable post-game rant. the question is, is he sorry? ♪ >>> welcome back. does richard sherman regret the famous rant that made him a household name. he talked exclusively r rachel nichols about his comments. rachel nichols is the host of "unguarded." great interview to get. >> thanks so much, chris. here's what's fascinating about richard sherman. he's one of the most brash, most outspoken guys in the nfl. he graduated from stanford and worked on i had masters while still playing football. what happened the other night was

this year i'll assad it -- bashir al-assad is a bad guy. the rebels are beheading people. it is not a question of good or bad. it is bad and in many cases much worse. we are too quick to provide support for people that criticize us for trying to do the right thing on their behalf. we get played in the middle afghanistanq and and i think people are sick and tired of it. tools ofamerica -- the collaboration, the internet is used for aspirational purposes. host: you sit on the subcommittee for the homeland security committee. what is going on in syria? what can you tell us? we see headlines like this in "the wall street journal." guest: well, there is a big battle going on. you have bashir al-assad and the rebel fighters, which is made up of 1000 militias, including islamic extremists. they are battling internally against each other. what is it you want? do you want islamic extremists and fighters who are the best fighters among the rebels to take control of that country? this is a civil war that has to be resolved internally. the more we signal we are willing to get involved

is to establish a transitional government, one that will likely not include syrian president bashir al-assad today is day one of iran historic nuclear agreement and international inspectors are now on the job and the u.n. nuclear agency confirms iran has halted its most sensitive uranium work is set to expire in six months and they will negotiate a permanent agreement and ease sanctions and release $4 billion in frozen assets and this iranian businessman says it's a start but won't be enough. >> translator: because they blocked iran's access to swift and international banking we have no ability to transfer money and transportation companies are banned from coming to iran's ports and no insurance for the goods, what is supposed to happen from january 20 has no impact on sanctions but it's psychological. >> reporter: and sanctions will be lifted on oil exports, gold and automotive parts and given greater access to airplane parts and medicine. 32 people killed over the weekend in iran on sunday two blasted rock the northern regions leaving two dead and saturday they targeted busy areas across t

hours and it was by radical fires by people who think they are too moderate and both want to oust bashir al-assad it weakens the campaign as assad continues the assault and dropped targets on two places controlled by the opposition and destroyed dozens of homes. survivors were carried away on make-shift stretchers and a make-shift ambulance. and as people look for more survivors they found only the dead. in the refugee camp children had to take cover from progovernment snipers and they targeted refugees as they try to look for food. conditions here are so bad people are dying of hunger. antiregime activists say snipers shot dead women and children. and i'm with al jazeera, syrian, turkish border. >> reporter: iran is talking about the exclusion from wednesday's peace conference in switzerland, a foreign ministry spokesman said they did not ask to take part in the talks and never a plan. and the foreign minister said moon was under pressure when he rescinded iran's invitation. a new report suggests the assad regime was involved in the systematic killing of thousands of syrian detainees. tens of th

areas,g in on populated bashir al-assad has slaughtered innocent men, women, and children. here we are working with the russians. today there was a u.n. resolution from the security council condemning basher al- assad's barbaric behavior. guess who vetoed? our friends, the russians. most orwellian situation in iraq that anyone has ever seen throughout history. russians are working with us to remove chemical weapons from syria and at the same time aircraft from russia are landing full of weapons to kill syrian men, women, and children from russia. it is -- it is -- i am not sure that a syrian mother can differentiate between her child dying from a chemical weapon were dying from one of these cluster bombs that basher al- al-d is unloading -- bashir assad is unloading from his helicopters. they have been pushing for months for a geneva two. does anyone in god's green earth believes that by sheer all assad is going to preside over his own transition from power? of course not. i will never forget the testimony of our now still chairman of the joint chiefs of leon panetta before

. >> and skype appears to be the latest victim of hackers tied to syrian president bashir al assad. retiring ceo of microsoft, which owns skype, along with a message that accuses the software giant of selling user data to the government. microsoft officials have not immediately commented. >>> yet another tech company is dealing with an embarrassing data breach. snap chat, a popular smart phone messaging app that allows people to send photos and videos that quickly disappear. hacking group has posted the names and phone numbers of more than 4 million of its users online. lori siegel is following this for us from new york. >> if you're on snap chat, have kids on snap chat, you have to be taking a step back and saying i'm a little bit concerned. 4.6 million accounts exposed in this hack. pretty significant number. phone numbers revealed in this. user names revealed and also, fredricka, this information was posted on the web and available for anybody to download. the hackers that posted it, they blurt out two digits of the phone number to say we're going to respect your privacy to a deg

systems, the chemical weapons systems, are based on the hill in damascus very near the home of bashir al-assad fewer russians worried about whether he would survive, he would not want american cruise missiles going into targets that were maybe a few miles from his home. it was not just an innocent deal that was made there. but vladimir putin did that and he deserves credit for that. the problems he will have with sochi, with the security and these bombings in the south of russia, not too far from the caucuses area, he has got a lot of problems there. he has just resorted to classic toughest boss. he is not a communist, which this shows that they were not so much communists, they were tough guys. from 2013, it has not been a good year for vladimir putin, but there have not been good years for him. he did well for himself by putting himself back in power, but that was a tragedy for russia. dmitry medvedev was a very different kind of guy, and -- open to the world, interested in economic reform, interested in fighting corruption, and then vladimir putin came back. i guess you could say that putin

women and children to leave the city of homs, it was one of the first cities to rebel against bashir al-assadime but there is a new development with the deal and i bring in nick with the latest, good morning, we are hearing now a different story from opposition leaders today regarding the homs' agreement. >> yeah, stephanie, we heard from brahimi from syria yesterday and he spoke to the entire press core and said what we all thought was a deal for holmes and he said he hoped it alleviated the suffering of women and children but opposition is speak out this morning and talking to me how this was not a deal but a unilateral decision by the government and what we wanted to focus on was a humanitarian on the city for food and water and i spoke a few minutes ago and what she fears that this deal is actually a poisoned chalise. >> we feel it's the regime setting up the civilian population for slaughter and what was on the table in the negotiation was humanitarian assistance being allowed in, a shifting of is siege so the 12 trucks could get in and start distributing medical supplies and food to peo

. >> bashir al assad will not be part of that transition government.utal response to his own people could regain the legitimacy to govern. >> syria's foreign minister rejected secretary kerry's statements saying, "no one, mr. kerry, has the right to provide legitimacy, except for the syrian people." meanwhile, senator john mccain, one of the most outspoken critics of president obama's policy in syria, accused the administration of overlooking war crimes. quote, i have never seen anything like this in my life. i thought jimmy carter was bad, but he pales in comparison to this president in my view. joining us now, nbc news foreign correspondent ayman mow my helden, where does this go from here? >> there will be international mediators. there are not going to be any direct talks. really, the short answer to your question, nobody really knows. there's such a wide gap, and fundamentally they're not talking about the same thing. nobody's certain they'll produce the outcome desired by all. >> ayman, talk about the timing and as we look at these images that ha

assad. what is going on with rebel groups fighting al qaeda in the country? >> you have a but it is a mess. bottom line you have got the government under bashirg rebel groups which are mostly islamist militants. you have got al qaeda groups. al qaeda had been stabbing the rebel islamist militant groups in the back. now islamist militants are fighting back against al qaeda. there are gains being made by bashir assad. there is no good endgame in the fight in syria from what i can see. we've been sitting on the sidelines for three plus years now where 135,000 people have perished. jenna: "the new york times" has an interesting front page piece on what saudi arabia is doing, trying to support the rebels that want to out of assad but not support the jihadists. tough to control that but that is what they're doing. are they successful in that, peter? is that a model for us? >> well it is very hard to pick these groups apart. you know, the alliances go back and forth. people go back and forth. some fol would like to see the moderates. remember these are the one who is started this. the moderates started it. they have less power. the syrian free army

there is also the thing about bashir al afad, you may have written about this, the only person he really feared was eric sharon. >> the interesting thing about that is when assad looked at sharon, especially his behavior in lebanon, he saw himself, you know, assad -- well, no, no, there are, i mean as tom used, as tom coined the expression hamas ruled, he he killed 20,000 people and leveled the city, he saw in sharon perhaps the only israeli he feared could do the same. ariel sharon was very middle eastern, you know, and he -- and i don't mean that in sort of an enlightened way. he absorbed the lessons of the behavior of people like bashar al-assad and often thought that israel had to be as brutal as those kind of dictators and that's what got him into such trouble. >> rose: in lebanon. >> in lebanon. there is also this, this idea that the withdrawal from gaza was a huge mistake, because it led to hamas getting more power, and destroyed any kind of unity within the palestinian political -- >> there are two arguments whether it was a mistake, the right wing argument says we should never left what is our, the left wing liberal argument which is that by not negot

very violently and what the head of al-qaeda said this morning is appeals to the islam fighters in syria fighting each other at the same time and fighting bashir assadcome together and the fighters are not represented at the talks behind me. right now we have if syrian government and the syrian national coalition which represents what the u.s. would consider more moderate fighters inside of syria. so it goes to show if you have any kinds of progress here in geneva, not only does the violence in syria continue but the opposition parties inside of syria all of whom want to get rid of assad are no where on the same page and many not represented here stephanie. >> reporter: we are reporting from geneva and nick thank you. it took a lot of pressure from the international community to even bring the syrian opposition to these talks. and geneva two may be the last chance for the syrian national coalition to assert itself politically and we explain the evolution of the coalition in syrian. >> reporter: opposition to bashir assad regime started on the streets in march 2011 and people paid with their lives and demanding change and reform. four months later it

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