they claim it's for success of the geneva conference. arming the opposition will undermine the geneva conference. it will kill more of our people arming the opposition. that's why we insist the geneva conference take place. violence and terrorism need to stop. >> for that to happen, both sides need to show a willingness to abandon their armed struggles. but it seems like these show the rebels are far from making that sort of decision. they say they need heavy weapons and regular resupply to fight assad's army. and as here in aleppo, they're using whatever they can seize from the government to do that. nd so the violence rages on. and makes evermore syrians become casualties. dominik cain, al jazeera. >> welcome back. you're watching al jazeera. a reminder of our main stories, there's confusion over the whereabouts of u.s. whistle blower edward snowden and was due to board a flight to moscow but didn't show up. the u.s. wants to arrest him for revealing a secret program. brazil earmarked $25 billion in a system in order to stamp out stree

we begin with breaking news out of geneva. the united nations is launching a new humanitarian appeal for syria. our diplomatic ataturk is standing by. what are you hearing? >> a news conference will take place in a few moments in geneva. we know what they are going to say. they are going to announce the biggest ever humanitarian appeal in history for syria. the numbers involved are best. the u.n. is talking about a figure of almost $5 billion. there is a little confusion on whether that includes the money already paid this year, which is $1.2 4 billion. even if it does include that, the new money is $3.9 6 billion, a huge amount of money. that begs the question of how they're going to raise this money. they have already found it hard .aising existing amount that is 80% of what they asked for earlier in the year. it is difficult because there are so many governments stopped at this time because of the harsh economic climate. there are other calls on them. for example, the desperate situation in mali. >> money has been pledged a

in fact, they do support the geneva peace process. cross over now to our diplomatic editor who is at the meeting at the moment. what do you make of qatar's ?oreign minister's words >> a very strong call to arms, very strong words, laying out his country's position. he was not, though, laying out an agreement of these 11 ministers who are around the table, these 11 foreign ministers. he did not say, "we have agreed on a new strategy and a new policy." we know those 11 foreign ministers have been meeting on their own, without their aids -- trying to agree on a common position. it's not clear yet what they have managed to agree on because there are great divisions within this group. these may be the 11 countries that are closest to the syrian opposition, but not all countries agree on the idea of arming the opposition. you heard the qatari foreign minister say that in the past, western nations have ignored places. i'm thinking particularly of germany and italy who believe the conflict will probably get worse if there are mormons arm -- m

on the substance of geneva -- geneva ii, the prime minister has spoken but agreement on a transitiotransitional governing body with full executive authority based on key institutions of the state and inclusive political settlement. but does exhibit everyone of those commitments featured in the geneva one communicate i can june 2012, the prime minister -- a moment of clarity on syria let kenny said that in his report how in concrete terms just a statement moves us closer to the clinical settlement? on arming the rebels he now says it's not his policy to arm the rebels. given the geneva conference has been delayed can envision a circumstance in which we seek to arm the rebels before the conference takes place? and given the limited nature of the progress achieved in this week is he still maintained that focusing so much time and effort in the days and weeks preceding this summit on losing the eu arms embargo was the right way to spend capital? the reality is we did not witness the long hopeful break in city at the g8 summit and when he to be candid about the. the prime minister knows that to t

he is meeting russian and american officials pushing for the so-called geneva conference. the president of brazil is hoping her promise to spend an extra $25 billion on public transport will overcome public anger. dilma rousseff also announced economic reforms to try to reduce inflation, as well as the money for hospitals. on the capital -- from the capital, we have more. >> under pressure by a surging protest movement, president dilma rousseff gathered together mayors and governors looking for their backing for a surprise package of proposals centered around a national referendum calling for political reform. >> people are on the streets now saying they want change to continue. they want it to expand and happen faster. they are saying they want more citizenry, complete citizenry. the street tell us that the country wants all at the public services. they want efficient mechanisms to fight corruption. a wiping out corruption is key demand from protesters. she also called for a national pact that included four key areas -- economic reforms, $25 billion in funding for public

but as i said, really if we're going to put so much weight on the geneva process and the geneva principles it's important that everybody -- iran included -- signs up to them. >> [inaudible] >> thank you, madam deputy speaker. the prime minister's attempts on the world trade agreement will be very warmly welcomed by many and rightly so, but does he agree the prize could be even bigger if we could genuinely open up the e. single market to services because particularly with 71% of e.u. gdp is in services, only 3.2% is intra-e.u. companies, and much more could be done to help our company. >> my honorable friend is absolutely right, and this requires action by governments and countries right across the board including traditionally quite free trade countries like germany that have sometimes had quite a lot of restrictions around particular professions. so we need to do that within the e.u., and then we need do it between the e.u. and the u.s. in order to capture the full benefits of these changes. >> -- [inaudible] davis. >> on the tax sharing, sharing of tax information, was there agreement in

support to the syrian opposition comes ahead of a peace conference that's supposed to take place geneva at the end of this month or be they have then next month that conference was organized by the united states and russia and it was aiming to get both sides from syria to come together at the table and talk about how there could be a transitional government forms and ultimately and the ongoing violence that's been taking place in syria according to the united nations ninety three thousand people have been killed since this civil war began more than two years ago we should note that many experts have indicated that and believe and argue that adding more arms to such a heavily violent conflict that's ongoing in syria would actually fuel an arms race it would make the circumstance there the environment there so much more dangerous but as we see from the the announcements made by the obama administration that washington plans to aid rebels militarily and they won't give specifics but it looks as though that the united states will be arming the syrian opposition washington says it's shared i

we need to all of the conflicting parties to geneva to take part in live geneva peace conference to sit down at the negotiating table to end violence and to find a solution with that providing security for all the years you can religious groups that's what we're going to do. i want a clarification of this. that would get it you're right yes this is you want that if you. want that's good sounds well can you imagine any government without. well. you might want to make it absolutely clear that i think our stance he's a balanced one and appropriate. whether he stays or whether he go what kind of political structure we have. it's not for us to decide we're foreigners it's the sea assumptive the syrian people we need to provide conditions for the political process and the conflicting party this need to sit down and negotiate the future. and it's only then that these architecture will be long term and stable. and i would laugh on my part. but i would like to. clarify the situation with the exhibition. cheering our negotiations we agreed. that we will attend this exhibition. together with the m

the russians make the point that we have the assad regime to go to geneva. or at least they say they will go to geneva, while the americans -- their job was to bring the opposition to the negotiating table. they have not achieved that. the opposition has not signed on because they are so divided and because they're so worried about the violence on the ground. >> we are getting reports of a car bomb that exploded at a roadblock near a military airport outside of damascus. these pictures are said to show the aftermath of the explosion. it is believed to have killed or injured members of president assad's forces. there has been a fierce battle going on for aleppo. rebels have more than half the city under their control, but pro-assad forces have launched a new offensive. >> the worst fighting in syria over the last 24 hours. the syrian army raided many locations around the city using heavy artillery. fighting was also in the factory outside the city. it was the syrian army's largest military base in the area. it is strategically located at the eastern side of t

. >> he was in geneva, switzerland to maintain security. snowden told "the guardian," much of what i saw in geneva really disillusioned me. he said it was during the stint in geneva that he thought for the first time about exposing government secrets. while in geneva, he was in close contact with maveny anderson, and today, maveny said "i don't work for the cia or nsa but i obtained top secret clearance for a position i held in geneva when i met ed. my security clearance allowed him to talk to me as a friend about some of the things that weighed on his mind and conscience. he never gave up anything to me he should not have. he spoke in the context of the information i already knew. and in a general sense about the stresses and burdens of the work he performed. he was already experiencing a crisis of conscience of sorts. joining me for an exclusive interview is maveny anderson, thank you very much for joining me tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> maveny, so you had a security clearance when you were there. were you working as a contract

he said he will not attend the upcoming peace conference in geneva, instead asking for urgent military help to resist a government offensive supported by fighters from lebanon. the last rebel stronghold has fallen to president assad's. >> syrian state television probably shows its reporter looking around the debris of

violence and solve the situation peacefully, including burning parties to the negotiation table in genevathis after vladimir putin vowed to keep the rebels away from the negotiating table of the weekend, also warning it will not accept the imposition of a no-fly zone over syria. the russian foreign ministry spokesman ahead of the meeting called such a move unproductive. the united states envoy confirming earlier today that such a no-fly zone is not now on the agenda. the issue of a no-fly zone is not on the table. whether it will be tomorrow or some other day, i don't know. it is not there yet. saudi arabia has decided to help arm the rebels with anti-aircraft weaponry and the latest poll gives considerable evidence that this country's citizens want no part of yet another conflict in the middle east. a brand new poll shows 70 percent of americans now oppose the united states and iis allies sending arms and military supplies to anti-government groups in syria, many of which have loyalties to terrorist groups..3 the united states and russia are looking for a peaceful political solution to e

push both sides to peace talks continue to stall amid the opposition's failure to join the upcoming geneva conference of former british intelligence officer frank leverage believes that ignoring the diplomatic push can lead to dreadful results both sides are insisting on preconditions particularly i think in this case the opposition they won't talk to to the syrian government unless assad agrees to go you can't show up at a negotiation of any kind with with the with preconditions like that simply it's a recipe for disaster and negotiations wouldn't go if they even if they take place at all they wouldn't go past the first the first half hour the way to conduct negotiations is to go without preconditions but understanding on all sides that

>>reporter: before leaving for northern ireland, president obama sounded pessimistic that the geneva conference would even happen, much less that it could lead to an end to the war. >> assad at this point in part because of his support from iran and from russia believes that he does not have to engage in a political transition, believes that he can continue to simply violently suppress over half of the population and as long as he's got that mindset, it's going to be very difficult to resolve the situation. >>reporter: president obama announced on monday the u.s. will send $300 million to help the victims and refugees of the war. susan mcginnis, cbs news, washington. >>> a new day for the military, the pentagon is expected to announce a new plan today to it expand jobs for women in combat. women may be able to start training as army rangers by mid- 2015 and as navy seals a year later. in january then secretary of defense leon panetta ordered all jobs open to women unless a specific exception was requested by the military services. the latest move to be announced later today could ope

in geneva the u.n. report accuses both the government and the rebels of war crimes but it blames the majority of them all on the government is that fair. oh well no it's not but it's a short answer and the long answer would be that you have both sides of brands both sides violate human rights but it's very important when you talk about something you have to be in on it to have all the information is your disposal as you know very well and the. commission of inquiry doesn't have any access to see and so it basically collects the evidence. from the states around here in the us so what really was what really. this one of the binding least records is that the commission didn't qualify. last terrible blast that took place in syria and because a lot of big things they didn't call these last is terror attacks and for us it has to be clear these terrorist attacks the second thing is that their commission doesn't create it says negative economic unilateral and i'm excited so that's that has had been boost. the s

another building that we can look at that shows that damage is the geneva, what they call the genevaar barn, but the geneva office building, now fiely sort of temporarily repaired after further damage in the loma-prieta earthquake in 1989. -- finally sort of temporarily repaired. you can see closely in the corner of the parapet cracks, cracks that were repaired, 80, 90, 100 years ago. some were cracks from the loma-prieta earthquake. >> this is reinforcement in the building also. >> we can look inside, here is a peek inside. giant gigantic spaces, the 30-ton crane. >> it was used until about a year ago, used by the san francisco dry dock company. they had huge lathes, gigantic cranes that climbed ceiling high of the building to carry large machinery. a couple guys sitting there in one of those old beautiful buildings. >> very hard to maintain these buildings. even a house, once it's abandoned, not heated and warmed and maintained and ventilated, they deteriorate very quickly. >> that's the old safety sign. it says safety stories. of course during the height of world war ii there were

the g eight summit now the participants seem reasonably optimistic they're looking forward to this geneva conference is it really going to make much difference end of the day any time soon though in syria. well it is the only hope but it mean this is really reviving something that was agreed year ago in geneva by the western leaders and russia at the time and this communique really seems to only repeat phrases the ball already in that geneva communique of one year ago and then of course we have the important meetings between secretary of state john kerry and russian foreign minister sergei lavrov which agreed to to bring together a conference and that was done about two months ago they made that statement so we're going to be proceeding from there but unfortunately pessimistic side is that the date of the conference that shifted it was originally under the kerry lavrov plan was to be in june then it was talked about being in july now they seem to be hinting it couldn't be probably to august or september so it is slipping away all the time as we speak david cameron went on to say that the

known as geneva ii? >> there is a lot talk about the important supply line here.he government is anuous territory and it itrible blow for morale tells you that for all the talk of the president lose in this campaign, he has served him locked up about a dozen. the rebels say that one thing ,hey will not in an interview that is the one condition the government has. >> paul had on the latest with the fighting in the syrian conflict. the ministry and defense has announced a new policy for afghan army interpreters who routinely work with frontline troops, there will be allowed but only if they have been employed since last december. critics say that hundreds of interpreters were not qualified. one disturbing case involved a young translator whose life had been destroyed by the taliban. heat and the the dust, british troops rely on afghan translators. september 2008, i joined them. one translator for one of the units was named barry. he was popular, regularly risk his life, and he even helped to save a soldier who had been hit by shrapnel. his commanding officer command

. >> including by bringing the parties to the negotiations table in geneva. we agree to push the parties to the negotiations table. >> other topics up for discussion include deterring kidnappings of foreign workers in africa and cornering globe trotting corporations into paying more taxes. >>> a scary ride for passengers on a united flight from hong kong to newark, new jersey. they were more than halfway into the 15-hour flight when a man started ranting about national security, the cia and international spying. he also claimed he and everyone else on the plane were poisoned. the crew and other passengers decided to subdue him. >> a few of us jumped on him, put him on the ground with the help of a few passengers and flight attendants. we were able to handcuff him. >> the fbi met the flight in newark and took the man away in handcuffs. he still hasn't been identified, but other passengers say he is an american. >>> a man accused of harassing passengers while running naked at a san francisco bart station is due in court today. 24-year-old yeiner perez is charge

that's why the conference in geneva is so critical. and it's critical that the syrian opposition atend, and also that we convince-- and this is a difficult task it's russians, that despite their attachment to assad, their support for assad, that some of the things senator mccain talked about-- regional spillover, disintegration, chaotic sectarian warfare, would be as detrimental to the russians as anyone else and for they have to be mump more responsible and much less provocative. >> schieffer: what then, should we do? what do you think the united states could d do at this point? some people say there's not much we can do. >> well, first of all, we have to provide humanitarian assistance, particularly to jordan and to other countries. we have to reiterate that the introduction of more sophisticate weapons, particularly the sophisticate anti-aircraft weapons would be a regional threat and particularly a threat to israel. we have to be very conscious of that. and that's another reason why we talk about arming the opposition in syria, tha

around 25% of flights at key french airports were canceled. >> i had a 10:00 flight to geneva. and a flight this evening. >> i came here at 5:00 this morning and paid 50 euros or a taxi, and only when i arrived did they tell me the flight was canceled. >> the air-traffic controllers have walked out over the project. its aim was to bring management of european aerospace under the control of the eu, and until now, the region's aerospace has been fragmented into dozens of blocks, mostly based on national boundaries. under the new plan, it would merge into nine functional air locks, with the new manager put in charge of route planning, but the staff say this will affect their working conditions. >> the reason air traffic controllers are on strike is because the european commission has entered into cutting costs and fees, and because of this, aviation revenues are decreasing today, and they do not allow us to buy the technological tools we need for the future. >> this will all mean little to the passengers stranded now, but the european commission estimates airspace inefficiencies c

and russian plans for a syrian peace conference in geneva. at the united nations, secretary general ban ki-moon said he, too, opposes putting more weapons in syria. >> providing arms to either side would not address this current situation. there is no such military solution. only political solution can address this issue sustainably, >> brown: the german foreign minister raised another concern- - that radical islamist fighters in syria will somehow get hold of american weapons. >> ( translated ): we need an end to the violence as soon as possible and the start of a political process. germany will not send any weapons to syria, but we respect other partners of ours to do so. but whoever opts for weapons delivery must make sure that those weapons do not end up in the wrong hands. >> brown: up to now, president obama had raised the same concern, but at the white house today, advisor rhodes said it's been addressed. >> we have relationships today in syria that we didn't have six months ago that gives us greater certainty not just that we can get

the most important one being the geneva council, which should take place in july. given that, i would read the u.s. decision more as a diplomatic move than as a military move. >> what about the fears that sophisticated american weaponry could fall into the hands of terrorists and be a threat then to the west? are those threats justified? >> it is justified. he has seen examples before, the prime example being afghanistan. the delivery of sophisticated weapons to the mujahedin which were used against the u.s. and afghanistan, but what would be the alternative? to do nothing? i think the combination of military pressure and diplomatic moves is the right play here. >> this has nonetheless been an about-face in washington. president obama has been reticent to make this move. does it mean an end to the scheduled peace talks? >> absolutely not. it is one of the efforts to help the peace process starting, and i think it is an important element to put pressure not only on the regime to show up in geneva and to offer some political compromises but also to show the, so deuce

the most important one being the geneva council, which should take place in july. given that, i would read the u.s. decision more as a diplomatic move than as a military move. >> what about the fears that sophisticated american weaponry could fall into the hands of terrorists and be a threat then to the west? are those threats justified? >> it is justified. he has seen examples before, the prime example being afghanistan. the delivery of sophisticated weapons to the mujahedin which were used against the u.s. and afghanistan, but what would be the alternative? to do nothing? i think the combination of military pressure and diplomatic moves is the right play here. >> this has nonetheless been an about-face in washington. president obama has been reticent to make this move. does it mean an end to the scheduled peace talks? >> absolutely not. it is one of the efforts to help the peace process starting, and i think it is an important element to put pressure not only on the regime to show up in geneva and to offer some political compromises but also to show the, so deuce

. >> throughout, he kept insisting they would not be a party to any talks in geneva while hezbollah was in syria. and he warned that his men would fight the front and the splinter group islamic state of iraq in sham if they continue attacks on his brigade. both groups support an islamic state and have sworn allegiance to al qaeda. this is the man who has been dealing with the west but fears there will be no delivery. he says his credibility with his men has all but gone as a result. this command body of the free syrian army has a crisis on its hands and it's accusing the west of failing to give it a ifeline. >> the involvement of hezbollah fighters is making lebanon o target. six rockets fired from inside syria, they say hezbollah is helping forces loyal to the syrian president. we'll take a closer look now at some of the political wranchingning going on between the scenes between countries supporting rebels. thanks for being with us. we heard in our report a few moments ago them calling desperately for weapons. it's widely believe that qatar had been supplying the rebels with arms unti

he said he will not attend the upcoming peace conference in geneva, instead asking for urgent military help to resist a government offensive supported by fighters from lebanon. the last rebel stronghold has fallen to president assad's. >> syrian state television probably shows its reporter looking around the debris of the village in the west of the country. soldiers removed weapons meant for rebels. this carefully orchestrated report is to decide -- is designed to show that president assad's forces are in control, but that is not how one syrian rebel group sees it. a said that they left voluntarily to protect civilians. they said they have taught them a lesson. hezbollahsay this, shoulder soldiers have learned g lesson. for 45 days, the people of the city stood their ground. his is a mark of heroism that will never be forgotten. >> the u.s. has launched its biggest appeal for funds to help civilians. 4.4 billion dollars in all. but humanitarian assistance is not with the main rebel group once. they want urgent military assistance and say they are in no mood to attend upcoming diplomati

. >> including by bringing the talks to the negotiation table in geneva. we agreed to push the parties to the negotiations table. >> reporter: before leaving for northern ireland, president obama sounds pessimistic that the geneva conference would even happen, much less that it could end to a end to the war. >> assad at this point because of his port from iran and russia believes he does not have to engage in a political transition. believes that he can continue to simply suppress over half the population. and as long as he's got that mind-set, it's going to be very difficult to resolve the situation. >> reporter: president obama announced on monday the u.s. will send $300 million to help the victims and refugees of the war. and president obama also told charlie rose that the argument that going into syria, the u.s. going in there sooner or more heavily could have stopped the bloodshed and violence is not true. anne-marie. >> susan mcginnis is in washington. thank you, susan. >>> well today, two u.s. senators plan to introduce legislation that would limit

scheduled for xt month in geneva are to be held before august. the president still hasn given a cleardefense of the nsa and surveillance programs and for that matter neither has congress my fst guest, geral alexander said -- andrew mccarthy is the author of the best sellers, jihad and the grand fever. nice to have you with us. general alexander was forth right it seemed. he made a compelling case and even since in that committee with the hearing room the committee was growing up a little. i didn't hear what congressman ship started giving thh geral valuable advice i'm sure but it seemed more mature than it's been. >> you have a real adult who was complete command of the facts and i think made the most compplling defense of this program. now, i don't think it will be enough because there's nothing like the bully pulpit and as effective as general alexander is, he's not th preside. these programs really need the defee of the oval office and specifically president obama. >> the pdent's defense of his ainistration, this agency, rose to this level. he

of solving the situation peacefully including by bringing the parties to the negotiating table if geneva. we've all agreed to push the bodies to that table and that includes by bringing the parties to the negotiating table in geneva and that's what we've agreed to do, to push the parties to that table. >> it's pretty clear there's been no breakthrough on syria. in fact, no progress at all. they will continue to discuss the crisis over the coming hours and there may be some progress on other issues. the atmosphere of the summit has been soured. for al jazeera, at the g-8 summit in northern ireland. >> britain finds itself in the middle of a controversy of a timely nature. british television agencies are accused of spying on foreign leaders including allies at the g-20 in 2009. that was before david cameron was prime minister but it's still an embarrassment for the summit hosts. laurence key reports. >> this was the quincy group meeting in london in 2009 under the auspices of then british prime minister gordon brown. the turkish delegation and african party didn't know is they apparently w

a report from geneva. , a peoplery in chaos savagely divided. the u.n. independent international commission of inquiry on on syria says violence has surged to new heights and both sides are inflicting horrific crimes against the syrian people. report thattest says systematic abuses are being carried out by pro-and antigovernment forces. they include rape, murder, , andry execution, torture the use of child soldiers. the very sad impact on children. children as victims of indiscriminate bombing, torture, and so on, as well as the use of children as child soldiers. weticularly in this report refer to antigovernment armed groups using children under 15 years of age as child soldiers. that is a war crime. >> the commission acknowledges the assad government's chemical weapons stockpile and raises concerns over possible use of such weapons by either side. what the report highlights is the brutality of syria's civil war. the result of the amount of weapons available to both sides, according to the international commission. that has only intensified the war crim

so we will instruct our team to continue to work on the potential of a geneva follow-up to the firstng. [ speaking foreign language ] >> and finally, we had a discussion about the fact as two nuclear superpowers, we have a special obligation to try to reduce tensions, to build on a work that we did with new start and to lead the world in both nuclear security issues and pro li li -- proliferation issues. >> and one of the outcomes of this meeting is that we'll be signing here the continuation of the cooperation that was first established through the luber program to counter potential threats of proliferation. and to enhance nuclear security. >> we have been listening to vladimir putin and barack obama speaking in belfast just moments ago on the agenda, they discussed continuing collaboration on nonproliferation and combating nuclear weapons around the world, as well as the ongoing tensions in syria. the president characterizing it as a useful conversation. we'll have more on that and more "cycle" up next. ♪ ♪ chances are, you're not made of money, so don't overpay for boat insurance.

. >> including by bringing the parties to the negotiations table in geneva. we agreed to push the parties to the negotiations table. >> reporter: before leaving for northern ireland, president obama sounded pessimistic that the geneva conference would even happen much less that it could end the war. >> assad at this point in part because of his support from iran and russia believes that he does not have to engage in a political transition. he believes he continue to suppress over half the population and as long as he has that mindset, it's going to be very difficult to resolve this situation. >> reporter: president obama announced on monday the u.s. will send $300 million to help the victims and refugees of the war. susan mcginnis, cbs news, washington. >> the white house says the u.s. has already spent a half billion dollars on aid bringing the total for the region to $800 million. >>> new this morning, a 6-year- old boy is killed after he was attacked by a dog. the little boy was mauled by a pit bull or pit bull mix at a home on elizabeth way in union city

and peace talks but that's exactly what this is being talks about more talks and with her day for genevatwo pencilled into the calendar leaders leaving law her and might well be wondering what exactly they've achieved probably boy care r c northern ireland. meanwhile a video has emerged on the web allegedly showing young people training to be part of the syrian rebel force the footage which is how to verify or apparently shows teenagers at the college we leave for our youth camp receiving weapons and ammunition and trained fire guns for the camp could be part of al qaida or at least shows a union between the syrian rebels and the terrorist group the young anti asad fighters can also be seen as thinking that they turn to the world trade center into rubble when they would be honored to be called terrorists right let's get more on this from john laughland who is joining us live right now mr loveland if real what does this video say about a young generation growing up in the midst of civil. well tells us that the syrian opposition contains a large number of islamic radicals but that's nothin

cares to even attempt to diplomatic solution and certainly to give lip service to things like the geneva conference from time to time but when push comes to shove it seems like they're more interested in sending weapons than they are in negotiating cox. all right jason did say news editor at antiwar dot com thank you very much for being with us interesting to hear thoughts on the subject. now russia is also unconvinced by america's chemical weapons findings saying it would make no sense for assad to deploy a toxic arsenal foreign minister sergey lavrov also slammed washington's decision to arm rebels saying it undermined peace efforts artie's oleksiak cesky has more on moscow's response. the russian foreign minister revealed that it was very regrettable that when the allegations of rebel syrian rebels using chemical weapons at the town of aleppo were made public by the syrian government it's time to ask the un commission to investigate and nothing was eventually done but only when the allegations of syrian government using the chemical weapon of weapons appeared to ashton experts start t

he will put it said that it's not only plainly wrong to talk about a possible peace conference in geneva which would have the members of the opposition and the government at the same tribal happening at the same time of the talks to arm the syrian rebels is not only wrong but dangerous because that could have very grave consequences for europe as well as the russian president was quick to remind us of one of the latest incidents which happened in the u.k. it has no direct relation to syria but he believes it may have serious and grave consequences for the european security in general who are you going to supply welcomes to real remember the terrible tragedy in the u.k. soldier was killed in london that's just terrible it's mostly people like those who murdered him in france in a son that's what concerns us. another fresh concern we've heard from the russian president is that the arms which hypothetically may be supplied to the syrian opposition might eventually be found in europe and even in russia it is an established fact according to the russian president that around six hundred merce

geneva followup. to the first maybe. the leaders couldn't even agree on how to waive a nash family photo it looked like seven plus one was ringing true but then a ten around after an informal dinner between all the participants that sources said when better than expected a joint statement on syria was issued it called for an independent investigation of chemical weapons use in syria something the russian side had been insisting on and it turned out that not all the leaders a convinced by u.s. claims that the syrian government use nerve gas. i'm sure my colleagues will confirm this it was a discussion somebody would agree some day would argue about certain issues but it was never a case that russia was alone defending its position on syria. the focal point of the statement. a peaceful resolution to the syrian crisis but it didn't mention what chemical weapons cache our side stepping down or military support to the opposition the journalist used to david cameron's rhetoric was stumped why was it so vital in your view to ke

>>reporter: before leaving for northern ireland, president obama sounded pessimistic that the geneva conference would even happen, much less that it could lead to an end to the war. >> assad at this point in part because of his support from iran and from russia believes that he does not have to engage in a political transition, believes that he can continue to simply violently suppress over half of the population, and as long as he's got at that mindset, it's going to be very difficult to resolve the situation. >>reporter: president obama announced on monday the u.s. will send $300 million to help the victims and refugees of the war. susan mcginnis, cbs news, washington. >> the white house says the u.s. has already spent $it 500 million on humanitarian aid, bringing the total for the region to $800 million. >>> it is coming up on 5:52. here's what we're following this morning. he won't stop talking even after a plea from his family. in an online chat hosted by the guardian website, former nsa contractor edward snowden defended his leak saying he didn't reveal any u.s. operations agai

their dead enemies that he would not want to see people like that at the negotiation table in geneva it is really hard to say whether this summit has brought us anywhere closer to the actual conference over there is no set today so far but we do know that russia and the e.u. are sharing a common ground on syria that this conference is the last resort to find any kind of peaceful solution to the syrian conflict. and the united nations latest. report on syria says there is evidence suggest both sides in the conflict may have used chemical weapons you're going to visions human rights council also accused both government forces and rebels of committing war crimes however it says it still needs to test samples taken directly from victims or the site of the alleged attacks this comes of the french foreign minister claims the sarin nerve agent was used many times on specify where or by whom they were used but urged foreign powers not to send more arms to the country. well earlier i talked to diplomat maria could in sky press secretary of the russian mission to the united nations in geneva a