kofi annan and his team want to work toward a final nuclear settlement.eement, the iranians have stopped the enrichment of uranium to 20%. now, in exchange, they get the li lifting of some international sanctions. >> we want to bring in our own jim sciutto, joining us live from the iranian capital. let's talk about a couple things here. many people have said there are not a lot of folks who potentially believe the six-month agreement with iran is going to lead to some comprehensive deal when it comes to the enrichment program. president obama is expected to talk about this in the state of the union address tomorrow. what do the people there in iran, inside of iran, what do they tell you they want from the united states and are they even listening? do you think they will be engaged in what president obama is going to say? >> reporter: well, they are definitely engaged in these negotiations and they lesson to the words that come out president, secretary of state john kerry. and the one thing that hits them here is the effect of the economic sanctions. that'

geneva 1, when kofi annan was the negotiator for the arab league and the united nations was a moment of agreement between the parties. and they agreed that the way forward was a come up with a transitional body they called it, not even a government, but said that would have full executive powers in syria, and that body should be comprised with members of the syrian opposition and government. key words - it said in that agreement that they had to come up with the transitional body. it's taken a long time since then, 18 months to get the parties around the table for the next stage trying to form the transitional body and rules of syria. i think the key words, the words by mutual concept. that's the difficulty. how are the two sides, when the battle has been brutal and bitter on the ground. how will they come up with a government that both sides agree with. it's worth questioning whether the syrian government is - believes in geneva i, it signed up for it, but the sir yabs say they don't want a transitional government, but want a government led by bashar al-assad. they think he should t

organization and its actually general the special representative that he made and his predecessor kofi annanthis particular gratitude goes to the government to switzerland to ensure the want to an organization at the conference as the most conducive conditions for its preparation which may express our gratitude to all countries and organizations such as the leak apparent stays the i.c.c. and the e.u. to it because it was the joint initiative of russia and united states of america to convene geneva two with a view to a political settlement being found a syrian crisis that it was working with all and very close working in fact has contacts with the united states is a date i know who about quite how much john has done personally to ensure that this meeting today could take place despite the real and imaginary problems which emerged our common task is to achieve an end to the tragic conflict in syria which has brought incalculable suffering and pain to the syrian people and destroying these centuries old land we must not allow the shock waves to engulf neighboring. countries the whole of the mid

kofi annan and others were there last night to talk about this. no easy way out. pointing at putin at this point as kind of the problem behind this. >> are any of them going to the olympics? >> those guys? >> i doubt it. >> it's untrackable. no one is optimistic. it has to be a political settlement but assad -- and now apparently every jihadist on the planet is now in syria. where do they go after the thrill settlement? you can hear the frustration in kofi annan's voifce. the head of amnesty was there. women and children are dying every day. >> it's an impossible time to live through with all this. >>> our next guest runs one of europe's largest hedge funds. he's a rock star in europe. you have your sunglasses on. it's not exactly bono sunglasses -- i call them bono sunglasses. not getting a laugh out of that. >> there's been a remarkable amount of optimism here broadly speaking about the economy in the united states, less so about europe. i'm just curious where -- we're going to talk about commodities, because that's your business in many respects. when you look

kofi annan was there. they gave some pretty emotional speeches. >> it is going to be a story that when we look back on davos, maybe we haven't spent enough time thinking about, but soros certainly doing his part on that. looking forward to catching up later. great interviews coming up. "the pulse" is packed once again with the best interviews out of davos. later this hour, we hear from the u.k. prime minister, david cameron at the world economic forum. he is expected to discuss how to bring jobs back to the u.k.. let's bring in jonathan ferro on this to get a sense of what we are going to get from cameron and carney. carney is making waves at davos. ,evertheless, forward guidance the debate has changed once again in the last 24 hours. the debate now seems to be centered around this idea that forward guidance is disappearing and that is going to be something the british economy should welcome, not resent. >> you talk about jobs, unemployment approaching the threshold of 7% and what happens when we get there