. >> lawrence, you heard what mustafa if a said. is the united states a weaker partner, and does that change the dynamics between the two countries? >> absolutely not. people talk about obama's feckless policy and withdrawing, we just spent $600 million to increase our naval process in bally. how would it be if we forced ourselves on a muslim country to stay in there when their people did not want us to. karzai is the one asking us to leave afghanistan, and in syria we couldn't get the united nations, the arab league or the u.s. congress or the british parliament because people realized the benefits that you might get are not worth the potential cost given the fact that the opposition is not unified and has a very significant group of extremists there. >> carol murphy, you heard your colleagues, is this anything more than two different ways of seeing the world? i mean, yes, there are multiple fires burning right now in the eastern mediterranean and near-east, but can two old friends move ahead on the things that they agree on, and j

mustafa is a heavy equipment operator or machinist, as it was called in soviet times. backing crimea, he cannot find regular work, so the family lives off what they can gro. the tartars have put of greenhouses like this all over crimea. it looks like it will be a good harvest this year, but if russia ends up taking back over crimea, many are not as optimistic about their prospects. >> as i see it, that's aggression and attack by russia. that's not right. >> they gather in their living room to all of developments as best they can. mustafa's mother is 77 years old . she makes coffee and the traditional turkish way. the tartar settles in crimea over the centuries and originally spoke a turkic language. soviet dictator josef stalin accused all non-russian and non-ukrainian ethnic groups in crimea of collaborating with nazis and had all crimean tartars deported. 10,000, nearly half, died on the journey. this family had just 15 minutes to pack the bare necessities. then they were deported to central asia. the trauma remains to this very day. >> i cannot talk about all that w

ali mustafa and six others were killed sunday in a syrian government airstrike on the northern town of aleppo. his photographs of the searing conflict captured the plight of besieged civilians. in an interview with canada's ctv news channel after his first trip to cover the syrian conflict last year, ali mustafa discussed his attempt to document syria's suffering. >> as a journalist, i think is important to be there to tell the story that was emerging as one of the major developing issues right now. as well as it being an outgrowth of some of my other work in the region. you basically just have to do as best you can to be aware of your surroundings and try to save and -- to stay safe captures many quality photos as you can under the circumstances. >> in addition to his photojournalism abroad, ali mustafa was a dedicated activist in his home city of toronto, focusing on issues of poverty in the treatment of prisoners detained without charge under so-called security certificates. or than 100 people honored his life at a vigil in toronto on sunday. those are some of the headlines. this is

our colleagues in france and incredible advocates on behalf of syria, people like mustafa and ahmet have achieved an extra in their success. on friday -- [applause] on friday to very influential congressmen put forward a resolution, house resolution 520 which among other things calls on the obama administration to withdraw its recognition of the assad resumes sovereignty. [applause] and so we have an opportunity now, all of us have an opportunity now to use this as a means for pushing back against the argument that there are no good options, for pushing back against the argument that the only options are military actions and for putting pressure on the white house to take a step that could, in my view, have a very significant, positive impact on the trajectory of the syrian conflict. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, dr. aiden. >> it is great to go last because especially with too really well accomplished people like jim and steve who i have come to know over the course of the conflict, i know steve going back a number of years. it has been about six years since i had to leave syria, f