nick shifrin is in the city. nick, the government is asking to stop assisting the opposition. how far apart are the two sides? >> stephanie, there's a chasm. we did have some progress yesterday or what seemed to be progress. talk of women and children leaving homes. we have talked to the opposition but they have specifically said they don't want women and children to leave homes, if they do they might be snatched up by the regime that has been surrounding homes. inside of homes so the two sides are very far poorlt on homes and how to get some humanitarian aid inside of homes. they are far apart on the fnlt aspect of before they came, the transitional government created by what everyone could agree upon. they must do that because the government agreed to, the government said no not so fast, we didn't agree to it and bashar al-assad wants to run again. with all of that happening, with the huge gap, we heard from lakhdar brahimi said everything was difficult and fragile. >> i think we are happy, encouraged. but this conference that we have been working for since the 7th of may of

nick shifrin has more on the video and the story behind it. >> good evening john. we believe this was a government air strike on wednesday in aleppo. we're just seeing this video for the first time, been posted to oimtion website. you see a family, an entire community perhaps digging in the dirt for one victim, the smallest victim of this apparent air strike. they dig for a few minutes and then they see the first sign of their daughter's clothes. about 40 seconds after that they see her face. upper body are finally free. about 30 seconds after that, she's still stuck and nonresponsive. and then, that's when she opposite her eyes. but still, they take a few minutes, one leg is stuck and then finally: she's free. and if this incredible story of determination to find her, incredible story of hope that she's actually going to survive, and a lot of people here are actually drawing the completely to what happened here in geneva, this morning there was a lot of doubt that these talks were even going to proceed. that both sides were actually threatening to walk away but th

. >> nick shifrin is in that area. not a new ask from the regime but maybe you can tell us just how far apart the two sides are right now. >> well, as one official put it to me today, there is a chasm between the two sides and there is no sign that either side is moving towards other one. the main one perhaps the point of this conference is political transition. all of the parties here had to agree that they would discuss a political transition, a transitional government emmowrd empowered with all the powers, without assad, no, but president assad wants to run again as pet. the other thing, that they can't agree on is humanitarian assistance and tony this is perhaps the most important things that could come out of this conference at least short term. lakhdar brahimi says this could last a week or a year. and humanitarian assistance we see no evidence of the sides coming together. the coalition says we don't want them to leave and in fact they would probably be walking into a slaughter outside of homs and the men left n

nick shifrin was there just moments aafter those blasts. >> just two days before a conference designed to start a peace process, the attacks are as bad as ever. bombs targeted vehicles going into syria but also destroyed nearby shops and killed their customers. >> we are right on the syrian turkish boarder, might look calm right now but just 15 minutes ago one mile beyond that crossing there were two huge explosions one apparently a car bomb. a asked an observer and said most of the people were trying to flee syria and come here to turkey. >> five minutes later another explosion went off, many people died. in aleppo which is witnessing the worst fighting two car bombs gutted rebel headquarters. one was big enough to create this crater. a man tried to extinguish the fire but both cars burned for hours. the attack was launched by radical fighters targeting other rebels they think are too moderate even though both want to oust syrian president bashar al-assad. even as assad continues his assault, deposit attacks, air strikes destroyed dozens of homes. survivors were taken way on makeshift

. >> nick shifrin joins us from geneva where peace negotiations are taking place on syria. d nick, give us an idea, how successful are these extremist groups in recruiting fighters? >> john, u.s. intelligence sources say, some 7,000 of them from 50 countries are now inside syria and this is exactly what the government representatives here are arguing. they say that they have to stay in power. the assad regime has to stay in power in order to fight these radicals. we went recently to the turkish syrian border how they perpetual the assad narrative, how they are increasing inside syria but also syria's neighbors. in this turkish market, right next to the clocks, you can buy material for your own syrian union form. there is a matching set of dagger and holder. behind the nervous owner are flags thrirchgd oa linked to al. inside those propaganda videos flying the same flag. they are the most lethal and successful of all the armed groups and they're popular. in turkey we met jamil who facilitates and supports islamist fighters. >> translator: the islamic state fights robbers and

nick shifrin is outside his ranch in israel. >> outside the israel parliament they said good-bye. >>ranslator: an exceptional soldiers a commander who knew how to win. a leader who breathed a dream a man who charmed us all even during most difficult hours. >> they remembered his long military career his dramatic political fall and return to power and the nickname he used his whole life: arik. >> arik understood that in matters of our existence and our security we must stand firm. >> had he a north star that guided him is a north star in which he never, at least in my observation never deviated. his north star was the survival of the state of israel. >> once dubbed king arik for his battle field victories was then given a full military procession. not buried in jerusalem, but on his ranch. sharon loved this land, israel's largest private farm his burial site is next to his wife's, soldiers who fought for him, brothers w.h.o. voted for him. and his decision to withdraw settlements from the gaza strip. >> suddenlily he decided to disengage, it made no sense. >> police and the army deplo

nick shifrin, jerusalem. >>> rebilities loyal to the former vice president of south sudan, rebels are their way to the capital of yuba ah. brad and kim campbell, made it out of a u.n. refugee camp. brad mother spoke to al jazeera. >> they informed them the last plane had already left and they had missed it. that's why are they are stuck there. they found kenya airlines were still flying out of juba, they booked a flight on that plane. once they get to nier i can stop holding my breath and breathe again. >> that's where they will gather supplies to send to the ten orphans in their care that they were forced to leave behind. >>> al jazeera is demanding the release of three of our colleagues being held in egypt. mohamed f fahmy and peter grest. >> plus brad pitt might need to make it right again for the residents of new orleans lower 9th ward. >> three years after the nucular disaster, the hidden truth about the ongoing cleanup efforts and how the fallout could effect the safety of americans >> are dangerous amounts of radioactive water, leaking into the pacific eververyday? >> join amer

. >> nick shifrin is in geneva. nick, the two sides don't like one another. they have been battling with one another coming up on three years now. we get to this place where both sides are in a room looking at a communique from geneva 1 and both sides are saying that this is going nowhere. and now we are talking about beach steps and confidence-boosting moves. don't you do those kinds of things before you get to geneva? >> that's exactly the point tony that lakhdar brahimi said, he wished they had talked at all before getting here. the fate of syria will be decided but he said look, we didn't get to that point before we got here. we need to get to that point now. and u.n. officials, russian officials even the analysts you speak to, tony, on set say, they have to get some kind of humanitarian resolution to the suffering. brahimi says no one can rush me, i've done this for decades and decades and decades. we have to take half steps, do something which announce women and children can leave from homs, even though one side didn't want that. they are talking in gen

nick shifrin, al jazeera on the farm on the negev desert. >> just outside the town of suday rote, no injuries were reported in either attack. >>> today there's a new development that could help the lives of hundreds of thousands of people affected by fighting in syria. the government and main opposition group have agreed to allow humanitarian aid in some part of the country. it comes as secretary of state john kerry and others. >>> romantic scandals are not new, but this one getting a ton of attention. inside this fire storm allegations of a love affair and ash-har quraishi reports. >> the timing of allegations of an affair between francois hollande and ak tres julie galet, love is political testify lon that doesn't stick. >> it's the attitude i would say of tolerance on the part of the french which clearly separates private life from public life but that could evolve. i mean that from the moment when private life enters into public space opinion might change so it's important for francois hollande that this affair doesn't drag on that it doesn't take up the headlines for a long time

nick shifrin, al jazeera, geneva. >> thanks to nick. >>> wall street wrapped up the week with the dowdropping 318 points. it was the big eggs drop since last june. investors are worried about a slow dowj in china. ali velshi is in davos at the world economic forum. >> john, as you know, a rough day on the market, concerns about emerging markets which have been going gaj busters in the last several years have been slowing down. triggered by an economic report out of china at a that indicated some slowing, that china isn't going to grow as fast in the future than it has in the last decade or so. problems in the economy and the currency ended up dropping in value a great deal. that's given people concerns about emerging markets from around the world . i had a chance to talk to jim kim, president of the world bank, loaning funds to many emerging nations. he's very concerned, i asked him for his take. >> china has been explicit, this administration in china are very concerned about the reforms they have laid out. export oriented economy to one focused on consumption of services. this is hu

nick shifrin has more. >> in front of the israeli parliament, they said good-bye to a man whose historyrs that of israel. >> an exceptional soldier, a man who charmed us all even during the most difficult hours. >> they remembered his long military career, his dramatic political fall and return to power and the nickname he used his whole life: arik. >> arik understood that in matters of our existence and security we must stand firm. >> had he a north star. that guided him. a north star from which he never, in my observation, never deviated. his north star was the survival of the state of israel. >> once dubbed king arik for his battle field victories, was given a full military burial. he was buried on his ranch. sharon loved this land. it is israel's largest private farm. soldiers who fought for him? brothers who voted for him and former supporters who strongly opposed his decision to pull settlers from the gaza strip. >> he developed the strip and then disengaged. it made no sense. >> police and the army deployed a security blimp and early warning sirens. >> there is a full security um

nick shifrin, al jazeera on the syrian turkish border. >> the eastern seaboard is bracing for a blast of arctic air again. kevin corriveau is here. >> coming out of alberta, why we call them alberta clippers. goa minus 17°. we are going to -- fargo minus 17°. as john said, we'll see big problems. if you are traveling across most of the coastal regions, particularly, tomorrow, the warnings are out, the dark blues indicate the winter storm warnings. we even have blizzard watches for cape cod because the blizzard warnings are expected to be so strong. we are surprised how this has actually turned out. they have increased the numbers as the day has progressed. eastern part of long island, ten to 14 inches of snow. going down into delaware as well as maryland, across the northeast for massachusetts it's going to feel more like a blizzard because the storm just off the coast is going to bring those winds up. tomorrow morning this is what it feels like: new york 8 degrees and the temperature is not going to get any better, not until saturday john that we finally get above freezing. >> all ri