the country and deliver the humanitarian assistance to people who have been living under siege. >> rawya has been providing us with the information inside syria. thank you very much. we'll follow this story at the un as it continues to develop. we'll bring you more information. >> it may be the biggest sign of improving relations between the u.s. and iran. president obama called iranian president hassan rouhani. sources close to hassan rouhani said the telephone call was unexpected, the first time since 1979 that the two leaders sat and had direct contact over the telephone. we have more on that. >> in an address from the white house, an expression of respect for the iranian people from president obama. >> i believe we have a responsibility to pursue diplomacy and we have a unieke opportunity to make progress with the leadership in tehran. >> a sign from iran's president that things are changing. >> translation: in speaking with european officials and hearing barack obama, they sounded different, compared to the past. i view that as a positive step in the settlement of differences betwee

. >> john, i have to go back to the images we saw from rawya's report most a moment ago.there a sense that the delegation sitting in very nice hotels, driving very nice limousines, do they get the fact that hundreds of thousands of people -- they don't have diplomacy? >> reporter: you know, they do get it. that's the truth. they absolutely do get it. but i'm afraid there is no other way around it. the international diplomatic circles move very, very slowly. it has always been that way. it doesn't make for great headline television, and it's not going to be any different over syria, but they wanted this to be done by last friday, and they couldn't achieve that, and the problem was there was lots of paperwork, some say the russians were holding things up a little bit. and yesterday they managed to make some significant progress, so we could have that security council resolution on the table by friday, but you are absolutely right. this is always a humanitarian tragedy, these kinds of situations and the number of people displaced and killed has been ratcheted up massively in