the only days the russians have outside of russian federation territory. it would look that and be that for the russians if they lost the only ally they had in that part of the world. just like the united states intervened many years ago to protect south vietnam from being defeated the russians intervened. the 2nd motive alluded to earlier is that they put russia and the role of the kingmaker. they are there on the ground tanks and airplanes and other military accoutrement and had become a much larger factor in any percent -- perspective settlement and then what might be done thereafter. the 3rd motive is highly speculative on my part. i have no hard evidence to back this up. it is a logical inference that we need to at least consider. the syrian regime over some four years which is not a very impressive order of battle managed to kill something like a quarter of a million people to create something like 4 million refugees and to create something like seven or eight internally displaced people's. the russians if they wanted to take kill three times as many

-russian relationship also. he was just telling us he just got back from russia yesterday so i'm sure -- last week. sorry. so he has fresh things to say about the u.s.-russia relationships. we have hannah coburn, hannah is a research fill low and focuses on eastern european politics and the transatlantic relationship, and she is also a frequent media commentator on russia, ukraine, and u.s.-russia relationship as well. and to her left, my colleague, our research director here at seta, an assistant professor of science and he has written on turkey's relationship with russia and the most recent incident as well, and he is the author of both on obama syrian policies as well. so i want to thank my panel and thank you for being here for this discussion, and without further adieu, i'll just turn to my left. we'll start with jeffrey, who will talk about the u.s.-russia relationship in more broader terms, and then go to hannah for her assessment of what that means in the context of russia and syria, and then we'll move

to turkeyr ambassador joined a panel to talk about russian and involvement in syria. -- upported russian posted by the atlantic council, this is just over three hours. >> thank you john molina for getting us all started today. i would like to joining in welcome everyone to the atlantic council. we take great pride in bringing voices from the region in whatever we discuss regional events. we take great pride in being multidisciplinary, cross disciplinary and in this case we have the eurasia center and the hariri center for the middle east working together on this fundamentally cross-regional issue. and even as american russian and middle eastern diplomats are together new york wrestling with the same problems we'll be discussing here today. we would just like to go to our experts who began speaking. i should note that at the bar principle discussions here today, speaking from papers they will be presenting early in the new year so you are getting a prepublication. ambassador hoff if you would like to begin. >> thank you frank. this is the paper to which frank refers will be published to t

the only days the russians have outside of russian federation territory. it would look that and be that for the russians if they lost the only ally they had in that part of the world. just like the united states intervened many years ago to protect south vietnam from being defeated the russians intervened. the 2nd motive alluded to earlier is that they put russia and the role of the kingmaker. they are there on the ground tanks and airplanes and other military accoutrement and had become a much larger factor in any percent -- perspective settlement and then what might be done thereafter. the 3rd motive is highly speculative on my part. i have no hard evidence to back this up. it is a logical inference that we need to at least consider. the syrian regime over some four years which is not a very impressive order of battle managed to kill something like a quarter of a million people to create something like 4 million refugees and to create something like seven or eight internally displaced people's. the russians if they wanted to take kill three times as many

we will never do anything which will be seen negatively by russian people, russian people is a friendlyple to turkish people. >> word war 3.0 this time on the program. we'll begin with ambassador, professor of the practice of international relations at harvard university, and former u.s. ambassador to nato. ambassador burns how do you do a negotiation if a negotiated end to the conflict is your desire when there as many war aims delegations? >> well, it is certainly an extraordinarily complex situation in syria, and the fact the civil war in syria has bled out into lebanon, iraq, jordan, and turkey, and now into europe with the flow of refugees there. and i any negotiations rarely succeed when the parties to the conflict believe that by fighting they can chive their aims. negotiations almost always have beater chance when the -- the protagonists, the people fighting understand that fighting cannot get them to the place that they want to be. we saw that in the bosnian civil war 20 years ago. it took four and a half years to end that war, until the leaders of the countries decided by -- d

it's a good experience for the russian. and if you want to have a very necessary on the ground, you should speak about the possibility of the state. so i think that syria is gone. victory is unachievable and coalition is out of question. thank you. [laughter] >> painful in your validation of the assumptions particularly struck by your point that you don't see a common purpose between what russia is about and what secretary kerry is about, for example, in new york. that is a very sobberring thought. so back in the game days, we were going to split today's programming about how we got here with the idea that the second panel where would be where we go from here, but, in fact, substantial overlap. in that case professor stent. >> thank you for inviting me here. i don't disagree. i'm going to confine my remarks to russia, and russian goals and maybe reinforce what he said but you're not going to get any good news either. russia has multiple goals in the campaign today in syria and some but not all are related to syria itself. i

the russians have not. just according to press reports, it appears the russians have tested a ground launched cruise missile. they have responded that this is a speed base missile which does not fall under the treaty. that is nonsense. the press release is also showing that the administration has known about the violations back in 2008. it took three years for the administration to report concern about the russians conduct. it took six years to find them in violation and this year the state department repeated the findings that they are in violation of the treaty. chairman rogers and i have made several attempts to the state department appeals and state department of defense about this issue. candidly the responses lead me to believe we are not taking the issue as seriously as we should. we have so far made no substantial progress in bringing the rushes back into compliance after seven years there have been no consequences for the violation of the treaty. we told the russians our concern and the response, t

to use a total of nine russian engines. the fiscal year 2016 defense authorization bill, including its provision limiting the use of russian rocket engines, were debated for months -- more months the issue was debated. the committee on armed services had a vigorous debate over this important issue. an amendment was offered to maintain the restriction on the air force's use of russian rocket engines and then a positive vote of the committee, the amendment was adopted. we then considered hundreds of amendments to this bill on the senate floor over a period of two weeks. for two weeks we literally considered hundreds of amendments, and we did so transportlytransparently, with n process, which is a credit to both sides. there was not one amendment that was called up to change the provision of that authorization bill concerning the rd-180 rocket engines. the legislation passed with 71 votes. then because of a misguided presidential veto, this defense legislation was actually considered a second time on the floor, and it passed 9

i don't think the russians are there yet but hitting the russians are getting closer. -- but the russiansng closer. charlie rose: who is more influence? mike: i think the iranians have more influence because they have more skin in the game. they have got more fighting force. they have got their own guys. militia they shia have trained incenses syria and they have has a lot with -- hezbolla. charlie rose: you think assad might be more willing to listen to the ayatollah? mike: i think the play for us is convinced the russians that this is the way to deal with this problem. tos transition from assad elections without him and have the russians working the iranians. charlie rose: how much do you think this president is influenced by -- that he has a considered believe that he came to washington, to the white house to get us out of the deep involvement in the middle east? out of war in iraq and war in afghanistan? and that's what he campaigned on and believed in and promised. and therefore it is almost impossible for him in the remaining time he has to reverse that input is in a forceful way? m

and i'm not a russian expert. i'm not very attuned as well to russian discussion. this is very intelligence sophisticated discussion for me. but what i tell you in the next five or seven minutes, seven points or more i sit in baghdad and we will look at this russian new engagement if you like a russian campaign, you campaign in syria. and i had to go back to five years ago when prime minister maliki met, more than that, putin, and i was there 490 minutes. the man spends 60 minutes, literally when our talking about terrorism and the islamic extremism. so it's a real threat he feels at home. i honestly believe that this has been overlooked by, i don't know, 20 or 30 million muslims in russia now. we have at least 2000 chechen jihad this in my country blowing themselves, fighting my people. this is the real, this is the real tough. these people can go back to russia, and inflame and ruined this everyone does, and ruined the minds and hearts of people and create this hatred is at this exclusiveness. so i believe he understands the russians understand much better than a

we overfly the russian federation in the same way. we find it useful to overfly their rail lines, for example. i would to stress that one of the advantages of the open skies treaty is that information, imagery that is taken, is shared openly among all of the treaty parties. one of the advantages of the open skies treaty is that we know exactly what the russians are imaging, because they must share the imaging with us. that is an advantage over the national technical means of the russian federation or we are not sure exactly what they are imaging. are theyenstine: imaging national critical infrastructure that has nothing to do with defense? mrs. gottemoeller: i can say, based on again the open skies treaty regime is producing imagery that is open to all. they have imaged a number of sites around the country. does possiblene: surveillance of u.s. critical infrastructure system with russia's war fighting doctrine? mrs. gottemoeller: under the open skies treaty, we are all basically opening of our territory so that the other countries can

russians have the leverage to impose. if there is a real cease-fire and if they go along with the creation of humanitarian core doors to provide humanitarian assistance, if that takes place vienna becomes real. if that takes place the opposition will have no other reason to believe that there could be a transition. right now they don't believe it and have no particular reason to believe it. what i was just saying about the assessment would be wrong, and i hope that is the case. it will be better for everybody. now, if it turns out that i am not wrong that does not mean you necessarily have to give up on the idea of trying to still push the vienna process, but it means we approach the vienna process and prudent you have to put not with the logic of argument but with the logic of leverage which is actually the logic that putin understands. in the logic of leverage would have us to the following, have us go and say comeau we are deep believer'sbelievers in the vienna process. we have committed to it unmistakably but it canno

russian elite. russian oligarchs. moscow middle-class. to rise that following putin's suicidal policies could jeopardize their own interests. so far there's no strategy. and, again, i would like to see the strategy.pr i would like people toob understand that confronting putin today is very dangerous, very cost ly. he always takes delays, ural concessions as invitation for jn future aggression. i remember in his inaugural in t 1961 john kennedy said we do not -- we dare not tempt our force with weakness.ng, and unfortunately, you know, da. this warning stays very -- actual these days. >> john is calling in from callr southampton, pennsylvania, on our republican line. hi, john. >> caller: good morning.istenc it's a pleasure speak to you, rt mr. kasparov. i've been aware of your existence, you've been on the world stage for a long time and obviously initially it was chess and then it was politics and i think you have a misperceptions but, though, about the united stat states. there's an enormous amount of hostility that our elites have r for

we've told the russians our concerns and their response, the russians deny they're violating the treaty. what i'd like to know is what i asked last year. what are the next steps. how are we going to convince the russians that we do mean business if we do mean business. what's the administration going to do to hold the russians' feet to the fire and hold them accou accountable? there are some who want to go easy on the russians in that they want to ignore this situation. i don't think that that is appropriate response the united states should have toward the russians and the stockpiling of -- or the stockpiling of these violations. so, i look forward to what the witnesses have to say, to be upfront, candid, blunt about what is the strategy, what are we doing, what is the united states and our allies doing. and then we have the problem of two rogue nations already developing very similar weapons that we and the russians have supposedly agreed not to the develop and that would be iran and pakistan developing similar weapons. so, what is the united states response going to be and what do we

to use a total of nine russian engines. the fiscal year 2016 defense authorization bill, including its provision limiting the use of russian rocket engines, were debated for months -- more months the issue was debated. the committee on armed services had a vigorous debate over this important issue. an amendment was offered to maintain the restriction on the air force's use of russian rocket engines and then a positive vote of the committee, the amendment was adopted. we then considered hundreds of amendments to this bill on the senate floor over a period of two weeks. for two weeks we literally considered hundreds of amendments, and we did so transportlytransparently, with n process, which is a credit to both sides. there was not one amendment that was called up to change the provision of that authorization bill concerning the rd-180 rocket engines. the legislation passed with 71 votes. then because of a misguided presidential veto, this defense legislation was actually considered a second time on the floor, and it passed 9

it's russian-made aircraft flown by syrian pilots presumably with russian matÉriel.s there sensitivity there or is that not even in the secondary or tertiary level of conversation and? >> six or seven months ago i would argue that you could look could look at the center of east of the arab middle east as being more sensitive to western interventions then russian interventions have been. they are more sensitive about the russian intervention. now whether it's because of realpolitik or otherwise they're still is a lot more sensitivity to russian intervention in the western part of the world. there's a larger degree of realism that well can they be pushed in a positive direction and how many arabs leaders have been there? i think this is a good point. we will have agreements and disagreements with the russians. i don't question it. we don't necessarily agree on everything they do and we don't disagree on everything they do either but can we afford to do it without them? if we could frankly i would do it and i believe he can. i actually believe that while they may have p

last year putin told the world russian troops were not in crimea while the world watched russian tanks and little green men come into that area. russia is conducting strikes in syria to prop up a dictator that has murdered thousands of syrians. putin seems to want to expand his empire out of the cage and it's time we recognize them for what they are doing. they are being aggressive. no surprise russia is once again breaking its word when it comes to assigned arms control treaty. the intermediate@range nuclear arms forces treaty is a treaty between the united states which places limits on ground launch and blus i can missile which range up between 500 and 5500 kilometers. the united states has held up or bargain, the russians have not. according to press reports, it appears russians have tested a ground-launched cruise missile. they have responded that this is a sea-based missile which does not fall under the treaty. that's nonsense. according to press releases also the administration seems to have known about the violations back in 2008 it took three years for the administration to rep

the share of russian-american trade and russian foreign trade is growing mainly because it's a greatecrease in our trade with europe. probably that is a weak point. charlie rose: with china? andrey: some with china, yes. but of course in dollar terms it is down probably, because of the general trade and because of the decrease in the commodity prices. but in china, yes. we have a relationship. charlie rose: their demand for imports is quite andrey: -- it's quite big. we signed a contract for oil and gas with china. we have to expect a growing volume of trade with china in the next decade. charlie rose: what is your assessment of the chinese economy? andrey: from one hand, we are talking about the slowdown of the chinese economy that is still 5% or 6%, that's quite high-growth. i think china still has a lot of problems of a reformed economy. they still lack the domestic consumption. charlie rose: they are trying to change that. andrey: this is quite a number of important problems they need to overcome. charlie rose: like what? andrey: like increasing domestic demand by actually having

-russian passenger jets. some of them took it to 300 years ago. >> let us point to one nato and one strategic divergence over syria. is there a way to pinpoint really where or is this just an isolated incident? >> in the analysis, they said not to put this in and check it out. it turned out to be turkey on the radar system. it is on the radar system. but the interpretation was like the painting. >> hannah? >> on the question of russia and terrorism i do agree with what was said: if that really was russia's main interest they should be spending 90% of their time bombing actually isis' targets. i think the thing that concerns me is russia is using isis as a convenient political excuse. i am not convinced they care that much about terrorism in their region. they have had it for quite some time and dealt with the pretty harshly in the past. and vladimer putin's 15-16 year tenure there have been incidents where the crimlen chose to use terroristic incidences as an ex cuse to do something they wanted to do. i am th

neither russians or americans will succeed. my point is russians will try to start it. how to go further, i don't know. >> isn't the point that self-of you have made earlier including fred, that the russians are not trying to succeed against isis, really, as proprofessor also said. >> each they engage in the ground operation, they will -- it will be -- what i would like to say, very small point putin seems to be very controversial in his attitude towards extremists, it was mentioned extremists. because it was known that there are 5,000 to 6,000 people having russian passports or post-soviet citizenship fighting on the part of isis in syria. all of the people weren't there in the last two three years. so with isis having getting around in syria russians have succeeded in squeezing out the terrorists and extremists out of russia. isis, forcing them to come back. i think putin's completely counterproductive in what he's doing in syria for russian domestic security. but he's doing -- that's what he does. >> mark? >> quickly. talked about he prefers to fight them there, figh

allow for russian egypt?s to visit second question, two days ago they have a said new islamic alliance. i think this is a sunni-islamist alliance. thishe problem is that will be an anti-russian alliance and what will happen to shia muslims now? turkey is part of this alliance. i would like to ask you, how would you -- what would you say about this new alliance and egypt? putin: for several talk about tourism. the decision to restrict travels , air passenger traffic trustpt, where due to the -- was not due to the fact we distressed egyptian leadership. this is to ensure safety for russian citizens. this is a message to russians. and specialent services in egypt, not on par. not able to match the threats of terrorism. to us.ly, it is a threat it is a threat to you, to egypt. the president of the egypt is much demonstrating courage and fighting the threat, but it takes time to curve this problem. once we have a mechanisms up and sureng that toward in security for russian citizens, we will ease the restrictions.

russian relationships. anna is the research fellow. she focus on eastern european politics and the transatlantic relationships. to my colleagues who cannot be the research director,. [inaudible] and the most recent incidents as well. he is the author of a book on obama and syrian policies as well. i want to thank my panel and think you first of all for being here for this discussion and without further ado, i will just turn to my left. then we will go to anna for her assessment of what that means in the context of russia and syria. then we will move to this discussion on russia turkey relationships. they will have each about ten minutes and then we will go to a discussion as well. thank you very much for coming. >> thank you to everyone in the audience who came today. i'm not going to talk about the downing of the rushing plane by the turkeys air force because we can discuss it during the q&a. i want to provide a little bit broader picture of russians actions in syria. there is always a prehistory to this. in this case i would say the

according to the details of the version of events, the russians are saying that the russian ship was very close with the approaching turkish fishing ship. it was actually about 550 meters between the two. the russians said they tried to establish communications and that didn't work. then they used visual signals and other means to persuade this ship to go away. then according to the russians, they have to fire some small arms after that. the turkish ship went away. the russians that have were very angry and imposed economic sanctions on turkish borders. there is heated rhetoric between the two countries and things could escalate. >> syrian and russian jets have targeted and killed dozens of people in the east. it was in response to rebel mortar attacks which hit neighborhoods in damascus. is. >> in this moment of sheer panic and desperation, talk of a truce is irrelevant. bloody bodies clutter the floor of a temporary basement clinic. in this rebel-strong hold outside damascus, infants are checked for vital signs. a doctor tries to save another child who has lost his legs. the street

all we want is to ensure security and safety for russian citizens. this is a message to russians.he regulatory, the law enforcement special services in egypt are not on par, are not able to match the threat of terrorism be be be be be be be and certainly it's a threat to you, it's a threat to egypt. the prime minister of egypt has demonstrated courage in fighting though threat, but it takes time to curb these problems. once we have the mechanisms up and running, that would ensure security for russian citizens, we will ease the restrictions. we are working on that with our egyptian counterparts. we need to have our representatives at every stage, starting from checking, loading, catering. but certainly, the official egypt. authorities ought to comply with our concern. it's our common concern. and we need to find common solutions to these challenges. as for the islamic military alliance set up in saudi arabia, another coalition. we do not think that this coalition will have an anti-russian bias. while we don't treat tur khai as a hostile country to us, they made a hostile act to us,

taxpayers subsidise russian aggression. two years ago, vladimer putin furious the ukrainian people spoke out and invaded them and took over. first days since stallin and hitler came over to destroy a city. 8,000 people died in the con fp flict including the people in mh-17 who were murdered by people who putin supplied weapons with. it forced recognition for anyone not convinced we are con fronting a challenge that many assumed were resigned to the history books. a strong russian government that is hostile to our interest and values and seeks to challenge the international order that both parties try to maintain. as part of that effort, congress passed the fiscal year 2015 national authorization act which was picked from the air force rocket engines. a russian company controlled by some of putin's top cronies. we did so not only because the nation shouldn't rely on russia to access space but because it is immoral to help sub-saharsid them. last year, the bill exempted five of the engines that united launch purchased before

this execution of what isis says is a russian spy. >> 224 people killed in that russian airliner that just as it took off 20 minutes or so from sharm el sheikh going back to russia to st. petersburg and now a russian is killed and two russians killed with the connection of the downing of that russian plane near the border with turkey as well. we will see what putin does in response to all of. this and ian, much more on the breaking news coming up. thank you very much. >>> meanwhile, other important developments, because france could learn if two of the closest allies are willing to go all-in against this fight against eisis. in the uk, lawmakers are in the middle of a marathon 10 1/2-hour session on whether the british planes should be used to bomb isis targets in syria, and the fiery debate revealing a divided parliament. >> they want to attack us again and again and the question for us, to we answer the call of the allies, the closest friends in the world, the french and the americans who want us to join with them and arab partner s s the work or do we ignore that call? >> the publi

the next day the russian media were making it about president recep tayyip erdogan family. moscow-based channels, including the russian language and english language zeroed in on allegations that recep tayyip erdogan, through his son bilal was profiting from oil deals with i.s.i.l. >>> to back up the stories, they ran with this image, alleges it showed bilal erdo wan with two i.s.i.l. leaders. turned out the two were not war lords, they were waiters. >> there was a ukranian website dedicating work to dismantling artist propaganda. the website published a story rebutting everything said. it turns out that it's not i.s.i.s. warlords, it's a turkish restaurant in which bilal was seen once. >> translation: there has been a lot of contradictory information. when it comes to turkey's links to i.s.i.l., journalists including those in the west have reported on this, it's not a new topic, just new in the russian media. that is not a quoins dense. it started after the fighter yet was shut down. russia started talking critically about the various issues. >> both russia and recep tayyi

we overfly the russian federation in the same way. in fact we find it quite useful to overfly their rail lines, for example. i wanted to stress that one of the advantages of the open skies treaty is that information  is shared openly among all the treaty parties. so, one of the advantages with the open skies treaty is that we know exactly what the russians are imaging. because they must share the imagery with us. so, that is an advantage over the so-called national technical means of the russian federation, where we're not sure exactly what they are imaging. >> so, are they imaging national critical infrastructure that has nothing to do with defense? >> what i can say is based on again the open skies treaty regime is producing imagery that's open to all, and they have imaged a number of sites around the country. >> does possible surveillance of u.s. national critical infrastructure fit with russia's war fighting doctrine? >> well, sir, i would say that under the open skies treaty, we are -- we are all basically opening up our territo

katty: the russians have gained something. . russian military operation .as created a barrier the opposition has not been able to amount a full-scale military comparability that would push out a solid. if they wanted to work together, how do you wait the mights of something that be called something like success on the win on friday? andrew: this is the beginning of a long process. point, john kerry is working the best he can diplomatically. that only works when you have some threat that you will change on the ground military. -- militarily. john kerry does not have that. the u.s. has been reluctant to get involved militarily. katty: he tried this with the peace process. americans will not step in as the russians have, that leaves their hand weekend in the negotiation process. have comee russians out dramatically with their military interventions. they are stepping up certain targeted operations against isis . we will see how much of an impact that has. and theoreign policy security in the united states are issues that will come

over ankara's downing of a russian jet near the syrian border. the russian president vladimir putin is due to mention the issue in his annual address to the nation, which is about to begin any moment now. our correspondent live from moscow. as soon as we see president putin take to the pod um and start his address, we will go to that and find out what he is saying, but in the meantime let's talk about the spat, the continuing spat, between the foreign ministers as we speak. there we see president putin then striding into this hall and about to start his annual state of the nation address. we're going to listen to this and find out what he has to say. >>> members of the state, citizens of russia. >> translation: i want to begin this year's address with words of gratitude to russian servicemen fighting terrorism. today in the hall the history or historical hall honoring russian bravery, we have par advertise pants present who fought in the anti terrorist coalition. they are particularly remembered here, particularly those who fell in combat. we hon

and russians talking about this instance outlining the russian of the syrian conflict. >> any sign of vladimir putin meeting with erdogan? >> reporter: it didn't take place. vladimir putin said he would not meet the president of turkey and he didn't. in the press conference he gave after the summit speech as well, he again made the allegation that the reason the russian plane was shot out of the sky was because it was trying to protect the illicit oil routes between isis and turkey. he says that was why the russian plane which was attacking the oil routes had been shot down. it is something the russian president categorically denies. >> all right. matthew chance, thank you. >>> chilling details emerging on the paris terrorist attacks. sources telling cnn the terrorists may have been planning more attacks than previously known. this as we learned the attacker who survived, salah abdeslam, may have successfully escaped to syria. joining us from paris for the latest on this is cnn's phil black. phil, it is as if this trail has gone cold. >> reporter: it seems at the case, christine, sour

the russian jet. south africa are meeting about chinese investment. president xi jinping has already signed deals worth s and is in cooperation with africa. china has investigated heavily in numerous african countries including zam bia. beijing has a growing stake in the agriculture sector. >> reporter: this man came here as a farm laborer. over the years he has worked the way up to the ranks to become a manager of one of the biggest chinese owned farms in zambia. although people here is suspicious of chinese owned companies, here relations are good. >> at the moment because of the high production, we've been able to send our school children to school using the farm trust, which is good. so that is how there has been an improvement on the people's lives as well. we have classes where we're training our staff so that we can move teeth in terms of technology-- together in terms of technology. >> reporter: he was sent to china for further training. evidence day he shares knowledge with other staff. it's

and a russian civilians ship fired shots. there has been tension as a fighter jet has been shot down >>> burundi's police have been accused of killing 85 civilians between friday and saturday. most young to middle aged men. police deny the claims, the army saying it killed 79 armed men attacking three compounds in the capital by friday. saturday, witnesses say dozens of bodies were laying in the streets. more than 300 people have been killed in the violence since april when the burundi president announced he was running for a third term. which opponents claim was unconstitutional. there are reports that two are dead and 20 others injured in the central african republic as people voted in elections. there was heavy weapon fire in the muslim district in the capital. machine guns and rocket launchesers used near a school where people were cueing to vote on a new referendum. the country is supposed to hold free elections later this month after two years of instability, we have this report on how french and u.n. troops my struggle

the russians refused. a week ago, a russian naval ship passed through, one of the naval shapes was carrying a rocket. relations between the two countries are not going well and it could actually escalate even further. >> that remains to be seen. omar, thank you so much. >>> and international conference is underway in rome told the conflict in libya. members of the two rival political factions are attending along with the u.s. secretary of state john kerry. they agreed to sign a u.n. brokered deal friday. libya has been in turmoil since momentum good was overthrown. the deal creates a unified government made up of people agreed to by both sides. the two rival parliaments were due to most wednesday to sign the agreement. they have not confirmed whether the troops on the ground will accept the deal. zeina, tell us how this meeting will impact whether or not this deal will actually happen, really affect what's happening on the ground. >> further meetings are being held with world leaders that have influence ov

i call on the russians to prove that this is happening. well, of course, what we have seen today is the russian's showing what they believe to be the proof of just that. president erdogan said if it could be proven, then he would step down. now, we will have to wait for the various bits of evidence that the russians say show this is going on. we'll have to wait to see if they do what the russians are saying, whether they are true. i would wage their even if it is proven to be true, it's unlikely president erdogan is going to hold his hands up and say ok, you got me, i'm going to leave office. that's unlikely to happen. but the russians say that's not what they are trying to do. the russians are saying this is not to try to force president erdogan from office, this is to lay everything out into the open. they called on the international media and of course on these foreign military attaches listening to this to take this information and act on it. what russia insists it is trying to do is shut off isil says financing routes and use that as

the russian was meant to be serving a ban. he said set in the table. >> translation: we know there are a good team and well trained. from what we've seen they're well organized. they know what the heads of the bodys that govern football in the americas. other accused are trying to distance themselves from the investigation. >> translation: i am a public figure. i have spoken out to legal activity. if it needs to be proved that one is innocent, then this must be done. to my knowledge i have never been involved in any kind of scandal. >> reporter: u.s. authorities have arrested several top officials in may. that led to the suspension of the long serving president. most of the 27 indicted by prosecutors are in latin america. >> four or five senior manager of latin american football who using marketing rights, everything that had to go with money. they managed everything in a room and looking here. >> reporter: the u.s. investigators here raiding a spanish tv office say that millions changed hands to screen big games. who pays for

russian and turkish foreign ministers meet for the first time since the downing of the russian jet nearhe syrian border, but the stand off continues. prosecutors in the u.s. are pushing for the extradition for two on f.i.f.a. in switzerland >>> police have searched the home of the couple suspected of killing 14 people and a shoot-- in a shooting attack in an office party in san bernardino. thousands of rounds of ammunition and a dozen pipe bombs in the house shared by syed farook and tashfeen malik. they're still investigating the scene. the first officer on the scene of the shooting describes what he saw >> as we entered into the conference room, the situation was surreal. it was something that i don't think you can be prepared for. they just throw everything at you to prepare you for dealing with this situation, but what you're seeing and what you're hearing and smelling, and it was all of that and more. it was unspeakable, the carnage that we were seeing, the number of people who were injured and unfortunately already dead. the pure panic on the face of those individuals that were st

after nine anxious months, the russians lifted the block aid.he policy of standing firm had been vindicated. >> the russian cynical blockade had brought russia to the brink of war and it was clear a strong alliance could deter them from further adventures. in 1949, the north atlantic treat by was signed by belgium, france, italy, portugal, the united kingdom, iceland, canada, and the united states. this union of 12 nations became known as the north atlantic treaty organization, missouri simply, nato. they were sworn to stand together against aggression and attack against one would be an ttack against all. although the treaty was carefully designed to keep within the letter and spirit of the understand charter, soviet russia claimed it was an attempt at world domination, but while still accusing nato nations of intended aggression, they themselves, frustrated in europe, turned to the far east, to korea. >> the united nations sent an army to korea under a single command, to hold the aggressors at bay. it was almost too late. the lesson for europe

putin came to power, it was russian position of operations of the western policy. so he and mr.putin definitely see the possibilities to stop the american intervention and the american movement, to counter it so this is i think the first direction behind this action. the second one i would say that russia for long ceased to be global power, superpower. and all the actions in eastern and central europe and integrating. they are also making, regional power. i think mr. putin wants to intervene in syria and claiming russia is once again a global power just to draw attention to his homeland as the original player. of course, actions in syria are not the global actions and superpower. but nevertheless, it's some kind of claim four a new regional state. so it is just calling for -- once again. the next point of course is that using the possibility that western countries are definitely challenged by terrorist threat, mr. putin wants to find some common ground with both united states and europe of the anti-terror, counterterror agenda and find out some ground to restore the relationship

based think tank said the russian air campaign has mainly hit syrian opposition groups. >> the russian and syrian airstrikes on the east have increased recently. they pretend they are targeting the terrorists, but most people killed are women and children. >> these are scenes that the people of syria have become familiar with. what started as an uprising against the government has long descended into civil war. that cycle of violence has played out across the country for almost five years now and killed at least 200,000 people. al jazeera. >>> the leader of turkey's pro kurdish opposition party said it was wrong for the military to shoot down a russian fighter jet. he is meeting the russian foreign minister in moscow. turkey targeted a russian fighter jet last month after accusing it of violating turkish territory. >>> a russian court has issued an international arrest warrant for a former oil tycoon and outspoken critic of the kremlin who founded the pro democracy movement called open russia. armed russian police raided his offices and confiscated documents. he was accused of organizi

and the russian republic was starved for cash and the united states thought it was important to buy russian rockets back then, why? >> it was a goodwill deal and it was a mistake then and now to rely on the russian rockets. senator mccain and i agree on that. it is it a question of what we do in the meantime? do we have anything else to rely on? absolutely not. >> after the invasion of crimia and other misbehavor, there was a mood in congress to stop buying them. and you fought to lift that limit, why? >> we would have a space of 3 or 4 or 5 years that we would not be able to have satellites in space according to the national defense intelligence and also the secretary of defense. it is not what i say, it is what they say. and national security should trump whatever if we have to get an engine. get off of the russian engine as fast as we can. and that is everybody's goal. >> senator, your feelings on the spending bill. will you vote for it? >> no, i will not. it has a lot in it that i like, but also not. it has money for the president helping the refugees and help a lot of illegal immigrati

the russian president vladimir putin said ankara will regret the shooting down of a russian jet near the syria turkish border. he accuses turkey of supporting terrorism and promised a tougher response. he was speaking at his annual state of the nation address. >> we are not planning to engage in military saber rattling but if anyone think that is having committed this awful war crime, the murder of our people, that they're going to get away with some measures concerning unit mate items or limit other sectors, they are deeply mistaken. >> we'll have the latest out of moscow with rory challands. >> it's very, very clear from vladimir putin's tone in this state of the nation address that even though more than a week has passed since turkey shot a russian bomber out of the sky from over the turkish-syria border, vladimir putin's anger is still burning very very hot. he's using language again like being stabbed in the back, that russia has been betrayed. he has started using language like well maybe this is allah's revenge on turkey, maybe allah has made turkey lose its mind. he's talked

thank you very much. >> translation: i thankise excellency lavrov, the russian government and the russian people for their hospitality. the talks we had today were good and constructive. the talks is completion of the previous talks between the two countries, between russia and qatar, and we are both interested in these relations and expecting these relations. of course, there are so many aspects political, economic, cultural and the exchange in commerce and investment and cooperation in the field of energy and gas. we in qatar always look forward to more cooperation with russia. i spoke with the minister and i said that we have big responsibilities towards our people's. particularly within the challenges in the region. this needs cooperation in order to chief peace, welfare and security in our countries. that's why we spot today and we exshake our viewpoints with developments and incidents in the international and regional levels. the purpose of maintaining and keeping international peace and security in russia has a big role to do this. of course, you know, the practices in the middle e

the russian air strikes have increased since a russian jet was shot down by turkey in move. >>> the leadere rebel group [ inaudible ] islam has been killed in syria. he died in an aerial raid which targeted his headquarters. the group is the largest in damascus with thousands of fighters. it says the headquarters was targeted by what it described as russian planes. >>> more soldiers have been sent to afghanistan to fight the taliban. at least four districts in the province of helmand have slipped into taliban control. the army is being backed up by tribal fighters and u.s. air strikes. our correspondent is close to the fighting. >> reporter: we are hearing from afghan security officials here in helmand, they are telling us that reinforce by road just reached the district, just less than 24 hours ago, afghan security officials -- afghan security officials deployed afghan special forces to the district, where we are hearing from residents that heavy fighting is still going on in a small bizarre which has afghan security officials also telling us they have now control of the police headquarte

after nine anxious months, the russians lifted the blockade.he policy of standing firm had been vindicated. the russians cynical blockade of berlin had brought europe to the brink of war. it was clear only a strong alliance could deter them from further adventures. in 1949, north atlantic treaty was signed by norway, luxembourg, france, italy, portugal, the united kingdom, iceland, canada come and the united states. this union of 12 nations became known as the north atlantic treaty organization, or nato. they were sworn to stand together against aggression. an attack against one would be an attack against all. and all movie treaty was carefully designed to keep within the letter and spirit of the united nations charter, soviet russia claimed it was an attempt at world domination. they themselves, frustrated in europe, turned to the far east, to korea. the united nations sent an army to korea, under a single command, to hold the aggressors at a. it was almost too late. the lesson for europe was clear. in december, 1950, the north atlantic counci