emily: sergey has been a critical part of your story.ou are divorced and you have two kids and two companies. how you go through a process like that? ♪ emily: your dad is a physics professor and your mom was an educator. tell me about your upbringing. anne: it's interesting. i grew up next to people who did not do things for money. they did things because they loved it and things that they were interested in. they were constantly questioning. the idea that you question all the time, that is core to me. emily: your sisters are successful. how do you all relate to each other? anne: we see each other a lot. in my world, nothing has changed. my sisters are still my sisters. when they come for dinner, they steal my clothes, especially my sister susan. we see each other at events all the time. now it is really fun. we are both invited. we went to the oscars together. emily: was is it about your family that raised three very successful daughters in completely different disciplines? anne: a core element is that we do what we love and we take fee

we are understanding the genetic mutations that sergey has.e are talking about some of the things we need to do. emily: sergey has been a critical part of your story. you're divorced. you have two kids and two companies. when there is so much wealth involved, how do you go through this process? anne: it's complicated. divorce is never easy. we are very good friends. we see each other almost on a daily basis. we are supportive of each other. it's the new reality for relationship. emily: do you have any advice from this time of your life? anne: you just have to accept that you do the best you can. we just need, we just needed the ice cream. there are moments when it's hard. you do the best that you can do. part of it is being gentle on yourself. you can't do everything. part of what i think we have done really well, you optimize finding the best in everyone and focus on the friendship. emily: you live in the silicon valley. you seem so normal. how do you stay normal? anne: you stay focused on the things that are important. i volunteer at school.

really understanding the genetic mutations that sergei has.e talking about some of the big things that we will be able to do there. emily: sergey has been a critical part of your story. you are officially divorced. you have two kids and two companies between you. when there is so much wealth involved, and you are under so much scrutiny, how do you go through a process like that? anne: it's complicated. that's all i can say. it's complicated. divorce is never easy. we are very good friends. we see each other almost on a daily basis. we are really supportive of each other. it's the new reality for relationships. emily: you are a single working mom. do you have any advice from this time of your life? anne: you just have to accept that you do the best you can. my mom would call and ask what you doing? i would say, it is 10:00 at night and we are eating ice cream. they're not going to bed. we just needed ice cream. there are moments when it's hard. you do the best that you can do. i think that part of it is being gentle on yourself. you can't neces

has come a long way. if montenegro is a full member, it leaves only serbia looking not westwards but towards russia. sergeiv has called nato expansion a provocation, but before leaving brussels his u.s. counterpart rejected that. >> i would say to russia and any other country that worries or thinks about this. this is not focused on them specifically. it's focused on the potential of defense against anybody or anything that is a threat, including isil. >> reporter: montenegro's flag could soon be flying here as nato's 29th member. good news perhaps for the alliance, but another reason for russia to push back. nadim baba, al jazeera, at nato headquarters in this brussel. >>> hundreds of thousands of people are stranded by some of the worst flooding on record in southern india. winter monsoon rains have lashed the area. our correspondent reports from new delhi. >> reporter: heavy rain has pored on people in this state for weeks. now many in southern india are trapped in steadily rising flood waters. coastal areas, including the state capitol are hardest hit. response teams have been sent to try to rescue tho

sergei lavrov has called nato's expansi expansion a problem. >> this is not focused on them specificallys focused on the potential of defense against anybody or anything that is a threat including isil. >> reporter: the flag could soon be flying here as nato's 29th member, once the other 28 parliaments have approved it. good news, perhaps for the alliance, but another reason for russia to push back. nadim baba, al jazeera, brussels. >>> hundreds of thousands of people are stranded by some of the worst flooding on record in southern india. monsoon rains have lashed coastal areas, especially the capitol. our correspondent reports now from new delhi. >> reporter: heavy rain has poured on people in this state for weeks. now many in southern india are trapped instead illy rising flood waters. coastal areas are hardest hit. response teams have been sent to try to rescue thousands of people. >> [ inaudible ] last week it is so much [ inaudible ] everything else is down in the water. >> reporter: conditions deteriorated on tuesday with heavy downpours making water-logged areas even worse. people

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has come a long way. then in a union with serbia, helping to stop sloab dan milosevic. on wednesday president putin's spokesman warned of retaliatory measures and sergey lavrov has called nato expansion a provocation. >> i would say to russia and to any other country that worries or thinks about there, this is not focused on them specifically. it's focused on the potential of defense, against anybody or anything that is a threat. including i.s.i.l. >> reporter: montenegro's flag could soon be flying here as nato's 29th member once it's pushed through more democratic reforms and once the 28 other parliaments have approved it. good news perhaps for alliance but another reason for russia to push back. nadim baba al jazeera, at nato headquarters in brussels. >> montenegro's future could play a big role in international politics. both countries are predominantly orthodox christian and have historically been strong allies. a blow to russia's political influence in the region and would take a position on the adriatic sea, but the small country's future is far from certain. analysts there believe russia will try to forward a opposition candidate. montenegrons

the two sides actually are still having big differences, because we know that the russians, as sergey lavrov has emphasized many times during the press conference with his counterpart that there are differences on the future of syrian president bashar al assad. there are also differences on who is defines who as the terrorist in syria, because the russians want to include all the armed groups that are fighting over bashar al assad. put them all in one basket and call them terrorists, and they should not be allowed actually to be part of the syria opposition delegation. it is supposed to be formed in the coming days, and be part of the peace talks in geneva. i think these are the two main issues, i think, but also, the foreign minister was also keen on emphasizing that we should have geneva as the difference for this peace talk, i.e., there should be a government condition, government body formed from both the opposition and the regime with full executive authority to actually take over the responsibility from syrian president bashar al assad, because he emphasized during the first conference tha

sergei magnitsky. they'd found the achilles heel of the putin regime. and so after about ten of these calls they said, "well, this has gotta be bigger than sergei magnitsky". and they added 65 words to the law to sanction all other gross human rights abusers in russia. and-- from that moment the thing just snowballed. and we ended up with 39 senate cosponsors. >> in december of 2012- vladimir putin held a press conference in which-- again, it came up again. sergei magnitsky. reporters asked him about it and he said, "magnitsky did not die of torture. he was not tortured. he died of a heart attack. in addition, as you know, he was not a human rights activist, but a lawyer for mr. browder, who is suspected by our law enforcement agencies of economic crimes in russia". you had made yourself into public enemy number one in russia. >> well, what happened was the magnitsky act passed 92 to four in the senate. 89% of the house of representatives. signed by president obama-- on december 14th, 2012. >> you think a little grudgingly. >> he-- he-- it was very grudging. we-- we had to fight tooth and nail. and so, putin went cra

in what we understand it does not seem as if the situation has improved dramatically. sergei lavrov said he heard nothing new from his turkish counterpart, and they said perhaps it is too soon to expect serious improvements in relations. we had vladimir putin giving his state of the nation address, and he was very bellicose in that speech about turkey saying that turkey had betrayed russia using the phrase once more that russia had been stabbed in the back saying there would be further measures taken against the government in ankara, not specifying actions and what those would be. essentially what russia wants from turkey is an apology, and at the moment that has not been forthcoming and turkey is urging russia to try to play the situation down and use a cool head. >> meanwhile, russia has resumed the supply of long-range missiles systems to iran. russian state media reporting air defense systems on thursday. the kremlin suspended it's supply of advance missile systems in 2010 citing sanctions, but it decided to lift the sanctions. they have expressed concern of air missiles

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is going to stress as a result of the talks between himself and john kerry and sergey lavrov momentum in the peace process has been maintained. there are fears that the talks in new york tomorrow and friday are going to be scrubbed, but they are going ahead. kerry, i must say, was pretty generous in terms of how he described russia-america's relationship in relation to the talks. he says we have got a lot of common ground. i think that will be stressed by putin. he will also be talking about turkey and the problems there, and he will be talking about the war against i.s.i.l. he is going to come under pressure on the economy, on corruption. it's going to be a very interesting four hours >>> thank you for that, peter sharpe. human rights watch has published photographs of thousands of people who died in syrian government detention centers. the group says it is damning evidence of crimes against humanitarian. some viewers may find the following photographs disturbing. these images were smuggled out of the country by a military defector. they show some six thousand people who died in custody, many of them torture

so, right now, secretary kerry has met with sergei lavrov, his counterpart, then he will go to the kremlinhere he will meet with president putin. that's where the united states certainly hopes to get a lot more clarity on precisely where president putin thinks this is all going. one of the key issues of course is the fate of syrian president assad and the definition of who is a terrorist and who is not. there has been a lot of debate back and forth about that. the russians initially calling everybody but isis, let's say isis is a terrorist organization, but a lot of the other groups, terrorists. now it is more fine tuned. now they are saying elements of the free syrian army are some they may work with and air strikes. there is a lot of fluidity about this. we will in a few hours have the meeting with president putin and that should be crucial and interesting. >> it sure will. thank you, jill. we know you will watch it for us. >>> president obama calling on america's allies in the middle east to do more in the war on isis. white house insiders say the president is growing frustrated with co

has the fsa group confirmed. >>> john kerry will meet with sergey lavrov. with winter sitting in the plight of refugees is once again a major concern. al jazeera's bernard smith reports. >> winter has arrived in syria. bringing with it a new set of challenges for people who have been displaced from their homes. >> these heaters are dangerous to have in a tent. children can suffocate from the smoke. >> 35,000 syrians live in this camp on the northern outskirts of aleppo. while fighting in the area continues and is perhaps the most intense, anywhere in syria, in the central city of homs a u.n. administered ceasefire between rebels and the government is holding. the u.n. humanitarian chief stephen o'brien met residents of ware neighborhood, humanitarian aid has reached it for the first time in 11 months. in southern damascus, iranian backed progovernment fighters have been tunneling towards opposition positions. antigovernment fighters say they are trying to cut a supply route to damascus airport. they say the pro regime forces don't recognize the ceasefire sig

. >> the body of a man that washed up on the beach has been identified. >> 53-year-old sergei [indiscerniblehe was from roseville and had been missing since october when he and his friends went fishing and the boat capsized. his body was discovered earlier at the entrance to the harbor -- a few miles away from where the boat overturned. one of the other people on board died and the third was rescued. >> 5:35 -- in alameda driver was almost hit by a massive tree that fell on park street -- it was caught on surveillance camera. a car drove by and there you can see it just before the large ficus tree came crashing down. it was a few seconds between the car and a falling tree. luckily the tree fell yesterday early when there were a few drivers on the road. >> park street is the busiest street in alameda -- if it had happened at 7 o'clock or 8 o'clock -- it would have been something bad. >> the body shop owner heard talk of removing the trees on the street a few months ago because the roots were buckling under the sidewalk. >> the operator of a tour bross that crashed could be shut down -- the ch

secretary of state john kerry has had a phone conversation with the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov on which both sides agreed on the need to set preconditions before any new meaningful talks to try resolve the syria crisis. that might be a reference to meetings that are scheduled to be held in the u.n. in new york on friday. it will it's important to point out that mr. kerry will be going to moscow for a meeting tomorrow morning with mr. lavrov but also vladimir putin, the russian president. the preconditions may be we certainly know that the russian government believes that president bashar al-assad still has a role to play in syria and needs to be part of a post-conflict solution for syria. we also know that up until now certainly western governments have said that that is not kay e-case and we know that the french government prior to the meeting that was held at quay definitely orsay could not be part of a solution. the french government wanted to salute the efforts of opposition groups who met in ryad oin recent days to try to agree on a solution. so far from this meeting nothi

much has taken place in the last few days where there have been negotiations between the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and secretary of state john kerry. their plan is to have face-to-face talks between the syrian government and syrian opposition and a cease-fire in january. the u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon told me that that was an ambitious goal. >> some people may think that is too ambitious, but one needs to be ambitious. we do not have much time to lose--to waste even a single minute. >> the u.s. ambassador to the united nations samantha power said that one major sticking point remains, the future role of president assad. >> there is no question from the american perspective that if you want peace for the sake of people of syria, and if you want people mobilized and activated together against a common enemy, the world's enemy, isil, there is going to have to be a political transition and assad will have to go. >> an important part of the crisis in syria and across the border in iraq is the role of isil. and another important u.n. security council meeting will be taking place here on t

. >> each country's rhetoric has hardened considerably in the past 48 hours even as various third parties have offered to immediate yate. sergei lavrov met his turkish counterpart for talks, the first face-to-face contact between the two countries since the start of the crisis. luries an time, turkish are backed up. >> thousands of striking workers in greece have taken their anger at the country's economic depression to the national parliament. the square filled with demonstrators earlier. some masked individuals threw petrol bombs at riot police. they called the walk out and protest of the austerity mppings. -- measures. it has more in the pipeline. these are one of the conditions of its latest international bailout. >> the corruption scandal at fifa is deepening. two more officials have been arrest today, while 16 more defendants are reportedly ready to be indicted by the u.s. on wednesday. two were detained in predawn raids. switzerland's federal office of justice is asking for them to be extradited. the pair took money in return for selling futbol marketing rights. >> fifa's meeting couldn't have been more timely. just hou

has been happening. earlier today we had secretary of state john kerry meet with the foreign minister of russia, sergei lavrovthat was a meeting that wasn't even scheduled. the major meeting was supposed to start around 8:30 this morning. russia and the u.s. took to the side to start hammering out a couple of key words. transition was the word. russia has always blocked any resolution that would see assad go. u.s. has always said that is the important thing. the u.s. is definitely softening on this. and soon -- about a half our hour from now, kerry will sit down with the iranian foreign minister. so you have top leadership. kerry will then go to the security council and push forward what will hopefully be a resolution. >> reporter: courtney you have rivals coming together at the same table today. what are some of the sticking points here? >> reporter: well, tony, like i said you have the iranians, the russians, the u.s. just for starters. you have got the saudi arabia also at the table, which often does not see eye to eye with iran. so this is the third round of talks. the momentum as samantha power has said,

has this update. >> the purpose of the meeting between u.s. secretary of state john kerry and his russian counterpart sergei lavrov next week is to hash out the two countries' concerns about the war in syria and the proposals on the table. they're trying to get to some sort of peace talks between the government of bashar al-assad and the political and military opposition. it is not, however, going to be expected to be a meeting that reveals or leads to anything in the way of a significant break through because that is still to come. however, there is a meeting next from where those involved in the international effort try to broker peace talks might have something more concrete to discuss. however, there is some concern that there might be a rushing, as it were, of the peace process because even though the political and military opposition had just formed what they say is an umbrella group to try to broker some sort of peace deal, it does not mean that the group is strong enough to go through but could be a projected negotiating period. analysts suggest that the situation is such that bashar al-assad will have to have something that will comp

between kerry and russian foreign minister sergey lavrov, it's likely that a transition of power won't happen immediately. >> let us be frank, not everyone has renounced any preconditions or their own interpretation of how this principle can be applied in practice. >> reporter: what is clear among world leaders is that they agree i.s.i.l. must be defeated. and to do so, concessions must be made. so antonio, we've seen incredible steps being taken here on comploik measure on dip. today you had sergey lavrov and kerry meeting behind closed doors before the meeting even started they agreed on the language of the resolution that went to the security council for that unanimous vote. antonio. >> and the syrian intor was reactinintorambassador isreacti? >> obviously the syrian ambassador speaking on behalf of syrian president bashar al-assad. who is being on that ceasefire is being hashed out, i.s.i.l. is not on that list, j abad el nusra, and hezbollah, the russian and iranians coming to the tabling on behalf of the assad regime antonio. >> we'll have more on that in a moment, courtney, thanks. we're joined by richard murphy, served as assistant s

. >>> qatar's foreign minister has been meeting his russian counterpart in moscow, with syria top of the agenda. sergeiavrov held a press conference with his qatari counter part. >> translator: we discussed in detail what is necessary to be done, to implement the agreements on the syrian settlement, that was reached on the framework of the international support group in syria, and the u.n. security council. >>> we agree with russian party that the worsening of this crisis has benefited the interests of neither party. we are aware that the delays in the solution of this crisis is harmful to all of the parties, and first of all to the syrian people. >>> a syrian academic and writer and associate analyst at the doha institute here in qatar. he says the most important issue is the future of bashar al-assad. >> once again it shows that the two sides are still having big differences. because we know that the russians, as sergei lavrov hazem fa sized many times, that there are differences on the future of president bashar al-assad. there are also differences on who is -- in defining who is the terrorist in sy

secretary of state john kerry has been meeting the russian president vladimir putin in russia today and meeting with sergeirov, the foreign minister, and they have talked about setting preconditions before any talks with a prospect of a meaningful solution being held. so we are still quite some bay from the possibility of perhaps a u.n. security council resolution, although there have been some reports from unnamed sources that perhaps people were talking about this. whether we're any further along so far as that is concerned is not clear. >> dominic kane reporting live from paris. as he was saying john kerry is in moscow. he took the opportunity to speak out against the islamic state of iraq and the levant. >> on isil or daesh, russia and the united states agree that this is a threat to everybody, to every country; that there is no negotiation. these are the worst of terrorists. they attack culture and history and all decency, and they leave no choice but for civilized nations to stand together and to fight and push back and destroy them. >> despite all of the rhetoric about isil, the talks about kerry an

qatar's foreign minister has been meeting russian counterpart with moscow with syria on top of agenda and no agreement over the president bashar al-assad and sergeiov helped a press conference with his counterpart a day after china and syria agree to framework for up coming peace talks in geneva and hopes for increased cooperation with qatar in the situation in the middle east. >> translator: we discussed in detail what is necessary to be done, to implement the agreements on the syrian settlement reached within the framework of the international support group of syria and the u.n. security council. >> translator: we agree with russian party the worsening of this crisis does benefit the interests of neither party. we are aware that the delays in the solution of this crisis is harmful to all the parties and first of all to the syrian people. >> reporter: al jazeera's peter sharp is live from moscow and as you see it what was the take away, the headline from this meeting? >> well, i think it's fair to say that russia and qatar have agreed to disagree over the future of president assad. the qatar foreign minister said that the assad regime had no leg

has been meeting his russian counter part in moscow, syria top of the agenda. there's still no agreement over the future of the president bashar al assad. sergey lavrov held a news conference with his qatar counterpart. it comes a day after china and syria agreed a framework for the forthcoming peace talks in geneva. >> we discussed in detail what's necessary to be done to implement the agreements on the syrian settlements that was reached within the framework of the international support group of syria and the u.n. security council. >> we agree with russian party that the worsening of this crisis does benefit the interests of neither party. we are aware that the delays in the solution of this crisis is harmful to the parties and first of all to the syrian people. >> he told his counterpart that his aim was to form parties talks. they did disagree on the legitimacy of bashar al assad government. qatar maintains that bashar al assad i guess one of the main sporters of terrorism in the region. they both did agree that only a political settlement will bring peace to syria and the qatari foreign minister in fact said without that, they would be lo

sergey lavrov. >>> coalition known as the islamic alliance includes turkey, quartz, egypt and pakistan. >>> the european union is set to unveil plans that will affect thousands of people fleeing those conflicts. eu has proposed a new border force and coast guard agency in response to the refugee crisis in europe. under the proposal, the eu will have the power to deploy forces without their consent. close to 1,000 enhancement stock compared to about 400 at the current border agency frontex. the union is also requiring stop people from making the dangerous journey by sea. partly because of greece's border control props. the majorities of people who make it to europe do so through the greek islands. john siropolous reports. >> this has been the entry point for 800,000 migrants into urine this year. the greeks have clearly been in need of greater assistance than they have so far received from their eu partners through frontex, the existing european borders agency, and they are up to the task of policing european borders and fingerprinting fingg migrants but the sheer number is overwhelming so the greeks evoked emergency status, to provide them with more aid than they have voluntarily done. but the greek

has announced a new alliance of 34 countries with the aim of fighting what the kingdom calls terrorism. >>> u.s. secretary of state john kerry is in russia for talks with the foreign secretary, sergey lavrov, about the syrian war. >>> new plans for a border force and coast guard agency in response to the refugee crisis into europe. >>> burundi there are concerns, political unrest is getting worse. the country saw its largest violence on friday, 87 were killed. more from the capitol, mohammed adow has more from bujumbura. >> people are still reeling from events from last friday. 87 people the government says were killed in attacks on military victims in different part of the city. some of them were killed, hands tied behind their backs. some of them had bullet holes on top of their heads and police say they are looking for people who broke out in violence. residents say police came looking for revenge. the coup event which was triggering the violence we are witnessing in burundi right now. defense mints, five generals, others who are accused of having planned and trying to execute that failed coup attempt have been charged with having carried out this coup. it's a very big case that

vladimir putin has been making that only the syrian people can determine their future, and that will be part of the political settlement, the third stage of this, which is going be convened by sergey lavrov, the foreign minister in new york, tomorrow and friday. >> not budging when it comes to turkey, he lashed out at the turks. what is the resolution there. did he put anything forward as far as that is concerned in. >> i think, really, it's an icebox. no one is going near, despite the fact that the turkish president would like to sit and diffuse the issue, and n.a.t.o. is sending advisors and air force personal to ensure that turkey doesn't take any dangerous action against a russian aircraft in the area. and vladimir putin was very, very open, and really threatened turkey. he said basically we have moved the air defense system into syria. and that is the most advanced air defense system in the world, picking up aircraft 400km away. it is fully operational speaking to the turkish president. do not attempt to fly into syrian air space, as russia's position as the power broker, everyone wonders the impact that this is likely to have on ukraine. he was saying that it's an economic d

what can happen is that if the political process that john kerry has so meticulously stripped together in concert with foreign minister sergey russia, then it's possible given the existing accord that the parties have already agreed to that we start seeing at least pockets of cease myers in and around syria. that may mean, then, that certain opposition groups no longer find themselves subject to either syrian or russian bombing. they are then in a conversation about politics, and slowly, we then are able to get everybody's attention diverted to where it needs to be, and that is going after isil in a systematic way. >> with respect to climate, and what's taking place here. i don't want to get ahead of ourselves, we still need a paris agreement, so my main focus is making sure that the united states is a leader in bringing a successful agreement home here in paris, and there are a number of components to it. i want to repeat so that everybody understands what we will consider success several weeks from now. number one, that it is an ambitious target that seeks low carbon global economy over the course of this century. that mea

. >>> foreign minister has been meeting his russian counterpart on syria on top of agenda and no agreement over the bashar al-assad and sergeiov was speaking with his counterpart and hopes for increased collaboration with qatar in the middle east. >> translator: what is necessary to be done to implement the agreements on the syrian settlement reached within the framework of international support of syria and u.s. security council. we agree with russian party that the worsening of this crisis does benefit the interest of neither party. we are aware that the delays in the solution of this crisis is harmful to all the parties and first of all to the syrian people. >> al jazeera's peter sharp joins us live from moscow so peter beyond the over arching goal that everyone has which is the best for the syrian people obviously do these two countries really have the same goals when it comes to syria? >> i think they have the same goals but they certainly don't share president assad's participation in these talks at all. the qatar foreign minister said that assad has no legitimacy in the talks must be taking place without him. what the

sergey lavrov repeated three times the agreement reached with mr john kerry is to have conversations in the united syrian opposition with the president bashar al-assad. this is a new development. it has never been discussed before. it looks like it's a new achievement in the russian u.s. flegs. it looks tactically like it's been supported by the american side. >> vladimir putin painted a rosy picture of the economy. is that wishful thinking and do the russian peel believe him. on one hand he's corrects. for several months he allowed a food study to grow. in november, russian output went doing. and the crisis that was mentioned. it's ahead of us again. it's important to look how russian population ractedz to the words. today an opinion poll has been published. 80% of russian people think that russia is in the midst of the crisis. >> ukraine has all but been forgotten. i know you've said this the world does that at his own peril. you believe it would agree with the middle east and other members of the soviet bloc. >> correct, and vladimir putin's attitude towards ukraine has been, again, reflected in his words. he spent time discussing how ukraine was manipulated and led by foreigners

ceasefire came into force a truce has been arranged to coincide with peace talks with the war inside switzerland. u.s. secretary of state john kerry is in russia for talks with sergeibout syria's war and the meeting is focusing on president assad's role in the future. alliance of 34 countries with fighting what the kingdom calls terrorism and the coalition of islamicel alliance with turkey qatar and pakistan and 34 nations signed up includes those with large armies such as pakistan, egypt and turkey. and many african nations are part of it including nigeria, mali and chad. absent from the list is iran the main regional rival and iraq and syria but at the heart of the i.s.i.l. conflict also not a part of this and we have a director of the institute for public policy of the american in beirut and what do you make of the countries left off the list and may there be a sectarian angle to this? >> well, i think there is an angle that serves to achieve the aims of saudi policy basically which has become more clear in the last year and a half or so where the saudis is taking dramatic action including active warfare around several countries in the middle east to protect wha

what can happen is if the political process that john kerry has so meticulously stitched together in cooperation with sergeysia, if that works in russia, it's possible that given the existing accord that the parties have already agreed to, that we start seeing at least pockets of cease-fires in and around syria. that may mean then that certain opposition groups no longer find themselves subject to either syrian or russian bombing. they are then in a conversation about politics. and slowly, we then are able to get everybody's attention diverted to where it needs to be and that is going after isil in a systematic way. with respect to climate and what's taking place here, i don't want to get ahead of ourselves. we still need a paris agreement. my main focus is making sure that the united states is a leader in bringing a successful agreement home here in paris. and there are a number of components to it. i just want to repeat, so that everybody understands what we will consider success several weeks from now. number one, that it is an ambitious target that seeks low carbon, global economy over of course of this

sergey lavrov. he said he will meet with vladimir putin in about two hours. both sides disagreeing on what role syrian's president should play in a political transition in syria. >>> saudi arabia has a new alliance to battle isil. the 32 country member coalition is called the i.s. alliance. countries with large armies plus several north african nations are part of that coalition. syria, iran and iraq are not. >> there are reports this morning of several ceasefire violations ins yemen already hours after the truce in a nine month long conflict was scheduled to begin. the ceasefire was to begin as u.n. brokered peace talks got underway between the saudi-led military alliance and houthis there. >> the fed signaled that it is going to raise interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade. >> opinion is divided over whether the economy is strong enough to handle a hike. >> 3-2-1. >> after nearly seven years of near zero interest rates, the federal reserve is primed for lift off. >> the u.s. economy has recovered substantially since the great recession. >> in testimony before congress this month, fed chair janet yellen described an economy ripe or an interest rate hike. with the la