--sident vladimir putin host theepares to winter olympics in sochi next month her. president obama has offered full security assistance. i'm pleased to have vitaly churkin back at this table. >> thank you. good to be back. let's go back to a conference. there seems to be a dispute among some people over the object to of the conference and certainly what it means for bush are all assad. -- bashar al-assad. >> the conference is to end the crisis in syria, the killing. we negotiated the so-called -- now it is regarded as the basis of the negotiations. it is a complex document. the main idea the document is that the two parties should get together and discuss a transition to a future syria where everyone would be allortable to live under groups in the country. this is where we are coming from. this particular matter of the future of president assad is certainly complex and delicate. it is a thorny issue. the government is adamant that he should go -- the position is that he should go. u.n.e >> talks have started today in geneva to try to find common ground on some issue