they're in northeastern syria northern syria they're in northern iraq they're in southeastern. turkey there and western around so they converge and they're about twenty five to thirty million kurds and they've achieved a level of autonomy in iraq as the government there is weakened so what's going to happen if syria destabilizes you've already got a destabilized iraq what's going to happen with the kurds are they going to really begin to push hard for their own state of kurdistan anyhow how do you it's it's only a few weeks away it's playing and geneva two how do you feel about that because again the reality on the ground is that assad isn't going to go is a matter of fact he can it least in many ways he can say that he hasn't he may not be winning the war but he certainly stopped losing it months ago here this is a political reality on the ground right now assad is in his people said that they're willing to go to geneva who is he going to talk to because again these western backed people that were there for two years just seem to have dissipated going away is the islamic front

turkey-syria border. he has just come out of aleppo. we also speaking with patrick cockburn who is in london right now, middle east correspondent for the independent. if you could take it from there, patrick, and described -- i mean, we are talking about the biggest emergency in the u.n.'s history, the crisis since the world war ii as the u.n. is describing up. do you see this as a proxy war, and between what countries and for what, patrick? it is clearly a proxy war. this may have started off as a popular uprising in syria, but by now, it has four or five different conflicts wrapped into one. you have an opposition, but an opposition which is fragmented ,nd really proxies for foreign notably -- foreign powers. what has changed recently since midsummer is the saudi arabia is becoming the main financier for the rubble military groups inside syria. guitarist playing a lesser role. r is playing a lesser role. a sunni force.op a suz even so, this is very much a sectarian force which is already being blamed fo

the threat of terrorism in syria. the threat of coming to power in syria and setting up a caliphate. knew she was violating their rights and maybe even exterminating minority is in syria and this is the number one problem. in the. and the realisation of the look sad that the regime change is not the way to solve this problem maybe actually. these will salute. the terrorists coming to power if our western partners become increasingly clear about is that it was good for us and is do we think that they will do what they need to do to make sure that the geneva two conference is a success as we did everything. what we had to do the government is ready to participate the opposition has not said the same yet but we believe this deal realisation of the situation in syria will force our western partners to do their part of the job the way we agreed so as far as russia's foreign policy in general is concerned in other areas it's the concept of the russian's foreign policy says that we have some with basic principles our foreign

thousand and sixteen it will leave a mixed legacy as far as chemical weapons are concerned especially in syria where with his bold dire proliferation on prohibition over the space of a few months well to discuss based on knowledge joined by our math isn't due director general of the organisation for the politician of chemical weapons mr ism just thank you very much for taking part in the program. thank you very much separator now you call two thousand and thirteen a truly historical here i hear that so at the office the w. embark on probably the biggest challenge in its history trying to eliminate syria's chemical weapons in the midst of an active war but i wonder how much progress has been achieved so far. the progress has been cost says it will. several categories of chemical weapons have already been destroyed and chemical weapons production facilities have been rendered to unusable you know very short time all chemical weapons were identified and prepared for transportation to outside syria so now we are entering into a new phase but so far the progress has been very significant and now de

syria. we you were a sponsor in the summer of the free syria act, a bill to provide arms and support to the syrian rebels. when we interviewed the representative, he said he was pleased to have your co- sponsorship of the bill, a bipartisan effort. all this was overtaken with a threatened u.s. attack on syria that led up to the security council resolution. now we have a geneva ii conference supposing to happen on january 22. what is your thought on syria policy? do you support the geneva process? what else should the united states be doing in syria? >> this is the most complicated part of diplomacy. no one ever wants to believe the military has to be a part of any equation. i have never met a diplomat that does not want the 101st airborne and the seventh fleet -- one over the other. it is always a quicker way to yes. i think we have to set the table for a negotiated settlement in syria, and it has changed. the conditions of the ground have changed over the last two years. two years ago we ha

so cold and game and the procedure of the dialogue as well as promoting as the little settlement in syria was so this breakthrough if it was indeed a breakthrough was the result of russia's long term afterwards and patience when the arab spring began russia was said to be on the wrong side of history to have lost the arab world and the middle east unfortunately at the time our western partners and some of our partners in the region by the way weren't looking for solutions that would help stabilize the situation and help the nations in the region to implement their right to a better life instead they opted for information warfare tactics i'm just stating the facts that's what was happening at the time then up until the beginning of this year but i admit that in the end western partners have come to important and wise decisions so the breakthrough was the result of profound groundwork and a second reservation about using the word breakthrough has to do with the future decisions regarding syria and iran far from being fully implemented as for destroying syria's chemical stockpiles everything

jihadi groups heading into syria and so the u.s. now i think is trying to get you know get control of the situation here in iraq the iraqi government have said. on numerous occasions that the saudis are backing the us terrorists they've already blamed the us client state so he really us puppet state so it is quite surprising that the u.s. would be trying to get rid of al qaeda in iraq when in fact the al-qaeda in iraq is one of the bases of the so-called insurgency in syria that the u.s. is backing and others another of the new message to the iraqi government is. going to say the all you are not just for iraqi government is you know we'll deal with this let us deal with it. so a bit of a delay the judge on another front i would say washington at the same time what's negotiate doesn't it with the islamic front in syria an extremist group of rebels while at the same time so you also fight al qaeda really mixed messages over. yeah i think that if we were more i think what we're dealing with here in sin iraq is iraq is to be one of the

the ethnic crisis in syria. there are ethnic minorities of russia that except and help, but there is one minority, the indigenous people of sochi, the place where the olympic games will be. they consist of more than 100,000 diaspora people in syria, expelled by russia at some point to the middle east. those people want to come back to russia now, but there is no help from the russian authorities, and some are actually deported, whole families deported who manaqe to go back to the north caucasus. do you see any change of policy regarding the refugees in syria? >> could you explain to us who this group is? >> this is a group of people from the northern caucasus who left russia in the 19th century mostly during the fighting, or after fighting against russian empire, and the descendant they left across the middle east, and many of them in syria. you know, i think it is a very complicated issue because on the one hand, yes, russia offered refuge to different nationalities who want to leave syria. as i read a couple o

the reason why we did not start bombing syria is one simple thing and that is that the people of the west in the world simply did not buy it they didn't have to go on the street protests keep in mind back in two thousand and three we had the largest protest in history the world did not stop the invasion of iraq but i'm telling you the invasion and the occupation and ultimately the bombardment of syria has been planned long ago and it's a stepping stone towards iran which is the ultimate goal for these psychopaths and they could not bombard syria and the reason why they couldn't even vote to secure the vote to favor that here in britain is because the people overwhelmingly did not buy it in the united states the approval for bombardment of syria was about nine percent that's why the u.s. congress which is a treasonous body of government couldn't even go to a vote on it because if they went to a vote on it and actually voted for another war and this farcical war on terror where the fantastic american servicemen took pictures of themselves saying i did not join the u.s. military to figh

the potential obstacles to peace talks on syria and why nato holds military drills as seemingly. foreign minister sergei lavrov visits altie studio i'm sure as his thoughts. about the time kills fourteen people endangers over one hundred at a security building in northern agent the government spokesperson blames the muslim brotherhood a brand to get a terrorist group. on the us a personal diplomacy in south sudan as a raging battles between all the functions threaten to shut up american farms out of oil. this is all seem to national coming to live from moscow hello and welcome to the program. russia's top diplomat says serious humanitarian crisis is being used as a tool to disrupt negotiations on ending the civil war that. spoke exclusively to c and he was among those who interviewed the foreign minister and joins me now live back how they you were what did the foreign minister have to say well we spoke for around an hour and touched upon a lots of issues but with the recent diplomatic breakthroughs that took place this year with the iranian nuclear program and the chemical arms

so the easiest place to go in and out of syria is the turkish border with syria in the northern syria. so a lot of it is the cash money would be moved to turkey and then literally sort of walked other the border by one of these guys. that's the involvement that i'm aware of from turkey. but, you know, i personally do not report on turkey, so i don't know the specifics. but i, from my reporter colleagues i know that it's sort of, the border has become sort of a wild, wild west. and, you know, there are shops set up with military fatigues and, you know, i think you have a good story maybe that would be helpful here. >> yeah, yeah. so i guess two comments on turkey. first of all, something of an anecdote, but this chap i know who works for an ngo, and he was telling me how he goes to the store in istanbul to buy suitcases to carry cash down to the border. more specifically, turkey is in an interesting position because turkey was another country that was under a certain amount of pressure from fatf to upgrade its compliance with that regime. and i think turkey demonstrates, to some extent

syria or what? secular is a word that is really associated very much with the political systems of the west. we are dealing with the middle there is anh intermission between religious traditions and political power. i think what has been distinctive about syria in not a years, and syria is democracy by any means, and i make no such mistake, is that within syria, there was more accommodation and toleration of religious diversity than in some of their joining arab states, which were claimed themselves to be engaged in a policy of liberation, but which in effect sectarianlicy of one nation over another in rejecting this complex internal arrangements that had heretofore existed in syria, in which i would think one would wish to preserve even without assad. the'm afraid it has to be last question. >> i would like to add one sentence. interestingly, there is one dimension of the syrian situation which is very much emphasized in russia but almost absent here in debating in the u.s. there is a future of chr

extremism until syria will harm all of us. extremism until syria cannot be contained today syria. our friends in the region will be the first targets and victims of extremism as our friends in pakistan were the first victims of taliban extremism. we all need to realized that past mistakes should not be repeated. we all need to work together. we all need foresight. we all need to have a forward-looking future orientiated outlook. let the people decide their future. >> still ahead, would iran attend a peace conference on syria? we will ask iran's foreign minister. >> on america tonight a remarkable breakthrough in the treatment of cancer. >> just a miracle... >> people who had no hope now tell their extraordinary stories. >> i thought i was gonna die... on america tonight on al jazeera america >> evey sunday night, join us for exclusive, >> every sunday night, join us for exclusive, revealing and surprising talks with the most interesting people of our time. next sunday: thinking about how to structure movies, so this is highly unusual. >> the director of the sixth sense, says there

obviously it's not just the wall and the west bank and gaza they're in lebanon or syria actually because it's true poland they're in they're drilling gassed or they're taking somebody else of gas and oil. hello welcome to sophie and co i'm so see shed art not say chemist o'keefe served as a humorist were weaned but after being discharged he was left with only a feeling of the disappointment he burned his password and dedicated himself to a different cause his rich accept his biography includes being a human shield in iraq sailing on again as a flotilla protecting marine life and how why and helping to establish dialogue with iran and he is our guest today. for the kids to rock. his view of the world. ever since he has been fighting a war against more bracing american bombs as human shields really began to blockade . is never afraid to speak truth to power who want to take action for others so i'm here with activist candace o'keefe it's really great to have you on our show ken as i know that you've led a human shield action in iraq right before the war started and then you were deported d

former secretary gates' comments on syria. and he's also actually been the voice of caution with regard to the military interventions in iran as well as he was the bench namibia it's odd to say yes the right answer but it's a very serious question about what is in the state for the united states and will we by getting into. directly involved in the civil war will we. but the report were not assume ownership of that situation. let's talk about a little bit better and you lot in the news lately the whole posse this rapprochement then out that the temporary deal to the atl has drawn a lot of criticism some corners and nowhere more so perhaps in from saudi arabian israel they see this is the us going all soft. you expect a lot of backlash from these countries. i don't know but it's a personal opinion and otago is all soft on this for years we've been trying europeans and tried on their own course to visit the eu three as they recall the united states can support the doubt but that the distance that we joined the discussions. negot

embark on probably the biggest challenge in its history trying to eliminate syria's chemical weapons in the midst of an active war but i wonder how much progress has been achieved so far. the progress has been cost says it will. several categories of chemical weapons have already been destroyed and chemical weapons production facilities have been rendered to unusable you know very short time all chemical weapons were identified prepared for transport to. syria so now we are entering into a new phase but so far the progress has been very significant and now despite these successes that you just mentioned the dad lines with the removal of category one agents the most hazardous mr materials supposed to be removed from syria by the end of this year that deadline is going to be missed i wonder whose responsibility do you think that is. actually for me the deadline of destruction of the nation of first syrian chemical weapons is at the end of june two thousand and fourteen and they have been each immediately that lies or timelines which have been very ambitious and one of them as you said

and power signal a rethink in their support for syria's rebel movement apparently acknowledging that the fall of assad could boost extremists such as those implicated in a recent massacre outside damascus got live comment on that coming up this hour. a new year approaching and a new start for thousands of russian prisoners who will be freed under a game changing amnesty law that has just passed parliament is good news than for the punk protest band pussy riot as well as the greenpeace activists the rest of did not arctic drilling protests. and ukraine's multi-billion dollar deals with russia draw cries of treason from kiev is the most radical opposition leader who accuses president got a code which of porn in national assets for a chance to fix the budget. we're going to bring for me kevin and if you just joined this it's the live from r.t. h.q. in moscow just after nine pm here now our top story this neither a killer nor a terrorist but an online activist of alleged hacking but yet these being held in conditions worse than those of mass murderers one of the founders of pirate bay is

how is this move into syria? i get the sense that it is not quite as simple as making a wire transfer. >> yes, this is a harder thing to talk about her that we have clues as to how it's happening. some of it is probably moving to through exchange houses. so the place that you would go to change your dollars into kuwait currency. you can actually make a deposit and then clear that deposit in syria and this is one way to do it. and it will be partitioned into lots of different accounts. so you would have maybe 100 recipients. there are increasing amounts of cash, particularly through turkey. for some time, the money can no longer go directly to kuwait or syria, it stops in turkey where it can go over the border. in the final way that we think it's moving is through traditional moneylenders that are very common across the globe. these are basically -- i hope my colleague can give you a means of this, or no cash actually crosses a border physically. so basically i run up a tab of how much i have sent to syria and he

extremism until syria will harm all of us. extremism until syria cannot be contained today syria. our friends in the region will be the first targets and victims of extremism as our friends in pakistan were the first victims of taliban extremism. we all need to realized that past mistakes should not be repeated. we all need to work together. we all need foresight. we all need to have a forward-looking future orientiated outlook. future. >> still ahead, would iran attend a peace conference on syria? we will ask iran's foreign minister. while you were asleep news was happening. >> here are the stories we're following. >> find out what happened and what to expect. >> international outrage. >> a day of political posturing. >> every morning from 5 to 9 am al jazeera america brings you more us and global news than any other american news channel. >> tell us exactly what is behind this story. >> from more sources around the world. >> the situation has intensified here at the border. >> start every morning, every day 5am to 9 eastern. >> with al jazeera america. power of the people until

the easiest ways to go in and out of syria is the turkish border with syria, northern syria. it is the cash money that would be moved to turkey and then literally sort of walked over the border by one of these guys. that is the involvement that i am aware of from turkey. i personally to not report on turkey, so i do not know the specifics. from my reporter colleagues, i know that the border has become sort of a wild wild west. there are shops set up with military fatigues, and i think you have a good story. >> yes. two comments on turkey. first, an anecdote. this chap i know works for an ngo and he was telling me how he goes to instanbul to buy suitcases to carry cash down to the border. coming back to turkey, it is in an interesting position because turkey was another country that to under treasure from fatf upgrade its compliance with that regime. i think turkey demonstrates to some extent how much power these recommendations have. because if you read some of the reports from the credit rating agencies, fitch referred to the fact had turkey not cleared its name, then they m

>> syria talks? or iran talks? [ laughter ] >> which problem are you talking about. >> schieffer: do we think these geneva talks in the end something is going to happen here? >> i would say, yes. i do think something is going to happen. but i think it's hard to know how long it will take to see any results from it, if that makes sense. >> happen if the united states and soviet union come together to get something to happen. back to the ukraine story, we decided that we thought it was more important to have the czech navy in the nato alliance than try to build a bridge to soviet union. over basically trying to build relationship with democratic soviet union. that has been the gift that keeps on giving. in ukraine, my heart goes out with entirely ukrainians who want to have a future with the west, i appreciate that. let's not forget where ukraine is. vis-a-vis the soviet union, how we've treated the soviet union why we have a putin who finds the wonderful to run against the west and nato domestically because of somet

syria is the most dangerous place. >> let's talk about syria right now. in some ways, looking at it from a saudi perspective, what is the real issue. the united states appears to want to rebalance the region? basically rebalancing the saudi's and the israelis off of each other? our problem is that the -- syria might be more accurate of what is happening around the region. like what the iranians are fighting for and how the iranians are fighting. if i could just eat your thoughts. >> it is pretty clear that king of dollar -- americans handed them a rock. this is a quote that brian read. they still have that view. you're not doing anything about hezbollah. you have troops and expeditionary forces in syria fighting. this is a matter of the shia becoming the dominant force in the region. what are you doing about it? you don't even recognize it. i think that is the fundamental view. they are fighting to win. you guys don't even seem to recognize this is a fight with the shia. that is not the american view. >> the problem is not the shia. they are really that u

the reason why we did not start bombing syria is one simple thing and that is that the people of the west in the world simply did not buy it they didn't have to go on the street protests keep in mind back in two thousand and three we had the largest protest in the history of the world did not stop the invasion of iraq but i'm telling you the invasion and the occupation and ultimately the bombardment of syria has been planned long ago and it's a stepping stone towards iran which is the ultimate goal for the psychopaths and they could not bombard syria and the reason why they couldn't even vote to secure the vote to favor that here in britain is because the people overwhelmingly did not buy it in the united states the approval for bombardment of syria was about nine percent that's why the u.s. congress which is a treasonous body of government couldn't even go to a vote on it because if they went to a vote on it and actually voted for another war and this farcical war on terror where the fantastic american servicemen took pictures of themselves saying i did not join the u.s. military to

the easiest ways to go in and out of syria is the turkish border with syria, northern syria. it is the cash money that would be moved to turkey and then literally sort of walked over the border by one of these guys. that is the involvement that i am aware of from turkey. i personally do not report on turkey, so i do not know the specifics. from my reporter colleagues, i know that the border has become sort of a wild wild west. there are shops set up with military fatigues, and i think you have a good story. >> yes. two comments on turkey. first, an anecdote. this chap i know works for an ngo and he was telling me how he goes to instanbul to buy suitcases to carry cash down to the border. coming back to turkey, it is in an interesting position because turkey was another country that was under treasure from fatf to -- under pressure from fatf to upgrade its compliance with that regime. i think turkey demonstrates to some extent how much power these recommendations have. because if you read some of the reports from the credit rating agencies, fitch referred to the fact had turke

we have a humanitarian catastrophe in syria. it continues to unfold in syria. not just that syria, no one more directly than jordan and lebanon. i want to commend you for your generosity. you've done this even though others might shirk from this. i commend both of your countries. the number of refugees change all the time. 557,000. we know that there are more than that. in jordan, they are living mostly in tent camps like this picture here. in lebanon, they are scattered among the general population. over here. for people who have traveled to lebanon, as i have, know that you have some varied types of topography and geography. you have two governments. they are facing huge strains on their government and their populations. the war in syria shows no sign of ending. the protracted crisis is going to be stressful on lebanon and jordan. turkey andas on iraq. it is going to require significant donor aid for years to come. and then when the war ends, how do you take millions of refugees and have them put their lives and their communities back together. that task is d

. >> the doctor preparing his medical kit for syria. his family says that he was deeply moved by the civilians injured and dying in the he startedore. working with a british charity. then he crossed into syria. his ordeal ended in his prison cell. the british government says he was murdered. the victimso help of the civil war. there is no excuse for the at thent he has suffered hands of the syrian officials. you have in effect murdered a british national there to help those injured. >> tonight the syrian government rejected that accusation. shown shown -- i was reparations for dr. khan's release on friday. the autopsy said suicide. why would he commit suicide if he knew he was going to be released? >> we cannot ask him that question. >> the family members believe that he was killed by members of the intelligence service that did not want them to be released. >> i do not think there is an intelligence in syria that do not do what they are instructed to do. he was treated very well, very nicely. khan's letterss tell a different story. he

stage we this is very evident in iraq in syria and in egypt as well it's so with the u.s. it's been meddling in the middle east for decades and over the last decade actively engaging in warfare in several countries in the middle east are you saying that that exacerbates the problem of violence against christians do extremists see these populations as extensions of the west extensions of the united states. no it's not it's not like that it is perceived from the i would call them the mickey mouse organizations such as the jemaah islamiyah or the islamic state in the iraq and the levant such as al qaeda such as the salafi movement that's now mushroomed all over the sunni world across the middle east these all while seemingly are independent lysine and media don't have a central command in reality they all act and think they have a very clear message you just have to follow the. rhetoric in the countries that they operate in that they are anti christian anti jews anti even muslims who might be secular or who might be shiites or home i'd be not agreeing hundred percent on the o

let's continue on syria a bit. you were in the free syria act to provide arms and support to the rebels. when we interviewed back in august, he positively referenced, please to have your cosponsorship, a bipartisan effort, and all this threatened u.s. attack on syria that led up to the security counsel resolution, and now there's a gee knee that 2 conference on january 22. help me understand, what's your thought on syria policy? did you support the process, and what else could or should the united states be doing in syria? >> yeah, and this is, to me, the most complicated part of diplomacy, so no dip mat ever wants to believe in that the military is part of the equation, but i never met a dip mat who doesn't want one shoulder in the fleet over the other. it's a quicker way to yes, and i think we have to set the table for negotiated settlements in syria, and it's changed. the conditioning on the ground have changed over the last two years. two years ago, we had a whole set of options available to us. 18 months ago f

when it comes to syria. i think a practical case for engagement, if i were advising the administration in a clear way on syria, it would be, you know, and i think they're doing it to some extend assess what the actors are doing right now. saudi arabia, qatar, kuwait. i would focus a little bit more on the ground game and who is doing what on the ground. a lot of emphasis is on geneva 2. it's going convene. god bless them. i wish them the best. to me, diplomacy, doesn't have much of a chance of an impact unless it's linked to power dynamic on the ground. the lack for secretary kerry to talk with lavrov a lot. what is missing regional contact group difficult, though it may be. elliot may be skeptical. the bush administration, when iraq was at the darkest most -- moment took part in regional diplomacy conferences. i think turkey took the lead. maybe it didn't do much practically. a perhaps it was one of the pieces in in addition to the military sthawrnlg lead to a more pragmatic dialogue. how do you get an end

in syria? >> this is to me the most complicated part of diplomacy. no diplomat has to believe the military has to be involved. but i have not met one that didn't want one over one shoulder and the seven fleet over the other. i think we have to set the table for a nugotiaauc negotiating su. two years ago we had a whole set, 18 months fewer, 12 months even less and today they are not that good. if you want the talks to be successful at all you have to have skin in the game. that is why i supported at least trying to have relationships with rebels in a way that was positive to the united states that started crafting our ability to understand who were the folks that were more likely to support the united states on the ground. and you could help shape the battle field in the way that brought people to the table. and i think there was a mistake in this because we did want do that. we dilly-dallied for a long time. the program we talk about now isn't robust enough to have an impact. so tell me who goe

syria yelling saudi arabia for syria that's really silly i mean when the people of syria rose up nonviolently remoted down by the government and tanks and mortars remember syria doesn't allow the red cross to go in because they're matching people day and night saudi arabia is that many bad things but anything else here a martyr cry i should go i said it probably and i don't know you one of the bad things that saudi arabia does it sends its young people with tickets on airplanes and money in their pocket and they go across the border with the essence of the turks this is what they're doing for the syrian people this is the export of saudi ideology in violence mark ok brian when sorry when i dry in my fiance is go ahead all right so so the saudi the i mean if you look at the past thirty five years the saudi royal family has been a funnel through which oil money but also cia money has gone to the most reactionary forces in south central asia in afghanistan with osama bin laden in pakistan and then to the same al qaeda forces in syria the saudi royal family of course does pursue its own policy it

going to vary of the people in syria that's really cold comfort to the people in syria you know but syria yelling saudi arabia for syria that's really silly i mean when the people of syria rose up nonviolently remoted down by the government and tanks and mortars remember syria doesn't allow the red cross to go in because they're mastering people day and night saudi arabia is that many bad things but anything else here a martyr cry actually go i said a brothel owner i'll tell you one of the bad things that saudi arabia does it sends its young people with tickets on airplanes and money in their pocket and they go across the border with the essence of the turks this is what they're doing for the syrian people this is the export of saudi ideology in violence mark ok brian when sorry when i dry in my writing is go ahead all right so the saudi the i mean if you look at the past thirty five years the saudi royal family has been a funnel through which oil money but also cia money has gone to the most reactionary forces in south central asia in afghanistan with osama bin laden in pakistan and then

it's bad what happened to syria here. but it's not going to end soon. [ male announcer ] when you feel good, no one is immune. emergen-c has more vitamin c than 10 oranges plus other antioxidants and electrolytes to help you come down with a serious case of healthy. emergen-c. making healthy contagious. like the enticing aroma and distinctive taste of nespresso. elegant capsules meet masterfully crafted machines, and one touch creates the perfect coffee, cappuccino, and latte. ♪ tempt all your senses with one extraordinary coffee. [ penélope cruz ] nespresso. what else? [ male announcer ] available at these fine retailers and nespresso-us.com. >>> on this night the conflict in syria continues to claim lives. more than 100,000 people have died and the brutal mess does not stop there. so we end tonight with a final look at the war in syria by the numbers. >> reporter: this month mark asths a macabre milestone. 1,000 bloody days since the civil war began. that's more than 100 deaths for every day of the world. the assad r

meanwhile in syria the western banks and militants have severely disrupted work to rid the country of its chemical weapons the latest deadline which is just a day away will be missed in the latest edition of worlds apart oksana boyko speaks exclusively to the director general of the organization where they prohibit of chemical weapons how much has been achieved in twenty thirty. and you call two thousand and thirteen a true historical hero here that saw the office of w. embark on probably the biggest challenge in its history but i wonder how much progress has been achieved so far the progress has been cost says it will. several categories of chemical weapons have already been destroyed and chemical weapons production facilities have been rendered to unusable you know very short time all chemical weapons were identified to prepare it for transport to syria now despite these successes that you just mentioned the dad line for the removal of category one agent that deadline is going to be missed i wonder whose responsibility do you think that it is the russian federation as well as others

as far as any lasting peace settlement in syria is concerned i. i wonder if you if the mission as this strategic mission led by your going to zation is successful and if indeed syria is free of chemical weapons by the middle or by the end of next year do you think it may have any bearing on the political discussions could it lead to any sort of. change on the ground political change on the ground. this excess off this process of elimination of syrian chemical weapons can only have a positive impact on in fact on the efforts you search for a poll to so lucian regarding the overall problem in syria so if the geneva conference geneva two conference is going to take place on twenty second of january . i think we should be with we're all welcome. and they the international community in fact hopefully can build on this constance's on this agreement among the actors of the major players of the international community with your garcia chemical weapons in order to address why the problems in syria saw that's extremely important i think this was a successfu

extremism until syria will harm all of us. extremism until syria cannot be contained today syria. our friends in the region will be the first targets and victims of extremism as our friends in pakistan were the first victims of taliban extremism. we all need to realized that past mistakes should not be repeated. we all need to work together. we all need foresight. we all need to have a forward-looking future orientiated outlook. future. >> still ahead, would iran attend a peace conference on ri attend a peace conference on syria? we will ask iran's foreign minister. >> start with one issue education... gun control... the gap between rich and poor... job creation... climate change... tax policy... the economy... iran... healthcare... ad guests on all sides of the debate. >> this is a right we should all have... >> it's just the way it is... >> there's something seriously wrong... >> there's been acrimony... >> the conservative ideal... >> it's an urgent need... and a host willing to ask the tough questions >> how do you explain it to yourself? and you'll get... the inside story ray

as the misfires in syria are believed to be holding a group of nuns hostage abducted from an orthodox monastery near damascus they have reportedly been moved to the rebel controlled town of your brood the pope has called for prayers for the kidnapped women and the demands from clerics and religious organizations to release them let's now get more on this from our middle east correspondent paula sli or so poll what do we know at this point about the fate of the hostages. well according to the information we have twelve nines and three of they hope those who belong to the orthodox monastery of moola are believed to have been moved to brood now according to syrian opposition activists the women will move for their own safety but earlier religious officials said that the women were abducted by members of the fund which is affiliated to al qaida the syrian observatory for human whites says that the women were taken after several days of intensive fighting during which the front find to eventually manage to capture the old quarter of various reports point to the fact that these are mr fund

we have a humanitarian catastrophe in syria. unfold in s to syria. but then not just that. bear more s of syria than jordan and lebanon. i want to thank you for your generosity. i commend both your countries for that. how many refugees? the numbers change all the time. the official number is 550,000 in jordan, 825,000 in lebanon. we know it is more than that. in jordan they are living mostly in sprawling tent camps. there's a picture one of them is right over here. in lebanon scattered among the eneral population. the dots show -- for people who have traveled to lebanon as i have, we know you've got some completely varied types of topography and geography where those camps are. you have two governments. they're facing huge strains on their governments and their population. the civil war in syria shows no sign of ending. protracted crieses is going to impose long-term burdens on lebanon as well as turkey and iraq. going to require significant international donor aid for years to come. and then when and if the war ends, how do you take millions of refugees or internally displ

they are terrifying other groups in syria. the whole threat they pose is being outlined by the syrian army -- the free syrian army. qaeda at battled al over 24 locations around syria. we are still in the long haul with syria over this. >> we go to used in europe now, and you found a story in the "croatian times." folkis is about the rock legend bob dylan, who we all know and love. some of us hate him, though. "the croatian times" being lambasted, a story tout an interview he came that he gave to "rolling stone" in the united states last year. he is being taken to court in france, sued for alleged racism, inciting racism. he has likened croatians to nazis and to slave owners. incredibly, jade, if he is found guilty, he could be fined. legionjust given the d'honneur this year. that was translated into french, and the croats in france decided to take a comment he made in the report there a seriously, at face value, and they are pushing for him to be fined for this. a bit of a turnaround in terms of his appreciation in france, whe

it has to be a political solution within syria. >> and within syria itself, substantial number of displaced persons. >> relief flights the u.n. children's fund went in yesterday with hundreds of tons of supplies for those in syria itself. so that's also, there are millions of internally displaced within syria added to the ones within the region. >> thank you brian hansford, u unncr. joining us tonight is dr. soohil salu from the syrian million society. doctor good to see you again i'm sorry, under such circumstances. we have just heard from mr. hoon hansford. what are they seeing, how bad is it? >> thank you joie for inviting me but what we are seeing in syria and doctors are seeing, witnessing on a daily basis is beyond description. i cannot really express what they are seeing. i expressed today and yesterday about some of the children who were bombed in aleppo about these barrel bombs, barrels stuffed by tnt and nails and the purpose is to cause as much harm as possible. indiscriminate shelling, in aleppo. the doctors we are sending are risking their lives every day because they are tryin

add to that, 9.3 million people still in syria that the u.n. estimates are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. >> even if there were an end to the violence in syria tomorrow, we would still have a major humanitarian crisis on our hands. >> last january, world leaders gathered in kuwait to pledge funds for syria. in total, $4.4 billion was needed in 2013, only 60% of it was raised. the u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon has this message: the international community must come up with $6.5 million -- billion. >> we have 9.5 million people who have been affected. this is almost a half of total population. >> one of the other problems is humanitarian access for those most in need in syria. the security council has talked about the issue but it's not taken any action. it's not passed a resolution. on that as on so many things regarding syria there is stalemate. james bays, al jazeera. >> the weather has made things worse. kevin is here. >> that's right, tony. down to about 23° in some locations near iraq we were looking at temperatures that w