Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. After six years of terrible bloodshed, could 2017 dramatically shift the dynamic of the syria conflict . Change is in the air. Aleppo has fallen to the assad regime and a Ceasefire Deal brokered by russia and turkey is just about folding. Moscows dominant role in the diplomatic endgame is now undisputed with ankara playing a pivotal role as well. My guest is Bassma Kodmani of the Negotiating Team of the syrian opposition. Is it time for the moderate rebels to accept their de facto defeat . Bassma kodmani in paris, welcome to hardtalk. Hello, stephen, thank you. Its a pleasure to have you on the programme. Let me start with a question that comes directly from the new year. Do you see 2017 bringing with it better prospects for an end to the conflict in syria then we have seen at any time in the previous, almost, six years . I do, carefully optimistic, but i do. I do hope and we are working towards making 2017 the end of the disaster of the tragedy
Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. After six years of terrible bloodshed, could 2017 dramatically shift the dynamic of the syria conflict . Change is in the air. Aleppo has fallen to the assad regime and a Ceasefire Deal brokered by russia and turkey is just about folding. Moscows dominant role in the diplomatic endgame is now undisputed with ankara playing a pivotal role as well. My guest is Bassma Kodmani of the Negotiating Team of the syrian opposition. Is it time for the moderate rebels to accept their de facto defeat . Bassma kodmani in paris, welcome to hardtalk. Hello, stephen, thank you. Its a pleasure to have you on the programme. Let me start with a question that comes directly from the new year. Do you see 2017 bringing with it better prospects for an end to the conflict in syria then we have seen at any time in the previous, almost, six years . I do, carefully optimistic, but i do. I do hope and we are working towards making 2017 the end of the disaster of the tragedy
Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. After six years of terrible bloodshed, could 2017 dramatically shift the dynamic of the syria conflict . Change is in the air. Aleppo has fallen to the assad regime and a Ceasefire Deal brokered by russia and turkey is just about folding. Moscows dominant role in the diplomatic endgame is now undisputed with ankara playing a pivotal role as well. My guest is Bassma Kodmani of the Negotiating Team of the syrian opposition. Is it time for the moderate rebels to accept their de facto defeat . Bassma kodmani in paris, welcome to hardtalk. Hello, stephen, thank you. Its a pleasure to have you on the programme. Let me start with a question that comes directly from the new year. Do you see 2017 bringing with it better prospects for an end to the conflict in syria then we have seen at any time in the previous, almost, six years . I do, carefully optimistic, but i do. I do hope and we are working towards making 2017 the end of the disaster of the tragedy
Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. After six years of terrible bloodshed, could 2017 dramatically shift the dynamic of the syria conflict . Change is in the air. Aleppo has fallen to the assad regime and a Ceasefire Deal brokered by russia and turkey is just about folding. Moscows dominant role in the diplomatic endgame is now undisputed with ankara playing a pivotal role as well. My guest is Bassma Kodmani of the Negotiating Team of the syrian opposition. Is it time for the moderate rebels to accept their de facto defeat . Bassma kodmani in paris, welcome to hardtalk. Hello, stephen, thank you. Its a pleasure to have you on the programme. Let me start with a question that comes directly from the new year. Do you see 2017 bringing with it better prospects for an end to the conflict in syria then we have seen at any time in the previous, almost, six years . I do, carefully optimistic, but i do. I do hope and we are working towards making 2017 the end of the disaster of the tragedy
Brokered by russia and turkey is just about folding. Moscows dominant role in the diplomatic endgame is now undisputed, with ankara playing a pivotal role as well. My guest is Bassma Kodmani of the Negotiating Team of the syrian opposition. Is it time for the moderate rebels to accept their de facto defeat . Bassma kodmani, in paris, welcome to hardtalk. Hello, stephen. Thank you. Its a pleasure to have you on the programme. Let me start with a question that comes directly from the new year. Do you see 2017 bringing with it better prospects for an end to the conflict in syria than we have seen at any time in the previous, almost, six years . I do, carefully optimistic, but i do. I do hope, and we are working towards making 2017 the end of the disaster of the tragedy and the beginning of a political transition. That is what we are hoping for and the coming weeks will tell us whether we are moving in that direction but there is certainly a Turning Point and certainly something to build o