brian: he can t get one because they don t need us right now. but they need to be friendly with iran at this point. malaki s focus is not having a regime in syria. our focus is not allowing assad to continue to exist. that s right. the shia regime doesn t want to see a sunni regime in syria. iran wants to maintain assad s power and iran is shipping weapons through iraq to syria. many people say it s those weapons and a lot of the training coming from iran that is propping up the aassad regime in syria. if we can cut that off, we might be able to cut off the weapons propping up in the assad regime. we can t get those flights to land, be inspected. if jordan has intelligence there s weapons on those flights we can t cut it off. it is a damned shame because we spent all that time, blood in iraq, we
russia for supporting the syria president bashar assad. russia someone of syria s last allies and has rejected all united nations efforts to take action against the aassad. leland vittert with the news live from our middle east bureau. leland, why why don t the rebels want to negotiate? quite frankly, right now, harris, they don t have to. time is is on their side. momentum son their side. they are beginning to tighten the noose on president assad. especially around his capital damascus. secondly the rebels don t really believe the russians. they don t trust them as honest brokers and perhaps that s with good reason. rebel videos uploaded to youtube show russian made bombs uploaded. this is a boom fired on cities aleppo with the russian writing clearly visible on the weapon s fenn. most bombs though explode like this one caught on amateur video yesterday as it was dropped from a low-flying
reporter: president obama talking tough about north korea after his first meetings with south korea s new president pack genuine hey. the day north korea can c create a crisis, those days are over. reporter: she tried to project a menacing image. translator: regarding north korea s bad behavior, we will make them pay. if north korea engages in provocations, the military will make them pay. and they should act accordingly. reporter: mr. obama quickly found himself on defense handling over another hot spot, syria, when a reporter pressed over failure to act over perceived violations over the red line of baassad would emboln other bad actors across the