Its sunday, april 23rd. Im chris nguyen in for Carolyn Tyler. Lets get a first look at the forecast. Lisa argen is tracking the doppler radar. Good morning. We had cloud cover this morning allowing for temperatures to stay up. And a live look outside. In a second, youll see how is up i it is. A break in the cloud cover is showing up. Were enjoying a sunny morning, sunny afternoon. From the east bay hills camera, 57 in the city. 60 in oak labor dland. Well see temperatures climb slowly this morning and into the afternoon, 59 in concord and winds will be a factor today. Especially on the coast. Numbers in the 50s now. Low 60s around the bay and inland at noontime. 70 should be the warmest location by about 4 00. Mostly sunny skies. Clouds increase tonight. The storm impact scale to talk about for tomorrow. Chris . Lisa, thank you. Happening now, in france, the first round of the countrys hotly contested president ial election is under way. Were taking a live look at a polling place in pa
Like to say in putin is very controversial with his attitude because before a was no there are five or 6,000 people looking for citizenship for fighting in syria. So the russians have succeeded to squeeze out the terrorists out of russia and then put syria in the position of isis i the putin is completely counterproductive in syria but he does what he loves. He himself as profited you prefer to fight them there a man here in russia. I think part of the problem as we ourselves have learned just because youre there is a meeting of the targets elsewhere but his government does not treat muslims at all. Even if they are very successful is a huge problem that theyre not dealing successfully itself. And basically being agitated what is happening in syria by russia itself so it seems that operation does not change cattle at all. What about putin schools and in syria . You said he was to keep in power and also he supports the illegitimate regimes which is not exactly true because if you rememb
Know 8 million internally displaced, 4 million refugees, hundreds of thousands killed. People will not, i honestly feel about it. And our position in iraq was very clear right from day one. It was peaceful and just. At the beginning. People missed the boat, missed the golden opportunity than four years ago, and did not help the Syrian People. And that terrorists have hijacked that peaceful, just uprising. And now we are left with between the devil and the deep blue sea. We are between a devil, the evil and must be full. So will you use the less evil to get rid of the evil . And then try to do Something Else after that . That is, politics is all about hard choices, arent they . And believe me, when what you feel, i feel probably more because my people, tens, thousands of people, my people killed. By this regime. But now we have completely different story you have now. I heard the gentleman saying that isis, well, isis grew, the Islamic State was started in iraq. I think more of the spea
And the military intervention is following the logic of what you might imagine. It is designed to change the balance of power. So all of this suggests that when you look at what they are actually doing it is unfortunate that the day he was in moscow was the day we had the stories that she was quoting from the un officials responsible for providing humanitarian assistance. The russians are carrying out a set of attacks not just going after the non isys opposition the trying to depopulate areas, deliberately making it harder for humanitarian assistance, attacking hospitals, attacking grain silos, attacking Water Treatment plants, and all of this again is part of a fundamental approach designed to produce an interesting reality. They want ironically a posture that is similar to what a sod wants and what isys wants as well, polarization. They wanted to mobilize. A sod wants it to mobilize the world. And it is clear that is what i think putin wants. Wants. Maybe he can change of the costs g
As you can see, we havesee, we have a great panel. The importance of the conversation has been heightened. As we speak their negotiations going on in new york following secretary kerrys visit to moscow. With that i turn it over to our 1st speaker. Thank you. I am flattered to be here, delighted to be invited to Atlantic Council program and humbled to be among so many deeply experienced and wise copay lists. My task was to layout the motives for the russian intervention in syria and then say a little bit something about what it means in terms of the context. In my paper i layout two sets of motives. The circle of three at i consider to be primary or strategic consideration and three less important ancillary motives which may or may not intertwine in interesting ways. The 1st circle of three, the least ambitious and most obvious russian motive for the intervention in syria, mentioned in the 1st panel is obviously there was an ally in trouble. Over the last years but as of last summer as