At the new black leaders. The Al Jazeera America have at least taken a step towards peace in syria. And its a big step. Urging talks between the assad regime and the opposition. The u. N. Wants them to work out a political transition, and it wants those negotiations to start within two weeks. Al jazeeras courtney keeley is live outside of the plaza hotel in new york city where negotiations are taking place. Courtney . [ music ] hi, tony, there were a lot of negotiations happening behind closed doors today. Before they even got to that meeting 17 world powers you had foreign minister Sergei Lavrov sit down with secretary of state john kerry. It took about an hour. They delayed the talks, they came to a resolution and it went to the u. N. Security council for that unanimous vote. We did hear from lavrov and kerry in front of the cameras, this is what the secretary of state had to. I no one is sitting here today suggesting to anyone that the road ahead is a gilded path. Its complicated. I
Antiplus lick rhetoric could arm national security. Nato is planning to sends air defense to turkey by helping turkey parole its airspace its hoping that incidents such as the downing of a russian jet last month can ab voided. Meanwhile world powers will meet in new york on friday to find a way to end the conflict but as ross done jordan reports there there are major obstacles to overcome. Reporter civil what are in syria is nearly five years old on friday in new york city diplomats will try to create a plan to stop the fighting. The russian president said on thursday hes on board. Translator we basically support the u. S. Initiative on drafting the u. N. Security Council Resolution in syria. It is with the blueprint of this resolution that the u. S. Secretary of state arrived in moscow. Reporter but put iron is a longtime supporter of president Bashar Alassad and told reporters the International Community cant decide who will run the country. Another question, which members of the opp
Atrocities like this there can be a back lash against muslim communities. Far right racism have no place in our society, our thinking and i hope there will be no increase in that intolerance as a result of what happened in paris. Will the Prime Minister set out in more detail the steps his government is taking to work with representative organizations of all of our faith communities to achieve that we strengthen Community Cohesion at these very difficult times . We must ensure that those entering our country, whether they are refugees are appropriately screened. The home office will provide the border staff necessary to do this. Its also important in these circumstances that we maintain our humanitarian duty towards refugees. Fleing n refugees are and it is our duty to protect them and our obligation under the 1951 geneva convention. I hope the Prime Minister will confirm our obligation to maintain support for that convention and the rights of that convention will be un diminished. It
Service us. Well drive into the white house and disrupt a major investigation. We dont access a congressman secrets record. We dont do that. Who is the person and how are we training people at every level to stand up and stop this behavior because i dont think we can do it just having hearings like this. I think we have got to restore this priceless commodity you were talking about which is the integrity element of the men and women at every level knowing it ibilityr respons to maintain the integrity of the secret service. I agree. We can have all the training exercises and all the Online Training for example, i have been to 10 of the field offices. I speak personally to our agents. I walk around the white house talking to officers. I meet all the recruits prior to their graduation. I tell them what they represent, what is expected of them, but i have to do more of that as well as our staff. We have to keep communicating to our people. Again, what the congress is doing today is a help
And its really interesting to talk about quirks. If the solicitor general had not given the completely truthful answer that yes of course this means you couldnt publish a book criticizing hillary clinton, the corporation couldnt do it, we may have had a different result in citizens united. And thats what led to a question by justice alito, by the way, and thats what led to a lot of people rethinking and reargument. So i strongly suspect justice chief Justice Roberts was the one putting the brakes on that. I strongly suspect he wanted to write a more narrow opinion. But once the momentum had developed to overturn austin and restore the First Amendment to what it naturally meant, i think he went along with it. I want to thank this wonderful panel. Ive got my marching orders. Thank you very much. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is res