Hello i am rahul in doha, ill have all your sporting. Find out what he had to say later in the program. Hello there, a very warm welcome to this hour of news. The five permanent members of the Security Council agreed on the text of a draft resolution on a Peace Process for syria. The full council is expected to vote on it any time now. So lets go live now to our diplomatic editor james bays who joins us from new york. James, you were outside the hotel earlier when they were discussing this and all the back and forth. But the up shot is we now have this draft text. Can you tell us a bit more about whats in communique back in 2012. Now that had talked about a transitional governing body with syria with full executive power to be decided at talks between the opposition and the government. Now, russia had favored just a more general mention of transition. The reason that it wanted to do that is because if you have that transitional governing body by mutual concept, then there is no way tha
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