Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose the Syrian Civil War has been going on now for four years. In march of 2011 pro tests against president bashar alassads rule were metway violent response from his regime. The conflict has since become one of the deadliest in the region. More than 200,000 syrians have been killed and 11 million lost their homes. Jordan lebanon and turkey have almost four million refugees in their countries. The conflict also lead to the rise of isis which established its de facto capital in northern syria. Almost half of the country is now in the hands of isis or other groups fighting the regime. The war has also become a proxy battlefield for regional ackers. Earlier this month secretary of state john kerry suggested what many others have suggested that there has to be a political solution and he included negotiations with syria. I spoke to bash orr alassad last week for cbs 60 minutes which aired
Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose the Syrian Civil War has been going on now for four years. In march of 2011 pro tests against president bashar alassads rule were metway violent response from his regime. The conflict has since become one of the deadliest in the region. More than 200,000 syrians have been killed and 11 million lost their homes. Jordan lebanon and turkey have almost four million refugees in their countries. The conflict also lead to the rise of isis which established its de facto capital in northern syria. Almost half of the country is now in the hands of isis or other groups fighting the regime. The war has also become a proxy battlefield for regional ackers. Earlier this month secretary of state john kerry suggested what many others have suggested that there has to be a political solution and he included negotiations with syria. I spoke to bash orr alassad last week for cbs 60 minutes which aired
Next week. But they are not going to win this war. Nor is the opposition going to defeat, you know, actually defeat the government and have them you know leave damascus or whatever. Rose a look at egypt today, part two of my conversation with nabil fahmy, the foreign minister. In two and a half years we have asked two president s to leave. We are going through a societal transformation. Egyptians are trying to define who they are, politically in the 21st century. Thats the debate. How do we draw the image of egypt. Is it my image . It cant only my image. Is it an islamist image. It cant only that. So this is what we are trying to do. It is an important, complicated but historic opportunity, which we have a responsible to pursue to the utmost. Rose shut down, syria and egypt next. Funding for charlie rose was provided by the followin following additional funding provided by these funders captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose.
Special enjoy to virria from the United Nations and arab league. We have said there is the government is not going to win. They may be doing better today. They may be doing better next week. But they are not going to win this war. Nor is the opposition going to defeat, you know, actually defeat the government and have them you know leave damascus or whatever. Rose a look at egypt today, part two of my conversation with nabil fahmy, the foreign minister. In two and a half years we have asked two president s to leave. We are going through a societal transformation. Egyptians are trying to define who they are, politically in the 21st century. Thats the debate. How do we draw the image of egypt. Is it my image . It cant only my image. Is it an islamist image. It cant only that. So this is what we are trying to do. It is an important, complicated but historic opportunity, which we have a responsible to pursue to the utmost. Rose shut down, syria and egypt next. Funding for charlie rose was
Repeeled. Its really hard to see how the democrat goes along with that. What that does is it is as in the future if you dont like a law, even if it passed, survived a president ial election, the supreme court, you can threatone shut down the government in order to get rid of it. So its really hard to see how the democrats agree to getting rid of this law. And at this point its hard to see how republicans fold on their insis taens that it must be delayed. I think we are likely looking at at least a short shutdown. Rose that is an interesting question, what do you think in terms of time. I think its hard to find the shortterm solution. I think youve got tond wither about the republicans. Al is right, i think theyre looking for a shut don and not really worried about having one, for some reason. But when you ask a president , any president , right or left to give away the one thing that put him in the history books, his major legislative accomplishment before he even had a chance to reall