what s called so in that order is you have the one side you have so in the forces fighting there is you. this is experience. with you re on so they are facing a double from the from the seat in the team and the it off and the iranian backed militia forces is trying to achieve population transfers i think not dissimilar to what you have seen in europe some time ago and cleansing the sun a population that is opposed to assad better but is that actually in damascus you use them with all that it is other than administratively it is the mosque it s a kind of a suburb of damascus eastern ghouta you know the area well you ve served as a correspondent yourself in damascus and the syrian regime says there are thousands of opposition fighters in eastern go to some of them affiliated to al qaida and to
forces fighting. this is experion i don t we. with you at all and so they are facing a double from the from the seat in the genome and the the iranian backed militia forces is trying to achieve population transfers i think not dissimilar to what you have seen in europe some time ago and cleansing the sunni population that is opposed to assad and that i ve been is that actually in damascus you call it use them with of what it is other than administrative leave it is the mosque is kind of a suburb of damascus eastern ghouta you know the area well you ve served as a correspondent yourself in damascus now the syrian regime says there are thousands of opposition fighters in eastern go to some of them affiliated to al qaida and to islamic state what can you tell us about that well there has been. i don t think that as many islamic state if there are those that are but is themselves
in all of these negotiations. as always, check your local listings for show times. elizabeth: and gunmen dressed in army uniforms storming a compound in afghanistan. one government says says more than 100 army personnel have been killed or wounded. ten attackers, two of whom carried out suicide attacks and eight others were killed in battle. one taliban spokesperson claiming responsibility for the attack in an e-mail sent to different media outlets. leland: more than 200 hostages including members of qatar s royal family were released to iraqi officials friday after what were complex and sensitive negotiations. the deal entailed releasing a party of bird hunters kidnapped. the hostage deal was tied to one of the largest population transfers in syria s six-year
war and from the american side it s also very much about values. you know? americans tend to believe look at the march of history. we are moving towards liberal democracy. we are moving towards european integration. countries, former soviet countries and former communist countries are gradually moving into that fold and our belief is so too should the russians. they look like us. they share a great american of european western history. why not them? i think the russians resent that and we re on a path of conflict and very much about recent history and not soviet communism. okay. bill richardson, breaking news here from buzzfeed, reporting the former secretary of state hillary clinton addressed ongoing crisis at a fund-raiser here in california today making what two attendees describe as a direct comparison of russia s decision of passports in the crimea region to the population transfers of nazi germany before world war ii. what is your reaction to that?
he s lashing out to grab what he can. it has nothing to do with his belief in the principle of the rule of law or the illegitimacy of the ukrainian government. we have an incomplete early report of what hillary clinton said tonight in california at a fundraiser actually about ukraine. and she is reported to have said, to have drawn a comparison between russia s decision to issue passports in the crimean region to the population transfers that were carried out by nazi germany before world war ii, ambassador, this is former secretary clinton s first public comment on the matter. i want to be fair to her. i think we need a much larger context for what she s actually said tonight that we don t yet have. but what do you what more would you anticipate hearing from secretary clinton about this?