so 2006. >> tom keene in domino's, switzerland -- davos, switzerland. new economic data, lower by one point right now, s&p futures are at 18.37. >> this is "bloomberg surveillance." mckee, with scarlet fu. our guest host for the hour, craig moffett. and of course, tom keene, as you saw, in davos. >> we will be rejoining him shortly, but we want to talk about something that is taking place here, today. the u.s. will be auctioning off where -- airwaves for the first time in five years. the auction is expected to raise one $.6 billion. what is interesting is to is not planning to bid. would thinkt, you that the big telecom players, at&t, verizon, t-mobile, sprint, would be very invested, but they are sitting out. >> there is this consensus view that all spectrum is good steprum, but you have to back and question that sort of simplistic notion. if four out of four of the big carriers said that this is something we did not need -- all spectrum is different. some spectrum bands are more attractive than others. some fit that are into the portfolio of what some

-- in davos, switzerland. >> we are live in davos switzerland. us is senior managing director of the blackstone john, johnston said ski -- studzinsky. 2013ear ago you told me would be the year of the activists. it would be pretty hard to dispute that assertion. it turned out to be a prediction. let's talk about activism and how it has changed the game for investors, changed the game for financial markets, and more importantly, changed the game for companies and boards of directors. >> that is a long discussion. years ago activists started to enter the scene. two or three years ago they still were seen as cops and anders, privates -- cops robbers, pirates, the elephant in the room. the last two years has seen extraordinary transformation. activists are now accepted as a standalone correct proper and really asked -- really classy asset class. >> do you think what went on over the last year, you would clap -- you would characterize that as classy echo >> i am not talking about soap operas and the way the media likes to embellish this into the wall a

as part of her state visit to switzerland present walk in a visited a local vocational school in the capital city of bern on tuesday the benchmark switzerland's education system our present allows correspondent james hughes was traveling with the president tells us how the korean leader hopes to learn about how to create a more specialized workforce switzerland is well now for its educational system which is based heavily on the apprentice chef the youth unemployment rate in switzerland stands at seven percent the lowest level of that at least eighty countries despite its relatively low college entrance rates. this is because matt's high school students are treated vocational schools called for russia lake. brady spent three to four t so we can companies gaining experience in industrial settings. press them back together with president of the swiss confederation did he ever called her visited one of the vocational schools and burn on tuesday and took part in classes on computer engineering. this book the flights and sixty courses from construction and mechanical technology to metal c

what is happening, what is taking place in switzerland. how does that affect the refugees where you are. how do they feel about it. are they taking note of what's happening there. >> i think your question was about what is happening in geneva. the line is breaking up, i'm not hearing you well. some of the families living in the tents and makeshift shelter, they say the geneva conference comes too little too late. many of them have fled their home towns a long time ago and want to return home. their hopes are little and low in the conference helping them return home. what they are worried about is trying to meet their daily needs because they live in a difficult environment where they have to provide everything on their own. they have to set up shelters and provide heating. they are not interested or concerned about what is happening in geneva. they say and feel their hopes and expectations were low because it comes too little, too late. to them it looks like a play or something thooet rickal that has been set up by world powers to make the

us fromeene joining davos, switzerland. we will be checking with you later on today throughout bloomberg television and of course tomorrow right here on "bloomberg surveillance." about a simpler davos, and the discussion always deals -- boiled down to income inequality. it has come up as a theme again and again. >> simpler davos is an oxymoron. much, gotou so galloway, nyu stern school of business. -- scott galloway. ♪ . . >> live from bloomberg world headquarters, this is "in the loop" on thursday, january 23. i'm betty liu with matt miller and pimm fox all week long. >> treasure being here. we have really big guests this hour. former treasury secretary larry summers live from davos. >> huge deal for netflix come surging after forecasting it will add two point 25 million subscribers this quarter, far above estimates. ofwill ask the former ceo nbc universal. -- if it will scare his customers away. deald the billion-dollar -- well, history repeating itself today. lenovo spending 2.3 billion dollars for the server unit. ica

tomorrow in switzerland an international conference will start. we are fighting for a dialogue based on a geneva communique on june 2012. it's up to the syrians to define the future of their country. >> the syrian regime is being accused of committing war crimes. the report funded by qatar is based on the testimony of a former military policemen who captured 50,000 images of it 11,000 detainees. the lawyer says there's evidence of prisoners being strangled, electrocuted. forensic experts showed many were initiated. the fighting rages inside syria. >> more than a dozen people died at the crossing between syria and turkey on monday. two explosions kill six fighters. the rest of the dead were civilians. in aleppo two car bombs exploded at the headquarters of an opposition group. the attack was launched by a rival rebel group. infighting among rebels killed more than 1,000 fighters in the past two weeks. in other world news the united states and the e.u. started easing economic sanctions on iran as part of an international deal on the tehran nuclear p

in a moment, we had back to davos, switzerland. the president of goldman sachs gary cohn and the chairman of insurance giant aig next. they are parting with a purpose. how to work the room at davos. this is "market makers." ♪ this is a special edition of "market makers." >> welcome back to "market makers." is the president and chief operating officer at goldman sachs and steve miller is aig's nonexecutive chairman -- not the space cowboy, as i said before. even though everyone here at davos is in breakout rooms, panel discussions talking big ideas, you have got to be getting calls today, at least from new york and london and south america. what is going on in argentina? >> first of all, thank you for having us here today. we are excited to be here. we are getting calls. throughhave been going some dislocation for the last two or three days. markets going through jitters trying to figure out exactly what is going on. emerging markets, repricing of assets. this is not extraordinary movements in the market. we have seen movements li

they do not believe talks in switzerland will change that. lebanon's government is demanding that more is done for refugees.z -- syria's >> we are trying to do our best. community,tional they not only disappoint the refugees, but also the lebanese government and the lebanese people. town is right on syria possible order, so every day, more people arrived. man is the latest, but he and his family are not well off. >> i've only got six dollars left. and dollars for the driver, one dollar to buy two sandwiches. if we cannot find a house here, we will have to go back to syria. >> they risked their lives getting this far, but even in escape, there is no relief for syria's refugees. bbc news, on the lebanese-the syrian border. switzerland, im spoke to the bbc's diplomatic correspondent bridget kendall a short time ago. what impact will these allegations of torture committed by syria's forces have on those talks? havell, i think they do the potential to overshadow them. there has been a fair amount of criticism from people, foreign ministers who wil

we are in new york and tom is in davos, switzerland. we are keeping a close eye on the selloff in the market. >> this does matter. look at what is happening in the markets. s&p 500 futures are following the worst of the world down. it is getting worse. we will see what happens as liquidity picks up. we're getting closer to the open. it looks at another bad day on cap. where is the money going? look at the 10 year. interesting thing on the screen today -- nymex crude is only at $97. the thermostat went haywire. >> absolutely. i am looking at the market in europe. it is red. losing about 1.1%. in terms of big movers to watch, we wanted to highlight netflix. a record high after better-than-expected results. also, projections of growth that topped analyst estimates. >> what is record holding? you talk about netflix and the mitt romney document tree. maybe hillary clinton? maybe there's a link somehow? >> it was down 16% in trading. we went to head back to davos. david camera just sat down with francine lacqua. hear what he had to say. >> wh

syrian opposition figures had earlier expressed reluctance to go to switzerland to less pissed at the countess of this excluded from any future transitional government. such has recently been quoted as saying he has no intention of quitting. the enlightenment of the footy up up up. within hours of each its new constitution being supported by more than ninety percent of that is on the explain the apparent consensus is misleading. the country's interim president of the men still may have seen it as a monday. the minute he backed government's political red knot in his sunday night to destination but others say was due to witness was a political turmoil in the community. that's the att has also been questioned in view of recent restrictions on protests and just typing up an email campaign. human rights groups say that when you miss reasons for the aesthetic including another option in carter's term to win now all of that colony when the maturity of the people that eat yes because many a tie at somebody's the constitution would improve living standards of this even if they teach you to the

government the latest from ukraine coming up and the syrian peace talks have just wrapped a day to win switzerland but with the two sides warring over assad's power in the country will the syrian government and rebels even be able to come to an agreement or bring you more from switzerland later in the show. it's thursday january twenty third five pm in washington d.c. and i know you're a david and you're watching our t.v. . and we begin today with breaking news with a special q. and a that was conducted by former government contractor edward snowden today stone and gave a number of curious people out there the chance to have a conversation with him by offering them to ask some timely questions our very own pham sachs has been charting those questions and answers from our newsroom fan it seems like a lot of people are dying to know what students responses to president barack obama's speech that he gave just last friday do we have a response yet from him this sort of use that kind of the frame of should president obama have been given given this speech so early especially since so many voices have b

an in fact, he told the syrian national coalition leaders if they don't attend peace talks in switzerland on january 22nd the u.s. will pull its support. >> i'm counting on both parties as well as the 30 or so plus other nations to come together in an effort to try to end this violence. >> reporter: syrian president bashar al-assad's government has said it will attend the geneva 2 summit, but opposition factions are still fighting over whether they should engage. [ explosion ] >> reporter: the opposition coalition is made up of various armed militias united in fighting against the state, including the free syrian arm, andy hadists and islamists from neighboring countries and kurdish groups. targeting the isil, over 700 people have died in the last ten days. >> if disorder is allowed to continue to grow, it is extremists who will benefit, and it's all the people who want a peaceful solution and stability who will lose. that includes russia, the united states, and others in the region. >> reporter: earlier this week kerry and ten other global envoys met over syria's situation in paris. with

president that will be the first korean leader to make this a visit to switzerland. there's hope for the bilateral seven with president the swiss confederation. did he ever called her and this is economics sites to benchmark switzerland the occasional trading system and its economic system which is centered around small and midsize firms. all of which completely clear passion for creativity. chris and i will grant the pre trip that the world economic forum in davos virtual meet with the css entity such as cisco and siemens an urge for businesses to invest in korea all i can share a genious and stay with the president to have her first overseas trip this year that area leaders sat down for rare interviews with two foreign media outlets are undone has more on help out there find her tough stance on any diplomatic challenges involving north korea and japan the president can handle its concerns over the volatile situation in north east the shia during an hour long interview with cnn on monday. finding out that north korea has become even more unpredictable after the arre

live in switzerland for us. you have been talking to members of the official syrian government delegation, what have you been hearing? well, we do know for some time the syrian government is wanting to change the focus of this conference, and want the international community to focus on what it is calling the war on terrorism. what we understand is that the foreign minister is going to address the world tomorrow, and say syria needs help, and this war is a danger, not just to syria, but the entire world. the syrian delegation, the official delegation representing the government, really, wanting to show that it has no intention of giving up power, what we understand is that they are going to propose us set ising up the corridors, but at the same time they will oversee the humanitarian operation on the ground. ten the regime being very defiant, and confident at the same time, in any negotiation process, the ground speaks for itself. the rebels are bogged down, p regime still controls centers, the urban centers so

invited to the switzerland conference in syria but did not hear whether or not iran would attend. let's bring in our guest now, a political analyst who joins us live from lebanon and in beirut and good to have you with us and thank you for your patience listening to the press conference and both leaders said they had constructive discussions and a positive meeting, did you hear anything positive at all in what they have to say? >> well, i think there is a lot of positive things finally that the international community especially the american and the russian, they are on one page. they want to put an end to this major war in the middle east and hopefully this will become the end of the war that has been involving syria and the region. you have to remember we have a cold war here in the middle east and obviously i understand the russians are coming and the united states, but that is not enough. i think people who are invited and the iranian still don't know where they are at. but without the iranian on board. >> reporter: i was going to ask you how important is it that iran particip

the inventor of this miracle rice ingle put trying to use as lived in worked in switzerland for many years he is dedicated to the idea of harnessing unpopular genetic technology and using it to help people so i had to do this ever since i first started working i've tried to ensure that my words benefits the world's poorest people who do lose and. he's become is not a scientist i'm an engineer engineer it is my desire to solve practical problems i use science as a way to solve real world problems. they are at the heart of his efforts malnourished or undernourished children and pregnant women. acute vitamin a deficiency usually results in blindness or even death the world health organization estimates that two hundred million children around the world suffer from a lack of vitamin a. since the one nine hundred eighty s. ingle put try case has concentrated his efforts exclusively on rice the staple food of the poor for thirteen years his research produced no visible success. then he teamed up with peter bya a cellular biologist from fribourg together they finally achieved the unthinkabl

iran making clear that his country is ready and willing to go to switzerland if invited. and on sunday evening after a round of last-minute telephone calls, the u.n. secretary general made this announcement. >> pledged that iran would play a positive and constructive roll. therefore as host of the conference, i have decided to issue an invitation to iran to participate. >> reporter: the syria national coalition reacted furiously, a tweet from spokesman said the snc would pull out from the conference unless the invitation to iran was withdrawn and stat in istanbul said the opposition despite substantial internal disagreement would talk to the syrian governmentment under u.n. auspices. >> absolute majority avoided for going to the negotiating table and of course we are all away that the regime is trying to find, you know, loopholes to try to get out of it's commitment. >> reporter: in syria all while the killing on the ground goes on. this activist video was apparently filmed in aleppo on saturday, it purports to show the aftermath of barrel bombs used by the government aga

defenses if you prosecute me i'm going to go to switzerland that's what i just b.s.a. if you prosecute me and our scads and scores and hundreds of incidents of fraud we threaten to leave the country and the government says oh no you. do. on june sixteenth one thousand forty one we had a graduation party at school and the war broke out. the shops were always full of good. works in september leningrad was blocked. one day mom went to some of the shows were empty. in november they bombed the warehouses it was the main storage place for all the food in the city people would be eating the earth because it had small traces of sugar in it i tried to eat it as well but i couldn't. cook. incredibly heavy bombing. it was a direct hit on that very shelter and everyone was buried underneath. all of them. as unity day dawns on ukraine police dismantled part of the barricades in the capital but have to. throw rocks and molotov cocktails. diplomatic delegations kick off the long anticipated syrian peace talks in the swiss town of montrose as the government and the opposition get thei

switzerland to bring you another key global event that's underway then as business and political leaders address the well the economic forum in davos and muslim iran's president rouhani who's pledged cooperation with his neighbors and the rest of the world the details on that out of the stories coming up shortly. as the media leave us so we leave the people. of the scene bush is secure. your party physical. issues that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from. politics. been getting an increasing number of death threats and is expected to ask russian authorities to help protect him as whereabouts here in russia are kept secrets marina portnoy has details of the. for the former n.s.a. contractor. despite his temporary residency in russia it's fair to assume that n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden follows what's reported about him throughout the world however it's the recent death threats rather descriptive ones published in the us media that is causing the thirty year old to request extra security and protection from russian law enforcement the website buzz feed quo

in advance of the coming peace conference in switzerland, we're looking at international attempts to stop the civil war in syria. also now joining the conversation, joshua landis, and the director of the center for middle east studies at the university of denver. joshua, let me start with you, what is the united states up to and has it made any progress in its efforts to stop the fighting in syria? >> well, it hasn't made a lot of progress. there's complete chaos on the ground on the rebel side who have been fighting each other tooth and nail as you mentioned in your start up, and the -- the worry on the part of the opposition is if they begin to talk to assad, he is quite powerful on the grown now, and this could lead to the partition of syria. a rebel controlled area in the south, and a regime controlled area in the rest of the country. so what their real beef is to try to hold the american's feet to the fire and make them actually deliver on this promise they made at geneva one that assad would step down, because they don't have the power to do that themselves. so that's -- the tr

i guess we're saying is all switzerland has there they're going to actually do a popular referendum so the whole country will be asked do you want a basic income this is how much it is the e.c. initially the e.u. initiative is it's a mechanism that was about the only good thing that came out of the lisbon agreement and it gives e.u. citizens the right to tell the e.c. what to do if you get a million signatures that's what we're doing unfortunately we couldn't ask for basic income to flood we had to ask the e.c. to look at the question and so our initiative which is great about the european commission we're asking them to just look at the question do a pilot studies do some research into it if you look at the research into basic income in other. parts of the world. health outcomes rise could stay in education and nutrition gets better it's a really good way of helping the poorest even though it goes to everybody it actually helps the poorest the most and that's why we're so in the absence of a political effort to go in this direction what are some of the nonpolitical ways that pressu

in kiev and other cities meanwhile after the dallas economic forum in switzerland police have detained demonstrators at a rally to support the unrest in ukraine although that's triggered no response from brussels the foreign affairs adviser for the french national front says it's another sign of either you inconsistency it's typically your situation of double standards but we are used. if we are talking about you with you because i give you an example if you are talking about what happened in france we've managed to. work this station that was right against gay marriage and could you imagine that if the russian government had been in fear into b c two it should be in the position of the officer of the french government so this is something we have to say russia is not interfering into country's affairs which is not the case for the world there are protests there are backing for the station and at the same time don't respect the right of their own protest. opposition leader vitaly klitschko was booed as the heap publicly announced the results of talks with the government the boxer turne

the erie also stops communicating with us while we're still in switzerland we had arranged to film the next harvest of the golden rice but one month before the appointed time our request was rejected they hear e won't tell us why where perplexed. the inventor of this miracle rice ingle put trying to use has lived and worked in switzerland for many years he is dedicated to the idea of harnessing unpopular genetic technology and using it to help people so i had to do this ever since i first started working i've tried to ensure that my work benefits the world's poorest people who do lose and. he became his no not a scientist i'm an engineer engineer it is my desire to solve practical problems i use science as a way to solve real world problem is. they are at the heart of his efforts malnourished or undernourished children and pregnant women. acute vitamin a deficiency usually results in blindness or even death the world health organization estimates that two hundred million children around the world suffer from a lack of vitamin a. since the one nine hundred eighty s. ingle put try case h

ali velshi is at the world economic forum in davos, switzerland. you can see his reports later tonight on "real money with ali velshi" at 7:00 eastern time. >>> we take a look at the science of subzero temperatures when we come back. conditions. with oceans arm, it's feared the >> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm del walters. here are today's headlines. peace talks about syria has been anything but peaceful. there has been a lot of tough talk between the participates, secretary of state john kerry saying today there can be no peace in syria as long as bashar al-assad is the leader of that country. >>> officials in west virginia confirming a second chemical finding its way into the elk river. now the state department of environmental protection ordering freedom industries, the company responsible for the leak, to release any information regarding answer known themes by 4:00 p.m. today. >>> thousands of anti-abortion protesters gathering in washington, they are there for the sh 41st annual march for li. it includes a rally taking place at the

ali velshi, al jazeera at the world forum in davos. >> that's airline airline reporting in switzerland. he'll bring us interviews with business leaders and officials. we have one with christine lag lagard on thursday. how do you avoid fees at your bank, log on and leave us your story. >>> this has been another challenging day in west virginia. even though state officials lifted a contamination order on drinking water three days ago some people continue to smell chemicals, and these residents say as long as the smell persists they will not drink the water or trust the safety claims of officials. this may an set back in customers, but not in west virginia. as one restaurateur told us, they will continue to use bottled water in their pizza dough despite being told that water is safe. they believe as many businesses do that the quality of your product and experience of your customer should be paramount. good for them. these entrepreneurs are underscoring that business is part of the from a brick of the broader community and should exist to make life better for the citizen who is live there

. ♪ >>> tense moments this morning in montrow switzerland. they are in switzerland trying to hammer out a peace deal, but even the peace talks are anything by that. nick schifrin is in switzerland, the setting behind you almost portrays the gravity of the situation and the fireworks that happened earlier. tell us about them. >> yes, just a few feet from me, i saw a pro syrian government journalist, actually yelling at the opposition. we have seen competing rallies for and against president bashar al-assad, and inside the halls the diplomats themselves are just divided. on one side you have the united states supporting the syrian opposition, and they say that president bashar al-assad has to go. they say the very notion of this -- of this conflict is to create a transitional government in which everyone agrees assad steps down. he has given no indication that he is willing to do that, in fact he has said he wants to run for president again. so john kerry this morning spoke directly to what he thought has to happen. >> the right to lead a count

aljazeera is at the talks taking place in montrose switzerland. the actual negotiations take place friday with the chief negotiator sits down with the syrian government and opposition in geneva. what's on the agenda? >> the goal in montro and geneva is a create a transitional government that everyone agrees on and can replace the government of bashar al assad. in reality, everyone here admits that that's really dead on arrival. assad has not only dismissed the notion, he's talking about running again in the next election. here in montro and geneva, what officials are hoping are beak steps towards peace, talking about prisoner exchanges between the two sides, talking about local ceasefires, if they can have those, maybe they can expand to regional or city wide or even wider ceasefires. they are also talking about humanitarian corridors, trying to get millions of people shutout from water, food, from the basic necessities, everything that they need. if you talk to u.s. officials, they say no matter what we can do in the short term, no matter what sm

you got a piece going of is in switzerland so you go what more do you know about what's happening there the result of these talks we're hearing that the opposition that actually are not very keen. to carry on with these talks or they could indeed pull out. well the syrian opposition says that it's not ready to sit down at the same table to talk with the syrian authorities but they are nevertheless ready to continue the negotiations using un special envoy on syria lakhdar brahimi as the mediator so basically he'll be meeting separately with the rebels and with the syrian authorities and passing on information from one to another thus making this dialogue possible and frankly this format was widely talked about before it's not coming as a surprise because. after all these years awful violence and so much from usual accusations even having them in the same building is already quite an achievement there of course the general for the international community is finally to get them at that same negotiations table but of course it is going to take time and the positive signal coming from the re

let's cross to zana in switzerland. let's talk about the snc. i don't know if you have had much contact with them today, but if you have, what have they been telling you? >> reporter: well, the snc delegation will be a meeting with the un secretary general today. they have been pushed to attend this conference in geneva. there was a lot of international pressure for them to agree. it knows if it doesn't show up in geneva it risks losing support from the west. if it does show up and leaves without concessions from the regime it further undermines its legitimacy? syria. it is an opposition group that does not have much influence on the ground. the powerful rebel forces on the ground do not support this process. they will support a political negotiated settlement only if it involves the regime leaving power, but the are -- regime has no intention of handing over power. so nay are coming to geneva in a very, very weak position. but the international community wants this process to start, and that's why they have been pushing for it, it has been mont

the blast one day before peace talks on the conflict in syria due to start in switzerland. mosques destroyed communities and we have a special report on sectarian violence tearing apart the central african republic. and the growing divide between rich and poor, a new report says half the world's wealth is in the hands of just 85 people. ♪ we start this news hour in lebanon where there has been an explosion in the capitol beirut and counsel people have died and also injuries. the blast happened in southern beirut in a stronghold of the armed group hezbollah and we are joined now from beirut and you are there at the scene of this latest explosion, what is happening now? >> well, i am standing on a bridge that overlooks the location where the explosion happened. as far as we know from the national news agency, for now, four people have been confirmed dead and 27 injured. they have been moved to hospitals. i'm going to step out of the shot to give my cameraman a chance to show you what exactly is going on down there. now, this is a hezbollah stronghold. it's an area of south

he was point six five seconds back the men's circuit with all of a boat and switzerland next weekend for a giant slalom and slalom the new tomas de whole weekend of the ski jumper to win the prestigious four hills tournament in his debut season since. jakob to middleweight seventy is a cut up and took the podium in the foot of the judicial self and gemini the twenty one year old who also won the second of four bands and celtic park in cash and last week finished off with a leap of one hundred and fourteen regions in the final round to hold up to challenge a fellow austrian and twenty eleven champion took the small kids to a second seam on the web of switzerland was third overall. britain's sense of belonging tasted victory for the first time in the back of riley on monday when he won stage two from sunday least to some reptile in argentina twenty three year old englishman produced a confidant of the gospel writer for the sunday stage to hand combat to witness for the first two stages. chilean from jusco to press on the other was second ahead of spain's state one would have won by the

rest in the new completed her four day state visit to india prior to a visit to switzerland. so when she read twentieth. ibm's prime time news in fighting fish you caught the indian ambassador to korea for a detailed interview about the diplomatic achievements of the president's visit. its in depth interview we got an inside look at the results of the present box seals diplomacy rock. the two leaders agreed to refinance or comprehensive economic partnership agreements and lower the tax burden on south korean company has. we had used a belt this year's first highly pathogenic eighteen teams who went to help with the chamber twenty first report party we went to the site of the ei outbreak the farms are flop top. he's not think of men and one after all the people seen people entering and exiting blocked off area are strictly controlled. on the show just how serious he i helped break was like visiting a restaurant that specializes in serving god. with the experience of coming over six million birds into dell's eleven freshen the government's mind. it's doing its best to prevent f

who is in switzerland? >> the rich and powerful are at the world economic forum now. >> jon: rich and powerful. i wonder where the rich and powerless gather? what else? >> war of words in geneva. >> jon: now we're going somewhere. >> fireworks fly at the start of peace conference. >> fighting words. >> temperatures are flaying. >> jon: a word war. that's the worst kind of war. [laughter] you know my grandpa served three tours in world war ii. [ laughter ] -- wordwar ii. [ laughter ] i remember he came home. somebody called him a (bleep) and -- [laughter] -- he got that far away look if his eyes like he was thinking about grammar. [ laughter ] but apparently not only are the rich and powerful gathering in davos but diplomats siem continuously gathering in montreux switzerland and they are the ones engaging in a wordwar. the situation is deteriorating so much that even the delegates handshake have to pass through an ind immediateary. [ laughter ] to the word war. >> you live until new york, i live in syria. i

of course the friends of syria would like to see the national coalition go to switzerland later this month because there is a widespread -- widely held opinion that the only real solution is a diplomatic political solution. but, there still remains some obstacles, obviously we have another day to go. there will be more meetings throughout tonight. and then into tomorrow. the highlight of which is expected to be a meeting between the russian foreign minister, the u.n. special envoy to syria and secretary of state john kerry. those three are some very powerful, obviously movers and shakers. they will sit down. they will discuss things and then we will see if in the end it can be agreed that the opposition will go to switzerland. now, that's far from a solution. really all we are talking about here is the framework of talks. but, it is significant because if indeed the opposition does agree to go to switzerland, that would mean face to face talks between the government of al-assad and the opposition group. everyone wants to see that happen here in paris because the alternative is just m

and the syrian peace talks have just wrapped david two in switzerland but with the two sides warring over assad's power in the country will the syrian government and rebels even be able to come to an agreement in geneva bring you more from switzerland later in the show. it's thursday january twenty third four pm in washington d.c. i mean you're a david and you're watching r t. and we begin today with breaking news with a special q. and a chat conducted by former government contractor edward snowden today snowden gave a number of curious people out there the chance to have a conversation with him by offering them to ask some timely questions our very own sam sachs has been charting those questions and answers from our newsroom to say i have it seems like most people are dying to know what snowden's response is to president barack obama's speech on an essay reforms that he gave last friday do we have that response yet very well there were some questions about the timing of president obama's speech there were some voices who hadn't weighed in on the n.s.a. debate namely the privacy and

iran's president is en route to switzerland but [ inaudible ] economic conference. he said that the geneva talks are doomed to fail. >> translator: considering all sides, i don't have much hope that this meeting can succeed in fighting terrorism, because some countries sponsoring terrorism are taking part. also i don't think it will succeed in establishing peace and stability, because the countries that created instability are taking part. nevertheless it is help freedom, democracy and freedom, we will be glad. >> why was there such opposition to iran being there? >> the syrian opposition considers iran plays a negative role in syria. they believe without the support from iran the syrian regime would have not been able to survive. if you talk to members of the opposition, they will tell you that iran is occupying our country, and just a to bring back what we were mentioning earlier, this is a rivalry that extends beyond syria. it plays out in iraq and lebanon, so this is why it is very, very difficult. now the syrian opposition, i have spoken to one of the delegates

in switzerland in case the commission has now adopted the withholding tax will be deducted in switzerland and kazakhstan besides the budget was approved amendments on combating domestic violence in the second reading the book with me a point not only fine but also the rest of the dead trees made several quest to the government owes most of what is worried about the numerous cases of inefficient use of funds authorities often composed of functions on committees alessio. please provide information on the number of supporting organizations in the staff and also we need information on budget funds located to authorities will work in services rendered ineffective use of two thousand eleven two thousand twelve in two thousand thirteen. environmentalist a minute to stop oil production of combined ninety s dnc on the southeast of notable got the stomach up and let the oil fields. if i'm in the walls were grossly violated here. instead of cleaning in use and associated gas. he was admitted they didn't all night so that no one noticed this case caused a scandal issue and used as the economic war ha

all week on top pre negotiations and switzerland. the handle serious motor of rebel position with the green light for his team to hold direct peace talks with the government of president the shots that go into shoe trees will be definitely difficult it is never easy negotiation. the road of one thousand miles starts with one stone. but the maiden name change and the opposition made it clear they were seeking concessions not reconciliation. visited the zoo there is a white base motives than ever now the bulldozers. us secretary of state john kerry also say he believed there was no future role for president assad in syria. continuing calls for him to step down no this is not being about one one one family. this should be about all of the people of sewer the futures are an outside right now is the one person stands in the way of peace and in the future for syria pointing in syria has heightened tensions between us and russia and is being seen as a proxy war between regional power in saudi arabia and iran to let the world economic forum

as much for bringing us the very latest from davos in switzerland capel been there. i was a lower edward snowden is reportedly said to request additional protection from russian authorities after receiving a growing number of death threats the former n.s.a. contractor has been living at an undisclosed location in russia since august when he received asylum for washington's prosecution artist has the details. despite his temporary residency in russia it's fair to assume that n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden follows what's reported about him throughout the world however it's the recent death threats rather descriptive ones published in the us media that is causing the thirty year old to request extra security and protection from russian law enforcement the website buzz feed quoted an anonymous u.s. intelligence officer describing how he would have assassinated snowden if he had the chance another unnamed pentagon official has been quoted saying he would have simply love to quote put a bullet in snowden's head work he not restricted from killing an american snowden's