people here boast about how hezbollah has succeeded in pushing back the opposition forces. but many argue it was hezbollah's decision to fight along with the syrian government that triggers these groups to target shiites. an argument that is largely dismissed here. >> translator: no, they had a plan to come over and fight us anyway. >> reporter: support for hezbollah doesn't seem to be waning here. but these security barriers are still here despite the feeling of relevant safety. people here realize the convict in syria is not over, and this is probably more of a lull than an end to the thread. syria is within site from here, and just as close is its war. >>> two suicide attacks have killed one soldier and wounded at least seven people. another bomber burned himself up near a tourist bus. a policeman is killed by a roadside bomb in cairo. egyptian state television said the explosion targeted the traffic police position. >>> in alexandria, protesters have opened fire on anti-coup protesters. >>> in eastern libya, rebels have tried to storm the headquarters in benghazi after

hezbollah isn't necessarily considered to be a massive enemy to americans per se. far more dangerous to israel. but what about terrorists who target america? are they naming terrorist groups? did al qaeda ever come up in this list? are they being more specific? >> the dea for the last couple of years has been saying that hezbollah is using some of this simply for fund-raising. you're right, hezbollah group doesn't really target americans very much but they are targeting some of our allies like israel. they have seen instances in which groups in west africa are helping to bring this drug trade forward which are affiliated with al qaeda are also profiting from this, so it's a danger all around. >> evan perez reporting for us on this still developing story. so many issues to this. you might just think it's real simple and real illegal. maybe not so much. i want to bring in cnn analyst paul callan. and cnn commentator and defense attorney mel robbins. why is it emen juvan just said n buy this at the gas station? we're apparently busting hundreds of people for today. >>

his regime remains week and is propped up due to the support provided by the iranian regime, hezbollah and the russians. on one hand it's true, the asaad regime occupied homs. if you look at what he had to do and the cost it entailed, it's staggering. the regime cannot control cities it cannot bombard and destroy. it cannot bring towns and villages under control without coercion and starvation. this is the campaign that the regime launched in homs and damascus. this is not a regime that is confident or strong at its core, it can only exist by wiping out all those that oppose it. and this is not an indication of strength. the revolution goes on. the asaad regime will never be able to control syria the way that it did. you cannot destroy an idea. you cannot kill an idea. and it has been made clear by the syrian rebels and the syrian opposition that they will continue the fight for their right to live in a free and democratic syria, regardless of the odds. "inside story." >> thank you. >> we'll take a break and when we come back - we'll talk with a panel of guests and experts who have bee

the assad regime has been an important conduit between iran and hezbollah. as such, they're fighting side by side with the regime forces in syria and providing the regime much-needed supplies and financial assistance. it's also abundantly clear that russia simply does not share our interests in the region. i guess that's an understatement. russia has continued to back the regime. it has consistently blocked u.s. actions at the u.n. security council, including efforts to invoke chapter 7 authorization to enforce existing security council resolutions 2118 and 2139. russia continues to provide the regime material assistance, including ammunition, weapons, airplanes, and spare parts that are keeping the regime afloat. from syria to ukraine, it is clear that president putin's approach to foreign policy is rooted in old cold war regrets. madam president, the administration has taken steps to respond to the protracted conflict in syria. let me outline a few. first, on chemical weapons: the agreement negotiated last fall has led to the vast majority of the syrian re

there in syria, if you look at hezbollah's operations in syria itself, these are non-state actors who have capabilities previously associated only with the field and forces of nation states and those are destructive weapons, communications, ability to mobilize forces, sufficient financial. >> charlie: are they dependent on nation states to provide them with the weapons they use? >> yes. so this is this nexus i think between hostile facings and these forces. so for example, what would hezbollah be without iran, really, and, you know, what would al quaida and associated groups be without at least the ability to establish support basis and safe havens been the boundaries of certain nation states? so i think it's important for us to be able to deter, you know, nation states as well as non-state actors and respond to crises involving the field and forces of nation states and the so-called hybrid enemies. >> charlie: but there's a strong sentiment in the country and you hear it in terms of conversations that a lot of people look and think that the future of modern war fair is paramilitary a

i would be interested in your assessment as to the terrorist threat from nonstate actors like hezbollah, syria, and i'll bite > -- and al qaeda. areorist's post-9/11 younger, more aggressive, and more technologically savvy. yourinterested in assessment of that relative to capability and desire. to strike u.s. targets. member, i would say that desire is strong. the capability is developing. three groups,mong you mentioned lebanese hezbollah is an organization that is looking to develop significant capability in this arena. enemies.s on regional not so much against the u.s.. i would concur. sir. also, >> what about the threat posed by state actors like iran or china in russia? is the level activity increasing? what are we doing to combat that question mark >> -- where we doing to question -- to combat that? >> china and iran developing significant capabilities. >> i would concur. withe these nations information needs increasing. some of the needs are developing a cyber program to meet those needs. we will get in more detail in a closed session. >> i would say in closing, the terrorist men

hezbollah has warned that that is a sin, that he is coming to jerusalem, a disputed city. some say he's coming too close to israel. syria, the syria christians, the iraqi christians will watch, and anyone delighted in pope francis, and you never know what he will say. >> we look forward to your report. join us 5:30 for "the week ahead". >>> leck none's -- lebanon's president is calling for hezbollah to pull out of syria, saying it is fuelling sectarian tensions in a war-ravaged country. the story of the war came ta cannes. the film, including more than 1,000 internet clips is premiering at the film festival "silverwatered it delivered by a director in paris, shot by a citizen journalist. [ gun fire ] >> reporter: these images emerge from syria on a daily basis. on the news, on tv scroops, and now on -- screens and now on the big screen at the cannes film festival. "silverwatered" was directed from afar. its maker cut together 1,000 videos from exile in paris. one day he talked online to a woman in homs and she said "what would you film if you were here?" he told her and th

hezbollah did not exist then. another tragic consequence of ames' death in the embassy bombing was that it demoralized u.s. foreign-policy in the region. officer who,ne when i broached the idea that ames had started the peace process, he said, maybe that is true, but it all came to naught. yet i would argue that he showed us the way. his work is unfinished. someday it will come to fruition. >> the extraordinary life of cia agent robert ames. show to as today's close. you can find more on our website. thanks for watching, and please tune in tomorrow. >> bbc.com/news. >> funding of this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation, newman's own foundation, giving all profits to charity and pursuing the common good for over 30 years, kovler foundation, and union bank. a relationshipk managers work hard to understand the industry you operate in. nurture new ventures and help provide capital for key strategic decisions. we offer expertise and tailored solutions in a wide range of industries. what can we do f

in secret, a shadowy brotherhood that, among other things, arms and trains iran's proxy armies like hezbollah in its fight against israel. they do not give interviews to western journalists, but they've been critical of rouhani in the iranian press. other hard-liners have held demonstrations that oppose any iranian concessions in negotiations with the u.s. we asked mohammed nahavandian, the president's chief of staff, about it and he answered very carefully. the revolutionary guard is very much opposed to any kind of a deal, opposed even to the negotiations. true? >> nahavandian: i think that generalization is not correct. >> kroft: my understanding is that this is not necessarily a smooth road for president rouhani, in terms of mustering support on all the things that he wanted to do when he ran for office. >> nahavandian: isn't that the definition of a democratic election? ( laughter ) >> kroft: that seems to be an acknowledgement that there are people here that are giving you a hard time. >> nahavandian: the elected president is being accepted and supported by the supreme leader. so the wh

hezbollah is their ally. you saw some flags. the people here are basically syrians. refugees. many come from rebellious towns and villages now under the control of the rebels and they have lost their homes in the destruction, in the war between the government forces afrom england, homs, aleppo. they came to vote despite destruction and the hurt they have felt throughout this conflict. now, people are resigned to the fact that it's going to go on for a long time and that they have to deal with the regime there. >> that's why they are here. >> i am going to pause and talk about what we are seeing if the cameraman will hold that shot there. this is actually an election process happening in beirut. the syrian presidential e elections and that one voting polling station, if you like, a syrian embassy in beirut. maybe you can tell us about what happened earlier. we might have the pictures as well as some pretty chaotic things later on which looked like they were turning a little violence? >> sure. you know, the people started coming here in the early hours of the morning. the street

i made it through the borders, and from beirut airport, controlled by hezbollah, and it was a pure miracle for me to make it here. i'm doing a speaking tour across the u.s., making events and universities and other public events, meeting with politicians. after three years of sacrificing a lot of lives to accomplish our goal in building a free syria, i think that we deserve respect and support from the united states. the regime wants us to give up. even, i think, sometimes international community or some countries at least want us to give up, and just go back to being loyal servant to the regime. we will not give up, and you will continue sacrificing until we manage to accomplish our goal, which is building a free syria, and syria for all. >>> two chartered flights arrived to southern china carrying injured chinese workers from vietnam. thousands of chinese nationals have been evacuated following anti-china riots. protesters angry at china for placing an oil rig in disputed waters. adrian brown joins us live from beijing is this just about an oil rig in disputed waters, and how is this dis

this compares himself and east of the country to hezbollah he's unhappy with the terminology used by katie after calling for russians to separate its militants. he wants. everyone within ukraine from both sides of the divide to come together a result the situation he also said that the presidential election in ukraine on the twenty fifth of may the constitutional reform pour the chili. hundreds of people in the passage of evacuations from a sinking ship started to panic and tails. new technologies held to say more lines. find out on futuris up. the decibels the first of several funerals for those who died in friday's fire is lit with an agency of government the spread of items the egyptian presidential come to that abdel fatah of things he says about the muslim brotherhood group will never return. nigerian isn't it threatened to sell hundreds of kids out gocco the sun we demonstrate to school on the government to get them is to go back the unknown. it is. this is just too old but relaxed evacuation and tragic. i asked what does this happen and what can be improved with new technologi

in exchange, rebels will release what they say are hezbollah fighters and syrian army soldiers. a final deal is still being finalized. meanwhile, certain i can't's refugee crisis is der issue fo ministers from five countries held a special meeting at the refugee camp in jordan. syria's neighbors and the u.n. are urging the international community to do more to help millions of people who have fled the fighting. jordan, turkey, egypt, lebanon and iraq have added their names to that plea. >>> nigeria's president "good luck" jonathan has promised to find more than 200 school girls who were kidnapped. he spoke to state officials for the first time. church services have been held tries the country. people fried for the missing girls abducted in borno state by boka haram. reports suggest the girls have been sold to fighters from the group. >> south africa's political parties are holding final campaign rallies ahead of elections on wednesday. the supporters of the national african congress have been gathering. the opposition party, economic freedom fighters were holding final rally in

which is controlled by hezbollah. and it was a fewer miracle for me to make it here. i'm doing a speaking tour across the u.s., making events and, you know, universities, and other public events, meeting with politicians. after three years of sacrificing a lot of lives to accomplish our goal in building a free syria, i think that we deserve respect and support from the united states. the regime wants us to give up. even i think sometimes international community or some countries at least want us to give up, and just go back to being loyal servant to this asaad regime. we will not give up, and we will continue sacrificing until we manage to accomplish our goal, which is building a free syria for all. >>> al jazeera demands the immediate release of its journalists who have been in prison in egypt for 142 days. the trial of peter greste, mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed was ajourped again on thursday. they are falsely accused of conspiring with the outlawed muslim brotherhood. al jazeera rejects the charges i gains them and they are due back on 22nd may. abdullah al

it follows months of gains by the army backed by its lebanese allies hezbollah downtime due to the un humanitarian affairs court makes a pretty good signs for maintaining the ceasefire. play the old aunties to show the complete respect but it was a cool minty green and making a real asset to the state going to see at the top of the day i come up to two years of the cold of business the left but grew into depict my serious crucial civil war the month of the area has been cleared of insurgents the army is not expected to move into the old city could this be checked for explosives. legend has it this is one of hundreds of videos on the internet calling on people to take on team to have dora on the wall malik european leaders is spearheading an international effort to find out what makes them so attractive and help to diminish the appeal the new court makes europe's counterterrorism unit believes young people not to join two halves don't really understand what lies in store for them. some young people are looking for exciting adventures. as the pixels that detroit's a virtual games think

i made it through the borders and then from beirut airport controlled by hezbollah and it was a pure miracle to make it here. i'm doing a speaking tour across the u.s. making events in university and other public events, meeting with politicians. after three years of sacrificing a lot of lives to accomplish or goal in building a free syria, i think that we deserve respect and support from the united states. the regime wants us to give up and i think the international community or some countries want us to give up and just go back to be loyal servant to the assad regime and we will not give up and we will continue sacrificing until we managed to accomplish or goal which is building a free syria. >> reporter: three times formula one champion jock has died aged 88. and no one had ever done before or unlikely to and andrew thomas explains. >> he was australia's first formula one champion and won the individual grand prix in 1959 and securing the title that year by pushing his car over the finish line in the united states race and he ran out of fuel in the final straight and fourth place

hezbollah has joined the fight. irgc entered the fight on the ground. and more terrorists are attracted to fight against assad readily, thereby creating a framework where some of the opposition was fighting for terrorists, not assad. that is a clear and simple reality of what has taken place over the course of the year. that has changed. now are is a greater level of coordination, a greater level of unity, a greater level of understanding of purpose. over the next days, as those teams meet, there will be a serious definition of steps to be taken in order to have a greater impact three the united states is committed to doing our part. each country today sat there and discussed what they felt they could do to grow the effort. and that is what is different. just last week, we announced that the syrian opposition coalition representative offices are now foreign missions. we are now working to provide new, nonlethal assistance and to speed up the delivery of the assistance to the free syrian army. the treasury department has imposed new sanctions and restric

. >>> lebanon's paresident is calling on hezbollah to pull out of syria. the armed lebanese syria group is fueling tensions in a war-ravaged country. the civil war has come to cannes. a film that includes more than a thousand internet clips is premiering at the famous film festival. silver water is directed by a syrian film maker in exile live in paris shot by citizen journalists. phil lazell has more. >> these images emerged from syria on a daily basis, on the news, on t.v. screens and now on the big screen here at the cannes film festival. "silver water" was directed from afar. it's syria maker, ossama cut together a thousand internet videos from exile in paris. one day, he got talking to sima olbermann in homs. she asked: what would you film if you were here? >> he told her, and this is the result. >> i start to feel that i am back into syria, that this virtual window became very real, deep, beautiful one. she became, you know, my homeland. and after i discover that, yes, for me, she is the metaphor of syr syria. >> this is a movie that brings the viewe

. >> in terms of the syrians of the war, are you on the al qaeda side or the hezbollah side? who over there are you saying? >> who knows now. >> going to spawn terror on the one side and give iran a victory on the other. that's what happens when america does nothing. >> it's not giving iran. iran is much, much weaker. >> yes, iran is shaking in their boots. >> iran is totally isolated in a region that is completely than how they were. >> we are associating with a guy who has bragged to the world scene that he has duped over world leaders to the position we're in now. >> stop, stop. stay here. we want you guys at home to get in on this conversation, this argument. weigh in on the fireback question for today. do you think president obama's foreign policy has been a success? tweet yes or no using #crossfire. got to give you the results after the break. also, we've got our outrages of the day. mcdonald's ceo has some thoughts about his employees' pay. i got to tell you, i'm not loving it. >> oh! >> when we get back. [is engineered for comfort.hing that goes into a lennox system l

contain the full lah once again in the nation and this industry will pitch in and the back of the militia hezbollah says. as i say is she's doing her up on my cooking for the treats and to speak. she actually said if she could be helpful she be willing to pick up a weapon and fights alongside has a funny and have friends to laugh and doing the same title since been to one of the alms man one of the nation and as i he and little man. i used to be a cold that had been stolen and in the monkey's hand inside the ends and he decided to take out bombs and finds a hole in his town of five phrase freedom immense payments on the message that i'm hearing from many local people had a message of defiance. that's not the message but getting from everyone the second ep called contentedly with his arms and it meant his palms lah and the man for independence lot of people hand various rates of what the future may hold parkinson life residents love the arts. many thanks for the three points. now let's get more on the crisis from the russians them points for that we're joined by chris pine and donning a diary of hon

with the help of hezbollah. >> that is the conventional wisdom of the day. i don't think any buddy has a conclusive force or authority. >> do you fear the groups that have joined the rebels? >> i dread them. >> that they could gain control and make it a safe haven for terrorists? >> that is a part of it. the other part is they would define the state and then it would spill over and i would add seeing a part of it in libya, it does not allow us to sleep at night. >> you're going to mention the april 6 movement in terms of the good guys. why are they under attack? >> the tension on the street has raised questions about the motivation. we have arguments about this every day. we have become a litigious society. people raise it in the courts and then you have this process. courts aside, i concur. the next egyptian president will have to bring people together politically over and above the issue of security. >> what are you worried the most about? >> time. >> you don't have time to do what is necessary. >> i have children and grandchildren. i want to leave them a

hezbollah leaders have criticized that visit. >>> samsung work related illnesses and death, this month it did apologize for its handling and events. now harry fawcett reports from seoul. >> for the last years, now has come the time to talk to samsung electronics. str samsung can no longer turn their face away from this issue but the negotiations will never be easy. most important, it depends on how sincerely samsung will engage. >> hung's story, the loss of his 22-year-old daughter to leukemia was the inspiration of a recent film, accounts for a shift in samsung'samsung's position. earlier this month the company withdrew from a long running legal case, to have the illnesses defined as work related. samsung maintains that a series of chemicals used at its semiconductors plant, has first time said sorry. we feel regret that the solution has not been found in a timely manner, it said, and we would like this opportunity oexpress our sincerest apology to these people. we will make compensation to the families battling disease. developing a brain tumor after she left the plant. >> following

in exchange they'll release hezbollah fighters and sir yn soldiers. nearly 2.7 million syrians have fled the fighting. the u.n. and neighbouring countries are appealing to the international communities for help. we have a report from the refugee camp. . >> reporter: the syrian refugee crisis is described as a cata involvic disaster -- catastrophic disaster since the ru wandon gepp site. in a camp in jordan, several foreign ministers agreed it's time for the international community to increase for syrian refugees and the countries hosting them. >> we call on the community to step up to the challenge and be more act if and forth coming and remind that the crisis reached levels in which lip service are behind being unhelpful. >> this year the unrcr requested $4.29 million to cope with the crisis in jordan, lebanon, turkey, egypt and iraq. 25% of the money was received. there was calls on countries to open the borders to syrians leaving their country. >> it is necessary that country around the world keep the borders top syrian refugees. >> there was criti

i managed to make it through the borders and then from beirut airport, which is controlled by hezbollah, it was a pure miracle to make it here. i'm doing a speaking tour across the u.s. making events and universities and other public events, meeting with politicians. after a few years of sacrificing a lot of lives to accomplish the goal of building a free syria, i think we deserve respect and support from the united states. the regime wants us to give up. even i think international community or some countries wants us to give up and just go back to being loyal servant to the assad regime. we will enough give up. we will continue sacrificing until we manage to accomplish our goal, which is building a free syria for all. >> gunmen have shot dead two egyptian policemen as they were heading home. it happened in the central city. interrer ministry said they were riding on a motorbike when they were attacked. al jazeera's demanding the immediate release of its journalists who now have been in prison in egypt for 142 days. their trial was adjourned been on thursday. they're falsely accused of

iran was able to mobilize hezboll hezbollah. iran was able to bring in its revolutionary guards and now there are reports it has brought in afghans to fight. this is a war he won by default because it was like the spanish civil war and international conflict except that only one side showed up. the russian iranian side and our side never showed up. at this point we can still identify nonjihadi opposition and support them to have at least a larger say when the fighting stops. >>> twin car bombs in nigeria. the head of the senate intelligence committee said this about al qaeda and here's the state department response. >> we just went through the opening of the 9/11 museum. i know they will come after us if they can. i see the intelligence. terror is not down in the world. it is up, both death, injuries, in many different places. al qaeda has me tas sized. >> before al qaeda has been decimated. we have been concerned about affiliates or growth around the world. >> he hasn't spoken to it in that capacity, so i leave it at what the s

folks associated with terrorist associations like hezbollah, violent criminals violent drug smugglers killing each other on u.s. soil then economic migrants, people coming here that don't want to hurt us don't have any criminal background whatsoever and want to make a better lives for themselves. if you are able to treat that last group at a legislative issue, policy issue, and stop make it a law enforcement issue all of a sudden you release billions of dollars and thousands and thousands of law enforcement officers to focus on the truly bad people that are coming leer to harm us. and i think if you just -- that's a first step to -- and it could be a real game changer if we could just prioritize. >> again the book is border insecurity. sylvia longmire, it's really a pleasure to have you. >> thank you very much. >> and borderland airs here at. >> hermella. >> ploont, convictof raping one of his students in 2011. last fall, 47-year-old stacy dean rambold served just one month in jail for the crime. the short sentence was part of the deal that prosecutors made after losing their number o

would be able to extend its nuclear umbrella to its terrorist proxies across the including hamas and hezbollah, sitting on israel's doorstep. even more terrifying, we would see a proliferation of nuclear arsenals throughout the region. yet, mr. speaker, even in the face of these threats, israelis remain optimistic for their future and proud of their national identity and tonight i ant to say that we are proud as israeli allies and we join em in celebrating their 66th year of independence. mr. speaker, before i yield back my time, i do want to are the story of one of my american -- one of my citizens, constituents. his name is aaron bell. he's 85 years old. he's a proud jewish american resident of palm beach county and today he is celebrating israeli independence day. but this is more than just celebration for him. it's a memory. ron bell was born as allen bielsky. for those of you who may have seen the daniel craig's blockbuster movie "defines," you're familiar with the bielsky brothers. the jewish partisans who saved over 1,000 jews from death camps, building a village of defines in the fores

are talking about millions of variants to be living in refugee camps that are controlled by al qaeda, hezbollah, hamas and they would be coming into the west bank of the jordan river. by doing to jerusalem which should be partitioned city. would they be sitting quietly quick what they say we really want to look for work? of course not. their intention to not be that israel's indefensible border. to the contrary, that is the existential threat that demographics manifest to israel, a palestinian state. that is the demographic threat to briefly want to talk about the united states. david gave a very good tourist view of the world as an american primacy in the collapse of american power throughout the world as a result of the current administration guided and policy based on the proposition that one should go to one's enemies. now it's a show in my book, it has been the bipartisan dilution of u.s. administration since nixon that the way forward is to moderate the plo. yassir arafat ordered the assassination of the first african-american u.s. and acid are in sudan in 1970 and he together with his de

you have the iranians sponsoring hezbollah in there. you have a number of dynamics in play plus opposition forces against assad. they are not all on the same page that they were on. a moderate opposition, that we support and we are trying to help, working with our allies in jordan and turkey, working with the gcc countries. i just came back from bringing all the gcc defense ministers together for the conference at saudi arabia, jordan, israel. the syria was the main topic. >> what was the assessment? >> everyone has this issue at the top of their agenda. there may be variations as to why, but this extremism, this sectarian war, sunni versus shia, which cuts into the western part of iraq in the humanitarian piece of this that jordan is taking the brunt of and we are helping more than anybody is all part of it. they understand the dangers of this. they understand that this cannot get resolved just by some military solution. what we are trying to do, to your question, and continue to do, work with our partners, our neighbors, the structure

. >> lebanon's president is calling for hezbollah to pull out of syria, it is's that they are fouling sectarian sentences in a war-ravaged company. the story of the war came to the cannes film festival, a movie including more than 1,000 cleanse. "silverwatered is directed by a film-maker in exclil and shot by a journalist. [ gun fire ] >> reporter: these images emerge from syria on a daily basis. on the news, on tv scroops, and now -- screens, and now on the big screen at the cannes film festival. "silvered water" was directed from afar. the maker cut together 1,000 internet videos from exile in paris. one day he got to talking to a woman in homes. this is the result. i start to feel i'm back into syria, that this virtual window became real, deep, beautiful. she became, you know, my homeland. and after i discover yes for me, she is a metaphor of syria. >> this is a movie that brings the viewer closer to the daily horrors of life in a war-torn country. it features scopes of rape, death. but also resilience. >> reporter: you are going back to syria? >> yes. >> reporter: are you scared?

we see that in iran's support of hezbollah, and hezbollah which is also supporting the assad regime. iranian troops are also in serious supporting the assad regime. in syria itself we saw its use of chemical weapons, even though we have this bargain if you will to try to get rid of the syrian chemical weapons program can we've seen assad is more than going to find loopholes in it to hide chemical weapons, use chlorine that was used in world war i, to use it again to really crossed a red line. and still we are struggling for our response to the cost of the red line. they are, russia and china, congressman thornbury spoke about it, they are both returning in many ways, returning great powers. russia has a lot of systemic problems but they do see, vladimir putin does want to restore in effect to the russian empire but if you look at his rhetoric, you know that's what he's looking at. what's wars, what troubles me also is vladimir putin and nationalistic you look at the eu mess, if you will, that the russian parliament passed, to authorize putin's activities in ukraine, it's not aimed sp

they are mainly from lebanon, hezbollah fighters from iraq, militias from there and iran. they are more organised. they are not going op in an individual basis like they are to support the opposition. >> one american was convicted when he returned from this country. he was released after a plea deal, and later, apparently died from an overdose. he doesn't seem to have been involved in violent activities here. generally how dangerous are these people. >> when they go, most don't have an intention of being terrorists, there's a difference between going, being a foreign fighter or coming back and being a terrorist. radical affects are real. the problem is you don't know what happens to them once they are there. the challenge for the authorities is to explore that. okay, why did this guy go. maybe perfectly reasonable reasons. humanitarian concerns. and what happened to him while he was there. who was talking to him, who influenced him, and did he come back because he was disillusioned or he thought he would do something elsewhere. >> there are a whole lot of variables that ca

in exchange rebels will release what they say are hezbollah fighters and syrian army soldiers. the operation is due to be monitored by the u.n. it ha a strong opposition it the syrian president. >>> south sudan president says it has taken two key towns from rebel fighters, days after president salva kiir agreed to talks with the rebel leader to end the conflict. we have this report from juva. >> reporter: the spokesman for the government army announced two important victories. the first was this morning in the up to of n.a.s.a., close to the border with ethiopia, and this has been the rebel strong hold for some time, where riek machar, the leader of the movement had its faith. it's where it received pilae. the other is in the up to of bentiu, which the government says they took back at 4:00 pm. this is a town where we saw the horrific images emerge. people were massacred inside a mosque. there were more killings in a hospital and a church. the pictures went to the u.n. they shocked the people there who saw them. they were really the reason for a lot of international pressure th

that could have necessarily countered the investment that hezbollah, iran, russia, and others have made on behalf of assad. my own view is that the answer to your question is no, that this -- it may have changed in some respects the trajectory of the conflict, but it would still be a raging battle to this day and we would still have the phenomenon of areas outside of the government's control that were attractive to extremist groups. >> how hard are we prepared now to support those in opposition to the government? >> i want to answer a prior question about the opposition itself. the united states government has been actively supported the active and on active parts of the opposition. i don't know how much you know we are doing. i'm not going to get into that. let me just say that we have been providing support and increasing it for quite some while over the last couple of years. has the quality, the quantity, and i believe the efficacy of our support, it has increased and it will continue to because in part we have been able to identify who, among be moderate vetted opposition, or the pa

you will see some pathetic guns but syrians have jet fighters and helicopters and money and hezbollah and we're giving these people aks and pickup trucks. >> i don't know if maybe we don't have access to history books or something. it seems like we keep making the same mistakes over and over again and you make them and say, we'll never do that again as the soviets did, we'll never do that again. here we go again. >> there's only one theory that might work we're creating a meat grinder, and all the jihadis flocking to syria and all getting killed. that it's one of the theories why we're doing this in half measures. if we want to get rid of assad we have to meet them toe-to-toe. >> robert young pelton, thank you, sir. >> thank you. >>> the secretary of state john kerry told nsa leaker knowedtsn after snowden accused the united states forcing him to stay in russia. ed has been in russia since last summer when snowden was granted asylum. he gave an interview, the first time with a big journalist and did so with nbc brian williams and said he never planned to go to russia. he had a flight

with that we also got to do more on syria, to arm moderate rebel groups to push back against assad and hezbollah and the iranian revolutionary guard core command. again speeches are very important to pave the way forward. but now we see to see the actions. the president's has got a lot of time left in his term of office. he is certainly capable of changing the tune and changing the perception. jenna: like to have you both back as we have seen perhaps more action on any of these fronts. bret, ambassador burns, thank you so much. great to see you. >> thank you. jenna: well now to our america's asking question. we want to know in light of the president's speech what do you think of the president's foreign policy? log on to foxnews.com/happeningnow. click on "america's asking" tab to weigh in on the live chat. senator mccain joins us at top of the 1:00 hour. he will talk about america's leadership and way forward in leadership. we look forward to your comments and perhaps share some of that as well. jon: tech giant google unveils the car of the future it says. why this thing could change the way we

he's made gains with the help of the iranians and with the help of hezbollah? >> i think that's the conventional wisdom of the day. i don't think anybody still has conclusive force or exclusive authority. >> charlie: do you fear the groups that have joined the ranks of the rebels? you have been talking about terrorism. >> i dread them. i mean, fear is -- >> charlie: somehow they could gain control of a state and make it a safe haven for terrorism or a rogue state? >> that's parto it. the other part is they would end up dividing the state's tehrikly or ethnically and would spill over throughout the region. i would add, seeing syria and seeing part of it in libya doesn't allow us to sleep at night. >> charlie: you were going to mention the april 6 movement in terms of the people we thought were the good guys. why are they under attack? >> the tensions on the street raises questions about what motivations are, this and that. we have arguments about this every day that are -- and we become not like you but, i mean, in the same trend a litigious society. people rais