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Syria's Assad warns latest U.N. peace move could fail

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says the latest move by the U.N. to launch peace talks over Syria will fail if foreign states back "terrorists," the Syrian government's term for rebels fighting to topple Assad from power. Mana Rabiee reports.