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Activists, Syrian regime trade blame amid peace talks

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    Government has not officially agreed to ceasefire

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Well the Syrian regime and some of the rebel fighters some of them.

Have reportedly agreed to a temporary cease fire that is to start this Friday in the meantime there apparently still killing each other.

Opposition groups in Syrian state media today traded blame.

For the -- have heard of at least 25 people including women and children in a town near Damascus.

Activists also claimed that Syrian warplanes carried out multiple bombing raids across the country Fox -- can't -- it independently confirm any of that.

But it all comes as the united nations special envoy to Syria claims the Syrian government has indicated -- will stop killing its own people.

During a four -- Muslim holiday that starts this Friday.

Some Syrian rebel leaders have also reportedly agreed to the cease fire but not -- certainly not everybody's on board here and we still don't have any official word from the Syrian regime.

And as you might imagine if we've been down this road before.

The fox sports chief correspondent Jonathan Hunt is with us and he's been covering this region for a long -- -- really not a lot of hope here -- -- else.

Really seems like we've seen this movie before doesn't it when Kofi Annan and that was UN peace envoy and -- a cease fire back in April it was very -- lived.

Now Lakhdar Brahimi is writing the script and it's very likely will get a very similar.

President Assad's regime will announce that decision tomorrow it's likely to be yes will abide by the cease fire if the rebels -- the rebel groups are already saying we'll abide by it if I.

I sap does which gives everybody covered a continual never even stall.

I in the first place these hostilities which is why you know -- -- of state Hillary Clinton -- the State Department today.

Not exactly celebrating a breakthrough listen.

We support his call for a cease fire for.

The need to Al Wada holidays so that Syrians could.

It celebrates.

In peace.

We'd like to see the violence come to an end there's no doubt about this and we'd like to see a political transition.

Take hold and again we've been calling.

Four that for more than a year.

If the cease -- does take hold at -- some of the first people to try to get into Syria and take advantage of it.

Will be human rights and aid agencies who desperately want to get food and shelter to the thousands of Syrians need so we're suppose the Americans are supposedly helping rebels in some ways but we're not sending any American weapons and now we get these accusations from the Russians.

That they found American weapons in the hands of the -- yet and these are particular weapons -- -- missiles but the Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said today that is absolutely not true.

By the way -- sticking his sound familiar that's because they all the missiles that we didn't -- To the Mujahedeen fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan in the in the 1980s they apparently turned the tide that.

But again of US officials have repeatedly said no weapons of any type are going from the US to the Syrian rebels all right -- and we'll keep watching thanks very much.

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