Video - Syrian President Bashar Al Assad Speech address to the nation.

Syria’s Assad rejects dialogue with ‘puppet’ opposition.(AA).Syrian President Bashar al-Assad announced what he described as a peace plan on Sunday, calling for a reconciliation conference with "those who have not betrayed Syria", to be followed by the formation of a new government and an amnesty.
"The first stage of a political solution would require that regional powers stop funding and arming (the opposition), an end to terrorist operations and controlling the borders," he said in a speech in central Damascus, his first public comments in months.
"We will not have dialogue with a puppet made by the West," he said.
He said his government has "not found partners" for a political solution to the country's 21-month crisis, in his first public speech in seven months.
"Just because we have not found a partner, it does not mean we are not interested in a political solution, but that we did not find a partner," the president said to wild applause in the Dar al-Assad for Culture and Arts in Damascus.
He said the conflict was not one between the government and the opposition but between the "nation and its enemies."
Assad also repeated a concern he has frequently outlined; that his country is being subjected to an unprecedented attack from jihadist elements and says the conflict can only be solved through a popular movement.Read the full story here.