Today could be a crucial day in the push to rid Syria of chemical weapons.
It's day two of meetings between Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Geneva, Switzerland. A plan could be created Friday, but then again ...
The United Nations is also poised to get involved.
Although Syria's bloody civil war is over two years old, power players from many nations seemed focused on making changes.
Here are the five things to pay attention to today.
1. Nailing down a plan
Lavrov and Kerry take 2. The most talked about chat in the world goes into its second day Friday with many hoping that the two can nail down a blueprint to destroy Syria's chemical weapons.
2. More Putin backlash
Russian President Vladimir Putin may not be America's favorite writer, right now. Putin's opinion piece published Wednesday in the New York Times ruffled some feathers and had at least one U.S. lawmaker looking for a barf bag. The Russian leader's argument against military intervention in Syria brought some response. But his slap at American exceptionalism brought a flurry of U.S. reaction Thursday.
3. More fighting and sadly more deaths
Though the camera seems focused on political spats, and negotiations about Syria, in the country a fierce fight continues.
The opposition Local Coordination Committees of Syria reported that fighting killed at least 94 people across Syria on Thursday, including 24 in Daraa province. This figure includes 27 deaths in Daraa province and another 26 in Aleppo province.
The same group documented shelling that struck nearly 500 locales, along with almost 50 military jet attacks.
The fight continues Friday.
4. So where are these chemical weapons?
And while world powers haggle about what to do with Syria's chemical weapons, a rebel leader is claiming the government's cache of mass destruction is on the move.
Gen. Salim Idriss, head of the opposition Free Syrian Army, says Syria's government is shifting its chemical weapons out of the country.
5. The UN gets closer to weighing in
A greatly anticipated U.N. report on Syria's alleged chemical attack could be coming soon. This development could speed up an international response to Syria
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Thursday that the United Nations report on the August attack in Syria will "probably" be published on Monday, and that there will "certainly be indications" pointing to the origin of the attack.
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