Ahead of today’s resumption of the Geneva II talks on Syria, EA’s Scott Lucas speaks with BBC Radio 5 Live about the likely developments:

Listen to discussion from 11:23 mark

Take-away points:

1. “Almost nothing was taken away from the first round, except from the public-relations point of view, and almost nothing will be accomplished this week.”

2. “What you have is a regime delegation that says the opposition doesn’t represent Syrians, and the opposition says the regime has no authority given the way President Assad has killed its people.”

3. “This situation won’t be resolved politically. It will be settled on the battleground inside Syria.”