. >> locations of al quaeda are the locations of isil. isil is the main arm of al quaeda. that's why hitting the al quaeda locatio locations or the extremists helping isil is the main goal and the main target again. russia today is leading the regional and international efforts to fight isil and to fight all the terrorist extremist organizations that are helping daish today. >> james bays is at the u.n. asking who specifically russia was targeting in syria. >>reporter: the u.s. coalition says it's fighting isil. with your air strikes, you now say your military is targeting terrorists. can you be specific first in addition to isil which specific groups in syria do you believe to be terrorists? >> well, if it looks like a terrorist, acts like a terrorist, walks like a terrorist, fights like a terrorist, it's a terrorist; right? i would recall that we always were saying that we are going to fight isil and other terrorist groups. this is the same position america is taking. the representation of the command. the targets are isil, al nusra, and other terrorist groups. this is b

a man who spent 14 years in guantanamo bay, since 2002, as a suspected member of al quaeda. he never faced any criminal charges and was cleared for release back in 2009 but his release was repeatedly delayed. 113 prisoners are still being held there. 6,000 federal inmates get out early starting tomorrow because of a 2014 change in policy by the u.s. sentencing commission. it reduces minimum sentencing guidelines by nonviolence drug offenders. most will be deported. most others are already living in halfway houses or under home confinement. arson and insurance fraud. >> i haven't gotten a penny from insurance but i didn't do either one of them. >> fullers defense lawyers gave her a l detector test. she passeded. but going to trial might risk 30 years behind bars. >> they kept threatening me. >> something she says aggressive prosecutors don't let her forget. >> you would have never left if you went in for 30 years. your life was over. >> it would have been the end of that. across the united states, only a tiny fraction of defendants actually go on trial. in the from system, 97

have also made clear that we would have grave concerns should russia strike areas where isil and al quaeda affiliated targets are not operating. strikes of that kind would question russia's real intentions fighting isil or protecting the assad regime. >> and, mike, ash carter held what seemed to be a pretty long and detailed brief, reporters today as well. >> this gets to the when question and it really points out the friction now that exists between the u.s. and russia not only between the president, president obama and president putin which is in such obvious display on monday at the united nations but also between their respective militaries. it turns out that a russian officer went to the american embassy in baghdad not one hour before the russian planes took off and issued a demarsh. simply asserting the fact that russian airplanes were going to be taking off and u.s.-led coalition aircraft should simply get out of the way. this was the reaction from ash carter at the pentagon. >> this is not the kaiser permanented of behavior that -- kind of behavior that we should expect professiona

one is the international religiously inspired threat that we think of regarding al quaeda and isil. then there's domestic threats such as the sovereign militia for example. neo nazis. also to some degree eco terrorists. >> we don't really see a lot of groups but we see a lot of lone actors across the country that interact with one another on the internet and carry out their actions independently. there's a lot of people throughout the country. >> andy says that's where this new department could end up playing a vital role. >> specifically because they're lone actors and it's so difficult to crack they. some kind of coordination between the federal, state, and local levels is particularly important because the information is so difficult to piece together unlike structured groups where one can to some degree crack them down easier. the lone actors are much more difficult to identify and monitor. >>> the fbi director says the issue of home grown terrorist recruitment by isil is widespread and goes on in this country 24 hours a day right across the united states. he's said this about i

however, the terrorist organizations which is al quaeda and isis obstructed our process and brought death and destruction to people and infrastructure. the u.n. has raised the palestinian prague for the first time. it's a moment of symbolic importance. the palestinian president used his speech at the u.n. general assembly to attack intoxilyzer reel for what he saw as a breach of the oslow accords. the agreement was meant to provide a basis for peace. >>reporter: raised for the first time at the united nations, the flag of the state of palestine following a decision by the u.n. general assembly observer states, there are two, palestine, and the holy city, are now allowed to fly their national flags. the ceremony was attended by the president of palestine and the u.n. secretary general. >> i sincerely hope that a successful peace process will soon heal. among the family of nations as a sovereign member state of the united nations. >> however, the political process to lead to that day is deadlocked. in his speech the president put all the blame on the israelis. he said he needed to raise the

. >> we would have grave concerns should russia strike areas where isil and al quaeda affiliated targets are not operating. >> meeting in new york monday, president obama and his russian counterpart vladimir putin pledged to work to avoid accidental conflict between u.s. and russian war planes in the skies above syria but before those talks got off the ground, russia launched its strikes. perhaps the biggest source of friction, russia's stated reason for military intervention in syria, to support al assad. president obama insists assad has no role in syria's future. >> russia is not going to be successful inside of syria and they'll be no more successful in that regard than the united states was in imposing military solution in iraq in the last decade. >> and antonio, top officials at the pentagon, white house, and state department today all insisting that despite the russian air campaign, coalition air strikes now numbering more than 7,000 will continue. antonio. >> palestinian president expressed frustration today with the lack of progress on a peace deal with israel telling the u.n. g

. >> the pentagon says it's killed the leader of an al quaeda affiliate. he's been reported that previously there but it's also reported that the saudi national was killed in u.s. strikes on friday >>> the pentagon says he was killed near the northern syrian town of dana. he helped channel money to syria. >> u.s. and afghan officials are still investigating an american air strike on a hospital run by doctors without borders which killed 22 patients and staff. the charity says it wants an independent investigation. something the sast resisting. jennifer glass has more from kabul. >>reporter: the attack came in the middle of the night on october 3rd and reduced the hospital to ruins. about 180 staff and patients were inside the hospital when a u.s. gun ship launched an assault that lasted for over an hour. >> the level of destruction is terrible. all parts of the hospital have been -- all the main parts of the hospital have been attacked and destroyed. the part we're in now caught fire. >> some patients were burned to death in their beds. staff and relatives

. >>> an air strike has reportedly killed a top al quaeda commander in syria. he died in a northern syrian town. it's not sure whether he was killed by u.s. strikes against isil or russia. that area is home to many anti-assad rebel groups. today russias prime minister offered to discuss military goals with syria with other nations including the u.s. >> they should be discussed with russia, the united states, and all other states who have a stake in seeing peace in this region abe strong government too. it does not matter who will be at the helm. we don't want isis to run syria. it should be a civilized government. we need to discuss this. >> russia began its air strikes more than two weeks ago. the u.s. and its coalition have been bombing isil for more than a year >>> indias prime minister is feeling pressure to intervene in a rape crisis that is spreading fear in the capital. this half two children were attacked in the past few days. >>reporter: a police forensics team works on site. another grim crime scene but with a deference. a young child is said to have