as in, "these guys are a bunch of daesh-bags".laughter) the name comes from the arab acronym for "islamic state of iraq and the levant," al-dawla al-islamiya fi al-iraq wa al-sham which just proves the old saying "sticks and stones may break my bones, but i can't pronounce that name." and france is calling them "daesh" because "the group is reported to hate the moniker." so much that "they were threatening to cut out the tongues of anyone who used the phrase publicly." ooooh! see me shake, daesh? you are going down! or my name's not jimmy fallon! (cheers and applause) nation, as you know, i've dedicated my life to hunting the elusive bigfoot. finding this noble cryptid would provide answers to so many unresolved questions -- is nature truly knowable? what are the origins of man? what wine pairs best with sasquatch meat? (laughter) of course, the legend of bigfoot began in the subject of the 79th installment of my 434-part series, better know a district. tonight: california's second. the fightin' second! (cheers and applause) the s

these images show kurdish fighters inside syria tribe to push isil or daesh as they're called. >> wewill help them to fight daesh. >> even though there are families here crossing back into syria, the majority are men who say they're determined to protect their homes and their land. kurdish leaders have called for international help to confront isil. the people say no one is helping them. many civilians are taking matters in their own hands. they say they've been left with no other choice. stephanie decker, al jazeera, on the turke turkey border. >> clearly from stephanie's reporting there, you've got a mixture of emotions and many of ththoughts. >> tanks has swept through 200 villages late last week. yes, we're seeing people that stephanie highlighted going back to syria perhaps visiting or leaving their wives here in turkey, and moving back to syria to fight. but they do not think that what they can do will be enough to defeat isil. they don't think what the u.s. is doing is enough to defeat. there is a notion that isil is too strong to defeat so long as the rules of the game are wh

that strikes will be launched against the daesh terrorist organization in raqqa. daesh is an arabic term for isis. the city of raqqa is isis' itself declared capital. there's been heavy fighting between syria and isis in the past few weeks as we've been reporting. when president obama told the nation 12 days ago that the strikes would happen in syria, syrian officials said without its government's consent it would be considered an act of aggression. whether syria and the syria envoy gave its consent at the u.n. remains unclear. syria's deputy prime minister, by the way, is in new york for the u.n. general assembly and is scheduled to speak on sunday followed by israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and coincidentally today israel shot down a syrian fighter jet that apparently strayed into israeli air space. as i mentioned at the top, syria has been battling anti-government rebel forces to the south along the israel/syrian border, and along with while fighting isis to the north so it's, it has fights on several fronts at this point. it doesn't look like that fi

da daesh is an arabic word for isis. raqqa has been isis's self declared capital it's in the northern part of syria. when president obama told the nation 12 days ago the strikes would happen in syria officials said without the government consent it would be considered an act of aggression. whether syrian representatives gave the government consent at the u.n really is unclear. he is scheduled to speak on monday followed by israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. coincidentally israel shot down a fighter jet that strayed into the airspace along the border. syrian government has been fighting rebel forces anti syrian forces for the past couple of weeks on the border in the goal<  lon heights there. that has nothing to do. that's an isolated incident from the u.s. air strikes from the northern part of the country. in terms of president bashar al-assad speak, he probably won't based on the last couple months. but we are 7 hours ahead in the middle east compared to new york. if anything comes out it will likely come out t

has given an interesting reason for abandoning the term isis, they say isis blurs the line and say daesher word. are there similar calls to call isis something different in other countries, ben? >> there's been talk of calling it the islamic state group, simply to reduce it to something less than the level of a state. many critics say it is neither islamic, certainly true, and it really doesn't constitute a state because nobody recognizes it even though they have been successful to a certain extent setting up an administration in the areas that it rules. but certainly to call it the islamic state does sort of fly in the face of reality. >> crystal, i must say, and i'm surprised i'm saying it, i like the way the french think on this one. what do you say? >> i give the french an a plus plus on this. as ben pointed out, the fact that we can offend this group of terrorists and cold blooded killers is a good thing. i think the last time i counted we've had three or four iterations for a group that is in no way representative of muslims and islamists all over the world. soy think we should fol

have been told as well by the americans and other allies, their only interest to crush isis, to crush daeshricans have not told you they're going after anyone else even as collateral. >> they told the world publicly their plan is not to intervene into syria but to stop this disease. >> reporter: you talk about it as a disease. and clearly it has threatened your current in a way that is very, very serious. how do you cope with this pressure that is now on you because you are the man upon whom this strategy rests to form political reconciliation, to have some kind of political outcome? personally, how are you taking this pressure? >> well, there's a lot of pressure, i agree. being prime minister. and according to the iraqi constitution he's the highest executive and he happen to be the commander in chief of the armed forces. this is a huge task. especially when i can see isis forces very close to baghdad. they are threatening some vicinity of baghdad. although we've managed to push them back. baghdad is securie at the momen. but other areas are very, very under attack. there are about 30% of

damascus to bagdad, from the eastern-most to the western-most parts of the world from al qaeda to daeshextremists of the world have found each other and put out the call. extremists of the world unite, but are we united against the extremists? are we united against the extremists? does that include iran. let's talk about that with cnn global affairs analyst bobby ghosh. what do you make of that comment by the iranian president? >> he's trying to have it both ways. he represents the regime with the longest history of supporting terrorist groups. when he talks of ex-trialists he'd like us not to think of hezbollah and hamas. he wants us to think of sunni groups. he represents a shiite regime. he's being fast and loose with the facts to suggest the world is not united, certainly not united with him while he's supporting these terrorist groups. >> fareed zakaria sat down and talked with him. he told fareed arming these syrian rebels would only create a new terrorist group and america would be responsible for that. >> again, same thing. he has sent his proxies, hezbollah to fight for bashar

. >> so you're fine with these strikes inside syria and inside iraq, against daesh, against the islamicare yourself that islamic groups are always on the move, they're constantly and highly mobile, they're not an organized army that can be damaged heavily or considerably through aerial bombardments. we need a vast campaign of operations. two, three, four, a dozen, two, three dozen of aerial bombardments is probably insignificant against their installations and compounds. the aerial bombardments have more the form of a psychological than succeeding. so it's mostly a form of theater rather than a serious battle against terrorism. >> and joining us to share his experience is the cnn military analyst, colonel rick francona. and from london, lina ka katib. lina, you recently wrote a piece stating that air strikes will not be effective. why do you believe that? >> air strikes, as the iranian president has pointed out, would be effective if you have, for example, an organized army with recognized air bases. but isis is an organization that works on the ground and it's deeply embedded in the ci