military announced what's called decon fliction, a process where two forces make sure they don't attack each other. al jazeera has been covering it all from the white house to the state department to the pentagon. is this being viewed as a day of serious escalation in the syrian war? >> i don't think there's any doubt and there's still a question as to exactly what vladimir putin is up to in syria. this is not unexpected but the timing is certainly catching u.s. policymakers flat footed as they have over the course of this military buildup in syria with the aim of backing al assad. three reasons why these officials are upset, why the who, and the when. the why, the essential conflict between the u.s. and its allies and vladimir putin. putin wants to back assad. the president obviously sticking by his policy that assad has to go. there's no future for him. you cannot go to the status quo before the civil war which is now in its fifth year. as for the who, a question as to who was under those bombs dropped by 20 russian war planes. putin told the president obama that he wanted to fight ag

it's just the decon fliction problem. they are going to be operating, doing what they dofliction problem. they are going to be operating, doing what they do. i don't think we are going to be in any kind of a confrontation with them but it's going to complicate business and make it difficult to coordinate and if we are working with our coral list partners and alleys in trying to limitis illsil's cape abilities, i don't think the russians are going to be supportive i think it's going to be an interesting challenging set of separations to make sure the two sides don't interfere with one another. there is always the unexped, things that you are unpreddidn'table he would expect things will be scripted and in one way or another, it will limit us because it's just another series of wicketts you have to go through before you can effectively do any ground support for any troops on the ground that may be in contact. >> as somebody that has commanded forces again in complex wars, one of the strikes that russia carried out killed thr

the united states is going after isis, the best you will get is decon fliction. russia filmed the secret video conference and put that film on youtube. so there has been a loss of trust on the air force and the department of defense side on all of these talks. >> back on okay 1st. i want to talk about the report we got late this week about the missiles that were supposed to hit targets in syria but landed in iran. does that speak to as there are so many attacks that there will be some not on target or is there larger commentary considering the new technology russia introduced to this arena? >> it's a little of both. certainly you will have some things stale in combat. what you are talking about russia fired only 26. now, that sound like a lot. but considering some of the things the united states has done, that's a relatively small launch of missiles, 26 of those four crash landed in iran. now, mr. carter, our secretary of defense confirmed that yesterday. it was just a rumor before that. he confirmed we did, in fact, have observation of those missiles failing. so

reporter: one other event from this week is the decon fliction agreement that was signed.enator mccain said it was immoral, basically. we're going to be asking u.s. pilots to steer clear of russian pilots who are bombing opponents of assad. i wonder why you say he's wrong about that and give us a sense of what russia is doing there. mr. carter: the agreement is a very specific one that is aimed at safety of flight for -- that's what it covers. and we concluded that our interest in it was safety of flight for our own pilots. you ask what are the russians doing? what the russians are actually doing is buttressing the assad regime, which is, as i have said, will have the effect of fanning the flames of the civil war, and very few of their strikes have been directed toward isil, which is the reason why they said initially they were getting into the fight. so the russians are on the wrong side of this. in every way. and they're going to contribute o the violence and the tragedy of the civil war that's been going on now for all these years. listen, y'all, it's been a very long w