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jamie mcintire is at the pentagon, jamie. >> john you might think with russia now bombing i.s.i.l. held territory in syria that the u.s. might be able to coordinate and cooperate with russia to defeat a common foe. but today here at the pentagon a military spokesman laid out why the u.s. has deep reservations about what he called russia's reckless and irresponsible bombing campaign. >>> the pentagon says it's not just who russia's targeting but how the air strikes are carried out. with unguided bombs and sloppy targeting that the pentagon argues shows little respect for syrian citizens. cold war era heavy bombers, baghdad ridiculed as antiquated. >> putting ten ships in the air at one time or 12 or even more, very old fashioned and those are the type of tactics needed only if you don't possess the technology, the skills and the capabilities to conduct the type of precision strikes that our coalition conducts. >> contrasted the russian bombardment against u.s. fuel trucks that were essentially sitting ducks, parked near the southeast border with iraq. destroyed 100 of the trucks in

but first we talk to jamie mcintire live at the pentagon and jamie was the latest on the investigation? >> reporter: david, as the investigation continues into crash of metro jet 9268, mechanical failure hasn't been ruled out but the increasing possibility that an explosion caused by a bomb on board was what caused the plane to break up in the air. moscow dropped its criticism for britain for cancelling its service to sharm el sheikh, and promptly followed suit. president putin cancelled sair flights tairflights to anywhere. in his most recent comment on his crash, are president obama told there was a possible bomb on board but the white house is still not saying what the u.s. intelligence agencies have learned. >> we have not made our own determination as to the cause of the incident however we cannot rule anything out including the possibility of terrorist involvement. >> the u.s. is joining other countries to take up steps to beef up security, something that would follow an attack as opposed to an accident. homeland security jeh johnson said would add an additional layer of security

that said we have no plans to conduct coordinated operations with the russians. >> jamie mcintire, al jazeera, the pentagon. >>> i.s.i.l. says it has executed two captives, official in norway are still trying to confirm the execution, but beijing says one of the victims was a chinese citizen. and china has promised to bring to justice those responsible for his murder. david cullkullen has served as chief strategist, former lieutenant colonel in the australian army, david good to have you with us. you've argued that dealing with i.s.i.l. as a counterterrorism effort is a mistake that it needs to be dealt with more as a war with an enemy state. how would that work if i.s.i.l. isn't a conventional army? >> on the ground in iraq and syria it very much is a conventional army. it has hundreds of tanks, uses suicide bombers much as a conventional army uses artillery and in a conventional way. what i have argued is it operates in three levels, within iraq and syria we are very much dealing with a state like adversary that needs to be targeted as a state. but of course as we have just seen in

jamie mcintire, al jazeera the pentagon. >> rescue crews are searching for survivors through debris water and mud flooded the rod of bento rodriguez destroying more than 200 homes. residents say no alarms sounded to warn them of the dam breaks. >>> the iron site is owned by the world's largest mining company, bhp billeton. >>> citizens in myanmar, votes could finally put a democratic government in power after a generation of control by military leaders. al jazeera's scott heidler has more from yangon. >> with campaigning coming the a halt myanmar is now hours away from heading to the vote, a historic vote the whole world is watching. over the past two months, most of the cities have seen extensive voting. something the 50 million people here have not witnessed in a quarter of a century. especially the national league for democracy the party of the nobel laureate aung san suu kyi. the party boycott of the 2010 election a year before the transition to the current somewhat civilian government. but daw tontanu did participate as a founding member of the democracy party, one of 90 parties part

>> jamie mcintire reporting from washington. to bell jump where authorities have begun to lift the long do you recognize in brussels. the capitol is still on high alert. tight execute was evident today as schools, shops and the metro system re-opened after being closed for four days. officials say the extra measures will stay in places while authorities search for suspects linked to the paris attacks. the american banned eagles of death metal was playing in paris when it was attacked earlier this month. the group described the scene in an interview vice. >> i thought it was the pa cranking up, and then i realized real quick that it wasn't. >> i recognized what it was. at that time, jessie ran towards me. we went in the corner of the stage. we weren't sure if they were targeting us or what was going on, you know. boo, who is also on the crew. i guess he saw the gunman like run, cartridge ran out. he took it out to put another .1 in and that was like, let's go. neil 90 people died inside the club, including the band's merchandisin

. >> jamie mcintire at the pentagon. >>> while they still don't know how the attacks were planned, paulan is here with a look back how the group took over from large parts of syria and how the rest of the world is responding. >> we'll go back to april 2013 where after two years of civil war the leader of al qaeda in syria, abu bakr al-baghdadi declared the islamic state in syria, what we call i.s.i.s. or i.s.i.l. i.s.i.l. began capturing territory in syria and in june 2013 took mosul. at that time, i.s.i.l. controlled territory the size of jordan, a lot of space. the u.s. launched its first air strikes against i.s.i.l. after it pushed deeper into iraqi kurdistan, and those attacks continued after i.s.i.l. beheaded james foley and steve sotloff. the city of kobani fell to the kurds in february, 2013 after being controlled by i.s.i.l. for months. but by july of this year, the number of refugees fleeing syria topped 4 million, at least 6 million more had actually fled their homes inside syria but stayed in the country and some 250,000 had died in the fighting. now at the end of september t

but first we talk to jamie mcintire live at the pentagon and jamie was the latest on the investigation? >> reporter: david, as the investigation continues into crash of metro jet 9268, mechanical failure hasn't been ruled out but the increasing possibility that an explosion caused by

jamie mcintire, al jazeera, pentagon. >>> former fbi special agent and joins us from los angeles. errol very good to have you with us. the egyptians and the russians are still resisting confirming this was terrorism but the russians have suspended all flights not just to sharm el sheikh but to all of egypt. >> there is certainly some actual intelligence they've got. they understand there's going to be a significant economic impact in terms of terrorism -- i'm sorry in terms of tour ism if they do that. i am convinced there's certainly an improvised be exploifer devicexplosive dwiefhere's . >> why is it taking so long to confirm whether a bomb was on the 42 it or not? >> they're going to have to look at flight recorders, put together components that were discovered at the crash scene, they are vetting all the passengers on board and the crew and everybody who had access to that plane. before they go out and actually say there was a device on that plane they have to be 100% sure they have got all the forensic evidence they need make that determination. >> the european airliners that