of course. >> jean-charles, let me go back to nick paton walsh. you're learning more information about the strikes? >> reporter: according to the french defense ministry, a recruitment center and ammunition storage base were amongst the first target and the second target was a training camp. all were destroyed they say. 12 aircraft were used, 10 of which were involved in the bombing. i would imagine the other two were involved perhaps fuel resupply and total of 20 bombs were dropped. accurate information from the french side about what they expected to have been hit here. we'll have to work out what the reaction has been on the ground in raqqa, how they choose to exploit or report this attack. but it is interesting to see that level of munitions dropped by the french who have been a participant in coalition air strikes but not of course the main driving force. is this part of a broader french strategy? i doubt that, that's going to take a large amount of planning to implement. it's like a visceral understandable reaction. but are we also going to

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we have our senior international correspondent nick paton walsh live by phone.ou have been inside sinjar to see for yourself. >> reporter: remarkable devastation. let me explain how we got there. earlier today, large numbers of peshmerga arrived to make the move to the west as well. hundreds of them on foot moving in toward the city center. they moved in on isis positions and also at one point, this city has been riddled with explosive devices by isis. everywhere you look, there is some suggestion you could be near a mine of some sort. that has slowed the process of peshmerga. they do now appear to be closer toward the city center as there is minimal gun fire at this stage. i heard one loud sustained burst. i don't know if it is celebratory or if isis is fighting back. they are still inside the city. i heard from an official and fighting is all around. a volunteer i spoke to called jason talks about how they were treating the patients. the key question is how can you get people back who live there? you have to clear the mines and rebuild the city. this is a yazi

the graduate student who stopped eating to get his point across john butler and paton head. john, you stopped eating last week. i'm wondering were you surprised how quickly the president stepped down and now the chancellor? >> you know, i wouldn't say that i was surprised about the president stepping down and the chancellor. honestly, it should have happened earlier before the hunger strike just because former um system president tim wolf had a track record since he's been in office of just being negligent and not really performing the key roles of his duty at the um system president. i reiterated this all day but we should have never gotten to this point. >> paton, for those who do not go to the university of missouri, can you explain what the campus university atmosphere is like for african american students? >> especially at this time it's very tense. it is unsafe. and i think that's one of the main reasons why we have been calling for leadership in a time where students have been saying over and over and we feel unsafe and unincluded in this campus community. as student

we have nick paton walsh embedded in the peshmerga forces in sinjar.nd christine, behind me in the distance, you can see the grain silo of sinjar was formerly at the change of hands. it is now clearly in the hands of the kurds. we have seen some of them on the roof a few moments ago. we have been down in the city in the past few hours. it is desolate rubble. littered with roadside bombs and booby traps. as you pointed heavy gun fire could be heard. earlier today, large columns of peshmerga troops came in on foot converging on the center. clashes on the pockets of isis. we don't know the numbers inside the city. there appear to be significantly less. it has combatively been quiet. for instance, what will they face with the booby traps. how much of a victory has this been? they moved in within 48 hours with peshmerga with the assistance of the air strikes of the coalition. now they have control of sinjar, a town torn from yazidi from isis last year and strategically sat on the vital highway between two major isis towns. iraq and mosul. now sinjar it seem

senior correspondent nick paton walsh joins us by phone outside sinjar.egy here. what's the latest? >> reporter: at this stage, we are hear extraordinary blasts in the last 20 minutes. the direction of the town of sinjar is creating a strain. this is the main route. now, there appears to have been some advantage here. we cannot say exactly where we are because of the conditions as we agreed to be with the peshmerga forces as they advance. we have seen intense fighting along the main road. we see the peshmerga has put themselves upon it. at one particular point to the west and in control to some degree in that area. there have been enormous amounts of air power dropped on a town further to the west which we suspect is where isis has their position. intense fighting along the area here. the peshmerga in large numbers, 7,500 forces here. they are able to corroborate that with the idea. sinjar is important because of the fate of the yizidis held there. also because of the main route. the goal is to take the road and cut off mosul from isis. the hope of this o

but we should have never gotten to this point. >> paton, for those who do not go to the university of missouri, can you explain what the campus university atmosphere is like for african american students? >> especially at this time it's very tense. it is unsafe. and i think that's one of the main reasons why we have been calling for leadership in a time where students have been saying over and over and we feel unsafe and we feel unincluded in this campus community. as student body president, that is my job. i bring these issues to our administration so they can address them. what i've seen over the course of my year in office here at the university of missouri is a lack of response, a lack of concern for these issues that marginalize students have been bringing to the attention of um administration for years. >> john, just on a personal level, when you were not eating, i mean, to go on this hunger strike, did you have any doubts at any point? >> i don't think i had any doubts because for me, i never took it as a deficit approach. a lot of people know how corrupt the system is and they

our cnn correspondent nick paton walsh is live. nick, this is a major offensive of the thousands of forces. give us the latest. >> reporter: they say it began last night at 9:00 in the evening local time. we heard the intensity throughout the night. lighting up the sky of coalition air strikes. that has continued during the day. the skyline behind me and i cannot give you the exact location has been lit up with black smoke and gray smoke from the strikes. this column of peshmerga troops are moving further down toward in the distance to what you barely see is the main road at the heart of the offensive. there is a symbolic victory that they want to take sinjar from isis. the yizidis fled to the mountains. and sinjar is vitally important. it runs route 47. that as you said is the artery between mosul and iraq and syria. they can cut that off, but that could significantly damage, even the pentagon admits it could harm the oil trade. now here further away from me, there is heavy fighting. we heard small arms, mortars and clearly isis d

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nick paton walsh is close to the action.ng his exact location. >> anderson, intense air strikes over raqqah a nightly occurrence. we're hearing from activists inside that city, caliphates, self-declared capitol they heard a number of blasts and two targets have been hit, fuel truck and brick factory. they say they have first time it seems since the uptick in air strikes against raqqah being seven civilian casualties in that one blast and eight injured, as well. we can't verify that independently but these have been reliable in the past. we don't know who is behind what blast when. the coalition, russians and syrian regime are in action over the skies there, too, but raqqah bearing the blunt of intense bombardment. the question how did these targets get chosen? the u.s. says sometimes it requires vetting, sometimes these targets pop unop one day t civilians not allowed to leave, many by isis are clearly at risk here as this bombardment intensifies and here inside syria the question continues to echo and amplify what about som

we just heard from nick paton walsh that the first civilian casualties came in last night. a lot of civilians were killed. does that hurt our cause there? >> you know, it does. i think the people in washington now, the administration are casualty adverse. but you can't operate in a sterile environment. you have to take adequate precautions and take the most precautions you can. i think we're going to see an increase in civilian casualties as the russians and french are involved. i think i heard indications today from the secretary of defense that we're going to be relooking at the rules of engagement. i think we will see increased sorties going in. that is a by-product of what we're doing. >> sadly civilian casualties are a part of it. the median unit says that they have suffered no casualties. do you believe them? >> not at all, don. clearly when you look at the volume of attacks that have taken place on the heels of the events in paris, there really has been a very strong effort and some real destruction that's taken place in terms of isis. and we've heard from intelligen

nick paton walsh from just outside of sin yar. >> -- sinjar there. and great job. and president obama today called isis detained, but not decapitated. >> from the start, our goal is to contain them. we have contained them. they have not gained ground in ir iraq, and in syria, they will come in and leave, but you don't see the systemic march by isil across the terrain. what we have not seen is to comple completely decapitate their command and control structures. >> let me get michael weiss in here, and also retired three-star general mark hertling and paul cruikshank our terrorist analyst, and michael, begin with you, and people around the world, jihadi john was the face of isis, and killing him is one man, but there has to be a lot of value to the psychological warfare that the coalition just inflicted. >> yeah. mohammed emwazi had been repurchased, because he had idiomatic english, and so it was terrifying to have someone speaking in our own language to say this is what would befall any infidel who waged war against the isis, and he is blamed for the beheading of

clearly not sufficient. >> nick paton walsh, what can you tell us about the targets? >> reporter: there is some degree of cohesion from what we're hearing from raqqa, well known anti-isis activist group inside raqqa, talking about the clinical hospital, stadium and political building being hit. those names just people at home are not concerned, do not necessarily correlate between what the buildings still do now. the french defense ministry statement, ammunition storage base being hit could well corroborate those particular buildings. they often take over places and use them for entirely different tasks than they used to have before. they are also talking about 30 strikes isis is suggesting something similar has occurred. this has been extraordinarily bad evening in raqqa in terms of bombardment. and of course, we're also hearing from isis sources that they claim no one is in fact being hit because the places they hit have been vacated for some period of time. we'll never know if that's really the case. the key question of course you have to ask, there is a visceral r

we go nick paton walsh, and you were there, and the kurds were moving quickly and got the u.s. air strike assistance, and so where does it go from here? >> the question is, i think, is this a new momentum on behalf of the peshmerga working in coordination with other group, but the remarkable as e set of the coalition air power and so persistent and effective over the last two days, to ush her in the extraordinarily quick victory for the peshmerga. is this new momentum doing to point them into the west of sinjar, raqqah, the capital of the self-declared caliphate or off to the east, and mosul is the next target, and that the peshmerga leader announced the liberation of sinjar, he said that they would assist in the operation against mosul, and it is vital, because it is sitting from buy yee ji, baiji to baghdad. the picture we got today is not june ver s-- the picture we got today is not universal, and the building everywhere is damaged, and everywhere you look, roadside bombs and booby traps, and some bombs hiding in barrel, and there was a fear that some isis had been disguisin

and our nick paton walsh is right in the middle of it all. >> reporter: since 9:00 yesterday evening local time, they have been moving towards the town of sinjar. we ourselves from the top of mt. sinjar heard the constant coalition air strikes. evidence now still today around us as they claim substantial process. the kurds say to the west of sinjar, they have taken a village called ar carbara which many say is on the route here. vitally important because many want to see it back in the yazi there, pushed out into captivity. it sat, that town, sinjar, on a vital artery, a vital road between the self-declared caliphate capital ar raqqar, syria. many, including the coion, central command actually, pentagon officials, believe if they sever that artery, they can severely hamper isis' ability to make money out of the black market oil trade. now, that may be why we're hearing so much coalition air power in the skies. a succession of heavy blasts. that road itself is in the distance here. i can't tell you precisely where we are, as part of being with their peshmerga forces. but those peshmer

our senior international reporter nick paton walsh has just returned from the front lines of syria. nick is joining us live. tell us what you saw and the situation on the ground. >> well, from where we were about 20 miles a wai way from t main city oraqqah which isis is declaring the capital of the caliphate, it is clear that there are a small number of kurdish fighters. and we have heard a large number of explosions report, and still in raqqah, they were saying four missile missiles in total hitting the western part of raqqa, and claim they were russian but yet it is hard to tell how you would define that and go on to tell that isis fired four missiles of their own, and homemade missiles to what is referred to on the front lines as katyushas. and you will hear more of the front line report, wolf. >> and have you heard of any turkish or other air strikes in and around raqqah? >> without a doubt. certainly, there have been no question the last four days, there have been a significant uptick in the number of air strike, and that is visible from the front lines, and everybody that we s

our senior international correspondent nick paton walsh is on the ground for us in iraq. he's very near to this whole sinjar area, closely following what's going upon nick, describe what you have seen because i understand it is very dramatic. >> from the early hours this morning, wolf, we saw an enormous column of peshmerga we followed around towards the west of the city. that's key because it seems that's where much of the advance today were made by them. their main objective, the peshmerga want to retake sinjar, want to reverse what happened to the yazidi population that happened last year when isis moved in. the main route goes from mosul in iraq where isis have a key city to raqqah in syria which is the company apital of their self-declared caliphate. it seems today they now have the road. we left them there, with a series of bull dotzers digging in huge trenches, putting in a number of ramp, the aim being, cut it off permanently, prevent isis from moving. an extraordinarily paerilous da because they faced a lot of resistance from isis. they sent a number of car bombs

many many of them want to go back. >> nick paton walsh, thank you so much.or us in iraq. >>> still ahead on cnn, a utah judge orders a 1-year-old child out of a foster home where she's lived for months and months. why, because her foster parents are gay. details on this controversial case. [ male announcer ] whether it takes 200,000 parts, ♪ 800,000 hours of supercomputing time, 3 million lines of code, 40,000 sets of eyes, or a million sleepless nights. whether it's building the world's most advanced satellite, the space station, or the next leap in unmanned systems. at boeing, one thing never changes. our passion to make it real. ♪ our passion to make it real. i'm looking to get a new iphone for my son. oh, we have it, and right now you can get 15 gigs for the price of 10. oh, good, because he goes through data like crazy. oh! there's my boy who's lookin' for a new iphone... he goes through data like crazy? yeah, yeah. data, streaming, texting, emailing, loves watching football games. oh yeah? who's your favorite team? he texts, he doesn't talk. that would

we have nick paton walsh who is in irbil.m syria we've been reporting from jim sciutto and other where is dozens of air strikes have been carried out in the isis stronghold of raqqah. nick, you are in irbil. there's been a lot of movement against isis in some of the areas there. what do you know about what's going on now? >> well, christiane, we are hearing both from a dependable organization inside of raqqah and also in up with hour alone there have been 30 air strikes against raqqah. now, the precise locations aren't entirely clear now, but raqqah -- a hospital, political building, to benchpotentially a that have been hit. i mention those names because since isis has taken over that may have changed entirely in carc trysting what though buildings do. of course we've seen air strikes like this similar in the past, seen so many air strikes against raqqah but of course typing question and i think has many wondering whether this is in relation to paris or maybe those who have been observing isis targets inside of raqqah in the

now our senior international correspondent nick paton walsh is with the peshmerga forces.the latest on the bombing from erbil. >> reporter: it is difficult to find out what was hit inside syria. one of our sources risked his life to tell us what he knows. the first report was known as the clinical hospital and other stadiums. those are names given to building s taken over by isis. and close to a source, these are headquarters and jails used by isis. you have to look at this targeting with a degree of skepticism because it has happened so fast and hot on the heels of what happened in paris. clearly these targets may have been known for the united states for some time. they had jets over the skies of raqqah for so long now. for french air force to bomb may be too much of an opportunity to be entirely credible. this provides the french public and francois hollande the viceral reaction. we have no idea what effect this has, but it gives a clear message that france's military is so much more in the game than it has been before. other key questions are, of course, is this the be

you heard nick paton walsh restaura reports the deaths. how much would it matter if this plane was shot out of the sky or these pilots were shot as they were coming down or on the ground? >> i don't know because russian propaganda has gone into override painting turkey as the financier, the ally and the vetter of isis. if putin was to pursue a low level aerial warfare with turkey, it's important to remember that turkey can do a lot of damage to russia. not only along the border region with rebels answering to kwooutly, but also in krocrimea where you have people linked to turkey and could turkey play with them. that's a possibility. right now crimea has its electricity completely cut off proit'sers in ukraine. the other pressure point is a russian occupied area of georgia where again, the ethnicity there is linked in to turkey and lots of possibilities for turkey to sort of play with things there. turkey has the option to try to blockade the black sea through istanbul. turkey chs held back from any kind of sanctions on russia during the wa

i want to go to our senior international correspondent nick paton walsh. he's right near the front lines of this fight to retake sinjar. nick, tell us what you've been seeing where you are. >> reporter: concerted push from 9:00 yesterday, wolf, in the evening. beginning really in the early hours of the morning. we were with the peshmerga, large numbers of them backed by u.s. planes in the air as they moved around to the west of the city aiming themselves at that key supply route. here's what we saw. the sun broke bringing with it a vast trail of peshmerga pushing for a new dawn of their own against isis. crawling around the back of mt. sinjar. their advance long expected and aimed here at sinjar's western flank. isis beaten back by dozens of coalition air strikes, barely a local vehicle left standing. they've asked for new weapons, but used what they had facing traps all around. their mortars and continued air strikes had one key target, the highway that runs through sinjar. in just afternoon they took it, starving isis' east of supplies from syria. isis a

i want to begin with nick paton walsh, who is joining us this morning from erbil, iraq. what's the latest on the new threat from isis? >> well, it is very much r relevant to the usual language, goading on the enemies but referencing the attacks in paris, saying they wish to make a similar assault in washington, the u.s. capital. >> translator: we say to the countries that participate in the crusader campaign, i swear to god, a similar day that france went through, you will go through. i swear to god as we struck france and its stronghold paris, we will strike america and its stronghold, washington. with god's will. >> now, they have consistently made similar threats. this carries all the logos, the hallmarks of the usual isis propaganda. it's the timing, anderson, this renewed threat that's important. in the hours since the attacks, they have worked hard to get these people on camera, to put this together, to make it clear that they are actually wanting this fight. that's always been the isis message. apocalyptic beckoning on the end of days, despite the coalition air po

nick paton walsh, appreciate it.et's bring in bob bear, former cia officer and national security analyst and retired air force analyst rick francona. these air strikes, are they enough, do you believe? >> anderson, i think they prove to be useless. we have been bombing groups for 14 years and the move thes are expanding. yes, we have them on the run in northern iraq and the rest of it but at the end of the day, these move thments don't care and you can't behead with bomb strikes and drone strikes. this is a ban dade on a gaping wound and at the end of the day, it's not going to get us anything. i don't see why it would work now and i don't think the french will have any butter luck than we've had. >> and yet, obviously, colonel franco francona, the concern about large forces or increase of u.s. forces on the ground which is to president obama's point that it makes the u.s. more the focus of isis attacks and perhaps alienates more people on the ground. >> well, that said and i'll go along with who bob said. these atta

john. >> nick paton walsh in irbil, iraq. there are civilians trapped in the bombardment zones. i can only imagine the terror they are going through. a complex situation in syria with so many countries involved militarily with very different strategic interests. >> it will increase the refugee problem from that country. 4 million and counting. >> you are watching cnn. thanks for being with us. the special coverage. the attacks in paris sparked a push to combat isis. after the break, we will look at how the u.k. is stepping up its own efforts. >>> welcome back to paris. i'm john berman along with hala gorani in the plaza de la republique. you can see the pictures of the eiffel tower lit up in the tri-colors. this was stunning. i can tell you it was emotional. i saw people with tears in their eyes as they gazed at that lit up as i have never seen before. >> for several days, the eiffel tower went dark. you have it the colors of the french flag. the monument is open to tourists again. paris says it will be lit up in the colors of the tri-coal on tuesday and wednesday. >> amazing to

that is a problem. >> thank you, nick paton walsh and bobby ghosh.e will have much more of the breaking news when we come back. innovative sonicare technology with up to 27% more brush movements versus oral b. get healthier gums in 2 weeks guaranteed. innovation and you. philips sonicare save when you buy the most loved rechargeable toothbrush brand in america. >>> more than two dozen states here in the united states are refusing to accept syrian refugees which is part of the backlash of the terrorist attacks in paris. critics say that terroristists could be among the refugees and you can't vet them in advance. donald trump blasted the president's plan to take in new syrian refugees and questioned his sanity. >> refugees are pour into our country from syria, and we don't know who they r and they could be isis or anybody. what is our president doing? is he insane? >> wow. democratic governor jack markel is here from delaware, and donald trump says that is he insane, and so i suppose he would ask you sh, are you insan? >> the refugees from syria are th

nick paton walsh is joining us now. he is inside, and i dont n't kn if you heard what the prosecutor has said, but you have done a lot of work reporting on the ringleader abaaoud abdelhamid, and the suspicion was that he was in syria some place with the leader of isis apparently a abubakar baghdadi, and give us with what information you can. >> well, the information this you can pick up inside of syria about the whereabouts of abaaoud abdelhamid, and i can tell you what was known about his past here. he was stopped back in 2014 thought to have at that stage joined isis, and may have traveled to the region earlier, and a number of notable appearances of him in the jihadist media here, and one troubling one that involved him dragging corpses behind a pickup truck. he is expect ted to have lived according to some media reports at a lavish village in aleppo, and also developed an alternate identity here inside of syria of abu u mar al baliki, and then there were reports that he may have been killed in october, because his f

cnn international correspondent nick paton walsh has been taking paul as close as you can get to isis' headquarters in raqqah, syria. these pictures are extremely difficult and very dangerous to obtain. he was able to join up with some kurdish fighters who have a defensive line in place just in case a ground invasion breaks out, and it is moment by moment. all of this as france and russia have been stepping up the air strikes after the paris attacks. and the russian bombings as well have been helping out. look at these pictures now. that is cyrillic, and they are messages on the missiles ready to be fired on the targets in raqqah. and if you can't read cyrillic, one says "for our people" and on a second, a russian pilots writes "for paris." wi we are working in a difficult place for this are report and others from nick paton walsh, and we will wait until he is a able to report safely. and until then, we will join in colonel hertling. and now, it is so difficult for nick and the crew to film, because it is right across from raqqah. and now, isn't this what the kurds are waiting for, a

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back to you. >> nick paton walsh near the front lines of this battle that's going on as we speak. our viewers, you will remember this heart-wrenching scene from sinjar last year. this is when thousands of people that were living in and around the town, they ran for their lives as isis moved in. our correspondent ivan watson was aboard when the helicopters that went in and ended up flying out as many people they could fit on board. you see babies being handed on there. u.n. estimates 5,000 men and boys have been slaughtered by isis there and young girls and women sold into slavery. >> joining us now retired brigadier who returned from iraq yesterday. general, thank you for being with us. obviously, returning those people's homes to them is of serious importance. let's talk about the strategic value of sinjar. hopefully we can put up a map to show where it is. tell us why sinjar is important in the battle against isis, both in iraq and syria. >> as nick brought out, it really is a choke point between raqqa in syria and mosul to the east. the real objective for the iraqi security for

. >> nick paton walsh, thank you so much for that. good evening, gentlemen. rick, to you first. the french are launching air strike from their aircraft carrier, charles de gaulle in the mediterranean. what impact do you think that is going to have on the fight against isis? >> i think the fact that the french are willing to commit nor aircraft to the fight does have an impact because the french are actually dropping their bombs on their targets. their rules of engagement are much different than ours, much more different than ours. so when they approach raqqua, they're going to drop those weapons. they don't go through the cumbersome validation process that we're going through. so the french are having an effect. with their aircraft in theater and that french aircraft carrier, they're bringing almost 50 aircraft to the fight. if they're willing to use them on a daily basis, yes, they can have an effect. >> general hurtling, france, russia and the coalition all bombing syria and iraq. is there any indication that the structure is being degraded? >> it's a combination of a couple o

nick paton walsh is joining us now. he's inside syria. from your vantage point, you're on the scene there, what are you seeing? >> well, has clearly been a substantial uptick as you mentioned over raqqah and that persists until tonight. in the last hours, activists in raqqah again reporting air strikes in their city as there were during the day. we don't know the total numbers at this stage. we know last night was the first time they said an attack on a fuel truck, seven people were killed. different people are actually saying that was in fact six. that is the first civilian casualties we're hearing. at the same time, we don't know who's bombing what. we know the russianings have said they will go after fuel trucks in that area. also been targets of the coalition and the french. who is behind those civilian casualties unclear. eyewitnesses even tens of kilometers away from raqqah reporting the sound, the rumbling, incessant rumbling, 20 thuds, lengthy deep booms, heard about 3:00 this afternoon. eyewitnesses we spoke to said. definitely r

nick paton walsh, thank you. stay safe. let's bring in chief correspondent christiane amanpour. we have seen actions of the military variety. we have seen new action here. the motivation is just as important. there is regret and frustration going on. what is the dynamic now? >> they had to take action. if you listen to french officials talking about the wave of bombings in syria, they had to show they were serious immediately after the attack on the homeland. about 12 flights, the biggest attack that the french have taken part in. they are moving huge aircraft carrier, "charles de gaulle" into the gulf and saying more will come. they are saying that while we do this, we also have to have as we have seen the highly specialized police and security force, raids, 150 around this country alone, plus they are saying this isis threat will not be eliminated without a ground force. they are saying the russians and united states now need to get together with the joint strategy for syria. two strategies at least. russian, u.s. and any number of other strategies on the ground. there needs t

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nick paton walsh reporting for us from irbil in northern iraq. let's talk about what's going on, what's next in this entire operation. joining us, cnn national security analyst, former cia operative, bob baer. also joining us, law enforcement analyst, former u.s. marshal art roderick. bob, do you think any specific intelligence prompted these latest raids that are are happening across france right now, these anti-terror raids? looks like they're going around the country sweeping up suspects. >> oh, sure, wolf. i mean, they've got a list of people they suspect. what we're seeing is preventative detentions. they probably haven't committed crimes but they could very well. they want to roll them up to be sure they're not armed, you know, go through their address books, be sure they don't have weapons. this is a logical step for the french and it's a necessary one. >> how likely is it, do you think, art, you know a lot about manhunts, that this terrorist system, salah abdeslam is going to be found and found soon by french, belgium, other officials the

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>> nick paton walsh there for us. great to hear from you. thank you so much. >>> we were talking about isis and talking about sending messages. isis sent a powerful and deadly message in a different way, killing dozens in beirut. cnn's clarissa ward is there as one of the suicide bombers who survived this attack makes a very big admission. >>> plus any moment now, ben carson will respond live to donald trump's 95-minute speech and piece of performance art. you're seeing it right there. in an cnn interview he compared carson to a child molester. we'll hear from donald trump says, and what donald trump says about isis . >> i know more about isis than the generals do, believe me. i would bomb the [ bleep ] out of them. >>> this morning people across iowa are rubbing their jaws. the jaws that dropped during the 95-minute donald trump speech last night that was unusual even by trump standards. a direct attack at ben carson that even involved a kind of visual reenactment. >> that john will re-enact for me. >> not me. >> it seemed like the gloves d

senior cnn international correspondent nick paton walsh did this phenomenal reporting. me now from irbil in iraq. nick, how close were you able to get? >> reporter: well, the kurdish fighters, the ypg talked about by your guest earlier on are within 20 miles of the outskirts of raqqah now. between the trenches they've dug lengthy earth berms, lightly defended. not many of their people there with light weapons. there's a huge stretch of open terrain often with a lot of isis outposts in it. now, obviously isis have held back from moving towards them by air strikes. there were in fact four just on monday after we left when isis got into clashes with those kurdish fighters. but they say very categorically we want to avenge paris. we consider this our duty for humanity fighting isis, not just about avenging the deaths of their friends at the hands of isis. and actually one of the commanders there say we welcome foreign troops, french, russian, american, anyone here to help us finish the job. a lot of determination. a lot of optimism, i think. but not much in the way of numbe

our senior international correspondent nick paton walsh is on the ground for us in the middle east with latest. what do we know about these strikes, nick? >> reporter: wolf, it's very hard to get accurate information out of raqqa because this is a place hermetically sealed by isis. we're simply talking to outsiders. let alone, trying to leave can get you killed. we're dependent so much on information, raqqa slaughtered, they heard 30 air strike, where the main target seemed to be, what they referred to as the stadium area, the political building, the clinical hospital. the names of these places don't necessarily relate to the jobs they do right now. it's more buildings that have been taken over by isis, used for different purposes which now appear to other activists to actually be most headquarters and jails of isis. questions you have to ask yourself, the french defense ministry saying they had 12 jets in the skies, 10 of which were doing the bombing and dropped 20 separate bombs. this is a substantial list of targets suddenly were available to them despite the fact the united states h

cnn senior international correspondent nick paton walsh is embedded with kurdish forces along the sinjar border. what are troops doing to assist in this fight? is it limited to air strikes? >> reporter: we are told that they are not down on the ground in the front line. and that pretty much tallies what we saw ourselves. didn't see mysterious u.s. presence within the normal peshmerga troops we saw. they seem to be out in the hills actually directing the air strikes as far as we can tell. today at about 9:00 -- sorry, yesterday night at about 9:00 now local time we saw the first moves in that lit up the sky frankly coalition air strikes, one after another. and then a large trail of peshmerga. we followed their moving around to the west of that city. they were trying to move in in very large numbers strike their way into the city center. but above all as you mentioned, jake, take that vital route 47 that runs straight through the heart of sinjar. yes, it's symbolically important that it's reclaimed from isis to kind of set back the damage done to that ethnic group the yazidis who they capt

>> nick paton walsh. thank you very much. jim sciutto staying with me. i want to bring former cia operative back into the conversation. bob this involving the reporting on one of the suspects who is now at large international manhunt for him. he had been detained by french police and released on the night of the attacks. this goes to the big question, bob, which is that the web that they are pursuing now not only were they not aware it was there, that these people were communicating in what everyone is calling the quote/unquote dark but that they don't yet know how deep it is. how many people are involved. how many more cells there may be whether there's communications between cells whether there was even formal coordination or command and control from syria. so, bob, where do they start now? a country that was under the highest of all possible alerts, had been attacked ten months ago, this has now happened again to this country. where does intelligence in france even start? >> well, erin, i think we've talked about this. the french are very, very good.

nick paton walsh in istanbul, matthew chance. this is a huge escalation in the most volatile region of the world right now. what do we know at this hour after seeing that remarkable video of those rebels screaming? >> it does appear likely that the two pilots who ejected from that russian aircraft hit the ground dead. that's what we think we know at this stage. those rebels you heard on the ground, well, they are part of a number of militant groups here that russia says are terrorists but other people suggest might be more moderate, whose area having been hit intensely by air strikes in the past days or so. to the point the turkish government has been deeply concerned about it. when you see that video, have you to remember that those russian airmen were flying above in combat jets, most likely bombing that area. vladimir putin hitting that area. they ee jeblgt when their aircraft is hit by the turkish f-16s. turkey saying they crossed into their air space and over a five-minute period, ignored ten separate warnings. that's the tu

cnn senior international correspondent nick paton walsh is embedded with kurdish forces on the front lines. he joins us now live. nick, what are you seeing on the ground there? >> reporter: well, it has been a remarkably swift move by the peshmerga to take their city. it started yesterday we saw moving to the eastern and western flanks to cut that road off congressman was just talking about there. but today they moved in from the north straight into the city center. hundreds of them on foot. in fact meeting initially heavy resistance, a lot of automatic gunfire as they moved in there, but that slowly turned into it seemed isis melting away and leaving in their wake a remarkable number of traps, roadside bombs and in fact tunnels dug under some of the roads linked up to explosive devices. a fear that maybe isis fighters disguised themselves as peshmerga and go literally underground. in fact, we were there in peshmerga they said an isis sniper fired over their heads. the peshmerga fired back. they have two injuries in their ranks. still deeply volatile inside that city, but it's defini

i want to start with cnn international senior correspondent nick paton walsh in iraq. >> reporter: may have declared sinjar as liberated but it isn't the full picture. there are still pockets of isis behind us. one potentially from that little bit of black smoke on the horizon behind me. but also we've come back from being done on the ground with the peshmerga. a bullet went over you are a heads. they responded with a lot of fire power. they said there was an isis sniper in one of the buildings. and one of their number they said about one of the two or three they had injured, that person was carried out to a nearby vehicle. still volatile in there. a swedish volunteer we spoke to. fighting alongside the peshmerga out of choice. he said there were tunnels and at one point barrels and explosives laid as a booby trap. every road you look at seems to be mined to some description. every building. rebuilding isn't much of a choice. you have to start from scratch. so many of these houses. once in in fact you have managed to clear out the remaining pocket of resistance here. but in barely over

joining me is nick paton walsh near this part of iraq. and nick, black isis flag gone.tively heavy, but the peshmerga came in and saw and joined ourselves in overwhelming numbers. hundreds of them on foot moving at about 11:00 this morning. they initially encountered a lot of heavy machine gunfire and isis appeared to melt away relatively quickly. they left in their wake a staggering number of booby traps, tunnels dug under the roads connected to barrels of explosives. they have gone underground and some disguised as peshmerga. at one point, a group we were traveling with, that caused thunderstorm to fire back and two of their number were injured. they think by annists i sniper. it's obvious the peshmerga have control of this. they haven't flushed all of isis out because it is rubble. barely a building not half destroyed or severely damaged by the airstrikes, the suicide bombing, the car bombs, and the fight with the coalition. little really to live in left there. a lot to rebuild or perhaps you start from scratch. but the fundamental point of all of this is that it app

before we came to you, i mentioned that our colleague nick paton walsh is on frontlines with fighters there. we will have a report from him later. but you can see why we wanted to get to your report there, arwar, right there on the coast there of lesbos, greece. showing us something that happens day after day after day. many people trying to leave a bloody, hellish war that's happening in syria. thank you so much for giving us the stories of people who are trying to kind a better situation for themselves. thank you for your reporting there. you're watching cnn newsroom. it's an historic day in myanmar as that country deals with a dramatic shift in power. coming up, the results in a lantd mark election. how much protein does your dog food have? 18%? 20? nutrient-dense purina one true instinct with real salmon and tuna has 30% protein. support your active dog's whole body health with purina one. amerivest selects the funds and manages your portfolio. is it run by robots? no no, you can talk to a person anytime. 'cause i don't trust robots. right...well, if the portfolio you're invested

errol. >> nick paton walsh, we'll let you go at this point so you can continue to work to gather for information. our correspondent speaking to us outside of sinjar as he's embedded with peshmerga forces and reporting they've taken a city west of sinjar en route 47 which the city sits on. it's vital as it links raqqa and syria with mosul and iraq. we'll continue to get updates from nick throughout the day. stay tuned to cnn for that. >>> you saw the breaking news story at the start where we joined arwa damon. we want to continue talking about this. with migrants and refugees flocking to europe by the thousands, more countries are tightening their borders. sweden says it will enforce tempora temporary border control starting in the coming hours. >> officials say these controls will last for about ten days but the country may extend them further. and slovenia said it's begun building temporary barriers to direct the flow of migrants. >>> in malta european union leaders are meeting to discuss solutions to the migrant and refugee crisis. they arrived for the second and final day of their

nick paton walsh gave us this breaking news. he was in sinjar earlier today. been liberated from isis. how big of a deal is this? >> this say pretty big deal. it led to the siege of sinjar mountain which isis was using that as an opportunity to commit genocide against the yazidi ethnic minority. the crucial struggle is highway 47, this binds it together, this is the route 66 of isis. if that can be taken. as of yesterday, it seemed as though 35 miles had been i intercepted. >> is the u.s. stepping up the battle against isis? has something shifted? >> it is alisyn, very good news. the key is, it's already been identified, not only do you need to isolating. this is where the real heavy lifting starts. that's been the challenge all along, alisyn. we can be very successful in coordinati coordination. the coalition can be successful in coordination going against very specific targets but then you have to build upon that success and that takes a lot more what i would call foundational capabilities than what we've been willing to commit to this fight so far. if we're

in a cnn exclusive, correspondent nick paton walsh gets extremely close to the headquarters. >> reporterah, but it is here of the offensive and still a sense of stalemate. the goal of raqqah is visible on a good day. and at times, hit by isis mortars. >> well, follow his report from syria. on "new day" in the next hour. >>> since the terror attacks, one particular book has been flying off the shelves. a mobile feat by earnest hemingw hemingway. ivan watson has more on the book's resurgence. >> reporter: all of the sickness of the city came suddenly. first the cold rains of winter. that's a line from "a moveable feast" written by earnest hemingway. the book is his love letter to the city of light celebrating the cafes and cobblestone driveways. hemingway's book is pretty much required reading for most visitors for paris. it is unexpected that it is a source of comfort for the french in the wake of the deadly paris attacks. at book shops across paris, owners have seen a sudden spike of sales of the 51-year-old novel. what is your number one selling book? >> earnest hemingway. >> do you hav