in syria, it is more complex.report in publishing to date shows, we believe around 70,000 syrian opposition fighters, principally the free syrian army who do not belong to extremist groups, and with whom we can coordinate attacks on isil. in addition, there are the kurdish armed groups who also show themselves capable of taking territory, holding territory, and relieving the suffering that the civilian population had entered under isil control. the syrian kurds have successfully defended kurdish areas in northern syria and retaken territory around the city of kabani. they have proved capable of defending territory and they stopped isil's attempts to capture the border with turkey and seeping into the province. the southern front of the free syrian army has consolidated its control over significant areas and has worked to prevent terrorist from operating. these people that i have talked about, they are ground troops. they need our help. when they get it, they succeed. in my view, we should do more to help them from

through turkey into syria and a place where the refugees flee from syria into turkey. let me show you why this is such an important nexus point between here and the u.s. i.s.i.l. fighters go through turkey, sometimes going into istanbul, going down to southern turkey and make their way into syria and iraq. millions of refugees flee through those same borders through turkey, some of them stay here, some go on to europe. president obama is in turkey today. he spoke in the turkish coastal city of antalia. having one of their regular meetings, the president today defended the coalition strategy of air strikes. here's some of what president obama said. >> even as we grief with our french friends, however, we can't lose sight that there has been progress being made. on the military front, or coalition is intensifying our air strikes, more than 8,000 to date. we're taking out i.s.i.l. leaders. commanders. their killers. we have seen that when we have an effective partner on the ground, i.s.i.l. can, and is, pushed back. >> but the progress that president obama talks about is

he has been a barbaric leader of syria. his use of barrel bombs against the civilian population, and he has driven at least 5 million people out of the country in the last five years, and he doesn't deserve to stay in power. he may be secure now, but if there's an agreement, i think that the collective way of the sunni arab world and the united states, he has to go. >> nicholas burns, a professor of practice and international relations at harvard's kennedy school of government. thank you for joining us. are peace talks like the ones convened over syria, even as fighting rages on in the country, a necessary chapter to figure out what happens there? and all of the parties, what they can live with and what they can't, and tehran, what they have to say about syria's future. the road to damascus, the "inside story." >> you're watching "inside story," i'm ray suarez. the u.s. is in, the russians are in, a coalition of sunni majority countries around the middle east working with the united states, to it strike the islamic state an

iraq from syria. as secretary kerry said in vienna, there is absolutely nothing that could do more to fight daesh than to achieve a political transition that strengths the capacity of syria, side line the percent we believe attracts so much foreign fighters and so much terror and unites the country against terrorism. we cannot defeat isil in iraq without also defeating isil in syria. moving forward, we first are intensifying the military campaign against isil through air strikes and cooperation with local partners who have already pushed isil out of all but 68 miles of the nearly 600 mile border between syria and turkey. we and our coalition partners have launched over 26 strikes in syria and thanks to turkish support we are deploying f-15s to expand our strike capacity. the president, as you mentioned, has ordered the deployment of up to 50 u.s. special operations forces in northern syria to work with our arab and kurdish partners. we will support them with additional air power. next, the united stat

in syria it is more complex. we believe that there are around 70,000 syrian opposition fighters, principally the free syrian army who do not along to extremists is, and with whom we can coordinate attacks on isil. there are kurdish armed groups that show themselves capable of taking territory, holding territory, and administering it. the syrian kurds have a fetish kurdish areas and retaking territory around the city of kobani. they stopped attempts to capture the main have a fetish moving humanitarian into the southern province. the southern front has consolidated its control over significant areas and has worked to prevent terrorist from operating. these people are bound ground weops and need our help and should do more to help them from the air. the full answer cannot be achieved until there is a new syrian government that represents all the syrian people . christian, sunni, shiite, and we went. mr. speaker, we cannot defeat of the sibling from the air or purely material action alone. it requires a full politic

but the big difference between libya and syria is that in syria this time we have firm internationalommitment from all the backers of a future syrian government around the table at the vienna talks. the commitment is clear, to preserve and develop the state in syria, and allow a new representative government to govern for all its people. mr. speaker, i have attempted to answer the main questions, why? why now? why us? is it legal? what are the ground forces? is there a strategy? what is the endpoint, and what is the plan for reconstruction? i know that this is a highly complex situation, and i know members on all sides will have complex questions which i look forward to trying to answer this morning. when will be a confusing situation in syria with regard to russia's intervention. mr. speaker, let me reassure the house that the american-led combined air operations centre has a memorandum of understanding with the russians. that enables daily contact and pragmatic military planning to ensure the safety of all coalition forces, and this would include our brave raf pilots. another quest

on syria.t all parties immediately cease and desist from all violations of international humanitarian law and human rights abuses. this call has not been heeded. a brutal and lawless conflict continues. human rights violations and abuses can lead to and fuel conflict. they underpin many of the conflicts which come before this council and this is especially evident in syria. a common feature conflict is the disproportional impact it has on the most vulnerable. this is true in syria for women and for children. as we have heard today, 2.7 million syrian children have been deprived of the right to education. some for four years or more. the fact that more than half of all attacks on schools worldwide took place in syria says it all. as you heard from other colleagues, children continue to be recruited and indoctrinated by isil and other groups. women and girls insider is ya and those who have fled are subjected to sexual exploitation and harassment. the desperate economic situation of families is e

on syria. parties immediately cease and desist from all violations of international humanitarian law and human rights abuses. this call has not been heeded. a brutal and lawless cjjj$ @r(tc human rights violations and abuses can lead to and fuel conflict. they underpin many of the conflicts which come before this council and this is especially evident in syria. a common feature conflict is the disproportional impact it has on the most vulnerable. this is true in syria for women and for children. as we have heard today, 2.7 million syrian children have been deprived of the right to education. some for four years or more. the fact that more than half of all attacks on schools worldwide took place in syria says it all. as you heard from other colleagues, children continue to be recruited and indoctrinated by isil and other groups. women and girls insider is ya and those who have fled are subjected to sexual exploitation and harassment. the desperate economic situation of families is exploited with

i don't think we're there in syria now.lomacy is not going to success until the assad government and many of the fighting groups decide it is in their interest to be at the table. >> syria is not a tiny country, but it is not huge either. having that many armed forces deployed, doesn't each additional fighting force add a level of chance that something is going to go wrong, going to go really badly? >> it certainly does. when you only had the syrian government and the u.s.-lead coalition, say most of the last year and a half, sharing that strategic air space, then of course it was possible -- it was possible to keep fighters out of harm's way, but when the russian federation entered, when russia began flying air operations, it was quickly apparent that they weren't sharing their flight plans with the united states. they had transgressed turkey's border before. there had been repeated warnings, public and private to the russians to stop that behavior, and they didn't. so it's a small space, you have several different faction

same thing with syria.ty of ethmoiditis, and now we have various degrees of islamist extremism within. at the end of the day this is a richness as well as a challenge of the middle east. the fact that it is rich with diversity is a source of good, if you will for the culture there, but it also can become a source of friction. so between the kurds and the turkmen and the various opposition groups now resistant groups and the various isil, al-qaeda and others, it is a very complicated situation. now, of course, russia has been blamed for at least in the beginning of avoiding bombing isil in favor of bombing the more main stream groups that were opposed to bashar al-assad. why? because at the end of the day, putin stepped in into syria to support the assad regime against its adversaries, some of them who from the beginning wanted a more peaceful democratic syria. but putin is stepping in to strengthen the assad regime, in the process a lot of those smaller groups are getting lost in -- in the war. >> so what w

policy for solving syria. while we wait for that to happen, russia is taking the initiative and proposing its own diplomatic solution. barnaby phillips last this report. >> reporter: on state television in syria president assad's soldiers were celebrating. they've apparently regained control of a vital route into the city of aleppo. pushing back i.s.i.l. fighters, that captured it last month. meanwhile, in moscow, more clarity on where russia, president assad's most important ally would like the diplomacy to go from here. >> translator: we need to agree on two lists. the first list of the terrorist organizations which will not be covered by a ceasefire which we hope will be agreed upon at some point and the second list is the opposition group that will negotiate with the government under the auspices of the u.n. >> in london i complete the leader of the syrian national coalition, which is backed by the west, several arab countries and turkey. he said he knew flog about a meeting in mostly cloudy -- knew knowin

has a presence in syria is leverage on europe because europeans, syria became -- refugees. the two major problems of the european -- [inaudible] europe cannot anymore spot this competition, the price is too high. we will see next january the european commission knew of economic sanctions on russia. the price of assad also became too expensive in europe and in france but many people -- the anti-assad strategy, especially in 2004. european countries -- they are afraid about -- [inaudible] but they cannot officially support him so -- the anti-assad coalition -- like in paris or beirut. so if russia could prevent this, european countries should reconsider the sanctions. at least russia thinks that the nationalism is the major process in the middle east. [inaudible] and would be grateful. western support only a step unlimited is pure nationalism because of costs against turkey. we can see on this map, but 19 million killed in turkey in the southeast, and it's principal -- for turkey. but if the western countries do not support -- in fact this problem doesn't have this problem. a

in syria.f course, we know about iraq and afghanistan. your response? >> i think the way you posed the question, you're really putting your finger on the main issue. and it is an issue that gets largely ignored by the media and certainly ignored by those aspiring to be the next president. we have been in gauged militarily -- engaged militarily in an enterprise that by my telling, has now gone on for 35 years, beginning with the promulgation of the carter doctrine back in 1980. a project that assumes that somehow or other the a joint use of american military power -- adroit use of american military power can somehow fix large parts of the islamic world that are increasingly and valid in turmoil. -- and valid in turmoil. when we look at u.s. military actions across this entire span of time, what we see is however great u.s. military power may be, it does not suffice to achieve those objectives that our leaders claim they seek to achieve. i think the present moment in the obama administration is s

but in syria, there is no possibility of success. think the analogy to bosnia is completely misleading. in bosnia, it was bosnia fighting. it was an internal conflict that you could solve by helping them from the outside. in syria, it is different. you have the syrians fighting against each other. apart from that, you have turkey, saudi arabia, iran, and they are at odds. saudi arabia does not want a government ran by shiites. iran wants to keep assad because he is an ally. the turkish are afraid the kurds may be too strong. those three powers are fighting for supremacy. the first thing you have to do is somehow reconcile these three powers. then perhaps you can start talking about syria. how it should be organized. but to start organizing syria internally without these three powers on board is just without a chance of success. as long as these three powers fight in syria, it would be plain crazy for germany to intervene. in the end, a fight against iran or something like that. alan: a couple minutes ago, we were saying that we need

and end the syria war. even president obama said that this really won't be finished, we cannot reclaim territory from isis in syria until the war is over. the question is, how do you do that? president obama says the strategy is working. most strategists say, no, it's not. president obama says, isis is contained. most strategists say, well, actually, how can you say that? because you have isis now against russia in the aircraft. you have isis in sharm el sheikh in the sinai, isis in europe. isis again in a taped message threatening washington, d.c. by name, and all other members of the coalition. so, many analysts are saying, now with russia, you have to divide and conquer in syria. you know, take different areas of the country, smother with air strikes and go into those specific areas and eradicate isis from raqqa and other places where they are. that's the only way it's going to happen. >> you said you talked to analysts who say the strategy is not working. for some, that's charitable. some analysts say,

russia agreed to extract the chemical weapons from syria, syria, and syria is now bound medic weaponsntion. what kind of use of chemical weapons have we seen, specifically with regard to chlorine gas? >> we believe that we have seen chlorine gas. >> have we determined it is the assad regime using chemical actors? >> are strong judgment is it is the assad regime. >> thank you. i yield back the chairman. >> thank you. you. now we go to mr. mo brooks. >> is your opinion is russia's use of military force in syria good or bad, productive or counterproductive? >> we have been clear that we do not think russia's military intervention is leading to a settlement of the syrian conflict and instead is getting assad confidence that he can stay in power. >> using words such as immoral to describe how bad russia's conduct in syria is is that fair? >> assistant sec. patterson confirmed that word, and i have no problem with it. >> what thought has been giving to using a diverse strategy whereby we force the russian military to be engaged in different parts of the globe thereby weakening our ability t

iraq from syria. a secretary terry was in vienna, there is actually nothing to do to fight isil then to strengthen the government's capacity in syria, sidelined the person we believe who trained so many foreign fighters in terror and unite the country against terrorism. we cannot do fight isil in iraq without dividing isil in syria. moving forward we need to intensify the military camp and against isil, through airstrikes in cooperation with local partners. they have already pushed isil out of the 68 miles of nearly six and a mile border between syria and turkey. we and our coalition partners have launched over 216 strikes in syria and thanks to turkey's support we are deploying a tense and f-15s into the air base to expand our strike capacity. the president, as he mentioned has ordered the deployment of up to 50 u.s. special operation forces. to work with our arab and kurdish partners and we will support them with additional airpower. next, the united states is providing $150 million per year to the

the result of our policy, all of us, the west and syria is -- 260,000 dead in syria. 1 million refugeesthe biggest refugees crisis in recent history. >> rose: understanding that, what you're saying is there has to be a massive armed -- >> not massive but -- >> rose: an attack -- yes, against i.s.i.s. i don't think it will be massive. when i hear that, it reminds me of what we said the first time i was at this table 21 years ago, at this table during the sarajevo crisis. it was exactly the same. we cannot intervene, it will be a blood bath. we will need hundreds of thousands of soldiers. when this didecision was taken by bill clinton, it was done in a few days an. >> rose: they are not a state. they are not a state and you cannot make a war -- of course, it is non-intervention. also true that there is an american intervention, but young not do it half. you cannot give this impression to wage a war without willing to win it. if you make it, you have to win it, on a very precise scale. no question. alliance with sunnis of course but get rid of i.s.i.s. >> whicby the way, a false dichotomy

this is a russian jet over syria. just over the border from turkey.t is coming to us by reuters, amateur video. we see that coming down from the sky. clearly that jet coming down there. then it hits the ground. as you say, ian, we believe the pilots ejected before it crashed. >> reporter: that's right. that's what we are hearing from the russians. the russian military is saying the pilots were able to eject. now the turkish immediamilitary they shot down the plane at 9:20. they are not specifying. they said this plane violated their air space ten times within five minutes. during the ten times, they sent out a warning to the plane. you will have to see if the plane violated the air space. russia is saying no. turkey is saying yes. what evidence will they present that this air space was violated? really the question is the fate of the pilots if they were able to eject and safely eject and get to the ground. were they captured? what is their fate right now? that is something the russians say they are currently looking into, max. >> ian, back with you as

ordering a french aircraft carrier closer to iraq and syria. a dozen french war planes hit isis overnight bombing its stronghold of syria in the biggest french raid so far. in paris today, not the noise of war, but silence for the city's victims. millions remembering, those they can't forget, praying, too, for the critically ill. dozens of victims remain critically ill, clinging to life at this and other paris hospitals, shot multiple times and say doctors, utterly traumatized. i never received 50 patients together. >> one surgeon who served in afghanistan has never seen anything like it. >> worse than afghanistan? >> yes. >> must have looked like war here friday. >> it was a shooting of war, you know? >> france's muslim leaders condemned the killings. they honored the dead today and sent a message to isis. >> whatever you do, no matter how long it takes, we will beat you. >> reporter: and it's not just french police investigating this, but it's police in germany, spain, and belgium, intelligence agencies in britain, the u.s., and israel, isis

airstrikes on islamic state targets in syria. he says the u.k. is already at its highest terror threat from jihadist. the french president continues his push for a joint force against the islamic state group after talks with leaders of germany and italy. he sets his sights on a key mating and moscow. its --set to employ after turkey downs one of its planes in disputed circumstances. also coming up this hour, one of brazil's richest men and a senator have been arrested over the corruption scandal at the oil company petrobras. happy thanksgiving to our american viewers. introducingyou -- you to the brand-new totus. this is live from paris. we start in the united kingdom, where the prime minister has been presenting its arguments for why britain should join the international coalition and carry out airstrikes against the islamic state in syria. let's hear what the prime minister had to say. >> action now is that the success in iraq and squeezing the so-called caliphate is put at risk by our failure to act in syria. seriously hamper our efforts if we

between syria and turkey. we've worked very effectively with those partners to close hundreds of kilometers of that border. we've got about a hundred kilometers left to go. we're working more closely with turkey. we're putting more assets into the base in turkey that we're flying missions from there to apply pressure to raqqa, to apply more pressure and more lethal strikes against isil. so we're ramping up and intensifying this campaign against all those lines of effort. >> rose: and how will you measure success? >> we'll measure success by shrinking that safe haven and making it a place where isil can no longer plot attacks and perpetrate heinous acts of brutality in that space and elsewhere. >> rose: thank you so much, lisa monaco from the white house in taking time on what has to be as busy a day as you've had. thank you so much. >> thanks, charlie. >> rose: we'll be right back. stay with us. we continue our conversation now about the paris attack with robert gates. he was secretary of defense from 2006 to

they're in syria, let's go bomb syria. who's "we" and who's going to do it and everybody has competing interest in what's going on in an ever expanding picture of threat. that's the geopolitical nature of it and what the war against isis is. you have the investigation into what happened here. and the investigation is expa expanding from france to belgium, maybe logistical, maybe tactical as to what happened in paris, what do we know? >> reporter: we've got a lot more detail for you, chris, about the operations. they continued overnight. this was the site of the first arrest. one man was arrested in public. clearly, they knew who they were looking for, didn't need to go to his house. a very surprised crowd that moved further up the street behind me with the support of the bomb disposal unit to target a vehicle parked outside another house where police also entered and made another arrest. we still haven't confirmed with police if that vehicle is indeed that black or dark gray. >>> witnesses haven't been able to verify that

russia is in syria, iran is in syria, neither of them share u.s. goals in syria. the u.s. stated goal is regime change, getting the bashar al-assad regime out. it may be ill-informed. what are you negotiating with when you have people at the table that do not want the end goal that you can't in syria. >> everyone on the table has a different goal. even allies. every regional country has a group they support. syria became not only a regional war, it is an international proxy war. boifl now there's an agreement that no one can win militarily, and there's an agreement that we'll have a political solution. you cannot start it by saying a political solution, but bashar al-assad must go. now people are discussing about will there be a transition period. how long is it. will there be election, constitutional changes preventing bashar al-assad from running again. positions. >> here you are looking to iran at the table, like russia, to say we know you support the bashar al-assad regime. you can influence them to try to make a decision. >> people on the tables are frenemies. and sau

the solution to the refugee crisis is peace in syria, syria, not to cancel syria and move its populationto europe we had a policy that many of us pushed here in congress to arm the reasonable elements in syria. that policy has basically failed. it has failed for a couple of reasons. first you did eight years after we started pushing for it. second it is still subject to the incredible and ridiculous condition that those we arm have to convince us that they do not intend to fight ashad. any reasonable patriotic syria intends to fight aside. no wonder we only find 50 people and we only have five on the battlefield. how do you find somebody who is reasonable doesn't hate ashad. i will point out that while isis has the bad taste to put its murders right there on television, it is the shiite alliance that pose the greater threat to the united states. it killed far more innocent people and has called killed far more americans. now turning to russia russia is not in a terribly strong position. they cannot waste resources on peripheral matters. the you crane is a vital national interest. if it f

france has intensified strikes on isil inside syria and is now looking for greater support. it's just one of many meetings holland lined up with western powers in a bid to gather support to combat the group. he'll head to washington to meet barack obama. wednesday, he's meeting germany chance angela merkel to ask for her support. >> at the start of the week, the french president seeks commitment for support in his war against isil. it started with a solemn moment. the two men, a dismal scene of killing at a rock concert where 90 died. they both paid homage to the dead by laying a single rose. cameron promises more military support and hopes to get parliamentary approval for airstrikes against isil in syria. he hopes there won't be a repeat of two years ago when he failed to win a vote for bombing syria against assad forces. >> later this week, i will set out in parliament our comprehensive strategy for tackling isil. i firmly support the action that president hollande has taken to strike isil in syria and it's my firm conviction that britain should do so, too. >> we're convi

continue to bomb in northern syria. turkmen and those fighting the assad regime more fee row shusly. and there's no doubt today's incident will complicate president obama's efforts to form a new coalition that would take on isis more effectively. >> let's discuss. you wanted to put today's shooting down of the plane is in some context, and that was use. . bigger context. let's go further. the relationship between turkey and russia has actually been very good. turkey gets half of its natural gas from russia. foreign minister lavrov from russia was going to visit turkey on december 25th -- or november 25th, tomorrow. he was -- he's decided not to do that. what about turkish/russian relations and what this does to it? >> well, this is a very good question. turkey and russia had a good decade of strong relations. 58% of turkish natural gas is imported from russia. 4 million tourists come annually to turkey. the trade relationship is improve, but this is an important milestone. president putin's statement today has been very

a syrian taketed graveyard in central syria.here is now such a concerning effort that a lot of these guys are being pushed back. arefact is, these guys fighting well, keeping track of their weapons, not selling them to al qaeda or isis -- why? d'etre of theison rebels was being met. we do not understand -- we talk isis, theout messianic components, the religious fundamentalism -- there is a political situation here, an anthropological situation. who is your number one enemy? you talk to analysts and they will say, excuse me, history did not start when basel was abated was014 -- when mosul invaded in 2013. 4. you want to talk about why the sunni population radicalized or allowed groups like all nusra and isis to come in? it is because of this. roger is right. the consequences that we said would be of intervention happened as a direct result of nonintervention. french fighter just -- french fried or jets into damascus, and and kerry calls hollande says we have to do a patent was doing. and the sunnis look at the united states and

until then, our correspondent is in syria.arlier in the day he spoke to an opposition fighter who was in the area where the pilots parachuted down. >> translator: until now we don't know the fate of the second pilot. he may have been killed. for more we'll talk to this man. >> translator: the russian aircraft violated the air space and it was brought down in an area. the pilot was shot by the opposition fighters, he was shot while trying to land and he was killed. >> translator: where did it happen exactly? >> translator: it was on the right of the area, near an area called the northern big river. >> translator: what about the second pilot? >> translator: the second pilot dropped in the kurd mountain area. i have heard through my contacts that he may have been killed, but we don't know for sure about the second pie -- pilot. >> reporter: the russian foreign minister has canceled his trip to turkey. he was due to meet his turkish counter to part on wednesday. instead he is warning russians to avoid travel to turkey all together

we should be al lying with russia and bombing more aggressively in syria. all of that is coming into the debate today. >> reporter: interesting, isn't it? what we've heard from french lawmakers speaking on cnbc all morning, there needs to be serious allocations of cash. we have thousands of military personnel across this country. the country is in a state of emergency. what more really needs to be done? >> well, absolutely. i think currently with the resources available the military and french police are overstretched. they're at their absolute limit. what needs to happen is a significant investment to increase the means of intelligence gathering. the dcri which is the french equivalent of the -- sorry, the dgsi, french equivalent of the fbi has only been created in 2013 and is still lacking resources, lacking manpower, lacks money and surveillance equipment and people are saying, well, now it's obviously too late to prevent this attack. with other attacks possible in the near future we really need to sort of open the pursestrings and start to invest in the

targets inside syria. but that's not a grand coalition and you don't really have to go too far to see why that didn't happen on this occasion. it's because of president bashar al-assad and the differences that exist between russia and the west. now, when asked about bashar al-assad, francois hollande said there is no future for bashar al-assad in syria. when putin was asked about that, he said bashar al-assad is our primary ally in syria because he has the only ground troops that are effective there and it is ground trams that will ultimately be necessary to push i.s.i.l. out. long-term he said it is up to the people of syria to decide on the future of bashar al-assad. so when asked about this grand coalition point blank by a journalism in the audience, vladimir putin said, well, we are respectful of the u.s. led coalition and we are willing to work with the u.s. led coalition. it is the u.s. led coalition that is on not willing yet to work with us >>> president francois hollande also addressed tuesday's i

but the story of modern syria has been a grim one. in 1970, a baathist military leader, hafez al-assad, seized power, ushering in an era of limited modernization accompanied by unlimited repression. in the year 2000, assad was succeeded by his son, bashar, raising hopes for the possibility of greater political openness -- hopes that the new leader chose not to fulfill. it was little wonder, then, that when the sparks of arab spring began to ignite, demands for change were heard in syria. the protests were actually quite modest at first, and they were driven not by sectarian or religious differences, but by the lack of freedom and jobs. the violence only began when assad responded to peaceful demonstrations by sending in thugs to beat up young people. and when the parents of those young people objected -- they took to the streets themselves, the regime replied with bullets and then with bombs. having made peaceful change impossible, assad made war inevitable. and this war gave rise to daesh -- isil -- the gravest extremist threat faced

aides say syria was the main subject. german chancellor angela merkel says the refugees fleeing the conflict in syria must not be blamed for what has happened in paris. plenty of things still to be dealt with as we try to understand what happens next in terms of the manhunt we've been talking about and the economic implications and security implications and political implications, all of which will be dominated by what has happened in the city. let's find out how the markets have been reacting in asia. let's go to zeb eckert. good morning. we are seeing a selloff across the asia-pacific, a six-week low on the msci benchmark index come and this reflects the new uncertainty, the new geopolitical risk that has been introduced. you will see red across the screen. while the markets in the asia-pacific trading lower. we see the hang seng, down 1.7%. the shanghai composite off its lows, some buying lifting that market, but elsewhere across the eastn, southwest -- south asia is down. check out the philippines, 2.5% down as leader

the root problems are in syria. i mean these refugees are mostly comes from the syrian/turkish border and soon enough with other borders with syria because there is isis in syria. so the effort should be instead of struggling with the consequences and the effect of that crisis by making sure that isis is defeated. and because the administration unfortunately and to a certain degree the european union did not did enough to end the problem in syria, now we'll have to deal with the refugee problem that is not the normal one. a normal one would be economic migrants and so, no, this is a mass of people leaving because of the crisis. >> let's me jump in here. associated press is reporting essentially what german media is now reporting. and let me just quote the urgent bulletin. german media reporting an arrest in bovaria. it's tied to the paris attacks. police are not saying that it's tied to the terrorist attacks. we have no independent confirmation of that. but it does underscore that there may be others who were involv

bomb -- the french are bombing syria. the russians are bombing syria. do you think a military response -- how do you think the military response will affect isis? is --l, amy, the problem sorry. when we talk about military response, military alone -- military solution is not actually enough. using military solution alone, it means we are prolonging the problem. we're strengthening the islamic state. 7000 soldiers until now, by the american and their allies. what happened? the islamic state has grown up. they managed to capture ramadi in a wreck, which is the third biggest city, and managed to capture palmyra in syria, another very well-known antiquities of history and legacy. this is the problem. security solution is not good enough. see what happened. the american -- military solution in afghanistan. and now for years, they're talking to surrender power to taliban. eventsed to school tell as a tourist organization. we're not going to talk to them. we have to root them out. they did not read them out. the same thing in libya. they said, muammar gaddafi

places especially in northern syria. so i don't foresee a dog-fight as they say in the air with russian aircraft >>> you would acknowledge that there's a clear difference between russia's interest in syria. they want bashar al-assad to stay and u.s. wants him to leave. what happens in russian aircraft support bashar al-assad break this no sflee fe fly p zone? >> that could be a problem if you have no communications between these aircraft, but the hope is that what you would see from the russians is the same thing that you'd see from our coalition partners on this and that is to take out i.s.i.s. and to make sure that they don't have staging grounds, that they're not moving a large amounts of in the case especially in other parts of the aarea oil out of there and to the black market. so you know i think what we're talking about here is it's not an alliance even an unholy alliance between us and the russians, but part of our goals are the same here and that is to get rid of i.s.i.s. and to stop their movement >>> that's tr

we took them out of syria after proper vetting and we train them and infiltrated them back into syria. this is a program that we have discontinued. isil iso-lost these towns and the ability to use them. i want to show you this video. as we talked about the isil weapon of choice. on november 18, we struck a bridge and ramadi which had been the primary route used by isil to send attacks against forces. as you'll see here in a moment isil can no longer use this , road. roll the video please. col. warren: that is an amazing depiction of the accuracy we are capable of here, and also terrain denial. sometimes you will see in our press releases where it says terrain denial. this is an example of terrain denial. isil longer be able to use that bridge to send vbieds against our forces. the second is from operation title wave strike against the illicit oil system of isil. early sunday morning november , 22, we conducted a larger strike near two areas in syria. that strike destroyed 283 oil tanker trucks. as we did on the first strike against tanker trucks, we conducted a leaflet drop ahead of t

president, the americans have some special forces in syria. beyond the words and beyond what is happening, are you going to send some special forces as well to syria? are you considering some ground intervention there? mr. president, beyond the emotion that we can feel here, beyond these beautiful statements, for more than a year we have heard all of you saying that assad must go, that a political transition is necessary in syria. mr. president, can you today here in front of us tell us a specific date, a deadline for assad to go? >> we are both presidents. >> reporter: i can translate in english if needed. >> i got the translation. you said mr. president. there are two presidents here. >> translator: i will not provide you with a date because it must be as soon as possible. that is one of the requirements for a solution to be found. but at the same time, allow me to underline something. there is a new mindset now. the crisis in syria has been ongoing for four years. four years. there are probably more than 300,000 dead. and this is not just r