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Im george howell. the "cnn newsroom" starts right now. 4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast and a developing story, we are following out of syria after intense fighting u.s. backed forces could be close to seizing all of the last isis territory there in an enclave were following. live to our senior international correspondent ben wedeman on the front line, hes been covering the story for weeks. ben, what more can you tell us there? >> reporter: what we can tell you is were about 500 meters from th...

And the ammunition dump and extraordinary images which we can see of the dump going up in flames on thursday morning. it was still firing rockets and burst of ammunition into the air on saturday morning local time and so its been going on for a long time. its in an area in the east of ukraine where of course theres been a conflict between russia backed rebels and the ukrainian authorities. this is an ammunition dump that was used to arm the government forces fighting those russian backed rebels ...

Conference. ivan watson in brussels right now. it is worth noting very little distinction between brussels and paris. you can move back and forth across the border at will. much like you can across state borders in the u.s. now there were other major news overnight. france retaliating against isis. what they are calling a major bombardment against the effective capital of the isis cal caliphate raqqah. obviously we are waiting for confirmation from western intelligence sources. it all comes two ...

We have an alert to tell you about. were awaiting a news conference with defense secretary ash carter and john kerry following the meeting they had with the australian foreign and defense ministers. russia releasing videos which it says shows russian air strikes in syria are against isis. national security correspondent live at the pentagon. jennifer what can we tell from the russian videos. >> u.s. officials tell me that what is most striking about the new videos released by the russians is tha...

Tarrized palestine. >> im sure u.s. officials ears perked up at that. that lays the groundwork for that between allyings. >> when president obama has invited netanyahu to the white house in november, well see how that meeting goes. we know earlier meetings have been, lets put it bluntly, tense. jim sciutto, thanks very much. lets get to the other breaking news. russia unleashes a second day of air strikes in syria. the escalation clearly complicates the fight against isis and the effort to end...

Very patriotic, and we couldnt imagine what was going on back at home and we felt very proud. the mission meant something tonight. it was more the underlying purpose of it all. and it was emotional. >> nbcs dana lewis is in northern afghanistan to tell us more about the attacks. >> there was a lot of damage there overnight. we understand from some reports that the ammunition dump was hit there. there was a large fire. >> and on the streets around ground zero in new york and across the country, c...

And were back with tonights outer circle. we go to syria where there are growing concerns about a broader war in the middle east. the syrian government told israel that the air strikes open the door for all possibilities. israel billioned military targets across the lebanese border thursday and in da mat cuss on sunday. fred planken is inside syria and i asked him what the government is saying. >> the syrian government is absolutely angry over what happened. they told us they were going to retal...

Apparently troops on the ground were so confused by the explosions that they started firing into the air and firing machine guns because they didnt know what was going on. some people were speculating one of these hits might have been on an ammunition dump and you heard explosions for a very long time. the syrian capital last night was absloutly rocked by explosions for hours and sounded like full-on war for a very long time, christi. >> in terms of tryishing to fin people and people who were in...

Political opponents and oppressing minors, including christians, this is what we are up against. this organization, in that sense will go after the infrastructure of that military infrastructure of hamas only that would bring us to a dialogue with moderate palestinians. >> harris: i want people to understand how this got triggered. hamas says it is over the killing recently of one of its militant leaders. then go forward with how much firepower theyve shown. are you surprised that hamas has been...

Israeli citizens are being bomb barred with rockets day in and out for weeks and months. i want to remind you, israel withdraw out of gaza in 2005, never looked back into gaza and hamas, instead of tuning gaza into a flourishing entity has turned into a haven for terrorists an ammunition dump for weapons in an amass that is amazing. hamas in the sense has turned this situation unbearable for any country and any government, because the best we can to now is try to defend our citizens against this...