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Weve been talking about north korea, and my next guest has a special insight going where few americans have gone before, inside the hermit kingdom. joining me now, grammy aidward winning recording artist and former member of the hip hop group the fujees. youre back from north trkorea. you have a lot of pictures. you were kind enough to share those. tell us why you were there and

All right. so this isnt exactly the kind of storm youll need an umbrella for. huge solar storms coming from the sun are heading for earth today. prompting the space weather prediction center to issue a strong geomagnetic storm watch. yes, its called a geomagnetic storm watch. but dont worry, we are safe, were told. but it could affect power grids, radios and satellites. cnn meteorologist chad myers explains how this phenomenon happens. >> theres always been the sun and solar winds and solar flar...

State picked up new tigers as6ht stormed town after town across iraq and syria. other groups are not wait fog areing for them. westerners have joined, busy a dozen. and unlike other terror groups whose members lay low in caves and rugged terrain, the islamic state operates out in the open to understand this terror group we have to look at how it works. its unique to us, the way in which its structured, and how its grown from a handful of extremists into something resembling a government. >> isis...

And unite against a common enemy. this is the kind of detail and difficulty and awkwardness that will be faced over the next few days and weeks. also for the president now comes the issue of who his allies -- who americas allies on the ground here in syria will be. because the free syrian army, the moderate rebels, have proved not very effective so far. frankly, not very moderate. saudi arabia is apparently willing to train thousands of them, but when will they be ready for the battlefield? and ...

Secretary of state john kerry is in turkey today, hoping to bring this reluctant but crucial ally on board in our fight against isis. thousands of fighters cross its borders to fight in syria and iraq. turkey is hesitant to commit. isis is holding dozens of turkish citizens hostage. our next guest says no coalition of the white house can permanently dislodge isis. chairman of contemporary middle eastern study at london school of economics and joining us live from paris. well get to your overall

>> of course we have a preference for our ideas. but we also have the necessity for security. so anybody can decide, what is changing the structure of the government that its dealing with. what the consequences are, if it turns out badly. >> the pentagons confident they can get rid of isis militarily. thats the mechanics of it. is there a third facet, defeating an ideology? and how do you approach that? >> the ideology that isis represents is extreme version of original islam. and that has laste...

Theyre very simple. they want to go out and join a broader movement. some of them arent involved in their local communities. going to persuade them to engage in a suicide bombing in the united states is a bridge too far. a lot of them are simply going over to fight in syria and theyre going to die on the battlefield. id say far more than 50%. pu but theres a sliver, and id say this is why the presidents speaking. theres a sliver who will be trained to do the same thing, for example, al qaeda fra...

Says former isis hostages have helped the investigation. >> british guards, we had a lot of information on them. we know that they had east london accents, people told us from inside the prison. so we know a lot. >> reporter: identifying the masked man is one thing. finding and capturing him is another. u.s. and british authorities would have to weigh the risks of a manhunt, looking at options such as drone, sending in special operations troops. a failed rescue attempt of other hostages this pas...

Citizens who have gone to iraq and syria. quite another thing to get the support of arab states, particularly sunni states, that you have to get on board. the target is a sunni group, isis. so thats the real challenge. but its quite clear that the military, the diplomatic and the political offensive is now in full swing. i suppose looking further down the line, you know, we come up with the same issues. what does victory look like? what does victory against isis in iraq look like? more problemat...

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