deployment of the french aircraft carrier. nick, tell us about the impact of the french air strikes on isis targets have on the terrorist group. reporter: hala, it is the second night in a row the french war planes have been hitting the caliphate of raqqah. we don t know what they hit. we know at 10:00 local time, the first explosion hit. that is reliable information. they have been insisting of the seven air strikes of last night and 24 they counted the night before last, no civilians have been killed. the targets which appear to be about the night before last around the outskirts and city center and stadium and museum, headquarters and jail, last night, the seven that went in appear to be to the south of the city. we await to hear more information about precisely what they were trying to hit. other air strikes as well.
from the place de le republique. in the aftermath of the attack french president francois hollande is calling for sweeping new laws in response to those attacks. in a speech to parliament he urged lawmakers to extend the country s state of emergency by three months. and in the past few hours french warplanes once again attacked isis targets in the city of raqqah. meanwhile, we re learning more about what happened during those attacks and especially the fact that there were people who saved many, many folks who would have died if they had not gotten the help from those people. now our own anderson cooper spoke to one man who tried to help some of the people in the one of the restaurants hit by gunfi gunfire. tell me what you saw on friday night. i live right in front of the restaurant and i was coming back from my grocery store. and when i heard from sounds, i thought it was scaffolding falling down because it was so
there are the potential particularly given the events in moscow for three or four air forces to be involved. coalition, u.s., french, maybe the russians and syrian regime. that is a separate debate. the french boosting capacity by sending charles de gaulle aircraft carrier. they appear to be very much keen to send the political and military match that they will strike raqqah and isis in the heart of their self declared caliphate. we are awaiting to hear what was hit. isis into months of dodging drones. isis fighters move around undetected. they appear to stay out of the daylight. it is still the fate of civilians, those left or trapped inside raqqah because isis went let them go.
thanks very much. we ll check in with you later. as you mentioned earlier, activists in syria say they are seeing more air strikes on isis targets. senior international correspondent nick paton walsh has the details. inside the city of raqqah, raqqah slaughtered silently, seven air strikes beginning at about 10:00 there local time. 3:00 p.m. in the united states. now, they are pretty reliable, frankly. they were first t. report the air strikes the night before last when french first launched their most substantial onslaught against what is an isis terms, the capital of their self-declared caliphate. the french two nights ago launched a total of 20. about 24 were counted on the ground but so far at this stage this night it s total of 7. we re told they predominantly focus on the southern side of the city. we don t know exactly what they ve hit. we re getting better visibility as to what occurred the night
of the story are the new french air strikes against isis in ear ja. we bring in eman mohyeldin from beirut. reporter: first confirmation from inside syria. we caution we can t independently verify this but a group of activists inside raqqah and credible in the past, they confirmed overnight there were all kinds of explosions, they counted at least 30 different explosions they attributed to fighter jets and war planes over the city of raqqah. according to activists on the ground the fighter jets now known to be french fighter jets targeted command and control centers belonging to isis as well as training centers. they are saying there were no civilian casualties as a result of that based on their from inside the city of raqqah. here in beirut the country continues to mourn its fallen following a deadly attack thursday night. the government has made substabbial progress in that