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Most important railway line of the country. an emergency situation has occurred. thats why we have decided to send buses and then deliver them to the austrian border where they wanted to go. >> heres a closer look at just how far many of these migrants have traveled. after leaving their own country, turkey is usually the first stop, then across the sea and across that dangerous journey into greece. macedonia is next and eventually on through serbia, then hungary, which is, of course, a critical ...

Heres senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palka. >> reporter: its an image that shocked the world. a 3-year-old toddler found dead on a beach in turkey. his father and mother also killed drowned trying to reach greece. newspapers told the family including the surviving father fleeing fighting from syria. >> is anybody with a sense of humanity that could not be moved by what i saw today? i see the body of a young boy watched up on a beach like drift wood. >> reporter: migrants from syria an...

The attacks here in istanbul carried out by a radical left wing group according to officials, and the attacks in the south by kurdish gorillas. an siri of attack business different groups. the real question here is, why? why this spate of violence by these two very, very different groups that have no overlapping agendas? and its -- partly to do with the u.s. war on isis, the u.s.-led war on isis. the u.s. has been pressuring turkey to do more to crack down on militants, to seal the border, to ta...

Of operation. >> colonel francona, how did you cut off the flow? >> as he said, its not just a military situation. turkey is the main transit point and i think we have had a diplomatic success in finally coming to an agreement with the turks, not only going to have access to the turkish air bases but the turks have committed to shut off that flow. once that happens i think youll see a decrease in the number of fighters as we kill -- just a process of attrition will lower those numbers, but its g...

There are pockets of radicalism here. with a lone wolf you only need one person online giving messages for the attacks to be inspired. jordan is low on the list of places you will be worried about. a very well known transit point for other parts in the middle east. great airport here he will use to the middle east. >> certainly mental illness and depression and fascination with guns. that is something we have seen many times in these lone wolf cases. thank you for that nick. happening this mor...

Where there was opposed to isis. did he use jordan as a transit point? did he head east toward iraq where there is isis and even al qaeda still in large numbers? or did he use jordan as an air transit point to head somewhere else in the middle east? theres been talk about yemen perhaps. did he like other people who attack the west get some kind of training here? all of this will focus in the minds of the investigators right now. they will be looking to construct a narrative of people of things n...

And venzellen military providing protection for drug shipments from columbia. it has become a giant transit point for coke shipments to the united states and europe. drug dealers paying protection money to top officials. >> and talk to me. who is he -- he has been a top aid to the late president. he is considered by many to be actually more powerful than venezuelas president. he has a lot of links to venezuelas military and hes said to be at the top of the

Capitol hill. house lawmaker michael mccaul recently in iraq with this reaction today. >> to say were on the offensive and isis on the defense is absolutely incredulous. they have taken over ramadi. the black flags were flying there. this is a key transit point between syria and iraq and now it is has fallen to isis. whatever the strategy is, im not quite sure what that strategy is. it is not working right now. >> mccaul also says he does not think defeating isis is the white houses top priority...

You listen to those sound bites from the president and the military and it sounds like a different picture to what some say are unfolding here. >> the rhetoric doesnt meet the reality. ramadi is where the sons of the awakening took place. to say we are on the offense and isis is on the defense is incredulous. the black flags are flying there now and this is a key transit point between syria and iraq and now its fallen to isis. of what the strategy is, im not quite sure what that strategy is, its...

Way we do our service a great disservice. martha: they have been very clear about that lets put up a map to talk about how it effects widening circles of area of influence. this happened in libya as we say, but happened to ethiopians. this makes ethiopia, part of iraq, syria kenya ethiopia circle affected by this. if you look at yemen on the other side of the gulf of aden and red sea this is incredibly strategic point in the middle east and ethiopia does not have a whole lot to come back at them...