Under fire. Today well learn more about americas escalating involvement in two different wars. A new wave of airstrikes hammers isis targets in syria. These photos reportedly show the aftermath. U. S. Ally jordan again takes the lead and vows not to ease up until isis is destroyed. Jordan was accompanied by american f18s and f22s. In the meantime top u. S. Allies scramble to moscow for peace talks on the escalating crisis in ukraine. Can france and germany convince Vladimir Putin to shut off the pipeline of troops and weapons. Cutting through the fog of war. National security adviser susan rice will tell americans the plans and priorities in confronting these crises. Six years into the Obama PresidencyForeign Policy in a changing world. Lets begin with the crisis in ukraine and todays meeting between u. S. Allies and the russian president , Vladimir Putin. Cnns National Security correspondent jim sciutto is in the nations capitol. Aaron mcclauf lynnlaughlin is in moscow. Lets start with you, jim. Reporter theyre arriving in russia shortly. Theyre going to end a war on the ground. The focus is now resurrecting a Peace Agreement negotiated in september. The trouble is theyll be sitting across the table from the man, russian president Vladimir Putin who they accuse of breaking that piece agreement agreement. No question who they blame for an acute escalation. That is russia. That is president putin. Minor progress today. Cease fires in some of the towns worst hit, but the worry is that with each of these smaller cease fires that the front lines move further ahead. That leaves more territory under, in effect russian control. Two questions still not answered. One, will there be another round of economic sanctions against russia but also unresolved will the u. S. Send military aid to ukrainian forces. That decision still has not been made. Carol. Jim sciutto, many thanks to you. Germanys Angela Merkel says theres only one thing clear heading into this mornings talks. There is no military solution to the fighting. Only diplomacy can forge a lasting peace. So what will it take to convince Vladimir Putin to buy into that plan. Lets turn to cnns erin mclaughlin. Shes in moscow. Hi erin. Reporter Vladimir Putin has kept the west guessing at every stage pretty much along this crisis with Eastern Ukraine though the kremlin though has said that it welcomes the visits from french president Francois Hollande as a positive step forward. It has also been very quick to point to its own proposals. President putins own proposals to resolve this crisis proposals that western officials have largely thus far rejected. Meanwhile, there is news out of ukraine ukraine. Were still waiting to hear kremlin comment on it that ukrainians have arrested a russian spy. Now the report coming from ukrainian intelligence officials that they have arrested a Lieutenant Colonel in the Ukrainian Military on suspicion of spying on behalf of russia which raises all sorts of questions about the scale of russias potential involvement in this crisis. Carol. And arming the rebels as well. Erin mclaughlin, thank you so much. Now to the fight against isis. Jordan unleashes another round of punishing airstrikes against terrorist targets in syria. Officials vowing to up the ante and hunt down the killers of that jordanian pilot. A second set of strikes is now complete. Among the latest targets destroyed, isis training centers, weapons and ammunition depots. The air mission now being called moat the martyr in honor of the slain pilots. Theyre dropping bombs with messages scribbled like this one. Islam has nothing to do with your actions. Friends and family of the pilot are remembering him as a hero. Yesterday queen raynia visited his town. The queen is embracing the pilots widow. The couple had only been married for six months. Lets bring in jomana karadsheh. Good morning. Reporter we were there when the king and queen visited his family in a show of solidarity to pay their respects to the family of a man who has become an eye coop for so many here in jordan. Carol, that tent where women had gathered to mourn him, we went into that tent and it was really emotional scene. We saw his mother there. She looked so frail, numb and in so much pain she could barely speak. But we were also able to meet other relatives who were able and really keen to share their memories of this young man and also tell us how they felt about what happened to him. Heres what his 21yearold cousin leyla told us. He not only lived, he existed, you know . He did something for his country and for his religion. He had to die in that way to show people how true the people are. Its sad and its heartbreaking and were so sad and were crying all the time and when were not crying were talking about him. Reporter and, carol, describing his personality, people were saying that he was an outgoing person had a really strong character and was very popular and his dream, his ambition he always wanted to become a pilot. His family and friends really proud of what he did in his life and ultimately in his death. Now they feel that their country is more united than ever in their stance rallying around the government to strike isis back. Jomana karadsheh, thank you very much. Jordans airstrikes focused mainly on raqqa, syria. Thats where theyve set up its de facto capitol. Raqqa is being slaughtered silently posted these pictures. The group claims they show the aftermath of the coalition airstrikes. Oddly, isis has just released some more propaganda showing women sewing burkas and head gashes gash garbs being handed out to children. Children. Nick paton walsh showed us what the isis strong hold of raqqa is really like. Its interesting how jordan is showing the world its bombing raqqa. It put this on youtube. Lets dig deeper with cnn Global Affairs analyst Lieutenant Colonel james reese. Welcome, sir. Good morning. Have you watched these youtube videos . Theyre sort of like reality tv shows. I have. Its what they have now is counter propaganda to isis and the arab world is trying to move this along. Weve been talking about it for months and theyre able to take the gun videos from the f16s and put them into production. It works out for them. Heres a couple of things that we found interesting in viewing those youtube videos. You have jordanians writing messages on the missiles including islam has nothing to do with your actions. Drop upon them stones of fire. And they will turn their back and run. Your thoughts on the effectiveness of such a thing. Well you know those are the young troops that are prepping those fighter jets to go into combat. If you can look back at the videos from centcom in iraq and afghanistan and look at the carriers we did the same thing. Our kids that are loading up the bombs on those aircraft the u. S. Air craft, they write messages to bin laden. We did all those things. So i understand it. Its the passion. Theyre into the mission and they want it and i think thats good. I think its good for the arab people. I think its good for the islamic aspect to see the passion that they need to get into and for us we need to allow them to do that and push that along so we can kind of sit back and watch. Okay. The other thing that i found interesting, there are women in this video in fatigues. Was that done on snurps. Absolutely carol. I mean what isis is trying to do is show the flex and the aspects that they can put inside of isis. The other piece is they are training females in type of soldier tasks because they want to send them out and they want them to do death and destruction as they either move them into iraq or even back into europe because, remember when a woman walks down the street no one really gives her a second thought. Weve seen that in other places. That is a great tactical move by isis to train those women in combat operations. We know that women can be fierce fighters because kobani is a prime example of that right . Absolutely. The kurdish women are great fighters. They have a passion for their people and so you know i have got to believe if something happened like this in the u. S. Our women, we have great women in our military that are just as good fighters as our men. So you know its all about the girls. This he can do it too. Colonel, thats why i like you so very much. The other thing i notice is that the pilots as they bored their f16s, theyre giving the thumbs up sign. I would suppose every military pilot in jordan is a hero now. They are. The thumbs up is what all the jet pilots do. They give a thumbs up to their crew to let them know thank you, theyre ready to go on their mission. Right now theres a sense of urgency for them and pride and let the jords go at them. I salute them. Lieutenant colonel, james reese, thanks for your insight as always. I appreciate it. Thanks, jierlcarol. The Unemployment Rate crepes higher. Thats not necessarily a bad thing. Really. Christine romans has more on that. Good morning. There was a lot of good job creation the beginning of this year. Guess what the end of last year was stronger than we even thought. Ill tell you whats going right in the job market right after the break. We have breaking news on the economy. The january jobs report was released a short time ago. 257,000 jobs were added last month, more than expected but the Unemployment Rate ticked up a notch to 5. 7 . Now these latest numbers coming as the president heads to indianapolis to talk about, you guessed it the economy. Christine romans is following the numbers for us this morning. What do they mean . Its a strong report carol. The president s going to be able to go there, to indianapolis today and say that the job market is still improving and wages are rising. I want you to look at the trend here carol. Youve given that headline number but look what happened to the end of last year. November 423,000 jobs created. We saw revision thats bigger than we initially expected. December 329,000 jobs created. Here 257,000 jobs created. Youre seeing strength in the labor market. The end of last year carrying into this year. Heres something thats really important. You mentioned that Unemployment Rate and how that Unemployment Rate had ticked up to 5. 7 . Heres why you dont need to worry about that. It grew the Unemployment Rate grew because more than 1 million new people came into the labor market probably seeing these signs of encouragement from the jobs market and saying all right, i stepped back. I havent been looking for work for some time. Now im going to try. We also saw a broadening out of the kinds of jobs being created, carol. Its not just the bartenders waitresses very low paid Home Health Care aides. Youre seeing broadening out of construction manufacturing jobs business and information services. Jobs lost in the oil patch, not a surprise there as oil prices have collapsed, but youre seeing jobs created in broad sector broad Different Industries in this country and the wages increase. So there you go carol. Now wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wages increase . Thats a passion that you and i share, the wage gap. Yeah. What happened . Wages increased. Youre now looking at year over year 2. 2 wage growth. That is encouraging. Id like to see more like 2. 5 because i always want a little more than im given in the labor market of course. You want to see that trend continue. You want to see a lot of different kinds of jobs created, not just the lower paid jobs. You want to see a lot of different kinds new jobs. This is the most dynamic labor market in the world. Its starting to get its mojo back. Still have a lot of work to do. Sounds good. Christine romans thanks so much. Still to come in the newsroom, ukraines army is desperate for supplies including toilet paper and sleeping bags one officer is taking matters into his own hands. You wont believe how. Well talk about that next. [ female announcer ] we help make secure financial tomorrows a reality for over 19 million people. [ susan ] my promotion allowed me to start investing for my retirement. Transamerica made it easy. [ female announcer ] everyone has a moment when tomorrow becomes real. Transamerica. Transform tomorrow. 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Some lawmakers say its time to step up. This is a military that really hasnt had any influx of new military equipment since the breakup of the soviet union. Its a country that gave up its Nuclear Weapons under this promise of freedom and integrity. Now i think the United States is in a position to say, look you need to have the tools and the ability to defend yourself. A top nato official tells cnn even if aid gets there, it simply would not be enough. One ukrainian Intelligence Officer is taking matters into his own hands. Crowd funding 500,000 in manhattan since june of last year his next stop is washington. Foreign policy columnist Michael Weiss recently spoke with him directly. Michael, thank you for joining us. Thanks for having me. Ive never heard of this before. It sort of reminds you of what the Syrian Rebels have been doing for four years, doesnt it . Completely desperate at total, you know a loss for any kind of institutional or governmental support. Yeah hes gone to new york and theres a huge and very activist ukrainiane ianian diaspora population here. Who is yvonne . Its important to make the distinction. The way the war is being fought theres the conventional Ukrainian Army and, you know interior ministry forces. Then there are volunteer battalions. Hes a member of the volunteer battalions. They contract with the Defense Ministry or interior ministry. You have to understand when the war broke out a year ago ukraines military was so defunct that they were taking anyone off the street that was willing to carry a pack and an ak47 to go to the front and fight. Hes a member of a 40man intelligence platoon that is part of the kiev rouse battalion. At most they were 700 or 600 soldiers. I dont know what their number is now. So his complaint is twofold. One, with the United States for not giving ukraine the support that it needs and, two, with the government of ukraine for not giving his battalion what they need. Were talking about things like sleeping bags toilet paper, poettable and radio equipment. Theyre using walk can iietalkies that you find it paint ball tournaments. They are fighting soldiers that have the surveillance equipment to tap into cell phones and walkietalkies. Its a david and goliath story i havent seen. The other disturbing thing, im going to quite a bit from it. This is from yvonne. My guys have died on the battlefield because theyre wearing the same helmets my grandfather war to fight the nazis. Talk about desperation. Yeah no totally. You know you have to understand also the weaponry that theyre using. Ak47s. This is a very old kind of gun, right . The separatists are bringing in antitank, antiaircraft, you know radar guided artillery sis stems to pound these cities. The story i opened the piece which was haunting yvonne said there was a soldier in his battalion battalion, he had his head taken off by a machine gun. They came over and rifled through his belongings found his cell phone, went through his contacts and called his mother and father and girlfriend and said we just killed your son. This is the level of brutality. Like tin helmets to protect them from the most sophisticated armaments known to man. Thats just awful. Yes. You also mentioned in your article, this is sort of like what yvonne is doing, hes running a startup war. What do you mean by that . Well i mean you know its you know the people that are part of these volunteer battalions a lot of them were just activists on the streets of kiev. They were protesting the yanokovich government. They had no experience whatsoever. Some worked for tech companies, were journalists, whatever. So for them this is this is a really a to z, how to go to war without any kind of you know training or any kind of you know really indepth professional background. His whole battalion was trained up by a Ukrainian Special forces commander. Were not talking u. S. Basic training here. Its probably, you know a day or two of heres how you hold a gun, heres how umar through mud and thats it. Youre on your own. You wrote one fascinating article. Thank you for sharing. Michael weiss. Thanks for sharing. Ill be right back. Sure. Financial tomorrows a reality for over 19 million people. [ alex ] transamerica helped provide a lifetime of retirement income. So i can focus on what matters most. [ female announcer ] everyone has a moment when tomorrow becomes real. Transamerica. Why do we do it . Why do we spend every waking moment, thinking about people . Why are we so committed to keeping you connected . Why combine performance with a conscience . Why innovate for a future without accidents . Why do any of it . Why do all of it . Because if it matters to you its everything to us. The xc60 crossover. From volvo. Lease the wellequipped volvo xc60 today. Visit your local volvo showroom f