Than 8 500 kilometers away from the Islamic State you have willingly taken part in this crusade. Prime minister abe is in the middle east and two days ago he pledged 200 million in support to fight isis and then two days later, isis takes these two japanese hostages kenji goto taken after october 23rd the last time the freelance journalist posted on his twitter account. He was a reporter covering the conflict in the middle east. Haruna owe kau wa taken in august its believed that isis was holding the two men and two days after the Prime Minister says japan is pledging 200 million, suddenly this video appears with a wellknown executioner seen on tape killing two americans and two british citizens. Now demanding 200 million to isis in exchange for the lives of these men. It gives us insight into how the Group Continues to operate. The fingerprints of isis are all over that terror cell targeted last week in belgium as well. The connection was confirmed by a senior counterterrorism official in brussels. This morning the search is on for the suspected ringleader of the cell. Lets go to brussels and bring in Senior International correspondent ivan watson. Ivan . Good morning, alisyn. Its a manhunt for one of belgiums most notorious jihadis. According to a senior counterterrorism official hes believed to be the middle eastermind of a suspected jihadi plot homegrown here in belgium that was aiming to target not only Police Officers but also had weapons and explosives and much more ambitious plans. The belgian authorities have succeeded in arresting five suspects here in belgium. Two men killed in a shootout with police last week. Two more suspects arrested in france. As well as a suspect believed to be of algerian nationality, who was arrested by police in greece. But be a dell Hamid Al Aboud is famous because hes believed to have taken his younger brother, only 13 to syria to join the ranks of isis. Hes described the boy, youness. Hes also filmed driving a pickup truck dragging corpses through a field. Now hes linked to a jihadi cell two of the members died in a gun battle with Belgian Police last week. A key role that yemen plays in all of this. The capital of yemen is teetering on the brink this morning. A fragile ceasefire appears to be holding for now between government officials in the president ial palace and rebel who is have surrounded the area. Could the fragile country and key u. S. Ally against al qaeda fall further into chaos . Lets turn into our Senior International correspondent nick paton walsh, the only photo journalist in yemen. Whats the word . Its clear lay division of power. The president s guard are dug in around the president ial administration. The building that we saw, but the kufi rebels are everywhere. A lot of buildings damaged in the shelling. Buses blown up. A mess the city trying to get back normal life. Hanging over them is the simple fact that the ceasefire could collapse at any moment. The political deal still being r hammered out. We dont know the details at this moment and the feeling is the observers the fundamental problems that caused it hasnt been resolved there are a lot of gunmen heavily armed. And the sense of the clock ticking, the politicians dont get some kind of miracle together in the next few hours, we could see again the violence we saw yesterday morning. Chris . Nick, thank you for sticking and please be safe. So we have new developments with Isis Al Qaeda and the wild card the question is a war reigniting off the radar in ukraine . Well discuss all of these things we have the chairman of the parisbased center for analysis of terrorism and jim arkedis, president of the Foreign PolicyPolitical Action committee. 4 d pac. Lets start with the isis video control room. Lets not show it too much. This video thats out now with the twist about ransom. Jeancharles i start with you, the idea of paying ransom to a group like isis should you ever do it . Well well well of course its always a difficult question for governments. Theres some governments, the United States uk have a firm stand and commitment on this other, others are more flexible and more willing to in some cases discuss with terrorists. Its always a difficult issue. But if you paid ransom to a terrorist organization be sure that it will reinforce their capabilities weve seen it in the past especially in the region with al qaeda and the islamic magreb it contributed to reinforce their capabilities and to the launch of a major offensive on the northern part of mali. Lets put up the numbers. Countries do pay, jim, right . Well show right there some of the top numbers that have been paid france at the top of the list. Two questions for one, no group ever asks once right . What does it mean about down the road . And what does it mean about isis that theyre asking for money . Does it mean that they need it . This is kind of isis m. O. Theyve kidnapped people before they make demands and theyre incredibly well funded and have had multiple revenue streams, hostagetake something one of them and the other has been taking territory and trying to cap oil wells and divert oil revenue for their own uses. And so this actually speaks to a broader m. O. We have so much going on in the world, its tough to make sense of all this. Terror plots in belgium and paris and aqap and now the crisis in ukraine. So its actually a little bit of good news the idea that the guy in belgium was directed by isis yes, for example he went to syria. He probably fought there. But by the time he got back to belgium, he was basically a freelancer. So i think its very important for the public to understand that we disaggregate between the two. What we see between the hostagetaking and the revenue, thats more in isis traditional m. O. Of holding territory. The belgium situation, you say goes slow on whether or not we see this guy as a legit isis operative. Even if hes the head of a local terror cell. Maybe he is a freelancer as you say. Well then lets extend the question what do you think of the flurry of activity in general, be it belgium or greece . You know or in paris do you see these recent arrests, this recent movement by authorities, is any of it connected . Its a lot of spaghetti, right . Its all over the place, so we in the western media and in the United States we want to put these things in neat little boxes and understand it and say okay ive got it now its time to move on right . But really the way the terrorist networks function is in the case of aqap and isis certainly now, people will go fight, they will get training in the case of aqap and then theyll go home and left to their own devices for a certain period in time. In the case of belgium, this guy wasnt very good at what he was doing. Weve seen that the police were had infiltrated his cell for a couple of months had been watching him. Moved in when they thought it was about to become operational. So i would suggest that the danger so the public is actually quite low. So this guy was not a professional hardened operative. When were trained to view these things through the lens of al qaeda and 9 11 which was a very topdown organization this is something very different. Jeancharles to you, france specific, we hear word that some of the suspects were released that brings some outcry and controversy. But of course france is a nation of laws. Is there any talk there about the need for Something Like the patriot act here in the United States . Which was highly controversial, but effective when it came to dealing with situations like this. As this was said just before were dealing with very complex networks. We need to be very cautious in what were doing, especially in our analysis of what is going on. Whether these individuals have been inspired or directed by any of these groups. As far as france is concerned, we have been fighting in the past in the 80s, in the 90s, waves of massive terrorism on our soil. Especially in paris and weve always responded through the law, and weve defeated terrorism in the 80s and the 90s again with the law. We will defeat it again today with the law. Because we dont want to basically to renounce to our values this will give another argument to the terrorists and so we decided recently to enforce the measures to enforce the cooperation for example at the european level which is fundamental in the fight especially against the jihadists who are flying to syria. But we will never renounce our values. Again we we weve defeated terrorism in the past. And we will do so with the same force. So the controversy aside about the recent releases of the suspects you say the process works, understood. We look forward to the results there. Thank you for the last point with you, mr. Arkedis. With whats going on in the ukraine, we believe russia do you believe theres substance behind the allegation. If so is there a new move . I would be very surprised if russia was not sending more arms into the ukraine. Weve seen a situation where oil prices throughout the world is beginning to fall. Putting a lot of pressure on Vladimir Putin, domestic economy, hes just slashed public spending and basically all sectors, except the military. Now were in situation where because hes starting to feel a bunch of domestic political pressure because the economy is going in the tank he addressed it over the course of his new years Speech Press Conference he likes to deflect a lot of this pressure by helping to create International Crises and i expect thats what were seeing here. He likes to ramp up pressure outside russia when its being focused on him in russia. What were hearing from donetsk, is its becoming almost unliveable there. 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Every 8 minutes the American Red Cross responds to a home fire or other emergency. You can help. Please donate now. President obama has been revealing the key agenda items hell present in the state of the union for weeks. Hes not keeping it a surprise. And tonight, for the first time in his presidency he will abe dressing a congress that is totally ruled by republicans. Cnns Michelle Kosinski is live at the white house with a preview. Plenty will be watching to see what the republican reaction is. But theres also talk about president obama getting his mojo back after the midterm elections. His Approval Rating ticking up over the last few weeks. In the latest poll from abc and the Washington Post is a 50 Approval Rating. Or nine points higher than it was just about a month ago. The white house sums up the theme of this state of the union in three thirds middle class economics, weve seen them lay it out with their tax proposal Free Junior College education. They say theres more to come. But you have to think, coming on the heels of major cyber and terror attacks, that has to figure in significantly as well. And we asked a former speech writer for president clinton what he thought the speech would be, domestic versus Foreign Policy. He said he thought it would be 50 50. He thinks that this speech will start with president obamas domestic agenda. Alisyn . Okay michelle thanks so much for all that lets break it down with cnns political analyst and editor in chief of the daily beast, john avlon and sirius xm host Margaret Hoover and republican analyst. The president has had a jump in the polls. Its all about the economy. President ial Approval Ratings are just an economic barometer. I hate to say theres not a lot more going on there. The economy is improving, it does give him a degree of leverage and some momentum going into the state of the union where hes facing a republican United Congress for the first time. John is right, its not necessarily a window into the president s success. Why do you not see it as something that should be attributed to the president and an increased mandate for him . Any time the president s approval rate something high going into a joint session of congress that helps, that means the American People are on his side. So i its not that i dont think this helps him. The problem is the election was a repudiation of democratic policies and of the president , six years into his presidency. All of the policies and the programs hes going to unveil tonight. He had full range to unveil them or propose them when he had a democratic congress. So hes not except theres a lot of successful opposition. Whats about all the opposition that stopped him from getting anything through, did that not happen also . The point, chris is that hes presenting all of these new plans and policies to a congress that has repudiated him. Hes got all of these new republicans in place. While he does have temporary, because it is temporary Approval Ratings on his side that doesnt mean the Republican Congress who is knewly elected, who has a mandate themselves because theyve been elected, their agenda is the more important piece here i think. Hes couching this all as help for the middle class. There will be tax credited for married couples to get some mooney to help with commuting and child care. How can the republicans go against that . Thats a great question. Were for helping the middle class, so its actually a very sort of baitandswitch play on the president , its clever of him to take a republican issue. You think the earned income tax credit is a republican issue . A lot of the new policies of the reform republicans are saying put more money back in the pockets of the middle class, so frankly it is. The way hes doing it hes saying why have to tax the rich. Thats not going to do anything to balance the budget. So its not that he is pursuing purist republican or conservative policies. Hes couching it with tax the rich by the way and heres a new couple federal programs for you at the same time. Well look so hes doing a little bit of political judo hes trying to take the issue of tax cut pop ligs f