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CNNW New Day November 23, 2015

Coalition, and join in those air strikes on syria. In order to push this agenda, hollande will be meeting tomorrow with president barack obama br obama. He will also be meeting with the german chancellor Angela Merkel, and he will be meeting with russian president Vladimir Putin. Here in france, authorities are trying to identify this man. Well take a look at this photograph. This was put on the twitter account of french police. This man is believed to be one of the attackers who blew himself up outside the stadium. He is also believed to have traveled to france, using that refugee route. Hes believed to have traveled with the other bomber, who we already know is traveling on what is believed to be a fake syrian passport. French authorities here trying to identify both of these men, but today is the first time weve seen this photograph of this man. And i have to tell you guys that security is still very tight here in france. Were hearing that all children going into schools today will have their bags searched by authorities. Parents are being told, dont congregate outside the school when youre dropping your kids off or picking them up, and france has also taken the step of extending a ban on all forms of protests, all public gathering, until the end of the month. Thank you for the latest clarissa. Meanwhile, brussels remains under the highest threat of terrorist attacks. Police arresting 16 people in a raid of antiterror attacks across the city. This as the International Manhunt for that eighth paris attacker intensifies. Fled Fred Pleitgen is live in brussels with that part of the story for us. Fred, what do we know . Reporter yeah, absolutely, this city pretty much on lockdown. Theres a few people on the street, but far less than you would normally see on a monday morning. This isnt only the capital of belgium, but this is also de facto, the administrative capital of the European Union as well. And to see so few people out on the streets on a monday morning like this certainly is something that is a great cause for concern. We were here last night and there was a cordoned search operation. Im right in the center of brussels right now. And the soldiers we spoke to, the police that we spoke to, they were very nervous as they were conducting searches here, trying to see if there was someone suspicious in this area. You can see a vehicle that the belgian military has placed here. And there have been several raids that have gone on overnight. 22 overall, 16 people taken into custody. But the main person they are looking for Salah Abdeslam, he has not been arrested, and as long as he is not arrested with, this state of emergency here, the terror alert level they have right here is probably not going to go away, although people are saying, theyre not sure how much longer they can carry on like that, with a major european city essentially in a state of lockdown. Absolutely, fred, what a situation. Thank you for that reporting. Well, president obama is back in washington after his nineday asia trip. He returns to this country on edge after the paris terror attacks, but hes urging americans not to overreact and promising to destroy the terror group. Joe johns is live at the white house with more. Good morning, joe. Good morning, alisyn. The president arriving back here in washington right around midnight after that long trip to turkey, the philippines, and malays malaysia. And in that last speech in kuala lumpur, really giving a sense where his head is at after the attacks in paris and also in mali, wading into the notion that fear itself is part of the problem. Being afraid of the killers who attacked paris, the killer who is attacked mali is in and of itself one of the biggest problems. Listen. Theyre a bunch of killers, with good social media. So, now, the president is going to have a whole week of dealing with some of these issues, including the visit of french president hollande here at the white house on tuesday. Hes going to meet with him, talk more about the response to terrorism. After that, of course, hollande moves on to russia, as there are hopes that a Broad Coalition now can form to fight isis. Back to you. All right, joe, thank you very much. Lets bring in Cnn Senior International correspondent, Clarissa Ward and michael weiss, cnn contributor and coauthor of isis inside the army of terror. Lets get to the ground there, clarissa. The reports are that there is still this frenzy of activity to try to get their hands around the threat, that they keep learning more and more about potential urgency. What are you hearing and seeing . Well, i think they keep learning more and more, every raid that had do. And theyve done more than 800 in the last week alone, chris. But theres also a sense that this has spread beyond france now. Weve seen these raids in belgium. Theres rumors that the eighth attacker, Salah Abdeslam, was spotted in germany or even the netherlands. This has really become now a paneuropean effort. But here in france, i would say one of the main focuses is trying to find out who was the third man in that saintdenis apartment where the architect of these attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud was killed. We know he was killed alongside a 26yearold woman, believed to be his cousin, but we also know there was a third man in that apartment, he was wearing an explosive vest, and we dont yet know who he is. In conjunction with that, authorities also still trying to identify, chris, two of these bombers, who both blew themselves up at the stadium. Who both allegedly took that refugee route, believed to be traveling on fake syrian passports. So french authorities still trying to identify some of the key players who are involved with these attacks. Chris . Michael, when youre talking to the guys on the ground there who are doing the investigating, the word overwhelmed keeps coming up. That they have good capabilities, but in and around france, they have a unique situation there of a Muslim Population thats disenfranchised, radicalized, and has a lot of access to damage. How unique is france in terms of the United States, in, should we be looking at them and afraid were next. It has a lot in common with great britain. I lived in london for three years, there were entire districts of neighborhood where you feel like youre stepping into a foreign country. It has become that ghettoized, for lack of a better term, unfortunately. The problem with Something Like this is, okay, you have this devastating attack. Really, europes 9 11, even eclipsing madrid in terms of the spectacle and the mass outrage. You now have to go in and disrupt all of these networks and sleeper cells that you kind of, sort of knew existed, but didnt deem to be an imminent or credible threat. Can they . No, i think its very hard. Were talking about a europeanwide dragnet. This doesnt even stay in france or belgium. It go to greece, italy, germany. Within a matter of hours, if youre on the continent, you could be in any country. Abdeslam could be anywhere. Whos the fourth, fifth, sixth guy . According to cnn in january, Paul Cruickshank did a very good report and according to european officials, there are about 20 sleeper cells scattered throughout europe with about as many as 180 operatives. You can do the math. How many terror attacks since then . And of them, how many have been arrested or killed . So quite a large majority remain, if that figure is to be accurate. So this is months and months of investigations and counterattacks. We havent even see the tip of the iceberg. And it would be surprising if these didnt spur more attacks. The result of a lot of this pressure is this increased recognition that the fight needs to be taken to syria. What are you seeing in terms of possible public support of that . Because france had been unwilling to go in there and get on the ground as well. Do you see a change . Well, certainly, president Francois Hollande, thats been one of the main rallying cries that weve heard over and over and over from him. We are at war. We need to intensify efforts to hit isis in their home in syria and iraq. We know now that the french Aircraft Carrier has arrived in the gulf. And youre trying to see him rally support internationally for a more focused effort on attacking isis. Hes got David Cameron, the british Prime Minister here in town today. David cameron has been trying to persuade the British Parliament for some time now that the brits need to be involved in this effort to attack isis with air strikes inside syria, hes also going to be meeting with the german chancellor, Angela Merkel, with president obama, and also with the russian president , Vladimir Putin. But there is a realization creeping in. You see it in newspapers, you read it in analysis, that air strikes alone will not be enough to defeat this enemy. So perhaps there is a sense of creeping awareness or realization that more will need to be done. But at this stage, i would say its largely confined to editorials and analysis. I wouldnt say youve seen any real outpouring of public support to do more than hit them with air strikes. Sounds right, clarissa. When i got back here, i had a lot of messages from bm buddieso were like, slow down. The idea that because hollande comes here and visits and that triggers them to come here. Thats far fetched. They dont believe theres the operation of public support for it. Your take. You talk to people in the state department at the lower and middle levels, theyre sort of sweating bullets every day. Saying, weve got a year and change on the clock with this administration, lets pray nothing happens. Because if it does, youll see boots on the ground. And its inevitable. If you talk to any military commander on the record, off the record, they will say, you cannot run a guerilla insurgency by dropping bombs from the sky. Fallujah, 2004, we leveled that city. Leveled it. Turned it into a pocked moonscape. And within the first week of major combat operations, they had already set up shop in mosul. Thats how they operate. So i think what were doing, i agree with the president s urge to keep calm and not get alarmist, particularly on the syrian refugee issue, which we can talk about another time, but there is this sense of inevitability. Its not going to be under his administration, but the next one. We all know what the threat is, and then what happens when you go in and fight it and dont stay. There are layers of decisions that will have to be made. Thank you very much for the perspective, clarissa, stay safe. All right, breaking news. 16 people rushed to the hospital following a shootout in a new orleans park. Police say about 500 people, at least 500 people, including children and teens were there filming a music video. Witnesses say thats when several people started shooting into that crowd. Detectives are combing the neighborhood, trying to find any Surveillance Video of the suspects. Friends and family standing by Washington Post journalist jason resign after irans state news agency reported that he has been sentenced to prison. The newspaper says hes innocent and the state department is calling on iran to vacate his sentence and send him home. Rezaian had been held in a iranian jail for nearly 500 days. 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It is remarkable to see how Kurdish Forces who have american support, how close theyve actually got to raqqah. After paris, the sinai, in the crosshairs is here. Raqqah, lost in the haze, yet they can hear it. Loud thuds, heaviest of dusk. Three days ago, he says, we saw three air strikes southerly hit just nearby and the french said theyd started bombing. Well do our best to avenge paris. He, like the other young kurdish fighters here, have lost friends, but say fighting isis is a duty for humanity rather than vengeance, as they man a series of trenches and outposts about 20 miles from the city. We have just heard the distant thuds of what could have been two air strikes, but from where were standing, here is the kurdish front line, a trench dug, as far as we can see, and then all in this direction, flat, open land, until you reach the outskirts of raqqah, the capital of isis selfdeclared caliphate. Reporter four russian missiles hit raqqah this day, activists say, but otherwise, its the silence of stalemate in the desert. Weapons here are scant. This man carries the ak47 of his friend, who died eight months ago. Out here in the flat, open ground, with isis in the next village, they still scorn isis leaders and welcome help. If french, russian, or american fighters, this commander says, come here to fight, well cooperate with them, as we are all fighting to clean the area of isis for humanity. Isis left their mark on nearby an alisa, even the mosque littered with mines. The silence here is breathtaking. This is directly the road down to raqqah and you can just hear the complete absence of human life. There is little in victory left to fight for. On the way out, we meet these guys. They dont look much like white nights, but thats what the pentagon hopes they are. The Syrian Democratic forces, getting american aid, who explain, theyve secured the major deflection of sunni tribes inside raqqah to fight isis. We werent expecting this large number to join, but there are now 4,000 tribesmen, he says. When we want to move, all of them are ready, and weve already managed to sneak weapons to them. Were moving forward. Western leaders call this a global fight, but here, alone, you feel the dust, death, and determination. Nick, so powerful, what youve seen there and experienced. Give us an ideas, from those that youre talking to on the ground, how effective that air assault is. Reporter for those kurds, they are a series of thuds in the distance of intense fire, but activists inside raqqah has been giving a long list of targets, they believe, have been hit by those french and possibly russian air strikes, too. And they seem to focus mostly on key parts of infrastructure. Large buildings of roundabouts. Something called the al shabaab club, its a youth club, effectively. Even the fact that some of these munitions dropped, we cant corroborate. Types of device that penetrate human flesh and kill everything in sight, really, have potentially been used as well. Those air strikes intense. The question being, what happened to civilians who may have been caught up in them and how did this large number of targets given that u. S. Craft has been over that city already. Air traffic stepping up. Weve learned over the weekend flights between baghdad and erbil have been canceled. Tell us more about whats happening to air travel there. Well, all flights out of iraq have been canceled for a 48hour period, we understand. That includes those leaving for the erbil area in Northern Iraq and those in baghdad, too. Until wednesday morning, local time. That is because, airport fishes and Security Officials say, they are potentially concerned about a large number of cruise missiles flying across the country at that stage. That can only be from one direction. That will be the caspian sea, where the russian navy has a substantial number of vessels. As i should say, w

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