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Officials say it is too early to tell if police bullets struck any of them. we turn now to syria where isis made a number of significant advances on the battlefield. the syrian observatory for human rights says the terror group controls more than half the country from the border with turkey in the north down into central iraq. the main isis strong holds are the syrian city of raqqa and mosul. there is a major gas build in homes in syria. the terror group gets a large amount of funding from oil and gas sales on the black market. activists say the group also captured the last border crossing i...

And senior international correspondent ivan watson joins us live from hong kong to bring us more perspective. i think it is interesting, ivan, all of the reporting you've done in the middle east and you actually went to palmyra as a tourist. that's interesting to me. i wanted to ask you, you said earlier on cnn, the significance that isis was able to take this significant city and significant for the region now that they have move need in syria. >> well, they've succeeded in capturing palmyra and at the same time moving in another direction which is to capture the last of the border crossings ...

Isis. ivan watson shows us what's at stake. >> reporter: a 2,000-year-old city remarkably preserved in the middle of the desert and now in the hands of isis. the agonysyria's three-year war just got worse. many of its residence will likely flee interer to escape the public executions that the group directs against its opponent. in addition to the human cost of this conflict, there are now fears isis may unleash its wrath on the nearby ruins of palmyra. i viced in 2007 as a tourist on a bus. it is ancient greco roman columns, arches, temples an an amphitheater. this caravan town had been an imp...