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Give high profile vehicles some extra room as well. The wind should continue right into friday, though the gusts probably wont be any worse than 30mp by then. O weekd still lookk great with highsswell into thh 50s bbh days. Our weather turns active again as we head into next week thanks kaj. Crews and families around iowa will be cleaning up neighborhood s after Severe Weather crossed the state. Most of eastern iowa was on tch for tornados yesterday afternoon, when the sun had already set. In des moines, people found the southwe side. High winds blew through and n seconds these massive oak tre...

Like to say in putin is very controversial with his attitude because before a was no there are five or 6,000 people looking for citizenship for fighting in syria. So the russians have succeeded to squeeze out the terrorists out of russia and then put syria in the position of isis i the putin is completely counterproductive in syria but he does what he loves. He himself as profited you prefer to fight them there a man here in russia. I think part of the problem as we ourselves have learned just because youre there is a meeting of the targets elsewhere but his government does not treat muslims a...

Think that we have to accept something similar here especially with the call to the grand alliance in particular he worked against the west and ukraine in particular in 2014 and 2015. We are going to now, can we be a life together in syria coming and i have a feeling that wont be the end of the start as soon as he can put it again he will do so and i think that we must understand the nature of mr. Putin. So we have to be very realistic. We are all against isis, but if it is defeated, we are not going to be agreeing at all. I will take ipo takeoff on that and go back to what the russians expect...

They announced the bombing against the rebels would be accompanied by fighter planes. So they are taking the threat environment more seriously than they did. As hannah mentioned on the military side they have made pretty significant strides in reform in the last couple years. A senior russian i was speaking with last week pointed out jokingly that of all things we said we will reform and the only ones with result is the military. It is true not only in terms of the professionalization of the for forces but developing new radar, missile and air enabled platforms. There is some of this stuff hap...

As you can see, we havesee, we have a great panel. The importance of the conversation has been heightened. As we speak their negotiations going on in new york following secretary kerrys visit to moscow. With that i turn it over to our 1st speaker. Thank you. I am flattered to be here, delighted to be invited to Atlantic Council program and humbled to be among so many deeply experienced and wise copay lists. My task was to layout the motives for the russian intervention in syria and then say a little bit something about what it means in terms of the context. In my paper i layout two sets of mot...