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People who at times may be against them and may be forced to be alongside them. if you bomb them, maybe increasingly close to their point of view, how do you strike that cautious balance and militarily effective. a vitally important part where isis is. it has a lot of military power that they are trying to gather to its north through kurdish forces and weak syrian sunni arab coalition, the syrian democratic face. they want to use special forces to mobilize them to move south towards raqqa. it's not imminent but the idea of france saying raqqa is our target now, that may potentially focus nato ...

Sharing all of its intelligence with the french. what's different about this, they are giving them raw intelligence from what's known as the five eyes program, this is just the agency, u.s., uk, canada, australia and new zealand. they had this agreement for years where they share everything. they are welcoming the french into that family. >> what will that be? when you talk about the significance of raw data? what is the raw data we could be talking about as pertains to the strikes in raqqa? >> intelligence based on all of their gathering methods, from satellites and drones -- >> it's basicall...

Blow to france, the terrorist attacks here. i'm not convinced it will be entirely successful or we can take out raqqa purely with air strikes. >> so two crucial follow-ups to that. when you talk about hospitals being struck as they are saying indeed happened now. those hospitals are often only in name. >> names. >> but as you point out, sometimes and sometimes not. how do you know? >> we don't know actually. we don't know what's going inside raqqa. we have very little information. sometimes they will move civilians into places like that, like during the kos vo air strikes, they might move host...

Administration is being based -- and importantly a lot of foreign fighters especially those from britain and france are based in and around raqqa. it is known that a lot of the executions that were carried out by jihadi john were carried out on the outskirts 67 raqqa. it is full of important targets and does make sense to go for raqqa than for other places. >> and nick paton walsh, you have more information. i'm just hearing that right now. go ahead. >> no, simply to add, we have to be cautious about the level of assault that's possible against raqqa. we're talking about a very still well popu...

The middle east editor of "newsweek," lives here in paris, author of an upcoming book on syria. you have spent a lot of time in syria and in recent months and during this conflict. so let's talk about this issue right now, tonight, france with massive air strikes against the stronghold of raqqa. in syria, what is your perception of the civilians and isis and how closely intertwined they are? >> it's difficult with air strikes to get precise targets. we've seen this over and over again. i think since the russian intervention began there's been something like 14 hospitals that have been hit. the...