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France's president is asking russia and the united states to do more both diplomatically and militarily against isis. france has been launching retaliatory strikes against raqqah. for the first time president obama spoke in the philippines yesterday about russia's role. >> i also welcome moscow going after isil. the problem has been in their initial military incursion into syria, they have been more focused on propping up mr. assad and targeting the moderate opposition as opposed to targeting those folks who threaten us, europe and russia as well. >> and the vice chairman of the joint chiefs o...

Martin dempsey, it's good to have you here. >> good to be here. >> what can we achieve from isis? >> you can take on their logistics pipelines and the like. obviously, to really close this out is going to require a ground force of some type. but air power has been effective so far in stopping their spread and even helping indigenous ground forces push back on them. air power alone will not solve it. >> so we are going to have to rely on the ke-- we can't do it were you our allies in the region. >> it's the $64,000 question of what the ground will be comprised of to end this thing. and that's a...

See how it folds out. >> you have the saudis up against iran. they fair against iran. we are against assad. russia is propping up assad. france is in the middle. everybody's got a different adversary here, but a common enemy now in isis. >> exactly. and the real threat to stability in the region right now is isis. and i think people are beginning to wake up to that, and i think one of the things that we can help with and perhaps president hollande may ask us to help with is bringing this coalition together in a more forceful way to address the near-term problem of suppressing isis. while we ta...

That president obama and vladimir putin and other world leaders got together in see yen vienna to start bringing together a world concert, to bring this conflict to an end. we need a timeline for bashar al assad to leave. this all started when he began shooting non-violent protesters and it moved into the mess we have now. but world leaders all getting on the same page, agreeing there needs to be an olderly departure of assad. and also a concerted effort to stop isis is the right track. we have to keep our focus on that. because it's good to help the refugees and i'm all in favor of that, but ...

Success. because this was a jihadist and isis cell. they are saying that because there was an active suicide vested woman, whoever she was, that blew herself up immediately the minute they stormed the apartment building. there were clearly a large number of weapons and a huge cache of ammunition there. with there are a number of individuals, at least nine, in that apartment. police believe this was an isis cell. several sources have told reuters they believe this cell was about to attack an area of paris in the business district. a lot of big banks are based there. and whatever the vegetablint...