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air. and a new spin on a board game to help young south africans deal with abuse. russian president vladimir putin has denied they killed civilians during airstrikes for the second day. russia s airstrikes mark the biggest middle east offense in decades. in the past 24 hours it s hit 12 isil targets, destroying a command center and weapons depots, but opposition groups say they re the ones being targeted. saudi arabia has criticized them, demanding that moscow end them. here s more. russian jets attacked a town that s not an isil stronghold, mainly in eastern syria. instead this area is dominated by rebel groups that oppose president bashir assad, a russian ally. it s the second day of russian airstrikes, and there s concern who they re targeting. civilian casualties as russian bombs were dropped in homes and provinces. say the opposition, the raids focused on command and control posts not held by isil. translator: we urge before that the russians are interfering ....
afghan forces claim victory. this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i m stephanie sy. russian officials are now admitting that their air strikes in syria did not just target isil. according to syrian state tv, russia has carried out 30 air strikes over the past two days. u.s. officials say at least some of them hit u.s.-backed rebels. moscow has denied that. it says it went after a wide range of people it calls terrorists. senator mccain said he has proof that the kremlin specifically targeted free syrian army rebels. russian military involvement in syria isn t new. the kremlin has been supplying weapons for years. peter sharp has more on why the u.s. and nato are concerned. reporter: it is what do you call the people who are who are in support and fighting against the the the assad government. they are termed terrorists. so that has allowed, i think, the the the russian direction to be on on these people, to be more wider spread than perh ....
being ignored. this is al jazeera america live from new york city. concern is growing this morning in washington as russia reportedly launches new airstrikes in northwest syria. according to syria state t.v. russians carried out 30 airstrikes over the past two days. u.s. officials say some targeted u.s.-backed reynolds. moscow denied again this morning. secretary of shade skwonl kerry and russian foreign men tir sergey lavrov met at the u.n. expecting to meet about the airstrikes as early as today, the pentagon is already warning the russians to reconsider their approach. that approach is tantamount, as i said then, to pouring gasoline on the fire. in contrast, our position is clear that a lasting defeat offis ill and sectiextremism un syria can only be achieved in parallel with the political transition in syria. syrian opposition leaders are also worried. they say syrian civil yajz need protection from russia fueling the conflict by supporting the assad regime to s ....
criticizing, again, the iran nuclear agreement and palestinian leader mahmoud abbas. you heard it all, john. i did. we did not expect netanyahu to focus so heavily on the iran nuclear agreement. was anything different in his message today? reporter: it was a bit of a snub from mahmoud abbas trying to get the palestinian conflict on top of the national agenda and achieved that but it was hardly mentioned at all by the israeli prime minister. we have been told that he was not going to spend so much time this year at the general assembly concentrating on the issue of iran, that he had moved on with that and the main reason is that he s to meet with president obama in november. to most of the rest of the world, the iran nuclear deal is now a done deal. however, that was not the way it turned out and prime minister netanyahu spoke at length about iran and dominated really most of his address here at the general assembly. he did make overtures towards president obama t ....
israel s prime minister criticizes the united nations over the iran nuclear deal. and hurricane joaquin, we re tracking the category 4 storm. breaking news tonight out of roseburg, oregon. according to the state attorney general, and people are dead after a shooting at umpqua community college. the shooter has been identified as a 20-year-old male. he was killed at the scene. and the attack began just after 10:30 this morning, pacific time. the officials have not released information about a motive in the shooting. roseburg is a small community in southwest oregon. it s about 70 miles south of eugene, 180 miles south of portland. the students were bussed from the umpqua campus to the douglas county fairgrounds where they re meeting family members, and that s where allen schauffler is tonight. reporter: it s a heartbreaking scene, randall. we have talked to some of the folks here, who have gotten clearly bad news from inside of this building where people were brought f ....