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storm does go offshore. good afternoon, this is al jazeera america. i m jonathan betz. syria s deputy prime minister has told the world air strikes are not enough to defeat isil if there is no cooperation with his country s army. he spoke at the united nations today and called russia s air strikes in syria effective because they support the country s efforts to fight what he calls terrorism. translator: you know better than anyone else that terrorism is an ideology that recognizes no boundaries. you know that when this monster comes out, it cannot be limited to certain countries. the terrorism of isis, aln alnuz al-nusra and other organizations is killing. what else did he have to say? that syria is a land baptized in the blood of its people. this is the world view of the assad regime, not the world view of the syrian people. he doesn t talk about the secret police or take any responsibility for the assad regime. he does talk about the fate of syria is in sy ....
highest rate of child marriage in the world. i m wayne haye reporting from northern malaysia where woe talk to separatists fighters from southern thailand about their hopes for a peaceful return home. russian air strikes inside syria are continuing for a third day. syrian monitoring groups say overnight air raids on isil positions killed 12 fighters in one province. opposition groups are also said to have been targeted. turkey has asked russia to stop attacking syrian anti-assad forces that are largely supported by the west. it says moscow s military intervention will escalate the fighting on the ground. france which has also started air strikes against isil this week, says russia shouldn t target groups other than isil. [ inaudible ] u.s. assistant secretary of state under george w. bush . i certainly think that they have larger strategic interests in reinserting themselves back into the middle east and becoming a power broker in this region, but within syria its ....
didn t know someone who was on campus yesterday, you probably know someone who knew someone who was on campus or had a relative on campus. this is touching a lot of people in this town. morning classes were interrupted by gunfire, the first 911 call came in shortly after 10:30. somebody is outside one of the doors, shooting through the door. reporter: reports of a shooter at umpqua community college in roseburg, oregon. i could tell what it was, once i heard the sound and saw the people running, i knew exactly what happened. my parents have always told me stay alert, be alert, and once that noise happened i looked around to see what was going on, and that is probably what saved my life. reporter: students are running everywhere, holy god one witness posted on triter. police say officers made it to the scene within the next four minutes, but the woes has already taken place in sneijder hall. the gunman has opened fire inside the building and was then killed in a ....
shooter s residence, all 14 have been traced to a federal firearms dealer, they are all at different stages currently in the tracing process. eight of the 14 have been traced to first trace purchasers. seven have been purchased by the shooter or a family member. all within the last three years. in addition to the weapons recovered, we also were able to recover a flank jacket which we recovered lying next to the rifle at the school. the jacket had steal plates along with five magazines. an additional amount of ammunition was also recovered at the apartment. i also want to thank our phoenix field division, and our north carolina field division, and our l.a. field division for working dill gently in obtaining this tracing information for us. did you say a flak jacket? yes. 13 weapons or 14? we have 14 currently it was 14 weapons, one he actually traded and back to the store for one of the firearms that were recovered at the store. reporter: did you find all 1 ....
part of the long-term future of syria. secretary of state john kerry speaks to al jazeera about the future of bashar al-assad. and how many child brides in niger who escape poverty end up in even worse circumstances. we re learning more about the shooter at an oregon community college. the police identified chris harper mercer as the shooter in the massacre. he was discharged from the army in 2008 for failing to meet the minimum standards to serve. a rifle and a flak jacket was does covered with ammunition. more was found at the shooter s home. sabrina, you talked to people who knew the suspect? well, we actually have been here for the last couple of hours because a steady stream of students and families have been arriving here at the fairgrounds. they ve been bussed to the school campus where they can retrieve their cars and their personal belongings. they left everything there yesterday after the lockdown was lifted. in the meantime we re learning more about t ....