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Stronghold. these are kurdish -- this is sorry, a kurdish strong hold and these are kurdish forces that have a lot of experience in fighting pretty tough battles. that's something that a turkish military is noticing. big setback for the turks but at the same time, as you said, the turks by no means saying that they're going to withdraw or slow down their pace. they say they're going to double down and actually increase the pace of their operations there in afrin, and then possibly also in other places, in syria or at least in that zone of syria, as well. which is very concerning to the united ...

The fight against isis. fred pleitgen is on top of both stories following the attack in syria for this russian warplane that was shot down. what more are you hearing from official there's in the aftermath of losing both this pilot and the plane? >> yeah. the russians are treating this as a serious incident. some of the things we heard last night as well as into this morning is they have started a fierce retaliation for the shooting down of that plane and also the killing of the pilot as well with cruise missiles, launched from the mediterranean by the russians. also some air strikes as well. c...

The main highways from damascus to aleppo to get some of their resupply routes going again. so it is an important battlefield. at the same time the other question everybody is asking is how was this plane shot down? we have to keep in mind this plane was what's called an su-25 frog foot the nato designation of his plane. a low and slow plane but agile plane. one with a lot of fire power. it is one that would be susceptible, for instance, to ground fire coming from guns, but also to man portable air defense weapons. which are shoulder launched surface-to-air missiles. that's one thing where the...

Military in afrin. france and the united states and others had been urging restraint, but the turkish prime minister has promised to make the militias, quote, pay for this twice as much. >> yeah. >> so seems doubling down given what happened here. >> certainly they're doubling down. it's one of the things that we've seen from the turkish government, from the turkish military, ever since their campaign began. you rightly pointed out that a lot of european nations, but also the u.s., urging restraint there on the part of the turks. but the turks are saying they're not having any of that. they sa...

One of eleven african countries united nations is investigating for sanctions violations. from the channel, we can easily spot the rusting boats. so that's the "susan 1" and the "susan 2 kths. our investigations show that these shrimping trawlers are part of a lucrative joint venture between the mozambiquens and the north koreans. illegal as of last august and there are more sinister links than just a few fishing boats. investigators are being traing it all. >> surface-to-air missile, manned portable surface-to-air missiles, military radar air defense systems, the refurbishment of tanks. it's ...