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It grew from several hundred to 30,000 fighters when they invaded iraq in 2014. that sanctuary, that safe haven in syria should have been crushed over two years ago and it still exists today. it's shameful. >> sandra: i wanted to get your reaction, general to, the u.s. patrolling near the south china sea, the war ship, challenging china. you just heard from jennifer griffin at the pentagon. beijing is not happy. they have deployed war ships. what do you think of all this? >> we're not challenging china. last time we sailed a war ship around there was five months ago. they got some rhetoric for...

Not happy about this deployment but the u.s. and south korean defers ministry say it's necessary to counter that threat. we're seeing more little drills. u.s.-south korean military drills are ongoing until the end of the month. they are routine, annual, defensive in nature we're being told but what one i went was to certainly massive and will send a message to north korea. north korea holding its own live fire drills as well. we also saw dig last week only the volleyball sense of digging when we saw the satellite images of north koreans playing that. paula hancock live in seoul. a dangerou...

Remove swral of weapons. tell us about this russian war ship. it's moving, it's on the move right now in the mediterranean sea. this is where, the area where these tomahawk missiles were launched from, right? >> reporter: yeah. it wasn't supposed to be going back to the mediterranean. mediterranean, the defers minute stray says indeed it is and will thereabout shortly. it is armed with state-of-the-art russian missiles. russia says this will help in order to strengthen its missile defense on the ground in syria. i mean, this is symbolic for now. it still makes everyone nervous. we do have obvi...

Engel is in istanbul with details. richard, what's the latest? >> reporter: good morning, thomas. no indications that russia wants a war with the united states. moscow is signaling it does not want to see the u.s. do this kind of thing again. does not want to see more strikes against moscow's ally, the syrian regime of bashar al assad. acceptedi sending that message by sending a war ship to the midediterrane. washington and moscow were one step way from conflict. russia downplaying the cause which washington claims was used to launch chemical weapons. a human rights group says jets have resume...

About where trump was going as in relations to putin and therefore the strong european resolve over russia's actions, annexing crimea, getting involved in ukraine, worries about what they see is doing inside europe. europe is getting overrun by refugees coming out of syria. so they are relieved in part. but, again, we have to come back to that point what happens next? everyone is saying it and that's the view from here as well. >> nic robertson in london. thank you so much. victor? >> to this russian war ship on the move to a russian naval space in syria. a military source says the ship is arm...