reacted to the attack in paris. and she says germany standings behind france in this difficult moment. we have also heard from the u.s. let's go to rob reynolds live for us in washington, d.c. what has been the reaction rob? >> the president has issued a statement saying he strongly condemns what he calls the horrific shootings. he said the thoughts and prayers of his administration and his family are with the victims and the french people noting that the united states and france have long been allies. mr. obama also says that france and paris, where the outrageous attack look place offer the world a timeless example that will endure well beyond the hateful vision of these killers. now the president also said that the united states is -- is standing by ready to cooperate in any way with france to pursue -- help it pursue the investigation or apprehension of the shooters and that officials from his administration have been in touch with french officials to see if they can do anything to help. the white house press secretary earlier in remarks noted that french pilots and american pilot

soldiers deployed all over france since january in all sorts of capacities. things have gone quiet now. we haven't heard any more explosions or shots fired. the fact that there were no shots fired after the explosion suggests that maybe there wasn't a raid. we thought that we would have expected to hear shots after those explosions, if there was some kind of raid, but we couldn't see anyone going - any of the swot teams going into the building. they were standing outside in the street, so it's impossible to know what was actually happening >>> stay with us, won't you, because we're going to come back to - we're going to give our viewers some sort of chronology to what is unfolding on the screens. earlier french police wanted to help identifying a man they believed to be one of the three suicide bombers in the stade de france attack. now, he was apparently fringe printed in greece and a syrian passport was found here his body, but the passport could have been a fake. he is one of nine people at the center of this investigation. most of them died on the night of the attacks last friday, but

thousands of air strikes in syria and iraq. france and russia are now in the war. nato member turkey is involved up to its eye teeth, but as he saw in the russian jet shootdown, not always with the same priorities as its assumed allies. stop me when you think we have reached something that sounds like world war 3.0. it's the inside story. ♪ >>> welcome to "inside story." i'm ray suarez. no, i'm not suggesting that this conflict is as extensive or threatening as the total war fought in every corner of the globe in world war ii. but when the list of combatants in iraq and syria is as long as this, it makes both the war on the ground and diplomacy at the bargaining table extremely complex. exhibit a, turkey's recent shootdown of a russian military jet in the skies over syria. turkey says it warned the jet repeatedly. russia denies that took place. turkey has refused to apologize, russia has laid on economic sanctions. al jazeera america claimed responsibility for the paris attacks. france is fighting back hard. >> we would like to see russia concentrating its efforts to fight our common

to see isil defeated have agreed something has got to be done, they just don't agree on what. france is already responding to the paris attacks with air strikes on isil's self proclaimed capitol in syria, the city of raqqa. how to fight isil? it's the "inside story." ♪ >>> welcome to "inside story" i'm ray suarez. isil has promised more attacks like the one in paris last week including attacks aimed at the united states. in iraq and syria, the group has left a bloody trail of terror, suppressing some, murdering others in great numbers, and isil has reached out to the world, forging alliances with groups like boko haram in northern nigeria which are ready and able to destabilize governments in their home countries and bring murder and destruction to many more. just dropping bombs, obviously hasn't been enough. just trying to squeeze the flow of money hasn't been enough. and monitoring international communication to cut off the flow of willing recruits also hasn't been enough. so how does the world fight isil? that's our focus today on "inside story." we'll begin with jamie mcintyre

. >>> large numbers of muslims have dom live in western europe. france, germany, britain, netherlands - have they come to terms with rapid changes. have muslims come to terms with what it means to live in very different societies. it's "inside story". >>> hello, i'm ray suarez. for a variety of reasons people have pulled up stakes in south asia, north africa, the middle east and headed to western europe to live and work. and for a variety of reasons countries welcome them in. now, decades on, previouslihomo genius countries like norway and ploourallist ones like france are wrestling with what it means to incorporate people from different societies if large numbers, and many muslim immigrant families, long after transplanting in the west are struggling to cope with life in a place where religion and daily customs play a smaller role, where freedom of religions include the freedom to practice and mock religious faith. the murd erts at an editorial office by men who shouted they were avenging the prophet forces mutual suspicion to the front. >> reporter: flowers lined the streets and pens fille

site. this is very typical of recent emergencies in france recently, where the interior minister himself is on the scene directing the response of the emergency services. as i said, beyond that, president hollande has said to clearly we'll be getting more details in the coming minutes and hours and he's also indicated his desire to be completely transparent in sharing information all the way along the way with with the german and spanish authorities since the flight was on a flight path between barcelona and dÜsseldorf when it came down. >> it's interesting how the french president has taken complete control of the information concerning this disaster. so far we don't seem to have heard anything from the germans. we haven't heard anything from the airline, apart from the airline is called germanwings a low-cost budget airline owned by lufthansa, the national carrier. we'll be crossing to germany and getting the latest from our correspondent there. jacki, you're saying the french is taking the lead in this. >> this accident happened on french territory obviously the fact that the

to fight with the islamic state and did time in prison. like the united states france has remade its surveillance it's domestic intelligence and its use of modern tools to keep tabs on people who might be involved with extremist groups. the kind of men who might go no a magazine office and slaughter the people inside. does a society who does not hold people without charge, does not hold people without trial protect itself were mass murder? >> reporter: this was the scene friday morning in dammartin-en-goele. cherif kouachi sand said kouachi kouachi, hold up in a printing plant with one hostage. after an hour's long stand off with the police, the two suspects were dead, and the hostage was unharmed. meanwhile in the east of paris a gunman stormed into a kosher supermarket taking hostages. that stand off ended when the police raided the market. president franÇois hollande addressed his nation after it was over. >> i ask for unity, as i expressed to france, it is our best weapon. >> and president obama said: >> france is our oldest ally. i want people of france to know that the united

the updates for news around the world www.aljazeera.com updating all the information in france. thanks for watching. . >> the men who were suspects in the charlie hebdo murders in paris were known to police, often under surveillance, but still free and at large. can democracies do what is need needed to prevent terror attacks like this week's paris killings and not give up freedom itself? this is "inside story." >> hello i'm ray suarez. one of the charlie hebdo attackers, the men from the magazine shooting in paris earlier this week, reportedly went to yemen to fight with al-qaeda. some of the men were on no-fly list. one was arrested trying to get to syria to fight with the islamic state and did time in prison. like the united states france has remade its surveillance, it's domestic intelligence and its use of modern tools to keep tabs on people who might be involved with extremist groups. the kind of men who might go no a magazine office and slaughter the people inside. does a society who does not hold people without charge, does not hold people without trial protect itself w

. thecharlie hebdo has been sued, blasted by some of the most powerful people in france, but today the murders were too much for the world to ignore. there would be no court date, evidence or testimony. cartoonists were killed for their insist tense that no one was off limits. >> 12 people are dead after armed men stormed the newspaper charlie hebdo. >> the individuals went into the magazine offices and went towards the main editorial room where all the journalists were gathered. they shot ten people. eight journalists one protection policemen and an invited person. they shouted allah akbar. we'll avenge the name of the prophet. >> the assailants, who are still at large took off in a car which they abandoned and they carjacked another. >> it's an the of barbaricty against a newspaper that stands for freedom of expression, and journalists who are determined. >> france's president franÇois hollande raised the security level to the highest level. this is 9 not the first time that the offices of charlie hebdo has been attacked. it was fire bombed in 2011. stephane charbonni er explained h

to be here. france is about to be divided by some bad things that happened two days ago and i'm very, very sad and i want to tell everybody that we ever to love each other. we all are different but we don't have to look at our difference. we have to look at our brotherhood, we don't have to fight to -- he. >> it's very differ and i know this as someone who has got a family when you ever a young san and all these images on the television, it's difficult for them to avoid that. it's hard to reassure them. >> yes, exactly. that when we look at television, my younger son was very afraid, because he thought it was a war. >> he thought it was war. >> well, yes. he thought that the war was outside, so i wanted to bring him here to show him a peaceful world and everybody's together to express. >> solidarity. >> exactly. >> everyone would appreciate what you're saying, but how do you achieve it? the march is one thing but how do people keep talk with each other so they don't become enemies? >> we have to start to be suspicious. >> as to that. >> yes, we have to stop on that being suspici

radicals killed 16 people in france and hundreds in nigeria. the two very different killings got two different reactions. in one case mobilization and worldwide condemnation. in another case, a shrug? it's inside story. >> hello i'm ray suarez. for boko haram the islamic extremist group in nigeria nothing seems beyond the pale. add to the long list of kidnappings, execution torture rape and mass murder the recent destruction of a whole town and the killing of its citizens and cases of young girls sentenced to marketplaces with bombs strapped to their bodies killing dozens more. haven't heard about it? don't be embarrassed. the world's gaze seems to be upon a different area of the world in the aftermath of murders in paris. >> millions of people from around the world flooded the streets of paris waving pens, flags, and signs repeating the message je suis charlie. i am charlie. 40 international dignitaryies linked arms, showing solidarity with french president franÇois hollande. this week france is still on high alert. 10,000 troops were deployed throughout the country. many standing

return? a delicate balance. it's the "inside story." welcome to "inside story." i'm ray suarez. france has stepped up it's military attacks on isil after friday night's killings in paris, but paris is different too. there are now lots of soldiers on the streets of the french capital. french and belgium security forces launch more than 100 raids on the homes of expected extremists. is there a level of surveillance, physical and digital, that would seriously limit future attacks? can a free society ever clamp down enough to eliminate the threat? would such a society still be free after it was protected? as security agencies mull over the threat to washington d.c. in a video released just after the paris attacks, we considered the tradeoffs been liberty and security. the delicate balance. that debate was front and center when cia director, john brennan spoke at the center for strategic and international studies global security forum. >> i do hope that this is going to be a wake-up call, particularly in areas of europe where i think there has been a misrepresentation of what the security f

reaction from france's foreign minister saying quite possibly he will travel to tehran and he is also saying that he is quite confident that this is a deal that can work and it gives you an idea and france a key player in negotiations and one of the six main western powers and gives you an idea of just how much they are invested in this agreement not just economically but politically. >> yeah, absolutely. france is an important player in the countries that have been negotiating with iran and in many ways france throughout this and certainly when they were negotiating the interim agreement, first interim agreement in geneva france was very much the hawk in all of this taking a tougher line than the united states, on the other side of things the french foreign minister knows there are french business interests that are very very keen to do business with iran. we've had lots of european delegations going to iran in resent months the italian minister was in iran and italy until the most resent sanctions and was the biggest trading partner in the union with iran so yes some of it is to sea

, the third largest nuclear arsenal was bigger than that of the u.k., france and china combined. it was massive. which ukraine gave up in exchange for assurances from the united states, from the u.k., and from russia, that its integrity and sovereignty preserved. now we see the integrity and sovereignty has been violated. because it gave up nuclear missiles 24 years ago, had the country had the missiles to date, it may not be in a position where it was invaded by russian forces. ukrainians are saying to the united states, to the u.k., can we have missiles back to defend ourselves. what will the ukranian army do? in there not be an invasion. they will not invade russia or any other country, they'll be defending themselves. it will be used by the forces to defend themselves, the land, independence. especially if due to the fact it gave up so much 22 decades ago and is saying to the united states, and to the u.k., this - one has to keep the assurances given two decades ago. >> how do you negotiate with a leader. vladimir putin of russia, who doesn't admit that he's helping the ukranian

france do take their orders from elected civilian politicians, so there's politicians having to make decisions clearly being guided very much by the expert advise that they are getting from security professionals, but also having to make those decisions very much in the back of their mind with their needs as politicians to be seen by the french public as doing their ultimate to protect public security and at the same time again, seeking to maintain this message of unity, seeking not to do anything precipitous which could exacerbate the situation, because although we don't know exactly what the situations are between the immediate instant triggers for the decision by these individuals to carry out these attacks, there does appear to be a tendency behind those attacks to try to drive wedges between different communities in france. and clearly the politicians and the security forces in trying to end these situations wouldn't want to do anything that could exacerbate and heighten those divisions, and clearly injuring people killing people be it either the suspects themselves or civilians

the world was rivetted for the supports of what was happening in france, nigeria hardly made the headlines. that's "inside story." hello i'm ray suarez. for boko haram the al qaeda allied extremist group in nigeria, nothing seems beyond the pale. rapes executions, and kid kidnappings, young girls sent strapped with bombs. aftermath of different murders in paris. millions of people from around the world flooded the streets of paris saturday. waving pens, flags and signs repeating the message: je suis charlie, i am charlie. 40 international dignitaries joined the march linking arms with french president francois hollande walking down washington d.c.'s main arteries in a show of support. this week france is still on high alert. 10,000 troops were deployed throughout the country monday, many standing guard at yuba jewish schools. >> translator: this morning when we arrived we recorded at least 20% of students absent which means at least 20% of the students parents have chosen not to bring them to school. this is a huge number. >> and while france was in the middle of its crisis last

collectively must bare the blame because of in france, none of the people did the bombing in paris. >> let me go to horace. >> a couple of things, one, the actual numbers over the last 18 months, there have been 66 -- you just have to go to the department of justice website, where they announce the indictments that they're pursuing. 66 isis related attacks, and of those, half of those were self identified refugees, three of which indicated that they were trying to support activities specifically in syria,. >> to be fair, many of those people who are called isis-related by the justice department are native born americans, born in places like minnesota and oklahoma. originally bosnian nationals, who came in the 90s during the falling apart of yugoslavia. >> half a dozen in 18 months is not a winning strategy, and the second point is, our fbi director himself testified that we don't presently have -- the issue here is that this resettlement program is being botched by the administration's failed syrian and national security policy. we should never be having to have this kind of uprisi

finals, along with cherokee nation wilma mankiller. the first was frances perkins the first secretary of labor. why. >> very few people know -- frances perkins was the first woman cabinet secretary. the labor secretary for fdr, if it weren't for frances perkins we wouldn't have many of the things we have today, like social and child protection laws that really are important to all americans. she pushed that legislation, through. and of course, fdr championed it and made it happen but she was the woman behind all of that. hero. >> if you travel around the world you'll likely see cultural figures on money. you don't see that much in the united states. let's talk about rachel carson. the author. >> she was both a cultur culturallist alist and an author. research she was doing caused potential great damage to the environment. it was her popular books that really led to the modern environmental movement. the earth day that you know kind of galvanized the public and eventually led to the creaks of -- creaks of thecreation of the environmental protection agency. she wrote "sienl "silent spri

binyamin netanyahu to take action against iran. >> it's the u.s., france, britain, china, russia. >> the u.s. has been a reluctant member of the group. >> it's not so much a question of the u.s. isolating israel and the rest of the community going in a direction, and israel not having strong concerns about the deal. israel saying we want to go it alone, and we want to change the democratic process in the u.s., which is how to make the foreign policy so you, washington, come with us, leaving behind, france, britain, china. >> you can't make the countries do what they want to do. >> is there a legitimate expectation. after, as noted. sticking its neck out for israel. that the streets somehow open as a 2-way streets. distance. >> i don't agree with the republican friends. i think they will continue to do that. but i differ with heather on the talks. these are the talks between the united states and iran. united states pushed the concessions. including concessions allow iran to operate 6,000 centrifuges, rich enuranium that it can make in weapons grade in 3 months. this is why israel

this is not just a u.s. iran deal it involves france germany, britain, russia china, and somehow these guys want to get into that part of it. you know it's so counterproductive and only about politics and that's really the way it should be seen. >> wouldn't all those senators including the ones who want to be running for president later this year have had their chance to take shots at this thing once it came state side after an agreement was reached? >> if there was a vote on the agreement by the u.s. congress this would not be happening. the administration desperately wants a deal. it knows it can't get it approved by congress. so it has formed an executive agreement that john kerry admitted today won't be legally binding. all this stuff about congress having a role in this is not true. congress is being cut out of this deal a deal that would severely undermine national security and i think will cause a war in the middle east. >> in response to what bruce said fred, do you assume that france britain, and germany are being cavalier about the future of the middle east and israel as you

. indeed the president of france and the chancellor of germany has said that their countries will not be providing arms. the question is, can we do so in a way that strengthens our common strategy and my belief is that we can. >> former ambassador to nato ivo dalder, mr. ambassador good to talk to you. >> good to talk to you. >> when we come back, the wisdom of arming ukraine forces. ♪ ♪ >> welcome back to "inside story." on al jazeera america. i'm ray suarez. it was only a little more than a year ago that viktor yanukovych was president of ukraine and protesters stormed the may maidan demanding change. russia instituted a political land grab in the crimea, taking the peninsula away from ukraine. began armed uprising and mysterious military columns in unmarked tanks unmarked military uniforms moved in to fight. using economic sanctions to ease russian pressure on the new ukrainian government. late, machining members of congress have been speaking up. >> let me demonstrate, will not allow the ukrainian military to defeat the russian military in a full fledged war. but will decrease th

president of france and the chancellor of germany has said that their countries will not be providing arms. the question is, can we do so in a way that strengthens our common strategy and my belief is that we can. >> former ambassador to nato, ivo dalder, mr. ambassador good to talk to you. >> good to talk to you. >> when we come back, the wisdom of arming ukraine forces. stay with us, it's "inside story." story. >> borderland long held beliefs... >> im really pissed off at the mexican government... >> give way to compassion... >> if you feel tired, would you turn around and come back? >> our teams find out first hand how treacherous the migrants journey can be. >> we make them take a trip of death >> it is heartbreaking when you see the families on top of the rail car borderland continues only on al jazeera america >> the death toll could be much higher than anyone'd known. >> posing as a buyer to get in there. >> 10,000 people are already dead mr. president, who should answer for those people? ♪ ♪ >> welcome back to "inside story." on al jazeera america. i'm ray suarez. it was only a

of france and the chancellor of germany has said that their countries will not be providing arms. the question is, can we do so in a way that strengthens our common strategy and my belief is that we can. >> former ambassador to nato ivo dalder, mr. ambassador good to talk to you. >> good to talk to you. >> when we come back, the wisdom of arming ukraine forces. >> music superstar akon >> it is a way for me to make money. it's clearly a business >> lending his voice to those in need >> i'm in a position where i can make a difference >> his goal, to have africa be part of the modern world >> if you wanna keep africa stable, there has to be elections >> every monday, join us for exclusive... revealing... and surprising talks with the most interesting people of our time... talk to al jazeera part of our special black history month coverage on al jazeea america >> al jazeera america presents a breakthrough television event. >> borderland long held beliefs... >> im really pissed off at the mexican government... >> give way to compassion... >> if you feel tired, would you turn around an

. if you are born in ireland, the u.k. or france you don't get it either. birth right citizenship. the fact of being born on the soil of a country conferring citizenship rites. we had it in the united states since the end of the civil war. leading to women coming in late to give birth, and the raids in southern california, trying to shut done businesses that entice chinese women from flying across the pacific. the for a fee, the women give birth, heading home with a passport and social security number for an american birth. is it time for a reexamination. my guests are with me. you heard the professor bofr the break talking about resentment that birth right citizenship brings up. is it worth it to clean to it at a time when we are trying to negotiate a universal settlement, an across the water front settlement that will regularise the status of people deportation. >> i think keeping it because it's such a unique element of who we are as a body politic. i think it really is, for the size of the country that we are, it's important immigration tool. we have to paying a distinction between

mind how it tastes. did you get my good side? i'm ray suarez. it's the "inside story." >>> france and russia agree closer military ties when fighting i.s.i.l., but still divided on the choice of syrian president >>> hello, i'm darren jordon in doha with the world news. turkey's president hits back at russian collaboration that is he's colluding with russia over the sale of water. plus... >> i didn't want to get married. there was no money for school. >> the government looks at way to end child marriage. we look at one country where half the girls end up

this country and has nothing to do with fire arms but making it different from spain, france, germany? >> well, the clear difference in american rate is not that we have more criminals, and not even that we have more violence, you are just as apt to get beaten up in a bar in sydney, australia if you have too much to drink as in los angeles. but sydney has about one-eighth of the lethal violence that the united states does, and that is where the use of guns predominantly concealed handguns make the difference. it is not that we are more violent or the rates of violence are higher, it is that when violence occurs in the united states, it kills much more frequently and the explanation for that is both simple and overwhen he will when he will ming discreptive. >> professor, was it ever so? >> what makes america different is a lethal violence and to pick up on the theme of canada, it is a gun culture, but not a handgun culture. of course, what is amazing, dur the kol nil period and after the american revolution, america had the lowest homicide rates in the western world and really what we