really wasn t climate change. it was mostly syria. according to the white house account of that conversation, the u.s. president expressed his regret at the downing of a russian warplane by turkey, which resulted in the death of a russian aircraft. they talked about what needs to be done to fix syria. they talked about the importance of the political process, although president obama insisted the syrian president bashar al assad can play no role in the transitional government. and president obama also pressed president put not on russian air strikes that are taking place there. the importance of striking isis. not the moderate syrian opposition. phil black reporting live from paris. the world leaders include
door meeting with president putin at the climate conference. the meeting took place on the sidelines. it wasn t planned. what did they say? let s head to paris and check in with jim. what can you tell us? carol, just on background from the white house official, they had this meatmeeting and td about ukraine and syria. president obama, according to the white house official, expressed regret at the shoot down of the russian jet, the death of the pilot and the other russian military serviceman involved. and basically, they said they have to continue the process, as far as syria is concerned. obama apparently said that he would want to see bashar al assad out. that, of course, is something russian president vladimir putin is dead set against. one of the things that s happening here is a lot of the sideline meetings are going on. one of the ones we had expected
consider russia unless they target isis. reporter: washington has a number of concerns. it has not targeted specifically islamic state groups with the idea of bashar al-assad staying in power. francois hollande was hard on himself. so the americans remain the sort of hardest line to get bashar al-assad out. they are conquering questions like ukraine. washington is maintaining a hard line. francois hollande probably expected softer words than he received yesterday on the question of that inclusion of russia. russia s concerns are legitimate. how long they ll hold in the face of unity opposite between russia, moscow, paris, london, berlin on the question of getting rid of the islamic regime has yet to be seen.
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and ordinary people in the town around not involved, not the normal parade you would expect for an olympic torch people lining the streets and waving it through. everything inside here, everything under tight security. that s what people are worried about in sochi, the threat that emanates from here, even though we re far to the east of southern russia, well away from where the games will actually be held. nick paton walsh, cnn, southern russia. it s really interesting to see the anticipation and the joy rising at the same time the concerns do over security. and the careful choreography. this will be they always choreograph these games. this will be very careful. just a couple weeks to go. this morning it is still not clear the result of an air strike in somalia. cnn has learned the target was a senior militant leader affiliated with al qaeda and al shabaab. that s according to the u.s. military. the military is not yet sure if the target was killed. in geneva this morning,