there is any, to today s action, the russian strikes occurred in a place where there s not much coalition activity. that doesn t seem to be a risk today. that could change. okay, mikey, let me go back to you. obama and putin, we all remember the picture from just two days ago, shaking hands. kind of icy, but they met behind closed doors. we re just two days later, and it would seem this is a major affront by putin. this is a sort of in your face move. i think we have to, in getting in putin s mind-set, we have to understand what his natural interests are. we have to understand there s been a jihadist insurgency on his doorstep for a long time. in 2004, 1100 people taken hostage, 700 of them being children, 380 of them being killed. he s had a serious problem. assad looks at the future of syria and says, is that jihadist
let me bring in steve clemons, washington editor at large for the atlantic. and mikey kay still be me in the studio. former adviser to the uk minry of defense. let me start with you, steve, i understand you spoke with senator john mccain this afterno afternoon? i just talk to him and he made some interesting statement, that in this area around homs, that the russians aren t even pretending that they re not trying to wipe out of the assets around homs and that isis is not in that area. people are reporting that russia is hitting isis targets, john mccain disputed that heavily. saying that the russians are knocking out important moderates and those who have been fighting around homs and that they ve killed quite a number of civilians, and blamed this on what he believes to be the collapse of the perception of american power in the region, that it hasn t been for 42 years since 1973, that russia has
turkey to greece, macedonia, serbia, hungary and austria, germany and beyond. but with hungary s border with serbia now fenced off, the human tide has been diverted to croatia. more than 17,000 reportedly crossing that border in just three days. at first, croatia welcomed the refugees, but now it says it is overwhelmed. we have shown our heart the prime minister said. we also need the show we have a brain. his police have faced crowds, panicking, pushing to get buses. by the side of a road, a man collapses, a suspected heart attack. his wife and son looks on. an ambulance takes him to the hospital, where he recovered alive. but one of thousands whose hopes for a better life are slipping away. keir simmons, london. joining me now is foreign affairs reporter mikey kay who
hungary says once that fence is up, it will hermetically seal the border. for now, thoins are still coming into hungary, but the prime minister said today that hungry does not want any more people. richard engle in hungary, thank you very much. let me bring in senior british adviser and former adviser in the uk ministry of defense, mikey kay. thank you for being here on this labor day. what do you make of all this? let me give you some numbers. the international organization for migration have detected about 350,000 migrants at the e.u s border this year in contrast to 220,000 in the entire year 2013. this is a catastrophe developing for years. there are 7.6 million internally displaced people in syria. 4 million refugees. around syria, 1.9 million in turkey, 1.1 million in lebanon. you ve got 630,000 in jordan.
toilet. if this hadn t happened, i m fairly confident this would have been a catastrophe on the levels equal to if not greater than tunisia. hats off to these guys. it was incredible what they did, but it s very dangerous what they did and it could have turned out quite different. mikey, great seeing you. thanks for being with us. we re following breaking news from wall street where stocks are headed for a possible huge plunge when the opening bell rings in about 20 minutes or so. here s a look at the futures from cnbc. take a look at the numbers. the futures have been dropping and they have been going do we have that there? 660 down. and this is just comes after a major sell-off in ashia and i europe. china s shanghai index plummeted 8.5%, the worst day since 2005. markets also sharply lower. stay with us. we ll have the opening bell from the new york stock exchange at 9:30 eastern time as well as