Doing and the current president is doing in response to this. So what did president obama have to say about why he took these actions now . Well this extraordinary set of sanctions president obama says was in response to not only the meddling in the u. S. Election but also to months of harassing of the u. S. Diplomats in russia. The president said in a statement, these actions follow repeated, private and public warnings that weve issued to the russian government and are a necessary and appropriate response to efforts to harm u. S. Interests in violation of established International Norms of behavior. He also added the u. S. Will take additional actions that will not be publicized. That jim is a reference to possible convert retaliations that we may never know about. Its been more than two and a half months since the Intelligence Community fingered russia are for being behind these attacks. Why now . Why is president obama taking action now . Well exactly and as you know this is someth
formal peace talks. the agreement does not include isis and other terrorist organizations. the latest information is that there have already been some clashes as we ve seen time and time again, it is fragile. it is precarious. joining us now from istanbul is cnn s muhamad leila. thanks very much. you have been monitoring closely. you have a lot of experience on the ground in syria. what are you hearing about how this is holding up? reporter: so far syrian state media are not reporting any violations. we re not reporting any violations on the turkish or russian side. and they are monitoring. maybe some sporadic fighting between groups here and there in syria and that is to be expected. what we re really looking for to see the if cease fire is holding is if there are actions on a bigger scale. those that seem to be on more of a group level rather than individual level. and if they are happening on a group level that is a bad sign that the cease fire won t hold.