Well have enough for national how longer games. Dickerson well handicap the odds talk to candidate Rick Santorum and preview the world cup soccer final. All ahead on fakes the nation. Captioning sponsored by cbs good morning welcome to face the nation im john dickerson. Overnight u. S. And Coalition Forces launched intense airstrikes over raqqa. Where step militants were killed. Cbs news correspondent Elizabeth Palmer filed this report. This was one of the heaviest bombardments if not the heaviest since airstrikes began back in september. There was 16 strikes on various targets but most at least one bridge. All important for isis to move men and equipment around their territory. Theyre going to have a lot more trouble doing that now. Many of the strikes appear to have been to the north of raqqa we know isis has been reinforcing on that front in anticipation some of kind of attack from the considereddish army. We may actually be witnessing a preparation for that. A softening up of that
Well have enough for national how longer games. Dickerson well handicap the odds talk to candidate Rick Santorum and preview the world cup soccer final. All ahead on fakes the nation. Captioning sponsored by cbs good morning welcome to face the nation im john dickerson. Overnight u. S. And Coalition Forces launched intense airstrikes over raqqa. Where step militants were killed. Cbs news correspondent Elizabeth Palmer filed this report. This was one of the heaviest bombardments if not the heaviest since airstrikes began back in september. There was 16 strikes on various targets but most at least one bridge. All important for isis to move men and equipment around their territory. Theyre going to have a lot more trouble doing that now. Many of the strikes appear to have been to the north of raqqa we know isis has been reinforcing on that front in anticipation some of kind of attack from the considereddish army. We may actually be witnessing a preparation for that. A softening up of that
Start in yemen. Air attacks condition. And. And, of course im the first kenyanamerican to be president of the United States. A National Address from president obama as he ends his trip to his fathers homeland syrias president says the army is struggling to contain i. S. I. L. And rebel groups. He said his troops are tired and lacking manpower and they must define key regions to hold on to during the conflict. Translation we have new recruits every day. The military is carrying out the mission, its required to give up areas, in order to hold on more important areas. We are in a fateful period. Theres no compromised solutions. A retired military analyst joins us on the phone. What do you make of comments from the president. Is he making the best of a bad situation. I look at this and he is to leave the areas not as we sud. He lost a lot. The southern areas are doing well. Going on to the main city like damascus and other areas. And committing to the nation or intervention. Its easier, af
Union. The son of libyas dictator Moammar Gadhafi among nine people sentenced to death on what the u. N. Describes as disturbing. Im in london where the computer programmers of the future are taking part in a hackathon. Not the end for the United States olympic bit and could be the beginning and will announce about the presidency. Well, starting this program with the news that turkish f16 fighter jets targeting in a place of a Mountain Area in the southeast and this is after the turkey president erdiwan who discussed this as impossible and we report in the south of turkey. Turkish f16 fighter jets dont have too far to fly to hit targets of the new enemy aisle just over the border in syria this was last week and dont have much further to go to target an old enemy, the separatist p. K. K. In Northern Iraq. Many kurds are angry and frustrated the turkish government seems to be equating the them from i. S. I. L. With the threat from the p. K. K. And mainly kurdish city in southeast turkey
Thank you very much for joining us. Warplanes have struck a kurdish militant ace in turkey itself rather than across the border. Does attack came after nato backed strikes against the Islamic State and the president called off east talks with kurdish militants, the pkk. I will speak with a middle east expert in just a moment but first, a look at how turkey is intensive line the light against what it calls terrorist groups. Wax most people who live here are kurds. The situation is tense. The military units on high alert. The conflict between the pkk and turkish government has as related. Today saw blast on a gas pipeline. Last friday, Turkish Forces launched a series of errors right against the Islamic State and kurdish bases in northern iraq. Despite the fact that the kurds also oppose i asked. The turkeys president announced the Peace Process was over. The Peace Process with those the take aim in our National Purity and brotherhood in this country. Nato met for an emergency session. R