people. look at it from the other perspective which is we are supporting the assad regime regardless of who is fighting the assad regime. that is the position russia has taken. so for them they are playing with the words, maybe isis or al qaeda or other rebels but at the end of the day they all pose a threat for the assad regime and they are going to go after them. the united states wants russia to make that demarcation between the good opposition, good revels that we are supporting and then the isis al qaeda affiliates that we are going after and russia doesn't see it that way. that's why at the end of the day the final analysis is that russia is helping the regime of president bashar al assad who is coming under increased president according to a lot of sources in that theater of operation who could tell he was having a hard time recruiting soldiers for his military. >> his government might be on the verge of collapse here? >> no doubt his government was under pressure.