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A Russian airstrikes in Syria, a challenge to the United States.

Hello again, I'm Aron Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

A daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

Russian planes struck targets in Western Syria today with almost no warning to the United States.

The U.S. has no plans to get out of the way.

President Obama and Putin have different visions of how to end Syria's civil war.

Both are opposed to ISIS, but Russia's strikes appear to be aimed at

helping President Assad. Also today, the world's worst polluters, including the U.S. and China,

are promising major reductions in advance of the climate change summit in Paris. But even if they could

all make good on all their pledges, Global warming would still be catastrophic.

We'll hear about progress made and what needs to be done.

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Hello again, Mormon Alany back with To the Point.

November's climate change summit in Paris will lay down goals for reducing greenhouse emissions,

but they won't be enough to prevent the ravages of global warming

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