Speaking at the Kremlin on Thursday, Putin complained that he has not received an apology from Turkey nor an offer “to make up for the damages”.
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Britain has bombed IS in Iraq but has not engaged the group in Syria due to a Commons vote in 2013, which rejected air strikes in answer to a Syrian army gas attack on the Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta.
Mr Cameron is despertately trying to persuade MPs that Britain should extend its airstrikes, now constrained to Iraq, into Syria.
The Prime Minister set out some of his thinking in the Commons yesterday when he told MPs that although air strikes on their own would not be enough it would be wrong to wait for political progress in Syria before targeting IS.
Cameron is hoping that the attacks that killed 130 people in Paris on November 13th will tip parliament in favor of launching strikes.
In his speech to parliament, Cameron also announced details of “a significant new contingency plan” in case of attacks in Britain, which would include the rapid deployment of 10,000 military personnel to support the police.
Cameron has had trouble convincing Parliament to step in before. Still, said Michel, the country is still facing a “serious and imminent” threat.
“We know they want reassurance that we are getting this right… first of all we are a target from this terrorist organization ISIL (Islamic State)”, he told BBC radio, referring to the attacks on tourists in Tunisia in June.
The US-led coalition has been pounding IS targets in Syria for over a year, but France only joined the campaign in September and has concentrated its air strikes on the jihadists’ de facto capital, Raqa.
Asked whether US Navy P-8s with British crews might be used to plug the gaps in United Kingdom maritime defenses until the Royal Air Force gets its new jets, Cameron said: “We are now going to be talking to our allies about how to bring these aircraft into service and maintain our capability”.
This time around, the United Nations Security Council supports Cameron’s request.
There should be no extension of airstrikes into the country without “a coherent global strategy that has a realistic chance of defeating Isil and of ending the civil war in Syria”, said the cross-party committee.
Russian Federation has been bombing in Syria for almost two months, but its campaign has faced criticism from Western governments that say the strikes have focused on rebels opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and not the Islamic State group.
But with signs that a growing number of Labour MPs are prepared to ignore the objections of party leader Jeremy Corbyn and support the Government, ministers appear increasingly confident they can win a vote.
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No arms or explosives were found in 19 raids across Brussels – including the Molenbeek area from where the Paris attack was planned – or two in Charleroi, they said.
