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once a day xarelto® means no regular blood monitoring -- no known dietary restrictions. for more information and savings options, call 1-888-xarelto or visit goxarelto.com. possible suspect in the kenya maul massacre. we have the terry phi ago videos from inside the attack. plus, the partial government shutdown might be over. the threat of default put off for now, but it is still hanging over the country. we're going to take a look what it means for your money and spending during the holiday season. also -- it was supposed to be a peaceful protest but it took a horrible turn with gunfire and arrests. why a greenpeace captain is accused of piracy up ahead. welcome to "around the world." i'm suzanne malveaux.
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police in kenya investigating now a new possible suspect in the deadly mall standoff last month. this video shows some of these gunmen casually walking through the crowded mall opening fire on shoppers. the terror group al shabaab claims responsibility for that rampage that killed 67 people. this new angle of the investigation is now looking at a man believed to be connected to the al shabaab commander who gave the orders. we are in nairobi, kenya. we've seen the video this week for the first time. it is chilling when you look at the gunmen picking off people inside the maul. now a new possible suspect. could he be the one that they are looking for that the terrorists actually were caught on camera, one of those people we saw in that video? >> reporter: absolutely, suzanne. this is new suspect is believed to have been identified from
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inside the west gate shopping center. he is believed to be a norwegian of somali origin. norwegian intelligence agents are currently in kenya at the moment investigating the suspected involvement of a norwegian with the attack. they're also investigating a separate link between him and the man, the high ranking al shabaab operative that the u.s. navy seals tried to grab a couple weeks ago. they weren't terribly successful. the sense is that an the u.s. navy seal target was key to identifying the target inside kenya. al shabaab was choosing to go after did. >> nima, we have some word, it is possibly alarming, u.s. embassies in uganda warning americans a similar attack could happen there. what are we learning? >> yes, the u.s. embassy has raised the terror alert levels
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there. they haven't gone into details what's sparking this but asking american citizens to take every single precaution. on that video we showed you, the cctv video, you can see the attackers speaking on the phones throughout. kenyan authorities believe they were receiving instructions from other parts of their network across this region and some of those intercepts they say traced calls back to countries in in region, one of whom is uganda. that's definitely feeding into the broader sense you have a very active very agile terror network in this region and that west gate could have been part of a broader plan. >> are they advising americans to get out of the embassy or doing anything with security different than they normally do? >> reporter: we understand actually the ugandan armed forces have canceled leave for a lot-security arms tharps police officers have been told they need to be on stand by in
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caseness backup is required. as you can appreciate, the american embassy doesn't like to get into details of their security precautions. we understand precautions are being taken. >> nima, thank you. we are following the next fiscal face-off in congress vowed to start in about a week or so. a group of 30 lawmakers are charged with working out the budget and they're going to hold the meeting. meanwhile, the stock market looking pretty good so far. the s&p 500 hit a record high yesterday. still going up there, but how long is this going to last? alison kosik of the new york stock exchange, christine romans in new york to talk about the big picture here. alison, first of all, stocks dipping a little bit here. it's going back and forth. explain why this is happening in light of the fact people are now going back to work but there's still that looming deadline in january. >> it's still a day of records, suzanne. you look at the s&p 500 right now, it's at a new record high
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from yesterday. it's been quiz an amazing year for the s&p 500, up 20% so far this year. it's usually up around 8%. so yes, the debt deal is done. investors finally focusing on other news. there was a positive gdp report out of china. solid earnings from companies you may recognize, morgan stanley, ge and google. so yeah, speaking of records, google topping $1,000. it would hit $1007 earlier in the session. it's backed off a bit at $997. that is certainly one stock we're keeping our eye on today. there is still hesitation in the market as we see the dow in the red. you see the dow down 21 points. it is kind of a quiet rally. one that's really being made point by point with the s&p 500 because there is that underlying nervousness that washington has only kicked the proverbial can down the road. >> want to talk about that can kicking with christine. been talking about this all week for the past weeks or so about this. so in the long haul, do we think
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investors will find themselves in an unstable position here with another possible impasse january and february with the debt ceiling and budget? how secure are they in the big picture this is going to work out? >> here's the thing. they pretty much know there's going to be more budget wrangling. we're in the environment of budget battles and have been since 2009. over that time, the stock market has gone up and up and up. why? because the fed has been putting $85 billion a month into the economy. the irony here is that washington's dysfunction really means that the fed is more likely to continue to keep pumping money into the system to keep the economy going. that's what wall street likes. their party will continue to go on because their elected leaders are so dysfunctional they're unelected federal reserve will likely keep pushing money into the system. >> we all have our 401(k)s here. so many people trying to save and get ahead of the game here. but the holiday season is coming up. do you think this is going to spook folks and they won't do the kind of spending they
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normally would and we might see the 401(k)s shrink? >> i think it will in terms of consumer spending. the most read of consumer confidence was actually showed the biggest drop-off since back in the lee han brothers debacle. people are really noticing what's happening in washington and also noticing job creation has been pretty an people innic most recently. they're not feeling as confident. we'll closely watch halloween spending, something a big part of the bottom line for companies. after that comes black friday and after that the christmas season. retailers are nervous. they're nervous we're going to spend only on the necessities. there may be a few splurges and we're not going to go crazy because we are feeling strapped. consumers are feeling strapped. there are consumers and investors. about half the country is invested in stocks. everybody is worried about jobs. you might see consumers pulling back and still still see investors making money into the new year. >> we'll see how it all, would
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out. christine, alison, thanks for joining us. here's what we're working on. edward snowden talking about what he did with all of the nsa secret files. did he actually bring them into russia with him? plus, incredible video of the oldest church. this is in the philippines, now crashing to the ground. this is a terrifying scene for these folks who were on the ground there during a major earthquake. also, gunfire, chaos. now greenpeace activists are chargeded with piracy. the family of a jailed american want him released. >> when you saw your father with handcuffs there, what kind of feeling did you have? >> angry. >> anger? >> yeah.
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using that country to regroup. dynamic pictures out of australia, you can see this here, the intense bush fires, 98 of them burning in new south wales have claimed their first victim, a 63-year-old man died of a suspected heart attack be while defending his home from those flames. officials say hundreds of homes have been destroyed. and more incredible video. this is the bell tower of a 450-year-old church. you can imagine this it, crumbling to the ground during a major earthquake in the central philippines. tuesday, 7.1 magnitude quake killed 161 people, injured hundreds more. landslides, widespread power outages and damage to thousands of structures have now been reported. and to russia where former nsa contractor edward snowden, he is speaking out about what
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happened to those secret government files that he leaked to the media. in an interview with the "new york times," snowden insists he gave all of those documents to journalists in hong kong, that he never took any of them to russia. that is where he fled in june. snowden leaks a huge collection of documents of the nsa surveillance program and anti-terror efforts and one of the journalist who's received the information says that snowden's claims do sound credible. >> whether he took any to russia, i obviously can't say the for certain but i know for certain that his intention was to undermine the ability of states to engage in mass surveillance, not to help states do so by giving documents to other governments. so it's certainly credible. there's zero evidence that he ever gave any documents or let any of those documents out of his control despite the desire of people in the media to simply assert it without evidence. >> we get more on snowden's claims from phil black in moscow.
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>> suzanne, one of the more persistent criticisms of snowden is he betrayed his country by seeking asylum here in russia because he must now be a russian intelligence agent. whatever information he he was traveling with must be in the possession of russian intelligence services. snowden answered back to this in this interview with the "new york times" which was carried out over an online encrypted service. he says that is simply not possible because he didn't travel with classified documents. he said they were all left in hong kong with the journalist he was working with there. he said there were no copies. it made no sense. there was no value in traveling with copies. it won't have served the public interest. he's pretty sure that china has not been able to access that information he says because his techal knowledge of china's capabilities was such he believes he was able to protect it, to secure it from china accessing and its experts accessing that information. his father snowden made a similar case when he was here in
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moscow earlier in the week visiting his son. i asked him what sort of contact his son was having with russian intelligence. he said none. he said edward had had assured him he had not been debriefed by any spy agency from any country since he fled the united states. >> thanks, phil. promising is one of the words being used to sum up u.n. nuclear talks with iran. but a nuclear deal not close yet. what this means now for u.s.-iranian relations. we'll take a look at that the up next. you're watching "around the world." [ male announcer ] campbell's angus beef & dumplings.
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so here are some words that you rarely hear about when talking about nuclear negotiations with iran. promising, optimistic, forward looking. this is a new tone after two days of talks between iran, the
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u.p. u.n. security council plus germany. the key five plus one it's called. iran's top negotiator said that he presented his framework in geneva this week and that the security council accepted it. so, gone for now the tension that colored nuclear talks under iran's previous administration. want to go to jim shut tote here. i've covered these talks before under president bush. they have failed repeatedly. but you describe this as more serious, more technical in this round of negotiation. tell us what that means and why it's a good thing. >> well, first of all, clearly this is the first sthaep we've seen after the iranian president has taken this new approach towards the west. what we saw in new york during the u.n. general assembly, the phone call between president obama, president rouhani, this kind of thing. now we're moving to the substance of that, what is behind this and will it be followed by real action. what you've got in these talks was a more detailed proposal than the americans or the
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europeans have ever seen from the iranians. and more candor, more directness, what u.s. officials were telling me while i was in geneva. so clearly more promising than what we've seen but still a long way to go. the key thing that this is going to come down to is sanctions. a chicken and the egg problem. do sanction relief comes first? the u.s. position is they need to hard restrictions on the nuclear program because before there's sanctions relief. the senior administration official told me in geneva, the two sides still very far apart on what relief is appropriate. >> there was always a bit of tension here between president bush, the former iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad. now have you two very different leaders at the helm. you've got president obama and iran's new president hassan rouhani. i know they don't sit at the
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negotiating table but certainly do influence the tone of the talks. tell us how it's changed a little bit. >> no question, not just the presidents but the foreign minister who was leading the talks for the iranian side in jaeb, english speaking. in fact, the iranian proposal delivered to americans and europeans. english for the first time via power point presentation. you have the little symbols how the relationship is different. when i spoke to u.s. officials involved in these talks, they said they had never been involved in talks so substantive with the iranians in recent memory. so it already makes a difference. like you, suzanne, i've covered some of these talks before under the bush administration. in fact, in the very same hotel in jaeb where we were just this past week, and the difference in tone and substance really striking. but again, it's early is takens. a long way to go to getting to a point where they can reach agreement. >> jim, it sounds optimistic. you talk about early stages. long way to go.
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do we have a deadline or even a target that would say you know what, we're on the right track and this is successful? >> no deadline but an ambitious timetable from the iranian side. the iranians say they want to have a deal done and believe a deal can be done in six to 12 months, remarkable when you think a couple months ago this wasn't on the radar screen to have substantive talks with the iranians. so that's aggressive. i think there's been some pullback, a little bit of adding you know, some context to this from u.s. officials in recent days saying wait a second. we're still far apart on the sanctions regime, et cetera. remember this, there are still people speaking in geneva right now, experts on both sides. already the principal players will come back december 7th and 8th for more talks. they wouldn't be proceeding with a schedule like that unless there were real things to be discussed and they were making progress behind closed doors. >> an amazing turn around when you think about it from the previous administration not talking at all. jim, good to see you as always.
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another story, held at gunpoint. shot at and captured. that is what happened when a group of greenpeace activists, they tried to board this russian oil rig. russian authorities are calling the activists along with their captain pirates. coming up, an exclusive interview with the captain's family. >> i would ask them to open a dictionary and read the definition of piracy. ♪
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breaking news now on cnn. we have just received sad news. confirmation that former speaker of the house of representatives washington democrat tom foley has died. he was house speaker during the terms of the first president bush and president clinton. he was first elected to congress in 1964. after leaving congress, he served as the u.s. ambassador to
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japan. tom foley had been in declining health for some time. he was 84 years old. we wish our condolences to his family. they are being called the arctic 30, 30 greenpeace actubists, two journalists and they have been sitting in a russian jail for about a month now. they were arrested after trying to board an oil rig in protest of plans to drill in the arctic ocean. well, the captain of their ship peter wilcox, 6 oo-year-old, faces 15 years in prison on charges of piracy. his family are speaking out for the first time since he was arrested and they spoke exclusively with our ivan watson. >> gunshots in the arctic. this was supposed to be a routine greenpeace protest against a russian energy giant drilling for oil in the arctic ocean. but the september 18th protests took a horrible turn. russian authorities arrested 28 activists and two journalists
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aboard a ship owned by the environmentalist group greenpeace. a court later charged them with piracy. authorities claiming their actions endangered the oil rig's crew. among the detainees, an american, the ship's captain, connecticut native peter wilcox. >> the situationize in now is just way too extreme. >> maggie and peter wilsome of got married nearly eight months ago. speaking exclusively to cnn, she shows me the last postcard she received from her husband sent during a stopover in norway on the way to the arctic. >> lis last sentence is it should be a cool action if the russians can keep their sense of humor. >> but no one is laughing now as members of the arctic 30 face up to 15 years in a russian prison. wilcox spent decades with greenpeace protesting to protect the environment. >> we all like to think we try to make the world a better place in our own small way, but it's
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rare for someone to devote their whole life to this, and peter has. >> reporter: for his 18-year-old daughter natasha, a college freshman, hearing her father called a pirate is a shock. when you saw your father with handcuffs there, what kind of feeling did you have? >> angry. >> anger, huh? >> yeah. >> reporter: is there a message you would want to send the authorities in russia right now? >> i would ask them to open a dictionary and read the definition of piracy. >> yeah. >> in fact, russia's powerful president vladimir putin told journalists last month it's obvious wilcox and the other activists are not pirates but that hasn't stopped a russian judge from denying bail to the greenpeace prisoners. natasha says russian authorities are not let her speak to her father since his arrest. >> he's a dad, and he's a
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husband. he's a brother and he's more than just someone who was in charge of a crew who scaled an oil rig. >> what did they do to him. >> for now peter wilcox, also a prisoner and an alleged pirate whose family can do little more than wait and hope for their captain to come home. >> ivan watson joins us live from new york. excellent reporting, ivan. do we think is there any chance in light of the attention that's been raised that he will be released in any way? what is the process of actually letting this play out in russia? >> i think the opposite is happening. greenpeace announcing that two more of these detainees have been denied bail and peter wilcox was already denied bail. now, a fresh were to this story, to this drama is that greenpeace has released video, security camera video from outside their offices in the arctic be russian
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city where these 30s activists and crew members and journalists have been held outside the greenpeace office. it shows what greenpeace says is six men in masks who broke into the area and stole a metal cage that was going to be used in a protest today against the detention of these 30 people. the russian police in momonsk have announced they're investigating this and investigating reports that a car was vandalized in that area. suzanne? >> ivan in, light of all this, are they getting any kind of support, are there protests happening? what happens next? >> well, greenpeace has been trying to organize campaigns of protest in other countries around the world. yesterday, 11 nobel peace prize winners sent a note, a letter to vladimir putin calling for the piracy charges to be dropped. and for russia to respect the right to the peaceful protests. and prisoners like peter wilcox,
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they have been allowed acis esto their lawyers and to diplomats, for example, from the u.s. general consulate in the st. petersburg. he's been able to visit. they have not been allowed to speak by phone to family members overseas though they have received some e-mails that have first been approved by the russian court. so they're quite isolated. >> ivan watson, thank you so much. the shutdown is over now. next on president obama's agenda, that, of course, immigration reform. >> we should finish the job of fixing our broken immigration system. >> so will he republicans need to bend again, or will the democrats give on immigration debate? that is next on "around the world." [ coughs, sneezes ]
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with the fiscal crisis temporarily averted, president
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obama made it clear, one of his next big priorities is to get an immigration bill passed. >> we should finish the job of fixing our broken immigration system. there's already a broad coalition across america that's behind this effort of comprehensive immigration reform from business leaders to faith leaders to law enforcement. >> senate bill, the senate rather passed a bill earlier this year that creates a path to citizenship for the estimated 11.7 million undocumented immigrants in the united states. also allows more high skilled workers to get visas. it also boosts security oo along the u.s.-mexican border. republicans in the house have their own plan and want to deal with it more piecemeal, if you will. maria cordona is a political strategist, adolpho is a former spokesman for the romney/ryan ticket. maria, i want to start with you
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here first because a lot of republicans have been responding to this call for immigration reform including congressman lab an brodeur of idaho. he says the president wasn't willing to negotiatate over obama care. why should they expect any different when it comes to negotiating over immigration reform? does he pick up the phone? does he make a call, talk to speaker boehner and say, i want tonight start offering a deal? i'm going to sit down and talk to you first? >> look, suzanne, the president has been very clear from the beginning this is one of his priorities and he was clear yesterday that he is willing to negotiate. he was very clear during the shutdown that he's willing to negotiate even over obama care, just not with like he likes to say a gun to the head of the american economy. now that that's over, let's negotiate. let's talk about what is next. let's look at real solutions to really figure out how we do with the american people elected
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these people to do. frankly, it was the republican who's kept saying during the shutdown that they want to negotiate, that they want to negotiate. well, now, the president is ready and willing to negotiate. >> but another point is, immigration has already been negotiated. there are bills in the senate and in the house. so let's work on those. >> let's talk about the specifics, if we can. because many republicans think that offering citizenship top undocumented immigrants equals amnesty. there's really even a language thing here. you've got to get past that and start speaks the same language. is there anything that you would recommend specifically that is something that the president could give up or democrats could give up when it comes to moving forward on immigration? >> sure. so that frankly, has already happened. as you know, the white house's plan called for ar eight-year process for citizens to obtain -- i'm sorry, for undocumented folks to obtain citizenship. what came out of the senate was
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ten years. what is being talked about in the house is up to 13 years. and so i think that it is certainly somewhere where there is room for negotiation. >> all right. i want to bring in adolpho here because she brings up a good point, that there is some room for negotiating here. what do you think of that? you've got the house version, you've got the senate version. we saw republicans pretty much split over obama care and the budget. they're also split over immigration, as well. what is the more reasonable plan, the senate plan or the house plan? >> well, first of all, i hope there is a negotiation. i hope the president's rhetoric is actually matched with words. the fact of the matter is, be the past five years we've seen very little negotiation. i hope he picks up the phone and does that. this is a president that promised immigration reform his first year and a number of things. that's behind us. moving forward though, i think the president if he is serious about this, all republicans want immigration reform. the speaker has said he's
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committed to doing it. there's different visions of what is is encompassed in a comprehensive immigration reform bill. the house approach is going to be to take a look at what the senate has done but not take up a comprehensive bill but to look at this in different pieces and study it i had i in a way we did do the health care bill. we passed this large bill. speaker pelosi said nobody's read it. we don't want the situation to happen in immigration. if the president approaches us in good faith, we can get a deal done this year. >> adolpho, the big picture here, the president want won the latino vote 3-1 when elected. obviously, republicans need to get a much better handle on that demographic here and get the latino vote, more in terms of support for winning the next presidential election. how important is this issue to your party? >> it's very important. there's a course by the republican leadership to get this done, absolutely, it's been done in a bipartisan way, a version in the senate of the united states with four
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republican senators and four democrats. i think it's very important to do this. however, i think an appeal to hispanic voters on immigration alone is not the only way, the only republican message. it's about i think the economy creating jobs, and other opportunities that i think there's been a failure by this administration to deliver on the promises to the hispanic community. so i think it's important, however, i will say this, the president has a lot to explain to latinos because he's deporting people at reported numbers. his own supporters, congress nan gutierrez has been extremely critical of him as well as others in the latino community. >> thank you so much for a really good discussion on this. of course, we'll keep talking about this two months or so we have to hash it all out with the immigration reform bill. thank you, good to see you as always. >> thank you. it it is an ongoing battle. in the syria, we're talking about a civil war. it has led to more than 100,000
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people killed since anti-government protests began more than two years ago. our own nick paton walsh was there from the very beginning. >> it's that sound that terrifies ordinary residents of aleppo daily. jets coming in low overhead and never knowing really until you hear the blast exactly what their target is. >> nick shares his emmy-award winning reporting from the front lines. syria. he is here with us in atlanta in the studios, and he's up next. [ male announcer ] this is claira. to prove to you that aleve is the better choice for her, she's agreed to give it up. that's today? [ male announcer ] we'll be with her all day to see how it goes. [ claira ] after the deliveries, i was okay. now the ciabatta is done and the pain is starting again. more pills? seriously? seriously. [ groans ] all these stops to take more pills can be a pain.
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for more than a year, nick paton walsh has been reporting on the civil war in syria, bringing us stories from the streets as well as the front lines, showing us that it is really what it is really like to live amid that bloody conflict, that civil war that has torn that country apart. i want you to take a look at this. >> reporter: it's that sound that terry phis ordinary residents of aleppo daily. jets coming in low overhead and never knowing really until you hear the blast exactly what their target is. >> one morning i was just speaking on a satellite phone for a couple of minutes and a helicopter started swirling around us.
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we didn't quite note why that was. shortly afterwards, the helicopter fired a missile at some nearby buildings. and it was a house of a family who was sort of all asleep at the time of the of actual strike. they say the air strike came in about four hours ago, but still they're racing frantically to call what they say are nine people still under the rubble including a mother and child. >> i think the thing that stuck with all of us most was the child who was born less than a year old who was sheltered by his mother's body. the mother was killed but he was breastfeeding at the time and was able to be pulled alive from the rubble. >> now nick payton great work, has been recognized. he just won an emmy for outstanding writing, and he joins us. nick, it's good to see that you're safe. really telling, very compelling reporting that you did. especially about that young baby that was abreast feeding as his mother was killed.
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you saw that. what happened? >> well, this air strike came in, hit the house they were in and over the hours ahead, because people think these things happen fast but it takes hours for people living in the area around to get to the site. it's often a case of using their hands to pull out incredibly heavy pieces of concrete. when a house collapses, every single pillar is, wall, the roof comes in in the most chaotic way imaginable flattens everything beneath it. it took time. it took electric drills and slowly they started bringing out one child after another after another because the whole family had been effectively squashed by much of the rubble. we went to the hospital and eventually saw nine bodies stacked there. the picture you see is the child who was rescued, the mother's body was sheltering him from the rubble. she was crushed. he was spared. a remarkable site we saw him to see him being cleaned, an
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orphan. >> it's hard to see the pictures. you've seen it in real life. i imagine a lot of people there living this experience are living it over and over. what do you get? what is the sense that you get from them in terms of, what is it like? >> this happened 15 months ago. things have gotten exponentially worse. now there are hundreds dying every day, 5,000 a month by some counts. a war that has changed completely in characteristics since we did that reporting in september, august of last year. we now have a massive infiltration of al qaeda jihadists in the north in rebel ranks making it for most journalists a no go area. we now have a regime on their back many think for some time but suddenly we gain a narrative saying they want to give up chemical weapons. a phenomenally confused picture changing landscapes. a rebel force was so long fractured and now frankly hostile to many people in the west who the did want to help
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originally. >> not just the syrians. they're displaced in lebanon, in turkey, in iraq. what is it like for those to -- leaving their country, they've been forced to leave? do they want to come back? do they feel like there's a sense of optimism that the horror can end and they can go back home? >> there's no optimism. the fascinating thing to see is the impact it's having on neighboring countries. it's hard to visualize for people because it's a slow process. 1.4 million syrians some say in lebanon, a country of only 4 million people. that's changing the makeup of that. the refugee camp seemed to double in size every month you would go back. the last time there was a bus of men trying to get back into syria becausen cans in the camp were so bad, they wanted to cross back into dangerous territory and take the fight back towards the regime. that's the impact living on. as the conflict gets so the hard to explain to people, that impact filters into turkey, iraq, lebanon, jordan and that's what we'll see in the years
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ahead, still playing out. suzanne? >> nick, i really appreciate your being here and reporting. excellent work you do and such an important story. thank you, nick. she survived an assassination attempt that left her even more determined to urge girls get an education. today's pakistan's teen activist malala you've you've met the queen of england. up next.
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buckingham palace, not too many folks lucky enough to get that, but a machine deserved invite did go out to malala yousufzai, the pakistani teenager shot by the taliban just for promoting education for girls. christiane amanpour asked her about the honor last week. here's what she said. >> reporter: the queen of england has invited you to the ballast. you're going, right? >> yes, i am going because it's the honor of the queen. >> so she obeyed the command. she met queen elizabeth today. max foster has plor on this be remarkable meeting of these two. watch. >> reporter: suzanne, two iconic women came together here at buckingham palace today, one in her 80s, one in her teens.
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malala discussed with the monarch the cause she's come to symbolized, education for all. >> so today i had to miss my school because i was meeting the queen. and it was it's such an honor for me to be here now in the kingdom palace, and it was really an honor to meet the queen and because i also wanted to raise the issue of girls not being educated on a higher platform. >> it was only a few days ago malala met president obama in the white house. she's becoming this historic figure, and these images really illustrate that. there's also some fun here at buckingham palace. malala met prince philip who appears to have made another gaffe. >> he said my parents are tied of children, that's why they sent them to school. something like that, but i laughed. and he was laughing. >> meanwhile at the other end of london at the olympic park, a future queen, the dutch easy of
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cambridge was showing off her sporth prowess. she was there to support future olympic and paralympic hopefuls. it was her first solo outing since she had a baby. we'll see her again on wednesday at the christening of prince gorge. >> coming up, anthony bourdain heading to south africa. >> really great travel writer who admire a lot said something that i often refer to. he said the more i travel, the less i know. >> what bourdain learns from his trip to south africa. up next. an #1 ] why do i cook? ♪ because an empty pan is a blank canvas. ♪ [ woman #2 ] to share a moment. ♪ [ man #1 ] to remember my grandmother. [ woman #3 ] to show my love. ♪ [ woman #4 ] because life needs flavor. ♪ [ woman #5 ] to travel the world without leaving home. [ male announcer ] whatever the reason. whatever the dish.
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each week, anthony bourdain visits a new part of the world, taking a look at the culture and the cuisine. here's his take away from his trip to south africa. >> so a good friend of mine, a really great travel writer who i admire a lot said something that i offer often refer to. he said the more i travel the less i know. i feel that particularly strongly here in south africa, a place i came in a state of near total ignorance loaded with preconceptions. and i can't say that i'm leaving any smarter. here's what i do think is -- it's a hell of a lot more complicated than i thought it was going to be, and i do feel
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very much that if things work out here, if the human race is capable of getting it right or ennen remote lit close to right here, maybe there's hope for us all. but i just don't know. do you? >> anthony bourdain, parts unknown" airs this sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. we came pretty close to an outer space fender-bender. that is right. it happened last month. bet you didn't even notice. an asteroid cruised through the solar system zipped by our planet september 16th a little more than 4 million miles away. in space terms, that's not far away at all. it's a pretty big rock, about four football fields long. if you missed it, wait 19 years because that's when it's going to be coming back. scientists discovered the asteroid earlier this month but nasa couldn't tell us about it.
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