two necklaces which appeared when they x-rayed him. that suspect had to have surgery to get the evidence out. only on the "legal view." thanks for watching everybody. "around the world" starts right "around the world" starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com cut back on the spying. that is what the leaders of twitter, facebook and more than a dozen other tech companies are talking to president obama about at the white house today. >> bootleg recordings of never before released beatles tunes hit itunes. then they're taken away less than an hour later, then they came back and went away again. we'll explain. >> happy birthday pope francis. how does the pope choose to spend his 77th birthday? having lunch with the homeless at the vatican. good for him. welcome to "around the world." i'm suzanne malveaux. >> i'm michael holmes. all right now, respecting your privacy while protecting

national security. that hot button issue is front and center at the white house right now. >> president obama is meeting with top xwvs of apple, google,ity twer, yahoo! microsoft, twasbook to name a few. 15 tech chiefs in all. we're getting video from the white house. the visit comes just a day after a federal judge ruled the government's collection of dose mess tick phone records is likely unconstitutional. we want to bring in two people to talk about this, george washington law professor jonathan turley and jim acosta at the white house. jim, i want to start off with you. you've got them talking about the economy, the problems that they're having with obama care w -- website. does it strike you as ironic you are people who collect information, they use it, they all sell it for profit, haven't always been good at protecting their privacy, now complaining about the government spying. tell us what this meeting is

really about. >> well, you know, i think what you're seeing this morning here at the white house, suzanne, is these tech executives are reflecting a lot of the feelings that americans are having right now and reflecting the feelings of the federal judge who issued the scathing ruling about the phone records being collected over at the national security agency. these executives, these companies wrote a letter to the president last week complaining about some of this saying the balance of security has solicited too far to the state and this undermines people's freedoms and there has to be a change. that's almost a direct quote from the letter they sent to the president last week. i should point out that our cameras are our tv pool camera was lawed into the meeting for about 30 seconds. the president sort of cracks a joke at the beginning saying he wished one of the executives had brought an advanced copy of the second season of "house of wards." that produced laughter in the room but the camera was quickly escorted out of the room and the meeting unfolded.

i think it's fair to say ali velshi we were over there, they got into the nitty gritty of these issues because these companies are also alarmed about this. because this meeting was also about healthcare.gov, a little bit of news on that front. that is that a the name of kurt del benay, a top executive over at microsoft, is he going to be taking over the job of overseeing the repairs and the implementation of healthcare.gov in the coming weeks replacing is jeff zients, an administration official just confirmed that in the last several minutes. >> what does that mean to you, jim, he's putting more faith in the private sector than the people in the government to make this thing work? >> well, i think it's a very good point, the fact that he went to somebody from microsoft to run healthcare.gov or oversee what's happening at healthcare.gov is a pretty strong indication the president would like to get the private sector's input into all of this, sort of take the eyes from the

private sector and inject into a process where i guess that mentality has been sorely needed. and it's something that the president has talked about wanting for some time, and i think that this change reflects that. whether or not you know, this was probably needed sooner, i think in that could be debated but clearly, this is an issue that's going to be a problem for this white house this he p if they can't get healthcare.gov working better although it has shown a lot of improvement lately. jeff zients is going to be taking over as the president's top economist. that job was supposed to start at the beginning of the year. now about a month later it's been pushed ba can a bit, suzanne. >> all right. that, jim. let's it's bring in now george washington law professor jonathan it your little to talk a little bit more about this. a lot of these secrets, of course, came to light from edward snowden. and now we've got the federal judge saying that he believes that the nsa is violating the fourth amendment of the

constitution. he says this. today a secret program -- this is what sneaden says, a secret program authorized by a secret court was when exposes to the light of day find to violate americans' rights. it is the first of many. but what are your thoughts? do you believe this does violate the constitution? >> i believe it does. and in fact, i think judge leon has the support of many constitutional scholars. when he says that the framers would have been aghast at the size of the surveillance being conducted by the administration, i think that is rather obviously true. the fourth amendment does prohibit this type of unreasonable search and seizure. what judge leon is saying an is that you are capturing hundreds of millions of e-mails and phone calls. you derive from that information of on its face of location, who people are calling, the numbers they're dialing. and you're putting that into these mosaic profiles.

he said that's really horrific risk if you look at it from the perspective of the fourth amendment. you're doing this without a warrant without particular information. for the administration, this is a big blow. while the president has said he's confident he has the authority, the justice department has been putting on a foul court press to prevent any judge from reviewing these powers. well, this judge has. and he said you don't have those powers. >> so what happens now? had he pretty much put it on ice to allow the government to appeal. this could end up in the supreme court. how do you see that unfolding? >> well, this it is just the beginning. it's going to go to the united states court of appeals for the district of columbia. that court tends to favor police powers or at least national security powers. as does the supreme court. so judge leon's opinion is going to be put to the test. but this is what is becoming a relatively rare victory for civil liberties. civil libertarians in the united

states are very concerned about the roll back on individual rights and particularly privacy. this is a refreshing victory for that community. >> all right, professor turley, thanks so much. also jim acosta who was there earlier at the white house, appreciate it. >> thank you. >> very embarrassing for the white house. this was something that happened under the bush administration, that at first initially that president obama had campaigned against it and then eventually just embraced the whole thing, now being smacked down by the judge who says it's not constitutional. >> if it gets to the supreme court, that's where it's going to get really interesting. >> a new report might illustrate why it is so important for lawmakers to keep this government running, avoid the shutdown we saw in october. chinese hackers might have seized the moment the government shut down when no one was guarding the door to infiltrate. >> the federal election commission is what we're talking about. this report is from the center for public integrity, officials with that group speaking out

about how serious this is. let's go to chris lawrence in washington. when we will say a nobody was guarding the door, as i said, almost literally, everybody was off, weren't they? >> that's right. the fec only has a few hundred employees and almost all of them were furloughed during that government shutdown. now, you're talking about a warning, then hacking, be and now some real new questions because next year, we are heading into the congressional elections here in the united states. possibly the most expensive ever. following that, you've got a presidential electioning in wilpolitical groups and outside groups are going to be spending massive amounts of money. the fec in its computer networks is supposed to keep track of that, but the center for public integrity found that they had a massive hack, a completely crashed the system. when officials looked around as they were being sabotaged, they found there was nobody who could fix it. >> it came as the fec had

absolutely no regular employees actually serving at the agency because of the government shutdown. it was one of the agencies thats actually wenten completely dark during the government shutdown, only had the commissioners themselves manning the doors, manning the many ises and they are not i.t. experts by any stretch of the imagination. >> and this came after an independent auditing firm found that the fec really had not even met the minimum security protocols for its networks. they said the fec was at an increased risk of being hacked. this came before the hack actually happened. a warning didn't come. >> the bottom line here, what kind of information could they get? why would this be valuable to the chinese? >> well, it depends. who knows what they were looking for, you know, it could have been a hack for the sake of hacking. this is the institution that basically insures free and fair elections. it documents who's raised what

money, how they will spent that money, politicians, political groups. i mean, this is really the group that's supposed to ensure that will americans are getting a a fair election and that people aren't abusing the system. >> okay. chris lawrence, thank you so much. appreciate it. >> a bit of a worry if that was easy to do. another departments having a look at their defenses, as well. >> this is an interesting story. first you hear it, then you don't. you got this new collection of old beatles songs disappearing from itunes almost as quickly as they appear, we've been following this all morning. they're here, they're not. >> here's one of them them ♪ there's a place where i can going ♪ ♪ when i feel low ♪ when i feel blue >> love this stuff. that's preet-ed sullivan show, by the way. raw low fi, not even hi-fi. you can tell it's them. given the band's legged ril status, relations like these

these were bbc performances from 1963. they're a big deal. >> a lot of questions though. this is a confusing story because why did they become available for such a short period of time in just a few countries? and apparently the release we have found out was a business's decision, essentially linked to money. it extended the copyrights another 20 years. that's why they ended up doing this. >> it was 50 years of copyright only if you don't release it. if you release it, you get 70 years of copyright. so the you release it it, even quickly, you get the extra 20 years. >> you're a beatles fan. >> there's great stuff in there too. >> you've got to get back on itunes though. >> you've got to be quick. in england it came back on again after going off. nobody knows what's going on, whether it's going to come back again or go away again. it's very confusing but they did get the law on their side by releasing them. >> we'll be checking. we're going to take you overseas. big news out of great britain. remember the claim that british

commandos had murdered princess diana? it turns out after a long review, the police say the bottom line, it's not true. >> one of those conspiracy theories around at the time. diana would have become a royal grandmother this year, died in 1997. after the car she was riding in slammed into a pillar in a tunnel in many paris. her boyfriend, dodi fayed and their driver henri paul also died. this latest claim reported by several british medial outlets had alleged members of britain's eleast sas, special air service were involved in an sass nasing diana. >> the police are can flocking down the claim. here's more of what we're working for this hour. around the world, a helicopter crashes killing six members of the u.s. military. we'll have the latest report on this devastating accident in afghanistan. and while thousands of protesters demand the resignation of ukraine's president for you pulling away

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welcome back. six "uss soldiers have been killed in a helicopter crash, one did survive. this happened today in southern afghanistan. >> barbara starr is covering the story from the pentagon. what have we learned so far? >> well, suzanne, michael, the reports are so preliminary right now. very tragic news, however for the an least six american military families. these troops killed when their helicopter went down in southern afghanistan. rd cooing to the initial reports, there were no reports of enemy fire in the area area at the time. but they are talking to members of another helicopter flying in the immediate area asking them what they saw, what they might be able to tell them about all of this. so it's under investigation. you know, the war, everyone

says, has been end wooing down. 42,000 troops still serving, about 129 troops killed so far this year. that's way down because the number of troops are down. but for the families of the fallen, it makes no difference. very sad, very tragic news as we go into this holiday season. >> barbara, it takes an while for the full details to come out. barbara starr. >> just breaks your heart when you think about the families just waiting. >> yeah, uh-huh. all right. a warning today. that will north korea may it be about to conduct a fourth nuclear test, maybe even launch another missile according to a report from south korea's yonhap news agencying >> you're looking here at images of the nuclear facility. a south korea lawmaker says pyongyang might use a test to draw attention away from the high profile execution that happened of kim jong-un's uncle all coming as north koreans are

pledging allegiance to their dictator. massive show of support staged by the government comes on the second anniversary of the death of kim jung ub's father the man they call the dear leader. anna coren reports from seoul. >> well, the ceremoniton honor the death of north korea's dear leader kim jong-il was always going to be a rare opportunity to see who was in and out of his son's regime following last week's brutal purge by kim jong-un. in a symbolic gesture, the country's supreme commander was flanked by leaders of the military and the workers party putting on a united front, but behind the scenes it was a completely different story. in civility, an alleged coup and power struggle is what will analysts forced kim jong-unton execute his uncle jong song that he can, a mentor for the 30-year-old, the youngest ahead of state in the world. this audacious act caught

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pope francis making another move that may not sit too well with conservative members of the church. what he's done is remove a conservative american cardinal, raymond burke, from the congregation for bishops, the powerful vatican committee that chooses the bishops. >> burke has actually been an outspoken critic of abortionen an same-sex marriage. the pope replaced him with another american cardinal considered to be more moderate in his views. pope francis also marking his birthday today. he is 77. he did it by post hosting four homeless men to a mass and a meal at the vatican. >> nothing like it.

doing it the right way. the staff said francis wanted to celebrate his birthday with a family environment. so he got in the top aides and a couple of other people and these homeless men. let's bring in reverend edward beck, cnn religion commentator, host of "the sunday mass." we keep saying the same stuff. he's been revered as the people's pope already. he's not living in the big papal apartment. he drives that used car. dropping the vestments or some of them. now a birthday meal with the homeless. obviously, that's probably why he was "time's" person of the year. what do you make of all this? not surprising given what we've learned so far. >> no, michael, it's so consistent with the man we've come to know. as the world gets ready to celebrate the birth of christ, remember a homeless teenager gives birth to the savior was what the christians believe. so it's appropriate that as the pope celebrates had his birthday, he invites the homeless in. he said it's where the mission

of the church needs to be. how appropriate he invited them for mass. he gave a little whom milliand invited them to stay for breakfast. it's the man we've seen all along doing what he does best. >> so many people really like this pope. you have this move that he made that surprised some people. this took a bit of guts here because he removed a conservative cardinal. that is very rare actually for something like that to happen. and he picked else to replace him who's a little bit more moderate. what was that move about? what was it designed to do? i guess he has the authority to do just that. >> suzanne, let's understand, this congregation for bishops is really important because it helps to suggest who the pope should name to be bishops throughout the world. and this pope is very inat any time he on the principle of subsidirity. meaning if you can handle it on the local level, bishops, do it, don't kick everything up to the vatican. he needs guys in the trenches, namely his bishops who are in

accord with his own thinking, his ownen ideology. so cardinal burke last week in an interview with ewt nsaid you could get the impression from the pope that we're talking too oo much about abortion and same-sex marriage. well, i don't think we could ever talk too much about that. so he says publicly in an interview he's not really in alignment with the direction the pope seems to be. and then we get word this week that he's out and a more moderate cardinal wurl from washington is in. so was it coincidence? who knows. we'll in over know the full story probably but it seems apparent there's something at work here in the pope's mind. >> but is he, reverend, is that a sign that you know, if you're not a team player, you're off the team or is he open to a bit of dissent in the ranks? >> well, michael, not everybody that remains on that congregation is flaming liberal or even moderate. remember from sydney, we have cardinal completely. he's still on the congregation.

very conservative. it's not like the pope said look if you're not totally in accord with me, you're out. but it's important particularly for the american church because cardinal wurl now will be the only american cardinal that sits on that congregation. so if they're going to be naming the future cardinals at -- i mean bishops in the united states, cardinal wurl is going to have the voice there and not cardinal burke. and so i think that will pope francis is simply saying what he was going to do. he said he would shake things up a bit. he wants to reorganize the structure and make it a bit more balanced but he wants to do it about a vision where he wants the church to go, not where others say it has been. >> and that's an interesting churching. >> it certainly is. shaking things up every week, there is something new. >> reverend beck, thanks so much as always. now, if the presidential race were held today, it's not -- it's two years out. but we're going to talk about it anyway. imagine if it was chris christie and hillary clinton running?

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president obama finishing his fifth year in office was strugglinging with low approval ratings. just 43% of americans approve of the way the president is handling his job according to a new washington post/abc news poll. that is down 11 points from just a year ago. want to bring fwlg our wolf blitzer from washington to tell us about this, wolf. what do you think about the pressure that the president is under now to get some things done in the next two years? >> well, he's under a lot of pressure right now. he's obviously lost a lot of support. i think in large measure because of the affordable care act, the way it was rolled out, the problems with the website. clearly the problem that he continues to have about his own credibility, his repeated promises if you like your health care plan, you can keep it. if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. promises that clearly have not been borne out as he himself

acknowledges. ehe has a lot of work to do to restraeb credibility. as far as the economy is concerned, there has been improvement over the past year, unemployment has gone down, certainly not where it should be but certainly has gone down 7%. that's the lowest it's been since 2008. the stock market is doing well, unemployment. so things have moved is better across the board. housing and other other indicators. but he's still got work to do to reassure the american public he knows what he's doing and that he's on top of the situation and that credibility is really critical. >> wolf, let's talk about this new poll that's out that shows new jersey governor chris christie now leading among registered voters in iowa. you see the numbers there. when asked if the 2016 presidential election were to be held today, who would they pick, and there's the answer. more chose christie than hillary clinton. look, are we can't say it enough, we're two years out from the election. does it even matter at this

stage or it's a good pointer to where things might head? >> yeah, two years from the iowa caucuses, three years from the general election. it's an indicator that chris christie is a very strong potential candidate in a general election against hillary clinton or some other democrat. his big problem would be winning the republican caucus in can iowa or a republican primary in south carolina. because he's perceived as being moderate from the northeast. he would have those problems, although if he were to win the republican nomination, he would be a very formidable candidate. the democrats fear him in a general election. his big problem would be winning that republican nominationing >> all right. wolf, thanks for the perspective as always. of course, we're going to be following this. we have lots of time. things could change. >> plenty of time. there will be a million polls more between now and then. a million? >> all right. >> never too early for those guys to get out in the iowa.

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the ukrainian president and russia's president have agreed on a trade deal say agthey're going to try to deepen their alliance. >> the pact comes after a meeting in moscow today. while the two men talked about trade and sign this had deal in russia. here's what was going on in ukraine. protests continuing over the prospect of closer economic ties with russia rather than europe. want to go live to kiev where die agnag mag nay has been covering all the demonstrations and essentially the government's cozying uptom russia. is there any chance the protests will diadown and are we seeing a power play from vladimir putin? >> reporter: i don't think these protests are going to die down certainly not after the agreement struck today where essentially mr. putin gave ukraine the an cash injection it

desperately needs. we don't know on what terms and also a better price for its gas. so that helps yanukovych in the short-term. the president of this country. but it is making the protesters in the square especially angry. we've been hearing on the is taken behind me chants such as no to slavery, yes to europe. chants saying we know what the -- what russia is like. we know what the soviet union did to us. ukraine is not russia. and if you talk to people on the square, they're worried that are russia wants to bring ukraine back into a sort of soviet union style era ra way of being ruled. that's what they're scared of and that's why they're here, suzanne. >> and diana, this sort of economic block, if you like, it's called the customs union. now vladimir putin really, really wants this. and really to make it work, he needs ukraine on his side. how much strong arming is going on, and how much is this about

having a competing block in the east against the european union? >> well, for the last few months since it became clear, michael, that ukraine was looking to move towards the west, was looking at signing this free trade deal with the european union, russia slapped sanctions on a lot of the trade that goes between ukraine and russia. and that really affected the ukrainian economy. now if you look at the deal struck today, it looks as though russia has decided to relieve those sanctions to get trade back on a normal basis, to reverse those trends and to give russia -- ukraine the pone that it needs. so it looks as though mr. putin is evetively going good, an you stopped that deal with the eu, you're signing a deal with us. and the big fear here is that they will, this is a step down the road towards the customs union that russia wants. even though that wasn't on the table in today's meeting. >> and die anna, real quickly,

why is this so threatening to the west and to the united states? >> reporter: it's threatening because if you look at the -- you know, if you look at it from a perspective of russia trying to consolidate power, especially amongst its former soviet sort of satellite countries, there is a concern he's trying to establish a power bloc. there's also a feeling that if ukraine and the ukrainian people wish for a democratic future in a state where the rule of law is something that they can respect in a state where they believe that the police are trying to protect their interests, rather than working against them, you know, that is something that european union that the u.s., those are values that they believe in. and they don't want to see a country that purports to be a democracy going down account road of a dictatorship. >> following another story, airport security gathered in poland has gotten a pretty nice bonus when you see what he did

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now in the philippines today where he is expected toed visit some hard hit areas by last month's monster typhoon. >> the u.s. donated a lot of aid after that storm. you remember the navy went in and others too, the marines were there. that help isn't just coming from the government. individuals like clyde fogel of kentucky are trying to bring some joy to a place that desperately needs it. kate bolduan has that story. six days a week, 73-year-old clyde fogel heads to a workshop in his backyard to make a little magic. >> they are primarily toys with wheels. i've got some cars. i've got some animals. >> fogel's been making toys for operation christmas child for close to a decade. the charity gives gift-filled shoeboxes to children in need around the world. >> i see the joy on their faces

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could be proof times are changing in cuba. you got right hooks, left jabs, upper cuts, even a couple low blows maybe. this is something that was banned for years under fidel

castro, that, of course, professional boxing. >> you said that beautifully. like rocky bal bowlia, the sport has gotten up off the canvas, making a comeback heading back to the center of the ring. here's patrick. >> at cuba's first professional boxing match, in over half a century, there were lights, cameras, and plenty of action. going pro means cuban boxers now duke it out without shirts or headgear and fight for five rather than three rounds. boxing under the stern gaze of revolutionary icons, there was more blood than usual. and plenty of whistling at the young cubanias who now announce the beginning of each new round. boxing is in cuba's dna. >> whoa. >> and many of the fans we spoke to said the overhaul of their beloved sport was long overdue [ speaking foreign language ]

>> it's closer to being professional boxing. before, the boxers faces and heads are more protection and the fights weren't as good. >> they're boxing now like the professionals. no shirt, no headgear. and it's a better show. >> following cuba's revolution, fidel castro banned professional sports. cuban athletes excelled at international competitions like the olympics, but had to defect if they wanted big paydays. but when cuba's main benefactor the soviet union collapsed the islands sporting prowess was also laid oh low. cuba's legend drill boxing program has lost some of its punch but officials hope by overturning the ban on professional boxing, the island's fighters will regain some of the former glory. in april, they joined the fledgling word series of boxing. fighters now receive an increased if still modest salary. and have more opportunities to

trade punches with other top boxers around the world. while not losing their eligibility to compete at the olympics. it's a more complex form of boxing, he says. they're fighting five rounds, all of this contributes to our big dream of winning the real olympics. already, their participation in the new league appears to be paying off. at the inaugural matches in havana earlier this month, cuban boxers faced their old ally, russia. cheered on by their loyal fans, the cubans won all five fights. and just maybe laid the foundation for something everybody loves, a come back. oppmann, cnn, havana. >> always were terrific boxers, the cubans. >> i wonder if any women will start boxing there. >> who knows. that will be a sign of the times. >> we need your votes. this is for the top stories of

2013. go to cn.com/why i are for year in review. >> you're going to see 20 of the biggest news stories and we would like you to choose ten for us because we're lazy. rumts will be announced online and tv december 30, 9:00 a.m. eastern. number one story right now, the new pope francis. >> thanks for watching "around the world." "cnn newsroom" starts right now. have a good afternoon. right now the heads of tech companies are meeting with president obama over at the white house. nsa surveillance and health care are both on the agenda. right now, the compromise budget deal is moving forward after clearing a keel procedural hurdle in the senate. we'll break down today's vote and preview the final vote expected tomorrow. and right now, people are lining up across the united states for a chance to win $636 million. that's the grand prize in tonight's megamillions