inside kobani. cnn takes you to the besieged syrian city at the center of the battle. >> each night particularly last night we had very intense clashes further down this street towards the eastern front here. the japanese company behind millions of faulty air bags resists u.s. calls for a nationwide recall. we are live in tokyo. we're live in jerusalem where the israeli government is undergoing a major shake-up. we could hear at any moment a

date of upcoming elections. hello and welcome to our viewers in the united states and, of course, all around the world. i'm rosemary church. >> hey, everyone, i'm errol barnett. we want to begin this hour with the battle against isis. heavy air strikes are again hitting near the syrian city of raqqah. that's isis' declared headquarters. coalition aircrafts struck an isis electronic warfare garrison there. u.s. sources say it contained equipment to detect and potentially target american and coalition aircraft. >> near asleleppo u.s. warplane have taken aim once again at the al qaeda linked khorasan group. iran is flying fighter jets over eastern iraq with the u.s. military watching very closely. and u.s. officials tell cnn iraqi forces plan to head north to mosul hoping to push out isis militants that seized the city back in june. now, that's all ofof the

latest information. the syrian city of kobani has been under siege by isis militants for months now. even as the battle rages on nick paton walsh had a firsthand look. this is his report. >> reporter: we've been taken down this street towards the eastern front line behind those curtain there is put up to protect them from snipers by two of the female wpg fighters escorting us down there, and this is near the eastern front where there's been much more intense fighting in the past three or four days. and while we get differing figures from whoever you speak to about quite how much of the city is controlled and you see here quite remarkable devastation caused by the explosives used, what's quite clear is that isis are far from giving up on this fight trying

to take ground every day. their move towards the official border crossing three or four days ago was a substantial advance they tried but were beaten back. each night particularly last night we had intense clashes further down this street towards the eastern front here. you can hear -- you can see the absolute devastation here as we get closer towards isis' positions here to the northeast of the city. some of this caused by air strikes but some too from the daily constant sometimes every five minutes thump of mortars some homemade by isis that have been pounding into kobani for months now. we can see turkey literally just behind us, but here they're edging through this wreckage closer and closer to the places where isis are trying to push forward. >> nick paton walsh reporting

there. well, u.s. secretary of state john kerry is chairing a meeting of some 60 coalition partners set to begin now in brussels and we're learning more about the apparent arrest of a wife of isis leader abu bakr al baghdadi. nic robertson is covering both angles for us from london. he joins us now, so, nic, let's start with that apparent arrest of al baghdadi's wife. what all do we know about her, and, of course, the circumstances leading up to her apparent arrest. >> reporter: well, she is from a large iraqi tribe. al duleimi is the name we understand she has. she potentially because of the proximity to al baghdadi and isis potentially has a lot of useful information for intelligence agencies in the region and potentially for western agencies who want to learn everything they can about isis but what we have learned so

far indicates that this woman was picked up in a carefully coordinated operation. this is the woman regional intelligence source tells cnn was arrested last week while crossing from syria to lebanon. it was shot in march last year. she was part of a nighttime prisoner exchange. she is believed by regional sources to be the wife of isis leader abu bakr al baghdadi. the video of the prisoner exchange is titled, man screened at lebanese security personnel who tried to touch baghdadi's wife. you can hear the man say, hey, you, take your hands off her. keep your hand as way from the woman. no one touches her. so little is known about baghdadi that pinning down whether this is indeed his wife or as u.s. sources suspect a former wife is tough.

what is clear to regional sources tell cnn is that she was a high-valued target taken as a result of a long-planned intelligence operation involving syria, iraq and lebanon. >> we also know at this particular time there was a lot of western military activity in the area, as well to, do with reinforcing border areas, toughening up lebanese security in that area. >> reporter: a regional source with knowledge of the operation tells cnn she is a powerful figure in isis in her own right. that she is very active in isis. >> it's interesting that she was trying to come across into that part of lebanon at a time when western forces were making a concerted effort to try and make sure that that part of lebanon was stable. so it hints that some information mismanagement -- >> reporter: both regional sources tell cnn the cia was involved, working with the iraqis and the u.s. was aware of

the operation. twitter accounts used by isis members deny baghdadii's wife has been arrested. and we're likely to learn more information and more details as time goes on but the source we've talked to indicate that this was baghdadi's wife and we'll learn more in days but one of those sources say baghdadi himself had been calling up to try to get the release of his 4-year-old son who was also arrested with his mother in this operation so the indications we're getting baghdaditaking a keen interest in what's happening. >> a critical point there. i do want to check that other angle before you go, nic. what all could potentially come out of this meeting in brussels chaired by u.s. secretary of state john kerry? >> reporter: well, we're expecting him to have opening remarks, been meeting in the last couple of minutes just arriving there at the nato headquarters in brussels, nato is hosting this, it's not a nato

event. meeting with the french foreign minister and there will be representatives of the about 60 nations that are members of the coalition, you know, you have the australians, the french, the british along with the united states involved in the air strikes, the bahrainis and uae from the gulf also involved in that active air campaign coalition that's going on at the moment. but there are many other countries involved in other ways and it's to take stock of where things are. we're not being told about some specific targets that they want to achieve but really to analyze where they are and find the best path forward and improve their coordination, rosemary. >> all right, nic robertson. i know you're monitoring that and let us know if there are any breakthroughs. nic robertson joining us live from london. updating on a breaking development coming into cnn, one guard is dead and six others wounded in a car bombing in yemen. this happened at the iranian

ambassador's residence in sanaa. you're seeing some of the first pictures that are coming into cnn. interior ministry officials say the newly appointed ambassador was not there at the time. a ministry spokeswoman says all diplomatic personnel are safe and accounted for, as well. officials say the explosion went off near the entrance, as you see there, blowing two large holes in the residence. rosemary. >> well, police in somalia say a car packed with explosives rammed into an african union troop convoy. it happened near the airport and the capital mogadishu. police say the explosion killed at least four people. last hour the three founders of hong kong's occupy central movement surrendered to police. the founders walked into the police station, less than an hour ago even though there's no warrant against them, the first time we're seeing these picture, as well. they are urging demonstrators on the streets to stop what they're doing and simply retreat saying

the situation has become too dangerous. the founders insist their surrender does not mean they have failed. well, michael brown's stepfather is under investigation for his actions after a grand jury decided not to indict the officer who fatally shot brown. the ferguson police chief says louis head is one of several people who possibly incited violence after the grand jury announcement. >> police point to this, what you're watching now, the out burst near the ferguson police department saying that this -- as the decision was read. no charges have been filed. head's wife who is michael brown's mother and the family attorneys say head did not act to incite the crowd. >> he's -- his emotions were taken over just like mines and spoke out of anger. >> god forbid your child is killed the way they kill and then they get that, just devastating announcement in the manner it was announced and

somebody put a camera in your face. what would be your immediate reaction so don't condemn them for being -- don't condemn them for being human. >> news of the investigation into louis head's remarks came as the fraternal order of police announced its members are providing free protection to darren wilson. cnn's brian todd talked to the group's executive director. >> he's been threatened over the phone. in e-mails, on social media, apparently there are bounties on his head. now cnn has learned darren wilson is protected by a detail of off-duty police officers who have been by his side since the august shooting of michael brown. >> fraternal order of police members from the surrounding area volunteered and have provided him with security from that time right up until the present. >> reporter: how long will you be doing this? >> as long as we have to. >> reporter: fraternal order of police says the off-duty officers are not being paid by wilson or anyone else to protect him. pasco would not elaborate on the

nature of the protect. it's likely very discreet. >> a low-key protection, not a marked unit in front of a house that draws as much attention as it may divert. maybe one person, maybe two people. so that officer wilson, former officer wilson can sleep at night. >> reporter: wilson's lawyers say it's not just darren wilson these officers are protecting. >> there are threats out there not only against himself but his family, as well. >> reporter: including wilson's new wife who is pregnant and on leave from the ferguson police. one concern the attorneys and law enforcement experts have, efforts by hackers and others to track darren wilson down. >> there are cyberactivists in our world who are going to be actively trying to find out where is darren wilson. they're going to be trying to find out where did darren wilson spend his last hour? so that they can track and put out in public where he is and really create an enhanced threat to him. >> reporter: john gaskin doesn't

begrudge him the protection but others will be upset by it and the people protecting wilson should ask themselves some tough questions. >> the question that will come to mind for me, do they feel as though darren wilson was doing his job and the question even becomes would they have done it. >> reporter: jim pasco is critical of the ferguson police department saying it was, quote, unwilling or unable to protect darren wilson while he was still formally part of their force after the michael brown shooting. pasco says the ferguson police never protected darren wilson and said, quote, that's what the police department is supposed to do. we tried several times to get response from the ferguson police, we didn't hear back. brian todd, cnn, washington. >> we're going to take a short break but ahead, takata takes no action as a u.s. deadline passes. ahead, the implications for the company's air bag recall. plus, cricket fans in australia and around the world say good-bye to a beloved player

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has been laid to rest. the service took place in the small town of maxville where hughes grew up. he was eulogized by his brother and sister and team australia captain michael clark. he died last week just days shy of his 26th birthday after a freak accident on the pitch in sydney. the ball hit him in the back of the neck just below his helmet. rosemary. >> all right. to another story we're covering now, a u.s. deadline came and went and japan's takata corporation made no move to expand its air bag recall. some of takata's air bags have been found to explode, potentially shooting shrapnel into people. at least four deaths are linked to the faulty air bags. the current recall is limited to about 4 million cars in warm, humid states. most of them are hondas, takata's biggest customer, but u.s. officials want the recall to go nationwide. and to give you some perspective takata makes about a fifth of all air bags around the world.

well, our andrew stevens joins us from tokyo with more on what could happen next. and, andrew, the situation here, of course, is when you're looking at these cars, there's very little comfort for those people who own the cars that are at risk here, but talk to us about what the u.s. authorities are likely to do next now that takata's made it clear they are not expanding that recall to nationwide. >> reporter: well, the u.s. authorities can if they wish, rosemary, actually force takata to make a nationwide recall. that is within their powers. and they can also fine takata. but there is a fairly low ceiling on any fine natalie imposed. it will just be $35 million so for a company takata's size even though it's facing enormous difficulties at the moment $35 million does not represent a big issue for them to deal with. what's appearing to be happening why takata has decided to deny

the request is that two things here, one, takata is telling us that it's not up to them to call a national recall anyway. it's actually up to the individual automakers. remember, there are now ten automakers involved who use takata air bags so it's up to the automakers themselves to call for a recall and takata says it would support its customers as it calls them in any sort of recall. the other thing too which takata is not saying but which many other analysts are saying is they just can't make enough air bags to satisfy a full national recall. you talk about 4 million in those affected areas. think of the overall numbers, since this has been going on it's been going on now for about ten years, some 14 million cars have been recalled worldwide. so it is an enormous issue. we don't know exactly how many cars a full recall would entail but certainly it does look like it's within takata's ability to

meet that sort of demand immediately, rosemary. >> and, andrew, that's an interesting point. i mean, how likely is it that some of these car manufacturers might, indeed, force takata's hand on that and push for a recall and on another point too, what are car owners supposed to do at this point because the outcome here is no comfort to them, is it? >> absolutely not. i mean that's the key question. what does the motorists do, not just in the u.s. but around the world if they think or they have a takata air bag and if it's faulty. takata says the humid climates are where it is most likely to trigger this explosion which shoots shrapnel into the body of the driver. that's potentially lethal, of course. what does someone with an air bag actually do and these are the sort of questions that takata is going to be facing when u.s. congress actually a subcommittee meets and actually

talks to the quality control officer at takata. that happens in a few hours from now. suspect that's going to be a pretty robust exchange certainly from the u.s. side as to exactly what they do. what do you do if you have a car and you actually drive it into those warmer, more humid climates, there for a few weeks. dogs that make you more vulnerable and should you be included? all those questions, big, big questions. now, the only thing we hear from takata is what they are planning to do and the boss, ceo said they have a four-point plan but a lot of that is sort of in hindsight looking at what went wrong and as they say they are going to appoint some very senior u.s. actually former u.s. transportation secretaries to help deal with the issues, but as to what takata is going to do, what it's going to tell its -- people who have its air bag, what it's going to tell the u.s. congress and, indeed, what it's going to do about a national recall, they're still very silent on those issues, rosemary. >> certainly a real concern for

anyone who has a car that may be affected potentially, andrew stevens bringing us up to date live from tokyo. many thanks to you, errol. >> well, rosemary, israel's government is undergoing a major shake-up. the prime minister fired two ministers and there are plans to dissolve parliament. after the break we'll get you live to jerusalem and bring you all the latest information. stay with us here on cnn. they take us to worlds full of heroes and titans. for respawn, building the best interactive entertainment

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welcome back. within the next few hours israel's parliament will begin the process to dissolve itself. prime minister benjamin netanyahu is calling for the move. >> it is part of a government shake-up that began tuesday when he sacked his justice and finance ministers. he says the shake-ups are necessary because there's too much internal dissent making it impossible to govern. >> for more on all this and what's at stake we're joined live by senior international correspondent ben wedeman in jerusalem this morning. ben, prime minister netanyahu has ousted centrist allies over his public disagreements over his more right wing policies. what does that tell us about his future vision for israel? >> reporter: well, it's not so much a government shakedown as a meltdown. what has happened is that he simply says he could not work with these two ministers, tzipi livni and yair lapid, his

finance minister who had been highly critical of him in recent days. he accused them, in fact, of trying to launch a coup d'etat against him and so he decided to dump them. now, what he would like to do is go through these elections which many israelis are very unhappy about at this point and what he would like is to see his likud party forming a coalition with more right wing parties and religious parties so it would be a coalition more in tune with his positions because trying to work anything out with these centrist parties proved to be impossible for him. israeli politics, of course, is not for the weak of heart. this is a gamble on his part. we've seen that some of the polls are saying that many israelis are blaming him for this crisis, but at the same time these same polls indicate that if there were an election today, his likud party would do

better. >> and, ben, netanyahu is an experienced politician. you know, but with disagreements locally and also i think internationally he has a very cool relationship with the u.s. administration, particularly president obama, is he becoming more isolated in some way? >> reporter: i don't think it's necessarily him who's becoming isolated. it may be the country of israel itself. let's keep in mind that last night the french parliament voted to recognize a palestinian state. that's the latest in a series of european countries including sweden, spain, britain and ireland which have made similar votes. what we're seeing is that israel's position under perhaps netanyahu's leadership is more and more precarious in terms of its relations with the west and this is one of the points that he had a major difference with

livni and lapid were that they were highly critical of his sometimes very rocky relationship with the obama administration and, yes, that's another point upon which they had a severe disagreement but does underscore that israel doesn't enjoy the kind of relationship with europe, with the united states that it did in the past and many people blame netanyahu for that. >> all right, ben wedeman live for us in jerusalem approaching 10:30 in the morning there. thanks, ben. we'll take a short break now but up ahead, heroin use is now a major epidemic in myanmar. still ahead, find out about the unusual method some churches are using to help addicts kick the habit. plus, we'll take you live to nairobi, kenya dealing with another massacre by the terror group al shabaab. 'wóóñt

you're watching cnn. i'm errol barnett. >> i'm rosemary church. we want to check the headlines. the battle against isis is the focus in brussels. u.s. secretary of state john kerry is leading a meeting of foreign ministers from some 60 coalition partners. discussion is expected on military tactics and political maneuvers to stop the islamic militants who were terrorizing parts of iraq and syria. this developing story, a car bombing at the iranian ambassador's residence in yemen killed one guard and woundedat least six others. the newly appointed ambassador wasn't at the residence in sanaa. reports say all iranian diplomatic personnel are safe and accounted for. japan's takata corporation took no action as a deadline

passed to expand its u.s. air bag recall. the recall is currently limited to warm, humid states, but u.s. officials want it nationwide. some takata air bags have been found to explode sending shrapnel into people. at least four deaths have been linked to the air bags. heroin addiction has become an epidemic in myanmar. the country's long been part of asia's golden triangle, one of the continent's major regions of opium production and now church groups are using unconventional methods to try to tackle this massive problem. our senior international correspondent ivan watson joins us now live from hong kong with details on this. ivan, i know access to cheap heroin is part of the problem. what did you find? >> reporter: well, first of all, the united nations office on drugs and crimes has warned that opium and heroin production has spiked. has grown dramatically in the last two years in myanmar. we traveled to the north of the

country where community leaders say there's been a heroin epidemic, as well. to take a close look at some very unusual methods that some of these community leaders have adopted to try to battle this major problem. ♪ >> reporter: singing for salvation in this bambooed chapel in myanmar's northern ka chin state they perform a musical prayer and hope for a better life. this is no ordinary christian congregation. these men are all heroin addicts and they're now living inside a walled compound. look at this door. there's no handle and it's locked from the outside. this is all part of a drug addiction treatment center that uses a method that could be described as captive rehabilitati rehabilitation. some patients here say they need confinement to prevent them from

running away. the christian pastor in charge tells me if addicts can't control their urges, there are other methods they can use. >> reporter: this is a penalty box. wow. desperate times call for desperate measures. in drug bazaars near remote gemtone mining towns where law enforcement seems nonexistent church groups have taken matters into hair own hands, breeching to men who shoot heroin out in the open. church leaders say the heroin epidemic raging here leaves them no other choice. >> no other choice. no other choice inside our community, every family has this problem. >> reporter: the reverend runs the largest group of christian churches in the region. >> i think 65% or 70% young people use drug.

>> reporter: kachin state is a remote region of remarkable natural beauty but the kachin people are an ethnic christian minority in this majority buddhist country. and for much of the last half century this state has been a battleground between kachin rebels and government forces. though the single government rehabilitation center here offers traditional methadone treatment to heroin addicts -- this is the prayer room -- more than a half dozen church run camps take a different approach. you replace methadone with what -- >> with bible. with the bible scripture, singing. >> reporter: but the preachers who run these treatment centers say they face an uphill battle. this needle strewn cemetery brings the scale of the epidemic home against this macabre

backdrop of death and drug abuse we encounter two men in the middle of their heroin injections. are you okay? is your arm okay? [ speaking a foreign language ] gloria riviera. >> translator: thank you. >> reporter: he tells me he's a 30-year-old farmer who shoots up at least three times a day buying heroin for just around $5 a dose. "if i have money there's no limit to how much heroin i'll take," he says. they leave their needles in the hay and ride off just hours away from their next heroin fix. >> shooting up heroin three types a day near a cemetery. one of the thing that strike me i wonder if those men or some other addicts you met understand what the drugs are doing to their brains or how increasingly dependent on it their bodies are becoming with every use or is all the rehabilitation that you witnessed not really centered on

education at all? >> reporter: well, the heroin users that i talked to at the end there of the report, they knew that this wasn't good for them and they said they hoped one day to be able to kick the habit. what was striking was that at the rehab centers we went to, one of the directors of one of these centers who was a recovering addict himself, he predicted that he only had a 5% success rate using things like the bible, singing and not using methadone to treat the addicts being brought to his center. and what was also very striking about this is how rampant the use was. we went to the campus of mi krchcmichina university and found used needles in the trash cans of the bathrooms there of the university where presumably the elite, the best of the state are

going. i've never seen that on any xhufrts university campus i've been to and shows you how big that problem is in that part of myanmar. when you talk to burmese officials as we did, law enforcement official from the area he insisted that there isn't really a serious heroin problem in that part of myanmar. errol. >> so a level of denial as many people continue to suffer. certainly an insightful report. many people's eye are open. thank you. rosemary. >> let's turn to the african continent now and there is fear, sadness and growing anger in kenya after the latest attack by al shabaab. militants killed 36 quarry workers in a village near the somali border. cnn diana magnay joins me live from nairobi to talk about this and, diana, in the wake of the latest al shabaab attack in kenya many are suggesting this

highlights president's kenyatta's inability to provide his people with security. what's been the fallout in relation to that? >> reporter: well, it does because there have been two attacks like this within the last two weeks in mandera county, the first on a bus where islamist extremists al shabaab militants separated the muslims from the non-muslims and executed the muslims amongst them and now this attack in the quarry where the christians and the muslims were once again separated from one another and 34 were executed with a shot to the head and two more were beheaded. and therefore, of course, kenyans are questioning whether the security apparatus is strong enough to protect them, whether president kenyatta is doing enough and he made a very impassioned speech yesterday to the kenyan people saying that he would try and address any kind

of security failings within the police, see where the failings lay and that he had ordered an investigation, really to try to tighten up what was going on to make the police force especially more effective, more coordinated in the wake of attacks like these and there have already been two high-level resignations or sacking the head of the police force tendered his resignation which was accepted in the interior cabinet minister has been dismissed and replaced so that is what he is ostensibly doing but what also needs to be done is not just to put kenya on a so-called war footing which is what president kenyatta says kenyans must now understand this country is at with islamist extremists but must also be far more inclusive, the county governors, give them more power, more money to try and help the marginalized community as long

the border and the muslim communities who don't feel included within the whole kenyan body politic and it's really those sorts of tensions and problems that al shabaab preying on. >> diana, we're also hearing about this new attack in mogadishu airport. talk to us about al shabaab and the african union and what impact that latest attack has had. >> reporter: well, al shabaab has always claimed or certainly in the last couple of years since kenya intervened alongside the african union forces in somalia in september 2011, al shabaab says that this is an occupation and that all these raids within kenya are in response to this occupation of somali territory by kenyan forces and the suppression of muslims by kenyan forces. but it has been this mission in

somalia fairly successful so it is interesting today we have another car bomb by the city's airport in mogadishu which is used by african union peacekeepers to launch their operations because the number of attacks in somalia have generally decreased. there's been a sense that they're making great progress in defeating extremists but at the same time what is happening in response is an increase in the sorts of attacks over the last months and years in kenya and many kenyans are certainly saying when you speak to them on the street this isn't worth it. we're losing too many lives because of the african union mission and kenya's involvement but it's certainly not something that president kenyatta is going to pull his troops out from any time soon and made that very clear in his address yesterday, rosemary. >> diana magnay reporting live from nairobi. many thanks to you.

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barack obama's nominee for defense secretary. if that's true and the senate confirms him he will replace chuck hagel. carter has served as deputy defense secretary under hagel and leon panetta. there's a showdown brewing over immigration reform in the u.s. republican leaders of the house of representatives plan to challenge president obama's executive order on the issue. but house members and aides tell cnn they'll try to delay that challenge to avoid a government shutdown next week. dana bash has more. >> reporter: homeland security secretary jay johnson came to capitol hill knowing he'd be in for a scolding. >> the president's unilateral actions to bypass congress undermine the constitution and threaten our democracy. >> reporter: republicans raked him over the coals for the president's executive action allowing some 5 million undocumented immigrants to stay in the u.s. legally. >> he's acting in the capacity beyond where he has the ability to do so.

>> sir, i respectfully disagree. >> on what basis? >> they're present. they're lawfully present in this -- >> lawfully? >> reporter: despite their outrage republicans decided today not to take the immigration fight so far that it risks a government shutdown. >> frankly, we have limited options and limited abilities to deal with it directly. >> reporter: that's because the republicans' sharpest weapon is the power of the purse, cutting funding. but if the gop goes down that road, it would risk a shutdown since the government runs out of money next week, december 11th. >> everybody wants to know if there is going to be a government shutdown. >> i don't think anyone has any intention of wanting the government to shut down. >> that's not even a topic i think we're going to discuss at this point. i don't think that's an issue we want to address and we're not going to take that bait. >> reporter: why is that bait? >> that's been the president's biggest bully pulpit is try tock scare the american public that we're going to shut down the government. >> reporter: the leading gop

fund is to fund most of the government through next year but only extend funding for homeland security which oversees immigration for a few months to buy time. >> it's going to be difficult to take meaningful action as long as we've got democratic control in the senate. >> reporter: but powerful conservative groups are impatient and unhappy. one accusing gop leaders of writing a, quote, blank check for amnesty. what do you say to conservative groups who think this is caveing? >> well, i don't think you're caving when you're trying to restrict the actions of the president who ha been uns constitutional. i think you're taking every initiative that is possible at this point. >> reporter: house republicans will hold a vote this week on a bill that says the president violated the constitution by using his executive authority to change immigration policy. but since democrats who still run the senate have no intention of bringing that up, the vote will largely be symbolic. a way to mollify frustrated conservatives. it's an open question whether that will be enough. dana bash, cnn, washington. after years at an impasse iraq has finally reached an oil

deal with the kurdish regional authority. both sides have put aside their differences as they unify to battle isis. under the agreement the kurds will give baghdad 250,000 barrels of oil per day while baghdad agrees to help fund kurdish peshmerga fighters as a major part of national defense spending. the agreement is set to take effect january 1st. ♪ dozens of leaders from every major world religion have signed a declaration call for an end to human trafficking. the group gathered at the vatican on tuesday for a panel on modern-day slavery. christiane amanpour was the moderator. when she asked pope francis about the crisis, he called it a crime against humanity.

[ speaking a foreign language ] >> translator: the victims come from all walks of life but most times they are the poorest and the most vulnerable of our brothers and sisters. this situation is unfortunately becoming worse and worse every day. i call upon all people in faith and their leaders and their governments and companies, i call on men and women to provide their strong support and join this movement against modern slavery in all its forms. >> now, the religious leaders urged their followers to help this cause through education, funding and demanding better law enforcement and when you look at the numbers behind modern-day slavery, i mean they are truly staggering. an estimated 10 million to 30 million people are enslaved all

around the world and the vast majority are in asia. the most common form of human trafficking is sexual exploitation. more than 70% of trafficking victims are female and half are children. cnn is committed to fighting modern-day slavery through other freedom project. many reports and resources there for you. you can find out more information at cnn.com/freedom. it's been more than 500 years since richard iii ruled england but new genetic evidence about his blood line is raising big questions about many of the country's most storied leaders. we're back in a moment.

well, a strengthening typhoon is heading right for the philippines. we have our ivan cabrera here to give us details on who is in its path. >> yeah, that is the big question and i'm stalling a little bit. this is frustrating because what we like is a nice forecast that tells you exactly where it's going to go and we may not have that. i'll explain here on the wall and we'll be able to see what's going on with our typhoon. we do know now certainly this thing is strengthening. 185 kilometer per hour winds but you can see the problem we're having here. look at this cone. very skinny, that is a good agreement as far as the models and the agencies and we're all doing well until about 48 hours and then we have no longer a

cone, we have a big circle here. when you see that on a forecast, that means that there is very high uncertainty so in about five days we're talking this thing could be over cebu or it could be to the north and the reason for that is the steering current, remember, tropical cyclones don't steer themselves but depend on the upper levels of the atmosphere to they will them where to go. we're having a complex pattern towards the end of the period here. i usually don't show you the five-day track but this is now the warning center that is putting this still offshore at 120 hour, five days and the reason pore that we'll have this jet stream that's going to try to impact this. it's going to essentially not pull it up to the north like om o some of these do but will slow it down so instead of this going west/northwest and slamming into the philippines, i still think that's the more likely scenario. the less likely scenario is still possible and that is a

very slow speed as it approaches the philippines and then more of a turn to the north so that is still possible. so basically if you're watching this from the philippines, you must prepare for a landfall here saturday into sunday from a potent typhoon but there is still, i will leave you with that, the possibility of this kind of stalling and then going a little further to the north. we'll have more, of course, and know more in the next couple of days and keep you posted. guys. >> we'll keep watching that thanks so much, ivan. appreciate it. well, it has been a tough couple of years for england's richard iii. first, his royal skeleton was found buried under a common parking lot and now genetic testing of his bones hints that he may not have been related to the man thought to be his father. the revelation casts doubts on the true royal blood lines of some of england's most famous monarchs including henry viii and elizabeth i. how about that? >> interesting stuff. before we go, the would-be

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