somebody that gets paid to do right did wrong and he is not held accountable for it. but my husband's death will not be in vain. as long as i have a breath in my body, i will fight to the end. >> protesters take on a widow's fight after a grand jury decides not to indict the white police officer who choked an unarmed black man to death. >> straight ahead, the peaceful protests that erupted across the united states. hello and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and of course all around the world. i'm rosemary church. >> good to have you here, hey,

everyone, i'm errol barnett. once again, there is anger over the death of a black man by a police officer. there were marches from st. louis to new york and atlanta and oakland and california. we'll show you how officers have been dealing with the protests overnight in just a moment. but let's begin with a cnn exclusive. a firsthand look at the battle with isis that no one has been able to show you until now. yes, cnn team managed to get inside the battle-torn city of kobani and syria. the utter destruction there could take your breath away. it is quite stunning. >> yes, nick payton walsh has this exclusive story from the front lines and we do have to warn you some footage can be disturbing. >> reporter: from inside kobani, the day's ferocity gets no rest.

it grinds the streets down to the bone. we're heading to the front line where nightly, daily, isis hoped to advance. with media, a kurdish female fighter, this unit's commander. the coalition air power did this pushing isis pack. they abandoned their dead as they retreat. the decaying smell haunts these lines. some call it kobanigrad, after the city that fell. they think they see something in the rubble.

even after coalition support, desperately in need of better arm arms. it was the kind of exchanges that happen here hourly. isis literally meters to that size, shooting, returning fire as well. this surely was not the death isis recruits were sold in their propaganda videos. mortars are often used so we pull back.

media is 22, and has been within five meters of isis. here, friends are made and lost. her best friend, reban, died saving others. >> there were very heavy clashes with isis. we were outnumbered and out of ammunition. she herself was injured but she advanced to help save the other injured with her. isis surrounded her. because girls are very prized by them. she then blew herself up and killed a lot of them with her. i was near her then. her last words to me were we will liberate our land with the last drop of blood in our body. >> the men bring us tea. this is the polar opposite of isis' world view. they cannot afford to stop the fight even if that means there is little left to live on when

they do. nick paton walsh, cnn, kobani. >> an extraordinary report there from nick. but let's take you back now to new york city where the protesters flooded the streets after a grand jury decided not to indict a police officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man, eric garner. >> that is right, it is just past 3:00 a.m. in new york right now. but a few hours ago protesters packed into new york's times square marching through manhattan. they even stopped traffic on the city's west side highway. if you have been to new york you know how significant that is. the demonstrations have calmed down. for the most part, people have headed home. it was largely peaceful. and the police let the protesters have their say. new york's police commissioner said that several were arrested during the night's protest. our deborah feyerick was out on

the streets during the evening. take a look. >> reporter: the protests began at times square and they walked over to rockefeller center where they marched around the perimeter, making their way over the west side highway shutting it down. the goal was to stop traffic and they did that, walking through the flow of numerous avenues in new york city. here, sixth avenue there are a handful of very determined angry protesters. police officers now outnumbering the demonstrators but at the height of this march there were hundreds marching down broadway and up through the side of the highway. marching and chanting, saying whose streets? our streets, and this is what democracy looks like. everything winding up around midnight. deborah feyerick, cnn, new york. the demonstrations in new york seemed to have been a well

coordinated effort. cnn's chris cuomo talked about the strategy. >> this has been a very different set of tactics here. they have moved around and amassed in groups and spread out. it has given them a great deal of effectiveness in being able to move in a city where it is very hard to do that. my assumption is correct, you have been moving around on purpose and coordinated efforts to spread out the effort. >> we have, we want to be where we feel our message will be most effective. we want the nypd to know how enraged we are. how upset we are. and we feel like if we move around, you know what i'm saying, we're actually picking up people who feel the same way we do. and they're moving with us in solidarity. and supporting the families of the victims. you know what i'm saying? the police are not the victims, eric garner, michael brown, trayvon martin and so many more. they're the victims. >> it is not just about one case for you, it is about issues of

concern that you see again and again? >> it is about injustice, everywhere, there is an injustice anywhere. and we're going to be here regardless of how long it takes until they get our message. we're not going anywhere. >> but it seems your intentions here are very much in line -- your first amendment rights and straight civil disobedience. it is a chance for justice and to be heard. what is your intention? >> our intentions is to be peaceful. orderly, and chanlt our message and make people recognize who we are and hear us. >> chris cuomo reporting there on the streets of new york. well, the case in question here goes back to july when police on staten island tried to arrest 43-year-old eric garner you see there. they accused him of selling cigarettes illegally. officer daniel pantaleo who is white put garner in a chokehold and wrestled him to the ground.

garner, an african-american, said repeatedly he could not breathe. he died later in the hospital. u.s. attorney general eric holder says the justice department will proceed with a federal civil rights investigation. >> in addition to performing our own investigative work the department will conduct a complete review of the material gathered during the local investigation. now, we've all seen the video of mr. garner's arrest. his death, of course, was a tragedy. all lives must be valued. all lives. mr. garner's death is one of several recent incidents across our great country that have tested the sense of trust that must exist between law enforcement and the communities they are charged to serve and to protect. >> and it seems these issues are not just in ferguson, missouri, or new york, there is a national sentiment that has really been

ignited. protests quickly spread beyond new york city. take a look, hundreds marched in oakland, california, for example. there were protests over the grand jury decision in the ferguson case, as well. we showed it to you lie. the attorney general will hold meetings about the relationships between the police and the communities they serve. >> chokehold protester s chante as they staged a die-in here in atlanta, georgia, this is a key city for the civil rights movements in the '60s and it very well could be again. police estimated about 150 protesters protested here. >> and new yorkers were joined by a high profile filmmaker. >> people are enraged. people are losing faith of the -- in the justice system because again, we see with our own eyes.

>> spike lee talks to cnn about the latest case that has fuelled anger and mistrust at the police and the u.s. justice system. all right, we have many other big stories to bring you. the litany of allegations grows longer, coming up, the list of complaints against bill cosby. and what will russian president putin say about his struggling economy. we'll be right back in a moment. we needed 30 new hires for our call center.

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well, we are just 45 minutes away from russian president vladimir putin's annual speech to parliament. and we will have live coverage on cnn international. >> mr. putin will spell out kremlin policies in the face of western sanctions brought on by the crisis in ukraine. those sanctions and a rapid drop in oil prices have really damaged the economy. our cnn correspondent joins us live from moscow to discuss what we can expect today. matthew, some analysts look back at 2014 and say this was actually a horrible year for president putin. he is more isolated, more constrained financially, yet somehow more defiant than ever. i wonder how he may try to spin events of this year. >> well, i doubt very much whether he would spin them in that direction. because one of the achievements from the russian point of view of 2014 has been that they

reabsorbed, annexed the crimea peninsula. because of that, vladimir putin's popularity has soared to levels that even this popular politician has not experienced before. i mean, the latest polling coming out this week is that his popularity, his approval ratings are still in the region of 85%, which is astonishing and really just within the world of dreamland when it comes to western leaders. and all that despite the economy is under a great deal of pressure. the oil prices have spiralled downwards. inflation has kicked up in the country and sanctions are having a big impact on the country for the first time as well. the country's finance minister says they expect russia to go into recession next year, down by point 8%, so that will have a real impact on the people's

spending in the country. and that is the real issue, the impact that will have on his popularity. the members who have been invited to the kremlin, to the center of moscow to hear putin speak. they will be listening for what ideas the russian leader has to get the country out of this very severe economic crisis. they have had their spending power go downwards. there is not panic on the streets or taking away support from the russian president but they are going to want to hear what his plan is to get them out of this mess. >> and matthew, considering this economy is headed towards recession what options does he have on the table? what options could he announce today? >> well, it is very difficult to say. the options are pretty limited in terms of preventing russia

going into recession. because russia's economy for all the diversity is more or less dependent on the oil price which has plunged more than 40%. the rubble plunged in parallel to that, because it is linked to the oil price. there is nothing much that they can do to raise the oil price up. they can't even really cut production in russia because they need that money so much and they don't really have the ability in the deep wells in western siberia to cut off the oil flow. there is not much they can do but to ride out the oil crisis and hope the price goes up again. that is their best hope. i mean, there are other factors as well that affect the sanctions. vladimir putin could have done more to meet the terms of the cease-fire agreements in eastern ukraine. and that would have gone some distance towards alleviating the

western sanctions from the united states and from the european union and others on russia. and that could have eased the economic crisis, as well. but he has not done that. and so there are great concerns now, because of his popularity and the popularity of the military escapades in crimea and in eastern ukraine. instead of -- and as the economic turmoil increases, instead of building bridges and easing the confrontation with the west there is a real concern he could choose to escalate it. so we'll be watching carefully what vladimir putin says 40 minutes from now to see if he can get an indication on which direction he takes the country. >> he may very well be emboldened by the rising poll numbers. just a report, if you're watching cnn right now you will see live coverage at the top of the hour, matthew chance, live in moscow. and the allegations are

multiplying against comedian bill cosby. three more women are accusing him of sexual assault. at an emotional news conference with women's rights attorney gloria allred, the women took turns telling reporters their stories. he approached me from behind. and reached over my shoulder and grabbed my right breast. i was stunned. and angry. because had e had no right to d that. >> mr. cosby walked me to the bedroom after a second shot of amaretto. he said it would help my cold. i laid down. he laid next to me on the bed and began pinching my left nipple. humping on my leg while he was grunting. i could not open my eyes. i couldn't move or say anything. >> i believe that mr. cosby

drugged me and sexually assaulted me that night. for years, i did not tell anyone about what he had done to me because i was afraid. i felt threatened by him. i did not think anyone would believe me. >> and another woman has filed a civil lawsuit, judi huff claims cosby sexually assaulted her at the play boy mansion when she was 15 years old. so far there has been no response from the cosby camp. still to come, we'll take you to japan where one buddhist country has offered same sex weddings. and our meteorologist will let you know where the strong storm is heading right now.

we'll be right back in a moment.

. an american teacher has died after being attacked in abu dhabi. condolences are pouring in on the facebook page of ryan. police say a fight broke out in a mall bathroom when she was stabbed. witnesses say the attacker was fully covered wearing black gloves and a face cover. the u.s. embassy issued a warning about an anonymous

internet post that encouraged attacks against teachers and other international schools. police have not named a motive in this case. and just across the arabic gulf, an american couple have left the country after they were cleared of charges of starving their daughter. tohe appellate court cleared thm of the charges, a travel ban on the couple was lifted on tuesday and they left qatar the next day. all right, we want to turn to the weather now. and derek van dam is here to talk about that super typhoon heading towards the philippines. but it is difficult to determine the track, right? >> yes, it is, regardless of where it makes landfall the entire country needs to be on alert. this is a major storm, very powerful.

titled the strongest storm of 2014 and possibly could be the strongest storm ever recorded. it intensified greatly within the past six hours. preparations are under way in tacloban in the philippines, already you can see that people are lining up outside of gas stations, grocery stores, looking for whatever they can find. petrol, food, water, just to prepare themselves for the possibility of a landfall. now, we're not exactly sure on the exact path of this storm. but nonetheless, all areas need to be very well aware of what is to come. this is the latest on super typhoon hagupit. this is a category 5 on the simpson scale in the atlantic ocean. this is a strong, strong storm. winds at 285 kilometers. wind gusts higher up to 150. i want to note something. look at the eyewall of the

storm. it appears it is doing a westerly track, so this is exactly the path going over the next 42 to 72 hours. there is still a small window where preparations to save lives and property could get under way. near tacloban and further north near the island of luzon. we do expect the storm to become more intense with 300 kilometer sustained winds within the next 24 hours. very difficult for storms of this magnitude to continue with this type of strength, but we'll see changes. running parallel with the east coast of the philippines, late saturday and into sunday, perhaps impacting places like manila, as well. the difference here is the european model which takes it more towards a westerly track impacting places like tacloban.

if you recall, just over a year ago, super typhoon haiyan causing damage all across the area, not a great scenario for anyone still recovering from that particular storm. the cnn weather area, this is a reason why. we have a trough to the north. we don't believe it is strong enough to allow the storm to be pulled north. that is why we're expecting more of a westerly component to this trek. that is the more likely scenario, a less likely scenario as it moves towards the north. regardless of which way you slice it, this is a powerful storm. and everybody needs to pay attention and all life and property needs to be protected. >> a powerful storm. >> it is unbelievable, and such a vulnerable part of the world, too. yes, absolutely. all right, just ahead here on cnn. anger on what we can call the chokehold decision. we'll show you how protesters took over a major new york city highway. stay with us here on cnn.

you are watching cnn, thank you for joining us. i'm errol barnett. and i'm rosemary church, it is time to check the headlines at this hour. the protesters in new york have mostly gone home after sprawling demonstrations. they are angry over a grand jury decision not to indict a police officer in the chokehold death of a suspect. the unarmed man was accused of selling cigarettes illegally on a street corner in new york in july. and reports in chechnya, at least three officers were killed. russia physicals say they were attacked at a traffic post then

they stormed the building that houses local media. qatar is explaining why it refuses to expand its air bag recall in the united states. at a congressional hearing, the executive said that public safety is best served by replacing air bags in humid regions where the drivers are most at risk. some of the bags can explode, four deaths in the u.s. have been linked to this issue. all right, let's get you more on our top story. the night of protests in new york, and many other u.s. cities. police say the demonstrations were mostly peaceful. even though they did make at least 30 arrests. protesters blocked traffic in manhattan and demanded justice for eric garner. he died back in july after a police officer put him in a chokehold when he didn't want to be arrest ed for selling cigarettes illegally. >> i think we're doing the same thing.

we have to move past this basic human acceptance level. it's not okay for me to just die for a small reason or no reason. you know what i'm saying, i vote, i pay taxes. i'm a citizen of this country, i demand my full rights. that is why. >> now, for the most part, police in new york stood back as protesters voiced their opinions, mayor de blasio made a statement saying he wanted people to peacefully protest and that was fine. but if you think about it the scene was much different than in ferguson where the protesters and police met face to face nearly every night. >> yeah, one of the most powerful scenes was when protesters began laying in the streets. we spoke to anderson cooper as it happened. >> we want to show you we're at 57's street and the west end highway. the police have formed a barricade. the protesters are confronting them right now.

this is the first direct confrontation that we've seen with protesters yelling directly at the police officers. you can see they're now starting to -- some of them are laying down on the highway. you see a man right here. he is actually sort of showing that he can't breathe, obviously, eric garner represented there. and they're moving peacefully. the police have started to arrest individuals. we've seen a couple of people who have been handcuffed with the plastic cuffs. we have been told by police if we don't get out of the way we will also be arrested. so right now we have a couple of cars that are being blocked by protesters laying in front of them. but this is really where the majority of the police action has happened. what you can't see is here are some of the protesters. well now, they're starting to sit down, anderson, as you can see. >> so deborah, are they sitting down on the highway?

>> they're sitting down on the highway. the side of the highway that they're on is heading north. traffic heading south, completely blocked. complete stand-still as the protesters have taken over the west side highway. it is something officials didn't want to happen but it has now happened in force. the entire west side pretty much shut down in terms of traffic moving in either direction, anderson. >> and can you tell approximately how many demonstrators there are at this point? >> reporter: it looks like there are a couple of hundred here, probably between 3 -- about 300 protesters, conservatively. and i have an equal number of police officers. yes, and that is what i'm looking at right now between the people that are sitting on the ground but also those standing on the divide as well as those laying down in front of police

cars. so everything pretty much stopped right now. police are letting it play out. we heard one officer earlier basically telling another officer just let it happen, just let it happen. so they're arresting people who are disobeying, but they're not getting in or engaging or escalating the situation. right now they're letting them play out, anderson. >> deborah feyerick in new york as people are demonstrating there. the scenes are much quieter now. eric garner's wife, though, is not holding back her anger regarding her husband's death. officer pantaleo says he feels very bad about the death but the widow said she doesn't accept the apology. >> the time for his remorse would have been when he was trying to breathe. that would have been his time to

show remorse okay for another person's life when he was screaming 11 times that he can't breathe. so there is nothing that him or his prayers or anything else will make me feel any different. my husband is six feet under and i'm looking for a way to feed my kids now. who is going to play santa claus for my grand kids this year. because he played santa claus for my grand kids, who is going to do that now. >> eric garner's widow now. reverend sharpton condemned the decision not to file charges in eric garner's death. here is what he said at a news conference in new york with eric garner's family. >> it is against the police department's guidelines to have a chokehold. it is against the law to have excessive force. but if you are choking a man who is down with other police helping and hovering over him, even if the guidelines don't

kick in, you're mine. even if the law don't kick on, you're mine. after 11 times of i can't breathe, when does your humanity kick in. >> spike lee and his son took a camera with them as they joined protesters on the streets of new york wednesday night. the filmmaker spoke with cnn's anderson cooper earlier about his reaction to the grand jury decision. >> i feel horrible. of course, nothing compares to the families that we've got in ferguson -- that -- staten island. but people are enraged. people are losing faith in the justice system. because again, we see it with our own eyes. >> do you think things have gotten better? because i grew up in new york city, i remember a case in the '80s, a young african-american

man was playing basketball. it got thrown onto a police car. ended up he got killed in a chokehold by the police officer, police officer went before a judge. and was not found guilty. i mean, do you think things have changed for the better? >> well, i keep hoping. but hope is not working. hope is not a part of the -- doesn't look like hope has been a part of the grand jury in the last nine days in ferguson. and staten island. >> do you have faith in the system? do you think -- >> well, i have faith in eric holder and the faith in the attorney general. and i think justice will -- in this case, at least -- we have -- i mean, there is evidence. a 14-minute tape by eric garner's friend who spent a lot of that day with him. i don't know how -- what the grand jury was looking at that they cannot bring a charge and

the guy -- >> when you see the protesters out and we're showing one side of the screen and the protests going on in the city, does that inspire you? >> oh, yes, i was telling you earlier. last tuesday night i'm home with my wife, tanya, watching you, cnn, the helicopter shots. they're blocking fdr, they go to times square, i say tanya, i'm going out there. i got my bike, i went to 49th and 7th to stay with them. and for me o-- >> were people like that is spike lee on a bike? >> that went about that, though. as i told you before, it was diverse new yorkers. black, white, brown, asian. all chanting, black lives matter. >> and a lot of young people. >> and a lot of young people. young people's generation gets a bad rap. they're the ones leading this.

so -- watching you inspired me to get out there with these young people. young women and men. and be a part of this. >> so incredible, this certainly has struck a nerve in the u.s. we are continuing the conversation about race relations there at cnn.com. you can also find the history of why the chokehold was banned by the nypd. all of that at cnn.com. and we are counting down to vladimir putin's annual address to russia's parliament next on cnn. a focus on russia's economy and the obstacles facing mr. putin in the weeks and months ahead. and in the next hour here on cnn, an exclusive look inside the city of kobani, syria, cnn goes in despite the isis siege.

al qaeda in the arabic peninsula may be taking cues from isis. the group has just posted a video of an american hostage and threatens an inevitable fate unless the u.s. responds to its demand within three days. the hostage is a photojournalist just captured over a year ago. >> my name is luke somers, i am an american citizen and have

lived in america for most of my life. >> there are no details and if there is a response from the u.s. and at this moment we're less than 20 moments away from vladimir putin's address to the russian parliament and the economy certainly could be a major talking point of his. >> yes, no doubt about it. russia has been struggling with western sanctions. i want to bring in nina del santos, host of the business view on cnn. hello, nina, now, the price of oil has quickly dropped. the rubble has plunged. just how serious is it for russia and of course the president. >> let me put it into context for you. russia saw the biggest decline in the rubble since 1998. it is a very unfortunate comparison for this country because it is the time when it defaulted on the national debt.

many economists say we're nowhere nears to troub s tthose times but it does present a problem for him when he makes his address. this has been a problem for vladimir putin, because he is operating during a time of popularity. but the economy, and the oil prices, oil accounts run about 70% of russia's total revenues. well, that in turn is feeding a very different reality for russia. we see the brent crude oil falling about 40%, to just replicates the slide we've seen in the rubble as well. just in the last half of this year the ruble has also fallen

40%. this is the chart of the u.s. dollar versus the ruble, which looks like it is going up. if you were to chart the ruble it would go down in the same direction. it is a mirror image of the kind of decline we have seen in the ruble. that jeopardizes russia's financial planning. just early on this week they had to revise the predictions saying now it will budget for $80 a barrel. even today, brent crude oil is trading well below that. >> you mentioned the fall of the ruble there. what are the consequences as a country on the whole and maybe more specifically of the people? >> that is right, rosemary, as i said before the fact that the price of oil has fallen so significantly and that russia has not really diverhad had div

streams. it is difficult for companies to finance themselves on the international markets when they borrow in dollars and euros. but of course the euro is falling. what i want to hone in on is the effect in the living standards. according to the set of data, we know that they have fallen about 2.8%, exacerbated by the sanctions imposed on russia, and russia has also pushed out western goods, supply its own sanctions. so that pushed up prices as well. so the average person is feeling this in their pocket, too. it is exacerbated with the ruble as well. the inflation in russia is currently standing at about 9.6%, and the gdp forecast has been revised to take into account how much the sanctions

and the low oil price is costing the economy. as you can see there the inflation is to hit 9.7% this year. it was originally cast at 9%, what a lot of people across russia will expect vladimir putin to say is not just something about the international foreign policy issues. so of course it dominated the agenda with russia's incident with ukraine and crimea. he may try to reassure them that this temporary economic blip is not to stay, or perhaps it is just the west's fault, he may say. >> all right, well, business news with nina del santos, thank you for your report. and we'll have more on president vladimir putin's speech at the top of the hour. all right, coming up, there are new questions about queen

elizabeth's family tree after a dna test gave surprising results. we'll have more next on cnn.

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explanation. the cost, $370 million. >> can you do the high tech one? >> no, couldn't do that either. and this is a japanese space probe blasting off on a mission to chase down an asteroid. it will land on the asteroid in deep space four years from now if all goes to plan. the probe could look for clues about the origin of life. investigators say richard the iii may never have been the rightful monarch. >> and they say they have the dna to prove it. this raises question's about the current queen's claim to the throne. >> reporter: queen elizabeth was born to the british throne. her royal lineage can be traced back centuries. now there are questions about the blue blood all thanks to dna testing for this guy, king richard iii.

scientists say they are almost 100% they found his remains underneath a parking lot two years ago. they have been testing the bones ever since. we know he probably had had blonde hair and blue eyes. the tests showed somewhere along the line there was at least one case of false paternity. >> that is actually not surprising given what we know about the legitimacy rates for paternity and non-paternity in the past. >> the scientists were looking for a match from one of richard's surviving relatives. well, they were not able to find one. and that is because scientists say there is at least one break along the genetic link between henry and richard the iii. i don't know when the break happened, they don't know how. they say it could be along 19 links in the chain.

>> which means that richard may not have had a legitimate claim to the throne. if the break dates back to the father of henry the 4th, it calls into question who was meant to be on the throne. >> if there was a break on that side, then of course it does raise questions about the legitimacy of particularly the lancastrian monarchs. and because there was a tudor link, as well. >> and through the tudors, the royalty. regardless of when it happened they say the queen's claim to the throne is safe. >> we're certainly not here saying the house of windsor has no legitimate claim to the throne. far from it. partly because royal succession does not work like that. the whole point of monarchry

over the centuries takes various twists and turns. >> all after, there is much more to being queen. >> it is like a claim you are not heir to the throne. and reports the government is prohibiting parents from naming their newborn's after the korean leader. kim jong-un is actually a common name. >> and probably the least crazy thing he has done this year. >> there are lots of other things he could have done. i'm errol barnett, for everyone else, stay tuned for cnn news room. have a great day.

. breaking overnight. protests erupting in new york and across the country after a grand jury decides not to indict a white police officer involved in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man. eric gardner's family is outraged this morning and speaking out. >> now a federal civil rights investigation is happening in the gardner death investigation. good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. it is thursday, december 4th. 4:00 a.m. in the east. breaking