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the newest edition of "charlie hebdo" is selling out. people couldn't wait to get their hands on the magazine which features a new cartoon of the prophet muhammad. now the world waits to see how people will react. chilling new video shows the suspected terrorist accused of murdering a dozen people at "charlie hebdo." what investigators are hoping to learn from what you're seeing now. airasia investigators hope they'll soon know how and why airasia flight 8501 went down. we will update their work on the critical flight recorders. pope francis is met by huge crowds as he canonizes sri
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lanka's first catholic saint. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm rosemary church. >> and i'm errol barnett with another hour for you. you're about to see cnn's global resources at work. we have crews in indonesia, jakarta, london, and johannesburg with the latest. we want to begin in france. >> of course it is 9:00 a.m. in paris where the new issue of "charlie hebdo" is selling out even before it hits the newsstands. >> pretty remarkable. people lined up early today. along the champs e'lysee, they couldn't get a copy as early issues were set aside on reserve. still, three million copies of the new issue of "charlie hebdo" have been printed, and that is up from the usual 60,000. let's bring in phil black stabbed standing by from paris to bring us more. phil we know there's high demand. we just mentioned some people can't get their hands on copies yet. what about where you are and right now?
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can people get a copy? >> reporter: yeah no is the short answer. a lot are eager to get copies of the magazine this week. people were lining up even before news stanz opened. we've seen a steady stream of people coming up to the poor guy behind the counter repeatly asking if he has a copy of "charlie hebdo". and the answer repeatedly is no. those that he was sense before they were relive this morning, they were reserved -- were released this morning, they were reserved by people. a number of operators said they didn't get the numbers they had ordered. really only around 50 or 60 each or so. they had asked for many more than that. those runs is not exceeded that demand just yet. they say they're expecting more deliveries in the coming days. we mentioned that print run of three million copies. those three million are not hitting the stands on the streets of paris all in one go this morning. that demand is going to be fed
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over the course of the week. the people we've been talking to have been disappointed, say they will keep coming back until they get a copy. they're determined to do so. they say it's important that they do so because they new see this magazine as a symbol for their civilization to what they believe in for free speech in particular. and many people tell us they don't normally read "charlie hebdo." they're not necessarily fans of the publication. some even say they don't normally like the contents don't necessarily find it funny. they believe it's person that the magazine be allowed to operate and that it continue to do so, and so for that reason they are continuing to champion its existence and its cause this weekend. >> okay. we very well could see maybe a staggered release of the publication since so many copies were printed and they're releasing them in certain amounts. there's also a beefed up security presence throughout the country there today. and considering that this is a cover that is expected to offend some how visible i'm wondering is the security presence in
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typical places like where you are? >> reporter: it's pretty high. i suspect it was before today, as well. you're right, t the cover that is controversial according to the staff of the magazine. they say it features a good man crying. that good man happens to be the prophet muhammad. according to many muslims, of course any depiction of him, any visual depiction is considered offensive. for that reason it is an edgy choice for the edition. talking to the people on the streets, they really are 100% behind it. they believe it was the right choice. they believe it is the right tone particularly because it shows an emotional figure. a man who is clearly sad, who has been saddened by the events of the last week or so. interestingly, remember above the depiction of the placard, there's a headline "all is
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forgiven." some people said one thing they don't necessarily agree with are those lines, that headline that claimed that all is forgiven. >> and we spoke with someone who preaches interfaith dialogue who he strongly disagrees with the cover but violence is not the answer. other muslim scholars said it strikes the right tone. even the response to this quite divided. phil black outside of -- in front of the newsstand in paris. thank you very much. french police uncovering new details about the terrorists who carried out last week's attacks in paris. isa suarez now live with the latest. so give us an idea of what authorities there in france have uncovered so far in their investigation. >> reporter: hi yeah. it seems that the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle are all coming together albeit slowly. we have heard of the new face in the investigation in the last 24 hours. according to afp, the press,
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they have arrested a man in bulgaria sophia bulgaria. to have link to one of the terrorist attackers. one of the two brothers it is believed. basically what we know about the man, he is a french national. he's roughly 26 years of age. and he went to -- he went to sophia on december 30th we know that's a week before the attacks happened. there was an arrest warrant issued for him, rosie, by france. but really it was following allegations that he had taken his son without his wife's permission outside of the country. now we're hearing there is a second arrest warrant for him, and also issued by france, this one issued for link to having some terror links. that's what we know. it's believe he had links to one of the brothers. we do not know what kind of link there may have been. worth remembering that the prime minister speaking to cnn recently said he believed there were other accomplices, whether
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these were people that helped finance or helped people help organize. he believed there were more people involved. not necessarily a trigger. are you starting to get a complex picture of how wide the net could be. of course investigators here continue to pursue other angles including boumeddiene, the woman on the run, and the man seen arriving with her in turkey. >> i wanted to ask you about hyatt boumeddiene. of course she was the suspect that got away. we've seen these pictures of her there with a man. they have identified him as a very young man not? he? talk to us -- isn't me? talk to us about what more they're learning. of course, what they're expecting to see now is the publicity that the terrorist groups will want to exploit via hayat boumeddiene. presumably we will hear and see more of her in the days ahead.
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>> reporter: yeah they're trying to get a picture of who she is really. we know very little. cnn ourselves have gone to the apartment where she used to live with coulibaly, the man who died at the kosher store on friday. we spoke to people there. atika shubert was on the ground and spoke to people there. they were basically saying to her she was a very friendly person you know she never engaged in religious conversations. she always got the on her moped, always friendly. that is a picture we're getting. we know that she left the country to istanbul via madrid. she had a return flights january 9th but never got on the flight. the last time we heard about her, the fact that she may have entered syria. now we're hearing about the man who apparently is 23 years of age, from paris. and according to the french newspaper here saying he may be connected to a separate jihadist
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cell. and that apparently pakistani/afghani jihadist cell. sue you see the puzzle already bit by bit coming together. >> learning a lot, but still so much more to be found out on this. isa suarez live from paris. many thanks to you. rosemary concerns over hidden bombs have led the u.s. department of homeland security to beef up security checks at american airports. essentially that means passengers who clear security may still undergo additional random screenings. that includes pat-downs, bag checks and hand swabs for explosive residue. the new measures were triggered by instructions published in al qaeda's "inspire" magazine in december showing people how to make hard-to-detect bombs. also provides tips to would-be loan wolf bombers on avoiding scanners and detection dogs. >> we'll take a short break now.
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ahead investigators may be closer to answers. a live report on the latest on the crash of airasia flight 8501. plus another major story -- newark peels for help from -- newark peels for help from nigeria as the country faces escalating violence from boko haram militants. and dramatic video from the massacre at the "charlie hebdo" magazine. [ male announcer ] you wouldn't leave your car unprotected. but a lot of us leave our identities unprotected.
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investigators in indonesia hope the latest discoveries of the cockpit voice recorder from airasia flight 8501 will lead to answers about what caused that crash. >> we have both so-called blocks in authorities' hand. the flight data recorder the flight voice recorder. we're joined with the latest on that. david, what is the latest information on the voice recorder, what could be revealing as to clues of what went wrong? >> reporter: errol, news just in to cnn a few minutes ago. one of the senior investigators with the national transportation safety board, the committee overseeing the investigation, mr. marjona. we've been talking to him the past couple of days. saying the cockpit voice recorder has now been successfully downloaded. the flight data recorder had been downloaded earlier. now the cockpit voice recorder downloaded as well. he says right now there are two
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investigators. they're also licensed pilots listening to that recording. after that happens, he will go back and listen with some investigators, and then eventually he will begin transcribing that. we talked -- we've talked a lot about the grim reality here of recovering bodies from the java sea. this is another part of the aftermath of a plane crash that indeed is a tough reality to swallow. you have investigators albeit trained, listening to a recording. they know how it's going to end, that it will end the question is what they will discover along the way. we're told again that cockpit voice recorder has been downloaded. investigators getting a first listen of it as we speak. >> and those events moved relatively quickly. it was just a few hours ago when they were scheduled just to assess the voice recorder. we saw footage there. it seems to be in relatively good condition. of course that is what it's designed to do. so good to hear that investigators are listening to it. but we did have earlier that
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report of possibly the fuselage being found. turned out not to be true. this can always happen as they secretary of the java sea -- they search the java sea for evidence of the flight's remains, what was left from the debris. what do we know about the conditions there under water and what they are finding down there? >> reporter: yeah that's right. officials not necessarily on the same page about that main wreckage. we know it is their number-one priority as the search continues. day 18 of the search since flight 8501 went down. we have new video, though just in from the java sea. this is from the indonesian navy. we can bring up the pictures. this appears to show a diver recovering one of the black boxes. we're not sure which. the flight data recorder or cockpit voice recorder. one of the black boxes in the past 48 hours or so. we heard reports about a sanny bottom about 3 -- sandy bottom about 30 meters 100 feet down. there is wreckage around there, as well. lots of pieces jagged edges.
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it's tough to make out exactly what it is. we do know from search officials that the flight data recorder was recovered from underneath a wing. the cockpit voice recorder just 20 meters away. getting, again, a little bit of a closer look at what the conditions look like down there. and how divers are faring. the visibility on that video not bad. the underwater currents don't appear to be too bad, as well. today conditions, reports coming from ships saying divers are back in the water. a number of objects continue to be detected picked up by ships on the surface, sonar and other methods. divers will continue to take a look until they find that crucial wreckage, the fuselage. >> quarter past 3:00 in the afternoon. david with the new information out of jakarta, indonesia. investigators listening to the voice recorder as we speak. just showed us the condition that's they're dealing with underwater. thank you very much.
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the new issue of "charlie hebdo" has hid newsstands as -- has hit newsstands a week after terrorists stormed the office and killed 12 people. once again a cartoon of the prophet muhammad is on the cover. we're joined from london to talk about that. the foreign affairs commentator at "the guardian" and editor of "l'm "l'mond." "charlie hebdo" has not been silenced and remains defiant. the concern is how extremists will react to the new issue. that didn't appear to be a concern for the magazine. >> you know, i think it was really essential that "charlie hebdo" was able to come out one week after these horrendous attacks that led to the assassination of a big part of their staff.
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it is no surprise to me that people in paris and french cities have been lining up in front of newsstands and very early morning hours and rushing to "charlie hebdo." -- rushing to buy "charlie hebdo." there's been support to allow the magazine survive, indeed because it is a symbol but also because people feel deeply, and journalists in france feel deeply. in the wider european scene, the case also the veto that jihadi terrorist idea on carried by attackers must not -- ideology carried on by attacker must not prevail. terrorists, if they're working for the free press and want to stand for a courageous -- they must not be cowed by guns and threats the way "charlie hebdo" has been attacked. i think that's an essential
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thing, and i think it doesn't concern just france. it concerns the whole of europe. we know the jihadi works exist throughout europe not just in france. there are cells out there. there are recruits being sent to syria and iraq. i think the way europeans and the way european journalists react to this situation is going to be key in our -- upholding things that are essential about european values. >> would you expect to see in the days going forward, the weeks, in fact as more of the metro station publications come out, that they might perhaps consider toning down some of the cartoons some of what said or do you think they may go in the other direction? >> i think they are going to be faithful to who they are and their identity. i don't -- i think they're going to be careful not in the sense
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that they would want to moderate or make themselves feel -- have a weaker voice. i think they will try to fit with what they have been for years, and understanding about what "charlie hebdo" is about outside france because that's normal -- normal people don't really know about "charlie hebdo." they haven't been reading it for years the way some french people have. and there's also a lot of distortion and the comments you hear that you hear from representatives to the muslim community are shocking to me. some are saying that "charlie hebdo's" been racist or anti-arabic. you know deliberately deliberately targeting islam. that is a distortion of what it was about. so i think that they will stick to their identity which is free thinking anti-clerical the way it was against the catholic church for years and still is. defending the notion of a secular state in france.
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they are not about antagonizing communities. they are about exerting exercising freedom that exists in france, and in wider europe of expressing yourself in a very sometimes provocative way. i think they will stockton their identity. i think it's important to continue to exist. there is one week after the attacks. i think it's important that one year down the road or two years down the road, "charlie hebdo" is still there and getting support and understanding from people in france and outside france. >> worth noting, these terror attacks have had the opposite effect. the intention was to close it down. now they've gone from 60,000 copies to three million. they are sold out. it's quite extraordinary. thank you for talking with us. appreciate it. >> thanks. still to come for you on cnn, another major story we're following. how the nigerian government is or is not responding to
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escalating attacks from boko haram militants. and in the u.s. a mother's anguish as her son faces charges of aiding isis. we'll hear her plea for her child and others like him.
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a man fell off a cruise ship near the coast of cozumel in mexico. one witness describes how the frightening situation unfolded. >> over the p.a. system we
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heard a call which is kind of code in the cruise industry saying, mr. mob, mr. mob, mr. mob star board side. the mister issed coat edthe code, the m.o.b. stand for man overboard. >> how the man survived after spending nearly five hours in the water. there's international support amid a surge of violence by boko haram. the islamist militants are believed to have massacred as many as 2,000 people if the town of baga more than a week ago. let's bring in diana again. she's been following this from johannesburg south africa. the stunning thing, we wonder why president jonathan hasn't even commented on the attacks. when you look at the statistics, boko haram kills more people each and every year despite the
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military's efforts. and before i came to air a few hours ago, i sent a tweet to nigerians. what do you think of this. dwroerchl overwhelmingly dozens upon dozens of responses are negative. why has the president not at least spoken out against this growing problem? >>. >> reporter: it is astonishing that he hasn't said a word and yet did issue his condolences to the people of paris for the "charlie hebdo" massacre. and when you look at the numbers that are being touted as potentially having been killed as many as 2,000, let's add that we can't know because journalists aren't getting to the region security forces aren't getting to the region. it's entirely taken over by boko haram. it's hard to know how many people were killed. you know that eyewitnesses say bodies litter the ground they are decomposing. nobody can pick them up and from those of refugees who fled the area saying this of a horrific bout of killing.
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the president has said nothing. partially that may be because he isn't certain of the facts. partly because it's embarrassing that the army couldn't put up a fight in the area. they were effectively routed from the base that boko haram stormed. and he's in the middle of campaigning for the election that boko haram and his inability to control the insurge we auto -- insurgency in the north is something he's avoiding. you have to ask why the military not the president is coming out with statements. the military issued various comments. it said the death toll has been wildly exaggerated and that only 150 people were killed up there. and also a military spokesman is calling for international help. let's take a listen. >> the united states, france turkey so forth, china, offer to support. most of those supports in terms
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of -- in terms of tactical compositions and so forth and so on. we need to go beyond that. that is why the nigerian government is scouting from across the globe. >> reporter: the nigerian government clearly has the money to purchase what it needs. the question is whether that ammunition whether that equipment will actually get into the right hands because right now, the military especially those fighting in the north, have incredibly low morale they're badly trained, and they don't have the gear they need take on boko haram. >> it's stunning. they have the size of the military. 130,000 plus. still somehow this -- these guerrilla slammists are able to -- islamists are able to keep people each and every year. thank you, approaching 10:30 in the morning there.
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more than 100 wildfires have ignited across chile. and the current weather is not helping one bit. and our meteorologist pedram joins us from the international weather center. do we know what triggered all of the fires? >> it's the drought situation set up across the region. this is the driest time of the year unfortunately. look at the climatological setup for santiago the month of january for you. barely any rainfall in the month of january. similar story out of february until really may, you don't pick up much in the way of moisture across chile. that's the concern. 101 fires, the thermal signature, showing up across areas. the vast majority south of santiago. again, if you know anything about the weather across chile, the driest location on earth, the desert in the far northwestern corner there was chile. some areas, evidence that they've not seen rainfall for 400 years across the region.
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the recipe in place for extreme temperatures. it is the southern hemisphere. we're talk about the summer season. generally mid 30s celsius. 90 to 95 the last few days. and this is equivalent to the size of paris or washington, d.c., in the united states. so pretty expanseive region with fires that have burned across the area. storm system beginning to knock on the doorsteps of northwestern europe. my goodness look at these wave heights. five meters seven meters farther offshore. winds could easily exceed hurricane force. the entire country, the u.k. here has a severe weather warning for powerful winds over the next 24 hours from wednesday night into thursday morning. as you would imagine, travel issues going to begin to build up. wind speeds again, could push over 100 kph from london to glasgow. closing in on 80 kilometers per hour. this culminating wednesday into thursday morning. if you are traveling across
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western europe gatwick, up to 90-minute delays possible. frankfurt, similar story. we'll leave you with other delays, most in the red from copenhagen across to amsterdam. more news coming up.
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. pope francis on his way to the sri lanka region heavily affected by the civil war. a short time ago florida the pope canonized sri lanka's first saint. we'll get you the latest in a live report coming up in roughly 15 minutes. you are watching cnn. i appreciate you staying with us. i'm errol barnett. >> i'm rosemary church. in headlines, the first issue of "charlie hebdo" since last week's massacre is selling out
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of newsstands across paris today. three million copies have been printed up from the usual 60,000. the cover shows a cartoon of the prophet muhammad under the title "all is forgiven." >> at least 11 people were killed when a passenger bus came under heavy fire in eastern ukraine according to ukrainian authorities who spoke to reuters. they say rebels attacked the bus at a government checkpoint south of donetsk. indonesian officials may be closer to answers in what sent airasia flight 8501 into the java sea last month. at this moment, they're listening to what's on the cockpit voice recorder. the flight data recorder of found on monday. it's believed the plane's fuselage has also been found, though it's not been confirmed by the search and rescue agency. in the united states a man has been indicted for allegedly threatening to kill house speaker john boehner. authorities say ohio bartender
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michael hoyt wanted to slip poison into boehner's drink or shoot him and drive away. he also believed boehner was among a group of patrons who complained about his service and cost him his job. there is dramatic new video of last week's attack on the "charlie hebdo" offices in paris. it shows the gunmen exchanging gunfire but appearing poised as police try and get away. it's more than a minute. but we think it's valuable for you to see this. take a look. [ shouting ]
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>> stunning to watch. >> and when you read the subtitles, terrifying. >> those weren't blank bullet. one of the presumed brothers jammed the weapon the other helps. they have time to move around -- >> they do it calmly. >> so bizarre. >> very poised. >> what just watched is helping authorities fill in some of the blanks about last week's attack. let's bring in isa suarez again. she is live for us in paris. what our r-- what more are authorities learning as they go through the video over and over again looking at this video in sections to sort of determine what exactly was playing out there? >> reporter: hi. this is the first evidence that we are seeing. the first real evidence of the days -- in the day of the attack
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on "charlie hebdo." of course we've seen footages from different sides. this is another angle, and this i'm sure wasn't pouring at the video in great detail. let's go through it and get a sense of what they perhaps may have learned. before the attack, there was talk that there may have been a third person with them, you know. we've seen today that this is not the case. we're not talking about who helped them plan physically with them. we've seen there's two. it is chilling the video, because they're so calm like rosie said. so calm and so collected. they get out of the car, they reload their guns take their time. they get back in the car. that's one of the things that points -- that we can see. the second is that when they're pointing initially we didn't have sound we didn't have audio. now we know that they're saying. they basically said we have avenged the prophet muhammad. they first stay in french. now we know they weren't signalling to anyone. they were actually -- they knew
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what they were referring to and why they target the offices of "charlie hebdo." it also shows one thing that's very important. it's really how outgunned that french police was. they could no way -- really fight with these men. really they had the means and they couldn't do anything. they had to reverse, as you saw there. and the other important point is that really they're very good marksmen. we knew, we already heard from various sources that one if not both had been trained in yemen at the arabian peninsula. now we're seeing how good of a marksmen. they're driving, shooting. initial when he it happened, we saw the bullet holes. chris cuomo was live. he said the proximity of the bullets shows how good marksmen they are. this is helping paint a picture of really these men and the days leading -- the day of the massacre at "charlie hebdo." absolutely chilling the fact these men are so calm and
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composed bearing in mind how many people killed "charlie hebdo." >> you're absolutely right. taking us through the chilling video. thank you very much for the live report from paris. >> thank you. in the u.s. state of illinois a teenager accused of trying to support isis has pleaded not guilty. 19-year-old muhammad hamza kahn was arrested at o'hare national airport in october. after tuesday's hearing, his mother denounced isis and last week's terrorist attacks in paris. >> we condemn the violence in the strongest terms. we condemn the brutal tactics of isis and groups like it and we condemn the brainwashing and recruiting of children through the use of social media and the internet. we have a message for isis and fellow recruiters -- leave our
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children alone! meantime in france, some young disaffected muslims -- we should make the point that they are well outside the mainstream but still they say they identify with the gunmen in last week's terror attacks. our reporter sat down with a woman who approves of the killings. >> reporter: the way she's dressed now in skinny jeans hair flowing, is a costume. idira -- not her real name -- asks we conceal her identity and voice. the profile picture is of two moroccan women with isis pulled from an article she read. one of the small fragments that molds her current state of mind. they are brave, she says, they don't have courage pointing to her twitter photograph. it's a screen grab of armed women who pledge allegiance to isis. if it was up to her, she would also wear it banned if france.
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>> translator: i don't want to be judged if i walk outside with it. i don't want to turn and be looked at. i want to be where i'm not going to shock anyone. >> reporter: and shock not just with what she wears but with what she says. endira believes the slaughter of the "charlie hebdo" cartoonists is justified. though not that of the others who were killed. >> translator: i brefr to think that they are people -- i prefer to think that they are people that yes, wanted to avenge the prophet. then they took it too far. >> reporter: she also post a video of amedy coulibaly, the third gunman, as he is killed by police in the hail of bullets. >> translator: i can't really tell you why i cried for them so much. i was so angry that they were dead. why? why kill them? >> reporter: her path to extremism of forged slowly. she used to drink, smoke. she even has a tattoo. the people that share her hardline religious views, it's not just about whether or not
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women can legally wear the uniform here. the ongoing public debate about national identity has left them feeling rejected by france and closer to the religious lifestyle promised boy the so-called caliphate. she plans to leaving the comforts in paris behind. france, she says, is for the french. she feels her place is here isis territory in syria. she looks forward to the hardship lack of ameant and life among those who she believes are like-minded, immersed in religion. she shows recent messages exchanged with a brother. he writes it's his backup account in case his main is shut down, and we can talk here in private. >> translator: if my fiance doesn't want to come with me i love my god more than i love him. i will leave him. he's not the one who's going to open the gates of paradise for me.
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>> reporter: arwa damon, cnn, paris. >> troubling there. other stories still to come. a man falls overboard from a cruise ship spend five hourss five hours in the sea. credit to disney magic perhaps. we'll tell you about the lucky rescue. plus, pope francis is greeted by hundreds of thousands as he con anonizes sri lanka's first saint.
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welcome back everyone. in sri lanka, hundreds of thousands gathered to see an historic canonization ceremony. >> pope francis has just given the country its first saint. joseph vases of an indian-born missionary in the 17th century captured as a suspected spy. he was canonized without the required second miracle. and our reporter was there and joins us live from columbo. of course very exciting here for the sri lankaians because this is the first papal visit in 20 years. it has been quite the occasion. and there was an effort it was hoped the pope would try bridge the gap between some of the ethnic groups to ease the tension that's been there even though the civil war ended in 2009. it's not really the end of some problems there. >> reporter: no, it certainly
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isn't. we were there, as you mentioned, at the mass. it ended two, three hours ago. you can probably still see the people trying to leave the venue. there were hundreds of thousands there, many traveling great distances. manycosming out all night just to get as close to the pope as possible. he arrived a little bit early and even had time to get off the popemobile to greets people. and then of course he celebrated celebrated mass there and the canonization took place for the first saint. i want to tell you a little about joseph vase. he is a missionary from india, but he is largely credited for re-establishing catholicism in sri lanka. now, he is headed now in the next few hours to the north to a place in many ways the central
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part where the ground zero of that civil war, that decades' long civil war. this is a symbolic moment. an area that many people were not allowed to go to. he was the first head of state, the first pope to be allowed into the area. he will be holding a mass and talking to a lot of the victims of the civil war. this church was significant because it was almost a safe zone for both the people at the time. it was bombed anyway a few times. still a safe zone. a lot of significance for this trip coming up. more in the next hour. >> indeed. of course as he goes there he has to take a helicopter there. doesn't he? after he finishes his three days in sri lanka, he's then off to the philippines.
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what is ahead? >> reporter: in the next few hours, he will be there, for many the pilot of the trip. bringing -- the highlight of the trip. bringing the message of reconciliation doing it at the center of where the war took place. very crucial. comes at a time when sri lankaance are looking for a new identity of sorts. a time when a new government of just sworn in. as the archdiocese bishop said, sri lankaians are ready to create a new identity, to show the world this is a nation of peacemakers. the pope's visit extremely significant. reconciliation of course is going to take time. at least at the emotional level, the spiritual level, he is bringing the communities together. rosemary? >> indeed. reporting from columbo many thanks to you. errol? looking ahead, take a look at this footage we have.
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this is from the philippines workers building the stage ahead of the pope's visit to manila. had is expected to be the large -- there is expected to be the largest gathering of catholics in the world. this are concerns a tropical storm could impact the rest of the papal trip. our meteorologist, pedram. the pope knows someone upstairs who might be able to help. >> think he has influence? >> what good is it going to do? >> this area of the world gets about 20 tropical storms of course, and tooifsyphoons every year. it's not unusual to see this set up. tropical depression one, as it is known now. in the next 24 hours it will be tropical storm makala. thailand is the language of origin for the storm name. actually means the angel of thunder. coincidental. the storm system named angel of thunder as it approach the region. forecast the big question -- where is it going to go. and in the models, three days away from landfall. one scenario says it will go to the west. eventually to the northwest,
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pushing in. heavy rainfall will be the concern. we don't see it becoming anything beyond a tropical storm. and landfall would be saturday night. another scenario says it goes offshore. this is what we're looking at as a storm system would have minimal impact to land. we split the difference at the weather center here and the official forecast track has it between tacloban and here as the zone sometime saturday evening into saturday night. that coming in as a tropical storm. spin could be 85 90 kilometers per hour. not a menacing storm system. keep in mind the pope expected to visit tacloban saturday. it could impact the region with heavy rainfall. the winds gusty at times. i don't see it being as much of a concern. here's the official track as we bring it with the models. pausing it the heaviest of the rainfall pushing in. we'll see what comes out of the forecast. the pope will eventually leave the philippines on monday. the storm system seems to want to meander in the region and
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bring in heavy rainfall toward that area. fascinating. we'll follow this as the weekend progresses. more coming up. [ male announcer ] you wouldn't leave your car unprotected. but a lot of us leave our identities unprotected. nearly half a million cars were stolen in 2012, but for every car stolen 34 people had their identities stolen. identity thieves can steal your money, damage your credit and wreak havoc on your life. why risk it when you can help protect yourself from identity theft with one call to lifelock,
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five hours. >> barely even see him in the video. david hern was a passenger on the cruise ship captured video of the rescue. he described how he heard about the man in the water. >> over the p.a. system we heard a call which is kind of code in the cruise industry saying mister m.o.b. mr. m.o.b. mr. m.o.b. starboard side. the mister is the code. the m.o.b. stan for man overboard. >> wonder why they use a code and not just say "man overboard." fortunately the man was quickly taken, saved there, and is in hospital in good condition. >> expect to hear from him soon. imagine getting on a flight and realizing you're the only passenger on a plane. it happened in the united states on a delta flight from cleveland to new york monday. chris o'leary took to twitter to
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