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between the military and prorussian separatists, the newsroom starts right now. hello, everyone and thanks for joining me. al two people are under arrest a day after a pair of deadly shootings in copenhagen denmark, the suspected gunman also dead. now the fbi is on the terror case. it all began yesterday when a man targeted a free speech forum attended a well known artist. a 55-year-old man died and three officers were wounded. ten hours later, a second shooting took place outside of copenhagen synagogue, a 37-year-old man providing security was shot and killed and two officers were wounded. this afternoon denmark's tv too broke news that two people were arrested at an internet cafe and we're still waiting to see

whether -- surveillance video helped lead them to the 22-year-old man who has a criminal record and who police say may have been inspired by the paris terror attacks. a u.s. official tells cnn the fbi is new assisting with the investigation. the chief of the danish security and intelligence service had earlier said quote, there is good reason to believe this is terror related and therefore we are treating it as if it is terror end quote. right before the show today, i spoke to the controversial swedish artist lars vilks. he survived yesterday's shooting at the cafe when he was attending that forum on art, blasphemy and freedom of expression. he has survived two attempts on his life.

al qaeda placed him on their most wanted poster and since then he has traveled with body guards and he checks his car the bombs. i spoke to him exclusively before this show about the attacks in denmark. do you feel you were the target perhaps, for your depiction of the profit mohammad back in 2007? >> yeah that's the best can date we have i would say, because there's hardly anyone else who has that level of threats there. but of course you cannot be really sure. this is the best shot we have, at least at the moment. >> others dayed, the first person to die in the attacks that began on saturday was a 40-year-old man, did you know him? >> no, i didn't.

i mean it seems that it was a person who passed by, it was those who were in the lecture room they were protected there by the police. so this was a passer by who unluckily actually happened to be in the wrong place. >> take me back to this freedom of speech forum that you were sponsoring. what was the objective, what were you hoping would take place and was security a big concern as well? >> yeah i mean it's the lecture series concerning freedom of speech and art. and so the seminar was made by the committee here and they give me a place for lecturing, which

is much more difficult in sweden. and i think we had a good program this day. and everything starting well. we took up the charlie habdo case but it was at the direction of the ambassador of france in copenhagen who actually talked about the situation and i think it was so interesting. when we finished we went on to the program and there was a woman from a feminist organization and she started to talk. and when she started, we suddenly heard a lot of noise, i mean it was bang bang bang. and very quickly we could understand that something was going on. the

they rushed to ed to the body guards took me and put me under a table and we were guarded by people with drawn guns. i understood that we actually came into a safe hiding there. >> and at that point, did you think you were the target you were the reason why that shooting was taking place? >> well yeah as i said before it's so difficult to see. what was -- what could you aim for really? what could you be against? i don't know. it's very well known and been -- we published now after the charlie hadbo related that. i moon i'm standing in the middle there and this thing was announced, and yeah it seems

not unreasonable to believe that. >> and once the shooting stopped, or you felt it was safe for you to emerge to come out, what were you thinking feeling, what did you see? >> i didn't see anything because the gunman he attacked from the front, i mean he was probably trying to shoot himself s for this kind of fight. so there were several of the

policemen that was wountdgded but still they tried to fire back. and i'm sure the gunman understood that if he went through the glass, then he would be in the line of the police fire. so they forced him back but without really effort. and the poor people in the lecture room i mean that was not taken away they were hiding in corners and on the tables and everything and they were just waiting for who is going to open the door here and what will come in and luckily, it was one of the wounded policemen who actually came in there. >> and i realize as an artist your drawing of the profit mohammad was many years ago in 2007 and there are other artists who have rendered pictures of the prophet mohammad and angered

many in the muslim community. authors, and charlie"charlie hebdo"charlie heb"charlie hebdo" being the target. do you feel responsible or do you feel that you have contributed to this sentiment that has inspired some people to resort to violence to express their anger about how the profit mohammad has been depicted? >> well when you pose a question on the political responsibility i mean the religious symbols they are carrying at least in this case they're carrying political decisions, certain dogmas so if you question the basic symbols of this it's part of a political conversation and if you have people that want to go

out and have guns and start murdering people the thing is you should put these people in prison. because you cannot accept people murdering and try that way to stop the discussion you have concerning our questions which you do with the freedom of speech and in a democracy, so it is a responsibility of course the ones that are falling the rules, if those people try to stop it with violence and murder. >> do you rethink in any way the motivation behind your 2007 drawing? >> yeah i then that was a kind of minor thing because this was more about the question about, again, the art world, in every art exhibition you'll see that you have a political statement

against bush and against israel, but you never have any question about the islam thing, which actually then were more interesting subject after the caricatures. so i wanted to add something to that discussion why are you so one sided again, in the art world. i didn't expect this to be something more from the mild side that that area of exhibition. and basically it was a misunderstanding that very often comes over when you make a drawing immediately end up in a disaster an enormous interest and lots of violence. that is not the case. it's very rare that something actually becomes so interesting. and if one follows the story of

this round about thing, it has to pass many many levels of interest before it actually living it's own life and becomes enough known to become a symbol for hatred. >> at one time you were on an assassination list by al qaeda and other similar groups. to your knowledge, are you still on anyone's assassination list and if so is that why you continue to travel with body guards? >> yeah i mean why am i now such a well known target. and that's half the value because these guys they work very much concerned with a media interest. so it will be someone that's well known, so everyone can have

a reference to these things. so that means when i go somewhere, i always have body guards i can't go anywhere on my own. >> so now what -- so now what you narrowly escaped death, in denmark. how does this influence your forum that you might arrange, your next public outing. yeah that's a very interesting question to me talking is a mean mean -- one, to those who are arranging the next meeting, and next how will it be protected. and if there is something which cannot be protected, that is not my questions to answer. that's the questions that the higher level. but one has to understand that

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>> reporter: we know that the police have been all over copenhagen today, and several houses have been searched by the police. we know they are trying to find out where the perpetrator has spent his last hours. so they are trying to connect the dots. and figure out what happened. we know that he was connected to an area of copenhagen where a well known gang was living. and in the area they have found a weapon a semi-automatic weapon that might be the first weapon that was used in the first shooting. >> astrid tell me about the access to these big weapons because we heard earlier in my conversation that in his view the suspect was better armed than the police.

>> normally the police will not carry semi-automatic weapons when they are standing by as body guards. and when the perpetrator came there, he did have a pistol or a machine-gun. and yes, i suppose it is true that it has way better firepower than the policeman's armory. and now that the policemen who are sent from copenhagen are sitting at the jewish synagogue and is guarded by policemen with semi-automatic weapons. >> there are some comparisons that the fbi is willing to make about what took place in denmark and what took place in paris. what are danish authorities saying about the parallels and how what happened in paris would

influence the way they investigate this case? >> we're talking about all these european countries, european leaders, that we would have a -- we should follow people when they travel around we should see what they do when they board a plane, where they go who buys the ticket if they are on the plane, if they check special luggage in and that stuff. it seems like this legislation will be quite popular, but it will not stop the access to weapons we have in europe for a criminal person it is not that difficult to get a machine-gun, it's not legal to own one, and even if you have a gun on the street in copenhagen it will give you one year prison sentence just for one gurnn, but

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holding. that the east the word from the chief monitor -- the monitor is calling it a success so far. the agreement went into effect nearly 24 hours ago. yesterday at 5:00 p.m. eastern time. and it came after intense negotiations between russian, ukrainian and european leaders including vladimir pughtinputin, nick walsh is on the phone with us from donetsk so what is happening now? >> reporter: it is a cease fire according to those who are tasked by those four powers ukraine, russia france and germany. yes at mid night last night, we reported a huge shelling around donetsk the key flash point was always going to be the town of -- where there are hundreds if not thousands of ukrainian

troops. as we try and get down the road the ukrainians simply can cannot do it. there has been intense shelling around that town that's obviously not consistent with a cease fire, but there's a real problem here. but under the minsk agreement, that territory is actually theirs. of course that's not how kiev see its, but that's how that massive situation is going to proceed in the days and hours ahead. the cease fire -- it's been a very noise day in terms of cease fires, but politically, both sides have so much vested in the idea of having some limited or at least temporary success, they're not going to can it in the first day, we're going to perhaps see a lull in violence in the coming days but the key

is how are they going to resolve the situation. all right, nick payton walsh, thank you very much. when we come back i'll be talking to a witness to the denmark shootings on saturday. [engine revving] [engine revving] [engine revving]

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vilks depiction of the profit mohammad back in 2007 has made him a target of islamic extremists. he was not hurt in denmark yesterday. but he was killed and three officers were wounded. later that day the gunman opened fire near a synagogue. our senior international correspondent rick robertson is in copenhagen tracking the development s developments. >> they believe it was the same person because the man they killed they found clothing that links him to the first attack. he used pistols right outside this apartment building here to try and shoot police when they tried to apprehend him at about 5:00 in the morning, and the early hours this morning, so the police believe they somewhere got enough information, enough evidence to link him to these

two attacks. they say he's a 22-year-old man, that he has a history of violent attacks, that he has a history of connection to gangs, that he has a criminal record and part of his criminal record includes illegal owner ship of weapons, so they say this is someone they had known about for some time. so they believe at the moment they have got enough information to link him in both attacks, what concerns him now, could there be a copy cat attack coming up in the next few days. >> do we have anymore detail about two people whovrp arrested at an internet cafe if there is a strong belief that they are connected to the alleged gunman. sure i mean that arrest took place less than a half a mile from here the internet cafe that happened in the afternoon, the police had had a big operation going on in that neighborhood, in the afternoon.

the police were not releasing any specific detail in connection to the suspected gunman we do me they searched parents in the same area of the internet cafe. what the police say is that the gunman they believe acted alone in those two attacks, but they say, they don't know who else he is connected to obviously they do point to his criminal and gang record past. that remains a concern for them, but they don't have accomplicesor other people that the knew about these attacks, that perhaps might be planning something for the future. >> do you know what to extent the fbi is assisting? >> those details haven't been made known to us here fredericka just that the fbi would bring a huge wealth of

information about possible terror suspects in europe there's a lot of sharing of information, but when it comes to situations like this sometimes key details, information gleaned perhaps from lap tops to link somebody the another string of people the fbi can provide perhaps useful analysis an assistance that the -- >> nick robertson, thank you so much. one of the two people one of the people who witnessed the attack is jasper freeman christianson. jasper when you arrived to work you saw the heavy secure around this event. your boss actually said if you felt uncomfortable, you could go home but you stayed. then about a half hour later, you heart gunshots what --

>> i at first didn't see the person coming out in fromt of the cafe then i shouted out, man with gun, and then the shooting started that i ran across the bar to my colleague christina which i took around in my arms and dropped us down to the floor and then the shooting continued for numerous seconds when those 30 shots were fired into the cafe. >> hmmm. and you stayed ducked behind that counter e, so when you thought it was safe to come out, what did you see at that point? >> when the shooting was ongoing, there was a brief moment of silence and i heard a man shouting something in a

language i did not understand and i was afraid that he had killed all the officers inside the building so we crawled behind the bar to an exit and went up to a staircase, and waited for a couple of minutes, then we could hear some more shouting inging downstairs so that everything was shut up and so two security officers standing in the wardrobe with guns pointing out towards the streets and we ran towards them and stayed behind them and in the moments after that there was of course big turmoil, where police officers was hit, i went outside in the front of the building and saw a person lying in -- at first i thought it was the attacker, and lateren i heard that there was a victim that was killed.

>> and the day after now, the you feel safe or do you feel frightened? >> i made up my mind that i would proceed my life as i used to i live a bit away from the center of the city. and i'm in the center actually right now, together with the people who also with their last night having a drink at the cafe

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what's happening? >> reporter: well fred you know yesterday we were talking about the fears that with all this snow there could be a problem with roof collapses, look behind me that's exactly what you're seeing. at least two collapses that question have heard of. the weight of the snow caused this building to crumble. the brick facade shattered and fell to the ground all because of the deep snow. we talked to the fire captain, he's been here for 29 years and he says this is unprecedented. >> my career i have never seen anything like this it's something you see on tv you would never believe it happened in your community. other nature is dumping the storm after storm after storm like everybody else. and as you can see, the snow load not getting your roofs shoveled off. this is what can happen. >> reporter: and, fred we hear

local after local telling us the same thing, that these three weeks now of continuous storms week after week they have never seen anything like this before and there's a lot of concern here too, take a look at this roof right next to this roof that collapsed, there's six feet of snow on there, they're concerned this building which is creeking will come down in the next few hours. try to safely remove that snow as soon as they can. >> that's the staircary part how safe is it to get up on the rooftop to try to remove that snow. you've got to do that very carefully and gingerly if at all. >> absolutely what they're going, you can see right here they're using heavy equipment. they'll actually not putting people up on the roof it's too dangerous, and these are people that are trained to do this,

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