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walter scott's family is speaking out after his killing sparks outrage across the u.s. guilty on all counts. we'll look at the next phase in the boston bombing trial. new warning of a humanitarian disaster as the
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battles intensify in yemen. hello, everyone. i'm errol barnett with you for the next 24 hours. hello, and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is "cnn newsroom." we begin in south carolina where tensions are rising understandably over the shooting of an unarmed black man by a white police officer. protesters demanded justice wednesday as north charleston officials announced what officer michael slager had been fired. he was charged with murder after video surfaced showing him shoot walter scott in the back eight times as he ran away. the man who recorded the fatal shot spoke with nbc news. take a listen. >> was there a struggle? >> there was. they were down on the floor, down on the floor before the --
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i started recording. they were down on the floor. i remember the police had control of the situation. had control of scott. and scott was trying just to get away from the taser, the taser, you know, you can hear the sound of the taser. >> reporter: he had been tased, and you heard the sound? >> i heard the sound before i started recording. >> martin savidge has more on the investigation. it centers around that difficult industry watch. he does enthuse. sze to give you a warning, parts of this report on graphic. >> reporter: one dan after releasing this shocking video -- >> no justice -- >> no peace! >> reporter: north charleston's feeling the fallout. >> this has been a reality that has been in north charleston police department for many, many years. it just so happens we've got a video. >> reporter: demonstrator demanding the mayor resign and
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more officers be arrested as the investigation into the police shooting death of walter scott intensifies. >> everybody will know the truth. >> reporter: scott's family said they first saw the video sunday, horrified by what it showed, but grateful for the truth they say it reveals, especially in light of other deaths of african-americans at the hands of police. >> i would like for cops to be accountable and let them know that they try -- that if they try this again, somebody may be watching. they need to think twice before they fire their weapons. >> reporter: the family continues to ask the public for calm. and in a gesture of sympathy and solidarity, be north charleston's mayor and police chief paid a visit to the home of scott's parents to offer condolences and city support. >> black lives matter! black lives matter! >> reporter: elsewhere in the community, demonstrators took to the streets complaining it was only after the video surfaced showing what appears to be gross
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misconduct that the city and department acknowledged it was the officer at fault after initially blaming the victim, saying he had threatened the officer with a taser. >> good afternoon. >> reporter: at a news conference, the mayor and police chief announced the accused officer, 33-year-old michael slager, had been terminated. but that medical benefit for his eight-month-pregnant wife would continue. >> we think that is the humane thing to do, and we're going to do. that. >> reporter: the mayor asked the community pray for the grieving scott family. the city's police chief offered his strongest condemnation yet of the police shooting. >> i have watched the video, and i was sickened by what i saw. and i had not watched it since. >> reporter: but both men were often interrupted by demonstrators and members of the public who shouted them down. >> no justice -- >> no peace! >> reporter: wanting to know why medical aid did not appear to be given to the wounded scott by
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police? why scott was handcuffed after he was shot. and most of all, whether the predominantly white police force was now ready to change. cnn, north charleston, south carolina. the brother of walter scott, anthony scott, joins us now from outside the family home in chillier, south carolina. you see him on the right of your screen. in the center of the screen now is chris stewart, attorney representing the family in what are difficult days. welcome to you both. anthony, i'm very sorry for your loss. i appreciate you joining us on cnn today. before the very important video emerged, though, what did police tell you about what happened, and was there any question about the sequence of events initiall initially? >> yes, there was. initially they told me my brother was stopped for a traffic -- broken taillights on
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his car. and then once they said he was stopped for the broken taillight, they said he proceeded to run out of the car after the officer ran his license. they said that in the pursuit of him, he was there for a taser. and they said that he took control of the taser. and i heard he was tasered more than one time. and i thought that he was okay, but by the time i got to the actual site, my nephew told me he was gone. i was like, how is he gone? they said that he tried to take the officer's taser away from him. and therefore, the officer had to use deadly force. >> when you saw the video for the first time, what did you fee feel? >> i felt like i knew there was something wrong with the story
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from the beginning because i know ply brother would never try to attack or try to tase an officer. i know he would have given up and surrendered. the whole story didn't sound right. and then after hearing this part of the story, i said something's not right with this. after i saw the video, i said the video told the whole truth. >> for people watching who think a police officer outright murdered a suspect, they think it is rare and unique and not part of a large systemic issue across the u.s. when it comes to the way cops treat african-americans, what do you say to people that say that this does not represent a larger issu issue? >> i would say that in some cases that may be the case. but it's not just african-americans that's being gunned down unlawfully. i think it's everyone of any race that may be gunned down
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unlawfully. i think they need -- there need to be thing put in place show to doesn't happen again. but i don't think it's just a black thing or a white thing or hispanic thing. it's just a thing with some bad cops. >> let's bring in your attorney, chris stewart. the justice department, the fbi will be looking into this. what outcome are you pushing for here? how can the scott get justice? >> you know, we're going to strongly follow the case that the solicitor is going to bring against this officer. they charged him with murder. the family hoping that he'll be found guilty and that justice will be found in that area. will be northbound a civil lawsuit in this matter to hold everybody responsible for in. this wasn't just one situation with this officer. he had a history. i'm sure if he was willing to plant phony evidence at a scene, this may have happened in the
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past. and we also want to push to protect not just minorities but everybody by making sure body camera are instituted here. we do see just too many shootings, individuals and a lot happen to be african-americans. but this could happen to anyone. >> and coming up in our next half-hour, randi kaye analyzes the video evidence of the shooting with an expert to try and piece together what happened there before the killing. please do stay tuned for that. let's get you news out of the u.s. state of massachusetts now. dzhokhar tsarnaev has been found guilty in the boston marathon bombing trial. that was really no surprise. but the penalty phase is now set to follow. jurors deciding whether the 21-year-old will face life in prison or the death penalty. the outcome here much more -- i should say much less clear. tsarnaev was convicted of killing four people, three in the initial bombing, and one during the manhunt that
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followed. cnn's alexandra field is covering the verdict for us from boston. >> reporter: this is the moment so many waited so long for. nearly two years they wait to hear the verdict. now 30 counts. dzhokhar tsarnaev found guilty in each and every one of them. he strode into the courtroom. he listened as each count of read out loud. he made just a glancing look at the jury. for the most part, he looked at his hands, he looked down, he looked at his attorney who was sometimes by his side. really no outward show of emotion which has been typical for him throughout the trial. 12 jurors deliberated for just under 12 hours before arriving at the verdict. 11 of those jurors didn't seem to look at the defendant, didn't seem to want to make eye contact. they kept their eyes forward, looking at the judge, looking at the clerk. one juror of seen trying to get a closer look at dzhokhar tsarnaev. that juror wouldn't have seen any outward display or sign of surprise from the defendant himself. a lot of people were inside the court restroom hear the verdict.
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family members of the victims who were killed in this case, survivors of the bombing. the gravity of the situation, you could feel it. it was quiet. people sat still. a few dabbing tear was their eyes. really no large epressions of emotion. people -- expressions of emotion. people listening in, wanting to heard the word "guilty" said over and over again. we heard from survivors after the verdict was read. some said they didn't have a sense of closure, but certainly this is is a piece of the puzzle. this trial is not over yet. the penalty phase could start next week. that's when the jury will consider whether or not to spare tsarnaev his life. >> we'll have more on this later in the hour. i speak to a survivor of the boston marathon bombing and ask what he think would be an appropriate p. his response may
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surprise you. in yemen, 100,000 people have been forced from their homes. the fighting has killed more than 500. our senior international correspondent, nic robertson, is along the saudi/yemeni border and has the latest. some yemenis are fleeing by boat as the fighting intensifies. have they gained the upper hand in fighting over the houts? >> reporter: they haven't. it does appear at this time as if that's going to be a very long military campaign. at the moment there's air strikes, and the evidence we've seen in previous campaigns and military air strikes, it does little or is slow to change the situation on the ground. of the more than 500 death so far, more than 300 are civilians. more than 100,000 displaced. for the international community, a growing worry that as fighting continue in different parts of
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yemen that that will overspill at the borders in the -- in terms of an exodus of people fleeing the fighting. some taking possessions, as limited as they are, and taking a boat across to inbound uty. that is perhaps -- jibuti. that is perhaps the trek or to come to the saudi border. none of the options are easy. what we've heard from official, the foreign minister meeting with his counterparts in the uae. the decision of it iran's influence here and the yemeni foreign minister saying they convinced that iran is supporting the houthis. >> translator: a number of houthis and their followers went
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for training in iran with the iranian revolutionary guards. there are a number of revolutionary guards inside yemen for military purposes. >> reporter: the uae's foreign minister said that this shouldn't be misinterpreted as a sectarian war. it is merely about iran's sort of efforts to expand its influence in the region. u.s. secretary of state john kerry in an interview in the past few days has said that the united states has monitored a number of iranian aircraft flying in over the past few weeks into yemen. errol? >> nic robertson joining us from the border in saudi arabia with yemen. mosting there that more than 300 civilians killed so far in the ongoing conflict. thank you very much. a tornado touches down in the u.s. state of kansas a short while ago. coming up, we'll look at that twister, plus other storms sweeping across parts of the country. also, they've spent years
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[ siren ] it you live in fortune alley, you know -- in tornado alley, you know that sound. the chilling sound of a siren blaring in farmington, missouri. farmington appears to have avoided a twister. but centre has learned a tornado touched dploun goord, kansas. what's frightening is the same storm system responsible for the severe weather in the midwest is pushing eastward. it could bring more rain and more issues to folks on the east coast. our meteorologist, derek van dam, joins us to talk about that. how bad will things be for folks on the east coast? this storm really did some damage. >> fnchtly it won't be affecting the east coast yet. we still have places from the ohio valley through the mississippi river valley that's going to be our next target area for the possibility of severe weather going forward. that sound, though, listening to the sirens, i've heard that too many times in my life. >> scary stuff. >> let's talk about what's about to happen. the same storm system responsible for the hail and the
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nine tornado on wednesday is now starting to march eastward. we've got the clash of two weather systems, even two seasons. very warm, moist and unstable air mass coming up from the gulf with a cold blast of air behind the cold front. that sets us up for the possibility of severe weather. large hail, damaging winds, the possibility of isolated tornadoes. this extends from little rock all the way to chicago and detroit. upwards of 95 million people under some sort of enhanced or slight risk of severe weather. look at the thunderstorms moving through the greater chicago area. we've had upwards of 800 lightning strikes in the past 60 minutes. that continues to move northward across the lake michigan region. switching gears, we actually have frozen variety of precipitation across the boston area. mixture of rain and snow at the moment. and looks as if we could pick up a quarter to a half inch from the area. you can see the contrast in temperatures. it's just a tale of two seasons at the moment. warm, moist air where you see the shading of red.
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there comes the cold air. it set up the perfect prime, severe weather ingredients to create what you see on the tv screen behind you. this is the various signs -- hail we experienced wednesday across the plains states. the same system marching eastward. i would not be a happy driver if that was my vehicle. not good news. we'll switch gears again and talk quickly about what's happening in europe. good news to end off with. we've got a warming trend over much of the western half of europe. we're talking about five to even upwards of nine degrees celsius above where we should be this time of year. look at saturday's forecast in berlin. we should be 12 this time of year. we'll hit 21. more of the same for paris and london. very, very warm. we like to see that this time of year for sure. we've got the possibility of snow throughout turkey, however. that's going to cause travel concerns just east of the istanbul region. more in the ankara region. between five, perhaps ten centimeters of snow in the forecast. something we'll be monitoring as
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cold as slips and slides across that region. in fact, temperatures there running about ten degrees celsius below where they should be. well, this is a pretty nice photo to end with. people enjoying the springtime weather. the warming trend set to continue for places like paris and london, that is a nice place i'd like to be. i don't know if you've ever been to the eiffel tower, but there is no substitute for being in paris in the springtime. >> i've been there. snapped lots of pictures. also the season brings out, i feel, the best in people. new ideas, new plans, new relationships. >> i like that. new relationships and friendships. love it. >> ending on a good note. see you soon. >> thank you. we'll get you news out of afghanistan now. a u.s. soldier was killed wednesday in what's being described as an insider attack. officials say an afghan national army soldier opened fire with a machine gun on u.s. troops in jalalabad. this as they were leaving a meeting with the governor.
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a pentagon spokesman confirmed the american's death but said the shooter's motive is unclear. a local police official says the attacker was killed in a subsequent exchange of gunfire. several other americans and two other afghan soldier were wounded in this attack. as the u.s. scales back its military operation in afghanistan, thousands of afghans who helped nato are now losing their jobs. they are facing a backlash for helping the taliban's enemies. cnn's senior international correspondent could nick paton walsh, reports. >> reporter: caught in their wake, the men who let america be understood here. former nato interpreters who say they were fired, blacklisted, and are now unable to get new jobs. they wait for the casual day's labor you might be offered if you join the crowds here. the skill that made them rich yesterday today after the draw-down makes them fear reprisals from the taliban. >> my family is still living there. i cannot go there.
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i'm living in a market, in one of the empty shops. >> it is not clear why they have blacklisted me. >> my family, everybody give up, they're too nervous. >> right now i sleep around the mosque area. >> we're praising afghanistan. >> reporter: this is a city holding its breath as the void left behind by nato opens up. to learn if its new government will last, if the taliban are tired of fighting, if isis are next. it now has five times more people than when the u.s. invaded and swells still as many flee the violence swirling around it. its streets being reclaimed from a war economy that made these now-minute houses expensive for foreign assistance and left these roads until now littered with potholes. picking at the bones of an occupation past whose remnants find the streets now too unsafe.
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here, the street is where foreigners would bustle, haggle or trinkets, even dodge beggars. even after millions in infrastructure, sometimes generators provide the power. >> the embassy has told people, don't go to the street. for some it is not good. >> reporter: the road out east tells the story of how war brought a briefly reprieve for poverty for so many. lined with the machines america used as it tried to move mountains to meet fluid goals now abandoned. their supply convoy, too, idle. these trucks were once the pinnacle of a billion-dollar circuit, ferrying tomatoes, spices, everything they needed. now the drivers would sell them for almost nothing just to save on the bribes and fuel needed to keep them running.
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>> translator: the contracts were with big business and commanders were given as very little, and they made themselves rich. and now living their comfortable lives in dubai. >> reporter: the days of endless u.s. money enriching so few ending. and even at the wedding halls, costly palaces of commitment to the future, the dreams, the symbols are of leaving. the late copying the dubai landmark. the city's lights have been held up as a sign of its transformation. and behind the costly voltage, stories of billions spent on power stations that were barely ever switched on. elsewhere, a failure to provide the most basic of services. above all after decades of war, of people worried if the violence has truly come to an end. a glow that hides a wider uncertainty and fear. nick paton walsh, kabul. the officer charged with murder in a u.s. police shooting
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says the suspect tried to grab his taser. now that account is being questioned. so we'll take a closer look at the video, a central piece of evidence. plus, the boston bomber found guilty on all counts. next, hear from victims it what they think about the verdict. stay with us.
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you are watching "cnn newsroom," i'm errol barnett. our headlines begin with the graphic video here. the whines recorded this clip. a u.s. police officer shooting and killing an unarmed black man. speaking out for the first time.
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he told nbc news before he started filming, the two men were struggling on the ground. he heard the taser go off but says the officer was in control. that officer has since been fired and charged with murder. dzhokhar tsarnaev has been found guilty on all 30 counts he faced in the boston marathon bombing trial. jurors must decide whether the 2 21-year-old will face life in prison or get the death penalty. he killed three people in the bombing and a police officer during a manhunt that followed. people in yemen's capital, san assay saudi air strikes hit two residential buildings injuring many. the u.n. is calling for an end to strikes targeting displaced civilians. it says more than 540 people have been killed in fighting. 100,000 forced from their homes. a severe weather system tons unfold in part of the u.s. take a look at this. in the state of missouri, a severe storm dropped tennis ball-size hail in farmington,
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breaking car windows. there was a report of a tornado not too far away in goddard, kansas. we have this information just in to cnn. new details for you. iranian president rouhani seem to be casting doubt on a final nuclear deal. he appeared on state tv moment ago saying iran would never sign a nuclear deal unless all sanctions against his country were lifted. iran and six world powers agreed last week to the framework of the deal to keep tehran from developing nuclear weapons. the u.s. says sanctions would be phased fought iran keeps up its end of the agreement. the deadline for a final deal is june 30th. the family of the victim in that fatal police shooting grieves as they search for answers to why he was killed. walter scott's mother, judy, spoke with our anderson cooper about accusations her son struggled over the officer's taser and how she knows in her heart that can't be true.
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take a listen. >> when you were told that the police were saying there had been a scuffle, that your son had fought for the taser, did that sound believable to you? >> i knew that that was not true because he know how especially the north charleston policemen conduct themselves. he would never jeopardize his life. >> reporter: he would not have done something like that? >> no, he would not have done it. >> reporter: officer slager's claim that walter scott tried to grab his taser is being called into question, not just by scott's mother but many who take a close look at that cell phone video revealing what took place in the deadly incident randi kaye asked an expert to analyze the officer's story again the video frame by frame, and just a warning, you will see that graphic video again. [ gunfire ] >> reporter: when north charleston police officer michael slager called dispatch
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about the shooting, listen to what he told them -- >> shots fired. subject is down. he grabbed my taser. >> reporter: but did the suspect, walter scott, really grab the officer's taser? frank piazza is an expert in video forensics. >> the officer seems to lunge and seem to have something in his hand at that point. i don't know, maybe is he putting up his arm to shield himself? i don't know. maybe there's tasing happening. >> reporter: you see something seems to fall or come off the officer. we zoomed in for a better look and slowed the video as the object tumbled off the dirt path. >> if i take it back to that same spot in the video and we watch it at frame by frame, you see something -- >> right there. >> it also grabs a reflection. you see it right there. it -- right there. >> almost like a silver or white -- >> possibly something metallic. >> reporter: enhancing the video also showed us something we hadn't seen before. some sort of struggle on the
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ground even before the suspect took off running. >> i believe that they're wrestling on the ground. in fact, as you continue to there's movement.ame, you see then somebody stands up. >> reporter: we also wanted to know if the suspect really did take the officer's taser. was it ever in his hands on the video? >> i don't see anything dangling down. if there is, we sure can't see it. looks like just a fist. >> reporter: on the video, officer slager returns to where the struggle with the suspect first began. he crouches down to pick something up. the cell phone video pans off him before he actually see what he picks up or what he does with it. >> the positioning -- >> reporter: our expert told us given the officer's positioning, it appears he's making a move to pick up that original object, that fell just off the dirt path. moments later the enhanced videotape gives us our best image yet of officer slager dropping an object to the ground. curiously close to the victim's
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body. >> you see something appear here, above his kneecap. it gets released. >> reporter: as it releases -- >> as it rereleases, his hand gs up higher. there it is. what is that? you know, that's the question, of course. >> reporter: let's see it again. >> here it is released. >> reporter: that's it right this. >> i cannot be precise identifying it. >> reporter: seconds later, we zoom in to see the officer pick something up in the grass. perhaps the very same object he dropped. >> first let's see if we can see it in the grass. >> reporter: there he goes, picking it up. >> let's start with that image first. okay, now there's clearly something reflecting. >> reporter: if that something is a taser, investigators will certainly want to know how it got there. randi kaye, cnn, new york. to some other big stories we're following for you. it took less than 12 hours for a jury in massachusetts to find dzhokhar tsarnaev guilty on all 30 count in the boston marathon
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bombing trial. juries must decide whether the 2 -- jurors must decide whether the 21-year-old will face life in prison or the death penalty. tsarnaev was convicted of killing four people, three in the bombing and a police officer during the manhunt that followed. more than 250 other were wounded in this bombing, many losing limbs. some were in court to hear the verdict, trying to find healing and closure. ron brussard was one of those injured. his wife spoke out wednesday. she was also wounded. she said though she's grateful for the verdict, her family can never forget what happened. >> looked down at that point -- >> it's not something that you'll ever be over. you'll feel it forever. there'll always be something that brings it back to the forefront. but we're all going move on with our lives. we're all going to get back to some send of normalcy hopefully when this is all done. so closure -- i guess i don't think so only because it's forever a part of our life.
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>> that's a good point. now robert wheeler is another survivor of the bombing. he helped save ron broussard's life after the explosions. he admits he is undecided whether dzhokhar tsarnaev should get the death penalty or life in prison. listen -- >> i ponder myself a lot, over the past two years now, i have really thought a lot about what's more of a punishment to live with your sinser to have to face them, you know, face that judgment that way. so i still wonder very much so what is a greater punishment. i battle with that still myself. >> the jury may battle with that. it sounds as if you're leaning toward a life imprisonment would be a more appropriate sentence for you. but become good friends with ron broussard, a man whose leg was injured. his wife and daughter also hurt. surely you've talked about this. does he share your opinion, or
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is he also conflicted? >> you know, we actually haven't talk toad much about what the punishment should be. you know, we mostly focus on getting our lives back together and trying to move on. i mean, it's -- there's a lot of people whose work -- i think the goal is not so much -- it's more about trying to get on to that next day. you know, there's certain things you live with now. there's definitely memories that you live with day by day. for a lot of people, there's scars. emotional scars. >> all right. now some other stories we're following. the jury in the murder trial of aaron hernandez begins deliberating for the second day in just a few hours from now. the former star with the new england patriots football team is accused of killing semi pro player o didn't lloyd. before being -- odin lloyd.
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before being dismissed, the jury asked for a list of more than 400 exhibits presented during the trial. attorneys for hernandez say he was at the scene of the shooting but was just a witness. coming up on cnn, last week's al shabaab attack on a kenyan university shocked the world. now educators in the country are fearful they could be targets. we'll have that story next. ♪ the beautiful sound of customers making the most of their united flight. power, wi-fi and streaming entertainment. that's... seize the journey friendly. ♪
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welcome back. barack obama is now in gentleman make making him the first u.s. president to visit the country in decades. mr. obama's attending a caribbean summit with security and energy topping the agenda there. there are also growing concerns that caribbean nations could be producing radical islamists who head touted fight in middle east. from jamaica, the president travels to panama for the summit of the americas.
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while there, he's expected to see cuban president raul castro for the first time since announcing plans to improve diplomatic ties between the nations. this is interesting. a new poll by the "washington post" shows cubans favor barack obama over raul and fidel castro. take a look at this. it shows 55% of cubans would like it leave the country, most for the u.s. and only 39% are satisfied with the political system. univision and fusion also collaborated on the survey. those are tv networks. to iraq now. isis has released scores of captives in kir kublg, although it's not -- kirkuk, although it's not immediately clear why. more than 2 hundred members of the religious minority were released. they had been held since last year. cnn's international correspondent, arwa damon, has more. >> reporter: according to a
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kurdish official, most of the children are children, and the vast majority elderly. this is the second time that isis has released yazidi captives. the first in january where 250 yazidis were released, most of them elderly. we tonight know the exact conditions that led to their release. we know it was somehow coordinated through arabic tribal leaders southeast of the city of kirkuk. those who were released appearing in videos to be relieved, yes, but many in tears. seemingly continuing to be shocked. understandable given what it is that they have gone through. these yaz di is were captured in august when the terrorist august swept through their homes in the mountains. one cannot imagine what it is they must have gone through. skies still believed -- syracuse still believed to hold thousands. they have claimed to have enslaved 1,000 women and girls, going so far as to show family float as who to how they -- to
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show how they can be used as sex slaves. girls who have not come of age as sex slaves, as well. despite those who have released, we heard a heartbreaking clip of a woman crying out for loved ones she to leave behind. cnn, baghdad. it is now a week since al shabaab's brutal wraser it at a university in kenya. the attackers left teachers and children that their classrooms could be next. we have a private school in garissa where educators and students say they're now risking their lives for an education. >> reporter: we can't show their faces, but these children are studying manageme ining mathema and english hoping for a brighter future. a future that's under threat says the headmaster. >> it's like they want to make
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sure that everything goes a negative way. they want to teach us and make sure that this area doesn't even benefit a single minute. they want to make sure that they terrify the teachers and go to their homes this. to make sure the kids in this area, it's required. >> reporter: now the only university in garissa has been closed indefinitely after al shabaab massacred students in their sleep. when we talk about an attack in education, we're not just talking about kenya. this university attack where 141 47 were killed. but nigeria where groups like boko haram go into schools and slaughter students in their beds. that's whether they're christian or muslim. james has lost half his teachers in the last year because of fears that al shabaab will attack his school next.
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he's replaced them, but it has not been easy. james, why do you stay? why do you risk your life? >> of course, i'm risking my life because, for example, this school was a target last year. and they have a class in class eight. and i love that class much. >> reporter: a target worth fighting for. kenyan authority say they've frozen 86 bank accounts in connection with the financing of al shabaab terrorist group based in somalia. there have been air strikes by kenyan authorities monday against two al shabaab camps, and also the naming of muhammad mahmoud, the man they aid is is the mastermind behind the -- man they say is the mastermind behind the attack. canadian e kenyans to-- kenyans took to the street to protest what they say is too little, too
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late. they don't want retaliation after the fact, but more preventive measures put in place to make sure these kind of attacks on soft targets do not happen again and that they can sleep safe in their beds. the clock is ticking as greece has major repayment coming due in the next few years. stay with us. denver international is one of the busiest airports in the country. we operate just like a city, and that takes a lot of energy. we use natural gas throughout the airport - for heating the entire terminal, generating electricity on-site, and fueling hundreds of vehicles. we're very focused on reducing our environmental impact. and natural gas is a big part of that commitment.
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you know how people get nervous before they have to pay a big bill? greece is facing a huge depayment and is set to repay the international monetary fund $505 million on thursday. athens has reassured markets it has money to avoid default. if the payment is made, gas price r greece still runs the risk of running out of money soon unless it can negotiate a new deal. more from isa suarez. >> reporter: greece has produced its fair share of tragedies. right now it's the economy that is facing the most unfortunate
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of narratives. the prologue written by the government in january spoke of bold pledges putting a dramatic end to austerity. greece is also face a herculean task. under the terms of the original bailout, it has to repay almost $30 billion in debts by the end of the year. at the end of this month, it reportedly faces a bill of $1.8 billion for public sector wages and pensions. its creditors have frozen the next portion of the international bailout, $7.8 billion, until they're pleased with greece's package of reforms. >> translator: greece is part of the eurozone. despite an intensive discussion, we do not agree on what we must do next. since i have an experienced diplomat as a spokesman, i'm supposed to say we agreed to disagree. >> reporter: this caused a scene change in act two. brussels was the backdrop this past february. after three euro group meetings,
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a decision was made to extend aid to greece by another four month. reforms still needed to be implemented. >> during the bail yacout perio it's been isolated. we felt the isolation the last couple of euro groups. today that isolation has broken. >> reporter: last week the narrative hit a climax as greece presented its new list of reforms to the euro group. >> i think the greeks have given a lot of areas. for example, they don't talk about writing off a lot of the debt. they are prepared to impose more property taxes which they hated doing. they are prepared to see an increase in v.a.t. in the area of tourism entertainment. they are talking seriously about coming down on tax avoidance which will hopefully raise quite bait of money for them. >> reporter: white creditors decide whether this will go far enough, greece must pay the international monetary fund more
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than $500 million by thursday. it says it will do so. >> we are intent. reforming greece deeply. this is our promise to the greek people. having the opportunity to discuss the reform program here at imf with the managing director is an excellent step in that direction. >> reporter: if greece doesn't pay, many fear this could be their final act. a dramatic end financial potentially closing their time in the eurozone. cnn, london. >> i'm errol barnett. we've got one more hour to go. go on, stay with us. stay tuned. church chrch joins me for the next hour of -- rosemary church joins me for the next hour of "cnn newsroom." mapurch joins me for the next hour of -- rosemary church joins me for the next hour of "cnn newsroom." map
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an american family struggles for answers after a police officer shoots and kills an unarmed man. jurors must decide whether the convicted boston marathon bomber should be put to death. moments ago iran's president lays down new terms and talks over the country's nuclear program. hello, and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm rosemary church. >> and i'm errol barnett. wer last hour of the day and the

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