his final trip abroad on the books. the president of the united states wraps up his last overseas trip holding that office and weighs in on his

successor. also filling up the cabinet, who donald trump is eyeing for the top jobs in his administration. after a flurry of weekend meetings, plus knocked out of the running -- says good-bye -- live from cnn world head quarters. i'm george h o-owell. cnn "newsroom" starts right now. 3:00 a.m. on the east coast barack obama is back in washington now after completing his final foreign trip as president of the united states. during his visits to greece, to germany and peru, much of the attention though was on president obama's successor. one area of major concern is international trade.

>> president obama in his last press conference on the last leg of his last international trip as president once again made the case for trade deals, deals like the transpacific partnership trade deal one his successor donald trump opposes. deals like tpp are important and benefit the u.s. they allow america to help right the rulds of the road and absent u.s. engagement in such deals it allows other countries, countries like china to step in and fill the void, write rules of the road that do not benefit american companies. the president spoke more broadly about the need for continued u.s. engagement on the world stage calling the u.s. and indespenceable nation when it comes to dealing with global issues. the president was also asked about domestic politics. he was asked specifically about potential conflicts of interest that president-elect donald trump could face because of his

business dealings and while president obama declined to respond directly to that question, he did talk about how he approached the issue when he was located president. >> we made a decision to liquidate assets that might raise questions about how it would influence policy. i basically had our account put all our money in treasury bills. the yields, by the way, have not been massive over the course of the last eight years just because it simplified my life. i did not have to worry about the complexities of whether a decision that i made might even inadvertently benefit me. >> he also said it was important to follow not just the letter of the law but the spirit of the

law in order to avoid any potential edge i cans issues. it was one area out of many where the president provided a bit of indirect advice to his successor as he wrapped up this his last press conference a wide ranging press conference on his last major international trip as president. back to you. >> thank you. now while in peru, president obama also said that he is not optimistic about syria in the short-term. mr. barack obama, met briefly with his russian counter part of the apec summit. ukraine and syria's conflict did come up, but that allegations of russian influence on the u.s. election did not come up. >> the issue of the elections did not come up because that's behind us and i was focused in this brief discussion on moving forward. i had already made very clear to him our concerns around cyber

attacks generally as well as specific concerns we had surrounding the dnc hack. >> mr. putin though did speak about relations when donald trump takes office. listen. >> translator: as to the newly elected president of the united states, we all clearly understand everyone knows there is a big difference between the preelection rhetoric and actual politics practically in all countries. the newly elected american president confirmed his intention to normalize-russia u.s. relations. naturally i did the same. >> in the meantime the president-elect has another likely cabinet pick to announce very soon, a source close to the process, billionaire investor wilber ross is being seriously considered for commerce secretary. cnn's phil maddingly has more.

>> there's a weekend of marathon meetings, meeting after meeting, cabinet potential official after cabinet potential official and some advisors in their as well but it really was all about trying to get a sense of who will fill out the top cabinet. on sunday, there's a key focus on two individuals, chris christie, and rudy giuliani. and is actually been removed as the head of his transition team and all of his top allies have gone as well. all signs right now are pointing to no. not so much for rudy giuliani. the former new york mayor, also a very close confident.

he has been angling for the department of justice job. >> and other things. and other things. >> a little bit hedging, there maybe some other positions he may be looking at and this is all coming in the wake of saturday's meeting with former massachusetts governor, mitt romney who we were told very definitively is under consideration for that state job. i'm told from trump advisors, donald trump is very intrigued by the idea of what it would mean to have mitt romney in his administration, particularly in the wake of their 14, 15, 16 month battle back and forth. it would be very interesting to see how that all plays out. one key thing to keep an eye on as this week goes on, starting today, there will be a focus on economic jobs, the economic transition landing teams landing at all of the agencies throughout the day, domestic policy as well. we're all keeping a very close eye on who the next big cabinet appointments will be. trump advisors somewhat coy about that but definitely making

clear announcements will be made soon. >> thank you. the vice president elect, mike pence, says that he's not owe dependsed by the surprise political message that he received from the cast of the smash broad way hit "hamilton." the audience gave him a mixed reception when he showed up at the performance, some booed and some did cheer, one of the actors delivered a statement to the vice president elect and the trump administration. listen. >> we, sir, we are the diverse america who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us. our children, our parents or defend us and uphold our inalienable rights, sir. we hope this show has inspired us and to work on behalf of all of us, all of us. >> from that president-elect

trump was outraged and took to twitter that pence was harassed and the cast owes pence and apolo apology. >> they were very inappropriate. thank you. >> pence says the cast was only exercising their right to free speech. >> i heard the remarks that were made at the end and, you know, what i can tell you, i wasn't offended by what was said. i'll leave to others whether it was the appropriate venue to say it. i want to assure people who are disappointed in the election results, that president-elect donald trump meant exactly what he said on election night, that he is going to be the president of all the people of the united states of america. >> the actor who delivered the

statement tweeted that he appreciates that pence stopped to listen to the statement. now to tell you about a rash of shootings against police officers in the united states happening in several cities, first, in san antonio, texas, and officer was fatally shot making a traffic stop saturday morning, another officer injured the same night in st. louis, missouri, an officer was ambushed, shot twice at the head and a fourth officer, this time in gladstone, missouri, that's near kansas city was also shot sunday evening. it is still unclear whether there is any connection to the shootings that happened again in these various cities in the united states. police in north dakota are reporting a standoff with hundreds of protesters against the controversial dakota access pipeline. an estimated 400 people are trying to get on to a closed bridge and have set multiple fires in the area. protesters report that police

are spraying the crowd with water canons and that it's all happening in subfreezing temperatures. those opposing the projects say it will contaminate drinking water and destroy sacrkal triba land in north dakota. the crisis in syria we continue to follow the situation there. activist say that a barrel bomb killed a family of six people in eastern aleppo. they all died together. the death toll also continues to rise. six straight days of bombing now and more than 300 people have been killed since tuesday when the syrian government launched an attack on rebels. six days of bombing and we're hearing that this is the worst that they have seen since this

conflict began five years ago. >> and there's no sign of let up in the violence, george. this horrific violence that we're seeing in rebel held parts of aleppo and also in the regime held western aleppo, now before we show you our report about the situation in the city of aleppo, we want to warn our viewers that some of the images they're about to see are disturbing. >> this father in disbelief in denial that his teenage son is gone. he tries to wake him up, refusing to hand him over to be placed in a body bag. he finally agrees but clings on to his boy's breathless body. i swear he's breathing he says. the ang kwish of one father, one family out of hundreds who buried their loved ones in what seems to be a never ending cycle

of grief, death and destruction in eastern aleppo. >> the syrian regime releasing a devastating -- this is a preliminary operation that includes a ground push on to eastern aleppo. they describe this as being part of zero hour operation, going after so-called terrorist groups across the country. backed by the military muscle of russia, the syrian regimes seems to be on the offensive in other parts of the country. in this conflict with no red lines, schools on both sides of the front lines have been hit. hospitals targeted. leaving a desperately needed health sector in eastern aleppo, teetering on collapse. the month's long siege taking it's toll on the quarter of a

million residents. mass starvation as everything they have is running out. >> there is no more water, no more foods. we are maybe -- we are going to -- we are maybe going to very big starvation in aleppo. >> civilians trapped in this living nightmare, terrified and desperate. >> the you'd nations says it has a humanitarian plan that it has presented to the different parties in that conflict. now that is not the difficult part. the complicated part here is to get the regime, the rebels and the russian allies all to agree to this united nations plan. something that we have seen fail time and time again and it is the civilians who end up

suffering. george. >> the civilians who continue to be starved out, bombed out, gassed out, schools targeted and hospitals as well. thank you for the reporting. officials are trying to determine the cause of a deadly train derailment that happened in northern india. still ahead here on cnn "newsroom" we have the very latest on the investigation and the rising death toll. plus the presidential field in france it narrows down more on two men still vying for the conservative nomination and the presidency of that nation as cnn "newsroom" continues.

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if you could just explain to our viewers around the world where things stand now when it cops to identifying the dead and also looking to see if there might be other survivors? >> authorities are saying that there are no more survivors. they have completed the rescue operation, the area of the train crash has been cleared and as you mentioned the death toll unfortunately, the number is very grim. it is 142 people confirmed dead. out of those 142 people, they have been able to identify most of the bodies. they have been able to identify 110 victims. this death toll high as it is may continue to rise even further and that's because many more people are in hospital and being treated for their injuries. we did hear from authorities, 49 people are still in hospital, some of them are seriously injured so we won't be surprised if we do see this number of 142 people dead continuing to rise.

so those search and rescue operation has been completed and the death toll at 142. the question now turns to what caused such a horrible train crash to occur in the first plaus. now the junior railway said a few hours ago it seems it may have been caused by a fracture on the tracks, a formal investigation has been ordered but at the moment it does look like it could have been caused by a fracture on the tracks. george? >> fracture on the tracks. this reminds me just of the issue of transportation infrastructure in india. i think back just a couple months back to the overpass that collapsed and so many people were killed and injured in that situation and now this train derailment. talk to us about why these accidents like this train accident, why they're so common in india? >> yes. infrastructure does remain sort of the weakest link in india's growth story and it's always

been a recurring problem. you mentioned the highway the overpass that collapsed just a few months ago. train accidents like this unfortunately are quite common. when you look at india's railway network, though, one of the reasons these train accidents are common is because of the sheer size of the network and also because of how old the network is. if you look at the sheer size, if you took the tracks that make up india's railway system and you line them up one after the other, it would go around the earth 1 1/2 times. that's how big it is. imagine the entire population of australia, 23 million people, that's how many people are moved by the indian railways every single day. that's a massive burden for this network to bear. on to top of that you add the problem of subsidies, the has been subsidying passenger tickets for years.

when you look at the revenue of this railway network by the time the revenue comes in a chunk of it almost really goes towards just operational cost and there's very little left over to use towards modernize it. the railway system is in desperate need of upgrading. so that accidents like this are not repeated again in the future. >> a great deal of concern just given how extensive this rail system is and just the difficulty in making sure that safety is maintained. thank you for your reporting. moving on now to due buy where a british woman who went on vacation there could end up in prison after telling police that she was gang raped. authorities have charged her with having extra marital sex e.

cnn's leila is following the story. first of all, what do we know so far about this? what are we hearing from the united kingdom in response? >> we do have a statement from the cons late here in dubai and they're hoping that this case can move very quickly through the uae legal system. a lot of the information that we have on this comes from reporting from this ngo called detained in dubai. for those who are outside of dubai's legal system this comes across as an out rage. it's a tourist worst nightmare. what we've gleamed from the information, this woman who was from the uk in her twenties was visiting on vacation when she reported that she had been raped. she took that complaint to the

police and she said she'd been raipd. as part of the police investigating the case they also turned around and detained the woman, the alleged victim in this case was detained and her passport was confiscated and she was charged with having sex outside of marriage which is a criminal violation here in dubai. so because of her passport has been confiscated she is now effectively trapped here in the country until this case gets resolved and as far as official comment goes, the dubai government is not commenting on this, the dubai police are not commenting before this and clearly what we found here on the ground is that this has become a very sensitive case because it deals with foreigners and it deals with an image that dubai may not want to publicize. it is a place of amusement parks and beaches and sky scrapers. when you have a case like this that runs counterto that narrative it's something people

here like to keep under wraps. >> when you consider the number of people that travel to dubai, so many visitors and tourists, this is certainly a story that many people around the world will be watching closely. live for us in dubai. thank you so much for yourting and we'll stay in touch with you. this is cnn "newsroom" and still ahead, an ice rink by donald trump many years ago how it's led to his plan to heat up the u.s. economy. plus the former president sarkozy as his comeback attempt stopped. how his own prime minister edged him out. still ahead. we are live in atlanta broadcasting around the united states and the world this hour. this is cnn "newsroom." "why are you checking your credit score?"

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welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. you are watching cnn "newsroom" and it is good to have you with us. in eastern aleppo, syria, more than 300 people have been killed since tuesday as the syrian government relentlessly bombed rebel held areas. this is the worst bombing that they have seen since the war began some five years ago. skoolgz and hospitals -- schools and hospitals there are being targeted. u.s. president barack obama back in washington, d.c. after his final trip abroad as president of the united states. in peru, mr. obama emphasized the importance of u.s. influence

around the world and he urged ally to take a wait and see approach with his successor donald trump and speaking of the president-elect he has a likely cabinet pick soon to announce. the a source close to the transition process that the billionaire investor, wilber ross is being seriously considered for the commerce secretary. ross supported donald trump during the campaign. one of the main promises of donald trump's economic plan is a massive investment in building and repairing the country's infrastructure. cnn's claire see bags he does have a track record of getting some things done when government cannot. 30 years ago this month donald trump opened the rink in new york central park the project had been spent six years and $13 million working on he completed in four months for less than 3 million. >> the city couldn't get it

built, they had no clue. >> number one, there are constructions skills involved. number two, there are skills knowing how to deal with labor unions involved. number three, there are great political skills involved. >> the rink was -- that private investment could be more efficient than public as president his infrastructure plan relies on that very same principal private money for public projects. the question is, can he achieve this kind of success on a scale the united states has perhaps never seen before. >> we are going to fix our inner cities and rebuild our highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools, hospitals. >> the plan as laid out in october by two of his economic advisors proposes using massive tax break to spare up to a trillion dollar in private

investment. >> then i get back on my plane, i land at laguardia with potholes all over. >> some crucial projects are left behind some worry. >> we have nearly 8,000 bridges scattered across the country that are both fractured critical and structural deficient and they have been ignored for so many years that, may be, we're not going to find public/private partnerships. private interest who want to correct those problems. that's what government has to step in. >> the highway construction program initiated by ike is the biggest peacetime enterprise ever undertaken. >> trump has compared his plan to eisenhower interstate system, bold, visionary, cost effective. >> he's a visionary and he's not a politician and he's coming at this with a fresh point of view. >> in the days after donald

trump's election win, unions and stock markets cheered with the promise of major spending. the promise come january 20th is keeping up that momentum. >> now to politics in france. fillon and juppe will go head to head for the french conservative's party presidential nomination next weekend. fillon emerged as the late favorite after playing the underdog for months to both juppe and his old boss, the former president of franz sarkozy. in his concession speech he expressed support for fillon who once served as the prime minister. listen. >> translator: fillon seems to have understood better the challenges france faces. i will vote for him whatever the verdict of the second round is

the one who will be chosen will be able to count on my support. >> no one better to break this down than my colleague, new to cnn for our viewers in the united states from france. pleasure to have you with us. let's talk about sarkozy this is a name many familiar to people around the world, the former president of france now he's out. >> i don't think you're going to be hearing that name a whole lot more in the coming months and years. he's been the driving force of french politics and in particular of course french conservative party for wellover a decade in france and this is the end of his political career. there's only one small caveat to that we may have had that impression once nat past. after he lost his reelection bid in 2012, he went under the radar but it wasn't the same. it did not feel the same as it does today. at the time french people had the impression he wanted to come back and they were right.

he had the driving belief that if he had not had the misfortune of presiding over the -- during the global economic down turn he could have been re-elected and that has driven him to come back into politics and seek a new run as the conservative party's nominee. but he misread the public mood and misread french voters. they do not want him. they just voted him out. >> and giving concession speech and throwing his support behind fillon, let's talk just a bit more about who he is and also his economic policies. >> fillon is the former prime minister to sarkozy and that's what makes the whole thing even stranger. he's now the one knocking his old boss out of the french political field and the two characters really could not be more different. sarkozy was bomb bass tic, fillon, a lot more reserved, poised. he was really the ice to

sarkozy's fire. in terms of style, extremely different. in terms of substance there's difference as well. sarkozy ran a campaign on identity politics something close to the population you seen and immigration were a hot topic, fillon it's really all about the economy. reforming france, making it more probusiness friendly aligning it more with some of the probusiness reforms that other successful economies in western europe have done and his most radical policies are cutting half a million jobs in the french public sector, 500,000 jobs that is huge compared to the size environment french economy and cutting also public spending to the tune of 100 billion euros over five years. >> that's huge. these cuts -- >> he's been compared to margaret thatcher in terms of his economic policies. >> his surge came as a bit of a surprise. >> absolutely. he was a distant third or fourth

candidate during most of the race and all of a sudden over the last three weeks, the polls have been showing very different numbers and here he is coming out on top, 44%. nobody could've predicted that. >> let's talk about juppe. so who is he and how does he fit into this picture? >> he's been one of the dominant forces in french conservative circles for more than two decades and he was sort of preor deigned to go to the very top of french politics but something has always got in the way and once again it looks like he's going to stumble before he gets to the top. 14 percentage points behind fillon. when you do the arithmetic and you see that sarkozy -- he's put that weight behind fillon, juppe to answer your question much more of a essential terrorist. speaki -- he'll live or die by that

political -- >> were you surprised by this? >> everybody was surprised. absolutely everybody was surprised. all the french political comment taters, experts, observers they got it wrong. >> it is a pleasure to have you on. thank you so much for the incite. now to germany, the chancellor is going for fourth term. she announced her bid on sunday. merkle has held the country's highest office for 11 years and the decision was anything but trivial. >> translator: when it comes to politics, it is always about balancing interests, kpro compromises progress, steps taking forward, step by step and i always try to do that on the basis of our values, democracy, freedom, respect for the law, the dignity of every human being independent of background, skin color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or political position. that is what guides me. that is what i fight for again

and again but we can only be successful together. >> the germany chancellor says she does expect her upcoming campaign to be the toughest yet. she needs support to win that is divided over her open door refugee policy in that country. the chancellor would also face the aftermath of the brexit vote. still ahead a corruption skandsal is gripping south korea and it's reaching people with ties to the president. still ahead where this investigation goes next. my dentist. definitely my wife. hey wait. we have better bubbles. make sparkling water at home and drink 43% more water every day. sodastream. love your water.

welcome back to cnn "newsroom" i'm george howell. in south korea a corruption scandal is deepening and it's getting closer to the president of that nation, park geun-hye. three peoples with ties to the president were officially

indicted on sunday and the president is now a suspect. paula, we have seen the big crowds of people there. there are certainly a great deal of momentum among protesters to see this president step down and resign. >> that's right. pressure certainly building on the president. it's been a bad start to the week as you say. the fact on sunday prosecutors changed publicly the way they are viewing the president. they wanted to speak to her originally as a witness, but on sunday they did it actually as being investigated as a suspect. we've heard from president park geun-hye's attorney saying she's committed a crime is simply not true. they're questioning whether or not this is a politically motivated. they say it's not politically neutral and they say they won't be cooperating with this investigation. so certainly more pressure on president park but when you look

at recent south korean history she's not the only president to be embroiled in a corruption scandal. >> located on a anticorruption ticket, park's pledge to clean up south korea's politics have gone wrong. hundreds of thousands are calling for her resignation. park has become yet another presidential face of what her korean disease. park now considered a suspect by prosecutors is accused of conspiring with a confident who was not part of government but was part of a cult like region. indicted on charges sunday, accused of extorting millions of dollars from big conglom rates like samsung, her foundation for personal use. she's apologized and denied the charges against her. >> one problem with corruption in south korea is that it does have its roots in the very same reasons why it's such an economic miracle, that is the

cooperation which is also collusion between the government and big business. >> not including park there have been six presidents since south korea officially became a democracy in 1987. every single one of them has been linked to corruption. either directly or through immediate family. two spent time behind bars, one committed suicide in the middle of an investigation into corruption. >> politics and the business groups linked and the created the holdings, corruption and also shaken the entire country from the fundamentals so we are very ashamed and very much worried about. >> park's father ruled south korea with an iron fist in the 60s and 70s some saw him as an economic savior. residents who once supported the daughter now fear they have voted in a ghost of the father. >> this protester tells me this

sort of thing happened with her father 40 years ago but times have changed. the public will not put up with this any more. >> president park has publicly aapologize jieds twice so far to her people. she's also effectively offered to give up some of her power at parliament. it's not enough for protesters. they only announcement they want to hear is the announcement of her resignation, george. >> we have seen these big crowds you say that the protesters will continue the crowds will continue to grow until they see what they want. paula hancock live in seoul. >> now to talk about wintry weather that has arrived across western europe effecting millions of people especially those who are met by powerful wind and snow over the weekend. our meteorologist is here to tell us more about the fact that winter has arrived. >> feels like it absolutely. great seeing you, george. a month from today is the official start of winter across

the northern hemisphere and you take a look across portions of europe, it's snowing, windy, very cold and satellite imagery very easy to pick out. that's our storm system that came through in the past 24 hours and that's a tell-tale sign of extremely cold temperatures that are pushing in. on sat lied imagery you can see what they -- satellite imagery you can see what they left behind. but very blustery as well. 130 plus kilometer per hour winds. this is equivalent to a category 1 hurricane coming ashore. as you would imagine plenty of damage left in place. everything from kargo ships rounds aground across portions of the water out there and power

outages as well. belgium, this is the scene across that area as well. but notice that storm system exits the picture. another one digs well to the south around portions of spain and you take a look at the track of this, this is going into tomorrow morning at this time, once again around portions of eastern uk there begin to see some tremendous winds in the forecast across that region. as you would imagine you work your way into the alps picking up 20 to almost 100 centimeters of fresh snow over the next couple of days across the highest elevations. speaking of fresh snow, here we go lake effect snow across the northeastern parts of united states. as much as 60 centimeters. you take a look the winter weather advisories in place and the accumulations beginning to

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