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welcome, you're watching around the world. i'm fredricka whitfield and i'm michael holmes. we want to talk about the united states and all around the world with cnn international as well. >> the kenyan government says the final assault is on to end that deadly siege of an upscale mall in nairobi. >> it started sunday. a government official says kenyan troops have been attacking them holding them today. they have killed three, they say so far. >> the ministry is telling us more than ten people under arrest and being questioned about possible involvement in that attack. but the interior secretary says they may be on the run, perhaps inside the mall. as we said, the group took control of the mall on saturday. at least 62 people are dead. >> our reporter is there, they're hearing gunfire. they're trying to stay safe them selves. take a listen to this.

>> more gunfire. is that more gunfire? can we have the helmet? where is the helmet? [ shots fired ] >> that sounded pretty close there, too. things pretty tense. not entirely clear what is exactly going on minute to minute. the militants claim they're still holding some people hostage. you see the black smoke there rising from the mall. we've been watching for that hours now. >> the kenyan government is saying the government set some of these fires deliberately to distract troops coming in to end that standoff. we're hearing from some of the victims of the deadly assault. victims who have watched a lot of this. but they were able to make it out safely. >> people were telling us to be quiet. i was pretty afraid that it was unsafe to exit, but i did

anyway. >> al shabaab claims three americans are among the 10 to 15 attackers. federal agents in the u.s. and overseas are working to find out if it's true. >> they've been saying that on twitter. earlier reports indicate that women may have been part of the group. now the government is massaging that a little bit saying there are reports that the male terrorists were dressed as women when they went in. >> in fact, a lot of people have seen, there's been a lot of helicopter activity. some flying low near the mall and gunfire ringing out. the kenyan sgoft insisting that the end game is near. >> we've been hearing that for 12 years. >> nay ro-- is there any indica that the end game is approaching? >> well, there's definitely a lot of indication that the kenyan government is getting a grasp on the situation in a more

broadway. they've arrested ten people, four of those were picked up at the airport, michael. insiders tell us that they believe they were trying to make their way outside of kenya. they're now being questioned on suspicion of involvement in the attack, and you can see very much in the language of the kenyan government that they're using, they're feeling more confident. the tweets coming out from the kenyan interior ministry, it really has been a propaganda war on twitter. every tweet the al shabaab movement have been sending out, you see the chaos -- they're using twitter to disseminate information to the public. they're saying don't worry if you're thinking that any of these guys are going to slip away. we have pretty tight cord ans. they've expanded their area of operation, the crime scene as they're calling it, far beyond what it was initially there. blocking off quite a few of the roads leading to here. we've also started speaking to

some of those who are coming here every day to wait to find out what's going on inside. one young man, we spoke to earlier, has been coming every single day since this siege began, michael. he's hopeful. he says he believes the government and more importantly, he says he believes what he's feeling and what he's feeling is that his father, whatever we're seeing, whatever the smoke, whatever the gunfire, he believes that his father is alive somewhere inside that building, michael. in the middle of what some of these people have been going through. >> authorities are saying they have ten gunmen arrested and questioning them. is there a feeling that some of the gunmen are in a different location, that there are separate locations within the mall that authorities are targeting in order to apprehend some of the gunmen? >> reporter: well, they're saying that they have ten suspects who they suspect of involvement. that doesn't necessarily mean

that they're gunmen. these ten people they suspect being involved in the planning. this is a multilayered operation. the manpower that you generally, the expertise that you would need to carry something like this off, there are a lot of people and the kenyan government had hoping there are leaks in the people and they can follow-up on the leads. >> thank you so much. reporting from nairobi. keep us posted. >> the fbi is now trying to figure out if al shabaab's claims made on twitter, they've been tweeting a lot throughout this thing. they claim that americans were among the attackers. >> our nic robertson is joining us from london. they're claiming that people from other countries are involved. how are investigators trying to get to the bottom of all of those participants? >> reporter: they're not going to get to the bottom of it until the authorities take control of

the situation and identify the people they've captured or killed. we've heard from the kenyan officials that they're using cctv footage from that area to identify the people in there as being male. we know that nef some level of knowledge about who they are. this claim that some are americans, it can't be substantiated. what we have to remember looking at this is al shabaab sees this as a huge propaganda opportunity. this complex attack, taking hostages to give them the maximum opportunity to get their message out. one of the messages they want to get out as being part of al qaeda is they have a long reach, they have members from the united states and from the united kingdom, britain. certainly, there's some evidence to support that. 40 people at least believed to have left the united states over the years to join al shabaab. over 100 have left the united kingdom for the same reason. it doesn't mean to say that they're in this attack. we won't really know until the

end and, of course, twitter feeds this associated with al shabaab or not, it can't be determined until this operation is entirely over. we just have to be cautious. this is a propaganda opportunity for al shabaab and they will exploit it every and anyway they can. >> nic, with the ready availability of -- some of the people would get trained and come back. when it comes to recruiting people, leading lives in places like the u.s. and europe, what's the sales pitch that al shabaab is using? >> reporter: the sales pitch is a simple one. they're appealing to people who are perhaps economically deprived, insular in their communities, whose lives are not going as well as they would like, perhaps first generation immigrants or perhaps born to parents who left somalia are the people they've targeted.

the message has come back, fight for your country, go back to the mid-2000s. like they were being invaded by ethiopia. it would appeal to some young somalis. >> appreciate your report there from the london bureau. >> extraordinary images from nairobi. a photographer from "the new york times" was near the west gate mall shortly after the gunmen opened fire. >> while everyone was running out of the mall, tyler hicks ran in to cover the attack. he's used to such sorts of scenes. we'll show you some of the amazing pictures he took and listen to what he told us about the attack. >> i happened to be close by to west gate mall when the violence broke out and as i approached the mall, i could see lots of people running away. as i got closer, it was clear that there were people had been shot. some people had been shot in the stomach and the leg. dozens of injuries streaming out

among just terrified civilians. i continued to move along carefully along the front of the mall where i saw three men who had been killed just at the front entrance to the mall. one of them still inside the car that he had been driving. continued to proceed up into an upper parking garage where i, again, saw more people streaming out. the police and the army who were working there were desperately trying to get people evacuated out of the building. i saw this as an opportunity to get inside, to go against the flow of the people and into the mall and to see what was going on inside. that's really where we got a real sense much how bad things were. even after being there an hour, hour and a half, people continued to come out of shops.

they had barricaded themselves inside by locking the doors or by pulling the metal gates down in front of the storefront windows. and that was -- every 15 or 20 minutes suddenly it seemed that 20, 30, 50, 100 people would come out of another place that were just terrified. even though they could hear that there were people outside, they couldn't really tell who, that that was the police or the army. they were just petrified and staying low, which is the right thing to do. >> all right. survivors fighting for their lives as terrorists stormed into that mall in kenya. >> now a lot are sharing their stories of fear and of gratitude. >> we were back there, methodically going from store to store talking to people, asking questions, shooting, screams. then it would stop for a while.

then they would go to another store. >> i'm okay. i'm very grateful to be alive. i'm also very grateful for like the kenyan people. everyone was so helpful and supportive. >> more from the victims coming up here on "around the world" a little later this hour. >> now this. syrian president bashar al assad says the united states and the u.n. are fighting imaginary enemy he says. >> mass destruction are only useful during extremely hopeless situations and they have been considered suicidal by many. syria is never suicidal. >> and then, are your fingerprints safe? new apple technology uses them for added security on iphones. but a german hacker group says they've beat the system and cracked apple's new code. and this instagram photo of rihanna with an endangered animal gets two people in

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southern china, taiwan the philippines. hong kong was in the firing line for a while. the brunt of the storm although they were still a lot of problems. here's anna carnes. >> it was billed as the most powerful storm on the planet this year. the typhoon unleashed its fury bringing death and destruction to southern china. at least 25 people were killed, tens of thousands evacuated as winds of up to 100 miles an hour lashed the coast. here in hong kong we were expecting a direct hit. but the city narrowly escaped. it did shut down hong kong's international airport closing businesses and schools as well as hong kong's stock exchange for part of the day. amazing stuff. >> very frightening stuff. let's bring in chad myers to look at this and what kind of season they're having in that side of the world. >> that was the biggest storm so far. anywhere in any ocean this year. now, there are some satellite

indications. at least because they don't fly through their hurricanes or typhoons like we do. there's no real way to know what the pressure truly was. there's satellite indication that is it could have been the strongest storm in any ocean for many, many years. not just this year. it is a very -- was at least a very big storm. look at the eye right there. here's taiwan and the philippines. there is something going on here that we can't explain how it missed both of those islands. it went right in between. there are smaller islands in between. could you imagine at this point 162 mile per hour storm hitting the philippines or taiwan. that would have been absolutely devastating. it came on shore over the weekend. an awful lot of rain on this side. there was rain in hong kong. they were on the easy side of the storm. this is the bad side because the wind is going this way and so is the storm. this is the easier side. storm going this way. but as the wind is blowing this way, actually tracking the winds and as the storm moved into the mountains much eastern china,

the province here, we could still see quite a bit of flooding and mudslides. 25 people with a storm that could have been the largest in any ocean for 40 or 50 years, the loss of life of 25 is actually quite miraculous because the storm did die quite a bit before it moved on shore. had it came on shore, the numbers may have been 100 times that. >> i had friends in highrises in hong kong that were hiding. boy, that could have been a lot worse. >> you bet. >> chad, thanks so much. coming up -- >> syrian president bashar al assad says the united states is trying to find an excuse for a war. >> if the u.s. wants to find excuses for war, it will find them. there was a russian/syriani russian/syrianian agreement for -- from within the u.s. because there are no

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and welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world to "around the world." syrian president bashar al assad says outside governments may urge rebels to attack international inspectors in his country. >> interesting warning. this was during an interview with china's state-owned tv. the scheme would be to blame his government for any attack on the inspectors who are there to secure syria's chemical weapons. >> he also defended why his country has had the weapons for

so long. >> translator: it is no surprise they are large in amount. we are a country in a state of war with some lands occupied for more than 40 years. but no matter what, the syrian army is prepared to fight with conventional weapons. >> last week, syria turned over an inventory of its chemical weapons to the u.n., a list that is. >> it was part of an agreement brokered by the u.s. and russia to get rid of the chemical weapons stockpile. it's one of the hot issues. it's going to make for a huge week at the united nations. >> world leaders are gathering in new york for the annual general assembly meeting. christian amanpour is there. >> the other big news is about a possible meeting between president obama and the iranian president, the new president. what can we realistically expect? >> it's not clear yet.

certainly previous american presidents at this meeting have wanted to meet iranian presidents. now, at the time it didn't work. he did not get permission from the supreme leader in iran. therefore, it didn't happen. this time, however, everybody is thinking perhaps some kind of short meeting or exchange of handshake may happen and certain the new president has indicated that he has the backing of iran's supreme leader. this is very, very important. ayatollah khamenei, not just moving forward with relations on various issues but in really trying to resolve iran's nuclear issue. which has been a sticking point for many years now. if that does happen, it will be a major step towards breaking down the incredible walls of distrust and enmity that existed over the past 34-plus years.

>> of course, the u.s. president came into office saying he was leaving the door open with talking with iran. it will be interesting if he takes this opportunity to walk through that door. it's going to be such a busy week. one imagines that syria will be high on the agenda as well. but what about kenya. is there going to be conversations in the corridors about al shabaab and the impact it has on other nations around the world? >> look, i think for sure. i'm interviewing the foreign minister later in the afternoon and tomorrow i will be interviewing president rohan i of iran. we can talk about all of these things. this is al qaeda rearing its ugly head. there is a dispute as to whether this shows a strengthening al shabaab or a desperate al shabaab lashing out. i spoke with the somali president not long ago who said al shabaab is being pushed back from real ability to cause mayhem in somalia itself. it's had to give up control of

several areas. it's not as prominent in the cal tal of mogadishu and is this a desperate attempt for some kind of recognition and recruitment. we don't know yet. these are some of the questions being asked there. of course, it will be discussed in the corridors and in the meetings at the u.n. because this is really a global threat and one that, look, we all know has been ongoing even before 9/11. >> it's going to be -- looking forward to your interviews, particularly with mr. rajan i. it's going to be fascinating. the first on u.s. soil if the u.n. -- christiane great to see you. >> you can watch it at 2:00 p.m. eastern, about 90 minutes from now. don't miss it. always a good program to dip in and find out what's going on in the world. good to see you. >> thanks. >> tense moments outside that mall still attacked byterrists in -- terrorists in kenya.

>> is that more gunfire? can we have the helmets? where is the helmet? [ shots ] >> that's one of our reporters right there. very frightening. >> we're going to be talking to her about what it's like to report from that scene.

. welcome back to our views in the united states and indeed around the world. >> we're still learning new information now as it pertains to this investigation overseas in kenya and now a deputy national security adviser, ben rhoades saying to reporters on air force one that the u.s. does not have any conversation that americans were indeed involved. but, of course, the fbi is still investigating whether there's any americans among the alleged gunmen. >> al shabaab tweeting out that there were and someone from finland and britain and canada. there's no way to confirm that. we don't know for sure. that was their claim. it's interesting that ben rhoades saying they're still checking into that. >> a tense situation at the nairobi shopping mall where terrorists took hostages and killed dozens of people over the weekend. our own zain verjee and her

crew had to take cover while preparing to report. we were about to go there on cnn international. at least 62 have been killed, 170 wounded. let's bring in zain live from the scene. things changing fast, moment by moment. update us on the situation right now. >> reporter: right now everything appears calm and quiet. the smoke doesn't seem to be as thick as it was. there's been no gunfire. the helicopters have stopped. the kenyan officials have said repeatedly to me privately and publicly, it's going to be over soon. tonight we're going to wrap it up, it will be over and we're fully in control. they continue to insist that's the case and that they have removed the pockets of resistance and the shabaab and al qaeda militants that were still inside west gate mall. one interesting development michael over the last five minutes or so, i'm standing in

position at the community center area that's kind of been a base for a lot of the operations, especially for the medics. and they're planning to wrap up operations here in the next few hours. so i asked about casualties. no one had an answer for that. i asked about the gunmen, bodies, casualties, location. no answer to that. really, we're going to have to wait on the kenyan officials and military sources for government sources to come forward and give us a picture of what exactly the status is right now. the last official word was that hefrg is in control and most of the hostages have been released. michael? >> okay. so most of the hostages being released but not all of them. it remains a tenuous situation for those who were, of course, in the shopping mall and even those of you outside of the mall. zain earlier, what appeared to be close calls because of what sounded like gunfire very near

to your perch, where you were. give us what happened in this moment. >> is that more gunfire? can we have the helmets? where is the helmet? [ shots ] >> you hear a distinct crack which is indicative of proximity. zain, what do you know happened at that time and i imagine you ducked down pretty quick? >> reporter: there was a gunfire exchange between the militants and the security forces in there. it was sporadic but it was intense. we all ran and took cover behind the cars here and a lot of people just fled in the opposite direction and ran. i talked to some security officials who said that sounded to them like clearing shots, the way that they would operate when they were to clear a room.

i can't be sure of that. that's kind of the way they read it. since then, there's been no shooting of that intensity. >> zain, talk to us about this target, that being kenya. this is a beautiful country that is a big, attractive sight for so many tourists, a lot of commerce. people feel very relaxed and at ease in that country and especially at that mall. something like this to happen disrupts not just the way of life but commerce and it really does have a ripple effect around the world, doesn't it? >> reporter: it really does. you know, kenya masses, that's basically the bottom line. it matters. it's an economic powerhouse. it matters to the united states. it has a very close security and counterterrorism relationship. there's a lot of intelligence sharing and a lot of security information. there's training of the kenyan forces back and forth. the intelligence forces here are

some of the best in the world. they cooperate very closely. we have a port that's critical to spread goods and services around. the infrastructure is important because international organizations like the u.n. are based here. also kenya, unfortunately has become a place where al shabaab is able to find a little space to operate, recruit and finance. it has a ripple effect throughout the world. >> many ways, east africa's stability depends on kenya's stability. as we know, it is your home as well. zain, good to see you. zain verjee there in nairobi. >> coming up next, why places like shopping malls, theaters and gas stations are called soft targets. what you need to be on the lookout for when you're visiting any of them. ♪ (announcer) answer the call of the grill with new friskies grillers, full of meaty tenders and crunchy bites.

all right. as we're learning from that deadly attack on the mall in kenya, shopping centers are indeed soft targets for terror attacks. >> yeah. they're full of people, lots of entrances and exits. no clear authority in charge in many ways. >> with groups like al shabaab recruiting in the west, people are wondering if their neighborhood mall could become a target. >> especially with the comparative readily available firearms in the united states. it's even more of an issue here. john berman reports that whole

question is plaguing u.s. law enforcement as well. >> the shocking mall attack in kenya carried out by a somali terror group linked to al qaeda and hostile to the united states has many u.s. citizens concerned. could a similar attack happen here? gunmen have terrorized american shopping malls in the past, but those attacks have been carried out by lone assailants with no apparent cause to promote. in 2007, the 19-year-old man killed eight people and himself in omaha, nebraska. that same year an 18-year-old man killed five people in salt lake city before he was killed by police. and last year, weeks before christmas, a 22-year-old gunman killed two people and himself at a mall near portland, oregon. it is preventing scenes like this one that keeps fbi officials up at night and law enforcement says they have been successful at stopping planned attacks before they happen. a somali citizens living in

columbus, ohio, was sentenced to ten years in prison in 2007 after admitting he saw training to carry out attacks on a mall. a man in rockford, illinois, was sentenced to 35 years in prison after plotting to set off grenades at a shopping mall. >> soft targets are attractive to terrorists because they're not fooe defended. >> mall representatives stress that security is front and center. the mall of america, one of the largest shopping centers in the country holds lockdown drills twice a month. tenants and customers practice sheltering in back rooms of stores aiming to prevent casualties in an attack. >> if something bad should happen here, we don't want our response to start with, and law enforcement will be here and they'll protect you. we want to know what can be done until law enforcement gets here. >> even with heightened security, experts say your best defense is simply to be aware of your surroundings. >> you go to the shopping mall, you go to a movie theater, any

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>> a they're terrified and outraged, demanding that their government do more to protect them. protests have broken out around the country. >> michael, protests have been breaking out throughout the country, not just by members of this christian community. but also the general pakistani public. they're demanding their right to protection from the state. they want to be able to go to their places of worship without fear of attacks. there have been attacks on mosques and now this hideous church bombing in which many people, including women and children, were killed. members of the church choir, the bishop tells us sunday school students as young as 4 years old have also been killed. he's calling for people not to go out in protest and that has also been echoed by pope francis who is calling for peace and unity amongst the christian community. michael? >> in islamabad, a terrible

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and welcome back to our viewers all around the world. as you probably know by now, a possible u.s. government shutdown is just a week away if congress can't come together to authorize a new spending resolution. >> the current budget runs out next monday. if there is no agreement, the u.s. economy will take a big hit. christine romans looks at how americans can feel the pain. >> based on the last shutdown in 1995, here's how you would be affected. >> many if not most federal offices and programs would be closed, shut down. during the last shutdown, 200,000 passport applications went unprocessed. some services to veterans were suspended. the nah stopped accepting patients for clinical research. national parks and museums closed. and departments could see projects delayed.

critical services would stay open. air traffic control, food inspectio inspections, border security, the maintenance of the power grid. also open, anything considered essential to the banking system. that means the government would still issue bonds and yes, you do need to pay your taxes. the postal service would continue to deliver the mail and the government would pay out benefits. medicare, medicaid, social security. those are considered mandatory. not affected. however, government workers who process them could be affected. although that's unlikely. the president, his appointees, they will get paid. furloughed workers may get back pay, maybe get back pay after it's settled. it's also not guaranteed. fewer workers spending money, delayed contracts, all this means less economic growth. that's the big concern here about a government shutdown. christine romans, cnn, new york. >> pretty sizable impact. >> and ripples around the world as well. coming up -- are your

fingerprints safe? >> let's hope so. you know what, new apple technology uses your fingerprints for added security on iphones. a german hacker group is saying it's beaten the system. cracked apple's new code. oh, boy. this instagram photo of rihanna with an endangered animal gets two people in thailand in trouble with the law. we'll explain why. >> that's coming up on "around the world." [ male announcer ] this store knows how to handle a saturday crowd. ♪ [ male announcer ] the parking lot helps by letting us know who's coming. the carts keep everyone on the right track. the power tools introduce themselves. all the bits and bulbs keep themselves stocked. and the doors even handle the checkout

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apple says it broke records selling 9 million of its latest phones. >> that's a lot. a group in germany says it has hacked one of the new features of the phones. the one that uses your fingerprints. >> we're at the new york stock exchange. what do the hackers reportedly do, exactly? >> hey, you know fredricka, hackers love to do this for the attention and challenge. german hacker group claims to have hacked the new fingerprint scanner. here's how they managed to bypass the sensor. let's say a person leaves their prints on a glass surface. the hacker takes a photo of it. scans it, and prints it to create a mold. it uses the mold to trick the iphone into believing it's a real finger. certainly sounds really weird. apple has said only 50%, this is

quite surprising. 50% of iphone users bother to have pass codes at all. this sort of thumbprint sensor was supposed to be an easier way to answer your phone compared to typing in a pass code. >> there wouldn't be many fingerprints on iphones, would there? [ laughter ] >> it's all about the fingerprints. >> you leave it everywhere. >> it's kind of a game for haerks. they come out with something and then the hackers are on to it to try to find the bug. i don't know. it might ultimately help. >> two days, by the way, after apple released the new phone. they were already on to it. >> frustratingly brilliant. >> it might help. they can find out what they need -- >> perfect it. >> they're going to keep each other in business, in other words. >> all right. who would have thought a fingerprint on your iphone. >> crazy. >> crazy. good to see you, zain. you've seen the images,

right? >> rihanna, instagram photo next to a little itty bitty primate that's endangered. >> two men got into trouble with the law over this. this is after that picture was posted. this is an endangered monkey, i guess, on instagram. rihanna hears the instagram, she paid the two folks to get this image. that's where the problem begins. the payment. >> take a photo here and get paid for it. now, the picture was liked by more than 230,000 fans. it probably is they're not allowed to ask tourists for money to take pictures with endangered species. it's a rule apparently. >> this is an endangered animal and the young men have since been arrested they're facing charges and the monkey has been returned to a national park. >> it didn't get any either. didn't get a cut of it. thanks