clarissa ward is following the story in moscow. hi, clarissa. >> hi, carol. well, so far the kremlin will not really be drawn on in terms of responding to president trump's press conference. they said that we have given our answer so many times to this issue. we have objected strenuously to these accusations since they first emerged two months ago, and there has not been really, carol, any shift whatsoever in that of cnn did try to ask the kremlin spokesperson today, as well, what the content of the conversation between president obama and president putin back in september was. you may remember that in his press conference, president obama said that he told putin quote to cut it out but the kremlin spokesperson said he would not be revealing any details of those conversations because they are private conversations. unofficially, though, i think it's fair to say that russia is kind of relishing its moment in the sun here. relishing the idea that it could have the kind of power and sway that would be needed to pull off such an audacious move such as swinging th

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let's bring in cnn senior international correspondent clarissa ward. and we have paul cruickshank in london. here in new york, we have senior editor of the daily beast, michael weiss. michael, let's start with you. we have switzerland, yemen, turkey, and now what we just saw is this just a reflection of the global assault at play, or is this something worthy to look at as coordinated? >> i don't think it's necessarily coordinated, but look, there is something in the zeitgeist, something in the air. the collapse of the middle eastern states, which really began with the invasion of iraq but has been exacerbated with the catastrophe in syria. focus on aleppo for a minute. this is going to be a rallying cry for a whole new generation of sunni jihadis. aleppo was not taken by the assad regime. this is incitement. the shooter in ankara -- >> you think there's an echo effect. >> sure. this almost transcends any particular organization or ideological movement. this is a kind of rallying cry for sunnis who feel like they're besieged, like they're the beleaguere

clarissa ward in moscow. thanks so much, clarissa. >>> all right. back now with our panel, joining us is graham wood, national correspondent for "the atlantic" and author of "the way of strangers: encounters with the islamic state." graham, you just heard our latest reporting from moscow on the assassination of the russian ambassador. what does your gut tell you about what happened there? >> i think it could be any number of who is behind this. as clarissa just said, there's no shortage of islamist groups or others within turkey who would have a motive to kill a russian ambassador. jihadist groups who haare activ in syria and iraq, they're competing to bt one that is bearing the standard of jihad most prominently and to take the life of an ambassador would definitely boost them in the standings. >> bob baer, you are familiar with this part of the world. what kind of security did didn't diplomat ic personnel -- remembering here the gunman was apparently a police officer. >> exactly, john. the russian ambassador was probably one of the most protected

clarissa, the president hoss vowed retaliation. had a might that look like? >> reporter: well, there are a few different options that president obama could pursue in trying to take revenge or retaliate against russia for these hacking -- for the hacking of the u.s. election. the first one would be to try to implement further sanctions. there are already u.s. sanctions against russia. they could be deeper and wider, they could target the banking industry. as we've seen, boris, despite sanctions, they haven't really had a huge effect in terms of curtailing russian aggression. that's one avenue the president could explore. another avenue the president could look into is more of a sort of tit for tat, taking direct revenge in the same way in a the russians leaked secrets or e-mails from john podesta and the dnc, the u.s. could do the same and like an e-mails from kremlin leaders, potentially embarrassing details, like a potentially details such as where they store some of their money or offshore bank accounts, things of that nature. the third option, which is per

joining me, clarissa ward and paul cruickshank.claims at this point in the berlin attack, but tell us what officials are doing right now to try to track down this person, and, also, having thought it was some other suspect, has that cost them a lot of time that could have cost them leads? >> reporter: yes. they've just released the suspect detained overnight. i'm told by a german intelligence official that the reason they released this suspect is because they just didn't have any evidence linking him to this crime. they didn't specifically have forensic evidence linking him to the truck. so in a sense, they were able, obviously, to, from that point of view, rule him out to a certain degree as a possible perpetrator. and that's why they've let him go. that really returns the investigation back to square one. it's not clear at the moment whether they've got any good leads whatsoever and are asking the public to send in video from the scene of the attack. perhaps if they're lucky they might be able to spot something from one of those

. >> clarissa, there is a suspect in custody at this point. what do you think they are trying to learn from the suspect? and also it seems so significant that they were able to detain this person so quickly. >> reporter: well, that's what i would say, brianna. so quickly and also the fact they were able to detain him at all. traditionally, suicide warriors or people fighting on behalf of isis or inspired by isis, they don't tend to get to the stage where they get arrested. traditionally, they're going all the way to the end. they try to kill as many people as they possibly can before being killed. and i do have to stress to our viewers that at this stage, we won't yet know what the motivation for the attack was or who was responsible for it. obviously, those are the first two questions the german authorities will be wanting to see answered. at the same time, we can't be oblivious to the obvious parallels we've seen. of course, some of us who follow isis closely know that many times now we have heard isis leaders calling explicitly for these ty

>> clarissa, forgive me.ust saw that video for the very first time along with you and clarify you speak many languages. it was not clear the man in the video along with the ambassador was security or if that was maybe the shooter. there was a man on the video and we saw still photos after waving a gun. it looked to me like he was security, but i could not understand what he was saying. did you? >> reporter: no, i did not. i do not speak turkish and there are ach lot of mixed reports on social media. as you said, wearing a suit, appeared to be standing to the side, behind the ambassador, and might indicate indeed he could have been part of the ambassador's security detail or it's possible it's a disguise he was wearing in order to gain access to the exhibition. we know this cawas a kind of diplomatic event, lots of people from the arts. a gallery, photographs of turkey's history with russia. you can assume there would have been lots of different members of turkey's elite and diplomatic circles there. at this s

clarissa, you're in moscow. as we've been talking about the relations and -- the relations between rush and turkey. foreign ministers from russia, iran and turkey are getting together to discuss what happened in aleppo and apparently that conversation has reached an impasse. can you bring me up to speed? >> well, basically i think that all -- well, i think specifically the russian foreign minister and the turkish foreign minister really wanted to show something of a united front here. they wanted to show that regardless of the horrible assassination of the russian ambassador to turkey in cold blood yesterday that they weren't going to allow this to derail the relationship that they were going to continue to push ahead working together, working to improve the relationship. it has been difficult but in the last six months it's improved expotentially. at the end of the day you have russian supporting the regime in the syrian civil war and turkey supporting the rebels but both sides were working closely together, sp

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clarissa mentioned "charlie hebdo." that turned out to be more associated with al qaeda than with isis. so this is still a very open question. >> would it be unusual for isis to say this and for it to turn out to not be someone inspired by isis? >> well, they're taking a risk. >> they could look silly. >> they've got nothing really to lose. it probably is somebody inspired by isis. that's usually the pattern. in the ohio state case where we had a similar kind of attack where 11 people were injured three weeks ago with a vehicle, he was mostly inspired by anwar al awlaki, a cleric, an american citizen. >> how are people feeling in the region? are they on high alert? are they very concerned? how are people in cities feeling there? >> i think there is a very real fear when it comes to security officials about their ability or lack thereof, realistically, to prevent every single one of these attacks from happening. for every five they thwart, how many, you know -- i don't know the exact numbers, but my point being, for ever

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. >> clarissa ward is joining us from moscow right now. clarissa, listen precisely to what the president said about putin, and then we'll get the russian reaction. listen to this. >> we have said, and i will confirm that this happened at the highest levels of the russian government. and i will let you make that determination as to whether there are high level russian officials who go off rogue and decide to tamper with the u.s. election process without vladamir putin knowing about it. >> so i'm sure, clarissa, they were watching closely to that news conference in moscow. what kind of reaction are the russians giving you? >> reporter: well, so far, wolf, because it's the middle of the night, no one has said anything officially. but i can tell you what the response is going to be. it's going to be more of what we have heard consistently since these allegations first reared their head back in october, which is this is preposterous, this is indecent was the word that was used today. this is ludicrous nonsense was another way that it's been des

already is during the transition of president-elect, and number two, clarissa, it's going to have more complicated and thornier and hostile ties with china. listen to what president-elect trump said about the one-china policy over the weekend. >> i fully understand the one-china policy but i don't know why we have to be bound by one-china policy unless we make a deal with china having to do with other things, including trade. >> it seems crystal clear that the phone call between donald trump in taiwan was no mistake. this is a policy shift in regard to taiwan. a policy shift in terms of how tough he's going to be with china and the question is, tough. >> is it because he really cares about taiwan or the second sentence that you heard him say there? this is a bargaining chip to bring to the table because donald trump wants to be tough on china when it comes to trade and what he sees is unfair economic practices that have hurt the u.s. he understands full well that taiwan is a lightning rod for them. he's trying to take advantage of that and, in fact, in some ways it even reminds me of b

clarissa, what's the view of folks overseas as they're watching this transition?o say there is a lot of concern about this transition but not for the reasons people might expect. not necessarily because president-elect trump has any someone specific policy. there the real source of anxiety overseas, particularly in europe, is the fact that donald trump is an unknown commodity and he is essentially in the way he is carrying out business, he is dispensing with the rule book. he is saying no more diplomatic protocol. he is back channeling instead of going through central channels of power. china was caught by the surprise with the incident with taiwan. donald trump not going about that in a traditional way. some allies have also been disenchanted with president obama, they didn't feel they were getting the support they needed, that they have enjoyed from the u.s. they're looking for some kind of affirmation but they're not sure what they're going to get. >> concern among allies but perhaps foes, too. we're hearing from iran's president today coming out saying he's no

clarissa ward is following these developments from moscow, hi, clarissa. >> hi, carol. that's right, as you said, a team of russian investigators has touched down in ankara. they will be working closely with turkish authorities to try to determine who ordered the attack. if it was possibly simply a lone wolf attack. whether this man who we now know was a police officer had any connections to militant groups. essentially trying to drill down on what the possible motivation was for the attack. of course we all know in his speech or i should say diatribe just after killing the ambassador, the young police officer who was in his early 20s said repeated lid this is for aleppo, we must remember aleppo, we must not forget syria. he said he vowed essentially to continue to lash out at russians and oppressors as he called them wherever they may be. carol, it's no secret that a lot of muslims across the world and in fact a lot of people have been desperately moved by the endless barrage of images we have seen coming out of eastern aleppo as regime forces backed by russian forces

. >> our senior international correspondent clarissa ward is live tonight for us in moscow, almost midnight there. any response yet from the kremlin to what the president said? clearly, without saying putin did it, he said putin did it. >> reporter: he did. and so far there hasn't been any official response. and i wouldn't necessarily expect to hear one, because what the russians are saying and have said all along since these allegations first reared their head like two months ago back in october, is there's absolutely no proof, which is the same thing that president-elect trump is saying. in the absence of any tangible physical evidence, the russians have said they find it offensive that these allegations continue. you heard the kremlin spokesperson just yesterday saying, either prove it or stop with the allegations. he went on to call them indecent. they have dismissed them as ludicrous nonsense. and the narrative that really is being pedalled here in russia on kremlin-backed state tv is that essentially this is an attempt for the obama administration to try to poison the well, sour relat

claris clarissa, thanks. nick paton walsh, thanks to you as well. more on this breaking story developments coming up later in the hour. >>> let's get to the trump transition here in the united states. the president-elect meets next our with executives of major technology companies. the meeting includes the ceos from tesla and intel, cisco, oracle and ibm among others. vice president-elect mike pence, he arrived over at trump tower in new york city a few minutes ago and spoke about the progress with the transition team. >> look forward to another productive day here at trump tower. i know the president-elect is looking forward to welcoming some of the, some of the leading tech ceos inamerica to trump to youer to talk about how we can grow jobs in high-tech across the country. yesterday a great meeting with bill greats. and of course, we're all very enthusiastic that governor rick perry has stepped forward to lead the department of energy. and that momentum and the pace of this transition will continue forward all the way into the holidays as we assem

clarissa, first to you in london. what do we know about tillerson's ties to russia and what message would that be sending if he's the guy trump selects? >> the most important thing we know about tillerson, other than the fact he has no diplomatic experience in the traditional sense, is that he actively spoke out against u.s. sanctions against russia, which were levied against russia after it annexed crimea in 2014. so, that is significant. he has been outspoken and saying those sanctions were wrong and, of course, the question now is, would he try in some sense to repeal them? now, today we heard from the kremlin who had something to say about tillerson, which in and of itself is highly unusual. normally the kremlin would not comment on somebody, especially before this person had been officially announced. what the kremlin said was this, they praised tillerson and said he's very professional and then said, quote, as to whether or not he's friendly to russia, there's a huge difference between being a secretary of state

clarissa, you're in moscow.know the timing could be significant, one day before the leaders of iran and russia and turkey are getting together to discuss what's happening in aleppo. we have vladimir putin's statement with the turkish president. your response to this? >> so basically what we know is that president putin spoke with president erdogan, briefing putin about the context of the attack and giving him a better idea of what exactly went down and how it went down. obviously a major investigation will now need to take place. we know that president putin is meeting tonight with members of his staff from the foreign ministry and also with members of his security council. the russians have called this an act of terrorism. i wanted to read to you quickly from the official statement that the foreign ministry put out. murderers will be punished, terrorism won't sustain, we will fight it. and they also said that turkish authorities have assured us that a thorough, comprehensive investigation will be conducted. cle

elections actually matters. >> clarissa, you are in moscow. how does this tension about whether or not russia was involved and what should be done. how does this play over there as an opportunity? >> well, i think that the russians are on the surface of it, they're outraged by these allegations. they have been strenuously denying them for koppel of months now. that hasn't changed at all now. when you talk to people on the street whether they're avid putin supporters or elite liberals, they do view these allegations as being baseless and primarily based on circumstantial evidence. so, i don't think people here see this as a really meaningful topic. but at the same time, i think they're enjoying watching it play out, chris. because they're seeing what a disruptive effect all of this, whether it was russian hacking or not in their eyes, they're seeing how disruptive it has been to the democratic process. they're seeing u.s. intelligence agencies squabbling with each other. they're seeing all of these implications. they're seeing democratic instit

>> clarissa ward in moscow for us. thanks for your reporting. >>> i want to bring in graham wood, national correspondent for "the atlantic "and author of "enkoirnts with t"e "encounters with the islamic state." how troubling the situation across the globe we have extremely dangerous flare-ups of violence going on all at the same time. back to berlin, the man in custody, the man at least for a few hours overnight they thought may have been the driver of the truck, they're now leaning against that. meaning they have a killer on the loose. >> yes. we've known a long time the number of people in western europe sympathetic to the islamic state, jihadist leanings issignificant. and they've been told in no uncertain terms using tactics like renting trucks, given specific instructions how much clearance to crush the largest number of bodies possible. so it's well known there are people at large who want to do this, and one person in particular -- >> isis literally delivering the blueprint for this attack and specifically calli

i want to bring in senior international correspondent clarissa ward live in moscow for us. good morning to you. and president putin himself has remained pretty silent here, although we have the response. i wonder, though, and there is a difference here, a bit of a distinction between the response we're seeing, we're hearing, and the overall reaction from russia. detail that for us. >> reporter: i think that's right. essentially, so far we have heard nothing from president putin today, nor have we heard any official reaction to president obama's press conference yesterday. the official party line, though, throughout the last two months, since those allegations of hacking first reared their heads back in october, has been this is ludicrous nonsense, to use one of their turns of phrase, this is not true, we had nothing to do with it, there is no evidence. just yesterday we heard the kremlin spokesperson essentially saying, as you summarize, basically prove it or stop talking about it. he went on to say that the accusations were "indecent." but underlying this sort of stern rep

clarissa ward in moseco, let's go to you. we heard from vladimir putin overnight. what are russian officials saying about this today? >> well, officially, i think the reaction has been very much in calling in unison with the reaction of the turkish president. both leaders are saying essentially this was a provocation that was aimed at derailing the russian/turkish relationship. that has been a troubled relationship in the past. it was just about -- just over a year ago that turkish military shot down a russian fighter jet that they claimed had erred into turkish airspace. but since then, there has been a significant warming of that relationship. and particularly in the last six months since the failed coup attempt against president erdogan. so officially the party line here is absolutely stern. this was an act of terror. this must be investigated. as you said before, john, a team of russian investigators is now on the ground in ankara. they're working closely with turkish investigators. we also know that the body of andrey karlov, the russian ambassador who was ass

want to talk with this with clarissa ward who is live in moscow.larissa, are you hearing anything about whether russia may retaliate when it comes to these and what they will do and how far they will go? >> at this stage, we haven't heard much of a reaction to president obama's press conference yesterday in which he all but specifically named president vladimir putin as the perpetrator behind the hacking of the u.s. elections. up to point, the russians have been pretty consistent in their denials of having any involvement. they have dismissed these accusations as ludacris nonsense. just yesterday the kremlin spokesperson said as you paraphrased before, the u.s. either had to prove these allegations or it should stop making them all together, calling them, quote, indecent. so, there's a sense here all along that the kremlin party line has been to deny these allegations and to dismiss them as being an attempt really to poison the well, to try to poison the relationship that appears to be warming up between president putin and between president-elect

clarissa ward joins us from moscow. november of 2015, turkey shot down a russian plane on the turkish syria border. it was an su-24 fighter jet. there have been tensions over the last several years, not to mention going back decades between turkey and russia but as muhammed said, of late the two nations had been negotiating on these cease-fire attempts in aleppo. >> reporter: no, it's extraordinary how much the relationship between turkey and russia has improved since the shooting down of that plane which was possibly an all-time low. we have seen russia and turkey cooperating really quite closely and i should say much to the chagrin of many rebel forces in syria who have started to feel like perhaps turkey was selling them out as part of this rapprochement with russia. as muhammed mentioned, russia and turkey working very closely together trying to broker this aleppo evacuation deal. there's a big summit here in moscow tomorrow that russia and iran and also turkey are taking part in as part of ongoing efforts to bring

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clarissa, what more are you hearing from the kremlin? >>. >> what we're hearing from the kremlin, wolf, is essentially prove it or stop making these accusations. kremlin spokesman dimitry peskov said these accusations were becoming indecent and this is very much the line we have heard from the kremlin repeatedly since the allegations first surfaced back in october. they have routinely dismissed them as ludicrous nonsense and said there is no physical tangible evidence to prove any connection between the kremlin and russian involvement in the hacking. people who are watching state tv, an arm of propaganda for the kremlin, they're very much buying into the state narrative here, essentially, that russia had nothing to do with this. they say that basically this is an attempt to distract americans from all the deep problems that exist in if u.s. and that it's an attempt to poison the well as donald trump gets ready to assume the presidency. at the same time, what's interesting, on the one hand people say this is ridiculous, this is u.s. accus

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for more on this, i'm joined by clarissa ward, live in moscow. the president yesterday saying nothing happens in russia without putin's approval. how is that accusation specifically being received? >> reporter: well, there hasn't been any official recognition of president obama's press conference yesterday or his accusation, well essentially he all but said that vladimir putin must orchestrated this attack. the official party line by the kremlin has been for the last two months and continues to be that the russians had nothing to do with this, they feign outrage at the insinuations, they describe them as ludicrous nonsense. officially everybody here is on the same page this is an outrage, this is not true. it's being portrayed in state media as essentially an attempt to besmirch the reputation of russia and an attempt to poisin the well between the u.s. and russia with expectations there might be a warming of relations when president-elect donald trump takes office next month. so there is also at the same time, boris, kind of interestingly, while

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we asked that question of cnn senior international correspondent clarissa ward.the top ten stories of the year from around the world. [ chanting ] >> reporter: we begin our top ten with brazil. a country whose roller coaster of scandals and triumphs made news the world over. a mosquito-borne outbreak leading to rare birth defects. >> losing the battle against this virus. >> reporter: then a political disruption. >> removeded president. >> reporter: and all in the sun. >> the whole world watching brazil as it hosts the olympics. >> reporter: despite a few setbacks was widely considered a success. >> the turkish military announcing it has taken over the country and imposed martial law. >> reporter: a coup attempt takes hold. almost as quickly as it began it was over. the president survives the coup attempt, but some 290 others would not. seeking retribution, president erdogan goes on to dismiss tens of thousands of people. a diplomatic thawing sees a u.s. president touch down on cuban soil for the first time. >> breaking news out of cuba, fidel castro has died. >>

. >> 5-year-old miriam and 4-year-old clarissa have proof that children learn quickly.hey are enrolled at the local primary school. they can now speak french as well as their classmates. the head teacher remembers the day the sisters arrived back in march. >> they just wanted to be with the other children. everything has gone really well. the day they came it was sunny and they kept saying son over and over again. in this class there are children from overseas. it's very mixed and they all get along very well. >> school is hosting a special visitor. free year good children are rewarded with presence and suites. learn chance for them to the traditions of a region with its own history of innovation and exile. >> and has always been a welcoming place. many people have come here in the past because it is close to the border. sometimes for good reasons and sometimes for bad. i think we can safely say that people here are welcoming by nature. >> he just left the center and has been granted asylum with his paperwork finally in order and after months of compulsory french lesson

clarissa ward is "outfront" in moscow. what is the reaction there? >> reporter: well the reaction is the same as it has been since these allegations first reared their head back in october. it's been branded by the kremlin spokesman as ludicrous nonsense. today he said provide some proof this has been going on or cease and desist from these accusations which he categorized as being indecent. on the surface there is very much an heir of how dare you. it couldn't even possibly be us. this is playing out as a deliberate ploy for president obama to try to cover up from the american people some of the deep and desperate problems that are ongoing in the u.s. it is also being portrayed in some media as a deliberate attempt to poison the well ahead of a potential warming of relations with president elect trump taking office next month. so people here are not paying too much attention to these allegations and id wouldn't expect to see that change any meaningful way with what we've heard tonight. but what's interesting is while they officially deny it, there i

clarissa i want to come to you on the issue of russia and retaliation. the president yesterday talked about how the u.s. would respond and has responded. he made it clear that naming and shaming does not work against vladmir putin. does not work against russia. let's watch what the president said. >> i know there have been folks out there who suggest somehow that if we went out there and made big announcements and thumped our chests about a bunch of stuff that somehow that would potentially spook the russians, and so how we approach an appropriate response that increases costs for them for behavior like this in the future, but does not create problems for us. it's something that's worth taking the time to think through and figure out that's exactly what we've done. >> there are some of the president's party -- there are some republicans who are asking for crippling response to russia. using the word crippling in response to the interference to the election. >> that's right. and i think what we heard from president obama yesterday didn't really give us a

what's the situation, clarissa, right now? >> reporter: so wolf, what we're hearing now from a spokesman for one of the rebel groups on the ground in that ever-shrinking rebel held conclave of eastern aleppo is, in fact, a truce deal is going to go into effect. this should be take within a grain of salt, because we have seen this movie before. just last night we heard a truce was supposed to go into effect, after just a few hours, it collapsed, the primary purpose of this truce is to try to get the estimated 50,000 people who are still trapped in that ever-shrinking enclave out of aleppo alive. since the truce collapsed last night, we have heard reports of rockets raining down on aleppo. i have spoken to residents who have been taking cover in underground bunkers. but it's important for our viewers to understand, wolf, they don't have food, water, there's no power. we've heard an eyewitness report telling cnn that the hospitals are covered in the dead bodies and the injured, because the hospitals don't have medical equipment t

. >>> from scandal, political chaos and heartbreak, cnn senior international corporate clarissa ward has a look at the top ten international stories of 2016. >> reporter: we begin our top ten with brazil. the country whose roller coaster scandals and triumphs made news the world over. a mosquito-born zika outbreak leading to a state of rare birth certificates. >> we were losing the battle against it. >> reporter: then a political crisis that rumpled the corridors of power. >> removed as president. >> reporter: all of this as a backdrop of the sun. >> whole world will be watching brazil as it hosts the olympics. >> reporter: which despite a few setbacks was widely considered a success. >> the turkish military announcing it has taken over the country and opposed martial law. >> reporter: in the dead of night, machine gunfire rings out as a coup attempt takes hold. almost as quickly as it can, it was over. the president survives a coup attempt and others would not. seeking resolution, erdogan would go on and detain and dismiss tens of thousands of people. a diplomatic time, as a u.s. pr

clarissa ward, cnn, moscow. >> a couple kidnapped in 2012 by a taliban splinter group are begging for help to get released in a video that surfaced just this week. the taliban has now confirmed to cnn they released the video. american kaitlin coleman and her canadian husband joshua boyle appear with their two children, who were born in captivity. the couple were abducted whilst backpacking in afghanistan. coleman criticizes the kidnappers and governments that have failed to free her family stating, "we understand both sides hate us." they're pleading with barack obama and donald trump to make a deal with their kidnappers. it's unclear if their statements were coerced. the couple appears distressed in the video. quite a difference from this photo taken shortly before the kidnapping. >>> well, donald trump's team says he's staying informed about the attacks here in germany and in turkey, but they don't say if he's getting briefings from u.s. intelligence agencies. more on that just ahead. afoot and light-hearted i take to the open road. healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown

] [ speaking in foreign language ] >> i want to bring in our senior international correspondent clarissa ward following the story from moscow. i believe he's shouting in turkish. do we know what he is saying? >> reporter: well, we know that he repeatedly talks about aleppo. aleppo, of course, the city in syria that has been ravaged over the past few months, particularly the last few weeks saying, we must remember aleppo, also saying "god is the greatest." we don't know exactly who this man was affiliated with. was he a lone wolf attacker? was he part of a militant group like isis? we simply just don't have any information. you can hear in his voice in that chilling video, and it is just so disturbing to watch it, that he is clearly incredibly emotional, angry. you can hear the strain in his voice. and often, you know, it's fair to say that across the muslim world, you have have seen some very emotional and intense responses to the daily barrage of images coming out of syria, coming out of aleppo. images of civilians being killed, of children being bombed. of people starving to death, hav

let's talk to our phenomenal panel of international correspondents nick paton walsh, cl clarissa ward arwa damon. what is happening in europe? >> essentially, i think you're seeing these moments like in italy is purely a vote on constitutional reform. these moments in which perhaps the electorate who have seen the choices they have in front of them for elections being pretty much about shades of gray. i've always seen the last two years of choices being a slicked back hair in a suit. go along with your sort of choice of pr spokesman depending on your mood that day. these choices like brexit a lot more sweeping. as we saw, i think, large numbers of people in britain who felt disenfranchised and live in rural areas and broader part of that sweep of reform in urban areas want to trash the train because they didn't understand many of the people on the train with them and thought now is the time like with donald trump's vote. a chance to actually change the nature of the game. see that in italy and austria, potentially, and a lot of that is finding voice in more troubling far right parties

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p clarissa and i were very fortunate to be with ben and candy for a week last summer. this guy is amazing. he is a world class pediatrician. he has spoken twice at the national prayer breakfast, he has written books that are used widely by home schoolers. he has a movie made about him called "gifted hands." the news media thinks, oh, he probably won't be able to learn enough to do hud. none of the people write this have ever been in the hud building or they would know that probably ben will be okay. i wrote a column about this. i do two newslers a week at guinness productions, pre, by the way. the real point here is moral authority. you are putting somebody who rose from poverty to become a world class surgeon who is prepared to talk about morality, about family, about discipline, about the work ethic and that makes ben carson potentially the most important symbolic appointment of the entire process. now, faced with what may be the smartest cabinet of modern times, a post pseudoconservative, we should be clear about this, the "post" has no conservatives, because that w

for more of this i'm joined by clarissa ward, she's live in moscow. the president yesterday said that nothing happens in russia without vladmir putin's approval. kind of an indirect way of blaming him. how is that accusation being received there? >> reporter: well, to be honest there hasn't been a lot of reaction to the accusation at all. because essentially everything we heard in president obama's press conference yesterday still allows the russians this plausible deniability. essentially, what you heard from the president was let's wait to see what the investigation brings to bear. but he stopped short of providing any direct physical tangible evidence. and the russians all along have been saying this is outrageous, this is quote, ludicrous nonsense. they called the accusations indecent. they have been denying them. in the face of really what we're seeing as more declarations from u.s. officials rather than physically tangible evidence, i think they'll continue to say that it's an outrageous attempt to besmirch russia's good name. it's an attempt to

our clarissa ward takes a look back at the top ten biggest international stories of 2016. >> reporter: we begin our top ten with brazil, a country whose roller coaster of scandals and triumphs made news the world over. a mosquito-bourn zika virus outbreak leading to a spate of birth defects. >> brazil is losing the battle against this virus. >> reporter: then a political crisis that rocked the powers of corridor. >> the senate removed dilma rousseff as president. >> reporter: all this a backdrop to brazil's moment in the sun. >> the whole world will be watching brazil as it hosts the olympics. >> reporter: which see despite a few setbacks was widely considered a success. >> the turkish military announcing it has taken over the country and imposed marshal law. >> reporter: in the dead of night, machine gunfire rings out as a coup attempt takes hold, and almost as quickly as it began, it was over. the president survives the coup attempt but some 290 others would not. seeking retribution, president erdogan would go on to detain and dismiss tens of thousands of people. a diplomatic thawin

joining me now in moscow, clarissa, the idea something of this magnitude like this hacking would note been carried out without a green light of vladimir putin is what the president said today is there any reason to believe putin will respond to this charge? >> i wouldn't respect, john, to see any direct response from vladimir putin. you might perhaps get some kind of kauftic or biting remark or joke here or there or perhaps something from the russian foreign ministry. the official kremlin line saying they are not part of this hacking and have said that it is indecent to continue making these accusations without proving it and providing substantial, tangible, physical evidence of this hack. they said it is ludicrous nonsense. i think president vladimir putin feels right now he's in a position of power, he's had a great year by his own estimations, while president obama warned him that going into syria would be a quagmire he now is a pivotal player where he hasn't been in decades, i doubt you will see much reaction of any insinuations that president obama made nor to any of the barbs h

. >>> clarissa ward has a look at the top ten international stories of 2016.a look. >>> we begin our top ten with brazil, the country whose roller coaster of scandals and triumphs made news the world over. a mosquito-born zika virus outbreak, leading to a spate of birth defects. >>> then a political crisis that rocked the corridors of power. >> the senate removed dilma rousseff as president. >> all this a backdrop to brazil's moment in the sun. >> the whole world will be watching brazil as it hosts the olympics. >> which despite a few setbacks was widely considered a success. >>> the turkish military announcing it has taken over the country and imposed marshall law. >>> in the dead of night, machine gunfire rings out as a coup attempt takes hold and almost as quickly as it began it was over. the president survives the coup attempts but some 290 others would not. seeking retribution, president e erdogan would go on to detain dismiss tens of thousands of people. >>> a diplomatic thawing sees a u.s. president touch down on cuban soil for the first time in 88 year

. >> jill dougherty, clarissa ward, thank you very much. us at new day or post your comment on facebook.com/newday. we're following a lot of news this morning. let's get right to it. >> if you're president of the united states, you better be in touch on a daily basis with your intelligence briefers. >> i don't know why we have to be bound by a one china policy. we're being hurt very badly bia. >> want to make sure that the secretary of state is a person who represents america. >> he knows many of the players and he knows them well. >> matter of concern to me that he has such a close, personal relationship with vladimir putin. >>> the fbi and cia at odds over why russia influenced the election. >> the facts don't add up. >> they have no idea if it's russia. it could be somebody sitting in a bed some place. >> i think they did interfere with our elections and i want putin personally to pay a price. >> announcer: this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >>> we begin with donald trump tangling with china and his own intelligence

. >> clarissa, thanks for that, and thank you so much for joining me today. our coverage continues now with jake tapper. >>> hello. i'm jake tapper in for wolf blitzer. wherever you are watching from around the world, thanks for joining us today. israel says it is pushing ahead with a plan to build hundreds of new homes in east jerusalem. despite a u.n. rez lukes condemning new settlement construction there and in the west bank with the u.s. government and international community referred to as occupied territory. the resolution has sparked a bitter rogue between the israeli prime minister and the white house. the u.s. abstained in the u.n. security council vote but the israelis wanted the u.s. to veto the measure. a spokesman said they have ironclad information the u.s. secretly colluded with other countries to bring the resolution forward, but israelis have yet to produce any of this proof publicly and the obama administration vehemently denies the charge. white house deputy national security adviser ben rhodes went on israeli television last night to push

clarissa ward takes a look at an entire generation of children who have known nothing but war. >> reporter: you have seen so many images by now of children covered in dust, children's lifeless bodies being lifted from the rubble. and occasionally each an image that gives hope, a moment of optimism, a baby rescued from deep in the rubble after a massive bombing. in march of 2011, a group of young boys spray painted anti-government great feety on a wall. they were arrested and disappeared for two weeks. when they returned home, their families found that their bodies were scarred from torture, allegedly at the hands of regime forces. and that really provided the spark that ignited a series of protests not just in the city they were from, but across the entire country. about a year later, you had the hula massacre which was one of the most horrific incidents in the syrian civil war when roughly 100 people were killed by government soldiers, and half of them were believed to be children. and those images served as a real rallying cry not just inside syria but to people across the world. in 2012