clarissa, we know that these protests can be tense.s always a potential of violence. that's always horrible to see. >> absolutely, and we have seen the use of tear gas. we have seen water cannons being used in venezuela throughout the course of this protest movement. but there's no question, kate, that what we're seeing today is a very meaningful escalation. i mean, you can really sense the tension hearing the reports from cnn's own reporting on the streets there who has actually seen, you know, live ammunition, gunfire being used. now you're seeing -- i'm just looking down at the pictures as i talk to you on the screen, those images of military vehicles, and there's clearly a sense of -- it's chaotic, and because it's chaotic, it's very difficult to get a clear picture of exactly what is happening. who in the military has defected to join the side of guaido? have any generals committed to the movement of guaido? what does this mean going forward? where is maduro? why haven't we heard more from him the president, nicolas maduro? put ou

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you know, clarissa.devastating fire comes during this holy week leading up to easter and that is going to have a huge, huge impact as well. >> absolutely, wolf. this week is the most important week in the christian calendar. and there are so many components to it. you have good friday, which is the day of the crucifixion of jesus christ. this is a day where christians tend to grieve, to feel sad. but sunday, easter sunday, is supposed to be a celebration. it's supposed to be a day of jubilation. it's about renewal, rebirth. and the mass that would be held every year in notre dame on easter sunday, was truly a sight to behold. and so i think that french leaders and the catholic church at large have a real moment now, a real void to try to fill, a real moment to try to provide an opportunity of solace to catholics around the world, who will be -- who will be grieving at what should be on easter sunday, something of a joyous time. it will be really interesting to see what they try to do, how they try to sor

as victor hugo wrote, clarissa, time is the architect. the nation is the builder. this is going to be a thing of decades. it's the personal commitment. margaret, my wife and i, went on our babymoon to paris and have a picture outside of notre dame. >> who doesn't remember the first time they saw notre dame? any american tourist who has been lucky enough to visit, that moment, as you walk up and you see this fa sacadefacade, this extraordinary facade, then this enormous space, which contributed to the quick spread of the fire, so much oxygen in the structure to burn off of. then you see the beautiful, unique rose window, these are special moments you don't forget. this is a structure that is designed to humble us, to remind us that we are small, that there is something greater in the universe, whether you're a spiritual or religious person or not, that we can all strive to. i think that's exactly why so many people are getting behind this, you know, effort to raise money, to try to renew it to its former glory. i might add, after the french revolution, there was a r

i want to start with clarissa ward at the pentagon and barbara starr. how do you know that this is something that's timely? >> reporter: well, we know it's timely because there's a recent reference to the vicious protracted battle that took place in syria near the iraqi border to essentially completely crush the caliphate but al baghdadi also mentioned in this video the attack on sri lanka which, of course, was just over a week ago. it's not clear though, brianna, whether the video was potentially made in different chunks. there's a couple of cuts in the video where the audio quality changes, potentially indicating that this was shot or filmed over a series of different episodes. what is interesting to note is the difference in abu bakar al baghdadi if it is confirmed to be him in his physical appearance. he's much heavier than what we saw him last in june in 2014 when he gave that now infilmous sermon and he also has a different beard now, brianna. it's much whiter and also with henna at the tips of the beard though he doesn't seem in good health. he's

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clarissa ward is with me as well. we've been doing our homework as we're watching what's happening here to give people better context and perspective. the crowning of kings, at least henry vi in napoleon wanted to be the ruler in that place for a reason. what are you finding? >> france's history and the notre dame cathedral are so deeply embroidered in and of each other. and i think the one thing that sort of can give us any degree of hope on this day is that notre dame has been in this state before. perhaps not to quite this extent that we're seeing today, but certainly it was ransacked by the hugonots in the 1540s. it was desecrated during the french revolution. in 1845 it underwent 25 years of renovatio renovations. not only is it richly and deeply intertwined with french history. it's also a story of survival. this is an edifice that has faced many challenges, that has been attacked many times before. and has always managed because of the support and love that french people and indeed the people of the world have

cnn chief international correspondent clarissa ward has covered this country for some time.int. the question is, is there a critical mass here? is there a significant number of members of the military who are backing guaido here, willing to go to war, in effect, to remove the maduro government and significant numbers of people to do that? what do we know? >> that's the real question, jim. i would say certainly this doesn't look like any coup attempt that i have covered before. to see guaido standing on that truck with his bullhorn, essentially appealing to members of the military to join his movement, to help topple maduro. it doesn't look like a coup the likes of which we saw a couple years ago in turkey, for example, where you had military units deployed on the streets, where you had tanks, where they were shutting down bridges, trying to shut down state media. this is not a conventional attempted coup in any sense of the word. it does appear clearly that guaido has some support of certain military elements. he appears earlier this morning in that video. we heard testimony

and clarissa, notre dame is more than just a church for catholics in france. it has global significance. >> it really does, jake. i mean, you've been to paris many times. we've covered horrific attacks in paris together, back in 2015 after the bataclan attack. and notre dame, i mean, no one forgets the first time you visit as a young american tourist, that moment of arriving on the island, of seeing this spectacular soaring architecture, of walking through those doors and looking at the rose window, which is so unique and so beautiful. there's such a sense of majesty, of tranquility, that you really, you really feel this sense of humility. you feel, whether you are religious or not, or catholic or jewish or an atheist, you feel a sense of humility amid something that is greater than you. whether it's the divine or not, you can feel it, it's palpable. so i do think there's a huge amount of sadness, not just felt by catholics and french people, but by all people across the world. 13 million visitors, every single year, as you said, jake. and even the name of the

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we have clarissa ward, jim bitterman in paris. clarissa is with me here in new york. unfortunately people in new york city especially know what it is like to see something that is iconic that represents you as a people that is a touch stone for your collective significance go down in flames. and there is going to be somewhat of that emotion. thank god we don't know any reason to believe we have anything like the human loss that we suffered here. but to watch this is going to reverberate all around the world. >> and it's extraordinary to watch those images, chris. as you say, we don't know yet if anyone was killed. it doesn't appear that this was a large human kacatastrophe at this stage. and yet the grief and shock that people watch seeing this building, seeing 700 years of history, more than 700 years of history, go up in smoke is very palpable. this wasn't, as you say, just any ordinary cathedral. this was one of the most spectacular examples of french gothic architecture. it was a site that was visited by 12 million people every year. and which of us americans have

clarissa ward, you have a unique lens, having covered isis more than most have.ut their tentacles? >> this exactly shows why isis wants to claim responsibility, why this is so important from the group. from a pr perspective after taking such a beat iing why it crucial that they are still thriving and that they're able to carry out sophisticated, coordinated attacks. at the same time, while it's clear this is a pr essential for isis to claim responsibility for this attack, whether or not they had something to do with it, it does appear plausible they may indeed have had a role. why is that? it's for a number of reasons. firstly, as you've heard ivan said, it doesn't add up that this small relatively obscure group, at the time would suddenly be able to launch an attack like this with the sophistication that that requires, with the bomb-making abilities that that requires. several suicide bombers, different locations, churches, hotels, this is not an easy attack to pull off. so it is entirely he plausible that isis or a group like isis would have had some kind of ro

clarissa ward is with me live from london. he's been five years. what is he saying?that's right, brooke. i mean, to be honest, in terms of the substance of the video in terms of what he says, there's very little that is shocking or revealing about this. essentially he concedes that the caliphate has been destroyed and isis and iraq. he congratulates his followers across the world for all the retaliatory attacks they've participated in. revenge attacks. he calls for more of those and says to his followers listen, this is a long battle. this is a war of attrition. what's interesting, though, brooke, i think in the broader picture is just the impact for people who support isis, small minority though it might be of seeing his physical presence on video alive and well. he does appear to have gained quite a bit of weight. his beard has also changed. it's whiter with henna at the tips. but other than that he appears to be in fairly good health, own, of course, the symbolism of that, the fact that notwithstanding this blistering campaign from the u.s. and the coalition that

clarissa ward joins me now. criticism, including from here in the u.s., saudi arabia continues to target people who just criticize the government. >> that's right, jim. so far, saudi arabia is not even acknowledging this has happened. cnn has reached out to the saudi government. we reached ow also embassy in riyadh. so far, the only people confirming these arrests are several activists and people who are close to the cases. we know, as you mentioned, two people from the seven activists who were arrested are dual u.s./saudi nationals. one of them ironically is the son of one of the 11 women who were also facing trial for their role in their activism related to women's rights in saudi arabia and the ability to drive. i think this really speaks more broadly speaking, though, jim, to this ongoing crackdown to a complete lack of tolerance for any form of dissent, not even just dissent, but criticism. if you look at the rap sheet of one of the 11 women who are on trial now, the female activists pushing for women's rig

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clarissa ward there reporting for us. clarissa, thank you very much. >>> we're joined by a journalist who knows paris well, white house correspondent for france and also international affiliate reporter for the associated press. philip, thank you so much for coming in. we just heard from the french president emanuel macron and spoke about the devastation. what is his bottom line message to the people of france? >> two optimistic notes from the french president and two messages i think the parisian people and all of us watching this needed to hear. the first one is the worst was avoided. the worst presumably what he's talking about there would have been the collapse of the two towers, the rectangular towers at the front of the notre dame cathedral. melissa bell just said in paris there is still a slight possibility that collapse could happen but if the french president said the worst was avoided that is hopefully precisely what he means. it also means not a single life was lost in this fire, which is good news in the devas

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clarissa when we talk about the future of knights or who in essence at this point in time who all war is the enemy is it in essence vladimir putin and vladimir putin's russia. as if it is always the case the answer is more complicated than that no i wouldn't say that the main enemy is russia i don't think that that's the situation at the moment that being said you know in terms of actual military threats yes i do think that europe is still somewhat militarily by russia and that's why it is important also important to have nato but nato really goes beyond that and that's what i meant with my opening statement nature is about you know political cohesion nato us about the alliance the political alliances between the transatlantic countries so it's not i don't think it's helpful to frame with this idea of you know who is the main threats and acts as we must not be naive about the russian president. and i and i agree with that and i think you know within within europe there's a lot of the bad about about pressures and tension no one really knows and there is a lot of this agreement among e

i want to start with clarissa ward at the pentagon and barbara starr.'s timely? >> reporter: well, we know it's timely because there's a

clarissa ward is live in london with more. what do you see in this video?> reporter: well, this is significant. it's been nearly five years since we have seen that now notorious image of al-baghdadi, when he gave a sermon, declaring essentially that isis declared its caliphate. fast forward five years, and a lot has changed. abubakar al-baghdadi says the caliphate has been destroyed with the battle, but he also says this is a war of attrition. this is a long battle. you haven't seen the last of isis yet. he calls for more revenge attacks. he praises attacks that have already taken place. he mentions, as you said, sri lanka specifically, which i think gives us a good sense that this video was made within the last ten or 11 days. what he's essentially doing here is trying to say that you haven't heard the last of isis yet. the physical caliphate may have crumbled, but i'm still here. i'm still alive. notwithstanding that $25 million bounty that is on my head. the other interesting thing to note is the difference in al-baghdadi's physical appearance. he is sig

clarissa ward, thanks very much for staying on the story. >>> top of the hour. this friday, i'm jim sciutto in washington. poppy has the day off. president trump leaving the white house on his way to the border this hour. california's border with mexico. which is not in fact closed. as the president had threatened just days ago. only to then back off and then to threaten to close within a year, then maybe not at all. his west coast trip got off on the right foot with a jobs report showing a big rebound from a dismal february number. and he'll have a weekend away from the still escalating tug of war over the mueller report and a fight as well over his tax returns. can you and i, can the public see them? abby phillip is at the white house. where do we stand on the border emergency? just a few days ago, it was such an emergency the president required this enormous step of closing the border. that's punted to next year. why the change? >> according to president trump, there is still an emergency, but he's not closing the border, at least not right now. the predjust

how the will be able to watch one that's been described as the biggest in women's boxing history clarissa shields and christina hammer both made the way and new jersey on friday ahead of their middleweight unification bouts american shields is a two division champion and two time olympic gold medalist while her german opponent has dominated the middleweight category for more than eight years. in the n.h.l. playoffs five time champions pittsburgh are in danger of an early exit time when she went to nothing down in their series against new york islanders new york getting a three one win on friday with penguins losing their cool throughout the game. australia's wonder horse wings had a historic end to her career on saturday winning a record thirty third race in a row a seven year old mare known as the same bolt of horse racing delivered another dominant performance in front of a forty thousand sellout crowd she heads into retirement with the prize money total of twenty six point four million dollars. he had retired the number of former world champion nicky hayden who died. twenty seventeen f

clarissa has some big decisions to make she joins us in the studio, welcome. >> thank you. >> congratulationst step of your life. how crazy is this? >> is very overwhelming. very . >> i am extremely blessed. >> the college process is kind of one of those instances, it made the news a lot, one of those stressful things, how many colleges did you apply to? but i applied to over 30 colleges. i was accepted to 25 . >> it is amazing. the deadline is here, all of the high school seniors know, right? you have to make a decision may first. a big decision to make. when it comes to college what are you looking for? you have been so involved in your community from middle school all the way through high school. what is next in terms of what you're looking for? >> ultimately, i am looking for a university that does not only make me feel comfortable and everything but also a university that has strong majors, business and entrepreneurship. colleges i attended with beautiful campuses but the strong suit was numb a major so i narrowed it down based on stuff like that. >> let's talk about your activities. it