unofficially she's thought to be a girlfriend of an acquaintance of coulibaly. they've discovered that he was talking to this boyfriend of hers and that she had been talking to the boyfriend. she admitted some weeks ago that she knew in fact the boyfriend and knew coulibaly. but she said there was nothing untoward about it. and and pay parentally the police think differently. she hasn't been charged with anything. the prosecutor has six days for questioning before he has to release her or charge her. >> what about the other three? who are they? >> reporter: well one is her boyfriend. he was already in jail on a drug charge. so he was just brought out of jail and brought over today to be questioned by police there. and then the two others we don't know. the prosecutor has not told us anything about them. this is the second group of four however, that have been picked up. there was another group of four that was picked up towards the end of last month and they have all been charged with various bits of logistical support, either supplying with weapons or cars or s

to coulibaly.ey are investigating the links between these two and all four and especially the police woman, which raised a lot of eyebrows here. what did she know? she, in fact told her superiors she knew coulibaly. she has been suspended from her job. >> so interesting as the investigations continue after the paris terror attack. thank you, jim. >>> 20 minutes after the hour. vladimir putin has long claimed the annexation of crimea has been due to the people. we have new information about what he said a lot sooner than many people thought. that's next. i leaning the gutter have you touched the stuff? it's evil. and ladders... awwwwwww!!!!! they have all those warnings on them. might as well say, "you're going to die, jeff". you hired someone to clean the gutters? not just someone. someone from angie's list. but we're not members. we don't have to be to use their new snapfix feature. angie's list helped me find a highly rated service provider to do the work at a fair price. come see what the new an

about three weeks ago, she told her superiors that she knew coulibaly and she knew the associate of coulibaly boyfriend who was picked up. she was suspended at that point from her duties at the center. >> raises a lot of questions. again, the suspects will be in custody or people in custody for several more days. >>> let's look at what is coming up on "new day." alisyn joins us. >> we will be talking about the white house and the republicans about the letter the gop sent to iran's government warning against the nuclear agreement with the u.s. the obama administration is firing back accusing them of undermining foreign policy. we will speak live to the author of the letter. senator tom cotton. what does he hope to accomplish. we will have more on the fallout from the video of members of the fraternity in oklahoma singing racist chants. we will hear from student activists and the president of the university of oklahoma live. what does the school plan to do about this and how about colleges across the country? do others have race relation problems? we will get into all of that when we see you at

what more are you learning about their links to coulibaly?> reporter: well, kate and john, it's a lot of media reports at the moment because nothing is being confirmed by the prosecutor while he talks to these four people. this is the second group of four people brought into custody. the first group were all charged with offenses related to supplying logistics for coulibaly. in this new group what makes it most remarkable is the fact that there is this policewoman who apparently was a girlfriend of one of those people who are now being held in custody. she converted to islam some time ago and she not only was a policewoman but she worked at a very sensitive intelligence gathering center outside of paris. so police are definitely investigating her links and exactly what kind of links she may have had before the attacks or just after the attacks. it's a question they'll look at closely. >> jim bittermann on it for us in paris. thanks so much. >>> at this hour in madison, wisconsin, independent investigators are looking at the fatal police shoot

he allegedly has ties to amadi coulibaly, the gunman who killed the policewoman the day after two brothersacked the satirical newspaper "charlie hebdo." coulibaly also killed four people at a kosher market before being killed himself by police. >>> republicans warned iran today that any nuclear deal with the u.s. may not last after president obama leaves office. 47 republican senators signed the open letter to iran. they warn that any deal reached without congressional approval would be easily revoked by a future president. the u.s. and five other nations are in geneva in talks far verifiable deal to prevent iran getting nuclear weapons. the white house has accused them of interfering with negotiations. >>> they are calling it tech hire. president obama announced a new effort today to train and hire technology workers. the white house says there are about 1.5 million open jobs in information technology right now. more than 300 employers and hoe cal governments have committed to the program. the training will come through universities community colleges boot camps and online courses. >>> it

he was thought to be a good friend of coulibaly. they are sweeping through this network of coulibaly trying to find out-tensive it was and if the policewoman was involved before the attacks, that could be quite extensive indeed. >> jim bittermann reporting live for us this morning. thank you. >>> president obama sends a message to critics of the u.s. led talks with iran over the nuclear program. he says if tehran won't budge on its refusal to allow inspection inspections, the deal won't happen. this is what he said on cbs. >> if we cannot verify that they are not going to obtain a nuclear weapon that there's a breakout period so that even if they cheated, we would be able to have enough time to take action. if we don't have that kind of deal we're not going to take it. >> in the meantime 47 republican senators have sent an open letter to iran. in a heavy handed move to discourage iran from making a deal the lawmakers bristle at the prospect of being bypassed. we'll consider any agreement regarding your nuclear weapons program that i

they are expected to have links to coulibaly, who took hostages. there's no word on connection to the kouachi brothers who killed five people at the "charlie hebdo" magazine. authorities say all signs point to the fact that more and more heroin is entering the u.s. from mexico. coming up we look at what border agents are doing to stop that >>> harassed standing up for one's rights, we'll have more from an artist forced to do no hiding. >>> good to have you with us i'm elizabeth puranam in doha these are the top sorry the united states declared venezuela a national security threat and imposed sanctions soeften venezuelan -- seven venezuelan officials. the venezuelan president says president obama is trying to topple his governments. soldiers have retaken two towns from north-eastern nigeria. boko haram had control of the town since november. iraqi forces have taken over the town of alalam. it was under i.s.i.l. control for many months they still face resistance from other areas. >>> republicans in the united states are taking a stab at scuttling a d

according to french reports, he was romantic cli involved are with a close yoesh sate of coulibaly.trying to help coulibaly get weapons and was arrested a couple of weeks after the the january attacks. not clear exactly why she was arrest. ed ed. some saying she tried to look up some information on her former lover on french police computers. >> the other new information coming out of france right now, paul is that local media there reporting that a travel companion of one of the kauai chi brothers may have had aspiration to target americans. what are you learning about that? >> that's right. this is a report in the newspaper in france. and the report is that a french extremist accompanied one of the kouachi brothers in yemen. and when this french extreme mist was in yemen, he was tasked by al kei ga in yemen to launch attacks against american interests in france. of course we know that the american terrorist mastermind suspected to be mind the "charlie hebdo" attacks wanted to atake the states. so it's possible that originally this conspiracy was larger than going after charlie heb

coulibaly's assault came two days after jihadists killed 12 at the offices of "charlie hebdo hebdo.">> new video shows three schoolgirls who fled england last month to join isis. they are far from the only ones. cnn's suzanne malveaux has the story. >> reporter: new video today shows the three british teens who fled their homes last month crossing into syria. backpacks on and luggage handed off, the teens are fraught to be headed -- are thought to be headed to a list with isis. who is helping them? turkey's foreign minister says his country detained this syrian citizen. they say he's a spy from inside the u.s.-led coalition who helped the girls get into syria. >> translator: he works for the intelligence services of a country that's a member of the coalition. it is a very complicated situation. >> reporter: they are far from the only suburban teens to leave their families for the black flag of isis. the terror group says this australian boy blew himself up wednesday, and that there are, patiently waiting to do the same. according to the group, 18-year-old jake bellardi of melbourne k

french authorities tell cnn all four have been linked to coulibaly, the gunman who killed the people

one detained man reportedly has ties to coulibaly, the gunman who shot a policewoman and four otherskosher supermarket before being killed by police. 20 people including the gunman died in the attacks of the "charlie help doughbdo" newspaper. >>> and another troubling development in the fight against terror. one of africa's most notorious militant groups has pledged allegiance to the islamic state. frances joins us with the implications. what's the latest? >> well this is regarding boko haram, really grabbed the world's attention when they made news last year when they kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls from northeastern nigeria. and now the nigerian militants here are taking their campaign to the next level. so we want to fill you in a little bit about boko haram and what they're about here. so you may not be familiar with the level of destruction boko haram is capable of since isis is grabbing those headlines. but take a look here as far as the destruction. these are satellite images of one area here released by amnesty international in january. now, the red part here indicates ar