i'm suzanne malveaux. >> i'm michael holmes. thanks for your company. we'd like to welcome viewers not just here in the united states but indeed, all around the world. >>> day four of the mourning period for nelson mandela, and the world's focus on south africa unwavering. >> and that is how it is done. there is sadness mixed also with celebration. you see the dancers there as mourners flock to mandela's home in johannesburg. people of all different faiths, races, backgrounds together paying tribute to the icon who reshaped the country and really became a global symbol of peace. the diversity of the crowds a testament to what he accomplished in that once bitterly segregate the society. >> leaders from around the world as we said at the top of the program, also starting to converge on south africa. you see there president and mrs. obama boarding air force one. they took off from andrews air force base in maryland. several hours ago now. they're well on their way and former president george w. bush and his wife and former first la

i'm michael holmes. thanks for your company. it is wednesday. it is december 25th. the day that more than 2 billion christians around the world celebrate the birth of jesus. [ speaking foreign language ] >> here's the exact spot that the bible says it happened. bethlehem. in what is now the west bank. pilgrims, of course, gather there every year at midnight for a special mass. sadly, there is no peace in the occupied territories, just a day earlier, the israeli military responded to a sniper attacking with air strikes and tank fire into gaza. ♪ this is how christians in bangladesh welcomed the arrival of christmas day in churches with prayers for peace. >>> and if you have to endure the elements on christmas day, this is the proper way to do it. take it from me, the australian way. bon die beach right near the city of sydney decorating the tree with flip-flops. santa came ashore on a surf board as he does every year and pass the out treats for the kids. it is the only way to spend christma christmas. >>> and now polar opposite scene if you like baghdad, christians t

i'm suzanne malveaux. >> i'm michael holmes. a bipartisan, yes, yo we used that word, bipartisan budget proposal about to be put to the test, vote on a deal to keep the government running and prevent another shutdown. >> democratic senator patty murray, republican congressman paul ryan helped draw up the bill. it's caused squabbling and disagreements among the gop. ryan asked about this earlier. here's how he shot back. >> -- said this much, quote, advances our principles. marco rubio said this, though, last night, quote, either your deal is going to make it harder for americans to achieve the american dream. what would you say to marco? >> read the deal and get back to me. >> read the deal. wow, democrats also have issues with the bill, as well. i want to bring in dana bash on capitol hill. read the bill, that was harsh there. do we expect they, first of all sometimes they don't read the fine print, the deal, but they have read the deal? and are they ready enough on the house and senate pass this later this afternoon. >>> >> re

. >> i'm michael holmes. we're going to start at the vatican fittingly perhaps where pope francis is getting ready to celebrate his first christmas as leader of the catholic church. how much do his followers love this man? have a listen. >> wow. wish i could be there actually. pope francis is "time" magazine's person of the year. he has popularity ratings a lot of politicians would love to have. our new cnn/orc poll says 72% of all americans love and approve of pope francis. almost 90% of catholics actually do. >> boy, politicians would love those numbers. right now, thousands of the faithful are in st. peter's square counting down the hours till tonight's mass, and erin mclaughlin is lucky enough to be there. >> reporter: the tree is trimmed. the nativity scene unveiled and everyone seems excited for the pope's very first christmas. >> we want to share this special moment with a person who is beloved person and we appreciate all he's doing. >> reporter: nine months into his papacy, much has been made of the

michael holmes as how do you reconcile faith and science why i don't recognize belief in science i think belief is a cover up for insecurity you only believe in things that you're not sure what but faith is the willingness to step into the unknown and that in fact is the basis of science well said gate on facebook i'd like to know where he believes spirits go after death you believe something leaves your body i think the body leaves the spirit. the spirit is always there just like if this room was destroyed nothing would happen to the space but the room would lose its appearance so the spirit doesn't leave the body moves. making sense you know the source the source never goes in the woods just stops they do say what happens to the movie when the television set is destroyed nothing opens it's still there. maggie see me on facebook wants to know if you believe karma is god's justice no karma is a good line of. koma is just the consequence of our actions every action has a consequence in the few make choices says that our conscious and you create what is called good move has nothing to do w

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i'm michael holmes. thanks for your company. it is wednesday. it is december 25th.oreign language ] >> here's the exact spot that the bible says it happened. bethlehem. in what is now the west bank. pilgrims, of course, gather there every year at midnight for

my coanchor michael holmes takes a look at the top ten stories of the year. >> number ten. >> we're getting icon oscar pistorius and his model girlfriend. >> the plo olympian admits to the shooting reeva an steenkamp on valentine's day but he says it was all an accident. >> oscar pistorius appearing before the magistrate. he was clearly upset, at times sobbing, crying >> pistorious nicknamed blade runner for the prosthetic legs he uses for sprinting was charged with premeditated murder. he's fighting that charge saying he mistook steenkamp for an intruder. >>> number nine, the royal announcement heard around the world. >> the duchess of cambridge was safely delivered of a son at 4:24 p.m. local time. >> god save the queen. >> the fountains of trafalgar square illuminated in blue light. >> the new royal heir in the united kingdom. >> baby george was born in july to prince william and his wife kate. number eight. >> tens it of thousands of people have poured out onto the streets in what is another demonstration against the government. >> about a year after the arab spring ushered in egypt's f

i'm michael holmes. >> i'm fredricka whitfield in for suzanne malre. 1/2 years is making ai direct plea to the president of the u.s. >> warren weinstein, and in a video released by h

. >> i'm michael holms. thanks for your company. north korea has world leaders concerned a leadership struggle going on, execution of people in the inner circle, some have just vanished and a american in prison charged with trying to bring the government down. >> another visit to north korea by former basketball star dennis rodman. rodman landed in pyong today for another round of basketball diplomacy. he's quick to say this isn't an official trip. it's not a political one. he says it's all about sports, having fun, and his personal relationship with the north korean lead, kim jong-un. ivan watson spoke with him. >> reporter: this is more than just latest chapter in the unusual friendship between north korea's reclusive dictator and the former bad boy of the nba. dennis rodman may be one of the first outsiders to meet kim jong-un since the leader had his own uncle executed for treason. >> whatever is done, north korea, i mean i have no control over that. these have been going on for years and years. whoever is going to be political

here is cnn's michael holmes with the rest. >> reporter: number ten -- >> we are getting word of a deadlypistorius and his model girlfriend. >> reporter: the olympian add mitsd murdering reehis girlfrie but said it was an accident. >> he was clearly upset. at times, sobbing, crying. >> reporter: pistorius, nicknamed blade runner, due to the prosthetic limbs he used for running, is fighting the murder charge seeing he hiss took her for a burglar. >> duchess of cambridge safely delivered a son at 4:20 p.m. local time. the fountains of the square illuminated in blue light. >> the new royal heir in the united kingdom. >> baby george born in july to prince william and his wife, kate. number eight -- >> tens of thousands of people have poured out on to the streets in what is another demonstration against the government. >> about a year after the arab spring in egypt's first democratically elected president, is out offed in a military coup. the rise of islamic fundamentalism. number seven, after decades of distrust and diplomatic gridlock, there is a thor with iran. >> the phone call that's maki

. >> i'm michael holmes. thanks for your company today.it about the train crash in new york. there have been developments. >> that's right. a deadly train crash taking place just days ago. and now we understand that the train engineer is talking and saying that he may have been in a days, quote unquote, just prior to that train derailing. let's go to washington and rene marsh for more on that. rene? >> freed and michael, we are

but "around the world" starts next with suzanne malveaux and next with suzanne malveaux and michael holmesc -- www.vitac.com >>> leaders from around the world are arriving in south africa, including four u.s. presidents and more than 90 heads of state as the nation prepares to honor the life nelson mandela. >> oh, boy. falling ice in texas, of all places. crashing into parked cars. thankfully not people. severe weather continues right across the country. >>> and soccer fans turning violent in brazil, causing police to use tear gas and rubb

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. >> i'm michael holmes. thanks for your company today. well, an apology from the united states, that's what india wants in part at least for the humiliating arrest of one of its diplomats in new york. >> india's deputy counsel general was handcuffed, strip searched, jailed last week before being released on jail charged with visa fraud for allegedly lying how much she was paying her nanny. prosecutors say she was give nanny far below the minimum wage. >> the diplomat has pleaded not guilty to all of this, denies all of it, but it has tensions between the u.s. and india escalating pretty much daily. let's go to new delhi. mallika kapur is standing by there. how does the foreign minister think this is going to play out? an uproar diplomatically is not in anyone's interests. >> no, it's not notice anyone's interests. i did get the feeling he is very, very keen to resolve this issue as soon as possible. there was definitely a zing feeling that he wants to put this incident behind him and he gets the feeling the u.s. wants to do that, as well.

"around the world" with suzanne malveaux and michael holmes starts right now. >> i've never, ever, inng called a fake. the sign language interpreter at nelson mandela's service says it's not true. hear from him next. >> debating cell phones on

i'm michael holmes. >> i'm fredricka whitfield in for suzanne malre. an american man held hostage for 2 1/2 years is making ai direct plea to the president of the u.s. >> warren weinstein, and in a video released by his kidnappers, he feels abandoned and forgotten, his words, by his country, and his health is failing. >> 72 years old. he was grabbed from his home in pakistan in summer 2011. this is the first image we've seen of him in more than a year. he speaks not only to the president, president obama, but the american media and to his family. >> elise labott, it's not the first time that we've seen him. what do we make of this video and what happens being done about it in washington? >> reporter: you can see the years have taken its toll on him him. the kidnappers are asking for release of al qaeda prisoners and halt why pakistan. u.s. will not negotiate. it doesn't want more kidnappings of terrorists feel the u.s. is willing to bargain for their release. but still, mr. weinstein is making a desperate plea for help from president obama. let's have

. >> i'm michael holmes. bad news to start off with, american teaching school in benghazi, libya, has been shot and killed while out doing his morning exercise. >> chemistry teacher was working at an international school. this happened not far from the u.s. consulate where the u.s. ambassador three other americans were killed in september attack. want to bring in nic robertson to spldescribe what were the circumstances, jogging in a neighborhood not far from where other americans had been killed. >> reporter: the gunmen approached him and shot him when he was doing his morning exercises, the impression given this was a regular thing that he used to do in the morning, the precise details of where it happened and precisely how the gunmen approached him, we don't know. but this is clearly a very troubling development, a very shocking development, and a tragic development for his family. but it comes just days after al qaeda's american spokesman adam gadna taking vengeance on american's interest. no claim of resp

michael holmes has a look at the countries and leaders that did well and those that did not. >> ambassadoreat to have you back again. let's talk about winners and losers from 2013. if you're going to talk losers, something we discussed in the big international stories segment, losers have got to be syrian refugees but refugees around the world. there are so many people displaced by conflict. >> yes, and the irony here, michael, is that we're living in a time when the strongest countries are not fighting each other. that's a good thing, obviously. it's mercifully good. but there are millions of refugees all across the world on nearly every continent. united nations just last week issued an emergency appeal for $13 billion in international assistance just to support the refugees in place. it's a major problem for the entire global community, and we've seen it most dramatically in syria. >> when you look at another country north korea which is in the news, usually for the wrong reasons, do you see losers there in terms of the population? >> well, the population of north korea has been victimi

. >> i'm michael holmes. thanks for your company.t is interesting how much of a celebration it has been. there is the mourning. there were tears tonight. today it's been singing and dancing, people celebrating the life. >> he seems to have an impact on just about everyone. people around the world are reacting. we are watching live pictures of him being celebrated in the streets of johannesburg. died in the suburbs of johannesburg. we want to bring you to the place where the flags are flying, where the people are cheering. that is where we bring cnn's arwa damon. arwa, we know this is something for a long time, we know he's been in ill health. there was certainly a scare back in june. did it come as a surprise? explain to us the celebration we are seeing now, the outpouring of love. >> not so much as a surprise because as you were saying there, nelson mandela was incredibly ill and had taken a turn for the worse over the last few weeks. he was fighting a very aggressive lung infection. he was 95 years old. but a lot of south africans

. >> i'm michael holmes. thanks for your company. with all the news pope francis has been making, you will to think miley cyrus didn't stand a chance when it came to this. >> the people's pope beating out the twerker as well as the leaker edward snowden to be "time" magazine's person of the year. the editors saying "with a focus on compassion, the leader of the catholic church has become a new voice of conscience." >> we wanted to find out what the people think. so here's some reaction from the streets of london. >> i'm glad that he's being a pope and i'm glad he's being compassionate, but they're sitting on a sewer. >> he's doing a lot of innovative reforms supposed to his predecessor. in that sense, i think that maybe it's valid. >> i think a good person is new ideas of the of christian church. >> he seems to be much more of a pope of the people than previous popes. >> seems like a really nice guy for a pope actually, but i'm not sure about being person of the year. >> why is that? >> well, he's hardly been in the job five minutes.

. >> i'm michael holmes. let's start with the fatal commuter train crash in the bronx, ntsb investigators is say they have now downloaded information from what's called an event recorder on board that could tell them what made the train jump the tracks on sunday. >> authorities are also looking for any video out there that could help explain exactly what went wrong. four people were killed and dozens more hurt in the crash. at least one doctor says survivors might need mental health care. >> not surprising, too. have a listen to what some passengers said about the experience. >> i thought i'm going to die, to be honest. i thought i'm going to die. >> i broke my arm. it's really painful. >> i heard a lot of crunching and grinding and started seeing stars in front of my eyes and thought, my goodness, is this the end. >> i heard a screeching noise. i happened to be by the window. i still heard a screeching noise and then within seconds, the ambulance and the fire trucks started coming past my window. i knew some

. >> i'm michael holmes. thanks for your company today. the arrest strip search and locking up of an end dan diplomat in new york is escalating on several fronts. let's start in india. they're now retaliating against u.s. officials in new delhi. >> the fact this high ranking indian woman is strip searched is most disturbing to the people of india. she is accused of visa fraud after allegedly submitting false documents to ob it taken a work visa for her nanny. pam brown has more on the backlash abroad. >> watch as police remove the concrete security barriers in front of the u.s. embassy in new delhi. newspapers in india reporting the government is the behind the anti-u.s. protest. why? retaliation sparked by an arrest of this indian diplomat in new york city. dev vanny khobragade. according to this criminal complaint, cobra go ahead severely underpaid her baby-sitter only paying her $3.31 an hour. the complaint also alleges the diplomat worked her sitter far more than the 40 hours per week, allegedly without overtime pay and then lied about

. >> and i'm michael holmes. for millions of people around the world, this day is all about any son mandela. >> memorial service honoring is the global icon wrapping up a couple of hours ago in johannesburg. watch. ♪ >> absolutely beautiful as you see there, the atmosphere inside. this is the fnb stadium. a huge celebration despite the heavy rain there, presidents, prime ministers, royalty, regular folks, all of them coming together with the mandela family to pay tribute to a man described as one of the greatest peacemakers ever. >> a man who united a bitterly segregated country even after its oppressive white rulers imprisoned him for nearly 27 years. president obama describing mr. mandela as a giant of history. >> it took a man like madiba to free not just the prisoner but the jailer, as well. to show that you must trust others so that they may trust you to teach that will reconciliation is not a matter of ignoring a cruel past but a means of confronting it with inclusion and generosity and truth. he changed la

michael holmes is off today. we begin with this, the pair rodity video supposed to be funny, get some laughs got him thrown into jail. we are talking about 29-year-old shea son cas sim of minnesota, spent the last eight months locked up in the united arab emirates. authorities say this video threatened national security. today he was set to tell his side of the story in court. now washington and would trying to get him out of jail. sara sidner has it the story from abu dhabi. >> hi, this it is will ferrell and adam mckay. and we are submitting this in support of shez. >> will ferrell and other well-known comedians are taking up a serious cause, banding to the to fight for the release of american citizen shezen cas zem known as shez. >> locking people up for what they say or what they think is funny is brutal and beyond that, it just doesn't work. >> if anyone deserves to go to jail, i do. >> he has been locked up for the past eight months after posting this video online. >> now, this is more dangerous weapon. >>

. >> i'm michael holmes. thanks for your company today. now, we're going to talk a little bit about the train crash in new york. there have been developments. >> that's right. a deadly train crash taking place just days ago. and now we understand that the train engineer is talking and saying that he may have been in a days, quote unquote, just prior to that train derailing. let's go to washington and rene marsh for more on that. rene? >> freed and michael, we are learning more information about what happened in the moments before that speeding train jumped the tracks in the bronx. two senior law enforcement sources tell cnn producer that the train's engineer, william rockefeller, told investigators on the scene he was dazed in the moments leading up to the crash and he didn't know what happened. when asked by investigators was he -- what he essentially was thinking about, the engineer said he couldn't say. now, we should note other media outlets have reported that rockefeller admitted to falling asleep. however, the official stressed that

. >> i'm michael holmes. thanks for your company today. >> in mexico, the u.s. department of homeland security is helping in the search for a stolen truck carrying radio active material, cobalt 60 which the international atomic energy agency says could be used to make so-called dirty bombs. >> the agency says all of this happened monday near mexico city. the truck was transporting the material to a waste storage facility. the iaea says the material was properly shielded but could be very dangerous if that shield were damaged or removed. joining us now rafael romo, also evan perez. let's start with you, rafael. tell us about the kind of risk that this material presents in terms of that dirty bomb theory. >> well, one of the first questions was that exactly, michael. whether it be used to build a dirty bomb. the risk is certainly great but what we have found is that the cobalt that was stolen in the truck more than likely could not be used for that purpose and here's why. just a few moments ago, i spoke with an employee at the hospital in tijuana, mexico where it

. >> i'm michael holmes. thanks for your company today. we are looking very closely today at a part of the world where the united nations is afraid all out civil war will break out at any time. >> this is the youngest nation in the world. we're talking about south sudan, just two years independent from its neighbor sudan. but in just the past week, hundreds of people have died across the country, armed rebels, government troops are fighting them. there is an ethnic aspect to all of this. there are people getting caught up in between. >> now the united states and many other countries pulled their citizens out of south sudan over the weekend and u.n. bases there are now flooded today with people who can't go home because of the violence. president obama says he might take further action to to support the american people and interests in south sudan. now, he said that after three u.s. military airplanes were fired on while trying to get people to safety. four u.s. troops were actually hurt in the incident. >> we just found out a few minutes a

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. >> i'm michael holmes. all right now, respecting your privacy while protecting national security. that hot button issue is front and center at the white house right now. >> president obama is meeting with top xwvs of apple, google,ity twer, yahoo! microsoft, twasbook to name a few. 15 tech chiefs in all. we're getting video from the white house. the visit comes just a day after a federal judge ruled the government's collection of dose mess tick phone records is likely unconstitutional. we want to bring in two people to talk about this, george washington law professor jonathan turley and jim acosta at the white house. jim, i want to start off with you. you've got them talking about the economy, the problems that they're having with obama care w -- website. does it strike you as ironic you are people who collect information, they use it, they all sell it for profit, haven't always been good at protecting their privacy, now complaining about the government spying. tell us what this meeting is really about. >> well, you know, i think what you're seeing this morning here at the white h

. >> michael holmes reporting. thank you so much for joining me today. i'm carol costello. i hope you have a fantastic new year. year. "legal view" starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> the snow dragon to the rescue. a chinese ice breaker draws closer to the ship with 74 people trapped aboard the thick ant arctic ice since christmas eve. >>> and a gloomy holiday for more than one million long-term unemployed americans. their jobless benefits are set to expire tomorrow. >>> and rocky mountain high starting new year's day. weed for recreational use will be legal in colorado. >>> hello, everyone. great to have you with us on this friday. i'm pamela brown in today for ashleigh banfield. great to have you here with us on "legal view." very soon, 1.3 americans who have spent most of this year, if not longer unemployed, they're looking for work, will lose their only source of income. their emergency unemployment benefits run out by tomorrow. that bipartisan budget plan congress managed to pass and president obama signed yesterday does nothing to extend them. my col

. >> and i'm michael holmes. world, this day is all about any son mandela. >> memorial service

our special cover annual on nelson mandela's death continues with michael holmes after the break. >>more on his life. >> that is reaction pouring in from around the world. stay ahead on cnn. .

. >> michael holmes reporting. thank you so much for joining me today. i'm carol costello.w" starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> the snow dragon to the rescue. a chinese ice breaker draws closer to the ship with 74 people trapped aboard the thick ant arctic ice since christmas eve. >>> a

michael holmes. you can also vote on the top ten overall stories of 2013.>>> you got to see these pictures. secretary of state john kerry, normally traveling the world, having very serious discussions internationally, making international headlines, meeting with world leaders, check this out. kerry and snoop dogg. apparently the two met backstage at the kennedy center honors. they fist bumped. we have no idea what they're saying. i don't know. maybe they had a little gin and juice. >>> here's a story that we wanted to leave you with. jon kitna. last week at this time he was teaching math and coaching football at a tacoma, washington high school. but get this. he just got hired by the dallas cowboys. he's going to be the third string emergency quarterback for the weekend's game. the team's starting quarterback was injured and can't play. great story, right? but here's what makes it even better. the 41-year-old says he's donating his entire $53,000 game check to the high school where he works. you got to love it. >>> joe johns is filling in for jake tapper to

holmes brings the ball down with 1 hand. all of this while looking into the sun. then, a few mays later. michael rivera falls down. scoring 41 unanswered. they are within 4 points. they have a football game. smith goes back to, who else. charles. on the route. smith, used to do this with gore all of the time. 71 yards. the first may with five touchdowns in one day. raiders he could not take care of the football. 4 interceptions. derek johnson gets him for it. and all together the silver and black the chiefs score 35 points off of the raider turnovers, a landslide. still,. >> can not turn the ball over like that. he is a young player. those are things that -- he has to go through there. those growing pains and that learning process. that is tough. you know, tough on all of us. but, that is part of what we got to do. >> bill and the patriots. 7 seconds left. dolphins up 24-20. final chance. former stanford star. he signed off of the 49er practice earlier this week. picks it off. miami hangs on for a 24-20 win. so the patriots who darn near lost last week did lose to the miami dolphins. another usual day in the natio