our senior international diplomatic editor nic robertson joins me from london tonight. wow.om two weeks ago, recent polling said it may go this way and it has. renzi lost this battle. it is a blow for yet another established politician. >> and not just lost it. absolutely hammered here, poppy. >> yeah. >> with 50% of the vote accounted. 20% against him. 60%, 40% yes. this is absolutely a vindication for the populist parties and nationalist parties in italy and could be a run on the italian banks. this is potentially going to weaken the euro, perhaps therefore have a knock-on effect to, you know, more broadly to global trade. let's not get carried away with ourselves here but in the european union it puts more uncertainty of the future of the european union and many of those that voted no against renzi want changes in the european union or even to get out of the european union. so, this is a rocky road ahead starting here. >> let's get to what the dire warnings you mentioned before in terms of potentially run on the banks, could be catastrophic for the italian economy and fra

cnn's nic robertson joins us now from turkey.e man behind this attack, what more are you learning about him and do you have any better sense of was he working alone or not? >> really, at the moment, a lot of unanswered questions, john. what we got from the government so far is he was a 22-year-old policeman. he had been for the last 2 1/2 years with the riot police. the authorities have brought in for questioning his mother, his father, his sister, a couple of uncles, some other close relatives and one of his friends, but at the moment, there's no evidence coming from the government of precisely what they're finding. they say they have found books in his apartment relating to al qaeda. they say they have found books in his apartment that they say are related to the coup. the government also going to his tometown, speaking with friends, going to his high school, talking to some of his college mat mates, as well. the foreign minister told john kerry that, in fact, that he was connected with the -- the gunman was connected with the

live from amsterdam in the netherlands, nic, thank you very much.the president taps the ambassador to china but despite being thousands of miles aparty is graphically, the governor shares ties with the chinese president. a special report from beijing when we come back. . >>> president-elect donald trump's pick for u.s. ambassador to china, the iowa governor terry brand dstad is meeting wi approval, lots of it, from china. branstad had a long-time relationship with china's president and other chinese leaders and will appear with donald trump later tonight in a thank you tour. that appearance taking place in des moines, iowa, his state. cnn's matt rivers is joining us live from beijing. matt, what can you tell us about the chinese, the reaction to the choice of terry branstad, the governor of iowa, as the next u.s. ambassador to china, assuming he's approved, confirmed by the u.s. senate? >> well, the reaction here in beijing has kind of been a 180 from what we saw in the last couple of days. it's safe to say that relations between the u.s. and china

cnn's nic robertson has the latest for us. ni nic, is there any sense these incidents are connected? >> reporter: the sense is they are connected inasmuch as people showing anger against the government and showing it against the russia and the united states. is there more connection than that? not clear. the government is not providing details information about what they think led the gunman to kill the russian ambassador. the six arrested in the case. his mother, father, sister and two other relatives and a man who shared an apartment with the young policeman. this is standard procedure here in turkey for family members to be arrested or detained. it doesn't mean they are complicit. this is what the authorities do here. the foreign minister here today who said as a mark of respect for andrey karlov that he is -- the street outside the russian embassy here will be named after him. that is an honor this country wants to bestow because they want to show the russian government that they bear no ill will through this act and their

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thanks very much, jim sciutto, nic robertson, michelle kaczynski. appreciate it. >>> a trump transition source, by the way, saying the president-elect is concerned about the russia hacking report, but transition officials think the issue is being used to try and delegitimize his election victory. earlier today the president-elect tweeted this, i'm quoting. "are we talking about the same cyber attack it was revealed the head of the dnc illegally gave hillary clinton the questions to the debate." and meeting with jeh johnson, one of the key agencies responsible for cyber security in the united states. congressman chris collison of new york is a member of the trump presidential transition team. joining us now from lancaster, new york, just outside of buffalo. thanks so much, congressman for joining us. >> always good to be with you, wolf. >> so president obama says it's u.s. will retaliate against russia over the cyber attacks against the u.s. during the election. do you support that? >> well, i have no comment on what president obama is going to do or

the turks saying they don't believe that's true, carol. >> and, nic, just a word about bashar al assadow, he's the president of syria. he likened the liberation of eastern aleppo to the birth of christ. he released this video of himself and i hope we have this. he was dressed in a very nice -- oh, we don't have it. but anyway he's dressed in a very nice suit and just the juxtaposition of bashar al assad saying that, and people continuing, his people, continuing to die in aleppo, is just sort of jarring. >> he called it a moment in history. and if you ask people, anyone coming out of the eastern side of aleppo, it's not the moment in history that bashar al assad describes as some heroic triumph to the nation. this is being described as, you know, the blemish on the conscience of the international community, equivalent to the genocide in rwanda. equivalent to what we witnessed in srebrenica in the summer of 19 the 5 in bosnia where the bosnian serbs massacred 7,000 people. it is for the people a sense of utter betrayal by the international community of being let down. so, it's historic.

nic, first to you on the ground there, what's the latest on the investigation? >> well, we saw just a few hours ago the russian investigators go into the area of the art exhibit. they had sort of white forensic lab coats, if you will. they had blue plastic bags on their shoes as if they were going into the crime scene. they didn't appear to spend too long at this location. but what we do, both president putin and president erdogan have said is they want to get to who was behind this man, who was supporting this young policeman, were there any others involved. it's sort of common practice here in turkey that the parents, close family members, roommate, would be detained. doesn't necessarily mean they're implicated. but this is often the place that turkish officials would start. however, there have been scant few other details. the interior ministry here reporting there was some al qaeda books found in his apartment. that there were also what they call ghoulenist books in his apartment, remember who the gullenists are who the government blames for the coup in summ

they had to capture him alive. >> reporter: nic robertson, nn, ankara, turkey. >> that's a fascinatingective. he says obviously in very tough situations he gets more calm. that's what you need. >> he's been interviewed by someone who is the exact same way, nic robertson knows what it's like to be very close to death. >> what an incredible story. meanwhile donald trump's potential conflicts of interest in the news again. his children now distancing themselves from a charity that was reportedly offering access to the president-elect for a million dollars. we'll speak live with the reporter who broke the story next. >>> questions about conflicts and the president-elect and his family are not going away. this morning, there's a report about a charity event. the event raised concerns. why? because individuals were reportedly being given the opportunity to pay a ton of money for access to donald trump and his family. now, trump transition team is saying the trump family is not involved with the event. joining us now, is a reporter who revealed the details surrounding the event, carrie levine

we have cnn international diplomatic editor nic robertson live for us in ankara. nic? >> reporter: yeah, good morning, chris. literally in the last couple minutes that team of russian investigators have been inside the building behind me there. that's where the attack took place. that's where the russian ambassador was shot down in cold blood. it unfolded in front of the cameras. we have to warn you, some of these pictures are very disturbing. leaders of turkey and russia are calling it a provocative terrorist act. the assassination of russia's ambassador to turkey caught on video. andray karlov shot multiple times in the back while giving a speech at an ankara art exhibit on monday night. the gunman shouting defiantly, god is greatest, and do not forget aleppo, do not forget syria. according to turkey's interior minister, the lone gunman is a 22-year-old police officer born in turkey. his body taken from the scene after he was shot and killed by security forces shortly after the attack. the brazen public assassination coming as many blame russia for its part in suppor

nic robertson is in ankara. and nic, we will start with you. right now, the turkish president and the russian president, there's little daylight between their positions. but for the turkish president, what is at stake for him right now? >> reporter: there's a lot at stake. his trying to rebuild and rekindle his relationship with russia. he has wanted to have a role in the syria postwar. and the only route to do that with is russia. there was stalled, started again. he was involved in that. and we look back a year, when turkey downed a russian aircraft, close to the border. he was just beginning to rebuild that relationship with russia. both presidents are saying this is an effort to drive a blow between the two countries. but it was more yobd beyond that. russia's reaction was to cut off trade ties. that cost the turkish is suffering. and politically, diplomatically, and economically, a lot at stake. this, essentially, if you will, singing from the same hymn sheet at the moment, there's a lot to be done, john. >> and matthew, in moscow. we hear

cnn nic robertson explains. he's in london. >> when the soviet union collapsed, the world thought russia would be a different place and for a decade under president yeltsin, it was. >> they had free press, they had democracy and they had civil society. the problem is that they didn't have any laws and they didn't have any rules. >> an investment banker was there in russia making millions amidst the chaos. but then putin came to power. a few years later, he clashed with browder. >> i pointed out that putin and the people around him have stolen an enormous amount of money from the russian people and have covered it up. >> browder's businesses were raided. one of his whistle blowing lawyers was thrown in jail. brutalized and died there many months later. putin rejects every accusation browder makes and has barred him from russia fosh the past decade. >> at this point many people consider me to be putin's number one foreign enemy. as such, my life is at risk. >> he is right to be worried. putin's critics get silence

we have nick robertshave nic ro latest on this story. painting the terrible picture of the off-duty police officer standing there and listening to him before shooting him in cold blood. what is the latest? >> reporter: cold blooded assassinati assassination. and a gunman, even appli police could get so close to the ambassador. the cease-fire to allow civil answer o ians out, but on opposite sides of the issue here. how could the russian ambassador be in the position and exposed? we understand andrey karlov is now in the process of being rep repatriated. the investigative team is here. 18 of them. some of them may come and visit the premises where the art exhibit was on where the ambassador was giving a speechless than 24 hours ago behind me here. the investigation has begun. no details from authorities yet to give them any concrete conclusions about what motivated this man. however, both russia and turkey saying this will not divide them at this time where they are going through and rebuilding a dialogue with the two countries. both sayi

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nic robertson now joining us live. have seen these shifts, we saw a shift that happened in the united kingdom with brexit. there was a shift that happened in the united states with the vote for president-elect donald trump. and now we're seeing things happen in europe that could indicate a similar shift. >> and i think if you look at matteo renzi's campaign in italy to try to get the country to accept political reforms that are only linked to italy, that are not linked to its position in europe, that are trying to sort of improve the economy of italy, this perhaps gives us a very big clue for why this is happening this particular time. since the economic crash of 2008, a lot of people have felt that the economy has been hurting, there has been stagnation in italy, really economically for about 30 years now. these political reforms are needed renzi says to help address this issue and a lot of economists would certainly agree with him. so you have this underlying not full recovery from the 2008 economic crash and then yo

nic robertson, cnn, london. >>> we've been talking about aleppo. our top story a lot the past two hours. people trying to evacuate to safety. there's another area we're watching as well. thousands of iraqis fled isis in mosul. their futures are hang not guilty the balance. refugee camps are filled to capacity and only provide basic essentials. as ben wedeman reports, a life of uncertainty for now is better than what they've had. >> reporter: out of the hell at mosul under fire and into the -- life as a refugee. hundreds of residents from the he will embattled city arrive at a camp to the east. relieved to be united with loved ones, relieved to have made it alive. she didn't want to show her face forefather of reprisals of relatives still in mosul. she fled sneaking out through a deli. isis gup men ordered them to come back and opened fire when they didn't stop. her and 100,000 people are now in camps. the facilities and services at these camps are already overstretched. while every day hundreds more arrive. >> at another camp nearby, they line up f

nic robertson roberts. >> reporter: when the soviet union collapsed, the world thought russia would beferent place and for a decade under president yeltsin, it was. >> they had free press, they had a democracy and had a civil society. the problem is that they didn't have any laws and didn't have any rules. >> an investment banker was there in russia making millions amidst the chaos but then putin came to power. few years later he clashed with broader. >> i pointed out that putin and people around him had stolen an enormous amount of money from the russian people and have covered it up. >> the businesses were raided and one of his whistle blowing lawyers was thrown in jail, brutalized and died there many months later. putin rejects every accusation browder makes and -- >> many people consider me to be putin's number one foreign enemy and as such, my life is at risk. >> reporter: he is right to be worry i had. putin's critics get silenced. >> when he has a prison record, first stop either directly or indirectly encouraged. >> reporter: sir andrew wood was britain's ambassador to russia a

after nic start saturday, -- after an icy start saturday, we climbed into the 60's sunday, and now it is cold again. crew are prepping for what could be a dicey morning commute. would begin the weather coverage with meteorologist josh knight. continue to filter in. everybody with this northerly breeze, dropping into the 30's for just about every body. these are at or below freezing, frederick, winchester, hagerstown. inwill take a little longer the district and southern maryland, still hanging in the mid 30's. tomorrow morning we are all in the mid 20's. if you have to take the dogs out later, we are looking for the wind to drive things out. i don't think we will see a lot of water left over, but where it is left over there could be patchy ice. hagerstown picked up almost .1 inches. not a lot of water to work with for the re-freeze. to the north and west is where we are more likely to run into patchy ice tomorrow. keep this in mind in the morning. the temperatures are cold enoh be icy. the forecast coming up. kimberly: josh, thanks. the balmy weather we had turned to cold in just a fe

. >> cnn's nic robertson looks at what putin's diplomacy can look like during the trump administration. >> reporter: when the soviet union collapsed, the world thought russia would be a different place, and for a decade under president yeltsin it was. >> they had free press, they had democracy and they had a civil society. the problem is they didn't have any laws and they didn't have any rules. >> reporter: bill browna, an investment banker was there in russia making millions amidst the chaos but then putin came to power. a few years later he clashed with browna. >> i pointed out that putin and the people around him have stolen an enormous amount of money from the russian people and have covered it up. >> reporter: his businesses were raided. one of his lawyers were thrown in jail, brutalized and died there many months later. putin rejects every accusation browna makes and has barred him from russia for the past decade. >> at this point many people consider me to be putin's number one foreign enemy and as such my life is at risk. >> reporter: he has right to be worried. putin's critics

nic robertson reporting live for us from turkey. i want to go back to germany to that christmas market. you see angela merkel leader of germany she's with investigators and talking to people inside that christmas market. those people died when that truck plowed through. we'll keep you posted on any developments coming out of germany of course. >>> for donald trump the attacks and their aftermath could pose an early test of his administration. the president-elect issuing a statement and this tweet quote today there were terror attacks in turkey, switzerland and germany. and it is only getting worse. the civilized world must change thinking. >> reporter: good morning, carol. donald trump put out a flury of statements in which he was expressing his concern but also condemning the attacks that we've seen and he tied both the incident in turkey as well as the incident in berlin to radical islamic terrorism even though investigations there are still ongoing. i want to read you a portion of a statement he put out. donald trump says assassi

and cnn international diplomatic editor nic robertson is following all this in ankara. what are authorities there learning about the assassin? >> reporter: they're saying it's a 22-year-old policeman. he was training with the riot police over the past couple of years. they have arrested or detained several of his family members. mother, father, sister, other close relatives and a former roommate. this is not unusual in turkey. it doesn't mean that they're actually guilty but this is typical of how the government will handle situations like this. quickly arrest family members. the russian investigators went into the building behind me here a few hours ago along with their turkish counterparts to investigate the crime scene itself. they didn't seem to spend too much time there. investigation done according to government news agencies. they have been to his old high school, talked to his old high school friends, talked to his college friends, investigated the background of his family. the headline that's emerging, this came from the turkish foreign minister talking to secr

joining us now from london, cnn international diplomatic editor nic robertson.at are the big headlines here? and has the president-elect responded yet? >> not yet. what we're hearing from the iranians though is really an amplification of what they've been saying since donald trump was elected. sort of two days after that, the supreme leader came out, clearly very concerned about the nuclear deal. he was saying that this is, you know, we made this deal, this deal will stick. we know united states is our enemy but the deal will stick. now they've seen this extension of the iran sanctions acts and there's concern in iran about that. being what the extension to the sanctions does is allow all the nuclear related sanctions to have a snap back facility. of course, they were waived by secretary kerry right after the deal. now you have this extension for ten years. so you this protection if iran steps out of the deal. clearly they're looking at donald trump. clearly they're looking at the selection of general mattis as defense chief. this is what president rouhani said

cnn's nic robertson has more. >> reporter: hi, carol. case to the egyptian prosecutor. of course, this is raising a lot of questions. it's a very sensitive issue for the egyptian authorities to imply the plane might have been brought down by explosives. a lot of questions asked at the time when the plane came down. there were a lot of indicators, early indicators in this investigation that indicated it might not be, that it might be a mechanical malfunction on the aircraft. for example, when the aircraft began to lose altitude, greek authorities picked it up on the radar. it was at 37,000 feet. they say it took a 90 degree turn to the left, went down, then took a 360 degree turn to the right, then continued going down into the ocean. the data chips when they were recovered were damaged. they were sent to france, they were repaired, and the information that came from them and that was being transmitted from the aircraft at the time indicated there was a smoke alarm in the cockpit and lavatory and the crew were trying to fight some kind of

cnn international diplomatic editor nic robertson has a little more on putin's history of diplomacy. >> reporter: when the soviet union collapsed, the world thought russia would be a different place. and for a decade under president yelts yeltsin, it was. >> they had free press, democracy and civil society. the problem is they didn't have any laws and they didn't have any rules. >> reporter: bill browder, an investment banker, was there in russia making millions amidst the chaos. then putin came to power. a few years later, he clashed have browder. >> i pointed out that putin and the people around him had stole and enormous amount of money from the russian people and have covered it up. >> reporter: his businesses were raided. one of his whistle blowing lawyers, sergei menitski was thrown in jail, brutalized and died there. putin rejects every accusation browder makes and has barred him from russia for the past decade. >> at this point, many people consider me to be putin's number one foreign enemy. and as such my life is at risk. >> reporter: he is right to be worried. putin's criti

our international diplomatic editor nic robertson live with me tonight in london.unding no from the people of italy to a referendum that many argue would have improved the stagnant economy in italy. they did not want to see this. now renzi will meet with the president of italy tomorrow and hand in his resignation. how big is this? >> it's big. i mean, look. just sounds like we're listening to the brexit vote in britain in the summer where the experts said, if you do this, the economy will be worse. for britain. and the experts in italy have said essentially support this referendum because it will help the economy. but the majority by 20% have voted to reject the reforms that the economists say are needed. the winners political in this in italy generally don't support the european union and you could see a further weakening of the european union which will weaken the economy in europe, the economies won't grow as fast and this potentially has a knock-on effect. i don't want to get ahead of where we are today. but this is what we're faced with right now. the populist

nic robertson is following the story for us. >> reporter: the details we are just getting in, this mand with an ak-47 with two full magazine clips full of rounds. the police say in his apartment they found a large isis flag as well as full boxes full of what they describe, illegal and highly explosive fireworks. these are just the first details about this we are beginning to get. >> also, the far right politician vilders known for being politically correct and often compared to donald trump has been found guilty of inciting discrimination. what can you tell us about that? >> reporter: yeah. the judges here found him guilty of lesser charges. he is also being tried on incitement for hatred and violence and the judges found he was innocent of those charges, charged him on the lesser charge. however, surprising quite a lot of people here, the judges decided not to fine him. rather they said the trial enough was punishment enough. however, a lot of his supporters and the general belief here at large is he is becoming very popular here with his populist message, very much like donald trump.

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and i think nic acknowledges that.'m in a small church in hampstead, north carolina, and we do amazing things right in our community for teachers, for the schools, we have a share the table ministry. we were first first in for flood relief. >> david, it doesn't sound like you are terribly offended by this then? >> well, you know, interestingly enough, i would like for nic and me to have a conversation about how do we together make christmas great again. and i don't mean that sarcastically. i think we would welcome the opportunity to be shoulder to shoulder with anyone to support, you know, let's figure out how we can house the homeless and feed the hungry. >> i want to add on so much of this doing charitable works are great and it's something that many of us do, but the thing that needs to be said here is that religion doesn't have a monopoly on those things. >> i agree. i understand that. >> too often because i'm a good christian that shorthand for i'm a good person. and, in fact, that's not true. you can be a good pe

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>> jimmy: that's a hell of a nic nickname. >> what is the nickname? >> sal: what's the nickname? >> jimmy: i didn't mean to cause a fight, i was just asking what the nickname is. okay, all right, let's see. david is a part of the family. all right. i'm going to guess that ariana is not a member of the family. ariana, are you a member of the family? >> yeah, i am. >> jimmy: so that's your dad? >> yes. >> jimmy: why doesn't he know >> jimmy: when you get home from school, sit down at the table, he asks you how your day was, what do you say? >> good. >> jimmy: okay, yeah already. maybe a little bit more communication. all right. i'm not doing so well so far. all right. now i'm going to go to -- i'm going to say nathan, what's your story what grade are you in? >> i graduated. >> jimmy: you graduated, huh? you're in college now? >> no, i work. i'm at safeway. working at safeway. >> jimmy: what do you do at safeway? >> i'm a courtesy clerk. and do your parents still support you? >> yeah. >> jimmy: and you love them? >> yeah. >> jimmy: give your mom a kiss. >> on the cheek? >> jimmy: wh

you look at the wider picture of islamic terrorism that we have seen in ferms terms of attacks from nicis and the ones here at home, is it a difficultish. >> you, matt? >> i don't think so. as he pointed out, the people who hit us on 9/11, that organization has been incredibly weakened. obviously we got bin laden, much of their top leadership and they're really no long er the force they were in the world. what has happened to the united states domestically in the eight years of the obama presidency is very similar to what happened under bush after 9/11 which is to say there were no coordinated terrorist attacks here the way there have been in europe. we've had lone wolf attacks, a couple times it was brothers or people living in the same household, but no coordinated attacks. that's a huge accomplishment in an age of islamic terror. >> it would make me feel good if it were true. al qaeda is not weaker than it was when president obama took over. it's stronger. its affiliates around the world -- i'm sorry, matt, you're wrong. >> i'm not wrong. >> it is the biggest affiliate in syria is on

. >> and saint nic, and kevin mccarthy, >> maureen, good morning to you.om and 10 "action news" i think tucker barpz this tweet was september out. this is a big deal. britney spears this was a hoax. there was a tweet sent out from this tony global music account saying britney spears pass away by accident. now i was joking with the tucker thing she did not pass away this was a hack. somebody hack nod soapy music global account saying rip at britney spears and give ta her tweets and this tweet randomly appeared on bob dillon's account the exact same tweet appeared there. >> saying britney was dead. >> that britney was dead. someone tweeted exact tweet the acres may have gotten through as well. it's a hope. she's not pass away. her rep said she's allowed and well. >> and she posted picture too like hey guys i'm alive and well. >> i'm saying this hacker is not familiar with the u.s. must psych scene because why would britney spears. >> that's the why the of being random that he would tweet. >> or who won the noble prize. >> he can't show up for his noble prize

. >> one imagines that santa trump has a list of nigaughty and nic which he is checking more than twiceere are plenty gifts he has to dole ut such as this one for rick berry. others, however, should probably expect a lump of coal. i'm looking at you governor romney. >> for spending your sunday with us, state of union for extras from the show. i'm jake tapper in washington. fareed is next. rodney and his new business. he teaches lessons to stanley... and that's kind of it right now. but rodney knew just what to do...he got quickbooks. it organizes all his accounts, so he knows where he stands in an instant. ahhh...that's a profit. which gave him the idea to spend a little cash on some brilliant marketing! ha, clever. wow, look at all these new students! way to grow, rodney! know where you stand instantly. visit quickbooks.com. >>> this is gps, the goebl public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i'm fareed sa car ra. we have an important show for you. we'll start with russia. is america's relationship with this long-time foe about to change quite dram

do see a god amount of rainll now, moving off the aviest of the rain.he that really brought us that nic rainfallcculn near a inch for much of theoastline, andn into western massachusetts where it was closer to two inches, so impresve, right now we're seeing th showers that are mainly moving through, as we move just south of the mass pike. that's going to bring the light rainfall. and outside of that, there is patchy drizzle, so let's take a look at what we are seeing, plymouth getting in on the light rainfall, moving through providencend areas of of showers this morng, and that will lger for the next hour or two. one thing that's really impress i have this morning is the temperature, we're seeing the tempatures above the average high for this time of year. of course, the 1st of december, we should be in the0s for the temperatures, and this rning are seeing temperatures crossing into the for a you say and 60s. 51 in boston, plymouth at 61 dew mid to upper 50s. 40s as we move these are the locations that will stay cooler, as wl, and it's really along the coastline, and that will feel that

i mean, you heard nic outlining whether thousand, tens you thousand, frankly, doesn't matter anymore. the reality, an eagreeigregious humanitarian outrage. no access to basic medicine and food. it's been going on for months. the international community is paralyzed by it and something of a myopic sense we approach it as a syrian civil war a self-contained irish were y eedo anything about. what's happening is the most powerful cry to jihadists akrot the world. and many flooding into europe, syria will continue to be the major national security danger and question of our time, wolf. >> certainly will be. 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 p

nic robertson, cnn, ankara, turkey. >> despite the assassination, the three countries met in moscow.hey said they will try to find a political solution to the brutal syrian civil war. for that to happen, they pledged to first secure a wider ceasefire so that aid can be delivered. russia's foreign minister says their plans will be most effective in dealing with the crisis. >> translator: i am sure that as we reach success in fighting terrorism, as we start the political process between syrians with our help, as we reach success at these directions, we will be able to formulate our common approach which will definitely be based on declared goals. to win over terrorism, to restore territorial integrity, sovereignty, independence and unity of syria arab republic. we are united in that. >> a glimpse of hope meanwhile for thousands of syrians trying to save their lives. turkey says evacuations from aleppo could be completed sometime on wednesday. its ate been a painful week for those stranded in freezing temperatures and with almost no food. evacuations have been suspended multiple times t

nic robertson spoke to the associated press photographer taking pictures of this before, during and immediately after the attack. >> i heard shot, very loud. [ gunfire ] bam, bam, bam. i said, what happened? horrible. so the people standing in front, they disappeared. they -- throw them on the floor, and then -- they tried -- they were trying to hide them, to take shelter. >> were you afraid? >> i was shocked, but -- i afraid, but not much. >> you're not afraid? you've got a camera. he's got a gun. >> well -- in difficult situations, i'm calm. i have a responsibility to record it. and no matter what, lying on the ground. not moving, and the guy wasn't -- making some -- political motivating speech, but i could not understand. i said maybe the speaker russian. in russian. some people were screaming, crying. so i could not hear well. then he turned, turned around the body, and from there from close range he shot one more time. >> on the ambassador. >> yes. >> just to make sure he was dead. >> i think so. when i learned that the guy was killed, i was really shocked. why they killed him? he did noth

so we see a pattern of obstruction nic obstructi obstructi obstructionism and democrats have to fightack. >> he said mcconnell said we'll make him a one term president -- >> not supporting obstructionism for the sake of obstructionism, i'm supporting accountability. remember, donald trump -- >> but republicans have plenty of reason for that because of their beliefs they saw reason for it. ben, why shouldn't lawmaker, though, listen to the will of the people in their state, a state that overwhelmingly voted for hillary clinton? >> look, this is a huge mistake to start out this way. and i understand why he's doing it. a lot of this is political posturing to act like you're somehow standing up to donald trump before he's everyone sworn into office. which if you look at the constituency in california, it's a smart play, but it's also putting at risk many of the people in california who need federal governmental assistance by putting them at risk and losing out at federal funding. if california wants to not have federal funds coming in that's fine we me that is more money that will be kept

he recounted the experience to nic robertson. a warning, the pictures he took are graphic, they are difficult to watch. here's the interview. >> i heard shots, very louder. [ gunshots ] bam, bam, bam. i said what is this? this is horrible. so the people standing in front, they disappeared. they throw themselves on the floor. then they tried -- they were trying to hide them to take shelter. >> were you afraid? >> i was shocked but -- afraid but not much. not panicked. >> were you not afraid taking his picture? you've got a camera, he's got a gun. >> i'm very sensitive in difficult situations. i'm calm. i have a response, the ability to recall the event and the ambassador was lying on the ground, not moving. and the guy wasn't -- was making some political -- politically motivated speech. i could not understand. i thought maybe he's speaking in russian. some people were screaming and crying so i could not hear well then he turned around the body and from very close range he shot one more time. >> on the ambassador. >> yes. >> just t

nic. >> this blast it is unclear who is behind it but some reports suggest tnt, pretty serious explosised. it targeted the symbolic heart of the christian. we understand the device was inside of the church itself. we don't know how it got in there. harrowing images from inside show people having to elect body parts because of the intensity of the blast. statual damage done to the building itself and a blow to the christians of egypt. it appears they are very much on edge. about 10% of the population and scenes of anger outside of that church itself. even pro-government tv anchors were targeted. it is unclear who's responsible for this. one potential candidate for the blame has released a statement condemning the blast. you have heard condemnation from sunni religious authorities saying this is an attack on all egyptians and -- called it a deplorable act of terrorism. a at the heart of the egyptian capital a deadly blast. questions about security and real fears for ordinary egyptian christians tonight. nick paton walsh, cnn, beirut. >>> ahead, marco rubio taking aim at trump's potential

cnn's international diplomatic editor nic robertson is in london.day as well. did this nationalist wave, did it prove successful there as well? >> no, it didn't, it kind of ran out of steam. austrians are waking up this morning and asking themselves, how did that happen? because back in may and the annulled election then, the green party candidate, who won by 7% of the vote, only won by 31% back in may. but, of course, what has happened since then? there's been a brexit vote, there's been election of donald trump in the united states, so the assessment in austria is people said, whoa, hold on, we don't want that level of uncertainty. but that doesn't mean that a mainstream candidate won. the green party candidate is not mainstream. so the message here is the principal part is still not being listened to. we've seen that. it's been a real roller coaster weekend all across europe. >> reporter: italy's prime minister resigns. europe's roller coaster relationship with the eu takes a dive. trump-type populism is shaking up europe's politics. hours earlie

you look at the wider picture of islamic terrorism that we have seen in ferms terms of attacks from nic and the ones here at home, is it a difficultish. >> you, matt? >> i don't think so. as he pointed out, the people who hit us on 9/11, that organization has been incredibly weakened. obviously we got bin laden, much of their top leadership and they're really no long er the force they were in the world. what has happened to the united states domestically in the eight years of the obama presidency is very similar to what happened under bush after 9/11 which is to say there were no coordinated terrorist attacks here the way there have been in europe. we've had lone wolf attacks, a couple times it was brothers or people living in the same household, but no coordinated attacks. that's a huge accomplishment in an age of islamic terror. >> it would make me feel good if it were true. al qaeda is not weaker than it was when president obama took over. it's stronger. its affiliates around the world -- i'm sorry, matt, you're wrong. >> i'm not wrong. >> it is the biggest affiliate in syria is one

. >> nic, thank you very much. please keep us up to date. 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 f

. >> i happen to like nic men. >> nice men. >> very nice -- ♪ >> man, that is just truly incredible toatch. undeniable chemistry there. >> yeah, that's right. and no wonder there were those rumors for so long about what was going on between the two on set. she had been very candid recently about what had taken place some 30 years before. that will just always remain in cinematic history as a moment to behold. >> thank you so much for joining me with the very sad news of the death of actress carrie fisher at the age of 60. >>> turning to politics, we're keeping an eye on hawaii where this hour a bilateral meeting will get under way between president obama and japanese prime minister shinzo abe. plus, coming up, a check on the incoming administration team trump announcing two new cabinet picks today. who they are and the roles they've been tapped to fill on the other side of this short break. american express open cards can help you take on a new job, or fill a big order or expand your office and take on whatever comes next. find out how american express cards and services can help prepa