nic robertson monitoring developments for us from jerusalem. , nic. >> reporter: hi, there, christine. well, a lot of the fighting focused around the town of fallujah. fallujah is in the western province of al anbar. this is a majority sunni area. the rest of iraq is majority shia. it's a shia-dominated government. the army is shia-dominated as well. and what the prime minister is telling the army right now is when they shell fallujah when they attack fallujah, and that may be beginning right -- may be happening right now. there were some elements of it happening over the weekend. to avoid civilian casualties. a lot of people trying to get out of fallujah as well over the weekend. but what this is, the prime minister's defining this as an uprising by al qaeda. the people in the fallujah say, no, this is the tribes, the sunni tribes against and angry with the shia-dominated government. but whatever the nature, and it's very hard to tell on the ground there. getting accurate information is tough. whatever the nature, john kerry has said and was sa

nic robertson is live for us. >> reporter: secretary of state john kerry is coming along here to pushfive months and they began at the end of july last year. due to run to the end of april this year. he is bringing what senior state department officials describe as a framework agreement with him that is designed to bridge the gaps that exist over the past 20 -- more than 20 sort of peace talk meetings held here, of which kerry is president at eight of them. this is his ninth visit here. this is an effort to bridge the gaps and understanding. a framework agreement that will lay out the road work, the map, if you will, to get to a permanent status solution. it is described as senior state department official as taking both leaders to the top of the hill, if you l so they can look down and see what the permanent state of solution will look like. we are told no specific details but we are told this is designed to be completed by the end of april, that it will address all of the core issues, the borders, whether jerusalem can be a capital for both states, the right of return policy of refu

nic robertson live in switzerland this morning. on. >> reporter: john, you know, we've been listening to speeches by u.n. secretary-general and russian foreign minister, secretary of state john kerry and then we heard from the syrian foreign minister, he was given 20 minutes to speak. he spoke for 34 minutes. the u.n. secretary-general had to interrupt him three times to get him to stop speaking and to stick to the agenda. a lot of vitriol pointing the pictures at the arab nations. not a lot if any conciliation coming from them and we heard secretary of state john kerry unequivocally say that bashar al assad cannot be any part of this process going forward. >> there is no way, no way possible, in the imagination, that the man who has led the brutal response to his own people could regain the legitimacy to govern. one man, and those who have supported him can no longer hold an entire nation and a region hostage. >> reporter: and the aim here, in switzerland, is to form a transitional government. we've been listening to the opposition

you feel it and you see it here, jake. >> nic robertson, thank you so much. we want to take you back to some aerials of the site of the school shooting in philadelphia. that is footage from kyw. two students were shot@high school. one of the victims was a male, the other a female police believed that the shots may -- i emphasize may have come from outside the school, not from in. police have been asking for the shooter to turn himself in. they recently gave a brief press conference asking for whomever the shooter is to turn themselves in. we want to bring in jason carroll from cnn. he will be with us in a second but he's not ready quite yet so we'll take a quick break. when we come back, more on the school shooting. and also, one person has had enough of bushes in the white house. and she is a bush. barbara bush. not a fan of her son jeb running for president. >>> plus, sure, jimmy should have sold a few more shoes for an uptick in cosmo sales but "sex in the city" had an uptick in women's health. that's next. ...and the little room above the strip mall off r

nic robertson live in geneva with the latest. ey already decided and what's still up in the air at this hour? >> reporter: well, i think pretty much everything is still up in the air, christine. i think it was best expressed by the u.n. mediator here, when he said that they were hopeful that these women and children would be allowed out of the besieged city of homs and hopeful that the government is actually working on getting aid convoys that are ready to go into that area where there are about 500 families that have been starving for many, many months. so, it's really still far from a done deal. it's all talk. this weekend has been about building confidence. but when you look at it today, before the really tough talks on transitional government get under way, very little confidence has been built, if any at all, i would say. this is how one of the opposition spokesmen put it just yesterday. >> tomorrow we start talking about transition from dictatorship to democracy. clearly, the regime is not optimistic, and they are stalling,

nic robertson live for us in moscow this morning. nic, what's the latest?reporter: well, we know that this was an operation that had been planned, that there were people, rebels, militants inside the building, according to the security services here, that they were specifically targeting. they went in in armored personnel carriers, they went in with weapons ready, but what happened, they said nightfall came, the people inside tried to break out, the gun battle ensued. that's how the deaths came about. they said the militants inside were using automatic weapons and hand grenades. five security officials also injured as well as those others killed. the main target of that operation, they're saying, is a man that security services here claim was behind a car bombing a couple of weeks ago much closer to the sochi olympics than where this took place in dagestan, several hundred miles away. the car bombing much closer killed three civilians. it was positioned near a police station. so, that the focus of the operation. but clearly here, the security services going

nic robertson is live in switzerland at this peace conference. think this is going to have on the talks there? >> reporter: well, the rebels and the opposition see this statement by ayman al zawahiri as showing that the al qaeda elements are losing, and they think that this means that the way that bashar al assad uses what they call the terrorist card, by saying it's fighting terrorism, is going to lose that. so, the opposition thinks this is good for them, because there are moderate rebels fighting al qaeda. the message coming from ayman al zawahiri, that all the al qaeda elements, rebels inside syria should unite is an indication to the opposition that they're doing well and this is definitely to their advantage. we've been hearing, though, from secretary of state kerry and from the syrians just how divided the sides here are over the issue of what happens to bashar al assad. listen to what john kerry and the syrians had to say. >> there is no one who has done more to make syria a magnet for terrorists than bashar al assad. >> the statements an

want to get the latest now from nic robertson, who's in the region. what's the latest, nic?> reporter: well, we know that the white house is going to accelerate the sale of military supplies to iraq based on this outbreak of violence. those supplies will include hell fire missiles, potentially, as well as additional hellfires being sent, but the picture today, it's as murky as it has been, who precisely controls fallujah right now? is it the tribes or is it mostly al qaeda? is it a mix of the two? what does that mix look like? but there's an indication today of an escalation of what is essentially a sunni versus shia conflict, sectarian conflict, because the shia minority feels that the -- the sunni minority feels that the shia majority in the government aren't giving them a fair shake. and in the sunni town of tikrit, former hometown of former dictator saddam hussein, today we have reports, unconfirmed reports so far, of attacks on government buildings, of deaths, of a curfew being in place, and if that is proven to be correct, that is an indication, therefore, of this sunn

nic robertson, good morning. >> good morning. less than 170 miles from me, olympic village in sochi. power vehicles found, six bodies explosives nearby. explosion, possible terror links. more after this break. >>> a toddler who was apparently coached by adults to cuss and use racial slurs is now in protective custody. police in omaha, nebraska, say no crime was committed but they did find safety concerns in the child's home. video of the child went viral and several groups criticized the police union for posting it online. police say they posted it to educate the public about the cycle of violence. dennis rod sman apologizing for his ainge rip rant during an interview with cnn. the former nba star had suggested an american imprisoned in north korea deserved his punishment and apology comes one day after rodman celebrated the birthday of his dear friend, kim jong-un. >> ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ happy birthday ♪ happy birthday to you >> also this morning, rodman issued a statement saying he had been drinkin

nic robertson has the latest from moscow.and very clear words from the state department about what americans should do who intend to travel to russia for these games. >> reporter: yeah, and one of the really interesting warnings here is about the medical services you can expect in sochi saying that they're not sure that the russians have really been able to test out their new medical facilities around winter olympics with the volume of people they're going to get there, and they're advising people traveling there to have medical insurance, and not just that, to have repatriation insurance in case they need to be flown home for some medical situation. they're saying the medical services in russia generally don't match those you'll find in the west. a reminder in the same travel alert that there has been recent acts of terrorism in the region not far from sochi itself, and not only that, but the region around it has a big history over the last 10 or 15 years of multiple terror attacks against government facilities, schools, tra

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cnn nic robertson is live in moscow with more. good morning, nic. >> morning, carol.his is one of those situations where you look at russian bureaucracy. it can be incredibly heavy handed and very dense to see your way through. david sater has explained this very clearly. he was told to come back to russia to apply for another visa. when he got back here, the paperwork he was supposed to get when he arrived back wasn't ready. that delayed him going on to the next office to get it processed. they told him he was too late when he got there. several days later, he went to court, accepted that he had broken the law, paid a fine, was told to leave the country. i hope you are keeping up with me here. it is complicated. that's the problem. when he finally left the country, applied for the visa again. a month later, guess what, on christmas day, he was told, you are no longer welcome. you violated russian law. what is complicated here. is it because they set him up for these failures, which is what they -- which is what he believes, that he believes he was set up on purpose b

senior international correspondent nic robertson is live in moscow. >> reporter: the state department is pointing out that anyone who might want to go to the winter olympics, as the regions north of there just in the past three months three serious terror attacks, more than 30 people have been killed over the past decade or so there's been multiple terror attacks in the region. and this comes just as the russian officials here, security officials announcing a number of arrests over the weekend. they arrested one group of six people, about 150 miles or so from sochi saying that this group, about two weeks ago had detonate ad car bomb just north of sochi, about 150 miles north there was and they say the same group of people who have actually admitted that they were planning and preparing another major attack and security officials announcing they arrested five other people whom they say had a home made bomb with about five pounds of explosives of tnt in that bomb. the security profile in and around sochi high-security in the regions north of there this is what the state department is pu

nic robertson is covering the story from jerusalem.you spent a lot of time in fallujah, nick. what's going on there? >> reporter: the prime minister of iraq is telling the tribespeople to throw out what he is calling the terrorist al qaeda. he is saying, you don't know it but you have been working for the terrorist al qaeda agenda. what the tribesmen are saying, there might be a couple of pockets but mostly this is tribesmen. there is a real argument over the narrative, the sunni tribes who are by far the majority. the sunnis feel marginalized by the shiite-dominated government of nuri al maliki. the prime minister is defining this as the government versus al qaeda, which would give him stronger international backing and more support from the united states. is the army there strong enough to go in? maybe it is. if it does, it will cause a lot of civilian casualties and that would drive a lot of people into the hands of the insurgents or make those small elements of al qaeda even bigger. >> they say no more boots on the ground in iraq b

nic robertson is in moscow. nic?, chris, the state department is saying there isn't a specific terror threat at the moment but they are warning any americans traveling to sochi for the limb pibs of the threats that are in the region, of the past terror attacks that have taken place not so far from sochi. also at this time, the fbi teaming up with russian security to monitor the whole region there. just three weeks before the olympic games kick off in sochi, security remains a paramount concern after a string of attacks and terror arrests. the u.s. state department issuing a travel alert over the weekend warning u.s. citizens planning to attend the games that they should remain attentive at all times, warning of possible acts of terrorism, including bombings and hostage takings. on saturday five suspects possessing nearly five pounds of tnt in a home made explosive device were detained and arraigned in southern russia, more than 200 miles from sochi. >> this event is going to be very difficult because it's taking plac

cnn's nic robertson live in geneva with the details, where this morning, nik, it sounds like the two sides may never meet face to face. what's happening there? >> reporter: yeah, you know, christine, all the diplomats we talked to behind the scenes here, they're setting expectations so low, many of them saying they just don't see a way that this can be successful. the u.n.'s special representative here that's in charge of the negotiations, the veteran diplomat brahimi, we're told he will talk to both sides in the same room, give them a half-hour speech. then they'll go into separate rooms and begin discussions about the talks. but the opposition last night told us that they won't get it, they won't, and they're quite clear on this, they will not get in the same room with the government side until the government says that bashar al assad cannot be part of this transitional government. i mean, this already seems like a massive impasse here, christine. >> in terms of progress, nic, expectations are so low. what can we hope to come away from, if anything, from this conference? >> reporte

nic robertson joins us live from jerusalem. nic, what can you tell us?s five months into what is supposed to be a nine-month process. he's here to ramp that process up. he had a two-hour meeting earlier today with benjamin netanyahu, before that a few comments both of them. not seem been to be in a conciliatory mood, instead made some very pointed comments about the palestinian president mahmoud abbas, criticizing the way it handled the release by israeli authorities on palestinian authorities. this is what he said. >> a few days ago, president abbas embraced terrorists as heroes. to glorify the murders of innoce women and men is an outrage. how can he say that he stands against terrorism when he embraces the perpetrators of terrorism and glorifies them as heroes? >> reporter: john kerry a due to meet with the palestinian president later on friday, but he has said that both leaders here have really got some tough decisions to make right now. >> the time is soon arriving where leaders are going to have to make different decisions. we are close to that tim

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to moscow, new concerns about the winter olympics in sochi, nic robertson is there. >> reporter: thew travel alert for the olympics saying it they don't match western standards untested for tradition dis. saying that travelers should get medical and repatriation insurance. attacks over the past decade and a half over government institutions, transport networks and schools. back to you, christi. >> nic robertson, thank you. >>> to london and cnn's aaron mclaughlin with the latest on the nominations on the tv and bafta nominations. >> bafta nominations were announced leaving 11 nods from bafta judges to "gravity." another british flick to watch, "philomena," with four bafta nominations including for judi dench. and then "blue is the warmest color" a controversial story that picked up a bafta nomination. all three of those films will be nominated for golden globe. interesting to see how they do sunday. backs to you. >> victor, back to you, only thing i've seen is "frozen" and i've got it done twice. >> i can watch it at home. let's talk about movies and the golden globes coming up. the

. >> all right, nic robertson, thanks for keeping us posted on that. >>> so what's it like to be insidesenior white house correspondent jim acosta talked with george mitchell, former u.s. special envoy to the region about that. >> reporter: you have been in this room before, you know what the negotiations are like, what do you think is happening, what should be expected? >> well, first i commend secretary kerry for the effort he's put into this, persistence, perseverance, and leadership is appreciated all around. there are several difficulties. the objective initially was to reach full agreement within nine months. that now appears to be not attainable, so it is now the objective to get a framework agreement, which is an outline of an agreement that could then be used as the basis for a full negotiation over a long term. i think it will be difficult but we all have to hope and pray it will succeed. both parties have different points of view on many major issues, so i think it will be a hard task. one of them, jim, will be to define what is a framework agreement. i suspect the israelis b

cnn's international correspondent nic robertson is there. , wherever you look here, preparations still under way for the olympics. we're right down on the coastline here. the moving rocks for the coastal defense. in the background, you can see the main olympic stadium. thousands of workers here over this whole olympic village area trying to get it ready. security very tight. hundreds of policemen out on the streets. if you look up in the sky up there, you might able to see the security blimp where the high-powered cameras are met. desperate now here, less than three weeks to get these olympics ready on time. back to you, christi. >> all right, nic. thank you. >>> and to london we go. the latest on prince harry's new job and how that could change his love life. cnn's erin mclaughlin reports. good morning. erin. all right, we apologize. we can see her -- >> huh? what? >> like, huh? new info on his love life and they just don't want to get that for us. >> we're going to get that because we teased it and people want to know. >>> hey, i've got som