cnn's nic robertson is standing by live in london with more. nic, do officials believe there's a link to a group like isis? >> that seems to be the indication. the chief of police here said there was a link between this arrest which it called a serious case in iraq and syria. when he joins iraq and syria like that, it implies isis. so government and their own police here are not saying that specifically. but the implications here. of course, britain raised their threat to severe about a month ago. we know the security services here are very worried, about young men, about 500 of them left syria have gone to groups to join like isis. that's in the bag ground here. why were these young men arrested. one was tasered during his arrest. police were involved also. it underscores just how serious the nature of what these men may have been planning was. and from what we understand, essentially what the police are saying as well, that a terror plot was thwarted here, perhaps in its early stages, john. >> nic, we'll fiend out more in the coming days. our

international correspondent nic robertson joining us live from london. hi, nic. >> reporter: hi. malala yousafzai was high on the list. we have not heard much said about him. malala yousafzai becomes from the records we have at least, the youngest ever nobel peace laureate at 17 years old. the person she shares the prize with is 60 years old. the average age in the past of the nobel peace laureate has been 63 or 64. malala changing the landscape here. again, the nobel committee there, decisions in the past have been controversial. malala and her supporters were deeply disappointed last year when she missed out. she was not in october of 2012 by the taliban. she had been campaigning for girls rights and education in the southwest frontier province area of pakistan. she was transferred to britain for medical treatment. she got better. she has been campaigning and been to the u.n. security council for the girls right to education. this will likely be one of the awards by the nobel peace committee will not be controversial. malala had a lot of support and lead up to this. >> when you

nic robertson standing by live. nic, do officials believe there's a link here to islamic terror groups like isis? >> they do. these four men are till being questioned by the police at the moment, they're being accused of being suspected, at least preparing for insta gaiting or commissioning acts of terrorism. islamic terrorism. what we're hearing from the chief of police here in london is that this arrest is a serious case, he says, but it has linking goes back to iraq and syria which implies because it's iraq and syria, implies isis. police are not saying that specifically, what we do understand, though, is that this may have been a plot that the police have thwarted in its early stages, again, precisely, what type of plot that isn't clear at the moment. but the police continue not only to question those four men, but they're investigating premises in the center and west of london, that were involved in the arrest operation. and vehicles that they seized, again, during that arrest operation. perhaps there will be mo

our colleague nic robertson spoke to a sunni tribal leader sympathetic to isis. he told nic, it is not into taking over baghdad. a huge city. most shi'a who are hostile to isis. what they want to do is disable baghdad international airport which is to the west of the city which abuts anbar province. the loss or disabling of baghdad airport would be a symbolic blow to the government here. it is worth keeping in mind it is about eight miles from the airport to the area called abu ghraib. the army and police control by day, but isis operating there by night. the worry is that will be used as a foothold for some sort of hostile action against the airport. until now, by and large, most of the action against the defenses of baghdad have been sporadic and light compared to the operations of isis elsewhere in anbar province where in town after town, they managed to take more and more ground. yesterday, they were able to kill an ied bombing the chief of police for entire anbar province. that was a serious blow for any attempts to bolster the control of baghdad and remainin

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nic robertson, nic is in london.errorism analyst, paula crookshank. you have some details that you're learning about what these four individuals now arrested may have been plotting. what can you tell us? >> reporter: hi, wolf. what we're hearing over here, the briefing from british intelligence is that the, there was a genuine concern that the group of men arrested today in london were planning to carry out beheadings on the streets of london. and that one of them has recently returned from syria. the big concern of british intelligence is that we've got about 500 british citizens fighting in syria and iraq at the moment. and the concern is that one day, they will return home and carry out atrocities, beheadings on the streets of britain. and the plot today that has been uncovered is said to relate to that. the early days, of course, the arrests only took place this morning in london. the investigations are continuing. but as in, the intelligence briefings here in london, that this was a plot to carry out beheadings

joining me nic robertson. you have the letter. what has he written? >> brooke, as you say, very scathing. there is strong language in there. he criticizes the regional health officials for blaming his wife for her neglect when putting on and off her protective equipment and says, look, she didn't have any training in this. she had 30 minutes sort of initiation in how to put on and off that equipment from a colleague. not adequate he says. he goes on. he says i know that in other countries they quarantine healthcare workers after treating an ebola patient. even though i am only a welder, i understand that if we had done this with my wife, my wife would possibly not be battling between life and death. his dog and her daughter would be alive and everyone including myself would be in isolation. we wouldn't be in potential danger of this disease. and the difference between you and i is i haven't been eating well because my wife is between life and death and i can't eat. have some nerve and resign." we were told about this letter by a friend who has been ab

i want to go to nic robertson in spain. there was a news conference, as you know, nic, today. what did the health authorities there say? >> reporter: wolf, they say that they're ramping up spain's preparedness to deal with infectious diseases like ebola. they're going to establish 17 regional centers, one for each of spain's regions. they have the hospital here in madrid. they're going to repeat what they have here across the country. they're going to do more training for ambulance workers, even for firemen and others on the front lines perhaps who are going to pick up ebola patients. but what health officials are saying is something that echoes sentiments across europe, that they cannot relax their guard while the infection rate is so high in africa. this is what they're saying. >> translator: until we start to diminish the outbreak, we have to contemplate the possibilities of imported cases and our health care system has to be perfectly prepared. >> reporter: it still has some way to go according to health care officials to do that. we've also heard from the doctor treating

i want to turn to nic robertson. nic, i have never seen anything like that letter the husband wrote. >> reporter: john, what we're learning here is perhaps new details. it is new details or new specifics from family and friends of maria ramos. what we are told is she has at the moment a pulmonary endema. a lung infection between the chest wall. the nights are worst for teresa. she fears the nights. that's when her condition deteriorates. we don't know her situation this morning. until now, the hospital describes her as critical, but stable. there is talk she has been conscious. the concern of her friends at the moment is this problem that she is having with her breathing with her lungs. the friends also tell us the very distraught situation that her husband is in right now, not just writing the letter calling for the regional health minister to resign, but in fact saying if spain put in place the protective measures, post-treating people with ebola, for health care professionals, if they were monitored after treating

cnn's nic robertson is live with the latest information on ebola testing is due to begin this week. nic. >> reporter: christine, a lot of attention focused on this hospital currently the place where the world health organization is testing the first vaccine that's been given to take on ebola. it has been tested on animals up to now. 250 volunteers, up to 250 volunteers at the hospital will get the vaccine. they are testing for safety and if they have the vaccine levels, if you will, set correctly to give an adequate dosage to protect against ebola. if this is successful, and they will know that by december, in january, they could begin testing of thousands of people in liberia and sierra leone. of course, they say, health care workers would be the first among those to get the vaccine. if that is successful, they could see a significant scale of millions of shots made available by april of next year. >> nic, you have been talking to the doctors and nurses to fight the frontlines in west africa. what are they telling you about quarantine upon return? >> reporter: they are all disappoin

nic robertson is live with more on that. nic. >> reporter: good morning, christine. we were at the spain's equivalent to the cdc. the only system that does the ebola checks. the nursing assistant's sample went through the testing procedure. it took a while to await the results. within a few hours, officials got what they expected. teresa romero ramos shows no signs of ebola. she will have to wait in hospital for another 72 hours to get a second test. also, she had a chest infection. had some difficulty breathing. she will likely remain a bit longer for monitoring of that condition. for spanish authorities, this is a milestone. that means no one in the country as far as they know has ebola. teresa romero ramos's husband is in isolation with a dozen or so other people who had contact with ramos. they will wait a week before being cleared. there were two other people in the hospital here who were having tests for ebola symptoms or ebola-like symptoms. they also tested negative for the second time. one of those, we understand, from sources within the hospital who has kno

cnn senior international correspondent nic robertson joins us live. nic, good day to you. first question a lot of people want to know is the condition of theresa ramiro. >> reporter: yeah, she remains in critical but stable condition. she is conscious and talking according to hospital officials. she is receiving her treatment by drugs. one of those drugs, the antiinfluenza drug. what other medications she's getting are not clear. there have been a couple of developments in the last 24 hours here. one of the nurses who have been under observation has had a second negative test so she has been released from quarantine and by the 16th of august, just a few days from now. she will be -- 16th, rather, of october, she will be released from observations. she is now out of quarantine. that said, another nurse submitted herself to being put under observations here at the hospital just yesterday. her father said that she volunteered to come in here. she was concerned about the contacts that she had had. so there are currently 15 additional people who have had risky contacts who are

she said ebola was striking fear in people's minds. >> nic robertson reporting there for us. the w.h.o. meanwhile warns that another country could face a potential ebola outbreak. the group says that the ivory coast is at risk of having the disease spill over from neighboring countries. social workers there are going door the door to teach people how to protect themselves. >> reporter: for every illness there are measures to take to stop it. but with ebola it is much more difficult because it touches their culture. >> ivory coast shares the border with guinea and liberia which has seen the highest rates of death. the disease has killed 4500 in west africa. >>> and in spain, we expect the update on the condition of the nurse, teresa ramos, who contracted the disease while in liberia treating a missionary with the disease. what do we know about her condition now? >> reporter: hi, natalie, well, officials say there have been a number of tests, almost daily on teresa ramos who is in this hospital behind me. and the good news is, it is showing the amount of the ebola virus in her

let's go live to madrid and our senior international correspondent, nic robertson. no doubt some relief being felt there in spain, nic. >> reporter: absolutely. i think that was read large on the face of the deputy prime minister who made the announcement yesterday, not just the three patients that arrived at this hospital on thursday but another arriving at a hospital in tanarif. a nurse working with an aide worker, nurse working with red cross who was working in sierra leone. they're not out of the woods yet. there will be a test in a few days. if there's a second negative, there will be an all clear. there's greater relief at this hospital. the last two tests for ebola virus on theresa ramiro, the nursing assistant, is showing what we're told very low levels of the virus and that is a positive sign here. so for spanish authorities, the news over the past 24 hours or so has been very, very positive. of course, several score of people still remain under observation here, but these results are good results for authorities here, natalie. >> yeah, nic. is it a general

nic robertson, cnn, geneva, switzerland. >> now, if you'd like to learn what you can do to help fightla in west africa and there is still a large need for that head to our website, we have a list of vetted organizations, currently working on the front lines with health care workers from around the world. all those resources this one place for you at cnn .com/impac. >>> now, nato is reporting what it calls an unusual rise in russian military aircraft flying in european air space. it says more than 19 russian aircraft were spotted in a 24-hour period. pentagon correspondent barbara starr told our wolf blitzer why it is causing concern. >> reporter: over the last two days nato has monitored an increased number of russian flights. they have been over the north atlantic, the balkans, the baltic and to the east in the black sea. a number of european air forces have responded. they are intercepting these flights. they are generally russian bear bombings with refueling aircraft in groups of eight. now, here's the problem. they're not doing anything particularly illegal, they are not violating

cnn international correspondent nic robertson joins me live from madrid. what can you tell us about the condition of this nurse's aid? >> reporter: she had pulmonary ede edema. what we are hearing is that teresa romero is very afraid of the nights. that's when she says she gets worse. the hospital says she's talking and conscious. but her lungs and her breathing are very much affected at the moment. >> nic, her husband sent a strongly worded letter to the regional health minister there in spain. it reads in part, quote, teresa had approximately 30 minutes to learn how to put on a protective suit from a colleague and she had a vocation in humility that you lack. have some nerve and resign. emotions riding high. does the husband of this nurse's aid have a point about how unprepared the health care workers were? >> reporter: he is not a lone voice in this. others here have said the same thing. get this as well. this is a husband who through this friend who's become a spokesman for the family who's meeting with them tells us that teresa and her husband actuall

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we have nic robertson with the latest from the area. what is the latest? for disease control had an investigation of the hospital. they say it is not fit for treating ebola. they say it doesn't measure up to the standards they expect. what the committee here in spain has gone on to say is the committee set up to investigate the outbreak of ebola, they say that there isn't adequate space to put on and take off the protective equipment that the nurses and doctors are required to wear. the space is too small, which raises the possibility of contamination. the nurse assistant, teresa romero had a rough night last night. we have been told by a source who has knowledge of her treatment says she has a respiratory problem and lung infection. we are getting reports and the special spokesman for the commission here in spain has said there is some reason to be hopeful about her condition. this is what he said. >> translator: the amount of the virus teresa has seems to be lowering. it is important to believe there is hope regards her case. we have to be hopeful. a per

senior international correspondent nic robertson reports. >> reporter: the world health organization, the w.h.o. is saying that this was an initial internal report that it had not been fact checked yet but the facts look like this, ebola was first announced, discovered on the 22nd of march in guinea. on the 1st of april, doctors without borders said this was unprecedented. the same day, the w.h.o. spokesman said this this was -- the numbers were typical of what they had seen before. it wasn't until the 8th of august that the w.h.o. announced that this was an international disaster. now, i spoke with isabelle nutle, dr. isabelle knuttle, what she told me was that more could have been done. she wished that more had been done. she said more is important. she also said in the early stages they didn't have a diagnosis with ebola. it was very difficult to get information from west africa. she also said that when the w.h.o. put out a request for volunteers to go to west africa to treat ebola, she said there was a huge fear factor, volunteers weren't forthcoming in the big numbers. this also

nic robertson, cnn, madrid, spain. >>> well, still to come here on cnn. coalition air strikes are taking aim at isis, but are they doing any good? we'll tell you why one retired air force colonel says the strategy is all wrong. plus it's been six months since a south korea ferry sank carrying hundreds. and there are still missing passengers. we'll hear from family members who refuse to leave the crash site until their loved ones have been found. i was out for a bike ride. i didn't think i'd have a heart attack. but i did. i'm mike, and i'm very much alive. now my doctor recommends a bayer aspirin regimen to help prevent another heart attack. be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. ever since we launched snapshot, my life has been positively cray-cray. what's snapshot, you ask? only a revolutionary tool that can save you big-time. just plug it in, and the better you drive, the more cash you'll stash. switching to progressive can already save ye $500. snapshot could save ye even more. meat maiden! bringeth to me thine spiciest wi

nic robertson, cnn, london. >>> we'll turn to the u.s. next. ferguson, missouri police chief talks to cnn about his future amid reports he's going to step down. >>> the police chief in ferguson, missouri denies reports he's going to quit. >> that's right. here's what thomas jackson told cnn's jason carroll in an exclusive interview. >> where does it stand, are you going to resign? >> no, i'm going to stay and see this through. >> straightforward there. >> that's an excerpt of that interview. emotions still running high in ferguson nearly three months after a white police officer fatally shot unarmed african-american teen michael brown. >> there's still tension and anger there along with signs of change. >> reporter: if ever there was a sign that racial tensions are simmering to a boil in missouri, this is it. an uncensored, racially charged front page of the missouri state university newspaper, where the n word and f word are spelled out. the editor in chief explained why he did not sensor the words hurled at students protesting for ferguson. >

nic robertson joins us with more in from london. hi, nic. >> reporter: hi, carol.les from here where the neighbors say they heard a commotion in the early hours of tuesday morning and that's when they say they believe they heard somebody being tased as part of the arrest operation by the police forces here. they say that the man that they identify as tariq hassani a student, that began in the early hours of tuesday. searches tonight continue after early morning raids rounded up four young men who were in the early stages of a terror plot, armed counterterrorism police made the arrests, one suspect was subdued with a taser. their names have not been released and few other details are known. this just a week and a half after at least ten other london area terror related arrests and last month, australian police arrested 15 men with alleged isis ties who were said to be planning public executions in sydney. following great britain's air strikes against isis, and a heightened threat level of severe, authorities here say they are taking a more interventionist approach t

nic robertson has been looking into this. found out, ni zplrks. >> counterterrorism police conducted the raid but they were supported by armed police which here in the uk is a significant step above the normal. it does indicate police were very concerned about how these men might react. they have been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the commissioning, the instigation, or the preparation of acts of terrorism, very serious offenses. two men were 20 years old. the other 21 years old. each one of the men, one of the 21-year-olds tried it appears to escape arrests. police say he was tasered during the arrest operation. no one was injured but this does come very much hard on the heels of the raising of the terror threat level in the uk over the past month or so, the concerns there that young men from the uk ghiegt to syria or other countries, learn terrorist skills and come back with the aim of perpetrating fundamentalism the uk. and when you learn why these men were arrested, this gives you an idea here and the armed p

nic robertson, cnn, switzerland. >>> this is interesting. the iaea also appears to be helping with the fight against ebola. after the u.s. secretary of state spoke with the agency's director general, they said they discussed important work the iaea is doing to combat the spread of ebola, including through using nuclear technology the agency developed that cuts the diagnosis time for the disease by a significant amount. hopefully that's a promising development, as well. >>> it's just past 1:00 a.m. in the u.s. state of missouri, and the mischief in ferguson is denying reports that he's going to step down. take a listen to what he told our jason carroll in an exclusive interview. >> where does it stand? are you going to resign? >> no, i'm going to stay and see this through. >> pretty straightforward there. thomas jackson's department has faced angry protests and intense scrutiny since a white police shot unarmed african-american teenager michael brown in august. the u.s. justice department is investigating this, and the attorney general eric h

let's bring in our international correspondent, nic robertson. i understand we don't know for sure if this is connected to isis specifically. but you do have this heightened search of urgency in the u.k. as other nations help with the air strikes. what do we know about yesterday's terror arrests? >> reporter: the metropolitan police chief in london said the police were acting with more interventionist policy. and he described this as a serious case. and he said this case does have links going back to iraq and syria. while not using the word isis. by saying iraq and syria, and in the context of the fact that british security officials are very concerned about the hundreds of young men that have gone to join isis and other radical slammist groups and iraq. the inference seems to be that this does have connections to isis. again, that's not being said explicitly. what these men are being, have been arrested for is the suspicion of commissioning or preparing or instigating acts of terrorism. islamist terrorism is what the police are saying. while the

. >> our senior international correspondent nic robertson is live in london with some of the details . >> reporter: they are hard to come by. but what we do know is this is related to islamist terrorism. that's what the police are saying. they arrested the four men, two of them 20 years old, two of them 21 years old. this morning they say. there have been no photographs that have emerged yet but the public may have seen this and taken some pictures as it happened which gives the impression this operation took place in the early hours of the morning. but there are other indications this is a serious arrest. counterterrorism police involved but also the armed police were involved here, a special unit in london. that's out of the ordinary. these men are arrested on suspicion of preparation or commissioning or instigation of an act of terrorism. so it gives that impression that potentially there was an operation or a plot under way. one of the men was tasered as the arrest took place. he was uninjured. but, again, in uk terms, this is a significant event. >> this is on the heels of nine o

nic robertson reporting there live from madrid. thanks to you. >>> well, the president of liberia says the consequences are dire if the international community doesn't step up its response to the outbreak. in a letter read on the bbc ellen johnson surleaf warned of a lost generation in africa. she wrote, "we all have a stake in the battle against ebola. it is the duty of all of us as global citizens to send a message that we will not leave millions of west africans to fend for themselves against an enemy that they do not know and against whom they have little defense." liberia has of course been hardest hit in this outbreak. health officials say about 2,500 people have died there and many of people left children behind. the devastating impact ebola is having on the country's new orphans. >> reporter: this is calculato calculator's favorite dance. it was supposed to be his cousin esther's but she let him have it. the 10-year-old and his cousin are the last remaining ebola orphans at the massaque orphanage. their parents died last mo

. >> thank you, nic robertson bringing us up to date live in madrid. >> two nurses, including amber vin srk vinson contracted the virus. frontier airlines is contacting passengers who were on the flight. another infected nurse, nin nina pham is said to be resting comfortably in maryland, meanwhile president barack obama is appointing ron clane as his ebola czar to help with the crisis. some people are calming on obama to ban people entering the united states from countries which have ebola. will it be helpful or practical. tom foreman looks for answers. >> reporter: the first question can a travel ban be implemented. legally the united states has a right to control who enters the country. there are no direct flights out of the hottest ebola zone to the united states. most travelers through other airports or countries so any band would have to include massive numbers or fliers at over the globe at weeks at time. disrupting global trade and more. >> closing off is not only tech nickly difficu , technically difficult but also stops the flow of commerce and who we were as a society. >> ques

. >> nic robertson, many thanks to you reporting there live from madrid. >>> well, the new york times reporting new details in the controversial police shooting of michael brown in ferguson missouri back in august. according to the report, forensic testing reveals the 18-year-old's blood was found on officer derek wilson's gun, body and police officer. he also told investigators he was trapped in his vehicle. brown's shooting death has sparked protests in furring ferguson. >> hurricane gonzalo has pummeled berm yudbermuda. coming up, we will tell you where the storm is now. back in a moment. great rates and safety working in harmony. open an optimizer +plus account from synchrony bank. visit myoptimizerplus.com to open an account. service. security. savings. synchrony bank engage with us. ♪ [ male announcer ] united is rolling out global, satellite-fed wi-fi to connect you even 35,000 feet over the ocean. ♪ that's...wifi friendly. ♪ >>> coalition air craft have resumed air strikes on isis in iraq after stand foand storms. they once again pounded isis positions. the u.s. getting help w

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i want to turn to cnn's nic robertson live in madrid this morning. good morning, nic. >> reporter: good morning, john. all of the regional health care officials will say they have no comment about this letter. it is a very direct letter. it is a very passionate letter. teresa romero's husband is in tears and anguish. if the government had given his wife better training, proper training, this would not have happened. he also says that if his wife and other health care workers working with ebola victims here had been properly monitored, then again, this situation that they're in and his wife is in, a life and death situation, would not have happened. he doesn't mince words telling the health minister to resign. his wife, we heard from a family friend saying the nights is what his wife fears the most. the nights where her condition worses. she has a pulmonary edema. her lungs are affected. we are hearing from hospital officials she is having difficulty breathing. there are concerns. her condition is critical, but stable. what we are being told and this f

cnn's nic robertson is live where the workers are being sent and the new ebola testing is starting this week. nic. >> reporter: john, the hospital has been chosen by the world health organization to test on 250 human volunteers. the first of the drugs that is being made to treat ebola. vaccines made available to treat ebola. this has been an accelerated process. what they call phase one of the dosing levels. if all goes well, they will have results by december and by early next year, they could go to phase three testing in sierra leone and liberia. thousands of people could get the vaccine there. health care workers are first this line. if that goes well, they could up the dosing levels and abilities to a wider program by april of next year, john. >> nic, you were talking to the medical workers on the way and those fighting ebola in west africa. what do they think about the quarantine debate going on in the united states right now? >> reporter: the headline on that is none that i talked to, whether officials at the world health organization and experienced doctors giving the training an

our nic robertson is live in madrid with more on that. she is virus free. disease free. a huge relief for the country, nic. >> reporter: it is something that spanish officials have been waiting for. the health care professionals in the hospital where teresa romero ramos is still inside the ward have been believing this is exactly the way the tests would go on sunday. we were there in the lab. spain's equivalent to the cdc. we watched at the lab techs suited up. the officials say she is now immune from contracting this ebola virus in the future. something that she has wanted to do. go back and work with the ebola patients again. in some ways, once she gets out of hospital here, she may be free to do that. she is not able to leave the hospital yet. she will have another ebola test in just a couple of days. of course, she had a chest infection and difficulty breathing. that is improving. we understand it is likely the hospital wants to keep her under observation longer. there are another 86 people in spain under observation. they will end that 21-day period for many of them

>> nic robertson, stand by. i want to go to liberia where the number of ebola deaths in west africa as a whole just keeps on climbing. more than 4,000. so we're there in monrovia. how are workers there coping? >> reporter: well, it really seems like they can't handle the pressure for much longer. some of the equipment is still inadequate. so many of the health care workers at the city's largest treatment center has started to go slow. the consequences of that, the fears of the consequences, you can imagine, are huge. we've already starting to feel it, wolf. three ambulances were turned away on saturday and now they are currently not admitting patients. it's just a difficult situation on both sides. of course, the impact is scary and the health care workers have been going for months now and doesn't feel like they can take anymore. wolf? >> military personnel are doing the best they can. a lot of people here in the united states are deeply concerned about what eventually will be 4,000 americans, u.s. military per

the moment, the indications are that this was a plot thwarted in its early stages, allison. >> nic robertson, thanks so much for the update. >> more information on what's going on here with the fbi and the terror plot in the uk, let's bring in daveed gartenstein-ross, and kirk lithole, former commander of the "uss cole." he was on the ship when it was attacked in 2000. i remember that attack and remember all your efforts to save the ship and secure the crew and help in the investigation. what do you make of the fbi asking for the help of americans? does that show an inability on their part? or the new way of terror policing? does it tip a hand to how important this man is to them? >> i think it's an absolutely right thing to do. if you look at it, the fbi has spent considerable time already trying to narrow the focus. and figure out who this person is, where he might be from the united states. now that they may have narrowed the field within their own intelligence network and what they may know, they're asking the broader american public, by doing that, it's going to allow a number of hits a

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knick r nic robertson, cnn, switzerland. >> we return our coverage on isis now and the terrorist group is well known for its kidnappings across syria and iraq. but the syrian observatory for human rights says isis has released 25 kurdish teens. it says they are the last of about 150 students kidnapped in may. they were taken host annage on their way home from kobani after taking exams. well, isis has unleashed some of its most brutal treatment on the izidi community in iraq and particularly its women. here's ivan watson with a firsthand account of what they' been made to suffer. >> this girl was a 19-year-old high school senior with dreams of becoming a doctor when isis first came to her village. >> translator: they came to the village and said you have to convert to islam or we will kill you. >> she's from a community of ethnic kurds from the yazidi minority. soon after, she said isis ordered the entire village to go to the school where they stole all the people's jewelry, money and cell phones and then separated the men from the women. according to a united nations report, isis gathe

. >> nic robertson, we'll check back with you as matters develop. >>> back here in the united states,i is asking for the public's help in tracking down an english-speaking isis member and he's in a propaganda video called flames of war. >> they lie! the one! we are the harshest and the flames of war only beginning to intensify. >> now the fbi wants your help to learn who this terrorist is. our joe johns is following developments. is this the law enforcement definition of crowd sourcing? >> i think you can say that. they are hoping that someone will be able to identify this man as part of a broader outreach to help the public to get people to identify people who may want to travel overseas and fight with terrorists. perhaps even more important, is learning the identity of isis fighters who might be returning to the united states. meanwhile, the intelligence community is trying to determine whether the isis fighter in the mask is american or canadian, not quite clear on that. >> this video, flames of war, it was shocking but one thing it wasn't was amateurish. it was pretty well-produce

nic robertson has the details. >> reporter: the metropolitan police commissioner in london says thatserious case they are taking -- police are taking a more interventionist tactic and these arrests relate or have ties going back to iraq and syria. an indication therefore not saying it specifically but an indication, therefore, that they may have links to isis. >> officers say one suspect was tasered in the raid but was not injured. police are not revealing any details about the alleged plot. >>> of course, the great concerns about terror like isis have for some cast religion of islam in a pretty harsh light. >> yeah, we visited a madrassa in india, home to the world's second largest muslim population and spoke to teachers who say muslims should follow moderate traditions. ♪ >> reporter: thousands of miles away from the war, muslims lament. ♪ to those who have lost their way, let us show them the right path and spread the message of humanity, they sing. isis militants, al qaeda or anyone who practices terror are murders, they say and against islam. this is just one of thousands of mad

our senior international correspondent nic robertson is joining us live from london. what can you tell us, nic, about these arrests, the possible terror plot? >> reporter: the police are saying these are islamist-related terrorism offenses and say these four men were suspected of being involved in commissioning or preparing or instigating an act of terrorism. they're not giving more details other than that. but what we know, counterterrorism police conducted the arrests this morning. and they also used on at least one of those arrests armed police. that is unusual for the uk. so it does give an indication that the police were concerned about the men that they were arresting, how they might respond. one of the men, a 21-year-old, we understand, was tasered by the police. the police say that no one was actually injured. these are all young men. two of them are 20, two of them are 21. they're being questioned by police at different police stations in the center of london. and investigations continue in locations in the west and center of london as well as investigations o

nic robertson, cnn, birmingham, england. >> it really speaks volumes, doesn't it, that she finished outphysics class before she gave that incredible speech. we just heard about malala's story. let's take a closer look to kailash satyarthi's journey to the nobel peace prize. >> nobel peace prize for 2014 is to be awarded to kailash satyarthi and malala yousafzai. >> he may not be as famous as his fellow peace prize lawyer yet, but he has been fighting for children's rights in south africa for decades. >> maintaining tradition, has headed various forms of protests and demonstrations, all peaceful, focusing on the grave exploitation of children for financial gain. >> reporter: giving up his engineering job 35 years ago, he has helped to rescue thousands from child labors across south asia, often times putting his own life at risk. last year, i accompanied sat satyarthi on a mission. >> the department and the police and the police take quite a long time. meantime, some people would have been given to the local slave masters. so we don't know. >> reporter: so there's a chance we might get th

let me send you three reports beginning with cnn's senior international reporter nic robertson. >> reporternuances that senegal is free from ebola. a w.h.o. official said the reason senegal and nigeria have done so well to combat their outbreaks of ebola was quick tracing of all of the contacts those infected people had. they said that's key for combatting ebola in west africa right now and also key taking quick samples and getting those samples checked by authorities and also they say a public awareness campaign so the public knows what to do, who to turn to, if they notice somebody has or is showing symptoms of ebola. they also say very important that healthcare workers need more help. more than 400 healthcare workers infected and more than 200 have died. they want healthcare workers to get more protective equipment and more training on how to use it. >> reporter: a collective sigh of relief in spain this day from the deputy prime minister at a press conference on down the line that four people rushed into hospital on thursday on fears they might have the ebola virus, they were exhibiting

nic robertson is monitoring her situation in madrid.stand that she's taking some extraordinary measures to keep down the risk of colleagues. >> yeah, we were talking with her doctor today, and, of course, this doctor is not just her doctor, theresa romero's doctor. it's her friend. they were both a few weeks ago treating these missionaries here. they know each other. they're good friends. and what the doctor told me today is that theresa romero is actually helping them sort of do her own treatment to avoid her friends and colleagues getting infected. this is what the doctor told me. >> she's worried about us. okay, don't touch there. no, i can do it, don't worry. she's helping us to treat her. so she wants -- >> she's helping you in order to not put you at greater risk? >> of course, yes. she was where i am now, she knows what i have to do. how i have to take off the gloves and everything. and she say okay, okay, slowly. don't touch these. yes. >> well, that must make you feel pretty good. >> yeah. >> even though she's sick, she wants t

our nic robertson is in madrid with more. what's the latest in spain, nic? people awed mitted to the homt yesterday, a third person, missionary who had been in liberia, no results back from the test that he had. he had ebola fever-like symptoms tland is also another person, another aid worker, working for the red cross in the canary islands, admitted to hospital yesterday. spanish health officials say still waiting for test results to come back on him. two people living with him also at the hospital in the canary islands under observation. at the moment, it looks like two people here, first test negative. still waiting in a couple of days to see what the second tests will look like. chris? >> all right, nic, thank you very much. we'll check back in with you. so you let us know what's going on over there. over here, a little more to the east than south, there's a big hurricane bearing down. specifically on bermuda. let's get to chad myers. how hard will it hit? where will it hit? and then what? >> i see the eye going right over the island nation of bermuda. h

278 nominations for the big prize, let's talk about it with senior international correspondent, nic robertson, with the latest from london and we're joined on the phone by chief international correspondent christiane amanpour who has spent a lot of time with malala. people were expecting her to win last year. this year, is it a surprise? >> i think it was a surprise, perhaps the biggest surprise this year, the bookmakers had been favoring her. the pope had been the favorite. a lot of people will be gratified to see she has this. it will be inspirational for young girls in particular. the world over to see that she has been recognized at this level. but also, the nobel committee deciding to link her award with that of this indian child's right activist as well, he, a hindu, she a muslim from pakistan. a message to india and pakistan, you have your differences, your different identities, but you have a common goal, a common challenge, the world does as well, to educate children. he, by his own words, has freed about 80,000 children from servitude created programs like rug mark. to show that rug