also in december on the other side of the globe police storming this cafÉ in sydney oesterle a after 16 hour siege when a gunman had more than a dozen people hostage. the suspect was killed as well as two hostages. you will remember in october an armed man gunned down a canadian soldier on sentry duty at the canadian war memorial in ottawa. jenna: moving back to paris, the city on lockdown. a year-end reporter is live in paris and joins us by phone. hal accurate is that description? a city on lockdown to . >> france has been very quiet since the attack. people are trying to stay home. but it is not completely shut down because we really focused on facing the attackers of three men as they are getting around the country fleeing the crime. and the government is reinforcing the area trying to assess what has happened. so life is still going on including in official buildings. but people do intend to gather to show solidarity to the press and to support the victims and all of the people that have been in this neighborhood, showing solidarity and gather together. jenna: those officials ha

growing up on there for anything but oesterle, they were two stories about the second world war increase that it always kept close to my heart. the first was in 1940 when mussolini, italy's prime minister asked the greek prime minister for free passage through greece. and on the spot at 3:00 in the morning without hesitation without confrontation, he said no. it was a spirited defiance come and quite incredible when considering just how vastly outnumbered the greeks were by the italians it prompted sir winston churchill the greatest figure of the 20th century in my mind to say it is not greeks that fight like a rose, but that heroes fight like greeks. and then again in 1943 on the island, the german military commander ordered the bishop to prepare him a list of the jewish community on the island. this plan was to deport the entire jewish community to concentration camps in poland. the word had gotten out that any greek caught hiding the gmac would be executed on the spot. instead of preparing, the bishop and the mayor went to the jewish committee on the island and they sent him into hidi