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Paris Honors Attack Victims; El Chapo Fights Extradition; U.S. Bomber Flies over South Korea; Trump Ramps Up Cruz "Birther" Rhetoric; Warming Lakes Toxic to Marine Life; "Charlie Hebdo" Attack One Year Later; Saudi-Iran Tensions Rise; Filmmaker Captures Plight of Refugees; Internet Dog Pants Debate. Aired 5-6a ET

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LYNDA KINKADE, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): At this hour, Paris is remembering those who died in the terrorist assaults of last January and November.

These are live pictures from the capital of France right now, one year on from the attack on "Charlie Hebdo" magazine. We'll take you live to a city that refuses to give in to fear.

Also ahead: the recapture of El Chapo inside the motel room where he was held for this photo of the disheveled drug lord were taken.

And a billion-dollar lottery. When nobody wins, the jackpot just keeps growing.

Welcome to our viewers in the U.S. and right across the world. I'm Lynda Kinkade. This is CNN NEWSROOM.

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KINKADE: We begin Paris, where a ceremony is getting underway, remembering the victims of the November 13th terror attacks and of the massacre at "Charlie Hebdo" magazine a year ago. French President Francois Hollande is expected to unveil a plaque shortly.

And later, a remembrance tree will be lit. France has spent the last several days honoring people killed last January during three days of terror. Jim Bittermann joins us now from Paris.

And, Jim, it's been a big week of memorial events. Tell us what the mood is like there today.

JIM BITTERMANN, CNN SR. INTL. CORRESPONDENT: Well, I think a pretty somber mood, actually, because this is, as you mentioned, a ceremony that has recognized not only the events of a year ago at "Charlie Hebdo," in which 17 people were killed, but also the events of November 13th, in which 130 people were killed, not far from this square in Paris. This is the Place de la Republique which is only a few blocks away

from the Bataclan, which was the concert hall where many, many of those 130 people were killed and more than 300 people injured in the attacks.

So it's a very somber mood. We see there the President Hollande and Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris to his left as well as Prime Minister Valls to the right. And standing at attention in front of the various memorials that have placed here, including that plaque, which you mentioned has already been unveiled by the dignitaries.

And that plaque is in front of a tree, an oak tree, which was planted especially to memorialize the victims. Now we're going to have a little musical interlude and expect to see some speeches and whatnot later on in the day -- Lynda.

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KINKADE (voice-over): And Jim, of course, this time last year, more than a million people, including many world leaders, marched through the streets of Paris in a show of solidarity. Just explain for us how many people you expect to come out to the various events today.

Have you seen any foreign leaders?

BITTERMANN (voice-over): Well, there won't be any foreign leaders. This has strictly been organized by the city of Paris. It's basically a memorial that is to -- this morning, at least, is going to be just for 1,000 invited people.

They're going to be the families of the victims as well as some of the survivors of the various attacks who are invited there in a special area here. And we're kept a long way away from that.

And then later today, the security will be dropped and anybody that wants to come out here, they're expected to bring candles, as the mayor of Paris urged them. And so we're expecting there will be a number of people that will come out and memorialize the various victims of the various attacks here.

So I think later on it will be even more moving; as the evening wears on, they're going to light this oak tree that's been planted and there will kind of a candlelit ceremony around this square. So it should be -- I would imagine there will be 100, perhaps thousands of people to come out to the square -- Lynda.

KINKADE: OK. Jim Bittermann, live for us in Paris as that memorial ceremony gets underway, we will talk to you soon. Thanks so much.

No we will, of course, have more from Paris as we continue to cover the ceremony and the remembrance of all the Paris terror attack victims of 2015.

Mexican authorities have begun the extradition proceedings of fugitive drug lord Joaquin Guzman, who's best known as El Chapo, to the United States. Guzman was recaptured on Friday and is now back behind bars at a maximum security prison just outside Mexico City.

This, of course, is the same prison he escaped from back in July. The U.S. began requesting the outlaw's extradition in January of last year. Guzman's lawyer, however, is fighting to make sure that does not happen.

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JUAN PABLO BADILLO, GUZMAN LAWYER (through translator): Mr. Guzman Loera should not have been extradited to the United States or any other country.

What's the reason?

Because Mexico has just laws that are detailed in the general constitution of the republic.

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KINKADE: And we're learning more about El Chapo's time on the run. The notorious drug boss met with U.S. actor Sean Penn before his recapture. And Penn wrote an article for the "Rolling Stone" magazine. In the cell phone video recording we're about to show you by El Chapo's associate, Guzman talks about his role in the drug world.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (from captions): Do you think it's true you are responsible for the high level of drug addiction, for the fact that there are so many drugs in the world?

JOAQUIN GUZMAN, DRUG LORD (through translator): No, that's false, because the day I don't exist, it's not going to decrease in any way at all.

Drug trafficking? That's false.

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KINKADE: The Mexican navy arrested Guzman in a morning raid on his home turf in Sinaloa state earlier on Friday. CNN correspondent Martin Savidge has the latest from the hotel room El Chapo was held in after being captured.

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MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This hotel is located on the outskirts of the town, maybe about, oh, three or four miles, about six kilometers. When you look at it, it's a perfect place for federal authorities to bring El Chapo.

Remember, it's just after they've had a shootout. It's after they chased him, allegedly, through the sewer system. Look at this. This is a hotel room that has its own garage space.

Now the federal authorities could have pulled right in here, taken El Chapo out undercover and walked him right into this room.

And if you look, this is the room. It's the room that you see that's been made famous now as a result of the photograph. In fact, just sort of guesstimating, El Chapo would have been sitting right about here, looking off in that direction with a rather sullen look on his face.

There is one thing missing. You might have noticed in the background, certainly a lot of men did in the photograph. There was another photo of a woman not wearing a whole lot. It was up in this area. It appears that that's been taken down. Who has it or why, we don't know.

But we do know that federal authorities had El Chapo in here for about an hour and a half until they could get reinforcements, until they could essentially get their act together to be ready to move him and transport him.

Fairly standard room; it's got a toilet. It's got a shower. And it's got a sink and wash-up area. And it's located right by the highway. So there are a lot of things that make this room almost ideal for the job that they had.

And it's hidden away, almost kind of like a fortress. Thanks to that photograph, thanks to the most wanted man in all of Mexico and America, this room is now world-famous -- Martin Savidge, CNN, Los Mochis, Mexico.

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KINKADE: And earlier my colleague, Natalie Allen, spoke with Mexican drug war analyst Sylvia Longmire about whether Mexico will be able to keep El Chapo in prison this time around.

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SYLVIA LONGMIRE, DRUG WAR ANALYST: Even an escape plan, even under the leadership of El Chapo and all the money that he has to plant, it still takes time to plan. So he has -- his lawyers have some time, obviously, to work up the appeal. And I think it's up to 20 days to get all the details sorted out.

Most likely that will be denied. But I think it's in Mexico's best interest one way or another to put him on a plane to the U.S. as quickly as possible.

NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR: And what does the U.S. gain as far as having Guzman in their purview and perhaps him giving up information to the U.S.?

LONGMIRE: Sure. That's obviously the biggest benefit, is the intelligence value that he has. And ironically enough, that's one of the bigger reasons, from what I understand, that the Mexican government didn't want to give him up for extradition when they caught him back in February 2014.

The Mexican government was somewhat upset that U.S. government hadn't shared more intelligence from other individuals that had been extradited before.

But obviously, the importance and value of Guzman as an intelligence asset, I guess you could say, kind of trumps the concerns about Mexico's sovereignty in that regard.

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KINKADE: Longmire also said the Guzman capture would not cause much of a disruption in the drug cartel since they most likely have a strong plan of succession in place.

A U.S. bomber put on a show of force over the Korean Peninsula. The B-52 flew through the skies south of the demilitarized zone four days after North Korea detonated a massive explosion it says was a hydrogen bomb. Will Ripley join us from Pyongyang. He is the only reporter from the U.S. broadcast in North Korea.

But first we want to turn to Paula Hancocks. She joins us --

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KINKADE: -- from Seoul.

Talk us to about this flyover.

How powerful is a B-52 bomber?

And what is the U.S. hoping to achieve with this show of force?

PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Lynda, the message really couldn't be clearer from the United States. You have a B-52 bomber, which can carry both conventional and nuclear weaponry, which is flanked by U.S. and South Korean fighter jets, doing a flyby over just south of the border here in South Korea.

So it couldn't be a clearer message. They are showing that they are standing side by side. The U.S. Pacific Command has said that it is, quote, "a demonstration of the ironclad U.S. commitment for our allies in South Korea, in Japan and to the defense of the American homeland."

And now the timing, of course, is interesting. I must mention that this has happened once before -- or twice before -- back in March 2013 after the third nuclear test by North Korea. But that time it took the U.S. about a month before it brought these B-52 bombers in and then it said it was just part of the ongoing defensive military drills it had with South Korea.

This time it took just four days since that nuclear test. And the U.S. is being very clear that it is in response to that nuclear test -- Lynda.

KINKADE: Yes. Certainly a much faster response this time. Paula, just stand by. I want to bring in Will Ripley for the reaction

out of North Korea.

Will, it is likely that anyone in the North Korean regime will actually sit up and take notice of this flyover?

WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Absolutely, Lynda. While we don't have an official reaction from here in Pyongyang, you can bet that the military officials here in North Korea are certainly very aware that this has occurred.

And U.S. bombers coming close to North Korean territory is extremely infuriating for many of the military higher-ups here because it brings back memories of the Korean War, when American bombers brought destruction on the capital city where I am, Pyongyang. They have designed this city -- essentially there is a giant underground bunker system, the Pyongyang metro is a subway line.

But it's also 360 feet underground, one of the deepest metros in the entire world, because it doubles as a bomb shelter. And people here receive weekly education about history and the Korean War so prominently plays into how this country's military policies are to this day.

It's really the threat from the United States or the perceived threat of an invasion from the United States and its allies, is how North Korea continues to justify to its people spending a tremendous amount of its resources developing its military, including nuclear weapons and missile technology.

KINKADE: Will, do you think this latest flyover by the U.S. and South Korea will escalate the tensions we've already seen in that region?

RIPLEY: Well, if you think about what happened last time and you remember Paula mentioned that there were B-52s in March and then there were B-2 stealth bombers flown later on in the month of March, so two actions from the United States that really upped the game.

In response, North Korea put out statements, saying things like they were burning with hatred. They put missiles on standby to launch to U.S. bases in South Korea, in the Pacific. And they even aimed their long-range missiles toward the U.S. homeland before the situation did eventually de-escalate.

Obviously, the United States doesn't want to provoke North Korea to the point where they would actually fire a missile. And the North Korean regime doesn't want that to happen, either, because when you look at the weaponry from both sides, North Korea can't compete with the United States Armed Forces. And that's what these flyovers are intended to do, is to send a message to the North.

But the nuclear tests earlier this week on Wednesday was also intended to send a message to the world that North Korea is ready to defend itself. And if their national sovereignty is compromised, they say they will stop at nothing to protect themselves.

KINKADE: OK. Will, just stand by. Just back to Paula.

Paula, China, of course, is a key trading partner and ally of North Korea. The U.S. is hoping that China will use influence on the North.

What can we expect from China?

HANCOCKS: Well, Lynda, we've seen in recent days China almost also on a defensive footing. A lot of people around the world have said, well, if they wanted to, China could fix the problem.

So China's foreign ministry spokeswoman has actually had to come out and say that China doesn't hold the key to solving this issue, saying that the origins of the issue don't lie in China; they lie elsewhere.

And the fact is with Kim Jong-un's father, the late Kim Jong-il, maybe a case could have been made to say that China held the key to solving the nuclear issue. There was a much closer relationship between the then-president in China and Kim Jong-il. He visited the country. It was a much more amicable relationship.

But it has suffered significantly since Kim Jong-un took power. And remember, this time around, according to official reports --

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HANCOCKS: -- China wasn't warned about this nuclear test. It was warned the previous three times, as was Russia and the U.S. a couple of the times. But China was not warned. Nobody was warned.

So it is an embarrassment to Beijing. It is a slap in the face and it would anger the administration there.

So to say that China can really wield a tremendous amount of power with North Korea would be inaccurate. It does have some power, though, because, of course, it is the strongest ally and it is the largest trading partner -- Lynda.

KINKADE: That clearly shows that China's relationship with North Korea has deteriorated. Paula Newton (sic) in Seoul and Will Ripley in Pyongyang, we appreciate your time today. Thanks so much.

Hundreds of people are marching in Hong Kong outside the Beijing representative's office. They're protesting in support of five missing booksellers from Hong Kong.

They disappeared under mysterious circumstances in late December after garnering a public reputation for publishing work critical to the Chinese government.

Hong Kong opposition leaders have suggested Chinese authorities are behind the disappearance. China's foreign minister would only say what happens in Hong Kong are internal Chinese affairs.

Donald Trump has been on the offensive against rival Ted Cruz. We'll tell what you some are calling the new birther conspiracy. Plus we're watching a ceremony in Paris happening now that's honoring

the people killed in last year's terror attacks. We'll have more on that just ahead.

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KINKADE: Back now to Paris, where French President Francois Hollande and other leaders have gathered for a ceremony to honor the people killed in last year's string of shootings in January and the terror attacks in November.

Mr. Hollande has unveiled a plaque and later a remembrance tree will be lit.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is ramping up his rhetoric against rival Ted Cruz. Trump is targeting him more as he battles Cruz for a crucial win in Iowa. The main thrust of the recent attacks have been what some are calling a new birther conspiracy targeting Cruz's legitimacy --

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KINKADE: -- as a U.S. citizen. MJ Lee reports on Trump's latest remarks.

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MJ LEE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Donald Trump on Saturday, training his fire on Ted Cruz, reviving the so-called birther issue. Speaking to supporters in Clear Lake, Iowa, Trump said that because Cruz was born in Canada, that could raise some serious questions about his eligibility to be president. Here's what he said.

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DONALD TRUMP, REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: He was born in Canada. And I say to Ted and, as a Republican, I said, because I think it's very important, you got to get it straightened out because you cannot put somebody there, folks, that's going to go in and he's going to be immediately sued by the Democrats because they're saying he was born in Canada. He's not allowed to run for president.

And if there's that doubt, don't forget, these lawsuits, who knows more about lawsuits than I do?

I'm the king. I'm the king. These lawsuits take two, three, four years. So you can't have somebody running -- you cannot have somebody running and have a lawsuit and people have already said they're going to bring the lawsuit. They say if he gets the nomination, we're bringing a lawsuit as to natural-born citizenship.

(END VIDEO CLIP) LEE: Now this attack was a clear sign that Donald Trump understands that Ted Cruz is his biggest threat in the state of Iowa; we're just now, about three weeks away from the Iowa caucuses. And Trump's guesses that in order for him to bring up his poll numbers here, he needs to go on the offensive against Cruz.

In recent weeks, Trump has also raised questions about Cruz's stance on ethanol subsidies, an issue that is very important in this state, where farming is a very big industry.

So it's looking increasingly like, in Iowa, it's going to be a two-man race between Trump and Cruz. Back to you.

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KINKADE: That was MJ Lee reporting there.

And CNN's Jake Tapper sat down with Ted Cruz on his campaign bus and asked the candidate about his U.S. citizenship and the controversy that now surrounds it.

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JAKE TAPPER, CNN CHIEF WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: Carly Fiorina saying the other day that she says it's odd that it wasn't until 2014 that you renounced your dual citizenship, you citizenship with Canada.

Now I know you say you didn't even know about it until "The Dallas Morning News" wrote the story, I think, in 2013.

Did you ever go back after that "Dallas Morning News" story and try to find out more about your parents' time in Canada, whether they did any -- I mean did they vote in Canada when they were there?

SEN. TED CRUZ (R), TEXAS: No. No.

TAPPER: No, they did not?

CRUZ: My mother didn't because she was a U.S. citizen. And my mother -- look, the Internet has all sorts of fevered swamp theories. But the facts are simple. My mom was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She was an American citizen by birth. She's been an American citizen all 81 years of her life. She'd never been a citizen of any other place.

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KINKADE: And you can watch Jake Tapper's full interview with Ted Cruz on "STATE OF THE UNION." That is coming up later at 9:00 Eastern time. That's 2:00 pm in London and 10:00 pm in Hong Kong.

Well, dangerously cold air has settled across parts of North America.

PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Yes. Winter is here.

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KINKADE: You're here, too.

How cold is it, Pedram?

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JAVAHERI: Studies coming out in the past several days here touching on the incredible warmth taking place on our lakes around the world. In fact, a 25-year study conducted over some 235 lakes around the world it noticed and observed that temperatures on the lakes, the water temperatures, up about 0.34 degrees Celsius every single decade.

That's an alarming number. You take a look and compare that to the atmospheric warming --

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JAVAHERI: -- per decade that's been happening, the oceanic warming per decade that's been occurring, the lakes take the largest chunk there when it come to the increase in temps.

And why is this significant?

About half of the world's fresh water supply coming out of those lakes that were analyzed, Lynda.

And when you warm the lakes up, you produce algae on the lake's surface. This reduces oxygen inside the water. Of course, the marine life significantly impacted. It could become toxic. But also algae releases methane gas, which is far more destructive as a greenhouse gas in trapping heat than carbon dioxide is.

So about 25 times more destructive. So this is an incredible finding as we knew oceans and the atmospheric were -- temperatures were warming. But the lakes warming even at a much more rapid rate as well.

KINKADE: And incredible study. Pedram Javaheri, great to have you with us.

JAVAHERI: Thanks for having me, Lynda.

KINKADE: Well, Still to come, diplomatic tensions are rising after the Saudi execution of a Shiite cleric. We'll tell why you six countries are saying that Iran incited a terrorist act.

Plus, we're live in Paris, where French leaders are holding a ceremony honoring people killed in last year's terrorist attacks.

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KINKADE: The day of the "Charlie Hebdo" attack is ingrained in the memory of many of us. But as our Jim Bittermann shows us, the satirical magazine and the city of Paris have changed. But they're now stronger.

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JIM BITTERMANN, CNN SR. INTL. CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It was for France a terrifying end to innocence. Though the shots and shouts and bloody scenes had long been predicted, no one, not the police nor government officials nor the public could have anticipated the awful reality of homegrown terrorists striking at the heart of the French capital.

It was an attack, not just on the cartoonists, editors and others who were killed, it was an attack on the very fundamental right of freedom of expression, which the edgy satirical newspaper, "Charlie Hebdo," had always exercised to the fullest.

A year later, commemorative plaques have gone up, freedom of expression lives on. The newspaper, well, the newspaper lives on as well albeit from a much more secure and secret location.

In fact, financially, "Charlie Hebdo" has never been stronger. Before the attacks, it struggled to survive printing just 30,000 copies a week. But since, there's been a sixfold increase in circulation and an influx of millions of euros in donations.

The editor says he would not rule out publishing more caricatures of Muhammad, the act which made "Charlie Hebdo" the target of fundamentalists. But he sees no need to do so at the moment. Still, he admits the tone of the newspaper has changed.

LAURENT "RISS" SOURISSEAU, PUBLISHING DIRECTOR, "CHARLIE HEBDO" (through translator): Here we are, one year later, with a vision which might be even a little more pessimistic today than it was one year ago.

BITTERMANN: It is more difficult to be funny now?

RISS (through translator): No, it's -- we always manage to find the urge to laugh because we have the will to live.

BITTERMANN (voice-over): But in that respect, perhaps, the newspaper is something of a reflection nation, which has been struggling to maintain its joie de vivre over a year that has seen more than its fair share of tragedies since the "Charlie Hebdo" attack.

That targeted attack was one thing. But as many here have pointed out, the kind of indiscriminate attacks that killed and injured hundreds on November 13th were entirely different. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think France has changed. I think the events

of January last year were an enormous symbolic shock beyond the actual physical violence of the events. I think it's raised a lot of questions about French identity, perhaps some of the causes of this awful attack.

BITTERMANN (voice-over): Shortly after the newspaper was attacked, one observer said they thought they were going to kill "Charlie Hebdo" but in fact they've made it stronger. A year later, the words ring just as true, not only for the newspaper but for perhaps even France itself -- Jim Bittermann, CNN, Paris.

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KINKADE: I'm joined now by journalist Stefan de Vries (ph), one of first people to arrive on the scene at the -- after the "Charlie Hebdo" attacks. He joins me now from Paris.

Thanks very much for joining us today. Just give us a sense of how you're feeling and what you remember about that day.

STEFAN DE VRIES, JOURNALIST: Well, it was a very strange day, like you said. I was one of the first to arrive on the scene on January 7th because my office is only five minutes away from the "Charlie Hebdo," where they were having their offices at the time.

When I arrived actually at the -- maybe at the same time moment as the emergency services and the situation was very unclear, I was trying to gather information from the police, who was running around very frantically. They had no idea, either.

First, there were reports two of people injured by shooting. Then it became three people injured, one dead, two dead. And then about -- it took about a half-hour when we learned that 12 people had died within "Charlie Hebdo's" premises and amongst them a lot of members of the magazine.

So then suddenly we realized that more journalists had gathered at that moment already. Suddenly we realized that 12 of our colleagues had been killed in cold blood on a clear day in January 2015.

KINKADE: And that day, of course, was one year ago on Thursday.

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KINKADE: On Thursday we saw a man that was killed by police as he approached a police station in Northern Paris with a meat cleaver, wearing what turned out to be a fake explosives vest and claimed to be doing it in the name of ISIS.

Talk to us about the concerns in Paris, about fears about another terrorist assault.

What is the feeling like there?

DE VRIES: Well, of course, the Parisians are very tense. In January, the "Charlie Hebdo" attacks, they thought, well, this was a very targeted attack. But then attacks in November showed that basically everybody in Paris could be a target. People just enjoying life, having a drink on a terrace, something all the Parisians do every day.

It is very -- it has changed very much, the attitude of the Parisians in daily life. When you go into stores and supermarkets, everywhere your bags are being checked. There's a lot of police in the streets also armed, very heavily armed military troops. So this has changed completely.

And of course, the Parisians stay resilient. They say, well, we're not afraid. But if you look at the restaurants and the bars and the hotels and even museums, they all have -- well, they all have the big problem that people are just not coming anymore.

So it has a huge economical impact, of course. But also a mental impact; because Parisians are very afraid. And as we've seen this week again, with the attack on the police station in the north of Paris, the danger is not gone. Attacks can happen every day, everywhere, on every single moment.

KINKADE: In, of course, a reaction to the massacre we saw in November, the French president took up the fight against ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Just explain for us what's being done to fight those sort of lone wolf attackers within France.

DE VRIES: Well, the actions in Syria against ISIS by the French army are not very controversial. Over 90 percent of the French population supports the action in Syria but that was the case right after the attacks.

Now almost two months later, people start asking questions.

What are the effects?

What are the costs?

It is really useful?

And there is also a change of politics. As you know, we're still in a state of emergency here in France, which will last theoretically until the end of February.

But the government has introduced a bill earlier this week that will actually implement all the extreme measures the police has now into normal legislation. And this is a very -- this is a very sensitive point to academics but also to judges, who are saying now that democracy in France is under danger.

That is something we've also seen after 9/11 in the USA.

But it's a debate that is just beginning and actually the biggest question of our time is how far do we have to go with security in order to guarantee our liberties?

And that's something the French president has not answered yet and it will, without a doubt, be a topic of this year.

KINKADE: Certainly a very tough question as well.

Stefan de Vries, thank you so much for joining us today. We appreciate it.

More than a million migrants made their way into Europe last year. Each one, of course, has a heartwrenching story. Ahead, we'll meet a filmmaker, who is documenting their plight.

Plus, we'll tell why you six Sunni-led countries are accusing Iran of intervening in the internal affairs of Saudi Arabia.

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KINKADE: Welcome back.

The foreign ministers of more than 20 countries of the Arab League Council are meeting in Cairo to discuss the fiery attack on the Saudi embassy in Iran last weekend. At a summit on Saturday, the six Sunni- led countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council called that attack a terrorist act.

Seven countries have now cut or downgraded diplomatic relations with Iran.

During that attack on the Saudi embassy, it came, of course -- there were protesters that tried to set the embassy on fire.

That attack, of course, came after the Saudi kingdom executed this prominent Shia cleric. Iran and other Shia Muslims are infuriated over the death of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr and it's reignited sectarian tensions dating back thousands of years.

CNN international diplomatic editor Nick Robertson is in Riyadh with more on these longtime rivals.

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: The foreign ministers met for about three hours. Saudi, Omani, Bahraini, Qatari, UAE and Kuwaiti foreign ministers, the six GCC nations, coming together. And it's a week after the Saudi embassy in Tehran was torched.

We've seen Saudi sort of Arab and Gulf allies chime in, helping ratchet up this past week, if you want, diplomatic tensions. Some of the countries severing or downgrading diplomatic ties with Tehran.

But this we're hearing now for the GCC, really ratchets up and keeps those tensions at a very high level, accusing Tehran of terrorism, although people on the streets of Tehran torching the Saudi embassy in Tehran last week.

So this really shows that the tensions are staying high. The Saudis, the GCC, saying that they will take unspecified measures so far, unspecified measures to stop what they describe as Iran's interference in the region.

When they talk about terrorism here, considering that just last weekend the Shia cleric here in Saudi Arabia, Nimr al-Nimr, was executed on the basis that officials here said was his inspiring terrorism, it sends a very clear message to Iran that any further interference, as the GCC see it, in their internal affairs could be met with similar punishment. So the rhetoric, the tensions still right up there -- Nic Robertson, CNN, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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KINKADE: The strife between Iran and Saudi Arabia is just one hot spot in the Middle East. Stories of human misery continue to emerge from all across that region. Filmmaker Thomas Nybo has documented some of that suffering. He traveled through Europe producing a film about a young Afghan refugee and his friends.

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ALLAHYAR, AFGHAN REFUGEE (from captions): In my district of Jagon, the Taliban is beheading people.

CAPTIONS: Allahyar and his friends shot the video as they fled Afghanistan.

ALLAHYAR (from captions): There is war there. When there is war, there is no security.

CAPTIONS: Their families each paid $3,5000 to smuggle them out of the country.

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ALLAHYAR (from captions): We came from Afghanistan to Pakistan and then Iran and then to Turkey. The journey was very difficult because they were putting 60 people in a boat which was 6 or 9 square meters.

They kept putting more and more people. The smugglers don't care.

Every minute I was praying not to drown and to make it across the sea.

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KINKADE: And earlier the filmmaker, Thomas Nybo, spoke with CNN's Jonathan Mann about the plight of the refugees and the difficulties he witnessed.

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JONATHAN MANN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: That young boy, his story, has repeated thousands of times. Let's go back, though, to one photograph that you have that appears in the film and that is all of them crammed into the trunk. It looks almost like a children's prank. It looks like something you might do on a joyride.

How long did they travel like that?

THOMAS NYBO, FILMMAKER: It's hard to say. They were basically telling me about their journey and they spent many hours in the trunk of this car. They were in the back of pickups, racing across the desert. They arrived in Turkey. They traveled an hour across the choppy sea.

Then I spent six hours with them on a train traveling across Macedonia.

MANN: We have another photograph from that train ride. Let's look at it now. And it just gives you a sense -- how young is that child?

I presume someone is taking care of her.

But in that picture, you really get a sense of the isolation. These are very fragile people. And they're traveling basically with literally the goods in their bags. In this case, there is a human being.

NYBO: She's a 2-year-old girl from Afghanistan. And I was actually traveling with her uncle. And he had gone up to have a cigarette and I was looking after her.

And what's interesting, they were traveling with everything in their bag and they were sharing it with me.

Here, have a snack. Have some water. I felt guilty taking it.

But this train car, there was no heat. The windows were actually frozen over. And on this car, there was no functioning bathroom. The conditions were really tough. Winter had arrived.

MANN: You get a sense once again of how vulnerable they are. Let's move on to the next photograph.

Again, I think this is also from the train. But you get a sense, again, children, so many of your images are of children making this journey.

NYBO: What people have to remember is about 45 percent of the people arriving on the shores of Greece are women and children. These are three brothers from Afghanistan. And throughout the car, there are children, mothers.

MANN: This picture, once again, speaks to the journey. There is another picture which is -- really jumped out at me. And I'm curious. You've got to explain the story because this is a -- what looks like a campfire. You can make out by the light of that fire what seems to be smiles on these men's faces.

This looks like a nice night out for a group of friends. It isn't that, though, is it?

NYBO: It's not that. These guys are actually in no-man's land. Europe stopped accepting anyone from Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan. These guys are from somewhere else. They were stuck between the border of Greece and Macedonia.

It was a light moment here. But it was anything but light during the day. There were protests between the migrants and the police, the Macedonian police, who erected a barbwire fence.

This happened to be a light moment. But the days are grueling. And I actually stood between the riot police and the migrants and it was not pretty.

MANN: We have shots of that, in fact, our next photograph, is I guess -- well, you set this up for us.

NYBO: So behind him are Macedonian police. Behind him is Macedonia. And they're stuck because all of a sudden, when they arrived on the shores of Greece, they thought they would be welcomed into Europe. But the policy changed. And if you weren't from one of three countries, you were stuck. This guy was stuck.

MANN: Let me just ask you, we can't avoid the headlines that are coming out of Germany, the protests in Cologne and those are people who made it into Europe. You've been with people who have been struggling and enduring and sacrificing so much.

What goes through your mind as you hear about what happened on New Year's Eve and as you see the reaction in Germany?

NYBO: Two thoughts: one, the German people have a right to be angry. I think if you're an asylum seeker and you commit a violent crime, you need to be deported.

And the second point is, don't use this as an excuse to ignore the humanitarian crisis that will face hundreds of thousands of women and children in 2016 as they flee war and situations like we saw in Syria, seeking safety in Europe.

MANN: Thomas Nybo, you've been traveling with the migrants for months now. Extraordinary work. Thanks so much for coming in.

NYBO: Thanks, Jonathan.

MANN: We'll be back with more right after this.

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KINKADE: The jackpot for the U.S. Powerball lottery has now reached a record breaking $1.3 billion. No one won the $949 million jackpot in Saturday night's draw last night, which has been growing since November 7th. This time it really started to build last weekend when it hit $400 million. So the next draw is Wednesday.

And if anyone wins the big prize, lottery officials say that, after tax, the cash value is worth $800 million.

Not bad if can you get it.

There has certainly been a windfall for a Canadian maker of pet clothes after an Internet debate over the proper way for dogs to wear pants. Jeanne Moos settles the matter once and for all.

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JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Who wears the pants in your relationship?

You or your dog?

Well, now you both can. This is the story of how a jokey doggy diagram that went viral led to a bonanza for Muddy Mutts.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Business is a little ridiculous.

MOOS (voice-over): But first the ridiculous question.

A 19-year-old student in Belgium claims his girlfriend's dog, Rocky, got him thinking, if a dog wore pants, would he wear them like this on four legs or like this on his two hind legs?

The Internet went nuts joking about and debating the question: --

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MOOS (voice-over): -- would pants on just the hind legs be shorts?

Or are both wrong since pants are supposed to cover your butt?

And then, Muddy Mutts unmuddied the waters.

MOOS: So, you think you've settled the argument once and for all?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It is settled, four legs.

MOOS (voice-over): Because pants for dogs already exist. Waterproof nylon waders sold by a husband and wife company in Canada for 50 bucks U.S.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It looks really funny but when you get tired of cleaning a dog for 20 minutes after a walk, it's really practical.

MOOS (voice-over): It was a niche product until the diagram went viral and Tim Skelly (ph) says sales jumped 2,800 percent.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'd love to show you one but I even sold the one that was on our model dog.

MOOS (voice-over): Now, there's a waiting list as Tim races to make more Muddy Mutts.

MOOS: Dogs, like people, have to put their pants on one leg at a time.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The easiest way to put on a Muddy Mutts is to start with the front legs.

MOOS (voice-over): You put on each leg and fasten the Velcro cuffs. There are three straps. Then your dog can look like a studly fireman.

The original diagram led to spoofs, like how would a ferret wear a tube top and how would an earthworm wear a bra?

But the idea of dogs in pants wormed its way around the Web and now even the owner of Rocky, the dog that inspired the debate, is considering buying a pair of Muddy Mutts, though we doubt Rocky himself is panting for pants -- Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.

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KINKADE: Well, that does it for this edition of CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Lynda Kinkade. For our viewers in the U.S., "NEW DAY" with Christi Paul and Victor Blackwell is just ahead. And for everyone else, "THE BEST OF QUEST" starts in just a moment.