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Welcome back to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. you are watching cnn live coverage. im natalie allen. sony is looking at other options for releasing the film "the interview." its about an assassination plot on the north korean leader. the sony exec disagrees with president obama that pulling the film was a mistake. pakistani forces killed several taliban insurgents including a key commander in clashes in and around. this comes days after taliban militants massacre 148 people at a...

The cyber attack on sony takes us into unchartered waters. were familiar with hacks against businesses, target, jpmorgan chase and others. those were criminal attacks looking for credit card information and putting it up for sale. the chinese are reported to have hacked looking for commercial and military information, but this sony attack is different. its really blackmail. aimed at silencing someone or something. this time the target is a movie, a comedy premised on assassination plot for north...

Christmas day release of its comedy, "the interview." about an assassination plot against north koreas leader. that followed a very unfunny threat aimed at movie goers like you. heres the latest from los angeles. >> this is the secretary of communication for north korea. >> reporter: under threat of violence and a full scale retreat by theater owners, sony pulled the prug. >> fear unfortunately is a self perpetuating device. >> reporter: that following a warning of a 9/11 style attack for those ...

This warning comes from a group known as the guardians of peace, saying that the film that centers around the assassination plot against north korean leader kim jong-un says they, the world will be full of fear. remember the 11th of september, 2001. we recommend to you keep yourself distant from the places at all times. other threats included in that, forcing theaters to cancel the premiere. sony canceled the appearances of the actors. >> just to give you background, for the last couple weeks we...

Christmas day surprise. theyre saying that this may be pegged the release of this film "the interview" which touches on an assassination plot. is there a threat to first amendment rights where we see studios avoiding certain types of content because of the threat of these kind of hacks. >> theyre businesses and nobody waunlts wants to go ahead and go forward to cause them to make less money because thats their responsibility as the people who run that particular business. we will a company go an...

These documents withhold some kind of a plot against castro whos still alive? >> theres a couple of possibilities, additional information about the cias plots to kill castro. some of these files concern men who were involved in the castro assassination plot. another possibility is that there was an operation involving oswald, a cia operation involving oswald that has never been disclosed. these extreme claims of secrecy, after 50 years that this is national security information. i really questio...

These documents withhold some kind of a plot against castro whos still alive? >> theres a couple of possibilities, additional information about the cias plots to kill castro. some of these files concern men who were involved in the castro assassination plot. another possibility is that there was an operation involving oswald, a cia operation involving oswald that has never been disclosed. these extreme claims of secrecy, after 50 years that this is national security information. i really questio...

These documents withhold some kind of a plot against castro whos still alive? >> theres a couple of possibilities, additional information about the cias plots to kill castro. some of these files concern men who were involved in the castro assassination plot. another possibility is that there was an operation involving oswald, a cia operation involving oswald that has never been disclosed. these extreme claims of secrecy, after 50 years that this is national security information. i really questio...

Hypocrisy. >> you can find report after report where they sneak bombs through, the tsa themselves, and too these clearance checks, their own agents fail. and if people want to take pictures of tsa agents standing around, whoever sends the new most i will send you that many cupcake is. >> now know what tsa stands for? thousands standing around. >> thats the clean version. >> a government official apparently targeted in an assassination plot. official says the weapon of choice was a bomb hidden in...

To offer conciliatory steps about that program, that his nation, they claim does not want to seek nuclear weapons. on thursday there will be a major step. that is when secretary of state john kerry will meet with his iranian counterpart, iranian former minister along with some other foreign ministers. zarif was had been for 10 years the united nations ambassador from iran. he knows us very well. and eloquent and advocate for his country and speaks with conviction. he knows us because he went to ...