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Consecutive week of protests here. it doesnt look like the protests are coming to an end. six could very well be coming. ben wideman, cnn, paris. the revolving door at the trump white house and another one bites the dust. well explain why interior secretary ryan zinke says hes quitting. two u.s. democrats want to face off with the president in the next election. how familiar faces did as "newsroom" pushes ahead. so you can be less concerned about your retirement savings. talk with your advis...

Police. ben wideman has this story. >> reporter: it was thought this saturdays protests might be smaller after the presidents latest concessions more than raising the minimum wage and after the strasburg terrorist attacks, yet several,000 yellow vest protesters. macron, he says, has not given us a crumb of what we demand. we cant live this way. those demands include the introduction of swiss style popular referendums, lower taxes and dignity. we want to work to please ourselves, not just to surv...

Fares murder sparked an outburst of grief from her followers, but not all mourned her death. one journalist with state media calling her a whore on social media. he has subsequently been fired. the last image to appear on her instagram account shows her in black and white with the words "peace be upon her soul" tara fares. ben wideman, cnn, beruit. >> iran has reportedly fired several missiles into eastern syria and quite literally sent a message to its enemies in the process. iranian state medi...

Honor of the victims. the iconic las vegas sign will also turnoff its lights. in iraq, officials are investigating a disturbing trend after the killing of another outspoken female personality. tara fares was a former beauty queen whose life-style challenged the conservative norms of her country. our senior international correspondent ben wideman filed this report. >> reporter: she was a social media personality, the likes of which iraq hadnt seen. 22-year-old tara fares projected an image on i...

Millions of online followers. three years ago she left baghdad and moved to iraqi kurdistan where she felt safer, but often returned to her native city for photo shoots and to visit her family. she is just the latest online female personality or activist to die an untimely death in iraq. and the government has launched an investigation to see if there is a link between them. her murder sparked an outburst of grief fa her followers, but not all mourned her death. one journalist with state media c...

Feeling in tehran that there is a situation developing where the country is increasingly under attack since the united states pulled out of the iran nuclear deal and has reimposed sanctions on tehran. there is a paranoia, so to speak, well based in iran that forces are gathering against it, even though we did see the u.s. secretary of state pompeo saying president trump is willing to meet with the supreme leader of iran, ayatollah khomeini, even though he has not left the country since the last ...

Of course the u.s. denies any involvement. who stands to gain from an attack like this and who are the possible suspects? >> reporter: well, rosemary, certainly this sort of attack obviously does go some way to undermine or at least create the impression that the government in iran is under pressure either from within or without. now, ben though the united states denies being involved in this attack, certainly for the iranians they look at, for instance, john bolton, the national security adviso...

None other than trump himself is on a suicide mission. in case innocent lives of the u.s. are harmed because of this suicide attack, trump will be held totally responsible. >> the u.s. says saturday it also flew bombers to the east of north korea. the pentagon says it was a message to pyongyang over its nuclear ambitions. we are tracking events in the region from tokyo. he joins us now for the latest and more on that right there. hello, ben. >> reporter: hello, natalie. its interesting that that...

To the point where a spokesman for the ruling democratic party in south korea, south korea of course being a very close ally of the united states, put out a statement saying that the exchange of excessive verbal threats would only heighten anxiety. george? >> ben, thats the other question. as far as residents throughout japan, residents throughout south korea, people have been accustomed to the rhetoric from north korea, but now that the rhetoric has been ratcheted up with the name calling from ...

Acquire a patch of land holds the nuclear button. these are what constitute the grave est threat to the international peace and security today. >> mr. trump responded to the foreign minister in a tweet. he wrote, quote, just heard foreign minister of north korea speak at u.n. if he echoes thoughts of little rocket man, they wont be around much longer, exclamation point. he goes on to say, little rocket man, that is mr. trumps new nickname for the north korean leader kim jong-un and it appears to...