Im errol barnett. Well get to those stories in a moment. Plus, this coming up, a former Police Officer in milwaukee, wisconsin, has been cleared after shooting and killing a mentally ill man and now were getting a look at some of the evidence from that day. Just take a quick listen here. Shots fired. Shots fired. He started beating me was going to hit me in the head. Shots fired. Starbucks, starbucks, help right now. What you just heard is the dispatch audio from the day dhe was killed. You can hear the panic in his voice. Absolutely. But the reason its so important you have this climate of tension in the u. S. Between Police Forces and minority communities so lets go ahead and take a look at whats happening in new york city right now. Its on high alert for possible copycat attacks on its police after a man shot and killed two officers over the weekend. Investigators are looking into more than a dozen threats to the nypd posted on social media. The department is increasing security around the new years eve ball drop in times square. The citys mayor met with the families of officers wenjian liu and rafael ramos on monday saying they are in tremendous pain. That meeting comes as critics blame the mayor for inciting violence against police by supporting recent protests. The attack on these two officers, the assassination of these two officers was an attack on the city of new york as a whole, on every one of us, on our value, on our democracy. We cannot tolerate such attacks. Anyone with the ability to help us stop them must step forward. And both officers leave behind, you know, heartbroken families, officer ramos funeral is planned for saturday. Officer lius family is waiting for relatives to arrive in the u. S. From china before they make plans. Yeah, his wife of just two months thanked the community for their support and offered condolences to the ramos family. This is a difficult for both of our families but we will stand together and get through this together. Thank you. And the families of both officers say the men dreamed of making a difference and that thats why they joined the police force in the first place. Our randi kaye has more. Reporter they were partners on patrol. Officer wenjian liu was seven year veteran and officer rafael ramos who first joined the department in 2012. Both were assigned to the 84th precinct in downtown brooklyn. Officer ramos worked as a School Security officer before joining the nypd and reportedly loved the mets. He was married with two children. On facebook his 13yearold son wrote, he was there for me every day of my life. He was the best father i could ask for. Its horrible that someone gets shot dead just for being a Police Officer. I will always love you and i will never forget you, rest in peace, dad. The heart he this is uncompared to other peoples heart. Reporter ramos cousin told the wall street journal god was a priority in his life. The 40yearold officer grew more passionate about his church. On his Facebook Page a quote reads if your way isnt working, try gods way. The same page said officer ramos had been married since 1993 and once studied at a seminary. Before his death ramos was studying to become a chaplain. In fact, later that saturday afternoon, the day he was killed, he was scheduled to graduate from a chaplain program. The pastor at his church told us ramos had an infectious smile and loved his wife maritza and his two boy, justin and jaden. I would like to thank all those who shared our sympathy and report for our Family Member rafael ramos who will always be loved and missed by many. Reporter officer liu who was 32 had been married just a couple of months. Described by some around the neighborhood as quiet and in love. His parents are from china and according to period ya reports he was their only son. One friend of lius summed up his passion for police work in the new york times. I know that being a cop is dangerous but i must do it. Officer liu had said if i dont do it and you dont do it, then who is going to do it . Randi kaye, cnn, new york. Now, the more we learn about the gunman, ismaaiyl brinsley, the more we discover hes been troubled for a very long time. His sister says he was mentally ill but later in the program well have details on his criminal past including terroristic threats and more than a dozen arrests. Rosemary. All right, to australia now where Prime Minister tony abbott says Security Officials have intercepted an increased level of terrorist chatter since last weeks siege at a sydney cafe. At 7 networks mark riley reports abbott is warning the public to remain alert through the holidays. Reporter the smiles of this swearing in was soon replaced by worried looks for tony abbott and his senior minister. As we prepare to join family and friends we do need to be conscious of the fact that the Terror Threat remains high. Reporter immediately after the investiture, the cabinet was told chatter had increased dangerously after the sydney cafe siege. It was time to issue a warning, they advised. An attack is likely. We dont know when and how an attack may come, but we do know that there are people with the intent and the capability to carry out further attacks. Reporter although the martin place gunman Man Haron Monis was not suspected of having real links to terrorist organizations, they believe those radical groups were capitalizing on the deadly shootout calling for attacks on australians. Australians should go about their lives as normal because what terrorists are trying to do is to scare us out of being ourselves. Reporter the main concern socalled lone wolf attacks. Random assaults on innocent victims going about their daily lives. This week, christmas shopping. Its important that people remain alert and aware. Reporter and report any suspicious activity to the terrorism hot line. 1800123400. And services were held tuesday for the two victims of the siege. Family and friends gathered for a private Memorial Service for 38yearold katrina dawson, the lawyer and mother of three was shot and killed during the siege at the lindt cafe. Tuesday a private funeral was held for the other victim, 34yearold tory johnson. He was the manager of that cafe. The 16hour siege ended after the gunman and both hostages were killed. It is just past 5 00 p. M. In north korea and as far as we know right now the country is still having trouble with its Internet Service after a total outage that lasted more than nine hours. The website of the staterun news agency is set to be down and some analysts say this outage may have been the result of an attack. Yeah, the disruption comes just a few days after the u. S. Said it would respond to the cyberattack on Sony Pictures which it blames on north korea. Global Affairs Correspondent a aeli aeli aelise lab lot reports. Reporter kim jongun mobbed by adorning north korean workers, the image of a confident and beloved leader lashing out at the u. S. Whom he says is responsible for the film portraying his assassination. While denying involvement in the sony hacking, north korea warned it was sharpening bayonets to do damage thousands of times greater threatening counteraction against the white house, pentagon and the whole u. S. Mainland. The government of north korea has a long history of denying responsibility for destructive and provocative actions and if they want to help here, they can admit culpability and compensate sony for the damages they caused. Reporter today in new york as the u. N. Security council took up north koreas bleak human rights record, the u. S. Ambassador said pyongyang is now threatening the rights of the rest of the world. It is exactly the kind of behavior weve come to expect from a regime that threatened to take, merciless countermeasures against the u. S. Over a Hollywood Comedy and has no qual qualms about holding of tens of thousands in gulags. I think it was an act of cybervandalism that was very costly, very expensive. We take it very seriously. The president does not understand when you destroy economies, when you are able to impose censorship on the world and especially the United States of america, its more than vandalism. Reporter Administration Officials say the white house is considering sanctions against north korean officials, banks and companies and wants china to rein in north koreas ability to launch further attacks. Today, beijing condemned the attack but said there is no proof north korea was behind it. Really tough financial sanctions are going to have an effect on china too, not just north korea because a lot of these institutions are in china, and the danger there is that it might trigger some sort of trade war with china, some economic retaliation. Reporter elise labott, cnn, the state department. Now, we are well into the Holiday Season but millions of americans could be in for a wet christmas. Coming up, details on a storm that could threaten Holiday Travel plans in the air and on the ground over the next two days. Plus, there are growing fears of terrorism in france as the country deals with three attacks in three days. And forced religious conversions are causing discord in the worlds second most populous country. My names louis, and i quit smoking with chantix. I had tried to do it in the past. I hadnt been successful. Quitting smoking this time was different because i got a prescription for chantix. 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Use caution when driving or operating machinery. Common side effects include nausea, trouble sleeping and unusual dreams. I love myself as a nonsmoker. Ask your doctor if chantix is right for you. Female announcer during sleep trains hugeom foyear end Clearance Sale,s get beautyrest, posturepedic, even tempurpedic mattress sets at low clearance prices. Save even more on floor samples, demonstrators, and closeout inventory. Plus, free sameday delivery, setup, and removal of your old set. Why wait for the new models . Sleep trains year end Clearance Sale is on now . Guaranteed your ticket to a better nights sleep welcome back. At least ten people were injured in the city of nantes when a van driver plowed into shoppers at an outdoor Christmas Market. Authorities say the driver stabbed himself after mondays attack. He expected to survive, though, a Prosecutor Says this seems like an isolated case so far and not a terrorist attack. Senior International CorrespondentJim Bittermann has more now from paris. Reporter it was packed with christmas shoppers. At the Christmas Market in a pedestrian zone. Kind of a curious thing that the van was even in the zone because the driver would have had to have special permission to get there. In the process of driving into the crowd, he managed to injure ten people. He himself then tried to commit suicide and he is in most serious condition in a hospital. He tried to commit suicide by stabbing himself repeatedly in the throat. The prosecutor said this is not a terrorist act although theres still an investigation going on. He says its an isolated incident. The interior minister who is on his way to nantes has been called back for asecurity cabinet meeting. Theres been so many of these incidents in the last 48 hours that, in fact, something should be done at least as far as the ministers are concerned to increase the security around the country. Jim bitterman, cnn, paris. And as jim mentioned there were two other incidents in france over the weekend. On saturday police say a man stabbed three officers while shouting [ speaking a Foreign Language ] god it is great in arabic happened near the city of tour. Police shot and killed the suspect Counter Terrorism authorities are investigating that attack. On sunday a man rammed his vehicle into pedestrians in de jean injuring at least 12 people. Witnesses say he too was shouting [ speaking a Foreign Language ] it does not appear to have been a terror attack. Reuters reporting that jordan will begin providing training and arms to iraqi forces in the next few days. The aim is to help rebuild iraqs army which lost huge areas of ground to isis fighters. Meantime, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters help up sinjar mountain after they broke isis months long siege over the weekend. And yesterday we showed you a story about a german author who traveled deep into isis territory. Yeah, its quite compelling. He risked his own life to get a closeup look at the isis militants and what life is like under their control and now he tells our Fred Pleitgen how he managed to get that extraordinary access. Reporter what i have here is the declaration of safe passage, i think it is, that you received from the islamic state. When did you get here . Do you remember what it says also . Yeah, it says that the khalif is giving a guarantee that i would be protected, the people of my team would be protected and i would come back to germany in safety and its a clear guarantee. Our problem was that we dont know if this guarantee was true because i cannot control the stamp on this declaration, on this guarantee and this was our risk. Reporter did they treat you well when you were there . Did they abide by what they wrote here . They were correct but they were not very kind to me. We had very hard discussions about our about the way of investigations about our freedom and sometimes the truth chose a tone that i didnt accept and we had disputes and after two days we had a very hard dispute and we almost decided to leave and to go back. Reporter what about censorship . How openly were you allowed to travel . What were you allowed to show . What did they want to see . At the beginning i wanted to go said i would prefer to go to mosul because i knew mosul and when arrived they said we have a good surprise for you. You can go to mosul. You are the only one, first one, et cetera. And this was the good side but the bad side was that we had to give our mobiles to give our laptops to them and that all the photos were controlled, all the films were controlled. Reporter they they went through all of your stuff of your video. They went through all of the stuff and, of course, we said, no, we refused and we had again a huge dispute and they said you can leave if you want to leave then leave. So i think even if we hadnt taken one single photo, i was interested to see what was happening in this country. Just incredible to see much more of the video and interviews he shot during his journey inside syria spending time with members of isis. He said to our website, cnn. Com. All right. To russia now where a former finance minister is warning of a fullscale economic crisis in the country. The central bank is bailing out trust bank, the first victim of a collapse in currency. Alexie kudrin risks have iing t happen. Translator today i can say we are entering a real economic crisis, full scale crisis. Next year we will feel all the effects of it. Imports will decrease by approximately 40 and imports of the investment nature will be under the greatest risk. For the First Time Since 2000 under putins and med verymedve rule, the Household Income will decrease. And theres growing concern about religious intolerance in india. After this short break we will look at the National Debate there over the ethics of forced religious conversion. And later after canceling its christmas release sony says its now looking to breathe new life into the controversial come comedy the interview. Stay with us. A hong kong typhoon and former official land their fates in the citys largest corruption trial. He was sentenced to five years. The real estate billionaire found guilty of conspiracy over payments made to former senior Government Official who was sentenced to 7 1 2 years. His younger brother was cleared of all charges. French industrial giant alstom has agreed to plead guilty and pay the United States a 772 million fine to settle a foreign bribery case. Prosecutors accused alstom of paying more than 75 million to secure 4 billion in transportation projects and falsifying its records to mask the bribes. The u. S. Justice Department Says the fine is the highest ever for foreign bribery in the u. S. Now a nationwide debate is ranging raging, i should say, at the moment in india over the practice of forced religious conversion. Yeah, its a question of ethics reaching to the highest levels of government. And as we report to the lowest levels of society. Reporter work, most dont want to do. Sifting through garbage in search of anything that will sell. Its the only sorce of livelihood this Muslim Community has known for generations. Employment options are limited because most dont have valid paperwork. Think said theyd give us subsidized food, government jobs