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CNNW CNNI Simulcast February 19, 2015

Propaganda video. Anbars provincial Council Chairmen says the 40 victims were Police Officers and tribesmen. He says it happened near the town of al baghdadi. Cnn cannot independently confirm the report. Meanwhile, u. S. President barack obama is holding a osu countering violent extremism in washington. Hes going out of his way to draw a distinct between elderly on between religion and groups like isis and al qaeda. Mr. Obama says the groups have perverted islam. Responsible for terrorism, premresponsible for violence and terrorism. And over and over again weve seen the very public be brutality isis uses to shock and terrorize basically anyone standing in the way of its mission to build caliphate. Crucifixions beheadings and burning people alive are a few examples. Iraqs ambassador to the u. N. Claims isis is involved in a new systemic horror that could be adding to the terror groups riches. Jim sciutto on w allegations of traffic in human body parts. Reporter with isis locked in battle with iraqi forces in al Baghdadi Baghdadi eyewitness accounts from the western iraqi town claimed the terror group is burning the bodies of soldiers and tribesmen killed in the fighting to desecrate them. Today the pentagon indicated it is now analyzing evidence of the incident. Certainly wouldnt surprise any of us here if it turns out to be authentic and true given the atrocities that this Group Continues to wage again innocent civilians. Regime from iraqs ambassador to the United Nations, another startling claim that isis is harvesting human organs from its victims in iraq and selling them on the black market in europe for profit. A dozen doctors in mosul who refuse to operate, he says were murdered. Translator these are, in fact crimes of genocide committed against humanitarian that must be held accountable before international justice. Without even mentioning the traffic of human organs. Reporter cnn has not been able to confirm the claims. The ambassador offered no proof. The u. N. Tells cnn it is investigating. Big question is how the terror group could run harvested organs out of a war zone. If true, what could be driving the terror groups increasingly extreme tactics. Isis financing has suffered as the u. S. Led air campaign has destroyed many of the Lucrative Oil facilities. Whale isis recruiting remains strong more and more attracting women and highly educated people these extreme atrocities often filmed get attention which in turn further fuels recruiting. They basically peeled people away from al qaeda. Guys who were formerly part of the bin laden zawahiri network are part of the organization they managed to do what al qaeda never could. Reporter reacting to the iraqi ambassadors claims of isis selling victims organs the u. S. State Department Says it is aware of the allegations and while it cannot confirm them, it has no doubt to believe them based on past atrocities. Jim sciutto, cnn, washington. Meantime the numberone suspect on a u. S. Kill list is this man, isis leader. One leader says he undoubtedly knows the u. S. Has a bounty on his head and stlf staying out of sight. Al baghdadi hasnt appeared in any isis videos for several months. British police say they have arrested a woman on suspicion of terrorism offenses related to syria. The 25yearold from birmingham was arrested at Heathrow Airport just outside london after arriving from turkey. Shes also suspected of child neglect as show of traveling with her 1yearold son. He is now under police protection. Authorities say the arrest was preplanned and there was no danger to the public. Now to ukraine. The nation is asking for outside help to restore peace. President poroshenko now wants u. N. Peacekeepers to monitor the faltering ceasefire there. Hes also calling for a firm world reaction to what he described as russias brutal violation of the minsk agreements. After weeks of fierce fighting ukrainian troops have pulled out of the flashpoint town of debaltseve. Fred pleitgen is in kiev and joins us with reaction to some of the developments. Fred for ten months Ukrainian Forces have been battling separatists. Yet, for every ceasefire agreement signed separatists seem to gain more territory. Why did Ukrainian Forces powell of debaltseve . Reporter well they simply couldnt hold debaltseve any longer. It seems as though they were badly outgunned. Frankly also the Ukrainian Military has nowhere near the fire power nor the sophistication equipment that the separatists have. Ukraine for a long time and, indeed, the International Community have been saying the rebels are both supplied by russia as well as staffed by russia as well. Something that the russians have been denying. Its interesting with the incident in debaltseve the very different reads that you have on it. On the one hand the ukrainians and the u. S. And europeans saying its a gross violation of the minsk agreement. The separatists and russia for their part saying this place should not have been part of the minsk agreements because it is quite deep inside what they believe should be rebel territory. The interesting thing about all this is the fallout because many people believe that this retreat would lead to some pretty bad repercussions for Pedro Poroshenko. So far it has not. You look at politicians here in kiev, many of them are saying the main thing, the minutes objective should have been and was to save the lives of ukrainian soldiers. Thats also important because the soldiers that were holed up there, several thousand thats actually a good chunk of the Ukrainian Armys combatready troops. It would have been a huge blow if there would have been some massacre there in debaltseve and certainly pour shank so being credited with saving a great deal of lives in that operation. Youre right, he is saying that he believes its important as part of this ceasefire agreement to save the agreement for some sort of u. N. Mandated mission to be on the ground because he simply does not trust the prorussian separatists. Lets listen to what Pedro Poroshenko had to say about that last night. Translator today you will be offered to discuss the issue of inviting the United Nations peacekeeping mission to ukraine which will act according to the mandate of the u. N. Security council. Reporter he said that staffing such a mission he believes should be done by the European Union. He was talking about a European Union police mission. There was even one am of the ukraine that said he believes there could be some sort of european combat force. Hard to see that happening because the European Union so far has tried to keep out of sending any sort of personnel to the front line here in this conflict. The russian for their part saying they believe that all of this ceasefire should be continued to be monitored boy the osce. So well wait and see what happens. The big question now is going to be whether or not the heavy weapons are going to start withdrawing from the front line. Is what happened in debaltseve going to leave to a quieting down of the situation in eastern ukraine, and will both sides start withdrawing heavy weapons affray from the front line to create the buffer zone that is so important as the next phase of the ceasefire that the International Community is trying to stop from falling apart. So fred as we wait for a decision on the u. N. Peacekeepers what is the status of the osc observers now that Ukrainian Forces are pulling themselves out of debaltseve . Is this a greater or less chance that they will get access to see what is happening there . Reporter i think the coming hours will show whether or not theyll get access to that places something theyve been trying over the past couple of days and been denied the past couple of days by the prorussian separatists. Now this the fighting has died down, it will be interesting to see whether they are finally let in. This are some signs that could be interpreted as possible. The mission has been able to get to other places on the front lines. The separatists for their part said yesterday they started dismantling and moving back some heavy weapons from other places along the front line showing they say that they are willing to abide by this Peace Agreement or by the ceasefire agreement. And also if you look at the area across the front line, aside from places down in mariupol and luhansk, were hearing that it is more quiet than its been the past couple of days. Well wait and see what debaltseve bring. Housewife, right now it seems as though there are positive signs, but everything is still very much up in the air. It seems to be all about debaltseve now. Fred pleitgen ten minutes past 9 00 in the morning. Thanks. Well take a short break. Coming up on cnn newsroom, the latest on the search for Malaysia Airlines flight 370. Its been nearly a year since the plane disappeared. Well have a live update on the efforts from australia. Plus see how boxer Evander Holyfield is using his celebrity status to help prevent road rage incidents. Pictures from space show the unbelievable amount of snow thats fallen in parts of the United States. You can understand why some people may be a little fed up. How cold is it . You have got to be kidding you need come on out here with me. Its no joke, okay the lightest or nothing. The smartest or nothing. The quietest or nothing. The sleekest. Sexiest. Baddest. Safest,. Tightest,. Quickest. Harshest. Or nothing. 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Cnn has more live on the latest on efforts live from perth, australia. Anna, nearly a year after 370 disappeared, what challenges confront the search and recovery crews as they try to find the lost plane . Reporter yeah its hard to believe, isnt it that it is almost a year since flight 370 disappeared with 23 people on board. We are here in perth which is where the search vessels come to switch crews, to restock with supplies and fix the equipment. There are two of the ships here at the moment four in total scouring the search area about 1,000 nautical miles from where we are standing here deep in the southern indian ocean. The crews that we speak to rosemary, they say that its it is in this priority area if it is here, they will fine it. Among the massive container ships and live vessels at the harbor is a boat thats just arrived at the port. This is discovery, a former norwegian coast guard vessel taking part in one of the most challenging searches in history. If there is a plane down there, well see it. It will show up in our records. It takes time. Reporter chris morris and his survey team have just spend the past 42 days looking for mh370 in the remote indian ocean 1,000 nautical miles off shore. See australia here. Weve got the whole survey area where we started. Were looking at this southern section down here. Reporter the boeing 777 with 239 people on board disappeared almost a year ago. And according to satellite data experts believe its somewhere here on the ocean floor. After an initial search zone roughly half the size of the United States, its been narrowed down a priority area of 60,000 square kilometers. But the conditions are horrendous. Trenches volcanos and underwater mountains are part of the terrain. And for the sonar equipment thats towed ten kilometers been the ship and four kilometers below, its a logistical nightmare. As for the conditions above the surface, search crews recently weathereded three cyclones and waves up to 16 meters high. If mh370 is in the southern indian ocean, then the discovery is one of four ships that is going to help find. Theyve already covered 1 3 of the priority search area and are on schedule to complete the zone by may. What theyre looking for, the debris field on the ocean floor, is literally a speck on a map. Looking for small features, Something Like this pixel. Reporter its a slow and meticulous process. The vessels travel up and down strips of the search area referred to as mowing the lawn. We cant leave a gap. If we were to go along and there was, say, 100 meters missing here then the plane due in that 100 meters. Weve got to be 100 certain that were covering the area. Reporter discoverys new crew has just arrived and spirits are high. Theyre used to working in the north sea where conditions are not new orleans as harsh. I asked specifically to come on this job because its a very exciting tune to do something that will potentially help a lot of people. Reporter most of all, the suffering families whose loved ones were on board. Rosemary while the search crews are obviously committed to finding the wreckage of mh370, the families of the 23 people on board are 239 people on board are terrified that once they cover the priority zone, if the plane is not there, that the search will be called off. That is their greatest fear because as far as they are concerned, the malaysians who are in charge of this operation have a moral obligation responsible to bring their loved ones home. Rosemary . And lets hope that that is exactly what happens. Reporting there live from perth, australia. Many thanks to you. And complicating matters, youve got two tropical cyclones bearing down on australia at this hour. And of course we have our Pedram Javaheri whos been keeping an eye on this. Where is the position of the cyclones . How dangerous are they . One is particularly dangerous. And oddly enough, its the weaker storm system. Just because its placed in a more populated area. The other is considerably stronger, in an isolated region. Well show whats happening. At least near rockhampton, the eastern side of australia. Theres the storm. Tropical cyclone southward near rockhampton. We can expect up to ten inches or 500 millimeters of rainfall. To the north, land in place around the Northern Territory east of darwin. Again, this is stronger but its in a less populated region. We dont expect much in the way of significant damage across the area. Want to take and show you the track of these storm. One comes in a category 2 equivalent, that being the lesser populated one to the north while to the east comes in closer to a category 1 when it makes landfall. Look at the footage out of rockhampton. People making plans in anticipation across the southern hemisphere. The ocean temperature considerably warm over the last several millions to fuel the storm systems. You see a sandbagging taking place as the preparations not far away south of rockhampton in place across the region. Certainly going expect waves to absolutely batter the coastline in the coming days. Ill show you whats happening with the storm system. One to the north will begin to fall apart rapidly. It is the one to the south that were more concerned about as it comes into the afternoon and evening hours, the next 24 or so hours. This bring in a half a meter of rainfall in parts of the harbor over the next 24 hours. Thats why flooding going to be an imminent concern there. Jump across the continent and take you all the way to north america. How about 130 Million People now dealing with Winter Weather advisories windchill warnings and watches across the United States. As cold as 40 below zero in a few spots across the United States. Look at the current windchills minneapolis, minus 21. Chicago, minus 23. Even in the south, in the Single Digits in and around atlanta. This all is led to significant problems. Massachusetts, as you would expect with all the snow, a shopping a. A roof collapsed in the past 24 hours. We often talk about this just put four feet of snow on top of annagesized home say an averagesized home, could collapse under 30 kilos. The weight on top of a Shopping Plaza will be remarkable. You can tell you thankful no injuries with this one. Pretty scary scene. These are what youll begin to see because as you saw with the temperatures were not going to be warming especially when you consider so many plays look just like that right now. The older structures warehouses are really in danger of collapsing just like we saw there. Its hard, theres no way to actually scrub that off. Theres machinery that can do it, bough want anyone on roofs absolutely. I can tell you over the next seven days about 225 million americans keep in mind theres about 318 Million People in this country 225 million are going to be experiencing temperatures below freezing. Thats about 70 of the United States. This is going to be impacting a lot of people. The challenge is staying warm. Thanks. If americans are fed up with the snow just imagine how reporters must feel standing in the middle of stuff for hours on end doing live reports. We got the next clip from our chicago affiliate wgn. Want you to take a listen. Hey, its than cold out there. Theyre saying its going to be wor

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