joining us live with the latest from london, diplomatic editor nic robertson. a banner on iranian state tv saying those ten have been released? yeah. which now we ve seen the first photograph of them. what appears to be a first photograph of them. the state press tv put up on its website a still picture of a group of what could be the american sailors in a room. it s a room with a carpet, bare walls no chairs, sitting on the floor around the walls. it s not clear to us at the moment, without more details checking in this actually is a photograph of the sailors took prisoner. if it is, they appear to be in good condition. they appear all to be in uniform. they appear all to be together in a fairly relaxed environment. but again, this has just been released, the latest information from iranian state media. of course, a key question now is the iranians say they have been
national security correspondent jim sciutto as well as our diplomatic editor, nic robertson, both of whom are in paris. jim, what do we know about this raid in belgium? reporter: belgian police are telling cnn this raid is tied to the attacks here in paris. they haven t said how they are tied, but there is a connection. at least one raid underway there. keep in mind there was a shoot-out in belgium a few mo h months ago. a similar situation, attack. belgium like france has a pipeline to and from syria from jihadis. so that is another hotbed of this threat. keep in mind and you referenced this as you came into this, john, that this is a europe-wide situation now. a few hours ago, london s gatwick airport was shut down by an arrest, a french president arrested by what appeared to be a weapon. whether or not that s true, the
been positively identified. this is likely welcome news for families, but it won t bring answers to a man who lost his best friend. he tells cnn international, diplomatic editor he s left with a question he ll never get answered. happier times. leonard in the blue hat, victor in the red. holidays together with their girlfriends. they were close. leonard, best man at victor s wedding. always sharing good times together. but last week was different. leonard took his girlfriend, ale aleck exsandra alone on a special trip to egypt. i was chatting with him on a social page one day before, and i asked him how is everything, and he told me that he s going to tell me everything when he will come here. but his best friend never
the engines of the aircraft are american made and that would give the ntsb a way into this if the egyptians agree. back to you guys. urgency to get answers for the families of the loved ones on board. we know the investigations take time. barbara, thank you. meanwhile, officials with metrojet airline insist that human error and technical issues could not have caused the crash, even though aviation experts say it s way too early to make that call. diplomatic editor, ed roberts tracking that part of the story, live in saint charles borromeo seminary, russia. what we re hearing from russian officials that they will neither confirm nor deny the reports of this thermal flash. they say it should be waited until the investigation is complete. they re working with the egyptians. the egyptians have the black boxes. they say the black boxes show no signs of damage. they re pointing to the ongoing investigation there to reveal all the details that they say will be necessary. the airline com
for an hour while frantic staff phoned military officials at nato and kabul. more than 100 patients and 80 staff are in the hospital. the group said they had warned them of the hospital s location ahead of time. let s bring in cnn international diplomatic editor, nic robertson. what are you hearing? reporter: they had nato advisers on the ground with them. what was originally described as doctors without borders as an aerial bombardment, they say they gave it as recent will i as five days ago. when this aerial bombardment