it s just about noon or after noon right now there, and parris will be an important place to watch this week. can you imagine waiting your whole life to go to parris and see the eiffel tower and then see a quarter of it. it will clear. secretary of state john kerry touched down there this morning. his first order of business in france a meeting of the friends of syria group at the french foreign affairs ministry. kerry will try to convince the opposition party to attend talks later this moynihan switzerland. the u.s. beliefs the assad regime has lost credit built. sectarian violence is on the rise in iraq. [ gunshot ] seven people were killed today and at least 60 people have died in the last two weeks as violence grips that country. battles have raged between al qaeda linked fighters and government troops in fallujah.