Vicious knife attack. Aviation disaster. Three french sports stars are among the dead in a Helicopter Crash in argentina. And an incredible rescue. Well explain how a toddler was able to survive after being trap for 14 hours in a smashed car in a freezing river. Big stories to get to for you. Hello, and welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im errol barnett. This is cnn newsroom. Re leaving a hospital in seoul. Mark leppert of injured in a surprise knife attack last thursday as he was about to give a speech. Our Senior International correspondent, ivan watson was at the conference and joins us live from seoul. What about the ambassador say, and how bad were his injuries in the end . Reporter he had about a fourinch gash in his check from this knife and had a stab wound to his wrist and arm. Five days after a korean nationalist with a history of kind of violent protests and a criminal record five days amarkfter lipper stabbed, he emerged into a room of korean
tikrit. we re joined from aman jordan, with more on the battle against isis. with some of the successes aside, the sectarian at play with shia forces coming into a sunni citi, this is is serious stuff. reporter: very sensitive. a lot of concern about that. these are primarily, as ben mentioned, the force that is going into tikrit that is close to the city. these are primarily made up of shia militias. concern about what happens next. we have heard from rights groups and wash dog groups like human rights watchdog groups like human rights that sunni villages obviously on a smaller scale in different provinces, they say there were atrocities committed by militias like these. there s a lot of concerns about reprisal attacks and what happens next. we ve also heard from the top shia leadership in the country,