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Mexican Election Authorities Predict Enrique Pena Nieto Will Be Mexican President; Violence Continues in Syria; Iranian Military Plans to Test Fire Missiles; Vice Guide to Congo; Ex-Rugby Player Fights for Right to Die; Athlete Says No to Tie Breaker; Eco-Car Competition; Spain Wins UEFA Euro Cup

Aired July 02, 2012 - 12:00   ET

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SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome to NEWSROOM INTERNATIONAL. I'm Suzanne Malveaux. We're taking you around the world in 60 minutes. Here is what is going on.

MALVEAUX (voice-over): Three British soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan's Helmand province. They were gunned down by a (inaudible) Afghan police uniform. Now NATO officials say It is not clear if the attacker was a police officer or an infiltrator wearing the uniform.

All right. You can hear the music and the chanting. Tens of thousands of people hit the streets in Hong Kong just after its new leader was sworn in. The protest is an annual event on the anniversary of Hong Kong's return to Chinese rule, but this year, people say they are more worried than ever about China's increasing role in Hong Kong's daily life and freedom.

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MALVEAUX: On to Spain, where you wouldn't know that there is an economic crisis from watching this. Check it out.

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MALVEAUX (voice-over): Spain's soccer team beat Italy with a convincing 4-0 victory to take the 2012 European championship, but they are not just the best team in Europe; some say they may be the best team to ever play the game. Spain is now the first team to win three consecutive major tournaments, having won 2008 Euro Cup and the 2010 World Cup.

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MALVEAUX: Now to Mexico where they have (inaudible) today. Election authorities project Enrique Pena Nieto as the winner of the country's election. So who is he exactly? Well, he's considered the golden boy of the party than ran Mexico for 71 years.

The party was kicked out of power 12 years ago. Now Pena Nieto, he was governor of Mexico's most populous state from 2005 to 2011. Some parts of his life, however, do sound a little bit like a soap opera. Our Miguel Marquez is joining us from Mexico City. First of all, tell us a little bit about his colorful past here.

MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes. Well, it is a soap opera if you consider here is a guy who is young, good-looking, powerful and he's married to a woman who suddenly dies. Has two kids out of wedlock and then ends up marrying a soap opera star.

That is exactly who this guy is. He's married to a woman Angelica Rivera, who used to star in a very big soap opera here called "Destilando Amor," "Distilling Love" -- great titles; I love these (inaudible) here.

And he is -- but all of that aside, and he came under great criticism from the (inaudible) campaign, because he was this -- he was a golden child and that his hair was too perfect and that he was too good-looking and sort of a Ken doll type of figure and it was a face of the PRI.

But, you know, this -- I have met him; he is a very smart, very serious guy, very shrewd (inaudible), and you know, he does believe that he can take the PRI in a different direction and that is the big question today, whether or not he actually will, Suzanne.

MALVEAUX: Yes, so would he different -- how will he govern differently than Calderon?

MARQUEZ: Well, he'll be able to govern more easily, I think, than Calderon. He doesn't -- I mean, look, if he gets 40 percent of the votes, that (inaudible) here, but still 60 percent of the people voted against him.

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MARQUEZ: But it looks like he will at least that lower house in the legislature, and it looks like (inaudible) with the bond (ph) party, the current administration in the upper house.

So he (inaudible) easier time tackling unions, oil and energy issues (inaudible) the military, all things he says he wants to do, these big grand Mexican (inaudible) historical institutions here are things that he wants to take, and he (inaudible) he (inaudible) do it. He will have a much easier time than Calderon getting some of these things done (inaudible).

MALVEAUX: (Inaudible) something this morning, President Clinton's former ambassador to Mexico, James Jones, he described him as similar (inaudible) and this is a quote (inaudible), was not analytically smart, but had good political (inaudible) around him who knew how to run a government. Does that sound like the new leader of Mexico as well?

MARQUEZ: It sounds right. I've been thinking more along the lines of Tony Blair and (inaudible) what he did there, but with a little more muscle, I think. But maybe as sort of a of a Reaganesque (inaudible) because he did change the Republican Party very much as well. And this is the sort of guy Pena Nieto seems to be, somebody who can (inaudible) from the inside. The Mexican people seem to have voted for that. They believe that this is a guy who can bring the sort of (inaudible) fairly good. It's supposed to grow by 4.25 percent this year, much better than the U.S. But it's not growing fast enough.

If you talk (inaudible) wealth distribution and helping the poor and (inaudible) wouldn't expect (inaudible). And (inaudible) wants to (inaudible) institutions to create more opportunities for Mexicans across the board and bring that disparity between rich and poor closer together, Suzanne.

MALVEAUX: Miguel, thank you. I understand that he is (inaudible) 45 years old, too. So he is one of our peers . Thanks. Good to see you.

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MALVEAUX (voice-over): This is a scene (inaudible) shelling in Syria. (Inaudible) described a state of terror spreading in suburban Damascus. Opposition groups say June was (inaudible) particularly gruesome month. Almost (inaudible) people were killed, including mourners at a funeral (inaudible). (Inaudible) caught on tape.

The explosion killed 85 people and wounded more than 300 (inaudible) say the (inaudible) organize by the Syrian government.

Mohammed Jamjoom, he is joining us from Abu Dhabi, and, Mohammed, we are seeing really the violence increasing here, and we are getting new (inaudible) opposition. Do we have a sense of really how great this is?

MOHAMMED JAMJOOM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Suzanne, it 's just extremely dire. The Syrian opposition local coordination committees -- that's an opposition (inaudible), they came out with a number a couple of days ago. They're saying now that in the 16 months since the Syrian uprising began, that over 14,000 people have died (inaudible).

Over 7,000 people have (inaudible) just (inaudible) four months. That is a staggering number when you think of all the (inaudible) going on, and especially when you (inaudible) how much (inaudible) activity has been going on these past three months in trying to implement some sort of peace plan and cease-fire that never took root there.

Now just (inaudible) illustrate how bad the situation is there, you talked about this car bombing a few minutes ago; I think you are playing some video from it now. This happened at the same time that these diplomats were meeting for this emergency meeting (inaudible) on Saturday.

So even as these diplomats are (inaudible) this peace plan, they're trying to form some sort of transitional government, fact of the matter is, the violence there escalating. This was a scene of utter carnage, according to the activist that we spoke with. They said that even after the car bombing that they are blaming on the Syrian regime, they said that there were Syrian forces there that were shooting on people, and that a doctor that was tending to the wounded was killed in that way. Suzanne?

MALVEAUX: Mohammed, thank you. We want to talk a little bit about those discussions that are taking place. The Arab League is stepping up its efforts to try to end the bloodshed in Syria. Now the league is trying to get Syrian opposition members to get together.

They've been meeting today in Cairo to discuss this new international plan to try to end this violence and the deal calls for a transitional government that is decided on (inaudible) Syrian people. I want to bring in Jill Dougherty in Washington.

Jill, it's the first time that we've had the Arab League hosting these Syrian opposition leaders, and it comes after a weekend, a breakthrough, if you will, from world leaders agreeing that they want some sort of transitional government. Do we have any (inaudible) of how these talks are going?

JILL DOUGHERTY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: (Inaudible), no. That is what they are trying to do. It is very, very difficult. They have 250 opposition people there.

It is a really disparate group, and it's trying -- they are trying really to just come up with some common vision, because after all, this meeting over the weekend where Secretary Clinton was, she, in an interview with me, said, admitted that there is no guarantee that this plan that they worked out in Geneva is even going to ultimately work.

And she said, "I just hate to say that," quote, but it is really the truth. So one of the things that Mohammed was talking about, the opposition really are violently opposed to any idea that Assad would stay. And when they say that there's not really clarity in the (inaudible). But here's (inaudible) in reality (inaudible).

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HILLARY CLINTON, SECRETARY OF STATE: What the agreement clearly states is that there has to be a transitional governing body that will be constituted of people who are there by the mutual consent of the government and the opposition.

Now, unless I'm wildly off base, there is no way anyone in the opposition would ever consent to Assad or his inside regime cronies with (inaudible) being on any transitional governing body.

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DOUGHERTY: Well, that is certainly hope, Suzanne, but there is, again, no guarantee. And also, you know, the strategy of trying to get Russia aboard, really they did accept some tweaks, as they were called, by Russia and were coming up with some of this lack of clarity. MALVEAUX: And Jill, one of the things I guess that they are upset about is the fact that Assad, he would actually have some sort of role in this transitional government, is that correct?

DOUGHERTY: No, it is not really that far, Suzanne. What it is, is they say in the document that they would -- members of the regime could theoretically be part of this. But it doesn't mean Assad would necessarily be (inaudible) at all. In fact, that's what Clinton is saying that he wouldn't realistically, but the problem is it is not there specifically, and (inaudible) this lack of clarity comes out.

The whole idea, I think, was to really try to get Russia aboard then go to Assad, put pressure on Assad, but even the Russians (inaudible) they are not quite sure that they have the leverage to do that.

MALVEAUX: All right. Jill Dougherty at the State Department. Thank you, Jill.

Here is more of what we are working on for this hour of NEWSROOM INTERNATIONAL.

War games in Iraq, why the missiles they fire could actually drive up the price you pay for gas and amp up the tension between the U.S. and Iran.

Later, take a look at your cell phone, it would not even work without the minerals these miners are pulling out of the earth in Congo, and they are digging them out with their bare hands.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, you know, a lot of it ends up in super- high tech devices and you never think when you're using those devices back home that this is how it actually starts.

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MALVEAUX: Welcome back to NEWSROOM INTERNATIONAL, where we take you around the world in 60 minutes. Iran flexing its military muscle again. And the Iranian military plans to test fire missiles. That is right. Starting today, the country's semi-official news agency says the missiles will target desert bases made to look like the air bases of some regional powers.

Michael Holmes is here to talk a little bit about the war games.

I think the timing of this is really important. European Union now deciding that they're going to go ahead full with this (inaudible)?

MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: Yes.

MALVEAUX: Is it -- how threatened does Iran feel at this moment?

HOLMES: (Inaudible) nuclear program. And all of this ties into that. What we have seen is the E.U. embargo on (inaudible) oil come into full effect as of July the 1st. What that is going to do, 18 percent of Iran's exports came from European imports; that has all gone now.

You're talking hundreds of millions of dollars, a major exporting country now finding that it's lost that huge market that it had. Also European countries (inaudible) ship the oil, can't insure the oil. It's just making -- giving Iran a hard time.

And yes, it comes right at a time when they are doing these war games, which is basically flexing their muscle in the region saying, hey, we can take care of ourselves while you are pressuring us about the nuclear issue. There's a whole lot of things (inaudible) --

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MALVEAUX: (Inaudible) the oil embargo -- and we're talking about like 80 percent of this revenue that they get -- they're getting. If this is coming from that oil that they're exporting?

HOLMES: Eighty percent of their foreign oil -- their foreign revenues comes from oil, yes, something like half of it total revenues comes from oil.

And as I say, the European Union was a chunk of that, lot of other oil goes to China, goes to Indonesia, goes to other places. Well, this is a significant economic impact on a country that is already having economic woes caused by the sanctions that are already in place.

MALVEAUX: So how much more can the Iranian people take?

HOLMES: Yes.

MALVEAUX: I mean, when is this actually -- where's the tipping point here, do you think?

HOLMES: You know, a lot (inaudible) say that this -- these sanctions that have been put (inaudible), a lot of people say, ah, sanctions (inaudible). It is squeezing Iran. The economy (inaudible) having a (inaudible) inflation something like officially 25 (inaudible). It's a lot more than (inaudible) the currency, the real, has been devalued against other currencies 50 percent.

So a lot of Iranians are going broke. Other than those who are currency speculators, who are making all the money. And so the economy -- bread's gone up 16 times -- or 16-fold in the last two years. So it's pretty hard for the average Iranian. And they're starting to feel it.

You think about (inaudible). Iranians are very sort of traditional outside of the capital. In the capital, you could say there's a lot of pro-Western sort of feeling among the younger people. They're very tech-savvy (inaudible). You start squeezing them, they get angry. Well, that's the whole idea of this.

MALVEAUX: Is anybody threatened by these war games today, when you take a look at what they're doing?

HOLMES: No, it's the usual sort of bellicose stuff that you hear from the Iranians. We can protect ourselves. Our missiles can reach U.S. bases in the area. If Israel tries to attack us, we will attack them and destroy them, that sort of stuff.

(Inaudible) in Bahrain is also having its own military exercise and they're foes as well, a lot of that going on. The economic stuff, interesting, though, and I think that's where watch this impact. The talks themselves, the nuclear talks, which is at the heart of all this, going nowhere.

MALVEAUX: All right.

HOLMES: Absolutely nowhere at the moment.

MALVEAUX: This is a complicated (inaudible) --

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HOLMES: It is, isn't it? I mean, (inaudible) one thing leads to another leads to another. But it is all intertwined. It is very important.

MALVEAUX: All right. Thank you, Michael, appreciate it.

Sunday after Sunday, they are burning more and more churches to the ground in Kenya. We are going to find out what is behind the violence.

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MALVEAUX: (Inaudible) being bound, unable to move anything but your eyelids. It 's been a reality for a man in England, who suffered a catastrophic stroke seven years ago.

Now he says that his only relief for his condition, which is called locked-in syndrome, will come from dying. He has been fighting for the right to end his life. It is a case that is drawing international attention as well as opinions. Nima Elbagir reports.

NIMA ELBAGIR, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Seven years ago Tony Nicklinson was a healthy 51-year-old man.

JANE NICKLINSON, WIFE: He is the life and the soul of the party, his is a big bloke, ex-rugby player. He worked hard but he played hard. He was, you know, full of life, great sense of humor, loved the sound of his own voice. (Inaudible).

ELBAGIR (voice-over): Then he suffered a stroke. Today, the man who loved life is fighting for the right to end it.

TONY NICKLINSON, STROKE VICTIM: My name is Tony Nicklinson and I have locked-in syndrome. This means that most of my body is paralyzed, but my mind is as it was before the stroke. All I can move is my head and the stroke took away my power of speech. Now I talk to people with a Perspex (ph) spelling board or a computer operated by my eye blinks.

My day typically begins at 5:00 am. I need only four or five hours' sleep, because I live a very sedentary life. I watch television until 8:30, when the first of the carers come. During this time, my wife checks on me at 7:30 and between then and 8:00, she gives me my drugs and juice for breakfast.

These drugs are only to make my life more comfortable, as I have refused all drugs that are designed to prolong my life since 2007. Unfortunately for me, tomorrow will be exactly the same, and the next and the next, ad infinitum until the day I die.

ELBAGIR: If you were given the right to make that decision, would you choose to do so?

T. NICKLINSON: Yes.

ELBAGIR (voice-over): But under British law, Tony doesn't have that right. He is physically incapable of committing suicide and it's illegal for anyone to help him. At present, so-called voluntary active euthanasia when assistance is required to end a life, constitutes murder and the sentence is life imprisonment.

Tony has taken his case to the high court in Britain, saying he is not looking for a new law allowing euthanasia; he simply wants a remedy to the current legislation, which he calls discriminatory.

T. NICKLINSON: Some people have in the past spoken to me in loud, slow and deliberate tones normally reserved for the deaf or daft. I am neither. All too often well-meaning able-bodied people just assume that if a person is so severely disabled that he needs assistance to commit suicide, he must be automatically be unable to deal with such a choice.

I say that where a person has the mental ability, he should have the choice of his own life or death. The only difference between you and me is my inability to take my own life without assistance.

ELBAGIR (voice-over): Tony's condition has not changed for seven years and he and his wife say the longer the court takes to rule on his appeal, the longer his only hope for relief is postponed.

J. NICKLINSON: I think the injustice of it all, you or I can go out and take our lives any time we want, whereas Tony, being the one that really needs that right can't do this. And he is only asking for what everyone else has got, really, you know, his right to take his own life. He wants that given back to him.

ELBAGIR (voice-over): The high court is expected to issue its judgment in Tony's case after the end of July. As difficult as things are for them, Jane says that she and Tony have never had any doubts that assisted suicide is the right choice for them.

J. NICKLINSON: It has taken so long to get to this point, and he has never ever wavered and it is what he wants. It's what he wants desperately, so if it's what he wants, it is what we want. (END VIDEO CLIP)

MALVEAUX: That was Nima Elbagir for us, out of London.

Well, Sunday after Sunday, they are burning more and more churches to the ground. That is in Kenya. We're going to find out what is behind the violence.

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MALVEAUX: Welcome back to NEWSROOM INTERNATIONAL. We take you around the world in 60 minutes. Now to Kenya, where violence continues to escalate along the Somalian (sic) border. At least 17 people were killed Sunday in attacks on two churches. Police say the attackers wearing ski masks terrorized the churches with gunfire and grenades. Forty other people wounded.

David McKenzie, he is live in Nairobi. David, do we know who is behind this?

DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We don't know who's behind it just yet, Suzanne. This happened yesterday or Sunday morning here in Kenya. Simultaneous attacks by these gunmen on two churches, people praying, going about their normal Sunday in a town called Garissa (ph), near the Somali border.

They describe a scene of mayhem, as the gunmen stormed in. First, they lobbed grenades at these two churches, then opened fire with what seemed like automatic weapons. As you say, it's some 17 killed, several seriously injured and scores likely injured.

The worry is is that is just the latest indication that, while Kenyan forces are in Somalia, trying to shore up a barrier between the lawless Somalia and here in Kenya, these attacks just keep on happening. And there have been a spate of them over recent months, both on the border regions, Susan, but also here in Nairobi as well as on the coast.

There have been intermittent terror warnings by the U.S. government about locations here in Kenya, but this is the latest indication that there's a real problem with Islamic militants coming over or operating here in Kenya, Suzanne.

MALVEAUX: And talk a little bit about that, because there's some people who believe that it's Al-Shabaab, that this is a group that's affiliated with Al Qaeda.

MCKENZIE: Well, at this point, Al-Shabaab on itself is definitely affiliated with Al Qaeda. In fact, they joined Al Qaeda earlier this year. And while Al Qaeda, since the killing of bin Laden, has been demonstrably weakened in its activities and striking terror around the world, certainly Al-Shabaab still has a strong operational effectiveness in this region, according to security analysts I've talked to.

And though that's a militant group, has been cornered by the Kenyan military, other African militaries are not a covert operations by the United States and others. They are moving back and forth between Somalia and Yemen, the country in the Arabian Peninsula where Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operate. And that is considered one of the more dangerous terror groups out there right now.

Some good news, though, today, Suzanne, at least four hostages were released after a firefight in southern Somalia. Now those were aid workers who had been working in that huge refugee camp near the Somalia border.

I'm sure you remember us reporting on the famine there in that region last year. Now these people were trying to help Somalis in that refugee camp, taken on Friday at gunpoint, skirted into Somalia and because of the tipoff from the local population, the Kenyan forces managed to rescue them.

One of them was injured in the foot by gunshot, but those four international aid workers released today. And they were very relieved when they got off and spoke briefly to the media.

MALVEAUX: All right. Good news on that account. Thank you, David, appreciate it.

The most sacred tombs of Timbuktu, take ablaze -- or rather, set ablaze by militants. We are actually going to tell you why things are getting out of control in Mali.

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MALVEAUX: Welcome back to Newsroom International. We take you around the world in 60 minutes. first to the west coast of Japan where for the first time since may a nuclear plant is up and running. Despite protests outside, start-up operations began on Sunday night at the Ohi (ph) nuclear plant number three reactor. Now Japan gradually shut down all of its nuclear power plants. (Inaudible) that, of course, following the meltdown at the (inaudible).

African nation Mali, separatist rebels. (Inaudible) they have been destroyed. Started last week one day after the U.N.'s world heritage committee placed the shrine on the list of endangered sites. They're considered of outstanding global value. There are more than 900 heritage sites around the world.

Islamic extremists, including a group linked to Al Queda, have taken control of Timbuktu. (Inaudible) say they have found what seems to be the remains of a human head. It was found in a city park. What they are not saying is if it is connected to murder suspect Luke Magnotta. Magnotta, he is accused of killing and dismembering a Chinese student studying in Montreal.

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MALVEAUX: Elite athletes (inaudible) to one thing, a chance to compete in the Olympics. But two women sprinters now facing a run off in 100 meters to settle third place and, of course, a spot on the U.S. team. Allyson Felix and Jeneba Tarmoh finished in a dead heat for third place in the finals. That was just 8 days ago. U.S.A track and field initially said both women agreed to a run off set for tonight but now there's word that Tarmoh is having second thoughts. I want to bring in Don Riddell, he's here to help sort all this out. Don, you were saying this is not going to happen now after all?

DON RIDDELL, CNN ANCHOR: It doesn't sound like it which is a real shame. I mean, I really feel for the athletes involved, particularly Jeneba Tarmoh who, of course, thought she'd won - well not won the race but thought she'd finished third and won a place in the Olympics. She looked up, saw her name on the board, she did a lap of honor, only afterwards to be told that actually it was (inaudible). And so for her, I think she was actually drained by that process and, I think, found the last week very, very difficult. She's a rookie in this sport. This is her first year as a professional sprinter and she's had to go through this. We understood that last night she was definitely having second thoughts. Within the last few minutes her agent has said she doesn't want to do it. She's pulling out. She's conceding to Allyson Felix. Just the emotional process of this, I think, she wouldn't have won the race anyway.

MALVEAUX: Is there any possibility that these two women still could share that place, that spot. Or is that not going to happen?

RIDDELL: There's only room for one on the track. I mean, they're already - they send a team of three. So, the first two in this race are already going to the Olympics. The dispute was over the third place finish. Now Tarmoh will still go to the Olympics she will be a member of the relay team. But really she would have liked to be there and representing herself in her own right. And, obviously, she just felt like she wasn't in place to compete today.

MALVEAUX: There was talk before of even flipping a coin. I mean, do they have to do this race? I mean, if she is so distraught (inaudible) something else, potentially?

RIDDELL: That was one of the options. From what I understand, she's now not going to do that either. She's just going to say to Allyson, you take the spot. It has been a disaster for U.S. track and field. I mean they didn't have a contingency in place for how to deal with this. Granted, it was highly unlikely that it ever would have happened. I mean, they looked at the photo finish of this race, analyzed thousands of frames per second in the finish of this race and they still couldn't pick these two apart. So it's very unlikely that it's happened but they didn't have a plan. No protocol, swimming does. The U.S. track and field team did not and I think they're going to be in for some real (inaudible) now. They could have salvaged it if they have given us this superb race tonight but if it doesn't happen a lot of questions.

MALVEAUX: So what happens to the one who gives up on this? She has to wait another four years before she's got a shot?

RIDDELL: Absolutely.

MALVEAUX: Really.

RIDDELL: Yeah. Heart breaking, right?

MALVEAUX: It's brutal. All right. Don, thank you.

Well, they live off about a dollar a day and their hard labor powers everything from your computer to your cell phone. We're going to take you to Congo where people in one of the most poorest countries on Earth are sitting on top of a technological gold mine.

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MALVEAUX: (Inaudible) trending on twitter. Beauty pageant (inaudible) three other women (inaudible) there are some critics (inaudible) they are digging. (Inuadible)

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (Inaudible) no electricity. (Inaudible) They didn't take too kindly to us, initially. But they were even worried about (inaudible). (Inaudible) house to stay in. Then they offered us a couple soldiers to guard us all night long. Yesterday we experienced them trying to keep some secrets hidden. So today we have a plan, we're going to break free. We're going to set up (inaudible). These houses are all (inaudible)

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JASON MOJICA, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: -- refers to tungsten, gold and tantilum and the last comes from a rock. All of these are extracted from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and they have become the kind of the favorite, the favorite tool of armed groups operating there to make some cash to fund their operations.

MALVEAUX: Why do these miners live under the conditions they do, such poor conditions?

MOJICA: Well, that is kind of the circumstance of most people living in South Kieu is a spartan life, and the methods as you have seen in the film which you can watch in full on vice.com are very primitive, (AUDIO GAP) problematic (AUDIO GAP)

MALVEAUX: Jason, who is working to help them improve their conditions?

MOJICA: Well, a conflict minerals (AUDIO GAP) failed state, which was kind of alarming (AUDIO GAP)

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MALVEAUX: Several stories caught our attention today as well. Mexicans waiting in (AUDIO GAP) to cast ballots new. Candidate (AUDIO GAP)

In Jerusalem a man carries a photo of Yitzhak Shamir who died Saturday at 96. He was named the recent term in 1992.

Supporters of the Italian national soccer team lost the European championship game with Spain. Spain has won back-to-back Euro cups and is the reigning world cup champion.

In Spain, you would not know that the country is in the middle of economic crisis if you are watching this. Check it out. Spain's soccer team beat Italy with a convincing 4-0 victory to take the European championship, but not the best team in Europe, because some say they are the be team ever to play the game. Spain is now the first team to win three consecutive major tournaments having won the 2008 world cup and the 2010 world cup. And now Al from Madrid, tell us about this. The team met with the king of Spain, is that right? Oh, I understand that Al is not with us. That is okay. We will try to get him back when we can.

College students in Singapore are vying to be head of the class in a competition at is driving them to new heights. They are designing the eco-friendly automobile of the future. It is last- minute tinkering to make this eco car go.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: These engineering students in Singapore hope this is the third year in a row they win for efficiency in the fuel category of their choice, hydrogen.

BOYLS SIAVONO, STUDENT: It uses hydrogen and combines with oxygen to produce two things: electricity, which is what you want to use, and water. Which is cool, because if you have water as your byproduct, it is essentially a clean byproduct.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hydrogen has its critics, because it is expensive to fuel and restore. And it will take years to push ahead of the more popular hybrid and battery cars, but these students are busy doing the track runs in the school parking lot.

SIAVONO: We want to minimize drag and aerodynamics. Of course, aesthetics wise, a good-looking car, yes.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The professor advises the team of five students from five countries and he estimates that this is 30 percent more fuel efficient.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The most difficult thing is that the car works. From the textbook, they believe as long as they can do the calculation right, the car works. But in reality the car might not work. This is basically the best lesson I think that they will have.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And what does it feel like going from literally drawing board to moving car? how does that feel?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Awesome.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, it is quite good to see that some of the design ideas get to work. It is a great form of training. So we can put out design team, and see how it works and trouble shoot. Yes, it is pretty much what engineering is about.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: These students are inspired by the idea that today's experiments can become tomorrow's solutions, but it does not hurt to pick up a prize along the way. Liz (AUDIO GAP), Singapore.

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MALVEAUX: I understand we got al back from Madrid.

Al, you are with Spain's team there and I heard they met with the king of Spain, is that right?

AL, REPORTER: Hi, Suzanne. Well, the team has not arrived here yet, and this is the plaza in front of the city hall and they are still more than a hour of getting here and it is a sea of red. Red is the color for the fiesta for La Roca, because they have won the third most prestigious award in a row. They can't get enough of it. Suzanne.

MALVEAUX: Al, tell me what it is like to be there.

AL: You know, we covered the world cup two years ago and the fans down here, and we covered the fans four years ago and the excitement just keeps building and this year people were not quite so sure, and there were a lot of doubters here in Spain and certainly abroad and could the team pull it off and convincing 4-0 victory over Italy last night and they feel like the team has all of the respect they have, and they can't wait to see them and see that cup which is behind me very soon. Suzanne.

MALVEAUX: Al, what do you think, are people not doing too well economically there, and does this give a lit respite there and they can feel good about themselves and feel good about being a part of everything, their country?

AL: That's what it has been like for the last three weeks as they have watched this team beat the likes of Ireland and then France and then Portugal and now Italy to take this. We talked to the people who say it is a great diversion, but not getting back to the fundamentals of the society as a whole which is in a deep recession and more than 24 percent unemployment. Suzanne.

MALVEAUX: Al, we can't help but look at the pictures, because they are absolutely amazing. How long does this party go on?

AL: Well, we could be sure that it is behind schedule. They arrived at Madrid's airport behind schedule, and they did see the king, and this fiesta was supposed to be down here by 8:00 local time, but I guess that it is going to be later than that and the party last night was all night non-stop with the city not sleeping. Suzanne.

MALVEAUX: And Al, what happens next for the guys? Any other tournaments that are left that they haven't won?

AL: Well, I think that what is on their mind right now is a e rest. These guys have played more minutes on the field than a lot of the other teams, because they play on the great club teams, Real Madrid, and FC Barcelona and it will soon be the regular Spanish league season coming up and then the qualifying rounds for the world cup which is the next item coming in two years' time, and it does not stop. Suzanne. MALVEAUX: It is great to see you, Al. Congratulations to those guys.