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Ukrainian Presidential Frontrunner Says Election Only Path To Unity; Thai Military Declares Martial Law; China Accuses U.S. of Hypocrisy Over Cyber Theft Indictments; Leading Women: Padmashree Warrior; Libyan Parliament Announces Elections In Wake of Violence
Aired May 20, 2014 - 8:00 ET
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KRISTIE LU STOUT, HOST: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. And welcome to News Stream where news and technology meet.
Now Thailand's military declares martial law across the country, but insists it is not a coup.
China accuses the U.S. of hypocrisy after five Chinese military officers are charged with hacking U.S. companies.
And an investigation into how two planes came within meters of colliding at Newark Airport in New Jersey.
We start in Thailand where the head of the military says martial law will stay in place until peace and order have been restored across the country.
Now soldiers and tanks are now stationed around the capital Bangkok, but the army chief insists this is not a coup. And says they won't allow any bloodshed. He also urged political groups to meet for talks to end the deadlock that has resulted in violent unrest over recent months.
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LU STOUT: The order came before dawn. And by daylight, armed soldiers could be seen in the streets of Bangkok. But the military insists this is not a coup.
GEN. PRAYUTH CHAN-OCHA, THAI ARMY CHIEF (through translator): I have asked all sides, all groups to stop any movement in order to start the sustainable solution as soon as possible.
LU STOUT: But an aid to the prime minister calls this half a coup d'etat. The move, he says, was made without the government's knowledge.
The army chief warned of intervention after violence returned to Bangkok last week. Three anti-government protesters were killed and 23 injured when gunmen opened fire on a protest camp in the early hours of Thursday morning.
Later that day, anti-government protesters stormed the grounds of an air force office compound, forcing the country's interim prime minister to flee a meeting.
Political tensions have been running high in Thailand after the constitutional court removed Prime Minister Yingluck Luck Shinawatra and nine cabinet ministers from office earlier this month.
PAUL QUAGLIA, DIRECTOR, PQA ASSOCIATES: Here in Bangkok...
LU STOUT: Paul Quaglia, a 20 year veteran of the CIA and director of risk assessment firm PQA Associates based in Bangkok says it is this political uncertainty, which prompted the military to intervene.
QUAGLIA: ...some sort of authority needed to be inserted into the discourse here. I'm not sure the military wants to be in this long-term. I think that they reluctantly took this step today. They really are out of the business of staging coups now in 2014.
That being said, they may have to take more assertive action in the days to come if one or other of the opposing camps do not accept martial law and continue to defy it.
LU STOUT: Quaglia also says there's a sense of relief among Bangkok businesses and residents today despite the military presence around the capital.
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LU STOUT: The Thai people are accustomed to this cycle of political upheaval. There have been 18 attempted or actual military takeovers in the past eight decades or so.
Now Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a political professor based in Bangkok says that the only way to stop the turmoil is to change the electoral system.
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THITINAN PONGSUDHIRAK, PROFESSOR, CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY: We've been paralyzed in Thailand, because on one sid we have protesters bent on replacing the government, on the other side we have caretaker government unwilling to resign.
So this deadlock now have been broken by the martial law and the army's presence. But going forward we have a big problem, because to climb our way out of this crisis eventually we will need to return to the electoral system. But the elections, if we have one -- when we do -- it will be won by one side, by the Thaksin Shinawatra side. So somehow that has to be answered and addressed. We have to make the electoral system workable, otherwise if you don't have elections, then we will have a solution from outside the electoral system. And that's not what we want to see.
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LU STOUT: And you can read more on the new order in Thailand and the political twists and turns that led up to it. Visit our website, CNN.com.
Now, China is slamming the United States, accusing it of hypocrisy and double standards. Now Beijing is demanding the U.S. Justice Department withdraw cyber theft charges against five Chinese army officers.
Now the men are accused of spying on top U.S. companies, hacking into their computer networks and stealing valuable trade secret.
Now Beijing has summoned the U.S. ambassador to complain. And CNN's Pamela Brown has the latest from Washington.
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PAMELA BROWN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Wanted by the FBI, five Chinese military officials who have allegedly spent years stealing trade secrets from some of the biggest companies in the U.S. like Westinghouse and Alcoa, draining the U.S. economy of billions of dollars and putting Americans out of jobs, according to U.S. officials.
JOHN CARLIN, ASST. U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL: For the first time, we are exposing the faces and names behind the keyboards in Shanghai used to steal from American businesses.
BROWN: From thousands of miles away, the U.S. tracked the men down to one city, one block, one building on a Chinese army base near Shanghai. According to this indictment, the five men hacked into the computer networks of six U.S. companies in steel, nuclear power and manufacturing industries, raiding highly sensitive cutting edge research, pricing and strategy information.
SHAWN HENRY, PRESIDENT, CROWDSTRIKE SERVICES: I think the American public has to be concern. The American public, U.S. companies have lost billions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars by many estimates. They've lost jobs. The U.S. has become less competitive. And Chinese companies, and other nations' companies as a matter of fact, have gained on the backs of American consumers, American taxpayers, American investors.
BROWN: In one case, U.S. officials allege the hackers stole trade secrets of a nuclear power plant while negotiations were underway between Westinghouse and a Chinese company.
ERIC HOLDER, U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL: We expect and hope that the Chinese government will work us in connection with this and bring these indicted men to justice.
BROWN: But sources tell CNN the chances of that happening are slim to none. Instead, the charges are meant to fire a warning shot across China's bow.
HENRY: The government is just saying enough is enough. We've got enough evidence, we're coming forward, we're going to throw the gauntlet down. And we're going to tell the Chinese government you can't cross this red line.
BROWN: U.S. officials say economic espionage is a rampant problem that's been going on for years. President Obama has even confronted Chinese leaders about it.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We're going to have to work very hard to build a system of defenses and protections both in the private sector and in the public sector even as we negotiate with other countries.
BROWN: Meantime, today U.S. justice officials say this is the new normal and we can expect similar economic espionage cases in the future.
Pamela Brown, CNN, Washington.
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LU STOUT: Candy Goo, Ugly Gorilla and Win XY Happy, now those are just some of the aliases that were allegedly used by the Chinese military suspects accused of hacking corporate America and committing economic espionage.
Now let's take a closer look at exactly what they're accused of doing. Now U.S. federal authorities say the suspects, they snooped on computers and sold confidential business information from the solar panel maker Solar World. They also allegedly installed MalWare on computers of U.S. Steel and sought out computers controlling access to the steel manufacturers buildings.
Prosecutors say they also stole the network credentials of nearly every employee of steel maker Allegheny Technologies and spied on emails from manufacturer Alcoa just weeks after it partnered with a Chinese firm.
But that's not all. Now U.S. authorities say the suspects also snooped on emails of the United Steel Workers Union during a trade dispute.
Now the Chinese government insists it has never carried out those hacking attacks.
Now CNN's David McKenzie joins me now live from Beijing with more. And David, first, how has Beijing officially responded to these U.S. hacking charges?
DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORREPSONDENT: Well, Kristie, they responded just hours after the initial indictment was announced by the attorney generals in the U.S. And that's unusual for China. It shows how extremely seriously they take this, a middle of the night release. And then they followed it up with on camera responses. Take a listen to the ministry of foreign affairs.
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HONG LEI, SPOKESMAN, CHINESE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS (through translator): The Chinese government, the Chinese military, have never engaged or participated in any hacker attacks or any so-called cyber thefts of trade secrets.
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MCKENZIE: Well, they're certainly saying that they are never -- have never been involved in this. And they've also called these allegations extremely absurd, Kristie.
So the Chinese side, at least, appears to be saying that this is all rubbish and that the U.S. is out of line for making these allegations -- Kristie.
LU STOUT: China is denouncing the charges. It is accusing the United States of hypocrisy. China also says its military, the PLA, has been a serious victim of U.S. cyber theft. I mean is this really happening? Is this true? Is cyber theft happening against each other here?
MCKENZIE: Well, certainly the cyber theft is a global phenomenon, Kristie. And it's not just China and U.S. potentially engaging in these activities.
China is at pains to point out whenever news comes up like this, when its accused of this kind of cyber crime, that it itself is a victim, whether it be the PLA specifically or just Chinese citizens in general.
You know, there's also an interesting aspect to this, which is how does a country view the separation between its business and its state. Many analysts I've spoken to say that in China, the government, the Communist Party and these big state owned enterprises are all in a way one entity. And so if you believe the U.S. allegations that they have been involved in this cyber espionage, it might sort of fit into that analysis.
Listen to one analyst who said, you know, there's that fuzzy line when it comes to this issue in China.
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DUNCAN CLARK, CHAIRMAN BDA: In China, the goal of overtaking the U.S. and becoming the leading economy in the world is something that's shared by the government, by companies, whether they be private or state owned, and in fact by the Chinese people themselves. So it's difficult to kind of untease a kind of a state driven agenda from what the Chinese people actually want.
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MCKENZIE: But it is worth noting that, again, China denies all of these allegations. And says they are the victims, not the perpetrators of this kind of crime, Kristie.
LU STOUT: And the diplomatic fallout. China has suspended its involvement in the joint China-U.S. cyber working group. I mean, what kind of impact would that have on cyber security and trying to build trust between the U.S. and China. And in general, the U.S.-China relationship?
MCKENZIE: Well, I think on the U.S.-China relationship that's a big complex, important relationship to both countries, particularly economically. So, you know, there's no sense this will derail the overall China-America relationship.
But there is a sense in recent months that several issues have frayed that relationship between the two sides over, you know, recent issues. But with this cyber issue, yes, they have suspended this working group, which was trying to solve the issue of cyber crime.
You know, six months ago you saw a lot of positive statements from both sides saying they're working together. Now it's a bit of a different story, it's more like finger pointing than problem solving.
But I feel that in the at least the short-term, you might see more fallout from this issue. In particular, because of this very public outing of these alleged PLA operatives who are, some of them even in uniform in those wanted posters released by the FBI. That will be from a Chinese point of view very insulting to the government. From the U.S. point of view, of course, they say that this was a serious crime that needs punishment, though very unlikely that any of these individuals will ever set foot on U.S. soil to face trial.
LU STOUT: So basically charges was America's way of calling out China in its alleged cyber theft activities. We'll leave it at that.
David McKenzie joining us live from Beijing, thank you so much, David.
Now you are watching News Stream. Straight ahead right in the program, as flood waters wreck havoc in the Balkans, rescue workers are facing a secondary terrifying threat hiding deep underground.
Plus, a close call at a busy U.S. airport. Just how did two airplanes manage to come within meters of each other? We take a look at the details.
And calls from around the world to bring back more than 200 missing Nigerian schoolgirls as international forces band together in the largescale search for the students.
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LU STOUT: Welcome back.
Now rescue workers in the Balkans are struggling to deal with the worst flooding in the region's recorded history. Raging flood waters have forced tens of thousands of people to flee and have so far claimed at least 26 lives. And that figure is expected to rise as the flood waters recede.
Adding to this crisis, the thousands of landslides brought on by the floods. And with them, the threat of landmines from the Bosnian war resurfacing.
Now the Red Cross says buried landmines may have shifted along with warning signs in the area.
Now CNN's team of meteorologists are keeping a very, very close watching on the situation. So let's track the water levels there with Mari Ramos. She joins us from the world weather center -- Mari.
MARI RAMOS, CNN WEATHER CORRESPONDENT: Just another layer to add to the tragedy here with this historic flooding, Kristie, that we've had across this portion of southeastern Europe.
You know, it rained very heavily from northern parts of Greece, Macedonia, all the way up into southern parts of Poland. But the hardest hit area, of course, is right here in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and also into Serbia.
I want to show you this picture, pretty telling, this is taken on May 18 of 2013. So we're going back a whole year. And you see normal river levels here across this area. Here you see the Sava River all the way over here, many other tributaries to the bottom.
We're going to go ahead show you a picture from May 19 of this year. And you can see the difference. Look at all of the blue that's on the map now. Several kilometers wide, that's how widespread the flooding is across some of these areas. And so when they tell you that these are the hardest hit areas. This is the reason why.
Look at this area right in there. So when you look at how narrow the river looks here and then you see that, that's between three to eight kilometers in the widest areas, the narrower areas about three kilometers into this region here. So widespread flooding and that is why we have so many problems.
All of that water continuing to drain down farther downstream so while we may begin to see a little bit of an improvement at the beginning of these rivers, as we head closer to the larger rivers, we're still seeing the water levels rising, unfortunately, especially as we head back over here toward Belgrade where the water levels will be rising even as we head into the end portion of this week.
So very significant situation. And it is still a flood emergency as of today.
There's the Sava River one more time. In Sabac, the water levels are starting to trend downward. It's an indication that they've reached their peak, and that was earlier on Sunday.
But like I was saying in Begrade, we're still trending upwards. And we could see levels that are historically high, higher than they've ever been measured in this part of the world, which has records going back to the 1800s.
The weather pattern has shifted, though. We have generally higher -- high pressure in place here with drier conditions, is what I meant to say. The wet weather still over here toward the west. And the rain will remain there. I think one of the things to watch here will be some very hot conditions, including near record high temperatures, or record high temperatures across this corner of northeastern Europe.
Look at Moscow, got up to 29 degrees with an average of 19 for this time of year. And Saint Petersburg got up to 33. Their average is 16.
I want to switch gears and take you to another part of the world and show you some pretty impressive video with my last 30 seconds. So let's roll the first one. And this is from Sao Paulo. That's not snow, that is hail, Kristie. Isn't that amazing? They were surprised, to say the very least, by a freak storm that dump up to 20 centimeters of hail, paralyzing portions of the city.
It was a very localized -- relatively localized supercell thunderstorm that caused this massive weather scenario. And if you're wondering what a supercell thunderstorm looks like, ah have I got pictures for you. Look at that, that is the supercell thunderstorm taken -- pictures taken on Sunday in the U.S. state of Wyoming.
This is a timelapse picture, of course, but you can see the rotating portion of the cloud toward the bottom. The bigger the thunderstorm, the bigger the hailstorms will be -- or the hailstorm will be, of course the more intense the thunderstorm, the more intense the hailstorm will be.
And hail is one sign, just one sign, of severe weather.
Whoa, that's scary, but beautiful.
LU STOUT: Yeah, I know what you mean, scary but beautiful. That fisheye camera view of that storm in slow motion, extraordinary stuff.
Mari Ramos there, thank you. Take care.
And you are watching News Stream. Still to come, they were only meters from disaster. And you can see it recreated in animation. We'll look at the investigation of a near miss between two jetliners.
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LU STOUT: Coming to you live from Hong Kong, you're back watching News Stream.
And you're looking at a visual version of all the stories we've got in the show today. In a few minutes, we'll look at the frontrunner in Ukraine's presidential election -- pardon me -- but first to the U.S. where federal authorities are investigating how two planes nearly collided midair at a Newark airport in New Jersey just last month.
Now in a preliminary report, the National Transportation Safety Board says a United express jet was clear to takeoff at the same time a United Airlines flight was landing on an intersecting runway.
Now the NTSB says the planes came within yards of each other.
Let's get more now from our aviation correspondent Rene Marsh. She joins me now live from CNN Washington.
And Rene, this was a very, very close call.
RENE MARSH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Absolutely. Dangerously close. At their closest point, these two passenger planes were about half a football field away from each other. And now the NTSB and the FAA are investigating who is to blame for this near collision. Close calls like this usually come down to either pilot or controller error.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, he was real close, sir.
MARSH (voice-over): Audio revealing tense moments between the pilot and air traffic controllers when two commercial airliners nearly collide mid-air over Newark Airport last month.
UNIDENTIFIED CONTROLLER: Acey 4100. Traffic off your right, you have him in sight? Maintain visual.
MARSH: The controllers directing a United Airlines Boeing 737 to land just seconds before a smaller Express Jet was cleared for takeoff on an intersecting runway. The larger jet nearly on top of the plane when controllers tell it to circle the airport.
UNIDENTIFIED PILOT: Yes, we were putting the nose down and yes, he was real close.
MARSH: At its closest point, the aircraft going 50 yards away from each other. Only about half a football field.
ARTHUR ROSENBERG, CNN AVIATION ANALYST: That Express Jet should have been held in essentially the ready to go position until the 737 had cleared that cross runway and made a safe landing and then taken off. The clearance for the Express Jet to take off never should have been given.
MARSH: This is the second time in recent weeks United Airlines has been involved in a nearly catastrophic collision. In April, a Boeing 757 flying over the Pacific nearly collided with another aircraft after climbing to the altitude controllers assigned them. The aircraft forced to plunge 600 feet in seconds.
KEVIN TOWNSEND, PASSENGER: I'm looking down the aisle, and there's, you know, hundreds of people in front of me, people start screaming. There's noises of things that weren't secured falling around.
MARSH: Where the error lies in these most recent near disasters still under investigation.
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MARSH: Well, Kristie, there was no damage reported to either aircraft. And this all ended without any injuries -- Kristie.
LU STOUT: Which is incredible to hear.
Now the incident is currently under review. What are aviation experts saying about the possible cause here?
MARSH: Well, we know it's going to be one of two things. It's either going to come down to this was pilot error, or this is controller error, that's usually the case when it comes to these near collisions.
At this point, we don't quite know who made the mistake, but I can tell you that both NTSB and FAA, they say that they take these sort of near collisions, mid-air, extremely seriously so that they're in the process of trying to get to the bottom of what exactly happened here, how could this happen that these planes come so dangerously close with passengers on board.
Yeah, and again incredibly no one was hurt, no damage to the planes, an extraordinary story. Rene Marsh there reporting. Thank you.
Now you are watching News Stream. And still to come, could the man known as the Chocolate King bringing it to Ukraine's political crisis. We'll assess the frontrunner in Sunday's presidential poll next.
And Nigerians, they ramped up the campaign to find scores of schoolgirls kidnapped last month as it prepared to march on the president's office.
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LU STOUT: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. You're watching News Stream. And these are your world headlines.
Now Thailand's military chief has called for the country's political parties to hold talks to end the deadlock that has led to increasingly violent unrest. Now the general says martial law will be imposed until law and order has been restored, but insists today's military takeover is not a coup.
Beijing is rejecting claims by the U.S. government that five Chinese army officials stole trade secrets from American companies. Now the Chinese government accuses Washington of double standards and of hurting bilateral relations between the two countries.
Oscar Pistorius has been ordered to undergo a month long psychiatric assessment. Now a judge has adjourned his murder trial until June 30 to determine if the Olympic swimmer was mentally impaired when he shot and killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp last year. It comes after a psychiatrist for the defense testified that Pistorius suffers from an anxiety disorder.
Torrential rains have stopped in the Balkans, but high waters are still flowing downs stream. And the floods are still flowing downstream. And the floods are causing widespread damage. And across Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina at least 26 people are confirmed dead.
Now voters in Ukraine will go to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president after months of violent unrest.
Now the frontrunner is a pro-European billionaire known as the chocolate king, because of its candy empire. Now Erin McLaughlin caught up with him on the campaign trail. She joins us now live from Kiev. And Erin, again ahead of the elections you talked to him, the so-called chocolate king. What did he tell you?
ERIN MCLAUGHLIN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Kristie, Poroshenko told me he believes a legitimately elected government installed in Kiev is the only way forward for this country. We caught up with him on the campaign trail about two hours from here. And he told me he expects to win this election.
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MCLAUGHLIN: Presidential candidate Petro Poroshenko says he understands the importance of the elections on May 25.
PETRO POROSHENKO, UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES: Ukraine is in one of the deepest crises in the Ukrainian history. And the only one way out from the crisis is election.
MCLAUGHLIN: And so his campaign starts in Chernayev (ph). It's a small town two hours outside of Kiev.
Despite the rain, the young and the old gather in the town square to see him. Some here say they will vote for Poroshenko because he's a billionaire businessman and a seasoned politician, a long-time advocate that's strengthening Ukraine's ties to Europe.
Many here say they are less concerned about his policies. They will vote for him out of necessity.
"Frankly speaking, I'm going to vote for him, because he has the biggest ratings," she says. "We want the general elections to be over as soon as possible."
Poroshenko needs more than 50 percent of the vote to avoid a runoff election. Opinion polls show him leading by at least 20 points against his top rival.
But that kind of popular support is not enough to convince all Ukrainians this elections is legitimate.
This crowd is pretty big. No shortage of supporters here. But can he unify the country?
Ukraine is deeply divided. The military is struggling to regain control of the east. Pro-Russian separatists have seized cities and towns and declared their independence.
They've held their own referendum. Separatist leaders say it overwhelmingly showed the people want to break away from Ukraine. Those results, however, are not recognized by the international community.
Poroshenko says he will only negotiate with the separatists if law and order is restored and local elections take place.
POROSHENKO: Any person elected, key word elected, by the people from the east I will be more than happy without any additional conditions to speak with. If it is a terrorist, if they're not representing the people, they have just 500 people with guns...
MCLAUGHLIN: The violence has personally reached Poroshenko's campaign. He says a member of his staff was taken hostage, another shot in the leg.
POROSHENKO: I'm proud of these people. They are ready to have a risk for their lives just (inaudible) that the election take place in this region.
MCLAUGHLIN: If elected, Poroshenko says his first move will be to go east, to personally guarantee the people's security. For now, it's difficult to see how that will be enough to restore national pride and stop the violence.
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MCLAUGHLIN: I also asked him about his stance on NATO. He says that he says that he would like to see Ukraine join the alliance, but acknowledges that that is looking unlikely given the situation in Crimea. He also says he would like the support of more than 50 percent of this country before pursuing a possible membership -- Kristie.
LU STOUT: He is the frontrunner. He wants a strong mandate. But who is Poroshenko running against?
MCLAUGHLIN: Well, there are a total of 21 candidates running in this election. But his top rival is the former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. She is considered to be a divisive figure in this country.
Also considered by some to represent the old style of Ukrainian politics, although she says that that reputation is largely down to the Oligarchs in this country. She says that she has been a target of their television networks.
Interesting to note that Poroshenko when he was campaigning was asked about his own business interests. He says that he plans to sell off his businesses if he is elected. He'll sell off all of them except for his own TV network -- Kristie.
LU STOUT: Erin McLaughlin reporting live from Kiev. Thank you.
Now Nigeria's president is facing growing international pressure to secure the safe return of more than 200 abducted students. This Thursday, the Bring Back our Girls campaign is calling on schoolgirls around the world to rally in support of the kidnapped girls. Campaign coordinators in Nigeria's capital Abuja tell CNN they plan to march on the office of Presidnet Goodluck Jonathan on the same day to present a charter of demands. And among them, that the government do more to rescue the girls.
Now for the latest on the ground in Nigeria, Vladimir Duthiers joins me live from Abuja. And Vlad, first, the pressure is on. So is there any solid update on the effort to find the girls and to bring them back home?
VLADIMIR DUTHIERS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Hey, Kristie.
We know that the Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has said that there are 20,000 troops deployed in northeastern Nigeria tasked to finding these girls. It's going to be very difficult. The area is large. There are U.S. intelligence reports that even though we've seen a video released supposedly by the leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, showing, parading these young girls that at least several others have been split up into different groups and they may be have -- they may have been trafficked across neighboring Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
Kristie, we spoke with a mother who had never seen that video showing these young girls paraded, dressed in Islamic clothing, and as reporters we're meant to be objective, but this is one of those few interviews that you do where you have a very visceral human reaction. Take a listen.
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DUTHIERS: This is the first time you're seeing this video, yes? You see your daughter here?
That's her?
You think this is your daughter? This is your daughter? Wow.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They told me no. That she fainted on the way to Chibok. The next day I still asked someone and they said, yes, and the next day I took the bike. I went back again to the school and I asked whether she is here and they said no, she is not here.
I went back home and I asked again, she was not there.
DUTHIERS: Describe for us your daughter that was kidnapped. What is she like?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She is very popular and she is not afraid of anyone or anything. She acts like a man.
DUTHIERS: What is life like in Chibok? What is it like to live with the threat of Boko Haram?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I don't know anything except that life must go on. When we hear Boko Haram everyone runs out and sleeps in the bush. It's terrifying.
DUTHIERS: Knowing that it's dangerous for girls to go to school because of the danger of Boko Haram, but you believe that your daughter should go to school.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's good. Without school, how would I be here? If you people di not go to school, you couldn't be here. School is good.
DUTHIERS: And your daughter was not afraid to go to school.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She is not afraid to go to school.
DUTHIERS: When she comes back home to you, will you allow her to go to school again?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: When god brings her back I will still allow her to go to school.
DUTHIERS: If god brings her back to you, she'll go back to school?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: When she comes back, she will go back to school.
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DUTHIERS: And Kristie, as I looked into this mother's eyes, I could see the incredible sadness.
On the other hand, I could also see firm pride and resolution as you heard in that interview, that when her daughter came home she would go back to school, Kristie.
LU STOUT: You know, that was such a deeply emotional interview, it's very moving. It's also, Vlad, it's very enraging, because it's been, what, six week since the girls were abducted, since they were taken from their dormitory. They're still not found. I mean, why? Is it due to the strength and prowess of Boko Haram, or the still inadequate response to find these girls?
DUTHIERS: I think it's a combination of all those factors, Kristie.
The Nigerian military was sort of caught off guard by the international community sort of taking a look at what was going on in Nigeria. They had never really experienced this kind of scrutiny, this kind of microscopic pinpointing of what exactly is happening in the northeastern part of the country, the sheer terror that these people live under on a daily basis since 2009. And to have that number of girls taken in the middle of the night when they're just trying to get an education -- and also what many people have said, Kristie, is that children still continue to go to school in northeastern Nigeria even today, even under this threat of Boko Haram.
So this group, they attack with impunity at will. It's very, very difficult for the Nigerian military to know when or how they'll ever be able to find these girls, Kristie.
LU STOUT: That's remarkable, isn't it? I mean, these girls in Chibok in Nigeria, they refused to be terrorized by Boko Haram. They continue to go to school. Those girls and their parents, indeed they are heroes.
Vlad Duthiers, thank you very much indeed for your reporting. Take care. We'll speak again soon.
Now violence in Libya is prompting other countries to temporarily shut down their diplomatic missions. Saudi Arabia closed its embassy and consulate in the capital of Tripoli and have evacuated staff.
Now Turkey took similar measures in Benghazi. Now the U.S. says it is on standby to evacuate Americans from its embassy if needed.
On Sunday, fierce fighting swept across Tripoli after gunmen stormed the interim parliament. Now Libya's health ministry says at least four people were killed.
Now those fighters accuse Islamists of hijacking power and controlling government and parliament. Now Libya's main political forces have been slowly dividing along Islamist and liberal lines.
Jomana Karadsheh has more.
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JOMANA KARADSHEH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: It was not the worst violence since the revolution three years ago, but arguably the most dangerous.
A power struggle and political tensions that have been simmering for months broke into violence this weekend in Libya. Officials warned the country could be closer to a civil war.
In the capital, heavily armed fighters from the western mountain city of Sintan (ph), based in Tripoli, attacked the general national congress, the interim parliament, unleashing clashes with rival militias that within hours spread across the city.
Later Sunday evening, a televised statement by a commander in Tripolic saying it was an announcement from the self-proclaimed Libyan National Army declaring parliament would be suspended.
It appeared to be a statement from the same group that carried out an offensive on Islamist militia bases in Benghazi on Friday, a bloody ground and air assault that killed dozens.
The attack in Benghazi is led by this man, retired general Khalifa Haftar (ph), a former senior commander under Moammar Gadhafi who defected in the late 1980s and fought the regime in the 2011 revolution. Over recent monts, Haftar (ph) has been gathering support in eastern Libya for what he says is a war against Islamist extremist groups, groups that many blame for near daily violencein Benghazi, an open-ended war according to Haftar (ph).
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): It is impossible for us to go back on this matter. We will never retreat until we've reached our goals.
KARADSHEH: It's not yet clear how much support or influence Haftar (ph) really has. Authorities in Triopli, who appear to have very little control, if any, over the country, denounce Haftar (ph) and his forces as outlaws and their attack an attempted coup.
The situation in Libya is a very murky one. Links and coordination of unrest in the country's two main cities remains vague. But both groups responsible for the latest upheaval seem to be unified by a common enemy -- Islamist political forces and militias that back them who they accuse of hijacking power.
An increasingly weak central government is calling for calm and restraint.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): The government condemns the use of force as a means of political expression by all parties and calls for an immediate stop to the use of the military arsenal owned by the Libyan people.
KARADSHEH: Adding to the complexity of the situation, major militia forces are sanctioned by the government, giving them a sense of legitimacy in the absence of state security forces, raising more concerns that the struggle for power between heavily armed groups, divided along political, regional and ideological lines, could escalate into an all-out conflict, a possible civil war the Libyan people feel they would be caught in the middle of.
Jomana Karadsheh, CNN, Tripoli.
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LU STOUT: Still to come on News Stream, another delay in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial as the athlete's mental health becomes the focus. Stay with us.
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LU STOUT: Welcome back.
Now our next Leading Woman is at the top of her field, but says the key to her success is knowing that there's still so much more to learn.
Now Padmasree Warrior is Cisco's technology and strategy chief. And she shared her vision with Nina Dos Santos.
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NINA DOS SANTOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: In a high tech, high powered world of Silicon Valley, Padmasree Warrior is in the top ranks. Warrior is in charge of technology innovation at Cisco, the world's largest maker of data networking systems.
PADMASREE WARRIOR, CISCO: I love my job. My job is this huge mixture things. Part of my job is to think about the future, think about the changes. I spent a lot of my time with customers. I spend a lot of my time with startups and with venture capitalists thinking about areas that they're investing in. And the third remaining time is spent internally with our own business and technical engineering leaders thinking about how we need to change as a company.
SANTOS: In her role as chief technology and strategy officer, or CTO, Warrior oversees some of the world's leading engineers.
Before joining Cisco in 2007, she was CTO at Motorola. CTO of Cisco Systems, that's a big job.
WARRIOR: It is. It is a lot of responsibility. In my role, I think about the future a lot. And I think about how the industry is changing and how Cisco plays a role in changing that. So it's -- it's scary sometimes, it can be overwhelming. And so there is this combination of excitement, the ability to see a lot of things that are happening in the company and the fact that you can influence such a big company, that's actually very rewarding.
SANTOS: She's considered a visionary. And her standing at the company is so high that she's said to be in the running to succeed the current Cisco CEO John Chambers when he retires.
The Indian born executive graduated at the top of her engineering class in Delhi. She later got a PhD at Cornell University in New York, thinking that she'd go back home and teach. But instead she stayed, eventually ending up in San Jose, Calfornia where Cisco is headquartered.
Do you think that that tenacity is what helped you to the position you're in today, because obviously when you studied engineering in Delhi all those years ago and still today it's a male dominated field.
WARRIOR: It is a male dominated field. And I think to excel in any field, it's not just engineering, I think in your field or in any field, all of us have to have a sense of wanting to do more in the sense of trying to improve.
So one of the key abilities that in my field people need to have is the ability to listen and to learn and to absorb and never really think of yourself as a deep expert in this and there's nothing more I can learn. That's very dangerous in technology.
So I think those -- that's kind of what I attribute my success to.
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LU STOUT: You're watching News Stream, and coming up, the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius, it faces another delay. Now this one will last more than a month. We'll tell you why next.
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LU STOUT: Welcome back.
Now, the judge in Oscar Pistorius's murder trial today ordered the athlete to undergo a month long mental health examination. Now the testing was prompted by the testimony of a psychiatrist for the defense who said Pistorius suffers from generalized anxiety disorder. Now the Olympian is accused of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
And one of the major points of dispute in the trial is what happened in the critical moments after the first shot was fired at Steenkamp. Robyn Curnow has that.
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ROBYN CURNOW, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Throughout this entire trial, this life-sized replica of Oscar Pistorius's bathroom has been looming over this courtroom. Crucially, though, this is evidence, this is the door through which Pistorius shot and killed Reeva Steenkamp.
What you see here, A, B, C and D are the bullet holes. What isn't in dispute is that the first bullet that shot Reeva Steenkamp was bullet A.
What's quite clear when you walk into the bathroom is just how small it is.
So both defense and prosecution saying that bullet A hit her first, coming through here -- here is here, and hitting her in the hip.
What happened next after that first bullet is unclear. In fact, the defense ballistics expert saying we will never know what really happened behind this door. Her positioning in dispute, unclear if she had time to scream or not.
But what we do know is that after that shots, or during the shots, she fell back into this corner, perhaps sitting down on this magazine rack, falling down onto it. Her final position here in this corner slumped over on the toilet seat.
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LU STOUT: And that was Robyn Curnow reporting.
The trial of Oscar Pistoirus is now set to resume on June 30 after examiners have concluded his psychiatric evaluation.
Now it looks like there is no end in sight to the legal war between Apple and Samsung. It is one of the few remaining fights left in the smartphone patent wars as companies accuse their rivals of patent infringement.
Now just last week, Apple and Motoroloa agree to settle all patent lawsuits between them, but now Apple and Samsung have told a judge that neither side seems interested in working toward a settlement.
Apple pointed to statements by Samsung's lead trial council like this one to C-Net, quote, "it's kind of hard to talk settlement with a jihadist."
Now for its part, Samsung says Apple has shown little interest in settling either and says statements like this have nothing to do with its willingness to settle.
Now a remote underwater cave in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula may reveal long held secrets about the first people who ever lived in the Americas.
Now a few years ago, divers found the bones of a teenaged girl who apparently ventured into the cave and fell to her death. But it's only now that researchers have discovered the skeleton may be more than 12,000 years old. Nick Parker has more.
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NICK PARKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Divers make their way through an underground system of flooded caverns, or cenotes, near the Mexican resort of Tulum. The conditions are challenging: they need to swim 1,200 meters before reaching a large cavern known as The Black Hole. It was there in 2007 where one diver discovered a human skeleton now believed to be at least 12,000 years old. She was named Naia, thought to be around 16 when she died, and could not be removed from the site. PILAR LUMAR, HEAD OF UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGY, INAH: There are challenges but there are also benefits. This site was never touched since 13,000 to 12,000 years ago, so its pristine, it's fantastic. On the other hand, it's very difficult. None of the scientists have gone inside the cave. It's like working remote sensing. PARKER: Archaeologists formed a unique link with expert divers who also discovered 26 mammals including the now extinct sabre toothed tiger shown here. Photographs were closely analyzed, but the priority was to trace the human remains.
JOAQUIN ARROYO, HEAD OF LABORATORIES, INAH: We have to get a molar out of the human skull of Naia and that one was secured, brought out of the cenote and was taken samples out of it.
PARKER: After independent carbon dating, they discovered a link to Siberia in Russia, meaning Naia's descendants crossed over the Bering Strait when it was a land mass and into what's now the American continent.
LUNAR: So this Naia is the oldest one, the most complete skeleton, genetically complete as well, that has allowed us to prove that and that's fantastic.
PARKER: Mexicans we spoke to seemed to welcome the news.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We are not so different that we think sometimes. Yeah, not (inaudible), but more connected, yeah.
PARKER: The government is now stressing the need to preserve the thousands of other cenotes in Mexico in the hope that they too may yield more historic treasure.
Nick Parker, CNN, Mexico City.
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LU STOUT: Now it's that time of the year again, 150 new words have been added to this year's Meriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary, and one of them quite inevitably is selfie. Now the word meaning arm's length portrait, it's now a legitimate term alongside others spawned by tech and social media. That includes the Twitter essential hashtag and tweeps for Twitter users.
Now it wasn't all tech terms, though, there's also some food on the list like Pho, the soup made of beef or chicken broth and rice noodles; Turduckin, a boneless chicken stuffed inside a boneless duck stuffed inside a boneless turkey; and the Canadian comfort food poutine, french fries covered with gravy and melted cheese curds.
And that is News Stream, but the news continues at CNN. World Business Today is next.
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