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Inside The Mind of A Jihadi; Andy Coulson Convicted, Rebekah Brooks Acquitted In Phone Hacking Case; Iraq Claims To Be Retaking Ground; Inside The Elusive Korean Fugitive's Compound; Leading Women; Diane Von Furstenberg; Interview with Tristan Walker

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MONITA RAJPAL, HOST: I'm Monita Rajpal in Hong Kong. And welcome to News Stream where news and technology meet.

Former newspaper editor Rebekah Brooks has been acquitted in a high- profile phone hacking trial, but Andy Coulson has been found guilty.

John Kerry speaks to CNN in Iraq as militants attempt to seize a key oil refinery.

And Brazil's star man steps up. Neymar scores twice as Brazil move on to the knockout phase of the World Cup.

We begin with breaking news out of the UK. Just a short time ago, a jury at London's Old Bailey handed down a landmark ruling in the country's

phone hacking scandal. The court has cleared former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks of all charges against her. Her former colleague

Andy Coulson, however, has been found guilty of conspiring to hack phones.

With more details on the verdict, let's take you now to London and CNN's Atika Shubert with these -- with this verdict.

A bit of a mixed one and a bit of a surprise there, Atika, for some.

ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: I think definitely a surprise for many people. Andy Coulson is actually, as I understand it,

still in court. There's still a few more charges and he's waiting for the verdicts on those charges.

But Rebekah Brooks has left the court, cleared of all those charges. It was very emotional for her when she heard the verdict. She broke down

in tears. And just to give you a sense of why this case is so important, we're talking about a scandal into phone hacking that not just phone

hacking of celebrities, members of the royal family, but also victims of crime.

This all came about because of the phone hacking the voicemail message of Millie Dowler, a young girl who was murdered. And her family was

understandably completely upset by this. And this really sparked off a scandal that brought down the world's -- excuse me, Britain's oldest

newspaper The News of the World.

And it is a scandal that went all the way to Downing Street, to the prime minister's office, because Andy Coulson was at the time the editor of

the News of the World. He was later also editor of The Sun, as was Rebekah Brooks. And it's interesting to note the political ramifications of this

case as it's ongoing.

In fact, we have the statement just in from Prime Minister David Cameron saying that he takes responsibility, quote, "for Coulson's

recruitment." And he said with 20/20 hindsight and all that has followed, I would not have offered him the job. And I expect that he wouldn't have

taken it.

He, of course, talking about the fact that Andy Coulson was his chief spin doctor. He says on the work he did I will repeat perhaps not for the

last time that his work at Downing Street has not been the subject of any serious complaint. So I think we can expect a statement -- a further

statement from David Cameron reacting to these verdicts very shortly, Monita.

RAJPAL: Atika, what has been the differences in the cases between Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. Obviously both have been editors of these

tabloid newspapers at the center of this phone hacking storm. What has been the evidence against both of them and the differences in the cases

between the two?

SHUBERT: I think the differences really were about the times that these phone hacking allegations took place and also the specificity of

these charges, in particular the charges of phone hacking by Clive Goodman. He was the royal reporter for the News of the World. And so it was a very

specific charge, hacking into a specific phone. And at that time, Andy Coulson was the editor in charge, Rebekah Brooks had a higher, more senior

position and so was a bit more distanced from these charges. And so it was really up to the prosecutor to prove that she was part of a conspiracy

approving of these phone hacking -- of these allegations of phone hacking.

Clearly, this is not -- the prosecution was not able to convince the jury and she was found not guilty.

Now she was also found not guilty of providing corrupt payments to public officials, particularly to the ministry of defense. And also

cleared of charges of trying to hide the evidence of this.

So, the jury was not convinced, but what will be more interesting is what British public reaction will be, because they've been following every

twist and turn of this trial and there's already a tremendous outcry on social media about these verdicts.

RAJPAL: Indeed. Atika, thank you very much for that. Atika Shubert there live for us from London and no doubt of course CNN will continue to

keep covering this story as it continues to break throughout the day here on CNN.

Well, the battle for Iraq is focusing on its largest oil refinery as America's top diplomat is urging Iraqi Kurdish leaders to help save the

country from Islamist fighters. Iraqi state media is reporting 19 militants have been killed in airstrikes in Baiji, home to the refinery.

That has not been independently confirmed by CNN.

The report follows air strikes in the region yesterday.

Well, the Baiji refinery produces much of the fuel that Iraqis all over the country use every day. Iraqi security forces and Islamist

militants belonging to the group ISIS have been battling for control of that facility for days now.

There are several other major oil refineries in Iraq that the militants could set their sites on. One, the Doura facility. And it is

just outside the capital Baghdad. The other is in Basra. That's in southern Iraq between Kuwait in Iran.

The fighting comes as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met today with Kurdish leaders in northern Iraq. His mission, secure their help for

the embattled Iraqi government.

Nima Elbagir joins us now live from Baghdad. And Nima, it certainly a difficult task, no doubt, for John Kerry to try to secure help from the

Kurds when they're the ones that are saying they want their own state, an independent state and not be part of the Iraqi government.

NIMA ELBAGIR, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: And they're also the ones, Monita, we shouldn't forget, who stepped in when the Iraqi army was

forced to withdrawal from some of these areas. In fact, some of the border crossings in the north of Iraq between Kurdistan and Syria, they are now

controlled by the Kurdish forces, by the Peshmerga. So the Kurds feel not only did they do the job that should have been done by the army of the

central government, but they also are, to a certain degree sheltered from much of the onslaught of the Sunni extremist movement further south towards

Baghdad.

So why step into the fray? Well, that was Secretary Kerry's job today in his meeting with President Barzani to convince them it was in their

interest to step into the fray, that a hostile extremist force on their doorstep would not be in the long-term interests of the Kurdish regional

government or indeed the Kurdish people.

Because of course the Americans have made it very clear from the beginning help from them, military help, will be forthcoming, but it has to

be in tandem with a sped up political process and it has to be in tandem with a unification of the actors here on the ground. The Iraqi government

believes that there are already seeing some dividends from this from this visit. That they're claiming that some of the Sunni tribal leaders have

come back over to the government side from the ISIS side.

They're also claiming some gains, Monita. You spoke about those air strikes on Baiji. They're also claiming that they've retaken two strategic

border crossing between Syria and Iraq and are now working to impede some of that ISIS movement back and forth across the border.

They're also claiming two very high profile hits. They say that they have killed two very senior ISIS militants. One, an Algerian militant and

the second, they say, was the self-styled governor of Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's hometown.

So, the Iraqi government is claiming a fight back, whether that fight back will translate to stemming some of those ISIS gains in the long-term,

we're still waiting to see how that plays out here on the ground, Monita.

RAJPAL: Nima, what do we know about the Kurd's capability, the Peshmerga's capability of fighting ISIS, what they're able to do that Iraqi

security forces aren't able to do?

ELBAGIR: Well, some of the sources we've been speaking to say that they were taken completely by surprise by how little the Iraqi security

forces have actually been able to do in terms of the withdrawals we've seen, in terms of the lack of capacity that the hugely degraded air power

that the Iraqis have recently admitted to.

The Peshmerga, I mean, the proof has been in what we've seen on the ground. They have held their positions at times when the Iraqi army has

not. As I said, they are now controlling a number of border crossings between Iraq and Syria and that's been pretty crucial in terms of stopping

ISIS from reinforcing and moving assets and men back and forth across the barrier.

The big challenge here has been stopping Iraq and Syria effectively becoming one battlefield. And the Peshmerga have been part of the line

holding against that.

But of course there are also the Shia militias that are joining up, the Mehdi army that we saw over the weekend rallying to prime minister Nuri

al-Maliki's side and support the broader Iraqi army.

So it's not just the Peshmerga that are fighting back, but they are a key factor here in pushing back on any ISIS gains -- Monita.

RAJPAL: Nima, thank you. Nima Elbagir live for us from Baghdad.

Well, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sat down with CNN's Chief U.S. security correspondent, Jim Sciutto, to talk about this crisis

gripping Iraq. Embattled Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has agreed to a July 1 deadline to begin the process to form a new government. Kerry

says Iraq's leaders are coming together for the sake of the country.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

JOHN KERRY, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: I think what I have found here is first of all the significant fact that 14 million Iraqis went out and

voted, very significant percentage of the population chose democracy. And there is a constitutional process, which we at our strategic framework

agreement are pledged to be supportive of, and we are.

That constitutional process is actually playing out right now. The fact is that even President Barzani today, who is opposed to the prime

minister, made it clear that he wants to participate in the process, that he wants to help choose the next government and other leaders that I met

with were all engaged and energized and ready to go to bat for a new governance.

So while he says there's a new reality, the new reality is they're under attack from ISIL and they realized that they cannot continue with

this sectarian division.

So part of the new reality is yet to be fully defined as they form this new government.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

RAJPAL: That was U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaking with CNN's chief U.S. security correspondent Jim Sciutto. He's just left Iraq

and is on his way to Brussels to meet with NATO foreign ministers.

Let's turn now to Sudan and the latest ordeal for a Christian woman who has been fighting to hold on to her life and onto her faith.

Lawyers for Miriam Ibrahim say she and her husband were arrested on Tuesday while trying to leave Sudan at Khartoum airport. Just one day

earlier, she was freed from prison.

Ibrahim was sentenced to death in May for refusing to renounce her faith. That sentence triggered an international outcry. Ibrahim was eight

months pregnant when she was sentenced and gave birth to -- gave birth in prison last month.

You are watching News Stream. Neymar leads the way for Brazil as he hosts -- as the hosts win their group at the World Cup.

Plus, with Formula One star Michael Schumacher still recovering from a terrible skiing accident, there's word now that his medical files may have

been stolen. Details on that and much more still to come. Stay with us.

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RAJPAL: Welcome back. You are watching News Stream. And you are looking at a visual version of all the stories we've got in the show today.

In a little while, we'll hear exclusively from jihadists who are considering joining ISIS.

But now to football and Monday's action at the World Cup. Hosts Brazil are heading towards the knockout round in style. Star Neymar scored

twice as Brazil beat Cameroon 4-1. That was the tournament's 100th goal in Brazil's 100th World Cup match.

Neymar now leads the way as the tournament's top scorer. Brazil will play Chile in the second round on Saturday.

Mexico also booked their place in the knockout phase after a 3-1 win over Croatia. Mexico's reward, they'll play The Netherlands on Sunday who

won their match by beating Chile 2-0.

So The Netherlands win Group B with ease ahead of Chile while champions Spain bow out on the tournament after beating Australia.

And just to see Group A one more time, Brazil topped the group on goal difference ahead of Mexico.

It's no surprise to see Brazil winning their World Cup group, but it's safe to say nobody predicted Costa Rica would be top of Group D. They are

the only team in that group that hasn't won the World Cup, but that hasn't stopped them beating Uruguay and Italy. And in a few hours, those two

teams will face off to see who will join Costa Rica in the knockout round.

There are six World Cups between Italy and Uruguay, so which one of those famous champions will go through? Isa Soares joins us now live from

Rio with more on that -- Isa.

ISA SOARES, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Monita. It's going to be a really tough match today. It's really the one that everyone is

looking forward to, because it's going to be the winner takes all. As you mentioned, Croatia (sic) leading that Group D. And so Italy, the Azzurri,

and Uruguay fighting for that second spot.

Now Italy has a slight advantage, because all they need is a draw, because in terms of the games, they have won. They have won one game, but

they've scored more goals. So in terms of goal difference, Italy has a slight advantage.

But Uruguay needs to win. They need those three points in order to qualify for that second round.

Now both Italy and Uruguay have faced off before. They actually fought off last here in Brazil for the Confederation's Cup and Italy won,

but it was very tight. Italy won 3-2 on penalties. The actual match was 2-2. So it will be very tough for them and with lots at stake.

Obviously Uruguay has a lot to prove. They haven't qualified -- they haven't qualified past this stage of the cup sine 1990. And Italy are

trying to erase any lingering concerns, memories of their exit at this stage of the competition in 2010.

Both teams have been playing behind closed door, Monita, just to tell you how secretive it all is leading up to that crucial hour.

RAJPAL: Isa, what about the other match -- England against Costa Rica?

SOARES: Well, it's going to be quite interesting. As you said, Costa Rica leading that group. They're -- obviously they are through, they have

already qualified. But I can tell you that they wouldn't want to lose, of course no one wants to lose.

But England, it's going to be more a question of pride. They're playing for pride. They haven't won any of their games.

Initially on paper when they came out here, they thought that perhaps this was the easiest game, but as many people have been surprised how Costa

Rica have been such a strong team as they've beaten Uruguay and they've beaten Italy. So really here they'll be playing for pride.

If you remember Wayne Rooney said when he last lost. Obviously they hurt they lost so many matches, but they're going to go out fighting. And

they're going to lift their heads and play for pride.

Roy Hodgson, meanwhile, is predicted to change his lineup to include a lot of the young players who have been on the bench and is the future

generation of England players.

But expect Croatia -- Costa Rica, pardon me -- to be exceptionally strong. They -- you know, they haven't really got to this stage of the

competition before. This means a lot to them.

And in terms of how strong they are, to give you an idea -- I was looking at statistics -- they actually out paced and out run Italy and

Uruguay in their previous games. They ran 12.7 kilometers more than Italy in the second half of their game.

So they've come prepared.

RAJPAL: Indeed.

All right, Isa, thank you very much. Isa Soares there live for us from Rio.

Michael Schumacher's manager says stolen medical files claiming to be those of the Formula One champion are being offered for sale. It is not

clear if the files are authentic, but Schumacher's manager says authorities are investigating.

The racing star has been hospitalized since last year when he sustained severe head trauma in a skiing accident. His manager warned that

criminal charges will be filed against anyone who publishes the stolen data.

Ahead here on News Stream, ISIS militants issue a call to arms in Iraq. And some eager recruits are joining their ranks all the way from

Europe.

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RAJPAL: U.S. entrepreneur Tristan Walker already had a pretty impressive heavyweight resume when he came up with a new idea. He wanted

to make a line of health and beauty products for people of color. Today, his new business Walker and Company is poised for major success. Earlier

he sat down with Laurie Segall to share his story.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

LAURIE SEGALL, CNN MONEY: So, Tristan, you were at Foursquare. You left Foursquare to go to an investment firm and become an entrepreneur in

residence. And now you have your own company.

TRISTAN WALKER, WALKER AND COMPANY: This is -- as the story goes, I - - you know, I filed Foursquare. I think we had 10,000 users at the time. I knew it was a company that I wanted to be a part of. I found the

founder's email on the internet somewhere and I emailed them eight times. The eighth time, Dennis replied back, he said verbatim, "you know what I

just may take you up on some of this. Are you ever in New York?"

I was in L.A. at the time. 20 minutes later booked my flight that night, flew out the following morning, hung out with him for a week, a

month later I was running (inaudible) company.

You know, what that taught me was you just have to have that really relentless determination, a little bit of faith, right.

SEGALL: And so you are what they call an entrepreneur in residence at Andreessen Horowitz, which is a very prominent investment firm in Silicon

Valley, what experience did you take from that to help you kind of move into creating...

WALKER: Yeah, Ben Horowitz would tell me all the time, you know, Tristan, you know, usually what looks like a bad idea is a good idea. What

usually looks like a good idea is a bad idea. And for the first bit of time I was at Andreessen Horowitz I was chasing things that I probably

shouldn't have been. You know, I wanted to build a bank. I wanted to fix childhood obesity only to realize that I wasn't the best person in the

world to solve those problems.

And what that time Andreessen Horowitz taught me was spend the time just working on things that you are authentic to and you can speak well to.

SEGALL: So now you're out on your own starting your own company. Tell us a little bit about these products.

WALKER: Our goal is to make health and beauty simple for people of color. And this is the first and only shaving system specifically designed

for men with course, curly hair.

We wanted to, you know, fix this problem that a lot of men have -- razor burn, razor bumps, et cetera. And we've created an entire line and

system to do it.

I really understand the problem that we're solving, at least with our first brand in Bevel. You know, I wasn't able to shave for 15 years. And

that's really only due to kind of content, or the kind of makeup of my skin and the hair that grows on it. And I felt, man, not only that, but there's

just a huge opportunity in health and beauty when you consider how much the community spends on health and beauty, when you consider the community is

the most culturally influential demographic in the world. The community just deserves better. And I felt there was a great a time as any to do it.

We will only focus on developing brands that solve problems. We're not going make shampoo for the sake of making shampoo, right. The brand

has to solve the problem. This first brand solves the kind of razor burn irritation issue. You know, when I think about other issues that exist in

community, I think about things like vitamin D deficiency. I think about hyper pigmentation. I think about natural hair transitioning.

We're going to develop brands to solve each of those problems.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

RAJPAL: U.S. businessman Tristan Walker there speaking with CNN Money's Laurie Segall.

Stay with us here on CNN. Just ahead, western governments are increasingly nervous about homegrown extremists going to fight in Syria and

Iraq. We look at the rise of western jihadists and what motivations militants to leave their lives in Europe and take up arms in the Middle

East.

Plus, the search continues for a man who might be connected to South Korea's tragic ferry accident. We take you inside the mysterious compound

where he was last seen.

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RAJPAL: I'm Monita Rajpal in Hong Kong. You are watching News Stream. And these are the headlines.

Verdicts have been issued for two high profile defendants in the UK phone hacking trial. The former editor for the defunct British tabloid The

News of the World, Rebekah Brooks, has been found not guilty on all charges. Her former colleague Andy Coulson has been found guilty of

conspiring to hack phones. Coulson was also British Prime Minister David Cameron's media chief at one point. The prime minister has apologized.

Egypt's president says he won't interfere with the verdicts of three journalists who were sentenced to prison for aiding the Muslim Brotherhood.

Abdel Fatah al-Sisi says authorities will respect the judicial rulings. On Monday, two al Jazeera journalists were sentenced to seven years in prison,

another received 10 years.

There are conflicting reports on who was holding Iraq's largest oil refinery. Iraq's state run Iraqiya News Agency is reporting that air

strikes in Baiji have killed 19 militants and that Iraqi forces are in control of the refinery there. But earlier, security sources told CNN

militant fighters had seized the plant.

Well, before the recent fighting in Iraq, many people may never have heard of ISIS, but now the militant group is sweeping across Iraq. It's

known for extreme violence, executions, beheadings and massacres. And as the group makes advances on the battlefield it's also extending its reach

to new followers outside the Middle East. CNN's Atika Shubert has a rare interview with militants who are considering joining the brutal ranks of

ISIS.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

SHUBERT: This is the call jihad as militants from ISIS establish a territorial foothold stretching from Syria to Iraq. And as this propaganda

video shows, ISIS hopes it is the beginning of an Islamic caliphate to sweep the region.

It's a message that's reaching extremists in other parts of the world. These three young men have traveled to Syria for jihad.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm Abu Anwar. And this brother here with me is Abu Izbatani (ph). He's defended -- here's another brother here...

SHUBERT: They agreed to speak to us from Idlib over Skype if we do not show their faces. Abu Anwar is British.

ABU ANWAR, JIHADIST: I'm from the south of England. I grew up in a middle class family. And life was easy back home. I had a job. I had a

car. But the thing is you cannot practice Islam back home. We see around us, all around us evil. And we can't do anything about it, because there

is -- because you are living by the laws of the (inaudible).

SHUBERT: We met Abu Anwar and his friends as so many of these young men do, online. They post Instagramed photos that make guns and holy war

seem cool.

But what they don't show you, the brutality. ISIS has boasted about executing Iraqi soldiers in cold blood and has committed massacres and acts

of terror so extreme that even al Qaeda has disavowed them.

I ask Abu Anwar if his family knows what he is doing in Syria.

ANWAR: They're not happy with me being here as you can expect, but I give them a lot of a lot of al-dower (ph), Islamic propagation and

gradually they see the reality of the -- what they see here. They see the reality. They hear the reality from me what they don't hear from the BBC.

SHUBERT: So many like Abu Anwar are out there? Well, thousands and from all across Europe. The Sufan Group (ph), a security consulting firm,

estimates there are around 700 from France. And in Russia, about 800. Here in the UK almost 400. Not to mention those in Germany and Belgium.

These numbers are quite high, but these are only the movements they can track. The actual numbers may be higher.

Like Monar Mohammed Abu Salha (ph), a 22-year-old American known as Abu Huraiya al-Anriqi (ph). Authorities say last month he packed a truck

full of explosives, drove it to a Syrian army position and detonated it, killing himself.

Abu Anwar says he was a friend of Abu Huraiya's (ph).

ANWAR: He was the best person I've met in my life. He had the best character. Abu Huraiya (ph) believed that this operation would give him

the chance to go into the enemy and to kill much of them and be killed in the process. And he told me if I go from this (inaudible) operation, don't

go back to England.

SHUBERT: Abu Anwar says he, too, wants to carry out a suicide attack inspired by his friend, what he calls a martyrdom mission. But when I ask

Abu Anwar if he would return to Britain and carry out an attack back home, he says no.

ANWAR: If I come home, it will be when I conquer Europe and there's a black flag of Islam is flying over Downing Street.

I have a -- I don't expect to come home. For me, personally I will come only as a conqueror.

SHUBERT: When I ask if he will now join ISIS in Iraq, he says he is considering it.

ANWAR: We have Islamic State in Raqqah, in Shala (ph), now in Iraq.

SHUBERT: For Abu Anwar, and others like him, the call to jihad is too strong to resist.

Atika Shubert, CNN, London.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

RAJPAL: An update now for you on our top story. British prime minister David Cameron has made a full and frank apology after his former

media chief was found guilty in a phone hacking scandal.

Andy Coulson once edited the News of the world. And here is what the British prime minister said just a few moments ago.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DAVID CAMERON, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: Well, I take full responsibility for employing Andy Coulson. I did so on the basis of

undertakings I was given by him about phone hacking. And those turned out not to be the case.

I always said that if they turned out to be wrong, I would make a full and frank apology. And I do that today. I'm extremely sorry that I

employed him. It was the wrong decision. And I'm very clear about that.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

RAJPAL: British prime minister David Cameron there speaking about the guilty verdict for his former media chief, Andy Coulson as we've been

reporting as well, though, the other defendant in this high profile phone hacking case, Rebekah Brooks, has been cleared of all charges. She was

found not guilty.

Egypt's president says he will not interfere in the judicial verdicts of three al Jazeera journalists. That, despite the mounting international

pressure for Abdel Fatah al-Sisi to step in and free the three men who were handed long jail sentences on Monday.

The journalists are convicted of aiding the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. Peter Greste and Mohamed Fahmy were sentenced to seven years

in prison, their colleagues Bahar Mohammed for 10.

Well, western leaders, journalists and activists have condemned the court sentences. Peter Greste's father is defending his son and says he

did nothing wrong.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

JURIS GRESTE, FATHER OF PETER GRESTE: Journalism is not a crime or you should all be behind bars. It's as simple as that. This man, our son,

Peter, is an award-winning journalist. He's not a criminal. He's not a criminal.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

RAJPAL: Doctors in West Africa say they have reached their limit in the fight against the lethal Ebola virus. The director of operations for

Doctors Without Borders says that, quote, "the epidemic is out of control."

The humanitarian organization is calling on regional governments and aid organizations to increase resources dramatically. Ebola patients have

been identified in 60 locations in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Officials believe the wide footprint of the outbreak is partly because of

just how close large cities are to the jungle where the virus was first reported.

Take a look at this, Guinea's capital Conakry has a population of some 2 million people and is nestled in amongst thick jungle.

There is no cure or vaccine for Ebola and during this outbreak the death rate has been roughly 60 percent.

South Korea is still haunted by the tragic ferry accident that claimed some 300 lives in a April. And police are on the hunt for one reclusive

businessman who is believed to control the company that owned the Sewol Ferry. But so far he has managed to evade them.

Paula Hancocks visits this mysterious compound where he was last seen.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: A police checkpoint tells us we are close, close to the unregistered church affiliated with

South Korea's most wanted man. Yoo Byung-un has been on the run for weeks. Prosecutors believe he and his family control the company that owns the

Sewol ferry, which sank in April, leaving more than 300 people, mostly high school students, dead or missing.

Officials say overloading and lax safety procedures may well have caused the tragedy.

Police have raided the evangelical Baptist church recently looking for Yoo. They didn't find him, but arrested members accused of helping him

escape. His brother was also detained for questioning.

So these are different apartments?

Now, CNN has gained rare access to this group.

Members film us wherever we go. They proudly show us their organic farm, one, they say, of more than a dozen across the country.

We're told this compound is the size of 40 football pitches.

We're lead through a forest at the heart of the commune. Our destination, the last known location of the fugitive businessman.

This is where Mr. Yoo was living.

Yoo was so reclusive even his close aides say they sometimes saw him just a few times a year.

This is the other side of Yoo's flat. And you can see here that the windows have been blocked off. You can see the entrance has been blocked

by boxes as well. Members say that he wanted to protect his privacy.

Now Yoo was inside this flat on April 16, the day of the ferry sinking. And according to members, he stayed here for one more week before

leaving. They insist that he didn't tell them where he was going.

They also insist Yoo is being used by the government as a scapegoat for the ferry disaster.

"So many people could have been saved," the spokesman says, "so the country is angry. The Korean media says all responsibility lies with the

owner of the company, as if he killed those people. And the government needs a sacrificial lamb."

Chung Dong-sup was a member of the group and Yoo's interpreter for eight years. He says he left in the late 1970s and happy with what he

calls the close link between donations and Yoo's businesses.

Yoo was jailed for habitual fraud under the mask of religion for four years in the early 1990s.

CHUNG DONG-SUP, FRM. MEMBER OF EVANGELICAL BAPTIST CHURCH: Once you get saved, you are destined to follow all of his instructions. Many women

followers referred to him as the living messiah.

HANCOCKS: But to police, he's a man on the run, a millionaire who has so far evaded a nationwide manhunt.

Paula Hancocks, CNN, Ahnsong (ph), South Korea.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

RAJPAL: Far from all the World Cup action, in a tough neighborhood on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, football is helping some girls overcome

difficult circumstances and even shatter stereotypes. We'll bring you that right after this.

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RAJPAL: Welcome back.

Say the words wrap dress to anyone who follows fashion and chances are you'll hear her name. Longtime New Yorker Diane Von Furstenberg has built

an empire designing clothes, home funishings and just about everything that goes with it. CNN's Isha Sesay sat down with her to talk about her

extraordinary 40 year career.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ISHA SESAY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Diane Von Furstenberg with a brand and career dating back to the 1970s, she's considered fashion

royalty.

What was your driving force in those early years? What was it?

DIANE VON FURSTENBERG, FASHION DESIGNER: My first driving force in the early years was to be independent. I wanted to pay everything myself.

SESAY: Did you have a mentor in all of this, someone who mentored you through this all?

VON FURSTENBERG: Mentor -- my big mentor really was my mother, because my mother has been incredible. And she told me that fear was not

an option. She told me that, you know, the most important relationship in life is the one you have with yourself. She really wanted me to be

independent.

SESAY: Over the years, Von Furstenberg has kept her independent spirit even after marrying billionaire media mogul Barry Diller in 2001.

Being a powerful figure in fashion and business, she's made it her mission to uplift women around the world.

VON FURSTENBERG: The one thing that is important when you're successful is that you could use that success to give exposure and to give

a voice to the people who do not have a voice.

For me, it was important to be empowered, you know, to be an empowered women. And I became that. And as I became that, it's important for me to

empower other women.

SESAY: In 2010, Von Furstenberg created the DVF awards, aimed at honoring women who had advanced the status of women in their respective

countries.

VON FURSTENBERG: This year was our fifth year. And it has become what -- it's a wonderful, wonderful evening because those women are so

powerful and so strong. SESAY: An incredible women herself, Diane Von Furstenberg has no shortage of lessons learned.

Do you have any advice you would be able to share with people who are watching this conversation and women who want to achieve the level of

success you have achieved?

VON FURSTENBERG: I think what is important is to be true to yourself, which is not easy, because you lose yourself, you lose yourself as a person

personally, you lose yourself in business. So I think the most important thing for anything and anyone or any business is to stick to what you stand

for.

SESAY: You had the ups, you've had the downs. You're back on top. Was there ever any fear that you wouldn't get to this point?

VON FURSTENBERG: Listen, I very many times I wake up and I feel like a loser. Everybody...

SESAY: Everyone is shaking their heads, oh...

VON FURSTENBERG: There is nobody who is successful who doesn't feel sometimes like a loser. Sometimes you feel you know it all, sometimes you

feel you don't know it all. But my mother taught me how to confront challenges and just say, OK, this is a problem, deal with it.

And then you deal with it and you transform it into something good. And then when you look back you can't even remember they were a challenge.

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RAJPAL; And you can find out more about how Diane Von Furstenberg conquered the fashion world on the Leading Women section of our website.

While you're there, check out our other fascinating profiles from Mariah Carey to a stay at home mom who built a billion dollar business.

That's at CNN.com/LeadingWomen.

Well, far from the shining new stadiums in Brazil, one group helps disadvantaged girls reach their goals on and off the pitch. We'll explain

next.

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RAJPAL: Some record setting temperature, well at lease in the month of May, that is. Mari Ramos was at the world weather center with a look at

that -- Mari.

MARI RAMOS, CNN WEATHER CORRRESPONDENT: Yes. This temperatures that we're talking about for the month of May, we're talking about the entire

globe. And this is a report that comes out every single month, month by month. And now we getting the May one. And this is coming from NOAA.

The map that you see here behind me, Monita, shows us the temperature anomalies. In other words, the areas where the temperature was either

colder than average or warmer than average. The red areas indicate the warmer than average temperatures. And the blue areas, the below average

temperatures over the month of May. Like, for example, look down here as we head over to the southern tip of South America for Antarctica, they had

some of the highest ice coverage in years across of Antarctica. So that's something to take in.

But over, if you look at this map, there's a lot more red than there is blue. So, yes, you can just from looking at that, that the month of May

was very war.

And actually when you take all of these temperatures together around the entire world and you average them globally, since records began in

1880, May is the hottest month of record.

So that's pretty significant stuff. And this is the most significant part, April was also the hottest on record.

So now we have these two months in a row, again, where we have the hottest temperatures that have been recorded around the globe.

Is this climate change? Well, this is definitely something that scientists and climatologists are looking at.

We've had 351 consecutive months with above average temperatures around the glove when you take everything together.

Yes, areas have been below average. Most areas have been well above the average. And now, as we head into the late summer months here for the

northern hemisphere and into the late winter months for the southern hemisphere, a developing el Nino, which is those temperatures, the global -

- the sea surface temperatures along the Pacific Ocean, the equatorial Pacific get warmer. And this could mean that we are going to see more

records as we head into 2014 because , of course, that will raise that global mean average.

Some areas across Europe, for example, even though, for example, in Norway right now you're having temperatures that are a little bit cooler

than what you had in the spring, your spring was actually the hottest on record, since they've been keeping records there in Norway. That's pretty

significant.

Latvia also had the hottest temperatures on record. The UK had its third May -- third warmest May on record in a long time. And it look like

we continue with that warming trend. 23 right now in London, 25 in Paris. As we head to areas to the south, you had a lot of rainfall across the

south, so your temperatures were actually not too bad.

Something to watch out for over the next couple of days . This is short-term forecasting. Watch out for the strong storms, especially

across the southern half of Europe, that's going to be a concern as we head through the next 24 hours.

Along this area right in here, very warm conditions, a lot of humidity, large hail, strong winds, probably not any tornadoes, but just be

weather aware. A lot of lightning and maybe some strong winds associated with that.

As we head over toward Asia, you know, South Asia was not on that list of big anomalies, but temperatures here have been very, very warm as we

head into May and June. We'll have to see what comes up next month, Monita, when we see what happens here. One of the reasons it's been so

warm here is because the monsoon has been delayed .

Back to you.

RAJPAL: Thanks a lot for that, Mari.

Well, Brazil's passion for football runs deep into the winding streets of its Favelas. One big reason is that the game is easily accessible.

Find an empty ground and a worn-out ball and you're ready to play.

Now one program in Rio is hoping the sport can help poor children reach their goals. And as Fred Pleitgen reports, it's not just for boys.

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FRED PLEITGEN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: In the Pena Favela on the outskirts of Rio, a unique soccer project is making a difference for

girls from this neighborhood.

Jessica Maria is one of the top players.

"Football is my life," she says. "Without football, I am nothing."

The mere fact that these girls can play at all is remarkable. Girl's soccer is frowned upon by many Brazilians. And until recently, drug gangs

rule this place, recruiting youngsters as narcotics runners. Jessica was one of them.

"For awhile, I was pat of that life," she says. "I was involved in drug trafficking, but thankfully I'm not in that life any more."

The project is called Favela Street. Philip Verlduis is the man behind it. Before games, he holds talks with the girls to speak about

football, but also personal issues and overcoming problems in the community.

PHILIP VERLDUIS, FAVELA STREET FOUNDER: If they stay stick together, is they work hard for it, they can achieve it. And that's the message that

we're trying to send for them and that's hopefully the message that they give themselves as they go in life.

PLEITGEN: Favela Street is as much about building self-esteem as it is about soccer.

The project is not only about teaching these girls to play better football, it's also about building confidence to help them survive in a

tough place like this as (inaudible) in the future.

One major confidence boost came when the Favela Street girls won the street child World Cup earlier this year.

Rica Santos (ph) is one of the team's captains. She leads the warm- ups and serves as a role model to the other players.

"I always try to do the right thing both on and off the pitch," she says. "I always try to talk to them about the things we shouldn't do in

their lives. Sometimes we have disagreements, but we always talk things through."

About 80 girls and young women are currently part of Favela Street, a small project that's making a big difference empowering females in one of

Brazil's toughest places.

Fred Pleitgen, CNN, Rio de Janeiro.

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RAJPAL: And finally, the fight for the fictional Iron Throne has gripped millions of TV viewers and book readers, but it seems there's one

royal that will not play the Game of Thrones. Britain's Queen Elizabeth visited the set of the popular HBO show in Belfast where she met a very

different queen, the scheme Circe Lannister (ph). But Queen Elizabeth did not sit on that iron throne.

Probably best, though, in the books it's said that the throne is so sharp that it's been known to cut those who sit on it.

And that is News Stream. I'm Monita Rajpal. The news continues here at CNN. World Business Today is next.

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