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Israeli Airstrike Kills Three Senior Hamas Commanders; U.S. Operation Failed To Rescue James Foley; Click and Collect Online Shopping Growing In UK; Scientists Eye Iceland's Largest Volcano; Remembering Yoga Pioneer BKS Iyengar
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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 details revealed of a failed U.S. operation to rescue James Foley from militants before the journalist was killed.
An Israeli airstrike kills three senior Hamas military commanders.
And an American doctor given an experimental treatment for Ebola is being released from the hospital.
And we start this hour with new details about the captivity of American journalist James Foley whose execution was filmed and released
online by ISIS militants.
Now the Wall Street Journal is now reporting that Foley's employer, the Global Post, says its captors originally demanded a ransom of more than
$130 million. No details were given about the response to that demand.
And a Pentagon spokesman confirms that there was an attempt earlier this summer to rescue the reporter along with other hostages inside Syria.
But U.S. special forces were unable to locate the captives.
Our Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr has more.
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BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): U.S. Special Forces launched a daring raid earlier this summer inside Syria to try to
rescue James Foley and other Americans being held by ISIS. Dozens of the most elite U.S. commandos from units like Delta Force and SEAL Team 6 went
in by helicopters, fighter jets and surveillance aircraft provided overhead protection.
The U.S. will not disclose the location, but when the commandos arrived, the hostages were not there. Several ISIS operatives were killed,
one American slightly injured. The White House says it demonstrates the U.S. will spare no effort to secure the safety of Americans and hold their
captors accountable. Before the operation was revealed, president Obama vowed to be relentless in the face of Foley's killing at the hands of ISIS.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: When people harm Americans anywhere, we do what's necessary to see that justice is done.
STARR: British and U.S. intelligence experts now analyzing every frame of the video for clues about the murder, especially the British accent of
the killer. Foley's parents calling for peace.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Jim would never want us to hate or be bitter. We are just very proud of Jimmy.
STARR: So far, ISIS has not made attacking the West a major priority, but now, the killing of Foley said to be direct retaliation for U.S. air
strikes in Iraq, air strikes which are continuing around Mosul dam to push ISIS back. U.S. nerves running high. The State Department asking for up to
300 additional U.S. troops for unspecific security reasons in Baghdad.
The intelligence community worried about what will happen next.
PAUL CRUICKSHANK, CNN TERRORISM ANALYST: It's not clear whether the leadership will now pivot towards attacking the West. There's a lot of
concern they could.
STARR: The administration says it's revealing the secret commando mission because several news media outlets were already onto the story.
But all of this goes to show just how tough it will be to go after ISIS.
Barbara Starr, CNN, The Pentagon.
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LU STOUT: The masked man in that horrific execution video appeared to have a British accent. And British authorities are trying to identify the
killer.
And with the latest on that, CNN's Atika Shubert joins us now live from London.
And Atika, what are officials there and linguists as well, what are they saying about this apparent British accent of the militant who killed
James Foley?
ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, it's a very distinctive accent. And you could hear it very clearly in that audio. And
we've talked to a number of language specialists here and asked them for their opinion and what they've said is this is somebody who is clearly
grown up in Britain from a young age, possibly very well educated, quite articulate, although perhaps reading from a written statement, the choice
of the words he used seems to indicate comes from, you know, a well educated background.
What they're going to be doing, the government, is looking at this audio trying to pinpoint where this person from, comparing it, probably to
a number of other recordings they have of other militants that have gone out to Syria to see if they can make a match. And of course they've been
trying to keep track of hundreds of young, mostly young men, but also a few women, that have gone to Syria and Iraq to join the fighting there. And so
they'll be looking at all of the track records they have on these people to see if they can come up with a match, or anybody who might know who this
person is.
LU STOUT: Yeah, the militant's face in that video, it was hidden by the mask, but that voice very, very distinctive. Here's hoping that it
will lead to some sort of answer.
And that distinct accent has also revived concern there in the UK about British jihadis. What more do we know about them and the threat they
pose?
SHUBERT: Well, we know that there are hundreds of them that have gone to -- particularly to Syria to fight against the regime of President Bashar
Assad. And while many of them may have initially gone for that fight, they find themselves drawn in to this conflict, particularly now with ISIS.
And I've actually spoken to a number of families who have had their children go there. And they say they fear that their children might have
gone in there with very idealistic views, but then they find themselves caught up in this bloody and brutal world that they can't get out of. And
many of them have lost contact with their children are desperate to find out.
So you can imagine the number of parents here in the UK, but also across Europe where thousands more have also gone, when they see these
propaganda videos, hear a voice like this, they're just dreaded that they might hear the voice of their own child.
LU STOUT: Atika Shubert, joining us live from London. Thank you.
Now on the ground in Iraq, the fight against ISIS goes on. The U.S. says it carried out 14 airstrikes on Wednesday targeting militants near the
Mosul dam, which Iraqi and Kurdish forces now control.
Now that makes a total of 84 U.S. airstrikes since President Barack Obama authorized the action two weeks ago.
Now the Pentagon is also considering sending up to 300 more troops to Iraq to help protect U.S. personnel in Baghdad.
Now meanwhile, in northern Iraq, the United Nations has started that 10 day operation to bring in huge shipments of aid to help hundreds of
thousands of people who escaped ISIS militants.
Now CNN's Anna Coren is live for us in Irbil. She joins us now. And Anna, the UN finally launching this huge aid effort, but how much help will
it provide when the need there on the ground is just so massive?
ANNA COREN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, it is. It's absolutely massive. It's going to be a huge operation. UNHCR is calling
its biggest push in a decade, that's the involvement going into looking after these people. We know that officials on the ground have been crying
out for help saying the aid needs to be here.
Finally, it is arriving, a 747 is due to land in the next few hours with 100 tons of aid. These flights are going to be made on a daily basis,
but in total 2,500 tons should be arriving here in Irbil and then to be distributed. And that distribution will start as of tomorrow, directly to
Dohuk Province, which is where we have been with the refugees who have been living on the streets, Kristie.
Let's take a look.
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COREN: As flies crawl over his face in the stifling heat, a baby boy lies in his mother's arms. He was born two weeks ago, not in a hospital, a
house or even under a roof, but on top of Mount Sinjar.
"I was scared he was going to die," says 25-year-old Wata (ph). "I can't believe he's alive."
The family fled ISIS militants and climbed the mountain with tens of thousands of other Yazidis. Many thought they would not survive.
"Mothers threw away their babies. They were exhausted," says the mother of five. "But I couldn't do it. He was in my womb for nine months.
I could not give him to the mountain."
They're now in Dohuk living in an abandoned market with 100 other desperate families who have nowhere else to go.
"I was a policeman, now I'm a refugee. My rights are gone, my property is gone. I can't sleep. All I think about is how to get out of
this place. But we can't go back, they will kill us."
This is just a fraction of the refugees who have flooded Dohuk Province in Kurdistan, Northern Iraq since the war with ISIS began. In the
past few weeks, more than a quarter of a million refugees have arrived, living on the streets, in schools, camps, anywhere they can find shelter.
And this is the man now responsible for looking after them. Handing out 300 U.S. dollars to each family, the governor admits this is merely a
Bandaid.
FARHAD ATRUSHE, DOHUK GOVERNOR: I can look after them for one week, maybe for two weeks, I can feed them, but not more than that. These people
need international community has to mobilize its resources. They have to do something for these people.
COREN: While UNHCR is on the ground expanding existing camps, there is strong criticism that aid groups are dragging their feet failing these
refugees.
To give you an idea of the scale of this disaster, there are 65,000 people in this camp and the surrounding area. The governor says he just
does not have the resources to deal with this humanitarian crisis and is pleading with the international community to act now.
While some countries such as France and Australia have offered asylum for Iraq's persecuted religious minorities, not everyone is looking to
leave. But there is one condition, ISIS, otherwise known as DASH (ph) must be defeated.
SULAYMAN SHAYBO, DISPLACED YAZIDI: They are just beasts (ph) and Middle East and international community has to get rid of DASH (ph) or it's
like cancer, it just spreads. Everybody will (inaudible).
COREN: Until that day, this is their home, under a bridge, feeling abandoned by the world.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
COREN: This is going to be a massive humanitarian operation by air, by sea, by road over the next 10 days. And as I was saying before, that
will then be distributed to the people who so desperately need it, half a million refugees, Kristie, who have fled ISIS.
But perhaps some good news amongst all this misery and heartache. A 27-year-old woman who original fled Syria came to Iraq to the city of
Mosul, then married an Iraqi man, fled back when ISIS came to Syria, has just given birth to five babies, quintuplets. Apparently, they're all
doing well. However, the mother did tell the UN that she does not have enough money to provide these babies with nappies and with milk, that's why
the UN has intervened and is assisting them.
But, yeah, an incredible story of survival, that's for sure.
LU STOUT; Yeah, an incredible story of survival and thank you so much for getting the word out, so hopefully more help on the way to the mother
and to those five babies there.
You talked to a number of the displaced Yazidis in that refugee camp. They are under threat by ISIS for their religious beliefs. And now, Anna,
word of this new video from ISIS about their fate. What does it reveal?
COREN: Yeah, propaganda video, of course, from ISIS is being disseminated. It shows busloads of Yazidis who chose to convert as opposed
to die. And these people, they get off the bus and you can see them being hugged by ISIS commanders, embraced as if they were fellow brothers. It
later shows these people sitting in a courtyard listening to a sermon, listening to an address, and they all look extremely subservient.
But if you study some of their faces, Kristie, you can see the fear. I mean, these people have no choice. They've probably had family members
slaughtered. They've watched people be beheaded. On top of that, they've had their wives taken, their children taken. I mean, this is unfolding as
ISIS comes into these towns.
They can put this propaganda video out, but at the end of the day, Kristie, we know what is happening on the ground form the Yazidis who have
fled. And they don't have a choice, these people cannot return to their homes because as far as they're concerned, they will be slaughtered.
LU STOUT: Anna Coren, reporting on that new propaganda video from ISIS and the very real humanitarian crisis in northern Iraq. Anna, we
thank you.
Now you're watching News Stream. Still to come on the program, Hamas vows revenge against Israel for the killings of three senior commanders.
We'll bring you the latest on the situation there.
Also ahead, from an ancient Indian tradition to an international phenomenon. We look back at the life and legacy of the man who brought
yoga to the masses.
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LU STOUT: The collapsed truce earlier this week has given way to renewed cross-border fire between Israel and Gaza. Now three senior
commanders from the armed wing of Hamas were killed in an overnight airstrike. And Hamas has responded by issuing a fresh threat of revenge
saying, quote, "Israel will pay the price."
A short time ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly thanked the IDF for that operation, adding that operation protective edge
will continue until its goal is achieved.
Now yesterday, Hamas accused Israel of trying to assassinate the head of the Qassam Brigades, Mohammed Deif. Instead, the strike killed Deif's
wife and 7-month-old son.
Fred Pleitgen has more from Gaza.
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FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: After about a week of calm, explosions rocked Gaza once again as hostilities between
Israel and Hamas are back in full swing.
Rocket barrages lifting off towards Israel and the Israeli military hitting back hard with both airstrikes and artillery.
Israel blames Hamas for the violence.
MARK REGEV, ISRAELI GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN: It was a direct and grave violation of the ceasefire. There was no excuse for it. There was no
provocation. Out of the blue.
PLEITGEN: Hamas for its part, points the finger at Israel and says this particular strike caused a major escalation.
The group says Israel attempted to assassinate the head of its military wing, the Qassam Brigades, Mohammed al-Deif, an elusive man who is
rarely seen, except in old photos like this one, which purports to show him.
Hamas says Deif survived, but that his wife and 7-month-old son were killed, their funerals held in Gaza on Wednesday.
"I want to tell Mohammed al-Deif that he's our leader and we're all behind him," his mother-in-law said at the procession.
The building they were in was flattened.
Just looking around you can see that some very heavy ordinance was used here. The building was absolutely reduced to rubble. And any sort of
personal belongings that we see have been totally mangled.
Now allegedly, they're still looking for bodies that might potentially be under the rubble here, but it's unclear if anything could be found.
The Israeli military has not confirmed targeting Deif, but politicians have said they consider striking him justified.
Israel said its renewed operations are aimed at taking out rocket infrastructure to prevent militants from firing at its territory.
Both sides, it seems, are entrenched and back on a war footing, leaving very little hope for a ceasefire in the near-term.
Fred Pleitgen, CNN, Gaza.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
LU STOUT: Now, Hamas has been warning international airlines not to fly into or out of Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport. Our John Vause is there.
He joins us live with the very latest.
And John, after Hamas issued that warning, what's been going on there?
JOHN VAUSE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Kristie, it seems most of the day most of the rocket fire it seems to be falling in the
southern part of Israel. The Israeli military says just one rocket has been fired from Gaza towards Ben Gurion airport since that warning by Hamas
came into effect early this morning, 6:00 a.m. local time, that's about nine hours ago now.
That missile, rocket, fell in an empty field about 5 kilometers away from here.
There has been one cancellation here apparently because of security concerns. Royal Jordanian airlines reportedly canceled our flight from
Amman to Tel Aviv, but the rest of the schedule seem to be running as normal, in fact passengers here are coming and they're going, the planes,
all of them, international carriers and the Israeli carriers, taking off and landing.
It seems that Hamas was hoping to have the same kind of impact that they had last month when a rocket fell not far from Tel Aviv Airport. And
the FAA, the Federal Aviation Authority in the United States decided to stop all U.S. carriers from landing here. The Europeans quickly followed.
That ban was in place about a day-and-a-half.
But it was a huge blow for the Israelis both economically and symbolically. About 90 percent of all people who come to Israel, they come
through this airport. And so there was a lot of pushback from the Israelis, that ban was quickly reversed, but the damage was done as far as
the Israelis were concerned. Hamas claimed that as a victory.
So far today, though, it seems pretty much business as usual out here at Ben Gurion Airport, Kristie.
LU STOUT: All right, business as usual so far there at the airport in Tel Aviv. Hamas says it is aiming for that airport, that facility there.
While Israel has been aiming at the Hamas leadership, and that's earned the praise from the Israeli prime minister.
VAUSE: Yeah, in fact, earlier today, three senior commanders with the al Quds Brigade (ph), the Hamas military wing, were killed by an Israeli
airstrike. The Israelis say that these three were senior commanders. They were responsible for carrying out a number of terror attacks on Israelis,
including one of them, it's believed, to have been behind the kidnapping of the Israeli soldiers Gillard Shalit (ph) back in 2006. That, of course,
started another major military confrontation between Hamas and Israel.
It seems that these three senior Hamas commanders, according to both Hamas and Israel, the only senior commanders of these guys, Mohammed Deif,
who we saw in Fred Pleitgen's report just a short time ago.
The Israelis tried to kill him, apparently, yesterday with a massive airstrike on his home. They flattened that five story building. But it
seems Mohammed Deif, at least at this stage, survived.
And Hamas now warning that the Israelis will pay a very heavy price for carrying out those targeted killings. And the Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, saying that all those senior Hamas military leaders are legitimate targets.
LU STOUT: John Vause reporting live from the airport there in Tel Aviv for us. Thank you, John.
Now, Dr. Kent Brantly is being released from the hospital. He's the American doctor who contracted Ebola while in Liberia, but he has made an
amazing recovery.
Now he took two blood tests, both have come back negative for the virus.
Now Brantly was the first Ebola patient to be brought back to the U.S. and the first to receive the experimental drug ZMapp. He is expected to
speak at a news conference that will happen in roughly two-and-a-half hours from now.
You're watching News Stream. Still ahead on the program if you have ever practiced Yoga, you were probably influenced by one man who helped
modernize this ancient tradition. We remember the life of BKS Iyengar when we come back.
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LU STOUT: Coming to you live from Hong Kong, you're back watching News Stream.
Now sun salutation, downward dog, warrior pose -- now yoga has come a long way from its ancient Indian roots and a lot of that is because of one
man, BKS Iyengar. And the respected yoga guru, he died on Wednesday at the age of 95.
Sumnima Udas looks back on his life and his legacy.
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SUMNIMA UDAS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: If there's one man many credit for turning the ancient Indian tradition of yoga into a
worldwide phenomenon, it is BKS Iyengar. He took the mystical discipline, which was once only passed down from master to student to the masses,
popularizing the practice in the west, in particular.
He took on yoga to treat his own illness, tuberculosis, but then made it his mission to propagate what he had learned.
BKS IYENGAR, YOGA GURU: I saw lots of people practicing yoga. Well, there's absolutely no foundation or formalness in their presentations. And
I thought that this type of yoga is not going to help anyone, because it's going to die, because it's like a dust -- gathering dust.
UDAS: He traveled the world performing thousands of demonstrations, simplifying the theory behind the tradition so it's more accessible,
transforming the once esoteric practice into a science. The focus of his brand of yoga, known as Iyengar yoga in the west, is on precision and
proper alignment of the body.
Modern yoga has now taken on various styles and names and become a multibillion dollar industry, something Iyengar himself did not approve of.
IYENGAR: Yoga is a science, which makes one to associate the body with the mind, and mind to the intelligence, intelligence to the
consciousness and consciousness to the self. When such a noble subject today it is -- has become a commercial presentation, it's painful to me.
UDAS: Tributes are now pouring in for Iyengar. The Indian president calling his death a national loss.
Sumnima Udas, CNN, New Delhi.
LU STOUT: You're watching News Stream. And still to come, as British authorities try to identify the apparently British ISIS militant who
executed an American journalist, we investigate the road that leads some westerners to join extremists in Syria and Iraq.
And the relative calm in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri after nearly two weeks of unrest over the police shooting of an unarmed teen.
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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.
A Pentagon spokesman says the U.S. made a failed attempt to rescue American journalist James Foley from Syria this summer before his execution
by ISIS militants.
Now the Wall Street Journal reports that his captors originally demanded a ransom from his employer, the Global Post, of more than $130
million.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is thanking the country's defense forces for an operation that killed three top Hamas military
commanders in Gaza. Now he killings prompted Hamas to vow revenge. And the group says that Israel will, quote, pay the price.
It was a night of relative calm in Ferguson, Missouri. Now the crowd thinned after a rainstorm. Demonstrations have been held since August 9,
that's when an unarmed African-American teenager Michael Brown was fatally shot by a white police officer.
More now on our top story this hour. The British Prime Minister David Cameron says that his government is working to identify the ISIS militants
seen on video beheading the American journalist James Foley. Now the man appeared to speak with a British accent. And there's increasing evidence
that many westerners are joining the ranks of radical jihadists across the Middle East.
And as our Nick Paton Walsh reports, militants are also using a major social media platform to carry out recruitment.
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NICK PATON WALSH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): If you want to be one of these, an al Qaeda fighter, filmed secretly here in the
stronghold in the Syrian city of Raka, it can be a long and complex road. But if you're a Westerner, the journey to this radical utopia, where women
must dress like this, can start here on Twitter.
This man is now in hiding. He told us he helps recruit Westerners using direct messaging on the Twitter accounts of the Islamic State of Iraq
and Syria, or ISIS.
"There was special treatment for the Europeans," he says. "One British guy said he was called Ibrahim and told me he was from Manchester. One
asked my boss if he should fight in his own country or come to Syria. He was told, if God doesn't give you martyrdom in Syria, then he could wage
war in his own country."
(CHANTING)
WALSH: Syria now has a new horror. Will Western recruits take their jihad back to their home countries? Some won't.
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WALSH: Like Abul Salha (ph), the first American to die in this blast as a suicide bomber in Syria.
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WALSH: He was well known in the area, adding their foreign recruits were first vetted carefully in their home countries. Part of an offense
that ran a welcome online chat about life under ISIS to reach for future recruits, though with very strict rules.
"There's some questions I am allowed to answer," he says, "and things I must ask my supervisor about, specific questions about religion. I have
to get their permission to message anyone. I can't talk on Skype. Everything is written down, so they can monitor everything."
He fled this city when ISIS murdered two relatives, was jailed when he spoke out of turn, and was rarely allowed to meet the recruits. ?Chats
could last hours. But some of the questions were strange.
"I remember one guy asked me for a video of a public execution," he says, "but one that hadn't been put online before. Strange ones, too, about
marrying Syrian girls. I got mad once when I was asked if someone could marry three or four girls."
The motives often selfish, the goal violent, and its most radical offspring turning their sights on the West.
Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, Southern Turkey.
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LU STOUT: And when ISIS posted that horrific execution video online on Tuesday, it sparked a big debate about how to cover the story.
Now most western news outlets did not show the brutal execution itself, but does showing even a portion of the video give ISIS that
attention it craves, or are the images a crucial part of the story that should be shown?
Now social media websites are increasingly facing those questions. And with these online platforms, content is posted directly to the web, so
sites must often act after the images are posted.
YouTube took down the video within a matter of hours and said that any accounts linked to terrorists are suspended.
As for Twitter, its CEO says it is suspending accounts to prevent the spread of the footage.
Now as we reported yesterday, CNN is not airing the video on television or online, but as a network we did decide to show stills from
the minutes before the beheading and an audio clip from that graphic footage.
Now Jonathan Mann looks at the challenges we here at CNN face in deciding just how to cover such a brutal murder of a fellow journalist.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JIM CLANCY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Islamic State militants have released a graphic video that shows the beheading of U.S. war journalist James
Foley.
JONATHAN MANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: When an innocent noncombatant is executive in cold blood by the most threatening extremists in the Middle
East, it's murder and it's news. The news media have been telling the world about the fast moving ISIS military campaign, its killings and
kidnappings, but what should we do when an atrocity is staged for the images it will generate and the victim is a colleague?
It's news that James Foley, a brave reporter who wanted to tell important stories, died trying. It's news that the executioners' accent
may offer a hint about his identity. It's news that may change what governments and armies do next. It's news that other journalists will
spread and that social media will spread without any journalists involved no matter what we do. It's news that extremists wanted us all to spread,
and they killed a man, at least in part, so that we do it.
What should we do? We thought about it. And we hope we made the right choice.
The extremists shouldn't win today. The victim, James Foley, should be remembered.
We're not broadcasting ISIS video at all. We are broadcasting a brief audio excerpt because of that accent. We're identifying Foley most often
with photos taken before he fell into his captor's hands. We're trying to do exactly and only what we need to do. We report the news.
Jonathan Mann, CNN.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
LU STOUT: Well said analysis there.
Now last night was different in the U.S. town of Ferguson, Missouri. Now protesters were still marching out on the streets, but the mood was
less tense compared to previous nights.
A storm may have caused some demonstrators to stay away while there was at least one tense encounter, there was no wide scale police action.
Now let's get more now from CNN's George Howell. He joins me live from Ferguson, Missouri. And George, is it your sense that the days of
unrest is finally giving way to more and relative peace and calm there in Ferguson?
GEORGE HOWELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Kristie, good day to you.
It's hard to say, quite honestly. All we can really do is look at the trend and the trend does seem to indicate that the crowds are getting
smaller.
As you mentioned overnight, there was a storm that came through and it did send more people off the streets. And that was good in the sense that
there were a few confrontations before that storm came through, confrontations, Kristie, between people who came out to support Officer
Darren Wilson, this is the police officer who is involved in this fatal shooting of Michael Brown about 10, 11 days ago. They came out to support
him, but beside a crowd, a much larger crowd of people, maybe 50 or 60 people, who were out to basically support Michael Brown.
We did see police quickly escort those two people out for their safety, according to officers. Saw the same thing earlier in the day, in
fact, Kristie at another rally in front of the St. Louis County prosecuting attorney's office. One woman who came out with a sign supporting Darren
Wilson, she was escorted out very quickly as well. Police say for her safety, whether she was taunting the crowd, that is for anyone else to
determine for themselves looking at the video.
But we do know that everyone here in the United States has the right to protest. In this case, police felt that she was in a bad place to do
it.
LU STOUT: Got it.
So last night, less activity overall, but still more protest action in support of Michael Brown and also in support of the police officer in
question here, Darren Wilson.
Now separately, George, earlier this week a police officer threatened to kill a protester. It was a very tense incident. It was caught on
camera, went viral. What happened to the officer?
HOWELL: --was suspended from the police department.
And a St. Louis County police officer, we understand they have also heard that, that officer removed the other from the scene as soon as he
heard it. So, that officer suspended.
Just about 10, 11 days ago, Kristie, we in fact, caught a person -- a police officer, calling the crowd animals, referring to them as animals.
Obviously, the officer was enraged himself.
So, these things do happen. It's been caught on camera for people to see. And this is what many in the community say is a good example of how
they're treated, how people are treated differently by police officers. They believe that police don't treat them fairly, that there's a great deal
of mistrust here in this community regarding this police department.
LU STOUT: Yeah, and all caught on smartphones and being shared worldwide for the world to see.
Now U.S. attorney general Eric Holder, he visited Ferguson on Wednesday. Was he able to bring down the temperature? I mean, how much
comfort did he bring to the residents of the community there?
HOWELL: Sure. Just like the rain that came through, you could say that the attorney general Eric Holder also had a very calming effect,
arriving here, meeting with college students, reassuring them that there will be a parallel federal investigation. He described it as fair, it will
be independent, it will be thorough.
And the attorney general also making it known that even though he holds an important position here in the United States, he himself has been
targeted, he says, due to the fact that he's an African-American man. Basically, a feeling that resonates with many in this community who feel
that they are stereotyped simply because of their skin color.
LU STOUT: All right, George Howell reporting live from Ferguson, Missouri, once again we thank you for your reporting.
Now coming up right here on News Stream, the British high street gets a brand new look as retailers unveil an approach that could revolutionize
the way we shop.
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LU STOUT: Welcome back.
Now for online shoppers here in Asia, the concept of click and collect has been around for awhile. In fact, here in Hong Kong you can buy online
with the bookseller Bokolai (ph) and pick up your purchases at a local convenience store. And now, as Jim Boulden reports, the click and collect
concept is picking up steam in the UK.
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JIM BOULDEN, CNN CORREPSONDENT: Remember when the onslaught of online shopping was going to lay waste to in town shopping? Here, around Central
London train stations online shopping is actually leading to new stores and more jobs for a new chain known as Doddle, a new click and collect service.
TIM ROBINSON, CEO, DODDLE: Most of the people that travel by rail, work in big cities aren't at home during the day. They have that terrible
sorry you were out card when they get home. And, you know, there's a big opportunity to fill that gap.
BOULDEN: The idea for Doddle did not come from an internet entrepreneur. Tim Robinson and his team used to work for Network Rail, the
owner of Britain's train stations. Network Rail is now a 50 percent owner of Doddle.
So what exactly went wrong with click and wait?
NATALIE BERG, PLANET RETAIL: Home delivery is really only convenient if you're home.
BOULDEN: Consultancy Planet Retail says only 5 percent of Germany's online shoppers and just 13 percent of American online shoppers click and
then self-collect. Britain is way ahead, 35 percent click and then collect. That could double by 2017.
BERG: Even five years ago, the thought of buying a product online and then having to trek to a store to collect it seems ludicrous. It takes the
whole convenience aspect out of online shopping.
BOULDEN: There are many click and collect options in the UK. If you buy on eBay, you'll soon be able to collect through thousands of stores of
the massive retail change Argos.
While some 5,000 independent shops have joined Collect Plus, which takes deliveries from the likes of Amazon and John Lewis.
Amazon also provides lockers in some London train stations, but that does not provide a service twist from Doddle. There will be changing rooms
in most of its stores.
ROBINSON: You don't actually have to take the goods home and try them on, you can try it on here and send it straight back.
BOULDEN: Amazon has signed up, so have some of Britain's biggest retailers.
And with more firms now banning personal deliveries here in the office, it may just be that collecting before or after work are really the
keys to unlocking click and collect.
Jim Boulden, CNN, London.
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LU STOUT: This is News Stream. And still to come, there are signs that Iceland's largest volcano could soon cause chaos in the skies. We get
the details next.
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LU STOUT: Welcome back to News Stream. And let's get your global weather forecast.
Of course, you recall tragedy struck a community in Japan earlier in the week after a landslide. These rivers of mud slammed into a
neighborhood.
Let's get the latest on conditions there with Mari Ramos. She joins us from the World Weather Center -- Mari.
MARI RAMOS, CNN WEATHER CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, Kristie, the rain has been relentless across East Asia. We're starting to see a little bit of a
break in the rainfall, particularly over parts of China and through the Korean Peninsula. And even right now across western Japan we're seeing
generally drier weather. But I'm afraid the rain is going to return.
I want to show you some of the rainfall totals, so you can see how widespread this Mayu Bayu (ph) front, that's what it's called, this frontal
system kind of stationary here that sits over this area normally during this time of year. But it can bring us some very heavy rain at times if it
stays over the same general area.
You can see how significant that rainfall has been from Thailand all the way back over toward Japan easily into the hundreds of millimeters when
we look at some of these areas.
So very significant indeed.
I want to show you some pictures of the before and after this landslide. This is a crowded neighborhood on the foothills here as you
move inland in Hiroshima. And very, very scary. You can see all the homes right over here kind of built up into the mountains. It looks a little
distorted because it's taken from Google.
And this is the after, this is a picture taken after the landslide happened. And you can see these areas, rivers where there were none
before, all of that mud and debris that came sweeping down, many, many blocks into this neighborhood in this area there.
Very scary.
And I want to show you another area as we move again. You can see the destroyed buildings across this entire region.
So, very serious situation and the cleanup is ongoing across that area.
Rescue work is very treacherous, the ground, in many cases, still moving, and the threat for moon rain is really a huge -- a significant
concern over here. You can see a little bit of moisture starting to move in as we head through the overnight hours, but I think as we head into
tomorrow the rain will be much more significant compared to what you had today, so definitely keep that in mind.
Some areas across western Japan will be in the 8 centimeters mark for the next 24 to 48 hours. And all of that rainfall eventually moving into
central parts of Honshu and eventually even as we head over into Hokkaido.
Now, the other thing we've been talking about is this danger that this volcano in Iceland continues to pose.
Now there is an evacuation, some, but mostly this is an area that is not densely populated. Nobody really lives into this area that has been
evacuated. Basically what they're saying is you can't get in there.
What they're concerned about now, Kristie, you know, as opposed to an imminent eruption is that if there is a sub-glacial eruption. Remember,
that this volcano is underneath an ice cap. And as the temperature begins to rise, or if the volcano erupts underneath the glacier, it would cause
tremendously heavy flooding across this area as all of that water melts. They're thinking that will flow down the northern flank of the volcano,
bringing it into those regions so that is why they have those evacuations. They don't want anybody to go in there, because it's still quite dangerous.
I want to show you a picture kind of interesting here. Not much happening, huh? This is a picture, live look on a webcam, webcams that are
set up at the base of the volcano. This one right over here you kind of see the son behind it, the glare from the icecap across this area, another
perspective. You see a little bit more land. But you don't see that typical kind of cone shape that you would maybe expect with a volcano.
This is a huge volcano, volcanic system, actually, that's located in this area and this is just one aspect of how -- what it looks like and how
-- there are one of the ways that they're monitoring this volcano.
Back to you.
LU STOUT: That's right. Good to have that webcam positioned right there. Mari Ramos, thank you.
Now it is nearly 25 years since the Berlin wall came down and changed the path of history. And CNN is marking the anniversary with a special
series on the battle between capitalism and communism and the events that shaped the Cold War.
Now here's a look at what's in store for the next episode.
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KENNETH BRANAGH, ACTOR: Khrushchev brimmed with confidence. He hated formality. He acted on impulse. He loved a fight. He wanted to make the
Soviet Union happy as well as glorious.
SERGEI KHRUSCHEV, SON OF NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV (through translator): He believed that socialism had to be liberated from the debris of Stalin's
rule and from bureaucracy, it should be made more democratic. The gates should be opened, but gradually, step by step, because for him socialism
was like paradise on Earth.
BRANAGH: To show his confidence, Khrushchev allowed an American exhibition into Moscow in 1959. For the first time, Russians could touch
and taste the American achievement.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Some of the women complained some time that it smelled like benzene and men wanted to know if it would make them drunk.
BRANAGH: But Khrushchev knew that the Soviet Union was beating America in the space race. For Khrushchev, here was evidence that
communism meant not just power, but technical progress.
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LU STOUT: Well, that video there, you could watch that episode of CNN's Cold War in full. Tune in Saturday, 6:00 p.m. in Hong Kong.
And that is News Stream, but the news continues at CNN. World Business Today is next.
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