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Ukraine, Russia Agree To Framework For Peace; NATO Unprepared For Russian Action On Eastern Countries; Remembering Steven Sotloff; Madden`s Tiny Linebacker; How a Game Company Responds To Stolen Video Game Concept; How To Protect Your Data in the Cloud; Ebola Patient Escapes From Clinic

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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 confusion in Ukraine where there are conflicting reports over whether there will be a ceasefire in the conflict.

Apple denies that its servers were breached, but says celebrity iCloud accounts were compromised.

And what would you do if your game idea was copied by someone else? We`ll show you the angry game one creator made after he says his idea was

cloned.

Now a ceasefire or no ceasefire, that is the question in Eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian president says that he spoke on the phone with his

Russian counterpart. And they agreed to lay down arms in the eastern part of the country. But a spokesman for Mr. Putin quickly denied that, saying

that Russia cannot agree to a ceasefire because it is not involved in the conflict.

Moscow followed that by saying it is committed to ending the bloodshed and agreed on steps to achieve that.

Now pro-Russia rebels in eastern Ukraine, however, say that they have heard nothing about a ceasefire and the only pathway to peace is for

Ukrainian troops to leave the region.

And for the view from Russia, Phil Black joins us now live from Moscow. And Phil, what precisely is the Kremlin saying about this

ceasefire deal?

PHIL BLACK, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Kristie, from the outset just after Kiev made its announcement about a potential ceasefire there was

reason to be cautious, because the statement from the Kremlin about the conversation that the two presidents had simply said that the men`s

positions largely coincide, did not mention a potential ceasefire.

And then as you say, President Putin`s spokesman shortly after noted pretty clear that no there is no agreement on a ceasefire, what they were

talking about were the steps that could potentially lead to a ceasefire. And the reason for that, which is consistent with what the Russian position

has been all along, the Kremlin says they cannot be party to any sort of ceasefire negotiation, because they are not a party to the conflict.

Russia has always insisted that because it says they are not fighting on the ground, it is a matter for the pro-Russian separatists in eastern

Ukraine and the government in Kiev to try and thrash out the terms that would lead to an acceptable ceasefire. That is the Russian position. It

is not one that is treated with great credibility, I think, by the west.

Just today, the U.S. President Barack Obama speaking in Estonia, which borders part of Russia, said that Russia is not being serious, that Russia

pretends not to have any control. And when he was asked about any sort of potential ceasefire deal, he sounded pretty cynical, really, but he said

that what they`ve been asking for all along is for Russia to stop arming, training, facilitating, even fighting with these separatists and to come up

with some sort of political solution. He said everyone would welcome that, Kristie.

LU STOUT: And from international condemnation from the likes of world leaders like Barack Obama to the threat of more sanctions, in total, how

much international pressure is on Russia to hash out agreement and to reach a deal for a ceasefire with Ukraine?

BLACK: Well, it`s been significant for a good many months now, and it has been consistently growing. It reached new levels following the downing

of Malaysia airlines MH17 over that battle zone in eastern Ukraine, resulting in the deaths of almost 300, these people who had nothing to do

with that conflict.

Following reports from Kiev and the assessment of western countries that Russia is now using regular troops in eastern Ukraine as well.

Europe, we know, is now preparing a new round of sanction potentially to be implemented as early as this Friday.

So, Russia is under great pressure.

But if you buy the assessment of the west and of Kiev that Russia is now using its regular armed forces in eastern Ukraine, then the message

from that to Kiev, to Ukraine and really to the world is that Russia is prepared to pay the price. It is prepared to deal with the pressure, deal

with the sanctions, and potential cost to the Ukrainian economy because it is drawing a line in the sand and perhaps saying that it is not going to

allow, under any circumstances, those separatists fighting there to be defeated by Ukrainian government forces, Kristie.

LU STOUT: All right. Phil Black reporting live from Moscow with us, thank you very much indeed for that, Phil.

Now we`ll go back to the confusion in Ukraine in just a minute.

But first to another big story this hour. The White House is vowing to, quote, "degrade and destroy the Sunni extremist group ISIS." Now U.S.

officials have confirmed that the video showing the apparent beheading of the American journalist Steven Sotloff is authentic.

Now U.S. President Barack Obama is in Estonia now where he`s meeting with elders of the Baltic states before heading to Wales for a NATO summit.

Now the president condemned what he called a barbaric act of violence.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: What ever these murderers think they`ll achieve by killing innocent Americans like Steven

they have already failed. They`ve failed because, like people around he world, Americans are repulsed by their barbarism. We will not be

intimidated. Their horrific acts only unite us as a country and stiffen our resolve to take the fight against these terrorists.

And those who make the mistake of harming Americans will learn that we will not forget and that our reach is long and that justice will be served.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LU STOUT; In the video released on Tuesday, ISIS militants threaten the life of a British hostage unless the U.S. stops carrying out airstrikes

in Iraq. In the last hour, the British Prime Minister David Cameron responded to this latest threat saying that his country would not give in

to terrorism, or these, quote, "barbaric killers."

Now Karl Penhaul takes a look at the footage intelligence teams are scrutinizing to try and identify the executioner in the race to save that

third hostage.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

STEVEN SOTLOFF, JOURNALIST: I`m sure you know exactly who I am by now.

KARL PENHAUL, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Time ran out for American journalist, Steven Sotloff, and ISIS knife man warned he`d be next

to die in a propaganda video two weeks ago that showed the beheading of fellow reporter, James Foley.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The life of this American citizen, Obama, depends on your next decision.

PENHAUL: Intelligence experts in Britain and the U.S. are analyzing the images. Several clues the two videos were shot several days apart. In

the first, Sotloff`s shaven-headed and in Tuesday`s release he has stubbly hair and beard.

Another sign post, the black-clad Jihadi refers to U.S. air strikes on ISIS positions around the Iraqi town of Amerli. Bombing raids near Amerli

took late Saturday, early Sunday indicating Sotloff was executed within the last three days.

Unmistakable similarities in the apparent executioner. In both videos, the same black uniform, ski mask, similar height and build. Same double-

edged combat knife brandished in his left hand, and then that accent.

A forensic linguist consulted by CNN says the voice sounds the same in both videos, probably from a multi-cultural neighborhood of London. In the

first video released on August 19.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Any attempt by you, Obama, to deny the Muslims their rights of living in safety under the Islamic caliphate, will result

in the blood shed of your people.

PENHAUL: An excerpt from the second video released Tuesday.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You, Obama, have yet again for your actions convicts another American citizen. As your missiles continue to strike our

people, our knife will continue to strike the necks of your people.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I ask you to please release my child.

PENHAUL: Words of hate that bear no comparison to a mother`s love, her last-ditch plea to the kidnappers, testimony of a life cut short.

SHIRLEY SOTLOFF, MOTHER OF STEVEN SOTLOFF: Steven is a loyal and generous son, brother and grandson. We miss him very much. We want to see

him home safe and sound and to hug him.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: And that was Karl Penhaul reporting.

Now let`s go back to our top story, the confusion over a ceasefire in Ukraine. Reza Sayah joins us from the capital of Kiev. And Reza, what is

Kiev saying about the truce?

REZA SAYAH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, they`re saying that a ceasefire has been established, but there are some ambiguous

statements that have fueled the confusion here both in Kiev and Moscow. And we`re going to try to clarify some of the confusion by explaining to

you how we got to this point.

This all started this morning when the Russian news agency Interfax reported that the Russian President Vladimir Putin had phone conversation

with the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and the two leaders agreed to a roadmap to get out of this conflict in southeastern Ukraine.

Obviously, we needed to hear from Ukrainian officials here in Kiev. And indeed a short time later, they did confirm that that phone call took

place. And indeed they took it a step further saying that the two leaders had agreed on a ceasefire.

Now the term ceasefire was not in the statement in Moscow. So we reached out once again to Moscow for clarification and that`s when Mr.

Putin`s spokesperson said that Mr. Putin could not authorize a ceasefire because Russia was not a party to this conflict.

However, Mr. Putin`s spokesperson did reiterate that Moscow supports the framework of a ceasefire that was in place.

We`re also hearing from the fighters on the ground, the pro-Russian rebels in southeastern Ukraine, they say that doubt that a ceasefire can

hold, because according to them the Ukrainian forces are still on the ground there. And now the rebels are calling for Petro Poroshenko, the

Ukrainian president, to call off the Ukrainian forces.

So a lot to sort through, but indications are that we`re close to some sort of breakthrough. And we`re waiting for a formal announcement.

LU STOUT: We`re close to some sort of a breakthrough and you`re waiting for a formal announcement. Since Mr. Poroshenko announced a

ceasefire earlier today, what have pro-Russian rebels inside Ukraine, what have they said? What has been the level of fighting in eastern Ukraine?

SAYAH: Yeah, according to officials there are pockets fare sporadic fighting in southeastern Ukraine and the reels continue to make ground.

They`re on the verge, they say, of capturing a very pivotal airport in Donetsk, that`s another rebel held region. And that`s going to be

important. With this agreement, with this announced agreement, how is it going to impact the battlefield? If, indeed, this is a legitimate

ceasefire agreement, we can expect to have some sort of impact on the battlefield and for the fighting to end. At this point it`s not clearly,

Kristie, if that has happened.

LU STOUT: Now any ceasefire deal that would be struck would end months of fighting. Remind us of the human toll of the violence there in

Ukraine from the scores of lives lost, to the numbers of families and communities displaced because of the violence.

SAYAH: Yeah. Oftentimes, it`s the humanitarian crisis that gets buried in the headlines, but the numbers are staggering. According to the

UN, 260,000 Ukrainians have been displaced from southeastern Ukraine. That number has doubled over the past couple of weeks. Russia says they`ve

taken in 800,000 refugees, thousands of others going to Poland and other Baltic states.

So this is a conflict that is now impacting the region. And that`s why there`s increasing urgency for the fighting to end and perhaps the

announcement today is an indication that we`re taking a step down that road, Kristie.

LU STOUT: All right, Reza Sayah, joining us live from Kiev, thank you so much for that.

You`re watching News Stream and right after the break, as the FBI chases down the hacker who stole dozens of private celebrity photos, we

take a closer look at what you can do to protect your personal data on the cloud.

Also ahead this hour, panic and stress building up inside a quarantine zone in Liberia. We have the story of one Ebola patient who made an escape

from his hospital.

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LU STOUT: Welcome back, you`re watching News Stream. You`re looking at a visual version of all the stories we`ve got in the show today.

Now we`ve already told you about the conflicting reports of a ceasefire in Ukraine. And a little bit later, we`ll have more on the U.S.

president`s trip to Europe. But now, an update on the hack that targeted 100 celebrities

Now Apple says its cloud servers were not breached in that attack that saw dozens of nude photos of celebrities published online. Instead, it

says the accounts were compromised by a targeted attack on user names and passwords.

Now Dan Simon explains how to keep your data safe.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

DAN SIMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Kirsten Dunst and a host of other celebrities` explicit and private photos splashed

on the Internet. The hackers claimed to have targeted ore than 100 celebrities.

The photos apparently lifted from a cloud based storage service. Apple`s iCloud emerged as a likely target. Kirsten Dunst tweeting simply,

"thank you iCloud."

Today, Apple acknowledging, quote, "we have discovered that certain celebrity accounts were compromised by a very targeted attack on user

names, passwords and security questions, a practice that has become all too common on the Internet."

But the statement also says that the company`s actual systems were not breached. All of this, though, raising concerns about the security of the

cloud. Most of us rely on it, whether we post photos to Facebook, use a service like DropBox to back up our files, or simply have contacts or

emails stores with Google, Apple, or any number of Internet-based services.

KEVIN MAHAFEY, LOOKOUT MOBIL SECURITY: The cloud, like any other piece of technology, has positives and negatives

SIMON: Kevin Mahajafe is the chief technology officer for Lookout Mobile Security, one of the biggest players in protecting cellphone data.

MAHAFEY: The positives are, if you store your data in the cloud it`s less likely to get lost. So if you lose your phone or your phone breaks or

you drop it in the lake, usually you lose all your data. And so what the cloud protects you from that, however, if also exposes the data to breach

if you use a bad password or if the cloud service gets hacked.

SIMON: And sometimes if you delete a photo from a device, it may still live on the cloud.

Still, experts say the two main ways to better protect your data are, first, by creating strong and unique passwords, and second enabling two-

step authentication where you have to enter a four or five digit code, usually sent to your phone via text message.

Do you have a sense whether this was a professional job or an amateur job?

MAHAFEY: You know, my speculation is this is probably skews more towards the amateur side. Professional hackers tend to go after critical

infrastructure such as oil and gas, nuclear power plants or other espionage oriented activities, whereas amateur hackers might just do it for fun, just

to cause chaos on the Internet.

SIMON: As for the stolen photos, the FBI says it is actively investigating the breach. Some victims like Jennifer Lawrence said the

photos were real. Others like actress and singer Ariana Grande said they were fake.

(END VIDEOATPE)

LU STOUT: And that was Dan Simon reporting.

Now Jennifer Lawrence`s representatives say anyone who posts the stolen pictures will be prosecuted.

But some online posts seem to be blaming the hacking victims. They`re using the hashtag #ifmyphonewerehacked to show what could be found on their

devices.

Now this person tweeted photos of cats.

Now the implication here that you should not have any potentially embarrassing pictures.

Now psychology professor and author Peggry Drexler writes about victim blaming in this CNN.com opinion piece. And she says, "what happened here

is more than a violation of privacy, it`s flat out criminal invasion."

She goes on to add, "the problem isn`t the picture, it`s the perpetrator."

You`re watching News Stream. And still to come, the story of a desperate escape in West Africa as fear of the Ebola virus spreads even

faster than the virus itself.

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LU STOUT: Coming to you live from Hong Kong, you`re back watching News Stream.

Now a British health care worker has been discharged from a London hospital after surviving the Ebola virus. Now William Pulley was infected

while volunteering to care for Ebola patients in Sierra Leone. He was flown back to the UK and was treated with the experimental drug ZMapp.

But with that positive news, there is now word that another American doctor working in Liberia has been infected.

Now, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the outbreak is getting out of control. And tests of an experimental Ebola

vaccine begin this week.

Now as the number of cases rises, so does the level of desperation in the worst hit parts of West Africa. Fear, and a lack of understanding of

the disease, are causing chaos in some places.

Michael Holmes reports now on one Ebola patient who broke out of a treatment center in Liberia.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN CORREPSONDENT: The man in the red shirt is believed to be infected with Ebola. Witnesses told Reuters that he had

left an Ebola clinic in Monrovia, Liberia. He wanders here through a market, looking for food, carrying a stick and some stones he used against

the doctors treating him.

A local doctor tries to convince the man to stop. A large crowd surrounds the sick man.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): We told the Liberian government from the beginning we do not want an Ebola camp here. Today

makes it the fifth Ebola patient coming outside vomiting.

HOLMES: A doctor tries to hold back the crowd while health care workers in protective clothing chase the man down the street. The angry

crowd shouts at the workers, saying the clinics aren`t doing enough.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): Their patients are hungry, the patients are starving. No food, no water. The government needs to do

more.

HOLMES: It`s not clear why the man left the facility. The UN says restrictions on people`s movement and quarantine zones to contain the

spread of the disease has led to panic in some areas and also food shortages.

Liberia`s president says the health care system in her country is under stress, but conditions are slowly improvement.

Here in the market, health care workers continue to try to convince the man to go back to the hospital. But after that doesn`t work, they can

be seen dragging him to a truck and pushing him into the back as he struggles to get away.

As the Ebola epidemic shows no sign of slowing down, both patients and doctors grow more desperate.

Michael Holmes, CNN.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: Wow, extraordinary scenes there. You`re watching News Stream. Still to come on the program, as the U.S. condemns the killing of

American journalist Steven Sotloff at the hands of ISIS, we`ll find out more about his life from those who knew him best.

Also ahead, the U.S. calls it one of the world`s worst places to practice religion, so what`s it like to be a Christian in North Korea?

We`ll find out after this.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

LU STOUT: I`m Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. You`re watching News Stream. And these are your world headlines.

Now the presidents of Russia and Ukraine say that they have agreed on steps toward a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine. But pro-Russia rebels say

there will only be peace when Ukrainian troops pull out of the east.

Now U.S. President Barack Obama says it`s too early to tell if the deal is genuine.

Now the U.S. has confirmed that the video showing the beheading of journalist Steven Sotloff appears to be authentic. Now U.S. President

Barack Obama condemned what he called a barbaric and horrific act of violence. And the White House is vowing to, quote, degrade and destroy the

Sunni extremist group ISIS.

Another American missionary doctor working in Liberia has been infected with Ebola. Now his organization says the doctor was not treating

Ebola patients and it`s not known how he contracted the disease. On Tuesday, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention warned the outbreak is spiraling out of control.

Now more now on the brutal beheading of a second U.S. journalist by ISIS militants, our senior international correspondent Nic Robertson is

following developments on Steven Sotloff`s apparent execution. He joins us now live from Cardiff, Wales.

And Nic, the brutal execution of Steven Sotloff, it`s been putting pressure on the U.S. President Barack Obama to act against ISIS. So how

did he address that today in Europe?

ROBERTSON: Well, he said that the people who committed this act are not going to deter the United States if they think they are, then they are

mistaken. And he also said that the United States will get justice, will essentially seek the people seek out the people responsible for this.

So it`s a very clear message from President Obama that the people, ISIS, who are doing these beheadings, are not changing anything. In fact,

he said they`re only invoking international global outrage about the barbarity of what they`re doing. So, he has made it very, very clear that

the United States is not going to turn the other way, that it will seek justice here.

Also, when he arrives in Wales later tonight and begins meetings Thursday and Friday here, building a coalition from NATO members or of NATO

itself to tackle the ISIS problem in Iraq and Syria is going to be very high on his agenda. And of course, the beheading coming so closely to the

start of the summit of Steven Sotloff is really going to just put that very much on the front burner, despite the other pressing issues that will be

discussed here, Kristie.

LU STOUT: Yeah, that other pressing issue, the crisis in Ukraine. How is President Obama addressing Russia and its aggressive actions in

Ukraine?

ROBERTSON: Well, the expectation here at the NATO summit is that this is really going to call -- result in a sort of refocus the core issues of

NATO, that it will look to a deterrence and a reassurance, a deterrence of Russia in the east and reassurance for its eastern members that NATO is

ready to face this sort of aggression close to its member states, that they will be putting supplies, prepositioning supplies in the Baltic States, in

Poland putting rotations of troops through those countries so that their readiness time is reduced, so that they can have much quicker response to

threats of this nature in the future not only to sort of bolster those Eastern nations -- Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, but also so that

there`s a very clear message sent to President Putin that he needs to change course, not just the economic sanctions coming from the European

Union and the United States, but a military preparedness from NATO in the future, Kristie.

LU STOUT: Now, Mr. Obama, as you mentioned he is en route to Wales for the NATO summit. A question about NATO, the organization itself, do

you believe that the crisis in Ukraine has mobilized and invigorated the alliance?

ROBERTSON: That`s what all the experts are saying. I mean, people are saying that this is the most important summit in decades for NATO. And

it certainly galvanized them. I mean, look, the agenda here was originally set for Afghanistan as the first issue on the agenda, the sort of Russia

threat second and the future of NATO the third issue on the agenda.

Clearly, Afghanistan is a pressing issue, but not as much as Russia. So the fact that we`re seeing this spiraling violence in the east of

Ukraine is really driving NATO to look at how it can respond better. And of course that means a chance in posturing here. They`re prevented by the

NATO-Russia agreement of 1997 from putting permanent bases in eastern Europe, however they are going to put these bases in that they are

describing as persistent bases, that will have a continual rotation of thousands of troops, NATO troops, passing through them, using the

preposition supplies there. That`s a major change.

If it wasn`t for the threat of the instability in the east of Ukraine and the perceived threat to the Baltic states and the same threat felt by

Poland that Russia`s position on Ukraine is taking, we wouldn`t be seeing this right now.

There`s an absolute direct correlation. So we can expect a significant change in NATO`s posture here -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: Nic Robertson reporting live from Newport, Wales, thank you very much indeed for that.

Now Mr. Obama is due to deliver an address to the people of Estonia, that is expected about 30 minutes from now. So do stay with CNN for live

coverage.

As well, stay with us for when Becky Anderson speaks with the NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. That will be on Connect the World

starting at 4:00 p.m. in London, 7:00 p.m. Abu Dhabi time.

Now we brought you the condemnation over the apparent beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff. But now I want to take a moment to

hear from some of those who knew him best. CNN`s Alina Machado has more.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ALINA MACHADO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Few people knew Steven Sotloff was being held captive by ISIS for the past year until two weeks

ago.

SHIRLEY SOTLOFF, STEVEN SOTLOFF`S MOTHER: We want to see him home safe and sound and to hug him.

MACHADO: His mother`s emotional plea for his release now turning into grief after another video released by ISIS Tuesday shows the 31-year-old`s

gruesome killing.

DANIELLE BERRIN, SENIOR WRITER, LA JEWISH JOURNAL: Steven was my hero.

MACHADO: Sotloff`s childhood friend told CNN he was full of light.

BERRIN: Anyone who cares about freedom of expression and human life should be appalled and saddened by this really horrific act.

MACHADO: Sotloff grew up in south Florida but went to high school in New Hampshire, where he played on the varsity football and rugby teams and

appeared in the musical "Cabaret." The school issued a statement saying in part, "His courageous actions have and will always inspire our students and

our community."

EMERSON LOTZIA, FRIEND: I saw the tweet and the picture of him with the terrorists and I`m just thinking, wow, like that`s my old college

roommate. It`s scary stuff.

MACHADO: Emerson Lotzia and Sotloff both attended the University of Central Florida. Once shocked by his friend`s captivity, Lotzia is too

distraught to talk on camera tweeted in part, "devastated and crushed. Steve was an amazing friend. Heart is heavy for his family." Back on UCF`s

campus, students and faculty are horrified for his death.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I really wished it didn`t turn out like that. I really hoped there was a way to get him back.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Steven wrote for the student newspaper, so the journalists you can imagine, this is their campus community and I think it

feels very personal.

MACHADO: While at UCF, Sotloff talked about wanting to go to the Middle East. He eventually did freelance work for several publications,

including "TIME" magazine, "Foreign Policy" and the "Christian Science Monitor."

Sotloff was on assignment in Syria last August when he was kidnapped.

(END VIDEOTAPE)?

LU STOUT: And that was Alina Machado reporting.

Steven Sotloff is a journalist who will be remembered not just for these final moments, but for his heartfelt reporting in places like Syria,

Yemen and Egypt.

You`re watching News Stream. Still ahead on the program, Christian faith and the DMZ, just one issue that divides North and South Korea next.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

LU STOUT: Now when Pope Francis visited South Korea last month, large crowds of devoted Catholics joined him in celebration of their faith. But

in North Korea, churchgoers are facing a very different reality. Paula Hancocks has more.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: A heroes welcome for Sister Kim, a nun from South Korea arriving in North Korea. State

propaganda, or genuine religious belief?

Visiting first in 2000, Sister Kim says these Catholics in Pyongyang had not seen a nun since the Korean War, 50 years earlier.

"I thought they could have been fake followers to start with," she says, "but when I met them, they were old people who had been religious for

a long time."

Father (inaudible) also receives a warm welcome, traveling from the south to give mass here for the past 14 years. He says these North Koreans

are not faking their belief, but the fact that the church is under strict control of the state means there are differences.

There are no priests in this country and confession is out of the question.

"Confession is one-on-one," he says. "A South Korean hearing the confession of a North Korean could get us both into trouble. We could be

accused of espionage or passing on intelligence."

There are a small number of churches in the capital, including this Protestant one, but the United States says North Korea simply gives the

appearance of religious freedom. It listed the country as one of the world`s worst abusers of the freedom to practice religion.

Kenneth Bae, a Korean American missionary, was sentenced to 15 years hard labor recently, guilty Pyongyang says, of trying to overthrow the

regime. He`s not the only religious man to be arrested in North Korea.

Some missionaries and experts believe there is a very small underground church in North Korea, the number of members unknown.

ANDRE LANKOV, KOOKMIN UNIVERSITY: Christianity seems to be the most dangerous ideological challenge to the existent regime. The only political

and social and ideological force which managed to create a functioning underground network inside North Korea.

HANCOCKS: Highly organized religion on a very small scale appears to be tolerated in North Korea. But anything that is not state sanctioned,

such as the activity these American prisoners are accused of, is not.

Paula Hancocks, CNN, Seoul.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: All right, time for your global weather forecast. And a big storm has made landfall in Mexico. Details with Mari Ramos. She joins us

from the World Weather Center -- Mari.

MARI RAMOS CNN WEATHER CORRESPONDENT: Yeah. The name is Dolly. It is not a tropical depression, but it was a tropical storm for a brief

amount of time here in the southern and eastern portion of -- western portion of the Gulf of Mexico, I should say.

You can see it right over here still meandering around this area. And notice how there`s a wide area right now that`s getting some very heavy

rain and a lot of that water -- the rain, I should say -- still over the water here in the Gulf of Mexico, but all of this expected to continue

moving inland as we head through the next 24 to 48 hours. It`s moving very, very slowly.

Look at some of these rainfall totals. Pretty impressive already. In Tuxpan in Vera Cruz, Mexico, they`ve had almost 100 millimeters of rain in

just a period of 24 hours.

And farther island in Matlapa, they`ve had in just a period of six hours, over 60 millimeters of rain. And that is the concern.

Their weather service, the national weather service in Mexico is saying that they could get rainfall rates as much as 30 millimeters per

hour. And that`s very significant. The threat for mudding and mudslides remains across this region. And even though it is now a tropical

depression, it doesn`t mean that the threat for rainfall is not there, because clearly it is.

The center of the storm is actually right around here just to the east of the city of Tampico. The center will continue moving inland, but

remember that this is just the point on a map. The storm itself is affecting a very broad area and that rain will be spreading across a huge

area across northeastern Mexico and moving into north, central Mexico in the next 24 hours.

In Tampico, a populated city, a large city here on the east coast of Mexico, could see an additional 200 millimeters of rain, and then as we

head into the mountains, it`s a huge concern because of the threat of flooding and mudslides and easily another 250 to maybe 300 millimeters of

rain in the next couple of days.

Even in Mexico City we`ll see some significant rainfall again from this weather system.

The Gulf of Mexico, it`s included in the Atlantic basin when we talk about hurricanes and tropical systems. This is the fourth. Dolly is the

fourth names system so far this year. Normally, by this time of year we should be looking at about five tropical systems already.

A little bit above average when it comes to hurricanes, we`ve had three hurricanes already in the Atlantic basis. Normally by now we see

two. But by the time we get into September, early September is when we tend to see that peak of the hurricane season. It`s now when we`ll start

to look for the potential of hurricanes and major hurricanes forming on this side of the world.

The eastern Pacific, a little bit different. They`re well above the average. They`ve had 14 named storms. Average to date is about 10 storms,

nine have been hurricanes. You can see there the average is five. And look at this, six have been major hurricanes, that means category three or

higher. Normally by now we should only have seen about two.

And there is another storm that has formed. This is Tropical Storm Norbert. It may become a hurricane. We`re not sure about that just yet.

It is in a favorable area for development, bringing some very heavy rain across the other coast of Mexico here near Puerto Vallarta, areas of Cabo

could get some very heavy rain. You can see the storm kind of continuing to move to the north and passing very close to Cabo. Some very heavy rain

expected in that area as well. We`ll track -- see what happens to Norbert, the latest forecast track has it becoming a hurricane and moving slowly off

the coast of Mexico, western coast of Mexico in the next few days.

We continue moving farther and farther into the Pacific until we get to Asia. And here in the eastern Pacific there are two areas of concern.

One, this new one right here, has a low potential for becoming our next tropical cyclone. The other one right here near the Philippines, that one

also has the potentially of becoming a tropical cyclone. Even though it`s low, Kristie, the main concern with this is the amount of rain that we`re

getting across the central and northern Philippines. Back to back storms here continue to move through. And they`re already flooded, so any amount

of rain is still a big concern -- Back to you.

LU STOUT: Yeah, back to back storms. Mari Ramos there with the forecast. The global one, thank you so much, Mari, take care.

Now we have more on the latest U.S. flight to be diverted over so- called leg room wars. It is the third time in less than two weeks.

Now this is what happened, on Monday a flight from New York to West Palm Beach, Florida had to make an emergency stop all because a woman who

was trying to nap on her tray table was allegedly hit in the head when a passenger in front of her reclined her seat.

Authorities say the woman became combative mid-flight.

Now here`s how the passengers described it.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Just started yelling and profanity laced epithets. It was pretty interesting.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And she was just going nuts. She was like, "I lost a dog -- I lost two dogs in the last month and I want her off of here

or I`m going to -- or I want you to stop the plane.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LU STOUT: Now police escorted the woman off the plane but released her without charge.

Now, one game developer says someone copied his game idea. So he got angry and he made this game instead. We`ll hear his story next.

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LU STOUT: Welcome back.

Now Home Depot says it is investigating a possible data breach. Now it`s working with police to prove unusual activity. Home Depot says

customers payment information may have been exposed and it`s vowing to inform them as soon as it can.

Now independent cyber security journalist Brian Krebs was the first to report the news. He said a massive new batch of stolen credit and debit

cards was up for sale on Tuesday in the black market online.

Now, imagine this, working on an app for months only to see someone else take your idea and then release their version first. Well, that`s

what gave developer Lambert says happened to them.

Now in the latest of our game faces series, we hear how they dealt with it. And what they did next.

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RAMI ISMAIL, GAME DEVELOPER: My name is Rami Ismail. I`m one half of Dutch Independent Studio Lambert.

We made a number of games and then we had this idea that we would make a game about fishing. But we would make a game about fishing with machine

guns. And we start working on a game called ridiculous fishing, when at some point we suddenly got the news that a games company in the United

States had released a video trailer for a game called Ninja Fishing.

Another company had essentially stolen the idea for a game that we were still working on. It was painful to the point that we almost decided

to quite making games.

We didn`t work on games or about six to eight months. We would open our computer in the morning and then stare at a blinking cursor in front of

us until we would go home again.

And then at some point, JW, my colleague at Lambert, was in an airplane and decided he would start work o this very tiny game about

airplanes.

It was the first time that we had ever felt excited about working on something again.

It was this very simply 2D dogfighting game. Every time you killed an enemy, the next enemy you`d kill would be worth more points. It`s the

combo system.

Luftrausers felt very, very angry and very aggressive and very upset. It is everything that we felt right after we got cloned in a way it`s a

metaphor for how we felt. And that is actually kind of exciting that a game can be that.

So we started working on ridiculous fishing again almost a year after we`d stopped working on it. We worked on it like we`ve never worked on a

game before.

Eventually we released ridiculous fishing and it was one of the best received games on the iOS app store ever. It won an Apple design award.

Ridiculous Fishing wasn`t just a game anymore to us, it was a statement about creativity, about making games because you love videogames.

A game is a very personal way of expressing. It`s a medium in which everything that happens in a game, everything that happens in your

expression is designed and developed and created by its creators, even whether there is gravity or not is defined by the creator of a video game.

And that is unlike any other medium.

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LU STOUT: The emotional connection with video game design. Great interview there.

Now that was Rami Ismail of Lambert. They`re currently working on their next game. It`s called nuclear throne. And you can watch them make

the game live on Twitch. In fact, every Tuesday and Thursday they put out a livestream from their offices as they build nuclear throne interacting

with fans who have an early version of the game and making changes based on their suggestions.

Now to a video game glitch that can be called both adorable and hilarious. Now the new Madden NFL game, it features one tiny titan by

mistake. Jeanne Moos takes a look at the little linebacker.

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JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Please, please don`t step on the itsy bitsy linebacker. Chris Kirksey went from this ....

CHRIS KIRKSEY: I`m 6`2, actually.

MOOS: To this. A crazy phenom of a player at 1`2 inches. All because of a technical glitch in a video game. Madden NFL 15 has gamers mad for the

adorably tiny Cleveland Browns linebacker who was inadvertently miniaturized and turned into a Tennessee Titan.

No matter how small you are, have big dreams and live big, that`s what full size Chris Kirksey tweeted out in response to his teeny-weeny avatar.

KIRKSEY: When I first saw it, I thought it was pretty funny.

MOOS: For Chris, it`s like being in that movie classic.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I shrunk the kids.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Nick, what happened?

UNIDENTIFIED BOY: We`re all the size of boogers.

MOOS: Talk about picking, Chris says he`s being picked on by friends.

KIRKSEY: Said, honey, I`ve shrunk the linebacker.

MOSS: But he`s taking it in stride. Teeny tiny strides.

Jeanne Moos, CNN ...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: One feet tall, one foot tall. Not feet.

MOOS: New York.

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LU STOUT: Little linebacker, I love it.

Now, as reported earlier in this hour, the U.S. President Barack Obama he is in Eastern Europe. He is on his way to the NATO summit in Wales.

Barack Obama is currently in Tallinn, Estonia.

Now he is due to give another speech. You`re looking at live pictures of the podium there. And in this new speech that`s upcoming, he`ll be

delivering remarks at the Nordia Concert Hall (ph). And that will take place in just a matter of minutes.

Now that speech is set to focus on U.S.-Baltic relations as well as the crisis in Ukraine. The audience will include students, young

professionals as well as political leaders.

Now, later on, Mr. Obama, he is due to address U.S. and Estonian troops before departing for Wales where that NATO summit will take place.

Now earlier in the day, he spoke in Tallinn in Estonia with the leader of the country. Now his trip there to Eastern Europe was meant to reassure

allies there over Russia and its aggressive actions in Ukraine. Also the ISIS advance in Iraq and Syria also a concern for allies in the region.

Once again, after Estonia he is giving a speech soon he will fly to Wales for the NATO summit.

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