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MANISHA TANK, HOST: Hi, I'm Manisha Tank in Hong Kong. Warm welcome to News Stream where news and technology meet.
Hopes that a ceasefire could be imminent in Ukraine, the world of comic -- and the world of comedy loses an icon. Joan Rivers dies at the
age of 81.
And we speak to the woman who thought Lego needed more women, so she convinced them to sell a set with three female scientists.
The crisis in Ukraine, it's taken center stage at the NATO summit in Wales. And we just heard from the NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh
Rasmussen and earlier British Prime Minister David Cameron had some harsh words for Russia. The 28 member bloc has agreed on a spearhead reaction
force to respond to Russian aggression and other international conflicts.
And Rasmussen says that member states must help ensure NATO stands ready to defend all allies against threats.
The NATO summit has also focused on growing concerns about ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
So, let's get more on the big talking points -- the big talking point at that meeting. Our senior international correspondent Nic Robertson
joins us live from the summit in Newport, Wales.
He seemed to keep on reiterating if the Iraqis want NATO to do something, then they might talk about some sort of force. But just go over
the major details of that address we just saw.
NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, this is very much an address designed as it has been over the recent months put together
and agreed. And now we've got the actual sort of hard facts here of it from the NATO secretary-general.
This has been a force and reaction to Russia's changing tactics, land grabs towards the east of Europe. So, what this is, it is a rapid reaction
force. It is a force of several thousand troops, the NATO secretary- general said, that would be complemented and supported by land, sea and air, those air and sea components as well as special forces components. He
said that it would have properly established command and control. It would have intelligence -- intelligence sharing, obviously a key thing, a
multinational force made up, this commitment from all the NATO leaders here.
And he also said that there would be an increase in the number of exercises that NATO takes part in to keep this force at this readiness
force at a level where it can respond quickly.
He went on to describe why they have taken this decision and taken it this way. This is what he said.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
ANDERS FOGH RASMUSSEN, NATO SECRETARY-GENERAL: In these turbulent times, NATO must be prepared to undertake the full range of missions and to
defend allies against the full range of threats. We have already taken immediate steps to enhance our defense. Today, we agreed we will maintain
continued presence and activity in the air, on land and at sea in the eastern part of the alliance on a rotational basis.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
ROBERTSON: So, what he's talking about there is the already stepped up -- as of March this year there were just four NATO aircraft patrolling
the skies of the Baltic states close to the border with Russia, now there are 20 aircraft in the skies there. There will be shortly three NATO
warships in the Black Sea. This is a commitment that's already in place in response to Russia.
So what you are hearing from there, Russia's incursion into Ukraine, what you are hearing from him there is that that commitment is going to
continue as well. The spearhead force, this rapid reaction force, that now a commitment for that as well.
And he also talked about the priorities that NATO had -- that NATO chiefs -- head had been discussing this morning as well, the priorities --
15 different priorities.
And the one that he singled out as the most important, he said, cyber defense. He said the NATO leaders had agreed that cyber defense was a huge
issue, that the cyber security within Europe was -- and for the United States was such that an invasive act through cyber networks would, or could
threaten economies, could threaten stability of member nations.
So he prioritized this. This also a very interesting headline coming from NATO, coming from these talks today, Monishia.
TANK: Yeah, well I guess what's absolutely clear is how the game now, this new world has really changed for NATO and how it's having to reinvent
itself.
Nic, thank you very much for that. He's been following the story for us in Wales.
Well, a ceasefire that's going to end in five months when it comes to the subject of fighting in Eastern Ukraine could actually come as early as
today. Separatist rebels are meeting alongside Ukrainian and Russian officials in Belarus. Right now -- and they tried to hammer out a truce --
what happens at this meeting in Minsk could have an impact on a new round of proposed EU sanctions against Russia.
And meanwhile at the NATO summit that we've just been hearing from, leaders have been slamming Moscow for its role in ramping up the violence
in Eastern Ukraine. Certainly, that's the way those leaders see it.
Let's get a view now on the peace talks from the Ukraine. Reza Sayah joins us live from the capital Kiev. You know, obviously there's a lot of
interest in what's been said at that NATO meeting, Reza, but perhaps for those in the Ukraine right now what's far more important is the possibility
of a ceasefire coming out of that meeting in Minsk, and could it come as early as today?
REZA SAYAH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, it will come very soon, Manisha, perhaps in the next hour or two we're going to find out if
indeed there's a ceasefire, if indeed there's an end to this very costly conflict. It all depends on what happens in this meeting in the city of
Minsk, Belarus, that's where all sides of this conflict who are directly or indirectly involved are meeting. It's impossible to find out the outcome
of this meeting because it's closed off to the media, so we're not going to figure out exactly what happened until it is over and until we have some
sort of announcement.
Within the past few minutes, Russian news agency ITAR-TASS reported that the meeting is still going on and outside the meeting you have roughly
100 journalists who, just like us, are anxious to see the outcome.
But going into this meeting, there was some optimism that something could be hammered out that these two sides were ready to sign a seven point
ceasefire agreement. There has been some skepticism from some NATO members, some western capitals who say this is a ploy by Moscow, a ploy by
Russian President Vladimir Putin who is trying to buy time for the pro- Russian rebels who have been gaining a lot of ground in southeastern Ukraine, a ploy, perhaps, by Moscow to delay the sanctions by the EU.
However, if you look at the key players in this conflict, they seem optimistic. Yesterday, Petro Poroshenko says he's hopeful that this plan
will work, and pro-Russian rebel leaders they say they're hopeful as well.
If and when the ceasefire is established, among the conditions is an end to all the military operations in southeastern Ukraine, the pulling out
of troops, the establishment of a humanitarian zone and the positioning of international monitors to make sure all these conditions are met.
Yesterday, Mr. Poroshenko said he will sign this agreement around 2:00 p.m. local time, that was about an hour ago. So that hasn't happened yet.
And then rebels said once the deal is signed and once they observe that the Ukrainian forces have pulled out, that's when they're going to
stop their fighting.
So all eyes on the city of Minsk to see what happens. As soon as we learn anything we'll bring it to you, Manisha.
TANK: Yeah, and just moving beyond the ceasefire, let's say we get this ceasefire. I guess we need it so that we can get to those unresolved
issues on both sides. Just underline what those are for us once more.
SAYAH: Many unresolved issues, and it's so important to stress that what's happening in Minsk right now, even if this ceasefire agreement is
signed, it will not address those core demands, core issues on both sides.
And they're complicated. You have Kiev, they want the pro-Russian rebels to disarm, to lay down their weapons. They still accuse Moscow of
having troops in the region. They want those troops to pull back.
You have the issue of Crimea, a region annexed by Russia. It's unclear what's going to happen to that region.
And then you have the pro-Russian rebels, they have demands. They want autonomy, self-determination. They want constitutional reform that
will give them some sort of federalized government.
None of those issues are being addressed today. But if, indeed, this ceasefire is established, seemingly it will create an opportunity for all
these sides to tackle those very complicated issues, Manisha.
TANK: Yeah, I'm sure there's a lot of people living in eastern Ukraine right now who want to see that step in the right direction with a
ceasefire.
Reza, thank you very much for that. Reza Sayah there live for us in Kiev.
Well, of course even as officials push for a diplomatic end to the escalating crisis in embattled eastern Ukraine, Moscow and Kiev remain at
odds over whether Russian troops are actually on the frontlines. CNN's Jonathan Mann takes a look now at the evidence from the battlefield.
(BEGIN VIDEOATPE)
JONATHAN MANN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Even a correspondent at the scene of the latest clashes wants to give the evidence a close look.
CNN's Diana Magnay was near Starabiesheva (ph) in eastern Ukraine working to figure out exactly what she'd found there.
DIANA MAGNAY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: It is hard to know what happened here. The SS 21 Scarab missile is used by both the Russian
and Ukrainian armies. There are Russian issue ration packs in amongst the debris, Army of Russia it says across the top. But they could easily have
been supplied to the rebels.
MANN: Uniformed soldiers identified as Russians on Ukrainian TV, paratroops said to have been found inside Ukraine, said they were a little
unsure. They said they didn't know what they were doing there.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): Our weaponry was not loaded. We didn't want to shoot anyone. We just wanted to escape. No one among us
realized what was going on.
MANN: Russian officials have steadfastly denied sending forces across the border, but NATO says it has been watching it happen. It released
satellite images that it says show Russian combat forces inside Ukraine. It says this image shows Russian units with self-propelled artillery in a
convoy near Kroznadon (ph) last week. The equipment is Russian, NATO says, because Ukrainian units haven't entered this far into separatist territory.
And NATO says this image shows artillery units setting up firing positions. It calls it the work of trained professional, Russian soldiers,
and not rebel amateurs.
The Kremlin says the images are not what they appear to be.
SERGEY LAVROV, RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER (through translator): There have been reports that there are photographs from space showing movements
of Russian troops. But as it turned out, it was computer games and the images were taken from there.
And the latest allegations are more or less of the same kind.
MANN: To Washington, it doesn't look like much of a game, it's a rebellion being fought and fueled with Russians.
CHUCK HAGEL, U.S. DEFENSE SECRETARY: There are Russians in Ukraine, Russian military, Russian military equipment in Ukraine. You can define it
anyway you want.
MANN: Amongst western nations, there's no question about what it is really happening in Ukraine. The question is instead what the west will do
about it.
Jonathan Mann, CNN.
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TANK: A reminder, you're watching News Stream. And coming up this hour, ISIS is using the Internet to recruit young followers. And they're
not just looking for fighters. After the break, we have the story of one couple of Britain whose daughter has run away to join ISIS as a bride.
Also ahead, hundreds of migrants from Africa are hovering around a key gateway to Great Britain, how their persistence is creating havoc near the
port of Calais.
Plus, remembering Joan Rivers. We look back on the life of this iconic American comedienne whose one-of-a-kind humor made her a star in a
profession that was then largely dominated by men.
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TANK: Welcome back.
NATO's secretary-general says the alliance will help stop the advance of ISIS fighters if Iraq asks for assistance. Anders Fogh Rasmussen has
just held a news conference at which he explains that could -- that help could include a defense capacity building mission.
Well, earlier the British Prime Minister David Cameron said all NATO leaders condemned the execution as carried out by ISIS as barbaric and
despicable.
U.S. President Barack Obama and Iraq's new president Fuad Mssum are calling for an international coalition to battle the terrorist group in
Iraq and Syria.
Well, many westerners have signed up to join the ranks of ISIS. Men are going to fight and we are now learning that some women have left their
home countries to try to marry ISIS militants.
CNN's Atika Shubert met the family of one ISIS bridge from Scotland.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: This is Aqsa Mahmoud as her parents know her -- a loving daughter who messaged her mom's tired
feet, a Glasgow teenager who didn't even know which bus to take downtown much less board a plane by herself.
But this is Aqsa in Syria, unrecognizable in an all-encompassing Niqab with other brides of ISIS fighters.
Online, she posts photos of guns and the Koran, urging Muslims to carry out attacks like the bombing in Boston, the British soldier hacked to
death on the streets of London.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She was the best daughter we could have. We don't know what happened to her.
We thought there was nothing wrong with praying and reading the Koran.
SHUBERT: The last time Zafar (ph) and Kalida (ph) saw their daughter, she had only her university backpack and kissed them goodbye. Her parents
immediately contacted the police.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE; we are a moderate Muslim family. It was a big a shock for us.
SHUBERT: What did she say when you asked her to come home?
UNIDNETIFIED MALE: Her message was that I will you on the day of judgment.
SHUBERT: That must have been very hard for you as a father.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was. I will take you to heaven. I will hold your hand. That's what she said.
I want to become a martyr.
SHUBERT: So how did this happen? Aqsa grew up in an affluent neighborhood, attended a prestigious private school. She loved Harry
Potter books and the British band Cold Play.
Her family believes that whatever radicalized their daughter happened online.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She was a bedroom radical and that this could happen to Aqsa who had all the life chances, the best education that money
could buy, a family that were moderate, liberal and views freedom, education, love and affection, if this could happen to her, somebody so
intelligent, then it could happen to any family.
SHUBERT: They have refused to do any interviews, but they spoke to CNN to deliver a personal message to Aqsa.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Aqsa, please (SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE).
SHUBERT: "My dear daughter, please come back. I'm missing you so much. Your brothers and sisters miss you a lot," her mother says. "My
dearest daughter, in the name of Allah, please come home. I love you."
In February, Aqsa called for the last time with important news, she was getting married to an ISIS fighter.
One of her last blog posts was this poem to her mother that ends with the line. "Forgive me, Umee I left, and I know you've accepted that I'm
never coming back," words her parents desperately hope will not come true.
Atika Shubert, CNN, Glasgow, Scotland.
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TANK: You're watching News Stream here on CNN. Her fans and fellow entertainers are mourning the death of American comedian Joan Rivers.
We'll look back at her groundbreaking career. That's next. Stay with us.
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TANK: New York State investigators are looking into the death of the groundbreaking comedian Joan Rivers. She died on Thursday at age 81 one
week after suffering cardiac arrest during a medical procedure.
Rivers was known for her quick wit and sharp tongue. Her career started in the 1950s, a time when it was very rare to even see a woman in
her field.
Nischelle Turner takes a look back.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JOAN RIVERS, COMEDIAN: Can we talk ?
NISCHELLE TURNER, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Joan Rivers could always talk.
RIVERS: Do you know what it's like to go in the morning to take off a facial mask and realize you're not wearing one? You don't know!
TURNER: With sometimes outrageous jokes, nothing was ever off limits.
RIVERS: I hate old people. I -- if you are (inaudible) old, get up and get out of here right now!
TURNER: Born in 1933, Rivers says even as she was growing up in the New York suburbs, she wanted to be an actress.
RIVERS: I never had a choice. I always say it's like a nun's calling.
TURNER: But her show business career didn't start until she was 24 years old. The Phi-Beta Kappa graduate from Bernard with one failed
marriage behind her, moved out of her parents' home and tried to get a jobs an actress. While her acting career didn't take off right away, she got her
first break writing for the puppet "Topo Gigio" on "The Ed Sullivan Show." And joined the iconic Second City Comedy Theater in 1961.
As her comedy career was taking off, she married producer, Edgar Rosenberg in 1964, who would manage her career and become the focus of so
many of his wife's jokes. The pair had one daughter together, Melissa. In 1965, Rivers saw her career get a huge boost when she appeared on "The
Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson for the first time.
RIVERS: He gave all of us our starts. My life changed. I went on the show the first time, seven years of struggling, coming out of Second City.
And on the air, he said, "you're going to be a star." And the next day my life is different.
TURNER: It was the start of a 21-year professional relationship with Carson and the show. She made regular appearances, eventually becoming the
show's substitute host in 1983. But Rivers' decision to launch her own show on the brand-new Fox Network in the fall of 1986 ended her relationship
with Carson and "The Tonight Show."
RIVERS: He should have been proud. I finally, after my contract was up, done, I took another job. I think because I was a woman, he never
thought I would leave or maybe he liked me better. But the minute I became competition, it became out to kill me, out to kill me. And that's what came
down. Forever. Never spoke to me again.
TURNER: The show was canceled in 1987. A few years later, her husband, Edgar, committed suicide in a Philadelphia hotel room.
RIVERS: Some idiot called the house, and they said, where is your mother? Somebody from Philadelphia and Melissa said she's not here and they
said please tell her your father killed himself. How is that for a phone call ?
TURNER: Rivers regrouped by doing what she always did, putting her life out in the open.
KING: Is there any area you would not go to ?
RIVERS: No. If I think I want to talk about it, then it's right to talk about. And I purposely go into areas that people are still very
sensitive and smarting about.
KING: Why ?
RIVERS: If you laugh at it, you can deal with it. That's how I've lived my whole life. If you -- if I swear to you -- I'm Jewish. If I were
in Auschwitz, I would have been doing jokes, just to make it OK for us.
TURNER: Her career surged again when her withering take on red carpet fashion full of biting remarks and celebrity putdowns exposed her to a
whole new group of fans.
RIVERS: I love performing. It's like a drug for me.
TURNER: And in 2012, she felt she was at the top of her game.
RIVERS: I think I'm working the best I've ever worked now. Because I - - it's all been done to me. What are they going to do? Are they going to fire me? I've been fired. Audiences are not going to like me, a lot of
audiences haven't liked me. I've been bankrupt. My husband has committed -- I mean, it's OK. And I'm still here. So it's OK.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
TANK: Joan Rivers who passed away on Thursday.
Still to come on News Stream, sneaking into Britain from France, a reporter rides along to see the lengths that some migrants are going to to
cross the English Channel.
Plus, a growing concern in Tokyo, the city tries to contain an outbreak not seen since 1945. More on that coming up next.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
TANK: Hi, I'm Manisha Tank in Hong Kong. You're watching News Stream. And these are your world headlines right now.
The 28 member NATO alliance is ramping up support for Ukraine while condemning Russia on the final day of the NATO summit, which is under way
in Wales.
But there is fresh hope that a ceasefire agreement could be signed as early as today. Ukrainian, Russian and rebel representatives are meeting
again right now in Belarus. We'll watch that closely.
NATO leaders, meanwhile, have just agreed to create a spearhead reaction force consisting of several thousand troops that can be deployed
anywhere in the world within a few days.
NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen says member states must help ensure NATO stands ready to defend all allies against threats. Leaders have
focused on Russia's actions in eastern Ukraine and the ISIS advance in Iraq and Syria.
The American comedy legend Joan Rivers has died at the age of 81. Her daughter says she went peacefully on Thursday in a New York hospital.
About a week ago, she suffered cardiac arrest, this was during a minor medical procedure. Officials have not yet announce a cause of death.
The closely watched U.S. monthly jobs report has just come out showing 142,000 jobs were created in August, that is far below what analysts had
been forecasting. They've been predicting a rise of 226,000 jobs.
We're going to have much more on the jobs report on World Business Today, that's in less than half an hour from now. You'll get the full
analysis there.
But let's go back to those Ukrainian peace talks, which are underway in Minsk. And let's check in with our senior international correspondent
Matthew Chance who has been following the story closely. He joins us with the view from Moscow.
Hi, Matthew.
You know, earlier we spoke to Reza Sayah who had been looking at this from Kiev, but of course the situation in Moscow, the view from Moscow very
different.
MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes. And of course I think we have to remember that these peace talks, these ceasefire talks
that are underway in the Belarussian capital Minsk right now are between representatives of Russia, Ukraine, and of course the separatists in the
east and the south of Ukraine.
There, the initiative essentially of Vladimir Putin. There was a conversation on the telephone between the Russian and Ukrainian leaders on
Wednesday in which they agreed the basic principles, they said, for a cease fire in the region.
Vladimir Putin then came out and issued his seven point peace plan. And it's that plan, which is now being discussed and there's much
speculation that will be agreed upon very shortly as these negotiations continue.
The plan involving essentially a cessation of hostilities right now involving the transfer of prisoners from one side to the other, but
crucially there's this clause as well, and this is being discussed now, a clause which would mean that Ukrainian troops would have to withdrawal to a
distance that rules out the possibility of them firing upon populated areas with rocket launchers or with missiles.
And so potentially that's a vast area of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as they call it in Ukraine, which would include their capital
cities as well, which of course would leave a large swathe of territory in rebel hands, pro-Russian rebel hands, and of course depending on who you
choose to believe actually controlled by the Kremlin.
And so that's something that may come out of these negotiations. And if it does, that would be a major win for the Kremlin.
TANK: Of course, some western powers really looking upon these -- the possibility of this ceasefire and these talks in Minsk as just an effort by
the Russians to buy time to stave off any possible ramping up any EU sanctions.
How is that accusation gone down in Moscow?
CHANCE: Well, there's not been any direct comment on it. But I certainly think that this peace effort in so much as Russia intends to keep
to it, it'll be because the peace effort, the ceasefire achieves Russia's overall objectives, which is to create instability in Ukraine and perhaps
to create a frozen conflict in those eastern and southern areas.
With the longer-term view of preventing Ukraine from joining western institutions, specifically the western military alliance NATO. That vast
area that I was talking about, which would be controlled by pro-Russian rebels, would effectively be autonomous. It would effectively be out of
the control of the Ukrainian government. And in those circumstances, of course, Russia would essentially achieve its strategy to dismember Ukraine
and to prevent that country, of course, from joining the NATO military alliance.
TANK: To some -- I think you and I, we worked, we spoke about this story, you know, six months ago as everything was beginning to unfold. And
having witnessed that sort of unfolding of this crisis, it almost feels like, given what you just said, we would end up right back where we
started.
CHANCE: Well, we'll see what the outcome of these negotiations are. I mean, Petro Poroshenko has said that going into these negotiations with
his representatives that Ukraine's territorial integrity is not up for negotiation. And as that correspondent in Ukraine was reporting earlier,
that the longer-term issues are not being discussed at this -- these ceasefire talks. But, you know, of course the future negotiations that
would inevitably follow if a ceasefire is proved would be talking about these longer-term issues.
And so, yeah, I mean it'll be interesting to see what comes out of it. Ending up where we started, I think probably -- I mean, my prediction is
that we'll probably end up with Russia in a much stronger position than when we started with the possible exception of this, we've been hearing a
lot from NATO and the secretary-general there and our correspondents there talking about all these guarantees that have been reissued by the western
military alliance. An attack on one member is an attack on all of them citing and reaffirming article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty.
But of course Ukraine is not part of that North Atlantic Treaty, it's not part of NATO, and so it doesn't qualify for that kind of support.
Now in the future, I think NATO is drawing a very clear red line that Russia it's hoped will observe. But I think it's also an acknowledgment
that there's not a great deal NATO can do to protect Ukraine at this point.
TANK: Well, of course, depending on the quality of the talks today, it could be a pivotal moment. Let's wait and see, as you say.
Matthew, always good to talk to you. Thank you very much for that. The view there from Moscow on these talks.
So, the mayor of Calais in northern France has threatened to close the town's port if Britain doesn't take more action to stop illegal immigration
into the United Kingdom. The warning comes after more than 100 mostly African migrants tried to force their way onto a ferry that was leaving
Calais on Wednesday.
But British authorities have some complaints of their own. ITV's Dan Rivers has the story.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
DAN RIVERS, ITV CORRESPONDENT: Lee Croson is filled with dread each time he nears Calais. He's securing his truck as best he can, but as I'm
about to find out these defenses will be tested in broad daylight by desperate migrants trying to get into Britain.
LEE CROSON, TRUCK DRIVER: Sometimes it's more like a war zone than what Calais used to be. If you get to Calais or park anywhere in Calais 99
percent sure that you'll get the immigrants in your trailer.
RIVERS: He takes us down a notorious back road, diesel alley, lined with migrants from Africa who are desperate to stow aboard a truck to get
into Britain. Like this man in red who tests Lee's defenses as we slow down at the traffic lights.
The migrant might think it's funny, but drivers like Lee face a 2,000 pound fine for each stowaway found in their vehicle. Thankfully this time
Lee's padlocks keep them out.
Each time one of these trucks approaches Calais, they are running a gauntlet, sometimes with hundreds of migrants trying to break into the
truck.
The situation has got so bad that the drivers now often try and avoid stopping at all within three hours of the port.
But even when they get inside the supposedly secure area of the port they're still not safe. This was the chaotic scene later that afternoon,
migrants on the rampage as police struggle to regain control.
And this passenger footage shows when they are caught they're simply released without even fingerprinting, despite that being recommended by
Britain's border watchdog last year.
JOHN VINE, UK BORDERS AND IMMIGRATION: Those individuals were not being finger printed, their identities weren't being captured by the
British authorities. So I made a recommendation in my report that that should chance.
RIVERS: The home office says it's reviewing arrangements, but migrants we spoke to confirmed nothing has changed yet.
This man has been trying to get into Britain for six months and says when he's caught on a lorry he's simply released and is never prosecuted.
There are hundreds like him living off food handed out by a French charity spending every day trying to get into Britain. Entire families
risking their lives to cross the channel.
Dan Rivers, ITV News, Calais.
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TANK: Dengue fever is striking Japan after disappearing for almost seven decades. At least 55 people have now fallen ill in the past week.
Will Ripley has more on the latest outbreak in Japan.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
WILL RIPLEY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Normally this time of year, this public space in Central Tokyo is full of people. Right now,
it's deserted as Japan tackles its first reported domestic outbreak of dengue fever since the end of World War II, 1945, almost 70 years ago. You
can see, Yoyogi park in the center of the city normally full of people closed off right now, all of the dozens of victims came here to this park
and all of them were bitten by mosquitoes, which is why you now see signs up over the place warning people to take precautions, wear long sleeves,
long pants, don't show your skin, and definitely use a lot of this: bug spray.
This is a hot seller all over Tokyo right now. People are doing whatever they can to avoid getting bitten by dengue infected mosquitoes.
Symptoms usually show up within a week. You can get a severe fever, headaches, body aches. Most of the time the symptoms are mild and people
recover. Nobody has been killed here in Japan because of this outbreak, but there are cases when dengue can be deadly.
And the weather conditions are not helping the situation. It's been a hot, humid summer, perfect weather for mosquitoes to grow and thrive and
spread this disease, which is why Japan has been out spraying for mosquitoes, trying to control this outbreak before it gets any worse.
Will Ripley, CNN, Tokyo.
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TANK: You're watching CNN News Stream.
Now as the new ladies of Lego fly off the shelves, a scientist who helped design them tells us the toys are aimed at challenging gender
stereotypes.
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TANK: The Lego Group is now the world's biggest toymaker in terms of both revenue and profit, but the company has come under criticism for its
rather limited range of female mini-figures.
Last month then Lego broke the mold on gender stereotypes, launching a new set showcasing women in science.
It was based on a design that was submitted by geo-chemist Ellen Kooijman.
Kristie Lu Stout got her take on how it turned out.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ELLEN KOOIJMAN, SCIENTIST: Yes, I'm very happy at the results. I did quite a fair review on my blog. And I think they stayed very close to my
original idea, my original design. They just made some minor changes to make it fit their quality standards, but overall I'm very happy with the
final set.
KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: It did stay close with your original design, but they did add makeup to some of the mini-fig
faces. One of the scientists mini-figs has a pink scarf. Are you OK with that?
KOOIJMAN: I'm absolutely fine with a pink scarf. I think it's not so important what the characters look like. Women like to work in scarves.
That's usually perfectly fine.
Regarding the makeup, I've only made the comment that they make the chemist -- they gave the chemist makeup which is something I personally
don't do, because it may contaminate my work, but I think other than that it's -- people should be able to do what they like. So I'm fine with it.
LU STOUT: Now the Lego set that you designed is so popular it's already sold out. Did that surprise you?
KOOIJMAN: Yes, a little bit, because -- well, I wasn't really sure how many were produced. So it's a bit hard to estimate. But I knew that
it was going to be usually popular judging by the amount of attention that the project got and the amount of response. It has been overwhelming. So,
yeah, I expected it to be very popular actually.
But one wee, -- or less than a week was really fast, I have to say.
LU STOUT: Do you think something like a Lego female scientist set will get more girls interested in science and engineering?
KOOIJMAN: Well, it would be really great if that's the case. So the main attention when I designed a product was really to try and get more
girls and boys interested in building with Legos. So I wanted to design a product that added something to the existing range of products, something
new and something different, just to engage more children to build the Lego.
If this product actually results in more girls pursuing careers in science, that would be really great, too, of course. Because I think
diversity is really good for science so I certainly encouraged it.
LU STOUT: Take me back to the moment when you saw the Lego set that you design on store shelves? How did it make you feel?
KOOIJMAN: Oh yeah, that was an extraordinary moment, of course. I went specifically to Denmark to visit a store so I can -- I can see it
shelf in person. And this was just an amazing, amazing thing of course to see your own idea, your own products on an actual shelf for people to buy.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
TANK: That was Kristie Lu speaking to Ellen Kooijman.
And Ellen also says she has designed other figures as well. As you might expect, she hopes to see a female geologist figure soon, though she
adds she'd be happy to any additional scientists, or indeed engineers.
So, let's get a weather update for you now. And there's been loss of life, in fact, and some serious floods in both India and Pakistan.
Mari Ramos is at the world weather center has been watching these stories for us. Hi, Mari.
MARI RAMOS, CNN WEATHER CORRESPONDENT: Hello. Good to see you.
You know what, we're going to go ahead and start with that, because it has been fairly serious.
Now we are at the end of the monsoon season here. And actually across these areas of northern Pakistan and northern India we should already be in
the dry time of the year.
As of September 1, the monsoon should start that retreat away from these areas. But notice in the satellite image we still have a lot of
moisture coming in here, especially across northern parts of India. And it has been quite serious.
Let's ago ahead and roll the pictures here. Let's go ahead and start with India, first of all. And these grainy images give us just a great
view, unfortunately, of what is happening in this area. The water is rising quickly across many rivers. There have been several dozen people
that have been killed according to Indian officials.
And you can see the struggle for people in this area, these homes, these -- have been completely destroyed. They've lost their crops. They
are losing -- they have lost their animals. And of course in many cases there's been a serious loss of life. People risking their lives to try to
save whatever they can.
And you can see that it's not only in the smaller villages, but also as we head into the more populated areas into the larger cities, the towns,
the businesses. Schools have to be shut down in many cases because the rain has been so relentless.
The next video is from -- wow, that's pretty impressive there too. This next video right here is from Lahore, Pakistan. And here, you've had
one of the wettest days on record. More than 240 millimeters of rain happened in the latest 24 hours ending yesterday. Your monthly average is
about 98 millimeters for the entire month of September. So you had almost, what, 1.5 times what you would normally get the entire month in just a
matter of hours. And of course this is the result.
As you saw from our satellite perspective, a lot drier for you there in Lahore. Islamabad is the one that had 240 millimeters of rain. And
that's pretty significant. The rain ending here across northern Pakistan. But it is expected to continue as we head across northern parts of India.
Pretty significant stuff as you can see from our forecast right into here.
Those areas in blue are 50 to 80 millimeters additional rainfall across the areas so the potential for flooding and landslides is there.
And remember, all of that water has to drain down through these major river systems. So we could see flooding further downstream even in areas where
it has not been raining.
Very quickly, we had a record rainfall also as we headed into Japan. Ayabe had over 200 millimeters of rain. That is their wettest day ever
recorded in the last 30 years, which is pretty significant. Fortunately the rain there ending now.
And we're go ahead and switch gears and go from Earth up to space. And we don't have to go very far. There's an asteroid, Manisha, that will
be passing very, very close to Earth, about one-tenth between the distance of the Earth to the moon, only about 40,000 kilometers away.
The satellites that circle the Earth are only about 36,000 kilometers. So this will be really, really close.
But it's no threat. The interesting thing about this asteroid, it was -- that it was just discovered a few days ago. We didn't even know
it existed.
Astonomers were able to pinpoint it, find it and then determine that orbit.
Now NASA says they think it's about 20 meters long. It is expected to pass close to the New Zealand area -- I should say the southern hemisphere
on the 7 of September. And we won't be able to see it with the naked eye, but if you have a pretty good, you know, backyard device to be able to see
you could be able to see it with pretty much any kind of telescope. So pretty interesting story. They just discovered it. This close to Earth.
Back to you.
TANK: Who would have thought that we human beings had only just discovered something out there in the universe?
(LAUGHTER)
TANK: Maybe we just take ourselves too seriously, Mari.
Thanks very much for the update. And anyone, like you said, with a good telescope might be able to spot it. It's only 20 meters long, though.
It's pretty small, relatively speaking.
OK. Coming up next on News Stream, the latest episode of CNN's landmark series Cold War. We're going to take a look at U.S. efforts this
time to seek detentes with the Soviet Union both on the ground and in space. Stay with us.
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TANK: Hello again.
Well, over the last two days we've been hearing NATO leaders reference the toughest challenges since the end of the Cold War. Remember, the
alliance, NATO, was formed as a counterweight to the Soviet Union. In a couple of months, though, the world will mark 25 years since the fall of
the Berlin Wall. And CNN is commemorating the anniversary by re-airing our landmark series Cold War. It examines how the events of yesterday shape
our world today.
So let's look at a clip from the next episode.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
KENNETH BRANAGH, ACTOR: After overcoming the doubts of his colleagues, Brezhnev arrived in Helsinki, keen to cut a figure among
leaders from east and west.
LEONID BREZHNEV (through translator): People who lived through the Second World War can see the significance of this conference. Peace must
be guaranteed for all the peoples of Europe.
BRANAGH: Both sides believed they had the agreement they wanted.
GERALD FORD, 38th PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact nations did not recognize that the human rights
provision was a time bomb. We, the United States, believed that if we could get the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact nations to respect human
rights that was worth whatever else was agreed to in the Helsinki Accords.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: 3, 2, 1, zero. Launch commit. We have a liftoff. All engines building up with thrust.
BRANAGH: Thanks to detente, rockets could now point the way to co- existence rather than war.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
TANK: So tune in on Saturday for more of CNN's landmark series Cold War. In the next episode, the U.S. tries to warm relations with China and
the Soviet Union while Paris peace talks aimed for an end to the war in Vietnam. That will air at 6:00 p.m. here in Hong Kong.
And that is it from us at News Stream for now. But the news, of course, continues at CNN. World Business Today is next. So don't go away.
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