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Malala Yousafzai, Kailash Satyarthi Share Nobel Peace Prize; Kim Jong-un Misses Celebration of Anniversary Of North Korean Ruling Party; Microsoft CEO Apologizes For Comments; Leading Women: Cristeta Comeford

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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 fighting for education and against extremism, two leading advocates for the rights of children are honored with the Nobel Peace

Prize.

Plus, thousands of people join students still protesting on the streets of Hong Kong. We'll give you a live report.

And no-show in North Korea. The apparent absence of Kim Jong un at a major event fuels even more speculation.

Extraordinary praise for two extraordinary individuals. Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani teenager who stood up to the Taliban and nearly died

for her cause and Kailash Satyarthi, a leading advocate for children's rights and protection in India have both been awarded this year's Nobel

Peace Prize. They beat out 276 other nominees, including Pope Francis and the NSA whistle blower Edward Snowden.

Now let's get more now on the Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi who is being honored for his efforts to protect children from

exploitation. CNN's Sumnima Udas is live from New Delhi, she joins us now. Sumnima, you have met and you have interviewed this man. What has he

achieved for children's rights there in India?

SUMNIMA UDAS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Kristie, he is truly the pioneer when it comes to child rights in India. He started this about

35 years ago and he's managed to rescue some 80,000 children already from circuses, illegal circuses, from factories, from brick kilns. And he's

been doing this practically every day.

And, you know, what's amazing is that a lot of people perhaps don't know of him in India. You know, most people actually would have never

heard of him, because he is quite understated, unless you are involved in the child rights activism sphere, but not many people have heard of him.

So this comes as a huge surprise, not just to many Indians, but also to him. He was just talking to a local journalist here. And he was saying

that he had no idea. He was completely surprised. And he only came to know that he had won this award after the media started calling him.

So this gives you a sense of just how humble he is, how he's a silent soldier, if you will, that's how he's been operating. I've met him several

times, been on a raid with him. And that's just how he operates. I mean, he's very hand's on. He's involved in every single raid from the planning.

He goes on the raid himself, dealing with the local police, the local magistrates, the local government here.

And that's what he's been doing for decades now. And only now are people getting to know about him, even in India.

LU STOUT: Yeah, I'm just imagining the moment when he got the call or the email, such incredible news for him to receive. And Satyarthi, he was

jointly awarded the prize with Malala Yousafzai. How has that been received there in India?

UDAS: Very well, actually. You know, the local media, a lot of people here already tweeting saying this is, this is great sign, actually,

for the two countries, because you know they are of course India and Pakistan are rivals, if you will. And there's been skirmishes along the

border right now along the Kashmir border. It's been going on for the past few days. So perhaps this sends the right signal to both countries.

So this is being received very, very well in India.

LU STOUT: And also the impact of the Nobel Peace Prize. I mean, what will the award do for the children of India and the wider campaign to

empower children and young people there?

UDAS: Well, according to a lot of non-governmental organizations here, there's about some 70 million children working illegally in these

kinds of factories and brick kilns, in circuses and UNICEF estimates the number to be about 28 million or so. So it is a huge, huge problem in

India. And again, there are a lot of groups who are working, a lot of groups working on this cause that Kailash Satyarthi has been doing for

decades. And he says, but you know his -- even now, as soon as he won the award he said his struggle has not ended. He will not stop doing this

until all these children have been rescued.

There's some, every eight minutes a child goes missing in India. And he was recently when I met him he was saying that every day there are about

two or three parents outside his office begging him to help them, because they don't receive the help from elsewhere. And normally they come from

impoverished backgrounds.

So he's very much determined to send the right signal, of course, it's an inspiration for a lot of people to do the kind of work that he's doing.

LU STOUT: That's he's done so much work there in India for the children of India. This prize very -- very, very well deserved.

Sumnima Udas joining us live. Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts with us today.

Now as we've been reporting, this award, it was shared with Malala Yousafzai. And Jim Clancy has more now on the life and the achievements of

this young Pakistani girl.

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MALALA YOUSAFZAI, GIRL'S EDUCATION ADVOCATE: I have rights. I have the right of education. I have the right to play. I have the right to

sing. I have the right to talk. I have the right to go to market. I have the right to speak up.

JIM CLANCY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: She's become the voice for girls around the world. In 2011, CNN interviewed Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani

girl who gained international headlines two years earlier for speaking out for girl's education though a blog that she wrote under a pseudonym.

YOUSAFZAI: When I see my name in the newspaper, I feel that yeah, god has given this honor to me and I shall accept it.

CLANCY: But her life changed forever on Oct. 9, 2012. She was then only 14. While on her way home from school in Pakistan's Swat Valley, a

group of armed Taliban boarded her school bus, asked for her by name, and shot her in the head.

Two of her classmates were also wounded in that attack, but Malala's injuries were so severe doctors didn't think she would survive. She was

airlifted to a military hospital in Peshawar where she had surgery to remove the bullet lodged in her shoulder.

Form the UAE to Germany to the U.S., doctors from around the world offered to treat the young girl.

But ultimately, Malala flew to the United Kingdom where she continued treatment at Queen Elizabeth hospital in Birmingham. When hearing about

the attack, people around the world were inspired by her courage, many attended prayer vigils and lit candles.

Other students supported her efforts through rallies, holding up her picture and demanding change.

Malala was discharged from the hospital in January of 2013, but she underwent reconstructive surgery a month later. In 2011, when asked why it

was so important for her to take up this cause, she told our Reza Sayah...

YOUSAFZAI: When I looked at my people and my school fellows and the ban on the girl's education and the Taliban, so I thought that I must stand

up for my rights, the right of education, the right for peace.

CLANCY: Malala is attending school in the UK, but she continues her fight for education and worldwide support for her continues despite

continued threats from the Taliban.

Jim Clancy, CNN.

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LU STOUT: And now to the Ebola crisis. The Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has just arrived at Madrid's Carlos III hospital. And that

is where a nurse's assistant who tested positive for Ebola is currently being treated.

Now 14 other people hospitalized there are being monitored for possible exposure to the deadly virus. Now doctors (inaudible) the nurse's

assistant has taken a turn for the worse.

Now Mr. Rajoy would not (inaudible) will meet with hospital staff.

Now stopping the spread of Ebola is a major topic at this week's meeting of the World Bank in Washington. Now the bank's president says it

is vital that effective countries get the resources they need. Now Jeffrey Sachs is a professor of health policy and management at New York's Columbia

University. He's in Washington for the conference where we've reached him via Skype.

And Jeffrey Sachs, thank you so much for joining us here again on CNN International.

And first, a solution. How can we bring this Ebola epidemic under control?

JEFFREY SACHS, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: This is a controllable epidemic, but the epidemic has so far outrun the control efforts. What is needed is

that every time there is a suspected case that that person can get tested quickly. That requires a specialized laboratory. If the test is positive,

they have to be transported safely to a treatment facility that also afford protection and isolation of that individual from obviously family members

and that keeps the health workers safe.

So, this is logistics, it's equipment, it's basic health protocols, it's diagnostics, it's all the pieces of a basic control system that need

rapidly to be scaled up.

The fact that these are impoverished countries that don't have much of a functioning health system to begin with, and then you have a spreading

epidemic where people are not isolated and where the number of infections is tending to double roughly every 20 days has meant that this has run

ahead of the control effort.

A massive resource airlift is now needed to this region to help them get ahead of the epidemic.

LU STOUT: Ebola is accelerating on the ground.

If there is a dedicated and coherent effort to do what you just suggested, to focus on early diagnosis, isolation of the patient and

treatment, how long would it take to contain the current Ebola epidemic?

SACHS: Several months, because the steps that I just outlined will themselves, even under the best of circumstances, take several weeks to

mobilize. And we've not been seeing the best of circumstances yet.

So, we still have some time to go where people are going to be sick, they will not be identified. They will spread the disease to neighbors

when people die, then there are also unsafe burial practices, because even handling the dead body, of course, can spread the infection.

So, this is still weeks of tremendously rapid airlift and on the ground mobilization at a minimum that's needed and then it would be of

course a couple of months or three months under the best of circumstances to roll this back.

So I think we're talking about five or six months in the best of circumstances in the heavily impacted areas. And that's the best, because

there are bad scenarios also if we don't make that huge push to get ahead of the epidemic curve.

LU STOUT: Well, let's talk about that bad scenario. I know you're discussing this there at the World Bank meeting in Washington, D.C. If

Ebola is not contained, what is at stake here? What would it mean for Africa and the world?

SACHS: Again, this is a disease that if left uncontrolled doubles roughly every three or four weeks. It means that individuals that move

from this desperate region would start spreading cases.

We see this is happening, of course, by plane and it will happen in other ways. And if it's uncontrolled in those new spots because it's not

recognized or in a remote rural area, there would be new areas of impact.

Each one of these leads to a kind of panic, unfortunately, which is not justified, but here in the United States there has been one case, but

it has dominated the news, not surprisingly perhaps.

You look at the kind of paralysis that could result from this -- locking borders, closing countries, disrupting trade and economy, creating

-- amplifying misery. We don't want this. It is absolutely avoidable if there's a massive professional effort.

But if there isn't such a massive professional effort, then the consequences we can see could continue to spill out of control.

LU STOUT: That's right, we don't want to focus on the fear, on the closing of borders, but on the solution. Thank you for so clearly

outlining those.

Jeffrey Sachs joining us live from Washington, D.C. Thank you.

Now you're watching CNN News Stream. Coming up later this hour, protest leaders urge people here in Hong Kong to return to the streets

after the government calls off planned talks. And protesters, are they responding to the rallying cry?

And for the second time in a week, a powerful typhoon is set to ram straight into Japan. We'll give you the world weather update.

Plus, still no answer to the question where is Kim Jong un? The supreme leader seems to be a no-show at a key national event.

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LU STOUT: All right, coming to you live from Hong Kong, you're back watching News Stream.

And pro-democracy protesters have been trying to rally crowds back onto the streets of Hong Kong, that after officials cancel talks scheduled

for today.

Now the question now will there be a new show of strength to sustain the movement? Our senior international correspondent Ivan Watson is live

in Hong Kong with the latest. And Ivan, protest leaders, they've called for a major rally tonight, but what are you seeing out there?

IVAN WATSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, they've certainly gathered a rally tonight. It's Friday night, and as you can see there are

clearly thousands of people here. The character, kind of, of the protest has changed a bit. Now there are screens. There are people speaking on a

stage with loudspeakers. And that's different from what we saw in the beginning of this about a week-and-a-half ago where it was just kind of an

eruption of people out in the streets without really a clear program. They were just swarming in these streets.

There are clearly thousands of people here, but I don't think we see quite the numbers that we saw in the first week of October when the exit

and entry ramps of the highways, particularly one in this direction were just coated with people and it was very difficult for people to kind of

move in and out of the area.

So, it's not quite the same numbers, not quite the same enthusiasm, I don't think. And what's also interesting is this isn't dominated the same

way as it was in the past by very young Hong Kongers aged 18 to 21. It's a much more mixed crowd.

And of course this has been organized in response to the Hong Kong government announcing yesterday that it was suspending talks with student

protest leaders and in response, the students have called on supporters to bring tents, to bring sleeping bags and to lengthen the Occupy protest here

in downtown Hong Kong to try to put pressure on the government. And they have also asked for more rounds of negotiations in this dispute. But at

this time, the government says that they cannot come to any kind of concrete positive solution and that's why they've brought an end to the

talks.

So, we're still at this impasse right now -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: All right, CNN's Ivan Watson reporting live from the rally site there in Admiralty here in Hong Kong. Thank you, Ivan.

Now let's go to North Korea now. The Supreme Leader Kim Jong un, he hasn't been seen in public for almost five weeks. And now it seems that he

has skipped another key national event.

Friday marks the anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers Party. But Kim is not on the list of those attending events, that's

according to state media. And adding to that, North and South Korea, they exchanged fire earlier today.

Now let's bring in Paula Hancocks. She joins me now live from Seoul.

And Paula, I mean, speculation is swirling. Where is Kim Jong un? And is he still in charge?

PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Kristie, we had the new speculation today, or new information from the South Korean

defense minister. He said that he believes the Kim Jong un may be in Pongwa Hospital (ph) or near Pongwa Hospital (ph), which is in Pyongyang.

This is the hospital where his late father and also grandfather had been treated for illnesses as well.

The defense minister saying he believes that he might well be there with his wife and his sister.

But of course no one knows for sure. But what we do know for sure is that he was seen limping during the summer back in July. We saw footage of

him on state run television. And back in September, state run media acknowledged that he was experiencing some discomfort, which is really an

unprecedented admission about a North Korean leader who in the past they always wanted them to see infallible. To admit that he was feeling a

discomfort was very unusual.

But as you say, it's been five weeks now since he has been seen. Today was a key event on the North Korean calendar. He missed this event

as well. He's missed the parliamentary meeting in the past.

So it certainly is the fact that the question where is Kim Jong un is going to be getting louder. Most experts I've spoken to assume it's a

health issue. They are for the most part discounting some rumors and speculation that there may have been a coup or he may have been deposed

from power.

LU STOUT: So the mystery deepens. CNN's Paula Hancocks joining us live from Seoul. Thank you, Paula.

You're watching News Stream. And keep it here for more after the break.

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LU STOUT: Welcome back.

Now each week, we're shining a spotlight on the top 10 CNN Heroes of 2014 as you vote for the one who inspires you the most. Now this week's

honoree, she grew up in a funeral home surrounded by death and grief. And now, she helps her Baltimore community focus on life by getting past

trauma.

Meet Annette March-Grier.

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LU STOUT: Now Annette is just one of our top 10 honorees. And we need your help to decide who should be CNN Hero of the Year and receive

$100,000 to further their work. Just go to CNN Heroes.com online and on your mobile device to vote once a day, everyday for the most inspirational

hero.

Now you're watching News Stream. Still ahead, the Nobel committee has honored two activists who share one cause. We have more on our top story,

the awarding of this year's Nobel Peace Prize next.

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

Now Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai and India's Kailash Satyarthi are joint winners of this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Satyarthi won praise for

campaigning against child labor in his country. Yousafzai won global respect for defying the Taliban who tried to kill her for standing up for

girl's education. And just 17-years-old, she is the youngest Nobel Peace Laureate in History.

Now, pro-democracy protest leaders here in Hong Kong have called their supporters back to the streets. Now it is unclear at this hour where these

large crowds we've seen in past protests will return tonight, but thousands are said to be showing up. Now the move comes after the government called

off talks with the students that had been scheduled for today.

Now North Korean leader Kim Jong un seems to have skipped a key national ceremony earlier on Friday. Now on state news, Kim is absent from

a list of dignitaries observing the founding of the country's ruling party. Now Kim has not been seen in public for five weeks.

Now Typhoon Vongfong is headed toward Japan right now. This powerful storm is making its way toward the island of Okinawa and is expected to hit

this weekend. It is a one-two punch for the country following the deadly typhoon earlier this week.

Now the UK, U.S. and Canada have announced plans to screen air travelers from West Africa's Ebola affected countries. Now reports say

Canada will screen at six airports, and the U.S. will screen at five.

Now in the UK, both London airports and international railway terminals will be affected.

Now let's return now to our top story, the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. And we mentioned how 17-year-old Malala Yousafzai has made history as the

youngest person ever to receive the hour.

Now CNN's Atika Shubert joins us now from CNN London. And Atika, Malala is so young and yet she has already achieved so much.

ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes, she has made history. A lot of people may have been expecting her to win last year

actually. That's when we saw Malala Yousafzai being most outspoken -- for example, speaking at the UN and of course she was still recovering from

that attack by the Taliban in Pakistan, where she was living and where she was shot at very very close range in the head. She was actually brought

here to Birmingham in England for recovery. And they actually helped to reconstruct her skull and help her recover. And that's why she is still

here in Birmingham today. And we are expecting a statement at around 4:30 this afternoon.

But I want you to take a listen as to what she said when she was interviewed with Christiane last year -- Christiane Amanpour in New York

last year. And she was asked what she would do if she won the Nobel Peace Prize. Take a listen.

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YOUSAFZAI: If I get the Nobel Peace Prize I think it would be such a great honor and more than I deserve. And it would be a responsibility as

well, because I already consider education as a part of my life. I want to work for it. It's a campaign. And I think it is my life. So, Nobel Peace

Prize would help me to begin this campaign for girl's education.

But the real goal, the most precious goal that I want to get and for which I am thirsty and for which I want to struggle hard, that is the award

to see every child to go to school. That is award of peace and education for every child. And for that, I will struggle and I will work hard.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SHUBERT: She's such an incredible, articulate voice for children's rights around the world, and particularly girl's education in Pakistan.

But of course she wasn't the only one to win the award, that other award also -- the award also went to Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian child

labor activist. And it really goes to show that the Nobel Prize Committee wasn't just awarding Malala, but the actual cause of children's rights.

LU STOUT: That's right. And your thoughts on how it will assist the cause, the wider impact of the prize. What will this award do for everyone

out there who campaigns for the rights of children?

SHUBERT: Well, of course there's the recognition and the money. They will receive about a million dollars in award money and that will be a

boost to both of their charitable organizations.

But the most important part is simply the recognition of the rights of children, specifically that they have a right to an education and to

prevent child labor and to find a way to give children their childhoods. And this is something that many people have known about, but to shine the

Nobel Peace Prize light upon it means that all of these organizations, not just Malala Yousafzai, it's not just Kailash Satyarthi's, but all of these

grass roots NGOs will now have this extra boost. And that will really empower them to take a -- to get a lot more funding, for example, and take

a lot more steps that are desperately needed across the world.

LU STOUT: Yeah, a boost for children's rights and education in the sub-continent and around the world. CNN's Atika Shubert on the story for

us. Thank you, Atika.

Now, the former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has been released from hospital where he's said to have undergone medical testing. Now Russia's

state-run Ria Novosti says the 83 year old suffers from a severe form of diabetes. And Gorbachev lead the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991 when it

disbanded. The Nobel committee honored him with a peace prize in 1990 for ending the Cold War.

Now, let's turn to new warnings from the Syrian border town of Kobani. One Kurdish defender says the massacre is about to happen and we have to

act very promptly.

Now even with coalition airstrikes, ISIS now controls a third of the embattled city. And the fallout from fighting is being felt beyond the

battle's front line. At least 36 have died in violent protests across Turkey. But the Turkish foreign minister stands firm saying the country

will not unilaterally send in ground troops to save the city from falling.

You're watching News Stream. And coming up next, after a big blunder how the Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella we're seeing a digital about face. But

can his Friday retractions make up for his comments on women in the workplace? Details next.

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LU STOUT: Welcome back.

Now Microsoft's CEO is under fire today after suggesting it is, quote, "good karma for women not to ask for raises." Now Satya Nadella made these

controversial remarks at a women's tech conference.

He said this, quote, "that might be one of the additional super powers that, quite frankly, women don't -- women who don't ask for raises have

because that is good karma. It will come back."

Now since then, we've seen a digital retraction by way of an apology letter posted to Microsoft's official website and on his personal Twitter

page.

Now Nadella tweeted that he was, quote, "inarticulate on how women should ask for raises."

Now, the White House executive chef Cristeta Comeford is a master in the kitchen and she is today's leading woman. Isha Sesay gets a cooking

lesson and speaks to Comeford about her mother's influence on her rise to the top.

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ISHA SESAY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: As White House executive chef, Cristeta Comeford is in charge of every banquet, state dinner and culinary

event under the White House roof. She grew up in the Philippines as one of 11 children and her role in the kitchen started at an early age.

CRISTETA COMEFORD, WHITE HOUSE EXECUTIVE CHEF: Mom always cooked. So there's always the sound and the smell of food cooking in the kitchen,

that's where everybody kind of hanged out, where everybody went.

SESAY: Were you always in the kitchen?

COMEFORD: I was always in the kitchen helping and for me it's not just a matter of helping mom, I really enjoyed what I did.

SESAY: Feeding hundreds of guests and the president himself means thinking fast and keeping cool in the kitchen.

Chef, I'm going to ask you a couple of questions rapid fire, just give me the best answer that comes to your head. OK? All right.

What's been your worst cooking nightmare?

COMEFORD: Nothing.

SESAY: Oh, OK.

Out of all the dishes you can cook, what would you say is your best dish?

COMEFORD: It's a noodle dish.

SESAY: It's a noodle dish?

COMEFORD: Yes.

SESAY: Very interesting.

What type of noodle dish?

COMEFORD: It's actually a Chinese noodle dish.

SESAY: And if you weren't a chef, what would you be?

COMEFORD: If I weren't a chef, I'd probably be a missionary.

SESAY: Oh. Thank you very much for answering our rapid fire questions.

Now we get to cook.

COMEFORD: OK.

SESAY: Tell me, what are we doing? Because I have to tell you I'm useless in the kitchen.

COMEFORD: That's OK. I mean, this is actually a very, very simple recipe. We call it the summer vegetable cristada.

SESAY: This is the chopping.

COMEFORD: This is the chopping. Are you good with chopping?

SESAY: My mother says I'm incredible clumsy and I shouldn't be given a knife.

COMEFORD: OK. You shouldn't be given a knife, so that's OK.

SESAY: Chef Comeford and her husband, who is also a chef, have made cooking an important part of their family.

Your daughter is a teenager -- she's 13 right?

COMEFORD: She's 13.

SESAY: And is it true that she enjoys cooking as well and can whip up quite a spread?

COMEFORD: She loves cooking like for Mother's Day. She made a whole menu, a four-course menu for mom. So I woke up, there was this menu

sitting next to my bedside. And you know, she made like Campari tomatoes stuffed with cream cheese. It's very simple, but all of the stuff that she

made was really amazing.

SESAY: Making her way to the White House was far from easy. But for Chef Comeford, overcoming challenges is a part of success.

COMEFORD: I think, you know, like challenges in life are things that are given to you to make you a stronger person, because if there is no

challenges, then you're just going to be like -- it would be too easy. No matter what your experiences were before, don't let that hinder you from

moving forward.

SESAY: Good job, chef. Good job.

COMEFORD: Thank you.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: That pizza looks good.

Now this month, in honor of International Day of the Girl, we're highlighting Leading Women who defy stereotypes. And right now at

CNN.com/leadingwomen 12 women with some of the coolest jobs in STEM, that's short for science, math, engineering and technology.

And that is News Stream. I'm Kristie Lu Stout. But don't go anywhere, World Sport is up next with a look at how the first ever Russian

grand prix is being affected by a tragedy off the track.

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