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France Police Slain During Terror Attacks; Jews Killed in Paris Kosher Supermarket Laid to Rest in Jerusalem; Pope Francis Visits Sri Lanka; Leading Women: Christine Lagarde

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MANISHA TANK, HOST: Hello. I'm Manisha Tank in Hong Kong. Welcome to News Stream where news and technology meet.

France says farewell. Funerals are held for the police officers killed in a series of terror attacks around Paris.

We'll tell you why SnapChat and other messaging apps could be under threat in the UK is David Cameron is reelected.

And the pope arrives in Sri Lanka, kicking off a trip to Asia.

From Paris to Jerusalem it's been a day of moving memorials and sad farewells. The families of four men killed in Kosher grocery store lit

candles to honor their loved ones, their bodies were flown from Paris and are being buried in Jerusalem.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned their killers.

And in Paris, President Francois Hollande has declared that France is showing unity in the face of fanaticism. He spoke at a ceremony honoring

the three police officers killed on duty last week. Mr. Hollande awarded each with the Legion d'honneur, the national order of merit, placing a

medal on each coffin.

Well, al Qaeda's North African affiliate has pledged more attacks on France. And that comes from a statement posted on jihadist websites.

Meanwhile, the magazine targeted in the first of last week's attacks is about to hit the newsstands and its cover is as controversial as ever. Isa

Soares joins us now from Paris to talk a bit more about that.

Isa, first of all, you know, this was part of the beginning of the people who were there who saw the attack who were in those offices just

beginning to deal with what's happened.

ISA SOARES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Absolutely, Manisha.

And you know only a couple of days ago I spoke to a good friend of the family members of Charlie Hebdo, a cartoonist who used to work there, she

came into the office very quickly after that attack and she said it could have been me, you know, all my friends had died in that attack. So we are

defiant as ever.

And I asked her that very day will you be publishing a picture, a cartoon, of Prophet Mohammed? And she said, most likely. I can't tell you

what it says, but most likely.

But we have heard in the last few hours that there will be printed -- they have already be printed. They will be distributed with heavy

protection the suburbs of Paris where they are being printed.

Distribution -- sorry, distribution, pardon -- are beginning to throughout the country. 3 million copies. Normally, Manisha, it's around

60,000 copies. So 3 million copies distributed in some 16 languages.

There will be -- they will be out so you can buy them as of tomorrow. So expect many people to take to the stands and show both defiance and like

we've seen over the weekend a show of unity.

I want to show you just to get a sense how incredible this scene has been out here, because we've come a bit closer.

Take a look, Manisha, at some of these messages here. We've seen prayers for peace, strength and justice. This one from Sydney, we stand

with you.

It really is pretty incredible.

Never give in and never back down.

All from around the world, via Washington, via Australia, via India, really people coming here to really write their messages of support to the

people of Charlie Hebdo and even the sea of flowers and incredible drawings.

If you have a look at this one here, I'm just going to move this slightly. This one says Je suis Charlie, as you know, and this one here

Liberte de expression, freedom of expression by a little girl who wrote that on her skirt Je suis Charlie -- all messages of support for those who

died here in that atrocious attack of Charlie Hebdo -- Manisha.

TANK: Yeah, amazing, Isa, to see those expressions of sympathy and sentiment for what happened from people of all age groups as well as people

all over the world.

Meanwhile, the President Francois Hollande today in a very, very somber ceremony of course calling for unity once more.

SOARES: Indeed. Unity seems to continue. So many people worried that, you know, it was just the weekend and they were forgetting the idea

of sticking together throughout this, because of course the threat of more attacks is real, so says the Prime Minister Manuel Valls in an interview

yesterday with our Christiane Amanpour.

But today we saw a very moving and very solemn ceremony. We saw Prime Minister Hollande (sic) really pay tribute, pay homage to those three

police officers who were slain here in Paris last week. If you'll remember, one of those police officers was Ahmed. He was a Muslim police

officer who was shot in the street.

His brother talked over the weekend. He couldn't contain himself. And he said very, very teary. He said, I'm going to quote him, "he was

killed by false Muslims."

The second police officer who was also shot we know is Frank. And he was tasked with protecting the editor of Charlie Hebdo. He is obviously

know to many people as (inaudible). He was also killed.

And Clarissa, she's a female police officer and she was shot by Coulibaly on Thursday.

But President Hollande placed a medal on each of the coffins, like you said, just before coming to me, it was a Legion d'honneur on each coffin.

And he spoke about the values, the French values that they really upheld of professionalism, of devotion. Take a listen to what he had to say.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

FRANCOIS OF HOLLANDE, PRESIDENT OF FRANCE (through translator): This women, these men, were policemen. They shared one desire that of

protecting their citizens. They had one ideal, that of serving the republic. They've died in accomplishing that mission with courage, with

bravery, with dignity. They died as policemen.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SOARES: A tribute there to their professionalism, also to the diversity -- a diversity that we're seeing just outside here of Charlie

Hebdo, messages from all over the world, from all walks of life.

Take a look at the sea of flowers here close up.

Recently when I was on a very very early shift, it was still dark, there was no one here but us, I saw a Muslim man, probably around his 50s,

60s who came here very quietly, paid his respects and then came over to us and he said the person who does this is not Muslims, can't possibly be

Muslim.

Back to you, Manisha.

TANK: Isa, thank you very much for that. And thank you for showing us those messages and really giving us a sense of how people there are

feeling.

Isa Soares there live in Paris.

Well, more details have surfaced about the man behind the shocking attack at the Kosher market and his missing partner. Jake Tapper has more

on that.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JAKE TAPPER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): CNN has learned new details about the lethal romance of the terrorist couple at the center of

the conspiracy whose savagery has stunned the world. It turns out Hayat Boumeddiene, believed now to be on the run in Syria, was the more radical

of the two, according to Georges Sauveur, who was the attorney for her boyfriend.

That man, terrorist Amedy Coulibaly, was killed at a kosher supermarket in Paris after he slaughtered four innocent Jewish men.

(on camera): It was here where Amedy Coulibaly began his evil rampage, murdering in cold blood a local rookie policewoman, Clarissa Jean-Philippe,

perhaps not coincidentally, just around the corner, just steps away from a local Jewish school.

(voice-over): Today, that school was guarded by armed police. More than 18,000 French police and military troops have fanned out across the

country to protect vulnerable targets, including hundreds of synagogues and Jewish schools.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's a crazy situation.

The president of the Jewish school told us he thinks Coulibaly intended to attack the school before he murdered the police officer.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She was killed, you know, in the corner, you know, not 200 meters, you know, from the school.

TAPPER (on camera): Do you think that the school was the target?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.

TAPPER: Do you know that or you think it?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. I think.

TAPPER (voice-over): We didn't talk for long. He had to run off to attend a funeral for one of the Jewish hostages killed by Coulibaly here at

the kosher grocery store.

(on camera): We are being kept away from the crime scene by police barricades, policemen and by police tape, but even from this distance, you

can see just how devastating the French special forces' assault on the terrorist was here at the supermarket, the kosher supermarket Hyper Cacher.

The walls and windows are riddled with bullets, one window completely taken out.

(voice-over): A photograph published for the first time today shows the horror that took place inside, this group of hostages, including a

mother and her infant daughter, hiding for hours from the terrorists inside a freezer.

(on camera): They were worried that the child would not survive the hours in this freezer, but, somehow, they managed to communicate that to

police, who turned off the electricity, possibly in that action saving the baby's life.

(voice-over): Visitors here today prayed and lit candles for the dead. This mother, Jewish, like the four victims here, told us that France has

changed.

(on camera): As a Jew in France, do you feel...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Bad.

TAPPER: Well, tell me.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I feel very bad, because we have children. We have to put our children in Jewish school because of our religion, but now

we are afraid.

TAPPER: Jake Tapper, CNN, Paris, France.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

TANK: Well, the four people killed in that grocery store massacre are being buried today in Jerusalem.

CNN's Becky Anderson has been watching the services there and she joins us now.

Becky, another very somber moment today. We saw those -- we saw that memorial in Paris. But in Jerusalem today, a lot of sympathies, many

people turning up, but also two very important people Segolene Royal, the French environment minister, but of course Benjamin Netanyahu, both having

something to say.

BECKY ANDERSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: That's right. Segolene Royal representing the Elysee Palace at of course the ceremonies

for the police officers who were slain last week, happening at exactly the same time as the funeral services for the four Jewish victims of the Paris

attacks. They've been laid to rest this Tuesday in Jerusalem, their bodies flown to Israel from France overnight, a very emotional funeral ceremony at

noon, as I say at the very same hour that Paris stopped to mourn the police officers murdered last week.

The state funeral services at the Givat Shaul cemetery for Yohan Cohen, Philipe Braham, Francois-Michel Saada and Yoav Hattab attended by

Israel's prime minister, as you rightly point out, and by the president, by religious leaders and by members of the victims' families who symbolically

lit torches to the deceased and spoke very movingly.

Yoav Hattab's father, for example, the chief rabbi of Tunis, saying simply, and I quote, "as this is god's judgment, I accept it with love,"

end quote.

The pictures that you are seeing the bodies shrouded in their funeral shawls.

Emotive eulogies from the attending politicians, also a message about what they perceive as a rise of anti-Semitism in France and across Europe.

The killings of the four French Jews awaken bad memories, the president said. Terrorism pursues the Jewish community and its dangerous to deny

that, Rivlin said.

And both the president and prime minister of Israel extending the offer of a lea (ph), once again, of refuge in Israel to French Jews, though

perhaps totally a more defiant Rivlin suggesting that Jews shouldn't be forced to move to Israel to ensure their safety.

As I say, a very emotive, emotional day. And after the speeches, the bodies shrouded in the traditional Jewish prayer shawl were lowered into

their graves in the cemetery, their final resting place.

In the end, Manisha, (inaudible) was Israel.

TANK: Yeah, very moving to see the pictures right now, Becky, of what played out there.

Just going back to that address by the prime minister, he seemed to hint at this idea that, you know, singling out the fact that this is

extremism, this is terrorism, but again talking about the idea this is something that we should all, everywhere in the world, address.

ANDERSON: Yeah, this is something he said. He said, you know, I have so many times warned the world of extremist terrorism and now the world is

aware from the events that we saw in Paris.

Look, he has been accused of attending the rally as President Erdogan said, a state sponsor of terrorism, Erdogan's words, about the somewhat

controversial appearance of Netanyahu, it has to be said by some, at the rally on Sunday when the world leaders sort of linked arms.

On the flip side of that, the economy minister here in Israel, Naftali Bennett, suggesting the hypocrisy of some Arab leaders who attended that

very same rally who he accused of state-sponsored terrorism.

You can never move away from what is a fulcrum, of course, across the entire narrative when it comes to extremist terrorism, many who believe in

radical Islam will say that the buck stops here with Israel, and its lack of efforts, some would say, in a move towards Middle East peace.

So, yes, it's been an incredibly emotional day. There has been some controversial narrative out there.

But ultimately, as I say, this was a day for the four victims, the French Jews who have been buried here in Israel.

TANK: Becky, thanks very much for that. Becky Anderson there with the latest for us from Jerusalem.

The U.S. military slips into damage control mode after ISIS sympathizers break into its social media site. Details on what sort of

data was compromised and the chilling warning the hackers left behind.

And Boko Haram's latest rampage in Nigeria draws comparisons to what ISIS is doing in Iraq and Syria. We have the latest disturbing details.

Plus, Pope Francis arrives in the country still healing from a long civil war. And he brings with him a message of reconciliation. That story

also ahead.

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TANK: Concern over terror attacks could affect mobile phone users in the United Kingdom. British Prime Minister David Cameron has warned of

major changes to popular messaging services if his conservative government is reelected. Specifically, he wants to ban forms of communication that

use encryption technology, because they can hinder the government's ability to monitor national security threats.

So, what does that actually mean? Well, it could mean that these popular messaging apps will be banned in the United Kingdom -- WhatsApp,

SnapChat and iMessage all use encryption. And unless they give the British government the keys to bypass their encryption they could be banned under

Cameron's proposal.

So cyber security is also a hot issue in America right now. This after the U.S. Central Command's social media accounts were hacked, its

Twitter page temporarily displayed a disturbing warning to American soldiers seemingly from ISIS.

Officials say no classified information was leaked. And as Barbara Starr now reports, this isn't the only online target for ISIS.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): "ISIS is already here. We are in your PCs, in each military base," the hijacked

central command account reads. "In the name of Allah, the most gracious, the most merciful, the cyber caliphate continues its cyber jihad," the

posts continue. But is this group the cyber caliphate really is?

MARK RASCH, CYBER & PRIVATE EXPERT: It could have been anybody. It doesn't really matter that much that it was is. It does matter that a group

calling itself ISIS is taking credit for it. The goal here is to cause fear and overreaction. We need to react appropriately to it but not overreact to

it.

The fact that the Twitter feed from CentCom was hacked is not that significant. If the documents themselves were stolen from CentCom, that is

significant.

STARR: The tweets threaten U.S. troops and their families, including posting the document with names and addresses of U.S. military officials

and documents related to North Korea and China. American soldiers, we are coming, watch your back. We know everything about you, your wives, your

children, the hackers warn.

The Pentagon says so far, it does not appear anything classified was posted and one U.S. military official said some of the information has

already appeared online elsewhere.

JOSH EARNEST, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: I can tell you this is something we are obviously looking into and something that we take

seriously. However, just a note of caution to folks as they're covering this story, this is a pretty significant difference between what is a large

data breach and the hacking of a Twitter account.

STARR: The FBI is assisting the military with the investigation of the hacking of both its Twitter and YouTube accounts. It's the latest in a

string of online hacks by people claiming to be is. Last week, several local media organizations had their accounts hacked and similar threats

were posted. And all of this comes as ISIS in the wake of the Paris attacks is also

finding itself targeted online. The hacker group Anonymous says it's targeting is.

RASCH: What's more concerning is not what they actually stole and posted, it's what they might have stolen and might be able to steal in the

future. But this was a shot across the bow, basically saying we can steal things from you, take a look.

STARR: The attack on Central Command came just as the president took to the stage to push for greater cybersecurity. As the hackers were posting

the threats, the White House was sending out a message from the president on its own Twitter account. "If we're going to be connected, then we need

to be protected."

The military is making the point that its YouTube and Twitter accounts reside on commercial servers. And whoever conducted the hack attack had no

access to classified information, or at least they hope not.

Barbara Starr, CNN, the Pentagon.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

TANK: And as Barbara mentioned, U.S. President Barack Obama says he's making cyber security a top priority. He's announced he'll work on new

legislation this year with congress. Some proposed changes include forcing companies to tell customers within 30 days if their personal data has been

breached. More protection for student information and criminalizing the sale of personal data overseas.

Mr. Obama is expected to outline more of his cyber security goals in next week's State of the Union Address.

Still to come here on News Stream, Boko Haram committing what may be its deadliest act on African soil. We're live with details on the latest

military gains made against the Islamist group after the break.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

TANK: The government of Cameroon says it has pushed back an attack by Boko Haram just days after the Islamist group slaughtered hundreds,

possibly thousands in a massacre in northern Nigeria.

The Cameroon military reports that it repelled a Boko Haram attack on one of its military camps on Monday and inflicted heavy casualties on the

group.

Well, Boko Haram has been blamed for a string of recent deadly attacks, in one case strapped a 10-year-old with explosives to bomb a

market, and in another slaughtering as many as 2,000 people in a Nigerian town.

For more details, let's go to Diana Magnay who is in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Diana, what sort of problems is the government having in fighting this group?

DIANA MAGNAY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, they're a very well organized, well-equipped group. They have very sophisticated weapons,

which have trickled down from Islamist groups further north. And they hold a large swathe of territory in northeastern Nigeria and are pretty much

encamped along the border regions between Nigeria and Chad, Cameroon and Niger.

The Nigerian military, on the other hand, are under-equipped, under funded. The quality of the military from experts that I've been speaking

to has degenerated over the last few years. Moral is exceptionally low. Training is not what it should be. And they're up against a very, very

savage enemy, as we've seen from the attacks over the last week or so. And I think that is the problem that the Nigerian military have, especially in

the runup to this election set for February 14 where Boko Haram clearly intends to undermine everything that leads Nigeria being a secular

democracy, which is -- you know, the one thing that Boko Haram hates more than anything else.

And it clearly will try and attack polling stations, try and undermine the country as those elections are being held, which will make it even more

difficult, which will stretch the Nigerian military even thinner -- Manisha.

TANK: Yeah, and I'm sure there will be questions. Unfortunately, we can't address them here right now, but there will be questions as to how

Cameroon managed to deal with elements of Boko Haram and Nigeria hasn't so effectively so far.

Diana, thank you very much for that. Diana Mangay who has been following that story for us.

Pope Francis will spend the next two days in a country that's only 6 percent Catholic. We'll tell you why he's in Sri Lanka and what sort of

message he's expected to bring to its people.

Also...

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

CHRISTINE LAGARDE, DIRECTOR, IMF: Get over it and move on.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

TANK: There you have some candid advice from the IMF chief Christine Lagarde. Details on the question that triggered it in this week's addition

of Leading Women.

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TANK: I'm Manisha Tank in Hong Kong, you're watching News Stream. And these are your world headlines.

A solemn day in France and Jerusalem where leaders are honoring those killed in last week's terror attacks in Paris. French President Francois

Hollande lead a national ceremony in Paris where he gave eulogies for the three police officers killed and awarded each with the order of merit.

In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu honored the four hostages killed in the kosher supermarket attack. All were French Jews and have now

been laid to rest in a Jerusalem cemetery.

Cameroon's military says it pushed back a Boko Haram attack on one of its military camps across the border from Nigeria. Military officials

report they inflicted heavy casualties on the militant group. It comes just days after Boko Haram militants slaughtered as many as 2,000 people in

a massacre on a northern Nigerian town.

An Indonesian official says divers may have found the main section of the AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea last month. Meantime,

searchers have recovered both of the plane's black boxes.

These are new pictures just into us of the cockpit voice recorder. We're told it was buried under sand, but is in good condition.

Investigators say it will take two months -- it will take months to analyze all the data inside.

Pope Francis landed in Colombo earlier today, kicking off a week long visit to both Sri Lanka and the Philippines. Only about 6 percent of the

country's 21 million people are Catholic, but the pontiff received a red carpet welcome in the capital.

Sri Lanka is still of course recovering from a painful time in its history. Sharp divisions linger from the country's decades-long civil war

that ended in 2009.

In remarks given shortly after his arrival, Pope Francis called for unity and reconciliation.

Well, more than 70 percent of Sri Lankans are Buddhist. Animosity between the Sinhalese Buddhist majority and religious minorities, including

Christians and Muslims has led to violence in recent months. Some from the Catholic community hope that Pope Francis will address this issue during

his three day visit to Sri Lanka.

The Asia Pacific region has become an increasingly important region to the Catholic faith. The region now accounts for 12 percent of Catholics

worldwide, that's more than 130 million people. Of the 20 new cardinals the pontiff plans to appoint next month, three are from Southeast Asia.

Well, keep in mind the pope's visit comes -- also comes just a day or just a few days after historic presidential election in Sri Lanka.

So for the latest let's go live to Colombo where our Sumnima Udas is standing by to tell us a bit more about what's been said and what's been

going on.

It certainly has been a big week for the country, Sumnima.

SUMNIMA UDAS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: It has been, Manisha. And an incredibly colorful welcome for the pope here. The most striking

image, of course, of elephants, a troupe of elephants there welcoming him along the highway and then the thousands of people on the streets gathered

to catch a glimpse of Pope Francis as he made his way towards Colombo in his Popemobile at one point, he even got off to greet those people, to

bless them.

All of this took a little bit of time, which meant he had to cancel a few meetings today. But right now, as we speak, he is holding perhaps what

his most important meeting is for the day and that is the interreligious meeting as something the Vatican and the pope and of course Sri Lanka takes

very seriously. About 1,000 members of the various religious groups in Sri Lanka will be there to welcome him. He will begin with a Buddhist chat, a

Hindu prayer, a Muslim prayer. And of course the pope will be speaking about religious harmony, ethnic harmony.

And this is something, of course, very pertinent to Sri Lanka right now, because this is a country that until five years ago was really

struggling under a decades-long war, a war between the Tamil -- the Hindu Tamils of this country, particularly the Tamil Tiger insurgency, and the

Buddhist Sinhalese group.

Now, steps have been taken towards reconciliation since then, but still real reconciliation at a more spiritual level, at a more emotional

level, that has yet to happen. And it's something the pope addressed as soon as he arrived at the airport. Have a listen.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

POPE FRANCIS: So many communities are at war with themselves. The inability to reconcile differences and disagreements, whether old or new,

have given rise to ethnic and religious tensions frequently, are accompanied by outbreaks of violence.

Sri Lanka, for many years knew the horrors of civil strife. And it's now seeking to consolidate this and to heal the scars of those years.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

UDAS: Now the timing of the pope's visit is of course very fortuitous. It comes just days after this new government was voted into

power. It's a government that promises to be more broad-minded when it comes to reconciliation. It's also a government that was primarily, or

largely supported by the minority groups, the Muslims here, and the Tamils here. They're all part of the same coalition. So presumably it will be

much easier to reach some kind of consensus -- Manisha.

TANK: OK, Sumnima, thank you very much for that.

Giving us the eyes on the pope's visit to Sri Lanka as it looks very colorful, but we certainly hope that those discussions about peace and

harmony will continue.

Coming up after the break here on News Stream, she's the head of the International Monetary Fund, but her job is more than the numbers. CNN

follows Christine Lagarde on her trip to South America.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

TANK: Christine Lagarde is the first woman to head the International Monetary Fund. And CNN has been granted incredible access to her during a

trip to South America. She opens up to our Gabriela Frias about why being a good leader means getting personal.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

LAGARDE: When I first started my career, I had no idea that I would be spending a lot of my time later meeting with presidents and prime

ministers and ministers of finance and people in charge of policies.

GABRIELA FRIAS, CNN CORREPSONDENT: Christine Lagarde routinely finds herself in high level, high pressure meetings. She is the managing

director of the International Monetary Fund. On this trip, her role brings her to Peru and Chile.

Her schedule is packed with economic talks.

But at the end of one of these hectic days, Lagarde makes time for another kind of meeting, one that doesn't show up on her official agenda.

I understand that you like to meet groups of women in every country that you visit. Why is that important to you?

LAGARDE: When we talk amongst ourselves, amongst women it's just more natural, more genuine. You know, I remember countries where, for instance,

women will explain to me the struggle of young girls who cannot go to school and heard stories about violence against women. These stories would

never come out in the presence of men.

FRIAS: Getting a different perspective is also the reason the IMF leader likes to talk with young people when she can. And a topic that

comes up is failure.

What advice can you give, especially women, about failure?

LAGARDE: Oh, get over it. Get over it and move on. You know, I failed myself. I was -- you know, twice I tried to enter the National

School of Administration in the French system and I failed. And for awhile I felt sort of held back. And I decided, no, no, no, no, you have to get

over it. Try to take the learnings from that failure -- you know, why did I fail? Then you learn about it. And you move on.

FRIAS: Move on is something Lagarde is trying to do in regards to a political fraud case dating back to her days as French finance minister.

In 2014, magistrates placed Lagarde under formal investigation, questioning her role in an arbitration payout to a business tycoon.

You are appealing. The IMF has expressed confidence in you. But my question is, how do you cope with the weight of those allegations?

LAGARDE: With strength, with my sense of duty to my country, with the certainty that I made the right choice at the time independently, and the

rest is dealt with now by the lawyers. So I don't focus on the issue anymore.

FRIAS: What she does focus on are those personal encounters that she says keep her grounded.

LAGARDE: It's the most enjoyable part of my job. And I understand better why I do my job every day. I don't want to stay isolated with

ministers and policymakers and people who are regarded as important.

The people who work on a farm are as important as the others, and that's true.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

TANK: Up close with Christine Lagarde.

And that's it for this News Stream. I'm Manisha Tank. World Sport is up next with Alex Thomas. Don't go away.

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