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KRISTIE LU STOUT, HOST: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong.

<8:00:24> And welcome to News Stream where news and technology meet.

Now, voters, they head to the polls in Israel as Benjamin Netanyahu tries to hang on as prime minister.

Microsoft's CEO speaks to CNN as he puts the future of the software giant in the cloud.

And fake Apple watches are on sale in China right now. So we bought one to test it out.

Now voters are heading to the polls in Israel and a critical election that will decide the country's next prime minister. Incumbent Benjamin

Netanyahu is locked in a close race to keep his job. Now Mr. Netanyahu's main challenge comes from the Zionist union which brings together the labor

party under Isaac Herzog and the Hatnuah Party led by Tzipi Livni.

A final opinion polls put their alliance ahead of Mr. Netanyahu's Likud.

Now CNN's Oren Lieberman is monitoring developments. And he joins us live from a polling station in Jerusalem. And Oren, what kind of turnout

are you seeing there? And which part are most voters rallying behind?

OREN LIEBERMAN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Kristie, we've seen quite a turnout here. There's been a steady stream of voters. We're

in a polling booth, or a polling station in the French Hill section of the city. And it's been pretty steady. We recently checked the election

numbers or the turnout numbers from the Israeli election officials. And we're seeing the same sort of voter turnout that was here about two years

ago, which would be about 70 percent.

So on average for Israel a very high turnout, which is indicative of how much this means.

Of course this election has really split the country. There are those who are left and those who are right. And we've seen politicians from both

sides campaigning very hard, especially in these last few days and these last few hours.

Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, trying to hang on to his position made some very controversial statements yesterday when he said

under him there would be no Palestinian state, that if he remained the prime minister he simply wouldn't allow one. He insists that would only

allow a tax onto Israeli soil. So he says that's not an option for him right now.

He voted earlier today at a polling place early this morning. Here's what he had to say. He didn't talk security, he talked politics.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL (through translator): There will not be a unity government with the Labor Party, such a

government is not possible. I will form a national government, but in order for that to happen one must vote Likud.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LIEBERMAN: We've seen a lot of Benjamin Netanyahu in the last few days. He's made a number of appearances on local media, giving interviews

to TV stations, radio stations, newspapers trying to get his name out there. He knows he's behind in the polls and he's trying to close that

gap.

Of course, his main challenger, Isaac Herzog of the Zionist Union Party has a four seat lead, not a huge lead, but a very significant one,

because it's opened up only in these last two weeks. So we're getting an insight into the mind of the undecided voters there.

He voted, Isaac Herzog voted about a half an hour after Netanyahu. Here's what he had to say.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

ISAAC HERZOG, ZIONIST UNION PARTY LEADER (through translator): One who wants to continue Bibi's way of despair and disappointment should go

ahead and vote for him, but one who wants change and hope and a better future for Israel for vote for the Zionist Union led by me and give me the

mandate and all the power in order to form a better government, in order to create change in Israel.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LIEBERMAN: Herzog has the lead now. He's leading in the polls. He needs to hang on to that lead, perhaps even extend that little lead even

more if he's to be the next prime minister. He'll also need support from left-wing parties.

Again, Kristie, meanwhile Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to close that gap so he can remain prime minister, a very close race here on the ground

in Israel.

LU STOUT: Yeah, at the moment Herzog has the lead, but this has been called such a very tight, very close race. Will the deciding factor be not

the issue of security, but the economy?

LIEBERMAN: It could very well be in a lot of voter's minds.

Those are the two biggest issues. Security, and that's what the right has been harping on. That's what we've seen Benjamin Netanyahu talking

about. He says he's the only leader who can truly secure the state of Israel.

Meanwhile, the left has been hitting him hard on the economy.

The cost of living is rising here, the cost of housing is really rising and has risen over the last few years. That's where Herzog sees his

opportunity to make a difference.

And again, that's what Herzog said there. He said, look, if you're OK with the last six years then vote for Netanyahu. If you want difference,

if you want a change, if you want to see that cost of living changed, vote for the left.

So, the economy always a big issue. It'll really come down to the undecided voters. What do they decide on?

<08:05:04> LU STOUT: All right, Oren Lieberman joining us live from a polling station in Jerusalem. Many thanks indeed for that update.

And now to Switzerland where the U.S. State Department says a meeting between the Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart ended

earlier today.

Now the other five world powers involved in those talks are expected to send representatives to Lozan in the coming days. They're trying to

hammer out a framework agreement on Iran's nuclear program by a March 31 deadline.

And now to Vanuatu, the South Pacific island nation trying to pick up the pieces after a direct hit from Cyclone Pam. The damage is clearly

extensive, nearly complete in some areas, and that's apparent in the pictures and the video that is trickling in.

Vanuatu is a nation of more than 80 islands. And some of them have been left with absolutely no way to communicate.

Officials say the death toll stands at 11, but it could take weeks to get a complete picture of the destruction.

Now nearly half of the deaths recorded so far were on a remote island called Tanna. It is a difficult spot to reach, but CNN's Ivan Watson has

managed to make it there and he found a desperate situation.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The only way to be able to reach the Vanuatu island of Tanna is by plane. And the locals

tell me they've been completely cut off from the outside world since Friday night when Cyclone Pam struck this island.

Having come from the capital city today, Port Vila, I can say, anecdotally, far more houses look like they've been destroyed by those 155-

mile-an-hour winds that ripped through here.

I'm outside the only hospital really on this island. You can see some of the damage behind me here. Half of the hospital basically made

inoperable by the rain that broke in through windows. There is only one doctor here. He says he has not been able to communicate with the capital,

with the outside world for four days now, and has just been writing up a note on paper that I gave him to try to send back to his colleagues to try

to talk about the need for equipment to test blood that has been damaged in the storm. The need to evacuate a 9-year-old girl suffering from serious

head trauma as a result of a roof that fell on her. And they simply don't have the logistics, the equipment here to take care of that girl. I saw a

1-day-old baby boy who's in a hospital ward that was flooded by water from the rain.

Now, the chief of the community here tells me that one of the big concerns in the weeks to come will be simply food because people here rely

on farming, on sweet potatoes to feed their families. And they fear those little farms will have been destroyed by the rain and the foliage that has

come down which will cause their crops to rot. So this is a stricken community that's already hard at work at trying to recover.

But you just get a sense from this island, it really highlights how difficult it is for this island nation to communicate with the other

islands. If somebody is hurt, they need a propeller plane or a ship to try to get them to the main island, to the main city where there is some

electricity. Again, communities that are accustomed to severe storms, but again and again, you hear from people this was, by far, the worst cyclone

they have ever seen.

Ivan Watson, CNN, reporting from the island of Tanna in Vanuatu.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: Now on our Impact Your World page, one of the organizations listed is UNICEF. And it gives us this startling statistic, half of

Vanuatu's population needs assistance right now, that's 132,000 people, including 60,000 children.

You can find out more at CNN.com/Impact.

Now doctors are closely monitoring the condition of Singapore's co- founder Lee Kuan Yew who is hospitalized in intensive care.

Now the government released a statement saying Mr. Lee's condition has worsened due to an infection and that he is being treated with anti-

biotics.

Now the 91-year-old was an independent Singapore's first prime minister, a position his son Lee Hsien Loong now holds.

Now you're watching News Stream. And still to come, the CEO of Microsoft speaks exclusively to CNN about his vision for the future. We'll

hear what he's betting on in his own words when we come back.

And the official release of Apple Watch is about a month away, but fakes are already available in China.

Also ahead this hour, drivers around the world love the app Waze, but law enforcement says it could be used to target police.

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<05:11:51> LU STOUT: Welcome back.

Now Microsoft is trying once again to convince you to switch to Windows this time by pitching its new internet of things platform, the

Windows 10 IOT. IOT is a concept that's been gaining traction recently. It sees a future when everyday objects like cars and houses are linked to

your phones and computers through the web.

Now Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella spoke to our Maggie Lake about his vision for a future of ubiquitous computing.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

SATYA NADELLA, MICROSOFT CEO: One of the things that's happening is if you look at our lives today you have computing everywhere. It's

ubiquitous. And one the thing that happens when you have computing everywhere and that -- and all that computing is connected -- you collect a

lot of data. In fact, you know, analysts estimates something like -- first of all there will be 30 billion or so of these internet connected devices

generating something like 44 zetabytes of data by 2019.

And the thing that happens, though, is with all this data the key is to figure out how to get to insights. So I think about this as on all this

big data, the real currency is finding the small patterns. And then to be able to act on that insight, even individually or at an organizational

level, or even these industry business processes.

MAGGIE LAKE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: OK, if I'm a client what am I buying from you? Am I buying a suite of application? Are we talking about

services?

NADELLA: For us it's actually we think about individual -- empowering individuals, organization and even entire industries.

So if you were an individual -- so you could say, of example, get Microsoft devices, either a phone or a PC and you're going to have an

intelligent agent -- in our case it's called Cortana -- this intelligent agent of the assistant, a personal assistant, is going to help you leave

meetings on time so that you can catch your flight. It'll help you reschedule your day. So things like that individually as well as if you're

an organization we have tools in Office, in Office 365, where you can discover the information.

And one of the tools that we actually launched today is something called Power BI. It brings all of the data that you have into your

fingertips so that you can make decisions and you can gain insights.

LAKE: Is that enough of a business to replace the cash cow that was Office? Is that what the replacement is going to be?

NADELLA: See, for us if you look at through any of these changes in computing paradigm -- today we're talking a lot more about it's the mobile

experiences. It's not about just one single mobile device, it's in fact I have multiple devices in my life and you want to be able to have your data

and your applications roam through all of that.

And that's what the future of Windows is.

Office is no longer just about Word, Excel, PowerPoint everywhere, it's about these new capabilities.

So that's the way we are driving our business going forward.

LAKE: It sounds like there's a big focus on productivity. Is it -- does that fit in with being an innovative consumer brand? Like, where does

gaming fit in, for instance, (inaudible) portfolio?

NADELLA: I mean, we'll -- gaming is one category that we have obviously with XBox, have a great brand and PCs in fact -- 10 percent of

the PCs are bought for gaming. So we are in gaming for gaming sake.

But the rest of the company is (inaudible). And productivity to me has very broad and deep meaning, it's not just about work, as I said,

because for us you and I even managing our schedules, managing our time in our overall life is as important as what it is to have a very successful

meeting or a conference or what have you.

LAKE: We've seen reports that people are not buying new PCs. They're not refreshing their PC purchases. Is that going to impact your business

based on what you just described to me?

NADELLA: I mean, overall if you look at what's happening, as PCs have some headwind, this (inaudible) new device categories. There's new

tablets. There is new smartphones. These are all categories that Windows now spans. So I don't define our long-term success based on one form

factor's rise or fall, it's a question of are we reinventing our software, our operating systems, our devices so that it can span what's going to be

an ever increasing set of devices that we use in our lives.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

<08:16:04> LU STOUT: Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella there.

And be sure to tune in for the second part of his interview. You can watch it on Quest Means Business Wednesday 8:00 a.m. in Sydney, 5:00 a.m.

Hong Kong time.

Now, Nintendo says it will develop games for smartphones. Now they announced that they will team up with DNA, it's one of Japan's leading

mobile gaming firms.

So, what does this actually mean for gamers? Well, don't expect to play Nintendo classics like Super Mario Brothers on your iPhone.

Nintendo's president says they will not bring existing Nintendo games to smartphones and tablets. Instead, they'll create new games using

Nintendo's existing characters.

The company also says this move doesn't mean they have finished creations for their own systems.

And Nintendo reveals it's working on their next dedicated gaming system. The code name NX.

Now, the Apple Watch goes on sale next month, but the hefty pricetag may cause some consumers to think long and hard. Still, Apple's unveiling

did get Chinese netizens excited, only some of them are excited about the cheap knockoff iWatches.

Now David McKenzie gets his hands on one of the fakes.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: It's the tech launch of the year.

TIM COOK, APPLE CEO: Apple Watch is the most personal device we have ever created.

MCKENZIE: Apple fanboys can't wait for the April release of the Apple Watch. But you know what? We've already found one in China, kind of.

So is this an Apple Watch?

And we took it to a tech geek.

DAN CHUNG, TECH ENTHUSIAST: OK. It's pretty neat.

MCKENZIE: If someone was just walking down the street, you probably wouldn't know.

CHUNG: Yeah, walking down the street you would never know that isn't an iWatch. I mean, it just looks like the real thing.

MCKENZIE: Of course fakes in China are nothing new. They've been selling Apple knockoffs in malls like this for years in China. The iPod,

the iPad, the iPhone they've all been copied for Apple crazy China.

But with the revolution of ecommerce here, the speed is just breathtaking.

We counted at least a dozen suppliers on Taobao, China's virtual marketplace. Most call them the iWatch. And they are often blatant

copies.

But how much does the pretender stack up with Chinese?

"It's real. It's real," says this tech salesman.

"I haven't seen the real one, so I can't be sure," he says.

But the watch's performance is more 80s throwback than trendsetter.

Now if this watch is anything like the Apple Watch, then Apple is in trouble. But it runs at just under $50 so I guess that's not really the

point. I got a call.

Hello?

David McKenzie, CNN, Beijing.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: Now the fake, it might look like the real thing, but that's where the similarity ends. It is easy to clone the exterior, much harder

to copy the internal workings or the software of the high tech device.

Still, that is not stopping a mass production ecosystem called Shanzhai that turns out fakes at a very fast rate.

Now the word Shanzhai literally means mountain village. It's said to refer to bandits in the mountains based away from official control. And

for over the last decade, the center of China's Shanzhai industry has been the southern border city of Shenzhen located far away from Beijing.

But, in recent years, Shanzhai products have become less popular in China, especially as urban consumers become wealthier and have easier

access to the real thing.

Now you're watching News Stream. And still to come on the program, a mobile app that helps drivers avoid speed traps is raising concern among

U.S. police. Now critics say Waze could be putting officers at risk.

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<08:23:26> LU STOUT: Coming to you live from a very cloudy Hong Kong, you're back watching News Stream.

Now the search for victims of December's AirAsia crash is winding town. Indonesia says Tuesday will be the last day search teams scour the

Java Sea for more bodies and wreckage.

Now 162 people on board the plane were killed when it crashed into the Java Sea. Now victim's families are expected to ask that the search

continue under private funding from AirAsia until all the bodies are located.

A smartphone app that helps drivers avoid speed traps is coming under fire, because police in Los Angeles say that they are worried the app could

be used to target officers. Sara Sidner reports.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

SARA SIDNER, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The Waze app is a driver's dream, helping 50 million users around the world avoid tickets,

traffic jams, and speed traps during their daily commute.

But the Google-owned app, which lets drivers report everything from pot holes to police locations in real-time, is raising concern among law

enforcement that it could be used for nefarious reasons.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: In half a mile, turn left. Police reported ahead.

SIDNER: In December, Ishmail Brinsley (ph) posted a screenshot of the Waze App on his Instagram account before he ambushed and killed two New

York City policemen.

But investigators say they don't believe he actually used the app to target the officers.

Still, L.A. police chief Charlie Beck isn't taking any chances asking Google to remove the police location device.

<8:24:58> CHIEF CHARLIE BECK, LOS ANGELES POLICE: Given the incidents in New York and given other things that have occurred, I think that it is

the risk outweighs the benefit.

SIDNER: Police departments around the country are taking a stand after high tension protests and high profile police killings have raised

questions about the vulnerability of men and women in uniform.

JONATHAN THOMPSON, EXEC. DIR. NATIONAL SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATION: Why give them tools to make it easier to kill police officers? It just makes

no sense to me or anyone that I've talked to.

SIDNER: They are very concerned about the accuracy of that police tool in being able to pinpoint exactly where police officers are. So we

decided to put it to the test.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Turn right. Police reported ahead.

SIDNER: About seven of 10 times, the police were no longer where the app showed they were. And that's because it relies on users to constantly

update officer's locations.

Waze has responded to the police complaints saying they partner with police around the world, including the NYPD. They say their police

partners support Waze because most users tend to drive more carefully when they believe law enforcement is nearby.

But the National Sheriff's Association balks at that.

THOMPSON: The problem is, is that the police locator button, or reporting button, has no use other than for people who are doing illegal

activity.

SIDNER: And as the number of people using the app rises, law enforcement says its accuracy will rise too: more convenience for drivers,

but more potential danger for police.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Police reported ahead.

THOMPSON: Sara Sidner, CNN, Los Angeles.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: You're watching News Stream. And straight ahead, he covers subjects from Charlie Hebdo to Fukushima to the immigrant crisis in Italy,

but he says none of it is political. My interview with the French street artist JR.

And a Google executive reprimanded at the south by Southwest conference for what's being called manterrupting a female colleague.

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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 voting is underway in Israel's national election. Now Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Isaac Herzog, the Labor Party leader, have

both cast their ballots. Mr. Netanyahu's main challenge comes from the Zionist Union, which brings together labor and the Hatnuah Party lead by

Tzipi Livni. Now the last opinion polls put their alliance ahead of Mr. Netanyahu's Likud Party.

At least 11 people are known to have died when Cyclone Pam battered Vanuatu over the weekend. But the death toll is expected to rise as more

information comes in from remote islands. In the capital Port Vila, thousands of people have been left homeless and food is running low.

Doctors are closely monitoring the condition of Lee Kuan Lew. He served for three decades as Singapore's first prime minister. The

government says Mr. Lee's condition has worsened due to an infection. The 91-year-old has been hospitalized for five weeks.

In Switzerland, the U.S. State Department says a meeting between Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart ended earlier

today. Now the other five world powers involved in those talks are set to send representatives to Laussane in the coming days. And they're trying to

hammer out a framework agreement on Iran's nuclear program by a March 31 deadline.

Now the French street artist JR creates what he calls pervasive art. And what starts uninvited on buildings in the poor neighborhoods of Paris

or on walls in the Middle East. He craves anonymity, wearing dark glasses in all photos and even in our interview.

Now I started by asking him about the ghosts of Ellis Island, one of his exhibitions now being shown here in Hong Kong.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

<08:31:05> JR, ARTIST: I think I wanted to look in history and in a place where we used to welcome immigrants to a hospital where we would take

care of them and sometime welcome them, 12 million people that came to the United States went through that island, but sometimes send them back.

So it was a really -- they called it sometimes Island of Hope or Island of Tears.

And put it in parallel with the way of immigration is happening today.

So I also went to two months ago to Italy and Sicily and Lampedusa where all the boats coming from Libya, Syria are arriving. And just some

time when you walk in history and you place photos of migrants that came there, it's a way to touch about current subject, but from a distance.

LU STOUT: I wanted to ask you about Charlie Hebdo, the attacks that took place earlier this year and also the free speech protests that took

place afterwards. And your images were used. And they were images of the eyes, of the slain editors, the artists, the people who worked at Charlie

Hebdo.

What did you think when you saw your images reproduced on the cover of The New York Times and elsewhere? And how did you use the eyes? Why did

you use the eyes to pay tribute to them?

JR: It's interesting. We're seeing a lot of people marching in the streets for difference reasons, and even here in Hong Kong not too long

ago, but you know it came to a moment where we used to be like, whoa, when we saw millions of people. And now that it's happening so much around us,

and in bigger ways. In France, it never happened, you know, this way. People felt like -- they need a visual to stand up behind. And I think

eyes were -- is a great way to stand behind just because it represents one person, but everybody at the same time. You can't exactly recognize

necessarily who it is and it represents -- you know, when you have thousands of -- millions of people holding that, then it feels one.

LU STOUT: Do you feel it's a very exciting time for you to be a street artist right now because of the political activity happening on the

street from In Paris after Charlie Hebdo to the Umbrella Movement here in Hong Kong.

JR: I mean, I wish none of those movements happened also because they're happening for terrible reasons. And so I don't want anybody to

think that, you know...

LU STOUT: You want political discourse...

JR: Exactly.

No, I just think -- you know, that's been really strong component of my work it's -- there's no political statement behind, it's there to

represent a message, but that it's conveyed by the people.

And the same way that I started inside out project years ago telling the people this is photographic and use it. I'll print it for you, but you

past it. But they stand for whatever they feel like behind.

LU STOUT: This month is the four-year anniversary of the Fukushima earthquake and nuclear disaster. And you went to the desolated disaster

area and you worked with a local Japanese artist to pay tribute to the nuclear workers who risk their lives to help others.

Tell me about that work and that installation.

JR: For me, it's one thing to go in places that I love to catch up and follow up on places is -- and sometimes that's the most interesting

part. And action in Japan means a lot. And I think I'm going to go back this year, because you know some time over the years there's much more to

say than in to one single action. And you actually see the progress of a walk into a place and then two people.

LU STOUT: Your work has taken you and your team all over the world from Japan to Paris to New York and elsewhere. We know that art and the

image can transcend languages, but what is it about the image that somehow represents or expresses the human experience in a way that words simply

can't?

JR: I think that's why I've always been behind my images also not putting any, you know, logos or any words behind because when you put an

image out there the people put the words. The words take on their own history. So I might not read an image the same way you would read because

we don't have the same background or history, and same for all the people who are walking through the images the I past.

And I found that extraordinary of the power, because it sometime it touch something really deeply new that sometime only you can understand and

would react to it.

But sometime one image touch me and the people the same way. And that's why you feel also there is something happening that is touching

people in a really similar way and that we've seen in the recent months happening, you know, through those march.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

<8:35:32> LU STOUT: No, JR's work can also be seen at a second exhibition here in Hong Kong. The installation at the Hong Kong

Contemporary Art Foundation features a photo from each of his major projects from rooftops in Kenya to the suburbs of Paris.

Now you're watching News Stream. Still to come on the program, a Google executive faced an awkward moment at a panel discussion in the

United States. What Eric Schmidt reportedly did that got him called out by an audience member.

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LU STOUT: Welcome back.

Now a Google executive's behavior at a panel discussion is adding new fuel to the debate over gender inequality.

Now executive chairman Eric Schmidt was speaking at the South by Southwest festival in the U.S. when he faced an awkward moment on Monday.

Now according to the Wall Street Journal he was called out by an audience member who noted that he was repeatedly interrupting his female

co-panelist, the U.S. chief technology officer and former Google exec. Megan Smith.

Now the paper reports that Schmidt did not respond. But his co- panelist Smith did say differences in how men and women act can lead to workplace inequality.

Now she is responsible for feeding millions of people every year, running one of the largest aid organizations on the planet. Now Ertharin

Cousin has the monumental job of leading the World Food Program. And she spoke to CNN's Poppy Harlow about her mission.

(BEGIN VIDEOATPE)

ERTHARIN COUSIN, WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: The fact that I know that I'm in a position to make a difference in the lives of so many people gets me up

out of bed every single morning.

POPPY HARLOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Ertharin Cousin is a woman in near constant motion. She sits at the helm of the United Nations World Food

Program, which feeds a staggering 90 million people a year.

Cousin's role often puts her at the center of crisis zones.

COUSIN: How long have you been here in the camp?

HARLOW: Like this Syrian refugee camp in Jordan.

COUSIN: So many children die from hunger.

When you walk out of a supermarket in the UK and see what we have and then go visit a mother who is feeding her child water lilies.

HARLOW: What's your mission?

COUSIN: The mission is to end hunger in our lifetime.

People say, oh, Ertharin, that's nice, but I mean it.

HARLOW: I sthis your most important role to date?

COUSIN: Without a doubt. That's an easy answer.

HARLOW: Spend time with her and you'll see she doesn't let anything hold her back.

When you were in (inaudible) you were told to get a career and to be successful, you neeeded to pretend to be like a man.

COUSIN: Yes, I was.

Simple as that.

HARLOW: But you rebelled.

<8:49:59> COUSIN: I sure did.

I went in for a job interview. I wore a red coat dress, because I said if they're going to hire me they need to know from the time I sit down

in the chair and walk in the door that they're hiring a woman.

HARLOW: A big part of WFP's strategy is women. Why?

COUSIN: Because women make the difference in all the communities that we serve. When we're realistic -- even in our households women have big

voices.

When it comes to what children are fed, women make the difference.

HARLOW: Cousin is a woman of incredible influence who has built powerful relationships.

Before the World Food Program, she worked in President Bill Clinton's administration and on the Obama presidential campaign.

But it was her days in local politics in Chicago where she learned one of her most valuable lessons.

What is the biggest mistake that you've made that you've learned from professionally?

COUSIN: I ran for public office when I was under 30 years of age. We lost so bad.

The lesson taught me was don't just surround yourself with people who are like you.

HARLOW: She now leads a staff of 14,000 people and keeps this top of mind.

COUSIN: Told solve problems in your own head.

When you try to go it alone, you end up by yourself.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: Now head to our website to check out more leading women CNN has profiled, including the actress and activist Emma Watson. That's all

at CNN.com/leadinwomen.

Now, the BBC pulls in about 5 million viewers on Sunday night, but not last week. It lost 4 million because the program Top Gear is off the air.

Now the network canceled the show and suspended host Jeremy Clarkson.

Some media report it's because he hit a producer.

Almost a million fans have signed a petition calling for Clarkson's reinstatement. Clarkson hinted on Sunday it may be time for him to leave

the show.

And that is News Stream. I'm Kristie Lu Stout, but don't go anywhere. World Sport with Amanda Davies is next.

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