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[08:00:25] MANISHA TANK, HOST: Hi, I'm Manisha Tank in Hong Kong. Welcome to News Stream where news and technology meet.
Iran's president insists there can be a deal on his country's nuclear program, but all sanctions would have to be lifted.
The police officer who shot an unarmed black man in the U.S. has been fired and charged with murder.
And a French television network is left paralyzed after a cyber attack.
Now, it remains to be seen if last week's framework agreement on Iran's nuclear program will lead to a final deal in June, but the Iranian
president is now drawing a hard line on one key detail. He says no deal unless all sanctions are lifted the first day it goes into affect.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
HASSAN ROUHANI, IRANIAN PRESIDENT (through translator): We will not sign any deal unless on the very first day of its implementation all economic
sanctions against Iran are lifted all at once.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
TANK: Well, the U.S. has said that any sanctions removal will come in phases and only after the U.S.'s nuclear watchdog is convinced that Tehran
has taken certain key steps.
Let's get more on this story and bring in CNN's international -- senior international correspondent Nic Robertson. He's in Jizan (ph) in Saudi
Arabia.
Nic, first of all, this is obviously a very complicated process. Negotiations won't necessarily be tough, but hammering down that issue,
that core issue will be.
NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: It will. One of the sort of things that held up the talks in Lausanne, Switzerland to get this
framework agreement last week was the issue of when sanctions would be lifted. It's been a very important issue for the Iranians, because it for
them is the biggest indicator, if you will, of the good will and good faith of the United States and the other members of the P5+1.
But for the United States, it's a big political issue, because without Iran complying to the wishes of the P5+1 the political view in the United States
for President Obama, for U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry who negotiated the deal is that Iran has to measure up and prove its side of the bargain.
So that's why it was a tough framework agreed -- framework agreement to reach.
But now they have quite a big of time between now an the 30th of June when the final agreement has to come in to place to sanctions, of course, a
complicated issue. There are many different types of sanctions on Iran that (inaudible) over the years, sanctions over its perceived use of or
design of nuclear weaponry technology (inaudible) oil. There have been direct sanctions between individuals countries against Iran. There have
been groups, raster (ph) sanctions, UN sanctions, weapons sanctions against Iran. There have been you know, European sanctions against Iran, EU
sanctions against them.
So, many different sanctions. So perhaps that does leave a way open for the coming negotiations to work their way through to something to
everyone's satisfaction, but clearly this is a very tough line that's being taken and laid out by the president as the rest of the negotiations,
Manisha.
TANK: Yeah, and as you were saying so many layers that would have to be peeled back over these many, many years of sanctions.
Let's move on to a slightly different issue, but we've also seen a number of very important comments coming from Iran again today about the situation
in Yemen. It grows ever more complicated on the ground. But what have we heard today?
ROBERTSON: Well, the belief in Saudi Arabia, the belief of the Yemeni foreign minister and others in the Yemeni government is that Iran is
backing the Houthis and this is what's enabled them to come to power. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has said that over the recent weeks Iran has
flown many aircraft into Yemen, that the United States has tracked those aircraft. That the believe is that these aircraft are bringing in weapons
and support for the Houthis. That's a major concern.
The Iranians are pushing back and saying that's not the case. Indeed, we've heard Reuters quoting the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei saying very clearly that the airstrikes that Saudi Arabia is leading inside Yemen are killing civilians. Killing civilians amounts to a
genocide, a genocide like that can be tried -- war crime of genocide like that can be tried in an international criminal tribunal and that Saudi
Arabia won't come out ahead.
This is basically and fundamentally ratcheting up the rhetoric around an already volatile situation. The Iranian navy is sending warships into the
Gulf of Aden. Saudi defense officials say that they can do that in international waters, but the territorial waters of Yemen are under Saudi-
led coalition control and it will be a violation to bring those Iranian ships in.
So with everything that's happening inside Yemen at the moment, the political temperature of the rhetoric around it, particularly between Saudi
Arabia and the Gulf states that are its allies in the coalition and Iran are really ramping up, Manisha.
[08:05:53] TANK: Certainly, and every comment being made being taken very seriously. We'll have to leave it there, though, Nic. Thank you very much
to you and the rest of the team for talking to us from Jizan (ph) in Saudi Arabia.
Now, regardless, of course, of any nuclear deal, the U.S. says it will not stand idly by if it is the case that Iran further destabilizes Yemen. And
Nic was pointing out the states that feel that that is happening.
The Iranian state news agency reports that Tehran has sent navy ships to the Gulf of Aden off Yemen's coast, though it does insist their deployment
has nothing to do with the conflict on shore.
The Yemeni government has long accused Tehran of supporting the Houthi rebels and Nic was alluding to that as well. U.S. Secretary of State John
Kerry echoed that that accusation in an interview with U.S. public broadcasting.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
JOHN KERRY, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: We're well aware of the support that Iran has been giving to Yemen. And Iran needs to recognize that the United
States is not going to stand by while the region is destabilized.
(END VIDEO CLIP
TANK: John Kerry there.
Well, the escalating violence in Yemen has thousands scrambling to get out of the country, a very difficult situation.
India says it has evauated more than 2,500 people over the past few days alone, including its citizens and other foreign nationals. Mallika Kapur
spoke to some of the first people returning to India on a flight out of Sanaa and just filed this report.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
MALLIKA KAPUR, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Early morning, a new day dawns for evacees pouring into Mumbai Airport, tired but relieved. They've
left war-torn Yemen behind.
Over here they've been given food, financial assistance and train or plane tickets to continue their journey.
Clutching their tickets, passengers leave the airport.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I feel really good. I feel safe.
KAPUR: They had lived in Sanaa for six years. Rahul (ph), a student, his mother a nurse, until the recent escalation in violence made life
impossible.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There are no patrols, no water is there, no food, maybe some rice, and water is not available.
KAPUR: Indians form one of the largest expatriot communities in Yemen. Almost all have come back safely by air, by land, by sea, as the Indian
government pulls off one of its largest rescue missions abroad.
We ride on the bus taking evacuees from the airport to the train station in Mumbai. Some are happy, others pensive.
UNIDNETIFIED MALE: I have left everything almost: my books, my clothes, my TV, everything.
KAPUR: An emotional time?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Very emotional time right now, very emotional time.
KAPUR: Those who must wait for their train rest in a station guest room. They chat, sleep, sip tea, and tell me about their experience.
The shock, the fright, it's all still raw.
(inaudible) shows us a video taken by his friend in Sanaa, who himself worked as a barber.
"There is no law and order," he says. "The bombings would start any time at night. I was so scared."
These men have a similar story to tell.
"When we saw the sun rise each morning, we would be grateful we'd survived."
He says the situation was getting worse each day, then he chokes up.
Now, the long journey home is almost over. The train pulls out of Mumbai station. The evacuees say the future may be uncertain, but it doesn't
matter. They are home, they are safe.
Mallika Kapur, CNN, Mumbai.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
TANK: We take you now to Italy where at least four people have been shot and killed at a courthouse in Milan. Italian media report a defendent in a
backruptcy case opened fire in the courthouse. A bankruptcy judge is among the dead.
Italy's interior minister says the suspect has been captured by police.
In the United States, the North Charleston police have fired the officer charged with murdering an unarmed black man. Michael Slager had been with
the department for five years before he shot and killed Walter Scott. He was charged after a video of that shooting surfaced and the bystander who
captured those pictures told NBC News that what went on before the camera started to roll.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
[08:10:37] LESTER HOLT, NBC NEWS ANCHOR: Was there a struggle.
FEIDIN SANTANA, TOOK VIDEO OF SCOTT BEING SHOT: There was. They were down on the floor. They were down on the floor before I started recording. You
know, they were down on the floor.
I remember the police had control of the situation. He had control of Scott. And Scott was trying just to get away from the TASER, which TASER
you know you can hear the sound of the TASER.
HOLT: He had been tased at that point. And you heard the sound?
SANTANA: Yeah, I hearing the sound before I started recording.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
TANK: Well, now Walter Scott's family is speaking out about who he was and why he may have run away from police the day he was killed. Kyung Lah has
the story.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
KYUNG LAH, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Walter Scott now lives in our minds for the way he died for his family. The 50 year old struggled in an
imperfect world and his place in it. He came from a large extended family. He was one of three sons.
ANTHONY SCOTT, WALTER SCOTT'S BROTHER: I had two brothers, I had two brothers. But now I have one brother. But out of my brothers he was the
most outgoing out of all of us.
He had -- he knew everybody.
LAH: That outgoing personality brought him to the U.S. Coast Guard at age 19. He served for two years until the Coast Guard says a drug related
offense led to an involuntary separation.
Scott received a general discharge under honorable conditions when he left in 1986. His family says the years that followed brought ups and downs.
Scott's first wife and the mother of his two older children died. Scott remarried, had two more children. But that marriage ended in divorce.
Unpaid child support piled up. And according to South Carolina authorities a warrant was issued for his arrest, that maybe why as the Scott family
attorney, he ran from Officer Michael Slager.
His brother says he was a huge Dallas Cowboy's fan. And was happy the last time the family was together. Scott's parents just celebrated their 50th
anniversary where he danced with the family he loved.
ANTHONY SCOTT: He was kind, he love his children, he was a great father, he was a great father. He was a great friend and he was a great brother. And
he was also a great son.
LAH: As far as his court record we looked at it everything we saw was traffic related or child custody related. You have to go back almost 30
years back to 1987 when he was 21 years old to find the only mark of violence that in assault and battery charge.
Kyung Lah, CNN, Los Angeles.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
TANK: Coming up here on News Stream, more deadly violence in Afghanistan. Gunmen storm a court complex in a northern province. This, as officials
try to determine why an Afghan soldier attacked U.S. soldiers in Jalalabad also with deadly consequences. A live report is just ahead.
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[08:15:23] TANK: We want to bring you some news just coming in to us here from CNN coming from Afghanistan. At least three people have been killed
and five wounded when armed assailants stormed into the attorney general's officein Bulk (ph) in nothern Afghanistan a gunfight between Afghan
security forces and the assailants is said to be going on right now.
Well, let's get more on that story. And we can speak ot our senior international correspondent Nick Paton Walsh. He's with us from Beirut.
He recently returned from Aghanistan.
First of all, what do we know about these attacks?
NICK PATON WALSH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Very little at this stage. But it forms part of a pattern of attacks on local infrastructure
obviously that the insurgency, the Taliban have been behind for years now, but increasingly troubling, I think, for Afghan as they see NATO's forces
now in a very minimal presence. Yes, the White House slowing the withdrawal of the remaining 10,000 troops they have there by a (inaudible)
month or so.
But still the security now very much in the hands of Afhgan security forces. And while that attack in Bulk (ph) province where among the dead
are two police and the security (inaudilbe) we understand that. The attorney general's office, little else information known. The capital
Kabul itself is very much feeling the void left behind by NATO and I think anxiously bracing itself for whatever comes next.
(BEGIN VIDOTAPE)
WALSH: Caught in their wake, the men who let America be undestood here. Former NATO interpretors who say they were fired, blacklisted and are now
unable to get new jobs. So they wait for the casual day's labor you might be offered if you join the crowds here.
The skill that made them rich yesterday, today after drawdown makes them fear reprisals from the Taliban.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My family is still living in the provinces. I can not go there. I'm living in a market. I'm living in one of the empty shop.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It is not clear that why they blacklisted me.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My family, everybody, give up on me. They are too nervous.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Right now I live here around this mosque area.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're just (inaudible) in Afghanistan.
WALSH: This is a city holding its breath as the void left behind by NATO opens up to learn of its new government will last, if the Taliban are tired
of fighting, if ISIS are next.
It now has five times more people than when the U.S. invaded, and swells still as many flee the violence swirling around it, its streets being
reclaimed from a war economy that made these now empty houses expensive for foreigners and left these roads until now littered with potholes, picking
at the bones of an occupational past whose remnants find the streets now too unsafe.
Here, Chicken Street (ph) is where foreigners would once bustle, haggle over trinkets, even dodge the beggars.
After America's billions on infrastructure, still sometimes generators provide the power.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You know, the embassy, you know, is (inaudible) with the people you don't go to Chicken Street (ph), you know, because maybe for
(inaudible) is not good.
WALSH: The road out east tells a story of how war brought a brief reprieve from poverty for so many.
Lined with the machines America used as it tried to move mountains to meet fluid goals, now abandoned.
Their supply convoy, too, idle.
These trucks were once the pinnacle of a billion dollar circuit, ferrying to NATO's bases everything they needed. Now, the drivers would sell them
for almost nothing just to save on the bribes and fuel needed to keep them running.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): The contracts were with big businessmen and commanders were giving as very little and they made
themselves rich and now living their comfortable lives in Dubai.
WALSH: The days of endless U.S. money enriching so few are ending, and even at the wedding halls, costly palaces of commitment to the future, the
dreams are symbols are of leaving. The lights copying a Dubai landmark.
The city's lights have been held up as a sign of its transformation. It's true, they've never shown like this under the Taliban. But behind the
costly voltage are stories of billions spent on power stations that were barely ever switched on and elsewhere a failure to provide the most basic
of services. But above all after decades of war are people worried if the violence has truly come to an end.
A glow that hides a wider uncertainty and fear.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
[08:20:09] WALSH: I should point out those translators for the Americans and NATO at the top of the piece you saw, we reached out to the U.S.
embassy and NATO for comment on their fate and didn't get a response. It's not quite clear why they were blacklisted. It seems they failed some sort
of a part of a vetting process.
But they join a number of people in the vacuum left behind NATO who obviously fear reprisals form the Taliban. And there's a city as a whole
lacking its major sponsor over the last decade plus.
There was some estimates by the World Bank a few years ago that over 90 percent of the Afghan economy depended upon the NATO presence. And that
was swiftly rebutted by U.S. officials at the time, but it gives you a real sense of quite the challenge ahead economically and then security, of
course, too.
Yesterday's insider attack against American troops, today's attack on the Bulk Courthouse (ph), a really complex time ahead for Afghanistan after
decades already of war -- Manisha.
TANK: Yeah, very challenging times indeed. Nick, thank you very much for that very sobering report, but very interesting to hear from those
translators, very interesting to see what's playing out there today.
Nick Paton Walsh and the rest of the team, thanks.
Now coming up, fresh off striking a preliminary pact with Iran, President Barack Obama heads to Panama to engage another once sworn U.S. enemy: Cuba.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
[08:25:10] TANK: Now the U.S. President Barack Obama is in Jamaica. And his first stop was a late-night visit to the Bob Marley museum. He's on a
trip that takes him to Panama for the summit of the Americas. And it's expected he will touch base with Cuban President Raul Castro for the first
time since the pair announced renewed diplomatic ties.
So let's get more. CNN's Joe Johns joins us from Kingston with more on what we can expect from that summit and how this is going to be a very
significant meeting if/when it happens.
JOE JOHNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Absolutely.
And a lot of people suggest that it is going to happen. Of course that will be the big historic moment on this president's southern swing across
the border.
But the president, as you said, is here in Jamaica. Now he arrived alst night accomplishing possibly one of the big diplomatic goals of the trip
south just by appearing in Jamaica, the first sitting U.S. president to come here since 1982. He did go to the Bob Marley museum.
And today he is expected to meet with the leaders of Caribbean countries gathered here in Kingston to talk about, among other things, energy and
secuirty. These countries in the Caribbean have huge concerns about petroleum. And they are largely reliant on the country of Venezuela for
their oil. The problem is Venezuela has been going through something of an economic crisis.
So the president will meet here with the prime minister's, also meet with the prime minister of Jamaica Portia Simpson-Miller, then on to Panama
which many consider to be the main event and what is being described as a likely interaction with Raul Castro, the prseident of Cuba.
This historic moment, the question of course how far will all of that go. This comes against the backdrop of lifting the sanctions against Cuba,
including taking Cuba off of the list of state sponsors of terrorism.
The State Department in the United states has recommended that the president. The White House has said it would like to move quickly on that.
And then so many other things follow.
We do know that since the persident made his announced of nromallizing relations with Cuba, things have moved slowly on the diplomatic front, at
least as far as establishing new embassies.
So, we're looking or the president, that meeting with Raul Castro. NO hugs and kisses are likely. But it will be a historic moment when and if it
happens, Manisha.
TANK; Yes, indeed.
Slowly, slowly approach I think is what you're trying to indicate.
Joe, thank you very much for that. Joe Johns there for us in Kington.
Now after driving ISIS out of Tikrit, Iraq takes aim at the next big target. Coming up, we head to the front lines in Anbar Province.
Plus, a massive cyber attack targets a French television network. We take a look at the damage and who is behind it. That's after the break.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
[08:30:45] TANK: Welcome back. I'm Manisha Tank in Hong Kong. You're watching News Stream and these are your world headlines.
Iran's leaders are taking a hard line over negotitions over its nuclear program. President Hassan Rouhani is vowing not to sign a final deal
unless all international sanctions are lifted on day one. Furthermore, Iran's supreme leader says there is no guarantee will be reached in June
unless Tehran is satisified with all details.
Iran's supreme leader also issued new criticism against Saudi-led airstrikes targeting Houthi rebels in Yemen. He says the campaign amounts
to genocide and could be prosecuted at the International Criminal Court. The United Nations estimates at least 300 civilians have been killed in the
fighting in the last few weeks alone.
There are mutliple fatalities after a courthouse shooting in Milan in Italy. Italian media report a defendant in a bankruptcy case opened fire
inside the building. Reports say four people have died, including a judge and a lawyer. Italy's interior minister says the suspect has been captured
by police.
The white South Carolina policeman charged with murdering a black man has been stripped of his badge. Michael Slager was charged after video
surfaced showing him shooting Walter Scott in the back. The man who captured that video says that before he began recording the officer fired
his TASER.
Now, a week after the Iraqi army recaptured Tikrit from ISIS, it's now gearing up to try to oust the militants from another key stronghold: Anbar
province. Senior international correspondent Arwa Damon has this.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ARWA DAMON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Past the flattened farmhouses, amid the date palms, craters left by roadside bombs. Positions
fortified with sandbags line the now tranquil road.
The ISIS fighters even dug trenches that lead all the way up to these fighting positions.
Since June, ISIS was only pushed back three miles along this particular battle line in Anbar province just west of Baghdad. And it took months for
the (inaudible), a paramilitary force that is part of the predominately Shia volunteer army, to break through this line of defense.
"We tried to advance from the front," Riad Tamimi (ph) says, "but we couldn't. So we flanked them from behind."
And that was only after a joint operation that included air support and Iraq's conventional forces.
But as is, the ISIS tactic, buildings like this former school, were booby trapped. One of the bomb disposal unit members killed when he tried to
diffuse the explosives in front of the gate.
There's a home that you can see in the distance. Right behind that is where ISIS has its closest positions to this particualr area.
The road here leads into the dtown of Garma (ph), still firmly under ISIS control. Targeting, we are told, comes from imagery captured by drones,
equipped with thermal cameras provided to the fighters by Iran.
"They were brought with the Iranian advisers. They are the ones who taught us how to fly them," Maurin al-Qadimi (ph), one of the commanders says.
Iran's role, he argues, has been positive, quick to respond while the U.S. and its allies hesitated to act.
But, he says, coalition strikes can help them in Anbar.
"The coalition can help us by targeting the border areas that ISIS operates in, and in the desert," al-Qadimi (ph) says.
Iraqi army artillery batteries are scattered throughout the fields, starring down the enemy. Watch towers now line key roads as forces await
orders for what is expected to be a massive joint operation and the next phase of the battle against ISIS.
Arwa Damon, CNN, Anbar Province, Iraq.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
TANK: Well, there's a different battle going on so far as ISIS is concerned, and it's online.
The French television network TV 5 Monde is slowly regaining control of its assets after being hit by a cyber attack that paralyzed its 11 channels as
well as social media outlets and websites.
The hack is being called a terrorist attack and is raising alarms at the highest level.
CNN's Jim Bittermann joins me now from Paris. And Jim, is it any clearer exactly who was behind this cyber attack?
[08:35:12] JIM BITTERMANN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, it's not clear, but in fact it's pretty obviously. They basically after this cyber
attack began, first the network's 11 channels went off the air, the screen suddenly went blank, then the website went down. And then on the network's
social pages, some of the accounts were hacked and in place of the accounts there appeared the ISIS logo and something that said it would claim
responsibility for the cyber caliphate -- the cyber caliphate indicating that it was probably an ISIS-backed initiative to take down the network.
The head of the network, Yves Bigot said this morning that in fact as far as he knows, this was a kind of an unprecedented attack.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
YVES BIGOT, DIRECT, TV5 MONDE; It's been a very powerful cyber attack. We have very strong firewalls and that had been checked very recently. and we
are said to be very safe.
So, obviously it's very knowlegable and powerful cyber attack.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
BITTERMANN: It was a very powerful attack. And in fact, that's why some very powerful people have gotten invovled in this including the interior
minister, the foreign minister and a cultural ministry here. They're all looking into this and expressing support for TV5 Monde. It's -- this is a
network of 11 networks that in fact are supported by French speaking channels around the world. It began with the initiative of the French.
And it's come to symbolize the sort of French speaking countries. So it's been taken very seriously.
And the strength of this attack, the size of it, the synchronization of this attack is something that has officials here completely worried.
I think the prosecutor, the terrorism prosecutor in Paris has opened up an investigation. It's been branded cyber terrorism -- Manisha.
TANK: Of course, all very chilling so soon after teh attacks on the Charlie Hebdo offices.
Unfortuantely, though, we have to leave it there. Jim, thank you very much for an update on that story. Jim Bittermann there in Paris.
Still to come here on News Stream, a multimillion dollar jewelry heist in London's diamond quarter has everyone guessing: how did it happen? We take
a look at a number of clues.
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TANK: Police are investigating a multimillion dollar theft in London's jewelry district. They say as many as 70 safety deposit boxes were opened.
Not many details on how the robbers got in or how much was actually taken, but one estimate places it at $300 million.
And now our Phil Black has some clues on how the thieves did it.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
PHIL BLACK, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Throughout (inaudible) one question is being asked by everyone: how did they do it?
CNN has a photo which answers at least part of the question: the method of entry. The person who snapped this doesn't want to be identified and says
it shows the roof and the lift shaft running through the building at the Hatton Garden safe deposit company. It shows new bricks and web mortar,
strongly suggesting this was repaired fater thives smashed their way in through the wall.
But this was just the beginning, they then had to get down through the building to the underground vault, cut their way through that and only then
get to work on the safety deposit boxes.
And how did they avoid the avoid the alarm system? Norman Bean believes they didn't. He's a long-time jewelry maker who uses one of the vault's
safety deposit boxes. He says the company's security guard told him the alarm was triggered Friday, the first day of the Easter long weekend.
[08:40:29] NORMAN BEAN, CUSTOMER: He says he went down. He looked through the glass. It looked all clear, and he said he just went. And I honestly
(inaudible). You know, I thought he should have waited for the police and then gone inside to check it all.
BLACK: Bean says he asked why the guard didn't inspect the vault more closely.
BEAN: He said I don't get enough money to go in, that's what he told me.
BLACK: The company couldn't be reached for comment. Its website boasts of its precautions and shows photos of some of the initial security inside.
It doesn't show the vault.
But people who have been in there say there are 600 safety deposit boxes in various sizes. Police say between 60 and 70 were broken into.
JAMES RILEY, GEMMOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN: If one or two of the diamond merchants have lost their stocks, which would be kept there,
then we could be looking into certainly single millions, perhaps even to $10 plus million.
BLACK: The police say it will take time to work out whose boxes were hit, Jerry Landon is one of teh nervous people waiting to hear. He says
hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of valuables in his.
JERRY LONDON, DEPOSIT BOX OWNER: It's very hard to...
BLACK: Can you give me a sense of what you've kept in there?
LONDON: Certainly loose diamonds and jewelry and some cash.
BLACK: Hatton Garden has always been an obvious target for criminals, the businesses here know it. It's why they spend a lot of money and effort on
security. The concern is this happened anyway. And it could bprove to be both in valued and scale, the greatest crime this area has ever seen.
Phil Black, CNN, London.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
TANK: Remarkable, really.
And that's it from New Stream. I'm Manisha Tank.
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