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[08:00:10] KRISTIE LU STOUT, HOST: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. And welcome to News Stream.
Right now, China is starting to raise a capsized cruise ship. Hundreds of people are still unaccounted for. No new survivors have been
found in days.
Also ahead, the death toll rises in South Korea as the country grapples with MERS, nearly 1,400 people are under quarantine.
And a former FIFA official threatens to spill more secrets about football's governing body. We have the latest from Zurich.
And we begin with breaking news. Chinese authorities are beginning the process of raising a cruise ship that capsized on the Yangtze River.
450 people were on board and 14 have been rescued. Dozens of bodies have been recovered, but hundreds remain missing.
Now CNN's David McKenzie is in Jainli, the site of the disaster. And David, there is a bit of a delay here, but three days on, authorities are
starting to raise the cruise ship. Could you walk us through this very delicate operation?
DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, that's right, Kristie. They say on the hour now they're going to start raising up this
ship with the three massive cranes they have in the region of where the Eastern Star turned over onto its back and the hull exposed.
We were there, but earlier today, and they were already starting to prepare it for the process: welding, special devices on the whole and
putting wires around the ship with divers. They say they're now going to going to raise it up into -- out of the water to begin the grim task of
recovering bodies.
They had said that there was hope, even up until this very moment, that perhaps someone was left alive on board, but they said after 72 hours
the chances are almost zero and that they have to start the task of counting those bodies and giving these families perhaps some closure --
Kristie.
LU STOUT: Yeah, at this moment you have to think about the families. The family members of the missing, they have been in anguish for days now.
What are they going through? What is their thinking now about what happened to their loved ones?
MCKENZIE: Well, many of them are taking this with the calm and fortitude that is quite extraordinary. Some family members saying they've
accepted that they're loved ones have passed away, others hoping perhaps that there will be a good end to this story. But I think as time stretches
by, they certainly know that they need to expect the worst.
They've come from across this region of China, more than 2,000 of them according to state media, in the city now waiting for any news that they
can get. Sometimes the anger has spilled forth, but they say they just want to get some kind of closure.
And it was quite amazing being at the scene of this rescue now recovery effort to see just how many people, searchers, divers, specialists
on the scene trying to get any kind of a resolution to what has been the worst disaster of its kind here in China for quite some time indeed --
Kristie.
LU STOUT: All right, David McKenzie reporting live from Jianli at the site of the Yangtze River disaster where authorities have just started to
raise the capsized ship.
David McKenzie there, thank you.
Now rescuers recovering the bodies of those on board pay tribute to the victims with a moment of silence. And despite the enormous rescue
effort, only some relatives know the fate of their loved ones. Others are left waiting for answers. And for them, anger is growing over what they
say is a lack of information from the government.
Now CNN's senior international correspondent Ivan Watson was with the families as they marched to the disaster site to see for themselves what's
happening.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
IVAN WATSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Tempers flare after a deadly river boat disaster family members of some of the hundreds of
missing cruise ship passengers call local Chinese officials liars.
They accuse the government of not doing enough to save their loved ones from the boat that capsized in the Yangtze River on Monday.
"No one is helping him, says Chen Sue Hua (ph), whose 78 year old husband was a cruise ship passenger. "The boat is still upside down," she
says. "And the politicians are just making speeches."
On Wednesday night, dozens of these desperate people suddenly launched an impromptu march.
This is an anguished procession of dozens of relatives of Eastern Star passengers who have taken a long bus drive to this riverside town to learn
something about their missing loved ones. And they're so desperate they've just gotten out of their bus and they've decided to walk in search of the
river.
Why are you walking like this at night?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We want to see our family, yes. But we have no choice. Nobody is helping us.
WATSON: Some locals tie yellow ribbons in a show of support and offer free rides and bottles of water. But that goodwill dries up after an hour
of walking.
When the procession reaches a wall of uniformed of police, undaunted the relatives push forward and the police line breaks.
A small crowd keeps walking towards the river.
It's almost 2:00 in the morning and people have been hiking for some four hours when they were finally able to hitch a ride. These people
determined to get to the site of the riverboat wreck in defiance of the local authorities.
But soon, we reach the end of the road. Another line of police, and this time the relatives don't have the will to push their way through.
Several women sit on the pavement weeping, their quest for answers stalls at a police checkpoint just a few hundred yards from the river that
swallowed their loved ones.
Ivan Watson, CNN, Jianli, China.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
[08:07:25] LU STOUT: A haunting report on loss and the desperate search for answers.
Now for the past 26 years, people have gathered here in Hong Kong to join the June 4 candlelight vigil. They come from all over the world to
mark the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. In 1989, Chinese troops killed hundreds of people in a bloody crackdown against pro-
democracy protests in Beijing. And Hong Kong is the only place in China where people can talk freely about the massacre.
But this year's vigil comes just months after large-scale protests in the city. And tensions have been rising for Hong Kong-China relations.
Now CNN's Anna Coren joins us from the vigil with more. And Anna, in the wake of the umbrella movement of last year, how is this year's
anniversary different?
ANNA COREN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Look, it's very somber and there's a great deal of emotion here, Kristie, and there are tens of
thousands of people who have come to Victoria Park to commemorate the 26th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Perhaps it's not as large as
last years, the 25th, where organizers say 180,000 turned out, but still a huge turnout.
And really the message is we cannot forget what happened in Beijing back in 1989 where hundreds, if not more than 1,000, people, manly
students, were killed by their own government.
And that is the message that these people here are telling us tonight, that this is something that Beijing must answer for. It cannot stop hiding
the fact that it killed its own people.
So, for these people they turn out in their thousands for remember the victims, to call for democratic reform, to call for tolerance, for human
rights in all of mainland China.
Now in light of those Occupy Movement protests that we saw last year that paralyzed Hong Kong for months, there is a real feeling by some of
those protesters that this vigil, this candlelight vigil that happens every single year in Hong Kong is focusing on the past and not on the present.
So, in actual fact there's a breakaway group, one at Hong Kong University that's holding their own vigil tonight, which people say is unfortunate,
because this is something that really should unify all of Hong Kong.
But they (inaudible) democracy just in Hong Kong. Forget about China. It's a lost cause. But the people here, and they want to (inaudible) for
the past, Kristie.
[08:10:01] LU STOUT: All right, Anna Coren reporting live for us at the 26th commemoration of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, the vigil taking
place here in Hong Kong's Victoria Park. Anna, many thanks indeed for that update.
And as mentioned, you won't find any Tiananmen Square vigils or protests in Mainland China. In fact, many of the country's younger
generation are not even aware of it.
Louisa Lin, a journalist and author of The People's Republic of Amnesia says she went into Beijing's leading Universities and found that
only 15 out of 100 students could correctly identify this iconic image of the Tank Man.
Lin points to the Communist Party's effort to wipe out any memory of the violent crackdown. And she ads that some young Chinese see the
country's prosperity as justification for it.
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Now the situation looks set to go from bad to worse for FIFA. Damning allegations from one former official now public while another says he will
soon tell everything he knows.
Also ahead on the program, they took shelter from the rain at a gas station, and then an explosion happened. Dozens are dead in the capital of
Ghana. We'll have the latest.
Plus, South Korea fights to contain a deadly MERS outbreak. We'll have a live report from Seoul as more cases are confirmed.
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LU STOUT: Welcome back.
Now you're looking at live pictures from Hong Kong's Victoria Park where the annual June 4 vigil is currently underway. It has been 26 years
since the bloody crackdown at Tiananmen Square. The crackdown where hundreds of pro-Democracy protesters were killed by Chinese troops June 4
of 1989.
And this vigil, you're looking at live pictures of it as it's underway, it comes at a very tense time between Hong Kong and Beijing as
pro-democracy activists here struggle for true universal suffrage in the territory.
Welcome back. You're watching News Stream.
Now two former officials at FIFA are adding fuel to the scandal engulfing world football's governing body. Now Chuck Blazer, seen here on
the left, told U.S. prosecutors two years ago that he took bribes ahead of the 1998 and 2010 World Cups. He pleaded guilty to corruption charges in
2013 and other damaging details of what he told authorities are spelled out in a 40 page court document that's now been made public.
Now shortly after its release, ex-FIFA official Jack Warner said he, too, will spill secrets about FIFA.
Now CNN's Isa Soares is watching all the latest developments for us. She is outside FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland. She joins me now.
Isa, first, former FIFA executive Jack Warner, he has promised this avalanche of revelations. Now, what has he said so far? And what could he
reveal next?
ISA SOARES, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Kristie.
Good morning to you -- or good afternoon, I should say.
We've heard an admission of guilt from Chuck Blazer, and now another former FIFA official we're in the name of Jack Warner looking to spill the
beans. And he spoke late last night. And it was, if I may be honest, a bit of a ramble. But he is an important and central figure here, because
he was vice president of FIFA as well as president of CONCACAF. He was also a very close ally of Sepp Blatter.
And he said that he's prepared to reveal all.
Like you said, has an avalanche that is coming. Nothing can stop it, not even death. That is what he said.
He said that he has links that put FIFA as well as the Trinidad and Tobago elections into question.
He also says that he has information that really puts Sepp Blatter involved -- involves Sepp Blatter in the scandal. He says he's got all
this mounting information, papers that he will then go on to give to his lawyers.
Take a listen to what he had to say late last night.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
JACK WARNER, FRM. VICE PRESIDENT OF FIFA: You will be a lame duck president. You are the people going to ask you if you are cooking the
books and so on, right. So I said to him, step down. I said to him, Sepp Blatter I empathize with you, because I was in 2011 where you are today.
The only difference is that you caused my demise, I didn't cause yours.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
[08:15:40] SOARES: He went on to say, Kristie, that he basically is fearing for his life. But that not even that will stop him from exposing
the scandal at FIFA -- Kristie.
LU STOUT: And Isa, that shocking testimony from Chuck Blazer. I mean, just how damaging is it for FIFA and for Sepp Blatter?
SOARES: I think it will be extremely damaging, because it's painting not only from what we heard from Warner, but from Blazer, that this is
getting ever so closer to Sepp Blatter. And now we're looking at really four investigations, four World Cup investigations. We're looking 1998
World Cup, also 2010 in South Africa really going against what we heard from the South Africans yesterday saying that it wasn't a bribe, it was
money that they, quote, "legacy money for the Diaspora." And then you have the Qatar as well as the Russian World Cup.
So many here are wondering with all these allegations, when there is in the probes going on and continuing and strengthening day by day, will
Sepp Blatter be forced to step down much sooner than between four to six months. That is a question being asked.
And if he does step down, Kristie, who will take over for him? Who is clean within FIFA to take over this organization?
LU STOUT: Yeah, it seems every day we're getting new headlines, new damning revelations about FIFA.
Isa Soares joining us from outside FIFA headquarters in Zurich. Thank you.
Now a deadly explosion at a gas station in the capital of Ghana has claimed at least 76 lives. Reuters put the death toll even higher at 90.
It says the explosion was sparked by a fire that had spread from a nearby building. Dozens of people were at the gas station seeking shelter from a
storm.
Well, let's find out more about that widespread flooding in the capital of Ghana. CNN meteorologist Chad Myers joins us now -- Chad.
CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Kristie Lu, an annual event when the intertropical convergence zone moves on up into the coast from the Ivory
Coast right over to Ghana. And this is the area that sees heavy, heavy rain showers, heavy thunderstorms day after day this time of year.
Now eventually, those storms will move to the north in the summer or move to the south in the winter, but in the past couple of days right along
the coast, very heavy rainfall. In fact, some spots 130 to 150 millimeters of rain just in four days.
But this is what you expect when you live on the ITCZ. The (inaudible) here 221 millimeters for the month of June, that's the normal.
I know they picked up half of that in four days, but it's the normal.
When you see this intertropical convergence zone move right up along the coast. That's when they get their heaviest rain showers, that's the
rainy season.
Now it eventually gets farther to the north, but when it does, when it gets up toward the Sahara, you don't have enough moisture in the air to get
like real good rain showers across the Sahara, all you get are storms that blow dust and you get those dust storms that blow off the coast of Africa
and eventually get over toward the Atlantic Ocean. And then you'll see that entire dust storm roll all the way across to the central part of
either Mexico or even parts of the United States.
Here's the showers for the next couple of days. It is the rainy season, and that is what we saw here, right here, the ITCZ shifting north
by June to October getting away from them. But at least for I would say for the next three to five days, there will be heavy rain showers just like
this.
I know we're not trying to talk about recovering people and trying to rescue people here. And so the weather, the future weather, the future
weather, isn't that important, but this is what those people get every single year at this time of year, Kristie Lu.
LU STOUT: Chad Myers there. Many thanks indeed for that.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says that there are more than 9,000 Russian servicemen inside Ukraine and that the country should be
prepared for a full-scale invasion along its border. He made those comments in an annual address to parliament.
Separately, the Ukrainian military says at least 200 Russian-backed separatists fired heavy artillery at Ukrainian positions in the eastern
part of the country on Wednesday. Witnesses say it is the worst fighting they've seen since a cease-fire was announced months ago.
In Iraq, ISIS is tightening its grip over Ramadi and the surrounding towns. And the terror group now has a new weapon: water. Now the
extremists have closed some of the gates of the Ramadi dam, cutting off a water supply to pro-government towns. And the move threatens thousands.
And residents tell us that people have begun to leave fearing an ISIS assault.
Now the water level in the Euphrates is now low enough to allow ISIS fighters to cross into towns and attack.
You're watching News Stream. And still to come in the program, a touching tribute from Sheryl Sandberg The Facebook executive opens up about
the immense grief she's feeling since losing her husband and how she plans to go forward. A moving message is next.
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[08:25:04] LU STOUT: Welcome back.
Now Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg is opening up about the loss of her husband.
Dave Goldberg died suddenly last month, and Sandberg marked the end of a traditional Jewish mourning period with a heart wrenching tribute on
social media.
Sara Sidner has her reflection on love and loss.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
SARA SIDNER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: A very personal post on Facebook from company COO Sheryl Sandberg. "A childhood friend of mine who is now a
rabbi recently told me that the most powerful one line prayer has ever read is let me not die while I am still alive. I would have never understood
that prayer before losing Dave. Now I do."
Sandberg's husband, Dave Goldberg, unexpectedly died on a family vacation, leaving Sandberg a single mother and grieving widow.
"I think when tragedy occurs it presents a choice, you can give in to the void, the emptiness that fills your heart, your lungs, constricts your
ability to think or even breathe, or you can try to find meaning. I have lived 30 years in these 30 days. I am 30 years sadder. I feel like I am
30 years wiser. I have gained a more profound understanding of what it is to be a mother both to the depth of the agony I feel when my children
scream and cry, and from the connection my mother has to my pain. She's tried to fill the empty space in my bed, holding me each night until I cry
myself to sleep. She has fought to hold back her own tears to leave room for mine."
Sandberg doesn't hold back on what not to say to someone experiencing the pain of loss.
"Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be OK, but acknowledging that it is not. When people say to me, you and your children
will find happiness again, my heart tells me, yes, I believe that. But I know I will never feel pure joy again. Even a simple how are you almost
always asked with the best of intentions is better replaced with how are you today?"
Sandberg shares wisdom on life back in the office after death at home.
"I realized that to restore that closeness with my colleagues that has always been so important to me, I needed to let them in. And that meant
being more open and vulnerable than I have ever wanted to be."
Lastly, she says goodbye to her husband, marking the end of the Jewish mourning period.
"As heartbroken as I am, I look at my children each day and rejoice that they are alive. I appreciate every smile, every hug. I no longer
take each day for granted. I was talking to one of my friends about a father-child activity that Dave is not here to do. We came up with a plan
to fill in for Dave. I cried to him, but I want Dave. I want option A. He put his arm around me and said option A is not available so let's just
kick the (EXPLETIVE DELETED) out of option B. Dave, to honor your memory and raise your children as they deserve to be raised, I promise to do all I
can to kick the (EXPLETIVE DELETED) out of option B. I will always mourn for option A. As Bono sang, there is no end to grief and there is no end
to love. I love you, Dave."
(END VIDEOATPE)
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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.
Chinese authorities are beginning the process of raising a cruise ship that capsized on the Yangtze River. More than 450 people were on board the
Eastern Star, 14 were rescued and dozens of bodies have been recovered, but hundreds remain missing. Most are believed to still be inside the ship.
Now former vice president of FIFA says he will unleash a tide of revelations pertaining to FIFA and its internal secrets. Jack Warner says
it will include information about Sepp Blatter. Warner's announcement follows a newly released report that spells out what another former
official at FIFA told U.S. prosecutors two years ago. Chuck Blazer says he and others took bribes pertaining to the World Cup bidding process.
And here in Hong Kong, live pictures as thousands gathered to mark the day of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Chinese troops killed hundreds of
pro-democracy protesters 26 years ago. This year's vigil also marks a tense time in relations between Hong Kong and Beijing.
Now South Koreans are wearing masks as officials say a third person has died from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome. Dozens have been infected
with the respiratory virus. More than 1,000 schools have been closed, and more than 1,300 people are in quarantine.
The World Health Organization warns the MERS outbreak in South Korea is only likely to get worse, sparking fear across the country. Let's get
straight to Seoul now where CNN's Kathy Novak is standing by.
And Kathy, the outbreak there is growing, so what are South Korean officials doing to contain the spread of the virus?
KATHY NOVAK, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, they are stepping up their efforts, Kristie, there was criticism early on that they weren't
doing enough to contain the spread.
A man had returned from travel to the Middle East, was feeling ill, but visited four different medical facilities before it was confirmed that
he was actually infected with MERS. And at that point, he had already exposed a number of people to the virus. They went on to infect -- they
became infected by this man and now we are seeing three deaths because of it.
And what we're seeing in South Korea, too, is that a number of family members were infected, and that could be because they were spending time in
the hospital where they were also exposed to sick people.
So now the president called an emergency meeting and is doing more to identify people who may have been exposed at all and making sure that they
are quarantined, too.
LU STOUT: Kathy, this is the largest outbreak of MERS outside Saudi Arabia. This virus emerged just a couple of years ago. Why South Korea?
How did South Korea become so vulnerable to the virus?
NOVAK: Well, I think the fact is it may have happened in any country, Kristie. It may have just been unlucky in this case, but also that issue
of what I'm talking about when it comes to the early detection, that authorities admit that they did not get on top of this quickly enough, that
this man was not isolated quickly enough before he was able to infect others.
And even before a man was able to travel via Hong Kong to China, and that man has been confirmed to have MERS and he's being treated and
quarantined in China, all of this has people here worried, but it also has people who are visiting South Korea worried.
Let's have a listen to what a couple of tourists had to say about that.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: When I arrived at the international airport, I saw people wearing masks so I think there must be some disease around here.
So, I feel a bit unsecure. I buy the mask and wear here.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I thought about cancel this trip before, because the MERS news in China, you know, is very scary. But this graduation trip
is meaningful. And we schedule it long time ago.
So, we still decide to be here anyhow.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
NOVAK: Now, officials are promising more transparency when it comes to giving the public information, but people remain quite frustrated saying
that they haven't been told enough about the virus, and particular frustration over the fact that authorities have chosen not to specifically
name the hospitals that have been affected, Kristie.
LU STOUT: And the public not only in South Korea, but around the world, we want to know more about the virus itself.
Kathy, just how contagious is MERS? How high is the fatality rate?
NOVAK: Well, very little is known about MERS.
As you say, Kristie, it was only discovered in humans back in 2012. There remains no vaccine and no cure. But the CDC says that about three to
four out of every -- out of every 10 people, excuse me, die from MERS. And we do see this human to human transmission. So what the authorities
are telling people is to avoid large crowds, perhaps wear face masks, and practice personal hygiene such as washing their hands often.
LU STOUT: All right, CNN's Kathy Novak reporting live from Seoul. Thank you.
Now MERS is in the same family of viruses as the common cold and SARS. You can learn more about where cases have been reported and who may be at
risk. Just go to CNN.com.
Now the former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will stand trial again on charges that he played a role in the killing of hundreds of protesters.
A lower court had cleared Mubarak of those charged back in November, but Egypt's high court upheld a request from prosecutors to overturn the
decision.
Mubarak led Egypt for three decades, but he was forced out in early 2011 during the Arab Spring protests.
Now four refugees denied entry to Australia have arrived in Cambodia as part of a new resettlement plan. Now the three Iranians and one ethnic
Rohingya are now in Phnom Pehn. Under the deal, Cambodia will receive $30 million in aid from Australia in exchange for taking in refugees.
Rights groups have condemned the arrangement. They say Cambodia has a poor track record of protecting asylum seekers.
Now you're watching News Stream. And still to come, we will continue our special look at cyber security. How important is it for us to encrypt
our online data? A UN expert says it is key to protecting human rights.
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[08:37:40] LU STOUT: Welcome back.
All this week, we are focusing on cyber security, how governments are accessing private information online and why people are worried.
Now a new report by the United Nations is urging countries to protect digital privacy. It says people should be free to encrypt personal data.
Now encryption scrambles information digitally, so that only the intended recipient can read it. So think of it as two people sending each
other secret messages using a special key.
Now this encrypted message here, it seems to make no sense, but if you have the key you can unscramble the letters and then you can read what's
there.
Now encryption is built in some common apps and software that we use. Apple, for instance, says it encrypts users iMessages and FaceTime calls.
Now earlier I spoke to the author of the UN report on freedom of expression. And I started by asking why he thinks encryption is essential
to human rights.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
DAVID KAYE, UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR FOR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: What we found is that encryption and anonymity actually are strong enablers of
human rights. Without encryption, many people around the world simply don't have the privacy to engage in the freedom of expression.
LU STOUT: Now, U.S. federal agencies claim that encryption hurts their ability to investigate terrorists and criminal activity. How do you
respond to that?
KAYE: You know, I think that there's probably a kernel of truth to what they say, that encryption can make it harder for them to conduct
certain investigations, but at the same time I think it's really important for us to recognize that in the digital age federal agents, law
enforcement, counterterrorism experts around the world have greater access to all sorts of information than they ever did before.
I think that part of the problem is that encryption, according to that argument related to national security or law enforcement, is often seen as
the only value, when in fact encryption is a value for activists for speakers all over the world. And I think that policymakers simply need to
take that into account.
And I think it's really important, also, for people to understand that so much of their lives online, whether they're dealing with banking or with
their health data, or any other kind of private data, typically is undertaken with encryption in the background. And that same kind of
protection that we enjoy when we're going to do our banking or to talk to our doctor, which I think many people would find essential, certainly
that's also essential when it comes to our private thoughts, to our opinions, to our searches online and things like that, that states should
not be able to access that kind of information.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
[08:40:25] LU STOUT: David Kaye there.
Now, there is another way to make your account more secure. It's called two factor authentication. And it's actually pretty simple. Most
accounts are only secured by a password, so if you think of an account as like your house, it's like having only one lock on your door. But two
factor authentication is like adding a second lock, like a bolt or a chain.
And the idea is to add another layer of security, so if someone steals the key to your door or the password to your account, you are still safe.
Now two factor authentication can take different forms. One common way is to add your mobile phone number to your account. You get a unique
code sent to your phone and you'll need that code along with your password to log in.
Now there's another common way many businesses use, you might already have it in your pocket, your company or bank may have given you a security
token like these. You generate a special code every minute that you'll need to log in.
Two factor authentication is not perfect, but it's a simple way to add more security to your accounts.
Now our special focus on cyber security continues tomorrow by looking at the man who highlighted a threat to privacy, Edward Snowden.
Now before we go, the giant monster that once terrorized the residents of Tokyo is now Japan's newest citizen. Godzilla has been granted
residency in the capital city's entertainment district. A replica of the fire breathing monster's head is now sitting on top of a movie theater
there. Tokyo's mayor approved a special residency certificate and appointed the famous lizard as tourism ambassador.
The people of Tokyo may have been terrified of Godzilla in the past, but now it seems all has been forgiven.
And that is News Stream. I'm Kristie Lu Stout, but don't go anywhere. World Sport with Patrick Snell is up next. But we'll leave you with one
last look at the candlelight vigil underway here in Hong Kong. Thousands of people are marking the 26th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square
crackdown.
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