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Parole Board Recommends Release of Oscar Pistorius; Massive Manhunt for Escaped Murderers in Upstate New York; Texas Police Officer Under Investigation After Confrontation at Community Pool; Nearly 6,000 Refugees Picked up in Mediterranean Over Weekend; In Search of Jack Warner; Turkish Voters Reject President Erdogan's Plan, Force AKP Into Coalition Government. Aired 8:00a-9:00A ET

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[08:00:15] KRISTIE LU STOUT, HOST: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. And welcome to News Stream.

Now European countries join forces to rescue thousands of people trapped at sea as more migrants continue to make the dangerous journey

across the Mediterranean.

Turkish voters deal a major political blow to their president.

And we'll show you what's next from the world's biggest drone company, a drone that can stop itself from flying into walls.

In the next hour, a British navy ship carrying 1,200 migrants is expected to dock in port at Catania, Sicily.

Now there are 10 pregnant women on board, all were rescued from unsafe boats trying to cross the Mediterranean.

Now nearly 6,000 people were picked up in total over the weekend. The number of refugees trying to reach Europe from North Africa is on the rise

recently. Like we do to good weather and calmer seas.

Now the Italian coast guard and UN refugee agency says that nearly 100,000 migrants have reached Europe's shores so far this year. That is a

huge increase over last year. And while the majority have landed in Italy, the migrant issue spans far beyond just one country.

UNHCR is working to address concerns in both Europe and Southeast Asia starting with beefing up its presence on seven Greek Islands. The refugee

agency says 42,000 migrants have arrived there in the first five months of this year.

And, on the other side of the world, the group is appealing for $13 million to help tens of thousands of refugees crossing the by of Bengal and

the Andaman Sea. Most are fleeing Myanmar and Bangladesh and end up in Malaysia and Indonesia.

Now let's head straight to Sicily now where the latest migrant rescue ship is expected to arrive shortly. CNN senior international correspondent

Nic Robertson joins me live from the Port of Catania.

Nic, we are waiting the arrival of another migrant ship there. Could you tell us who is on board and what will happen to them when they arrive?

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, I'm just seeing the first of the Red Cross vehicles arrive here on the harbor. That is the

sign the boat isn't far away. And of course, it is the Red Cross who will give the first assistance to these migrants once they come ashore on board

the HMS Bulwark, there are, of course, medical facilities and sailors that are trained, obviously, in first aid to help the people on board the vessel

-- the people that they've picked up 1,200 of them, 10 of them pregnant women, we're told, many children also.

What will happen after they are seen by the Red Cross when they come ashore is they will then be processed by immigration authorities here.

They will go to an immigration center. They will get further processing there. They can stay there for, you know, as long as they like. They can

apply for political asylum as long as they like in the short-term, if you will.

But some of them choose to leave, some of them will leave, we're told, within the, you know, within the following couple of days.

Who to expect to board this boat? We're told that there are Syrians, that there are Egyptians, Libyans, people from Mali in the north of Africa,

people from Nigeria, also people from as far away as Pakistan are on board this British Royal Naval vessel -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: Got the International Organization for Migration, Nic, says, quote, the numbers are high and they are rising. I want to get your

thoughts on this. What re the factors fueling this migrant crisis there in the Mediterranean?

ROBERTSON: You know, one of the I think the tough issues for all these European nations, you have the British obviously docking here

shortly. The Italians, you have independent vessels, but you also have the Spanish navy, the Irish navy, the German navy, the Swedish navy all working

in the seas here. And I think one of the questions they will be asking themselves is why did so many people put to sea just very close to the

weekend?

One of the reasons that does appear to be clear is that the weather was good. It's been sunny. The sea has been relatively calm. The winds

haven't been too strong.

But, what -- what -- who was perhaps behind the decision to send them all out at the same time? Because these are migrants. These decisions are

not left in their hands. The HMS Bulwark that will dock here shortly. We're told that it helped rescue people from 15 different vessels.

Now 12 of those, we're told, are rubber inflatable dinghies, some of them designed only to handle normally about 20 people yet 100 people or so

were crammed aboard.

So, I think certainly from the neighbors that are working here and the aid agencies, there is a lot more to learn about why you get big waves like

this. This is the biggest wave of migrants coming across the Mediterranean in one weekend so far this year. And the statistics as well taking into

account how many this year and comparing that to how many last year by the same time.

The numbers are making very significant jumps. And that's a concern with all that lack of knowledge about why it's happening, Kristie.

[08:05:32] LU STOUT: Over the weekend, we know that thousands of migrants were rescued and it wasn't just the Italian coast guard involved

in this effort at sea to rescue the migrants, you told us that a number of other countries involved as well. Is it your sense that this migrant

crisis has finally become a shared responsibility among a number of EU states?

ROBERTSON: Well, going back to last year when Italy decided to scale back its rescue efforts and then moving forward into the sort of later

spring this year when you had the capsizing and the loss of hundreds of migrants at sea trying to make the crossing, it does seem -- and it has

happened -- that European politicians have got together and said, OK, what can we do to help with this humanitarian disaster and tragedy that's

happening, and how can we manage it going forward?

Well, that sort of first step has been taken inasmuch as the neighbors are working much closer together. You know, the British secretary of

defense was on board HMS Bulwark at the weekend. We've heard British Prime Minister David Cameron at the G7 meeting talking about, you know, Britain

won't walk on by in a situation like this. It's become a big political issue inside Europe, and the British are keen to be seen to be doing their

part.

But there have been two German vessels here around Sicily that were out in the Mediterranean picking up migrants, dropping them off. The Irish

picked up several hundred people at sea over the weekend. They took them to mainland Italy. The Spanish as well, the Swedish.

So it is a multinational European effort.

And then add in the independent actors here MOAS. They were operating the MV Phoenix we saw dock last night, 372 people aboard that, 366 of them

from Eritrea.

Doctors Without Borders also operating a vessel in the Mediterranean.

So it's a very, very big operation, Kristie.

LU STOUT: Yeah, Nic Robertson there reporting on this multinational effort to save the lives of thousands of desperate migrants. Nic

Robertson, thank you so much for your reporting.

Voters, meanwhile, in Turkey have just shaken up their country's political landscape in a major way. They said no to President Recep Tayyip

Erdogan and his push for more power over the constitution.

Instead, his ruling party failed to win a majority on Sunday and must now find a coalition partner.

Now meanwhile, a pro-Kurdish party is celebrating after winning enough votes to enter parliament for the very first time.

CNN's Arwa Damon has more.

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ARWA DAMON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: 80-year-old Gula Duldurmiga (ph) has voted in every election since she turned 18. In her

lifetime, she has seen how unforgiving political, and by default economic, instability here can be.

"Everything has its importance," she says. "We've been through so many eras. Every passying day has its significance."

And this most certainly is among them: no matter what the outcome, this parliamentary election was going to significantly shape the country's

future. And it has: and end to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's single party rule. His Justice and Development Party, the AKP, fell short of the

needed 276 seats and will have to, for the first time since they came to power in 2002 form a coalition, or according to some analysts, even call

for early parliamentary elections.

Throughout the voting stations we visited, there was a sense of unease. In some areas, people easily aggravated, as we witnessed here at a

polling station in one of Istanbul's conservative neighborhoods where the AKP enjoys a solid support base.

Despite the fact that regulations clearly state that as media we are allowed into polling stations as long as we're not impeding on individual's

ability to vote, we were just asked to leave the premises here. A sizable argument ended up breaking out after those local authorities in the

building were unclear as to whether or not we should be allowed to film, illustrating just how tense the situation here potentially is.

Contributing to that was the fate of the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party, the HDP, attempting for the first time to enter

parliament as a party and to achieve that having to cross a 10 percent national threshold.

They succeeded and made history.

These results are the triumph of freedoms in the face of oppression, and of peace in the face of war, (inaudible), HDP parliamentarian declared.

A key factor that drove up the HDP votes was fear of what the AKP would do if it gained enough seats to unilaterally overhaul the

constitution and implement a presidential system that could potentially see Erdogan in power indefinitely.

And the HDP, a traditionally pro-Kurdish party, has grown into a more inclusive entity. No longer alienating Turkey's traditional secularists.

24-year-old Yamur Yanaz does not have Kurdish roots, nor does she view the HDP as being a uniquely Kurdish party. She believes that the HDP will

work to safeguard human and women's rights.

[08:10:51] YAMUR YANAZ, HDP SUPPORTER: There is a change going on and that's really exciting for me, for everyone really.

DAMON: But change here is never easy, and rarely smooth.

Arwa Damon, CNN, Istanbul.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: And this breaking news just in to CNN, a recommended release for the paralympian Oscar Pistorius, South African correctional

services has told CNN that a parole board met with him last week and will recommend he be released on August 21.

Pistorius will have served 10 months of a five year sentence for culpable homicide in the killing of his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

You're watching News Stream. And still to come on the program, the Iraqi city of Baiji changes hands again with Iraqi troops claiming to have

liberated it from ISIS.

Also ahead, more problems for America's police as a Texas cop wrestles a 14-year-old girl to the floor and pulls his pistol at a pool party. And

the question now is this excessive?

Also ahead, we are in the Caribbean on the hunt for former FIFA vice president Jack Warner.

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LU STOUT: All right. Welcome back.

Iraqi troops with, quote, significant support from the U.S. have just retaken the oil refinery city of Baiji. A Shia militia spokesman says the

city has now been completely liberated, but the refinery itself has yet to be captured from ISIS.

Now according to the Iraqi Defense Ministry, ISIS forces fled Toward Mosul, but left booby traps behind in Baiji.

Now an international manhunt is underway for two killers who made an audacious escape from a maximum security prison in upstate New York. Now

the breakout involved power tools and decoy dummies. And the pair left a note to the prison guards.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has told CNN they must have had help, and that authorities are focusing on civilian employees and contractors at

the prison.

Now Polo Sandoval joins me now from outside the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora. And what can you tell us. This huge manhunt is

underway.

POLO SANDOVAL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: You know, it's interesting, though, Kristie is while that manhunt does continue, there is a sense of normalcy

here in this small town in upstate New York. We've seen school buses essentially driving through some of these checkpoints that have been set up

in and around the prison itself. So clearly people here trying to get their life back to normal.

But as for authorities they are in this very real race, and that's to find out where these two guys are and exactly how they were able to break

out of this prison.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

[08:15:08] UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're leaving no stone unturned. They could literally anywhere.

SANDOVAL: Two convicted murderers escaping this maximum security prison for the first time in its 170 year history. It has hundreds of law

enforcement officers scouring upstate New York this morning.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: These are dangerous people.

SANDOVAL: The massive manhunt is on for a 35-year-old David Sweat, who was sentenced to life with no parole for a 2002 killing of a sheriff's

deputy, and 49-year-old Richard Matt, who was spending 25 to life for beating a man to death and dismembering him in 1997.

GOV. ANDREW CUOMO, (D) NEW YORK: When you look at how it was done, it was extraordinary.

SANDOVAL: New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo taking a tour of their elaborate and almost unbelievable escape route discovered around 5:30

Saturday morning.

CUOMO: It must have kept you awake with all that cutting, huh?

SANDOVAL: After stuffing makeshift dummies into their beds so the guards thought they were sleeping, the inmates somehow obtained power tools

to cut this hole in the back of their cell, cutting through solid steal, they exited onto a catwalk. From the catwalk, they had to shimmy down into

a tunnel below. Once there, they had to break through a 24-inch brick wall, then cut through a 24 inch steel vertical pipe, which they then

shimmied into continuing for a significant distance until cutting another hole, making their way into the city sewer.

Then, when they reached a manhole, they had to cut through a steal lock and chain, finally disappearing into the neighborhood about a block

away from the prison.

But not before leaving this racially offensive drawing for prison officials on a Post-It reading "have a nice day."

LISA VAN SUSTEREN, FORENSIC PSYCHIATRIST: It's clear that they had help. There's no way -- power tools don't just materialize inside prison

cells. This has been being planned for a very long time.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

SANDOVAL: Back out live here in the rainy streets of Dennemore in New York I could tell you that dozens of leads have come in. And authorities

are following up on every single one of them, however, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo telling us that none of those tips or leads are strong enough

to lead authorities in any direction, Kristie.

So again it really does go back to what you heard at the very top of that piece from that official, they could be anywhere, that's the best way

to summarize what the situation is like here on the ground with the Canadian border only about 40 kilometers from where we are, there's a very

real concern that these two individuals may not even be together or possibly even left the country.

LU STOUT: Yeah, two convicted killers on the run. And as you said, they could be anywhere.

Polo Sandoval joining us live from New York. Many thanks indeed for that.

Now staying in the U.S. and the outcry over a confrontation between police and teenagers at a community pool in Texas. Now the officer

involved is on leave while the force investigates whether excessive force was used.

Chris Cuomo has the story.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get on the ground.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hold up, sir.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I told you to stay. Get your (EXPLETIVE DELETED) down on the ground.

CHRIS CUOMO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Kids having fun or chaos? This scene in McKinney, Texas over the weekend has some calling for this officer to be

disciplined for using excessive force.

The approximately seven minute video posted on YouTube Saturday shows a situation out of control. The officer seen wrestling a 14-year-old girl

in a swimsuit to the ground. He then pulls his firearm on two unarmed boys before turning his attention back to the girl.

(CROSSTALK)

UNIDENITIFIED MALE: On your face.

CUOMO: The officer has both knees on her back.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The officer was overzealous. These are children. They've got to be able to handle things in a better manner than this.

CUOMO: In response to the video, McKinney police have said.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A formal investigation into the incident has been started. And the officer involved has been placed on administrative leave

pending the outcome of the investigation.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: All right, that was Chris Cuomo reporting.

A CNN legal analyst says that more must be learned about exactly what police were told in calls before they arrived at the scene to judge whether

the response was appropriate.

Now the Hong Kong government is asking people to avoid traveling to South Korea unless it is absolutely necessary. Now that's in response to

the growing MERS crisis. 87 cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome have been confirmed and six people have died.

More than 2,500 are now being kept in quarantine. Nearly 2,000 schools have been closed to try to stop the disease from spreading. And

the World Health Organization is sending experts to South Korea to assess the measures being taken.

Now a top official for football's world governing body says Qatar and Russia may lose the right to host the next World Cups if there's evidence

that bribery was used to help win their bids.

Now meanwhile, the BBC reports that documents show FIFA transferred $10 million to accounts controlled by former FIFA vice president Jack

Warner who then used that money for himself.

Fred Pleitgen is following developments for us from London. He joins us now. And Fred, another day, another revelation about bribery at FIFA.

What more can you tell us?

[08:20:05] FRED PLEITGEN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, I would say over the weekend, many new revelations -- or many new allegations

at least here with FIFA.

As you said, there are several. And it's quite difficult to keep track of them, so we'll sort of work through them.

On the one hand, as you've just said, there is that BBC investigation that apparently shows that money that was wired into an account controlled

by Jack Warner, the former head of CONCACAF was apparently used for personal use, this is $10 million, even though that shouldn't have

happened.

Now you're absolutely right, the money came from FIFA, however, it came on order from South Africa shortly after that country won the bid to

host the World Cup in 2010.

The money was originally supposed to be used for football development in Central America, especially for people with -- of African descent.

That, of course, it seems as though at this point is not something that has happened. And certainly that is also one of the focal points of the U.S.

investigation.

Then, on the other hand we have what the Sunday Times has revealed. They have brought out videos that apparently show FIFA delegates talking

about pretty open bribery on -- before the World Cup 2010 was awarded. And the major thing about that is that they say -- or at least some of them say

-- that in the end when they got together it appeared as though Morocco had actually won the bid for the World Cup, that it had obtained the most

votes, but in the end it was South Africa that was announced as the winner.

Now, again, it's unclear whether or not this is true. It's unclear what to make of it. Certainly so far FIFA has said it has no comment on

it. But it seems as though at this point in time the allegations really are coming in by the day, Kristie.

LU STOUT: Indeed. And the storm just keeps growing over FIFA.

Fred Pleitgen reporting live for us. Thank you.

You're watching News Stream. And still to come, we're taking drones to the next level. We visit the world's leading consumer drone company to

see why they're opening their drones up for developers.

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LU STOUT: Now, they've been used by photographers and troublemakers alike. And now the world's biggest done company is trying to find new uses

for the flying machines by opening its latest drone out for developers to tinker with.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

[08:25:01] LU STOUT: The distinctive buzz of a drone, a sound becoming more common as people snap them up. And no company sells more consumer

drones than China's DJI.

We traveled to their headquarters in Shenzhen to see their latest flying machine.

So this is the M100, which looks like a stripped down version of a DJI drone. And that's absolutely intentional.

MICHAEL PERRY, PUBLIC RELATIONS MANAGER, DJI: That's right. So, the M100 is our developer platform. It comes ready to go out of the box,

everything to actually make it fly. It's just set. But the cool thing is, is that you can integrate any hardware component or software component into

the platform to make it do a wide variety of things.

LU STOUT: The M100 comes at an important time for DJI. 3D Robotics is set to release their solo drone later this month, and it is expected to

be their toughest competition yet. So, DJI is asking developers to come up with new ways to use and improve their products, hoping to grow their

market by giving people more reasons to buy their drones.

For example, this thermal camera attachment can enhance farmer's abilities to check on crops. DJI says other addons can help police check

on illegally parked cars, or give construction crews another perspective on their work.

Developers are also finding new ways to control drones.

One created a way to move the camera simply by turning your head.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Where you look is where the camera will look. And so if, say, I'm flying a drone above you in the sky, I can actually look

down and around and actually focus on a certain point of view to see whatever I'd like.

LU STOUT: DJI's attempt to make drones more than just a fun toy or a tool for photographers, and it allows the company to ease the burden of

innovation off itself.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There are so many creative ways that we haven't been able to think about that we want the general public to then go out and

create and innovate.

LU STOUT: At $3,000, it's unlikely that regular consumers will tinker with the M100. But DJI is hoping third party developers can take drones to

new heights by testing new ideas on the M100.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: Now DJI's latest drone does boast one eagerly awaited feature, it has a special system to stop it from flying into walls.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

PERRY: The guidance system is our first foray into collision avoidance. It's got ultrasonic sensors and a 3D camera that tells the

platform information about the world around it. So that if it starts flying towards a wall, it will automatically stop itself so that it doesn't

collide.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LU STOUT: Now, the pope star Enrique Iglesias is probably hoping his DJI drone had that feature. He injured his hand at a concert last month

when he reached out to grab a drone.

You're watching New Stream. Still to come, as G7 leaders meet in Germany, it is talks on the sidelines of the summit that are gaining quite

a bit of attention.

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[08:30:20] LU STOUT: Now, more on our breaking news this hour, a recommended release for Paralympian Oscar Pistorius. South African

Correctional Services has told CNN that a parole board met with him last week and will recommend he'll be released on August 21. Now CNN's Robyn

Kriel is in Johannesburg. She joins me now live.

And Robyn, this is really a shocking announcement. Tell us more about what brought about this decision to release Oscar Pistorius from prison on

parole in August?

ROBYN KRIEL, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORREPSONDENT: I believe, Kristie, that is just one-sixth of the sentence, just 10 months after the section of

276 of criminal procedure act allows the inmate to be considered for parole in terms of good behavior, how he has acted in prison, et cetera.

But indeed, he could be out of jail within two months. However, according to legal analyst Ullrich Roe (ph) he would be placed under house

arrest on the 21st of August if he is released. And if the supreme court of appeals here in South Africa overturns Judge Masipa's decision, he could

even be sent back to jail.

LU STOUT: But we do have this announcement that he will be released from prison on parole by the end of August. How is the family of Reeva

Steenkamp reacting to this announcement?

KRIEL: Well, according to local news, Kristie, they are shocked and very upset at this announcement. Obviously, they lost their daughter.

This has been a very traumatic and lengthy trial. The world's media eyes on them. June Steenkamp just recently released her book detailing her pain

and trauma that she went through both during the trial and obviously at the loss of her daughter Reeva Steenkamp.

So, yes, shocked and unhappy with this announcement, to say the very least.

LU STOUT: And also the state's appeal against a Pistorius verdict, where does that stand? When will it begin, that process, and what could it

mean for the fate of Oscar Pistorius?

KRIEL: It could really go either way. The state's appeal, according to a Paul Meiburg (ph), who is the registrar at the SCA, the Supreme Court

of Appeals here in South Africa, he told CNN that the deputy president of the SCA and advocates have agreed to have their heads of argument ready for

November so it will definitely happen in November as to when that exact date will be announced. That will get decided in August.

LU STOUT: All right, Robyn Kriel on the story for us. Many thanks indeed for your reporting.

Now several global issues being dealt with at the G7 summit in Germany. Now, Russia and the Ukraine are at the top of the list, but U.S.

President Barack Obama is also meeting the prime minister of Iraq to talk about the fight against ISIS.

But those are just two of the issues that world leaders are grappling with.

Now senior White House Correspondent Jim Acosta joins us now. And Jim, we're awaiting Angela Merkel to speak. She wants to put the attention

on climate change, but all eyes on this sideline meeting between the Iraqi prime minister and the U.S. president.

JIM ACOSTA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Kristie.

You know, the most important meeting of the president's day here at this G7 summit is with a leader who is not part of the G7, and that is

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi. We know that the Iraqi prime minister is here in search of more assistance for his country's fight

against ISIS.

We're told by senior administration officials not to expect any big announcement on that front coming out of this summit, but the president

also has a diplomatic goal in mind for this meeting, Kristie, and that is to sort of smooth over some of these tensions that have emerged in recent

weeks between the U.S. and Iraq over those comments made by the U.S. defense secretary Ash Carter when he told CNN that he did not think the

Iraqis had the will to fight.

I would expect that the president will add some context to those comments during this bilateral discussion with Haider al-Abadi. But I

don't think he's going to walk away with a big arms agreement coming out of this G7 summit.

The other thing we should point out, and it's been playing out over the last 24 hours, is that a lot of attention is being paid to Russia and

Ukraine. Already, the White House has put out several statements coming out of bilateral meetings with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, with French

President Francois Hollande, all saying that these sanctions are going to remain in place and be linked to Russia's respect for that Minsk cease-fire

agreement and respect for Ukraine's sovereignty. That is an indication, at least that they hope over at the White House, and among some of these G7

members, that Europe will stay in line at the end of the month.

They have this deadline coming up at that time. They are going to potentially renew these sanctions on Russia. Russia doesn't want to see

that. The U.S. desperately wants to see that happen. And they will feel like if they can walk out of this summit with a big agreement, and we're

expecting to see that later on in the day saying that these sanctions should remain in place. The White House feels like that will be a win.

You mentioned climate, Kristie, that has certainly been on the agenda. We know Angela Merkel is a fierce champion of that cause. And a lot of the

groundwork that's being laid at this summit is for a climate change summit that is expected to happen in France later on in December.

The president is keenly aware of this issue. He's been working on it, you know, on a big part of his agenda back in Washington as well.

So, we may hear some of that when the president has a news conference here within the next couple of hours. The president may talk about that as

well, Kristie.

LU STOUT: Yeah, that's what we're waiting to hear from next. I mean, so far a number of issues as you mentioned -- the crisis in Ukraine and

Russia, the strategy to fight ISIS in Iraq and the relationship between U.S. and Iraq.

Merkel she wants to really put the focus on fighting climate change. She wants the G7 leaders to reach an agreement on limiting global

temperature rises. What is the U.S. stance on this? And do you think there will be a consensus, an agreement coming out of this summit?

ACOSTA: I think there will be some climate language in that communique, the diplomatic communique, that will come out of this G7 summit

committing all of these countries to combating climate change.

I don't think there will be any, you know, any hard language in there committing these countries to achieving certain goals.

But the United States has the same view that Angela Merkel has that poor countries, for example, should have a climate fund to combat climate

change. The president announced a $3 billion contribution to that sort of fund last November when he was in Australia.

And so, you know, they are certainly seeing eye-to-eye on that issue. And for our international viewers who may not be aware of this, because the

president cannot get climate legislation through congress, Kristie, he has been doing a whole host of executive actions, executive orders at the White

House committing the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States as well as other federal agencies to do what they can administratively to

go after emissions levels to combat climate change.

So, it's a big item on the president's agenda. Whether or not the entire world can hammer out some sort of agreement at the end of the year,

I think that remains to be seen. But they're trying to lay the groundwork for that here at this summit in the Alps.

It's a big item on the agenda. It's certainly being crowded out somewhat by Ukraine and ISIS, but it's on the agenda for sure, Kristie.

LU STOUT: Got it. Appreciate the perspective. Jim Acosta reporting live. Thank you.

You're watching News Stream. And just ahead...

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ROBYN CURNOW, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: We're looking for Jack. Do you know where he is?

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LU STOUT: It was a long day, but Robyn Curnow found Jack Warner, the former FIFA vice president who the U.S. wants to see stand trial.

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LU STOUT: All right. Welcome back.

As the FIFA scandal grows, this man has been one of the key figures.

Now former FIFA exec Jack Warner has been charged in the U.S., accused of taking bribes as part of South Africa's World Cup bid. Now CNN's Robyn

Curnow headed to Trinidad in search of the wanted man.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

CURNOW: The list of football officials facing corruption charges is extensive. But for international law enforcement, none would be a greater

get than Jack Warner. Former FIFA vice president and the biggest power in sport throughout the Americas for two decades.

As claims against the 72-year-old mount, we went to find him at his island home flying from Atlanta to Miami and all across the Caribbean to

this dot on the map now arguably the eye of the FIFA storm.

A quick drive to the hotel and then we hit the phones.

[08:40:31] UNIDENITIFIED FEMALE: Please leave a message after the tone.

CURNOW: Mr. Warner, it's Robyn Curnow here from CNN.

We left a voice-mail, perhaps Jack Warner would give us an interview.

The man we're searching for is truly a Jack of all trades in business, in politics, in sport. Here in Trinidad, he's a member of parliament.

Next stop, his constituency.

By now, we had his email address, too. I tap out a brief request. Pressed send.

Office of the member of parliament for Chaguanas West.

And then we almost stumbled on Jack Warner's office.

UNIDENITIFIED MALE: Who are you looking for, Jack?

CURNOW: We're looking for Jack. Do you know where he is?

Hello. Do you work here?

Inside, we're stonewalled by an office manager.

Is he here now?

UNIDENITIFIED FEMALE: Yes. And he has asked that you respect that (inaudible)...

CURNOW: Other media turn up, too. Warner's staff offering a perimeter of security.

But he was there...

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LU STOUT: All right. Let's head straight to Germany now with the German chancellor Angela Merkel is speaking now at the G7 summit. Let's

listen in.

(GERMAN CHANCELLOR G7 SUMMIT SPEECH)

[08:58:13] LU STOUT: And that was German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaking at the G7 summit in Germany. A number of the issues she mentioned

were on the table just then. She talked about the role of women in the workplace was discussed by G7 leaders. They also discussed climate change,

trade, terrorism and the crisis in Ukraine.

Now addressing Ukraine, Angela Merkel said that it could only be solved in a political way. Angela Merkel also said, quote, we need to have

a proper government in Libya and she drew a link between the Instability in Libya and the ongoing migrant crisis in the Mediterranean. Angela Merkel,

the German Chancellor, also said that the G7 made promises on reducing emissions to limit global temperature rises.

And that's all for News Stream. I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. World Business Today with Maggie Lake is next.

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