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Joyce Mitchell Sought Special Favors for Inmates; S.S. State Rep. Bill Chumley says Confederate Flag Misused, Mis-Education Brought Debate to This Point; White Supremacist Group Similar to ISIS Terrorist Group; North Carolina Teen's Arrest Underscores ISIS Influence in U.S.; Tal Abyad Residents Try to Rebuild Lives After ISIS; Record-Breaking Heat Wave Causes Death in Pakistan; Pension Reform Infuriates Greek Citizens; How U.S. Alleges Chinese Hack May Have Occurred; North Korea Sentences Two South Koreans "Spies" to Hard Labor for Life; U.K. Arrests Rwanda Intelligence Chief; Heat Wave Hits Pakistan; Japan's Middle-Aged Virgins. Aired 2-3a ET

Aired June 23, 2015 - 02:00   ET

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[02:00:11] ERROL BARNETT, CNN ANCHOR: Barefoot in the forest. One of these escaped inmates in New York may have left his boots behind.

ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: More than 700 people in Pakistan are dead in a sweltering heat wave and some morgues are filled to capacity.

BARNETT: Booby-traps and explosives, what ISIS left when it was pushed out of a Syrian town.

CHURCH: I'm Rosemary Church. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world.

BARNETT: And I'm Errol Barnett. We're your anchor team for the next two hours. Thanks for joining us. This is CNN NEWSROOM.

CHURCH: And we begin this hour in New York State with new details about just how far a prison seamstress allegedly went to help two convicted killers escape.

BARNETT: CNN has learned Joyce Mitchell routinely sought out favors for the inmates, and now it's confirmed she provided them with the tools they need to break out.

Jason Carroll has more on the manhunt.

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JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A law enforcement official tells CNN that Richard Matt and David Sweat may have left behind personal items, including a pair of boots and provisions they may have planned to take with them as they rushed out in a hurry. The manhunt now intensifying in the wooded area just 20 miles west of the prison. A source with knowledge of the investigation tells CNN that Mitchell

passed tools used in the escape in a chunk of frozen hamburger meat. Mitchell asked a guard on the Honor Block to carry the meat into the prison and passed to Richard Matt.

This as Mitchell's husband is speaking out for the first time, telling NBC's "Today Show" that they planned on killing him to help make their escape go smoothly.

LYLE MITCHELL, HUSBAND OF JOYCE MITCHELL: Matt wanted her to pick her up. I never leave nowheres without Lyle. He said, I will give you pills to knock him out and you can pick us up. She said, I can't do that. She told me he started to threaten her that someone inside the facilities would do something to harm me or kill me or somebody outside of the jail.

CARROLL: Had she picked them up, he thinks she would not have survived.

MITCHELL: She would have been dead within a half an hour, I figure. They were going to kill her, and all they wanted was the vehicle.

CARROLL: And Lyle Mitchell denying reports that his wife had a sexual relationship with either of the inmates.

MITCHELL: She swore on her son's life, I never had sex with them.

CARROLL: And new video obtained by "ABC News" offers some insight into the mindset of Richard Matt in 1997, smiling and posing with a blow gun.

RICHARD MATT, ESCAPED CONVICT: Dip these in AIDS blood and we'll put padding on them and sell them as a deadly weapon.

CARROLL: The blow gun is fired into his arm. This video taken nine months before he murdered and dismembered his own boss putting Matt behind bars.

(on camera): Prison policy now under review. And the New York state inspector general has joined the investigation looking into everything that went on before that daring escape.

Jason Carroll, CNN, Cadyville, New York.

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BARNETT: In the wake of the church massacre in South Carolina, lawmakers have voted to open up a debate on a bill to remove the Confederate flag from the state capital. Hundreds rallied on the steps on the state house.

CHURCH: 10 representatives voted against the bill. One of them, Republican Representative Bill Chumley, told CNN's Drew Griffin that, quote, "The misuse and mis-education of the flag has pushed it to this point." He then steered the conversation in a different direction.

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STATE REP. BILL CHUMLEY, (R), SOUTH CAROLINA: We are focusing on the wrong thing. We have to focus on the nine families that are left and see this doesn't happen again. These people sit in there and waited their turn to be shot. That's sad. And somebody in there with the means of self-defense could have stopped this and we would have had less funerals.

DREW GRIFFIN, CNN NATIONAL INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT: Are you turning this into a gun debate? If those nine families asked you to take down that flat, would you do it?

CHUMLEY: Why didn't someone just do something? I mean, you have one skinny person shooting a gun, you know? I mean, we need to take and do what we can now --

GRIFFIN: I want to make sure I understand what you are telling me. Are you asking that these people should have tackled him? The women should have fought him?

CHUMLEY: I don't know what the answer was but I know it's really horrible for nine people to be shot. And I understand that he reloaded his gun during the process. That's upsetting.

[02:05:12] GRIFFIN: Those nine families and every black person in South Carolina and all of the people, the white people who are against that flag, believe it shouldn't be on the state grounds, you are saying it should stay because your constituents want it to?

CHUMLEY: It stays there until the people of South Carolina say it should come down.

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CHURCH: Drew Griffin with that report.

U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful, Hillary Clinton, is weighing in on the Confederate flag debate. While campaigning in Missouri she praised retailers who announced they would stop selling Confederate flag merchandise.

BARNETT: And she also voiced support for the movement to remove the flag from the grounds of the South Carolina state capital.

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HILLARY CLINTON, (D), FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE & PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: (APPLAUSE)

CLINTON: Recognizing it as a symbol of our nation's racist past that has no place in our present or our future, it shouldn't fly there. It shouldn't fly anywhere.

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(END VIDEO CLIP) BARNETT: Now we also have newly released dash cam video to show you that reveals the moment that the police arrested the alleged Charleston church shooter in Shelby, North Carolina, Thursday, 400 kilometers from Charleston.

CHURCH: Officials say the 21-year-old confessed to killing nine African-Americans at an historic black church.

Roof told investigators he wanted to start a race war, allegedly inspired by a white supremacist movement.

BARNETT: And as CNN's Sara Sidner reports, the movement may have similarities to the terror group ISIS.

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SARA SIDNER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): They promise a better life, purity, a way to erase people who don't think like them.

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SIDNER: In song and words they tell their followers to fight for what they believe in. Sound familiar?

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SIDNER (on camera): Are there similarities between white supremacist groups in the U.S. and ISIS?

BOB BAER, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY ANALYST: In a lot of ways, they are identical.

SIDNER (voice-over): Bob Baer should know. He spent decades as a CIA operative in the Middle East. Now back in America, he points out that the grievances of homegrown hate groups virtually match those of terrorist groups in the Middle East.

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BAER: I think at the bottom of this there's a feel for both ISIS and white supremacists a feeling of injustice, whether from the south or marginalize white people, and they think they have been robbed of something. The Sunnis, ISIS, they think they have been robbed with the invasion of Iraq. And they are trying to re-impose justice.

SIDNER: Dylann Roof is a case in point. A website registered in Roof's name features a manifesto that blasts modern America and blames black people and other minorities for the current state of America. "I hate the sight of the American flag. Modern American patriotism is an absolute joke." And goes on to say, "I have no choice. I am not in the position to alone go into the ghetto and fight."

And online is where Roof and so many other angry, dispossessed people now find an audience for their hateful views. BRIAN LEVIN, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY: Whether it's ISIS or

American domestic extremists, they are look for young people in their 20s, socially isolated, who have a little bit of familiarity with the ideology or are unstable, frustrated and angry and susceptible to it.

SIDNER: The main difference? ISIS is more sophisticated in its messaging, using slick videos. White supremacists, not so much. Still, ask any expert on the subject and they'll tell you, homegrown terrorism is more dangerous to the average American than ISIS.

Take a look at this map, created by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups in America. Those are the numbers of hate groups in each state.

And former CIA operative, Baer, says predicting their behavior is more difficult than that of ISIS recruits.

BAER: I'm more worried about domestic terrorism. Most of them are fairly benign. Just because you fly the rebel flag doesn't mean you will be violent.

SIDNER: The real danger is when the message connects with someone like Dylann Roof, ready, willing and able to carry it out.

Sara Sidner, CNN, Los Angeles.

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BARNETT: Now the case of another American teenager, this one accused of being radicalized by ISIS.

CHURCH: The 19-year-old from North Carolina allegedly had plans to kill a thousand people.

Jim Sciutto reports it's the latest in a series of arrests that underscore ISIS influence in the United States.

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[02:10:04] JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): He's a teenager, a Muslim convert from North Carolina and, allegedly, the latest ISIS recruit in the U.S. According to the criminal complaint, Justin Sullivan told an undercover agent he was planning to obtain a semiautomatic rifle to kill as many as a thousand people. He also threatened to use, quote, "biological weapons," coating bullets with cyanide and setting off a gas bomb."

(on camera): Did you know this was going on?

UNIDENTIFIED FATHER OF JUSTIN SULLIVAN: No.

SCIUTTO (voice-over): It was Sullivan's father who called 911 in April after his son apparently doused the house in gasoline.

UNIDENTIFIED FATHER OF JUSTIN SULLIVAN (voice-over): I don't know if it's ISIS or what, but he's -- I come home and he is destroying Buddhas and figurines and burning stuff.

SCIUTTO: Sullivan can be heard in the background.

UNIDENTIFIED FATHER OF JUSTIN SULLIVAN: You put gasoline in the house.

JUSTIN SULLIVAN, ARRESTED FOR PLANNING TERRORISM: Why are you trying to say I'm a terrorist? I didn't even do anything.

SCIUTTO: His arrest and 30 others like it this year demonstrate ISIS's growing reach on the U.S. homeland.

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SCIUTTO: As well as a major effort by law enforcement to act quickly.

JAMES COMEY, FBI DIRECTOR: ISIL has spent about a year investing in trying to reach troubled minds in the United States through social media to either recruit them to come to their so-called caliphate to fight or to kill where they stand.

SCIUTTO: And there is a new fear. One Senator telling CNN there is concern that over time lone wolves may no longer act alone, joining together in teams, increasing their ability to carry out larger scale attacks, like the shooting in Garland, Texas.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You had a couple of guys who linked up and were in touch Jade Hussein (ph), who is there in Syria, an Islamic State official. So, yes, it's a concern.

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BARNETT: Thanks to Jim Sciutto for that report.

CHURCH: In Syria, ISIS militants have blown up two ancient shrines in Palmyra. ISIS published images were shown of explosions that reduces them to rubble.

BARNETT: The shrines are not among the Roman-era ruins. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says that ISIS has planted mines near the ruins but it's unclear whether they plan to destroy them.

Further north, Tal Abyad is now free of ISIS but the evidence of their oppression is everywhere.

CHURCH: Arwa Damon traveled to the Syria city and spoke with the residents there. They are trying to rebuild their lives and it's a delicate task with all that ISIS left behind. Here's Arwa's exclusive report.

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ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: ISIS may have been driven out of Tal Abyad for now but they remain a military force that is formidable. And during our trip to the town, we were able to see some of what they had at their disposal. (voice-over): This was an ISIS bomb-making facility. Bags filled

with a sticky white powder, low-grade explosives, which is highly flammable. The YPG is busy clearing it out. Half the bed of a truck filled with mortar rounds at the rear of a mosque named as al Qaeda founder, Osama bin Laden.

Tal Abyad is a mine field of booby-traps.

(on camera): Come take a look through here. See what they found in there.

(voice-over): It's hard to see through the grate but stack along the wall, makeshift bombs, strands of detonation cord snaking out.

This was a park where children used to play. The local YPG commander says that something did not feel right. They put a warning on the gate and a resident told them ISIS had booby-trapped it.

(on camera): Do you see the juice thing? Do you see the cable coming out of it? OK, don't touch the door.

(voice-over): ISIS no longer controls Tal Abyad but their terror lurks in every corner. And the town is still cloaked in fear. A certain unease emanates from the adults, anger evident in their voices, their answers short and sharp.

This man says that ISIS forced him to purchase from them black clothing for his little girls. The three say they were sometimes scared. Now they are just enjoying being outside without head scarves and they want to go back to school.

"We went for a month and then they closed it," the girls tell us. "They made it a base for the state," meaning for ISIS.

That was two years ago. Now they say they are happy.

In an environment like this, one only hopes it stays that way.

(on camera): That particular family had fled to Tal Abyad from Aleppo before ISIS took over the town. But when the organization arrived the girls' father could not afford to move his family anywhere else.

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CHURCH: Thanks to Arwa Damon for that report.

[02:15:14] BARNETT: We have been talking all week about the heat wave in Pakistan. The death toll continues to soar. Many people don't have power or running water. But there may be some welcome relief in sight. We'll get you the latest on that after this short break. Stay with us.

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BARNETT: Welcome back. A record-breaking heat wave sweeping southern Pakistan has now killed at least 748 people. CHURCH: Witnesses have described victims as dropping dead on the

streets as temperatures topped 45 degrees Celsius, or 113 degrees Fahrenheit, over the weekend.

BARNETT: Hospitals are struggling to treat all the heatstroke victims and morgues are completely overwhelmed, some of them running out of space for the dead.

CNN Producer Sophia Saifi joins us on the phone with the latest.

Sophia, it has been a brutal summer. The death toll jumping by hundreds in the past few days. Tell us how things feel where you are and the status of the heat wave today?

[02:20:15] SOPHIA SAIFI, CNN PRODUCER (voice-over): We have just left the morgue here in Karachi, which is the largest city in the country and the morgue was the largest morgue in the city. The number of people affected by this heat wave is overwhelming because of the fact that it co incited with Ramadan, which means they fast. They didn't have access to water and they were outside in this intense heat and like you said just dropping down on the ground being brought into the hospital and all the hospitals across the city, you have the Army setting up relief camps now four days after this whole situation started. In the morgue there was an overwhelming smell of death because they are running on generators, you don't have much ice there. The bodies are piled up and it's quite terrible at the moment.

BARNETT: Now I know we are just seeing footage of the morgues and Pakistani troops who are essentially setting up emergency medical camps, handing out water and salt tablets. But four days into this, does it look like enough is being done? So many people will need assistance particularly because it's Ramadan there right now.

SAIFI: Exactly. And the problem is because the heat wave and Ramadan has coincided with a water crisis. Not only do people not have access because of fasting but they were in homes with to electricity. And a lot of them their homes are very small and cramped. There is no ventilation. They still don't have any power. They still don't have any water. The main ply of water is two hours away and that is shut down. You don't have water coming to the city. There is a water shortage. People are fasting. And the temperatures are soaring, which has now culminated in this crisis.

BARNETT: There is so much anger that the government has to clarify that the power outages are just that, they are not deliberate power cuts to any part of the country, which can happen. They are just outages but people need that power right now dying by the hundreds because of this heat wave.

CNN Producer Sophia Saifi giving us the latest from Karachi. Thank you for that.

Just a note to our viewers, we will have more on the heat wave and whether Karachi will see the monsoon rains later this hour with our Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri. CHURCH: Now we want to move on. And European finance officials are

set to meet on Greece's debt crisis. Pension reform is one sticking point in bailout talks, infuriating many Greek citizens. Crowds took to the streets in Athens Tuesday demanding the government stick to its pledge to protect their pensions.

BARNETT: With 45 percent of Greece retirees under the poverty line, many wonder just how much more they can take. The country must get a new deal before next week or risk default.

CHURCH: For the latest we will go to Elinda Labropoulou, live in Athens, Greece.

Elinda, what is the latest on efforts to forge this deal with Greece and possibly avoid default and how might that deal look so far?

ELINDA LABROPOULOU, JOURNALIST: We know there is an extraordinary meeting called last minute for the prime minister. Mr. Tsipras is going to be meeting in Brussels with the heads of the ECB, the IMF and the European commission. More talks are underway to try to find a solution. What we have seen is since the first proposals have become better known we have seen criticism about the kind of measures that the Greek government is proposing at the moment including heavy taxation and heavy taxation on what seems to be the part of the economy that is healthy at the moment. A lot of tax raises to companies and the wealthier Greeks. At the same time, the retired age -- the age of retirement is going to be raised and the protesters took to the street yesterday.

We saw pensioners take to the street yesterday to say enough is enough. We simply can't take it any more. We spoke to one man on his way to the rally.

Let's listen to what he had to say.

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[02:25:02] UNIDENTIFIED GREECE CITIZEN (through translation): No Matter what deal we have, it will be the poor people who pay, the productive people, as always. Who else is going to pay? No Matter what the deal is and who makes the proposals, whether it's the creditors or the Greek government all those things will again have a strong impact on the lives of the poor people, the work people. This is the truth.

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LABROPOULOU: So you see, I mean, this is very much the mood in Athens at the moment. A lot of skepticism of what the deal would bring, what it would entail.

We have not heard much about debt relief, which is one of the issues that the Greek government has been pushing for a long time. We're not sure if it will be a package that will bring growth to the country. Until all these questions are answered and we can see a more realistic approach, it's hard to judge whether this deal could get Greece out of the crisis.

CHURCH: We will wait to see what comes out of that extraordinary meeting in Brussels to see if they can meet, maybe a meeting of the minds on what to do.

Many thanks to Elinda Labropoulou reporting from Greece.

BARNETT: You are watching CNN NEWSROOM. France's president has called an emergency meeting following allegations U.S. spied on three French presidents. More on that story when we come back.

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[02:29:49] CHURCH: Welcome back to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church.

BARNETT: And I'm Errol Barnett. Let's update you on our top stories right now.

New York police say they are closing in on escaped killers, Richard Matt and David Sweat. A source says the former prison seamstress, Joyce Mitchell, admits smuggling saw blades to the men inside in frozen hamburger meat. She allegedly convinced guards to do favors for the inmates by bringing the prison employees baked goods.

CHURCH: A Baltimore newspaper reports the autopsy of a man who died in police custody shows he suffered a high-energy injury. Freddie Gray died from a severe spinal cord injury. Six police officers are facing charges ranging from illegal arrest to depraved heart murder. They all pleaded not guilty, Monday.

BARNETT: Rail service through the English Channel Tunnel is back up after protests disrupted it. Ferry workers in Calais, France, covered train tracks with rubble and burned tires, reportedly over expected job losses. That prompted officials to close the tunnel under the English Channel that links the U.K. to the rest of Europe.

CHURCH: WikiLeaks says the U.S. National Security Agency wiretapped three French presidents over the last decade. This includes former French President Jacque Chirac, Nicholas Sarkozy and current President Francois Hollande. Mr. Hollande has called a meeting with his defense council to discuss the allegations.

BARNETT: In a statement, a U.S. spokesperson says, quote, "We are not targeting and will not target the communications of President Hollande. We do not conduct foreign intelligence surveillance activities unless there is a specific and validated reason."

This comes on the heels of allegations the U.S. spies on German Chancellor Angela Merkel causing tension between the two counties. The German prosecutors dropped their probe this month citing insufficient evidence.

At the same time, U.S. officials are raising the issue of cybersecurity as they meet the Chinese officials in Washington this week. CHURCH: The talks are part of an annual meeting. They come at a time

of decreasing trust between the two countries.

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JACK LEW, U.S. TREASURY SECRETARY: In cyberspace, in particular, we remain deeply concerned about Chinese government-sponsored cyber- enabled theft of business information and proprietary technology from U.S. companies. Such activity falls outside of the bounds of acceptable state behavior in cyberspace.

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CHURCH: Among other things, U.S. officials blame Chinese hackers for breaching at least 18 million U.S. government personnel and confidential business files.

BARNETT: It's an allegation the Chinese deny.

CNN's Kristi Lu Stout breaks down how the alleged hack may have occurred.

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KRISTI LU STOUT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Cybersecurity experts think that Beijing-backed hackers are building a database. Hackers send out e-mails. But the e-mail contains a link that takes a target to a fake page. It only takes one person to click it. And from there, hackers can track your online activity or exploit a security flaw on the server.

A U.S. official believe the attackers created fake administrator accounts to allow them to set up future insider attacks and access even more sensitive data.

So what exactly has been stolen? Among other things, officials say the hackers accessed a database storing government forms and security clearances, SF86 questionnaires. They are more than 100 pages long. They are used to conduct background checks for people applying for national security positions. Applicants have to provide private information, including their Social Security number, financial records and medical details. And the form also asks about family members and associates, which means that it's possible that the number of people compromised could still climb.

Why would hackers want this information? By revealing who has security clearances and at what level, the Chinese may now be able to identify, expose, and to blackmail U.S. government officials around the world.

Some have suggested that the Chinese relatives, friends and associates of American diplomats could be in danger. China has rejected allegations it is behind the cyberattack.

Kristi Lu Stout, CNN, Hong Kong.

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BARNETT: Two South Korean citizens detained on North Korea have been sentenced to hard labor for life.

CHURCH: They are among four South Koreans known to be detained by their northern neighbor. South Korea has denied the charges against the men and is calling for their release.

BARNETT: Kathy Novak has been monitoring this story and joins us live from Seoul, South Korea, with more.

Kathy, severe punishments for two men who did admit they spied for the South, but it's hard to know if the confessions were coerced in any way. What do we know about these two men?

[02:35:12] KATHY NOVAK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: What we know, Errol, is what we heard from then when CNN was given an opportunity to speak to them when the minders there presented these two men to the CNN crew on the ground and offered them up for an interview. And they did admit to these charges of spying. One is a missionary and the other is a businessman. And they had similar stories of how they say the South Korean national intelligence service recruited them as spice for South Korea and one of the men said he was paid half a million over nine years for his work. As you say, the NIS here has denied these claims and says there is no truth to the claims that they were spying but a court in Pyongyang, according to state media there has found them guilty as charged and in the reports coming out of KCNA about the trial it is said that the prosecution was calling for the death penalty but the defense counsel said they should receive a sentence of life of hard labor. Many would argue that is a show trial and South Korea is saying that this is a unilateral decision on the part of North Korea to sentence these men without being given any opportunity to speak to South Korean representatives or to their families -- Errol?

BARNETT: And as you look at the bigger picture, the continuing conflict between the North and the South, the isolate of North Korea, what are the chances that this sentence is a bargaining chip for North Korea to get concessions from the South?

NOVAK: Well, it's very difficult to get any information at all from North Korea and certainly to get into the minds of North Koreans and what might be behind these kinds of decisions. North Korea pulled out of international negotiations when it comes to nuclear bargaining and they certainly have no diplomatic relations with South Korea. And what the unification ministry is telling us any representations that South Korea have maintained have gone unanswered from North Korea. There have been no communications whatsoever. If it's playing a long game perhaps in terms of a bargaining chip, perhaps. But right now there is no communication and one of the men that South Korea is referring to here was tried and sentenced last year on similar charges, given a similar sentence and he, still, remains in that labor camp with no opportunity to speak to anyone on the South Korean side and it seems no negotiations over his fate. So it doesn't seem like very good news at all for these two men who have been given these latest sentences -- Errol? BARNETT: It's so hard for anyone to know or understand what is

happening in Pyongyang.

Kathy Novak, live for us in Seoul on this story. Kathy, thanks.

CHURCH: Another story we're watching, the United Kingdom has arrested Rwanda's intelligence chief on a Spanish warrant that accuses him of war crimes.

BARNETT: That move has angered Rwanda government officials but human rights activists in Spain say they welcome the arrests.

Michael Holmes has more.

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MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Rwanda's intelligence chief, Karenzi Karake, is seen here in 2001 when he was head of Rwandan military operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is one of dozens of officials wanted in Spain for alleged war crimes after the country's 1994 genocide. Spanish aid workers are among the workers who died.

Amnesty International welcoming the arrest.

IGNATIO JOVIS (ph), AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: Spain starting the investigation and nothing happened until today. It is good news for the fight against impunity of this great human rights violation. We hope that this person will come to Spain and will be put before the Spanish court.

HOLMES: President Paul Kagame's government has reacted angrily. Foreign affairs minister, Louise Mushikiwabo, tweeted, quote, "Western solidarity and demeaning Africans is unacceptable. It's an outrage to arrest a Rwanda official based on lunacy.

Karake's arrest will doubtless stir up painful memories of genocide which saw Hutu extremists in Rwanda target minority ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

The spy chief is currently in custody and due back in court Thursday.

Michael Holmes, CNN.

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CHURCH: We'll take a very short break here. But coming up here on CNN NEWSROOM, more on that deadly record-breaking heat wave that's hit Pakistan. We're back in a moment.

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[02:43:20] CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone. We have been reporting on the deadly heat wave that hit Pakistan. More than 700 people dead so far.

Pedram Javaheri is here to talk us through the weather situation there.

People dying. I mean, dropping, quite literally on the streets there.

PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST: The number is going up exponentially every single day. When you have this sort of a pattern we touched on it the last couple days. They are going for 84 hours where the temperature has not dropped below 91 Fahrenheit. 4:00 in the morning that is the coolest you are going to get. Sweating is difficult. The body temperature needs to drop a couple of degrees. And your skin if you are not Sweating, your skin as far as the blood flow to it becomes restricted. It becomes clammy and this is a pattern that sets up fatalities. Now we are seeing the cumulative effect of the heat building over this region. We'll see you what is happening on the streets. 4:00, 5:00 in the morning, little relief with temperatures in the 90s Fahrenheit. That should be the high temperature in Pakistan. Just about every park bench is occupied by people trying to get relief. And the heat indices when you factor in the humidity up to 57 Celsius, between 125 and 135 Fahrenheit. The next chance of rain is in the next five to seven days. Still enough to cause the temperatures to cool off and a couple of weeks before we get widespread rainfall here but it's the current position of the rainfall in central and northern India. Video showing you impressive rainfall taking place there with a significant flooding. 26 percent above the normal for what the rainfall has been so far into this season after a very, very delayed start you may recall about a month ago.

But back here, extreme heat in the Northwest United States. Look at this incredible spell of temperatures. In Seattle temperature should be room temperature for a high. That is 72 Fahrenheit. 90-degree heat for three consecutive days. That typically happens three's times a year in Seattle. They'll see all of them this week.

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[02:45:43] BARNETT: Stay cool if you can.

CHURCH: At least the people there are more equipped to deal with that heat.

JAVAHERI: Very true. Absolutely.

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JAVAHERI: Thank you, John.

BARNETT: Thanks a lot.

Her image captured the world's attention and some say helped bring an end to the Vietnam War.

CHURCH: But even 43 years later, Kim Phuc says the unforgettable photo of her as a badly burned child running from a napalm attack naked still brings back painful memories. But her fear and agony captured on film that day has become more than a symbol of war. For her, it's a symbol of peace. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

PHAN THI KIM PHUC, PHOTOGRAPHED IN VIETNAM AS CHILD & KIM PHUC FOUNDATION, INTERNATIONAL: I had so many questions. Why me? Why I have to suffer? I didn't do anything wrong. I was a little girl.

NICK UT, PHOTOGRAPHER: The shot drop four bomb. Boom, boom, boom.

PHUC: All the villagers just run out from that village.

UT: I took a lot of picture people died people running. I saw a girl with an arm like this, running. And I say, why is the girl not clothed. She keep running and I saw her body, the back, the skin come off. I saw terrible. I don't want to take more pictures.

PHUC: I always remember that, the horrible day that we ran from life to death.

UT: With all my camera on Highway 1. And the water her body right away. I pick up Kim in my van and all the children follow in my van and say I'm dying in my car.

PHUC: We so scared as a child that I got wounded.

UT: I run inside hospital, and I'm sorry, I can't help the children any more. We don't have the medicine. And I said, if the kids, one of them die tomorrow from pain. Everyone in the paper, I got back in the car and hurry go back to Saigon.

PHUC: I want to thank God for sparing my life when I was a little girl, as a 9-years-old.

UT: They see that picture, they said the picture, front page, everywhere in the world.

PHUC: I still have the pain. I still have the scars. I still have the memory, but my heart is healed.

UT: I call Kim one or two week, and she is always smiling and OK, I'm not running any more. I fly now.

PHUC: It's my message to people when they see that picture, try not see her as crying out in pain, in fear, and try not to see her as a symbol of war, but try to see her as a symbol for peace.

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CHURCH: What an incredible woman.

And just a reminder for viewers here in North America, this week's episode of "The Seventies" focuses on the Vietnam War and airs at 9:00 p.m. eastern and Pacific.

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[02:53:11] CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone. In Japan, middle-aged men in this art class, you see here, draw images of nude women. But for some it's the closest they have been to a naked woman.

BARNETT: If you can believe it.

As CNN's Will Ripley reports, it's part of a larger problem in Japan that some are trying to change.

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WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Tokyo's famous red light district kabuki show caters to every sexual desire, the kind of place that would make you think that most of Japan is obsessed with sex until you meet men like Lakashi Syki (ph), who asked us to hide his face and change his name.

(on camera): You have 41 years old and have a good job --

UNIDENTIFIED MIDDLE-AGED VIRGIN: Yes.

RIPLEY: -- but you have never had sex?

UNIDENTIFIED MIDDLE-AGED VIRGIN: Yes, that's right.

(voice-over): Approaching middle age, he has never had a relationship or even been kissed.

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STEVE CARELL, ACTOR: Are you a virgin? Are you a virgin?

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RIPLEY: A real-life version of Steve Carell's character, the 40-year- old virgin.

UNIDENTIFIED MIDDLE-AGED VIRGIN: I was a little surprised they made a movie about someone like me.

RIPLEY: He is not alone. A government study says that one in four of Japanese men in their 30s who have never been married were virgins.

Some prefer it that way. Some would like their fortunes to change. The difficulty blamed on everything from a stagnant economy --

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RIPLEY: -- to Japanese manga fans favoring fantasy over reality.

For some of these mostly middle-aged men, this nude art class is the closest they have ever been to a naked woman.

(on camera): Classes try to help people feel more comfortable with their sexuality.

There is this textbook specifically for virgins to break down their barriers to sex.

[02:55:00] (voice-over): Class organizers know the disconnect is leading to fewer relationships, record-low birthrates, and a shrinking population, a crisis threatening the world's third-largest economy.

"By solving the virgin problem, I think we can solve many other social problems related to sex," says this man. His non-profit offers sex education and assistance. "In Japanese society, we have so much entertainment. Why do we need to choose love or sex?"

He is a mountain climbing 41-year-old who appears to lead a normal life, hiding his virginity from family and friends.

(on camera): Do you have hope you will meet someone soon?

UNIDENTIFIED MIDDLE-AGED VIRGIN: (through translation): I always have hope. I keep having hope.

RIPLEY (voice-over): Hope to fall in love, get married, start a family. Hope that some day he will have more than a sketch to call his own.

Will Ripley, CNN, Tokyo.

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BARNETT: My goodness. With 40 years to wait, you worry his first time will be a disaster. He'll be all excited and it's all about love in the first place.

CHURCH: I'm glad you said that.

BARNETT: I feel for these men. It's sad.

CHURCH: Yes, I agree. But we'll watch the progress.

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You have been watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Rosemary Church.

BARNETT: And I'm Errol Barnett.

More of the world's biggest stories coming up after the break. Stay with us.

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