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Update on the Greek Debt Crisis; Bodies of Tunisia Terror Attack Victims Return Home; 17 Egyptian Soldiers Dead After Attacks on Five Military Posts on Sinai Peninsula; U.S. Justice Department Investigating Several American-based Airlines for Keeping Prices High; Record Heat at Wimbledon Championships; Investigators Release Their Findings in TransAsia Flight 235 Crash; Remembering a Hero of the Holocaust. Aired 12-1a ET

Aired July 02, 2015 - 00:00   ET

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ERROL BARNETT, CNN NEWSROOM, ANCHOR: Efforts to dig Greece out of deep debt remain chaotic following a day of contradictions by the prime minister.

ZAIN ASHER, CNN NEWSROOM, ANCHOR: And airlines in the United States are being investigated for allegedly colluding to keep ticket prices high.

BARNETT: And heart break in England. A gut-wrenching finish to the Women's World Cup Semifinals.

ASHER: Thank you so much for joining us everyone. I'm Zain Asher.

BARNETT: And I'm Errol Barnett. We'll be with you here on CNN for the next two hours. This is CNN NEWSROOM.

ASHER: We'll begin with our main story that had been a number of new developments in the ever changing Greek debt crisis -- this is the story that is moving very, very quickly indeed.

BARNETT: Yeah.

ASHER: First, the country's finance minister says he hopes to have a new Eurogroup bailout deal by Monday.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What we aspire for Monday morning is to have a discussion on the sustainability of the solution. It cannot just be a deal that will only expand and extend the crisis and leads to a new negotiation.

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BARNETT: Now, that followed a day of back and forth from the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, first in a letter to European lenders, he agreed to accept nearly all of the criticize bailout terms, then later he defiantly urged Greeks to reject the bailout deal in a referendum scheduled for Sunday. ASHER: Mr. Tsipras also says that voting no doesn't necessarily mean leaving the Euro zone but it is clear that European leaders are losing patience.

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CHRISTINE LAGARDE, MANAGING DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND: Given the level of uncertainty, confusions and constant movement, and I think a bit more adulthood would still be needed, yeah.

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BARNETT: For more on the Greek crisis, let's bring in our Emerging Markets Editor John Defterios. Doing as he's been doing each day this week joining us live from Abu Dhabi to talk about the chaos around...

ASHER: Yeah.

BARNETT: ... this debt crisis. And we've just seen Christine Lagarde there John, but in your estimation, is it bit more adulthood needed on behalf of the Greek government? Has there been a level of immaturity even?

JOHN DEFTERIOS, CNN EMERGING MARKETS EDITOR: Well let's just say, yeah, they've been lacking consistency and I think it does show, Errol, that this is a 40-year-old leader that is not use to the game of global politics or economics. He's only been in office for six months, Mr. Tsipras, and he has a bigger challenge at hand here and that is the makeup of his party.

So, while he tries to manage what's taking place in Brussels or in Washington with the International Monetary Fund internally within the Syriza Party is fairly nasty politics because it tacks all the way to the left with very hard-line communist who are of course exhausted by austerity but more or so don't agree with the European Union approach to this and they're suggesting perhaps the Greece would be better off outside the Euro -- outside -- Mr. Tsipras is suggesting, "Look, this is not a vote four same (ph) within the Euro or not," but even within his party, that's how it's being defined today.

And let's be honest, he's gone in the last week back and forth with different proposals at the very last minute.

A week ago, Thursday, they were suggesting they could get a deal done by the end of the day with the finance ministers and then have the head of state sign it off over the weekend and this thing would have been done and dusted, but he kept on coming up with different proposals at the last minute including a third bailout out of Euro 29 billion, about $32 billion. And this is what setback, Mrs. Lagarde, the head of the Eurogroup, Mr. Dijsselbloem and of course the president of the European Commission Mr. Juncker.

At the core of this zone, I don't think this should be forgotten here is that the Greeks are suffering terribly. They brought in Mr. Tsipras because they were desperate because of the unemployment rate and because of the debt, and that's not going to be solved through all of this crisis right now and the politics we see played out between Athens and Brussels, Errol.

ASHER: Okay. And also John Defterios, I wan to ask you. IMF has said that, you know, they cannot fund or finance Greece as long as the country continues to remain in a risk. So if that's the case, what can continuing dialogue hope to achieve?

DEFTERIOS: Well, in fact we've enter the new territories as being defined here, we've not been ever in the 70 years of the IMF where a country in the industrialized world defaults on a loan. Right now, it's in the rear that has unofficially default because the executive board has voted on it, so we're looking at a $1.8 billion whole (ph) overnight as part of this equation that you're talking about, Zain, is that the European Central Bank said they can't increase the emergency liquidity or funding that's been going into Greece right now because of the political uncertainty.

The request for the Greeks to sign off on the last remaining items to the European Union saying, "We now agree to this deal but we want a third bailout". The European Union saying, "No, not until after the referendum," because they see this, not just as a referendum on the Euro or in the austerity package, they perhaps see it at as a referendum against Alexis Tsipras. They perhaps don't see him in office in the next month or so, so why should you negotiate with somebody who's been so erotic and that really as of the heart of what we're talking about here.

Mr. Tsipras has misplayed his hand three or four times and now the European Union or the troika overall is playing hardball. They're suggesting, "You're not consistent. We're going to push back. Let this referendum follow through as you surprised as with a referendum just a week ago and see how the cards play out."

They don't want to deal with him anymore. That's very clear from what Mrs. Lagarde was saying last night on CNN.

BARNETT: So then John, in our last minute with you, let me ask you what comes after this referendum then if perhaps it's a political, you know, suicide for the prime minister, what about this capital controls in place and the challenges that your average Greek person is now living with? Is that likely to continue into next week?

DEFTERIOS: Well, I'm glad you brought it up because this is often overlooked in the debate. Prime Minister Tsipras was suggesting, Errol, look I'm going to protect your pensions, he told the Greek people. Your salaries won't be cut.

The reality is extremely different right now. And I fact, we've seen reports where there's a horde buying in some supermarkets, even outside of Athens, and then to the hinterlands of Greece because people are extremely worried how this will play out. The cash reserves of Greece are dwindling as we speak. So let's play it out very quickly here.

You have a referendum say the Greeks vote yes to stay in or no to stay out. You still have uncertainty either way. I don't see how you go back to the table if Mr. Tsipras stays in power. What could happen, say you have overwhelmingly strong yes vote then you have a call within Parliament for a vote of confidence and perhaps Mr. Tsipras would have to go. It all depends on how the vote goes and that's why the European partners in this. The troika are suggesting, let the referendum play out, you called it, let's see how chips fall.

ASHER: Yeah, let the referendum play out. I'm definitely wondering if Alexis Tsipres is regretting after calling the referendum in the first place bviously Angela Merkel does not to want to move on this...

DEFTERIOS: Yeah and that's the truth.

ASHER: ... until that referendum takes place.

Okay, John Defteros, live for us there in Abu Dhabi. Thanks to you.

BARNETT: Thanks John.

ASHER: We appreciate it, good job as always.

Now the prospect of a single European currency seem like a great idea when it was first introduced more than 20 years ago.

BARNET: But the Eurozone, it seems has just lurch, right? From crisis to crisis over the past decade, Tadhg Enright reports.

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TADHG ENRIGHT, CNN CORESSPONDENT: It's not everyday a new currency is born. And the Euro, created for the world's most important trading block was exciting.

DOMINIQUE STRAUSS-KHAN, FORMER FRENCH FINANCE MINISTER: The Euro has been launched and a wonderful step forward in the building of Europe has been achieved.

ENRIGHT: It wasn't an easy birth. There were 15 countries E.U then. But the U.K, Denmark and Sweden didn't want a single currency. Those that did had to prove their economies were in good shape, including a maximus three percent budget deficit.

Greece was the last to hit the target. Plus the enthusiastic candidates wasn't left out.

ERIK NIELSEN, GLOBAL CHIEF ECONOMIST, UNICREDIT BANK: Greece really wanted to get in, and there was a tendency to take in those who wanted to get in. And the thing is that that the Eurozone was -- is a political animal. And there was not, in the political class, a sufficient understanding of the economic necessities for making it work.

ENRIGHT: Many years have followed Euro membership. Greece borrowed more than allowed unto these single currency's rules.

But in 2004, it was more than double the limit at 7.5 percent. It was 9.9 percent in 2008, the year that the financial crisis hits. Well by then, lenders were worried and they were right to be so, because then came a bombshell, Athens confessed, it had been lying about the true scale of these numbers.

In 2010, when the calls of borrowing became unsustainable, Europe and the IMF rose to Athens' rescue. This was bailout number one.

NICOLAS SARKOZY, FORMER FRENCH PRESIDENT: What will remain of Europe if the Euro disappears? What will remain of Europe if its economic heart collapses? Nothing.

ENRIGHT: But this wasn't easy money. The lenders demanded tax increases and spending cuts to balance the books. The economy stuttered and the debt mountain remains. But in 2012, bailout number two included death relief.

NIELSEN: In retrospect, they got it late and probably too late. The Europeans have not been blameless. There has been made mistakes from both sides along the way. But the real issue here is that successive Greek governments didn't never really implement good policies.

ENRIGHT: With one in four unemployed and the economy having shrunk 25 percent in five years, late last year, Greece selected a new leftist Party to government. It pledged to resist any more austerity while keeping Greece's place in the Eurozone, two promises that now look increasing impossible to keep.

Tadhg Enright, CNN, London.

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BARNETT: We've talked so much about this by now but if you want to learn more about the Greek debt crisis and there are still some holes in new knowledge and also get some tips on traveling to Greece, apparently, now is a pretty good time.

You can head to our website anytime

ASHER: That's the story that is leaving very, very quickly.

BARNETT: That's right, just head to CNN.com for that.

ASHER: Okay, we turn now to a solemn moment at a U.K military air base. The bodies of eight of the victims of the terror massacre in Tunisia returned home on Wednesday.

BARNETT: Yeah, three of them were members of the same family and all 38 people were killed in Friday shooting rampage at the beach resort and most of them are British.

ASHER: Tunisian authorities have stepped up security and as they investigating whether the gunman had any accomplices.

A court spokesperson said seven Tunisians had been arrested and that very important information was found on the dead gunman's bone. It was recovered from near the sea, near the scene of the attack.

BARNETT: Now, amid the chaos and terror of last Friday, were actually some amazing examples of courage. ASHER: Some locals risked their own lives rushing to help the tourists who are under attacked. Nima Elbagir has one man's story.

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ABDUL ALI LADHARI, TUNISIAN RESORT WORKER: We went and covered up the tourist that died. God rest their souls and waited terrified in complete chaos.

NIMA ELBAGIR, C.N.N CORRESPONDENT: These are the pictures Abdul Ali Ladhari took as he and his friends waited for police to come.

They tried, he says, to give the victims back their dignity, to shield them as best they could.

LADHARI: He said that he have a gun help us.

ELBAGIR: This was the first shot Ladhari said he had. He watched as the woman fell to the ground.

Ladhari works at a beach shack, renting jet skis and parachute rides to tourists. The day, Seifeddine Rezgui opened fire on the beach had been like any other, until of course, it wasn't.

LADHARI: When we men ran towards him, he said I don't have any issue with Arabs. My targets are the Europeans. We're just tourists.

ELBAGIR: So when you heard this, I asked, did you keep coming?

LADHARI: We moved quicker. We couldn't leave him. Yes we were scared, terrified, but we couldn't back off.

ELBAGIR: Many of the European tourists caught in the chaos that day have spoken about the bravery of local Tunisians. In this amateur footage, you can hear the cameraman and others rushing against all instinct towards the shooter, desperate to stop the rampage. But, of course, they couldn't.

Ladhari says for many of the victims that day, all he could do is keep them company in their last moments. One British grandfather died in his arms.

LADHARI: He asked me, is my wife dead? I checked her pulse. I said yes, she is. He did this, thank you, God, and cried, and died. I can't say anything more. He thanked God that she hadn't suffered. Like that. Thank you, God. Thank you, God, and pray and death.

ELBAGIR: He shows us where killer jammed the bottom of the machine gun. As Ladhari says, he tried to protect them. As he lay on the ground, he tells us he watched as a little boy was shot at point-blank range. The shock, the horror.

Speaking to Ladhari, you can see it hasn't left him. I asked if he ever found out the name of the British man who died in his arms. No.

As people around the world struggle to understand why Ladhari says he wishes he had answers.

Ladhari: He killed them. He destroyed them, and he destroyed us with them.

ELBAGIR: Nima Elbagir, CNN, Sousse.

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BARNETT: Now at least 17 Egyptian soldiers are dead after attacks on five military posts on the Sinai Peninsula. ISIS has claimed responsibility. Egypt's military says it is now 100 percent in control of the situation there.

Jomana Karadsheh joins us now via web cam from Amman, Jordan with the latest in what took place in German and Egyptian authorities in making the case that they're now fully in control of the Peninsula but this deadly attack lasted for some time. What happened?

JOMANA KARADSHEH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: And absolutely, that's being (inaudible) that is being described as unprecedented by security officials and people in the area. The attack that began yesterday around this time involved up to 300 militants according to some security officials and they say that they attacked several checkpoints that are in and around the town of Sheikh Zuweid in the Northern Sinai. And ISIS, they turned claimed responsibility for this attack saying that he launched attacks on 15 checkpoints and he also used a different weapons and at least three suicide bombers.

Now as you mentioned, this blast it went on for hours. The area was described as complete battle zone. The movement of military reinforcement, the movement of ambulance just trying to get to this town was completely paralyzed by landmines that had been planted along the road and this really was a very devastating attack something this area hasn't seen.

Some describing it, Errol, as something that the region had not seen, the Northern Sinai area and the Sinai Peninsula had not seen since the Arab-Israeli boards of the 1970. It has seen insurgent attacks in the past. We have seen them targeting Egyptian security forces but something with this level of coordination sophistication that lasted hours is not something that they have seen. A very worrying development for Egypt but as you mentioned overnight, the military announcing that it was in full control of the area and that they managed to push back the militants, Errol.

BARNETT: All right, Jomana Karadsheh in Amman, Jordan reporting on, as she says there, the unprecedented attack in the Sinai Peninsula.

Jomana, thank you.

Now some airlines based in the U.S. could be in trouble with the Department of Justice and investigation is now underway and whether they work together to boost your ticket prices.

ASHER: Plus, it may feel like a steam room but it's actually the spectator stand at Wimbledon. Now, we'll tell you about the scorching record heat ahead.

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DEREK VAN DAM, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Good day, I'm CNN meteorologist with Derek Van Dam with a quick look at your weather watch across mainland Europe. We haven been smashing record high temperatures across many locations including Paris.

We had the hottest recorded temperature ever on Wednesday. That was 39.7 degrees. Even London getting extremely hot as a ridge continues to build in this region and there's just some really pesky high pressure system to the east coast really preventing things from cooling down.

However the UK does have slightly cooler weather in the forecast which we'll show you in just one second.

Look at here 36.7 degrees on Wednesday that was the hottest July day in the United Kingdom's history.

Now here's that cooler weather forecast with the chance of showers as a very weak cold front edges across the United Kingdom. 27 and you can still see however the heat will continue for places like Paris, Madrid as well as Rome stay well above average for Paris we should be about 22 degrees and you can see day time highest maxing out in the middle 30s and with all of these heat in the atmosphere we have the possibility of stronger storms for the northeastern sections of France was well as Amsterdam and into Belgium, large hails, severe wind gust.

And we can't roll up the possibly of an isolated tornadoes. Well hot weather and sunny conditions across the Middle East and fairly tropical over Northern Africa.

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ASHER: Welcome back, everyone. The U.S. Justice Department is investigating several American-based airlines for possibly working together to keep prices high.

BARNETT: If you buy a lot of tickets, you'll say, "Ah, this makes sense."

ASHER: Yes, that's what I said.

BARNETT: The head of the department sent out subpoenas on Tuesday. Rene Marsh has the latest.

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RENE MARSH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well we can confirm the United, American and Southwest Airlines have all received demand letters from the Department of Justice.

The feds are asking several major airlines for documents and communications that could prove they worked together to manipulate capacity of flight, in other words, limit available seats, keeping planes full and ticket prices high for consumers.

Now consumer advocates have been suspect of the major airlines because they say multiple airline mergers means less competition and higher prices for consumers.

Right now, four major airlines control 80 percent of the market but specifically what sparked this federal investigation was a letter from Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal. He asked DOJ to investigate after learning about public comments airline executives made at an industry conference.

In one instance Blumenthal says Southwest Airlines CEO announced plans to expand capacity for flights, which many in the industry believe meant air fare cuts were next.

Southwest CEO came under fire from others in the industry and had to quickly reassure investigators that the airline wasn't going rogue. The Senator saying that was one example that suggested industry collaboration.

Now the airlines we have heard from, they all say they plan to cooperate with the investigation, but the allegation alone is a bitter pill for passengers. The four major carriers saved billions combined on fuel, they've and made millions and millions of dollars on baggage fees, and yet prices for consumers it remains high.

Reporting in Washington, Rene Marsh, CNN.

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BARNETT: All right now, let's get you to Wimbledon where the grass maybe wilting but the tennis fans -- well no they're all wilting too.

ASHER: Wednesday was a day of record setting heat, basically, temperatures actually soared to nearly 36 degrees Celsius, basically scorching spectators and even get these actually causing a ball boy to collapse during a match.

BARNETT: What? I thought they had the easiest job of the day.

ASHER: No, probably not.

BARNETT: Now, Maria Sharapova says that she's used to heat like this because she lives in Florida. We will have more on her win a bit later this hour in World Sports. But first, meteorologists are warning that this heat wave will continue...

VAN DAM: Yeah.

BARNETT: ... for much of Europe. I'm wondering if our own meteorologist, Derek Van Dam is one of them. What's say of you?

VAN DAM: I am one of them, yes, that's right. This is actually the warmest Wimbledon ever recorded. Those records go back to 1976.

You and I, we've ridden the tube or the underground in London. (CROSSTALK)

VAN DAM: It gets very hot. That's one of the common complaints of people from London. And with little air conditioning, no ventilation down there, it can get extremely hot. The temperature in London...

BARNETT: Imagine the smell too.

VAN DAM: The temperature get these guys got to 36.7 outside of the London Tube and that is warmer than the EU's regulation exceeding that legal temperature for transporting cattle.

BARNETT: Yeah.

VAN DAM: That's interesting, yes.

ASHER: You call this as a great factoid.

VAN DAM: So and - great factoids, yes. And you know what, that wasn't the only area that was feeling the heat on Wednesday, anywhere from Madrid through much of the western half of the EU, the European Union.

In fact, take a look at this temperature map, 36.7 at Heathrow, that is the hottest day in July for the United Kingdom and yeah our Phones just don't lie, especially when you have the Eiffel Tower in the background, it is extremely hot and you can see just how hot the mercury in the thermometer has gotten over the past few days, nearly touching the 40 degree mark in Paris. So yeah, it's safe to say we are under a heat wave at the moment.

In fact, there have been pollution advisories in effect. They've even slowed down the railroad lines in fear of the rails actually buckling under the excessive heat.

Paris reached 39.7 in the Montsouris Park, that is the second hottest day ever and unfortunately, this gives us all flashbacks of 2003 where nearly 1500 people, many of them elderly and the young, the extremely young perished from a very, very intense heat wave that took place, that's where temperatures reached 40 degrees for many consecutive days.

This is the setup that we have now, a very large ridge that is really preventing any of these cold fronts from moving further and further east. Even though we do have some relief in sight for London, your temperatures are going to cool off, but Paris, not the case, you're going to stay extremely hot and much of Western Europe will too.

Look at the averages for this time of year, we should be in the lower 20s, we're talking about daytime heist in the upper 30s. So this is where people really need to heed those warnings of heat related illnesses. They need to take shade and take shelter, find air conditioning as possible and obviously drink plenty of fluids during this time.

ASHER: Yeah. BARNETT: They can probably (ph) drink enough water...

VAN DAM: You can. That's right, that's right. Good advice.

ASHER: Good advice. Thank you.

BARNETT: Bye Derek.

ASHER: Thank you, Derek.

VAN DAM: All right guys, thanks for you time.

BARNETT: See you later.

ASHER: Okay, we're going to take a quick break here on CNN. When we come back, the head of a nuclear watchdog group makes a visit to Iran as negotiations continue over the future of its nuclear program.

The details coming up.

BARNETT: Plus Israel elder statesman and former president defends the nuclear talks with Iran. Stay with us for an exclusive interview with Shimon Peres.

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BARNETT: Glad you're still with us, you're watching CNN. I'm Eroll Barnett.

ASHER: And I'm Zain Asher. Let's give you your headlines.

BARNETT: Greece's...

ASHER: ... Greece's Finance Minister says, he's country hopes to have a new Euro group bailout deal by Monday. Yanis Varoufakis says Greece is ready to accept strict measures as long as they're allowed to economic growth, and dig Greece is not forced out of the Eurozone.

BARNETT: ISIS militants killed at least 17 Egyptian troops and wounded 30 others in five attacks on military post. This happened Wednesday in the Northern Sinai.

The latest in a string of attacks by the terror group as it tries to spread its influence to more countries.

ASHER: The United States and Cuba have exchanged letters to restore ties between the Tunisia and end their 54 year diplomatic rupture. Cuba's embassy in Washington is expected to reopen on July 20th. The U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says he will travel to Havana this summer to formerly reopen the American mission.

We got some news out of Taiwan where investigators have released their findings in February's crash of TransAsia Flight 235. CNN's David Molko has been going over details of that report. He joins me live now from Jakarta. So David, what are we learning from this report? DAVID MOLKO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Zain, this crash was extraordinary for so many reasons. None - not at the least the video that showed this plane, the ATR 72 twin-turbo prop, clipping a bridge and crashing into the river. And because there were survivors, 15 people survived this crash.

Let me walk you through a bit of it what's been put out, an extraordinary amount of information today including the full cockpit voice recorder transcript.

Now, investigators, they're not drawing conclusions, they're not placing blame but it is clear from the documents that they have released that the pilot of this plane, the pilot flying shut down the wrong engine of the plane.

You may remember in this emergency there was a problem with the right engine. It had done something called "auto-feathered", which meant the engine wasn't increasing any thrust. The pilot, according to the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder transcript, then shut down the left one. He actually said, "I will pull back the engine one throttle." Even though there would've been a display there according to these documents that said the engine too had a problem.

The next couple of minutes, all these happening in just two or three minutes, a bit of chaos, questions, why are we not gaining altitude, what's happening. Later on in the flight, again, about 30 seconds before the crash went down, there was a realization in the cockpit that neither engine was producing power. The pilot flying, the one who had shut down that engine said, "Restart the engine." The other pilot said, "I cannot restart it." The pilot again, "Restart the engine," then he said, "Wow, hold back, wrong side throttle."

Ten seconds before crashing into the river, the pilot here realizing potentially that he had made a mistake, Zain.

ASHER: David, that is just incredible. I mean it's unbelievable when you detail it like that what the passengers and what the pilots of that plane went through. You mentioned, the pilot shut down the wrong engine, of course, that is a very unfortunate mistake. But what do we know about this pilot and the sort of training that he had?

MOLKO: Well Zain, we know he was 42 years old, formerly in the Air Force. He'd been flying with TransAsia about four years, had more than 3000 hours in this particular aircraft. The Aviation Safety Council though has gone back to the airline and has pulled training records as well.

He was a first officer and then in 2014 about six months before this crash went through the procedures and the training to become a captain. Some of the notes that were pulled out, one in particular caught my eye, instructor say he was prone to hesitate when facing situations that required making decisions. Not something you want to see from anyone in the cockpit.

Zain, I should point out though that did pass all the test to become a captain of this aircraft, and worth mentioning that the aircraft TransAsia has said, they have been making a concerted effort to take a top-down look at all their operations. They're bringing in outside experts. They are buying simulators and working to improve their training as much as possible. Zain.

ASHER: So, the airline is taking active steps. Okay, David Molko, I appreciate you're bringing that report to us. We appreciate that, thank you.

Director General of the International Atomic Agency will be in Iran in the coming hours to meet with the Iranian president. The two are expected to discuss corporation between the watchdog group and the Islamic republic on issues related to Iran's nuclear program.

BARNETT: That's right. And this comes a six world powers and Iran work over time in Vienna to hammer out a long-term nuclear deal. The talks have already been extended through next Tuesday.

And U.S. President Barack Obama has found a sympathetic in Israel for his efforts to negotiate with Iran.

ASHER: Shimon Peres says he has faith in the U.S. president. The former Israeli president shared his thoughts on the talks in an exclusive interview with CNN's Oren Liebermann. Take a listen.

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SHIMON PERES, FORMER ISRAELI PRESIDENT: And I think now it's about the nature of verification of the inspection to make sure that what they have promised and people are skeptical about their promises will really be accepted by them fully.

I don't think that the president will compromise on it. I think the president keeps his words to this very day. He said Iran should not become a nuclear country and that's the essence of the negotiations and their options are open. But he wants the nature of it to have negotiations without blood.

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BARNETT: Now, still to come here on CNN, an extraordinary life comes to an end, next, remembering a hero of the Holocaust.

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BARNETT: The United Kingdom is saying goodbye to Sir Nicholas Winton known as Britain's Oskar Schindler as war appeared unavoidable in Europe. He saved hundreds of children in Czechoslovakia from the Nazi Holocaust.

ASHER: And that's right, Nicholas Winton died on Wednesday at the age of 106. As Amara Walker reports, everybody called Winton a hero, everybody, except for the man himself.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: As war appeared imminent, refugees streamed into Germany and others strikes towards Japan.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Deep shadows of another world war spread over the universe.

ADOLPH HITLER, GERMAN CHANCELLOR: Heil.

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HITLER: Heil.

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HITLER: Heil.

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JOE SCHLESINGER, RESCUED BY WINTON: I remember his voice roaring on the radio.

HITLER: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

SCHLESINGER: The Germans just got closer and closer and closer. First, he was in Germany, then he was in Austria, then he was on the border of Czechoslovakia, then he was in my hometown.

My name is Joe Schlesinger. Nicky Winton saved my life.

AMBER WALKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Just one of the 669 Czech children whose lives were saved by Nicholas Winton, dubbed the British Oscar Schindler. He's seen here last year being awarded the Czech Republic's highest honor, the order on the white lion.

Britain had previously awarded him a knighthood in 2003. As a 29- year-old stockbroker in the months before the outbreak of World War II, Winton arranged a kindred transport to get the children, most of whom were Jewish out of Czechoslovakia to Britain, yet Winton himself downplayed what he did.

WINTON: It of course is wrong to say I was saving children's lives. I mean there was no war on - I might not have been all. Who know it was all very speculative that time. It's easier to say, now, saving lives because we know what was -what happened subsequently, but we didn't have the time. I mean it might have all been for nothing.

WALKER: There were eight Winton kindred transports or trains that took the children to safety from Prague. A night train to knock it out in time as war broke out. Of the 250 children on board, none were heard from again.

WINTON: The number of children I could help depended on how many number of guarantors I could get. Somebody said they wanted to take a child. We just sent them some photos along some to choose one. All they have to do is to say yes, they had one.

WALKER: Amber Walker, CNN.

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BARNETT: And you can learn much more about Sir Nicholas Winton at cnn.com, including seeing him receive the Czech Republic's highest honor last year.

Thanks so much for watching everyone. I'm Errol Barnett.

ASHER: And I'm Zain Asher. World Sport is up next. Erin Hawksworth joins us for a preview. It was the Women's World Cup...

ERIN HAWKSWORTH, CNN SPORTS ANCHOR: Yes.

ASHER: ... that was a very unfortunate own goal...

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ASHER: ... by England's Laura Bassett.

HAWKSWORTH: Yeah, we were just talking about that. You almost hoped that moment doesn't define her and her career. But certainly the whole world is feeling for her no matter who they wanted to win. Of course we'll have the highlights coming up next in World Sport.

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HAWKSWORTH: Welcome to CNN World Sports. I'm Erin Hawksworth. The reigning champions Japan, advanced to the Women's World Cup final will win over England on Wednesday, takes to an own goal in stoppage time, it's all to set up in historical rematch with the United State. It was goal is on this one until the 31st minutes, Saori Ariyoshi was taken down in the box, so a penalty kick was given and Aya Miyama buries it. That not only get one nil Japan.

So, just eight minutes later, this time, it's England's Stephanie Houghton taken down in the box, so Fara Williams, with a chance to equalize. And she gets it to go, so we're level at one and that is how it would stay until stoppage time.

England's Laura Basset's slides to clear the ball but she hits it in her own her own net for an own goal. Oh, just a heartbreaking lost for England who have never made it to the stage. Japan wins it, two, one.

So it's one of the most devastating moments I have seen in sport. England loses to the Women's World Cup semi final to Japan after Laura Bassett injury time own goal.

Our own Kate Riley is in Edmonton with more.

KATE RILEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: No one but no one expected either of these sides to lose in a manner in which England did. Fans here at the stadium was silenced and supporters back home in England was stunned. The England Boss Mark Sampson said, "It was okay to cry".

(BEGIN VIDEO TAPE) MARK SAMPSON, ENGLAND COACH: It was a horrible obviously for Laura. She's hurting now, but tomorrow morning you wake up she'll 22 teammates, group of staff give her a hug thorough probably however.

STEPH HOUGHTON, ENGLAND CAPTAIN: Devastated as it got, but immensely proud of everyone in the squad. It's a team game. That's not about picking out individuals and we'll get around fast so it's up to us now not just to pick Laura but to pick of the whole group.

SAMPSON: It will sink into to what they've achieved and how proud everyone is of their teammate in what they've done to put women's football in our country in a place she's never been before.

RILEY: England now have to pull themselves together, they face Germany next, the price, third place at this tournament. Preparations are now ongoing in Vancouver. Japan and the USA now face each other in the final. It's a rematch of the 2011 final, Japan of course won it. And now USA will be going for the third World Cup crown.

Kate Riley, CNN at the Women's Word Cup in Edmonton.

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HAWKSWORTH: Thanks Kate, well, these two squads certainly are not strangers. Japan will now face up against the U.S, the team they beat in 2011 during the last World Cup final. The two met again in 2012 during the Olympics where USA won gold. This won't be the first final rematch in Women's World Cup history and it all goes down Sunday in Vancouver.

Let's get to the all England club where Wednesday was the hottest day in Wimbledon history. And number seven, Ana Ivanovic couldn't keep her cool as she was sent by Bethanie Mattek-Sands, who was ranked 158 in the word.

Mattek-Sands was the aggressor in this one and her attacking it paid off. When breakpoint opportunities came her way, she took advantage winning three of her four chances. And, unfortunately, Ivanovic only converted just one over eight break point chances. So Mattek-Sands also had 32 winners to Ivanovic which is 15.

And no such problem though for the 2004 champion, Maria Sarapova, the Russian foresee dispatched her opponent, Richelle hogging camp straight sets, 63-61 and on paper, it was a solid win but Sharapova will have to watch her serve that she made three consecutive double faults in the first set, a total of eight in the match against tougher opponents that might be a problem but she got away with it this time winning in just 65 minutes.

To number one Serena Williams she said she was not happy about her first round performance despite moving on so she sure it here. Williams came out strong and banged 86 by Timea Babos after having just three in her first round match. In the end Serena, she took out the hard-hitting Babos in straight set 6-4, 6-1 to move on to the third round, so the Serena slam continuos.

While the seats are tumbling in the Women's Drive Wimbledon, the biggest casualty in the men's games so far has been injuries.

Another one the Japanese 5th seed Kei Nishikori played in the U.S. Open Finals last year, well, he's been force to pullout with the calf injury. Now he says he'll take a month off before the American hard court swing begins.

Meanwhile, world number one Novak Djokovic is in to the third round. And boy, did he get an early wake up call from Jarkko Nieminen who broke him in a very first game. Novak is frustrated. He quickly got into stride though and closed it out in straight sets. His 30th win from 31 matches but it was Nieminen who took the applause from the crowd as this is his final Wimbeldon appearance.

And with that, the World Sport will be right back.

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HAWKSWORTH: Vincent Kompany as early as football memory was scoring an own goal but things have improved considerably since then. The Manchester City captain tells us how we learn to be a leader and a Premier League Champion in this week's Human to Hero.

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VINCENT KOMPANY, FOOTBALL CAPTAIN MANCHESTER CITY AND BELGIUM NATIONAL TEAM: When you do well, you know, you're a hero. You're a god. Then when you -- done do as well all of the sudden you need to be eliminated.

If you feel like you're entering an arena, if you're a gladiator, everything can happen. My name is Vincent Kompany or you can call me King Kompany.

I play for and captain of Manchester City and the Belgium National Team.

My first memory of football playing with my dad, you know, in our neighborhood, I wasn't very good at it. I was about six years old I thinking the first goal/last goal was against my own goal, you know? That's my first memory of football.

I think I always looked up to leaders on the pitch (inaudible) was one of those players and then Patrick Vieira of course. And I guess I build my character on a little bit but it didn't, you know, it never had to force me to watch football. I loved it.

My dad as much as my mom have been big influence on, you know, me playing football but especially me being the person that I am. Obviously, the biggest event in my life was when my mom passed away. You know, it was, you know, it was within my first year of moving aborad, living on my own and, you know, my sister got ill. She got cancer and at the same time my mom got cancer and she passed away.

In a way, I've always taken strength out of anything that's come at me. I was extremely competitive, so for me becoming a football it was about winning, you know? And, you know, I learned a lot. Coaches were telling me back in the days as well like, you know, stick to what you can, stick to what you're good at, and I hated this. So every single time, I would do what I can and I would train on it and eventually I would catch up on, you know, players that were more advanced to me and then you start believing.

In 2012, I was named the Premier League Player of the Season. I won the Premier League with Manchester City twice.

The goal when Kun Aguero scored the goal was for me the, you know, probably most defining moment in my career.

I scored an important goal against the rivals Man United about two weeks before that but nothing was decided until Kun Aguero kicked that ball about 30 seconds before the end of the season so I'm forever grateful to him and being able to share so much joy with so many people around you. It's, you know, it's a gift to me. It's a game to some to me, it's my life. I know I'm good at doing my job. And so when I get out there, that's the only thing that's on my mind.

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HAWKSWORTH: King Kompany, I like that nickname and I also love that he said, "Work on your weaknesses so that you can have confidence to do anything."

Thank you so much for joining us. I'm Erin Hawksworth. We'll see you next time.

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