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[08:00:20] ANDREW STEVENS: I'm Andrew Stevens in Hong Kong. Welcome to News Stream.

Violent protests in Greece as the country's parliament pushes through tough economic reforms to secure a new rescue.

Inside the cell that housed Mexican drug lord El Chapo before his escape from the maximum security prison.

And the strange impact of water shortages in this remote Indian village: polygamy.

Greece may be getting closer to a new financial lifeline, but it hasn't been easy. Just look at the faces of the Greek finance minister and

prime minister during Wednesday's long debate in Parliament.

In the end, lawmakers passed the reforms require to move ahead with a new bailout.

But the plan is unpopular. It's even harsher than the austerity measures rejected in a referendum earlier this month.

Tempers flaring during a protest outside parliament. Some demonstrators threw fire bombs at police who responded with tear gas.

Well, let's go live now to Athens and Elinda Labroupoulou joins us from just outside the parliament building.

Let's start with those protests, Elinda. Is this a sign of things to come? Is it likely that the Greek people are going to stay angry, stay on

the streets?

ELINDA LABROPOULOU, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, it's clear that the Greek people are not particularly happy with the deal they got.

Everyone believed that Greece could have gotten a better deal. You know, this is why had all these months of negotiations. And people here have

been really supportive of their government in these negotiations.

All the same, latest polls indicate that over half of the people wanted this deal to be signed. In the end, they figured that it's better

to have a deal of some kind than no deal at all. And this is exactly what the prime minister said as well. This was in a way -- his way of

apologizing for what he came home with, and the measures that he tried to get voted in to parliament last night.

He did get the support -- he got 229 votes in the 300 seat parliament. But although this looks like a constable victory in that sense, he still

lost about a quarter of his own parliamentarians. So, a lot of that vote came from the opposition rather than his own party.

And this is where the questions begin in terms of what happens next in Greece on the political front. We have heard that a reshuffle is expected

at any time effectively. And now there are some ministers that are already raising the question of possible elections ahead later this year.

STEVENS: Well, news coming to us, or reports at least, of a bridging loan, a $7 billion bridging loan may have been signed or on the verge of

being signed. What's that money going to be used for?

LABROUPOULOU: Well, that's money that Greece desperately needs at the moment, becuase it needs to make a reloan payment, a loan repayment,

rather, to the European Central Bank by Monday to avoid defaulting to the European Central Bank.

This is crucial, because if Greece was to default, then it would not be able to receive any more money from the central Bank. And for Greece' s

liquidity, this -- at this point is crucial. It has no access to the markets. It has not other way of funding itself.

And at the same time, we're waiting for the European Central Bank also to reach a decision today on whether it is likely to raise the assistance

liquidity it has been providing to the Greek banks so far.

Let's not forget, though, that the banks are approaching three weeks of being closed at this point with capital controls having been imposed.

and people only having an amount of 60 euros that they can withdraw on the daily level.

So really, reopening the banks is a big -- the big issue here and really most people's priority.

STEVENS: An influential think tank, The Economist Intelligence Unit - - Elinda you have probably seen the report -- saying that there -- it is likely that there will be a Grexit, that Greece will leave the eurozone

within five years, because of this deal.

We've already heard the criticism of the deal by the IMF. Is there a feeling where you are that Grexit is still more likely than less likely?

[08:05:17] LABROUPOULOU: I think at the moment there is so much turmoil and everything is just being decided, at least the first steps are

being decided. And none of this question of debt relief has really been pushed from the IMF, something that the Greek government has been asking

for for a long time now.

There's at least some hope, you know, at the end of the tunnel, that maybe some debt relief will be given, or some -- or if not in a direct

form, you know, in a less obvious way an extension of maturities to some breathing space for Greece to be able to allow its economy to grow first

and then to make these very tough payments.

So, at this point, the Grexit is not off the table completely, but I think there is hope that such a situation can at this point be averted.

STEVENS: All right, Elinda, thanks so much. Elinda Labropoulou joining us live from Athens.

Now, in Japan huge waves and driving rain in the south as Typhoon Nangka makes landfall. Weather officials are warning the powerful storm

could cause flooding and landslides. More than 100 domestic flights have already been canceled.

Let's get more now on the storm from CNN meteorologist Chad Myers. He's on -- he joins us from CNN Center, of course. Chad, just how big a

weather system is this?

CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: You know, it seems, Andrew, that we were only talking about last week about a different typhoon that was

hitting very close here to Shanghai. This one is going to be very close to a town called Kochi -- a city Kochi -- and just south of Osaka.

This Nangka was on the map last week when we talked just about the other typhoon, but it has been a very slow moving storm, and it has been a

super typhoon at one time. And that's 150 miles per hour, 240 kilometers per hour. It is not that now. It is down to 120 kilometers per hour, but

because it was such a big storm for awhile.

There is a bubble of water under this storm -- probably less than a meter high -- but all this vacuum effect, this sucking in the water, the

low pressure creating a bubble of water in the ocean. This entire bubble of water now has to go toward Kochi, has to go into the Bay of Osaka. And

this is going to be that storm surge we talk about. Yes, there will be wind damage, there will be some power lines down. But there will be

significant rain with this.

The rain and the flooding and the surge into the bay here could really cause more problems than the wind will cause. There goes the wind. It

moves on up. They might even go towards Sunday.

Some the Prefectures a little bit farther to the north is where we're going to see some of the wind as well, probably 60 kilometers per hour.

We've seen 40 kilometers per hour at Tokyo. That shouldn't make too many power outages.

But the rain and the wind and the topography here, you're starting to push all of this water, all of this rain into a mountainous hilly area.

What's going to happen when that rain gets on top of the hill? It's going to wash right back down and it's going to get into the rivers. And some of

these rivers are going to flood, and some of these hills, Andrew, are going to -- going to start to start to wash away.

So, we're going to talk about landslides and mudslides with this as we have 340,000 people in the way here in the city of Kochi, Andrew.

STEVENS: OK, just before you go, I just want to talk about that surge a bit more, because the world came to understand what a surge could mean in

the Philippines two years ago of a wall of water eight meters high, caused so much damage.

How big, how tall are we talking about this surge?

MYERS: Well, you know, I don't know that number. I would say at least two meters in a lot of places. And that's a big surge when you're

talking about waves that could be 30 feet on top of that surge. That's a lot of erosion.

Now the -- what we have here is an area where all of this water, this bubble of water is going to be pushed into a landmass that isn't going to

allow it to go out the other side. If you can just take that water and push it right through and into here -- back into the sea here, that would

be great. But it's going to get into this area, it's going to get into the bay, and Osaka this water could be -- it could be three meters. This isn't

a super typhoon, but it was. And because it was, we saw this with Hurricane -- or Superstorm Sandy in America a few years ago, that the storm

was only a tropical storm. It wasn't anything. It was less than a category one hurricane, but the storm surge was over 12 feet, over four

meters, even with a dying storm.

That's what we have now, a dying storm, but the surge could really be damaging.

STEVENS: Absolutely. It could still pack that punch. Chad, thanks so much for that.

Now, despite the weather, thousands in Japan have come out to protest legislation to change the country's defense policy. If passed, it would

allow Japanese troops to fight aboard under certain conditions for the first time since World War II.

The proposal has just been approved by the lower house and will now go to the upper house.

Will Ripley explains why so many people are worried.

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[08:10:09] WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Heavy rains here in Tokyo have cut the size of protest crowds just a bit. But as you can see, it

still hasn't stopped thousands of people from assembling outside of the Japanese parliament building to send a very strong message to lawmakers

they are not happy about this new defense bill, a bill that for the first time in some 70 years, since the end of World War II, will allow the

Japanese military, the self-defense force, to essentially join its allies and fight aboard.

Very unpopular amongst many people here in Japan, the Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has seen his approval ratings dip from around 70 percent at the

peak of his popularity to around 40 percent right now.

Many of these crowds out here are very concerned about what will happen to Japanese soldiers, and what will happen to Japanese citizens if

they go abroad, if Japan takes a stand when it comes to global issues. Will citizens be targeted by terror groups like ISIS? We've already seen

one Japanese journalist Kenji Goto executed by ISIS as punishment for Japan supporting the coalition. People are fearful that can happen even more.

And they're also afraid of troops coming home in body bags much like many other nations that have been entangled in global conflict.

But it seems that the prime minister has certainly the votes to push this bill through despite some of the public opposition. And there is also

what's known as a silent majority here in Japan, the people who do feel that this country should take a more active role militarily across the

world.

Will Ripley, CNN, Tokyo.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

STEVENS: Staying in Japan where beginning to today people found in possession of child pornography could face up to a year in jail or be fined

up to $10,000. The law was passed a year ago, but is only coming into force now. The delay was to give people time, those people who owned

questionable materials, to get rid of them.

Well, the ban does not cover explicit animation or indeed comic books.

Now, the manhunt continues for a Mexican drug lord whose prison break continues to astonish. We'll take you inside El Chapo's prison cell and

the elaborate tunnel he used to get out.

Also, our cameras enter the trenches of eastern Ukraine where the fight between pro-Russian rebels and government troops grinds on despite

the ceasefire.

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STEVENS: The Russian President Vladimir Putin calls a proposed tribunal to prosecute those suspected of shooting down passenger jet MH17,

quote, "premature and counterproductive."

The Malaysian airlines plane was shot down over Ukraine almost a year ago. It comes as Ukraine's military reports an increase in attacks from

pro-Russian rebels. They say the clashes are some of the fiercest since a ceasefire was signed back in February. Both sides have frequently accused

each other of violations. Our Nick Paton Walsh looks at the modern-day trench warfare around one Ukrainian city.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

[08:14:53] NICK PATON WALSH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The village of Piersky (ph) next to Donetsk's ravaged airport 142 days into a

ceasefire.

Ahead, he beckons, moments later they seek cover from separatist gunfire.

This is Ukraine's underfunded army holding off much better equipped rebels, backed by Russia. Basements of ordinary homes turned shelters,

turned homes again, in a place when often you only get to laugh when it's about fear.

Cameraman Nolan Peterson (ph) spent a week witnessing the bizarre spectacle of trench warfare in 21st Century Europe.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Open your mouths.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Open your mouth and it will be too loud.

WALSH: A tiny village fought over inch by inch to get nearer the symbolic Donetsk airport.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Open mouth.

WALSH: A regular army taking potshots at their adversary, then running to escape the inevitable reply.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Now, wear a vest.

WALSH: The truth is here this is much like many of the 141 days of ceasefire before it. A stalemate, which never grows stale.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): That's fine -- small stuff.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ceasefire.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): When it's louder weapons, that's scary.

(LAUGHTER)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): This is small.

WALSH: Nights where the dark brings no calm, the question, ever louder, when does the war begin again in the open?

(END VIDEOTAPE)

STEVENS: Nick Paton Walsh with that report there.

Now Switzerland says it has extradited one of seven FIFA officials being held over corruption allegations. They were arrested back in May

suspected of taking bribes worth more than $100 million. The Swiss federal office of justice did not name the man who was extradited to the U.S. It

says he was handed over to a U.S. police escort in Zurich who accompanied him on the flight back to New York.

Well, it's been five days since the escape, and still no sign of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the notorious Mexican drug lord who broke out of

prison.

CNN's Nick Valencia has given a -- or was given a detailed look at the prison cell where Guzman was last seen on security cameras.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This is where he kept his belongings.

(voice-over): For the first time, our cameras are allowed inside Cell No. 20.

(on camera): This is some remnants of what he left behind. The sink that he used to wash himself.

(voice-over): For nearly a year and a half, Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquim "El Chapo" Guzman was imprisoned behind these bars.

(on camera): That's the access point that El Chapo used to escape outside of this maximum-security prison. This wall providing a blind spot

for that 24-hour surveillance camera.

(voice-over): Just five days ago, that camera captured one of Mexico's most notorious drug lords vanishing below the shower floor.

(on camera): Here we go.

(voice-over): A mile away from Mexico's maximum-security prison, I climbed into the tunnel's exit.

(on camera): There's another ladder leading down to another part, a deeper section of the tunnel.

(voice-over): It's hard to estimate just how long and how many people it took to create this remarkable feat of engineering.

(on camera): You see here there are electricity lines. It's very difficult to breathe down here. A lot of dirt, dust. This is here for the

ventilation system.

This motorcycle is on a track here. This is the bike that El Chapo used to ride out of the prison. It still has gas in it.

(voice-over): The track also affixed with carts, used to carry out thousands of pounds of soil.

(on camera): Go back and forth. You see that? There's buckets left behind. And look at this: left behind oxygen tanks, as well, in order for

them to survive down here.

It is a very tight space. I can't even stand up. I'm about 5- 10. I can't stand up all the way.

(voice-over): But the tunnel just right for Mexico's 5-foot-6- inch most wanted fugitive.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

STEVENS: CNN's Nick Valencia reporting there from the prison where the drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman escaped on Saturday.

Now, the prison's director and other officials have now been fired. El Chapo, as we mentioned, still on the run.

Scientists say that they're surprised by the detailed new view of Pluto's surface taken by NASA's New Horizon's space craft. The zoomed in

image shows mountains some 3,300 meters high likely made from frozen water. You can also see smooth areas.

Researchers say the lack of craters suggests that the dwarf planet's surface is still relatively young. And they're eagerly awaiting additional

data from New Horizons. It'll take about 16 months to download it all.

And the heart shaped area that we highlighted on Wednesday, this area just around there, well that has now got a name. It's being called the

Tombaugh Regio in honor of the man who discovered Pluto. The tiny planet was just a speck of light to Cyle Tombaugh who observed it back in 1930.

Now, New Horizons is revealing the secrets of this icy world 5 billion kilometers away.

Now, still ahead, a look at the extreme measures that some villagers are going to just to get their hands on drinking water. After the break,

meet one farmer in India who has married two more wives so they can carry water back home. We'll explain.

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[08:25:00] STEVENS: That is the view looking across Victoria Harbor to the central business area of Hong Kong.

Welcome back. You're watching News Stream.

Now, three hours outside Mumbai, there's a village that has no water, no taps, just two wells running dry. The shortage is so bad that men are

marrying several women just to get them to carry water.

Now Mallika Kapur went to meet the water wives.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

MALLIKA KAPUR, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: On a wet and windy monsoon morning, Sakaram Pagat (ph) returns home. It's hard to believe

water is a problem here, but it is.

"We have to walk miles and miles to get drinking water," Sakaram tells me. "When my six children were young, how could one leave them alone?"

Desperation led to an unusual solution.

Here is his wife. She couldn't manage the house and fetch water on her own, so he married again. here is wife number two -- and again, here

is wife number three. And yes, they all live together.

"He married the other two only for water," says wife number one. She calls them water wives. That's mostly what they do: fetch water.

Polygamy is illegal in India unless you are Muslim. And this is a Hindu family. But these kinds of arrangements are not uncommon in this

remote corner of India. Afterall, what do you do when your village has no running water?

The summer is so intense that wells run dry.

She's just told me that this is the bathroom. This is the place where they have a bath. I asked her where is the tap. She says how can I have a

tap if there's no water.

There's only one solution: every day the so-called water wives walk and walk and walk in search of water.

Because it rained today, they've been able to find water in this well, which is not too far from their village. But on most days, they have to

walk to a river that way to get water. And they say that journey going and coming can talk 12 hours.

Back home after the long grueling walk, the family settles down. Sakaram (ph) and his three wives eat together.

"I have to do what I did only because of water," Sakaram says.

Wives two and three had their own reasons. they were widows. Now they are married women once again, a status much desired in rural

conservative India. And it's an arrangement that works for all. It gives them shelter, food and most importantly water.

Mallika Kapur, CNN, Denganma (ph) Village, western India.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

STEVENS: After the break more fallout from the nuclear deal with Iran. The White House is ramping up its overseas charm offensive to win back the

support of allies outraged at the agreement. We'll explain in just a moment.

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[08:30:36] STEVENS: I'm Andrew Stevens in Hong Kong. You're watching News Stream. And these are your world headlines. The much needed bailout

for Greece is getting closer. Parliament has approved new measures to overhaul its pension and tax systems. But that's causing anger on the

streets. Greek rejected austerity proposals in a referendum just earlier this month. The ECB president Mario Draghi is expected to speak in a few

moments from Germany. We are monitoring those comments.

Now, Typhoon Nangka is crashing into southern Japan. Weather officials war there could be widespread flooding and landslides from the

power storm. More than 100 domestic flights have been canceled.

This is the first zoomed in photo of Pluto from NASA's flyby. And it holds plenty of suprises. Reserachers say these mountains indicate Pluto

has water ice. They also say the lack of impact craters means Pluto's surface is less than 100 million years old. That's just a fraction of the

age of the solar system.

The White House is ramping up its campaign to win support for the Iran nuclear deal. U.S. President Barack Obama vigorously defending the pact

for more than an hour before the White House press corps on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the Vice President Joe Biden is working to drum up support among

Democrats on Capitol Hill.

Well, the Obama administration's push for the pact also includes reassuring its reluctant allies abroad. Among them, Saudi Arabia, the

Sunni kingdom is an arch rival of Shiite Iran. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet with the Saudi foreign minister later this day. And the

U.S. defense secretary will head to the Middle East next week. Now Reuters is reporting that his trip will include a stop in Saudi Arabia.

Now the ambassador to the UN from Saudi Arabia has already warned his concerns -- expressed his concerns about this deal.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

ABDALLAH Y. AL-MOUALIMI, SAUDI ARABIAN AMBASSADOR TO UN: We take the assurances that have been given to us by all parties at face value. And we

accept thm for the time being as being sufficient grounds to believe that this is a reasonable agreement.

What is more important in our view is what is going to be the behavior of Iran following the agreement? It would be odd if Iran reaches a modus

vivendi and normalization of relations with the international community, but continues to have difficulties in its relations with its own neighbors.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

STEVENS: Let's get more now on the White House push to rally support among critics of the deal in the United States.

CNN's White House correspondent Michelle Kosinski joins us from Washington.

Certainly, Michelle, this is a full court press from the administration.

MICHELLE KOSINSKI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, what we heard from the president yesterday was something different. I mean, often what we hear

from the president and from the administration, especially in the midst of a big issue, are these carefully crafted phrases that they use over and

over again a million times word for word.

But this is the president now getting out there and taking on the tough questions, not from fashion bloggers or comedians as we've seen the

president do from time to time, especially lately, but from the good old White House press corps. And he used pretty plain language laying out why

he feels the preventative aspect of this deal outweigh Iran's terrible behavior, much more the looser approach from President Obama that we have

seen in the last few weeks and months.

At the same time, though, when he disapproved he let some folks have it.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

BARAK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Please have a seat.

KOSINSKI (voice-over): President Obama openly addressed the proverbial gorillas in the room.

OBAMA: This deal is not contingent on Iran changing its behavior. It's not contingent on Iran suddenly operating like a liberal democracy. It

solves one particular problem, which is making sure they don't have a bomb.

KOSINSKI: The president challenged, chastised critics in Congress.

OBAMA: Explain specifically where it is that they think this agreement does not prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon and why they're right

and people like Ernie Moniz, as an MIT nuclear physicist and an expert in these issue is wrong, why the rest of the world is wrong. And then present

an alternative.

KOSINSKI: But that's not all he took issue with. His annoyance reaching ahead in this exchange.

MAJOR GARRETT, CBS NEWS: There are four Americans in Iran, three held on trumped up charges, and according to your administration, one

whereabouts unknown. Can you tell the country, sir, why you are content with all the fanfare around this deal to leave the conscience of this

nation, the strength of this nation unaccounted for in relation to these four Americans.

[08:35:18] ]OBAMA: I've got to give you credit, Major, for how you craft those questions. The notion that I am content? As I celebrate? With

American citizens languishing in Iranian jails?

Major, that's nonsense. And you should know better. I've met with the families of some of those folks. Nobody is content.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

KOSINSKI: You know, during this blunt talk, the president even admitted that once Iran is flush with cash, billions of dollars once

sanctions are lifted, that yes it is likely that they will use at least some of that money to continue to fund terror.

But what President Obama said was that that wouldn't necessarily be a gamechanger that blocking the path to a nuclear weapon is more important

and some of the other activity could be prevented through other means as well -- Andrew.

STEVENS: OK, Michelle, thanks very much for that. Michelle Kosinski joining us live from Washington.

Still to come on the show, getting online in Cuba. The country with some of the tightest internet restrictions in the world is now offering

public wi-fi.

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STEVENS: Cuba has been in the spotlight now that it's restoring a diplomatic relations with the U.S.

Our cameras have shown you that much of it appears to be in a time warp with its vintage cars and old buildings. The same goes for access to

technology, especially when it comes to the internet.

But CNN's Patrick Oppmann shows us how that's finally changing at dial-up speed.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

PATRICK OPPMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Surfing the internet while savoring a Cuban cigar is Havana: Cuba has some of the most tightly

restricted internet access in the world. But this month, for the first time, the Cuban government opened 35 areas that offer public wi-fi.

Sitting on the sidewalk, university student Alexis uses the new service to chat with his mom in Italy when he can afford to pay the $2 an

hour rates.

It's a lot of money in a country where the average monthly salary is $20.

"It's not super reasonable, but it's a start," he says. "Hopefully the price will keep going down."

In Cuba, there's no mobile internet and few people have access in their homes.

For a long time, the only way to get online was to pay the high prices charged at hotels, or crack the password of a closed wi-fi network,

something some Cubans have gotten very good at doing, but don't want to talk about.

What the people all around me are doing is getting online using the internet from this hotel. It's meant for paying customers who are mostly

foreigners and meant to be password protected. But all the same, people are using it to get online. And for the most part, Cuban officials are

allowing them to do it.

Filmmaker Yaima Pardo criticized the Cuban government controls on the internet in her documentary Off Line.

"It disconnects us from the 21st Century," she says. "We are being held back. We don't have the same right that the rest of the world has."

Representatives of the U.S.-based Connect Cuba campaign say the Cuban government won't slowly open the internet for fear of Arab Spring style

unrest on the island.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They're still very big on censorship. they're still very big on not letting too much outside information that's not

filtered by the government on to the island

OPPMANN: But back at the government-run wi-fi hotspot, Alexis says he has simpler dreams.

"One day it'll be wonderful to have internet in my house," he says. "Then I wouldn't have to come out here."

Patrick Oppmann, CNN, Havana.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

STEVENS: Internet in your house. Fancy that.

Now, an emotional and tearful moment for one of the most famed U.S. Olympians of all time at the Espy Awards. Gold medal winner Caitlyn Jenner

receiving the Arthur Ashe award for courage on Wednesday night. And in her first speech since identifying as transgender, Caitlyn urged respect and

said that the world needs to accept people for who they really are.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

CAITLYN JENNER, ARTHUR ASHE AWARD RECIPIENT: So, for the people out there wondering what this is all about, whether it's about courage or

controversy or publicity, well I'll tell you what it's all about, it's about what happens from here. It's not just about one person, it's about

thousands of people. It's not just about me, it's about all of us, accepting one another.

We're all different. That's not a bad thing. That's a good thing.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

STEVENS: Now Caitlyn transitioned from Bruce Jenner earlier this year. And people have noticed that Apple's iPhone assistant Siri now

recognizes this.

If you ask Siri what Bruce Jenner's real name is, she'll reply Caitlyn Jenner. Similarly, ask what gender Bruce Jenner is and she'll reply

female.

Now, while some praise Apple for this, it's worth noting that this is not all Apple's doing. For instance, you can see that this answer came

from the search engine Wolfram Alpha, while here you can see that Siri found out how many children Jenner has on Wikipedia.

It's because that Siri sometimes outsources questions she can't answer herself. In addition to those two, she can also ask Bing, Twitter, as well

as others. So it's not all just down to Apple. But a sign that the tech industry is keeping up with social progress.

And that's News Stream. I'm Andrew Stevens. Don't go anywhere. World Sport with Christina Macfarlane is just ahead.

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