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Bomb Attack in southern Turkey Leaves 27 Dead; FIFA Will Elect New President Feb. 26, 2016; Mitsubishi Apologies for Mistreating American POWs During WWII; Australian Surfer Mick Jennings Narrowly Escapes Great White Attack in South Africa. Aired 8:00a-9:00a ET

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[08:17:34] KRISTIE LU STOUT, HOST: We must defeat the extremists and, quote, any strategy to confront extremism must deal with extremist

ideology.

You've been watching live comments there from the British prime minister. He was outlining his government plan to fight extremism over the

next five years. Mr. Cameron said that extremism depends upon a warped world view.

Now, he also addressed homegrown terrorism and how young people are drawn to terrorism through what he calls a process of radicalization.

I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. You're watching News Stream.

And I want to get straight to our breaking news this hour. Now FIFA has just announced they will hold an election on February 26, to replace

President Sepp Blatter as the head of the world football's governing body.

Now the decision was made at a meeting of FIFA's executive committee. It is their first meeting, since Blatter announced that he would stand down

last month.

Let's go straight to World Sport's Amanda Davies is there. She joins me now live. And Amanda, already we have learned the date when FIFA will

choose Blatter's successor.

AMANDA DAVIES, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT: Absolutely, Kristie. Yeah, February 26, 2016 is the date the extraordinary FIFA congress will be held

here in Zurich, which will be where the vote for Sepp Blatter's successor will be held.

We knew that the options on the table were somewhere between December and March next year, but from what we've been hearing coming out of the

executive committee meeting is that it was something of a battle between the parties sitting around that table.

On the one hand, there were those in the school of thought that they wanted it to be sooner rather than later so that Sepp Blatter would be

removed from his post, a real line could be drawn in the sand. The likes of UEFA were pushing for a December date.

But Sepp Blatter himself felt that that would over shadow the Club World Cup that takes place.

The other suggestion was possibly January surrounding the Ballon d'Or FIFA's flagship event when all of football's top brass, the biggest names

in the football community would be here in Zurich anyway, but there is the suggestion then that indeed that the footballing event would be

overshadowed.

And so it seems that Sepp Blatter has got his way, that the election will be held in February. February 26. That in fact is just three months

before the normal congress is due to be staged in May in Mexico anyway. That will still take place.

But what this means now in terms of the election process is that the nominees, those who are going to throw their hat into the ring have to

declare their intention to stand and prove they have the support of five of the 209 national associations around the world by October 26.

So this is where the campaigning really begins in earnest. We understand that there were some quite high level meetings here in Zurich on

Sunday night at the Baur au Lac Hotel, the hotel where those sudden arrests took place at the end of May.

And we understand that the UEFA President Michel Platini was given a vote of confidence by four of the six confederations. Importantly, he was

given the nod by Sheikh Ahmed of Kuwait, representing the Asian Confederation. Many people weren't sure whether Asia would throw their

weight behind a European candidate because of Europe's power in terms of international football. But it seems that that has been the case.

So now it is very much over to Michel Platini, the head of European football to decide whether or not he wants to go with it to take that

support and throw his hat into the ring.

You suspect that if that is the case, then he could well be the new FIFA President. But that is still a very big decision that he needs to

take. And arguably more than some of the other candidates whose names have been put into the frame up to this point, the likes of Chung Moon-jeuong

(ph) of South Korea, the likes of Prince Ali who stood in the last election, Zico (ph), the former Brazilian player.

Michel Platini does have the most to lose, because he's head of the UEFA group of countries. He has a job. He has the European championships

in France next year, an event very close to his heart as a Frenchman. But this really is where the campaigning begins in earnest.

[08:22:07] LU STOUT: Yeah, campaigning begins now. Election date set for February 26. And today, Amanda, is a significant day for both

FIFA, its future, and the controversial man still at charge here, Sepp Blatter.

We know that a news conference was due to take place. It's been pushed to an hour from now. What should we expect to hear?

DAVIES: I think we should expect it to be quite a lively encounter, Kristie. The last time we saw Sepp Blatter fronting up at a press

conference here, of course, was June 2. That press conference that was so hastily called with just a handful of the world's media here. Most people

had gone home after all the dramatic events here in Zurich surrounding the congress.

We saw Sepp Blatter elected as president once again for a fifth term of office on the Friday. There was a very heated press conference on the

Saturday where he was very much made to justify his position. He was asked to leave by some members of the media on the Saturday. And then on the

Tuesday June 2 was when Sepp Blatter did that dramatic U-turn and decided to step down.

On that day, he didn't take any questions from the media. He made a few defiant statements, hasn't he, through newspapers and Swiss journalists

since then, saying he hasn't resigned, he's merely laid down his mandate.

But the call is very much still for him to go. And you do not expect him to be let off lightly at this press conference a little bit later on.

It's due to take place in about just over half an hour from now. And the other issue that's going to be on the agenda, of course, Kristie, is

the reforms. Agenda item number two for that executive committee meeting earlier today not only to decide the date of the presidential vote, but

Domenico Scala, the man charged with putting the reform process in place here at FIFA to help restore a little bit of confidence in world football's

governing body. He presented his reform proposals to the executive committee for the first time at the meeting. There was a PowerPoint

presentation.

Our understanding was that he was basically putting in place some eligibility criteria -- or he was proposing to put in place some

eligibility criteria, some term limits for the members of the ExCo, some salary publication details. And really he was waiting to see what kind of

reception he would receive from an executive committee that up to this point hasn't been elected by the congress, by the FIFA president, but by

the members of their confederations around the world.

And that very much has been the criticism of this organization, that it has really run on its own terms up to this point, the members on it

haven't been accountable enough. And the feeling is that that is where the corruption, the dependency has really come from that has led FIFA to this

place.

From what we understand, Domenico Scala did manage to get some of his reforms through. We will hear more of the details of that at the press

conference, I'm sure. He's managed to get some of the reforms through congress, but they will then be -- through the ExCo, which then need to be

presented to congress at that date. We now know which will be February 26.

[08:25:40] LU STOUT: All right. Plans for reform at the top of the agenda. And that date we now know to elect the next president of FIFA,

February 26 of next year.

Amanda Davies joining us live from Zurich. Thank you.

You're watching News Stream right here on CNN. We'll be back after this short break.

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LU STOUT: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. You're watching News Stream. And these are your world headlines.

Now world football's governing body FIFA is to choose a new president in February. Outgoing President Sepp Blatter is expected to speak in the

next half hour or so. Now he announced his resignation last month after allegations of widespread corruption within FIFA.

Now the UK prime minister has just wrapped up his speech on fighting extremism. David Cameron says Britain must fight radicalization by

confronting the warped ideology head on. He says it is wrong to say it has no connection to Islam and must be debated.

Now, Greek banks are open for the first time in weeks. Now they were shuttered to prevent a run on the banks. And people are limited to

withdrawing 455 dollars a week, but that is more than many Greeks earn.

And in Turkey, a deadly explosion has rocked the border town of Suruc. The Turkish interior ministry says at least 27 people have been killed.

And they fear that that number will rise.

Now the blast struck a group that had gathered to call for more help rebuilding the Syrian city of Kobani just across the border.

And reaction from Turkey, Turkey has condemned it as a terrorist attack. And so far there have been no claims of responsibility.

Now CNN's Nick Paton Walsh is following developments from Amman, Jordan. He joins us now live. And Nick, what more have you learned about

the brutal aftermath of this explosion and the victims.

NICK PATON WALSH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well at this stage it is still very early days. One witness at the scene is talking about the

confusion as to whether this was a suicide bomber or simply a bag left in the crowd. But utter devastation at the cultural park known as the Amira

Cultural Park (ph) in Suruc.

Now Suruc a town itself is heaving, frankly, with Syrian Kurds, those who fled Kobani during the fighting and frankly those who can't go back

because as we saw ourselves in December last year, the devastation to that town is quite catastrophic. It has been frankly flattened in many parts by

a coalition of coalition airstrikes used to rout ISIS, but also to the damage done by ISIS car bombs during that fight.

Who is behind this blast? As you say, we don't know at this stage. Suspicion will point towards ISIS. And this would be, were it them -- and

I'm speculating here, because there are many other reasons for political violence across Turkey and it's, you know, a country that's been racked

particularly in its south where there are many Kurds for decades by this kind of problem, not necessarily bombings of this extent.

If that were the case, it would be one of the worst attacks that ISIS have managed to perpetrate inside Turkey.

Their retaliation so to speak there has been on a very low scale, not involving this kind of attack. We have seen in the past fortnight a

concerted effort by Turkish authorities to do what NATO, to do what their western allies have frankly been begging them to do for years. We've seen

ourselves how the transit into northern Syria through Turkey has been very easy in the past years or so, increasingly difficult in the months past as

the focus, spotlight became more global on that traffic of jihadis in to northern Syria.

But an attack like this comes in a fortnight after a wave or arrests across Turkey against ISIS networks, against those who facilitate the

traffic, who have the material they need and the people they need to keep what they call their own caliphate going.

This could be a response, but at his stage we don't have a claim of responsibility. We do have a death toll of 28, possibly 100 injured, and a

quite devastated town of Suruc here. There must be a lot of fear of what could still be to come -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reporting. Many thanks indeed for that.

Now one of Japan's largest and oldest corporations is taking responsibility for an atrocity it committed during the Second World War.

Mitsubishi has formally apologized for using captured American soldiers as slave laborers. Now the landmark apology comes as Japan prepares to mark

70 years since the end of the war.

Will Ripley has more from Tokyo.

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WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Japan's brutal treatment of World War II prisoners is the subject of Hollywood movies and history books. James

Murphy lived through the horror described as slavery.

JAMES MURPHY, WWII POW: It was forced labor camp where you either worked or you died.

RIPLEY: The 94-year-old American became a prisoner of war in 1942.

He spent his early 20s in Japanese labor camps, enduring near starvation, regular abuse watching fellow prisoners die.

Murphy worked in a mine owned by Mitsubishi Mining Company, known today as Mitsubishi Materials.

On Sunday in Los Angeles it became the first Japanese corporation to publicly apologize for wartime atrocities.

MURPHY: Elation and happiness that we finally, after 70 years, got a direct apology from a Japanese who mistreated us during World War II.

RIPLEY: Mitsubishi's apology comes as Japan prepares to mark seven decades since the end of World War II. And it comes at a time when

government leaders here in Tokyo are trying to move past the nation's war crimes.

Ignoring protests and plunging approval ratings, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is pushing controversial legislation through the Japanese parliament,

expanding the role of the nation's military for the first time since World War II.

Mitsubishi is not offering financial compensation for POWs like Murphy. The Tokyo-based company has faced lawsuits seeking payouts to

former prisoners, including British, Chinese, Koreans and Filipinos.

MURPHY: We can go on now, even though we had certainly hadn't been living in the past, but we don't want to forget the past.

RIPLEY: The apology comes far too late for all but a handful of survivors, now in their late 80s and 90s. Murphy says he forgave his

captors long ago, but spent 70 years waiting for this moment, waiting to hear two simple words, "we're sorry."

Will Ripley, CNN, Tokyo.

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LU STOUT: You're watching News Stream. And still to come, we'll show you a man who is counting his blessings, a worldclass surfer speaks to CNN

one day after he narrowly escaped a shark attack. That's right here after the break.

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[08:36:18] LU STOUT: Steamy out there.

Coming to you live from Hong Kong, you're back watching News Stream.

Now the audience of a surfing tournament in South Africa saw a gut wrenching and extraordinary moment. It all happened as champion surfer

Mick Fanning was preparing to catch his next wave. And then you see the fin, a great white shark pops up.

Now Fanning says that he punched the shark, but then it started dragging his surfboard.

Now luckily, the leash connecting him to the board snapped and he managed to swim away. And he was quickly picked up by safety boats.

Now Fanning emerged barely harmed, obviously shaken by that event. And he talked to our David McKenzie a short time ago. And David joins us

now from the beach where it all happened.

I mean, David, extraordinary video of that shark attack. And it was caught live as it happened on camera. You spoke to the surfer. What did

he share with you?

DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Kristie, he was clearly rattled. This is a world class surfer, as you say, one of the

world's best. Mick Fanning from Australia. He is very popular on the circuit. And as you say, this all happened extraordinarily live on TV.

You know, the surfers are out here in Jeffries Bay, one of the world's best surf spots. But yesterday a very different scenes and the horror of

the announcer as that attack unfolded, what we believe a great white shark coming underneath Mick Fanning and him saying that he was in a fight of his

life.

And I spoke to him just earlier today. He was on his way to Australia. Have a listen to what he had to say.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

MICK JANNING, SURFER: I was pretty relaxed. And, you know, (inaudible) got that one first wave. And I was just like, yeah, OK, I'll

just wait my turn. And then all of a sudden I sort of sense something behind me. And then all of a sudden I just jumped on my board and, you

know, I just was like, OK, well something is going on.

And then I felt myself getting dragged under by my leash. And then next thing I know I saw his fin and you know, I went on my board and I

guess it smacked me in the head. I don't even remember that.

But -- and then the next thing it came back around and went again at my board. And, yeah, it was like all right, it's me or the shark. And --

but it just kept going for my board.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

MCKENZIE: Well, certainly he said instinct kicked in. He threw a couple of punches and amazingly, Kristie, his mother -- or his mom was

watching from Australia live. He says she spoke to him and said she wanted to grab him from the TV and pull him to safety.

As it were, of course, he got away without a scratch.

But, you know, clearly very shaken by this experience as is the rest of the surfing community, though. They are out there today surfing this

famous break -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: Yeah, I'm just imagine just being the mom watching from Australia. This happened to your surfing champion son on live TV. I mean,

just how terrifying that is.

But also let's talk about sharks, and the real threat posed by these animals. I mean, why are there these incidents of shark attacks? And at

the end of the day, what is the real threat posed by these animals?

MCKENZIE: Well, look, statistically the threat is still pretty low, but there has been a rising -- well, there's been an increase in incidents

here in South Africa along the coast. Of course the southern eastern coast famous for its great white sharks. Other sharks pose a problem further up

the coastline.

It's these cold waters, coldish water, I have to say, that great white sharks operate.

But there is some sense from the communities here that cage diving, this tourist activity here where they chum the waters to attract the sharks

might be having some impact -- that hasn't been proven yet.

And as Mick Fanning pointed out to me, you know, 30 years as a surfer, many of those years as a pro, one of the best in the world, and this is his

closest encounter, the only one he's had with a shark, though certainly extremely dramatic.

And he said he felt so insignificant next to this powerful creature that had really little to do with him, whether he lived or died and he

counts himself very lucky indeed -- Kristie.

[08:30:42] LU STOUT: Yeah, a lot of drama in this story. We appreciate your measured reporting on it. Many thanks indeed for that.

David McKenzie reporting live.

Now, there are tens of thousands of human trafficking victims in America. And the majority of them are children.

Now the CNN Freedom Project partnered with the actress Jada Pinkett Smith to expose this form of modern-day slavery. In a documentary it's

called Children for Sale: The Fight to End Human Trafficking, and she discovers why Atlanta has become a breeding ground for predators.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

JADA PINKETT SMITH, ACTRESS: When my daughter was 11, she came to me and she said, mommy, did you know that there were girls that were being

sold for sex that are my age in this country? And I was like I think there's a mistake. That doesn't happen here.

After that, it was just -- I remember I was stuck to the computer for days. Story after story after story, and I couldn't believe that I didn't

know.

Dalia Racine knows. She's DeKalb County's assistant District Attorney. Would you say that there's a difference between prostitution and

trafficking?

DALIA RACINE, DEKALB COUNTY ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY: Trafficking is the manufacturing of children for the sex trade. They're just getting

sold and passed on from one exploiter to the other. And a lot of times it's because they don't know another life after this.

SMITH: Those exploiters can come from anywhere.

Is there such a thing as trafficking occurring in airports?

RACINE: It is the world's busiest airport, which kind of lends to us then being one of the hubs is because that man can get on that computer

anonymously say I'm coming in to go have sex with this child. He'll fly in on a 3:00 flight, meet the child at 6:00 and be gone on the 8:00.

How are we to ever find them? How are we to ever know who they are?

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LU STOUT: Now be sure to tune in later this week for the CNN Freedom Project Documentary. It's called Children for Sale: The Fight to End Human

Trafficking. It premiers Wednesday night at 8:00 in London, that's 9:00 p.m. Central European Time only on CNN.

Now that is News Stream. I'm Kristie Lu Stout. But don't go anywhere. World Sport with Christina Macfarlane is next.

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