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Malaysia Confirms Wig Piece from MH370, French Prosecutor Cautious; MH370 Clues Investigators Will Look For; India Hit by Monsoon Rain, Flooding; New Details on Suspect in Tennessee Movie Theater Shooting; Obama Pushes Iran Nuclear Deal as Evidence of Iran Nuclear Cover-up Emerge; Top-10 GOP Candidates Prepare for Thursday's Debate; Floods Batter Asia, Typhoon Heads for Taiwan; Egyptian ISIS Threatens to Kill Croatian Hostage; Sex Abuse Allegations Against Former British Prime Minister; Remembrance of Atom Bomb Attack on Hiroshima; Closer Look at New "Daily Show" Host Trevor Noah. Aired 2- 3a ET

Aired August 05, 2015 - 02:00   ET

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[02:00:26] ERROL BARNETT, CNN ANCHOR: It's been nearly 17 months to the day since MH370 vanished and now the Malaysian prime minister says this flaperon is part of the plane.

ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: Plus, a new attack in a U.S. movie theater, this time, with a hatchet, pepper spray and a pellet gun.

BARNETT: And later this hour, CNN is in Hiroshima 70 years after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the city.

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

BARNETT: Good to be back with you, Rosemary.

Hey, everyone. I'm Errol Barnett. Thanks for joining us. This is CNN NEWSROOM.

CHURCH: Our top story, the most-talked-about scrap of plane debris in the world. Malaysia's prime minister says experts confirmed the wing piece found on Reunion Island last week is from MH370.

BARNETT: But a French prosecutor is being much more cautious, suggesting the piece is very likely from MH370. He says further analysis will start on Thursday to prove it conclusively.

Malaysia's leader is sticking to his statement.

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NAJIB RAZAK, MALAYSIA PRIME MINISTER: We have physical evidence that as I announced on 24th march last year, MH370 tragically ended in the southern Indian Ocean.

(END VIDEO CLIP) BARNETT: But Australia, too, is weighing in saying it will await further details from the French-led investigation team.

CHURCH: But Prime Minister Tony Abbott remains hopeful.

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TONY ABBOTT, AUSTRALIA PRIME MINISTER: The search must go on. But what we have found in the Western Indian Ocean does seem to indicate that the plane did come down more or less where we thought it did. And it suggests that for the first time we might be a little bit closer to solving this baffling mystery.

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BARNETT: This news about the debris prompted angry relatives of the passengers to do what you are seeing here. They stormed Malaysia Airlines' Beijing office and they say they don't believe this piece is from the plane and they are demanding to know the truth.

CNN's Anna Coren is joining us from Hong Kong with more on this.

Anna, we have to note this is hard for the victim's families. You have confirmation from the Malaysian prime minister but caution from the French. What are the relatives saying about that?

ANNA COREN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: As you can imagine, this is a difficult and painful time for the families of the 239 people on board MH370. Many just devastated to hear this news because as you say, this is confirmation as far as the Malaysians are concerned that this is in fact a piece of the debris from MH370 which proves that it did crash in the Indian Ocean.

Now, there are other families -- as you see, there in China, who refuse to take this as gospel. They believe that there have been cover ups throughout the past 17 months. And so they don't see this as the truth. As far as they are concerned they want definitive answers as too what happened, why this plane crashed. They want the wreckage of the plane. They want the black box and the bodies of their loved ones to be retrieved. This two-meter piece of the wing, the flaperon, as it is known, that is not enough for many of the families. Others, I should add are disgusted that they were not contacted officially by authorities and they had to hear through the media about this news.

So really, this is an indication or reflection, really, as to how this entire crisis has been handled over the past 17 months. Families just feeling like they've been neglected and were the last to find out any piece of information or new developments. For them this is another painful reminder. But at the end of the day, many of these families are back at the very beginning. This is really just extremely painful episode as you can imagine.

BARNETT: Yeah, it certainly is true.

Anna Coren live in Hong Kong with the perspective from victims' relatives. Anna, thanks.

CHURCH: After this difficult time for families, CNN's Richard Quest takes a closer look at the clues investigators have been searching for and what the further testing on the debris will focus on.

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[02:05:10] RICHARD QUEST, CNN AVIATION & BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: I understand that there are some distinctive parts, there are only distinctive paints and markings within it all, of which have led to conclude pretty much conclusively that this is actually from MH370. As for why the prosecutor was more circumspect, they are going to be testing the barnacles and the stresses and seeing exactly what the composition is and what the paint that might be unique to Malaysia Airlines and that's how they have done it. Malaysia Airlines says they have spotted on this flaperon that is pretty much unique to their planes.

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CHURCH: So let's talk more about this with Jules Jaffe, who is a research oceanographer with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and he joins me now from San Diego.

Thank you, sir, for talking with us.

JULES JAFFE, RESEARCH OCEANOGRAPHER, SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY: Thank you.

CHURCH: As we know, Malaysia's prime minister is convinced this wing part is from Malaysia Airlines flight 370. French authorities are more cautious. But if it is, indeed, from MH370, what do you think we can learn from this debris? And how likely is it that through the study of ocean currents that oceanographers like yourself can pinpoint where the rest of the plane might be?

JAFFE: Yeah, that's the question on everyone's mind right now, Rosemary. Thanks for asking. You know, there's a lot of history of debris in the ocean and currents and washing up. You probably recall the terrible disaster of Fukushima and months later docks and things washed up on the shores of the West coast of the United States. There have been freight cars that have been lost. And the question is how can we figure out where it came from? And we have a general idea. I mean, I guess I'm glad we found something. As you probably recall we had no idea where the thing was. I mean, they never -- the satellite communication was out for a long time. It still had a fair amount of jet fuel. We now know for sure it was in the Indian Ocean. I think we have to backtrack at least to the first square. Now the study of ocean currents is pretty advanced and we as scientists understand the general flow of things in the ocean but the analogy I'd like to use is imagine you have a glass of water and you put sprinkles in it and you mix it up and you ask yourself where did the sprinkles start? We'll call that un-stirring a thing that was stirred up. And you can imagine that's a pretty hard problem. I think it helps a bit but I don't think it's going to allow us to pinpoint the exact location of the crash to a 100 kilometer diameter on the circumstance of the ocean. And the other thing work against us is the time. The longer that things are out there, the more time they have to meander around and so, the length of time, the distance it traveled all contribute to uncertainty in figuring out where it might have started. I, for one, think we were incredibly lucky that it washed up on la Reunion. I would not have imagined it could.

CHURCH: What you are saying, too, is that we can't assume, then, that other parts of the plane will end up around that same location. They could be in other parts of the ocean, perhaps.

JAFFE: That's precisely too. Again, imagine now, releasing 100 balloons and watching them in the sky go apart and picking the red one and say where did that guy come from? Chances are you are not going the figure out the person that launched it and where they are.

CHURCH: Jules Jaffe, thank you for joining us.

JAFFE: You're more than welcome.

CHURCH: We appreciate it.

BARNETT: To other stories we're following now, India is dealing with monsoon rain and severe flooding. Some locals say this is one extraordinary monsoon season.

CHURCH: It has destroyed homes and lives and left entire villages under water as you can see.

BARNETT: Our Sumnima Udas joins us live from Calcutta where hundreds of thousands have been evacuate to relief camps.

Sumnima, can they cope with the huge demand right now?

[02:10:02] SUMNIMA UDAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Errol, there are still 200,000 at least in these relief camps just in this state of west Bengal alone and a lot of the officials were saying they expect the people to stay there for at least the next week or two weeks because the waters are not going to recede any time soon. The main situation right now, the main problem in these parts is the overflowing dams. This part of west Bengal, it's got some of the biggest rivers in the country, including the Ganges, which is what you see behind me. Every once in a while the dams have to be opened to release the excess water. That's why the areas are inundated a couple times a day. That's here.

Outside, in the outlying areas of west Bengal, the situation is much, much more desperate there.

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UDAS (voice-over): Kilometers and kilometers of flood water as far as the eyes can see. This district in eastern India is one of the worst affected.

(on camera): The main river is seven kilometers from here, roughly five miles. But you can see how far inland the water has come. And people have started fishing on what used to be their farmland.

(voice-over): Hundreds dead. Hundreds of thousands of homes damaged. Roads submerged. Wading through the flood water is the only option for many.

"We hitch a ride with a wedding party. The groom rented a neighbor's boat. What can I do? I can't change the wedding date, so I had to get married, even in these conditions," he says.

This is a potato trader. He says his entire supply for the season has been destroyed. I ask him how he is going to support his new bride. "I don't know, he says."

Throughout the journey, the priest blows on a conch shell.

(on camera): All of this used to be a rice paddy field. But you can see, the entire area is a mini lake of sorts and it's quite deep as well, about 10 to 15 feet.

(voice-over): Those without access to boats are stranded. Entire villages cut off from the outside world for almost a week.

(on camera): The home is unlivable, so they found this dry patch of land and they've built this makeshift shelter over here. They moved their livestock as well but it's they have received absolutely no help so far.

(voice-over): Floods are not uncommon here. They happen every monsoon season. But this is the worst it's been in years, they say.

After a long journey, the two are finally home. A welcoming ritual is performed. The holy water may not be as clean as it should be. The celebrations, perhaps not perfect. People, making the best of it, even in the worst of times.

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UDAS: Something has to be said about the resilience of the people here. They deal with so much hardship on a day-to-day basis and these floods are a setback but they still persevere -- Errol?

BARNETT: A bit of a romantic take, too, that love can conquer all and persevere, even though times of desperation. We hope that things improve for the hundreds of thousands of people suffering now.

Sumnima Udas, live for us in Calcutta, thank you.

CHURCH: We're going to take a short break here. Still to come, we are learning more about the man at the center of a disturbing attack at a U.S. movie theater. What police are saying about his mental state. That is next.

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[02:17:58] CHURCH: In the United States, there are new details about a man who police shot and killed after he attacked people in a Tennessee movie theater. Authorities say this man, Vincente Montano, had a history of mental illness.

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DON AARON, SUPERINTENDENT, NASHVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT: In talking with Rutherford County authorities, it appears this individual has had significant psychiatric or psychological issues. They are reporting he had been committed four times, twice in 2004 and twice in 2007.

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BARNETT: Police say that Montano's mother filed a missing person's report two days before this incident. He doused three movie-goers with pepper spray and injured another man with a hatchet.

People in a nearby theater say they heard the commotion but didn't realize what was happening.

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JESSICA ALAND, MOVIE-GOER: We were the only ones in theater. I walked out to use the restroom and walked into the policemen who were armed and had guns and told me what was happening and that I should get back into the theater.

ALEX ROBY, MOVIE-GOER: Initially, before Jessica left the theater, we heard screams coming from another theater. This is before we thought something was happening.

ALAND: We thought it was a scary movie.

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CHURCH: Police say Montano also had a pellet gun that can fire plastic pellets or B.B.s.

One of the people inside the theater thanked law enforcement for stepping in when they did.

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UNIDENTIFIED MOVIE-GOER: I'm eternally grateful -- excuse me -- for the Metro Police Department for their fast response today and the fact that no one else got injured other than the person who did this. I ask people to pray for his family.

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BARNETT: U.S. federal authorities are helping police with this investigation. But incidents like this appear to be all-too common in the states.

CHURCH: A lot of people are considering whether they want to go to the movies any more.

BARNETT: And that's a shame. U.S. President Barack Obama is making a case for the Iran nuclear deal. This comes as critics point to evidence of an alleged cover-up at an Iranian nuclear site.

CNN's Jim Sciutto has the details.

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[02:20:17] BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I am stating a fact.

JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The president made an impassioned defense of the Iran nuclear deal, attempting to stop lawmakers from blocking the agreement.

OBAMA: I've had to make a lot of tough calls as president. But whether or not this deal is good for American security is not one of those calls. It's not even close.

SCIUTTO: But the skeptics got new ammunition today. CNN learned that the U.S. intelligence community believes Iran is attempting to clean up one of the most sensitive suspected nuclear sites after new commercial satellite imagery showed heavy construction equipment, including bulldozers. The president dismissed the fact that Iran can hide nuclear material.

OBAMA: Nuclear material is not something you hide in a closet. It can leave a trace for years. The bottom line is, if Iran cheats, we can catch them and we will.

SCIUTTO: A senior intelligence official tells CNN the IAEA, the international agency responsible for inspecting Iran's nuclear sites, is, quote, "familiar with sanitization efforts, and the international community has confidence in the IAEA's technical expertise."

Many lawmakers, Republicans and Democrats, are not convinced. They take particular issue with the fact that the administration has not released details between Iran and IAEA and won't confirm if U.S. officials read them.

SEN. BOB CORKER, (R), TENNESSEE: Why not will you give us the documents that exist that are so important? Why not?

WENDY SHERMAN, U.S. UNDERSECRETARY FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS: We don't have the documents in the first instance. We don't have them. So we don't have them to give to you. I didn't see the final documents, I saw the provisional documents, as did my experts.

SCIUTTO: But for the president, however, the choice is clear.

OBAMA: Let's not mince words. The choice we face is ultimately between diplomacy or some form of war, maybe not tomorrow, maybe not three months from now, but soon.

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CHURCH: That was CNN chief U.S. chief security correspondent, Jim Sciutto, reporting.

BARNETT: The top-10 U.S. presidential candidates are getting ready for the first debate on Thursday night. Front runner, Donald Trump, will be front and center in Cleveland.

CHURCH: Yes, Donald Trump and nine other men will be there, along with Jeb Bush, a favorite among many Republicans.

Dana Bash has more.

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DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The biggest event at this Cleveland arena these days is when Lebron James is playing. But all these satellite trucks are lined up for political sport, the first Republican 2016 presidential debate.

SEN. MARCO RUBIO, (R), FLORIDA & PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: This is not reality television.

BASH: Sources close to the nine GOP contenders sharing the stage with the unlikely front-runner Donald Trump insist he will not be their focus.

RUBIO: All of us who are running owe voters an explanation of who we are, what we plan to do if we're elected. That's what I plan to focus on.

BASH: As for Trump, he insists he wants to focus on issues.

DONALD TRUMP, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & CEO, TRUMP GROUP: I'm not looking to hurt anybody. I'm not looking to embarrass anybody. If I have to bring up deficiencies, I'll bring up deficiencies. But certainly I'm not looking to do that. I'd rather go straight down the middle. You don't know what's going to happen.

BASH: And tries to lower expectations, politician style.

TRUMP: I've never debated. My sort of -- my whole life has been a debate. But I've never debated before. These politicians, all they do is debate.

BASH: The question is whether the man, who retaliated against an opponent by reading his cell phone number on live TV, can help himself.

TRUMP: I don't know if it's the right number, let's try it. 202 --

BASH: Trump's hard-charging lawyer warned maybe not.

MICHAEL COHEN, EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, TRUMP ORGANIZATION: Look what happened. Lindsey Graham, not even in the debate. Rick Perry, not even in the debate. You attack Donald Trump he's going to come back at you twice as hard.

BASH: But while Trump may be the most entertaining, Jeb Bush may have the most to lose. He's still the favorite among many establishment Republicans. And this is a critical chance for him to prove he's worth a record $100 million-plus he raised.

JEB BUSH, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & FORMER FLORIDA GOVERNOR: My dad's the greatest man alive. If you don't like, I'll take you outside.

BASH: That shaky performance at a New Hampshire forum this week has some backers worried. Not to mention this stumble yesterday when talking about Planned Parenthood.

BUSH: You can take it dollar for dollar -- although I'm not sure we need half a billion dollars for women's health issues.

BASH: But his campaign is trying to stay on message in a new cheeky way, the Jeb Bush swag store, selling things like this vintage tank top.

BUSH: This was a serious decade.

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[02:25:03] CHURCH: CNN political commentator and Washington correspondent for "The New Yorker," Ryan Lizza, joins us now with more on the debate.

Thank you for being with us.

And as the Republican candidates prepare, talk to us about what we should be looking for when they all take to the stage.

RYAN LIZZA, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR & WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT, THE NEW YORKER: As you know, Donald Trump is the leader in the polls and I think he's going to have the center position on that stage. So everyone will be looking for how the other candidates deal with this dominant personality in their midst. And so what you look for how do the candidates attack him? Do they engage with him? Or do they just sort of present their own agenda? That is a strategic calculation they have to make. These debates do matter. In 2012 when we had a big field, if you were the candidate who came out of the debate as the news story, you got a lot of attention and free media and your poll numbers were goosed. So I think what you're trying to do is you're looking for opportunities to be the next day's story but without -- I guess, embarrassing yourself by attacking Trump in a way that is sort of beneath a governor or Senator, I think that's the knife edge these candidates on when engaging Trump.

CHURCH: And as you mentioned, with those candidates, do you tackle Trump and take the risk of them shutting them down and possibly humiliating them or do you try to work with him? This is the other thing isn't it? In American politics eventually some of these guys are going to have to work together.

LIZZA: Although, I don't -- if Donald Trump -- I don't mean to dismiss him or be dismissive of him but most people don't see him being the Republican nominee. And he's frankly not likely to run for any other position. He's not likely to serve in the cabinet of another administration. You don't have to worry about working too much with him but it's some of the other candidates you could see being the top and bottom of a ticket. There is that dynamic. I think that the question is do you sully yourself by trying to take him down? And it's a question that I think that someone like Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio or Scott Walker, the candidates just below Trump in the polls, they have to decide is it going to be me that takes this guy on or do I let the lesser candidates do it for me and I stay out of the fray? Remember, very few of these candidates have ever been engaged in a field of 17 opponents, right? Most of these candidates had one, two, three primary opponent when they ran for governor or Senator. They are making it up as they go along as well. And never have they run against a person like Donald Trump. There is no script, nor this. There is no debate to look back on and say that's the model here. I would expect the unexpected. We haven't seen this dynamic before.

CHURCH: It will be interesting too to see if we can work out who the winner is at the end of this GOP debate.

Ryan, thank you for joining us.

LIZZA: My pleasure.

CHURCH: Appreciate it.

BARNETT: And we'll have highlights from the debate this time tomorrow.

ISIS delivers a new threat with a tight deadline for Egypt to meet its demands. Detail on the terror group's latest hostage, next.

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[02:32:18] ERROL BARNETT, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome back to our viewers in the U.S. and those tuned in from around the world. You're last half hour with both of us. I'm Errol Barnett.

ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Rosemary Church. We want to update you now on our top stories.

Malaysia's leader says a piece of airplane debris found last week on Reunion Island is from missing flight MH370. Now this prompted angry relatives of the passengers to storm Malaysia Airlines' Beijing office. They say they don't believe the debris is from the plane and are demanding to know the truth

BARNETT: We can report on a tragedy in the Mediterranean. Rescue crews rushed to save hundreds of people after a boat packed with hundreds of migrants capsized off the coast of Libya. About 600 people were onboard. According to reports, the U.N. Refugee Agency and the Italian Coast Guard say that about 400 people have been rescued.

CHURCH: Severe flooding has been battering parts of Asia, including Myanmar. More than 200,000 people there are in temporary shelters and the death toll has risen to 69. The U.S. has pledged to donate a relief package to help the country deal with the disaster.

BARNETT: A dangerous typhoon is headed straight for Taiwan.

Meteorologist Ivan Cabrera joins us with the latest on what folks in that part of the world can expect -- Ivan?

IVAN CABRERA, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Yeah, guys, good to see you. The track is set at this point. It's headed straight for Taiwan. Will it be a category 3, category 4, splitting hairs at this point. It's going to be a major impact storm. Winds at 175 kilometers per hour. Right at a category 3 and it could intensify a little bit more. That is the official forecast. Look at this, 215 kilometer-per-hour winds. And that goes right into Taiwan. Let's show you the winds here. Tropical storm force winds impacting Taiwan by Friday afternoon. You must get preparations finished right now. And the dangerous winds of the core move in Friday night into the early part of Saturday. Let's talk about what the winds are going to do and use the floor to talk about the topography of Taiwan. We have Taipei on the northern side of the island but on the eastern side of the island we have a mountain. On the Western side my concern is going to be the storm surge from the strait of Taiwan. And it makes a secondary landfall in China. When this does hit the strait of Taiwan on the backside of the storm we get the Westerly wind and that will produce a storm surge on the Western side where we have more people living. And the rains are going to be incredible over the next few days here. Because not only are the storm arriving here but because of the topography and the mountainous terrain which is going to lift the air and wring out the moisture. Upwards of 500 millimeters. I have seen these typhoons drop a meter of rain on Taiwan. Look at the forecast. This is just as the storm arrives. We're already at 130 millimeters of rainfall here. About 5 inches. That is not going to be the total. We're going to do a lot more than that as the storm continues to move in. Something to watch. But preparations need to be finished now. And then it crosses the strait and heads to China by late in the weekend -- Guys?

[02:36:05] BARNETT: Fascinating to see how Taiwan's physical form is a part of this story.

Ivan Cabrera, breaking that down for us. Thanks, Ivan.

The Egyptian branch of ISIS claims to be holding a Croatian hostage and is threatening to kill him is the group's demand isn't met.

CHURCH: This is the first such threat from the terror group's branch in Egypt.

As Ian Lee reports, the militants are vowing to act quickly.

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IAN LEE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Another looming deadline for an ISIS hostage. Croatian Tovinlav Solepeck (ph), shown online in the trademark orange jump suit with a masked man and the ISIS flag behind him. ISIS in Egypt's Sinai giving him 48 hours starting Wednesday. In the short video, Solepeck (ph) states their demand to Egypt, "release all female Muslim prisoners."

Militants reportedly kidnapped the father of two on a road west of Cairo last month. He says he is a topographer for the French company CGG. The company confirmed his kidnapping, saying they "took all necessary precautions to safeguard its employees' welfare and to collaborate with the local authorities in this regard."

The Croatian government says it's making all efforts to resolve the hostage situation. The Egyptian government has yet to respond.

While ISIS in Iraq, Syria and Libya are known for their kidnappings and brutal executions, this is the first time for branch in Egypt. Since 2013, we've seen ISIS in Sinai grow bolder and deadlier, killing hundreds of soldiers, policemen and civilians. According to Egyptian state media, militants killed at least 17 soldiers in time simultaneous attacks in Sinai last month including striking an Egyptian naval ship in the Mediterranean.

This comes as Egypt tries to focus the world's attention on the Suez Canal. On Thursday, Egypt's president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, will lead celebrations on the opening of a new section of the canal, a waterway that separates the Sinai Peninsula from mainland Egypt.

(on camera): Egypt has dealt with ISIS kidnappings before. At least 20 Christians were executed in Libya. Egypt responded with air strikes.

Now, we don't know where Solepeck (ph) is being held. It may not even be in Egypt. What we do know is the clock is ticking.

Ian Lee, CNN, Cairo.

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BARNETT: Authorities in the U.K. are widening their inquiry into child sex abuse claims.

CHURCH: Investigators say the latest allegations involve the late Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath.

As Max Foster reports, police are now urging any alleged victims to come forward.

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MAX FOSTER, CNN LONDON CORRESPONDENT: There are now five British police forces independently investigating claims that include child sexual abuse involving former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath. Kent police are one of the latest to confirm their involvement after receiving a report of a sexual assault committed in the east of the country in the 1960s. The victim named the former prime minister in connection with the case.

Sir Edward led a conservative government between 1970 and 1974 and was still an M.P. in the 1990s. He died in 2005, aged 89. Heath is the most senior figure to be investigated for child sex abuse

claims dating back decades. For years, there have been claims about pedophiles in political and establishment circles and attempted cover- ups, cases that are under investigation. There have also been cases in the world of entertainment, including Jimmy Savile. A government investigation uncovered hundreds of victims he allegedly raped and abused for decades, revealed only after his death. Scotland Yard launched operation Yew tree in the wake of he Savile revelations, which saw entertainers Rob Harris and Gary Glitter convicted for sexual offenses dating back 40 years.

[02:40:32] Wiltshire Police issued an appeal on Monday for anyone claiming to have been a victim of abuse by Heath to come forward. The Police Complaints Commission is investigating allegations that police failed to pursue a complaint made against Heath in the 1990s.

At least one former colleague has spoken out against the suggestion that the man who ran the country was also a child sex abuser.

WILT WEEKS, FORMER PRIVATE SECRETARY TO SIR EDWARD HEATH: I'm sure he would have been even more bemused because I just don't for a moment think that there is anything there.

FOSTER: The Sir Edward Heath Charitable Foundation says it welcomed the inquiry and wholeheartedly believes it will clear his name.

Max Foster, CNN, London.

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BARNETT: Uncomfortable to hear all of that. And so shameful as well.

We'll have more of the world's biggest stories after this.

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CHURCH: Today marks 70 years since a U.S. atomic bomb decimated Hiroshima in Japan.

BARNETT: Bells tolled in remembrance of the 80,000 victims that died instantly that day. Tens of thousands more lost their lives from radiation poisoning in the years following.

CHURCH: We are joined by Ivan Watson, who is in Hiroshima, and he spoke with one of the survivors from that day.

So, Ivan, talk to us about the important message that survivor wants to share with the world, and also how Japan is marking this critical but devastating day.

[02:45:17] IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: I mean, it was 8:15 a.m., 70 years ago this day, that the world's first atomic bomb targeting a civilian city exploded in the sky over ground zero where I'm standing now.

I've spoken with a survivor of that terrible day who, after enduring ordeals and witnessing horrors, including the river behind me being choked with the bodies of burned corpses. She went on to become an outspoken activist, speaking out against the proliferation of nuclear weapons, also speaking out against conflict in general.

And that is a theme that is repeated here in Hiroshima on this somber 70th anniversary. A theme that was repeated by the Japanese prime minister and the mayor of the city when they addressed the commemoration ceremony.

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KAZUMI MATSUI, HIROSHIMA MAYOR (through translation): As long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, there is no way to know and when its next victims will be and if the bomb is dropped the damage will reach indiscriminately beyond borders.

SHINZO ABE, JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER (through translation): Japan intends to renew its efforts to bring about the world without nuclear weapons with the cooperation of nuclear powers and nonnuclear powers.

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WATSON: Rosemary, throughout the day here, we've seen many Japanese as well as more international visitors who been paying their respects to the hundreds of thousands of people who were killed by the atomic bomb. But also people who have been praying for peace, whether that's singing here by the banks of the river in front of the a-bomb dome, one of the only buildings that survived here or dropping flower petals into the water or putting down burning incense or laying flowers at the monuments in the Peace Park in Hiroshima that Japan built in the years after the war -- Rosemary?

CHURCH: And, Ivan, just quickly, what that survivor said to you, her message to the world?

WATSON: Never again. And surprisingly, for an American citizen such as myself and other Americans that I've talked to here after all it was the U.S. That dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, hastening the end of the war but at the expense of hundreds of thousands of civilian lives. Perhaps a surprising thing that I think Americans observe when they visit here is there seems to be no ill will from the communities here from the Japanese population in the museum exhibits here that the message instead that was repeated by that survivor is look at the horrors that were inflicted 70 years ago and do not let them happen again -- Rosemary?

CHURCH: An important message, indeed.

Ivan Watson reporting live from Hiroshima. Thank you so much.

We'll be right back.

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[02:52:38] BARNETT: Jon Stewart's final "Daily Show" show is tonight. He is stepping down after 16 years of hosting the news show. CHURCH: And Trevor Noah takes over next month. The South African

faced criticism for online jokes some found to be in poor taste at Comedy Central.

Diana Magnay takes a closer look now at the comedian as he faces a much wider audience.

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TREVOR NOAH, NEW HOST, THE DAILY SHOW: Welcome to "The Daily Show."

Welcome "Daily Show."

DIANA MAGNAY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Big shoes to fill for Jon Stewart's successor on "The Daily Show."

NOAH: Oh, (EXPLETIVE DELETED).

MAGNAY: The question, can this South African comedian cut in the best of U.S. satire.

(on camera): Trevor Noah is a household name back home. He is rising to fame in his 20s through standup and as a talk show host, but his brand of comedy has evolved from vanilla to something more interesting.

DONOVAN GOLIATH, COMEDIAN: This is swag right here.

MAGNAY (voice-over): Donovan Goliath hosts the stand-up evening in Johannesburg and knows Noah well.

GOLIATH: Because now he knows that people listen to him, he pushes the edgy really progressive stuff that a lot of South African comics are scared of.

MAGNAY: It had been a meteoric rise. The poster child of South Africa's comedy scene from at that time an illegal union between a white Swiss father and a black South African mother.

UNIDENTIFIED GRANDMOTHER OF NOAH: If he wants to stay, it's OK.

MAGNAY: His grandmother still lives in a house in Suetto where she looked after him as a boy.

(on camera): And you have been through difficult times in South Africa's history. And he was born --

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UNIDENTIFIED GRANDMOTHER OF NOAH: During that time of apartheid.

MAGNAY: During that time. Does he talk about it with you?

UNIDENTIFIED GRANDMOTHER OF NOAH: What does he know? The mother knows. I had to hide him. When he plays with the kids in the street, they are all shout and run away. Noah, a white person! MAGNAY (voice-over): It's a legacy which has informed his generation.

GOLIATH: We're not the most romantic. We had other things to worry about. You are picking flowers and dodging tear gas.

[02:55:04] MAGNAY: But his friends say he opened up the realm of what is possible for the youngsters.

GOLIATH: When we were kids, when we wanted to do comedy, we didn't have that guy. You looked to America for that guy. Now guys coming to the club for the first time, they are thinking of Trevor Noah's success.

MAGNAY: And they are confident he will take "The Daily Show" by storm.

JASON GOLIATH, COMEDIAN: Trevor is very smart. Trevor would not have taken it on if he could not have been the best at it. Three weeks. I say three weeks, he'll be comfortable and he'll look like he's been doing the show for years.

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JASON GOLIATH: No pressure. No pressure, dog.

MAGNAY: Diana Magnay, CNN, Johannesburg.

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CHURCH: A lot of pressure. I wish Trevor Noah the best, but Jon Stewart, not one came be like Jon Stewart.

BARNETT: Huge shoes to fill. But he represents a new young talent. Folks in South Africa love him.

CHURCH: Yeah.

BARNETT: We support you. Good luck. We've got your back. Don't make fun of us. That's all we ask.

(LAUGHTER)

CHURCH: Oh, I'm sure he will.

And you have been watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Rosemary Church.

BARNETT: And I'm Errol Barnett.

Stay with Rosemary. She's back after this short break. I'll see you next week.

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