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[08:00:17] KRISTIE LU STOUT: I'm Kristie Lu Stout, in Hong Kong, and welcome to News Stream.
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LU STOUT: The manhunt for the Bangkok bomber intensifies. Why Thai police now believe the suspect did not act alone.
Plus, a temporary fix for the migrant crisis in Greece. We'll show you the new way the government is housing thousands of people arriving on the
island of Kos.
And the secret is out, hackers publish personal data stolen from a website that promotes infidelity.
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LU STOUT: The police in Thailand are seeking an arrest warrant for this man who they say bombed a Bangkok Shrine on Monday killing 20 people. This
sketch of the suspect is now circulating.
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LU STOUT: He is described as having dark hair and glasses, and police say that he likely had helped.
They're now offering a $28,00 reward for information that leads to his arrest. Now let's head straight to Bangkok now where Saima Mohsin joins us
live.
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LU STOUT: And Saima, Thai police have provided some key information on the suspect, what's the latest on the manhunt?
SAIMA MOHSIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes Kristie they have released a sketch of the man they believe to be the main suspect.
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MOHSIN: That man in that yellow t-shirt as you say that brought that backpack to the Shrine which is now open and left it under a bench and then
walked away. Shortly after that was the time when the bomb went off.
Now they have also said that they are releasing an award for anyone who can give information leading to his arrest. They are offering one million
Bahts, that's as you say around $28,000. Now they're also asking people to bring forward or give the police their photographs, their video, anything
that they have of throughout the day of this Shrine and at the time of the bombing and that's because they're hoping to piece together more
information about this bomber. Because Kristie, they believe he wasn't working alone. He was with accomplices.
And now the Shrine is open throughout the day, we see people coming here, they're making their offerings, lighting incents, offering flowers and
saying prayers for those killed and injured. Kristie?
LU STOUT: Yes, and many people are wondering just how close Thai authorities are to identifying the suspect.
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LU STOUT: And we'll be speaking to a Thai government spokesperson a little bit later in the hour about that. And Saima, the scene of the blast, the
Erawan Shrine, you've been there all day today, have worshippers returned there? Have tourists returned?
MOHSIN: Sorry Kristie, I can just about hear you but you were talking about the scene of this bombing. Now Erawan Shrine isn't just in the heart
of Bangkok as a city it really represents the heart of what Thailand is about. It brings people from all cultures, all nationalities, all
religions here.
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MOHSIN: It's - if you look around Kristie it doesn't even have a wall or a fence it's so integral to the city. Above it is the skytrain station,
there are - there are shopping malls all around. Now we have, there are some policemen that's here now that's because they're being interviewed by
the local media right now.
Earlier in the day we saw a heavy high visibility police presence but throughout the day we've seen less, and less of that. And I think that's
because although the government has promised to give more high visibility policing they also don't want to scare people. They want tourists to
return to Thailand, to stay in Thailand and to come back. Kristie?
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LU STOUT: All right, Saima Mohsin, there reporting live from the Erawan Shrine. Many thanks indeed for that update.
Now as mentioned this bomb went off in the heart of Bangkok's tourist district and this area has seen violence before.
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LU STOUT: In fact in February two bombs exploded near the popular Siam Paragon Shopping Mall but there were no injuries. The mall is less than a
km from the Erawan Shrine. And back in 2010 the Shrine's intersection was the site of anti-government protests that turned deadly.
The military cracked down on supporters of the (inaudible) Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, known as the "red shirts" who occupy the area. Many
shops were set on fire in the chaos.
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LU STOUT: Now, let's take you back to when police allowed the public to return to Bangkok's Erawan Shrine earlier today. Now CNN's Asia Pacific
editor, Andrew Stevens, was there.
[08:05:00] ANDREW STEVENS, CNN ASIA PACIFIC EDITOR: The Erawan Shrine has just re-opened to the public here and you can see people are already coming
to pay their respects surrounded by so much media now.
This Shrine which for so many thousands of people was a place to ask for good luck has now become one of remembrance. Remembrance of the people who
died in that tragic blast. And you see the damage the Shrine itself sustained. Shrapnel marks in the posts here.
And if you look at the God itself, you'll see just under the chin there have been pieces taken out again by bits of shrapnel. And this is not
surprising because if you see where the epicenter of that blast is, it is just a few short steps away.
Through this crowd you'll see here is where police say the bomber came. There was a bench here, he sat down, took his backpack off, slid it under
the bench and then ran. 3 minutes later the bomb detonated. They've already covered the crater with fresh concrete but you can see the strength
of the blast, what it's done to that iron railing. Particularly what it's done to that concrete post, just a metal frame left standing. It gives you
an idea of the force of that bomb.
And the (inaudible) for one family from Malaysia almost unbearable. Four members killed at this Shrine. Two survivors coming to pray and leave
offerings, to help guide their loved ones' souls beyond this world.
That grief is moving this city. These piles of offerings that are growing up all around the Shrine offer solemn testament to the pain created by this
tragedy.
Andrew Stevens, CNN, Bangkok.
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LU STOUT: Now families of the victims have had to endure the devastating task of identifying their loved one's bodies. And many were tourists
visiting from other countries around Asia, including China and Malaysia. A Singaporean, Melissa Liu Rui Chum was among those killed and her longtime
friend and co-worker spoke to me a short time ago.
VOICE OF MARC THAN, FRIEND OF BOMBING VICTIM: She had a really addictive laughter. She was fun, she was always really nice, she was like a big
sister to all of us. When we met, we met in the bank when we were working there. And she was like a big sister to all of us really. And even after
she left, I left, we moved onto our lives but we still kept in contact and she was my same old big sister. You know whenever you had an issue you
know, next to the people that you rely on, certain people that you turn to even though you don't need (inaudible) and she was always one of those
people for me.
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LU STOUT: That was Marc Than speaking to me earlier. Now Melissa's husband survived. He
was among the more than 100 people wounded in the blast.
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LU STOUT: One week after massive chemical explosions rock the Chinese Port City of Tianjin, the cleanup is ongoing. And what authorities are finding
has sparked health fears.
Will Ripley has this report from the blast zone.
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WILL RIPLEY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Right now several thousand people are on the ground here in Tianjin working to clean up the chemical
disaster that is unfolding here. And you can see some of the crews right here behind me they actually had to throw out the hazmat suits that they
were wearing and they just changed into these new yellow suits because they say they were contaminated with sodium cyanide. They have detected and
collected that deadly toxin and they've also detected other dangerous chemicals in this area.
We're about half a mile from the blast site and of course the concentrations only get higher as you get closer. The chemicals that they
found they have deposited in this truck. You can see they have the storage containers to secure it safely and ship it to an area where it can be
contained and away from the public.
Because keep in mind, we are standing right now just across the street from thousands of apartments where people are supposed to be moving in in less
than two months.
A state reporter who tagged along with these hazardous material crews and actually travelled to the center of the blast site which remains heavily
restricted so there is not any access to the general public but this reporter was embedded with the crews. And as they were getting closer to
the center of the blast site the levels of sodium cyanide which can be lethal in small doses, and also the levels of neuro-toxins actually
exceeded the measuring capacity of their testing meters.
That shows you just how heavily concentrated these chemicals are. And it's made worse on the ground here by the fact that it has been raining today.
And so the rain while it clears some of the pollution in the air, it makes things much more complicated here on the ground because the water can
actually interact with the chemicals that these folks here, or these hazmat workers here are working to detect.
[08:10:00] The cleanup effort continues and so does the process of identifying the bodies. The death toll is holding steady and more and more
families are learning in fact, getting the confirmation that their loved ones were killed in this disaster a full week ago.
But there is still a search underway for the missing, and there are dozens missing. A full week after this explosion and the ensuing environmental
disaster that this city and this country is still coming to terms with.
Will Ripley, CNN, Tianjin, China.
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LU STOUT: Now into departure from what we've come to expect from Beijing, China is pointing to the west as the ideal place to learn how to engage
media during a crisis like this.
The People's Daily, the mouthpiece for the communist party ran commentary today saying this "In dealing with breaking news the handling of Western
countries is worth." It went on to say "There is no need to hesitate whether to tell the public the worst possibility."
Now another take away from their Western counterparts according to this (inaudible) piece, evolving news developments are better received by a
mentally prepared public.
Now we are just receiving word out of Turkey that gunfire was heard near the entrance to the palace building that houses the Prime Minister's
Istanbul offices, that's according to Reuters citing local news media.
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LU STOUT: It says two armed people have been detained and there are no reports of casualties. The palace area is popular among tourists.
We'll continue to track developments this hour and bring them to you as soon as they come in.
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LU STOUT: You're watching News Stream. And still to come in the program is ISIS wipes out artifacts it deems unIslamic.
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LU STOUT: The Syrian government is racing to save whatever treasures it can. We have a closer look at what's being done.
And the Greek migrant crisis gets a temporary fix. We'll show you how the government is now housing thousands of people on the island of Kos.
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LU STOUT: Welcome back. Now a monitoring group says ISIS has executed an 82 year old archaeologist in Syria.
It says Khaled al-Assad was beheaded in a public square in Palmyra. He was a university professor and the former general manager for Antiquities and
Museums there.
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LU STOUT: Palmyra is located northeast of Damascus is famous for its collection of ruins along a historic trade route and ISIS took over the
city back in May.
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LU STOUT: And as the militants rampaged their monuments and art Syria's Minister for Antiquities is working to save his country's priceless
history.
Fred Pleitgen shows us how.
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FRED PLEITGEN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The ancient castle of Palmyra now under ISIS control with Syrian government forces firing
artillery at the extremist positions trying to win back this area.
Palmyra is only one of many historic and archaeological sites threatened by Syria's ongoing civil war and weighing heavily on Mahmoud Abdulkarim, the
head of Syria's Antiquities and Museums.
MAHMOOD ABDULKARIM, DIRECTOR GENERAL SYRIAN ANTIQUITIES & MUSEUMS: I am saddest director general in the (inaudible). Each day I receive new
(inaudible) message from instruction of the (inaudible) in Syria.
PLEITGEN: But Abdulkarim has vowed to put up a fight, wanting a massive operation to evacuate artifacts from sites under threat and bring them to
Damascus for cataloging and storage in secret locations.
ABDULKARIM: And we are say that also thousand objects like this from (inaudible) Byzantine, Syrian Byzantine museum sites, and it's from the era
2000 BC.
[08:15:09] PLEITGEN: From Mesopotamia to the Roman and Byzantine eras to the earliest traces of Christianity and Islam Syria has among the greatest
and most diverse variety of cultural treasures in the world.
Volunteers here have already saved hundreds of thousands of pieces they say and remarkably they get support from both the Syrian government and
opposition forces.
ABDULKARIM: We have 2,500 person in our director general of the deputy. We are public but we are working still now an area under control of the
opposition army also. Because and finally our (inaudible).
PLEITGEN: The only ones who don't cooperate and publicly destroy some of the world's greatest historic sites both in Iraq and in Syria are ISIS
militants.
ISIS recently advanced to the ancient Roman ruins in Palmyra, pushing out government forces. But by then Mahmoud Abdulkarim's workers had already
taken hundreds of pieces to safety.
This photo was taken in Palmyra only days before ISIS arrived. All of these statues that you see here are Roman Syriac and they all come from
Palmyra which is now under ISIS control. They were apparently recovered in Lebanon by the police there after they were smuggled to that country. And
in total the folks here at the Antiquities Ministry have managed to recover and catalog some 400 statutes and busts from Palmyra.
Saving Syria's history comes at a heavy price. 13 employees of the Directorate of Antiquities have been killed. One recently by mortar fire
that hit the ground of the national museum in Damascus.
It's halls are completely empty, all pieces evacuated to protect them from shelling. And the staff has taken other drastic measure as well like
building concrete shells for ancient sarcophagus' to protect them from bombs.
ABDULKARIM: Really our job is very difficult but finally it is not political but it's (inaudible).
PLEITGEN: A battle they hope to win and one day bring back all of Syria's cultural treasures from their secret hiding places and display them
publicly once again.
Fred Pleitgen, CNN, Damascus.
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LU STOUT: A victory for marine conservationists. Now the logistics giant, UPS, says it will no longer ship shark fins. That puts UPS among several
cargo carriers and airlines with similar bans.
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LU STOUT: Now shark fins are traditionally consumed by Chinese communities around the world mostly during wedding banquets, and environmentalists say
the hunt for wild sharks is cruel and it puts them at risk of extinction.
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LU STOUT: Now times up, that's the message hackers left for cheating website, Ashleymaddison.com.
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LU STOUT: And now the personal information of millions of its customers has been exposed.
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[08:21:47] LU STOUT: Coming to you live from Hong Kong, you're back watching News Stream. Welcome back.
Now let's focus on U.S. politics. Hilary Clinton once had a huge lead in the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination but her rivals are
narrowing the gap and pretty quickly.
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LU STOUT: A new CNN ORC poll shows Clinton is still the top choice but her support has dropped 9 points since July. Her closest competitor, Senator
Bernie Sanders is up 10 points from last month.
Now the Clinton campaign has been dogged by a scandal over her use of a private email server when she was Secretary of State. Intelligence
officials are now searching those emails to see if they contained classified information.
And there is more bad news for Clinton, the Republican frontrunner, Donald Trump, is now right on her heals. The new poll numbers show Trump is just
6 points behind Clinton.
And speaking of the Donald do tune in for CNN's special report, The Donald Trump interview. That is Thursday morning at 9:00 right here in Hong Kong.
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LU STOUT: Now a month after they warned the cheating website AshleyMadison.com to shut down or risk a huge data leak, the hackers known
as "Impact Team" carried through with their threat.
Now Impact Team did a massive data dump of the site's customer information on what's known as the dark web. Now the dark web can only be accessed
through a special browser. Let's get more on this story with Laurie Segall, she joins us now live.
Now Laurie, the data was posted on what's known as the dark web. What is that and exactly what data was posted there?
LAURIE SEGALL, CNN MONEY TECH CORRESPONDENT: Kristie, think of the dark web as almost this deeper layer of the web, it's harder to access, and you
access it through a browser called "Tor", which essentially scrambles your IP address so no-one knows where you're surfing the internet, it's
encrypted so it's harder to really find anything.
Now a lot of information ended up here on the dark web and it's also making its way over to the open web.
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SEGALL: I should say that we're talking 10gigabytes, 33 million accounts leaked, 36 million email addresses, payment information, street addresses,
internal corporate data. And Kristie (inaudible) I was talking a security researcher who said these hackers were essentially able to own
AshleyMadison servers, they got so much information.
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SEGALL: And you mention the Impact Team. We don't know so much about this hacking group. This is their first real high profile hack but we know that
they're doing this for moral reasons, this idea of hacktivism. And what they said in a manifesto, I'm going to read it to you.
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SEGALL: "Do you find yourself in here? Learn your lesson and make amends. Embarrassing now, but you'll get over it."
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SEGALL: You've got a lot of folks out there who are wondering is their name, is their information out there? Also, now that it's out there on the
dark web and it can make its way over to the open web, are they going to be victims also of identity theft, Kristie?
LU STOUT: This is a huge hack and it's just the latest in a string of big data breaches in the last couple of years. I mean from Sony Pictures, to
Apple iCloud to the Office of Personnel Management, now this Ashley Madison. Do you think the public is now really concerned? It's got the
public's attention and people really want to demand for better data protection now?
SEGALL: Yes, I mean I think you're absolutely right. Every time one of these things happens we always say, what about our data, what about our
protection. This one is a particularly interesting one because some people say well are they victims? Of course their victims of you know this is a
criminal act.
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[08:25:04] SEGALL: But you know a lot of folks are looking at this kind of information and saying companies need to do a better job. Kristie I was
just at a hacking conference in Las Vegas, and I had a hacker, legally he was able to show me how he could get in, he was hired by the company to do
this, but he was able to call up a helpline and get into their servers within one click of a mouse. It was just too easy. So we have to demand
that our companies protect us a little bit better. Kristie.
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LU STOUT: And remind us on the dark web, what kind of browser do you use to access it?
SEGALL: You use Tor. So essentially you can download that very, very easily and a lot of people are using Tor. It's not necessarily you know
for bad things. A lot of dissidents are using this to communicate and talk to each other in a protected way. But this is also where a lot of hackers
put credit card information, a lot of dark things are happing there as well, Kristie.
LU STOUT: All right, Laurie Segall, CNN, New York, thank you very much indeed for that.
Now the International Association of Athletics Federation has elected a new president. The British Olympic great Sebastian Coe beat out Sergei Bubka
of Ukraine.
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LU STOUT: Now Coe is a British Politician and a four time Olympic medalist. He is considered one of the greatest middle distance runners in
history and was also in charge of London's successful bid for the 2012 Olympics.
Now Coe's election it comes as the IAAF battles allegations of widespread doping. We'll have more coverage on this story on World Sport, that's
coming up in less than 30 minutes from now.
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LU STOUT: Now we are finally getting a look at who Thai police believe could be behind the deadly bombing in Bangkok. I'll hear the latest on the
investigation from authorities on the ground just after the 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.
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LU STOUT: Police in Thailand are trying to get an arrest warrant for the man seen in this sketch. They believe he bombed Bangkok's Erawan Shrine on
Monday killing at least 20 people.
And this is amateur footage taken immediately after the blast and police say that they believe the suspect had helped. They say surveillance video
showed him leaving a backpack at the Erawan Shrine minutes before the explosion.
In Turkey, two armed gunmen have been taken into custody by police near the entrance to the palace building that houses the Prime Minister's Istanbul
offices.
The suspects were carrying automatic weapons that's according to local news media. Now this, after gunfire was heard at the scene no injuries or
deaths have been reported.
A short time ago the German Parliament overwhelmingly approved the latest bailout package for Greece. It's Greece's third bailout and is for some
$95 billion. And if all goes according to plan it will receive the first installment of cash on Thursday.
[08:30:13] The U.S. Forest Service says for the first time it is devoting more than half of its budget to fighting fires across the country. Now the
agency says it is spending more than $100 million a week on fire fighting.
About 100 wildfires have scorched more than one million acres, or 445,000 hectares in 10 western states.
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LU STOUT: The man behind the wildly popular photo blog "Humans of New York" is on the road again. Now last summer, Brandon Stanton, went on an
around the globe tour with the U.N. to raise awareness on issues like hunger and maternal health.
This year, he's focusing on two countries; Pakistan was his first stop and he spoke to our Richard Quest about the inspiring people he met.
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BRANDON STANTON, HUMANS OF NEW YORK: So in the last year I traveled to about 15 different countries over the summer and I've always wanted to go
to Pakistan but I was unable to get my Visa on time, and so this year it's at the top of my list. I was there for 11 days.
And what I do is I just stop ordinary people in the streets and I learn their stories. And so in the process of doing this over 11 days in
Pakistan I was introduced to this wonderful woman named Syeda Ghulam Fatima, and she is the one that is leading the fight in Pakistan to stop
bonded labor. And through the series I did on her and introducing her to my audience, that's how we were able to raise the money.
RICHARD QUEST, ANCHOR QUEST MEANS BUSINESS: You see what's fascinating about this is that as a westerner you go to a place and you learn about
something that's really almost endemic in certain parts of the country isn't it.
STANTON: Right, right. And you know the amazing thing is is that due to the power and the interest of these brick kiln owners; bricks are 3% of the
GDP in Pakistan. And the people who own these brick kilns are immensely rich and they influence the legislature in a way that it's really hard for
us to imagine over here to the extent that they have, even though bonded labor is outlawed in Pakistan, these guys have the police working for them
to keep people in bondage.
QUEST: They get out of bonded labor how?
STANTON: They don't is the problem. What happens is these poor illiterate farmers in desperate situations are tricked into taking these very small
loans in exchange for work for a few weeks on the brick kilns. When this period of time is done they go back and say OK, it's time to leave and then
these owners say no, you've lived in our house, you've eaten our food, now you owe us twice as much, get back to work. And if they try to leave
they're hounded and harassed sometimes by the local police into staying. These debts balloon and they never get out.
QUEST: I could arguably say to you we've known about this for a long time, what do you want done?
STANTON: Well you know one of the - one of the things that I am trying to do is empower people on the ground who have the expertise. I'm not a
leader in the fight against bonded labor. All I'm doing is spotlighting the most wonderful woman, Syeda Ghulam Fatima, who, this woman, who I've
met, who is leading the fight. This is .
QUEST: What does she need? Does she need money? Does she need political power? Does she need - frankly does she need the elites and the rest of
the world to put pressure on Pakistan?
STANTON: Right, well you know I am in favor of countries solving their own problems. I think Pakistan is a country that is filled with good well-
meaning people and that you know I think there can be a critical mass of awareness in Pakistan that they can pressure their own government to do
something about it.
What does this woman need? Is this problem going to be solved over night? And millions of people who have nothing are suddenly going to incorporated
into society? No. There's going to be hundreds of incremental changes. But we're trying to do one of those incremental changes by putting $2
million in the hands of this woman who's proved to be at the forefront of fighting this.
QUEST: Are you surprised at how quickly, or were you surprised at how quickly your discovery really resonated?
STANTON: I mean this has been a three day fundraiser where $2 million was raised. So yes, the speed of it was absolutely you know unbelievable. You
know the most I'd ever raised before was $1.4 million over a period of two weeks. So to, you know, beat that 50% in the period of three days, I think
it's a testament to how much this woman, and I encourage everyone to go to Humans of New York, and learn this woman's story. This woman has captured
the hearts of 15 million people to the point where we had you know one of the quickest and most successful crowd funding campaigns for a charitable
cause in history.
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LU STOUT: Well that was Brandon Stanton of Humans of New York, there. You're watching News Stream. Still ahead in the program.
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LU STOUT: A Greek island is being overwhelmed by an influx of migrants and now the government is taking a new step to relieve the pressure.
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[08:36:29] LU STOUT: The number of migrants flocking to the European Union is reaching unprecedented numbers.
The EU Border Agency, Frontex, says that more than 100,000 migrants crossed into the EU in July alone.
It is the first time monthly figures have topped the 100,000 mark since data was recorded back in 2008.
And the Greek Island of Kos has been overwhelmed by the crisis and to relieve some of that pressure the government allowed hundreds of migrants
onto a cruise ship bound for northern Greece.
Our senior international correspondent, Atika Shubert joins me now live from Kos and Atika I just can't imagine after making such a perilous
dangerous journey by sea finding that your new home is in another boat.
ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well exactly, I mean it's a temporary solution at best. But just to give you an idea of
how these migrants and refugees are making the journey. That is actually Turkey right behind me as you can see this is really a tourist resort. But
in the early hours of the morning every single day we've been seeing people arrive on beaches like this, in fact on this very beach we've seen it
ourselves and it happens every single day.
Now the Greek authorities here have set up a temporary solution which is this cruise ship. Take a look at some of the video we have here about the
conditions inside.
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SHUBERT: This is the Greek solution to the refugee crisis on the island of Kos, a cruise ship to house 2500 at a time. So this is how it works;
refugees can temporarily live aboard this ship while they're getting registered, now that should only take a few days. And then once they have
registration papers they can move off the island and for many here that is the doorway to Europe.
But, will it work? Greek officials won't let media on board but these pictures taken from inside by one of the refugees shows good conditions and
hot meals provided. Not without problems though, backed up toilets and the boat is filling up fast.
FAWAZ FAOUR, SYRIAN REFUGEE: This is good solution it's better than to see the people outside in the street.
SHUBERT: But (Fatty Najar) an Anesthesiologist from Idlib, Syria warns the boat is getting crowded.
FATTY NAJAR: (Translated) Now it's getting full he tells us and it's better to process our registration quickly. There will be too many people
inside. I told my neighbor just this morning there must be 2,000 people just inside this cafeteria he said.
SHUBERT: The number camped out on the streets has diminished but this is only a partial solution. The boat is for refugees fleeing the war in Syria
and Iraq only. For thousands of others from Pakistan to Nigeria the wait is much more, weeks or longer. They crowd outside the police station to
register in the baking sun, camped in squalid conditions.
Plus the cruise ship is only scheduled to be here until the end of the month and with as many as a thousand arriving on these shores every day Kos
may find it needs more than a boat.
Now there's been a new development as well. In fact just the morning the ship has left and it's headed to Thesaloniki which is in northern Greece.
We have a map that shows where this is at.
Now previously refugees were leaving Kos once they had their papers and going to Athens and from there taking a very popular route for refugees and
migrants to Macedonia.
Now what the ship is doing is taking the migrants - sorry the refugees directly to Thesaloniki, which is the northern port closest to the
Macedonian border.
[08:40:04] So what's likely to happen now is that you have refugees getting off at Thesaloniki, and then many of them illegally, on foot crossing into
Macedonia, then going onto Serbia, Hungary, and into their ultimate destinations their trying to get to which is Germany and Sweden.
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SHUBERT: So as you can imagine it's a new development that's just happening and we're still getting reaction from other countries across
Europe on how this is going to work.
LU STOUT: Yes and that could be their ultimate way in if indeed there is a long, long, journey ahead. Atika Shubert, reporting live from the Greek
Island of Kos. Thank you so much for your continued reporting on the migrant crisis there in Europe.
Now I want to show you drone footage that helps capture the magnitude of this growing humanitarian emergency, just take a look.
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LU STOUT: That's showing a beautiful report in the plight of the migrants.
That is News Stream, I'm Kristie Lu Stout, but don't go anywhere. World Sports with Alex Thomas is next.
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