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Mounting Frustration in Europe over Migrant Crisis; Chinese Markets Still Down; Archaeologists Have Fund a New Superhenge; Migrants Experience Austria's Help, Hope; Yazidi Girl Met Kayla Mueller in Captivity by ISIS: Child Refugees Face Grace Danger; New Details in Hunt for "El Chapo"; Siri Could Become Core of New Apple Products. Aired 1-2a ET

Aired September 08, 2015 - 01:00   ET

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[01:00:04] JOHN VAUSE, CNN NEWSROOM ANCHOR: About face in giving up. Hundreds of migrants abandon their attempt to walk from a camp near the Serbian border to Budapest.

ZAIN ASHER, CNN NEWSROOM ANCHOR: Plus, a picture of instability in North Korea says that Kim Jong-un's days as president are numbered.

VAUSE: And how about a history, we'll ask Apple virtual assistant clue at this week's big unveil by the tech giant.

ASHER: Hello and welcome to our viewers around the world, thank you so much for being with us, I'm Zain Asher.

VAUSE: Great to have you with us, I'm John Vause. The second hour of CNN Newsroom begins right now.

ASHER: Now we begin with the mounting frustration in Europe over the migrant crisis. I want to show you this. This was a scene in Hungary on Monday, as some 300 migrants boarded buses that returned them to their holding camp near the Serbian border.

VAUSE: They had given up on their attempts to walk the Budapest, away from the camp and earlier, they plashed with police as they pushed their way out of the cab, they say conditions there are terrible, they saw the foods, not a lot of blankets. Overnight temperatures fall to around five degrees Celsius in the area, its just wizard (ph) with trash.

ASHER: Now Hungary has become flash point, will a stepping stone for thousands of migrants trying to make their way further into your -- most of them are trying to pass through Austria and then get into Germany. Now more than 15,000 migrants have streamed into Austria, just since Saturday.

VAUSE: But for the migrants still sitting and hungry, the wait is becoming unbearable.

ASHER: Now CNN international correspondent Arwa Damon is on the Hungarian/Serbian border, and shows us the misery as migrants are facing. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

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ARWA DAMON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: This is the reaction of a desperate people who just want to keep going, trying to force their way through the police line, but failed. They simply can't take the conditions here anymore. This is what awaits them when they cross into Hungary. It's meant to be a holding site, but they end up waiting for days for the buses to arrive, amid the filth with little to no shelter and just a small local non-profit to help. In the tiny medical tent, a little boy who collapses, exhaustion and dehydration, we are told. Most are refugees from the wars in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, they flight to save them suffer and their children. Youssuf Abdulazeez saw ISIS take over his city. His children exposed to the rotting corpses of their victims in the main squares. Still, the boys are homesick and confused.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: All along the road, he keeps telling his daddy, "I want to go home."

DAMON: All throughout his respond is God is good. The day will come when we will go back home. His only momentum from Syria, tightly wrapped in plastic to protect it during the sea crossing, his barber kit, a trade he could no longer practice in Syria under ISIS. It was forbidden. You can't cut beards and your hair has to be one length, he tells us. Home as they knew it is gone. It's what drives most to make the journey. "I am an old woman, I ran from Assad's brutality," this woman shouts. "And they put me here in the sun. I lost my home, my everything. All I have left are my sons." The injustice of all they have been through boiling over. They are both led on, but the bottleneck of humanity intensifies as others continue to arrive. Arwa Damon, CNN, on the Hungary/Serbian border.

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VAUSE: The U.N. commission is pushing a plan to set country by country quarters to help take in refugees. It is trying to find homes for as many as 160,000 asylum seekers.

ASHER: And now according to Reuters, the countries you see as green, that are in red, red countries are called upon to do the most, especially Germany and France. Now the plan is designed to take pressure off Hungary, Italy and Greece, in the state can find their way out, but paying a full percentage of their GDP.

VAUSE: As you see, they are countries that are rejecting that plan. The prime minister of the Czech Republic in Slovakia met Monday at (inaudible) with their Austrian counterpart. They say help should be -- out of the corporation rather, should be voluntary.

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[01:04:53] ROBERT FICO, SLOVAK PRIME MINISTER (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): We didn't agree on quotas, I refuse the quotas because I don't consider quotas to be the real solution to the migration crisis. Here, we had different opinions.

Let's differentiate things. When it's volunteer in natural, then the government can support it. But I refuse it when someone tells us to receive a number of people we don't know anything about.

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ASHER: That was the Slovak Prime Minister there. But Germany, in the meantime said, has (inaudible) plans to deal with the thousands of migrants that arriving each day.

VAUSE: The country is also pledging billions of dollars to help with this crisis and it's willing to accept all refugees, but may be able to scale back the numbers. CNN international correspondent Atika Shubert has more now from Munich.

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ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: They keep coming, thousands, every day at the main train station in Munich, often greeted by applauding locals or welcoming volunteers. It's no wonder that Germany is the preferred destination for so many refugees, but not everyone in Germany welcomes the newcomers. Early Monday morning a fire burned down a shelter for 80 refugees, five were treated at a hospital. It took 150 firefighters to put out the blaze, raising fears of yet another arson attack on immigrants. In fact, as the number of refugees arriving climbs, so do the number of attacks. According to the interior ministry, more than 340 recorded incidents so far this year from vandalism to arson. On Monday morning, German Chancellor Angela Merkel rallies the nation to tackle the refugee crisis with pragmatic compassion. "We will need the voluntary support." She said. "We already know we need 10,000 volunteers to help. This crisis is going to change our country, but I think we're up for the challenge." She said. In her speech, Merkel outlined a plan to deal with the crisis. An additional $3 billion now set aside, bringing it to $6 billion allocated to help house, feed and find jobs for up to 800,000 refugee applicants. A hundred and fifty thousand temporary homes still needed to be built.

As you can see, refugees are already coming across here. And this is the kind of reception center that the German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she wants to see more of. You can hear the kind of warm welcome they're receiving. But Chancellor Merkel also said that those who are fleeing war and persecution will be given refuge here. On the other hand, those who are deemed to come from safe and politically stable countries will be returned home.

For now, that distinction is lost on the thousands arriving here every day. They're just relieved to have a safe place for tonight, and thinking about what happens after tomorrow. Atika Shubert, CNN, Munich.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

ASHER: Now, a journey across the Mediterranean and across Europe is certainly the most traumatic for the children who are making... VAUSE: Yeah. And the next half hour, we talked with one man who left his home in Vietnam, this is 30 something years ago, he was just 3- years-old, it was a different time and different war, but still the journey and the trauma was very much the same. They were hoping to find a better life.

ASHER: OK, well, in addition to announcing help for Syrian refugees, the British prime minister says he also has taken military action in Syria for the very first time.

VAUSE: CNN Phil Black reporting on a British drone strike which took out two of its citizens.

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REYAAD KHAN, BRITISH ISIS FIGHTER: Look around you while you sit in comfort and ask yourself is this is how you want to die?

PHIL BLACK, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: It was Reyaad Khan, in a propaganda video released last year, calling for Westerners to join ISIS. He's shown laughing with other fighters. He says they all want to die for their cause.

KHAN: We just want to meet our Lord. We just want to give our blood and use our bodies as a bridge from Khilafah.

BLACK: Last month Khan's desire for death was fulfilled.

DAVID CAMERON, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: Today, I can inform the House that in an act of self-defense and after meticulous planning, Reyaad Khan was killed in a precision airstrike carried out on August 21st of orders by an RAF, remotely-piloted aircraft while he was traveling in a vehicle in the area of Raqqa in Syria.

BLACK: The British prime minister told parliament this execution of a British citizen was entirely legal.

CAMERON: We were exercising the U.K.'s inherent right to self-defense. There was clear evidence of the individuals in question planning and directing armed attacks against the U.K.

BLACK: The prime minister said Khan was the target, but two others were also killed in the attack, including a second U.K. citizen, this man, Ruhul Amin, seen in the same recruitment video.

RUHUL AMIN, ISIS FIGHTER: Forget everyone. Read the Koran, read the book of Allah.

BLACK: The prime minister's opponents demanded to know what was the information, what was the threat? Could such a strike happen again? "It could," David Cameron said, but he gave few details about why it was necessary this time.

CAMERON: So the choice we were left with is, think this is too difficult, throw up our hands and walk away, and then wait for the chaos and terrorism to hit Britain or take the action in the national interest and neutralize this threat. And I'm sure that was the right thing to do.

[01:10:05] BLACK: Parliament has approved British warplanes to strike against ISIS in Iraq only, not Syria. David Cameron says this attack was a special case. Analysts say it's a dramatic shift in a British government's policies.

MICHAEL CLARKE, ROYAL UNITED SERVICE INSTITUTE: It was a pretty surprising statement because he was saying all in one go that we have extended the bombing war in Syria, that we started the extrajudicial killing of our enemies.

BLACK: This was unprecedented: The British government's first targeted drone attack against British citizens in Syria. The prime minister hopes the British public will accept the decision was necessary and right. Phil Black, CNN, London.

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VAUSE: When we come back here on CNN, a North Korean defector connected to the regime, speaks out (inaudible) and describes the living hell under Kim Jong-un's iron grip.

ASHER: Plus, also has scientists discover a massive stone monument hidden for thousands of years in England, while experts are calling it archaeology on steroids.

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PEDRAM JAVAHERI, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Good day to you, Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri for CNN Weather Watch. And not often do you see this sort of a set-up coast to coast. San Francisco scourging hot, 32 degrees way it work to the east. New York City takes the cake with 34 degrees, heat wave on both sides of the United States. Temperatures in Los Angeles will gradually warm up out of their 20s, but they're going to be on for Tuesday afternoon. We're also watching a line of active weather across the central portion of the U.S. Kansas City and parts of the state of Iowa, upwards of 200 millimeters in the past 24 hours. And that pattern looks to continue and watch in a little bit disturbance look in right towards portions of the Florida panhandle on into areas of the gulf there, where we're watching a lot of rainfall across North Florida, but the heat again is still on towards the southwest. We do see a little shot of cooler air towards the Midwestern U.S. and the North Eastern U.S. by the end of the week. So at least a glimpse of autumn in the air, but down towards Kingston, we go, we (inaudible) for a pair of (inaudible) will be wind in the afternoon across the area. At least the city around 32 degrees, Mexico City, not too bad at 24, we will pop up a few thunderstorms across this region. Generally, in the afternoon hours as well, but here we go to the south. Panama we'll shoot for 32 today with some thunderstorms. Lima, partly cloudy skies, not too bad at 21, La Paz, a very comfortable, they have about 16 degrees. Brazil should make up at 32, notice the showers around Rio.

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[01:15:10] VAUSE: Welcome back, everybody. We go to North Korea now where it seems the son has passed the father at least in terms of sheer, blood thirsty brutality.

ASHER: A reason in fact to said Leader Kim Jong-un had gone a murderous rampage amongst of (inaudible) to ensure loyalty. Now high ranking defector had been talking to Kyung Lah. And Kyung joins us live now form the Seoul. So this defector you spoke to, Kyung. Basically, he suggests that public loyalty for Kim Jong-un is certainly waning, but how much of a threat it does really oppose to his totalitarian grip on power?

KYUNG LAH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, North Korea depends on that public loyalty, the power structure on the beautification of a Kim Dynasty. Right now, Kim Jong-un being the latest one in control; lose that and potentially, you have lost control.

To the outside world, Kim Jong-un appears overly young, at times, a caricature, but to his people, there is little doubt about their defectors capacity says as North Korean defector...

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LAH: They are terrified, he says. The fear grows more intense every day, fear that drove this defector to dare the harrowing escape out of North Korea. He agreed to speak with us only if we completely hid him in the shadows and alter his voice. This defector who work among Pyongyang's elite, fears a regime would murder his family trapped in the north or hunt him down. But he wants the western world to know what life under Kim Jong-un is really like.

Do you think he is more of a tyrant than his father?

LAH: Kim Jong-un didn't killed people in his inner circle, he says. But Kim Jong-un killed many of his own. Purging close advisers like his own uncle, Jang Song Thaek, his former right-hand man executed. After that, I thought I need to hurry up and leave this hell on earth.

Is that how it feels like in North Korea? Hell on earth? "Yes, of course."

LAH: You see these crowds cheering and crying as Kim Jong-un approaches. Do they believe it?

Its blind worship, they're programmed to clap and cheer when they see Kim Jong-un on TV, but in my personal opinion, upper class elites don't believe it.

This one is very quite high.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Quite high.

LAH: Seoul National University interviewed 146 North Koreans, who defected in 2014, the most extensive research conducted with recent defectors. The defectors proceed internal support was highest in 2014 when Kim Jong-un took control, but they believe that support has steadily dropped during his reign.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: New leader. LAH: New leader.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A new leader.

LAH: Can the new leader earn trust from his elites after the purchase he asked. They could be feeling anxious. Their loyalty weakened. It's already happening believed this defector. I can tell you for sure, upper class North Koreans don't trust Kim Jong-un.

Do you see the regime lasting? There is no collapse of North Korea while Kim Jong-un is alive says this defector. North Korea will not collapse as long as Kim Jong-un lives.

Well, the collapse of North Korea has been predicted many times before. This defector, though, feels very confident that it will collapse under Kim Jong-un. He says if he were not so confident, he would not have separated from this family thing. He believes he will see them again soon.

ASHER: And we will of course we will be watching the situation very closely, but I do want to ask you something else because this is actually good news. We are hearing that families from North and South Korea who have been separated for more than 60 years will finally be reunited in a rare sort of organized reunion. How are the participants...

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ASHER: Go ahead.

LAH: What they are is about 100 people from each side, each country gives 100 names and they are chosen from each side to have these rare meetings, as over six days and the dates have been selected, October 20th through the 26th. You mentioned that it's good news. We want to couch that a little bit because in the past, North Korea has used these meetings as almost a negotiation weapon. They have pulled the plug on these planned meetings. They have said that they will only allow these meetings to take place if something else happens. And this is something that this country is used to. We want to put this into perspective. The people who are trying to have these meetings, South Korea has made their tens of thousands on a waiting list. They're only going to be allowed to have 100 go in there. And these are people who are 80 and 90-years -old. Zain, they are running out of time.

[01:20:01] ASHER: Well, that's good news, but I do mention good news for the caveat, this will be the first meeting which means the divided families since February 2014. OK, Kyung Lah, (inaudible) so we appreciate it and thank you Kyung.

VAUSE: Well, and this dismal (inaudible) numbers out of China, just the latest sign the country's economy is really struggling. For the month of August, exports down 6.1 percent, that's over last year, imports down by 14.3 percent.

ASHER: OK, let's see a quick look and see how the markets are reacting to the numbers. OK, let's zoom in here. OK, the Hang Seng is up about a quarter of 1 percent. The Shanghen (ph) -- Shanghai Composite, excuse me is down about 1.4 percent. The Nikkei is down about 2.2 percent.

VAUSE: Asia Pacific (inaudible) joins us now live from Beijing with more on China's trade balance for August. So Andrew, make some sense of these numbers for us because exports are down, but not as much as economists have expected. On the other hand, imports have fallen sharply almost as twice as much, as many had thought would have actually the case. So what is said about with China's economy is heading.

ANDREW STEVENS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, I think the imports are the key number to look at here, John, because it is such a big fall. Now, tied in with that big fall is the value of the imports of falling as well. So it looks like it's a bigger fall than it actually is because commodity prices are falling, but even so that is a much, much bigger drop than expected and it does underline the strength of the domestic economy. Just how much China is now sucking in from the rest of the world to feed its domestic economy, and those numbers, certainly look like the appetite is wiggling still. You mentioned a Shanghai market down 1 percent, so that is a delayed number that we use. I'm looking here from Beijing that number is now down more than 2 percent, the Shanghai Composite, so that is considering to fall as well. So it's clearly not good news for the Chinese economy, the strength of the Chinese economy. There had been some expectations, John that we could start to see something of a rebound in this last couple of months, but it doesn't seem to be happening. The exports, a little bit better, but still, you know that is not a great number, 6.1 percent fall by any standard.

VAUSE: Yeah, they are very dramatic numbers. And when you look at this, I guess the question is how will this then be felt around the region? A lot of countries which export a lot of stuff to China.

STEVENS: Well, yet interestingly, the exports are holding up in the ASEAN, the Southeast Asian region. And they are falling to Japan. So that is -- gives you an idea of who is feeling the effect of the Japanese economy, even though it is growing or shrinking slightly slower than initially, expected according to few numbers today. The Japanese economy is not taking as many exports. It is going to hurt the region -- it is an indication of what is happening, not just in China, but really around the world. This is a global economy that is slowing. Despite the fact that the world's biggest economy, the U.S. is still growing and growing a little bit more strongly than expected. Europe is weak. China is weak. Japan is weak, Southeast Asia, the Asian nations, the emerging markets are week as well, so the overall picture is gloomy, that the global economy is slowing and it is being led by China.

VAUSE: OK, Andrew, we thank you for that. Andrew Stevens, live at this hour in Beijing, looking at -- making some sense of those numbers, thanks, Andrew.

ASHER: It has been hidden for thousands of years now. Archaeologists have found new superhenge (ph) in Scotland --in Southwest, excuse me. I should that because I have been there so many times. (CROSSTALK)

VAUSE: When you say Stonehenge in Scotland? Like pick them all and...

ASHER: Oh my, God. It is one set in the morning.

VAUSE: It is. OK.

ASHER: Yeah. OK.

VAUSE: It is fair enough. They do say all that of this is bigger and more impressive than the world famous Stonehenge, which is located nearby. Erin has more of the new discovery which might us rewrite history and geography.

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ERIN MCLAUGHLIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It takes your breath away. People from all over travel to see Stonehenge, its construction and its purpose remain a mystery, thousands of years old. And now we're learning that just two miles away from here, a discovery so extraordinary. Experts are calling it archaeology on steroids. Scientist used ground penetrating radar technology to make the discovery. It found at least 40 stones slabs and spaces for at least 160 more. It's incredible to be here, knowing that the beneath my feet, the remnants of an ancient monument, 15 times the size of Stonehenge. The national (inaudible) the news line rewrites the history of the area.

[01:25:05] UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This place seems to have formed -- to have had three different functions. It started life as a settlement. Once the settlement went out of use and they stopped building Stonehenge, then it became a place that was revealed. It became a place of ritual. So that's when they seemed to bring in the stones. But then very shortly there afterwards, somebody decides that the ritual needs to be done in a different way. That the ceremony and the site are not doing it quite right, so they change it and they bury the lot.

ASHER: And what does this tell us?

MCLAUGHLIN: I think what it tells us is that the story of the Stonehenge landscape is much more complicated than we ever thought it was.

ASHER: So the mystery of Stonehenge deepens?

MCLAUGHLIN: Always. Erin McLaughlin, CNN (inaudible).

VAUSE: A short break here, though. When we come back, what is it like to be a child refugee? We will find out from someone who went through all of that in a different time and different war.

ASHER: Also ahead, still hunted after his brazen prison escape. Mexican police may have a new clue on the fugitive drug lord El Chapo's whereabouts from his son's (inaudible) account. We'll explain, coming up.

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VAUSE: Welcome back, everybody. You are watching the CNN Newsroom, I'm John Vause.

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

[01:30:00] Migrants on the border of Serbia Monday, they voiced their frustrations over the lack of services and progress. Now many of them have been forced to stay in horrible conditions for three days.

VAUSE: Venezuela's president is the latest world leader offering to take in Syrian refugees. In a national address late Monday, Nicolas Maduro said his country is willing to accept 20,000 refugees but did not provide any other details.

ASHER: And a defector spoke exclusively to CNN describing live in North Korea as, quote, "hell on earth," and the man describing Kim Jong-Un's rein as the most unstable he's seen and he said he believes it will be a short one.

VAUSE: Italy's top court said it overturned American Amanda Knox's murder conviction because of glaring errors and deplorable carelessness. They said there is no evidence linking Knox and her then boyfriend to the 2007 murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher. Knox and her boyfriend were convicted twice and they were acquitted twice.

ASHER: Let's get to our top story. And we told you how hard things were for migrants in Hungary. But those who do manage to make into Austria find a much more hospital situation.

VAUSE: Fred Pleitgen is in Vienna at that train station, where many migrants are first experiencing Austria's help and a little bit of hope, as well.

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FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Trains full of refugees continue to arrive here at Vienna's western train station. This one originated in Belgrade in Serbia, this went via Budapest in Hungary, and has now arrived here in Vienna. As you can see, it is packed with people. Moving closer, you can see there are a lot of families with small children. Also you can see immediately there's volunteers who come in here and they help the folks off the train. And they help them to find the next place, where they have to go.

Now here in particular, what they're trying to do is they're trying to guide the refugees to the next train that they need to take to Munich in Germany. First of all, they get asked where they want to go. The majority of them want to go to Germany and then they have to go across the train station here to catch the right train to go on to Germany. It is a very, very efficient process and it certainly also very demanding of many of the volunteers, who are here by the way. Many of them speak Arabic, and that is something that is very important to make sure the process works.

And one thing we can also see here is how big this refugee crisis is, how many refugees keep coming. This is the 10th or 11th train we've seen, which is absolutely packed, coming in on this certain day. So certainly, European leaders are saying this is a massive crisis they are dealing with. And that they will need all the European countries to pitch in if they want to come to terms with it.

Fred Pleitgen, CNN, Vienna, Austria.

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ASHER: And now Greece is also dealing with refugees and other migrants, as well. Hundreds are finally making their way by ferry to the port near Athens, coming from Lisbon. Police on a small Greek island say at least 10,000 migrants are stuck there waiting for their documents to be processed.

VAUSE: Many have arrived in Greece by making their way from Turkey, across from the Aegean Sea. But like so many of these journeys, it can be a dangerous trip.

A CNN team witnesses a rescue in the stretch of water between Bodrum, Turkey, and the Greek island of Kos. More than 20 people were saved.

And as the war in Syria grinds on, one man sits at the head of ISIS and we have heard very little about Abu Bakr al Baghdadi on a personal level until now.

ASHER: That's right. CNN's senior international correspondent, Atika Shubert, spent time with a young Yazidi girl name Zanot (ph), who was captured by ISIS fighters. Zanot (ph) says she ended up cooking and cleaning for Baghdadi's family, and there she met another captive, American Kayla Mueller.

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UNIDENTIFIED YAZIDI GIRL (through translation): When she came back to us, we asked her, why are you crying? And Kayla told us, Baghdadi said, "I will marry you by force. You are going to be my wife. If you refuse, I will kill you." When I heard what Kayla told me, I wanted to escape. I asked Kayla to escape with me but she refused. And she said, if I escape, they will behead me.

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VAUSE: We can't independently confirm all the particulars of the story. Mueller's family told us some details matched what they had found out from government officials. ISIS says that Mueller was killed by an airstrike, but officials in Washington say that was not true.

ASHER: Zanot (ph) did, in fact, escape. Find out what else she had to say about being enslaved by Baghdadi in Atika's exclusive report. That report airs Wednesday, of course, only here on CNN. VAUSE: Amid the tide of human misery, at times, it has been the

images of children, which have been the hardest to look at. Children who are dazed, confused and down-right scared, herded into camps or scrambled onto trains. Toddlers crying in their mother's arms. Reminders of families leaving one danger behind to face another. Like the family of Aylan Kurdi, the 3-year-old boy who washed up on a Turkish beach like driftwood. They're all trying to escape the war in Syria.

[01:35:16] It's almost impossible to know what these migrant kids are going through unless, like our next guest, you've lived it yourself. Dr. Vinh Chung was just 3 years old when his family fled Vietnam after the Communist takeover. He joins us now from Colorado Springs.

Dr. Chung, thank you for being with us.

Yours was a different war, a different time, but is it fair to say for a kid that experience is the same?

DR. VINH CHUNG, FORMER CHILD REFUGEE THAT ESCAPED COMMUNIST VIETNAM: Absolutely, for a kid it's the same thing. When I saw the photo of that little boy washed up, face down, it was really chilling because I knew that that could have been me. Because in 1979, when my family fled Vietnam, I was 3 years old. And we were crammed in a boat with 83 other refugees, had no food and water, and we were literally dying. But fortunately, we had a different outcome.

VAUSE: The children going through this, being uprooted for their lives, dragged across borders and are dealing with what they're dealing with right now, did they understand. Did you understand what was happening?

CHUNG: No, we don't. And I was fortunate because I was only 3 years old. But I had older siblings and my parents remembered everything as if it were yesterday. And so I was spared kind of the psychological trauma of this trip.

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CHUNG: But it's amazing. Kids are really resilient. And I think that regardless of what they go through, if we're able to find them a safe place they will bounce back and they will become the normal, healthy kids that you would expect anywhere in this world.

VAUSE: And that gets me to my next point. I looked at your resume. It's incredibly impressive. You graduated from Harvard, went to Harvard Medical School, a Fulbright scholar. You are on the board of World Vision. I bring this out because, in the current refugee crisis, there is real potential for an entire generation essentially to lose its future.

CHUNG: You are absolutely correct about that. Refugees, when we think about this crisis we need to realize about half the refugees are children, just like Aylan, just like me in 1979. So when we talk about the political and legal implications of how to solve this problem, we need to realize that the children can't wait. And so while we deliberate and figure out what needs to be done, we need to respond as if they were our children.

VAUSE: You know, we look at all the images, and there are so many and they are often difficult to look at. As a refugee who survived, what is the one thing you think we should all actually keep most in our minds as this crisis plays out?

CHUNG: I think that we need to realize that we, as individuals, are capable of making significant differences. And in my life, we had the World Vision ship that came and rescued us. And then after that, there was a small church in a little town called Ft. Smith, Arkansas, that opened up their doors and sponsored my family. And then there were complete strangers who gave money, food and shelter to my family. So sometimes we look at this problem and it just seems so large that we may feel helpless.

VAUSE: Yeah.

CHUNG: But what I want everybody to know is that we're all capable of making a change of lives in individuals.

VAUSE: Dr. Chung, thank you for being with us. We should recommend your book, called "Where the Wind Leads: A Refugee's Miraculous Story of Loss, Rescue, and Redemption." It seems like a timely read right now.

Good to speak with you, sir. Thank you.

CHUNG: Thank you so much.

ASHER: Time for a quick break here on CNN. When we come back, new details in the hunt for a drug kingpin. Up next, the public officials charged with el Chapo's escape from a Mexican prison. And why police hope that a tweet leads them to his hideout, coming up.

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[01:42:13] VAUSE: Welcome back. Pope Francis will announce new marriage annulment guidelines today for Roman Catholics. The details are kept under wraps but the pope is expected to streamline and simplify the procedure.

ASHER: Many complain that the currently process is outdated and complicated. An annulment, which is different from a divorce, rules that a marriage was never valid in the first place.

VAUSE: Four more Mexican officials have been charged in Joaquin "el Chapo" Guzman's July prison escape.

ASHER: Two members of Mexico's intelligence agency and two prison guards are accused of not alerting others to el Chapo's breakout.

VAUSE: Meanwhile, authorities are investigating a tweet and photo from the drug lord's son.

Brian Todd has the details.

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BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Sources tell CNN this seemingly harmless photo could be a tantalizing clue, a brazen taunt, or a brilliant diversion in the search for the world's most wanted man, Joaquin "el Chapo" Guzman, believed responsible for the deaths of hundreds of people. The photo was reportedly tweeted by Alfredo Guzman, the 29-year-old son of the brutal leader of Mexico's most dangerous drug cartel. That is Alfredo in the center, flanked by two men. Their faces are obscured by oversized emoticons. Now, a Mexican official tell CNN the man on the left is believed to be el Chapo.

A former DEA official agrees.

MICHAEL VIGIL, FORMER DEA OFFICIAL: It looks to be Chapo because of his cleft right under his lower lips looks very similar in both photographs.

TODD: In English, the caption reads, "Comfortable here. You already know with who."

And the photo is tagged with the location, Costa Rica.

A Costa Rican official says his government doesn't believe that el Chapo is there. And others point towards a city near el Chapo's base in Mexico called Costa Rica. But experts say it could be another trick, a fake location designed to mislead police.

VIGIL: This will cause, you know, the Mexican government to react to the photographs and take resources from the area where he is actually at and move them someplace else, which gives him a little bit more freedom of movement.

TODD: Michael Vigil says if the photo was recent and really was posted by Guzman's son, it would leave him vulnerable to being tracked by law enforcement. But experts say el Chapo is notorious for playing cat and mouse with police, and is known to change his appearance. And in July, he escaped through a high security Mexican prison through this elaborate tunnel.

Years earlier, he slipped away from police who had him cornered through a different tunnel hidden under his bathtub. Now, authorities are likely expanding their search for el Chapo, focused not only on his son, but also tracking his wife, Emma Cornel, a former beauty queen said to be seen here in photos posted in Mexican media. Coronel is a U.S. citizen and gave birth to Guzman's twin daughters near Los Angeles in 2011. A Mexican official says her phone was one of the leads used in el Chapo's capture last year. There is now enormous pressure on the Mexican government to find him again.

(on camera): If they ever close in on el Chapo, do you think he will be taken alive?

[01:45:27] ARTHUR RODERICK, FORMER U.S. MARSHAL: Well, if he is in Mexico and the Mexican military closes in on him, I think there will be a fight. And I'm sure he'll end up like Pablo Escobar, shot in the exchange of gunfire. TODD (voice-over): But it will likely take a massive and well

coordinated operation to find el Chapo and corner him.

(on camera): It is believed he likely is hidden out in Sinaloa State, where he authorities say he has a criminal infrastructure of corrupt officials who are sympathetic to him, and local residents who consider him a Robin Hood-type hero. They are known to tip off el Chapo when authorities approach.

Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.

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VAUSE: And mild weather in India turned deadly this week.

Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri joins us with all the details.

So what have you got?

PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Well, it is the latter portion of the monsoon season here in India. We have a record number of lightening strikes, quite a high number even for this part of the world. You think about it in the United States, about 50 people losing lives to lightning strikes. In India, about 500. A lot of people outside. Here is the density of lightning strikes around the world. Notice the highest concentration center of your screen, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the lightning capital of our planet. Going in for a closer perspective around eastern India, we had 19 of the 28 fatalities this weekend. Again, this time of year you have the monsoons beginning to retreat. So a lot of farmers are making their way outside and spending a lot of time outside so when you have these storms in place it can be quite deadly. 14 percent below normal. The normal is here in the green line. You see a lot of peaks.

I want to show you video coming out of this region. There is also tremendous flooding in the past couple of days from all of these storms that have fallen in place. So again, there is a deficit as a whole in the rainfall. You see the scooter there floating by in the water. Very dangerous situation when you think about it at any given moment on our planet. There are about 2,000 thunderstorms, lightning strikes per second being multiple. They are in a very highly populated region. Of course, in an area with a lot of people on the ground working in the agricultural area, as well.

In the eastern Mediterranean, tremendous sand storms, incredible images from Lebanon and Cypress, we know what is happening here as far as the refugee camps in place. A lot of people severely impacted by the weather pattern in the past few days.

Also watching the path of the potential to form -- this is a Mediterranean storm that has hurricane-like characteristics. We know the water temperatures here definitely on the warm side, in the upper 20s, putting it round 70s, around 80 degrees Fahrenheit. You look at the models taking you through what some of the migrant routes are stopping in the afternoon of Wednesday. That is the concern of the storm system that could put up hurricane-force winds and impact a lot of people en route across the Mediterranean. A story we're following this story and we'll have more coming up on CNN NEWSROOM shortly.

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[01:50:58] PATRICK SNELL, CNN WORLD SPORTS ANCHOR: Hi, there. I'm Patrick Snell with your World Sport headlines.

Starting off for the race for France 2016, the three-time European champs, Germany, with a giant step towards qualification, winning against Glasgow Monday. Thrilling match. The Scots battled hard. They found themselves 2-1 down, until James McCarthy makes it even there. When you have somebody by the name of Thomas Mueller on your team, you know the next goal is not very far away. The Bayern Munich man has already scored twice. Here it sets up for the win at 3-2 Germany.

And we know her sister, Venus, is standing directly in the way of Serena William's bid for the calendar slam in the U.S. Open. They will meet in the quarterfinals matchup on Tuesday. But Victoria Azarenka could be the bigger threat in Serena's march for the title. The two-time runner up in three of her fourth U.S. Open quarterfinal after a 3 and 4 win over the United States on Monday. The Belarusian is a former world number one, and seeded 20 at this year's Open.

Meantime, the women's second seed, Romania's Demona Halep (ph) is moving on. Halep breaking Germany 10 times on route to a three-set win that lasted the better part of three hours. Halep has reached the quarters in all four majors.

You're now up to date. Thank you for joining us. I'm Patrick Snell.

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ASHER: And we leave you with a sweet story. So the actions of one teenager in the U.S. state of Texas have spread across social media in a big way. So McKinley Zoellner offered to provide backup for a sheriff's deputy as she pumped gas in her patrol car.

VAUSE: The deputy was overwhelmed by the gesture and decided to take a selfie and post it online. All of this coming on the heels of the murder of a fellow Texas police officer who was also pumping gas.

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TOMMY JONES KELLEY, DEPUTY, HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS, SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT: Initially, on the defensive. Being approached from behind, considering the shooting that just happened, you hear a voice come up behind you, you're defensive initially. He asked if he could make sure I was safe. And I said, yeah, and as far as pumping my gas, and he proceeded to stay there.

MCKINLEY ZOELLNER, TEEN PROVIDED "BACKUP" FOR DEPUTY: All the hate towards police these days, it's just terrible. And somebody needs to show them that there are people that care.

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ASHER: Well, the sheriff -- the selfie, taken by the sheriff's deputy has been shared more than 220,000 times.

VAUSE: On Facebook.

ASHER: On Facebook, I should say.

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VAUSE: OK. There is one more day until Apple introduces its newest and latest product, and all of the improvements.

And as Claire Sebastian reports, Siri, Apple's virtual assistant, may just be playing a very big role in the future of Apple's company.

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CLAIRE SEBASTIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Come on, Siri, give me a hint.

SIR: You will have to wait until the 9th. I bet you're one of those kids that snuck downstairs to get presents.

SEBASTIAN (voice-over): Siri is good at keeping secrets.

SIRI: Well, I hear there is something happening on September 9th.

SEBASTIAN (voice-over): And when it comes to Apple's product event, she may have a reason to stay tight-lipped.

MAX WOLFF, MANHATTAN VENTURE PARTNERS: The hint certainly does make it look like we're going to get bigger news than we had thought.

SEBASTIAN: It's tradition for Apple to put riddles like this in its invitations. In October 2012, we got a little more to show you, which turned out to be the first iPad Mini. This time last year, "I wish we could say more" echoed Steve Job's famous, "one more thing," and heralded the Apple Watch, the first new category since Jobs was CEO.

SIRI: You're cute when you're desperate for information.

SEBASTIAN (on camera): Rather than asking Siri, perhaps we should take a closer look at Siri herself.

SIRI: Let me think.

SEBASTIAN (voice-over): Siri started life on the iPhone 4S. Now rumor is that Apple will announce an iPhone 6S and 6S Plus. Among many upgrades, it could include a better chip, making way for the next operating system, IOS-9, which we know features a superior Siri.

[01:55:15] WOLFF: The dream of Apple, which has largely been achieved with their audience of the iPhone, is the universal remote control of your life. They would now like Siri to be the interface of that operating system. So Siri is another way to really separate out. SEBASTIAN: The iPhone needs to stand out. It accounted for 63

percent of Apple's sales in the last quarter, much more than any other product.

SIRI: I am just a humble virtual assistant.

SEBASTIAN: Humble no more, Siri is moving beyond the iPhone and iPad. Apple is expected to announce she will be part of a new and improved Apple TV. And she has already integrated into Apple Music.

WOLFF: We do expect the voice command and augmented reality to factor enormously into all consumer electronics futures. Apple has to be at the front of this.

SEBASTIAN: Apple has to be at the forefront of every trend in tech. And with over a billion requests a week, Siri may be a reliable way to keep this up.

SIRI: Call me.

SEBASTIAN: Claire Sebastian, CNN, New York.

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VAUSE: I find Siri a little creepy.

ASHER: Oh, you do?

VAUSE: Yeah.

ASHER: Is there a reason for that? Or just creepy?

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VAUSE: It just creeps me out.

ASHER: OK.

Well, thank you so much for watching, everyone. I'm Zain Asher.

VAUSE: I'm John Vause. Rosemary Church will be back with another hour of CNN after this short break.