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Migrants Clash with Hungarian Police; Hollande Speaks on Plight of Migrants; Mexican Intelligence Agents and Prison Guards Implicated in El Chapo's Breakout; Recent Police Deaths in the U.S.; Guatemala Heading to Presidential Run-Off Next Month; Archaeologists Unearthed New Superhenge in Southwest England; Powerful Lightning Storms Have Killed 28 in India. Aired 3-4a ET

Aired September 08, 2015 - 03:00   ET

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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: Hello and welcome to our global viewers. I'm Rosemary Church, and this is "CNN Newsroom."

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It is 9 am in Paris where French president, Francois Hollande, is hosting a special U.N. Conference focused in part on Europe's growing refugee crisis. The talks are aimed at protecting persecuted minorities in the Middle East. Jordan's foreign minister is among the dignitaries attending.

Meanwhile, hundreds of migrants are holed up in makeshift camps in Roszke in Hungary near the border with Serbia, and these pictures are from just a few hours ago. The migrants are hoping to make their way to Germany.

And for the latest, we want to turn to Jim Bittermann. He is in Paris where the U.N. is holding this meeting. So, Jim, give us an idea on what we're likely to hear from Francois Hollande.

JIM BITTERMANN, SENIOR EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENT: He is just about to speak, Rosemary. The fact is that this conference was scheduled long before the refugee crisis. This was a conference that the French had on the books to invite about 60 countries to talk about persecuted religious and ethnic minorities, particularly Christians in the Middle East. As the foreign minister said this morning basically they want to get the Middle East back to being the Middle East, that is to say Middle East have diverse religions and ethnic groups.

But in order to do that, they somehow got to figure out how to protect them. So they're looking at a three-point program this morning to better step up humanitarian aid to the refugees, the Christians and others that are being persecuted, to look into legal pursuits of those who are behind the persecution and to find a political solution, of course the political solution is going to be the most difficult thing and as part of that attempt to find a political solution, the French today started reconnaissance flights over Syria. This is the first time they've done that. They've joined in the coalition forces to look at ISIS targets in Syria. The idea of being that they would then lead the French to some decisions about bombing potential targets in Syria. But so far they've only been doing that in Iraq but now they're going to join coalition forces in Syria, Rosemary.

CHURCH: And Jim, it's interesting looking at the numbers because we've heard from France that that country is willing to take 24,000, Britain will take 20,000 also over the course of five years. There are some countries though who are saying "No, we don't want to take any of these refugees or these migrants."

BITTERMANN: Well there's definitively some pushback on this and we're going to hear the announcement, the official announcement, from Jean- Claude Juncker tomorrow and what he's going to assign and this is supposed to be compulsory among the members of the European Union - assign quotas of refugees to each country within the European Union and I think at that point, too, we'll see exactly how fragile the political solidarity is within the European Union as far as refugees are concerned.

Everyone has been talking a good game, but the fact is that there are some countries who are going to be resisting the idea of accepting any of this refugee, Rosemary.

CHURCH: Yes, we're certainly seeing some push back there. Jim Bittermann reporting live from Paris. As we wait for Francois Hollande, the president of France, to speak and we will of course try to bring you that when it happens. Thanks so much, Jim.

Well German Chancellor Angela Merkel is calling on other countries to do more to help ease the refugee crisis. She is pledging another $3.4 billion to the cause.

In Hungary, more than 300 migrants boarded buses that returned them to their holding camp near the Serbian border. They had given up their attempt to walk to Budapest from the camp.

Earlier they clashed with police as they pushed their way out of the camp and they say conditions there are deplorable.

[03:05:05] CHURCH: Meanwhile, Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro, is pledging to take in 20,000 Syrian refugees where at least two countries are rejecting a European commission plan to set new country- by-country quotas to help take in refugees. We talked about that with Jim Bittermann. The prime ministers of the Czech Republic and Slovakia met Monday in Bratislava with their Austrian counterpart. They say help and cooperation must be voluntary.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: 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. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Let's differentiate things. When it is voluntary and 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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CHURCH: The number of migrants to arrive in Europe by sea continues to reach new record levels. According to the latest numbers from the U.N., more than 366,000 have crossed the Mediterranean, most landing in Italy or Greece throwing (ph) all of last year, 219,000 people made the dangerous crossing. Deaths at sea also at record levels this year with 2,800 now reported missing or dead.

CNN's Fred Pleitgen is at a train station in Vienna where thousands of migrants have been arriving. He joins us now live.

Fred Pleitgen, we are live now. If you could hear me, we're clearly having some problems aligning Fred up. We'll come back when we've got him. He can't hear us clearly.

Well, in addition to announcing help for Syrian refugees, the British prime minister says he has also taken military action in Syria for the first time. CNN's Phil Black reports.

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REYAAD KHAN: You - when you sit in comfort, ask yourself is this how you to die?

PHIL BLACK, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: This 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.

REYAAD KHAN: "We just want to meet our lord. We just want to give our blood and use our bodies as a bridge from khalifa (ph)".

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 air strike carried out on the 21st of August 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: 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 was think this is too difficult, throw up our arms 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.

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 the 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 to Syria, that we started 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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CHURCH: And amid the fighting in Syria, one man sits at the head of ISIS. We have heard little about Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on a personal level until now. CNN senior international correspondent, Atika Shubert, spent time with a young Yazidi girl named Zeinat who was captured by ISIS fighters. Zeinat says she ended up cooking and cleaning the Baghdadi's family and there she met another captive, American Kayla Mueller.

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ZEINAT: When Kayla came back to us, we asked her, "Why are you crying?" And Kayla told us Baghdadi said, "I am going to marry you by force and you're going to be my wife. If you refuse, I will kill you." When I heard what Kayla told me, I wanted to escape. I told Kayla to escape with me but Kayla refused. And she said if I escape, they will behead me.

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[03:10:21] CHURCH: While we can't independently confirm all the particulars in Zeinat's story, Mueller's family tells CNN some of the details match what they found out from government officials. ISIS says Mueller was killed by a Jordanian strike inside Syria, officials in Washington say that's not true. Zeinat did, in fact, escape and you can find out how and hear what else she had to say about being enslaved by al-Baghdadi in Atika's exclusive report, and that is Wednesday only here on CNN.

We will take a short break here, but Pope Francis prepares to make a major announcement on marriage. We'll go live to Rome to see what he is expected to say.

Plus, more evidence of China's slowing economy. Imports and exports are down. Live to Beijing after the break for the latest reaction on the financial market.

And archaeologists make a discovery that only expands the mysteries of Stonehenge. We'll be right back.

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PEDRAM JAVAHERI, CNN INTERNATIONAL METEOROLOGIST: Good day to you. Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri for CNN Weather Watch, and not often you see this sort of a setup.

Coast to coast, San Francisco, scorching hot, 32 degrees, work your way 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.

And we're also watching a line of active weather across the central portion of the U.S. Kansas City and parts of the City of Iowa, upwards of 200 millimeters in the past 24 hours and that pattern looks to continue and watching a little disturbance look right towards portions of the Florida Panhandle onto areas of the Gulf there where we are 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 Northeastern U.S. by the end of the week. So, at least a glimpse of autumn in the air.

But down towards Kingston we go, (inaudible) for a pair of threes, will be windy in the afternoon across the area.

Belize City around 32 degrees. Mexico City not too bad at 24. We will pop up a few thunderstorms across this region generally into the afternoon hours as well.

But here, we go to the south. Panama will shoot for 32 today with some thunderstorms. Lima partly cloudy skies. Not too bad at 21.

La Paz, a very comfortable day at about 16 degrees. Brazil, you should make it up to 32. Notice the showers around Rio.

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[03:15:42] CHURCH: And we go to head back to Europe where we have re- established contact with CNN's Fred Pleitgen. He is at a train station in Vienna where thousands of migrants have been arriving. He joins us now live.

So, Fred, talk to us about the situation on the ground there. Of course, a lot of people wanting to end up in Germany. So they're sort of in this limbo situation right now.

FRED PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes. It is a limbo situation, Rosemary, but it's also fairly surprising to the authorities, both here and in Germany, that how many people are actually still arriving. Because you know over the course of the weekend there was a big bulge of people, a large group of people who had been stranded in Hungary for a very long time who then came here to Austria, about 17,000 coming over the border just that weekend.

And the authorities both here and in Germany thought at that point that they pretty much overcome the largest part and that things would go back to normal. And I've been in touch with the Austrian authorities who tell us, "You know, at those small towns in the border, places like Nickelsdorf, which was a focal point over the weekend, there really aren't that many people coming in anymore, but what we're seeing here at the Vienna Train Station is a lot of people."

"We've been here for maybe half an hour now and there've been several trains and several buses that have come in. I would say that we've already seen well over 100 refugees come through simply in this one place."

In Germany, which is of course where the largest part of them want to go to, the authorities in Munich say that between 3,000 and 4,000 people came in just yesterday and that was supposed to be more of a quiet day than the past couple of days and they say that right now the capacities in the southeast of Germany in places like Bavaria where a lot of these folks enter Germany, is really, really stretched and so they are having to send people to different sort of refugee centers across the country.

So, it is really sinking in to the Germans and the Austrians as well that this migration crisis that they're facing seems to be a lot bigger than they thought, and certainly there is still a big flow of people coming. One of the things that the Austrian authorities have been sort of complaining about or criticizing talks (ph) about, is they seem to get very little information from the Hungarians.

They said they're really not sure what to expect in terms of the number of people coming in here and it seems as though things have shifted a little bit and that the Hungarian railway company appears to be allowing refugees on their trains to then go here directly to Vienna because there have been a lot of trains coming from Budapest with many refugees on them who then of course get taken care of here at the Vienna West Train Station and then many of them quickly shuttled onward to trains to Munich.

We've seen large groups of people being guided by volunteers running across the platforms trying to catch those trains to Germany. So it really is a lot, lot bigger, a lot more people than the authorities, both here and Germany, would have estimated only about 24 hours ago, Rosemary.

CHURCH: And Fred, what's interesting is some countries that aren't inclined to take these refugees and migrants are accusing Germany and Austria of enticing them with offers of money and other things. Can you shed some light on that?

PLEITGEN: Well, certainly. I mean they say that they believe that's simply Angela Merkel making a statement. I think it was about two weeks ago saying "anybody who comes to us from Syria will most probably not be sent back." And if you look at the numbers for the Syrian refugees, they have a very, very high percentage of refugees applying for asylum who actually get that asylum granted. And that certainly has bled.

And this is something that international organizations have said to apparently a lot of dealings with fake Syrian passports, with people from other countries trying to get phony Syrian passports in the hopes of then making it to Germany. You have, of course, also Viktor Orban from Hungary who was saying that Germany is saying that they will allow all the Syrians in is something that entices more and more people to try and come over here.

The Germans, on their part, are saying, "Look, these people are going to try and get here no matter what. So, the least that Germany and other countries can do is to try and offer them refuge." But certainly it's not going down well in countries like Hungary, many eastern European countries and at certain extent in the United Kingdom as well, Rosemary.

CHURCH: All right. And many thanks to Fred Pleitgen who is reporting there live from Vienna Train Station.

Well, Pope Francis will announce new marriage annulment guidelines today for Roman Catholics. Details are being kept under wraps but the pope is expected to streamline and simplify the procedure. Many have complained that the current process is outdated and too complicated. We want to bring in CNN'S Vatican correspondent, Delia Gallagher, who is live in Rome.

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[03:20:06] CHURCH: So Delia, of course we don't know what the pope will announce today, but we do know as we just said that he will likely simplify the annulment procedure. So, what is the current situation and what do analysts say need to change here? DELIA GALLAGHER, CNN VATICAN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Rosemary, we're expecting two basic changes to the process. One involves the length of time it takes to get an annulment. The other involves the cost. Now, as the annulment process works like this, you start in the local diocese or local church level. A church tribunal looks at the case and makes a judgment. It then automatically goes to a second church tribunal which also makes a judgment.

If those two judgments meet, they grant the annulment; if not, it can be appealed to the Vatican. This obviously takes a certain length of time, anywhere from a year to two years. The expectation is that today the Vatican will announce perhaps doing away with that second level of judgment, thereby reducing the amount of time it takes to get the annulment. The other question is on the cost.

The pope said in January that he wish the process could be free. So clearly, the expectation today is that the cost will be reduced. They run sometimes from $100, couple hundred dollars to a couple of thousand dollars. So the cost will probably be reduced if not made free for people who can't afford it, Rosemary.

CHURCH: Right.

GALLAGHER: Now, all of this is coming in anticipation of the pope's Year of Mercy. The year that he's designated to begin on December 8, which he wants to emphasize forgiveness, mercy, bringing people back to the church who may have stayed away because they are divorced, because they have had an abortion and so on.

So, this announcement today is geared towards that, trying to welcome people back into the church who may have stayed away because they are divorced, because they got remarried and did not have an annulment.

So the streamlining of the process today is in the hopes of welcoming back some people who may have stayed away from the church, Rosemary.

CHURCH: Yes, interesting. Of course, an annulment being so different to a divorce. I mean, it's saying that the marriage was never valid at all, but I do wonder just to get you to shed some light on something for us, if you don't mind, "The Washington Post" has an article about a growing revolt at the Vatican over the pope's various changes or interpretations on church doctrine, especially same-sex marriage and divorce. Are you able to shed some light on that?

GALLAGHER: Well, insofar as anyone is able, I think it's clear that, you know, the Catholic Church in their DNA as it were - prides itself on tradition and on the teachings that have gone before them and any time you start to tinker a little bit with those teachings, people get nervous.

And there is certainly, right now at the Vatican, a bit of a tug-of- war going on over some issues, not so much the gay marriage aspect of it but this question, for example, of divorced and remarried Catholics. The announcement today plays into that. There will be a discussion in October. It's what they call the synod, this international meeting which began last year on this very question. Because there are some bishops and cardinals who say even without an annulment we would like to allow communion for those people who have been divorced and who are remarried. Others say, "Wait a minute, that's not our church teaching. We can't allow that." And therefore they want to make the annulment process easier and that's kind of a way to get around it. Say, annul your first marriage then you can enter into a second catholic marriage and receive communion.

Why is it important to receive communion? That's one of the major signs that you are in communion, that you are in good standing with the Catholic Church. So, on a larger level, yes, there is a kind of back and forth between the cardinals and bishops trying to figure out how far can we go to accommodate those people that are in certain situations which we consider irregular without changing the doctrine.

In all of this, Pope Francis A, wants to encourage the debate, he has said so very openly. He's quite happy for them to express their opinions but he also wants to emphasize mercy and forgiveness and bringing people back into the church, Rosemary.

CHURCH: Yes, the pope is certainly shaking things up. Delia Gallagher, reporting live from Rome. We'll keep an eye out and an ear out for what he announces there on annulment. Many thanks.

Well, police in Nepal are searching for the body of an American woman believed to be beaten to death while there to help with earthquake relief. Twenty-five-year-old Dahlia Yehia went to Nepal in July, and police say the man she was staying with confessed to her murder. She found the man on couchsurfing.com., a popular site for travelers on a budget.

Yehia's family said they got worried when no one heard from her since August 6th. Police say her host told them he dumped her body in a river and then tried to commit suicide after his arrest. No word on a motive there.

[03:25:15] CHURCH: Well, dismal trade numbers from China are just the latest sign that the country's economy is struggling. For the month of August, exports were down 6.1 percent over last year, imports fell a whopping 14.3 percent. So let's see how the markets reacted. And there you have it, Japan's Nikkei closed down 2.43 percent.

Australia finished up, 1.69 percent. A very murky picture there. It's difficult to know what that's supposed to mean but look at the Shanghai Composite, up nearly 3 percent. It's about to close and they took back but we'll see what happens with that. And Hong Kong's Hang Seng also a 3 percent up there.

So, for more on the latest trade numbers we want to bring in CNN'S Asia-Pacific editor, Andrew Stevens. He joins us live from Beijing.

What are we to make of those numbers, given the very weak trade figures coming out of China? But look what's happening with the Shanghai Composite.

ANDREW STEVENS, CNN ASIA-PACIFIC EDITOR: Yes, I know. It's always a little bit of a head scratch when you see markets reacting in what would be. And so (inaudible), Rosemary. Shanghai has got a pretty strong reputation for doing that and has been doing that over the past few months.

Difficult to see why Shanghai suddenly popped today. I mean, in the past, we've seen these big moves towards the end of the day, courtesy of government intervention. But the government has been hinting that there's got to be less and less of that. Perhaps more distractive is what happened in Japan. China is such a big V key export market for Japanese goods. You saw the Japan market down sharply. Australia was up but that was more to do with local stories about mergers and acquisitions.

The headline to all this remains, Rosemary, the fact that China's economy through those import numbers, certainly continues to weaken and that's a big fault, 14 percent dropped in imports in China in August. So that is just a reflection of slowing domestic demand and it underpins the theory or the story now which is pretty much set in stone that the global economy is slowing and that is being led by China.

CHURCH: All right, we'll keep an eye on that. Andrew Stevens reporting live from Beijing. Many thanks to you as always.

Well, thousands of migrants have survived the perilous journey to Europe only to find themselves stuck in a holding camp in Hungary. Their story just ahead ...

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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN NEWSROOM SHOW HOST: And warm welcome back to CNN Newsroom. I'm Rosemary Church. It is time to check the headlines for you this hour.

Hundreds of migrants clash with police at their holding site in Hungary. They're fed up with harsh treatment and lack of support. About 300 have gone push through the police lines and try to walk to Budapest. They, later, gave up their walk and road buses back to their camp.

Meanwhile, at a U.N. conference in Paris the French President, Francois Hollande, spoke about the plight of migrants.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If we do not bring further assistance to those countries that welcoming refugees, to those families that live in refugee camps disseminated across the neighboring countries, not only will this lead to tragedy, not only will we have families on the verge of disaster, but we will see a continuation of the exodus that we already are witnessing.

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murder conviction because of, quote, "glaring errors" and "deplorable carelessness." It said "There was no evidence linking Knox and then- boyfriend to the 2007 murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher."

On her web site, Knox said she is grateful to the court for forcefully declaring her innocence. Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were convicted twice and acquitted twice for the murder.

Thousands of migrants in Europe are eager to make their way to Germany, but instead they are sitting in Hungary with little food or support.

CNN international correspondent Arwa Damon is on the Hungarian-Serbian border with more on their plight.

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ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: This is the reaction of a desperate people who want to just 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 nonprofit to help. In the tiny medical tent, a little boy who collapsed. Exhaustion and dehydration we are told.

Most are refugees from the wars in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan. They fled to save themselves and their children. Al Fahlad (ph) 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 home sick and confused.

Along the road he keeps telling his daddy, I want to go home. Al Fahlad (ph) can respond is, God is good. The day will come when we will go back home. His only memento 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 beard and your hair has to be one length, he told us. Home as they knew it is gone. It's what drives most to make the journey.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: 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.

[03:35:09] DAMON: The injustice of all they have been through, boiling over. They are both let on. But the bottleneck of humanity intensifies as others continue to arrive.

Arwa Damon, CNN on the Hungary-Serbia border.

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

Many have arrived in Greece by making the journey from Turkey across the Aegean Sea. But it scan be a dangerous one.

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

And earlier out, Ivan Watson talked about what he saw at sea and why so many tell him that they're not afraid to risk it all to find a safe haven.

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IVAN WATSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: We weren't able to speak with the people in the raft, in the two rafts that we saw are rescued overnight. But we have spoken with some of the other Syrian refugees around turkey. Some of whom are still contemplating trying to make this dangerous journey.

And some of them have explained it to me. They've said, listen, we've survived bombardment by our government in Syria. Barrel bombs dropped from helicopters. We've survived the ravages of the Islamic state, which has been executing people that don't follow its very strict version of Islam. We survived years of war.

So, I am not afraid of the possibility of drowning at sea while trying to cross a couple kilometers in basically, a rubber dinghy to try to achieve some degree of physical and economic safety across the channel in Greece.

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CHURCH: The Turkish government has appealed for migrants and refugees not to make the dangerous journey across the Aegean.

And we have this breaking news coming into CNN. Reuters is reporting a bomb attack on a Turkish police van in the eastern Province of Igdir. At least 10 officers were killed.

The attack comes amid a surge in violence between the Turkish government and Kurdistan workers party militants. We will of course bring you more on the story as they come into us.

Well, 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 Twitter account. The details coming up.

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CHURCH: Two members of Mexico's intelligence agency and two prison guards are now implicated in whacking el Chapo Guzman's July escape. They're accused of not alerting others with el Chapo's breakout.

Meanwhile, authorities are investigating a geo tag tweet and photo from the drug lord's son. Brian Todd has more.

BRIAN TODD, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Sources tell CNN this seemingly harmless photo could be a tantalizing clue, a brazen taunt or brilliant diversion in the search for one of the world's most wanted man, Joaquin el Chapo Guzman, believed responsible for the deaths of hundreds of people.

The photo was apparently posted on Twitter by Alfredo Guzman, the 29- year-old son of the brutal leader of Mexico's most dangerous drug cartel.

That's Alfredo in the center, flanked by two men. Their faces are obscured by oversight emoticons. Now, a Mexican official tells CNN the man on the left is believed to be el Chapo. A former DEA official agrees.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It appears to be el Chapo Guzman because the cleft under his lower lip looks very similar in both photographs.

TODD: In English, the caption reads, "comfortable here. You already know with who." And the photo was tagged with the location, Costa Rica. A Costa Rican official says his government doesn't believe el Chapo is there. And others point to a city near el Chapo's base in Mexico called Costa Rica.

But experts say it could be another trick. A fake location design to mislead police.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This will cause, you know, the Mexican government to react to the photographs. And take resources from the area where he's actually at and move them someplace else. Which gives them a little more freedom of movement.

TODD: Michael de Hill (ph) 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. He's known to change his appearance.

And in July, he escaped from 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, analysts say, authorities are likely expanding their search for el Chapo. Focused not only on his son, but they're also likely tracking his wife, Emma Coronel, 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 lead used in el Chapo's capture in Mazatlan last year. There is now enormous pressure on the Mexican government to find him again.

If they ever close in on el Chapo, do you think he'll be taken alive?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, if he is in Mexico and the Mexican military closes in on, I think there is going to be a fight and I'm pretty sure he's going to end like Pablo Escobar, who would be shot in the exchange of gun fire there.

TODD: But it will likely take a massive and very well-coordinated operation to find el Chapo and corner him.

It's believed he's likely hiding out in center or lower state, where analysts say he's got 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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CHURCH: We are hearing and reporting on a number of recent deaths among police officers in the United States. And despite statistics showing cop's deaths are actually down in 2015, that isn't helping to quell the fears of many of the officers out on duty. Nick Valencia reports.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Shots fired. Dropping (Inaudible)

[03:45:02] NICK VALENCIA, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: A gunman ambushes two Las Vegas police officers sitting in their marked Cruiser at the stoplight. He attacked leaving one officer injured, his partner able to chase down and arrest the suspect.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Forward, march.

VALENCIA: In Fox Lake, Illinois, hundreds bid farewell to a fallen veteran police officer, shot and killed. The hunt for the suspects continues.

A sheriff's deputy is laid to rest after being shot execution-style, 15 times, while filling up his vehicle at a gas station near Houston, Texas. And that's just in the last two weeks.

This year, at least 24 officers across the country have been shot and killed in the line of duty. By comparison, as of this date last year, 36 officers had been shot and killed.

According to the nonprofit, officer down memorial page. While the numbers are down, officers are feeling increasingly vulnerable, says CNN law enforcement analyst, Cedric Alexander.

CEDRIC ALEXANDER, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST: There are some real challenges out there in this country right now. It is a very tough team to be a police officer at this moment.

VALENCIA: Deaths at the hand of police like this shooting in San Antonio, where the suspect appears to have his hand in the air and the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore have led to the creation of groups like Black Lives Matter.

The only charge to rhetoric of the movement has been about "I'm holding officers accountable." It's been about fair police contracts and independent investigators and body cameras.

VALENCIA: Activists and organizer, Raymond McCaslin (ph) says blaming the Black Lives Matter movement is only misdirected anger.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It has been specifically about ending violence.

VALENCIA: Even so, chants like this from a march last month in Minnesota, and ominous graffiti like this in Arkansas and Texas, are putting more and more cops on edge.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We've heard black lives matter. All lives matter. Well, cops lives matter, too. So, why don't we just drop the qualifier and just say lives matter.

VALENCIA: Many police departments across the country are now changing their tactics going from one police officer in a patrol car to two. Even still, cops across the country are feeling the risk.

And while the rhetoric from the Black Lives Matter movement may not be to blame for the recent wave of police officer killings and some might suggest, police officers everywhere are certainly starting to take notice of the current climate.

Nick Valencia, CNN, Atlanta.

CHURCH: Guatemala heading to a presidential run-off next month. Comedian Jimmy Morales won the first round of votes. Here he is playing the character of a countrymen who almost became president.

He has no political experience. And has run an anti-corruption campaign. Just as Guatemala was rocked with a massive bribery scandal.