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42 Die In Bush Crash in France; Sword-Wielding Attacker Kills Teacher, Wounds Three Others in Sweden; Jeb Bush's Superhero Gaffe; South African Students Clash With Police Over Planned Tuition Hikes; Nearly Half Of South Korea's Elderly Live in Poverty. Aired 8:00a-9:00a ET

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[08:00:25] IVAN WATSON, HOST: I'm Ivan Watson in Hong Kong, welcome to News Stream.

A tense standoff in South Africa as student leaders protest tuition hikes.

42 people are killed after a bus and truck collide in France.

And Mexico braces for Hurricane Patricia, one of the most powerful storms ever recorded.

A very tense situation right now in Pretoria, South Africa where there is a violent standoff underway between police and student protesters.

Students are angry over planned university tuition hikes. They are gathered in Pretoria where according to a South African government tweet,

President Jacob Zuma is now meeting with protest leaders.

CNN's David McKenzie is covering the unrest and he joins me now on the line from Pretoria.

Now David, the South African president, he's meeting now with student leaders, so why are the protesters, why are the students, why do they

appear to be so angry right now?

DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, I think there's a hardcore group of the student protesters that just took it upon

themselves to storm the rickety fence that in fact was separating the thousands of students from the union building, the seat of South Africa's

government.

We just had to make a hasty retreat, that's why I'm on the line, because there's -- the police pulled through a three-tiered razor wired

fence on the back of an APC, an armored personnel carrier. Now, Ivan, the scenes I'm seeing that they are throwing, the police are throwing green-

tinted tear gas out the protesters. There have been running battles now for more than two hours here. The majority of the protesters, though, Ivan

have been peaceful. And I have to say up to this point the police has showed by some level of restraint.

But chaotic scenes here in Pretoria away from just within (inaudible) that I can see of where the buildings where President Zuma is meeting with

these students to try and end the standoff -- Ivan.

WATSON: So, we're hearing now you're seeing tear gas in the air over Pretoria. What is it that the students are asking for right now?

MCKENZIE: Well, they're asking for an end to the fee hike for universities across South Africa. More than a dozen universities are shut

down by the students. This is definitely an education crisis in this country. And it goes much deeper than the fee increases of course. Many

of the students I've been speaking to, the rank and file, say they want to really stop the inequality in this country. They're angry at the

government. And really the anger has shifted away from the universities squarely at the government and the ruling ANC.

And one thing that's very striking to me, Ivan, is that you see students in the political t-shirts of all the major parties protesting

together. And as I speak now, many of the students do seem to be moving away from the main standoff with police. Rocks are strewn next to the

truck where President Zuma was going to be speaking to students. That's now shuttered. There's a (inaudible) ironic message about the aims of the

government today which are in tatters now -- Ivan.

WATSON: David McKenzie live from Pretoria, and watching an unfolding situation right now, a tense situation. Thank you very much, David. And

do stay safe.

Now, let's move to France where there is a great tragedy, that's how the French President is describing a bus and truck collision in Southern

France that killed at least 42 people.

Eight others are in hospital. Local reports say the vehicles crashed head on and caught fire. Most of the bus passengers were elderly.

Let's get the latest now. Fred Pleitgen, he joins us from London. Fred, what can you tell us?

FRED PLEITGEN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, this bus crash, Ivan, happened in the early morning hours, around 7:30. The local

authorities say that the bus crashed really shortly after departing this very small town near Bordeaux. They're in the southwest of France.

And they're still trying to piece together what exactly might have happened.

We know that it was a head on collision. We know that the -- both vehicles caught fire very quickly and that many people, of course, were

killed in part, of course also, due to the fact that the fire spread so quickly.

Now, there is some information that we've gotten from a local spokesman who says that the bus driver actually survived the crash. And he

says that he noticed that the collision was going to happen. That it was inevitable. And he tried to open the doors of the bus to allow at least

some people to make it off. and they believe that that actually saved some of the lives of the people on the bus as we've noticed eight people have

survived.

Now, there is some information that we're also just getting from a member of Parliament, from that region, saying that possibly the truck

might have actually been stationary across the road. Whether or not it broke down or something else happened is not clear, but it is a very narrow

road. And it does appear to be in a turn as well. So it's unclear how much of the oncoming traffic the bus driver would have been able to see,

Ivan.

WATSON: Fred, what more can you tell us about the victims of this terrible accident? And it's very early yet, but presumably there will be

calls for some kind of an investigation, right?

PLEITGEN: The investigation has indeed already been launched. This, of course, is something that French politicians of all colors are calling a

national tragedy. The president who at this point in time is actually in Athens has said that he'd ordered the prime minister to go to the crash

site, the interior ministers at the crash site, all of this is being investigated. And that is something that is already going on.

As we've noted, most of the victims were elderly people who are from that region. They seem to be from a walking club -- and most of them --

and were going to embark on a trip on this day.

So, it is something that is a tragedy that of course is felt all over France. But like also hits that region very, very hard as well as most of

the victims do appear to be from those small towns outside of Bordeaux in that area, Ivan.

WATSON: That's CNN's Fred Pleitgen following this terrible tragedy in France. Thank you, Fred.

Now, let's move to high stakes diplomacy, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, he's in talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov days after

the White House condemned the Kremlin for its welcome of embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

He was in Moscow Tuesday to talk over its joint military campaign with Russia against Islamist militants in Syria.

The meeting between Kerry and Lavrov comes as Moscow and Washington forge their own military understanding over each country's respective

operations in Syrian airspace.

For the latest, CNN's Matthew Chance, he joins us now from Moscow.

Now Matthew, it wasn't just the Russians and the Americans who were present at this meeting, there were other parties present as well, weren't

there?

MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes, there were. And indeed these meetings still appear to be going ahead in Vienna, the

Austrian capital.

You've got the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, as you mentioned, but also the Turkish and Saudi

foreign ministers as well. So, in other words, all of the various countries that had a stake in the outcome of the crisis in Syria, both

sides, I suppose, if you bear in mind that the Russians are standing squarely behind President Assad and reflect the position of the Iranians

as well with whom they're providing air support to a counter offensive on the ground in Syria.

Both sides in that conflict sitting down now after this very strange meeting that took place in Moscow a couple of days ago when Bashar al-Assad

flew to the Russian capital, had private face-to-face talks in secret with the Russian President.

This is the first chance for all of those countries to get together and to work out whether there's any future in the kind of political process

that Vladimir Putin, as one person, is talking about. And that would mean a role effectively for Bashar al-Assad in any future interim government.

WATSON: But Matthew, notably absent here are the Iranians who have lost a number of high level commanders in Syria in recent fighting in

recent weeks. And the Syrians themselves, without any of the Syrians present, how is there any hope for bringing an end to this nightmare?

CHANCE: Well, first of all I don't think that these talks in themselves offer much hope of a resolution being formed. But you have to

remember it's just been a couple of days since Vladimir Putin met with Bashar al-Assad face-to-face, he's very much representing the interests of

the Syrian government in this. You're right, there were no rebels present, but you know there are other countries there that sponsor some of the rebel

factions as well.

The Iranians have spoken about the Russian intervention in very positive terms as well. And so I think there is a sense in which at this

very early stage that the Russians are speaking for the sort of Syrian government and the Iranians there. And the other countries, the United

States, Turkey and Saudi Arabia are representing the interests of the other opposition non-ISIS groups at the table.

But obviously, if this proceeds, that format will have to be expanded to include all the actual groups and all the actual governments involved.

[08:10:19] CHANCE: It gets back to the idea of this being somewhat of a proxy conflict, a proxy war with great powers supporting different

factions. That's CNN's Matthew Chance, senior international correspondent live from Moscow, thank you very, very much Matthew.

You're watching News Stream. Still to come, across Mexico people are hunkering down as a monster hurricane is set to pound the nation this

weekend.

Plus, we take you to South Korea where a warm meal is hard to come by for a staggering number of elderly people. Stay with us.

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WATSON: Welcome back to CNN News Stream, a very powerful category 5 storm is churning towards Mexico. Forecasters warn Hurricane Patricia

could cause massive damage when it makes landfall in southwestern Mexico just hours from now.

Our Chad Myers is tracking the storm and joins me now. Chad, how worried should Mexicans be right now about this storm?

CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Certainly if you're on the coast anywhere from Puerto Vallarta all the way down to Manzanillo this is

something to get away from if you still can.

We probably have landfall here in about eight or 12 hours, somewhere in that ballpark as it turns to the right and makes landfall very close to

Manzanillo. Slightly to the north of there and likely south of Puerto Vallarta, putting Manzanillo on the bad side of the storm.

Talk about the storm surge, that's always going to be on the right side of the storm here, and that's what we have, that right side there near

Manzanillo, Mexico.

325 kilometers per hour. I don't believe you can put your mind around what that means to the destruction that will happen in this very wide swath

almost six to 10 miles wide, that's how wide the eyewall is right now.

Talking about a tornado almost that runs right through eight miles wide runs right across the coast of Mexico.

Now this is not the most populated place along the Mexican coast, that's fantastic. This certainly isn't as populated as Tacloban with

Haiyan that affected the Philippines years ago, but this is a very similar storm in size and in strength. In fact, it's the biggest hurricane ever.

Now we use the word hurricane for the Atlantic and also for the eastern Pacific like Hawaii and Mexico.

Now you talk about typhoon or cyclones, there may have been some stronger ones. The only one that I could ever find is Typhoon Tipp (ph).

And Tipp (ph) was a very strong storm, even stronger than this. But when it was out there it was just to the west of Guam and not really hitting

anything.

This, unfortunately, will hit at its very strongest point.

So, let's now get to the map and I'll show you another thing -- I know we've talked a lot about the wind, but something else that's going to

happen when this category 5 moves onshore is rainfall, significant amounts of rain. Maybe a meter of rain in the mountains.

And think about that coming down in 24 to 48 hours, all of these mountains, this entire mountain range here getting water pushed up on top

of it. So everywhere that you see the red, the orange, and the pinks and even some whites, that is at least a half a meter of rainfall, especially

in the white areas here.

The mountains are going to be a mess. We're going to see mudslides. We're going to see flash flooding. All in back into those cities that just

got hit by the storm surge.

The storm surge here, Ivan, could be -- you know, I'm not even sure, it could be 10 -- we talk about 10 meters worth of storm surge, plus waves

on top of that.

This will be devastating to a very small area in Mexico, but it's a big, big storm, the biggest we've ever seen -- Ivan.

WATSON: Chad, that's frightening stuff. I'm sure you and your team will be following this terrible storm very, very closely. Thank you.

Now, police in Sweden say racism may have motivated the man who carried out a deadly attack at a school.

A student and teacher were killed in Thursday's stabbing attack. Police say the man targeted victims based on their ethnic background.

Agence France Presse obtained this photo said to show the masked man posing with students before the attack.

They at first thought he was playing a Halloween prank. Two people were injured in the attack, police shot the sword wielding masked man. He

later died. The Swedish prime minister has called it a dark day for Sweden.

Still to come on News Stream, a U.S. operation to save prisoners in Iraq leads to one American soldier killed and a mission incomplete.

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[08:20:39] WATSON: Welcome back to CNN's News Stream broadcasting live from Hong Kong. You can see it's a beautiful sparkling night there on

Victoria Harbor.

Now, an American commando has been killed in an operation to rescue dozens of hostages from ISIS control. The Pentagon says the operation

freed 70 hostages, many of them members of the Iraqi security forces.

The American is the first to die in combat in Iraq since 2011. CNN's Jim Sciutto reports.

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JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The deadly battle was the first time U.S. forces have directly engaged ISIS fighters on the ground in Iraq. In a

joint operation with Kurdish fighters, U.S. special operations forces from the elite Delta Force raided an ISIS compound to rescue hostages believed

to be in imminent danger of execution.

U.S. war planes dropped bombs on makeshift ISIS training camps, staging sites and bridges in the area. Then five helicopters brought in

nearly 30 U.S. Special Forces and 40 Kurdish fighters. As they approached the walled compound, a fire fight broke out. When the mission was over, the

U.S. aircraft overhead destroyed the site.

U.S. forces were not meant to enter the compound or directly engage the ISIS fighters. But when Kurdish forces inside the compound were

overwhelmed, the U.S. commander made the decision to enter the fire fight. The U.S. soldier killed was shot inside the compound.

U.S. forces have been in Iraq on a "train, advise and assist mission". The Pentagon challenged over the decision to participate in this operation.

PETER COOK, PENTAGON PRESS SECRETARY: This was a unique circumstance. This was a support mission in which they were providing support to the

Iraqi to the Kurdistan regional government and U.S. forces are not in an active combat mission in Iraq.

SCIUTTO: In the days before the raid, U.S. surveillance spotted mass graves dug and ready inside the compound, prompting immediate action. U.S.

officials say that 70 prisoners were rescued, 20 Iraqi security forces as well as Iraqi civilians and, interestingly, ISIS fighters accused of

spying. Missing, however, were the Kurdish captives they were sent in to rescue.

COOK: It's not clear to us exactly who would be there. And so that's one of the things we're going through right now, the debriefs as to exactly

who those folks were.

SCIUTTO: Jim Sciutto, CNN, Washington.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

WATSON: Let's get reaction from Iraqi Kurdistan now. Fuad Hussein is the chief of staff to the president of the Kurdistan regional authority.

And he joins me now on the phone from Irbil.

Dr. Hussein, thank you for joining me.

Now, this is the first time the U.S. has used ground troops in the war against ISIS in Iraq. Would you like to see more joint ground operations

like this in the future?

FUAD HUSSEIN, PRESIDENTIAL CHIEF OF STAFF, KURDISH REGIONAL AUTHORITY: Thank you for having me. But I don't call it ground troops, this was an

operation, a joint operation, between Kurdish Peshmerga and the American forces. The American forces, they were supporting the Kurdish Peshmerga in

this operation. And it was very good, effective, and with fantastic results operation.

So we liberated 69 prisoners, and 20 of the terrorists have been killed. And we arrested six of them also.

WATSON: Dr. Hussein, the mission was to rescue captured Kurdish Peshmerga fighters who were paraded by ISIS last February in cages wearing

orange jumpsuits. Who was actually freed in the operation? And what does this mean for the Kurdish prisoners? What about the fate of those

Peshmerga who have been held captive?

HUSSEIN: The information that we received that among the prisoners, you know, there are also Kurdish Peshmerga who has been arrested by the

terrorists. But, when the prisoners had been released by our Peshmerga forces, we found out that the Kurdish prisoners that were not there, but

then you have this operation was targeted to liberate the prisoners, they are all Arab prisoners and some of them -- some of them, they were part of

the Iraqi forces who assault the terrorists last year.

WATSON: Dr. Hussein, when I was in Iraqi Kurdistan last month, I was shocked to learn that many of your Peshmerga on the front lines had not

received their salaries for months. Is your government still having difficulty paying the men who are defending your territory against ISIS?

HUSSEIN: Yes, we have still difficulties to pay our Peshmerga forces. In fact, we are three months behind in our payment of Peshmerga forces. We

are in a very heavy economic crisis and financial crisis, and that has to do with the fact that last year the Iraqi government didn't pay our budget.

And of course the oil price also played a role, but mainly it has to do with not paying our budget by the Iraqi government.

WATSON: Dr. Hussein, can you give us a sense of the scale of the humanitarian crisis that your administration is dealing with. How many

homeless refugees are you trying to take care of right now?

HUSSEIN: Since last year, and since the attack of ISIS in Kurdistan, we received about 2 million people, mainly from other parts of Iraq. And

they are Arabs, displaced people. They were running from Ramadi from areas around Mosul, Diyala and Tikrit. And the majority of them, they came to

Kurdistan.

Also, almost all Christians out Iraq now, they are based in Kurdistan.

So, we have got around 2 million displaced people.

But also we receive refugees from Syria, 250,000 refugees from Syria.

So, the fight against ISIS and the humanitarian crisis as well as the economic crisis is putting huge pressure on our government and our

leadership.

WATSON: That's Dr. Fuad Hussein, chief of staff to the president of the Kurdistan Regional Government. Dr. Hussein, thank you very much for

speaking with us and sharing this very difficult situation that your administration is in.

Still ahead on News Stream, we'll return to South Africa where there is a tense standoff between police and student protesters. Stay with us.

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[08:31:17] WATSON: I'm Ivan Watson in Hong Kong, you're watching News Stream. And these are your world headlines.

Tensions escalate between police and protesters in Pretoria, South Africa. It's the latest flashpoint in demonstrations over planned

university tuition hikes. Police have fired stun grenades and water cannons to contain the protests. We're told South African President Jacob

Zuma has been meeting with student leaders as the protests continue.

Authorities in France say 42 people were killed after a bus collided with a truck near Bordeaux. Another eight people had been injured. Local

reports say the vehicles crashed head-on and caught fire. Most of the bus passengers were elderly.

Hillary Clinton was grilled for 11 hours on Capitol Hill on Thursday over the attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya three

years ago. Four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, were killed. Clinton took responsibility for what happened, but said she was

not directly involved in security decisions regarding the compound.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov met in Vienna Friday. They're addressing the conflict in Syria

where both countries are carrying out separate military campaigns.

Now, let's return to our top story now. There is a violent standoff between police and student protesters in Pretoria, South Africa. And our

David McKenzie is right there in the Middle of the Protests. I believe he's joining us on the line right now.

David, what is the situation now moments ago you told us police were firing tear gas to try to push back some of the demonstrators.

MCKENZIE: Well, that's right. And the group of the demonstrators moved off, Ivan, from this giant lawn at the front of the union buildings

in Pretoria, the seat of South Africa's government.

But now there's been an extraordinary scenes playing out as the students managed to push through peacefully, many of them with their hands

in the air singing old protest songs of the apartheid era.

Now they have gathered near the edge of the steps of this building and they've just announced that the president, Jacob Zuma, will be coming out

to address the students. We don't know what he's going to say or when that will happen, but earlier there were dramatic scenes as police and

protesters pass as this flimsy fence, which was kind of barricading between the thousands of protesters and a relatively small group of riot police.

I have to say that the protests have largely been peaceful, but there was this hardcore group that was throwing rocks, missiles and being

responded to with stun grenades and mace and tear gas. So, now the situation is a bit calmer, but very fluid.

And significant that they had been let on to the steps of the (inaudible) building.

WATSON: All right, that's our David McKenzie live from Pretoria, South Africa where talks are underway between the South African president

and student leaders even as protesters push in past fences there. Thank you, David.

MCKENZIE: Now, police in the UK have been called in after the TalkTalk website was hit by what it calls a significant and sustained cyber

attack. The phone and broadband provider has more than 4 million UK customers. It says there is a risk hackers may have stolen the personal

data of those customers, including their credit card and bank details. Police have launched a criminal investigation, but no arrests have yet been

made.

Take a look at this photo taken in Seoul, South Korea. It shows elderly people having meals from a soup kitchen set up on the streets. As

Kathy Novak reports, about half of the country's older generation is living in relative poverty. And the problem may we be getting worse.

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[08:35:14] KATHY NOVAK, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This small shop is all Sum Yung-sook (ph) has. But she hasn't seen a customer in two

years.

"I feel that my generation is being forgotten," she says. "I worked really hard. And I've been so diligent. But somehow, I ended up here."

Here, living alone, among the stock with barely enough money to feed herself, getting more and more depressed.

"I tried to kill myself next to my husband's grave. Someone discovered me and I survived."

It's a situation her social worker says is all-too common. The elderly suicide rate here is the highest among developed nations. This is the

generation that helped rebuild the economy from the ruins of the Korean War. Now, about half of South Korea's elderly live in relative poverty.

This pastor runs this mobile soup kitchen every Saturday. He blames the problems on the slowing economy. And he says the old social structure

where children look after their aging parents has broken down.

"I think there's a growing number of homeless elders because sons and daughters and our government are not taking good care of them," he says.

South Korea has only had a pension system for less than three decades. The government says because of that, some are being left behind.

(on camera): Last year, more benefits were extended to the poorest of South Korea's elderly but they still only receive under $200 per month. And

many agree that's simply not enough.

(voice-over): The population here is aging. In just 15 years, a quarter of the people are expected to be over the age of 65, putting

enormous pressure on the economy and forcing more to join these food lines.

Kathy Novak, CNN, Seoul.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

WATSON: Now, let's move from South Korea to the UK where the Chinese president is expected to wrap up his state visit in the coming hour.

Before departing, Xi Jinping has been getting a tour of the city of Manchester, accompanied by Prime Minister David Cameron.

On Thursday, the prime minister took Mr. Xi for a pint at a local pub near his country residence. They also enjoyed a meal of fish and chips.

Officials from both countries have hailed the visit as an important step towards better relations.

Coming up on News Stream, it was a simple question about favorite super heroes. That's a topic I really like, but presidential candidate Jeb

Bush made headlines with his answer. We'll tell you why.

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WATSON: Welcome back to News Stream. I'm Ivan Watson live in Hong Kong.

Over in the U.S., a presidential candidate has sparked a bit of controversy over a caped crusader. Jeanne Moos tells us what Jeb Bush said

about Super Girl.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JEANNE MOOS, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Just as "Supergirl's" new show is about to premiere, she exploded onto the stage of

presidential politics.

UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: Are you sure you're bullet-proof?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I hope so.

MOOS: Bullets may bounce off Supergirl, but Jeb Bush shot himself in the foot answering this question.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How is your favorite superhero?

UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: We're going down. Brace for impact.

MOOS: Jeb should have stuck with his first answer, which was Batman.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, come on.

MOOS: But instead, he brought up the young female caped crusader, who can lower a crashing jetliner to a safe landing, reminiscent of Miracle on

the Hudson.

JEB BUSH, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & FORMER FLORIDA GOVERNOR: I saw there's -- "Supergirl" is on TV. I saw that when I was working out this

morning, there is an ad promoting Supergirl. She looked pretty hot.

(LAUGHTER)

[08:40:10] MOOS: Now "hot" is a term that presidential candidates usually apply to, say, the weather, rather than a 27-year-old actress.

Even Jeb didn't need x-ray vision to see...

BUSH: That will make news.

MOOS: Wrote one commenter, "Ugh, the woman is about the same age of his children, what a creep," versus the counter argument, "So he said that TV's

'Supergirl' is hot. What's wrong with that?"

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: To be a superhero, you need a crime. There's a car chase on the 112 freeway.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I can do a car chase.

MOOS: Maybe Jeb should follow the lead of Donald Trump. When it comes to superheroes --

UNIDENTIFIED BOY: Mr. Trump?

DONALD TRUMP, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & CEO, TRUMP ORGANIZATION: Yes?

UNIDENTIFIED BOY: Are you Batman?

TRUMP: I am Batman.

(LAUGHTER)

MOOS: But Supergirl and Jeb Bush have one thing in common --

BUSH: Let me show you something.

MOOS: ... both have a penchant of unbuttoning their shirts to reveal their true selves.

Jeanne Moos, CNN...

BUSH: Pretty hot.

MOOS: ...New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

WATSON: I am most definitely not Batman.

Now, it's not every day that you find 1,000 year old artifact while going on a hike. So, it was quite the surprise for Norwegian Goran Olson

when he stumbled upon an extraordinary Viking sword while trekking along an ancient mountain route.

This 1,200 year old iron sword is missing a handle, but otherwise is in remarkable condition. Experts say the mountain's icy climate probably

helped preserve it.

In the days of the Vikings, blades like this were usually valuable status symbols.

Olson donated the sword to a Norwegian university where scientists now get to study it.

And that is News Stream. I'm Ivan Watson. But don't go anywhere, World Sport with Amanda Davies is up next.

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