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KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN NEWSTREAM HOST: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hongkong, and let us continue our breaking news coverage now of the Russian jet shot

down in Syria by Turkey.

Now, in less than three hours from now, NATO will convene an emergency meeting of member states to talk over the breaking developments from the

Turkish-Syrian border. The Russian Defense Ministry has confirmed one of its war planes crashed near the border. The Turkish military says it shot

down the plain after it violated its air space. A claim refuted by Moscow.

Turkey says it issued 10 warnings to the pilots before the plain were shot down. Russian state media report that both report that both pilots were

able to eject before the plane crash.

Now ahead, we're here on NEWSTREAM got latest on the investigation, into the Paris attacks as well. And we hear from the Belgian mother of

radicalized Islamist fighter, her guilt and her fear.

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STOUT: Welcome back to NEWSTREAM, now it is now 11 days since the terror attacks in Paris that saw 130 people killed, the latest development in the

investigation in object found in a garbage can in the suburb of Montrouge. It is thought to be a suicide vest like those used in the attacks.

A French media report the cell phone of suspect Salah Abdeslam who is still on the run, was tracked to the area soon after the attacks.

[08:20:03] A French police are hunting for top French speaking ISIS operative who they believed directed the Paris attacks. And there are

indications he may have issue commands remotely to cells on the ground. Brian Todd, reports.

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BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Just hours after the carnage in Paris, a claim of responsibility from ISIS's senior French operative, Fabien Clain.

He gives extraordinary detail on the targets, saying they were meticulously chosen.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sites in the 10th, 11th and 18th districts.

TODD: No attack in the 18th District ever materialized, but a car believed to be driven by alleged conspirator Saleh Abdeslam was found parked in the

18th District. Abdeslam is still on the loose, the subject of an intense manhunt. The only suspected attacker believed to have survived.

PAUL CRUICKSHANK, CNN TERRORISM ANALYST: Investigators believe that Saleh Abdeslam may have been tasked to launch an attack against the 18th District

but may have aborted.

TODD: One of Abdeslam's brothers insists he believes Abdeslam changed his mind at the last minute, decided not to go through with an attack. But it

still points to Fabien Clain's likely advanced knowledge of the Paris assault. European counterterrorism officials tell CNN they suspect Clain

was a ringleader, directing the attacks with precision.

AKI PERITZ, FORMER CIA ANALYST: He has significant relationships with a number of the attackers. We also know that he has longtime relationships

with various people who have committed attacks in Belgium and also in France.

TODD: European counterterror officials believe Clain worked in tandem with Abdelhamid Abaaoud, not only on the Paris attacks but also on the attempted

shooting on a high-speed train between Belgium and France in August, which was disrupted by three Americans.

And officials suspect Clain was the mastermind behind the plot to attack at least one French church in April. That plot failed when a suspected

terrorist shot himself in the leg.

But the French newspaper "Le Monde" reports on a stunning level of micromanagement inside Clain's network. Analysts say the operative's

handlers reportedly directed him at every step in the church plot via encrypted communications. It was terror by remote control.

CRUICKSHANK: They instructed him to go and pick up weapons and a bulletproof vest from a car parked at a car park in a neighborhood of

Paris, to pick up the keys from the front right tire, to wear gloves when he went in the car so he didn't leave any fingerprints. They told him

where to attack, how to attack.

TODD: And with that level of detail, officials say Fabien Clain is probably looking to attack France again. It's believed Fabien Clain is in

Syria. A U.S. counterterrorism official tells us while it's difficult to track down what he called these psychopaths, it's not impossible. The

official points to the recent drone strikes which likely killed top ISIS operatives Jihadi John and Junaid Hussain.

Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.

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LU STOUT: Meanwhile the lockdown at the Belgian capital Brussels is to extend into next week. The Belgian government says Brussels will remain at

its highest terror alert level until at least Monday for fear for Paris- style militant attacks.

Authority said the subway and schools will stay closed until Wednesday at the earliest.

A several of the men believed have taken part in the Paris attacks have strong ties for Brussels especially the suburb of Molenbeek with the

history of links of terror plots.

Now one Belgian mother whose son has become a radical Islam is fighting in Syria.

She spoke to CNN's Nima Elbagir and here is her exclusive report.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's a nightmare. As a mother, you feel, did I not give him enough love? Maybe I didn't give him enough love?

NIMA ELBAGIR, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: We promised this Belgian mother not to show her face or broadcast her voice. Her son is an ISIS

fighter. He's threatened to kill her if she speaks publicly.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Truly, it's terrible. I feel so guilty.

ELBAGIR: And she's not alone. Hundreds of young Belgians are fighting in Syria alongside her son.

Market days at the Molenbeek town square, a sign behind glass reads, "Together against hate."

The Paris attacks brother, the Abdeslam brothers, grew up together on these streets with the architect of the French capital's horror, Abdelhamid

Abaaoud.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: These were guys I met on a regular basis in my neighborhood. I can tell you that there were no signs in their clothing,

their way of talking is even less of behavior of radicalization.

That's the most intriguing. We have no ways of anticipating any kind of behavior like this and this worries us even more.

[08:25:00] I think this should make us think about the capacity that ISIS has.

ELBAGIR: Molenbeek is now almost now synonymous with the horrors of that night in Paris. But this is a national nightmare. Belgium, per capita,

contributes the largest number of foreign fighters to ISIS. Their communities, their mosques are struggling to fight back.

In your experience, where does the radicalization happen?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think you have on streets, on the internet. You have also some -- where society failed such as tackling racism and

discrimination.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Also because we have an excuse that we should give them an argument to stand up against society. Yes, there is discrimination, but

that's not an excuse to do stupid things.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There is a first contact with a person trying to convince them. Then they get in contact with someone who is thousands of

kilometers away. Then the local network kicks in. Book tickets, pay for the flights.

ELBAGIR: All under the nose of Belgian authorities. High security alerts, government raids, a nation faced with tough questions, and the enormity of

the task ahead.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Talking about the radicalization, I think it's a very big word. What does it mean? Does it mean we have to put someone in a

wash and then after 10 minutes is coming out, he's cleaned?

ELBAGIR: That much is clear.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And I also think about victims. They are innocent, murdered. It's horrible. He's not my son anymore.

ELBAGIR: Nima Elbagir, CNN, Brussels.

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LU STOUT: You're watching News Stream. Still to come in the program, shut down. Turkey says it took down a Russian war plane that crossed into its

airspace. A live report from Moscow, next.

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[08:31:50] LU STOUT: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. You're watching NEWSTREAM and these are your world headlines.

Officials in Moscow say that a Russian war plane was shot down near the Turkey-Syrian border earlier on Tuesday.

Anchor claims his fighter jets responded to an aircraft that violated its airspace and ignored warnings to leave.

Russian media said that the pilots managed to eject.

In France, an object found in a garbage can and the Paris suburb is suspected to be a suicide vest. Similar to those used in the terror

attacks that killed 130 people.

A French media report, the cellphone of suspect Saleh Abdeslam who still on the run was tracked to that area soon after the attacks.

The lockdown in the Belgium capital Brussels is to extend into the next week and the government says the city will remain in its highest terror

alert level until at least Monday.

The subway and schools are to stay closed until Wednesday at the earliest.

Let's return to the breaking news. We've been following from the Turkish- Syrian border, the Russian president has now weighed in calling the downing of one of the country's war planes and "stab in the back by Turkey".

Meanwhile, Turkish media have published this map, the redline on the map, I'll show it to you, it is said to show the Russian jets flight path in the

moments before it was shot down. As you can see, it appears to directly contradict Moscow's claims that its war plane did not crash at the Turkish

airspace.

NATO will soon convene an emergency meeting of member states to talk over the incident and the strain of places in relations between Russia and the

West.

Now, let's get the view now from the Russian capital, our senior international correspondent Matthew Chance's respond to developments from

Moscow. He joins us now. And Matthew, again, we have two Russian pilots missing. We have a down Russian jet inside Syrian, dramatic statement

issued just moments ago by Vladimir Putin, what more is Moscow saying about the situation?

MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of areas of dispute between the Turkish version of event soon to be put

up by Turkish officials and what the Russians are saying.

First and foremost, the Russians are insisting and Vladimir Putin was reinforcing this, within the past few months when he spoke. This Russian

aircraft is SU-24 fighter jet was not inside at any point Turkish airspace according to the Russians. It only operated inside Syria and Vladimir

Putin saying this that it was shot down when it was one kilometer away from the border with Turkey and it came down four kilometers inside of Syria.

And so the Russians, they're absolutely rejecting this idea that the airplane had violated Turkish airspace (inaudible) with the radar imagery

which contradicts that Russian claim but the Russian president absolutely furious. It seems that this is taken place. He called it a stab in the

back by Turkey. He said there would be consequences for relationship -- the relationship between Russia and Turkey although it didn't specify what

the consequences would be.

He was also extremely angry that Turkey had called a special meeting of NATO, the western military lines. He said it was a swift (ph), you know,

which shot down one of their planes (inaudible) in the other way wrangled. And so, you know, again, Syria's consequences, not just for the

relationship between Turkey and Russia but which of course they will be. But also because Turkey is a NATO country and this is the first time in

decades that a NATO country has shot down a Russian airplane and so the geopolitical, the consequences could be very serious indeed.

LU STOUT: Yeah and we are waiting for NATO statement and NATO meeting will convene by the few hours from now. Let's talk more about the geopolitical

consequences of this incident.

We know that the French president is in Washington. He has met with the President Obama. He will meet or his plan to be Vladimir Putin later in

the later and what Hollande wants to do is he wants to bring the U.S. and Russia closer together to fight ISIS and to create this grand coalition.

Well, today's incident put that effort effectively on-hold.

CHANCE: Well, I think it slightly to make the Russians a little bit less flexible when it comes to coming wrangle to the western point of view or

the NATO point of view with regard to what should happen in Syria.

I mean there's also an extent to which, you know, we don't know how supportive behind closed doors. Other NATO countries are going to be of

Turkey. I mean Turkey has, you know, risked a wider confrontation essentially by shooting this Russian airplane at the sky.

[08:35:13] However, you know, there have been warnings in the past. This has been the kind of incident that people have been warring against the

fact the Russia has been unilaterally, you know, without coordination striking its targets inside Syria.

There have been a number of airspace violations in the past and the Turks have subsiding in no uncertain terms but they would active, it happens

again but now they have acted in this extremely decisive way potentially with the lost of two Russian pilots, although we don't know they're fate as

yet absolutely, it could put a lot of distance now on the already strained relationship between Russia and the west.

LU STOUT: And a lot of concerns about the fate of the pilots here. I mean, what could be their fate based on what we know about the air where

that Russian plane went down.

CHANCE: Well, I mean, I supposed the good thing is that there is not known to be a lot of ISIS presence in that area as far is on the way but there

are oppositions groups that are opposed to President Assad what the Russians would regard as the legitimate government of Syria and there's

been a numerous incidents in the past several weeks and months since Russia began its air strikes in Syria.

Those rebel groups have been targeted by Russian air strikes and so there's no particularly any love lost between these various rebel groups including

the Free Syrian Army and Turkmen Malaysians that are very closed ethnically and linguistically to Turkey. No love lost between them and the Russians.

And so, it's not clear that if either of these airmen that was seen in the very dramatic images ejecting, and parachuting down to earth, if either of

them survived and it's not clear that either of them have at this point. It's -- it could turn very ugly indeed if it turns into some kind of there

are some hostage types situation something that Russians very much want to avoid and that would be focused right now, until Russia decides what

further measures, it wants to take in response to this.

LU STOUT: All right, Matthew Chance reporting for us live from Moscow. Thank you. Now, our senior international correspondent Ivan Watson who is

previously based in Istanbul bureau, he's been following developments from Paris. He joins us now live.

Ivan, we're getting too extremely different accounts about what happened here. Tell us more about what the Turkish government is saying and how

it's backing it up.

IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Now the Turkish government says it has the right to defend its territory and as early as

the beginning of October, it objected to what it claimed was Turkish Russian rather aerial incursions into Turkish airspace. In fact, it then

summoned an extraordinary meeting of NATO where on October 5th NATO put out a formal statement protesting and condemning allegations of Russian aerial

incursions into Turkish airspace. That's more than a month ago.

Now, the Turks, they have claimed that at about 9:20 this morning local time, two Turkish F-16 war planes were flying in that area that at least 10

warnings were issued in a five minute period to an identified aircraft and then, in the end they effectively shot down that aircraft and it has since

been proven that this is a Russian warplane.

This, of course, a major step up in tension between Russia and Turkey to close economic trading partners that did not see eye to eye that were

effectively backing opposite proxies in the Syrian civil war but had managed to compartmentalize their differences up until now and continue to

enjoy close trading relations visa free travel for their citizens back and forth between the two countries and it's no surprise that a new

extraordinary session of the NATO council has been summoned. That is the patter I've seen every other time the Turks have witnessed a dangerous or

deadly incident along a very long border between Turkey and Syria where there have been numerous exchanges of fire since the beginning of the

Syrian civil war where there have been several incidents of both Turkish and Syrian military aircraft that have been shot down by either side in

this very, very massy conflict that Russia has now embroiled itself.

Kristie?

LU STOUT: And because of this latest incident today, tensions have certainly escalated between Russia and Turkey but what does this mean for

ISIS? What does the events of the state mean for efforts to create this global or western united front in the wake of the Paris attack to focus on

and really fight ISIS?

WATSON: Well, the French President Francois Hollande who is in Washington right now, he is about to meet U.S. President Barrack Obama. He is

scheduled to travel to Moscow by the end of this week and presumably to try to bridge some of the gap between Washington and Moscow when it comes to

the Syrian civil war.

[08:40:13] The downing of a Russian military jet by a military ally of both French and the U.S. will throw a major wrench into the works (ph). Of

course, there were serious criticisms coming from Ankara coming from Washington about the Russia aerial bombardment in Syria. For example, the

fact that this war plane was flying in that part of Syria, there is no ISIS presence there. And it was also flying one kilometer according to the

Russian president from the Turkish border. This is an area with no ISIS presence again but there are groups that have been backed and supported and

armed and funded by Turkey for years now.

The Russian bombardment has blunted in advance that some of these rebel groups in Syria were making towards the Alawite heartlands that were still

controlled by the Syrian regime and clearly the Turks did not approve of it. They had been condemning recent bombardments of communities of ethnic

Turkey men as an ethnic group that the Turks considered to be accustomed of themselves.

There is another point there, Kristie, Moscow and Erdogan did enjoy closed ties. The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, at the end of September,

he was in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin enjoying the inauguration of a brand new mosque in the Russian capital. These are two

countries that have been able to cooperate in the past despite their differences and this is just blown open the relationship and perhaps

somewhat damaged the French government's attempts for a new diplomatic initiative V of V (ph) Syria.

Kristie.

LU STOUT: Ivan, I really appreciate the added (ph) context down the relationship between Russia and Turkey as well as the very complicated

dynamics on the ground where this Russian jet was downed by Turkey earlier today. Ivan Watson reporting live from Paris. Thank you.

You're watching NEWSTREAM and still ahead, a 10-day state of emergency in Mali. Now, the country is coping up for last week's deadly terror attack.

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LU STOUT: It is a second day of national mourning in Mali, a state of emergency was declared following Friday rampage in the capital that killed

20 people. It happened at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako and many tourists were among those killed.

Malian government is asking anyone with information on the slain gunmen to come forward. The country's president is calling for global cooperation to

help fight terrorism. In the meantime, Mali isn't taking any chances. Security measures are being beefed-up around the capital and our David

McKenzie got a first time look at that.

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DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: At a base in Bamako, a French commander readies his men.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

MCKENZIE: Monbelli-Valliore telling his U.N. police force.

"On the day of the attack he helped rescue people from the Radisson. Tonight, you will keep Malians safe."

This is the capital on the edge with the U.N. police joining the Malian forces.

What's happening tonight?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Tonight, we carry out patrols with policemen.

[08:45:02] MCKENZIE: The joint patrols are a request from the Malian government just days after an eight-hour siege in the country's most

prominent western hotel, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and another Jihadi group claiming responsibility for the killing of at least 20 civilians.

The forensic investigated have marked of the individual bullet holes in the wall. Many of the people killed were here in the lobby section of the hotel

tragically as they tried to get away to the service elevator. And also, further up on the fourth floor other hostages were killed.

The United Nations has been pushing for joint patrols in the capital for years but politically it was perhaps too sensitive for Malian politicians,

but not now, not after the attack.

Hundred personnel carries right in the heart of Bamako, the capital. The U.N. is used to patrolling in the north of the country at the frontline of

the jihadi threat but now the threat has come here.

They're chasing possible leads but tonight it was so (inaudible). Random checkpoints on a road just outside the city come up with very little.

For years, terror struck in Mali's remote interior, now the capital no longer a shelter. The sense is it's time to act differently.

David McKenzie, CNN, Bamako, Mali.

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LU STOUT: Now, there has been more violence in the west bank. Israeli security forces shut and wounded a Palestinian man who they say rammed his

car into them injuring three people. This is the latest in weeks of stabbings, shootings and other car rammings. The U.S. Secretary of State

John Kerry is in the region to try and ease tension between the two sides.

Oren Liebermann is (inaudible) with more or less go straight to him now and Oren this is Secretary Kerry's first trip to Israel in more than a year,

what should we expect?

OREN LIEBERMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Kerry hasn't made any specific to statements here and expectations now are fairly low for what he'll be

able to accomplish that's because the sides here are quite far apart and no one has put forward yet, practical concrete steps, not Israeli leadership,

not Palestinian leadership that have had any effect on this wave of attacks.

Still, Secretary have said, Kerry says he believes in a bigger picture of two-states solution even it won't happen right now. He referenced when he

spoke this morning with Prime Minister Netanyahu, Americans that have been killed in this wave of attacks, we spoke with the son of one of those

Americans.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

LIEBERMANN: Wrapped in a Jewish prayer shawl, Richard Linken (ph) was laid to rest his son once again losing a loved on. Linken was on a public bus

on his way home from the doctor's office when police say two Palestinians boarded and attacked killing two Israelis immediately. Linken shot in the

head, stabbed in the stomach was rushed to the hospital.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was just a horror. I think, you know, the first killing is a shock. The first two or three days, I just sat next to his

bed all the day long and I didn't even process what was going on.

LIEBERMANN: A cruel fate for a man who spent his life teaching tolerance.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He believes that if you smile at someone, they'll smile back. If you respect someone, they'll respect you back.

LIEBERMANN: As a Boston University student, he joined the Freedom Writers to American's Deep South and his son say, "March with Mr. Luther King

Junior".

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: In 1968, I became Opal's (ph) third principal.

LIEBERMANN: Later, as a school principal in Connecticut, he welcomed the first black student to his school and after moving his family to Jerusalem,

he taught English to classes with Jewish, Christians and Muslims. On his Facebook, the day he died the word coexists.

Michael Avenue (ph) shows me letters of sympathy pouring in many from students he taught decades ago. This one is from the first black student

at his old elementary school.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. Linken was always smiling face of word of encouragement, a pat on the back.

LIEBERMANN: At the hospital, doctors placed Linked in a medically induced comma because they struggled to save his life. Linken aware of a visit by

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon but he never recovered and died two weeks later. It wasn't the first time terror has taken someone closed to

Avenue.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Danny (ph) and his family he moved here about a week before or so. We instantly became very, very closed friends and we're

until the day he was murdered.

LIEBERMANN: Danny is Daniel Luven (ph). His name inscribed on the 9/11 memorial outside Jerusalem. Luven was a passenger on American Airlines

Flight 11 that crashed into the Twin Towers, a former Israeli military officer. The 9/11 commission report says he may have made an attempt to

stop the hijackers when he was stabbed and killed making him one of the first victims of 9/11.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And they were both taken by terror who for whatever interest they were trying to promote, whatever ideals they were trying to

sought, they did it by Shia brutal violence.

LIEBERMANN: Despite losing a father and a friend to terror, Avenue maintained his belief in the tolerance he learned from his father.

It seems to me that you have more reason than almost anyone out there to be angry and yet, you don't seem angry.

[08:50:03] UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You know, I don't think there is anything productive that can come out of anger. You know my father at least tell me

to look for the positive in people.

LIEBERMANN: With tensions high across the region, anger, Avenue says is a choice, one taken far too often, remarkable from someone who chooses peace

despite his pain.

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LIEBERMANN: In this wave of violence, very near to the beginning of its third month fears (ph) and 21 Israelis have been killed and 97 Palestinians

have been killed of those Israeli authorities say approximately 50 were carrying at attacks. Kristie, the question now with Kerry here another

meeting, will these have concrete results, will this be able to end the violence.

LU STOUT: Oren Liebermann reporting to us. Thank you very much indeed for giving us that profile of a man who despite experiencing such terrible

lost, won't give up on peace. Thank you so much for that. Oren Liebermann reporting.

You're watching NEWSTREAM. Still to come to the program economic opportunity is booming in part of Southeast Asia and we will hear from one

young businessman who has his eye on some new ventures.

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LU STOUT: Welcome back. Now, global leaders have just wrapped up the ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur and much of that gathering was focused on the

region's expanding economy.

Let me introduce you to one young businessman who was taking advantage of that growth.

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LU STOUT: Boosting its third highest GDP per capita founding member Malaysia is cheering this year's Association of Southeast Asia Nations or

ASEAN. We are in the capital Kuala Lumpur meeting a man looking to capitalize on the growing economies and influence of ASEAN members.

BRYAN LOO, MALAYSIAN BUSINESSMAN: (Inaudible) always not about the novelty (ph). It's always about business.

LU STOUT: Bryan Loo was one of Malaysia's most successful young entrepreneurs. In 2010, he started a franchise of the tea brand Chatime

from Taiwan, after noticing a void in Malaysia's tea drinking culture, at a time when companies often to go to China, Chatime shared his optimism for

Malaysia and the overall ASEAN market.

LOO: I always see that nation is always the (inaudible).

[08:55:01] As I see it if you happen to travel to a bus (ph) to other developed Asia country (inaudible), you'll make a turn and you come back

and you will sudden realize (inaudible).

LU STOUT: Since then, Loo has expanded the business aggressively creating new brands and products while opening more outlets across Malaysia. He now

owns over 170 different stores with the staff of nearly 900 people.

LOO: You must look to understand the local markets, make it as familiar as possible. We make drinks so local that the local to somehow can

differentiate as Chatime belongs to Malaysian. It belongs to Thailand so that's the way you're going to do it in often.

LU STOUT: Following his success in Malaysia, Loo says he has now ready to expand regionally.

LOO: We got to do more things in ASEAN level and set Malaysia's market as a role model for ASEAN to take the lead in. So from then, Malaysia will

take flight because we understand our cultures, we are multi-culture country. We are able to contradict people (inaudible) and we are able to

understand their local cultures and able to identify what's the local agenda.

LU STOUT: Using ASEAN as a platform, Loo plans to one day bring his empire out to the global arena instead of new benchmark for his home country.

LOO: We are fortunate that we have plenty of young people that see eye to eye and for them we set (inaudible) quite differently from the market and

start to set the new standards to a lot of people to take it as a role model and start creating a better business model for the Malaysian country.

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LU STOUT: And that is NEWSTREAM. I'm Kristie Lu Stout and CNN's breaking news coverage of the Russian jet shot down by Turkey continues after the

break.

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