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Donald Trump Faces Criticism Over Proposal to Ban All Muslims from Entering U.S.; Beijing's Persistent Pollution Problem; Thailand Works to Build International Tourism Brand. Aired 8:00a-9:00a ET

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[08:00:00] ANDREW STEVENS, HOST: I'm Andrew Stevens in Hong Kong. Welcome to News Stream.

Donald trump stands his ground, defending his controversial call to ban Muslims from entering the U.S.

Beijing under red alert, a thick blanket of smog covers the Chinese capital.

And Oscar Pistorius is granted bail a week after a court changed his conviction to murder.

He is known for his controversial remarks, and now Donald Trump is facing a

tidal wave of criticism over his call for a ban on all Muslims entering the United States. The Republican presidential candidate made the comments at

a campaign rally in South Carolina on Monday.

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DONALD TRUMP, 2016 REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We're out of control. We have no idea who is coming into our country. We have no idea

if they love us or if they hate us. We have no idea if they want to bomb us.

I have friends that are Muslims, they're great people. But they know we have a problem. They know we have a real problem because something is

going on. And we can't put up with it, folks.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

STEVENS: The reaction has been fast and furious. Fellow presidential contenders, both Republican and Democrat, have been quick to condemn

Trump's statements. On the Republican side, Lindsey Graham calls it downright dangerous. Jeb Bush says Donald Trump is unhinged. Carly

Fiorina accused him of fear-mongering and Chris Christie calls him naive and inexperienced.

On the Democratic side Martin O'Malley and Bernie Sanders are both calling trump a demagogue. And frontrunner Hillary Clinton went on Twitter

to say, quote, this is reprehensible, prejudiced and divisive @realDonaldTrump, you don't get it. This makes us less safe."

Trump's response, quote, "I don't care about them." That's what he said to our Chris Cuomo just a short while ago.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

TRUMP: We have no choice but to do exactly what I said until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on because

we have a problem in this country. You look at Paris, you look at the carnage that took place in Paris. But look at Paris beyond that. Paris is

no longer the beautiful, gorgeous city with all -- Paris has a tremendous lot of problems. They have areas in Paris that have been radicalized where

the police refuse to go in and look at it. They refuse to...

CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: We are well aware...

TRUMP: You look at London, you look at other places.

CUOMO: we are well aware. But Mr. Trump here is the point.

TRUMP: No, wait a minute, Chris, you're well aware. You say that so routinely, you're well aware.

CUOMO: Well, because I've been on the ground -- I've been in those communities. I've talked to the French authorities.

TRUMP: ...it's totally out of control.

CUOMO: Well, that's what you say. The police are all over that country right now doing a lot of policing. But more importantly to your

point, I would say it is the opposite reality. You see the French being more embracing of people around them. You see them living their lives.

You see them refusing to accept fear as a basis for behavior, whereas, here, what you're doing, in the country that is known as a symbol of

freedom, is saying we're too afraid to be inclusive. We're going to reject the promise of America and ban an entire religion, even though we need to

do things on a case-by-case basis.

And it seems as though you're acting out of fear, not making us look strong and rejecting what America is all about. The UK is not doing this.

France is not doing this.

TRUMP: No, I'm making us look strong, Chris. And don't tell me about Paris.

Paris is under tremendous siege. They are absolutely in fear in Paris. Don't tell me Paris is not.

CUOMO: They have heightened awareness. They do not have fear and they're not acting out of it. That's why they're letting in refugees.

TRUMP: ...they don't have fear. Of course they have fear. Of course they have fear.

CUOMO: It's how you behave in that environment.

TRUMP: I have people that are friends living in Paris, they want to leave. They're petrified.

CUOMO: But what are they doing? Are they banning all Muslims?

TRUMP: Well, let's see. Maybe they're going have to. Maybe they're going to have to do something.

CUOMO: That's not even on the table.

TRUMP: Look, I'm talking about a temporary situation until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on, Chris.

CUOMO: The timing is irrelevant.

TRUMP: Listen, we had the World Trade Center number one. We had World Trade Center number two. We had many other things happen. Then the

other day we had the California attack where these two animals, they're total animals, they

became radicalized and they wanted to do far more damage than that.

What's even more disturbing, if you look into the future, is other people knew what they were doing. There were bombs -- pipe bombs laying

all over the floor. We had other people that knew what was going on, Chris, and nobody reported it. They used the excuse they didn't want to be

racial profilers. They wanted to be politically correct.

By the way, the people that said that I think in their own way they're guilty. The mother knew, the parents knew. Everybody knew.

Now even his father is under watch. They just found out.

CUOMO: But you used politically correct. This isn't about being politically correct.

TRUMP: We can be politically correct, but we have a problem in this country. And we should solve it because you're going to have many more

World Centers if you don't solve it, many, many more and probably beyond the World Trade Center.

[08:05:16] CUOMO: I don't see the point of scaring people with the possible when the reality is we haven't had another World Trade Center.

You and I both lived through it. We both lost people there. We know what the real deal is. We know who celebrated and who didn't. We know what is

scaring people and what the reality is. We haven't had those kinds of attacks. The security network has held

up.

And one of the reasons is our unity as a people. And I don't understand how you can see banning an entire religion as a way of saying

anything other than, we are what ISIS says we are. We want a war against Islam. That's who America is. And as you know, or you should know, that

is not who America is, Mr. Trump.

TRUMP: Chris, we are at war with radical Islamic terrorism.

CUOMO: Right. Not all Islam.

TRUMP: Whether you like it or whether you don't like it...

CUOMO: Not all Islam.

TRUMP: We have a president that made a fool out of himself the other night. He doesn't even mention the term. He refuses to use the term.

Nobody understands why. Hillary Clinton, because she is afraid of the president because of her email scandal, Hillary Clinton refuses to use the

term.

If you're not going to even use the term, you're never going to solve the problem.

CUOMO: But I don't get how you connect these dots, because of the email scandal? Look, everybody knows who we're at war with.

TRUMP: They are looking to do great damage. You look at what's going on

in the Middle East. They're chopping off heads. They are looking to come over to other places too, and they want the jihad.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

STEVENS: Right, let's head straight now to Washington. Our political correspondent Sara Murray joins us now with more on that.

Now, listening to that, Sara, as expected Donald Trump not backing down one inch over his comments. But I wonder, is the question now how

damaging is this to brand Trump? Everyone -- every GOP presidential hopeful that the leadership of the party, are lining up to criticize him.

Has he gone too far?

SARA MURRAY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, I think the reality is that Donald Trump knows what he is doing and he's doing this because he doesn't

think it will be damaging to his brand. He is doing this because, when you go to Trump rallies and you talk to the people who are there, there is fear and there

is mistrust of the Muslim community, and yes, at some moments there is even hate. And Donald Trump knows that he can harness that and that might

actually move his poll numbers even higher among core conservatives in a place like Iowa.

And he also, you know, when he brings this up yesterday, he does it at a time when, yes, our CNN poll shows him with a wide lead in Iowa, but

another poll showed him actually losing to Ted Cruz. Donald Trump sort of knows how to take something, make a very controversial splash, and use it

to really drive a core conservative base.

And I think that's what we're seeing.

But the point you made about the number of Republican Party leaders and, of course, Democrats and across the board who are slamming this is a

good one. And I think that brings us to the question of, are you trying to win Iowa or are you trying to win the presidency? And it's very difficult

to see how you can carry rhetoric like this to a broader electorate, to the general electorate in America and turn that into winning proposition.

STEVENS: How has this latest outburst affected the GOP, the Republican Party? Because they have been -- they found it very difficult

to come up with an effective strategy against him. What does this latest move do for them?

MURRAY: Well, it almost across the board criticism from his Republican contenders calling it everything from divisive and outrageous to

dangerous. Jeb Bush tweeted that Donald Trump is unhinged, that was one of the more dismissive and sort of tougher attacks on him.

But I think we're also seeing the Republican Party more broadly trying to grapple still with what you do about Donald Trump. They've seen in the

past that he has made controversial comments, and they can't really beat back on him at all.

I think we're starting to see that change a little bit. And one sign of that is we saw Republican Party leaders in the first three nominating

states -- Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina -- all of them come out and condemn Donald Trump's

remarks. And I think that gives you a hint of what the party is worried about. They are worried that a Trump candidacy, that the things he is

saying, could do damage to the Republican brand more broadly, even if he is not the person who

wins the Republican nomination.

STEVENS: Very interesting. Sara, thanks very much.

That Sara Murray joining us live from Washington.

Now, it's gray and hazy in the Chinese capital this day. Dangerous smog is forcing Beijing authorities to roll out emergency measures. We'll

be live in that smog-shrouded city in a moment.

Plus, investigators try to determine what led this woman on a deadly gun rampage in California. We'll head to her hometown in Pakistan in

search of clues.

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[08:12:40] STEVENS: Welcome back.

Hazardous pollution levels have shut down the Chinese capital after Beijing issued the highest possible warning for smog. It's the capital's

first-ever red alert and restrictions are in place until Thursday. Half the city's

drivers are banned from the roads as are heavy vehicles including garbage trucks. Schools and construction sites have also been closed.

Now, breathing in that thick layer of yellow smog is a severe health problem. The world health authority says air pollution causes cancer, it

also increases the risk of cardiovascular and respiratory disease. Just a few months ago, the world

health organization released a study warning that globally each year more than three million people die prematurely from prolonged exposure to

outdoor air pollution.

Well, the Chinese president says China is committed to peaking emission levels by 2030, that's 15 years from now. In the interim, China

is looking to stave off the effect of pollution with short-term measures like what we're seeing

in the capital at this hour.

Let's go now to our CNN correspondent Matt Rivers. He joins us live from Beijing. And just give us a sense, if you could, Matt, to begin with,

what does a red alert level look like? What does it feel like?

MATT RIVERS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, at the very start it's the first thing that everyone talks to each other about. When you

would perhaps talk to a stranger at the bus stop, you wouldn't talk about the weather, you would talk about the smog. And speaking of that smog, it

really just gets everywhere. Your clothes smell like it. You can smell it in the air. You can taste it and you can obviously see it.

And it really constantly has this presence in everyday life. And then you mentioned some of those restrictions. There is a lot less traffic out

on the roads today because of the car restrictions. There aren't any school children getting on and off buses because of schools being closed

for the day. so really a day like this has quite the impact on all forms of life here in Beijing.

STEVENS: And it's almost a matter of here we go again except that this is a step beyond what we've known before, Matt. But, you know, going

back to 2008 and the Olympic games and the Chinese authorities were seeing clouds I think it would have clear weather. So, certainly not a new

problem. Those people at the bus stop you talked to, they must be so frustrated by now, years on, and they're still going through the same sort,

in fact, worse.

[08:15:11] RIVERS: When you mentioned pollution over the last several years, you could just go back one week ago, and the pollution over that

stretch in time was actually worse than it is right now by something around 200 points on the air quality index scale in some parts of the city. And

so people here, as you mentioned, very used to this pollution, very frustrated by it, but I think there's also a sense of kind of a wary

resignation. I think most people we talk to here don't really think that it's going to get better anytime soon. They see these things that the

government tries to do in the short term like taking cars off the road, shutting down a higher polluting factories. And they say that's all well

and good, but in the end it's a weather change and the wind coming in on

Thursday that will likely blow this smog away. What kind of a short-term effect the restrictions have really can be debated.

And so I think people here say this is a part of life. If we're living in northern China, we're dealing with the pollution. Life goes on.

STEVENS: It's interesting as more the resignation than anger. If you think that China is being represented at the climate change talks in Paris,

and China in recent years, they've moved much closer to the U.S. on tackling emission controls, and they are quite aggressive in some of the longer-term sort of

emission controls that they want to put into China. Matt, do people talk about that? Or is it really just the short-term thing and they're not

aware that the authorities are actually taking a longer-term view?

RIVERS: I think they are aware of it, I think, but it's difficult for people

here when you're walking out and going about your everyday life here in Beijing to think, well, let's hope things get better 15, 20, maybe even 40

years from now before it actually really sees a substantive change here in China.

And perhaps that's where that resignation comes from that even if steps are put in place right now to make things better in the future, in

the near term it's still going to be like this. And so, yes, there is resignation that it's

going to continue, but Andrew there is definitely anger at the government. You can

see it on social media here in Beijing, people voicing their frustrations, but voicing their frustrations and actually getting into the streets and

protesting, those are two very different things.

STEVENS: Indeed. Matt, thanks very much for that. Matt Rivers joining us live from Beijing.

Well, let's go to CNN's meteorologist Chad Myers now with more on the smog. Chad, Matt mentioned Thursday, change of weather, change of

pollution situation, right?

RIVERS: Better.

But certainly I don't think we ever get to good, Andrew. We never get to that 50 parts per million or less of the smallest particles that are 30

times smaller than the width of the human hair that will go right into your lungs and

eventually right into your bloodstream as well.

Right now the live number, 352. So you see 0 to 50 is good, to 100 is moderate, you get to 150 and sensitive groups like people with asthma don't

need to be breathing that air.

Then you get to unhealthy, then you get to very unhealthy and then where we are now to hazardous.

And just to give you an idea of what it's looked like the past couple of hours, we have been up to 400 already today in Beijing. So what does it

mean? What does all of this mean? What does the red alert and the haze really mean? It's what you're breathing in, it's the particles that you're

breathing in, this was all developed back in October of 2013. There is a four-tier system. It's green, or they call it blue because you can see the

blue sky, yellow, orange and red. And we're into the red category. We will stay there I think probably for the next 24 hours.

And this isn't unusual. And I think it was important to understand what he was talking about in that live report, that people have just gotten

used to it. They just know what it's going to be. The red warning today, though, the first time the schools are closed.

You have to have an odd number for an odd day to drive your car. And factories are shut down.

Now, it is still cold there. And the problem is many of these people use the electricity to heat their house, but the electricity is created by

coal-burning plants. So, if you look at how many days we've had so far in the past couple of years that were good, only this many, only about 3

percent of the days were even good, and the rest were either unhealthy, or very unhealthy or even down here toward hazardous.

So, what are the numbers? Over the past almost 200, almost 3,000 days there have been 58 days that have been good -- 58, 2,029 have been

moderate, hazardous, very hazardous or completely unhealthy for you. So that's why they've just said this is just the way it is.

We have a problem with the topography, Andrew. The topography, there are mountains to the west of Beijing, a lot like Denver, Colorado. And the

wind is blowing against that mountain, even though it's only two or three kilometers per hour. Blowing toward the mountain. And then it won't go

over the mountain because it's not high enough. The wind is not strong enough to push the weather away, to push the smoke away toward Pyongyang,

toward South Korea and across the east china sea.

But we won't get that until I don't think Friday. Temperatures remain either right up and down, about 4 to 5 degrees, right from 0. So,

certainly all the heaters, all the furnaces will be on here in these homes trying to burn coal or

electricity to keep warm -- Andrew.

STEVENS: Absolutely. A vicious cycle as I'm sure the Koreans won't be thanking Beijing too much either.

Fascinating stats you have got there, Chad, scary too. So few good days. But thank you very much for that.

Chad Myers joining us live from CNN center.

Now, a South African court has granted Oscar Pistorius bail while his lawyers seek to appeal his latest conviction. Last week, a court found the

famous athlete guilty of murder overturning a homicide verdict. He shot and killed his girlfriend in 2013 and he said he mistook her then for an

intruder.

For now, Pistorius is to remain under house detention.

You're watching News Stream, still ahead on the show, pollution so thick and deadly it can result in heart problems for people forced to live

in it.

We'll have more on our story on what Beijing's deadly smog looks like plus the effects in just a moment.

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[08:25:08] STEVENS: That's the shot looking across Victoria Harbor to Central Hong Kong.

Welcome back. You're watching News Stream.

Now, the clear water and white sand of Southeast Asia's tropical islands make the region a very popular travel destination for holiday

makers the world over. And as part of our new series Road to ASEAN, Kristie Lu Stout now takes us to Thailand where we meet the owners of a

family business right at the very heart of the country's tourism industry.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The tourism industry has

often been called the life blood of Southeast Asia with the ten ASEAN countries looking to make the region an attractive destination for

tourists.

In Thailand where the tourism industry makes up to 10 percent of GDP the number of visitors is expected to hit a record 30 million this year.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We want to be very Thai, as Thai as possible.

LU STOUT: Family owned hotel chain Dusit International is at the center of Thailand's tourism boom.

UNIDENITIFIED MALE: When my mother start a hotel company, which was in the

late '40s, she believed a Thai brand would do well because of our hospitality.

LU STOUT: As one of the first homegrown Thai brands in the industry, Dusit now owns 13 hotels across the country. They have also opened 17

properties around the world with more than 40 others in development.

Dusit has also made education the heart of their craft. In 1993 it opened a Dusithani College, offering degrees in hospitality and hotel

management. And now the newly opened Dusithani hotel school provides vocational programs teaching the different aspects of the business.

UNIDENITIFIED ALE: Industry needs people so bad, and we have a lot of young people who cannot further their education. Hospitality training is

still needs to be practical, they need to learn how to make bed, checking in guests. They need to learn how to do simple cooking.

LU STUOT: Partnering with international brands, including the culinary school Le Cordon Bleu and Microsoft, Dusit says they are working

to boost training to ASEAN standards.

TONGCHAI SAVASDISARA, SCHOOL DIRECTOR DUSIT THANI HOSPITALITY SCHOOL: If you want to work as a housekeeping officer, then have to have a certain

competency of skills to work with. And this is recognized across ASEAN countries. If they pass from us, meaning they're competent in a particular

job title, they can also apply to work in other ASEAN countries.

LU STOUT: And the ASEAN market is within reach with new projects in Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar and the Philippines in the pipeline.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: ASEAN will be one of the biggest markets because of 625 million people living here. It's one of the fastest-growing

destinations in the world. We're going to see a lot more Indonesian. We're going to see a lot more

Vietnamese and Singaporean who will be traveling. And Thailand is going to be one of the center where they would like to come to.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

STEVENS: You're watching News Stream, still ahead on show, new details about the female shooter in the San Bernardino massacre. What

investigators are now revealing about her past.

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[08:33:05] STEVENS: Pakistani police have seized religious books and documents from a home owned by the father of the San Bernardino shooter

Tashfeen Malik, well, that's according to intelligence sources. Malik and her husband Syed

Rizwan Farook killed 14 people at a holiday party in California last week. The FBI now believes the couple had been radicalized, quote, for quite some

time.

Well, our Saima Mohsin joins us now from Multan in central Pakistan, where authorities are looking into Malik's background. And what are you

learning so far, Saima?

SAIMA MOHSIN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Andrew, we're trying to piece together this jigsaw puzzle and learn more about Tashfeen

from the various places she went to.

Now, we've spoken to the local university here where she returned to from Saudi Arabia to study a degree in pharmacy. They confirm that she was

there from 2007 to 2012.

And professors said that they didn't notice anything suspicious or worrying about her. She was just a normal student.

And then she went to al-Huda (ph) Institute. Now, al-Huda (ph) International is a unique organization. It's a women only institution that

teaches women, the Islamic teachings, what they say, they believe to be the true teachings of Islam, now the kind of courses they do -- the kind of

things you do at a bible class. You learn about the Koran, you learn about where it came from. And they also give translation of the Koran classes.

Now, many experts say that al-Huda (ph) is an ultraconservative, almost too

ultraorthodox version of Islam that could well be a stepping stone to extremism, but today they released a statement saying that they want to

promote a peaceful message of Islam and denounce any extremism and violence.

And I went into the institute today. They were not willing to appear on camera, but I spoke to some of the teachers. They told me that Tashfeen

was considered to be a very friendly, positive-minded, helpful character. And

they could never have imagined, nobody at the institute they said, in a statement too, could ever have imagined that a girl like Tashfeen could

have carried out what they called the horrible act that is 100 percent against Islam.

So it's extraordinary to see that what they believe they taught her and, by the way, she actually abandoned her course early. She didn't

complete the two-year course. She left saying that she was due to get married within two months.

Now, this was in April last year when we know that she left for the United States. So we are starting to get more and more pieces of the

jigsaw puzzle together. But how did she go from being someone who is described as a very normal student, another colleague of hers from the

university that CNN has spoken to, my colleague (inaudible) spoke to, has told us that she was a normal character who talks about the boy she likes,

that talked about social networks.

So how did she get from that to being radicalized and carrying out the shootings? That still remains a mystery -- Andrew.

STEVENS: And that is the question, isn't it, how does this radicalization

happen so quickly and so effectively? It's not just her, we've seen it time and again.

Saima, thank you so much for that investigative work there in Multan in central Pakistan.

Saima Mohsin joining us there on the line. Now, the rock band U2 played a concert in Paris on Monday with the help of some very special guests.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

BONO, U2 SINGER: They were robbed of their stage three weeks ago and we would like to offer them ours tonight. Would you welcome the Eagles of

Death Metal?

(END VIDEO CLIP)

STEVES: Now, you remember the Eagles of Death Metal were playing the night the terrorists attacked the theater. 90 people died there.

The band joined U2 on stage in their first performance since that disaster.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Is everybody here having a good time?

I said, can I hear you? Is everybody here having a good time?

(END VIDEO CLIP)

STEVENS: Now, the Eagles of Death Metal released a statement on their Facebook page saying a thank you to France and to everyone in the world who

continues to prove that love, joy and music will always overcome terror and evil.

Well, clearly an unforgettable night for the fans there.

Now, the air in Beijing, as we've been reporting, is so polluted you could probably vacuum it, well that's what one artist decided to test.

We'll show you the results in just a moment.

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STEVENS: We've been telling you about Beijing's severe air pollution. For the city's residents, some are worried that even with masks, the

amounts of pollutants in the air are too thick to block them out entirely.

Well, one artist decided to show us just how bad the smog can get by collecting it. Matt Rivers has more.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

MATT RIVERS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: This is what it looks like when you vacuum air pollution. And this is what it looks like when

you use the tiny, toxic particles you collect to help make a brick. The man behind it is an artist called Brother Nut.

BROTHER NUT, ARTIST (through translator): Some people think it's ridiculous to vacuum dust in the air.

[08:40:02] RIVERS: But he's doing it to make a point about China's air

quality. So, he spent 100 days walking the streets of Beijing towing his vacuum, sucking up the pollution Beijingers breathe in.

We saw him on a day with blue skies, but most of his work comes from days that look like this.

He collected over 100 grams of pollution, much of it made up of small particles some 30 times smaller than a strand of human hair.

DR. TRISTAN EVELY, MEDICAL DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL SOS: They can go right inside our lungs, right into bloodstream.

RIVERS: Dr. Tristan Evely is a medical director for international SOS and says the long-term effects of breathing in air this polluted are

deadly.

EVELY: There's asthma, chronic obstructive airways disease and also even things like heart attacks, because the pollution can trigger that as

well.

RIVERS: Air pollution can be made of everything from soot to heavy metals like arsenic and lead, likely now a part of Brother Nut's pollution

brick.

Her is a picture of him pouring the dust into a mold.

NUT (through translator): air pollution is a problem for everyone and now we are being deprived of our right to breathe fresh air.

RIVERS: His art project went viral, perhaps not surprising, in a city where 21 million residents have to deal with pollution every day.

Brother Nut says someone offered him 1,600 U.S. dollars to buy this brick

but it's not for sale. He says the goal was not about making a profit but about

raising awareness by putting pollution in the palm of your hand.

Matt Rivers, CNN, Beijing.

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STEVENS: Now staff at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia are trying to solve a bizarre mystery. Three Boeings 747s, got two of them

here, have an abandoned there for more than a year and the airport is trying to contact that last owners.

They've published a notice in the local newspaper, The Star, which says the owner has 14 days to collect the abandoned planes as well as pay

late fees or the aircraft will be auctioned off or sold for scrap.

The airport says the owner could have run out of funds to operate the planes.

And that is News Stream. I'm Andrew Stevens. Don't go anywhere, World Sport with Patrick Snell, is just ahead.

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