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Trump Reversal on Controversial Abortion Comments; China Key in Enforcing North Korean Sanctions; Amnesty International: Qatar World Cup Workers Abused; French Terror Suspect Charged, Accused of Planning Imminent Attack; Assad Talks Who Is to Blame for Terrorism in Syria; Children, Adults Recovering from Injuries from Lahore Attacks; Brazil's President Facing Impeachment; Muslim Minority Hopes for Change in Myanmar. Aired 2-3a ET

Aired March 31, 2016 - 02:00   ET

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[02:00:38] ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: Hello, everyone. I'm Rosemary Church.

ERROL BARNETT, CNN ANCHOR: And I'm Errol Barnett. Thanks for joining our two-hour block. This is CNN NEWSROOM.

CHURCH: A stunning reversal for Donald Trump, who's now trying to clarify controversial abortion comments.

BARNETT: We haven't seen something like this happen before. The U.S. Republican presidential candidate said women should be punished for having the procedure if it's outlawed.

Jim Acosta, our senior White House correspondent, has more.

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JIM ACOSTA, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Donald Trump revealed a new hard-line position on abortion, saying if the procedure is banned, women who undergo it should be punished.

CHRIS MATTHEWS, MSNBC ANCHOR: Do you think there should be a punishment?

DONALD TRUMP, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & CEO, TRUMP ORGANIZATION: The answer is there has to be some form of punishment.

MATTHEWS: For the woman?

TRUMP: Yeah, there has to be some form --

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TRUMP: That I don't know.

MATTHEWS: Why not?

TRUMP: I don't know. MATTHEWS: You take positions on everything else.

TRUMP: I do take positions on everything else. It's a very complicated position.

ACOSTA: Within minutes, Trump's potential Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, pounced, tweeting, "Just when you thought it wouldn't get worse, horrific and telling."

Trump's abortion comments come as he is standing firm on another controversy, the conduct of his campaign manager.

TRUMP: Does anybody think it's a horrible thing what happened? I don't get it.

ACOSTA: He asked for a show of hands to find out if his supporters at this rally in Wisconsin had seen the video of his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, grabbing reporter, Michelle Fields, an incident that police said amounted to simple battery. Trump mocked Fields of the transcription of what happened.

TRUMP: Listen to this. This young woman, reporter, who shouldn't have been where she was, and she grabbed me twice. She said, "I was jolted backwards." She wasn't. "Someone had grabbed me tightly by the arm and yanked me down." Did she go down? Did she even go a little down?

ACOSTA: But Ted Cruz, who held an event focused on women, and John Kasich, appeared to have had enough. At a CNN town hall, they all but buried a Republican Party pledge to support the GOP nominee.

ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: If Donald Trump is the nominee, would you support him?

SEN. TED CRUZ, (R), TEXAS & PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Let me tell you my solution to that.

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Donald is not going to be the GOP nominee. We're going to beat him.

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COOPER: You're not standing by that pledge.

JOHN KASICH, (R), OHIO GOVERNOR & PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I don't want to be political here. I have to see what happens. If the nominee is somebody that I think is really hurting the country and dividing the country, I can't stand behind them.

ACOSTA: Trump's response, if that's how they want it, same goes for him.

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COOPER: You continue to pledge whoever the Republican nominee is? TRUMP: No. I don't want to make people uncomfortable. I don't need

their support.

ACOSTA: That fissure threatening to blow the party was blow wide open with Trump's refusal to fire his embattled campaign manager.

TRUMP: I have fired many people, especially on "The Apprentice."

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But look what she says, Michelle Fields. Who, by the way, she's not a baby, OK?

ACOSTA: Dismissing Lewandowski, Cruz and Kasich argued, is a no- brainer.

COOPER: If he was your campaign manager, would you ask him to resign?

CRUZ: Of course. Look, it should not be complicated that the members of the campaign staff should not be physically assaulting the press.

KASICH: Well, I haven't seen the video but they tell me the video is real. Of course, I would.

ACOSTA: But that's not likely to happen as Trump is even pushing back on suggestions of an apology. As Trump told his crowd in Wisconsin, his sense of loyalty is a presidential asset.

TRUMP: Folks, as your president, you need somebody that's going to be loyal to the country and yourselves. You need somebody that's going to fight.

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BARNETT: That was our Jim Acosta reporting.

Now, abortion wasn't Trump's only controversial topic on Wednesday.

CHURCH: He also told MSNBC he wouldn't rule out the U.S. using nuclear weapons on enemies.

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TRUMP: I was against Iraq. I would be the last one to use the nuclear weapon.

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MATTHEWS: Can you tell the Middle East we're not using the nuclear weapon?

TRUMP: I would never say that. I would never take any of my cards off the table.

MATTHEWS: How about Europe? We won't use them in Europe?

TRUMP: I'm not going to take it off the table.

MATTHEWS: You want to use it in Europe?

(LAUGHTER)

TRUMP: No, I don't think so. But --

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MATTHEWS: I'm just saying --

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TRUMP: I am not taking cards off the table.

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BARNETT: Now, those comments come ahead of a major nuclear summit. In fact, it gets underway in a few hours. Chinese President Xi Jinping and leaders from more than 50 countries will be meeting in Washington.

CHURCH: North Korea will be high on the agenda. It has continued to pursue nuclear weapons even after new Western sanctions. Mr. Xi is set to meet with U.S. President Barack Obama on the sidelines of that summit.

[02:05:13] BARNETT: Keep in mind, China plays a key role in ensuring that sanctions against North Korea are enforced.

Our Matt Rivers is joining us live from Beijing to discuss this.

Matt, the U.S. and China agree to punish North Korea with deeper sanctions last month. What sense do we have of if China is holding up its side of the bargain and enforcing those sanctions?

MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's the big question that surrounds all of this. Most experts agree that if any sanctions levied against North Korea are going to be successful, it is up to China, more than any other country, to enforce the sanctions.

But just figuring out if the sanctions are being enforced, it at all, is a very difficult question. So we decided to try to go and see for ourselves. Last week, we went up to the Chinese border city of Dandong, on the river straddling North Korea and China, and we went there to see if the sanctions are being enforced. But as you'll see in a moment, that's harder than it seems.

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RIVERS (voice-over): They drive across the old narrow bridge around 9:00 a.m. each day. Chinese trucks carrying goods into North Korea. They leave from Dandong, the border city on the river. It's the economic lifeline of North Korea. China the only country left willing to do significant trade with Kim Jong-Un's regime.

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RIVERS: New U.N. sanctions levied against North Korea's nuclear program has impacted that relationship. For example, North Korean coal exports, important revenue for the country, are now banned if any profits from them might be funneled to sanctioned programs. China must also now inspect all shipments into and out of the country. Criticized in the past for not enforcing sanctions, officials deny that, but say they will strongly implement this latest round.

We watched as North Korean trucks drove into China around midday, mostly empty. They end up in yards like this, loaded up with Chinese goods that get sent back across the border.

We asked how officials specifically plan to inspect those, making calls to authorities in Dandong and at the ministry of foreign affairs. Neither would provide details. Security guards we met outside the yard were not keen to talk with us, either.

(on camera): Trying to see for ourselves how these inspections are done can prove to be difficult, as you can see.

We try and talk to ordinary people, truck drivers even, to talk to them about inspections, but none of them would agree to speak with us, and we constantly face harassment, like you're seeing right now.

(voice-over): It's near impossible to determine if the inspections are effective. What is clear, though, is the continued struggle of those inside North Korea. For ordinary people, poverty and hunger remain chronic. A heavily sanctioned Kim Jong-Un regime can't or won't provide supplies to its people, so others do, seeing a business opportunity.

We met this man in secret along the border at night. He illegally smuggles goods into North Korea for a living. He tells us he deals in basic living supplies, focusing on every day grains and car parts. For him, the sanctions don't mean much, but for other smugglers he works with, the added restrictions are good for business.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): The North Koreans have to buy lots of goods because there are fewer legal shipments from the border, more from us.

RIVERS: Since the latest sanctions began, there's more requests from North Koreans for industrial chemicals and steel. He has no idea what they are used for but he knows who is buying.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): Not ordinary people. It's the military and their families. Everything is completely corrupt there. Ordinary people have no money so the goods are purchased by wealthy people.

RIVERS: He thinks China stepped up the inspections but doubts that any sanctions enforced or not will ultimately do any real harm to Kim Jong-Un's regime.

(END VIDEOTAPE) RIVERS: Now, we did make several calls to import/export companies in Dandong to ask if the Chinese government had contacted them at all about the sanctions. Most of the companies hung up the phone as soon as we identified ourselves. But one company told us they did hear from the Chinese government. And the government official told them to stop importing North Korean coal, presumably as a result of the sanctions. In that one particular example, it does appears that the sanctions are being enforced, at least somewhat.

BARNETT: Matt, tell us more about the difficulty of getting people to open and talk to you. Seeing that man block the camera, stands out to me. But as a journalist in China, it's par for the course.

[01:40:00] RIVERS: It very much is, especially when you're dealing with a sensitive issue like this. We were in the city of Dandong, and we had interactions with uniformed police officials and plain-clothed officers who refuse to identify themselves. And to be fair, that can happen no matter what story you're doing in China, but especially when you're doing a story like this, talking about a sensitive relationship between China and North Korea. When it comes to attempting to peel back that curtain and expose more detail about that relationship, you consistently run into obstruction from various authorities.

BARNETT: We appreciate what you were able to show us.

Matt Rivers live for us in Beijing. Just past 2:10 in the afternoon there. Thanks.

CHURCH: The Pentagon plans to move about a dozen prisoners out of the Guantanamo Bay military prison. At least two other countries are willing to take them. That's according to reports, quoting a U.S. official, who says the transfers could start within days. 91 inmates are being held at the U.S. Naval base in Cuba. President Barack Obama wants to shut it down. Many Republicans want it to stay open.

BARNETT: More to come this hour. A French terror suspect is charged. Prosecutors accuse him of planning an imminent attack after what they found in his apartment.

CHURCH: Plus, squalid living conditions and forced labor. According to Amnesty International, those are just some of the abuses facing migrants building sites for the World Cup in Qatar. That story, still to come.

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[02:15:31] BARNETT: The ugly side of a beautiful game. According to Amnesty International, that's the everyday reality for migrant workers building sites for the football World Cup in Qatar.

CHURCH: A new report from the group says workers from South Asia are facing systematic human rights abuses, squalid living conditions and forced labor.

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SALIL SHETTY, SECRETARY-GENERAL, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: From an Amnesty International perspective, we're looking at it from migrant workers abuse point of view. And currently, it's totally unfit. There's no question about it. You can't have a major sporting event, like the World Cup, the largest sporting event, happening completely based on labor exploitation. That's simply unacceptable.

The most important thing that FIFA needs to do now, under the new leadership, it's an opportunity to tell the Qatari government that they're not ready to accept World Cup stadiums and a World Cup that's going to be conducted on the backs of labor exploitation.

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BARNETT: A serious charge. In a statement to CNN, Qatar says the following, quote, "We always maintained this World Cup will act as a catalyst for change. It will not be built on the back of exploited workers."

CHURCH: FIFA, the world football governing body, is also denying the allegations.

A French terror suspect is under formal investigation, suspected of planning an imminent attack. Investigators have been tracking him since the Paris attacks in November.

BARNETT: Prosecutors say officials found an unprecedented amount of weapons, chemicals and explosives in a suburban Paris apartment last week. They found five fake passports, new mobile phones and two computers that held information about bombmaking and jihadist groups.

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FRANCOIS MOLINS, PARIS PROSECUTOR (through translation): At this stage of the investigation, even though no specific target has been identified, everything suggests that the discovery of this hiding place, displayed an act of a terrorist network ready to act. As shown by the weapons, the explosives, some ready to use, the new telephones that could have been used to coordinate the execution of criminal projects, and the stolen passports, allowing then to hide their identities and move freely in France and Europe.

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BARNETT: Meantime, disturbing evidence, found on a discarded computer in Belgium, is raising major concerns that the city could be targeted again.

CHURCH: Brian Todd on what's been found and the clues Belgian authorities missed before last week's attacks.

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BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The Belgian capital, reeling from the devastation of last week's terror attacks, and now bracing for another possible strike. A source close to the investigation tells CNN photographs and plans for a number of government buildings were found on a computer, belonging to Ibrahim al Bakraoui, who is believed to have blown himself up at the Brussels airport. The computer discovered in a garbage can outside the terror cell's bomb factor in Brussels. The buildings on the computer suggest that, at one point, in was a larger plot.

PAUL CRUICKSHANK, CNN TERRORISM ANALYST: They recovered photos and plans of the prime minister of Belgium's office in Brussels, suggesting that that was targeted potentially by this cell or they were looking to target that in an attack.

TODD: Security at the Belgium parliament building is stepped up over information that it could be the next target.

And new questions about clues Belgian authorities missed before the bombings last week. CNN learned that the Belgians had been looking for Ibrahim and Khalid al Bakraoui, the brothers who blew themselves up at the train stations and the airports, months before the Brussels attacks. Belgium officials say, in December, this red notice from Interpol went out seeking the arrest of Khalid al Bakraoui on terrorism charges. They were looking for his brother on suspicions of criminal activity. Where Belgian authorities failed, they couldn't find the brothers.

CRUICKSHANK: They were hiding in plain sight in Brussels in a district where the bombs were made. The Belgians did not know this.

TODD: Another missed clue, last summer, Turkey deported Ibrahim Al Bakraoui after he was arrested near the Syrian border. According to a top Belgian broadcaster, the Belgians asked the Turks if Ibrahim was involved in terrorism. They were told he was known for criminal activity. But it's not clear how much information the Turks gave the Belgians.

[02:20:07] UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Obviously, it turns out he was a hard- core jihadist. The fact they're not sharing the exact information and have the laws to put these guys into jail, suggests there's a huge miscommunication between intelligence agencies and law enforcement.

TODD (on camera): And another major clue seems to be still eluding Belgian authorities. CNN has told Belgian officials, do not know where this man is, the third terrorist at the Brussels airport, the man in white. He is believed to have left a bomb there and then taken off. CNN was also told Belgian officials don't know who he is. And there is major concern now that this man, along with more than half a dozen other suspects, from the same terror cell, still at large, could be planning another attack.

Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.

(END VIDEOTAPE) CHURCH: Turkey's president says Belgium is not alone in missing clues about jihadists. He says many European countries have failed to address the significance of the terror threat.

BARNETT: Chief international correspondent, Christiane Amanpour, sat down with Recep Tayyip Erdogan for this exclusive interview.

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CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Why do you think they did not pick up your intelligence? And particularly, the Dutch say that your government did not alert them to the fact that he had jihadi tendencies.

RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN, TURKISH PRESIDENT (through translation): Of course, both the Netherlands and Belgium. For somebody having a jihadi intention or not, first, they need to know what jihadi intention means. You have to identify whether these are foreign fighters or jihadists. The Netherlands, nor the Belgians seemed to have understood what jihadist stands for. We've been calling the nations for common stance against terrorism. And many of the European member states seem to have failed to attach the significance that this call for action deserves.

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BARNETT: And there's much more. You can watch the entire interview on "Amanpour," Thursday at 7:00 p.m. in London, on here on CNN.

CHURCH: To the weather now. And severe weather in the United States is spawning tornadoes in the south.

We have Pedram Javaheri here to talk more about this.

How many are we talking about?

PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST: 70 reports of severe weather reports in the early morning hours. And a lot are happening in the early morning hours, the overnight hours. I often tell people that nocturnal tornados, the overnight tornadoes, two and a half times more likely to be fatal. So it's very, very dangerous. Of course, we know --

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BARNETT: People caught off guard.

JAVAHERI: Off guard. The lead time for warnings, whether you're sleeping, or just outside, not seeing it visually makes it dangerous.

Something we're tracking for the southern U.S. and snow showers to tell you about in the Western U.S. We'll break it down here. Look at the footage coming out of Tulsa, Oklahoma. This is the airport in Tulsa. You see the airplanes in the foreground there. And the tornado touching down northeast of the city. Multiple reports of the tornadoes near the Tulsa area, and the lightning strikes left and right. It is this time of year you see widespread severe weather across the United States.

We'll put the map in motion for you, show you what's happening. 75 reports of severe weather. The month of March, it picks up the intensity of the severe weather, Tennessee into Kentucky, the state of Missouri. Half of all of the tornadoes occur in the overnight hours. It's that much more dangerous of the scenario and what's transpiring across some of the areas. We tabulated 60 tornadoes in March. You get about 50 in an entire year. That's really puts it in perspective. This is the most number of tornadoes we've seen since 2012 for the month of March. An active start. You look at the ingredients coming together. A strong jet stream coming in. Warm, dry air out of the Gulf of Mexico.

There's few places on our planet that have this sort of a setup come together so frequently. One of the areas is Bangladesh. Bay of Bengal acts like the Gulf of Mexico does. The cool, Canadian air, the Rocky Mountains. Bangladesh has a weather pattern much like you see across the United States. 40 million people will be dealing on this from Jackson, Mississippi, to Memphis, near Louisville. And tornados will be possible across this region.

Want to take you out to the West. A different story developing. On a brighter note, look at the snowfall coverage map of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. 9 percent of the Sierras snow on the ground. We're up to 90 percent. We can thank El Nino, getting snow coverage across this region. Wonderful news when you come to a drought situation. You compare that to Crater Lake in Oregon, Washington State's Snoqualmie Pass, Lake Tahoe, red bars indicative of the snow coming down this particular winter. Gray boxes, last winter. Tremendous shift in the snowfall across some of these areas. We know 40 percent of the drinking water, guys, across the state of California, comes from Sierra snowmelt that has been nonexistent. Some places, you turn on the tap, nothing comes out. This is great news. Some is rainfall. A lot of it is run off. A lot evaporates. You don't really get to keep that. But snowfall, it melts gradually in the warm season. You get to take the water in. It's like money in the bank. A savings account.

[02:25:41] CHURCH: There you go.

BARNETT: A snow savings account.

CHURCH: Good news, too.

Thanks, Pedram.

BARNETT: Thanks for joining us. See you next hour.

CHURCH: Appreciate it.

BARNETT: Syria's president says he's open to compromise. Coming up, whom he's willing to include in his government, and which countries he blames for terrorism in Syria.

CHURCH: Plus, hundreds of people are recovering from the deadly blast at a Pakistani park. How the community is rallying around the survivors. We're back with that.

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CHURCH: And a warm welcome back to you all. You are watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Rosemary Church.

BARNETT: I'm Errol Barnett. We're 30 minutes in. Let's update you in our top stories.

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[02:30:22] CHURCH: Syrian President Bashar al Assad says the coalition of Western countries fighting ISIS is failing. He tells the Russian news agency, Sputnik, that forces were able to recapture Palmyra thanks to its allies.

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BASHAR AL ASSAD, SYRIAN PRESIDENT (through translation): The Russian support was essential and effective to reach this result. And the support of friends in Iran was essential as well as Hezbollah in Lebanon and other groups fighting. Of course, after Palmyra, we have to move to the surrounding areas of the eastern part of Syria, such a Derazore (ph), and at the same time, working towards Raqqa that represents the main stronghold area of I.S.

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BARNETT: Mr. Assad also says he hopes peace talks in Geneva can lead to a new inclusive government in Syria. He says, quote, "Independent forces should be represented as well as opposition forces and forces loyal to the government."

CHURCH: The U.S. and opposition negotiators are rejecting Mr. Assad's apparent overture. They say a political settlement in Syria must come through a transitional government, not another Assad regime.

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JOSH EARNEST, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: Now I don't know if he envisioned himself being part of the national unity government. That would be a nonstarter for us. The political turmoil inside of Syria will not recede as long as President Assad is in office. That's why we continue to believe he must go.

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BARNETT: Mr. Assad pulled no punches when it comes to who he blames for terrorism in Syria.

Senior international correspondent, Matthew Chance, reports from Moscow.

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MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: This was a wide-ranging interview given by Assad to Russian state media. It's no surprise that the Syrian president directed his criticism at their mutual opponents. The war in Syria was about terrorism, he said, and Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Western countries, like Britain and France, were responsible for backing the terrorists. The kind of rhetoric that we've heard from Assad on several occasions in the past.

If there was new substance, it was this. He put a figure on the damage of the Syrian conflict. $200 million, he said, have been lost in economic and infrastructure damage throughout the course of five years of war. Rebuilding Syria, Assad told Russian television, would fall to the three main states that supported the country during what he called its crisis, China, Iran, and Russia. Repairing the Russia rout on Syria, in part, of course, by Russian themselves and their air strikes, could prove extremely lucrative for the Kremlin.

Matthew Chance, CNN, Moscow.

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BARNETT: In Pakistan, police say a series of raids have led to 17 arrests, all of them linked to the suicide bombing in Lahore. That attack, you may remember, targeted Christians celebrating Easter Sunday at an amusement park.

CHURCH: At least 74 people were killed. A Pakistani Taliban splinter group is claiming responsibility.

BARNETT: Severe burns and wounds to vital organs are the injuries that doctors in Lahore had to deal with after that bombing. 400 people were wounded and many of them children.

CHURCH: A warning that some viewers may find the images in this report disturbing.

Saima Mohsin went to a hospital where young children and adults who survived are recovering from traumatic injuries.

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SAIMA MOHSIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A 3-year-old boy that can barely be held because he is covered in burns.

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MOHSIN: Tears stinging his face. His cries ring out across the ward. He is inconsolable, in extreme pain.

His mother is in intensive care with severe burns. His father is has severe burns. This man is a neighbor. He's been at the boy's bedside since the attack. Sharing the bed, his cousin, just 4 years old. Shrapnel wounds on her skull. Her uncle tells me she has special needs. She doesn't know her father and sisters have died.

"I lost count of how many family members have died," he tells me. His chest is peppered with ball bearings. He and his friends were

deciding which ride to go on when --

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation: I felt like something was on fire. And there was an exPLOsion. My friend grabs me and pulled me to the ground. He saved my life.

[02:35:09] MOHSIN: His friend is lying in a bed opposite him.

In each ward, we found friends, complete strangers, family, tending to their loved ones.

"He shouted momma on the phone. Oh, his voice," his mother tells me. "My heart sank as he told me a bomb went off. Please come to me. I'm in hospital."

(on camera): You'll notice this is a mixed ward. Young children, men and women are kept altogether because the doctors are keen that these traumatized families are kept together.

UNIDENTIFIED PHYSICIAN: There's 137 patients within 20 minutes. With every patient, we had 20 other people. We had to bring immediately about 30 doctors and 40 nurses. And we had to open up 20 more operating rooms.

MOHSIN (voice-over): Many of the patients agreed to talk to us but others are in intensive care. We didn't film them. They haven't regained consciousness since the attack.

UNIDENTIFIED PHYSICIAN: We had to open up the abdomen of the patients because sharp things had gone into them. And we had about 10 patients who had serious head injuries because the brain had been entered by these sharp objects.

MOHSIN: Local people are coming together to deliver toys and food to the families and children who will live with the physical and mental scars of this bombing forever.

Saima Mohsin, CNN, Lahore, Pakistan.

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CHURCH: We'll take a short break here. Still to come, growing problems for Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff. The latest resignation from her cabinet could spell trouble for this summer's Olympics.

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[02:40:20] BARNETT: The man who hijacked an Egypt Air plane admits he is guilty. Police say he confessed in court to divert the flight there. He is charged with hijacking, kidnapping and several other climbs.

CHURCH: Police say he threatened the flight crew and passengers with what turned out to be a fake explosive belt. All 70 people onboard the plane were eventually freed. Cypriot transportation officials say the hijacking was not terror-related. Instead, it had something to do with his ex-wife.

BARNETT: A major decision coming up in just over an hour. South Africa's top court rules Thursday on a case that could put Jacob Zuma's presidency in hot water. The court will decide if Mr. Zuma should repay some of the $16 million in state money spent on renovating his private home.

CHURCH: The work included a cattle enclosure, amphitheater and swimming pool. If Zuma is found in violation, the opposition is expected to push for impeachment. We will have a live preview from our David McKenzie in Johannesburg next hour.

BARNETT: To another embattled leader of an emerging market. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff could be impeached, a scenario becoming increasingly likely. She is scrambling to fill her cabinet with allies after a day of mass resignations.

CHURCH: Even Brazil's sports minister is stepping down four months before the country hosts the Summer Olympics.

Shasta Darlington reports.

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SHASTA DARLINGTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A day after Brazil's biggest political party pulled out of the government coalition, President Dilma Rousseff, has come out fighting, making it clear if congress goes ahead with plans to try to impeach her, she will not go down easily.

DILMA ROUSSEFF, BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT (through translation): Impeachment without proof of a crime is what? It's a coup. This is the issue. There's no point pretending that we are discussing a hypothetical impeachment. We are discussing a very concrete impeachment without crime.

DARLINGTON: Rousseff is an unpopular leader, with an approval rating of 10 percent. She has presided over the worst recession in decades in Brazile. She's also seen dozens of politicians from her own Workers Party and ally parties get engulfed in a massive bribery and corruption scandal. But Dilma Rousseff herself has not been implicated. That means the opposition is trying to have her impeached for allegedly breaking budgetary laws. They say she tried to hide a budget deficit ahead of re-elections in 2014.

This is why both Rousseff and her supporters say this is an institutional coup d'etat and they're going to take to the streets. In fact, demonstrations are planned in a number of cities across Brazile on Thursday in a show of solidarity. But it may be too little, too late. With the CMDV (ph) pulling out of the governing coalition, it is looking increasingly likely that congress will muster the two-thirds votes it needs to go ahead and get the impeachment proceeding rolling. And that President Rousseff could be temporarily ousted as early as May. And all of this will play out on the global stage, just as Brazil is gearing up for the Olympic Games in August.

Shasta Darlington, CNN, Rio de Janeiro.

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CHURCH: Turning to Myanmar and its first civilian president in more than half a century. The change in government brings some hope for the community.

BARNETT: The Muslim minority group has long faced persecution and denied citizenship. Thousands have tried to flee Myanmar.

Our Ivan Watson explores their plight and hope for change.

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IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This may look like a typical village scene, but don't be fooled. You're looking at a modern-day ghetto in Myanmar.

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WATSON: For more than three years, members of an ethnic and religious community have been confined by the Myanmar government to a cluster of villages and squatter camps on the outside of the capital. Because of their race and religion, they are denied citizenship in the country of their birth.

Among the residents here, 35-year-old Mohammed Ali (ph). He has asked we don't show his face.

He says these Muslims aren't allowed to leave the ghetto to find work, medical care or education. The situation has left him little choice.

These fishing boats, the possibility of escape.

Ali and four other families scrape together money to buy a boat, for a journey they hope will take them to a new life in Malaysia.

[02:45:12] ALI MOHAMMED (ph), MYANMAR MINORITY (through translation): We hope it will be an easy journey. We think we are at sea for one month. After that, we should arrive in another country and get our freedom there.

WATSON: Ali is waiting, though, to see if Myanmar's recent move towards democracy could improve conditions for them.

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WATSON: Last year, Myanmar held its freest elections in a generation. Opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and her party swept the vote. After decades of military dictatorships, her party now stands poised to take over key positions in a new government.

MOHAMMED (ph) (through translation): We will wait several months. Maybe Aung San Suu Kyi will do something to make the situation better for all communities and religions. But if the situation does not improve, then, we will leave.

WATSON: Tens of thousands have already tried to make the dangerous escape by sea.

Zoya's (ph) teenage son, Mohammad (ph), set sail months ago with human traffickers. In weeks after, smugglers called, demanding ransom money for his safely. She paid by selling off her family's food ration card and then got a call from her son.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translation): He said, please don't give them money. I have already been sold to someone else.

WATSON: That was the last time Zoya (ph) spoke to her son, who should be 19 years old now.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translation): If he were alive, he would have contacted us. So we think he must have been killed.

WATSON: There's hope for political change in Myanmar. But for some, it may already be too late.

Ivan Watson, CNN.

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BARNETT: Now, we have a story, a different type of story coming up for you after the break. The U.S. State Department wanted to warn spring breakers about scams. But the message created a Twitter storm. What went wrong, after this. (COMMERCIAL BREAK)

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[02:51:05] CHURCH: OK, it's a risk we all face online, trying to be too cute on Twitter.

BARNETT: Can we be accused of that? I don't know.

But get this. The U.S. State Department wanted to warn college students about traveling abroad on spring break with this tweet, quote, "Not a 10 in the U.S., then not a 10 overseas. Beware of being lured into buying expensive drinks, or worse, being robbed."

CHURCH: Many Twitter users found the tweet sexist. The department eventually apologized saying, "Some have been offended by our earlier tweet and we apologize that it came off negatively. We see many Americans fall victim to scams each year and want all to be careful while traveling."

Perhaps the message got lost.

BARNETT: I don't know if it's sexist. But it's certainly making the point there's no exchange rate for attractiveness. Right? A 10 in the U.S. isn't a five in Australia, or vice versa. CHURCH: That's right.

BARNETT: But, you know, be careful when you travel was the point.

(CROSSTALK)

CHURCH: All right, well, U.S. Republican presidential candidate, Ted Cruz, sparred over policy with comedian and TV host, Jimmy Kimmel.

BARNETT: This is Cruz's first visit to the late-night talk show, where Kimmel asked the candidate a burning question.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

JIMMY KIMMEL, HOST, JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE: Who do you like better, Obama or Trump?

SEN. TED CRUZ, (R), TEXAS & PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Look, look, look --

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(APPLAUSE)

CRUZ: I dislike Obama's policies more.

KIMMEL: I see.

CRUZ: But Donald -- Donald is a unique individual.

(LAUGHTER)

I will say, I was watching the early part of the show. And if I was in my car and getting ready to reverse and saw Donald in the backup camera --

(LAUGHTER)

-- I'm not confident which pedal I'd push.

(LAUGHTER)

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CHURCH: He's quite funny.

BARNETT: Very funny.

Donald Trump is sometimes described as a bully.

CHURCH: The Republican presidential candidate may have smashed his own record for using what's usually a polite term.

CNN's Jeanne Moos counts it down.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) JEANNE MOOS, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): When a Trump interview gets intense.

DONALD TRUMP, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & CEO, TRUMP ORGANIZATION: Give me a break.

ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: Come on.

TRUMP: Anderson --

COOPER: Politically motivated.

MOOS: You have to excuse the Donald for excusing himself.

COOPER: 5-year-old started that.

(CROSSTALK)

COOPER: You're running for president of the United States.

TRUMP: Excuse me.

MOOS: He may sometimes sound like a little kid.

TRUMP: I didn't start it.

COOPER: That's --

(CROSSTALK)

TRUMP: I didn't start it.

COOPER: Sir, with all due respect, that's the argument of a 5-year- old.

TRUMP: I didn't start it.

MOOS: But a 5-year-old with manners.

UNIDENTIFIED CARTOON CHARACTER: You said excuse me. You used good manners.

MOOS: And if this sounds familiar --

TRUMP: Excuse me --

MOOS: -- that's because we first focused on Trump's favorite verbal weapon last summer making this.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Excuse me.

MOOS: The sequel. We thought it deserved a sequel when "Washington Post" counted 18 "excuse mes" in just one hour of a CNN town hall.

COOPER: Whether or not you think it was --

(CROSSTALK)

TRUMP: Excuse me.

MOOS: One.

COOPER: You've suggested --

TRUMP: Excuse me, excuse me, I didn't suggest.

MOOS: Two, three.

COOPER: It doesn't concern you --

(CROSSTALK)

TRUMP: Excuse me.

MOOS: Four.

TRUMP: Excuse me. Excuse me.

MOOS: Five, six.

TRUMP: You're supporting Japan. We're supporting --

(CROSSTALK)

TRUMP: Excuse me, excuse me --

MOOS: Actually, when you add them all up --

TRUMP: Excuse me.

MOOS: -- 18 was an under count.

(CROSSTALK)

TRUMP: Excuse me.

MOOS: 20.

Sort of makes Bernie Sanders' lonely single interjection --

SEN. BERNIE SANDERS, (I), VERMONT & DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Excuse me, I'm talking.

MOOS: -- seem like a poor excuse for an "excuse me" compared to Trump's 20.

Maybe the Donald could add a little variety.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Excuse me.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Excuse me.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE) MOOS: Break down those cultural walls.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

MOOS (on camera): Even when he interrupts himself, his own story, the Donald excuses himself.

TRUMP: When he said we had a big day, we won Utah -- excuse me, I won Arizona.

MOOS (voice-over): Mr. Trump, you are excused.

TRUMP: Excuse me.

MOOS: Jeanne Moos --

TRUMP: Excuse me.

MOOS: -- CNN --

COOPER: A 5-year-old --

(CROSSTALK)

MOOS: -- New York.

TRUMP: Excuse me, excuse me, I didn't suggest.

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[02:55:05] CHURCH: That's very good. Excuse me is another way of saying be quiet or shut up.

BARNETT: Right. As polite as possible. Well, at least Donald Trump is polite, right?

CHURCH: Yes. I'm sure it can be said.

Before we go, a loving panda. This next video out of southwest China is just too cute.

BARNETT: Ah.

CHURCH: A giant panda cub is spotted giving little panda kisses to his foster dad and handler.

BARNETT: That is a very special moment there. But then he decided to be more adorable, if you can imagine. He posed for some selfies. Gets the paw up on the neck. Snuggles right in. And I'm sure the picture is priceless.

CHURCH: That's beautiful.

BARNETT: Although, he probably smells.

(LAUGHTER) Just to let you all know. Looks good, smells worse, surely.

CHURCH: I can't imagine.

BARNETT: Remember, you can follow us on Twitter anytime. It's great to hear from you. You can connect with us, if you can.

We'll have more CNN NEWSROOM for you after a quick break.

CHURCH: Stay with us.

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[03:00:09] CHURCH: Donald Trump struggling to clarify comments on whether women should be punished for abortions.