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North Korea Calls Newest Military Test a Great Success; Angela Merkel Gets Firsthand Look at Refugee Camp; One Year Since Earthquakes Destroyed Nepal's Capital City. Aired 3-3:30a ET

Aired April 24, 2016 - 03:00   ET

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[03:00:12] NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR: North Korea calls this a success, the South calls but yet another provocation. We'll bring you all the latest on the Saturday missile launched allegedly overseeing Kim Jong-Un.

The German Chancellor, get the first hand look at life in Turkish refugee camp, but her critics accuse her of adding to the problem.

And powered by the sun right across the pacific, a major milestone for the solar impulse as they continue around the world mission.

It's all ahead here on CNN NEWSROOM. We're live in Atlanta. Thanks for joining us. I'm Natalie Allen.

North Korea is calling its newest military test a great success. This time it launched a ballistic missile from the submarine on Saturday.

Pyongyang says Kim Jong-Un was there to personal guide the operation. Even though it was just a test, it's being concerns about North Korea's military capabilities.

The missile was fired of the eastern coast of the Korean Peninsula, increasing tension, yet again in the region. Paula Hancocks says more forth from Seoul.

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PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This is something we know that North Korea has been working on for a long time. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff saying that Pyongyang has fired what it's believes to be a ballistic missile from a submarine.

Now, they say that it's takes for about 30 kilometers or just 20 miles. And in order for this type of launched from the submarine to be considered a success, it is to fly for around 300 kilometer or just over a 180 miles.

Now clearly it's how faster to that. But South Korean officials are not directly calling this a failure. And it we could reason, every test the North Korea does takes it one step closer to its goal. It always learns something no matter what the outcome. And of course if in fact, North Korea did manage to fire a ballistic missile from a submarine, no matter how far it went that would be significant when U.S. official telling just how worrying this development is for Washington saying, "North Korea's sub launch capability has gone from a joke to something very serious. The U.S. is watching this very closely."

And now of course the timing is very interesting as it always is with North Korea, 2016 is being very busy, it's been very tense. This being not reported eight bombs test in January. A satellite launched has claimed of militarizing a nuclear war head. And of course it just comes ahead of a very rare Congress, so workers part in Congress in early May. Which hasn't been held since 1980 and would likely be used by leader Kim Jong-Un to strengthen his power and his great own power.

And of course South Korean officials believed that could even be a fifth nuclear test ahead of that meeting.

Paula Hancocks, CNN, Seoul.

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ALLEN: Earlier, our Nick Parker spoke with the further U.S. Ambassador to South Korea. Christopher Hill explained why North Korea could be truly dangerous much sooner than some possible.

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CHRISTOPHER HILL, FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR TO SOUTH KOREA: I don't think they intend to have a ballistic missile fired from the South only going 30 kilometers that would be like having one range artillery fire from South but it's hard to say, when it test even in out now failure or looks like an out now failure. It's hard to get a sense of what the science is and what the technician we're really looking for.

So now, I don't consider this a failure. I consider this a part of this sort of ahead of reveals efforts by the North Korean to try to have a deliverable nuclear weapon. And I think there's a great deal to worry about and frankly speaking for people who have set all, we have time, we can use "strategic patience." I don't think we have that time and I don't think we should be engage in everything called "strategic patience."

NICK PARKER, CNN ANCHOR: And on that subject, as ambassador to South Korea and leader of the six party talks of the U.S. delegation, you know there is no balance of power better than most, do you think China is doing enough to try and come and act as a common influence to its alley in North Korea?

HILL: Well, first of all its, you know, China is being no secret of the fact that they are very unhappy with the North Koreans.

And what is -- I think significant about this whole wrap of test is that it's very clear that Kim Jong-Un has no interest. It really just doesn't care what the Chinese thinks. So, that is quietly difference from when the -- from my watch when Kim Jong-Un for all his hideous faults seemed to care a little about what China thought. [03:05:01] So, I think China and the United States are really on these both together. So rather than talk about what more China could do, or what more the U.S. should do? I think the real question is what could they do together? And frankly speaking, I think China and the U.S. together can do a lot to just way North Korea from doing this starting with the sanctions but also stepping up measure perhaps even direct counter measures to slow down these programs.

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ALLEN: France is not urging the EU to place their own sanctions on North Korea following this latest ballistic missile test.

We want to turn now to Syria where new regime bombardments threaten in eight-week-old ceasefire.

Several sources there say, at least 27 civilians were killed and strikes on rebel held areas. This footage reportedly showed one of those attacks in City of Douma, east of Damascus. CNN cannot independently verify the videos authenticity.

German Chancellor, Angela Merkel and other EU leaders had a firsthand look at the refugee camp on the Turkish-Syrian border. The visit to the sprawling camp near Gaziantep comes just one month after officials finalize the controversial EU plan to cope with the growing migrant crisis.

And it's growing sharp criticism from human rights activist. Here is Nick Paton Walsh in Gaziantep.

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NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: A lot of this is about symbolism for German Chancellor Angela Merkel wanting to be seen, to be seen, to be concern about the human rights and living conditions of Syrian refugees here on the Syria and Turkish boarder area because of course she is the key broker of the deal between the European Union and Turkey, that will see thousands, many more refugees sent back from across the European union here to Turkey and exchange for 6 billion Euros of aid and assistance to Turkey in dealing with their board and enduring refugee crisis here.

Now, she source part of her told here a place called the Nizip temporary shelter, that is frankly one of the better shelters provided for Syrian refugees here. And a snapshot of how long terms the problem is being here, really 500 of people living in that one shelter were in fact boom there.

So as one intend of it's now since I never seen live outside of a refugee camp like that, but the real concern is for the many others, the 2.7 millions Syrian refugees here in Turkey don't have living conditions like that.

Turkey space, our problem way and exist of the new million or so Syrian refugees, and the European Union has had to deal with since the summer. But Angela Merkel here with Prime Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu of Turkey, so show the sense of cooperation to perhaps in some way endorse the kind of conditions of Turkey can provide here and also remember -- remind yourself as well to the European Union has to follow this deal agree to accept nearly about 70,000 potentially to Syrian refugees resettlement across the European union as well.

But along to this about symbolism by Angela Merkel, has faced deep criticism at home for perhaps pushing human rights in terms of freedom of speech here in Turkey to one side, to foster good relations with the administration of that President Erdogan being sure to be seen here, to be concern about those Syrian refugees would be sent back here as part of the deal that she was the key broker on.

But still the problem here enduring bans across the boarder, terrifying and the potential threat of future refugees in a months down the line.

Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, Gaziantep.

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ALLEN: In the few hours, U.S. President Barack Obama ahead to Germany to meet with Ms. Merkel. The two are expected to talk about trade but also some of the crisis in which Europe and Germany are embroiled. That includes the migrant crisis which is being exasperated by the war in Syria.

In an interview with the BBC, Mr. Obama explains what he thinks will help solve the conflict.

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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: It is my view that it would be a mistake for the United States or Great Britain or common nation of Western States to send the ground troops and overthrow the Assad regime.

But do believe that we can apply internal pressure to all the parties, including Russia and Iran, who essentially are propping up Assad, as well as those modern opposition that exist and maybe fighting inside of Syria to sit down at the table in front of broker, a transition.

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ALLEN: CNN's Athena Jones has more now on how Mr. Obama wrapped up his trip to the UK.

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ATHENA JONES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi there. President Obama likes to do this town hall Event. He does in frequently on international trips and it says the youths that he sees and talks with in these audiences inspired him.

This event also given him a chance to talk about issues that he might not cover in a formal press conference, unlike the one, he held yesterday after his meeting with Prime Minister David Cameron. When those interesting price of today's event which when he was asked about his legacy. Take a listen to some of what he had to say.

[03:10:14] UNIDENTIFIED MALE: After eight years, what do you see you want your legacy to be?

OBAMA: It's interesting, when you're in the job, you're not thinking on a day-to-day basis about your legacy, you're thinking about how do I get done what I'm trying to get done right now. And I don't think that I'll have a good sense of my legacy until 10 years from now.

Saving the world economy from a great depression that was pretty good.

JONES: He also talked about the response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa calling it perhaps one of the best public health responses in the history of the world.

And he talks about the nuclear deal risk with Iran. And the other P5+1 country are saying that takes away the danger of Iran developing a nuclear weapon. And the president also touched in that fact that he is the first black president of course, a big part of his legacy and so that even though he is the first black president that doesn't mean that the fight for racial equality and for things like criminal justice reform is over.

After an afternoon speech, add on the links with Prime Minister Cameron. The President is having dinner tonight with the Prime Minister and the U.S. Ambassador before heading to Germany, his last talk in this farewell tour stories.

Athena Jones, CNN traveling with the President in London.

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ALLEN: The remains of music legend, Prince had been cremated on Saturday. Family, friends, and band members held the private memorial service. His public just says his final resting place will not be revealed. Cause of his death remains unknown. Police say, there were no obvious signs of trauma as they investigated his death initially.

Since Prince died on Thursday at his Minnesota home fans have been gathering outside the Paisley park compound. They just keep coming.

Earlier, our Ryan Young talk with some of the admirers who received a very special gift from Prince's family.

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RYAN YOUNG, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Just in the last 30 minutes or so some friends and family members of Prince have come out. As they started delivering this purple boxes out to people who come from all over and inside the box, if you don't mind opening it up, it could show to us, this is what they've giving to fans, who have been standing outside. What was in your box?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So I have, just -- it looks like it came from his home. I'm just going to, you know, keep to that but it's just a booklet and then for some reason to me, this fits my personality so well.

YOUNG: Beautiful?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes it is.

YOUNG: Hold that for us, so, we can see it, there we go. And then, what did you get in your box?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is an amazing because you can see, I have things out there. I have pursue body building and I purse, you know, weight lifting and it's like a personal gift.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yeah.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's from him have given a tank top, you know, it's just amazing.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: On your group?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: On my group.

YOUNG: Right, you guys travel here from Milwaukee ...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Milwaukee, yes.

YOUNG: ... why so important for you guys to travel all the way here?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's just significant the inspiration that Prince is giving us over the years, you know, since ...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Right.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: ... we've been seven or eight years old, you know, this is unbelievable, you know, he's motivated us to pursue are dreams, you know, I'm from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, I just moved from Phoenix to pursue dreams and, you know, listening to Prince, it encourages me to do that, you know?

YOUNG: Just musically, I know people had been staying out here playing music, can you talk about being in the crowd because everybody obviously sharing their love about Prince?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yeah, amuse is beautiful to be in a crowd to be, you know?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Listen.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Among just everybody who is experiencing the same, you know, the consciousness of Prince is just seems like he is just living and breathing, you know, and he, you know, one the things that I wrote was one -- from one of his songs, you know, all flowers that he plant in mind in the backyards are continue to live, when you look away. They didn't die because they are continuing to live, this is just beautiful, it just wise.

YOUNG: Were you shock with the family member walks outside during the time like this and start handing a ...

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I mean, yes it should be handed and your hand. It was like really, thank you.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is personal appearance. It seems like some Prince would do. It's like, we'll give back, you know, to us. He will want us to have this type of gifts coming from his home.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yeah.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You know, it's just a blessing to be here and to be able to be around, others that feel same way they ...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yeah.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You know, we feel.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yeah.

YOUNG: Thank you guys I appreciate you so much for sharing that box. So, I would save more than a dozen of those boxes were handed out to the crowd and they went pretty quickly.

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ALLEN: That was Ryan Young reporting, what -- it's just very wonderful gesture on the part of this family in the midst of their grief.

Well, it has been one year, since the massive earthquake killed thousands of people in Nepal. Ahead here we reflect on the devastation and the grueling efforts to rebuild.

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[03:17:10] ALLEN: It's been one year since the devastating earthquakes destroy Nepal's Capital City with 8,000 people died in that quake. At least 21,000 others were injured. This drone video gets us a close-up look at the aftermath as we focus on the rebuilding one year later.

Debris continues to blink at the street Kathmandu while they struggle to survive remains constant. Some people say they're losing hopes as recovery efforts appear to be at stand still.

CNN's Moni Basu went back to Nepal for a look, one year after the quake. That's where she found hundreds of people still living intense.

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MONI BASU, CNN SENIOR ENTERPRISE WRITER: Sadly, the earth's rumbling seem sol fresh. In parts of Kathmandu and in towns and villages around the Nepali Capital, the rubble of building still late throwing on the street piled the debris were stocked high. And it's driving back one day from the outskirts of the city when suddenly my eyes fell on this large field filled with tent. And it's told later that and it has becomes sort of an official tent city was an office there.

There were 500 tents, 2,000 people still living there. There is no electricity. There is no running water and people there are just eating out an exist.

One man, I spoke with, actually one of the larger tent city told me that he going with a delegation to speak to the Nepalese Prime Minister. And I said -- I ask him but what will you say to the Prime Minister? And he looks at me and he said, "Help us."

In Durbar Square, there are many old temples and palaces. This is where everyone who visits Kathmandu, this is one of the first place is people go to. And it was shocking last year when many of them came crushing down.

There is been very, very little recovery work done there, reconstruction work done there. And the first thing, I sawed up when I went back to Durbar Square, this time and saw all those damaged buildings and the debris and the piles of bricks.

I thought of them as national festering roots, for all the worlds to see. I covered the earthquake in Haiti in 2010 and went back a year later, I was reminded of Haiti when I went to some of the tent city to make shift camp and, you know, in Haiti people --thousands and thousands of people made those tents as their home. They became permanent home for people. They live there for years and years.

[03:20:11] They only hope that the Nepalese people, they are better than the Haitians did, and that's the only -- probably doesn't take as long. But, you know, a lot of people I spoke with say that they don't think their country will ever the same again.

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ALLEN: That's sad, sad note. And Derek and I, we're just talking, we were on the air when it first happened. And I can remember with the first I did and we had a report of one death when it first started.

DEREK VAN DAM, CNN WEATHER ANCHOR: When it first started, I remember that day like it was yesterday, we commented on that earlier this evening. And there was some hero's stories coming from the based camp of Mount Everest as well during that earthquake.

ALLEN: All right.

DAM: If you recall that it triggered the series of landslides and avalanches as well that unfortunately killed some climbers as well. That was a year ago. Passed time that but I sure it's been a difficult year for the people there Nepal. Listen, I want to talk about what is happening in American Samoa. I know that, it seems quite distance from Nepal and Kathmandu but this is important because well, they have just construct by a cyclone, cyclone Amos.

Here it is on our latest Satellite loop, it's actually between more and more disorganized time goes on, so these feel a little bit good news coming out, and this is actually just more in glance and blow for the small region and the American Samoa. It was equivalent to a category two hurricane but all tropical cyclone warnings has been lifted from this region.

Only a few rain showers remain, winds are 130 kilometers per hour, but I wouldn't be surprise if the joint typhoon warning centers starts to lower those winds because the storm is weakening quite significantly as the minutes and hours were on, but look at some the rainfall totals in this area.

That was one of the major problems, they did have flooding and there were some trees that were knocked down as well, some electrical outrages, but with rainfall totals over 140 millimeters and such a short span of time. It's no wonder there's going to be flood. And you can see the rainfall moving away from American Samoa and the gusty winds should start to relax as well.

You can see going forward in time, wind gas really in the next two day should be right around 75 kilometers per hour, so nothing more than a disturbance turning about the South West Pacific.

Across the United States, isolated thunder storms today, some of which could be severe from Wichita to Kansas City and Omaha is trying to give you a heads up on what's coming, this is on Sunday, but as we look forward into Tuesday this is the area that we were concern about, Oklahoma City look out a potential for a very, very busy and very active storm days. This something we're going to monitor very quickly.

I want to just give a shout out to all my friends running to London marathon this morning. Starting here within the next hours or so, nine degrees clouding conditions and well, if you asked me from one runner to another, Natalie?

It's perfect running weather for the London marathon, good luck to all of the participants today.

ALLEN: Absolutely.

A solar Power airplane is one step closer to circling the globe. The Solar Impulse two has reached the U.S. State of California and it's now on the ground there. There it goes landing. It landed just a short time ago at Moffett Airfield near San Francisco Bay.

The aircraft flew over the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco earlier. It took off from Hawaii on Thursday after being stalled for almost 10 months because of damaged batteries. It begins, it quest in Abu Dhabi over one year ago. Of course there's one pilot in that plane and he's just flew for three days straight.

Well, the world is remembering William Shakespeare who died 400 years ago Saturday. U.S. President Obama said home is to the British playwright during this UK trip touring to Shakespearian Globe Theatre on London bank side, performers, treated Mr. Obama to excerpt from Hamlet. The globe theatre is a replica of a venue were many of Shakespeare plays where performed.

Fans every where are celebrating Shakespeare works. So beyond that not much is known about his personal life? CNN's Nick Glass takes us on a tour of simply the playwrights where personal memorabilia and his final resting place.

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NICK GLASS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Much to do about William Shakespeare Stratford-upon-Avon where he was born and died as a big straight parade every April. But this year, may added to the rivalry by handing out thousands of face masks. And of course may have royal visitor.

For Ben Johnson, his friend and fellow playwright, Shakespeare was not olden age but at all time. Shim-Bo Shakespeare, he wrote, "Sweet Swan of Avon."

[03:25:01] This is a weekend of what you might call, the idolatry, multiple performances at the Royal Shakespeare Theater behind me including contributions from Ian McKellen, Ralph Fiennes, and Judi Dench.

In the London with its own river side Shakespearean Theater, the weekend is being divided to Hamlet. President Obama dropped by but to briefly treat the boards and a hear speech from the within.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's a special prominence from the poll of the span.

GLASS: On the other side of those attempts, some of the great Shakespearean documents have gone on display. The ones we only get to see once in a lifetime.

This is Will's will last seen by the public in 1964, each of the three pages assigned. We only have six examples of Shakespeare signature here are three of them in one document all a bit different.

The final signature reads, "By me, William Shakespeare." The man himself remains illusive.

JAMES SHAPIRO, PROFESSOR, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY: What is politics are? What religion he profess? Who he slept with? What kind of father and brother and husband he was? Those enough questions I think will never have answers too.

GLASS: Holy Trinity Church by reverence in Stratford this where Shakespeare was baptized in 1564 and buried at 52 years later in 1616. In this, the same splendid of door he used when she worship in the church. His pass (ph) and his grave are just by hailed after recent radar scanned, the search is claim to made a startling discovery.

The skeleton rest on soil just three feet under the stone slab that seems a skull may well be tampered with even stolen several hundred years ago. Whatever the truth of it Shakespeare is still forth over.

GORDON MCMULLAN, PROFESSOR KINGS COLLEGE: My sense a bit is that Shakespeare was Stratford, couldn't wait to get out, spend his entire life in London and then he went back to Stanford and die.

RONNIE MULRYNE, PROFESSOR OF WARWICK UNIVERSITY: When he went down to London he was simply capitalizing on the start that he had here at Stratford. So, you know, there's a little bit to beside to London but I wouldn't want to say too much.

GLASS: This is in fact Shakespeare's school room in it just been open to the public for the first time. This is where he studied Latin and Greek from the ages of seven to 14.

In Stratfford, the rebel continues over weekend. London will by for more attention on Monday. There's going to be an announcement about excavating one of Shakespeare's original theaters that gotten in shortage.

Nick Glass, CNN, in Stratford-upon-Avon.

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