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[08:00:30] KRISTIE LU STOUT, HOST: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. And welcome to New Stream.

Now, tensions rise on the Korean peninsula after a report that Pyongyang has attempted another

missile launch.

Donald Trump once again hammers North Korea and China as he maps out his foreign policy. And we will dissect the speech straight ahead.

And a source tells CNN, painkillers were found on Prince. We'll have the latest into the

investigation of the music legend's death.

We begin on the Korean peninsula. And the South says Pyongyang's latest attempt to launch a mid-range missile appears to have failed.

Now, according to a South Korean official, the missile crashed shortly after it was launched.

Now, this is the North's latest attempt to advance its missile and nuclear weapons program.

And just days ago, it fired a ballistic missile from a submarine. It drew condemnation from the south and the United States.

Now, for more on this story, let's go straight to Will Ripley in Tokyo. And Will, today's failed missile launch is the latest in a string of tests.

Any more details on what happened today, though?

WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Very little information is coming out about this. And we may not learn much more than what the South Korean

authorities are able to assess from their spy satellites and other intelligence methods. The reason being that when a test like this fails,

Pyongyang normally does not release any information about it, instead they do announce their great successes as they did on Saturday when there was

that submarine missile launch that was a success, at least according to the North Koreans, the South Koreans say it only went a tenth of the distance

it was supposed to go, some 30 kilometers versus 300 kilometers.

But the submarine missile launch is a dangerous sign that Pyongyang is developing technology that will allow it to potentially launch missiles

very close to enemy shores and that would be very difficult to track, because submarines are difficult to track.

Now, these two launch attempts, including the one that reportedly failed today, we believe were made from a mobile missile launching device. And be

able to launch a (inaudible) from a mobile missile launcher, one of these missiles -- if it was to work

correctly -- would have a range up to 3,500 kilometers putting it within reach of U.S. military bases in Okinawa or the United States very important

naval station in Guam. So clearly the signs that North Korea is testing and moving towards perfecting and advancing this technology.

Very alarming, Kristie.

LU STOUT: Very alarming and coming at a time with that upcoming worker's congress.

Now, do stay with us, Will, because I want to get your thoughts on the next story here.

On Wednesday, Donald Trump, he laid out his foreign policy plan to the nation with a blunt message: America comes first.

Now, the Republican front runner promised a swift end to ISIS in a major military buildup, but

critics say it was thin on details and delivering little on the way of a recognizable foreign strategy and I want to play part of what Trump had to

say about the Obama administration's relationship with China and Beijing's handling of North Korea.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DONALD TRUMP, 2016 REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: President Obama watches helplessly as North Korea increases its aggression, and expands

further and further with its nuclear reach. Our president has allowed China to continue its economic assault on American jobs and wealth,

refusing to enforce trade deals and apply leverage on China necessary to reign in North

Korea.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LU STOUT: OK. Let's go back to Will Ripley in Tokyo. And Will, Trump minced no words

attacking Barack Obama on how his lack of action has caused the rise of China as well as the rising threat of North Korea. And I wanted to get

your thoughts on that. Has the North Korean threat actually increased during the Obama presidency?

RIPLEY: Well, certainly their military capabilities have increased, but not necessarily because of the Obama presidency. This has clearly been a

directive of the Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un, who as you mentioned, is holding that nation's -- one of the most important political gathering in

35 years next Friday -- The Workers' Party Congress. They haven't had one since 1980. Many observers believe that the young leader will consolidate

his power.

And the nuclear tests we saw in January, the satellite launch in February, these repeated missile tests, all of these send a strong message

domestically about his power, they also send a message to China and the United States, both of which are enforcing these newly

heightened UN sanctions as a result of North Korea's military activity that North Korea will push forward despite the pressure from the international

community and there are others who also say that they believe -- in fact, South Korea

believes the north could be planning another nuclear test.

It would be the country's fifth nuclear test possibly ahead of this major political gathering, which is just about one week away.

And these tests not only help them perfect their technology but they're an advertisement, essentially, Kristie, for other rogue nations around the

world that might want to purchase North Korea's military technology, because weapons exports are a main revenue generator. And given the

sanctions from the U.S., China and the UN, they are in need of cash right now.

So Donald Trump criticizing President Obama for not putting enough economic pressure on

China and therefore, China not putting pressure on Pyongyang, clearly the actions of Pyongyang this year especially have shown that there isn't much

influence there and North Korea is pushing forward despite what may be done outside of its borders.

[08:06:20] LU STOUT: All right. CNN's Will Ripley reporting live for us from Tokyo. Thank you, Will. And we're going to have a lot more on

Trump's foreign policy speech and how Moscow and Bejing are reacting. That's going to be straight ahead right here on New Stream.

Now, a human rights group says 27 people were killed in an air strike that hit a hospital in

Syria. Let's show you some video. This is video that we received just a short time ago. And it shows the aftermath of the attack that witnesses

say the al Quds field hospital (ph) in Aleppo was struck by a missile from a fighter jet.

Now, the Syria Observatory for Human Rights says three children and three doctors are among the dead, among them one of Aleppo's last remaining

pediatricians.

Now, our international diplomatic editor, Nic Robertson, has been following the story for us from London. He joins us now.

And Nic, an airstrike has hit a hospital in Syria, what more have you learned about the attack and its deadly aftermath?

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, one of the last pediatricians in Aleppo dying is hugely significant. This hospital has

support and help from Doctors Without Borders, MSF, Medecins Sans Frontieres. And from the ICRC, the International Committee for the Red

Cross.

The International Committee for the Red Cross say that because this health facility has been targeted, this is not an accident, it was a direct strike

according to the MSF -- because this hospital has been targeted now millions of people -- millions of people's lives are now put in grave

danger because they're not going to have access to the sort of medical care that they need when there's a conflict raging

around them.

What the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says is if you take the last six days in Aleppo

alone, 148 civilians have been killed

Now, think back just a week ago, we were talking about a cessation of hostilities in Syria that was allowing peace talks in Geneva to take place.

Now, we're talking about these staggering numbers, 148 civilians in the last eight days killed in Aleppo.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights breaks that down further. They say that 99 of those civilian deaths were on the opposition side, 49 of those

civilian deaths on the regime side resulting from opposition shelling.

What the situation is as far as peace talks are going, and it is symptomatic, this escalation of

violence that we're witnessing, this targeting of the hospital by what appears to be regime air force is having a direct impact on the peace talks

in Geneva.

The opposition have left those peace talks, put their participation on hold. The UN special envoy who oversees those peace talks is talking in

very dire terms. In the past 48 hours, h says, there has been one Syrian death every 25 minutes and one person wounded every 13 minutes.

Right now he plans to hold more peace talks, but there's nothing actually scheduled coming up, Kristie.

HAYES: Just, you know, grim human death toll figures coming out of Syria and the latest news of this hospital in Aleppo being targeted by an air

strike. There's supposed to be this truce, the cessation of hostilities on the ground in Syria. Is that effectively over?

ROBERTSON: Over is probably for the -- sort of from the UN perspective going a little far. However, what we're hearing from Staffan de Mistura,

UN special envoy, who is in charge of the humanitarian assistance for the UN inside Syria, they're both saying that this cessation of hostilities

that was agreed between the United States, Russia, their allies and the parties in Syria agreed back at

the -- back at the end of February is absolutely crumbling. It's in tatters.

What Staffan de Mistura is calling for right now is for the United States and Russia to get together to try to sort of reinvigorate the cessation.

The reality is it appears as if the government -- the Syrian government -- is on an offensive

around Aleppo to take parts of Aleppo before they're ready to sort of get into any kind of meaningful peace talks. At the moment, though, the

special envoy saying that it's going to go to Moscow next week to see what difference that can make. Obviously, Russia backs the Syrian government,

and has done very clearly for the last several months but the reality is he's going next week. People are dying in the numbers he's talking about

right now, Kristie.

[08:10:55] LU STOUT: You know, there may be technically a cessation of hostilities in place in Syria, but there is no respite for civilians in

Syria, especially in Aleppo, given what happened today. Nic Robertson reporting for us live. Thank you, Nic.

Now turning now to Bangladesh where fear is rising over the killing of activists, intellectuals hacked to death with machetes. This month alone,

attackers have killed a university professor, an atheist blogger and most recently this week two gay rights activists.

And U.S. officials have counted at least 35 attacks over the last 14 months.

And joining me now is senior international correspondent Ivan Watson. And Ivan, just underscore how dangerous is it to be an atheist blogger, an

activist, an openly gay person, an intellectual in Bangladesh today?

IVAN WATSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, we already knew that dozens of these atheist bloggers have been fleeing the country the last few

months and we've been covering the alarming frequency of these really savage machete murders. But it wasn't until the U.S. ambassador to

Bangladesh, Marsha Burnica, spoke to you on this program yesterday, Kristie, that we really got a sense of the sheer number of these attacks

because we haven't heard this from the Bangladeshi government.

She said that there were at least 35 attacks similar to the double machete murder on these two gay rights activists on Monday over the past 14 months.

And of them, 28 were claim responsibility -- they had been claimed by a terrorist organization. And what also was very important about her

interview with you was that there was implicit criticism there when she call on the Bangladeshi government to forcefully condemn these acts of

violence.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

WATSON: Grief and shock after a brutal double murder. On Monday evening, a gang armed with machetes carried out a deadly home invasion in the

Bangladeshi capital, killing two gay rights activists.

A local branch of Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for this savage act of homophobia. Something violent and frightening is happening in Bangladesh. A

majority Muslim country and secular democracy.

Militants linked to Al Qaeda and ISIS are hunting down activists and intellectuals and killing them one by one. They've murdered at least six

Atheist bloggers and secular publishers in just 14 months. And activists say they've documented thousands of cases of violence and intimidation

against religious minorities.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Rape, abduction, gang rape, forceful conversion, destruction of temple, and also destruction of houses belonging to the

minority community.

WATSON: These days even some Muslim clerics don't feel safe.

AHMED REZA FAROOQI, IMAM: Extremism in Islam, now it is rising. Now it is rising day by day.

WATSON: Ahmed Reza Farooqi is an imam at a mosque in the Bangladeshi capital who follows a mystical interpretation of Islam known as Sufism. His

father, Sheikh Nurul Islam Farooqi regularly preached peace and tolerance on TV.

"For that," his son says, Farooqi received threats from hard-liners from the Wahhabi branch of Islam, which often rejects Sufism.

FAROOQI: My father has been threatened from left side, from Wahhabi people, from terrorist people.

WATSON: In August 2014, attackers broke into the elder Farooqi's home, tied him up and slit his throat. Ahmed Reza has taken over leadership of his

father's mosque. This Muslim cleric is calling on the government to crack down on Islamist extremists before it's too late.

FAROOQI: If this sector will not be stopped, there will be massacre. Massacre with the people who love the Sufism, who love the modern Islam.

ANNISUL HUQ, LAW JUSTICE AND PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS MINISTER: We try hard to protect our citizens.

WATSON: Law and justice minister Annisul Huq rejects claims what the machete murders are being carried out by local members of Al Qaeda and

ISIS.

[08:15:10] HUQ: There is no existence of ISIS in this country. Now, ISIL- related incidents can take place. And one amateur can demand that I belong to the ISIS. That does not make him a member of ISIS.

WATSON: In this growing climate of fear in Bangladesh, some community leaders vowed to stand strong against what they describe as the forces of

darkness that threaten their country.

FAROOQI: No, I'm not afraid. I'm not afraid of the terrorists. And I will not fear of the darkness.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

WATSON: Now, Kristie, the Bangladeshi government says it's doing everything it can to

stop these killers. The law and justice minister that we spoke with also suggested that opposition parties were somehow behind some of the killings,

that we've seen no real evidence that can support that accusation.

In the meantime, a lot of the counter terrorist experts that we've talked to say there is a very morbid competition that appears to be taking place

between militants linked with al Qaeda on the one side and militants linked with ISIS on the other and they are in a competition to try to kill the

most people in the country and win the most publicity -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: And that's what's creating this climate of fear that's been gripping Bangladesh. Ivan Watson, we thank you very much indeed for your

reporting. Take care.

Now, Donald Trump and his foreign policy made some big promises about what he plans for Russia and for China. And we will have reaction with live

reports from Moscow and Hong Kong. Keep it here.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

[08:20:26] LU STOUT: Welcome back to New Stream.

Now, we want to take you back to an earlier story: Donald trump's foreign policy plan. His message was blunt, America comes first.

Now, the Republican front runner promised a swift end to ISIS and a major military buildup and Trump also honed in on the Obama administration's

relationship with China.

And watching the reaction from here in Hong Kong, CNN Money's Asia-Pacific editor Andrew Stephens. He joins us now.

And Andrew, Trump says that the United States has the leverage and has the economic power over China, but has failed to exercise it to mitigate the

rise of China.

What's your read on those comments from Trump?

ANDREW STEVENS, CNN MONEY: Well, that's right. He very clearly said that and it

was all about America first and America first in trade as well as geopolitics, Kristie.

Not a lot he said was new. The tone may have been slightly different, a little more measured

because he was reading off on autoqueue, but the message was clearly the same that China is playing unfairly. It's signing unfair trade deals, it's

manipulating its currency. He didn't say it in so many words but it was all about how China is basically assaulting the U.S. economically.

Just listen to a couple of things he had to say about them.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

TRUMP: Fixing our relations with China is another important step really for creating an even

more prosperous period of time. China respects strength, and by letting them take advantage of us economically, which they are doing like never

before, we have lost all of their respect. We have a massive trade deficit with China, a deficit that we have to find a way quickly and I mean quickly

to balance.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

STEVENS: He talks about this massive trade deficit, and indeed it is, Kristie, to the tune of some $350 billion.

But finding a way to balance it -- at this stage, we're still left with earlier comments from Donald Trump talking about slapping tariffs on China

for what he believes are unfair trading practices. And he did say in this speech that he would back his earlier statements in that he said that

financial sanctions are very, very persuasive in his words when talking to China about doing trade deals. So he's

not backing off on that. But still no clear detail about exactly how he's going to go about it, only that a strong America will win.

LU STOUT: Yeah, no clear detail but expected tough talk from Trump on China.

Andrew Stevens, thank you.

Now, Donald Trump also previewed plans to try to work with countries seen as threats. That includes Russia.

Our senior international correspondent Frederik Pleitgen joins me now live from Moscow.

And Fred, in regards to Russia, Trump expressed a desire to seek common ground. What did he say? And can that be achieved?

FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN INTERNATINOAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, he believes that it can be achieved. He thinks that the U.S. should negotiate from a

position of strength as he said and also not be afraid to walk away from the table. But he also said that he thinks that relations should

improve considerably and go toward what he calls a friendship with Russia.

Now, one of the things that he didn't mention in all of this was Ukraine, which of course is the

main stumbling block currently between Russia and the United States and indeed between Russia and many other countries where other countries are

saying, listen, if you want the sanctions against Russia to go away you have to stop meddling in Ukranian affairs and hand back Crimea.

He didn't mention any of that and of course this is something that went down very well in Kremlin, and also among ordinary Russians. We went to

find out how they feel about all this. Let's have a look.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

PLEITGEN: It's no secret that Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin seemed feel a certain admiration for each other.

VLADIMIR PUTIN, PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA (through translator): He is a brilliant and

talented person without a doubt.

TRUMP: And I like him because he called me a genius. He said Trump is the new real leader. Trump should be the leader and he's a total genius.

PLEITGEN: And many ordinary Russians are Trump fans as well.

"The key thing about him is his willingness for a break through in relations with Russia," this man says. "Maybe they won't get closer, but

at least there will be dialog."

And this man adds "first of all, Trump is a positive guy. And he spoke about Putin in a good way. He wants positive change in America."

In a recent UGOV poll conducted in the D20 nations, those surveyed in every country said they would take Hillary Clinton over Trump except in Russia

where the Donald leads by a landslide.

While relations between Russia and the Obama administration have soured over Moscow's policy in Ukraine and Syria, Trump in his foreign policy

speech says he thinks he can work with Russia.

TRUMP: I believe an easing of tensions, and improved relations with Russia from a position of

strength only is possible.

PLEITGEN: Many Russians believe if Donald Trump were to become president that the U.S.

would have a more isolationist foreign policy. They think that would lead to fewer disagreements between the U.S. and Russia and ultimately to better

relations.

A recent Trump campaign video seemingly lumping Putin in with ISIS as a challenge to America did lead to some anger in the Kremlin, but Fyodor

Lukyanov head of the Russian council on foreign and defense policy says Vladimir Putin still appreciates Trump's style.

FYODOR LUKYANOV, RUSSIAN COUNCIL ON FOREIGN AND DEFEND POLICY: He basically likes those who are frank, open and disregard political

correctness and this is exactly the case of Mr. Trump.

PLEITGEN: It's a style that propelled Vladimir Putin to several terms as Russian prime minister and president. While some believe Trump's frankness

could carry him all the way into the White House, he still has a long way to go.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

PLEITGEN: So, Kristie, there will have been a lot of smiles in the Kremlin after Donald Trump gave his speech there saying he could believe that a

friendship is something that could happen in the future. But of course also rhetoric like that is something that will

worry a lot of America's allies in Europe and specifically there in Eastern Europe on Russia's doorstep.

[08:26:41] LU STOUT: Yeah, interesting to learn in your reporting that team Trump is

strong in Russia.

Now, just hours after Trump's foreign policy speech, Republican rival Ted Cruz announced that he has a runningmate. He has chosen Carly Fiorina as

his VP pick. Now, the former HP CEO was a presidential candidate until she dropped out of the race in February.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

CARLY FIOINA, FRM. CEO, HP: I'm very proud and very humbled and honored to announce

that I have accepted Senator Ted Cruz's offer to be his vice president for the Republican nomination.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LU STOUT: Now, at this point Cruz cannot win enough delegates in the remaining contest to clinch the Republican presidential nomination

outright, but he is trying to block Trump from reaching the magic number so that the final decision will be made at a contested national convention.

Now meanwhile, on the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders' campaign is laying off more than 200

workers from its 550 member strong team.

Now, the Democratic candidate lost four of five primary contests on Tuesday and CNN estimates his rival Hillary Clinton needs just 215 more delegates

to clinch her party's presidential nomination.

And after the break, CNN will be speaking exclusively to the president of Brazil who faces being pushed from office.

Now, hear what Dilma Rousseff has to say about how long she expects to remain president.

And new details about the death of music legend Prince. A source tells CNN that they're looking at the role prescription painkillers may have played

in his final days.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

(HEADLINES)

[08:32:05] LU STOUT: Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff is vowing to fight the impeachment charges she is facing. And critics accuse her of breaking

the law by hiding a budget deficit ahead of her re-election.

As early as next month, she could be suspended from running her government shortly before Brazil hosts the Summer Olympic games.

Now, the embattled leader sat down exclusively with Christiane Amanpour.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: I want to ask you this and there's no easy way to say it.

Madam President, you have been rated one of the worst leaders in the world, one of the worst presidents. Your popularity right now is around 10

percent; that's really, really low.

You were impeached by the -- or congress decided to send your impeachment case by an overwhelming majority that surprised even your supporters. You

don't seem to have very many friends in congress. Do you think you are going to survive the impeachment process in the senate?

ROUSSEFF (through translator): In Brazil's presidential system, just as the case in the U.S., no one can carry out an impeachment process just out

of sheer unpopularity of the president because unpopularity is a cyclical thing, because if it were not so, all presidents or all prime ministers in

Europe that experienced 20 percent unemployment rates could inevitably have to go through an impeachment process because they, too, experience

substantial drops in their popularity.

AMANPOUR: I hear what you're saying. But do you think you're going to survive? Do you think you will be president at the end of this process?

ROUSSEFF (through translator): I wish to tell you one thing, more than just thinking that I will survive. I will fight to survive, not just for my term

in office but I will fight because what I'm advocating and defending is a democratic principle that governs political place in Brazil.

Who found the impeachment process against me? All of of those who filed, the leaders of the impeachment procedure filed against me -- I'm not

talking about, say, their underlying foundation -- the leaders, all of them are being charged for corruption, charges and allegations, especially

speaker of the house.

(END VIDEO CLIP))

LU STOUT: Now, it's Ms. Rousseff's first one on one interview since the lower house of congress voted to impeach her. and viewers here in Hong

Kong can tune in at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, 11:00 p.m. on Tokyo, only on CNN.

Now, Brazil's neighbor, Venezuela, is also grappling with a crisis to deal with the power shortage the president has slashed the work week for state

employees to just two days. He's also imposing rolling blackouts.

Rafael Romo reports.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

RAFAEL ROMO, CNN SENIOR LATIN AMERICAN AFFAIRS EDITOR: The president made the announcement during a cabinet meeting broadcast nationally. Government

employees he said will now work only two days a week. The drastic measure doesn't have anything to do with festive reasons. It's a desperate decision

to address a deep energy crisis.

(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

ROMO: The president is calling the next few weeks critical and extreme. Water levels at the dam that provide 75 percent of Venezuela's electricity

are at record low levels due to a drought caused by the weather pattern known as El Nino.

The president had already ordered government workers to take Fridays off, and asked all Venezuelans to limit the use of nonessential appliances like

blow dryers.

He also decreed four-hour rolling blackouts for the next 40 days, a measure residents say in the Caricuao district outside Caracas, say, is making

their lives miserable.

"We've had rolling blackouts since last month," Gustavo Diaz says. We used to lose two hours in the morning and two in the afternoon. But now it's

four hours straight."

About the only thing the Diaz family can depend on at home is the gas stove. But the food in the fridge is spoiling, and the microwave oven sits

unused. The TV set is dark and the stereo system silent.

When CNN visited the home in the Caricuao district outside Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, temperature was 34 degrees Celsius, or 93 Fahrenheit.

With no power, turning the air on is not an option.

The capital district in Caracas and some adjacent municipalities are exempt from the rolling blackouts because that's where the federal government

headquarters are located.

Two states that heavily depend on tourism will not be affected either. Back at the Caricuao district outside Caracas, just about every business

displays the same sign. "No hay luz," it says there is no power.

Rafael Romo, CNN.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

[08:36:46] LU STOUT: And turning now to the investigation into the death of music legend Prince, a law enforcement official tells CNN Prince had

opioid medication on him at the time of his death.

Now, the official says Prince was treated for potential overdose of the pain medication just

a week before he died.

Now, Stephanie Elam joins us now outside Prince's home in Minnesota where he was found dead. And Stephanie, we know that Prince had that health

scare a week before his death, so is there a link between that event and this discovery of painkillers on him at the time of his death?

STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Right, Kristie, this is a development that we've learned. We heard about the fact that his plane had to make an

emergency landing in Illinois as he was traveling back from Atlanta from concerts there. What we are learning now from officials telling CNN that

he was likely treated, they believe, for a reaction to these painkillers, these opioid painkillers. And then we do know now that these drugs had

been found on his person and in his home here at Paisley Park.

So at this point, local investigators here have reached out to the federal government and looking for help from the Drug Enforcement Administration to

find out who was prescribing these drugs to Prince and whether or not they were being over prescribed, Kristie.

LU STOUT: And separately, Stephanie, we learned that Prince died without leaving a will, so

what will happen to his estate?

ELAM: Right. At this point we know that Prince did not have a will or a trust. So what happens now is that his sister, Tika Nelson (ph) who his

one full-blooded sibling, he also has five half siblings, they have now gone to court to begin the process of taking

control of the estate. They've named one to be the special administrator to go through his affairs and start working on that. And come Monday, they

will have a hearing to start taking a look at how this will make its way through the system.

But I have to tell you just because it's starting, doesn't mean it will be wrapped up fast. It is a very long process when there is no will or trust,

Kristie.

LU STOUT: All right, Stephanie Elam reporting live for us from outside Paisley Park, the home of Prince there in Minnesota. Thank you.

Now, you're watching News Stream. And still to come on the program, as Facebook celebrates record earnings, we explore its evolution from a dorm

room project to a dominant social media giant.

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[08:40:42] LU STOUT: A sparkling night here in Hong Kong. And coming to you live from the territory, you're back watching News Stream.

Now, Facebook is getting bigger than ever. It reported more than 50 percent jump in sales in the last quarter compared to a year ago and a

surge of roughly 60 million users in three months time.

There are now more than 1.6 billion monthly users with most of them accessing Facebook through mobile. And they spend nearly an hour a day on

Facebook plus Messenger and Instagram.

Now, the social media giant has come a long way in just over a decade.

Back in 2005, founder Mark Zuckerberg was interview by the directors of a documentary film. It was called "Now Entering," and they asked him to

describe his venture at the time and he came up with this. He said, quote, "I think Facebook is an online directory for colleges."

Now, more than ten years on, we know what Facebook is. Facebook is now the dominant digital

platform for news media, consumer brands, political campaigns and the personal history of more than a billion users.

And some media critics are concerned about Facebook's growing influence. In fact, last week, the popular gossip website The Shade Room was removed

from Facebook. That alarmed media watchers like Joshua Benton who tweeted this, quote, "reminder, Facebook can take down your 4.4 million like page

any time it wants without explanation."

Now, Facebook says the page was removed because of intellectual property violations, but it does raise the question how much power does Facebook

really have?

And that's an issue that I explored with a New Yorker Joshua Depulski (ph). He claims that Facebook doesn't just want to just dominate the internet, it

wants to be the internet.

And if you missed our conversation you could watch it again at CNN.com. We'll have much more on what Facebook's earnings means coming up next on

CNN Money with Maggie Lake. that starts in about 20 minutes right here on CNN.

Now, the private aerospace company SpaceX says it plans to land an unmanned spacecraft on

Mars as early as 2018. Now, the probe would be called Red Dragon, and it would survey the Martian terrain and potentially collect soil samples.

Now, SpaceX says it will unveil its Mars rocket before the end of the year. Founder Elon Musk, who said that he hopes SpaceX will send the first humans

to the Red Planet by around 2025.

And that is News Stream.

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