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America's War on ISIS in Libya; Protests in Hong Kong; Queen Elizabeth Speaks Before Parliament; Trump Says He'd Speak to North Korea's Kim Jong-Un as President; Daughter Remembers Professor Father, Hacked to Death in Bangladesh; Activist: Girl Kidnapped By Boko Haram Found; Woman Endures Five Years Of Slavery; Didi App Challenges Uber In China. Aired 8- 9a ET

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[08:00:14] KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN HOST: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong, and welcome to NEWS STREAM.

Fighting ISIS inside Libya. CNN takes you to the battleground as the U.S. and its allies try to beat back militants there.

And parts of Hong Kong swarming with police, all because of one man. How a senior Chinese official has sparked protests and heightened security.

And Donald Trump says he would extend a handshake to North Korea. We'll look at how the Republican's idea is being received.

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LU STOUT: Now, the terror group ISIS is doing all it can to take control of Libya. Floggings, public beheadings, acts of violence have become

common in the ISIS-held city of Sirte. And in a new report, Human Rights Watch says ISIS has executed 49 people in the last 15 months, often

displaying the dead on scaffolding for days.

Now, there are U.S. forces there, but jihadist groups steadily gained influence in Libya since the overthrow of Moammar Gadhafi five years ago.

Our senior international correspondent Nick Paton Walsh has just returned from the city of Misrata where he had exclusive access to the operation

that aims to contain the ISIS advance. Nick joins us now. Nick, you went inside Libya. You were on the ground with militias fighting ISIS. What

did you see?

NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, it's remarkable at this stage, after a year, how much territory ISIS have

control of. By some estimates, control or influence over 1/10 of the 2,000 kilometer coastline that Libya has. And we were there on a particular day

when they used armored cars as suicide bombers to advance along a key highway towards the port city of Misrata, despite the fact that there is

increasingly western help finally on the ground there to try and contain ISIS.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

WALSH (voice-over): This is the eye in the sky for America's quietest war on ISIS, in Libya. A specially adapted spy plane.

(on camera): These flights part of a growing effort by U.S. intelligence agencies to learn as much as they can about ISIS and what many consider to

be its most dangerous stronghold so close to Europe.

(voice-over): Buried in the rock of the remote Sicilian island of Pantelleria, it's run by a handful of Americans. They fly over North

Africa's coast, public aviation records show, likely hoovering up electronic chatter, video, from above the failed state, a 1/10 of whose

coastline ISIS now control.

And down here is where it matters. A long, isolated road between the Libyan city of Misrata and the ISIS stronghold of Sirte. This day is all

bad news. ISIS using a suicide bomber to help them advance the furthest yet. Fighters tell us that Americans are also on the ground here.

(on camera): Along this road we are seeing reinforcement pouring down there and one witness said they saw what looked like four armored SUVs

containing western-looking soldiers.

(voice-over): They're nervous about what we see. One Libyan official later revealed that a dozen U.S. troops operate out of a nearby air base;

the Pentagon confirming U.S. troops are, quote, "meeting with Libyan" but wouldn't give details.

This man saying -- managed to save his family as ISIS moved into their hometown. This was the scene they left behind.

(GUNFIRE)

WALSH: These chaotic militia are all that stand between ISIS and one of Libya's biggest cities. Hours later, ISIS sent another suicide bomber in

an armored car.

(SIREN)

WALSH: It (INAUDIBLE) into a state of emergency, flooding it with casualties. Scenes they thought they'd seen the last of once they defeated

Gadhafi are back again. Over 100 injured and 9 dead -- on a scale the hospital can barely kept with. Relatives kept out can only peer through

the glass for news.

(on camera): The most severely wounded are being brought out now. A steady stream of casualties, quite unlike anything the city is used to.

Along with that sense of ISIS never really having been so close or so threatening.

[08:05:12] (voice-over): Funerals now too common, they say. This for Abdullah Fortiyah (ph), killed in the first suicide bombings, leaving his

wife pregnant with their third child. The martyr is a friend of God, they chant.

After five years of war, it barely jars other routines. Weddings go on nearby. America is for now here as little as it can be, and ISIS are

winning. The wait for outside help measured in sons lost.

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WALSH (on camera): Now, Kristie, what next for western help? The Pentagon have said they have as many potentially as three different teams of special

forces talking to Libyans on the ground in the country there, trying to assess who they can work with.

But the big issue here is the statement from western powers that they want to assist the new government there, led by a man, Prime Minister Fayez al-

Sarraj. Now he has some severe problems because he runs one of three groups that claim they are of the legitimate government of Libya. There is

a bid, I think, by the west to say if you want help, Libyans, as a nation, you need to unite behind this man. But it's a slow, difficult tank and

certainly those Misratans you saw in the report there were far from accepting this new administration as being their leader.

So all of this political in-fighting and delay inside Libya delays the ability for the west to give arms to those militia and, also, distances the

day where there is a concerted, united effort to push ISIS back , who've exploited the chaos enough to get a foothold in Sirte. And you saw there,

are expanding. Kristie?

LU STOUT: That's right. ISIS is surely advancing fast in Libya. Nick Paton Walsh reporting live for us. Thank you, Nick.

Now, on Thursday, Nick Paton Walsh will show us what new threats migrants face as they get out of Libya to get away from ISIS in what is already a

difficult journey.

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WALSH: This trade in human souls is awful enough until you think that perhaps ISIS are using this passage of human life into Europe to try and

infiltrate the continent with sleeper cells.

(voice-over): ISIS can be among illegal immigrants on the boats. They travel with their families, without weapons, as normal illegal immigrants.

They will wear American dress and have English language papers so they cause no suspicion.

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LU STOUT: And we will be airing Nick's exclusive report Thursday, only on CNN.

Now, coalition officials say that since the battle against ISIS began in Iraq and in Syria, the terror group has lost territory, and you can see

those losses on this map. They are the areas in green. Nearly half its territory in Iraq is gone and it's lost 20 percent in Syria. Now, ISIS may

be on the defensive but the terror group is taking advantage of recent political turmoil in Iraq. It launched a new wave of suicide attacks that

killed at least 130 people this week, including those bombings in Baghdad yesterday.

Now here in Hong Kong, pro-democracy activists have been gathering in the downtown business district. Now, the top Chinese official Zhang Dejiang is

in town and police have been trying to shield him from the protesters. Rallies are confined to designated zones and barriers are set up to control

the crowds. Authorities have also glued down pavement bricks to prevent them from being thrown.

For more on this story, Alexandra Field joins us now from downtown Hong Kong. And, Alex, can you describe the scene around you? The number of

protesters and the number of police there?

ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, well, Kristie, it is loud and it is an impassioned crowd. These are people who are divided not only

ideologically but even physically down here. You look over on this side, you've got this pro-democracy group that you were speaking of. These were

the people were out here protesting this visit from Zhang Dejiang there. The ones who are calling for what they call true democracy, whole universal

suffrage. They are trying to bring their point across with a top Chinese official in town.

Of course, this highlights the tension that has grown here in Hong Kong between those who support and call for fully universal suffrage and true

democracy, and then the central government of China in Beijing.

On this side you can see, you've got another group, a counterrally of sorts. And these are Beijing supporters; they're out here waving their

flags. They are chanting in an equally passionate way. But you can see that they're actually being kept on the other side of separate fences.

You've got these two setups here and they made every effort to keep these two groups entirely separate. We're told that about a third of Hong Kong's

police force, that would be about 8,000 officers ,have been deployed as part of the mission to ensure that any rallies, demonstrations, or protests

that take place with this official in town do, in fact, remain peaceful.

[08:10:05] These are a lot of the themes that are being talked about, that first started being talked about in Hong Kong in 2014. We had tens of

thousands of people hitting the streets in the Occupy movement. Those, of course, were largely peaceful demonstrations. This one needs to be a

peaceful demonstration and, Kristie, it's why they've taken so many pains like gluing down some of the pavement in the sidewalk to prevent stones

from being thrown.

We all remember, of course, that back in February protests broke out where you had demonstrators who were actually ripping stones from the sidewalks

and throwing them at people. Certainly not something they want to see repeated here in Hong Kong tonight, Kristie.

LU STOUT: Yes, which is why they've glued down the pavement and taken such measures. A varied scene there. We have the police, we have the pro-

Beijing demonstrators, we also have the demonstrators who are very critical of this top Chinese leader.

When you talk to those demonstrators, what is motivating them? What is the main source of their anger with China and with Zhang Dejiang?

FIELD: It's the same frustration that we heard, that we saw in those incredibly striking visual images of 2014 when those tens of thousands

people filled the streets. They are the people who say that the central government of China in Beijing is infringing on the rights and freedoms

that they believe in, that they are calling for in this city, that they want to be protected, and that they believe are slipping away. They are,

again, making these demands. It looks like full universal suffrage is at the crux of their very impassioned pleas here.

But when you talk to the people who are out here in this crowd, they tell us their frustration is the fact they say they are not being heard, that

the demands that they called for during the Occupy movement of 2014 have not been met. And they're also frustrated because they know that Zhang

Dejiang is nearby, he's in the area, he's here for an economic summit and for meetings with legislators, but because the police are trying to prevent

conflicts, because they're trying to keep the peace, these demonstrators say they won't even actually have the opportunity to see Zhang Dejiang.

He's being kept quite far from them and they are being cordoned off here, a move that was the product of a lot of planing in advance of this visit from

officials and the police force, Kristie.

LU STOUT: All right. CNN's Alexandra Field reporting live from the scene for us. Thank you, Alex.

Now here is an additional look at why some in the city are so upset. I mean, Hong Kong is a special administrative region under "one country, two

systems". Here there is rule of law. There's freedom of assembly. There's freedom of the press. So if I file a sensitive report from Hong

Kong, it will broadcasts live and uninterrupted. But just across the border in mainland China, it can look like this. On Monday China blacked

out our coverage of the 50th anniversary of the Cultural Revolution. Due to a slight time delay, censors can pick and choose what CNN content

viewers in China see. But now there are concerns that Hong Kong is losing its freedoms.

Now in a recent report, the U.S. State Department said the recent disappearance of the Hong Kong booksellers who publish books critical of

mainland Chinese leaders raise serious concerns. And it is what appears to be the most significant breach of the "one country, two systems" policy

since 1997, the hand over. Now that alleged breach is why organizations in Hong Kong are protesting against this visit by a high-ranking mainland

Chinese official.

Now to Britain now where the state opening of parliament took place just a short time ago and Queen Elizabeth delivered her annual address, unveiling

the government's plans for the next parliament. This time the pomp and circumstance has been overshadowed by the upcoming referendum on whether

the U.K. should leave the E.U. The queen mentioned the vote and said the government will bring forward a British bill of rights. She also spoke

about the government's role in international affairs.

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QUEEN ELIZABETH II, GREAT BRITAIN: My government will continue to play a leading role in world affairs using its global presence to tackle climate

change and address major international security, economic, and humanitarian challenges.

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LU STOUT: Now, it's been a day filled with tradition and CNN's Max Foster has been covering the story. He joins us now live. And, Max, tell us more

about the pageantry and significance of this queen's speech.

MAX FOSTER, CNN ROYALTY CORRESPONDENT: Well, it's interesting, because it's the last one before the referendum and effectively what she does is

she reads out a -- a script that has been written by the government and it outlines the legislative agenda that they'd like to see through in the

coming year. They've already got challenges about because they've got a very small majority. So there's going to have to be some compromise

anyway.

But it does raise the wider question that if David Cameron loses the campaign, he's firmly come on the side of the campaign for Britain to stay

within the European Union. What happens if he loses that referendum? Effectively, would he even be in a position of power to take that

legislative agenda through? Also, many senior colleagues as well, they've also backed him. So you could see all sorts of people, if not lose their

jobs, they'd certainly lose a lot of authority within parliament behind me.

[08:15:05] So it's very interesting to hear the queen's speech, what they hope to achieve over the next year, and also the commentary around it, and

it all really is cloaked around the referendum. Even though there are specific suggestions of new laws which are specific to domestic issues like

prisons, for example, or security, it was all shrouded in this debate around the referendum.

And it was interesting seeing all of the pomp and pageantry because it really makes everyone feel proud in The United Kingdom of Britishness and

also sovereignty. And the referendum is very much about sovereignty. What's it mean and what do the two sides say it means for sovereignty?

It's a very big debate.

LU STOUT: Yes, interesting tone to strike today ahead of the key vote, which, of course, happens on June the 23rd.

As of today, Max, where does popular opinion stand on the issue of Britain in the E.U.?

FOSTER: Well, it's interesting. There has been some polling but it's not really defining; it doesn't really suggest the vote's going in either

particular direction. But even that isn't being given much credence in this country. There aren't that many polls coming out simply because

during the general election, all the polls were pretty much wrong. So people aren't putting much emphasis in the polling.

At the same time, there's not much you can compare this to. There is no similar referendum, really. There was a Scottish referendum but this is on

a much bigger scale across all the countries within the United Kingdom. So we can't really tell what the polling is suggesting.

There are people suggesting that perhaps the campaign for Britain to leave to the European Union is more emotional. It's about you can be British and

we can bring power back here. It won't be the end of the world. Whereas the campaign to keep Britain within the European Union is more technical,

suggesting that we need to stay within the European Union to retain the global clout that we currently have.

The talk about sovereignty a good example, really. Certainly some powers have transferred to Brussels and the European courts as a result being part

of the European Union, but those -- campaigns to stay within the union are saying polling (ph) sovereignty gives Britain more power. So sovereignty

doesn't necessarily mean power. It's a typical sort of debate that's being held here.

In the wider public, it's quite complex and there hasn't been full engagement, I'd say, in the issues yet. But it's getting more emotional

now. People are getting more engaged and they are looking at the issues. The thing is, it effects so many issues, from economy to security to

sovereignty, tTere's so much to consider. So I think it's going to be a pretty busy five weeks in the run up to that referendum vote. Kristie.

LU STOUT: Yes, so much to consider here. It's a day of ceremony and anticipation there. Max Foster reporting live for us. Thank you, Max.

You're watching NEWS STREAM.

And still to come on the program, a daughter mourning her father who was slaughtered on the streets of Bangladesh and tells us why she believes he

was targeted.

And we'll have the latest on the U.S. presidential race. Results of the primaries in Oregon and Kentucky, straight ahead.

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[08:20:22] LU STOUT: Coming to you live in Hong Kong. You're back watching NEWS STREAM.

Now Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders each took home a win in the latest votes in the U.S. presidential race. Now, Clinton edged out Sanders in

Kentucky by less than 2,000 votes. Sanders is projected to win big in Oregon, though, and he's promised to stay in the race even though Clinton

has a nearly insurmountable lead.

Now on the Republican side, Donald Trump is closer than ever to locking up his party's nomination. He is the winner in Oregon with about two-thirds

of the vote as of now. And by CNN estimates, Trump needs another 62 delegates to clinch his party's nomination.

Trump's latest comment on his foreign policy is attracting a lot of attention. He says if elected president, he would have no problem sitting

down to speak with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-Un. As Paula Hancocks reports, that is a sharp break from current U.S. policy.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Give it up for my friend, Kim!

PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A glimpse into what could have been. U.S. president Barack Obama jamming with his North Korean

counterpart Kim Jong-Un. It's not real, of course. They're look-alikes in a popular South Korean advert for a price comparison site, Inari (ph).

Mr. Obama may not have even come close to meeting Kim Jong-Un, but Donald Trump, the presumptive U.S. Republican presidential candidate, in an

interview with Reuters says he just might.

DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I would speak to him. I would have no problem speaking to him.

HANCOCKS: The statement in itself is not that dramatic. Mr. Obama said something similar nine years ago while running for president, saying he was

willing to talk to leaders of hostile countries including North Korea.

THEN-SENATOR BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We may not trust them, they may pose an extraordinary danger to this country, but we have the

obligation to find areas where we can potentially move forward.

HANCOCKS: Since then, Myanmar, once a pariah state, has been welcomed back into the international fold. Cuba now has normalized relations with the

U.S. And Iran signed a historic nuclear deal with the west, a deal spearheaded by Obama.

But for one CNN analyst, the devil of Trump's statement may be in the detail.

GLORIA BORGER, CNN CHIEF POLITCAIL ANALYST: We've heard Donald Trump talk about engaging with Putin. We've heard him now talk about engaging with

Kim Jong-Un. And I think the question has to be how, under what circumstances, and to what end?

HANCOCKS: North Korea under Kim Jong-Un has accelerated its nuclear and missile programs. Progress over the last four years appears to have been

more intense than at any other time, sparking questions about whether the Obama administration's policy of strategic patience towards North Korea

failed.

SCOTT SNYDER, SENIOR FELLOW, COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: Under strategic patience, even though the North Korean program has slowed, it has also

progressed. And it has progressed to the point where if a new administration comes in and looks at this issue with fresh eyes, and sees

the prospect of a North Korea that may actually be able to strike the United States with a nuclear device, then it's going to look at its policy

options differently.

HANCOCKS (on camera): That's not the first time Donald Trump talked about Kim Jong-Un. He's previously called him a maniac, but also said he

deserves credit for eliminating his rivals so successfully.

Paula Hancocks, CNN, Seoul.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: U.S. president Barack Obama called the Philippines president- elect Rodrigo Duterte with a subtle message about the importance of human rights. Duterte is known for being tough on crime and said that wants to

empower police to shoot to kill those who resist arrest. The White House says Mr. Obama commended the country's vibrant democracy and emphasized

their shared commitments to human rights.

Police in Bangladesh have arrested four people in connection with the hacking death of a university professor. It is just one of many brutal

killings believed to have been carried out by Islamist militants. Alexandra Field spoke recently to the professor's daughter. And a warning

some of video in this report is disturbing.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

RIZWANA HASIN, FATHER MURDERED BY ISLAMISTS: He loved music. He loved to write. Our life has become -- truly speaking, it has become colorless.

From a rainbow to a colorless effort (ph) and I'm not sure whether the color will return.

FIELD (voice-over): An English professor brutally killed, the end of what his daughter call as beautiful life.

HASIN: This is how simple he was.

FIELD (on camera): These are beautiful photos.

(voice-over): Now new images are burned on her brain.

[08:25:03] HASIN: Three hours, he laid there, slaughtered. I can't express my emotion as a daughter seeing that picture, his picture lying on

road.

FIELD (on camera): This is the spot where Rezaul Karim Siddique was killed. You can actually still see the blood on the wall. It's not far

from his family's home. He was out here waiting for a bus when a group of attackers hacked him to death.

(voice-over): Police have made several arrests linked to the case but they say they're still investigating. ISIS claimed responsibility for the

murder, saying Siddique promoted atheism.

(on camera): Why would someone like him be targeted?

HASIN: My father was believer. There's no question, there's no doubt. There's no doubt.

FIELD: He wasn't an atheist?

HASIN: Yes, he wasn't an atheist. But he was interested in music and a concept in Bangladesh isgrowing nowadays that those people who are

interested in music, culture, they are not believer in religion or something like that.

FIELD: All over this campus where the Professor Siddique taught English, there are signs of pain and also protest. This one says "Justice delayed

is justice denied."

Here's what's happening in the aftermath of this death. There are students and also professors from all over the country who are coming out here to

demonstrate. They are calling for justice, and because of that, some of their lives are now being threatened, too.

(voice-over): Siddique supporters say his death is a sign of growing intolerance. They're angered by failures to prosecute in a spate of recent

hacking deaths. The victims include secular bloggers, LGBT activists, and religious minorities. Many of the killings claimed by Islamic extremists.

(on camera): Are you afraid for your family? Are you concerned for your safety?

HASIN: Yes. I'm afraid -- I'm (INAUDIBLE) for my family. I'm concerned for m family because the situation in Bangladesh is growing day by day.

FIELD (voice-over): Even in a state of fear she tells us she'll stay in her father's house.

HASIN: The spirit is watching me and he will feel pain if we leave here.

FIELD: She's determined to find his killers.

HASIN: I will fight until the last to get them what they deserve, for their deed. I will fight for that. That's for sure.

FIELD: Alexandra Field, CNN, Rajshahi, Bangladesh.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

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ANNOUNCER: This is CNN breaking news.

LU STOUT: Breaking news.

[08:30:00] Nigerian activists say one of the missing Chiba girls has been found in Nigeria at the edge of Sambisa Forest. Two-hundred-seventy-six

girls were kidnapped by Boko Haram from their school dormitories two years ago. Last month, the Islamist militant group released this, this proof of

life video is obtained exclusively by CNN showing that at least some of the girls were still alive.

ow for more on this story, let's go straight to our David McKenzie. He joins us now live from Johannesburg, and David, this is an extraordinary

milestone in the two-year-long search for these missing girls. What more do we know about the girl who has been found, and the circumstances that

led to her freedom?

DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, what we do know is coming from activists and members of vigilante groups in Nigeria, in that

region, Kristie, who say that they found this young girl who already had a child. They found her on the edge of the Sambisa forest. That's where

many people believe that scores of abducted girls and women are being kept by the Islamic group Boko Haram, including many from the (ph) Chibok

school, where more than 270 young girls were taken just over two years ago. According to those sources, multiple sources now, all of them, activists

and vigilante groups, telling CNN that (ph) Amina Ali (inaudible) was taken, found, she was collecting firewood in that area, presumably to take

back to one of the camps that these kidnapped girls who have escaped, not from Chibok, have described to us. Certainly, it is a very big victory for

the bring back our girls movement if it turns out this story is corroborated by the Nigerian government. The bring back our girls movement

has said that the young girl has been handed over to the military in Nigeria in that region. She was found near the Cameroonian border in the

far northeast. Still very early days, but it does seems potentially some extremely good news in this long saga of these girls who have, you know,

created a campaign in Nigeria and beyond, globally, in fact, to seek their freedom. Kristie?

LU STOUT: Yes, potentially some very good news. We're getting these reports from activists groups, we're still waiting for confirmation from

the Nigerian government, but if confirmed, what do you think the impact of the discovery of this girl will have on the overall effort to find the (ph)

200 (inaudible) missing?

MCKENZIE: Well, certainly the impact will be one of hope, the hope that maybe their children, their sisters, are not lost. And that was what the

bring back our girls movement was all about. This anger and frustration by families in that region of Nigeria and across the whole world that these

girls were almost forgotten initially. The accusations were, the Nigerian government didn't do enough and now more than two year years later,

potentially one of them has been rescued and will see their family again. It's hope, but tempered by frustration and angers by the others. There are

hundreds more who are still missing. According to the activists we have spoken to, the young girl, Amina Ali, said that there are still many of the

Chibok girls in that Sambisa stronghold of Boko Haram, which is good news. She said that they are being held, according to these sources, in one

place, which might make a rescue attempt easier. But up to this point, the Nigerian military, the regional militaries, and the U.S. have been loathe

to go in there and try to rescue these girls because they are heavily protected by Boko Haram.

LU STOUT: All right, David McKenzie reporting live from Johannesburg on this breaking new story for us. Many thanks indeed for that, David.

You're watching NEWS STREAM. Still to come, we will introduce you to the young woman who spent five years as a slave. The story of her escape from

savage captivity to an audience with the pope, next.

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LU STOUT: A 23-year-old woman says that she became a victim of slavery without even realizing it. She says she was beaten and kept in chains by a

woman she trusted enough to call mom. She endured five years working as a slave in Mexico City. Rafael (ph) Romo has her story in this CNN "FREEDOM

PROJECT" report.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

(speaking in foreign language)

RAFAEL ROMO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: She's 23 years old but looks much younger. Her bright eyes and friendly smile can easily hide the horrors she has

lived. She says she ran way with her boyfriend at the age of 17, but the relationship quickly fizzled. Instead of going back home, she found food

and shelter with a lady who owned a dry cleaners. In the beginning, she says, she treated her so nicely, she started calling her mom. But little

by little, the amount of work she was asked to do increased. A heavy workload was followed by beatings.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (via translator): The first time, she started kicking me. Then she said, you have no right to talk back, because I'm like a

mother for you. If you call me mother, you have to understand that mothers discipline their children.

ROMO: The workload only got heavier. She was ironing clothes 16 hours a day.

Did you ever think to yourself, this is not normal? They're treating me like a slave?

SUNDURI, FORMER SLAVE (via translator): No. No. I thought, I give you work and you give me a roof over my head. I didn't think of it as slavery.

ROMO: As the work load increased, the amount of food she was allowed to eat decreased. Finally, she says, when she felt she could no longer take

more beatings or humiliation, things got much worse. Her captor put her in chains.

SUNDURI (via translator): She told me, this is how animals like you should be treated, and she grabbed me and put the chain around my neck. I could

only say, no. This is unnecessary. Don't treat me like this. Don't do it.

ROMO: (ph) Sunduri is now celebrating her first year in freedom after five long years in captivity, she was finally able to escape in April, 2015 when

the woman who enslaved her left the chains a little loose. This human rights attorney was one of the first people to see (ph) Sunduri after she

escaped.

SUNDURI (via translator): There was not a single part of her body without a scar or wound. She also had scratches and bruises. She had also lost a

lot of hair.

ROMO: Human rights activists, Carla de la Questa says Sunduri was also tortured.

CARLA DE LA QUESTA (via translator): Her little head was very hurt because she was burned with an iron.

ROMO: After Sunduri escaped and her case came to the attention of authorities, police raided the house where she had been held captive.

Seven people were detained, including two minors. They were all members of the same family. The two minors were later freed, but the five adults

remain behind bars and face charges of human trafficking and exploitation, punishable by at least 40 years in prison.

Sunduri has undergone a number of medical procedures as part of her recovery. She told her story to New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and later

traveled to the Vatican to meet Pope Francis.

Saying that Sunduri is a survivor is an understatement, but when you sit down to talk to her, it's easy to forget she was a victim. Especially when

you realize that in spite of everything she went through, she never lost her joy. Rafael Romo, CNN, mexico city.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

[08:39:50] LU STOUT: And tomorrow we'll be meeting another inspiring survivor. Her name, (ph) Tamia Nagi. Now, she was trafficked from Hungary

to Toronto at the age of 19. Now, Nagi is teaching police officers how to look for signs of human trafficking.

TAMIA NAGI, HUMAN TRAFFICKING VICTIM: I asked before the presentation if anyone of you'd seen a victim, (inaudible) a few hands up, and I asked this

gentleman in the back if he would share the story and he goes, no, I can't. He waited until everybody left. We went to the back, and he comes up to me

and he was crying. He goes, I saw you. I was an undercover officer. I was put in right by your motel to watch for three months for (ph) drug

operations. I watched you coming and going out of that motel. How would I know? How was I supposed to know?

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LU STOUT: Wow. Now hear more of Tamia Nagi's story this time tomorrow. It's part of CNN's "Freedom Project" series called "Surving to Thriving".

Now, in China, the race is on for businesses to grab a share of the sharing economy in China. One example of that is the rise of Didi Chuxing, the

country's answer to Uber. Apple recently invested a billion dollars in it and Matt Rivers hailed a ride to find out more.

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MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: So you're in Beijing and you need to get somewhere. It's too far to walk so you're going to need to get a ride. If

you live in China and you speak Chinese, there's a good chance you're going to pull out your phone and open up an app called Didi Chuxing. It's Simple

to use, really. You just tell the app where you are and where you want to go. And when the car arrives, you hop in, tell them where you're going --

take off.

Didi Chuxing, or Didi for short, says that rides like this one happen 11 million times per day across China in 400 different cities. It now says it

has 300 million users and most experts agree that its market share is somewhere between 75 and 90 percent.

But the company does have competitors in cars for hire apps. So let's say you forgot your wallet and have to go back. Except this time, you pull out

your phone and you open up Uber. In most of the world, Uber is the alpha app, but in China, it's more like the plucky start-up looking to put a dent

in a Didi dominated field. It's trying to get that foothold by offering extremely low prices and subsidies to its drivers.

You can now grab an Uber like this one in around 50 different Chinese cities, but progress is coming at a cost. In February, Uber CEO said the

company was losing over one billion U.S. dollars per year here, and in the short-term, it prioritizes expanding its presence in the hopes of making

money down the road.

China has more than 1.3 billion people, many of whom have places to be, but whether it's Didi or Uber that gets them there is one of the biggest tech

battles in the world. Matt Rivers, CNN, Beijing.

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