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[11:00:25] KRISTIE LU STOUT, HOST: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong and welcome to News Stream.

Now, CNN goes inside a Libyan smuggling ring to see how ISIS is using the flow of migrants to sneak militants into Europe.

A tech billionaire admits he is funding Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker, and we'll explain why Facebook investor Peter Thiel is spending

millions to fight the online media outlet.

And as Barack Obama prepares to become the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, we hear from a man who survived the atomic

bombing.

In Libya, the dark business of human smuggling is getting even uglier. Terrorists are said to be taking advantage of the huge number of people

trying to cross Mediterranean to make their way into Europe.

It is a perilous journey. Just this week, an overcrowded boat tipped over the Libyan coast. Hundreds of migrants fell into the sea. The

Italian navy rescued more than 500 passengers, but it says five others drowned.

Now, the coastline of Libya stretches far and wide. It is difficult to patrol and human smugglers are thriving.

Now, it doesn't help that Libya is racked by political instability. As our Nick Paton Walsh reports, ISIS is exploding the chaos to sneak

militants into Europe.

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NICK PATON WALSH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: This is the moment when desperate dreams come to an end. We're with the Libyan immigration

police inside a warehouse of migrant hopefuls they just raided right on the Tripoli beachfront.

As Turkey and Greece close their shores, the Libyan route to Europe has exploded again. Here, among the squalor that a lifetime's savings buys,

is when fantasies of a future in Europe fall apart.

Where are you from?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Nigeria.

WALSH: Bejim (ph) fled ISIS-loyal Boko Haram in Nigeria, whose bombs killed his father and brother. And he survived the desert trek until here.

EUGENE, NIGERIAN REFUGEE (TRANSLATED): Today bomb blast, tomorrow bomb blast. We are not safe. After the death miff father and my brother let me

go out, let me travel out. Every time I talk about them I feel sad. I feel sad. I feel sad.

WALSH: We leave quickly as this is the smugglers' neighborhood. But there is a new threat here. Smugglers and police telling us that ISIS have

hidden fighters among other groups of migrants bound for Europe. 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 to infiltrate the continent with sleeper cells.

Police tell us off camera they've caught different other migrants with ISIS links and a top Libyan intelligence official warns us the threat is

real.

ISMAIL AL-SHUKRI, MISRATA POLICE COMMANDER (TRANSLATED): ISIS can be among the 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.

WALSH: It is a huge and unpatronable coastline where smugglers rule. We talked to one disguised for his safety who says in the past two months

ferrying ISIS has become part of the trade.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: About two weeks ago, a boat left the ISIS stronghold serge. Among them were about 40 ISIS.

They were heading to Europe but bad weather turned them back. Ten days later they tried again. I don't know if they got there. About a month ago,

I got a call from a devout guy I knew was ISIS. He wanted a small boat for 25 people and was willing to pay about $40,000. I didn't take the deal.

WALSH: Do you and other smugglers feel comfortable moving people who you know may be ISIS toward Europe?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Smugglers are only interested in smuggling. ISIS, anyone. They don't care. Melon or watermelon. Only money matters.

WALSH: The Libyan state is torn apart by infighting. Its coast guard struggling to even find boats. Fighting the migrant trade across this, the

whole coastline of the Libyan capital Tripoli, are just six boats like this, none of which are in particularly good service.

You simply can't imagine how under resourced things are here so close to Europe. These are the desperate scenes as they try to rescue some

African migrants whose dinghy collapsed late last year.

Smugglers now prefer these dinghies, vulnerable to the slightest weather change. A trait born of human misery. Some fleeing ISIS themselves.

Only to find ISIS now seek to hijack their deadly journey to spread more suffering.

Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, Tripoli.

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[08:05:50] LU STOUT: Now, Nick Paton Walsh joins us now live from Beirut with more on this report.

Nick, through you're reporting we're learning that ISIS is trying to get to Europe using these migrant routes from Libya. Are there any plans

by European officials, or U.S. officials to reverse this trend?

WALSH: Well, there's been a lengthy bid by the EU called Operation Sophia, which according to one British reporter actually has been pretty

unsuccessful in trying to stop the broad flow of migrants from Libya into Italy and southern Europe.

Some European officials I spoke to in the EU and elsewhere were deeply concerned at these reports, the suggestion of ISIS are getting inside this

particular migrant trade. In fact, one pointed out how the issue of migrants and security has been extraordinarily delicate to approach because

of the desire for Europe to welcome in people fleeing terrorism themselves.

But after the Bataclan massacre in Paris, where it was clear some of the attackers had exploited the Turkish-Greek entry into the European area,

taht that's now really on their agenda and they really have to work out quite exactly what is going on inside of Libya.

Remember, it's impossible to know, frankly if ISIS has been successful and how manypeople they've managed to smuggle into Europe until potentially

an attack is launched or sleeper cells are uncovered.

So, this is a problem European officials are just about beginning to get their heads around.

LU STOUT: Yeah, and do we understand just what kind of scale we're talking about? We know that ISIS is determined to get deeper into Europe.

Do we know how many ISIS militants have managed to cross through from Libya?

WALSH: Whatever year ago one ISIS propaganist said they had threatened to flood Europe with a wave of militants amongst the refugees.

Now, it was clear for a long period of time that they weren't successful in doing that, and there seemed to be predominantly African

immigrants trying to use these boats. And that the sources we spoke you you saw in that report have been giving more consistent picture of what's

been happening in the past couple of months or so.

But the broader question you have to ask is how could you stop this more widely if ISIS currently now control a tenth of Libya's coastline.

Some of the boats, which we've heard in the last weeks or so having problems or getting as far as the Italian coast line seem to have been

launched from cities that have a lot of ISIS presence in them.

So, this broader collapse of the state in Libya, that's something the EU and Europe have to get to terms with if they're to try and get an

influence over how this migrant trade actually works and whether or not ISIS are able to infiltrate it on a broader scale -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: This is a chilling revelation, but we thank you for your reporting. Nick Paton Walsh reporting live from Beirut for us. Thank you.

Now, Iraqi forces say that they have retaken a town northeast of Fallujah from ISIS. Now, they've been fighting for the town of Kama for

the better part of a year. Now, this victory it means that most of the territory east of Fallujah is now under control of Iraqi security forces

and Shiite militias.

Now, we have seen some fierce fighting in the past few days as Iraqi forces advance on Fallujah. The UN says the fighting is posing an extreme

risk to the civilians who are still inside the city.

Now, the presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump pressed his case that Hillary Clinton is not qualified to be president at his latest rally

in California.

Now, things got a little heated near that campaign event in Anaheim on Wednesday. Police arrested eight protesters after a few clashes between

Trump supporters and his opponents.

But police say that they were prepared with a large deployment of officers.

Now, inside the rally itself, security removed a man while Trump made a show about ensuring

the protesters' safe exit.

Now, critics have accused Trump of inciting violence at his events.

Now, Donald Trump has proposed barring Muslims from entering the U.S., but now he's turning to a predominantly Muslim country for fresh

investments.

Ivan Watson looks at his new deals in Indonesia.

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IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Welcome to what Donald Trump's company says will one day become the next

generation of luxury hospitality.

This is the Lido Lakes Hotel, a resort that feels long past its prime.

(on camera): This hotel feels a little scruffy and forlorn. And yet Donald Trump and his Trump Hotels Company have announced that they're going

to help turn this place into a new, ultra luxury, six-star resort.

And here's the thing. We're currently in Indonesia. It's the world's most populous Islam country.

[08:10:22] (voice-over): This Southeast Asian country is home to more than 200 million Muslims. Many of the Indonesians we talk to say they're

offended by the things Donald Trump says about their faith, and his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the U.S.

DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I think Islam hates us. There's something -- there's something there that -- there's a tremendous

hatred there. And we have to be very vigilant. We have to be very careful. And we can't allow people coming into this country who have this hatred.

WATSON (on camera): Has Donald Trump's rhetoric been worrying your community?

YAHYA STAQUF, NAHDLATUL ULAMA: Not worrying. But you know, revoking, you know. Provoking. It's like that he wants Muslims to hate him.

WATSON (voice-over): Yahya Staquf is a top official in an Indonesian religious group that claims to be the largest Muslim organization. This

month, they organized an international conference of moderate Muslim leaders to denounce violent Islamist extremism. But the cleric warns a ban

on Muslims by a possible future President Trump would be disastrous.

STAQUF: It would be -- well, potentially dangerous, because it would ignite misunderstandings through the Muslim world.

WATSON: Trump has since softened his stance on the ban.

TRUMP: We have a serious problem. It's a temporary ban. It hasn't been called for yet, nobody has done it. This is just a suggestion, until we

find out what's going on.

LUHUT PANJAITAN, GOVERNMENT MINISTER: I don't think that America can survive alone.

WATSON: Either way, Trump's proposed ban on Muslims entering the U.S. has raised questions at the highest levels of the Indonesian government.

PANJAITAN: Not allowing the Muslim people to come entering America while he has money in Indonesia, investment in Indonesia.

WATSON: Trump Hotel says it's developing two luxury resorts in Indonesia.

(on camera): Trump's company does not specify whether the new resort will include a mosque, such as this one, which currently stands at the Lido

Lakes Hotel.

(voice-over): Despite some politicians calling for a Trump boycott, the Indonesian government says it won't cancel his hotel deals here. Donald

Trump may not trust Muslims, but that hasn't stopped him from trying to make money in this majority Muslim country.

Ivan Watson, CNN, Chegambong (ph), Indonesia.

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LU STOUT: Now, Hillary Clinton is brushing off a new report that criticizes her use of a private email server when she was the U.S.

Secretary of State.

Now, this report it's from the State Department's inspector general. It found that Clinton broke the rules. And it says that she never asked if

she could use a private server.

Now, Clinton says the criticism is nothing new and will not affect her campaign for president.

Now, our senior Washington correspondent Joe Johns joins me now. And Joe, I mean, that was just a quick digest but please, walk us through all

the key findings of this report.

JOE JOHNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I think you already hit the high points there. The notion is that Hillary Clinton broke the rules. She should not

have used a personal server and used personal email to conduct government business. And when she left the State

Department, the report said that she should have turned those emails over, because this was government information.

So I think one of the most important findings here is the notion that there is a contradiction between what her campaign has been saying about

the issue of getting permission and what the IG report said. That that's probably the gist of it in a big picture, Kristie.

LU STOUT: And Clinton said that this report is not going to affect her campaign, but what has she been saying all along about why she used a

private email server.

JOHNS: i think if you go all the way back to the beginning of the campaign, Hillary Clinton

suggested that one of the number one reasons why she wanted to use her own server, her own email was that she did not want to have to juggle two

different portable devices at the same time.

There have been many suggestions out there that Hillary Clinton wanted to get around certain laws. She denies it. Certain laws including the

Freedom of Information Act that required disclosure of this type of information in the public realm, certainly when a secretary of state leaves

office.

So this is one of those things that goes to trust of Hillary Clinton, and trust has been a

big problem in her polling as we've seen from the various primary states in the exit polls.

LU STOUT: Yeah, I know it's still very early there in Washington, but what has been the reaction and the talk about whether or not Bernie

Sanders, Donald Trump are going to pounce on the news?

JOHNS: The reaction from people who support Hillary Clinton is largely that this is nothing new. and behind the scenes I think the

partisan reaction is that this is a political hatchet job. Hillary Clinton herself said in an interview with a Univision station in Los Angeles that

just like previous secretaries of state, she used personal email adding that she has turned over her emails while others did not. Her argument is

that she's been transparent on this issue, and she says she doesn't think it's going to affect her campaign.

LU STOUT: All right. Joe Johns reporting on the inspector general report and the potential political fallout as well as Clinton's reaction to

it. Thank you, Joe, take care.

Now, you can keep tabs on the latest news from the campaign trail right here on CNN. Just check out our new program "State of the Race" with

Kate Bolduan. It's happening weeknight 7:30 p.m. in London and Tuesday to Friday 2:30 p.m. in the afternoon Hong Kong time.

You're watching News Stream. And coming up, Peter Thiel has revealed he is indeed the one financing lawsuits to try and take down Gawker. Why

the billionaire tech entrepreneur is at war with the media organization.

Also ahead, Microsoft may have been too smart for its own good in pushing users on to Windows 10. We'll look at whether its plan backfired.

Plus, Barack Obama attends the G7 summit in Japan ahead of an historic trip to Hiroshima. We'll have a live report from Japan.

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LU STOUT: Coming to you live from Hong Kong, you're back watching News Stream.

Now, the secret is out. PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel says that he has been bankrolling Hulk Hogan's lawsuits against Gawker media. And he

told the New York Times he's actually funding at least one other lawsuit also against Gawker.

Now, he says it's all about justice and deterrence.

Now, Gawker, you may recall, wrote a personal article about Thiel back in 2007.

Now, Peter Thiel is a billionaire. He also co-founded a data company Palantir. He was an early backer of Facebook, LinkedIn and Yelp. His

donations are not limited to Silicon Valley, Thiel gave money to a super PAC that backed the Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina. He's

also a major donor to the Committee to Protect Journalists, it's something that seems at odds with his current efforts to put a news outlet out of

business.

Our senior media correspondent Brian Stelter has been following this story for us. He joins us live from New York. Let's go to him now.

And Brian, I mean, what's going on here? And what more is Peter Thiel saying about these

lawsuits and about his involvement against Gawker?

[08:20:09] BRIAN STELTER, CNN MEDIA CORRESPONDENT: Incredibly, he says this is one of the greatest philanthropic acts of his life. And

because he says that he designed this not to get revenge over any particular story about him, but it's about deterrence more broadly.

He says some of his friends' lives have also been hurt by Gawker's stories in the past and he believes these lawsuits can send a message about

that.

It is really amazing to think about what we've learned in the past few hours about this.

this Hulk Hogan trial has been going on for years. Hulk Hogan suing Gawker, winning a number of important moments in court. Gawker is now

appealing the case.

And all along we saw Hulk take the stand. We learned a lot about Gawker's finances, but we never knew there was a secret financier of the

lawsuit.

It turns out that thiel is also funding other lawsuits against Gawker. He won't say exactly how many. He told Andrew Ross Sorkin of The New York

Times that he has had his lawyers go out and seek other plaintiffs that also want to sue the company. Some journalists

believe this could have a chilling effect on journalism more broadly, but at the moment Gawker for its part is not commenting.

LU STOUT: Yeah, more on that chilling effect on journalism. We heard from Glenn Greenwald, that journalist. He weighed in on the issue. He

said, quote, "petty, vindictive billionaires like Thiel literally have the power to destroy media outlets in secret."

I mean, Brian, that's what Glenn Greenwald thinks. I mean, what are your thoughts here about the possible threat?

STELTER: Yeah, Greenwald, an outspoken journalist and sometimes media critic. And we've heard from other media critics who have similar views

that, this is a new threat to democracy and to free speech. If billionaires or multi-millionaires can be behind the scenes secretly

financing lawsuits against news organizations.

I would just ask -- I'm not sure how many cases like this actually exist. How many times we would actually see something like this happening.

But I think it means two things. Number one, it speaks to the power of secret financing of lawsuits, which is perfectly legal in the U.S. but is

growing, which is happening more often not necessarily against news organizations, but just in general. Third parties coming in and financing

lawsuits.

I think the second thing it speaks to is the power of Silicon Valley, the power of these billionaire

entrepreneurs that have been a mint in the past ten years and how they wield that power.

There's not always enough scrutiny or news coverage of what the Peter Thiels of the world are doing, both positive or skeptical news coverage. I

think this is a case, this is a reminder of what's going on behind the scenes that we're not always aware of.

LU STOUT: Yeah, it reveals the tentacles of Silicon Valley behind the scenes. And another

point of discussion that's been out there, no doubt you saw this overnight, you know, some have been arguing that Peter Thiel bankrolling Hulk Hogan's

case against Gawker is in itself an act of free speech or within the bounds of free speech. Is it?

STELTER: Yeah, he says there's no legal gray area here. He says it's perfectly legal.

What he's not answering questions about, though, is whether Hulk Hogan stands to profit from

this, whether there's any sort of payment structure for the plaintiff that kind of urges Hulk Hogan to continue on regardless of whether he actually

wins in court.

Some legal scholars say that would be a legal gray area, but Thiel says he's on solid ground and believes this is something that needs to be

done to send a message.

He said one of his friend said to him, if you don't do this, no one will. And he feels he needs to stand up against what he calls bullying by

Gawker media.

You know, bullying is something Gawker has been accused of in the past. They've written unflattering items about lots of famous people, but

of course that is a version of free speech and perhaps his financing of lawsuits is also a version of free speech.

LU STOUT: All right, Brian Stelter reporting live for us from New York. Thank you, Brian.

Now, if you use an older version of Microsoft Windows you've probably seen messages

like this one recently. Now, the company is trying to force people to upgrade to Windows 10, not normally clicking the X in the top corner would

cancel any planned update but Microsoft changed this so if you close the pop-up it actually confirmed the installation, not reject it.

Now, this has prompted a huge backlash. It has forced Microsoft to make some changes and CNN Money's technology editor David Goldman has been

following this story. He joins me from New York.

And David, first, let's talk about these forced upgrades to Windows 10. I mean, Microsoft may say, oh hey, it's about better security features

for our users, but what is the real reason why?

DAVID GOLDMAN, CNN MONEY: Well, there's a couple of reasons why Microsoft wants to upgrade as many people as it can to Windows 10.

The first reason is that they've already made a big proclamation that one billion computers and

devices are going to have Windows 10 by either 2017 or at the latest 2018. That's a large number. One billion would put it, you know, it would be the

most successful operating system in history.

And so to get as many people on to Windows 10, one thing that they're going to have to do is to automatically upgrade people who are using

Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. And so that's the -- you know, that's one of the big things, but there's also -- there's security risks around Windows

7. There are -- there are compatibility issues around Windows 7. It's an older operating system and Microsoft wants people to get on to its newer

operating system so that it can resolve some of those issues and spend less money continually upgrading and patching and servicing Windows 7 and

Windows 8.1.

[08:25:52] LU STOUT: Yeah, but so doing the forced upgrades annoyed so many users to the point that these updates have been called nagware. I

mean, just how big a blunder is this for Microsoft?

GOLDMAN: Yeah, it's a good question because Microsoft is right that most people should upgrade to Windows 10. It's a newer operating system.

It works well. And it's -- there is a security issue by staying on with Windows 7. So it's right to urge people to do that.

But everyone knows that when you click that big X at the top right of a box or a screen, it means cancel. And in this case, it means confirm

because what Microsoft is saying is your update has been scheduled and here is the -- the time where you're going to get an

upgrade and so if you click that X you're basically saying sure, I'm not going to take any other action here.

There's a tiny little word that says click here and only here is hyper linked where you can go

and change that to say I don't want to upgrade or I want to change the time where I'm going to receive an upgrade. And that seems a little bit unfair

to the people who don't want to make the change.

And so there is going to be a huge backlash of people who just Xed out of that and said you know what I'm not interested in an upgrade and then

all of a sudden their computer has a brand new operating system they don't recognize.

Microsoft does not want that to happen and it's going to have to before July 29th when all of

these upgrades are going to kick in and the free upgrade ends. They're going to have to make sure that that message is really, really clear to all

the people who are going to get upgrades and maybe even think about putting a cancel button in that dialog box.

LU STOUT: Yeah, this upgrade confusion not a shining moment for Microsoft.

And also Windows phone. I mean, this week Microsoft announced major job cuts effectively

retreating from the phone business. I mean, what happened? What went wrong?

GOLDMAN: Yeah, this is a really -- it was a weird purchase when Microsoft made it just a couple years ago. Steve Balmer, who was the CEO,

had already said that he was going to leave the company and then after that made a purchase of Nokia's handset business, all of its mobile phones. And

people were scratching their heads then because Nokia was already kind of a dying business at the time. It had been the world's leader in mobile

phones, but it had already been overtaken by Samsung and some others, Apple included.

And so when Microsoft bought it, the thinking was well, Nokia's the only company that's really embraced Windows phone as an operating system.

The problem is is that it wasn't able to stem the tide of declines in Nokia. In fact, it's losing market share. And so you know, over the past

few years, Microsoft has been whittling away at that purchase under its new leadership under the new CEO,

Satya Nadella.

And so this is the final unwinding of that. It's selling off almost, you know, all of its non-important businesses like the cheap phones that go

to third world countries, poorer countries that never really worked with what Microsoft's strategy was.

There are just a few phones now that Microsoft continues to make. But you know, now that

it's taking another $1 billion hit to its bottom line, you're really seeing the massive failure that that $8 billion purchase was just a few years ago.

LU STOUT: Yeah, mobile has just been so tough for Microsoft.

David Goldman, thank you so much for joining us and sharing your thoughts on what the

company's going through.

Now, you're watching News Stream. And coming up, a survivor of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima, Japan is seeking closure not only for tens of

thousands of Japanese civilians who died, but for the families of 12 American prisoners of war who were also killed. His story just ahead.

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[08:33:25] LU STOUT: Now, Barack Obama will soon become the first sitting American president to visit the site of the 1945 atomic bombing in

Hiroshima, Japan.

Tens of thousands of Japanese civilians died. But one survivor has been decades finding closure

for the families of 12 American prisoners of war who were also killed in the blast.

Will Ripley has his story.

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WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Survivors of Hiroshima have few physical mementos of life before the fireball.

This is the only picture that survived the blast.

Memories, they have many.

"When the a-bomb fell i was on my way to school," says Shigiaki Mori (ph) who was eight. He remembers red flames, black rain, mountains of

bodies including American POWs in this survivor sketch detained just 400 meters, a quarter mile, from ground zero.

This small memorial marks the spot where they died, the Chukoku military police headquarters leveled by the a-bomb, today an office

building.

"I thought we should have a memorial for the Americans who died in the a-bomb," he says.

But the U.S. kept Hiroshima's POWs top secret until the 1970s when declassified documents gave Mori (ph) a list, 12 American names, their

ages, where and how they died.

SHIGIAKI MORI (ph), HIROSHIMA SURVIVOR: Thank you very much.

RIPLEY: Every weekend for more than 20 years he borrowed U.S. phone books from the library calling every name that matched until he found the

families.

"They didn't understand why I was doing this at the beginning," he says. "They were very skeptical. It took a while to gain their trust."

But he pushed on wanting the families to have closure.

"He continued for 41 years. It took so much patience. I think only he could do that," says Kaoko Mori (ph).

The POWs included the crews of two downed American bombers, the Lonesome Lady and The Taloa (ph). Mori (ph) gave the families previously

unreleased details of their captivity. And he offered to register their names on the official list of victims. The youngest, airman third class

Norman Roland Bercette (ph) of Lowell, Massachusetts just 19.

Decades of searching, and today, 12 American POWs officially registered at Hiroshima's hall

of remembrance.

did you ever think you'd live to see an American president visit here?

"It's like a dream," he says. "I'm so happy."

He wants President Obama to know he and other survivors simply want to share their stories, share their memories, so the world never forgets.

Will Ripley, CNN, Hiroshima, Japan.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: Welcome back.

Now, they have been called the single most important demographic on the planet today. Now, China's Millennials, they make up 31 percent of the

country's total population, that is over 400 million people who are like their peers in the west, digitally savvy and not afraid to question

authority.

But unlike young people elsewhere China's Millennials have felt the full impact of China's one child policy.

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NINI SUET, FOUNDER AND HEAD CONSULTANT, SHUNG LEARNING: Looking at some of the, you know, post 80s, kids out there definitely families,

starting a family is pressure in a sense they're looking for the right partner, that's one, by the right age because the society, you know,

classify you as (inaudible) woman or you know, someone who needs to get married immediately. So that's one.

And second is once you do have a family, what are you going to do? Are you going to have children? How many are you going to have, because

right now you can have more than one child and I see that dichtomy of, you know, there is the group of post 80s kids that get married that want to

have more than one child because they grew up as single child and they feel like they want their kids to have, you know, more fun childhood, having

someone to play with.

And there is that other group where they want to get married but they don't want to have kids because of, you know, the responsibility -- maybe

because of the clash with their parents and they don't want to put their kids under that.

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LU STOUT: Now, don't miss the next On China as we go to Shanghai to meet China's Millennials and examine the unique pressures they're facing

and how far they're willing to push back.

Now, it airs next on Friday. That's tomorrow at 11:30 a.m. in the morning Hong Kong time only on CNN.

Now, the popular BBC series Top Gear returns this Sunday with a new lineup, but it's already had some controversy as well. Here's CNN's Phil

Black.

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PHIL BLACK, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The world is about to find out what the BBC has done to one of the planet's most watched programs

-- Top Gear is back. This is just a taste.

It looks the same: fast cars, silly stunts, all beautifully shot. But the faces are new.

If you're one of you're one of the show's 350 million viewers, or even if you're not, you probably know why the lineup change was necessary.

Last year, presenter Jeremy Clarkson got a little punchy with a producer after a long day

at work. So the BBC sacked him.

Co-presenters James May and Richard Hammond decided to walk away too. And ever since, the BBC has been working to save one of its most lucrative

brands.

MATT LEBLANC, CO-HOST, TOP GEAR: No. No. It's like car Tinder. She's hot.

BLACK: They made a big international hire, Matt Leblanc, the former Friend star and self-confessed petrol head..

LEBLANC: How far is Glasgow.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Not that far.

BLACK: LeBlanc and British broadcaster, Chris Evans, with co-host. There's a new wide team of presenters, too, and the Stig is, well, still

the Stig.

CHRIS EVANS, HOST, TOP GEAR: We know that within 72 of the first show being broadast it will have been seen in 83 countries on six continents.

So, it's a pretty big audition for us. We're going to have to wait and see.

BLACK: Chris Evans has become a regular target for Britain's tabloid press since signging on to the show. Reports have accused him of bullying,

ranting and other unstable behavior forcing out senior staff and feuding with LeBlanc. Evans, LeBlanc, the show, the BBC say that's all nonsense.

And Evans says he has a lot of respect for LeBlanc's car cred.

EVANS: He loves cars. You know, he can fix a car. He can put a car -- he can strip a car engine and put it back together almost blindfolded

and he's a brilliant driver.

BLACK: Meanwhile, Clarkson, May and Hammond are beavering away on their new project for streaming service Amazon Prime. Their few promotions

so far have focused on the search for the show's name.

JEREMY CLARKSON, FORMER PRESENTER, TOP GEAR: The show, I think, will sit

on the internet like -- and this is what I'm suggesting for the name -- a small puddle of excellence.

BLACK: They eventually settled on The Grand Tour.

Its premier is still months away, long before then, Top Gear fans will have declared judgment on

whether the new version of their beloved show is firing on all cylinders.

Phil Black, CNN, London.

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LU STOUT: OK. Do you remember these? Now, if you still own floppy disks they're more than likely gathering dust, that is unless you're

working for the Pentagon. Government auditors, they found its nuclear weapons division is using horribly outdated 1970s era computer systems.

And what's more, they require 8-inch floppy disks like the one right here in the far left, which were already obsolete by the end of that decade.

These ancient machines, they're also costing a fortune in upkeep. In fact, about $60 billion a year, that's triple what it costs to look after a

modern IT network.

And that is News Stream.

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