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[08:00:15] KRISTIE LU STOUT, HOST: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong and welcome to News Stream.

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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: But we have a shared responsibility to look directly into the eye of history, and as what we

must do differently to curb such suffering again.

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LU STOUT: History in Hiroshima, Barack Obama becomes the first sitting president to visit the site of the 1945 atomic bomb attack offering

a message of hope and unity.

The horrifying reality in what's supposed to be a safe haven. We bring you the story of a family needing desperate medical help from inside

a migrant camp.

And U.S. doctors confronted with what they have longed feared: a drug- resistant super bug, emerges in America.

More than 70 years after an atomic bomb devastated Hiroshima, Japan. U.S. President Barack Obama has become the first sitting American president

to visit the bomb site. He says that the visit is meant to highlight the real risks of nuclear war and to pay respect to those who died in World War

II.

Some 70,000 people were killed in the initial blast. Tens of thousands later died from radiation exposure.

Mr. Obama spoke a short time ago.

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OBAMA: Still, every act of aggression between nations, every act of terror and corruption and cruelty and oppression that we see around the

world shows our work is never done.

We may not be able to eliminate man's capacity to do evil, so nations and the alliances that we formed must possess the means to defend

ourselves, but among those nations like my own that hold nuclear stockpiles, we must have the courage to escape the logic of fear and pursue

a world without them.

We may not realize this goal in my lifetime, but persistent effort can roll back the possibility of catastrophe. We can chart a course that leads

to the destruction of these stockpiles. We can stop the spread to new nations and secure deadly materials from fanatics.

And yet that is not enough, for we see around the world today how even the crudest rifles and barrel bombs can serve up violence on a terrible

scale. We must change our mind-set about war itself to prevent conflict through diplomacy, and strive to end conflicts after they've begun.

To see our growing interdependence as a cause for peaceful cooperation and not violent competition, to define our nations not by our capacity to

destroy, but by what we've built, and perhaps above all we must re-imagine our connection to one

another, as members of one human race.

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LU STOUT: Now, CNN White House correspondent Michelle Kosinski has more from Hiroshima.

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MICHELLE KOSINSKI, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: President Obama is now on his way home after this historic moment in Hiroshima, an address the

Japanese people have waited for for a long time, waiting in absolute silence to see how President Obama would address this.

All of the emotion still left over in many ways from the war and to see in the front row of those listening to his survivors of that Hiroshima

blast 71 years ago.

Well, the White House didn't feel an apology was appropriate. And surely the Japanese government didn't necessarily want that.

The White House also didn't feel like a policy speech would be the right thing here, of the sort that the president usually does.

But in this case, he clearly felt the history of the moment speaking very slowly, emphasizing certain words and he broadened this out as broadly

as one possibly could, speaking on the nature of humanity itself. Listen...

[08:05:14] OBAMA: Technological progress without unequivalent progress in

human institutions can doom us.

KOSINSKI: President Obama has had mixed success during his time of office in trying to end wars as well as de-nuclearization. The Iran

nuclear deal was a big success, but then the threat of North Korea especially here in this region

looms so very large.

But in his speech today, he even said that de-nuclearization, while that is a goal, one he probably won't see realized in his lifetime, he said

that that's not even enough, that it's really time for humanity to address the mind-set on war itself, and to embrace the radical notion, as he put

it, for people to believe that we're all part of one human family.

Michelle Kosinski, CNN, Hiroshima, Japan.

Now, the man you saw Mr. Obama shaking hands with is his 79-year-old survivor of the Hiroshima bombing. His name is Shigaki Mori (ph). He

spent 41 years trying to get 12 American prisoners of war, who were killed in Hiroshima, into the Hall of Remembrance.

Now, he was just 8-years-old when the bomb fell. He says that he worked tirelessly, because even the families of enemies deserve closure.

Now, earlier, President Obama attended the G7 summit in Japan, Beijing is not part of that exclusive club. But they were certainly keeping close

tabs on what was happening. And apparently, they weren't too happy with what was said.

According to Reuters, the Chinese foreign ministry says that they are extremely dissatisfied by the group's statement on the South China Sea.

Reuters reports the G7 leaders agreed to send a strong message on maritime claims in the disputed waters.

And turning now to Europe's migrant crisis, a once overcrowded camp an Greece's border with Macedonia is now completely clear of people.

Now, earlier this week police began relocating some 10,000 people from makeshift dwellings, and now all that remain there are bulldozers clearing

the abandoned belongings.

Now, conditions at one makeshift camp were especially difficult for one migrant family whose three children are all in desperate need of

medical care. Our senior international correspondent Atika Shubert has their story.

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ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Ayaman Mandar (ph) is 6

years old. He cannot swallow food. He breathes with difficulty. He has advanced muscular dystrophy.

Zaher Sahloul is a Syrian doctor treating Ayaman, but this is no hospital

room, this is a tent at a makeshift camp inside a highway petrol station in Greece.

ZAHER SAHLOUL, SYRIAN DOCTOR: Ayaman (ph) is clearly dehydrated. If he is in place where it was good access to health care, he should receive

IV fluid, should receive oxygen. He may need to be on the ventilator.

SHUBERT: He sleeps all day. His mother, Johayna (ph) must wake limb to feed him like a baby bird.

His father just showed me this photo taken 10 months ago, before they came here. And in that time, as you can see, he's deteriorated very

quickly. He's not eating any food, and the only way to feed him is with a syringe feeding him milk.

Johayna (ph) and Wasada'ar (ph) have three children. At home in Deir ez-Zor Syria, they could bring Ayaman (ph) to hospital for therapy, but

then the war came. Fighting closed off access to the hospitals, and the family fled on foot, by car, by boat, but after three moss of waiting at

refugee camps in Greece, doctors say it's too late.

So how are you preparing yourself for the possibility that he may not survive?

She answers, "it comes from god. So we must accept it, but now I worry about my daughter. I don't want her to suffer like her brother."

1-year-old Bassan (ph) is now showing similar symptoms. She can no longer crawl and her tiny hands can barely grasp her father's finger. Her

older sister, 3-and-a-half year old Layman (ph) has no symptoms so far.

There is no cure for muscular dystrophy, it's a genetic disorder that causes weakness and eventually loss of muscle mass. But regular therapy

and medication can ease symptoms and prolong life. But that is medical care that Ayaman's

parents can only dream of.

Johayna (ph) is clearly overwhelmed and she begins to cry.

"I wish I could have found access for proper medical care for my son, but being here in this tent his health has only gotten worse."

She clings to the hope that family will be allowed to find a home in Europe before it's too late.

Atika Shubert, CNN, at the Echo refugee camp near Idomeni (ph) Greece.

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LU STOUT: That's such a heartbreaking story, but there is an encouraging

development. The family has now been granted emergency medical admission to Switzerland, and they are expected to leave Greece later on Friday.

And to learn how you can help migrants and refugees in the ongoing crisis, you can go to CNN's impact your world web page and there you'll

find a list of organizations all working on the ground to help.

You can find it, again, cnn.com/impact.

Now, some of you may remember this young boy. His name is Youssif (ph). Now, he was set on fire by masked men in Bbaghdad during the chaos

of the Iraq War. His family fled the violence and now almost a decade later, he is doing remarkably well.

Our Arwa Damon caught up with him in this exclusive report.

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ARWA DAMON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Hey. Look at you! You got so big.

Youssif has grown in numerous ways. He has been a hero for many over the years -- Superman is his.

YOUSSIF: I'm doing a project in my English class. And so each person got to choose one super hero.

DAMON: Do you identify with him?

YOUSSIF: Yeah.

DAMON: In what sense?

YOUSSIF: I try to fit in with everyone.

DAMON: And is that still hard for you?

YOUSSIF: Not really, because now I make friends easily.

DAMON: Youssif was just 4 years old when masked men attacked him outside his Baghdad home.

YOUSSIF (through translator): They poured gasoline, burnt me, and ran.

DAMON: We reported his story. The outpouring of support came from across the globe and Youssif and his family ended up in Los Angeles where

his parents heard their son laugh and shriek for the first time in the month since the attack, where strangers gathered in prayer on the beach

moving his mother to tears.

He has since undergone multiple surgeries, the memory of Iraq and the evil

he experienced all but erased.

You were saying you don't remember anything about Baghdad?

YOUSSIF: Yeah, I don't. I don't remember my family that much, only my grandparents.

DAMON: In many ways it's just like other teens, obsessed with soccer, has loads of friends and still wants to become a doctor to help others.

But he knows he may not see his homeland in his lifetime.

You've been following the news about what's happening in Iraq with ISIS?

YOUSSIF: I feel really bad for all of the people, and all of those kids and stuff. It's like, those terrorists aren't Muslims. They're just

extremists.

DAMON: We still can't disclose his father, Wissam's (ph) identity for the security of the family back in Iraq.

WISSAM, YOUSSIF'S FATHER: I'm trying not to read and see what's going on, because whatever I see is sad there, everything is just sad.

DAMON: And life as a refugee is never easy. Wissam has only been able to find a part-time job and is looking for more work.

WISSAM: At the same time, as you see, like, so many people looking for a job, it's not only me.

DAMON: They're all profoundly aware they are fortunate to have survived and escaped the war zone, thanks to the kindness of strangers,

who continue to finance Youssif's medical care.

YOUSSIF: I research (inaudible) one step closer to the finish line.

DAMON: You're starting high school.

YOUSSIF: Yeah, I'm really excited to.

DAMON: Aarwa Damon, CNN, Los Angeles.

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DAMON: And if you would like to help Youssif and his family, we have set up a fundraising page online. You can find it at GoFundMe.com The

full address is at Arwa's Twitter page -- Twitter.com/@ArwaCNn.

Now you're watching News Stream. Still to come on the program, the search for EgyptAir flight 804 could be narrowing down. What a possible

new lead is now telling us.

Donald Trump crosses a major milestone in his bid for the White House. We got that and more on the U.S. presidential race straight ahead.

And the founder of Gawker has a challenge of sorts for the tech billionaire Peter Thiel, but could it end what has become a very public

feud? We'll tell you what Nick Denton said next.

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[08:16:27] LU STOUT: A dramatic scene there. That is Hong Kong after the storm. Welcome back. You're watching News Stream.

Now, we have a new development in the search for EgyptAir flight 804. Egyptian media reports AirBus has picked up a signal in the Mediterranean.

The signal is coming from the plane's emergency locator transmitter.

Now, it's designed to send out a distress signal on impact.

Now, meanwhile, the French they say that they are getting ready for an underwater search. Let's get more now from Ian Lee. He joins us now live

from Cairo. And Ian, now that this signal has been detected, I mean, how close are we to finding the wreckage?

IAN LEE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Kristie, we don't know when they detected this signal.

Now, the ELT is a device that gives out a signal for a few hours after the crash, after the impact. It's not known for going longer than that,

not known for going for days, and so we haven't heard from Egyptian officials or French officials when exactly they got this signal. Is it

new? Or is this something that they're just now telling the press, telling the public?

But this is a -- definitely a lead in the search. Egyptian officials saying that they can now narrow down the search area to a radius of about 5

kilometers.

French -- a french vessel is in the area heading there with sophisticated equipment that can detect the pings from the black box. And

that really is where the search is going right now.

The battery of those black boxes lasts about 30 days. So there is a ticking clock here. They want to find it before that battery runs out,

because once it does, it's going to be that much more difficult to find.

LU STOUT: Yes, the clock is ticking, the search is on. Tell us how much assets have been deployed to actually search for this plane both above

sea and underwater?

LEE: Well, right now on-scene there are two ships. There's an Egyptian and there's a french ship. Both have submersibles, both are

looking for the wreckage as well as the black box. The French ship has submersibles that can detect the pings. The Egyptian ship doesn't, can't

detect it, but their submersible can go down to the floor of the sea which is about 3,000 meters 10,000 feet.

The other ship that's coming in with the sophisticated listening equipment should be arriving any time this day. That's going to be crucial

for that search.

Once all this is located, if they're able to locate it, then there's another French ship on standby. This has very sophisticated robotics that

can go down, can recover wreckage, it can also recover the black boxes. So, once that wreckage. Once the plane actually is found in its entirety

or what's the rest of it, then it's likely they'll bring in this other French ship to bring that to the surface, and that really will be crucial

for continuing this investigation.

LU STOUT: They're still looking for the main body of the plane. They're still looking for the black boxes, but Ian, some debris from the

plane has been recovered. Could you tell us what has been found so far?

LEE: What Egyptian officials have been describing it as -- 18 groups of debris. They really haven't been very specific, although they have

released the footage of some of the pieces, and when you look at it, you can recognize there's

carpet, there's blankets, there's a life jacket that was taken out of its wrapper.

These are small effects. Nothing really very large, and they have recovered remains as well, 16 bags worth -- rather 15 bags worth of

remains, but when we talk to officials at the morgue, they said that none of the remains weigh much more

than 2 kilograms. So, really, small pieces. And so that's why they're looking for

these larger chunks. But for the family members, this has been excruciating.

[08:20:30] LU STOUT: Yeah. Our hearts still go out to the family members. So excruciating. They're still waiting for answers. Thank you

very much for giving us the latest on this search for EgyptAir.

Ian Lee reporting live for us from Cairo. Thank you, Ian.

Now, Donald Trump has been the Republican Party's likely nominee for weeks, but after more delegates pledged support, he finally has enough to

officially lock down the nomination.

Now, this is a landmark moment in his bid for the White House. So, let's mark the moment with Jason Carroll. He joins us now live. And Jason

it is official, Trump has clinched the GOP nomination.

JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It is. And guess what, Kristie, Donald Trump, as you can imagine, is gloating over all this proving all the

naysayers wrong who said he could not do it.

North Dakota put him over the top. Trump took the moment to once again bask in his glory, but also took aim at the president and Hillary

Clinton.

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DONALD TRUMP, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We had a big day today. Today was the day where we hit the 1,237, right, 1,237.

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CARROLL: Donald Trump officially clinching the Republican nomination and squashing the once fervent efforts from the GOP establishment to stop

him.

TRUMP: Most of them said, and they said very strongly, he will never be the nominee. I could name them, but I don't want to embarrass them.

CARROLL: Trump boasting that he is one step closer to the White House than Hillary Clinton.

TRUMP: Here I am watching Hillary fight, and she can't close the deal. And that should be such an easy deal to close.

CARROLL: Trump continuing to hit Clinton hard on that inspector general's report, which criticized her for using her personal e-mail server

to do government business when she was secretary of state.

TRUMP: She has bad judgment. This was all bad judgment, probably illegal. We'll have to find out what the FBI says about it. But certainly

it was bad judgment.

CARROLL: Trump also taking aim at President Obama.

TRUMP: He is a president who has done a horrible job. Obama could never come up with a solution. Number one, he's incompetent.

CARROLL: After Obama voiced world leaders concerns about Trump during a G-7 summit.

OBAMA: They're rattled by him. The proposals he has made display either ignorance of world affairs or a cavalier attitude.

CARROLL: Hillary Clinton echoing those fears.

HILLARY CLINTON, (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: This man who is an unqualified loose cannon is within reach of the most important job in the

world, so it should concern every American.

CARROLL: But a defiant Trump is embracing the criticism.

TRUMP: That's good if they're nervous. That's good. I'll have a better relationship with other countries than he has, except we'll do much better

and they won't be taking advantage of us anymore.

CARROLL: As Trump continues to be hammered for his controversial remarks about Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren.

TRUMP: Who, Pocahontas? Pocahontas.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That's offensive. Very offensive.

TRUMP: Oh, I'm sorry about that. Pocahontas? Is that what you said?

I think she is as Native American as I am, OK. That I will tell you. But she is a woman that has been very effective other than she has got a

big mouth.

CARROLL: Trump also hinting he is wide open to who his running mate will be after his campaign chairman said choosing a woman or minority would

be viewed as pandering.

TRUMP: We're looking for absolute competence. I fully expect that we will have many women involved.

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CARROLL: So going forward, what Trump is going to try and do is focus on states that are traditionally blue, and try to turn them red -- states

like New York, California and Washington. He has two events in California today, Kristie. As you know, he's been met by protests every time he's

held a rally in that state.

LU STOUT: Yeah. That's right. And we'll be looking at perhaps for more.

Now meanwhile, on the world stage, Jason, we know that Donald Trump has managed to annoy even enrage a number of world leaders. We know that

he's embraced the criticism. Why? I mean, does this something that actually helps him?

CARROLL: Well, you know, that's a good question. And what immediately sort of comes to mind is London's new mayor who is a Muslim,

who has criticized Trump for his rhetoric basically saying what Trump is saying is actually making the United States less safe, and feeds right into

the hands of what extremists have been saying.

You know, the question in terms of whether or not it helps him or hurts him, it doesn't necessarily hurt him with his core supporters.

And here's the reason for that. They like him, Kristie, because they feel as though he is plain spoken, even if he says things that are

offensive. And in terms of world leaders, that doesn't really factor into the equation of a lot of his core supporters on the ground here in the

United States. They don't look at world leaders. They say they want limb to match world leaders. They say they want him to match world leaders.

And so in terms of whether it hurts him with his core group doesn't seem to be hurting him, at least not so far -- Kristie.

[08:25:25] LU STOUT: All right, Jason Carroll on the Trump beat for us. Many thanks indeed for your reporting. And take care.

Now, there is growing talk of a possible debate between Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.

Now, Trump has said he would be up for it if the proceeds go to charity and the response from Sanders. Game on.

Now, here's what he told talk show host Jimmy Kimmel.

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SEN. BERNIE SANDERS, (I) VERMONT: You made it possible for us to have a very interesting .

JIMMY KIMMEL, TALK SHOW HOST: That's right.

SANDERS: about two guys who look at the world very, very differently.

KIMMEL: Oh, boy. Do you guys look at it differently.

That would be some debate. I mean, I really think might be one of the highest rated events in television history.

SANDERS: Well I think it -- you know, the goal would be to have it in some big stadium here in California.

KIMMEL: Yeah. That would be great.

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LU STOUT: Now, as Jason mentioned a moment ago, voters in California, they will soon vote in their primary. It's happening less than two weeks

from now and Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, they are neck and neck there.

Now, here you see a new poll shows Clinton with a narrow two-point lead, that's it, over her Democratic rival.

Now, we have an update to the story that we brought to you here on News Stream on Thursday. Now, Nick Denton, he is the founder of Gawker, is

challenging tech billionaire Peter Thiel to an open debate after Thiel admitted he is funding lawsuits to take the news site down.

Now, Denton called Thiel's campaign to end Gawker, quote, twisted and out of

proportion. And told Thiel, quote, the best regulation for speech in a free society is more speech. Now, you've revealing yourself, let us have

an open and public debate.

Now, Thiel told The New York Times his funding of anti-Gawker lawsuits was about deterrence and Gawker published a personal article about Thiel

back in 2007.

Now, the battle, meanwhile, over labor reform, that has been playing out in the streets of Paris with protesters and police clashing and coming

to blows. We're going to bring you the latest from the French capital.

Also ahead right here on News Stream, doctors in the U.S. work on how to stop a rare strain of bacteria that can't be killed, even by the

strongest antibiotics on the market. Very worrying development. Stay with us.

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[08:31:33] LU STOUT: Now, the U.S. has found its first known case of a super bug that can't be killed by antibiotics. It is a rare kind of E.

Coli bacteria.

Now, the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention often warns doctors against over-prescribing antibiotics and says we should

expect to see more super bugs in the future.

Now, CNN's chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta has more.

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DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: For all we know at this point is that this woman is 49 years old, that she's from

Pennsylvania. She was seen in a clinic. She wasn't in the hospital. She was seen in a clinic. And she was found to have this bacteria, an E. coli

bacteria that does not get killed by any existing antibiotic. She hasn't traveled from overseas recently. So this does not appear to have come from

another country.

And now the focus for researchers is going to be what do we do about this? How do we prevent this particular bacteria, which is resistant to

antibiotics, from spreading? And where are the new antibiotics going to come from? Where are they going to come from? When are they going to come?

Again, I think medical officials have for some time been anticipating a day like this. There's been various strategies in the works. But as

things start now, there is a bacteria out there that doesn't respond. We've just got to make sure it doesn't spread and that we have more tools in the

toolbox as soon as possible.

Back to you.

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LU STOUT: All right. Dr. Sanjay Gupta there.

Now, burning tires, tear gas, clashes with riot police. I mean, these are the ugly scenes that have become the face of the workers' strike

underway in France. A week-long nationwide strike alongside mass protests by workers of oil refineries, nuclear power plants and some public

transportation services have crippled parts of the country.

Riot police removed picketers blocking the D'Orange (ph) oil refinery there earlier. Now, at issue here, labor reforms that would make it easier

for companies to hire and to fire workers.

Now CNN senior international correspondent Jim Bttermann joins me live from Paris with more. And Jim, ugly scenes of violence on the streets of

France across the country. What's the latest?

JIM BITTERMANN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, it was calm today, but in fact, there's a lot of aggravation out there, because the

fact is that the strikes have curtailed the supplies of fuel to service stations and the industry across the country.

There's been an enormous number of cancellations of hotel operators, they're saying 20 percent cancellations, because people don't want to

travel, even French who just are just going away for the weekend don't want to travel with a possibility of getting stuck somewhere without being able

to get fuel to come back.

There's a run on gasoline and diesel oil across the country, diesel fuel for cars, across the country. Depending who you're talking to, the

government says, in fact, there's about 20 percent of service stations that are either totally out of fuel or partially out, but the motorists

associations and private organizations are saying its closer to 50 percent. So it's enough to put the fear into

people about traveling at all.

The prime minister has said that he's not going to make any changes in this labor law. The president said the same thing. He's out where you

are. He's out in Japan for the G7 summit, but in any case, they're not backing up, the government is not backing up and in fact they are going to

be calling a meeting tomorrow of all the representatives of the industry -- the oil and energy sectors in France, in order to see what they can do to

stand up to the strikers -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: Jim, these protests, these strikes, have been so disruptive in France. Could the -- really the violent scenes we saw yesterday, could

they return in a couple weeks when the European football championships take place?

BITTERMANN: Well, this is the real power that the strikers have, the real leverage they have is this upcoming Euro football tournament that

going to begin on the 10th of June, not so many days from now. And leading up to that have already announced there's going to be strikes in various

transportation sectors, including metro strikes that are going to begin and train strikes that will begin next Tuesday, an Air France strike that's

going to be next weekend.

So there's a number of strikes already in the pipeline that, in fact, could disrupt things ahead of the you're Euro and we'll see if the

government makes any moves to change things or if the unions back down. It is going to have to be one or the other. But at the moment it really could

disrupt things for the Euro, yes -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: What are the prospects of a deal here? I mean, behind the scene is there even room for compromise as protest organizers talk with

lawmakers about proposed reforms?

BITTERMANN: Well, we're starting to see on the part of the government, we're starting to see some fraying at the edges. There was a

little contradiction between the finance ministry yesterday and the prime minister about whether or not this reform law text could be rewritten,

particularly in one critical area of it, but it's not clear that the government is ready to back down yet.

I think they're going to play this out a little while longer to see how this plays out on the streets. The fact is that on the streets the

protests have actually kind of diminished in terms of the number of people that have turned out for these various demonstrations. But what you're

seeing there, the violent scenes that you've seen is something that's almost become routine with each one of the street demonstrations. At the end it they have what they call the

vandals, the casseurs (ph) who get out there and try to break things up. And throw stones that police. And the police return with tear gas. And

the scenes look very dramatic, there's no question about it, but if you look at the overall picture, in fact, the number of demonstrators is

dwindling compared to what it was a few months ago or a few weeks ago.

So, I think the government is playing for time, but it may not work -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: All right, Jim Bitterman reporting for us live from Paris. Thank you, Jim.

Now it is a tough competition, and these U.S. national spelling bee champions

battled with words some of us have never even heard of. We'll tell what you scored them the trophy, next.

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LU STOUT: Welcome back.

Now, it's not often that commercials for cleaning products get much attention but people on social media have been pretty fired up over a very

offensive ad for a Chinese laundry detergent. In fact, some calling the most racist ad ever.

Matt Rivers slows us why.

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MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, this advertisement has created quite the storm here in China with many people online calling the

commercial for a type of laundry detergent unequivocally racist. And once you see it, it's not hard to see why.

The ad features a Chinese woman and black man flirting. He strides over to her and when he leans in for a kiss she pops as detergent capsule

into his mouth. Then she throws him into the machine. Just for a bit. And when she opens the washing machine a bit later, a smiling Chinese man

pops out to the woman's apparent delight.

It is incredibly offensive and has sparked backlash across the world an on Chinese social media.

One user wrote, quote, "my god, don't Chinese marketing people get any education about race? "

Another wrote, quote, "if you don't understand why it's, congratulations, you're a racist."

The ad appears to by a blatant rip-off of a similarly criticized Italian laundry commercial from the mid-2000s. A slim Italian man is

washed with, quote, color deterring and emerges a muscular black man with the slogan, quote, "color is better."

A large number of Africans live here in China, particularly in the southern province of Guangdong. And there have long have been complaints

of prejudice against people with darker skin across the country. CNN reached out to the company behind the ad, Xiabi (ph), but received no

response.

Matt Rivers, CNN, Beijing.

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[08:41:15] LU STOUT: A pretty shameless ad, really.

Now, OK, they went word for word, they went noun for noun, they went letter for letter, but for the third year in a row, it is a tie at the U.S.

Scripps National Spelling Bee.

11-year-old Nihar Janga of Texas and 13-year-old Jairam Hathwar of New York are again sharing the top prize.

Now first Jairam, seen on the right here on the screen, correctly spelled the word Feldenkrais, which I to look up. It's an education

approach designed to improve movement. And the competition ended after Nihar nailed the German word Gesellschaft.

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NIHAR JANGA, 2016 SCRIPPS SPELLING BEE CO-CHAMPION: G-E-S-E-L-L-S-C- H-A-F-T.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That is correct.

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LU STOUT: Gesellschaft. My bad there. The things we learn. OK.

Now, each winner will receive a $40,000 cash prize and other gifts.

Now, Nihar's dad promised him a trip to see a Dallas Cowboys game. And this

is actually the third year in a row there are co-champs. And get this, Jairam's older brother was a co-champ just two years ago.

Congratulations to you both.

Now, finally before we go, we'd like to leave you with a message of peace. Now, during his visit to the Hiroshima peace memorial today, U.S.

President Barack Obama wrote the following message in the museum guest book. He wrote this, quote,

"we have known the agony of war. Let us now find the courage together to spread peace and pursue a world without nuclear weapons."

A message of hope during an historic visit, again, 71 years after the world's first atomic bombing.

And that is News Stream. I'm Kristie Lu Stout, but don't go anywhere. World Sport is next with more on the Champions League final, Jose

Mourinho's official appointment as manager of Man U. Keep it here.

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