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ISHA SESAY, CNN INTERNATIONAL HOST: This is "CNN NEWSROOM" live from Los Angeles. A deadly week on the Mediterranean. Some 700 migrants may have been killed trying to reach Europe, while thousands more are rescued from capsized and sinking boats.

Donald Trump says California has no water problem, and then he says he could fix the drought in the same breath. A Stanford professor will straighten things out for us and maybe for Trump.

Plus, a tragic decision for a U.S. zoo after a little boy slips into a rare gorilla's enclosure.

Hello and welcome to all our viewers from around the world. I'm Isha Sesay. NEWSROOM L.A. starts right now.

It's been a tragic week for migrants trying to reach Europe from Africa. The U.N. says at least 700 people may have died in three ship wrecks while crossing the Mediterranean. Italy says more than 12,000 migrants were rescued during that stretch. Ben Wedeman explains why we could see even more people risking their lives on these journeys soon.

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BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Hundreds of migrants and refugees are missing and feared dead in what could be the deadliest week in the Mediterranean in more than a year. Wednesday, a fishing boat crammed with refugees and migrants capsized. The Italian navy was able to rescue many of the passengers, but many more are feared dead.

Then Thursday, several hundred more are believed to have died when a boat they were on that left Sabratha western Libya started to take on water. Now, that boat didn't even have a motor. It was being towed by another vessel that was also crammed with refugees. That boat went down, as I said. Several hundred feared dead in that instance.

Then Friday, there was another shipwreck. The Italian navy was able to recover about 50 dead bodies. Other survivors, however, tell United Nations officials that many, many more are missing.

Now, over the past week, Italian officials say more than 14,000 people have tried to make the crossing from Libya to southern Italy, more than 4,000 in one day alone. And now with the calmer seas of summer ahead, many more expected to try to make that crossing as the Mediterranean seems to be filling up with dead bodies. Ben Wedeman, CNN, Rome.

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SESAY: Well, from all that tragedy comes a tiny glimmer of relief. This baby boy was among the hundreds of rescued migrants brought to Messina, Italy. A Red Cross worker posted these photos with the hashtags #hospitality and #protecthumanity.

Well, joining me now is CNN military analyst retired lieutenant colonel Rick Francona. Colonel Francona, always good to have you with us.

As you heard there, at least 700 migrants believed to have drowned in the span of some three days. To some, this is an indictment of the poor European Union response to this migrant crisis. How do you see it?

COL. RICK FRANCONA (RET.), CNN MILITARY ANALYST: Well, first of all, I think we have to recognize how bad conditions are in sub-Saharan Africa, that they're willing to take such risks to get out of there. I mean, they're running from famine, from poverty, from civil war, from groups like al Qaeda, al Shabaab, Boko Haram, and they are just looking for safety.

And Europe is beckoning call to them, and Libya is the pathway to get there. And as Ben said, and I totally agree that we're going to see much more of this. And we're going to see a humanitarian disaster on the scale of what we saw of people coming out of the Middle East earlier this year.

So I don't think this is going to lessen up. And I think the Europeans are probably going to do what they can, but they're going to be overwhelmed. You know, Italy is going to bear the brunt of this wave of immigration.

SESAY: I mean, when you look at the situation, and as you just laid it out, these people at the mercy of so many different terror groups there on the ground in Libya where the majority of these people are coming from, it would appear that the only people who are doing well in all of this would be the human smugglers, human traffickers.

FRANCONA: Yes, this is getting to be a big problem, especially in Libya. Of course, you know, Libya itself is a failed state. Not only are these people running from failed states, they're going through a failed state to get out.

You know, and in Libya, you can -- you can try and get on these boats, and there are people willing to take your money to get you out, even on the most rickety of boats. As Ben said, some don't even have motors. That's how bad and how desperate these people are.

Of course, on the other side of this, this sets up a perfect infiltration scheme for groups like ISIS who may want to move some of their own people into Europe. And the Italians are going to have to take that into consideration as well.

SESAY: So the situation in Libya on the ground there politically, incredibly complex. We know that. we know that that is a deep and complex situation. But let me ask you this. When it comes to dealing with the smugglers, these human traffickers, could the international community not do a better chance -- a better job at reining them in so that they can't profit on the misery of these people?

FRANCONA: Right, and it's going to require some sort of an international effort sort of like we had with the Somali pirate group. And then, you know, NATO could take this over, because it's in the Mediterranean.

But right now, we're only see ad hoc enforcement by a couple of the nations. We need is some sort of a NATO organization, an international organization to patrol this.

But I think it's going to be more of a search and rescue, because these people are going to keep coming. The only way to stop it is to prevent the Libyans from allowing them to leave, and I don't see that happening. The Libyans have no interest in preventing them from leaving. They can't handle these people.

SESAY: And then as you talked about the search and rescue operation as being the only feasible operation to undertake here, what kind of appetite do you see for mounting a credible search and rescue operation to deal with this situation?

FRANCONA: You know, Europe has so many problems right now. You know, they're deal with this massive immigration from the Middle East. They are facing their own internal security problems. Look what's happening, you know, in France and Belgium and all of this. And now you've got this added on top of that.

You know, the Italian relief services are overwhelmed. So no, there's not much appetite, but what choice do they have? They're going to have to address this, or it is going to become a humanitarian disaster on the European continent.

SESAY: It is very bleak indeed. Colonel Francona, always appreciate the insight. Thank you.

FRANCONA: Yes, I wish I had better news.

SESAY: Yes, I do, too, but we appreciate you joining us, though. Thank you.

Turning now to the fight against ISIS, thousands of Kurdish troops are battling to retake villages near Mosul in northern Iraq. The Peshmerga-led ground defensive is being helped within international coalition air support. Already, troops have taken back control some of villages previously populated by Kurds.

Officials say forces want to get closer to taking back Mosul itself from the militants. Meanwhile, to the south, Iraqi state media say the army has nearly surrounded ISIS-held Fallujah and is preparing to attack that city.

And nearer to Baghdad, a suicide bombing northeast of the capital killed at least five people on Sunday. Authorities say 25 people were wounded. It happened at an outdoor market about 60 kilometers from Baghdad.

ISIS claimed responsibility for the bombing on social media. A military official said the suicide attacker's mother actually warned authorities. She said her 14-year-old son was planning an attack.

Well, from ISIS in Iraq to ISIS in Libya, U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump says ISIS makes millions of dollars each week selling Libyan oil. That's not true. ISIS doesn't control any Libyan oil fields, but as our Nick Paton Walsh explains, the terror group wants to.

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NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A distant speck from up here, but this is Libya's shimmering prize, oil, worth billions, but part paralyzed by government in-fighting and now, most troubling, in ISIS's cross hairs.

This is the Mellitah refinery, which pumps gas direct across the Mediterranean seabed to Italy. It's upped its defenses, but one plant worker points out what he says is a militant stronghold in a hotel just down the coast.

The seas, pretty much open here. On this jetty, the graffiti says that God is great, but you don't want to just rely on him.

(on camera): NATO have expressed concerns that ISIS is trying to get its hands on boats to perhaps fashion some sort of crude pirate navy. And in a place like this so vital to Europe's energy, you can see how worrying that must be when you have this much shoreline to try to defend.

MOHAMMED ARAB, SPC SECURITY: (Inaudible) to have too many cases here, you know. Sometimes it comes from the sea. Otherwise, maybe it comes from the land. You don't know how it is.

PATON WALSH (voice-over): ISIS have already hit some facilities in the East, the damage in oil fires caused visible from space in these NASA images.

Their own propaganda shows a wider scope of ambition. This attack on an installation in an eastern town of Ras Lanuf, they want to control the industry and its potential billions, yet have so far mostly disrupted production and sown little panic in the U.S. presidential race.

DONALD TRUMP, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: ISIS is making millions and millions of dollars a week selling Libya oil. And you know what? We don't blockade. We don't bomb. We don't do anything about it. PATON WALSH: Trump is wrong. ISIS haven't made much money yet and

don't control any oil fields. But their attacks are costly to what's left of the crumbling Libyan state, bringing close to the day ISIS could seize control of refineries and sell fuel on the black market.

(on camera): What already is a thriving black market, trade in Libya's oil, these boats evidence that, tankers used to try and ship Libya's black gold. And infrastructure here that ISIS could so easily use were they to get their hands on key refineries.

(voice-over): Europe watching this slow collapse just across the water.

Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, Mellitah, Libya.

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SESAY: The United States now has a third choice for president. Gary Johnson, the former Republican governor of New Mexico, has won the Libertarian Party's presidential nomination. His running mate is former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld.

The Libertarian Party tends to be socially liberal and fiscally conservative while advocating free markets and as little government as possible. Libertarians say their ticket could play a pivotal role in the campaign, with Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton viewed unfavorably by many voters.

Well, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee campaigned Sunday in Washington at an event honoring America's war dead. Monday is Memorial Day, the national holiday when Americans honor fallen members of the military.

Donald Trump addressed hundreds of members of Rolling Thunder, an organization that mounts an annual iconic display of man and machine riding a caravan of motorcycles through Washington every Memorial Day weekend to draw attention to missing American soldiers and the needs of U.S. veterans.

Trump never served in the U.S. Military, and as Scott McLean reports from Washington, he's facing questions about his sincerity.

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SCOTT MCLEAN: Well, Donald Trump talks about his support for veterans, but it is not often that he gets to speak to a large crowd of them directly. Here today, he seemed to get a good reception.

But in many ways, this was a typical Trump stump speech. He seemed to tick all the boxes, talking about trade, about the Second Amendment, building support for our military, and of course, veterans.

TRUMP: Our veterans have been treated so badly in this country. You have a Secretary that last week said, no, the wait time doesn't matter. Forget about wait time. I know people -- and I've gotten to know so many vets. And we just raised almost $6 million for the vets, because I didn't do

a television show. I said let's do this. And we're announcing on Tuesday all of the groups that we put up this money. And we raised this tremendous amount of money because we love the vets.

MCLEAN: Now, that money he mentioned was raised a couple of months ago when he decided to skip out on a FOX News debate. But ever since then, he has been dogged by questions about where exactly the money went. So as you heard, he is now promising a full accounting of that on Tuesday to try to put this issue to bed.

But Trump is also facing questions about comments he made last year about Senator John McCain, who himself was a former prisoner of war. Trump said, "I like people that weren't captured."

Now, McCain says Trump should apologize on behalf of other POWs. And then yesterday on CNN, former Senator Bob Dole, who is himself a Trump Senator, also called on Trump to apologize.

Today, we asked Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, whether or not he did plan to apologize, and he said, "Not that I'm aware of."

Scott McLean, CNN, Washington.

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SESAY: Joining us now is Noah Diffenbaugh. He's an associate professor at Stanford University. Professor Diffenbaugh, welcome. Thank you for joining us.

Donald Trump made a number of statements throughout this campaign that have raised eyebrows. He added to that this past Friday with statements he made here in California. Take a listen to what he told a crowd filled with farmers.

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TRUMP: We're going to solve your water problem. You have a water problem that is so insane. It is so ridiculous, where they're taking the water and shoving it out to sea.

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TRUMP: And I just met with a lot of the farmers who are great people, and they're saying, we don't even understand it. They don't understand. Nobody understands it. And I've heard this from other friends of mine in California where they have farms up here, and they don't get water.

I said, oh, that's too bad. Is it a drought? No, we have plenty of water. I said, what's wrong? Well, we shove it out to sea. I said, why? And nobody even knows why.

And the environmentalists don't know why. Now, they're trying to protect a certain kind of three-inch fish.

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SESAY: All right, Professor Diffenbaugh, he made a lot of statements there. Let's try and unpack some of that.

First of all, he said in that little clip we just played, there is no drought. Is he correct when he says there's no drought in California?

NOAH DIFFENBAUGH, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, STANFORD UNIVERSITY: We're absolutely a drought in California right now. You know, we had about an average year of precipitation statewide just in this season that's concluding. But we're still -- we're still looking at drought conditions across the state.

More than 85 percent of the state is in at least moderate drought. Almost half the state is in extreme drought. So there's no -- there's no question that California is in a drought right now.

SESAY: Donald Trump seems to be saying that he is the man with the answer. He's saying that he is the one that can fix California's water problem. I mean, can someone -- can any one individual fix California's water problem?

DIFFENBAUGH: Well, it's clear that the challenges that California faces in this water situation result from there being so many important demands on a single resource. And those that -- the fact there are a myriad of demands is what -- and they're all important, that's what creates this situation.

And certainly, the federal government has a role to play in helping to solve these kinds of situations that we face here in California and throughout the Western U.S. State level, local level, individuals and how we -- how we manage our own -- own our water use, those all play a role.

It's a complex problem that's got us into this situation, and it's going to take creativity and ingenuity to solve it. And it's going to take an acknowledgment that we're living in a new -- in a new climate now.

SESAY: OK, and just one last question before I let you go. Are you saying that the problem isn't being handled as creatively as it could be at present?

DIFFENBAUGH: I'm a -- I'm a citizen in California. I live and work here, and one of the things that I'm very proud of is how creative and diligent and hard working all of the interests have been in deal with this drought. And not only getting us through this very, very intense period of drought and all the impacts that we've felt but also setting us up for the ability to be more resilient in the future.

And we've had great leadership here in California, and that leadership has communicated and listened to the scientific community, listened to different stakeholders, agriculture, environmental interests, urban areas. And it's been -- it's been a real shining example of how we can tackle a difficult problem and do it successfully.

SESAY: All right, Professor Noah Diffenbaugh, we appreciate you joining us. Thank you so much.

DIFFENBAUGH: Thank you.

SESAY: Very interesting.

Time for a quick break now. A U.S. zoo is facing heavy criticism for the death of an endangered gorilla. Just ahead, why they say killing it was tragic but necessary.

Plus, disastrous landslides and flooding in China. How heavy rains across the country are proving deadly. Do stay with us.

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SESAY: Heavy rain is causing disasters in China. This figure, the shocking video shows one of several landslides that happened in the southern part of the country.

Another slide trapped 36 people inside their homes. Firefighters rescued them by drilling holes into the walls and pulling people through. The rain has also led to flooding which killed at least eight people. Really startling images there.

And flooding has claimed two more lives in southeastern Texas. Since Thursday, at least six people have died there in flood-related incidents.

Police are searching the Brazos River west of Fort Worth for a 10- year-old boy who fell into the water. People living along that river have been told to evacuate.

Meteorologist Derek Van Dam joins us now with the latest from the international weather center. And Derek, some shocking scenes in China and also there in Texas.

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SESAY: Now, a zoo in the U.S. Is defending its decision to shoot and kill an endangered gorilla to save a little boy. Critics say the Cincinnati Zoo didn't have to kill the animal, but the zoo says the situation got so dangerous, it was the only choice. CNN's Rachel Crane reports.

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RACHEL CRANE (voice-over): A day of panic and desperation at the Cincinnati Zoo. A four-year-old boy slips into the zoo's gorilla habitat and over a moat wall. Suddenly, Harambe a 17-year-old 400- pound gorilla, approaches the boy. His mother watches in horror at what happens next.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Mommy's right here.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, my god.

CRANE: A young boy screams. The urgent calls to 911 can be heard on this bystander video. The family tries desperately to keep him calm as Harambe takes him out of sight. Harambe drags the boy around the moat and up a ladder for a total of 10 minutes as the zoo's dangerous animal response team anxiously decides what to do next.

KIMBERLY O'CONNOR, WITNESS: The little boy himself had already been talking about wanting to go in, go in, get in the water. And his mother's like, no, you're not, no, you're not.

I don't know if the screaming did it or too many people hanging on the edge if he thought we were coming in, but then he, you know, pulled the boy down further away from the big group.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Engine 32. Start the (inaudible). The gorilla has the child, and it dragged him around the pen.

CRANE: Officials considered the incident so threatening, deciding Harambe must be taken down immediately.

THANE MAYNARD, DIRECTOR, CINCINNATI ZOO: The reason that tranquilizing was not chosen is in an agitated situation, which the male was, it may take quite a while for a tranquilizer to take effect. But certainly at the instant he would be hit, he would have a dramatic response. You don't hit and he falls over. It would take a few minutes.

The child wasn't under attack, but all sorts of things could happen in a situation like that. So he certainly was at risk.

CRANE: They say their only option, a rifle.

Harambe was shot and killed. The child was taken to Cincinnati's Children's Hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries.

MAYNARD: It's a sad day all the way around. The right choice was made. It was a difficult choice.

CRANE: Harambe was a western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species. The zoo had hoped he would eventually father other gorillas.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We love this zoo. It's very friendly. Everything is beautiful here. But when you see something like that and then you have the disappointment because how do -- what do you say to your grandchildren?

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SESAY: Rachel Crane reporting there. A very distressing situation all the way around.

We're going to take a quick break now. A group of doctors is lobbying for the Rio Olympics to be delayed or moved. We'll discuss how the Zika outbreak could impact the world's biggest sporting event.

Plus, what something called as a pastime for loners is drawing huge crowds. A look at the emerging e-sports industry just ahead.

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SESAY: Hello everyone. You're watching CNN Newsroom live from Los Angeles, I'm Isha Sesay. The headlines this hour. The U.N. more than 700 migrants might have died at sea trying to reach Europe from Africa in the past week. Most were on three boats that capsized within days of each other. Italian authorities say more than 12,000 migrants were rescued during that time.

A major figure in the Syrian peace talks in Geneva has resigned. The chief negotiator for the Syrian Rebel Opposition announced his resignation by Twitter, saying the international community has failed to make necessary progress in the country.

Israeli media reports police have recommended criminal charges against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose wife Sarah Netanyahu is suspected of misusing state funds for the couples official and private residences. She was questioned by police in December and has denied any wrong doing.

A special operation is underway to find Alan Pulido an Mexican Football player who authorities say was kidnapped after leaving a party Saturday night. It happened in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas an especially violent part of the country. Pulido is a striker for the Greek team Olympiakos.

Now doctors are calling for the Rio Olympics to be postponed or moved due to the Zika virus. More than 100 prominent doctors and professors signed a letter to the World Health Organization Friday. They say going ahead with the games despite the risk of spreading the virus would be unethical. I'm being joined now Dr. Seema Yasmin, she's a seasoned medical analyst and professor of public health at the University of Texas. Thank you so much for joining us. Do you agree with the call for more than 100 prominent health experts that these games should be postponed or moved?

YASMIN: I do Isha. The interesting thing here is that regardless what I think, regardless of what a 150 world's top scientists think, the World Health Organization today rejected this call to postpone or maybe cancel the Olympics. They say there's no need to do it. In fact, the Director of the World Health Organization Dr. Margret Chan says, she holds capital advisories and capitol restrictions could really bad for economy and also may just not help with stopping the spread of this virus.

Now I would say with half a million people from nearly every country on the planet descending on a disease hot spot. I think that calls for there to be some kind of either postponing of the games or it be cancelled. But at the same time we have to remember half a million people sounds like a lot but it's really a drop in the bucket when we think about the amount of travel we see. Just the general reasons anyway, with trade, with business, with pleasure, already, even without the Olympics happening just now, we've already seen the same strain of Zika centralizing in Brazil turn up in West Africa where it's never been seen before.

SESAY: Yes. Let's just put up for our viewers part of the statement put out by the World Health Organization, you just referenced some of it. But they say that based on current assessment canceling or changing the location of the 2016 Olympics will not significantly alter the international spread of the Zika virus. I guess, some of, the question that I keep coming back to is how did they have reached this radically different conclusion to that of all these public health officials, public health experts like yourself?

YASMIN: I think it just comes down to this idea that even though we're talking about half a million people and it sounds like a lot. They're assessing it, in terms, just a broader prospective and saying, look we could say we're not going to have the games. We could say let's not have half a million people turn up in Rio, but there's still going to be travel, they're still going to be trade all of that is going to happen. And they think that cancelling or postponing the Olympics just won't make a dent in the epidemic. It's already out of control, it's already spread to other continents and to many other countries. And so their argument, and you know some other doctors and scientists agree with them to, and say it's not going to make any difference to do that.

Instead, we need to have better education. We need to have better mosquito control programs. I would argue we've been doing that in Brazil, they've been spraying quite aggressively for months. But the rates of Dengue fever in Rio right now which is kind of like Zika's cousin, another virus spread by the same mosquito. The rates of Dengue now are six times higher than they were this time last year. Which just again, shows how difficult it can be to control these diseases that are spread by mosquitoes.

SESAY: Yes. Indeed. Do you have concerns about the relationship between the International Olympic Committee, the IOC, and the World Health Organization that perhaps they are too close leaving the World Health Organization unable to take an impartial stand in all of this?

YASMIN: Some people have made those allegations, I would hope the WHO is detached enough, is scientific enough to be able to make decisions and to give guidelines based on science based on public health practice. And not on politics, not on finances, the reality is of course there's going to be some impasse in that department, but they should be making decisions here based on the science. And as much as I think that the games should perhaps be postponed and others are calling for that to, they do have some valid arguments, in saying it would make enough of a difference even if we cancelled the games.

SESAY: Al right. Dr. Seema Yasmin, appreciate the insight and perspective. Thank you so much.

YASMIN: Thank you.

SESAY: Al right. A quick break here. The newest frontier in gaming is bringing in audiences and millions of dollars. Details on the eSports evolution next. Plus, a daredevil turned himself into a human arrow with sites set on the Great Wall of China. Watch his high flying feat, next. Hello everyone. Electronic gaming has come a long way since the

inception of pong. Today it's a multimillion dollar industry with audiences that rival traditional sporting events. Don Riddel (ph) takes a look

(RIDDEL): It's a scene you'd expect at any major sports event. Fans lined up for hours outside. Merchandise stores doing a roaring trade. Broadcast cameras ready for action and fever pitched excitement during the game. Except this - -

UNKNOWN: A brilliant play coming out.

(RIDDEL): There's a little bit difference. This is eSports. The sport for the digital generation. The intel extreme masters in Berlin (ph), some of the world's best teams are going head to head in games like League of Legends and Counterstrike. And it's already worth an absolute fortune. The most simple way to put eSports it has 200 million fans worldwide who watch it. It is bigger than the NHL. Last years League of Legends brought championship final excited 36 million viewers. An audience that sports like the NBA can only dream of. These are dynamic games, in which, lightening quick reflexes and communication are critical for success, and players are treated like rock stars.

KAJBJE: When you're a player you're so focused on playing a game, you don't, you block everything out but when you win and see everyone like the whole arena full, it's unreal.

LEVINE: Players like Faker in League of Legends are international icons. Call of Duty players like NaDeSHoT have over a million Twitter followers. So there's a stardom and celebrity element to it.

(RIDDEL): Once maligned as a past timefor lethargic kids in the basement, eSports is now highly lucrative. The Pakistan born Samil Hassan (ph) has a mass career prize money of almost $2 million. He's just 17 years old. As you can see in this afternoon bar called Kroystick (ph) there still

a mixed market for retro video games but things have changed so much since Kong was King. Over the last 15 years the advent of internet technology has enabled these sports to explode into a highly sophisticated and global gaming community. Creation of Twitch, Will Jamerson (ph) paid almost $1 billion in 2014 helped tourneys (ph) into a spectator sport.

GRAHAM: Twitch is a game changer not only because of what it represents, in that it represents basically, like the first global cable channel for eSports.

UNKNOWN: Like Steven Curry, I could probably never see the guy anywhere. He will never respond to a tweet of mine. It's very different in eSports and that all's happening in Twitch. Which my favorite League of Legends player realistically might respond to my question. I mean, I might even to get to play a game with this guy.

(RIDDEL): That's why sponsors are paying very close attention to the growth of eSports. It might be the only way to reach an elusive young demographic. Games like Starcraft II just aren't meant to be played, there's a specifically new design with broadcasting in mind. And that's now an industry standard, and it is impossible to cap the potential of these sports in the future.

UNKNOWN: eSports is a global sport. It has a huge advantage throughout any of the sports and these teams are focused on regional championship and then have some international competition. ESports is in it's own definition globally. You can play against someone in any game, any time in the world, and therefore we're saying it's going to be, from that perspective, actually much more global than any sport has ever been.

RODRIGUEZ: It's safe to say that eSports will be very, very close even though, you know, compare to the professional sports we see today, like football, basketball, and what not. But traditional sports is traditional media so to say. I would be a bit scared you know?

(RIDDEL): Don Riddel, CNN.

SESAY: I just don't understand. It's official, I'm old. I just don't get this. Al right. Let's move on, to something else I don't quite understand. We want to show you a daring feat by someone who's a little hard to describe. Jed Corliss, the so called "Human Arrow" jumped out of a helicopter and flew through the air really, really fast to hit his target over the Great Wall of China. The American has been referred to as a base jumper, a wind surf pilot and a daredevil. Reports say he goes at 200 kilometers per hour, that's equal to 124 miles an hour to pull off the stunt.

And this appears to be the moment he hit's the bulls eye. Al right, finally he did it. Corliss later explained his inspiration for doing this.

CORLISS: One of the most ancient forms of human competition is the archery. You know, people have been doing archery for thousands of years. And I thought how amazing it would be to take archery, this ancient, you know, competition and bring it into modern time. You know, where the human being becomes the arrow and we basically punch through miniature small bulls eyes, you know. And I thought, you know, is it possible, could a human being in a winged suit traveling at 120 miles an hour after getting out of a helicopter one mile away from their target. Could they hit an apple sized target with a go through? And that was the idea.

SESAY: Well I guess now we know. Corliss says his feat was a decade in the making. Thank you for watching CNN Newsroom, live from Los Angeles. I'm Isha Sesay. World Sport is up next. You're watching CNN.

RILEY: Hello I'm Kate Riley, welcome along to World Sport from CNN Center. We're going to start with more reflections around Madrid's record extending 11th European Cup victory. They returned home over night and on Sunday Los Blancos (ph) basked in the glory of their adoring fans. He came out in the thousands to celebrate the dramatic penalty shoot out victory over bitter local rivals, oh that's OK. (ph) The players themselves had arrived back from the Spanish capitol at around 6 am following that historic match of the San Siros Stadium in Milan.

They may have had little sleep but some of Zine Zadane's team were wide awake to witness the scenes as they paraded on an open topped bast. Real have one the tournament twice in three seasons now, on both occasions beating Atletico in the finals.

It's been an dramatic weekend of racing at the Monaco Gran Prix, it started with Lewis Hamilton back on the top step of the podium. Some eight years after his last win at the famous old street circus. The weather had been terrific all week but the heavens opened just in time for the race and it certainly made things interesting. Over taking is so hard on this track, pole position is vital and Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo had it, he had some strong words for his team though, calling him into the pit stall before they were ready. That wasn't the only misfortune to his team. Young Max Stafford was making good progress from the back of the grid, until he crashed out. The price of the bungled pit stop became evident as the race unfolded, Ricciardo had the pace but Hamilton had the lead. He hung on to it for the first win of the season. It was a much needed victory, he has injected new life into the new driver standings.

Lewis Hamilton appears to be very much back in the race for the driver's title just two races to go. It seemed as though Roseberg had the championship locked up after four straight wins to start the season. However, the German has only picked up six points from the last two races and the gap now between the pair is down to just 24 right now.

HAMILTON: Thank God today went the way that I'd hoped and a big thank you to all the fans that came out today, really made the weekend. And you know, a big thank you to my team for providing me with a great car to see it through to the end and honestly I'm kind of lost for words really, it was just. I prayed for a day like this and it came true. So I feel truly blessed.

RILEY: And as you can imagine, Ricciardo was far from happy after the race, remember a mistake two weeks ago in Spain cost him the win there and now this.

RICCIARDO: I don't want to even comment on the race to be honest. Just say thanks to the fans, thanks for sticking out in this weather. I guess from the outside we put on a show, shouldn't have been as exciting as it was to be honest. Two weekends in a row now I've been screwed. So, it sucks. It hurts but thanks to everyone for sticking out. I appreciate it.

RILEY: And Hamilton didn't just win the race, he also showed the fastest pace out there in Monte Carlo, on that 71 just as rain started to fall Hamilton fizzed around the famous old track in a time of 1 minute 17.939 he was the only driver to go below 1.18 all day and German's Sebastian Beddle (ph) was second fastest just a tenth of a second behind. But it's Lewis Hamilton who wins Monaco's DHL Fastest Lap Award. As for the fastest pit stop, once again the Williams team who dominated recording four of the fastest six stops. So far this season, Williams recorded the fastest pit stop in all six races, so many congratulations to them. And World Sports will be back shortly.

RILEY: Welcome back to CNN World Sport. It's Lebron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers who've already booked their place in the NBA finals. The Cavs will either face the defending champion Golden State Warriors or the Oklahoma City Thunder. It will go to a winner take all game seven on Monday after the Warriors produced a dramatic comeback on Saturday night to level the series at three a piece.

Curry is the star of the team but it was his teammate Clay Thompson who did the heavy lifting with a historic playoff performance. Thompson made no less than 11 three pointers a post season record to keep the Warriors in contention. It was a master class in shooting, even his teammate the two time MVP Curry was in awe. Thompson scored 41 points in total and 19 in the fourth quarter. That's one more than the Thunder team combined and that's why Golden State is still in the series. Curry wasn't just a spectator, he stilled chipped in with 31 points and an audacious bank shot put the icing on the cake, but the night belonged to Thompson.

Well something unusual happened at the conclusion at the 100th Indy 500 on Sunday. Alexander Rossi, a rookie no less, became the ninth rookie to win the race in history and 350 thousand fans can now say that they were there to witness it. So, James Hinchcliffe would be the pole sitter for the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500 race. He would finish seventh. But on lap 64, last years winner Juan Pablo Montoya would lose control exiting turn two and would make hard contact with the wall.

Now exiting pit road, Townsend Bell hits another driver and then fell into Ryan Hunter-Reay. Bell and Hunter-Raey wind up wrecked in the pits and even worse is Bell and Hunter-Raey had been actually been in the top five most of the day. So on the final lap, stretching his fuel, is rookie Alexander Rossi, who wins the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500. He's the first rookie to win the 500 since 2001 and earlier on CNN's Patrick Snell (ph) asked the legendary Mario Andretti about what he witnessed.

ANDRETTI: This is one thing that happens to any driver that wins this race to, it opens up the world for you. To be very honest with you, it certainly happened to me and I think Alexander will see, will feel that, nothing but positives from here on, believe it or not. It's amazing, it's like magic actually.

(SNELL): And the moment that you get your hands on the milk, you savor the milk, you taste it, what is that all like?

ANDRETTI: Yes. I mean, like I said the calculate it pretty close and they took the risk to take him to the end and everything worked out and that's what you have to do here. To be able to win you have to have risks on all sides, with strategy and on the track and they did both. You know, Alexander, is just, has done a phenomenal job, especially as a rookie, you know, he's just, you would never know that this is the first time that he drove in this race.

(SNELL): Just incredible. Look to talk about the occasion as a whole there Mario, 350 thousand plus people there witnessing, what's that like? You were there, you were a part of it. What's the nearest thing, if anything, can you compare this to?

ANDRETTI: It's amazing. It's totally amazing. I've been here for 50 years and never remember feeling so much energy ever. It's amazing, it started with the parade this morning, it's going from A to B was just almost impossible. But the bottom line is if everyone just seemed to be so happy and very loud and very expressive. You know, it's just one of those things that you probably experience once in a lifetime. And I think it goes very well for the series, I think a lot of the fans came back to be able to celebrate with us. And they saw just an incredible, incredible, race. Something you could not even scripted.

RILEY: Now over the years here at CNN World Sport, I think it's fair to say we've brought you pretty much every sport out there, but there's one we've never yet covered until now. It's called eSports, so what exactly is it all about, here's a sneak preview for you.

(RIDDEL): It's a scene you'd expect at any major sports event. Fans lined up for hours outside. Merchandise stands do a roaring trade. Broadcast cameras ready for action and fever pitch excitement. Through gaming, except this is a little bit different. This is eSports. The sport for the digital generation. The intel extreme masters in Berlin, some of the world's best teams are going head to head in games like, League of Legends and Counterstrike. And it's already worth an absolute fortune.

REICHERT: The simple way to put eSports there's 200 million fans world wide who watch it. This is bigger than the NHL.

RILEY: Well a compelling and fascinating series is coming your way, airing this coming week here on CNN and you can meet the stars, the teams, and the promoters. You see the eSports could well become the biggest sport in the world. Now you don't want to miss it. That is it for this addition of World Sport. Thanks very much for watching. I'm Kate Riley.