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Ted Cruz Booed Off Stage at Republican National Convention; Court of Arbitration Denies Russian Athlete's Appeal; U.S. Department of Justice Brings Suit Against Malaysian Development Fund 1MDB

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KRISTIE LU STOUT, HOST: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. And welcome to News Stream.

Now, Ted Cruz is booed after failing to endorse Donald Trump, overshadowing Trump's running

mate on another strange night at the Republican Convention.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport rejects an appeal by 68 Russian athletes which could see the Russian track and field team banned from the Olympics.

And the lawsuit that connects a Hollywood film, New York homes and Malaysian fund -- we speak to one of the journalists who broke Malaysia's

1MDB scandal.

Let's begin with what Americans and much in the world are talking about after the third night of the U.S. Republican National Convention. Now,

former candidate Ted Cruz was one of the keynote speakers, but he did not endorse Donald Trump as the Republican nominee for president.

And party leaders, they have been working to unit Republicans behind their nominee, so what

Cruz did was not well received. Manu Raju reports from Cleveland.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

SEN. TED CRUZ (R), TEXAS: I want to congratulate Donald Trump on winning the nomination.

MANU RAJU, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It was all downhill from there. Ted Cruz delivering a 25-minute speech that may follow him forever,

refusing to endorse Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention.

CRUZ: Stand and speak and vote your conscience, vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to

the Constitution.

RAJU: Cruz mentioning Trump's name just once during his primetime addressed. The crowd angrily interrupting the speech. Then Trump suddenly

appears in the stands up staging the GOP runner up yet again.

Trump later tweeting, "Wow, Ted Cruz got booed off the stage. Didn't honor the pledge. I saw his speech two hours early. But let him speak anyway. No

big deal."

PAUL MANAFORT, TRUMP CAMPAIGN: Donald Trump made the offer to speak without any condition. He thought Senator Cruz might be little bit more politically

smart.

GOV. CHRIS CHRISTIE (R), NEW JERSEY: I think it was awful and quite frankly, I think it was selfish. And he signed a pledge. It's his job to

keep his word.

RAJU: Cruz later not backing down.

CRUZ: I laid out a very simple standard. We need a president to defend the liberty and be faithful to the Constitution. I hope very much that is who

the next president will be.

RAJU: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich trying to reframe Cruz's comments as party unity.

NEWT GINGRICH (R), FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER: I think you misunderstood one paragraph that Ted Cruz, a superb orator. Ted Cruz said, you can vote you

conscience for anyone who will uphold the Constitution. In this election, there is one candidate who will uphold the Constitution. The only possible

candidate this fall is the Trump/Pence Republican ticket.

RAJU: But angry delegates in the arena couldn't be subdued. Video posted on Twitter shows security escorting Cruz's wife Heidi out of the arena while

being heckled by Trump supporters.

But two of Trump's former rivals showing they can put the bitter campaign season behind them.

SEN. MARCO RUBIO (R), FLORIDA: The time for fighting each other is over. It is time to come together.

GOV. SCOTT WALKER (R), WISCONSIN: A vote for anyone other than Donald Trump in November is a vote for Hillary Clinton.

RAJU: Trump also getting more support from one of his kids.

ERIC TRUMP, SON OF DONALD TRUMP: It is an honor to be here for a man I love so, so, so, so much.

RAJU: The Republican nominee listening in the audience as his son Eric praised him.

E. TRUMP: My father has revitalized rundown neighborhoods and shaped skylines across the country and turned dreams into reality his entire

career. It's what he does. It's who he is.

RAJU: And after days of denying, Melania Trump's speech is plagiarized --

CUOMO: I can't move on because you keep lying about it. Did a portion of the speech come from Michelle Obama's speech? Yes or not?

MANAFORT: As far as we're concerned, there were similar words that were used.

RAJU: On Wednesday, a Trump aide offered to resign over the firestorm, admitting that it was a mistake to lift passages of Melania speech from

Michelle Obama's 2008 address.

DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTAIL NOMINEE: I thought it was terrific to come forward and saying it was a mistake. She thought it was unfair to Melania.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: And that was Manu Raju reporting.

Now, the relationship between Ted Cruz and Donald Trump throughout the primary campaign season was to put it politely here: contentious, both

candidates launched intensely personal attacks.

Donald Trump, as you recall, branded Ted Cruz's Lying Ted in his campaign speeches. And back in March, even brought Cruz's wife into their feud. He

tweeted this, quote, "Lying Ted Cruz just used a picture of Melania from a GQ shoot in his ad. Be careful Lying Ted or I will spill the beans on your

wife."

Now, Trump seemed to be talking about a Facebook ad, it was produced by an anti-Trump Super PAC that showed trump's wife Melania posing nude. Now,

the Super PAC has no known connection to the Ted Cruz campaign.

And months later, Ted Cruz used words like narcissist, pathological liar and bully to describe

Donald Trump.

Now, the boos directed at Ted Cruz didn't drown out Indiana Governor Mike Pence. He is now officially the Republican vice presidential nominee.

Now, CNN's Phil Mattingly has more on that.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

PHIL MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Donald Trump undermining his running mate, Mike Pence, on the biggest night of his career. Pence

detailing his approach to foreign policy to an enthusiastic audience at the Republican National Convention.

GOV. MIKE PENCE, (R) INDIANA: We cannot have four more years apologizing to our enemies and abandoning our friends. Donald Trump will rebuild our

military and stand with our allies.

MATTINGLY: But that's not what Donald Trump is saying in a new interview. "The New York Times" reporting that Trump is questioning whether he would

automatically defend NATO members.

When specifically asked about Russia's aggression towards the Baltic states, Trump says he would only come to their aid if they, quote, "have

fulfilled their obligations to us."

This contradiction the second major policy discrepancy on display this week between the Republican nominee and his newly-minted running mate.

TRUMP: That was a war that we shouldn't have been in because Iraq did not knock down -- excuse me...

LESLIE STAHL, 60 MINUTES: Your running mate voted for it.

TRUMP: Iraq did not knock down -- I don't care.

MATTINGLY: Despite these differences, the Indiana governor and former congressman making the case for a Trump presidency last night.

PENCE: Donald Trump gets it. He's the genuine article. He's a doer in a game usually reserved for talkers.

MATTINGLY: Declaring that the GOP ticket is an agent of change.

PENCE: Hillary Clinton wants a better title, and I would, too, if I was already America's secretary of the status quo.

MATTINGLY: A star turn for Midwestern Mike, a staunch social conservative Tea Party supporter and devout evangelical who actually endorsed Ted Cruz

before Indiana's primary.

Pence catapulting onto the national stage last year after signing a religious freedom law, criticized for discriminating against gays and

lesbians.

PENCE: This isn't about disputes between individuals. It's about government overreach, and I'm proud that Indiana stepped forward.

MATTINGLY: Trump applauding Pence's speech on Twitter. The GOP ticket still getting to know each other. Trump awkwardly air kissing his running mate

after his big speech. Their unity not quite the photo op moment of past Republican tickets.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: All right, now it certainly was a day to remember. It was a wild one at the Republican National Convention. CNN's senior media

correspondent Brian Stelter is there in Cleveland. He's been watching all of this unfold.

And Brian, just take us to that moment when Ted Cruz was there on the stage at the podium, giving his speech, withheld his endorsement and then the

crowds kind of slowly realized what was going on? mean, describe what it felt like there.

BRIAN STELTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yeah. The boos were building and building and building. The discontent in the arena was obvious as Cruz was

wrapping up his speech. And then to have Trump enter the way he did as one writer for Politico said, revenge is best served on live national TV.

Trump clearly very effectively upstaging Cruz in that moment. But of course today, the next

day, the headlines are all about Cruz. This is a very, very interesting dynamic between these two men and even if Cruz is looking toward 2020 and

his electoral prospects four years from now assuming Trump loses, in the here and now in this moment, this is not what Trump wanted on the eve or

sort of in the morning before his big epic finale tonight.

Perhaps, though, and let me just give this a caveat ahead of time, I'm not saying this was all intentional, but maybe Trump will be able to set this

up so he comes in on Thursday night here in about 12 hours and rallies the troops and brings people together. Maybe this drama with Cruz is the

perfect appetizer for his main dish. I guess we'll see 12 hours from now.

U STOUT: Yeah, we'll see. It was all eyes on that big speech by Donald Trump.

I wanted to get your thoughts on a tweet that Donald Trump sent out right after Ted Cruz's speech saying it was no big deal. I mean, he said this --

and I don't know if we have it available for our audience. He said, "wow, Ted Cruz got booed off the stage. Didn't

honor the pledge. I saw him speech two hours early but let him speak any way. No big deal," unquote.

So, Brian, do you think it's in the end this is not going to be a big deal that after Donald Trump's speech and when the Democratic convention kicks

off next week this could be forgotten?

STELTER: Well, you know, there's sort of two versions of Donald Trump. One who is scripted, who relies on the teleprompter, who says what a normal

politician would say, then there's the unscripted Donald Trump who might seek revenge, who might try to get back at Cruz, who might take shots at

Cruz tonight in this followup speech.

So we'll see which version of Trump we see later today.

But no doubt this is a big deal. What we're seeing here are prominent Republicans going on

record for or against Trump. They're thinking not just about this election cycle, they're thinking about four and eight years from now and they're

also thinking about the history books.

We should be honest with ourselves, this convention is highly unusual. And there are going to be studies and reports and books written about exactly

how the party is handling this unusual sort of rebirth in the image of Donald Trump.

There's a reason why former presidents Bush are not here, there's a reason why other party big wigs are not here. The party is evolving in a dramatic

way and Ted Cruz does not want to be a part of it.

LU STOUT: Yeah, and Donald Trump, as you put it, he is an interesting candidate because you have the scripted Donald Trump and you have got the

unscripted Donald Trump. But between both of them, you have usually a candidate who is pretty much in control.

But this week, we saw Ted Cruz get on stage and not endorse him. Melania Trump being accused of plagiarism. There's a perception that Donald Trump

cannot control the messaging of his own campaign. Your thoughts on that.

STELTER: Well, of course, one of the underlying points of his campaign is that he will bring a businessman's mindset and ethos to Washington, to a

bureaucracy in Washington. What we're seeing here at the convention may be a preview of sorts, a challenge he would face. In some ways a convention

(inaudible) it's is a preview of what running a government would be like. There are thousands of people here. It's been in the works for years.

It's kind of like that cliche about the aircraft carrier, how hard it is to move an aircraft carrier. It takes a

long time.

A convention is like that. A convention is difficult to change on a dime. Donald Trump has come up against that here with some of the technical

problems, with some of the challenges and with some of the unforced we have seen like the Melania Trump plagiarism issue.

However, Thursday night is what is going to be remembered, what he does in about 12 hours is what will be remembered from this convention. The

images, the iconography of how he comes on stage and how he reacts to the audience and how the audience reacts to him

and what he says on that podium. How scripted or unscpripted he is, that's what we're going to remember weeks and months from now about this

convention.

LU STOUT: Yeah, the pressure is definitely on for Donald Trump with the big speech to take place later today. Brian Stelter joining us live from

Cleveland. Thank you.

Again Donald Trump is set to deliver that much-anticipated address on Thursday, the final

night of the GOP national convention.

His daughter Ivanka will lead into his speech and we're also going to hear from several Trump

allies, including Tom Barrack. He's a real estate investor and head of the investment firm Colony Capital.

And we're also going to hear from the PayPal co-founder Peter Teal. So, do stay with CNN for in-depth coverage of that.

Now, Russia is a powerhouse of Olympic sport, but it has been dealt another huge blow in the

runup to Rio. The Court of Arbitration for Sport has rejected an appeal by 67 Russian track and field

athletes. Now, they were banned from the Olympic Games following an independent report from the

World Anti-Doping Agency.

Now, Russia says the decision is inadmissible. Let's turn now to our CNN contributor and former CNN Moscow bureau chief Jill Dougherty. She joins

us now live from Moscow. Jill, good to see you.

Russia's appeal, we've learned, has been dismissed. This is a major blow. Tell us more about how the Kremlin is responding.

JILL DOUGHERTY, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: Well, as you said, they're calling it inadmissible and then going on to say that collective responsibility is

hardly acceptable, and that's the point that the Kremlin has been making all along. The whole country shouldn't be

punished, even if there might be some individual athletes who were doing things. But Russia should be allowed to send a team.

But I think, Kristie, you would have to say up until now there's been a lot of kind of theoretical comments. This is political, et cetera. But now

that this decision has come from the arbitration court, you can see a lot of fury erupting because people feel and fear that the final decision by

the IOC, which should come this weekend on Sunday, will go against Russia. Nobody knows, but there's great concern about that.

And just listen to this Instagram comment by Yelena Isinbayeva, she's a very famous pole vaulter. She said there was hope, but now it's dashed.

Let all those pseudo clean foreign athletes breathe a sigh of relief and win their pseudo gold medals in our absence. They always did fear

strength.

And then coming from the head of the sports ministry, Vitaly Mutko (ph) saying the decision humiliates sports. It was politicized and there's no

legal ground. And also it's time to disband the IAAF.

So you can get the idea that this is pretty serious, very emotional. And I think we've been talking about this, but there's really a message that

Russia is trying to get across, which is they feel that this is really directed against Russia, not just in sports, but in a variety of different

areas, that everything is politicized and it's actually, you know, a war against Russia.

So, it's very emotional right now.

LU STOUT: Very emotional outrage in Russia on the back of the court's decision. Jill dougherty reporting for us live from Moscow. Thank you,

Jill. Take care.

And you can get much or on the story on World Sport happening right here on CNN. Join Alex Thomas straight after News Stream, 8:45 p.m. Hong Kong

time.

Now, let's go to South Africa now. And the country's prosecuting authority announced it will appeal the sentence handed down to Oscar Pistorius.

Earlier this month, the Olympic sprinter was sentenced to six years for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. The prosecution says that

sentence is, quote, disproportionate to the crime of murder committed.

A spokesperson for the Pistorius family says that they will have no comment on the decision right now.

Now, you're watching News Stream right here on CNN. And still to come on the program, what do this Hollywood blockbuster and a luxury L.A. hotel

have in common? Well, they're both tied to a huge fraud case stretching all way to Malaysia. We have got an in-depth look straight ahead.

Plus, a dark moment in Indonesian history is now being brought to light. What an international panel is now saying about the country's Communist

purges 50 years ago.

And a guilty verdict for young protest leaders in Hong Kong. What they're convicted of and

their response coming up this hour.

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LU STOUT: Coming to you live from Hong Kong, you're back watching News Stream. Now, this is a corruption scandal, which reads like an

international thriller, billions stolen from the Malaysian people and then blown on hotels, yachts and swanky New York condos.

Now the U.S. claims a fund set up by Malaysia's prime minister was raided. CNN Money's Asia-Pacific editor Andrew Stevens has more.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ANDREW STEVENS, CNN MONEY: It's been a festering controversy that just won't go away for Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak and has burst into

new life after the U.S. Justice Department moved to seize assets worth a billion dollars, which they claim has been stolen from Malaysia's state

development fund 1MDB, a fund set up and overseen by the prime minister himself.

According to FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, the Malaysian they have been defrauded

on a grand scale. U.S. attorney general Loretta Lynch outlined the DOJ case.

LORETTA LYNCH, U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL: As my colleagues will explain in further detail, the co-conspirators laundered their stolen funds through a

complex web of opaque transactions and fraudulent shell companies with bank accounts in countries around the world including Switzerland, Singapore and

the United States.

STEVENS: Two people named in the U.S. filing are Najib's his stepson, Riza Reziz (ph), and Joe Loa (ph), a Malaysian financier described as a

confidante of Najib. (inaudible) is also involved in setting up the fund.

Now, the prime minister himself was not named.

Less than 24 hours after that filing, Singapore authorities said that nearly $180 million worth of assets had been seized in the city state as

part of their own 1MDB money laundering investigation.

Now, 1MDB was set up in 2009 by Prime Minister Najib to drive economic growth, more than $13 billion was raised. The prime minister's office said

on Thursday that the fund had been of multiple inquiries in recent years and that the Malaysian attorney general had found

no crime was committed. One of those inquiries was the donation of nearly $700 million to Najib's personal bank account.

The prime minister claimed it was a gift from Saudi Arabia and that most of it had been returned.

Now, the office of the Malaysian prime minister said on Thursday that the government would cooperate fully with the investigation. Loa (ph) and Aziz

(ph) did not respond to requests for comment from CNN Money.

Andrew Stevens, CNN, Hong Kong.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: Well, as Andrew just mentioned, $1 billion went through U.S. banks alone and now the government is trying to claw it all back, starting

with this, the Hollywood movie The Wolf of Wall Street. Now the film about fraud and greed was funded by just that. Investigators long suspected the

budget was propped up by money from 1MDB and this federal lawsuits wants the profits seized.

Now, tens of millions of dollars was also splashed out on prime real estate in Beverly Hills, including the L'Emirtage Hotel and sprawling mansions

nearby.

And in New York, agents say several condos were purchased including a penthouse here in the Time Warner Center next to Central Park. The

building is also CNN's home in the Big Apple.

Now, it seems the fraudsters also have a taste for fine art buying these masterpieces by Van Gogh and Monet. The federal government wants those

back as well.

Now, the 1MDB scandal was exposed through a series of reports by The Wall Street Journal. Bradley hope is one of the lead reporters who covered

what's been called Malaysia's Watergate. He and his team, they were finalists in fact for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for their investigation into

1MDB.

And he joins us now live from London.

Bradley, thank you so much for joining us here on the program.

As you know, the news is out for a while now the U.S. Department of Justice is now seeking $1

billion in asset seizures tied to 1MDB Your reaction to that? And did you think the U.S. would make such a bold move?

BRADLEY HOPE, REPORTER, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Well, we actually did expect it would be in such a big form. You know, we were expecting a much

smaller seizure to come and for it not to be as broad and extensive as it was in this complaint.

You know, we knew all the facts of it for the last year and they've come out in reports, but we've never seen it laid out in one big document.

LU STOUT: Yeah, take us back to the beginnings of the story and how you uncovered it. What tipped you off? How did you and your colleague start

to dig into it?

HOPE: Well, the story began actually from our Hong Kong bureau. There was a leak about the money that had been deposited into the prime minister's

accounts. At the time, that was just $680 million that was traced into his accounts. Later on, we've reported now

that there's more than $1 billion went into his accounts in total.

At the time, though, we just knew that there was all these kind of connections to 1MDB and that 1MDB had its own problems. So, the last year

we've been digging into how it was that the money actually originated from 1MDB and was deposited into his accounts.

So it's been -- it's kind of a very tangled web of offshore accounts and many different places, islands around the Caribbean and different countries

as well.

LU STOUT: And it required sort of classic investigative reporting to untangle this global web.

I mean, this is hard, painstaking work. Could you give us an idea of just how many officials you had to track down, how many thousands of documents

you have to get your hands on?

HOPE: Yeah. I mean, I would say, you know, The Wall Street Journal has deployed immense resources. There's reporters in many countries all

contributing their -- whatever they can. There's many hundreds and hundreds of documents.

You know, it's one of those things where until it was all laid out in this complaint, we had built this picture based on many fragments, many

interviews that were confirmed by other interviews and documents, you know, but it's amazing now to see it all laid out in one document and said very

clearly it really is an affirmation of all the reporting that we've been doing and also other publications as well.

LU STOUT: Yeah, Bradley Hope, absolutely. And we thank you for your reporting. Bradley Hope of the Wall Street Journal joining me live from

London. Thank you and take care.

Now, the Court of Arbitration for Sport has rejected an appeal by 68 of Russia's track and field

athletes. They were banned from the Olympic Games in Rio following that independent report from

WADA. Russian officials are now reacting.

Let's go in and listen to it live.

(RUSSIAN WADA PRESS CONFERENCE)

LU STOUT: Calling it a violation of human rights and says it creates a presence of collective responsibility, that's reaction there live from the

Vitaly Mutko, the Russian sports minister. He also said that the decision by the Court of Arbitration for Sport was an absolute violation. His

reaction to the Court of Arbitration for Sport dismissing that appeal from Russian track and field athletes.

Now, they were banned from the Rio Games after an independent report from the World Anti-Doping Agency.

Now, you're watching News Stream right here on CNN. And keep it here, because still ahead on the program, a panel of judges has issued a ruling

on Indonesia over the mass killings that took place in the 1960s. But it is not the only country cited. We'll tell you what an international

tribunal found.

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LU STOUT: And international tribunal has released its findings on one of Indonesia's darkest moments. It says the country committed crimes against

humanity when it massacred communists in a 1960s purge.

The U.S., UK and Australia were all found to be complicit in the killings, and none of them has responded to the findings. Ivan Watson reports.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

IVAN WATSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: It's been called the largest unrecognized mass killing of the 20th Century -- the 1965 massacre of

Communists in Indonesia, a dark chapter of Cold War history.

An international panel of judges delivers its conclusion.

ZAK YACOOB, INTERNATIONAL PEOPLE'S TRIBUNAL JUDGE: The state of Indonesia is responsible for and guilty of crimes against humanity.

WATSON: The violence began the night of September 30th, 1965, when soldiers mutinied

and murdered at least six army generals and their relatives in a failed military coup. A military regime led by general Su Harto responded with a

systematic campaign to wipe out Communists from Indonesia.

Su Harto went on to rule the country for the next 31 years.

In its ruling, the International People's Tribunal found the state of Indonesia guilty massacre of an estimated 400,000 people. Other crimes

against humanity include widescale torture, enslavement, enforced disappearance, and systematic acts of sexual violence against women linked

to the Communist Party.

The judges also implicated the Su Harto's regime's Cold War allies.

YACOOB: The United States of America, the United Kingdom and Australia were all complicit to different degrees in the commission of these crimes

against humanity. The U.S. gave sufficient support to the Indonesian military knowing well that they were embarked upon a program of mass

killings and other criminal conduct.

WATSON: None of the countries have responded to the finding.

Last May, survivors of the deadly 1965 crackdown emerged from an historic meeting with a

top Indonesian official. He leads a government commission to investigate the violence, but he casts doubt on the scale of the killings.

LUHUT PANDJAITAN, CORRDINATING MINISTER FOR POLITICAL, LEGAL SECURITY AFFAIRS: I don't believe that number of people get killed back in 1965.

Some people say 400,000 or so.

WATSON: The International People's Tribunal was formed in response to the 2012 Oscar-nominated documentary "The Act of Killing." It profiled

Indonesian gangsters who boast how they murdered Communists in 1965.

But the Indonesian government says the tribunal has no jurisdiction over the island nation.

Jakarta insists it will use Indonesia's own legal system to investigate this painful period of history.

Ivan Watson, CNN.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: Now, in Bangladesh, security forces may have prevented another terror attack after a raid in the capital. Four people said to be part of

a banned Islamist group were detained on the outskirts of Dhaka.

Now, they are not being directly linked to the cafe attack in Dhaka earlier this month, but

authorities say it was clear that they were planning a new attack.

An official told CNN the security forces came across a cache of arms and ammunition.

And you're watching News Stream. And still ahead, three student protest leaders in Hong Kong are found guilty for their roles in instigating the

city's Umbrella movement protest. We'll hear Joshua Wong's reaction to the ruling next.

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LU STOUT: Welcome back.

Now according to Hong Kong, it has has found three student protest leaders guilty of unlawful

assembly. Joshua Wong, Alex Chow and Nathan Law were charged for their roles in the so-called

Umbrella Movement of 2014.

Now, during the protests, crowds took over parts of city's financial district calling for wider democracy. And this is where it all started:

Civic Square outside Hong Kong government headquarters. And and police shielded the area with barricades. But Joshua Wong and others broke in.

And this was the opening act of a protest that would later last for two months bringing together tens of thousands of people. They set up camps on

a major highway and demanded the right to choose the Hong Kong leader by universal suffrage, one person, one vote.

And things turned violent early on the protest. Ralliers, they clashed with riot police who used tear gas.

And now almost two years later, Nathan Law says he has no regrets and believes he was

carrying out the will of the people.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

NATHAN LAW, CONVICTED STUDENT PROTEST LEADER: I believe that there is a very strong (inaudible) of opinion from the point of view from the people

and not from us. So we believe that the action in Civic Square is an reaction targeted on the repression from the government on our political

rights and our freedom of expression.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LU STOUT: Now, the Umbrella movement pushed Joshua Wong into the global spotlight. The 19-year-old launched a new political party just a few

months ago. And he says the battle for democracy will be a long one.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

JOSHUA WONG, CONVICTED STUDENT PROTEST LEADER: No matter what is the penalty or the price that we need to pay. We will still continue to fight

against the suppression from the government and also we know that facing the largest Communist region in the world is a long-time battle for us to

fight for democracy.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LU STOUT: Now, Joshua Wong, Alex Chow, Nathan Law could be facing time in prison. Sentencing is set for August 15.

Now, British archaeologists digging in Cambridgeshire say that they have unearthed a 3,000-year-old settlement. Now, the bronze age community is

incredibly well preserved and the team is calling it Britain's Pompeii. They say these relics at the Must Farm site tell a dramatic story of

how a sudden and violent fire destroyed the riverside village.

The burning houses fell into the river silt which then preserved the contents. And researchers say the pristine find reveals inhabitants were

more sophisticated than previously thought.

And that is News Stream. I'm Kristie Lu Stout, but don't go anywhere. World Sport with Alex Thomas is next.

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