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[02:00:11] JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR: This is CNN Newsroom live from Los Angeles.
The head of this hour, attack is still on church, take hostages and then slashed the throat of Catholic Priest, all in the name of the -- of ISIS according to the French President.
Anger after the release of a video which shows Australian teens being stripped naked and tortured inside a juvenile lock up.
And on the day, his wife makes history. Bill Clinton tries to introduce American voters to the real Hillary Clinton.
Hello everybody, thanks for joining us for another hour of Newsroom L.A. I'm John Vause.
Hillary Clinton is now officially the first woman nominated for the U.S. presidency by a major political party.
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SEN. BERNIE SANDERS, FORMER U.S. DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Madam Chair, I move that the convention suspend the procedural rules. I move that all votes, all votes cast by delegates be reflected in the official record and I move that Hillary Clinton be selected as the nominee of the Democratic Party for president of the United States.
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VAUSE: As her former rival, Vermont Senator, Bernie Sanders appealing for party unity on Tuesday at the end of the roll call vote. Many of his supporters are saying they will never back Clinton, some even left the convention hall.
The keynotes speaker on Tuesday, there was Hillary Clinton's husband, Former U.S. President, Bill Clinton making his most personal convention speech so far.
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BILL CLINTON, FORMER PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES: In the spring of 1971, I met a girl.
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VAUSE: Let's bring in CNN's Phil Mattingly live from the convention center there in Philadelphia.
Phil, I'm watching that moment on television. It seemed a little awkward when Bill Clinton start talking about the love of his life, his romance story of -- that he had with Hillary Clinton, given all, you know, the publicly, very publicly known challenges they've faced in their marriage over the years. What was it like in the hall?
PHIL MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, there were elements of that. No question about it. And as you kind of trace the arch of their relationship, he just so happened to leave out the decade of the '90s when a lot of the most difficult moments of their marriage actually occur. But there was a very specific intent behind what Bill Clinton was doing today, John. And that was trying to humanize his wife.
I think that he in the way he put it is that she's been turned into a cartoon and this was an effort based on a candidate that has extraordinarily high negative ratings based on someone who's really been defined by others over the course of her kind of 40-year career to try and turn her into something else, this campaign officially saw me afterwards. They wanted to make this the three-dimensional Hillary Clinton. That's why you got the very personal love story. Even though I think you're not the only one who thought that they were moments when you look at their relationship and thought, all right this is maybe a little bit strange.
VAUSE: Yeah. But, there was a couple of moments like that. But there also -- there were also some revealing moments, a very personal moment that we haven't heard from -- heard out before, which is amazing when you think that Hillary Clinton, I think in the public spotlight for so long and this was one of those moments that Bill Clinton shared with the convention.
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B.CLINTON: So, in 1974, I went home to teach in the law school and Hillary moved to Massachusetts to keep working on children's issues. This time, trying to figure out why so many kids counted in the census weren't enrolled in school.
She found one of them sitting alone on her porch in a wheelchair. Once more she filed a report about these kids and that helped influence ultimately the Congress to adopt the proposition that children with disabilities, physical or otherwise should have equal access to public education.
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VAUSE: It almost seemed at one point we're playing Hillary Clinton trivia, stuff that we never heard of before, which I guess in some ways it did work. I mean, it was that personal fact that we didn't know about. MATTINGLY: Yeah, exactly. Look, there were a lot moments that Bill Clinton recalled that even those in the audience kind of knowingly nodded along. You've heard the story but there were also those moments like you just played. Anecdotes that really formed the meet of the Hillary Clinton that the campaign and that Bill Clinton wants other people to see that maybe they're not aware of right now. He had a number of elements of that, at least in the first half of his speech, and again that was very strategic. It made and come across folks here as part of a story or a narrative.
[02:05:04] This is a very strategic effort by the campaign to paint Hillary Clinton as a more well-rounded figure if you will to maybe the one that the media has been focusing on and that voters have been paying attention to over the course of this campaign and really the course for the last 20 years, John.
VAUSE: And one of the biggest supports line to the night was the moment when Bill Clinton refered to the constant attack in his wife received by Republicans at their convention last well. Listen to this.
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B.CLINTON: The real one had done more positive change making before she was 30 than many public officials do in a lifetime in office. The real one has earned the loyalty, the respect, and the fervent support of people who have worked with her in every stage of her life, including leaders around the world who know her to be able, straight forward, and completely trustworthy. Earlier today, you nominated the real one.
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VAUSE: Yeah, he told about how did the - all or everything he'd spoken about Hillary Clinton. How that squared with all the Republicans are saying last week.
But it's not the problem though, if you are a Hillary Clinton supporter, you'll believe what Bill Clinton was saying, if you are a Republican, you're going to believe what the Republicans had to say. There's no more room in the middle way that comes to Hillary Clinton.
MATTINGLY: Yeah and you can just look at the polling right now. If you look at the undecided that are currently out there, the people who feel like they can be persuaded which is an incredibly important segment of the general electorate.
It's a very small number. Its 9, 10% and we're still four months away from the election. But Bill Clinton had a very specific intent with that moment of his speech. He repeated the words "the real one" eight times over the course of about 45 seconds to a minute. And it was really to try and contrast the fact that he believes his wife has been turned into a caricature over the last couple of decades. And her work behind the scenes, her work in public service is something that doesn't hit the recognition it deserves. And he felt his job tonight, was to lay out the case for why that makes her the best candidate in this race right now.
I think John, the big question is how does this resonate with people who aren't already big fans of Hillary Clinton. And one thing you note though, while Hillary Clinton clearly has her supporters and no question about is the Democratic nominee. In the light, latest CNNRC poll, 68% of Americans hold -- had a negative view of her. That is a devastating number in any other year where Donald Trump is not the person that she's running against.
The goal here is to bring that down, even if you only reach a few of those really important persuadables. Bring down the negatives and I think the Clinton campaign and Bill Clinton specifically felt like that was the very specific strategy here at the speech, John.
VAUSE: And there was another message that Bill Clinton while the audience to take away from that about Hillary Clinton, it was probably this. Listen.
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B.CLINTON: She's insatiably curious, she's a natural leader, she's a good organizer and she's the best darn change maker I ever met in my entire life.
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VAUSE: She's a change maker. He said that over, and over, and over again. Why was that so important? Was that for the Bernie Sanders supporters?
MATTINGLY: Well, look at this campaign. You have Bernie Sanders, you Donald Trump, you have movements that are as Antiestablishment as you could possibly imagine. And Hillary Clinton is the exact opposite of that. Her campaign knows that is the problem. This is not a year when you want to run as somebody with four decades in public service.
And she's been kind of an anvil around her neck over the course to the last couple months.
And so, Bill Clinton was making the case that sure she's been in government. But she's actually made change happen. I think he said the word change or change agent about a dozen times throughout the course of this speech.
Again, it's a tough case to make. But the value in Bill Clinton in these types of moments and he's been giving convention speeches since the '80s, is that he's able to present the case in a kind of a different way, in a way that people relate to. The hope from the campaign is the best exactly what he did tonight. We'll have to wait and see though kind of how people react to this, in the days, weeks ahead.
VAUSE: I'm just worrying about that the feeling from the speech. Because I remember 2012, when Bill Clinton got up and did this amazing speech for Barack Obama and he was dubbed, you know, the explainer in chief. He really nailed the Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, went through the tax plan, went through a whole lot of detail, explained, you know, what the Democrat policy really tore apart the Republican policy. Bill must feel the campaign at that point changing in Barack Obama's favor. Was there a similar vibe for you and to the audience when Bill Clinton was delivering this speech tonight?
MATTINGLY: It was a very different speech, right? If you look at what he did back in 2012, this, you know, that he kind of the secretary of explaining things or whatever President Obama called him at the time. That was a very policy-driven speech. This was a very biographical speech.
However, when I've talked to a couple campaign aids in the wake of his speech, they're obviously very happy with it. You wouldn't really expect anything less. But there's really kind of a split kind of takeaway from this in people that I've been talking to about Democrats and Republicans. They're very clear, Bill Clinton is as talented a speaker as you're ever going to find in politics.
[02:10:00] But really it's a wait and see kind of moment. You knew after Bill Clinton's speech in 2012 that that speech hit a home run. This one, it clearly had positive elements. And I think people are waiting to see right now if people are watching and if he can actually make a dent.
A lot of the things that he was trying to attack tonight are things that have been very set in stone for a long time as negatives for Hillary Clinton. Bill Clinton is trying to reverse that and flip it on its head. That's no small task. We want to see if it actually takes, John.
VAUSE: And finally the issue of unity, you heard Bernie Sanders. He made that very public display at the end of the roll call of calling for Hillary Clinton to be nominated by acclamation. What was the significance? What was the importance of that small moment at the convention?
MATTINGLY: Well, I think the Clinton campaign and frankly the Sanders campaign has gotten some of the fact that the speech Bernie gave on the first night was not enough.
There were still a lot of never Hillary people here. There are still Bernie Sanders or bust people here. This was a big moment for Bernie Sanders to kind of put his final stamp on the fact that he is supporting Hillary Clinton now.
Don't get me wrong, there are still plenty of people who are in that arena throughout the night tonight and will be throughout the course of this convention that are opposed to Hillary Clinton.
But the healing process, one that began a couple of weeks ago, this helps that process along and I should note, John. Bernie Sanders' campaign aids and Hillary Clinton campaign aids were sharing the same office over the course in the last 48 hours trying to make that roll call vote go as smoothly as possible. That was highly choreographed, highly staged. They knew what they needed to do. When they thought this would be kind of the exclamation point on their efforts over the last 48 hours.
VAUSE: Yeah. And if nothing else, it was an incredibly emotional moment for Bernie Sanders for him as well at the end of his campaign and mostly for his supporters. Don't know if they'll be happy with this, especially the more vocal ones who are there in Philadelphia I guess remains to be seen. Phil, thanks for staying up late, appreciate it.
Well, the French president says a priest was murdered in the name of ISIS. Two men stormed a Catholic church in Normandy on Tuesday. The attackers killed the priests after taking a number of others hostage during morning mass.
CNN International correspondent, Fred Pleitgen is live in Saint- Etienee-du-Rouvray, join us now live. Fred, a lot of questions now about how it is that an attacker who is known to authorities, who's wearing an electronic tag because he tried to travel to Syria managed to carry out this attack while the country is meant to be on high alert?
FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yeah. You're absolutely right, John there certainly are a number of questions that people are asking about the way the authorities handled this and it gets even more interesting when you look at the details. This man not only had to wear an electronic brace, but also he wasn't actually allowed to leave his parents house where he had been sentenced to stay with him except between the hours of 8:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.
And so, he started conducting this attack with a second assailant at around 9:25 a.m. So, it certainly wasn't a large window that these attackers had and even that, they used to go inside this church and so brutally murder this priest.
So, certainly there are a lot of questions that are out there. But one of the things that the French authorities were saying, that the French president is saying is that, they simply have so many people that they need to monitor now.
Adel Kermiche, the 19-year-old, one of the assailants, he was on a list known as Fiche S. So, he was known as being one of the most dangerous people to French society and the French said that there's about 10,000 people who are on those lists and it takes several police officers to monitor only one of those people.
So, it's a very tall task for the authorities. Now, the French President Francois Hollande has come out and he has said that he wants to double the amount of people monitoring these people in the Fiche S designation. But of course that's still very much a work in progress and is simply a very, very difficult thing to do.
Now, of course all of this is also causing political repercussions in France as well. There's people in the Conservative, the aisle of French politics were calling for things like preventive detainment for instance for those who are most threatening to French society.
So, it is certainly something that has caused a discussion very much here in this country and something that of course they are going to be talking about in the future as well. Francois Hollande this morning is set to meet with religious leaders here in France. One of the things that the Prime Minister Manuel Valls has said is he's accused ISIS of trying to spark a war of religions here in this country.
And so by meeting with religious leaders of various religions this morning that certainly something that pull out Francois Hollande is going to try and try to smooth over to make sure that there is peace at this very important time after, of course, you have this priest who is killed inside his Church, John.
VAUSE: Yeah, of course, 45,000 churches in France and many concerns about the security of those churches, will they be targeted? Fred, thank you for the live update. Thank you.
And after a wave of deadly terror attacks in Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel is facing some strong criticism for allowing in survey refugees. We'll deliver reports, the country that once welcomed asylum seekers is now deeply divided.
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[02:15:07] WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Refugees welcome, Germany's two-word response to a humanitarian crisis.
Last year, a tide of desperate people trekked through Europe. More than a million came to Germany, Syrians, Iraqis, Afghans. Many arrived at Munich Central Station exhausted but full of hope. They found an extraordinary welcome. What a difference a year makes.
You won't find any welcome banners here at the train station these days. The flow of migrants in the Germany has slowed as Europe supporters have tightened. These days the headlines are dominated by terror attacks hide to refugees.
PETR BYSTRON, HEAD OF AFD BAYERN: Many of the immigrants here are ticking time bombs.
RIPLEY: Petr Bystron, and others on the far right say Germany has opened its doors to jihadists, using the latest terror attacks as ammunition against German Chancellor Angela Merkel's open door policy.
BYSTRON: Because they opened the boarder and they let people uncontrolled come to our country. But we don't want people who are coming to Europe to kill us, to kill our children.
ATES GURPINAR, DIE LINKE SPOKESMAN: They're using the anger and they're using the fear of people.
RIPLEY: Ates Gurpinar is on Germanys far left. His party is also critical of Germany's refugee policy but for different reasons, calling it incomplete.
GURPINAR: What we should do is to avoid the things to make them flee from their countries, that's the one thing. And the other thing is to integrate them. RIPLEY: The fierce debate is dividing a nation with a long history of welcoming refugees. Right-wing marches are growing larger, organized by those who opposed the so-called Islamization of the west.
Colin Turner was one of the lead volunteers welcoming refugees to Munich last summer. He says the hope they came with is slowly fading as German authorities report an uptake in anti-immigrant attacks.
COLIN TURNER, REFUGEE ACTIVIST: Refugee accommodations are being targeted at the moment party by protests as well as sort of like arson attacks in the night.
RIPLEY: Months before the latest terror attacks, protesters screamed go home at asylum seekers on a bus. Some wonder if now anger, even violence will grow. Thousands of refugees in Germany once welcomed with open arms now feeling distinctly unwelcome.
Will Ripley, CNN, Munich.
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VAUSE: The two surveillance video of the scene outside a deadly night attack at a facility for disabled in Tokyo. They found the suspect is seen parking his car, opening the trunk and then walking inside and coming out about 45 minutes later.
A 26-year-old man is a suspected of stabbing 19 people to death wounding dozens of others. He's a former employee at the facility and turned himself into a police. A number of months ago he wrote a letter saying he had the ability to kill hundreds of disabled people. He wanted those with severe disabilities to have the option of being peacefully euthanized.
Well, still to come here, Australia's prime minister has called for an investigation in delegation for the abusive torture at a juvenile detention center from. Shocking details in a moment.
Also, cyber security experts link Russia to e-mail stolen from the Democratic Party -- excuse me after the break, President Obama react to the hack.
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[02:20:30] ANDY SCHOLES: I'm Andy Scholes with your CNN World Sport Headlines, Roger Federer announcing on Tuesday that he will miss the upcoming Rio Olympics and the rest of the 2016 season to recover from a knee injury.
Federer made the announcement on his Facebook page saying the doctor's advised that if I want to play on the ATP world tour injury free for another few years, as I intend to do, I must both my knee and body the proper time to be fully recover. Tough break for Federer as he will now not have the chance to go for his first Olympic gold medal in singles
Italian giant Juventus opening up their wallets on Tuesday completing a move for Napolese Gonzalo Higuain for $99 million, that whopping figure makes the Argentina the third most expensive player in history, after Real Madrid duo Gareth Bale and Christiano Ronaldo. It is also the most expensive transfer in the history of Italian football.
And finally, the condition that the brand new Olympic village in Rio are improving the Australian athletes say they will now move in to their rooms just a few days after saying the accommodations were unsatisfactory.
The Rio 2016 organizing committee has acknowledged that 19 of the31 buildings in the athlete's village had yet to pass safety test. Among the complaints are flooded floors, broken elevators mold and holes in the ceiling.
That's a look at your sports headline I'm Andy Scholes.
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VAUSE: A television news reporter in Australia has raised allegations of abuse and torture at a juvenile detention center. The images we are about to show you are from the Don Dale Center Darwin and a warning they are disturbing.
This 17-year-old boy has a hood over his head. His ankles, neck, and wrists were shackled because authorities say he threatened to hurt himself.
Australia's prime minister has now ordered a high level inquiry.
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MALCOLM TURNBULL, AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER: The abuse of young people in the Don Dale Youth Detention Center in the northern territory back in 2014 has shocked and appalled the whole nation.
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VAUSE: Sky News reporter Dan Bourchier joins us now with more on this.
So Dan, the terms of reference for the royal commission will be limited and this is what human rights watch said in part, "It seems short sighted to limit the royal commission purely to one facility. According to ABC, these incidents were only uncovered because a group of lawyers accidentally stumbled across the children in a visit to the facility which begs the question, how many other prisoners or detention centers are meting out treatment like this to young people?"
So, the question is why not a broader inquiry? What is the government's excuse?
DAN BOURCHIER, SKY NEWS POLITICAL REPORTER: Yeah, John, look it's been absolutely staggering, that vision described as cruel torture of young people, some of the most vulnerable in the northern territory. And in fact in Australia and we've now heard in just the last little while, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull indicating that that royal commission the most serious investigation in Australia would also look at the juvenile justice system as a whole across the northern territory.
He says though he won't be looking at other jurisdiction of the states and territories around the country and the Labor opposition says here that there really needs to be a broad focus to ensure that these staggering images prompt any other revelations around the country that they're able to be investigated as well.
VAUSE: Dylan Voller who is the young man at the center of all this, his lawyer tweeted out a letter on his behalf.
And I read in part, "I would just like to thank the whole Australian community for the support you have shown for us boys, as well as our families. I would also like to take this opportunity to apologize to the community for my wrongs and I can't wait to get out and makeup for them."
Why exactly is he serving time in jail? And are there concerns now about his safety in that detention center?
BOURCHIE: Well, John look, there's a whole background that led that young man to be in the situation that he's in now. But I don't think anyone would argue that the scenes we saw that shackled down and hooded and left for two hours is part of any sort of way to recover a young person after whatever their history may have been.
[02:25:10] And that lawyer also indicated that he was concerned now about his client's safety as there are reports that a number of the guards who were working at Don Dale Correctional Center are now working at the new correctional center of where that young man is.
And in addition to that, it's interesting to note that he apologized in that letter, those words "I'm sorry" are the ones that haven't yet been found by the political leaders who some are accusing of having responsibility over the legislation, the policy, the procedure that's led to this.
VAUSE: Is there this expectation that once this royal commission is -- gets underway and has its findings, that it actually has a power to bring about institutional change or is that more of a political issue?
BOURCHIER: Well, I think that that will be one of the calls. It's certainly one that we're hearing from indigenous leadership running across the country. In fact also calls for there to be components within the terms of reference of the royal commission to ensure that those recommendations are adopted.
And we've heard report after report looking into investigating the situation in juvenile justice in the northern territory. This very incident was reported by an independent commissioner last year and she said that there was a requirement for there to be systemic change as they would finally or cross the board that was putting this young people and their rehabilitation at risk.
VAUSE: OK, Dan, thank you. Dan Bouchier there with Sky News Australia reporting live for us from Canberra.
Cyber security researchers say there's growing evidence that Russian hackers are behind the security bridge of the Democratic National Committee.
Stolen e-mails published by Wikileaks showed top DNC officials tried to discredit the U.S presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. One forum says the hackers appeared to be using a Russian computer service but there's no connection at seems to the Russian government. U.S President Barack Obama won't rule out the possibility that Vladimir Putin would be working to help put Donald Trump into the White House.
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BARACK OBAMA, U.S. PRESIDENT: I think the FBI is still investigating what happened. I know that experts have attributed this to the Russians.
What we do know is just that the Russians hack our systems. Not just government systems, but private systems. But, you know, what the motives were in terms of the leaks, all that, I can't say directly. What I do know is that Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed admiration for Vladimir Putin.
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VAUSE: With that of Wikileaks, Julie Assange says there's a lot more material to come on the U.S. elections. He spoke with CNN's senior international correspondent Matthew Chance.
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MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: How concerned are you that the e-mails that Wikileaks has released could have been hacked by the Russian secret services and could have been released to you as a way of manipulating or influencing the U.S. presidential elections?
JULIAN ASSANGE, WIKILEAKS FOUNDER: These are actually separate questions that experts or so-called experts of the Hillary Clinton campaign has been quoting and in terms of analysis. They are not analyzing our materials. They have been analyzing previous materials that have been published by -- of the Hill, the smoking gun, and Gawker.
Now, they didn't publish e-mails they analyzed their material. And they say it isn't.
CHANCE: Right, but it's possible this material, given that it's suspected very seriously that the Russians hacked the DNC accounts. It's possible that this material also came from the Russians and is also released to cause the golden maximum damage to the Clinton campaign.
ASSANGE: Well, what we try and do as a source protection organization is we like to create maximum ambiguity as to who our sources are because maybe it was a hard drive that came from eBay. Maybe consultants, maybe activists, maybe state actors. Maybe ...
CHANCE: I know, but you're not specifically ...
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CHANCE: services are you, and so how is that even protecting?
ASSANGERS: Well, perhaps one day the source or sources will step forward and that might be an interesting moment. Some people will have egg on their faces. It will be interesting. But obviously to exclude certain actors is to make it easier to find out who our sources are. So, we never do it.
[02:29:59] CHANCE: But as an open source organization, you encourage material from whatever source. It's like almost like a vacuum cleaner.
Are you all right with the facts that it could have been the Russians that have done this to manipulate the presidential elections, that you could have been used by the secret services in Moscow for precisely that reason? Are you comfortable with that?
ASSANGE: What we have right now is that Hillary Clinton campaign using a speculative allegation about hacks that have occurred in the past to try and divert attention from our e-mails, another separate issue that we see in the spot right now, because they're having so much political impact in the United States.
And I think this raises a very serious question, which is that the natural instincts of Hillary Clinton and the people around her that when confronted with a serious domestic political scandal that she tries to blame the Russians, blame the Chinese et cetera, because if she does that when she's in government, that is a political managerial style that can lead to conflict.
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VAUSE: Julian Assange speaking with Matthew Chance from Moscow.
But still to come here, the countdown to Rio has begun but there are still major concerns the Olympic host city just won't be ready.
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VAUSE: Welcome back everybody. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM live from Los Angeles. I'm John Vause. With the headlines this hour.
France's president says ISIS is behind Tuesday's terror attack on a Catholic church. Two men took hostages and killed a priest and what the president has called a "Cowardly Assassination." Police killed both attackers. A prosecutor says one of the men was already being monitored electronically because he tried to travel to Syria twice.
[02:35:02] The 26-year-old suspect is stabbing rampage in Japan once wrote about his ability to kill hundreds of disabled people. Surveillance video shows the apparent suspect pulling up to the facility for the disabled in Tokyo that leaving about 25 minutes later. 19 people were killed and dozens more were wounded.
Hillary Clinton made a surprise appearance via satellite at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. She thanked delegates for making her the first woman nominated for the U.S. presidency by a major political party. Secretary Clinton will address the convention in person on Thursday.
Well, in the state for the start of the summer game and the Olympic Organizing Committee has admitted only about half of the buildings at the athletes village have actually passed safety tests. But they say everything will be ready on time. Shasta Darlington has the latest on the host city's progress.
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SHASTA DARLINGTON: An emergency task force, 630 electricians, plumbers and masons, apparently doing the trick.
KITTY CHILLER, CHEF DE MISSION AUSTRALIA: We are extremely happy with the progress that has been made in the last 24 hours in a village.
DARLINGTON: In fact, some Australian athletes already moving in and praising the apartments.
ANDE SMITH: All in, they're great. Yeah, I think they're very spacious. I'll see there's a little bit cleaning to be done but in general, I think it's going to be a great location.
DARLINGTON: Just two days earlier, the delegation refused to move in to the athletes' village siting blocks, toilets leaky pipes and exposed wires. The mayor or Rio fueled the fire by offering to put a kangaroo in the village to make them happy.
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DARLINGTON: It's natural to make adjustments, he said, but we want them to feel at home here. I'm almost putting a kangaroo here to jump in front of them. Other teams found alternative ways to solve their problems.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: ... we spend some money but, you know ...
DARLINGTON: Pressuring or hiring people?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Pressuring and doing the cleaning ourselves.
DARLINGTON: The Olympic village officially opened its doors on Sunday but organizers now admit only 16 of the 31 towers was even operational.
Now, they say everything really will be ready by Thursday. The Belarusians posted a picture of a clogged shower drain and someone from the Kenyan team wrote this on a wall.
Now, it's hoping all the last-minute work allows them to focus on winning. Shasta Darlington, CNN, Rio de Janeiro.
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VAUSE: I'm joined now by Anita DeFrantz, an Executive Board Member of the International Olympic Committee. Anita, thank you for being with us. Are you worried about Rio? Will they have everything ready in time? I mean ...
ANITA DEFRANTZ, EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBER, IOC: They have to. They have a second chance, so they're working hard, and I know the National Olympic Committees are working hard to make sure that everything gets done for the athletes, because it's the athletes' one shot.
VAUSE: They always have these issues before off the games. Don't they -- and Athens are pouring concrete up until the first day of the opening ceremony?
DEFRANTZ: Frequently, because it's a massive undertaking. They are given seven years to plan forward and it takes seven years. It's such a big thing to do unless you already have the venues in place.
VAUASE: Are you concerned about all the other issues which just surrounding Rio right now the protests in the street? What appears to be a lack of public support? Their security issues as well. You know, the policing don't come, it's too dangerous, that kind of thing.
DEFRANTZ: Well, the games are the safest place on earth because the whole world takes part in securing the games. The local hosts are responsible for some levels, but the international staff is taken care by the entire world. So, people should come to the game.
VAUSE: I could have thrown about Zika virus as well just to trample off. So you see a lot of challenges for Rio that out of hosted these and have to deal with.
DEFRANTZ: Let the whole world know what those challenges are ...
VAUSE: Right.
DEFRANTZ: ... and each one we, you know, we've gotten the World Health and lots of organizations help the athletes understand what the challenges are. It is, by the way, winter coming into spring there, so there's not high mosquito season.
VAUSE: Good to know. Well, the other issues, though, is, of course, the Russian Olympic team that were leaving in a couple hours. We don't know how many Russians athletes will actually be competing in the games. What are the anti-doping agency that they wanted a complete team ban on everyone from Russia. Why did the OIC kind of -- some say, why do they cave for the Russians?
DEFRANTZ: Well, there are several reasons. One, the report isn't finished. We don't have all the information. So, we can't have the full picture of what happened.
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VAUSE: Sorry. Would you at least consider there is a state-sponsored doping regime in place with the Russians?
DEFRANTZ: Yes. But in order to ban an athlete, we need to know what the profile is, what the athlete has done. You know, I guess, for me, I've been in a position where everybody was kept home and I would not have made everybody go but I wanted the chance to decide for myself. I think it's good to have an athlete be able to make the case that they should be able to compete.
[02:40:01] VAUASE: I think the argument that many people say is that the Russians have now lost the right of a presumption of innocence. And that essential because ...
DEFRANTZ: We agreed.
VAUSE: Yeah.
DEFRANTZ: We agreed with that.
VAUSE: And because of that everyone would be considered guilty and until proved otherwise.
DEFRANTZ: We agree with that but, we believe individual justice is important, that an individual athlete can make a case that she or he has competed with integrity. The International Federations have records about the testing done and where it's been done throughout the years.
VAUSE: And to the head of logistics on the ability to go through every single athlete, I mean the Boxing Federation is even trying.
DEFRANTZ: Well, unfortunately, the Boxing Federation didn't do much dope testing in the last year. So, there's not much for them to review and that's really unfortunate. There was a glitch anyway.
VAUSE: Right.
DEFRANTZ: Other federations for example the Rowing Federation just decided that, I think it was 20 athletes would not be able to compete in Rio and that's a big, big number.
VAUSE: Right. And the Swimming Federation too has kicked in, I think its seven Russian athletes.
DEFRANTZ: And we also have the tests from 2008 and 2012 that we're still getting information on which will affect athletes not just Russian athletes but other athletes. We've called the numbers, over 90 athletes from those two games who have been found to have a positive case. And we're in the process of having those hearings if it affects the athletes going to Rio.
VAUSE: Very quickly. You're part of the L.A. bid to 2024. We know that, you know people -- they're excited about it, they want to -- it's getting -- it's costly, there are a number of cities that say that it's not so expensive, you need to reform the bidding process until that's reformed and they should be part of it. I mean, at the end of the day what's in it for Los Angeles should they win this bid?
DEFRANTZ: Well, it's hosting the games again this -- Los Angeles is a city that has all of the facilities in place. In fact, we have more than enough facilities. We have choices of facilities. When you have a city that is dedicated to having sports a part of their life, it's not as expensive.
If your city even like London which really had a direct of sports facilities, it was an opportunity for them to build what they needed so that their populates can use, for example a swimming -- their old swim stadium is a great place for kids to learn how to swim and to develop their skills, which the city didn't have before.
VAUSE: Eighty-four is the first time they turned a profit at the Olympics.
DEFRANTZ: Thirty two.
VAUSE: Thirty two, yeah, OK, well first time in many, many years. I said the proper to '84, maybe you can do it again. Anita, thanks so much for coming in.
DEFRANTZ: Thank you.
VAUSE: And we'll take a short break. Next on NEWSROOM L.A., a big winning -- big week rather to earning report for the tech companies we're take a closer look and what some of those numbers actually mean.
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[02:46:03] VAUSE: Welcome back everybody. Apple reporting some mixed financial news that tech company posted $42 billion in sales for the third quarter and make $49.5 billion a year earlier. And iPhone sales fell for the second straight on quarter about to decline on this pole of unexpected and Apple stock rose nearly 7 percent in after hour's trade.
Twitter fell short of Wall Street predictions for its quarterly earnings. The social network reported $603 million in sales in purchased up to $610 million in sales for the next quarter. But that is way below estimate.
Well, for all the earnings, CNN Money Samuel Burke joins us from London. So, Sam I mean, what's going on with the iPhone and the situation that you had, the sales falling, the numbers are down but the stock goes up. Circle for us.
SAMUEL BURKE, CNN MONEY BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: Well, the stock went up because it beats the expectations but here for the first time in the iPhone's history and you might just be better up calling Apple the iPhone company because that is really the core of their sales. But for the first time in history, the iPhone has declined for two consecutive quarters. Let me just put up a list on screen so I can show you what's going on with the iPhone. Number one, you have problems with sales in China. They are slowing there, the economy has slowed somewhat there but they're also facing fierce competition from companies like Huawei and Xiaomi. In spite of all that, Tim Cook said on the call that he's bullish about the long term future for Apple in China.
Then you have at least of a need to upgrade and you and I have probably both experience this in the past, you had an iPhone and six months later you felt the need to get a new one because the colleague next to you had the better new one with all the new features. That doesn't happen as much anymore, they just don't have great new features coming out on the next edition of the phone.
But we'll see what happens in September. I'm flying out to California to be with you there John to see the iPhone 7. And then finally changes in U.S. mobile carriers, the contract there, they used to give you incentives and they get easy and give you really good financial incentives to upgrade, that just not happening anymore. All of that is hurting Apple.
On the bright side though, a lot of people are using Apple Pay and Apple gets a cut of that and of course Apple Music. Those services on the phone are going really well for Apple.
VAUSE: I know I wanted a new iPhone, I still miss by Blackberry.
BURKE: Thought I knew you were going to say something like that. Really?
VAUSE: See you next week. Be good to have you here.
Well, a short break. When we come back, actor Liam Neeson says he is a little concerned about how Kim Jong-un will react to his latest movie while "Operation Chromite" could change how some North Koreans view history.
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[02:50:51] PEDRAM JAVAHERI, CNN WEATHER FORECASTER: Today Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri, CNN weather watch time right now and a pattern across the eastern U.S.
It has been all about excessive heat. It's still pretty chills the outside but it is beginning to cool off just a little bit.
Look how uniform the temperatures are, just about everyone east of the Colorado Rockies into the 30s, just about everyone west of that line into the 20s. A very pattern that's uniform across a widespread area. And notice look get some cool area indicated by the yellows and the greens here try to push in and notice what happens late week.
Another round of heat tries to rebuild across the northeastern corner of the United States while the northwestern corner remains a cool spot into the 20s there, a lower 20s in spots. In fact some snow showers still possible in the highest elevations over cascade over the next couple of days. But rainfall, plenty of it flocked in at almost the same spots. We've seen them recent days, some are localized flooding could be possible where they need the rainfall is the opposite side of the U.S. where of course the southwestern U.S. excessive heat in place. And also a fire threat in place as well.
We know, over 15,000 hectars consumed just north of Los Angeles in the sun fire about 25 percent contained at this point. So, long ways go in that area as far as recovery and fire fighting efforts are concerning.
Work your way down towards the Caribbean, Havana on and to say, Nassau attempts into the lower 30, Chihuahua, a dry 33 degree afternoon. And storm, for you wouldn't believe me with conditions down around Bogota, 22 and partly cloudy.
VAUSE: A production company has pleaded guilty in a British court of failing to protect actors and workers on the set of "Star Wars; The Falls Awakens."
During filming actor Horrison fall and broke his leg. He was trapped under a heavy door. He then let him at the hospital for surgery and a statement of -- state workplace, HSE spokesperson called the accident a foreseeable incident.
Wednesday marks the 63rd anniversary of the end of the Korean War and the premier of the new movie in South Korea.
Operation Chromite could possibly show some North Koreans something they might not know, that their country didn't actually win the war.
Here's Paula Hancocks.
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PAULA HANCOCK, CNN REPORTER: Landing 75,000 troops in a narrow South Korean port, an operation with a one in 5,000 chance of success, an operation which changed the course of the Korean War.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: September 15th, zero hundred hours.
HANCOCK: This is movie about the battle in ancient 1950. A daring move by U.S. Commander General McArthur in charge of U.N. forces fighting North Korea to land behind enemy lines and push the North Koreans back to Chinese border.
Hollywood star, Liam Neeson plays the five-star general in the South Korean film.
LIAM NEESON, ACTOR, "GEN. MACARTHUR" IN "OPERATION CHROMITE": Legendary, charismatic figure, a very controversial in many, many ways.
HANCOCK: A movie based on history but not history as Pyongyang remembers it.
Every year, North Korea celebrates victory day, the end of the Korean War. A war that regime tells its people they won.
At the back it was Korea's furious respond to the interview in 2014. A film about a fictional CIA plot to assassinate leader Kim Jong-un and massive hacking attack comes Sony pictures was blamed on North Korea.
Pyongyang denies that. I ask Neeson if he has concerns about North Korean response to his film.
NEESON: Yes, I think we all are. In light of very recent events, very recent events, we are all, not just as film makers, but as citizens, on this planet and we're all very concerned.
HANCOCK: Movies can make it into North Korea, either through propaganda balloons blends South Korea by detecters and activists or smuggled across the border from China.
[02:55:05] It would be reasonable to assume at least a small number of North Koreans could see the version of the Korean War the rest of the world knows.
Liam Neeson calls it a wonderful piece of cinema, but will North Korea agree?
Paula Hancocks, CNN, Seaoul
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VAUSE: Finally here, the manager of the dance group, U.S.A. freedom kids says they plans to sued Donald Trump.
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CHILDREN: And I meet our freedom face the music come on boys take them down.
President Donald Trump knows how to make America great he'll get crushed they'll get crushed every time
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VAUSE: A video of their January performance in Florida went viral. The manager who is the father of one of those talented girls says Donald Trump reneged on promises to let them sell their CD's at the rally.
It was like canceled one of their performances in Iowa. Trump campaign didn't respond to CNN's request to comment.
It was a CNN NEWSROOM live from Los Angeles, I'm John Vause at CNN's live coverage of the Democratic National Convention continues after a very short break.
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