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Aleppo Doctors Call Out U.S., International Community; Interview with Player Who Caught Them All; Donald Trump Shifts Attention To Clinton's Emails; Turkish President Issues Ultimatum to U.S; Germany Interior Minister Proposes New Anti-Terror Policies

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KRISTIE LU STOUT, HOST: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong and welcome to NEWS STREAM. Now, activists report a deadly chlorine gas attack in Aleppo

as a group of doctors say that they have seen the U.S. do nothing to end the siege.

Also, the slur that sparked a diplomatic row. What the Philippines president said about a U.S. ambassador.

And the Pokemon Go master. We speak to the man who has traveled the world to catch them all.

We need action, not tears or sympathy, and that comes from some of the last remaining doctors in Aleppo, Syria saying they have never seen any U.s.

military action, and calling the U.S. president to stop the atrocities.

Now right now, this is the reality on the ground. Activists tell us a chlorine gas attack has struck a rebel-held area. At least three people

have been killed, dozens are injured. And they are among more than 2 million people thought to be still inside the city with little food or

water.

Now, CNN's Clarissa Ward managed to get past rebel lines in Aleppo earlier this year. And she spoke recently at the United Nations.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

CLARISSA WARD, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The thing that has been killed in Syria that is much more difficult to rebuild than a bombed out

building is trust. There is no trust -- no trust in the Assad regime, no trust in cease fires or cessation of hostilities or humanitarian corridors,

no trust in the russians and no trust in you, by the way, in us, in the international community who have been wringing their hands on the sidelines

while hospitals and bakeries and schools have been bombed, while phosphorus and cluster bombs have killed countless civilians.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LU STOUT: Now, Clarissa Ward is now in London. She joins us live from there now.

And Clarissa, doctors in Aleppo, they have sent that desperate open letter to President Obama. We have reports of the suspected gas attack. I mean,

just how dire is the situation in Aleppo now?

WARD: The situation is and continues to be dire. It's been dire now for four years, Kristie. But I would definitely say we're at something of a

breaking point here.

And in that letter, which was written by 29 doctors, they are some of the very few doctors left in

rebel-held Aleppo who are responsible for servicing the needs of some 300,000 people. And essentially the letter had two main approaches. One

was to list the series of very crucial needs that they have -- they don't have a CT scanner, they don't have life support machines, they don't have

enough oxygen, they don't have enough medicines because that area has been under siege for nearly a month.

And even with the sort of temporary partial lifting of that siege after heavy fighting over the last few days, there still such danger in that

area that there's very little aid getting in and out.

Now, we did hear the Russians saying that they would allow a three-hour from 10:00 a.m. to

1:00 p.m. local time, a 3-hour complete cessation of hostilities that would ideally enable aid and food to get into those areas, but with from what

I've heard on the ground, the jets continue to pound throughout those three hours and of course people at the UN are saying three hours is not nearly

enough.

They say that they need 48 hours in order to get in there and try to repair the damage that has

been done to the infrastructure and also particularly the water system and of course electricity.

The second part of the doctor's letter was more of a shame on you, essentially, to the international community and to the U.S. saying your

inaction in some way makes you implicit of the crimes of Russia and the regime inside of rebel-held Syria, Kristie.

LU STOUT: The people, the doctors, the families inside Aleppo desperate for food, for water,

for medical aid -- that humanitarian window that was open, it doesn't seem to be working. What is going to be the future of Aleppo here? The rebels

appear to have broken the siege, but what's going to happen to the city and to everyone who has been trapped inside?

WARD: Well, I think what we've seen over the last four years is that neither side can win a decisive victory in Aleppo. And even if the siege

had not been lifted and if it continued, you're talking about years potentially to kill or starve out some 300,000 people. So to call that any

kind of a victory would be sort of sick in a sense.

But then you look at the situation that the United Nations is presented with and it's very difficult because the Syria question is deeply

polarizing. You have on the one hand Russia and Iran supporting the regime of Bashar al Assad, on the other hand you have countries like Turkey, and

Qatar, and Saudi Arabia which are arming the rebels and arming them in a much more significant and meaningful way, can I just add, which is why

you're seeing this sudden momentum, I think, on the battlefield, on the rebels' side.

And until you have some kind of, you know, consensus reached between these proxies, it's hard to see how there will be any amelioration on the ground

inside Aleppo, Kristie.

LU STOUT: Clarissa Ward, we thank you for your reporting.

Now, a fierce political debate is under way in Germany over dramatic new security laws proposed by the government in the aftermath of recent terror

attacks in the country. Now, one of the most controversial is to relax doctor/patient confidentiality if a patient poses a risk to public safety.

Now, the sweeping list of changes, it was presented news conference by Germany's interior minister earlier today.

Now, CNN international correspondent Fred Pleitgen has the latest on this from Berlin. He joins now. And Fred, what was presented was a long list

of new security measures to fight terror in Germany. Break it down for us.

FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRSEPONDENT: Yeah, you're absolutely right, Kristie. And the main sort of driving force behind that

list that was put forward today is of course the recent security incidents and terror incidents that have taken place in Germany.

And what the interior minister said is he ithorities and the law itself the tools they need to be able to fight extremism.

Now, the doctor/patient confidentiality was certainly one of the main measures that was presented and will certainlybe one of the most

controversial ones. It is already possible for doctors and psychologists here in this country to notify authorities if they believe that something

of -- that is very severe is imminent. And then it is even their duty to inform the

authorities.

Now the German government now wants to relax that even more and make it even easier for

psychologists and doctors to come forward and tell authorities when they believe one of their patients may want to cause harm to the public here in

this country.

Some of the other measures that are also probably going to be very controversial is for instance they want to take Ggerman citizens who have

another citizenship and who engage in terrorist organizations and strip them of their German citizenship, tthat's something left leaning parties

here in this country are not going to be very happy with. And they also want to make it easier to deport foreigners who become radicalized, who

radicalize other people and who engage in terrorist organizations as well.

So certainly a big debate that's going on here in Germany, some of the other measures include

more police officers, better equipment for police, also doing more for surveillance of the internet, those are things that all political parties

agree on here in this country. But it's really some of these things where you could sort of make the case that they're impeding on some freedoms here in this country where you're sure to see a very big political

debate happening here in Germany very soon, Kristie.

LU STOUT: Certainly.

And Fred, when we last spoke here on NEWS STREAM yesterday, these terror raids were ongoing in Germany. So what ultimately came out of that?

PLEITGEN: Well, the terror raids were targeting three individuals, especially in the west of Germany. They happened in cities really across

the west and also in central Germany as well. The most recent information thatwe've gotten was that no arrests had been made, however, properties

were raided in five towns in total. There were 150 police officers that were on hand there.

And it really is part of this ongoing effort by the German authorities to try to clamp down

and be tough on people whom they believe are radical, who people they believe might be working together with organizations like ISIS, but at the

same time still maintain the freedoms that are around here in this country. And the interior minister actually said that the

raids yesterday, also some of the measures taking place in the days before, were suspected members of ISIS were arrested as well, that all of them have to do with this new concept

that he put forward today where again they're calling for some very tough measures. They're calling for some laws to be changed. At the same time,

they do want to maintain the freedoms that have been of course a hallmark of this country for the past decades.

LU STOUT: All right. Fred Pleitgen, reporting live for us from Berlin, on Germany's tough new response to terror. Thank you, Fred.

And news just into us here at CNN, Xinhua is reporting at least 21 people have been killed and five injured in a pipeline explosion in Hubei

province. Three of the injured are reported to be in Syria's condition. We're going to bring you more on the story as the details come into us

right here on the program.

Now, Japan's Kohei Uchimura has done it again. He is the men's individual gymnastics all around gold medal champ retaining the title that he won back

in London in 2012.

Now, he led Japan to a gold medal in the team all-around as well. And he told reporters this, quote, after winning the group gold, it was tough to

refocus. I'm exhausted right now.

Now, Australia also has a new Olympichero, Kyle Chalmers. The 18-year-old won the men's 100 meter freestyle final powering through the final length

after coming in seventh on the home turn -- incredible.

Now CNN World Sports Amanda Davies joins me now live from Rio with more. And Amanda, wow, more dramatic competition from the pool with an Aussie

teenager taking title in the 100 meter freestyle. Tell us more about him.

AMANDA DAVIES, CNN WORLD SPORT: Absolutely.

Two opposite ends of the spectrum really in Kohei Uchimura and Kyle Chalmers. In every Olympic games, we have these breakout stars, don't we,

Kristie, that we then talk about for the Olympics to come. In London, we had Katie Ledecky in the pool and now you suspect it might be Kyle Chalmers

that we're going to be talking about for a few more years.

The 18-year-old who not many people really had heard of ahead of last night. He went into this

race with his teammates and the world number one being talked about far more than Chalmers himself, but he absolutely showed the rest how it was

done.

There were fantastic scenes of celebration within the aquatic center. A large Australian contingent.

Chalmers is still at high school. There were some fantastic pictures of his high school colleagues, fellow pupils watching the race. You suspect

he's going to absolutely get a hero's welcome when he returns.

Very interestingly enough, we saw he is inspired by Kevin Durant, the NBA star. He always makes a point of watching Kevin Durant's 2014 MVP speech

before he takes to the pool. And it certainly, certainly worked for him last night. Fantastic scenes in one of the flagship events really in the

swimming pool.

And Amanda, all eyes on the pool for another reason, is it true, did a second pool turn green and what's the status on the first one?

DAVIES: Yeah, all eyes on the pool. And you start kind of checking whether or not your eyes are working and you start fearing what happens

when you turn on the taps here because, yes, we had on Tuesday the pool in the diving center turning green. It looks like something outs of a scene

from Ghostbusters. And now we have the second pool, a water polo venue suffering from the same problem.

Organizers are saying that they believe it's due to a problem with the alkalinity, that there's not

enough chemicals in the water tanks, which is causing the problem. They insist they're working on

it, but equally insist that there's no danger to the athletes, that the water is safe. But it does make me laugh. There's enough of these

athletes saying it's all OK. It's looks a bit strange, but we'll get on with it. We want to win our medals. We're just making sure we're not

opening our mouths.

LU STOUT: Yeah, absolutely. And you're right, that green is almost ectoplasmic.

And finally, Amanda, looking forward to later in the week, field events due begin. But is doping going to cast a shadow on the athletics events?

DAVIES: That's the big question. We've had this narrative that's been gathering pace over the

last few days, particularly in the swimming pool, of athletes really taking a stand. They feel in many cases that they've been let down by their

international sporting federations who allowed former drug cheats to be able to compete here at the Olympic games of course after that explosive

McLaren report into doping in sports in Russia. Instead of issuing the blanket ban to all Russian athletes, the individual federations had to

decide on a case by case basis.

We've seen Lilly King in the pool very much targets Yulia Efimova, her 100 meter breaststroke rival saying that she doesn't feel she should be here

because she previously failed a drugs test.

There's also been Mack Colton from Australia speaking out about one of his rivals.

And the question now is whether or not that kind of athlete power and the athlete voice will be

seen again in the athletic stage. And we know that the IAAF, of course, took that decision to issue a blanket ban to the Russian athletes. But

will competitors from other sports start speaking out? It remains to be seen.

And last night, I was lucky enough to speak to the IAAF president Sebastian Coe, the person who made that really groundbreaking decision about the

Russian athletes. This is what he had to say.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SEBASTIAN COE, IAAF PRESIDENT: We make the decision that we felt was in the best interest of the sport, it wasn't a triumphant decision. It was a

sad decision actually when you ban a federation and by implication their athletes.

But we felt that the charge sheet was such a serious one.

DAVIES: Have you spoken to any of the Russian athletes about it?

COE: No, I haven't. It is absolutely our focus to get the Russian federation back into international competition, their athletes back into

international competition. When we are satisfied, and I'm confident that they can do so, and maintain a level playing field across competition.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

DAVIES: Kristie, the track and field athletics gets under way on Friday. And Jessica Ennis-Hill, the defending Heptathelete, says to me that all

this scandal just means that she wants to put in a performance that is bigger and better than ever.

LU STOUT: All right, Amanda Davies, thank you.

Now, let's look at the medal count right now. The U.S. leads with 11 gold, China is close behind with 10, Japan has 6.

Australia and Hungary each have 5 and Russia moves into sixth place with 4 gold medals.

Now, the on going feud between American swimmer and a Russian rival is spurring more athletes to speak out against doping. American Lilly King

has expressed disdain for Yulia Efimova over the Russian swimmer's history of doping. Now, king famously waived her finger at Efimova after beating

her in the 100 meter breaststroke final.

Now, CNN asked King how she feels about being a poster child for clean sport and she says she's glad to be one. Don Riddell has more.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

DON RIDDELL, CNN WORLD SPORT: It takes sacrifice and determination to make an Olympic champion but it takes courage and leadership to become a role

model. At the age of just 19 American swimmer, Lilly King has achieved both here in Rio taking a stand against her Russian rival in the pool and all

drug cheats saying "It just proves that you can compete clean and still come out on top."

MARK KING, LILLY KING'S FATHER: Hopefully this will create some momentum with the governing bodies with FINA, with you know of course the governing

body of swimming and hope that this could give them some momentum to push a little harder to do it right.

RUTA MEILUTYTE, LITHUANIAN SWIMMER: I think it was very brave of Lilly, you know, just after she became a champion to speak out and be brave to show

her opinion and I think she said what we all think.

RIDDELL: It all started when King's Russian Yulia Efimova declared herself the number one after winning in the semis. Among other things, the Russian

was caught doping in 2013 and was banned for 16 months. But King beat her to the gold medal saying, "You wave your finger number one and you have

been caught drug cheating. I'm not a fan."

Neither it seems is the Olympics' most decorated athlete, Michael Phelps who has voiced his support. After the revelation of a state sponsored

doping program, Russian athletes have been cast as the chief villains of the games, rekindling sentiments of the Cold War.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No, it's not war it's an attempt to mix politics and sport but I wouldn't want to do that because the international sporting

tent was an idea of a nice little island where everybody was friends, talked, make peace. We in Russia have a strong state and strong sportsmen

and it seems that disturbs someone.

RIDDELL: But it's not just the Russians and it's not just the Americans taking a stand. The Australian gold medalist Mack Horton clashed with his

Chinese rival, Sun Yang found to be taking prescribed heart medication which was on the banned list but no longer is.

KITTY CHILDERN, CHIEF OF MISSION, TEAM AUSTRALIA: We won't be apologizing. (inaudible) won't be apologizing and the Australian Olympic Committee won't

be apologizing. Mack, as I just said had every right to express that opinion. He has strong opinions on the need for clean sport.

RIDDELL: Athletes used to assume that their governing bodies would protect them from cheats but that confidence has been eroded because of poor tests,

inconsistent punishments and politics.

ADAM NIELSON, 2004 SHOT PUT GOLD MEDALIST: Athletes have to come together and say this is what we demand. This is where we're going to go with it and

you guys, the IOC and WADA need to follow us for a change.

CONOR DWYER, U.S. OLYMPIC SWIMMER: People are starting to speak up about it and some of the people I have raced against have failed tests and that

stinks to be racing people that have failed a test before.

RIDDELL: There are many questions that need to be answered after these Olympics; rules and policies that need to be addressed. The athletes say

they've been too quiet for too long. But they are learning fast and they are not prepared to let it lie.

Don Riddell, CNN, Rio.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: Now, staying with sport, we are following developing news out of the UK. Police are investigating allegations that an 18-year-old tennis

player was poisoned at Wimbledon last month. Gabriella Taylor was forced to retire after reaching the quarterfinals.

The Daily Telegraph quotes her mother as saying her daughter was in intensive care and diagnosed with a bacteria found in rat urine.

Now, CNN reached out to the All England Lawn Tennis, those responsible for Wimbledon, but they declined to comment because of the ongoing

investigation.

Now, you're watching NEWS STREAM. And still to come, yet another inflammatory comment from the president of The Philippines, this time

directed at the U.S. ambassador.

Newly released Clinton emails, Trump's second amendment comments and the controversial guests at their rallies. We go live to Florida for the

latest in the U.S. presidential campaign.

And catching all 145 Pokemon on Pokemon Go is no easy task, but one man became the very first in the world to do just that. And he is offering us

some tips on how to do it.

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LU STOUT: Coming to you live from Hong Kong, you're back watching NEWS STREAM. Now, the U.S. has summoned a Filipino diplomat to clarify remarks

made by the president of the Philippines. Rodrigo Duterte said he used a slur when referring to the U.S. ambassador. He claims to have made the

insult while talking to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. Take a listen.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

RODRIGO DUTERTE, PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES (through translator): I told him your ambassador is a gay son of a bitch. I was annoyed at him for

interfering in the elections, giving statements here and there.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LU STOUT: On the back of those comments, the Philippine's foreign affairs department

issued a statement saying this, that Philippines-U.S. relations remain strong.

Now during the call with Secretary Kerry, the president said he places much importance on Philippines/U.S. relations.

Now, as Manila attempts to clarify Duterte's remarks, it sent an unofficial envoy to Hong Kong to break the ice with China. Former Philippines

President Fidel Ramos (ph) says he was on a mission of goodwill. He says that he was here to look for old friends who had links to officials in

Beijing.

The visit comes at a time of tension between China and the Philippines after an international court ruled against Beijing over a territorial

dispute in the South China Sea.

Donald Trump is not backing down despite a storm of criticism over his remarks about Hillary

Clinton and the second amendment. Back on the campaign trail on Wednesday he attacked Clinton about new revelations in her email controversy.

Sara Murray has the latest from the U.S. presidential campaign.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

(APPLAUSE)

SARA MURRAY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Donald Trump trying to shift the spotlight to Hillary Clinton's missing e-mails after a newly uncovered batch of

messages raises questions about ties between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department.

DONALD TRUMP, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: It's called pay-for-play. And some of these were really, really bad, and illegal. If it's true, it's

illegal. You are paying and you're getting things.

MURRAY: But the firestorm Trump ignited with his own words isn't going away.

TRUMP: Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish the Second Amendment. By the way, if she gets to pick...

(BOOS)

TRUMP: If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks, although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is. I don't know. But --

MURRAY: Trump digging in and continuing to blame the press for twisting his remarks.

TRUMP: The biggest rigger of the system is the media. The media is rigged. It is rigged. It's crooked as hell.

MURRAY: The bombastic billionaire insisting he wasn't advocating violence.

TRUMP: There's tremendous political power to save the Second Amendment, tremendous. And you look at the power they have in terms of votes, and

that's what I was referring to. Obviously that's what I was referring to.

MURRAY: A Secret Service official tells CNN they had more than one conversation with Trump's campaign on the topic. But Trump disputes this,

tweeting no such meeting or conversation ever happened.

HILLARY CLINTON, (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Words matter, my friends.

MURRAY: All as Clinton fires back on the stump.

CLINTON: We witnessed the latest in a long line of casual comments from Donald Trump that cross the line.

MURRAY: Amid the uproar, Trump is ramping up his attacks.

TRUMP: ISIS is honoring President Obama.

MURRAY: Labeling the president the founder of a terrorist group.

TRUMP: He is the founder of ISIS. He is the founder of ISIS. He is the founder. He founded ISIS. And I would say the cofounder would be crooked

Hillary Clinton, cofounder.

MURRAY: The man who once demanded the president's birth certificate to prove his citizenship now emphasizing Obama's full name.

TRUMP: The administration of Barack Hussein Obama.

MURRAY: Sitting behind Trump at the rally as it all happens, disgraced ex- congressman Mark Foley who resigned in 2006 amid allegations he sent sexual emails and messages to teenage boys.

TRUMP: How many of you people know me. A lot of you people know me. When you get those seats, you sort of know the campaign.

MURRAY: As Trump pounced on Clinton for having a terrorist father sitting behind her this week.

TRUMP: Wasn't it terrible when the father of the animal that killed the wonderful of people in Orlando was sitting with a big smile on his face

right behind Hillary Clinton.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: That was CNN's Sara Murray reporting there.

Now a man who climbed Trump Tower in New York using suction cups is expected to face criminal charges.

Now the building is owned by presidential candidate Donald Trump and houses his campaign headquarters. It took police and emergency services almost

three hours to stop the climber and pull him into the building.

The 19-year-old made it all the way to the 21st floor. And police say that he told them he just

wanted to meet Donald Trump.

The climber has been taken to the hospital for psychological evaluation.

You're watching NEWS STREAM. Still ahead in the program, we've got reports that Turkey's president has issued an ultimatum to the United States --

choose between Ankara or an exiled cleric blamed for last month's failed coup.

And Canberra accuses some asylum seekers of making false allegations of sexual assault in a bid to get to Australia. Keep it here.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

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LU STOUT: Now, Turkish media report the president has thrown out the gauntlet to the U.S. over an Islamic cleric living in exile in

Pennsylvania. The reports say the Turkish president issued an ultimatum to the U.S.: choose between between Ankara or the cleric blamed for last

month's failed coup.

Now, the reported ultimatum comes after Erdogan met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg.

Now, CNN's senior international correspondent Arwa Damon joins us now from Istanbul with more. And Arwa, why is Turkey issuing this ultimatum now?

ARWA DAMON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, this is really carrying on statements that have been made in the past, although perhaps a bit more

harshly worded.

President Erdogan was addressing a massive rally in the capital Ankara. There have been rallies pretty much every single night since that failed

coup attempt. And there, he told the crowd and the cameras that there would come a time when the U.S. would have to choose,

either between in his words the terrorist coup movement, the Fethullah Gulen movement, and its leader, or between the democratic nation of Turkey,

continuing to say that they still fully expect the U.S. to eventually hand Gulen over to

Turkish authorities saying that Turkey so far has sent around 85 boxes of files that they say contain evidence to prove that Fethullah Gulen himself,

as well as his followers, have attempted over the course of the years to destabilize Turkey and that also they were involved and, in fact,

orchestrated this most recent failed attempted coup.

But this comes on the heels -- this statement comes on the heels of increasing frustration when it comes to the United States and the west.

They're meant to be allies to the Turkish state that Turkey really feels at this point in time are a bit too obsessed with criticizing Turkey's massive

post coup crackdown as opposed to appreciating the real threat that the country was facing at that moment in time.

And of course on the heels of Erdogan's meeting with Russian President Putin in which Erdogan repeatedly called Putin his very close friend.

Those two countries working to remend their relationship.

So when you step back and look at all of this unfolding, it does most certainly appear as if Turkey is looking to alternative options. Turkey is

not going to just rely on the U.S. or NATO or the west for the support that it needs, it's going to rebuild this relationship with countries like

Russia with whom it had in the past and will be rebuilding very strong economic and trade ties, but also potentially other ties as well.

Turkey looking at the friends that it has at this point in time, most certainly it is going to be calculating with whom it at least considers its

ties to be stronger and whom it considers to be truly standing beside it at its time of need. And at this point -- particular point in time, Kristie,

it does not appear to be the west.

LU STOUT: All right. Arwa Damon reporting to us live from Istanbul. Thank you.

Human Rights Watch has slammed the Australian government's response to a damming new report on the treatment of asylum seekers at its offshore

processing center in Nauru. Leaked documents highlight more than 2,000 cases that insult assault and sexual abuse. The immigration department say

they are not proven statements of fact and some asylum seekers make false allegations of sexual report or they self-immolate in order to get to

Australia.

The minister also says it is up to the police to properly investigate the allegations. Now, earlier I spoke to a former child protection worker who

backed the leaked reports.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, it's absolutely in line with the incident reports that have been released. I spoke to and witnessed mothers and fathers and

teenagers who had harmed themselves, who had sown their lips shut, who have cut themselves, children who expressed strong wills and desires to die, to

end what was going on for them.

And it is absolutely in line with what we observed and the conditions with which people

were living in.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LU STOUT: the guardian published thousands of leaked incident reports from the Nauru detention center. And you can see my interview with the reporter

on the story, Paul Ferrell, at CNN.com.

You're watching NEWS STREAM. We'll be back right after the break.

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LU STOUT: Welcome back.

Now Pokemon Go became available in another 15 countries in Asia last week. But within days

restrictions were put in place in some areas limiting where the game could be played.

Thailand says it wants the game's developer Niantic to help keep players out of no-go zones such as temples and shrines and government property.

Taiwan has requested that Niantic make playing off limits on highways, motorways and at rest stops.

Now, more than 1,000 players were fined in the first three days of the game's release there. Most were caught playing while riding their

motorcycles. And Islamic leaders in India and Malaysia have issued fatwas, or religious rulings, against the game. They warn that people could become

addicted and fear they could increase accidents because of carelessness.

Now, those restrictions haven't stopped one man from catching them all. Now, just weeks after Pokemon Go launched in the U.S., Nick Johnson became

one of the first people to collect all available Pokemon.

I spoke to him recently. And I started by asking him how he felt after a global Pokemon

hunting tour.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

NICK JOHNSON, POKEMON GO PLAYER: I'm doing great, a little bit of jet lag here and

there, but it's been an exceptional trip. And I've gotten to visit all different corners of the world to catch Pokemon, so I have to say all

things considered I couldn't be doing any better.

LU STOUT: Do you have a cool capture story you would like to share?

JOHNSON: Sure. The last one for me was Kangus Khan. It looks essentially like a liltle armored kangaroo in Australia. And I'd been waiting around

Hyde Park in Sydney for hours. I'd been told that it popped around there. And someone sent me a message -- this was about 4:00 a.m. It was pouring

rain. I was standing under an umbrella. It was cold. And I was was thinking of heading in for the night, but someone sent me a message on

SnapChat letting me know it had popped up nearby. So I -- not knowing how long it would be there, I hopped in an Uber to head over and I hopped in a

cab and couldn't get there all the way. There was actually construction blocking the roads, so I had to get out and sprint about five blocks to get

to the last one.

But I got there in time. So it was all worth it in the end.

LU STOUT: After traveling the world looking for Pokemon, in general terms, what the best hot spots to find them?

JOHNSON: Usually there are sort of landmarks or parks in big cities where you'll find dozens,

sometimes hundreds of people. One is Grand Army plaza on the southeast corner of Central Park

in New York City in Manhattan. It's usually has about 200 to 300 people on any given night and it's enough of a hot spot that Justin Bieber has even

shown up a few times.

LU STOUT: Yeah, that was probably a situation where people were more excited to see a Bulbasaur than having a Justin Bieber sighting.

JOHNSON: There was actually a Garados (ph) that had popped up when Justin Bieber's was there. And Justin Bieber's manager posted a video online of

essentially a massive stampede of people going past him and no one even noticing that he was there.

LU STOUT: That's a good one.

Now, I am also like you and Justin Bieber, I'm also a fellow player of Pokemon Go, but I'm stuck at level 20 right now. So, what is your number

one piece of advice for Pokemon Go players?

JOHNSON: If you want to level up quickly, catch the pretty weak ones that only take 12 of the candies you get in the game to evolve and then use a

lucky egg, which doubles your experience for 30 minutes then evolve a ton of them at one time. You can get a level or two at a time if you stack

things up right in your early 20s and it will help you get up there pretty quickly.

LU STOUT: Last question, do you have a favorite pokemon?

JOHNSON: Yes, I do. My favorite Pokemon is Evie (ph), and that's because I have a dog that

was named after that Pokemon about three years ago, well before Pokemon Go came out. So that one is kind of my favorite by default.

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LU STOUT: Nick Johnson there speaking to me earlier. And for the record, I am now level

21.

That is NEWS STREAM. I'm Kristie Lu Stout, don't go anywhere. World Sport with Amanda

Davies live in Rio is next.

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