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DONALD TRUMP, (R) U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: What the hell are you going to lose? Give me a chance.
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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN NEWSROOM SHOW HOST: Donald Trump portrays America's inner cities as war zones as he makes a pitch for minority votes.
Turkey vows to cleanse ISIS militants from its border with Syria after Saturday's wedding massacre. And Americans in Rio try to make amends for the disgrace swimmer Ryan Lochte.
Hello and welcome to our viewers all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church. And this is CNN Newsroom.
Donald Trump is ramping up his speech to minority voters speaking to a largely wide audience in Ohio, the republican presidential nominee describe life for minorities in America as a disaster.
He blamed democrats for failing schools, broken homes, and crime.
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TRUMP: Our government has totally failed our African-American friends, our Hispanic friends, and the people of our country, period.
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The democrats have failed completely in the inner cities. If you can go to war zones in countries that we're fighting and it's safer than living in some of our inner cities that are run by the democrats.
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CHURCH: And it's no wonder Trump is trying to appeal to minority voters. Polls show he's in big trouble in the battleground states of Pennsylvania and Ohio. Trump is drawing literally zero support from African-American voters there. But a columnist for the New York Times says Trump does not really want
to boost his standing among minorities.
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CHARLES BLOW, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: If you speak to the people in that room, this is a speech designed specifically for white people and not for black people. It is designed for moderate white people who want to vote for someone who they don't -- they don't want to believe that there is racist.
They look for recent statistic with Donald Trump. This designed for people who are kind of set in your ways and believe the set of stereotype that he is punching out.
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CHURCH: And separately, Trump is escalating his attacks on the Clinton Foundation. He's calling for an investigation into ties between the charity's donors and the State Department.
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TRUMP: The amounts involved the favor is done and the significant number of times it was done require an expedited investigation by a special prosecutor immediately, immediately, immediately.
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CHURCH: The pay-for-play allegations have dogged to the Clinton campaign for months now. The question of whether foundation donors were paying for access resurfaces with every release of e-mails.
Drew Griffin reports.
DREW GRIFFIN, CNN SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER: This is the map of the world and these are the specific countries in this world that have given millions to the Clinton Foundation over the years. Ten to 25 million from Australia, Norway, and Saudi Arabia.
Five to 10 million from The Netherlands and Kuwait. Between one and 5 million from Oman, United Arab Emirates, and Brunei. And it's not countries. Individual foreign donors and foreign groups make up a huge share of donations so the Clinton Foundation.
The campaign now says if Hillary Clinton becomes president, any foreign donations like these will no longer be accepted.
CNN's Dana Bash asked Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, why wait?
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DANA BASH, CNN'S CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: Why not do it now? Why wait until the idea of her being president? Why not do it when she is running for president? ROBBY MOOK, HILLARY CLINTON'S CAMPAIGN MANAGER: Well, the foundation is doing an enormous amount of work and it takes time when you're in a number of countries around the world to retool, refocus the mission and adapt.
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GRIFFIN: At the heart of the issue is conflict of interest or even the appearance of one, namely, would a President Clinton give a favorable treatment to a country or a company or a person who donated millions of dollars to the foundation. That's how Donald Trump sees it.
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TRUMP: They've made hundreds of millions of dollars selling access, selling favors, selling government contracts and I mean hundreds of millions of dollars.
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[03:04:59] GRIFFIN: Despite that claim, there are no definitive examples of what Trump says. But that doesn't mean there aren't questions. Like long time Bill Clinton pal and mining magnate Frank Giusrta.
Giustra's foundation have given more than $50 million to the Clinton Foundation. He's allowed Bill Clinton use of his private jet. And when a company he founded merges with another that became part of a Russian business deal that needed government approval. That deal got the OK from the State Department run by Hillary Clinton.
Giustra says he sold his stakes in the company years before the Russian deal. So anything wrong? No, all above board says the State Department and other government agencies approved the deal. All the rules were followed, as they were in all cases involving Monsanto.
The food giant has donated between $1 and $5 million to the Clinton Foundation and that it has had multiple partnership projects with the Clinton global initiative.
In 2009, when Hillary Clinton took office as Secretary of State Monsanto was actively lobbying the State Department for helping promote and open markets for its bio agricultural projects across the globe. And it all coincided with Secretary Clinton's global policy to promote agricultural biotechnology.
According to Clinton, she was promoting U.S. agricultural and especially the U.S. farmer, much like her republican predecessor did. But there is no doubt, one of the big winners was the big agricultural giant and Clinton Foundation donor Monsanto.
Hoping to put the potential pay-to-play allegations, especially with foreign donation to an end, it was Bill Clinton who tweeted this afternoon, "If Hillary becomes president, the foundation will only take in money from U.S. citizens, permanent residents and U.S.-based independent foundations."
And the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation will change its name to just the Clinton Foundation. In other words, no Hillary.
Drew Griffin, CNN, Atlanta.
CHURCH: And drawing an interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Monday night, Hillary Clinton was unconcerned about the latest release of e- mails from her private server.
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JIMMY KIMMEL, JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE SHOW HOST: The State Department said that they have to release 15,000 e-mails by the deadline, a couple of days before the date. Are you concerned about that?
HILLARY CLINTON, (D) U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: No, no. I mean, they've...
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KIMMEL: Because I would be terrified if my e-mails were released.
CLINTON: But, Jimmy, my e-mails are so boring.
KIMMEL: Yes.
CLINTON: And, I mean, I'm embarrassed about that. They are so boring. So, we've already released, I don't know, 30,000 plus, so with a few more.
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CHURCH: And Clinton is also making light of the many rumors about her health being floated around by her rivals and we will have more on that later in the hour.
Turkey's prime minister is vowing to completely cleanse ISIS from its border with Syria after a suicide bomber attacked a Kurdish wedding i ngaziantep on Saturday. He says Turkey will take a more active role in Syria over the next six months to prevent the country from being divided along ethnic lines.
The Turkish military launch how its attacks on ISIS in Syria. An artillery struck Syrian Kurdish targets at Manbij on Monday. An official says Turkish backed Syrian rebels are preparing to launch an attack to seize another town from ISIS.
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MEVLUT CAVUSOGLU, TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER (TRANSLATED): We will fight against Daesh and other terrorist organizations until the end. We will continue to support the countries who fight against them as well.
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BINALI YILDIRIM, TURKEY'S PRIME MINISTER (TRANSLATED): It's not yet certain who did this whether he was a child or an adult. Of course, our security forces have concentrated on that. They try to find clues regarding this and with the findings, the perpetrators will be found. Nobody should doubt that.
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CHURCH: Dozens of people died in that blast in what's become Turkey's deadliest terror attack this year.
CNN's Ben Wedeman reports from Gaziantep.
BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: So far, 54 people have been killed in that Saturday night suicide attack, on what was essentially street party, a wedding celebration in a Kurdish working class neighborhoods.
Turkish official say of the dead, 22 are under the age of 14. And it's believed that the rest of the victims many of the victims are women, as well.
[03:10:02] Turkish investigators have found pieces of the suicide vest. Now adding to just the totally disturbing nature of this attack, the Turkish media was at the house outside of which the bomb went off.
And this was the house where the newlyweds were supposed to move into. Basnah and Nur Adin (Ph). Now, when they -- they were slightly injured in the attack. They spent the night in the hospital. When they went back to see their home, to see what had happened, and they found out how many of their neighbors, friends and relatives were killed in the attack, they were utterly devastated.
Friends and relatives tried to console them. That didn't work. They had to go back to the hospital, because according to the Turkish media they suffered from a nervous breakdown.
Now Turkish officials now believe that it was ISIS behind the attack. The city is only 40 kilometers north of the Syrian border. This is a part of the country where ISIS has been known to operate in the past.
Turkish police have cracked down on ISIS cells in Gaziantep itself. It is believe those cells are, indeed, still operating.
I'm Ben Wedemen, CNN, reporting from Gaziantep, Turkey.
CHURCH: As far as the Russian war planes arrived apparently then now gone from Iran. Russian Defense Ministry says its finished using an Iranian air base for air strike against ISIS in Syria. Now claiming Iran is confirming that a Russian spokesman says Russia
may stage future flights from there. The air strikes quickly become a sole points with the U.S. which said using the base might violate a U.N. resolution.
The Iraqi army is gaining ground on ISIS near Mosul. The military along with Iraqi counterterror forces have launched an operation to retake Al-Qayyarah from the terror group. And Iraqi commander says ISIS is weakening putting his forces one step closer to liberating Mosul as well.
Senior international correspondent Arwa Damon reports.
ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Under apocalyptic skies blackened by a thick smoke is Qayyarah, the Next target for Iraqi forces. ISIS used to move around 100 oil tankers of crude a day out of these fields. Now set a flame by ISIS fighters to decrease visibility from above.
We are some 65 kilometers or 40 miles south of Mosul. Lands Iraqi forces have not stepped in some since ISIS took over more than two years ago. Their corpse is left to rot in the sand. And the commander tells us that ISIS appears to be weakening.
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NAJIM ABED AL-JUBOURI, NINEVEH LIBERATION OPERATIONS COMMANDER: Before, as I told you with, the majority of fighters attacking us were foreign fighters. Now, they put some foreign fighters with local fighters. Now they -- I think they have luck on the foreign fighters.
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DAMON: On display, weapons trips finds in residential homes. Among them, homemade mortar tubes and mortar larger than anything that Iraqis have at their disposal. Another significant gain in this area the Qayyarah airbase, the third largest in Iraq. Much of it destroyed by ISIS fighters as they with the group. Leaving we are told, explosives under piles of dirt on the runways that need to be cleared.
This will be a vital forward base for the Iraqis and potentially U.S. forces. Families wearily haul what they can, stumbling away from the fighting.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (TRANSLATED): They took half of our men, they force them to fight for them. They killed my father.
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DAMON: Tears for all that they lost. Loved ones gone in a war that few can fully comprehend. The lives they knew and loved, disintegrated years ago. To the southeast of Mosul, the Kurdish Peshmerga has put their front line forward as well. The Peshmerga dissuasive berm sneaks its way along the east and north. The villages controlled by ISIS is visible in the distance. Here, too, they have noticed ISIS weakening, showing us how ISIS moves within nondescript buildings like this.
The Peshmerga fighters did initially drop down and take a few steps into what appear to be some sort of tunnel. But rather than take their chances they decided to then withdraw and seal off the entrance. The choke around Mosul is tightening.
And the government's pledge to liberate the city by the end of the year is still the goal. The battle there with over a million civilians will potentially be starkly different from the ones out here.
[03:15:06] The success will be defined in land gained, not lives destroyed or lost.
Arwa Damon, CNN, south of Mosul, Iraq.
CHURCH: And we'll take a very quick break here. Still to come, North Korea is reacting to joint military exercises by the U.S. and the south. Why South Korea says the threat of a provocation from the northeast is higher than ever.
Plus, Russia awaits to hear whether its Paralympic team will be allowed to compete in Rio. We'll get a live report from Moscow. Back in a moment.
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PATRICK SNELL, CNN WORLD SPORT REPORTER: I'm Patrick Snell with your World Sport headlines.
The Olympic host Rio put on one final amazing final show at the closing ceremony on Sunday night at the iconic Maracana Stadium transform in just a few hours from the venue of Brazil's won its first ever football Olympic title to a massive carnival featuring samba dances singers and float.
Rio also handing over the Olympic flag to the 2020 host Tokyo and the star of the show was Japan's Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, depressing up as Super Mario.
The IOC president Thomas Bach praising the game just marvelous before the Olympic flames is extinguished in a down pull of artificial rain.
There's no doubt the 2016 Rio Games ending on a high for the host nation with gold in two of their favorite sports, football and volleyball. But their first gold of these games and special, as well and very symbolic, too.
On Monday, the city of God favela welcoming home one of their own judo gold medalist Rafaela Silva, she was up in the area and was honored with a parade.
And the American swimmer Ryan Lochte has lost all of its major sponsorship deals, four in totals. Speedo announcing its ending its sponsorship. All the 12-time Olympic medalist amid what Lochte himself called an over exaggeration of a story of a robbery in Rio.
Three other companies following suit are Ralph Lauren, mattress supplier Airweave, and a hair removal company.
That's a look at your World Sport headlines. I'm Patrick Snell.
CHURCH: The son of infamous drug kingpin, Joaquin el Chapo Guzman has been freed. Gunmen kidnapped Jesus Alfredo Guzman along with five others from a restaurant in Puerto Vallarta last week.
The kidnapping is the just latest blow to the dominant Sinaloa cartel since was El Chapo was recaptured in January. Officials suspect a rival drug cartel may be responsible.
[03:19:59] Well, North Korea is threatening to turn South Korea into a heap of ashes as its neighbor begins a military exercise with the U.S.
Pyongyang says it's standing by with a preemptive nuclear strike during the annual two-week drill.
Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr has the latest.
BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Kim Jong-un's North Korean regime may now have nearly two dozen nuclear bombs and the means to target the U.S.
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VICTOR CHA, CENTER FOR STRATEGIC & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS DIRECTOR: He's clearly on a very different track from his father, much more aggressive, much more provocative.
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STARR: For the first time, all three of the U.S. Air Forces strategic bombers, the B-52, the B-1, and B-2 took off from Guam all at the same time. Enough to just show of force signaling the U.S. will protect South Korea and the Pacific allies according to a U.S. defense official.
Dressed as a South Korean military drill near the demilitarized zone with North Korea heated up. And 25,000 U.S. troops on the Korean Peninsula began an annual joint exercise. The threat of a North Korean provocation is higher than ever according to South Korea.
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PARK GEUN-HYE, SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT (TRANSLATED): The north nuclear capabilities and missiles are direct and real threats. The drill should be like an actual fight. They're prepared for North Korea's provocations.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So, it's not just something in the air.
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STARR: After the recent defection of North Korea's deputy ambassador in London, South Korea fears the north will even try to assassinate anti-North Koreas activists.
North Korea says it's prepared to launch a pre-emptive attack on U.S. and South Korean forces involved in that exercise.
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CHA: They really do can want to demonstrate that they don't have a rudimentary nuclear force, but they have one that could survive a first strike.
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STARR: The International Atomic Energy Agency report to North Korea is increasing its nuclear fuel stockpile saying in a recent report, "The country's arms efforts is widening." And especially worrisome to the Pentagon the regime is increasingly testing submarine launch and mobile ground missiles.
Difficult for the west to track, it gives the north a chance of surviving a pre-emptive strike by the U.S. and then, launching its own attack.
U.S. officials say they are convinced that Kim Jong-un knows there is a U.S. presidential election underway and he may even be following that. They belived he may be trying to attract some attention for himself and his regime from maybe whoever may be the next president.
Barbara Starr, CNN, the Pentagon.
CHURCH: U.S. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte is losing out on his lucrative endorsements, Speedo, Polo Ralph Lauren, Gentle Hair Removal and, mattress maker Airweave all announced they are cutting ties.
Lochte admitted to lying about being robbed at gunpoint in Rio with three of his teammates. He has since apologized, saying he should have been more careful and candid.
Well, Russia is awaiting a decision on its appeal to compete at next month's Paralympic Games in Rio.
Our Matthew Chance is tracking this story from Moscow. He joins us now live. So, Matthew, what is the likely outcome of this appeal?
MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, it's unclear. Of course, back here on the 7th of August, the Paralympic committee, the International Paralympic Committee completely banned all Russian athletes from competing at the Paralympics which is scheduled to start next month in the first week of September.
And that was a big blow of course to them, they've been training for four years very hard to try to access to this games on the assumption that we're all going to be competing. But it all of course stems from the same doping allegations that they
are to the ban on a comprehensive ban on the track and field athletes of this sort of regular Olympic team as well. So, it comes from the same report, the McLaren report which allege and documented this state-sponsored program of doping that's been underway in Russia.
The report basically said that there were 11 positive tests against Russian Paralympic athletes that were covered up effectively on the orders of the Russian Sports Ministry.
Also, another 18 samples of the Russian athletes was swap for clean ones during the 2014 winter Paralympic Games as well. And so, there's some very serious allegations and of course, were made against the Russian Paralympic Committee, just like those once again the regular Olympic committee.
But the Paralympic committee has a much stronger line against the Russians. Whereas, the Olympic committee said look, it's up to the various sports federations to decide who could compete.
[03:25:04] The International Paralympic Committee said there's a blanket ban against all Russian athletes. And that's what the Russians want lifted now from the Court of Arbitration in Sport within this in and the verdict of that appeal is going to be held -- heard within the next couple of hours.
CHURCH: And so, Matthew, what is Russia's likely next move if that appeal fails. Is that the end of it?
CHANCE: The only precedent we've got for this is when the International Olympic Committee announced that it was, you know, kind of not carrying a blanket banned on the regular athletes.
And so, there was various other mechanisms that the athletes had to go through to appeal to their various international sports federations to get permission to get clearance to compete in the Rio Games.
I mean, if this Court of Arbitration ban comes to I suspect that it will be, you know, probably if not the last disappointment, then, you know, getting towards the end of the legal process. And the opportunities that these Paralympians have of competing at the Rio Games.
CHURCH: Yes. I would think so. All right. Our Matthew Chances, joining us there from Moscow where it is 10.26 in the morning. Many thanks to you for keeping us abreast of the developments there.
Well, the Paralympic Games started in September, as we heard from Matthew, there in the first week in fact, but the tickets are not selling. Only 300,000 of the 2.5 million available tickets for the Rio Paralympics had been soiled. That's just 12 percent.
Now these numbers pale in comparison to the London Paralympics in 2012, where 2.7 million tickets were sold, so many, in fact, that organizers had to expand seating to accommodate them. The struggle to stay alive in a war zone begins on day one. We will go
inside a Syrian hospital to witness the miracle of birth amid the horror of war. Incredible imagines there.
Also just ahead, more of our CNN Freedom Project report from Canada. You will meet a woman who is rediscovering her heritage as she walks to put her painful past behind her.
We're back in just a moment.
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CHURCH: A warm welcome back to our viewers all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church. It's time to update you now on our top stories this hour.
Donald Trump is calling for a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton's e-mails and the Clinton Foundation. Trump accuses the foundation of pay-for-play access to the State Department when Clinton was Secretary of State.
The Philippines National Police chief says about 300 of his officers have suspected ties to the dangerous trade. Ronald de la Rosa testified at a Senate special enquiry into extra judicial killings Tuesday.
Reuter's news agency reports that he said the officers may be charged if they're believed to be guilty.
Turkey's military has fired at an ISIS target in northern Syria in response to mortar shells that hit a Turkish border down. This is the second say Turkey has retaliated against across border shelling.
Turkey's prime minister is vowing to completely cleanse ISIS from its border against Syria after a suicide attack in Gaziantep on Saturday.
Well, many of Syria's children have known nothing but war in their short lives. Even the newest lives face a deadly threat from above.
Nima Elbagir report -- reports -- her report contains disturbing video and graphic scenes of an emergency room delivery as she takes us inside an Aleppo hospital to witness a baby born amid war.
NIMA ELBAGIR, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Two lives, one heartbeat sustaining both. Nesa is nine months pregnant. She was already on her way to the hospital when the air strike hit. Nesa's arm and leg are broken. Her belly sprayed with shrapnel.
Nesa's wail hears the silence. The doctors keep on going. The baby out into the bright light. Silence and still. They fight on. The little chest pummeled up and down, harder and harder. His airway is cleared, anything and everything.
But then, a blood in the umbilical cord. Color floods his little body. Cries of God is great break the tension. A moment of triumph over the specter of greedy death stalking the city streets, a moment that here in Aleppo must be waged again and again.
Nima Elbagir, CNN, London.
CHURCH: Just incredible moments there and a positive afternote. We want you to know that thanks to the heroic efforts of those doctors at the hospital, both mother and baby have survived.
All this week, the CNN Freedom Project is exploring the problem of sex trafficking in Canada's indigenous communities. Today, you will meet a woman who is embracing her heritage as part of her path to rehabilitation.
[03:35:00] CNN's Paula Newton has this story.
PAULA NEWTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: At every stroke of the drum, Tanay Little finds resounding strength. Flashbacks to her past painful life fade ever faster and the soothing beat of the instrument reminds her she's safe.
And while you're drumming, your spirit feels so connected. Tanay is now visiting that safe place Little Sisters in Winnipeg, a transition home for sex trafficking victims that sheltered her when she first came off the streets.
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TANAY LITTLE, SEX TRAFFICKING VICTIM: I love this place. I love being here knowing that this place helps woman change.
NEWTON: Tanay calls it change, but it was nothing short of salvation.
How old were you when you're first...
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LITTLE: Eleven.
NEWTON: You were 11.
LITTLE: Yes.
NEWTON: Already introduced to drugs.
LITTLE: Yes.
NEWTON: What kind of drugs?
LITTLE: Crack cocaine.
NEWTON: At 11.
LITTLE: At 11.
NEWTON: Tanay takes me to the streets where it began.
LITTLE: I always get excited coming back. NEWTON: An older girl, someone who pretended to be her friend was actually preying on Tanay, luring her with drugs and trafficking her for sex.
LITTLE: I remember one time that she put me in a room and then two guys, one -- not together, but one would come in and then I would have sex with him and then the other guy would come in. And then I'd get high after that.
NEWTON: What would happen if you refuse to have sex with anybody?
LITTLE: If not beat up then you would get rape by a few not once.
NEWTON: As an indigenous girl in Canada the nightmare Tanay lived on these streets is hardly rare. Canada's indigenous population is very small, just 4 percent, yet more than 50 percent of all sex trafficking victims there are indigenous. A huge overrepresentation. And just like Tanay, they are coping with a legacy of poverty, racism and abuse.
DIANE REDSKY, MA MAWI WI CHI ITATA CENTRE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: There is a debt bondage between $1,000 and $2,000 a day. That these girls must bring, must hand into their trafficker or else.
NEWTON: Diane Redsky can't help but feel anger. She runs Ma Mawi, a center that advocates for indigenous women and children specifically sex trafficking victims. She says the history of racism against this population seeds into the cycle of violence and exploitation against them.
REDSKY: It's really difficult to be able to fight those stereotypes as an indigenous women when a whole society is targeting indigenous women and girls particularly for violence and abuse and that spills over into sex trafficking.
MAE LOUISE CAMPBELL, INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY ELDER: Thanks for coming to the circle. We're going to start with this lunch. And I'm very honored to be sitting in the circle with you today. I thank you for inviting me.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm very honored to sit here with my survivor sisters today.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm glad that is being brought to attention because they didn't refer to it at all.
CAMPBELL: And amazing thing to open your hearts.
NEWTON: Elder Mae Louise Campbell leads the traditional sharing circle.
CAMPBELL: Thank you, thank you to each and every one of you.
NEWTON: It's a spiritual connection with indigenous culture and a unique path to healing for victims who say they have never felt worthy. They don't feel sacred. They feel worthless. CAMPBELL: Yes, that's right. The only way they're going to feel holy again is to reconnect to their traditional ways, through the ceremony. So, coming back to listening to the altar is coming back to believe, to believe they are not all that has happened to them. They are not that. They are sacred.
LITTLE: And it's now we worth initially for sure to get through it.
NEWTON: Tanay says that connecting with her native culture has empowered her to heal and also to understand how and why as an indigenous child in Canada she was both vulnerable and exposed.
Paula Newton, CNN, Winnipeg.
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CHURCH: And tomorrow, we will introduce you to an indigenous community confronting the issue of child exploitation head on.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The first step in rebuilding our community is to say enough is enough.
NEWTON: Both community leaders trained by the Manitoba government to create a curriculum-based program where kids here how and why child sexual exploitation has traumatized their community.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I don't think it had ever been talked about that way. It's more like, let's not talk about it. Let's just leave it. Let's leave it under the rug and let it stay there.
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[03:40:05] CHURCH: More on how one community is educating its kids in our series Canada's Stolen Daughters.
Well, there is no evidence to back any of the claims but that's not stopping opponents from spreading rumors about Hillary Clinton's health. We work to separate fact from fiction, still to come.
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CHURCH: The Iraqi military along with Iraqi counterterror forces have launched an offensive to retake Al-Qayyarah from ISIS.
Senior international correspondent Arwa Damon is near the front line, and she joins us now live. Arwa, talk to us first about what is in the background there. We see that very dark plume of smoke. What is happening?
DAMON: Yes. And you can probably hear some of the gunfire that is testimony to the intensity of the battles raging right now. The town of Qayyarah has oil fields where ISIS needs to move about 100 tankers of oil a day and that is what you now see being set on fire. That crude oil being burnt to try to create this massive black smoke
screen above the town itself. The aim, of course, is to try to impede visibility of coalition aircraft and drones that have been already given, according to the head of the counterterrorism unit here, specific coordinates and locations of ISIS fighters and positions within the city that the Iraqis want to see taken out.
Part of the force that is moving in here is of course the counter terrorism forces. They're really at the tip of the sphere in this operation. And then you have Iraqi army divisions that are holding key territory and keeping something of an over watch lookout down on the road below. We have some of the units that have been in.
[03:45:01] Now, you see this scene behind me, Rosemary. And just imagine that at least 10,000 families are believed to still be inside this city. These are families who are unable to escape before the fighting began.
And the Iraqi security forces, the senior leadership that we have been talking to says that they have ongoing contact with those families with individuals who are inside, and that is how they begin the preparations for this type of an operation.
And of course, all of that very vital into the timing of these kinds of operations. Now, what's been quite interesting is we have been speaking to Iraqi commanders, although it may not necessarily be the case when it comes to the town of Qayyarah, in particular, because it is so key.
But as they've been moving towards this particular front line, they say that they have observing ISIS weakening in the sense that ISIS they say, is using less and less foreign fighters. They're no longer seeing wave after wave of suicide bombers coming to try to target them.
They are seeing more local fighters who are more inclined to flee rather than fight until the very end. That being said, in about the 10 minutes before we went to air, just in front of us, we saw a massive explosion, either some sort of road side bomb or a vehicle lain in with IED.
So, sending up a massive plume of smoke. So, again, these are roads that are booby trapped. These are buildings that are booby trapped. This is very slow and tough going for the Iraqis to move in and capture this crucial, vital city, Rosemary.
CHURCH: Yes. And, Arwa, as you were speaking there, we were also looking at that map which gives us an idea where you are located. It's some 50 kilometers also south of Mosul, a critical city of course that ultimately the Iraqi military want to take back from ISIS.
So, once they have conquered Al-Qayyarah is that is possible of course, that will be their next move. Talk to us about just how difficult that would likely be.
DAMON: Well, we're talking about street to street fighting, we're talking about a fighting force of what was being told to us around 300 or so ISIS fighters. Now, that may not technically seem like a large number, but when you're dealing with roadside bombs, booby trapped roads, individuals you do fight until the very understand because this is a location that they most definitely do not want to see lost.
Because this is one of the key towns that lies between this particular point and also Mosul, which is the ultimate goal, Iraq's second largest city. You see those plumes of white smoke rising from there? That is some sort of explosion that took place further down, quite different to the black smoke hat to remind our viewers if they're just tuning in right now.
That black smoke is being caused by ISIS burning crude oils. That black smoke being caused by ISIS burning crude oil to try to impede the visibility of the coalition aircraft that are overhead trying to conduct various different air strikes on these locations.
Now this is also important because not far from here is the Qayyarah airbase. The Qayyarah airbase has already been secured by the Iraqi forces. And it is the country's third largest, and they do intent on using it as a key forward operating base for the upcoming offensive on the city Mosul itself.
It's also a location where U.S. troops will be able to position themselves further forward. But that airbase still needs to be cleared of potential IED's. The runways needs to be fixed. And before they can fully move in and secure the airbase they need to secure this town as well.
CHURCH: All right. Our Arwa Damon bringing us up to date on the Iraq offensive there. She is near Al Qayyarah there, which is some 50 kilometers south of Mosul, a critical ISIS city which needs to be retaken by the Iraqi forces there.
And of course we're watching that crude burning in the background there in an effort to thwart the Iraqi offensive.
Many thanks to you, Arwa Damon, where it is 11 o'clock in the morning.
We'll take a very short break here but back in a moment. So stay with us.
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KAREN MAGINNIS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Kind of an interesting weather scenario taking place across North America, specifically in the United States. We've got this monsoonal moisture coming up from the south into the four corners. Very typical for this time of year.
And all the weather boundary across the southeast that's triggering some showers. And a weather system that will move across the upper Mississippi River valley and perhaps produce some fairly significant rainfall in the next three to five days possibly.
But temperatures are going to be climbing up into the northeastern United States, into the Great Lakes where temperatures will be the upper 20s. Dallas will see 34 degrees. Los Angeles at 24. Plenty of sunshine if you are travelling there it should be pretty nice.
Quite a bit of activity across the tropical Atlantic. Fiona, that's the farthest towards the western portions of the Atlantic. That's pretty much fizzling out. We've got another one right on its heels that could see some further developments.
And now, there is tropical storm Gaston that looks to be the potential for a category hurricane as we go into about the next 72 hours. So, we'll have to watch that.
But it looks like that trajectory more towards the west and northwest will kind of hamper activity but we'll continue to watch.
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CHURCH: Although there is official documentation of Hillary Clinton's good health, that hasn't stopped her opponents from spreading rumors that she isn't physically fit to be president.
Randi Kaye looks at the evidence.
RANDI KAYE, CNN'S INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER: It's moments like these that right wing groups are pouncing on to push the narrative that Hillary Clinton's health is failing.
This was Clinton at a muffin shop in June, reacting to reporters peppering her with questions. When critics suggested Clinton had a seizure, one A.P. reporter who was there set the record straight, writing "Clinton responded with an exaggerated motion, shaking her head vigorously for a few seconds. After the exchange, she took a few more photos, exited the shop and greeted supporters waiting outside."
Conspiracy theorists have cooked up just about every condition for her. Brain damage, check. Parkinson's, check. Autism, yes. Even syphilis. None of it, though, is based on fact. But that hasn't stopped Donald Trump in recent days from fueling the speculation.
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TRUMP: Importantly, she also lacks the mental and physical stamina to take on ISIS.
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KAYE: The physical stamina he said suggesting she's too frail for the Oval Office. It's a popular theme among even mainstream conservatives, including former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a Trump adviser.
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RUDY GIULIANI, FORMER NEW YORK CITY MAYOR: She looks sick.
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KAYE: Clinton's team meanwhile suggesting Trump is parroting lies.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We hear rehashed conspiracy theories.
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KAYE: Rumors about the former Secretary of State's health first began back in 2012 after she had a bad fall and suffered a concussion.
[03:55:04] She admitted in interviews she experienced double vision and dizziness but said repeatedly she felt great.
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CLINTON: I felt fine.
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KAYE: Her husband Bill Clinton echoed that while slamming those fueling the conspiracies.
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BILL CLINTON, FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT: First they said she faked her concussion and now they say she's auditioning for a part on the Walking Dead. She works out every week. She is strong, she's doing great.
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KAYE: Doing great, that's not how conspiracy theorists see it and they see proof in images like this. Secret Service appearing to hold her up at a rally. Aides helping her up the steps. And her falling as she boarded an airplane.
They suggested it all points to her being sick. Conspiracy theorists are also obsessed with Clinton's cough on the campaign trail, her constant use of pillows during interviews and her long bathroom break during the ABC debate.
CLINTON: Sorry.
KAYE: Even her hearty laugh is an indication they suggest of a brain issue. All of this despite a letter released in July last year from Clinton's internist of 15 years, Dr. Lisa Bardack describing Clinton as healthy, listing her medical conditions as hypothyroidism and seasonal pollen allergies.
The doctor ended the letter saying "Clinton is in excellent physical condition and fit to be president of the United States."
Randi Kaye, CNN, New York.
CHURCH: And Clinton appeared on U.S. late night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live on Monday and jokes about all the rumors surrounding her health.
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CLINTON: I don't know why they are saying this. I think on the one happened, it's part of the wacky strategy. Just say all these crazy things and maybe you can get some people to believe you.
On the other hand, it just absolutely makes no sense. And I don't go around questioning Donald Trump's health.
KIMMEL: Can you open this jar of pickles? This has been (Inaudible).
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This is -- oh, she did it.
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It's not been tough.
CLINTON: That's just funny.
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CHURCH: She did it. Well, thanks for your company. There is more news after the break with Hannah Vaughan Jones in London. And you have yourself a great day.
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