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[08:00:13] KRISTIE LU STOUT, HOST: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong and welcome to News Stream.

Now, ISIS prepares as Iraqi army closes in on Mosul. The militants torch an oil field for cover. We'll bring you a report from the front

lines.

Ban upheld: Russia loses its appeal to compete in the Paralympics because of state-sponsored doping.

And Canada's Stolen Daughters. CNN's Freedom Project introduces you to a woman reconnecting with her heritage to put a painful past behind her.

Black smoke is rising above northern Iraq on the road to Mosul as ISIS set fire to an oil

field to provide cover from coalition aircraft.

These pictures come to us from about an hour away from Mosul. Now, it's Iraq's second largest city and the biggest still under ISIS control.

CNN's Arwa Damon filed this report from the front lines just a short time ago.

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ARWA DAMON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: We're just outside of the center of the town of Qayyara (ph) in a battle that has been going on

since about 5:00 in the morning local time. And as Iraqi forces have been advancing, they have not only had to cope with that thick,

black smoke that you see blanketing the sky, that is as a result of ISIS continuously burning crude oil to try to impair the visibility of coalition

airstrikes on the ground, they have also had to deal with numerous IED and booby trapped roads.

They ended up especially trapped underneath an overpass having to remotely attempt to detonate some of these explosives, some of these

vehicles that have been laden with bombs, and they've also brought in a digger.

It is very, very slow, painstaking progress at this stage. But, in the last few months, the

Iraqi security forces have made significant gains, which has allowed them to reach this far.

Under apocalyptic skies blackened by thick smoke is the next target for Iraqi forces. ISIS used to move around 100 oil tankers of crude a day

out of these fields, now set aflame by ISIS fighters to decrease visibility from above.

We are some 65 kilometers or 40 miles south of Mosul. Land Iraqi forces have not stepped in since ISIS took over more than two years ago.

Their corpses are left to rot in the sun.

And the commander tells us ISIS appears to be weakening.

GEN. NAJIM AL-JOBOURI, NINEVEH OPERATIONS COMMANDER: Before, as I told you, the majority of fighters attacking on were foreign fighters. Now they

put foreign fighters with local fighters. Now I think they have lack on the foreign fighters.

DAMON: On display, weapons, troops found in residential homes. Among them, home-made mortar tubes and mortars larger than anything the Iraqis

have at their disposal.

Another significant gain in this area, this is the third largest air base in Iraqi. Leaving, we are told, explosives under piles of dirt on the

runways that need to be cleared. This will always be a vital forward base for the Iraqis and potentially U.S. forces.

Families fleeing haul what they can, stumbling away from the fighting.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translation): They took half of our men and force them to fight for them. They killed my father.

DAMON: Tears for all they lost. Loved ones gone in a war that few can comprehend. The lives they knew ask loved dissent grade years ago.

To the southeast of Mosul, the Kurdish Peshmerga have pushed their front line forward, as well. The Peshmerga makes its way along east and

north. The villages controlled by ISIS visible in the distance. Here, too, they have noticed is weakening, showing us how ISIS moved this had

nondescript buildings like this.

(on camera): The Peshmerga fighters did initially drop down and take a few steps into what appeared to be some sort of tunnel. But rather than

taking their chances, they decided to withdrawal and seal off the entrance.

(voice-over): The chokehold around Mosul is tightening and the government pledged to liberate the city by the end of the year. It's still

the goal. The battle there with over a million civilians will be different from the ones out here. The success will be defined in land gains, not

lives destroyed or lost.

This is not a battle that is happening in any sort of conventional formation. This is not two armies that are facing off against one another.

There is a civilian population inside that town right now, according to Iraqi security forces, numbering some 10,000 families and one cannot

even begin to understand how terrifying this must be for them -- the ongoing explosions, the gunfire, and then, of course, there is the reality

that ISIS tends to use the civilian population as human shields.

We do not know the degree of the agony and the fear that they are going through at this point in time. And what we're seeing right here is

really just a fraction of what potentially the battle for Mosul will end up being like.

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[08:06:10] LU STOUT: Arwa Damon reporting there.

Now, she was reporting from the outskirts of Mosul where that battle is underway. Now remember, the Iraqis have come a long way since they lost

Mosul. They've driven ISIS out of Tikrit, out of Ramadi, and also Fallujah in just over a year.

Now the liberation of Tikrit, that came first, in April of last year. ISIS had killed more than 1,000 Iraqi cadets there, in what's known as the

Camp Spiker (ph) massacre.

Now, the next big victory came more than half a year later in Ramadi and it was a proud moment for the Iraqi army as troops hoisted the

country's flag on top of a government compound.

And then just two months ago, Fallujah was liberated following a difficult battle there. Thousands of families were trapped as Iraqi troops

went door to door to flush out the militants. There are reports that ISIS used civilians as human shields.

Now moving from the battles in Iraq to the crisis in Syria, the United Nations says it is ready to deliver much-needed aid to the city of Aleppo.

But to do so, all parties must agree to uphold a 48-hour cease-fire. Now, the UN's humanitarian chief warns that without action,

Aleppo faces an unprecedented catastrophe.

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STEPHEN O'BRIEN, UN UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS: I'm angry. I'm very angry. As the UN's humanitarian chief, this callus

carnage that is Syria has long since moved from the cynical to the sinful. What is happening in Aleppo today and throughout Syria over the last five

years is an outrage against every moral fiber in our being as human beings, as fellow human beings, with every Syrian caught up in this

unending cataclysm.

And it is the failure of politics, of all of us -- and you know this as members of the Security Council. so please, now, now is the moment,

this instant, to put our differences aside and to come together as one and stop this humanitarian shame upon us all. Once and for all.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LU STOUT: An urgent appeal there.

O'Brien says as many as 275,000 people in eastern Aleppo are almost entirely cut off from vital supplies.

Now, the terrible toll of the fighting between Syrian troops and rebels took on a human face last week, when the world saw this, a

heartbreaking image of this little boy pulled from the rubble in Aleppo.

And like many of Syria's children, the boy has known nothing but war. And for an expectant mother trying to get to an Aleppo hospital to give

birth, even the newest lives face a deadly threat in that city.

Now, a warning, Nima Elbagir's report contains disturbing video and graphic scenes of an emergency room delivery as she takes us inside that

hospital to witness a baby born during war.

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NIMA ELBAGIR, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Two lives. One heartbeat sustaining both. Nesa (ph) is nine months pregnant. She was already on her

way to the hospital when the airstrike hit. Nesa's (ph) arm and leg are broken. Her belly sprayed with shrapnel.

But what about her baby?

Nesa's (ph) wail pierces the silence. The doctors keep on going.

The baby out into the bright lights. Silent and still.

They fight on. The little chest pummeled up and down, harder and harder. His airways cleared, anything and everything. Then a flutter, blood

in the umbilical cord. Color floods his little body.

Cries of "God is great" break the tension.

(BABY CRYING)

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.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

[08:10:50] LU STOUT: Wow, an unforgettable moment to witness there.

And thanks to the efforts of the doctors there at that hospital in Aleppo, both the mother and baby survived.

Now, the Kurdish newlyweds who survived a suicide bombing at their wedding in Turkey, they

returned to the site of that tragedy. The groom just broke down in tears as he visited the scene. The newlyweds lost family, they lost friends and

neighbors in the bombing. Also, the attack destroyed the house they were supposed to move into.

Now, Turkey said ISIS was behind the attack that killed 54 people. The president said the attacker was 12 to 14 years old, but now the

government says it doesn't know if the bomber was a child or an adult.

Now, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will visit Turkey on Wednesday to visit with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. And the two will likely discuss

this man: Fethullah Gulen. Now, Turkey says the exiled Islamic cleric was behind last month's failed military coup. He lives in the U.S. And Turkey

has demanded the Obama administration hand him over.

Gulen says he had nothing to do with the coup.

Now any hopes that Russian athletes would compete at the upcoming Paralympic games in

Rio are now dashed. The Court of Arbitration for Sport has dismissed Russia's appeal against a blanket ban. It was imposed earlier this month

over evidence of state sponsored doping.

Now, Matthew Chance is tracking developments from Moscow. He joins us now live.

And Matthew this was no doubt a massive blow to the many athletes of the Russian Paralympic team. Walk us through the decision and the

reaction.

CHANCE: Yeah, your right. It's been a massive blow for the Paralympians here in Russia who have faced this ban and who have been

preparing for the past four years to compete in Rio and have now been told by the Court of Arbitration in Sport that their ban has been set aside and

it will be -- they won't be able to go to Rio which is obviously a massive blow to them.

Already it's provoked angry reaction here in Russia. The Russian sports minister, Vitaly Motko, has said that this is a politically

motivated ban, a reference to the idea that many Russians hold that the targeting as they see it of Russian athletes for illegal substances for

cheating effectively, which has been revealed in various anti-doping agency reports, is a result of a campaign on the part of Russia's geopolitical

enemies, particularly those in the west, and the United States and things like that.

And so that's a broadly held opinion here. And it will be reaffirmed by this CAS, Court of Arbitration in Sport decision to uphold that ban

against Russia's Paralympians. There's also been reaction from the acting director general of the RASADA , which is the Russian ant-doping agency,

that was so slammed in the various reports, looking at what was called a state-sponsored program of doping in this country.

She said that athletes should be individually responsible for taking banned substances. And that talks to a problem, a concern that many

Russians hold that this is collective punishment, that the wrongdoings of a few has resulted in the punishment of the many and that's something that

Russia says is categorically against law and against sense of natural justice.

And so yes, there has been an angry reaction here, but this is the outcome of the court. It seems that Russia's Paralympic team will not now

be competing at the Rio Paralympics, which are due to start in just a couple of week's time.

LU STOUT: And Matthew, in light of this decision is the fate of Russia's Paralympic team sealed, or will there be further appeals?

CHANCE: Well, it's a difficult question. I'm not sure i fully know the answer to that. Although I've been exploring it. Certainly when it

comes to the sporting, you know, kind of arbitration that it can go to, the Court of Arbitration for Sport in the Lausaane is the port of call, as it

were.

But already there's been the groundwork laid I think by various Russian officials, one of them

saying it is a violation of human rights. In fact, it was the president of the Paralympic committee here in Russia that said it was a grave human

rights violation this ban should have been imposed in the first place.

And so I expect there is legal recourse that could be taken in other, more senior courts to the

court of arbitration for sport, than the European Court of Human Rights springs to mind, but whether or not Russia will take that course of action

I think is not certain at this point.

At the moment, the overwhelming emotion is one of disappointment.

[08:15:19] LU STOUT: All right, Matthew Chance reporting live from Moscow for us. Thank you, Matthew.

Now, The Philippines national police chief says 300 of his officers are suspected of being

involved in the drug trade. He says the officers will be removed from duty, and brought to justice.

The revelation comes as President Rodrigo Duterte wages a highly criticized war on drugs. The UN accuses police of killing suspects without

trial. More than 1,800 people have died in police related killings and unsolved murders since Mr. Duterte took office in June.

Now South Korea says three North Koreans have defected. It says the coast guard came across

them on a fishing boat and they said that they didn't want to go back.

Now just days ago, a senior North Korean diplomat based in London defected. And that caused North Korea to issue a statement calling its

deputy ambassador to the UK a criminal.

Now South Korea has expressed concern the north might send assassination squads to eliminate potential defectors.

Now, you're watching News Stream and still to come right here on the program, Donald Trump calls for a special prosecutor to investigate his

rival with more Clinton emails set to be released.

India is reeling from deadly floods. We have the latest on the conditions there, straight ahead.

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LU STOUT: Coming to you live from Hong Kong, you're back watching News Stream.

Now, let's go straight to the U.S. presidential race. Republican candidate Donald Trump has delayed a major speech on immigration while the

campaign fine tunes its policy. Now, instead he's focusing on weak points in his rival's campaign -- the Clinton Foundation and Hillary Clinton's

emails while she was Secretary of State.

CNN's Jessica Schneider is following the campaign. She joins me now live from our New York bureau. Jessica, thank you for joining us.

The Clinton Foundation along with her emails they have become big campaign issues this

week. Tell us why.

JESSICA SCHNEIDER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, you know, Kristie, Hillary Clinton struggles among voters when it comes to her honesty and her

trustworthiness. So now Donald Trump is pouncing. He's attacking Hillary Clinton at her time as secretary of state.

He's claiming that she engaged in pay to play and executed favors. And now he's calling for an expedited and independent review.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

CROWD: Lock her up. Lock her up. Lock her up.

SCHNEIDER: Donald Trump once again attempting to capitalize an ongoing scrutiny of Hilary Clinton's e- mail and the Clinton Foundation, in his

strongest language yet, accusing his opponent of fostering a pay for play culture when she was secretary of state.

DONALD TRUMP, (R) PRESUMPTIVE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: The amounts involved, the favors done and significant number of times it was done

require an expedited investigation by a special prosecutor immediately, immediately, immediately.

[08:20:12] SCHNEIDER: Trump claiming the FBI and the Justice Department whitewashed Clinton's email scandal.

TRUMP: It has proven itself to be really sadly a political arm of the White House.

SCHNEIDER: This charge coming as a judge orders the State Department to review an additional 15,000 e-mails and other documents. The former

secretary of state did not voluntarily turn over. A development Clinton brushed off, Monday night.

HILARY CLINTON, (D) PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: Jimmy, my e-mails are so boring.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yeah, mine aren't.

CLINTON: I mean, I'm embarrassed about that, they're so boring. And -- So we've already released, I don't know, 30,000 plus, so what's a few more?

SCHNEIDER: Trump continuing his outreach to Black and Hispanic voters, raising eyebrows with his tone, yet again.

TRUMP: What do you have to lose? I will straighten it out. We'll get rid of the crime. You'll be able to walk down the street without getting

shot. Right now, you walk down the street and you get shot.

SCHNEIDER: Clinton's campaign blasting Trump's overcharge of the black community, accusing Trump of "Doubling down on insults, fears and

stereotypes that set our community back and further divide our country."

This appeal to Hispanics coming as Trump's campaign continues to attempt to clarify his stance on the mass deportation of undocumented

immigrants after postponing a big policy speech.

TRUMP: We'll going to get rid of all of the bad ones. We have gang members, we have killers, we have a lot of bad people that have to get out

of this country. We're going to get them out. And the police know who they are.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He will deport those who have absolutely committed a crime, been convicted of a crime.

SCHNEIDER: This change coming after Trump advocated for mass deportation for months.

TRUMP: They're going back where they came.

SCHNEIDER: As for Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee forced to address unfounded conspiracy theories over her health.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Go online and put down Hillary Clinton illness, take a look for the videos for yourself.

CLINTON: I don't know why they are saying this. I think on the one hand, it's part of the whacky 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.

JIMMY KIMMEL, HOST, LATE SHOW: Can you open this jar of pickles. This has not been tampered with.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

SCHNEIDER: So, Hillary Clinton there laughing off those health rumors.

But it turns out, both candidates have been less than forthcoming about their medical histories. In fact, the last time they released

anything was about a year ago, both of them releasing letters from their doctors, as opposed to any more concrete medical records -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: And this is where the race is this week. We have Trump on the attack. We have Clinton brushing off concerns. But she's still enjoys

a lead in the polls. But how politically damaging are these reports about the Clinton Foundation and her emails?

SCHNEIDER: Well, it's somewhat damaging, because these email reports keep coming up in the press. Month after month, there's a slow drip, drip,

drip of this email controversy and the scandal around it.

With this latest ruling by a federal judge, 15,000 more emails will come out. The State Department didn't want to release them until October

14. The judge now saying no you must get them out sooner.

A status hearing is set for September 22. So within the next few weeks, we could see even more emails come out. Unknown if they'll be

damaging to Hillary Clinton, but the point is, it keeps this email scandal and the question of her honesty and trustworthiness right

there in the spotlight for voters to consider.

LU STOUT: Yeah, and as questions mount about the Clinton Foundation, what's being said about the future of the organization? I understand that

former President Bill linton has been weighing in.

SCHNEIDER: Yeah, former President Bill Clinton saying that if Hillary Clinton is elected as president, the Clinton global initiative will no

longer accept donations from foreign governments or corporations, so trying to put to bed any talk about any potential pay for play or any

favors that were done by Hillary Clinton which she was secretary of state as well.

LU STOUT: All right. CNN's Jessica Schneider reporting live from CNN New York. Thank you, take care.

The Trump campaign says it's too little, too late. Donald Trump visits Louisiana last week to tour flooded areas. And now, President

Barack Obama is to head there. More than 60,000 homes were damaged and 13 people perished in the disaster.

Now, President Obama's delay in visiting the disaster zone has drawn comparisons to how

President George W. Bush handled the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

At least 53 people have been killed in flooding across eastern and central India. The chief minister of one of the hardest hit states toured

the flood damage, but this photo -- let's bring it up for you -- this photo of him being carried out of the floodwater, it's drawing ridicule online.

His office says that he was carried by police to prevent him from getting hurt. But critics joke that he didn't want to get his shoes dirty.

Now more rain is expected in the coming days.

Now CNN meteorologist Chad Myers, he's been tracking conditions there. He joins us now.

And Chad, three states across India are battling deadly floods, scores of people affected here. What more have you learned about the disaster?

[08:25:21] CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Kristie, what we expect this time of year is a monsoon type rain. It's considered a wind shift.

It's an onshore flow. It's a front that drives itself and keeps itself right across India.

But this flood event was not about that. This flood event was about a tropical cyclone that came

onshore not in India, but in China, and Vietnam, on Friday. So this has now been four to five days. There's the storm. Rarely do they stay

together over land this long. And then over Bangladesh. And then over the eastern and central states of India.

So a completely separate area of moisture than we're used to and that's what we saw this time. We saw this time as the moisture continued

to come across this area that we saw the rainfall and the rainfall never stopped.

It was a tropical-type rain and the tropical-type rain is going to be with this area for the next couple of days, Kristie.

LU STOUT: Yeah, more rain in the forecast.

MYERS: Absolutely.

LU STOUT: What will it take for the floodwaters to recede?

MYERS: You know, well, it's going to take the complete stoppage of the rainfall, because it's not stopping at this point in time. But,

typically, and this is the dreadful number -- but hundreds like 500 or 600, up to 1,000 people in India die every year, because of flooding. This is

just the average what they see.

And it's because people just -- they are in there, they're on the roads, they're in their farms, they're in their fields and they just can't

get out of the way soon enough -- or they're in their cities and they are somehow trapped in places where they can't get out. And this is

what we see year after year, different cities every year, but it is the widespread rain that comes in when the humidity comes in in

the late summertime, and we see awful lots of rainfall right through here June, July and August, that's the big peak right here as monsoon comes in

over all of India. So we'll keep watching it. I don't see an end to it.

LU STOUT: The peak season is happening right now. Chad Myers reporting for us. Thank you, Chad.

Now, you're watching News Stream. And after the break, we're going to hear from a survivor,

a survivor of sex trafficking who is finding hope, and a renewed purpose in her cultural heritage. Her story after the break.

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[08:31:27] LU STOUT: All this week, the CNN Freedom Project is looking at sex trafficking in Canada's indigenous communities. One woman

who was preyed on and abused is now fighting to retake her life, and heal by embracing her heritage.

And Paula Newton spoke with her to hear her story.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

PAULA NEWTON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: With 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.

Tanay LITTLE, SEX TRAFFICKING SURVIVOR: And while you're drumming, your spirit like feels safe, feels connected.

NEWTON: 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.

LITTLE: I love this place. I love being here in knowing that this place helps women change.

NEWTON: Tanay calls it change but it was nothing short of salvation.

How old were you?

LITTLE: 11.

NEWTON: You were 11?

LITTLE: Yeah.

NEWTON: Already introduced to drug.

LITTLE: Yeah.

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 anxiety coming back.

NEWTON: An older girl, someone who pretended to be her friend, was actually preying on her, 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 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 refused to have sex with anybody?

LITTLE: If you're not beat up, then you would get raped by a few of them at once.

NEWTON: As an indigenous girl in Canada, the nightmare Tanay lived on these streets is hardly rare. anada's indigenous population is very small,

just 4 percent, yet more than 50 percent of all sex trafficking victims there are indigenous -- a huge over representation. And just like Tanay,

they are coping with a legacy of poverty, racism, and abuse.

DIANE REDSKY, MOM AWAY: There is a debt bonded that between $1,000 and $2,000 a day that these girls must bring, must hand in to 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 feeds into the cycle of violence and exploitation

against them.

REDSKY: It's really difficult to be able to fight those stereotypes as indigenous women when a whole society is targeting indigenous women and

girls, particularly for violence and abuse and that spills over into sex trafficking.

Thanks for coming to the circle. We're going to start with a smudge.

I'm very honored to be sitting in circle with you today, and thank you for inviting me.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm very honored to sit here with my survivor sisters today.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Being brought to attention, because it's been far too long.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It is an amazing, amazing thing to open your heart.

NEWTON: Elder Mae Louise Campbell leads a traditional sharing circle.

MAE LOUISE CAMPBELL, INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY ELDER: 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.

[08:35:24] CAMPBELL: Yeah, that's right.

The only way that they're going to feel whole again is to reconnect to their traditional ways through the ceremonies, through coming back to

listening to the elders, coming back to believe, to believe they are not all that has happened to them. They are not that. They are sacred.

LITTLE: You need to know your worth (inaudible) 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.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: Wow. Finding renewal and hope in her heritage, a beautiful story there.

Now, tomorrow we'll introduce you to an indigenous community confronting the issue of child exploitation head-on.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

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 hear how and why child sexual

exploitation has traumatized their community.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't think it's 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 a rock and let it stay there.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LU STOUT: Enough is enough.

And more on how this community is educating its kids in our series called Canada's Stolen

Daughters.

And of course you can read about our Freedom Project any time by going to our website. There, you will find more about our mission, as well as

ways you can report human trafficking, and help victims around the world.

You can find it at CNN.com/Freedom.

Now the son of infamous drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has been freed. Now, gunman kidnapped Jesus Alfredo Guzman along with five

others from a restaurant in Puerto Vallarta last week. The kidnapping is just the latest blow to the dominant Sinaloa cartel since El Chapo was

recaptured in January.

Officials suspect a rival drug cartel may be responsible.

Now, you're watching News Stream. We'll be back in just a moment. Keep it here.

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LU STOUT: Welcome back. Now U.S. swimmer Ryan Lochte is now finding out sometimes saying sorry isn't enough. Now, major sponsors are ditching

him one by one after he claimed he was robbed at gunpoint in Rio.

Now, Jeanne Moos caught up with Lochte's apology tour.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): "The Sorry Refrain" --

JUSTIN BIEBER (singing): Sorry --

MOOS: Sung by everyone from Justin Bieber to Brenda Lee.

BRENDA LEE (singing): I'm sorry --

MOOS: And look who's sorry now. Not just swimmer Ryan Lochte.

AL ROKER: He lied. He lied to you.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.

ROKER: He lied to Matt Lauer.

MOOS: But when travelers departing the Olympics were asked to leave a special message to Rio at the airport, "sorry about Ryan Lochte" was one of

the more popular ones scrolled on the board. Apparently embarrassed Americans felt the need to apologize.

MOOS (on camera): But you know who said "sorry" even more times than the message board?

(voice-over): Lochte himself.

[08:40:13] RYAN LOCHTE, U.S. OLYMPIC SWIMMER: I'm just really sorry about -- I'm embarrassed. I'm just really sorry. How sorry I am. I am

really sorry. I'm just really sorry. How truly sorry I am.

MOOS: He' paying a stiff price for saying he and his teammates were robbed and he had a cocked gun held to his head.

"Do you lie a little of a Lochte?" was one meme. On John Oliver's "Last Week Tonight," they said farewell to him.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice-over): Ryan Lochte, America's idiot sea cow.

LOCHTE: What defines me? Ryan Lochte.

MOOS: Now he's being stripped of his endorsement deal.

LOCHTE: I am Speedo Fit.

MOOS (on camera): Not anymore. On Monday, Speedo dropped Lochte.

MOOS (voice-over): Tweeted one columnist, "ironic to lose a Speedo endorsement over an inadequate cover-up." A mattress company dumped him.

Even his gentle laser hair removal sponsor cut off Lochte. Ralph Lauren refused to renew his contract.

LOCHTE: I could be having the worst day of my life. But as soon as I step foot in that water, everything just disappears.

MOOS: Better dive, Ryan, and make that one worst day of admitted intoxication disappear.

LEE (singing): I was too blind --

MOOS: Drunk --

LEE (singing): To see.

MOOS: Jeanne Moos --

LOCHTE: I over exaggerated.

MOOS: CNN.

LOCHTE: I over exaggerate that story.

MOOS: New York.

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LU STOUT: He sure did.

Now as if the Olympics didn't have enough issues to deal with, the Paralympic games are struggling to draw a crowd. Now, tickets for the

September event just aren't selling. Only 300,000 of the 2.5 million available tickets for the Rio Paralympics have been sold, that's just about

12 percent.

And these numbers just 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.

Now a party in the U.S. state of Michigan took an unexpected wild turn on Sunday into Canada.

Now 1,500 Americans were enjoying their annual float down party in dinghies and rafts when strong winds suddenly swept them up the Saint

Claire River and left them illegally inside the Canadian border.

Now the Canadian Coast Guard quickly plucked the confused partygoers out of the water and

returned them back to the U.S. in buses.

No one was hurt in the impromptu invasion.

And that is News Stream. I'm Kristie Lu Stout.

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