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U.S., Russia Tried for Syria Deal at G20; Amphetamines Fueling Some Syrian Militants; North Korea Fires 3 Ballistic Missiles; West Bank Faces Serious Water Shortage; Giuliani, Pence Clarify Trump's Immigration Policy; Mother Teresa Becomes Saint Teresa: Tropical Storm Hermine Could Regain Strength; Duterte: Philippines in "State of Lawlessness"; Cybersecurity Threat Hangs Over G20; Giant Panda No Long Endangered Species. Aired 2-3a ET

Aired September 05, 2016 - 02:00   ET

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[02:00:32] ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: Hello, and welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church. And this is CNN NEWSROOM.

At the G20 summit in China, U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin have met on the sidelines. But a U.S. official tells CNN the talks with Russia for a deal to ease the conflict in Syria have ended for now. The G20 summit will come to a close in less than three hours. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also met on the sidelines at the summit. There was hope for meaningful progress for solution for peace in Syria, but the two sides were unable to come to any agreement.

The U.S. and Russia have been at odds on the situation in Syria for some time now.

And Matt Rivers has been watching this summit very closely in Hangzhou and he joins us now live.

So, Matt, do Russian and U.S. talks, they're over, no deal was reached on Syria. What happens next? And what more do we know about this meeting between the presidents of U.S. and Russia?

MATT RIVERS, CNN ASIA-PACIFIC EDITOR: In terms of the meeting going on this afternoon, that is closed to the press. In terms of the nitty-gritty details the two are talking of, we're not sure yet.

Before this meeting happened, officials from both sides said this informal meeting was likely to happen and at the top of their agenda would likely be the ongoing conflicts in Syria and Ukraine. And as you mentioned, within the last two hours or so, we have heard the talks between the United States and Russia in terms of figuring out a new deal for the conflict to help ease the violence in Syria, they have failed here at the G20 for the meantime. And differences are still very wide, according to a senior U.S. official on both sides. Now in terms of what the differences are, whether they're more technical, minutia details, or whether there are still big broad differences between both sides of the negotiating table, we're still not sure yet. But the fact remains that that is something Presidents Putin and Obama could be discussing here in their informal meeting.

There had been some optimism as late as yesterday afternoon in Hangzhou that we could see a deal come to fruition. But it was late yesterday evening the secretary of state John Kerry came out, told reporters that negotiations would continue into today. But it's been within the last two hours or so that we have learned that there will be no agreement reached here in Hangzhou during the summit.

CHURCH: That is certainly frustrating for so many people. What exactly has been achieved overall at this G20 summit? Anything? Anything concrete?

RIVERS: It depends on who you ask. If you talk to these leaders, every time, they come out and say it's always good to have dialogue between the economies of the world and that's never a bad thing. It's hard to argue that point.

But in terms of specific things that are coming out of this G20, there isn't really anything that has come out that you can point to say that is the achievement here. That is the knock on these G20 summits overall is oftentimes the criticism end up being the leaders gather and sit around a big table and take a nice photograph today. But in terms of what is being done specifically, oftentimes there isn't anything that comes out. But proponents of these kind of meetings will say, look, it's never a bad thing when you the leaders of the largest economies in the world getting a chance to sit down, talk face-to-face, have one-on-one discussions.

And you have leaders, like the new British prime minister, Theresa May, perhaps laying the groundwork for new deals for Britain. You have President Xi Jinping promoting his country's openness towards the continuation of free trade deals. Those are all things the leaders want to push. Those are their agendas. For them, perhaps, successful time spent here at the G20. But overall, no specific point in terms of a breakthrough or success here in here.

CHURCH: Very frustrating.

Matt Rivers reporting there from Hangzhou in China. It's just after 2:00 in the afternoon. Let's talk about next hour. Appreciate it.

Our Jomana Karadsheh has been following developments at the G20 summit and in Syria from neighboring Jordan. She joins us now from Amman.

Jomana, this outcome from the G-7 submit, it is a slap in the face for those caught up in the war in Syria. What's the reaction so far from the region of this lack of progress for peace talks?

[02:05:19] JOMANA KARADSHEH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Rosemary, people here are waking up to this news, we'll have to wait and see what kind of reactions we get. We've been speaking to activists and residents, especially in Aleppo, because of the situation there and the escalating violence that's been taking place. We've asked them about what they thought about the U.S. and Russia trying to work out a deal and possible cease-fire in the works, and you get a lot of skepticism from them. There is a lot of lack of trust when it comes to Russia. And some of the activists we spoke to finding it hard how Russia could be a part of brokering any deals directly taking part in this conflict. And for them they have seen troops fallen apart in the past. You remember that cessation of hostility that went into effect earlier this year and broke down. There is a lot of skepticism.

No matter what people thought of this deal or no deal, the critical issue has been humanitarian aid delivery, something we have heard so much about from the United Nation. It has been so critical. They want a pause in the fighting, especially around these areas, for example, parts of Aleppo in the eastern part where desperately needed humanitarian aid and supplies are running out. They need to get the aid. The U.N. says they cannot do this unless there is a pause in the fighting.

With this news of no deal, a lot of concerns of what this means, especially, Rosemary, over night, we heard from the Syrian's state news agency, as well, as the monitoring group saying the eastern part of Aleppo that's been under rebel control is under siege again by regime forces and their ally forces. So warnings we heard in the past of a humanitarian crisis that's unfolding in Aleppo in the eastern part of that city where there are more than 250,000 people who continue to pay the heaviest price when it comes to the fighting and conflicts -- Rosemary?

CHURCH: Jomana, what is it going to take an old likelihood to get peace talks between Russia and the U.S. back on track here?

KARADSHEH: It depends, Rosemary, on what the issues are. These differences we heard President Obama yesterday describe as great differences remain. We'll have to wait and see whether they'll be able to reach any sorts of compromise to get these talks back on track, to reach some sort of an agreement. The pressure is trying to reach any sort of deal to allow humanitarian deliveries into the besieged area. We'll have to wait to see what the U.S. and Washington officials will say about these talks, and why it failed, it is not really clear yet, and what points they actually agreed on, and what remains -- what the differences remain at that point -- Rosemary?

CHURCH: Of course, we are still waiting to hear the results of the meeting between the president of the United States and Russia. We'll keep a close eye on that.

Jomana Karadsheh, for bringing us up to date. Just after 9:00 in the morning there. Many thanks to you.

Turkey is claiming a big victory in its fight against ISIS. Turkish state media reports the terror group has lost its last territory on the Turkish-Syrian border. The news comes after Turkey sent tanks and armored vehicles into the Syrian border town of Alrai (ph) over the weekend. A Turkish military member told CNN, a dozen other villages near the border were captured by the Free Syrian Army, backed by Turkey. Now this video is said to show some of that fighting. This could be a major setback for ISIS, choking off its supply lines. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says ISIS has essentially lost contact with the outside world.

Farther south in Syria, officials in Damascus say they have seized 400,000 tablets of a black-market drug used by jihadists.

Our Brian Todd filed this report last November on the amphetamine fuelling Syrian militants.

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[02:09:46] BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A captured ISIS militant named Kareem tells CNN how he got his battlefield courage.

UNIDENTIFIED ISIS MILITANT (through translation): They gave us drugs, hallucinogenic pills, that would make you go to battle and not care if you live or die.

TODD: When our CNN team interviewed Kareem last November, he was being held by Kurdish militants in northern Syria. It was impossible to know if he was telling the truth or being coached by his captors.

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TODD: But now, a U.S. official tells CNN it's believed some jihadist fighters are using the drug Captagon, a dangerous and powerful amphetamine.

(on camera): How does it fuel you on battlefields?

DR. ROBERT KEISLING (ph), PSYCHIATRIST: It keeps you awake and giving you a sense of well-being and euphoria and you think you're invincible and that nothing can harm you.

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TODD (voice-over): Recently, the U.N.'s drug czar said ISIS and the al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front were believed to be smuggling the chemical precursors for Captagon.

A U.S. law enforcement official tells CNN there is a robust black market for the drugs in the Middle East. Analysts say the profits fund weapons purchases for jihadist groups.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hezbollah, people affiliated with Hezbollah have a long history in the production and sale of Captagon. At one point, there was a fight between Hezbollah affiliated persons because some people were angry they were not getting a cut of someone's business.

TODD: Captagon was developed in the '60s and was first used to treat people with hyperactivity. It has since been banned in the U.S. and elsewhere.

And while some question the drug's prevalence among fighters who preach Islamic purity, analysts say jihadists can find a justification.

(on camera): Is it critical, it is a violation of cultural religious principles?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You have some saying this is not hypocritical, that, first of all, it is not a drug that's taken to get high.

Physiatrist Robert Keisling (ph), who treated thousands of addicts, says Captagon is so hallucinogenic, it can make a user hear voices and see things that aren't there.

That can hurt you on the battlefield, right?

KEISLING (ph): Absolutely, but I think they have made the decision that keeping these guys awake for four or five days at a time and giving them the sense of invincibility is worth whatever horror or side effects the drugs have.

TODD (on camera): For whatever sense of euphoria and invincibility Captagon might produce, Doctor Keisling (ph) says there are horrible down sides. Users, he says, can become psychotic, brain damaged and, of course, can get addicted to the drugs for years to come.

Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.

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CHURCH: South Korea says Pyongyang has fired three ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast.

CNN's Paula Hancocks is live in Seoul, South Korea, with the details on this.

Paula, what do we know so far about these free ballistic missiles?

PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Rosemary, we are getting more information here in Seoul. They say they believe they flew around 1,000 kilometers. They're assumed to be mid-range missiles. They believe they were actually flown into Japan's air defense identification zone, the air zone that Japan monitors for its own security. They also say that there was no prior navigational warning for these launches.

We heard earlier from Japan's defense minister that they increased their state of vigilance and he's calling for gathering analysis of information. Also, they condemned what they said was once again of a violation of the United Nation Security Council resolution that North Korea is not allowed to use this ballistic technology. Time and time again, they can carry out these launches.

They also gave insights on why they believe North Korea are doing this today, which is two things, the G20 summit that's going on in China. We know the presidents in South Carolina talked about North Korea, and towards the end of the week, on Friday, you have Foundation Day, the day they celebrate the foundation of North Korea -- Rosemary? CHURCH: The big fear is just how much progress being made since the

previous launch, and from what you said there, if they're assessing a thousand kilometers, that's significant progress since the last. How much of a concern is that?

HANCOCKS: It depends on which missile you are looking at. With the submarine launch a couple of weeks ago of a ballistic missile, they did make tremendous inroads. It was hailed a great success in North Korea. And the leader, Kim Jong-Un looking delighted. That flew around 500 kilometers. That was believed by many experts to be a success story and a significant increase in the capability. We these latest missiles, we have seen them fired a number of times. We don't know the exact altitude of the missiles. The fact that it went into this Japanese aviation area is significant to the great concern to Japan.

[02:15:18] CHURCH: Most definitely. We'll wait for more analysis and assessment on that.

Our Paula Hancocks joining us there from South Korea, Seoul. It is only 3:15 in the afternoon. We'll talk again next hour on this very issue.

Let's take a short break here. Still to come, protests continue in Brazil days after the former president was ousted. Who's the target of these latest demonstrations?

Plus, Donald Trump's campaign tries to clarify what his position is on illegal immigration. And what one of his biggest supporters said about the issue? That's after the break. Do stay with us.

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[02:19:52] CHURCH: Many Palestinians in the West Bank are facing a water shortage. It's a problem every summer but this year has been bad. Palestinians and Israelis blame each other for the crisis.

Our Ian Lee visited a village where tabs were shut off for weeks and people trek to a spring to get water.

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IAN LEE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's a long journey for a 3 and 5-year-old, one kilometer there, one kilometer back, but five times a day they journey to this spring. This is how the Ismael (ph) family in the village of Artas fetch water. Thousands of people rely on this stream, used for cooking, drinking, as well as cleaning and beating the heat.

Hanan Ismael (ph) takes me to their house to show me why. Their faucet ran dry two months ago. "Every day I take my daughters to the spring to fill up tanks and

bottles. Water has become our main daily concern," the mother of three tells me.

The source of the water crisis in the occupied West Bank is muddled. As Palestinian authorities see it, Israel is to blame.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The Israeli National Water Company has cut off supply sometimes by 50 percent and sometimes totally to some localities and towns and villages. I believe that this is part and parcel of getting rid of the indigenous people from their own land.

LEE: A 1995 agreement gives 80 percent of the West Bank's water to Israel. The divide is stark between Palestinian towns and Israeli settlements. Palestinians store water in tanks on their roofs, while settlers have communal tanks. Palestinians also receive less than the World Health Organization's recommended 100 liters a day. Settlers at times have faced shortages too.

Israel's National Water Company recently announced the plan to significantly increase the amount of water to settlements.

CNN requested an interview with Israeli authorities, but they gave us a statement. They accuse the Palestinian Authority of stealing water and not upgrading infrastructures, saying, "The reason for problems with the water supply is an increase in the demand of water for agricultural and drinking. The poor infrastructure, stolen water and delay in projects because the Joint Water Committee hasn't met."

That Israeli-Palestinian committee hasn't met in over five years.

[01:45:14] (on camera): While both sides blame each other, Palestinians face health risks.

(voice-over): Many Palestinians are forced to use unsafe sources like the Artas spring. You see there is trash nearby. And if you continue to look around over here, you can see that there's also animal feces.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's about 140,000 people in need of just basic water, safe water for daily life. Their children, you know, get diseases. They see worms in the water. But they had no other choice.

LEE: It's a risk the families of Artas continue to take as they're left with little but to gamble on the spring down the road.

Ian Lee, CNN, Artas, the West Bank.

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CHURCH: Hundreds of thousands of people filled the streets of Brazil City Sunday to protest the newly installed government of President Michel Temer. The largest demonstration was in San Palo. Organizers say more than 100,000 protesters showed up, waiving anti-Temer signs and chanting, "Out with Temer." The former president took office last week following the Senate vote to impeach former President Dilma Rousseff. Exit polls show a far right party has delivered a bitter defeat to

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats in her home state. Supporters of the alternative For Deutschland Party, of AFD, celebrated after exit polls showed them in second place behind the Social Democrats. The AFD campaigned on stopping what they called the Islamification of Germany. Ms. Merkel's party came in third, according to the polls. The chancellor's popularity has plunged after Germany took in more than a million refugees last year.

E.U. Council President Donald Tusk says the union is nearing its limits on the number of refugees it can accept. At the G20 submit in China, he urged the rest of the international communities to step up their efforts. Millions of refugees and other migrant have fled conflict and instability in Syria, Iraq, Eritrea and Somalia, among other places. And Tusk says Europe will not be able to many more of them at the current rate of migration.

One of Donald Trump's top supporters insists that the Republican candidate is backing away from one of his most controversial immigration proposals, mass deportation.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani spoke on CNN Sunday about Trump's speech in Arizona last week. While Trump rolled out proposals to crack down on illegal immigration, Giuliani says many people are missing the speech's key point.

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[02:25:14] RUDY GIULIANI, (R), FORMER NEW YORK CITY MAYOR & DONALD TRUMP SUPPORTER: What he said in the speech is after we secure the border and after we remove the criminal illegal immigrants, to a large extent -- you are never going to get to 100 percent -- then and only then can we look at it in a rational way.

JAKE TAPPER, CNN ANCHOR: He does not want to separate families, as you said.

GIULIANI: That's one of the things that's pretty clear. There are other options, too. It depends on the person. Some of these people could be on welfare for the last 30 or taking benefits or cheating, and maybe some of them have to be thrown out, but not necessarily all of them. And that's the point that he was making in the speech.

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CHURCH: Trump's running mate, Indiana governor, Mike Pence, also tried to clarify the issue on NBC "Meet the Press."

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MIKE PENCE, (R), INDIANA GOVERNOR & VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: He's been completely clear at this point.

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PENCE: No, he's not. (CROSSTALK)

PENCE: -- national debate.

CHUCK TODD, MODERATOR, MEET THE PRESS: But, he's not been consistent on the issue of what to do with the 11 million.

PENCE: But, there are people in different circumstances in that category. There are people who are criminal aliens in this county. And I think everyone in this country understands, the people who are here --

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TODD: -- violent crimes.

PENCE: Well, the people who are here, who their first act in this country was a violation of the law but have gone on to criminal activity in America, we want them out, and we want them out quickly.

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CHURCH: Let's take a short break here. Still to come, Mother Teresa is now Saint Teresa. How Catholics are reacting to her canonization in the city where she set up her missionary order.

Plus, doctors are treating the king of Thailand for a severe infection. We'll have the latest on how the world's longest-serving monarch is doing. That's coming up. Stay with us.

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[02:30:11] CHURCH: You are watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Rosemary Church.

I want to update you now of the stories we have been watching this hour.

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CHURCH: Catholics around the world are celebrating Mother Teresa's canonization. Pope Francis declared her a saint before huge crowds at the Vatican on Sunday.

Let's go to CNN Alexandra Field, in Calcutta, India, where Mother Teresa devoted much of her life to helping the poor.

Alexandra, a little bit of a rainy day right now. What's been the reaction so far in Calcutta, specifically to the canonization of Mother Teresa?

ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, it has been an interesting reaction here. When you put it into context, this is not a predominantly Catholic city. It's a predominantly Hindu City. There's a small Catholic minority in this city.

But Mother Teresa was a figure here who transcended religious divisions. It was her mission to help people of all faiths.

We did see celebrations in this city, despite the fact that this is a Catholic canonization. You did have a lot of people turning up here to the mother house where Mother Teresa's tomb is to be a part of the moment and experience it. And to them, this was yet further recognition on a global scale of simply the good work that Mother Teresa did, they felt, throughout her life.

The Catholic Church is something much more specific than that. It is the reflection of the fact that the church believes she's responsible for two miracles in the nearly 20 years since she died here in Calcutta.

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FIELD (voice-over): Mother Teresa's ascension to sainthood is rooted in a modest village in eastern India.

(on camera): You believe that you are here because of a true miracle?

"I have been curious of mother's treatment blessings, not because of doctor's treatments," she says.

Thank you very much for having us here in your home.

(voice-over): Monica Bassara (ph) says there was a miracle here 18 years ago.

"I saw spark of light emerge from mother's photo and reflect on my tumor," she tells us. "Later, a pennant given to her from one of Mother Teresa's missionaries was placed on that tumor."

"The sister left the target on my stomach where I had the tumor with a black thread there and put me to sleep. When I woke up at 5:00 a.m., I saw there was a photograph of Mother Teresa behind me. I told sister the big tumor was no longer there. Then I showed everyone where the tumor was."

(on camera): The majority of people here are Hindu, but after she was cured, Monica converted. They're now about 10 families in the village who are all Catholic. They even built a church in Mother Teresa's name.

(voice-over): To the Catholic Church, she is a saint, in part, because of Bassara's (ph) miracle, one of two needed to fulfill the church's requirements for canonization.

But Mother Teresa's critics say the canonization is more veneration for a woman whose deeds never measured up to the side of her global reputation.

Some have made allegations about poor hygienic conditions that facilities run by her charity. A long-time volunteer organization, the Missionaries of Charity, rejected the claims, calling them rubbish. Doctor Chadahi (ph) is one of her most vocal critics. He does not

believe there was a miracle. He credits doctors who had previously treated Bassara (ph).

Some doctors claim the tumor was really a cyst caused by tuberculosis.

UNIDENTIFIED DOCTOR: Even in India, hardly anybody believes the miracles are genuine. Doctors effected what are in fact said to be miracles.

FIELD: But Mother Teresa remains revered the world over. Catholic sainthood will further cement her legacy of doing good among admirers, among believers. To them, Monica Bassara (ph) is a living proof.

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[02:35:09] FIELD: Rosemary, the headquarters for Mother Teresa's organization, Missionaries of Charity, remain here in Calcutta. It's in the house behind me where Mother Teresa lived so much in their life in a small bare room. It is a place where she died as well. As I mentioned, it is where her tomb is. This is the house that's opened to the public. There are a lot of visitors that come through every day to pay homage, to pay respect. Today, when they go to that tomb, they're going to the tomb of a saint. And just a short while ago, we actually saw a multi-faith delegation made up of Hindus, Muslims and Catholics who wanted to come here and pay their respects at the tomb of Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta -- Rosemary?

CHURCH: That's certainly an incredible story.

Our Alexandra Field reporting there, from the wet and cold Calcutta, India. Just after noon today. Many thanks to you.

In the U.S., the massive storm that has been beating up the eastern seaboard could regain some strength. The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Hermine is moving out to sea where it is expected to regenerate winds up to 120 kilometers per hour, or about 75 miles per hour. Millions of people from Virginia to New England are still under a tropical storm watches and warnings.

Let's get more on this from our Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri.

It was such an extraordinary going out to see and regaining that strength.

PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST: This storm has traveled 10,000 kilometers, 6,000 miles. An incredible storm. Not that sitting here, not very impressive on satellite imagery, but what's really important is as it sits offshore, it is churning up a lot of water and that's a dangerous scenario when it comes to beach goers across the eastern seaboard of the United States.

The forecast initially had it going much, much closer to land. It would kick up tremendous wave. It has now moved about 200 miles offshore. The heaviest of the rainfalls stay off shore. The storm surge threat are limited as well. We've see about six million people that are under a tropical storm

warning across the region. And when you take a look at the storm surge, there's a couple of feet, about 150. The track of the system will take it closer to land Monday afternoon. It will be gradually as it moves away and that's the good news, keeping it away from the eastern seaboard.

The other big story is what's happening in Japan. Pictures of the recent typhoon made landfall. This is the next typhoon are tropical storms at this point that's threatening portions of Japan. We know the area has been battered by storms and this particular one will want to move to the north. The area highlight in yellow, that's the potential for another disturbance. We are now going on a potential for six tropical storms in a five week period. We have seen this happen before in the Philippines and China, and this year seems like Japan's here. This is Japan's year with multiple storms coming in. The pattern remains the same. The storms want to move in the same direction.

CHURCH: Japan has set so much in the area in the recent past.

Thanks to you, Pedram.

JAVAHERI: Thank you.

CHURCH: Let's talk again next hour.

JAVAHERI: OK.

CHURCH: OK, thanks so much.

We'll take a short break here. Still to come, a crack down in the Philippines. How the president is stopping just short of declaring martial law after a deadly attack in his hometown.

And a burning passion for history. How they set fire to 17th century London on the banks of the Thames, when we come back.

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[02:42:24] CHURCH: Thai officials say the health of Thailand's king has improved. Doctors are monitoring his condition in a hospital in Bangkok. The king is undergoing treatment for a severe respiratory infection. Royal physicians says there is still some fluids in his lungs. The 88-year-old is the world's longest-serving monarch. He's been in and out of the hospital in recent months, raising concern and uncertainty over his succession.

The mayor of Davao City in the Philippines is offering a $43,000 for help in finding the bomber who killed 14 people at a market on Friday. The mayor is the daughter of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte.

Michael Holmes looks at how the president is cracking down after the attack.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Days after a deadly attack on a Philippines marketplace, Davao city residents are learning what it means to live in what President Rodrigo Duterte calls, quote, "a state of lawlessness." Military personnel patrol the city on motorcycles and police checkpoints are being set up around the city's entry and exit points.

UNIDENTIFIED MILITARY OFFICER (through translation): This is one of our heightened security measures. Those who are entering and leaving Davao city are being inspected. Cars, motorcycle, everything will be check without exemptions.

HOLMES: Friday's blast killed more than a dozen people and injured dozens more. Duterte has called it an act of terrorism, saying it is possible the explosion was a reprisal for his crackdown on extremists known to the area. So far, no group has claimed responsibility.

He declared the nation was in a state of lawlessness and authorized the military to patrol in urban areas. But he stopped short of declaring martial law, a power afforded him only in cases of invasion or rebellion.

Funerals for the dead have begun, and victims' families are calling on Duterte for justice.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (through translation): I want to know who did this to my poor sister.

HOLMES: As they lay their loved ones to rest.

Michael Holmes, CNN, Atlanta.

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CHURCH: The G20 summit has been the target of cyber attacks in recent years and that threat has been a big concern at the one going on in China right now.

Our Claire Sebastian has more.

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CLAIRE SEBASTIAN, CNN MONEY CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It was September 2013, a crucial G20 summit in St. Petersburg dominated by the conflict in Syria. The leaders were unaware of their computers had been infiltrated.

But two months before that meeting, according to research firm Fire Eye, says e-mails had been sent to several European ministries. They contained attachments which, once opened, downloaded malicious software allowing the hackers to spy on their target.

Fire Eye say it traced that hack to China. Beijing denied any involvement.

And it was not the first time that the G20 had been targeted. Two years earlier, the French government's computers had been infected with malware before the G20 summit in Paris. There was no conclusive evidence on who was behind it.

[02:45:32] UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It is a definitely a major target for hackers, specifically, nation state attackers, because they're trying to steal data than can help them understand the government's negotiating position.

SEBASTIAN: Spying at international gatherings is nothing new. The difference now, the Internet makes it easier.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: In years past, if you think of espionage, when it took place, it would cost any government an enormous amount of money. Today, for a minimal amount of money, you can be very well equipped.

SEBASTIAN: Experts say G20 delegations need to equip themselves against potential threats. They advise using clean old burner firms to avoid carrying personal data, avoiding hotel Wi-Fi and even adding experts to their physical security details.

(on camera): We contacted several 20 delegations to see what precautions they are taking. None would comment. A former U.S. official speaking on condition of anonymity told us President Obama and all his stuff all used encrypted phone and satellite links when they travel.

(voice-over): The president even takes portable sound-prove tents to secure communications. This is one from a 2011 trip to Brazil.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There is no question the landscape is changing.

SEBASTIAN: Dmitri's firm, Crowd Strike, uncovered evidence back in June that the Russian government was behind the hack on the U.S. Democratic National Committee.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Before nation state were primarily engaging in espionage where they would come into your network, steal your documents. Nowadays, you have to worry about the public leaking of that information, information -- influence operations will be conducted against you.

SEBASTIAN: Though amid public shows of unity at the G20, there may be more complex political plays inside the space.

Claire Sebastian, CNN Money, New York.

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CHURCH: Conservationists say the giant panda is no longer an endangered species in China. We'll hear from the director of the Wildlife Fund about the optimistic news. That's next.

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[02:51:32] CHURCH: Welcome back everyone. The doors to Dubai's newest state-of-the-art concert venue are officially open. The Dubai Opera House took more than three years to build, with a cost of more than $330 million.

Here's a look inside.

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JASPER HOPE, CHIEF EXECUTIVE, DUBAI OPERA HOUSE, This is a genuinely groundbreaking technological marvel.

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HOPE: It's a theater. It hosts productions and concerts, but it's much more than that. What we can do here that almost no one else in the world can do is transform ourselves very, very quickly. Some buttons and a few strong arms, a couple of hours' work. And before you know it, we can be a completely different looking building. For through the use of hydraulics, get rid of something like 950 seats here in the stalls. We created a completely flat floor environment.

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PLACIDO DOMINGO, OPERA SINGER: It is wonderful to be able to inaugurate an opera house. That is the conception, but having the old opera house feeling.

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DOMINGO: I was in the hall when they were doing the rehearsal of "The Barber of Seville" that will tell me a lot of the acoustics and the possibilities of the theater, which I find it fantastic.

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DOMINGO: It has been done a lot for culture already in this country. The icing of the cake is to have an opera house.

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CHURCH: Wonderful.

Well, there is some good news and bad news to report about the world's endangerment species. The bad news, the International Union for Conservation of Nature says the eastern gorilla is now listed as critically endangered because of illegal hunting. The population has declined more than 70 percent in the past 20 years.

But there are others in the animal kingdom that have faired much better. The giant panda, a long time presence on the endangered list, is being downgraded to vulnerable.

The director general of the World Wildlife Fund says there are many factors that contributed to the animal's recovery.

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DR. CLAUDE MARTIN, DIRECTOR GENERAL, WORLD WILDLIFE FUND: It is a great day to be a panda today. The growth of the population has allowed the organization and the scientists to assess that the panda is a further step away from the brink of distinction. This is fantastic news. The growth and the success of the panda is a really a success. Of course, there is still a lot of work to do. So far, the class is due to a number of things, first, the sheer determination of the Chinese government on the pandas to save the species. In the last few years, the number of reserved pandas there has grown almost two- thirds of habitats. And white pandas are growing to 100 percent.

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[02:55:46] CHURCH: And it's a great day to be a panda, I love that.

On the River Thames, "London is burning." That's a model of London as it was in 1676. The 120-meter long replica of 17th century London was set alight Sunday on the Thames. It marked the 350th anniversary of the inferno known as the Great Fire of London. The massive blaze was reputed to have started in a bakery. In four days it razed huge portions of the city, destroyed more than 13,000 buildings, and left an estimated 1,000,000 people homeless. The Museum of London commissioned Sunday's dramatic spectacle.

Thanks for watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Rosemary Church. I will be right back with more of the top stories from all around the world after this very quick break. You're with the world's news leader.

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