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U.S. Intelligence Believes Russia Interfered In Election; Trump Tweet Sends Toyota Stock Down; A Timeline Of Violence On Facebook Live; Beijing Residents Faces Costly Fight Against Pollution; Study: Higher Dementia Risk Near Busy Roads; Trump: Mexico Will Pay Back Money For The Wall; Report: Russia Starts To Withdraw Forces From Syria; U.S. Keeping A Closer Watch On North Korea; Pakistan Moves To Outlaw Honor Murders; Nissan Adopts NASA Technology For Self-Driving Cars. Aired 8-9a ET
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[08:00:16] KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong, and welcome to "News Stream."
Now, Donald Trump is finally set to meet U.S. Intelligence officials after spending weeks criticizing their work.
President Barack Obama speaks out on the beating of a man streamed live on Facebook. We'll discuss what social media sites are doing to stop hate
crimes being spread online.
And living with Beijing's choking pollution, we'll look at how people deal with smog in China's capital.
For the first time, Donald Trump has to come face to face with the U.S. Intelligence chief. So, he's been railing against for weeks. The
president-elect claims that no one really knows who is behind a series of cyber attacks during the U.S. elections. But officials say not only do
they believe that Russia leaked the hacked information.
But, they say it was approved by the Kremlin's most senior officials. The U.S. spy chiefs are to take their case directly to the president-elect at
the briefing on Friday. CNN's Jason Carroll has more.
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JASON CAROLL, CNN CORRESPODENT: The of heads of the FBI, CIA, NSA and the director of National Intelligence will meet face to face with President-
elect Donald Trump today to brief him on their findings about Russian cyber attacks.
JAMES CLAPPER, DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE: But, I don't think that we've ever encountered a more aggressive or direct campaign to interfere in
our election process.
CAROLL: DNI head James Clapper making it crystal clear at a congressional hearing yesterday that all 17 U.S. Intelligence agencies believe Russia
meddled with the U.S. election.
CLAPPER: I do think that public trust and confidence in the intelligence community is crucial.
CAROLL: And indirectly calling out Trump for his repeated attempts to undermine their conclusion.
CLAPPER: But, I think there's a difference between skepticism and disparagement.
CAROLL: But Trump continues to strike a conspiratorial tone twitting "The DNC would not allow the FBI to study or see its computer info after it was
supposedly hacked by Russia. So how and why are they so sure about hacking if they never even requested an examination of the computer servers? What
is going on?"
Former chairman of the joint chiefs retired General Martin Dempsey, breaking his strident rule not to comment on politics, twitting,
"Intelligence is hard, thankless work. Fortunately, we have dedicated patriotic and courageous men and women on the job. Thanks."
JOE BIDEN, (D) VICE-PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES: Grow up, Donald. Grow up.
CAROLL: Vice-president Joe Biden calling Trump's comments dangerous.
BIDEN: For a president not to have confidence in, not to be prepared to listen to the myriad of intelligence agencies is absolutely mindless.
CAROLL: But to the surprise of Trump critics, the president-elect lass tapped former Senator Dan Coates, a hawk on Russia, to replace Clapper,
Trump's transition team insisting that he supports the intelligence community pushing back on reports that the president-elect wants to revamp
the DNI.
SEAN SPICER, INCOMING WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY, WASHINGTON: There is no truth to this idea of restructuring the intelligence community
infrastructure.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
STOUT: And that was CNN's Jason Carroll reporting there.
Now, at a Senate hearing, the director of U.S. National Intelligence made it clear. The entire intelligence community believes that Russia meddled
in the U.S. election. That community is actually made up of 17 different agencies.
You've got the CIA, the NSA, the FBI among the largest, but the state department, the navy, army, and air force each have intelligence
departments as well, and every one of these 17 agencies, and I'm pointing the finger of blame squarely at Russia. And that makes it even harder for
Donald Trump to reject their findings much longer.
Now, it is arguably Donald Trump's signature campaign promise, but depending on whom you ask, there are two vary different stories emerging
about who will pay for a border wall with Mexico. The president-elect's transition team is signaling to Congress.
Trump wants to pay for it with U.S. taxpayer dollars. But, house Republican say Trump's team has indicated it can be funded through the
appropriations process, but Trump himself has fired back on Twitter, of course, insisting Mexico will pay back any moneys spent on the wall
eventually.
[08:05:04] Now, Toyota is also the target of a Trump Twitter tirade. On stocks, on the Japanese car giant were sent tumbling after an online
scolding from the president-elect over Toyota's plan to open a plant in Mexico. Trump twitted this "Toyota Motor said, we'll build a new plant in
Baja, Mexico to build corolla cars for the U.S. no way! Build plant in U.S. or pay big boarder tax."
Our CNNMoney, Asia Pacific editor Andrew Stevens, he has been following all this. He joins me now live from Seoul. Andrew, after that attack on
Twitter, how is Japan defending Toyota?
ANDREW STEVENS, CNNMONEY ASIA PACIFIC EDITOR: Well, Japan is actually for Japan Kristie defending Toyota quite aggressively. And Toyota is also
defending Toyota quite aggressively. They very quick out of the blocks after that tweet from Donald Trump to say that there was going to no jobs
lost in America because of this new plant just by way of background.
This new plant will be building corolla cars. At the moment, corolla cars in the U.S. are built by either a Mississippi plant or a Canadian plant.
This new plant in Mexico will replace the Canadian operation. So, no jobs lost in the U.S. Toyota firing back saying basically we've been a part of
the U.S. fabric of society for 60 year, at least. And look at what we've done. We put $22 billion. We employ about 136,000 people. We've got 10
manufacturing plants. We've got 1,500 dealerships. You know, we are part of you, America, aiming this very much at Donald Trump and even the
Japanese government getting involved as well. Just listen to what the chief secretary to the cabinet had to say.
OK. Well, we don't have that sound. But basically what he's saying is that, we believe that Toyota is a good corporate citizen, Kristie, in the
U.S. And they even the trade minister coming out and pointing out the1.5 million jobs, so, thereabout where they created by Toyota in U.S. So for
Japan, such a close ally of the U.S. and so sensitive toward getting on right side Donald Trump, this is pretty strong push back.
STOUT: Yeah. Japan very sensitive so much. So Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was the first world leader to visit Donald Trump when he was -- right after
he was elected. Let's talk about Donald Trump more and he's use of Twitter in the corporate world. You know this. I mean, with every tweet he's been
going after different targets, including and not limited to Boeing, Ford, G.M., now Toyota are his attacks spooking other companies, including there
in Japan?
STEVENS: Well, yes. The short answer is they have to be. We are talking about a man who is going to be the president of the biggest economy in the
world in the next couple of weeks and a man who patently does not agree with the trade model that has served the global system for decades now.
And, you know, we talk about these Trump tweets. There seems to be some sort of thought that Donald Trump gets up in the morning and just sort of
let's off a few tweets and rants and rise. But he is incoming press secretary, Sean Spicer, is basically saying these is calculated. This is
all part of setting the agenda of Donald Trump.
And you have you to look at what he's been saying about trade. It has been consistent, if nothing else. And he has picked these targets. So if you
are a target and it doesn't conform with Trump's world view of trade which is a much narrower, America first, let's make America great again. That's
a much, much narrower view of globalization as we've grown up over the last 20, 30 years, Kristie. It is a worry.
And let's be honest. I mean, this is globalization through Donald Trump in retreat. And it is going to stay in retreat, if you look at his picks for
trade, his trade negotiators, et cetera, et cetera. It looks like this is the start of something that he really is going to follow through on.
STOUT: Trump, Toyota, Twitter, Andrew Stevens covering it all for us. Thank you very much indeed for that. Take care, Andrew.
In the hours ahead, we know that four suspects in Chicago will make their first appearance in court. They're charged with a hate crime and
kidnapping after a Facebook live post.
And a warning for you, if you haven't seen this video yet, even watching it again, it is very hard to watch. They are accused of tying up and beating
a special needs teenager while streaming it online and shouting racial slurs. U.S. President Barack Obama calls the action despicable.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
BARACK OBAMA, (D) U.S. PRESIDENT: What we've seen is surfacing. I think a lot of the problems that have been there a long time, whether it's tensions
between police and communities, whether it's hate crimes of the despicable sort that has just now just recently surfaced on Facebook. I take these
things very seriously.
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STOUT: And despicable is the word. This is not the first time though that a violent act was broadcast in realtime on Facebook since that function was
made available last year.
[08:10:06] Our CNN's Randi Kaye looks at some of the grimmer moments.
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RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: June last year in Chicago. Antonio Perkins is on Facebook live drinking tequila with friends. It's the last thing he
does before he's shot dead.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You want some?
KAYE: Perkins falls to the ground, his camera does too, but keeps recording.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, my God.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Call the police.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, my God.
KAYE: Police look into whether Perkins' killer used Facebook live to pinpoint his location. But a suspect is never identified.
KAYE: In north of Virginia, a month after that shooting, three men are hanging out in a car singing along to music. All of it streaming over
Facebook live. Their music is suddenly interrupted by gunfire. The camera falls but keeps streaming.
More than two dozen shots are fired in just about 20 seconds. A man who comes to their rescue is heard off camera.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Look at me, look at me, look at me. Stay with me. Hey, hey, hey. Stay relaxed.
KAYE: The victims ask for medical attention.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We need an ambulance. There's three of us shot.
KAYE: The men all survived. Weeks later, U.S. Marshals arrested Tony Angelo Roundtree. He is charged with using a firearm during a felony and
shooting into an occupied vehicle. But says he is innocent. A grand jury could still indict him. October 2016, this man uses Facebook live to boast
about shooting five people and fatally stabbing two others.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's the real deal. This is ain't a joke. This ain't a prank. I'm going -- live.
KAYE: Michael Vance is on the run and using Facebook live to taunt police.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is more intense than what I thought it was going to be, to say the least.
KAYE: But the week-long manhunt ends in a shootout. Vance is killed at the scene. That same month this man steals a police cruiser in Tulsa and
using the officer's iPad streams his ride live on Facebook.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm in the cop car. Where's my sirens at? You hear my sirens?
KAYE: After a high-speed chase the man is arrested. Among the charges police say he faces, using an electronic device while driving. He was due
in court last month, but there is no record of his plea. In Baton Rouge, New Year's Day an attempted kidnapping live streamed on Facebook.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I pull you out of your house, yeah, I also and start playing when with you.
KAYE: That suspect and another man tried to force the victim out of the home using a slang term for murder to describe their plans on the live
feed.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Again, I guess I got to catch a body or catch a case for these homes to stop playing with me.
KAYE: They were later arrested and charged with among other things, attempted second degree murder and attempted kidnapping. It appears they
haven't yet entered a plea.
Randi Kaye, CNN, New York.
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STOUT: And when disturbing events like those, you just heard show up on people's Facebook feeds often without warning it raises a real question
here. Does Facebook have a responsibility to do something?
And for that I am joined now by Mary Anne Franks, she's a law professor at the University of Miami.
And Professor, thank you so much for joining us and to help us sort of make sense of this really horrifying incident. What are your thoughts on the
role Facebook plays in all this?
MARY ANNE FRANKS, LAW PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: Well first and foremost, Facebook has to take responsibility for the fact that it's
created this products to some extent. You have platforms like Facebook that want to claim that they are just reflecting what society already is,
but we really have to acknowledge the fact that we're also creating what society is, and we're providing incentives. And we're encouraging people
to do things that they may not have otherwise done because of the products that companies like Facebook are offering.
STOUT: You're saying that Facebook should assume responsibility as a media platform? We did get a statement from a Facebook spokesperson who said,
"We do not allow people to celebrate or glorify crimes on Facebook and have removed the original video for this reason."
And Mary Anne we also note they have vowed to track down and remove violent imagery, but in your view is that enough?
FRANKS: Well, I think it really can't even be a question of whether it's enough. We're talking about measures that are taken after the fact. The
entire point of Facebook live and all of these live streaming services is that they are immediate and there's really no way to stop them once they go
viral. So, when you have Facebook and other companies saying we're going to do something after the fact, even if it's quite effective, even if it's
quite principled, this is all happening quite a bit too late.
[08:14:58] STOUT: Yeah. And now, we want to just prevent this timeline of violence on Facebook live from extending and going on even further. Again,
Facebook along with other social platforms has promised to monitor violent content. But, you know, it's such a huge global platform. Some are saying
it needs to hire editors, human editors, to supervise live content in realtime. But given what it is, can that even be done?
FRANKS: I think it's almost an insurmountable task is you are suggesting.
STOUT: Yeah.
FRANKS: And one of the most interesting things about that discussion is that the one question that isn't being asked by Facebook or other companies
is, whether they should have to this product at all. There seems to be an underlying assumption that we need to have this because we can't have this,
and then to talk about ways that we can make the panic worse effects. But the hard question which is, should society even have this? Is it a good
thing for society? That seems to be off the table all together.
STOUT: Yeah. It's a really hard question to ask you and the Facebook says, yeah, we're going to continue with Facebook live. What's going to
happen next? We know that hate crime has been unfortunately part of our culture for decades. Now, a social media, it can be brought upfront and
live to a global audience. Could we see just more and more of this type of activity?
FRANKS: There's almost certainly going to be more of this activity. These types of activities are contagious to some extent. The more that people
see that they can become famous for doing something terrible, something despicable, the more incentives are created for people to do exactly that.
The more people see it, the more people are traumatized by it, the more people are encouraged by it. So I think what we're going to see is all the
negative effects that you might get from a platform with as much reach and influence as Facebook, we're going to see all of those source of that
happening now.
STOUT: We've talked about the platform, the crime, and I want your thoughts and the punishment in four teenagers, they face hate crime and
kidnapping charges for that Facebook live stream torture. Do those charges seem appropriate? Do they sound right to you?
FRANKS: Well, it depends on finding out some of the essential facts of the situation. Why it was this young man was targeted? What exactly they were
trying to accomplish? And so we found out a little bit more about their motivations. It's hard to say what they ought to be charged with. But it
certainly sounds like a possible charge.
STOUT: OK. Professor Mary Anne Franks, we'll leave it there. Thanks you so much for joining us on the program and take care.
All right you're watching "News Stream." Still on the program, a silent threat to our health? Our cities around the globe battle pollution. Could
there be more risks than most people realize? We speak to a leading scientist.
Also ahead, women face death in Pakistan for bringing shame to their families. The country's new law aimed at stopping honor murders, a crime
that has no honor at all.
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[08:19:59] STOUT: All right. Coming to you live from Hong Kong. You're back watching "News Stream."
Pollution in Beijing is still at unhealthy levels. But the air has cleared somewhat since this week's red alert warnings. Well, individuals can take
much about the air quality outside. Some in Beijing, they are spending big money to keep their air inside their homes clean. That's a luxury that
many others simply can't afford. Matt Rivers reports.
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MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENTS: For much of 3-month-old Anna's life her world has looked like this, a toxic cloud of smog that has choked Beijing
for the better part of two weeks. The air has been more than 50 times worse than what the World Health Organization says is safe. For her mom,
Wang Jang it was too much.
WANG JANG, BEIJING RESIDENT: Her life just began, and the air she is breathing in and out is such a bad quality. I couldn't sleep. And I
literally two nights continuously, I couldn't sleep.
RIVERS: So in the pursuit of cleaner air for Anna and her big sister 6- year-old Mia, Jang and her husband opened their wallets, $7,500 for eight air purifiers, $500 bucks every few weeks to change the filters inside and
another 5,000 for an in-wall ventilation system that pumps out filtered air.
WANG: That's very expensive. But think about the health, there's nothing to trade off, you know.
RIVERS: Spending however much money is necessary to keep your family healthy is something a lot of people would probably do. But the reality is
that the fight against pollution can cost a lot. And in many of Beijing's poor neighborhoods like this one, most people can't afford to do much more
than buy a cheap disposable pollution mask.
That's about all Ho Trend Fu (ph) can do inside a small home in a Beijing back alley. There's no air purifiers. No expensive filtration system,
just poorly insulated windows and frustration.
We're helpless, he says, but what choice do we have? We can't do anything about it, so we just face it. All I can do is try to avoid going out when
it's smoggy. He's like so many others in Beijing dealing with pollution that can blanket the city in just 20 minutes like in this time lapse shot
in the business district. It's always worse in the winter when coal use spikes due to falling temperatures. But predictability doesn't make it any
better.
"We hope the government will treat this issue seriously," says Ho. Everyone wants to see the blue skies but right now it's impossible. For
now he'll just wait out the smog in a cramped living room. It's a stark contrast from Wang Jang and her family. Every part of their lives indoor
is clean and filtered and they say they know how lucky they are to be able to afford that. But when 6-year-old Mia goes to school only a panda-dotted
pollution mask stands between her and this, because once outside, whether you're rich or poor, everybody breathes toxic air together.
Matt Rivers, CNN, Beijing.
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STOUT: And it's not just China. Europe is also seeing worrying levels of pollution. London has breached its air pollution limit less than a week
into the New Year. And pollution has made the City of Light a little bit dimmer. It's a year after Paris hosted the landmark COP21 climate talks.
This is what it looks like there. The french capital has been battling this.
Campaigners say pollution contributes to 48,000 deaths a year in France. And there's evidence of another health risk associated with pollution. A
new study says living close to major roadway to increase your likelihood of developing dementia. Researchers found being within 200 meters was
associated with at least some heightened risk of the disease, a risk that increases the closer you live to the road.
A doctor, Ray Copes co-author of that study, he's also the head of Environmental and Occupational Health -- Public Health Ontario. And he
joins me now live from Toronto via Skype. Dr. Copes, thank you for joining us here on the program.
You have establish in this report published in "The Lancet" this week that there's a link between living near heavy traffic and dementia, and the
question I want to ask you is about air pollution. Is air pollution from cars a factor in the development of dementia?
RAY COPES, CHIEF, ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH, PUBLIC HEALTH ONTARIO: Well, certainly, we take a look at what the source of pollution would be around
roadways, vehicular traffic is what's really implicated there. But in other cities the problem goes far beyond traffic, your comments about
Beijing earlier.
STOUT: Got you. So it's -- a multiple factor, not just vehicular air pollution but perhaps noise, et cetera, the different factors involved with
proximity to traffic. I did want to mention though that your study was published the same week as you've been reporting on the cities all
throughout China issuing pollution red alerts. Coal production we know is a major part of the problem there, but roadside pollution is a huge issue
in China and other urban areas in Asia around the world. So how should our viewers read and interpret our study? What should they take away here?
[08:25:03] COPES: Well, I think our study found risks in what is a relatively clean area which is Southern Ontario, so I think our findings
would probably be amplified in cities with higher levels of pollution.
STOUT: Got you. And that would you include cities as like as you reported, Beijing or even in Paris that's been having high roadside
pollution levels. Doctor, these things to conclude from research?
COPES: Yes that's right.
STOUT: That one can reduce the risk of dementia by moving away major roadways?
COPES: Well, that would require an intervention study that would compare people who stayed close to a roadway and who have moved away. I think
that's a very plausible suggestion. But our research design doesn't allow to us make exactly that conclusion.
STOUT: And your thoughts on, can one reduced the risk of dementia by moving away from cities like Beijing?
COPES: Certainly there's a suggestion that the higher the level of pollution, the greater the risk of dementia. So in that sense, I think
it's a very clearly another argument for improving public health by reducing pollution levels in our cities.
STOUT: And let's take that step forward in talking about the construct path forward after your research, and what impact should your research have
on urban planning and traffic management in cities around the world?
COPES: Well, those are great ideas. And I think certainly the policy implication of our research suggests that further reductions in traffic-
related pollution would be a public health benefit. We should look at how we design our cities. So where we locate our residential areas relative to
major traffic arteries and then building design and are there things that we can do that would provide additional protection to building occupants
from pollutants that arise in the neighborhood outdoors.
STOUT: And the final question for you. Should car makers also read and take note of your study?
COPES: I think it's one of an increasing number of studies that vehicle- makers and others need to pay attention to.
STOUT: All right, Doctor Ray Copes we'll leave it at that. Thank you very much indeed for sharing your study with us and telling us more about it
right here on the program. Take care.
COPES: Thank you.
STOUT: You're watching News Stream. Still ahead on the program, the leader of North Korea says a ballistic missile test is near. But Donald
Trump says it's not going to happen. And the U.S. military is indeed taking things seriously.
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STOUT: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. You're watching News Stream. And these are your world headlines.
[08:29:58] Our President-elect Donald Trump is to receive his first briefing from U.S. intelligence chiefs who believe Russia interfered in the
U.S. election. Officials say that they have now identified the middle man who passed stolen e-mail from Moscow to Wikileaks. They also claimed to
have uncovered that Russian officials celebrated Donald Trump's election victory.
The President-elect insists that Mexico will pay for his much promised border wall eventually even if that means paying back the U.S. His
transition team is looking at whether the wall can be taxpayer funded to begin with, to speed up construction. And Trump has since tweeted Mexico
will pay off the debt later.
The Russian news agency TAS reported that Moscow has started to pull back its forces from Syria. Withdrawal is beginning with an aircraft carrier
group. Russia, Turkey and Syria negotiated a cease-fire with rebel groups, and if it holds, peace negotiations are to take place in Kazakhstan at the
end of the month.
The U.S. says it is taking a closer look at North Korea's weapons and military activities. CNN's Will Ripley joins us here in Hong Kong with more
in the story. And Will just how is U.S. keeping this closer eye on North Korea?
WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: What you're going to see is Kristie, is U.S. forces in South Korea are going to be beefing up their presence in
terms of monitoring what North Korea is doing, they're going to be really pouring over satellite imagery even more than they've been doing. They're
going to be looking at any indications of activity of nuclear test sites at missile launch sites to try to figure out what the North Korean leader Kim
Jong-un's next move will be.
Of course, he gave the New Year's speech where he said the country will imminently have an intercontinental ballistic missile. He said before they
have miniature of nuclear warheads of course, putting it on an ICBM would means that those warheads be capable of hitting the American city. And so,
now is the time really that the U.S. military with its partners in South Korea and Japan will be looking as closely as they can to try to figure out
Kim Jong-un's next move.
STOUT: So North Korea is going to be either more closely watched by the U.S. and its allies in the region, why Will? Was this prompted by Kim Jong-
un's recent New Year's statement or something else?
RIPLEY: I would venture to guess and, of course, the U.S. wouldn't say necessarily how long these plans have been in the works that they have been
thinking about this for a while. They've looked at the fact that in the last year alone, there were two nuclear tests in January and September.
There were scores of missile launches.
The mid-range missiles they did. that satellite launch at the beginning of 2015 and so when you -- and now when you have the North Korean leader
making statements that they will have a viable ICBM by the end of 2017. You have the North Korean top defector echoing those remarks. His remarks are
being taken seriously now and that's why you see this increased activity and yet another meeting, the sixth meeting since April 2015 with the
foreign ministers of Japan, the United States and South Korea.
STOUT: And Donald Trump, the President-elect, will soon be potus and he has a sense, he was sending provocative tweets. If he does that again, I mean,
what's the risk here? Could he provoke Kim Jong-un?
RIPLEY: You know, Kristie, it's interesting because ever since I've been going into North Korea from 2014, it's been 10 trips now and we have talked
time and time again about the North Korean propaganda and the outlandish things the North Korea propaganda says in regards to the American
president, the United States in general.
Now that kind of language, that propaganda message from North Korea seems almost tame and measured and tempered when you compare it to the stream of
consciousness, spew of tweets they're coming out of the President-elect of the United States, Donald Trump. So this is a new reality and we have yet
to see how the North Koreans will respond. We've seen how China is responding to provocative tweets from President-elect Trump criticizing
him, belittling his position as a former reality star.
We haven't yet seen the North Korean response and may be that they are not yet monitoring social media as much as they probably will be moving forward
once they realize that this is going to be a source of intel for them to get inside the mind of the president of the United States.
STOUT: Provocative rhetoric from all around. Will Ripley, joining us live. Thank you, Will.
Now, the last U.S. jobs report of the Obama era is in. The U.S. economy added 156,000 jobs in December. Now that is less than what analysts had
been expecting. The unemployment rate is up slightly to 4.7 percent. We're going to have much more on this report on CNN Money with Maggie Lake that
will be starting just over 20 minutes from now.
Activists say a new law in Pakistan is a positive step towards stopping so- called honor killings, the murder of those who bring shame to the families but there is nothing honorable in this practice. As Alex Field reports,
ending this brutal ancient practice will take a change in beliefs.
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ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Azupra (ph) broke free for a better life after she fled her first abusive husband, ran home, her own parents
turned on her.
[08:35:04] UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (Through Field): My parents chained me by my feet to the house so I wouldn't run away and they tried to get me married
to someone else, a relative of ours.
FIELD: What might happen if you go home? What are you most afraid of?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (Through Field): They will kill me.
FIELD: Last year, more than 1,000 women in Pakistan were killed in the name of so called honor, murder after murder, many of them going unpunished. The
women who live in this shelter say they're being hunted by their own families in fear of being sacrificed for their supposed sins.
When these women run away from their families, they show up here with nothing. One of them told us she only had time to grab a change of clothes,
the other one brought a few items for her baby. They have no idea how long they'll end up staying here and there's absolutely no guarantee whether
it'll be safe enough for them to try to go home.
Acted and say ending honor killings is about changing deeply held beliefs about patriarchy in Pakistan and about correcting misinterpretations of the
country's religion, Islam.
SABA SHEIKH, DASTAK WOMEN'S SHELTER: This is not what the religion prescribes, it's not what the constitution of the country prescribes and
this is something which is also against the law.
FIELD: The women here hope that legal reform, stronger punishments for killers and social change could one day make Pakistan a safer place for
their children. Zeba (ph) tell us she married for love and her family disowned her. She's afraid of them. Her husband became abusive and now
she's afraid of him.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (Through Field): When my daughters become women, I will not live their lives. They will marry out of their own will. I will allow
them to do what they desire.
FIELD: Choices Zeba didn't have. She and the other women have nowhere else to go. Alexandra Field, CNN, Lahore Pakistan.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
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STOUT: Welcome back. Now world leaders aren't the only ones monitoring Donald Trump's unpredictable tweets. Investors are also keeping a sharp eye
on which company Trump mentions and now there's an app for that.
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Now, NASA used advanced remote controlled technology to make strides in Mars exploration and now Nissan is adopting that very same technology for
self-driving cars. Samuel Burke gets a look at this on its demonstration at the consumer electronics show.
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SAMUEL BURKE, CNN BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY CORRESPONDENT: Nissan is announcing a new capability where somebody can remotely control or maybe
its better put remotely input to a self-driving car. Walk me through how this will work.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: In situations that the autonomous system cannot handle it at the moment, it will stop. It will communicate, right, to the control
center and then the vehicle manager or mobility manager will then interact. We upload new commands and then their autonomous vehicle will drive this
autonomously.
BURKE: There it goes self-driving car, faces as an issue, pauses and gets some remote information and then picks up the wheel again.
[08:40:01] UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Exactly.
BURKE: So you did a call center of people sitting where it is
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yeah.
BURKE: Now, somewhere in some foreign country that gives the input into the car?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It could be anywhere, right.
BURKE: But it's not a joystick. It's not like the person in this call center. I'm saying is taking over the control of the car.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, no, no. that's a very important point. Joysticking is not a smart idea at a distance, right? I mean, time delays, the
situational awareness is very difficult.
BURKE: Is the car a little bit like Cajon that way that has a pilot on the ground?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think of it differently. Right now, you are actually joysticking the drone. That's not what we're doing. We are not having one
driver in the clouds, driving one car. We're talking about one person managing, upserving, supervising, tens, maybe hundreds of cars.
BURKE: What about the liabilities. If I'm a in a Nissan self-driving car and your team sends bad instructions and I get in a car accident. Who is
responsible, me or you?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, you know, that is something that as a technologist, I know, I'm not a lawyer, I don't know. But, you know, I'm
sure there will be ways to deal with that. If you don't drive, you know, if you have a driverless vehicle, you know, you're not responsible for the
driving. So something else will have to take place in terms of liability.
BURKE: So this whole service shows that cars need internet connectivity?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yeah, we'll need at least 4G, at least 4G mobile communication, all the sensor data, radar, the video cameras, everything
gets stored in the cloud. We need two-way communication to provide this service, yes.
BURKE: So what about the hacking vulnerability? If somebody can be putting remotely information into a car so it can go a different direction on the
street, if it can be connected to the internet it can be hacked?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yeah, you know, this is, of course, a very difficult problem and we're working on that, we're thinking about it. In this case,
you know, we have security in the data that is uplinked, right. It's all encrypted and we do, you know, everything we can to make this as secure as
possible.
BURKE: So is this service a recognition that really self-driving cars, autonomous cars can't be that autonomous, they need the help of human-being
and other services?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My question, what do we really want? Fully autonomous systems that can think, act and do exactly what they want by themselves. So
we build autonomous systems with capabilities, sure maybe in the distant future we can build systems that can completely work like humans. But at
this time that's not the case.
BURKE: Have you been in one of these cars that has remote input yet?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I've been at AIMS driving in the car while it's been doing that.
BURKE: And would you put your kids in one of those cars yet?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sure, you know, better than my 16-year-old.
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STOUT: He is that confident that you can put technology there. And then finally, I want to show you a rather unique gathering. Now, let's bring up
on screen for you. What you're watching there, it's not just a parade or any random street performance. This is actually the funeral of a former
Taiwan politician. The former Chiayi County Council Speaker passed away last month. And his family reportedly claimed this is wanted this, he
wanted a festive sendoff. And so they arranged a procession of 50 pole dancers as well as luxury cars and drummers, again, pole dancers, to
respect his last wishes.
And that is "News Stream." I'm Kristie Lu Stout. But don't go anywhere. Our "World Sport" with Christina Macfarlane is next.
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[08:45:25] CHRISTINA MACFARLANE, CNN WORLD SPORT ANCHOR: Hello and welcome along to "World Sport". It's me, Christina Macfarlane. Live from London,
where we are looking ahead to an exciting weekend of sporting action with football both in Europe and across the United States.
First up, it's the return of Spanish giant's Real Madrid and Barcelona to action in La Liga. Elsewhere, the hunt to track down, Juventus will resume
in the Serie A. There's tasty tie in the F.A. cup later this Friday when Manchester City face West Ham.
And across the pond the NFL playoffs are about to kick off into gear. So let's head to Spain first where Real currently hold a three-point lead
there over Barcelona as they host Granada on Saturday. But it's Barcelona who will face a stern test on Sunday against Villarreal coming off the back
of a shocking loss in the Club of Real on Thursday night to Nine-man Athletic Bilbao. It was only Bilbao's third win in 32 games against the
Catalans. The host taking a two goal lead in the first half with this Inaki Williams strike. Lionel Messi attempting to get them back in it in the
second half with a superb free kick. But even after Bilbao went a man down in the 74th minute and two men down in the 80th Barce just couldn't get it
back, the score ending there 2-1 to Bilbao.
Well, in Italy, Juve holds a four-point lead heading into their home match on Sunday with Bologna, also after winning 14 of their 17 games so far with
a game in hand. Second place there Roma will travel to Genoa. Meanwhile, Pep Guardiola says he is looking forward to a special first F.A. cup game
in charge of Manchester City. A win would turn around. Well, it has been a rather strange week for the manager who started it by suggesting that he
was nearing the end of his career in the wake of Serie's 2-1 premier league win over Burnley. But on Thursday he moved to clarify some of those
comments.
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PEP GUARDIOLA, MANCHESTER CITY MANAGER: I love my job. And I am in a perfect place to do my job, so especially here in England. So I have to
reside. I'm not going to try to succeed because I want to do something else in my life and not -- I started to playing football young, young -- when I
was a young guy. And my career was on the beach. And I want to do something else in my life. But now in the next three, four, five or six or seven
years, I said to 60, 65.
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MACFARLANE: He got 20 years to go then. OK, let's switch stateside because the NFL playoffs are nearly upon us. And with it comes one of the most
anticipated wild card round match ups in quite some time. In the AFC the Oakland Raiders will take on the Houston Texans while the Miami Dolphins
play in Pittsburgh against the Steelers. Winners of those games will travel to either New England or Kansas City next week. They both have byes in this
round.
The NFC action will see the Detroit Lions and Seattle Seahawks to go head to head while perhaps the tastiest tie of the weekend being the New York
Giants against the Green Bay Packers. The Dallas Cowboys and Atlanta Falcons await the winners. And World Sport's Andy Scholes told me earlier
why the Giants might have history on their side as they head to Green Bay.
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ANDY SCHOLES, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT: The Giants, they seem to always rise to the occasion when the playoffs roll around. You know, the last time
that Eli Manning and the Giants, they won two Super Bowls. The last time they won both Super Bowls, they ended up beating the Packers at Lambeau
field on their way to both of those Super Bowl championships.
So, you know, I would not put it past the Giants winning this game. You know, I'm here in Las Vegas, the gambling capital of the world. When this
game, the match up was first announced the Packers were more than a touchdown favorite to beat the Giants. And some heavy betters came in and
put a lot of money in on the New York Giants to win this game. And now, the betting line for the Packers/Giants is down all the way to 4.5. So there
are many people out there, Christina, that think the Giants are going to win this game.
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[08:49:21] MACFARLANE: Well, the NFL is entering the business end of the season. And up next we'll be telling you why January means big business in
the world of football.
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MACFARLANE: You are watching celebration of Riyad Mahrez picking up the Confederation of African Football's player of the year award on Thursday
night, the Leicester City star receiving the accolade for the first time after helping Leicester City to the premier league title in 2016. For
second Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was in second position and Senegal and Liverpool striker Sadio Mane there in third.
Well, Mahrez will be one of the stars in action at the African Cup of Nations which begins in just a week of time, the month-long tournament in
Gabon. This year features 16 African teams. In total there will be 93 players called up from Europe's top five leagues to take part. And as the
FIFA rule, players must be released from their clubs two days before the tournament gets under way.
So with that in mind here's a look at the European clubs who stand to be most hard hit. French side Angers and Lille lead the way with four players
while Leicester, Sunderland and Schalke they're all have three leaving.
While "The Bleacher Report" Football Insider, Dean Jones told me a little earlier why teams should factor these departures into the January transfer
window plans.
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DEAN JONES, FOOTBALL INSIDER, BLEACHER REPORT: It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that the African Nations Cup suddenly happens so teams
have had time to prepare. I think that's what Leicester have done. They are losing Daniel Amartey who was kind of in filling the role of N'Golo Kante
played the season before. And indeed he will play that same position. So Leicester actually had a bit of foresight here to make sure they don't miss
out but Mahrez and Slimani are going to be missing as well, two huge players going forward. I think that you are team like Liverpool and losing
Sadio Mane, that's a big concern because he's been so influential to him this season.
MACFARLANE: First you say comes around every two years, they should be prepared for it.
JONES: They should be.
MACFARLANE: And dean. I just I want to show you and our viewers a graphic here of premier league spending in the January transfer window of the past.
I think six years we've got there the premier league spent eventually higher in 2016 than '15. Why does the premier league tend to spend more
than any other league in this January window?
JONES: I think we as journalist probably slightly guilty because we put so much pressure on clubs to sign players. But the fans do as well. I think to
be a culture in the premier league more than other leagues to want new signings, to think that the only way we can fix our season is to sign
somebody. The only way to win the league this season is to sign a striker. And that's why deadline day has become such a huge part of the calendar in
England.
It's not like that so much in other divisions across Europe. And I think there's also the fact that we don't have a winter break in the premier
league so across the period it's such an intense time for teams and players are playing so many games in a short space of time that there are injuries
that are picked up and the team's managers are left the situation where they actually have to make signings in January whereas other teams they get
a break so they are not having to worry about that. The players are well rested and they stay fit for long parts of the Season. So it's a mix of the
two. There's pressure on the manager. But also they are having to play a lot of games.
MACFARLANE: And also it's incredibly costly isn't it nowadays in the premier league for the teams to drop out in relegation with what we've seen
with the amount of money now coming into the premier league.
JONES: It is, yeah. I think the only -- the other side to that is that the teams at the bottom now get twice as much money as they were before because
of the new T.V. rights deal that's coming. You can earn as much now from coming bottom of the league as you could have from coming from the top of
the league, you know, two years ago. So that's a huge change in the culture, and it's going to affect the teams who are trying to get up into
the premier league, because I think the teams that do go down will have an advantage.
[08:54:59] MACFARLANE: One other league who are spending cost in this transfer window is they usually are now is the Chinese Super League. We've
seen a raft to big names mentioned in the past week alone. Outrageous deal for or bid for Cristiano Ronaldo as well. But there are indications that
that is set to change because on Thursday China's chief sports governing body announce planned to cap the big spending of Chinese Super League
clubs. You can see there some of deals that have come in Oscar that in the past week and a half. They're saying that they're burning money right now
in football which is quite an interesting change of position. Does this mean we're unlikely, do you think to see a big marquee name player any time
soon?
JONES: I don't think see that you're going to get a Ronaldo or Messi going to China any time soon, because would I like to think that they are above
that right now. I mean the Chinese Super League isn't a terrible league, but certainly not one of the elite leagues in the game. They're trying to
get that way. I think if you look at the MLS you would be worried about the impact that they're starting to make. I think somebody more like Diego
Costa is a target that they could probably get, eventually, not this season but they seem to like Brazilian-born players. They are the ones that the
Chinese clubs seem to fit well into their leagues.
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MACFARLANE: Now the future of the British Grand Prix has been threatened to jeopardy after Silverstone management have announced they are reviewing
what they call potentially ruinous costs of hosting the race. It's understood that the British Racing Drivers Club who are the circuit owners,
they're considering giving notice to break their contract clause at the end of 2019. And that a decision will be made by mid-year.
Silverstone signed a 17-year deal to continue hosting the British Grand Prix in 2010 and has been a permanent home to the event since 1987. And
there's some other disappointing news on the grid, too, after Formula 1's smallest racing outfit Manor went into administration this Friday after
desperate attempts to bring in new investment. The team's operating company announced they have been unable to do so in the time available. The news
will only fuel criticism that Formula 1's vast costs are driving small teams to ruin.
Well, that's it for this edition of "World Sport." I'm Christina Macfarlane in London. Do stay with us though. "CNNMoney" with Maggie Lake is next.
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