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Xi Jinping Makes History, Addresses World Economic Forum; Theresa May Calls for Hard Brexit; Remembering Last Man on the Moon; The Last to Flee Eastern Aleppo Tell Their Story. Aired 8-9a ET

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[08:00:19] KRISTIE LU STOUT, HOST: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. And welcome to News Stream.

Now, British Prime Minister Theresa May commits Britain to a hard Brexit from the EU, saying Britain will leave the single market. It comes hours

after China's president defended globalization, positioning China as a leader in his address to the World Economic Forum in Davos.

And as Donald Trump calls NATO obsolete, members rush to defend the global alliance.

A new and equal partnership: the words of the British prime minister. She unveiled a blueprint for Britain on the global stage.

Now, speaking in the past hour, Prime Minister Theresa May outlined a 12 point plan for the UK to leave the European Union. She says she doesn't

want the UK to be half in and half out or an associate member of the EU. Instead, she wants Britain to emerge stronger, more united, more outward

looking without being a member of the EU single market.

But there are still many unanswered questions about how the Brexit will be managed. Now CNN Money's European editor Nina Dos Santos has more from

London. She joins us now.

Nina, what more did the British prime minister unveil with the plan to follow-through on Brexit?

NINA DOS SANTOS, CNN MONEY EUROPE EDITOR: Yeah, well this is her 12 point negotiating plan. We didn't have a huge amount of details about exactly

what the 12 points were, but she did say she was going to be guided by a number of key principles including the fact that she wanted

clarity and certainty for the British people. She wanted the UK to become a global and fairer trading

relationship with the European Union.

I just want to step out of the way, because I believe that we're about to see the British Prime Minister Theresa May exit through these doors at

Lancaster House any minute now. When we do, we'll bring that you shot.

But what we learned here probably was the most clearest signal yet here that UK would have to

forego access to the single market with the other 27 countries that it trades with across the EU in exchange for her priority for controlling

immigration here. She made no bones about it saying that there's no way that the EU here can have one foot in, one foot out, no half-half

membership, no hard-soft membership, this is a case of a clean break with the EU and so-called clean Brexit.

We also had a few more details as well with the fact that the final deal, once she gets it from

Brussels, will be put to a vote by both houses of parliament and that one of the key priorities of the

government is to try to negotiate how to keep people from other EU countries inside the UK, what kind of status will they have from here?

Those are some of the kind of priorities that she laid on the table. Nobody's under any illusion

that's it's going to be easy. There may be pushback from Brussels, and in particular, from Germany. But for the moment, that is her Brexit plan just

two months before she set to enact Article 50, the formal get out clause, Kristie..

LU STOUT: So there is the plan, which was just revealed in the last hour by Theresa May, and then there is the mechanics of actually executing the

plan. I mean the clock is ticking towards implementation of Brexit, what are some of the key obstacles standing in the way of the government?

DOS SANTOS: Well, first of all this is going to be fiendishly complicated, Kristie. Nobody has done this before in the history of the EU, trying to

unpick various trade deals. Remember there's trade deals that keep the various countries inside the single currency area, which Britain doesn't

belong together. But they're probably going to negotiate as an important group.

Then, we've got the other member states that form up the 28 members. We've got various customs unions on the back of this.

For the one point Theresa May was very clear here saying that if the UK does comes out of the single market, which increasingly looks likely,

they've also got to consider their relationship with the broader customs union of the European Union. And there she, again, was quite clear saying we would like to have an associate membership of this

customs union, keep certain elements of the deals that we currently have, but get rid of the other ones that preclude this country from negotiating

other free trade deals with other countries around the world, indeed, European ones, if they currently have an EU trading deal or currently have

a relationship with the EU at the moment.

So whether or not she's going to be able to pick and choose is a big question.

She also issued something of a veiled threat, if you like, to other EU countries that might make this harder than it needs to be. Take a listen

to that.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

[08:05:04] THERESA MAY, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: We are leaving the European Union, but we are not leaving Europe. And that is why we seek a

new and equal partnership between an independent self-governing global Britain and our friends and allies in the EU, not partial membership of the

European Union, associate membership of the European Union, or anything that leaves us half in half out. We do not seek to adopt a model already

enjoyed by other countries. We do not seek to hold on to bits of membership as we leave. No.

The United Kingdom is leaving the European Union. And my job is to get the right deal for

Britain as we do.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

DOS SANTOS: So she says she can get a comprehensive fair trading deal with other EU countries. She's optimistic about being able to achieve that.

Remember, this comes one day after Donald Trump (inaudible) the idea of having a free, fair, fast, notably fast, trade deal with the United States.

But remember that the EU still occupies 44 percent of this country's exports, so it's a huge export market. The big challenge will be to try

and make up the difference with other countries around the world as she pitches her idea for a so-called global Britain.

As you can see behind me, this is the car that I believe is going to take the UK prime minister

away back to Number 10 Downing Street after she has delivered this key speech. Kristie, as I was saying before, it does answer some questions but

there will be plenty more questions that are going to come up along the way.

And we're also waiting to see what Brussels has to say about this. Other EU leaders are probably going to come out and give their points of view. I

was just speaking the to the Estonian ambassador here. And he was saying, well, this is pretty much along the lines of what we're expecting her to

say today. But again, big questions about whether Estonian citizens who live and work in Great Britain can stay, and big questions about whether or

not Brussels and other EU countries are going to be playing hard ball as well.

LU STOUT: All right. Nina Dos Santos reporting live for us from London. Thank you, Nina.

Now Cshina's president made history at the World Economic Forum in Davos today. Xi Jinping is the first leader of China to address the annual

summit in Switzerland. In his speech, he had a robust defense of globalization, calling on the gathering of business and political leaders

there to embrace free trade.

Now, Mr. Xi also said his country has no intention of starting a currency war. Donald Trump has accused China of devaluing the yuan in order to

boost trade.

Now, for more, CNN's Ivan Watson has following the story from here in Hong Kong. He joins us now. And Ivan, at Davos, how did Xi present China and

its vision to the world?

IVAN WATSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, this is such an incredible role reversal for leaders in their traditional roles. I mean

you have got Donald Trump about to be inaugurated as the president of the U.S. who campaigned on protectionist ideas and arguing that the U.S. was

paying too much to kind of underwrite free trade around the world.

And then you have the Chinese leader of the Communist Party sitting down at the World Economic Forum and arguing that it's not fair to accuse

globalization of the world's ills. He was making the case that this is a fact of life in the world today and it's a win-win situation for all of the

economies and governments and societies that contribute to this. And he had some tough words, perhaps the toughest words, against the proposal of

protectionist policies like tariffs. Take a listen.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

XI JINPING, PRESIDENT OF CHINA (through translator): Say no to protectionism. Pursuing protectionism is just like locking oneself in a

dark room while wind and rain may be kept outside, so are light and air. No one will emerge as a winner in the trade war.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

WATON: So at a time when the incoming Trump administration has signaled that it's probably going to make it harder to trade with many countries or

it's going to demand more to put America first, here you had Xi Jinping offering a kind of leadership role coming from China about keeping doors

open and trade free around the world -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: Yeah, so China under Xi Jinping is taking on this leadership role, taking up the mantle of globalization, but I mean, come on, what

about China's own protectionist trade practices?

WATSON: Well, there are certainly some contradictions here. China is not known to be one of

the easiest place for foreign companies to come into. In fact, we looked at the chamber of commerce. Here's a list of some of the industries where

they are simply not allowed to invest if you're a foreign company -- news agencies, book publishing, film making, tobacco, mining of rare earth

metals, and then there are other industries that you have to partner up with a Chinese company that has to have a majority stake in, in the company

-- auto manufacturing, education, health care, railways, aviation, telecoms, banking, even running gas station chains.

And then on top of that, you have the fact that China has very heavily censored internet and media landscape that's only gotten more restrictive

in more than three years since Xi Jinping took office there.

That said, we do have to point out that China has embarked on a number of initiatives, the

Asian infrastructure investment bank, a number of initiatives to try to establish kind of free trade blocks in Asia and further. So it has a

somewhat contradictory approach to this issue -- Kristie.

[08:10:58] LU STOUT: All right. Ivan Watson reporting. Thank you.

So, history was made at Davos, history in the making of the UK. Let's get more now on the major shifts on the global stage with Richard Quest. He

joins us live from Davos.

And, Richard, as we heard, then, from Ivan, China's leader, Xi Jinping, he laid out the case for

globalization. We heard from Theresa May as she rolls out her plan on how to pull out of the EU. What is your take on these two speeches?

RICHARD QUEST, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, they are two sides of exactly the same coin. This idea of free trade and global markets. And

it's fascinating to see how they are coming from different directions.

Now you have President Xi who basically quoted Charles Dickens, Chinese proverbs, the Gettysburg address, used analogies of oceans, lakes and

streams, all designed to talk about free trade, and then you have Theresa May who basically says I don't want a customs union. I don't want a single

membership of the single market. I want a free trade agreement and calling Britain global Britain.

Now look, these two countries come from very different positions.and in some cases, they are both an acceptance of globalization and a rejection in

some cases of barriers and protectionism.

LU STOUT: Yeah. And what we heard from these two world leaders today just embodied the global shifts underway. The sand is shifting under our feet.

And you must be asking business leaders there in Davos about the level of uncertainty they feel right now.

QUEST: Yeah.

Well, on the question of uncertainty in a second, in a second I'll show you the uncertainty graph

that we are seeing. What is fascinating is the speech given by Jinping was de facto a speech that could have been given by any western leader or pre-

Trump any American president.

It was a full-throated defense, robust claim of globalization.

Now, the speech given by Theresa May has in one fell swoop taken await biggest threat of EU

leaders that we'll cut you out of the single market.

Well, she said fine. I don't want it anyway. And so I suggest to you that the this afternoon things are looking very different as a result of Xi

versus Trump, May versus EU, and we're already seeing that as a result of the Pound which has risen 2 percent.

Let's look at the scale of uncertainty that we are seeing. The scale of uncertainty. Now, that is where global growth, global issues are the most

certain at the moment in 2017. This is highly uncertain. And look at the issues, Kristie -- cyber, China, populism, taxes and regulation, Trump,

these are all issues that have driven our guests to this side of the chart. And I'm guessing that tonight things are even more uncertain as a result of

what we have heard from May and Xi.

LU STOUT: Absolutely. And everyone can agree that there is a new status quo, but it remains to be defiant. Richard Quest joining us live from

Davos, thank you so much. We'll talk again soon.

Richard Quest reporting.

Now after almost three years of searching, authorities have suspended the multi-country hunt

for Malaysia Airlines flight 370. Chinese, Australian and Malaysian teams scoured huge parts of the Indian Ocean with cutting edge technology, but

they were still unable to find any sign, any trace of the plane.

And after so many months, this one crucial mystery is still unsolved: what exactly happened to MH370? How did a flight heading north from Kuala

Lumpur to Beijing end up in the opposite direction far to the south?

Now all we know is that military radar showed it going off course shortly before it vanished. Investigators are still not sure which part of the

Indian Ocean the plane could have been ended up.

Now, they have been searching, again, for years, covering 120,000 square kilometers, that is about half the size of the United Kingdom. But there

is still so much of the ocean left.

And one more problem this mystery, MH370 was a Boeing 777, one of the most popular aircraft in the world. Without finding the plane, manufacturers

have no way of knowing what caused this common aircraft to vanish.

All of this is another huge blow to the families of the missing. Now, CNN's Alexandra Field is following that part of the story for us. She

joins us now from Seoul. And Alex, again, after three agonizing years, they're waiting for answers. The search has been called

off. How are the families of the victims reacting to this?

[08:15:50] ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Kristie, look, it's been heartbreak after heartbreak after heartbreak for these families who have

waited nearly three years hoping to find an answer, expecting to hear an answer about what happened to their loved ones. There was perhaps a

glimmer of hope yet again just about a month ago when Australian government officials released a new report recommending another search area where they

felt the plane could be. That hope extinguished by officials who announced the last search vessel had left the search area.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

FIELD: For nearly three years, Steven Wong has wondered what happened to his mother and the 238 others onboard MH370. Now, there's a chance he'll

never know. Authorities from Australia, Malaysia, and China officially suspending the search for the missing plane.

STEVEN WONG, LOST MOTHER ON MH370: I feel really disappointed about the news. Since about three years ago, they are quite confident they are

searching the right place.

FIELD: The flight left Kuala Lumpur just after 12:40 in the morning on March 8th, 2014. It was bound for Beijing but dropped off radar an hour

after takeoff.

Satellite data led investigators to conclude the plane crashed in the Indian Ocean. Experts narrowed it down to a 120,000 square kilometers

search zone, but an exhaustive and extensive effort found no sign of the aircraft.

Last summer, officials announced that without credible evidence the operation would be indefinitely suspended once the search zone had been

completely scoured. And last month, an Australian government report said it's very likely search teams have been looking in the wrong place.

The report recommended that another 25,000 square kilometers northeast of the current zone also be searched. But Australia's transport minister said

with no concrete proof that the plane is actually there, the search would not be expanded.

But parts of the plane have been found washed up on the beaches in East Africa. Three have been confirmed without a doubt, belonged to MH370.

Investigators say six other pieces are likely to belong to the plane. For the families of those on board, it's even more reason to keep looking.

WONG: I just want them to keep on searching. Maybe they could just make a small break and recalculate about where exactly is the plane and where is

the right place?

FIELD: Investigators also have a clearer picture of how the plane went down.

Australia's Transport Safety Bureau said in November its flight simulation showed MH370 spiraled in its final moments, descending at up to 25,000 feet

per minute. But it still couldn't pinpoint where the plane's remains might be now.

For Steve Wong, the search's suspension comes at a particularly difficult time. Lunar New Year is at the end of the month. In China, it's

traditionally a time for families to reunite.

WONG: The people who are living with you for more than 20 years, that leave suddenly, I will never accept, but I know that I cannot do a lot of things

because I'm just a common people.

FIELD: Families that may never get closure. One of the biggest mysteries in aviation history, unsolved.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

FIELD: And the official statement suspending the search today was met by another statement from the family members of the MH370 victims. They are

expressing their outrage and they are hoping that their words will help to convince officials to change their plan and to reopen the search in that

extra area that was identified. Here's what they're saying tonight: in our view, extending the

search to the new area defined by the experts an inescapable duty owed to the flying public in the

interest of aviation safety. Commercial planes cannot just be allowed to fall out of the sky.

Those are the words from family members tonight. They hope that that will help to sway officials. In the meantime, Malaysia Airlines says that it

will brief family members tomorrow morning. They'll be answering questions from families. Of course, we know they don't Kristie they don't

have the one answer that those families are looking for.

LU STOUT: Yeah, and of course they are outraged. Three years on, the search is suspended. No answers, no peace. Alex Field reporting live for

us. Thank you, Alex.

[08:20:01] You're watching News Stream. Still to come right here on the program, Donald Trump has once again slammed NATO. His recent comments on

the military alliance and why they're causing concern among some allies.

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LU STOUT: All right, coming you to live from Hong Kong, you're back watching News Stream

And Donald Trump is making history as he prepares to enter the White House, but it's not the sort of history an incoming president would want to make.

Now, according to this new CNN/ORC poll, it shows Trump with a historically low approval rating, just 40 percent of Americans say they approve of the

president-elect's performance during the transition, that is lower than any other recent president, and 44 points

behind President Barack Obama's transition poll when he took the reigns from George W. Bush in 2009.

As you can imagine, Trump is having none of it. In fact, minutes ago he tweeted this: "the same people who did the phoney election polls and were

so wrong are now doing approval rating polls. They are rigged just like before."

Now, with just three days to go before inauguration day, Russia's top diplomat says he is ready to start talks with the incoming U.S. president.

Now, Donald Trump recently suggested that sanctions against Russia could reduced in exchange for nuclear disarmament. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says he has yet to see a formal offer, but is

willing to start conversations with the new administration.

Lavrov added that he welcomes Trump's outlook on foreign policy, but that outlook has raised

concern in some corners: NATO allies, already worried about Moscow, are even more anxious now that Trump has called the alliance obsolete. Phil

Black has more from Estonia.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

PHIL BLACK, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Many Estonian people love spending time, enjoying the rugged often frozen beauty of their countries

forest and wilderness. They also feel a powerful drive to defend it.

These people are volunteers in an official paramilitary force. Through numbers alone they make up the bulk of the country's armed forces -- 25,000

people, men and women, train with the Estonian Defense League.

When Ryan Olari Gurm (ph) isn't training to defend his country he travels across at working as a salesman.

Why do the Estonian people feel they have to be ready for anything?

RYAN OLARI GURM, VOLUNTEER: We have a huge friendly neighbor and I'm not talking about Latvia.

BLACK: He's talking about Russia. Through much of Estonia's history, this land was ruled from Moscow. Many fear it could happen again especially

since Russia's recent military adventures in Georgia and Ukraine.

What is it about Estonians that make them come out here into the cold to prepare and train?

GURM: We love our land. We love our people. We love our language. We'd like to keep it that way.

[08:25:05] BLACK: This is the border that so many Estonians fear could one day be moved by force. Just across that river is Russia.

But in this part of Estonia there are also many people who feel culturally Russian. They have strong connections to their giant neighbor and they

don't believe Moscow is a potential enemy.

Narva, on the Estonia side of the border looks and feels like a Russian city. In this local market you only see and hear the Russian language.

These women say they are big fans of Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin. But they don't think he wants to invade such a small country.

The Estonian government doesn't share their confidence. That's why for all the enthusiasm of its volunteers, Estonia relies on the combined strength

of the NATO alliance to deter Russia and why Estonians have watched with concern as U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump has talked about NATO

inconsistently describing it as both obsolete and important while also complimenting Vladimir Putin.

MARGUS TSAHKNA, ESTONIA DEFENSE MINISTER: We know Russian's soul and we know, of course, during the hundreds of years we have experienced the

Russian attitude it hasn't changed. And even more Putin's regime is clearly not democratic.

BLACK: In the heart of Estonia's Russian community these students are practicing a language they rarely speak at home -- Estonian, many descend

from Russians who moved here when Estonia was part of the Soviet Union. They're now the children of two cultures.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I love Russian and I love Estonian.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The Estonia future is very optimistic. We know this. I know this. We are young people's future of Estonia.

BLACK: It's a hopeful vision shared across the country but many here have long believed freedom can only be assured if Estonia and its allies are

prepared to fight for it.

Phil Black, CNN -- in eastern Estonia.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: OK, so for some comment from Europe to Trump's comments on NATO, Erin McLaughlin is outside NATO headquarters in Brussels. She joins us

now. And Erin, after Trump called NATO, quote, obsolete, how are European leaders responding?

ERIN MCLAUGHLIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Kristie, I've been speaking to NATO diplomats here in Brussels, and they tell me that they're loathe to

use the word obsolete. In fact, a short while ago I was speaking to the Estonian ambassador to NATO, Laurie and he referred to it as the O word.

He said rhetoric aside, he is confident that the United States will continue to support NATO. Take a listen.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

LAURI LEPIK, ESTONIAN AMBASSADOR TO NATO: I'm -- it's not my job really to say what president-elect meant. But I read the full interview and

actually the full interview where he says that NATO is important for him and actually I share that in a sense that NATO has been pivotal in keeping

peace in Europe for the past six decades.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

MCLAUGHLIN: Diplomats I've been speaking to tell me they're going to be watching very closely what happens to U.S. troops in the region recently

deployed to Poland some 4,000 U.S. troops. It's expected the troops are going to be deployed to seven other eastern European countries on a nine

month rotational basis and diplomats saying they're going to be watching very closely to see if the United States sticks to those commitments --

rhetoric is one thing, actions, of course, another they're saying, Kristie.

LU STOUT: Yeah, that is certainly true. Erin McLaughlin reporting live from Brussels, thank you. Now, thousands of Syrians who made it out of

Aleppo are now struggling to survive battling a bitter winter on rocky hillsides. Now, CNN's Arwa Damon meets face-to-face with some of those

families. And please stay with us for her incredible report.

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[08:32:52] LU STOUT: The governor of Istanbul says a suspect has confessed to carrying out this month's attack on a nightclub. Police captured the

man, and Uzbek national, during a raid on Monday, and four other people were detained along with him. 39 people were killed when the gunman opened

fire in the early hours of New Year's Day.

And Turkish officials say the attack appears to be have been carried out on behalf of ISIS. Let's get the latest on the investigation. Ian Lee joins

me now live from Istanbul. And Ian, who is the suspect? How did they find him?

IAN LEE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Kristie, that was the biggest question throughout this entire manhunt as Turkish authorities said they know who he

was but were releasing that. And now they're saying he goes by the name of Abdulgadir Masharipov. He is from Uzbekistan. He was trained, Turkish

authorities say, in Afghanistan and came to Turkey just last year.

He was found just about 30 kilometer away from the Reina nightclub where he killed those

39 people on New Year's Eve. We are seeing video of inside the hideout where he and four other people were -- a man from Iraq, an Egyptian woman

and two other African women, according Turkish officials, were in that hideout.

And we're also getting a picture of him, too, when authorities captured him. He's bloodied. He's bruised, but he is alive. And that's crucial

going forward because they're now going to be able to interrogate him and find out what kind of support he had. And ISIS has claimed responsibility,

so this will be a boon of intelligence for Turkish officials to find out what ISIS network was supporting him.

LU STOUT: It was a two week long manhunt. They finally found him. Ian Lee reporting live for us. Thank you, Ian.

Now, thousands of Syrians were forced to flee Aleppo last month after the government retook the city. And in a CNN exclusive from inside Syria,

senior international correspondent Arwa Damon spoke with families still recovering from a traumatic escape.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Our car bumps through syria's rugged hills towards a new refugee camp close to

Turkey's border. My mind drifts back.

(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

To nearly six years ago. To the first camp we visited not far from here and all the cycles of Syria's wretched story.

"We want to talk to those who evacuated Eastern Aleppo during a cease- fire last month or as it was for them, a forced displacement after months under

siege and relentless bombing."

"All you hear are the planes, the strikes, the terror, the funerals. All you see is funerals. And one of those was for her husband, a farmer killed

in a strike on his way to work seven months ago."

(on-camera): The only thing that she was able to bring with her, other than one change of clothing for the kids when they left was a photograph of her

husband, their father.

(voice-over): It's the most precious thing she has. She pulls out another picture. Ali, the youngest reaches for it. He likely won't remember his

father's touch.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): "Even now, we don't know if this is permanent. Maybe something worse than war will happen to us."

DAMON: The last days in Aleppo defied logic.

"What more is there to say?" Umm Bilal asks us?

[08:36:18] UMM BILAL, DISPLACED FROM EASTERN ALEPPO (through translator): They bombed us. And in just three minutes, not three hours, they destroyed

our whole neighborhood.

DAMON: The children don't know how to live. They only know how not to die or even wish for it.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): He asks why are there so many strikes? He starts to cry. Sometimes he even says I want to die.

DAMON: They walked and walked. Twice the buildings they sheltered in were hit by air strikes. For four days, they lived in the streets.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): I had to burn my children's clothes to make heat for them. I had two bags of their clothes and I burned

them because it was so cold.

DAMON: Like everyone we saw they yearn for home, for that feeling of being safe and warm.

The images are not new. Not shocking. But then again, even when Syria shocks, what difference has it made?

Arwa Damon, CNN, Qafir Karmin (ph), Syria.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: Just heartbreaking to hear those stories and just to see the trauma on those children's faces in that report.

You're watching News Stream, and up next on the program, the last man to have left his footprints on the moon has died. Now, still to come, we pay

tribute to NASA Gene Cernan.

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LU STOUT: Welcome back.

Now, a man is under investigation in China for flying a drone dangerously close to a passenger plane. Now, let's bring up the video for you. This

video was apparently taken by the drone. investigators say it was uploaded to an instant message group of aviation enthusiasts. And police say the

drone was hovering above an international airport near the city of Hangzhou.

The drone-making company DJI has condemned what it calls highly risky behavior. And it is urging users to pay attention to flight safety.

Now finally, we want to mark the legacy of Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon. When he passed away Monday at the age of 82. His

achievement put him in the history books. And he was passionate about having aspiring astronauts follow in his footsteps. Martin Savidge has

more on what space exploration meant to Cernan.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

GENE CERNAN, NASA: It can be pretty lonely. There is only two of you...

MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORREPSONDENT: Gene Cernan always seemed to enjoy talking about the moon and his time on it.

CERNAN: You can see how dirty and filthy they are. I mean, I looked like a coal miner after I'd been there a couple, three days.

SAVIDGE: And when he talked, words were almost poetic.

CERNAN: I sat on god's front porch looking back home for three days of my life.

SAVIDGE: Cernan was born in 1934 in Chicago. He said he had always wanted to fly and that he did.

A naval aviator, Captain Gene Cernan was recruited by NASA in 1963. Three years later, his first space flight aboard Gemini Nine. And three years

after that, Apollo 10 in 1969. Cernan was pilot of the lunar module named Snoopy. They flew to within 50,000 feet of the moon's surface, but didn't

land.

It was the dress rehearsal for the moon landing mission to come.

CERNAN: I'd like to tell Neil Armstrong our mission was to paint the white line in the sky so he wouldn't get lost.

SAVIDGE: Cernan's time would come. He would command Apollo 17, 1972.

CERNAN: Roger.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're looking real good, Gene. Right down the line.

CERNAN: OK, Houston, the charger has landed.

SAVIDGE: It was the last time men walked on the moon, or, well, strolled.

CERNAN: I was strolling on the moon one day in the merry, merry month of December.

SAVIDGE: Cernan and Harrison Schmidt spent three days setting up experiments and exploring in the lunar rover at a place called Taurus-

Littrow.

CERNAN: But if I could go back to the moon particularly to a spot that I've been, to the valley of Taurus-Littrow to where I scribbled my

daughter's initials in the sand to where I left the rover, to where we lived, to a place we called home, I would -- I would do that in a minute.

SAVIDGE: Cernan spent 73 hours on the moon's surface, the last human to touch it, the last person to leave a footprint.

Cernan didn't fly again and left NASA in 1976, after that going into space related business.

When Neil Armstrong passed away, his good friend Captain Cernan gave the eulogy at the National Cathedral.

CERNAN: And as you soar through the heavens beyond where even eagles dare to go, you can now finally put out your hands and touch the face of god.

SAVIDGE: Gene Cernan understood that fraternity he was part of was small. And it was just a twist of fate that brought them together.

CERNAN: I've been there. I know I've been there. I can take myself back instantaneously to that valley. And, yet, as I look at myself, I really

wonder, I sometimes wonder why me?

SAVIDGE: Martin Savidge, CNN.

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LU STOUT: Gene Cernan, the last man on the moon, and the last time he walked on the moon was back in 1972.

And that is News Stream. I'm Kristie Lu Stout. And World Sport with Alex Thomas is next.

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