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[00:00:25] ROBYN CURNOW, CNN ANCHOR: The U.S. attorney general removes himself from any investigation into Russia's involvement in the American
election but Democrats say he is unfit and unqualified to serve.
Malaysia deports a North Korean held in connection with the murder of the brother of North Korea's leader. We look at where relations between the
two countries now stand.
And in Mosul, Iraq, American first responders are on the frontlines risking their lives to treat the wounded.
Hello, I'm Robyn Curnow in Atlanta. Welcome to News Stream.
Now, a few days ago he was calling for unity in Congress now the U.S. president is attacking Democrats again and standing by his Attorney
General. Jeff Sessions is undefined for meeting the Russian ambassador twice during the U.S. election. Sessions now recused himself from any
investigation of the Russian involvement in U.S. politics. But top Democrats say he should resign and Donald Trump is calling that a witch-
hunt.
Well, CNN Sara Murray reports.
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JEFF SESSIONS, U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL: I have recused myself in the matters that deal with the Trump campaign.
SARA MURRAY, CNN POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: Attorney General Jeff Sessions recusing himself from any investigation into the Trump campaign.
MURRAY: But defending himself amid revelations that he failed to disclose in his confirmation hearing that he met with Russian Ambassador Sergey
Kislyak twice during President Trump's campaign last year.
SESSIONS: I don't believe there's anything wrong with a United States senator meeting with an ambassador from Russia.
MURRAY: Under oath, Sessions had a different answer.
SESSIONS: I didn't have -- not have communications with the Russians.
MURRAY: The attorney general admits --
SESSIONS: In retrospect I should have slowed down and said, "But I did meet one Russian official a couple of times."
MURRAY: And now plans to submit a supplement to the record of his congressional testimony.
SESSIONS: My response went to the question, as I indicated, about the continuing surrogate relationship that I firmly denied and correctly
denied.
I did not mention in that time that I had met with the ambassador, and so I will definitely make that a part of the record.
MURRAY: Sessions's first meeting with Kislyak last July on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention. CNN obtained copies of then-Senator
Sessions's expense report. It appears to reveal Sessions used his own campaign funds, not official Senate funds, to travel to the RNC, possibly
undercutting his claim he met with Kislyak as a sitting senator, not as an advisor to the Trump campaign.
President Trump staunchly supporting Sessions.
JIM ACOSTA, CNN CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Mr. President, do you still have confidence in the attorney general?
DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Total.
MURRAY: After his recusal announcement, the President issuing a statement that reads, in part, "Sessions did not say anything wrong. He could have
stated his response more accurately, but it was clearly not intentional."
This as a senior administration official confirms another undisclosed meeting with the Russian ambassador, this time between former national
security adviser Lieutenant General Michael Flynn and the President's son- in-law, Jared Kushner, now a senior advisor. The three meeting at Trump Tower in December. The official describing the meeting as "introductory"
and "an inconsequential hello."
This meeting was not included in Press Secretary Sean Spicer's initial timeline of contacts between the Russian ambassador and Flynn, who was
fired last month for misleading the Vice President about his discussion with Kislyak about sanctions.
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CURNOW: Well, Sara mentioned that more Trump campaign aides now say they spoke with the Russian ambassador but in the last few hours Russia's
foreign minister echoed the U.S. president's claim that old this is a witch-hunt. Well, CNN's Nic Robinson is in Moscow.
Hi there, Nic. Tell us more about these comments.
NIC ROBINSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes, I mean, it's being described here in Moscow as highly charge political atmosphere in
Washington. And as we've heard, Sergey Kislyak himself say in recent months that he is being called up as sort of the part of the collateral
damage and that certainly being echoed by Dmitry Peskov, the spokesman for President Putin here today when he described what, you know, what he sees
as happening as a sort of a slowing down.
[00:05:00] And if you will, in fact, he said it -- which is sad he said the fact that United States and Russia have been able to sort of progress
diplomacy together on issues like ISIS. He said nevertheless Russia was going to continue tackling ISIS by itself.
So there's a real sense here that the Russia, that Moscow is caught up in a political tangle in the United States. But at the same time their man in
Moscow, their man in Washington rather is coming under severe criticism. And we heard from the foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov for the first time
talking about that today echoing President Trump, as you said, calling it a witch-hunt.
This is what he said.
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SERGEY LAVROV, RUSSIA'S FOREIGN MINISTER (through translator): Ambassadors are appointed to certain relations with a certain states and these
relations are supported by meetings, talks, contacts with official representatives of the executive branch power as well as members of
Parliament, civic leaders, non-government organizations.
And this practice has never been disputed by anyone. I could only use the quote distributed by the mass media today. It all looks like a witch hunt.
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ROBERTSON: The witch-hunt is the thing that he feels and that was widely felt here is damaging at a particularly crucial moment. Everyone it seemed
that hope that was a potential for a better relationship of President Trump, that's not happening at the moment. Robyn?
CURNOW: Yes, I mean, I think this -- this personal impacts here and also the political, I mean what does this mean for U.S.-Russia diplomacy in
early stages of this Trump administration?
ROBERTSON: The atmosphere in Washington is so poisoned at the moment that is called to see any sort of people within the Trump administration wanting
at the moment to get close to Kislyak. And Kislyak in a way is so sort of first-line if you will of sort of that diplomatic column type between
Washington and Moscow. This certainly hasn't been and this was echoed today again by Dmitry Peskov, but it -- certainly, doesn't seem to have
been a strong conversations set up yet between Rex Tillerson, the Secretary of State, Segey Lavrov, the foreign minister here.
There's a sense in Moscow that they don't know what Washington is thinking about how they want the relationship with Russia debate about how the
United States will view Russia and Syria, about how the United States is going to continue to view Russia and Ukraine. They've said a few things
what's the policy going to be.
So there's no progress on that. So if you will without having that sort of senior to senior communication direct from Moscow, direct from Washington
to Moscow, it really does rely on that lower level contact with the ambassador in Washington. And at the moment, that's not happening because
it's become essentially toxic. It does seem to sort of rule that out in any meaningful way. And the Russians have just lost another serious
significant Russian diplomat Vitaly Churkin, the ambassador to United Nations dying just a few weeks ago.
So this really leaves the Russians hamstrung in the sort of diplomatic contacts to the United States at the moment.
CURNOW: Yes, both of them, Russia's two top diplomats in America. Nic Robinson thanks so much.
We also hear Russia referred to as a global superpower but across the country those who live on the farms often face the harsh existence but
their support for the Russian government is still strong. CNN's Carissa Ward now reports.
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CLARISSA WARD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: In the village of Jarkey life is frozen in time. Most of the houses on Karl Marx Street have been abandoned only
traces of their former residents remain.
Eventually, we found 75-year-old Antonina Nikolai, one of the handful of people still living here.
All of us are old people, she says. Our children have all left for the city.
In this area there are just 10 births per every 27 deaths, solitary public phone is the only line to the outside world.
There's an overwhelming sense of desolation and decay here but this is become an all too common sight across world Russia abandoned houses and
rapidly disappearing villages.
Ivan Pavlov and his wife are the last people left in their village. They lament that life was great under communism because they wanted for nothing.
Stalin saved Russia, he says. Stalin did everything.
[00:10:00] Their attitude towards America has not changed much since the Cold War.
Obama wanted Russia to starve to death, he says. He's a public enemy even to his own people. He shut so many factories and 20% of the population
over there is hungry or unemployed.
How do you know this? Where did you hear this?
They show it on T.V. every day, he says. MTV may be Putin's most effective weapon domestically, persuading the Russians how lucky they are. It tells
them Russia is a resurgent military superpower standing up to America under Putin's firm but caring hand.
There's no one like him in world, do you understand, he says. There isn't a single person on earth who's better than Putin.
But while Russia's leader has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on high-speed trains that stitched together the main cities, Russian roads are
the only way to reach the largely forgotten countryside. The bus only comes here once a day.
And the only store for miles around, Yulina Nikoliva (ph) makes just $120 a month. Bread and vodka are the most popular items on sale but the
customers are few.
She cares a war with America and she says she's optimistic that Pres. Donald Trump will be loyal to Russia.
These aging villagers are resilient and defiant, sustained by the idea that the nation is once again a forced to be reckoned with even as they're
Russia slowly dies.
Clarissa Ward, CNN, Stuff Region Russia.
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CURNOW: Great piece there from Clarissa.
We'll moving on now to the U.K. And British Prime Minister Theresa May is accusing Scotland's leader of being obsessed with independence. She spoke
earlier in front of the Scottish Conservative Party conference. The majority of Scott voted against Brexit and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon
has been renewing calls for another Scottish independence vote but Missis May insist Scotland is better off in the U.K.
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THERESA MAY, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: I am determines to ensure that as we leave the E.U. we do so as one United Kingdom, which prospers outside the
E.U. as one United Kingdom.
That means achieving a deal with the E.U. which works for all parts of U.K., England Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and for the United
Kingdom as a whole.
And when the U.K. government begins negotiations with the E.U. on Brexit, we will do so in the interest of all parts of the U.K. and of the U.K. as a
whole.
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CURNOW: Well, May speech comes just a few days off that she suffered a setback in the House of Lords over the Brexit Bill.
And now turning to Malaysia, where there's a new twist in the Kim Jong-nam murder investigation, an arrest warrant has been issued for North Korean
Airline worker. The air courier employee is wanted for questioning in Kim's death. Earlier, police released another North Korean man, Ri Jong
Chol. He's been sent back to North Korea.
Alexandra Field is monitoring the latest in this investigation. So many twists and turns. Let's go straight to her.
Tell us more about this airline worker.
ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Robyn, you know, Kim Jong-nam was killed more than two weeks ago and at this time they've
only actually charged two women with his murder even though investigators here in Malaysia have named a number of other North Korean citizens whom
they wish to speak to. That airline employee is one of them. He's one of three North Koreans who were still believed to be in Malaysia.
I asked the country's deputy prime minister today if it's possible that those three men could be inside the North Korean Embassy and if so what
that means for investigators trying to question them. And he says that diplomatic protocol must be respect here but still a warrant was issued
because police do want to speak to him.
The other for North Korean citizens who are wanted in connection with this investigation all believe have left the country immediately after the
attack returning to Pyongyang and that is exactly where one more person is headed tonight.
There was another North Korean who was arrested in the immediate aftermath of Kim Jong-nam's death. He was held for questioning, he was part of this
investigation. Tonight, investigators saying that he has been deported to North Korea via Beijing because they simply didn't have the evidence to
charge him with a crime related to this case, Robyn.
CURNOW: And tell us now, it's been a while since this murder, this assassination that is intrigued the world but there's still tussling over
the body.
[00:15:00] FIELD: They are and North Korean officials have never actually even come out and recognize that this is Kim Jong-nam, the half brother of
the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. They referred to him by a different name and name that was on a passport that he was carrying at the time of
his death.
Still North Korean officials have demanded the return of the body of their citizen. They even sent an envoy here to Kuala Lumpur to continue to make
that demand, but Malaysian officials not playing ball with North Korea at this point. They are sticking to their guns here saying that they need
(INAUDIBLE) and identify the body or to provide a DNA sample.
Diplomatic tensions have really come to head between these two countries over the matter of what to do with this body. The North Korean officials
have been highly critical of the Malaysian investigate -- investigation saying that this man did not die of poisoning but that in fact, he died of
a heart attack. Malaysian officials strongly denying that, the say they have the autopsy, they say they're the ones who've done the test.
And today strong words from the country's deputy prime minister saying that if the North Korean ambassador here in Kuala Lumpur continues to criticize
the Malaysian efforts there will be a hefty price to pay. And already, we have seen a bit of a price to pay, Robyn, because we know that just this
week, Malaysia decided to suspend the visa free travel program for North Korean citizens. Robyn?
CURNOW: Yes, thanks so much, reporting there from Malaysia, Alexandra Field. Thank you.
Well, on Thursday, we took you inside one of the poorest slums in Manila. We saw a mother, he's teenage son was killed part of the brutal campaign
against illegal drugs. It's a violent wall that shows no mercy even to the very young. And as now Will Ripley report to five-year-old has become one
of the latest victims.
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WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We spent several weeks on the ground in the Philippines and we saw bodies in the streets night after night. The
Philippines president Rodrigo Duerte will point out that most of those people killed are criminals. And statistically speaking, he's right but we
found not everybody who has died in this drug war is a criminal or even old enough to know what crime it is.
In the Manila slum of Santo Nino, Francisco Maniosca was the boy who was always smiling. A smile his grandmother says was so charming, so
contagious. Francisco could disarm pretty much anyone except for the person who put a bullet through his forehead while he slept.
He still alive, says Maria Mosibia. Francisco was only five years old. Boy someone pointed a gun through a gap in the wall killing Francisco and
his father Domingo Maniosca, a smalltime drug user rumored to be a dealer.
I don't care about those accusing my husband says, Elizabeth Navarro. He was just using drugs, not selling them.
She's pregnant with their fifth child, a widow at 29.
These were not the first and they won't be the last drug-related killings in Santo Nino. Ever since President Rodrigo Duerte's nationwide call to
kill all criminals, slums like this have become killing fields when day turns to night.
In the drug wars early weeks, the slum killings drew little attention until this seen in July. Filipino's dubbed La Pieta for its eerie resemblance to
Michelangelo's masterpiece.
The couple in iconic photo lives in a house that was built on top of this creek. It's since been torn down this whole area reeks of sewage and
trash. This is the kind of slum that most the people who were dying in this drug war come from. They are living in extreme poverty.
The Philippines national police say in the drug wars first five months overall crime is down even as the murder rate source. Most Filipinos
approve the president's drug war.
This is your nightly patrol?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Every night.
RIPLEY: Every night you're up patrolling?
Neighborhood watch members try to protect the children of Santo Nino by enforcing a nightly curfew, hoping to keep them safe from stray bullets.
There are a lot of children here, play in the street, they sometimes begging for money too?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
RIPLEY: But they couldn't protect five-year-old Francisco. He joins children from other slums killed, a five-year-old girl, a seven-year-old
boy, collateral damage as the drug war enters a new year, the year Francisco would have started preschool. Instead he's buried here, no
classmates by his side, just other victims of the Philippines drug war.
Next week in the Philippines, the Senate will hear testimony from a former police officer who says he was part of a death squad in Davao City acting
on orders from President Duerte back when he was the mayor of his hometown. But so far that kind of testimony has had little impact on the drug war and
the killings, which continue.
Will Ripley, CNN, Tokyo.
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[00:20:03] CURNOW: Powerful reporting there from Will.
Well, you're watching News Stream. I'm Robyn Curnow.
Coming up, from cities across the U.S. to a war zone in Iraq, a group of brave medics volunteering to save lives near the frontlines in Mosul. We
take you there.
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CURNOW: Welcome back. In Iraq is bracing for a growing humanitarian crisis near Mosul, some 30,000 civilians have left the western half of the
city since Iraqi forces launched an offensive there two weeks ago. That's a much false to Exodus and resold when the eastern half of the city was
liberated.
And according to the U.N., as many as 800,000 people are still trapped inside western Mosul. Officials are racing to help displaced families.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Three thousand tenants are already occupied and the migration and displacement ministry has distributed blankets, mats, food
stuff and hygiene items and emergency relief baskets in additional to free gasoline and (INAUDIBLE).
The ministry has mobilized all its potential to receive families.
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CURNOW: Now, a team of U.S. medics is providing life-saving near Mosul's frontline. Ben Wedeman takes us there with his team but a warning, some of
the images are disturbing.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You got 100 of Tramadol and 75 of Ketamine.
BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SR. INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Scorched by the flames from a suicide car bomb, an Iraqi soldier lies in shock and pain.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is a wet -- we'll -- I'll do a layer of wet first.
WEDEMAN: Medics at this frontline clinic struggle to stabilize him.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So we're going to get him on that same helicopter?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Too bad .
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. Is that something -- it might not be too late. He's going to call me back. He might not be able to get out of here for 30
minutes.
WEDEMAN: This volunteer group, New York City Medics, is working just a 10- minute drive from the battle for Western Mosul.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Go ahead. Grab his arm. Make sure he's OK.
WEDEMAN: Most have never been in a war zone. They treated only one civilian while we were there, a little girl with a toothache. Her family
fled Mosul earlier that morning. The rest were soldiers, many with multiple wounds.
Jeff Evans normally works in Boulder, Colorado.
JEFF EVANS, MEDIC: So that guy had a gunshot wound right under his arm, like right below his armpit and I think he's actually escaped from it
penetrating his lung. So I think it bounced down into his gut. But I mean, that's a critical patient, you know.
And the first thing he said was, "I don't want to die. I want to be able to go fight again."
WEDEMAN: Some of the injured here are coming straight from the battlefield.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is shrapnel.
WEDEMAN: Here they check their wounds --
[00:25:00] UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, green (ph) here too.
WEDEMAN: -- change their bandages and send them on to the nearest hospital. The team comes from all over the United States.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, Sorry, sorry.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Put a little bit of water on it. OK.
WEDEMAN: The head doctor from Germany. Jeff left behind his wife and 11- year-old son to come here.
EVANS: I think as a father and as a husband, that the onus is on me to live through example and to do things that show my son how important it is
to live in a way, a selfless life.
WEDEMAN: A selfless life, saving lives, a very long way from home.
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CURNOW: Well, Ben Wedeman joins us now from Erbil, east of Mosul.
Great piece there, Ben, but you referenced that in you report, I mean, the number of people that are fleeing is huge and it continues.
WEDEMAN: Yes. In fact, just to update your numbers Robyn, at this point the Iraqi government is saying more than 46,000 people have fled Western
Mosul since the offensive began just less than a two weeks ago yesterday alone 14,000 escaped the city.
We were out there actually where they're arriving and, you know, they're leaving some of them at 2:00 in the morning, their neighborhoods have come
under fire from ISIS mortars and snipers. They're walking through in the dark through open territory of. Some of them are being injured by these
mortars and sniper fire.
And when they arrived, they really are shell-shocked. The children are terrified and traumatized. Some of the people are saying that in the last
month all they've had was bread, stale bread and water.
Now, what happens is they arrive in an assembly point where the men are separated from the women and children and they're checked because the Iraqi
authorities are very worried that there are ISIS infiltrators among the people fleeing the city.
Now, we spoke to one senior commander who's in charge of the operation of receiving these people. He said that on an average day they're findings
five or six ISIS suspects among the people fleeing Mosul. Robyn?
CURNOW: You know, that's an important point. Thanks so much. Keeping an eye on this very defining battle that is taking place. Ben Wedeman in
Iraq, appreciate it.
Well, you're watching News Stream. Back in just a moment. Stay with us.
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[00:30:01] CURNOW: I'm Robyn Curnow in Atlanta. You're watching News Stream. Thanks for joining us and these are your world headlines.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has removed himself from his own department's investigation into any Russian involvement in the American
election. Outrage of Sessions undisclosed meetings with the Russian ambassador foiled over as some members of his own party joined Democrats in
questioning his ability to lead that investigation.
On the Trump administration, it could be said to shake up U.S. trade policy. The administration has indicated it could disregard World Trade
Organization rulings when it comes to trade disputes. That would be a major departure from previous presidents who have opted to resolve
disagreements through the WTO.
Malaysian police have an arrest warrant out for a North Korean airline worker. Investigators want to question him in relation to the death of Kim
Jong-nam, the half brother of North Korea's leader. Now, was poisoned with the deadly VX nerve agent at the Kuala Lumpur airport last month.
And South Korea's tourist firms have been rattled by signs, the deployment of a U.S. missile system in the country could spark a travel boycott by
China. South Korea says Beijing is told Chinese travel agencies to stop selling trips to the country and that could have a significant economic
impact. Well Chinese nationals represent almost half of all tourists to South Korea.
Well, CNN's John Defterios is in Beijing, he joins us now.
Hi, John. I mean China seems to be sending a strong signal to its neighbor. What can you tell us?
JOHN DEFTERIOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, we know that China has a lot of economic cloud Robyn, but it appears it's willing to use it in this
instance. We have a news coming from a South Korean ministry official who said it appears they're putting this travel ban on from visitors coming
from Beijing going to South Korea. So far limited to that market.
As you noted (INAUDIBLE) to me that South Korea takes in 17 million visitors a year by, 8 million come from China but the growth has been
explosive, up 36 percent between 2015 and 2016.
It's worth noting too that the Chinese government officially says it does not have knowledge of this move but it did come up in a question that the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs briefing this afternoon here in Beijing and the spokesperson said he hopes that the South Korean side and I'm quoting here
will heed the voice of the people to avoid causing further damage to bilateral relations. China is South Korea's number one trade partner
represented about 25 percent of exports.
And also we saw a market reaction in the afternoon. Hotel stocks for example in South Korea were down better than 10 percent and this even,
Robyn, spread to the cosmetic sector because the Chinese consumers have an affinity for South Korean products.
So you can see this was a jolt in the afternoon. It's not official but the tour operators are saying that started in mid-March at least from Beijing
the halt of tourist going officially to South Korea. That's the word we're hearing tonight.
CURNOW: OK, great. There in Beijing, John Defterios, thanks so much.
Well today is an exciting day for Nintendo fans. The new Switch console is finally on sale. This is a first console the Japanese company has released
in four years and fans were prepared to get their hands on it for some launch date gamming. Hundreds of EG game has stood in line in Tokyo on
Friday morning just waiting for store to open.
Some talked about why they wanted a Switch so badly.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I can enjoy playing it with my family or alone or with my girlfriend if I happen to find one.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I couldn't sleep last night because of this. So I'm very excited (INAUDIBLE) because I came from Korea to buy this. Very
excited.
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CURNOW: Well, Nintendo has been struggling with console sales and (INAUDIBLE). Now, it's hoping Switch's unique integration of a home system
with a handheld device could be the breath of fresh air it needs and the company is also appealing to fans with new titles and major gaming
franchises like Zelda and Mario.
Frank Pallotta gave the Switch a couple of test runs. Here's his take.
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FRANK PALLOTTA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The Switch is here. Nintendo's latest console is trying to recapture the success of the wee from more than a
decade ago and brush off the flop that was the wee years.
If you're a hard-core gamer, you've got big systems like the Xbox or the PlayStation but Nintendo was always tried to appeal to a broader market
everybody else, the problem is today's casual gamer seems fine with playing on their phone or their tablets. Most don't even own a console at all and
shelling out $300 is a tough sell.
Who wants to play the Nintendo Switch?
But Nintendo's hoping the Switch will be different enough to convince them like (INAUDIBLE) the company has thrown all the conventions of a game
console out the window. You can play in the T.V., handheld or on a table, use the controller like this, like this or like this. And they're even
launching the console with a game that feels a little bit likely sports, they call it 1-2-Switch and well it's different.
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PALLOTTA: I don't know.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think you loss.
PALLOTTA: You can hear this thing about the 1-2-Switch is you have to look at your opponent directly in the eyes when you're playing which is really
unsettling. It's really awkward but it could catch on just like a new thing for Nintendo. I don't know. It's really weird.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It focuses us to engage. Shut up.
PALLOTTA: Of course not all of the Switch's games are like this. Nintendo was sure to appeal to its biggest fan base with revivals of their classic
franchises like Mario Kart and the Legend of Zelda.
But Nintendo's taking a big risk here. They've always sold to consoles, one that stayed at home and the other that when on the go. The Switch
could replace both of them. So that's one last product to sell, meaning one last product to make money off of. Can the slice of the market be
convinced to buy a console again? It's really hard to say.
Anyways, I have to go save high real.
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CURNOW: We're looking at Frank in the eye, aren't we?
Well, another company hope to get a fresh start is Samsung. It had a rough time recently after its leading smartphone was recalled off, some of them
burst into flames. But Samsung is determined to "wow" customers with its virtual reality tank.
Our Kristie Lu Stout and Samuel Burke gave Samsung's V.R. roller coaster a try.
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KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: If last year was a breakthrough year for V.R. headsets here in the mobile world Congress --
SAMUEL BURKE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: -- this year is about the V.R. experience and Samsung has the V.R. amusement park.
LU STOUT: So Samuel Burke and I have volunteered for the ride. Let's do this.
BURKE: You haven't eaten lunch right?
LU STOUT: I just had sushi. But we'll see.
BURKE: Oh, god.
LU STOUT: OK. Here we go. Let's do this.
BURKE: Let's get to it. There's a bit of room between the two of us.
LU STOUT: Oh, my goodness. It says you got to hold the handles tight.
BURKE: Are you ready, Kristie?
LU STOUT: I'm ready. Are you ready Samuel?
BURKE: I was born ready.
LU STOUT: Oh, this is good. Oh, my goodness. This is nice. Oh, we're going up. Up, up, up.
BURKE: Oh, god.
LU STOUT: Oh, outer space. No one told me about an asteroid butts.
BURKE: We're not in Kansas anymore.
LU STOUT: Congratulations.
BURKE: Congratulations, you've finished your race --
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LU STOUT: That was really, really awesome. How are you feeling?
BURKE: I definitely should not have eaten lunch right before that.
LU STOUT: Sushi, not a good call right before this, but that was a great experience.
BURKE: Definitely.
LU STOUT: I loved it. I'm not going to do it again right now. I'll do it again in the future, for sure.
BURKE: I'd say there's nothing like the real thing but that comes pretty darn close to a rollercoaster.
LU STOUT: That was .
BURKE: Here, I'll help you down.
LU STOUT: : Gingerly, that was quite the experience.
BURKE: We survived.
LU STOUT: We survived.
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CURNOW: You're certainly look a little bit wobbly on their feet, aren't they?
[00:38:45] Well, you're watching News Stream. I'm Robyn Curnow. We'll be back in just a moment.
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[00:40:31] CURNOW: Well, there are many qualities which makes someone a hero. Christine Lagarde devoted much of her life to helping other women
and business particularly. But CNN Richard Quest says it also her charm and her ability to lead that makes her his hero.
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RICHARD QUEST, CNN ANCHOR: Well, you know, there have been lots of people over the year the won. Maybe the first they always meet. And I always
come away from feeling wow. It's Christine Lagarde of the IMF.
Thank you. I did have to eat my hat, you got reelected. I promised that I've eat my hat if you weren't. My hat is safe.
CHRISTINE LAGARDE, CNN HERO, IMF MANAGING DIRECTOR: Your hat is safe, yes indeed.
QUEST: Look, I've meet a lot of famous people and lot of powerful people and they are all -- and most of them like to tell they're famous and
powerful in great detail, not Christine Lagarde.
Christine Lagarde is a woman who has devoted her entire life to, in helping other women. He was the head lawyer of Baker & McKenzie. She was the
finance minister of France. She is the managing director of the International Monetary Fund. Anyone of those jobs is a lifetime career.
But she's done three and was still talking about -- now she had her problems, she had her legal difficulties.
But I always come away from it feeling that here is somebody who inspirational for the better.
LAGARDE: And I think that confidence is beautiful because you have it, but you give it to other people and have it because other people have given it
to you.
QUEST: What you've learn from this person is don't give up, keep going, perseverance. If you're dealing with policy, it's bloody difficult, it's
complicated, it's missy, it requires compromise, it requires investigation of your own principles and integrity.
But what I've also seen with Christine Legarde is be pleasant while you're doing it, say hello to everybody on the way, be charming and delightful as
you say no. You don't make yourself bigger by putting somebody else down and making them lower.
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CURNOW: Wise word there from Richard. Now you've been watching News Stream. I'm Robyn Curnow. World Sport with Amanda Davies is next. Enjoy.
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[00:45:10] AMANDA DAVIS, CNN SPORT ANCHOR: Hi, thanks for joining us. Welcome along to World Sport. Live from London with me Amanda Davis.
It's been worrying 12 hours or so for Atletico and Madrid and their fans after, strike at Fernando Torres suffered a shocking a head injury during
Thursday night draw against Deportivo La Coruna. But the good news on Friday is that Torres has been discharge from hospital the 32-year-old fell
heavily after an aerial challenge with Alex Bergantinos, five minutes from time in La Coruna.
He was knocked unconscious. Players from both sides could immediately see the seriousness of the incident. They rush to help him before he was
taking off on a stretcher and transferred to hospital to undergo test. He spent the night in hospital.
But on Friday morning Torres has been pictured leaving the Hospital Atletico are confirming the scan showed he has, no traumatic alterations of
injuries, he has obediently instruct to rest for 48 hours.
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FERNADO TORRES, ATLETICO MADRID PLAYER (through translator): It's all good. I just want to thank everyone. My colleagues from Atletico and
Deportivo for the reaction they had yesterday. The supporters of course for their reaction as well and for the show of support I receive from all
on social media.
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DAVIS: Now do you think the football need to reign in players on the pitch, to give referees greater power to discipline them maybe or Friday
could be a big day with a games lawmakers meeting to discuss a law, a change that would allow only captains to speak to referees following major
incidents within games. And could introduce Rugby sin-bins, is the annual general meeting of IFAB here on Friday in London.
IFAB is the International Football Association Board, which was founded in 1886, it's made up of representatives form FIFA, world football's governing
body and the four British home nation. And it's govern the laws the game ever since it was set up.
What are they looking at? Well, they're looking at fair play, the role of captains, player's behavior and time wasting. They're looking at a
proposals to introduce sin-bins for yellow card offenses. There's a possibility of video assistant referees, they're addressing whether or not
a forth substitute could be used if a game goes into extra time.
And the use of technology in health monitoring and injury diagnosis, but earlier on their football journalist Greg Stobart told me he does not agree
with the idea of sin-bins.
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GREG STOBART, FOOTBALL JOURNALIST: I've been thinking about this quite a lot. And I just think if you're going to sin-bin players for yellow card
offense. IT will completely disrupt the flow of the game. If you're going to try and introduce some sort of orange card in-between the yellow and the
red. You're creating quite a murky space in there and actually if anything it might mean that referees are a little bit more lenient on those red
cards challenges that we want to see punish, so.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Just football need it, there are player so out of control that we should be discussing this.
STOBART: Well, I think you've touched on where it could be use. I think if you're being really prescriptive and you say for decent, for the decent
you are offered whether it's five minute or for 10 minutes. I think that is a -- that is a situation where it could work. And I don't think any of
us could argue with it.
If you're doing it for challenges or for fouls or technical offenses, I think you're in a little bit of murky situation. You've already fouls,
yellow cards, red cards, penalties. Don't introduce him for that but for the decent, I think it could be quite effective.
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DAVIES: On now on tennis (ph), somebody who's often in trouble for his behavior. It's more often than not. The Nick Kyrgious making headlines
for the wrong reason isn't it at the Australian Open back in January. He's epic meltdown that latest example with further question raised about the
audience (ph) dedication to the game.
But on Thursday the 21-year-old reminded everybody that there is plenty of time for him to rewrite his narrative, Kyrigious produce one of the best
serving matches of his career. He dumps Novak Djokovic no less out of the Mexico Open in straight sets. He had 25 aces, you know, very tightly
contested a fair here. It helped him take the only break of the match and on the win, so another earlier exit for Djokovic.
He was ousted, you might remember in just a second round of the Australian Open, was Kyrgious next faces Sam Querrey in the semi finals.
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NICK KYRGIOUS, TENNIS PLAYER: It was incredible match. I mean, I thought I served unbelievable. And I thought as competitive working on -- so I'm
trying to work on the series, compared (ph) every point. You know, I'm trying to work as hard I can and he always had one my best serving match in
my life so far.
So, you know, hopefully I can keep this going and going after tomorrow and then have another chance coming at him.
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DAVIES: Over on Dubai the world number one Andy Murray still seeking his first title of the year after winning a whooping nine in 2016. And the
Brit survived a 38 point tie break against Germany's Philip Kohlschreiber to level the match 20 points to 18, it finished the breaker on it's own
lasting over half an hour. That was on route Murray's victory. No tie break since 1991 has gone longer than 38 points.
[00:50:15] In the NBA the Golden State Warriors are going to have to play without leading scorer and rebound to Kevin Durant for at least the next
month after his knee injury. But with three more All Stars on the roster, they should be just fine, shouldn't they? Well, it turns out it might not
be as easy for last years finalist is that, the Warriors lost their first game since Durant's injury after Andre (ph) shooting display in Chicago.
Steph Curry and Clay Thompson missed 19 of their 22 three point attempts, that three point range still evading Curry. The team's performance had
head coach Steve Kerr visibly frustrated. Golden State managed just 14 fourth quarter points as the Bull won 94 points to 87.
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