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President Trump Back in Europe; President Trump Hounded by the Russia Crisis Involving His Son; Christopher Wray's Confirmation Hearing; Jared Kushner Is Now The Center of Attention in the Russia Controversy; Top Diplomat Rex Tillerson As Mediator in the Gulf; Uber Changing Reputation; United States And South Korea Free Trade Agreement Issues; U.S. Military 100th Year Anniversary In Paris From World War I; Luis Inacio Lula Da Silva Sentenced To Prison; Repercussions Of The Iceberg From Antarctica; Mystery Of Amelia Earhart. 8-9a ET

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ANDREW STEVEN, CNN NEWS STREAM SHOW HOST: I'm Andrew Stevens in Hong Kong. Welcome to "News Stream." President Trump arrives in Paris to celebrate

Bastille Day with the French president, a visit that could lead to closer ties between two men with vastly different positions. But the trip could be

overshadowed by the turmoil unfolding back in the U.S. as talk of ties between Trump's campaign and the Russian government just won't go away.

Their relations had an awkward start but now Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron have another chance to work on their differences. The U.S. president

and his wife are in Paris ahead of celebrations of Bastille Day change. But as Sara Murray now tells us, Mr. Trump is being dogged by Russia related

crisis at home.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

SARA MURRAY, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDET: President Trump touching down in Paris hoping to forge stronger ties with France's new president. But the

trip overshadowed by the president's son's admission in e-mails that he met last year with a Russian lawyer believed to have dirt on Hillary Clinton

from the Kremlin.

Ahead of the trip, the president defending Donald Trump, Jr. in a Reuters interview saying, "most of the phony politicians who are Democrats, that

act holier-than-thou, if the same thing happened to them, they would have taken that meeting in a heartbeat."

President Trump insisting that there was zero coordination between his campaign and Russia, referring to collusion accusations as a hoax made up

by Democrats and the greatest con job in history. A characterization rejected by Trump's FBI director nominee at his confirmation hearing on

Wednesday.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R), SOUTH CAROLINA: As the future FBI director, do you consider this endeavor a witch hunt?

CHRISTOPHER WRAY, FBI DIRECTOR NOMINEE: I do not consider Director Mueller to be on the witch hunt.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

MURRAY: The president again saying he only learned about his son's meeting with the Russian lawyer in the past few days. Although exclusive video

obtained by CNN from the 2013 Miss USA pageant shows the president schmoozing with the Russian family at the center of the controversy.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: These are the most powerful people in all of Riussia , the richest in Russia.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

MURRAY: President Trump also asked if he believes Vladimir Putin's denial on election interference. The president dodging instead of siding with his

own intelligence chiefs responding, "something happened and we have to find out what that is."

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

TRUMP: What I keep hearing about that he would have rather had Trump I think probably not.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

MURRAY: In a separate interview, the president again questions the U.S. intelligence community and their conclusion that Russia meddled in the

election t harm Hillary Clinton.

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TRUMP: If Hillary had won, our military would be decimated. Our energy would be much more expensive. That's what Putin doesn't like about me.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

MURRAY: With the White House under fire, the president is hoping to change the narrative with his visit to France.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SEBASTIAN GORKA, DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO PRESIDENT TRUMP: We want to reassure everybody as we did at the G20, as Secretary Mattis and the vice president

have done in recent visits that we stand by our allies, we stand by Article Five.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

MURRAY: President Trump and Emmanuel Macron looking to put their differences aside after Trump abruptly pulled the U.S. out of the Paris

Climate Accord.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

STEVENS: Sara Murray reporting there. Let's go now to Paris. Melissa Bell is standing by with the very latest. Melissa, let's talk about Emmanuel

Macron. What does he want to get out of this meeting because he's only just met the U.S. President? The U.S. president is unpopular in Europe so, what

is Emmanuel Macron hoping to achieve?

MELISSA BELL, CNN PARIS CORRESPONDENT: Well Andrew, he's already taken a different position from many other European leaders saying of course there

are these substantial differences, but the best thing we can possibly do is try and reach out a hand to this increasingly isolated president, isolated

on the international stage.

And what Emmanuel Macron is going to give Donald Trump not just tomorrow from here at the (INAUDIBLE) when that 14th of July celebration begins on

(INAUDIBLE). But even today when the two men go across the river to the (INAUDIBLE) later to visit the Tomb of Napoleon, the tomb of man who led

allied forces on the western front in World War I. And this was the anniversary by the way of the entry of the United States into World War I.

It's a sort of history lesson. He's going to remind the American president of all that binds the European continent and the United States in terms of

military history but also in terms of values. Those values that have bound them and they are essentially based on the idea of common beliefs

[08:05:00] in how humanity should function. Those ideals that have underpinned the international institutions that Donald Trump has been so

consistently attacking since becoming president.

That is what Emmanuel Macron is hoping to remind him of, those values and why they matter.

The family photograph of the G20 more divided than ever. Not only along old fought lines but new ones as well, like the ideological divide that now

separates the United States from its historical western European allies.

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TRUMP: A strong Europe is a blessing to the west and to the world.

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BELL: President Trump may have said the U.S. transatlantic bond with Europe is stronger than ever, but underneath the words, the tension is

real. Europe knew change was coming when Donald Trump won the election. His promise to put America first brought to an end a consensus that had lasted

since the end of World War II.

But it was Emmanuel Macron's election in France just a few months later that brought the divide into sharper focus. The new French president vowing

to defend more aggressively the enlightenment ideals and the international organizations now under populous threat but not without paying credit where

it was due.

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EMMANUEL MACRON, PRESIDENT OF FRANCE: So I think Mr. Trump was extremely smart to play with emotion, guts of your people and that's the first point.

Second it was disruptive in a certain vis-a-vis the rest of the system and people love that because now they are fed up with the political system. And

third, he understood the frustration of American middle classes and workers and this globalization and the increasing inequalities of globalization.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BELL: It was the point of the handshake at the NATO Summit in Brussels in May. More arm wrestle than greeting and far from innocent Macron explained

later. It was about standing his ideological ground. The French president apparently going out of his way to make his feelings with regard to Donald

Trump plain. An early clash of ideas seemed inevitable and it came on climate change.

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TRUMP: I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris.

MACRON: I do think it is an actual mistake.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BELL: The battle then carried over into tweets. The next round in the battle of ideas will come on July 14th when Donald Trump joins Emmanuel

Macron for Bastille Day, a celebration of the French Revolution and the idea of universal values of liberty that fueled it.

A reminder there, Andrew, of all that divide the two men ideologically and the fact that Emmanuel Macron has really not hesitated to take on Donald

Trump fairly forcefully and yet I think it's important to remember that there are substantial things that unite.

These are two political outsiders who have come in and transformed their own political systems, their respective political systems. They're plain

speaking, they're tough, they want to get things done and they're not afraid of tackling problems head on.

And so I think that the sense is here in Europe that if there is anyone who can convince Donald Trump to come back into the international fold it, that

it is probably Emmanuel Macron.

STEVENS: And is there an expectation amongst the French population that Emmanuel Macron can do that? I mean, does the French president run the risk

of disappointing his base by not presenting some concrete success with Donald Trump on this?

BELL: I think inevitably, Andrew, it is a bold gamble as have been all the gambles that we've seen Emmanuel Macron take so far including seeking the

election in the most improbable circumstances that were his. But he is convinced that he needs to adopt a very different position, the one to

Angela Merkel, who by the way is also in Paris today to try and kick start the Franco-German alliance within Europe.

She's taken a very different approach saying look, at the G20, this is simply a man we cannot do business with Europe is going to have to go

alone. Emmanuel Macron believes there is still some room for maneuver, but it is a gamble. If (INAUDIBLE) pay, then of course he's going to be

carrying the cost all of this unsuccessful trip and of a proximity to an American president who is unpopular here as he is in other European

countries.

But perhaps the timing of all this is incredibly fortuitous for Emmanuel Macron since it comes even as Donald Trump must be incredibly relieved to

be leaving Washington and finding himself here in Paris. This is a perfect opportunity for him to shine on the international stage, Andrew.

STEVENS: OK, Melissa, thank you so much for that. Melissa Bell joining us live from Paris. And of course we'll continue to follow the visit by the by

the U.S. president to France over the next day or so.

Meanwhile, back in Washington, a top Republican source tells CNN in the White House or that the White House has been paralyzed by the latest

revelations of a Russia connection and Donald Trump is frustrated and furious. The president tells Reuters he doesn't fault his son for meeting

with

[08:10:00] the Russian lawyer during the campaign. E-mails about the meeting promised compromising information about Hillary Clinton from the

Russian government. Well that did not materialize but with all the controversy, the confirmation hearing of the president's choice to be

director of the FBI was almost overlooked. Jake tapper has that.

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JAKE TAPPER, CNN ANCHOR: Christopher Wray, President Trump's nominee for FBI director faced questions from members of the Senate Judiciary

Committee, and beyond the bipartisan support that Wray seem to generate, there was also a very clear subtext of concern among the senators about the

behavior of President Trump, specifically about what many senators seem to see as President Trump's attempt to delegitimize law enforcement

investigations and indeed the very notion of an independent body of federal law enforcement officers.

Now we saw this with the question about whether President Trump ever asked Mr. Wray to pledge his loyalty to him, as fired FBI director James Comey

claims the president asked of him, though President Trump denies it.

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SEN PATRICK LEAHY (D), VERMONT: You told me yesterday there's been no question by anybody in the White House asking you for a pledge of loyalty.

WRAY: That's correct, senator. My loyalty is to the constitution, to the rule of law and to the mission of the FBI and no one asked me for any kind

of loyalty oath at any point during this process and I sure as heck didn't offer one.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

TAPPER: There was also a question about Mr. Wray's view of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, whose impeccable reputation has not stopped President Trump

and his allies from attempting to smear him and call the Mueller investigation as recently as this morning a witch hunt.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

WRAY: I do not consider Director Mueller to be on a witch hunt.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

TAPPER: The concern expressed, we should point out was not just from Democratic senators. Perhaps the most pointed line of inquiry in fact came

from conservative Republican senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska, a frequent critic of President Trump who raised a hypothesis based on Comey's

testimony that President Trump asked him to drop the investigation into his former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SEN. BEN SASSE (R), NEBRASKA: You've reiterated again and again your willingness to resign if ever forced to politicize and investigation and I

think that's why you hear so much bipartisan support for your confirmation today. Would you also pledge to this committee that if ever directed by the

White House to shut down or curtail an investigation that you would report that back to this committee?

Not necessarily in a public setting but at the very least in a classified setting. Would you commit today that any White House direction that you

would curtail or end an investigation is something that you would report back to this committee and this senate?

(END VIDEO CLIP)

TAPPER: South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham asked what advice Mr. Wray he might offer him if he were to receive a similar e0mail to the

one received by Donald Trump, Jr., one, saying that the Russian government wants to help him get elected by providing incriminating information about

his opponent.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

WRAY: I would take you'd want to consult with some good legal advisors before you did that.

SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R), SOUTH CAROLINA: So the answer is should I call the FBI.

WRAY: I think it would be wise.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

TAPPER: That answer did not quite cut it for Mr. Graham.

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GRAHAM: You're going to be the director of the FBI, pal. So here's what I want you to tell every politician. If you get a call from somebody

suggesting that a foreign government wants to help you by disparaging your opponent, tell us all to call the FBI.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

TAPPER: We should all contemplate for a second what we witnessed today, Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee quizzing the

likely next director of the FBI about the challenges he might face in maintaining the rule of law and basic norms of legal and ethical behavior,

challenges that these senators clearly fear Mr. Wray might face from the president of the United States.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

STEVENS: Jake Tapper reporting there. Now, attention is turning to the president's son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, who also attended

that meeting with the Russian lawyer. Kushner initially failed to declare that meeting on his security clearance application or any of his meetings

with the Russian ambassador and a Russian banker. CNN Randi Kay now reports critics are asking if Kushner has something to hide.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: His name is in the e-mail chain, Jared Kushner. The e-mail forwarded June 8, 2016 just after 12 noon from his

brother-in-law, Donald Trump Jr. to Kushner and Paul Manafort, then head of the Trump campaign. Now senior White House adviser, Kushner was being

invited to meet with a Russian attorney. It had been promised she would deliver dirt on Hillary Clinton. The lawyer told NBC she remembered

Kushner.

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NATALIA VESELNITSKAYA, RUSSIAN LAWYER (through translator): I could recognize the young gentleman who was only present in the meeting so

probably the first seven to ten minutes and then he stood up and left the room. It was Mr. Jared Kushner and he never came back by the way.

(END VIDEO CLIUP)

[08:15:00] KAYE: And there you have it. The Russian lawyer herself placing Kushner, the so-called secretary of everything in yet another meeting with

a Russian that was initially left off the forms he filled out to gain White House security clearance. Had all those meetings simply slipped his mind?

Let's review.

There was the meeting with Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak at Trump Tower during the transition. That's when Kushner allegedly tried to set up some

sort of back channel communication to the Kremlin. The White House declined to comment.

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SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA: So I don't like it. I just don't.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

KAYE: Also, the meeting with Russian banker Sergei Gorkav who not only has ties to Vladimir Putin, but runs a bank that's been under U.S. sanctions

for the last three years. The optics are troubling.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

JAMES CLAPPER, FORMER DIRECTOR NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE: My dashboard warning light was clearly on and I think that was the case with all of us in the

intelligence committee.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

KAYE: And now this latest meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, also initially omitted on his application for security

clearance has some wondering how many other meetings Kushner might not have disclosed and if security clearance should be revoked.

The application form Jared Kushner filled out for White House security clearance is known as the SF-86 form. And you might say Kushner is a work

in progress. The first time Kushner filled it out, he left the section for foreign contacts blank.

The next day he amended that to say he had multiple contacts and would be disclosing them. The same form was modified a third time in recent weeks to

include the meeting with Donald Jr. and the Russian lawyer, a source told CNN.

In a statement of the weekend, Kushner's attorney explained that his SF-86 clearance form was, quote, prematurely submitted referring to his original

four months ago, and reiterated that her client is eager to cooperate and share what he knows with Congress.

While that sounds good, keep in mind that Kushner's application for security clearance is submitted under penalty of perjury. That's because

unlike his brother-in-law, Donald Jr., who is not a government employee, Jared Kushner is and was required by law to disclose his meetings with

foreign governments. Randi Kaye, CNN, New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

STEVENS: The U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is set to head back to the U.S. this hour fro Qatar. He's been zigzagging around the Gulf over the

last four days trying to resolve a diplomatic row between Qatar and four Arab neighbors. Let's turn now to Jomana Karadsheh. She's been following

Tillerson's travels. She joins us now from Amman in Jordan. Jonmana, a lot of shuttle diplomacy here. Does Rex Tillerson have anything to show for it?

JOMANA KARADSHEH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, we still don't know. That's the big question, Andrew. All this travel and all these meetings and it's still

unclear what has been going on behind closed doors during those meetings. If you look at what we have been hearing publicly from both sides in this

dispute, whether it's the Qataris or the Saudi-led block, neither side seems to be backing down, not softening their stance.

You know, in the past 24 hours, we've had statements from Qatar announcing the arrival of the fifth batch of Turkish troops as part of their military

cooperation deal with Turkey. And as you recall, one of the 13 demands by the Saudi-led alliance was for them to scrap those plans for the

establishment over Turkish base in Doha. So that is not happening.

And then on the other hand we've had calls from Egypt for the expulsion of Qatar from the global coalition against ISIS and in the past few hours

we're hearing from the foreign minister of the UAE who is saying they welcome Qatar signing that memorandum of understanding with the United

States to combat terrorist financing, but they're raising concerns that Qatar will not fulfill whatever deals or agreements it signs. So it really

goes to show how much mistrust there is between those different sites involved in this dispute.

So, Secretary Tillerson has a very tough job. What he has been doing is not easy and it really is unclear at this point if there's been any progress

made in this crisis that has been going on for more than a month. But at the same time, Andrew, there was a bit of hope that seeing this active U.S.

mediation role finally taking place that this could push things forward a bit.

STEVENS: Is he seen as an honest broker in the negotiations between the two sides, Jomana?

KARADSHEH: Well, you know, the interesting part, Andrew, has been the U.S. position lik if you look at what has been going on during this crisis early

on when it started in early June. You have Secretary Tillerson who was calling for calm, who was trying to de-escalate, not really taking sides.

And then at the same time we saw these mixed messages coming from the administration with President

[08:20:00] Trump through his tweets and statements who seemed to be taking sides with Saudi Arabia. And so many people saw that as emboldening the

other side and making things more complicated with the Saudi-led alliance really not compromising. So, now we're looking at this new position. Is

this the new position really?

Are we seeing the United States here more as a mediator? I remember one Qatar expert when I was in Doha recently, Andrew, telling me that if

perhaps we see Secretary Tillerson really taking the lead on this and being allowed to do his job as America's top diplomat, that we might see a

resolution to this crisis soon.

STEVENS: But obviously no word at this stage. Jomana, as always, thanks so much for that. Jomana Karadsheh, joining us from Amman in Jordan.

Still ahead here on "News Stream," Uber aims for the future. The company has been beset by a string of P.R. crisis as we know, and also a loss of a

CEO. Now, a top executive tells us the start up needs to grow up.

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STEVENS: Welcome to "News Stream" live from Hongkong. Now, the company behind the ride hailing app Uber is trying to repair its reputation after

several scandals that forced the CEO, Travis Kalanick, out. Well our Sherisse Pham spoke with the company's head of Asia Pacific and Latin

America, Andrew McDonald, and asked him about the CEO's departure as well as Uber's future.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ANDREW MACDONALD, GENERAL MANAGER, ASIA-PACIFIC AND LATIN AMERICA FOR UBER: I actually woke up to the news which you know is obviously a bit of a shock

and, you know, I worked closely with Travis for my five years in the company and he was both a boss and a friend and, you know, he built Uber.

And he set our mission in motion.

And so much of my experience here has been defined by his vision. So, it's a shock but at the same time, I know that the (INAUDIBLE) from Travis is to

keep growing this thing, keep making it better. Keep serving riders and drivers, and so that's what I'm focused on.

SHERISSE PHAM, CNN MONEY CORRESPONDENT: Now how can you keep growing it and Uber? Are you going to continue to be known for this principled

confrontation? You guys have, you know, what's really driven you guys has been a disruptor.

MACDONALD: Yes, so I think it's more of an evolution of the style. So, on the one hand I think we need to continue to be principled about doing

what's right for drivers, doing what's right for riders, serving cities, which are all big parts of our sort of mission and being principled about

how we approach conversations with government, with stakeholders.

But I do think we need to work to be more collaborative to consider the starting point of view of the different people involved and to recognize

that people don't view us as a startup anymore. They view us as a large company that has a big impact in local economy, that has a big impact in

the world and we need to take that

[08:25:00] responsibility super seriously.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

STEVENS: Andrew Macdonald, the Uber's head for Asia-Pacific and Latin America talking with Sherisse Pham.

Now, despite insistence from the United States that China should use its economic influence on North Korea to curb its nuclear development, China

says its trade with North Korea has actually gone up. It was up by more than 10 percent of the first half of this year compared to the same period

last year. China's exports to North Korea increased by nearly a third over that period.

Beijing says this does not indicate that it's not abiding by international sanctions on Pyongyang because imports from the north to China were

actually down by more than 13 percent.

Now trade is also a sticky port (ph) between the U.S. and South Korea. The Trump administration wants changes, a free trade agreement signed by

President Obama saw the U.S. trade deficit jump from almost $8 billion in 2012 to almost $18 billion last year. But as David McKenzie explains,

giving change won't be easy.

DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The South Korean trade ministry says it will have to investigate, analyze and evaluate their free trade agreement

with the United States, and this comes after President Trump's trade representative said that they will have to renegotiate their free trade

deal with South Korea. It comes after last month's meeting between President Trump and Moon Jae-in, the new president of South Korea. But

Trump had this to say.

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TRUMP: We are renegotiating a trade deal right now as we speak with South Korea and hopefully it will be an equitable deal, it will be a fair deal to

both parties.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

MCKENZIE: Trump may have jumped the gun, the trade ministry here saying they will have to have a look at the deal but that in no way means that

they are ready to re-negotiate just yet. The South Korean and the U.S. trade relationship has had a deficit for some time that it fluctuates. And

it is in no way nearly as big as the U.S. deficit with countries like China and Mexico. Many economists say that the deficit alone is not the most

accurate bellwether in evaluating any trade relationship. David McKenzie, CNN, Seoul.

STEVENS: Preparations are now under way in Paris ahead of Bastille Day festivities. And this year, U.S. troops will make a special appearance in

the famed military parade. Sneak peek when we come back.

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STEVENS: I'm Andrew Stevens in Hong Kong. You're watching "News Stream" and these are your world headlines.

U.S. President Donald Trump is back in Europe for

[08:30:00] the second time in a week. He and his wife, Melania, are to attend Bastille Day celebrations. A news conference is scheduled in a few

hours from now. Mr. Trump could face questions about a meeting between his oldest son and a Russian lawyer.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visited Qatar for a second time during his four-day visit to the Persian Gulf. He's trying to resolve a

diplomatic row between Qatar and four Arab neighbors. There is no sign though of a solution at least at this stage. He's now set to head back to

the United States.

The U.K. High Court has convened to hear new evidence in the case of baby Charlie Gard. His parents are fighting the plea to make doctors keep their

child on life support so they can take him to the U.S. to undergo experimental treatment for a rare genetic disorder. We're following

developments in the hours ahead.

Now a big part of Donald Trump's trip in Paris is the traditional military parade down Champs-Elysees on Bastille Day. This year for a special reason,

members of the U.S. military are taking part. Jim Bittermann takes us to the rehearsals.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JIM BITTERMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Before dawn, nearly every day this week, members of the French military and security forces were practicing

their moves. Everything has to be perfect for the annual show of French grandeur along the Champs-Elysees marking French Independence Day. And

joining them this year are nearly 200 American soldiers, sailors, and airmen who will be marking something else -- the 100th anniversary of

America's entry into World War I.

For the servicemen and women, not much different in age when those who arrived here a century ago, the idea of being among the first Americans to

lead the Bastille Day Parade, commemorating the historical events and at the same time marching before the presidents of both the United States and

France is, well --

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Pretty awesome. It's a great privilege to be able to come here and celebrate this.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It makes me feel a little bit nervous obviously, but it's an opportunity that not many people like me get.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BITTERMANN: But few feel that sense of distinction more than the commander of the Paris detachment, Major Jared Nichols. He not only serves with the

U.S. Army's First Infantry Division, the first unit ordered to France in 1917, but his great grandfather was among the first troops to come here to

fight alongside the French.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

JARED NICHOLS, 1ST INFANTRY DIVISION, U.S. ARMY: This is absolutely an amazing opportunity for the U.S. military and the United States to

represent ourselves here in France on this holiday. It's a significant event for the nation of France.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BITTERMANN: When the first American soldiers arrived here 100 years ago, of course it was not just for ceremony after a march down the Champs-

Elysees to show to the French that they arrived, they went off immediately to the battle front.

Eventually, nearly 5 million U.S. servicemen were involved in turning the tide of battle in that war. More than 100,000 died on the battlefields or

elsewhere, more than 200,000 were injured. Many like Major Nichols' grandfather from the effects of poison gas. But the war left scars of a

different sort.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

NICHOLS: A lot of what the current issues that Europe deals with and the world deals with stem directly back to the Great War. So, I think there's a

lot of reflection and a lot of trying to gain understanding about what occurred a hundred years ago and how it still affects us today.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BITTERMANN: And with the summit between French and American presidents a part of Bastille Day this year, it's clear that one of those things that

still affects us today is the sense of transatlantic cooperation with roots that go back not just a century but to the founding of the American

republic. Jim Bittermann, CNN, Paris.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

STEVENS: Brazil's former president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva has been sentenced to more than nine years in prison. That's after he was found

guilty in a wide ranging corruption case, but he also faces charges in four other cases. Shasta Darlington has the details.

SHASTA DARLINGTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: A stunning blow for a man who was elected president twice and left office with an approval rating over 80

percent. In fact, he was already planning his comeback. He's leading in the polls for presidential elections next year, but now Luiz Inacio Lulu da

Silva, better known as Lula has been convicted of graft and money laundering and sentenced to nine and a half years in prison.

He will likely appeal that conviction and he will be able to appeal it in freedom. However, if the conviction is upheld, he will not be able to run

in election. Again, a stunning blow for someone who is still very popular in Brazil, but not a complete surprise. He's been under investigation for

the last year and will likely face four other trials. Federal prosecutors accuse him of masterminding the corruption and bribery scheme known as Lava

Jato

[08:35:00] or car wash. Lula himself denies the allegations and says that this is a political witch hunt. In fact, he's just the highest profile

conviction. The corruption investigation has already brought down dozens of major league politicians and political leaders and was a driving force

behind the impeachment of Lula's hand-picked successor Dilma Rousseff, which means that going into those presidential elections in 2018, it's hard

to find a political party or player who hasn't been tainted. Shasta Darlington, CNN, Rio de Janeiro.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

STEVENS: Now, we're getting a closest look ever at Jupiter's great red spot. Just ahead, the incredible images the NASA space graft Juno is

sending back to us now from big reaches of space. Stay with us.

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STEVENS: Scientists are now studying what repercussions there might be after an iceberg three times the size of London broke away from Antarctica.

Our Kyun Lah spoke to one of them.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

KYUNG LAH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: A crack more than 120 miles long on the east side of the Antarctic peninsula finally breaking off, creating a

spectacular iceberg weighing more than a trillion metric tons, roughly the size of Delaware.

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ARADHNA TRIPATI, PROFESSOR, UCLA: It's one of the largest icebergs in human history.

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LAH: UCLA professor Aradhna Tripati has spent her career studying Antarctic ice, travelling to the very peninsula where the ice shelf called

Larsen C broke off. Professor Tripati has seen two other big sections of the Peninsula break off dissolve. The first in 1995 and then another in

2002. She watched as this crack grew for years, caught off guard that this break happened so soon.

What this latest break means is something scientists aren't yet agreed on. Antarctica, the coldest place on earth, is a continent covered in ice and

icebergs have been breaking away from ice shelves for millions of years. But at the end of the 20th century, the peninsula was one of the fastest

warming places on the planet. That warming has slowed or reversed slightly in the century.

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LAH: You learned all of this just from samples of ice?

TRIPATI: We learn it from samples of ice, from samples of rock.

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LAH: This geochemist says the overall trends in the Arctic point to global warming.

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TRIPATI: The fact that we've had seven out of the 12 ice shelves on Antarctica collapse in the last two decades and this one appears to be

ready to go with the breaking off of this major iceberg, that is hard to attribute to anything else.

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LAH: For now, scientists will track the new iceberg to see if and when it melts. And maps will have to be redrawn for the ever-changing geography in

Antarctica. Kyung Lah, CNN, Los Angeles.

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STEVENS: Now, we're getting our closest look ever at a gigantic storm, a storm though that is not of this planet. This is what Jupiter's great red

spot looks like from 9,000 kilometers away. That's a fraction of a distance in space. The Juno spacecraft left Earth in 2011 and has been orbiting

Jupiter for just over a year now. Well the storm's clouds are 16,000 kilometers wide,

[08:40:00] wind speeds are up to 600 kilometers an hour, and it's been raging for centuries. Well NASA says scientist still don't know why the

storm is red. Jupiter is made mostly of hydrogen and helium, just like the sun, and under the clouds, an enormous ocean liquid metallic hydrogen

exists. Just to give you a sense of how big that is, this is NASA's own image of Earth. You see it fits right there into the great red spot. Wow.

Experts say understanding Jupiter's weather patterns could help us better understand earth's own weather system.

Mystery lovers had high hopes that an old photo would finally solve the mystery of Amelia Earhart's disappearance. But as our Jeanne Moos reports,

that photo was a little too old.

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JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Might as well put this photo in the fun while it lasted file, and it didn't last long. A History Channel special on

Amelia Earhart promised to shock us.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I believe its proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

MOOS: Uh-oh.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There are new doubts this morning.

MOOS: Doubts that Amelia Earhart and her navigator were photographed alive in the Marshall Islands after crashing in the Pacific.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is Amelia Earhart?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's right.

MOOS: No, that's probably wrong.

And her navigator, Fred Noonan?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The hairline is the most distinctive characteristic.

MOOS: Probable not him either.

As for the blurry hunk of something being towed that was supposed to be the wreckage of their plane, don't count on it.

The documentary's theory is the pair were picked up and imprisoned by the Japanese.

But a couple of bloggers uncovered what appears to be the original photo published in a travel log book in 1935, nearly two years before Amelia

Earhart even took off on her final flight.

Matt Holly, an American living in the Marshall Islands, was one of the bloggers who tracked down the photo.

MATT HOLLY, BLOGGER, MARSHALL ISLANDS: This is one of the magical mysteries of the universe, like where did dinosaurs go or where is Jimmy Hoffa.

MOOS: Just last week, I, and most of the world's media outlets stood there as if the latest photo weren't already questionable enough. Dissecting the

photograph that has since been debunked.

Debunked by a second Japanese blogger, who says he spent half an hour Googling and found the original photo in Japan's National Library.

The History Channel says it has a team of investigators exploring the latest developments.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We want to follow the facts where they lead.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sure.

MOOS: Just so they don't lead to Gullible Island.

Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.

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STEVENS: So the mystery remains. That is "News Stream." Thanks for joining me. I'm Andrew Stevens. Don't go anywhere. "World Sport" with Alex Thomas

is just ahead.

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