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President Trump Defiant With New Record Low Approval Rating and Latest Russia Revelation; ISIS Brides; Duchess of Cornwall Speaks to CNN; E.U. and U.K. Negotiators Cordial During Brexit Talks; Update On the Case of Baby Charlie Gard; Opposition in Venezuela Claiming Victory over President Nicolas Maduro; South Korea to Halt Military Talks With the North; Kazakhstan's Buried Wealth to Shape Our Energy Future. Aired 8-9a ET

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ANDREW STEVEN, CNN HOST: I'm Andrew Stevens in Hong Kong and a very warm welcome to "News Stream."

President Trump defiant in the face of the latest Russia revelation and a record low approval rating. Can the administration change the focus from

Russia to their agenda?

Plus, they say they were looking for love but are now in detention. We hear from ISIS brides in their own words as the terror group begins to fall

apart.

She's often seen but rarely heard. Now in an exclusive, Camilla, the wife of Prince Charles speaks to CNN.

We begin with U.S. President Trump back in Washington trying to turn over a new leaf after a week of intense scrutiny. The White House is attempting to

pivot public opinion onto the president's agenda by rolling out new theme weeks. This week is all about U.S. manufacturing, but a new poll suggests

the public hasn't forgotten about the Russia investigation which continues to plague the White House or the stalled legislation in Congress. Here's

Joe Johns.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Congratulations, Mr. President.

JOE JOHNS, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: After nearly six months in office, President Donald Trump now facing the lowest approval rating in

recent history, just 36 percent approve of the president's performance in a new ABC News/"Washington Post" poll. A 6 percent drop since the 100-day

mark in April.

The president attempting to spin these results claiming that almost 40 percent is not bad and asserting that the poll was inaccurate during the

election. The poll also showing that 63 percent of Americans think that the meeting between Trump Jr., Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner and a Russian

lawyer to get dirt on Hillary Clinton was inappropriate.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Most people would have taken that meeting. It's called opposition research.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

JOHNS: The president once again focusing on his former rival in a Sunday morning tweet while defending his son amid the latest revelations that at

least eight people attended including a Russian-American lobbyist who served in the Soviet military, this despite Trump Jr.'s insistence that all

of the details about the meeting have been disclosed.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DONALD TRUMP, JR., PRESIDENT TRUMP'S ELDEST SON: I think there's anything else we've scoured it thoroughly just to be sure.

REP. ADAM SCHIFF (D), CALIFORNIA: He first said no such meeting ever happened and then he said the meeting was about adoptions and then he

admitted the meeting was about getting information on Hillary Clinton and that he wasn't forthcoming about who was in the meeting. So we can't accept

anything Don Jr. says.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

JOHNS: One of the president's personal lawyers also coming to Trump Jr.'s defense during a P.R. blitz on the Sunday shows.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

JAY SEKULOW, LAWYER FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP: Donald Trump Jr. himself said things should have been done differently. Having said that again, none of

that is violation of the law. That's more process.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

JOHNS: While raising a possible defense of the meeting.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SEKULOW: If this was as nefarious, why did the Secret Service allow these people in?

(END VIDEO CLIP)

JOHNS: The Secret Service pushing back noting in a statement Donald Trump, Jr. was not a protectee of the USSS in June 2016, thus we would not have

screened anyone he was meeting with at the time.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

STEVENS: Joe Johns reporting there. Now, the White House is defending both the president and his eldest son as new details surface about that meeting

at Trump Tower. With the pressure building, the president is praising one former campaign official who testified on Capitol Hill saying thank you to

former campaign adviser Michael Caputo for saying so powerfully that there was no Russian collusion in our winning campaign. Well, Caputo talked to

CNN a little earlier.

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MICHAEL CAPUTO, FORMER TRUMP CAMPAIGN ADVISER: But at the same time, you have to understand that the members of the family and the first time --

this is the first time President Trump ever ran for office, his kids were unfamiliar with it. And I can see how Don Jr. might make a mistake. I

appreciate his candor after this stuff broke and it broke again and broke again in a TV interview where he said it's something if he had, could do it

over again he would do it differently. I respect that.

ALSIYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: And I hear you that Don Jr. and his family are political neophytes, check, we all understand that, but Paul Manafort

isn't. Why was Paul Manafort in that meeting?

CAPUTO: Right. Well, I'll tell you, I know Paul for 30 years. I also know at that time he was getting upwards of 500 e-mail messages a day. Paul

probably did not read all the way down several inches into the string of the e-mail. He received a meeting request from the president's son, and his

job at that moment was to say yes and to go.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

[08:05:00] STEVENS: Joining me now, CNN politics producer Dan Merica. Dan is joining us live from Washington. Dan, we're hearing these -- that the

comeback or the pushback from the White House but is it really going to change the needle? Can the Trump administration get away from the Russian

issue?

DAN MERICA, CNN POLITICS PRODUCER: Hey Andrew. Yes, they would certainly like to. The problem so far has been that the story has changed

progressively and you heard in Joe Johns piece how initially the meeting was about adoptions and then the meeting wasn't as big a deal and then the

meeting had eight people. The story really has changed over time and that's because Don Jr. initially didn't really put out enough information frankly

about what happened in that meeting and that led to a week of negative stories for the president.

And what the White House is most concerned about at this time despite the president's tweet kind of dismissing the "Washington Post" poll is the fact

that his approval rating is at historic lows for a president this early into his administration. And why that matters is that it makes it more

difficult for the president and for the White House to get back to their legislative agenda.

Think about this. Health care is the issue that's currently being debated on Capitol Hill right now. The issue that the White House is having is with

Republicans, and Republicans are keenly aware especially those who are thinking about bucking the president and not following his party, are

keenly aware that his approval rating is in the mid-30s.

They're less likely to go along with a president that has that kind of approval rating, meaning the health care policy, the health care plan, may

fail in part because the president is somewhat unpopular, even with his base. That's what makes this so fraught for the White House.

If his approval rating is lower it makes it more difficult to get things done on Capitol Hill, which then leads to lower approval rating so that's

kind of where the White House is at this point. They have to get something done especially for their base, for their voters so that they can get that

approval rating back up.

STEVENS: That paralysis exists with the Russia issue, the media, America is not moving on from that. Donald Jr. testifying on Capitol Hill, would

that make a difference, do you think? Would the administration even want him to do that?

MERICA: He has said he would be willing to talk to the committee about what went on, what he knows. So that would certainly be a huge moment in

this investigation, the president's son testifying on Capitol Hill. And you've seen the steady stream of former Trump aides going to Capitol Hill

to speak.

What would put a pin in this really would be getting all of that information out and what, you know, a lot of political analysts teach

campaigns is, once a bad story comes out, you want to get everything out on your terms. You want to see where this story is going and release that

information and beat journalist there. What Donald Trump Jr. And the White House didn't do in this situation is exactly that, and reporters beat them

to every single story which led to this week-long negative headline fort White House.

Would him testifying on Capitol Hill release some of the air, of course, because it would get him on camera speak being this meeting but it's very

unlikely that this Russia story, the swirl of Russia stories is going away, and that's just something the White House is going to have to deal with for

the coming months, if not years.

STEVENS: And the aftereffects of what it means for their legislative agenda as well. Dan, thanks so much for that.

MERICA: Thank you.

STEVENS: Dan Merica joining us live from Washington. Now, another sticking point between Moscow and the U.S. is two Russian diplomatic compounds in

the U.S. that were seized last year. The Kremlin says it considers any conditions that Washington sets for their return is "unacceptable."

Let's got to Ivan Watson now. He joins us from Moscow. Ivan, have conditions been put on the return of these compounds to the Russians?

IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Not that we know of and there may be some behind the scenes bargaining going on or some hints

at that, but yes, the Russians are standing by this position and they're looking forward to this meeting scheduled in Washington between U.S.

Undersecretary of State Thomas Shannon and the Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov. That was a meeting that was supposed to taking place

several weeks ago and it was canceled by the Russians partially in response to an increase in sanctions from the U.S. against Russia.

And also because Moscow argues that the U.S. side simply wasn't ready for talks. They didn't really have a clear agenda set out. We're hearing

increasing threats now coming from the Russian side that they will be obliged to retaliate to the Obama administration's decision in the final

days of the Obama administration to seize two diplomatic compounds and expel some 35 diplomats amid allegations that Russia intervened, meddled in

the November 2016 U.S. Presidential election.

The foreign ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova. She suggested some of the responses that Russia could have if it does not get its property

returned. Take a listen

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[08:10:00] ARIA ZAKHAROVA, FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESWOMAN (through translator): One of the measures could be aside from just the symmetrical

expulsion of the Americans would be to equalize the amount of staff here. Moreover, there are too many CIA and Pentagon agents under the roof of the

American diplomatic mission here.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

WATSON: So basically suggesting that the U.S. embassy here is a nest of American spies. Now, where we've gotten suggestions from the Trump

administration that it may be open to some kind of deal here. That comes from a top White House aide who spoke to our Jake Tapper just a few days

ago. Take a listen.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

JAKE TAPPER, CNN ANCHOR: The Trump administration is considering returning those compounds to Russia. Why?

SEBASTIAN GORKA, DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE U.S. PRESIDENT: Well look, because we want to give collaboration, cooperation a chance.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

WATSON: One of the areas of collaboration, as Sebastian Gorka put it, is in Syria where there has been some success at setting up a local cease-fire

in the southwest of the country and that awful war, and the Trump administration has indicated that it would like to move forward to set up

other localized kind of deconfliction zones.

And that might be one of the preconditions that is being talked about right now and that the Russians are very uncomfortable with because they say this

was simply breaking international law. They need their property back. Andrew.

STEVENS: Ivan Watson in Moscow. Thanks so much.

Let's turn now to Syria, where the battle against ISIS is in full force. It's rare to hear from the militants themselves, and even rarer to hear

from the women who have joined them in their so-called caliphate in Raqqa. But with ISIS now losing ground, the former brides of ISIS fighters have

been rounded up, held at a refugee camp until officials decide their fate. Nick Paton Walsh brings us some of their stories.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

NICK PATON WALSH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Don't kid yourself, they saw the videos -- girls, mothers, some who married into ISIS who knew what they

were about but still came. Now, jailed in a refugee camp, stuck in limbo was ISIS collapses trying to go home. They want your pity and that you

believe them when they say, it was all, all of it, a huge mistake.

They use women for sex?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. It's very disgusting.

WALSH: Three Indonesian sisters say they paid thousands of dollars to get here, lured by the false promise of free health care and schools but ended

up living off selling their jewelry and paying thousands to get smuggled out. It just wasn't as pure a caliphate as they expected.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They say that they want to everyone to jihad for the sake of Allah, but what they want it's only about women and sex. It's

disgusting.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I heard that if they marry a widow, they will get a thousand dollars.

WALSH: Single women arrivals like them kept in a commune while they look for husbands.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The manner of the women inside the dorm, it's very different, it's very far from Islam. Harsh manner, gossiping, shout each

other, backbiting and fighting between the women. I was very surprised when I see that.

WALSH: Zaida (ph) explains the dorm is a bit like tinder.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): When the woman arrives in this dormitory she makes a sort of CD, puts down her age, name, how her

personality is like, what she looks for in a man. And men also post their CD's.

WALSH: This is like tinder of the caliphate.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, it's dating so you meet, you talk for 15, 20 minutes, and then it's a yes or no. If they both agree, then they get

haired. It's very quick.

WALSH: She says she came for a charity work but her husband was killed the second time they tried to flee. She's as appalled by the Paris terror

attacks as she was by the coalition bombing of Raqqa and just wants to go back to France.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I love life. I love to work. I love my jeans. I love my makeup. I love my parents. The only thing I want is to go back. I'm not

far from the beach. I used to go to the beach every weekend in a bikini.

WALSH: In a bikini?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, in a bikini.

WALSH: May (ph) was a Syrian English teacher whose first husband was killed by a sniper in homs (ph) and said she was traveling to Turkey when

she was way laid in Raqqa where she met and married a Moroccan.

WALSH: Were you looking for a man when you went to --

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No.

WALSH: So how come you found one just like you --

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, my god.

WALSH: Who's this guy next door?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I didn't get the name to me.

WALSH: She says ISIS spokesman Abu Muhammad Adnani knew the love and allowed him not to fight. He's now in jail. She is disapproving of less

pure love stories.

Did you hear other stories of women here came looking for husbands?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They look to the European men, that they are here and ISIS they

[08:15:00] are strong men, you know, with guns and they can protect them. It's an idea that is just like movies. Many of them were very shocked

because when they get married from a man, you know, three, four days, one month and they divorced.

I know a woman, she was married six times and after three days, she goes to a court and asks the judge to divorce her. And when the judge ask her why

you want divorce, she say he prevent her from making any, you know, sexual, you know, and she say I can't accept him. All the time thinking of my dying

husband. So why marry him if you don't want him and he say I will send you to the prison and, you know, she was crying no, no, no, this is the last

time, I promise.

WALSH: Her husband was once arrested for smoking by the religious police and because they won't talk to women, she had to literally enter a man's

world to get him out of jail.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And you know what, it was a crazy idea. I just put my husband's colors, his shoes, and I covered my eyes with black glasses and I

lend a gun from my neighbor. I take it from them and I took my boy and let's go to the (INAUDIBLE).

WALSH: Would you do a man's voice now?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. (INAUDIBLE).

WALSH: That's how men sound, just deeper. These stories decide their fate here. Whether they stay in limbo or go home.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Bet you don't believe me. Isis speaks a language more than mouth. Don't you feel that there is a trust in my eyes?

WALSH: Yes. Your husband, what if you don't see him again?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I want someone to kill him because I can't kill myself. It's a suicide and I can't commit suicide. I just can't.

WALSH: Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, (INAUDIBLE) northern Syria.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

STEVENS: Still ahead on "News Stream," they started the day with a handshake but can E.U. and U.K. negotiators remain cordial during Brexit

talks today? We'll take a look at what's on the table, just ahead.

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STEVENS: Well, Brexit talks resumes today in Brussels. The U.K.'s Brexit secretary, David Davis is calling on negotiators from both sides of the

table to "get down to business." Citizen's rights and the U.K.'s financial settlement are expected to be the biggest sources of tension. Let's go to

London now where CNN Money, Nina Dos Santos is covering developments for you. Hi, Nina. David Davis talking about getting down to business, I'm sure

the Europeans have been wanting to get down to business for quite a long time but waiting for Britain to have some sort of common platform.

[08:20:00] Do the Brits now have a plan?

NINA DOS SANTOS, CNN MONEY: Who knows? That's the multi-trillion-dollar question at this point, isn't it, Andrew. In fact, one of the interesting

images that hopefully later on the day I'll be able to show you is the picture of them all sitting around the negotiating table. It seems thought

the Europeans have stacks loads of papers and David Davis, the Brexit secretary and his counterparts of the negotiating team didn't come armed

with any paperwork.

They seem to be wanting to have more of a chat really about the proposed terms of this settlement rather than actually nailing down any of the

financial nitty-gritty. David Davis, as you pointed out there, was very keen to make these business-like pronouncements, often these business-like

pronouncements that we've heard Theresa May and her government over the last few months heading into these Brexit talks, Andrew, have fallen on

deaf ears in Brussels.

Because Brussels seems to think that the U.K. is talking about the periphery issues rather than actually grappling with the hard thornier

issues such as for instance the financial settlement, which is one of the thorniest issues of all that the two sides will have to speak about.

Nevertheless, just take a listen to the tone as David Davis went in. It was quite placatory, quite upbeat and also quite friendly.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DAVID DAVIS, SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EXITING EUROPEAN UNION: We made a good start last month, but as we shall says we're now getting into the substance

of the matter. And as you heard its four categories really, the issue of citizens rights, the issue of finance, the issue of separation issues and

of course separately northern Ireland.

For us, it's incredibly important we now make good progress looking to negotiate through this and identify the differences so that we can deal

with them and identify the similarities so that we can reinforce them. And now it's time to get down to work and make this a successful negotiation.

Thank you very much.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

DOS SANTOS: So Andrew, just to recap, the key issues that they have on the table as we count down towards 2019 when Brexit officially should be done,

according to Theresa May's government, or officially according to the E.U. rule book, well, the U.K. could just be kicked out without a deal. Citizens

rights, separation issues, a financial settlement as well as a very topical issue of northern Ireland, which is the place where the U.K. will have its

own hard borders, only hard border with the European Union because of course the Republic of Ireland and the south of northern Ireland on the

other side of that border is part of the European Union.

So, will goods and services be able to move from one part of Ireland, south to northern Ireland? Will people be able to move in a different way than

they can and the rest of the U.K.? Those are the types of questions that they're going to have to grapple with.

For the moment going into these talks, David Davis has made clear that when it comes to citizens rights, that's going to be one of the key priorities

in this just second round of monthly talks. Remember that there's 3 million E.U. citizens who call the U.K. their home, another 1 million U.K. citizens

who live abroad across the European continent.

U.K. has offered an olive branch for some of those E.U. citizens who call this country their home but they haven't really had much in return from the

Europeans so, what happens to the fate of the more than 1 million Brits across the channel. It's these types of things that they're going to be

talking about between now and Thursday when this round wraps up, Andrew.

STEVENS: So much to talk about. Nina, thank you. Nina Dos Santos joining us live from London.

Now staying in the United Kingdom and turning to an update on the case of baby Charlie Gard, an American neurology expert is examining Charlie this

week. The infant suffers from a rare terminal condition. His parents are fighting to keep him on life support after a court ruled that he should be

taken off.

The parents want to take him to the U.S. for experimental treatment which may provide some improvement. The medical evaluation is intended to help

the High Court make its decision.

In Venezuela, the opposition is claiming victory in an unofficial referendum on President Nicolas Maduro. It's the latest sign of defiance in

a country rocked by social unrest and a failing economy. Journalist Stefano Pozzebon reports from Caracas.

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STEFANO POZZEBON, JOURNALIST: About 7.2 million Venezuelans have voted today, 6.5 of them roughly inside Venezuela and about 700,000 Venezuelans

abroad. There's a very huge turnout for the opposition who is claiming victory in these nonbinding referendum against the proposal for a

constitution of President Nicolas Maduro. What is important is that the day so far has been -- has gone quite peacefully, and quite quietly.

All the seats have been able to record the votes in a rather quiet way and only a small incident, one person was killed by clashes between the two

different party, main parties, the government and

[08:25:00] the main opposition. But again, after more than three months of social unrest and more than 90 people who have been killed so far in

Venezuela, people are still taking the streets and today we have learned that about 7.2 million of them were able to vote, were able to express

their will against this proposal for a new constitution by Nicolas Maduro, and that's quite an outcome.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

STEVENS: That was the journalist Stefano Pozzebonn reporting from the Venezuelan capital.

South Korea is offering to halt military talks with the north. It's an attempt to defuse tensions between the two nations. The proposal comes less

than two weeks after Pyongyang tested an intercontinental ballistic missile. South Korea's defense ministry is proposing talks Friday on the

northern Korean side of the demilitarized zone. The north has yet to respond to that offer.

Well, North Korea meanwhile is as we know, one of the world's poorest countries but you wouldn't necessarily know that if you walked into some of

the stores in Pyongyang. New images show the shelves stocked with high-end liquor and thousand dollar watches and Dave McKenzie takes a look at who's

buying those goods and where that money is headed.

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DAVE MCKENZIE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Premium liquor stores stacked five rows high, imported shoes, expensive perfumes, rare images of

a luxury department store inside North Korea, part of a year-long investigation by website MKPro (ph), a specialist North Korea watcher. Who

is the target market of these luxury items in Pyongyang?

KIM KWANG-JIN, NORTH KOREAN DEFECTOR: Foreigners, and rich guys of Pyongyang.

MCKENZIE: How rich? Here you can buy a $4,000 watch and its cash only. Rich North Koreans paying in $100 notes, a diploma says who used to shop

there. North Korean defector Kim Kwan-Jing helps get elicit goods into the country.

He says the stores funnel cash into Office 39, a secret organization that the U.S. Treasury says works as a slush fund for Kim Jong-Un. North Koreans

working abroad, hotels in Pyongyang, tourist dollars, all of it a sprawling mafia style cash earner for the supreme leader.

KWANG-JIN: Most profitable businesses, the best companies are all belonged to Office number 39 and it is Kim family business. It does not belong to

the cabinet. It does not belong to the state control.

MCKENZIE: He says the luxury stores keep rich party members loyal to Kim Jong-Un. And that the hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue help fund

Kim's nuclear ambitions.

KWANG-JIN: They earn a lot of dollars in foreign cash from these luxurious department stores by selling all these goods and you know, they reallocate

these dollars into their priorities, like you know, nuclear and missile program.

MCKENZIE: So a luxury purchase could help build a missile?

KWANG-JIN: Sure.

MCKENZIE: U.N. sanctions buy many luxury goods from getting into North Korea that Office 39 works in complex ways using multiple fronts. The Trump

administration wants to cut off the money flow. Just how worried are the North Koreans? Well, they're building a brand new golden mall in the heart

of Pyongyang. David McKenzie, CNN, Seoul.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

STEVENS: Still ahead on the show, a rare chance to hear from the Duchess of Cornwall.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DUCHESS OF CORNWALL, UNITED KINGDOM: It was exactly the subject that I think we can talk about it now and if I can talk about it and bang the drum

a bit, so can a lot of other people.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

STEVENS: In a CNN exclusive, Camilla tells our Max Foster how she's helping victims of domestic violence. Stay with us.

[08:30:00] (COMMERCIAL BREAK)

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

Donald Trump's approval rating has fallen to a historic low. It's now at 36 percent. That's according to a new "Washington Post"/ABC News poll. And

that's the lowest of any U.S. president at the sixth month mark in 70 years. Mr. Trump is defending himself on twitter saying almost 40 percent

isn't bad at this time. He also suggests the poll is inaccurate.

Negotiators for the U.K. and the E.U. are meeting in Brussels for a second round of Brexit talks. Citizen's rights and the U.K.'s financial settlement

bill are expected to top the agenda. The U.K. will leave the bloc in less than two years from now.

In Venezuela, the opposition is claiming victory in an unofficial referendum on President Nicolas Maduro. It says more than 7 million people

voted to reject his plans to rewrite the constitution. The country is paralyzed by social unrest as protesters call for government reforms.

Well, Monday is a special day for the royal family. The wife of Prince Charles, Camilla, is celebrating her 70th birthday. This portrait of the

couple was released in honor of the occasion. Camilla's voice is rarely heard on camera, but in a CNN exclusive, the Duchess of Cornwall took time

to speak with CNN's Max Foster during a day filled with public engagements.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What you do, you do a back step and you step forward with your left foot leaders.

MAX FOSTER, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: A few dancing tips for the guests at a tea party in Bristol in aid of those who support the elderly,

then a special guest arrives.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm going to introduce you around to some of the people.

FOSTER: The Duchess would have been retired herself if she didn't have a job for life.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hello, how are you?

FOSTER: It's important for members of the Royal Family like the Duchess to be meeting the public, to be relevant to their lives, but also to be seen

to be relevant to their lives, which is why we, the media, are here.

Camilla is the friendliest member of the Royal Family if you speak to the members of the press pack that follow her. Never seen her take it this far,

though. She's hit the dance floor with one of the photographers, Arthur Edwards of "The Sun."

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I was so delighted to meet her and I thought what a gentle delightful woman she is actually.

DUCHESS OF CORNWALL: Thank you very much for all you do and thank you very much to my dance partners for giving me a nice twirl. I wasn't expecting

it. I would have put on my dancing shoes had I known.

FOSTER: Then we're off to a very different engagement.

DUCHESS OF CORNWALL: They have no idea.

FOSTER: A shelter for victims of domestic violence.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's just over two years now since my two sons was taken by the father with the fire he barricaded them in. All I could do was

hold them as they died, and it's every parent's worst nightmare not to be there when they need you the most.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's been 2002 when he attacked me with a blow torch, a three-day torture of knives and broken glass.

DUCHESS OF CORNWALL: We need more rather than less. It's not going to go away.

FOSTER: The shelter is run by a charity and funds are low. The Duchess speaks to staff to find out how they're coping. I managed to grab a word

with her as she made her way around.

You've heard some incredibly powerful stories today. What are you able to bring to these sorts of conversations?

DUCHESS OF CORNWALL: Well, I'm not sure what I'm able to bring.

[08:35:00] It's what all these very brave ladies tell me. It's seeing is believing, hearing is believing. I think like many other people in this

country -- I didn't know much about domestic abuse. In fact, I knew nothing at all. I've read a bit about it and I think that I went to visit another

charity who save lives, where again I sat round and listened to some very brave ladies tell their stories and I think everybody there was moved to

tears, and I thought as I came, I just wish there was something I could do to help.

FOSTER: You're able to coordinate groups, bring publicity?

DUCHESS OF CORNWALL: Well, that's what I'm trying to do, is to bring everybody together to coordinate them, to get them talking, so they come up

with the ideas. I think we can talk. It was a taboo subject but I think we can talk about it now and if I can talk about it and bang the drum a bit,

so can a lot of other people.

So that's what I'm trying to do, to help, but again, these wonderful people that do the hard work and my goodness me, I do admire them all. They are

the most incredible lot of ladies and you heard the ladies who are talking today, telling their stories. Well, you have to be very brave to stand up

and tell, you know, talk about all those terrible things that have happened to you. And I can only hope someday we can make it better.

FOSTER: Thank you for speaking.

DUCHESS OF CORNWALL: Thank you.

FOSTER: This we think is the longest she's ever spoken on camera. It's an issue she cares deeply about.

We've been allowed into the convoy and we're heading to the Duchess' third engagement in a matter of hours.

DUCHESS OF CORNWALL: Hello. Are you enjoying your day?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Very much so.

FOSTER: She's visiting a row of independent shops, a bite of chocolate, perhaps not that easy to enjoy in front of a bank of cameras. And a brush

with the public, the visit was unannounced for security reasons and came as quite a surprise.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All the (INAUDIBLE) ladies were like, she's coming and she was like she was in the charity shop. I was like, wow. She's amazing.

She's one of a kind. She's really, really good.

FOSTER: There's no doubt the British public has warmed to Camilla in the 12 years since she's been married to Prince Charles. Each engagement

bringing her a little closer to the public and connecting her with them. This day is not done just yet, though. She's off to London for another

engagement. Max Foster, CNN, Bristol, England.

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STEVENS: Still to come here on "News Stream," the plains of Kazakhstan may not look as if they're filled with wealth but it's what's buried underneath

that may shape our energy future.

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STEVENS: Well, we all need power but generating electricity can be a dirty business. With nations saying that they want to limit harmful emission, now

an old question is being asked, and Nina Dos Santos looks at where the nuclear power could be the answer.

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DOS SANTOS: Beneath the baked earth of the Kazakh Steppe is

[08:40:00] one of the country's largest uranium mines. Forty-eight kilometers wide, the metal below workers' feet is valuable and

controversial. Twenty years ago, uranium prices peaked at $136 per pound. Today's prices are more around the $20 mark. But could future energy policy

reverse the trend in the next few years?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): We pump sulfuric acid into the ground and it dissolves the uranium. We pump out the liquid for production.

DOS SANTOS: Kazakhstan is the world's largest producer of uranium, the key ingredient in nuclear fuel. About 40 percent of global supply comes from

mines like this one, owned by the state-run company Kazatomprom.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If you look at current nuclear generations, it's about 11 percent of global power production and less than 1 percent of Co2

emissions and without nuclear it's very hard to see how we would be able to achieve the targets for 2030 and 2050.

DOS SANTOS: Those targets are from the Paris Agreement to address climate change. One hundred and fifty-two countries so far have pledged to keep

global warming well below 2 degrees that, means winning ourselves off fossil fuels.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We are getting word of a powerful earthquake that has hit Japan.

DOS SANTOS: But the Fukushima disaster in Japan in 2011 has had serious consequences for the nuclear industry. And six years after Fukushima, only

five of Japan's 42 nuclear reactors are operating. There lies the trickiest issue with nuclear power, trust. Science is on side when it comes to carbon

emissions, in fact, they're relatively low in nuclear energy production but can the public be convinced that greater investment is necessary?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Over the next four years we're going to see 60 new reactors and it's places like U.A.E., China, Jordan, the estimates are

anywhere between 30 and 60 percent increase in the nuclear base load generation from today. So there's a lot at risk.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): This is a filtration pool. We bring the uranium solution here to filter it for processing.

DOS SANTOS: What's left is this, uranium oxide, more commonly known as yellow cake. When enriched, it's used in nuclear fuel pellets and nuclear

weapons. More than a billion people still live without electricity, according to the International Energy Agency, and it may be the reason

nuclear power and the price of uranium makes a resurgence in the years to come.

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STEVENS: Nina Dos Santos reporting there. That is "News Stream." Thanks for joining us. I'm Andrew Stevens. Stay with us, "World Sport" with Alex

Thomas is just ahead.

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