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Trump in Asia; Roy Moore and Comedian Face Sexual Misconduct Claims; Lebanon Demands Hariri's Return From Saudi Arabia; Smog Chokes Indian Capital; Theresa May Names the Hour for Brexit; Migrants in French Camp: World Headlines; Trump: North Korea is a hell no person deserves; Destination India; Trump Leaves Tasty Legacy in Japan. Aired 8-9a ET
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KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN NEWS STREAM SHOW HOST: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong and welcome to "News Stream."
President Trump brings his "America First" message to Asia, but again says he doesn't blame Asian countries for taking advantage of the United States.
More sexual misconduct allegations in the U.S. A Republican politician and comedian Louis C.K. are both facing accusations.
And residents of India's capital suffer another day of air so bad, the breathing in New Delhi is equivalent of smoking 44 cigarettes a day.
U.S. President Donald Trump is now in Vietnam advocating stronger trade ties while re-enforcing his message "America First." Now he and other world
leaders are in the coastal city of Danang for the annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit.
This is Mr. Trump's fourth stop on his five-nation tour of Asia. A few hours ago, he delivered a speech calling for fair and equal trade, saying
he won't let other countries, in his words, take advantage of the United States any longer.
Now, another lingering question hanging over the summit, will Donald Trump meet with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin? Jeff Zeleny has that.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A highly anticipated encounter between President Trump and Russian President
Vladimir Putin under negotiations for days is awash in confusion this morning. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders telling reporters a
scheduling conflict will prevent a formal meeting, although the two leaders could still cross paths.
SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: Are they going to bump into each other and say hello? Certainly possible and likely. But in terms
of a scheduled formal meeting, there's not one on the calendar and we don't anticipate that there will be one.
ZELENY (voice-over): Yet Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said a meeting will take place one way or another, adding that the White House is making
conflicting statements.
The president's 13-day trip to Asia continues to be overshadowed by a series of events at home, including developments in the Russia
investigation, which is growing even closer to the oval office. Senior Senior policy adviser Stephen Miller seen here with the President aboard
Air Force One has been interviewed as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's probe.
Sources close to the investigation tell CNN, Miller is highest ranking aide still working at the White House known to have spoken to investigators. His
role in the firing of FBI Director James Comey was among the topics discussed as a part of the inquiry into possible obstruction of justice, a
source told CNN.
The president's long-time confidante who delivered the letter of Comey's dismissal to FBI headquarters, Keith Schiller, also wrapped up in the
investigation. Schiller testified behind closed doors to the House Intelligence Committee this week that he rejected a Russian offer to send
five women to Trump's hotel room during his 2013 visit to Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant.
Schiller told house members he took the offer as a joke, sources told CNN, and Mr. Trump then a private citizen laughed it off. President remaining
focused on a series of priorities here today, amplifying his call to confront North Korea's nuclear ambitions, and again pledging that his
administration will do what his predecessors did not and close the trade imbalance with countries like China.
DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I am always going to put America first the same way that I expect all of you in this room to put
your countries first.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
LU STOUT: And that was CNN's Jeff Zeleny reporting. Our international diplomatic editor Nic Robertson is there in Danang, Vietnam, and he joins
us now live. And Nic, any more clarity? Do we know how Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin will interact there at the summit?
NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: Yes, I mean, there is every possibility that they will meet on the margins of the summit. They're
both going to be there. They're both going to be in the same room. You know, how does that get classified diplomatically?
Is it merely a passing exchange? Is it a little pull-aside, that one can say that is a little longer of an exchange? Is it in a private room? Does
it then, you know, get upgraded to not quite a bilateral -- you know, the indications here seem to be that the White House is playing down
expectations.
If you think back to Hamburg last summer, the G20, where President Putin and President Trump met for the first time, the way, you know, what they
discussed was sort of rolled out by the White House ended up being somewhat a little bit haphazard. President Putin was the one who spoke most about it
publicly and it did -- the way that it got rolled out in a sort of, you know, if you will,
[08:05:00] the details of it, really reflected quite negatively on the White House at that time. So this seems to be, in essence, a way to play
down the expectations. And there are contentious issues, the meddling in the U.S. election, President Trump does want President Putin's help on
North Korea.
There are issues about Syria which the two countries still have big differences on. So, there is a lot there still, you know, that could go
wrong in this meeting.
LU STOUT: And I also want to get your read on Donald Trump's speech that he made there to APEC in Vietnam. He is touting "America First" while also
sharing his vision of what the Trump team is calling a free and open Indo- Pacific. What does that mean and is the message directed at China?
ROBERTSON: It is in a way directed at China. There were sort of more precise things that were directed at China, but what this does seem to be
is an effort. And we've heard this language Indo-Pacific as opposed to Asia-Pacific. Asia-Pacific being a smaller area, Indo-Pacific indicating
that India is really drawn into this. The biggest democracy in the world is how President Trump talked about it.
When you bring Indo-Pacific in, analysts say this is a way to sort of, if you will, marginalize, offset the oversized influence of China in the Asia-
Pacific region because you bring in a very large country, a very large democracy like India.
Explicitly President Trump did say that the United States won't tolerate, you know, expansionist, you know, governments and did what he seemed to
point without saying to the South China Sea, where he says it was necessary to have a free overflights and free passage of naval vessels through that
area.
This was something where he was sort of saying the United States supports all the countries in this region, for whom those overflights and the
ability to, you know, sail ships through, whether it's commerce or navy, that's important, and of course that really is aimed at China which has a
growing influence in that sea.
LU STOUT: And changing alliances, I mean is the U.S. edging closer to Vietnam as long-time ally? The Philippines makes its pivot to China.
ROBERTSON: You know, we haven't really -- I don't think we got that level of detail out of President Trump. That may emerge, you know, when the
summit continues. What we've heard from President Trump was really, you know, he briefly at the beginning of his speech went through all the
different countries in the region that were present in Vietnam, you know, to how the economy had improved 30 times, 40 times in the last number of
decades.
In the Philippines, how people's standard of living there have improved in the past number of decades. So, we didn't get that sense from him of
picking one above another or trying to push one away from China. But we do understand that President Trump was expected to have other bilateral
meetings here. He is expected to meet with the, president of Vietnam over the weekend. So, potentially, we may hear more that will give us a better
understanding of what he is trying to achieve there.
LU STOUT: Nic Robertson reporting live for us from Danang. Thank you so much and take care. Mr. Trump is weighing in on allegations that could
affect the senate race in the U.S. state of Alabama. According to The Washington Post, several women accused Republican candidate Roy Moore of
trying to have sexual relationships with them when they were just teenagers and when Moore was in his 30s. Mr. Trump says, if the allegations are true,
Moore should step aside from the race.
Martin Savidge is in Gadsden, Alabama. He joins us now. Martin, what more have you learned about Roy Moore there in his home state as well as the
allegations against him?
MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN ANCHOR AND CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Kristie, well these accusations have sent a shock wave, not just through this community and not
just through the state of Alabama, but through an entire senate campaign, one that could potentially, depending on the outcome, have an impact on
national politics.
And what's disturbing here is not just what is being alleged, but also who is being alleged against and the timing of this, just weeks before the
critical vote. It goes back to this town, this courthouse at a time when Moore was an assistant district attorney.
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SAVIDGE (voice-over): Leigh Corfman says she was 14 years old when she first met Roy Moore. It was 1979 when Moore was an assistant district
attorney in Etowah, Alabama. He was was 32-years-old at the time. Corfman was at the courthouse with her mother Nancy for a custody hearing.
Even now, 38 years later, both women remember Moore introducing himself and offering to sit with Leigh while Nancy attended the hearing. They told
their story to The Washington Post. Beth Reinhard is one of the reporters who broke the story.
[08:10:00] BETH REINHARD, REPORTER: The mother said thank you very much for looking after my little girl and left them alone.
SAVIDGE (voice-over): Corfman told the Post Moore made plans to see her a few days after the hearing.
REINHARD: He picked her up around the corner from her house, took her to his house which is in a very woodsy rural area about 30 minutes away. Took
her into the house at least twice that occurred and gave her alcohol. And on one of the occasions, you know, undressed her, undressed himself, and,
you know, touched her over her bra and underwear and guided her to touch him over his underwear.
SAVIDGE (voice-over): Remember, Corfman was 14-years-old at the time. She said she was uncomfortable after that incident and asked Roy to take her
home. She never reported his behavior to the police. But she is not the only one with a story about Roy Moore. Wendy Miller told The Washington
Post when she was 14, Moore approached her at the mall and told her she was pretty. Two years later, he allegedly started asking her out, but she said
no.
Debbie Wesson Gibsoon told the Post she was 17 when met Moore who was speaking at her high school's civics class. They went out for a few dates
and Gibson says they only kissed, nothing more. Gloria Thacker Deason says she was 18 when she met Moore.
She says they dated on and off for a few months and that Moore would buy her alcohol, even though she was underage. She also says they only hugged
and kissed. All four women tell The Washington Post they were initially flattered by his attention, but as they grew older and Moore's prominence
in Alabama rose, they found his behavior troubling.
REINHARD: They see he is running for such a high office, U.S. senate. They also feel that it is critical of him to be, you know, saying things like
homosexuality should be illegal when in their experience he was, you know, looking for teenagers to date at the mall when he was in his 30s.
SAVIDGE (voice-over): Moore calls the Post story "completely false and a desperate political attack." His campaign has called the story fake news
and points out the paper has endorsed Moore's opponent in the Alabama senate race. But The Washington Post stands by its reporting and Leigh
Corfman told the Post she has no political agenda and has voted Republican in the past three presidential elections.
REINHARD: A Washington Post reporter was in Alabama doing some reporting on Roy Moore's supporters when these rumors were emerging that he had had
relationships with teenage girls. Two of us spent weeks in Alabama pursuing what we got and as we say in the story, nine of the woman were eager to go
public.
They were all off the record when we first spoke to them. It took multiple interviews before they agreed to speak publicly, because in the end they
felt like they needed to do it.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
SAVIDGE: What is interesting here, Kristie, is what is going to be the political fallout from all of this? Right now, it's really too early to try
to gauge the mixture of reaction I've had from people here, shock to disbelief in the reports and those making the accusations. Kristie?
LU STOUT: Yes, the accusations are very, very unsettling to hear. If these allegations are proven without a doubt true, you know, we've heard from
many Republicans saying that they want Moore to step aside but would Alabama Republicans continue to support Roy Moore?
SAVIDGE: You struck at the heart of the matter here. Here's the problem, at least from the political logistics, that Roy Moore's name is already on the
ballot. We are five weeks away from casting ballots here. His name cannot be taken off even if he were somehow removed from the process.
He said that he won't step down. It's possible the state party could remove him, but then you're into a write-in campaign and essentially Republicans
say that would be conceding the election to the Democrats, and to the minds of any Republican voters, that is almost as bad as the allegations that
have been made against Roy Moore. Kristie?
LU STOUT: Martin Savidge reporting live for us from Alabama. Thank you, Martin. Now a high profile entertainer is also facing sexual misconduct
allegation. The New York Times is reporting that multiple women have come forward to accuse comedian Louis C.K. Tom Foreman has more on these
allegations.
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LOUIS C.K., COMEDIAN: Are you hing good time?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (INAUDIBLE).
C.K.: Let me think about it and we'll talk later, OK?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I love you.
C.K.: I love you too.
TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Even in the best of times, "I Love You Daddy" might be controversial, a movie about a divorced man.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Is that your girlfriend?
C.K.: Oh, God, no, that's my daughter, China.
FOREMAN (voice-over): Whose teenage daughter starts dating a much older film director.
C.K.: (INAUDIBLE).
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Isn't that weird?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's not that weird. He likes young girls.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, he does.
C.K.: China.
FOREMAN (voice-over): But now the premier and the promotional appearance on the late
[08:15:00] show have been canceled after a New York Times report the film star and director exposed and fondled himself in front of women in several
incidents.
C.K.: Sexual prevention (ph) is a problem. You can't stop it. People have to do what they have to do.
FOREMAN (voice-over): It's the kind of behavior Louis C.K. frequently jokes about in his stand-up act.
C.K.: I am getting a kind of a rapey vibe from this girl. You think I'm just going to rape you on the off stance that hopefully you are into that?
(MUSIC PLAYING)
FOREMAN (voice-over): Indeed, the comedian has built a TV show, an army of fans, and a reputation of the comedy ground breaker with his course talk
about sensitive matters.
C.K.: China is a mire.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A mire what?
FOREMAN (voice-over): But the accusers name at the time are saying his jokes about sexual misconduct aren't just fiction. In numerous instances,
they say they were invited to private places such as hotel rooms, where he stripped off and masturbated in front of them. Then they say they felt
pressured to keep quiet and act like nothing was wrong.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Everybody is a pervert. I'm a pervert. We're all perverts. Who cares?
FOREMAN (voice-over): CNN has not independently confirmed any of these allegations. We have reached out to Louis C.K. for any comment and have
heard nothing yesterday and his publicist told The New York Times the comedian will not be answering any questions. Tom Foreman, CNN, Washington.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
LU STOUT: All right. We have an update to that report, a representative for the entertainer says that Louis C.K. will issue a written statement in the
coming days. You are watching "New Stream."
Still to come on the program, imagine smog so thick it is difficult to see, and it is hanging over the capital of India. Will there be any relief for
Delhi? We'll get an update next.
Also lives in limbo, migrants face dirty and dangerous conditions at a camp in eastern France. What the French president is doing about the situation,
next.
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LU STOUT: All right. Coming to you live from Hong Kong. Welcome back. This is "News Stream." To the Middle East now where the Lebanese president is
demanding Saad Hariri's return Saudi Arabia, so the real reasons for his decision to resign as prime minister are revealed.
Hariri met with the Saudi king in Riyadh on Monday and just days after he made the shocking announcement of his resignation on Saudi TV. Hariri said
that he fled Lebanon over Iran's meddling. Now Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the UAE have ordered their citizens out of Lebanon after the Saudi has
accused Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah party of declaring war.
Residents in India's capital are suffering through a fourth
[08:20:00] straight day of choking smog. The pollution is so heavy in New Delhi that schools have been closed so that the children don't have to go
outside. Trucks have been barred from entering the city. Doctors are reporting a surge in patients with breathing complaints.
For more on the situation, let's go straight to CNN's Allison Chinchar at the world weather center. And Allison, just how bad is it? How did this
happen? Where did this haze come from?
ALLISON CHINCHAR, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Let's start with your first question of how bad is it? The levels are still incredibly unhealthy but some good
news is we're starting to see the trend in numbers coming down, that's in the right direction, even though it's still unhealthy. You are looking at
line numbers right now right here in New Delhi, we are looking at 499, but some of the surrounding towns, now down into the 100 and 200 levels.
Again, these are still unhealthy, but we are starting to see these numbers come down from the 300s and the 400s, which is the direction you want them
to go in. This has been life around New Delhi for folks. Again, visibility is poor, not just for driving purposes but for walking, living, breathing.
All of it.
This is some of the NASA imagery. Again, you can see all of the smoke right through here Now the majority of it is coming from agriculture. This time
of year, the monsoon rains are over there burning off the remainder of the crops, and that's triggering the smoke. The problem is it gets dammed up
here by the Himalayas, so it has nowhere to go and it just sits over the same spot.
Again, you can see some of these numbers in the 400s, but some now starting to drop down into the 200s, but again, we emphasize even 200, it is
considered very unhealthy. You want them in the green, maybe perhaps the yellow range if need be, but not certainly not in the reds, the pinks, and
even the purples. That's just beyond the index when you start getting up towards 500 or higher.
Now here again, man-made sources are often the big concern for this, transportation, the cars and trucks. That's why they have been trying to
instigate the license plate, odd number license plate drivers going one day then the next day would be the even number license plate, factory emissions
and then of course agriculture, the forest fires.
That's what we have en seeing from this particular round that we have been having. Take a look at some of the video also that has been coming into us
from areas of India. Again, just the smoke, the smog made worse oftentimes in a lot of these cities by the fact that you have a lot of those cars and
trucks on the road.
Again, it's traffic, they sit there for long periods of time. It is also affecting tourist destinations too. Everybody wants their pictures taken
in front of these famous monuments and statues and it is very difficult to do that, so you have to understand the economic impact not just on the
agricultural industry and a lot of the business inside, but the tourism industry as well.
We also talk about the health effects. A lot of folks there you have been seeing, they wear the masks, but you have to understand, the masks are not
cheap in these areas, so for a lot of the poorer communities, it's not available to them to be able to get a lot of those masks that can help with
breathing problems.
Now to mention the long-term health effects, premature death, irregular heart beats, and decreased lung function. These are some of the concerns
that they have going forward. Environmental damage as well, damage to some of the farm crops.
You know, Kristie, one of the things I think people need to understand is there is an easy fix to this solution, but it's not a cost effective one.
The number one thing, get tractors, get farming equipment to take up the crops instead of burning them. But for a lot of these communities, it's
just simply too expensive to do that.
LU STOUT: It's really sad to hear that, just looking all the damage that choking haze is causing to the community there in Delhi. Allison Chinchar
reporting. Thank you so much, Allison. Take care.
The British prime minister is warning pro-Europe politicians that she won't tolerate efforts to block Brexit in parliament. Theresa May has pinned on
the exact hour when the U.K. will leave the E.U. Writing in a daily telegraph, May says that Brexit will take place 11:00 p.m. Greenwich on
March 29, 2019.
Meanwhile, the E.U.'s chief negotiator for Brexit, Michel Barnier, has given the U.K. a deadline of two weeks to deal with the so-called divorce
bill. He stresses that it is absolutely vital before trade talks can begin.
Turning now to France, where President Emmanuel Macron has said he wants migrants off the streets by the end of the year. And while that deadline is
fast approaching, the shanty towns at one camp in Eastern France are only growing. Here is CNN's Melissa Bell.
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MELISSA BELL, CNN PARIS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For years now, local volunteers have been doing what they can to help. Today, they brought
bananas, lots of them, for the several hundred migrants whose home is the Blida (ph) camp on the outskirts of Metz in Eastern France.
For four years now, during the spring and summer months, local authorities have officially housed asylum seekers who are waiting to hear on their
claims here; beyond the fence, a sort of life in limbo for the migrants.
[08:25:00] Some have come through nearby Germany after having their claims turned down there. Metz is the town where migrants arriving in Eastern
France can apply for asylum, all are now officially in the care of the French state as their application are processed. They have been given a
parking lot to live on and not a great deal else.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (UNSTRANSLATED).
BELL (voice-over): The aide groups who who have helped them say there are currently more than 500 migrants living here and they keep on coming,
families sent by local authorities with a map for whom the struggle to survive is far from over.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's so dirty, to be honest. It's not a place to live in. It's not a place to live in.
BELL (voice-over): Local authorities say the camp is necessary because of a shortage of temporary accommodation. They say there are 100 new arrivals
every day in the mozan (ph) department and that they do what they can to move the migrants on to proper housing as quickly as possible.
But these were images taken with a phone. The local prefecture would not let us in even when we tried to accompany a local MP on her tour of the
camp.
Caroline Fiat (ph) says she's not surprised the local authorities were reluctant to let us in.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (UNSTRANSLATED).
BELL: Emmanuel Macron has said that he wants there to be no more migrants on the streets of France by the end of the year. The French government says
it wants a system that is at once more efficient to expel those whose asylum applications have failed but also more humanitarian to accommodate
those who are still waiting to hear.
That is going to mean an awful lot more temporary accommodation being made available and fast, not only in order to house those who are currently
begging on the streets of France but also to house those who are currently being taken care of by public authorities in the open air. Melissa Bell,
CNN, in Metz.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
LU STOUT: Now, still to come right here on "News Stream," North Koreans react to U.S. President Trump's fiery condemnation. An exclusive report
from the streets of Pyongyang.
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LU STOUT: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. You are watching "News Stream" and these are your world headlines. Russian spokesman Dmitry Peskov says
President Putin
[08:30:00] and U.S. President Trump will meet at the APEC Summit in Vietnam one way or another. The White House says that there will not be a formal
meeting because of the schedule conflicts on both sides, but that they will likely bump into each other.
World leaders of the APEC Summit are arriving for a gala dinner right now. As you see here, President Trump has put aside his suit for, yes, this
traditional Vietnamese blue silk shirt. Just hours ago, the U.S. president sent a stern message on trade. Now he told the APEC gathering that he will
always put America first, and he says that the U.S. will no longer tolerate unfair trade practices that, in his words, take advantage of America.
Now, the British prime minister is warning pro-Europe politicians that she won't tolerate efforts to block Brexit in parliament as she pins down the
exact hour of Brexit. May says the U.K. will leave the E.U. 11:00 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time on March 29, 2019. meanwhile, the E.U. chief negotiator
is giving the U.K a two-week deadline to deal with the so-called divorce bill before trade talks can begin.
Some TV networks are taking steps to distance themselves from comedian Louis C.K. after The New York Times reports five women alleged sexual
misconduct by the actor and producer. The spokesperson says that Louis C.K. will respond in a written statement in the coming days.
President Trump has been talking tough about North Korea on his tour of Asia, but reaction on the streets of North Korea's capital Pyongyang is
harsh as well. CNN's Will Ripley has been talking to people there and he brings us this exclusive report.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
WILL RIPLEY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In North Korea, where the news is under strict government control, state media gave only a
brief mention of President Trump's speech at the South Korean National Assembly. No details of his scathing indictment of North Korean human
rights and harsh words for their supreme leader, Kim Jong-un.
TRUMP: North Korea is not the paradise your grandfather envisioned. It is a hell that no person deserves.
RIPLEY (voice-over): Despite heavy restrictions on the flow of information, our government guides allow us to tell Pyongyang citizens exactly what
Trump said.
"That's absurd," says housewife Ri Yongi (ph). "The reality here is very different. We are leading a happy life. And we enjoy exclusive right."
RIPLEY (on camera): When you say you have rights that people don't have outside of North Korea, what do you mean by that?
(voice-over): "One example is our outstading leader, Marshal Kim Jong-un," she says. "He is leading us to a better future. Trump has no place to talk
about human rights. He is a simple sample war maniac."
Her answer echoes North Korea's leading newspaper, which called President Trump's words, "warmongering, filthy rhetoric spewing out of his snout like
garbage that reeks of gunpowder to ignite war."
Li Wongil (ph) is an editor at a publishing company. I asked him about President Trump's claim that North Korea is a failed state, where most live
in poverty, drawing a stark contrast to their neighbors in the south.
RIPLEY (on camera): Why do you think that South Korea's economy is so much larger than North Korea's? Do you agree with President Trump that it is
your government policies that are to blame?
(voice-over): He knows nothing at all about this part of the country, he says. Here, we have free education, housing, medical care. He was raised an
orphan. His parents died serving the government. Now, he has cushy job in the showpiece capital. The United Nations says most North Koreans live
without regular electricity, clean water and nutritious food.
(on camera): What about people who don't live here in Pyongyang? People who live out in the countryside?
(voice-over): We're building our economy, even under the sanctions and economic blockade by the Americans, he says. And even in western countries,
there is a big difference between life in the capital and small towns.
On 17 trips to North Korea, I've never heard anyone criticize the government. There is zero tolerance for dissent of any kind. Defectors
testifying to the U.N. often paint a much darker picture of life inside North Korea. But here, no deviation from the party line. They say this
country is not hell, it's home. Will Ripley, CNN, Pyongyang, North Korea.
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LU STOUT: While President Trump moved on to Vietnam for APEC, first lady Melania stayed behind in China. She visited one of the world's most famous
landmarks, the Great Wall of China, just outside Beijing. Earlier, she toured Beijing zoo to see the pandas, to talk to local school children, and
to hand out bald eagle toys as gifts. And from Beijing, Mrs. Trump is to head back to the United States.
Earlier in the week, President Trump was in Japan, that is where the Trump burger is apparently
[08:35:00] a big hit. And we'll explain how, coming up.
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LU STOUT: Welcome back. The (INAUDIBLE) forest of Northeast India are home to a marvel of human ingenuity. The living root bridges. The Khasi tribes
have crafted these bridges from the roots of native rubber trees. On Destination India, we meet the local people.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
PATRICIA MUKHIM, SOCIAL ACTIVIST AND WRITER (voice-over): You can just look out and see the clouds. The clouds always seem to be coming towards you.
(on camera): My name is Patricia Mukhim. I belong to the Khasi tribe of Meghalaya, a matrilineal tribe. In Meghalaya, we have three major tribes.
The Khasis, the Jaintias, and Garos. And all three are matrilineal. That (INAUDIBLE) is from the mother (INAUDIBLE). The ancestral property passes
to the youngest daughter.
All of us have little gardens and we touch the soil with our bare hands. We live very close to nature and we experience first hand.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Meghalaya is mostly known for its natural landscapes. (INAUDIBLE) Khasi. I have a great love for my place out here. The very,
very unique thing about Meghalaya is obviously the living root bridges.
Formed Formed from the roots of the Indian rubber tree, the ficus elastica. The villages out here, we can call them virginaries (ph), because they have
seen the importance of bridges and they actually guide these trees using the bark of the big tree. Their life span goes on from 20 to 30 years to
more than a century.
MUKHIM: I think that's engineering marvel at its best. These root bridges have survived the test of time. New ones are now being treated. They are
not bridges. They're living root bridges. To me, it represents a sort of sacredness. Meghalaya is just being close to nature, just admiring nature
and living nature.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
LU STOUT: What a captivating place. Now, "Star Wars" fans will soon get to chance to see a side of the universe that's never been seen. Disney says a
brand new film trilogy is coming separate from the main series of film centered on the Sky Walker family.
The trilogy will be created by Ryan Johnson. He is the writer and director of "The Last Jedi" episode eight of the main "Star Wars" saga. Disney
hasn't given any release date for the new films but
[08:40:00] don't expect to see them until after episode nine hits. That will be happening in movie theaters in 2019.
Now, a lighter look at the U.S. president's trip to Japan. His love of burgers. And a widely shared photo of him eating a burger with Prime
Minister Abe. This has apparently inspired a whole new trend. Jeanne Moos has more.
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JEANNE MOOS, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): President Trump may have moved on from japan, but he left behind a sizzling culinary star of
burger blessed by the president.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He's in Japan, and he's eating hamburgers.
MOOS (voice-over): Japan's prime minister ate one with him at a golf club before the two men teed off. The Japanese prime minister tweeted a photo of
the burger bromance that included Heinz ketchup, saying, "we're getting down to business right away over hamburgers."
But the business that boomed was Munch's Burger Shack. This chef and owner was asked to come to the golf club to prepare the VIP burgers. President
Trump pronounced his "very good."
Now what was already considered one of Tokyo's best burger joints is going gangbusters. One of the two branches even ran out of meat. Munch's posted
on Facebook that "it was an honor to serve President Trump" but warned customers of trouble due to congestion, given their new popularity.
And to think that when President Obama visited Japan, he and the prime minister ate at a legendary sushi restaurant, where meals ran 300 bucks.
Trump's cheeseburger costs $10.50. Tweeted one fan, "Trump won the election because he eats hamburgers and not high-end sushi."
We all know the president loves his KFC and McDonald's. He even did a McDonald's commercial.
TRUMP: A big and tasty for just a dollar?
MOOS (voice-over): Now he's inadvertently advertising for Japanese burger joint.
Will the Kobe Jack cheeseburger end up being rechristened the Trumpburger?
The menu hasn't changed yet, but this was a happy meal from Munch's Burger Shack. Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.
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LU STOUT: That looks so good. That is "News Stream." I'm Kristie Lu Stout, but don't go anywhere, "World Sport" with Alex Thomas is next.
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