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[08:00:00] (COMMERCIAL BREAK)
ANNA COREN, CNN ANCHOR: Hello, I'm Anna Coren in Hongkong. Welcome to "News Stream."
Shoring (ph) up the talks, South Korea's president prepares to meet with Donald Trump as a planned North Korea summit hangs in the balance.
Guilty of a cover-up, an Australian archbishop is taking prison time after being convicted of concealing child sex abuse.
And another grilling for Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO prepares to face European parliament.
South Korea's president is set to meet with U.S. president Donald Trump at the White House in about four hours time in an attempt to keep the U.S.-
North Korean summit on track. Well, Moon Jae-in's arrival in Washington comes as we are learning that aides inside the Trump administration are
going skeptical the summit will actually take place.
North Korea threatened to cancel the talks last week. Pyongyang reacted with anger after U.S. national security advisor, John Bolton, suggested a
Libya model for denuclearization to North Korea. But Vice President Mike Pence seems to be repeating that warning.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
MIKE PENCE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: There was some talk about the Libyan model last week.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Right.
PENCE: And, you know, as the president made clear, you know, this will only end like the Libya model ended if Kim Jong-un doesn't make a deal.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Some people said that is a threat.
PENCE: Well, I think it's more of a fact.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COREN: Let's get more now from our Paula Hancocks who joins us live from Washington, D.C. Paula, great to have you with us. President Moon has so
much riding on the next month's summit between President Trump and Kim Jong-un considering it's not like that he helped to instigate, but there
are now real fears that meeting is in jeopardy. What message will he be giving to President Trump when he meets him at the White House in just a
few hours?
PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well Anna, this meeting is absolutely crucial for the South Korean president. He's really been the
driving force in dragging Trump along to have this meeting with the North Korean leader and certainly the U.S. president was not keen on any of this
at the beginning, even accusing the President Moon at one point of being an appeaser.
But we did hear from the national security advisor Chung Eui-yong in South Korea. He said that he believes it's 99.9 percent completed, the
preparations for the summit. He's confident that it will go ahead but it is absolutely key that Mr. Moon can convince Mr. Trump that this is the way
that they need to go. The national security adviser is saying that this isn't going to be the usual kind of summit where you have an agenda, you've
agreed to everything in advance and then you sign a piece of paper and make a press statement.
This is going to be a discussion and Mr. Moon really has to convince Mr. Trump that this is what has to happen. As you say Anna, he has so much
riding on this. He has staked his credibility on this working and that North and South Korea summit at the end of April. We heard that from the
foreign minister in South Korea telling CNN that he really has put his credibility on the line to make sure this happens, Anna.
COREN: And all we heard from U.S. Vice President Mike Pence telling Fox News that North Korea should not play President Trump and there are now
rose (ph) reports coming out of the White House that Trump himself is questioning whether to go ahead with the summit. This certainly does put
President Moon in a difficult position.
HANCOCKS: That's right. Although we should remember also, Anna, that President Trump has already threatened to pull out of it. He's been saying
for a number of weeks now, I ma not go. I may even walkout halfway through. And then we heard a similar situation from the North Korean through state-
owned media KCNA saying that if the U.S. is going to push North Korea into a corner, is thinking of forcing them into this unilateral nuclear
abandonment then they might know what to talk as well.
So, we're really having this from both sides at this point, but injecting some kind of realism into this whole process because after that summit at
the end of April, I mean, officials were almost giddy at how well things were going between North and South Korea. So most experts believe that this
is a little more realistic now, what we are seeing, this pushing and pulling from both sides and suggestions that it won't happen.
The majority of experts at this point believe it will happen simply because Kim Jong-un wants this to happen.
[08:05:00] North Korean leaders for the past couple of decades have been pushing for meeting with the U.S. president. It's a very big price of them.
And from the U.S. point of view, U.S. officials telling us that the U.S. president, Donald Trump at this point, supports this summit going forward,
but there are those around him that is skeptical that anything fruitful can come of this summit. Also, assuming that Moon's overplayed it a little bit
at how willing North Korea is to denuclearize, Anna.
COREN: Paula Hancocks, it's certainly great to have you live at the White House following these developments. Many thanks for joining us.
The meeting between present President Trump and President Moon is happening as a small group of international journalists arrive in North Korea to
witness the dismantling of its nuclear test site. Well, just to show you how remote of a location it is, there's Pyongyang and way out in the
northeast is the site. It's worth noting that no inspectors or people with any kind of expertise are expected to attend the event.
Well, North Korea says they're trying to ensure transparency, but many experts say the demolition is a way for North Korea to destroy evidence.
Well, our Will Ripley and his team will be there.
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WILL RIPLEY, CNN ONTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Right now we are in Beijing about to board our flight into North Korea. We were told that we're flying
to Wonsan, but our tickets say Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. So, I guess we'll find out on the plane. This will be my 18th trip to North
Korea, but I can only tell you it's a lot different from any trip previously.
One, because we're taking a chartered flight in, and two, all of the press interest we walked in the airport, we were surrounded by media who are not
on this trip. As far as who is on the trip, I'm counting maybe a dozen and a half of us on this bus. Maybe they'll be more press inside, but it's a
small group to go see the -- what we're told will be the dismantlement of the nuclear test site at Punggye-ri.
This is something I never thought I'd see in the Pyongyang Times, the U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo shaking hands with the North Korean leader,
Kim Jong-un. And the article is overwhelmingly positive. So here we are in Wonsan and this is the newly renovated airport. They have built this up anticipating a surge of tourism. They're building a lot of
hotels along the coast, but as far as we can tell, we're the only flight today.
We are the only guests here at this North Korean luxury hotel and this is a city I've visited before just under a year ago when they were launching
missiles from Wonsan. Now, they're building a luxury resort along the beach hoping to attract more tourists, hoping this country will open up. But
before that happens, they need to take steps towards denuclearization and that's why we been invited here to witness what we're told will be the
destruction of the nuclear test site at Punggye-ri.
We'll travel 12 hours or so by train, another 4-hour drive, and then an hour long hike to get to a site that no foreign journalists have ever seen
before. We're told we will witness the destruction of this site. Is it all for show or are the North Koreans really taking substantive steps? That's
what we're here on the ground trying to find out. I'm Will Ripley reporting in Wonsan, North Korea.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
COREN: Let's bring in former senior advisor to the U.S. State Department, Balbina Hwang. She is also a visiting professor at Georgetown and joins us
from our Washington bureau. Great to have you with us. In line with North Korea's threat to cancel the summit and now this rhetoric coming out of the
White House, do you in fact believe that the Trump-Kim meeting will happen?
BALBINA HWANG, FORMER SENIRO ADVISOR, U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT: Well, no one is quite sure. I don't know if it's necessarily a matter of belief. We have
to wait and see. I think there's always been some doubt about whether the summit would occur or not. There was always any number of possible
obstacles that could occur and any number of reasons why the summit could not occur.
And I would actually not necessarily even call the site and rhetoric especially if we compare it to the level that had been occurring just last
year's or even several months ago. So, and again, what we see now is very steadily the kind of typical pattern of behavior that you would see coming
out of North Korea, but also it's very targeted.
So what you see is North Korea directing inductive toward South Korea and then targeted towards the United States and also specifically against very
specific officials in both the South Korean administration and in the U.S. administration.
COREN: You talk about that unpredictable behavior that we are accustomed to coming out of North Korea, but we are three weeks away from the summit.
What's to say that North Korea can hold its tongue along with Donald Trump and actually get to Singapore for June 12th?
[08:10:07] HWANG: Oh, well actually, this behavior is quite predictable and so, well, it depends. I don't -- is North Korea holding its tongue one
of the requirements for having a summit? I don't necessarily think so, and I don't think the Trump administration has even stated that one of the
requirements for the summit is that North Korea needs to hold its tongue.
I think that all three sides, that means North Korea, South Korea and the United States. What has been remarkable in the months of March, April and
most of May has been that all three have been on their best behavior in terms of using or not using rhetoric and using the nicest of language. That
is what has been the most unusual. But, and there has been essentially a gentleman's agreement that all three would hold their tongues.
But I don't think any three have said that the requirement for holding the summit is that all three would hold back. And so we'll see. Now, I think
what is far more important frankly than harsh words are actions and I think all, well, at least the United States, and certainly South Korea have said
that actions must take place. And I think that is what North Korea's testing. North Korea's testing whether or not it truly has to take actions
in order for the summit to take hold. And so the first step is this very important Punggye-ri destruction.
COREN: For sure. And also, I guess one of the other requirements for this summit is a pledge towards denuclearization because it seems to be very
different interpretations of denuclearization from the United States and also from the North Koreans. So, will this be a major sticking point?
HWANG: Well, yes of course, then of course pledges again are words and the real problem then of course is everything that comes afterwards, but this
has always been the problem with agreements, with all sorts of arms agreement and we see this in the Iran deal. Deals are struck and then
countries and parties has problems with deals and in the implementation stage years and years after. But this is always going to be the problem and
so we'll just simply have to see.
COREN: Balbina Hwang, we certainly appreciate your insights and joining us. Many thanks for that.
HWANG: Thank you.
COREN: Europe is scrambling to protect its businesses from the sanctions Washington just re-imposed on Tehran. Those measures came when Donald Trump
walked away from the nuclear deal. E.U. trade ministers are meeting in Brussels today to discuss the sanctions and what they could mean for
companies that do business in Iran.
European nations exported nearly $13 billion in goods to Iran last year. Well Europe wants to keep the nuclear deal alive. But on Monday U.S.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said a campaign of maximum pressure was the best way to bring Iran into line.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
MIKE POMPEO, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: A sting of sanctions will be painful if the regime does not change its course from the unacceptable and
unproductive path it has chosen to one that rejoins the league of nations.
We understand that our re-imposition of sanctions and the coming pressure campaign on the Iranian regime will post financial and economic
difficulties for a number of our friends.
We want to hear their concerns, but you know, we will hold those doing prohibitive business in Iran to account.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COREN: Mr. Pompeo's comments triggered a war of words. The Iranian president responded, who are you to make decisions about Iran? Hassan
Rouhani said, today's world will not accept the United States to decide on behalf of the whole world. Countries have their own sovereignty. Iran's
foreign ministry also weighed in referring to demand that Iran ended supports to the Syrian regime. A spokesman said nobody can force Iran to do
something against its will.
Well CNN has learned that President Trump is siding with advisors outside the White House in the Russia investigation and they have been pressuring
the president to force the Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to hand over classified details to the House Intelligence Committee. As Kaitlan
Collins reports, lawmakers will soon be able to see highly classified information related to the investigation.
KAITLAN COLLINS, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The White House brokering an agreement announcing that top FBI and Justice Department
officials have agreed to meet with congressional leaders to review highly classified information about the handling of the Russia probe.
The detente coming after President Trump met with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, FBI Director Christopher Wray and the director of national
intelligence, Dan Coats, on Monday. The development coming one day after President Trump demanded an
investigation into alleged infiltration or surveillance of his campaign, though the White House says that this meeting was set up in advance.
[08:15:07] The Justice Department later asking its inspector general to investigate the president's concerns.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
PENCE: We're very confident that as the inspector general has been doing their work looking at the conduct of the FBI during that period by adding
their focus to this that we'll get to the bottom of it because the American people have a right to know.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COLLINS (voice-over): Press secretary Sarah Sanders noting that Chief of Staff John Kelly will immediately set up the meeting with congressional
leaders, though it remains unclear who will be invited and what information will be shared. The Justice Department has resisted turning over classified
material subpoenaed by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes about the early steps of the Russian investigation and a confidential
source who spoke with at least three Trump campaign officials in 2016.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
CHRISTOPHER WRAY, FBI DIRECTOR: The day that we can't protect human sources is the day the American people start becoming less safe.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COLLINS (Voice-over): The ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee telling reporters he's concerned the DOJ may have capitulated and
expressing concern about the White House's involvement in that meeting.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
REP. ADAM SCHIFF (D-CA), RANKING MEMBER, INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE: This cannot be a conduit to supply investigatory materials to the Trump legal
defense team. That would be a terrible abuse of power.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COLLINS (voice-over): Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer stressing that if the meeting does occur, quote, it must be bipartisan in order to serve
as a check on the disturbing tendency of the president's allies to distort facts and undermine the investigation and the people conducting it. Close
Trump ally Republican Mark Meadows calling inspector general review a step in the right direction, but warning that the Justice Department's attempt
to circumvent this responsibility won't go unnoticed.
Nunes hasn't commented about the proposed meeting, but he said on Sunday that he won't meet with the Justice Department until he gets information
about the confidential source.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
DEVIN NUNES, CHAIRMAN, HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE: We're not going to go to another meeting where we don't get documents.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COLLINS (voice-over): President Trump praising Nunes at the CIA Monday.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: A very courageous man, he's courageous. Congressman Devin Nunes. Thank you very much, Devin, for being
here. Appreciate it.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COLLINS: Now Anna, there is a lot to unpack there, but what is at the root of all of this is a fight, a political fight over the Russia investigation
and the president now taking the approach that he wants the investigators themselves to be investigated. All of this comes as the White House is not
holding a press briefing for the second day in a row, so taking no questions from reporters on what the presidents thoughts on all of this
are, Anna.
COREN: Kaitlan Collins joining us there from Washington. Still ahead here on "News Stream," an Australian archbishop faces jail time after being
convicted of concealing child sex abuse by a priest. The latest from (inaudible).
Plus, we go to Paris where angry French workers are protesting the president's economic reforms. All that and more just after this break.
[08:20:00] (COMMERCIAL BREAK)
COREN: Welcome back. An Australian archbishop has been found guilty of concealing child sex abuse by a priest decades ago. Philip Wilson is now
the highest ranking Catholic official to be convicted of covering up sexual abuse. He is facing up to two years in the prison. Archbishop Wilson
maintains he's innocent.
Vatican correspondent Delia Gallagher is following the story from Rome, and Delia, this is a monumental step by the court in punishing those who
concealed child sex abuse in the church dating back decades. This could potentially open the floodgates. What does this mean for the church?
DELIA GALLAGHER, CNN VATICAN CORRESPONDENT: Well Anna, it's a really significant case because it goes to the question of accountability. That's
one of the big pillars for addressing the sex abuse scandals. We often focus on cases where there is direct implication of sex abuse. This is
about cover-up and failure to report.
The Vatican had no comment this morning, Anna, but we do have a comment from the Australian Bishops Conference which I'll read to you. They say the
Catholic Church like other institution has learned a great deal about the tragedy of child sex abuse and has implanted stronger programs and policies
and procedures to protect children and vulnerable adult.
Now, as I say the importance of this case and you say, Anna, is that it was historical as well so, it is certainly a wake-up call to priests and
bishops around the world that these cases can successfully be brought to trial. Historical cases are very difficult especially cases of cover-up to
actually have a conclusion and a proper verdict.
There've been several cases in the United States that haven't been able to properly go through and it points to one of the difficulties in this whole
question of dealing with sex abuse that is sometimes is very country specific. We still do not have uniform mandatory reporting laws throughout
the world. Every country has different laws and even within a country, states have different laws about who shall report when they need to report
and so on.
So, one of the things that victims groups and others call for in addressing sex abuse is a kind of mandatory reporting and the Vatican's point on that
is that they encourage bishops and priests to follow the country's reporting laws. So, the country doesn't have mandatory reporting laws then
it becomes more difficult. That is one of the important issues that this case brings up, Anna.
COREN: Delia Gallagher, we appreciate the update. Many thanks for that.
Well, a private conversation between the Pope and a gay man is now being heard around the world. Juan Carlos Cruz, a victim of clerical sexual
abuse, says the Pope tells him it was okay to be gay and God made him like that. Well he says the comment happened when he spent three days at the
Vatican last month. Cruz sat down with CNN's Chris Cuomo to talk about that very meaningful conversation.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JAUN CARLOS CRUZ, SEXUAL ABUSE SURVIVOR: It started with him saying I really apologize for the pain that the church has caused you and for what
I've caused you. I said, Holy Father, you know, he said, no, let me finish. Yes, I caused you pain by saying this in January and I want to apologize.
It was sincere.
And then I said, you know, that they have painted me on such a perverse that I was disturbed. I said, Holy Father, I'm not a saint, but I certainly
want to be a good person. And then he said, Juan Carlos, God made you like this. God loves you like this. The pope loves you like this and you should
love yourself.
And for me, of course tears, you know, and -- so it's been incredible since. You know, more so for the survivors around the world because this
hasn't -- doesn't have to be about me. It's about thousands of survivors that are suffering right now that do not get heard, that they are not
heard, that are treated with disrespect. And so I feel by firing this whole bishop's conference, by us being there, by him listening to us, maybe this
is the beginning of the end of this culture of abuse and cover-up by bishops and that this hope is not going to stand for it.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
COREN: Amazing isn't it. Well, the pope's alleged remarks are a major departure from the Catholic doctrine, which teaches that homosexuality is
contrary to God's law. The Vatican says it doesn't comment on the Pope's private conversations.
[08:25:00] Well, now to Paris where for the first time in a decade all striking French unions are joining forces to protest the reforms presented
by President Emanuel Macron. Railway workers and Air France employees are among those marching against the controversial reforms. CNN's Melissa Bell
joins us now from Paris, and Melissa, tell us what is at the core of the strike?
MELISSA BELL, CNN PARIS CORRESPONMDENT: This sort of growing sense of dissatisfaction, Anna, really that has been -- we've been seeing in front
over the course of the last two weeks. A whole series of protests, a whole series of strikes have been hitting France over the course of the last two
months. This is yet another -- this time it is about the civil service, which is extremely large in this country as in one in five people here in
France is employed by it.
For Emanuel Macron as with so many others, institutions in France are proposing radical changes and this is what they've come to protest about.
It is, and you're quite right to point this out because this is unusual. It's the first time in 10 years that all the unions have agreed to march
together despite their many differences on a number of issues and I think that's probably in itself the measure really of the sense that people have
that they need to fight against the reforms.
Now, we don't expect huge numbers in Paris that's nearly about 20,000. The organizer -- what the unions are putting forward though, Anna, is that it
is nationwide protest. We're expecting to see protesting some 130 (inaudible) speeches (ph).
COREN: And Melissa, what sort of disruptions are we expected to see presumably right across the country.
BELL: You know, Anna, we are getting fairly used to over here in France. We've been in this rail track that's going on for weeks now. Air France as
you say, is also in a bit of difficulty with its union, that a (inaudible) to reach a deal on pay for pilots and there are these so many different
sectors of French society really that are taking to the streets, going on strikes to protest not just the reforms and (inaudible), Anna, but this is
the interesting thing, the way that they're being implemented.
Emanuel Macron has differed from so many of his predecessors by his ability to push reforms through often circumventing parliament which of course is a
great deal controversy. And this is the result of a very strategic that carry the consultations that the union say just aren't giving them the
chance to make themselves heard, Anna.
COREN: Melissa Bell joining us from Paris. Many thanks for that.
Well Facebook CEO is in Brussels and he's getting ready to face another crowd of lawmakers, but the European parliament is expected to have much
tougher questions when it comes to data privacy.
And we'll go live to Hawaii to look at the new threats posed by that traumatic volcano eruption.
[08:30:00] (COMMERCIAL BREAK)
ANNA COREN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: I'm Anna Coren in Hong. You're watching "News Stream." These are your world headlines.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in is in Washington for talks with U.S. President Donald Trump. Uncertainty is growing about whether a planned
summit between Mr. Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong-un will go ahead. North Korea has threatened to cancel if it's pushed into a corner regarding
nuclear disarmament.
An Australian archbishop has been found guilty of concealing child sex abuse by a priest. Philip Wilson is fighting up to two years in prison by
failing to report sexual abuse by the late James Fletcher. The 67-year-old is now the highest ranking Catholic official convicted of covering up
abuse.
E.U. trade ministers are meeting in Brussels to discuss Washington sanctions on Iran and what they could mean to European companies. Tehran
and Washington are locked in an escalating war of words after the U.S. secretary of state threaten to crash Iran unless it changes its behavior.
Malaysia's former prime minister, Najib Razak, has been questioned by the country's anti-corruption committee. It wants to know about $10 million
that was transferred from a state fund into Najib's personal bank account. The head of the corruption committee said he has received death threats as
a result of the investigation.
In just a few hours, Facebook's CEO will be sitting down for another grilling by lawmakers. Only this time, Mark Zuckerberg is dealing with
lawmakers from the European Parliament. The E.U. is notably much tougher on tech companies about their data policies than the U.S. Zuckerberg scraped
through the U.S. hearing relatively unscathed in April.
So, what can we expect out of Brussels? Samuel Burke is there and he joins us live. Samuel, Mark Zuckerberg is set to apologize again, this time to
the European Parliament. Can we expect to hear more of the same?
SAMUEL BURKE, CNN BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY NEWS CORRESPONDENT: Anna, even though Mark Zuckerberg is expected to apologize for fake news, foreign
interference, and of course the Cambridge Analytica scandal, there is every reason to think that this will be much different from the United States,
that the questions will be much tougher, much more aggressive in part because the bar was set much lower in the United States.
You remember that in the Senate, for example, Mark Zuckerberg was asked basic questions like, I don't understand how is it that you guys make money
if you don't charge for your service, an awkward from Mark Zuckerberg and then say, well, Mr. Senator, we put ads on our service.
Now, first was the Senate, then was the House, and the House was tougher than the Senate in the U.S. So I think it is fair to say that all these
politicians are on a learning curve, Anna, and so we can expect that the politicians here will be stronger, but there is a cultural difference
between privacy in the United States and in Europe.
The European politicians have put their money where their mouth is. They created laws time after time like the Cookie Law that we have here in
Europe. Any time you are on the site, you kind of have to annoyingly agree to have cookies track you.
There has also been the right to be forgotten, which really surprised Google. And then the law that is going to go into effect this week, which
is the European Data Protection Law. That actually dates back to 1995, and they are updating that.
So, we saw the stock go up for Facebook when Mark Zuckerberg was testifying because investors said, well, these U.S. politicians don't really seem to
have a grasp on this, how they are going to regulate it. Europe has already been regulating this for a long time and will do so even more when this law
goes into effect on Friday, Anna.
COREN: So, Samuel, as you say, Mark Zuckerberg is expecting a much tougher reception from European lawmakers. Why do the Europeans take their privacy
much more seriously than let's say those in the United States?
BURKE: Well, I think there are those cultural differences, differences between Americans and Brits, for example, and the French and the German.
But I think the other reason is somewhat because you have this big American company and over on this side of the Atlantic, they have looked and seen
these companies have great success and there hasn't really been a huge breakout tech company, at least a data company the way that we've had in
the United States.
So I think they have been able to look at this with a more critical eye. And they have gone after other companies for market size as well. So I
think you have a combination of market size, these cultural differences in privacy, and real expertise in this building. In European Parliament, we
have seen laws and an expertise that you don't necessarily see in the United States.
COREN: Samuel Burke joining us from Brussels, good to see you, many thanks for that.
Well, you may have seen several e-mails about the GDPR in your inbox lately even if you don't live in the E.U. Well, this is an EU law, impacts more
than just users or companies in those countries.
[08:34:59] For example, if your organization has users in the E.U., you're affected. If you store your data in the E.U., you're affected. If you're
doing business with companies that have customers in the E.U., you are affected.
And because of that wide net, it's simply easier for many companies to make blanket changes to things like the privacy settings instead of only
complying with E.U. laws for E.U. users.
The new rules also cover things like security breaches, those have to be alerted within 72 hours of discovery. There are also more limits for Yahoo
users. If your age is under 16, you will need parental consent to use some services like WhatsApp.
Well, that volcanic eruption in Hawaii certainly looks spectacular but it is creating a real danger for residents living nearby. We will have much
more coming up after the break.
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COREN: Welcome back to "News Stream". Well, in Hawaii, the eruption of the Mount Kilauea Volcano is still causing big problems for residents. Well,
this is the scene right now on the big island where a lava bomb has already injured a man. Lava is also flowing into the ocean, sending hydrochloric
acid and glass particles into the air. Our Scott McLean reports from Pahoa.
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SCOTT MCLEAN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: It's hell on earth in a place that's heaven to so many. In just a matter of hours, a virtually dormant
fissure suddenly woke up, spewing fountain of lava down a molten stream, destroying everything in its way.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's all a guessing game.
MCLEAN: Bruce Decal (ph) owns two properties on this piece of paradise. He may soon have just one.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We are ready to pretty much leave there in 10 minutes if we have to and say goodbye to everything.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It shows me the power of God, the power of our earth.
MCLEAN: Donna Muller's (ph) home is just a few hundred yards from this molten sparkler, popping, groaning and sometimes violently exploding.
Oh, wow.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: See what I mean?
MCLEAN: At first, the constant earthquakes made it impossible to sleep.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (INAUDIBLE).
MCLEAN: When this fissure opened up, it was impossible even to stay.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You can see it blew out this window. Glass all over.
MCLEAN: As the lava flow quickly approaches, her family has come to salvage her valuables and go. She is not taking much with her.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There is not much I can walk away. It's stuff (ph).
MCLEAN: Just down the hill, Darrel Clinton (ph) is risking life and limb (ph) to protect two homes that belong to friends.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A lot of sentimental value, a lot of good family times.
MCLEAN: As we spoke, his friend, Mark, was looking out for flying lava, and so are we.
[08:40:02] The yard is littered with fresh volcanic rock.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This lava bomb came right here.
MCLEAN: Giant lava bombs have broken windows, dented the water catchment pool, and taken out the septic tank. Even just getting from one home to the
other is a life and death game of frog (ph).
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Look up and watch it. Keep your eye on it. It's almost like catching a football but you don't want to catch this football.
MCLEAN: Clinton has done a quick study on the different sounds of the fissure. The sounds he knows to ignore --
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're good. You're good. You're all safe.
MCLEAN: And the ones that scream 'take cover.'
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You might want to step back on this one.
MCLEAN: Equipped with just a fire extinguisher and a garden hose, he has been spraying down the molten rocks that hit the house.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The insides are the ones that we are concerned about. These ones are the ones that catch the ceiling on fire.
MCLEAN: It's man versus mother nature in a match Darrel Clinton (ph) intends to win.
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COREN: Residents are very calm despite the lava bombs. Scott McLean with that report.
Well, from president to producer, Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, have signed a multiyear deal with Netflix. They will create contents that may
include scripted and non-scripted shows, documentaries and features.
A source said they could be on camera talents (ph) as well. The Obamas say they want to harness the power of storytelling. No word on how much they
will be paid but chances are, a lot more than the president's pension of just over $200,000 a year. That will be interesting viewing.
That is "News Stream." I'm Anna Coren. Thanks so much for your company. Don't go anywhere. "World Sport" with Christina Macfarlane is coming up
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