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South Korea Takes On Sweden In Group F; Outrage Grows Over U.S. Separating Immigrant Families; Both Parties Call On Trump To End Family Separation; The Story Behind Viral Photo Of Crying Toddler; Hundreds Arrive In Spain After Week At Sea; Merkel Battles To Save Government Over Migrant Presslife; India Moves Ahead With Tariffs On U.S. Goods; U.S. And China Enter Trade Fight; Chinese Ivory Ban: The Slaughter Continues; World Headlines; World Cup 2018; Gaming Disorder; Breaking The Silence; Hanoi's Spectacular New Open-Air Spectacle; Dragon Boat Festival. Aired 8-9a ET
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KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong, and welcome to News Stream.
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LU STOUT: Separated at the border, anger over the Trump administration's zero tolerance immigration policy sparks critics to call it zero humanity.
Searching for a solution, Europe grapples with its own immigration debate, and hundreds of people rescued at sea finally reach land. And trade
troubles, India piles on to the growing list of countries responding to U.S. tariffs.
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LU STOUT: OK. All those stories in a moment, but first, a key World Cup match-up kicks off this very hour. South Korea's taking on Sweden in Group
F on the heels of Germany's stunning loss to Mexico in the same group on Sunday.
Now World Sports Alex Thomas is in Moscow for us. He joins us now live. And, Alex, wow, what a weekend of big upsets. And now we have South Korea
up against Sweden. How is that going to play out?
ALEX THOMAS, CNN HOST: Well, Kristie, whether Sweden or Korea win, or it is a draw, nothing's going to match the astonishing upset of Germany, the
defending champions, beaten by Mexico, only ever got as far as the quarterfinals twice when they hosted the World Cup in 1970 and 1986.
Astonishing from a German team that, as well as winning that title in Brazil four years ago were really heavily fancied going into this one, but
Mexico's game plan was too good for them. I was lucky enough to be at the Luzhniki Stadium in the Mexican fans, and not in the media sections.
I got drenched in beer as the Mexican fans lofted their arms in celebration as Mexico's goal went in, and they were holding beer at the time. Cups
went flying, the beer itself, I came away sticky, and a bit grumpy.
But I can understand why the Mexican fans were so happy, and the German fans, not so much. And that controversy that the other match in Germany's
groups, and Sweden's groups had been in a build up -- Sweden had to apologize for spying on the South Korea camp.
Clearly in football you get a lot of corner kicks and free kicks. It is quite useful to know how they're going to approach those. South Korea's
coach saying it doesn't matter. I switched the numbers because all Asians look the same to westerners, so plenty of controversy going on from both
sides of the camp there.
LU STOUT: Yes, plenty of controversy. Excitement continues to build there in Russia. Alex Thomas, thank you so much. And make sure you stay on top
of the World Cup action, and all the surprises as well. Just go to our website. You can see highlights there, as well as profiles of teams, and
players you may have missed. You can find it at cnn.com/world cup.
Now, the hotly contested debate over immigration is erupting in the United States and all across Europe. After being stranded at sea for days,
hundreds of migrants found relief on Spanish soil on Sunday.
Exhausted, but happy, the rescued migrants reached the port of Valencia after a grueling journey across the Mediterranean. Italy and Malta, both
E.U. countries, had refused them entry.
We're going to go live to Rome where protesters are demanding the government soften its hard lines. And in Germany, immigration is front and
center. Chancellor Angela Merkel is under pressure to adopt a more isolationist policy. The latest from Berlin coming up as well.
And in the U.S., outrage there is growing over the zero tolerance immigration policy imposed by the Trump administration. Criticisms coming
from both sides of the aisle as families are ripped apart at the U.S.- Mexico border. We'll go live to a processing center in Texas where hundreds of children are leaving without their parents.
[08:05:07] We'll have that in just a moment. But first, let's go to Washington where Democrats, even some Republicans, are scrambling to end
the practice of separating families at the border. Abby Phillip reports.
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REP. ADAM SCHIFF (D), RANKING MEMBER, INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE: They're using the grief, the tears, the pain of these kids as mortar to build their
wall.
ABBY PHILLIP, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Growing bipartisan outrage over the Trump administration's practice of separating children from their
families at the border.
SEN. SUSAN COLLINS (R), MAINE: What the administration has decided to do is to separate children from their parents to try to send a message that,
if you cross the border with children, your children are going to be ripped away from you. That's traumatizing to the children, who are innocent
victims.
PHILLIP: Former First Lady Laura Bush condemning the practice in a scathing op-ed, comparing the detention centers housing children to
Japanese internment camps, writing, I appreciate the need to need to enforce and protect our international boundaries, but this zero tolerance
policy is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart.
First Lady Melania Trump also entering the political fray with a rare, carefully worded statement partially echoing her husband's position, before
stating, we need to be a country that follows all laws, but also a country that governs with heart. This as a number of Democrats spent Father's Day
visiting detention centers across the country in protest.
REP. MARK POCAN (D), WISCONSIN: It's a 6x10 area, and you get out two hours a day. That to, I think, a child 10-years-old is a prison.
PHILLIP: Republican Senators Susan Collins and Jeff Flake sending a letter to the White House, demanding clarification about whether the practice is
being applied to asylum seekers. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen insisting the children are only taken from asylum seekers in
certain circumstances, and that the White House has no policy of separating families.
DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I hate the children being taken away. The Democrats have to change their law. That's their
law.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, that's not.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sir, that's your own policy. That's your own policy.
TRUMP: Quiet. Quiet. That's the Democrats' law. We can change it tonight. We can change it right now.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're the president. You can change it.
TRUMP: I will leave here -- no, no. You need their votes.
PHILLIP: President Trump trying to use the issue to pressure Democrats to support GOP border legislation, while continuing to blame Democrats for
illegal immigration.
But the Trump administration's increased enforcement began in April. Attorney General Jeff Sessions later announced the new zero tolerance
policy.
SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R), SOUTH CAROLINA: President Trump could stop this policy with a phone call.
KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR: He doesn't seem to acknowledge that.
GRAHAM: Well, he can. I'll go tell him. If you don't like families being separated you can tell DHS, stop doing it.
PHILLIP: The White House denies the children are being used as negotiating tool.
KELLYANNE CONWAY, COUNSELOR TO DONALD TRUMP: Nobody likes this policy. You saw the President on camera, that he wants this to end. But everybody
has -- Congress has to act.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He can.
PHILLIP: Despite the fact that Senior Policy Adviser Stephen Miller told the New York Times last week that it was a simple decision by the
administration to have a zero tolerance policy for illegal entry, period.
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PHILLIP: Now President Trump is expected to meet With house Republicans tomorrow to discuss the issue of immigration. Republicans are trying to
push through two immigration bills this week, a conservative one and a moderate compromise one.
But one of the reasons the President is doing this meeting is because he threw a wrench in the plans of Republican leadership by announcing in a
surprise that he opposed the immigration bill being deliberated right now.
The White House then had to walk that back. And with this issue of children being separated at the border, it is very likely that the
President will have to deal with that issue as well tomorrow. Kristie.
LU STOUT: Abby Phillip there. Now, the United Nations is slamming the forced separation of children from their parents as conscionable. Let's
bring in our Dianne Gallagher who toured one of these detention facilities at the border. She joins us from McAllen, Texas. You've been inside one
of these so called border processing centers. What's it like in there?
DIANNE GALLAGHER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: So, Kristie, that's right. So this tier is centralized processing center in the Rio Grande Valley. This
particular sector deals with more apprehensions than any other on the southern border.
Right this place, they get separated, when they leave here, more children from families than any other place in the country. When I went inside,
essentially you walk in, and it looks almost like an animal shelter, to be honest. Very tall chain link fence cages, about 12 feet.
You go into one room, and they have single adult males on one side, another side of the room, single adult females. We go into a separate room inside
this warehouse, it's up 55,000 square feet in there. You have fathers in one pen with small children who were there. And in another pen you have
mothers with small children who are there.
[08:10:02] In a separate area in another pen, you have unaccompanied minors. Teenage boys older are in one area, and then smaller boys are in
another area. I had a chance to talk to a few of them. One little boy who came from Guatemala alone, he said, actually said that he was doing great.
He was happy to be in there because he wasn't outside. But others didn't necessarily feel the same way. I spoke to one 24-year-old woman who had
come from Guatemala. She had her 1-year-old daughter with him, and she started to cry when she was talking to us because she didn't know what
would come next.
She has been separated from the people that she came across the border with. She was scared. There seems to be a lot of uncertainty in there.
And I will tell you that there was food, there was water.
There were these very thin mattress pads, things on the ground, that they were some were sleeping, and laying on. But again, they are cages.
They're only supposed to be here about 72 hours, and they process out to go somewhere, different holding facility, or go to federal court. That's the
point where the separation happens.
LU STOUT: Well, you describe people in pens, parents separated from their children, something akin to an animal shelter. No wonder the U.N. calls
this unconscionable. Let's talk about the impact of this immigration policy by the Trump administration.
You know, we know it has separated families, the reporting on that. You've seen it. Is it even doing what it was intended to do, to stop migrants
from traveling into the U.S.?
GALLAGHER: No. And really, the chief here acknowledged that yesterday. Now look, he's in support of the zero tolerance policy because he says that
there needs to be a deterrent when it comes to border crossing.
They were up slightly last month about 10 percent. So it does not appear as if this deterrent, if you will, is even working right now. But the
chief said that you have to give it time. Perhaps the word hasn't gotten out to everybody.
I will tell you that one of the people I spoke to in there -- and again, it was a heavily guided controlled tour by border patrol. But one of the
people that I spoke to said that she didn't even know what the zero tolerance policy was. So that could be correct. But it doesn't appear to
be having a direct impact, at least when it comes to numbers at this point.
LU STOUT: Dianne Gallagher reporting live from McAllen, Texas. Thank you so much for you reporting. So much of this immigration story that we've
been talking about, you can't see. And CNN's cameras have been blocked from entering those detention centers.
Dianne was mentioning and describing just now such details. We can't even show you a fraction of the human agony unfolding in American border towns
as children, again, pulled away out of the arms of their parents.
But we can show you this, an image of a little girl screaming in fear in the dead of night. Getty photographer John Moore took this photograph.
And he spoke with CNN's Anna Cabrera about seeing the frightened toddler being separated from her mother.
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JOHN MOORE, PHOTOGRAPHER, GETTY IMAGES: They had been body searching people as they were loaded into vans to be taken to a processing center,
where they were possibly separated, parents and children. And one of the last people to get on the bus was the mother of this child, and her
daughter together. And when they went to body search her against the vehicle, they asked her to put down her child.
And right then in that moment, the little girl broke into tears, and, you know, it's not unusual for toddlers in any circumstance to have separation
anxiety. But I think this particular situation with the separation of families leads and gives a new meaning to that phrase.
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LU STOUT: That's a gut-wrenching image as a symbol of the crisis. Now from the U.S.-Mexico border to Europe, where hundreds of African migrants
rescued at sea have a home in Spain, at least for now. They were singing and dancing as the first group arrived in Valencia on Sunday.
Over 600 migrants were rescued off the coast of Libya last week. They spent over a week waiting at sea. As mentioned a moment ago, officials in
Malta and Italy turned them away. The Spanish authorities must now process their asylum requests.
Delia Gallagher joins us now from Rome with more on this story. And, Delia, the migrants who were blocked by Italy have been received in Spain.
What has been the reaction there in Rome and beyond in the country there?
DELIA GALLAGHER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Kristie, interestingly, there have been two polls this weekend in Italy. And 59 percent of Italians
support the government's move to close the port to these NGO boats.
What's interesting about these polls is that 29 percent of left-leaning voters also support the government's move. So there has been a small shift
in support for this newly installed government, and their first, really, action when it comes to immigration, this dramatic closure of the port.
[08:15:03] It is something which Matteo Salvini, the Interior Minister, said was a victory for him. You know, in the initial days when they first
closed the port, and the Aquarius ship had nowhere to go, there was a lot of outcry against the government saying they were making this statement on
the backs of innocent immigrants.
And yet now we see in the polls this weekend that there is increased support for the move because it has put the question on the table at the
European Union. Kristie.
LU STOUT: Delia Gallagher live from Rome for us, thank you. Immigration also front and center elsewhere in Europe, in Germany, where a fierce
disagreement that the ruling coalition could bring down the government of Angela Merkel.
Her Bavaria partners, the Christian Social Union, will decide on a plan to limit immigration at the German border. The interior minister wants
Germany to refuse entry to migrants who have already registered in another E.U. state. Miss Merkel opposes any move to reverse her open door policy.
Atika Shubert joins me now from Berlin. Atika, the migrant crisis is rocking Germany's coalition government. Can Angela Merkel fend off a
collapse here?
ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, you know, she's been in tougher situations before. The question is can she reach some sort of a
compromise. And so far, it is looking like she may at least get sort of a reprieve. She's actually speaking live at the moment.
And I can just recap a little bit of what she said so far, that this is a very difficult situation, and that in principle, her party, the Christian
Democrats, support the Interior Minister's plan for migration, but that Germany should not act unilaterally.
And what they are talking about is that sticking point that you mentioned, whether asylum seekers who have applied for asylum elsewhere in the E.U.
should be allowed to come into Germany, or whether they'll be automatically rejected at the border. That is something Merkel does not support.
She says instead, she is going to try and broker some bilateral agreements with other partners in the E.U., and that she's been given about -- she's
been given two weeks to do that. On July 1st, she has just said they will sort of go over the results to find out whether or not this is an
acceptable solution for Germany.
So it does seem like, at least from what Merkel is saying so far, that she has a bit of a reprieve. Now we do -- we are expecting to hear from the
interior minister very shortly to see what he's got to say, and whether or not he'll release more details of this migration plan, Kristie.
LU STOUT: Right now is a critical moment for Angela Merkel, for Germany. Also for the E.U. and as government leaders are debating, clashing there in
Germany, we know an E.U. summit is coming up soon. Can the leaders of Europe come together and forge one common response to the ongoing migrant
crisis?
SHUBERT: Well, you know, this is really a problem that's bedeviled the E.U. for decades, really, you know. I mean, the most recent refugee crisis
was in 2015. It's been three years now, and there still really is not really a comprehensive E.U. solution on what to do.
And so this is why you have Bavaria, a regional government, saying, listen, if the E.U. can't come up with a solution, we want the right to turn away
at the border, and that's why you are seeing countries like Italy, Austria, and others, you know, trying to find their own solutions to this.
So it is not clear whether or not, you know, some sort of a comprehensive E.U. policy can actually be hammered out in the next two weeks. So what
Merkel is saying is, listen, rather than something that the entire E.U. is going to have to agree on, and that's going to take a lot of time, I'm
going to come up with bilateral agreements with individual countries.
Now what that probably means is if an asylum seeker is already applying for asylum in another country, Germany will have the right -- they will make an
agreement with that country to send the asylum seeker back there. So what we could see now is sort of a patchwork policy being put into place across
the E.U. That's really a band-aid, not something that can really resolve the situation any. Kristie.
LU STOUT: Yes. No resolution any time soon to this. Atika Shubert reporting live from Berlin, thank you. India is planning to hit back at
the U.S. over trade from almond (ph) to motorcycles. We're going to look at that product targeting in retaliation for Trump's tariffs on steel and
aluminum. Plus, damage across the city of Osaka in Japan as a deadly earthquake strikes at morning rush hour.
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LU STOUT: Coming to you live from Hong Kong. Welcome back. This is News Stream. The city at the south of Japan has become the latest victim of
seismic activity from the Pacific Ring of Fire. A magnitude 5.3 earthquake hit during Monday morning rush hour killing at least three people, and
injuring more than 200.
A 9-year-old girl, two elderly men died. Some homes caught fire. Several roads cracked open. Water flooded neighborhoods. A local media reports
nearly 700 people are in evacuation centers. Now, uncertainty is affecting global markets, Asia's biggest economies hit back at the Trump
administration over trade.
China accuses the U.S. of firing the first shot in a trade war, and now India is also proposing retaliatory tariffs. It is targeting 30 American
products to recoup trade penalties worth over $240 million, equal in value, it says, to U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum.
Our New Delhi Bureau Chief Nikhil Kumar joins me now live. And, Nikhil, India says it is going to raise duties on 30 American products. Can you
tell us more about that, and how much are these Indian tariffs worth?
NIKHIL KUMAR, CNN NEW DELHI BUREAU CHIEF: So, Kristie, it's 30 products, as you said, and it is a whole variety of things from American almonds,
walnuts, to some U.S.-made motorbikes, some U.S. chemical products, and some metal products. And the total amount is roughly almost -- sorry I
should say, $241 million.
India said that's exactly the amount of penalties that it faces under the Trump administration's steel and aluminum tariffs. So this is a direct
tit-for-tat response to those tariffs. They have been very clear about this. In a document, excuse me, filed with WTO, the World Trade
Organization, last week, India said that it reserves the right to raise these tariffs further by an equivalent amount if the U.S. increases its
duties any further. Kristie.
LU STOUT: All right, $241 million. Doesn't seem like a very big number, so why does this matter? What's the bigger picture here?
KUMAR: You're absolutely right. The absolute number, $241 million, is not that big. It's particularly not that big when we're talking about other
countries that have been in the news when it comes to these tariffs in recent -- in recent days, China in particular, when we're talking tens of
billions. Why do this matter? It is the symbolism.
India is a country that in recent years has grown increasingly close to the U.S. It is a key U.S. ally in this region. Successive American presidents
from President Clinton to President George W. Bush to President Barack Obama have cultivated India as a potential spoil to China.
They've cooperated in a variety of areas from defense to of course trade. President Obama when he visited India near the end of his term spoke about
the aim of doubling trade with India in the coming years.
And what these tariffs -- these steel and aluminum tariffs, introduced by the U.S., and India's response to them, what this has done is that it
introduced a degree of tension in a relationship that we were told is good, and is only going to get better. So it's created tensions where there was
no tension earlier. Kristie.
[08:25:00] LU STOUT: Yes. And if this tension that now exists grows, could it affect Narendra Modi and his political standing?
KUMAR: Well, it's certainly true that Prime Minister Modi when he came to power in India in 2014, you recall that before he became Prime Minister
there was a ban on his travel to the U.S. because of some violence back in 2002.
When he came to power, lots of people were concerned about what this prime minister would do when it came to the U.S., would its past weighing on how
he relates with the U.S. once he is the new leader. As it turned out, in office, he built a very close relationship with the then President Barack
Obama who traveled here, Mr. Modi traveled there.
And India-U.S. ties also flourished, and they've been flourishing ever since. And so what this does is this creates, as I have said, tension in
the broader bilateral relationship. What's going to happen next, we don't know yet.
This is a very small number at the moment. It may yet be resolved through a dialogue, we don't know. But what we do know is that tension has been
introduced into a relationship that was really going very, very smoothly. Kristie.
LU STOUT: Nikhil Kumar, always appreciate your insight. Take care. Now, American businesses, they are bracing for the pain from this trade fight
with China. Beijing said it is going to place tariffs on American goods worth $34 billion.
In the list that included agricultural products, cars, as well as seafood. Those go into effect on July 6th, as well. But how long will this tit-for-
tat battle last? Matt Rivers has more from Beijing.
MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Kristie, it's been just a few days since these tariffs became official on both sides. And if you are looking
for some indication that this trade war will be stopped, or somehow be averted, well, you aren't going to find much.
Both sides plan on moving forward with $36 billion worth of tariffs starting on July 6th with the remaining $16 billion kicking in at some
later date. And look, conceivably, July 6th is a couple weeks away, but neither side has shown any signs of backing down.
And look no further than the fact that no formal negotiations between China and the United States have been set up, at least so far. And also, we saw
increasingly negative rhetoric in Chinese state media over the weekend.
A commentary in the state run newspaper, the people's daily read in part, quote, erratic actions have become the norm for the U.S., not only is it
damaging their reputation, China can step by step see the Trump administration is rude, unreasonable, selfish, and head strong.
So taken together, it's added up to the general view amongst people we've spoken to here in the business community to analysts that these $50 billion
in tariffs on both sides are going to go forward. And by itself, maybe that's not all that big of a deal, but it is what might come next that has
people worried.
The Trump administration has already threatened to put $100 billion more in tariffs on Chinese products if the Chinese government retaliated at all to
the initial round of tariffs. And yet that's exactly what China did on Friday.
So where does it go from here? Does it just get worse? Does it begin to spiral into some never-ending back and forth? It might sound dramatic, but
that possibility is as real as it's ever been. Kristie.
LU STOUT: Matt Rivers there. Now, China's ban back in January on all elephant ivory has sadly not stopped the slaughter of these animals. In a
CNN exclusive, David McKenzie travels to Mozambique which has become the new epicenter of poaching on the continent.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think the Chinese have become strong. I think they have bought their way in here. And they have protection.
DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This investigator is actively tracking poaching syndicates.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They know hot to get things out.
MCKENZIE: So we are protecting his identity. Despite the ban, he says the Chinese continue to control the market. What does that mean for
conservation?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's really, really bad. Really bad. If it continues like this, there will be nothing left.
MCKENZIE: And are the Chinese to blame for this?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, 100 percent -- 100 percent.
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LU STOUT: This is a report you don't want to miss. Tune in Tuesday to watch the rest of this David's exclusive reporting from Mozambique starting
5:00 a.m. in London, noon in Hong Kong, only on CNN.
You're watching News Stream. And still ahead, we've seen empty seat at this year's World Cup as sponsors have been lukewarm on the tournament in
Russia. We're going to hear more about the reasons why, next.
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KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN NEWS STREAM SHOW HOST: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. You're watching "News Stream" and these are your world headlines.
U.S. Democrats held what they called a father's day of action on Sunday, visiting immigration processing centers along the U.S.-Mexico border. They
wanted to highlight the Trump administration's zero-tolerance policy which separates children from families who have illegally entered the country.
After more than a week at sea, hundreds of migrants are now in Spain where their solemn request will be considered. They were singing and dancing when
they arrived in Valencia on Sunday. They were rescued off the coast of Libya but officials in Malta and Italy turned them away.
Conservative candidate Ivan Duque is projected to be the next president of Colombia. He won Sunday's presidential runoff followed with about 54
percent of the vote, and Duque wants revision to the peace deal. The outgoing president signed with FARC rebels that ended decades of civil war.
It is day five of the World Cup in Russia. In Group F, Sweden is taking on South Korea right now. That match is currently goalless. Then the action
moves to Sochi where Belgium takes on Panama in Group G. In the last game of the day, England begins their campaign against Tunisia.
Now, we have seen several World Cup matches with less than full stadiums. FIFA blames the empty seats on no shows. And some big name sponsors have
also cooled on this year's tournament leaving an opening for newcomers to advertise at this global event. Anna Stewart explains.
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ANNA STEWART, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): On the streets of Moscow, the finishing touches have been applied, a city ready for the biggest
sporting event on the planet. Take a look at the fine print though and you'll see some unfamiliar names. A slew of Chinese companies sponsoring
the event for the first time.
STEVE MARTIN, GLOBAL CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, M&C SAATCHI: You see the likes of Wanda, which is the biggest property developer. You see Vivo,
which is one of the biggest smartphone developers and manufacturers are coming in to take those official top-tier sponsorships that's unheard of.
STEWART (voice over): World Cup watchers should expect to see ads like this one from FIFA that is attuned to Chinese consumers. China is moving in
because western brands are dropping out. Their fear being too closely associated with the host.
This wee, Nielsen reported that FIFA's sponsorship revenue between World Cups is down 11 percent.
(on camera): Is Russia a hard sell?
SIMON CHADWICK, PROFESSOR OF SPORTS ENTERPRISE, SALFORD UNIVERSITY MANCHESTER: Certainly in the west. Russia right now is an incredibly hard
sell, and I think you specifically hear around, for example, LGBT rights through to issues around the annexation of Crimea, industrial skill doping,
right through the Skripal poisoning in Salisbury.
STEWART (voice over): M&C Saatchi has worked on Coca-Cola's World Cup ad campaigns since 2006. According to global CEO, Steve Martin, sponsors have
stayed away from invoking Russia ahead of the tournament.
MARTIN: What you haven't seen is amusing, and the cultural references to Russia, it's all about the World Cup. It reminded me of me.
[08:35:00] But it has to be focused on the preparation for football, what's going to happen on the pitch.
Well, if you cast your mind back into 2002 to Korea and Japan, it was incredibly rich culturally. You know, you look at the vuvuzelas that came
out and became a massive strand of culture in South Africa, it was really, really rich.
STEWART (voice over): It's not just Russia that's scaring away advertisers. In 2015, Johnson & Johnson, Sony, and Castrol pulled
sponsorship in the wake of the FIFA corruption scandal.
CHADWICK: Clearly FIFA has been through an era where the brand has become rather toxic or also now beginning to see is that FIFA sponsorship contract
is a highly political decision.
STEWART (voice over): And with Qatar next, sponsors may not find themselves on safe ground until 2026.
GIANNI INFANTINO, PRESIDENT, FIFA: Canada, Mexico and USA have been selected by the FIFA Congress to hold the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
STEWART (voice over): Anna Stewart, CNN Money.
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LU STOUT: A lot of parents out there talk about how addicted their kids are to playing video games, saying the games are like visual heroin.
Apparently this is not a joke. In a controversial move, the World Health Organization is about to announce gaming disorder as a mental health
condition.
It will be listed in the 11th edition of its international classification of diseases. The description sounds a lot like other addictions like
impaired control over gaming, increasing priority given to gaming to the extent that gaming takes precedent over other interests and daily
activities, and the continuation or escalation of gaming despite the occurrence of negative consequences.
The WHO says it is not prevalent and only a small proportion of gamers fit the criteria.
The father of Meghan Markle, Thomas Markle, is reflecting on missing his daughter's wedding last month. Speaking to the TV show, "Good Morning
Britain," Markle revealed details of conversations that he had with Prince Harry and what he had planned to say at the royal wedding.
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THOMAS MARKLE, FATHER OF MEGHAN MARKLE: I worked on a little speech. The little speech actually had the phone calls I talked about, talking to
Harry. And how Meghan introduced this guy. This nice guy from England. This prince. And that was part of the story. And then I went to basically
thanked the royal family for opening up to my child. That would have been speech.
However, I didn't make that. But the preparations for all of this were done by my daughter, who work very hard to get everything ready for me when I
came there. I feel bad that she put all that work in and I didn't do it. But I couldn't do much about laying on the couch with a bad heart.
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LU STOUT: It's so bitter sweet to hear that. Speaking from the U.S. earlier today, the father of the Duchess of Sussex who had heart surgery
just days before the wedding said that his daughter cried when he told her he was too sick to travel to Windsor.
You're watching "News Stream." Still to come, a new cultural show staged entirely on water in Vietnam. You got to see it to believe it. "Destination
Hanoi" is next.
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LU STOUT: All right, welcome back. You're watching "News Stream."
[08:39:56] Opened in late 2017, the "Quintessence of Tonkin" as its called is an open-air spectacle that combines water puppetry, a light show and a
broad review of Vietnamese culture, and it is all staged on water. Here's "Destination Hanoi."
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice over): Twenty-five kilometers west of Central Hanoi, preparations are underway for a different celebration of Northern
Vietnam. "Quintessence of Tonkin," a new cultural show takes place entirely on water.
HOANG NHAT NAM, DIRECTOR, QUINTESSENCE OF TONKIN: When doing the show, I feel very proud of my country, my beloved country, Vietnam. We have many,
many good things that we can quintessence.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice over): It's a production 10 years in the making. The dancers today are rehearsing for a scene about village life, something
many of these performers know a thing or two about.
NHAT NAM: We have a total of 200 performers for the show. And we have 140 farmers from the local.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice over): Like 70-year-old Nguyen Thi Son. She lives just minutes away from the venue. In 2016, she was approached by
"Quintessence of Tonkin" to play the role of a seller in the local market.
NGUYEN THI SON, PERFORMER, QUINTESSENCE OF TONKIN (through translator): The production is a great way to show that local authorities care about the
elderly and seniors like myself. To be honest, performing is a lot like going out and having fun with your friends. It's not hard at all.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice over): It's a rainy Saturday night in Hanoi, but that doesn't stop the crowds. Over the course of an hour, the show brings
to life the hallmarks of Northern Vietnamese culture from water puppetry to traditional music, to a recreation of the imperial Citadel of Thang Long.
NHAT NAM: For the first time, I guess the family can do anything because they're not professional dancer. But when we practice every day especially
when the audience comes and on the light and it is open, they become the other.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice over): From man to Mandarin, retiree to royal, performers transform for the night to honor the heritage and the history of
Hanoi.
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LU STOUT: Wow! To see that in person. Now from Vietnamese festivals on water to Chinese ones, it is the Duanwu Jie or the dragon boat festival. In
China, more than 200 women of the Miao ethnic minority, they did this, they rode the world's longest dragon boat. Cultural officials say that boat was
decorated to show just how important agriculture is to the Miao people.
It weighs 12 tons, it is 78 meters long, and was certified as the world's longest dragon boat by the "Guinness Book of World Records" in 2016. The
festival originated over 2,000 years ago but was only reintroduced in China in 2007 after being abolished during the Mao (ph) era.
And that is "News Stream." I'm Kristie Lu Stout. But don't go anywhere. "World Sport" with Christina Macfarlane is next.
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