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Boys And Coach Recover After Nearly Three Weeks Underground; E.U. Hits Google With $5 Billion Fine; Destination India; Rescued Thai boys addresses media for the first time. Aired 8-9a ET

Aired July 18, 2018 - 08:00   ET

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): -- also a message attached to the portrait. When the doctor informed us that we received a portrait of some

man, when we go to do about this and I was thinking, okay, write something, some messages on it. So if we have a chance, we sending this messages and

the picture to his family.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): For my condolences and may you rest in peace and thank you very, very much for your sacrifice for us. Our

deep condolences for Saman's family. We are thankful of you and also your family and may Saman rest in peace.

Translator: From (inaudible).

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): I think all the boys will never forget and will also learn a lesson from this. Also, everyone in the

society I'm sure will learn from this lesson.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): The lesson I've learned is, first, I really appreciate the help from everyone, all the kindness. And

also learn to use the calmness and the conscience and also to live the life without recklessness, and to be more careful.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): What lessons you've learned?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): I learned a lot of things. Also learn about flooding. I will become quality citizen. I think when we --

callous doing things, anything in our life -- (inaudible) is unexpected thing to happen anyway and we can't predict the future, but this experience

taught me that if you callous it would definitely affect you somehow positively or negatively. After this I will try to live my life every

single minute of my life.

[08:05:00] UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): Before the whole cave situation you all have dreams. Does that change? What is your dream?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): To become a footballer, professional one.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): Does this experience strengthen you or affect you in any way?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): Yes. I say it strengthened me.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): What are the lessons you've learned?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): This experience is a very big one in my life and I learned the value of many things and also value of myself.

It also made me more patient and have more strength.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): I still want to follow my dream to become a professional footballer, but also have another dream, maybe a

Navy SEAL officer.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): Anyone wanted to become a Navy SEAL officer.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): I also want to be both. A footballer and a Navy SEAL officer.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): I also want to pursue the education as high as possible, but also wanted to be a footballer. I want

to become a professional footballer and also Navy SEAL. I want to help people.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): I still have no idea what I want to become, but I want to finish my school.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): I also want to finish higher education. Make my family proud.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): Yes, I want to finish school and become a professional footballer.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): Me, too. Higher education as I can. Also play national team.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): Do you want to go back to the cave?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): If someone invites me, I might not go. But if the officers or officials ask me, yes I might -- I might go

back. Maybe only to the cave entrance, not go in.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): No more for me.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): Someone was worrying about not finishing homework.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): Still haven't met the teacher. The teacher assigned quite a lot of homework and I was worried.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): Yes. Surely with this kind of situation we -- we're going to take care and be in charge of everything

related. And after they are discharged we assign some social staff to take care of them mentally.

[08:10:11] So according to the law, we have provincial psychological staff and also local administrative staff and also the police. We all are going

to work together helping them, living their normal life. So they will be -- they all will be helping monitoring them. And, of course, we're going to

have some planning and following if they are doing okay and if they live a normal life.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): Okay, what do you want to do first thing when you're home? Have you eaten any dishes you requested?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): We got bread, chocolate and stir- fry mince with -- minced meat with basil leaves. I want to have rice and pork.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): I had rice congee.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): He's murmured he wanted to eat congee in the cave.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): It's for Mark (ph), we plan to -- he's in the first batch that we plan to, in the first day of the rescue,

but turn out we don't have that small size of the face mask. So he's moved to the second batch, in the second day. Still, okay, no mask on the second

day. So he was in the last batch, on the last day of the operation.

And on that second night, before the last day of the operation he murmured. There is one question sent in asking what's the selection of the boys who

went out first, who went later?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): So it's me and SEAL officers planning who should go first and who could go later. I told them that it

doesn't matter. So, but then we decided -- made a decision depending on how far their house is. We were thinking that, okay, once they got out, they

can went home straightaway.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): So the kids who lived the farthest went out first. So we were hoping that those who went out first

can spread the news to the family that they're all okay.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): I was in the second batch. Second batch who lived the farthest.

[08:15:00] UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): Yes, just like what they said.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): So they volunteered?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): Yes. It's up to their decision.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): So doesn't depend on their health?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): Well, the selection, while I was talking to Dr. Harris about this, all the kids are in quite good health

condition equally to one another. So while we're planning, okay, how to get them out and who goes first, and Dr. Harris said, it doesn't matter. Any

one of them so let them choose. So it's one (inaudible) only.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): So we all are doing fine in the cave and we happy to be with the SEALS officers.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): I don't think our snacks are good but the boys seemed to like them.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): What do you want to say to your parents when you are home?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): I want to say sorry to them that I messed (ph) up and not very well behaved.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): I also wanted to say sorry to them because I didn't tell them that I was going to the cave. I just told

them I went to the training. So I will never go back to the cave, I think.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): I want to say sorry to my parents. I only also -- only told them that I went to the training and I

sneaked a torch light in my bag. So I want to say sorry that I didn't tell them I was going to the cave.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): I want to say sorry to my parents. Also I didn't tell them.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): So did me. I was also sorry for my stubbornness. I didn't tell them that I was going to the cave.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): I wanted to say sorry, too. I only told them I was going to the training.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): Me, too. I told them the wrong location. I told them the wrong cave. I didn't tell them its Tham Luang

cave.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): I also want to say sorry to parents. I told them I went to the training and didn't tell them I'm going

to the cave.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): Me, too. I just told them I went to the training not the cave. When I was in the cave I was thinking,

worrying that my dad would complain a lot.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): Me, too. Also I want to tell them that I love them very much. Now I see the value and the lesson that it

could make you sad.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): I knew that my mother would complain a lot once I got out.

[08:20:00] UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): When we were in the cave, everyone said, okay, the parents are going to punish us because this

is over a day. It's been days. They would be very angry.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): So you're considering ordaining for, as a man?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): Yes, I heard from some parents that they're planning to have the boys ordained.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): Yes. They are willing to ordained to make a merit for as a man. It will be a group ordaining.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): So another important question, for the psychiatrist. So how should we communicate? What kind of

conversation we should have with them from now on?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translation): We all want them to live a normal life they used to have and a normal one. No extra treatments. No

special treatments. And, of course, they need the time to spend with their family -- and so anything, any questions that are sensitive or that will

concern them, so just keep in mind.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translation): They are good kids. And they are all athletes and they are focusing on their study. It's a condition

that they have to keep academic performance in order to play football. There's one doctor taking care of them. He said, this is worth it. This is

worth all the effort put on the whole operation.

However, they also -- one thing to be -- to concern as is already said, so, please let them to live their normal life, being their normal self so that

their developments will continue as it should be.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): We heard about the questions about the citizenship for at least the four of them.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): We heard that they all -- the family processed this, asking for the citizenship. So we're following this

case. See, we are happy to see all the Wild Boars today. Seeing they still have dreams and being kids as they should be.

As the governor said, this operation won't be succeeded without the help from the king.

[08:25:02] So it's a great help and support and care from our king. He sent a lot of help to this operation. So I have to thank our king on behalf of

all these kids.

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ANNA COREN, CNN ANCHOR: Twelve courageous and brave boys and their coach of the Wild Boars football team who survived more than two weeks trapped

inside a cave in Chiang Rai in northern Thailand. This, of course, is their first public appearance before the media, the world media. They had just

come from the hospital and shortly after leaving this press conference, they will be heading straight home, their first time home in almost a

month.

Well, let's bring in ASIA CORRESPONDENT Jonathan Miller who has been following this story from ever since the boys were discovered alive.

Jonathan, what incredible scenes. To see those smiling, beautiful faces of these boys laughing, joking, talking about their experiences inside the

cave. Tell me what was it like to see them there in the flesh?

JONATHAN MILLER, CNN ASIA CORRESPONDENT: Isn't it great, Anna, because you and I, we both arrived on the scene together, I remember. What was it?

Nearly two weeks ago. And back then we weren't very hopeful at all, you know. The monsoon rains were moving in. The water level was rising. The

hopes of diving them out? Really? You know, and here they are.

The Wild Boars alive and kicking and they have given a lovely performance today to the assembled media here, to the doctors and nurses and the

parents and they've been speaking of what an enormous experience this was, deeply informative for all of them. Little Titan, the 11-year-old and

smallest of them, I think for me was the star of the show.

Very moving that some of the boys held up a portrait of Saman Gunan, the former Navy SEAL who died, and the boys only learned two days ago that he

had died in trying to supply oxygen tanks down to the cavern in which they'd been for all of those days. And little Titan, he said, thank you for

sacrificing your life for us. And you know, there were many tears from members of the family there after he said that.

And later many of the boys said they wanted to become monks and join Buddhist Sangha for Mr. Saman. Of course that's the heavy stuff because

that was actually the only tragedy in all of this story. It's a remarkable triumph overall. And the boys have laughed and joked today.

They've been talking about things they want to eat. One of them even said that he was looking forward to eating some snake sausage. They talked about

how when in hospital they were enjoying watching the World Cup together and supporting different sides and laughing. Another boy said I was really

worried down in the cave that my mum would be really, really angry at me and several of them apologized to their parents for going down to the cave

in the first place.

But I think the parental relief was very clear. The parents have been in the hospital obviously and will look forward to taking the boys home and

spoiling them rotten. I believe the moms and dads and the brothers and sister have prepared welcome parties for them. There are rooms redecorated,

gifts laid up and, you know, there's been an appeal from authorities here to the media, to allow the boys some peace, and not to intrude upon the

next few days here.

The boys will be going off on a holiday, apparently, a vacation to Isan which is the northeastern part of Thailand. I think this is going to prove

quite an important thing because, you know, they've been together for such a long time and some of the child psychologists we've been talking to have

talked about, you know, how that group feeling of being together could be threatened by them going home, being alone, possibly the manifesting signs

of anxiety or depression.

And, you know, although the doctors have declared them fit and healthy and ready to face the world.

[08:30:00] There is also, you know, concern that the symptoms are post- traumatic stress may take some while to manifest as it did all those years ago with the Chile miners for example, some of whom, you know, these were

men who had worked underground, you know, in a copper mine, and they are still manifesting -- some of those men are still manifesting signs of post-

traumatic stress.

So, it isn't over yet for these boys, but they have been remarkably resilient and they have given the most wonderful performance today. It has

been broadcast nationwide in every single channel. I'm surrounded left and right by cameras from all over the world. It has been covered wall to wall,

and I think the world was desperate in search of a good news story and here the wild boars gave them one.

COREN: Absolutely, Jonathan. The world was transfixed and understandably so. It's interesting how those questions that were asked of them, they all

have to be vetted, they were obviously submitted by journalists, but they have to be vetted by child psychologists. And the governor has said that

he wants the children to now get on with their lives and to the media to back off at least for a while.

Jonathan Miller, wonderful that you could wrap this all up and see it to its finality in such a wonderful way. This no doubt was humanity as its

finest. Please stay with CNN. Much more after the break.

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COREN: I'm Anna Coren in Hong Kong. You are watching "News Stream." Well, we heard in the last hour from the 12 boys and their football coach who

were trapped for nearly three weeks deep inside a cave in Thailand. They talked about their hopes and dreams for the future. Some said they want to

be footballers of the said Navy SEALs. They also honored the diver who died in the rescue operations.

In the last hour, the European Union has hit Google with a record $5 billion fine for thwarting competitors and pushing its own apps on

smartphone users. Anna Stewart is following the story from London. Anna, this is the largest fine ever imposed by a regulator against a single firm.

Put this into perspective for us.

ANNA STEWART, CNN JOURNALIST: Sure. And last year, of course, the E.U. fined them a record fine of $2.7 billion for a separate anti-competitive

issue. This is nearly double that. It's $5 billion. It's around 40 percent of the company's annual profits. So this is a mega, mega fine.

Now, this particular probe is looking into the Android mobile operation software that Google uses. Here's what the commissioner from the E.U. said

earlier today when she announced the big fine.

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[08:34:58] MARGRETHE VESTAGER, EUROPEAN COMMISSIONER FOR COMPETITION: Today, the commission has decided to fine Google $4.34 billion Euros for

breaching E.U. antitrust rules. Google has engaged in illegal practices to cement its dominant market position in internet search. It must put an

effective end to this contact within 90 days or face penalty payments.

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STEWART: Anna, those penalty payments are also pretty hefty. It is about five percent of the daily worldwide turnover of Alphabet, Google's parent

company. And if you read through some of the charges here, you will realize how much Google will need to change within the 90 days to avoid any further

penalties.

E.U. says that Google currently -- the illegal practices have required phone makers to pre-install apps like Google Search, like Chrome, if they

want to license Google's Play Store which is their app store on Android.

It said that it illegally offered financial incentives to phone makers who then have to exclusively use their apps. It also says it prevented phone

makers from using an alternative to Android software if they want to pre- install some Google apps.

So, a plenty of things there. Google of course has denied all of these charges. It always has since the investigation started in 2015, and it will

be appealing all of this.

COREN: Yeah, I wanted to ask you about that, Anna, because obviously Google is appealing the fine from last year, that $2.8 billion fine for

unfairly favoring its own services. So where does this leave Google?

STEWART: Yeah, it's interesting. You can kind of look at this in three different ways. First of all, there is the financial impact of the fine

itself. As I said, $5 billion is big even for company that does have annual revenues of $110 billion. This is still 40 percent of its annual profits,

more or less.

As you said, it already got the fine from last year, $2.7 billion, which you can add to that, it is appealing that as well. But then you got to

think about this -- stopping these processes and how that could impact Google.

Now, some experts would say Google has become so entrenched in Europe for the consumer Android used by some 80 percent of users in Europe and it says

that ultimately now it's so far gone that even if these apps weren't already installed in the phone that you buy, the chances are you will then

install Google maps, install Gmail because it already become so dominant.

That might not have much an impact. But there is a third element of this and that's civil lawsuit which could not come from businesses, from

individuals across the European Union who feel they've been damaged financially by this unfair dominance.

COREN: Anna Stewart, joining us from London, we certainly appreciate you putting that into context for us. Many thanks. We will have much more on

this coming up on CNN "Money" which starts in less than 30 minutes. Well, keep it right here on CNN. There is much more "News Stream" coming up after

the short break.

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COREN: Welcome back to "News Stream." CNN is exploring a different side of India. It's a country millions flock to every year but now a new type of

tourist is putting India into focus, one that has a real passion for improving the environment. Here's "Destination India."

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[08:40:11] UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice over): Deep in the thick, green forest and misty hills of Southwestern India is Kodagu, also known as

Coorg.

CHERIAN RAMAPURAM, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, EVOLVE BACK RESORT: Coorg has always been magic. There is a magic in the name.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice over): Cherian Ramapuram is the executive director of Evolve Back Resort in Coorg, a resort focused on responsible

tourism.

RAMAPURAM: In responsible tourism, there are the most acclaimed three Rs. One is reduce. That is reduce waste. The second is reuse. So if there is a

little left over, reuse that. It's not the food that we're talking of. Anything, anything. There's nothing that is wasted. Reuse it. The third R

is recycle. What we can't reuse, we give it for recycling.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice over): The resort was once named one of the top 25 ego lodges in the world. Attention to the environment runs through

almost every aspect of the business. There are no plastic bottles. Filtered water is in every room. Most of the energy used is renewable. And recycling

is a must.

RAMAPURAM: So when they see all this, actually, they go back a little more educated that they should not, you know, be wasting.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice over): General manager Kanthi Aneesh says the experience goes beyond environmental awareness. Guests also offer the

opportunity to discover the local area and its people, visiting coffee plantations and contributing to the economy of the region they're visiting.

KANTHI ANEESH, GENERAL MANAGER, EVOLVE BACK RESORT: When the guests visit us, they are aware of what they can contribute towards social, economic or

community development. I think they will get the knowledge. Now it is necessary for our generation to have a knowledge how to preserve the nature

and how we can contribute in a smarter way.

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COREN: I'm sure you know we heard in the last hour from the 12 boys and their football coach who were trapped for nearly three weeks deep inside a

cave in Thailand. Well, they answered questions about how they ended up in the cave and their hopes for the future as well as honoring the diver who

died in the rescue operations. We'll have much more on what they said in the hours ahead.

Well, that is "News Stream." Thanks so much for your company. I'm Anna Coren, but don't go anywhere, "World Sport" with Andy Scholes is coming up

next.

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