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[08:00:00] KRISTIE LOU STOUT, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong and welcome to "News Stream."

Trapped on a volcano. Hundreds are stranded in Indonesia after an earthquake kills more than a dozen people.

Zimbabwe votes. Polls open in the country's first election without Robert Mugabe in power.

And making guns with the preacher. What the release of blueprints for firearms could mean for gun regulation in the U.S.

A rescue operation is underway in Indonesia when nearly 700 people are trapped in around Mount Rinjani after an earthquake hit Lombok island. The

6.4-magnitude quake has killed at least 16 people and left many more homeless.

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LU STOUT (voice-over): Moments after the quake struck, hikers scrambled to get down the mountain with clouds of dust rising from landslides all

around. There are more than 800 people including many foreign tourists hiking on Mount Rinjani at the time. Rescuers set off on Monday morning to

help find hundreds of people still trapped.

Elsewhere, Indonesian president Joko Widodo visits survivors to hand out emergency supplies and promised more aid.

JOKO WIDODO, PRESIDENT OF INDONESIA (through translator): As for Rinjani, the search and rescue agency, disaster mitigating agency and the military

are working together. Hopefully it will be over soon.

LU STOUT (voice-over): Around a thousand buildings were damaged including many people's homes.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): We are sleeping here at the side of the road because our house collapsed in the quake so my family and I

have to sleep here. There are other villages sleeping at other locations around here too. We are afraid of aftershocks.

LU STOUT (voice-over): The earthquake was centered 50 kilometers northeast of the city of Mataram, and at a relatively shallow depth of 7 kilometers,

it was felt on the neighboring island of Bali. Many homes here are not built to withstand strong tremors and rescuers have to be careful of

aftershocks while searching the rubble.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): Many houses collapsed in the quake as a 6.4-magnitude earthquake is relatively strong. In addition, the

epicenter is very close to the northern area of the island. The third reason is that the houses structures are not firm enough like in reinforced

steel bars and a solid foundation.

LU STOUT (voice-over): People often feel earthquakes in Indonesia. It is in the Ring of Fire region of heightened seismic and volcanic activity, but

this quake was stronger than usual and happened while many people were sleeping. The Indonesian Red Cross are helping to treat the injured and

along with the police and volunteers, are searching for those still missing.

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LU STOUT: All right, we'll continue to monitor the situation and the rescue operations there on top of the volcano on Lombok Island in

Indonesia.

Now to the western United States where more than a dozen wildfires are taking lives and consuming property in California. Now, the biggest called

the Carr Fire is happening in Shasta County, that is in the northern part of the state. It doubled in size over the weekend turning the sky a

terrifying orange. It has been burning for a week now and it is still only 17 percent contained. It is blamed for four to six deaths reported across

the state.

These fires have created unimaginable tragedy for some of those families. Our Dan Simon is in Redding, California, again, that is near the Carr Fire.

He joins us live, and Dan, these fires have taken so much and quite recently you spoke to man who lost his wife as well as his two great-

grandchildren. What did he share with you?

DAN SIMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well hi, Kristie. This is one of the most difficult conversations I have ever had with somebody. This is a 76-year-

old man who is broken after losing the most important people in his life. I can tell you that this gentleman, Ed Bledsoe and his wife Melody, they were

taking care of their two great-grandchildren. They had raised them since birth.

On Thursday night at around 7:00, Ed left the house. He just left the house for a short time, about 15 minutes. He wanted to go run an errand and then

he received a frantic phone call that the flames had approached his house. Now inside, were his wife and his two grandkids and I will let Ed pick up

the story from here. Take a look.

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[08:05:02UNIDENTIFIED MALE: ED BELDSOE, SURVIVOR: I talked to Junior (ph) on the phone until he died. He just kept saying, "Grandpa, you should come

get me." He said, "Come and get me. The fire is coming in the backdoor. Come on grandpa." I said, I'm not down the road.

He said, "Come and get us. And he said I love you grandpa. Grandma says I love you grandpa and then Junior (ph) says I love you. Come and get us.

Come and get us. I said, I'm on my way. My wife was the greatest woman in the world and my grandkids was excellent.

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SIMON: The phone actually cut off in the middle of the conversation as he was trying to get back to the home, but when he got close he saw that

police had put up blockades and just could not get to the house. As you imagine, Kristie, he feels a tremendous sense of guilt over what happened.

In the meantime, as far as the overall fire is concerned I can tell you that crews did make some progress over the weekend.

You mentioned the containment number, now up to 18 percent. That is quite an improvement. Just 24 hours ago, it was at five percent. This is some of

the damage you can see behind me. This is the Redding Estates neighborhood. So much destruction, 874 structures have been destroyed.

But back to Ed for a second, just such a tragedy and he says he never received any kind of evacuation order. Nobody told him that he should leave

and that just goes to show you how fast that fire engulfed the community, Kristie.

LU STOUT: Such heartbreaking loss and devastation caused by this fire. This fire is that it's extremely dangerous and fast-moving. So, when

thousands of residents are living in this area and they need to flee these fast moving fires, what more is needed to help them get out in time?

SIMON: Well, nobody expects a police officer to come banging on your door telling you that you only have minutes to leave, but in this case, Kristie,

residents really were caught off guard. This started as just sort of a small brush fire a week ago. Nobody really thought it was going to spread.

It just stayed like that for several days and then on Thursday, the winds really kicked up and all of a sudden this fire just exploded. And some

people likened it to a tornado, but a tornado that had flames, Kristie.

LU STOUT: Sadly, residents caught off guard there because of the Carr Fire there in Redding, California. Dan Simon reporting for us live. Thank you

very much indeed and take care. Now, CNN meteorologist Chad Myers is at the weather center. Of course, he's been monitoring what's been happening there

in California and across the state. And as you know, Chad, it's these conditions, hot, dry, windy weather across the state making it very

difficult for the firefighters. Is this going to improve anytime soon?

CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Improve yes but by one or two degrees and maybe a little bit more humidity, but the wind doesn't die down today and

it's that wind that fans the flames that moves the flames around. What we had here in Redding was an urban wildland interface, people building their

homes as close to the forest as they can because that's the most beautiful part of the town.

Well, the forest burned and then burned into the town itself that's why so many structures were lost. Typically, if we have a wildland fire, there's

one or two homes and the firefighters can take care of those homes, protect them, but there were so many homes involved at the same time it was

impossible to get there. This fire now is a third of the size of the city of Rome, the entire city of Rome.

We're talking now -- we're talking many, many hectares. We're talking square kilometers, 200 to 300 square kilometers. It's hard to get a number

because the fire keeps growing. So we are still going to have the wind today. The wind is still going to push the fires along. The wind may help a

little bit when it comes to air quality. There is so much smoke here in the California Valley it is unhealthy to breathe that air.

Now, eventually that wind will shift directions, maybe blow the fire in a different direction but that's also a problem where the firefighters are

stationed. You don't want the wind to blow back on them. You want the fire to blow away from them so we're still going to see the increased risk of

any breathing problems you have out there today.

Temperatures are going to be right around 40s. Winds are going to be gusty. Some of these fires can make their own wind. When the air goes up so

quickly because the air is hot, because it's heated by the flames, then all of a sudden the air has to rush back in because the air is gone. You make a

low pressure center right below the fire, right at the fire, and all of a sudden the wind blow back in and you create your own problems.

No real threat of any or help of any real rain. This is just a dry area. This is a dry part of the season and many because we had a drought for so

long, many of these trees are dead and they burn very, very quickly.

LU STOUT: Chad Myers reporting the Carr Fire taking blaze in Redding, California now the size of the city of Rome and it could very well get

larger. Chad Myers, thank you so much and take care.

Zimbabwe is heading to the polls for the first time since the end of Robert Mugabe's rule.

[08:10:03UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The former president of the country for some 37 years until he was ousted last November. But his fall from grace did not

prevent a dramatic last-minute intervention as he undermined his own former party, ZANU PF on Sunday.

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ROBERT MUGABE, FORMER ZIMBABWE PRESIDENT: When this system ceases to be that of freedom, that democratic and becomes unconstitutional decisions are

taken on the basis of who is my friend, who is my relative.

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LU STOUT: Mugabe's successor, President Mnangagwa is among more than ng more than 20 contenders for the top job with perhaps the most prominent

competition coming from opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa. For more, let's go straight to Farai Sevenzo in the capital of Harare, and Farai, let's

first talk about Robert Mugabe. He has intervened in this race with his comments undermining his own former party. How is it going down with voters

there?

FARAI SEVENZO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, you know, we saw several tweets on social media and of Mr. Mugabe going to vote. It's unclear the way he

voted. He usually votes in Highfield, an area I come from. But people around him were cheering him on, but it was almost a comedic kind of

approach (ph), you know, because of the comments he made yesterday afternoon at Sunday.

With that controversion (ph), he set himself apart from the party that he founded, the party that he led (inaudible) for over 37 years and simply say

that he cannot trust the people with (inaudible) so much and that he would rather of the 22 candidates left, he would rather choose Mr. Chamisa. But

that is also the kind of person Mr. Chamisa himself likes and of course that set off a chain of events with the government and Mr. Mnangagwa.

Mr. Mnangagwa himself releasing his own video saying, well, look, the opposition is in bed with the man who was a dictator for so long. Now, none

of this is really credible where you look under the skin because Mr. Mnangagwa was -- Mr. Robert Mugabe's (inaudible) for over 50 years.

And you know that old expression, there really is no true permanent friends in politics. There is just permanent interest. And it seems right now, Mr.

Mugabe having been ignored for so long, he's real permanent interest is to try and cozy up to this young upstart on Nelson Chamisa, 40 years-old, who

is today the only competition of a 75-year-old incumbent Emmerson Mnangagwa, Kristie.

LU STOUT: So, where does the ZANU PF stand now? I mean, this was the party of liberation in Zimbabwe. Are enough people there in the country now

willing to turn their back on ZANU PF?

SEVENZO: You know, this is being called a very tightly contested election. People -- local past are putting them neck and neck. But then when you look

at the kind of crowds (inaudible) was out on the last day of campaigning in the capital Harare, there was a sea of red in Zimbabwe Square. Many more I

would wager and they wear the national (inaudible).

Now, that doesn't mean that these numbers are going to translate into a victory, but certainly there is a mode of passion for an opposition that

has been denied power for so long. They last tasted it in 2009 when the late Morgan Tsvangirai became prime minister of a national unity

government.

So, at the moment we know that the figures don't look and apparently in the face of it, to be favoring the incumbent president but this is a tricky,

tricky road to go and we have about five days or so before the results are checking in. But at the moment, people are voting. We've been out to

polling station. We saw a school with six polling stations, people looking for their names in the voter's register.

And there are all kinds of complaints as well from the opposition that the urban voters are being turned away. There is no real proof of that and of

course, they have the courts to turn to should they be very unhappy with the final result, Kristie, but it's going to be a very interesting week.

LU STOUT: Yes, absolutely. Farai Sevenzo reporting live from Harare, watching this election very closely. It could be a fresh start for

Zimbabwe. Farai, thank you.

Now, in Cambodia, the ruling party there is cleaning a landslide election victory but critics they are calling it a sham. Prime Minister Hun Sen,

seen here voting, is expected to win another term after more than 30 years in power. He says turn out was 80 percent and is Cambodian People's Party

who says it won more than 100 out of 125 seats in parliament. The human rights groups are condemning Sunday's vote.

The deputy director of the Asia division of Human Rights Watch, Phil Robertson, notes that the main opposition party was banned.

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PHIL ROPBERTSON, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, HUMAN RIGHST WATCH ASIA DIVISION: Well, unfortunately, the prognostication that democracy in Cambodia has died is

correct.

[08:15:00] This has been by far and away the least democratic election since the U.N. came in here in 1993. We are seeing a situation where an

opposition party was completely dissolved prior to the elections. People were not able to vote on some party that they wanted. The government here

is now predicting that they will win all the seats, all 125 assembly seats.

Now, since it is starting to approach the old Soviet Union type election, you know, where they win 99 percent of the votes post, you know, it's

really become a joke. This is a mockery of democracy rather than upholding the democratic principles.

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LU STOUT: Phil Robertson now bans (ph) Cambodia National Rescue Party leadership called on the international community to do more than simply

condemn Sunday's result. You're watching "News Stream," and up next, President Trump gets personal, ramping up the rhetoric in a new attack on

Robert Mueller. We'll tell you what he is saying now.

Also ahead, the British Parliament sets it sight in tackling fake news. I was hoping to stop the spread of disinformation by trying to regulate

social media. Well, that and more after the break.

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LU STOUT: We are coming to you live from Hong Kong. Welcome back. This is "News Stream." Now, Italy's far right Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini

has triggered a storm in the Italian media by appearing to quote at least fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. Salvini who also serves as interior

minister tweeted an article on Sunday compiling criticisms against him.

The caption did quote, "So many enemies, so much honor." The words echoed those popularized by Mussolini who said, "Many enemies, much honor."

Salvini tweeted the quote on July 29th, incidentally, Mussolini's birthday.

President Donald Trump is expected to take questions from reporters during a joint news conference with Italy's prime minister later on Monday. Now,

one question that is certain to come up, what was behind that weekend twitter rant against Robert Mueller. Abby Philip has more.

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ABBY PHILLIP, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): With Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation inching closer and closer to Trump's

inner circle, the president ramping up his attacks against the probe and directly targeting Mueller by name. In a series of tweets, the president

accusing Mueller of having conflicts of interest including an alleged contentious business relationship with Mr. Trump.

The White House did not respond to CNN's request for information, but ethics experts from the Justice Department determined last year that

Mueller's assignment is appropriate. President Trump's latest criticism coming days after sources told CNN that the president's former lawyer

Michael Cohen is prepared to tell Mueller that then candidates Trump knew in advance and approved the Trump Tower meeting with Russians promising

dirt on Hillary Clinton months before the 2016 election.

[08:20:07] The president has repeatedly denied that he had any knowledge of the meeting. Cohen also authorizing the release of a recording of a

conversation with Mr. Trump discussing a potential payment to a Playboy model who claims she had an affair with him, something the president

denies.

MICHAEL COHEN, FORMER ATTORNEY OF PRESSIDENT TRUMP: I need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend David --

PHILLIP (voice-over): President Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, telling CBS the tapes of 183 Cohen conversations exist, but that only one captures the

conversation with the president.

RUDY GIULIANI, TTORNEY FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP: There are 12 others maybe 11 or 12 others out of the 183 in which the president is discussed at any

length by Cohen mostly with reporters, all clearly corroborating what the president has said in detail on many of those tweets. So, these are tapes I

want you to read, I want you to hear.

PHILLIP (voice-over): Giuliani continuing to assail Cohen's character.

GIULIANI: The man is a pathological manipulator, liar --

PHILLIP (voice-over): Despite repeatedly praising him.

GIULIANI: He doesn't have any incriminating evidence about the president or himself. The man is an honest, honorable lawyer.

PHILLIP (voice-over): President Trump also taking to twitter to again threaten the government shutdown if Congress does not fund his border wall

and change the nation's immigration laws. The threat coming after the president met with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker

Paul Ryan last week to talk about government funding. After that meeting, both leaders downplaying the possibility of a shutdown.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So you're not worried about a government shutdown --

SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL, SENATE MAJORITY LEADER: No, that's not going to happen.

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PHILLIP (on-camera): And later today, President Trump is going to host the Italian prime minister here at the White House. They'll have a press

conference and also a photo-op that we call a pool spray, that's a venue that reporters often use to ask the president questions. But just last

week, the White House tried to retaliate against a CNN reporter for asking questions in that exact venue. So we will see what President Trump does on

that today, Kristie.

LU STOUT: Abby Phillip there. Now, by now, we have all heard President Trump blast the Russia probe as a hoax or phony, something that sounds a

lot like his reason (ph), the media so that probably made things a little bit awkward when he came face-to-face with the head of another favorite

target, the "New York Times."

Mr. Trump revealed on Sunday that he recently met with the paper's publisher, A.G. Sulzberger. And while Sulzberger confirmed their chat, that

seems to be all that the tea man (ph) are agreeing on. Now, President Trump tweeted that they spent much time talking about the vast amounts of fake

news being put up by the media and how that fake news is morphed into the phrase "enemy of the people," adding (inaudible)!.

But in this statement, Sulzberger said this, "I told him that although the phrase fake news is untrue and harmful, I am far more concerned about his

labeling journalists the enemy of the people. I've warned that this inflammatory language is contributing to a rise in threats against

journalists and will lead to violence."

Sulzberger, he also added that the White House suggested or requested the meeting and asked that it remain off the record. But after President Trump

tweeted about it, "The Times" decided to go ahead and release Sulzberger's notes. Fake news is also a threat to democracy in the U.K. Now, that is

according to a grim new warning from members of British Parliament. It's all out in a new report.

A committee has been investigating the spread of disinformation and the claims that it has disturbing evidence of hacking and voter suppression

used in political campaigns as early as 2010. Now, it is calling for greater regulation of social media. That investigation began after the

recent Cambridge Analytica scandal. And Samuel Burke has been following all this from the very start. He joins us live from London, and Samuel, good to

se you. Walk us through this report and exactly how are British MPs raising the alarm on disinformation and fake news.

SAMUEL BURKE, CNN BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY CORRESPONDENT: Kristie, the U.K. Parliament wants to go after Facebook financially and legally. Europe has

long had a lot of bark, now that bite is starting to sink in.

(voice-over): It's a blueprint for regulation sure to reverberate across Silicon Valley. This 89-page report released Sunday by a British

parliamentary committee. The report called on companies like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to face financial and legal liability when they fail to

police fake news on their platforms.

DAMIAN COLLINS, BRITISH CONSERVATIVE MP: We have to create this sense of liability for them to say that if you don't proactively look for or monitor

harmful content and I think they are to classify the real hard fake news, real lies being spread during election and harmful content, if you don't

act to identify that and the sources of it, then you could be liable for that information having been spread. And I think if we introduce that

liability into law, we'll see them take it more seriously.

[08:25:01] BURKE: The committee recommended new taxes on social media companies and stiff fines when they promote political ads that lacked

transparency.

COLLINS: The tech companies are saying themselves they want to give more transparency. What we could do is write it into our laws.

BURKE: If adopted, the recommendations would radically change the way tech companies are treated in the U.K., less like passive platforms and more

like publishers.

MARK ZUCKERBERG, CEO, FACBOOK: I think that it is inevitable that there will need to be some regulation.

BURKE: But British lawmakers said they weren't satisfied with the efforts by social media companies to regulate themselves.

COLLINS: What they do is they pre-empt regulation. They don't like being regulated. So, if they think to the threat of regulation is real, they will

try and design their own way of solving the problem.

BURKE: The committee which has been working closely with members of the U.S. Congress also proposed measures to combat election interference. And

it slams Facebook in particular for failing to fully investigate how and if Russia uses its platform to influence voters. In a statement to CNN,

Facebook said, "The committee has raised some important issues. We share the goal of ensuring that political advertising is fair and transparent and

that electoral rule changes are needed. We will work closely with the U.K. government as we develop these new transparency tools."

RICHARD QUEST, CNN ANCHOR: The chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, is $16 billion poorer than when woke up this morning.

BURKE: Last week, the stock prices of Facebook and Twitter each fell almost 20 percent after both company said they were spending heavily to

combat misinformation and cleanup fake accounts on their platforms.

COLLINS: When you look to the near future and this problem is probably going to get worse. Using virtual reality, augmented reality techniques,

you can already creates fake speech given by someone in a place they never were to an audience they never met and pass it ff as real and share that

online.

Now, we're going to need the help of the tech companies to stop that sort of information spreading. Otherwise, that could have a real outcome on

elections in the future.

BURKE (voice-over): Big tech's willingness to help out will surely be tested now that regulation is growing closer to becoming law.

(on-camera): Kristie, one point I can't emphasize enough that this U.K. parliamentary committee has been working closely with the U.S. Congress,

not something that we always see. And now, we've just obtained document showing that Sen. Mark Warner, who is the vice chair of the intelligence

committee in the United States, has been circulating a blueprint that would also look at regulating social media in the U.S.

So, if I can just put up on the screen some of the points that he's talking about, it sounds very familiar. It is somewhat similar to what the U.K. is

looking at, but also federal funding for media literacy program so people can distinguish between a CNN going after the fact than fake news on

Facebook.

Increased identifiers for authentic accounts -- maybe that little blue symbol isn't enough. Maybe something bigger so people know this is a

legitimate CNN account, not somebody trying to be an imposter for our real news and to make platforms legally liable for defamation claims. So you can

see lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic looking to put regulation in. Now, whether they actually do that still, we have to wait and see.

LU STOUT: Yes, wait and see but the support raising the alarm and raising the chances of regulation indeed happening to the world of social media.

Samuel Burke reporting live for us. Thank you so much. Take care.

Now, here on "News Stream," we have more ahead, in fact, we're going to be looking into one of the biggest mysteries of modern aviation. Exactly what

happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370? But the official report, it offers few answers. You're going to get a live update on the latest

findings. Keep it here.

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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.

A landmark presidential vote is underway in Zimbabwe. It is the first election since Robert Mugabe's 37-year rule came to an end last November.

Here you will see incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa voting early in the day. Now, he is facing more than 20 contenders for the tough job

including MDC leader Nelson Chamisa.

Firefighters in California, they say that they are making some progress against a deadly wildfire. The Carr Fire filled by shifting winds as well

as dry weather, it doubled in size over the weekend. But officials say it is now nearly one-fifth contained. More than a dozen fires burning across

the state are blamed for at least six deaths.

A rescue operation is underway in Indonesia. At least 700 people are trapped around Mount Rinjani. A 6.4 magnitude quake hit Lombok Island on

Sunday, killing at least 16 people and leaving many others homeless.

Now joining me on the line is Andreanne Tampubolon, staff of Disaster Management Division, Indonesia Red Cross National Headquarters. She is

there on the island of Lombok where this is all taking place. She joins us now.

Andreanne, thank you for joining us here in the program. We know that hundreds of people are still missing including hikers who remain trapped on

the volcano. When will rescue teams be able to reach them?

ANDREANNE TAMPUBOLON, STAFF, DISASTER MANAGEMENT DIVISION, INDONESIA RED CROSS NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS (via telephone): (INAUDIBLE) based on

information that the search is underway, conducted by the national army together with search and rescue national body.

LU STOUT: OK. I know at the Red Cross, you are focusing on providing aid for the survivors across Lombok. Let's talk about that. We know that

thousands of people have been affected by this earthquake. How are they getting access to basic necessities like clean water, food, and shelter?

TAMPUBOLON (via telephone): OK. So what we are doing, we distribute the necessities like ready-to-eat food to the location. They are quite

scattered (ph). The location is quite scattered (ph) (INAUDIBLE) so that is why it is important for us to get the (INAUDIBLE) accordingly (ph).

LU STOUT: OK. Andreanne Tampubolon of the Red Cross joining us live in Lombok, thank you so much for joining us in the program. Best of luck to

you and your team as you assist the survivors in the aftermath of Sunday's earthquake there.

Now, Malaysia has released its long-awaited report into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. A four-year search was called off earlier

this year. And the report, it offers no clear cause for the plane's vanishing, but it does not rule out outside intervention.

Now, CNN'S Will Ripley is in Hong Kong. He has more on the story and will join us now. Will, four years later, finally this 400-page final report is

out and still no clear answers, no closure for the families?

WILL RIPLEY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: We counted, Kristie. It has been 1606 days since March 8, 2014 when MH370 disappeared. I remember that

period of time very well. I know you do, too. It was my first assignment for CNN, and I remember hearing those families at the airport in Kuala

Lumpur sobbing and moaning on a daily basis as they left this government press conferences.

They felt that they were not only not getting answers, but that they were being blocked from the truth, that the government in Malaysia was hiding

something from them.

And so now you have this 495-page report. This is the government's effort to be fully transparent. And it lists every fact that the Malaysian

government says they have obtained over the last four plus years about the disappearance of the airliner. But inside that huge report, there are no

answers about what happened.

They know that 27 pieces of debris have washed ashore up the east coast of Africa as far north as Tanzania, as far as south as South Africa, but only

three pieces, three wing fragments have actually been verified 100 percent is coming from the missing plane.

[08:35:03] You know, they detailed the search efforts, the 230,000 square kilometers that were searched first by the Australian government, later by

a private U.S. company. They claim it was using the latest technology. The search efforts turned up nothing. They looked at the background extensively

of the pilot, of the first officer.

They didn't find anything that seem to indicate proof that they had motivation to turn that plane around and fly it on a presumed course

somewhere in the Southern Indian Ocean where the plane is believed to be sitting even though the searches of the best known areas or the best

estimated guess o0f where the plane went down turned up nothing.

They looked to the backgrounds of all the passengers, 227 passengers, 12 crew members. There has been nothing that has given them any clue. So for

the family members of the pilot and the first officer that had to live with this cloud hanging over them of suspicion, you know, the investigators have

said, look, is it possible somebody broke into the cockpit? Sure.

Is it possible that there was a catastrophic equipment failure in the plane and that they were in a heroic effort trying to turn it around? Yes, it's

possible. Is it possible it was something more sinister criminal act? Yes.

And so families are left here more than four years later, right where they were in those early months after the disappearance, waking up every morning

now for 1606 days, wondering exactly what happened and not knowing.

LU STOUT: Yeah. So, no clear cause yet on what caused this plane to disappear. The mystery continues. Will Ripley reporting live, thank you.

You're watching "News Stream." Still to come right here on the program, no background checks, no regulations, and a lot problems. 3D-printed hand guns

are set to hit the United States and if they could work, what could this mean? We will investigate that, next.

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LU STOUT: Coming to you live from Hong Kong at the start of a new week, welcome back. This is "News Stream."

In the United States, blueprints for printable guns are set to be released on the web this week. The designs mean that anyone can print a gun from

home if they have a 3D printer. But is this technical innovation or an unnecessary threat? Athena Jones has more.

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ATHENA JONES, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: It could be the dawn of a new era in gun manufacturing. Starting as soon as Wednesday, people will be

able to use 3D printers to make their own weapons and weapon parts. No background check required.

This after the government settled a lawsuit last month with the nonprofit group Defense Distributed that will allow the posting of 3D printable gun

plans online, a move that is triggering a debate about public safety and national security.

The group's founder, Cody Wilson, has built a website so people will be able to download plans for a handgun he dubs the "Liberator" as well as

digital files for a complete Beretta M9 handgun and other firearms.

Wilson's legal battle began after he posted handgun blueprints online in 2013, waiting to a demand from the State Department to take them down

because they could violate a law regulating the export of defense material services and technical data like blueprints. Wilson explained his goal in a

2013 interview.

CODY WILSON, FOUNDER, DEFENSE DISTRIBUTED: Bring guns one as exercise and experimentalism. Can you print a gun? But really, for me, it is important.

It is like a symbolic political statement.

JONES: He described the future in which people could access unregulated guns.

[08:40:02] WILSON: In the future, people will be able to make guns for themselves. That was already true. But now it has been been demonstrated in

yet another technology.

JONES: The June 29 settlement will also allow Wilson's site to post online plans for an AR-15 lower receiver, a key component of the gun. Gun control

advocates fear these firearms made almost entirely of plastic would be untraceable and impossible to regulate.

The co-president of the Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence says these hard to detect guns would be a national security threat, making it easier

for terrorists and people who can't pass criminal background checks to get their hands on the dangerous weapons, adding, "I think everybody in America

ought to be terrified about that."

But experts like Lawrence Keane, senior vice president for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the firearm industry's trade association, say

3D-printed guns would have to include metal components to function and because federal law requires it.

LAWRENCE KEANE, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, NATIONAL SHOOTING SPORTS FOUNDATION: Federal law since the mid-1980s under the Undetectable Firearms Act

requires certain (ph) amount of metal so they are not undetectable (INAUDIBLE) undetected (INAUDIBLE).

JONES: Even with those metal component, the guns would not work well.

KEANE: The truth is, they don't. Many times, they fail after a single shot being fired. They break. They are not very durable and they really don't

work.

JONES: He said the sort of high-end printer that will be needed to make it a gun cost as much as the quarter of a million dollars and the resulting

weapons unreliability means the country is unlikely to see a rush of people trying to print their own guns. New York Senator Chuck Schumer expressed

similar concerns back in 2013.

SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D), NEW YORK: Felon, a terrorist, can make a gun in the comfort of their home not even leaving their home and do terrible

damage with it. And so the question is, what we do about it?

JONES: Last week, he demanded the State Department and the Department of Justice reverse the decision or postpone finalizing it. And so that if they

don't, he would use emergency congressional actions to block those gun websites.

SCHUMER: We are here to sound the alarm. We are here to plead with the administration not to allow these type of websites to go forward with their

plan on August 1st. And we are here to say we will pass legislation if such a website is allowed.

JONES: Athena Jones, CNN, New York.

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LU STOUT: Finally, it was the biggest story in years of the Korean Peninsula, so it's only fitting that one of South Korea's hottest stars is

offering his take on it.

K-pop megastar "Big Bang" tackles the summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the video for the song called "Where Are

You From?" It has already received more than 2.5 million viewers on YouTube since its release last week.

That's "News Stream." I'm Kristie Lu Stout. Don't go anywhere. We got "World Sports" with Don Riddell, coming up next.

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