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Special Counsel Robert Mueller Offers Donald Trump A Contentious Line Of Questioning; Iran's Massive Military Exercise In The Persian Gulf; Zimbabwe Awaits Official Election Results; Donald Trump Thanking Kim Jong- Un; U.S. Imposes Ban On Turkey; Google Making Moves To Get Back Into China, Japan And South Korea Grappling With Extreme Heat Wave; World Headlines; War In Yemen; New Video Of Mexico Plane Crash; Strategic Partnership; New Zealand PM Back To Work After Maternity Leave. Aired 8-9a ET
Aired August 02, 2018 - 08:00 ET
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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."
Limiting a potential interview. Sources say Special Counsel Robert Mueller has made an offer to Donald Trump about a contentious line of questioning.
Harare on edge. Zimbabwe's government warns against public dissent as the country awaits official election results.
And frightening survival. New videos shows the moment a plane in Mexico crash after take off and ended with no deaths.
And we begin in Washington in what appears to be an offer by the special counsel to the U.S. president. Sources tell CNN that Robert Mueller has
indicated he will reduce the number of questions about obstruction of justice if Mr. Trump answers those questions in a sit-down interview.
The proposed trade-off comes as the White House tries to clean up after the presents tweet calling on the attorney general to end the Russia
investigation right now. CNN's Abby Phillip joins me live from the White House. Abby, are you seeing signs that Donald Trump could accept this offer
from Robert Mueller?
ABBY PHILLIPS, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Well it is really not where, Kristie -- where this leaves us because this has been an ongoing discussion
between the president's legal team and Robert Mueller and it's sticking on this issue of obstruction of justice. How and when can they ask the
president about it, and even all these talks are happening, the president continues on twitter tweeting in ways that really bring up the question of
whether he's making the case of obstruction of justice stronger and his allies are heating up their attacks on the special counsel.
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RUDY GIULIANI, ATTORNEY FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP: I'm not going to give you a lot of hope what's going to happen, but we're still negotiating.
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PHILLIP (voice-over): The back and forth over a potential interview between President Trump and Special Counsel Robert Mueller resuming. But
sources telling CNN that Mueller has offered to reduce the number of obstruction related questions but is insisting they're answered in person.
The president's lawyers have previously offered to provide written answers to obstruction questions but are aiming to limit a sit-down interview to
questions largely involving Russian interference in the election and potential collusion.
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ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: You're saying that one of your conditions is that he will not answer questions about obstruction of justice.
GIULIANI: It is not -- yes. But maybe if they could show us one or two there we would consider it.
CAMEROTA: One or two what?
GIULIANI: One or two questions that they really need then we'd consider.
CAMEROTA: You would consider it.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
PHILLIP (voice-over): Rudy Giuliani telling "New Day" on Monday that the odds are against a sit-down interview despite the president's eagerness to
go through with it.
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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I've always wanted to do an interview because look, there's been no collusion.
GIULIANI: It's us, meaning a team of lawyers including me that have the most reservations about that.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
PHILLIP (voice-over): The "New York Times" reports that in recent days the president has pushed his lawyers to continue negotiating because he in fact
believes he can convince the investigators at their own inquiry is a witch- hunt.
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JAY SEKULOW, MEMBER, TRUMP'S LEGAL TEAM: It's time for this inquiry to come to an end.
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PHILLIP (voice-over): The president's anger over Mueller's probe boiling over on Wednesday after a source says he received updates from his legal
team. Mr. Trump declaring that, "Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop the Mueller investigation right now," despite the fact that Sessions has
recused himself from the investigation last year.
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REP. JERRY NADLER (D), RANKING MEMBER, JUDICIARY COMMITTEE: If someone tells a subordinate officer you should do something it normally is
considered instruction the street itself probably more evidence of an ongoing obstruction of justice.
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PHILLIP (voice-over): The tweet, putting the White House and Mr. Trump's legal team in clean up mode.
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SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARAY: The president is not obstructing, he's fighting back.
GIULIANI: He expresses his opinions on twitter. He used the word should. He didn't use the word must and it was no presidential directive to follow
it.
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PHILLIP (voice-over): That characterization at odds with this explanation of Mr. Trump's tweets last year.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are President Trump's tweets considered official White House statements?
SEAN SPICER, FORMER WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: Well, the president is the president of the United States so, they are considered official
statements by the president of the United States.
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PHILLIP: And later this afternoon, President Trump is heading to Pennsylvania for a campaign rally. He also has one scheduled in Ohio on
Saturday and that could be because (inaudible) telling CNN they are trying to schedule more campaign rallies for him so that he can potentially get
some of this legal troubles off of his mind and it serves as a little bit of a distraction, Kristie.
LU STOUT: Abby, you mentioned that controversial tweet, Donald Trump on twitter telling his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, to end Robert
Mueller's Russia investigation, but can Sessions even do that?
PHILLIP: Well, that is up to a lot of legal debate right now. It is possible potentially for Sessions to do that if he un-recuses (ph) himself,
but at the moment the person who was in charge of the special counsel investigation is the deputy attorney general, Rob Rosenstein.
[08:05:09] And a lot of experts say that if President Trump wants to fire Mueller, he wants someone in the Justice Department to do it. He is going
to have to find an official who is willing to carry out that order. Rob Rosenstein has already said he is not going to fire Mueller unless there is
cause, unless there is a good reason to do it.
If he declines to do it, the president might have to go down the line until he finds someone that's why people have been saying this is reminiscent of
a Saturday night massacre during the Nixon era when several Justice Department officials resigned to defy President Nixon's order to fire the
independent counsel in that case.
LU STOUT: Abby Phillip, live at the White House for us. Tank you.
Now, U.S. President Donald Trump is thanking North Korean leader Kim Jong- un for quote, "keeping your word on returning the remains of U.S. service members." Donald Trump tweeted this, quote, "I am not at all surprised that
you took this kind action." The Vice President Mike Pence attended the return with the 55 cases landed in Hawaii.
He said the USC's occasion is tangible progress in efforts to achieve peace on the Korean Peninsula. He also retold stories to some of those missing in
action during the Korean War and welcomed home the fallen.
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MIKE PENCE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Today, as a nation we breathe the word of thanks for your service and sacrifice. And we say to
you as one people with one voice, welcome home.
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LU STOUT: Mike Pence, he also said that his own father was a combat veteran in Korea. Historians and scientists will now begin working to
identify the remains in those 55 cases.
The U.S. is imposing actions onto Turkish government ministers after the continued detention of the American pastor Andrew Brunson. The treasury
putting financial pressure on Turkey's ministers for justice and the interior. A senior Turkish official told CNN that Turkey is disappointed by
the U.S. decision and wants to find a resolution. Turkey accuses Brunson of backing a coup attempt against President Erdogan in 2016. He denies these
charges.
Now let's bring in Jomana Karadsheh. She is live from Istanbul and Jomana, after last week's threats from Donald Trump, the U.S. has gone ahead. It
has hit Turkey with these sanctions. Tell us more about how Turkey is responding.
JOMANA KARADSHEH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Exactly, Kristie. Just a week ago, we were reporting on the threat from the president of these large sanctions as
he called them. So far, the response we're getting here in Turkey is angry as you would expect and defiance at the same time, whether it is from the
Turkish people or from officials, the two ministers who have been sanctioned by the U.S. government pretty much shrugging this off, really
downplaying the significance of these sanctions.
And then we've also heard from the -- looking at the reaction on twitter over the past few hours just to give you an idea, the hashtag "we will not
bow down to the U.S." has been trending. So, it just shows you the kind of mood here, and we've had such a unified response from the various political
parties here.
Almost all of them, even parties that oppose President Erdogan, rivals of the president coming out of that really tough elections just last month,
they are coming out in support of the government and against the United States.
The Foreign Ministry issued a strong statement calling this aggressive attitude of the United States and promising to reciprocate soon and so we
will have to wait and see because the Turkish war minster also in a tweet late yesterday after the sanctions were announced, he also said that this
will not go unanswered, but you know, there is a meeting scheduled to take place in Singapore between the Turkish Foreign Minister and Secretary of
State Mike Pompeo on Friday.
We haven't heard yet from President Erdogan or President Trump at this point so, there might be some room for de-escalation here. We will have to
wait and see what happens in the coming hours, but very difficult to predict where this is going next, Kristie.
LU STOUT: Yeah, but just for the historic context of this, you know, for the U.S. to impose sanctions on a NATO ally, how unprecedented is this?
KARADSHEH: In the 1970's, Kristie, the United States did impose an arms embargo on Turkey over the Cyprus (inaudible) so this is not entirely
unprecedented but it is rare when you're talking about one NATO ally sanctioning another one. But you have to put it into the context of what
has been going on.
[08:10:08] These two countries are allies. They have very strong ties when it comes to military cooperation, but at the same time, ties between the
two countries have been straining, have been deteriorating and hitting new lows every few months as we have been reporting. And the issue of Andrew
Brunson, this American pastor, is just one of several issues.
There are other really fundamental disagreements and issues between the two countries whether for Turkey, of course, it is the United States support of
Kurdish militia in Syria and then for the United States, we've heard this from U.S. officials, it is Turkey acquiring the missile system from the
Russians, the S-400 missile defense system.
So you had so many different agreements that right now, what is in focus it seems is the issue of this pastor, Andrew Brunson, that seems to be leading
their relationship to a new low.
LU STOUT: As you point out, there are a lot of pressure points in this increasingly tense relationship. Jomana Karadsheh, reporting live from
Istanbul for us. Thank you.
Now, Iran is gearing up for a massive military exercise in the Persian Gulf, that's according to U.S. officials, with Iranian forces potentially
carrying out the drill in less than 48 hours from now. The drill maybe designed to show Iran's ability to shut down a strategic passageway -- the
Strait of Hormuz linking the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea used by commercial ships from around the world. It comes as Tehran has been
exchanging sharp words with the White House and issuing threats over new U.S. imposed sanctions.
Now, reports are emerging that Google is making a big business move to get back into China, but jumping back with a great firewall will mean that
they'd have to comply with government censorship. Talk about that story, just ahead.
Also, we bring you new video of the Mexican plane crash from inside the cabin. See what it was like in the moments before and after the plane hit
the ground.
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LU STOUT: Coming to you live from Hong Kong, welcome back. This is "News Stream." Now, the Zimbabwe electoral commission says it is still finalizing
presidential election results and will announce the winner very soon. And this comes one day after three people were killed in clashes between
opposition protesters and security forces. Zimbabwe's president is calling for an independent investigation into the post-election violence.
CNN's David McKenzie is in the capital of Zimbabwe. He joins us now live, and David, before we talk about the violence that happened yesterday, why
is it taking so long for these presidential results to be officially announced?
[08:15:08] DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well Kristie, that's a question everyone's asking. I'm right here in Nelson
Mandela Avenue right in the middle of downtown Harare. I should be surrounded by cars here, but you see this riot policeman behind me with a
shotgun, also a line of riot police down the street. They have blocked up - - off this entire area and that is because this is close, very close to where I'm standing where the opposition's headquarters are.
And it appears they are working on some kind of operation to get some of those people out of that headquarters. Earlier, they put some in an armored
personnel carrier with the riot police. I spoke just moments ago with the spokesman of the head of the opposition party. He says this just proves in
his view, of the violence of the current president, Emerson Mnangagwa.
And also those violent scenes yesterday when you had riot police and then military moving onto the streets where I'm standing with three dead, the
results of that. The government is saying that it is the fault of the opposition that they have called this result to early, claiming victory
before the announcement even made.
Just look at these pictures of closed up shops. Riding downtown Harare, we went to one grocery store, one of the lost ones open, people rushing in to
get some basic supplies, and here is what people had to say to us.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We just want peace. We just want jobs. We want people to get they must have. We just want to be happy. People to go to work, get
paid, get money in the banks, that's all what we want.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Normally, the streets will be flooded with people so, they will (inaudible) different in scenario.
MCKENZIE: Are you nervous about the results coming out?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (Inaudible).
MCKENAZIE: Right.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Of course we need to know. We need to know where we stand as a nation.
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MCKENZIE: All but deserted streets here in downtown Harare except for these heavily armed riot police. So, that's the situation now, but as we
move towards those results coming out and they say later today, they will say when the presidential results will come out. That will be the key test
whether they can maintain this fragile peace here in the capital, Kristie.
LU STOUT: Yeah, there is a very fragile peace being held in a very tense scene behind you as we look at these armed officers just waiting for what
could come next. Is there a feeling that when the announcement is made and who is the next president of Zimbabwe that violence can return again?
MCKENZIE: Well that's a big fear and it is certainly a possibility, but the president, Emerson Mnangagaw says that he is discussions as he put it,
with the opposition leaders. No word from the opposition on those discussions. There has been a general call for calm.
The head of the Home Affairs, kind if the Interior Ministry here in Zimbabwe is saying that they shouldn't be taken lightly, that if they
thought they were weak, in his words, then they were very much mistaken.
So, it's a tense standoff here in Harare. We haven't seen military recently, but earlier today, a few hours ago, they were certainly moving
through the streets, telling people to get out of town, get out of the city now and close up their shops. Very few shops open now. They padlocked, a
sense of foreboding for when these results do eventually come out, Kristie.
LU STOUT: A sense of tension and are news in the streets of Harare. David McKenzie reporting live for us. Thank you very much indeed.
Now, Google is reportedly planning to get back into China the. "The Intercept" reports that Google is planning to launch a search-up (ph) that
would block sensitive websites and search terms to comply with Chinese government censorship. And it wouldn't be the first time either. In 2006,
Google launched a Chinese language version in China, Google.cn. It did censor results, but also flagged when information was removed.
Everything was going pretty well until January 2010 when the company accused Chinese hackers of targeting Google and more than 20 other Western
companies. Beijing denied it. But two months later, Google made good on his threat to leave. It started routing Chinese users to an uncensored version
based here in Hong Kong, which is outside the so-called great firewall.
Five years later, Google's parent company, Alphabet, changed its motto from "Don't be evil" to "Do the right thing." From a business perspective,
getting back into China does seem like the right thing to do, but is it really the right thing ethically. Joining me now, Lokman Tsui, former head
of Free Expression for Asia and the Pacific at Google. He is now the assistant professor at the Schoo1 of Journalism Communication to Chinese
University of Hong Kong.
[08:20:03] He joins me now. Lokman, good to se you. First I want to get your gut reaction to these reports, that Google is building this censored
search engine for China. Are you surprised by this one?
LOKMAN TSUI, FORMER HEAD, FREE EXPRESSION FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC AT GOOGLE: So thank you for having me on the show, Kristie. I am what they
say shocked but not surprised. Google has always been wanting to have more business in China. Recently there was the acquisition of JD.com. They have
been building and trying to build a resource capacity for artificial intelligence in China.
But what is surprising is that this is not e-commerce or acquisition (ph). This is a search, right, this is the crown jewel of Google. And sort of to
give up the crown jewel to Beijing is somewhat surprising, including that the plans for doing so are fairly far develop already.
LU STOUT: Does Google want to go back into China because it's all about the bottom line and also has the management and the ethos of the company
changed dramatically as well?
TSUI: So, why would Google want to do this, right? And the sort of the cynical view would be they're doing for the dollars. And that was certainly
untrue but isn't the whole truth. You know, the possibility is that they are interested in Artificial Intelligence and developing that. There are
lots going on in China. But Sundar Pichai, Mr. Sundar Pichai, he has been on record saying, "We want to be in China. We want to serve Chinese users.
And so he's always been sort of (inaudible) and clear and honest about that. But with all respect to Mr. Pichai, by being in China you're not
going to be serving the Chinese users. What you will be end up doing is you're going to be serving the Chinese government so, that's not a good
thing.
LU STOUT: And if the reports are indeed true, Google plans to go back into China to serve the Chinese government, bow to Chinese censorship. What
would this mean for internet freedom in general?
TSUI: It would be a terrible idea if you ask me. As I said earlier, this is not just any company with any product going back to, you know, like sort
of submitting itself to the Chinese government. This is Google that we're talking about and its searched that we're talking about and so it has a
great symbolic value and it would be a moral victory for Beijing if Google were to go back with a search that is neutered, that is crippled with
censorship.
And it would legitimate and validate a lot of what Beijing has been trying to do in the past decades to make -- tell us that this internet censor is
normal. It is not normal. It is not, you know, what Google should be doing.
LU STOUT: The huge propaganda victory for China if Google decides to do this. And going back in time, eight years ago, 2010, that's when Google
chose to exit China and leave a censored search engine. Now, according to "Intercept" other sources, Google is ready to go back, but the censorship
regime today in China is very different from eight years ago, isn't it?
TSUI: Yes. So, if Google is saying, you know, this is a very challenging environment eight years ago and we need to leave because we cannot protect
our users and we need to censor too much, it's only gotten much, much, much exponentially worse in the last eight years. So one thing, you know, it's
important for Google obviously to make our money because they are for profit company, but is equally if not more important for Google as a
company to protect its users and to be the best company they can be.
And so, I don't see how they can -- first of all, I don't see how they can protect the users by going into China because in the Chinese environment as
of today, the legal environment, they will be probably be required to have service inside China meaning, law enforcement will have easy access to the
service and the user data that they collect. It's an app on a mobile phone as supposed to a desktop, you know, sort of web app.
And so on the phone you can collect a lot more data as well so there is a lot more at risk for users as well. And in China right now, you also have
the real name system that requires you to link up any account with a passport number or any kind of real identity so, you cannot also -- there's
no anonymity there as well.
And so it's a much more challenging environment for Google to operate in. And if it cares about its users what it should be because that's really --
if you care about the bottom line then that's really important as well. And I don't see how they can do that today by going back into China.
LU STOUT: Got it. Lokman, thank you so much for joining me and to just lay out not just your thoughts on these reports, but also the potential risks
for users of such a service in China. Lokman Tsui, Chinese of University of Hong Kong, former Google employee, head of Freedom of Expression Asia for
Google. Lokman, thank you so much and take care.
Now, we know that Japan is in the middle of an absolutely sweltering summer. The country faces its deadliest heat wave in the last decade.
Emergency officials say that the extreme temperatures have killed 119 people in the month of July alone.
[08:25:06] That is three times higher than the average death toll from heat waves in the past 10 years.
South Korea is also grappling with a heat wave of its own. On Wednesday, Seoul saw its hottest day in more than 100 years. Health officials there
say 29 people have died of heatstroke this summer. Then prime minister's office has ordered all public construction sites to stop work during
daytime hours.
Chad Myers joins me live from CNN's Weather Center with more on this, and Chad, this extreme heat wave is taking lives in Japan and South Korea. Tell
us more about why this has become so deadly.
CHAD MEYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: It's the length of time that we've had these high temperatures. A heat wave is not one day. They use the word heat
wave after five days of well above normal. This has been going on now for 15, so almost three heat waves in a row, one after another, non-stop
Kristie. We are seeing temperatures in countries that we've never seen before since we've had thermometers out there measuring them.
All time high temperatures. We're talking about record highs for the day. These are record highs for the country for any day of the year. Wednesday
was very hot in Seoul, Pyongyang all the way up into Tokyo -- very hot, 36.5. Now the heat index, when you add in factor in what the heat index
with the humidity makes it feel like, it's 44 in Tokyo yesterday. And that's in the shade.
Here is what the satellite looks like. There's not a cloud in the sky so if you're feeling like 44 in the humidity and you're in the sunshine, it makes
it -- feel more like 50. And that's just an unreasonable temperature for the body to handle and that's why these construction sites have been closed
down. It will feel like 42 in Kochi tomorrow. It feel like 42 in Tokyo with the heat index, again, tomorrow afternoon.
It's a ridge of high pressure that just won't move. The big ridge of high pressure is going all the way up in northern China almost all the way up
into Russia. And then back on down here to the south. And because of that high temperature, just searing heat stays in the same place for so long,
people don't cool down at night.
Your morning low temperatures in some spots don't get below 30. So you can even open the windows and cool things down, and many places obviously
aren't going to have air conditioning at this time. So, 26 for the morning low in Toky for Friday and also for Saturday. That will help just a little
bit, but you'd be very, very hot again in Seoul, 37 and a feel like 44, day after day after day, Kristie.
LU STOUT: Oh man, it is extremely hot across the region and Chad, if South Korea is suffering then North Korea must be feeling the effects as well.
MYERS: True of course, you know, 3.3 million people in Pyongyang, only an elevation of about 100 meters in some spots so, not in the mountains
certainly and yesterday all-time high in Pyongyang, 37.8 and obviously the humidity is there as well. Now, the mountains in the northern part of the
country are better.
But certainly everyone there feeling the heat and not as much power, not as much air conditioning, not as many places to go rest there as you would
expect because the power grid just isn't what it could be or should be up like it is in Seoul where there is air-conditioning. People there are
suffering tremendously.
LU STOUT: Yeah, as this heat wave scorches the Korean Peninsula, Chad Myers on the story for us, thank you.
Up next right here on the program, airstrikes, hunger and devastation. Got a close up look what life is like today with the ruins of war torn Yemen.
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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.
In the U.S.-Russia investigation, sources tell CNN that the special counsel's team is offering to reduce the number of questions to ask Donald
Trump about obstruction. They have been negotiating with the president's legal team who are open to Mr. Trump doing a sit down interview about
collusion, but not obstruction.
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission says it will release results of the country's presidential contest very soon as violent clashes between
protesters and security forces left three people dead on Wednesday. Opposition supporters claim the election (INAUDIBLE) the ruling party when
parliamentary majority was rigged.
The Vatican has formally changed its teaching to oppose the death penalty in all circumstances. The church says the change was motivated by Pope
Francis' total opposition to capital punishment. Until now, the church had allowed execution in rare cases.
The U.N. has called it the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. And now CNN is getting a rare inside look at the destruction in Yemen, where
millions of people have been killed or displaced after three years of war. Here is senior international correspondent Nick Paton Walsh.
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NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Startlingly beautiful but plagued by silence and suffering. This is a rare window onto
the trauma of besieged Sanaa, cut off from the outside world increasingly, its stories untold. Play time among the trash. Homes stripped of their
dignity and shelter.
Life has persisted here up on the plateau of Yemen's capital despite a stranglehold around it threatening (ph). Houthi rebels that overthrew the
government here claimants (ph) of the stronghold and together with the Saudi-led coalition besieging the city of restricted media access to it.
But photo journalist Gabe Rahim (ph) was showing around this refuge. Wesalim (ph) says a Saudi missile killed 13, 10 from his family, three
years ago.
"Uncle Hathala (ph) used to sit outside. But on that day, they went inside the house. We weren't sure whether he was inside once the missile hit. We
had to wait an hour or two before we entered to get all the bodies outside. I live meters away. And if the missile hit my house, we would all be
murdered (ph) too."
Human rights once accused (ph) Saudi-led campaign here of 85 instances of unlawful airstrikes which the coalition denied. Here, a few months ago,
airstrikes apparently hit a gas station, part of a bid (ph) to starve the capital of fuel and everything else transport brings, leading to protests
outside the United Nations building here.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I want the world to know what happened in Yemen and no country did anything for Yemen, didn't do any helping. All that happened
in Yemen is an evidence that no one cares about us.
PATON WALSH: The one of the most devastating airstrikes in 2016 led to criticism over the U.S. assistance to the coalition. On the grand funeral
hole where at least 155 were killed, thousands gathered (ph). Al Hammad (ph) barely survived.
"I still had have difficulty hearing after the blast. There were bodies all over under this rubble. Some bodies were completely burnt. The strike
affected all of Yemen. It is printed in my memory, the scene."
Even Kawkaban, one of Yemen's architectural and historical Jules (ph) is not spared. Named after two stars that gleamed from inside its walls, the
pair of palaces. There is little escape here and little desire with an (ph) outside world to do more than watch the brutality unfold.
[08:34:59] Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, London.
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LU STOUT: And this new video has emerged showing the Aeromexico jet crash from inside the plane. Take a look.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
(SCREAMING)
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (voice over): Oh, my god.
(COUGHING)
LU STOUT (voice over): You can clearly see the plane's attempt to take off and what happened after it crash-landed. And miraculously, all 103 people
on board survived the crash. Incredible. CNN's Leyla Santiago spoke to several passengers about their terrifying experience.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
LU STOUT: She joins us now live from Mexico City. Leyla, we saw the video there. This aircraft, it went down, it went up in flames, and yet not a
single life was lost. Why is that?
LEYLA SANTIAGO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Kristie, I actually made it a point to ask one of the survivors I spoke with last night, who is the hero in all of
this? And he credited the pilot, the crew, and all of the passengers who stayed behind to help others get out safely. So many of the survivors are
still struggling to sort of make sense of all of this.
On board that plane, we understand that there were at least 65 U.S. citizens, many of them now trying to make their way back to the state. And
so now, they're finding themselves struggling with how to answer one question, how do I get back on that plane to get home?
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
AL HERRERA, PLANE CRASH SURVIVOR: It happened yesterday, 24 hours ago. It is still fresh in my mind. I can't close my eyes right now. I still see the
flame. I see everything.
SANTIAGO (voice over): Al Herrera still can't stop thinking about this moment, seconds after taking off. In fact, scream and panic as passengers
shifted into survival mode to escape the plane and smoke of the fallen (ph) plane in Dorendel (ph), Mexico. All 103 people aboard Aeromexico Flight
2431 survived, more than half U.S. citizens.
HERRERA: You are seeing first responders running at you with stretchers. And I'm yelling at them to go to the more injured people.
SANTIAGO (voice over): Once off the plane, he says he joined the priest who was on board in prayer. CNN talked to Father Ezequil Sanchez, director
of The Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Chicago, just hours before surgery for his injured arm. He was still counting blessing and giving
thanks. The idea that nobody died, he says --
EZEQUIL SANCHEZ, DIRECTOR, THE SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE: I would consider that a miracle.
SANTIAGO (voice over): Sea officials have pointed at bad weather as the possible factor. Strong wind gusts knocked the plane down.
Hours before scheduled departure, officials warned of possible storm (INAUDIBLE). Overwhelmed with anxiety, Herrera and several other passengers
boarded a flight to return home, stopping in Mexico City.
HERRERA: I'm afraid (ph).
SANTIAGO (voice over): Why?
HERRERA: The sentiment (ph) got me. I saw my (INAUDIBLE) sitting in front of me. I saw the people. Everything flashed back. When you're actually
sitting there with your seat belt on. It all came flooding back. Really hard. People die when planes crash. And here I am as a survivor taking
another plane. The lady in front of me held my arm.
SANTIAGO (voice over): With bruises on his legs and a passport still filth with the mud from the scene, he hasn't found a way to leave it all behind.
SANTIAGO (on camera): What will you tell people when you get home to Chicago?
HERRERA: I fell from the sky and survived.
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SANTIAGO: Pretty incredible to have that conversation with Al as he was making his way back to Chicago. Another update, I understand that Father
Sanchez is now out of surgery and he is recovering and resting for now. So, they are excited about recovery when it comes to getting out of the
hospital soon and heading back to Chicago for him.
As for the investigation, investigators have found the two black boxes and those will critical in the investigation moving forward to find out exactly
what happened that led up to this crash.
In the meantime, Mexico has established a commission to look into this as well and investigate, but they are already acknowledging that that will
take months before any questions will be answered.
LU STOUT: Leyla, thank you for your reporting and for bringing us these emotional accounts from the survivors. Extraordinary. Leyla Santiago
reporting live for us from Mexico City, thank you.
You're watching "News Stream." Still to come, New Zealand's prime minister says she just wrapped up the fastest six weeks of her life. Now she is
going back to work after the birth of her first child.
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[08:39:57] JACINDA ARDERN, PRIME MINISTER OF NEW ZEALAND: Day to day, you know, I'm worrying about feeding, sleeping and, you know, nappies.
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LU STOUT: Starbucks is hoping to revive sales in China by making coffee available anytime and anywhere. The Seattle chain is teaming up with the
Chinese tech giant Alibaba to launch delivery services and it's all going to start in September.
Now, all coffee and products can be bought using Alibaba's payment platform Alipay. The delivery services will first launch in Beijing and Shanghai.
Starbucks hopes to roll them out to 2,000 stores across some 30 China cities by the end of the year.
Now, six weeks after she became the first world leader in nearly 30 years to give birth while in office, New Zealand's prime minister says she is
ready to get back to work. Jacinda Ardern return to running the country today and offered a glimpse to the two worlds she now has to take on.
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ARDERN: Day to day, you know, I'm worrying about feeding, sleeping and, you know, nappies. And then there's this overlay of interest in what is
actually something that is mundane.
It is something that any parent has gone through and yet I absolutely accept this layer of interest because it's not our normal yet. But one day
it will be. I'm just perhaps amongst some of the first who are doing something that hasn't been done very often, but one day it will be normal.
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LU STOUT: Amen to that and bravo to the prime minister. That is "News Stream." I'm Kristie Lu Stout. Don't go anywhere. "World Sport" with
Christian Macfarlane is next.
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