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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: A crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul.

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KRISTIE LU STOUT, HOST, "NEWS STREAM" (voice over): President Trump's message to try and convince others of the need for border wall funding.

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JOE JOHNS, SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT, CNN: Democratic leadership firing back accusing the President of fear mongering.

CHUCK SCHUMER, U.S. SENATOR, NEW YORK, DEMOCRAT: No President should pound the table and demand he gets his way.

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LU STOUT (voice over): Unannounced trip. U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo in Iran talking ISIS, Iran and Syria.

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ARWA DAMON, SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT, CNN: There is plenty of confusion when it comes to what America's strategy actually is.

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LU STOUT (voice over): And innovations and breakthroughs -- all the latest gadgets and tech trends from CES.

LU STOUT: I'm Kristi Lu Stout in Hong Kong and welcome to "News Stream." U.S. President Donald Trump has done little to convince his opponents in

Congress to fund his border wall, even as the government shutdown drags through its third week.

In a prime time address, Mr. Trump invoked images of ruthless gangs and weeping mothers to argue yet again that a wall is critical for border

security. This, as some 800,000 government employees are not getting paid right now.

The President's Oval Office address setting the stage for a White House meeting with top congressional leaders in just a matter of hours. Our

senior Washington correspondent, Joe Johns joins is live at the White House, he joins us now, and Joe, how effective was President Trump's prime

time argument for a border wall?

JOE JOHNS, SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT, CNN: No indication so far that the President changed any minds, quite frankly, but we're still testing

that. Look, this was a sales pitch essentially from the President of the United States with some campaign themes we've heard before thrown in. It

was notable for at least a couple of things.

The president did not declare a national emergency. He also threw in some statements that could be characterized as either false or misleading and

was quickly fact checked on that. The big question of course is whether he's gotten any closer to building his wall on the southern border or

reopening the parts of the government that are now shutdown.

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TRUMP: This is a humanitarian crisis, a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul.

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JOHNS (voice over): President Trump appealing to the nation to support his long-promised border wall, painting a dark picture of undocumented

immigrants and accusing Democrats of leaving the country vulnerable.

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TRUMP: How much more American blood must we shed before Congress does its job?

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JOHNS (voice over): Democratic leadership firing back, accusing the President of fear mongering and urging him to end the shutdown that has

left 800,000 Americans unsure of when they'll receive their next paycheck.

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SCHUMER: This President just used the back drop of the Oval Office to manufacture a crisis, stoke fear, and divert attention from the turmoil in

his administration.

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JOHNS (voice over): Both sides appearing no closer to compromise with President Trump falsely claiming Democrats wanted a steel wall.

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TRUMP: At the request of Democrats, it will be a steel barrier rather than a concrete wall.

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JOHNS (voice over): And insisting that Democrats do not support border security even though the House voted in favor of $1.3 billion for border

security and technology last week. The President also making this false claim about funding for the wall.

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TRUMP: The wall will also be paid for indirectly by the great new trade deal we have made with Mexico.

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JOHNS (voice over): But the new deal has not been ratified and there is no guarantee it would generate revenue or that Congress would ear mark it for

the wall. President Trump backing up his dire warnings with grisly stories of crimes blamed on undocumented immigrants.

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TRUMP: Over the years, thousands of Americans have been brutally killed by those who illegally entered our country.

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JOHNS (voice over): But Border Patrol statistics show that illegal southern border arrests are near the lowest point in almost 20 years and

multiple studies have found that as immigration has gone up, crime has gone down.

One Texas study found that undocumented immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S. citizens. The President also pointing to the

opioid epidemic as part of his pitch.

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TRUMP: Every week, 300 of our citizens are killed by heroin alone, 90% of which floods across from our southern border.

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JOHNS (voice over): While these statistics are true, the majority of heroin that comes across the border is smuggled through legal points of

entry, meaning that a border wall would likely do little to help. Democrats quick to pounce on the administration's credibility issues.

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NANCY PELOSI, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SPEAKER: Sadly, much of what we heard from President Trump throughout this senseless shutdown has been

full of misinformation and even malice. The President has chosen fear.

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JOHNS (voice over): The President's speech comes amid signs that patience for the shutdown among GOP senators is wearing thin with multiple

Republican lawmakers now signaling that they favor reopening the government as border negotiations continue.

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LISA MURKOWSKI, U.S. SENATOR, ALASKA, REPUBLICAN: These are people who work hard and they deserve to know that they're going to be paid.

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JOHNS: Busy day ahead for the President. He is expected to head up to Capitol Hill today where he's expected to meet with Republicans at a policy

luncheon. We are expecting at least some arm twisting and persuading as there are concerns about Republican support cracking for the shutdown.

Later today, the President is expected to meet with a bipartisan group of congressional leaders here at the White House to try to, once again, end

the shutdown and figure out what they're going to do on immigration. Kristie, back to you.

LU STOUT: Got it, so more talks ahead this day to end this impasse. Joe Johns reporting live for us. Joe, thank you. And as you just heard from

Joe Johns, President Trump, he made a number of false and misleading statements in that speech.

Let's take a look at a few more of them.

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TRUMP: More Americans will die from drugs this year than were killed in the entire Vietnam War.

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LU STOUT: Okay. There's the president's claim and, yes, some 58,000 Americans died as a result of the Vietnam War; and in 2017, the U.S. Center

for Disease Control said a total of 70,000 Americans died of drug overdoses. But the President's claim is misleading because it conflates

the drugs coming in across the U.S.-Mexico border with the total number of drug deaths, and how about this claim?

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TRUMP: Every day, Customs and Border Patrol agents encounter thousands of illegal immigrants trying to enter our country.

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LU STOUT: Okay, that claim is overstated. Now, Customs and Border Protection data from fiscal year 2018 shows that they apprehended just

under 400,000 people. That means, an average of about 1,000 per day, not the thousands per day that the President stated. Mr. Trump, in talking

about the humanitarian crisis at the border also acknowledged the violence migrants face as they try to get into the U.S.

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TRUMP: One in three women are sexually assaulted on the dangerous trek up through Mexico.

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LU STOUT: Okay. Now, that claim is, indeed, true. Doctors Without Borders says nearly one-third of migrant and refugee women entering Mexico

say that they have been sexually abused and that very violence is why women choose to travel in caravans.

Joining me now is CNN national security analyst Samantha Vinograd. She served as senior advisor to the U.S. National Security adviser under

President Barack Obama. She joins us now live. Sam, thank you for joining us.

Donald Trump, he threw out a number of fallacies during that prime time address. Does that undercut the effectiveness of his speech which was to

rally support?

SAMANTHA VINOGRAD, NATIONAL SECURITY ANALYST, CNN: Well, I'm really unclear what the purpose of the speech was in the first place. Those nine

minutes of airtime that we heard, as you mentioned were rife with inaccuracies and misrepresentations of fact. But that's nothing new.

He has been hawking these inaccurate statistics about the level of crime that immigrants represent, the amount of drugs that pour over our southern

border with illegal immigrants and those kinds of statistics for months now. That's nothing new.

What is new is that we are in the midst of a government shutdown, and in the nine minutes yesterday evening, he really did nothing to try to get

closer to the Democrats and to try to offer a compromised solution for this $5.7 billion in funding that could allow our government to reopen and for

there to be actual substantive talks about how to address illegal immigration and drug trafficking at the places where it's actually most

rampant.

LU STOUT: In regards to the shutdown, President Trump offered very little insight on how he plans to end it, but in regards to the wall, does America

even need a wall for security or is this all about a political win for the President?

VINOGRAD: The $5.7 billion that he is asking for, for a wall, which he vacillates between calling a wall, steel slats and who knows what else is

really just a political talking point that he has been using for a while now.

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VINOGRAD: If he actually cared about border security, he would consult with border security experts and security experts to talk about what kind

of physical structure, if any, is useful to try to stop illegal crossings.

What he has not focused on is the actual route drivers of illegal immigration in places like Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador where the

migrants largely come from. Instead, he said about two weeks ago that he was actually going to cut off U.S. foreign assistance to these countries

when from a security perspective, I know that these funds are really used to create conditions on the ground so that immigrants don't want to leave

in the first place.

LU STOUT: Meanwhile, as this crisis -- shutdown crisis drags on, CNN has exclusively obtained an e-mail from a high-ranking TSA official that warned

about the impact on security operations out of an airport in California. This is Palm Springs International. Is this political standoff turning

into a legitimate security concern?

VINOGRAD: It certainly is, and it's not just the TSA, but groups like Border Patrol agents which patrol our southern border are impacted by this

shutdown. They have to show up at work, but they're not being paid. And as this shutdown drags on, realities are going to set in. Many workers are

going to have their first missed paychecks this week and the question is going to be whether they can keep working for free, whether they can afford

the child care that many of them relied on to show up at work or whether they need to quit and look elsewhere so they can pay their bills.

We really may be facing a shortage of trained security professionals at airports, at the border in a different infrastructure point which if the

President had been accurate last night, he would have said really represent ways that immigrants and others really bring illegal substances and illegal

activities into the country.

LU STOUT: This is a real cost of the ongoing shutdowns happening right now. Sam Vinograd, thank you very much for joining us. Take care.

Now, we are also following major developments in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. A source tells CNN that Deputy Attorney

General Rod Rosenstein is expected to leave his post in the coming weeks once President Trump's nominee for Attorney General is confirmed. Now, the

source said that Rosenstein is not being forced out. Rosenstein appointed Mueller in May of 2017.

Meanwhile, a major formatting error as it's called is shedding new light on the criminal case against President Trump's former campaign manager. In a

court filing, Paul Manafort's lawyers accidentally revealed that he was sharing polling data with an alleged Russian operative during the

presidential race. This may be the clearest evidence yet of a direct link between the most senior levels of the Trump campaign and Russia.

Following it all for us is CNN's Shimon Prokupecz, he joins us live from Washington and Shimon, first, Rod Rosenstein, sources say that he is indeed

leaving the Justice Department. When and why?

SHIMON PROKUPECZ, CRIME AND JUSTICE REPORTER, CNN: Yes, so it's not entirely clear. There is no date right now as to when exactly he's

leaving, but he is expected to leave and he has said as much, once the new Attorney General is appointed, once there's a new person in charge there of

the Department of Justice.

Now, the other thing here, keep in mind is what Rod Rosenstein has told people close to him is that he was going the stay on as Deputy Attorney

General for the duration of the Russia investigation. It's clear now that perhaps that the Russia investigation is coming to an end and once that is

completed, he will feel comfortable enough to leave the Department of Justice, but there's a lot of belief that Rod Rosenstein was sticking

around, despite the attacks from the President, despite the rumors that he was going be fired at any minute.

At one point, it was believed that he was going be fired imminently. That changed. So certainly, every indication that he has planned to stay on

through this Russia investigation, which could be nearing an end, we could be looking at another month, another month and a half. It's not entirely

clear, obviously, but everyone certainly that the Russia investigation is coming to an end.

LU STOUT: And as the Russia investigation appears to be wrapping up, we have this bombshell revelation involving Paul Manafort sharing polling data

with a Russian linked to Russian intelligence. Can you underscore just how big, just how significant this is.

PROKUPECZ: Yes, so the little tea leaves that we keep getting from these court documents really tell us in great detail, right, they're small

updates, tiny pieces of information, but really give us this window into what's been going in this entire investigation.

The importance of this revelations, which as you said came out accidentally because Paul Manafort's attorneys didn't format these redactions correctly

and then the media and the public was able to un-redact this information and read into it and what we learned yesterday, for the first time, really,

that Paul Manafort was sharing polling information when he was the campaign chairman, when he was working on the 2016 election.

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PROKUPECZ: He was sharing polling data with a Russian, a Russian intelligence official, someone the FBI has said was connected to Russian

intelligence. It's a man by the name of Konstantin Kilimnik who has also been charged by the Special Counsel's office. So this is a man that

certainly has worried intelligence officials. He has had relationships with business connections with Paul Manafort. That is how they know each

other from Ukraine.

But nonetheless, the fact that Paul Manafort is sharing this information with a Russian intelligence official should concern everyone and it could

give us one of the clearest indications that Paul Manafort was working with helping, colluding -- whatever the word maybe here with the Russians in

this campaign because when he was sharing this information, this is around the time that the Russians were launching their own social media campaign

in a way to hurt Hillary Clinton and to help Donald Trump.

Companies and peoples have been indicted by the Special Counsel's office for that very act, for that social media campaign.

LU STOUT: This is -- wow, a very big deal in this long running Russia probe. Shimon, thank you so much for your reporting and take care. Now,

the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on a mysterious case tied to the Mueller investigation. The justices rejecting a challenge by an unnamed foreign-

owned company that sought to avoid complying with the grand jury's subpoena.

The order reinstates contempt fines of $50,000.00 a day against the mystery company for failing to comply with the subpoena. Chief Justice John

Roberts had put those fines on hold, while the High Court considered the matter. The case marks the first time the Supreme Court has had to

intervene in the Mueller probe.

The Russian lawyer who attended that infamous Trump Tower meeting in 2016 is now facing charges in a separate case that highlights her deep ties to

the Kremlin. Prosecutors charged Natalya Veselnitskaya with obstruction of justice in connection with a money laundering case.

Veselnitskaya as you may recall helped organize that meeting between Trump campaign members and Russians promising to provide dirt on Hillary Clinton.

She says she can't comment on details of the indictment unsealed on Tuesday, but is vowing to go defend her, quote, "professional honor."

You're watching "News Stream" and up next, why has a top U.S. official made a surprise detour on his trip to the Middle East? And who did he meet.

We've got the details. Plus, Kim Jong-un leaves Beijing after meeting with Xi Jinping. More on their talks and why the timing of Kim's visit is

curious.

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LU STOUT: Coming to you live from Hong Kong, welcome back. This is "News Stream."

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LU STOUT: Unannounced stops amid a trip that was already, some say, lacking coherence. The U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo touched down

in Baghdad earlier in a surprise stop on his Middle East tour. He is trying to reassure troops and political leaders that the U.S. is committed

to fighting ISIS.

This is his first time in Iraq since the start of the Trump administration. Pompeo met with the country's President and Prime Minister. Let's get more

now on this surprise visit. Our international diplomatic editor Nic Robertson is standing by to break all of this down for us. Nic, good to

see you. Is this visit enough to reassure leaders in Iraq that the U.S. is committed in the fight against ISIS?

NIC ROBERTSON, INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR, CNN: You know, I think it's obviously going to help to hear the message from Secretary of State

Mike Pompeo, but there is a general realization throughout the world, the Middle East and specifically the United States partners in the Middle East,

of which Iraq has been one in fighting ISIS and bringing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said today, bringing security and stability to Iraqis and

trying to help with their prosperity.

But that message gets diluted when President Trump speaks and speaks about a rapid withdrawal of U.S. troops fighting ISIS in Syria and then he is

sort of contradicted by his National Security adviser, John Bolton. This was something President Erdogan spoke about in Turkey yesterday, the

dilution because Bolton placed conditions on what President Trump is saying with an essentially immediate withdrawal.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that both Trump and Bolton are correct, that there is going to be a withdrawal, and it is going to happen.

So this is going to be his repeated message throughout the Middle East. This is, I am bringing you a message of consistency. I am bringing you a

message of support. I am bringing you a message of clarity.

But can it overcome the ambiguities and the uncertainties that President Trump's speeches have engendered and the lack of cohesion that there

appears to be in the administration. It's unlikely that this one trip is going to do that.

But yes, his message to the President Barham Salih to the Prime Minister there in Iraq as well. This is precisely designed to that message.

LU STOUT: Yes, Pompeo is there to provide clarity. Clarity because of what Donald Trump says and also what Donald Trump does and what he fails to

do. We know that Trump recently met with U.S. troops stationed in Iraq. He did not meet with Iraqi leaders, how damaging was that and can Pompeo's

visit somehow smooths things over?

ROBERTSON: Again, you know, I think it's the same thing that the Secretary of State can go there and show and speak about how Iraq is an important

ally of the United States and how the United States is committed to the country, but there was a sense and this was expressed very clearly by

lawmakers in Iraq, senior lawmakers in Iraq right after President Trump's visit that Iraq wasn't treated -- at least its Prime Minister really wasn't

treated with respect that when President Trump showed up at the Air Base there, in a U.S. Military Air Base, very secured place for obvious reasons,

that the President will want to be secure in a dangerous, potentially hostile environment.

That the word didn't go out to the Iraqi Prime Minister until he didn't have enough -- essentially, not giving him enough time to get there to meet

the President. So here is the President flying into his country, not enough advance notice to organize a meeting and that really was not taken

well. And Pompeo cannot reset all of that. The ground feeling about the United States in the Middle East and Iraq in particular is something that

it would take multiple, multiple visits of many, many U.S. diplomats over months and months and months to really correct. That is a level of

uncertainty and unease at the moment.

LU STOUT: Yes, this one unannounced visit, not enough for the time being. Nic Robertson, reporting, as always, thank you.

Kim Jong-un and his delegation have departed Beijing, marking an end to the North Korean leader's surprise visit to the Chinese capital. They are now

on their way to the border town of Dandong. While in Beijing, Kim met with Chinese President Xi Jinping at a time when the U.S. is trying to hash out

the details of a second summit with North Korea and resolve the trade war.

Now, let's bring in CNN's Steven Jiang live for us in Beijing and Steven, Kim Jong-un, he is now on board that armored train heading home. What did

he achieve in Beijing?

STEVEN JIANG, SENIOR PRODUCER, CNN: Well, Kristie, so far, the Chinese government has said very little about Mr. Kim's latest trip to China. You

know, this much we know, as you said, he has met with the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, but the government and the state media here haven't released a

single photo or single video of his latest trip here, his fourth summit with Mr. Xi.

And you know, we may be seeing some details and footage very soon now that his train he's departed Beijing and that may or may not involve a birthday

cake since he spent his 35th birthday here, allegedly.

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JIANG: But the timing of this visit has been very interesting because it comes ahead of this highly anticipated potential second summit between Mr.

Kim and U.S. President Donald Trump. As you know, since those two leaders' historic Singapore Summit last year, the process of denuclearization on the

Korean peninsula has become stalled.

And both the U.S. and North Korea have been blaming each other for the lack of progress, so the fact that Mr. Kim came here at this juncture is

perceived by many to be sending a very strong signal or message to Washington, to Mr. Trump that North Korea does not need U.S. will or

support for its economic development or diplomatic relations. It can still count on China, its traditional ally, for giving it a political and

economic lifeline on the global stage.

So that is despite the Chinese government is trying very hard to frame this visit as part of a regular high level exchanges between these two friendly

neighbors -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: Yes, and as we see this apparent strengthening of the alliance between North Korea and China, we know that U.S.-China trade talks there in

Beijing have been extended to a third day. Is that a good thing?

JIANG: Well, that certainly seems to be a good signal. And these talks, by the way, have concluded according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry. A

spokesman said, results will be announced soon, but we are still waiting to hear more details, as you know, the devil is always in the details.

But all signs having pointing to more positive developments during this latest round of talks. The Chinese government, for example, yesterday on

Tuesday announced the approval of the imports of five genetically modified U.S. crops. That is something long sought by the U.S. government, but very

controversial here because of public opposition to GMO food.

So the authorities by green lighting these imports at this juncture seems to be sending a signal that they are willing or even eager to move these

negotiations along. Now, you also remember these earlier moves by the government to propose changes on foreign investments and intellectual

property, all of these were long time complaints and concerns by Mr. Trump.

So there have been movements on addressing these economic structural issues, and that is why people are more hopeful that there could be a

potential deal by the March 2nd deadline -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: Yes, those big concessions could help end the trade war. We'll see. Steven Jiang reporting live for us from Beijing. Steven, thank you.

Australian authorities, they have been opened an investigation after at least a dozen consulates and seven foreign embassies in the cities of

Melbourne and Canberra received packages containing suspicious substances.

The British, American, Croatian, New Zealand and Swiss consulates are among those affected. Police say they don't think the packages are an actual

threat. They believe that the incidents are, quote, "targeted and not impacting the general community."

A Japanese tabloid magazine is under fire for ranking universities based on how easy it is to have sex with female students at drinking parties.

College student Kazuna Yamamoto was so outrage it by this offensive listing that she launched an online petition demanding an apology from the

magazine. More than 40,000 people have signed it so far.

Yamamoto tells CNN why she thinks women are still being sexualized and objectified in Japan even though the #MeToo Movement has gone global.

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KAZUNA YAMAMOTO, LAUNCHED ONLINE PETITION CALLING FOR MAGAZINE'S APOLOGY: Objectifying women isn't like a concept that exists here and although it

does exist, like people don't think it's a problem. Like when I say don't objectify or sexualize women, people still have doubts. Like they're not

really sure what that is.

Japan is an island and we speak Japanese and like a lot of us don't speak English, for example, it's just like people don't understand the #MeToo

Movement even, and the younger generation, they just don't think -- it's really easy to just live in Japan and get by in their life without like

being conscious about such issues. So a lot of younger generation would just think, "Oh, it's something normal." Like getting like sexually

harassed on the train, it's something normal. It's stupid to speak out. Or like being raped, it's probably the girl's call or like they wouldn't

speak out and if they do speak up, it is usually -- they will be a victim where it would kind of be a dishonor.

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LU STOUT: It is not normal and bravo to her for speaking out. The magazine is now apologizing for quote, " ... using sensational language to

appeal to readers about how they can become intimate with women and for publishing a ranking with real university names that resulted in a feature

that may have made our readers our uncomfortable," unquote.

You're watching "News Stream," and still ahead, British lawmakers will spend Wednesday scrutinizing the Prime Minister's unpopular Brexit deal

with the E.U., we'll have the latest from the U.K., next.

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LU STOUT: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. You're watching "News Stream" and these are your world headlines. Donald Trump's prime time

address on U.S. border security is doing little to convince opponents in Congress to fund his border wall. The eight-minute speech offered no new

ideas on how to end the partial government shutdown now on its 18th day. Some 800,000 government employees are not getting paid right now.

An update on the story of the Saudi teenager seeking asylum in Thailand. Australia says the U.N. Refugee Agency has referred her there for possible

resettlement. The U.N. HCR could determine her status in two days.

British lawmakers will spend Wednesday debating Prime Minister Theresa May's withdrawal agreement with the E.U., that's after a fiery Prime

Ministers Question Time where Brexit dominated the debate. Now, the deal is unlikely to pass the House when it is voted on next week and concerns

over a no-deal scenario are indeed rising.

CNN's Bianca Nobilo is outside the U.K. Parliament and Bianca, another setback for Theresa May in Parliament, and again, as it voted to create

this financial obstacle to a no-deal Brexit. Is she already losing control of the debate which will begin again soon?

BIANCA NOBILO, CORRESPONDENT, CNN: Well, Kristie, it's hard to say whether or not she's really had control of this debate for many months now. Her

deal has been unpopular since the very beginning and it's getting no more popularity in months since.

But the amendment last night which was voted through and the government was defeated on is significant. So they only won by 303 to 296, but 20 of the

Prime Minister's own MPs supported the amendment against the government, including former Cabinet Ministers.

So that doesn't bode well. And also, MPs I have been speaking to are concerned about this being a gateway amendment if you like, and what I mean

by that is, MPs who aren't used to rebelling against the government find it a very difficult things to do.

Now, once they've rebelled once, it is easier for them to rebel again. That's just parliamentary practice and also human nature. So there is a

concern that the government might be increasingly inconvenienced by these new amendments. And right now, what's being discussed in the chamber is

yet another amendment from one of Theresa May's own MPs, which would make her life very difficult.

This amendment specifies that if the Prime Minister's deal is voted down, then she would only have three days to return to the House of Commons and

provide her idea for a Plan B. Now, at the moment, it sounds that she would have 21 days, so that's quite a difference.

LU STOUT: And it all culminates with what is going to happen next Tuesday. The big vote and if as expected, Theresa May can't push her deal through,

what is the plan for her government and for the opposition?

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NOBILO: Well, the opposition is in disarray over this issue just as much as the Conservatives are and we saw that in stock relief in Prime Ministers

Questions today with Jeremy Corbyn not pressing the Prime Minister as hard as he could on her Brexit strategy.

So what could happen if the deal fails? Well, Theresa May can put the deal back to the House of Commons more or less as many times as she likes. She

could amendments, Parliament could amend the deal, as well, but anything that is substantive and would really change the material of the deal would

have to go back to the E.U.

There's been talk that there could be, prior to the vote, an exchange of letters between the E.U. and the U.K. providing more reassurances about not

activating this backstop. We might be getting that at some point next week.

Other than that, if the deal continues to fail, she could look at extending Article 50, though Downing Street have ruled that out, but there is

increasing pressure to try and expand this time scale and momentum will certainly continue to build for a second referendum in that case, too.

LU STOUT: Bianca Nobilo reporting live from outside Parliament. Bianca, thank you. And you are watching "News Stream" and still to come, we're

going to a look at the most compelling gadgets being unveiled this week at the CES tech expo in Las Vegas. Keep it here.

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LU STOUT: A real-time translator, Bluetooth dog leashes, even flying cars are all among the gadgets on display at this year's Consumer Electronics

Show in Las Vegas. It is a tech lover's dream with industry giants using the expo to show how they are pushing the boundaries of technology. As CES

2019 enters its second day of public viewings, there will be plenty more new devices to explore.

Now for a rundown of what's turning heads there at the show, I'm now joined by the Editor-in-Chief of "Wired" Magazine, Nick Thompson who is there in

Las Vegas. Good morning to you, Nick. Thank you for joining us.

NICK THOMPSON, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, WIRED MAGAZINE: Good morning, Kristie.

LU STOUT: I know you've been out there, you've been roaming the halls, you've been checking out some amusing gadgets and innovations, including

voice applications. What caught your eye?

THOMPSON: Yes, what's happening in voice right now is that it's actually starting to be practical, it's starting to work. It's moving outside of

the kitchen to the rest of the home, into your car. You're seeing real competition between Google and Amazon and you're seeing some things that

blow your mind like real-time translation which Alibaba and Google both demonstrated.

Where you can have a conversation with someone in a different language and your voice assistant responds and helps to translate. It's not perfect,

but nothing at CES is perfect or else it would be on the market. So we're getting there and we're seeing a glimpse of a future where ambient

computing -- computing you just talk to and is around you is everywhere.

LU STOUT: Yes, we're not quite there for Douglas Adam's Babel Fish, right? But we're almost there and these are useful apps, but they also raise the

specter of data privacy. You know, with the tech industry under fire, and the aftermath of Cambridge Analytica and everything else, how much

discussion-debate is there at CES about how to better protect our data?

THOMPSON: That's such a good question because coming into CES, I thought, there's going to be so much discussion about privacy. We've had the tech

battle to see where people will care. First booth I walk up to, it's a baby monitoring booth where they monitor whether your baby is sleeping or

not and I asked about the business model, and it's basically we sell the data.

So privacy has entirely gotten everywhere at CES. To be fair, there are definitely some privacy focused devices.

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THOMPSON: We had an introduction of Yubikey for Apple, which is quite an interesting device. More people are talking about privacy, but I haven't

seen as much as I expected.

LU STOUT: Yes, that's really disappointing. I guess still at CES, the focus is on the tech. It's on the hardware. It's on the software,

whatever drives it. You know, I know for years now, years, Nick, you and me, we've been talking about driverless cars, connected cars, or driverless

feature. Are you finally seeing there compelling, realistic demos in this space?

THOMPSON: Yes, I think what's actually maybe most interesting is that CES in some ways is turning into a car show. In part because that's where

technology is really going the change over the next 10 to 20 years. As we go to electrification, you're going to need fast charging stations. As we

move towards autonomy, the whole inside of a car will change, right? Because when you have an autonomous car, you're not going to need a

steering wheel. You're not going to design it to have big crumple zones, so if there is a crash, you're safe because they probably will crash.

So suddenly, the whole interior of a car changes, so people are building lots of things for this new world of transportation. So that is exciting

and it is a technological transformation that will be good for us when it comes.

LU STOUT: Interesting. So more of an automotive beat than a tech beat or a combination of both in sort of the years to come at CES. Nick Thompson,

thank you so much. Thanks for checking with us and take care.

THOMPSON: Thank you, Kristie. Always fun.

LU STOUT: Now, the viral children's song has swum into U.S. waters and into Billboard's hot 100's top 40 territory. You've been warned.

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UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: Baby shark, baby shark, baby shark. Mommy shark, mommy shark ...

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LU STOUT: "Baby Shark" spawned a dance challenge back in 2016 after a South Korea based educational brand, Pinkfong released its version of the

song which we cannot get out of our heads right now. The song, it began its debut on the kid digital song sales chart in July of 2018 before making

its first appearance on the streaming songs chart in November. And it now tops the Billboard music chart at number 32. Now, good luck, folks. Try

to get that out of your head.

And that is "News Stream." I'm Kristi Lu Stout. Out of my head. Don't go anywhere, "World Sport" with Amanda Davies is next.

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