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Doctors Without Borders Calls Strike a War Crime; Recovery Begins After South Carolina Flooding; Roseburg Rallies Together After Tragedy; U.S. Gun Laws versus Gun Deaths; Over 50 Dead in Three Separate Suicide Bombings in Iraq; Turkey Says It Intercepted Russian Jet on Saturday; Recovery Efforts Underway in South Carolina; Land mark TPP; Crime on the Rise in Brazil Before 2016 Olympics; Liverpool FC Searching for New Manager. Aired 12-1a ET

Aired October 06, 2015 - 00:00   ET

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[00:00:08] ISHA SESAY, CNN ANCHOR: This is CNN NEWSROOM life from Los Angeles.

JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR: Ahead this hour, the U.S. admits it mistakenly bombed a hospital in Afghanistan. Doctors Without Borders calls the strike a war crime.

SESAY: Plus dams and bridges are being overwhelmed by historic flooding in the southern U.S.

VAUSE: And did tougher gun laws actually lead to fewer gun deaths? We will fact-check claims made by the U.S. president Barack Obama.

SESAY: Hello, and thank you for joining us. I'm Isha Sesay.

VAUSE: Great to have you with us. I'm John Vause. NEWSROOM L.A. starts right now.

We begin with new details in the deadly U.S. attack on a hospital in Afghanistan. The commander of U.S. forces says the airstrike came after Afghanistan's army called for air support while fighting the Taliban for control of the city of Kunduz.

SESAY: Just what went wrong is now the subject of three separate investigations by the U.S., NATO and Afghan Security officials.

Barbara Starr has our update.

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BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): International outrage after a hospital in northern Afghanistan was struck from the air by the U.S. The U.S. is investigating its role in the attack that left 12 medical staff and 10 patients, three of them children, killed, another 37 wounded.

The hospital is run by the aid group Doctors Without Borders, a global charity that works in war zones. They call the attack a war crime. JOSH EARNEST, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: Well, again, I wouldn't

use a label like that because this is something that continues to be under investigation.

STARR: Survivors described the horror to the BBC.

UNIDENTIFIED BOMB SURVIVOR (Through Translator): There were flames all around me. I saw patients and doctors burned to death.

UNIDENTIFIED BOMB SURVIVOR (Through Translator): There was no place to hide.

STARR: The damage massive. An AC-130 gun ship like this struck the hospital with its onboard guns.

GEN. JOHN CAMPBELL, COMMANDER, U.S. MILITARY, AFGHANISTAN: The Afghan forces advised that they were taking fire from enemy positions and asked for air support from U.S. forces. An airstrike was then called to eliminate the Taliban threat and several civilians were accidently struck.

STARR: Doctors Without Borders says it gave the military the exact location of the hospital weeks ago. Furious with the Pentagon, saying, "Their description of the attack keeps changing, from collateral damage to a tragic incident, to now attempting to pass responsibility to the Afghanistan government. The reality is the U.S. dropped those bombs."

Defense Secretary Ash Carter trying to reassure the group.

ASH CARTER, DEFENSE SECRETARY: We've been in touch with them to assure them that a full and transparent investigation will be held.

STARR: Doctors Without Borders' general director says the Taliban were not at the hospital.

CHRISTOPHER STOKES, GENERAL DIRECTOR, DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: If there was a major military operation ongoing there our staff would have noticed. So -- and that wasn't the case actually when the strikes occurred.

STARR: Contrary to first reports, U.S. forces were not under attack, just Afghan forces. But nonetheless, a senior U.S. official says all strikes the Afghans asked for have strict approval procedures. Not all are approved.

Barbara Starr, CNN, the Pentagon.

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VAUSE: Nic Robertson live this hour in Kabul.

So, Nic, there are so many unanswered questions here including why did the U.S. attack on that hospital lasted 30 minutes or so? That's according to MSF staff who were there. Did the U.S. solely rely on information from Afghan forces? Just two key question, how long before those questions are answered and so many others?

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes. Well, I think perhaps some of the quickest answers we're going to get appear to be -- we can expect them from NATO. NATO's own account is putting in a casualty assessment team, which is their sort of quick investigation. They should have answers within a couple of days. But we are hearing that the fighting is still going on in the vicinity of the hospital. And U.S. investigators haven't been able to get to the site of the hospital yet. So that does seem to be holding up the -- some key parts of the investigation at the moment, John.

VAUSE: Has there been any backlash there against the United States as well as the Afghan president because of this?

ROBERTSON: You know, interestingly, we haven't seen them if they happened. There was a demonstration against the Taliban and against them taking over Kunduz not long after this here in Kabul. What we've heard from the Afghan President Ghani is much more muted than one would have heard in the past from President Hamid Karzai, who would be critical in situations like this where there were civilian casualties as a result potentially of collateral damage of U.S. strikes.

[00:05:01] What President Ghani has said is that both U.S. and Afghan forces should take care to avoid civilian casualties, to take care to avoid damaging civilian property. And there is certainly a feeling here in Afghanistan at the moment that the Taliban's strength is growing. That U.S. forces are looking at drawing down. And an announcement on that could come very soon and there's a realization, particularly when you look at the situation in Kunduz to try to take control of the city and Afghan forces absolutely needed the backing of U.S. and international advisers there on the ground, U.S. Special Forces.

So I think at the moment perhaps that's why we're hearing a more muted response from the Afghan president and people at the moment, as well.

VAUSE: And so with that in mind, Nic, will this incident in any way impact that U.S. plan to draw down troops?

ROBERTSON: I guess in a way that's the kind of million-dollar question. What we are told here is that that announcement should come very soon. It's expected soon even within days, a draw down that would pull out the vast majority of the remaining many thousands of U.S. troops here by the end of 2016. So, you know, over the past couple of years what's been -- what Afghans have witnessed here is the withdrawal of tens of thousands of international troops, U.S. troops, and what they have seen as a result of that is the Taliban trying to sort of back fill the space where they have been providing some security, particularly in the south, particularly in the east, particularly in the northeast and places in the southwest, as well.

So, at the moment, it does seem to be an open question of how quick that draw down would go. Is this situation at the hospital, this tragedy at the hospital going to make a difference? We don't know at the moment, John.

VAUSE: OK. Nic, thank you. Nic Robertson live for us this hour in Kabul.

SESAY: Suicide bombings across Iraq have killed more than 50 people. In al-Zubayr, southeast of Basra, nine people were killed and 22 others wounded when a car bomb exploded in a commercial area. ISIS claimed responsibility for that attack.

VAUSE: Another bomb exploded near a crowded market in Diyallah Province killing 45. Two more people were killed by a car bomb in Baghdad. No one has claimed responsibility for those two attacks.

SESAY: Well, Turkey has summoned Russia's ambassador over violation of its air space. Officials say Turkish Air Force jet intercepted a Russian warplane Saturday before it entered Syria to conduct airstrikes. They say another -- they say there was another violation on Sunday.

VAUSE: Russia and Turkey are at odds over Syria and its civil war. Russia's Defense Ministry says the air space violation was a mistake because of bad weather.

SESAY: Well, turning now to the United States and the rains have stopped in South Carolina and recovery efforts are underway. Historic flooding has caused at least 11 deaths at the state. Two others were killed in North Carolina.

VAUSE: At least one dam has overflowed leading to a mandatory evacuation. Officials say so far nine dams have failed. The mayor of Columbia, one of the hardest hit cities, estimates the damage will be in the billions of dollars.

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MAYOR STEPHEN BENJAMIN, COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA: I took an aerial tour of the damage and devastation. It is significant. It is significant. The homes submerged. You see our water sewer infrastructure damaged. There is -- it's the real deal.

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SESAY: Gary Tuchman joins us now from Columbia, South Carolina.

Gary, what are conditions like right now?

GARY TUCHMAN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Isha, the rain has stopped for right now but that doesn't mean people aren't still very concerned. Right now we are standing on a street called Rock Bridge Road. And it's called Rock Bridge Road because the rock bridge used to cross this body of water, the Forest Lake, but it is now gone. A deluge of water a dam that overtopped and you have this gaffe here. If a car came down the street it would plunge into the water. As I said the rain has stopped but people here still and rightfully so remain on edge.

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TUCHMAN (voice-over): The deluge was sudden and intense. When this road collapsed in Lugoff, South Carolina, sheriff's deputies put up barricades so no one would drive on the road. But for some reason, a man driving with a female companion did. And this is what happened. The county sheriff is Jim Matthews.

JIM MATTHEWS, SOUTH CAROLINA SHERIFF: It was mostly submerged. But there was a piece of the vehicle that was out where she was able to get above the water and stay alive and breathe.

TUCHMAN: Rescuers got to the car, the driver was upside down as the floodwaters continued to rise. The woman, though, had her window open and was closer to rescuers who worked to grab her.

MATTHEWS: They were able to get her out. I think she was holding on to one of the wheels of the car. But the man inside was trapped inside. They were not able to get him out.

TUCHMAN (on camera): When the water went down, fire officials and sheriffs deputies came to the scene where they recovered the lifeless body of the man inside the car.

[00:10:09] (Voice-over): All over this region, boat rescues have been taking place, grateful people being brought to safety. Angela Williams is one of the flood victims.

ANGELA WILLIAMS, FLOOD SURVIVOR: What I got on my body is what we have. Pretty much everybody down there has lost everything this morning, our vehicles, our clothes, our everything. But the best thing is that we still have our lives.

TUCHMAN: Late this afternoon, many residents received recorded phone calls that nearby dams were being topped. And to go to shelters.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is Jojo. This is Edie.

TUCHMAN (on camera): And who are these three?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Mr. Fluff, Mrs. Fluff, and Fluffy.

TUCHMAN: And you've all evacuated.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Mandatory evacuation.

TUCHMAN (voice-over): The Rodriguez family just arrived to this high school shelter after getting that phone call. And there is great concern.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: My heart is literally coming out of my chest.

TUCHMAN (on camera): There is much flooding in this area. Incredibly, this is the ninth fairway of the Greenhill Golf Club in Lugoff. Sadly, it's now become the ultimate water hole. It has become a river with literally a current.

Six of the holes of this nine-hole course are covered with water and because we're so far away from the coast, most people here don't have flood insurance. So the owner of this golf course says it is very likely he won't be able to afford to reopen it.

(Voice-over): And with waters expected to continue to rise, an entire region wonders, what might happen next.

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TUCHMAN: There is still great concern for law enforcement we talked to that other bridges may be compromised because of all the rain that has come down. The good news, the sun is supposed to return on Tuesday and it's supposed to be mostly sunny for the rest of the week -- Isha.

SESAY: That is indeed good news that that rain has stopped for now. But, Gary, as you point out that there are concerns of further dam breaches or bridge collapses. What's your sense as to how well authorities are coping with the situation there on the ground? I understand the National Guard has been called in.

TUCHMAN: Yes, they seem to be doing a very good job with great cooperation between the police and between the National Guard. Any area that's considered vulnerable with a concern that a bridge could go down or a street could collapsed, they've closed off the area. They're not allowing motorists there. And they're going to keep a careful eye on it.

A little more rain is expected over the next few hours but that sunshine that's supposed to come out, that is a big help in the effort to end what everyone here is very concerned about, the further collapse of other bridges and other possible devastation -- Isha.

SESAY: We will continue to follow the situation very closely. Gary Tuchman there for us tonight in Columbia, South Carolina.

VAUSE: Yes. Good reporting there by Gary Tuchman.

SESAY: Yes.

VAUSE: Let's find out exactly what's happening with this storm system. Pedram Javaheri joins us now at the CNN weather center.

And interesting fact, though, don't know how true it is, but a weather guy in South Carolina did the math, he said over the last three days 5.5 trillion gallons of water.

PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Yes, that sounds right.

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VAUSE: Sounds right?

JAVAHERI: It's incredible.

SESAY: Remarkable.

JAVAHERI: It is. And you know, you think about that and you calculate that into how many Olympic size swimming pools that would be. We're talking roughly seven million Olympic size swimming pools. That is how much water was dumped over this region of South Carolina. And of course we know a devastating event. And just some of the images coming out of this region to show you what transpired, the before and after images on some of these streets.

And you see tremendous amount of water on the order of several meters in a few places that have taken over populated areas, heavy traffic streets. And we know just when you talk about 37 meters of moving water, that much water typically equates to having a lateral force with some 300 kilograms of weight. So just 37 meters of moving water can move something upwards of 300 kilograms in weight. But you take a look at the pattern, the atmospheric river pattern, and the smell in the moisture stringing right off of Joaquin. Joaquin long gone but the impacts I think certainly going to last for quite a while.

And I want to show you exactly what's transpired across the state of South Carolina. When it comes to just the lay of the land over this region because it really reminds me of what we saw with river flooding that took place in Pakistan several years ago. It was the Indus River, the entire Phraya River situation that happened in Thailand if you're watching from that region where you have the land but the northern portion of the land is higher elevation.

In this case, in the state of South Carolina it is the Appalachian Mountains that are higher elevations. You lay the land and bring the rivers hundreds upon hundreds of rivers and tributaries. So the rain that has fallen upstream will want to travel down steam just by nature of other volume of water work. It all wants to make down to the Atlantic Ocean. So we know flooding will continue farther downstream even when it's sunny potentially as we have a lot of these roadways, a lot of these dams that have been jeopardized over this region.

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[00:15:45] SESAY: Pedram, appreciate it. Joaquin still very much a nuisance.

VAUSE: Gone but not forgotten.

SESAY: Indeed. Thanks, Pedram.

Well, a landmark law passes here in California. Up next, find out what inspired the state's governor to sign the bill.

VAUSE: Also ahead, a quiet community in Oregon is now just one of many rocked by deadly gun violence. We'll take a look at how they're coping in the wake of this tragedy.

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KATE RILEY, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Kate Riley with your the CNN WORLD SPORT headlines.

We start with the ongoing search for a new manager for Liverpool Football Club after Brendan Rogers was sacked on Sunday. Several big names are in the hat. Jurgen Klopp is the overwhelming favorite while Carlo Ancelotti is another name in the fray.

It's being reported that the 48-year-old Klopp is understood to be open to the idea of joining the mighty fighters. Liverpool's owners, the Fenway Sports Group, intend to have a new manager in place for the Premier League trip to Tottenham on October 17th.

It's becoming the first host nation in history to be dumped out of the group stages. If the Rugby World Cup wasn't enough, England has another issue to contend with. World Rugby are investing reports that England coaching staff made an illegal approach to match officials at half time. This apparently happened during the humiliating loss to Australia on Saturday. The rule is that coaches can't approach officials during the match.

And on the eve of the New York Yankees' first playoff game in three seasons, starting pitcher C.C. Sabathia has announced he's leaving the team and checking into an alcohol rehabilitation center. Sabathia says he owes it to himself and his family to get himself right.

And that's a look at all your sports headlines. I'm Kate Riley.

[00:20:03] SESAY: Hello, everyone. Here in California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a landmark right-to-die bill into law. The measure would allow terminally ill patients to voluntarily end their lives using prescription drugs. Brown says he was inspired in part by pleas from Brittany Maynard's family.

VAUSE: Maynard was the terminally ill young woman who left California for another state so she could end her life legally. The new law will take effect next year in California. It requires two doctors to determine a patient has six months or less to live before prescribing lethal medication.

SESAY: An Oregon community college has reopened just days after nine people were gunned down in a shooting rampage. The gunman committed suicide. Students and staffers came on Monday to collect belongings they'd left behind in the chaos. Grief counselors were there in case they needed to talk.

VAUSE: Classes and campus events have been postponed until next Monday. The White House says U.S. President Barack Obama will travel to Roseburg on Friday to visit privately with the shooting victims' families.

SESAY: And while the president's visit may help people start to heal from this tragedy, people in Roseburg wish the national spotlight wasn't focused on them at all.

VAUSE: Yes. Everyone there is trying to move beyond this shooting and they say they are determined their community will not be forever linked to yet another mass shooting in the United States.

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VAUSE (voice-over): With its rolling hills and tree line valleys, Roseburg sits in a beautiful part of the middle of nowhere. For many a drive through on the way to somewhere else and that's how they liked it here. But when a shooter opened fire last Thursday, this community joined the long and growing list of places including many small towns shattered by gun violence.

(On camera): Roseburg, Sandy Hook, Columbine, Jonesboro, and the list goes on, and now you're on the list.

JEMELENE WILSON, DOUGLAS COUNTY RESIDENT: We don't want to be on that list. We don't want to be known for that.

VAUSE: What do you want to be known for?

WILSON: How we loved each other so well. How everyone jumped into action.

VAUSE (voice-over): Jemelene Wilson has lived here for 25 years. She's a mother who blogs about faith and hope and she wants everyone to know what this town was like before the shooting.

WILSON: Photographs of the injured being rolled into the hospital don't tell the story either. Most of our babies have been born at Mercy and lives are saved there every day.

VAUSE: For days now they've held vigils and prayed.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're not saying there's not an event. But we're saying that there's hope. You know, there's light at the end of the tunnel.

VAUSE: Gathered in part to raise money for survivors.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is amazing town. And the people who live here are full of love and joy. And what happened here is not going to break us.

VAUSE: And as they come together to cope and to grieve, Jemelene says she forgives the shooter but can't help and wonder why he never asked anyone for help.

WILSON: This was caused by someone who was living among us, who was living in our town. Who anyone would have helped out. Who anyone would have reached out to.

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VAUSE: And you know, that was really the key thing. When I spoke with Jemelene there was that, if he had asked someone would have helped. And I did say well, why didn't anyone reach out to him?

SESAY: Yes.

VAUSE: And you know, she really didn't have an answer to that. She said we wish we had.

SESAY: Considering it's said to be such a tight knit community, with 22,000 people in the city. VAUSE: 22,000 people in the city, about 2,000 in Douglas County.

Technically it's a city.

SESAY: Yes.

VAUSE: But it has that small town feel.

SESAY: And as they kept saying, things like this aren't supposed to happen in a place like that.

VAUSE: Every time something like this happens to one of those places they always say it's not meant to happen here. I actually asked her that. She said everyone says that, you know, every town where these things happen they say it shouldn't happen here. Why is Roseburg different? She said because it is. Because it's my town.

SESAY: The community trying to heal now.

VAUSE: Yes. As that community of Roseburg mourns the victims of a mass shooting many, including the gunman's father, are questioning the effectiveness of current gun laws.

SESAY: Brian Todd takes a look at U.S. gun laws correlate to gun related deaths.

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BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The father of the Oregon shooter tells CNN he doesn't know how his son could have built an arsenal of more than a dozen firearms, and says gun laws in America have to change.

IAN MERCER, FATHER OF OREGON SHOOTER: If Chris had not been able to get ahold of 13 guns, it wouldn't have happened.

TODD: Just hours after the shootings, President Obama angrily pushed back against a Congress reluctant to take action.

BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We know that states with the most gun laws tend to have the fewest gun deaths.

TODD: Is the president correct?

DR. ERIC FLEEGLER, BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPICE: We showed that states with the most firearm laws are those states that have the lowest fatalities from firearms. Whereas states that have the least amount of regulation are the states that tend to have the highest fatality rates.

[00:25:09] TODD: Dr. Eric Fleegler of Harvard Medical School led a team of researchers who studied firearm related deaths and state gun control laws between 2007 and 2010. They looked at the number of gun deaths in each state per 100,000 people. They found that states with the fewest gun laws on the left of this chart like Louisiana and Alaska had the most gun deaths, high up on the left, over 17 deaths per 100,000 people. They found states with the most gun laws on the right of this chart like Massachusetts and Hawaii had the fewest gun deaths, around three per 100,000 people.

Fleegler got the number of deaths from the CDC and he got the evaluation of the state gun laws from the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. But this study just shows a correlation. It doesn't address whether more gun control laws directly led to fewer deaths. And there are other factors which some experts say are not accounted for in Fleegler's study.

DANIEL WEBSTER, JOHNS HOPKINS CENTER FOR GUN POLICY AND RESEARCH: There are cultural factors. What does the drug situation look like? What does the gang situation look like? There are many factors that differ from one state to another.

TODD: And in some states, suicides make a huge difference. Suicides account for most of the gun-related deaths in Alaska, according to Fleegler. But even when you exclude suicides from the statistics, states with the most gun control laws still tended to have fewer deaths.

FLEEGLER: When we look at homicides alone, there is still a 40 percent reduction in fatalities from firearms.

TODD: What about overall gun violence, not just deaths? Do states with more gun control laws have less violence overall?

(On camera): Experts we spoke to say there's just not enough information to tell one way or the other. The reporting from law enforcement officers and from private citizens on gun-related incidents, they say, is just too inconsistent. For instance, if someone gets shot at but not actually shot that often doesn't get reported even though it's an incident of gun violence.

Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.

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VAUSE: A quick footnote to this story. The last time gun reform was on the ballot in Roseburg, 60 percent voted against tougher gun laws. It's a town that they want to keep their guns.

SESAY: And we hear that now.

VAUSE: Even after this. Yes.

SESAY: Exactly. Even after this.

VAUSE: A short break here on CNN. When we come back, ISIS destroys yet another priceless cultural relic in Syria.

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[00:30:20] VAUSE: Welcome back, everybody. Thanks for staying with us. You're watching CNN Newsroom, Live from Los Angeles. I'm John Vause.

SASEY: And I'm Isha Sesay. The headlines this hour: more than 50 people are dead after three separate suicide bombings in Iraq; ISIS has claimed responsibility for a car bombing in Al Zibar that killed nine and wounded 22; another bomb exploded near a crowded market in Diyala Provence, killing 45; and, two people were killed by a car bomb in Baghdad.

VAUSE: Turkey's Foreign Minister Sinirlioglu, (inaudible) Ambassador on Monday to protest a Russian warplanes flight into Turkey's airspace. Turkey says its air force jet intercepted a Russian jet on Saturday. Russia says bad weather forced it into Turkey's airspace for a brief moment before it entered Syria to conduct air strikes.

SASEY: In the U.S., recovery efforts are underway in South Carolina. Historic flooding caused at least 11 deaths in the state. Two others were killed in North Carolina. Rising floodwaters forced at least one dam to overflow

prompting a mandatory evacuation. Officials say nine dams have failed so far.

VAUSE: In the United States, Japan and ten other pacific rim nations are debating the landmark Free Trade Deal. The transpacific partnership would cut tariffs and import quotas and open new aid to Pacific markets to U.S. This new deal has been agreed to in principal, but needs approval from all 12 countries.

SASEY: Now Israel's prime minister has promised strong action against what he calls a wave of terror and has lifted restrictions on the country's security forces. The IDF says it fired on people throwing rocks Monday in a West Bank refugee camp, killing a Palestinian.

VAUSE: One man says his 13-year-old nephew was shot dead, but the IDF has not commented on the deceased identity, but is promising to investigate. Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, says Israel will do whatever is necessary to deal with what he calls terrorists.

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BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL (through translator)L We are acting with a strong hand against terrorism and against inciters. We are operating all on fronts. The police are going deeply in to the Arab neighborhoods, which has not been done in the past. We will demolish terrorists homes. We are allowing forces to take strong actions against those

who throw rocks and fire bombs. This is necessary in order to secure the security of Israeli citizens.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SESAY: Meanwhile, Israel has ordered more police into Jerusalem and more soldiers into the West Bank, after a rise in deadly violence this past week.

Well, ISIS militants have destroyed another Syrian cultural treasure. The Arch of Triumph in Palmyra. Citing eyewitness reports, a Syrian officials claims that the 1800 year old arch was blown up on Sunday.

VAUSE: ISIS destroyed two Palmyra temples back in August. Ben Wedeman now has more on the loss of Syria's iconic Arch Of Triumph.

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BEN WEDEMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voiceover): Palmyra's Arch of Triumph was built 1800 years ago to mark a Roman victory over the Persian Empire, but now it has fallen, destroyed by the modern day equivalent of the vandal hoards, ISIS. Just the latest act of pointless destruction by a group bent on obliterating the past.

In may when ISIS took control of the desert town of Tadmur, Arabic for Palmyra, local commanders said they would not harm the ruins, only pagan idols. Not surprisingly, the pledge quickly went with up in smoke. First they destroyed Muslim shrines, which by their tuse interpretation of Islam are an abomination. In August they rigged the 2,000 year old Temple of Baalshamin with explosives and blew it up. Then, few weeks later, did the same to the larger Temple of Bel.

Meanwhile, the ruins of Palmyra have served as a backdrop for several displays of ISIS perverse world view. This summer they used this City's ancient amphitheatre to conduct a mass execution of captured Syrian soldiers. Across the areas, ISIS controls in Syria and Iraq the group has reveled in an orgy of destruction at one ancient site after another.

Hundreds have been killed in recent months in Palmyra, either by ISIS or attacks by the Assad regime. In August, ISIS publicly executed the 82-year-old retired Head Of Antiquities for refusing to reveal where valuable artifacts were kept for safekeeping. Death and destruction, madness in the ruins.

Ben Wedeman, CNN. Beirut.

SESAY: Madness indeed. Well, Rio De Janeiro is counting down to the summer Olympics but the city's famous beaches are facing a new crime wave. Details just ahead on "Newsroom LA".

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VAUSE: It is never easy putting a price tag on happiness but, at the happiest place on earth that price has gone up.

SESAY: Oh, yes. An annual pass to Disneyland, with no blackout dates, is now over $1,000. That is up from $779.00 Really?

VAUSE: That was a bargain, wasn't it? There are less expensive options but, they include blackout dates, which, I think, there are a lot of blackout dates. Serious --

SESAY: I've never been.

VAUSE: Really?

SESAY: Nn-hmm. VAUSE: Well, go to (inaudible, laughing). Knock yourself out. If you live nearby you can actually get a discount, but that doesn't affect a lot of people. All of this comes as Disney starts to build extensions. They built the "Star Wars" franchise, so there's going to be --

SESAY: And people will pay the money.

VAUSE: Yes, and they're going to build these "Star Wars" exhibits or rides or whatever at Disneyland and Disney World.

SESAY: $1,000.00? Outrageous.

VAUSE: Okay. Less than a year before the Rio Olympics. Games of Thieves, there's some happy news, are roaming some of the City's most popular beaches.

SESAY: Angry residents in Copacabana, despite that, taking matters into their own hands. Our own Chester Darlington reports.

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SHASTA DARLINGTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voiceover): Panic and chaos as young robbers swarm a packed Ipanema Beach, making off with the man's wallet, leaving him a bloody face.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (via translator): I'm horrified, he says, ten people were hitting me. Grab and run robberies and other chaotic moments like boys throwing sand at a cop, who pulls out his gun. Just some of the scenes on Rio de Janeiro's white sand beaches less than a year before the city hosts the 2016 Olympic Games.

It's not even that hot today, so there aren't that many people on the beach. But you can see when you need to get away from the police it is really easy to just disappear in to the crowds. Many of the thieves unarmed and under aged gangs. Self proclaimed vigilantes have responded with more violence. Here pulling a suspected thief off of a bus near Copacabana Beach and beating him. Police now stepping up security with 700 cops posted along the beaches and many road blocks on the streets coming from poor neighborhoods in the north, looking for potential troublemakers who didn't pay bus fare and detaining unaccompanied minors until guardians show up. Rio's security chief says they will be ready for the Olympics, but there are no guarantees.

SECURITY CHIEF, (via translator): We're trying to prevent grab and run robberies, he says, but you can't categorically deny they will happen.

But he actions are coming under some criticism. Congressman Marcello Fresco says the police reaction deepens already gaping class divisions.

Congressman Marcello Fresco (via translator): This idea that you can stop any bus coming from the slums and divert them to a police station is

criminalizing poverty, he says.

But many rattled residents support the operations.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (via translator): Of course we're afraid, she says. Yesterday we decided not to come to the beach because of the

robberies.

For now, the allure of the sun and sand still overcoming that fear. Shasta Darlington, CNN, Rio De Janeiro.

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SESAY: Turning now to some sports news, a candidate for the presidency of FIFA is revealing he faces suspension for alleged ethics violation. Chung Mong-joon of South Korea says he is under investigation for alleged wrongdoing during the vetting process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup Tournament.

VAUSE: Chung says he is under scrutiny because he sent letters to the executive committee explaining the Korean bidding committee's proposal to launch a global football fund. Chung says supporting his country's bid is not only a tradition at FIFA but a natural, patriotic thing to do.

SESAY: Many more details yet to emerge on that story.

VAUSE: Yes, I'm not entirely sure exactly what he is alleged to have done wrong but we will find out.

SESAY: You are watching CNN Newsroom, Live from Los Angeles. I'm Isha Sesay.

VAUSE: I'm John Vause. Back at the top of the hour with all the days top stories.

SESAY: But first, world sports starts after the break.

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KATE RILEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, there; I'm Kate riley. Welcome along to CNN World Sport. We start with the ongoing search for a new Manager for Liverpool Football Club after Brendan Rodgers was sacked on Sunday. Liverpool has won only four of 11 games in all competitions this season and its last game in charge was the one-all draw, with Everton, in the Merseyside Derby. On Monday, Rodgers released this statement saying "I'm, of course, incredibly disappointed to be leaving the Liverpool football club. It has been both an honor and privilege to manage one of the game's great clubs for the last three years. I've worked every day to represent the club to the best of my

ability, to develop both individual players and a team that the club's magnificent fans can be proud of."

So Rodgers is the first Liverpool manager since the 1950s not to win a trophy in his first three seasons. He finished seventh, second and sixth in the premier league. His statement though coming just a day after Rodgers went before the press and expressed he still felt secure in his job.

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BRENDAN RODGERS, MANAGER, LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB: When you're at such a huge club you're always going to get other managers linked with your job. It's that's the way it is. It's the level. It's probably modern football as well, where sometimes after two or three years people maybe get fed up looking at you and listening to you and they need something else. But I've never felt anything other than secure, and that's not being complacent. I was brought in here to do a job. I signed a new deal last season, and -- and I think the owners, as much as anyone, know the rebuilding that needs to be taken here and they know that's time, unfortunately.

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RILEY: So, obviously, Rodgers won't be involved in any of that rebuilding at Anfield now. So attention turns to who will be the man to replace Rodgers. Naturally several big names are in the hat: Jurgen Klopp is the overwhelming favorite. Carlo Ancelotti is another name in the frame.

The headache continues for England's Rugby World Cup squad. It's becoming the first host nation in history to be dumped out of the group stages of the Ruby World Cup wasn't enough, England now have another issue to contend with. World Rugby are investigating reports that the England coaching staff made an illegal approach to match officials at halftime. This apparently happened during that humiliating loss to Australia on Saturday. The rule is coaches can't approach officials during the match. We don't yet know which England officials are under investigation. Head Coach Stuart Lancaster is said not to be one of them.

So, the inquest into what went so badly wrong for England in this World Cup continues, and CNN's Alex Thomas has some of those answers.

ALEX THOMAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This will be a miserable week for England's rugby team after their worst ever World Cup display, failing to qualify from the pool stage is bad enough, but doing so as the host nation at a tournament billed as best ever just rubs salt into the wound. England can't even go into hiding because they have one more game to play after the so-called group of death lived up to its name, and in a news conference the morning after the hosts crashed out of competition, Head Coach, Stuart Lancaster, admitted his job is on the line.

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STUART LANCASTER, HEAD COACH, ENGLAND RUGBY TEAM: All things are being considered but not for now for me. As Ian said, you know, it's a situation. I sat in front of the management team at hotel and said we have a game on Saturday, and it's not time now to make a decision like that. I say I need to get the team ready for Saturday and that's my priority.

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THOMAS: His boss, the Chief Executive of England's Rugby Football Union, Ian Ritchie, says there will be no knee-jerk reaction to the home

team's failure at this world cup so when they analyze it what went wrong? Here are some ideas from us.

Any coach in any sport is only as good as his players and there's plenty of evidence that England's squad simply was not good enough. They have not won any of the four six nation's championships they have played under Lancaster. And despite having more than 3.5 years to prepare, his team came into this tournament with less experience than many of their rivals. Lancaster does deserve credit for restoring the image of England's rugby team, which came home in disgrace from the 2011 World Cup, in New Zealand, after several examples of player indiscipline, but his rules prevented the selection of Manu Tuilagi and England's much criticized midfield or backrow forward, Stephen Armitage might have stopped Australia dominating at the breakdown if he wasn't ineligible because he plays for a French club.

You could argue England were the victims of events beyond their control. The draw was made years ago and put the host nation in a group with Wales, Australia and an excellent Fiji side. Stuart Lancaster's man may well have qualified for one of the other, easier pools. However, there will be little sympathy for rugby's richest and best resource nation, although there is an argument for keeping faith with Stuart Lancaster. Both Clyde Woodward, in 1999, and New Zealand's Graham Henry, in 2007, kept their jobs after disappointing World Cup performances and went on to win the next one.

Alex Thomas, CNN.

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RILEY: Well, up next, why it was a case travel sickness for coach in the NFL.

We've got the details of the first NFL managerial casualty of the new season up next.

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RILEY: Welcome back. Now to some stunning news on the eve of the New York Yankees first playoff game in three seasons. Saying he owes it to himself and his family to get himself right, starting pitcher CC Sabathia has announced he's leaving the team and checking into an alcohol rehabilitation center. Sabathia was the winning pitcher when the Yankees clinched a playoff spot on Thursday with a win over Boston. It was only his second victory since the All-Star Break and just his sixth of the year.

Well, milestones, sometimes fly a bit under the radar. However, New Orleans Saints Quarterback Drew Brees made sure this one didn't. Brees joined an exclusive NFL club on Sunday, he did it in some style. He led C. J. Spiller with a perfect pass, which the runningback turned into a touchdown, on the second play of overtime New Orleans won for the second time this season, 26-20 over the cowboys. it was the 400th career touchdown pass for Brees. It places him with Tom Brady, Brett Favre, Peyton Manning and Dan Marino as the only NFL quarterbacks to reach that mark.

And for the second straight season the NFL coach on the losing end of the London gig has lost his job. Joe Philbin is the latest to be relieved of his duties as Miami Dolphins head coach on Monday. His team lost to the New York Jets on Sunday at Wembley. (Inaudible) to the action now and the Jets leading 13-7 in the second quarter, when Ryan Fitzpatrick hits Erik Decker for the ten-yard touchdown. The dolphins threatened in the fourth, trying to cut the lead to seven, but Ryan Tannehill's pass is intercepted by Darrelle Revis, and that puts an end to it. Final score, 27-14. The fins' third straight loss of the season. So ironically it was the Dolphins lopsided win over the Raiders last year at Wembley that cost Oakland's coach, Dennis Allen to lose his job, too.

So, known for his legendary status on the football pitch, Maradona swapped coats to watch Argentina's Rugby World Cup match and the football icon enjoyed watching his country's team take on Tonga. Caught here on cell phone, Maradona is seen leading the chant supporting Los (Inaudible) in the dressing room. No wonder there was such a post-match celebration after Argentina's 45-16 thrashing of Tonga in Pool "C."

And finally it was a good weekend for Zlatan Ibrahimovic. He's became PSG's top goal scorer on Sunday, and announcing afterwards he's just like a fine wine. The older hits gets, the better he gets. Who can disagree? A day after his 34th birthday, the Swedish captain netted two for his team against bitter rivals Marseille, both from the penalty spot; the first from a high tackle from the goal keeper and then after a handball in the (inaudible), an almost carbon copy penalty before halftime, to go one better that the club's previous record held by former Portugal International, Pauletto.

Yes, well done to him on his record. That brings this edition of "CNN World Sport" to a close. I'm Kate Riley. Thanks so much for watching.

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