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Shanghai Market Down Nearly a Third; Greece Requests Third Bailout; United Airlines Ground Stop of U.S. Flights is Over; Pope Francis Wraps Up Ecuador Visit; Clinton Gives First National Interview of 2016 Campaign; U.S. Reports Only 60 Syrians Trained to Fight ISIS; Bear Smashes Glass Enclosure at Zoo. Aired 10-11 ET

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ROBYN CURNOW, CNN HOST: Hi, there and welcome to the INTERNATIONAL DESK. I'm Robyn Curnow. Now we'll have more on that breaking news that

United airplanes have been grounded in the U.S. in just a moment.

But we're also following two major business stories today, a panic stock selloff from the world's second largest economy and Greece's latest

bailout request.

The Greek crisis has captured the world's attention this week. But there's a very different, much larger financial crisis underway in China.

The stock markets there are tanking. The benchmark Shanghai composite is down 32 percent over the past month as panicked investors dumped shares to

cut their losses.

Here's a look what's happening in the Asia Pacific markets in Wednesday trading. Look at those numbers, continuing that dramatic drop.

You can see the Shanghai Hang Seng indices, each down by almost 6 percent.

To give this some perspective, the drop in value across Chinese markets since last June is -- this mid-June is almost 14 times greater than

Greece's annual economic output.

Let's go to Shanghai now, where our Ivan Watson talked to some very nervous investors and sent us this report just a few moments ago.

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IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Robyn, this has been a devastating day for investors here in China where you had the main

stock markets here facing a real selloff, the Shanghai composite down nearly 6 percent in trading and that's despite a number of moves by the

Chinese government to try to stop the selloff with pledges to buy tens of billions of dollars in shares, with the suspension of IPOs here, with

interest rate cuts as well.

And that just hasn't stopped the bleeding. We were outside a brokerage house where we spoke with elderly investors, clearly worried that

they're seeing their savings go up in smoke.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): No, it's impossible for the market to bounce back anytime soon. This is like the eight-year war

against the Japan. It may take eight years for the market to turn around.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): I know people who sold their houses to invest in stocks and now they're finished. Many people were

dreaming of becoming overnight millionaires. It doesn't work that way.

WATSON: Some analysts are warning now that this is increasingly becoming a political challenge for the Chinese government because they say

a lot of the so-called retail investors -- this is ordinary Chinese people, people who may not have a university degree, who may be a taxi driver

(INAUDIBLE), many of these people borrowed money to invest in the stock market when it was the fastest growing stock market in the world. And some

of these people are now in danger of losing everything.

Take a listen to what one analyst had to say.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): So far, this crisis of panic is contained in the stock market alone. But if the government cannot

rebuke (ph) or calm down the market, in very short times, that means weeks or days, then the -- this kind of pessimistic sentiment will be easily

spilled over to the banking sectors because the leverage -- the -- I mean, the people borrow money to buy stock, where did the money come from? Most

of them from the banks.

WATSON: Robyn, it is important to keep in mind, if you got into the stock market as early as last January or six or eight months ago, chances

are you still have made money compared -- despite these big losses of the last three weeks.

The big problem is for people who got in, who were attracted to this apparent honey pot within the last couple of months. They're the people

who are being burned right now. And everybody's watching to see if this market can pull out of its freefall in the coming days -- Robyn.

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CURNOW: Ivan Watson there, thank you so much for that report, Ivan.

Now turning to the Greek financial crisis, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras showed up at the European parliament with a request for a third

bailout.

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ALEXIS TSIPRAS, GREEK PRIME MINISTER: And being with our neighbors but one (INAUDIBLE) assignment we are for the moment (INAUDIBLE) from the

(INAUDIBLE) which will demonstrate to (INAUDIBLE), an agreement which will bring (INAUDIBLE) and necessary reforms.

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CURNOW: Well, the prime minister did appear to have some hometown support in the crowd. But Greece's creditors are demanding concrete

proposals for reform by Friday morning --

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CURNOW: -- and patience for what they see is constant flip-flopping by Greek leaders is clearly running out.

DONALD TUSK, EUROPEAN COUNCIL PRESIDENT: If you want to help your friend in need, do not humiliate him.

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TUSK: Today, today we need unity.

TSIPRAS: (Speaking Greek).

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CURNOW: Well, Richard Quest joins me now with more from Athens.

Richard, so telling that behind Donald Tusk, as he was saying and talking about don't humiliate your friends, Tsipras kind of pulled a

squishy face, kind of a blah, blah, blah kind of face. I mean, that really got -- really underscores how poisoned these relationships are.

RICHARD QUEST, CNN HOST: Oh, absolutely. Bear in mind the president of the commission on two occasions, the first, he said that he felt

betrayed by the way that the Greeks had walked out of the meetings, walked out of the negotiations, 10, 12 days ago, and then called the referendum,

betrayed, he said.

And then last night he says don't call us terrorists. Who do you think you are?

The anger -- it's not even anger; it's frustration. It's resentment. It's just that feeling of we're being -- we are being badly -- and the

point, Robyn, is it's on both sides, the Greeks do -- the Greek government does genuinely believe that the European Commission and the Europeans put

the necessary pressure -- or the Eurogroup -- put the pressure on the ECB and caused the banks to close.

So this ill will, Jean-Claude Trichet, the former president of the ECB, said to me last week, there's a complete and utter breakdown of trust.

Until that trust comes back, if it can come back, there's no hope of solving this one.

CURNOW: Indeed. While Donald Tusk was talking, I mean, he mentioned something else. He talked about morality and how morality was about paying

the debts you owe to others and also talking about it's simply impossible to keep spending more than you earn.

I mean, it sounded like a talk a parent gives their children, the 101 of managing your pocket money.

Has that tone, that disapproving, lecturing parent tone, made this crisis worse?

Could European leaders have dealt with this differently?

QUEST: No, I don't believe they could because they have their own mandates and have their own democracies and they have their own domestic

issues and there are -- those are fundamentally often in conflict with dealing with this crisis.

But, Robyn, I can save you, me, I can save everybody watching an enormous amount of time, angst, heartburn and indigestion and cut straight

to what we need to know.

Where this goes next depends on what's provided by the Greeks on Thursday or Friday. That is it. If the proposal does not cut the mustard

when it arrives at the commission for the ESM loan, if it is just a rehash of the one 10 days ago, if it doesn't have new conditionality, if it

doesn't have strong measures for how they're going to reform the economy, it's dead on arrival and you're talking about E.U. summit on Sunday night

that is going to dot I's and cross T's for Grexit.

Be under no illusion: that is why -- that is why Tusk has called all 28 in because there are countries that are not in the euro -- Bulgaria,

Hungary, even the U.K., Romania, who are all being affected by this. And he wants then at the table to hear what's being said to be part of the

decision-making.

And finally he wants Greece to understand that at best it is maybe 25 or 26 to one or two. For Greece, it could be 27 against one.

CURNOW: Indeed. And as they said, it's the last chance procedure that has just started.

Richard Quest, as always, thanks so much.

Now United Airlines has just ended its ground stoppage of all U.S. flights. It had been in effect for about a hour. The airline called this

a network connectivity issue on Twitter, passengers report confusion and long lines at airport gates, though some were seen boarding a United flight

in Washington.

Well, our aviation correspondent, Rene Marsh, joins me now from Washington.

What exactly is a network connectivity issue, do we know?

RENE MARSH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It's -- no, we don't. And --

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MARSH: -- that's the problem.

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MARSH: It's a quite vague explanation of what caused quite a large problem here for fliers who undoubtedly will be dealing with this issue for

many, many hours to come.

So still trying to get to the bottom of what was behind this very widespread computer problem that caused United Airlines to essentially be

forced to ground their aircraft nationwide.

You just hit it off the top, the headline for at least for this hour, which is the FAA now saying that ground stop is lifted and flights will

resume taking off. But that doesn't mean that these passengers are out of the woods just yet, because of this nationwide ground stop. What you have

is now a situation where there are a lot of aircraft on the ground and not in the air, and so that creates a bit of a traffic jam. And so that's

creating a whole other problem here for passengers.

So although this looks like it is slowly being resolved here, people need to be very patient because it could take hours; it could take until

tomorrow before things get back to normal because that is just how the air traffic system is, very fragile when one thing goes wrong. There is this

ripple effect and passengers no doubt will see that, even passengers on other airlines will most likely experience some delays as a result of this

well.

CURNOW: And on those international flights. And I know we really don't know what happened. It seems like some sort of computer glitch; at

one point we were hearing that tickets, that boarding passes were being handwritten.

Is there really a suggestion of hacking or something more suspicious than just a computer failure here?

MARSH: You know, I have to be honest. That is the first thing that comes to everyone's mind, right? What caused this? Could it be a hack?

We don't know at this point. But you bet that this is a possibility that will be investigated and they're going to walk that down.

Will the airline reveal to us if they do find out that it was a hacking situation?

That I don't know. They may not reveal that it was a hacking situation. But I will guarantee that that will be one possibility that

their investigators will be looking into.

We saw just a short time ago at Polish Airlines, their ground systems were hacked into and so their pilots were unable to file flight plans and

that created a mess for thousands of their passengers.

And the CEO came out, at the time was very transparent, said that we've been hacked our system was vulnerable and our system was compromised.

And the CEO also said that this could happen to any airline and that the industry is vulnerable.

And I think the industry understands the vulnerability when it comes to these cyber attacks, they're actually working to try to combat that. I

know here in the United States, the FAA has formed this advisory committee to essentially get together, brainstorm how can we better protect our

systems from these potential hacks.

But I do want to highlight we don't know that that is the situation in this specific incident here involving United Airlines.

CURNOW: Either way, travelers are going to be feeling it on the ground. Thank you so much -- and in the air. Rene Marsh, appreciate it.

Now back to one of our top stories. I just want to talk more here on the INTERNATIONAL DESK about that China stock selloff. For some analysis,

let's bring in Kathleen Brooks. She's the research director of City Index, a London-based online brokerage.

Hi, there, Kathleen. Even with this huge selloff, it's important to note that the Shanghai composite is still about 10 percent up for the year.

That doesn't stop the panic, though.

KATHLEEN BROOKS, RESEARCH DIRECTOR, CITY INDEX: Yes, that's a really good point, actually. Yes, Chinese shares have come under speculative

attack over the last few weeks. But compared to a year ago you're still earning. If you put your money in Chinese shares one year ago.

CURNOW: So what does all this mean?

CNNMoney.com has an article called "Five Reasons Why Not to Freak Out about China."

Why isn't this a Lehman Brothers moment? Or could it potentially get there?

BROOKS: Well, we actually think that the sloff has been largely speculative in nature and largely because the Chinese index is made up of a

lot of retail investors, who are likely to go rush to the exits at one point. The markets are a bit less mature. They're a little bit less

sophisticated than the markets in the U.S. or here in Europe.

So we don't really see this selloff as being on the back of any solid or substantial news. We think that it's just par for the course when you

such a large increase in an index like we've seen in the Chinese index over the last few months.

CURNOW: OK, Kathleen. Thank you so much, Kathleen Brooks there.

Big questions, though, about perhaps the political impact --

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CURNOW: -- the political questions and what that means for Beijing. Thank you so much for your analysis, though.

It's another jam-packed day for Pope Francis, the tireless pontiff wraps up his trip in Ecuador and gets ready for Bolivia. We're live in

Quito.

Plus what U.S. presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton had to say in her first national media interview. All that, much more here at the

INTERNATIONAL DESK.

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CURNOW: Pope Francis has just a few hours left in Ecuador before he starts the next leg of his week-long South American tour. And the pontiff

has a very busy schedule. Our Rosa Flores is in Ecuador's capital, Quito, and she joins us now.

Hi, there, Rosa.

What does the pope have planned for today?

ROSA FLORES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, he has a packed day. Imagine this: right now he's making his way to a senior citizen center run by

Mother Teresa's Sisters. After that, he comes here to the Sanctuary of El Cisne. Now this is the home of Our Lady of El Cisne, who is the mother of

all Ecuadorians.

And let me set the scene for you, because there are thousands of people already here waiting for the pontiff, very young people and also

very seasoned. And I've got to say, rain or shine, we have seen thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people at all of the events that Pope

Francis has here in Ecuador.

Now about the message, Robyn, that he's delivered here so far, you know, he's the first Latin American pope and during his homily yesterday,

he started off by calling for a cry of independence. Imagine that, right, cry for freedom and unity.

And he said something very simple. He said evangelization is not about using complicated words. It's about using simple words, about

reaching out to those who feel judged, about reaching out to the poor, to those who are in need. And he said why the poor and why the needy? And he

said because the Gospel, that's at the heart of the Gospel, the needy and also the poor.

But we're going to be waiting for him. He's going to be the walking over to the steps that you see behind me and into the sanctuary. And he's

going to be meeting with clergy today. And then of course he heads over to Bolivia.

CURNOW: Indeed, very much connecting with his Jesuit roots.

Tell us about his trip to Bolivia. It's interesting for a number of reasons, isn't it?

FLORES: It really is. First of all, just think about it. This is a 78-year-old pontiff and just the altitude changes, the temperature changes

are very extreme. He's probably still jet lagged.

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FLORES: And Bolivia being -- La Paz in Bolivia being one of the highest points in the world, it's going to be probably a little difficult

for him.

Now I did talk to the Office of Cultural Affairs in La Paz and they tell me that the pontiff is expected to chew coca leaves there. This is a

tradition that goes back centuries, thousands of years. Indigenous communities there have been doing that for a very long time. But of course

the coca leaf is the mother of cocaine.

But, again, the Vatican, however, has said that they're not confirming that he's going to be chewing these coca leaves. But they said, you know,

Pope Francis will probably do whatever he feels is right at that point in time.

Now there at La Paz he's going to be having a crowd of probably about 1 million people, is the estimates that we're hearing, at the airport.

There is no mass there. He's going to the airport. That's where the big welcome ceremony is going to take place. He's also going to meet with the

president.

But, Robyn, very importantly, he's also going to make a stop -- literally, we're told that it's by a highway and it's very symbolic for

people around the world. And here's why.

That was the place where a Jesuit priest was found, his body was found after his body -- after he was kidnapped and tortured by the dictatorship.

So a huge message, Robyn, especially after the beatification of Bishop Romero in El Salvador. So were going to be waiting for all those moments

and of course we'll bring them to you whenever we have those.

CURNOW: Yes, and all that controversy about liberation theology all those decades ago and now you see this pope, very much bring it to the

front lines.

Thanks so much. And also I love the fact that he's taking selfies with everyone. I mean, what a guy. So thanks. You'll keep us posted on

his trip. Rosa Flores there in Ecuador.

Coming up, some strong words from Hillary Clinton for Donald Trump and others over Trump's comments on the immigration controversy.

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HILLARY CLINTON, FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE: I'm very disappointed very disappointed with him and with the Republican Party for not responding

immediately.

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CURNOW: More from the U.S. presidential candidate's first national interview, all that just ahead.

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CURNOW: Welcome back. You're watching the INTERNATIONAL DESK.

In the U.S., the 2016 presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, has given her first national media interview to CNN. The early Democratic

front-runner was asked about several topics, including recent controversial comments on immigration by Republican hopeful Donald Trump.

Here's a portion of the interview with our senior political correspondent, Brianna Keilar.

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BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN SR. WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Donald Trump is also creating quite a lot of commotion on the other side. He's a friend of

yours, has been over the years. He donated to your Senate campaign, to The Clinton Foundation.

What's your reaction to his recent comments that some Mexican immigrants are rapists and criminals?

CLINTON: I'm very disappointed in those comments and I feel very bad and very disappointed with him and with --

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CLINTON: -- the Republican Party for not responding immediately and saying, enough, stop it.

But they are all in the -- you know, in the same general area on immigration. They don't want to provide a path to citizenship. They range

across a spectrum of being either grudgingly welcome or hostile toward immigrants.

And I'm going to talk about comprehensive immigration reform. I'm going to talk about all of the good, law-abiding, productive members of the

immigrant community that I personally know, that I've met over the course of my life, that I would like to see have a path to citizenship.

KEILAR: But what about Jeb Bush's approach to that?

It's different, certainly, than Donald Trump's and --

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CLINTON: Well, he doesn't believe in a path to citizenship. If he did at one time, he no longer does.

And so pretty much they're -- as I said, they're on a spectrum of, you know, hostility, which I think is really regrettable in a nation of

immigrants like ours, all the way to kind of grudging acceptance but refusal to go with a pathway to citizenship.

I think that's a mistake. I think that we know we're not going to deport 11 million or 12 million people.

We shouldn't be breaking up families. We shouldn't be stopping people from having the opportunity to be fully integrated legally within

our country. It's good for us. It's good economically. It's good for the taxes that will be legally collected. It's good for the children, so that

they can go as far as their hard work and talent will take them.

So I am 100 percent behind comprehensive immigration reform that includes a path to citizenship.

KEILAR: What's changed when it comes to your approach with the media?

We've seen -- now you're doing this interview here today. It's been since you declared that you've done a national interview like this. We saw

sort of a visual representation of the arm's length with the rope incident this weekend in New Hampshire.

What's changed? Why now?

CLINTON: Well, nothing's really changed. I just have a different rhythm to my campaign. I'm not running my campaign for the press. I'm

running it for voters. I totally respect the press and what the press has to do. But I wanted and was determined to have the time that I needed to

actually meet and listen to people.

KEILAR: Have you given any thought to the woman who should be on the $10 bill?

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CLINTON: You know, I am very torn about it. I want a woman on a bill. I don't know why they picked the $10 bill. Some people are now

agitated for the $20 bill --

KEILAR: -- $20 -- do you think it should be the $20?

CLINTON: You know, I want a woman on the bill. And I think that it might be easier to change the $20 than it is to change the $10. But we'll

see.

And I don't like the idea that as a compromise you would basically have two people on the same bill, one would be a woman. That sounds pretty

second class to me. So I think a woman should have her own bill. And it may be more appropriate to look at the $20 than the $10. I don't know.

We'll see.

KEILAR: And finally, I know you've seen your new doppelganger on "Saturday Night Live," Kate McKinnon. She plays you and she plays Justin

Bieber.

CLINTON: Yes, which is pretty good. I wish I could sing.

KEILAR: Quite some range. I know. I know you do.

Who's the better Hillary Clinton, Kate McKinnon or Amy Poehler?

CLINTON: Oh, you know, Amy's a friend of mine. And Kate's doing a great job. You're not going to get me to pick one or the other. I think

I'm the best Hillary Clinton, to be honest.

So I'm just going to be my own little self and kind of keep going along and saying what I believe in and putting forth changes that I think

would be good for the country and, you know, I'm not looking for ratings. I'm looking for votes.

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CURNOW: Well, you can see Brianna Keilar's entire exclusive interview with presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Just go to our website at

cnn.com.

And now a stunning admission on U.S. efforts to train Syrian rebels. Coming up, why Washington is having a hard time building a local force to

fight ISIS.

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CURNOW: Welcome to the INTERNATIONAL DESK. I'm Robyn Curnow. Here are the check of the headlines.

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CURNOW (voice-over): Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has requested a third bailout from European creditors but those creditors are

demanding concrete proposals from Greece by Friday and a final deal on Sunday. The president of the European Council says everyone will lose if

an agreement isn't reached by then.

A huge selloff in Chinese stocks continued Wednesday with the benchmark Shanghai composite index plummeting about 6 percent. Investors

are in panic mode and the Shanghai market has lost about a third of its value since mid-June.

However, it's still up about 10 percent for the year.

United Airlines has ended its ground stoppage of all U.S. flights. It lasted more than an hour after what the airline called a computer network

connectivity issue. The cause is not yet known. A few flights have started moving, but the glitch could have a ripple effect on travel

throughout the U.S. throughout the day.

And Pope Francis is wrapping up his trip to Ecuador. He will visit a nursing home and meet with local clergy in Quito before heading to Bolivia.

The pontiff has drawn immense crowds during the first part of his South American tour. Estimates of up to 1 million people attended a papal mass

on Tuesday.

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CURNOW: The U.S. plan to train Syrian rebels to fight ISIS is off to a very slow start. Officials had hoped to instruct thousands of fighters

per year. But right now they've only trained -- wait for it -- 60. Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr joins me now from Washington.

Hi, there, Barbara, Very low number, a bit embarrassing, isn't it?

BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Well, Robyn, it certainly is and it put the Secretary of Defense Ash Carter in a very difficult

position when he testified before Congress.

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STARR (voice-over): With ISIS still in control of many parts of Syria, a stunning revelation from the Secretary of Defense on just how slow

U.S. training of moderate Syrians to fight ISIS is really going.

ASH CARTER, U.S. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: As of July 3rd, we are currently training about 60 fighters. This number is much smaller than

we'd hoped for at this point.

STARR (voice-over): The U.S. had wanted to train up to 5,000 per year. But a major problem: getting fighters willing to promise to only

fight ISIS in Syria, not Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime.

Senator John McCain furious at the Pentagon for what he views as a failure to protect the Syrians.

SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZ.: Mr. Secretary, this is not a very pleasant exchange. I'd like to have answers to questions.

Will we tell them that we will defend them against Bashar al-Assad's barrel bombing?

CARTER: I think we will have an obligation to help --

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MCCAIN: Will we tell them that?

CARTER: We have not told them that.

MCCAIN: Not told them that.

STARR (voice-over): A Joint Chiefs chairman leaving the door open for a small number of American troops working as forward air controllers to

assist in calling in airstrikes to help Iraqi forces.

GEN. MARTIN DEMPSEY, CHAIRMAN, JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF: I agree that there are points on the battlefield where the presence of forward

observers, JTACs, embedded SOF forces, would be --

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DEMPSEY: -- would make them more capable.

STARR (voice-over): The administration says there are no plans for more U.S. forces.

BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: In order for us to succeed long-term in this fight against ISIL we have to develop local

security forces that can sustain progress.

STARR (voice-over): But almost one year into the American involvement, questions about whether the U.S. can afford patience.

DEMPSEY: If you're suggesting that ISIL's threat to the homeland could increase because of this patience I concede that risk. But I would

also suggest to you that we would contribute mightily to ISIL's message as a movement were we to confront them directly on the ground in Iraq and

Syria.

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STARR: Now many top commanders will tell you behind the scenes that they think one of the big measures of success is when the Iraqi forces and

some of those Syrian rebel fighters can take and hold territory and make sure that ISIS doesn't get it back -- Robyn.

CURNOW: Indeed. And that's a very good point. But I think the issue around these 60 men that -- perhaps women -- trained by the U.S., I mean,

isn't this about an abundance of caution, about a vetting process, that is justified?

STARR: Well, indeed. There are several issues that have been making this go very slowly. That is a major one. They are being very cautious

about who they bring into the program. They want to make sure that these people are genuine, that their loyalties are genuine and that they're not

going to have the so-called green-on-blue incidents where they suddenly find out that people they're working with may have other loyalties to ISIS

or other militant groups.

So yes, that is absolutely a critical issue. Also one of the big issues is the U.S. wants an assurance these fighters will return home and

fight ISIS, not the regime of Bashar al-Assad. And let's face it, a lot of them really are oriented to fighting Assad.

So for now, it's very slow going. They are going through the process of looking at thousands of additional people who've applied to the program.

But they haven't gotten them into the training yet -- Robyn.

CURNOW: I'm just underscoring how incredibly complicated this all is.

Barbara Starr, thanks so much, as always, for your analysis, thanks.

Now U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and others are staying put in Vienna, trying to reach a final deal on Iran's nuclear program. The

ongoing talks between six world powers and Tehran are now extended to Friday. Both sides say they want an agreement to happen but insist on

making sure that it's one that works for everyone.

Something a little bit letter. A bear vents his boredom in his exhibit space with some shattering consequences. How zoo goers reacted.

That's after the break.

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CURNOW: When a grizzly bear starts attacking his glass enclosure, bad things are bound to happen, especially if he's bashing it with stuff other

than his "bear" hands. Our Jeanne Moos has the story.

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JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): What's it sound like when a grizzly bear --

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MOOS (voice-over): -- picks up a rock the size of a basketball and smashes the glass of his exhibit?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Boom!

MOOS (voice-over): Now we've seen plenty of videos of kids being greeted by creatures with open mouths. But the glass always holds even

when they hurl themselves at it.

But when a grizzly believed to be one named Kenai (ph), launched a rock he found in his pond at the Minnesota Zoo, the glass shattered.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That bear was throwing a chest pass repeatedly -- the ball -- the rock bounced off the glass right back to him.

MOOS (voice-over): He threw it five times, says Robin Vicker (ph), a lawyer who was visiting the exhibit and who has himself exhibited some

animalistic behavior as a sports heckler.

But Kenai the grizzly wasn't being aggressive, says Tony Fisher, the zoo's animal collection manager.

TONY FISHER, ANIMAL COLLECTION MANAGER: He was just playing with the rock.

MOOS (voice-over): Kenai is one of three orphaned brown bears transported from Alaska, where Fisher says they might have died if humans

hadn't taken them in.

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FISHER: He is kind of a clown.

MOOS (voice-over): But when the glass shattered, Robin Vicker (ph) didn't think the bear was clowning around.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Run, because we all thought that bear was coming through.

MOOS: The exhibit glass is 2.5 inches thick. The bear only managed to shatter one of five layers.

MOOS (voice-over): The zoo says no one was ever in any danger. But don't tell that to Vicker.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I was thinking, well, if he gets out, he's probably going to enjoy one of those nice tasty kids rather than an old

grizzled piece of meat like me.

MOOS (voice-over): Replacing the custom-made glass will cost tens of thousands of dollars. Zoos just have to put their money where the animals'

mouths are -- Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.

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CURNOW: The characters. Wow. Thanks to Jeanne for that.

Not much more I can say except that's it from us here at the INTERNATIONAL DESK. I'm Robyn Curnow. Don't go anywhere. "WORLD SPORT"

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