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Aired July 19, 2012 - 12:00   ET

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SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome to NEWSROOM INTERNATIONAL. I'm Suzanne Malveaux. We'll take you around the world in 60 minutes.

Here's what's going on right now:

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MALVEAUX: What you are hearing is gun fire and cars burning on the street streets. This is life in Damascus and it's been one day since a major attack to the Syrian government killed several officials. At least 77 people are reported killed in Syria so far today. The U.N. Security Council tried to push through more sanctions against Syria today, but it was vetoed by Russia and China.

We're going to go to a journalist working inside of Damascus and talk to him live in just a couple of minutes.

But first, we are getting word of a U.S. military helicopter crash in Oman. It happened today about 15 miles from the country's capital. Five crew members were on board. Their condition is not yet clear. Military officials don't know what caused this crash, but they say definitely was not attacked.

In northern Colombia, a 3-year-old missing for an entire day was finally rescued from a sewer. You've got to watch this incredible rescue.

The boy had been playing in a construction zone with his brothers when he disappeared, and now he is safe and sound.

The suicide bomber had a Michigan driver's license. That's what officials in Bulgaria are saying today. Now, we are talking about the explosion that killed five Israeli tourists and a bus driver. This happened yesterday outside of an airport on the Bulgaria's Black Sea coast.

Investigators say that Michigan driver's license was probably a phony. We have surveillance footage of the man who may have set off this bomb. This is the airport, and this is in Burgas, Bulgaria. Police think that that man dressed a tourist, in shorts carrying the backpack, they think he is the bomber and that is the bomb.

I want to go live to Atika Shubert. She's in the spot, the very spot where this bomb exploded yesterday.

Atika, tell us a little bit more about the suspect in this fake American driver's license. What are police taking away from that?

ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, basically, they have narrowed it down to this person, because he was the only person killed in the blast who could not be identified. What they did find on him was this U.S. driver's license apparently from Michigan, but it has been proven to be fake.

So they cannot tell who is he is at this point, and you know what the nationality is. And having said that, there have been several reports that have just come out in the last few minutes by a Bulgarian media saying that the name is Mehdi Ghazali (ph). That is something that we have not been able to independently confirm. We are now trying to get that from the department. The interior ministry here in Bulgaria.

What is clear is that the Bulgarian authorities believe that this was a suspected suicide bomber. They are making this conclusion, not just from the security camera that they have released where you can see him sort of going around the terminal and checking it out an hour before the explosion, but also they say from the evidence on the ground, particularly the way the explosives were detonated and the way that his body parts were found indicate that it was a suicide bombing.

MALVEAUX: Atika, by that name that you gave us, do you know anything about the name? What kind of name it is, what the language is, perhaps where that would point to in terms of the nationality of this alleged attacker?

SHUBERT: We don't know yet. We are seeing conflicting reports. It could be an Arabic name, but we can't say exactly from where in the world, and, of course, that does not limit it to the simply Middle East.

It's something we're going to have run by the ministry of interior. We actually just had an interview with him where he said, you know, there are a number of leads that they are following. There seem to be indications that the suspect was in the country here for at least four days, possibly more than a week. He seemed to have entered from Burgas airport. But there are things they were following up and they felt where very sensitive. They didn't want to let the public know just yet.

But clearly with this name now becoming public, they maybe willing to give us more details.

MALVEAUX: Sure. The guy in the video that we saw there, what part of the airport was he in? Was he in a secure part of the airport? Do we know?

SHUBERT: Well, one of the interesting things about this is that he seems to have been in the terminal but not necessarily before you get to security. So his bags would not have been screened. And in fact, in the video, he looks very normal and that is what is eerie about it, looking up at the arrivals and the departures. And, of course, he actually appears to have detonated the explosive outside in the parking lot, where there was no security at all.

And this is something that Bulgarian authorities are now trying to look at. In fact, the airport is now just opening up behind me. Passengers are being allowed in and randomly checked now, before they even get to the driveway.

MALVEAUX: All right. Atika, thank you very much. Appreciate the details.

Israel is now blaming that bus attack in Bulgaria on Iran.

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BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER: Yesterday's attack in Bulgaria was perpetrated by Hezbollah, Iran's leading terrorist proxy. This attack was part of a global campaign of terror carried out by Iran and Hezbollah. This campaign has reached a dozen countries on five continents. The world's leading powers should make it clear that Iran is the country that stands behind this terror campaign.

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MALVEAUX: Now, a statement from the Iranian embassy says that Iran condemns all terrorist attacks as unacceptable.

I want to bring in Hala Gorani.

And, Hala, first of all, when you listen to Benjamin Netanyahu -- does it sound like he has evidence or has he presented evidence to prove that Iran is, in fact, behind this attack?

HALA GORANI, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR & CORRESPONDENT: Well, we haven't seen if they do have evidence. And the accusation that Iran was behind this attack came extremely quickly yesterday after the bomb itself that so tragically killed five Israeli tourists and the bus driver, by the way.

Now, does this mean -- and this is shining the spotlight once again on the tense relationship between Israel and Iran, and whether or not Israel is basically ready to go to war over this. We heard from the minister of defense in Israel, Ehud Barak, perhaps a little bit more restrained, saying that Israel would do everything, quote, "possible in order to find those responsible and those who dispatched them and punish them."

It doesn't sound like they are marching toward war just yet with Iran specifically over its nuclear program.

MALVEAUX: Now, Iran denies this.

GORANI: Yes.

MALVEAUX: And there is a lot of talk about the shadow war that's happening here. You have a lot of the Iranian nuclear scientists who have been assassinated around the world. They blame Israel. Israel now looks at this bombing and they say Israelis are attacked around the world. They blame Iran.

Is there actually some sort of shadow war that is taking place that both sides deny?

GORANI: Well, it certainly appears as though it is that way, if indeed what leaders from both countries are saying is true, if the nuclear scientists are being targeted because they are helping in some way as perceived by Israel, to develop Iran's nuclear program which many powers including the Western powers are afraid is going to ultimately become a nuclear weapon, then indeed, you see this shadowy, kind of on the ground war between two nations.

What's important though is, and this is for the region as well as for the United States is, is this going to turn into a unilateral Israeli effort to bomb Iran. Hillary Clinton was in Israel a few days ago in what some people call the "don't bomb Iran" tour, you know, don't do it yet.

Western powers don't want Israel to go about it alone. It doesn't appear though that an incident such as this one is going to be some sort of tipping point.

MALVEAUX: All right. Hala, thank you. Appreciate it.

Here's more of what we're working on for this hour NEWSROOM INTERNATIONAL:

He was a first president to hold a cabinet member underwater. Well, now, he's been thrown out in a coup. We're going to speak to the former president of the Maldives.

Plus, you've seen car shows, electronic shows. But a trade show for war? Yes. Think missiles, tanks, machine guns, where military generals, they are buying their weapons.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, it's weird, man. It's like everybody is like courteous (ph) with each other. But at the end of the day, we're like buying weapons to destroy each other.

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MALVEAUX: In China, some families are finding ways to get around the government's one-child policy. It is not without risk.

Stan Grant explains the length s that they'll go through for a precious second child.

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STAN GRANT, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): What? Two children? Yes, this it seems is the new Chinese poster family, but while ordinary Chinese can admire this very modern image, they get the real message.

"What has fairness got to do with it," this father says. "If you have more money, then you can have more children. If you are poor, you have only one child."

Or, you can break the law, just like this man. We can't even reveal his identity for fear of punishment in a country with one-child policy, he has two children.

In this village, it is common. Children are everywhere, some families have as many as four. They found ways to beat the system.

"After we had a second child," he says, "we registered them both as twins." This father tells families have children in different cities or towns. Register them later or even pay up to $1,000 for an illegal broker to fabricate documents. But they live with the fear of being caught and paying big fines.

(on camera): How effective is the one-child policy been? Well, over the past 30 years, it is estimated to have reverted hundreds of millions of births.

Now, there are always some families though who are going to be able to find a loophole or simply cough up the cash to have the precious second child.

ZHANG DONGJUAN, DAUGHTER: I'm very happy and I'm -- as you say -- am the luckiest girl in the world.

GRANT (voice-over): Why? Because Zhang Dongjuan has a big sister. More than 20 years ago, her parents paid a big price to have two kids, not just a big fine.

ZHANG: My father lost his job.

GRANT (on camera): He lost his job?

ZHANG: Yes. And he and my mother also lost her job.

GRANT (voice-over): Yes, the father says, "Once I had two kids, I lost my job. But I'm not scared of that. I don't care. The most important thing is to raise my kids. This is for happiness."

This has been a happy ending. They have a nice home. Dongjuan is studying while her sister works as a banker.

But there is another more brutal side to the policy. This photo of a mother forced into an abortion was released on the Internet. It went right across the world showing her fully formed fetus beside her. How very different from China's image of the new dream family.

Stan Grant, CNN, Beijing.

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MALVEAUX: I want to get to Susan Rice, U.S. representative to the U.N., who is speaking now regarding Syria and other matters. Let's listen in.

SUSAN RICE, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS: To the potential for consequences of noncompliance or to an improvement in the situation on the ground doesn't make any sense. That's in effect what the Russian draft would have done with some additional verbiage, and I think it was clear that as they chose not to put their text to a vote, they didn't have nine votes for the text.

Now, we might be prepared to consider a final brief extension of the mission should that be -- should that be proposed, if it would allow for the monitors and the civilian staff to withdraw safely and orderly, and make it clear that unless and until circumstances dramatically change, that the government suddenly or finally adheres to the obligations under the six-point plan and the conditions change on the ground that it is not viable for the mission to continue.

REPORTER: Thank you. Ambassador Rice, what is the message that the failure of the resolution sends, and what other steps are there? What's the next steps in terms of the consequences other than unilateral sanctions from each country? Is there anything else that the U.N. can do?

RICE: I think, sadly, the message that it sends as I said in the council is that two permanent members are willing to defend Assad and protect him to the bitter end even when it seems logically not to be in their interests. I think that the consequence of today's action is that the situation will continue to deteriorate.

And that the best efforts of Kofi Annan and this council to stem the fighting and to launch a political process have not thus far succeeded.

From the United States' point of view, as I said in the explanation of vote, will continue to support the Syrian people, will continue to support any prospect for a peaceful political transition, will continue to provide humanitarian aid. But we and others will have no choice but to look for partnerships and actions outside of this council to protect the Syrian people.

REPORTER: Ambassador, you mentioned concern about Syria's chemical weapons. How -- in your estimation, how likely is it that he will unleash those on the population?

RICE: We have made it repeatedly clear that any use or transfer of chemical weapons would result in those responsible being held accountable. I think that it's vitally important that there be no ambiguity about the severity of such a step. Indeed, we have said repeatedly that it is the responsibility of the government to secure its stockpiles and we wish to see that is indeed the case.

REPORTER: Ambassador, do the two vetoes mean that the diplomatic efforts to resolve this here at the U.N. are over? And how will history look upon what happened today?

RICE: Well, I think that history will judge those that three times have blocked the council action quite harshly, and this resolution -- and even this third one did not, itself, impose sanctions. It simply said that should the situation persist, that sanctions might be the next step within a short period of time, and it merely took the decisions that this council has already made and put them under chapter 7. It merely took the action planning agreed in Geneva by all of the permanent members and made it more binding under chapter 7.

So, I think that history will judge harshly those who prevented this council repeatedly from assuming even its most basic responsibilities.

REPORTER: Yes, sure. I wanted to ask you, you spoke about Russia and China. But what about the abstentions of Pakistan and South Africa? Specifically South Africa said it was a one-sided resolution because it would only sanction the government and had no option of actually sanctioning the opposition to get them to comply with the six-point plan?

What do you make of that criticism?

RICE: Well, first of all, the resolution was balanced. It did contain obligations for the opposition under chapter 7, as does that Annan plan itself in the action plan, and made clear that as consistent with the Annan plan, that the first step has to be the government which accepted this obligation to halt the use of heavy weapons and to redeploy its forces away from the population centers. That is heart of Anna plan. That is what the council has endorsed.

Sadly, we have not backed up the endorsement with the next steps, which the join special envoy and the secretary-general urged which were consequences for non-compliance.

So, the resolution that's drafted was fully consistent with the six-point plan, with what Kofi Annan and Secretary General Ban Ki-moon had asked of the council and surely at the 11th hour, it wasn't necessary to rewrite the Annan plan. Thank you.

MALVEAUX: You have been listening to the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Susan Rice, condemning China and Russia, both prominent members of the U.N. Security Council, for vetoing what would have led to the eventual threat of sanctions of Syria and Assad's regime, saying that history, they would be judged harshly -- history would judge them harshly. And also saying that they were concerned about the chemical weapons in Syria. They would work with other bodies. We're not exactly sure which international bodies she is talking about to make sure that the chemical weapons were in fact secure.

A lot of frustration, as you can see, a lot of disappointment from the ambassador there and others, part of the world body, trying to hold the Assad regime accountable for the violence that we have seen over the last 17 months.

And our next story -- he was the first president to hold a cabinet meeting underwater. Well, now, he has been thrown out in a coup. We're going to speak to the former president of the Maldives.

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MALVEAUX: Welcome back to NEWSROOM INTERNATIONAL, where we're taking you around the world in 60 minutes.

Over the past few months, the Maldives has been a country in crisis. We're talking bout politically, as well as environmentally. It's a cluster of 1,200 islands in the Indian Ocean. It's near Sri Lanka. Well, it is just a few feet above sea level, which makes it the earth's lowest country.

The Maldives' former president, he is an internationally recognized leader on climate issues. He wants the world to do more, to save the island chain from rising sea waters.

Now, what did he do? He once held a cabinet meeting underwater, right, to highlight the threat of global warning to the Maldives. But in February, Mohamed Nasheed was ousted in what he described was a coup at gunpoint.

He's joining us live via Skype from the capital of the Maldives.

And, you know, it's just amazing to get you there, because you can't get to a camera and you don't have a station that will allow you to do that. First of all, who is in charge in your country right now?

MOHAMED NASHEED, FORMER PRES., REPUBLIC OF MALDIVES: Well, the (INAUDIBLE) dictatorship is back again, and with that and also with more support from the Islamic radicals, the military and the police. They are in control with our vice president, Waheed Hassan

We have had this situation since February 7th, and the people of the Maldives are asking for an election, and to have an election during the course of this year. The more longer it takes without an election, the dictatorship is getting entrenched, and they are in fact obscuring the situation to the extent to where a free and fair election cannot happen.

MALVEAUX: Are you trying -- sure. I'm sorry -- are you trying to get your job back? Do you feel like you are even safe where you are?

NASHEED: Well, you know, actually my presidency is not the issue here. The issue is that the people of the Maldives for the first time in 2008 was able to have a free and fair election, and multi-party election and they were able to choose a president for themselves. They want to be governed by someone that they elect, not someone that is formed through brute force.

So we have to have an election and these elections have to happen quickly. If we don't have it, the dictatorship is getting consolidated and the more and more time lapses by, and an election becomes more and more elusive.

MALVEAUX: Are you worried that the situation in your country is deteriorating and you have what looks like to us is really a very chaotic situation.

NASHEED: Well, it is very rapidly slipping away, and the democracy gains made since 2006, '07, '08, '09 and '10 and '11 -- they are slipping away. The media is under threat. The Islamic radicals are getting more and more powerful. The previous dictatorship is getting entrenched. Human rights abuses are becoming rampant. The economy is doing very, very badly. Tourist arrivals are falling rapidly. The country is going into debt. We are going into a serious situation.

At the same time, we have the people of the Maldives out on the streets everyday and every night calling for the election.

We must have an election as quickly as possible in the Maldives.

MALVEAUX: Now, you caught our attention because recently you left your country to promote a documentary featuring you, because you are trying to save the island from going underwater essentially. That documentary is called "The Island President" and you were making the rounds.

And you even appeared on "The Daily Show." You seem to have a pretty good sense of humor about what was going on. I want to play a clip for our audience here.

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JON STEWART, COMEDIAN: Are you a fugitive now in the Maldives?

NASHEED: The fact that I'm able to be on your show, I hope, would give some security and safety, I'll be seen, and hopefully they wouldn't murder me.

STEWART: That's why you are here today?

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NASHEED: They are trying to do that.

STEWART: You have risked your life to be here. I really should have watched that movie.

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MALVEAUX: So, you do have a pretty good sense of humor about that, about what's taking place. Go ahead, seriously, you know? I mean, how do you plan to try to get the country and the mission back on track, because you have this documentary out there that really calls attention to a very serious problem about your island?

NASHEED: Well, climate change is a serious issue, and it is happening now. We must believe in it. And we must act now. We have to be able to come out with a legally binding agreement that limits carbon emission.

We have the new technology which is available where we can have a more low carbon development strategy. Developing countries can do that. Developed countries can do that and we must all get together and get it sorted.

We can't have cut deals with the law laws of nature, and this is real. And it is happening. The people in this -- on this planet must understand that there are national boundaries to everything. And we must be able to live within it.

MALVEAUX: And did you feel like making the rounds of the "The Daily Show" and the documentary, do you believe it is helping people in your country? Do they feel like people are paying attention to what's going on there?

NASHEED: Well, yes, a vast majority of people are, I'm sure even now watching this. I'd like to say this to them, tomorrow would be Ramadan, and I'd like to say Ramadan (INAUDIBLE) to all of the Maldivians and to all the Muslims around the world. Maldives is probably the first Muslim country before the Arab spring, to come up with a democratic set up or rather Democratic elections.

MALVEAUX: OK.

NASHEED: We were able to do it in 2008. Maldives in many, many ways are very, very similar to what is happening in the Middle East. President Gayoom for instance there used to be in the same university as Mubarak. So there are so many similarities that are going on. I would like to extend my Ramadan greetings to all the Muslims.

MALVEAUX: All right. Well, happy Ramadan to you as well. We appreciate the greetings there, and obviously, please get back to us and let us know what is taking place in your country and whether or not you get your job back or whether or not there are democratic elections that can be restored there and we certainly hope that you are safe as well. Thank you very much. Appreciate your time.

A new symbol of freedom in Egypt. Men with beards before the uprising, you could be pulled over just for having one.

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MALVEAUX: You might notice more men wearing beards in Egypt since the fall of the Mubarak regime. Muslim men around the country are letting their whiskers grow as a symbol of their religion and their newfound freedom.

It's a trend that extends all the way to the presidential palace. Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, he is the first bearded Egyptian president, and Michael Holmes is here to talk about all this hair here.

I -- when I lived in Egypt, there were two different groups, right? So the guys, the young guys, the westernized guys, they didn't have any facial hair. And then you had the more religious conservative who did have the beards. So --

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MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: (Inaudible) across the region, really.

MALVEAUX: What is the significance of this?

HOLMES: Well, for a lot of Muslims, they see the growing of the beard as a symbol, if you like, of religious piety, that's somehow it's linked to showing their religiousness, if you like. It is actually not really written anywhere in Islam, but it is seen that way.

You go to a lot of Muslim countries, you will see a lot of the more traditionalists with the beards. What has changed now in Egypt, though, that makes it interesting is you are now seeing beards popping up in places you didn't before, policemen, flight attendants even the anchors on the TV news.

And you are also seeing on the other side, too, the women starting to wear head scarves if they want to. It is sort of an expression of freedom, if you like, under the new democracy.

MALVEAUX: And why was it President Mubarak, the former president, was not allowing people to express themselves in that way? What was he afraid of? What was he so afraid of?

HOLMES: And that's the interesting part of it, you know, under Mubarak, Egypt was -- secularism was the norm. He was afraid of religion or fervent religion, because he saw it as a threat, because he was so secular himself, he thought that if there was any Islamism growing in his country, it was a threat to the government.

So what did he do? He basically outlawed any sort of -- I don't want to say extremism, but any sort of real outward expression of religious fervor, and so part of that was beards. So he basically, if you wore a beard in Egypt, in any -- well, you could not do it in public service. You would not get the job.

And in public jobs like firemen and policemen and that, banned, couldn't have them; the army, of course, the same.

And so what happened in over a period of decades was people became afraid of beards as well, because it represented the devil that Mubarak and his regime had created Islam to be. Islam was equated with terrorism, they were the devil. And so this sort of atmosphere of fearing the beard came up.

Now, of course, you've got an Islamist in power, it is like, hey, beard time. Yes. But that frightens a lot of people.

MALVEAUX: Yes, I was going to ask is there is a flipside to that where people might think there are more people who are extreme?

HOLMES: Yes, that is the flipside. It's all these people who've grown up through decades of this secularism announcing the beards that are being sprouted is almost threatening, in a way, even if they are not, people are seeing it that way, and that's expressing itself with -- here's a good example. It's becoming a legal issue now.

You've got something like 60-odd policemen who were suspended for growing beards and there's now all of these court cases coming up that this is an expression of freedom, and that they should be allowed to have it. So it has actually gone to the courts now, beards and jobs and are you allowed or not to tell somebody to not have a beard?

MALVEAUX: Got to leave it there. Did you have a beard?

HOLMES: When I was about 18, it was pretty pathetic, I have to say, in my newspaper days.

MALVEAUX: OK. You got to bring that picture in some time.

HOLMES: Oh, God, that would be embarrassing. My hair was longer than yours.

MALVEAUX: Really?

HOLMES: Yes, it was actually. Surfing days.

MALVEAUX: Now you really have to bring it in.

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MALVEAUX: Thank you, Michael. Appreciate it.

Imagine a gathering of the world's military leaders all in one room. It happens in Jordan every two years. It is a weapons trade show. They are all looking to buy and sell missiles, tanks and bombs.

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MALVEAUX: This hour we want to let you hear some music people are listening to around the world. Here is a dance hit with staying power across Europe. Check it out.

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MALVEAUX (voice-over): That's Sweden's Loreen with the hit song "Euphoria;" if it sounds familiar, it is because it won the Eurovision Song Contest in May.

One of the biggest songs in Europe this summer.

A Dutch journalist who's actually in Damascus, Syria, joining us now to talk about the extreme violence that we are now seeing in that city.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) MALVEAUX: So, you are about to see one of the strangest trade shows on Earth. Once every two years, the people who fight wars for a living, they get together, they show off the newest gadgets that only have two purposes, destroying things and killing people. Watch this.

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SHANE SMITH, FOUNDER AND CEO, VICE: This is like a parody. I kind of feel like Austin Powers is going to jump out at some point, because it is like a million Dr. Evils getting their special laser weapons and they're like kids at a candy store.

"For your eyes only" -- I think that's the wrong Bond.

And it is not just arms that you can buy at SOFEX. If you make a big enough purchase, they will train you on just how to use them, too. To this end, they have created a state-of-the-art military training facility where you can learn how to raid a airplane or assault a gas station or not freak out while all around you bodies are burning. And all of this is brought to you courtesy of General Dynamics.

CHARLES REDLINGER, KASOTC: This was a coordinated effort between the U.S. and Jordan. It's about a $200 million facility as it stands right now, all constructed in the effort to basically have a one-stop shop for special operations type training. So you can come and you can work on your urban skills. You can work on your aircraft assault skills, and just the whole gamut.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Who trains on it mostly?

REDLINGER: Well, a number of countries. I won't say exactly which ones.

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MALVEAUX: All right. So the guy that you just saw in that clip, he is Shane Smith. He is the CEO and founder of "VICE;" it's a punk magazine turned into a fascinating online TV project.

So, Shane, I got to ask you, first of all, like how do you get a ticket to something like this in Amman, Jordan, I mean, really?

SMITH: It was hard. But we, you know, we represented ourselves as trade magazine, i.e., they have trade magazines like "Janes," which is a magazine which represents the arms industry. And so we went said we were going to talk about the arms industry. And so we got in. And when we got in, it was pretty shocking what we saw was a lot of American companies. It's sponsored by Jordan. America sponsors Jordan. And lot of American companies selling arms to countries like, you know, Syria, Egypt. You know, we had met some Libyans there. All of which, you know, have used these arms against, you know, their own people.

MALVEAUX: So, how do these guys behave? They're like a whole bunch of generals. They're all pretty much dressed. I noticed how they were dressed there. Do they get along with each other? I mean these -- they're literally purchasing weapons to kill each other?

SMITH: Yes. Actually I met some Marines who were there as part of a, sort of baddest, you know, army on the planet contest that they put on as part of Sofex (ph). And the -- it was, of course, recon Marines then (ph). And the Marine said to me, he goes, you know, I'm kind of a bit messed up here because, you know, everyone's so cordial with each other, they're all shaking each other's hands, they're all hugging each other, but at the end of the day, they're just buying stuff to kill each other with, to blow each other up with. And, you know, it is a very, very bizarre situation, these massive tents in the middle of the desert just selling weapons systems to countries who then just go use them either, you know, against other countries or, in many cases, against their own people.

MALVEAUX: So, Shane, do they have conversations with each other? Are there translators? Do people actually, you know, somehow get along in a way in this very bizarre situation?

SMITH: It's a trade show. It's a trade show like any other trade show. You -- it could be, you know, you can go to a fashion trade show, of which I've been to many. You can go to an electronics trade show. It's a trade show for weapons. It's a trade show for, you know, tanks, airplanes. They have things there called dual purpose, where you can buy a helicopter from one company and then a weapon system with missiles and gatling (ph) guns to add on to it from another. So you can -- you know, so you can get around weapons restrictions. North Korea's done it. You know, Zaire has done it. A number of countries that we're not supposed to sell arms to, they do these dual purpose deals where they can -- where they buy a plane and then they'll buy weapon systems from somebody else.

MALVEAUX: All right, Shane, it's a fascinating report. Your reports from VICE, as always.

SMITH: Thanks.

MALVEAUX: And really just a slice of life that's something you normally you would never see. We're going to have more of your stories as well.

Thanks again, Shane. Appreciate it.

SMITH: Thank you.

MALVEAUX: A Dutch journalist who is actually at Damascus, Syria, he's going to join us next to talk about the kind of extreme violence that we are now seeing in that city.

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MALVEAUX: I want to take a look at what's trending globally right now.

In India, fans and loved ones are mourning the death of Rajesh Khanna. Khanna was a romantic heartthrob in the '60s. the first superstar of Indian film. Well, today, thousands filled the streets of Mumbai to catch one last glimpse of the Bollywood star. A large float carried his body in a glass casket decked in flowers. And celebrities including Amitabh Bachchan, and his son Abhishek Bachchan, were in the crowd surrounded by bodyguards under heavy monsoon rains. Khanna was 69.

Several stories caught our attention today. Photos as well. Take a look at this. A woman carefully walks along a rice field in Nepal. Most farm lands are not irrigated, so they're dependent on monsoon rain during the summer.

Now to the west African country of Mali. A mother holds her malnourished child at a hospital in a town where the government has been taken over by radical Islamists. They are trying to improve their public image after destroying the town's bars and hotels.

And look at this showcase. Sailboats in western France. Today is the last day of a festival featuring thousands of traditional boats.

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MALVEAUX: Welcome back to NEWSROOM INTERNATIONAL, where we take you around the world in 60 minutes.

Rescue crews are searching for survivors of a deadly ferry accident near the island of Zanzibar. That is off Tanzania. The Red Cross says 37 people died when the ferry capsized. Now, rescuers have pulled about 145 people now from the waters. The strong winds, rough seas, they are complicating this rescue. About 290 people were onboard when the ferry sank.

In northern Colombia, a three-year-old missing for an entire day was finally found in a sewer. I want you to watch this incredible rescue. He was playing in a construction zone with his brothers when he disappeared. He is now safe and OK.

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MALVEAUX: Legendary British rocker Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend and the rest of The Who in 2010. That's in Miami. Well, they've now announced a new North American tour kicking off in November. They will perform their rock opera Quadrophenia, which tells the tale of a young boy coming of age. For those who can't wait, documentary on the making of that album will be in theaters for one night only on July 24th. Pretty cool.

Olympic athletes have a few training days left before the games kicking off in London next Friday. But Olympic tourists, maybe they could use some training of their own in British etiquette. Not as simple as you think. Becky Anderson, she's got some tips to surviving the proper streets of London.

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BECKY ANDERSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: There is no better way in the U.K. to start your day than with a good cup -- or good brew or a nice little cup of tea. Now, it is important whether you are in the stadium or out and about in London that you follow the rules. British etiquette dictate that you are polite everywhere you go. Now, I don't take milk in my tea. Have a listen to. I'm sorry, would you mind awfully if I had that without milk?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Of course, madam.

ANDERSON: Thank you.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You're welcome.

ANDERSON: The roads are likely be a absolute nightmare. So buses and cabs are no-no.

Now, you may have heard about something called the London oyster. We do actually farm oysters here on the Themes estry (ph). Those, though, I believe are from the north of England. But when people talk about the oyster here in London, generally they're talking about this. This is a card you're going to need. Now, if you don't have one of these, you could be stuck in one of these. Queuing is an Olympic sport in the U.K. Britains love to stand in line, if only because it gives us an opportunity to, sort of, excuse me, mutter under our breath, yes, that's the back of the queue, mutter under our breath and grumble.

Well, if you can't do the queuing, you don't want to use the tube and it isn't raining, you could use one of these to get around. This is a Boris (ph) bike. Now, they're not -- easy -- oh -- it's not easy to get out. Excuse me. But when you get it out, whoo, it's very high. You can sort the saddle out. Anyway, see ya.

Got to get up. After what has been a long day of eating, drinking, cycling and queuing, British etiquette dictates that if you want that quintessential pint of beer, you're going to have to go to the bar. But let me tell you, when you get it, it is pure gold. Cheers.

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