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Controversy Continues to Plague Trump Campaign; North Korea Launched Two Missiles; Syrian Chemical Attack; Petty Crimes Plague Athletes in Rio; India Sends Food Aid to Workers in Saudi Arabia;; South African Election Examined; Role of Women in Early Catholic Church to be Studied; Murder of Qandeel Baloch Discussed; Latest News from Rio as Olympic Games Near. Aired 2-3a ET

Aired August 03, 2016 - 02:00   ET

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[02:00:48] JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR: This is CNN NEWSROOM live from Los Angeles.

SARA SIDNER, CNN ANCHOR: Ahead this hour, Donald Trump hits back at President Obama for calling him unfit for the Oval Office.

VAUSE: Condemnation from the U.S. and many others after North Korea test fires two more ballistic missiles.

SIDNER: And we'll take you to Brazil where our reporters take part in the Olympic torch relay.

Hello, and welcome to our viewers from around the world. I'm Sara Sidner, in for Isha Sesay.

VAUSE: I'm John Vause. NEWSROOM L.A. the third hour starts now.

SIDNER: A major sign of discord among U.S. Republicans. The party's presidential candidate, Donald Trump, is declining at this point to endorse two prominent lawmakers.

VAUSE: Longtime Senator John McCain and House Speaker Paul Ryan are both up for reelection. They have already endorsed Trump in the name of party unity.

SIDNER: Trump told the "Washington Post" Tuesday that he, quote, "Likes Paul but these are terrible times for our country. We need very strong leadership. We need very, very strong leadership and I'm just not quite there yet. I'm not quite there yet."

Ryan's spokesman says he never sought Trump's support and they are confident of a win.

Now McCain's office has not responded to our request for comment on Trump's latest move. Trump once questioned McCain's war hero status saying he was considered a hero only because he was captured and Trump likes people who were not captured.

VAUSE: U.S. president Barack Obama says Donald Trump is unfit and woefully unprepared for the White House. SIDNER: Mr. Obama didn't mice any words Tuesday, even asking the

Republicans why they're still in Trump's corner.

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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: And the question I think that they have to ask themselves is if you are repeatedly having to say in very strong terms that what he has said is unacceptable, why are you still endorsing him?

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SIDNER: Of course, Trump isn't taking Mr. Obama's criticism lying down.

VAUSE: He says he's being attacked because Barack Obama is afraid he'll win.

Jim Acosta has the details.

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JIM ACOSTA, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Dubbed unfit to be president by the man currently in the White House, Donald Trump punched right back.

DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: He's been one of the worst presidents in the history of our country and for him to be calling me out is almost an honor because he truly doesn't know what he's doing. He's been a very, very weak president.

ACOSTA: Under fire for his very public battle with the parents of a fallen Muslim American soldier, Trump trying to show he still has plenty of military support, introducing a crowd in Virginia to a self- described veteran who offered a medal to the GOP nominee.

TRUMP: A man came up to me and he handed me his Purple Heart. I said, man, that's, like -- that's like big stuff. I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier. But I'll tell you it was such an honor.

ACOSTA: So far in his rallies this week Trump has steered clear of his incendiary comments on the Khan family who scolded him at the Democratic convention. Trump is attempting to change the subject back to Hillary Clinton.

TRUMP: Hillary Clinton will be worse. She has bad relationships with people like Putin. I'll give you an example. She's terrible relationships with Putin. So, you know, she wants to play the tough one. She's not tough.

ACOSTA: But unlike his past incendiary comments, Trump is having trouble outrunning his war of words with the Khan family. Same goes for his VP pick, Mike Pence, who were challenged by a military mother and Clinton supporter to rebuke Trump. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Trump has disrespected our nation's armed forces

and veterans and his disrespect for Mr. Khan and his family is just an example of that.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Will there ever be -- will there ever be a point in time when you're able to look at Trump in the eye and tell him enough is enough?

GOV. MIKE PENCE (R), VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: Hang on a second. Hang on.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You have a son in the military.

PENCE: It's OK.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: How do you tolerate his disrespect?

PENCE: It's all right. It's all right.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Don't politicize the military.

[02:05:02] PENCE: Folks, that's what -- that's what freedom looks like and that's what freedom sounds like. OK.

ACOSTA: Some Republicans have had enough. One New York GOP congressman Richard Hanna wrote an op-ed saying, "While I disagree with her on many issues, I will vote for Mrs. Clinton."

The Trump campaign and the candidate's son Eric have accused the media of blowing the Khan story out of proportion. Eric Trump tried to say his father has apologized even though he hasn't.

ERIC TRUMP, SON OF DONALD TRUMP: I think that's a great question for him, and I think he has by calling them a hero.

ACOSTA: And Eric Trump seemed to stand by his father's comments on how daughter Ivanka would respond to sexual harassment in the workplace. Donald Trump had said she would leave her career or company. Eric Trump suggested strong women somehow don't get sexually harassed.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Does your father stick by what he said?

E. TRUMP: There is no question -- there is no question that obviously it should be addressed and it should be addressed strongly and Ivanka is a strong, you know, powerful woman. She wouldn't allow herself to be, you know, objected, you know, to it.

ACOSTA: So far the latest Trump controversies haven't dampen the energy at his rallies, with supporters seem to be enjoying every moment, even when their candidate jokes about kicking out crying babies.

D. TRUMP: Don't worry about that baby. I love babies. I love babies. I hear that baby crying, I like it. I like it. Actually I was only kidding. You can get the baby out of here.

ACOSTA (on camera): Out of Trump's top surrogates, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said it's inappropriate to criticize the Khan family. And I've spoken to two key Trump supporters who said privately the GOP nominee should apologize to the Khans right away.

Jim Acosta, CNN, Washington.

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VAUSE: Now you saw that veteran there give his Purple Heart to Donald Trump at Jim Acosta's report. Here's what the Gold Star parent, Khizr Khan, had to say about that a little earlier on CNN.

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KHIZR KHAN, FATHER OF FALLEN MUSLIM AMERICAN SOLDIER: That was the most gracious person that came and handed him the Purple Heart. He takes it in his pocket and says, very easy, I always wanted one.

Well, you had your chance. You escaped. You dodged the draft. And now you wanted easy Purple Heart in your pocket. You have pinned it back. Even now. Call that man.

I want his surrogates to call that man. Thank him and put that Purple Heart back on that person's chest.

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VAUSE: U.S. House Democrat and Iraq war veteran Tammy Duckworth tweeted a photo of herself in the hospital with a Purple Heart. She said, "Nothing easy about it." Duckworth lost both legs and partial use of her arm in combat.

The Democrats, not without their own controversy. The CEO of the Democratic National Committee and two other high-level staff has resigned Tuesday over those hacked emails.

SIDNER: Amy Dacey is the highest ranking official in the DNC to step aside. The CFO and communications director are also out. Last week, we all remember this, party chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz stepped down after leaked e-mails appeared to show the committee favored Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders during the presidential primary.

VAUSE: A developing story now from the Korean Peninsula where the U.S. military force, North Korea has fired more ballistic missiles. Let's get right to CNN's Paula Hancocks monitoring the story from Seoul, South Korea.

And we're learning now about how far at least one of these missiles actually travelled.

PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: That's right, John. We're hearing from U.S. Strategic Command. They say that they detected and tracked two missiles. They say they were Rodong intermediate missiles. They believed they at least one exploded soon after liftoff. But then the other one they believe landed in the sea between Korea and Japan. The South Korean military saying it could have gone about 1,000 kilometers, 620 miles.

Now there has been widespread condemnation. South Korea saying that it's -- it is a reckless provocation. Japan as well, Shinzo Abe, the prime minister, came out very quickly and condemned this North Korean launch saying it's a considerable threat for our national security.

Now the second that actually did carry on its flight path does believe to have been -- have landed into the sea, into the exclusive economic zone of Japan. So a body of water that Japan controls, so certainly they are more concerned about this particular launch than previous ones. But once again North Korea showing that it doesn't care about the U.N. resolutions against it banning the use of ballistic technology to have fired once again -- John.

VAUSE: Paula, the one missile traveling 1,000 kilometers, is that much of an advancement or an improvement in the North Korean missile program?

HANCOCKS: Well, this is what the U.S. officials say is presumed to be an intermediate range missile. This is a technology that North Korea has been trying for some time to perfect, is one that the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un clearly wants be to able to perfect and even when they don't succeed, for example the one that exploded, officials say they are learning something from that.

[02:10:01] And the fact that it did fly 1,000 kilometers suggests a certain amount of success, you would imagine. No officials are calling it a success or a failure at this point. But certainly it appears as though this capability over recent has months has improved for North Korea. And this is clearly what the leader has said that he wants to do.

VAUSE: Ten past 3:00 there on a Wednesday afternoon. Paula Hancocks, thank you for joining us.

Following disturbing new developments out of Syria with reports of two chemical attacks in the north. An anti-regime group says a chlorine gas attack has sickened 30 people.

SIDNER: It happened near the site where a Russian helicopter was shot down. Moscow is denying a chemical attack even occurred. And the Syrian government claims that terrorist groups launched a gas attack. Another place that killed five people. That happened they said in Aleppo.

Fred Pleitgen joins us now live with more on this story.

Fred, I want to first get to blame because there are plenty of those who say that the first attack, the attack in Idlib had to be from the regime. Why are they saying that?

FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, the U.S. is saying that they have indications that yes, there were chemicals used in an attack that happened there in Idlib Province, near the town of Saraqeb, which as you pointed out is a place where Russian helicopter was shot down by rebel forces, apparently by rebel forces a couple of days ago and thye say that they're not willing to call it, at this point in time, a chemical attack. They say that only the Syrian government has the capacity to drop any sort of larger weapons there because they have air power and apparently the bombs that had these alleged chemicals on board were dropped from the air.

And so they say there are strong indications that the Assad government is behind what happened there in Saraqeb. Now the Russians, for their part, are flat out saying that this attack never happened. They said there was no chemical attack in Saraqeb. They called this a fabrication by the media in the form of the spokesperson for Russia's president, Dmitry Peskov.

As far as that other attack is concerned, that's the Syrian regime saying that a chemical attack was launched actually inside Aleppo, which of course right now is the major battleground of the Syrian civil war. They say that several civilians were killed in that attack that several others had respiratory problems after that. Unclear what sort of chemicals might be used. So you're absolutely right. There's a blame game going back and forth right now. The U.S. weighing in saying that I has some indications that the Assad regime is behind it but there still is a lot of confusion, a lot of uncertainty. What exactly happened. What chemicals may have been used and what sort of effects all this might have had.

SIDNER: Right, and for anyone who's been following what has been going and the devastation of that country, it could really be either side in either of these attacks, except for the fact that if it came from the sky, the rebels don't have sky power, so, you know, that's one thing to keep in mind.

I want to ask you about the number of people affected. We were just seeing pictures there from Idlib. Is there any indication of just how many people have actually been affected by what is believed to be chlorine gas?

PLEITGEN: Well, the doctors on the ground who spoke to CNN said that it was around 30 people who were affected by this, who were brought into hospitals there with respiratory issues and the reports that we got from a doctor who was there on the ground saying that he treated patients who had what he believed looked like something that people would have had, who would have been subjected to chlorine gas.

They were talking about watery eyes, they were talking about respiratory problems. Coughing, things like this. So there do seem to be a large number of people who were affected by this and at the same time of course we have to keep in mind that Idlib is also one of the main battle ground places inside Syria. It's a stronghold of the Syrian opposition, also some Islamist groups at well.

It is that place where that Russian helicopter was downed only a couple of days ago. So it certainly is a place that the Syrian government and its backers in the form of Russia and Iran believe is very important to fuelling the opposition effort to try and get back into Aleppo and relieve some of the -- the suffering that's going on there or the problems that are going on there for opposition forces that of course right now are encircled in that city.

SIDNER: And, Fred, you've been to Syria plenty of times. You've been covering this conflict since the very beginning. Thank you so much for that report.

VAUSE: Still breaking, when we come back, Russian Olympic athletes anxiously waiting to find out if they would be allowed to compete at the games in Rio. They open on Friday.

SIDNER: Plus, daily violence and children left without medical care. More on the damming allegations against Australia over its treatment of refugees.

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[02:18:43] VAUSE: We're seeing a lot of that for the next couple of weeks. In Rio de Janeiro, members of the International Olympic Committee have rejected a ban on the entire Russian team over a doping scandal. Still some Russian athletes may not find out if they can compete at the games until as late as Friday.

SIDNER: That's the same day as the opening ceremony, as Matthew Chance reports the head of the IOC pleaded with Olympic Committee leaders to avoid penalizing all the Russian athletes. What he called the nuclear option.

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MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The Russian team mired in doping allegations, was greeted by cheering fans in Rio. These welcome celebrations now seem premature. With that in mind, the head of the Russian Olympic Committee made this last ditch appeal to the games' organizers.

ALEXANDER ZHUKOV, RUSSIAN OLYMPIC PRESIDENT: I urge you to respect the IOC amendments. To resist this unprecedented pressure, which is now on the entire Olympic moment. And not to allow this pressure to split the global Olympic family. The threat of this is greater than ever but I believe that you will make objective decisions that will first and foremost protect the rights of clean athletes and honest athletes.

CHANCE: But it's the issue of what is a clean athlete that is at the heart of this Russian doping scandal.

[02:20:06] The allegation is that Russia ran a state-sponsored doping program centered at this lab in Moscow, swapping urine samples and shielding athletes from positive tests.

CNN was allowed in as Russia tried to convince the world it was serious about reform. But amid growing pressure, the International Olympic Committee stepped back, handing the decision to individual sports federations, angering critics still baying for a total ban.

THOMAS BACH, INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE PRESIDENT: This blanket ban has -- of the Russian Olympic Committee, has been called by some the nuclear option. And the innocent athletes would have to be considered as collateral damage. The result is death and devastation. This is not what the Olympic movement stands for.

CHANCE: Matthew Chance, CNN, Moscow.

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VAUSE: Well, let's bring in CNN World Sports Christina MacFarlane, live this hour in Rio.

It is late there but thank you for staying with us. So, Christine, let's start off with some of the more bizarre events that have happened there this week, in particular the vomit game if you like. The Chinese hurdler who was vomited on, and then robbed.

CHRISTINA MACFARLANE, CNN WORLD SPORTS: Yes. That's absolutely right, John. You heard that right. It's one of the more bizarre and extreme stories. But we all know that in Rio petty crime is a big issue here. In this case just underlines just how difficult and how bad it is. And a couple of days ago, a Chinese hurdler, Shi Dongpeng, arrived in Rio alongside his journalist friend and they were checking into their hotel when he was approached by a drunk man who vomited on him.

Now he ran to the bathroom to try and clean himself up, while his journalist friend ran after that man who had vomited on them. When they both came back the hotel, they both have been robbed. Their bags had been taken from the hotel and it just goes to indicate as I say the difficulty with petty crime and with theft here in Rio. We see many military out on the streets, even here on the Copacabana there are even tanks here.

But, you know, the military and the police, some 85,000 of them, have been called into these games are here in the event of a terrorist attack, in the event of a bomb. But it's the petty crime that's been slipping through the cracks.

SIDNER: Well, the Australian team chief, Kitty Chiller, has something to say. She said that when you've got 15,000 beds, there are a lot of people walking around the village. She's had another issue, says, "I'm not accusing anybody but there are a lot of non- accredited workers, cleaners, housekeepers, maintenance workers still walking around them. Unfortunately in an area of that size and number of buildings and rooms that there is going to be theft and that's going to inevitable."

She had some things stolen after, as I understand, there was a fire, right?

VAUSE: Yes.

SIDNER: She left her room and comes back -- VAUSE: The contents are missing. Yes.

SIDNER: And a bunch of stuff is missing.

MACFARLANE: Yes, that's right, Sara. I mean., the Australian team have been hit by a raft of problems. But you have to remember that, you know, the criminal aspects of this petty crime is not just in the athlete's village, it's all across Rio. And it doesn't matter if you're an athlete, a journalist, a tourist, arriving here in Rio. We've all been briefed in the same countless times. That is, keep your valuables safe, don't wave your phone around on the street, don't wave money around on the street because you will be taken advantage of.

And even just this evening, I have to mention, just a couple of hours ago two men were arrested just one block away from our live position after they were caught stealing. So, you know, you have to be vigilant at every time and everyone here, you know, we've been warned countless times since we've arrived. I've been here a week now. And, you know, you can't underestimate just the lengths that these thieves will go to, to get one over.

VAUSE: Yes. There's also a New Zealand athlete I think he was competing in jujitsu or something, he was taken at gunpoint to an ATM, forced to withdraw money. That's happened to a few athletes and visitors as well. So yes, it's dangerous. People have to be careful but also I guess have some fun.

Christina, thanks for being with us.

SIDNER: Human rights groups are blasting Australia for its treatment of refugees. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch say hundreds of men, women and children face dire conditions on the islanded of Nauru.

VAUSE: The groups say the refugees are victims of abuse and neglect. They say many are denied health care and suffer overwhelming despair. The groups alleged that Australia is deliberately ignoring the situation to deter asylum seekers .

Australian officials say they were not contacted about the allegations and strongly deny many of them. The private company responsible for many aspects of refugee care also says it was not given an opportunity to respond to the allegations.

SIDNER: India's Minister of State and Foreign Affairs will be in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday to help Indian migrants stranded there after they lost their jobs.

[02:25:07] VAUSE: As John Defterios explains, India is already rushing aid to its citizens in the kingdom.

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JOHN DEFTERIOS, EMERGING MARKETS EDITOR (voice-over): Thousands of laborers from India left in limbo. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No salary, no food, no money.

DEFTERIOS: They're stranded in Saudi Arabia after the plunging oil prices sparked massive layoffs there. According to the Indian government some 7700 Indian workers are stuck in 20 different camps across the kingdom.

A CNN camera crew visited the Saudi Oger camp in Jeddah. It was shut down months ago with no warning to workers. Now there's no water, no power and nowhere to go.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: There's no water?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No water.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: No electricity?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No. No.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: How many month?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Seven.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Seven months.

DEFTERIOS: These construction workers tell CNN they haven't been paid for up to seven months and over the past week food rations are drying up. India's counsel general based in Jeddah calls it a desperate situation.

MOHAMMED NOOR RAHMAN SHEIKH, INDIAN CONSUL GENERAL: The condition is not -- it's not good. I mean, this is what you can convey to the authorities here. I mean, it's just not about food, I mean, it's about the livability of the camps as well.

DEFTERIOS: The Indian community has rallied to deliver food to the workers, hoping that will last until the Indian government can obtain exit visas. But it's complicated. Nearly all of these workers have handed over their passports to the companies they work for. So trying to get them back is very difficult.

Another issue the Indian government is trying to obtain back pay for thousands of their workers. They're sending a top diplomat to Jeddah to lobby that cause.

With an estimated three million Indian expats on the ground in Saudi Arabia, it could get much worse if oil continues to hover around $40 a barrel, which would likely lead to further cuts from the Saudi government and in turn cuts for contractors as well.

John Defterios, CNN, Abu Dhabi.

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[02:30:18] SIDNER: You are watching CNN Newsroom live from Los Angeles. I'm Sara Sidner.

VAUSE: Great to have you with us, I'm John Vause. Let's check the headlines this hour. The U.S. says North Korea fires two ballistics missiles. One exploded on launch and the other one flew about a thousand kilometers and landed in the Sea of Japan. Two weeks ago, the North fired three ballistic missiles off the Eastern Coast.

SIDNER: Officials in Syria reports two chemical gas attack that's it taken dozens of people opposition activists blamed the government for one attack in Idlib Province. Some of those suspected of containing chlorine were dropped in residential areas. The government says a chemical attack in Aleppo is the work of terrorists groups.

VAUSE: Final decisions could come as late as Friday on which Russian athletes will be allowed to compete in the Rio games. Still members of the international Olympic committee have rejected a blanket ban against the entire Russian team. The IOC presidents argued against the total ban saying that would have been the nuclear option.

SIDNER: Donald Trump facing more backlash and this time on another controversial comment that he's made while discussing sexual harassment allegations against former Fox CEO Roger Ailes. What the USA Today newspaper Trump was asked, what if his daughter Ivanka was subjected to the same kind of treatment.

VAUSE: OK so this is what Donald Trump said, "I would like to think she would find another career or find another company if that was the case." And like father like son, here's Eric Trump.

ERIC TRUMP: Frankly he's saying is, you know, Ivanka is a strong, you know, powerful woman. She wouldn't allow herself to be subjected to be, you know, objected. You know to wait and by the way you should certainly take it up with human resources and I think if she definitely would as a strong person. At the same time I don't think she would allow herself to be subjected to that and I think that's a point he was making and I think he did so well.

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VAUSE: Well, joining us now Victims' Rights Attorney and Legal Analyst for AWO.com Lisa Bloom. It's so close. It just had to stop, like halfway through that sentence. Didn't have to add that last bit, right?

LISA BLOOM, VICTIMS' RIGHTS ATTORNEY: Yeah, I don't think it was all that close actually.

VAUSE: OK.

BLOOM: I think you were right, like father, like son. So Donald Trump answer women who were actually harassed she just find another company or career. Wrong answer, it's not the 19th century anymore. You don't have to choose between your dignity and your job. You get to have both. You got to stay complain and the perpetrator is the one who can find another job or career. And it's not true of course as Eric Trump says that strong women don't allow themselves to be sexually harassed. I'm sexual harassment attorney. I have been sexually harassed. I'm a very strong woman with a very big mouth. It happened to all of us and, you know, whether you're strong, weak, my clients are grandmothers, teenagers everybody in between. I mean that really misses the whole point.

VAUSE: Right.

SIDNER: I have to ask you does this speak to a larger issue on how people see sexual harassment and framed it? Even now, we also hear women talking about sexual harassment in similar ways where it sort of blamed the victim and the whole thing ...

BLOOM: Yeah.

SIDNER: ... or blamed the person who's making the accusations.

BLOOM: Yes, Sara, I think that's a very insightful point. You know, we all like to think it couldn't happen to us and if it happened to somebody it must be her fault.

VAUSE: You touched on the issue of, you know, being a strong woman does not necessarily make you immune to sexual harassment. Gretchen Carlson who brought the sexual harassment lawsuit against her boss, Roger Ailes tweeted this and in response to Eric Trump. "Sad in 2016 we're still victim blaming women. Trust me I'm strong."

BLOOM: Yes.

VAUSE: Megyn Kelly who was still at Fox News while (inaudible) is she simply tweeted this out "sigh."

BLOOM: And that's probably all that Megyn Kelly can say right now. And think about that what a strong woman Megyn Kelly is. Gretchen Carlson, can you imagine standing up to Roger Ailes probably the single most powerful person in American media and after she was terminated then she got an attorney and stood up to him and initially faced such a backlash ultimately other women supported her and now he's out but the first one to stand up that's always the bravest person. So I really salute Gretchen Carlson.

SIDNER: You know Donald Trump has brought this issue back into the national conversation. We weren't talking about this to be honest that much since all the things that have happened in the DNC and you know the RNC and all the conventions.

Does this sort of give you an idea of where he stands and will it hurt him with women? He's already not polling very well with women in general.

BLOOM: Right, sometimes I wonder if Donald Trump realizes that women have the right to vote and that we will -- we are going to vote. At these issues are important to us. So there's a huge gender gap right now where women overwhelmingly are supporting Hillary Clinton. Donald Trump obviously wants those voters and yet he's called women, you know, let's remember the contexts, "dogs, pigs, fat slobs ".

[02:35:04] He makes fun of women that you know Heidi Cruz's appearance, Carly Fiorina appearance so I mean this long string of sexist comments. He's been sued for sexual harassment. He's been accused of sexual assault even by his first wife Ivana Trump at by a new accuser. So I mean and this just goes on and on and that's the context. He's completely tone-deaf when it comes to women.

VAUSE: Lisa, thanks so much.

BLOOM: Thank you.

SIDNER: People in South Africa are headed to the polls in local elections at this hour.

VAUSE: Corruption and the economy had two issues on the minds of voters as they cast their ballots. These elections are expected to be a test to support for the ruling African National Congress.

SIDNER: CNN's David McKenzie joins us now more from a polling station there in Soweto, South Africa. Give us some sense of what you're seeing as far as turnout but also what people are saying about the issues. The ANC, you know, it would be a very, very, very big deal if the ANC lost the elections, correct? Even if there just local elections.

DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, that's right. And, you know, in the past South African's motives news at the elections -- the local election but there's a sense of excitement here Sara about the municipal elections because of that tight races between opposition parties and the ruling ANC.

But I'm joined here by a guest who's been voting this morning. You came here. You told me you've been voting since the first Democratic election. Is it exciting to come to the polls every time?

NOMBUYISELO NHLAPO, VOTER: Yeah, it is exciting, David because of the long deprived of this privilege. Yeah, it's actually not a privilege that right.

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NHLAPO: It's quite interesting to be here since in section of Democracy. And I'm here today again to do my -- to do the usual just to improve our living.

MCKENZIE: What are some of the issues that people are worried about? What are you worried about in South Africa?

NHLAPO: I think South Africa is very, very beautiful country. We're all comfortable. However, they are formed (inaudible) because it will never be a bed of roses, even the roses themselves have thorns. And the thorn issues are that delivering is common every in all provinces, and we see in all regions.

MCKENZIE: And service delivery as even led to protests in South Africa. But are you surprised that some of the opposition parties are coming even campaigning in places like Soweto?

NHLAPO: I'm not surprised because we're in a Democratic society. So everybody has his right to do whatever, just keeping that correct rights if I may say. It is not a surprise. It's to happen.

MCKENZIE: When you think back to the early '90s and the worry South Africa had about ascending into conflict and you think about just the elections have almost become routine but for someone who lived through apartheid, elections are never routine in South Africa.

NHLAPO: No, no, it's not routine, per se and just said it's a right. We need to vote so that you maybe able to echo our voices to who ever that is in-charge of the country because if you come from both or to vote you are able to talk. It's a sort of a communication, David. Yeah, because we cannot reach the top hierarchy. So even at local level to say, David, catch a weight that's why I come in. Yeah, so, that's it.

MCKENZIE: Well, thank you so much for your time and for voting today. And you know those issues are out there for many South Africans who understood they think Sara is that many of the youth didn't register to vote in this election.

And so the worry is, is there passion for democracy in South Africa that many South Africans have of course because of the troubled history here? Has it translated to the next generation and certainly we'll be watching those results closely to see whether those opposition parties do give serious fight to the ruling and see which has been the Liberation Party of course and is potentially facing, at the very least, very tight threat -- tight races in some major centers. Sara, John.

SIDNER: All right, thank you so much, David McKenzie there live for us from a polling station in Soweto, South Africa.

[02:40:27] VAUSE: It could be a long day there for David as they come into vote and he'll have all the results a bit later on. So please stay with us. In the meantime, we'll take a short break. When we get back, a Pakistani man is mourning the loss of his daughter and reeling after his son confess to her murder that story just ahead.

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SIDNER: Pope Francis is or the Vatican to study the historical role of women in the early church. He appointed a 12 member panel to examine the time when females served as deacons, who are ordained ministers although not priests. It's something many women have been asking the church to address for years now.

VAUSE: Vatican officials say the Pope made the decision after intense prayer and mature reflection. But the Pope says creating the commission was not necessarily opening the door to female deacons.

Well, apparent so, I'd lay you back to Anton Yelchin are suing the makers of his Jeep Cherokee allegedly for his wrongful death. Yelchin played Pavel Chekov in the Star Trek Reboot. He was killed after his car rolled unexpectedly in his driveway pinning him to a gate.

SIDNER: The suit alleges that Fiat Chrysler are to take action even though it knew the car had a defective electronic transmission shift. Nelson's parents say they want to prevent similar tragedies.

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VICTOR YELCHIN, ANTON YELCHIN'S FATHER: It is wrong. It's against nature when the parents buried its own child. That's why the hope that this lawsuit will make our family never go through this same hell we are going right now.

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SIDNER: The family lawyer says Fiat Chrysler mail the Yelchin a letter just seven days after his death saying that his car was defective.

VAUSE: Social media star Qandeel Baloch was drugged and strangled to death and her brother has confessed to doing it. Now, Baloch loved ones now left to deal with their loss.

SIDNER: Her father has told CNN he wants revenge against his own son. Kristie Lu Stout has the story.

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MUHAMMAD AZEEM, FATHER OF QANDEEL BALOCH (Through Translator): There was no one like Qandeel. It was unjust. Why did he kill my daughter?

[02:45:06] KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: On July 15th, Muhammad Azeem woke up to a nightmare.

AZEEM (Through Translator): It was 7:00 a.m. and my wife went upstairs to get tea. She said Waseem my son was not there. My wife went into my daughter's room and started shouting, Qandeel, Qandeel my son scarf was covering her face. My wife pulled the scarf back and saw Qandeel was dead.

LU STOUT: Qandeel below to was drugged and strangled. Her brother Waseem confess to the crime he said he was proud of what he did because girls are born to stay at home. A cousin has also been arrested in connection to the murder. Below to wasn't out spoken social media star. The photos and videos she posted on Instagram and Facebook pushed boundaries in conservative Pakistan. Posts that her father says drew criticism from members of their tribe.

AZEEM (Through Translator): The people said she should not do such things. We have alert (ph) people was seen her post on the mobile phones and ask Waseem, is that your sister?

LU STOUT: Azeem said he know Waseem was angry because she wouldn't speak to Qandeel when she visited the family home. But he can't understand the brutal killing.

AZEEM (Through Translator): If he killed her in the name of honor, did he see her do anything wrong to anyone? What was her crime? LU STOUT: At least 297 women have been victims of so called honor killing in Pakistan this year. Activists worry the actual number could be much higher because many cases go unreported. Many suspects never go to trial because Pakistani law allows victims' families to forgive perpetrators and avoid prosecution. The state has become the complainant, in the case against Waseem Baloch that means it's up to a court to decide his punishment, even if his family forgives him. But his father says that is not happening.

AZEEM (Through Translator): I shall not forgive this, it's my desire to take revenge.

LU STOUT: Azeem worries a Pakistan's judicial system might let his son off.

AZEEM (Through Translator): I appeal to the state make me the complainant. Qandeel was my beloved daughter she was part of my heart. I'll be in so much pain if the state or the judge pardons Waseem.

LU STOUT: He said restoring him as a complaint it will ensure was in pays for his crimes.

AZEEM (Through Translator): There should be God's wrath on him.

LU STOUT: Qandeel Baloch described herself as a modern days feminist, Muhammad Azeem remembers her as his beloved daughter who took care of the whole family.

AZEEM (Through Translator): She was the bread winner. She took care of us. I promise god that whenever I think about her, there will be tears in my eyes.

LU STOUT: A heart broken father struggling to come to terms with a most devastating loss.

Kristie Lu Stout:, CNN.

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VAUSE: Well, an unruly passenger has no match for an American airlines pilot.

SIDNER: According report documents the drunk passenger refused to sit down and even threatened to break a flight attendant's jaw. That's is when the pilot stepped in.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sit down. Enough. You don't put your hands on my flight attendant. Enough.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yeah.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you hear me?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yep. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You stay right there. You stay right there.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I am. Completely real I had and whatever you do is going on Facebook and you're a (inaudible) complete (inaudible) loser. Yeah.

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SIDNER: That pilot wasn't having it. American Airlines release statement saying law enforcement was requested to meet the flight when it arrive short North Carolina do to that disruptive.

VAUSE: Because the plane flight (ph) not -- OK, coming up next here on CNN Newsroom L.A we head to Brazil with behind to see the look it was really like to run with the Olympic torch. Stay with us.

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[02:51:07] AMARA WALKER, CNN ANCHOR: Hello everyone. I'm Amara Walker and this is your Aiming for Gold update. Rio's Mayor has declared Thursday a city wide holiday. He said it's a day of celebration though with the Olympic torch relay, it's also a day of logistical challenges. The holiday is aimed at easing some of these challenges and the strange on the city's motorways.

Amid the fan fairs some athletes still don't know if they will be competing. Swimming's world governing body, FINA announced that two Russian swimmers will be allowed to compete in Rio, this after winning their appeal on a widespread doping ban playing the country. The international Olympic committee has until Friday to make final decisions on who will be allowed to compete.

And spectators in Rio are participating in a sport of their own Olympic penetrating. It's already well underway outside the Olympic Park. Visitors from around the globe trade pins from different Olympics, individual sports and rare athlete pins in a tradition that spans decades.

And the pins aren't your thing, how about Lego's. The world's largest toy maker has develop a huge model of Rio top celebrate the game. It's the largest ever made for Latin America and took 50 Lego builders some 2,500 hours to create the ministers city's made up of the only 1 million Lego blocks.

That's your aiming for gold update. I'm Amara Walker.

SIDNER: The Olympic torch arrives back in Rio just hours from now. Protester though clashed with police on Tuesday across the bay from Rio. This was just one of the demonstrations that forced a change to the relay route.

VAUSE: Protesters are angry that Brazil is spending billions of dollars on the games while it continues to struggle to pay teachers and allied government workers. But the move pass on Tuesday as the torch passed through San Paolo. SIDNER: CNN Arwa Damon and Shasta Darlington experience that party like atmosphere recently when they have a chance to run with the torch. Take a look.

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SHASTA DARLINGTON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: We're setting up for our first live shot. This is where the torch relay on the city of Curitiba is going to begin. It's lot of people participating including myself and Arwa Damon.

ARWA DAMON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: This has been an Olympic preparation process that has been fraught with all sorts of problems and issues. And there are small protests against the government and against one of the sponsors may sound but despite that, you do see the crowds have come out and it's really kind of the first time that at least I have been able to witness the sort festive spirit one would expect.

[02:55:04] DARLINGTON: Was absolutely amazing 200 meters goes by like a flash. And it was really great talking to the people on the bus o the way here, the great stories they have about why they're participating. People who worked with kids and their favelas. People who really over come a lot to be here.

DAMON: We're all waiting around right now to get the torch that we fun get to keep as a souvenir and as Shasta was saying we were on a bus with some very amazing people, individual who are truly inspirational some of them and the work that they're trying to do to help others. And hey, we just got to run with the Olympic torch in Brazil. I mean that's a pretty special life moment.

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SIDNER: See, it's not all bad news. People are going to ...

VAUSE: Did you see Arwa Damon was happy?

SIDNER: She was happy.

VAUSE: Oh my gosh. I don't think. It's been a very long time.

SIDNER: She covers difficult stories, so.

VAUSE: Yeah, that's good.

SIDNER: All right Olympic uniforms are a point of pride for nation often featuring patriotic symbols and colors.

VAUSE: This year's team, USA outfit seem to get all the right notes as red, white, and blue of the American flag but take a closer look these are now the flag games.

SIDNER: Critics on of course ...

VAUSE: Oh, yes look at that? SIDNER: Social media quickly pointed out how the Russian flag appears to peek out under the blazers.

VAUSE: Peek outs...

SIDNER: What?

VAUSE: Punches you in the face. Designer Ralph Lauren also caused uproar back in 2012. Seem that those teams USA outfits were made in China, oops.

You are watching CNN Newsroom live from Los Angeles. I'm John Vause.

SIDNER: And I'm Sara Sidner. The news continues with Rosemary Church. Good night.

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