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Chinese River Boat Accident Detailed; Iraqi PM Asks for More Help Fighting ISIS; Bruce Jenner's New Identity; Gaza Still Recovering from Latest Battle with Israel; FIFA Scandal Spreads
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ROBYN CURNOW, HOST: Hello there and welcome to the International Desk, I'm Robyn Curnow, at the CNN Centre.
Rescuers are racing to get to hundreds of elderly people trapped inside a sunken passenger ship in China's Yangtze River. Now the situation is truly
desperate and it's our top story here today at the International Desk.
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The Eastern Star capsized late Monday in stormy weather with nearly 460 people on board. Just 15 people have been found alive.
Well our David McKenzie now joins me live from Jian-li County, in Central China.
Hi there Dave, I hope you can hear me. Give us a sense of how big this rescue operation is and also crucially the challenges they are still facing
rescuers as they try and find survivors.
DAVID McKENZIE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well Robyn certainly it's a very large rescue operation and in fact I don't know if you can hear it
there's a lot of (inaudible) coming back and forth there, trucks and other military assets coming into the region.
It is nighttime of course now and so that hampers the rescue but there's also been many hours of rain here in this part of the Yangtze River which
has really affected the rescue operation. As you say only a few people have been brought out alive and there have been only a few bodies. So that
leaves the terrible prospect that there are still hundreds of people mostly elderly stuck underneath a hole of this pleasure cruise boat which was
sailing for more than a week on the river and it all went horribly wrong around 24 hours ago here in the river they believe because of some kind of
weather revenge, wind they describe it as a tornado, but nothing's confirmed for sure exactly what happened.
Of all those who survived and there are only a few, it was the Captain and the Chief Engineer that got out. They're now in custody as questions are
being asked how exactly this all went down. Robyn?
CURNOW: Thanks, Dave, and I know there's a very long delay about an eight second delay. You are one of the few reporters there on the ground who are
being able to broadcast this to the world so if our viewers could just bear with the technical issues as we get some information from you.
Give us also a sense, when we're talking about delays, why was it so long? Why did it take so long for this tragedy to be alerted?
McKENZIE: Well there seemed to be several hours that went by before the alert went out. Now the early indications were that some people managed to
swim to the shore and then call the authorities. You know this is a relatively remote part of the Yangtze River, not entirely remote but it is
not near the main city centers of this region. But they did get here in their hundreds of thousands in fact to try and rescue but what they really
needed frankly was specialist rescue teams to try to get into the hull. There were people standing on the exposed hull of the ship in the river
trying to get through. It's a very murky fast flowing river and the divers would have had an incredibly difficult time trying to get out any
survivors.
They were tapping on the hull and trying to hear any proof of life. And as I talk to you right now there's all sorts of commotion on of people
bringing gear to try and (inaudible) the search and rescue effort. But at this stage 24 hours after the air pockets that might have existed in that
hull might be rapidly diminishing so we're looking at a very tragic event I believe indeed. Robyn?
CURNOW: (Inaudible) there at the scene. And clearly those images you were mentioning there of one man with a hammer tapping on the hull desperately
trying to hear if there are survivors just underscoring how complicated this rescue is. And also of course remembering that there are nearly 460
people still trapped inside there. Thanks a lot David McKenzie for your reporting.
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Well we want to bring you more news on an update on some news out of Nigeria.
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Reuters is reporting that a bomb has exploded at a market in Nigeria killing as many as 50 people. The news agency says the blast happened in
the North Eastern City of Maiduguri. We'll bring you more on that story as soon as we get it.
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The Iraqi Prime Minister is asking for more help from international allies in the fight against ISIS militants.
[10:05:00] Haider al-Albadi spoke in Paris where the global anti-ISIS coalition was holding talks. Now he said that the amount of air support
wasn't enough as ISIS is very mobile and moves in small groups. And he said support for ground operations was also lacking.
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Well let's get more on this from our Nick Paton Walsh, he's in Baghdad. Hi there - hi there Nick. Basically some tough statements here from the Iraqi
leader basically saying the current plan just isn't really working very well.
NICK PATON WALSH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: (I think) to some degree whilst also saying in that same press conference that the plan he
has crafted with his Iraqi colleagues here in Baghdad to liberate the Anbar province from ISIS got the approval of those coalition members he stood
around. So a mixed message to some degree. They all seemed to want to be on the same page but it's quite clear the Iraqi government feel they lack
the right resources. He was clear opening statements that they wanted more air surveillance assisting them in finding the right intelligence so they
could hit ISIS targets here in Iraq. But that whole air strike scenario is very complex. The coalition can't hit anything without a specific Iraqi
official approval for it. That delays it some say some times. ISIS are now using civilian cover rather than moving in large conveys, moving in
less noticeable smaller vehicles. And above all I think we saw notably from Deputy Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, and from Laurent Fabius
there nothing really new. A couple new slogans and at lot of reiteration that they're on the right strategy and sort of picking from Tony Blinken
and that they anticipated progress further in the months ahead. But nothing actually you could hang your hat on in terms of a change of
momentum for what the coalition is doing here.
Yes its clear Iraq may even if the U.S. was willing to give it, which is highly unlikely, except possibly in boots on the ground. They certainly
want more air power. But the key thing I think is Robyn we've seen yet again another conference in a European capital and where the press
statements and discussion with the press nothing from which you feel necessarily extra resources are coming to this fight that might turnaround
against the flow of momentum for ISIS right now Robyn.
CURNOW: And also criticism that sanctions on Iran and Russia have helped ISIS' advance?
WALSH: To some degree but I think the major problem here is not necessarily getting Iran and ISIS - sorry Iran and Russia on the key sides
here in the fight against ISIS. It's really about giving the Iraqi government the tools here they need and more specifically providing the
Sunni tribes the weapons they need to fight ISIS in Anbar. You can make a broader geo-political argument as was done in Paris that yes unless you
have everybody singing off the same sheet and certainly Moscow would like to think that the (inaudible) in their feeling is it's making it harder for
them to back up the Syrian regime which should be part of the coalition against ISIS. But that doesn't really change the equation on the ground
particularly somewhere like Anbar where there are thousands of Sunni tribesmen who basically want to see the adequate weaponry they need to
fight back against ISIS in their own home turf. And that just feeds into the sectarian divide here which really unfortunately seems to be
undermining so much of what is happening here in Iraq against ISIS, Robyn.
CURNOW: Nick Paton Walsh in Baghdad thanks Nick.
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CURNOW: Well Iraq's Air Force has been taking part in the battle against ISIS from the skies.
CNN's Arwa Damon talked to the Air Force Commander about why ISIS is making strides despite the air strikes.
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ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Blocking in on a single vehicle the aircraft fires. In this case a successful strike.
But watch this other video. A direct hit to the front of the vehicle, then two men hiding in the bed of the truck jump out. Iraq's strike
capabilities limited in their strength and its air force being rebuilt effectively from scratch has just around a dozen Russian Sukhoi fighter
jets and a handful of Cessna's to cover multiple frontlines with ISIS that stretch across at least a third of the country.
We were just in the operations room where we were told that so far on this day there have been no air strikes and that is simply because of the
weather. There is yet another sand storm that is blowing through. ISIS does take advantage of that. And ISIS is also fully aware that even with
coalition support there is still very limited air capabilities and so when launching an attack on a significant target ISIS will open multiple fronts
knowing they can't all be covered at once.
The coalition strikes are capable of significant damage, but when it comes to an adaptable entity like ISIS even that can be mitigated says Lt.
General Anwar Hamad, Commander of Iraq's Air Force, referring to ISIS by its Arabic acronym, Da'ish.
Lt. GENERAL ANWAR HAMAD: They've been using some civilian vehicles. They had been hiding, now they are moving, they are hiding themselves, they are
using the new technicals, sometime they are moving without any weapons.
[10:10:13] DAMON: This is imagery from Samarra. Operators watch the aftermath of a strike on a single vehicle. They are coming back, there are
about 20 coming from the other side, one says. The suspected ISIS fighters swarm around. He killed six of them in that strike, they came back to pick
up the bodies. Under surveillance the bodies are loaded and eventually driven off.
Were you watching ISIS advance through Ramadi?
Lt. GENERAL ANWAR HAMAD: Yes.
DAMON: But if you saw them advancing on Ramadi, why was there no strike?
Lt. GENERAL ANWAR HAMAD: We saw them and we strike, we attacked him, and we fight, we killed other high numbers of him.
DAMON: How were they able to come from these open roads into Ramadi? That's what I don't understand.
Lt. GENERAL ANWAR HAMAD: I know in the open believe me, they hiding themselves in the civilian peoples, now they are not moving. I mean
(inaudible) no moving with the convey is many vehicle.
DAMON: It's painfully clear that the air campaign, coalition and Iraqi is barely causing ISIS to falter.
Arwa Damon, CNN, Baghdad.
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CURNOW: Fully Olympic athlete we knew as Bruce Jenner, the transformation is complete and a weight has been lifted.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Bruce always had to tell a lie, he was always living that lie.
CURNOW: Still to come a closer look at the bombshell magazine article detailing Jenner's transition to Caitlyn.
Plus a deadly lion attack at a wildlife park in South Africa after a U.S. woman left her car window down.
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CURNOW: It's the magazine cover everyone's talking about.
Caitlyn Jenner has made her debut in Vanity Fair's July issue. She's the reality T.V. star and Olympic gold medalist formerly known as Bruce Jenner
who's just made the transition from a man to a woman at the age of 65.
Randi Kaye has the story.
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(UNIDENTIFIED MALE): Bruce always had to tell a lie, he was always living that lie.
RANDI KAYE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Caitlyn Jenner talking about her former self, Bruce Jenner. Opening up about her transition during this
two day photo shoot with photographer Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair's July cover.
CAITLYN JENNER: Caitlyn doesn't have any secrets, as soon as the Vanity Fair cover comes out, I'm free.
KAYE: This is the cover Caitlyn is talking about, a very different cover than Bruce Jenner's 1982 Play Girl.
We last saw Bruce back in April when he sat down with ABC's Diane Sawyer, his last interview as a man.
[10:15:06] JENNER: My brain is much more female than it is male. It's hard for people to understand that but that's what my soul is.
KAYE: Bruce had been taking hormones, had his body hair removed, and his trachea shaved. But it was his facial feminization surgery back in March
says Vanity Fair that completed the transition and Caitlyn's new look.
JENNER: I was probably at the games because I was running away from a lot of things. I'm very, very proud of the accomplishment; I don't want to
diminish that accomplishment.
KAYE: That accomplishment landed Bruce Jenner in the history books. He broke the world record in the 1976 Olympics winning the Decathlon at just
26. He was the guy on the Wheaties Box.
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(UNIDENTIFIED MALE): Wheaties is the breakfast of champions.
KAYE: In this extensive 22 page cover story Caitlyn reveals that during speeches given after the Olympics she'd wear a bra and panty hose under her
suit. Caitlyn also shares that she suffered a panic attack the day after that 10 hour facial feminization surgery thinking to herself what did I
just do to myself.
The article also reveals Caitlyn Jenner hosted girls' nights with wine and food where she could dress and feel like a woman and be around women. Even
her daughter Cassandra attended telling Vanity Fair; it felt like they could just be girls together.
To those who think this transition is a stunt for T.V. ratings Caitlyn says, think again.
JENNER: It's not about the fanfare, it's not about people cheering in the stadium, it's not about going down the street and everybody giving you atta
boy Bruce, pat on the back. OK. This is about your life.
KAYE: A life to be lived now as Caitlyn Jenner. She posted this on Twitter; "I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true
self. Welcome to the world Caitlyn, can't wait for you to get to know her, me."
Randy Kaye, CNN, New York.
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CURNOW: Well Jenner's big reveal through Vanity Fair has gone at an extraordinary interest. Our senior media correspondent, Brian Stelter is
with us now. Also joining us from New York is transgender actress, Joslyn DeFreece who stars in the film Carla.
Thanks to you both for joining us here at the iDesk.
Joslyn, I want to start with you. I mean what was the hardest part for you transitioning?
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JOSLYN DEFREECE: Hardest part for me transitioning was definitely to go against the stereotypes, you know. It was - I was very afraid when I came
out and you know it was a very different time ten years ago. This - there's so much more momentum in people like telling you not to be ashamed
and that was probably the thing for me was the internal struggle.
CURNOW: The internal struggle but then you look at Caitlyn Jenner, Bruce Jenner, and how public that's been, Brian Stelter, how important has this
very public transition been and why has it been so much part of it in a way?
BRIAN STELTER, CNN SENIOR MEDIA CORRESPONDENT. I'm really struck by that last answer saying it was a very different world just 10 years ago.
There's been a lot of momentum around understanding of transgender issues. And much more acceptance than we have seen 10 years ago.
Glad yesterday said this is accelerating acceptance, and I thought that was the perfect way to describe it. Because Caitlyn Jenner starts
conversations that some people might be uncomfortable having. If you think about it this way, a lot of people in the United States and around the
world didn't know anyone who was transgender before yesterday, well now they definitely do and now they're seeing Caitlyn Jenner on the front cover
of a magazine. Which like I said does start conversations about the issues.
CURNOW: Start conversations and as you say the transition in 10 years between the time you did this Jocelyn and now, Main Stream media, your
acting in a movie called Carla. We've also seen models like Andreja Peji?, you know being on the front cover of magazines, getting you know makeup
contracts. There really has been a rapid shift hasn't there?
DEFREECE: Absolutely. You know it's such an exciting time and it's such a liberating time to you know to be a part of this like trans movement. So.
CURNOW: And what for you? Why is it so exciting? What does it mean for you and for the community? Give us some tangible examples.
DEFREECE: You know right now there's people like Janet Mock and Laverne Cox people who are really getting the message out there and communicating
to the world and starting the conversations about that this is something that's existed in society always. You know as long as there's been human
beings there has always been gender variance. And people are really coming to understand that and having the conversations which is something that you
know a couple of years ago was not common in you know homes across America or homes across the world. Today people are having these conversations.
And you know although there's some negativity being you know put out, the overwhelming majority of people are putting out very like positive and
loving attitude which I think is just phenomenal.
[10:20:10] STELTER: I've seen the same thing and think about what a megaphone Caitlyn Jenner has now. She's signed up for twitter, Facebook,
instagram yesterday. I just checked she now has 2 million followers on Twitter, more than half a million on Facebook. She's certainly using the
media, using Vanity Fair, using the e-cable channel in order to speak out. But she's also able to use social media to amplify her message and I think
that's very significant.
CURNOW: Brian and I were chatting on email beforehand and you know we were talking about this issue of miss-gendering; there's also been a whole lot
of education that's taking place. I've heard people confused about whether to call Caitlyn she, he, I even heard someone call her it. You know how
does that play into it? And where does this - where does that sort of labeling come in? And is it sensitive or is it not so sensitive, Joslyn,
you.
DEFREECE: I think that it you know I mean god I'm horrified to hear someone said it. But I think that you know recognizing someone by the
pronouns that they identify with you know whether someone appears the way that you know she or he like people might be confused about someone's
gender but it's just going to a person and asking them what do they identify as? And if someone identifies as she then people have to respect
that and say that, you know.
STELTER: It's definitely something the journalists have had to educate themselves on. I've had to educate myself about this. And I think it's
been a good thing overall, there's been a good series of lessons that have been learned. I think we should keep in mind Bruce Jenner, now Caitlyn
Jenner's going through such a public transformation. Typically this would happen in a much more private way. The fact that it is so public means I
think what she's done is created milestones along the way. In the ABC interview that we just saw clips from, she was still identifying as Bruce
and as a man. Now call me Caitlyn on the cover of Vanity Fair is a big milestone.
And the next one might be with ESPN, you know she's going to be accepting a big award on stage next month in front of all of her peers from the sports
world, accepting the Arthur Ash Courage Award at the ESPN awards or called the ESPY. That'll be another milestone along the way I think.
CURNOW: Indeed (inaudible) and absolutely taking all of us along the journey this has been, as I said at the beginning such a public journey.
Back in communities, not just here in the United States, but across the world. Joslyn, how many people are dealing with this and how important is
it that Bruce/Caitlyn's journey has been so public. Just really give me a sense of why this matters to somebody in a small town somewhere.
DEFREECE: Oh, I mean I can really identify with that because I grew up in the middle of America in Omaha Nebraska, and you know I have friends who
are you know 12 years old and dealing with this and they have these icons to look up to. You know whether it's Caitlyn Jenner or it's Laverne Cox,
like there's a varied amount of experiences that are being public and I think it's so important that this is a public conversation that's going on.
You know children in small towns, big cities, you know it's not just you know confined to small towns, you know there's 10 year old kids in Los
Angeles or across the world that you know are having these same questions and these were not conversations that they had a couple of years ago and
now they're having the information brought to them on E, on these very on social media, it is .
CURNOW: Here on CNN .
DEFREECE: . It's blowing up, on CNN, it's blowing up, so it's fantastic.
CURNOW: Joslyn DeFreece, Actress, thank you. Brian Stelter, correspondent, thank you both for this conversation.
DEFREECE: Thank you.
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CURNOW: Well coming up, trying to re-build from the ruins of war. We meet one Gaza man who lost everything in last year's conflict with Israel, and
another man who's just risked everything in his aftermath. Their stories ahead.
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CURNOW: Time is running out for hundreds of people trapped in a sunken ship in China's Yangtze River. The Eastern Star capsized during a storm on
Monday just 15 of the 458 people on board have been found alive.
Rescue workers are battling high winds and rain, more than a thousand police officers are participating in the rescue effort. Most of the
passengers are elderly people on a pleasure cruise, down the Yangtze.
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Now to the Middle East and Gaza which is still struggling to recover after last summer's conflicts between Hamas militants and Israel. Many of the
buildings like the economy itself are still in ruins.
Well our Nick Robertson got a fresh look at the area and talked with two men who are trying to get back on their feet.
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NICK ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Where once mighty houses stood now crumpled concrete, pancake floors, rebar twisted clawing in the
air sprouting like angry graffiti. Tentacles our drone dodges as it reveals the scale of destruction in the wake of the war here last summer.
According to the United Nation's Israel's operation, Protective Edge, responding to rockets fired from here inside Gaza destroyed the homes of
more than 9,000 Palestinian refugees and severely damaged the homes of more than 5,000 others, until now little has been done to repair them.
Behind me the house Nidal Al Arer once owned, untouched since the war ended.
He still visits, a car wheel his make shift cooker, he serves tea from a smoke blackened pot. He wasn't in when the rockets hit.
(UNIDENTIFIED MALE): I tried and tried to get back then when I saw my house I cried for a night. Then I realized no-one was dead, it's only
brick.
ROBERTSON: But as Nidal mourned the loss of his house, across town restaurateur, Abdu Salim was taking one of the biggest gambles of his life
investing everything in a new venture, decided he says even as the bombs were falling.
After months of scavenging for building materials, concrete the most expensive and hardest to find he opened to local acclaim a few weeks ago.
Some people would say that by investing all this money now you're crazy because no-one knows there could be another war.
(UNIDENTIFIED MALE): We are under siege, the only thing we have for fun and entertainment is the restaurant. So I opened, good food, and good
atmosphere, and it's working.
ROBERTSON: Nidal fears if he rebuilds now he'll waste his money. His house overlooks the fence with Israel, a neighborhood that was riddled with
Hamas tunnels.
Today an Israeli surveillance balloon keeps a wary watch fearing more may be dug.
(UNIDENTIFIED MALE): Hamas is here, we want to say let us live. You want to build tunnels, build them outside, not under my home so I can live, and
my home can stay standing. Not so after an hour the Jews can bring down my house.
ROBERTSON: His open criticism of Hamas is rare here. He has little to lose. He feels let down by his leaders.
(UNIDENTIFIED MALE): The solution is to sit with the Arabs and Jews and sign a peace treaty and cease fire so people here can live in peace and
prosperity. We have seen so much pain here, I want everyone to live and enjoy life.
ROBERTSON: At the restaurant, Abdu Salim who has much at stake answers my questions about lasting peace cautiously.
(UNIDENTIFIED MALE): This question is too big for me. I can't solve Gaza's problems. I want to see Gaza open, open to the whole world and
there are no problems, this is the most important thing.
ROBERTSON: In some parts of town a little UN money is now being spent. Demolishing make way for the new re-bar recycled, concrete crushed for re-
use too.
From high above Gaza easy to see far, far more houses standing than were destroyed. But next time, if there is a next time. Nick Robertson, CNN,
Gaza.
[10:30:07] CURNOW: Well you can see much more from Nick's recent trip to Gaza and a closer look at Gaza's history that's on our website, CNN.com.
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CURNOW: And ahead we'll have Israeli view of the rebuilding effort in Gaza. CNN talked with an official from the Israeli agency that oversees
infrastructure in Gaza.
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He looks at what it would take to move things along. That's coming up next, on Connect the World in the next hour.
Still to come here at the International Desk, a safari ride in South Africa turns deadly. We'll look at the dangers of wildlife parks where much of
the safety is left up to the visitor.
JEANNE MOOS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Plus I split my time covering both the silly and the serious. I'm Jeanne Moos reporting live
from the United Nations.
CURNOW: (Inaudible) marks the milestone we'll look back at three and a half decades of our always creative story teller, Jeanne Moos.
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CURNOW: Hello, and welcome to the International Desk, I'm Robyn Curnow, here are the headlines.
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Rescue workers are confronting high winds and rain as they try to rescue hundreds of people from a sunken ship in the Yangtze River. The Eastern
Star capsized during a storm Monday. Just 15 of the 458 people on board have been found alive.
The Iraqi Prime Minister is asking for more help from International allies in the fight against ISIS militants. Haider al-Albadi spoke in Paris where
the global anti-ISIS coalition was holding talks. The insurgents have recently made significant gains in both Syria and Iraq.
A Cairo court has postponed a final ruling on the sentencing of Egypt's former President until June 16th. Mohamed Morsi is waiting to find out if
the death sentence handed to him last month will be upheld after it considers the opinion of the Grand Mufti, Egypt's highest religious
authority.
FIFA is denying reports that its secretary general, Jerome Valcke was involved in a $10 million to disgraced official in the Caribbean. The New
York Times says U.S. Authorities believe Valcke was behind money transfers to accounts controlled by former FIFA VP, Jack Warner, that was just before
South Africa hosted the World Cup. And FIFA says that money came from South Africa's budget intended for football development with the
Government's approval.
World sport, we'll have much more on that story, that's in about 10 minute's time.
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Now in South Africa an investigation is underway into the death of an American woman at a wildlife park.
[10:35:04] She and a male companion was attacked by a lion as they drove through the park just outside Jo'burg, here's Diana Magnay.
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DIANA MAGNAY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: That's a diplomatic plate going into the lion park where a female American tourist was killed earlier
this Monday. She had been on a self-drive with a companion, a male companion, and despite the fact that there are signs throughout this park
which say if you drive yourself, do not drive with the windows down. They, according to witnesses did have the windows down and were taking
photographs when a female lioness approached the car and leapt through the window in the passenger side attacking the woman.
Paramedics were sent to the scene but she passed away before they could save her and her companion was badly injured on his arm because he had
tried to save her.
Now this is a park where lion cubs, when they are smaller are petted by passersby and there have been concerns raised by conservationists that this
is an environment where people forget that a lion is a wild and unpredictable animal.
We asked the lion park whether this incident would mean that they would review their practices.
SCOTT SIMPSON, ASSISTANT OPERATIONS MANAGER, THE LION PARK: You know up till now it has been absolutely adequate and if people follow the rules
it's a flawless system. But unfortunately it's when people don't follow the rules. And as you say we might need to look at it in the future just
if we do need to make changes.
MAGNAY: This is the first instance of a fatality where a lion has leapt through an open window but the park says that it has had various incidents
before when injuries have been caused as a result of windows being open as people drive around the lion enclosures. The latest being just a few
months ago when an Australian man was bitten. He too admitted that he had left his window open.
Diana Magnay, CNN, Johannesburg.
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CURNOW: Now to a close encounter between a U.S. war ship and a number of Russian fighter jets off the coast of Crimea.
The U.S. Navy says it was a routine episode but this is what it looked like.
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One of the Russian jets flew close to the guided missile destroyer USS Ross in the Black Sea. Russian media report the jets forced the ship to change
course. The U.S. Navy says that's not the case and the ship continued its mission as planned.
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And we wanted to bring you an update on some more news just in.
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Reuters is reporting that a bomb has exploded at a market in Nigeria killing as many as 50 people. The News Agency says the blast happened in
the North Eastern city of Maiduguri. We'll bring you more on that story as soon as we have it.
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Well still ahead.
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It was 1980 when an intrepid young reporter named Jeanne Moos came to a start-up TV network. She'll share the highlights of hear nearly 35 years
at CNN.
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CURNOW: Welcome back. Well this is a big week. A big milestone for CNN. We've been on air for 35 years and for most of that time one reporter has
covered the silly, the absurd moments on our network.
Jeanne Moos takes a look back at her 34 and a half years on CNN.
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[10:40:07] MOOS: Amid all the hoopla of CNN celebrating 35 years of itself came this quiz question;
(UNIDENTIFIED MALE): Richard Roth is the longest serving on air personality currently at CNN. Who is second? Yes,
(UNIDENTFIIED MALE): Larry King?
MOOS: Come on, Larry and his suspenders left CNN over four years ago.
(UNIDENTIFIED MALE): (Inaudible) Jeanne Moos.
(UNIDENTIFIED MALE): Correct.
MOOS: Look at you? Look at me. I'm the one who's been at the network 34 and a half years arriving at CNN for my first job in TV in Patsburg, New
York, like my friend here. Those digs would prove pathetic, animals have been a highlight of my CNN years.
(UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE): Have you ever committed adultery?
MOOS: Some reporters pull out all the stops, I pulled out sharp objects at the sword swallowers convention. No, no, no,
(UNIDENTIFIED MALE): You didn't want to but you did a great job.
MOOS: In the early days of CNN, people called us Chicken Noodle Moos. I split my time covering both the silly and the serious.
Well I'm Jeanne Moos reporting living from the United Nations.
I've worn a lot of different hats. Mostly to keep my hair down. The wind just blows it up. One of my hairiest moments was when I mixed up an ex-
President with the then current one. ". sorry President Nixon".
PRESIDENT NIXON: I've been called worse things.
MOOS: I got to pick a lot of my stories, whimsical ones like the life of a traffic one, how they give up theirs to protect ours. And they spend their
lives getting laid over and over. What's the lifespan of a cone?
Over the years I've probably done thousands of MOS, Man on the Street interviews.
(UNIDENTIFIED MALE): You are the world's most famous streetwalker.
MOOS: While other reporters are out risking life and limb, I just risked (inaudible). So thinks like to be (inaudible). Just kidding.
Jeanne Moos, still with CNN.
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CURNOW: Indeed she is, and we're glad she is.
That does it for us, here at the International Desk, I'm Robyn Curnow. Don't go anywhere, world sport with Alex Thomas is up next.
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ALEX THOMAS, HOST: Hello, you're watching CNN World Sport, I'm Alex Thomas in London.
Another day, another development in the scandal surrounding FIFA the besiege governing body of world football.
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In response to a story in Monday's New York Times newspaper FIFA has issued a statement to explain a $10 million payment in 2008. The transfer was
made to accounts controlled by Jack Warner.
At the time he was President of the Federation for Football in Central and North America, and the Caribbean. He was thrown out of the game in 2011
and questioned in relation to the FBI's corruption probe that last week overshadowed FIFA's Presidential Election.
Part of FIFA's statement on Tuesday read "neither the Secretary General Jerome Valcke nor any other member of FIFA's senior management were
involved in the initiation approval and implementation of the above project."
At the same time a letter from South Africa's Football Association President at the time shows Valcke was made aware of the payment before it
was transferred. FIFA says the letter is consistent with its statement.
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But in the last few minutes we just heard they have called a news conference at their Zurich headquarters that will take place in an hour and
a quarter's time. We'll bring you the latest here on CNN.
But it seems clear the blows keep raining down on the beleaguered governing body. Here's what's happened since Sepp Blatter's controversial re-
election for a fifth term as President last Friday.
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A day later New Zealand Barrister Nicholas Davidson quit FIFA's ethics committee. On Sunday, Jack Warner questioned as part of that U.S.
investigation we heard so much about used a satirical news article to claim the World Cup will be held in America this year.
On Monday, Michel D'Hooghe, FIFA's Chief Medical Officer, and the longest serving EXCO member threatens to quit over the current scandal. Heather
Rabbatts does resign from FIFA's anti-discrimination taskforce.
Concacaf's General Secretary, Enrique Sanz, and two Congolese football officials are provisionally banned by FIFA's ethics committee acting on
information from the American authorities.
Brazilian Police say they're investing Ricardo Teixeira, the former head of the country's FA, for money laundering and fraud.
And a judge in Paraguay orders the arrest of former EXCO member Nicolas Leoz. And earlier on Tuesday FIFA laying the blame for that 2008 $10
million payment of (inaudible) finance chief, Julio Grondona who we can't hear from because he died last year.
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Well with Sanz suspended, the acting Concacaf General Secretary is now American Ted Howard.
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TED HOWARD: We are working with the authorities and we're being totally complicit with all that they're requesting.
(UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE): What will be the future of Concacaf from now on after this scandal and after the investigation hopefully finishes?
HOWARD: Things move on. I mean we know that from not just this but others. And Concacaf will just continue and it will get better and better.
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THOMAS: Although the $10 million payment is described as being part of the Diaspora Legacy Program fund the U.S. Department of Justice indictment
describes it as a bribe in return for voting for South Africa as World Cup host.
And earlier OG Molefe sport's editor of eNCA a 24 hour news channel in South Africa told me how the FIFA scandal is being viewed there.
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OG MOLEFE: It does sound very (inaudible) if you listen to the words in which it has been put out. But I don't think we've seen any evidence of
that actually happening in terms of football development and what that money went to. Obviously the FBI states it as something that was paid
towards a bribe you know in sort of thanking Concacaf for voting for South Africa to get the 2010 FIFA World Cup. All of that obviously still having
to be proved as the South African Government are saying they've been waiting on the FBI to actually get in contact with them and get all, you
know the necessary information on their side before they can even go on to actually confirm that.
But obviously at this stage they've flatly denied having paid out any government money to any individuals or any regions with regards to bribing
anyone for the 2010 World Cup to come to South Africa.
THOMAS: Is there a difference between how football fans in South Africa and maybe Africa as a whole are viewing this versus the former football
officials who were involved at the time?
MOLEFE: I think there's a bit of a split view. I mean I've heard people that say they're actually quite happy to have had the World Cup here.
Whether that was acquired in you know illegal manners or that sort of way, they're happy that (inaudible) is the World Cup.
I think we need to understand that for a lot of Africans it's definitely difficult for them to actually maybe move over to another continent to go
and experience a World Cup. So for them having - for the World Cup having come to South Africa, and to Africa, was a great moment for them to
actually be able to say you know have access to some of the world's best players and see them in action.
But then there's another view of course that says you know we do not want to have this blemish what was a great and successful tournament. And if
definitely there was any sort of wrongdoing then the football officials definitely have to be named and if they are found they definitely have to
be prosecuted.
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[10:50:14] THOMAS: The view out of South Africa from an earlier world sports show. As I say this FIFA scandal story developing all the time.
And in the last 15 minutes a news conference call for FIFA Headquarters in just over an hours' time, the latest on CNN, when we get it then.
Now in tennis, Ana Jovanovic has reached the semi-finals of a grand slam tournament for the first time since 2008, the season she won the French
Open.
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And its Roland Garros that is again inspiring the serve to play her best tennis. Jovanovic the seventh seed in the women's singles sweeping aside
Ukraine's Elina Svitolina, winning their quarter-final clash on the Philippe Chatrier court, 6-3, 6-2. Jovanovic will now face Czech 13th
seed, Lucie Safarova in the semi-finals. Safarova, Maria Sharapova's conqueror in the last 16 beating Spain's Garbine Muguruza in straight sets
earlier on Tuesday.
Two of the four men's quarter-finals are also being played today in Paris. The pick of them undoubtedly the all Swiss clash between Roger Federer and
Stan Wawrinka that's 3-2 in Wawrinka's favor in the first set. But you can see that Tsonga is already a set up on Kei Nishikori, Tsonga the only one
of the top eight seeds in the men's singles to get that far. Or the only one who wasn't amongst the top eight men seeds.
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Now we're out to discuss the UAEFA Champions League Final.
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The expectation building ahead of Saturday's battle in Berlin between Barcelona and Juventus.
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THOMAS: Hello, welcome back to the CNN World Sport. We're only four days away from the climax to the European club football season. Which will end
with either Barcelona or Juventus being crowned winners of UEFA's Champions League.
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Both teams looking to complete a treble of trophies having won their respective country's league and cup competitions. But Juve insist they
won't simply park the bus although manager Massimiliano Allegri admits Lio Messi in the Barcelona front line are frightening.
MASSIMILIANO ALLEGRI, JUVENTUS MANAGER: Marking Messi while he moves is a near impossible task. We must be smart in working around him. As well as
stopping Messi, Neymar, Suarez, they have many technical players.
[10:55:09] We must play with courage, there will be difficult moments, and there will be good moments for us. We're not going to Berlin to wait for
them to score or to play the sacrificial victim.
THOMAS: More build up to that massive Champion's League Final all week here on CNN World Sport. And we've got a special half an hour preview show
for you. It's going to kick off three quarters of an hour before the actual kick off in Berlin. That's 8pm local time there in Germany. Amanda
Davis and I taking part. Amanda will take the lead, we've got all you need to know between us.
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Now the Cavs and the Warriors will hit the court for game one of the NBA finals on Thursday. This series featuring arguably the top two players of
the NBA right now, LeBron James and Steph Curry.
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Both players with outstanding records in these play-offs so far you can see their numbers are very close. LeBron has the slight edge in points
this season and rebounds per game. Curry however by far the better shooter, already setting an NBA record for most three pointers in the post
season. Both stars say they will do whatever it takes to lead their team to glory.
LEBRON JAMES: I mean I'll try and do whatever it takes to help our team win. You know it's great to know your team mates appreciate what you do
and I just try to give it all back to them you know the best way I can.
STEPHEN CURRY: When you talk about the moment in the stakes that are - that we're playing for, there's nothing like playing well, you know at this time
of the year. So this is a fun time and you want to be ready for the moment.
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THOMAS: We'll have the latest on those NBA Championship finals of course all starting on Thursday here on CNN World Sport.
I'm Alex Thomas in London, coming up next here on CNN, Connect the World with Becky Anderson, live from Abu Dhabi. Remember that FIFA scandal story
more details to come. It touches everywhere in the world, goodbye.
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