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Migrant Crisis at Channel Tunnel; Syrian Refugees Pay Smugglers to Escape to Europe; Afghanistan Investigating Reports of Death of Taliban Leader; Allegations against Trump; Tom Brady Denies Hiding Deflategate Evidence; Dentist Paid Thousands of Dollars to Kill Lion in Zimbabwe; Eight-Year-Old Boy Gets New Hands; On the Hunt for the "Milwaukee Lion"; Astronaut Dissolves Tablet in Floating Water Bubble. Aired 10-11 ET
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JONATHAN MANN, CNN HOST: Hello there and welcome to the INTERNATIONAL DESK. I'm Jonathan Mann at the CNN Center.
Britain and France are scrambling to respond to a migration crisis that's grown too big to ignore. It's unfolding on the French side of the
Channel tunnel that connects the two countries. In the past two days alone, 3,500 migrants have converged on the French entrance to the tunnel,
tried to force their way into Britain.
A Sudanese man was apparently killed in the chaos Tuesday night. Britain's covert committee held a crisis meeting a short time ago, chaired
by the home secretary Theresa May.
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THERESA MAY, BRITISH HOME SECRETARY: The key thing for us to do is to make sure that we've got that security right to ensure that people are not
coming through and ultimately actually the answer to this problem is to ensure that we are reducing the number of migrants who are trying to come
from Africa across into Europe.
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MANN: Our Phil Black joins us now from CNN London.
Phil, another night of what's being described as a mass push to try to get into and through that tunnel. Some people are saying they're rushing
the tunnel.
What exactly is going on?
PHIL BLACK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, it depends on who you ask, Jonathan, really. Certainly the numbers are big: 2,000 on Monday night,
1,500 last night. According to some people it's been described as a storming of the Euro Tunnel facility there. That comes from the British-
French Transport Association, the body that represents many of the truck drivers that use that Euro Tunnel to transport goods underground between
the two countries.
But the French police in Calais say it is not a wave of migrants that are trying to move on the facility in one go; they described these numbers,
these individual numbers as intrusions or attempted intrusions over the course of the night.
So not quite as dramatic by their assessment, but certainly there has been this big spike in numbers. And perhaps one reason, according to the
British government, is they say that their most recent measures to try and mitigate migrant access to the Euro Tunnel facility could be the cause of
this.
They're building a big new fence around the facility, which they expect to be finished around the end of this week. And they think that a
lot of these migrants are trying to make a push, trying to get access before this new fence is completed -- Jonathan.
MANN: Why would migrants, who have come from as far away as Africa or the Middle East, they've already endured so much and they've gotten so far,
why would they risk their lives just trying to get that much further from France into the U.K.?
BLACK: It's an important question. And I guess there is no doubt based upon their actions that these are people who believe very strongly
that their quality of life, their prospects in life will improve dramatically if they make it to the United Kingdom.
Now if these are individuals that are seeking to get to the U.K. to officially apply for asylum and be recognized as refugees, then, yes, under
those circumstances, they will receive benefits, protections, access to the health system, these sorts of things which they obviously don't have in
their country because, if they are refugees then they are fleeing persecution, war, life-threatening situations and so forth.
But it's also worth noting that many of those same protections would be available to them if they were to apply for asylum in other European
countries, which they could access more easily.
What we heard from the French and British governments, though, is they believe that many of these people are what they describe as "economic
migrants," people who are not fleeing life-threatening situations or war or persecution but simply trying to get to the U.K. because they believe that
their economic prospects, the quality of life in that sense will be better.
But the reality is that, should they get here, these will be people that are living outside the system. They will not have access to any sort
of official government protection. And their lives, as a result, will not be easier.
But why individuals are choosing to try and do this, there are various reasons, perhaps perception, what they've heard about the United Kingdom
and its treatment of migrants, or perhaps cultural connections, perhaps English language strengths and so forth, but a wide range of reasons.
And as we're seeing, it is motivating these people to take this increasingly desperate, drastic and sometimes life-threatening action to
try and get here -- Jonathan.
MANN: Phil Black, live in London, thanks very much.
Well, a lot of those migrants are from West Africa. Many others are fleeing to Europe from Syria, making the dangerous trip across the
Mediterranean if they can find the money for it. In an exclusive report, CNN's Arwa Damon shows us something of the exploitative smuggling trade
many Syrians are forced to turn to.
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ARWA DAMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's the illusion that lies beyond these waters, the illusion of a better life in Europe that
drives many to make the treacherous journey. The vast majority of them Syrian, their country decimated. They, easy prey for the smuggling
vultures.
Earlier this year, we met this Syrian family that doesn't want to be identified. A barrel bomb hit the home next to theirs, coverage them in
dust.
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"We used to hide underground, sometimes for 3-4 days," "Mohammad" says. His children still have nightmares of the dead and shredded bodies.
Twelve-year-old "Abedin" says he wanted to bring his English and math books. His younger sister, her toys.
"Mohammad" sold everything to come up with the $5.5 thousand each the smuggler was charging. It's an industry that has always thrived along
these Turkish shores, with their hidden hard-to-reach coves, now made all the more lucrative.
Facebook pages regularly changing, openly advertise smuggling services, the names of known cafes where smugglers can be found spread by
word of mouth.
We call a number for one of them.
DAMON: (Speaking foreign language).
DAMON (voice-over): The smuggler asks if I would like to travel by plane or boat. The boat would cost me $5,700.
DAMON: (Speaking foreign language)
DAMON (voice-over): He called back later and says I can even fly to Europe from Turkey with a European passport that he can obtain and would
cost me around $10,000.
This man, "Khaled", is another smuggler, who agrees to speak to us as long as we conceal his identity.
The cost varies between Italy or Greece, between $4,000 to $7,000, "Khaled" tells us.
"I put you in a home, I get you your food and drink," he continues.
"I call you to tell you that the trip is happening in an hour and to get ready."
From there, small fishing boats take the migrants out to larger cargo ships waiting in international waters. But in the last six months, the
Turkish coast guard has cracked down along this particular shoreline on the Mediterranean.
Lieutenant Curn Olus Bagbek (ph) shows the ships in the area. The yellow markers, none of them on this day, flat and suspicious. The success
here forcing the smuggling operations further north into the Aegean, where opportunists continue to thrive on the misery and desperation of others.
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MANN: And our Arwa Damon joins us now live from Istanbul.
Arwa, this isn't just a blight for millions of people forced to flee their own, it is an industry that's grown to serve them.
How much trouble did you have finding the smugglers?
DAMON: It was actually fairly easy. And you could just go on to Facebook and Google, look up smuggling to Europe and a number of Facebook
pages will pop up. And that is how a lot of the various different migrants are, in fact, getting in touch with these smugglers.
The way that the network has developed, well, in the past, prior to the crisis in Syria, these smuggling networks existed anyways, usually
smuggling cigarettes and other forms of contraband into Turkey and vice versa.
But with the emergence of this Syrian migrant crisis, a lot of the individuals that these Syrians will first get in touch with are Syrians
themselves and they will help them get in touch with the Turkish fishermen, who then ferry them out to those larger cargo ships.
So it's a network that has really vastly expanded as the need has expanded. But as you see in that report, these migrants, who already have
very little with them, are forced to pay astronomical numbers just for the first leg of their journey.
MANN: How nervous were the smugglers you spoke to about getting caught? I mean, how effective has this Turkish crackdown been?
DAMON: Well, the Turkish crackdown has really focused a lot on what's happening in the sea itself. You do have undercover police that we saw
while we were there, that are staking out some of the key areas where the migrants are known to gather, where they're known to meet up with the
smugglers.
But until a crime has taken place, they can't actually move in and detain them. So the smugglers naturally don't want to be identified. They
don't want to be that blatant about what they're doing. But the crackdown has really been happening at that specific point when the fishing boat
people, who are inside that boat, are actually seen getting into the larger cargo ships.
It's only at that point that the coast guard is able to intervene. So of course, as they were telling us, that's what makes their job much harder
because they have to constantly be monitoring the movements of these various larger ships in international waters. And of course keeping a
close eye and trying to stake out the various different smaller fishing boats that are making the route backwards and forwards -- Jonathan.
MANN: Arwa Damon, live in Istanbul, thanks very much.
And you can see more of Arwa's exclusive reporting on the desperate measures so many Syrians are taking to flee all in the hopes of making it
to Europe. Watch her special series --
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MANN: -- "Migrant Journeys," all week right here on CNN.
A big story in Afghanistan potentially, but right now it's just an enormous effort to track the facts and find out if it's true. The Afghan
government is investigating reports that the leader of the Afghan Taliban is dead.
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MANN (voice-over): Afghan and Pakistani media this week said Mullah Omar died two or three years ago. He hasn't been seen in public since
2001. This is a photograph, we believe, of him, but even that isn't certain. Mullah's death has been rumored in the past but the Taliban have
not confirmed it.
Let's get some perspective on all this. Senior international correspondent Nick Paton Walsh is following the story from Beirut and joins
us.
Nick, what can you tell us? This seems like an enormous hunt for clues for a man who's been coverage his tracks very successfully for 15
years at least.
NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SR. INTL. CORRESPONDENT: I think an enormous hunt for evidence, really, and a large flurry of media information earlier
on today. Now this began with a couple of reports, one on the BBC, citing presidential sources saying that he had died, admitting they hadn't heard
from the Taliban. But that was then subsequently followed up by reports that we would hear a press conference at the presidential palace; unclear
who would speak. And then that subsequently was delayed. And then the deputy spokesperson emerged for the palace and said, well, actually, we are
currently looking at reports to try and confirm them, whether or not he's died. And when we have more accurate information, we'll come and we'll
talk to you about that, leaving great confusion as to quite where the genesis of the suggestion he was now officially dead has emerged from.
Now he's been reported dead through Pakistani media, Afghan media over the years now. This is a man who's 55 or so; that is comparatively late in
terms of Afghan life expectancy. He was injured fighting the Soviets. He's been in hiding, unclear where; some suggestions potentially Southern
Afghanistan. And he's now deeply under pressure, too. You have to think about the timing of this speculation today, Jonathan. We've actually heard
for ourselves Afghan officials suggesting he may be dead, claiming they're aware of it.
But this on the record statement never came. In days ahead, there is another meeting, vital one, between the Taliban and the Afghan government,
discussing peace. Now some are speculating that this timing of the report may well feed into trying to weaken the Taliban ahead of those talks. The
Afghan government is deeply split, factionalized, perhaps some parts of that government leaking the story, want those talks to be destabilized.
It's confusing. Certainly there don't appear to be U.S. sources backing this up, either. In fact, even the Afghan ones are backtracking.
It's been a very messy morning but while Mullah Omar is certainly not in the greatest state of health, there's no one willing now in the Afghan
government to stand up and say, while they've been hinting at it earlier, that he's actually officially dead -- Jonathan.
MANN: And I guess adding to the confusion is that the statement attributed to Mullah Omar basically praising the talks or adding his voice
to those who are supporting them was released a short time ago when, as you've been telling us, if this account is to be believed, he would have
been dead two or three years already before that statement attributed to him was released.
WALSH: Well, the Taliban have a lot invested in Mullah Omar's continued survival. Now it's not simply because he's their leader. He's
also their symbolic figure. He's the leader of the faith for them.
Now there's another man calling himself the leader of the faithful right now -- sort of the same title -- and that's Omar al-Baghdadi, Abu
Omar al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS. Those two men, I think, many studiers of jihad or the extremism around the world see themselves, I
think, as competitors. They're directly in competition in Afghanistan. There are ISIS franchises there who are appealing to disgruntled Taliban.
The Taliban is under pressure. It's been fighting a long war here. Its leadership being whittled down by relentless American night raids.
When the American campaign was in full flow, now they're under attack I think in many areas from those who have greater allegiance to ISIS; true,
the Taliban are on the front foot on the battlefield, certainly in the north around the city of Kunduz, where there are some Afghan officials
concerned that he may actually fall to the Taliban.
But it's a different looking Taliban now. It's not the same cohesive ideological body the Americans first fought. It's been worn away by
criminality, by the death of its middle ranking leaders through those night raids I talked about, through younger generation disgruntled, more looking
out for themselves, wondering why Taliban isn't radical enough. It's a mess, frankly, the insurgency in Afghanistan.
Now and I think many wondering were it proven or officially confirmed that Mullah Omar is dead, is that possibly the worst thing that could occur
for Afghanistan now? They're all in the middle of these peace talks now. They could be going somewhere. If, for example, the insurgency loses its
one figurehead here, does that result in more chaos? Or is the Americans who'd see his eventual death now behind so many American soldiers' lives
being lost, would it actually not come out as such a benefit -- Jonathan.
MANN: Nick Paton Walsh, following the story, is following the reports as best we can from Beirut, thanks very much.
"The Daily Beast" digs up some dirt on Donald Trump, dating back to his first marriage to Ivana Trump. The presidential candidate responds --
next.
And another controversial American, famous far from home, global --
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MANN: -- backlash over the killing of a lion. How the U.S. hunter accused of it is responding. All that and more here at the INTERNATIONAL
DESK.
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MANN: Welcome back.
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is leading the field in the race for the GOP nomination. But as the competition heats up,
some unsavory details about his past seem to be emerging.
A new article in "The Daily Beast" reveals that Trump's first wife, Ivana, once accused the real estate mogul of rape. The assertion came
during a deposition, a legal statement as part of the couple's divorce.
The 1989 incident was also described in a book called, "Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump."
Trump denied the allegation when the book was released back in 1993. Ivana herself later distanced herself from the accusation and clarified
that she hadn't meant rape, in her words, "in the literal or criminal sense."
In an interview for "The Daily Beast," the article Trump's own lawyer said, quote, "You're talking about the front-runner for the GOP,
presidential candidate, as well as a private individual who never raped anybody. And, of course, understand that by very definition, you can't
rape your spouse."
Not surprisingly, that comment sparked a firestorm. Marital rape has been illegal in all 50 states for more than two decades.
Our Don Lemon asked Trump for his take during a phone interview.
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DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: Do you stand by -- still stand by Michael Cohen?
DONALD TRUMP, ENTREPRENEUR: No. You have to understand, Michael was extremely angry because he knew it never took place. He knew this website
was a joke, considered a joke. And he was very angry. Maybe he didn't even understand the question. But no, I don't. I disagreed with him.
In fact, when I read it I disagreed. I didn't know if they said it or who knows what he said, because frankly, I'm not sure that they reported it
accurately, anyway. But, assuming he said it, no, I disagree with that.
LEMON: But you're still, I mean, you're not going to fire him or get rid of him?
TRUMP: No, I'm not. He was very angry because they issued a false story to get publicity for themselves and to try and make themselves
relevant, which they're not. So what happened is he probably got angry.
No. I disagree with it. In fact, when I first saw it, I said, wow, you know, it's something I disagree with. But that's the way it is. And
you know, he's speaking for himself. He's not speaking for me, obviously. But I did tell him I disagreed with that.
LEMON: Well, this is something from 1993 that you -- why do you think this is coming up when you have denied this for more than 30 years now?
You and Ivana. Why is this coming up now?
TRUMP: Well, it's a vicious business that you are in. I mean, it's a vicious business. You know, the world of politics. And I've always heard,
Don, from the time I'm very young, it's very, very hard for a very successful person to run for political office, especially for president.
And now you see it.
I mean, you know, you see the way people are trying to pummel me.
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LEMON: Now this debate is coming up.
Are you ready for it?
TRUMP: I have absolutely no idea how to answer that question. I am me.
I don't have pollsters. I mean, I have a lot of money, much more money than all of them put together and all of their phony contributions
put together. But, you have to understand. I want to be me.
LEMON: But, Donald, you're going to be up on their stage -- on that stage, you're going to have a time where you're going to be up against the
other candidates.
Are you preparing, do you have a debate coach?
Are you ready for this?
TRUMP: I am what I am. I am what I am. I mean, that debate coach. Look, Romney had a debate coach. And Obama had a debate coach. Frankly, I
thought Obama was terrible. But Romney got worse and worse every time there was a debate. By the time they had the third debate, he was
catastrophic. I don't know what happened to him.
I have to be myself, Don. And if it's not good enough, that's OK. I'll have, you know, I'll go on to other things. I'll ride into the sunset
and do some more buildings and create some more jobs, and that's OK. I'm doing this because I want to make America great again.
And that's why I'm doing it.
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MANN: By the way, Ivana Trump, the mother of Donald Trump's three children, says "The Daily Beast's" allegation of her rape is, quote,
"totally without merit."
But there is another story swirling about Donald Trump, specifically now about his behavior during a 2011 deposition, a giving of testimony
under oath.
The opposing attorney at the time was a nursing mother. Elizabeth Beck that Trump screamed at her and called her disgusting when she tried to
take a break to pump breast milk. The incident was first reported in "The New York Times."
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ELIZABETH BECK, ATTORNEY: He had an absolute meltdown when I said that I needed the break and it was for breast pumping purposes. He got up,
his face got red, he shook his finger at me and he screamed, "You're disgusting, you're disgusting," and he ran out of there. And we were not
able to conclude his deposition that day.
What kind of a leader of the United States would that be? Is he going to behave this way when he's negotiating treaties with China or Russia?
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MANN: Trump attorney Alan Garten doesn't dispute Beck's account, but he says it had nothing to do with her request to breastfeed or pump.
Garten says Trump's remark was simply in response to Beck's request to take a break during the deposition.
Well, the National Football League's Deflategate scandal takes a strange twist. Coming up, the focus shifts to Tom Brady's mobile phone
amid accusation the quarterback was trying to hide evidence.
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MANN: Welcome back.
A broken mobile phone is now the focus of a sports scandal here in the U.S. National Football League quarterback Tom Brady denying claims he
intentionally destroyed his phone to hide evidence of his involvement in Deflategate. His four-game suspension was upheld Tuesday for allegedly
using underinflated footballs to win the playoff game earlier this year.
The New England Patriots star put out a statement on Facebook, insisting --
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MANN: -- he had nothing to do with it.
Our Coy Wire is with us now to talk more about this.
Deflategate? OK. The ball didn't have enough air in it; the game went on. This scandal's been dragging on for months.
What does it have to do with Tom Brady's phone?
COY WIRE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, everyone is saying, from the NFL, that Tom Brady purposely had those footballs deflated by one of the
equipment assistants, named John Jastremski. And there was a cell phone that Tom Brady had during the season specifically around and during the
time that the AFC Championship game, the alleged Deflategate game was going on.
There were 10,000 text messages on this cellular device we know now. And he had this phone destroyed, despite the NFL asking for it on or around
March 6th, which is the date that Tom Brady met with Ted Wells, the private investigator, who was looking into this scandal. So that put up a bunch of
red flags, raised a lot of questions as to why Tom Brady would do that, destroying some evidence that, if this thing goes to court, could prove his
innocence if he certainly did not have anything to do with this and test messages did not prove that he was guilty. Why would you destroy it?
MANN: And so what does the Brady camp say? I mean, I've owned a lot of cellphones, presumably you have; everyone watching this has owned
cellphones. I've never had a cell phone intentionally destroyed.
WIRE: It was as simple as every time I get a new cell phone, I destroy the old one. And this is common practice for pro athletes who go
through a lot of cellphones, often change their number, maybe so that some people don't call them as often as they used to.
But I will say that Brady's camp is vehemently denying that he did anything wrong. His agent, the NFL Players' Association, they are all
saying this. But most recently, just moment ago in a press conference, owner Robert Kraft came to the newsroom and said, "I am appalled that the
NFL has upheld this four-game suspension."
He is livid about this. Let's hear a bit of what the owner, Robert Kraft, had to say.
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ROBERT KRAFT, OWNER, NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS: The decision handed down by the league yesterday is unfathomable to me. The league still has no
hard evidence of anybody doing anything to tamper with the PSI levels of footballs. I continue to believe and unequivocally support Tom Brady.
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WIRE: Now this was in interesting point, because initially, Robert Kraft reluctantly accepted this punishment and people wondered why he would
do that. And Tom Brady would vehemently deny it and stand against it. But now he went back and actually said there was more to that clip, where he
said I wish I would have appealed this. I wish I would not have accepted the penalty. I wish I would have taken this to court.
So this is an ongoing battle. We will see how this continues to play out.
MANN: Because Brady can go back to court himself if he wants --
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WIRE: He can now file a suit to -- for an injunction to stay the suspension here in the federal courts in the U.S., and his camp says they
will do that. We may see that happen today.
MANN: Coy Wire, thanks very much for that.
WIRE: You're welcome.
MANN: An American dentist is taking a lot of heat for killing a famous lion in Zimbabwe. But he says he thought the hunt was legal. More
of that hunter's response under pressure and the court hearing he did not attend -- next.
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MANN: Welcome back to the INTERNATIONAL DESK. I'm Jonathan Mann. Here are the headlines this our.
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MANN (voice-over): Britain says it is working closely with France to try to keep migrants from sneaking into the Channel Tunnel. Around 3,500
migrants have tried to enter the tunnel from France to Britain over just the past two days. The British home secretary says security is being
increased and fences are being erected.
Amnesty International says it has new evidence of Israeli war crimes during last year's Gaza conflict. The human rights group says it cross-
referenced eyewitness accounts with photos and videos to reconstruct the assault on Rafa. Israel calls the report "fundamentally flawed."
Microsoft launches its Windows 10 operating system today, a free upgrade for just about everyone currently running Windows 7 or 8. The
features aimed at pleasing tablet and desktop users alike. The company predictions a billion devices will be running the new operating system in
the next couple of years and it has no plans to introduce Windows 11.
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MANN: Two Zimbabwean men are expected to appear in court today in connection with the killing of a famous --
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MCKENZIE (voice-over): -- in his 50s and a dentist from Minnesota.
In a statement, Palmer admits to killing Cecil, but he says he didn't know the lion's significance and relied on the expertise of local guides.
Cecil's killing has sparked outrage on social media and renewed calls to ban trophy hunting.
MCKENZIE: This is a very large male right here.
MCKENZIE (voice-over): Conservationists like Ioana Dungler have been calling for a ban for years.
IOANA DUNGLER, DIRECTOR, LIONSROCK: Giving -- searching anyone just because you want to have a picture and then maybe the skin on your wall,
for me, it's a form of sickness.
MCKENZIE: Does it make you angry?
DUNGLER: Extremely angry.
MCKENZIE (voice-over): Dungler runs LIONSROCK, a sanctuary in South Africa that has rescued scores of big cats. Many of them were bred just to
be hunted.
MCKENZIE: When he was just a few weeks old, Khan (ph) was taken away from his mother. He was bred to be killed and trophy hunters, for a
gorgeous black-maned lion like that, will pay tens of thousands of dollars.
MCKENZIE (voice-over): Hunting groups say that money can be funneled back into conservation but lion numbers have plummeted up to 90 percent in
Africa.
MCKENZIE: Should trophy hunting be a crime?
DUNGLER: This is murder. It's really cold-blood killing of a creature that can no defense because if he can defend, then, OK. We are
equal.
MCKENZIE (voice-over): And Dungler and other conservationists want the killing of Cecil to start change.
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MCKENZIE: Well, Jonathan, there could be a pattern here, in fact, because a man with the same name some years ago was in fact pleading guilty
to lying to authorities about killing a black bear in North America. Now if it turns out --
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MCKENZIE: -- it's the same Walter Palmer from the same place, then he could be in even more trouble.
But at this stage, he's lying low. He's closed his dentist practice and there are several petitions going on online for people to bring him to
justice. It's certainly a case that has sparked a nerve or sort of hit a nerve amongst people on social media about this trophy hunting issue --
Jonathan.
MANN: His version of events is that he didn't know and he acted in good faith. I'm curious about whether it stands up to scrutiny. Cecil the
lion was tagged and wearing, I gather, a distinctive collar. And he was on the grounds of a national park.
Could an experienced hunter who tracked a lion for hours and hours have missed the fact that the lion was wearing a tag, would an experienced
hunter driving down the road into a national park and out of a national park miss the fact that he was in a place that lots of tourists go to every
day?
MCKENZIE: Well, look, that's the key question here. He's claiming ignorance, that, in fact, he thought this was all about borders, as I say.
But what authorities say is that this all happened in the dead of night; they hunted by flashlight. They lured, according to the (INAUDIBLE)
outside of the park.
Now the big picture is that this is happening quite often. And the irony is this study that you mentioned, the fact that there was a GPS
collar on this particular lion, it was a study trying to study the effects of hunting on lions in those areas on the outskirts of the park. So they
are frequently hunting concessions near to parks. Conservationists say that it's kind of an obvious strategy that they lure the lions out of the
park and then they kill them in an area where it's technically legal. We'll have to wait and see what those hunters in Zimbabwe say happened.
But this is something that certainly is very controversial, potentially unethical but not necessarily illegal in terms of the black-and-white of
the law.
MANN: David McKenzie on the story for us, thanks very much.
You're at the INTERNATIONAL DESK. Still ahead, very different kind of story, very different part of the world and a very different lion. They're
hunting for him, too, but in a very different way.
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MANN: Welcome back.
Like many other 8-year-old American boys, all Zion Harvey dreamed of doing was being able to throw a football. But after a serious infection
that resulted in the amputation of both his hands and feet, many believed his dream would never come true.
That all changed earlier this month, though, when he received two new hands in the world's first pediatric hand transplant.
ZION HARVEY, PEDIATRIC HAND TRANSPLANT RECIPIENT: I want to tell you guys thank you for helping me do this bumpy road.
MANN (voice-over): More than a bumpy road. The groundbreaking operation at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia required a team of 40
doctors and nurses. Zion is now undergoing intense hand therapy several times a day to improve his hand function. And he's looking forward to
returning home and getting to toss around that football.
There are African lions, Asian lions and mountain lions but as far as we know there's never been a Milwaukee lion --
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MANN: -- until now. The north central U.S. city is in a bit of an uproar over reports that a big cat is on the loose on the north side of
town. Reporter Ryan Young has more on this lion's tail.
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HERBERT BALL (PH), LION SPOTTER: Man, this a real lion. I mean, when I seen and no faked animal, this were a real lion.
RYAN YOUNG, CNN CORRESPONDENT: You can hear in Herbert Ball's (ph) voice, no tall tale here. He's reacting to the oversized cat he spotted
near his front yard.
BALL (PH): The cat were right there, laying under this bridge right here and under the bridge, you know, just taking a little nap. And the cat
turn around, he looked at them. And that's when they took off and ran back towards they house.
YOUNG (voice-over): The hunt for the mystery cat all began last week on the east side of Milwaukee, putting this city of 600,000 on edge.
There's grainy cell phone footage capturing the large animal stalking through a back yard.
KAREN SPARAPANI (PH), MILWAUKEE DOMESTIC ANIMAL CONTROL: So now we're focusing more on the likelihood that it is an exotic large cat, could be an
African lion. But whatever it is, it's large. We have seen tracks. Now we're going after it in -- as it is a -- basically a large escaped pet.
YOUNG (voice-over): The big cat, now ever bigger sensation on the Internet, trending on Twitter while keeping residents here watching closely
and wondering when the big feline will pop back up.
BALL (PH): I was standing next to my car right in front, checking my oil, when she say, "Herbert (ph), look. Look at that big cat."
And before you know it, I said, "Holy (INAUDIBLE). Let me get on the phone and then call the police."
YOUNG: The big cat hasn't been captured yet, and that's led to a lot of curiosity. People coming to this bridge to see if they'll see anything
-- Ryan Young, CNN, Milwaukee.
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MANN: We'll track that story for you.
And finally, check out this science experiment conducted in zero gravity, astronaut Terry Virts, putting an effervescent tablet -- look at
that -- into a floating glob of water -- and it fizzes like crazy.
Virts was testing the International Space Station's new high- definition camera, which shoots video with four times the resolution of older models. The image is so clear you can actually see the tiny bubbles
popping and spraying into the air.
Virts commanded the space station's Expedition 43 crew before returning to Earth a few weeks ago.
Bubbles in a floating blob. Now you know what astronauts do up there all the time.
That does it for us here at the INTERNATIONAL DESK. I'm Jonathan Mann. Don't go anywhere. "WORLD SPORT" with Christina Macfarlane is next.
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