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KRISTIE LU STOUT, HOST: -- standing over Bernie Sanders. And Donald Trump raked in Republican votes, while John Kasich's victory in Ohio is

giving him a boost.

Now, meanwhile, the Florida senator, Marco Rubio, lost his home state and

announced the end of his campaign.

Let's take a look at how the night unfolded. Now, voters in five U.S. states cast their ballots. Democrat Hillary Clinton took home the southern

states of Florida, North Carolina and stopped Bernie Sanders from winning Ohio and Illinois.

Now, CNN is not projecting a winner in either party for Missouri. The race there too close to call. The votes are still being counted.

Now, CNN estimates Clinton has almost twice at many delegates as Sanders. But he's made it clear that he is in this race for the long haul.

Now, Donald Trump won pivotal Republican primaries, wiping up Marco Rubio in his home state of Florida. John Kasich scored his first primary

win in his home state of Ohio. That puts Donald Trump well ahead of Ted Cruz and John Kasich. But he needs three of every five remaining delegates

in order to clinch the nomination.

Meanwhile, Ted Cruz, he is hot on the trail of Donald Trump, insisting it is now a two-man race. But John Kasich is holding on after securing

Ohio.

Now, Sara Murray has more on the race.

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DONALD TRUMP, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We're going to win, win, win.

SARA MURRAY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Donald Trump celebrating another big primary night.

TRUMP: I'm having a very nice time. But you know what, I'm working very hard, and there is great anger. Believe me, there is great anger.

(APPLAUSE)

MURRAY: The Republican frontrunner racking up victories in three more states, bringing his total now to 18. The race between Trump and Ted Cruz

so tight in Missouri that a winner hasn't yet been declared. Now Cruz is insisting the race is down to him and Trump.

SEN. TED CRUZ, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Only two campaigns have a plausible path to the nomination.

MURRAY: But Ohio Governor John Kasich is still keeping hope alive, clinching his first win of the race in the winner-talk-all state of Ohio.

GOV. JOHN KASICH, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I have to thank the people of the great state of Ohio. I love you.

(APPLAUSE)

MURRAY: And in Florida Trump putting a nail in the coffin of establishment darling Senator Marco Rubio.

TRUMP: I want to congratulate Marco Rubio on having run a really tough campaign. He's tough, he's smart, and he's got a great future.

MURRAY: Rubio ending his presidential ambitions after a bruising double digit loss to Trump in his home state.

SEN. MARCO RUBIO, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: While it is not god's plan that I be president in 2016 or maybe ever, and while today my campaign

is suspended, the fact that I've even come this far is evidence of how special America truly is.

MURRAY: Now down to a three-man race, Trump continues to call for unity.

TRUMP: We have to bring our party together. We have to bring it together.

(APPLAUSE)

MURRAY: While Kasich and Cruz make a pitch to Rubio supporters, both pledging to take this fight all the way to the convention.

CARLSON: To those who supported Marco, who worked so hard, we welcome you with open arms.

KASICH: Thank you from the bottom of my heart. But I want you to know something. We are going to go all the way to Cleveland and secure the

Republican nomination.

(APPLAUSE)

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: On the Democratic side, both Hillary Clinton and Democratic rival Bernie Sanders have begun to focus on upcoming contests.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

HILLARY CLINTON, 2016 DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We are moving closer to securing the Democratic Party nomination and winning this

election in November. You know, because of all of you and our supporters across the country, our campaign has earned more votes than any other

candidate, Democrat or Republican.

SEN. BERNIE SANDERS, 2016 DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Next week, Arizona has a very important election. We will win. We will win if

the voter turnout is high. Let's make it high. Thank you all very much.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LU STOUT: Now, U.S. President Barack Obama says he has chosen a nominee for the Supreme Court and will announce his pick in about three

hours' time.

Now, Republicans say Obama should let the next president pick the Supreme Court nominee. But Obama said it's his constitutional duty to

nominate a justice. Now, we'll have more analysis of this election after this short break. U.S. Republican front-runner Donald Trump has racked up a fresh set of delegates after Tuesday's polls, but his

victory speech is doing nothing for his popularity with one Chinese critic. We'll explain.

And we have just received new details from Belgian authorities about the manhunt under way after a terror raid by police had ended in a death.

We have got the details after the break.

And later this hour, CNN goes undercover to rebel-held territory in Syria. In this exclusive report, a look at the civilians under siege.

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[08:07:23] LU STOUT: I'm Kristie Lu stout in Hong Kong. And let's go to CNN USA for more on what's next after Super Tuesday 3.

(SIMULCAST CNN USA)

[08:10:07] LU STOUT: All right, CNN's Christine Romans there with the latest on the pulse of the nation after Super Tuesday 3.

Le's get more now on the race to the White House. The fallout from the latest contest. Joining me now is the senior political columnist for

the national journal. Ron Fournier, he joins us live from D.C. Ron, thank you for joining us here on CNN International.

We know that Donald Trump cleaned up last night. And as he continues to win more delegates, the question is can anyone stop him?

RON FOURNIER, NATIONAL JOURNAL: It's hard to see how that happens now. Really the only hope is that he stays below the majority of delegates

that you need to wrap it up on the first ballot and we go to a contested convention, which hasn't happened in this country in a couple generations.

LU STOUT: Let's talk about Hillary Clinton. It was a very big night for her in the Democratic race. She says that she's moving closer to the

nomination. Your thoughts on that. How close is she?

FOURNIER: She's even closer than Donald Trump. Using the old journalist adjectives, I would Hillary Clinton right now is the presumptive

Democratic nominee. Donald Trump is the likely Republican nominee.

We would have to have a huge fundamental change in the political order for Hillary Clinton not to be the nominee. And it would be something we

can't really see happening right now for Donald Trump to be stopped.

It's almost for sure to be Hillary Clinton versus Donald Trump in November.

LU STOUT: Yeah, absolutely. But Bernie Sanders is still in the race. So, what's next for his campaign? Is he mainly a message candidate right

now?

FOURNIER: Probably.

Like you said, lightning can strike, there's an FBI investigation looking into her emails. You don't you just don't know what's going to

happen in life. And he certainly has got plenty of money, plenty of support, a message that really connects with people.

Both Sanders and Trump, although they could not be more different personally and ideologically, they both are tapping into this huge vein in

American politics, actually global politics for something new. Our politics are leaving people behind and are disconnected from the real world

and folks across the political spectrum in this country are looking for change.

So somebody like Bernie Sanders, even though he's beat by the establishment candidate, he's

got plenty of support and he may want to wait in case something happens to her. He may be waiting also for a really good convention slot to keep

pushing her to the left.

He's certainly made her a much more liberal candidate than if he wasn't in the race. So, there's a lot of reasons to stay in.

But barring something unforeseen, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Donald Trump will be facing each other in November.

LU STOUT: Yeah, and back to the GOP race, also staying in the contest is John Kasich. And he had a very impressive win in his home state of

Ohio. But where does he go from here?

FOURNIER: Well, he's only got one home state, right? So, it's hard to see where he goes from here. He's an impressive politician and an

accomplished politician who speaks to people's hopes and aspirations. He's the kind of candidate who would do really good in the general election. He

would give Hillary Clinton a much tougher fight than Donald Trump would, but the Republican Party is

driven to its right extremes like the Democratic Party is being driven to its left.

So, we have two very weak and vulnerable candidates. I don't see how John Kasich finds his way to the nomination. I think yesterday was the

peak of his campaign.

LU STOUT: Kasich won his home state. Marco Rubio lost his home state big time. He's out of the race. What went wrong? How do he lose his home

state?

FOURNIER: Well, you know, he's only a freshman senator with no experience leading anything running as an insider in an outsider

environment, looking too much like a candidate who -- or a politician who Republicans abhor and that's Barack Obama. A message candidate with very

little experience.

He, like the rest of the political establishment, especially in the Republican Party, didn't take Donald Trump seriously until it was too late.

Marco Rubio is a young, attractive, smart, hard working politician who still has a future. But this was not his cycle. He was not ready to be

president and not ready to run in this kind of environment. So, he was pretty much doomed from the start.

LU STOUT: But we'll be watching him closely. His political star could rise again.

And a final question for you, Ron, U.S. President Barack Obama will announce his Supreme Court nominee in just a couple of hours from now.

Your thoughts on that. What impact could that have on the overall race to the White House?

FOURNIER: Both parties, because they're cynical and deplorable are going to use the pick to raise a lot of money and demonize each other. And

at the end of the day, just like what's happening in just about every issue in Washington, nothing will happen. The Republicans will refuse to even

hold a hearing on this nominee. And it will be kicked -- something as important as our Supreme Court is going to be kicked -- punted down the

road into the next presidency. And guess what, no matter whether it's Trump or Hillary Clinton, the other side is going to fight whoever the

nominee is. And I think we're looking at months, if not years of an empty seat or two on the U.S. Supreme Court. And it's reflective of a very

dysfunctional political system in this country. You can't get nothing done.

[08:15:23] LU STOUT: No. And thank you so much for your insights and analysis and plain talk straight from Washington, D.C. Ron Fournier of the

National Journal joining us live. Thank you, take care.

Now, just an hour ago we received new details about the Brussels manhunt now under way for the two suspects who escaped a raid by anti-

terror police that ended in a gun battle yesterday.

Belgium prosecutors say that they found an ISIS flag, a Kalashnikov and ammunition at the site of the firefight. And we've also learned that

there are two other suspects in custody after another raid by police. But it's not known if they're connected to the shooting.

And tracking all these developments -- they're fast moving -- is our senior international

correspondent Nima Elbagir. She joins us live from the Belgium capital.

Nima, it is day two in this manhunt. What's the latest?

NIMA ELBAGIR, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, the sense we're getting very much, Kristie, is that Belgian police were unprepared for what

met them here at this house. This was part of a broader operation, the ongoing broader operation into the investigation, ongoing

investigation into the Paris attacks.

Police arrived here around 3:00 in the afternoon to be met by two men shooting automatic weapons, shooting Kalashnikovs. And it's during that

ensuing firefight that authorities believe that those two men who are now being searched for, escaped inside that building. They found an illegal

immigrant of Algerian origin who had been in the country for at least a year, Kristie, because he did actually appear on the authority's radar in

2014 with reference to another illegal act of petty crime.

The DNA here in this apartment, in this house, I should say, led them to another property. They also searched a third property. They're trying

to keep the details very much on a need to know basis.

Because authorities say that what they learned in the aftermath of the Paris attack, that those still involved in these broader networks, those

still at large, have been very good at using the information in the public domain to evade the authorities.

So, as it stands, two currently being searched for in this countrywide manhunt, one in custody and a second brought to a hospital nearby with

suspicious injuries that they're waiting to interrogate, they say, Kristie.

LU STOUT: And Nima, you're on the scene. What is your sense of the assets being deployed in this, as you called it a countrywide manhunt. How

large is the police presence there in Brussels and beyond?

ELBAGIR: Well, even here, even though the operation here has now come to an end, there

are police cars that have been periodically making loops of this property. We saw plainclothes officers

going in, covering their faces and taking apparatus back into the building as part of their ongoing sweep of that premises.

For most of this morning, we heard sirens, perhaps unrelated, but it gives you a sense, perhaps

unrelated to this specific incident, but it gives you a sense of the tension that is still in this country. People remember those days when the

terror alert was at its highest in the aftermath of the Paris attack.

And although the terror alert here is at the second highest, still is at 3, authorities have been

very candid about the fact that the danger here still remains, Kristie.

LU STOUT: All right, Nima Elbagir joining us live from Belgium, Many thanks indeed for the update.

Now, we have got new developments from the FIFA football scandal. World football's governing body has submitted documents asking for

millions of dollars pocketed illegally by some of its former members.

It's compensation for money, it says, should have been used to develop football fields and fund

youth development.

For the first time under the new president Gianni Infantino, FIFA has also openly accused South Africa of paying a $10 million bribe to secure

votes for the 2010 World Cup.

We'll have more on this in World Sport later in the hour.

You're watching news. And up next, exploiting a child for profit is repugnant to most, but human traffickers they often look for ways to

justify their despicable actions. The CNN Freedom Project was there when police tracked down a suspected trafficker in India.

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[08:23:31] LU STOUT: Right now the CNN Freedom Project is shining a light on a region

of India where poor girls are being lured from home with empty promises of a better life.

Now, CNN special correspondent Muhammad Lila was there when police tracked down an alleged trafficker.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

MUHAMMAD LILA, CNN SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT: Sir, we're with CNN. Can we

ask you a question?

This is what happens when we confront the man they accuse.

Answer my question, sir. Were you taking advantage of them?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We take 35,000 as a service charge for an 11 month agreement. Those who (inaudible) them from our village, they get 25,000

for an 11 month agreement. Sometimes the girl's husbands bring them. Sometimes the fathers bring them. They (inaudilbe).

LILA: Police take him inside for questioning and charge him with bonded labor and cruelty to a child.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LU STOUT: As you witnessed just there, speaking in business-like terms about the money that's made for each person whose life authorities

say has essentially been stolen.

Now, that was journalist Muhammad Lila questioning the suspect.

And he joins us now as we explore the mind-set of these people who buy and sell human beings, girls, so coldly.

Muhammad, thank you for reporting and thank you for joining us now. And please explain to us like in an impoverished community where passing on

children like chattel is apparently the norm, what can be done to break the cycle?

LILA: Well, Kristie, that's a very good question. Thanks for having me on the show.

Let me start off by saying something that you know very well. It takes incredible courage for

victims of trafficking to step forward. They are oftentimes abused, subjected to violence, subject to threats of violence and made to feel like

they're something less than a normal human being.

So for a victim to come forward and share their story takes remarkable strength remrakable courage. And the young girl in that story that we

profiled, this 18-year-old, Manju, she deserves a lot of credit.

And I think more people stepping forward, that's the answer to your question.

For a victim of trafficking to go through a process like this and facing such cultural barriers where sometimes there's a stigma of coming

out and saying yes, I was trafficked, yes I was held in captivity, it's a very difficult thing to do. But the more people that

come out and speak about it publicly, it raises awareness, it starts a discussion going.

And in the case of our series, for example, the more we pushed for answers from the government, we learned that there are actually some

measures being implemented to help stop some of these trafficking case from taking place. So, I think it's a process of starting that discussion and

just telling people that, you know what, this is not acceptable behavior.

LU STOUT: And you are certainly starting this conversation with your series of reports and the

take away here for consumers, for viewers all over the world, watching you reporting on air and online, we know that tea is the most popular beverage

in the world. And in your reporting, we see the dark side of this industry.

So for consumers, is there a way for us to pressure the industry or to somehow buy slave-free tea? Is that possible?

LILA: You know, it's a very good question. Because there are industry associations and groups out there that are working literally with

volunteers or staff in these tea fields, in these tea plantation to make sure, a, that the people that are working there are treated fairly, that

they're given all of the rights that they deserve, that they're given proper access to food, health care, medicine, hospitals, education all of

these things.

So, there is some work that is being done.

I think, you know, as a consumer, the first thing you need to do is, don't forget billions of people drink tea every single day in the morning.

Most of us drink it in the morning or at night before we go to sleep.

Question where that tea is coming from. Ask the company that's producing it. Is there a Fair Trade label on it. Is there an ethical tea

partnership involved, is there an alliance that's certifying that the growers and the people working on the tea fields are being treated fairly.

I think that's a good place to start, and especially from countries in the western world or in the developed world where we import

a lot of this tea, it's a legitimate question to ask, that we should know where this tea is coming from.

LU STOUT: And Muhammad, a final question about policing in India. I mean, it was a police raid that reunited the two sisters who were

trafficked to Delhi. It was something that you witnessed and you reported on. But how effective are the police in India to crackdown on human

trafficking?

LILA: Well, here's part of the problem, Kristie. And you saw this in the clip that you just ran earlier. The people that are doing this -- the

traffickers, they often don't see themselves as doing anything wrong. You could see the man in the clip. He showed no remorse. To him, it was just

a job.

He said, well, I don't understand. I got these girls from this village. I got some money. I paid the guy who gave me the girls and now

they're working. In theory, that would all be fine if this was a regular job placement agency. But we know that this is the exact opposite of a job

placement agency. These traffickers take these girls and they put them in situations where they're abused, they're

raped, they're assaulted, their freedom is taken away and they can't escape. That is effectively modern-day slavery.

So, a big part of this is getting these traffickers to understand that what they're doing is not

only illegal, it's unethical, it's wrong and it has no place in the modern world.

So, that's a big part of the problem. And you know, police can devote as many resources as they have. But when they're dealing with traffickers

who are looking for money, are well-known and quite frankly, a lot of the cases can skirt around the laws, it's a very difficult challenge for police

to catch up with all this. So, a big part of this is sort of educating these traffickers and saying you know what, what you're doing is wrong and

you will eventually be caught.

LU STOUT: It's not ethical, it's wrong and it has to to stop now. Muhammad Lila, we thank you for your reporting on trafficking in India's

tea industry. Thank you and take care

Once again, the victim in the center of the search Muhammad took part in, was in India's Assam region. And sadly, he found out during his

travels there that girls are simply bought and sold much like the drinkable commodity the region is so famous for.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

LILA: This is a story about tea and trafficking. The young girls lured from homes to trains and to a life in captivity. The men who make

money selling them. Their parents didn't even have a chance to say good- bye. And those who risked their own lives to save them.

How much money do they make when they traffic young girls?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: 10,000 to 30,000 rupees.

LILA: Join us on a journey as we explore the price of tea.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LU STOUT: Our special series continues on Thursday right here on News Stream.

We'll have much more after this short break.

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[08:33:25] LU STOUT: For much of the U.S. presidential campaign, China has remained largely quiet. But Donald Trump's seismic shift in political

momentum is now prompting rumblings there.

The Republican front-runner once tweeted that global warming is a Chinese conspiracy and more recently he accused Beijing of stealing

American jobs.

Now, that theme was again front and center during his victory speech late on Tuesday.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

TRUMP: Someday in the not too distant future, if I win, otherwise it's not going to happen. I have to be honest with you. But Apple and all

of these great companies will be making their product in the United States, not in China, Vietnam and all of -- you lose $500 billion a year with

China. We lose $58 billion a year in terms of imbalance. It's a total imbalance. We don't make good deals anymore. We don't win anymore.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LU STOUT: Now, the response from inside China is nothing short of scathing. An editorial in China's Global Times openly brands Trump as a,

quote, racist and big mouth (ph) and describes violence at his rallies as, quote, shocking.

Now, the piece, it was published on Monday, says Trump's White House bid has opened a Pandora's box, quote, "his remarks are abusively racist

and extremist, which has left an impression on the U.S. public that he is intentionally overthrowing political correctness."

Now, the peace ends with a somewhat disturbing taunt against the U.S. democratic process saying this, quote, "Mussolini and Hitler came to power

through elections, a heavy lesson for western democracy."

Now, Trump has also drawn the ire of some of China's most prominent dissidents. In a recent CNN debate, he was asked about a highly

controversial remark made years ago about the Tiananmen Square massacre. And to many, his answer only inflamed the situation.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

[08:35:14] JAKE TAPPER, CNN ANCHRO: And about China's massacre of pro-democracy protesters at Tianmen Square, you said, quote, "when the

students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it, then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with

strength that shows you the power of strength."

How do you respond...

TRUMP: That doesn't mean I was endorsing that. I was not endorsing it. I said that is a strong powerful government, that put it down with

strength. And then they kept down the riot. It was a horrible thing. It doesn't mean at all I was endorsing it.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LU STOUT: Trump's description of the protest as a, quote, riot is infuriating those who witnessed the Chinese government's bloody crackdown.

Wong Dan, who lead the 1989 student movement, and was once Chian's most wanted man

accused Trump of using the same language as the Communist Party. In an article for TIME Magazine, he writes this, quote, "I am disappointed by and

angry at Mr. Trump's words. If a bloody repression can be praised as a strong powerful action, what does this mean about American values,

especially when this blatant mischaracterization comes from a presidential candidate."

Now, Wu'er Kaishi (ph), who has spent 27 years in exile, says he speaks for all those who suffer by warning that Trump is threatening

American freedoms. Now, he writes in his blog this, quote, "Trump, a privileged comeback king from a litany of failed fast buck business scams

is an enemy of the values that America deeply defines itself by, the same values that have long provided hope to the victims of oppressive power

worldwide."

But perhaps the harshest criticism is delivered by the cartoonist known as Rebel Pepper. Now, he takes creative license with this image from

Tienanmen Square, which few will ever forget.

Now, Pepper, who says that he felt compelled to leave China for his own safety, draw Trump in a tank brutally mowing down a protester.

Still to come right here on News Stream, we bring you an inside view of life in war torn Syria. A doctor who works in a vulnerable area tells

us he'd rather die than leave his people.

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LU STOUT: Welcome back. And let's turn now to the front lines in Syria where war is destroying vital infrastructure like hospitals.

Now, rebel held areas in particular have been under siege from a range of forces, not just the army of Bashar al-Assad, but also ISIS, Kurdish

fighters, and Russian air forces.

Now, Clarissa Ward went undercover where virtually no western journalists have gone for more than a year and a warning it contains

graphic images.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

CLARISSA WARD, CNN INTERNAITONAL CORRESPONDENT: It is an all-too- common sight in rebel-held parts of Syria, the moments after an airstrike. Dazed survivors stagger from the rubble. Those still trapped call out for

help.

The target this time was the courthouse in Idlib city, activists say the bombs were Russian.

When rebels took this provincial capital of Idlib they saw it as a crucial opportunity to demonstrate that they could build their own state

and they believe that's exactly why the Russians bombed the courthouse, to undermine that effort.

Any civilian infrastructure is a potential target, including hospitals. Last month four were hit in a single day. One, in the city of

Maarrat Numan, was supported by Doctors Without Borders. What remains of it now is ruins, and at least 25 people were killed.

Dr. Mazen al-Souad was the general manager. He says that Russian and regime forces target hospitals cynically and deliberately.

[08:40:10] DR. MAZEN AL-SOUAD, GENERAL MANAGER (through translator): They want to kill the maximum number of people. Also they want to forbid

the area from having medical service. If there is no doctor, no nurse, no hospital, then there is no healthcare for the people and people will flee.

WARD: Is it possible that they didn't know the building was a hospital?

AL-SOUAD: Everyone knows this is a hospital. There was even a sign that said this is a hospital. But if they didn't know this is an even

bigger disaster because if you are bombing a building like this without knowing it's a hospital, it means you are hitting totally indiscriminately.

WARD: Against the backdrop of this vicious war, Islamist factions have gained the upper hand, including al-Qaida affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra.

The landscape is peppered with signs shunning Western democracy, and urging all men to join the jihad. And one encourages women to cover up

completely. Dr. Fera al-Jundi works at the only hospital still standing in Maarat

Numan. He's no militant, but sees this conflict in black and white.

FERA AL-JUNDI, DOCTOR (through translator): The whole of the Syrian people is against ISIS and against extremism but we see that the Russians

are bombing far from ISIS and they're focused on civilian areas said.

WARD: I asked him why he doesn't leave Syria?

AL-JUNDI (through translator): If I did that I would abandon my conscience. This is our country, we can't desert it. If we left then we

have sold our morals. Who would treat the people? I can very easily leave, but we will remain steadfast. I am prepared to die rather than to leave.

And I will carry on no matter what.

WARD: Carry on in the faint hope that for the next generation of Syrians it will be better.

Clarissa Ward, CNN, Syria.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: A heartbreaking pledge from that doctor there.

Now, all this week Clarissa and her team are giving us this rare look inside rebel-held Syria. If you missed any of her reports, you can watch

them again at our website. Just go to CNN.com/Syria.

You could also follow the latest on Twitter with the hashtag #undercover in Syria. It is all part of our exclusive coverage inside

Syria behind rebel lines only on CNN.

And that is News Stream. I'm Kristie Lu Stout. Now World Sport with Amanda Davies is next.

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