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[08:00:32] KRISTIE LU STOUT, HOST: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. And welcome to News Stream. Now, one person is killed and five wounded

after a deadly knife attack in London, but police say that there is no evidence of terrorism.

The Olympics officially begin on Friday, but we'll explain why Nigeria's football team is racing to make it in time for their first match.

And telling complicated stories through video games. We'll hear from the creators of Firewatch.

An investigation is under way in London after a deadly knife attack in the heart of the city. An American woman was killed and five people were

wounded. A 19-year-old Norwegian man of Somali origin has been arrested on suspicion of murder. And police now say that there is no evidence of

radicalization or terrorism.

Now, London is no stranger to knife attacks, but location of this one is unusual, it happened in Russell Square, an up market area. It's home to

landmarks like the British Museum. It's also close to some of London's most prestigious universities such as University College London and Royal

Academy of Dramatic Arts.

So, let's get more now on the attack. CNN's Isa Soares is standing by. She joins us live from the scene with the very latest. And isa, just

over an hour ago, we learned more about the attacker and his victims. Give us the full update.

ISA SOARES, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes, wanting more information from the police who have been at the scene since 10:30 local

time on Wednesday night. And the Met police have basically come out and given us more information about this 19-year-old man who has

been arrested on suspicion of murder. We now know his nationality. We know he is a Norwegian

national of Somali ancestry -- Somali ancestry. This is what police have told us.

They haven't given us anymore information regarding his background, but we do know that

police said there was no evidence of any sort of radicalization from what they're seeing thus far. Of course the investigation is still on going.

And it doesn't seem he was motivated by terrorism. This is what they said.

And when asked by the police why perhaps so early on in -- when this happened they came out with the line that perhaps mental health was an

issue here, but also terrorism, they said given the climate we've seen in Europe, Germany, Nice recently, this is something they had to follow

through. It's a legitimate line of inquiry. Police then said they spent many, many hours -- it took six minutes from the moment the attack

happened, to the moment police arrived on the scene and the 19-year-old was tasered and taken to hospital.

Now he is at police station, but they basically said they followed five lines of investigation.

They questioned him. They spoke to his family. They spoke to witnesses as well as looking at the scene and really searching properties

in South London and in North London, Kristie.

LU STOUT: And Isa, the security response that was showcased here, the attack happened last night, a day after police significantly increased

their presence on the streets of London, just how quickly did police react when this incident took place?

SOARES: I think police have been really applauded here from people we've been speaking to

and really in social media you get a sense of what the Met police have achieved here. The incident, the attack took place, Kristie, at 10:30 p.m.

around 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday night. Within six minutes of that call coming in, police were on the scene. They had tasered the 19-year-old and

they had taken him into custody.

So very swift, very quickly they put up a cordon around Russell Square. These streets were all closed off as I arrived in the early hours

of the morning. We had a scene that was completely out of bounds for majority of people here and then they began their investigation.

Very tight-lipped, very tight-lipped from the very early stages, but very quickly to react.

And now it seems that we also heard from the Met police that of course we're having more police on the streets of London, 600 strong armed police

officers patrolling the streets of London although, Kristie, I have to tell you, I have yet to see one of them.

But this is something they're doing not because of intelligence they're saying, of any intelligence, but because of the recent cascade of

incidents that we're seeing terror attacks that we've seen throughout Europe, Kristie.

[08:05:44] LU STOUT: All right, Isa Soares reporting for us live from Russell Square in London. Thank you, Isa.

Now, it is the eve of the opening ceremony for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. And on Friday, 12,000 athletes will march in

some 3 billion people around the world watching the big event. Here you can see the fireworks just exploding above the Maracana Stadium during the

rehearsal,

But the games have already kicked off with the women's football competition. The host nation was on the schedule on Wednesday and Brazil

defeated China 3-0.

But on the eve of the opening ceremony, one major question lingers, will Russia compete in

Rio 2016? And more than 200 Russian athletes are still waiting to hear from the International Olympic Committee on whether or not they'll be able

to participate at all. And we have just gotten word that 11 Russian boxers have been cleared to compete this year. But like the other athletes, a

final decision is resting with the three-person IOC panel.

And more than 100 other Russian athletes are already banned all over allegations of state-sponsored doping. The IOC is expected to give its

decision before Friday's opening ceremony.

Now, the doping ordeal is casting a shadow over Rio 2016. And some of those Russian athletes say that have been punished unfairly.

Don Riddell, reports.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

DON RIDDELL, CNN WORLD SPORT: It only comes around once every four years and for most Olympic athletes this is a rare moment in the sun.

Excited Olympians arriving in Rio know that they won't all be winning medals, but they do

expect the playing field to be fair.

The Russian doping scandal is a major cloud over these Olympics. Whenever any of their athletes win a medal, questions will be asked,

eyebrows raised. The fans won't be able to trust what they're seeing but spare a thought for the athletes. It's even worse for them. They'll

always wonder if their event was rigged.

MICHAEL PHELPS, U.S. OLYMPIC SWIMMER: I think I can honestly say as well in my career, I don't know if I've ever competed in a clean sport.

And tough setting, but like I said, there's not really a lot that I can control but me.

CHARLES CORNWELL, U.S. OLYMPIC BOXER: I will be hurt because I play fair. I will expect the rest to play fair. I don't do any doping. I

don't do anything like that. So -- and it's like my dream, so that really crushed my heart.

RIDDELL: The American shotputter Adam Nelson knows the feeling. He was beaten into second place by a Ukrainian drug cheater at the 2004 Athens

games. But he didn't get his gold medal for another nine years.

ADAM NELSON, U.S. OLYMPIC ATHLETE: I try not to dwell on it too much, but it's easy to do the math. I roughly estimate that this athlete

probably cost me about $2.5 million over the course of my 12-year career.

RIDDELL: And Russian athletes are outraged, too. Many of them claimed to have been unfairly punished.

The sprint-hurdler Sergei Shibenkov (ph) is the reigning world champion and a gold medal favorite. Based on his Twitter feed, he claims

to be innocent and he is outraged.

He wrote, I'm just going to be deprived of my title and simply can't do anything about it, can't even punch somebody in the face.

Russia is a major player in world sport, and a financial powerhouse. They hosted the last winter

Olympics and will stage the next Football World Cup. They topped the medal table in Sochi and were third at London 2012. Their sheer might means that

this cannot be swept under the rug.

The buildup to this Olympiad has been plagued by a string of problems -- the economy, Zika, pollution, and security to name just a few, but much

of that will likely fade into the background once the games begin. However, the doping issue and the way it's been handled could well haunt

these Olympics for the next few weeks.

Don Riddell, CNN, Rio.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: Now, another Olympic team is going through a different ordeal of just trying to get to Brazil. The Nigerian men's football team

is expected to land Thursday afternoon local time with just hours to spare before their first match.

And CNN World Sports Amanda Davies joins us live from Rio de Janeiro with more on that. And this is an incredible story. The Nigerian soccer

team, they were stranded in America but they are now on route to Rio. So, what happened?

[08:10:03] AMANDA DAVIES, CNN WORLD SPORT: Kristie, this is an incredible story if you weren't talking about the Nigerian football team.

Sadly, they have a history of getting to major tournaments and financial issues clouding what is meant to be going on on the field. But it is

absolutely not the ideal preparation ahead of what is a major sporting event, albeit the men's football

tournament being essentially an under-23 event here

The Nigerian men's team have been stranded in Atlanta. They were meant to arrive last week, but because of difficulty in payments and

conversion rates, apparently, they weren't able to take the flight that they were meant to be taking here to Rio before then moving on to Manaus

where this evening's game against Japan is taking place.

They were still in Atlanta until late last night when Delta stepped in and they have actually put on a charter plane to fly the Nigerian team

direct to Manaus. But it is going to be tight. They're due to land at 2:00 p.m. local time. They are midair as we speak. And the game is due to

kick off at 9:00 p.m. Brazil time.

Certainly not ideal.

Of course, all the focus here, though, will be on the Brazil men's national team who kick off

their quest for a first-ever Olympic gold medal against South Africa. So much focus on one of the

biggest superstars, not just in the football tournament here, of the whole Olympics, Neymar, of

course the Barcelona player who missed that dramatic semifinal at the World Cup here two years ago when he suffered that back injury in the

quarterfinal.

Then Brazil were dumped out so unceremoniously against Germany, 7-1. So there was a lot invested in that from a Brazilian perspective.

But you know, we are still with these games being overshadowed by the Russian doping crisis. And still all those questions being asked about

which of the Russian athletes will be being allowed to compete.

We have heard in the last few moments that the international boxing association has cleared

the 11 Russian boxers to compete. It hasn't officially been ratified by the IOC, but the Court of Arbitration for Sport very much working overtime.

We're seeing their rulings on the appeals that they're looking at from the Russian athletes coming through thick and fast.

We had the appeal rejected in terms of the rowers and the weightlifters late last night, but then a couple more appeals were lodged.

CAS have said we will get an official team sheet, as it were, very sooin. They've said we're very close to that. But that will come from the

IOC.

And with Russians due to compete in the archery and equestrian even before the opening ceremony is due to take place tomorrow, not ideal for

them or, in fact, those Nigerian football players.

LU STOUT: OK. All eyes on the fate of the Russian athletes. Of course, the matchups and the sport and the opening ceremony due to take

place tomorrow. Amanda Davies live in Rio, thank you.

And do stay with CNN. World Sport airs just after News Stream. And hear more of that compelling interview with the athlete you just saw a few

minutes ago in Don Riddell's piece, Adam Nelson, who was awarded his gold medal almost a decade after competing. That coming up right after the

show.

Now after the break, we have the latest in the race for the U.S. presidency. The Republican nominee Donald Trump insists his campaign is

united, but with more Republicans defecting by the day, some warn of trouble inside the party.

And what caused this plane to burst into flames at Dubai International Airport? The very latest from the scene as the investigation is under way.

And the president of the Philippines sticks to his promise to ramp up the country's war on drugs. Later in the show, we'll look at why people

are calling into question his tactics.

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[11:16:24] LU STOUT: Coming to you live from Hong Kong, you're back watching News Stream.

Now, the U.S. republican nominee Donald Trump insists his campaign is more united than

ever, this despite sources telling CNN that there is growing division within the Republican ranks.

Now, those rumors of party in-fighting, plus missteps on the campaign trail, have some saying that this is one of the worst weeks of Donald

Trump's campaign.

Now, meantime, we've got new numbers in on the race. A poll for Fox News shows Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton with a ten-point lead when

voters are asked to choose between the two. Now, that is the largest gap so far.

Now, for more CNN's Phil Mattingly is following developments from New York. He joins us now. And Phil, Donald Trump is insisting everything is

fine, his campaign is united. Is it?

PHIL MATTNIGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Not so much. Look, the campaign itself, at

least in the senior adviser level, they are united. There's not a lot of infighting at the highest levels of the campaign, but there's a lot of

frustration at the highest levels of the campaign. And it's not with one another, it's with the candidate, Kristie. There's a recognition right now

that the last couple days have not been very good at all and there's a real concern that they might never be able to get Donald Trump on message.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

DONALD TRUMP, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The campaign is doing really well. It has never been so well united.

MATTINGLY: Donald Trump pledging unprecedented unity within his campaign after days of turmoil.

TRUMP: I would say right now, it is the best in terms of being united that it has been since we began.

MATTINGLY: It is a message echoed by his top advisors, at least publicly, who tell CNN Trump's team is under control.

PAUL MANAFORT, TRUMP CAMPAIGN CHAIR: The campaign is focused. The campaign is moving forward in a positive way.

MATTINGLY: Those sources insist there is frustration within his staff with the candidate. Getting back on message, Trump putting Hillary Clinton,

directly in his crosshairs, attacking her record as secretary of state.

TRUMP: It was Hillary Clinton that she should get an award from them as the founder of ISIS. That's what it was.

MATTINGLY: And touting his latest fundraising haul.

TRUMP: And we just took in this month, I think it is $80 or $82 million.

MATTINGLY: Despite closing the gap with Clinton, it is proving difficult for Trump to collect checks from the country's top donors. His

campaign war chest trails Clinton by $20 million.

TRUMP: We're raising a lot of money for the Republican Party, and the money is coming in, we're just doing great. But small contributions, I

think it was $61 each. And few Republicans can do that. Maybe no Republican can do that.

MATTINGLY: And with several Republicans now saying publicly they won't support Trump, including rising GOP star Adam Kinzinger, there's still

great cause for concern within the party.

REP. ADAM KINZINGER, (R) ILLINOIS: Donald Trump for me is beginning to cross a lot of red lines of the unforgiveable in politics. And so I'm not

going to support Hillary, but in America we have the right to write somebody in or skip the vote and vote for Mark Kirk in Illinois, for

instance. And that's what it's looking like for me today. I just don't see how I get to Donald Trump anymore.

MATTINGLY: Trump's decision not to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan in his primary battle infuriated RNC Chair Reince Priebus, Trump's most

stalwart establishment backer. Even Trump's running mate, Mike Pence, splitting with him over Ryan, giving a full-throated endorsement.

MIKE PENCE, (R) VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I strongly support Paul Ryan, strongly endorse his reelection. He is a longtime friend. He's a

strong conservative leader.

MATTINGLY: And the controversy is leading some top supporters to question Trump's perceived self-sabotage. Newt Gingrich, a finalist to be

Trump's running made, telling the "Washington Post" Trump is helping Hillary Clinton to win by proving he is more unacceptable than she is.

[08:20:10] NEWT GINGRICH, (R) FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: In the last couple of weeks, he has been remarkably underperforming.

MATTINGLY: Gingrich Later backtracking, telling "Politico" he is, quote, "100 percent for Trump."

(END VIDEOTAPE)

MATTINGLY: And Kristie, a Trump adviser tells me that's a message Newt Gingrich reiterated in a private phone call to Trump campaign

officials yesterday, also complimenting Donald Trump on staying on message in his two rallies yesterday in Florida.

But the big question remains, as all of this concern really kind of floods out of the Republican Party, is can Donald Trump stay on message?

At least 14 months into his campaign, it doesn't appear so far at least that's been possible, Kristie.

LU STOUT: OK. So Phil, there is deep discord in the Republican Party, but how did we get here? Is Trump really the problem, or is it

something deeper, something else?

MATTINGLY: Well, there's a lot of different dynamics here.

And I think, look, the frustration is if you talk to senior Republican officials who are going into 2016 with a deep bench and a large roster of

talented candidates that they all thought could have the real opportunity to beat Hillary Clinton right now, Donald Trump's name wasn't among them.

So there's been a lot of gritting of the teeth at the fact that the Republican primary voters chose Donald Trump.

But at the heart of all of this, Kristie, really is Donald Trump, his inability to stay on message, his inability just to focus on his opponent

or on the Obama administration, his inability to not go without picking fights intra-party. I think that's where the real frustration comes from.

And I think that's where when you talk to Republicans, a lot of whom right now, Kristie, are resigned to the fact that he's never going to get it and

that's severely problematic when you look to November.

LU STOUT: Yeah. And he is the nominee for the Republican Party after all. Phil Mattingly reporting live for us. Thank you.

Now, a top Trump adviser tells CNN the candidate is planning to move on such as why Washington handed $400 million to Iran around the time

Tehran released American prisoners. Some say that was in fact a ransom and that it violates U.S. policy not to pay for hostages. Elise Labott has

this from Washington.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ELISE LABOTT, CNN GLOBAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Four Americans, including "Washington Post" reporter Jason Rezaian were freed

from an Iranian prison on January 17th. But just as the Americans boarded a Swiss aircraft bound for Germany, another unmarked cargo plane was landing

in Iran loaded with pallets of $400 million worth of cash -- shrink wrapped euros, Swiss francs and other currencies, skirting America's own sanctions

that banned transactions with Iran.

BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: This is a good day.

LABOTT: While the freed Americans were in the air, President Obama announced a historic nuclear agreement with Iran.

The White House insists the money entering Iran within a few hours of the American prisoners leaving was all a coincidence and there was no quid

pro quo.

JOSH EARNEST, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: No. It is not a ransom payment. The United States does not view it that way and it's not accurate

to describe it that way.

LABOTT: But that's not how Iranian leaders described it at the time and Republicans armed with these new details of the money transfer as first

described in "The Wall Street Journal" are outraged.

REP. ED ROYCE (R-CA), FOREIGN AFFAIRS CHAIRMAN: One of the reasons you don't want to transfer $400 million in unmarked bills in cash to Iran is

because it's going to end up in the hands of Hezbollah or it's going to end up in the hands of the other Iranian agents.

LABOTT: While U.S. and Iranian diplomats were secretly negotiating a prisoner exchange, separate teams from both countries were resolving a

decades-old Iranian claim before an international tribunal at The Hague. The $400 million, the first payment ending a dispute over a failed arms

deal dating back to the 1970s.

OBAMA: Iran will be returned its own funds including appropriate interest, but much less than the amount Iran sought. With the nuclear deal

done, prisoners released, the time was right to resolve this dispute, as well.

LABOTT: After the cash-filled plane landed l Iran and the Americans were freed, Iranian military commanders boasted the money was a ransom, but

the State Department insists the prisoners would have been freed the same day even without the payment.

MARK TONER, DEPUTY STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN: We believe so because that was worked through a different process and it was concluded

successfully.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LABOTT: Now, congress is debating legislation preventing the White House from making any more cash payments to Iran and requiring the White

House to make the details of the $1.7 billion settlement public. Meanwhile, just last week, Iran detained another American, Reza Shahini

(ph), and two other U.S. citizens, Saim Aknamazi (ph) and his father Bachar (ph) have been held in Iran for months. Their family fears the Iranians

are trying to extract another cash payment from the Obama administration for their release.

Elise Labott, CNN, Washington.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

[08:25:01] LU STOUT: Nine bodies now have been recovered from the deadly bridge collapse in India. Helicopters, divers and boats, are all at

the scene searching for more than a dozen people who are still missing. The bridge, which was built during British air colonial times gave way

after days of heavy rain, sending two buses tumbling into the flood waters below. A car

also fell into the river and that is missing as well.

Now, investigators in Dubai are trying to work out what caused an Emirates airliner to burst into flames upon landing at the city's airport.

Now, the airport is still only using one runway after Wednesday's accident, which killed a firefighter. Jon Jensen has the latest.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JON JENSEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Investigators are still trying to determine what

exactly happened to Emirates flight 521 at Dubai international airport. The chairman of the airline

urging patients as they go through all the data, the investigation will be led by authorities in the UAE. They will be backed by at least five members

of the National Transportation Safety Board from the United States.

The investigators will be looking at all possible scenarios. They'll be looking at everything from what happened to the landing gear on the

aircraft to the possibility of wind sheer. Meanwhile, new video has emerged from inside the aircraft during the evacuation. Very dramatic

images where you can hear and see what appears to be panic and confusion as passengers rush to get off the aircraft.

However, if you listen closely, it is clear, at least that some passengers were urging others to be calm. Other passengers do appear to

grab for their bags, which could delay an evacuation in any emergency scenario, but at the end of the day, all 300 passengers and crew managed to

get off with no serious injuries, perhaps testament to the professionalism of the crew who can also apparently be heard in that video urging everyone

to calmly and quickly get off the airplane.

Jon Jensen, CNN, Dubai.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: A Chinese court has sentenced human rights activist Hu Xigan (ph) to seven-and-a-half years in prison for subverting state power.

Now, this is the latest jailing linked to last year's crackdown on dozens of lawyers and human rights activists. Now, prosecutors accused him of

using an underground church for legal religious activity. Xinhua reports that during his trial, Hu said that

he tried to discredit the Chinese government.

Now, after the break, a month after taking office, the Filipino president rolls out a swift and brutal crackdown on drugs. And coming up,

why some are denouncing his methods.

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[08:31:00] LU STOUT: Now hundreds of suspected drug dealers in the Philippines have been killed over the past month, and their deaths

allegedly at the hands of both police and civilian vigilantes.

Now, the rapid surge in murders comes in the first month of Rodrigo Duterte's presidency, a leader who appealed to the electorate with his no

nonsense approach to tackling crime. But, as our Ivan Watson reports, not everyone is on board with his methods. And I need to warn you here, some

of the images you're about to see in this report are graphic.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A searing image form the streets of the Philippines capitol, a woman clutches

her husband soon after an unknown attacker shot him dead. Left by his body a sign calling hill a "drug pusher." While his killers have not been

identified, the images are at the heart of a debate over the country's new president and his controversial war on crime.

Rodrigo Dutarte, nicknamed "the Punisher," campaigned on a vow to eradicate drug trade.

RODRIGO DUTARTE, PRESIDENT: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

(APPLAUSE)

WATSON: Now, one month after taking office, his crackdown has been swift and brutal.

DUTARTE: We will not stop until the last drug lord, the last financer have surrendered or put behind bars...

(APPLAUSE)

DUTARTE: ...or below the ground if they so wish.

WATSON: The Philippines police say, within three weeks of Dutarte's inauguration, they killed at least 139 drug while arresting more than

3,000. Press photos show crime scene after crime scene, body after body, all, police say, alleged drug dealers killed in shootouts.

The president instructed security forces to kill if suspects violently resist arrest. And he announced regular citizens have the same rights.

Local media tallied hundreds more alleged drug dealers and users killed by suspected vigilantes.

The trail of bodies, human rights activists say, a sign of authority's blatant disregard for due process and an endorsement of vigilante justice.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All of these incidents need to be investigated. There must be a half to the informal killings, which is a violation of the

right to life and Philippines obligations.

WATSON: But Dutarte is not backing down, going after more and more senior targets. And the president also acknowledged this famous photo.

"Stay away from drugs," he warns or else, "you end up sprawled on the ground and you're portrayed in a broadsheet like Mother Mary cradling the

dead cadaver of Jesus Christ."

Ivan Watson, CNN.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: Now Hurricane Earl has been downgraded, but it is still plowing through Belize. It made landfall a few hours ago. It is expected

to cause significant flooding.

Let's get the latest on the storm with our meteorologist Chad Myers. He is standing by.

And Chad, what kind of additional damage could it cause?

CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: You know, I think we could still see areas with 300 millimeters of rainfall in the mountains there as you get

past the Yucatan peninsula, into the mainland Mexico, that's where the water really start to pile up on top of

the mountains and start to wash back downhill.

There's the eye of the storm. That right there is Belize City. So the eye, the northern eye wall, went straight over the top of Belize City.

That would be the most common city that anyone would go to especially if you're on a cruise ship. This is the area that cruiseships would dock off

here and ferry you into Belize City. So, that got hit pretty hard.

Look at 140 kilometer per hour wind. So, hard is a relative term. This was not a category 3, 4 or major hurricane, but still there are power

lines down, there was flooding as the storm came on shore. This is Pliacar (ph). Well, to the north of there. But you see an

ominous looking cloud cover there.

So, as the storm made landfall yesterday, overnight last night, temperatures were in the 80s still in the weather and so the storm did not

die. It stayed viable. And it was about 140 maybe 150 kilometer per hour gusts, but now it's over. Now it's over land and it has died off rather

quickly.

So, now it's not recharging itself. It is going to be falling apart. But in the process of falling

apart, all the rain falls out, too. And that's where we're really concerned with.

Now, it may get back over the bay. If it does, now there are some oil rigs here, but I don't see winds with this now even in the oil-rich areas

here of the deep water more than about 30 miles per hour and all the rigs can handle that. So no real issue there. It's just

now the rainfall in the higher elevations, Kristie, that we're worried about and will continue for the next probably 24 hours and then

die all together and there will be no sign of Earl left whatsoever.

[08:36:11] LU STOUT: Yeah, but in the meantime, still poses a danger because as you mention, mudslides and flash flooding. Chad Myers reporting

for us, thank you, Chad. Take care.

Now, you're watching News Stream. And still to come on the program, this bizarre sight. It just turned up from the streets of one Chinese

city. Could this bus be the answer to China's gridlock?

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LU STOUT; Welcome back. Now the Olympics is the place for the best of the best to compete. And now, there's a new challenge.

Now, who is going to be the very best at Pokemon Go? Now, the athletes get to prove themselves now because the game has officially

launched in Rio de Janeiro just in time for the Olympics.

Now there were concerns that Pokemon Go would not roll out in Rio in time and the city's mayor even appealed to Nintendo last month asking the

company to help make sure that tourists and athletes will get to hunt Pokemon at the games.

Now Pokemon Go is the gaming industries latest craze. But I want to talk about a very different

type of game now, Firewatch. It focuses on telling a story over providing a challenge. There are no guns to fire, no pits to jump, no enemies to

defeat, instead, players are set loose in the wilderness of Wyoming to experience a story.

The writer and art director of Firewatch tells us how they created the game.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

SEAN VANAMAN, GAME DEVELOPER: I'm Sean Vanaman.

OLLY MOSS, GAME DEVELOPER: I'm Olly Moss. And this is Firewatch.

VANAMAN: Firewatch is a video game that is completely nonviolent story driven experience where you walk around the woods while building a

relationship with another person on the end of a hand held radio.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This shale slide is steep.

MOSS: It is a game about isolation and adults and adults having conversations to each other.

VANAMAN: While you're out there doing this job as sort of a fire lookout ranger in the Shoshone National Wilderness, like mysterious stuff

starts to happen.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What's in this cave down here?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: NFS tells people not to go too far in there. It's pretty dangerous. You're in it, aren't you?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It doesn't seem that dangerous.

Oh, no.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Henry.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Seriously, it's completely fine in here.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Damn it.

VANAMAN: Henry being this married man whose wife gets early onset dementia and then meeting this woman Delilah who he doesn't know if he can

trust or not.

Henry doesn't take off his wedding ring, because he is totally not there yet. That is not his emotional state. Someone at the studio had the

idea of just like, oh, we should just take the wedding ring off and put it on the table. And then see like players can just do whatever they want

with it.

And it was such a surprising and elegant piece of game design and something you can never get in a movie, because in a film you can sit back

and go will he or won't he put it back on? But in a game, it can just -- you can pick it right back up, put it on your finger and you go about your

day.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Delilah is a nice name.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No, you big dummy.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I was kidding.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No, you were not. You're sweet, but we can't call it the Delilah fire.

MOSS: (inaudible) is really a mix of kind of my own work, very selfishly just wanting to make a video game look like my own stuff, and

also kind of trying to find something that was bold and stylistic and little more interesting than maybe some of the other stuff out there.

In my own work, I think composition is a really, really important part of it. So when you give a player the control of the camera it's much

harder to make sure that they're looking in the right place and getting the best possible view.

So, it's just about sort of designing the 3D spaces in a way where they're approachable from many different angles, that they still keep

really strong civil experts. You just -- you have to design the spaces in a way that means that the player is more likely to accidentally frame the

shot in a more interesting way, I suppose.

VANAMAN: I think games often undersell the just like infinitude of emotional space you can have between two characters.

That feels so much more massive to me than you saved the universe.

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LU STOUT: What a beautifully-crafted realm. Now that was Sean Vanaman and Oly Moss telling us about their game Firewatch.

Now, finally, we want to show you a new mode of transportation that's undergoing tests in

China. It's an interesting idea, but it's not quite ready.

Now, this is the transit elevated bus. It effectively straddles a two-lane highway, essentially creating a moving tunnel. And it lets

vehicles drive underneath it.

Now, it runs on electricity and Chinese media report that the carriage can transport up to 300 people. Developers say this could cut down on

pollution as well as traffic congestion, but it is not known if the bus will be deployed across China or the big question here, how safe it really

is.

And that is News Stream. I'm Kristie Lu Stout. But don't go anywhere. World Sport with Amanda Davies in Rio is next.

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