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[08:00:09] KRISTIE LU STOUT, HOST: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong and welcome to News Stream. After years of questions, doubts, and scandal,

the 2016 Olympics will officially begin within hours in Rio.

Black Lives Matter protesters in the UK block roads leading to Heathrow Airport, just one of a number of demonstrations happening across

the country.

And making your photos look like famous works of art. We speak to the creator of a popular photo app Prisma.

In a matter of hours, athletes from more than 200 nations will come to the in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on what has promised to be an unforgettable

night. It is the opening ceremony for this year's Summer Olympic Games. And this year, the first-ever refugee team will also be marching.

And the ceremony will celebrate Brazilian culture, and raise Olympic spirits with music, fireworks and samba. Some 3 billion people around the

world are expected to tune in.

Now, the road to Rio has been long. The country has been plagued with problems from political and economic issued to health concerns to violence

in the streets. Now, there's the political turmoil at the national level. On May 3 president Dilma Rousseff lit the Olympic torch and then shortly

after the senate voted for her impeachment.

Now, the country's economic problems are seen in a lot of the venues - - blocked toilets, leaky pipes and exposed wires, all that led to Australia's Olympic delegation initially refuse to move in to the athletes

village.

The Zika outbreak has caused some athletes to skip the games altogether, especially the world's best male golfers. And finally there's

the Russian doping scandal the International Olympic Committee has banned almost one-third of the team from participating over Olympic officials at

the last moment cleared 271 Russian athletes to take part in the games. And several athletes still haven't heard whether or not they'll compete.

World Sport's Don Riddell has more.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

DON RIDDELL, CNN WORLD SPORT: The opening ceremony hasn't even happened, but already a major Olympic victory for one of the biggest teams

in Rio.

Russia hasn't won any medals yet but 271 of their athletes will be able to compete in the games.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): Good day. Now we have good news for Russian sport supporters.

RIDDELL: Russian athletes have endured a tense wait in the buildup to the games. Having accused them of running a state-sponsored doping

program, the World Anti-Doping Agency recommended a blanket ban of the Russian team. The tournament organizer, the IOC opted instead for a policy

of individual justice. And under the intense glare of the world's media, the Olympic president Thomas Bach expressed his confidence that the other

athletes have nothing to fear from the Russians.

THOMAS BACH, IOC PRESIDENT: I can look into the eyes of these athletes, because I have a very clean conscience. I know that not only I

but also the executive board members all have weighed all these arguments very carefully. We also know that we have the support of many, many

athletes.

RIDDELL: But still, the IOC has been accused of going soft and suspicions that the IOC is favorable to Russia, one of the biggest players

in world sport, were further fueled by this question from one of Russia's state broadcasters.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It looks like that you personally were helping us. Is it true?

RIDDELL: Mr. Bach denied it.

BACH: This is not a decision of helping somebody here or helping somebody there, this is a decision of justice, which we could take only on

the facts, which are available now. And this we have done.

RIDDELL: Afterwards, there was a tense exchange between the reporter and a German documentary maker who has produced several films exposing

Russian doping, films which kickstarted the official investigations and the whole scandal in the first place.

He's not convinced that the IOC is being fair.

HAJO SEPPELT, JOURNALIST: So, it's really hard to understand what else should come to say we have to exclude a system from the most important

event of sports in the whole world. So if this is not enough, I don't know what is it enough.

Now we talk about individual justice and about fair play? I think it looks like that all athletes are equal but the Russians are more equal.

RIDDELL: so, the games begin with a major controversy. The Russian flags hangs from the

apartments in the Olympic Village, and once medals are hanging around their athletes' necks, that controversy will likely continue.

Don Riddell, CNN, Rio.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

[08:05:17] LU STOUT: Now, for more on theSE summer games, CNN World Sport's Amanda

Davies joins us live from Rio de Janeiro.

And Amanda, finally the Rio games begin today. Will the pageantry, the opening ceremony, and the sport, finally cast aside or overshadow all

the doubt and controversy?

AMANDA DAVIES, CNN WORLD SPORT: Hi, Kristie. Sadly, I don't think the questions will stop in terms of the Russian athletes, despite Thomas

Bach, the IOC president, coming out, saying, you know, talking about the importance of being able to look the athletes in the eye and talk about a

level playing field.

I think every time a Russian athlete takes to the field, or takes to the pool over the next few weeks, these questions will fairly or unfairly

be asked.

But certainly the organizers know the importance of this evening's opening ceremony. They've been talking about the fact that this is their

moment to put their best face forward to the world, particularly given not only the Russian doping crisis, but all the controversy and the buildup to

this games -- the political problems, economic, the health problems with the zika Zirus, as you were talking about. They have admitted that their

budget has been nothing like those that we saw in London 2012, or Beijing ahead of that.

But, they certainly want to put on a show. And from what we've seen from the rehearsals that have been going on at the Maracana this week, the

fireworks, it does look set to be that. It's the best of Brazilian music and culture, and history. There's the world's highest paid supermodel

Gisele Bundchen who will be strutting her stuff. The British actress Judi Dench has a role, also a 12-year-old Brazilian

superstar, if you can be a superstar age 12 called MC Sofia. The question we're still waiting for the answer for is will it be the three-time World

Cup winner Pele who is lighting the Olympic flame to officially mark the start of the games? We know he's been asked but he's remaining very tight-

lipped about whether or not he's going to be able to do that.

The torch is going to make its final journey along Ipanema Beach, along Copacabana behind

us a little bit later today before that iconic moment and then, of course, we will see that parade of athletes, all 206 nations lining up. Yes, we

will see the Russian team with the Russian flag, and of course this time that added extra-special moment of the Olympic refugee team, which

certainly will set things up nicely from what we do hope, and is undoubtedly going to be a fantastic three-and-a-half weeks of sport.

LU STOUT: Yeah, and a (inaudible) opening with the opening ceremony. It's hard to imagine

Pele not having some sort of a big role in it, but we'll see in a few hour's time.

And as the games begin in earnest, finally, Amanda, we know security that remains still a concern for the fans visiting, for spectators, for

athletes. What is the security presence like today?

DAVIES: I have to say, Kristie, the security presence over the last week is now a week since I got here has steadily ramped up day by day by

day. We were talking initially about the number of 85,000 security personnel, weren't we, that we already knew was double the number of

security personnel that were working in the London games four years ago. We think we're now closer to about 100,000.

And as you walk around here, it's very difficult to go further than a couple of hundred meters without seeing another armed security presence.

Very, very visible here on Copacabana. We have helicopters flying yesterday, very, very low with security and army personnel with guns

hanging out of the side of the open doors.

There's been lots of incidents of petty crime that have been reported. We had seen people arrested just around the corner from the studio here

with pick pocketing and things like that. There have been reports from the Australians who when they finally did move in to that athletes village

during a fire alarm and an evacuation there were reports that things have been missing -- were taken from some of their rooms, as well.

But it feels, at the moment, to me, wandering around here, that it's very much more a case of wanting to show their presence because of the very

public concerns. It's not -- it's not overly oppressive.

LU STOUT: Got you. Well, the games do begin today and the world is watching. Amanda Davies reporting live from Rio. Thank you.

Now, Rio wants to give the visiting athletes the best impression of the city and everything in the Olympic village is new and sparkling.

But close by, the local hospitals are struggling. As Sanjay Gupta follows along the paramedics in Rio and witnesses the abysmal lack of

resources in his hospitals.

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[08:10:16] DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice- over): The images increasingly disturbing, overcrowding in Rio's public hospitals. Wait times here are measured not in minutes, not even hours, but

days. And this horrifying situation. A patient passed away, lying in a body bag, and also waiting.

(SIREN)

GUPTA: To understand what is happening here, we went along with Rio's first emergency response battalion to see them in action.

(on camera): Another problem. It's been 20 minutes now, roughly, since we left and we're lost. We're not exactly sure where the patient is that

needs our assistance.

(voice-over): We finally arrive. A man has collapsed.

(on camera): What they're going to try and do is administer as much care as they can in the ambulance and not take him to a hospital if they

don't have to.

(voice-over): But turns out, he needs a hospital. The next goal -- find a bed for him. Any bed. And that is typically not very easy here.

DR. NELSON NAHON, VICE PRESIDENT, CREMER (through translation): In the state of Rio de Janeiro, we lack 150 intensive care beds every day.

GUPTA: Dr. Nelson Nahon is the vice president at the Cremer, the Regional Council of Medicine.

NAHON (through translation): It is an absurd situation.

GUPTA: According to Dr. Nahon, in order to make room for hundreds of thousands of Olympic tourists, things may have just become worse for local

residents. All elective operations at nearby public hospitals have been postponed for the duration of the Olympics. For the residents of the

Olympic village, however, a different story. This poly clinic will be the first stop for any Olympic athlete, coach or family member, able to handle

60 patients with C.T. and MRI scanners, even dental care. For many athletes, even from the poorest countries, this is even an opportunity for

typically hard to access health care.

And if necessary, they will likely arrive here, America's Medical City.

Dr. Antonio Marttos is responsible for the emergency response for Rio 2016, giving us a rare look inside the facility.

DR. ANTONIO MARTTOS, UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI HEALTH SYSTEM: For people inside the venues, if they need, will be ready to take care.

GUPTA: For nearly three years, they've been planning for these three weeks.

Here in the city's command center, director of emergency services, Lieutenant Colonel Carlos Sinas, tells me the biggest concern is not Zika,

not illness from the water, but a mass casualty incident from a terrorist attack. And that will bring into view for all to see a tale of two

hospitals, one a world away from the other.

On this day, our unknown patient is finally wheeled into the emergency room of that other world.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: You're watching News Stream. And after the break, President Barack Obama refuting accusations that his administration paid

hundreds of millions of dollars in ransom to free American hostages from Iran. We've got the details on that ahead.

Plus, police make a number of arrests at a Black Lives Matter protest in London. We'll bring you the latest.

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[08:15:37] LU STOUT: Coming to you live from Hong Kong, you're back watching News

Stream.

Now, on the U.S. campaign trail Donald Trump once again criticized by the U.S. president, and we've heard this one before, Barack Obama says the

Republican who wants his job is not fit for the Oval Office.

Now in a news conference advertised as a speech on the gains in the war against ISIS, Mr. Obama spent much of his time critiquing Ddonald

Trump. Among his grievances, Trump's suggestion that the November election could be rigged.

Now for more on this story, let's go straight to CNN's Phil Mattingly. He's following developments from New York. He joins us now. And Phil,

Potus is not holding back here, he is tearing into Donald Trump. Give us the details.

PHIL MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, that's exactly right, Kristie.

And, look, if there was any pretense about where he stood personally on Donald Trump, he's dispelled with all of it over the course of this

week. Yesterday, being probably his strongest comments up to this point, Kristie.

He was criticizing. He was mocking. He was warning. He was pretty much doing everything but saying Donald Trump shouldn't be in this race at

all.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

OBAMA: Of course the elections will not be rigged. What does that mean?

MATTINGLY (voice-over): President Obama outright ridiculing Donald Trump's warning to supporters that the presidential election could be

rigged.

OBAMA: If Mr. Trump is suggesting that there is a conspiracy theory that is being propagated across the country, that's ridiculous. That

doesn't make any sense. I've never heard of somebody complaining about being cheated before the game was over. If Mr. Trump is up 10 or 15 points

on election day and ends up losing, then maybe he can raise some questions. That doesn't seem to be the case at the moment.

MATTINGLY: Trump firing back on Twitter, saying, "President Obama should ask the DNC about how they rigged the election against Bernie."

But Obama didn't stop there, the president doubling down on his charges that Trump is unfit to be commander in chief, questioning whether

he can be trusted with the nuclear codes.

OBAMA: Just listen to what Mr. Trump has to say and make your own judgment with respect to how confident you feel about his ability to manage

things like our nuclear triad.

MATTINGLY: The president conceding that, no matter what happens in November, he will help his replacement.

OBAMA: If somebody wins the election and they are president, then my constitutional responsibility is to peacefully transfer power to that

individual.

MATTINGLY: On the campaign trail, Trump insists it's Hillary Clinton who lacks the judgment after her previous e-mail controversy.

TRUMP: Hillary Clinton, furthermore, can never be trusted with national security.

MATTINGLY: Despite the nasty campaign rhetoric, President Obama says Trump should receive national security briefings afforded to nominees but

warned him to watch his words.

OBAMA: If they want to be president, they've got to start acting like president, and that means being able to receive these briefings and not --

not spread them around.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

MATTINGLY: And Kristie, in talking with White House advisers, kind of about what was the impetus for the president coming out so strongly, they

point to two things. First and foremost, this is strategic, obviously. Hillary Clinton's campaign has been attempting to

paint Donald Trump as tempermentally unfit for office. The president now trying to back those comments up.

But there's also a personal aspect to this. When you talk to White House advisers they kind

of impress upon you that the president legitimately views Donald Trump as dangerous, as somebody who would put in danger not only his legacy, what

he's accomplished over the last eight years, but the country on the whole. That's why you're seeing him step out like he has and it's very clear he's

not going to stop any time soon.

LU STOUT: And Donald Trump is having one of the worst weeks of his campaign as a result of this. We know also that Hillary Clinton is

widening her lead over him. You know when you talk to people in the Trump campaign, what is their plan for a reset? What is their plan to narrow the

gap?

MATTINGLY: Well, they acknowledge that Donald Trump has been very off message. Obviously picking a fight with the family of a slain U.S. soldier

is just not something you want to do in politics at all. And it's something that has had a very, very negative impact on his numbers. We've

seen it in the most recent polling.

And those numbers across the board, both nationally, Kristie, and in swing states have been very bad.

But when you talk to Trump advisers they see opportunities. They see opportunities in the

fact that Hillary Clinton has record high unfavorability numbers, has record high lack of trustworthy

numbers and they see opportunities in what's going on with the Iran deal right now, what's going on with ISIS right now, the fear and uneasiness in

the country.

Their sense is that it's early. The reality is there's 95, 94 days left in this campaign. And Donald Trump needs to get things back on track

fast or he's in big trouble, Kristie.

[08:20:17] LU STOUT: All right, Phil Mattingly reporting live from New York. Thank you.

Now, the U.S. president has his own fight over a cash payment made to Tehran on the same day

Iran released four American prisoners.

Now he insists that the U.S. did not pay ransom for the hostages.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

OBAMA: the notion that we would somehow start now in this high profile way and announce it to the world, even as we're looking into the

faces of other hostage families whose -- who -- whose loved once are being held hostage, and -- and say to them that they don't

pay ransom defies logic.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LU STOUT: Republicans charge it was a White House swap for the prisoners. They were released the same day the cash was delivered.

Now police have arrested ten people at a Black Lives Matter protest in London. They have shut down a road leading to Heathrow Airport and the

group says it was to mark the fifth anniversary of the death of Mark Dugan. Now, he was shot and killed by London police and that

sparked riots across the city.

Now let's go straight to London to CNN's Nima Elbagir. She's standing by for us. And Nima, a number of arrests made at this demonstration. Tell

us more about who was involved and why they were arrested.

NIMA ELBAGIR, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: This was a process that was called for by the UK Black Lives Matter contingent. They are

involved not only in fighting, they say, against the structural inequalities, as they refer to them, within the system here in the UK, but

they believe that the response to what we're seeing in the U.S., these concerns by the actions of armed police officers, these consistent concerns

by the actions of armed police officers towards unarmed black men and women, that this needs a global response.

But, of course and you mention Mark Dugan the suspected north London man, the north London man who is suspected of being a gang member who was

shot five years ago by armed officers here, in London, that is the backdrop against which all of this is playing out, not just these kind of -- the

emotional resonance of the U.S. Black Lives Matter movement.

But also the sense that justice was never delivered for Mark Dugan and there were a number of

concerns that his family spoke about when the first inquiry, the jurors in the first inquiry found the armed police officer had acted with a

reasonable amount of doubt that his own personal safety was at risk. And then when the international -- when the independent police complaints

commission found that because they were unable to interrogate the officer who was involved face to face, the officer had used his right, we should

say, we have to be very clear, this was his right, to give the inquiry a statement rather than appear in person, that they were unable to find

really consistent evidence that supported that the officer had acted inadequately.

All this is converging five years on from that date with what we're seeing in the U.S. And we're seeing it spill out on that road towards

Heathrow there, Kristie.

LU STOUT: Yeah, but when you talk to members of the Black Lives movement there in the UK, do they want to achieve, you know, justice and

equality not just for Britain, not just in memory of Mark Duggen, but globally? I mean, what is their ultimate goal here?

ELBAGIR: Absolutely, globally. But there is also a sense that they want a seat at the table, that

they want the issues that they feel the black community, the ethnic minority community here is faced with in terms of the disproportionate

numbers equivalent to the states of black men who are imprisoned, the disproportionate numbers of black men who are involved in stop and

searches.

And of course there is previous form here in the UK. There was a huge inquiry about a decade ago the McPherson report, that found that there was

structural racism in the London Metropolitan Police force, and by going out on the street today, and this isn't the first such solidarity march with

the U.S. Black Lives Matter movement, by going out in the street today, they want to remind people not just here in the UK, but around the world

that they feel that this is a fight that needs to continue to happen, Kristie.

LU STOUT: Nima Elbagir reporting for us live from CNN London. Thank you, Nima.

ELBAGIR: Now running out of food, running away from bombs, that is how residents of Aleppo, Syria, are describing the living conditions that

just keep getting worse. Now, the rebel-held city is under siege by government forces.

Arwa Damon has more.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ARWA DAMON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: What you see, that's all that's left in what was one of Aleppo's busiest markets. Children somehow

still managing to smile pedal bags of salt. But gone are the brightly colored stacks of fruits and vegetables, most basic food staples, hard to

find.

[08:25:05] UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): For 11 days, we haven't had bread in the house. We come to the market and there is nothing

to buy.

DAMON: The cost of tomatoes has quadrupled, gasoline is a small fortune. Opposition-held Aleppo is being suffocated as the world watches.

The Syrian regime says it has opened humanitarian corridors to allow people to flee. State TV airing these images. But only in minute fraction

of the 200,000 to 300,000 people living under siege are reported to have left and no aid has come in.

ABU NIZAR FIRAS, ALEPPO RESIDENT (through translator): These are imaginary corridors, false corridors, only to show the international

community that they are working on humanitarian issues with the Russian side. Everyone who went there found out that they are very dangerous for

crossing.

DAMON: The vast majority would rather risk the bombs than take a chance on trusting the

government. And for many fleeing their land would be the ultimate defeat.

Attempts by rebel fighters to break the siege have resulted in some of the fiercest clashes to date. Even children are joining in, helping to

burn tires to obscure the view of aircraft circling overhead.

But this is a war with no boundaries, no mercy, no way to hide, dark echoes of past atrocities the world swore never to allow again.

Aleppo is a test for humanity, the head of the UN-backed humanitarian task force for Syria told CNN. So far, it's a test humanity is failing.

Arwa Damon, CNN, Istanbul.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: Terrible scenes of suffering there.

Now, in South Africa, initial results show that the governing African National Congress is set for a historic loss of votes, particularly in key

urban areas. Now, right now the governing party is neck and neck with the opposition Democratic Alliance in Johannesburg and Pretoria.

Now, these local elections are seen as a verdict on the presidency of Jacob Zuma. He has come under scrutiny in recent months over allegations

of widespread corruption under his watch.

Now, many of us have clicked on attention grabbing links with titles like see this video before it gets banned et cetera, et cetera, only to be

ultimately disappointed by the contents.

Now Facebook is saying no more click bait. More next.

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[08:31:21] LU STOUT: Now, we have passwords. We have security codes and cards with chips to make sure that our money stays safe. But now it

turns out that criminals can hack regular ATMs to drain money from your account using your own chipped card.

Laurie Segall checks in with the experts to find out how it's done.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

LAURIE SEGALL, CNN MONEY: Chip cards, they take forever: on the bright side, they're also more secure. They're supposed to stop criminals

from stealing our information, but the very thing that makes them take longer may also make them vulnerable.

On an old-fashioned credit card, the data that's sent to the register is static. It never changes. On a chip card the data is randomized, which

means it's only good for one transaction. Normally, information that expires after just a minute would be useless, but if hackers could steal it

and use it all before it switches again, they're in business.

And new research shows that might actually be possible as hackers can crack open a store register and add something called a skimmer. Maybe

they're friends with the cashier, maybe they own the store themselves. Whatever the case, the hackers wait for you to insert your card, and then

their minute begins.

Here's how it works. During that minute, the hacked register is stealing all of your card's information and wirelessly transmitting it to

another device the hackers have set up elsewhere like a smartphone ready to make a mobile purchase, or in this case a hacked ATM

that's confusing the data for your physical banking card.

And -- first of all, wow. What did we just see? Can you explain what just went down?

TED BEARDSLEY, SECURITY RESEARCH MANAGER, RAPID7: The data on the card is getting transmitted to a device that's inside this false front

here, and then that is then in turn starting to punch in all the data, punching in the PIN, asking you for $200, and hitting withdrawal.

WESTON HECKER, SECURITY RESEARCH MANAGER, RAPIDR: There's little robot hands that are actually putting the PIN numbers in there.

SEGALL: You had to take over almost two devices to make this happen, right? So how likely is this to be widespread?

BEARDSLEY: What we're trying to do now is kind of envision the kinds of attacks that we feel are going to be likely to happen once the U.S.

moves over more completely to the chip and PIN standard. It's not like the criminals are going to throw up their hands and say oh, you took away my

magstrips I'm out of the credit card fraud business.

So, I would expect to see some variation of this, maybe in two years hence. You know, you're not going to see this today.

SEGALL: You have this skill that enables you to hack an ATM and make money just kind of flow out.

Yet you want to use this skill for good. A lot of people would want to take the money and run. So what is it about you that makes you want to

use this power for good?

HECKER : I like being, you know, like being able to go into society and not be scared that every knock on the door is going to be the police.

BEARDSLEY: I love the internet. I am a big technophile. I want that stuff to keep working. And the only way that's going to keep working is if

guys like working at least at pace with the bad guys.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: Wow, a lot of Ben Franklins there.

Now Facebook is doubling down on its fight against click bait and click bait clutter in your newsfeed.

Now the website's latest update specifically targets headlines that deliberately leave out

crucial information. The algorithm works like this: a headline that says, quote "Facebook wants websites to stop using clickbait headlines would

likely get the green light and that would stay on your newsfeed.

But this head line, I logged into Facebook this morning and you'll never guess what I saw,

that will be booted to the very bottom of the page.

Now, our senior media correspondent Brian Stelter has more on this update from Facebook. He joins us now live from New York. And Brian, why?

Why is Facebook cracking down on clickbait?

[08:35:16] BRIAN STELTER, CNN MEDIA CORRESPONDENT: Facebook wants you to spend more time on Facebook. And it says one way to do that is make

sure you have a satisfying experience. If you're clicking on links that are end up being misleading or confusing, then you might not like Facebook

as much. So, that's why they say they're implementing this algorithm change. Two years ago they tried to stamp out click bait, but that changed

id not go far enough.

So, this new change is very explicit. And it really shows how much power Facebook has to influence the entire internet.

Here's what the company says telling publishers and other page owners about how to change in

order to avoid getting in trouble with this change. It says pages should avoid headlines that withhold information required to understand what the

content of the article is. And headlines that exaggerate the article to create misleading expectations.

So that's what Facebook says you shouldn't do if you don't want to be penalized by this algorithm change -- Kristie.

Yeah. And this is just another reminder, as you put it, of the arbitrary power that Facebook has and it's now going to be determining what

is click bait, what is not click bait. It says it has an algorithm that's going to be used by Facebook to monitor but how is that going to work? I

mean how does Facebook police this?

STELTER: They say it's similar to an email spam filter that this algorithm is automatically

sensing headlines that sound like click bait and then taking the lessons that the algorithm has learned about that and applying them to websites all

across the web.

So whether it's a CNN article, whether it's an article for some really lame website you never heard of, it will be reading those headlines and

sort of figuring out if it's click bait or not and then adjusting accordingly.

But this is exactly like you said a demonstration of Facebook's power, you know, just by changing the algorithm, they can affect how headlines are

written all across the web.

LU STOUT: Yeah. Facebook recently posted its quarterly earnings. It did extremely well. It shattered Wall Street estimates on all fronts on

all metrics. It proved that it's not vulnerable on mobile.

What is Facebook's biggest worry these days? Is it keeping users inside Facebook? Keeping people on the platform?

STELTER: Always. Facebook's priority is keeping people inside the Facebook orbit, having them spend more time on the site, but right now it's

really about this evolution or revolution we're going through from a text based internet to a video based internet.

Mark Zuckerberg's priority is making sure Facebook is on the forefront of all things video. Whether that's live video, Facebook live, whether

it's a virtual reality, wearing the head sets that are becoming more and more popular. That's where Facebook is going to make

more and more and more of its advertising revenue, and so Zuckerberg is laser focused on making sure its products keeps up with the video

evolution.

LU STOUT; All right, Brian Stelter reporting live from New York. Thank you, Brian. Take care.

Now if you are a big social media star -- social media user -- you think you're a star -- you may

have seen pictures like this one recently, photos that look like paintings. Now it's all thanks to an app

out there called Prisma. Now, the app takes your photos and transforms them into the style of famous paintings.

Piet Mondrian's Grids of Primary Colors, Roy Lichtenstein's comic style pop art, even Hokusai's famous Wave.

Now the app allows you to transform your pictures into styles inspired by those famous works of art.

Now the app was created in Russia. And we spoke to its creator to find out just how it works.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

ALEXEY MOISEENKOV, FOUNDER, PRISMA LABS: It's based on one painting, and we just find some typical strokes, circles and so on, and then draw we

draw images based on it.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LU STOUT: The founder of Prisma there. Now what's next for them? Well, they told us they will introduce more impressionist and comic styles.

They're also hoping to offer videos soon. And beyond that, they're experimenting with Prisma in virtual reality.

Now, the key U.S. jobs report for July that has just been released And the U.S. economy added

255,000 jobs last month, that's far better than expected. Now, economists surveyed by CNN Money had expected 182,000 jobs to be added. The

unemployment rate that stayed put at 4.9%.

Now, the woman who inspired the iconic song Girl from Ipanema is to carry an Olympic torch in Rio's opening ceremony. And you'll see why she

was chosen to lift Olympic spirits this year just ahead.

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[08:41:12] LU STOUT: Welcome back.

Now, earlier this week the U.S. honored Singapore's prime minister with a formal state visit, complete with a black tie dinner.

Now take a look at this picture from the south lawn at the White House. And you can see Michelle Obama there alongside the wife of the

prime minister Ho Ching. And do you see that little blue clutch that she's there, well it's a denim dinosaur pouch and it retails for about $11 and it

is all the rage. I went online to try to get one earlier and it's totally sold out for the next two months.

Now, the designer behind the Dino pouch is a 19-year-old student at the Pathlight School for

Artistic Children in Singapore.

Now as the song goes she was tall and tan and young and lovely. But the Girl from Ipanema was not just a big hit in the 1960s. The woman who

inspired the song is an icon and she's going to carry the torch at the opening ceremony.

Here's Shasta Darlington.

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SHASTA DARLINGTON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The girl from Ipanema now a grandmother from Ipanema.

Helo Pinheiro was the inspiration for the iconic Brazilian hit.

When you hear that song what does it make you feel?

HELO PINHEIRO, INSPIRATINO FOR THE GIRL FROM IPANEMA: I'm so, so happy because, I remember my past. I remember when I was young. Because

now I am a grandmother, no more the girl.

DARLINGTON: back in the '60s, she caught the eye of bossanova songwriter Antonio Jobim and poet Vinicius de Moraes as she walked by on

the way to the beach.

The reason you were the inspiration for this song, can you show us how the girl from Ipanema used to walk to the beach every day?

PINHEIRO: Oh, I think because the samba, the swing that all the Brazilian people have.

DARLINGTON: On Friday, she'll carry the Olympic torch through her childhood neighborhood.

PINHEIRO: The people are so happy, so excited. And now, the Olympics, now it's a big party. I think we are more anxious, more happy,

more...

DARLINGTON: And at night Gisele Bundchen will play her in the opening ceremony.

PINHEIRO; Oh, I think she's beautiful. She's a young and for me, so lively.

(SINGING)

DARLINGTON: The awe-inspiring walk popularized in English by Frank Sinatra.

Shasta Darlington, CNN, Rio de Janeiro.

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LU STOUT: she's gorgeous.

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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